skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent some time in Vancouver, I can compare. And people are extremely upset about rent hike, not sure why would anyone want to go there at the moment to be honest. The same happening in Toronto and Montreal AFAIK.
If they made the same decisions as Google? Not long.

But, if they're outside Google, and therefore didn't screw up account merging, real names, search, native apps, etc? Potentially quite a bit longer!
Really interesting money vs ethics discussion. Everyone who can choose ethics, congratulations. Everyone who can’t, it’s a social failure that you have to make tough choice for financial goals.
A _lot_ of developers who have graduated to the next layer, who can focus even more on building stuff without worrying about implementation details.
Canada/Australia have thriving scene, but somehow the number of jobs is really low.

There was a nice discussion on reddit about brain drain to Australia/Canada.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/9l1pug/w...
https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/9l3ueo/which_coun...
The Nobel Prize has never been awarded to a black scientist
We have our problems here in Canada mainly Alberta and Quebec for different reasons.

Alberta thinks it's Texas with rednecks in 4x4s, anti-immigrant even anti-Canadian sentiment.

Quebec just had a provincial election where it voted in a right leaning provincial government, it's first order ban all religious symbols in public service departments but probably not Christian crosses, (le wink?). Mainly since there is one behind the speaker of the house in their main government assembly, see pic link below. The "pure laine" (pure wool) types who voted them in are akin to white supremacists.

Actually Ontario too with Doug aka "Drug" Ford I think he's worse than Trump. His first order was to gut the Toronto City Council which he used to be part of, payback? His second super urgent task was to lower the price of beer. Pander to the great unwashed minions.

All of those groups above are similar values: vehemently anti-immigrant, pro-white, pro-gun, anti-media, anti-judiciary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Assembly_of_Quebec#/m...
If you're hiding everything behind a server, couldn't you just use WebSockets? I thought the whole appeal of WebRTC is the whole peer to peer setup.
I guess this is a good time if anyone wants to create something similar:

- contextual ads OK with me, particularly if they are inline and not third party

- or a small yearly fee for no ads

- same features as Google+

- create the API that Google+ always lacked

- I and a lot of others don't really care about E2E for that kind of conversations so just don't data mine us, don't follow us around the web and don't sell out to Facebook and we should be fine.
Just do a google search.

Even the UN admits it was a fraud:
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/the-un-admits-...
This tends to support my notion that the issue is insufficient enforcement of existing rules, requiring registration is one way to make enforcement easier. Which may be a major goal of revising the rules.
Good... now a couple more major social networks need to be shut down.
That's true. I spent a few years trying to make it as a dance music producer, and I was constantly working my butt off writing music and doing sound design. My work was never even close to being good enough because you really do have to be the best or among the best in the world at what you do. how could I hope to compete with people who had years more experience and resources than I did from across the globe?

I'm still a little bitter that I couldn't make it work but at least I have a healthier relationship with my music now.
If a flying drone was as quiet as a flying bird, I would have no problem with them flying around the city where I live. That is not the case, so anywhere not next to a busy road and the drone noise is going to be easily heard and annoying to many people. Over your own property or places where you have permission, fine. Over public or someones else's property, no thank you.

Maybe we could let quite drones (not sure of the dB at ground level that would be acceptable) fly over cities and that would push the development of quieter flying systems.
Wow. Dozens of people are going to be pissed.
Was a huge fan of KDE 3.5 back in the days but with version 4.0 it became an unusable mess. Maybe I should give KDE another try.
"All lives matter" was never fine with BLM. Their objection to the phrase began before any Republican uttered it, when they booed a Democratic Presidential candidate for saying it and forced him to apologize.
> consumer Google+

What is our relationship to Google? Are we really consumers of Google? Content creators? Ad targetees? Impressionees? Folks? Lemmings?
Why is this downvoted? Was anything in or untrue? H visas are temporary, non-immigrant visas.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/employme...
Free healthcare is a standard benefit in the tech industry in the US. Even after deductibles and with heavy use, you're going to at the most end up with a couple thousand dollars in out-of-pocket costs.
Exactly, the cloud should be used as a secondary backup, not a primary device. Using it as the latter is no better than you keeping everything in one place at your house.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169243
Nextranalysiscope: Society
I left google because I was working on v. 8 or 9 of things, and it just got boring adding new features to giant systems that weren't that interesting. I wanted to work on core software again, write a new system, or have freedom to make improvements and change. I didn't want to work on a multi-million line java program with relatively fixed architecture and slow evolution over time. There were tons of great things about google, good pay, the best people, awesome benefits, the gym, food. Really the quality of devs when I was there for almost 10 years were excellent. I only came across one asshole manager in my time there (unfortunately he was my manager, but he's left since).

The technology of test, development, source code editing was the best. But, there weren't that many fun projects.
I assume they’re waiting for a Friday the 13th to announce Crystal Lake?
It wasn’t expanding at Twitter/Facebook rates but it was apparently growing on a continuing basis. More importantly, however, it was popular with communities with outsize influence – journalists, writers, bloggers, academics, librarians, etc. who used it to follow and share — so when they launched a really half-assed replacement (i.e. it didn’t even work on mobile) most of the people writing reviews and answering questions were starting from a position of something which was useful to them being replaced with a mess, and Google+ never recovered from that bad reputation.

Years later, I was at a museum/gallery/archive/library tech conference and the Google Cultural Institute folks were running their sales pitch. Multiple people asked them where their institution would be “when you cancel this like Google Reader”, a sentiment I’ve heard in enough other contexts that I doubt is fully appreciated by Google management even if it has been good for getting users to think about lock-in.
Can you comment on any performance hotspots due to Python (are there any)? What wouldn't this library be suitable for?
It depends on one's perspective of the cause of the tenderloin being the tenderloin.

My view is that the land and infrastructure in the tenderloin is being horribly misused.

Not only does it provide shelter for some people, but it is also an environment where hard drugs and crime are rampant.

Immigrants would be willing to settle in some of the more grungy areas, and would quickly clean them up through investment in little things that make a big difference, such as reporting crimes, cleaning up messes, warding off those who have no concern for the value of the neighborhood.

There will still need to be housing and treatment for the indigent and addicted, but there is no reason that miles of productive urban space should be blighted for decades due to being overtaken by squalor and crime.

Immigrants would revitalize it by filling it with non-addicted and ambitious people who would strive to make it their home.
Can I suggest that experience is a bit atypical? Eastern Long Island is rural, but it is also very very much old money.
Really cool concept. I particularly like the demo of the QR code feature—you don’t need a generate button since the QR code updates as you type the link. Smart UX!

Will you be releasing a Linux version?
This contains more information:

https://nadav.amit.zone/blog/linux-inline
O.o Most aircraft are highly automated, with humans running checklist programs as the backup system. I doubt that "banning automation" is the motive here as much as, "preventing interference with already functioning automation"
> Have you heard anything about this over the last few years?

Am I the only one? I don't take my recollection on this as fact, but I remember a story from a year or two ago that a large company (like Apple, Google, or Amazon) would take photographs of the boards they ordered before they were shipped (likely from China) and compare it to what was delivered. The way it was described was more like that was their security protocol because of suspicions/risks of it being tampered with in transit.
Blockchain Mediated Prediction Markets
Would "purely functional data structures" float your boat?

I suspect the idea is to tie in with the idea of '(purely) functional programming', which is where these will shine.

In any case the term '(purely) functional data structures' seems pretty well entrenched and dates at least to Okasaki's thesis in the late 1990s, possibly earlier (I'm not an expert). In fact, it looks like the link actually mentions Okasaki's work.
I believe it's this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169243 ?
OMG you can't mine dogecoin? GTFO. Impeach Trump!
re: crypto mining, that’s funny. I thought a passive activity like crypto mining is allowed as long as one doesn’t actively “work” on it. Maybe the NAFTA/USMCA rules are different?
I always thought it came from the well-known 'Purely Functional Data Structures' by Chris Okasaki.
He has left the Linux project, at least temporarily[0], so presumably he will not be blogging, or alternatively he will have more time to host his own blog.

[0]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-takes-a-break-f...
Nice, what's it coded in if you don't mind I ask?
> someone who really gave a damn got their hands dirty

Although this person is the hero of the story, I feel obligated to point out that in today's JIRA-driven "what have you done for me lately" close-the-stories what's-your-velocity we're-about-to-downsize-so-you'd-better-prove-you're-valuable culture of "efficiency", the person who did this either had a LOT of job security (as in, compromising photos of the CEO in a public bathhouse job security) or did this on their own time while spending their "working hours" closing tickets and attending conference calls.
They do stay in contact! This is about small-ish events like a friend posting "hey guys, I'm hosting a dinner tomorrow". I can't blame them for forgetting about me (our group is rather large), some of them don't even have my phone number.
Google Will Shut Down Its Social Network After User Information Was Exposed
> The PR piece by Google (currently at spot #1) is apparently what these stories are being "duped" to.

I feel a PR piece shouldn't be the only post if there's subtext like "a security/privacy flaw" that affected millions.

Also the comment thread for the Google PR post seem to be mainly about how little Google+ was used and various issues around its launch.

Here's the link if anyone's interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169243
Remember: your users are people, not faceless lab rats.
Interestingly, Gould's "debunking" turned out to be fraudulent: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/science/14skull.html
Depending on how wealthy and how white they are
While it sounds shallow I have to agree. I think your product name is part of the UI and should be as friendly and memorable as possible.
The internal stuff had many hard exposed edges that made it more difficult to use. The public exposed apis were easier to understand. It would be hard to document all the warts of internal systems where you have to deal with more failover scenarios.
MySQL Backups all databases with gzip
The damage control we're seeing is almost as blatantly immoral as a quasi-government monopoly appointing itself as the internet police and then neglecting to disclose its own breeches to the public.

Google is evil.
I am so done with Facebook, Instagram, and Google.

I deleted my Facebook and Instagram three weeks ago and haven't looked back. I removed Chrome and Chromium from all my computers. No, I don't want to sync using your servers. If you let me host the sync servers myself like Mozilla does I'd consider it.

If my friends want to talk to me they can make an account on my privately hosted Matrix.org chat server and use the open-source Riot.im client.

It works flawlessly and I don't have to worry about being spied on.

Next is Gmail. I find the new UI atrocious. I'm keeping my eye on Maps alternatives as well.

The faster I can get rid of all this crap the better off I will be.
> That sounds great. Come to USA after college, make a million dollars in a few years, move back home, get married, and build the Indian economy

LOL. Your comment doesn't even pass smell taste. How many people working as developers will make million dollars in few years after paying payroll taxes? Federal, state, social security, medicare on top of paying for housing, car insurance, health insurance, renter/house owner's insurance, trips back to homeland etc etc. Forget about fun and entertainment, or clothes, shoes, phones, computers, internet etc. Even with extreme level of penny pinching, 40% rate of saving is almost unachievable.

Now assuming every single immigrant that comes here after college makes $150 right off the bat, that $60K in bank every year. At that rate, to save million dollars, one would need 16.66 years. That too assuming there are no incidentals that become money pits.

Good luck getting married at almost 40 or getting uprooted and having to adjust to the different work environment or progress in the industry without any contacts. It's not all puppys and rainbows.
> I am saying that we should have a discussion

Just a tip, but discussions don't usually start with calling the existing, time-proven system "draconian and unnecessary." Air traffic rules exist mostly to keep people alive. If that interferes with your hobby, that's unfortunate, but the priority should be maintaining the safety levels while accommodating the hobby as much as reasonably possible, not establishing some kind of equality between manned flight and hobbyists.

It's also worth noting that R/C pilots had a high enough barrier to entry that they generally policed themselves pretty well. Now that anyone can buy and operate something that can be hazardous to manned aircraft, things have changed significantly. The system needs to account for that level of inexperience and disregard.

> If people die well we'll pivot to a new model.

I reworded that to better reflect reality.

Current airspace requirements–politically-motivated and misguided tho they may be at times–are mostly written in blood. You'll find most aviators have a healthy appetite for the risk of aviation, but at the same time generally won't be interested in taking a "let's tinker with it and pivot after people die" approach.
What are they referring to as data? Cell costs are pretty expensive in Canada for what you get.
How is programming not that valuable when average programmer makes $150k in US and university students from top colleges with programming can find $100k jobs straight outta college? Being good at programming is almost a for-sure way to mid to high wealth nowadays.
Completely missed the top story. I was scanning for "Google+" in the title, and somehow its appearance at the end of the line threw me off :)
My frustration with a personal PC is just turning one on the morning after doing updates and having to wait an hour before I could go back to work.

For silly reasons, though, I've had to update a lot of OEM Windows Home installations to new. Something like Ubuntu would have been better if starting from scratch but there was a lot of work to move the codebase to that once Windows stopped being something you could trust to turn on when you wanted it to turn on and turn off when you wanted it to turn off.

Anyway, this led to days of non-deterministic updating where sometimes it would fail to find the new updates until after I left, sometimes it would fail to install an update, and sometimes it would boot-loop. But always it would take longer than installing a new Linux distribution from scratch.

Now this is all anecdotal but even an installation-and-update cycle that goes well takes too long - seemingly because Windows has now mixed the worst DRM implications of SaaS and proprietary SaaP for most of its genuine customers. When I see people talking about how updates can be made to work as one would expect them to work with just a few steps (which seem to change following every major release), I'm reminded of playing with shakier Linux and FreeBSD desktop distributions as a teen. Now Ubuntu is the OS that 'just works'.

My frustration about this largely comes from any complaints about the implementation being lumped in the 'ignore' bin with the Luddites who don't care about the security at all. My very proprietary Chromebook updates painlessly.
Google shutters Google+ social network after WSJ reports a huge security lapse
I would have never thought to see it play out in real life when I read it. It is absolutely frightening.

George Orwell - A Final Warning (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXm5hklbBsA)
Oh yeah, I agree that a FAANG job(Facebook is usually the highest TC) in the valley is way better value then staying in Canada. But of course the average person doesn't get close to that much. On _average_ software engineers are better off in Seattle than in the valley, and if their annual comp is less than 140k(average entry level salary is 100k in San Fran), they should consider alternatives that look like they pay less.

Over the last 4 years accounting for stock rises, CoL and lower taxes, Amzn/Microsoft in Seattle would have paid out quite a bit more than FAANG in the valley.
I am so thrilled about everything Oberon-related.

From the article:

>Any Oberon procedure can be made available to the user as system command, provided certain conventions are followed. They are known as Tools. [..]

>It is possible to allow such Tools to act on user interface elements selected by the user.

This is a way more flexible UX/UI paradigm than any OS out there provides.
Chinese theme park attraction shut down after thrill seeker’s lucky escape
That is where the loading bays are, so they keep the fridges nearby so cold items have less chance to heat up. Plus milk is often stocked from behind, which can only be done where they have the extra space at the back of the store.
The thing I never understood was this:

Why don't more executives hire really good programmers and analysts to be their assistants? If a tech CEO is earning $5m a year who gives a damn if their assistant is earning $500k? Right, like why not just pay for the boost in automation and understanding of abstract concepts to maximize the communication-time to useful-actions ratio between assistant and CEO?
Muller's Theorems
There you have it, you've learned a new word!
Pretty good resource categorization.
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/fish-rot-from-the-head-d...
wow the censors got to this one quick
My experience in America is that the "freedom" is usually a word people use for being able to endanger others, pollute, or otherwise cause external harm without repercussion. In short, it's code for "I don't want to take responsibility for the negative externalities of my actions".
There isn't much savings in terms of health care. In Ontario, if you're working you have to pay a health care tax that is similar to what an employee would pay at a Silicon Valley company. And then the health care is much worse in terms of responsiveness. For example, I have Kaiser, and my Canadians friends are envious at how quickly I get scheduled for procedures. My family and friends have had to wait months for some procedures or tests.
As much as I hate the Facebook hegemony; I can only say "Good Riddance". Me and my circle of friends tried it out on release and to this day it still a UX nightmare in how it presents/displays posts.

It's a classic case of google dipping their toes in a service and if they don't reach critical mass in 3 months just ignore it until it becomes a liability and shut it down quietly. I would love to hear if they ever pushed updates for it or just had some intern maintaining the code up until now.
What a stark difference! Thank you for this.
I don't think you're recalling what Al Gore said. Care to provide a cited quote he got wrong regarding this thread?
Yes! Neanderthals being the most prominent recent example.

Now let's convince linguists that Semitic and PIE languages are related and we have won!
DeviantArt's development team is 100% remote, iirc
I dunno about the rest of the company.
Heathrow fined for USB stick data breach
Are you Detroit- or London-school?
Do people still read blogs? I had one for about a decade, but I stopped maintaining it because it felt like the whole scene had faded away around me. When I stopped publishing, nobody seemed to notice.
Personally, I think the headline "Google hid major Google+ security flaw that exposed users’ personal information" is probably the better one.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/8/17951914/google-plus-data...
Sounds like another outrageous case of digital sharecropping, where the value of the service was primarily provided by the users and the community they formed, yet such value was not respected, and people's work--a cherished part of their lives--was casually thrown away.

My more noble and magnanimous side would wish that unnamed service's owners and developers success in the face of such an awful mistake, while my harsher side feels like failure would serve them right for not respecting their users and not valuing things that should be valued.
Culinary skills are also very valuable for dating, socializing and can also be used for networking. Also good culinary skills can improve one's life significantly by eating better food for cheaper.
I played WoW for exactly one month, back when... I think Wrath of the Lich King or something? When that was new, and they'd just revamped all the starter areas. I got my character all the way up to level 60, bought the next expansion, then let my subscription lapse for a week. And... during that one week, it dawned on me just how much free time I had. Free time that, when WoW was available, would have by default been playing WoW.

I stopped immediately, and haven't looked back. I really enjoy single player games, but something about WoW's core loop just... pulled me in. I couldn't do it in moderation.
> how far does a car go with 1 yogurt?

wow, didn't expect actual coaster approximation
The 2 major problems (ie the Elefant in the room) compared to DTrace are missing:

1. security: eBPF still supports arrays and and is therefore inherently insecure to be used in the kernel. DTrace didn't support that feature on purpose and not because they couldn't do it. see spectre/meltdown.

2. availability: eBPF probes only work within the kernel. DTrace extends the same interface to the libc level and the user space level. you can trace not only kernel calls, also lib calls and with its high-level language support (Java, python, perl, ruby,...) into userspace. Linux-only eBPF will never be able to support that seemless integration. thanksfully we now have Oracle Linux with proper DTrace support on Linux.
Goodbye Toronto, hello Winnipeg: Are Canada’s young giving up big city dreams?