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Ask HN: Where do your peers hangout online?
I'm currently looking to hire and know of a few dark corners of the internets that I can look to for recruiting. As I sat and thought about it, there are likely lots of places I don't yet know about. I think those of my ilk mostly lurk in Reddit, somewhat in HN, but mostly are following the same blogs that I am (though I don't want to do recruiting there).

Do you know where your communities are? How did find them? Are they discoverable?

Where do you go when going the extra mile trying to recruit?
Good intentions?

I would even argue against that. I find it hard to believe facebook has good intentions with this.

Remember, Mr. Zuckerberg is alleged to have called Mr. Trump the night of the election to congratulate him.

Let’s stop pretending like the tech industry is full of good intentioned people making an “oops”
Porn isn't freedom of expression, it's hate speech as it abuses women by objectifying them and pushing heteronormative beauty standards. Maybe male on male porn is okay but it is probably also hate speech.
Yea, it's a shitty position to be in but it could happen to any of us. Hope he won't be too hard on himself. With that being said, we were one of the originally rejected and then accepted startups. I guess that means we're part of the advisory track. I just hope that YC can still dedicate the originally-intended resources to the advisory group.
genius… or vendor lock-in?
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the concerns you raise are so arbitrary and copied word for word from the vanity fair article that was published a few days ago. FWIW Google, and Microsoft have datacenters well more then 150 miles apart. Also ruggedized is a term used all over the place in military spec's I mean its has its own wikipedia entry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugged_computer

This is the kind of astroturfing that should get your account flagged.
Once the test site was successfully added to Google's index and the single webpage, and the nonsense term returned results for the test webpage, a toolbar-to-Google search from IE would just send the keyword off to Google, the search result would come back (from Google), and...

Or I'm completely missing something. This is possible.
Yesssss.
Great story, however, I am afraid, not at all relevant to this product. This Google Assistant feature is supposed to surface "solutions journalism" pieces where the article not only talks about the problems but also potential solutions that are being tested or successfully applied elsewhere.

So the stories are "good" not in the sense of not covering disturbing events but they are "good" in the sense that they offer solutions or ways out of problems. It is not about "what" is covered but more about "how" it is covered.
A little disappointing that it doesn't go as far as CA, but it's a good start (why the F do you even need a non-compete in the food or summer camp industries ??).

Out of curiosity though, has anybody ever faced an enforced non-compete? I signed many, but never had to deal with this. Don't most of them include a provision forcing the company to pay a share of your salary if they decide to activate it? You would have to be a freaking rockstar to justify that.
> I think the FCC is trying to remove that ability from States now because federal law overrules state law.

Sort of. The relationship between federal and state law is complex, and it's actually disputed whether the attempts to prevent states from enacting their own net neutrality laws are themselves constitutional.
Yes too much DRY can result in the wrong trade-offs. For example, change one line of code and, in certain cases, you may need to test all the places it's used. For UI, this can be challenging in certain cases because UI often has use case-specific quirks.

That said, I think erring on DRY is generally good. It's just that when one is a little more sophisticated, one should be more thoughtful about the trade-offs in certain cases.
If your sources include two conspiracy-like youtube videos, and a legitimate article saying "maybe", you may want to rethink your position here.
On second thought I agree.
Columbus kept two logbooks, one with his ships' real positions, and another with falsified positions to show his men so they wouldn't become discouraged.
US Budgetary Costs of Wars through 2016: $4.79 Trillion and Counting (2016) [pdf]
I wish they never bought screenhero and effectively killed it. The version of it in the slack app is less featured and significantly less preformant.
Google has almost no competition in several different market categories, and not just regionally, but on a global scale. I have three ISPs which offer about comparable service offerings, and four major wireless carriers. And no wired ISP even can say it has national coverage.

Tech monopolies are bigger, they have more money, and they've spent more of that money convincing you ISPs are the big bad.

I'm not opposed to regulation, but regulation needs to apply to tech companies as well as ISPs equally. And you'll discover that support for regulation vanishes as soon as that comes into play.

People have forgotten that tech companies now also do infrastructure and ISPs now also do services. So when tech companies are trying to get ISPs regulated, they're trying to lock down their competition. (Unsurprisingly, Google Fiber was known for trying to dodge being classifed as a telecommunications company specifically so it wasn't subject to the same regulations it's competitors weer.)
Sure, but what they do is really a "non-action" – as the entire premise is built upon a logical fallacy it can't guarantee truth, won't end the problem, and can (obviously) be gamed.
> Don't most of them include a provision forcing the company to pay a share of your salary if they decide to activate it?

Not in Massachusetts, that I've ever seen.
Internal documents reveal the grueling way Tesla hit its 5,000 Model 3 target
I'd probably be best described as some combination of a technical manager and a businessman. I write some code but there's people I work with who are much better technologists than I am.

A few years back I wrote a cross platform make replacement due to issues with an existing recursive make solution not getting dependencies right due to issues with it creating the wrong DAG (http://lcgapp.cern.ch/project/architecture/recursive_make.pd...). The recursive solution was used in the first place because it was fast but it happened to be incorrect (interesting how stuff like Pipenv has really long lock times because it's prioritizing correctness). So I have an awareness of some of the difficulties in this space very directly. Before I did some projects with build systems and packaging there were a lot of things I didn't know I didn't know.
Looking at Q1 2017, and comparing against Q3 2015, we saw the average speed of the US, as measured by Akamai (i.e., someone actually delivering content, not just a 'speed test', which we know is gamed, and largely only hit by people with quick speeds anyway; I've never checked my speed except when I got a new ISP that said it was faster than my old one, i.e., when I first got 100mbps, and when I first got fiber) increase from 12.6mbps to 18.8 mbps. A year and a half under net neutrality and actual, real world average speeds increased 50%. So that was the pre-existing trajectory. It's not like "we're going to repeal net neutrality" is going to cause ISPs to pull their investments instantly, not when they've already been investing. If it's even related.
> Be informed. Force them to deliver the service they promised. Force them to make you whole when you've been screwed. Force them to prove that they have accurately managed your account and they they truly do own your debt. Above all, make them actually compete again.

Yes this could be done but it's a never ending battle and it drains all your productivity when fighting. And when you have your small victory after hours of being on hold, they might give you back what they owe you, but they do this en-masse and some people don't have the energy to fight back, people tire. That's why we should ALL fight back this systematic scamming so that it doesn't happen in the first place. Individual fighting back doesn't beat a machine set on a bad behavior.
I am from the advisor track. What tools are you talking about.
Oops, yes, that was definitely less than clear. :-)
Perhaps, but do nothing is the only sane response. Mind you, I mean on a basic level. On top of that you can evaluate options, for example, "channels", if you are a democrat/liberal/SJW you can subscribe to channels of only approved sources if you dont want to read libertarian/russian/GOP ones. You can argue that this will promote an echo chamber, but lets be honest it is what happens already. So I dont want censorship on top of that.
What specific problem are you're not sure how to solve the right way ?

Compared to some other language a proper PHP env is relatively dumb to set up, have a build script in your system of choice to install fcgi PHP in the version you need and the extensions you expect and setup the relatively simple conf file in your browser of choice, and then have a composer file to setup the libraries you need, tada you're pretty much down (everything else is not very much PHP specific)
Bayesian Optimization with Uncertainty
so more of a theoretical problem rather than an implementation problem?
Uber Hires Nelson Chai as Chief Financial Officer
What value am I going to get from people who haven't even gotten to that point yet?

Who knows? Why do you think only people who have gotten to $15K MRR can offer value?

I agree it's something of a signal, but I'd personally consider that a very weak signal. shrug
I would like to see Twitter, Google, CloudFlare and Facebook classified as public utilities. While Alex Jones is a nut case (And shouldn't be defended), other less publicized incidents of censorship by Social Media companies has occurred (related to picking winners between Israel and Palestine) [1]. While I am a Democrat who has been elected in the past, I agree with the conservative argument that: Corporate censorship dampens the spirit of free speech.

[1] Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments https://theintercept.com/2017/12/30/facebook-says-it-is-dele...
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Didn't I see this Black Mirror episode?
Yea totally agree with your edit/point. I was originally advocating for adoption of the quick wins, since I still see lots of folks who want to lose weight but couldn't be bothered to, for example, walk up a flight of stairs (despite being physically capable of doing so).
I have never seen that outside of finance. I think they are fine as long as the company is willing to give up something of similar value to get it.
I actually worked at Bing while all this was going down. It's a long time ago so I don't remember all the details, but when this surfaced it was a big deal internally.

In fairness to Microsoft/Bing, the data collected as part of the Suggested Sites feature (and others in IE) was pretty clearly stated as being used to anonymously improve other Microsoft products, and so it became one of many sources of data for Bing's index. If you have a ton of data about user's traffic patterns on the web, you'd be crazy to not use it in an aggregate way to infer information about which URLs satisfy a user's intent at any given time. The irony is that nothing was even specifically targeted at using data from Google, the machine learning algorithms in question just naturally learned that people were typically satisfied by sites visited after searching for a term on Google, and therefore boosted those sites by some amount in Bing search results. No human was in the loop deciding that. In the contrived cases used by Google engineers in the blog post, the Google results were simply the ONLY sites being returned by the index for the given search term, as no other parts of the index found anything.

After the issue was discovered, there was a huge push by the search relevance team to remove that data source. IIRC a new version of the index launched shortly afterwards that was stripped of all the user data features collected via IE, but maintained relevance parity through some amazing work by the team. I'd be extremely surprised if the experiment was repeatable today - I think they're much more careful about these things now.

I don't think there's any intentional "reverse engineering" going on, the Bing team has a ton of engineers working on novel relevance techniques. At the time that I left, we were actually beating Google on our internal relevance metrics (and developing tougher new metrics in order to be able to keep measuring progress). EDIT: For evidence of this, one only needs to look at the volume of research that Microsoft publishes each year for SIGIR: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/event/microsoft-sig...
Does improving performance require a rewrite? Is this the best you can get from Electron?
I think "dynamic" is not such a bad term either -- the original application of DP was to optimization in dynamical systems.
Haha, agreed.

It was a conversation between Hotspot (aka "the" JVM) developers at jcrete though, so I guess that's understandable.
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That’s the narrative but the results show still rampant inflation, still high government spending, and same monetary base expansion. The current government is economically very similar to the previous, and substituted hiperinflation with external debt
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What are you insinuating? Facebook as a whole leans left.
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blink So, Pie will be 16x as fast (ui) on the same hardware as Lollipop?
The latter largely do not produce their own content and thus are not fundamentally different than what a carrier provides. Why would you say that it's ok for Google to ban Alex Jones from youtube, but not ok for level-3 to do the same?

It's a convenient kind of bullshit to draw a line below layer 4 of the ISO stack and say "everything below this line has to be fully neutral, everything above this line can be fully biased and curated". A company that provides their own content, such as Netflix, is very different than providing a platform for other people's content, i.e. Youtube/Twitter/Facebook.
Looks like this is his LinkedIn Page
https://www.linkedin.com/in/poppakoppa/

still refers to www.TitleTrail.com
but that's up for sale

Looks like he might have some connection to this group still doing some of the work
http://certifiedforensicloanauditors.com/

There are benefits to the ancient system of physically recording everything in the locale, and potentially good reasons to move to a more modern system. While I don't have enough info to form a final opinion, I do know that if they are going to centralize it, they should certainly be held to a standard of doing it right.
An interesting perspective. I would like to understand more in depth the history in China of how influence has been gained and how ordinary people were able to affect the local politics. In the English/Germanic tradition, we might have a parley-ment, or a town hall, or a Thing.

I wonder what the comparable system in China was? Does anyone have some in depth knowledge here? (happy to rtfm if one is available)
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But all evidence shows that Lacey and Larkin did everything they could to stop or limit child sex trafficking on BackPage.com.

Prostitution is going to happen no matter what we think of it and we should develop some methods to prevent or limit the negatives of prostitution. BackPage seems to be one of those things to help limit the negatives of prostitution.
Ask HN: Do you maintain two laptops for work and life?
I've been running my business stuff from my personal laptop. Moving forward I was by default going to get a second laptop: I've had a work laptop" at all my "real" jobs before. But is there any particular benefit? (everything important is on a server somewhere) What do you guys do?
You are assuming that blockbuster movie creation is a necessity or a high-value good.

I don't agree.
Email. I wish we'd all go back to it.
I’d actually really like a news media that focused on positive stuff, but also brought the important bad stuff. But 90% of what’s on the 24/7 news sources is currently stuff I didn’t really need to know, so it might as well be less tragic.
Ouch, sorry to hear about that.

Do you think it actually promotes radicalization, though, or is that just the culture that developed there? E.g. Mastodon's interaction design is very similar to Twitter's, but the people are waaaay nicer, because that's just the prevailing culture. Compare to other parts of the Fediverse, such as GNU Social, which is much more Twitter-like in tone.

Either way, I think it's a good lesson in how public-by-default social media is kind of a terrible idea in retrospect. You wanted to share a non-sensitive post, but maybe just to people who are in any way socially accountable to you, not the entire world.
> third party fact checkers

Seems like infinite regress and turtles all the way down to me. Who fact checks the fact checkers?
Uber Names Merrill Lynch Veteran as CFO After Years of Searching
> What's next?

Docker being purchased by Oracle and then users being subject to audits for the audacity of running Docker.
I had to find out: this is Douglas Crockford on it: https://youtu.be/DxnYQRuLX7Q?t=2734
Wow, that sounds really cool.

I really like the UI design that goes into avionics - the fact that every possible scenario has to be thought out and handled, and that the end result has no flashy eyecandy or extraneous functionality; it's all function, it's all required (or it's not there); everything on the screen at any given time is significant, and (hopefully) care is taken that the amount of data (ie, significance) showing at any one moment is not information overload. A very hard balance to get right, I'm sure.

The rigor and discipline imposed over the process of software architecture and implementation in aviation (moreso than medical devices, it would seem) is both inspiring and instructive, and I definitely look up to it.

I must admit I'm genuinely interested to learn more about how the role of UI design plays into avionics construction - I've leaned toward UX for quite a while (I think I started headscratching about the subject around 13-14, although I didn't know that was what it was called at the time) and I think it's probably something I'd do pretty well at when I'm finally looking for a job. Web UX is... frustrating and demotivating, though. I don't want to kill myself doing that.
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Doesn't really surprise me. Bank debt trading is messed up. Everything is mostly done by fax. Things don't happen quickly. Time is measured in months.

Source: I was IT support (among other hats I wore) for the band debt team at a hedge fund for 7 years at a previous job. We held about $20B in notional debt running up to the 2008 crash. Was not a fun time to be in the industry.
You're right. Here's exactly what their system is accused of doing:

You build a form that allows ads to be submitted. It strips out certain keywords.

I read the indictment. It's pages and pages about the evils of prostitution, with just a few bits like - gasp - stripping out the word lolita to make them sound unsympathetic. I'm not impressed. I'm honestly surprised that you are.

I was in the industry when the word "lolita" suddenly went from common porn advertising (just like "teen") to forbidden. The content didn't change one bit; something changed in the legal landscape and the industry just did a global search and replace of their marketing content. They stripped out the keywords.
twitter, mainly.
No. The best working definition I've run into said that Everything unnecessary that is done on purpose is art. If you want the art to mean something that's your problem, not the artist's.
That's a good point, and I hope nobody is taking the position in this thread that someone has legal rights just because a digital signature matched. Unless the legal body grants that privilege, the match has no meaning.

A decentralized solution removes the question who maintains a centralized database. That's important because, as you say, the answer to that question has always been the state. Which means it's never really been a question.

If you're cool with the government owning your identity -- and truly having the power to erase your entire existence, so they're not denying you any rights because there is no "you" -- then it doesn't matter. But for some people, it might matter to be able to point to something other than the mirror and say "I exist, and not just because I say I do. This matters because [this entity] is taking actions that are inconsistent with my existence and implied rights."

It's a small step, but it's one that opens up options that don't exist today.
This works unless your anxiety is being triggered by the vagus nerve in which case deep breathing only makes it worse. Had one related to an illness recently, the vagus nerve makes you feel like you are having terrible anxiety that is made worse at the apex of every in/out breath. Then when you can't breathe deeply you start having even worse anxiety. This is the problem I am dealing with atm.
Yes, I read that sentence before writing and your argument about the website expenses can be valid. It does not change my main point: when it is about health one should search for information from qualified professionals. For example:

1. https://www.anxiety.org/panic-disorder-panic-attacks

2. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/panic-attacks...

A personal experience can be illuminating sometimes but it cannot be considered an alternative approach. For this reason, I do not consider it a good source. Just my opinion.
Two things can be right at once. People who took out 100k loans to study a useless degree are stupid. And, undischargable loans probably shouldn't be a thing even if that means that some people will miss out studying their passion. In order to not leave arts out to die, people who want to learn arts should apply for grants from people who value arts. I don't value arts that much so I wouldn't pay. but if you value arts enough, feel free to support an artist with your money.
> I would like to see Twitter, Google, CloudFlare and Facebook classified as public utilities

This would be destructive to our venture ecosystem with dubious benefits to consumers. Few Americans love their public utilities–they're often mismanaged and at least somewhat corrupt.

Better to set up a system of rules and corresponding liabilities and--if necessary--regulators. (Given how profitable these companies are, though, litigation would probably cover all bases except those hurting the poor.)
Does the same thing apply to newsletters? Let's say I get a bunch of free newsletters to my inbox and share them on my website (I mean literally copy the body so people don't have to sign up for the newsletter themselves), does it count as copyright infringement?
The problem with conflating biased coverage with fake news is that the latter phrase becomes meaningless.

"Fake" means "false", not "stuff I disagree with".