skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat related. But I recently discovered a documentary short from 1961. It's about a bunch of beats and folkies protesting the right to sing in Washington Square Park. Could have been shot yesterday, except people were much more formally dressed back then (suits and ties abound) ;)

Apparently restored by director Martin Scorsese himself. It has a great narrative quality in the edit. Nostalgic scenes of bygone NYC and its denizens. With a genuine feeling of suspense as events unfold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEvKe2WLumI
I’m sure I’ll be laughed at, but I wonder what the condoms were for. How long is a “tour”?

I’m assuming she wasn’t sexually active 100% of the weeks in her tour, so 500 seems like a lot even if the tour was for a year. Were they distributed among colleagues? Were they used for some other interesting reason (like when the Top Gear presenters took viagra when driving over a volcano)?

Or is there really nothing else to do in Antarctica than have sex all day?
Or Unreal. I don't really like Perforce.
Awesome! With it's 5+ year head start no doubt it's managed to capture developer mindshare like few other technologies have before it, revolutionizing development and deployment!

Wait, what's that? It doesn't work on Mac or Windows? It didn't have a even half-decent website until 2015? It doesn't have anything like a dockerfile that you can version control? Or anything to compose services together from a simple yaml file?

Damn. I guess it turns out people don't really care about the technical purity of a solution, they care about something that solves their issues. Better luck next time.
For me, it's not just the cost of email but also the fact that I use several useful services that only work with Gmail. Of course, this means further compromises in privacy, so maybe not the best choice, but that's where I'm at now.
Well, to be honest, I only could see part of the story and then it asked for me to subscribe. But anyway, I don't have anything else to add.
Maybe if facebook wants some positive stories about them, they should... I don't know... do positive things?
Many legal systems recognize a fax (with delivery receipt) as equivalent to a letter with recorded delivery.

Setting up something that lets you send those is a hassle the first time, but after that, sending a fax is about as easy as sending an e-mail.
Definitely something Nick Bostrom would love delving deeper into.
It's not about asking you to work yourself to death. At least in front-end development you need to have a passion in order to stay up to date or you will be irrelevant. That's the passion I'm looking for when hiring.
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So Google is bad for promotion and startups too are bad. I am not sure what other options people are looking to suggest.
> future potential citizens

Future potential tax payers. Like myself btw. I am giving so much money to Uncle Sam these days that it makes me sad. I could invest in multiple YC companies with that money.
Even algorithmic ad targeting can be dangerous. If you are writing love letters to your secret gay lover then that should be between you two and you shouldn't get gay ads during other browsing activity, which might be in presence of others like your employer or family.
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I refuse to believe it is impossible to earn money by showing ads without allowing full scale tracking. It’s just easier and more profitable to not care.
In my case I’m not buying bread nor being given the bread. I just browsed the neighboring store and this baker still has those details on me.

Ie. I use no google products. Yet by just surfing the web and being tracked through google’s products or by emailing people with gmail, google has almost as much information on me as if I were their user.
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Lots of Chinese apparatchiks on here. Let me say it again so that I can be nicely downvoted: Communism is the problem. It needs to end.
"About four or five months for typical summer contracts (October thru February) in McMurdo, three and a half months for a summer south pole contract, or thirteen months for winter-over contracts. A winter-over usually starts at the beginning of summer (October-ish) and lasts until the beginning of the next summer."

http://www.60south.com/about/faq.htm

I also really enjoyed this quote from the same page:

"The first time you come down for the adventure. The second time for the money. And the third time because you can't function anywhere else anymore."
If investigative journalism is an act of war against you, then you’re fighting on the wrong side.
My thoughts exactly. Those without passion for their career (not a specific job) are going to know just the bare minimum needed to complete a job. It leads to mediocrity. At the same time, I acknowledge that "passion" is an overused buzzword.
Often times, the most exploited workers are the ones who love their job. Because of that, they don't ask for raises, seek workers rights, or diversify their lifestyle. They sleep in their car in the parking lot making the boss millions of dollars a year on entry level salary because "they love the job". The boss then gets to laugh all the way to the bank.

Its not that liking your job is bad, its treating employment in the traditional sense - salaried or hourly - as if being charitable with your time or ability to your employer because you like doing it so much is a virtue. It isn't, its just giving those with power more power out of laziness. Because its lazy to just give yourself away like that. It takes courage and strength and effort to fight for fair compensation and a balanced lifestyle that doesn't revolve around making someone else filthy rich.
How is agile meaningfully different from small, iterative waterfalls?

Would you happen to have links to the text of regulation that specifies software development process? The only ones I can think of specify properties of the end result.
The specific end date isn’t really a meaningful measure, except for symbolic purposes. It’s area-under-curve that matters, or, inversely, how much is being left in the ground.
I agree, but despite never being a New Yorker and still reading NYTimes every day I always forget that it is a New York City paper first. And because of it, I really shouldn't be surprised that part of their outlook is going to be focused on the elite circles available in NYC.
I would say it's likely a personal issue, you may want to try to see what works for you.

I think the most important thing is that there are 'hard lines' i.e. you have time which you know to be 'yours'. The bleeding of personal time into professional time takes its toll.

Also, not relevant to your case, is the 'every day' nature of 7 day a week work - I believe this to be grinding as well, and it extracts a hidden cost on your health.
"no perfect solution" indeed, a few examples:

1. https://twitter.com/BRIAN_____/status/1074541770782892032

2. https://foreshadowattack.eu/

3. https://twitter.com/bascule/status/1085087004352602112

4. https://github.com/jovanbulck/sgx-step

Any many more.

SGX is a hamfisted pseudo-solution better solved properly by going to the roots of the nightmare landscape of trust issues:

http://bootstrappable.org/

http://langsec.org/occupy/

We need fully bootstrapping libre hardware avoiding the trusting trust problem YESTERDAY. If we had that, this entire load of problems would disappear and becomes one of cryptographically certified agent-to-agent, end-to-end trust provenance attesting.

The entire concept of a "compromisable system" only exists because we let the industry get away with closed hardware bullshit and because we put our fingers in our ears and go "LALALALALA CAN'T HEAR YOU" whenever someone brings up the trusting trust problem.

I suspect we do that because it, for quite a while now, has let us avoid confronting the age old philosophical questioning of the risks & uncertainties of inter- & intrapersonal placement & position of trust & doubt.

Quite similar to how philosophers tend to pack up and run away screaming any time someone brings up the Münchhausen trilemma, because, to quote rationalwiki:

"it breaks the legs of philosophy, science, and any other possible approach to reality."
Rings true to me.
I like to write tests (in a separate repo) which iterate over each commit and mark the point in history where they start passing--which is usually when the feature was implemented--and (more importantly) the point in history when they start failing again.

These points usually indicate communication/comprehension errors involving two developers. When I bring the problem to the developers' attention, their reactions differ based on their commit style. If they have atomic commits it's usually a five minute conversation because the nature of the problem is immediately apparent. If they have large squashed commits, I usually have to bring both developers together and have them fight over whose problem it is.

So I would say... a couple times a week, but the overall time savings of finer granularity is significant because it limits the number of parties that end up huddled around a single screen.
I live in an English-speaking country, which obviously clouds my experience to some extent, but in the entire time I’ve been on the Internet, I’ve never seen a Unicode email address anywhere or ever received an email from one. I’m guessing that they would break many systems that don’t expect Unicode in email addresses (which is why they don’t validate).

Does anyone know if there’s something like punycode[0] for email addresses?

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode
In my country the few religious people keep it to themselves.
Funny, about 90% of those in poverty where in China. So basically globalisation allowed the world to outsource their labor to Chinese slave labor and raise them out of poverty to the biggest economy in the world in the space of a few decades. And now we’re all going to take a back seat to a hyper-ambitious, psychotic, totalitarian regime with a hard-on for world domination. Not exactly inspiring.
No, it's a full circle, because once upon a time believing in Christianity was a reason to hide. There was that whole cross ordeal and everything.
I agree. IMO, we're seeing a pretty intense class stratification to go along with it, even between FAANG's.
In other words, the only option is to deal with what we were bemoaning about Dropbox Premium thread yesterday. "Talk to a human who may or may not do it."

"Easy to sign up yourself and impossible to remove yourself" - the perfect dark pattern. All we need to ask now is "Why"...
And yet when I buy products on Amazon, I still get tracked. (And to boot, they actually seem to be the hardest ones to opt out of tracking, or at least turn off the user-visible personalized recommendations.)
>My will power is strong, but there is no such thing as just one bite. It’s zero bites or all the bites and it’s a crazy pull. It’s also infuriating because this is the one part in my life where I’ve never been able to just will it so.

somewhat familiar. Finding oneself deep at night in the kitchen eating donuts/cake/pastries/cookies/pizza/waffles/etc. and not able to stop... I'm 6' and topped at 230 soon after coming to the US (that supermarket quick-rise white bread is easily half of US medical problems). By starting to exercise regularly i took it under some control and had been keeping it between 180-200 since then. A year ago a GE using breath test diagnosed me with pretty severe SIBO. Once i was able to take SIBO under control (separate story as typical antibiotic treatment didn't work (happens in 30-70% cases according to various sources)) those sugary&fat cravings got much easier - that is inline with the growing body of research about chemical signaling, including neurochemicals, these gut bacteria do (and they love sugars and high blood glucose level). Resisting such a direct injection of neurochemicals is a pretty uphill battle, and it is no surprise that a lot, if not majority, of people aren't able to.
How can this be legal? Maybe it isn't; you have to file GDPR complaints.
> it's unfair to judge

We are a social species. Judging each other is one of the most fundamental things we do.
>By giving bread away for free, he's making it impossible for other bakeries to compete unless they do the same thing.

He's not going to make enough from simply selling data to invest in talented bakers and quality ingredients, so his bread will be visibly at the lowest tier of quality. Other bakeries will compete on baking bread that is actually edible.
Congrats! I have a couple questions if you don't mind:
- Did Google give you a counter offer?
- In what ways is Netflix better for you?
Here’s a memory of Cutler from the DEC days https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2019-January/017435.h...
Consider me unconvinced. I don't know anybody like the people described in the article and nearly everyone I know is a big coffee consumer.
IMO, the idea was that smugglers passed the border and now are moving inland. They should not be safe just because they crossed that line. So they drew another one. In general a good idea but as always the government abuses it.
No, I'm pro-Second Amendment. Probably more strongly than you: I believe the original purpose of the Second Amendment was to maintain a continuous threat of violent revolution against the government, not to let people hunt deer or whatever, and as a result I believe that the people have a right to own weapons sufficient to win a war against their own government—either by letting the people have a nuclear deterrent, or by disarming the government to the point of having no weapons the people can't have.

Not sure what that has to do with anything, though.
Are you making reference to shipping costs from China?

If so those prices were set before china developed, and as they stand at the moment are a subsidy from developed countries to China. These artificially low prices don't apply to industrial quantities of good though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union
A simple test for figuring out which of Facebook's arguments are sensible is to substitute "Facebook" for a different entity such as, say, a neighborhood association, the phone company, or a government agency. For example, take the subtitle of Zuckerberg's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal: "We need your information for operation and security, but you control whether we use it for advertising." Substituting:

* Would you be OK with your neighborhood association installing spyware on your cellphone because they "need your information for operation and security, but you control whether they use it for advertising?"

* Would you be OK with the phone company installing spyware on your cellphone because they "need your information for operation and security, but you control whether they use it for advertising?"

* Would you be OK with a government agency installing spyware on your cellphone because they "need your information for operation and security, but you control whether they use it for advertising?"
That is indeed troubling. Keep in mind, though, that lots of great people worked at Theranos - I’ve hired one and she’s the standout on an already very talented team. And of course, I would hire Tyler Schultz without a second thought.
I use it to build multiple versions of Go from source locally. When a new release branch appears, I just `git worktree add release-branch-1.12 ../go1.12`, then `cd ../go1.12/src` and `GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP=../go1.11 ./make.bash`. It makes it very easy to try out betas while staying in sync with patch releases. It’s also great for keeping an old version of Go around if you have some project that requires it.
You say it is not new as though you are contradicting the article. Newspapers publish opinions, analyses and reviews as well as coverage of current events.
Perhaps they need to reevaluate their mission statement
I wouldn't say it's easier to get promoted in the sense that the work is easier. A company with 85,000 employees needs a lot of managers (who themselves need managers, and so on), so there's definitely demand. But that demand need not change the stringency of the job requirements.
Many people (me included) hold the opinion that you should be able to control your data, which includes the right to ask a company storing data about you to delete it unless they have a valid justification not to (e.g. they may have to keep payment history for 10 years for compliance reasons).

In fact, in Europe it's so many people that that's the law.
Interesting, I've seen the opposite from Amazon (and ofc Amazon stock refreshes are worse), so in the long term Google is probably better.
Yea it’s not worth fretting about the whims of the American political class and neither the American populace. Some people have advantages by accident of birth, but so what.

Cheers to the immigrants who battle the crappy system here with national origin quotas and prioritizing chain migration over the American educated and trained foreigners like us.

I do have my green card but I’ve been contemplating not getting the citizenship because of the anti immigrant sentiment from all sides. Alas, the American passport allows travel more easily so I might just cave - but never vote.
I still think this is a counter-productive rule of thumb.

Companies are made up of a constantly changing pool of individuals. People leave, new people are hired. Even if a company has a policy of not including that boilerplate in their job advertisements, there's a solid chance that they will hire a new recruiter at some point who doesn't know about that policy and falls back on what they used at their last company.

If you rule companies out based on boilerplate in job ads, you risk missing a great opportunity because that company hired a new recruiter and hadn't yet got them up-to-speed on their in-house standards for job ads.
> Amsterdam won the bid to host the agency in 2017.

From the article.
Maybe I need to stop reading Google related articles on HN. I'm joining Google in less than a month, and some of the comments in threads like these get me worried.

I graduated less than a year ago and have been working at a startup in my hometown since then, and didn't bother applying to Google because I thought I'd never make it. Actually it was a thread on HN that convinced me to go for it. I'm moving away from everything and everyone I've ever known because I've always heard that Google is the place to be to really grow as an engineer.

I'm still excited, and I was nervous with or without reading these threads, but can someone chime in and give me some hope?
It isn't any more of an act of war than the actions of state actors who target civilians. These researchers are academic scholars. If the UofT's Citizen Lab is committing acts of war by researching how state sponsored malware is used to target civilians, those state actors are already engaging in war against those civilian actors.
Edit/Preface: I made this post just in response to the point about email, but I think there's a broad contention here. Regarding email, just be clear, I think it's a poorer example then many because it really can be offered for a song. The complex bits are highly amortizable, it's standardized/static/federated, and the fundamental storage/memory/cpu/bandwidth per normal user is nearly zilch. Business models are a lot more flexible with all that. There are other services where it's a lot more arguable that "free" does mess up the market.

But only to a point, I think it's actually become somewhat overrated as a principle. Many of the most valuable subpopulations of any market are made up of people who know perfectly well how financial reality works, and that things that aren't free to offer need to get paid for somehow. There was a period where often "free" really was essentially free, because it was VCs pissing away money, and it was perfectly rational to use it. Or there were volunteer efforts while people tried things. Much of that of course was not sustainable, and the compromises that come with it long term are a lot more visible and widely known now. There is backlash to be seen against "free" models in plenty of areas. Sure, much of the market may make the bargain, but that isn't the same thing as there being no market for something that has a higher sticker price but offers privacy and quality alongside that.

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>Do you think it's possible to convince friends and family to start paying for email as well when they already get it for free?

Yeah, pretty trivially, so long as their needs are normal. Email is just such a fundamentally light service for most usage that it can be covered easily. These days I do most of my domains through Gandi.net for example, and each domain includes 5 mailboxes at 3 gigs a pop. In actual practice is just hasn't been hard to sell friends and family on the value of having their own domain for email. It looks good/personalized, it means they can have the exact handle they want rather then johndoe5712038123871@gmail.com, tying into that they can have easier mailbox splits, it means they can keep their email if they move to a different service, and $16/year or less simply does not break the bank. I've set up a lot of friends and family at this point, and nobody has ever had any difficulty grasping the advantages of any of these in this day and age. Many have for example lost old email accounts before due to moving services, and "this can be yours for the rest of your life regardless of where you go" is quite compelling. It's not even just companies going out of business, it's not hard to pull up stories of Google alglorithms banning accounts for unrelated stuff for example, and it being nearly impossible to rectify.

The real obstacle isn't some minimal payment, it's that it's seen as more technically challenging, or they've simply never considered it at all.
The problem is not with the pop-ups, but with how many dark patterns are involved in getting your consent.

They could have made a simple pop-up, in simple language with two clear options and an optional dropdown showing all the "providers" but then again that would have been too user friendly.

Maybe GDPR should be revised to address these things, maybe even provide a template with 5 different color schemes that everyone should be forced to use.
“I think steganography is an excellent way to deliver encrypted messaging to consumers.” is in your prior post.

If you are not using stegonagraphy for the obscurity aspect, why use it at all? Why not just encrypted plaintext that can be decrypted?

Stegonagraphy is intended to conceal that a message is being sent at all, other than the apparent message of an image. If my recipient and I are both using Cool Stegonagraphy Messaging App, or you are marketing CSMA to the general public, that removes that crucial feature.

As far as storage capacity, I mean is not a concept that stegonagraphy envelops. The amount of data you could include would be limited by the lower level transmission systems - whatever software and hardware you are using to actually transmit, device, store and view images such as image format and your phone storage.
Am I crazy for thinking that type of presentation sounds like fun? I love that kind of thing. Not saying it’s the best way to determine who gets promoted, but I’d look forward to making a pitch like that.
> a common wrongdoing

I’m not aware of any other term that captures a practice that is both commonplace and wrong.

This is good and I’m adding it to my lexicon. Thanks!
Any situation where you need era-appropriate typography and are serious about it even when you’re not trying to be deceitful. Eg. movies, games, and their various marketing material. Though usually if you are serious you have money to hire a graphic designer.