skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Get a domain from Gandi. $15/year and includes email service. You can either use the email directly, or forward it somewhere else so you can keep using the same email address forever even if you change providers.
Now in LA: 3D Video and Machine Learning-Based Music Projected on the WDCH
I fully understand this regarding the UI. But the new interface is much slower. I remember stories from years back when Google was beating everyone else in the search and webmail space that speed was one of the crucial components of their success. Have they lowered their standards or they just feel like they're too big to care?
1 developer, 20 managers
IMHO no app that doesn't really need location data to perform the very function people install it for should ever be given access to this data. Same applies to Internet access and other app permissions.
I agree. Something seemingly comparable like Python/Django for instance cannot compare with Rails with regards to productivity. There was (and still is) Meteor.js though, but adpotion stagnated for several reasons.
As many have mentioned here, estimates about the number of accounts affected usually start off low and increase as the full scope of the vulnerability is known.
I am one of those few people. They're inconvencing the few people that refuse to use their service and generally making the world shittier. If something worse than facebook comes in mind, it's probably the Vogons or bedbugs. But what can one expect from a company that uses the f word as their logo?
I heard on Reddit that it had been cancelled as he'd been paid out by FB.
Does FB have a team dedicated to responding on HN yet?
It still can. I have yet to see a state level or higher official openly claim marijuana use. Not saying they don't exist I have just not seen any. No politician is going to win after openly admitting to consuming pornography.
Have you considered the possibility that a degree from a top university could influence an interviewer's report of the candidate's technical proficiency?

During one interview I had at Google, I stumbled when performing addition on base 64 numbers.

Since I don't have a degree, it seems likely that interviewer will write that I have a conceptual deficiency with numeric bases and mathematics.

If I had a degree from CMU and gave an identical performance, they might instead write that I was rusty with numeric bases.

There's also the fact that most of the interviewers have a degree, many from a top 10 university. Hiring people that match their own profile validates their own background which benefits their career, so a self-interested and rational interviewer should rightly tend to give more positive ratings to people with degrees, ideally from institutions similar to theirs.

I think this is relevant at every stage of the interview process. If you sound nervous and don't have a degree, they might think you have a mental disorder, whereas if you have a degree from CMU they might just think that you don't want to disappoint your family.

I feel disadvantaged at every stage of the interview process for not having a degree. I'm sure there's no moment where someone is consciously docking me points or arguing against me with specific reference to the lack of degree. But I do think it's heavily influencing how academic types perceive me, and what they write about me in their report.
Virtual Singapore project could be test bed for planners – and plotters
Registration for voting varies by the state you live in. In MN, you basically just need to walk in, have someone else who is already registered vouch for you, and you can register + vote on the spot.

Every attempt to firm up voter registration roles (such as proving identity, eligibility, etc) is met with cries of racism.
I wonder why smart and competent-seeming people who can get out of Russia stay in Russia. For most of the last 200 years, if not longer, the smartest thing anyone in Russia could do was (and today is) get out of Russia. Staying seems to have limited upside compared to these very significant downsides.
I'm not stating that the procedure is illegal. Having never read the procedural guide or the relevant law, I fully confess my ignorance on the subject.

You are stating that it is legal, and from my point of view your only reason is that the accused said they were following procedure. As following procedure doesn't show legality, why are you certain it is legal?
It is unclear to me from the context whether this is an excerpt of a fictitious letter from Churchill's mother to him as a child or if this is a real historical letter.

Edit: to answer my own question, it seems to be an excerpt from a book of actual letters between Churchill and his mother: https://www.amazon.com/My-Darling-Winston-Letters-Churchill/....
Although arguably not as productive Java fares pretty well in that regard, particularly when it comes to maintainability.

Still, Rails is terrific. If it wasn’t for Rails Java today wouldn’t be as productive either.
And relative to new jersey, the demand for housing in California is near zero. See how dumb that sounds?
Well I'm guessing people like the concept of a Web UI, on the basis they are using gmail in the first place.

I'm a self hosted MS Exchange + Outlook user, so I'm being purely devils advocate here.
Unprofessional Google Assistant review process
Google Assistant Review team has been behaving strangely, recently they asked me to re-submit my app under a new name, and then transfer the invocation from my existing action to the new action.

That also means, we have to start with clean slate, all the old ratings and reviews will be wiped out.

They approved our action 4 months ago, and then we resubmitted with update 3 months back, it has been pending since then. It is severely affecting my startup and holidays are round the corner.

Does anybody know Google Assistant developer relations and introduce him/her to us.

Thanks in advance,
We as an industry?

Look friend. If I lose my job, you aren't going to do anything to augment my lack of income. You're not going to do anything to provide health insurance. And you're not going to do anything to help me find new employment.

There is no "We".

Here's an idea. If this topic is something that you feel is important, then perhaps you can set aside half your income to a general fund to help provide benefits for employees who leave facebook for morality reasons. Maybe if it gets enough momentum others will also provide funds. Given enough time perhaps this will help the "industry" to become more ethical.

You know what's not going to convince anyone to leave facebook now? Trying to setup some sort of ad hoc lynch mob to "deal" with people who are trying to pay a mortgage.
Same day on Nautilus:

Why Aging Isn’t Inevitable: The great variety of aging styles among plants and animals suggests it can be controlled.

http://nautil.us/issue/36/aging/why-aging-isnt-inevitable
You tried to use population density of the state as a point. Do you know what the average population density of a state means?
Mine too has been denied multiple times now.
I've had fun writing some stuff in CircuitPython [0] (a fork of MicroPython mostly geared towards Adafruit microcontroller boards). At the moment it is geared more towards educational and hobbyist uses, but there is a quite a bit you can do with it.

[0] https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython
I was surprised to learn that github runs on ruby on rails.

Interesting, I didn't know Ruby has been around just as long as PHP. I still would choose PHP if my opinion matters, just from my experience with the slow performance of ruby on rails when I gave it a go just a few years back.

PHP - 23 years

Ruby - 23 years

Java - 23 years

JavaScript (nodejs) - 22 years (9 years)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming_language#E...
My take: "Physics makes aging inevitable, not biology."
We count votes several times, using different people. All counting is done under observation. Everyone on the ballot can demand a recount under their supervision, within reason (you can’t demand infinite recounts).

The people who count votes are either trusted employees of the muniplacity, members of a politician party or NGOs. I guess in a two party system it’s hard to understand why politician party members are impartial, but when you have several parties they govern each other + they don’t get to count their own votes, and there is at least one recount of only officials.

I’m not sure what system would be safer.

Without a paper trail you have no evidence. I guess you could use blockchain, but realistically, it would never be decentralized and 99% of the voters wouldn’t understand it well enough to know whether or not the software actually did what they intended, making it much unsafer.
> From stockholders point of view, this is still just a big glitch that is possible to fix and recover.

Not only that. TSMC is just a similar mistake away from the same glitch at the next node size. They are not objectively smarter than Intel - they got lucky Intel got unlucky and that's it. We shouldn't read too much into it.
It feels like google web-devs/disigners should start looking at the native apps to get an idea of what the user expectations for the web-app are going to be. If we look at microsoft web outlook, it is gradually becoming like its native counterpart (which is the best desktop email client on my opinion). They didn't have a good web expertise like google so it was too sluggish at the begning but it's getting better. If webassemply becomes a thing, MS will have a good chance to bring its dominance to the field of web apps.

What's interesting is that I remember how devs and designers were frustrated when they were asked to build a web version of their desktop apps finding it too hard to fit into new constrains. Now, I wont be surprised if web-devs/designers feel frustrated too trying to build a desktop app with a mental model of HTML documents and page reloads which is what the new gmail UX looks like to me (the old one was not better, I just got used to it).

If it was up to me, I would focus only on performance and accessibility. I would cut all animations and use much simpler (bare text if needed) ways to present information. Today when you can be fast on web, no need to compensate lack of it with too much content and animations.
Thanks for pointing this out. I knew it, but the uniqueness had not been clear. He is an intriguing character and an anomaly in so many ways, and I would say that is because, in large part, of his relationship with his mother, whom he befuddled (like so many others in his life), but she nonetheless adored him.
Anyone who has the power to freeze your bank account without recourse already has the power to seize you physically.

The IRS, US Government, EU or whomever has jurisdiction over your local bank already has the power and ability to seize your physical person. So I don't see what's being gained; if I put all my bank accounts into bitcoin the people you're trying to guard from can still come and coerce me with a gun anyway.

Meanwhile, anybody who isn't one of the aforementioned entities cannot do this, because even if they threaten or kill me, the banking system will reverse the transaction. Thus there isn't any incentive for anybody else to try to physically coerce me, because there's no way for them to keep the money.
There are plenty of opportunities to discuss the ethics of Facebook, but them suffering a data breach is not one.
When I first heard this as a kid, I immediately thought about a real life camel attempting to fit through the hole for thread in a sewing needle. That seemed like a very odd comparison as to who would try to do such an odd thing?

As an adult, I heard someone talk about one of the gates in the wall to Jerusalem was named the "eye of the needle" because of its shape. If a camel was loaded up that exceeded a certain height, the camel could not fit through the gate. It was this situation that the biblical passage was supposedly referring. So as with most things, context really helped.
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I will acknowledge that they tried to have a seat manufacturing company design and manufacture the seats, and it failed: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-seats/teslas-seat-s...

Gotta say, as a Model 3 owner, I don't see any build quality or poor craftsmanship in the vehicle and I took a very long time doing final inspection at the service center before taking delivery. I'm not saying it has the same build quality as say a high end Mercedes or BMW (the model 3 isn't in that category of vehicle), but it is the nicest car I've ever driven as a daily driver. He is trying to do something differently, and he very well might do it slower as a result, but vertical integration will definitely lead to lower costs in the long run as there is simply less of the middle tier. When it comes to the guts, there is nothing but quality, and tesla easily stands alone in that regard: https://cleantechnica.com/2018/02/19/tesla-model-3-stuns-ger...

TL;DNR: People have been hating on Elon since he said that banking could be online (when he founded x.com that became most of what is now paypal), and when he said he would found a rocket company, and when he said his rockets would be reusable by landing on boats, etc. He'll get it eventually, or die trying.
Or spent long enough to think about why rooms can be cleaned each week?
That is what we are doing in Startup School - https://blog.ycombinator.com/announcing-startup-school-2018/
medicate
Seems like kind of a weird thing to really take note of, but it wasn't just a general list, both parts had criteria that exclude Stripe ("household name" [i.e. consumer brand] and "funded in the last five years," respectively).
Fortnite explains new female character's jiggly bits were 'unintended'
Could you explain what exactly is Orwellian here? Not meaning to pick on you but you're currently the top comment that doesn't attempt to Chakrabarti engage with the topic.

I don't see much evidence of anything other than a crap algorithm here as yet.
Mostly correct. Canada (and most other countries with a volunteer system) are self-sufficient for blood, but not self-sufficient for plasma (a blood product).

The countries that do paid plasma donations end up supplying (and profiting from) countries with only volunteer plasma donor systems.
Paywalled after a delay!

https://outline.com/dbbuPu
Hidden fees that raise price of broadband would be banned by proposed law
People Are Leaving Secret Letters to Fellow Fans in Harry Potter Books
This is a heavily flawed argument, as others have pointed out. Consider this: why does this argument apply to indavidual humans but not to the human race?

Ie. why are babies born young if they are created by old humans?
Don't worry, the number affected will surely grow.
What is a "new" cell? Cells reproduce by division so when you go from one cell to two cells, there is typically not a clear cell that is the original one.
Some random thoughts, starting with personal experience:

* When my team gives me ownership over a project, I take pride in that project and produce higher-quality work. This is loosely related to "people act more responsibly when you give them more responsibility" in the sense that direct democracy will make people feel like they have more ownership over issues.

* Homeowners tend to take better care of their place of living than renters.

* When people have kids, most tend to mature and act more responsibly in general. Not all, but most. In this case "having a child" is a proxy for "having more responsibility" in general.

In terms of studies, I'm intrigued by experiments [1] where people are assigned leadership roles randomly. They seem to suggest that people tend to make better decisions when given more responsibility. An even more radical idea that is more closely related to this study would be to assign random citizens to be in charge of a certain political issue, say for 6 to 12 months.

[1] http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/10/is-it-sometim...
I feel this comes from a frustrating kind of purism, like xp, which is a nice thought experiment but is completely unworkable in the real world.

The real-world consequence of this would be people not writing tests until after they are feature-complete so they don't risk losing work.
The argument made in the article isn’t the simple (and obviously fallacious) entropy argument.
Organized crime still runs alcohol. Many mafiosos have come into cannabis from alcohol in the last two years. By alcohol I'm not only referring to the bottlers but also the distributors, bars, and night clubs.
I don't buy the physics argument. It's not like egg and sperm-generating cells aren't subject to thermal aging, and yet zygotes are biologically new rather than 18-45 years old. Life should be getting progressively worse through time rather than effectively resetting every generation.
Zig has extensive metaprogramming support.

For SIMD I'm using ispc which is a shader-like language/compiler from Intel. You write your code from the point of view of a single SIMD lane and the compiler takes care of the rest. Intel kind of screwed the project over with their stupid naming and terrible website but it's a very cool project. I take the resulting object file and link it with the rest of the project. This is very different from trusting a compiler to vectorize your code, with a shading language you know it's going to vectorize. What's absolutely brilliant is when you start to use divergent control flow and see how well it handles it.

https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/18/ispc-origins.html
Life Is Strange 2, episode 1 review: New setting, same heart
> I can't see how it's worth close to $800 million either.

It's worth $800 million because someone was willing to buy it for $800 million. Why is anything worth anything? Because someone is willing to pay for it.

> isn't ads to kids illegal in most countries?

What? Then how does nickelodean, toys stores, kids clothes store, etc exist? I can assure you that ads to kids are most definitely legal in most countries. We have back-to-school sales and of course we have christmas.

> And even if it's legal, how moral is it?

What's immoral about it? Targetting adult specific ( cigarettes, alcohol ) to kids shouldn't be allowed, but what's immoral about targeting age specific products to kids?

You sound like people saying kids shouldn't be taught about sex education, learn about violent news, etc. Kids and everyone should be taught about ads and adults should help kids deal with ads because ads are a part of life and they are going to have to deal with it eventually. Rather than ads themselves, I think the lack of educating kids about ads is the problem. But lots of backwards controlling parents want to keep children uninformed and naive and ill prepared for real life.
But won't you be able to deliver the high-value product sooner if you get early experience with the low-value one first?

You can design around unreliable processes by increasing redundancy and these simpler chips seem excellent as technology validation.
Wouldn't switching to Hugo (or another of the thousand alternatives) be easier?
International Energy Agency predicts wind will dominate Europe’s grid by 2027
> As such, it is also an uncommon practice to lie about symptoms during an office visit that was required for some other reason, to get a prescription for antibiotics that is not immediately needed.

Wait, do doctors actually prescribe antibiotics given just invisible symptoms and no actual flora analysis? What's the point of the prescription system them? Isn't a doctor meant to find out what specific bacteria causes the problem and choose the right antibiotic to target these?
I'm not making a point about population density, I only did so because others brought it up first. Demand for housing in the urban areas of SF and LA is much higher than anywhere in Texas. Note that I used the word 'demand', not 'density'.
It's probably because Stripe didn't go through the traditional YC program.

"What’s interesting is that unlike 99% of YC companies, Stripe didn’t actually go through the standard startup bootcamp process. Patrick had already been through it once and didn’t feel the need to do it again. The amount YC invested was in the $20k-$30k range." [1]

[1]: https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/the-collison-brothers-and-...
Analyzing a Cuckoo filter over a Bloom filter, from a Gopher's perspective
Facebook can't be seen to be prioritising one news source over another.

So I can't imagine they have lists of any news sources and rely entirely on user signals to determine the quality of a source.
Precious metals have a very long history of protecting against inflation risk, which is why many investors own them. Crypto currency is not anywhere near that category because they haven't been around even 20 years and the prices suffer from severe instability.
It’s perfectly reasonable to work at 12am, and there’s nothing in the parent comment to suggest that they’ve been working since 9am or so. Maybe they started working at 8pm. Modern work should be asynchronous. If your company cares about butt-in-seat time, it’s the one that’s wrong.
Can we get proof of this supposed massive PR campaign? You can't just shoo away several real, well-documented, massive breach of trust from Facebook with "well it's the Russians". The hate Facebook is getting comes from them being negligent about user data, and they were well-aware of the problem.
Maybe you should read what I said. I used population density in response to someone else using it.
> Working for Facebook is a morally bankrupt position.

Facebook offers a service that people wants. A service that is not morally bad, if any connecting people is a positive thing.

The monetization of that business is what has proven problematic. As it is offered for free, it is people's privacy what is being sold.

Who should solve it?

The problem with "just don't work for Facebook" is that it shifts the responsibility to policy companies from governments, that have the power and resources, to individuals that have not. Of course individuals have a moral responsibility, and that is why whistle-blowers are so important in all industries.

But it is the government that has the responsibility to assure that the industry remains a positive force in the country. Tech giants are a new phenomenon. Regulations have not still catch up with its problems. But governments around the globe need to shape up and get up to the challenge of letting companies offer services that people wants and needs while minimizing the harmful impact that some business models have.

If you do not like the ethics of the company that you work for, change jobs. You are going to be happier. But that is not going to make the company more ethical, if any it is going to be less ethical as people that worries about such things move out.
Fair enough, but Canada is the only country outside of the USA you can get it. So this doesn't really change my point.
But if you swap all parts is it still the same mechanical system?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
VR going mainstream? Yeah, next year, says Facebook, for the third year in a row
Yes probably. For instance, there's been interesting recent examples from Pinterest and Instacart (amongst others) who found that DL-based approaches for tabular data reduced the engineering and maintenance headaches due to less need for manual feature engineering.

Although decision tree approaches maybe will continue to be faster to train in many cases. At the moment, it really helps to be familiar with both approaches.
Over the years I've met a lot of people who went into HR in the hopes of making things better for the rank and file. I've yet to meet a single one who didn't report a few years later that they had been delusive.

I sincerely hope your friends will be more successful. But I doubt it.