skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It turned out I’d joined a digital sweatshop, where people were packed into huge rooms, side by side, at long tables. Instead of hunching over sewing machines, they stared into laptops or barked into headsets, selling software.

> Tech workers have no job security.

> The free snacks are nice, but you also must tolerate having your head stuffed with silly jargon and ideology about being on a mission to change the world.

> The offices bear a striking resemblance to the Montessori preschool that my kids attended: lots of bright basic colors, plenty of toys, and a nap room with a hammock and soothing palm tree murals on the wall.

> Dogs roam HubSpot’s hallways, because like the kindergarten decor, dogs have become de rigueur for tech startups.

> On the second floor there are shower rooms, which are intended for bike commuters and people who jog at lunchtime, but also have been used as sex cabins when the Friday happy hour gets out of hand.

> Arriving here feels like landing on some remote island where a bunch of people have been living for years, in isolation, making up their own rules and rituals and religion and language—even, to some extent, inventing their own reality.

> Inside the company he is always referred to simply by his first name, Dharmesh, and some people seem to view him as a kind of spiritual leader.

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I'm not saying there isn't truth to what he's saying, and with others chiming in as to his credibility, it seems like there's more truth than I assumed. I was simply asking for context, because a lot of these things do seem slightly blown out of proportion to make the articles sound more interesting, and thus to sell more copies of his book.
A lot of things I don't understand about what you are trying to achieve. I have never used AR (which I assume stands for Augmented Reality) and don't know why I as a consumer would use it.

Your pitch is full of marketing speak. Talk to me like you would talk to a friend.
Nvidia’s Pascal GP100 GPU: massive bandwidth, enormous performance
If they are celebrating "graduation", aren't they celebrating pain and suffering of the outgoing employee.

Again, the practice is sadistic at least at the emotional level to me. May be it is Graduating as a Rock Star.

ps. Please stop moving the goal posts.
Please post the relevant links, so the rest of us can be enlightened. I want to see a government program that had a massive reduction in funding.
That would be outstanding if it could ... talk about the perfect material for shielding supercritical spacecraft components. Radiation resistance, projectile resistance, lighter than normal metal, temperature resistant... What's not to like?
They don't have the demand. As I said, taking away guns from people who want guns will just cause them to build their own guns.
I meant specifically Dan Lyons' articles. Poking fun is good and healthy.
I'm finding the most-loyal list more interesting, though also more perplexing. I suspect unionisation may have some influence.

http://www.payscale.com/data-packages/employee-loyalty
Really interesting article. Does anyone know anything at a similar level that explains how these are actually fabricated - e.g. silicon doping at very precise positions, laying out of the metal runs and tags that connect different layers etc??
These read slightly better if you read the oldest ones first.
> Why does it matter that the guy is writing a book? Why does it matter that the article is marketing for the book? Is it true? Sounds like it is.

Are you asking me: why does it matter what existing motivations a person has when trying to uncover which parts of their account is truthful? Seems pretty obvious why that information is important...

Going solely off of "Is it true? Sounds like it is." sounds like an easy way to end up just confirming your own biases all of the time.

Sorry you took my comment that way, that's not how I intended it. I was honestly curious because I knew nothing about him, and the few articles I found seemed suspect, so I wanted to know if others felt the same, or if he was legit. And with people's replies with more information, I can now say for myself that it seems like he's more legit than not.
Laser-Walker also made WhatsApplebees : http://whatsapplebees.com - which is a pretty great concept
Well, binary shellcode often has the sole purpose of providing shell access, so if you can just exec /bin/sh then that job is already done...
Thank you for the links. Reading the presentation, and ignoring the 'monkey' and 'loudmouth' comments, made me think this could be seen as an implementation of the 'intent security' capability that Android has through its Manifests. Although I assume (I did not go through all the slides) that implementing this is 'slightly' more complex due to the number of things you can pledge to use/non-use.
I am curious how this would change with the multiplexed pipe of HTTP2 where doing a lot of requests is not as expensive. I did a couple little tests a while ago with nginx 1.9.1 mainline, and while the results did show a little performance improvements in figures, they weren't observable - but this could be because I didn't put in much care while doing those tests and I probably did some mistakes.

Anyone else has done good benchmarks on real world single-page-apps which do a lot of back-n-forth communication with the server with http2?

I don't expect things to get suddenly extremely better (specially since resource fetching is only one of the bottlenecks), but maybe it could bring a mid-way between the server vs client side rendering war.
But could he do it for Hillary? That would be a real challenge.
Hm, interesting idea. I get what you're going for - inbox as to-do list, sorted appropriately.

However, there are a lot of things that make inbox inadequate as a to-do list. The thing that scares me about your idea is the special syntax; people sending me email are very unlikely to want to learn a special syntax.

Mailboxapp had a "reorder inbox manually" feature at one point, which seemed like a simpler way to achieve something similar. Have you considered whether that's suitable?

To comment on the overall vision: Recently I've been having to-do problems, and looking for a new answer, but I'm very confident that email integration is NOT the solution - for me, anyway. Most emails shouldn't be treated as todo items, they should be treated as distractions to ignore. So I would not be inclined to use a product which increased the primacy of email generated todos. Because of my experience I fear that the world is moving away from the direction of your vision.
Did the author get a bug bounty? If not, is it that companies who understand tech the least also don't understand the value of such things?
I'm a grammar pedant because I like to help people who write "must of" and confuse it's and its.
Write your own. For me, it's the most efficient (and you will learn a lot).
Machine Zone rebrands as MZ, launches new connectivity platform
I think most video download sites use youtube-dl on the backend so they should already be doing that.
The idea that you trust your judgement on the magazine ratio is probably one of the reasons that this analysis is useful. Are you sure that you aren't just biased against noticing men's magazines? Or perhaps there are a lot of magazines with language specifically gendering the reader as male that you consider neutral...
This is funny because there is a brand called "OEM" at parts stores that sells chinese junk.

I am all about finding the original parts that the dealer will sell, but on the aftermarket at reasonable prices.
Indeed. These nonsense plans makes the journalists busy, so they don't have remaining resources to investigate and make as loud the things happening in the shadows.
You still need to make it fit, and this shielding may require more volume and more mass than a Whipple shield.
I was kind of hoping to see python used in the functional programming section. I was playing around with a small project in python and decided I wanted to re-implement a really simple context free grammar I had done in a functional programming class. It was slightly annoying, Lisp seemed like a better choice than python. But it looks like they use scheme.
Holy cow this is terrible. Especially given toyota starters 'click of death' when their brushes get worn.
Who says language rules were intentionally made by we as a society? :)

Unless you mean these grammar rules: http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/2549...
Chrome added support for calc() inside calc() in CSS
Japan's not the best example to hold up as a success for gun control. The last 70 years have been nice.

During the prior 400 years, the various Japanese governments used gun and sword confiscation to enable crimes ranging from brutal to genocidal.
Python is deliberately bad at functional programming by design. Guido has decreed it.
What happened? A family member's insurance totaled a car due to this recently. We guessed he bent rods. What did you find?
I know HN seems like a technology news site - it even has "news" in its name! - but it's not.

> anything that gratifies one's
> intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
OK, let me try to paraphrase your idea:

The traditional internet advertising model sucks. But if I'm reading an article by somebody who recommends a product, I am much more likely to want to click on a link based on their recommendation. I can get the product and the writer can get paid for that link. Your site will be the broker for these ads, with a focus on simplicity.

I get this, I think it's reasonable that people would want to sell those ads and I can imagine clicking on those links sometimes.

To get started you should just go talk to some bloggers who already promote products, and offer them to swap the link and get paid for it. A lot of them are probably already using Amazon affiliate links, so you may want to offer more money, or find people who aren't using Amazon.
"How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?" -- H. Schopper on the Future of Particle Physics, Prestigious Discoveries at CERN 2003.
The man you paraphrase, Upton Sinclair (He said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"), was a socialist and would probably retort that it is your salary, your luck and privileged position, that prevents you from understanding.

UPDATE: I did a little digging, and the quote is from I, Candidate for Governor and How I Got Licked, a book whose motivation was to grow support for Sinclair's End Poverty plan, which started out as his End Poverty in California Plan, the core of his platform when he ran for governor.
I don't understand why you'd want to replicate HTTP style interactions for this kind of job.

The headers are massive, take up most of the message and are overly verbose.

I know people fear binary protocols, but they really aren't something to worry about if you make the correct tools (after all, text is binary, its just there are a great many tools to read it.)

If you are serious and actually want to test your protocol/code, then you need to implement a parser that's useable. (either in wireshark or pipeable from netcat) You've done most of the work making the parse for the actual protocol, going the extra mile and wrapping it so it can take STDIN shouldn't be a terrible drag
Can't really agree much on this article and I have the sense it is somehow written out of frustration and lack of experience.

The '6 hidden costs' can all be addressed, some are not even hidden like time, running tests take time and resources like anything else. The other factors like speed/performance and confusion can all be solved very easily.

Some of my take-aways for testing

- Don't focus on small changes like buttons, copy etc.. these are mostly useless yes

- Make radical changes, e.g. on stickermule can try to have the whole product to make a sticker to checkout on 1 page or start with configuration first and then select sizes etc..

- To filter out false positives, compare same sample of data (e.g. organic traffic is good) for the same period range before a winning test went live and after

Personally I have seen some great results with the above tips in mind, from B2B making visitors perform small actions first or showing a demo vs. presenting them with a form immediately (4x more leads) to e-commerce sites adding a direct checkout vs. normal checkout path (lower avg. order but much higher conversion rate to largely make up for it) etc..

You could argue these are part of product (which a conversion department should be part of, not marketing) but without doing the testing you can only guess about the outcome. And sure many tests are fixing usability (e.g. seen 250% increase in registrations by fixing telephone number prefix and date of birth field formatting) and UI issues but that's part of it.
How was he able to see the raw responses from the payment gateway? Do they use HTTP instead of HTTPS to make these requests?
I assume old versions can still connect, and therefore there are legacy unencrypted modes. Is there any protection against downgrade attacks?
Blender, Flash professional, Photoshop and Illustrator.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/10749619/How-A-Car-Engine-Wo...
Corporations are people, my friend.
Is the layout of that page just broken, with text on top of text, or is it at my end?
I did too, despite being American.
OpenBMC: Linux for Baseboard Management Controllers
The rest of the united states dumps their homeless problem on CA.

viz nevada busing homeless people to sf and dumping them here

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-Nevada-reach-tenta...

edit: here's a better link

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-reaches-400k-settlement-proposa...

“Over the past five years, the state of Nevada has transferred to other
states approximately 1,500 patients discharged from its state-run
Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital, including 500 patients that Nevada sent by
Greyhound bus to cities and counties in California,” said the lawsuit filed
September 2013 by Herrera in San Francisco Superior Court. The revelations
led to the loss of the hospital’s accreditation. It has since been
reaccredited.

The patients, many of whom were mentally ill indigent and not California
residents, were sent to various destinations with no arrangements for when
they arrived, according to the lawsuit.

Even when homeless aren't bused to CA, it beats most of the country: generous public services plus weather rarely below freezing. So people migrate here from all over, yet we alone pay for the services people need.

My SO had someone chase her around a car attempting to stab her with a screwdriver. SF police, typically useless, didn't arrive until he was long gone. People aren't exaggerating when they say big pieces of the city are unsafe.
I didn't interpret that as being particularly mean though. It's poking fun at Facebook, but not in a cruel way.
I feel like the problem being solved by React and other virtual DOMs are only relevant because user agents never bothered to solve janky page transitions. Couldn't browsers do a minimal DOM update themselves without losing context or introducing weird flashes? Is this what you mean by "react-style rendering within the browser engine itself"
http://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/animagraffs-education-a...
Aetna's phone support is a joke. You call them up and ask them a question and they just answer randomly. I call ask a question, they tell me yes. I call again 5 minutes later and ask the same question and get no. Even simple straightforward stuff like "is this doctor in your network."
> If you need to debug it, it's trivial to even look at the hex dump of packets.

The problem, of course, is that it's not trivial to generate those packets in an interactive fashion. That's what's great about protocols such as SMTP & HTTP: you can learn them just by telnetting to a port.

Of course, there are advantages to TLV formats, which is probably a reason why Ron Rivest invented canonical S-expressions, which enable both a readable symbolic form (e.g. (foo bar baz)) and a fast-parsing canonical form (e.g. (3:foo3:bar:baz)), as well as forms for hex (e.g. (#666f6f# #626172# #62617a#)) and base64 (e.g. (|Zm9v| |YmFy| |YmF6|)) transmission. The intended use case was to transmit tagged data like public keys:

(public-key
(rsa-pkcs1-md5
(e #03#)
(n
|ANHCG85jXFGmicr3MGPj53FYYSY1aWAue6PKnpFErHhKMJa4HrK4WSKTO
YTTlapRznnELD2D7lWd3Q8PD0lyi1NJpNzMkxQVHrrAnIQoczeOZuiz/yY
VDzJ1DdiImixyb/Jyme3D0UiUXhd6VGAz0x0cgrKefKnmjy410Kro3uW1|)))

which could be transmitted in an efficient format (base64-decode the following to see what it'd look like):

KDEwOnB1YmxpYy1rZXkoMTM6cnNhLXBrY3MxLW1kNSgxOmUxOgMpKDE6bjE
yOToA0cIbzmNcUaaJyvcwY+PncVhhJjVpYC57o8qekUSseEowlrgesrhZIpM
5hNOVqlHOecQsPYPuVZ3dDw8PSXKLU0mk3MyTFBUeusCchChzN45m6LP/JhU
PMnUN2IiaLHJv8nKZ7cPRSJReF3pUYDPTHRyCsp58qeaPLjXQquje5bUpKSk=

Of course, since it was eminently readable and part of an eminently well-thought-out standard, the thing completely died on the vine, and now we're stuck with JSON and XML and YAML and why do I even bother getting up in the morning computing is so backwards it's not even funny.

http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Sexp.txt
I agree to some extent that simplicity is nice, I'm just saying I think the level of simplicity is inconsistent: including some sensors but not others, having an explanation of hybrids but nothing of turbos, etc. And that not including the link between the accelerator pedal and the engine leaves a pretty big hole in the layman's understanding.
In Australia users have created userscripts that will track and share voucher codes and their expiry.

https://openuserjs.org/scripts/jehan/Dominos_Pizza_Voucher_C...
I had to give up on moleskine because I use fountain pens and the paper is just awful!

Ironic, the iconic paper notebook is of such low quality paper.
OK, I get what you're trying to achieve. But I went through your prototype and felt that I was being talked down to. Not sure if I'm just not your target market or whether this is a real problem.

You need to go find people in your target market who will give you a few minutes and sit behind them while they go through your prototype. Ideally you could monitor their outcomes and see if the education actually helped them, but simply seeing if they "get it" might be enough to get you started.

Distribution is going to be a challenge too. How do people find out about codecademy and Khan Academy? Will that same strategy work for you?

I'd note that Khan also has some finance related videos which are quite good.
Same story here... Tried lots of different combos. Nothing was quite right. Just picked a 12" iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. It's been fantastic! I'm glad I tried the 12, it's pretty much the size of a piece of paper. Now apps are still limited but it's a new favorite for me.
As a logical, clear-thinking engineer, I recognize that if my wife is emotional and needs to vent, that the best way to improve her mental state is to listen and give emotional support and ask her if there's any way I can help.

Alternatively you could listen all the time and that way your wife wouldn't have to reach a given threshold where she's emotional enough to take the actions that you notice. People have emotions all the time; we only describe people as "emotional" when they've gone past the point of being typical. That doesn't mean you should ignore them before that point. It'd be much less stressful for your wife if she could take about things before she was emotional about them.

This is why the logical approach fails - it's illogical to bottle up problems until they're much bigger, but that's exactly what we do.
My buddy's granddad was Pete Marston sr. We always joke that means Ben Alleck got his start pretending to be him.
related question, on putting messages into dynamic, living systems:

let's say the 'message' is so large it can only be inserted into a 'junk DNA' (non-conserved) region of the genome.

is it correct to assume there are less active/robust dna repair mechanisms to 'fix' the insertions, deletions, substitutions described above than in conserved regions?

what might some numbers be for errors rates in non conserved regions ( 2x, 10x,...) compared to conserved regions? or maybe one type of error is relatively much higher than another kind?

im guessing sources of insertion/deletion/substitution 'error' are mutations over lifetime of cell, and also replication errors in daughter cells.
> The drug addicts and mentally ill who go on ambulance rides every week or more.

These people are abusing their freedom and abusing free services. At what point do we either restrict their freedom or retract their free services? 'You get to do whatever you like, with no consequences' isn't a long-term plan for social success.
I rather think it wasn't a result of decreased public housing but rather of the closing of the asylums.
Link for anyone interested : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY
Bertolini is quoted as saying "up $500 a year". Assuming he meant "up to $500 a year", a run of fewer than twenty days would lead to a reward. Presumably only the longest run of the year counts.
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The Vampir uses a tandem charge -- Two successive charges. The point of this is to counter reactive armor, which is designed to counter explosively formed projectiles.

The "cage" slats can be effective against both.
yes but they need to include all the effects of all the nutations of the earth from the shortest a 19 year cycle caused by the moon to the 22,000 year cycle
Because the messages were clear at some point on a machine he controlled.

This is what the article means by the payment processing being done on the client: Some client-side code (JavaScript? A mobile app?) would receive the message from the payment gateway, and send the success code to Dominos.

He may have used a debugger[1] to breakpoint the application where the application has a cleartext version of the traffic, however he might have also taken advantage of the fact that even if using HTTPS, if the programmer uses a certificate store the user has access to (which they usually do), they can install a custom root certificate and then use something like mitmproxy[1] or charles[2] to decode the traffic.

What's needed to make this secure is to have a token provided by the payment processing API that the server can verify but that the client cannot produce (or tamper with)[4].

[1]: https://securitycafe.ro/2015/01/28/intercepting-functions-fr...

[2]: https://mitmproxy.org/

[3]: https://www.charlesproxy.com/

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash-based_message_authenticat...
Brilliant post;
From Googling "federal public housing funding 1980s", the very first link states:

"In his first year in office Reagan halved the budget for public housing and Section 8 to about $17.5 billion. And for the next few years he sought to eliminate federal housing assistance to the poor altogether."

From the Wikipedia article entitled "Public housing in the United States", which has a section specifically about the period of time in question:

"Under the Reagan administration, household contribution towards Section 8 rents was increased to 30% of household income and fair market rents were lowered. Public assistance for housing efforts was reduced as part of a package of across the board cuts."

I am not an American and don't know the history of American federal program funding, but I do have access to things that let me search for things. You should try it.
That's backwards. Explosively formed jets need space to form, so work better if they detonate a little distance from the target.