skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So would you say that Reddit isn't a social network? I would have agreed at inception, but not anymore. I'd say the lines have blurred enough to look at any site where commenting is one of the primary functions as "social".
Organizational Politics and Real world Politics are usually studied separately. One in B-schools the other in political science depts. You have to spend time thinking about why that is.

There is a lot of overlap, because both are about gaining power and influence, but there are big differences in needs, resources and routes taken. It's easy to misunderstand them.

Google, thanks to the amount of info they sit on and decisions they make about how it flows, is stuck bang in the middle of those two worlds. Other corps sit in that intersection too such as oil/energy, defense, banking, media etc but none of them have achieved info scale that Google has.

This is still early days where traditional Politicians/Parties (other than the Chinese) haven't fully processed what those info flows can do to them.

They recognize now, how important corps sitting on top of mountain ranges of data are. But the moment they loose power and influence because of those info flow is when real awakening happens. It's safe to assume Real World Politics will dominate Org Politics within such corps. Things will break apart just as they did with Newspapers and TV/Radio News.

At an individual level it's always good to think about what your needs are and be conscious of them. People who aren't, just get dragged by whatever chaos is unfolding thinking they have no role to play or choice. Those that are in touch with their needs and values experience the whole story very differently.
I remember hearing about new economic theory that talks about inflation being related to latent productive capacity. If, for example, a factory is only producing at half capacity because there is not enough people with money to buy their product, they can simply increase production if more money is put into the system without raising prices. It is only once a factory is at full capacity that it would raise prices to match the supply/demand curve.

Our modern economies have a lot of latent capacity, especially since so much of our economy these days does not have a lot of raw materials involved. More Netflix subscribers don't use much more raw materials to serve them. We are not limited by things like oil and iron anymore, so we don't hit supply issues which cause inflation.
How do you translate textbook literature into those visualizations if they aren't provided for you? I struggle with this, even reading news articles at times.

It's funny how a simple infographic on a video can really make things click for me.
Assuming that the court rules in the way I would want then 100% yes.

WINE would be fair use because it’s purpose is to allow programs written for Windows to run on Linux.

Google’s use of the Java API would be infringement because Google’s use of the API is to provide a familiar environment for Java developers and it was easier to borrow the Java API than design a new one.
It's because these extraordinarily stupid individuals started out with the same shitty American k-12 education as the rest of us and then went out of their way to make it worse by believing things that are patently false. Someone unable to grasp the basics isn't worth getting into a technical discussion with. There aren't many of these 'basics' that I would consider an instant DQ, although Holocaust Denial, Being Superstitious, Cannibalism, Flat Earth Belief, etc. would fit the bill.
I feel the first is better, mainly because if the functions are named appropriately, from a glance you can glean the general idea of what the function does. And with modern ide’s, I think navigating that structure is easier than scrolling through the latter.

Of course I just got stuck writing jupyter notebooks for a month so I’m against all the scrolling crud.
Why does USA not have a system like UPI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface)? It simpler, easier and cheaper (mostly free).
I meant aren't the most readable
"The best" is pretty subjective based on what one is looking for in a job. Not everyone gels with all company cultures.

It's great that you like working for Google and have found a good fit.

Some features I like in workplace culture:

- Empowering the "builders" and developers to have autonomy and guide how product development cycles are defined.

- Top cover provided by managers - managing expectations from stake holders

- Overall non-toxic environment

- Quality work and product vision
By what principle could one blame them for one thing and not the other?
I agree on both counts. I didn’t vote for that person but he’s still in office.
I don't have any particular plans for that, beyond getting a bit of publicity for it here :). Or really any plans at all, besides adding AVX-512 support. It was just something I hacked together in a couple days as I began thinking about adding UTF-8 support to the text editor I've been writing.

That said, I'm happy to help anyone get it integrated into their codebase if they need it. There's generally other concerns in large projects, though, like portability, that I don't care as much about.
Rule4 Earns B Corp Certification
And even if they were.
Target was cool for the four years they operated in Canada before imploding. I guess we've got Giant Tiger still.
When the agenda is a net good, an all hands on meeting and or some potential leaks make great sense.

Now that is much less true, ditchng the meetings also makes sense.

Google grows up, ends up like most big companies.

Not a shocker, but the initial, "users really trust us to do good"culture is a major clash. Could be a very painful, enduring one.
Whilst I acknowledge the technical correctness of your remark, in practice and for most intents and purposes, WeWork is being considered as a tech IPO
Accepting Github's, Reddit's and Google's Oauth allows you to have frictionless registration as well on any website.
I think one could make a good analogy to Baker v. Selden[1], a case from the 1900s about the copyrightability of blank accounting forms, in that APIs are the modern day equivalent of blank forms that are filled out and submitted to a computer.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_v._Selden
Ignoring patents for a second you’re absolutely right. Where it gets hazy is if you copied Oracle’s query language because it was easier than designing your own.

To me the intention matters. If you copied it so that you could market that you work with existing software then I think you ought to be fine. If you copied it because designing a query language is hard then probably not.
It depends on the implementation. A good starting point would be looking at the various implementations benchmarked here: https://github.com/lemire/fastvalidate-utf-8

It looks like the main naive validator there (validate_utf8) clocks in at 1.25 cycles/byte for ASCII and 11 cycles/byte for UTF-8, which is respectively a 15.8x and 41.5x slowdown from my code.
Aren't you unfairly privileging the idea of a Java program over that of a Java library? A wholly-packaged Java program may not have interoperability with Android, but lots of libraries don't have that problem. There are plenty of copyrighted works written in Java that are fully compatible with Android.
They could try to split up. The separation into Alphabet seems almost a dream for regulators who can just separate them.

I mean, just think about it. Standard Oil had the same monopoly over a valuable resource (oil then, Software and Data today) that Google has today (fine, Facebook etc too... but there is no Facebook search; also they are monopolies over different kinds of digital products). They need to be broken up; their successors will probably end up becoming quite big over time; rinse, rise, repeat.

Capitalism is an amazing thing. Only the strongest survive but then they dominate everything and strangle the market itself. Fuck that, keep the markets free of such control by non state actors.
Why is it every answer to this solved problem involves someone new playing go between in social networks?
"Come to my alternative to X, where instead of X-corp handling all your data, Y-corp will!"
The internet was not suppose to be like this...
Node.js: server.close() and keep-alive done right at socket level
In Japan the stereotypical get-up a bank robber would wear isn't a ski mask but a medical mask with sunglasses and baseball cap.
They didn't have the same culture?

Microsoft had a reputation from very early for ruthlessness and infighting; it's not the sort of thing that particularly attracts idealists, or encourages them to speak up if they do get hired.

At Apple, the boss (Steve Jobs) was in charge and most employees feared him. Also they were very compartmentalized and secretive. Not the same thing at all. (I'm going by press reports over the years.)

Amazon has a strong leader who sets the culture, and it's all about business rather than idealism.

I don't know about Netflix.

Facebook seems to be leaking quite a lot and has some similar problems to Google?

I think a lot of this has to do with what you think you're signing up for when you get hired. It's not like employees at a defense contractor are going to complain about military contracts. For years, many people joining Google thought they were joining an idealistic organization where they would be able to contribute to "changing the world" in some positive, non-ironic way. That's what they signed up to do. But I doubt new hires think that way anymore?
For duckduckgo users, !r does this too
Not in general. James Damore was likely a singular exception.
That's the attitude of most everyone, and hence the reason it won't change. But IF.. (just if) a few hundred million people decided to ditch Chrome and Google's "services" (data collectors in disguise), Google might be forced to take notice.

On the other hand, never say never to Google's dominance going out the window. They may find themselves in very deep trouble in the not too distant future.
What "pressure" you feel is entirely up to you. Most managers at Google don't micro manage you.
New hate groups and power sub's pop up with the same toxicity but on a different theme. The psycho redpill has been replaced with a version for women.

Reddit doesn't want a 'better' site it just cycles the garbage to fit the trends.
I know you're a prolific poster on here, and you often provide valuable contributions, so it's disheartening to see how full of misinformation this comment is. I've worked at many tech companies, and Google has among the best work-life balance I've encountered. Work hours vary by team and by role, but on a whole, it's very reasonable.

They serve three meals, but you're not expected to eat all three meals. Some people like to get in early and leave early, others like to get in late and stay late. The food is just a perk, there if you want it.

Also, you're not obligated or expected to work longer if you eat dinner. Not sure where you heard that one. If you're at the office when dinner is served, it's considered that you've already stayed late.
Seems like it'd be really easy to get rid of the "activists" though: sign a few Cloud contracts with people they don't like (starting with DoD and going down the list), and if they really are activists, they'll go work elsewhere. You don't have to get rid of TGIF to do that.
We should be surprised that nine non-technical people are making technical decisions that impact 300m people. It seems that legal decisions are increasingly scope-creeping into domains where domain experts are necessary. This is even more evident after seeing the Zuck-Congress hearings, where Congress proved to the people that they aren't really the best people to work on technological issues.
looks like they're not: https://static.businessinsider.com/image/4f3c01186bb3f7d71d0...
It appears to be real

http://boulderreporter.com/a-crispin-porter-bogusky-primer/
While you were aware of the context, many others reading your quote (like me) were not. I definitely appreciated having more of the full story.
Ah, I read the original message as the card and its usage are free as long as you don't have too many transactions. No idea, my knowledge about Poland is very close to zero :(
Just to be clear you’re explicitly saying that the law says that in a workplace context you should treat people differently based on whether or not they’re in a protected class.

Not the same, differently?

Because the entire point of the law on protected classes is that people should be treated the same regardless of being a member or not of a protected class.

Non discrimination, not discrimination.
The short answer is: I think the law clearly supports the idea that copyright does not extend to APIs, and if copyright did extend to APIs it would be disastrous for the American software industry, and given America's large influence the world at large.

The long version of both of those is made much better than I could hope to make it in the various briefs. You can find them all here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/do...

Google's brief probably provides the best version of the legal arguments, that being their job. Read the text under the heading "The Federal Circuit erred in holding that the Java API declarations were copyrightable." on pages 16 to 21 and the text under "This Court Should Grant Review To Decide Whether, As The Jury Found, Petitioner’s Use Of A Software Interface In The Context Of Creating A New Computer Program Constitutes Fair Use" on pages 21 to 29. I personally find the merger doctrine arguments particularly convincing, starting on page 17. Here's a direct link https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-956/81532/20190...

As for why it would be disastrous for the software industry, I particularly like this amicus brief, and would suggest reading section 2. It was written by 78 particularly famous computer scientists, including Steve Wozniak, Guido van Rossum, Ken Thompson, Bjarne Stroustrup, Martin Odersky, Peter Norvig, Brian Kernighan, and Alan Kay. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-956/89487/20190...

Here's an except, where one of the programmers for Java says that while he was creating Java's standard libraries he copied APIs in the same way ("Amicus" in this context means one of the computer scientists who wrote this brief to help better inform the court)

> Sun reimplemented existing APIs for Java. Java reimplemented C’s math API,which includes methods for calculating a variety of mathematical functions. While at Sun, amicus Joshua Bloch oversaw Sun’s reimplementation of the Perl programming language’s regular expression API for Java, which allows sophisticated text searches and alterations. Oracle’s attempt to copyright Java’s API and hold Google liable for infringement of the resulting java.util.regex API ignores Java’s own history of API reimplementation.

Here's an excerpt about an API you are probably familiar with, which hopefully underlies just how bad a compatability nightmare this ruling will create

> In 1983, the Berkeley Systems Research Group released the Berkeley Systems Distribution (BSD) sockets API. Sockets control the endpoints for any communication over the Internet. Because the BSD sockets API was not copyrighted, it became widely adopted: Every major operating system reimplemented it to enable Internet communication. Thus, programmers can write standardized software compatible across computers to manage Internet connectivity.

But really, read the whole of section 2.
I assume that it suffers from the same problems that make me usually give up when I find that a FOSS project's only venue for support and bug reports is a mailing list: search and discovery is less than optimal, conversations just randomly die and as an outsider you get the UX of shouting at a wall (usually nobody will respond, and you will never figure out if this is because your message was filtered, the mailing list is dead or slow-moving or everybody there just saw your message, quietly shook their head and moved on; sometimes someone randomly responds to you 3 years later after you have long moved on, which you only randomly find out when googling your name another two years after that).
I feel like that’s being super rude to the devs at Oracle that have been constantly innovating and improving the language. Java has changed a lot in the last 9 years.

Oracle’s upcoming design of continuations I think is genuinely novel and will inspire a lot of other languages’ implementations.
It doesn't take more than a handful of interactions to determine if a coworker is competent. The reason they were hired is irrelevant; software engineering at Google is very fast-paced, and it tends to interpret incompetence as damage and route around it.
Anker availability in Canada is weird. There seems to be no pattern as to whether a particular item won't be available on amazon.ca, and whether the amazon.com listing will be eligible for shipping to Canada. I've contacted Anker a couple times about specific items, and they've just given non-answers both times.
>I love reading stories like this, and it demonstrates that there are still many opportunities out there.

It's a white male taking advantage of capitalism. He has no regulatory oversight and no degree or license pertaining to this work.
The JVM offers state of the art GCs, which allows for selecting the best tool for the job (throughput, latency, large heaps, etc.).

This is unlike the golang gc, which is tuned for latency at the expense of throughput, with no way of modifying its behavior without resorting to hacks like the article in the post.
I don’t think they’re the same thing. It might be a generational thing, but younger workers are at ease and fluid with Gender and gender based identities. There is a culture of respect that I see in this generation that might be hidden by the absolutely pathetic situations under which many of them live today due to reasons unrelated to their talents and work ethic. But this is changing, Google embraced that change but it’s struggling with it today for uncertain reasons.
CoC?
Progressiveness is a function of both taxes and benefits. A consumption tax scheme can be made more progressive by paying benefits in a more progressive manner.

For example, Exampleville institutes a consumption tax of 15%. Such a tax is regressive because consumption is usually a smaller proportion of a wealthy person's income than a poor person's income. To counteract this, Exampleville pays a monthly cash grant to all citizens and adjusts the payment level so that the cash grant is larger for the poor and smaller (or non-existent) for the wealthy.

See https://tax.purpleplans.org for an example of a real proposal that mimics this scheme.
Because it's not inflation. It would be an asset bubble. Except it's not even that -- the P/E ratio on stock is high now because the economic news has been good, but it's nowhere near dotcom bubble levels (https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio).
Wrong. Solve a problem... via a product or a feature.
>It's not circular reasoning.

It most definitely is.
I bought a DCP-8085DN years ago and it's been zero maintenance. What you really want to consider is getting a business class printer laser printer. They're expected to handle a real load, so they last. Look at the software connectivity. I can print and scan straight from my iPhone/iPad.
Sundar only became ascendant afterwards. When + was around, Vic Gundotra was in charge of that. Nexus 7 was released back when Andy Rubin was still firmly in charge of all things Android. I'd associate Sundar's ascendancy more with the shift from Nexus to Pixel and Android One, with the assistant, etc.
It's really not.

As a community, do we want to be sending eyeballs to the original source, or a monetized copy?

OP is free to do what he or she is doing, we are free to block it as spam or link to the original source.
Sure it is. Scale back.

Or, face competition.

And generous? Who is doing the work?

Notice the focus on all the money paid to content creators?

They need it.

So much always going to the top is not generally sustainable. Unrest is all over the place.

If we can't figure out how to pay working people enough to actually make it, this whole thing is going south.

Not just Patreon.

Frankly, Patreon was one of the ones I felt better about. Now I don't and will immediately find ways to contribute to content creators I support directly.

And doing that is just not that much work.
Yea I like shopping in person. Just gets me out of the house (especially key when you work from home), I get to examine things before I buy them, get some social interaction, and support local businesses.

Looks like similar 8 inch cake pans to what I purchases from Sur La Table recently are about 14 dollars on Amazon, compared to what I paid which was 20.

There’s also 10 dollar versions similar to the 15 dollar ones at Sur La Table.

But Amazon wasn’t going to deliver me the six miles of walking I did in the city I love that day :-).

Generally if I’m ordering something I’ll do B&H for electronics/photography equipment, REI for outdoor gear, Barnes and Noble for books, and Paizo for tabletop RPG dice and game manuals if I’m not going to a brick and mortar.

Works well enough for me, haven’t ordered off Amazon in ages.
I don’t disagree at all, but the question isn’t “are there pieces of existing software that run on both” but “is that the reason that Google copied the API or is it a side effect?”
Not for every meeting!!! Just important ones.
which doors you are allowed to enter from is a security protocol...

badging in for meals is for IRS tax purposes...

The two things you facepalmed are absolutely easily explainable.
Is the Apple Card Sexist?
Maybe I'm missing something here but just taking a cut of the transaction I would think would make profitability pretty easy with some discipline...
The author means something different. He uses "open curve" to mean a curve with endpoints, and "closed curve" to mean one without.
pssht. I emailed jeff@amazon.com to complain about the general problem of counterfeit BeyBlades and provided links to scam items. Rather than take down the scam links, or even acknowledge the problem which was causing my inability to trust amazon for these purchases, the response was that they could refund any specific items I bought that were scams.

Welcome to Day Two
> Office policies are

Perfect, so questions of what companies we contract with, how we do hiring and diversity, and what bathrooms people are allowed to use are all office policies and reasonable work discussion topics. Can you give examples of the kinds of things you object to then?

Fwiw, I've known people who discuss their porn and drug habits at work. Hell I've known people who do drugs with their co-workers.

> I would prefer any feedback and protests be in private when are relevant to the company

Of course, it's only as a side effect that this undercuts the effectiveness of any activism.

Are you familiar with the concept of "yes of course you can protest, but not like that" for all values of that? If the only acceptable forms of protest are ones that can be ignored with no consequences, you've just de facto silenced those who have concerns with the status quo. That's a very political decision, totalitarian ist to be specific.

> This is exceedingly clear for the vast majority of people, except the activists who are making the fuss.

If it's so clear, you should have no trouble making it explicit without relying on the word politics. Since you still seem to miss it, my entire premise here is that "politics" is a form of doublespeak and people who use it are generally unwilling to actually go on record with the views they want to censor, instead using it as a sort of "things that make me uncomfortable in the moment" catch-all, but without giving the same courtesy of banning "things that make me uncomfortable" to other people. So far your unwillingness to pin down exactly what you mean by political hasn't done much to dispell that thought.
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