skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you understand the significance of the Facebook incident...

1: Facebook is implicated in knowingly accepting and failing to report funding from foreign agents. No news channel is implicated in such. Doing so would end that channel.

2: Facebook + Cambridge Analytica were in a unique position of power to apply ML as a propaganda tool capable of targeting individuals rather than segments. This unique position of power was allowed to exist due to lack of regulations on what data Facebook collects and how that data may be used.
The web just took a big step toward a password-free future
Death by a thousand cuts.

Building a haystack to search for needles isn't free. If it's not delivering enough needles then people are going to be under pressure to end the program. I think a lot of people in government have smartened up to the fact that these things can be just as easily used against them if they fall out of favor and that having this sort of ongoing data collection could become liability if the wrong kind of people are in charge. The kinds of things Muller has chosen to prosecute certainly makes a lot of people in Washington nervous about their skeletons in the closet so there's less political tolerance of these kinds of programs than there once was. Snowden's leaks and greater public knowledge of these programs have reduced public support. It frees up resources to go after Russian trolls (or whatever), hunting terrorists is so 2005. There really is no way you can justify a program like this in 2019 (or so we hope), they've been proven ineffective and unpopular.
It's not profitable to give bad customer service, it's highly unprofitable to give good customer service while keeping product/service prices down.

Remember, the upside is low prices. If you're only worth a couple of dollars in profit per year but then you eat it up in support calls, the company is better off not having you as a customer.
The only censorship I've noticed on Google is when there's a copyright takedown on a page of search results. And for those, Google gives you a link to the takedown request, which naturally gives you a nice list of all the URLs that were censored.

Does Google do other censorship that isn't noted in the search results? (particularly in the US?)
Thank you! My father is an awesome guy with a unique perspective on the future! I'd rather not get specific, but having an initial angel investor was crucial for us to be able to generate the amount of data we needed to win our first grant an keep things moving forward.
"CHOICE" is not a get-out-of-sexism-free card. Anyone who builds products or sells anything to anyone ever should know that we have enormous influence over who chooses to consume our products.
Facebook is allowing anyone to look you up via your 2FA phone number
I think the bigger part is the type of jobs. In a career job, you work on your projects at whatever rate you work, so if you come in a little late it only really bites your free time.

If you came in late at a restaurant or hospital, they'd be short staffed and screwed.
How is it a dog whistle? How can you accurately compare unless you take such factors into account? Are you saying it's statistically insignificant?
No, this isn't money they had that they've giving to Google, or money they would be getting if Google didn't move there because someone else would move in and give it to them instead. This is an empty field in the middle of nowhere.
The 1st embedded UI framework could run in Docker container
Yes. There is SO MUCH wrong with ballet. So much. Like, way more than is wrong with tech or computer science. Just... so much is wrong with ballet.

Of course, while a majority of ballet dancers are women the people who run ballets are almost entirely male, which should give you some insight into what is wrong with ballet.

Indeed, if you want to feel better about tech I have never heard of a tech company where developers were openly expected to sleep with the person running the team to get a promotion, so we are beating the New York City ballet by a mile.
It's called working on the relevant level of abstraction.
GPS isn't too great in skyscrapers. In most current gen smartphones GPS can only really pin you to a 16ft resolution on a current gen smartphone in ideal conditions [0]. This gets worse indoors and if the target is moving.

[0] - https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/performance/accuracy/
This explains the easy parts of load testing (setting up VMs and such) and ignores the hard parts (writing a good load test, automating it, etc)
I have a 2m TB3 cable that I bought off amazon [0] a year ago. Some of the reviewers reporting having trouble but it has worked like a charm for me.

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01H5QF2TK
I'd have to look up the error code to be sure but I think the borrow checker emits that one occasionally.
The problem with that logic is that you never know up front what the percentage chance is, and whatever it might be, a retrospective analysis shows it's always much, much lower than 10%.
How exactly is this a drain on the town? People keep saying things like this and it is not at all clear how that could be happening. The opposite seems likely: Google building a huge data center here will, in fact, be an economic boon (marginal or significant, we can debate).

This isn't money the county is paying Google, or that Google is somehow taking from the town. It's a data center built on an empty field in the middle of nowhere, connected directly to a wind farm run by an otherwise struggling power company that owns the land Google is using.
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This is pretty accurate when compared to my own experience, which really surprises me.
I use a similar add-on for Firefox that enables you to make all sorts of rules for things you'd like to remove from URLs.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestcontro...
> What actual engineers NEED to know about floating point numbers could be put on a single A4 page.
Inversion of (Coupling) Control in Java
U2F is fundamentally quite a bit more secure than TOTP - you probably already know this, but just to clarify for those reading.
It is if you doing it puts fewer people in camps than the alternative.
Also Krypt uses it to store keys on your phone: https://krypt.co/
My favorite monitor is my 42.5" Dell ultrasharp. The screen real estate is amazing, but it has old school 100% scaling. I would absolutely love the same panel dimensions with twice the number of pixels.
Here are two realistic facts:

1. Google would be absolutely fine if they do not expand into China. They would not collapse or lose their competitive edge if they refrained from doing so. You've worked at Google for over a decade so you should know this is true.

2. Google's censored search engine would absolutely facilitate Xi Jinping ability to censor the Chinese people and would set a dangerous precedent for other governments to make similar demands.

Google, which is already one of the wealthiest and most secure companies in the world, is developing a tool for suppression and bending to the demands of a dictator in the name of profit. Perhaps you have a different moral stance than I do, Ari, but I see nothing "gray" about this blind pursuit of money at the cost of over a billion people's free will.
I'm genuinely curious how we might factor in the differences between genders in occupation selection and that women and men may innately value different types of work e.g. women are more empathic than men and dominate the nursing field etc
How to Get Back into IT?
Back in the mid 90's I was an IT Director, doing in-house email, ftp, e-commerce and VoIP on a metro WAN in a windows/MacOS/Solaris mixed environment; while I was going for my MBA. Then I went into the non-IT management.

I am looking into going back into IT, but - while I can do the work of a director-level or IT specialist, I don't have the degree or certifications: what would I need to do to get back into the IT game?
The UX I'd say is following dark patterns for this.

You cannot enable U2F without first enabling SMS Auth and or OTP Auth. Once u2f enabled if you delete both SMS Auth and OTP auth it disables 2 factor auth and takes you to a welcome screen to get started enabling it again with the only 2 options SMS / OTP, once enabling one of them you can add U2F again.

Also I have "security.webauth.u2f" enabled in Firefox but Facebook is the only U2F service I use that doesn't work in Firefox so it falls back to the SMS / OTP methods on login.
https://youtu.be/qcILD9OJ2wg

Good things take time.
I remember the transition from 2.4 to 2.6 being rather painful, whereas upgrading from 4.x to 5.0 would, no doubt, be a breeze.
Yes, you can use Google Authenticator for Facebook 2FA.
"Because the customers want that, and won't buy a car that is limited that low, possibly out of principle."

And good luck getting politicians to push them to do otherwise.
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They'll never share the actual cap table in any case. With preference etc, the strike is a bit of a fantasy anyway.
Currently, it does not because the browser aborts when it loses focus: https://github.com/github/SoftU2F/issues/51
>perhaps we could shift attention elsewhere?

(Edit: trimmed down argument.)

I think if someone wants to study the fundamental constituents of the universe, or if a member of the public wants to learn about them, the other open problems aren't going to satisfy that.

>the Standard Model does an unreasonably good job about explaining particles and their interactions up to 10 TeV.

It turns out that the cap at 10TeV is not as solid as you would hope. I remember expressing my surprise (to his minor offense) to someone working at one of the pre-LHC colliders that they were looking for the Higgs. Apparently the Higgs can be detected on many lower-energy devices, but it takes a lot of work, an advance theoretical prediction, and a lot of statistics. The next particle could be in the data at the LHC right now.
I admire you courage but have you considered the possibility that you might be wrong on this? Probability that China would change anything because of lack of Google products is about zero. In fact, not having Google benefits them even more because now there is no one reviewing of any censorship rules. If Google is there (1) they can minimize censorship as much as possible by pushing back frequently (2) people in China benefits from access to much better search and subsequently gets better educated over time.

Consider the fact that vast majority of search queries will not be affected by the censorship. Your actions are depriving billion+ people from these queries. Think of all the things kids could have found out about science and western literature by better search that they currently aren't.

Finally, I would to leave a note on cultural aspects. Being in western world, we assume that every culture in the world wants democracy. We firmly believe that every culture resents censorship. From my contact with many asian folks, I have changed my assumptions and such belief. Chinese culture is fundamentally different. Government is not looked at some agency that people allowed to govern but rather an agency that is charted to protect culture even if it is at the expense of individualism. My theory is that even if Chinese government was toppled, the replacement would still have same characteristics because that is the expectation that people have from their government.
I am a huge fan of Asimov too. I didn't know he died of AIDS. That's unfortunate.
In my experience (which includes my circle of friends in the bay) FAANG companies routinely give sign-on bonuses in the $50k-$100k range for standard software engineers with a few years of experience.

The largest sign-on bonus I've personally seen was one that I myself received in an offer from an hedge fund in NYC: $150k (I didn't take the job anyway since I hate the cold weather, very stupid of me).
You can use OTP 2FA with Facebook.
I'll comment against my own rhetorical interest here and point out that Zerodium has macOS LPE (with sandbox escape) listed at "up to $6k". But they list a bunch of things I'm not really confident they actually "want" to buy.
Which specific biological mechanism are you hypothesizing is responsible? In combination with which specific cultural construction of computer science that is somehow inalterable?

Whereas we have pretty good evidence that by improving the signaling of ambient belonging for women we can significantly increase their interest in computer science: http://ilabs.uw.edu/sites/default/files/Cheryan_Meltzoff_Kim...

Few things with a biological mechanism are that easy to manipulate.
This is for 5K and docking station specifically.
Am I hirable as a contractor?

Yes, if you ask people you worked with and respect your technical skills.

How do I craft a resume?

Don't expect to be successful sending resumes to people who don't know you. You are too far out the norm. Use your reputation to get warm introductions.
> "It breaks my heart that a project I did for fun, on the side, and out of pure love and dedication to the source material ended up costing me so much — emotionally and financially."

It seems like he just overlooked the cover art piece. That sucks how much damage to a project an unmalicious seemingly small mistake can make on the legal side. In that regard, it's valuable to have access to lawyers and legal resources just to avoid all the BS that comes along with lawsuits and legalese. It's not just a matter of being intelligent or capable, but also able to jump through all the hoops the right way in the legal system, which puts most non-lawyers at a disadvantage.

> "Anyone can file a lawsuit and the costs of defending yourself against a claim are high, regardless of how strong your case is. Combined with vague standards, the result is a chilling effect for every independent artist hoping to build upon or reference copyrighted works."

As can be popularly seen vis-a-vis DCMA takedown requests, the trivial-ness of of sending a C&D or demand letter out to virtually anyone makes this process a money-making machine for law firms. It's a win-win for them. You settle and they make a profit, or you draw out a legal battle at a higher cost and they make a bigger profit. Honestly, it's a tarnish on our legal system that it so often rewards those with bigger wallets.

Not all lawyers are bad, and there are times where the 'little guy' may be thankful IP law exists, but it's when someone like this gets screwed that the legal system seems unfair. It's one thing to speak softly and carry a big stick, and another to pick a fight for lunch money.
If conferences were built by men for men and are, in some inadvertent way, less rewarding for women to attend, it would make sense that women substitute monetary compensation for the non-monetary compensation they don't get.
Indeed. People are morally responsible for what they actually do; not for their presumed actions in someone else's alternate reality.
Actually, you're right - that capability has apparently been available since last year: https://www.yubico.com/2018/05/yubikey-comes-to-iphone-with-.... The link I cited is for lightning-connected Yubikey hardware, which is supposed to come out this year.
What’s the point of this thought experiment?
> all the company cares about is: "Is it fast enough so that people still buy/use the product?

Studies have shown that is not the case.

Amazon found that every 100ms of latency cost them 1% in sales. Google found that 400 milliseconds means a nearly 0.5% decrease in search sessions.

So yes, a 5% speedup in an application could be an enormous win for a company.
Preferential treatment is irrelevant. If harm is done due to the public disclosure, Google is the cause.
Before anyone thinks this is a Eureka anti-ad-blocking technology: Clearly you still need client-side javascript, distributed by the mediator, to ensure that the impression is actually delivered and the click is actually registered.

Otherwise, obviously, the server could just maliciously record impressions/clicks.

Then, logically, if uBlock Origin doesn't remove the ad, but does successfully remove the mediator's script, the server can never book the impression. So why waste precious bandwidth (actually INCREASING the cost of ad delivery for the publisher) delivering an ad you can never be paid for? Boggles the mind.

Embedding the ad into the video is more akin to a native ad, which is generally understood by the advertiser to not have measurable conversion and to be strictly context (as opposed to user) targeted.

We are going full circle--that is, back to the beginning--of ad technology.
AFAIK, That's Chinese companies using AdSense to advertise in Western markets, it's not "AdSense in China". I've never seen a single Chinese website using AdSense.
It's a drain on the people currently living in the town, because the high paid employees will mostly be imports and drive up local cost of living, more than they will drive up the income of people not employed at the facility.

It's maybe a boon for the town as a corporate entity, or as a statistical aggregate, but it's not likely a boon for the existing constituents of the town if it comes with a significant tax abatement.
CAD tools generally have pretty good lock in. So that certainly helps with the long term the prospects.

I’m not going to convince my team to move over from the tools they use. But the engineering team that makes their jobs irrelevant because they bid by 50% lower through increased efficiency will.

Rendering is computationally heavy, so a browser is not ideal. However, offloading simulation, file storage, version handling, etc to the ‘cloud’ has boundless potential for productivity and efficieny increases.
I personally find it a bit suspicious that every single piece of information we have on Dragonfly has come from The Intercept, which probably got it all from a single source. And yet everyone in these threads take all this info as fact. Clearly if it was so open, we'd have a lot more sources here.

I also don't feel right making judgement on a project when I've only heard one side of the story, from a source which is clearly biased against it.
Thanks! I'll check this out.
I'm honestly really sad about this. This band were iconic for me growing up. A true pioneer has left us.
ADD is interesting and a clear example of bias, in that it is over-diagnosed and over-medicated in boys and under-diagnosed and under-medicated in girls. Simply saying it is "over prescribed" can make things worse for the people who are already being most neglected.
I wish more conversations around student loan debt discussed the outcome difference by major. The income gulf between an engineer and a lit major is massive. The conversation focuses on how bad the economy was when we graduated, but I suspect outcomes would be wildly different if people majored in STEM or business and instead minored in feminist dance theory or French poetry or whatever their passion may have been.
> They would not collapse or lose their competitive edge if they refrained from doing so.

Alphabet is a Deleware corporation, where executives that leave money on the table for moral reasons have to at least claim that it was their business judgment that the action would ultimately increase profits for shareholder value in the long term.

There are many arguments those executives could make, such as that employees could get dissatisfied with the company and cost them more in the long run, so it is important for employees to be loud about it.
More than percentages, it is the terms that matter. You can get a decent percentage of a early stage company, but end up making no money even if the company sells for 10-100x of the valuation at the time of stock options. Be sure you understand the terms.
This has been talked about as an obvious evolution for the Ads Network for quite a while. Do anyone with knowledge in this area , know why is taking so long for Adsense/ Criteo come up with a solution like this?
Even if the valuation was accurate, how could you account for the possibility of dilution?
I don't get the pushback....you signed up to work for a for-profit publicly traded corporation. You received your benefits and compensation. Now suddenly, you have a problem with your employer trying to do its job which is continue to please wall street that impacts the share price?

it's kinda like that pushback from MS that was puzzling too....whether you like it or not, the very work you are doing in university to where you end up workiung, directly or indirectly contributes to somebody on the other side of the planet not having the things you have so you can keep the stuff you have....

the entitlement, and the blatant ignorance is just mind boggling...where does this mentality come from? This type of shit is now encroaching even video games... in Battlefield V, the game has been completely neutered of its historic accuracy....Redheaded cutie with a robot arm in WW2?
He's not using unix... it's a plan 9 system, and there's no dictd in plan 9...
This sounds a lot like the invariant that they're checking is that, _given a conforming counter-party_, nothing illegal will happen. But this doesn't tell you anything about what happens to you when your peer passes between states in an illegal manner. I'd expect this to have been emphasised in the paper. Especially if their threat model includes it, it would be a key selling point.
I usually like to make projects which solve one simple problem or fill one need.

For fun once I made a site where I categorized images of bouquets by the flowers that were in them. This learning ended up being the basis of the photo browsing functionality on my site https://officesnapshots.com

I also like to look at city government websites to see what parts of them are terrible and then make my own, better version.

For instance, Santa Barbara posted their crime stats in tables on their website as well as precinct boundaries on a different page. I then learned a bit about combining those two things using CartoDB so you could visually see where crime happened.

Lots of inspiration everywhere if the goal is learning or fun!
‘Holding them to’ makes it sound like Google has some kind of moral authority here.

I understand the positive incentives for publishing when companies do not respond to flaws.

However Google has no particular right to police other companies.

If they disclose at 90 days, and harm ensues, there is no defense. Google is responsible.
Related: whatever happened to The Immunity Project, the AIDS vaccine funded by Y Combinator in 2014? http://www.immunityproject.org
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Is Simple Tab Groups the current best replacement option? I still haven't upgraded from FF56!
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