skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So... Basically he cashed out billions. That is ridiculous amount of money. Now he said "no" to $850 millions for moral reasons, and the moral action here is mostly that he won't work for facebook any more.

For me this sounds quite ridiculous. He already cashed out as they sold the unprofitable service for ridiculous amount of money. Facebook has to generate profit for shareholders so they have to monetize it somehow. It is quite easy for him to say "yeah I'm morally superior, thanks for the money but I don't want the product to be profitable that way you know, now when you have paid me..."
I know I'm a sample size of one, but I know a lot of people who use Signal (and no, they're not all in tech).
I don't see what prevents you from adding complexity.

And yeah, but it also requires valid transactions if you want to collect fees, as well as the knowledge of the valid previous block.
Google Docs is probably _reasonably_ safe; it's used by a lot of Google's business users, and has no clear internal competitor anxious to murder it. (As far as I know, anyway.)

I'd say that Docs is as safe as YouTube or Gmail. Sure, you might get locked out of your account with no recourse, but the offering itself isn't likely to go away.
This! Java is hugely overusing exceptions for reporting situations that are completely normal (probably because it didn't have anything like Option type or any way to return error results). Exception should be for "somebody stole our HD and we can't read data" or "database have died and we can't continue, all panic!", not for "user made a typo and we need to display an error message". Using exceptions for routine flow control is bad design.
The Vive and Go aren't in the same market, though. It's like comparing a Tesla to Leaf. It's not that the Leaf is a bad car, it's that it can't hold a candle to the Model S.
Ah man sorry that was just the beginning to get the ball rolling on the stream.

There's a recording on Twitch if you wanna skim through it (I linked to it in my top comment). Cheers
I think that the US has been taking a completely wrong approach to the opioid crisis. Trying to limit opioid prescriptions will just inevitably lead to users turning to the black market to get their fix. It's much safer to get opioids from a doctor, even if under questionable circumstances, than to gamble on fentanyl-spiked street heroin.
I guess they "trusted" WhatsApp. "Dumb f##ks", right?
Yes, I just used dig's reported timings:

dig triplebyte.com @1.1.1.1 | grep 'Query time'
;; Query time: 2 msec
dig triplebyte.com @8.8.8.8 | grep 'Query time'
;; Query time: 21 msec

but could imagine doing a more thorough benchmark like the one you linked if my results weren't so dramatically different!
On the flip side, no sane company is going to sue a former (or current) employee for IP ownership over work they did in their off hours - especially if it isn't directly related to the company's own business.
And how many paid a single cent for it?
Starting to get mixed feelings about these cases. Impostors and fraudsters certainly need to be exposed. But publicly ripping apart few individuals who, together with their peer reviewers, in some cases may simply not know better (e.g. because their whole field has low standards – nutrition science seems to be one of these fields –; or because they are inexperienced and their co-authors and supervisors don't care about details and correct science and just want to have their names on the paper) can not be the solution for an overall malfunctioning scientific communication and incentive system, or for bad methods that are used by entire fields.

The current situation also invites all sorts of abuse. Need to say that certain parts of the open science movement appear to be a bit angry, not to say sadistic. Wansinks case was one that was ripped apart on Twitter. Wansinks research has received lots of media attention before - would his statistical methods have been investigated and debunked without that? How many Wansinks are out there, still having their job, continuing to apply bad methods (while not committing active fraud), never to be called out for their mistakes? I've been in Japan during the Obokata stem cell case. Her public apology was broadcasted on national TV. In konbinis you could see various tabloid newspapers with her name and her crying face on the cover for weeks. There seemed to be different mechanisms at play than a genuine interest in correct science. One of Obokata's supervisors, Yoshiki Sasai, committed suicide as a consequence of the case.
> Fundamental issue is the expectation that all public companies must keep growing and show profits quarter after quarter, year after year. This is obviously unsustainable.

Not if such executives have controlling interest, which Google's execs do.
Computer science graduates make more money than anyone else in the UK
Disclaimer: I myself am an employee of Google, but my opinions and views do not represent those of Google in any way.

Just to be completely fair, there's a balance to be had. I think Googlers are a very passionate group about many issues. That doesn't mean they know what's best for the company or the world.

If Googlers lead Google's business decisions, I think it would be a worse place. Firstly, developers are often very blind to privacy issues left on their own. Well-intentioned developers can cause a lot of trouble, as you can see from countless startups. Secondly, I think the realities of running a business are much more difficult than people want to believe, and sometimes you make tough decisions nobody wants but are truly in the best interest of the company.

To be fair I still do not agree with everything I've heard Google doing in the news, but those are outliers. The narrative given by blogs and media sometimes (maybe even unintentionally) makes everything feel like a giant scheme, but I'd advise you to apply Occam's razor as much as possible. The people making the decision you don't like could legitimately just not understand what the "big deal" is. We don't always have the necessary context to really judge something, and our inclination when filling in gaps rarely likes to be kind. The Chrome login fiasco is a great example of good intentions that went over poorly with people.

I try to stay neutral as much as possible when looking at issues, be they from Google or other entities. People make mistakes and misjudgements all the time, and people assume malice far too often it feels.
Yeah, I'm rather skeptical that the experience will be good enough, even for that price. And it's not just the graphics I'm worried about, but also the accuracy of the tracking and whether it will be jittery/laggy at all. Maybe I'll be proven wrong. But I worry that too much hype over an inferior product will harm perceptions of the VR industry.
Or don't use your winnings for lobbying for new laws heaped on everyone. Instead, use them to build what you consider the ideal, give grants to promote your principles, finance populace-educating groups, fund pro-privacy thinktanks/projects/foundations, etc. Please don't waste money or time on heavy-handed government internet intervention.
Setting a site up with Jekyll took less than a weekend, and I'm a C++/games programmer with next to zero web experience.

If you want a blog I don't know why you would go with anything but starting with a static site generator and building on top of that.
Patents are public knowledge. How do you revoke public knowledge?
Yep, I now ask to see these agreements before signing a job offer after making a similar mistake at a previous company.
Unintended consequences of flatscreen tv’s. They increase the loss when people break into your home! When will lawmakers take action and ban those pesky flatscreens...
This "broad pattern of unaccountable decision making", also called permissionless innovation, is the reason why America has a culture of innovation. For those unaware, the United States runs on what I call "Air Bud rules", named for this scene from the children's movie.[0] To summarize, as long as there isn't a rule forbidding you from doing something, you can do it.

While I applaud his personal stance on refusing to work on a censored search engine, any solution that requires foregoing independent corporate decision making would be foolish. For those who have been tasked with building tools that support authoritarian regimes, grow a spine, make your voice heard, and quit if necessary. Don't give me any bullshit excuses for continuing, if you know it's wrong stop supporting it!

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvf0WWxrYRM
"Mobile VR has always required less power than PC VR"

Care to explain?
We've tried in some ways. What do you think no-discrimination policy is at work is about?
Echoing what many have mentioned in this thread. Read your employment agreement for mentions of Intellectual Property, inventors clause, etc. I work full-time and I am launching a side business, but I have a licensing agreement in place with my employer that clearly states my ownership of my businesses IP in exchange for a free license of the product. There is a lot of grey area in employment agreements. Even if there isn't anything that is clearly stated (from your understanding) that would cause issues, it is up to debate in the court of law. The best plan of action is to speak with a lawyer. It took me six months and multiple revisions to my licensing agreement before it was signed, but I can now sleep better at night and launch my business!
>Assign static IPs for infrastructure like access points. This makes them easy to reach when reconfiguration is needed

Am I missing something, or did they buy consumer routers to use as access points?

Triplebyte, I can save you a ton of management, troubleshooting, and learning time: switch to Ubiquiti Unifi or an equivelant now, youll have one pane of glass to reconfigure every device. The devices will talk to each other, to help hand off clients between them. All channel management will be by the devices working together, they can throttle down power if they are causing each other interference. I cant even begin to list all the different benefits with a single set of settings vs devices that dont work together. Even an asus aimesh network would likely be better. Youre asking for a troubleshooting nightmare.

You can either pay a couple hundred a year for the management interface, or $80 for an on prem tiny little stick that hosts it. (paying for the cloud hosted one, has its benefits, and is my recommendation.)

Access Point - https://unifi-hd.ubnt.com/

POE Switch - https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-switching/unifi-switch-poe/

Management Interface - https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-cloud-key/ OR Cloud Management https://unifi.ubnt.com/

Router - https://www.ubnt.com/unifi-routing/usg/

You should never need to track down or log into individual devices to configure them.

I dont mean to be a complete ballsack, but isnt it weird for a company thats mission is matching talent to problems, to fail to find the talent to adequately address their problem, and to be giving authoritative (mis)advice on something they are not remotely domain experts in. It doesnt seem like the best advertisement.

That said, this is the KIND of post companies should be making when their seo expert says to use keywords. Good job writing about improving the internals of your company, and not just what your company does. Write a V2 of this post once you upgrade, and rename the old one, "How we Created (and then mitigated a Device Management and Troubleshooting Nightmare)
> Once government gets involved and starts playing favorites, everything gets messed up.

OK.

Is it more or less messed up than that a private corporation can and is willing to perform surveillance on foreign citizens on behalf of those citizens' government that would be unacceptable anywhere else?
Building Google Dataset Search and Fostering an Open Data Ecosystem
> I’m not writing this post to help script kiddies breaking the law, my point is that GSM is broken by design and it’s about time vendors do something about it considering how much we’re paying for their services.

Unfortunately they're unlikely to do much about it until the consequences of NOT securing their networks hit them in the wallet, which is maybe where the script kiddies come in.
The thing I love most about Stripe is that they have invested quite a lot of resources in their Atlas program to help people from around the world get a level playing field.

Before Stripe Atlas there was not a single resource that would allow a non American to setup a bank account for their company totally virtually without ever visiting US (i know because I spoke to at least a dozen of different people and everyone agreed that while they could open a company for me, opening a bank account was impossible after the patriot law (?) yet somehow Stripe managed to do it).

So not only they have made great accomplishments in the dev part with their amazing API they have also made a huge difference in many other aspects too that only a few know about.
> “It should be pretty obvious that they should be asked what changed between 2010 and today,” said Cynthia Wong, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch.

What changed is Android, Google is losing a lot more than search, I've heard Android phones don't even work properly there. Apple phones work though.
The Oculus Go is basically a GearVR that’s not constrained by the having its core in the form factor of a phone. So, it has much better thermal design and overheats much less. The Quest is an improved Go.
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Yes you can, but the problem is that this means reannotating all the stack up to "main" every time some tiny implementation detail changes - or you use different JSON parser that has "JsonParsingException" and not "JsonParserException", and so on. Or, you have to wrap them all into generic/runtime exceptions, which negates the whole benefit.
People use google products because they find them more useful

No - because they are free, ubiquitous, and often installed by default. People choose their browser as they would choose a hat, from the limited selection available.
You may enjoy the Connes interview linked here, discussing (in the 2nd half) French vs US vs Soviet systems:

http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-french-way-alain-co...
When I read the question (and almost answered, but the answer would have been too similar to another one), I was so surprised that anyone can suggest anything beyond "Do. Not. Do. It".

Having as the adversary a state is a game changer and there are a few purple who have the knowledge to imagine a strategy. Suggesting anything to someone who has no idea about security is simply unethical, given what is at stake.
Eric Schmidt said in a recent interview that the internet is going to split in two with China's version (censorship) v US's version (openness.) So...company behavior is matching that. I think the problem is that I firmly believe that freedom will win out in the long run. Chinese leadership will lose its grip once reality hits its economy, and Google's view is shortsighted in this regard imo. People will remember who helped suppress. A LOT can change in a decade.
Gafas de Sol Segun Cara, Tinte Y Peinado
If it had a camera to allow switching to the "real world" without taking it off, then it would be perfect. Having to take off the headset, put it back on, adjust it on your face, calibrate orientation, then get back into your app so you can answer the phone or grab a drink is annoying.
The other side of the story
Fair enough.

I did some quick diging around. Seems like the 2 biggest players in the game are markmonitor.com and corporatedomains.com

I am not running a multi-million dollar site, but even if I were I am not sure I would switch from hover.com (owned by tucows.com) since they have been rock solid for me.
I think you can do both. If anybody has the resources to do that, BEV does.
On the other hand the fact you could mention all of those off the top of your head means they are working–even if you are skipping most of the ad content.
To be annoyingly precise, the second says: "Maybe, well... yes."
This absolutely infuriates me to the point where I'm struggling to remain civil. My blood instantly began boiling after reading that sentence.

Why the @#$% does some web designer think it's a good idea to disable mousewheel scrolling?! What does this accomplish? What feature do you gain? What was the goal?

I just can't for the life of me grok what would be going through someone's brain when they decide "Hey, you know what would make this page better? Disabling scrolling with your mouse wheel!"

EDIT: Maybe the intent was to do something else, like implementing smooth scrolling in JavaScript, and it's not working properly. But if that's the case, the answer is that web devs need to stop trying to mess with scrolling. Implementations rarely work correctly in every browser and it just ruins the UX. Just stop messing with scrolling!
>invest your retirement savings

We would need to rework the whole system if we threw out the "constant growth" method of running a company. If we take care of the people so they don't have to worry about saving for retirement, it's possible to redesign the economy in this way and our goals as a society.

You obviously can't change one major axiom of the US economy without revisiting the remaining axioms!
> There are few commercial benefits/incentives for a DHT provider and few guarantees p2p tech can give a company requiring an always-on central presence.

There are quite a few commercial benefits! It's just that nobody's properly banked on them yet. P2P distributes costs, simplifies configuration & ops, and improves data privacy. For the politically-minded, P2P also distributes power more equitably by moving business logic to user devices.

P2P will not remove the need for always-on presences. You need a peer of last resort. However, running a peer will be cheaper and easier than running a server.

> One approach is to do the S/Kademlia thing where you require all peers to generate IDs (hash of a key) and require the it start with a certain number of 0 bits and then require another random X that, when xor'd w/ the ID, starts with a certain number of 0 bits.

We're looking at the crypto-puzzle approach, but there needs to be a work-requirement asymmetry between honest nodes and attackers, which I think is only the case with the Eclipse attacks and not the Sybil attacks. Otherwise, the puzzles only provide security if honest nodes outspend attackers, and we don't want to turn our userbase into mining farms.
That's very true. So the evil is not Chrome then :)
> “At the end of the day, I sold my company,” Acton says. “I sold my users’ privacy to a larger benefit. I made a choice and a compromise. And I live with that every day.”

Seems like he's aware but Forbes is desperately trying to spin it differently.
I think at some point you could honestly make the decision that you can do a lot more good with $3B than guarding the privacy of the relatively well off from Facebook's ad machine.
I built bonsai.io/websolr.com while working at Twitter in 2010. I left in 2012, keeping a promise to a co-founder that I'd leave if we hit $1M ARR.

There were definitely a couple months of pager/ops overload where I hit 100hr workweeks and multiple hundreds of pagers per week. Hypervisor bugs meant that some tasks were hard to automate, and that automation would stochastically fail, so I stayed up til 4am watching the logs and correcting issues, then went back into the office at 10am.

Basically, it was a reasonable hedging strategy against either company's failure, but given both succeeded, I lost a good chunk of what I would have made if I was "all in" on either. Plus, it was about as miserable as it sounds, though I learned a ton.
Cable sucks because the revenue comes from the ads, not your cable bill.
I'm not 100% on how it was done as I tend to use a range of ways to get podcasts, but I've had location specific ads on some podcasts and I'm pretty sure I've had ones referencing something that hadn't happened at the time the podcast went out too
"Hey US lawmaker, Google is trying to follow Chinese laws when operating in China, we need to stop this!"
If this is good enough to play VRChat acceptably then Oculus will have hit gold.
Two reasons:

1) The misperception that everyone in Silicon Valley is wealthy beyond their wildest dreams while the rest of the country is struggling.

2) Trump was elected instead of Hillary

A very small minority have valid concerns over privacy and the reach of the tech giants, for everyone else, it's simple politics.
I really wish MacOS would allow you to choose which band or BSSID to connect to.

Every so often I have to physically drag my laptop to the superior AP and restart wifi to get my laptop to stop connecting to the bad AP.
Is there any interesting work going on with blockchain for identity management (Internet or other, I guess)?
I was wondering why there were three copies of Mewtwo in the database until I realized they were references to Mega Mewtwo X and Mega Mewtwo Y. Since the names and images were the same, it was actually quite hard to tell them apart, until I looked at the details carefully.
Eh, yes, but the chinese government allready came in, played favourites, everything is already messed up?
> Fundamental issue is the expectation that all public companies must keep growing and show profits quarter after quarter, year after year.

This is not true at all.

There are lots of companies out there that make a profit, and return those profits to shareholders via dividends.

If google wants to just continue making profits, they can just do that, and send that money back to the shareholders/owners, just like most every other company out there.
The Apple Watch can perform an FDA-cleared diagnosis of certain forms of Atrial Fibrillation, and if what they showed on stage is to be believed, it can produce a really clear ECG that's also FDA-cleared. Just because you're redirected to a doctor doesn't mean the watch did nothing, it just means the watch can't provide a complete patient care cycle. The condition is identified, now what? False-positives can happen even with current medical-grade technology. It's just a question of how the false-positive rate compares.

"Never" is just such a strong word, given how quickly technology has advanced, and given how you don't seem to be aware of what exactly the new Apple Watch is supposed to be able to do.

Do you work for a Holter-producing company or something?
Not all companies exist solely as an investment vehicle.
The banality of Google.
Ask someone in the US who/what "HERE" is, or ask an app developer what mapping API they are using and if HERE is even remotely on the radar. Because, you'll quickly learn that brand penetration, despite operating for a long period of time, is basically 0 in the US. I have tried to implement Bing and OpenStreetMap but customers immediately complain that we're not using Google. Why? Because Google has brilliantly tied marketing of business/AdWords with their map bundle. There's no escape.