skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're setting them up to fail. You're talking about blackmail specifically. That's where anything going public destroy's the person's career. The blackmail will keep it secret for leverage. You then ask for us to tell you which people are getting blackmailed like folks publish this stuff instead of cave in or battle back in a secret way. Irrational. Of course we can't tell you who is being blackmailed right now. All we can say is that, if opportunity is there, it's happening. And so we need to eliminate the opportunity.

Our precedent is J Edgar Hoover. This nobody running an organization with limited power used surveillance to get dirt on lots of politicians and other powerful people. Their surveillance capabilities were extremely limited. He still managed to get enough which, combined with his media skills, got control of enough of Congress to massively increase his power. He kept at that for a long time. The FBI remains one of the most powerful, well-funded agencies in America.

So, here was my speculation around the time of 9/11. I was going by capabilities Bamford wrote about. I said they probably just ask NSA to use its existing capabilities to watch more people. It will be a black program (SAP or USAP). That means most of Congress won't legally know about it. The USAP's might just take a handful of them (committee heads). Then, with all that data collection, they could literally just have one team of people doing nothing but collecting data on Congress and maybe some Justices. Maybe just the committee members that hold them accountable plus their political opponents. It's not a lot of people or conversations to watch. They'd probably find evidence of bribery by lobbyists, prostitution, etc really fast. They see way more than Hoover did. Hell, they can even bootstrap by spying on those that set their budget first, getting a big increase, and then using a slice of that to target more of Congress.

The people running those organizations are already amoral, rule breakers who see everything as a means to an end. What are the odds that a power monger at top of spy agency would try what Hoover did? And what are those odds if they have widespread surveillance, total secrecy and mostly legal immunity? I'd peg it somewhere close to 100% that it will happen unless we block such surveillance projects. America, in fear, voted for more or didn't resist it. So, it will happen. The expanded access with, per Snowden leaks, sharing with over a dozen agencies will increase the number of abuses. Hell, folks were even looking at their girlfriends with Snowden himself stealing about everything. Think folks hunting for blackmail data couldn't or wouldn't collecting their own dirt with nobody noticing?
Same reason other presidents spent unusual time in hawaii which required undue expenses by the taxpayers to accommodate.
Push and pop aren't that great because they mutate the stack pointer for each value you push or pop instead of mutating it once.

The push and pop instructions are specifically optimised; see the section titled "Stack Engine" here for a brief explanation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_register

Not only does using mov with a base+displacement addressing mode not take advantage of the specialised stack hardware and also increases the code size, it also means extra effective-address calculations for the ALU.

If you don't believe that, look at this:

https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2014-December/0799...

When someone who works for Intel proposes changing LLVM to generate push instead of mov for calls, and even suggests push-pop pairs for memory-memory moves to save on register allocation (I've seen this trick before in handwritten Asm, but can't recall if ICC does it too --- it might), I think you had better listen to him, unless you believe it's some sort of a weird conspiracy to make other compilers worse so that Intel's looks better... but then again, ICC and MSVC (among others) use push too, and they're certainly not any slower for it.
Reading you it looks like Google does not hire anyone.

Google is a tech company, it is perfectly natural for them to have contractors when it comes to people working in the cafes for example, because training or interviewing cooks will be done better in a company actually focused on training and interviewing cooks.
How do you deal with discoverability of map keys and struct fields? That's something we just added after such datatypes became more prominent in our DWH.
They're a publicly traded company.
So the article is complaining that companies that chose to create a gated consortium to protect content are exhibiting gatekeeping behaviors and not representing open ideals.

Um, duh?

These entities have elected to participate in two communities - open where it commoditizes their competitors (e.g. Chromium, Netflix service infra) and closed where it protects their differentiation (e.g. Chrome, Netflix licensed content).

As an open community, instead of demanding access to the gated communities, and whining when companies innovate behind walls, we should be building better, richer solutions in the open.
Facebook is asking for email passwords and harvesting contacts without consent
Or just hire everyone who does not have health insurance or paternal leave.
Hey look, Williams is fast again...
In Seattle, where we mostly lack any sort of useable rail, it's entirely normal to have full busses, especially at rush hour. Bunching does happen and I love it because it makes my commute home quiet.
Yes there is some oral bioavailability, but for non-stomach the standard BPC-157 is not optimal. SubQ injections closest to the site of injury are preferred.

And what the bodybuilders are doing is useful because they find the effective human range for healthy adults. Obviously when it comes to growing muscle etc, it is usually the higher ends, but on the same forums are more modest users.

Most molecules are designed for people with diseases or disorders. For example, some of the SARMS were created to combat muscle wasting disorder for post-chemotherapy patients (cachexia). And before they got to cancer patients there are Phase I trials in healthy people, but they are not trying to actively gain healthy tissue with exercise. They are just taking it for safety/pharmacokinetics.

So when healthy bodybuilders/biohackers take these molecules while working out and eating right, we can see the true potential of whether or not the molecule is effective. One of the molecules was considered a failure because it could not overcome the effects of the radiation enough. The patients grew pounds of muscle, but it was not enough compared to the fact that their muscle is wasting away from chemotherapy. It is more germane to me whether it can work on a healthy person optimizing its effects/dosing/timing, what you call "confounding variables."

The bodybuilders are helping us explore these molecules and many times doing it in an open source, collaborative way. They will have blood work done and post it before and after the run. The community evaluates their bloodwork and can validate whether it worked, if the source was good etc. It's pretty impressive real-time, science experiments. And if you hang around and read all the science and see enough of those n=1 studies, the patterns and consensus that emerge are pretty clear.

And going full circle, it is helpful beyond the bodybuilders because when I go over to the longevity forums and what not, I see the older people whose bodies are wasting away naturally (sarcopenia) looking to do something closer to the original investigation of the molecule. They will usually do what is on the lower range of what the bodybuilders do.

So those older people are benefiting from the experiments and commercial availability of the more experimental and risk-taking bodybuilders. However, you'd be surprised because some of the people who are rapidly declining in physical and mental health have a similar risk profile of a bodybuilder who only cares about next month's competition.
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Is there not a different minimum wage for students/young people where you live? Or different brackets of minimum wage?
This is not a good argument, since most people in restaurants are not 16 year olds and their friends making extra cash. Most restaurant and fast food workers are not teenagers, they are open during the day afterall. The average age is in the 30s.
>> He, who has no p shell, acts far more like an ...

Sorry (downvotes...incoming), but this sounds the great start to a double entendre.
I’m a Persianist first and foremost, but I also spent time living in Oman, and it seems ludicrous to me that the legitimacy of the way that Gulf Arabs refer to the body of water bordering their countries (al-Khalīj al-‘Arabī, “the Arabian Gulf”) should be challenged. How could we possibly demand that one name or the other be used everywhere in the world?
I'm sure individuals within the company understand it. Maybe even most individuals.

Get people in large groups though and throw career advancement in the mix for highly career-driven Googlers and all of a sudden what everyone knows to be good for the group ceases up be relevant.
Maybe the Navy doesn’t want him at Camp David.
I suppose the general fear is that we are the product and we don’t know what we are being sold for or to whom. If they are so sophisticated they can infer behavioral patterns after you quit by using your still existing network of friends who didn’t quit then it’s a pretty useful bit of profiling technology with buyers. The only part that ever really mattered is how they monetize the product, us. It’s an unspoken agreement for using a service which has no transparent monetary cost.
He's using a cheap phone and turned off 4G.
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> and is charging them money to do so.

You mean, charging us, the taxpayers, to do so.
Insightful, think one of those travel sites like thepointsguy would rally support for clarity?
My Taiwanese friend has two passports. She uses the PRC one for the mainland and ROC in the West. Basically just use whatever passport causes less trouble. It's a fairly simple arrangement
Join a political party or support them, one was formed due to copyright: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party

EFF is a lobby/political group that tackles copyright issues: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/its-copyright-week-201...

You can choose to donate, spread the word, join and contribute, etc.

It's slow but works sometimes. “In 1987, over half[1] Australian households had a VCR, but it only became legal to record TV shows at home in 2006.". IIRC Politicians said their children were criminals for taping their cartoons.
No just anecdotal, a bunch of people from my cohort work at google and friends now. Obviously the boot camps highlight these grads and it’s worth pointing out many had CS degrees
Polish orthography looks insane to native English eyes, but spending a couple hours studying when I was over there 3 years ago was enough to guess right. More sensible than English orthography I'd say!
I use Gnus. One of its nicer feature is scoring, where every message gets a score and then only high-scoring messages are shown until you ask for the low-scoring ones.
I understand.

1. Does any other provider have better spam filtering than GMail, though? Curious.

2. You can configure inbox to show all the messages in Primary. Then, the tabs don't appear.

3. I don't see any ads. Probably because I pay for storage?
I don't think 4G/LTE encryption is a win so much as running your comms over IP, with application-layer encryption, is a win --- and that's something you generally need a smartphone for.
I’m going to leave this link here for future reference:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/02/bezos-saudi-hacking-allegati...

So many downvotes to my comments on this story, I am curious to see where it all ends up.
Seed a torrent!
Well, because journal publishers are parasites, they just burrowed too deep to remove easily. But the removal should be done anyway, no matter SciHub or not. They produce more harm than value these days. And every single researcher or academy should be ashamed for supporting them.
The bus in front will have more people, and more likely to stop to let people off (and on).

Meanwhile, the one following behind will be emptier, and thus less likely to need to stop, meaning it can easily pass the one in front (while that one is at a stop for entering/exiting passengers) and then itself take on more passengers at the stops ahead --- which then gradually slows it down too, but at the same time the one behind will be mostly emptying.

I'd say it is reasonably self-balancing.
Tanks Are Mighty Fine Things (1946)
I'm surprised it took you five minutes. I usually see papers appear in five seconds. The site is shockingly fast. Just append the DOI of the paper to the domain and presto!
Bless you, Inbox started redirecting to Gmail this week, and I cannot stand the new Gmail look. Features aside, Inbox was a pleasure to read and look at.
You may be joking, but I really think some of these posts may be by design. Some of these frameworks are so easy to use and in skilled hands lead to such impressive results, that it becomes harder to get a competitive advantage with UX. A single developer can do today what once took a small team. Thus we see these fucked up ladder kicking posts where people are encouraged to go use last generation tech, so they get left in the dust by companies pushing ever forward. By the time they realize how far behind they’ve fallen, it’s too late.
My bad, I looked at the wrong tax table and assumed the tax will be negligible.

The correct number (~$1000 per month) has already been mentioned above.

I still claim it is sufficient to survive in the city.
I'd rather have tools that can take code which implements a state machine and produce a statechart than go the other way around. There are a few tools which will go from statecharts to code and they've been around a while but never seemed to get very popular. I think dealing with a complex system as a statechart is potentially harder than dealing with code.

That said, my friend works on satellite software implemented with state machines. He was saying the high reliability of the system is mainly attributed to the requirement that systems be designed as statecharts first, which forces the designs to remain simple and analyzable.
Language development changes in speed with the linguistic landscape. Persian saw its fastest changing in the 8th century during the Ummayad conquest, when Arabic became the dominant language of the ruling class.

Similarly, English saw its fastest changing in the 12th century during the Norman conquest, when French became the dominant language of the ruling class.

In both cases, most of the core vocabulary and grammar survived, but with enough influence and new words that it is hard for speakers after the change to understand writings before the change.

My understanding from Persian friends is that Rumi is about as understandable to modern Persian speakers as his contemporary, Chaucer, is to modern English speakers.

Whan that Aprille with his shours soothe

The droughte of March hath perced to the roote

And bathed evry vein in switch liquour

Of which vertu engendyred is the flour...
someone who can diffuse that chaos and create a clear, powerful and unified message that the average person is going to identify with. I suspect it will be incredibly difficult.

When that person does come, I fear they are going to be magnitudes of order more dangerous than Trump.
Jimmy Carter did not "sell his family's peanut farm."

His mother and brother managed it. In fact, ol' Billy Carter got in a bunch of trouble using it as a sort of slush fund when he was hanging out with the Libyans.... but, I suspect that is long before your time....

Nobody sells off nothing merely to take a 4-year gig. At most, they simply let other family members take over the business.
I just went through this circus for a 1.5-hour layover. Salt in the wound was CBP having just 1 agent serving Non-US travellers for a 737 that just came from Japan…
I think they are making an argument about the efficiency of the modern economy more than they are making an argument that people should be able to live on $15 given current prices.

Looking at what it costs to produce the material goods required to maintain a decent (but minimal) standard of living, $15 an hour probably should be enough.

That $15 isn't sufficient can then be taken as a prompt to look at the impacts of existing policies and who they benefit and so on.
wow, this is amazing. Reading Qazwini's Padshahnama.

Even though I am a full time engineer like most others here, I had an interest in history so I learned to read Nastaliq hand written script and basics of Persian grammar online (had no knowledge of Farsi when I started). A lot of collections are now online so the first-hand sources are much more accessible now.

I still have issues deciphering the full meaning or reading an old hand which is beyond my basic skills. Anyone willing to help or know a good book/site that will help me in deciphering these old manuscripts (Persian or Arabic)?
Well let me restate, how much should anyone get paid for flipping burgers?

There was an article posted recently that that the average income of a 7-11 owner was less than $40K a year and just to get that most owners are working in their stores.

Small business owners are not getting rich.

The other argument I hear is if they can’t afford to pay more the store shouldn’t exist. Which is funny coming from a site where many of the posters work for non profitable VC backed companies.
There's no way I can do any work with my 4yo around the house, daycare is simply not going away.
You can't just go around calling everyone mentally ill because you don't like the idea that this person really was a spy.

There are lots of people who want to spy, not just the CPC. If it helps you sleep at night, blame a company spy from TenCent instead.
Something to know that probably helps:

sz ~= sh in English

cz ~= ch in English

w == v
I'm surprised such pools don't already exist. 40m is the limit you can dive without extra training and probably special gas.

I guess it must just be really expensive to build and maintain a pool this big.
Agreed. I'd love to see one in Texas. We've already got artificial surf parks: https://www.bsrcablepark.com/cable-park/texas-surf-park-bsr-...

Now we just need a good scuba diving park and there's no need to visit the coasts ever again!
Social media, mainly facebook, is absolutely huge over here. I have seen a few popular local #trashtag pictures circling around. We generally catch up with internet trends pretty quickly. I wouldn't be surprised if it made national TV. It's awesome but unfortunately I don't think it would help much in the long run.
No. If there were, wouldn’t that cause discrimination against older workers who actually needed the money to support their family?
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I don't think it's 'ethics' - rather than they are just trying to avoid any kind of controversy.

Let's get real folks: it's just a totally synthetic fleece in a totally commodity package. There's nothing really special about Patagonia. It's just a brand.

I'd buy it because I like the design, possibly, not because of their corporate positioning / PR spin.
...and then it crashes into the trolley arm of the bus ahead.
I just finished reading through your Russia journal - you did a great job. The seal show blew my mind, especially the linked youtube video.
I think it’s a huge market and it just wasn’t known how crappy and dev-unfriendly the existing players were. I wonder if the Segment guys had even heard of them when they launched or if they had and then cleverly categorized their product as analytics management or whatnot vs “tag management”.
I am genuinely impressed that you were gmail’s lead designer for _years_.

In the abstract, I understand how adoption and usability can turn on subtle and clever design decisions. The sum total of all these little things can definitely lead to a hockey stick uptake.

But I’m still lost on the OP “before” and “after” shots. Looks like the same info to me, just rearranged with different whitespace. Am I totally missing something fundamental?
ACLU files complaint with CBP over interrogation and search of Andreas Gal
Kong raises $43M to expand its API automation platform
It does, but only if you know about it in advance.
It hasn’t always been that way. Companies use to hire their own janitors and cooks. If a school system can figure out how to hire teachers, principals, custodians, electricians, bus drivers, cooks, etc. I’m sure all of the smart people at Google can.
So Mishchonov, roughly?
Can you elaborate on your backend changes? I've been doing django for 10 years and still am. So for me, the biggest server-side change is dev ops, cloud, etc.
Depends on the audience.
It does sound comical. Maybe the chinese are getting desperate after the huawei exec got arrested? Or maybe it's just a "setup" to apply pressure on china before the next round of trade talks. Usually espionage/intel related events are kept secret. When it's publicized, it's usually for political/trade/etc reasons.

Just like how china magically found canadian "spies" in their country right after canada arrested one of their executives and used their propaganda apparatus to put pressure on canada.

If this was real serious espionage, I doubt the secret service, cia, etc would release the info so quickly to the media. Does this mean the trade negotiations are not going well? Does it mean it is going well? It'll be interesting to read about the inner workings of the trade negotiations a few decades from now and what historians make of this time. Things like can only be understood in hindsight and never in the moment because we, no more than the chinese people, get to see what is really happening behind the scenes. Everyone gets the massaged and curated "news".
I work in finance (in the midwest), and for some reason, all of the offices I've worked in seem to be kept at an unreasonably low temp, like 68F or lower year-round. That would be fine if I was active, but I'm sitting at a computer from 830a-500p. I've routinely been cold enough to start shivering or to lose dexterity in my hands as they stiffen from the cold.

I can't wear sweatshirts at my current job, but used to at my 3 previous jobs. Now, it's a button down shirt and either a sweater or vest. Ive plenty of both, but none corporate branded.

Vests are nice in that they can easily be removed and put back on.

Most of my sweaters are partial zip. I can't easily remove one without my shirt and undershirt coming with it (I'm a guy, but I still think its rude to go flashing my bare chest & back in an office).
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