skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People don't want to moderate themselves, they want a larger power to do it for them. It's why we have representative democracy instead of direct democracy: people don't want to be involved. Governing is a pain in the ass.

People don't want to be involved? Do you have any evidence for this?

If this is true then all the stuff about Agile and autonomy I hear a lot isn't true then? Richard Hendricks should've just stayed as subordinate to Gavin Belson. Why start a startup?

Colonies should've stayed colonies and kiss the Queen's feet. Being able to decide for our own selves is a pain the ass huh?

You may genuinely don't care what Trump decides for you. But I'm pretty sure many who can barely survive cares.
Do you watch anything on TV?
From the perspective of a buyer, this leads to the opposite conclusion of the article: instead of buying an in older neighborhood that has held on to its property value but racked up pension debt, buy in a brand new neighborhood that may decrease in property value but has no pension debt and new infrastructure. From the perspective of society at large, both are pretty bad.

The bet for newer suburban home buyers is that you can buy the home, raise kids for 20-30 years in the good schools that use the new home values as a barrier to entry, sell it without a major loss, and then move somewhere cheaper and older before the home or the home's surroundings deteriorate.
Microsoft Neptune
Roundabouts are great.

I wish Australia built more of them.
It's hard to take the story seriously when it uses hyperbole such as "this is an extinction level event"
> And, frankly, if you’ve seen one superhero movie you’ve seen them all. So the move — which will probably draw loud and hair-raising screams from U.S. commentators — is, nonetheless, A Good Thing.

That argument is so silly and reductionist that, to me, it invalidates the rest of the opinions expressed in this article.
>"The formula for SaaS companies is generally growth + net margin should equal 40%."

Can you say exactly what formula this is and what is a formula for?

Also what is the significance of the number 40 as a target?
[ full disclosure: ex-Intel, although I did not work on h/w ]

It is about 14 cycles on modern hardware, which is consistent with the 3ns if you have a very high-clocked machine. I think 3ns is rounding down otherwise.

The penalty is not that light if you have heavily optimized code.

Those 14 cycles will be spent with a completely empty pipeline and the code that follows the miss will be starting from scratch - that is, it will likely take time to spin up to filling the pipeline effectively. That is, you have a deep (~14) and wide (~4) pipeline and you're going to be progressively filling it with new work - maybe some of that work has data dependencies so it will be a while before you're filling most slots.

Under enormously ideal conditions you can issue and retire 4 uops (not quite 1:1 with instructions) per cycle - so 14 cycles is passing up the opportunity to execute 56 uops (again, under ideal conditions). Very few codes will get anywhere near this.

However, that is one of the prime reasons that having a really good branch predictor - and it is very good - is so important. It's not just the time spent waiting, it's the fact that you mostly wipe out your pipeline every time.
For a person it is a really great law yes. For a data-farming corporation, less so, but that is not what he OP asked
This is what happened with banks, where the regulatory requirements are so onerous that they constitute a massive barrier to entry to new competitors. That's both a curse for banks (it's not fun to be regulated to death) and a blessing (it does't matter how badly your service sucks, as long as it is about as bad as your few competitors).
Firstly, in the nicest possible way, have you tested that belief against evidence? Because it is very easy to socialise with an unusual peer group and get weird anecdotes on this particular subject.

Secondly, there are unarguably some people who think like this and by their nature, they make up a disproportionate fraction of both borrowing, consumer spending and hence potentially business activity. Wise to keep an eye on them.
>Nothing in that article makes me more worried about a Chinese company being potentially compromised

Unfortunately my anecdotal experience biases me to believe it. After getting hundreds of Microsoft product keys from Dell, and having 20 to 50÷ of them from China being compromised even with the security scratch off intact. Have not ran into an issue with a single us printed one. Ya, no faith here.
The point is moot as soon as someone builds an API to take your user's uploaded video and run it through copyright detection. The software doesn't have to be good, it just has to do what the law asks. This article is pretty off the mark.
Because no one would make music, movies, or television anymore if DCMA didn't exist? I just don't believe that to be true.
It won't. Open offices are a lot cheaper and managers are almost universally too stupid to realize that the adverse effect they have on productivity costs them anything.
I don't really like Safari either, but I find the snippy "this is trash" followed by no real criticism to be unnecessarily dismissive.

This heavily pushed Brave for its ad-fighting, but most browsers can accept things like uMatrix/uBlock Origin, which ultimately provides even more control, so is it really that important of a benefit of Brave?

Also "Move Over Chrome" is an interesting way to frame these "reviews" since two of the top-rated options in the list are... Chrome and Chromium.

I'm having trouble really understanding what this article is trying to get at
Alright.

So, can anyone answer the question, what’s gonna happen to Ms Holmes and what are the possible career trajectories she may take?

Just wanna know what a brilliant person like her could do.
White Americans don't really have a culture. They just put everyone else down by laughing at them. Makes it hard for any other white guy to work in a service job in the States.
I think OP was sort of getting at the idea of AMP becoming a standard owned externally to google.

But the likelihood of that happening seems... low.
Americans want less risk, and fiscal policy drives consolidation.

Hotels aren’t a Business that requires immigrant labor because it’s undesirable —- it’s a business that needs capital and SMB are starved of capital.

Many Americans come from a cultural background where there is shame involved in talking about money and doing business with family, and prefer dealing with institutions.
> Even if it comes from the NSA it doesn't necessarily mean it's backdoored

I suppose you could say the same thing about someone with a history of robbing banks.. just because they walked into your bank doesn't mean they are about to rob it (but it's highly likely they are).
Definitely an exaggeration.

You don't need every single startup to build a $60 million Content ID equivalent.

You just need one startup to build Content-ID-as-a-Service.

Which actually looks like a pretty good startup idea right now.
I cant even get Shazam to work on many songs in tv shows, due to music sold from companies that produce music for content creators and not the public.

Also noticed this trend is now happening into youtube creators using leased music from their creator company or 3rd party youtube music provider.

How the heck is Youtube able to identify music if Shazam cant?
Asking around your network, maybe https://growth.org/ (I don't participate there but it's a large marketing community), marketers at companies you admire who've been there for 2-3 years and you suspect might be open to a change, and good marketing blogs. Some ideas to get you started, at least.
I was at a store in Reno that was giving out free gifts to people who weren't on Facebook or Twitter. The tide is turning on the public perception of utility and safety of large social media networks, even if extremely slowly.
How many complains did you file??

Few companies I work for have their stuff stolen and posted on youtube constantly. It took 3 months to get any response from Youtube. That times goes down to 3 weeks IF you have attorney representing you. Over 70 vidoes I have worked with lawyers to get removed, we always been looked at as the real criminals; we have to upload and prove all sorts of things just to get pass by the submit form. Longest case took us 5 months and $3,000 to remove a 45 seconds of stolen material.

Yes, DMCA works pretty decent; for lawyers that charge per hour.
Convergent Thinking vs. Divergent Thinking
I think normally you look at your salary (or bank balance) to see how "rich" you are.

Nnnnnooope. Live in a McMansion, Land Rover in the driveway, you have arrived. Ignore the part about how you made the minimum down payment (in fact, you got another loan to make the down payment on the house) on those items, and your credit cards are maxed to pay for the home theater and new dining set. You are livin' large!

I've seen it with my own eyes, including a family member. They think they're rich, when they don't have a pot that they own outright to piss in.
Wow, just when you thought that gun violence is going beyond the pale of common sense, they give you a possibility to cook up the gun without changing your pajamas & not leaving your house.
Welcome, WP Engine
This is a long shot but I was wondering if anyone on this site might have worked on or been familiar with Burroughs Corp from 1960-1961.

My maternal grandfather (Alan Bernard Gerlach) worked at Burroughs for that time. He co-authored a patent with Edward Glaser just prior to his death in January of 1962 (age 32). I've tried contacting Unisys (the merged company of Burroughs and Sperry Corp) but unfortunately they no longer have records from that time period.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US3275989A/en?oq=US-327598...

If anyone has photos, information or documentation about him I'd be very appreciative if you could share it.
> The YubiKey doesn't support U2F over NFC (at least last I checked).

The Yubikey NEO has since 2015, and I use it with Advanced Protection.

Brad Hill's author choice here: https://github.com/hillbrad/U2FReviews#neo

Personally, I prefer the flat key profile over something bulbous on the keychain.
The specific legislation in mind that relates to these banks in the EU is PDS2: basically banks have to make their data both machine consumable and portable for the user. Basically they have to make a public API.
The "health" tests were of dubious accuracy, but as a long-time customer I always thought their warnings and caveats about those tests were enough. I was sad when the FDA made them stop. However, since the FDA action and the recent restoration of the health tests the product has improved, so I guess the FDA's move was was for the best.

The genetics component has always been terrific. I've had friends uncover surprises, like one who unraveled a mystery about an undocumented and unmentioned great-grandfather, who they found out was from a different continent and shunned by the family.

Even though I work in the 'omics field, I'm still amazed every time I get an email from 23andme that a sibling or cousin has joined, with them determining that based on nothing but some spit.

I think it's a very exciting company to watch and it's just getting started.
oK is ultra verbose compared to Whitney ... not sure if you can find anything more verbose than that.

I was thinking of Tim Budd's interpreters and compilers; forgot they were reimplementation of Kamin's. See https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/... - although it's early '90s, so likely too dated to be useful for you.
What I really come away from the impression veterans and civilians of the time give of, is simply that it was unsporting, undignified, and unfair.

That, much more than it was punishingly cruel, in excess of death and dismemberment by other means.

They say, yeah, it's okay to zip a supersonic bullet through soft tissue such that it shreds with cavitation, and smash it through bone that splinters and explodes, so people lose whole limbs. And that's okay. It's like a deer hunt.

But hey, you don't hunt animals by mutilating their lings with bug spray. That's no fair. You wouldn't consume an elk carcass tainted with persistent organic pollutants. No fair. We can't even bury our dead.

But, you know what? You aren't going to bury your dead, when they're incinerated by high explosives.

And hey, what's fair about war at all? What's fair about several hundred planes unloading kilotons of conventional munitions, indiscriminately, to break an apparatus of geopolitics.

Gee, unfair, undignified, unsportsmanlike, in the pain, injury and slow death (leaving a contaminated corpse) department.

When you piece those explicit details together, the real problem is that it deals a degree of harm to the perception of gallantry, duty and honor of service. It's pretty much impossible to pat a chemical burn on the back, and say "there, there, thanks for defending the country" but, you can still pull that off, when sharing the room with an amputee that lost a limb to ballistics.

Exchanging chemical weapons for aerial bombardment exhibits "differences" but nothing that makes me say "wow, one is okay, and the other isn't."

Both are essentially equally bad, and neither is remotely good, or an improvement over the other.

People have their preferences, but in the same way that they rationalize the side effect of rampant smog and pollution as bad, but millions of fatal car accidents as normal, and a calculated risk.

The real choice being put on the table though, is: Would you choose between an air war that includes both regular explosions and chemical attacks, or just a regular air war only?

At that point, the choice becomes more rational. We say: "Hmmm, well, at least I can take some of the destruction out of the equation. I get to make one kind of misery go away. I can choose X = A as an alternative to X = (A + B + C). A never goes away, and nothing can be done about that, but at least I don't have to think about B and C anymore."

So, it's not about incediaries and high explosives being okay. Or aerial bombardment being different, and better. It's just that they can't be taken off the table, under any circumstances, no matter whatever else gets negotiated. I guess it's just a fundamental characteristic of destruction, that if destroying things is on the table, the basics of destruction get to keep their scalar qualities. You can limit the method of destruction but not the quantity.
This looks really good.

One small note about your home page - 'kickstarter will launch in early fall' isn't ideal for people outside the US / northern hemisphere.
You're not removing, just disabling. All connections are stored when FB is disabled. Better yet, messenger can persist without FB and stories are generally
quality personal updates. Messenger is a great application.

I found curation of my FB feed was ineffective. Glad you've had luck though!
Data Warehousing Tools
I should fix that, since sctb probably agrees with you and is too polite to say so.

Any suggestions for me as a shitty semicolonist?
More on point no 6.

Don’t get into a relationship with someone twice your age just because he was successful at one point of time in his life. Especially if he’s not humble.

At Ramesh Balwani’s age, if he were really that experienced, a person learns to run a company without shouting madly at his employees.
People do terrible things for tyrants (or their bosses more generally) because if their boss or tyrant is eliminated the resulting power vacuum will likely harm them with high likelihood (new ruler purges old loyalists) and reward them with low likelihood (they become the tyrant)
It does not matter how much you pay, there are only so many 'qualified' data scientists to go around. If the wages are so ridiculously high, then there will be all manner of hucksters pitching themselves as data scientists with minimal training (but good enough to pass an interview), and they will give data scientists a bad name. This will make paying high-wages a super risky move, which almost never pays off, putting downward pressure on demand and wages.

This is already happening.
This is one more reason for innovation to keep dying in Europe.

They are working on this regulations that stifle tech and are losing.

The EU had 16B VC investments agains 60B in the US, the market capitalization of Top 500 companies has been declining. [1]

Of the 50 countries studied in the Digital Evolution Index, which tracked the levels of digital development and attractiveness to global businesses and investors, the bottom 9 were European. [2]

From the video [1]:
"Loser: Europe, which is becoming irrelevant when it comes to innovation. Only six of the world's most valuable companies are based in Europe, and venture capital funding has declined."

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiTz-NTEXAM&feature=youtu.be... .

2. https://hbr.org/2015/10/europes-other-crisis-a-digital-reces...
I am quickly losing confidence in Google's ability to do hardware. Google Home is the only bright point on an otherwise terrible landscape of hardware releases.

Pixel 1 : Great phone but they just couldn't keep the supply chain filled.

Pixel 2 : see above.

Android Wear / Wear OS : Version 1.x solved all the problems of early Android handsets, by Google taking control of the firmware. Version 2.x completely crippled existing watches to the point of making them unusable. I think this was in a bid to gain more iPhone users.

Pixel 3 : It's not out yet and it's already being slated for having a huge notch. Let's hope they can make enough this time.

Google is to hardware what Sony Pictures is to movies. You get the odd great release but generally they're bogus.
I think in March[1] they announced this improvement.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/amazon-el...
Ask HN: Codenames for proejcts?
Our company culture is such that all the software project names are very "boring". I am trying to change that and would love to have better internal product names.

I can't find a good argument to achieve this. For example it would be fun to refer to our testing framework as "kraken" instead of "Tester"

how do you decide your project names ?
I read that as "BS in AI curriculum" -- boy, did this not turn out to be what I had expected.
Why remove “How” from the original title? "How the EU will force all artists to use Youtube, forever".

Edit: even the original title is misleading: it should be something like "How the EU may force all artists to use Youtube, forever, if that EU proposal is approved".
100% AGREED! @rainbowmverse . It is a success and it will seen reach critical mass to serve authentic social interaction.
The merchant is identified and the transaction is logged; the customer is anonymous.
Drugs help. Caffeine, etc.
I.e. the price of a modest new car. Hardly "immense".
Here's one possible case study, Standard Oil:

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/egee120/node/226
>it sometimes feels that our current Governments cannot bring forward decent legislation on complex tech issues.

No, the issue is not advanced technology but special interests. When the later take priority over resolving troubling consequences, you get results like those two articles.

Politicians are not meant to understand the areas they regulate. Even if they were IT professionals, they still would not understand all the other professions.
I definitely think it's reasonable that someone might say e.g. "sort these coats by color" and expect them to be bucketed like-with-like, but not imply any kind of ordering (either within or across buckets).
These patel motels are absolute flea bags. Truly disgusting.
Yes, that's better, especially since we do it elsewhere. Thanks!
Making fantasy reality: Alan Lee, the man who redrew Middle-earth
Yeah that's gonna be a no from me dog...

As a marketer I've been fortunate enough to avoid most of the AMP fallout because of the specific makeup of my clientele. However, my colleagues who have to deal with AMP want Google to kill it forever and never bring it back.
Somebody made a way to start cleaning this up, and a proposal to pay to do it (front page 3 days later):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17899395
It's true that it does not contain adequate protection for reverse engineering, however, I think the underlying premise of offering a safe harbor predicated on responding to abuse complaints is an effective one.
I mean this is CPython, so its bytecode never, ever runs in parallel anyway.
This sounds like a horrible law, with some really bad consequences. That said;

> This is an extinction-level event for the internet, folks.

Hyperbole like this doesn’t help, and in fact often turns off people whom you might be able to sway to your cause.

The immediate reaction of most people to an absolutist phrase such as that is skepticism, which naturally leads to disbelief and scorn - not what you’re likely looking to foster in your readers.
Is it just me or does the HSTS preload list not work in Firefox 62 (macOS 10.12)? I see a plaintext HTTP request when opening http://www.google.com instead of an immediate https connection to www.google.com.
https://www.yubico.com/store/

Not google's branded version.
My only problem with GDPR is that you can be fined up to 4% of org revenue for breaches, even if the violation isn’t that bad. This is pretty unfair for very horizontally-large organizations and causes a lot of CYA training/education/compliance. Yes it highly disincentivizes noncompliance but I’ve seen first hand how much work it can create relative to the actual practical effects of a violation. If potential penalties were adjusted better towards the severity of a violation, there would be a lot less wasted man hours
I see several responses that mention MongoDB for purposes of comparison and seem to conclude Elasticsearch fares favorably.

It should be noted:

[1] Unlike MongoDB (which is a ground-up build), Elasticsearch is basically an API layer on top of Apache Lucene. This is relevant because they haven't built and don't maintain, control, or own the source of their primary IP.

[2] Unlike MongoDB (General Purpose) Elasticsearch is a single purpose database and good at/used for one thing and one thing only. It searches text fields for text.

So its potential use cases and thus marketshare is far more limited.

[3] Posts on stackoverflow with the tag:

elasticsearch × 34,253
mongodb x 103,478
We have Arc to JS working in production now, but only use it for moderation software. The generated output is inevitably more verbose and we wouldn't want to inflict that on every page load.
That is a downside. But it also makes it very difficult to sue a website/service for the actions of its users.
Large data-farming corporations can and will continue operating in Europe, since they are the only ones that have the resources to understand the law, find limits and loopholes, pay fines, make major changes to their systems etc. Smaller companies and startups are the ones who will suffer.
So, we spent ages getting to where everyone agreed on standards and they were correctly implemented.

Google are now making new standards which don't conform to the agreed standard, which restrict how you can build your site. If you don't do it, they'll destroy your traffic.

AMP is text book Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. No ad network but the Google ad network allowed.

We're sleep walking back into the same thing MS did 30 years ago, with Google this time. They really have just lived long enough to become the villain.