skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a nice idea in theory but I prefer the current solution of completely separating your circles into different apps.
Work/Career - LinkedIn, topics of interest - Twitter/Reddit, personal stuff - FB, etc.

If your feed is spammy you should unfriend/unfollow the users who you don't want to see.
That’s an amazing story. Do you mind sharing the name of the library?
Except that, because of NetInstall, it's almost impossible to brick a Mikrotik. If you still have the bootloader, you aren't bricked.

And further, there are Mikrotiks for nearly any use case, from <100M to 10G. These things have speed ratings for a reason. I run a quadcore ARM unit now, and it's blazing fast, way overpowered for what I use it for. Before that I ran a dual-core PowerPC unit, that easily did 1G (unless you were throwing IPSec at it), for around $100.
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Yes but not following how that relates to "poorly managed"?

I mean they are in all of history the fastest to a $100B market cap and since started in 1998 it was right at the .com bust. Then the fastest to $200B.

Does that not take good management?
SF and SV could do the same thing: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-14/californi... if voters in those municipalities wanted to, or if state-level action forces them to: https://www.vox.com/cities-and-urbanism/2018/2/23/17011154/s....
That's not what the OP said.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propositional_calculus#Explana...
World Economic and Social Survey 2018: Frontier Technologies for Sustainable Dev [pdf]
You can guard against the metrics being inaccurate by calibration and anchoring.
And also verification. (and watch the watchers too)

It is obviously an active process, much like guarding democracy against demagoguery.

Attempts to subvert the system can usually be spotted early.

A person designing right secondary metrics that result in good primary endpoints is also meritorious.

The usual problems are either complacency, where meritorious people stop being so and are not being degraded, stagnation - lack of further development of merit or unnecessarily high barriers of entry.

Merit when developed should accrue over time, yet it should be possible for a "nobody" to get in at high levels.
You may have heard of Aaron Swartz, "Lock Her Up", Barrett Brown, and https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/doj-seeking-info-on-6000-peopl..., Mumia Abu-Jamal, etc., but presumably you have forgotten. The situation in the US is not as bad as in Turkey, but it is bad and getting worse.
This is incredibly sad and moving.

It's such a shot directly to everyone; you really need to put silly things behind you and love the ones that love you.
Yes, I trust Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc with data reasonably. I would however like one breach to not be catastrophic. Also Google discontinuing Inbox made my Fastmail experiement permanent.
Related discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169027.

Edit: here are some other articles providing coverage:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/8/17951914/google-plus-data...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/08/google-reportedly-exposed-pr...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/08/google-plus-hack/

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45792349

https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/google-plus-shut-down-...

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-says-it-found-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-shutters-google-socia...
From the post, literally in bold, and listed as the first action.

"We are shutting down Google+ for consumers."

> this is fucking infuriating

Comments like yours are much worse.
Google to overhaul privacy rules after discovering exposure of user data
The author does mention she had some pretty "sharp edges", but regardless I don't think one can expect an "objective" assessment in a situation like this nor is it preferred, in my opinion.

We're talking about two soul mates. No one can possibly relate to Alex in the way the OP did. When you're with someone in that good of a relationship, for that long, you don't see that person the same way as anyone else possibly could. As I read the article, I could only think of my wife (thankfully still here with me), because that's my "Alex". My wife is not perfect, but I also don't see her as having truly negative qualities, more like strengths and weaknesses and I love the entire package. I guess what I'm doing a crappy job of saying is that eulogizing your SO isn't really possible to be understood as an "outsider". You can understand it in the context of your own relationships, but with regards to the person being remembered, thee whole picture is impossible for you to see and perhaps also those details are only meant for the closest relationships, in my humble opinion.
A bit of propaganda, sure, but "Big Auto can't stop bellyaching about the 'burden' of electric vehicles".. has made me somewhat rethink how quickly traditional automakers will be able to catch up.

https://evannex.com/blogs/news/excuses-excuses-big-auto-can-...
Yipes! That's good to know about, thanks. At the same time, I've also been surprised at how lenient the browsers are at accepting associations from my incomplete implementation (e.g. without the required SCTP extensions, etc.).
Because science is basic principals that you can build many other things on. Thus not knowing some science is limiting.
Thanks for explaining it better than I could have.
The implementation is also in the works, it'll be released soon.
Thanks for understanding.

You’re not alone with that gut instinct. We haven’t run into that problem though. Also, that last 10% can probably be achieved using a custom side app, or a custom front end. We didnt cover that in detail in the introduction, but the options are there. Also, current traditional approaches aren’t guaranteed to get you near 100% either. They may hold the promise of getting there, but we’re usually dealing with clients who understand that most projects don’t make good on that promise.
No, they don't. The government subsidies promised to soy bean farmers in the mid west are a direct result of the market moving away from them as tariffs from China make the US soybean market less affordable.

Government subsidies are typically meant to prop up industries against market forces.
Funny how they low-key slip through, the fact that they had an open security vulnerability for 3 years. Like "Hey, we are shutting down Google+ ... Btw, your data may have or may have not been exposed..."
Perhaps this means someday required search terms can work +this +way +again.
I was excited about the "circles" idea on day one, but on day two I realized it was basically useless because it didn't let you create ad-hoc circle-groups based on venn diagram unions and intersections and differences, and their APIs were read-only so you couldn't hack this on top. I haven't cared about Google+ since.
Google+ shutting down after users' data is exposed
pyglobus: http://toolkit.globus.org/toolkit/docs/4.2/4.2.0/common/pygl...

it was a grid computing library that made it easy to FTP large files at high performance and do automated job management.
I'd like to think that's not true, but it wouldn't be the first time such a technique has been used, apparently successfully. Witness the local TV news which is always teasing that some story is coming up next, only to put it at the very end of the broadcast so that you have to watch the whole 30 minute program (including commercials) to hear the 1 minute you care about.
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Well if you know your american history, it was used as yet another rationale to disparage afroamericans
Your parents knew people who faced World War II. They themselves worried about global nuclear war. They're not going to be that freaked out about a little temperature rise - unless they really buy the number of deaths that it will cause.
This is Vic Gundotra's legacy and perhaps the first major strategic decision Larry Page made in the post-Eric Schmidt era and it was the design and launch of Google+ and (IMHO) it marked a turning point in the company's culture.

Internal resistance to aspects of G+ was enormous. People outside the company get this idea that Google acts as some kind of singleminded (possibly nefarious) entity when "herding cats" is so often much closer to the truth. In G+'s case, the rank-and-file was largely against things like the Real Names policy yet leadership went ahead with it anyway (Vic often quipped that you didn't want everyone named "Dog fart", which was a pretty ridiculous argument).

And while it may have been Vic driving this, Larry backed him so has to bear shared responsibility.

Probably the worst decision made in this whole mess was (again, IMHO) trying to unify the account model. Youtube accounts have different permission models to Gmail accounts, etc. It would've been sufficient to simply link them (and not require they be linked) rather than jamming single-sign-on down everyone's throats, which really gained nothing except a lot of user backlash.

The worst part of this was that the for the longest time some policy violation (like your name not being "real") could lock you out of your entire account. Whoever made this decision needed to be fired. Deciding someone's name wasn't real enough should NEVER lock you out of your Gmail (or Youtube or any other service).

I was reminded of this in a thread yesterday about the disaster that was the Snapchat redesign. Leadership ignoring user feedback as people start to attribute luck to skill and vision (people have a tendency to socialize losses and privatize wins). Is this merely hubris? Because it's very reminiscent of the dismissal of internal feedback that is now routine (at Google).

It's unfortunate how much Google-hate is on HN these days because I think it's largely unjustified. There are definitely some bad (IMHO) leadership decisions but the rank-and-file are still culture carriers for a lot of the things that made Google great.

Still, as the Chinese say, the fish rots from the head.

Disclaimer: Xoogler. All opinions are entirely personal and I don't speak for this or any other company.

EDIT: TIL the origin of "a fish rots from the head" is disputed and possibly Turkish not Chinese: https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/fish-rot-from-the-head-d...
There's none for singular form.
Still no housing for the poor or low income going up. There's plenty of demand for it, but no supply. Building more housing for the rich when nobody who wants even the slightest luxury will live in Seattle with all of its problems downtown.
I work a lot with lower-mid end office desktops, I3 sort of level. Last year I bought my daughter a Ryzen 3 mobo and processor for £140, and I was blown away by how much better it was than the work machines. I didn't do any benchmarking, but in terms of feel, it felt so much faster. Btw £140 is bargain basement price for a cpu and mobo in the UK, yet this was a regular price for a relatively new set up.

I am not really being offered Ryzens at work though. I get sent lots of Dell and HP offers and they are all Intel atm. I wonder if this is about to change?
Lin is amazing. I do enjoy reading her posts and learn a lot from them.
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If you are trying to build e.g. Twitch or Discord, you want to have a server backend to handle processing, hide user IPs from each other for privacy etc. (the term you are looking for is single forwarding unit). If you just want to get something up quickly, I recommend OpenVidu.
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The issue isn't that current outcomes aren't exactly equal. The inequality is larger than typical sex differences can explain. If current outcomes reflect an innate difference, the separation between the median woman and the median man has to be exceptionally large, the trait has to be exceptionally more variable in men, organizations have to be far more selective than other evidence suggests, and/or the trait must not be normally distributed.
Maybe having to spend lots of time inside, as opposed to ability to enjoy the weather, has lots to do with it?
Really depends on what you're doing. If you're doing a lot of builds or running virtual machines, AMD is the clear winner here. No contest.

If you're only doing primarily single threaded things (i.e. gaming) then the intel chips will give you better performance.
I really like Inbox and am dreading the day that inevitably gets canned.
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That is what it looks like and what all the PR says. Definitely where their current profit margins are. I am just hoping that a company with such a long history of making great vehicles can make the transition to electric cars. This might be a possible pathway.
Ah yes, those crash tests that are not tested by anybody because we all know or assume ICE cars will do well in them, THOSE will be Tesla's achilles' heel!

It seems more likely that crash tests represent our best understanding of common crashes in the real world, in order to build vehicles that protect their occupants best.
Node sizes are not directly comparable and haven't been for years. It's all marketing BS. Please stop perpetuating this myth. Intel's 14nm process is still better than everyone else's and will be until at least the release of TSMC 7nm.
Well, the comment I was responding to didn't specify:

> Company finds a security vulnerability caused by a bug

Remote execution vulnerabilities do exist..
Interact candidly - don't avoid your error while trying to parse.

You wrote "IF it suffers failure..." so the "it" was not the example of failure you gave, "it" was hypothetical . This is why I asked you what "it" was - not so that you could elaborate on what you could have been talking about, I asked to give you a fair chance to realise "it" was yours to define - a hypothetical dam, one defined only by "the nature of things" and a "death toll makes nuclear accidents look like almost nothing"
Small overlap drivers side collision is basically a partial head on collision on a two lane road?

Seems like the drivers side is far more likely to encounter that sort of collision.
Just in the past couple of months I had a private GP appointment (£65), a MRI (£800), followed up by 2 consultant visits (£170 each) and 6 physio (£35 a go). About £1400 of treatment all for free.

I might have been able to get the same treatment on the NHS (this was for a running injury, so not a life-critical illness), but the doctors, MRI, and two consultants visits were done on consecutive days - i.e. within a working week I went from "ow my knee hurts" on a Monday morning to having seen a doctor, a consultant, getting an MRI, and then seeing the consultant again who prescribed a course of physiothearapy by Thursday afternoon (the physio was also booked the same day).

With the NHS it probably would have taken two or three days to call at precisely 08:30:00 to get an appointment before they book out, then I'd be waiting minimum two weeks before I even went to that first GP appointment, and I am sure their response would have been "stop running and see if it gets better in 3 months - come back if it hasn't. NEXT." (based on experience)

Seems like a good deal to me.
Did you at least take a look at any of the Oslo stuff? There were some solid ideas in there.
One thing that I realized since my mum passed away: as we get older, next to birthdays we need to remember “deathdays”, too :-(
That's a low power laptop cpu, not a workstation cpu.
What’s the evidence that Google Reader was “a popular service that was going strong”? I don’t doubt there were a bunch of people in tech and media who were and still are vocally angry, but I don’t recall data showing that Reader was anything but a niche product.
> It's the norm in healthcare (HIPAA), disclosure is required for breaches that affect 500+ persons, and even <500 person breaches have to be reported annually to HHS and to the individual at the time of discovery.

It is required by law to report breaches of data, though I can assure you that in practice, this does not happen nearly as often as you'd expect or hope.

There is, however, no requirement to disclose vulnerabilities for which there is no evidence of exploitation or data breach, or to disclose vulnerabilities that were provably never exploited.
Probably not. The difference between any human and any neanderthal is about twice as big as the biggest difference between two humans.

One could now argue that if two differences in one thousand DNA bases constitutes different subspecies, then maybe one in a thousand does so, too, but at the very least it constitutes a different race. One could, and both thresholds would be arbitrary.

Most biologists these days have decided that defining the terms "species" and "subspecies" properly is futile, and they stopped using the term "race" altogether. So... all differences are now officially unimportant. Neanderthals were humans, too! Sort of...
On the contrary, it should close off an entire world of power analysis timing attacks.

There probably are new internal timing attacks that could be exposed through some asynchronous CPU designs.
One issue regarding security is that until WebAssembly gets some kind of fat pointers or tagging, modules generated by unsafe languages can be exploited by corrupting internal state, thus changing the behaviour of exported entry points.

You can easily test it by creating a WebAssembly module in C with a function that overwrites an internal memory buffer, placed besides other data, which is used to parametrize behaviour of another function, for example a boolean stating that the user is authenticated.
The last time I wore a suit I was sixteen. That was 1971. Had to wear a tie at Mullard in Southampton, left in 1983 and haven't worn a tie since. Had a number of jobs as an electronics designer and software developer since in the UK and Norway. I just turn up to interviews neatly and quietly dressed. As far as I can tell my attire was of no consequence.
I agree. It would be terrible to say that Columbus and Jefferson were on the same level of shitbaggery in almost any way.

My point was that the same "we have to defend our past" tropes tend to come out when attacks on either happen. You see it as well in people who defend the men of the confederacy. Any statement that "these are complex men who did things that led to our current world order, some good others bad" is met as an attack. There is a group of people who look at history and feel that everything is black and white, good vs evil, and that's simply not the case.

Columbus, despite being a violent and horrid person, changed history. Jefferson, despite being the Author of the Declaration of Independence, owned other humans.
packets to packets, bits to bits.

I am not surprised they are killing the service, and I'm reminded of all the damage it did to the company both inside and out[1]. If there is one thing I could say I miss about not working at Google it is seeing how the organization internalizes what they did and why. These sorts of things can teach a lot of really good lessons to an organization if the retrospective is done well.

I was also thinking about the recent love letter to Google that came across here about Google Cloud. In it was the admission that Google tried to hard to "copy" or "follow" AWS in the early years.

Allo, Inbox, Gchat, Reader, Wave, Etc. It feels like they are trying to hard to be "amazing" and missing out on just being good at what they do. Meanwhile the beat of the jungle drums, "More ads, more ads, more ads..." continues on relentlessly.

[1] Inside there were good projects that got killed because they either conflicted with or competed with G+, outside the company it seemed Google was deathly afraid of Facebook and Twitter and had no credible answer, their real names fiasco, their forcing of people to use G+ if they used other services, all of it damaged the Google brand and user trust.
Google+ to shut down after coverup of data breach
12 years of teaching full time Intro to Programming (and other courses) at community college has taught me this:
No matter how good a student is at "computers" doesn't matter. On day 1, I ask them to raise their hand if they are at the college math level (there is no pre-req to Intro to Programming here). I then ask them to raise their other hand if they have NOT studied a foreign language.
I then say that those of you with both hands raised will find this class very challenging. Perhaps the hardest class you will have had so far.
People ask "What is programming like?" My answer: it is like solving word problems in a foreign language.
That's not true. Asian males, for example, are much less likely to be shot by police than white males. Or are they not people of color?
Gaming has not been single-threaded for a while, even on mobile.
Thanks for sharing this. Very timely as it’s currently going through my mind.

Did you guys first start with the founders distributed as well?

Going to be interviewing some guys who aren’t in the country I’m based in but from a skills and vision perspective, looks to be a good match.
90-100k CAD comes to 27% here for Ontario: https://simpletax.ca/calculator

I'm talking about the average for the whole salary, not the marginal rate for the highest bracket. It looks like you have to earn $250,000 CAD to get a 40% average, but that's a very high salary by Canadian standards.
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Google on Monday revealed that a bug exposed data on as up to 500,000 users
Yea, I remember the debacle well. I think I had a few HN posts about it.
Seconding this. Keep in mind you're not in a "normal" C environment when dealing with GPUs. It's a profoundly negative experience dealing with chip manufacturers (Nvidia) that push proprietary hardware and actively thwart your efforts at producing stable and correct code. It made me realize why Linus had such animosity towards them.