skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see the two statements being wrong, and definitely not mutually exclusive. With non-elected elite there's at least a chance that said elite has any actual qualifications instead of just being popular.

To be clear - I'm not that big on authoritarianism. I just don't see the value proposition of democracy being actually realized. Given the points I mentioned previously, we are still ruled by elite, except that it is constrained to choose their options only based on popularity, and unable to make hard decisions in areas that matter[0]. About the only thing democracy delivers as promised is bloodless government transition. Even the actual work in democractic country's administration is done by unelected officials.

At this point I've given up hoping that democratic governments will help solve climate change or energy problems. Private companies may be able to, but that's only because they're capable of behaving in inherently undemocratic ways, like releasing a new technology upon the world (nobody asked us to vote whether we want to have Facebook or not) or projecting the will of single individuals onto the society ("you will drive electric cars, whether you want it or not", said Musk, and proceed to burn as much money as it took to make electric cars compete with ICE ones[1]).

[0] - even if such decision wouldn't immediately piss of half of the electorate by itself, your political opponents will make sure it will render you practically unelectable

[1] - yes, there were electric cars before, but it took Tesla to basically force the market into accepting them as an option, and they did that on purpose
One can like or hate Amazon, and it may or may not be a crappy place to work.

That said, it sounds like NYT (a newspaper of record, btw) did more than reasonable selective reporting, to evoke certain feelings in the readers, to get clicks, to start a conversation, or what the reason may be. And it's lousy to see this in modern news reporting. Even the respectable publications err on the side of sensationalism, and it's notoriously hard to get unbiased information as a reader.

Where can someone go to read unbiased, well-researched, both-sides-of-the-story news?
You're both right. It's the kernel's job to ultimately enforce this policy, and calling private APIs should only be a compatibility problem, not a security risk.

I believe the current sandbox design makes it more complex to promote system interfaces to require individual access control. It doesn't provide the fine-grained access, so more work is needed to separate code with the granularity that sandbox policies can control it.

This does happen over time (e.g. UDID in iOS 8).
Following your reasoning, if an employee's story is used to prop up a hit piece in the national paper of record (the irony!), providing important context serves the readers, the public, and current & prospective employees.

But I get it, you don't like them. But it blinds you to the obvious, and makes your argument weak.
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All this assumes a rationing of college admissions. Whereas in America there are more than enough college positions to go around.

There are limited Ivy League seats, but that's all marketing. They use the same textbooks as your state U; you sit in similar 300-person halls to hear Intro-To-Whatever lectures.

I'm not so sure we need to shake up admissions processes to suit these self-appointed 'best schools'.
Do you have Spotify installed on your desktop? It's known to phone home meta data about your local collection of mp3s. Is playing music considered "utility" or "nosey" to you? I don't want to go into details about this particular example, the root problem is that you don't know, and that anything, even a utility program, could be nosey.
It's badly composed, not inexcusable.
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> Am I the only one who finds it crazy that at age 50+, ostensibly after working in the industry for at least a couple of decades, a candidate would be subjected to inane technical interviews and useless whiteboarding exercises?

No one should be subjected to useless whiteboarding exercise, regardless of age and experience; conversely, to the extent that skills relevant to the job can be usefully assessed via whiteboarding, there is no reason age or experience (either of which may have provided time to produce job-useful skills, but is not valuable on its own) should get you out of them.

So, while I'm always unhappy with irrelevant exercises in hiring, I don't see the age/experience issue you raise as being relevant to that unhappiness.
The GIL only restricts utilization of multiple cores. This makes parallelism harder but not concurrency. Python fully supports threads, but you won't find two threads in the same process running at the same time.
Did you create a second account to re-post the same comment? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10410926
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Wait, so you are pleading ignorance to the Times failing to properly inform and are fast to judge Amazon for disclosure of the truth?

If the roles were reversed, you would undoubtedly be supporting an Amazon PR piece in the Times, because the truth "wasn't the point of the article", correct?
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Surprise surprise: lots of us are really stupid about security
Lets not paint all Democracy with the 'US Federal Election' brush! My local county Attorney is very qualified and dedicated.
I was 100% wrong in time period (It was late is my only excuse)

Theologically not important find. There are no doctrines that are followed by King James version that is refuted in other versions. No doctrine is founded upon a specific version.
Also they are books in the Apocrypha which are not used by Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant for making doctrine. They are more like suggested reading except with Eastern Orthodox which canonized 3 Esdras, 4 Esdras and the Prayer of Manasseh.
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> Personally, given, I like how Go has things like channels, but I would never adopt a programming language for just one specific feature when I lose out on other features that are valuable to me, for instance, an object model.

Go has an object model.
Not all that useful and the code quality is mediocre. gas has macros to reduce boilerplate to nearly nothing. String primitives have already been written in portable C with one liners (see Klee on github). Assembly should only be for things primitive bootstrapping, really weird alignment issues (such as to avoid F00F) or crazy but necessary tricks like stackless operation. Higher level is your friend, low level is "I have a hammer" job security. (I know the area around p. 1800-2200 of the Intel IA-32 manual too well, I'll probably never forget PDE and PDT layouts, GDTR-null self-hosting.)

A more interesting trick of exokernel frameworks would be to provide a consistent interface across platforms such as video, input, storage and threads made easily accessible like QNX and others have done.
If they publicly lied about someone being fired for fraud, rest assured there would be an ARMY of lawyers ready to take up that case.
> "It does avoid bearing the medical equipment tag"

In my mind, that's a huge negative, because it makes it a lot harder to get insurance to even partially cover the cost.
Bad tone, non-sequitors or obvious axe-grinding will get you slammed down on HN more than anything else.
> Together with the inappropriate disclosure of performance reviews, this statement just makes me think that Amazon probably has a culture of defrauding vendors, and usually gets away with it,

Especially with the Discover fraud whistle blowing lawsuit
Maybe not. This one seems to have some kind of control loop for steering, probably based on contact forces. The control loop surely is designed to catch you and keep you upright before the contact force gets too low, no matter how hard you try to break. (As opposed to a joystick-based break.) But sure, it won't prevent you from driving into an obstacle.
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It looks like a job for an event loop (tornado/twisted/asyncio), not for a thread pool.
Interesting to see where this will go. I believe the common things to choose when one wants C on minimal runtime are RTEMS and eCOS:

https://www.rtems.org/

http://ecos.sourceware.org/about.html

I've always been surprised they weren't modified for use in VM's in the JeOS-type deployments. I'm sure some components like network stack could use some security review but I don't think that's why they were ignored. eCos's configuration options were particularly a strength as you could keep just what you wanted.
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Quality vs Quantity.. This is an ideas business. Copy pasting has limitations.
"I think when it comes to protecting your user's data vs inconveniencing them, you should inconvenience them."

I'd rather they protect their user's data. ;)
Accidentally flagged a story. Now what?
Sorry. I accidentally flagged a story that didn't need flagging and now it is off the front page.
1. From the article: Age discrimination is one of the last places left where employers can discriminate. This sounds to me like we need to reform some discrimination laws at the federal level.

2. I think that we need to go to a single-payer health insurance system and get employers out of the business of providing health insurance. If this were done, more employers would consider people over 50. The ACA helps in some ways, but is an incomplete solution as the employer still has to offer and pay up for health insurance, and older engineers are going to cost more in premiums.
To clarify my understanding of this post, would it be possible using this method to:
1. start with a high resolution image
2. create a low resolution version
3. using the low resolution version produce a high resolution version that looks good
It is sad that the NYT editorial standards are so weak, and they have cried wolf so many times (e.g. Apple suppliers' working conditions). They used to be a broadsheet with an opinion; now I don't know what they are :-(
> Are the alternatives that bad?

Yes, almost all of them have major issues. It's really hard to get something that works with all the main text use cases but can also support images and some basic layout features (like drag/drop, move stuff around, etc).
Had to chuckle when I read this sentence -

Even with breaking news, journalistic standards would encourage working hard to uncover any bias in a key source.

- then scrolled down to see Jay Carney's bio: "Senior Vice President for Global Corporate Affairs at Amazon. Previously, he served as White House Press Secretary and spent 20 years as a reporter for TIME."
I'm willing to bet the objectively top ten best coders in the world are people that 99.9% of the world has never heard of and will never know who they are/were.
Guess which industry is where software security is lagging
Over a hundred million Chinese users' personal information and password leaked
Europe tried that and it killed their aerospace industry which resulted in them having to pay tenfold to revive it.

Aerospace companies just like space programs are force multipliers their value is several orders of magnitude greater than what they make because they propel all industries within a nation forward.

While for-profit companies should not be funded on the same level as government organizations I would not advocate more for removing subsidizing from the likes of Boeing than I would for the stop to NASA funding because they are one and the same.

The US government partially funded the development of the Falcon 9 launch system and the department of energy grant was critical from keeping Tesla from going under. Government funding of key technology sectors is something we should all strive to increase because it's one of the few government spending programs that later pays for its self 10 times over.
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It could use many of the existing access control methods already in the kernel. No extra kernel complexity required.

e.g. the advertising ID could be stored in a file with appropriate permissions. All the API needs to do is open the file and read it out.
While westward expansion cause pressure on vestigial Aboriginal populations, note that this was incidental compared to the genocide cause simply by the first European ships making land. It's recently been estimated that between Christopher Columbus' first landfall and the first European colony, around 100 North Americans died of diseases they were spectacularly unequipped to resist. Perhaps the biggest die-off in all of human history.
Doesn't answer your question specifically but it's still relevant: Why Wolfram Mathematica did not use Lisp (2002) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9797936)
While Mediums (Jay Carney's) article has a fair point, in that once you look at article under a microscope its conclusions start to fall apart, I think Jay may have missed what the article is. The authors knew from the get-go that they were going to publish a scathing "insider", "never-before seen" review of Amazon. The NYT article is First-Class clickbait. It's Buzzfeed in a suit with a degree.

Jay Carney did an excellent job debunking it; however, it's much like debunking a Buzzfeed article. You might come out ahead logically, but that isn't what people are going to be talking about. The NYT isn't going for truth, they need people to read their newspaper, and then talk about it so they decided to write a bad article about Amazon, and then they found the "sources" for it.
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Alice has a secret key. She wants to prove this to Tom the tracker. He issues her a number of challenges until he is convinced she has the key.

Suspicious Simon now wonders if Alice actually had they key. Maybe she didn't and Tom gave her easy challenges? How can Simon be sure Alice has the key?
You contradict yourself. If the top 5% of any school is magically qualified to attend the top universities, then what incentive would any school really have to improve? You'd literally flip the incentive structure in education, such that parents would eventually be fighting to get their kids into the worst schools, with less competition, in order to increase their chances at college admissions. It's a race to the bottom.
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As a person on the wrong side of 30, how can you live with yourself pandering to 20 somethings? I've watched over the years my 40 something coworker do this and it's the most pathetic existence I can think of. It's no surprise he sees a therapist weekly. And yes ladies he's single and ready to mingle.
Just to provide some information, as the linked page is in Chinese:

The company in question is NetEase. A lot of Chinese people use NetEase's products and have a NetEase account. Many also use the NetEase email to register for other internet services in China.

My rough translation to the wooyun Chinese page:

Submission time: 2015-10-19 16:40

Vulnerability type: Massive user data leak

Severity: High

Status: Informed CNCERT(National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team).

Short description: The leak contains over a hundred million transaction records, which include users' email addresses, email passwords, email password protection info, IP addresses, birth dates, etc. Password and password protection info are hashed with MD5. After decryption, most passwords can still be used to login the email.
It's interesting that glasses, sitting in the middle of your face are seen as less of an issue than hearing aids. It's really just a random whim of fashion.

I think this may change soon. It will almost certainly change if a device targeting non-impaired gets any traction.
> actually toxic and lethal in small doses

Yeah I'm going to call bullshit on that unless you provide a source. The interesting thing about GHB is that it is less toxic in higher doses, but I've never read that it's lethal in low doses.
Please look at the bigger picture: this is Amazon telling it's current (and future?) employees: if you ever say anything bad about us, all your records will go public, and our head of PR will use any inconsideration in them to argue that your opinion is invalid.

Fraud may have been the outlier case here: he's also outing reviews of other people whose opinions he/his employers don't like. That's one way to deal with whistle blowers, and scare the rest of the herd: don't mess with us - we've got your files, and we ain't afraid to put them on Medium.
I interpreted "shaking the tree" to refer to how sometimes, when shaking a small tree, you end up with more things falling out than you expected.

I suspect they mean that changes which one might expect to be small and well-contained end up requiring touching your class (to add a parameter), your superclass, your superclass's superclass, and then all of the tests that depend on the superclass being a certain shape.

I know I've encountered this, in several projects, so I'm not sure if it's a product of poor design (possible, I wrote some of them! ;)), or merely a side effect of a complex system. I know that lately with React, I've been having similar issues when composing things (and adding new features), so that I can pass callbacks far enough down, so it's definitely not solely related to inheritance.
Well in the first place I didn't mean strictly Amazon, I'm speaking in general. I'm talking more about the general attitude that "this guy stole from us/our customers/our vendors, but we can't say anything publicly". That was more what I was talking about.

Back to the Amazon thing you're discussing, while I'm sure it's a high pressure workplace that isn't suited for everyone, the Times piece was as sensationalized if not moreso than the rebuff here. The rebuff I'm sure is biased to the company. As with most things, the truth isn't on either side, it's somewhere in the middle, though frankly the matter of fact stating and the clear context of the Amazon rebuff does ring true-r to me, but that's only IMHO.
Common UI conventions are for common apps. Blender for example is built with mousing in mind, and so hovering in whatever panel makes that panel active. So the commands are for the context of that panel. You say little tooltips but you can hover everywhere and get loads and loads of tooltips. Granted many need improvement but to someone reading you, they'd think it doesn't even have tooltips, which is not true, it has many many tooltips.

CATIA? So I looked at CATIA and a cursory glance shows that they aren't all that conventional either. One shot I saw was of v5 with a bunch of tiny floating undockable overlay windows. Yeah great UI. The catia sketch tool seems awesome, but that seems to be a smaller subset of the software for prototyping stages. I realize maybe it's unfair to ask, but is there an ultimate video walk through that you think showcases the great UI of CATIA? Does CATIA also have all the features and expectations that blender has? Such as animation, advanced texturing, lighting features. It certainly seems to be a capable modeler based on some final render images I've seen and it probably allows for physic simulations I'd gather
Ask HN: What are your favorite modern-day super abilities?
Science fiction visions of the past have been realized (somewhat). We are able to fly, explore the oceans, and we have great computing abilities.

What modern technological feats of today are close to superpowers?

Examples could include mind reading [1], impersonating others (in text) [2], teleportation [3], encription (invisibility), encyclopedic knowledge, etc.

[1] https://developer.ibm.com/watson/blog/2015/07/16/ibm-watson-tone-analyzer-service-experimental-release-announcement/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8968027

[3] http://www.mapcrunch.com/

[4] www.wikipedia.org
Being a mid-40's dev, here's my view... It's as much a test to see if you'd like to work for that company as it is a fizzbuzz.

You know going in what the process is, are you willing to prepare for it? Are you willing to expend the effort to open the text books, read papers, and arrange your day job to get the practice in?

I've found that the interview prep I had to do was a good indicator of what the job was going to be. So, if you're not willing to do the prep, then perhaps the job isn't for you.

Sitting on the other side of the table, the number of people who aren't able to accomplish a fizzbuzz type question is high. I also get more than just "can they code?" out of it.

I check:

1) for sound engineering practices (test data!)

2) ability to communicate their process.

3) willingness to ask questions when they don't understand.

4) ability to take feedback.

5) ability to work under time pressure.

The technical part is only the first bit. It's a bit hurdle, but it isn't the only one.
A Blistering Response from Amazon
This is interesting for sure in identifying novel spoke patterns that might result in a stronger/lighter wheel. Since the simulator identifies lots of possibilities it would be useful to have some kind of figure of merit to help with down-selection. It also seems like things like being out-of-dish or out of true are things that could be used to eliminate possibilities without user intervention.

Lastly I wonder if you constrain this enough whether it would spit out "standard" spoke patterns that are used commonly. I'd like to think that spoke patterns that we use now are close to optimal due to a kind of evolution based on lots of trial and error. But maybe that's not the case.
It appears there's no PM system available to use. (At least not on my account, which I created to ask you this question)
> Their stories tend to be very agenda driven and the facts tend to be subservient to the narrative, a policy which is deemed acceptable because it "starts a conversation" or the story is "probably true for someone". This is typical of the left wing.

This is hardly an issue isolated to "left wing" media.
> There are several shockingly inappropriate things in this article. In particular, the PR person at Amazon is saying that they would have shared employee's personal records (including evaluations) as well as other employee's termination conditions (which I consider unrelated to their quotes).

Yep. Additionally, its pretty clear Carney was hired as a political PR wrangler for the sole purpose of cleaning up messes like this and this is the best he can do.

If it was someone inexperienced, I'd assume this was just an error in judgement. However, with Carney's experience, is pretty clear this is the best spin that could be put to paper ... and that really says something. Their only option is to attack the character of the people involved in the articles about Amazon. They have no data, no evidence of any kind beyond "These are bad people".

For a data driven company, it shows they either failed to collect related data and/or that data shows the article was accurate despite the poor choice of sources.

> (By the way, the tool that the Times suggests is institutional encouragement to anonymously stab people in the back is rarely used and, when it is, most feedback is positive. Also, it’s not anonymous. The reporters knew that and dropped some qualifying language deep in the story after painting a picture that was far more entertaining than accurate.)

Yeah, I'll believe if you if you were able to quantify it. The fact you didn't even try to provide data for this claim causes me call bullshit.

> We decided to participate by sharing much of what Ms. Kantor asked for, yet the article she specifically said they were not writing became the article that we all read. And, despite our months-long participation, we were given no opportunity to see, respond to, or help fact-check the “stack of negative anecdotes” that they ultimately used.

Then provide data, rather than anecdotes of your own that show you in an even more negative light among the privacy minded?