skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the comments that stuck out to me from the Reddit thread was this:

>> The problem with this transformation is that we lost some of our best and brightest and might lose more. The good ones who remain are the ones who are in a life situation that makes a job change at this time difficult.

This says to me that going forward it is going to be a mess. It sounds like this change was, while maybe good intentioned, will continue to be met with tremendous resistance. The people with career options saw this as a good chance to jump ship before things got bad. The people that felt that they were "stuck" thought they have no other option.

The comments and the article make the whole org sound pretty toxic, but unfortunately not dissimilar to many other enterprises IT shops. My advice to the folks that think they don't have an option, is to really think again. Your skills are probably a lot more valuable than you think. I've been in similar situations in my career and thought the same thing, but actually the grass can really be better in other places. You will probably be shocked and surprised at how valuable what you know and what you have done is when you are in other organizations.

Likely, the senior management isn't going to give up and admit defeat too easily. How long will it be before they decide their best option is to outsource the dept to HP, Wipro, Cognizant, Dell, IBM, etc.?
Sugars are as necessary for your body to work as oxygen is [1]. Of course, you don't have to take them as refined sugar, there are much better ways.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose#Energy_source
And what a beautiful product it was. I moved to Modo shortly after the sale to Autodesk.
Autodesk is where a lot of good products go to die nowadays.
I'm in strong agreement here. The character and nature of the commute play a huge role. There's a big difference between sitting in a train for 45 minutes and sitting in a car in traffic for 45 minutes. Being able to free your mind from the stresses of conducting a vehicle make a longer commute far more tolerable long-term IMO. Investing in public transportation is where it's at.
What would happen to those rankings of meth and heroin were sold at every grocery store?

Alcohol takes a lot of blame because it is the most accessible and cheapest drug.
Why so you insinuate that stuff your body produces is good to consume? That's a naturalistic fallacy.
There's nothing "new" at http://www.mobile-devices.com/news-and-prs/, either.
I had the same experience. It's strange. I always thought that was normal (that you could see better underwater than above water). I don't really like swimming, so I haven't done it more than once or twice as an adult. Now I'm curious if I would have the same experience.
Hah, yeah, it's hard to draw deep inferences from that data. They (IIHS) do have limited death statistics broken down by model, and Porsche is never near the upper end. The data is actually pretty interesting to pour over: you see some obvious trends (do not drive a small car) and some weird outliers (Nissan Titan has an usually high death rate for a pickup).
This article describes some seriously clueless agile practices.

A massive reorg and restructuring dictated from the top to enable agile, a bottom-up methodology.

They dictate that everyone must do Scrum - even support departments for which it's laughably mismatched - rather than allowing any level of team-driven process selection, and then 9 months later they open it up to allowing teams to choose, including letting them choose waterfall. Their messaging was this was always the plan, which is either a lie as apparently many people at MIT believe, or evidence that of even deeper cluelessness.

My opinion is that this Charles character has no business running a technology org.
As a founder I hope that should this go to court that Pincus prevails. These funds invested knowing about the risks and the rules. They should be forced to honor that agreement. Even if Pincus isn't doing a great job he's not unethical for raising money on his terms. All founders should hope to be in his position when they go to raise.
if you can access it, a determined criminal with a $5 wrench can too.

https://xkcd.com/538/
The backdoor is already present, through Apple's design. The FBI are just requesting to use it.
Maybe cost-cutting, and outsourcing management to save money?
Yes! My friend can focus eyes so that things get sharper. I can only make things look blurrier. Talk about the most useless ability in the world...

If you know any trick to make things sharper that'd be great.
Has forced Agile ever turned out well at an organization? I've seen this done many times before and I've never seen it work well. Organizations typically end up shoehorning waterfall into whatever stuff the consultants sold them. I think Agile can work with the right group of people but not getting buy-in from the ground-up is very dangerous and can really demoralize a shop.
Re the Scheme work, I think you're thinking of Jonathan Rees.

I agree that this vein of work deserved far more support. (I once stayed off the job market for several months hoping for a DARPA contract in capability security to come through -- it didn't -- so I'm hardly unbiased.)
It's not about being right or wrong, it's about making up grievances to make themselves feel not-guilty about their life choices. Intellectual honesty had nothing to do with it
There's no historic surplus of men. It's entirely created by selective abortions.
Admittedly, this might reasonably be considered a basic question, but how do you recommend running a VM on a Mac?
Since advanced indoor grow operations existed. The Sun is better only in price. Indoors you can control all the variables and have a consistently grown product on a schedule. It's far too expensive for most crops, but marijuana isn't most crops.
spend money on chinese botnet instead? what does 110M users cost now? $5?
Can you elaborate on the finger trick? I can still only focus outward (aka blurring, if that's what you mean)
My statement wasn't clear. It's common for people to think they know better than the parents and that the best thing they can do for the kids is to take them away from their families. As another poster stated, such interventions institutionalize children.

That's what I meant. If it were as simple as "oh, you shouldn't raise your own kids" the current school system would have done its job.
Right, this is what class tort actions are for.
Because rational people know that people aren't always rational.

Are you also opposed to those medians and guardrails on highways that impinge on your freedom to drive off the road when you so choose?
Stop Waiting for the Perfect Fucking Moment
What is DOMinator? Google seems to get confused by it being a real word and other searches (DOMinator XSS, DOMinator chrome, etc) didn't turn anything up.
I don't think we should have a death penalty, so I don't agree with the parent either. However, pretty much all the data we have on the efficacy of the death penalty relates to one crime, murder, and even then it's under a narrow range of conditions. I don't think you can reliably take those findings and apply them to e.g. white-collar corruption.
I love this video. I am struggling to see any applicability to Hacker News, however.
Ive been using autodesk products since 1988. Softimage has an exceptionally special place in my heart. My favorite product Ive ever used.

Their old website from 1996 was WAY ahead of its time

http://web.archive.org/web/19970719164505/http://www.softima...

The way they showed things "poking" through the background really had me.

I went to school at Mesmer Animation Labs in Seattle in 1994 before 3D animation was a thing at any school...

Fond memories of SGI and the O2 as well....
> Historically the world has dealt with a surplus of men by having wars.

> we go to war due to "scarcity" of resources, which is the flip side of the coin of what people mean when they say "we have too many people."
> The point is that without that sweatshops the people working there would be even worse off. Is that correct? Maybe, maybe not, but it's completely different from what you're arguing against.

The people working there are free agents. Why would they choose to work for a sweatshop if it makes them worse off than their next best alternative? (Note: I'm discussing about law-abiding businesses that pay low wages, not crime syndicates that enslave people or whatever hypothetical.)

The answer is that because having a job makes them better off. The workers typically have worse alternatives, which is why sweatshops are able to pay a low wage. The workers would otherwise be jobless or have an even lower paying job, or would be subsistence farming.

Discussions about the economics of such situations often fall prey to the weakness in reasoning that's jokingly called the "Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics": https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth... - an obviously fallacious ethics where that, simply by interacting with a situation, you somehow become responsible for it.

If you take this logical fallacy into account, then more jobs and more options are always better things. People can choose what's best for them, and it's not the employer's fault if no better employment option is available. It is rather typically the case that sweatshops and globalization bring visibility to pre-existing poverty that would exist and would be even worse if not for the wages. People typically work a job because they need the money, after all. If people don't need the money, and have some better alternative, then what's stopping them from doing that instead?

(Just so we're clear: there's agreement that people working these jobs have shit options. The disagreement is about whether their employers are somehow doing an immoral thing by offering a job when they might not otherwise have one.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11226382
The "one out of every ten" figure is basically correct given the division stated in tomp's comment.

Assume the population is 47.5% female / 52.5% male.

Then, for every 525 men, there are 475 women.

This means out of every 525 men, (525-475) = 50 of them can't mate, which is 9.5%.

However, tomp is wrong that 2.5% of the population being surplus men implies that the population share is 47.5-52.5 (this split means 5% of the population are surplus men, not 2.5%). It actually implies 48.75-51.25, which means about 4.9% of men have no female counterpart in the population.

And this is intuitively correct; if 2.5% of the whole population can't find a partner, and all of those people are men, and the numbers of men and women are approximately equal, it should be the case that about 5% of men can't find a partner.
It's a path that worked in USA, so (social) science endorses this policy path
"They have suggested that the safeguards of iOS 7 were good enough and that we should simply go back to the security standards of 2013." This is interesting. Perhaps instead of requesting a custom version of iOS with specific vulnerabilities, the FBI should simply request a signed version of iOS 7.0. They could use existing vulnerabilities to gain access to the phone, without placing an undue burden on Apple.
blogspam, source article discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11226382
I might have worded that wrong. I meant, the accusation sounds a little unfounded and provocative. Trying to play on Torvald's known aggressions, I failed at humor.

> The fundamental result of [address] space separation is that you can't share data structures. That means that you can't share locking, it means that you must copy any shared data, and that in turn means that you have a much harder time handling coherency.

> The last sentence is obviously wrong

Shapiro understands coherency in one specific meaning, while a looser interpretation as coherency of real world events, if I may call it that, would work, as if he misunderstands on purpose, which would aggravate more than to be really wrong. Given Shapiro's reputation, by your account, Linus might actually feel insulted.

On a related note, does anyone know whether Linus is interested in operating system research besides linux or if he leaves no time for that? I mean, he started linux as a vocational research project, would seem fitting if he started another one on the side, for experiments. Buit then I'm not sure how much he's writing code or mails.
If I'm remembering correctly, Microsoft later changed it from trying to "sanitize" the suspicious content to just flat refusing to render the page when it detects reflected content. I'm interested in pros/cons of the reflection-detecting vs. taint-tracking approaches, not about different approaches to actions taken post-detection (which is where the initial IE8 approach fell over).
You're right, it's not good for non-JS users.
You missed the sentence "The main difference is whether their environments enabled them to prosper"
I wonder if any keys are wiped, or if the system is capable of downgrading without losing data.

(The existing vulnerabilities would be the "cut power after each attempt" one, I assume.)
"But the soldier pays the biggest part of the bill"

I'm not sure how it was in Butler's time, but I've read that the overwhelming majority of casualties in modern warfare are civilians. It would seem to me that they are the ones who pay "the biggest part of the bill".

Not that I would deny that the people doing the mass murder can themselves become the victims of war. But I'd personally have more sympathy for civilians who are not trying to murder others but are themselves murdered.
besides the pollination from other farmers, which is probably far from 100%, selection is not any easier indoors, why would it?
Obvious shill
By that same logic, Nick Bostrom has an incentive to exaggerate the risk because it sells him more books.
The Answer to the Fermi Paradox Is the Great Filter
There's gotta be a way for Apple to deliver the FBI the data they want without compromising every iPhone user.

And if Apple doesn't find a way, you can sure bet the NSA will work harder on its efforts to break the iPhone in the general case.
I think your friend isn't as lucky as you think. The eye/brain should automatically make the focus as sharp as possible so all that you can do consciously is make it worse.

Then again, if your vision isn't perfect there are tricks like placing pressure on the eyeball or squinting which can change the focus, but are probably not too healthy in the long term.

Best advice is to see an optometrist instead. Although, I have found that they aim to correct vision for 6 metres in red-green light. If you're reasonably young and myopic, ask for a slightly stronger minus power to get better blue vision at infinity (at the risk of more eye strain close up). The extra -0.25 makes a huge difference for me, really allows depth perception to "click" properly.
What backdoor is that?
The words are ambiguous and overlap with a lot of sexist and even racist (calling all Black men "boy") behaviors, so it is unclear sometimes if a particular usage is sexist
In the article comments there is a link to an org chart from 2014-09 with those who have departed or been demoted as of 2016-02 marked [1].

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/i4zp05qlvrgclzd/Color-CodedDepartu...
If I get it right you're calling update functionality a backdoor?
Being able to load arbitrary firmware onto the device without requiring user authentication, so long as it's signed by Apple.
> There's no point making it illegal to do something that only happens accidentally. People will still do it accidentally.

And people can still speed unintentionally by forgetting to check the speedometer every so often, but speeding is still illegal.

Not stopping at a stop sign or red light for a right turn is illegal, but people often times make "California Stops" unintentionally.
> everyone (including Russia) agrees

Russia doesn't care about ISIS - Russian soldiers shot down a commercial airliner.

> the only sane alternative is to just stay out of it

"Stay" implies that we're out and not going in. Cutting and running would be closer to the truth in this case...

Your argument is that we should just walk away from the mess we've created because it looks hard to solve. "Whups, pouring gasoline on it didn't put it out, let's take off and grab a beer."

None of these "leave the area to solve its own problems" ever include actually leaving, just continuing our meddling from a distance. It'd do a lot of good if we simply stopped backing the wrong side. We give Turkey a fair bit of assistance in keeping the kurdish areas under control, not the least of which is calling Kurdish independence movements terrorists.

> However, has there been any effort to redraw those borders? Hell no.

Well actually, yes. You know the Kurds - they've been trying to redraw them since the ink was wet. Something about genocide...
I'm pretty sure the many on-device storage formats have changed as new features are introduced. I'm pretty the Notes app in iOS 7 doesn't have the capability of inserting doodles or checklists for example. And the Messages app doesn't support groups with names.

FBI doesn't just want an unlocked phone, they want an unlocked phone with data intact, so Apple still needs to write and test a lot of code that performs reverse database migrations, possibly losing information in the process.
ah, well - when reading "blocking io" i first thought about the file system. so does my point still stand? using a threadpool for disk IO does go against "threads should only be used to exercise multiple CPU cores and never as a way to work around blocking IO."

or am i still not getting this?
Compilation is too local, but why can't a postprocess of the linker check for orphan or incoherent instances?
The Demographics of Innovation in the United States
Well I demand that my free server have 128GB of ram, and holograms. Fucking fatcats.
You misunderstand, or at the very least, misrepresent the situation. The only threat Apple apparently didn't design for is the threat of the most powerful nation on earth overreaching their authority by ordering Apple to write and sign an entire operating system with the express purpose of defeating their own safeguards. Which is next-level crazy.
There are a few guys hacking away at Tesla cars. I would definitely describe the relationship between them and Tesla as tense and there was even some drama recently over the weekend. It's definitely not where I would like things to be, but out of all the car companies, I think Tesla is the most open to this sort of thing.
Ill-Advised C++ Rant, Part 2
Or using a long-running system daemon to host the VM
They can. The arguments are over whether the FBI has the legal standing to compel Apple to create code to do that, and what precedent, legal or otherwise, it sets for similar cases.
"ratio".

> from Greek analogia "proportion," from ana- "upon, according to" (see ana-) + logos "ratio," also "word, speech, reckoning" (see logos). A mathematical term used in a wider sense by Plato.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&searc...
Good in theory - doesn't work in practice, at all, really.
Imagine, lets say, still good MX960 with 3D 32x10GE line cards, now to apply mid size (10k lines) ACL on every port and see performance and stability. BCP38 in reality should be really-really on the edge of the consumer based ISPs, can't be applier to Tier1 and Tier2 ISPs where many believe it should be.
Did you know that your eyes can adapt to being open in sea water? When you first open them underwater in the sea, they'll sting like crazy. If you persist - or at least this was the case for me, that effect will go away, and you can open them underwater without pain.

They will still be unfocused, though, of course. From the article, it sounds like you need to practice for a while before the eye learns how to focus underwater:

> Gislen wondered whether the Moken children had a genetic anomaly to thank for their ability to see underwater or whether it was just down to practice. To find out, she asked a group of European children on holiday in Thailand, and a group of children in Sweden to take part in training sessions, in which they dived underwater and tried to work out the direction of lines on a card. After 11 sessions across one month, both groups had attained the same underwater acuity as the Moken children.

Perhaps this only works for children, who seem somehow more biologically adaptable? The body is quite adaptable in general so I would believe it that people who swim regularly could see better underwater. I'm glad to have the science though to study the effect more rigorously.
Thx for the reference. I had no idea.
I presume it reflects Andy's biases (which is, of course, up to Andy)

WRT Gov. Susana Martinez ....

A good-looking Latina governor from a Western
swing state with a fiery conservative speaking
style would be a good addition to any ticket.

Comparisons will undoubtedly be made to Sarah Palin,
but Martinez is completely sane and is fluent in
two languages that Palin has little command of:
Spanish and English.
What made Softimage so great? I keep hearing about it.
>> born July 30, 1881

So yes, he didn't witness a truly modern war. 19th century conflicts were brutal, but weren't exactly the city-destroying conflict WWII was, nor the guerrilla wars of modern times.
"The U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will cost taxpayers $4 trillion to $6 trillion, taking into account the medical care of wounded veterans and expensive repairs to a force depleted by more than a decade of fighting" - Washington Post, March 28, 2013
Million Dollar Blocks
That's an interesting perspective and I hadn't really considered it like that.

But I believe there is a reasonable point at which people should not be expected to go beyond because it becomes ultimately too harmful for them (ok... maybe that's not our business) and society which has to deal with the fallout (very much our business). Its why we have labor laws. Laws on how long truck drivers can drive without sleeping. People shouldn't have to degenerate into selling their souls and risking the well being of others for short term survival. Society shouldn't degenerate to competition at this kind of level. It really shouldn't.

I do strongly believe in the individual's right to chose. But as with all ideologies, purity generally produces very sucky real world outcomes and a modicum of sense and nuance has to be applied for the thing to work. The powerful shouldn't be able to lay traps for the less informed and then stand back and say "oh well... they chose...they have to accept the consequences while I reap the benefits". That's not how civilization should work.
Absolutely. Pot makes you paranoid man...
> Are you able to consciously refocus your eye?

Yes. Mentally, I move my point of focus from the monitor "backward" into space -- like an imaginary 3D cursor anchored on my screen, then moving away from me along the ray of my eyesight. Almost as if I was going to peer around the monitor and look for something behind it, except without actual movement. Imagine doing that, and it might help.

It's easier to do with one eye shut than with them both open.
Whether we want to call it a backdoor or get senselessly pedantic about terminology and call it a "front door", the practical reality is yes; it is that functionality that the FBI is asking Apple to take advantage of.
How can there be parallax shifts in the "home" position as I rotate the sky?

And then I realized that this is a promotional tool for the Online Star Registry, one of several novel sites which will "name" a star for you in exchange for money.

It is not meant for scientific or educational purposes, so realism need not be foremost.