skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to agree - great prototype, but most coders whip out basic CRUD code quickly, and their time is really spent on all the additional features of an app. Often, changing the basic CRUD code in the process.

This could work fine as a rapid prototyping tool, but from a feature parity perspective, it looks like you end up with something equivalent to a Salesforce app or Sharepoint list (also non-code CRUD solutions), without the stigma and cost of enterprise platforms, but also without the integration with everything else you may do.
For context the G+ team was viewed add being run in a very ungoogley way during Vic's tenure. It sounds like the OP had the misfortune to be hired into the worst run project at Google at the time.
I don't think we're going to get anywhere if you casually use the word "breach" to describe the discovery, by a firm's own security team, of a security vulnerability and its subsequent fix. I can't write a better rebuttal to your comment than I already did in the post I linked at the root of the thread.
> There is a great deal of magical thinking surrounding the idea that if you pay companies they wont exploit your data and sell you to advertisers.

AKA, the Apple Myth. Just because you overpay for apple products, people think they are immune from data collection. Apple probably collects more data on a per capita basis than google or facebook.
Some examples on the website would be helpful to understand the experience. How do I interact with the tool, what does the output look like, how do I use the back end?
Im considering signing up and trying out your service. What is holding me back are all questions I was hoping to have answered on your website. The main questions I have are important implementation details that I think customers a going to care about. What language, framework, dependencies, are handling requests? What is the performance like? How do I scale?
no its not ethical, but in general war isn't ethical. it is a reality though until all of humanity can come together slowly over the next few centuries.
Follow my comment tree with joshstrange. You basically need a ‘my info’/‘my contact’ card configured.
whether rightly or wrongly, this is an East Coast Democrat taking a swipe at one of California's most important tax revenue sources. but California is the Democratic Party's heartland.

i'm not trying to make a political statement here, just an observation that the Democratic party is of two minds when it comes to tech nowadays. it didn't used to be this way. further evidence of an emerging political realignment.
We know very little about Venus. Unlike most people that think that Mars is a future human world, I think that either spacecraft or Venus will be our secondary homes in this solar system. All it takes is to get 40 kms off the ground in Venus and a human could walk outside. All you would need is oxygen, which is already trivially supplied with today's technology.

If we bio-engineered some plants to create pockets of lighter gas they could float in the air. Energy generation would be easy because of the thermal differential to the surface.

The biggest problem for being outside longterm (years) is the lack of a ionosphere of similar strength to Earth, but I think that could be tackled. The psychological impact of long days could also be partially mitigated by having the bioengineered pods use sails or engines to follow dusk and go in and out of it, simulating an earth day. But similar gravity and tons of potential compared to shitty Mars.
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I stronger version of coffee that might give you a heart attack.
Similar to what the commenter below said except I had one more step of federal court intervening and forcing the settlement
This! Is the author immature? Yes but not out of malice. He's simply a novice to the world of people. Labeling this guy as mental, dysfunctional or having a Everest sized ego is just petty.

The key to understanding the author is at the top of the article.

He skipped college, freelanced for much of his life and worked for non-profits (whose lofty goals transcend internal politics.) As someone who recently worked to make the world a better place, he genuinely tried to help his teammates and naively believe they appreciated his help. (I bet he doesn't know how to read body language and fake smiles). They on the other hand felt he was trying to make them look bad, and use them as promotion stepping stones.

People who work with compilers for a long time have no qualms being wrong. They take feedback and improve. But for Straight A - straight out of college students and political types, being wrong is a personal insult.

Here's what I think:

Most of his co-workers had been complaining about his well meaning meddling. He couldn't be fired for making things better. The email was the excuse his boss had been looking for to get rid of him.

If he joined Google 10 years ago, he would have been a rock star.

My advice:

He should find a way to make freelancing work.

He should join a startup but freelance / consult on the side to augment his pay. Going to business school - or some management training might also do him a lot of good.

Most of all, if he gets another big job, he shouldn't help anyone unless they ask for it.

Wish him good luck.
A little off topic, but I believe that Facebook, and to some extend Google, have screwed over any future “free” services with their behaviour. Personally, I will be very unlikely to sign up for ANY service that doesn’t offer a paid tier, in the future. I believe that this will hold true for others who have previously been quick to adopt new services and products. This will hinder competitors from gaining traction.
Maybe. Maybe not. Getting banned from the US is a pretty big inconvenience for most people living in southern parts of Canada (i.e. most people in Canada). It is unwise to play Russian roulette with that. Even if the current administration is cool with it, there is no guarantee that the next one will be.

Canadian media thinks it is not worth the risk [0], especially in the light of the statements made by US officials [1].

[0] https://globalnews.ca/news/4140898/legal-pot-data-banned-us-...

[1] https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/13/canada-weed-pot-bo...
China’s grip on electronics manufacturing will be hard to break
Believe it or not, everyone doesn’t know everything that everyone else knows.
For me it looks that he is a human being with genuine emotions, that he’s passionate about his work and not yet a complete corporate drone.
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No, Google is claiming that all of their evidence, including research and data gathering, shows that the bug wasn't known or abused, but for privacy reasons they only keep two weeks of logs, so that particular chunk of evidence (the server logs) doesn't cover enough time to be definitive.
The law need not match your personal idea of morality. We have religion if you want to live by someone else's moral code.
Because this is a helpful community?

I wouldn't call it stealing, there are hundreds of companies working on reducing development effort from all sorts of angles. Developers need to continually improve their skill sets. It's more about losing your job than having it stolen.
Is there something actually proven and more comprehensive, than speculation from two decades ago? Nearly all of the concerns listed in your Echelon link, are political in nature (eg about Princess Diana, or the five eyes with Canada spying on two British ministers for Britain in 1983), not examples of industrial IP theft.

Baseless claims won't cut it. The US has had by far the world's largest economy for the last two decades. There should be dozens of legally proven - court cases - examples of intellectual property theft far worse and larger than anything China has done, given the scale difference of the economies over that time and the supposed capacity to hoover up global communications and put it to use in industrial espionage.

Saying that well: here's one example, or here's two examples across 30 years, is not good enough to indict the world's largest and most technologically advanced economy for being rampant industrial thieves. To show a comprehensive pattern of deep industrial espionage, and to show that it isn't more along the lines of routine espionage that occurs between any two great economic powers, requires a lot more proof.
They dont give you code. You get an api with a postgres db on Amazon rds that you manage through forms.
i'm sorry my comment seems to have offended you. so far most of what i read on it has been pop-science. newspaper articles. books. the like. this is pretty interesting and brings a different perspective.
That quote makes it sound more deliberate and less a terrifying accident.

The Lightning was a high speed interceptor tasked to shoot down nuclear bombers, to say it was fast is an understatement.

He wasn't certified to fly that aircraft and was troubleshooting an electrical problem that couldn't be reproduced in the hanger. So he was taking short taxis down a closed portion of runway without a canopy. The equivalent of a car mechanic reving your engine in the parking lot.

The reheater (aka afterburner) on the Lightning was the last position on the throttle and there was a lock once engaged.

He wasn't having any luck reproducing the issue and so was going faster with each attempt. He accidentally engaged the reheater and went flying down the runway.

Before he could manage to disengage the reheater he had to avoid another aircraft and after that the runway ran out so he had to choose between crashing and taking off.

Once up it took him 4 approaches to bring it down without a canopy.
Managers never feel threatened by employees. They have no reason to do so. Once you are inside a large company, with enough motivation you can switch projects and move up the ladder.

That's how it works in life, that how it works in companies.

Complaining that he didn't get his dream project right off the bat is vanity.
I didn't change anything. I pointed out a fact.
We ought not to rely on Security through Insignificance. The data isn't just available to a current administration that doesn't care about it. It's available to all future administrations that might.
I love the way that movie treats this...so much better than speaking English with a Russian accent which makes no sense at all.
Headline should be "by friendly fire".
The technician shot with the cannon at the 2 other planes.

Similar to the old story when Arnold Schwarzenegger stole a tank and went on a rampage, but then was protected by his protégé and got away with it.
add roles in addition to groups.

these are different logical segmentations that are nearly always conflated together in most "quick crud" systems, and never map to reality on things much more complex than "todo list" API stuff. Or, perhaps more specifically, in anything that might end up being considered a 'line of business' app.
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Your best bet is Xiaomi.

Go to gsmarena.com and click on the advanced finder and apply your filters. You will be sorted in no time.
How the US Forced China to Quit Stealing–Using a Chinese Spy
To me the data breaches was just the final straw. Naively perhaps I never believed that they would be so careless with my data as it turned out. Then on top they can’t even keep it out of the hands of people who don’t have a contract with Facebook.

I think that it could be the GDPR that is now forcing Facebook to be more open about breaches, and previously they may have been keeping them secret.
I imagine they're going to view you with suspicion and so detain you for [further] interview; probably add you to a watch list?

A completely blank phone suggests you're naively hiding something: like carrying an empty box with an obvious fake bottom. Enticing stuff for a TLA agent I imagine.
And for good reason. If there were a way to make money off a free service that didn’t involve selling user data, it would already have been bought by google.
Is it open-source? As that could speed up development in the area.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I think it’s great that processed food manufacturers are trying to replace synthetic ingredients with actual food. I don’t see a problem here.
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I don’t think you read their comment. Or your reading comprehension is bad.

They is arguing the norm is not strong enough. That is a point of debate, not a reason to equate this with religion.

If I had to say anything, you’re the one who seems religious by trying to shut down the conversation with an irrelevant point.

Downvote me if you want, but civil discourse will ultimately prevail over emotional reactions.
“Fixed mindsets” might be why we don’t understand statistics
> how many experts will suddenly no longer have a position of expertise?

None. Math stays the same, and the skills needed to solve the problems stay the same.

In general new discoveries in physics only add detail
to what we know and do not invalidate the old knowledge.
> My understanding of management is of owning a summarized,
> superset overview of a bunch of areas that I'm (ostensibly)
> coordinating.

I would most definitely agree with you. A manager doesn't need to have more "in the trenches" knowledge than those that report to them. In fact that's probably not even possible or even desirable. Most of my really good managers have been less technical than me.

> Hmm. I certainly don't want to end in the position
> of the manager you're referring to. I'm scared
> about/by the quantity of things I don't know, though,
> across the board, so there's that. (One of those things
> that are hard to sum up as good or bad, heh.)

If you're concerned about it, that's probably an excellent sign that you'll do what it takes not to fall into that trap.

Actually I'll be really specific about the trap our manager fell into. It's SUPER avoidable. Here's what he did:

1. He or his management would present a problem or challenge

2. He would design a solution with his very incomplete knowledge, down to the technical details

3. He would break it up into tasks

4. He would assign those tasks to us

You can see the problem there. The people with the actual in-the-trenches knowledge were completely shut out of the design process and his solutions were often terrible.

Furthermore, WE were the ones made to look bad by this process. HIS management thought he was this uber-competant guy who could not only manage but architect solutions as well! And even break them up into little bite-sized chunks for the engineers to execute!

And WE looked like "negative nancies" who were like, slowing him down by pushing back against these solutions and tasks he handed out. He was like a poor general who was always getting his troops killed, that managed to convince the higher-ups that he was just constantly given bad troops or something.

His favorite retort was "well, what's your suggestion?" when we challenged his poorly thought-out solutions. And it was like... I don't know, Ben. I just got handed your shitty solution five seconds ago and you still haven't even told us what you're even trying to accomplish here. We haven't had three hours or three days or three weeks to come up ideas like you have.

Obviously, the process ought to have gone like this:

1. He or his management would present a problem or challenge

2. He should present the problem to his team, explaining the technical goals as well as how those goals fit into the big picture of the business

3. The team collectively should have designed and discussed possible solutions.

4a. Through that process he should have acted as advisor and sounding board. He should have recognized our greater domain knowledge.

4b. Of course, that street goes both ways. He should have recognized our greater experience and domain knowledge, but we should have also recognized the need for to prove the viability of our solutions to him before implementing them, just like we'd do with any manager regardless of relative age or experience -- the relationship would not work if we expected him to simply "take our word for it" because we we older or more experienced.
It boggles the mind. All of it. The scale of space, the scale of time, our own tiny brief existence in it. The possibility that several civilization collapses occurred right here and we wouldn't know it. The possibility that life elsewhere in the universe came and went and the light informing us of it won't reach us before we possibly burn out. Meanwhile we're just a flicker from a spent flintwheel.

The thing that gave me a particular "oh" moment was reading the study that correlated Earth's geologic events (mass extinctions, impacts, etc) timed to our Sun transiting through the spiral arms of our galaxy. Fun read: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1309.4838.pdf
Palantir and Addepar both would have gone bankrupt many times over if not for Peter Thiel and Joe Lonsdale's fundraising ability, which kept the companies solvent long enough to survive and stumble onto an even footing.
Because of expansion we'll likely never be able to travel to any of the galaxies in the universe except our local neighborhood. But it's still worth studying those galaxies from a distance to learn more about our universe.
Yes, the government is definitely better at spending money than the small business owner. I'd rather have my money spent on bombs and failing, corrupt infrastructure projects...
Should someone’s story apply to everyone out there?
> Because they didn't actually look at MacBooks, they're just guessing the price and specs.

Yeah, that's the reason. <eye roll>
Not sure that comparison works very well at all!

> you don't necessarily need insights from the presenter

LT's measured style included subtle but incisive insights is key to his appeal as a broadcaster, whereas SD's style is virtually nonexistent, moronic, execrable..
How to irregular cyber warfare
The bullshit API
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Ive read other post basically making the same claim, Google is happy to create, fund, and hire for projects just to capture/retain talent and remove it from the hiring pool. Is that HN folks reading too much between lines or is it a thing?
Ask HN: What happens in ddos attack on distributed systems?
In case of centralized system hosted on aws, ddos attack would simply be bombarding IP with ddos attacks.
But how would ddos attack work on companies like Google and Facebook who have pool of IPs and distributed system?
>Is this your definition of "walking all over you"? How much of a bubble is silicon valley?

Yeah it is, but I don't live in the valley.

I mean, your example fits my definition too. I just have a much lower threshold that I tolerate apparently.

But lets wait for someone else to come by with a more impactful story than yours and we can reset the goal posts.
>Median takes away the bias of the extremes that averages can include.

What sort of extremes do you expect to see in age data for starting a business?

There will be no 10 years olds, and likely no 90 years olds.

>But in this "research", there are far more data to unpack.

Why the quotations? Do you not believe this is research? This is a 1000 word summary of their work; do you think these researchers, from some of the best schools on the planet, didn't consider the sorts of questions you pose?
This is unfortanate and I expected it for a while now. First OnePlus was exposed a while ago, then Blu, then maybe a few other smaller ones (can't remember, anybody has links?), and now Huawei... I have to wonder if the companies aren't strong-armed by the Chinese government or they are all simply the same kind of greedy shady private info dealers. So it's quite likely Xiaomi will be exposed at some point as well.

I like Xiaomi. Owned two of their phones and it was the best ever Android experience for me -- not because of the iOS look-alike-ness. The devices were just very snappy, the default apps were very functional and comfortable to use and the whole thing just worked pretty well out of the box. I was pretty impressed, still am.

But I seriously don't trust the baseband vendors so I moved to the Apple ecosystem. Now I am left wondering if Apple is simply not better at hiding it if they are doing things like that (remember when they were caught recording the phone screen's activity and sending it to Uber?)...

Are we better off at the Apple side? Or should we all be buying an Xperia X and installing Sailfish OS on it?
The author of Brotopia made the claim of a toxic environment without evidence. The burden or proof lies on the person making the claim. The author of the piece questions the claim with a single data source. Attacking his source doesn't somehow validate the author of Brotopia
"food scientists" being fed up with untrusting "eaters" should have said food scientists wonder why said eaters lost trust in the products they make. Could this have anything to do with the shit they've put for years in industrial products while not under scrutiny?

Rapists not raping anymore because someone is following them everywhere can't brag about their rape-free attitude.
Wow, on one hand - pretty interesting read in a sense that tabloids are interesting, but boy, you should never do that. It’s not just burning the bridges, it is not a very good signal to your potential employers, partners, acquirers, employees... Imagine public outcry if it went the other way: if managers hung out dirty laundry on employees who were not up to snuff.

Also, about contractors in pivotal roles. The author was relatively new to for-profit industry and it happens way more often than one may think. People who go the contractor route are usually senior and experienced enough to be confident in getting and keeping the gigs, as the barrier to getting rid of a contractor is very low.
> Success itself is whether the idea had merit and a solid team is built.

Even the concept of an idea being meritable is relative -- it depends on who is making the assessment.

Fred Wilson didn't think AirBnB had merit, in fact he thought the whole thing was ridiculous [0], no matter how hard pg tried to convince him otherwise [1].

[0] https://avc.com/2011/03/airbnb/

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/airbnb.html
I'm s bit sad at the end of the article. Sounds to me like a great designer, with good ideas and some genuine leadership skills. But the article itself is so full of anger and resentment that I really wonder what it would be like to work with the author.
Looks like nobody has taken the time or given him the opportunity to learn how to navigate trough BS and handle it.

Saying NO, being political, negotiating. . . Not very surprising if he indeed had such bad managers.

Still, feels like wasted time and resources for everybody. I hope he is doing OK now.
It would make sense if the deciding factor would be consumer's health. Instead, it's the appearance of being "natural", which is not in itself better than something synthetic or modified: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy
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> Would you take up the job if the salary was reduced on day one?

This is a labor law violation, because it's obvious, even to government regulators, that it's unfair to the employee. I would hope everybody would object to labor law violations on their first day of work.