jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well, customer data isn't stolen by actual hacking, in my experience it's humans.

So many companies, particularly younger ones, have zero interest in putting up barriers to access as the company grows because in the early days, everybody was trustworthy and "because bureaucracy bad". So all the customer emails, phones, addresses, birth dates (and, I'm guessing, in the US SSNs) routinely fly around in Excel files called something like "Order Metadata Report" and sent to 50 people in 5 departments each of whom has their own use for it (like counting customers). Judging by the Sony hack it's not just SMEs.

If you want to steal data from a company, just pay a student a few hundred bucks to take up an unpaid internship in marketing (particularly anything to do with emails or customer segmentation) and give him a USB key and teach him some VBA and basic SQL (making him useful for reporting). The interns always end up running the reports so have a lot of access, usually complete access - financial information is the only thing that's not shared around. More advanced companies have a shared database access built into the excel files with a single login for everybody which never changes (hello 300 angry users) so with a copy of this file, you have perpetual up to date information long after you're gone.

Then you try to stop them from doing this and the C-level folks will say something like "it's OK just this time" and "please stop slowing us down". Most of them will be gone to the next thing by the time the black swan lawsuit hits - if there even is one. How would customers know? Why would they care?

Cf http://xkcd.com/538/ and http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2014/10/28/security-checklist/
That would be PG point on his RFS https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs

The majority of VC companies have investiment thesis. In those thesis they put the kind of market and companies they would like to invest and why. It helps to guide the new associates and partner on where and what to look.
How, when they get pushed off the front page within minutes?
I totally agree. I also don't really want to go outside. I've been working from home for 10 years. It's not about that. There is, however, a big opportunity here for thousands of people to contribute.
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I want to see companies run well, too. Nonetheless, companies should be able to take on debt and return money to shareholders at the same time. A simple example might be moving to a new headquarters. They decide to buy a property and build an office building. They finance this with a loan or bonds, because, well, they need cash to run their company, and that's the right financial vehicle for them. At the same time, they're doing dividends or share buybacks, because their owners want them to. Another example is just, you know, buying stuff or services and getting invoiced with a later due date. That's taking on debt.
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Both hire with google links say job removed, here are fixed ones:

Software Engineeer: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/businessinsidercom/v...

Senior JS Engineer: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/businessinsidercom/v...
The featured article claims that references to the supposed Chinese studies don't turn up anything. And that seems to be true. Here is the Chinese cited material from the French article: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bst/14/1/14_2020.01047/...

It claims many clinical trials have been done in China that show chloroquine works. However... there's nothing to actually read with any data.
I would suggest prison as a way of preventing them from doing it again. not to harm them but to prevent them from causing harm.
Could you provide some details on the tech stack you're using, and if there are any restrictions on the "remote" part (US only, etc)?
I agree that education plays an important role in this. It's not a coincidence that the political party whose leaders claimed that covid is a hoax is also the political party writing legislation to censor teachers and ban books.
You moved from Slovenia to the Bay Area and chose not to live in the city?? There's your problem right there.
I would say zero. Except maybe for the unicorn part.
For the next week my comments on Hacker News -- except this one -- will attempt to garner as many points as possible by exploiting various HN tendencies.

Feel free to upvote this comment if you think this is cool btw :)
Every time I spin up a new project, I try to answer the following question honestly:

"Am I using this project as an excuse to learn
some new technology, or am I trying to solve a problem?"

Trying to learn some new technology? Awesome, I get to use one new thing. Since I already understand every other variable in my stack, I'll have a much easier time pinning down those 'unknown unknown' issues that invariably crop up over time.

Trying to solve a problem? I'm going to use what I already know. For web stuff, this'll be a super-boring, totally standard Rails web app that generates HTML (ugh, right? How last century), or maybe a JSON API if I'm trying to consume its output in a native app. For mobile stuff, this'll be an Objective-C iOS app.

Waffling about it and saying 'well, I am trying to solve a problem, and I think maybe a new whiz-bang technology is the best way to do it' is the simplest path to failing miserably. I've watched incredibly well-funded startups with smart people fail miserably at delivering a solution on-time because an engineer was able to convince the powers that be that a buzzword-laden architecture was the way to go.

You don't know what the 'right' solution is unless you understand the tools and technology you'll use to deliver that solution. Anything else is just cargo-culting.
>>You'll have to define "advancing society."

Actually, if you follow the discussion, it has already been defined in the comment I responded to:

>>The people who might think today is "big enough" might also have thought that say 1990 was big enough, and yet very few people would want to be limited to 1990's tech / culture.

What is being implied here is that we want economic growth because we don't want to be limited in tech / culture. I simply pointed out that this is a false association.
> how good medical knowledge was 1,000 years ago.

Survivor bias.
Well, it would stop confusing the other 2 billion people on the internet that aren't in the USA.
I have two microwaves, completely different designs, and either one running will knock out the wifi.
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Maybe someone at Miskatonic University could help?
I think you are onto something. The most privileged class of "person" in the united states is corporations that get slaps on the wrist for breaking laws.

Now I understand why Dr evil from Austin powers ran a corporation.
Honestly kinda surprised the stock markets don't delist this stocks if they've been at ~$0.00 for 6 years.
> Without the royal family, Saudi will be controlled by radical Islamists

But that's true only because the royal family has (1) fostered the strength of radical Islam directly by allying with radical Islamists to justify their power, and (2) made such a hash of things that any opposition (which, as a direct consequence of their promotion of radical Islam, comes largely from slightly divergent radical Islamists) seems preferable to a large portion of the population.

As a result, SA is at least two revolutions away from having a decent government, and the royal family benefits from the fear the West has of the likely course of the first of those.
I wouldn't be surprised that this was in fact just a planned PR campaign and the supposed "misinformation" was all just part of the plan.
No, fat binaries are not binaries with all dependencies included. Fat binaries are executable files that contain equivalent compiled code for multiple architectures. Some also facilitate running binaries across different operating systems. More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_binary

The idea also reminds me of (executable) self-extracting ZIP archives that were common once upon a time.
Replace middle managers with tooling
To the contrary, you do not count as unemployed towards the official statistics. You will get benefits in addition to your salary though. Essentially the same manipulations are done to the statistics here as in many countries, they try to remove most unemployed people from the numbers by sending them to training, minimum wage jobs (so called 1 euro jobs). This has gotten a lot worse in the past years and the social divide has become as large as in e.g. The US.
pretty much anyone that has switched over to some other search engine as their primary did so because Google's algorithmic search is sinking, for the past couple of years.
Fair point. There may have been very few, if any, parties willing to pay what Goog paid for YT. From that angle, it hardly looks like a steal.

But if you think about YT's growth and strategic fit since the acquisition, it looks like a steal for 1.6B. Meaning, had a competitor known that YT could be such a key to google, there would be many more takers for it.
While interesting, if you haven't read the original article, most of the points lose their meaning.

http://blogs.sitepoint.com/2010/11/19/mysql-mistakes-php-dev...

Also, aren't most PHPers using frameworks (like CakePHP or Symphony) now instead of raw-coding PHP? I can imagine this being useful for dealing with small or legacy systems, but I haven't had to write a raw SQL statement in almost a year now.
That's not really true. Why would you need a getBar() method in Java?

public class Foo
int bar;

public Foo(int initBar) {
bar = initBar;
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(new Foo(42).bar);
}
}
> As someone who used to work on Synergy I can assure you that building a .deb or .rpm that works across as many distros as possible is a royal pita.

I don't disagree.

> You should probably save your money and just use Barrier, a FOSS fork.

Synergy has worked for my needs and so I paid for it.

How does Barrier differ?
I've worked in a few places where the space was removed to guard against bad line breaks, where the number could end up orphaned at the end of a line and the unit abbreviation was at the start of the next one. Non-breaking spaces were often too fiddly to deal with, so removal was a decent compromise.

I'm a big fan of the Economist style guide (and Orwell's essay Politics and the English Language, which informs the guide) and have used it shamelessly as the basis for guides I've written in newsrooms over the years.
Comparable to benefits, yes.
As do I. This is a difficult problem to solve especially as the signal to noise becomes worse as abuse becomes more common.

Ive had to wildcard block my area code (since I don't live there anymore) which captures 95% of my daily spam calls - but people can still leave a message to break through my wall if it's truly urgent. I don't see how this could work with SMS.

Even message requests on facebook/messenger have problems where you are unlikely to even see the request unless you check regularly.
Or a pill to erase specific parts of memory. You could see the same movie over and over again. In fact, you could cancel your Netflix subscription.
I'm slightly surprised to find that my number has apparently not been pwned, given the huge uptick in spam calls that I've been receiving which seems to be coincident with the Facebook leak.
Everyone, stop what you're doing and go read the response from Blue Jeans Cable. Its owner wrote it. He's an ex intellectual property lawyer named Kurt Denke.
What replaces it? Loitering missile drones + a big expansion of satellite imagery?
I suspect Hutson's success is largely due to the fact that (from what I can gleam by the TC article) his core offerings require no prison participation at all - and certainly no hardware distribution/installation.

In fact, both core offerings have been around for quite a while as mainstream services. My family once used http://www.localphone.com to make intl calls over VOIP via local numbers. And, of course, Shutterfly and others have existed for years to easily distribute a digital photo from your smartphone in print form.

The beauty of Pigeon.ly is he's taken these relatively straightforward products and adapted them to the prison population (and their families) who may not have been as aware of more scrappy options.

In my mind, it's more a brilliant marketing and hustle play - very well done.
Based on no knowledge at all about Telemetry, probably something similar to the amazing trace functionality in the Linux kernel.

That is: non-shared (per-cpu in Linux) ring buffers, small simple events, and formatting done after the fact.
Spot is a solution in search of a problem.

SpaceX are using one because I think simply because someone thought it'd be cool. You can remotely inspect a launch pad without shelling out $75k+ using RC cars and drones, for example. It's much cooler and better for the company's overall image, though, if you use a Spot robot. PR is a thing after all and using Spot fits perfectly.

I seriously doubt there's any difficulty with safety or "being good enough", as I've yet to see an application for Spot that couldn't be done just as well by conventional already existing means.

BD is a group of enthusiasts that build cool robots, not a company that primarily develops robotic solutions.
Like many other unpleasant facts it is one thing to know something is happening and another to have it proven to your face in an indisputable format.

However I have to ask, will this become another surgeon generals warning or calorie labeling of restaurant menu experience? By that I simply mean, people will not only click through it but also accept it as they don't see any real cost.

Eventually as with everything presented under dire warnings you drown your audience to the point they tune it all out and go right back their blissfully attitude of just accepting it under the guise of its not going to matter
It has been estimated VW caused 59 early deaths in the US and probably a lot more people got sick etc... so not exactly negligible. However, I agree with the general point of your comment.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/10/11/1...
Legally, but not necessarily morally.
There’s a CRPG called Tides of Numenera and some tabletop adventures of course.
Cars produce most city noise, especially muffler-less motorcycles and trucks. Without cars you can have a nice calm quiet safely-walkable community.
The "perpetual, irrevocable" licence to use your data is not compliant with European laws anyway.
I'm sure some people will disagree but working less for less money isn't seen as a benefit to me, especially in the US where there may be healthcare implications. And as others have said, given static overhead you're more likely to earn less per hour. You're likely better off going contract and having a higher hourly rate and just billing less, but that has its own set of difficulties.

The real benefit I've seen very few places implement is a 36-38 hour week, over 4 days, with no decrease in salary. Productivity is the same or slightly higher (quite a bit higher if it's a set schedule, e.g. everyone has the same day off so there's no communication latency). Satisfaction is through the roof because not only are people getting paid more per hour, but it's a benefit that they're extremely unlikely to find anywhere else, so retention goes up as well.
The only CPS involved in truancy enforcement is Chicago Public Schools.

Even if it did work that way, do you want to be the one to tell a child they’re going to be removed to a foster/group home because their parent wasn’t strict enough / tech savvy enough?
I own a Remarkable 2 and it is vastly superior to an iPad (which I also own) for many use cases. I would likely pay more for Remarkable 2 than for a full-sized iPad at this point, as the streaming and browsing capabilities are not useful to me anymore (I would use iPhone for all of that).

I’d also like better integrations with alternate cloud storage providers, but this is true for Apple products too.

Combine with the fact you can literally ssh to your Remarkable and write your own apps, it’s a no-brainer.
As a total investor layperson who doesn't own any stock†, I don't think so. The current price seems about right.

• The pandemic is temporary and retail stores will re-open.

• Gamestop isn't bankrupt and doesn't have mountains of debt.

• There will be people who still want to buy physical games—whether for their resale value, or as collectibles, or because downloading 100GB on a slow internet connection sucks.

• Gamestop should be able to leverage their brand to increase their online presence.

I don't understand why they were so heavily shorted before, and I do think the redditors had a good investment case (early-on, before things went nuts).

---

† I have some money in index funds, and some in an account managed by a professional broker. But nothing I personally selected.
> but I highly doubt it's anywhere close to $30k per house for the vast majority of Americans.

That's roughly the hookup cost to go from the end of the street to the house in a basic suburban neighborhood.

In the rural parts of the country, just getting power from the poles on the street to a house (with no digging) can cost tens of thousands because the setback are so far. A standard suburban house might have a 20-30ft setback, while a rural home might be 100-200ft from the road.

You also have to deal with properties that are tandem, with narrow strips on the side that allow for extra long driveways that are, in effect, their own roads. Basically a person builds a house on five acres of land, 150ft from the road, then later they sell the land behind them and a house is built some 300+ft further back from their house, with a long driveway servicing the home. This house could easily be 800+ ft from the main road. And this is not rare in the country.

Those houses may only make up 20% of the population, but they are going to make up a very large portion of the costs. A street might have an eighth of the houses per mile with 10x longer setbacks for each house. Plus, travel costs are not insignificant once you start working two+ miles out from a "major" metro.
The top 5 biggest companies rely on javascript for huge portion of online business.

Microsoft - introduced AJAX to support their web enabled servers and online services. Have since morphed into Cloud based company.

Apple - lots of iOS apps are simple webviews that use javascript.

Amazon - online sales and cloud services using javascript.

Google - online ad services using javascript.

Facebook - online user behavior analytics using javascript.

Pretty much the entire online economy has huge dependency on javascript.
his coverage of Ferguson to the militarization of the police was brilliant, sadly not enough people will have seen it. Considering all the push back we are now seeing from the police because of changes on the federal level regarding seizures its high time this stuff starts becoming everyday discussion for everyone.

The government at all levels has simply taken too many of our rights or flat out circumvented the law with weasel speak and it needs to be reigned in.
There's also a strong tradition of this kind of thing in Britain (That Was The Week That Was, Brass Eye, Private Eye, 10 O'Clock News, etc.), and Canada (This Hour Has 22 Minutes is legendary, and has been running since 1993).
This is all quite well discussed in Scientology, a subject so controversial that people rarely make the effort to dig deeper than the understanding of the subject offered by tabloid article editors and people interested in destroying the organization, while ignoring the subject.

You are a spiritual being, aware of being aware. Consciousness is the state of being aware of being aware. It can be attenuated, and it can be enhanced, by the unit of spirit itself, represented in Scientology by the mathematical symbol: theta, which is used because it represents infinity.

Anyone wanting to know more can study the subject without getting into too much controversy - all it takes is to read the books about the subject made available in any library. This is the very thing that the subject is intended to explore and define, and it is a very thorough investigation indeed - covering everything from the most basic axioms of life all the way to applying the properties of theta in the modern, present time world.

But of course, the hubris and hysteria about the organization and its activities precludes an honest look at the real, very well defined, details of the subject. Get past the hysteria, and you will find a perfectly workable, perfectly acceptable definition of consciousness. However, that's not as easy as it sounds, alas, in this modern hubristic world..
DNS-SD doesn't require mDNS, you can use it with generic DNS servers. There's an example in the RFC, see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6763#section-13.1

But it's usually used with mDNS on a local network.
Hardware description languages are parallelized by default.
That does not follow by proper application of logic.

But to clarify:

- advertising isn't as harmful (yet) as infectious diseases

- if we want to get rid of it, the same rules apply as to fighting bacteria - you want to hit as hard as possible in as many places as possible, to not give any room for bacteria to mutate; proliferation of adblocks is like taking antibiotics and stopping treatment half-way - not effective enough to kill off everything, and forces bacteria to mutate into drug-resistant variety

Then there's also problem that ads mutate much faster than bacteria - because they're driven not by evolution, but by sentient adversaries.