skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speakers include:
- Keynote: Gavin Roy. VP of Architecture @ Amweber Communications
- Keynote: Jonathan Skzrypek. Executive director @ Goldman Sachs
- Michael Klishin. Core RabbitMQ developer @ Pivotal
- Ayanda Dube. RabbitMQ Expert @ Erlang Solutions
- Carl Hörberg. CEO & Founder @ CloudAMQP
- Gerhard Lazu. Core RabbitMQ developer @ Pivotal
- Monish Unni. Cloud Architect @ Polynomial Factors
- Nathan Herald. Software Engineer @ Wunderlist/Microsoft
- Matteo Cafasso. Software Engineer @ F-Secure Corporation.
Yup, because it matters what some outliers do when it comes to statements about the general population ("it's also rare")

/s
I wonder how many people die texting and driving.
Pro tip: don't type while driving.
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Born and raised in Canada. At 27, I sold everything I had and moved to France to find a job. 25 years, 3 cities and 5 companies later, I'm still loving it and never looked back.
Pretent that I suck at everything related to management and sales so that I never had to do all the boring paperwork and meetings that comes in a management / sales position and instead has been able to spend my time on technical stuff. I have never told the boss that I also have a marketing degree from university. Lol. Has worked as a charm for 20+ years now.
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This explanation is a bit too far fetched.

The effort to move the bank to their own banking system is on itself a tremendous effort. We're talking calendar years of implementation time, huge risks and a stall of most other development. The leadership knows that their banking systems are a pile of bleeding horse dung that they wish to avoid touching at any cost.

They are not kindergartners, but they are not omnipotent either. Knowing that the Estonian bank had improper processes would by itself require a lot of work to discover, and figuring out if this has been abused would likely be quite a massive task. Doing the move to the new business logic would reveal the issue, but not before it was done.

Never attribute to malice what can be sufficiently explained by incompetence. What we see here can be explained with just a little bit of incompetence, or an extreme amount of malice. The former is far more likely.
>And what google did is to shatter that trust by sneaking that change discretely.

How did you expect them to announce a change they probably perceive as a minor UX improvement? Also this has been brewing for months in canary/beta, it's not like they actually snuck the change as you imply.
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Moving from permanent to contractor.

I made the jump 5 years ago and have worked for a number of companies since, on 6-12 month contracts. The money has jumped each time, such that I’m on what I consider to be silly money now for the job I do — Ireland, not US.

The work is always interesting for at least 6 months and I learn a ton of new stuff with every contract, much of which I use when building my own products (Downtime between contracts).

Every aspect of contracting is better than being permanent: the ability to jump ship quickly without affecting my hireability, the exposure to so many different technologies and different ways of doing things, the constant freshness of new things and new people, the ideas that come with seeing how different teams create and build different software, the ease with which you can step into new contracts (often one 30 minute interview as opposed to multipel interviews tests and take home projects for perm roles), and of course the money.

In terms of learning, each contract is like spending 3 years in a permie job, and I’ve had 7 in the past 5 years.
The quote I know along those lines is from Scott McNealy.
>Yes, that starts with "leaving it"

You're right, but the percentage of Google users aware of how evil they are is probably less than 0.5%.

An overwhelmingly large percentage of users won't care about what could happen as long as nothing happens directly affecting them. Mass surveillance companies like Google, Facebook know this and take advantage of it.

Technology activists aren't strong enough to start a wave that would lead to people abandoning these evil corps..

Also, as others mentioned, they eat up all competition.. so there aren't really any good options left apart from Google products in areas they compete.
So people with an exotic email address can't use your service because you don't think their email is valid? The reason you don't see those exotic addresses are mostly because of bad programs not knowing how email works.

This reminds me of that story of a Chinese man unable to get registered at the bank because the computer systems don't have a character required to write his name.

Sure, "it only affects a small amount of people", but it shouldn't be that hard to just flag strange but valid emails with "your email looks strange, check it again and tick this box if you're 100% sure you typed it right" instead of outright refusing to work. The check box doesn't even need to be interpreted server side, this can be done in one or two lines of javascript.
I wonder if at some point there is going to be a market for fully built kit cars - that is, newly built cars, but without electronics that phone home.
Scientists discover new mechanism for information storage in one atom
I hope some day some big corp decides to write a decent (open source) Python to C compiler, which makes optional optimizations based on type annotations.

I find this project: https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka very interesting, but its written and maintained only by a single person and I never got it to work with any of my apps.
> Yes but why?

Because Russia is a major regional power whose regional interests are frequently in conflict with the Western Alliance (both NATO specifically and the other Western European political and economic structures), which they've been trying to weaken. Their manipulation with regard to, among other things, Catalán independence, Brexit, and the attempts to weaken Clinton and boost Trump primarily, but also some other rivals (which seems to have been expected to fail in electoral terms but leave the resulting Administration weaker with deeper and more aggressive domestic resistance than without intervention) all fit into that pattern.

> Russia is a third world country

The (primary successor in interest to, at least) definitive second world country, actually.
That very thing started from 'exporting democracy' to Iran in 1953.
If you are interested in a particular technology, googling for "slack for <technology>" usually works.

If more interested on cross technical concerns (leadership, regional) I have found the best thing is word of mouth (I know several Colorado slacks, but found them through people I met at meetups). Though again you could try Google.

I have also found that most non project oriented email lists I am on have a link to their slack in the email footer.
I agree. I'm not concerned with Google's vulnerability, but for most of my own usage, it's pretty low hanging fruit to recreate the basics. Will be interesting to see how things progress.
> Google could in principle make its results insanely left-leaning and the first amendment should protect them

This is a far too simplistic and superficial analysis. Yes, Google could decide to position themselves as a publisher and claim the corresponding right to editorialize their content, but this would mean accepting a publishers' responsibility for all of the content. Historically, Google and others have been immune as a result of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which shields them from responsibility for libel, defamation, threats, falsehoods, child porn, fair housing violations, etc.

They could choose to become a publisher in the eye of the law, but then they would have to play by the rules of a publisher. They can't simultaneously be protected as a publisher by freedom of the press and claim immunity as not a publisher.
I think you were dreaming of this, perhaps?

https://www.eff.org/nl/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-sch...

I'm surprised that people keep being surprised about Google being just another company. Money first, money last.
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You're literally comparing the decision making skills of lesser financial means to those of child - which strikes me as extremely problematic. To claim that the "us" commenters of HN have some specialized skillset, tuned to consume better media than the rest of the world, absolutely baffles me.

Can we agree that mentally stable adult humans, generally, should have some agency and responsibility to choose how they consume media?
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My best decision was to get a remote job so I never have to come to the office. So now I live on small beach in Thailand instead of living in a big European city.
If I recall a talk with a Danske Bank employee correctly, only the Estonian branch itself saw the profits for this fraud, with the Danish branch not benefiting from it.

However, my memory and interpretation of this chat may be incorrect. Economists and engineers do have a slight linguistic mismatch.
I don't defend Google long slide into hard-core-stalkerdom, but there is a slight price difference between a Macbook Air and a Chromebook. Apple uses hardware income to support software dev costs; Google uses tracking and ads to pay for same and keep device cost low.
A very insightful videos is [0] by Peter Zeihan, presents he read on the US's role in near future of global geopolitics: the shale revolution

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feU7HT0x_qU
One thing I learned along the way is to be very honest to yourself and know that "you don't know what you don't know." When I was at University I always felt like I know it all. But the more you explore you learn so much that you don't know.
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(Almost) every browser does that. Firefox is just a little more restrictive and doesn’t do it with non-FQDN addresses by default .
Imaginary worlds podcast did an excellent episode on the subject:

https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/fantasy-maps.html
Delighted to hear such an accurate description of my own career. I'm not alone.
What Is Web Mining and Details about It's Tools
Also very interesting how they do include IP addresses in their regex but only ipv4.
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And no documentation.
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> https://www.bellingcat.com/

This site is unreliable, its full of bogus claims regrading or example Syria (author of the site is supporting the Kurdish rebels for example).
A correct statement based on three wrong assumptions.

1) That I've lost interest in music myself (I didn't).

2) That whether some other people might not lose music was disputed. Perhaps you imagined me as some strange creature in a cave that has never heard or known of people that maintain their interest in music to their late age.

3) That the fact that some other people don't lose interest in music is relevant. I was making a general statement ("it's also rare"). Most people do lose interest in music compared to their younger years. That's not some fringe claim, it's borne out by buying patterns and studies. People tend to stick to the music of their youth time and again. Even the new artists they discover tend to be of the same genres and styles in vogue when they were younger.
How did you expect them to announce a change they probably perceive as a minor UX improvement?

Just because you split a large change into a set of minor UX improvements and have different excuses for each individual change, that doesn't make the direction of travel any less damaging.

To be clear, the direction of travel is for Google to abuse their de-facto monopoly on search and browsers to own SSO across the web and track their users completely, at which point they will pretty much own your entire web experience (logins, browser history, maps, news, search, tracking, analytics - all this data will form a huge moat making it hard to compete and hard to resist decisions made by google about the web) - even if you don't use them they'll own the experience of the majority of your customers. This is why these small changes are so pernicious, and why people have reacted badly to them. This is why people reacted so badly to AMP.

This is not an argument over technicalities or quibbles over UX, this is a fundamental question of who owns the web.

Google have built up a lot of trust over the years by keeping the browser independent of their other operations, and making great technical progress with Chrome, but these changes (and others like starting to abuse their search monopoly by privileging certain google results) show that is not going to last - they are now at the monetising phase of their lifecycle, and nothing can stop it - a huge corporation has a momentum of its own.
Every postures on Freebsd tutorial has turned into "how zfs works" which is good but.. I would love somebody to document the optimal kernel, network and postgres .conf on FreeBSD because I've done the zfs bit: what about its network and non file buffer cache?
Aadhaar: India top court upholds controversial biometric scheme
Assuming many of those are "doc, my symptoms are the same as before, can you renew my prescription"?

Those renewals probably take 10 seconds.
anecdotal, but i don't know anyone outside of HN who actually thought this was a bad idea. on the contrary, most of my coworkers that use shared pcs praised logging in to both the browser and other google services as it helps them improve their productivity.
Is this before or after tax? Because it it's before tax and you take the avg salary and substract taxes you'll end up with a quite different picture with the USA, Israel and Switzerland ending up on top and France at the bottom.
The different is, if you have 1 U2F key, people who steal your U2F key gain access to one half of the two factors for ALL services you use.

With 4 U2F keys, people who stole 1 of your U2F keys gain that one factor for only the services that you tied to that keys.
>>politely tell them it's their own ... fault when they complain about the costs.

They don't care. Neither do their bosses. Not even the CFO or the CEO.

The only people who will care are the investors. And sometimes not even them, they will likely just sell and walk.

Only people who are likely to care are activist investors with large block of shares, those types have vested interests in these things.

Part of the reason why there is so much waste every where is because organizations are not humans. And most people in authority have no real stake or long term consequences for decisions. This is everywhere, religious organizations, companies, governments etc. Everywhere.
And remember, logging into any Google service in Chrome now means you're logged into Chrome so more tracking!
There is another interesting thing. You need to allow google tracking if you want to do searches in google maps. If you block it maps will crash. Turns out it needs a proper country code to work, regardless of where you're searching.
> From the outside, it seems to have reached a tipping point in the past year that is now getting quite dramatic.

There was no real tipping point - the media just noticed it's easy to get clicks if they repeatedly write about Google. Google was always Google and they had similar ethics for years now.

It's pretty much why you also see all the Google articles on this page (just like you saw all the FB bashing a few months ago which now disappeared). I believe Reddit community calls this group behaviour a "circlejerk". People posting same content to reinforce their opinion.
What do I think? Well since you asked.....

I think that any conference that in 2018 creates a panel consisting of all men is frankly, more stupid than can really be grasped.

It’s called a “Manel” and once this gets onto Twitter this conference will be crucified.

There will be much apologizing, excuse making, back pedaling, explaining that ‘we tried but there’s no females who know anything about RabbitMQ’ and then finally the existing speakers, under public pressure, risk pulling out and then the conference risk being cancelled.

At a minimum, Microsoft will be targeted and the Microsoft speaker will pull out, followed by the others who care about the public perception.

Almost certainly Pivotal and Goldman Sachs will pull out too.

Let’s wait and see how much of this actually happens.
Trying not to screw up this potential nuke situation as badly as the US have screwed up North Korae over the last 30 years.

Go do the world police thing somewhere else while you get over this weird phase your going through, leave this one to us.
How do things work regarding the boundary between .NET and Qt memory management? What was the hardest problem you faced regarding this issue (resource leaks, etc.)?
too many startups suffer from wannagetbiggeritis
Nationalistic flamewar is not allowed on HN regardless of which nation you have a problem with. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't.
That's a premium feature. I find it well worth the money, plus no ads. https://www.youtube.com/premium
One more reason to use posix_spawn() instead of fork() is that the latter must duplicate parent process memory, so for large processes which work under time constraints this can take nontrivial amount of time. This can bite when calling system() to execute shell command, since under the hood it also calls fork().
By the 3x the cost of the same car - but with the source code (Linux 2.6.1 with binary blobs) for washer and wipers.
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Thank you. I wish I could share some good news now, 10 years on, but sadly I can't. That time was during my exchange programme to UCSB.

When I graduated, I went to Canada on a Working Holiday visa. I found a job at a startup, but they only paid 600 CAD/month. I ended up doing remote work instead. In New Zealand I had a good summer job, so saved a little. In Japan I was unemployed, I foolishly went there without finding a job first. Then I worked in South Korea with North Korean refugees for 2 months on a stipend that covered food and shelter. Then a summer job in Austria that paid. Then volunteer missionary work, which emptied my savings. Then failing to find a job in the Netherlands. Then unpaid work at a PCB factory in China, but they let me stay in the dorm and eat in the cafeteria for free. Then a paid job in Shenzhen, and I had savings again. Then trying to start PhD in Korea, but the professor didn't pay my scholarship and my savings were gone soon. Then 5000 INR/mo for a social enterprise in India. Then 4 years in Taiwan for a microSD card manufacturer, and finally saving up enough for plane tickets once a year to visit family. But that ended a couple of months ago.

Now I'm unemployed, living with parents, trying to find anything. My dream had been to return to NZ or Canada but I'll give up dreams just to have income again. Those who give advice usually just criticise my résumé without ideas of how to find a job.

I've been trying since March. I tried job websites (Seek, Indeed). LinkedIn. Direct applications to companies. Custom cover letters. Rewriting my résumé twice. Contacting engineers via their Github profiles to offer to work together on open-source just to get an introduction. Side projects on Show HN. Several recruiters. Friends from previous summer jobs. Offering to start a data migration service with my old Apple IIgs or Mac Plus. Prayer. Now I'm just cold-emailing every company on the accredited employers list. Nothing's working. Please, if you have any idea what I can try next, please get in touch.
whoa... this is so cool. And its based on QT. What do you think of the Dropbox article ?
as long as you complete projects it should be ok.
Public opinion in Europe ain't very positive about Trump either, every other day its another eye roll because of what that ego maniac did/said/didn't, how rude and unfair he is. This is what people see.

On the other side, what specifically Iran did do to deserve this? Yes they meddle around their neighbors, just like every other country. US is the last who should be blaming others for this, Iran is at least home and not inciting civil wars in Mexico or Cuba. In the same time Saudi Arabia doing some small-scale genocide in Yemen, bombing civilians left and right gets a free pass and very friendly attitude, yet they are the one of the biggest exporters of terrorism and country is as far from freedom and equality as one can be in 21st century.
Social networks have a big enough scope to make money otherwise (you're literally using them for hours on end every day).

That's not the case for an app you might take out a couple of times a day (at best) to check some tune for 10 seconds.
In the light of all the negative attention Chrome 69 has been getting around these parts I've found Vivaldi to be a very pleasant, more privacy-focused alternative.
I guess that the author doesn't know what they're doing: https://github.com/meshbird/meshbird/blob/19fa62219dd1dd9069...
Hmm, I would be keen to try it, however:

There are scant details on the website as to _how_ it works. They don't appear to backup the claim that its "distributed"

Are they just using a DHT to distribute IP addresses, then use wireguard to connect? how is routing configured? is it dynamic.

All of the basics seem to require looking into the code, which seems a little obtuse

also, wget'ing a script direct into sh, not a healthy start. easy installers == great, but not when its piped directly into sh. Tar.gz and make it obvious that your not hiding stuff, and make sure you post a hash of the tar.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/famed-walden-pon...

Nothing is sacred anymore.
>How about another example for from the same person.

How about it? We've just added video editor looking for cool music to DJ. We could add tens such cases more, but all those combined are still narrow demographics.
In my case, a bunch of different small decisions instead of a single big one.

They look so obvious right now...

Right now, I think that the best decision I'm taking is learning Japanese.
That made me laugh :)

Would love to see a gif/video of that with rage as a soundtrack :D
Same thing happened to Sun Solaris
Because in the case of the EU it is against the regulations of the market they want to operate in.
The thing is, you don't only need an alternative for the alarm app if you want to get rid of GApps.

The hidden costs of apps Google gives you for "free" is probably above $1,000. I guess the majority would give away their privacy for that amount these days.
If you think something is good for people

Therein lies the disagreement - Google thinks it is good for people to log in to Google services via their browser, and to always be logged in (it's certainly good for Google!), therefore they choose these defaults, opting in to login and to tracking.

Many disagree.