skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't this, as a logical consequence, lead to Canadian technology talent "flocking" to the US due to the wage depression created by the influx of foreign workers? I mean, it's a lot easier for a Canadian to come work here, and they are paid easily twice as much as in Canada. And in the long run, isn't this kind of "native" brain drain counterproductive for Canada?
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Yes, certainly. No argument. But when the stakes are high, a little back up doesn't hurt. It is just as much an excuse for some last minute good wishes anyway.

In any case, everybody has different circumstances. Parenting is an improvisational pursuit, every kid has different needs. In my kid's case, end-of-semester sleep deprivation has more than typical impact because of hypothyroidism that requires carefully adjusted medication and really benefits from a regular sleep schedule. Engineering school? Regular sleep schedule? Pffft. So I cut some slack. Their tendency to over-sleep alarms is partly wonky body chemistry.

I recall oversleeping for a final. Luckily, it was an intro programming, you-mean-I-can't-test-out-of-this?? class. I walked in a hour late, and left a 1/2 hour early. Had that been DiffEQ or similar.... errrf.
That's a weird take to be honest. Muslim people here are very integrated, the mayor is muslim himself. I haven't heard of this kind of problem except for Luton. Which is not London.
The interesting fact is how much data they store with no apparent reason. They can perform speech to text on the fly and throw away the recording.

Machine learning? Do it with people paid to talk to Alexa.
What would be the relevancy to this news?

And could you name a few traits of this person that make him/her stand out?
Wages for white male working class in the lower quintiles has seen no growth for the past 40+ years. (More specific analysis can show negative wage growth)

https://youtu.be/BsqGITb0W4A?t=1100
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> If you think he's purely altruistic you're very naive.

You think he started Tesla and SpaceX out of greed, too? Two insanely difficult and competitive industries, that he almost threw away his entire personal fortune from Paypal getting into? Do you know anything about his history at all?
Is the bandwidth on a typical home ISP connection really viable for serving a website, and don't most ISPs forbid customers running servers on their accounts?
Wow, that's an ambitious title for such a poor article. Four paragraphs citing a UBS analysts report.

And on top of that, the author has the nerve to close the article with a disclaimer that says he wrote the article with the assistance of another person.
Good point, but OP didn't mention if this was an isolated incident (the hot summer that burns off more cap snow which will never get replenished) or a sustained thing (this used to be a 4 foot stream, but for the last 5 years it's been 100 feet wide instead). Who knows what's actually going on in this story.

I'm not saying it's anything one way or the other since this is a hyper-empirical piece of data to be working off of. Based on context I'm assuming OP meant to imply that this is a sign of rising water levels, but I was just posting some alternate theories.
> major Islamic terror attacks

just lol. They were a few crimes, nothing major, and nobody in London really cared or seemed to be affected. Please stop spreading FUD.

> I'm also quite shocked you don't notice the homeless in London

Have you been to San Francisco, Chicago or LA? There is really no comparison.
Using a reward card and taking FB quizzes are active decisions. Being surreptitiously recorded is not.
Casting Crowley as the evil crazed Satanist is basically like if people in 50 years were to watch a bunch of Marilyn Manson videos and decide he was really an evil vampire. It's part of the marketing.

On the other hand, this

> using veiled language meant to offend

is frequently the opposite of the case. Frequently, the veiled language is used to obscure the nature of some rituals which many "uninitiated" would likely find offensive. It strikes me as rather disingenuous to proactively pretend otherwise, frankly.
Notice how the community has been trying to move away from the centralized Redux though? Trying to co-locate inside single components presentation logic and the data needed to render this component? I am not saying it's necessarily a good thing, but it is... interesting.
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Kind of hard to distance yourself from Russia when Parallels phones servers located in Moscow every time it launches.
This is exactly why we are building the first 100% on-device and private-by-design open-source Voice AI at https://snips.ai (and we have cloud-matching performances: https://medium.com/snips-ai/snips-brings-cloud-level-spoken-...)

Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder

We believe that people want more natural interaction and AI at home, but that it should never be at the cost of their privacy. You never know what a company, or hackers, could do with recordings from your home.

This is why we are creating AI which can work on a Raspberry Pi 3, and works in english, french, german, japanese, spanish, italian (more coming very soon)

Take a look at our blog if you want to build your own smart assistant: https://blog.snips.ai
They may have the data, but they have no incentive to care whether or not their inferences are correct. This is a common problem with ostensibly data-driven companies.
Linked the GitHub, but here's a post about why it was worth spending a few weeks compiling this list: https://sedimental.org/awesome_python_applications.html
It's amazing what I'm hearing in this thread compared to all the gushing articles a couple years ago about how WeWork had sed "algorithms" to perfect the use of space for the modern worker.

I guess I should get used to the fact that so much journalism is just advertising.
Whole foods has pivoted from your local health foods store--at a national scale to a national superstore--at a higher quality. Grocery and especially natural groceries are turbulent. Their customers generally check enough boxes to end up in the enthusiast/early-adopter category. Even if the Amazon purchase didn't turn them off, targeting the more casual "trader joes" class makes more sense.

My personal concerns with grocery delivery and automation in general is that the automation of my boring daily tasks might not free up more leisure time, but more time to spend working.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0QEaHn4FfM&list=PLcGCKovuXY... Buildbox 2 - First Walkthrough

https://www.voxelquest.com/

http://guillaumechereau.github.io/goxel/
> everyone should have a clear expectation that connecting accounts = sharing lots of data

I think this is a common belief in Silicon Valley. It is not elsewhere. This, in a crux, is why decision-making power is being—and needs to be—removed from the former.

I agree that few are behaving in a downright evil manner. (At least according to their own compasses.) But there has been moral drift around when permission needs to be asked, how it needs to be asked, and the degree to which business leaders have a duty to safeguarding their customers’ interests. The same thing happened in the trust-busting era; it’s interesting to see it happen again.
What evidence or steps would be sufficient for you?
Can we apply this logic to Mo Zedong, so that he can be named the one of the greatest person of the 20st century?
I've just opened all my slack workspaces from an IP Geolocated in Tehran to test that hypothesis. Let's see how it unfolds.

[EDIT] to be on the safe side, I've also created a new workspace from said IP.
> With ID cards I think some of the opposition to them comes from the belief that they're the kind of thing a continental European country would do, as well as resentment against being obliged to carry something by the government.

I don't keep any ID with me. I don't see government issued ID as a means to identify me on the streets, but rather as a way of identifying myself for public and private services.

I can't really wrap my head around the fact that not all countries have ID. There must be a way to know who to tax, and who to service?
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Just a speculation;

Apple must be working something really big for years with a lot of engineers shifted to that secret project. I am seeing lots of products not getting enough attention for the last 2-3 years.

- Safari is moving really slowly and not improved a lot except security-wise.

- iPhones haven't gotten a revolutionary feature for a long time.

- MacOS did not get significantly better comparing to last 3-4 years.

- Siri looks like a paused project.

and so on..
This was back in college when we mostly paid cash.
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It's the laziest possible way. They could've looked at most frequent login IPs instead.
I've been to London twice, and compared with Vienna I felt less safe, especially when riding the Tube as opposed to the U-Bahn. Even Berlin felt chill to me in comparison.

Not that my feelings are a good indication of anything, but comparing any European city to San Francisco and Chicago will leave you with a similar conclusion regarding personal safety.
But it's perfectly rational to distrust someone who isn't trustworthy.

The only irrational part is when there's a disproportionate response, and that comes with part of the social contract - outside of existential threat, repetition and duration require an escalation of response until a behavioral correction is observed. It's a feedback system and feedback is also rational (only the form of the feedback might be questionable).
Yes. Not very well, but yes. Each person had to say a few sentences. This is fine for home use unless you run a halfway house.

Certainly not as well as the software we implemented to listen to phone calls in the background on wireless networks in the mid 90's. That was the wildfire project and was fun. We abandoned it, since our lobbyists were able to kick the hands-free laws down the road.
I find it hard to believe only 5% jobs are willing to sponsor visa considering most engineering teams are full of H1 visa holders. I think in this case it may be worth looking at the negative text as the default assumption is that the job sponsors visa transfer
Data science probably.
Costa Rica is another relevant example.
I'm not living in the US, but that's crap. It's one of the top principles of state of laws that governmental power is constrained by law which also applys to the state and its bodies hence also for the police and its officers. I think you're mixing something up.
Yes! You can take a look at what we are building at https://snips.ai (disclaimer: I'm a co-founder) for exactly this reason

We believe that people can have both cloud-grade Voice AI (look at our accuracy at https://medium.com/snips-ai/snips-brings-cloud-level-spoken-...) which is privacy-aware

Everything runs 100% on-device and is private-by-design, and we are open-sourcing the platform over time

It works in english, french, german, japanese, italian, spanish (and a lot more languages coming soon!)

Take a look at our blog, and we'd be delighted to know what you build with our platform!
It was attempts to align the borders of Germany the state with the German-speaking areas of Europe that got us into this mess, with the annexation of the Sudetenland.
I would disagree. I despise voice interfaces and despite working for one of the major tech companies that build these devices and interfaces, I use exactly zero. I do trust my employer to do it correctly based on the processes I witness every single day, but I don't own any because I don't like voice interfaces. Remote control on my phone, sure. Clicking the button to change a song, sure. But no voice, thanks.
And your SMS is logged as well as cell towers to which you connect. Is the “phone company” more secure than any other? If you really are someone in need of a tin foil hat, you should ditch the phone completely and communicate solely with dead drops and one-time pads.
And if you want to dig even deeper, the book "John Dee and the Empire of Angels: Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of the Modern World" takes this topic even further.

https://www.amazon.com/John-Dee-Empire-Angels-Enochian/dp/16...
You're assuming getting users to give you that info is easy.
Just wait until the Americans figure out that JetBrains is basically soviet technology!
Saying something is biased might be a fallacy in a debate, but not in statistics. In a complex topic, where the data is fuzzy and misrepresentation is easy to do and harder to detect, you must consider biases in your sources.

An alien can look at this "debate" and make a rational decision without even knowing what the debate is about. The world's scientists study X and overwhelmingly agree: X is going to wreak havoc on the world within a few decades. In response, the humans who make extraordinary amounts of money off of X (and won't be alive in a few decades), pay large sums of money to a few people who say: X isn't that bad.

So an alien examines this situation and thinks: "Hmm... should I believe the overwhelming majority of rationalists, or the few people with financial incentives to be contrarians?"
The alien concludes: "Since there are two sides to the debate, that means each side is exactly 50% likely to be right. The answer must be unknowable, and therefore they shouldn't make any decision on it and just maintain the status quo (making the contrarians the victors)." Just kidding. The alien says, "Wow, if this species is stumped on this one, I'll just come back later and harvest their newly melted water and filter all their corpses out."
tldr: Watch this demo video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO-473oWSfE

It is the Navigator Video on the far right column of the homepage.
Probably data science.
My time on Facebook has actually taught me that I want to know a lot LESS about people like casual friends, family, and business associates. I want to know as little as possible about their political opinions, their religious beliefs, their favorite sports teams, and other affinities that they have.

I stopped using FB as a user entirely once I realized that it was diminishing my opinions of other people much more than ignorance would. Knowing more about other people greatly impeded my ability to get along with them. "Open" is a big impediment to "connected" in a lot of cases. On, say, a sales call, I would way rather not know someone's opinion about immigration policy and not know about their favorite hockey team. I would rather stay totally ignorant of all the irrelevant personal garbage about that person and just focus on what is relevant to the actual connection I want to create there. There are just too many things that people feel free to say on FB that needlessly alienate others and I found that it's so much better to just be ignorant of that than it is to know and have my opinion of that person diminished.

I much prefer interest groups that are less focused on personalities for discussion and to read authors who know what they are writing about for commentary on important topics.
That's why free/libre software advocates talk so frequently about technologies that could abstract flesh and steel away.
Not only that but I’m pretty sure that when the climate change bill comes due businesses will demand government help pay it, with the argument that the whole thing is the government’s fault anyway. And they’ll get what they want, because they always do.
The postwar Pasadena areospace scene was wild.

Scientology is basically Crowley’s Thelema but in 1950’s space opera clothing. Parsons didn’t have any role in developing beyond introducing Hubbard to Crowely, and most notably Sara Northrup. Sara Northrup, later L Ron’s wife, helped develop Dianetics, and Scientology.

I read J.W. Carter’s ”Sex and Rockets”, and Lawerence Wright’s “Going Clear” back to back, and together they paint a fascinating portrait of the time.

If you want to round out the Pasadena OTO scene, Spencer Kansa’s “Wormwood Star” about Marjorie Cameron is supposed to be good, but I haven’t read it yet.
IIRC, that was a case of someone inadvertently activating Alexa, and being misinterpreted. This is a completely different situation than what’s discussed in the posted article, which implies that an Amazon employee sent someone another user’s Alexa data.
OP, thanks for the analysis. Really appreciate it. Quick question - Does San Francisco include abbreviations like "SF" or "San Fran" ? Does it also include jobs in the Valley towns like Palo Alto and San Mateo ?
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Couldn't agree more. Years ago I used to work for a small dev shop of about 6 people. We were super tight-knit and over time became like family. I'm still friends with some of them today. I've since gone on to work at BigCo's, and damn do they feel cold and impersonal by comparison.

> Homophily is discrimination

I think you are onto an interesting point here. I do not dispute the importance of diversity/inclusiveness/fairness, but there is an uncomfortable truth that these things directly conflict with the factors that facilitate close bonding in groups. When you force an environment to be absolutely non-exclusive in every possible way, it becomes rather sterile somehow. I don't doubt that the homogeneity of my old company was one of the reasons we were able to become so close. I'm not necessarily suggesting companies should become more exclusionary, just reflecting on the tradeoffs involved.
What's undesirable about informing yourself with the latest news or whatever you're interested in?
Parsons is a very interesting character. I think the same character traits that cause scientists to produce new theories also causes them to go into "weird" directions. You have to have a high level of stubbornness and fearlessness to go against the shared wisdom of the time.

In general I love to read about famous persons who had a lot of on the surface contradictory facets to their personality. There is a tendency in the media to view people as one-dimensional. People don't seem to be able to compute that people are not all-good or all-bad. A famous people would be Newton who was kind of an ass and also spent a lot of time on alchemy and other stuff.

A while ago I saw a British TV show about Hitler and there they had a scene where Hitler shot his dog out of anger. From whatever I know he loved dogs but somehow the show creators thought Hitler has to be portrayed as a totally bad guy.
I'm just waiting until people become accustomed to these devices and the tech giants reveal their new real estate play with these devices always on and built into the walls of homes.

EDIT: I am definitely feeling what Yanis Varoufakis was talking about when he said that if something isn't done soon, The Matrix will be a documentary.
Are we sure this isn't more about the fact that Zuckerberg has vast financial resources, and has been showing an interest in a political career? With the fallout from FB's role in the US election, I can see the establishment getting a little uneasy.

This could be antibodies fighting a parasite, in their own lovely way.
Try this: http://web.archive.org/web/20181220194510/http://www.spacesa...
Well without the domain registration, dns, webbuilder, social media functions and search engine.

But yes that seems to allow websites to link to one another.
Just bought a Pelican case for my work Macbook since I bike and have to travel with it. I'm so scared of liquid damage to the diagnostic port just inside the vent. All it takes is one drop to short and kill the MUX chip. Mac products are stupid fragile.
Discriminatory pricing on government subsidized rail lines based on pet policy objectives seems like a really bad idea. I would expect there is some sort of legislation on this, we could call it rail neutrality or something.
We should host our own content then publish it as a copy and/or link to any number of places we want from there. A new platform pops up, point your stuff at it. A platform goes away, there's plenty of others. A platform misbehaves, easy to boycott.
Problems I would like to work on
But that’s more of an interface choice than a technical limitation. Siri both understood the question and had the ability to navigate to it.

In my case, there were 9 McDonalds within a 10 mile radius.

In cases where there was only one location nearby, it took me right to it.
I think you have your dependencies muddled.
I think you hit the nail on the head, "Python can be used in practically anything."

Our Data Scientist was able to pickup Django pretty quickly because of his experience with Python. And yea, actually someone at my company who was doing a bit of scraping on the side was able to pick up Django pretty easily as well. And last night, I chatted with my buddy who works at a big tech company and they use Python for database intrusion analysis.

I don't know the Ruby ecosystem very well, but it seems the biggest application of Ruby is Rails. I'm curious to hear what other ways people use Ruby, so please share.
> Don't use pgp/openpgp/gpg email, use signal. You can use gpg to sign packages and encrypt backups, but the email integration and UX will kill you.

Is there any problem with the crypto that gpg uses, or is it just a matter of the UX?
Don't you think it's likely that JG will convince other top AI/ML talent to join Apple? That's usually a senior exec's main job, to recruit, retain and grow people who are building the products.
This touches on the idea of "poisoned fruit" or, more specifically, the "fruit of the poisonous tree". To quote Wikipedia:

> Fruit of the poisonous tree is a legal metaphor in the United States used to describe evidence that is obtained illegally. The logic of the terminology is that if the source (the "tree") of the evidence or evidence itself is tainted, then anything gained (the "fruit") from it is tainted as well.

The idea here being that the data obtained from hemisphere isn't considered "illegal" and, honestly, probably _would_ be permissible in court. The reason it's kept out seems to have more to do with optics than legalities.

So, I guess the simplest answer to the question of "why" is "there's nothing stopping them".
Can't you say Hey Google now?
The thing is that for most people avoiding this kind of tech and platforms is unlikely to have any kind of payoff for them. Life is too short.

Most peoples lives are as simple as going to school and work, raising a family, taking vacations, paying bills, and then passing away.

There will never be a moment where they can say “Yes! My avoidance of Facebook and Alexa for all my life has finally paid off! Hahaha!”

The only people who can say that are people who have good reasons to hide: drug dealers with multiple lines of business, professional black hat hackers, home grown terrorists, life insurance fraudsters, etc.

The average person has nothing of interest to offer except more information about them in order to better perceive trends and distribute ads to them so that maybe they buy something.
Why didn't you use MARC?
It may be due to the people I follow, but I'm not seeing this "greater hostility" on Twitter unless I go looking for it on purpose. Just like many other social media platforms I frequent, Hacker News included.

I will note in your favor, however, that I know some folks who have simply stopped reading the Twitter replies they receive for the reason you provide. I don't see how this does not apply to any other social media platform.
I've seen that too, but it's usually the same people who just reject anything hosted somewhere else with statements like "we're not doing airquotes The Cloud" and think all tech companies are conspiring against us.
Uh, Jobs was not an engineer either, just a simple ol' manager, right? Managers don't have any power and capabilities, right?