skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
jack9, isn't it a privilege to be able to interact with folks such as Robert Virding (one of the co-developers of the Erlang language)?

I know of few other forums where such interaction opportunities are offered.

The fruits of their labour impact our lives and the lives of millions of others implicitly every day.

Let us atleast be civil in our discourse.

I think they have done enough to earn some respect from us all regardless of our personal opinions on their work.
Is the simulation accurate enough to simulate complex starting scenarios, for example the scenario of the planetary migration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formation_and_evolution_of_the...

> According to the nebular hypothesis, the outer two planets are in the "wrong place". Uranus and Neptune (known as the "ice giants") exist in a region where the reduced density of the solar nebula and longer orbital times render their formation highly implausible. The two are instead thought to have formed in orbits near Jupiter and Saturn, where more material was available, and to have migrated outward to their current positions over hundreds of millions of years.

I don't expect that it get exactly the current situation, but at least that it's possible to see something similar.
No. Condoms can tear, are more effective when also used with a spermicide, etc.

"Perfect" use increases effectiveness, but even if you aren't just derpy about it, they can still fail.

I routinely see this assumption that birth control works perfectly if you just use it, and that simply isn't true.
Yeah, I think it would look different to prospective students and their parents if they were explicitly told, "you will be taught by a barely-scraping-by post doc who won't be devoting her full attention to the class because she's panicking about whether her food stamp application will go through".
Yes, but the new piece of information is that you are the one who owns that domain
For most grad programs, the whole point is to train you to be a professor. So, yes, there is at least an implicit promise you'll be able to become the thing they're training you for.
This isn't like Reddit, self promotion is encouraged. I don't think it's a rule violation as-is, but it's kind of funny, because I don't think, if this is actually astroturfing, it's necessary to lie about it. You can simply say, "We made a thing, check it out" on HN.
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In your defense it sounds like you learned a lot that you would not have learned without taking that role. That experience and knowledge will be invaluable in deciding whether you want to do it again some day and if you decide to do it again, what to look out for an address.
I was doing that but some companies think you are "hacking" if you put the company name in. Like I don't think you can do facebook@mydomain.com on Facebook.
I've always assumed most of Twitter's employees are either customer support, or "community managers" for various high-profile accounts. That's the sort of thing that has no economy of scale whatsoever.
Reading the title I hoped for something deeper. The text is an attempt to claim that computationally analyzing the translations is not only "good enough" but gives the real insight in the original works. Knowing how much the translations differ, even after considering his "evidence" (in the form of some colored screenshots) I remain doubtful.
Fastmail supports a@fastmail.com -> anything@a.fastmail.com, which is even better
Zappos, in the article at least, seemed pretty fine with how it was going so far.
I think there is already enough here to shame Amazon into action if it gets on a major newspaper. Something like "Hackers break into Amazon account and Amazon will not do anything" Perhaps the Washington Post would be a good newspaper with credibility.
> here is, however, a proposal to standardize the layout of std

That's interesting, thanks.
I asked the video creator if I could write a post based on his video, and he agreed. I just fleshed out the thank you section a little more and added a disclaimer to the top.
Yeah, I agree now. Thank you.
If they lost some of the flakier operators it probably wouldn't be so bad.
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> A P/E of 8 would be way overvalued.

I disagree. For one thing, a P/E of 8 is standard for industries which most think are either declining or entirely stable. Benjamin Graham used 8.5 as a "no-growth" P/E so it's hardly insane. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Graham_formula

Moreover, even without feature expansion, I do think Twitter will see growth, though that growth will be minimal. At the very least they stand to benefit from the ever-increasing number of people on the internet.
"The street finds its own uses for things."

Where I am (Australia) theres a whole bunch of places that'll provide "non Post Office PO boxes" who're perfectly happy for you to address things to "Suite 306" or "Apartment 306" as well as "PO Box 306" at whatever address the box is located. Fools _most_ of the "must be a real address, not a PO Box" restrictions.

(Interestingly StartSSL failed me on that once when I gave one of those as a personal address - they mailed me saying "that looks like a business address, we need a personal home address for personal identity validation") - I dunno of they Google Street-viewed it or of they've got some automated system that flagged it...)
His Amazon account wasn't even logged into, the CS rep gave up his information without the attacker being authenticated, and the attacker used that to login to other non-Amazon systems.
Anyone have visibility into which teams had the most attrition?
utter rubbish.
I prefer seeing stuff directly from the creator. It gives you a chance to enage them with any questions you have. I also like to see it first on HN. More Show HNs, please.
It sounds like the prison market is ripe for disruption.
You are seriously our biggest fan :-)
I have zero data to back this up, but I would say that this will damage you more than help.

If even a smallish percentage of key athletes/celebs/whatevers move exclusively to Instagram or something else, it would seriously disrupt Twitter. IG would love that, in fact.

Plus, how many people with over 10k actual followers are there really? Is $120/year times that number really going to make a difference for the business? Seems cheap and risky simultaneously.
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There are lot's of funny statistics where people will redo rehab several times if they fail. But, only once if they succeed.

The same is true of prison. First offenders are much less likely to go back than the 'average' prisoner.
Its interesting how easy it is to do something like this, yet legitimate third-party sellers can‘t even talk to a live customer support rep. when their account is suspended.
Also scrolling down is not really infinite: on my system it's around 700 tweets (calculated by Ctrl-F "reply").
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An idea I just had which is buried in a deep thread lower down...

Not that I trust the "security questions", but if Amazon lets you use freeform questions as well as answers, it might help to make your first security question "Have you noticed this account has two factor authentication turned on?" with an answer like "Yes, so Amazon Customer Service will take additional care when being asked to reveal account information, right?"

Even if you can't do freeform questions, perhaps the answer to "What's your mother's maiden name?" could be something like "Have you noticed this account has two factor authentication turned on? Please take extra care before disclosing account details to anyone, Thanks."
A potential acquisition of Slack and cutting number of employees to < 1000 are 2 things that come to mind. Owning slack opens up other potential streams of revenue in the enterprise space. Or allow twitter users to form groups/rooms on twitter ala Slack.
Always great to see these sorts of articles.

Here's another paper on the subject, if anyone's interested:

Doran & Parberry - Emergent Economies for Role Playing Games

https://larc.unt.edu/techreports/LARC-2010-03.pdf

I wrote an open source implementation of it once, was pretty fun.
Good point, I used the wrong word there. Meant any valuation remotely near where they are. $12B? LOL no way. $1B, sure.

I agree with your plan and would likely run the company like that -- except "just maintaining" a social network sounds like a long-term recipe for disaster too.

The share price would also tank with that plan, which of course won't fly being a public corporation. This is why they're in such a rough place.
And the entire population aced math in their well funded school system with small class numbers and well paid capable teachers, so no worries.

I suspect we don't have different definitions of robbery so much, as of when it's appropriate to take advantage of people's ignorance and when it isn't. You'll understand better when somebody has taken advantage of yours.
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I found this: https://github.com/uwplse/herbie
Underpaid and not sure what to do about it
Review time is coming up at work, and I've found out I'm being paid at roughly the 30th percentile for someone with my experience (3 years, Python/Django backend) in the city I work in (SF). I've been with the company for about a year, and I would like to stay there, but certain external factors have caused money to become tighter than it was a few months ago.

I want to fix this situation, but I don't particularly want to change companies. I like going into work; enjoy my coworkers; and the company is in a good position to become cash-flow neutral very soon, so we're in a good place in spite of all the articles about the impending blood bath in the Valley. On the other hand, I've explicitly been told by my tech lead that the days of 10%+ raises are over, but I'm making around 16% less than the median.

Is this a hopeless situation?
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I recently switched to a mac for my primary development machine, and I'm trying to get used to the ecosystem. Development tools, terminal tweaks and that kind of thing, but anything else that you would immediately put on a new mac.
As something of a Clancy fan: he reported in interviews that he developed a strong working relationship with members of the intelligence community, circulated drafts, and was occasionally asked "WTF Tom who gave you that one?!" about things he had created for fictional convenience.
Not sure if you were being sarcastic or not, but Jeff Bezos bought Washington Post...
This part of the article explains more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_dat...

"GCJ-02 (aka Mars Coordinates) is a geodetic datum formulated by the Chinese State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, and based on WGS-84.[12] It uses an encryption algorithm[13] which adds apparently random offsets to both the latitude and longitude, with the alleged goal of improving national security.[14][15]"

"Despite the secrecy surrounding the GCJ-02 encryption, several open-source projects exist that provide conversions between GCJ-02 and WGS-84, for languages including C#,[20] C, Go, Java, JavaScript, PHP,[21] Python,[22] R,[14] and Ruby.[23][24] They appear to be based on leaked code.[25]"
so, why don't you do it ?
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Could you hypothetically hack your way into position for Facebook's M service?
What a sweet service. Ethics set aside, I wonder if it's possible.
At least until we hear something like "Donald Trump's personal Amazon account was hacked, and it was because Amazon's weak security."

Then Trump will even use this incident to say "I will force Amazon to become great again, after I'm president."

So a "small issue" could help Donald Trump get that much closer to becoming the most powerful man in the world. So, thanks Amazon?!

Obviously, it's all tongue-in-cheek, but I think you see my point. If it can be done, eventually we'll hear about a celebrity being hacked like this.
I'd feel better about the Stanford example you cited if the cops' use of torture had been disclosed - that is, if they had been held accountable for using illegal methods.

The law recognizes extenuating circumstances such as those in the example, and provides reasonable outcomes - the DA/Grand Jury could have declined to charge, a jury could have declined to convict, a judge could have vacated a jury's conviction, and/or the governor could have pardoned them if they were sentenced. Under the circumstances, I think the cops would not have been punished. I'd endorse that outcome, given the facts.

But instead, the cops committed crimes and covered them up. That's bad for us, because it reduces transparency of state conduct. Basically, it's bad for our society if its police use illegal force without accountability.

If the right thing, the moral thing to do in a particular situation involves breaking a law, well ok, but we all (through the law) should know about it and we should all (through the law) hold accountable those who acted illegally. That doesn't mean they'll be punished - but IMO moral conduct must include accountability.

I think a better view of these types of situations is to affirm that torture is never legal, nor is it moral - but it might on rare occasion be an effective tactic to achieve a better outcome. But accountability has to be part of the picture.

I think if we had held that as our standard of conduct following 9/11, we would not have Guantanamo as a national shame today. The law can help when morality drifts due to fear and panic.
It on average 24h or less, considering that mail through DHL is next-morning delivery everywhere, and same-day delivery in larger cities.
> Erm... isn't the actual root cause of the problem raised in TFA the opposite of debasement? Namely excess supply of people who're willing to go into academia to "do the most essential work in society", whatever the terms, as a sister comment from an insider pointed out? If the perceived value of being in academia was low enough, the market would force the universities to treat adjuncts better.

this eerily sounds similar to the kind of logic i was rejecting. this is an appeal to the logic of markets and the assumption that they are efficient to derive truth. this is exactly neoliberalism. at least in old school liberalism we could acknowledge markets' shortcomings via externalities and the idea of market failure! Otherwise i think the sibling comment is a good response.
No, it's still hard. The best approach I've seen to this outside CompCert is a project that independently tried my own recommendation of breaking it into stages then using whatever verification works on a per stage basis. So, one prover and approach works best for Stage 1. Then another maybe for Stage 2. Some compositional method to tie them together.

They were making a MIPS compiler. Got pretty far in short time paper covered with a fraction of CompCert's effort. Nonetheless, the untrusted compiler plus trusted checker method has the most supporting evidence in literature for getting the job done and ease of building. So, even my recommendation should take that approach where possible.
Unions are not for academic researchers. Unions are for adjuncts teaching composition, or calculus, or chem 101. If you don't think someone who is hired on a Tuesday to teach a semester-long class starting on a Wednesday is an interchangeable commodity... well, suffice it to say that people hired as adjuncts to teach composition/art history/algebra/precalc/calc/mechanics are viewed entirely as commodities in any city large enough to have cheap housing.

Students will definitely come out ahead if their teachers have time and space to 1) read the syllabus before showing up to class, 2) prepare for class, 3) hold office hours, and 4) store graded materials. Things a student can't reliably do if the teacher is a poorly-treated adjunct: a) get a letter of recommendation (no time!), b) dispute a grade the next semester (tests aren't stored on campus!), c) have comfortable office hours (meet in a hallway, sitting on a floor, because there is no office!).
"More significantly in this particular case, various studies over the years have not supported the claim that short functions have better error rates, nor that longer but otherwise reasonable functions have higher error rates; if anything, the overall body of evidence seems to suggest the opposite conclusion."

That's an oversimplification of the research, and misleading. After citing five studies in Code Complete (including the one that shows an inverse correlation between errors and function size), McConnell summarizes as follows:

"That said, if you want to write routines longer than about 200 lines, be careful. None of the studies that reported decreased cost, decreased error rates, or both with larger
routines distinguished among sizes larger than 200 lines, and you’re bound to run into an upper limit of understandability as you pass 200 lines of code."

I wouldn't advocate for a strictly short functions either, but the overall body of evidence definitely does _not_ suggest the opposite conclusion: the opposite conclusion would be that we should endeavour to write long functions!

Anyhow, nitpicking aside, thanks for providing a quick review of this book. I'm going to skip it based on your comments.
There was some slight of hand on my part, the ratios are plotted, not the absolute numbers. The wealth inequality is more interesting than absolute country wealth in the context of the simulation I feel.
I agree regarding the debt, that's why net and gross values are included in the chart. For the top 3 it makes no difference. Iceland as an outlier isn't something I would have expected though

Edit: Also the mean probably isn't defined for whatever power law is generating wealth distribution in each country anyway
> I wonder what the PCI implications are if it's true that Amazon gave away his last four cc digits over the phone?

Absolutely none, unfortunately. Merchants are specifically allowed to store the first six and last four digits of a credit card number in any form they like.
Definitely should do that at some random locations across counties everywhere in the country. My county has many ground water monitoring stations but I think that those only check for water levels (I have a well)... not sure what they do for county provided water but many times a year I hear about water quality problems from residents that have county water. The county then flush the system to remove sediments from the pipes and I hear no complaints for a few months (on the city's Facebook page)...
> Power isn't the benefit of the role unless you're a sociopath or an asshole.

But the roles does come with some power. And after a while, it is human nature to get used to that privilege that it starts becoming invisible.
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Great question. Here are some answer and again, this what works FOR ME.

inbox/collection: everytime I think of something i add it to my tool's inbox (omnifocus), so if we are talking and you mention a book or movie, i would hit a shortcut (or on my phone) and enter "watch american history x" done...

process: once a day, I would go through my inbox and categroize stuff... takes very little time... so the movie might go into my "movies to watch" project. implement signup page might go into my "App x project" etc... I usually add context as well so "call Joe about insurance" will have a "phone" context

review: this was the MOST important step in my process. I review my projects once a week on friday and make sure i don't forget anything. I have a recurring task to remind me to do a weekly review. This step was essentially the biggest improvement I did in my process. Omnifocus makes it easy because I can set when i want to review each process... so my "books to read" project is reviewed once a month but my "launch taskorami" project is once a week, etc...

Answers:

- I add some habits like workout every other day, or pray/meditate in the am, but i don't go crazy and add "brush teeth", "wipe butt", etc...
- projects = something with multiple tasks or longer duration e.g. "baby proof house" with tasks like research cabinet proofing, outlet proofing, padding for table corners, buy gates for stairs, door handle proofing, CO sensor, etc... but sometime i don't turn things into a project so "replace sink", i will probably just add multiple tasks instead of a project like "find plumber", "buy sink" and so on.
- the large projects get reviewed during my weekly review so i get to skim through the tasks and priortize accordingly.
- for half-backed ideas i have several "reference projects" such as "movies to watch" "startup ideas" "places to visit" "open source ideas" "things to checkout" "blog posts ideas" and I usually set these projects to be reviewed once a month or even more.

The key is, it's a pretty flexible system, you just need to find what works for you. and like i said, you can use pen and paper a thousand other online tools - my favorite is omnifocus

Tool:
I use omnifocus and I love it but the one thing I hate about omnifocus is that it is mac and iphone only which is the reason i built taskorami.com - it's in private beta but I haven't really worked on it for a while - been busy with baby twins. You can check it out and use the invitation code "vip" to signup (private link: https://taskorami.firebaseapp.com/a/) . It's built on ember and firebase and has a responsive/mobile site but no native apps.

PS: sorry for typos and bad grammar - too tired to edit :)
Possibly but you'd want to be damn sure it was actually the bank calling you. What's to stop a scammer claiming to be from the bank calling you.

"Hi I'm from bank xxxx calling to warn about some potentially fraudulent transactions we've detected on your credit card before we can continue please answer a few security questions to verify your identity."

I suspect some people would fall for that and tell the 'bank' their personal details.
Just wondering, how does this impact national security? When most of the planet is well-covered by Satellite imagery, isn't finding an installation with 500m difference a matter of searching images?
Okay, sorry, read your original comment backwards.

Calling into C++ is generally a big problem in any programming language though, and for most, you have to write a C wrapper.
> when the Senior Research Fellow from DuPont (back from when the fabled Experimental Station was still a thing) who is teaching one really good graduate level course at Penn as adjunct, when this guy walks up to the Chair, saying that his office space shouldn't be cut or he won't be back, the Chair will listen

No, the chair won't. This "Senior Research Fellow" is teaching a grad class. The grad class doesn't make the university any money. It doesn't even pay for the classroom it's taught in. If this "guy" is teaching 2 300 person sections, or writes and wins multi million dollar grants, or has the connections with DuPont that give the department money directly, then, yes, they are making the university money.

That's all the department cares about. That's all your management ever cares about, "what have you done for me lately."
How is it fraud if you have permission from the account owner to try and access it?
The problem is Amazon has thousands of poorly trained first-level support staff with far too much power and information.

What we need is a global security standard for support staff, with a template as to what information is accessible by staff and what isn't. And what is available to better trained 2nd-level support, etc.

And then each company can say they are certified for this particular security standard, and then you can't get social engineering attacks where you attack one large corporation, get partial information, and then feed that into another large organization to get other information. This was done previously using Amazon, again, to get enough information to take someone's Twitter account, if i remember correctly.