skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given how common the experiences OP describes are among tech people of my acquaintance in the US, I have a hard time believing that anyone here saying "I know hundreds of recruiters and none of them think like this" isn't a recruiter themself.

The thing I hate most is having a recruiter get in the middle of my salary negotiations and try to talk me down.
One thing I'm curious about with stuff like this is how some of the information gets given to the authorities and how it's allowed to be used in court. I imagine I can't just walk into my local police station, file a report, and go "so I have this illegal copy of a database that let me illegally access someones email account that contained illegally acquired information ...". Wouldn't that be inadmissible in court even if the police did accept it and act upon it? And doesn't it expose me to potential legal problems as well?
Anyone have a way to fix up Safari on OS X 10.11?
Easy-rsa[1] (OpenVPN's key/cert generation/signing tool) version 3 will generate a 2048 bit diffie hellman key by default. Previous versions of easy-rsa used 1024 bit as default.

Here is a comment written in the vars configuration file for easy-rsa 2.2.2:

# Increase this to 2048 if you
# are paranoid. This will slow
# down TLS negotiation performance
# as well as the one-time DH parms
# generation process.
export KEY_SIZE=1024

So if you used easy-rsa version 2.2.2 or previous to generate your diffie hellman key for the server, and didn't increase the default size in the vars file before doing so, your server uses a 1024 bit diffie hellman key.

[1]https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa
Has Red Hat ever done this with anything? I think a lot of their products exist as open-source versions. Satellite -> Katello, OpenShift is open-source, CloudForms -> ManageIQ, Red Hat Identity Management -> FreeIPA, RHEL -> CentOS. I suspect the list goes on and I have a hunch they will open-source Tower in the near future.
>> small sample size

Here is where a classically trained statistician can really shine. Classical statistics is really all about extracting insight from data when it is hard to come by...
Really? If so I'm interested. I would love to help with a project like this, I'm tired of passing word docs, excel sheets around to customers with the chance that I might have something out of date.
"It's Friday, go have a beer, relax and rediscover your sense of humour."

Oh good, the "you didn't think this was funny therefore your sense of humor sucks" logic.

I guess its much more "fun and interesting" to work yourself into a rage over things you made up versus just not thinking those things are funny...?
I overworked for seven years. I took an entire year off. Time alone wasn't enough. I kept a lot of the same bad habits, I just wasn't working. What I failed to do was make conscious, positive actions to de-stress and fix my lifestyle (which led to the overwork) during that time.
Sounds like you're burnt out and need to develop other interests besides programming.
Electricity is a myth.

Everything is really run by blue smoke and your cables are tubes to move it around. The wire inside the cable is just for strength.

You can see this is true when something shorts. The resulting hole in the system allows some blue smoke to escape, and the machine then stops working.
God wrote TempleOS. It is a sure thing.

the alternative is sucking dick and getting butt fucked making license plates for the CIA .
I own a 2011 Jetta Sportwagen TDI (my 3rd tdi, and 4th --and last -- vw/audi), and I am royally pissed. I will not buy another VW nor Audi. I loved my tdi for its combination of performance, comfort and carbon footprint (42 mpg). I try to "vote with my dollars", and am strongly pro-environment. Outrage is appropriate here, imho. I encourage everyone to boycott VW/Audi. Let's send a signal.
How to Explain Zero-Knowledge Protocols to Your Children (1998) [pdf]
LibreSSL Memory Leak and Buffer Overflow, All Versions Affected
That deals with only one criminal law: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/113/2314

The code is:

> Whoever transports, transmits, or transfers in interstate or foreign commerce any goods, wares, merchandise, securities or money, of the value of $5,000 or more, knowing the same to have been stolen, converted or taken by fraud; or ....
The location of the wedding would probably have been recorded and the lay of the land could be verified against the current landscape. Similarly, there would be land deeds and if the road in the foreground was a public road, then that could also help identify and confirm the location.

As for the associate, my sister thought it looked liked two boys in the midst of arguing over rules and cheating in the way that older and younger brothers do...
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I dislike this expertise as well, but lets get at what you are saying, that a recruiter should have some sort of programming background to know how concepts actually are used versus the sorts of mixed metaphors one comes up with in the absence of that understanding, which are often quite comical.

This just isn't realistic. Most recruiters are doing this job in some sort of entry-level commission-only type role, and if they had any sort of basic IT skills/understanding are likely to have better offers to do something in that arena. Some recruiters do learn a good bit and are more successful over time and make a good living, but most people try it for a bit and don't do well enough to keep at it. Combining the sales ability with technical ability is a bit rare, but for people who have both you can do pretty well both in recruiting and in other lines of work as well.
RIP Excess Burn
One doesn't really exclude the other. What you wrote is true, but people primarily care about not being discovered by people they know, and cloud is a go-to business model for people too lazy to invent something that's sustainable and actually beneficial to the user... Given how hard it is to monetize causal porn browsing, I wouldn't be surprised if some companies started giving in to the temptation...
Philip Morris v. Uruguay
(Sorry, Lindsey, not Lindsay.)
Top libraries for Android apps:

http://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/dev

Top ad network on Android sorted by usage:

http://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/ad
> drivers qua drivers

This is a silly distinction. You can't sensibly divorce "drivers" from all the other various functions of human beings who drive.

Many drivers are also people who enjoy living in a clean city with minimal pollution. Many more do not enjoy being lied to by a company they have paid in an explicit contract to exchange money for certified goods. Some of these drivers are also angry that they are being disrespected by their elected officials who are unable or unwilling to represent them in an appropriate manner.

Sure, drivers get a cheaper car in a vacuum. But this vacuum doesn't exist and is merely an academic distinction/rhetorical argument.
Bad Ass Advisors
Ending Decade of Litigation Court OKs Google Book Scanning as “Fair Use”
Perhaps not that brand,but there are lots of little switch mode Audio power amp boards out there.
Not sure about that. I would say it became more common for men to help with the housework from the 70's onward, and we had 40 hour weeks way before that. Do you think that the men who worked for Ford in the 1920s and 1930s, started helping with the housework after they implemented 40 hour work week? No, it think it's more likely that women had to prove themselves capable money earners first.
Sure, I don't disagree.

The thing that just boils my blood is people talking about how they are entitled to pirate content because content creators don't make it available in the way they want it. If you want to pirate stuff, that's your business. Just don't try to justify it.
Yes but you couldn't convince a 1989 Indian villager to use Zack Morris's brickphone. They only became practical from a price and "carry on your person" standpoint in the very late 90s or so.
That sounds interesting. I heard about you all through Abel at Surge last month and I'm looking forward to checking that out.

I work primarily on illumos, where we do dump program text, and we're working on getting CTF everywhere. It's almost always possible to debug without the original binaries and usually on different systems as well.
Yeah, it may only be "verified":

http://www.truewestmagazine.com/billy-the-kid-experts-weigh-...
Every single car driver out there causes immense harm to the society, it's not only the car manufacturers at fault.

If you can imagine a city where people ride bikes instead of cars, with no noise, pollution ,traffic jams, accidents and so on. You'll quickly realise that all car drivers are murderers. A quick reminder of Tetraethyllead should make you realise how many things most people are missing.
I can see a lot of VW owners wanting to defer maintenance for this exact reason.
"Code reviews are described as 'technical debt' and some say this ‘debt’ amounts to a trillion dollars globally."

Does anybody else share this view, or is the wording just awkward here? In my experience code reviews help to remove technical debt, rather than accrue it.

Their dashboards look nice. Coming from the .NET world, I know that Resharper has had a lot of that kind of functionality as part of its Visual Studio extension [1]. And apparently you can also build your own custom compiler rules for both F# and C#, as both have a compiler-as-a-service[2][3]. I'm sure similar tools exist for other languages as well.

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/features/code_analysis.h...
[2] https://github.com/fsharp/FSharp.Compiler.Service
[3] https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn
Since when does the right of the owner shift to the consumer with respect to artistic creation? This sets off all kinds of red flags on all things created. The view is narrow, and lacks a broader view on the scope of artists in particular - namely photographers!
The other thing that comes to mind is that they are a business fundamentally reliant upon distribution. Of course they should be building out a footprint, and marketing their services in sync with their technological development. It seems like one may have gotten ahead of the other, but in any other business this would be perfectly typical. The only industry for which this doesn't apply is software, where distribution is pretty simple. For example, talk to anyone in the cold supply chain business - frozen or refrigerated goods. There is a huge chicken/egg problem with product awareness and product access.

Most software companies will retract upgrades when they're not stable. Are the stakes different here? At first glace, yes, but upon second glance, if your magical test is replaced with a normal blood test in a Theranos booth, you're probably Ok. In that case, Theranos is just a sales/marketing company - which is a viable business too.
Afaik the Bundestag doesn't do pairing on controversial laws, such as this one, that get voted on using named voting.
I've often wondered if the Linux world will eventually split into two camps: desktop/mobile/embedded, and servers.

With desktop/mobile/embedded applications, you often have to do a lot of hardware-level integration to provide the best customer experience. This requires lots of features to support different use cases like hibernation, cellular radio on/off, power control, realtime device support, drivers that support many different drivers on different platforms, etc.

With servers, you actually want the OS to be hardware agnostic. Tight hardware integration is a drawback - not a feature - since it makes it harder to migrate / clone a system. Performance is pretty much the primary driver on a server, so having fewer abstraction layers should improve speed. Simple is better, because there's usually enough complexity in the applications themselves.

I don't think these use cases can be served by the same system. The whole systemd schism was a symptom of this core problem - systemd is great for the laptop/mobile/embedded case because it adds a whole lot of control over various system states. The server guys hate it because it adds a lot of complexity and doesn't give them much functionality that makes their lives easier. But the problem isn't systemd, its that these two use cases are very hard to solve with one system.
I appreciate it!
top of front page right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10399854
Although I agree with your negative assessment of Flash in general, the quoted bit "You read that correctly... all versions" is meaningless hyperbolic bluster. I would hope a cross-platform product is using a unified codebase to maximize compatibility and minimize development and test surface. That, of course, will tend to mean that bugs exhibit the same behavior cross-platform. (And to the extent that by "all versions", it is including past versions, that's even worse, as it implies that staying on an old version is ever advisable.) It's irresponsible journalism to mislead about the nature of software products like this.
Bright and Ashifi both launched the company together in 2007 or so. Ashifi was at Dartmouth, Bright was maybe in London at the time. Bright was the promoter, Ashifi the technical genius.

They parted ways, and Ashifi went on to found Sproxil with the same technology; he's a good guy and solid engineer. Of course, promotion skills matter -- but, I'd rather see stories about Sproxil!
IAB to Advertisers and Content Providers: 'We Messed Up'
This is neat. Someone should get Nate Lawson in here; SourceDNA has this analysis for free and paid apps in both app stores, and he's doing it by bringing up binaries to an IR and doing pattern matching.
These are classic symptoms of clinical / major depression. You have not found the right medications that help you yet. Keep seeing a psychiatrist who can help you find the right medication. Each time you switch it can take 10-12 weeks to know if that medication works for you. Please don't give up on the search for medication with a psychiatrist you trust.

If you find your cognitive abilities are lower than they used to be, don't worry. Those will come back too; but are the last thing to return after getting better.
>* Ruby referred to as the "lingua franca" of DevOps*

I've been in IT since 1997, ops for a great portion of that and now "devops" since before that was a thing...

Never heard anyone say Ruby is anything... unless you were building or working for a Heroku based service or company I guess...
This seems like it should also be an easy question for SourceDNA to answer.
In all seriousness, Poettering is at least trying to replace complexities with simplicities. He thinks unified config files are simpler than ad-hoc shell scripts for init systems. He thinks a sound system that handles all audio in a uniform way is simpler than having a bunch of different APIs that implement a different and incompatible part of the audio stack.

Nobody is trying to make things more complex, or if they are, it's usually a joke like brainfuck.
Why don't Comedy Central and Netflix have an agreement?

Secondarily, thank you for pasting that link. I didn't realize it was available to watch for free directly. I'll watch the ones that are open to me there then.
The NFL cares about gambling now because this time they are getting a cut. And the total gambling pie is gigantic.
I can't help but be reminded of that Taibbi quote about Wall Street being a vampire squid plunging its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. It's a living, I suppose, but does "running your arbs" create anything of value?
I recall one phone call where the guy said "how much do you know about Ajax?" (pronounced like the Dutch football team). There was no reason for the guy to know any different, but it amused me at the time....
How can you tell if the commercial VPN service you are using is vulnerable?

The client on mine is very easy to use, but has no debug output/log or console that I can find so I don't know what it is doing.
I suggest that you take a different approach to dealing with your depression and anxiety, brain biochemistry is only a link in a huge cause-effect chain. If you win the lottery you may experience a big dopamine high, but a dopamine high won't make you win the lottery.

View your brain as a super computer (which certainly is) and your personality as an operating system which you must hack to get rid of bugs and malwares. You must crack those thought patterns that make you feel miserable and recover the full control of your system, you couldn't even get up on your feet if you had lost all of your willpower.

(I am not saying that you drop medication, just that don't rely on it as the only form of healing).

To feel Ok about programming again, try to have small personal projects which are easy to complete. Find new ways to deal with boring, monotonous and complex tasks at work. Rescue an old hobbie like playing guitar or find a new one.

EDIT:

I see these small buddhist koans as very insightful from a psychological - rather than religious - point of view. Basically mind suffering can only exist if there is an ego to experience it, and if you find that this ego is just a stream of recurrent thought patterns, you realize the absurd of fear and anxiety.

Huike said to Bodhidharma, “My mind is anxious. Please pacify it.”
Bodhidharma replied, “Bring me your mind, and I will pacify it.”
Huike said, “Although I’ve sought it, I cannot find it.”
“There,” Bodhidharma replied, “I have pacified your mind.”

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A Zen student came to Bankei and said: "Master, I have an ungovernable temper -- how can I cure it?"
"Show me this temper," said Bankei, "it sounds fascinating."
"I haven't got it right now," said the student, "so I can't show it to you."
"Well then" said Bankei, "bring it to me when you have it."
"But I can't bring it just when I happen to have it," protested the student. "It arises unexpectedly, and I would surely lose it before I got it to you."
"In that case," said Bankei, "it cannot be part of your true nature. If it were, you could show it to me at any time. When you were born you did not have it, and your parents did not give it to you -- so it must come into you from the outside.(...)"
It's great that this may soon be resolved once and for all -- assuming the Supreme Court doesn't put the brakes on -- but it's nightmarish that it has been dragging on since, literally, 2005. We've got to find some way to speed the legal system up; that might make it so you don't have to be Google to win an important case, too.
But if you were born before 1998 (1999?), it's not necessarily easily reverse engineer-able. You need to know where someone lived when they first got a job. I've gotten into many arguments that given the first five digits of my SSN, someone can tell me where I was born.

Prior to the IRS requiring a SSN for claiming dependents, many people did not get a SSN until they started working; parents did not apply for them at birth. Most of the people I went to high school with, got them in high school.
Ask HN: Why Socket.io still don't work properly?
If you open Socket.io's demo page now, it would say 33001 participants. Here is a screenshot if you couldn't catch before they reset: http://i.imgur.com/yJHYJvh.png

That's not true. It's still can't able to capture disconnect event properly. We have been using Socket.io in one of our projects couple years ago and the same issue was occurring. Does anybody know why is it still happening? Is it that hard to maintain connections pool?
discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10398750
Cracking down? Not really.

The Nevada Gaming Commission just wants licensing fees. Nevada also knows that if fantasy sports is considered gambling, most other states will disallow it. Which, again, is good for Nevada. This is motivated purely by self-interest.
Windows 10 upgrade installing automatically on some Windows 7, 8 systems
> There are times, for example, where one needs a specific edition of a book. A librarian would have a much better grasp of how to find that than a search engine.

You know, I might have agreed with you before. But after watching the Vanity Fair interview with Elon Musk and Sam Altman, and Sam talking about how no one person really understands how Google's first page results are created anymore, or how machine learning is matching people on dating sites (and those people are having babies, determined by machine learning), I think we're approaching an inflection point where algorithms will be able to provide that guidance.

We're not there yet, I agree with that. But we're closing fast on that future.
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In other news, the sky is blue. Not to sound to trivial about this, but I think the track record of the CIA and torture is very ... well, established.
“Excellent” beats “best”
Idris Elba is an excellent actor and I'm looking forward to watching this. I'm also hoping to see him as the next James Bond when Craig's contract runs up.
Some happy medium between this title and the original title could be found.
I feel the same way about the medicine of the 19th century. Just goes to show how far we've come as far as science since then. And maybe Big Pharma has stepped in to fill the void for all the vague nerve complaints? Of course, it was a difficult time back then since even the doctors (if people could afford to hire them) didn't really know that much about actual disease. For instance, no one knew to wash their hands or their medical instruments and bleeding as a cure was still really popular. Even into the 1950s, some of the medicines and practices were pretty bizarre. My parents remember a time when you could X-ray your own feet at the mall to see what your shoe size was. And then, there's a great commercial for face wash where the lady cleansed away dirt combined with nuclear material and then used a geiger counter on her face to show how clean it was. It's both funny and horrifying!
> What is amazing is the fact people don't realize is that * insert any global industry * caused disability and even death, but hey if it does not affect me I'll just buy * the product * anyway.

This is true for almost anything. Food industry is a huge greenhouse gases producer which indirectly causes pollution and some deaths. Meat, which might be considered a luxury, is the top ingridient in many dishes, environmental impact is higher for producing meat that that of driving cars (globally). Just heating causes pollution and death.

Our reliance on fossil fuels will in 100 years cause a lot of indirect deaths.

People aren't sheep. They just don't care.
Electricity is being in love. Feynman possibly agrees? http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/06/you-dont-understand-ord....
> Environmental externalities are not the same as children being exploited for labor, no matter how you frame it.

Beyond a sufficient level of terrible, relative comparison is unnecessary.
There's always cash.
For me the most important morpheus feature is the static recipes, most linux distributions compile software dynamically against glibc and then the generated binaries won't run in other distributions. Static builds will run in many linux environments.

I used morpheus and other similar distributions recipes to create `static-get`[0] a static linux binary repository.

[0] https://github.com/minos-org/minos-static
I see a lot of attempts at analyzing why there are so many males in computer science (which is distinctively bad among STEM fields), and a lot of confusion between that question and the question of whether there should be more males in computer science.

But those are different questions. It is not a safe assumption that the best practitioners in this field should be nerds who got started in their pre-teen years (that describes me, by the way). The overwhelming majority of pre-teen computer nerds don't do any software development work of significance. I was out of high school before I wrote my first significant program, which makes my head start not that much different from someone who starts programming in their CS courses at college.
Sexual Harassment Case Shines Light on Science's Dark Secret