skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure down vote BUT defend your opposition to the point of this blog post that I pointed out. It is 100% not RPM issues that this person is talking about.

Okay so by the down votes I guess people prefer to think RPM is bad and won't take anything from anyone pointing out how it works and that the article used was full of holes by someone that doesn't understand package management.

I SAID STUPID: Ye sit is stupid to request a package manager that uses unsecured packages with disabled SSL and curl and wget to download packages and manage them so that any hacker could install any package it wants with a simple script.
It depends on the job. For a rare skillset the rational strategy is to ignore the explosive nature since it's very unlikely there are any other candidates lined up and the explosiveness is just a way to make you take a worse offer than the current market. In fact, getting this offer is a big clue to shop for better offers. There is no rational reason to go through with rescinding the offer after the deadline so, if it actually happened, you could be relieved that you have dodged the bullet of working at a crazy house.

For a commodity skill it can be legitimate. There are likely other candidates who will take the offer if you pass the deadline. However, the market for these skills is also more transparent so there is usually enough information to decide if the offer any good.
Or: "Sudden drastic change in personality took 5 years to adjust to; some things better, some worse"
it's like i'm an artist. You can't tell an artist how to paint. I'm going to paint my best work when I'm allowed to choose my own easel and pallette and brushes. Let me throw some green paint on the canvas and make the trees how I wanna make the trees. Programming is more art than science.
Currently, the aliasing rules for unsafe code are "any pointers can alias"—i.e. no type based alias analysis (TBAA), a.k.a. strict-aliasing. (This is because LLVM has no concept of TBAA at the IR level; it's something the frontend supplies explicitly.) There is an open question as to how much this will affect our ability to perform alias-based optimizations, given that a lot of our primitives are implemented with unsafe code under the hood. I'm optimistic that it can be solved (although some others on the team, like Niko, are less optimistic).
I wonder what is the return rate for memory due to this test.
I disagree with you.
Tesla stations in NYC on verge of outnumbering gas stations
Raising money in the current environment. Every little helps
Client-side CPU usage, as well as page weight, isn't a problem if JS is done right. Angular-like bloatware certainly ruins all the zen. But that doesn't mean you should rush to another margin and make everything server-side. Modern web technologies allow you to keep everything beautiful, smooth AND lightweight. But in order to achieve that, you'll need to learn more than a couple of bloatware libs like angular or jquery. In fact, you need to forget them and start thinking for real. And study, study and once more study MDN manuals.

Language doesn't make Web slow and bulky. People do.
You would? Can you demonstrate how that would work for, say, a sort algorithm with a tunable "fuzziness" parameter? Informally, after the algorithm is complete, each element is within k indices of where it would be after a traditional sort. So k=0 could just be quicksort, but as k approaches the length of the input we have to do less and less work.

It's easy to dream up algorithms and traditional unit tests for this (and easy to see how the large input space makes the approach suboptimal). I'd love to see how your approach would work.
A 500 error doesn't legitimize bad server side code.
Total agreement there. There's so many indicators like that though and it's hard to find a company that doesn't tick one of them during the interview process. I lucked out with my current job, for sure, because even though they're sometimes disorganized, my work and my person are valued and treated with respect.
Is this not a self-correcting problem? The companies that impose the unrealistic deadlines are going to be more likely to miss out on the better candidates, who are more likely to have other offers, and in the long term that will be self-defeating for those companies.
Do you have abstract hands or real ones?

Edit: more seriously though, hands are real things you've seen
Guns, unlike satellite launchers, need to be aimed at enemies in order to be useful- something hard to do if its built into a hill.

I mean, of course the Iraqi military (like everyone else) thought about it as a weapon first, but if I were Bull I'd have been happy to con them out of spending the same money on more effective weapons.
I had the same thought, combined with a mental visualization of the hands in that position. I think it might be something in the wording of the sentence...
yummyfajitas there is a stark difference between the experiences of the groups you mentioned in America and the 200+ years of slavery, followed by 100 years of segregation and discrimination, followed by 50+ years of racial profiling and predatory policy that blacks in America have gone through. I don't for a second doubt the hardships of other races and many have pulled themselves up from where they began here, but you can't honestly compare the two experiences and find anything more than surface level similarities.
Yes!

Even better than that is when you turn them down (for offer or interview) because you have another job already and then a month or two later you receive _their_ rejection letter saying that you're not the right candidate.

And I was an employee referral that time -- thanks Mattermark!
I _really_ don't understand your point of view, on so many levels.

Let's start at the beginning then. This is an experimental treatment. There was almost zero knowledge of the impact, at the time it was done, since it was experimental (and probably still is?). I very much so doubt they could have been able to predict the outcome with any certainty.

Second, why would age have any play in whether or not a treatment of this type is attempted? I think you should really explain yourself a bit more.
Fatal mistakes
Yeah, I think you'd have to have an actual camera image, and then you'd probably want a night vision lens of some sort... I'd imagine the logic for doing the detection might be available open-source somewhere...
I am reminded of Lucent, who built the best hardware for the end-user ISP market in the form of the Ascend MAX TNT, which would terminate a DS3, break it into individual dialup lines, and handle all of them as modem calls. Cool stuff.

It's just that they sold all this stuff to ISPs who didn't have any good credit lines, so Lucent extended them credit (bing! interest payments!) using the MAXen as collateral.

When the ISP dialup market collapsed, the ISPs returned the equipment in lieu of payment. That equipment had no value whatsoever, because anybody who wanted one and could afford one already had two.

Presumably there's some sort of secondary market for cars -- but a hundred thousand black S-Class is about what they've sold in the US over the last 7 years combined.
This is the fifth of a fifty-part series Jack Shenker is doing for the Guardian. So far he's cranked out one-a-day.
From a meditator's perspective, developing a thick skin is the wrong direction for practice. That kind of thing creates a kind of contraction. The social mask constrains the natural expression of the person to the point where the social mask becomes confused with the person's identity. That's the stuff of therapy and existential angst.

What this guy is experiencing is not so much different from a meditator who has recently reawakened empathy, or a psychonaut whose psychedelic experiences open up to the world of emotions. "Coping" is no longer authentic, and is seen for the illusion that it is. For such people, the dysfunction is not in the awareness, but in that most people around you lack sufficient awareness -- yet think they are "normal".
Me and a coworker were laughing at the parent comment, and I told him:

"I guarantee that somewhere, sometime, an engineer has been like 'hay guys, I loaded our big data into SQLite on my laptop and it ended up being faster than our fancy cluster'". We then joked that the engineer would be fired a few weeks later for not being a "cultural fit".

A few minutes later you commented with your story. I hope you didn't get fired? :)
I believe your comment is a really important dimension to the conversation. It has been proven the government could copy the encrypted filesystem of Farook's phone and use this copy to brute force it if they wanted to. What they are asking Apple to do is just make the brute forcing easier which implies this all comes down to mere expediency. Policing is only supposed to be easy in a Police State.
max short once this goes public
I often think about how strong the emotions that other people feel are.

Situations can be turned upside down when trying to think from the perspective of a person with stronger emotional responses.
> It's a form of censorship, so it's both evil and underhanded.

I disagree. There are practical limits on speech. Yelling "Fire!" in a theater, defamation, inciting a riot etc. Asking for a few days until a situation starts to calm down? That's evil and underhanded? Do you consider the fact that they delayed announcing the Ferguson trial verdict censorship by the justice department?

You don't even have the full context of what was asked for and how.

> From your perspective, it's the US government looking out for itself

The US Government is looking out for the interests of the US and US citizens? Isn't that exactly what they are there for?

> Consider that people were willing to riot over this information that was blocked. Do you think that they consider the blocking to be a beneficent act ...

Do you remember this period of time at all? The people rioting over, for example, the Danish Mohammad cartoons demanded them to be taken down and destroyed. They viewed it is implicit US sanctioning of that material that it was available at all from The West. Of course they would have seen it as a positive step; it was what they demanded be done. What they would've disagreed with was that it was a temporary measure instead of permanent.
The last raise was two years ago, so if you figure the current valuation based on recent markdowns, then this price is more inline with what you might expect from common equity vs. preferred.

I am curious, will these secondary shares have the same lockup restrictions that employees face after the IPO?

I am also curious how the market will price Box vs. Dropbox. I would expect them to mostly move in tandem, but with Thiel propagating his "myth of the monopoly", maybe people will consider any positive developments at one to be negative for the other?

At any rate, I expect it will be rough roads ahead.
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You need to make an app that re-names shitty click bait headlines in such way!
I thought of steepling hands also.

I think, of myself steepling my hands?
Take someone used to wearing stiff-bottomed shoes, and tell them to walk around barefoot on the street or on a forest trail. They’ll suddenly be intensely aware of the temperature and texture of the ground. Stepping on a little pebble will cause pain from sensory overload of nerves which have been carefully shielded for years. (Most people in developed countries can try this experiment out first-hand.)

For someone who is habitually barefoot, by contrast, walking around on very rough surfaces is no problem.

Same kind of thing here.
There's a little more to it than that, especially if you're looking at the historical example of the auto companies.

Back in the 70s-90s, the Japanese were beating the pants off the American automakers. But this wasn't because of price, at least not by the 80s. It was because the American companies weren't producing products that people wanted to buy. In the 70s, American cars were huge gas guzzlers, and with the '74 gas crisis, people wanted smaller, more efficient cars, and the Japanese sold them. By the 80s, Americans had finally figured out how to make small cars again, but they were crap, so people happily paid more for Japanese cars than for competing American cars. The Japanese cars were far more reliable, lasted longer, used less gas, looked better, were nicer in pretty much every way, so their higher cost was seen as worth it; only people buying solely based on price bought American cars. Labor rates were a factor, but not that much: by the 90s, Japanese labor rates were significantly higher than American labor rates, so to decrease costs the Japanese had opened many assembly plants in the US (but in places where they could avoid unionized labor, like Ohio and the South). The cars made here in the US still had great quality unlike cars made by the American automakers, and sold very well.

Today, we still see a lot of this: various Japanese and European automakers have assembly plants here in the US to take advantage of our cheaper labor rates, but their vehicles are still generally seen as superior to American-brand cars.

Basically, you can chalk it all up to management. The American cars have been undesirable because of poor decisions by upper management at these companies. You can't blame crap quality on line workers; they didn't design the car, they're just doing what they're told by managers and engineers. And engineers are constrained by the decisions made by management.
> Later, people at work told me they’d liked me better the way I was before.

Whenever you make a large change in yourself, you are going to alienate people in your life. This doesn't say anything about whether the change is good or bad.

The set of people currently in your life is highly biased towards people who like you the way you are. If they didn't, they wouldn't be in your life.

The more interesting question is after you make a change and get a new set of people, how do those people compare to your old set?
It would be interesting to see a quantitative head-to-head comparison, but my guess would be that once you have the technology to retrieve first-stage rocket engines after launch space-guns aren't economical- the fuel used lifting the engine itself may be expensive, but the energy losses from hitting sea-level atmosphere at ~8km/h would have to be astronomical.

...As it were.
I did the exact same thing. I guess I only usually hear the word steeple associated with that game.
Especially if there is no middle-man dealer to pay. On a $100k S-Class, Invoice comes in around $93k. Some people are able to pull off sub ~88k sale prices at dealers.

I wouldn't be surprised if the wholesale (with profit) cost on a S-Class Benz is somewhere around 65-70k. I'd imagine that the cost of building an S-Class (100k retail) over a C-Class (~40k) is nominal.
Another poster has raised the claim that this only holds true for questions related to certain time frames.

But even ignoring that and assuming this was fully for racist reasons, should that have any impact on those choosing to hire people? Even if the justice system is racist, that is a problem that belongs to the justice system.
Key suspect in Paris attacks captured in Brussels raid
Yes. It does not interfere with private ownership or private economy whatsoever. The notion that wealth transfers are socialism / communism is a misunderstanding that has developed due to political rhetoric in the United States.

By way of example, if you are trying to ensure that everyone gets a loaf of bread: a communist solution is taking over the bakery and ordering its workers to produce a loaf of bread for everyone. A capitalist solution is taxing the owners of the bakery and then transferring everyone money equal to the price of a loaf of bread. UBI is clearly in the latter camp.
WiFi Security: Should CFIUS Stop a Chinese Bid for Starwood Hotels?
The USGOV's Committee on Foreign Investment reviews foreign acquisitions of US companies for their national security implications. While US ownership of Starwood's hotels doesn't necessarily make its WiFi or data anymore secure, could millions of travelers' data be at risk if the acquisition goes through?

http://fortune.com/2016/03/18/marriott-starwood-anbang-acquisition/

Concern over hotel data security is not new:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-glassberg/new-wifi-threat-for-hotel_b_6954652.html

http://blog.privatewifi.com/private-information-hacked-from-hotel-wifi-for-sale-in-china/
Definitely easier, though more hackable if you're building a security system.
Is the foodpocalypse starting? Or was SpoonRocket just a horrible take on it?
Lowering the sale price to $7k only bumps the per-year cost to Uber from $8k to $10.5k.
A devious censor probably would not explicitly call out their censorship with a standard HTTP code.

It seems undeniable that this "feature" codifies censorship, making it more "acceptable".

"Oh, well they used the right code anyway"

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Yeah, sounds like it. A much easier solution would be to adjust the sensitivity and put it somewhere your cat can't reach (like on a high shelf).
Kickstarted game République has an alternate reality game
Hi adnanh, Bitbucket dev here. I agree we have a different UI to GitHub, but horrific seems a little strong. Our designers & front-enders spend a lot of time pixel pushing to build out a UX focused on professional teams. We even have a public set of design patterns and guidelines that apply across all of our products[0] if you're curious. That said, we are always iterating on the design and you are of course entitled to your own opinion. I'd appreciate any specific feedback you could give us on the UI/UX if you'd care to elaborate?

[0]: https://design.atlassian.com/
This is one of the things about being a web developer and part-time DBA that keeps me up at night (sometimes literally all night).

Around a month ago the source file table on Coveralls.io[0] hit a transaction wraparound, and put us in read-only mode for over 24 hours while RDS engineers performed a full vacuum (that's not something that can be done manually as a customer). On a managed database I'm paying thousands a month for, I was hoping there would be some sort of early warning system. Well, apparently there is, but it's buried in the logs, and won't trigger any app exceptions so went un-noticed.

What's worse is there's 0 indication of how long a vacuum is going to take, nor progress updates while it's going. So for a production web app with customers, this means damage control language like:

"Our engineers have identified a database performance issue and working to mitigate. Unfortunately we do not have an ETA at this time."

About a week later, more calamity hit: the INT "id" field on the same table exceeded the max length. My first thought was change it to a BIGINT, but after ~4 hrs into the migration without any indication of how much longer it would take, I pulled the plug and sharded the table instead.

Moral of the story is that web devs should be aware of these pitfalls, and that no matter how much trust you put into a managed database service, it still could happen to you (queue ominous background music).

Anyway I'm glad to see this lurking monster in our beloved database tamed, thank you Mr Haas!

[0] https://coveralls.io
I work with John's son, Jack, on LBRY (http://lbry.io). The whole Robison family is full of people with interesting stories:

- Jack went to trial as a teenager, facing 60 years (!) in prison for chemistry experiments (http://www.masslive.com/localbuzz/index.ssf/2009/06/actionre...)

- John showcasing a guitar that Jack's mother and Jack built for KISS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXZi4UZjiiI&t=10)

- John's brother is Augusten Burroughs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusten_Burroughs)

I pointed Jack to this thread. I believe he went through same treatment as John at one point if people have questions.
If/when someone develops fully reliable, fully autonomous cars, what makes them need Uber?
I had a few months of flying lessons in a Cessna 152 I was envious of the guys who flew the 172 all that glorious elbow room!
National corndog day site – hilarious
Both the Tesla Model S and X are Autonomous Level 3 capable:

"The driver can fully cede control of all safety-critical functions in certain conditions. The car senses when conditions require the driver to retake control and provides a "sufficiently comfortable transition time" for the driver to do so."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car#Classification

Its expected their Model 3 mass market vehicle will contain the same, if not a greater level, of driving automation.

Disclaimer: I've traveled down the interstate in a friend's Model S for ~2-3 hours at a time at ~85mph in autopilot mode with no intervention required.
You mean this treatment has not worked for anyone else?

Or are you saying that people at home should not attempt to reproduce it.

Those are two very different statements, and the first raises many more questions about the original article.
My logic went as so:

1. Immigrants are a minority
2. Yet immigrants found %50 of +$1B companies according to this article.
3. My hypothesis as to why this is so is because they are ambitious educated people, even though they might be very poor when they arrive.

You notice a similar effect in schools. School performance is mostly dependent on the actual quality of the kids and the parents. High skill immigrant parents probably emphasised schooling and quality parenting a lot more than the low performing kids and thus you get a similar effect with high skill immigrants.

It's why you see so many high performing 2nd-generation asian kids, even though the parents started as very poor people from some starving village in china. The parent's tiger parenting style lead to elevated outcomes for them and their kids.

As far as refugees, that is why you have different visa categories, to reflect different immigration policies for different situations. High skill immigrants who are ambitious and found companies are a different separate thing than refugee immigration policy.

The reason why people conflate the different kinds of immigrants is because it's easy, even though there are many different kinds of immigrants.

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As to why I said disadvantaged average american, is because america is a 1st world country with a 3rd world country inside of it. Compared to it's neighbor up north, there is significantly more violence, social inequality, rotting ghettos and uneducated poor people even though canada has an even more liberal immigration policy than the USA. The average american is probably less skilled and motivated than the average high skill immigrant.

Also adversity acts like a people filter. The people who can get through adversity and still thrive are usually pretty amazing people. It also can make you stronger than a person who lives a soft life.
So you think it's OK to demand the shutdown of a site, saying it "should be taken down immediately"?

I wasn't kidding when I said it reminded me of the attitude some of the nastiest people adopt when dealing with CSRs. Completely forgetting the human element and just demanding things all the time. A HN comment has even less of a say in whether a site be taken down.

Humility isn't a sin. How hard can it be to stop at "This site is insecure."?
I wonder whether there should be a word for the feeling you get when reading something like this and thinking "Please don't be the British again..."

Dammit :(
If everyone feels different, there isn't a need to downvote @orik's voice on this.

Let's take @orik's observation at face value -- that "most of us are comfortable with the fact that we're different". In that case, who is uncomfortable, the people who are autistic, or the people who are not? The dysfunction is in the people who feel uncomfortable and have difficulty accepting someone as they are.

By the way, I am not autistic. I'm speaking as someone who has had a lot of experience working with intense emotions.