skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, but I've had a pretty close view of their undersides.
Ask HN: Why does Google completely ignore my search terms?
I'm trying to refrain from an emotional rant about this (I'm really pissed when I search for "Term" and get a page full of "Not including: "Term"" results), but please answer me, on a technical level:

Why has Google decided to switch to this (horrible IMHO) semantic interpretation model?

Are the reasons technical? Is it related to their monetization model or their marketing strategies? Is it intended to provide value to the user or no?
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Project Fi Rebranding as Google Fi
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>they link my identity to my browser

They link your phone number to a session/user along with ad networks who have stored cookies on your machine and use predictive modeling to guess at who you are/what you do.

It doesn't work on 90% of the HN crowd, people who block ads/disable javascript, or just don't do a lot of traditional "browsing", but yeah.
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Facebook founder called trusting users dumb f*cks
Apple Q4 2018 Earnings and Conference Call: A Record Again – Live Blog
grumpy old man. pissed off that nobody uses smalltalk.
[re: claim that due process includes the right to confront accuser]

> In the courts, yes

In the US, this is only true in criminal courts. Even when it reaches beyond company process to the courts, sexual harassment is a civil matter.
The point of an anonymous system is to encourage people to speak up without a first-mover problem, because in every case of ongoing sexual harassment there is never just 1 victim - it's always a pattern of behavior.

Someone receiving exactly 1 report is probably not a problem. Someone who accumulates reports continuously as team members change probably is.
Of course, you don't have to pay $1K for a new iphone: you can buy a new iPhone SE 32GB for $140 from Walmart (locked to their captive cellular provider for a year, but still). Or refurbed for $70!
No. In Google you're supposed to try to go for promotion, and nobody cares about the walkout in the promotion commitees, so at the end you have to work extra.

If you don't want promotion though, life's easy @ Google.
In my experience, there are elderly people who don't particularly like to read documentation (if they can even find it) or use the Internet. It would make sense that they expect to learn things by talking to people, and try to get all their questions answered while they have someone on the line.

(But I didn't listen to the phone calls, so what do I know?)
AAPL just lost it's 1 trillion market cap. Ouch.
As a side note, blurring sensitive information in a screenshot is a bad idea. It's possible to recover what the blurred text was using brute-force guess, blur and compare, or a smarter method.
>What you are suggesting is called "blacklisting." You may be interested to learn that in many states it is illegal behavior itself.

Sadly, impossible to prove.

I can choose to not hire for you a plethora of reasons. I can just give you a few bullshit questions that you can't answer correctly and use that as an excuse.
Just making sure you've already seen Mark Ferrari's GDC talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcJ1Jvtef0 :)
> not competitive in price

Yeah those rubes paying Apple's $793 ASP could gotten a Galaxy S9+ for only $840. Or a Pixel 3 starting at $799,a Pixel 3XL for $899, a Note 9 starting at $1000 or a Huawei P20 Pro for €899 instead.
Not only that, but a racial discrimination lawsuit. If someone can prove that one of the protected classes is getting worse service, it might make for a nice class-action. I’d love to see Zeta Global (among others) lose a few million for perpetrating this nonsense.
Also, Southwest's no-questions-asked-no-limits policy on cancelling and rebooking tickets makes them my favorite. They recently put a limit of one year on the rebooked ticket, however. You can do this right up until boarding has already begun and there are no penalties. Nobody else does this.

They're polite, they're generally well run, seats are reasonable, maintenance seems to be good, they have good routes, cheap tickets, good baggage policy, and don't fee you to death. On top of that, they have responsive customer service on the phone, or via DM Twitter, which is way better than sitting on the phone!

Whatever they're doing is the right way and all other airlines should just copy them.
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If you are ordering the production of 1,000 shirts hoping that design will sell, you are guilty of #1.

If you are just designing it, putting on a website and will only actually manufacture the shirts you sell, then the solution to #1 is already built in your business model (assuming you are not spending 6 months of coding with your ecommerce website).
>I'm pretty convinced this all boils down to a sort of low-grade white collar corruption: people who travel a lot for business sometimes can get away with favoring one airline over another,

I suppose it depends on the business but at my Fortune 50 we're required to use "lowest logical airfare". You can force a choice of Southwest over United by choosing one airport over another, and there's enough wiggle room to let you fly at your preferred times but overall it's designed to prevent gaming and escalates things for review if you try.

But unless you're a highly placed executive no one travels on the company dime often enough to bother with air miles anyway; airlines require far too much travel for even the bottom-most loyalty tier.
Apple Raises Prices, and Profits Keep Booming
That's ridiculous though.
You can't prove that I, having looked at some super-secret "purge list" and proceeded to not hire you, did it because of the "purge list"?

I'll just say you weren't a good fit for the "company culture" and that'll be that.
So.. if there's a profitable business here, why isn't google running helpdesk over its consumer products? They monetise as good as the next hegemon, why not this?
Awesome response, esp. the concrete example
I was lucky enough to fly Global Services on United through my old boss' account at my old company.

Flew internationally a couple of times and the level of attention was insane.

Get to airport and they walk you to the lounge, past security, and then come grab you when you're ready to pre-board (before everyone including military).

My connecting flight was delayed by 20 minutes, cutting down my connection time to 50 minutes. No problem, concierge called me and let me know they had proactively booked me on the next available flight just in case.

I would always buy economy seats and there wasn't a single time I wasn't upgraded to first.

Whole experience was insane, wish I could qualify for GS ever in my life.
I have a lot of respect for Alan Kay, but know what you mean. Either I'm too dumb to understand much of what he's trying to convey due to historical and technical ignorance or lack of intelligence, his communication skills leave room to be desired, his talks are just hot air (I don't believe this), or human language isn't the best medium for conveying his impressive and large scale ideas.

I've seen people ask him great questions (or at least I thought they were) and they only got a riddle in reply. That's only acceptable if you're a dragon or a hobbit in my opinion.

Instead, I'd like to see a short an concise summary of his ideas of where we are, what we're doing wrong, where we could improve...etc.

It would certainly be interesting to see a future where hardware is built to run a Smalltalk os natively and you have full control all the way down, but he would probably say that I'm missing the point.
There is a quite large company named Orange :-)
Animation of 2015 Explosion at ExxonMobile Refinery [video]
I'm sure you can set whatever standard or lack thereof you'd like.
They're eventually going to price themselves out of the market. It's just a matter of when.
Let's be careful here. In 1984, AT&T was a monopoly and was forced to break up its local operations into seven regional companies (the "Baby Bells"). Guess what? Over time, the seven slowly merged back together, with one -- Southwestern Bell -- eventually subsuming all the rest. Southwestern Bell then bought what was left of AT&T corporate and renamed itself "AT&T" and here we are again.

It would be a shame to break up the tech giants only to allow them to slowly merge back together again.
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I'm not going to lie, I'm not proud of my IAP total. I am perfectly fine with purchasing level packs in games or full unlocks in apps but about half of that IAP was shit like gems/coins/etc that I spent on various games before I got that under control. As for iOS apps I have a couple of $20-$30 apps that really ratcheted up the total but I test out a lot of apps/games and while that number is large we are talking about ~$100/yr on apps which I am personally OK with.

If you would like I could get more specific on which apps/games.
Thanks for the link!

I recommend that anybody who is interested in this read section 9 in this paper: "NOTIFICATIONS AT FACEBOOK". It brings into focus real ways that this technology is used and is useful.
Hi - I couldn't find a way to contact you and was unable to reply in situ for some reason. Could you please say more about why you felt I had gratuitously editorialised the title to my latest submission? ( https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=isomorph )

I have checked the definition of the word "editorialise: To present an opinion in the guise of an objective report." - I did not express any opinion in the title - I simply added context for those who don't know about the so-called "contaminated blood scandal" in the UK. Namely the three-letter detail I added was "HIV" i.e. that the UK's government-run National Health Service infected patients as young as 8 years old with HIV.

This change was not gratuitous as it added essential context to the story.

I have checked the Hacker News guidelines and since the article dispels myths people have about health systems, I felt it was pertinent.
> You could do it by watching film of interactions with border agents when it is still unknown whether or not the person was lying, and then use whether or not they were caught smuggling (or whatever) ex-post as your ground truth.

You're going to need a lot of film.
Good luck picking the controls for that that ensure your ML system picks up on subtle differences in humans that are lying and not glaringly obvious differences in appearance, accent and even background noise between the footage of the convicts and the control group...
I'm not seeing any reference or source for these claims in the article. Did I just miss it?
I gave it a quick try.

The == at the end looked like base64 so:

Decoding "QzBERTgyNDYKCjYzNkY2NDY1M0EzMzM1MzYzNDJDMjA3Mzc1NjI2RDY5NzQy" gives us:

"C0DE8246

636F64653A333536342C207375626D69742"

Bunch of numbers with some letters up to F? Should be hex:

"code:3564, submit"

The final piece can be decoded using the same process to "submit-code".

Middle piece can be decoded to hex: "0746F3A2068747470733A2F2F7873746563682E65752F" but I didn't get past this because this hex gives me a binary that I could not make sense of.

Better luck to the next :P
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You're giving up a 5%+ (minimum) return on your money spent by declining to participate. For me the return is closer to 20–30%. Declining to participate has a non-trivial opportunity cost.
And if you have to give it up at airport security because you forgot it was in your pocket, oh well, $15 will set you up with a new one.
I'm reading Hillel's book right now and have just finished Chapter 2 (Intro to PlusCal). I really like it. I've had some failed starts in the past with TLA+. A few observations on the book:

a. The language is clear. I feel like making progress at a fairly regular pace. The examples so far could be replicated without any issues. I have both my Kindle and cloud reader open when I read. The screenshots are better in the cloud reader.

b. I believe it was a great decision to use PlusCal instead of TLA+ itself. One of the issues coming up to speed in the past was grappling with TLA+. PlusCal just makes it easier.

c. I hope that I can actually improve the quality of my C++ programs. I'm currently working on some infrastructure software for embedded systems and have implemented a Hierarchical State Machine "framework" in C++ (https://github.com/tinverse/tsm). My goal is to add a pub/sub mechanism and create a HSM that can be distributed over a network. Reviews welcome. Since I just came across this book, going forward, I'll be attempting to develop my specs in PlusCal before actually writing code!

d. I think other (to be written) promising books/blogs in this category would be something in the flavor of "Specs to Code" for common design issues. With its focus on concurrency and distributed systems, that implementation language could very well be Rust. Any pointers on porting C++ code to Rust? I'm trying to port above mentioned C++ code to Rust. Respond directly if you can. I don't want to turn this into a discussion on Rust.
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> This put him inside the feature-length film, titled AIKA, in ways so subtle and disquieting that it’s prompted Abosch to consider therapy.

This is a really poor quality PR piece.
iMessage is the greatest long con that isn't a con of all time. You don't know how great it is until you talk to someone that isn't on iMessage or you lose access to it. It just slowly sneaks into your life until you think it just IS text messaging. Never bought into iMessage "apps" or sticker packs but I love things like typing indicators/read receipts/etc.
Look at the murder rate in the Wild West. It was many times higher than it is today. With much less lethal guns.
Contaminated blood scandal in the United Kingdom
I distinctly remember reading "and we'll never use this number for other purposes than security".

Everybody (including HN) was pushing for 2FA. People followed.
> Jupyter could be viewed as a modern reminiscence of Lisp Machine UI

maybe some part of it, but the Lisp Machine UI has a full window system, many different applications based on it with different UIs (font editor, file system browser, process overview, chat program, terminal, Zmacs editor, debugger, documentation browser, documentation editor, drawing program, ...)
I can draw and fire from my hip (and pocket) and hit center mass at 8 feet in two seconds. I also train to look like I'm cowering and reaching for my wallet in my back hip pocket.

As to the topic of crime, cities with high gun ownership tend to have lower crime. The US, for example, has far fewer hot home robberies, where hot means robbing while people are in the home. The UK has a higher percentage. The difference comes down to the risk of the homeowner fighting back.
But getting those base metals up into space is astronomically expensive on the other hand.
The interesting thing here is that Vault and Terraform Enterprise will probably be the ones for making money where the rest is their form of advertisement.

It's just that only Vault is ready and Terraform Enterprise is taking way too long, IMHO dangerously long as some it might already be too late to actually sell it.
How AI assistants will impact businesses and consumers
You know, I'm quickly reaching a point where I want the default browser to work in Incognito mode, and the browser should only switch to regular mode when I explicitly whitelist the domain.
Always been native instruments in my area. especially simple when commenting on a link from the native instruments website
Show HN: Best way to digest Book- and Video- learnings for entrepreneurs
Not even sarcastically true. That's why I'd get an Apple, to get some polish. Apple is far from perfect, but the rest is so far behind..
Any Chance of visa sponsor/work permits for foreign candidates?
New data shows China has “taken the gloves off” in hacking attacks on US
I built a tool to fix my own issue. I like reading a lot of startup / leadership / improvement books (and watch youtube videos and hear podcasts on those topics as well).

I really enjoy doing that, but to learn something out of these books I have to take notes on some key elements. Every time I review my notes I feel amazed (because I remember again those learnings) -- but at the same time I feel sad because I forgot those in the first place. I would need to review those notes much more often.

That's what I do now with "Founder Notes Tab" and make publicly available for everyone. It's still very much MVP but I would love your thoughts on this.

I created a chrome extension that shows a short "random" book note on books that are potentially very inspiring for every entrepreneur (or those who want to aspire being one). Also, it links to the book incase someone wants to know more about the book in general.

-> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/founder-notes-tab/...

I will add much more notes in the next days. But I also will add video notes (and linking the youtube videos) and podcast episodes.

It would be amazing if you can share your thoughts on this. Is this interesting for you? Do you have the same issue I described in the beginning?
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He said they are illegal to carry in public.
Although I agree with the ideal behavior you mentioned, your comment about "every company with a security team" is not true. Google does this with their firebase product using a combination of long and short-lived tokens.

I simply offered a reasonable solution to revoke JWT tokens. Would I use them in a project? Probably not. Even so, if an attacker has compromised someone's session, it's probably too late.
You make the big assumption that such "mental illness" lies in a fault in the brain. Have rates of mental illness remained the same in all categories in the last 500 years?

When we don't know something, we ought not to operate as if we believe conclusions made on the basis of what we have not confirmed.