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We are. I try not to directly cross my HN account with my job. But we are hiring in Austin and San Francisco for JS/Python programmers and data analysts + customer relations.

We have a GPU driven graph visualization product, it's pretty neat. If you like interesting bleeding edge problems, we have plenty. If you are interested shoot me an email at hackernews(at)mechanicalpanda.com with a resume and I'll give you more details.
So true. Recently I was at the pharmacy, the doctor wrote a wrong prescription and my wife was in the car having a hefty migraine. They wouldn't give me the drug even though they could see she has been using it for years and the wrong prescription could be solved afterwards. I think such people will be the first to be completely replaced by robots, I for sure wouldn't notice the difference, in fact I expect a robot to be inhuman so it would be less frustrating.
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/563084/us-border-asy...

U.S. agents have started to turn back asylum seekers at [official] ports of entry in recent weeks, leaving throngs of hopefuls at bridges all along the border.
The problem isn't that people refer to a machine as authority but that the process has no abort button.

When you design business processes like these, firing, hiring or managing people always keep in mind something can go wrong. Always include an abort button to either stop or roll back the process.
I am self-employed (I actually run two small companies) and I sent some of my work days playing PUBG. Also I had less interaction with my kids and wife, and no other hobby really.

I looked at PUBG videos very often, sometimes live streams, at the office during the day.

I was thinking about PUBG all day long. It was bad.
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So the author copied data from one Microsoft site (LinkedIn) to another Microsoft site (GitHub).

Both sites use PII to target people and companies: how many annoying emails have you received from LinkedIn this week? And I mean the creepy ones, suggesting contacts based on minute details from your profile, or encouraging you to import all your contacts so they can be spammed?

But I guess if a user does it, it’s doxxing. I wonder if this is political, or maybe Medium and GitHub are just trying to avoid a potential fight with a federal agency.
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Author here.

It may be unfair, I didn't mean to imply any kind of judgement. 'This kind of thing' was vague, but was intended to get over the fact that systemd is taking over more and more of the OS, and people don't like this. Whether this is good or bad I'm fairly agnostic on. At least it's managed and a standard.
The European Union is an attempt at this utopia.

There are no tariffs on food, steel or similar between the member states. All states subsidise food production, but not steel.
I've been thinking the same thing. A short may be a sell, but it's also a guarantee that someone is going to buy in the future.
Nothing, WebGL doesn't require OpenGL as implementation, in fact browsers on Windows and game consoles use other 3D APIs.

What OpenGL supporter always forget to mention is that all middleware that matters already has Metal support, even some ML frameworks have better Metal Compute support than OpenCL.
I wonder how long it is until China is viewed more favourably than the USA in Australia.

There is definitely a concerted Chinese effort in the Pacific region to make themselves look friendlier. Chinese embassies are funding a lot of cultural shows and festivals in the region, the Chinese embassy in Wellington pays for a massive fireworks display for the Lunar New Year. They also sponsor Chinese students' associations (which also have a dual purpose of keeping an eye on Chinese international students).

The Chinese government has also been spending more aid money in the Pacific Islands, building new stadiums, government buildings, and infrastructure, as well as investing in the Islands too.

Today I read a 2 page spread today on the One Road One Belt initiative in The Age (Melbourne's main newspaper) and it had a very distinct pro-China spin to it. It glossed right over concerns about neo-imperialism and other such things. It was an interesting contrast to the distinctly more critical (and I feel fairly unbiased) reporting from the John Oliver Show on the One Road One Belt Initiative.
Curious how that is enforced as a copyright clause. I grasp how GPL and other copyleft licenses work when copies are distributed but can't see how a usage restriction can be applied unless the party is distributing the software.
except that this doesn't work in a high demand market such as the Bay area right now!

Your old manager may have said that to encourage you to stay, but at the end of the day he will promote whoever needs to be promoted in order for that person not to leave. It is all very simple offer and demand at the end of the day.

I was once in a company where the CEO liked to brag that in this company everyone is fairly paid in regards to their competences. You can guess what happened next, we went to have a couple beers with colleagues one evening and started talking about salaries. We realized that we had salaries that didn't really match what the CEO was pretending. The laws of the market are simply too strong, you will always need to sometime pay someone a lot because of circumstances or because that person had another offer to match.

At the end of the day, companies benefit a lot from information asymmetry (they know everyone's salary, but you know nothing). They can claim a lot of things without you having the ability to verify it.
Okay this example makes sense. No prescription == no drugs (especially for painkillers and other things that people abuse).

If you think this is a bad thing, then it's an organizational problem and has nothing to do with computers.
There are a lot more of proxy countries that don't go to active war and act out conflicts in a diplomatic manner – but you almost always don't notice these situations. Appealing to proxy wars that do happen is a survivorship bias.
Weird, employees had nothing to say in 2014 when these images were published:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/18/photos-ob...

Kids were being separated then and being housed in the exact same facilities being used now.

Interestingly, this story “breaks” the exact same week the FBI inspector general’s report was released.

I am not judging the wrongness or rightness of what is and has happened in terms of illegal immigrants, however, a thinking person ought to be very skeptical about how this story catches fire at exactly the same time a significant piece of news happens: the inspector general’s damning report of the FBI. Were Microsoft employees sleeping when reports of these sorts of situations where being reported in 2014? Or was it more acceptable then because it was a different president?
Of course not. They are a lazy developer that care little about the user experience.
'codelord:working on ml @google' haha. using accrued inertia/loyalty to bully/force `mit ocw` and `blender` to adopt more convenient terms for the company is, at minimum, a dick move.

but i get it, you got some stock and you gotta protect that bottom line.
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Because they allowed it until now and it's been years since.

Changing their policies now hurts non-profit organizations like the Blender Foundation and is in effect a bait and switch. Google is using at this point its monopoly to coerce their partners and users into accepting whatever the heck they want. Personally I don't understand them. This is clearly about a very popular channel that is bringing them eyeballs.

I also have no sympathy for their need to monetize — several years back we had a protest in my country against a gold mining company and the YouTube videos made by protesters where preceded by ads of the mining company, ads which were lying and that couldn't be reported for that.

Ads on YouTube are dangerous as they aren't just about products or services, but about social and political issues too and whomever has the bucks to pay wins more attention. As an author, having the ability to disable ads for certain videos is common sense.

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Also, Google, I would have registered for YouTube Red to pay cash for an ad free experience, but you haven't made it available in my country yet and I've been waiting for a long time.
From a recent WSJ article on Tesla’s debt: https://www.wsj.com/articles/sizing-up-teslas-10-billion-deb....

If you look at the charts they provide, nearly half of Tesla’s own and SolarCity-inherited debt is in the form of convertible bonds. To the best of my knowledge, convertible bonds trade off debt seniority for the potential upside of an equity vehicle.

It seems that the rest of their debt is in the form of “vanilla” long term bonds. Very little comes from a revolving credit facility or other short term bank financing.

To the best of my knowledge, there is no such thing as a call provision exercisable by a bond holder. This would seem to defeat the entire purpose of issuing a bond from the issuer’s perspective in the first place; namely, access to capital for a finite amount of time in exchange for a fixed interest payment. Some bonds are certainly callable by the original issuer, at a premium to market price, but I struggle to think of a single publicly traded bond that gives the kinds of debt covenant style call provisions that you’re referring to.
I see this somewhat differently. We discuss politics all the time. We talk about our rights to expression, we talk about the role of legislation in the tech sector (and outside), we discuss domestic and foreign policy of every sort. Five of the top ten articles at the moment are about politics:

- China-based campaign breached satellite, defense companies

- Canada legalises recreational cannabis use

- Lead: America's Real Criminal Element (2013)

- AT&T, Time Warner, and the Need for Neutrality

- GitHub and Medium take down database of ICE employee LinkedIn accounts

We've never not discussed it. But by avoiding discussing party policy directly (which is really what the rule seems to be), we remove many identity issues which keep people from seeing policies objectively.

HN is far from perfect, but that rule makes it a hell of a lot more pleasant and productive than most places for discussing politics.
Then we agree in most things, except I am most pessimist on how much time it will take for the technology to be at the level of a good human driver. Maybe if we get cheap and good enough radar/lidar or similar sensors maybe we could at least get cars that would not hit static objects.

The AI needs/has advantages like you said but those are needed to compensate the big missing part , the human intelligence, I am afraid of stupid scenarios where say a bridge would collapse and all the self driving cars would continue jumping of the bridge because this exact bridge colapse was not programmed into the car.11
A computing course that doesn't teach C++ is a quite poor one.
Maybe next time just try out things at first? i.e. rent, move the family into the rented home after 2-3 months without selling the original house for some time.
Hmmm... If they only didn't track us on every mouse move, every click, every video and every recommendation. That's an exchange, I'm a product for using their product.
The "World Championship" organised by the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association with Wisconsin doing so disproportionately well every year. Hmmm.

A bit like the world series then for international coverage.

The World Cheese Awards has a much more natural looking profile of entries and winners: https://gff.co.uk/awards/world-cheese-awards/
From Google's point of view, the Blender Foundation are the bad guys. They host a very popular channel on their servers, using up a lot of bandwidth, storage, and resources, they don't pay a cent to the hosting provider, and on top of that, they actively try to prevent their content from paying up for itself. I don't see it as shocking that Google is forcing them to enable ads.

What I find surprising is that Google did not see this coming and thus A. never limited ad-free content to small channels in their ToS, and B. does not provide a paid hosting option.
If you are a human and you can see in the computer that the prescription is regularly updated and you can even call the doctor if you doubted it. You can even check the prescription afterwards and if my story doesn't check out, do something about it. The migraine was pretty bad, imo it was like not treating a broken leg because of a missing insurance card or something.
They should publish everything on IPFS too, maybe even peertube should support IPFS.
They (almost certainly) use the AGPS capabilities mandated by the E911 system.
"When my contract expired, the machine took over and fired me."

Your contract expiring is not the same thing as getting fired. The title is a click bait.

"A simple automation mistake(feature) caused everything to collapse."

No, it sounds like the system just did what it was programmed to do. The real issue was with the one guy not renewing your contract.
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But that isn’t true. Asylum applications can be submitted to a US consulate. There is a process. Syrian refugees didn’t just show up in Laredo. Asylum can also be requested at a legal port of entry. These unlawful entry arrests are from aliens entering the country while avoiding ports of entry.
You can have a very low view of the Chinese Communist Party while being many things that Trump isn't, like a fierce advocate for liberal democracy and human rights and the rule of law.
Well, the email specifically mentioned the employee had used other user accounts.

Depending on what those "other user accounts" had access to, it could go in many different directions. :)
As I mentioned milk changes taste dramatically across regions. Well it did before the current trend for homogenisation which has hurt the taste in every region.

So I would not be in the least surprised to find that the resulting cheeses are equally variant based on region.
Airbnb is sunsetting React Native and reinvesting all efforts into native
Funny story: I'm from the Netherlands and was 15 and on vacation in France. All the kids smoked weed, which they got in the harbor. They were surprised I never did it because it was legal in the Netherlands, all I could say was that you had to be 18 to get it so I couldn't get it.
On some level I find it odd if the insider trading turns out to be the worst part of sabotage.
>X "Yes, but when we do it, it's not doxxing"

Was this just you making up someone's response? Because neither of those companies listed in the title sell people's info.

Your comment is just a terrible strawman.
Thank you, very informative.

Here's an idea: if you want to drive home the point that you don't do it for the ad money, and if you want to force yourself not to depend on that money, you could give it all to FOSS foundations.

You could publish your YouTube check every month, as small as it may be, on your blog or website, alongside an equivalent donation to, say, the FSF, Mozilla, Wikimedia, Archive.org, Blender, EFF, or whatever foundation you like.

If you publicize it on YouTube and here, you may even start a movement of sorts.
Actually, the whole Dune series, and risking to be controversial - the extended universe with the abomination of books by Frank Herbert's son. Yes, they break the rules, yes, they are rushed and yes some explanations plain don't make sense, but ohmygod the additional tens of thousands of years added to the story just put on so much more grandure... But why I like it: I open random page, and I just enjoy falling back to the epic story and remembering small details, discovering new ones, pondering upon the small artificial quotes before the chapters. Those books have so much going on for them, and thanks to the time spans involved you can actually pretty much jump in at any moment.

Other one is Stainless Steel Rat series by Harry Harrison, those are very funny and don't attempt to take themselves too seriously, and have the same principle - you can jump into the story at any moment and just enjoy rapid pace of events splashed with humorous commentary. Plus the protagonist is a very much self made man in a world where it doesn't come easily, so there's that bit of hope for you.

Thirdly - Discworld. I guess it does not need comment, does it?
Organizing for what? Google employees are well paid, have exceptional benefits — why would they want to potentially destroy all that for collective bargaining? That’s ridiculous.
I’ve never seen anyone do a battery impact analysis of React Native. I wonder why?

Person sally, I don’t want to use products where the developer prioritizes their problems over my experiencs but YMMV. Some will argue that an Electron dumpster fire is superior to nothing. I consider that debatable.
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Luckily EC cards in Europe don't do that. If you fail 3 times the chip stops working and the magnet stripe tells you to use the chip.
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By that logic, no one sets prices for anything - Coca-Cola doesn't set a price of a can of coke, the law of supply and demand does.
I’ve of heard such “faraday pouches”, I assume they exist.

I find it very unsatisfying that the phone in the pouch would be ramping up its radios to try and reach a tower, running its battery down.

I much prefer the approach of the Librem 5: put the whole baseband board on it’s own circuit, and have a hardware kill switch for power to the whole thing.

On WiFi? Not using it? Turn it off!
And Google employees don’t already that? What better benefits could a Google possibly want? How much higher could their salaries go?
Instagram now allows you to shop through Stories
The popular photo sharing application, Instagram expanded its shopping feature from news feed to stories.In this new update, when you see a sticker with a shopping bag icon in Instagram stories, you can tap on it to see more details about that product.
This cuts both ways, and a precedent has already been set, recently, with the wedding cake debacle.

If a business can refuse service due to soneone’s gender or sexual orientation (I.e. it conflicts with the business owner’s sense of morality), why should a business not be able to refuse because they morally object to their client using their product or services to harm human beings?

Honestly, I don’t see the distinction. If one is legal then the other must be.

I take your point that this could end in a situation where all businesses end up being discriminatory in one way or another, but it’s then up to the market to reward or punish businesses for their stance. If you don’t like Microsoft selling Azure to human rights abusers, don’t buy their stock, don’t buy their products. If you don’t like that a bakery didn’t sell a cake to a gay couple, don’t buy their cakes.

Yes, it can be argued that we will end up back with “no blacks no dogs no Irish”, and if we do that’s a damning indictment of the times - but it can also be argued that large corporations have substantial power to influence policy, which they somewhat have a track record of using for Not Good. It would be nice to see it being used for good.

I don’t think it’s asking businesses to be police, rather to act as moral entities rather than purely economic ones. I mean - corporations are people, too (corporate personhood, emergent intelligence), and unless we want an entirely mechanistic and amoral future (think Cloud Atlas and kin), we need to allow businesses to be moral arbiters.

Is it a good idea? I don’t know, but it can it really be worse than selling zyklon b knowingly for genocide as Testa did?

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/jun/04/gay-cake-ruling-...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesch_%26_Stabenow
Is it possible to clone a repo from web archive ?
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None of what you says really applies in this case. According to the article the thing that triggered this was the failure to renew his contract.

If it had renewal intervals, that means he wasn't legally entitled to 3 years.

This is likely why he wasn't paid for the interim either. The best the company could do would likely be to bump up the future rate or offer a "signing bonus".

Being a contractor is not at all like being an employee despite how similar the responsibilities are. You have to watch contract details like renewals like a hawk. This guy and his recruiter should have included compensation for failing to notify when not renewing.
Fire every single one of those Microsoft employees.

People in ICE protect me, mine, and our way of life with their lives every day of the week. I'm not going to flippantly say fuck those people because the politics of the day are making a mockery of a law that was duly imposed and enforced by both parties spanning multiple administrations because it's the fashionable political protest fad of the day.

Protest the leadership, not the in-the-trenches folk, the retail workers, or the on-the-ground law enforcement officers for what the people we elected decided to enact as law. I stand proudly by those who risk their lives for my safety and security against those who break our laws.

I will never support housing children with adults who we don't know 100% are their parents. Anything else would be disgusting, reprehensible, and vile beyond measure.
No, it's not. Make every step check the existence of a kill-swith entry in a shared resource, say, zookeeper, mysql, etc., before they act. If it's there, halt. A human than can do the manual cleanup.
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Hmmm, it sounded to me more like the person had gained access to other employee's credentials. eg usernames/passwords or similar.
APIs vs. Realtime socket. What percentages occupied by both individual in tech?
Ask HN: How do you manage your analytics/data science process?
Hi,

I lead a data science/analytics team and am wondering about how other teams are run? Specifically, how does your process/workflow look like? How do you set timeframes? What tools do you use? What are some of your biggest challenges when it comes to delivering work and how do you resolve it?

Disclaimer: I am building a SAAS platform to manage the process and looking to learn how other analytics/data science teams operate.
Wouldn’t you say this is a little glib?

Nissan’s LEAF famously struggled with battery degradation over time.

You can shade Tesla’s execution/financial performance/etc., but the battery technology improvements they’ve made are real. They’re going to be the first battery manufacturer to deliver costs of lower than $100/kWh, not to mention effectively doubling global production of lithium ion batteries.

A BMW is my most driven car, and I’ve test driven the i3, but it’s quite glib to suggest that BMW and Mercedes could come out with an electric car at any point in time. Tesla’s batteries have degradation performance like this: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/tesla-batteries-last-long.... BMW only offers a warranty on the i3 battery to 80% capacity after 100k miles.

One last thing: clean infotainment software is not a given. BMW iDrive was terrible until 2016. The Mercedes interface is still ugly. Neither maker has touchscreens standard.
I was looking forward to using RN but I guess I fell victim (again!) to whishful thinking and the "No silver bullett" fallacy. Come to think of it, why have we accepted React as the go-to approach to this degree? React doesn't even make an effort to isolate from HTML and DOM at the conceptual level, and I'd wager an opinionated framework about "panels", "fields", "field groups" and events is more representative of what folks typically want to do with React, rather than manipulating pseudo-markup using JSX however elegant and neutral.