skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2) Talent wars.

It's already happening. See last month's New York Times story "‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ So Say Some Computer Science Students." [1]

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/technology/jobs-facebook-...
Facebook not allowing posting of comments critical of Facebook
Now, I am also curious to know how many such deals LinkedIn has and to what level they share data with other tech giants (except off-course Microsoft who already probably have access to everything)
Yeah, post pointed out a gap in public safety that is caused by only having police be armed, especially when they have no obligation to use those arms to protect your community.

This should be especially obvious to the people who talk about police originating from slave patrols.
Imagine the legal liability if they found legitimately dangerous trends! They probably have simple ways to reference the IP address of where that data came from; they probably have a user id correlated to each data record. Their policy is one of those 'technically the truth' statements that is gravely overshadowed by other events that have transpired.
These are wild claims and we are going to need to see some references.
Sorry I don't believe you, the reason why is I worked in that industry and we definitely wouldn't close an account for a single complain or even many, for every email campaign there is a % of bounce rate / open / complain, obviously all those companies would be out of business if they would close accounts for complains. The only reason I see are those explained here: ( we had the same one )

https://mailchimp.com/legal/terms/#Rules_and_Abuse

Complains are normal business, people don't care if there is an unsub link they will complain no matter what.

So it's most likely not about the complain your account was shutdown but something else.

#1 content of your email

#2 compliance of the email ( unsub link ect ... )

#3 where / how did you acquired the emails
>By introducing a second layer of scheduling, the M-to-N model makes performance tuning to the
model exceedingly difficult.

Reminds me of Simon Marlow's work[1] on tuning the Haskell runtime for a specific use at fb.

[1] https://simonmar.github.io/posts/2016-12-08-Haskell-in-the-d...
Mailchip seems to be in the wrong, but ignorance isn't the same as a lie.

I bet you people just assume or their manager doesn't know either.

Why was my account suspended -

https://mailchimp.com/help/why-accounts-get-suspended/
Red Hat-specific tools or just all the general system utilities nstalled on a RHEL host? I've got a ThinkPad sitting here running the beta of RHEL 8.

(FWIW, I don't think either is installed by default, but maybe that was something else I installed recently?)
And it came out by a US border militia report. I count the hours till it will be picked up by the US political system. DER SPIEGEL is not exactly a conservative magazine.
Where did the Facebook star ratings go?
I'd agree if the facts were that the 3rd parties only had read/write access for messages that were coming from their platform. The NYT article implies that the 3rd parties had read access for all messages, including messages unrelated to the integration. The FB response article doesn't dispute this. If it is truly the case that FB gave the 3rd parties read access to all messages, that wouldn't be what users expected when they gave permission -- and it seems like unnecessary sloppiness and a lack of privacy controls at Facebook.
It seems kind of crazy that you would have to go through a catalog and learn each individual style instead of learning a toolbag of techniques and piecing each do out of a combination of those techniques.
If one wants to be a pioneer and be one of the people who starts the movement, now is the time to jump in and make a name for yourself.
Personally, I think giving numbers (like 0-12k/month in 7 months) is useless if it is not put in some context.

Several times I googled what should be expected amount of visits to see if I am doing ok or not. Result? It is kinda disheartening to see that after pouring a lot of love, getting rather nice feedback about articles etc, you see that you are getting e.g. 2k visits a month, while someone states that is "should be about 1k visits... a day". And you put some effort into marketing your content!

Thing is, if you look at the amount of searches of the topics you cover, you might find that the person who posted such advice caters to 20x as large audience as you, so that 2k/month might be a really good result! But to see that, you have to put the numbers in some context instead of looking at the absolute numbers. If we applied this to e.g. youtubers we could conclude, that random gameplay streamer does a several times better job than a science channel author.
Alright, so dealer's choice on who you want to believe:

* cancer.net? https://www.cancer.net/navigating-cancer-care/prevention-and...

* CDC? https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/Q...

* Harvard? https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/electronic-cigarettes-go...

* Stanford? https://med.stanford.edu/content/dam/sm/tobaccopreventiontoo...

I think it's pretty far from "harmless".
The whole story in German: http://m.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/fall-claas-relotius-...

I recommend DeepL for translation:

https://www.deepl.com/
Im totally sympathetic to the time pressure thing.
I myself don’t do well under a clock with someone standing over my shoulder.

I know a lot of people like this, which is why I don’t like whiteboard interviews.
Are you speaking on behalf of MailChimp? Are you aware of their internal practices? Are you an official spokesperson? If so, I’d love an official response. Otherwise, I think there’s a ton of evidence here (from people I trust even) that disagrees with you.

1) project updates

2) in full compliance with their documentation

3) no preseeded list, users signed up on their own accord
Check out Umesh Vazirani's course from UC Berkley's open courseware. It's accessible.
What is mediated reality and how I experimented with it on the Vive Focus
No update as far as I know. One would hope Bloomberg has re-checked what they have, but without them or their source revealing more details impossible to verify.
Top of the HSBC building.
This is almost a year old.

[edit] I should have been more clear: Please mark the article as 2017 as when I read it initially I was asking my self why the WEF was now when it usually is during the start of the year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
This looks remarkably similar to AppImage (which i suppose can also be used to package your own Python).
Agreed. For data stuff if you want type saftey you really need a language with support for recursive types. More languages lack this feature than have it.
Is interesting how "Apple uses a lock-in strategy" because is up-front about using a single App Store and not allow (easily) pirate apps and simple ways to put shady apps(even from manufacturers) to users.

But Google what? Is even more lock-in! I'm on Apple from years and I still locked to google in ways I can't undo (without heavy complications) yet get rid of Apple is as easy as buy a windows or linux machine (or android), that will only tied my to google!
Why not? If it is completely random, it is actually fair, and it'd filter out the people who seem suspicious but who are not. If there has to be a very good reason in order to search (probable cause) then people who understand the pattern can avoid it. If there is a completely random chance you get the special treatment, people will always have to be careful; not just when they're being suspicious.
Pretty much nothing in Germany is conservative by US standards.
Especially when you compare overall tobacco and tobacco derivative consumption across time. Simply put, the overall rate of tobacco and nicotine consumption now is significantly lower than 20 years ago, which was significantly lower than 20 years prior, which was
significantly lower than 20 years prior, which was...
well you get the idea.

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/tables/trends/ci...
I've provided "backyard" shared hosting for a handful of customers for about a decade, some of whom have mailing lists sizing up into a thousand recipients or so. I do encourage them to use proper mailing list services, but for the most part, shipping it all through my mail server works fine and there really aren't that many headaches.

Some basic good hygiene and some effort put into gently educating customers on how email works has gone a long way.

My biggest headache today is in receiving mail, not sending it. Because so many other people have followed advice like yours and jumped onto one crappy mail service or another, the originating network for an email is no longer a good signal for whether it's spam or not.
I think it has more to do with lax not having space for huge security lines (see terminal 3, what a freaking joke that is).
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> customers should dust off their Python2 source

Customers will do what they want to do with Python 2.7 code and libraries that work very well right now. The continuous improvement workers are clearly annoyed that Python 2.7 is not broken.

With the right amount of effort, Python 2.7 will continue to work well for the next ten years.

Perl comes to mind here..
Shit, I just bought one of these, I wonder if it is too late to return it. I've just about had it with all of these "smart" things that fail to live up to the advertising and get worse with every firmware update.
>> My hope is that by that point we have all grown enough as a society to be able to look past the little mistakes we all make as humans.

Wow, really? Where on Earth do you find this kind of hope? I want some!
I don't know. While no doubt some individual conversations have played out this way (law of averages and all that), I think this is a bad way to characterize the overall conversation. From my viewpoint, the conversation is largely people coming from other languages telling the Go community its way is wrong while the people on the Go team argue that there are tradeoffs that they'd like to explore. For example, pretty much every Go-related conversation over at /r/programming seems to have someone arguing that it's literally impossible to build software in a language that lacks generics (or exceptions) while people from the Go community argue that generics are probably worth the tradeoff, and then only if the maintainers can figure out a way to implement generics _well_ (i.e., not like C++ or Java).
Some college students have been saying this back in 2017, 2016, 2015, and so on and so forth. For some definition of 'Some'.

They then get 6-figure offers, and shit, have to pay those student loans somehow.
The other way I've heard this expressed:

The opposite of bureaucracy isn't efficiency. It's corruption.
> And it's same on all known OSes.

I guess you're missing one. Android allows you to remove everything that app created.
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Most recent news I'm aware of (8 days ago): "Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards" [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18654998
I am also curious, still my daily note app, haven't noticed anything (app facing wise, not following OSS drama if there is any)
Most of the articles about it are in German, but the Spiegel published an article answering the most important questions in English as well:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/the-relotius-case-answer...
Do you know for a fact they only had access to those messages? If that's the case, Facebook should be very clear about this in their response, and I'm not sure why they wouldn't be. Copying from their response:

"Did partners get access to messages?
Yes. But people had to explicitly sign in to Facebook first to use a partner’s messaging feature. Take Spotify for example. After signing in to your Facebook account in Spotify’s desktop app, you could then send and receive messages without ever leaving the app. Our API provided partners with access to the person’s messages in order to power this type of feature."

So, why wouldn't Facebook add here: "to be clear, the third party apps only had access to messages which were sent and received from the app. Private conversations with friends could not have been leaked to the third party companies" or something like that?
My first thought looking at the pic of the car coming out was geez, the exhaust fumes must be thick in that room...
Not the first time in the German-speaking journalism world, Tom Kummer was another famous example (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Kummer).

The key is that access to really great international stories is super hard for journalists from smaller markets. They benefit though from publishing their stuff in local language, so no one notices. I bet that there is far more of this going on, this guy just got too big due to his awards.

Audiences in local markets thirst for bigger than life stories, in local language. Simply translating NYT does not work.

Whenever you read articles that mimic a very literary, prosaic style I'd be very careful. All those young journos read David Foster Wallace and Hunter S. Thompson, plus all the great Pulitzer pieces. But, then they sit somewhere in boring Middle-Germany and either a) write boring local stuff or b) make up grandiose stories.

Note that this has a long tradition in Germany, starting with famous author Karl May, who wrote legendary adventure books about the Wild West and the Orient - while never leaving Germany (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_May). Those books were written in a style suggesting being travel diaries, making a lot of readers believe in him being a real protagonist.
At some point people started expecting unreasonable things from random free services on the internet. I still think it's ridiculous.

I hope that in the future, schools will also teach some basics of computer hygiene in IT classes, and how to behave on the internet.

Things like what internet services are, why backups are important, and how to practically do them, how to evaluate risks when communicating on the internet, how people are harmed on the internet (typical scams, phishing, running untrusted programs, ransomware,...), what privacy is on the internet, how to choose passwords, etc.
> I would love it if a publication profiled a few spammers. I suspect they're very different from how most people imagine them.

You might like Spam Nation: https://amzn.com/dp/B00L5QGBL0/
What if that is my identity?
"The word lie has lost all meaning"

"It doesn't matter if they're liars"

C'mon, man.
I think it would be about rates of increase or decrease rather than overall numbers. If it were about overall numbers, well, its pretty clear we've ended a tobacco epidemic over the past 60 years.

Not sure if any one else here remembers cigarettes in restaurants, but imagine spelling camels while getting your salad bar refill at Sizzler.

We've come a long way.
So, are you saying that the identity of gender benders is invalid?
The references go way back! (Also applies to your user name. Actually, if I press on that link, I get a blank page.)
Tech Unicorns Are Going Public at Near-Record Pace
Sounds like Johan Hari in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari
Ath9k is not going to win any performance awards anymore, but it is still pretty rock solid chipset and more importantly has afaik the very best foss drivers.

Bit odd that they are basing their firmware on OpenWrt 15.05, which is over three years old now. I guess flashing in 18.xx shouldn't be that hard
>so why shouldn't Google do the same to counter?

Because it's EVIL!

Also, have you tried opening Google.com, GMail, YouTube or Translate in Edge? You are bombarded with prompts to install Chrome. There is no way to disable them, not even when logged in.
I read an article the other day about how juul modifies the nicotine to make it less painful so they can put more in each pod. An interesting side effect of this is that people who don't smoke can start smoking easier because it's less painful. That information combined with this report just makes me so upset on so many levels...
Is this more serious than the sugar epidemic?

Or exposure to traffic pollution?

Or reduced freedom to roam?

It would seem that there are many social threats to my children, and vaping is maybe in the top 10? Should it be higher?
Your experience may be what it may be. But in my experience, they steer you towards the most profitable for them car that they think you'll buy.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/dealerships-dismiss-... provides evidence that I am right - and that in practice dealerships really do steer customers away from electric vehicles.
Like most things, it almost certainly depends. It's easy to get into a mode where you allow the perfect to become the enemy of the good and hardly ever publish anything because it's not just right.

(And, half the time when you do publish that perfect piece, it lands with a thud because others apparently didn't think it was as great as you did. I've had pieces I've tossed off in a few hours get tons of traction while other pieces I've spent a few days polishing don't attract readers at all.)

On the other hand, I wouldn't counsel putting out a lot of crappy 500 word posts even if you don't have anything fresh to say.
The AfD is our „Trump party.“
you have no expectation of privacy in a public place, even when you're NOT in China.
Stanford team locates nearly all US solar panels in satellite images with ML
That's TFA.
That doesn't mean we're finished. Pretending this problem is solved will just result in it getting out of hand again.
> Your main point (now that you have shifted the goalposts) seems to be that argument passing induces a binding of the parameter name to the argument value, yes?

It's that there is an extra step involved that does not occur in languages like C.

> those bindings do not involve dictionaries as you seem to think

For positional arguments, you are correct. But, as you note, there is still an extra memory allocation on the heap, because the stack at the Python level uses heap memory, not stack memory, at the C level.

For keyword arguments, as you agree, there is a dictionary entry created.

> Local variables are exactly what you claimed they were not

More precisely, local variables inside a function that correspond to positional arguments are, for performance reasons, stored in an array of function local pointers at the C level, instead of being stored as dictionary entries (namespace bindings).

But the fact that this is a particular exception to Python's normal treatment of variables simply highlights the point I was making.
Uptime for themselves != Uptime for customers

You absolutely have to consider TOS, account disablement, and other service provider-caused downtime.

And from what I've seen, no uptime calculation adds in account issues like this. And I'd really like to see how fast their resolution is.
Amazon's music player has no ability to download music to your pc.
This is nice, I'm not a beginner but will have to try some of the things.
>a third party that actively seeks your information is more likely to cause you harm than people you know.

Says who? That's not deduction at all. As an example, if you get broken into its far more likely it was someone you know than completely random.
There's a difference between tech industry "consent" and informed consent.
Needs email address before one can do anything and no privacy policy or any indication what is behind the service (company address, blog). I'd say without screenshot (or video) few users would sign up. Page should say it's USA-only.
Python has a huge ecosystem for this and levering it is a good idea. In one of the projects I'm working on, I train and test tensorflow models in Python but load it in Go for inference - these types of hybrid approaches can work great for scientific computation.
The Feudal lords have made their judgement.
Jack ma is a confirmed communist party member and thus a tool of the authoritarian party.

Chinese infrastructure is wasteful ghost cities and shoddily built buildings that won’t last beyond 20 years
Yes. YAML would be more verbose and require more precise (error-prone) syntax. See this thread: https://twitter.com/mbostock/status/1075135178014482432
What's wrong with a human translation?
US Senate Passes Sweeping Criminal Justice Reform Bill
It's not particularly left-leaning either though, unless it's changed a lot recently.
"haunted" all the way to billions in profit. If the FB revelations are to have a real impact on the culture of surveillance, the biggest advertisers have to start withdrawing from the platform (FB, IG, Whatsapp). Unless that happens, we will continue to see these hand-wringing articles and eventually become numb to them.
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> "I am not important enough to be spied on"

Think about whole new generation of politicians and government. What if many of them said or did something wrong when they were young? Will our society adapt itself to new moral norms or will they be managed by some masters of the puppets?
Inside Elon Musk’s Tunnel to Alleviate ‘Soul-Destroying’ Traffic
Disagreement with interpretation of moderator action != negative response to the suggestion that makes up that action.
Facebook is haunted by lack of integrity.
Can you cite the article? I cannot find any reference to Juul modifying nicotine to make it more palatable.
And Jayson Blair in the US

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair
I dont care who says this - it is true.
There are some interesting stats/details listed at https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9x577m/were_reddi... and https://redditblog.com/2018/12/04/reddit-year-in-review-2018...
Zizek isn't a philosopher, he's an entertainer disguised as a philosopher. His entire schtick is: take something common sense, declare the opposite is true, and do so in a profound-sounding way with lots of eccentric gesturing and lisping.

Chomsky on Zizek [1]: Posturing. There's no theory in any of this stuff. Try to find in all [Zizek's work] some principles from which you can deduce...empirically testable propositions...beyond the level of something you can explain in 5 minutes to a 12-year old.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVBOtxCfan0
It’s like saying the contents of a dictionary don’t matter because they’re sorted lexicographically.
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And yet I still get junk from MC senders for which I never subscribed. I report as spam, but those people still keep sending with no problems. (Anecdote, I report as spam an email sent to me@mybusiness.com, then get emails from the same sender at info@mybusiness.com, support@mybusiness.com and finally to emails that aren’t even real such as contrived first_initial_lastname@mybusiness.com (which aren’t in use but go to a catchall, so clearly some “marketing person” just added me to a list without any consent at all.)

At all times these are reported as spam. Then, when we, a few years ago sent out a new feature announcement and a request for a follow up appointment, our account gets frozen for sending unsolicited marketing emails — to our actual customers who have opted in to our emails! Emails that complied with every bit of the anti-spam laws. So Mailchimp arbitrarily lets through their massive enterprise senders sending actual unsolicited emails but freezes their smaller (but still paid) customers sending marketing to actual, current customers.

Anecdotes aren’t data, but for us, it was reality.
>The deification of Rich Hickey in this thread is amusing.

Hi Trevor,

funny that you should say that - I've met Rich Hickey and had some great conversations with him - and what I always tell everybody is how normal, humble, human, down-to-Earth he is. (Which is probably deifying him even more, from your point of view).
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