skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Old is New Again meme. ;) True: rooms or safe's are best route. There's also more suppliers for that and more willing to work with non-defense customers. However, you've always been limited on desktop and notebooks in high security assessment given all the functionality (esp wireless) in them. There's just way too much risk. So, I recommended hardened thin-clients/monitor/keyboard/mouse plus key servers in a shielded room, no wireless anything, shielding of building from external signals where possible, and of course a lot of distance around the building. Costs quickly become an issue and most just don't do TEMPEST/EMSEC at all. Open season when the attacks get democratized. ;)
Some past appearances:

2 years ago 88 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6546325

6 years ago 31 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=553776
Those taxes only apply if you sell though. If not, you get the full $20B, less 15% at the end (i.e. $17B) if you decide to quit cold turkey and convert it all to cash on the final day.
We have local channels put together by the cable company (and the phone company in some places), too. They mainly have video of community events, like town council meetings or school sporting events. There are a few that have tickers and scrolling panels with various topics and combinations of topics (general news, financial news, community news, weather, sports scores, stock ticker, etc.).
Breaking an EULA isn't breaking the law.
Amazon is a retail business. They can only earn money from razor-thin margins by pushing to keep costs down so hard.

This is why it is fundamentally unfair to compare Amazon to Apple, Microsoft, Facebook or Google. They are in different businesses. Other companies are fortunate to not have to treat humans so poorly to be able to exist.
Good points, I was thinking about starting initially with jeans, so I didn't spread myself thin. I would ideally want the product to be open to everyone, but perhaps charging a high premium and focusing on a small number of customers would be the best way to scale. I like the feature you suggested as well.
Amazon retains new workers in part by requiring them to repay a part of their signing bonus if they leave within a year, and a portion of their hefty relocation fees if they leave within two years.
Need beta users for https://nerdspal.com
blog.nistencorp.com/WhatIsNerdspal/ nerdspal is currently a baby startup which is going through it's most initial phase. The phase of user acceptance. We need people like you who can help us build a firm beta user base and provide honest feedback.
You only pay capital gains taxes when you realize gains, not every year.

Trump would pay 15% of $20B = ~$3B, so his net worth would be $17B. And this is assuming that his stock investments don't pay qualified dividends that are reinvested. So, yeah, he'd have much more than $12B.
Really hard to hire women in tech. Whenever I interviewed them, turned out they only studied Liberal Arts in college. That is very unqualified. And for the few ones that studied Physics, Engineering, or Computer Science in College, Google and other major compnies alredy hired to them all. So again, no luck there either.

In the end, you really can't force women to study something they don't like, like Calculus and Physics, the requirements for Computer Science. Afterall, they're independent, and they will study whatever they want in college, which is usally Liberal Arts, Teaching, Psychology, or Biology. But never math, or physics.
The range of those bands means one has to share them with allot more people.

Resulting in lower bandwidth per person.
YSK 'rayiner is a lawyer.
On the contrary, she was practicing good security by keeping her emails out of the hands of the intelligence community!
Bayes is about working with incomplete information, you don't need all the data, you just need a slight edge. Just because it's not a complete analysis of all necessary input doesn't make it useless. Beyond that, you can directly control your win and loss size with targets and stops, so they're not necessarily unknown, and you certainly know your win/loss ratio which of course you'd want to plug in, at least for money management reasons, especially if you're using any variant of the Kelly formula for position size.
Well shareholders should figure out that having management treating employees like shit isn't a good idea for the long term health of a company.
"locally stateful, globally pure-functional"

Can you expand on that, please? Because it seems to me that state fulness propagates up through the system. I can't imagine a system that was pure in the large but side-effecting in the small. I'd be interested to hear how that works...
Oh, I don't know, I bet the future Mars independence movement will try to throw off all the shackles of Earth and switch their units of measure. I jest just a bit, but its not like we humans don't pull stunts like this all the time in the spirit of independence.

My proposal is basically the engineering estimate of foot. I would probably name it something different if I were Emperor / Very Powerful Politician. Its small enough to derive the mass and volume units directly.
It's not "bullshit" if other people's experiences are not your own, unless you can claim to have worked in every job role and every team at Amazon.

You should really consider that as a SDE in AWS, you probably have one of the most prized roles in the company and therefore are perhaps treated the best.

Not every team is in the cloud services business. Retail orgs have to necessarily run with as little expense as possible.
Larger question, not just confined to the world of iOS ad blocking; as the creator of ad-blocking code, are you at all concerned that you're hurting the only revenue stream for sites that rely on ad revenue to pay the bills?

We're not just talking the big boys here, a bunch of indie content producers publish online and I don't begrudge them a few ad dollars for producing content that's worth reading, or is it that we're making the call that content should be free or is inherently value-less?
I can only speak for myself personally, but I tried Ubuntu, Mint, and Arch, and they were all horribly glitchy (especially the graphics) and had awful battery life. I've been watching this project for a while, but I'm not sure that webcam support could be enough to make up for the other issues.
It's of course even more drastic when you consider that the two (arguably) most authoritative sources on billionaire wealth measurement - Forbes [1] and Bloomberg [2] - consider Trump to be worth closer to $3 or $4 billion. He exaggerates his brand's value by about $6 billion.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2015/06/16/trump-exa...

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-07-28/here-s...
Then he should know DUI applies to more than just drinking and shouldn't be making such a silly point. And being a lawyer means he knows the existing law, it doesn't mean his opinion about what the law should be in regards to punishment is any more valid than anyone else's.
I use AWS because it's a choice my company has made that I can't overturn. But I've phased buying from Amazon out of my personal life.

It wasn't even difficult. If you just look a bit and stop assuming Amazon is always the best deal, you'll find it's not.

Recently I wanted to buy some cheap $7 earphones. At Amazon they would have been 30 cents cheaper but I had to buy $35 worth of stuff to get free shipping. (Or pay $100/year, which would amortize to very expensive shipping for me.)

Elsewhere I paid 30 cents extra for the product but got free shipping for just the one item. That's a great tradeoff.
I still wonder if you could convince a Congressperson to slip a line in a bill to make the base 2 definition the US Standard.
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10057900
Sounds like you just had one bad interview experience. Sorry - it happens!
> I'm saying there are necessary and undesirable tasks

This is a good point.

It's also a reason why this idea is valuable. It enables people to turn away these undesirable tasks. Today, someone might take on a poor task with a poor working condition so their children can get the nutrition they need. A basic income provides the family with what they need without anyone becoming desperate enough to take a job for a lower pay than it's actually worth.

These jobs can finally be part of the open market. If nobody will do it for $12/hr, you increase the pay. When you start to see people taking the job again, you know you've hit the right income point. (People aren't getting rich off of basic income alone. The incentive to work is to have a more expensive lifestyle.)

This is the dual to pricing discussions here on HN. If the market won't buy at X, you don't withhold food from their tables to get them to buy. You either lower the price, or you make your product have more perceived valuable. With these undesirable jobs, you either raise the pay, or improve the working conditions.
Laravel Lead Taylor Otwell and Anthony Ferrara Flaming on Twitter
Trade win:lose ratio > 1 is an elementary mistake in algorithmic backtesting. Not knocking Bayes. Only saying the analysis is incomplete. Cancer/noCancer is not a good analogy.
Higher level concepts in area so rife with incidental complexity like programming tend to get lost in the details of the implementation. Patterns and abstract concepts like FRP can only be understood by with implementation. Ideas tend to bend before working code, then again with an example app you enthusiastically write for your blog, and then again when someone bases her next project on that (not to mention HN discussions...).

I like to learn thing this way, and not care that much about what the alphabet soup entails. Try to find what is a proper JavaScript MVC framework. And then write the first one yourself ;)

I'm currently reading Clojure Reactive Programming, which differentiates from FRP using another term, CES for Compositional Event Systems, and goes to some length into history of these concepts, like higher order FRP, First Order FRP, Arrowized FRP, and of course Observer pattern and Data Flow programming. There is also Elm's creator's presentation at Strange Loop last year of the same topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agu6jipKfYw
The company that wins the battle to be WordPress's successor will be the one that builds the same type of thriving plugin/extension ecosystem that allowed WP to expand so rapidly.
My design many years ago was for "shielded" cables that would stop EM leaks in testing except for frequencies they wouldn't be looking for and especially upon receipt of a signal. Sent it to a bunch of people including in defense to create awareness of the risk. Last forum I posted it on was Schneier's blog during a discussion on hardware subversion. TAO leaked later to reveal RAGEMASTER, a VGA cable modification for leaking monitor signals to emanation attack gear. Independent invention or thieving bastards? (shrugs)

Interesting, though, to see they came up with same solution. Just like old keyboard and pin pad attacks. The user has to enter it (input) or see it (monitor). There are many ways to stop outsiders from getting into that information. So, my idea (and NSA's as well) was to make that raw data come to us in whatever way possible. Simpler methods were available such as cheap bugs at 10Ghz that amateur spectrum tools wouldn't see. However, I found natural emanations to be best risk because (a) they're always there, (b) they often increase for non-suspect reasons, and (c) nobody did detection or defense outside of TEMPEST customers.

It's why I keep advising a damn-near Manhattan project on EMSEC all the way from rooms to COTS components down to automating analysis in synthesis tools for ASIC's. The latter already do it quite a bit for non-malicious interference but the game changes going from designing Murphy's ASIC to designing Satan's. ;) Whatever is produced should bring technical sophistication and cost down dramatically with plenty reusable solutions & reference components.
Because your company's tag line is "Get answers for your academic questions and earn marks.", this -> https://www.reddit.com/r/homeworkhelp is probably a much better place to post than here.
> Trade win:loss ratio > 1 is an elementary mistake in algorithmic backtesting

Who said anything about that? Perhaps I was unclear, it's not about the ratio, it's about the streaks, you need to understand patterns of your wins and losses as it's critical to applying money management. If you only win 30% of the time, you could still make a killing if you can withstand the losing streaks without much drawdown or if the winners are big enough.
Well this is depressing. I don't see how he is going to succeed with this project- it's a huge undertaking.

I think manuals like this should all end up on bitsavers.org
Title is wrong, you mean "ULP":

U ltra
L ow
P ower

You have "UPL in the title.

Apart from that, this seems to be a useful article, listing lots of issues in a single place. While it is light on detail, and seems to contain nothing new, it is an interesting summary, and possibly a good starting point for people to research further the many, many issues.
I'm always interested in how it fares with projects having thousands of files -- after all, I don't really need this for a 10-files project.
For what it's worth I'm happily using the modern incantation of WebTV, my FireTV Stick.

I have my 'TV' on demand, whenever I want it, I can run some web related apps, even hacked something together for controlling my lights.

I don't think WebTV was a bad idea. I think it was just too early and lacked that critical video on demand concept.

In the UK there was a gap for a long time that was filled by 'Smart' functions of Sky TV's digibox. This used a modem to upload content, and allowed for receiving of good quality video from sat, as a result you could watch the 'latest' films, for around £3 and only have to wait a few minutes before it would start. Automatically from the box interface, rather than via a call centre. But this was just the start, shopping was possible, you could order products and the like.

Now we live in a world where Amazon Instant isn't even on my desktop web browser, instead needing an 'app' for a phone, and apparently mine isn't even supported. There are lots of people who want to consume 'web' functions from a device other than a computer.
Articles like this are evidence that people are still surprised that capital grows faster than labour. At least in fair capitalist society the surest way to become wealthy (statistically speaking) is to understand:

- The total wealth of the world is expected to keep increasing
- Capital grows faster than labour
- Taxes and disasters redistribute wealth

This is why investing in index funds that don't pay dividends is such a good idea.
Parallel python is almost an oxymoron. Python has a GIL that prevents more than one thread from running Python code at the same time. You can get around that by spawning multiple processes each running an independent interpreter, but that's not as cheap or easy as spawning threads. You need to reuse those processes for multiple units of work, or chunk your units of work into big enough pieces to offset the startup costs. Sharing large amounts of memory between the processes requires copying or shared memory (which also isn't that friendly to use from Python.) Granted copying is harder to get wrong, so it's the recommended solution anyway. If you wanted extreme performance Python is a lousy choice in the first place.
The framework is good, however I got faster (fps wise) results using my own rendering functions on Canvas than I was getting using their rendering on both Canvas and WebGL. I think in their efforts to be basically a drop in replacement for Flash/AS3 they have really let themselves down.
MIT - https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/car

But don't look at the code, I'm ashamed of it!
Just because you have had a different experience, doesn't mean he is wrong. There are several types of pressure cooker. For example the one my mother used had a weighted thing that sat on top and vented near constantly. Rocking back and forth the whole time.
That is just the natural behavior of a bike. Have you ever ridden one? Without using your hand?
At first I wasn't sure why I clicked through but it was worth it. While not really "hacker", read till the end and you might find a bit of the rest and self-reflection offered bu the Sabbath.
Definitely. Most sophisticated hacking involves multiple steps and sometimes boxes (esp w/ C&C). People should expect the same in EMSEC attacks. And wireless, reprogrammable devices are always a threat that even NSA et al haven't mapped all specifics on. It's why any installation allowing them is insecure to EMSEC by default in my book.
That sounds like standard affairs. I read your interview experience, it is almost funny. Amazon has a body-shop quality to it. Once someone told me he failed an interview, then changed his email address and phone number and got another interview and failed again, and on his third try he finally got an offer. I don't remember whether he accepted the job, probably did. He is a foreigner needing visa sponsorship, so he would be gone after a couple of years.
From the comments posted so far, it sounds like the author put a very bright spotlight on a few bad cases and blew certain things out of proportion. That said, it does sound like Amazon is very different, bottom-to-top, from other tech companies -- especially those that got their start in the Valley. Right or wrong, Amazon is trying something different. Every company in the Valley just mimics each other and clones their "corporate values" from each other as well as practices, benefits, etc.

That said, there are some refreshing things I read in the article. It's nice to hear there are tech companies where you're not required to be everyone's friend and sing kumbaya. I currently work at one where one of the company's ideals is "extreme respect" -- meaning you must respect every employee even if they have never earned such respect and have done several things to make them lose respect in your eyes. Criticizing bad ideas is extremely difficult to do because someone's feelings might get hurt and then they'll tattle on you to a manager than you're not respecting them. Never mind the fact that their idea was a bad one that would have cost the company money, caused setbacks, or lost customers. In the founder's mind, everyone is going to get a gold star and the company will succeed with this idea of respect, not the best decisions.

I think I'm stuck at the other end of the spectrum from Amazon, and I'll leave shortly after working out financing to sell my options via warrants to a third party. Extreme respect and gold stars for everyone, but how dare you try and sell your precious shares to the unwashed?
You must be looking for the Underhanded Crypto Contest: The Underhanded Crypto Contest is a competition to write or modify crypto code that appears to be secure, but actually does something evil. See https://underhandedcrypto.com/
The meaning is not the same because it's very difficult for poor and less educated parents to give their children what rich and more educated parents give them. My kids went to a high school that had a considerable socio-economic range and I was fairly involved in some stuff there, and it was clear there were plenty of poorer, less educated parents who were working really hard to give their kids everything they needed, but it was almost impossibly difficult for them.

This is not an argument against treating your children well, but the reality is that having parents who are well-off and educated buffers you against all kinds of mistakes and issues that would sink other kids. Moderating (not eliminating, which is neither possible nor desirable) social inequality is important precisely because we can say with as much certainty as we can say anything that there are kids out there today as talented and driven as Bill Gates who don't have anything like the resilient support system that he had, and without it they are likely going to be a drag on society rather than contributors to it.
One way is to use local mutable state within functions that are implemented so as to be not rely on external state, which are then indistinguishable to calling code from pure functions.
> > When the state of mind is the same, why should luck in the outcome change the punishment?

> If you don't see the difference between an accident and doing something on purpose as requiring different punishment, well then you just fundamentally disagree with about all of mankind. If your car tire blows and you hit another car and kill someone through no fault of your own, apparently you think that's an equal crime to murder. Really... c'mon... really?

You miss the question here.

If I am driving my car and I take y attetion off the road for a moment to adjust my car radio, and then plough into another car...

1) ... And kill the driver of that other car

2) ... And injure, but don't kill the other driver

Why should y punishment for (1) be more severe than for (2)? My intent was the same, my poor behaviour was the same. Perhaps the difference between causing death and not causing death is the quality of the crashed driver's car.

Murder requires intent to kill. Man-slaughter also requires intent to cause harm. That's why there are seperate laws for vehicular death - causing death by dangerous driving or vehicular manslaughter. It's hard to meet the burden of proof required by murder or manslaughter.
I have to admit I don't really understand what this is. Looking at the source I can find and a small server programm that sends/receives hardcoded UDP+JSON messages that contain some very specific data (a few numeric parameters, I think you need to understand electrical generators to understand what they mean) but doesn't seem to do anything with the data except to send and receive it and doesn't seem to contain error handling/etc. Also I see a bunch of cap'n'proto schemas to encode a number of mathematical expressions and a small c++ class to execute those expressions.

Since OP is the author of the linked project: How do the serialized expressions and the server program fit together and what would this software be used for? Is it still in early development? Also, why not serialize the expressions as simple strings/s-expressions -- what is the upside of using protobuf for this? doesn't it just add unnecessary complexity and overhead?
OT: If an index fund doesn't pay dividends, what happens to the dividends? Presumably the fund owns shares in every stock in the index, so there should be dividends?

Does it just go towards paying the fund overheads? What about for an ETF index fund?
I'm sure this is going to piss a lot of people off...

This is #firstworldproblems.

If you don't want to work there, then don't. I just quit a crappy/work intensive/crazy/insane/no structure cannabis startup and I feel a heck of lot better.

I would have been thrilled to be making the Amazon money out of college, instead I went to Boot Camp (USMC), that was low pay and stress environment.

Let's put this all in perspective...

(Let's not forget Bezos owns the Washington Post, and well this was written by the NYT?)
That's hilarious logic. The HGV runs someone over due to poor vision, and it's that persons fault?

That must be what people mean with the whole spraying bullets into a crowd thing. It's a victimless crime, except for the poor idiot that just had to lean into one bullet.
The Air should be pretty decent as it has Intel graphics. Hopefully you also got one with Intel WiFi. You can just get a Live USB and try it out for yourself.
Michael Mauboussin: “The Success Equation:Untangling Skill and Luck” [video]
Gossip and rumours affect morale, which absolutely matters.
One brings the Web on the TV (Web TV) the other brings TV on the Web (Streaming, Netflix) which you end up watching on your TV. Turns out people like watching TV on their TV.