skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, because it's even worse than that. "management software, user interfaces, application program interfaces, automation software, monitoring software, backup software, storage software and hosting software" encompasses everything behind the server, everything in front of the server, and basically everything beside the server.
While health insurance captures an increasing share of the stagnant income.
I've been hearing about issues at Google for years privately and on Twitter. No idea what goes on at other companies, as this stuff is often so aggressively covered up that you are only likely to hear about something if you know multiple women at the company in question and they trust you enough to tell you the truth.
sounds like an interesting way to create jobs, since alternatives probably won't produce as much yield, thus requiring more farms/farmers.
This has been my strategy as well and I can confirm that only good things have come of it.
Wow reading the whole story...Sundar needs to clean house. California is an at-will state, he doesn't need justification, just sweep out all of this trash.

Downvotes for suggesting the CEO get rid of execs who carry on like this at work and expect a payday? Wow this thread not only details how sordid Google is, but also the continued decline of HN...scary how many apologists showed up here.
I'm an admirer of Tesla and enjoy a P85D.

I'm curious about what Tesla will do to new car sales (across the industry) as the sold fleet ages. Traditional car companies intentionally balance their costs against consumers proclivity to buy new cars in the 4-8 year range. As such, they'll spend $10 less on a part that goes to 100K miles instead of 500K. These Teslas are going to last longer that people realize and won't age out as early as other cars. How will that impact new car sales?
Yeah, I don't think a rocket would like this lateral acceleration at all, even if we replaced the reaction wheels with something less far-fetched.
>I don't know why anyone should feel entitled to economic growth if they didn't participate in it in any way.

Tangentially related point:

The problem occurs when advances in technology make it so the vast majority of humans are literally _unable_, not to be mistaken for _unwilling_, to participate in economic growth.

In this scenario inequality shoots through the roof and that reasonably leads to instability and violence. At a certain point the wealth has to be shared in order to maintain a stable and high-quality society. A pragmatic wealthy person in this scenario should see wealth redistribution as a wise investment, not a cost, seeing as the "let them eat cake" alternative is less desirable if you like to keep your head.
Last line of article: "According to his ex-wife’s civil suit, his net worth is now about $350 million."

Assuming his ex-wife had access to accurate financial statements, the $350 million number is smaller than I would have expected by about 3X.

According to published reports, Levandowski made $120 million for working on the google self-driving car project. Android seems to have had at least 10x the influence already.

Clearly these are already funny-money numbers for mere mortals, but what metrics do execs at these levels use to negotiate their compensation?
Whoever made this decision probably didn't appreciate that some people actually run sshd on port 22. OTOH, their remote desktop protocol uses a port above 1024, so it's already been possible to sniff passwords if you can race the daemon to bind the port (e.g. if you can induce it to crash). But two wrongs don't make a right.
Hanlon's razor is an aphorism expressed in various ways, including:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
The Content Scramble System on DVD's isn't anti-competitive, since all players can obtain a license for it, it's just anti-consumer.

The example I'd like to see is of a single work that wasn't pirated due to DRM. DRM is hidden behind this wall of lies where ostensibly it's about piracy but in reality it is not. The true purpose is to control legal playback behavior, like how all legitimate hardware DVD players respect the flag that marks ads as unskippable because that's a requirement to obtain a DVD-CSS license, even though that DRM was already cracked in the 90's.
Awaiting the hour of reprisal, your time slips away.
When you realize that all the third party tracking scripts you pasted onto your page are _watching you too_.
It's a huge difference, and yet also the same thing.

It's the same concepts of props, state, context, and lifecycle behavior as before.

It's just that now you can do it in function components, not just class components, and the APIs let you handle things without having to have additional levels of wrapper components and without the complexity of class-related gotchas.
This is one step in ending the hurtling of all of us into digital sharecropping. We need more steps taken.
If you were the victim, would you also feel that it's "respectable" of Google to reward your agressor with a massive golden parachute?
"You might be curious how React knows which component useState corresponds to since we’re not passing anything like this back to React. We’ll answer this question and many others in the FAQ section."

While I appreciate the functional usage of state, this type of magical behavior worries me a bit. Wasn't more straightforward semantics possible (even if the syntax wasn't similarly straightforward)?
We have to share our resources with an increasingly larger proportion of a growing humanity and nobody can do anything about it. We just don't want to hear or see the facts until it's already a fact of the past.
Thanks, but I thought your other post was really good.
I had actually started a new project two days before this drama started (my first MongoDB project in a couple of years) and made the same decision. This license is so bad I've lost faith in the company itself.
Jack-O\\'-Lantern+by+Xaphan
It's not "shitting on" anyone; it's how (efficient) economics works. You don't earn more money unless you're producing more value. If a steel mill increases its output by way of some new automation, the accounting department and janitorial staff are unlikely to see a wage increase. The folks on the assembly line are also unlikely to see a wage increase because they're not more productive. The people who will be principally rewarded are the people who developed (including investing) the automation.

In other words, as I understand it, economic rules aren't arbitrary--it's not like some cabal of mean rich guys is preventing us from flipping the switch that would make everyone obscenely rich (which is distinct from a cabal of mean rich guys _interfering_ with an economy to make themselves wealthy at the expense of the efficiency of the economy).
Neat! We use a TODO.md, but this solution can keep track of the exact position. Looks very useful.

If there's a way that the developers can run it without installing the Haskell suite (maybe binary releases for Windows, Linux, macOS), we will try it.

Does it ignore paths like node_modules/ and others or support command line arguments for that?
At this point they are exempt which speaks to the double standard. MongoDB makes copious use of open source components. E.g. They use PostGres for their reporting solution and make money off it. What do they contribute back to the PostGres community for this?
We're definitely due for a major shift in our political and economic systems over the next hundred years. At some point, the inequality and gains going to the top are going to boil over into something like the European-wide revolutions of 1848. Back then, much of central europe was still ruled by absolutist monarchs, with even the wealthiest business owners not having representation in government. Basically, people were scared of what a kingless republic is capable of after the reign of terror during the French Revolution. Within a few decades, and especially after WW1, the entire continent transformed republics. It's bound to boil over again at some point.
Teslas out of warranties are the same thing.
Not to the overall structure of the economy.

Imagine this: at one high school, there's a 80% literacy rate in the 2008 class. Then it drops to a 60% rate for the 2018 class.

Even if the 2008 cohort may now have a 90% literacy rate, that doesn't change the fact that the school is declining in literacy, and trying to argue otherwise verges on duplicitous.
That's the defense against removing amalgam that has already been introduced, it's safer locked away than trying to drill it out and risking high level exposure.
In the live talk, Sophie also discussed how Javascript classes are difficult for machines: minifiers aren't able to shorten the names of methods (because it's apparently hard to work out all the ways that the method could be invoked), and they cause stability problems with hot code reloading. So there are benefits beyond ease of use for humans.

(Also, I'm pretty fluent in Javascript and I still forget to bind event handlers all the time, which suggests to me that it's a counterintuitive pattern even if I know "how it works" on a technical level. And you either have to put a bunch of "this.handler = this.handler.bind(this)" in the constructor, or rely on class properties which are an unstable syntax feature, both of which are suboptimal.)
MongoDB doesn't deserve all the credit (or blame) for what they've created. The client libraries are true open source projects, and a lot of the good parts of the design have probably come from them. I think they've also accepted a lot of contributions to mongod without compensation, and had the copyright assigned to them. Having the copyright assigned to them is reasonable, but it facilitates them closing an open source project that's received many community contributions, which is unethical IMHO.
I liked the article, but even her expanded definition of diversity doesn't resonate completely with me. My brother and I had exactly the same background and upbringing. And we are both remarkably different people. None of the metrics of diversity mentioned here would reflect that, but it's reality.

The priority should be diverse people, not diverse backgrounds.
No. RMS has stated more than once that he is entirely ok with the "service provider loophole" in the GPL. They made the AGPL for those not ok with the loophole, but he never had any issue with it in the original GPL at all.
and they all link to course central pages, rather than directly to the courses. so that now course central gets clicks, cookies will be saved for ads and tracking. Plus, they use another site for redirection, possibly for affiliate sales and even more tracking.

The items in list are just added, randomly. For example, Machine Learning with Python: from Linear Models to Deep Learning [0] course actullay starts on June 2019. It's not really 'launched'.

[0] - https://www.edx.org/course/machine-learning-with-python-from...
I'm reminded of the joke, "When you owe the bank a million dollars and can't pay, you have a problem. When you owe the bank a billion dollars and can't pay, the bank has a problem."

The same is true with senior executives. If you fire manager or even a director for sexual harassment you're risk is at one level, if you fire someone who is VP or above then that person has a wide array of ways to 'fight back' that can cause serious harm to the company, so the company has a problem.

Some people cross that threshold of 'company risk' and do something wrong, have it get exposed to the company and then see the company contort itself to make it go away, and they realize they have way more power over the company than the company does over them. I have seen it bring out the worst in people.

It is a complex situation that is difficult to navigate and something I don't think anyone can prepare for.
Signaling, Shame, and Silence in Social Learning [pdf]
Your First Technical Presentation
Modin: Speed up your pandas by changing one line of code
It's quite cool that you could insert the game cd into an ordinary music player and have the background music play. Shows how proud they must have been of it.
They use plenty of other open source components as well. As I pointed out in other parts of the discussion they use PostGres beneath the scenarios for their reporting solution and charge customers for it. What do they contribute back to the PostGres community?
If that hypothetical happened, then I would expect the article to say something like "we asked Jim how many of these pills he was taking, and he couldn't remember, but somewhere in the region of 3 per day".
A) The article states that the two were in a relationship. Meeting someone at their hotel room doesn't automatically mean a consent to sex.

B) I'll give you the benefit of the doubt for your particular experience. But keep in mind that many sexual misconduct accusations involve the victim refusing but eventually "giving in". Harvey Weinstein, for example:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-aggressive-ove...

> Shit, what if they did an internal investigation and determined that he didn't?

I hate to say "did you read the article?", but your question suggests that you may have skimmed the details. The article specifically states that Google investigated Rubin, and decided to terminate him as a result of the investigation. The investigation did not "prove" the accusation, but apparently the accusation was credible enough for Google to decide it was better to part ways with one of its most important executives.

> Google’s inquiry ultimately found the complaint against Mr. Rubin credible, said the two company executives familiar with the incident. While Mr. Rubin denied the accusation, it became clear that — at the very least — the relationship was inappropriate, they said. Mr. Page decided Mr. Rubin should leave, they said.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is he trying to say that if a lower-to-middle-class person now makes $10K more than his parents (who made $40k combined), that somehow that is better than the wealthy person that now makes $10K less than his parents (who made $1.2m combined) ?

I think this deserves a "man on the street" survey to see which income most people would prefer...
It wasn’t punishment. Google was paying him to sign a non-compete. It was in their corporate self-interest that if they couldn’t keep him due to a credible harassment accusation, they would pay for no one else to get him.
Is it just your usual though? The modified hateful eight advert is interesting. Why such effort put into that? Why so wrong? (Maybe just bad english/lack of effort to get it right by the creator of it?)
>I'd go further and say that there's nothing of any significance in this decision since it will likely go away down the line since it was not codified in law.

I don't believe you're correct here. If down the road the LoC and USCO did not continue this exemption, it still would have applied for the whole intervening time and anybody who took advantage of it during that time would be in the clear. At a bare minimum this is a specific material benefit to many people, and any knowledge, tooling and techniques developed to aid that during that time would still be valuable. That's not insignificant.

More long term, ultimately this is politics and that can definitely be influenced by "temporary" measures which later become permanent. In general in politics it's much harder to take away something specific granted to people who gain a concentrated benefit from it then it is to not offer it in the first place. Before having it people may not be able to visualize a future benefit, but after getting used to it they'll resent having it removed if it was at all useful. Constituencies develop. So if for 3+ years some people were more easily and cheaply able to get something dealt with or saw more competition for it and in turn better quality/reliability/price, and then all of a sudden one day they walk in and get told "well the politicians just rescinded this so suddenly you can't but only because they said so" well that tends not to go over so well. Particularly if it seems like "common sense" and there is no harm any general member of the public can see from it either. Appeals to distant corporate profits tend to be curiously unmoving...
Interactive car control system unveiled
Interesting. It seems like Cisco's attempt to make their firmware non-transferable is not enforceable because it's in conflict with first sale doctrine, which is part of the copyright act of 1976:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
> It’s about capturing criminals not detecting suspects.

It's as much as capturing criminals as to detect suspects/find suspects.
I think the finer point is that pinning diversity to something specific like gender works against people that don't want to be viewed as a diversity candidate. It's hard to get this right and the end goal is that we don't even talk about diversity anymore but just recognize its benefits.
There are a bunch in French too, handy.
That death rate is insane. How can republicans do effectively nothing about this public health disaster? I am singling out republicans rather than the political class generally as right now they have control of most state legislatures and governorships, control of congress, control of the senate, control of the supreme court, and control of the presidency. If they wanted to do something to address this, they can do it. Evidently they would rather people just die.
Does anyone else find it weird/disturbing that someone is compiling a list of women engineers and where they work? I understand having a list of influential speakers and such to look up to, but this does not seem to be the case. The author mentioned she has no idea how she made it on there.

Link: https://cristinacordova.github.io/women-eng/
> If there's a way that the developers can run it without installing the Haskell suite (maybe binary releases for Windows, Linux, macOS), we will try it.

Great, I was waiting for someone to ask for a binary distribution before actually going ahead and setting it up. I'll go ahead and do that then.

> Does it ignore paths like node_modules/ and others or support command line arguments for that?

Yes, you set a list of regexes per project for toodles to ignore.
>ask for money from the public

I was under the impression ICOs could now only target accredited investors. In that sense it's really no different from raising capital the traditional way.
That is a pretty big advantage if you save all of that fuel on the satellite. It translates directly into extra years on station and so longer payoff period.
> React assumes that if you call useState many times, you do it in the same order during every render.

Note they also say:

> We provide a linter plugin to enforce these rules automatically.

Makes me feel a little better.
You can still do it. CLEP [0] is one standard way. You can also request credit by examination for courses not covered by CLEP...this requires departmental approval and paying for a custom exam to be created.

[0] https://clep.collegeboard.org
Why England Once Forced Everyone to Be Buried in Wool
We have the idea on the roadmap that will exactly solve the problem you mentioned on the first item of your list. We were having doubts about the use case, your comment got us excited.
US weapons systems can be 'easily hacked'
I actually agree, this is a mess. This is wildly more complex and confusing than the current state of affairs.
In what ways would a VP or above be able to fight back that a manager or director could not?
Someone at that level can afford to pay for a matchmaking service and has plenty of willing strangers to date, and doesn't ned to go foraging among the staff.
One is w-ee-ry the other w-ah-ry.
Dropbox would not be possible without raising money. Airbnb would not be possible without raising money first. Uber would not have been possible without raising money.

Some of them can make revenue from the get-go, some can't. But the truth is most of them would not have survived this long without first round of seed money.
From the article: "The study looks at people who were 35–40 in 1987 and then looks at how they were doing 20 years later, when they are 55–60. The median income of the people in the top 20% in 1987 ended up 5% lower twenty years later. The people in the middle 20% ended up with median income that was 27% higher. And if you started in the bottom 20%, your income doubled. If you were in the top 1% in 1987, 20 years later, median income was 29% lower."
A Rick and Morty writer will take Star Trek where no Trek has gone before–comedy
Yeah. More broadly, I think digital devices should be loyal to their owners rather than a 3rd party like the manufacturer or a surveillance/credit/ad agency.

Part of the solution may be legal, but I also think that the architecture of the device will need to change, e.g. to remove the technical ability of the manufacturer to remotely brick it.
you wrote the bot or is there a service I don't know about?
Have you looked at the dates on the chart?

https://www.statnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CDC-Over...
What do you consider a healthy work-life balance?
8 hours a day?
6 hours?

If we assume you sleep 8 hours then you spend 16 hours awake, 7 days a week for a total of 112 hours in a week.

Even if you only work 6 hours on the weekdays that'd still 30 hours a week, or more than 1/4 of your waking hours.

If you work at a big company you probably run into a lot of people and you already have a shared interest and stuff to talk about. There will always be a decent chance you'll meet someone you're interested in at work.

Unless you think that everyone should restrict themselves to only dating people who they meet for the explicit purpose of dating there will be relationships at work. Often relationships form without people actively seeking them out.
No, technically, Stallman is firmly rooted in copyright law. GPL says you take this software and make derived works, as copyright law says what they are, as long as you make derivative works available under the same terms as you received the original software.

GPL steers clear of non-derived work. If you use VMWare on Linux, VMWare is not a derived work as far as copyright law is concerned and there is no relation between them as far as GPL is concerned.

This SSPL, is another story.
I don't think the issue is that simple with senior execs. The article brings up Page and Brin dating Google employees. Pretty much the entire Alphabet employee base are subordinates of those 2.
> I think it is reasonably easy to prevent people from dating subordinates in the workplace. Up front, you explain that the policy is one word: don't. If it ever happens, you fire the higher-level person promptly. No excuses, no second chances.

This is completely absurd. How many current great relationships would have never existed under such a rule? (Bill and Melinda Gates is the obvious go-to example, or Barack and Michelle Obama, but there are no doubt millions.)
The fact that someone has to manually promote a slave as master is a big operational cost. The people that actually use PG at scale have to write a lot of tools / plumbing to overcome those issues, the same "issues" that were solved by most NoSQL solution, horizontal scaling, HA, shards re-balancing ect ...
Thank you fir this great comment! Made my day :-)
Yes, I know it's a figure of speech. Still I disagree with the meaning you are giving to it.
Living like a King >>> Living a comfortable life.
This is also true of elevators. The vendors intentionally write awful code so that only they can fix it.
> "When you owe the bank a million dollars and can't pay, you have a problem. When you owe the bank a billion dollars and can't pay, the bank has a problem."

Precisely the reason why something called "corporate debt restructuring" was invented.