skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have done a fair bit of work labeling and classifying quality of user submitted URLs for a public facing platform (not Google). That includes many hours spent manually inspecting content and deciding whether a site looks "spammy" overall.

http://weblog.globaladvancedmedia.com/2010/research-before-b...

If I were judging by the first few paragraphs of this entry from your site, I would lean toward blacklisting it. Reasons: typos, grammatical errors, and a general lack of polish and punch in the writing. It looks at least superficially similar to thousands of keyword-stuffed, semantically-impoverished blogs that I have encountered before. The page source contains another red flag:

<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v9.2.1 - https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/ -->

The co-occurrence of the terms "SEO" and "optimized" is almost a good enough signal to blacklist it on that basis alone.

I am not saying that you are personally trying to exploit search or recommendation systems to trick people into visiting your page. There are also two big counter-signals that show me this entry isn't part of a content farm:

- You don't link to commercial sites.

- You don't show ads on the page.

The problem is that there are armies of people churning out "SEO blogging make money fast" content, incorporating ads or commercial links, and spreading it across a multitude of domains. For every blog entry like this one -- unpolished but harmless -- there are many that look textually similar and are purely mercenary.

So the one big G statement said that NOT being transparent is the best thing so bad actors don't take advantage of knowledge of the system - well I believe you are hurting more good actors and more users by hiding everything.

This is where I disagree most strongly. Google already struggles to keep junk out of search results. Process transparency would enable content farmers to evolve more quickly. Thousands of brilliant engineers are not a match for millions of people who pollute the web as a full time job. Some good actors will be hurt, granted. I think that you are badly underestimating the number of bad actors when you say that opacity hurts "more good actors" and users than bad actors.
How do those feel in your eye, though, while you're trying to sleep?

Also, how would you rate your personal pain and discomfort tolerance?
I cannot imagine the feeling of pride you must have if you worked on the Voyager program in any capacity. The first interstellar spacecraft, over 40 years old, and someone's still writing FORTRAN or ASM for it. So cool.
Did those kids actually know a lot of things, or did they just think they knew a lot of things? My daughter has reached the developmental stage where she's an expert on everything, and on the surface she knows a lot of facts, but her understanding is rather shallow. It takes some age, experience, and (usually) rigorous education to go beyond that stage.
The FANG Playbook – Kickstart your startup using an existing network [2016]
Jira is pretty flexible, so it could be used for priorities and goals as well as bug tracking
I joined immediately. We need this. And where else will we find an option with such a high profile and from people with such a good track record? It may actually have a chance.
moralestapia's point, as I understand it, is cynicism towards broad, idealistic mission statements because large tech companies with them still have a history of using their employees in what he/she perceives to be immoral ways.

The mission statements mentioned, in order, correspond to:

* Google
* Facebook
* Amazon
* Uber
Conflation of want and need aside how exactly - lets assume they have said niche. How are they going to manage to scale funding to actually provide for it while big?

Paid by user search? Discourage curiosity or just using the alternative.

Deep pocketed sponsor? They have the control now.

User donations are the biggest "maybe" I can see which would be not worse but depends upon charity and campaigning to some degree.
They are generally honest. Another gem of information on products are youtube comments which is tricky to search.
Gary Marcus Talks with Jim Rutt about His Latest Book, Rebooting AI
I stated that Silicon Valley company employees are majority left-leaning, sometimes to the far-left, in response to the original question about Google hiring left-wing activists.

What part was unclear? What do you think is contradictory?
or my favorite

git commit -am "i did a stupid"
Indeed, that's why you'd want to use a solution like Git LFS to avoid bloating your repo. Basically, it only stores a link to the image, which is stored separately.
Yeah, considering it's basically just a glorified CRUD app!
> Which you can't

Of course you can.

> By atomic composition, the most abundant element found on the Moon is oxygen. It composes 60% of the Moon's crust by weight, followed by 16-17% silicon, 6-10% aluminum, 4-6% calcium, 3-6% magnesium, 2-5% iron, and 1-2% titanium.

You have oxygen. You have aluminum. You can now make a solid rocket. There's some magnesium there too if you want to use that instead.
Your Interview Answers Are Boring. Here's How to Fix Them.
My apologies - I was referring to the book's hyperbolic tone not your article. The book is a nice enough summary of the current state of sleep research but its tone wasn't as balanced as I would have liked and I'm not surprised that some of the references are specious at best.

Thanks for the write up. I enjoyed reading through it.
> To put it into perspective, Voyager 1 has a current speed of 17 kilometers per second

And the Earth has 30 km/s, yet we don't get Voyager "for free" and then some just from LEO. You can't compare speeds in different parts of the gravity well against each other because then you're ignoring the dv required to get from here to there.
I was a pretty mediocre student in high school (as in, I didn’t get into Duke, people like you would consider me a failure etc), what would you say was the biggest difference between the precocious crowd you describe and everyone else? Do you think it’d just inherent?

I did community college in high school so I’d say it’s better to eliminate the “boring” general ed classes first but that’s just my experience.
> I think if you could train the AI without having to make a copy first, such as having the AI read the physical books directly

Presumably this would require a digital camera capturing a copy of the book and storing it for some amount of time in computer memory, which seems equivalent to copying a digital version of a book or movie into the AI's computer memory.
+1

I have a DCP-L2540DW that is awesome (and has a flatbed scanner with feeder).
And a non trivial chance that they will outlive everything else with any association to humans and Earth.
> and for whatever reason

I think the answer has to do with the user's voice and a sense of ownership:

1. Even if spam accounts sign up, their comments and posts rarely get to the top of the algorithm because user's have a voice in the matter (downvote low quality content, and upvote other higher quality content).

2. There is a sense of ownership on the part of the mods... people who are generally passionate about the area of interest in which they moderate. There have been a number of cases over the years where moderators were acting in bad faith and the users have voiced their concerns to the Admins, who frequently remove mods or even whole subs that are operating against the benefit of the community.
The Marketer’s Guide to Customer Lifetime Value
As a project manager who runs and attends a lot of meetings :) I recommend these two books about planning and running effective meetings:

* "Effective Meeting Skills" by Marion Haynes is a short workbook from 1988. It looks dated, but the material is still relevant and a quick read. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0931961335/

* "The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance" by Steven Rogelberg. This 2019 book is great and includes useful findings from real studies of meetings. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0190689218/

This podcast interview with the author is a good introduction: https://www.gayleallen.net/cm-127-steven-rogelberg-on-making...
we can’t conflate nor confuse the interrogatives (who for what for when for where for why for how) ...

things being talked about are merely distinct, and certainly not interchangeable either / ors .
The quoted statistic literally says "no symptoms". Like you, I assume "can't see well" is itself a symptom.
That might be a fair argument but I got lasik about 20 years ago (it was the best money I ever spent). And when I went through my assessment more than one doctor and at least one office person went through the risks with me and I was given all the paperwork explaining the risks - that I read. So IF all Lasik facilities do that, explain the inherent risks and give them to you in written form, then people are doing this with informed consent. It isn't like you see a commercial and then go get your eyes zapped no questions asked...there is a pretty through assessment and discussion of the risks involved and what to expect afterwards.
There's a (partly funded!) project to send a 'chain' of probes to α Centauri[1], as long as they don't need to slow down when they get there, they can shoot right through and relay results back, as I understand it.

1: https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/100-million-f...
That's how I tried to use my Pixel but between losing Hangouts, having the UI changed seemingly randomly (how many different homescreen changes are really necessary?), and the constatn bait and switch of Google releasing core apps and dropping them (Allo and Duo), I gave up. Using Nova for my homescreen helped, and I probably could've stuck to Messages but I would lose the ability to see my messages from my computer. I've had my iPhone going on a year now and haven't needed to look at /r/Apple a single time.
If I'm in an environment where I'm likely to break my glasses, I want to be wearing some kind of protective eyewear - a scratched eyeglass lens is a lot easier to replace than a scratched cornea. Wraparound safety glasses are comfortable, extremely durable and can do double duty as sunglasses.

https://www.rx-safety.com/product-category/master-safety-gla...
Could you please provide a link to anything that Damore might have written or said in public that would justify calling him an asshole? Because I have read his paper, listened to some of his interviews and to me he looked as far from an asshole as any human can be.
But those aren't free necessarily and they're detached from one another. The thing that's attractive about Reddit is:

1. It's free
2. It's all under one site so it's easier for people to find a new community to join
3. You only need one account and it doesn't require an email address so if you have a one off woodworking question you can ask it without having to register on a new forum

Websites are great for displaying information but they are not ideal for discussion
Thank you for this.

I am very disappointed in Matthew Walker. In fact, if I were working in the same field as him, these findings would cast a doubt on most of his other work. The density of the errors almost makes me unsure which is worse: the errors are unintentional due to carelessness or they are deliberate to create a better sounding story. (Of course, the latter is worse as it is basically academic fraud.)

I believe there should be more books that are scientifically sound, yet accessible to most people. I thought this was one such book, but alas.
You haven't been exposed to average 18 year olds if you think one could understand Shakespeare unassisted, let alone analyze it. I have tutored fellow university students at a rather prestigious school who lacked basic skills which should be learned in Algebra I.
RIP

I'm one of those people who go work at Google once every few years.

The transformation of culture from about 2013 onwards has been somewhat sad to experience.

Interestingly, most people who have been continuously employed there have not felt the very slight gradient. However, the changes in culture, freedom, food quality, etc are fairly obvious when one returns after ..say.. 18 months.

Here are some semi-concrete metrics: Decreasing TGIF frequency (now gone..), 'micro kitchen' snack variety and quality, which doors in buildings you are allowed to enter from(:facepalm:), badging in for meals(also :facepalm:), weird restrictions on business flights, attempt to make everything look uniform (no candies in receptions! No decorations..), defense contracts(much publicized here), any other discretionary spending by teams.

Anything I forgot?
Not all poor people are fare evaders, so I am not abusing the "poor". People who break some laws are more likely to break other laws too.

New York Post https://nypost.com/2019/09/22/subway-crime-on-the-rise-cops-...
Several major subway crimes are on the rise
September 22, 2019

The city’s subway system has seen increases in four major crimes so far this year, including murder and rape — as cops say they feel “handcuffed” from cracking down.

...

One high-ranking police source pinned part of the blame on Mayor Bill de Blasio for pushing a hands-off approach that de-emphasizes busts for low-level infractions such as fare-beating, even though they can uncover or discourage more serious crimes.

“The mayor has handcuffed the police in enforcing the quality-of-life crimes that we should enforce, and these guys know it now,” said the source.

“And all the fare-paying customers commuting to work have to suffer. There are people down there picking pockets and sexually assaulting them.”

*

Here is an NYT story from this year.

Crime on the NYC subway has been rising.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/nyregion/nyc-subway-crime...
New York Tackled Subway Crime. But Is It Starting to Come Back?
In January, a sleeping rider was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver on New York City’s subway. A month before that, a police officer fended off five homeless men who attacked him on a train platform. And on Sunday afternoon, a man was fatally shot at a subway station in Queens, the first recorded murder on the system in six months.

The subway has come a long way since the dark days of the 1980s and 1990s when violence was rampant and riders felt constant dread. The system has become very safe, with just one murder on the subway last year compared with 26 in 1990.

But lately, riders are starting to feel less safe on the subway, a belief that is often reinforced by a flood of complaints about the transit system, doled out in real time on social media.

...

But data shows crime is heading in the wrong direction: Transit crimes were up 3.8 percent last year, according to the police, part of a slight rise since 2014. Still, there were only about 2,500 major crimes — including murders, rapes and robberies — in the system last year, or about seven per day, compared with nearly 17,500 transit crimes in 1990.
Thank you for a very well thought out response. You make several great points there. First of all that this constitutes fraud, and secondly that the license information should not be persisted in any form anyway.
The very unusual definition of fraud for one. It seems anywhere between inflammatory and nonsensical when even misleading shady advertising tactics like "price match guarantee when they have their own model number for the store chain identical to others" wouldn't be considered so either by law or colloquially.
That's interesting, I didn't know about this issue.

There are a couple of solutions in this GitHub issue FYI: https://github.com/typicode/husky/issues/108
That's a lot of errors, and he only examined Chapter 1 of "Why we Sleep".

Walker comes out looking like a charlatan.
It's been tried, numerous times.

Usenet still exists. Outside very small pools, it's dead, or a spam wasteland.

Peter da Silva, an early heavy user (the first and fourth most prolific poster one month in the late 1980s / early 1990s, according to a reply he made to me at G+), created, and still runs, Usenet II. Which is also a wasteland.

The client-independence is a benefit only up to a certain degree. Consistent characterset (8-bit ASCII largely), no binaries / multimedia (uuencoded excepted), and consistent forms of address and reply (mostly), kept things sane.

But even between the tin/rtin and emacs newsreader camp, quoting styles differed. I don't recall if it was @gumby or others (and I'm positive one case was someone else, involved in xemacs development), but even one emacs-variant style of reply-quoting turned disruptive when trying to nest multiple levels deep.

("Doc, it hurts when I do this." "Don't do that then.")

These aren't insurmountable obstacles. But they are obstacles to be mounted. On which deciding is likely the hardest part.
Why should anyone be happy to do what you ask if they get nothing out of it?
> Wouldn't it be possible if we launched from the moon instead?

It would be cheaper in fuel terms, and require less thrust, but it'd also require us to manufacture propellant on the lunar surface and fly everything we can't build there from Earth (and landing on the Moon is purely propulsive).
Twitter set out plans to ban political ads
The Good and the Bad of the Access Act to Force Open APIs on Big Social Media
It was also discussed on the podcast Omnibus, ep “Tippi Hedren’s Fingernails”
Is Google and gmail down for anyone?
That repository maintainer should've octopus merged those commits in the example...
> Well, HN is a social network with broadcasting features

HN is pull actuated, not push. I have to register interest in topics by commenting before I get responses, and those responses are not part of the main feed. I have to go to my comments page to look for the responses. I don't get notified just because a particular user made a comment or post, because it is topic-centered, not user-centered.

And even with all that, if HN ever rises to a level of routine toxicity that the moderation via community or moderators isn't keeping in check, I'll leave.
Isn't that abusing power to avoid competition?
This one is pretty interesting/funny (more so if it's not fake):

Chief Media Correspondent

CNN

$1,054,000

White cis male

15

New York

Pretend ABC didn't cover up Epstein's crimes / Report every minor thing about Fox News and Trump / Envy Sean Spicer's dance skills
Maybe it's power of simplicity. When I coded 8086 assembly program, it's less likely to have bugs. There are just a few registers to use, most things are next to bare metal. Like what could go wrong moving hex around if we know exactly what we are doing.
You should probably disable the use of reserved names like postmaster@ security@ webmaster@ etc. as it could be used for SSL or domain verification.
Just don’t make public policy decisions that effect me and my children, or vote for people who don’t want to teach science, evolution, etc in schools.

You don’t just enjoy your life when you do that, but actively work at destroying others.
I only passively followed the Damore fiasco and out of curiosity went and read his memo[1] just now. "that spaces created by men aren't necessarily as welcoming to women" doesn't feel like the major theme of his piece. The major theme feels like "practices that specifically promote women and non-white races are discriminatory, unfair, and it is hurting Google". I"m quite sure he was treated unfairly, but I don't think your characterization of his piece is consistent with its content.

[1]: https://firedfortruth.com/
This is like buying a car that has a .9% chance of conking out on the side of the road, a .9% chance of colliding with another vehicle with no injuries, and a .9% chance of blowing up when you turn the key.

Or, you could stick with your reliable car that has some scratches and dents and needs a quart of oil when you fill up.
Some weeks ago we had big banners advertising 'Die great night show'. Probably wasn't as much fun as advertised
Chrome Dev Summit 2019 – Oh the things you’ll compile with WebAssembly [video]
> Windows 7 or higher https://getaether.net/download/

That does cover much of the market... but leaves out Linux, MacOS, and mobile.
That's fine that you see it that way; let's have a debate about that. Why do we punish people for being skeptical, for example, that discrimination is the principle cause for disparities in tech employment or the wage gap? Why is it fundamentally sexist to _merely consider_ the possibility that there are population level differences between men and women--even when those differences leave men and women equal on average (e.g., Damore)?

How can we resist racism/sexism without a basis in knowledge? And if we have that basis in knowledge, how can we verify if verification is itself racist/sexist?
> "keep politics out of the workplace"

Pretty much all of the “pro-politics at the workplace” types would demand that anybody who wore a MAGA hat be fired… so I think that the people who think politics in the workplace are OK are the ones who are actually the ones maintaining the actual status quo: you can have opinions, as long as they’re the same as mine.
Most people using Wish are well aware of what they’re buying and how authentic it is.
This is legit one of the scariest movies I've ever seen.
Vaccine related advertising in the Facebook archive
I started college at 16 and skipped my final year of highschool.

Totally helped me socialize - first year uni students cared less about who I hung out with, and more about who I was. I was able to reset and engage with people in the way I wanted to. I was also able to accelerate my pathway to meeting attractive and mature young women, since I went to an all boys high school.
And aluminium, magnesium and titanium are great for building spacecraft, if we can get the mining and manufacturing capability there.
I absolutely adore GitHub and I’m genuinely curious: what are the anti-features you were talking about?
United extends grounding of 737 Max fleet to early March
Fair enough. I was just trying say that being unwilling to pay is very different than being unable to pay.

Charging a high price for a luxury brand is a fine business model but I wouldn’t consider a product accessible to only some socioeconomic groups to a be a Facebook competitor (as indicated in the article).
>I ride mountain bikes, dirt bikes, and do lots of building

This is the main reason why I'm sceptical of laser eye surgery and contact lenses - even if you have 20/20 eyesight, there are a lot of circumstances where you should be wearing protective eyewear anyway. Laser eye surgery makes your eyes more vulnerable to damage and doesn't obviate the need for protection from dust, debris, caustic substances and UV radiation.
Refractive surgeon here. I work in a well-known eye hospital in Paris. I operated my sister (PRK) and my best friend (LASIK). My mother underwent PRK when I was a child and I think the amount of admiration/gratefulness that she had for her surgeon afterward actually gave me interest for this surgery.
We regularly operate ophthalmology residents as well, and one of the surgeons of the center underwent LASIK.
However, if you consider surgery, please turn to a well-known and experienced surgeon. It is a very secure surgery that can turn really bad if errors are made during patient selection, surgery planning, surgery itself, and management of the unfrequent complications that can occur.
Patient selection is especially important. So you have to choose a surgeon that really cares about his reputation, and that will not operate you whatever your examination.