skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you're fighting an uphill battle. Culture change needs to start at the top with the CEO or founder(s). They should be driving the entire initiative. In addition to lending legitimacy to it, they also lend authority to it... And since there are always those that will resist change (for various reasons: they don't agree, they don't see the value, they prefer the old way, etc), the initiative needs that authority to bring those people onboard or to treat them like any other antagonist on a team (move them or replace them).

If you don't have that, then I would find a way to get off that team. That's a failed culture change, and is just waiting for management to change its mind and quite possibly, fire the entire team.

If management wants employees to trust them, that should start with management. And they start that process by openly communicating and listening.

On layoffs: Everyone in the company is an employee... the company makes money and issues paychecks. If the company doesn't make enough money to pay those who work there, there isn't some sacrifice that can be made. Either the company lays off those they cannot afford, or it closes it's doors permanently. Everyone understands this. They are all adults, and if you communicate openly about the health of the company, they will understand.

And if you have a situation like that, and management communicated openly, then the employees will start to trust that when management says everything is going great, that it is actually true. Trust begins at the top too.
I must be missing something. Where do they say they send data to google?

Are we talking about the Assistant/Alexa integration, which sounds fairly focused? I guess the key question is whether or not they are sending data when you aren't using Assistant or Alexa.

Or are we talking about the fact that they are using ad networks to show ads? The latter isn't anything different than any site that sends ads.
>seems to understand what makes a good challenge, what makes a challenge hard, and more importantly, what DOESNT make a good/interesting challenge

Any tips in this area?
Is there an alternative to Roomba that doesn't have mandatory telemetry?
I’m really very surprised that so many people recommend GTD. I absolutely hated the book. It felt like he was trying to sell the book for half of it. The techniques are very outdated and manual. It requires a huge amount of categorization to the point of way too much. I tried it, and really strongly do not recommend it in any way. It’s like Org Mode in emacs. Feels like most people just recommend it because they bought into it so heavily and hive-minded around it. Sorry but I really wanted to balance out the positive comments about GTD.
This varies wildly, i wouldnt make such broad statements. While not everyone might have had their own kitchen, every single dorm building (both legit dorms and “student apartments”) I’ve seen in the US had at least one kitchen in the building. More commonly, it was one per floor or one per 4-5 rooms.
How open source software took over the world
When did they start doing this? The one I've got doesn't have any form of radio.
What about a job is unfair, exactly?
I know folks who consider NetHack to be a Unix tutorial. It teaches hjkl to acclimatize one to vi. And people who win the game are those who have read the source (or, these days, the wiki) enough to grok the game. And once you grok the source enough to win, you might even find a bug. And since you've alienated your meatbag "friends" and replaced them with the NetHack fandom, you'll be encouraged to report & patch the bugs.

But yeah... I've seen some fake amulets, but I've never gotten the real one...
Let me guess, you did a "todo list" tutorial and you just kept going
This is just more irrelevant detail. Your essential rhetorical strategy here is to concede the argument I've made, but pretend otherwise by marshaling hundreds of words of details that don't address the point you're claiming to rebut.

Nobody cares who wrote to m.d.s.policy about the misissuance or the precise dynamics of Symantec getting out of the CA business --- though surely you'll want to claim otherwise to preserve the notion that you've rebutted me.

The simple facts:

* Symantec was a full thirty percent all of TLS certificates in 2015.

* Google was made aware (through multiple channels) of misissuance.

* Google arranged with Mozilla to distrust Symantec.

* Symantec is now out of the CA business.

If you're trying to claim that Symantec is out of the CA business because it simply wanted to be, and so somehow gracefully exited by selling to Digicert, no, that is not what happened.

Otherwise, none of the detail you're offering has anything to do with this thread.
Fuckin rich nerds pretending elitistically to be "smart". Suck my average anarchist cock - FUCK HN!
> he will be a valuable member of society when he's older

I know you'd agree, he already is a valuable member of society. He's already made you a better person, and everyone you influence in turn.
I would hazard a guess that there is an evolutionary lineage type of thing going on here: SV companies have borrowed both workforces and managerial skills from each from the Fairchild days, and as that became increasingly VC-driven it became almost systematic for newer companies to get extremely large in record time. Doing that puts the company on foundations that are fundamentally weak - there's no legacy to follow, just empty air. Hence the default model became a PT Barnum style hokum story, something that stirs up hearts and minds but will show them the egress once their wallets have been emptied.
I use a text file to hold only the top few items, with just a couple groups like “problems”, “ideas”, or general tasks.

I also don’t try to enumerate every possible thing that could ever be needed because in my experience anything that’s really necessary will eventually pop into my head again (and make the list later).

I also prune the list if it gets too long. I don’t store the pruned items anywhere; as above, if they’re really important I will eventually think of them again.
Thought I was going to see the core rope memory of the Apollo Guidance Computer.

Beautiful nonetheless.
Internally this was precisely Mother's day. As 23rd of February, "defender of the Fatherland Day" was Father's day as all us, men, were liable for military service.

I am for example Lieutenant-reserve of USSR's Strategic Rocket Forces ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Missile_Troops )
One of the TTF versions scales up, Mr. FancyPants :)
Letters to My Country That She Will Never Read
I know early in my career I made a lot of hay rewriting database queries that were outer joins that wanted an inner join. DISTINCT in the same statement as OUTER still gives me hives.

My point is that people aren’t really getting it. Is that the fault of the pupil or the teacher? If someone wants to investigate the latter I say let them. All your surprises will be good.
> If the company doesn't make enough money to pay those who work there, there isn't some sacrifice that can be made. Either the company layoffs those they cannot afford, or it closes it's doors permanently. Everyone understands this. They are all adults, and if you communicate openly about the health of the company, they will understand.

Aren't layoffs frequently about the owners just not making as much money as they would like, and not about survival?
Yes I meant in the places where people are blocking access to rechargers. I don't think that's happening anywhere but America so the billboards aren't needed anywhere else.
No worries, it will be the Dems that "end" the shutdown when they fund the peaches.
Way too many stock monospace fonts make it hard to distinguish between lowercase ell, capital eye, numeral one, and pipe. All of those except pipe should have different serifs.

(I feel like this is a problem even in proportional fonts, incidentally. I like sans-serif as much as the next guy, but if the word "Ill" looks like chicken-scratches then something is wrong.)
If I'm not a diabetic but just want to track my blood glucose, will a doctor still prescribe me one? Will insurance balk at it? Any estimates as to final cost?
It is just neo-Nazis brigading the thread. I wouldn't worry.
So now databases should be restricted to professional environments?
Oh, and the reason you're being downvoted into oblivion is because it's also a professional requirement to identify the socially incompetent sort of blokes who try to ham their way up the technical ladder with purple prose and self-embellishment.

We see you for what you are.
Why does a vacuum cleaner need Google Analytics or Ads?
Aah, very good!

Outer joins could be achieved with NVL and a suitable default value, if you don't want to do the (+) thing?

Edit: you don't get to pair all rows from one table with an all-NULL "fictional" row from the other table in a cartesian product, so the answer is no
True - you'd have to be pretty keen..
Not in my experience. I've met numerous MIT grads, and invariably they're smarter than the average grad from a less demanding school. Obviously that also applies to Caltech, Chicago, most Ivies, etc. But part of that equation is that the MIT alum learned not only how to survive that greater workload, but they learned more because of it. So they have a head start on several counts.
Correct, but perhaps not in the way you are thinking.

Newton was something else, but still: he had acquired a vast amount of knowledge and insight upon which he built his new theorems.

Meanwhile, experts are notoriously good at forgetting what it is like to not understand something yet, so when explaining things they subconsciously presume more a priori knowledge than is appropriate.
Missed that about 20% humanity is under a walled national garden. If you have a protocol that are individual or home oriented, would it be allowed to work even.
Fascinating to read about your experience with the startup, and how the service was architected.

> unfortunately, as a business it never took off

Sounds like the timing was too early in 2005. I believe these days we're all so tired of the privacy and security situation, that the world is ready for something like this.

> [it] utilized zero knowledge protocols and made it accessible to common people to manage their data and share with others

This describes exactly what the re-decentralized web needs.

Seeing the many attempts over recent years, it looks like there are significant technical, financial/business and social challenges - but I totally agree with your conclusion, that "the stage is set for this disruption". It also feels like the tide is rising, that the solution is being worked on from numerous fronts and eventually a more evolved system will be adopted by the public.
Thanks for your insight and I've added you on Linkedin. :)
All words I love but I am not sure how it fits together. I hope by CQRS they don't mean, figure out the query yourself?
Sure :) Thank you!
The title is needlessly alarmist. The linked privacy policy covers the various robots as well as irobot.com and their mobile apps.

Most of the comments here are about their robots so let me copy and paste the relevant passage from the policy below:

Information We Collect from Registered Devices Equipped with Smart Technology.

Some of our Robots are equipped with smart technology which allows the Robots to transmit data wirelessly to the Service. When you register your Robot with the online App, we collect information about the Robot, such as a Robot name and device number, and information about the Robot and/or App usage, feature usage, in-App transactions, technical specifications, crashes, and other information about how you use your Robot and the product App. For example, the Robot could collect and transmit information about the Robot’s function and use statistics, such as battery life and health, start and stop times, and number of missions.

Certain Robot models are equipped to collect information about the environment in which the Robot is deployed. For example, the Robot collects information about its movement throughout the environment to create a location ‘map’ of the space accessible to the Robot. The spatial map is a digital representation of the Robot's domain and does not include recognizable images from the location environment. To create the map, the Robot converts computer-vision images to abstract features and landmarks to generate a spatial representation of the Robot’s territory indicating the presence of objects, obstacles, floor coverings like carpet or tile, WiFi signal strength, and dirt detection.

We use this information to collect and analyze statistics and usage data, diagnose and fix technology problems, enhance device performance, and improve user experience. We may use this information to provide you personalized communications, including marketing and promotional messages, such as emails providing product order information when your device indicates a battery needs replacement. We consider location mapping data to be sensitive, confidential information and we do not share this information with third parties for marketing purposes. Please visit our Data Security page to learn more.

Our Robots do not transmit this information unless you register your device online and connect to WiFi, Bluetooth, or connect to the internet via another method. It is possible to use our smart technology Robots without WiFi or Bluetooth data transmission, simply by disconnecting your WiFi or Bluetooth from the device or by never connecting it at all. You can also choose through your settings in the App to not to have location mapping data transmitted to us.
Human microbiome aging clocks based on deep learning
I agree. I think the quoted professor-authors' point in the quoted passages is to make a book like SICP, designed to teach deeply rooted computer science concepts more approachable to beginners without going to the extreme of "How to build a webapp in 12 days". I support the effort, as I think it's a bummer that the choice as a beginner is often between a too-difficult SICP and overly abstract and non-theory-based tutorials.
I've been working on a project for the last 4-6 months around managing your books:

https://getpolarized.io/

You guys loved it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219960

... but I'm sure not all of you have seen it yet.

Basically you can keep all your books and web pages in one central repository, tag them, flag them or archive them and read them while keeping track of your reading.

It also supports highlights, annotations, etc.

It's also Open Source and free so have at it!
The fetishization of “technical”
Thanks, this is a really great and thoughtful reply, and it's good to know serious work is being done here. I can't wait to see how the project unfolds!
Definitely coincidence, we are not even based in U.S. and we never had any connection with Y.C.

We wanted a simple name and this was one of the first options we thought, together with BitSubscribe .

Hope you understand.
That's why I said fixing the effects of inequality, not necessarily fixing inequality. What I mean by that is things like unequal access to the courts (the average person doesn't have the resources to fight a corporation that wrongs them), problems with campaign finance, and the unavailability of affordable housing in much of the country.

Basically I feel that a person who puts in a reasonable effort (spends 45 to 55 hours a week working, commuting, learning skills, and/or looking for work) should be able to generally live the American Dream which I would define as something along the lines of owning a house, providing for your needs, raising a family, improving yourself, participating in culture, and generally having the freedom to choose your lifestyle.

When I say choose your lifestyle, I don't mean that everyone can become a rockstar or drive a Ferrari. Rather I mean things like:
Do I want to live in the city or the country? Is it important to me to live near people that share my religion or culture? Is living near my parents important? Am I a Southerner, a Yankee, or a Texan? Do I want to live the mainstream American lifestyle or be more of a hippy?
Yet Americans wonder why everone else laughs when they proclaim they're the "greatest country in the world".
Only the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch can stop them!
Lab strips James Watson of final honorary roles after racist statements
When I worked in San Francisco, my employer gave everyone fitbits and held weekly "most steps" competitions. I wore mine for three days before realizing the device was telling my company which hours I was most active.

Needless to say, I never won any of our competitions.
I think most every job I've had as a developer would think it ridiculous for me to ask for severance. Severance is meant for high end positions where there's a large cost to the employee to switch jobs because of how illiquid management and executive roles can be. Developer jobs are extremely easy to switch between.
Ditto, plus I feel like it sort of poisoned my thinking on task management. I'm obsessive by nature, and I think it made me more obsessive.
I doubt you'd notice, since it would tend to happen throughout the year.

Anecdotally, sales times have MUCH higher attrition rates than this - if they don't they're probably retaining too many underperforming staff.
And don't forget to add obfuscation and deniability to the lib, like Tribler and Perfect Dark did.
That was quite a leap from you not being able to hold a conversation with a stranger to a critique of the soviet economy.
You've got the numbers the wrong way around too - the 90% are the "creator class". I wonder which class you think you belong to? Statistically speaking you've probably got more in common with the random user you were paired with
If you scroll up from where the link sends you, you will see a section called “Information We Collect from Registered Devices Equipped with Smart Technology“, which completely negates the premise in the title.
The privacy policy covers irobot.com, their products, and their mobile apps.

Their website, marketing tools, and apps are the ones that connect to third parties. See below:

Information collected automatically.

We and our third party service providers may collect certain types of usage information when you visit our Website or mobile Apps, read our emails, or otherwise engage with us. We use this information to enhance and personalize your user experience, to monitor and improve our websites and services, and for other internal purposes. In some instances, we and our third party service providers may combine this usage information with personal information. If we do combine any usage information with personal information, the combined information will be treated by us as personal information.

We typically collect this information through a variety of tracking technologies, including cookies, web beacons, embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies, file information, and similar technology (collectively, “tracking technologies”). We, and our third party partners, use tracking technologies to automatically collect usage and device information, such as:
Redo: Docker and kvm containers (from scratch)
I recently learned that there is a name for this phenomenon where our reality is being increasingly digitized and financialized - "surveillance capitalism".

Surveillance capitalism is a novel market form and a specific logic of capitalist accumulation that was first described in a 2014 essay by business theorist and social scientist Shoshana Zuboff. She characterized it as a "radically disembedded and extractive variant of information capitalism" based on the commodification of "reality" and its transformation into behavioral data for analysis and sales.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism
I like Roombas, but I refuse to buy any that uses Wifi. It's totally unnecessary, opens up the possibility of privacy invasions, and a smartphone app is a UX regression over physical buttons.

I really wish they'd develop a mapping Roomba that did all processing onboard, and could be totally configured using built-in controls. I'd buy it in a second.
The article they cite claims that people who were less exposed to sun had higher disease risk [1]. As far as I saw, the cited article does not include sunscreen use in the analysis. So it might very well be that sun exposure while wearing sunscreen might have the same benefit, minus the increased skin cancer risk and accelerated skin aging.

EDIT: Besides that, there is very likely a huge confounding effect that was probably not properly corrected for. The persons in the "high sun exposure" group were much healthier than in the "avoiding sun exposure" group right from the start (Table 1)!

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joim.12496
How to use Facebook (if you must) and keep a little privacy
I don't necessarily agree but 'drb91 clearly wrote that the share of profits is unfair.
> We may share your personal information in the instances described below... From time to time, with selected third parties who we think may offer you products or services you may enjoy.

In other words, "whenever we feel like it." I'm not sure why they bothered with the other clauses.
I was really hoping that this was a videogame
> Some of our Robots are equipped with smart technology which allows the Robots to transmit data wirelessly to the Service.

As far as I know all their current Roomba lineup is equipped with that technology. I actually just bought the last non-wifi Roomba I could find, specifically to avoid it.
I have a theory that many Republicans in congress don't really care about the wall, because the Senate unanimously passed a spending bill the day before the shutdown began, and that spending bill did not include wall funding. If that's the case, then those Republicans would be reluctant to compromise, because any compromise involve them making a concession in exchange for the wall, which they don't really care about. Or maybe it is that they didn't care about it, but now they do? After all, the political climate is different now than before the shutdown, and politicians do care about the political climate.
I wonder if there are any unintended consequences for this.

For example, if you were able to identify the MAC address, and you were unethical, you could just blackmail the "bomber" - whether they are innocent or not.

Also, some devices allow you to reprogram the MAC address so you could in theory use this to blackmail someone as well, or at least get them harassed by the police.
There is a German company offering personalized food recommendation based on measuring blood sugar: https://www.millionfriends.de/ (Google Translate: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3...).
When I left my previous employer, the reason was absolutely arbitrary. The new one paid more. I didn't have to wait for the old company to not pay me the agreed upon salary, spend months offering them a "compensation improvement plan", and documenting their failure to follow it in fear that they might sue me for leaving for the "wrong" reason. It's amazing how people pretend at-will employment is somehow equal for both sides when only employees can actually terminate the employment at-will.