skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Facebook doesn't want these companies sending users' personal data to them without their knowledge

Facebook's claim about not wanting the data is contradicted by actions. They chose to make their SDK send[1] analytics signals on library init before the user could have even been presented with a request for consent. They chose to have their analytics SDK send[2] everything to Facebook by default, requiring developers to go out of their way to disable the spyware (including somehow discovering that this step is needed).

> Now if Facebook were to use this data for their own purposes,

What would Bayesian analysis say about that question given a history with multiple events where FB et al were using the all of data they received however they want? Facebook lost the benefit of the doubt a long time ago, and it will take a lot of work to rebuild their reputation.

[1] https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9941-how_facebook_tracks_you_on_...

[2] Ibid.
What about "previous"? Same length as "comments".
Are you sure about that?

Family history sure does have influence, but tracing (and blaming) personal issues to postgenerational trauma sounds like a cheap excuse. Unless you just use it to understand where you came from and move on from there. But I doubt focussing on historic traumas are helpful to overcome "issues".
> doesn't mean giving up your belief that you're capable of anything.

> Humans have the capability to do anything we put our minds to. You can too.

> doesn't mean you're not capable of anything.

That does sound like you're talking to individuals. Turn down the hyperbole a notch and I might even agree
It's good and you'll be fine if you leave it as is. IF you have extra time to mess with it, read on.

Be aware that on average the people interviewing you will look at your portfolio for ~60 seconds. Show off the stuff you're proud of and think is interesting.

Show your games in action: use gifs. It'll make people more likely to try the actual games. They still almost certainly won't, but that's not a strike on you, it's just that there's literally no time.

Tell us why the project is cool. "Random terrain generation in ShaderGraph!..A unique twist on Sokoban with procedural puzzle generation! An Excel add-on that visualizes energy market futures using realtime data!"

If this is used instead of a CV, I'd want to know what languages and tech are involved with each project too.

List the relevant companies for the playtesting experience. Knowing which QA operation you were in is more important than the specific game.

Finally, I'd encourage you to do a little bit more styling of the webpage. Let's get some margins to center up the content. Use complete sentences with correct grammar, but keep things as brief as possible. Let the gifs and screenshots speak for themselves when they can.
Dead soldiers aren't very lethal, so any distinction between the two seems rather arbitrary. Technology that helps soldiers survive necessarily helps soldiers kill. But this whole topic of "for the military" or "facilitating killing" is rather arbitrary.

If you work on a smartphone app for hailing taxis, that's probably not going to be plausibly military. But what if you work in a steel mill? You help in the production of steel that is necessary to create buildings and bridges, but also military ships and tanks and just about everything else. Is the production of steel a part of the military-industrial complex? Could the military-industrial complex continue operating without steel? Definitely not, the production of steel is essential to the military, yet it seems a bit strange for producers of steel to lose sleep over what their steel is used for.

But actually, let's go back to that taxi app. Most military personnel aren't in warzones, virtually all of them own smartphones, and a great many of them may be using ride hailing apps regularly. If such apps increase their personal efficiency, perhaps letting them get to work faster. If a drone operator in Utah uses your app to get to work hung over after a hard night of drinking, does that mean your taxi app is helping to kill people?
Why is this particular contract a redline? The US military uses Microsoft Windows on their weapon systems platforms and Microsoft Office for their office admin. Microsoft is already a provider for the military's infrastructure and will be for the foreseeable future.
Developers don't develop on Surface books, and Macbooks are in low percentages.

The majority of people in the world writing code are using x86 PCs and Microsoft and Apple aren't about to change that with any *Book.

Linus' premise that everyone will continue to use x86 for development is because they will.

There's no incentive for companies or individuals to go switch out all of that x86 hardware sitting on desks and in racks with ARM alternatives which will offer them lower performance than their already slightly aged hardware at initially higher costs.

I can forsee _some_ interest in ARM cloud, and I don't think it'll be the issue Linus claims at higher-than-systems-level, but I absolutely would bet on x86 going nowhere in the human-software interface space in the foreseeable future.
>I agree that SF is a special kind of bubble, but I do think there's been an explosion of shockingly extreme right-wing thinking on the Internet in recent years... really since about 2008-2012 as near as I can tell.

As far as I can tell, the explosion in extreme right-wing ideology on the internet has come from the "special kind of bubble". The San Francisco Bay and the Boston activist-academic sphere breed ultra-reactionaries like pretty much nothing else, because they teach you to take Poe's Law as a standard of politics: no matter how much it sounds like a parody by the enemy tribe, you really can find someone purporting to be at the ideological vanguard of your tribe going to exactly the extremes you think would be a step too far.

In a related matter, as a matter of fact, today the noted Marxist journal Teen Vogue printed an article explaining that Bernie Sanders is overtly reactionary on identity politics, including an accusation that Sanders supports "settler-colonialism" (it's a tweet, of course), and Vox pulled a damn similar move on Elizabeth Warren a week or two ago.

The far-right bases itself on agreeing to many of the most toxic frames the far-left has, and then taking the other side. The far-left does exactly the inverse. It mostly just depends which side has "their" mainstream party in office at the moment -- the one out of power, builds a new extremist ideology based on their opposite. It would be easy to say, oh, that's ridiculous, I reject those premises and those frames, but then you find your own fellow-travelers affirming them.
The 4th amendment having any legislative teeth is honestly a joke at this point. The NSA spying programs show the US government has very little interest in upholding the 4th amendment.

Now, does this mean no company will take the government to court to protect their user data? Maybe not, but the list of companies that I can think of which will do that is vanishingly small. And let's not forget that the AT&T NSA spying case was dismissed by the appeals court, and was not accepted by review in the supreme court. Do you think the outcome would be any different next time?
We haven’t done enough of the latter. I’d love to automate and improve a lot of stuff but our project manager is pretty much always client visible first.
> Remember that CEOs making less wont result in employees making more

As long as employees making less (and being made to mean less) mean CEOs making more, you are right. But it doesn't have to be that way. It really doesn't, but it requires realigning incentives among many other things.
Gmail filters way more than it is supposed to do.
You can have a valid DKIM and DMARC and still be filtered out if your mail server doesn't rank high enough in their list.

And I'd like to specify that I'm talking about inter-personal casual communication - nothing commercial, not link, no attachments.

I have to request a proof of reading to be sure my emails get through with GMail.
Along that same line, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a pretty good movie at warning that playing it fast and loose with recreational drugs beyond alcohol can have you end up with a very bad time
Is this actually a bug? I'd rather say that's kind of expected behaviour.
Likewise... most of my code runs on Lambda JVMs now.

If AWS switches to running JVMs on ARM, and passes the cost savings onto me, I'd be in no position to argue.
While the Intel switched helped, at least I thought it was great, the big deal was that OS X was a tremendously usable Unix on amazing laptop hardware.

I'm not sure the architecture mattered as much as that did.
In fact I am paid in Bitcoin -> On my weekends I accept code bounties for small amounts of Bitcoin for fun. I've used that Bitcoin to buy coffee at my local coffee shop and have lunch with my friend in Japan at restaurants that accept Bitcoin (which is actually what got me into it in the first place).
That’s why I never said “you have to use bitcoin because courts are too expensive”. That’s an implication you made up out of whole cloth because you never considered that I wrote my comment before the edit.

As it happens — and not that it matters to you — I agree that the small-transaction-with-untrusted-party case is not a good use of blockchain.

I was only objecting to the OP’s implication that courts are sufficient to ward off all contractual violations. As of the edit, the OP clarified s/he didn’t mean that, and so I’m in agreement with him/her, but that apparently doesn’t stop you from lecturing me as if I weren’t.
Any technology that is useful, tends to make the military more powerful. Road building was used by the Romans to great advantage. The British and Portuguese took advantage of innovations in ocean going vessels. The American Civil War made extensive use of the telegraph and railroad.

The only way to get out of this equilibrium is to stop developing all technology.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19225964
> If you believe that this is true, why should it stop with just the internet? Why not all of life?

It is true of "all of life" but the social dynamics (coupled with bog-standard H. sapiens cognitive foibles) in play when you aren't interacting with a "real person", but merely a name on a screen, empowers the bad/ignorant actors far moreso than it does the good/rational ones.

Even the most reprehensible forum troll knows that if he behaved that way to someone's face, he'd get punched.
This is a bit rough as an early release: Marionette AI available on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/652520/MarionetteAI/
It's Never Too Late to Become Independent
Perhaps a raytracer? Those are often performance-oriented and employ C++ so the subject matter would be practical. A look into threading, memory ownership, and tricks like `constexpr` could all be utilized.
"another time in history..." yeah the 50's with their pooches. http://hyperurl.co/45dv8p
I think that's trying to assign more meaning than what the phrase was originally intended to hold. It's an issue of human language being ambiguous.

In your use, "true self" becomes a meaningless concept because there can never be a "fake self".

In the context of phrases like "stay true to yourself", I think it merely means to not act as a version of yourself that is inconsistent with your own values/beliefs/wants. In other words, to not act like a "fake" version of you.
>> The alternative to US military dominance, isn't a peaceful utopia, it is either Chinese military dominance or Russian military dominance

Yes, it is true and well known around the world that Russia, China and the USA are warmongers that use military force to get what they want. It is something we have become used to.

I'm very pleased to hear MS workers aren't happy with this status quo.
A better question, and one that gets to the heart of why Blizzard's CEO is overpaid, is why do they need 10k people to make, distribute, and support a few video games?

There are far, far more effecient video game studios/publishers out there.

Nintendo manufactures and ships millions of hardware units in addition to producing/publishing games and they have fewer employees.
That's not the kind of romanticizing the parent comment described with "reading about a legendary musician's struggle with heroin addiction while they were writing the most profound music of their career does not evoke the same aesthetic as seeing a homeless addict shoot up on the sidewalk".

Bukowski is the guy who would more often write about the misery of his life as the latter. I agree your example is a lot better. One-upmanship of degeneracy was there at times no doubt and I'm sure he exaggerated some events. But I think the reason he will stand the test of time is that he had many authentic sides to show in his writing. Some of them quite vulnerable. And if memory serves me right, the theme of the dullness of life came up more than once too. If it were mostly or even too much one-upmanship, that would wear thin very quickly. There's clearly a lot more to his writing than that.

Really though it comes down to how much his lifestyle appealed to me the reader. Almost not at all. I can think of other authors who have been far better at romanticizing a degenerate lifestyle and made me feel like I wanted a part of it.
I don't disagree with you at all -> In fact most people who I read about in the space actually want high transaction fees.

I think that's what makes Lightning Network very exciting. I've used it a few times, and it's a very pleasant experience although definitely still early - only has a capacity of about 3 million at the moment.
Hm,
What if entities were limited in how many active contracts they could have outstanding in which they had an obligatory arbitration clause in play, based on how many employees they had?

So, like, if you couldn’t have over 2 + 4*log_2(your number of employees) cases where people you either currently employ, or used to employ and are still bound by that clause of their employment contract, are subject to forced arbitration.

(Or some other function. Sqrt might be better than log)

This would still provide some of (hopefully most of) the benefit of having the arbitration, while preventing it from being common or typical amongst the employees, as the proportion of employees would have to be asymptotically zero as number of employees increases.
If companies are willing to hire after five months of training and let people continue to learn on the job then that is the very best option for these "new coders." The quality of learning that you do on the job is so much higher than what you do in the classroom that it should be every new coder's goal to get the bare minimum of skills required to get hired, and then get started on your real learning.
As a matter of fact, it is established that the larger your organization becomes, the greater the gap in true productivity will tend to become.
I'm going to try that with Trump's twitter feed.
I think there's social and legal precedent the differentiates between a generally useful tool that can be used in the commission of violence (eg. cars), and a tool specifically meant for the commission of violence (eg. guns).
Actually it works great for France.

Look at all the electrified trains that the French take to work instead of driving.

Decarbonization does mean going to 0% overnight.
How much of this is the kid and how much is the parent? Still impressive no matter what, but I do wonder…
There's certainly a union there, yes. Though, what are the working conditions in the entertainment industry, exactly?
"Every up-to-date dictionary should say that "peace" and "war" mean the same thing, now in posse, now in actu" - William James in "The Moral Equivalent of War" https://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/moral.html
It is impossible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor#Radiation The issue is bremsstrahlung radiation. I only have high-school physics education, but AFAIU basically because the charged particles are constantly turning inward, the constant negative acceleration radiates energy away. The faster the particles move in the device, the harder the deceleration, the more energy they give up relative to the input energy. These losses overcome the system before the break-even point. The same process limits the energies that can be achieved in non-linear particle accelerators, like the Large Hadron Collider; it's why the accelerator ring diameter has to grow to achieve higher particle energies. The LHC has a circumference of 27 kilometers. Fusors are... slightly smaller. You don't really need to do the math or understand the physics to appreciate that Fusors are a dead-end.

It's worth reading the whole article. The Fusor design has a long and fascinating history. One of the original inventors, Farnsworth, invented television.
I don't like the word "efficient" in contexts like this, I prefer "effective".

Yes, some people are simply 100x more effective than others.
But is it worthy of a click? I can find "several" people of any opinion.
> Some examples of previous naive forecasts:

Another example would be "Nation shall speak peace unto nation", the BBC motto from 1927, round about the time Dr. Goebbels was using radio to speak a distinctly unpeaceful message.
You're essentially trying to say, "we're tolerant of all views except for those that are morally wrong." There's nothing tolerant about that. If that's your definition of tolerance, then Saudi Arabia and mainland China are tolerant countries - they just have different views of morality.
So he set up 2 factor authentication, does not have access to one of the factors and now he can’t login? How is that Apples fault?

Note that you can also set it up to call you instead of sending texts; I presume he can take calls otherwise I don’t understand why he even took a phone with him.
The assumption that your target is normally distributed about the expected value. Let's say you take the log of your target, and run a regression using RMSE. You now assume that log(Y) is normally distributed. Now, for a given sample, your model outputs E[log(Y)|X]. However, exp(E[log(Y)|X]) is not the same as E[exp(log(Y)|X], which is what you really want. It can be shown mathematically that in order to get to E[exp(log(Y)|X], you need to multiply by an offset factor, which in this case is exp(var(E[log(Y)]-log(Y)/2), which is how you would normally transform between the mean of a normal distribution to a lognormal distribution.

Here is a paper which addresses the issue in the introduction.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4024993/
Funny thing, when I joined the team at GitLab over a year ago I was really annoyed by this since I'd been using PR for the better part of a decade. Now I'm so used to saying MR that PR sounds very strange. All in all, "merge request" is a more accurate term and no one ever gets confused about it like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21657430/why-is-a-git-pu... I think it would be great if other tools just called it an MR as that seems to be the term that is easier to understand.
> Software engineer unions are coming

I will absolutely and unequivocally reject them, in almost any form. I would not be here today if software jobs were broadly unionized, and I will not allow myself to become that hypocritical.

The pay is pretty good, use it to buy insurance and investments. If your part of the industry is seasonal or project-oriented, line up other work in advance.
I lead one of the companies in this space and it always makes me smile when I see "solving recruiting through machine learning" :D

I think we can all honestly agree that recruiting/hiring will never be "solved", it will always be a laborious task if it's done right and that's simply because we're dealing with people, not data. No algorithm should ever direct your decisions about a human being, we're all too wildly unpredictable for that. No algorithm would have ever given Steve Jobs or Elon Musk a shot.

Sure, we can use tech to help us improve filtering, sourcing, automating, interviewing...to an extent.

At X-Team (my company), we've chosen to not only focus on using tech to improve all of those to help us be more efficient, but I think most importantly we've focused on the one thing no one really talks about: what happens after the hire.

Anyone can start one of these companies, make some decent tech to filter applicants, and then hand off a person to a company for a fee. Easy.

But providing people that will actually stick around after the handoff? Another beast entirely. We're providing X-Teamers, not people spit out of an algorithm on top of a database.

We're providing people who all share the same "keep moving forward" attitude, beliefs, values, people who are all motivated and rallied behind the same energy thanks to our engaging and energizing community experience (x-team.com/join for more on that). When your talent pool is unified and energized, you've changed the game because now it's not just about providing people quickly and accurately, it's about providing consistency among every hire, and you can only achieve that by continuing to invest in those people after the hire.

One example is how we give them all $2,500/year to spend on their passions and growth. TripleByte chucks them out the door and wishes them luck. We hang on to them, we send them around the world to our hackerhouse (x-outpost.com), we challenge them and motivate them (https://youtu.be/Th80vOGFvUE), we become their support arm that unifies them around meaning and energy.

As one client said: "I feel like X-Team shows a lot of love and in turn that gets brought back to our company. I think that they create this ecosystem of growth for the developers that as a company we can't really do."

So we think shaking up hiring isn't just about creating tech that increases efficiency. It's also about providing consistency, ensuring you can get the same level of quality every time you turn on the hiring machine and need a new hire; and since humans aren't machines, that's the biggest challenge of them all and the one we want to keep tackling. :)
hasnt S been around for a while? what about M?
OP is referring to the enormous riots and rollback of similar policies in a much, much more liberal country.

When people talk about CNN being fake news, they're talking about this article. This is only feasible in the minds of people on HN/elites. People in the rest of the country, not so much. It's fascinating to me that in an era of staunch conservatism this is treated as something approaching possible.
Microsoft Workers’ Letter Demands Company Drop Army HoloLens Contract
except there's VO and mocap talent that are already unionized, so games engineers have wider exposure to unionized peers. For example, I would assume that Norman Reedus is in SAG-AFTRA since Scott Wilson (his costar on Walking Dead) was on the board of SAG-AFTRA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E2%80%9317_video_game_voi... <-- there's no equivalent in the startup/web industry.
It isn't that they didn't grant or deny, its that they had a 3rd category: FORBIDDEN from asking for summary judgement.

This makes the 10-30% number of little meaning, because there's a whole of of summary judgements that got a forbidden marker. They're not in the set of summary judgements granted, because there was no motion. The motion never happened because they were forbidden from being filed. So what's the real percentage? Do we know how many summary judgements never got filed because the judges never let them get filed?
What humans do stops being natural when it is no longer person-power but powered machines. That gives huge amounts of leverage.

You would consider a car, or a chainsaw natural? I wouldn't.