skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this topic: A lot of people humblebragging about their success and not a lot of "simple actionable steps to take". (Not all of the answers, but the top comments were like that.)

I don't think OP cares about your success. Focus on the answer please. Signal, noise, etc.

Patrick started to answer this on his Twitter feed if OP is interested:

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/661998764119363584

I for one will not be disclosing my personal success story.
We should nationalize the railways, then invest in the infrastructure to make it safe to carry freight and passengers. Then allow for competition in the "railway marketplace".
Or the seller creates a new account and keep selling the cables until another bad review. And then does the same again and so on.
Amusing way to put it. Not really the case, as plants are not 'made' of the elements they consume biologically, and plant stocks are designed to be resistant to pathogens better than the 'wild' varieties.
They don't necessarily need to do that. What they could do however, is allow files to be encrypted locally before they are synced and uploaded to their servers. The vast majority of people would still not do it anyway, but those that care would.

I really like how Cryptomator works, and I think Dropbox could easily provide similar functionality, and perhaps in an even more user-friendly way, too, since they can just integrate it with their Dropbox app, rather than this functionality being in a whole separate application.

https://cryptomator.org

Dropbox is not an advertising company like Google. They still have some of the highest fees for cloud storage around. So why do they care about seeing what's in people's files? Why not allow people to encrypt the files locally before uploading them?

And lest we forget, in the PRISM slides, Dropbox was mentioned as "coming soon". So unless they want to admit they are already part of the PRISM program, then what better way to dispel those rumors (not made any better by getting Condoleezza Rice on their board) that they are cooperating with the NSA.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-nsa-said-to-be-secretly-min...
Surprised none of the USB cables were a triumph
No they don't, they are not an underrepresented group.
This guy sort of sort of undermines the standard case for diversity:

"Twitter as a platform has empowered underserved and underrepresented people. It has fomented social movements and..."

Sounds like twitter is killing it for people of all ethnic groups. It's as if a bunch of White/Asian dudes can actually design algorithms that work for everyone. So, um, why do we need a non-Asian engineer?

It's also worth questioning how a black person would think differently from the (apparently highly effective) white/Asian workforce. I've seen very few meaningful examples of this and I've never experienced it (I'm usually the only person of my race). My current job is mostly Punjabi's, no techies of my ethnic group, and my unique perspective is "lets all be Bayesian cause Frequentism is ass backwards" and "stop the multiple fucking comparisons!"

A naughty question: suppose I'm wrong, and black people actually do think differently. Given that whites/Asians seem to be doing such a great job, why do we think that "different" is actually better or even useful? In statistics terms, given two different functions f and g which are estimators for some truth t, it's unlikely that |f(x)-t(x)| = |g(x)-t(x)|. One of them is probably better.
Normal people don't buy groceries with bitcoins.

Actually I don't think I've ever seen a local brick & mortar business advertise their ability or willingness to accept BTC.
5 Myths About Becoming an Astronaut
This PLT Life
The "international spies" probably refers to:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/protests-continue-a...
tl;dr - it's AWS
Being nice apparently is rather difficult, considering your tone in reply to someone asking you for information about your stance.
Only if that miner is successful for a block. Until then the blocked transaction stays in limbo.
Well, that's one definition of tolerance, I suppose.
But if they reflect a lot, they reflect from one side, and then from the other side. Still no net momentum change.
There's references to the 202 requiring "silver nitrate paper"; basically a (presumably page-sized) photographic negative. That would have been used to produce a printing plate (in the Gutenberg sense) and then used to make actual hard-copies.
Anker++, their chargers and cables are super solid. Most of mine are from them.

Aukey is similar, I recommend them also based on the two chargers from them I own. I don't have any cables though so YMMV.
Well at least they might be able to do this if Connecticut were to secede from the United States. Not sure if you're from the U.S. or not, but we have a Bill of Rights which was originally intended to protect states from the federal government... But in this case it looks like we'll have to use it to protect us from our own states.
Take a look at nCrypted Cloud for an option: https://www.encryptedcloud.com/

Realistically, though, Dropbox can't offer many of the features that differentiate them in the marketplace (collaboration, previews, sharing, etc) if all of the files they store are opaque to them. Playing in the "generic blob storage" market alongside S3 is a losing game for pretty much everybody.
What are alternatives to Totango?
My impression is that things are settling down now, but I've encountered quite a few rust code bases that required "latest rust" (latest > 1.0) - and even "nightly".

Not to say that rust-the-language hasn't stabilized, but I think the point about D being (way) more mature still stands?

(Note, it's a good thing that people are writing code to test/work with/exercise latest rust/nightly etc -- but just because I can be fairly sure code I write today will compile tomorrow (which is good!) -- that doesn't mean "all of rust land" is stable).

Please don't take this of critique of all the hard work going into rust -- the only way this wouldn't be a thing was if rust core was a dead project.

[ed: To add to that - it might well be that all of the projects I've seen lately where I've had to wake up multirust[1] and do a little dance before my beautiful random code from random person on the Internet have been willing to compile -- have all been bad samples of rust code - but they're still part of the landscape of rust code one encounters in the wild.

[1] https://github.com/brson/multirust (eats a bit of space (~200MB per version of the compiler/toolchain) - but in my very limited testing works nicely!)]
Humans of New York and the Cavalier Consumption of Others
Funny that jQuery is one of the most liked technologies/tools on SO given the hate it gets recently from the community.

I have a neutral stance on jQuery. I love some parts of the library like its Sizzle engine and the extended selectors it provides out of the box and on the other hand, there are parts that I dislike like animation (very quirky to my taste) but I can't really feel any disdain or negative emotions toward it because I am still well versed in JS/DOM API and I can really accomplish a lot of stuff in the absence of jQuery.

So, this animosity toward jQuery is but unfathomable to me.
Another alternative developed for AWS deployments, written in Python and uses KMS: Credstash
https://github.com/fugue/credstash
Can I programmatically edit .xls files over the API? That would be great.
No more "pip freeze | sort -f > requirements.txt", explicit dependencies are way more maintainable!
No, you don't. You're reading the legislation incorrectly which can happen if you just read it sequentially. Nobody goes to prison because their car has a reversing camera, that's absurd.

Whilst true that in Section 9 (Part 3) of 2004 No. 692
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS BROADCASTING The Communications (Television Licensing) Regulations 2004[0] a 'television receiver' is defined as:

any apparatus installed or used for the purpose of receiving (whether by means of wireless telegraphy or otherwise) any television programme service, whether or not it is installed or used for any other purpose.

...the key part is Section 363 of Part 4 of the Communications Act 2003[1] which states:

It an offence to

* install or use a television receiver or

* possess or have control of a television receiver with the intent to install or use it or

* possess or have control of a television receiver and know or have reasonable grounds for believing that another person intends to install or use it without a valid TV Licence issued under the Communications Act.

If you own or possess a television set without installing or using it as a TV receiver (e.g. you only use it to watch videos or DVDs, or as a monitor for a games console) then you don’t need a TV Licence. This is what the ''television programme service' refers to in Section 363 - the key part being that a TV receiver is concerned with the reception of live or 'virtually live' broadcasts.

This has been confirmed many times and directly by the BBC in this FOI request[2]

[0] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/692/pdfs/uksi_200406...

[1] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/21/part/4

[2] https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/laws_on_tv_license
Yes. This. My company makes a point to hire out-of-field engineers. I'm a self-taught developer with a philosophy degree. My coworker has a degree in astrophysics. We have a linguist, a theater major, some people with diplomas, and a "dropout". Shooting for Diversity with a capital D is misguided.
People frequently buy multiple cables for various reasons. For example, I have three microUSB cables for my phone, which only came with one - for charging at my home computer, work computer, and in my laptop bag.
I don't see why shipping a good cable with the product makes a difference. My house is full of USB chargers, because I want to be able to charge multiple devices several places in the living room as well as our bedrooms. Then there's the portable battery packs etc.

One cable per device is insufficient for a lot of us.
Haha sounds like uber surge pricing
Check out "Asc"'s comment:

"There are adblocker-blocker-blockers definition lists... if you can make sense of that. In other words, there are subscriptions (as simple as checking a box in the ad blocker options) that block the scripts that detect that someone has an ad blocker on."

Quite the arms race!
Wow, if this is true, then its awful. As of right now the offer of free forever is still up on the website.

> In software dev, sometimes a test without writing weeks and months of code is worth it. We’ve had this test going for 3 months and haven’t had anyone complain.

If the blog post is accurate, this is a really telling statement as to the ethics of the company.
It's one thing to A/B test your new logo or colour of your "Sign Up" button. Its another thing to fraudulently offer a service to people.

Or put another way, the moment you offer free for life, it had better be because you mean it, not because you are trying to trap people into using your service.
By focusing on what makes this reviewer notable: he's a verified buyer, systematically reviewing products, and with a resume to show he's worth listening to. We don't want reviews from any & all yahoos who sign up, we want reviews from vetted people who have a professional interest in checking numerous products with appropriate knowledge, and can write meaningful descriptions suitable for general audiences.

Personally, I'd very much like to see such a thing applied particularly to high-knockoff topics like USB cables (see lead post), camera batteries, printer ink, and other items where a lot of companies are providing a lot of low-price alternatives (some quality, some dangerously bad) to high-dollar brand-name accessories & consumables. For some there's WAY too many options, with HUGE variation of price & quality, to do anything other than either "buy cheap & popular and hope" or "pay thru the nose but it will work".

FWIW: if you sign up as an advertising associate https://affiliate-program.amazon.com with Amazon you can get up to 10% from every link you provide that turns into an actual sale. Build a website featuring appropriately curated reviews linking to Amazon and you could make a good buck - IF you can get enough readers. Over the years I've made a couple hundred dollars doing so, just by posting links when relevant to blog comments. Focused as a business? I'd expect good returns if done right, plenty to hire good unbiased reviewers.
SplitBox.me – Secure File Sharing
Also have to wonder if once they open your car, can the police can just say "It smelled like weed" and search all your stuff?

The cynical side of me says that this is exactly why they're doing it, under the cover of doing the community a "favor". "Brilliant, Jones, just brilliant. I see lieutenant bars in your future."
Canada's R&D tax credit program hurts R&D in Canada
I'm well aware of the definition of tolerance that boils down to "people who share my opinions are tolerated" but I don't get what the point of it is.
Removing barriers to particular ethnicities in hiring? Great. Making it clear in marketing and outreach that all ethnicities are welcomed and encouraged? Great. Establishing a quota of X % of employees should be a certain race? Uh... okay. Should asians be turned down from a job because they've hit the asian quota and need more blacks? I didn't realize companies practiced affirmative action like this.
Give OneDrive users back their storage options
The article requires a subscription or other annoyances, but I wonder if it related to this...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandratalty/2015/11/03/skyroc...

>According to a new study, the number of 25 to 34 year old living with housemates increased by a whopping 39 percent from 2005 to 2015, from 5.7 to 7.4 percent.
Like many HN readers, I can't help but speculate about how people could game new systems.

Here's what I came up with for this one: this system allows participants to exchange goods and currency, in broad daylight, with plausible deniability.
How to Build a Robot That Will Feed You Breakfast
I'm more inclined to reserve 5 stars for really good films and books (even if they're not in the truly great category). For a cable though? If it does it's job, appears well-made, and is a good price, I'm not sure why I'd hit it in the ratings. I suppose I can leave lower numbers of stars in a quixotic quest against review inflation but doesn't seem really fair to the products involved.
If they wanted to do this, they wouldn't start it in a location where parking is a pain (which it kinda is in UVillage) and where retail space is really expensive. Better to go somewhere with cheaper space and a more central location. So that's definitely not the plan.

I'm not disagreeing that they need an alternative to delivery, and they know it. That's why they've been trying stuff like Amazon Lockers (in 7-11s and such) and why they're working on the drone delivery which could adapt to when you're home.
If this showed us how to couple quantum fields to GR, that would be pretty good. Personally, I would consider that "new physics", given how unclear it is how to do so at the moment. If doing so doesn't significantly change either GR or quantum, however (and so the basic texts are still valid), I could go with your view.
Biohackers to create open source insulin protocol
Because an unlocked car is a situation that can be addressed while a locked car is one that can not, likely reducing the overall number occurrences. Also, an unlocked car is a lower barrier for a potential thief as well. They may choose to pass up a locked car while an unlocked is a much easier target.
Really? Less than 5% of staff are non-white and you're arguing he needs to explain what "diversity" is?

Come on. At under 5% basically ANYTHING ELSE is diversity.

Also, he does touch on this in the article. He says that Twitter relies heavily on a few schools for hiring so even if they get 'diverse' candidates from those schools they've still had a very similar experience compared to people from geographically diverse schools. That alone would add one form of diversity. He said he's seen this resulting in group think, and I can believe that.

But really? You want people to define diversity in this situation? That seems like a 'no true scotsman' setup to me.
I have not tried it myself but there seem to be ways to get a stack trace on Linux.

http://vibed.org/docs#handling-segmentation-faults
Hell, .htaccess being ENABLED is borderline WTF on a real production server.
Because the real world doesn't revolve around newtonian physics. It's quantum physics.
I'm not sure whether the distinction between sub-categories and their parents was treated correctly in this analysis. There is a huge gap between the popularity of HTML and HTML5, CSS and CSS3, and Javascript and its assorted heap of technologies.

My guess is that if you like HTML, you will mark yourself as liking both HTML and HTML5. However, it would be odd to like one and not the other, and pointless to dislike them both.

In that case, it might be more correct to count people who liked/disliked at least one of HTML or HTML5 as being HTML-positive/negative people, but I am not sure that this won't distort the data in some other way.
Funny story. I wanted to buy a cheap iPad for my son. I could have got one from Amazon but after hearing so many stories about scams or refurb devices or devices with someone else's state on it I decided not to deal with that headache and ordered direct from the Apple website.

Upon turning on the device for the first time it showed a screen saying it was controlled by the LDS Church and wouldn't proceed through guided setup until I acknowledged that. After some time on the phone with customer service, we determined there was no way to remove this configuration. I ended up having to return it to an Apple store. The rep there said "yeah that happens sometimes" (someone pulled from the wrong pile in fulfillment most likely). So sometimes you're damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

If anything Amazon's customer service is better - to resolve an issue like this for items they ship I don't have to drive anywhere, just put the box back on my front doorstep. I wish they would make it clearer when you're buying things from them, and would do a better job of associating compatible products. This seems like data they should be able to have, and UI they should be able to build.
Not OP, but personally, 100% of the Dropbox functionality I care about is the storage and synchronization of explicitly allowed files (even if that only means "everything in ~/Dropbox"). So how the client-side synchronizer works shouldn't be a trade secret, assuming it's doing exactly what I'm paying it for and nothing else.
> "It worked great for two years, and then became sentient and strangled my pet fish. 2/5"

Of course, for some that would be a 5/5.... Which is another reason to read the negative reviews: Sometimes they confirm that the only downsides to a product is stuff you don't care about or don't see as a negative.
Having seen a block of houses burn down due to only one resident's stupid mistake, I have to admit a bit of a desire to agree with that idea.
I'm confused--if the person purchased from Listing A, but the vendor shipped Product B, are you saying the user does not have the option of leaving a review for Listing A?
Valve can now proudly display on their Orange Box soundtrack that it is Google Certified™.
Stuff from unlocked cars?
You honestly think it's "worth questioning how a black person would think differently"?

Different experiences yield different points of view yield different ideas
> Not sure if you're from the U.S. or not, but we have a Bill of Rights which was originally intended to protect states from the federal government...

This language seems overly patronising, and unlikely to contribute to the important point that the rest of your post makes. I think it doesn't matter whether or not GP is from the US.
This is a social level question, not a physical one?
Yeah, the ICMP stuff could be a bit annoying :)

My comment about the traceroute was because you previously said that you've found those weird IP addresses between the VM and Internet. That's not how I actually see it, but I get your point, too.

The ones you identify as packet loss are just the ones you didn't get an ICMP back.
I don't know anything about your background, but as per my experience with networking I've stopped considering traceroute as something remotely useful further than the first hop long ago, especially on environments outside my control (i.e. Internet). There are things out there like ICMP throttling and the fact that I could send you the "TTL Expired" ICMP identifying myself with any IP address. Remember the "Star Wars traceroute"? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/15/star_wars_traceroute... (doesn't seem to work for me now).

(About #12, WTF? Weird!)
The sealioning is because you are requesting me to provide you with an extensive example that will satisfy your stringent needs and seem unwilling to do your own research. A more charitable approach would be to go and try to find examples on your own, explain what you looked for, and could not find. Instead, you are (in your eyes very politely) asking me to catalogue a comprehensive example that satisfies all of your bullet points to the letter.

Yes, there was a much-publicised donglegate in Pycon 2013. But there was also a waiting line for the women's bathroom in Pycon 2015. Have you seen a waiting line for the women's bathroom at any other tech conference? And guess what, both Adria Richards and the man whose name I can't find quickly via a Google search were there at Pycon 2015 and the CoC was updated to indicate how to better handle incidents.

Overall, Python has done a great work in being a friendlier place, and its insistence upon the code of conduct has in all probability helped.
Give Manjaro a shot! It's Arch with a GUI installer. So if you don't have the time to do a full manual install it's so worth it and super fast. Give the XFCE iso a shot and you will be impressed. I ran Arch for years and recently had a build a new machine and went with Manjaro.
That's security, not insurance.

FDIC-style insurance is for when the security is breached, not if.
This is great.

I don't know why would one use it (why on earth would I want to share a list?), but it is a very well done thing.

Maybe this great interface could be used to power: public forms, enterprise data, a CMS like http://contentful.com/, a general purpose customizable CRUD app for small businesses.
Yep I have previously used Arch on a 2013 Retina.

Worked fine. The Arch wiki has pages dedicated to Macbooks if you need help.

The only issue I had with macbooks was the wifi card was not detected by the installer after booting from USB. It works fine after installing a package using pacman once you get internet. So I always keep a cheap $10 Netgear USB wifi for installs which always works by default.

Most people who have issues with installing Arch are almost always just new to Arch or Linux. I had a lot of issues starting out with Arch but after the first 6 months learning curve I rarely had issues.

I have been using it for over two years now on a daily basis, across multiple Macbook and Thinkpads models and custom desktop build. It has been very stable and though most software versions are often 1-2 yrs ahead of Debian/Fedora.

I actually had way more problems while using Fedora for two years prior than I ever did with Arch. The Arch package library (AUR), wiki, and pacman provide a very strong foundation for using Linux as a desktop.
The only downside of credstash is that it doesn't have the ability to restrict sets of credentials to different IAM roles. The access is all-or-nothing, per dynamo table.

Otherwise the general design of credstash is very similar to Confidant.
This sounds terrible. The same logic could be used where if your house is unlocked then the police can seize anything they want "for safekeeping".