skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A long long time ago, I do remember that Verisign did something with the .com namespace so that unregistered domain queries got redirected to a default webpage they hosted (no doubt with plans to monetize). My memory is hazy but I've included some links below.

There was a massive backlash for obvious reasons and they reversed the change quite quickly.

Whenever I use Chrome and it redirects a legitimate website URL that I've hosted locally to their search engine as a search query... I feel a sense of disappointment with the IT community, in that we let Google hijack everything in a similar way without much criticism at all.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2003/09/2824-2/

[2] https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/05/verisign-gets-...
There's software that filters comments based on past abuses by trolls. New accounts are subject to more of these filters.

We review the comments that get killed that way, unkill the good ones, and mark accounts legit when it's clear they're posting in good faith.
Thank you for being a paying user.

1. Mainly because it's both a different search problem (general DB vs specific to web search) and hard engineering wise given our model; we implement not only the cloud database, but embedded versions for iOS, Android, and Web - not to mention real-time functionality and tailoring it to how our index engine works, etc. While we have a lot of customers and use-cases that don't need Fulltext Search, we totally agree it's important and have done explorations on how we'd deliver something along these lines.

2. Agreed. During the beta program we've delivered the managed export and import service for backups, adding array contains capabilities to queries and have got close enough to delivering Collection Group queries to mention them as part of GA. For documentation our tech writing team as done a lot of updates, new pages, and fixes - we know there is always more to do. Cloud Firestore is definitely used in production and at scale by our customers, and with nearly 1 million databases being created the range of use cases and traffic/load patterns has been vast. Our beta program involved working with a lot of them to improve things like hardening and scalability to ensure we can meet our 5 nines of availability SLA.

"Isn't half a solution better than no solution?" -> In a lot of cases, absolutely not. A half solution that falls over when you tip a certain point of scale can result in extended downtimes, since the solution often ends up being "we need to completely rearchitect this", which isn't easy or quick when your business is out of commission.

"from the perspective of a customer and outside observer, a number of things smell quite off." -> Sorry to hear this, I can only hope the continued hard work from the team will turn you around.
Ideally. But it is a funny image.

And there is something to be said for not being that guy who says "should have read the manual!" when another human being, however flawed, gets stuck in a situation they don't know their way out of.
I really can't see how Apple can continue to competitive with Siri without entering the search business (or partnering with another)

I've noticed several times now where Google assistant has been able to answer questions about things in almost real time all thanks to Google's crawlers.

My friend asked it earlier whether USPS delivers mail during a polar vortex and Google assistant told them they didn't yesterday, at least in Chicago.
I'm a fan of this idea. I've seen many a brand diluted after key journos leave and are replaced essentially by clickbait artists. The problem then is that it's tacit admission that the idea of branding in journalism is prima facie useless, but that feels somewhat natural. A large corporate publication is a large corporation first and foremost -- if it can't effectively create a product, then maybe I don't want that product from that large corporation.

But, where I get worried is what happens to the public commons when the labor of large scale journalism which is out of the reach of a single journalist (or even a small confederation) resources wise gets lost. Would it be replaced by individuals or small federations that are as effective? I mean, I don't think effective journalism will die anytime soon on the whole. But, I wonder if pockets will go extinct, and I'm nervous about what that means. I still don't think I've really seen it all that much yet.
on the positive side - despite all the mob power we still got the first openly "devil's triangle" Justice.
Sadly non-US sources incur the bias of however said source feels about the US. I've seen the BBC home page highlight more random shootings than the actual US mainstream media. And in my experience they'll keep them on the front page longer than CNN when reporting on the same one. It could just be the page I'm being presented via cookie-stored history or whatever, but that seems unlikely as I hardly ever click on said stories.

Unfortunately it seems the only way to effectively reduce bias is to go straight to the primary source and judge for yourself, which is time-consuming.
Paid money to have digital access to these movies, and after the shut down all of the content may not be accessible. I would like to buy an digital file like I can for music.
Right but, are most hiring decisions like this? If most hiring / firing decisions are based on ability (which is the case everywhere I've ever worked) then its a meritocracy with flaws. That is to say, if these stories surprise and disappoint you then the overall philosophy is that its a meritocracy and you're disappointed that its flawed for not being meritocratic enough.

As far as I can tell, even obsessing over credentials happens because its a proxy for merit[1], and we care about merit. Its often a lousy proxy, but our industry as a whole didn't care about merit, why would anyone care to look at a candidate's credentials?

[1] "Nobody gets fired for choosing IBM" -> "No recruiter gets fired for hiring a PhD"
What non-US paper though? In my experience as an Australian all of our papers are totally fucked. We don't have anything anywhere near as good as NYT or WaPo.
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That time when my boss started using "implicit" on everything. We were even using a new "Functional Relational Mapping" framework from Lightbend/Typesafe called Slick which was a mess.
I once knew a person that had millions of dollars in liquid banking accounts at one institution with their username and password saved in a contact on their phone!
If Google does this on iOS, what does it do on Android? I get jitters even thinking about it. Anyone knows about this?
It's acting like a capacitor.
Underlying all of the points in this article is the idea that people are somehow entitled to success. Louis C.K. and Bill Cosby are famous, dammit — how dare people not promote their work or give them money!

Meanwhile, zero sympathy for the people who experienced professional repercussions after being harassed or assaulted. Before you're successful, people can harm your career or discriminate against you all they want. It's okay!

Would we have a problem with replacing an unknown actor if it were discovered that they were a serial sexual assaulter of minors and minor-adjacents? No? Then why do we care when it happens to Kevin Spacey?
Of those three (Kotlin, Scala, Groovy), Kotlin is by far the most pragmatic. Scala is nice, more powerful, but has a high cost when it comes to learning curve, complexity, and the library ecosystem. I'm not sure of the state of Groovy at this point after it got transferred to the apache foundation. Kotlin on the other hand strikes a nice balance in many areas.
> It's exhausting to be bombarded by article after article that makes all sorts of claims where the evidence consists primarily or entirely of testimony by unnamed sources who may or may not actually exist.

Are you suggesting that reputable newspapers are making up unnamed sources or are too careless to privately confirm that they're real?

> I don't pretend to have an actual answer to how we'd build such a mechanism or what it'd look like, but there's a need for it nonetheless. Maybe some trusted-to-be-accurate-and-confidential third party that can say "Yes, this unnamed source is legitimate"?

It's been invented, and it's called journalism. That trusted-to-be-accurate-and-confidential third party is the newspaper itself.
How does the reputation system work? And what depends on it?
the good old "i only shot you once when all those people would have shot you 3 times" defense.
Same, but I knew it was satire the moment he said he can bench 200 kg.
You are surprised people who work for the NSA perform mental gymnastics to rationalise their choices?
You know people need money for food and shelter, and sometimes to survive and feed your family you need to make tough choices /s
I mean, lots of people think both are corrupt.
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I scraped google API exactly like this in grad school, but sometimes when you're building, you take a calculated risk to build something better.

For my thesis, I was trying to load two Street View photos side by side in a browser to compare people's perceptions side-by-side. Google maps at the time required you to load a javascript viewer for each image you requested. Think Hot-or-Not for cities.

The experience needed to instantly load a new image after the user voted because I knew they were only going to be on the site for maybe 30 seconds before they got bored and went back to reddit. I needed to collect as many votes as possible within that time period.

So I knowingly broke Google's ToS and prefetched the images on my server so I could provide the user experience I wanted.
"I'm a small operation. Surely they won't know." I wrote a server side screen scraper to load the Street View images and exposed the scraped images with an API.

Now my site was faaaast. I could load Street View images instantly and in the end got over a million data points doing this.

But then one day soon after it stopped working. Then I got a cease and desist email from someone at google legal. They didn't respond to any requests for turning it back on or even to discuss. Radio silence. That was terrifying.

Since this was my thesis, I needed help getting my keys turned back on. Google in the end was very accommodating, but only after I used my nuclear option: asking lab director Joi Ito to bug Megan Smith while she was still at Google to help.

I was connected to some engineer and told them what I was doing and why. They said stop. But then a week or so later, they sent me a beta invite to their new Street View images api, where you can feed in a lat, lng, header to a query string and they'll just serve the image now. Pretty cool.

Offending site for the interested: http://pulse.media.mit.edu/
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I would love to pay for real news, but I can't find anyone making it consistently. The New York Times at its best produces "mostly believable" if slightly confused material, and at its worst outright propaganda.
It's important to note that StackExchange is one of very few examples of successful vertical scaling, at least in the post-mainframe world.

If you want a relational DB as a cloud service, it sounds like you want Cloud SQL (as far as GCP is concerned).

(Disclaimer: I work on GCP.)
Presumably FB got it back after signing in blood that they were only going to use this for internal, non-public releases
We listed a sample in the blog post, including The Telegraph, The New York Times, Skip Scooters, Now IMS, and Hawkin Dynamics
I guess it is ironic that stablecoins are probably the most secure way to store your money

crypto security, usually legacy underpinnings, no volatility
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I’m just a working stiff and I’ve refused to do things for my employer that I found unethical. Sandberg is a billionaire who never need worry about anything, ever, not her children or children’s children. What does it take for someone like her not to support obviously shameful behavior?
This is correct, but then what happens when the UV partner closes up too?

The whole point of UV was to de-risk committing to a specific streaming service because your purchases were portable, like being able to put a DVD you own in a different brand of DVD player.
This is one benefit of having a unique name. My good friend, "Robert Miller" is out of luck. Me, well, yeah. Only one person with my name in the United States, possibly the world.
Apple restores Google’s internal iOS apps after certificate misuse punishment
Beautiful Minds: Physical Attractiveness and Research Productivity in Economics [pdf]
You make lidar sound great, much better than I've heard.

I thought lidar was quite sensitive to dust, rain, snow, and fog. This is particularly worrisome because lidar samples at a MUCH lower rate than a camera (from 30M samples per cheap camera to 300,000 or so for an expensive lidar).

While lidar is pretty impressive at short ranges, what about at 2 seconds away @ 65 MPH? Will it detect a deaccelerating car faster than a camera that can detect a brake light? Will it be better at detecting perpendicular cars vs parked cars at that range?

Will weather cause the lidar to decay in similar ways to human eyes?
small time criminals have been doing this for years? I guess its so lucrative that they aren't considered small time after executing it on a useful bank account

its rampant on instagram, which introduced non-SMS OTP just a few months ago after everyone figured out their negligence was just to data mine phone numbers
You have to look at it from a time when C++ was the mainstream for large scale projects. Java is certainly a god-sent gift to software salaryman all over the world.
Huh, I hadn't heard of these fish table games before. For anyone else who also hadn't, here's an interesting article on them that explains them: https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/znm8zx/why-cops-are-...
Sure. And Apple aren’t going to sue you if manage to. It sounds like you’re confused between “I should be able to” and “Apple should make it easy for me to”.
Same reason people use a shotgun for home defense not a grenade! Limited penetration. much lower required accuracy. If you miss you don't send a shell in a random direction. You can shoot at targets very close to the tank barrel.
The blog post has a lot of customer testimonials :)
I just explained this to my son yesterday, ending with a demo where I dug up an old coax antenna, connected it to the TV, and showed him channels of free content (also, what static looks like). He was amazed. (What else have I forgotten to tell him about? I've failed him as a father!)

He thought the over-the-air picture quality was better, which considering the bitrates he's used to with Netflix and YouTube, is probably true.
Oh, I missed that detail. Locast is inserting ads? I could see that being a major point in a suit.
Show HN: Firegraph – Run GraphQL Queries Against Google Cloud Firestore
Want me to pay for real news? Be worth paying for.
90% of "news" (like everything else) is crap that isn't worth supporting. I am not inclined to subsidize the good things by paying for bad things.

That being said, I do wish google or some other search engine would get better about favoring original sources rather than other sites that just take stories and rewrite them. I hate seeing a headline to a story only to find out that it is just re-reporting what some other site reported. Often it is a game of telephone where site A rewrites a story from site B that rewrote a story from site C.

If a search engine could find a way to return the original site first then it would help highlight original reporting and make re-reporting less worthwhile.
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Yeah; I guess there are two questions:

1. How meritocratic are the decisions we make today?

2. Do we want more meritocracy, or less?

I think there's specific ways we fail to make meritocratic decisions (credentialism, "culture fit", big company politics). But in my experience these things are the exception, not the rule. We don't start by trying to figure out if someone is a good culture fit, then assess their technical skills afterwards. We assess technical skills, then if we like what we see we check culture fit.

I don't know about the GGP post, but I've certainly talked to people who claim to reject (2) - saying that the whole idea of meritocracy is flawed. But I'm always confused by that argument. Would you accept a rubbish pull request in a personal project? Would you hire someone with no technical skills into a technical role in your company? If the answer is no, then you're on team meritocracy-is-good.
I would like to start by declaring that very, very few software manuals are can be read cover-to-cover and offer great benefit. There are some exceptions to this--the one that comes to mind the most is Ableton Live's manual.

Clearly, the most common use case for a manual is when a user has encountered a situation where they don't know how to use a product as it should be used. Here are two examples of different scenarios where RTFM as ended in different ways:

* Keras: I'm currently optimizing the architecture of an artificial neural network at work, and I needed a little more detail on how quickly the network was training. The Keras documentation quickly guided me to the Callback section, where I quickly learned what callbacks were, and then found the CSVLogger callback. Not only did the documentation link directly to the source, but I thought the documentation gave a good high level overview of what the function did so I could see that clearly this was the function that was going to solve my problem.

* Vim: I use vim quite frequently at work as my main editor, and some of my co-workers also use it. Recently, I had asked a coworker how he configures vim for his projects, and he told me about Vim sessions. I asked him for more details about how vim sessions and tabs worked, and he referred me to the vim documentation. While the explanations were clear, I've always held the opinion that the vim documentation is a bit of pain to navigate, and suffers greatly due to the lack of example vimrc snippets. Maybe others think differently than I, but I've learned much more vim through blogs and vim-tutor than I have through vim's own documentation.

The biggest piece of advice I can offer is that regardless of the quality of the documentation there is always some guarantee that the official documentation is not the only documentation out there. It is quite rare that I ever truly grasp an answer or new piece of information on the first read; I often need examples or further reading for me to incorporate that information into my everyday life.

All that being said, start with official documentation. I can't say for certain, but in my experience it has always been the most authoritative and the highest quality writing on the software itself. Seek out blog posts and unofficial technical writing for further examples or different writing styles that might be easier to grasp.
If only we knew what it meant.
Almost nobody will talk to you about ML positions unless you have at least MS in ML or have a large portfolio of recent SOTA implementations under your hood. More often a PhD in ML is a requirement for entry-level ML jobs with ridiculously low salaries (seeking enthusiastic doctorate holders etc.). Meritocracy is an illusion unless you do your own company and start competing in hottest areas - there your exit might be ridiculously big.
I just generate more passwords for the security questions. Since I’m using a reliable, backed-up password manager, my primary concern is protecting my account from would-be hijackers, not resetting a potentially lost password.
Idea: Cloud Based IDE
If I build an IDE which allows you to program collaboratively with your team (basically Google Drive/Docs for code) would you be open to using it? Just trying to come up with project ideas people would actually use.
but he has children to feed and mortgage of pay. clearly doing immoral things is the lesser of the two evils in this scenario.
um, the NYT has a pay wall and still puts out fake news each and every day, so...
That's been standard policy for some twenty four centuries now, as laid down in Pericles' Funeral Oration by Thucydides:

"Our city is thrown open to the world, though and we never expel a foreigner and prevent him from seeing or learning anything of which the secret if revealed to an enemy might profit him."

http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/education/thucydides.html

(It mostly works, especially allowing for some, or a lot of, bending of truth in advertising.)
This is why I read harpers.
To be fair, inter-generational military families / military caste was de rigeur long before we switched to an all-volunteer force. The McCains are a good recent example.

Personally, I dunno if I necessarily oppose the phenomenon -- if we accept military work as a legitimate field, I guess that wisdom passed through generations is desirable, even if it comes with similarly inherited attitudes. As example from other disciplines: farming and doctoring families are common and undoubtedly benefit from the dynastic nature of their trades.
To my knowledge making an HTTP GET request and then receiving a document does not involve agreeing to any TOS, implicitly or otherwise. If the server didn’t want to send the data over an authenticated channel, then why does it send the data?
Using Memory Differently
Yes it's predominately a base band technique, although it has also been written about a fair bit in literature as an efficient power spreading alternative to a classic chirp. In that case, it is predominantly done to help propagation leveraging the extensive work done in communications on "noise-like" signals.

In the case of Automotive radar, using it as an identifier to prevent interference is appealing because it allows each radar to use the full 6 GHz of channel bandwidth which greatly improves the performance of the radar despite the fact that there are tons of same channel independent devices operating. Each one would effectively be a jammer otherwise.
How does it work? Some of the examples (especially the crytek sponza one) seem impossible.