skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article doesn't make you aware of the industry norms around Temps/Contractors, or reasons behind those norms. It just presents a bunch of factoids and insinuates ill intent.

Believe me, I'm not writing this because I like Google or the way IT hiring works right now. I'm writing this because I dislike bad journalism.

Many of the things the article complains about are entirely normal practices if you have contractors/temps. In fact, you can get legally punished if you don't do some of those things. The real question is why there are so many of CVTs (nearly half) at Google.
Note however that you completely misunderstand that the US definition of insider trading is not the same as that used in other countries. In particular, there is no requirement in the UK that the non-public information originate from a company insider.
If you already are a sceptic, wouldn't it be better to seek out articles convincing you that it is worth trying anyway?
Keep in mind, Charlemont has no mayor and most issues, including this one, are decided by open town meeting, which is literally direct democracy where residents show up and everyone gets one vote. No one has the ability to hire someone for an exorbitant salary without literal approval by a direct vote of all residents who show up at a meeting.

This isn't to say open town meetings are perfect. There is a definite skewing towards retired people without kids in who shows up in many towns in MA. In this case, ~160 or 1,300 residents voted, so hardly the whole town. But if you care about an issue, you have far more of a voice than you do in cities run by mayors and city councils. For instance, Boston residents literally had no voice in the city's negotiations with Verizon about FiOS and didn't even hear about it until they jointly announced their deal.
There are people working around the clock to determine this information, and there's no indication that they couldn't just peg you as "open-minded" and start selling products associated with that.
I'm sure that those gifts are reported as income to same regularity that tips are in restaurants
Maybe this is close to your idea: https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
I wonder if it makes sense for ad platforms to enable a "clear history" option just like our browsers do? That way you can say very clearly "the current model is wrong, please restart and try building a new one for me". That might also help this particular case: rebuild the model from scratch including only content going forward rather than backward. Should eliminate the baby ads effectively, right?
Latest Windows Insider build makes a major upgrade to Notepad
> That way we once again can have competition like during the time DSL was popular

DSL competition never happened in the area under question. Covad (a CLEC) deployed gear in Springfield, but Westfield (40k people) was only ever served by Verizon.
The idea is that you sell stock you don't have, buying them back later, hopefully at a lower price in order to make profit.

The tricky part, at least for me, is how it works in practice. You can't own a negative number of stocks, it means that what you are selling doesn't come from nowhere, and because it is finance, the people who make the short possible have to work for personal gain.

The key here is that there are 3 actors:

A a buyer. Nothing special about him: he buys the stock, and sell it at a later date. He expects the value to go up and make a profit by selling at a higher price.

B is a shorter, he borrows stock (with interest) and sell them to A and buy them back at a later date to repay his debt. If the price went down he will buy back for cheaper than he initially payed, making a profit.

C is a lender, he owns stock and lends them to B. He makes profit on interest rates.

So the stocks go C -> B -> A -> B -> C and it all cancels out in the end. As for cash, C always wins, just like the house in a poker game, while the evolution of the stock determines how money changes hand between A and B.

In reality there are more than 3 actors, and there are mechanisms in place to limit the risk of bankruptcy, but that's the general idea.
Isn't this basically a newsfeed?
The Nero Wolfe novels by Rex Stout fit the bill. Archie is one of my favorite characters, and I don't think any author writes dialog as well as Stout.

Just don't start with "Before I Die," it's a stinker.
Its an Ad platform not a member of this person's inner circle. Just shut the damn ads off for anything having to do with babies. At the end of the day, you are creating a mechanism to connect a person with a company so they can buy products. If something would be inappropriate for a salesperson to say to a person, then make damn sure your Ad network doesn't say that. It would be wholly inappropriate for a salesperson to suggest a hotline. Just stop. The Ad network is business, this just got deeply personal.
True that upvotes!=correctness. But the idea of karma and incentivizing those with higher karma with more privileges on HN basically means Upvotes=correctness for purposes of being heard on and being able to mould HN.

For all practical purposes on HN, a politically left leaning viewpoint is more likely to incentivize the op, and turn HN more left in a vicious cycle of Upvotes/Downvotes
FiOS... Multiple times .... meanwhile, in Silicon Valley... sigh
I think you're misunderstanding their theory of why it would be bad?

In the example where a hedge fund buys information from Best Buy about how many Panasonic TVs they sell, Best Buy may have a duty to Panasonic, and thus are an insider in that context, so if the hedge fund buys that data from Best Buy, they could potentially be trading on insider information.

It's not because they own the stock.
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Such a simple site should work without. It's basically a list of links.
Right! But I will not click on those ads because I am not part of that demographic. The whole point of doing this is to shift you to a demographic where the ads become irrelevant and you aren't tempted to click them.
In 1991 the Germans distributed the Stasi Archives to appropriate countries. In Scandinavian countries the information was immediately either destroyed or hidden in the archives of the secret police. The rumor is that almost every member of the ruling leftist or social-democrat parties were connected with Stasi.
Is it crying wolf? Treating people as lesser so that you can make more money is generally considered ethically bad, even if its legally ok. The fact that fortune 500 companies, who are already not acting ethically or morally, engage in this activity does not mean that its incorrect for people to want to stop it
I'm not saying "don't advertise at all", but rather "advertise something very different". Does that matter, though? Maybe not.
I could be wrong, but 750m seems to me to be not very far when traveling 17 knots.
> if a retailer can use my location data to predict demand, they can optimize their logistics and save fuel.

Do you think those cost-savings will be passed down onto you?
Hazardous Cravings
Hi please see the design doc for more inspiration as to why we built it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11tjK_lvp1-SVsFZjgOTr1vV3...

We're soon coming out with a blog post explaining the motivations and architecture in detail. But yes, the pricing is one of the motivations to build this, and as logs will be stored in S3 or an object store, the cost will several orders of magnitudes less.
Parent said it's easier for your voice to be heard, and you responded with they either haven't lived in a small town or yours are different. So are you saying, implied from what you chose to quote, your experience is that it is not easier for your voice to be heard? My experience is the exact opposite.
A new neural network design could overcome challenges in AI
Target got in hot water in 2012 when a guy found out his 17 year old daughter was pregnant because of a customized ad sent to their home.

In the articles at the time, they mentioned your whole life gets turned upside down when you have a kid. It's an event that changes your routines, and all retailers would love to become the new convenient store you routinely go to. Huge value for them.

www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/
Those prices are way too high for what you are getting. Looks like they are taking standard shipping containers, cutting out some walls and then covering the steel with better-looking materials.
Samsung to shut Tianjin mobile phone factory as its Chinese market share slumps
Thank you for your recommendation! I was looking for something interesting to read.
I don't really see the difference between Banksy having himself plastered all over the media for shredding his artwork versus Colgate telling me to buy their toothpaste. Banksy understands and uses advertising better than anyone.
Here's a profile of a NYTer who loves her treadmill desk: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/04/technology/personaltech/t...
If you like depth of character in your 30s detective fiction I warmly endorse this recommendation.

If you're only going to try one then "The Nine Tailors" is arguably her finest work.
You know things are broken when after you buy things you begin to get ads for the very thing you just bought. Now, you could forgive one ad network not knowing, but when you get served up ads by the people who know (have a record of the transaction) you bought something, you know something’s not working the way it should, optimally.
Yes, but I think that this is too shallow. You have to do deep dives (as if you were actually interested in the product/service) for it to really work. Like the OP said, you have to go to review sites, watch youtube videos, etc.
Better reusable react components with the Overrides pattern
If you code does intresive computation with structures containing a lot of pointers, you’ll get much more cache miss when using 64 but pointers.

The performance hit can be quite heavy!

Cache is a limited resource, and you want as many pointers as possible to fit there.
Arguably ICOs were a use case that was popular at least for a while.

Saying it doesn't have any real uses sounds like the IBM guy who estimated the demand for computers to be about two or three globally.
And I'm also confident Comcast business model is to rip you off, everybody hates them because of their practices and their history. This is a step forward. Yes, lots of things can go wrong but we break off the big leech off our backs, we can work on it together rather than empower the big companies to do it for us.
That said, my two-year old loves the yellow Cyberduck icon on my desktop Mac, and asks me to make it bounce (i.e. launch it from the Dock) whenever he sees it...
Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)

Last year:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10-2017_Top_10
How bees make honey
Tencent Music prices US IPO at lower end of expectations
This is incredibly true. At Torch we are constantly building feedback loops into leadership process. It works because even hard feedback comes with genuine respect and care for the other person. Without care, it's like two Vulcan's giving each other feedback, and that starts to look more like criticism...which in fact is one of the most toxic qualities in a company culture.
Note that that only shows repos which are majority Rust, https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/garnet for example, is 12% Rust according to GitHub.
Yes, I am aware of their contribution since I follow the Rust development news. Thank you for the information anyway!
It generally does work, unless they're psychopaths. Who would turn down a reasonable request to focus on work? You could also offer up another time to continue the conversation.
If you own a domain you have no intent to use, which someone else may conceivably want, you're squatting.
When does this come crashing down, and what gets dragged down with it?
And note definitions of insider:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/insider.asp

Insider is a term describing a director or senior officer of a company, as well as any person or entity that beneficially owns more than 10% of a company's voting shares. For purposes of insider trading, the definition is expanded to include anyone who trades a company's shares based on material nonpublic knowledge. Insiders have to comply with strict disclosure requirements with regard to the sale or purchase of the shares of their company.

Note the strategic placement of "anyone"
How do we know Duck didn't pay for it?
Sounds cool, can we see a photo of it?
No discussion is a big negative for me
New record: Superconductivity at Canadian winter temperatures (250 K)
Because I don't have better things to do than playing whack-a-mole with some stupid advertisement algorithm.

I have simpler option: don't use social media, use DDG, uBlock and pay for products you use.
I found the three body problems' representation of a computer with 30 million soldiers really stupid. I didn't read the book because of people raving about how clever that concept of the human computer is.

http://linusrosskamp.com/articles/2017-08/three-body-problem...

Guess what.

You can achieve the same power of computation with 1 person, a pen, a paper and our standard number symbols 0-9.

Do people not realize why we use gates and binary logic in electrical computer systems?
> ...I won't have to type in the full DuckDuckGo.com domain.

You can also use ddg.gg.
I'm not sure if it's worthwhile to pursue, but the doorking model I have at home has an ethernet port, if your facilities permit, you could connect over that instead of over the modem. (I don't know how terrible their IP stack is though; I don't have enough pairs going to the device)

Also: they're kind of overpriced in my opinion, but you can still buy USB based hardware modems, which would allow you to move this to a newer computer if needed, without having to worry about modem drivers.
Facebook in particular can easily fix this. Just use their friends to get the information.
On rereading, that sounds right.
why not r/fitness. These kind of crowd sourced websites require a lot of people to use it. last i checked r/fitness has millions of subscribers.
That'd work in this case, but would destroy lots of value when people like me would go in every few months and reset all my ad profiles. Then again, the total percentage of people who would care enough to go in and do that is probably pretty small.
I can't access the link right now but what is the contacts/calendar story? Do they have integration with DAV servers, or their own implementation? Webmail without contacts and calendar is not really an option these days.
over a single pay period, servers are guaranteed minimum hourly wage regardless of tips. if minimum wage is less than a living wage, that's a separate issue that applies just as well to gas station cashiers.
We're definitely spoiled now. However, I feel like there's so many more things which "page" these days, and less tolerance for downtime. Did you track "4-nine" uptimes back in the day?
It looks nice. I don't mind it requiring JS, although I certainly agree a website of this kind doesn't need it similar to how HN has only a few lines of it.

I assume this is an MVP and the commenting and other HN features will come later.
Google at least let's you specifically go into ad settings and check/uncheck specific categories of things that you get ads about (that's an oversimplification of the process behind it).

I'm not sure how but one time I started getting a few ads in Spanish about toothpaste. I had also just found out about the ad settings page, and after taking the minute to remove the handful of wrong interests, the incorrectly targeted ads stopped.

Edit: Facebook allows it as well, here are the links for anyone that wants to do it now.

https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/
Nice work. Excited to see where you take it!

Related: very happy to see that https://forum.bodybuilding.com/ is still around/thriving.
I'm interested in something like a kitHaus. Anyone have any idea if this would be allowed in a city like Seattle?
Why the Australian media cannot report on a case of huge interest online
I'd prefer the systems avoided showing users upsetting ads for free, I'm just not sure how that system would work or how to prevent users from gaming it.
Apple denies iphone sales ban in china
AWS bandwidth charges are brutal, they are the secret billing item that kills products.

It can't make sense to host any kind of web anything when paying 10 cents / Gig egress charges.

If you have images at all ... nogo.

It's really odd, like they don't want your business because that's definitely one line item that always makes me keep my eye on the exit.
How many of these contractors are software engineers who do get W-2d jobs? My understanding was that the majority were non software roles like cleaning staff, physical security guards, cafeteria workers, etc. I've worked in temp agencies for that type of work and you stop getting paid when the temp agency does.

Its all hourly paid work with the contracting firm only acting as a legal shield for the hiring company to be able to add/remove what are effectively their employees, without being beholden to the political or legal ramifications of layoffs
only $3,000?

that's 2 years of income for someone living in India.

even for most people living in the UK, that's a big chunk of change
To me it seems like the best of both worlds. Local government has more limited control with their technical incompetence while private industry doesn't have the ownership leverage to run you around. I want the people I vote for to have control, but I sure as hell don't want them managing, staffing the people for, and maintaining the infrastructure. You can call it "skimming profits", but I just call it IT outsourcing and any reasonable local government should lest they all write their own software and have their own large IT departments. You didn't "already pay for" future maintenance with your past taxes.
Yup, that's what I'm arguing in favour of. I systematically disable merge commits on every repo I manage.

I suspect that if merge-commits hadnt been the default on github since forever, it wouldnt have so many proponents.
All three of these "rebuttals" can be countered by one simple fact: Jira does not allow multiple owners on a story. That misguided restriction creates much administrative headache, and is not shared by most other agile boards, such as Trello and Pivotal.

We have this truism/platitude in software that you should never blame your tools, so if a tool isn't serving you then you just aren't using it in the proper place, but there are times when a tool really just isn't built on a solid foundation for the general problem space it's designed for, and Jira is one of those.
Coding a festive puzzle game with modern front-end techniques
Incognito search from Iowa.

Top hit - duckduckgo.com
Hah, that's a good name. It means "terrifying" in Greek.
So many questions! First, given the minuscule size of these things and the inclusion of “AirBNB income” these are not homes for sale, but turnkey rental house businesses. Those income figures are in what market? Surely not Nowhereville, Montana! Then they quote AirBNB incomes and mortgages in various cities, but how do they come to a single value?

Where in the heck can you (all) 1. Legally put one of these on your property given zoning laws, 2. Fit it on your property and 3. Actually earn that kind of income?
This is a federal case, and there's no federal anti-SLAPP law.

Even in states which have anti-SLAPP laws, they target frivolous lawsuits to deter speaking out. If you really do have a case, but part of your motivation for bringing it is to deter future misconduct, that's perfectly kosher.
> If I try to install gitlab on Kubernetes I have no less than 4 ways to do it, and none of them work perfectly.

Yes. Until a couple months ago the 'official' way was a deprecated (but not yet replaced with anything not marked alpha) chart: https://gitlab.com/charts/gitlab-omnibus

FWIW, I use that to run GitLab on Kubernetes on AWS (not EKS).

Though the new 'container-native' (more separate containers for each service instead of one big omnibus container for the web app + git server + else) one is now out and 'official': https://gitlab.com/charts/gitlab-omnibus

So I hope to upgrade to that soon.
That’s going to be a interesting story given the last time they talked, they were accusing the police and Tesla of planning to “swatt” Tripp by reporting a anonymous report that Tripp was planning violence.
FDIC and the credit union equivalent, which we pay for via taxes, so yes!

Pretty much all US cities are bankrupt because of pension obligations, school districts, too. We are only in a make believe pretend world where the media refuses to report those facts, so we pretend that it isn't true, but just go look at any balance sheet and you can see pension obligations are blowing everything up.

I don't care of police go on strike, they are merely the enforcers of mostly worthless government policy, not the protectors of the public, which is just another lie told by professional liars. I'm not saying I want vigilante justice, but it would be nice if actual crimes were investigated and pursued versus what actually takes place.