skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a pertinent example because we think of peodophiles making photos - which is something phones are very good at.

However, it doesn't require much of an imagination to think of other scenarios:

* Keeping records of drug sales on a phone.
* Messaging a hitman to carry out a murder.
* Recording days and times of homes being empty in preparation for a break in.
My sister sends her son to a private school, academia type, very intense on read/write/arithmetic, especially in their daily homework (more than 12 pages/day), and that's for age 5!!!
Not exaggerate about the home work because I helped it, practicing writing many words, read short and easy stories, some summation like 12+4. Pretty surprising to see an age 5 do that, though painful for him.
In my experience blogs are usually much better about citing studies than newspapers.
Question: There was a post a while back on HN where there was advice given on finding a former IRS employee to help with certain tax issues. There was a specific name for this type of employee who now is a private sector consultant...

Do you happen to know of the thread, or even the term for this person? I need to use that advice now and I cannot find the comment thread or recall the term used.

Thanks
And stack ranking is "refining" the programmers by heating them under pressure then skimming the top?

decide to burn themselves [out] at a different company

Truth in humour, dude.
I smoke my own salmon. After cutting the salmon, you let it sit in a mixture of salt and sugar overnight. From my understanding, the salt pulls moisture out of the fish - it's impressive how much moisture is pulled out. The fish starts out sitting in a bowl of salt and sugar, and in the morning the bowl is filled with liquid. You rinse all the salt and sugar off, dry the fish on racks, and then put it in a smoker.

I've been told the sugar is used to keep the fish from becoming overly salty, but I imagine it serves other purposes as well. I'd love to know what that is. We've started experimenting with using less sugar, but it seems the fish would get really salty if you cut too much sugar out.

Here's a picture of the fish drying: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151063519684708&l=...

and after it comes out of the smoker: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151064652569708&l=...
Source: Have been a hiring manager. Currently I help hiring managers with this problem.

The biggest issue I see again and again is time. Hiring good people is hard. Hiring good people fast is really hard. Hiring lots of good people fast is really fucking hard.

Ultimately it takes a huge amount of time to source, filter, screen, interview and hire good people. A lot of early stage founders complain that hiring ends up being their biggest time sink. As a result, right now in London (UK) there's an enormous demand for internal talent people to come on board and take over that responsibility as external agencies are an inefficient and expensive solution.

Putting time to one side, my biggest issue is not so much the finding, screening or interviewing part, it's the engagement part. Give me a job brief, a short chat with the engineering lead and a couple of hours in front of my laptop and I'll create a significant list of potentially appropriate candidates. even if the engineering lead reduces that list by half, convincing those people to have a conversation is an incredibly difficult thing as the majority of 'good' engineers are already in work and know that there is a world of opportunities out there if they could be bothered to look so why should they care about you and your random opportunity?
I'm ok with quiet, unmanned, self-driving delivery trucks that automate the package delivery process. I am not looking forward to delivery drones buzzing around overhead becoming a normal occurrence.
Amazon must have them absolutely terrified.
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Even at that price, bacon's sooo worth it. :-)
Oh, I'm not arguing that Bogost's article is flawless. I'm just saying that it's wrong to dismiss it simply because he is not interested in reviewing Prison Architect's gameplay. He has something interesting and valuable to say about prisons and how they are depicted in fiction, though in some aspects I agree his article goes too far. Yes, I don't think anyone else (but Bogost) pretends this game is a "worthwhile study" of American prisons; on the other hand, I think he has a point about the absence of race and racism as gameplay elements being very conspicuous in a game about prison.

I don't think Super Mario Bros' subject matter is comparable to Prison Architect's, and so I wouldn't expect the same kind of articles written about it.
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Like it! I wanted to read the footer of the page (to see what this is powered by) but scrolling down loads more content.

(Pressing Esc+Page down simultaneously let me see it).
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I think a more fitting analogy would be:

My car has a software vulnerability that would allow somebody clever to take control of the steering remotely while I drive, but nobody really goes around remote controlling other people's cars, so is it an issue?
My company is running full steam into a situation where a loss of internet means our product is down and the devs are sitting in their chairs spinning because we can't access code, build servers, and binary build artifacts.
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When I lived in the UK, I started making my own bread (I'm from Germany, we have a bit of a reputation for our bread). I have a rye sourdough from which I bake a rye and wheat mixed loaf. It's quite heavy -- slightly over 1kg for a large loaf tin (IKEA DRÖMMAR, to be precise) -- but stores well and I really enjoy the taste. The sourdough is my fridge pet (so to say), but since it lives in the fridge, it needs to be fed only once every two to three weeks, or whenever you bake it. I've had it for 1½ years now.
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When should one expect to see an ACME client built into nginx so that you could specify an ACME-enabled CA instead of a key file right in nginx config and have nginx itself do the rest?
Cynical, yes. Accurate, unfortunately so. I worked for a small weekly paper for a number of years. Weeklies are still very community oriented and immune to many of the diseases that afflict large city dailies or national news outlets. Still, if you aren't selling advertising, you aren't in business, and advertisers don't want to see their ad next to something that either offends sensibilities or bores the hell out of readers.

You can wish it weren't so, or call it cynical, but that IS the reason they don't add a link to the source in the article. God help us all if people clicked away from the site, learned more about the topic than the reporter, or had the piece go over their head.
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Science papers rarely cited in negative ways
I would like to back that up. I used to be the guy that ordered miltiple additional portions of fries all the time. I thought I really liked fries.

Eventually I figured out it was the sugar filled ketchup that was doing it to me. Now I eat fries without ketchup and do not usually order additional portions (unless I am really hungry). Best of all, I do not feel like I am starving myself. When I do not have ketchup, I do not get the desire to eat more.
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You're missing the reference - Dijkstra wrote a famous letter on GOTO in 1968 which was published as "Go To Statement Considered Harmful":

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd02xx/EWD215.PDF

In context, it was a piece advocating against the use of GOTO to the exclusion of all other control structures (e.g, 'for' or 'while' loops, etc).
> whether she knows what she's talking about and what
> she's trying to say is really a fight you want to pick

Did you mean to say: "ISN'T really a fight you want to pick"?
Hmm. The article alludes to some studies that back up their point, but, anecdotally, I think I got more out of doing homework than I did out of sitting in class...
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They generated a billion in operating profit between AWS and retail.

Specifically what's so amazing, is that AWS is set to produce perhaps $2.25 to $2.5 billion in operating profit in the next four quarters. With the growth curve it's on, it'll very rapidly become one of the most valuable companies in the world, buried within Amazon. They'll hit $20 billion in sales in just three years, assuming slower growth.

By comparison, AWS is already generating 2.5 times the operating profit of VMWare. It has greater sales than either Salesforce or Netflix, and is generating a drastically greater operating profit than either of those two.
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It was well mixed in with references and analysis of some pretty amazing visualizations though. I agree it could have been more grounded, but I still found it a pretty great article. Which statements do you view as too grandiose?
Looks great. Planning a product hunt post?
Thanks, I didn't click through the enroll button.
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This one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7789363#up_7789806
It's not about you; it's about getting the message to those who need it. And that's an awful lot of people who are over-indebted to the success and productivity of the food producing industries worldwide.
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Be smart about it, or those 80 people may decide to lay you off.
I work full time in a Head Start agency and work with over 250 students every week in a STEM Lab for over 8 years. I am proud of what I do and even more proud of the teachers, students and families.

1) "Teaching to the Test" is to teachers. They are tested on CLASS (Teacher engagement with the students) ECARDS (Classroom environment) NAECY (Classroom and Teacher Lesson Plans). Federal Reviewers check for Food and general Safety.

Children are engage at their point of interest. So if many in the classroom are interested in a subject the teacher will structure the classroom to focus on that subject and make projects etc..

2) Parents are very much apart of Head Start. Every one has a Policy Council that parents actually help run and make classroom policies. We also have Family engagement partners that visit the homes as close to monthly as possible to help the families to create successful students. The teachers are required to visit the homes at least 3 times a year.

3) I think that is the issue. K-3 does not go through NAEYC or CLASS and usually developmentally inappropriate. There is no family engagement in my experience.

CURRENT POLICY of Head Start Agencies - The lowest 10% of CLASS scores are to be de-funded and the contract to be put up for competition. Also any missing children or serious safety violations equals immediate de-funding.

NAEYC - https://www.naeyc.org/accreditation
CLASS - http://teachstone.com/classroom-assessment-scoring-system/
EKRDS -
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I’ve been playing around with a new format to create step-by-step guides. It’s a way to optimize how we approach something we want to learn, know where to start, and the best resources to use. I’d love your support in trying it out. This is how you can help:
1) If you think there is a better way to break down ‘how we build habits’, you can create a new learning list. If you like learning steps in other learning list you can drag and drop them to your list.
2) If you think the structure is good, but certain learning steps suck, then you can click on ‘alternatives to this learning step’, and submit your own take on it.
About the stats: by "specially about their deployment count and usage over time" I meant the number of certs deployed by cert type (DV, OV, EV) and how has their usage progressed over time? If the second part is not clear, let's say that 5 years ago EV certs represented 2% among issued certs, and today it represents 1.4% -- I'm looking for historic data about this.

Thanks about the warranty clarification, so it only protects you if the /CA/ does something bad to you? In that case wouldn't it possible to sue the entity for, possibly, an even larger sum?
I would have been part of a terrorist attack in Jerusalem in 2008 had I not stopped into a small store to buy a candy bar.

I was up the street from the World Trade Center at Columbia University when the towers were struck.

Both the CEO and the COO of Facebook are Jewish. Not only should Facebook think about the lives they will be saving by having a zero tolerance policy of facilitating terror, but I'm certain many of the Facebook stockholders want nothing to do with facilitating terror.
Sounds cool. Coordinating schedules and locations is always annoying for me and I'm super disorganized, so a robot companion would be pretty helpful.
Relevant: http://developers.lyst.com/2015/07/10/ann/
Hmm, my favorite vulnerability is x86's lack of self-synchronization meaning that the same byte-stream could be two different streams of valid instructions depending on where you start reading.

http://mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com/2012/11/attacking...
Having worked at an old school insurance company I witnessed many cases of inefficiencies that I could fix but they are VERY resistant to change. VERY. Where I was held on to long-standing processes because "that is the way it has always been done" and those people have usually been there 5, 10, 20 plus years. Be very careful suggesting that you will put any amount of people out of a job. Old school companies don't often appreciate someone disrupting the way they have been doing things, especially if they have been in business for a long time. I would approach it as you think you found a way to make jobs easier and more efficient rather than boldly claiming your code will immediately replace 80 people.
Without sugar or you add something other like cinnamon?
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This is awesome! Posted it separately as people should really see this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10458825
I think Bram stopped trying to maintain Amiga support after 6.x. But I don't have an Amiga anymore and haven't paid attention in a long time. I was surprised when it was still supported a few years ago.
The obesity epidemic is clearly the new tobacco epidemic, but the health effects are worse, and unhealthy food is harder to avoid than smoking ever was. You can't abstain from eating like you can smoking, and ask any addict how hard it is to stay clean when everyone around you isn't.

Plus at least tobacco was attractive though right guys? /s

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See dekhn's comment:

> Sugar is added to cured salmon because it helps prevent the growth of microorganisms. When this process was originally developed, food spoilage was a huge problem (it meant the difference between survival and death) while metabolic disorders were rare.
Well that was kind of my point, that hardware is so far up the security tree, it's almost moot (that's kind of my question I guess. Is it far enough up that tree to be moot?). To compare with my analogy, a hitman doesn't need to shoot me up while I'm driving my car, he can wait until I've exited the vehicle and negated any protection I might have had. Similarly, a hacker can avoid the hardware entirely and wait by a printer to read those secure financial documents. Or they can watch over your shoulder while you type your password. Etc. Etc.
The problem is that in the US you get trapped in fees if you live paycheck-to-paycheck. It's damn hard to avoid them in some cases. I think Wells Fargo is probably the easiest bank in terms of avoiding fees. But others that were in my area weren't so friendly to poor people in that regard.
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I completely agree that it would be very difficult to perform such studies, if not impossible, but that doesn't make me desire them any less. Instead I've become very skeptical of everything and – if you'll pardon the pun – follow my gut instincts.

I find maintaining a high level of skepticism tends to dissipate any longterm benefits of the placebo effect. So sometimes I'll try a fad, or a lifestyle change, but hold my judgement until months later and most of the time I'm left disappointed in the overall results.

Other than that, I follow the golden rule of health and nutrition: "everything in moderation".
I actually disagree. Speaking from writing computer science papers, the moment of writing is when I understand it the best. I often have to go back and read my old papers to remind myself of all of the nuances of the work. I think a worse problem is the opposite: academics understand what they're writing about so well, and have been steeped in it for so long, that they can't "see" all of the information they leave out.

At the time, the writing is clear because I have had the entire topic in my head for a month. But years later, I can see I did not clarify simple things which would have made the text easier to understand.
Have you worked on visualizations such as those in the article, or do you have a different position? I am very interested in this industry, but I haven't met anyone with experience there yet.
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Are you sure about the Canada side? I heard most countries tax it as long as the money is made there.

I actually think the UK non-dom thing is reasonable. You pay tax to support a state, which in turn protects your assets and provides various services. If you can't bring your money in, it's not protected by that state. You're also not using it for any kind of gain (pleasure, investment, etc) in the UK, so why it any of their business? On the other hand of course whatever state it is in should be allowed to tax you.
Now that the double Irish tax arrangement is being mitigated by the Irish government do you see any other tax arrangements for international companies that will become more popular?

Any good books on understanding international tax strategy for corporations?
"Considered Harmful" is a signifies that the text will be forceful and opinionated. I have nothing against balance and thoroughness, but many authors confuse those qualities with mealy-mouthedness and passive-aggressiveness. When I see "Considered Harmful" I know that the text will have a conclusion that isn't basically "I see some pro's and con's but I don't know guys, maybe more research is needed?".

Yes, "Considered Harmful" articles may be a little tactless and imbalanced, but they are usually also concise, honest, informative and funny. Those qualities are important to me.
I recently cut out sugar and also quit diet drinks. I've heard that aspartame can have sugar-like effects, particularly triggering food cravings. I used to drink two, three sometimes more 7-11 style Big Gulps every day. Cutting them out has made a difference in my subjective quality of life but it's hard to describe.
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Exactly! This dovetails with the Khan Academy approach, of listening to lecture online, then doing homework in class with the teacher there as tutor. Public school is usually run upside-down from what makes sense.
This result, among others, was discussed in this post (http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-26/early-child...) and the writer's conclusions make sense to me. Small difference + statistical noise + conflicting study results could just mean that you're seeing no meaningful effect. There's probably no need to construct a twisted rationale over why this sort of program would actually produce net bad results.
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> but we have yet to move out of the consumer mentality, where the only value of a game is if you were entertained by it at your most base level.

Neither did Mozart.
Having looked seriously into this study it does appear to be done correctly. I struggle with it is Pre-K's fault and not what are we doing wrong with K-3, which is were I think our Public Education System (Especially in Urban Schools) are at our weakest. The "common sense" of start early for reading became all 5 year olds must learn to read became my daughters 3 hours of reading a day Kindergarten and 2.5 hours of math with no recesses.
"System management mode" is a tremendous wart and should be removed wholesale, with Intel adopting a more ARM-style trusted boot chain with explicit cooperation from the OS or hypervisor. And while you're at it, kill UEFI and install a pony for me.

(Seriously, SMM serves either bizarre ILO features that high-end vendors like but are rarely used, or security agencies looking for a layer to hide in.)
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Certainly do!

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I did about half of the welding on the buggy and I actually learned how to weld while we were building it. YouTube videos were enormously helpful and welding is really fun.

Technically this was for my university, but we raised funds for it without their help and built it not out of requirement, but out of interest.
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Uber now has higher valuation than companies that make the cars its drivers use
Property prices in the UK have risen rapidly at least in part because they are seen as a long term investment. You previously implied that housing 'is only an investment asset in certain disfunctional housing markets (e.g., NYC, SF). The problem in these markets is that it's illegal to sell only housing'. I am providing a counter-example.
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This looks awesome. I use reminders in Inbox with reckless abandon, love them. Please tell me there is an open source version of this or that I am missing something in gmail to do this. Pretty please.

That said: There is no way I am spending $49 a month on this. There is a point where you have to analyze how many $5/$10/$15 dollar a month subscriptions you have. Pretty soon it can escalate to the cost of a monthly vehicle payment or the hiring of a part-time employee. Furthermore, can get a human to do this for $10 an hour or so using a virtual assistant?

If I was super-crazy-busy and making ridiculous $$$, sure. But as a cash flow restricted mortal with a mortgage a full time job and a side project... $49 in addition to the myriad of services/equipment I require (accounting, marketing, materials, equipment maintenance, etc) is not going to happen.
> and the ME issue which is an intel thing.

> But is the situation much different on AMD-based x86 platforms? It doesn’t seem so! The problems related to boot security seem to be similar to those we discussed in this paper. And it seems AMD has an equivalent of Intel ME also, just disguised as Platform Security Processor (PSP)