skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that's really no different from discrete manufacturing, where you have to track precious metals, hazardous materials, import/export regulations, etc. I wonder why the major players don't just make the minor adaptations so they can serve this market, too.
ComfortWay and AVO companies announced a strategic partnership agreement
I'm reminded of https://codereview.stackexchange.com/ except for the getting paid part.
I think they do it because they can. Smaller companies are too afraid, MS is too big and they are not going away if someone won't like it.

Good to hear, nevertheless.
> does No mean

"No", by itself, isn't really an answer here, as funny as the thought is. Realistically, "Should I grab a condom?" is proposed in a time of physical intimacy. That question would be followed with one of three responses meaning, "Yes," "We don't need one," or "We are not having sex."

Of course, "No," is a possible answer, I'm just trying to imagine a situation in which one person is ready to have sex but is unsure if the other person is or not and they actually lack physical or intimate context...
Ironically, the security line is a high human-density target.
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Imagine you get a speeding ticket and wanted to hire a lawyer to fight it (not exactly sure if traffic tickets in the UK what they are in the US...basically a tax on the populace).

Here is the problem: to hire a lawyer, you must discuss your case with a human from the law firm who can evaluate the facts and generate a fee. In other words for a legal fee to be competitive you obviously can't charge the same for a seat belt ticket as a accident with a fatality. But, probably the real truth of the legal industry, especially tickets, is that fees are more often based on what they think a client can and will pay without calling another firm to compare prices.

As far as I can tell this is why the YC company needed to raise funding, so they could hire a staff to evaluate the tickets, act as a middle man between potential client and the lawyer, and then deliver the fee/retain the client. My belief is they are trying to experiment with a single flat fee across a jurisdiction (i.e. $150 for any ticket in California), again a problem because not all cases are the same and such a model is not fair to the client or the lawyer.

What we did was invent a business method to automatically calculate a legal fee for individual cases. Our method allowed clients to calculate their own fees (transparent pricing) and hire a lawyer 24/7 without the need for staff (automation).
How about just making Canada competitive so Canadians want to stay?
Then at least 'gpg --encrypt ~/password.txt'.
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I made a server for startsups
I have 3 channels so far:
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Anyone is welcome to come join
follow the link bellow.
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What would you call him then? 30-something?
UML is rarely used in the industry (2013, PDF)
With a stop-the-world garbage collector, allocations on other threads can result in your audio thread being paused, so you have to not be allocating objects on any thread, which is a significantly more difficult requirement than simply not allocating on your audio thread while audio playback is occurring.
Of course not. This is just a clarification about another point of law that a typical drug dealer violates, which gives law enforcement yet another angle.

In some cases proving tax evasion is easier than proving other crimes. This is what got Al Capone -- because the crime was perpetrated through his organization and not by him directly, it would have been difficult to hold him directly responsible for the crimes. However, once his ledger was discovered it was straightforward to prove that he received significant income without making the required income tax payments.
As a DevOps guy at a startup, I'm expected to respond to alerts within 1-3 minutes at my current employer, 24/7 when I'm on my rotation. We rotate devs in to allow them to try building something "devopsy", but they're never included in the on-call rotation.

Its unsettling.
openstreetmap - tag statistics (surveillance:type=camera )

http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/surveillance%3Atype=ca...
Since we're being snarky- perhaps read the articles you toss out? It specifically says that a major cause was the merging of their sales/marketing/ads teams and installing middle management (between Marissa and Karp) who knew little-to-nothing about Tumblr, much less how to run it. It's not like Yahoo bought them out to turn them away from mobile. Or even to help Yahoo become more mobilized. They wanted to monetize Tumblr and gain from it's younger audience.
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I'm looking forward to this and new ways of getting coders connected. I know a lot of freelancers, including myself, that are always hard pressed for work when there seems to be an abundance. The only thing I'm afraid of is having too many profiles and services to manage. If this could somehow link into services we already use, like github, that would be great.
Very few actually need them, but many companies have scale-envy and instead of getting bored with their tech stacks, stay inspired/passionate by playing with the shiny new tech running their low/medium traffic website.
This should primarily attract indians,chinese,southeast asians,eastern europeans and so on. Makes totally sense.
What does "active passive" mean?
This was not my experience. In the Honolulu office everyone except the guards were wearing aloha.
An interesting idea. Any thoughts on how to use this on websites that force a password change periodically? Using a versioned salt maybe, although that could get tricky after a few iterations.
I do 1 or 2 interviews max. 1 hour interview each. I've hired 12 people so far. It's not perfect, but it's worked out ok. Granted I don't exactly work for Apple or Google, but it is $100B company...

There have been problematic hires, but issues wouldn't have been detected during interview processes.

I think 3-4 is probably optimal.
It's pretty naive to think that APT wouldn't consider this a target as well. More than one person can hack the same box :)

I agree this hack in particular is probably not APT.

If you think APT wouldn't be interested in a political campaign, just look back to the 2013 leak about the US's espionage of the Brazilian presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff's campaign. (Now it seems pretty prescient given her impeachment for corruption).

> That's why every hacking report of some big organization or company today lays the blame on APTs, China, Russia, NORKs and so on.

What? We must have very different sources of reports. The big hacks I read about in the NYT or LA times are almost always some poorly-secured retail company or social media company has a credit card or password dump. Brian Krebs has earned his living for years based off of this reporting.

> media and security companies would want us to believe.

Security companies? Maybe. Media? Where's the motive? This is the top comment? Come on.
see also:

"Ultimate physical limits to computation" http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9908043v3.pdf

"Limits on fundamental limits to computation" http://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.3821v2

"The physics of information processing superobjects: daily life among the Jupiter brains" http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/The%20physics%20of%20informa...
> DevOps is a set of practices, a philosophy aiming for agile operations, to expand the collaboration between developers and operation folks to make them work toward the same goal: contribute to the entire product life cycle, from design, development and shipping, up to the production stage. This is a radical shift from the industry norm of separate engineering and operations departments which often operate in opposition to each other.

Lots of words for "You can save money be shoving ops bullshit onto devs instead".

Oh right, it's all about collaboration and ownership and it's way more efficient this way. Just like open offices.

I am willing to acknowledge there are some pros to this system, but it's still screwing over devs by shoving extra (inconvenient) work onto their plates with no extra remuneration.
A picture of the initial set-up and first boot from USB: https://github.com/jpt4/cots/blob/master/IMG_20160522_053135...
I never understood why these people didn't bother at all upstreaming their Go port. I even offered myself to be the person responsible for the review. I would gladly do that.

I'm very happy about more Go ports, I've done the arm64 and the Solaris ports, and now I am finishing the sparc64 port, but ports need to live upstream.
A lot of this is a consequence of the George W Bush presidency, where the DoJ was encouraged to crack down on pornography using obscenity laws. From the histories I've read, one of the levers they used was informal pressure on financing institutions that served the distributors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscenity_Prosecution_Task_For...
Couldn't that policy be reversed by another president? For example, a President Cruz might not like the idea.

In a way, Microsoft getting involved raises the cost of changing the policy; do they want to prosecute or otherwise upset a major corporation?
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10458318 (233 days)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11422531 (73 days)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813029 (534 days)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11880935 (5 days)

Among many, many others...
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Oh wow, that's awful. How can companies think that this is okay?
cough probably you need to evaluate code of your site then.
Anyone have a good Qt 5 book? Preferably one that uses QML and Python.
It also depends on the judiciary.
Rarely see this. Only my second time in fact. I find facebook's reliability amazing.
Awesome. We worked with something like this at my previous startup. Looks like something we really could have used.
I suggest 80+ bits to avoid getting caught by rainbow tables and similar batch attacks, which can get you in cases of password database dumps. 64 bit keys have already been cracked many times over in various distributed efforts.

If some site just uses plain MD5 then raw bruteforce might have already come across your password, or might do so anytime in the future.
AARP is an organization for American retirees.
I would say this depends heavily on when this happened - when I was on the Tumblr ads team the primary push was to ensure that ads were part of the Tumblr experience - brands would be encouraged to be a part of the ecosystem and it wasn't about getting links out to external sites. This was meant to make ads feel like they were a part of Tumblr, something that people would want to see. Brands like Denny's embraced this approach and have an amazing Tumblr blog and presence because of this - the original engagements they received paid off immensely over time. Other brands which didn't take that approach as seriously, nor knew how to engage with the Tumblr community, probably did not do as well. Things changed for a while after that, especially when ads were no longer being served from the in-house platform we built, but relied more and more on the Yahoo system.
If you know: Do you think it is and will be effective? Could illegal vendors, such as Mexican organized crime, find a way into the industry?

Let's not forget that organized crime has been involved in many legitimate industries.
> I'm expected to respond to alerts within 1-3 minutes at my current employer, 24/7 when I'm on my rotation

That's ridiculous. That's "Guess I can't take the dog outside this week" territory.
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtm... is the canonical list of types. They do not have examples though.
Messenger.com is down for me.
That's beyond unsettling. It's absurd. What happens if it takes you 4 minutes to wake up enough to realize what's going on at 2:30 am?
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Actually, it is "pay upfront" that scares many, I believe. Developers are experimenters - love to play and test many things and in case of commercial success, I think it will be a no-brainier to pay. So I think models such as "pay after your first 10K (or 100K) revenue" work.
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3 years??? Holy cats. I doubt that would hold up in non-compete court.
It's also possible that this was for two different jobs. In other words, after a phone interview and 3-4 onsite interviews the first position passed and then another group felt the feedback was good enough to try them in another role. I could see it getting to 10 total interview sessions pretty easily.
You might try bringing a fluorescent light with you and seeing if it lights up. I haven't tried it with a broadcast tower, but a college physics class demo has stuck with me.

Here's a proof of concept video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSYj2lEaxhY

And another with a compact fluorescent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKatgq9sjj8

Presuming the tower is surrounded by a chain link fence, you may need to find a way to get the bulb high enough so that it has line of site to the transmitter.
How could it not be? The brain operates by machine learning. It just so happens that the machine is made of meat.
If you're lucky enough to have someone from engineering on the chat client at the time, they jump in, and it reflects poorly against you.

I realize the expectations are unrealistic, but as I'm sure most people know, your options are to leave or stick it out.
I think philosophers should focus on novel contemporarily-unfalsifiable ideas, like are we living in a simulation?; if you are a person outside time with instant access to all moments in the history (past-present-future), how much power do you have?; how would you create time (continuous step? adaptive resolution depending on what beings inside time decide to observe?) etc. Some of these ideas later might become falsifiable and move science forward, even if they sound super sci-fi or even insane right now. Or would be a nice background for a movie/game with some non-trivial thoughts already applied.
Anytime.
I'm pretty sure there are federal laws against aspects of the marijuana industry which have been long enforced by the judiciary.

Shipping it across state lines seems like an obvious example.
I know a lot of freelancers, including myself, that are always hard pressed for work when there seems to be an abundance.

Tell me about your marketing.
nicely written
Would have been easily more than my students loans for university
http://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/2221/whats-the-...
That's really an awful solution compared to something like 1Password which has browser integration and synchronization between different devices. They even have a solution for groups.
1-3 minutes is nuts. So what I'm reading is you have nothing in the way of redundancy or even a means to die gracefully. Just zero or garbage fire.
Does anyone die if you don't respond? Because I can understand those kind of response times if you're a paramedic or ambo driver, but otherwise it sounds like power-tripping bullshit from bad managers.
This comment will have already been perfect.
That's considered waiting. You're entitled to compensation.
The vacuum of negativity is vast and relative. Who cares if Java developers think they're better than PHP developers? From the perspective of a C developer neither can properly allocate and manage memory effectively if their life depended on it (heap-based programming, lolzors).

In my experience the modern PHP developer is characterized by a crippling self-consciousness. When I meet someone who is a fellow developer and tell them that I do C and Python and stuff... they usually begin with a bit of self-deprecating humor: I do PHP and stuff, not real programming like you, blah blah blah. I feel obligated to correct them.

The best thing you can do for yourself as a programmer is to not pigeon-hole yourself to a single language regardless of how tempting it might be from an economic/marketing perspective. Learn maths and get good at identifying problems and simplifying them. Become an expert in at least one general-purpose language and one specialized one for sure... but remember to think like an engineer: these are just the brick and mortar of the job! You still need a good mind for design, creating blueprints, and the experience to make informed trade-offs.

PHP is good for many things. Deal with it.
Thank you, please keep us updated on your experience as you dive in
I think by "Black hole generator" the other person meant a device which could create black holes remotely through some kind of process, not just a mass that collapses under its own gravity. In that sense, if you could find an old, spun-down neutron star (and man wouldn't that be a fun search! Massive, but tiny and dim...) then as you say, you could just keep adding mass until crush.
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Thanks for the catches. Will edit these films, and run some more checks
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I think at this point pretty much anything on your PC is backdoorable. I can't think of a single device in my computer that doesn't respond to "magic I/O packets" which are undocumented (obviously) and prone to bugs (possibly).

Gaming mouse? Yeah send some I/O packets and you can change the DPI, USB update rate, whatever. A write-protected USB device? Uh-huh, send some magic-packets to the controllers to reset it/format it/whatever (Recently did this with one of those Dell USB Mentor Media drives that they ship the OS on). Access point? Yeah, send some magic packets and you can set the password/SSID/whatever. Hard Disk? undocumented SATA commands allows for reprogramming. This is just the 'easy' way, without going into JTAG and other diagnostic interfaces.
If you want to help out we would be more than grateful for this - there's a lot of work involved.
I wonder how much the two switches in ad teams correlate to the weird period of time when the ads on Tumblr were about 100% for a weird choose your own adventure cartoon thing?
"Evaluate Code to get paid"

This statement is not telling me (a dumb user) what exactly is it that you do. The name is Recruitly so I am guessing it is a recruitment platform ? So is the ultimate goal to hire developers through your platform or is it more like a portfolio for devs who can evaluate code to get ratings for themselves ? Or is this a freelance type of platform when you say "get paid".

I suggest you make it more clear in your copy.
We search both Amazon and Amazon prime, to give you the option of watching free or paying for a broader selection of films
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This is totally wrong. Previous Supreme Court decisions, especially Gonzales v. Raich, have set a pretty clear precedent that the Federal Government has the authority to criminalize drugs even when their use is legal in a particular state.
This fact is rarely mentioned. Thanks for bringing it up. This editing was not done by Chelsea; she submitted the information as-is. It was indeed WL / Assange who edited the video.
Yep, we're working on Netflix UK, Canada, etc.
Yes, last time I tested it (several months or a year ago), native look of widgets was great out of the box. One thing I wish - if they had exposed all the QML to C++... i.e. to be able to write only in C++, including UI declarations and callbacks.
First, that's the 10th amendment. Second, the Supreme Court tested the 10th Amendment vs the Commerce Clause (which grants the USFG the ability to govern interstate commerce) in Gonzales vs Raich (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich) and found that the Commerce Clause could cover marijuana sales and distribution (including medical, which was legal in California).
There's no such thing as a flying car
At least it's participatory theater. And they offer a massage if you don't want to do the hands-up dance, although it's usually pretty half-hearted.
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Stuff is always hacked by one person. If that person works for some sort of organization does not really alter the "hack".
I love the article, and thanks for the credit.
An article at blipsystems.com about a organization's great success with Blip Systems, posted by a user named bliptrack.
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There is some autoremediation in place, but the expectation for responsiveness is top down. Efforts to bring sanity to the situation go ignored. Its been made clear (not directly, but through process) that there are a line of people who could take the job if that level of responsiveness isn't delivered.
And separate proxy/user agent/other trackable stuff settings for every context.

My post was not only a joke. This has serious potential to make multi-account tracking a nightmare... as it should, but not everything about that is good.
I think the obvious implication here is that Obama would be using the climate of terrorism for unrelated political ends... That he would allow the fire to burn because he benefits from the heat, not at all that he has an ideological coherence with their movement.
> Does anyone die if you don't respond?

Not at all.
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Elm is essentially just Haskell with weaker type classes. If you can use Elm, I can't imagine why you'd have trouble using Haskell.
It's probably safe to say that every device you own or ever owned has a back door, intentional or not. The false sense of security people had about their machines was a myth, glad to see it finally die.
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Has been and still is, probably.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/12/opinion/mike-rowe-somebodys-go...

> Rowe: "The segments I was most interested in doing but found the most resistance around was that of a rendering facility. ... the Mob is still involved in a surprising number of rendering facilities. Why the Mob has such a rich history in garbage-related industries and rendering-related industries is a conversation beyond my pay grade.
Sure, they should've anticipated that someone with no HVAC experience was going to come along and make an inferior product that's in the cloud™ and has smartphone apps and whatnot.

What they didn't anticipate is that they'd actually be as hyped as they were. Luckily for them, Nest had many, many embarrassing failures with their products that Nest's brand has faded quite a bit. I don't think established players like Honeywell are in any real danger here, unless they, in turn, mess up with their now "IoT" products.