skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Background checks are normally done via a 3rd party background check company, and they don't have access to this kind of data.

Yes they do. There's a company owned by Equifax called The Work Number that collects such information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_Number
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OWASP can be a good guide https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2013-Top_10
What a nonsense.

Instead of handling non-zero exit statuses in a correct way,the article suggests to interrupt the script right in the middle, with probably some temporary files and processes hanging around which can't be cleaned up if something goes wrong.

The same BS goes though the entire article.

Has the author actually written anything bigger than echo "Hello world!" in Bash?
In bash you clean up in the exit handler:

trap mycleanupfunc EXIT
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But how to create stealth took some darned good "ideas".

Sure, the startup "circles" regard an idea as a short description of a sentence or
two to a family member, neighbor, or prospective user/customer of how the new product/service will look to them.

But, then what about how to make that product/service work? Ignore that? That part should be crucial: Crucial
for having the first good or a much better product/solution,
a technological advantage and barrier to entry,
etc. That "idea" could take
original research, be regarded as
valuable intellectual property and protected as a trade secret,
etc.
Sure, the user/customer need
not be aware of that "idea" maybe in the internals of the product/service.

Then to say

"The very best ideas usually don't seem worth stealing."

ignores the crucial, core ideas, say, the details of the coating (likely highly classified and from a lot of R&D) and shape (again
from a lot of R&D, and
Maxwell's equations computations, likely
challenging and classified) that were key to stealth.

Or, here's an "idea": A safe, effective, cheap one pill taken once to cure any cancer. Sure that "idea" is just pie in the sky and worthless. But to create such a pill will take one heck of a good idea. To me it is just such good ideas that
should be central in information technology
startups. It sounds like
Sam is neglecting that
any such ideas are possible,
relevant, valuable, or important. Or, to me, an
idea for an algorithm that
shows that P = NP is astounding, and astoundingly valuable -- implement it on
a server and behind a lot of
security and just sell the
results, say, anyone who
wants to send in any
integer linear programming
problem, that is, any of
the thousands of important
real world examples of
NP-complete problems.
Is this really that surprising?
I'm Cuban and I'm all for your cause! I can be as upset as you are.

It's great to hear Stripe has solved it but remains a mistery WHY Atlas wasn't available for Puerto Rico long time ago? What's the deal? But then again @adolfojp, Puerto Rico, as we all know is US territory for the good of US, no matter Puerto Ricans, right?
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If you are writing basic CRUD apps, 12 weeks of good instruction can make you (somewhat) productive. One of my former employers (ThoughtWorks) had a 6 week 'immersion' programming training, which ramped up people just out of school to a point where they were able to contribute to a production app in that period. Of course, they had plenty of ongoing mentoring and supervision, a great company culture (given enterprise services) and so on, but it can be done, for some definition of 'done'[1]

But as the amount of theory/Computer Science knowledge required in your job increases, the less relevance these boot camps have. I personally think of bootcamps as a borderline scam engaged in a 'shovels in gold rush' business.

Any half way motivated individual with a laptop and internet connection can learn their syllabus for free, but it takes a certain type of individual to do that, who is not dependent on external discipline, can tolerate ambiguity etc.

And if I'm hiring, even for a CRUD job, I would be very dubious about bootcamp resumes (just a personal opinion, YMMV). They seem to combine the worst of credentialing, and frivolous 'education'.

[1] Whether that ultra basic knowledge is worth the insane amounts charged by some of these 'boot camps' is a different issue altogether. As a completely self taught developer, I would never pay those amounts for that amount of learning, but hey different strokes for different folks.
Is there anything preventing manufacturers from limiting the height drones can fly?

I'm not particularly pro-regulation, but this seems like a scenario where it seems quite necessary.
The OP is being kind of cagey about what their role is.

You're right, I am.
That guy's problem set allowed him to filter out massive percentages of his data from the get go.
That's a different effect. The region just above the surface is a turbulent boundary layer without much net flow. But it's very thin.
I have PTSD from looking for a programming job for a decade (first thing you are supposed to do to overcome it is.... remove the stressor from your life??) Maybe they could just hook us up with some basic jobs.
"Influence Cuba" WTF? That's not a healthy/productive way of thinking... What's that you want to "influence" exactly? really? don't you know there are lots of fields where US and most countries in the world would benefit from Cuban influence instead?

And in any case, it shouldn't be about influencing as surely is right now for the powerful Goliat, but about doing the right thing at the very least.
So you mean the drone would be destroyed.
Not true, I pointed it out to my employer and they were like "oh dang, can't loose you, you get that raise"
after I had already gotten a 17% raise.
Would not expect it to be any worse than a bird strike, which I hear are common enough. Eventually the firmware of the drone would know to avoid airplanes at all cost and perhaps have some sort of equipment in there to limit them ever flying close to airplanes. The regulation should ideally force this, for drones to have sensors and firmware to avoid airplanes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_strike
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Every time I delve into Xerox PARC documentation about Smalltalk,Interlisp-D and Mesa/Cedar, it saddens me that it was AT&T culture that got widespread into the industry, not Xerox's.
I've read it, don't worry. So basically we create a problem with the use of -e flag and then solve it with traps... And what if our logic depends on exit statuses, for example when we check whether some utility or a file is present in the system? I don't want the script to exit, I want it to go another logic branch!

P.S. No, temporarily disabling the option is not a solution, it's another workaround for the problem created out of nothing.
One word, birds. We hit them frequently, and a goose weighs a lot more than most drones. This is panicking over shark attacks while commuting in your car while smoking cigarettes. Sure we need to set limits, but most of this is FUD.
The problem that resilient hashing solves is that if you have 8 LBs in an ECMP group, and one dies and gets withdrawn, a naive hash function would redistribute all flows randomly, meaning every active connection would break.

Resilient hashing means that only flows going to the dead LB will get rehashed to other LBs. Those flows would break anyway, but the remaining flows are OK.
I'm not a lawyer, but as I understand US courts from reading Groklaw and HN and Wikipedia, the arguments put forward in friend-of-the-court briefs can still be helpful to judges who may want to rule a certain way, but don't know all of the possible arguments they could use.

There's only so much time they and their staff have to do research, so members of an industry and their legal representatives can contribute if the judges are on the fence or just looking for arguments.
There's always Gogs as well: https://gogs.io/
"probably" sounds really good for a commercial airliner. For some idiot to fly a drone around an airport.
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Strangely, it seems the etiquette would be that a TL;DR at the beginning of a post suggests a summary of the article. TL;DR at the end summarizes your comment.
Incredibly interested here - I'm at the very high end of the functioning spectrum but resources in general and even anecdotes/advice has been very difficult to come by. I suspect that in the past 5 years there has been a lot more research and experiences available that could be looked up - is there a place I could dive deeper? I've felt very alone in having to come up with ways of working, socializing and living that don't cause immense amounts of friction. I've already preordered your father's book for one after seeing this thread!
All but one of the accounts was created before Jason tweeted about it.

and i've been around here long enough to know that even when outsiders do link to threads you don't get 50%+ green comments without sockpuppets
That implies the work is in a revenue-center or that you're at the rare company that isn't myopically focused on sales.
because sometimes "Oh fuck this is real" works.
You are measuring the country over what the successful, rich people can do or have. What about the vast majority of the population?
When you watch Walter Lewin's physics lectures, he repeatedly says "measurement means nothing without stating the uncertainty".

see - Lec 01: Units, Dimensions, and Scaling Arguments | 8.01 Classical Mechanics (Walter Lewin) [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9c0MRooBzQ#t=4m30s

Physics Works !
If I recall correctly, GPS receivers for non-military use are specifically designed not to operate over 60,000 feet altitude or 1,000 knots velocity. So it's not un-precedented.
OK, put it a different way: if society requires you have an IQ of 115 to make a decent living, what are you going to do with the people with IQ scores below 115? It's pretty much the same statement as above, minus the apparently confusing mention of college.

College is already dumbed down.
Almost right. It's both a political and a technical issue. Like you don't get a whole country with access to the internet from one day to the other without signing a contract with the devil (whatever that is). So, it takes time, but it is happening, Cuba is getting online, and there's no step back.
Thee skin is aluminium lithium alloy. 1mm generally but in some places on the craft it is milled down to 0.5mm

The latest jet liners A380 / 787 are made from composites, even their body.

Many other craft have composite wings.
Or we'll just find new jobs that were previously impossible, or at least unfeasible to do without the aid of AI. Just like how film photographers complained about digital cameras and related technology like Photoshop. Photographers haven't been put out of business (not even by everyone wielding a camera phone). The people that have been put out of business were those who couldn't figure out how to add value to what machines could now do. There are plenty of photographers doing just fine still, but they all realized they need to offer something that machines can't do, like high quality image manipulation.
An idea is "self-driving cars." IP is how to make it happen. I'd venture to say that it's tough to communicate all of IP during a short application process.
Abstract: http://circres.ahajournals.org/content/118/1/56
There will have to be more of them than college jobs, as there are more people with "less than college" smarts. Those jobs don't seem to have materialized.
No for readers of HN. But for Bloomberg subscribers, maybe.
Why is this _the_ goal? Seriously.

Everything eventually goes to shit once a company goes public.

In the beginning, it was about some kickass product/service. The focus is on making something good, offering a good service.

Once a company goes public, the all-consuming reason for existence changes. Now it's no longer about the good product/service. It's only about increasing value for shareholders.

This begets mergers and acquisitions, which begets mass layoffs. (Where CEO gets more fat pockets than he had already, shareholders get a little more than a pittance, and hundreds if not thousands of employees get the shaft.)

Why not bootstrap, and get money the old-fashioned way, by working your ass off? You know, building something YOU control, and that you're not beholden to shareholders for?

Build something to last instead of looking for an exit?

I left my last job of 8.5 years, the longest I've ever been at any one job, to go out on my own. Sure, it's a risk.

My employer was in the process of an acquisition, and it completed after I left. Then articles said they were planning on laying off 10% of staff. It's hit 20% now, and no end in sight.
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I suspect i am going to echo a lot of the cynicism that has been surrounding the high rollers startup coverage lately, but quite frankly... why would they go public?

As far as i can see, the invented heave-ho of a demonstrably unprofitable business into IPO is troubling. These businesses are not designed for profit, but for [unsustainably costly] growth. Sure the IPO may earn the founders millions, but is it worth the stress that comes along with it? Invariably investors want to make money. Often times the IPO play feels like they are earning their money by throwing the founders to the hungry masses.

How many companies have we seen repeat this pattern and suffer massive morale hits? The (my company failed/i was asked to step down/i wish i still controlled my company) blog posts paint a telling tale of what looks to me like a failed experiment.

I've never exited for millions so maybe there is a sense of accomplishment i am missing here, but count me out. I can't imagine an amount of money that would justify feeling like what was once my weekend project has grown to something beyond my control. That it has left me embattled with investors and then a public funding round i feel like i can never satisfy.

I don't get the sense the zombie unicorns are fulfilling dreams. Instead, i get the impression they are keeping people up at night.
I think we're having a communication issue here again. I do appreciate your willingness to continue the discussion, because it helps me find the points that are unclear and that need refinement, so thanks for that.

I don't think we should force companies not to have a paid API, that's all well and good. What I want to remove is their ability to stop scrapers from gathering the data from the generic public interface just because they don't like the way the scraper is using the information.
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The whole point is that its impossible to verify....
You just wind up giving dumb people a degree. The better solution is to make it illegal for employers to ask about college/post college education, except for perhaps certain fields like law or medicine (though the relevant licenses should really suffice in those cases).

Colleges will never make dumb people into smart people who can solve problems independently. People who can solve problems and innovate are the only ones who will succeed in the new economy. I know CS grads with shiny new graduate-level degrees who can't even solve problems, they need to be told exactly what to do from a technical perspective to solve a business problem (e.g. if the boss is asking you for data on X, you'll need to write a SQL query into Y and Z databases (which they already knew existed), and then put the results into a graph in Excel).
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What is a fair compensation package for early hires if companies continue to keep stocks private and less liquid?
But he is now as immortal as the instrument adding himself to its provenance.
And not just for his lifetime, but also that of his estate once he passes. Hulk Hogan is, at this point, a brand with merchandise, video rights, and so on.
This story is frustrating to me because it makes it sound like 15 digits of precision isn't a lot. Fifteen isn't a big number, but fifteen degrees of precision is almost incomprehensible.

If you measured your height with fifteen degrees of precision, you would have a measurement in femtometres. A femtometre is roughly the diameter of a proton.

That's really precise!
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I'll never go out of business. I'm a full stack web dev, so it doesn't cost me much to keep it running. Plus, I really want this site for myself, so I'll never let it go away!
This account, is over a year old. I created "vincentc" because I've trended to prefer first name instead, but didn't realize what an issue a new account would pose.

Anyways, what I said was true. I went through his incubator, and Jason has been nothing but supportive. Echoing what others have already said, he provides brutally honest feedback, which we all need. At no time was it ever mean-spirited or derogatory, or any of the other claims being made.

Jason has been nothing but encouraging and relentlessly supportive.
I've stuck in an application for that for S16 but I'm not sure it's terribly good.
> Just stop working on this idea.

Wow.

> First of all, literally every social app in the world is designed to help people make friends.

Really?

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I just signed up. I just moved to SF. All of my friends have money and live in the Mission, I live in the Sunset. I'd love to meet people in my neighborhood.

I will use Krewe. Will I like it? That I don't know, but I'm certainly excited to see how it plays out.

I love finding interesting ways to meet new people - locally or halfway around the world (currently trying Plane, a social icebreaker app I discovered on PH - they have no website but here's the App Store shortlink: bit.ly/planeapp)

I rarely comment on people's apps positively or negatively but this comment, while perhaps intended to be helpful, rubbed me the wrong way. Perhaps it's the arrogant tone (my interpretation).
You are assuming "The focus is on making something good, offering a good service" and "maximising shareholder value" are opposites. That need not be the case. Amazon is a classic example.
Several commercial models are already capped at 120m or so. With DIY ones though it's not so easy.
Yeah well, on 2016, the ability a Cuban citizen has to change it's surroundings on certain aspects is probably higher than that of an US citizen with the same aspects/surroundings, so, if proven, is US a dictatorship in a mask?

Your statement is at the very least, buggy.

Political dissent is allowed, not encouraged. Another thing is the US gov investing gazillion dollars on busting the career of a dissident blogger and hence everybody (lazy) reading shitty news... Why not invest it on the very successful Cuban research on Cancer? A mistery?

And if you go to Cuba and talk with Cubans you will see most of us want more BUT love what we have. And in general, we are happy people, look at statistics, look at health charts, education, poverty, suicide charts if that's your thing... so, yes, dictatorship.

Also, things have been and are changing... Raul Castro said he would be stepping out after 5 years and I believe he will, and then all the "representative" democracy elections that won't solve anything.

Democracy per se is not a good thing, but it is the perfect instrument for those able to influence masses.
A decent salary, with leave benefits similar to a lot of other Western countries (4-5 weeks annual leave, sick leave, parental leave)?
Welcome to HN where $10 million in the bank may feel like a failure.
There's a market for used taxicabs and police vehicle. It's not a very vibrant market, but a car with a working engine will fetch something before being considered for its scrap value.
You might find http://parrotread.com/yc useful. It has book recommendations from all the YC partners, based on books they have tweeted about in the past.
> Only 24 hours in a day, and so much to learn about.

why waste time learning when ignorance is instantaneous ?
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Of course it was a joke. But what sort of person, in that sort of situation, makes a joke like that?

Forget the NYP completely and watch the video of how it played out on court. He comes off as a complete piece of shit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar i'll take a Bazaar of 5000 artists any day over a forced Cathedral.
In terms of gaming applications this could be huge for virtual reality avatars. You can still be anonymous but still convey facial expressions with a webcam!
Yeah, but drones are harder than geese. I would speculate that one could easily break an engine, and smash out the cockpit windshield. I doubt it would cause critical structural damage otherwise, but it would be illuminating to do some tests (bird strike tests are done).

One possibility is to limit the weight of the drones, which will limit the damage they can inflict.
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WTF did I just read? Has she no sense of humour at all? "Post-traumatic", damnit...

I bet she never faced real discrimination if she considers that phrase about chair offending.
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This iOS workshop looks interesting
> All but one of the accounts was created before Jason tweeted about it.

What about before Sam tweeted? What about any other outlets that linked to HN?

> and i've been around here long enough to know that even when outsiders do link to threads you don't get 50%+ green comments without sockpuppets

Sounds like, instead of relying on data, you already have your narrative set so it doesn't really matter what anyone says. Do you have data that shows this has happened in the past like you claim? If so, what are the correlations between those instances and this one? How do you control between fake accounts and accounts created due to an influx of traffic regarding a topic many are interested in?
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He's pedantically pointing out a superficial difference between the two cases, and pretending as though he therefore demonstrated some profound ethical or moral difference between the two. Good job on calling him out on this and pinning him down!
That sounds great! That should happen regardless.

Put another way what does the investor gain putting money in a company that stays private?
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Wow! According to Paul Graham, that performance clearly indicates you are biased AGAINST founders from top schools!!

http://paulgraham.com/bias.html
Or, if you're Tesla, people pay you for the privilege of collecting data for you. [0]

[0] https://backchannel.com/how-elon-musk-and-y-combinator-plan-... "Probably Tesla will have more real world data than any other company in the world."
Or, you know, use a search engine. There are countless little things like that and out-of-the-box search in DBs will never catch up with.
Sorry, will look into it.
No, there were papers published in 2014 showing that CNNs could predict the moves of expert Go players 55% of the time. That was an extremely remarkable, result. It's not a huge leap to go from that, to using it as move predictor as the search heuristic in a game tree searching algorithm.
In other words, just what you'd think a fair compensation package would look like.
Is it necessary to state your current info?
Most companies want to ask the candidate, as most will give a number, and give the company the advantage.

Why pay for a service when you can just ask? Basically they do it on purpose because they have the upper hand.
That is a good question.
I think drones are cool and would love to get one.

However, I think there are too many entitled asses that pretty much think they can do whatever they want. You wouldn't believe th number of drones they now have flying at cars and coffee events. I'm also fairly certain that none of these drone operators have insurance so imagine the scenario of drone operator (likely without a whole lot of experience) + many expensive cars (but that's not the point). Not gonna end well.

Sooner or later, a drone strike will happen if left unchecked.