skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A waiter literally works for you during the meal you tip for.

No, they work for the restaurant. Their job is to relay orders from me to the kitchen and bar.
What does it actually mean to say that all the universe is love, and that everything has love in it? Is this more a way in which he is choosing to view things, or an actual statement of fact?
Look, these days people don't want advice from actual experts, because it might be laden with ambiguity and qualification, or require them to do actual work. What they want is a strong, unambiguous promise of a cure, preferably from someone young, beautiful, and slightly anti-establishment. They want the advice doctors won't tell you!
There is a difference.

Apple is selling their products in the top market segment, where consumers are usually consider an image, associated with the vendor and the products, as a big part of what they pay premium for. This works in many ways, an image of ethical vendor - in so many ways, from labour conditions for its' workers to support for Greenpeace and the attitude toward selling the customer's data - and an image of themselves, using the premium products, therefore being successful people, and all that. This model needs passionate consumers who support Apple and its products.

Google is not targeting the top market segment only. People buy Android smartphones and use Google services because it works well for them, and they do not want to pay the premium for an image, and basically do not care about an image associated with the vendor. This model does not need passionate consumers who support Google and its products.
It would be useful if it grouped repositories or had a method of collapsing results. My search returned the same repo for each result. Not sure if it was a function of there only being one repository using my term (doubt it, I used "GCD") or what.
As nobody answered with a technical aspect, I would recommend you to watch the tendencies: what are the fields with the higher salaries?

For the US, for example, it seems that mastering AI/ML is one of the ways to go.

This might depend on your country. In mine (France), it seems that being good technical dev with pure-python and full stack skills with a touch of project conception/management skills.

Our startups have a lot of trouble in finding developers and we don't need that much of one particular special skills (which might be true for big companies, but the salaries there are not that high when you start and it takes years to obtain one).
He also ‘railroad others and use people as stepping stones to your way to the top‘ so that’s not a counter argument.
not necessarily. Asymmetric warfare works as current geopolitical events show. leaking, doxxing etc are all methods that could (and probably will be) utilized if they don't listen to the good guys within their company.
Completely agree. But if you read something like this, you notice there will be a failure...

> but all the stories of success from Techcrunch, the accelerator Y Combinator, and the Facebook movie combined and fed in to my fantasies that somehow through sheer will and my own brain power I could achieve similar success

Maybe just me, but getting inspired by Mark its the first mistake you could do.
The tech came a long way after meeting them... its now a web app driven by JS that plays, pauses, forwards, rewinds audio in sync as seen in this 2014 video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ9itwp_wYc&index=20&list=UU...

We revived it after seeing Google's April 2018 patent & are excited about finally getting it out to the public.
Worth noting that the dystopian part of State of the Art is the Culture's view of Earth!

One detail from the story that I love is the ship Mind's hobby of collecting individual snowflakes from the worlds it visits with a desire to find two identical snowflakes....
well there is https://github.com/AppScale/appscale which probably has some kind of layer on top of cassandra that will emulate it.

but it's a really big project... (But you can run just the Datastore: https://github.com/AppScale/appscale/tree/master/AppDB)
Though most ad-blocker extentions whitelist stuff like fonts.googleapis.com, jquery, tagmanager, ajax. They treat it like non-issue calls. Sadly leaks via Referer are under radar by most.
There's a limit on the amount of subway lines you can squeeze under a city.
Nobody is going to run a parallel lines.

The most a government can do is figure out beforehand which private company would build and run those cheapest for a certain line, but then you end up with the cheapest solution again, which is not the solution you actually want for infrastructure your economy depends upon.

Also, as the parent pointed out, Japan is a good example for why private companies by themselves aren't enough to run infrastructure like that, since you still need it even
if they are unprofitable. And so they need government subsidies. You end up with a company
paid for by the tax payer - as if it was nationalized - but with much less control by the government. Basically a money sink that isn't accountable to the tax payer. We have that in Berlin after the public transport was privatized. Can't recommend.
"War is the continuation of politics by other means" -- Clausewitz
1. use google.ca as default search engine

2. disable cookie & javascript for *.google.ca

3. disable all google ads & analytics domains.
No, Google would be among a handful of companies to do so. Very few companies in the US have meaningful access control to the workplace, and a tiny portion of them request visitors sign an agreement like the one described at the beginning of this thread. It seems like a power play by Google, akin to how Amazon requests drivers licenses when visiting.
publishers don’t like micropayments because (a) they don’t work, and (b) what people read doesn’t correlate with what’s important.

It becomes a lot harder for journalists to justify spending months on a subject when the business side has hard data showing it brings in barely more than reprinting the soccer scores.

What’s potentially workable is a Spotify-style subscription model.
> when I learned English, "they" wasn't singular

Did you learn English before 14th century? Because that's when it emerged.
Is this really the case? I know that Milton Friedman promoted this idea, but can pursuing some welfare at the cost of short-term profits be an offence?
I don't like the paper and think it's horribly crude.

But Perspectives on Politics is a good journal.
The fact that Stylish managed to remain—and be featured, even—on both the Mozilla and Chrome catalogs for close to two years as it tracked user's browsing history says to me that there must be certain level of trust for pre-reviewed addons.
Also makes me wonder if many stock option schemes make sense at all, if employees think they are worth zero.
Blockchain for International Development: Using a Learning Agenda
The author wrote "If you are considering Markdown, I hope that you also look at Asciidoctor and Sphinx. I find them to be much better toolsets for writing documentation."

These meet all of your points except that people can't transfer their previous Markdown experience for them.

FWIW, my documentation is in Sphinx.
I can easily imagine that there's an identity for me at Google which is linked to all the IP I had ever used (meaning country and ISP at the least), and linked to every google account I ever used and browser ever used (meaning what devices I've been using) and then every page I've visited which has Google ads or analytics (meaning what site I visit) and every keyword I used to search the web (easy to guess what kind of life I'm having) and then every location I've ever searched on their map (meaning they know where I go and perhaps roughly where I live).

They know more about your online history than yourself they can write a diary for you but if you feel comfortable with that, then you don't need to do anything.

Changing IP, clearing cookie and changing browser may divide your ID but as soon as you log in with your Google account or they realize you may be having identical online activities, you can easily get linked again.

And as soon as you buy something on your Google account, be it physical item or an in app purchase, they know your real identity along with all of the above and then with more profiling, you will be linked with other people by family name, location you often visit and recognized by any other profiling I can't think of now.
Installing Hperledger Composer Playground
New Satellites Will Hunt Pirates, and Maybe Terrorists
Really liquid stock options are likely the only reason why one should value said options above $0 and (potentially) take a lower salary. It seems to be beneficial to be able to sell your options to an established investor.
> meat-and-potatoes buddhism

an ironic and somewhat unclear turn of phrase
It appears that Mozilla removed all classic extensions from Firefox Add-ons
Sounds kind of "old" tech to have different layers for supporting different data models. Like the native multi-model approach of ArangoDB much better.

Their aggregation framework is pretty neat and the database also has full graph capabilities. Heck, I can even combine joins and graph traversal in the same query.
In addition to what others have said, Reddit abandoned the idea of skimming affiliates shortly after announcing the plan. They have certainly not made millions.
> True, but I didn't see that she identified herself, or her gender, in the article. So what's a commenter to do?

Simple.

1. Assume an ostensibly correct pronoun of your own choice (like you did)

2. If someone corrects you, optionally acknowledge the correction and apologize if applicable, then use the correct pronoun henceforth

3. Ignore the overly gender-obsessed people who tell you that you should have used ugly or cumbersome constructs such as "they" or, even worse, "s/he" and variants thereof.

4. Don't worry too much about it; everybody can make an honest mistake.
Well, since the population of SF (like Manhattan, Tokyo, Paris) hasn't been growing much over 1%/yr for the past 30 years, I'm comfortable with history.

You can have enormous growth in established centers (not bombed out) if you don't have property rights. See Beijing or Shanghai. I've seen 30-50x 30 story apartment blocks go up in a year. I don't mean 1 block like that. I mean 5 or 6 just looking around. Each one has it's own school, fire, policestation, and is designed for a subway stop and a mall underneath. It's amazing what a centrally planned economy can do!
ICS like this is well already well developed for dealing with cyber incidents, e.g. malware incursion or data exfiltration. A really well thought through example is the NIST cyber security framework [0], which defines a cyber defensive lifecycle (identify, protect, detect, respond and recover). At least in the UK, this lifecycle has been adopted by Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) organisations such as electricity generation, transmission and distribution.

The key to successful incident response is to design, agree and test the ICS processes, roles and Command and Control (C2) hierarchies before incidents occur, capturing the results in an Incident Response Plan. The IRP will typically involve standing up an incident response team when an incident reaches a pre-defined severity level. Incident response teams are often structured into bronze, silver and gold levels of command (gold typically including Cxx individuals such as CIO and CFO, not just DevOps roles) that temporarily replace Business as Usual (BAU) management with incident C2. In the UK at least, the bronze/silver/gold hierarchy was developed by the ‘blue-light’ services (police, fire and ambulance), and is itself a simplified version of military C2 chains of command.

If management don't buy into this
type of approach, it doesn't node well for an organisation's ability to deal with a crisis.

[0] https://www.nist.gov/cyberframework
Thing is, if a CEO doesn't pursue profit and shareholder dividends above all else, they probably won't last long until the investors and board members vote them out.
Ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch charged with fraud in the US
True, but it has no bearing on what this person was taught when they learned English. It's entirely plausible that some English teachers, influenced by the criticism that arose in the 19th Century, teach that singular they is to be avoided.
But unlike regular worthless stock, an offer of cryptotokens in lieu of shares signals that one of the following is true:

a) Somebody high up at the company is drinking the cryptocurrency/blockchain kool-aid.

b) The higher ups at the company are gullible enough that somebody was able to sell them this Neufund thing.

Like the parent comment, I would consider it a strong disincentive to accepting an offer.
I'd redefine it as a "mega-website/tracker container", to limit the scope of those sites that get seemingly everywhere. That would include the social networks but also the likes of google and maybe amazon.
They usually are worth zero, but they also cost the company zero, right?
I've tried this tool and had to remove it after a few weeks as the continuity breaks when clicking links on google results.

Its just too annoying having to re-google something you search for after clicking the first result and losing your history.
I believe this is the idea behind the Brave browser and their Basic Attention Token https://basicattentiontoken.org
Fluentu.com has all the graded material you will ever need in French in terms of video input. Duolingo isn’t actually that good. I suggest cloze deletion in Anki, not vocabulary decks. Read the Little Prince in English, make a cloze deletion deck of the French original and listen to the French audiobook. Find a teacher or language partner on italki or languageexchange.com or something. Read Tintin or Asterix in French. Go.

Don’t learn from vocabulary decks after the first 1000 words. Use cloze deletion to learn it in context. This helps so much with grammar.

Honestly I just wish baselang.com wasn’t exclusively in Spanish. It’s a screamingly good deal if you actually use it, $200 a month for one on one professional language teachers, up to four hours a day per person and a good curriculum.
There's a subtle-but-sneaky way to play this game.

Put in a patent application. Abandon it.

Congratulations, your patent is now going to come up in any competent patent examiner's initial search as "potential prior art".

Patent the core technology (the "you have to do it this way" stuff), but salt the earth around it so nobody can get a patent on the sub-optimal alternatives.

Also leave subtle but important details out of the application. Your conductive ink is silver but has to have, say, palladium added to make it stable? Forget to mention the palladium, and expand the claims to cover mixtures of different metals. See if the examiner allows it.
FSFE+-+O+que+é+o+Projeto-GNU?
You can do the same with Ember.js also. There is a free detailed tutorial for absolute begginers. You build a full featured web app. It is so much fun: https://yoember.com
We recently had to abandon Lambdas, 10+ second cold start, and for some reason when adding an API Gateway you get another +200ms on each request (Google it, common issue apparently).

So, 10+ seconds cold start, and 200 + 200-300ms (around 500-600ms avg) calls to the Lambda function. Complete garbage for our application at least (I imagine using it for background processing might not be an issue with latency).

Switched over to EC2, less than 200ms response total, no cold starts.
I see your frustration but whataboutism isn't very helpful. you can only target them one at a time as they do ethically questionable shit. I do feel the same outrage though when reading the article and realizing it doesn't also mention all other shitty ad/data driven companies or the trend among start-ups not to question ethics ...

IMO the best we can do is not just to go after companies but really drop the individual responsible managers/engineers names (as this article does, and as stories on FB have done wrt Sheryl Sandberg).
You can try flightics.com
Ionic Studio – 1click native run as an iOS/Android app
It's not their work for starters.
You skipped over the interesting bit: "they just give you a badge that said you didn't sign".
Thank God, I don't have to deal with different people constantly giving me random sheets of paper I have to use and hold onto for 6 months at a time.
The thing is, I don't have hard numbers for this, but from what I know (and it makes sense, given my personal experience with people and desktop OSs, car brands, clothing brands, etc.), regular people don't switch that much between mobile platforms.

I'm pretty sure Android is growing faster than iOS, worldwide. And most of the users that get entry level or mid range level Android phones won't "upgrade" to iOS, they will just get better Android phones, since they already know the system.

Barring some super successful entry level iOS device [1] being introduced by Apple, which is unlikely, Android's market share will only go up. Apple will still be super profitable, though.

[1] And that won't happen, as Linus from Linus Tech Tips put it: Apple is jewelry and people don't buy cheap jewelry :)
I think you are missing the overall picture. Instead of the list of apps, focus on the elements of language learning in general.

Eg. if you need to be able to communicate with other people in foreign language, the only way to learn such skill is to actually speak with people using the target language. There is no AI good enough to learn you this. You can try to meet some people speaking the language, pay for the teacher, or if there are no such people in your local area, using videoconferencing over the internet. When you figure which case applies to you, then you can try to look for an app to help you with that (eg. https://www.meetup.com/find/language/ for finding local groups or https://www.italki.com/home for finding a language teacher over internet).

It's also important to understand that there is no silver bulet, and many different approaches exists and nobody will tell you what is right exactly for you. That said, you should be trying to focus on list of approaches which are proven to work, and try to figure out which you will use. You can do that by searching for the description of language learning process from people who learned few languages already.
Containers are a feature built into Firefox. There are extensions that let you use them more generally with any given website. It's also quite useful to log into websites with multiple accounts at the same time.

However, to prevent tracking I mostly use CookieAutoDelete [0] which only stores Cookies for sites that I have whitelisted after the tab is closed. It's really just a handful of sites I visit frequently and don't want to log in every time. Cookies aren't required for anything else.

Also, not having a Google account comes in handy to prevent tracking by Google. My default search engine is DuckDuckGo.

0: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelet...
You are redefining investing. It is investing when you are deliberately holding on to something with an expectation of higher returns in future. You are implying that ancestors of these landlords knew business will suddenly bump up in late 90s.

It's sheer luck,government complacency and nothing else. If you want to call it investing, fine with me.

> Also a lot of middle class can and does invest.

Yes the little they can save gets invested in already inflated properties or gold. Average middle class would not like to venture our into investing in unknown because they do not have the will to lose the little they have saved.

> It's the people with inability to defer instant gratification or just lazy are the ones at peril here.

You think having a car, living close to school and work in good neighborhood is instant gratification. I have lived in shady neighborhoods with narrow dusty street without any trees and boy it's not fun at all. If you think moving out of those places is called instant gratification then it's hard to argue.
The only way to fight corruption, is to mercilessly reduce power of elected officials, or the officials appointed by elected officials. Via the vote.

There is simply no other way.

A hope for a powerful yet fair political elite without a term limit -- is analogous to believing that earth is flat.

These leaches will tell their voters, how they will 'fix things', and how the 'needy will be served', and how the unfair will be made fair, etc.

As long as they get the checkbook, the law enforcement and the media 'covering' for them.

There is little difference between the modern day enabled 'Progressive' politician, and the old day racketeering Mafiosi.

Both wanted to control their 'sphere of influence' by very similar methods. And both want their 'subjects' to be as powerless as possible (in both legal, and self-defense senses)

Both use a form of assassination to scare the opponents (mafia chose physical, and the progressive politicians go for the economic & character assassination first ).
I really enjoyed the famous Andrew Ng's machine learning course on Coursera. That was my first exposure to MOOC and I was amazed that such great content was available for free.
Why not? It’s simple enough.
The one thing that I noticed immediately is that it sends all visitors' data to Google by means of embedding a Google Calendar. I'd like it more if the "Upcoming Events" panel listed the N upcoming events with a link to the Google Calendar, so that users can decide whether to send data to Google servers.
Amazing. Search is super fast.

How do you think about Elm? I want to do more work with it too, play with it on some toy projects and love it so far.
I think the argument was that he did precisely that. Yet history paints him as a great inventor (he was, and filed a lot of patents), and most people likely think of him as a "good/nice guy" which he may or may not have been.
The worst bit here is that they aren't explaining exactly which part of the ToS is being violated, and what needs to be done to fix it...
Something you're interested in that's completely unrelated to programming. Let's be honest, you're almost certainly not going to become a top 1% developer with just 5 years of experience. However you could easily become one of the best programmers who's also an expert within a certain niche of botany for example. There will always be a niche demand for people that really understand X and can program, for almost any value of X.
> "So what's a commenter to do"

Simply don't assume? It's not hard.
Wow this is was truly an amazing piece to read. I have a few questions:

1) How did you manage to keep working even after you realised you were $85k in debt after 2 years?

2) What drove you further into investing into the business after that point? Sheer motivation?

3) How did you stay sane throughout all this?
- We flip some coins X_i~Bernoulli(p)

- We can say that p = Probability(X_i = heads)

- We have a posterior distribution for p (e.g. under Beta(1,1) prior).

- We can define a=icdf_p(0.05), b=icdf_p(0.95) under the posterior.

- (a,b) is an event in the sigma algebra (of the posterior probability space) for p whose mass is 0.9.

- (a,b) is also a central credible interval.

I don't think you'll be able to point to one of those statements above and show that it is wrong.

I think the stumbling point here is the notion of random measures. Random measures have sample spaces, sigma algebras of events, and their own distributions. Events have probabilities, as you say. This is the sense in which we can speak of probabilities (i.e. probability distributions) having probabilities (i.e. probability distributions). Because Binomials are one dimensional it's particularly easy to think about intervals.
I also recommend Meistertask[0]. You'll have to manually change it back to version 1.0 for the best experience though.

[0] https://www.meistertask.com/