skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the problems today with privacy are opt-in. There's also a national security argument for dragnet surveillance. For another potential justification, I'll just throw in a great, older movie and a good, newer one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO_x-po_Nsc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWw4V6GTyKw
How to opt-out of Google data collection
Cool website, but I had some difficulty with the pagination control. I sorted by company name and wanted to skip to the middle of the alphabet, but once I skipped to page 5, the control would only provide a button for the next page.
>>Robot butlers

This is actually pretty cool. The butler part makes it sound silly but if you were able to pull it off it would mean that we have reached a technological breakthrough. It would be very close to a technological singularity.
+1. It takes a certain kind of people to raise through the ranks like that, so you automatically filter out people who might be more akin to the original founders. Vision _might_ be an asset when rising through the ranks, but pleasing superiors, hitting metric, politics and luck probably overwhelm it.
I don’t think I ever saw (GNU)make version problems. Most Makefiles I have seen in the wild were using pretty basic features.

On the other hand, trying to get Kitware’s stuff to compile was a real horror. I ended up adding Docker to the project just to get the right CMake version. And debugging the buildsystem was hell. I hope I never have to touch CMake again in my life.
Facebook is near the bottom with Google IMO. Netflix has totally flipped Hollywood and airing really interesting original content. That is something.
OP is my spirit animal
BuzzFeed’s Unpaid 19-Year-Old Quiz Genius on Her Tricks and the Layoffs
The story I always heard was they had a ton of extra capacity that was very seasonal and then someone came up with the great idea to sell that extra capacity in the off season.

SQS as the first publicly available service sounds weird to me but I don't have any sources to cite otherwise.

Edit: Wikipedia says SQS was the first service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services#History
Stuck keys are an issue on every laptop if you get something under the mechanism.

The problem in the 2016/2017 models was that you couldn't fix the issue because the dust etc was firmly embedded.

The 2018 model has a membrane underneath so you should be able to fix the keys with compressed air.
I don't know what you aren't getting about this: Maps already has to implement sync. Disabling location storage on the server means that they don't have to implement sync. Each device has its own history. I can't explain it more simply.
> I haven't met anyone who is paying more than $2500 in rent.

Out of everyone know, I'm the only one paying under $2500. How many bedrooms and what's the square footage of these places? Are they shared?
I've made it a personal rule to never work for a non-technical manager ever again. Having experienced both sides of the coin, I like to think I'm able to learn from past mistakes in life.

There's one "goal setting" exercise I would want you "non-technical EMs" to do - and that's to allow people an opportunity to prove themselves, to build trust, so that they can get access to more parts of the stack and contribute as best they can to the company. That does not mean working at partial capacity within a pigeon hole you know nothing about but have been assigned to create for me anyway.

Trust can be tough to build, but there's no substitute for going through a real exercise of proving yourself "in the field". All of the 1-1s, goal setting, OKRs, and whatever, are unnecessary when all of those things can be determined from a display of dedication through actual, real work. All it takes is an opportunity to show what you're all about.

I maintain that it is very unlikely that you understand what this opportunity means to a developer if you are non-technical.

Disappointing to see this from CircleCI.
If it was only that simple.. there are packages out there which require specific older version of cmake. So sometimes you have to downgrade, too.
Pinkertons are practically a mainstay of the western genre. One example I've seen recently is the 2007 remake of 3:10 to Yuma in which they play a fairly important role.

IMDB has a list that's far from comprehensive: https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=pinkertons
The primary difference between social media and a telephone service is ease of communication and the broadcasting nature of social media.

Without social media, you normally have to go out of your way to consume news. With social media, it's consolidated with your cousin's vacation photos. There's a massive difference in the work required to call up all your friends to tell them that you heard there's a pizza place running a child sex trafficking ring in its basement versus just quickly hitting a Share button.

Comcast/Verizon don't have a moral obligation to censor fake news because to do so, they'd have to listen in on your private conversations. Facebook and Twitter? I'm not sure. It still presents a major feasibility problem with fake news sites just easily creating new pages.

But back to my original comment...

If Facebook was really interested in curbing the spread of fake news on their platform, certainly they would have budgeted more than a measly $100,000. That's pennies to a company that has well over $15B in quarterly revenue.
Take a look at conscrypt

https://github.com/google/conscrypt

According to reports into Jetty folks, using conscript for TLS, gives 10x improvements

https://webtide.com/conscrypting-native-ssl-for-jetty/

Note, that, from what I read, conscrypt is not compiled for any of the BSDs so if you are testing there, you will have to compile conscrypt yourself
Google has totally flipped the internet. Or do you still know of a personal website that maintains a list of interesting links ordered by the topic?
1) yes, the big spotlight was a ridicule fest

2) but, essentially that which was ridiculed was the person's actual inability to read / estimate / understand the market demand: the facts are that he did repeatedly try to convince the Sweet Peach founder to have the product express a peach scent. It seems like this person was highly skilled in the technology, but incorrectly believed the rest of the world was more superficial than it was, and he seemed to genuinely believe people would want this feature (i.e. a nerd trying to serve an imaginary set of users, who are not representative of the intended users, a kind of bias or prejudice of nerds towards the rest of society)

3) As an investor, it probably is discomforting to realize that the person who runs a company can be so substantially out of touch with the intended consumer. I genuinely believe he could have easily regained their trust by taking on a different role, or by having a more capable person lead the determination of the product goals and requirements.
That's pretty much it in a nutshell. On the other hand, in smaller companies you have to deal with the egos and personality quirks of those at the top because there's nowhere for you to hide from them. Pick your poison.
The Pinkertons have been corporate mercenaries for the railroad corporations in western genre novels, since I
was old enough to read. The only new thing here is it's a top-selling video game instead of a dime novel.
What makes the Contec CMS50D+ so special?
It is simple to do, assuming the police are using genotyping instead of a full genome sequence for the match. (This is the common case today.)

Genotyping works as follows: there are thousands of regions of “junk” dna in the human genome that don’t code for anything. There is no evolutionary pressure to preserve the exact length of these regions. (They probably help the chromosomes fold up in ways that encourage/suppress the activity of certain genes, help the molecule be more robust, etc).

Since there is no evolutionary pressure to preserve the regions, they tend to be full of hard to copy junk like ATAT..... that tends to change every few generations.

Genotyping works by isolating a bunch of these regions, and using PCR to create millions of copies of each region (with ~one sample per region).

Finally, you put a drop of the each sample and some die on a electrophoresis gel, and apply some current. Different sized molecules move at different rates, so this gives you a crude measurement of the length of each molecule.

To fake a match, all you need to do is produce something that will trick the first step of all this into grabbing molecules of your choice of length, which will fool the rest of the process. If you want to see how that would work, read up on “pcr primers”.

Source: I used to work in a genotyping/sequencing lab as a bioinformatician, and worked on algorithms that did exactly this sort of analysis (not the forgery bit though).
From the article:

"Is TWA a Hybrid framework, similar to Cordova?

No. With Cordova or other hybrid solutions, you are typically shipping your web resources (HTML, JS, CSS, etc.) within your APK package. Also, the engine is different and isolated from the users’ browser, so no session or cache sharing.

With Trusted Web Activity you don’t need to package any resource file from your PWA (only native components, in case you want them); all your resources will be downloaded and updated on the fly from your Service Worker. Your PWA will still be rendered with the installed Chrome version, sharing all storage, cache, and sessions with the browser. Therefore, if your user has a session on your website opened when the user installs the app from the Play Store, she will still be logged in. The user is just installing a shortcut to Chrome using a special mode."
It's not just culture, it comes down to unclear vision. Under Google, it was "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible." Under Alphabet? It's super unclear. "Do cool stuff and make money?"
They flipped it 20 years ago...talking about where these companies rank as far as current vision and innovation goes today in 2019.
They should be "proud" for their history. Their reaction was completely exaggerated.
Urs is decent at being a technical lead. He'd make a great CTO if Google had one (and in many ways I think he is the unofficial CTO), but he's not at all a good leader when it comes to non-technical things, for a variety of reasons. I think you'd very quickly realize you didn't actually want him as CEO.

To give him credit, from what I've seen, he's very aware of these shortcomings and as you say, he'd refuse.
Benchmarks don't matter. They're both snappy and useable. Android has far more features and variety, though.

Watches are dying. The reason Android isn't trying is because it's a passing fad.
NY is an incredibly easy city to adjust to because it is so transient. Rent will be expensive, and food is expensive, but it's a wonderful place to live. As someone who moved from California, it's one of the greatest places to end up.
Agreed. The "main source" link contains pretty much the same info but without the affiliate marketing:

https://www.ready.gov/nuclear-explosion
what do you mean by "anyone who thinks that SJWs are real"? are you suggesting that "SJWs don't exist"?
I wouldn't say "worse" judgement in general. Just "different" in general. I have had both "worse" and "better" cases.

However, the better integrated and communicated the company's goals and rationales are, the more aligned the judgements become.
That site is missing a lot since I thought of a couple right off the bat it didn’t have. Disco, QuickOffice, Songza, Slide, Bump. There have been some other google music/YouTube related shutterings too that I can’t give names too.

I recognized and could explain more than half listed, but only cared about a couple (didn’t care about Reader).
I read an article about "shadow work" a few years ago, and if we're honest with ourselves many of us choose to be played by big corps in smaller but similar ways every day i.e. when you choose to use self checkout at a grocery store you are doing "free work" that saves the grocery store money they'd otherwise have to pay for a cashier. I do not have an Android but my understanding is Google will incessantly, based on your location, ask you to verify the address of whatever venue you are at and write a review for free as well.
>>Their search engine is really hard to replace, not just because of the quality, but also because of how ubiquitous it is.

I'm not so sure about this. Bing is actually pretty good and in some aspects I find it superior. I like their video search better.
It's probably worth noting that

y = x + 1

will flake out if x is an int, and it's value is INT_MAX.
Huh, kids today with their modern web standards with their sensible, well specified defaults.

In my day, the default background color was #C0C0C0, as is laid down in the Book of Mozilla.
It's amusing that Microsoft is still the one embracing PWAs most - Win10 app store allows to publish them directly (you have to upload a package, but all that package contains is the URL for the actual app, and name and icon for the store). But then there's also Bing PWA crawler which finds and adds existing apps.

It's literally the reverse of early 00s, when Microsoft was entrenched with rich desktop GUIs, and everybody else was hoping that web apps would be the way out of that lock-in. And now iOS and Android are the rich UI lock-in...
My manager left Google for Netflix a few months ago and said he got to pick the mix of cash vs stock he received when joining Netflix.
i wonder if they'll add the ceo to their blacklists.
Sent an application in after browsing through last months thread and never heard back. Any chance you can take a look?
In my experience there are two kinds of people; those who are good at many different things, and those who believe there are roughly two kinds of people.

I mean that only half jokingly. One of the reasons I like to work at smaller organizations these days is the pervasive belief in larger orgs that somebody has to fall into one of two categories. This is often rationalized as a way to identify strengths, however more often than not IMHO it's due to insecurity in ones own deficits.
Typical numbers when I was there were usually in the high-80s to mid-90s on most of the satisfaction questions. A drop of +-10% was absolutely considered significant, as were numbers in the 70s.

I once made an internal G+ post that "voluntary response data measures liquidity, not satisfaction". When you have an organization that people can freely choose to join or leave, then you should expect that any internal surveys will have very high satisfaction numbers - because anyone who is dissatisfied will simply leave and drop out of the sample. Similarly, if you get consistently low numbers for satisfaction, that could be because the people in the sample have low liquidity - they can't easily go elsewhere.

This is why organizations like Congress, Comcast, and Facebook (users, not employees) have such perpetually low approval ratings - for most people stuck with them, there are simply no alternatives, and so they remain beholden to their decisions despite hating them. And similarly, Google employees have very high satisfaction ratings because it's relatively easy to get a job elsewhere or just not need a job at all as a Xoogler, and so anyone who dislikes it just leaves.
> From what I hear on HN it's becoming clear that that's not the case.

I was hoping you would have a personal experience to share but I guess that's not the case. I wonder how often in anonymous forums people share beliefs (not data) on things they haven't personally experienced but have heard other people on the internet experience (who may have been lying).
Glass is useful and relevant. https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/03/18/51...
SEC S-1 Filing: https://sec.report/Document/0001140361-18-043289
The only/final authority (day-to-day) is the CEO. Who, of course reports to the board, which reports to the shareholders - in a large majority of business entities.

As a many-time CTO, several time CEO, several time Chairman, I have had plenty of promotions but in the end you always do what your boss tells you (or resign). :)
I’ve had that experience before as well. What always surprises me is how upper management overlooks the opportunity to pocket more money for themselves by cost-cutting the net negative employees. Too often the ones who do it go overboard and completely gut the company to death instead of just making it more effective and profitable.

For example, a company with 5,000 employees might have about 500 positions that could actually be eliminated via automation, improved processes, and removing net negative contributors. If the average fully loaded cost is $100k/year (many old companies still have people not comped as high as Silicon Valley folks), you’re looking at roughly $50 million in dollar savings, not to mention the top performers aren’t distracted by the under-performers.

If I’m at the C-level, it’d be completely reasonable to pitch making this move, pocket an extra $500k for myself, and give $5 million worth of bonuses to the remaining 4,500 people ($1k minimum each), and you’ve still saved roughly $45 million to the company’s bottom line for savings or growth investment or higher comp for top performers. These are all rough numbers, but you get the point.

I suspect companies don’t do this more often because 1) they have a hard time, from the upper management vantage point, knowing where to cut/identifying the poor performers who try to hide, 2) scared to accidentally cut someone actually important, and 3) like managing a “big” company, even at the expense of their own potential executive comp.
A Walk Through Toolangi State Forest
> nonexistent

> 4.2 million
Speaking of pausing a beat, rereading, and reflecting before posting...

That comment is not denunciation. It's some sarcasm followed by me saying this drive-by denunciative journalism makes me sick. I see this as different from "they should be silenced!" or even "boycott all of their advertisers!", let alone "break out the torches and pitchforks!".

I enumerated these, uh, "content providers" because not everyone will read the article in depth and recognize the breadth of sites who jumped on this bandwagon. I also wanted to make sure that people recognized that BuzzFeedNews, not BuzzFeed, was the offender in this case (you have to examine the quoted link to see that, as they are just referred to as "BuzzFeed" in the text). The distinction is important given the routine HN brigading in defense of the former in contrast to the latter.
It would be great to see analysis on where the bottleneck is. Is it disk, network, compression, etc.
As Google races ahead, German carmakers look to go faster on autonomous driving
Apple only offered the extended warranty and fix after they were sued multiple times including class suits.

It took them almost two years after the first faulty laptop shipped for those steps to be taken. Let's not re-write history here.
I'm pretty sure the only reason Netflix is in FAANG is to keep the acronym appropriate. (I'm not the first to make this observation either.)
Rather than turn this into a one-bit argument (people who either care or don't care about privacy), I would rather talk about privacy risks for vulnerable populations, like activists or people who have crazy exes. A privacy risk is when data could be disclosed to someone who could use it against you.

I'm not sure any of them are threatened by Google Analytics? Google's terms of use prohibit uploading PII to Google Analytics, and it appears they upload data to a separate domain [1], so at least if you don't enable the DoubleClick cookie (which, if you're responsible you shouldn't do), they don't seem to have a way to correlate Google Analytics data with Google logins.

But I only did a shallow investigation. show me the risk and threat model and I'll care.

[1] https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/g...
Have you considered that what this essentially leads to is the only acceptable emotional response being either classic nerd commiseration or over-intellectualizing yourself out of any position that risks any sort of conflict. Essentially, a website of mostly socially stunted nerds with a set of rules to reinforce their unfit social behavior.
DNA is supposed to be supporting evidence of guilt (A number i've heard thrown around is it narrows down to 1 in 1m, with >300m people in the US that is still not perfect).

Instead CSI has taught your average juror that it is irrefutable proof of guilt.
Picasa, the good photo editor in G+/photos whose name I forget, and 7 different chat apps
"Never" is the wrong word here. They offer "quality program" long after the issue was discovered like:

- MacBook Air 2008 broken hinge issues

- image retention issues with Retina 2012 model

- GPU issues with NVIDIA GPU in Retina 2012 model

only to name a few that I personally faced that they later admitted to only after you likely fixed it out of pocket yourself (or sold the device) and with threats of lawsuit.
The point is that hovering over every nerd in a position of power is the potential to accidentally turn yourself into a universally despised social pariah overnight; and when that happens the flames will be stoked professionally by the media. Nobody thinks for a second that nerds don't say stuff that's "kind of weird" regularly, that's what makes them nerds. The real discussion here is, do we want to hound people to death for that? Recent memory is littered with similar examples, although they are usually heavily politicized so I won't link them for fear of degrading the discussion.

The recipe for death is, 1. be on the spectrum or have a bad day, 2. speak in public, and 3. get unlucky. To put it as viscerally as possible, the only flaw that guarantees you'll never be assigned any power isn't incompetence, it's autism. This all leads to a very clear implication for leaders in tech: if you don't want to be surrounded by empty smooth talkers, you need to dial your sensitivity to "kind of weird" versus "seems like a great guy" way down, because the factory default hands the keys to the kingdom to whoever asks for them most nicely.
Netflix lays out the details at:
https://benefits.netflix.com/united-states/financial
In general larger players can better spread (amortize) fixed costs to enjoy economies of scale.
I came to scoff, but it feels like a serious well structured statement of data.

Widespread veganism is perhaps a little young but we'd definitely have full lifecycle people (vegan from birth, born to vegans) so if there are epigenetic qualities to be seen we might begin to have data for that.

I'm trying to decide if the source bias would be selecting only specific data. I think they're trying as hard as they can to state all possible constraints on what they show and they do shoe data with increased cancer risks.

I would love to see what an epidemiologist and statistician said.