skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean like Photos and Hangouts?

Google+ was never a go-to social network like Facebook, but many of its features became successful products in their own rights.
I would have no idea what I was looking at if the input images weren't provided.
The state of indie dev and why it will not get easier
You should write the Uniform Law Commission to enact private property rights up to 200’. [1] They are already considering this. You should have the right to fly a drone just over your property the same way you could drive an unregistered, non-street-legal vehicle on your property. You can’t go on public roads (or over public property or other peoples property), but you should have rights over your own property.

[1] https://www.unmannedairspace.info/uncategorized/ulc-proposes...
Maybe AAA games can scale beyond 2 or even 4 cores, but historically (and probably still true on the low end) games were heavily depended on 1-2 core perf.
> ...Facebook's data centers and ops are now the 6th wonder of the tech world ...

At the risk of not being taken seriously, er, what are the first 5 wonders of the tech world?

Is AWS #1? Is Google's huge swarm of web search indexing machines #1? What makes it onto that list?
Apple's letter to Congress
FAA to consider increasing Light Sport Aircraft weight limit to 3,600 pounds
...

Not making a reference count and respecting it killed the company using one store of duplicate data, if anything, prolonged the company.
> The deal signifies that the Hadoop market could no longer sustain two big competitors.

MapR is still out there.
It's worth remembering that WoW dates to 2004.
Just makes sense. Marketing to a broader audience is to be a bit shallow.
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Google's chat strategy in a nutshell
This person is saying is that our economic system incentivizes profit, not that it mandates it for every agent. So while a few relatively well-off, well-educated, and principled Googlers can quit over perceived injustice, many people either can't economically justify such a choice, don't know enough to know that there's a problem with their work, or simply don't care and take the money over morals.

And furthermore, when was the last time you saw someone held to account for their job title? I've done that and every time it results in me alienating someone, because no one wants to lie to themselves and be forced to answer that they work at Raytheon because they think that's the way to do good in the world.
We are descended from Homo Erectus and share the vast majority of our DNA with that species, yet it is also extinct.

Species are about populations, extinct species occur when there are no extant populations.

You can dig down into the definition of species and what defines the boundaries between them, that's a big topic with basically no bottom.
I guess we'll leave both stories up for now since at a minimum they emphasize different aspects (the data breach in one, the Google+ shutdown in the other).
It's widely used in Russia and considered to be a classical Russian proverb.
Quoting the top comment from the other discussion, which I think hits the nail on it's head:

Company finds a security vulnerability caused by a bug. Logs show that it has never been used by anyone. It patches the vulnerability.
Should the company announce it publicly?

PS: Keeping in mind that this is part of the Murdoch vs. Google war going on for about 10 years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169083
Perhaps meat three times a week shouldn't be a decrease to start with?
It might be worth getting a PhD first in the US and then migrating to Canada!
The NYTimes discusses this question in the context of ethics, but the hiring process for software engineers, generally speaking, often avoids any discussion of what will be built. I've interviewed at google and a few other similar places, as well as smaller startups, and remarkably often, there was almost no discussion of the company or product.

A tech interview goes like this "a list begins with an integer between 0 and 5. You then add a new set of integers that must sum to the value of the last added integer. How many different possible lists of 100 integers can be generated through this process?"

I've done this at so many companies. They don't talk about what you'll be building. They don't want your opinion. You could go through two days of whiteboard exam style interview questions and have no idea what the company does. And you could get hired without ever answering a single question about what the company does. It's remarkable, but it's actually designed to work that way.

I think tht the outside world really doesn't quite understand what goes on in tech interviews and tech hiring. If they did, they might know that the indifference to ethics may stem from general programmer unawareness of what the companies they work for actually do.
Why can't they just let the software run on a spare set of servers with minimal maintenance for those who still want to use it or publish it as open source?
Except I distinctly remember Facebook having customizable feeds in 2013. I was able to separate friends by groups to their own specific feeds and block them from my main feed. I havent been able to figure out how to get that feature back since I forgot about it. My best guess is I either deleted those lists or Facebook pulled back the feature due to lack of use.

Edit:

Here's a link to someone asking for help when I guess they started to pull the plug on custom friend feeds:

https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=1020258...

Friends List is here apparently:

https://www.facebook.com/bookmarks/lists/
See no evil, yeah?
> I'd like to think that's not true

Facebook insiders have admitted that it is. Mike Allen, Facebook's first president, said this in an interview:

“The thought process was all about, ‘How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?’,” he said. “And that means that we need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while, because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever, and that’s going to get you to contribute more content, and that’s going to get you more likes and comments. It’s a social validation feedback loop. … You’re exploiting a vulnerabilty in human psychology.”

So that underscores their general attitude towards user behavior. The 'every once in a while' piece applies to the newsfeed too - it's designed to keep you searching for things you care about, and they carefully mix in things you don't, so that you're never too satisfied or unsatisfied, just constantly craving more.
They use both. Control plane runs on Linux, CDN on FreeBSD.
Canada is super environmentally conscious. I don't know where you get the idea from that we promote global warming, except as being a petroleum exporter (the US is a much bigger petroleum producer.) I can think of one glaring example of climate change denial among developed nations, however...
Well, sure. If there's a bug in the VM, then you have a problem. But your problem in that case is a lot bigger than this specific behavior. You don't need memory corruption to break clientside JS.

I wasn't trying to cherry-pick your example, but I see your example as indicative of the only types of bugs that are exposed by allowing unsafe memory access.

If you're writing a web app today, any unvalidated code you run on the client is a risk. WASM changes nothing about that. The only reason clientside memory access in a sandbox would ever be a security issue is if you were relying on a client not being able to access itself (ie, for stuff like authentication). And since you should never, ever trust the client anyway... I don't see why anyone should care about that class of issues. Don't run unvalidated code, and don't put any serverside logic with security implications on the client.

If you are going to run unvalidated code, you can put it in a WASM sandbox with its own dedicated chunk of memory. That's actually easier to do in WASM than it is in Javascript, since you don't need to worry about references across iframes anymore.

If you can think of a valid POC that's not already a security risk using current technologies, I'm open to it, but I can't think of one.
Totally agree. FB's massive user base + user inertia = FB's killer feature.

Which, IMHO, means Google didn't understand what it was doing when it started G+.
It doesn't even have to be intentional. Imagine endless ABX testing to increase ad views and session time, cycling through countless feed algorithms. The winners could very well end up being the ones that are most frustrating for the user, but with product and engineering just thinking they are running some tests and reaching goals.
Yeah, but how was that conclusion reached?

3:00 CDT = 8:00 UTC, but the original post didn't mention AM or PM.

Is PM the default in US?
Twitter have recently re-introduced a chronological timeline as an option.
I'm not casting judgement in either direction.. merely stating that it's a given.
Ask HN: Why haven't you gone vegan yet?
They actually borrowed[0] the circles idea from a Lycos product from 10 years earlier that was actually called Circles.[1]

[0] No idea if anyone on the Google team had actually used Lycos Circles but it's not unreasonable to think they might of.

[1] https://info.lycos.com/about/press/?pressReleaseId=1550
Didn't the circles work in the opposite direction of how Facebook works?

That is, you are not subscribing to circles on various topics of things to receive, but you are creating circles of people you can send things to: so you can send family stuff to your family, technical stuff to technical people, etc.

Hypothetically a good idea but it is still seeing the world from a sender's perspective as opposed to a receiver's perspective.

The more immediate problem though is that we are all getting hit with a large number of messages (in the most general sense including e-mail, physical mail, social media, TV, ...) and I think we could use our own filtering A.I. that we control.

Another principle I see is replacing "scanning" (eg. loading a feed over and over again) with a workflow based on "say something once, why say it again?" That is you should never see anything in your feed more than once. Maybe you could go back and search or browse for it, but you should not be reloading just on the hope that you'll see something new and interesting.
A Conversation about cryptocurrency with Linda Xie, Co-Founder of Scalar Capital
I work for a medical company. It's really a tech company that makes medical software. Runs like a pretty typical successful tech startup. Our customers are hospitals and doctor clinics. The software syncs the data between various networks. Can notify a patient's primary care giver when their patient is checked into the ER, can notify a doctor if that patient is bouncing between hospitals looking for meds, there was even a time I heard of a man going between hospitals, checking in, and vandalizing hospital equipment. Our software was able to notify the nurse who checked him in at his last destination.

It's actually an awesome place to work, and it's nice to know that I'm actually helping push the needle a little bit in the right direction to help the medical industry succeed.
Ask HN: Googlers, please share more memos
In particular, please share Red Nachos Contain Habaneros. Thanks!
Wayback Machine Link
https://web.archive.org/web/20181008184720/https://remotehab...
There was a recent comic strip where a robot uprising used swords and spears due to using historical data for training.. sometimes using historical averages is not valid.
"...the Profiles of up to 500,000 Google+ accounts were potentially affected. Our analysis showed that up to 438 applications may have used this API"

"This data is limited to static, optional Google+ Profile fields including name, email address, occupation, gender and age."

It is also including a lot more than what they said above:

The json per profile is as follows:

{
"kind": "plus#person",
"etag": etag,
"nickname": string,
"occupation": string,
"skills": string,
"birthday": string,
"gender": string,
"emails": [
{
"value": string,
"type": string
}
],
"urls": [
{
"value": string,
"type": string,
"label": string
}
],
"objectType": string,
"id": string,
"displayName": string,
"name": {
"formatted": string,
"familyName": string,
"givenName": string,
"middleName": string,
"honorificPrefix": string,
"honorificSuffix": string
},
"tagline": string,
"braggingRights": string,
"aboutMe": string,
"relationshipStatus": string,
"url": string,
"image": {
"url": string,

},
"organizations": [
{
"name": string,
"department": string,
"title": string,
"type": string,
"startDate": string,
"endDate": string,
"location": string,
"description": string,
"primary": boolean
}
],
"placesLived": [
{
"value": string,
"primary": boolean
}
],
"isPlusUser": boolean,
"language": string,
"ageRange": {
"min": integer,
"max": integer
},
"plusOneCount": integer,
"circledByCount": integer,
"verified": boolean,
"cover": {
"layout": string,
"coverPhoto": {
"url": string,
"height": integer,
"width": integer
},
"coverInfo": {
"topImageOffset": integer,
"leftImageOffset": integer
}
},
"domain": string

}

(from https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/rest/latest/people)
This is the real issue with WSL. I also tried to move to Windows with WSL but any heavy IO operations (npm install for example) that would take < 1 minute natively took 10 minutes on WSL. I thought I could just use virtual machines within Windows instead, but every configuration I tried had short comings and I just couldn't get a productive work environment up and running so I've switched back to Mac.
I was terrified of what would happen to my right knee if I ever got in an accident in Model 3. I felt the screen was intruding into crash zone. Unlike the dummy in real crash people move their limbs before and during the crash.
Man, too close to home.
> 1. Climate is far better than most large US cities, and moderate. July highs of 86F are hardly "extremely hot".

How about August. I was there in September, it was 28-30C throughout the day almost every day. Either way, that's a personal preference.

> 2. Absolutely not true for 95% fo the city. Maybe get out of Gotic next time?

I did and I have also been to places outside of Barcelona. For example, I've had much better quality food at same or lower prices in London, Rome and Milan. The truth is, in this regard, Barcelona is very much second rate.

> 3. I don't even know how to respond to this point. Most cities have dense centers. Few have buildings like the Palau de la Música Catalana, the Sagrada Familia, or the Cathedral.

Sure, I don't really mind it. I was somewhat amused at how certain parts are overbuilt, but not with really old buildings, but just stuff that looks to be from the 70s or 80s. Most historical cities have done a better job at protecting their historical city centres.

> 4. High cost of life? Compared to the rest of Spain, sure. Compared to the US? Not particularly. Salaries are low locally but purchasing power is higher.

I think your claim here is obviously false. According to Numbeo:

Local Purchasing Power in Barcelona is 40.50% lower than in San Francisco, CA

Local Purchasing Power in Barcelona is 20.21% lower than in New York, NY

Local Purchasing Power in Barcelona is 48.42% lower than in Austin, TX

and so on. I don't think there is even one mid-sized or major city where that holds true.
I can't imagine how I would spend very much time managing circles had I used Google+ more. The day I add somebody is the day I determine what circle(s) they would go into. For most people I know they would stay in those initial circles permanently. Moving contacts between, say, friends and work acquaintances would be pretty infrequent.

How do you imagine you would spend that much time managing them?

ML suggesting or guessing groups automatically would lessen the requirements of the user, but it was already pretty easy I thought.
It is Q4 2018 already, and it releases next week
Nice they spent so much time on keeping Microsoft honest. Would have been better if they aimed their sights on their own products a bit longer.
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In short, learn C, FPGA development or both, and get used to low level computing. Pay attention in your computer architecture class!
The four reasons listed are just three assertions:

1) From Apple, which has already made their position clear, so it's just repeating that essentially, although the forum is different.

2) & 3) From government agencies that are specifically tasked with deception when needed.

plus a report about what Brian Krebs said, which highlighted him saying that nobody should draw conclusions about the merit of the story based on the fact that he found nothing. Here's the quote: "I heard similar allegations earlier this year about Supermicro and tried mightily to verify them but could not. That in itself should be zero gauge of the story’s potential merit."

So four "reasons" that really aren't.

Although I do tend to believe Apple on this, the four reasons listed in the fine article do not add much. I'm surprised the author gave this such a breathless tone. His earlier opinion piece (https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/05/chinese-spy-chip/) gives better reasons to believe Apple.
I used be vegan. Then I lived in Germany. Then I discovered that the ecological arguments for veganism are half-true.

Many of the most sustainable agricultural systems are 'permaculture' systems that combine animal and plant agriculture.

So far as health and diet, public enemy #1 in the standard American diet is junk carbohydrate. Junk fat is bad too but it is nowhere near as bad.
And even then it was 'invite only' for a fairly long time, creating an artificial desire.
This works very well. My download was huge (~50something GB I think), but it recovered all the emails that Gmail couldn't find anymore. Now I just use repgrip to search my old emails.
yes, but people who violate section 336 were already subject to fines up to $250k and possible jail time. they don't need a bigger hammer to threaten hobbyists with.
Hey everyone! I'm the founder of Leap, which is a private online network for women in tech. We're doing a series of conversations with experts from the community on a variety of tech-related topics and we're experimenting with sharing the conversations publicly even though the community is private. Thanks for reading!
Lol, I'm literally already doing that (duolingo + Bunnie's Shenzhen book is a pretty good combo).

FWIW, there's not much in the datasheet. Pin assignments and broad features, but no ISA for the KPU (the CNN accelerator), no registers or addresses except some of the SRAM as far as I can see. More 'datasheet' than 'reference manual' since those terms get thrown around meaning different things.
Most people are part-Neanderthal. That may be a protection against viruses
>This means that if you, say, have a divorce case, expect your entire Gmail contents to be used against you by your significant other.

This has nothing to do with Google. In a divorce case, you would be compelled to disclose your email, not Google, so using another provider wouldn't matter, because you would be compelled to turn over any emails there too.
This is basic, though. If the stuff was stored in a Unix filesystem it would be the difference between a symlink (correct strategy) and a hard link (risky). Correctly implementing the hard link strategy (in the Unix analogy, this happens in the filesystem code itself) requires reference counting. Either you invest the time to implement that, or you should stick to symlinks.
Not surprising... now if they could just bring Hangouts back to form, instead of a dozen other disconnected platforms that only do a fraction of the job. (sigh)
Forced you to install?? No one forced you to install the newest version of iOS.
Didn't they move most of the inbox features into Gmail?
This sucks. The vibrant RPG community on Google+ is in uproar about this and looking for a suitable alternative. (MeWe looks like the most likely candidate at the moment.)

Google+ started out as the best social network. Unfortunately Google has taken every opportunity to ruin it, remove popular features, force ill-considered integration, remove that integration once people are used to it. Lately the spam filtering has been utterly broken, alternating between leaving painfully obvious spam, and marking and hiding comments from people you were following. It seemed like it was an experimental testbed for them where they didn't care if people were using it.

Despite all of that, we hung on because of the great communities, the people we got to know, and because frankly there's no good alternative.

It really seems to me it shouldn't be too hard at this point to design a sane social network. Google+ had all the elements, but refused to apply them correctly.

Facebook is a horrible mess of privacy violations with no control over your feed (though G+'s control often doesn't work as intended either), and besides, there's family and co-workers there. Twitter seems designed for screaming into the void. Tumbler and Instagram don't seem to be my thing.
It sorta exists it's called Friend Lists:

https://www.facebook.com/help/204604196335128

Sadly it seems they've hidden this to push their more tailored feed so they can push whatever ads and things through there aka filter (censor?) your friends posts better.
Winters are fine here if you're from the northeast. It's comparable to Toronto, which is actually not that cold.
825,000 drones were sold in the U.S. in 2016

The move fast happened a while ago.

Where is the killing people by the 100s?
My colleague had to provide the salaries of every employee in the company all the way up to the CEO.

Ours is not a small company. It's a decades old US company, who anyone who can guess 5 companies on the S&P 500 would know of.
You can get permanent residency after living for 5 years, and citizenship a year after that.
"Logs show that it has never been used by anyone"

Is it 100% confirmed that the logs would show it?

What they said was "We found no evidence that any developer was aware of this bug, or abusing the API, and we found no evidence that any Profile data was misused."

That seems only to say they couldn't find anything. Not that it absolutely didn't happen.
> didn't have any real issues

Citation needed. If you want better arguments, you merely need read the rest of this thread. I wasn't arguing pro regulation. I was arguing how silly it sounds when someone calls this a move to "criminalize competition."
> Explain to me how my flying a 4 pound drone at a height of 100 ft to take a photo of my home is putting someones life in danger

If someone has to explain this to you, you shouldn't be the person flying a four pound drone at a height of a hundred feet. Seriously, it's not ok.
I think you're still looking at empathy there. We shouldn't be putting it aside. We're all human.

How do you not get shot to death by a cop when he can't even tell you what he wants from you? And why the fuck does he have a loaded gun when he doesn't even know that answer himself?

One thing I find consistent in these stories is prolongation and for me I assume that the cop doesn't have a fucking clue what he's doing. Why would you fire a taser at a naked dude in a shower fifteen times? Why would you unload your gun at a black guy and leave 16 bullet wounds within him?

When you're looking at the stories about solving murder, if the detective saw that the dead woman had 16 bullet holes in her or 32 stab wounds, they'd be assuming a crime of passion. Because that's a lot of work to make someone dead, way above and beyond. You don't accidentally squeeze your trigger that many times.

So is it possibly the case that these civilian deaths are all crimes of passion committed by the cops?
This is incorrect and dangerous advice.