skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just as in my example of a surgical intervention after a traffic accident, this is no guarantee of 100% success

No, with torture there is no scenario, given everything I've seen on the issue including from experts in interrogation, in which you can conclude that torture is more likely than other techniques which you will have the capacity to perform if you have the capacity (e.g., control of the target, access to trained interrogators) to perform torture.

Its not that torture lacks a guarantee of success, it is that there is no way to identify (and, thus, limit) torture to any set of circumstances where torture is even most likely to be the most effective approach.

And, therefore, any policy which ever chooses torture will be suboptimally effective in preventing the harms it seeks to prevent.

That's the problem with torture, even within the framework of a relatively myopic utilitarianism.

And torture gets worse from the perspective of a more holistic utilitarianism, once you consider the effects of actually performing torture on the broader society and, including on those who actually perform it.
> building a response that relies entirely on ill-tested, seasonally variable, and enormously inefficient power generation methods to supply life-critical baseload power.

Many nuclear advocates seem to share this misconception. Fighting climate change is not about simply switching all power generation to one and only one alternative source. It's not about whether we are going to rely 100% on nuclear or 100% on solar, and it's not even only about generation.

A large part of the efforts are focused on things like increased efficiency. Alternative energy also plays a role (including nuclear, though it plays a relatively small role). These efforts will help cut emissions until we get below 450 (or 350), not entirely eliminate emissions. We don't need solar (for example) to provide electricity 24/7 - we need it to help decrease the emissions. If we have enough elements that decrease the emissions some amount, we'll eventually get below 450 (or 350).

There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding by some about what the fight against climate change actually entails. It is not about picking the one and only energy source for the future.

> The deficit we face is merely one of will

This ignores the economic and construction issues that nuclear plants have.
> Secondly, I sincerely doubt we'd make an offer to a candidate that assumes their skills are all at the top of the range. "Fives" are extraordinarily rare, most employees have no fives, and the ones that do have one five.

I don't understand the rationality behind this. Why have (nearly) impossible to reach ratings? I mean, by this logic, the most talented people will only ever be a 4, yes? So make 4 the limit. You just came off of saying you'd never make an offer to an 80K candidate who thinks they're worth 100K[0]. Yet, you're telling your very best that they'll never be _the_ very best because basically nobody is a "five".

[0] It's what you were basically responding to.

Edit: for clarification.
It's most of the times admiration and not romance, and is most of the times a comedy element and not part of the main plot. That's very different from what OP stated.
Is sideloading of apps unrevocable?
How do you define a dumb phone?
I was hoping Xiaomi would also launch a version with Ubuntu as the default OS. An i5, 8GB DDR4 Ram, 256GB SSD, backlit keyboard and 10 hours battery backup at $750 sounds like a sweet deal.

I know Ubuntu can still be installed on the Windows version, but I expect it to be a hacky path with installation issues, getting the hardware to play nice and the backlit keyboard to work, and finally maybe even battery life issues.

An out of the box solution like the XPS 13 at a lower price point might work.
Okay sure. They can figure out how the attacker got access and fix that, AND harden SSH. They should also audit their logs, install updates, use a linter on their JavaScript, use version control, use a library to sanitize SQL inputs, force HTTPS, do code reviews, and 100 other good development practices that have nothing to do with the problem at hand. I'm glad we agree on that.

Given that the OP doesn't know how to address their immediate problem, however, posting a bunch of random good practices is probably not very helpful.

I contributed something constructive: I recommended figuring out what the vulnerability is and fixing that over fixing random things and hoping you fix the problem by chance.

> I never once suggested this would fix their problems. In fact my language was very clear that my advice would harden against SSH attacks, specifically. However they have asked for next steps and while other people have rightfully focused on the forensics side of the investigation, I have complimented their advice with tips on hardening SSH. One recommendation doesn't have to override another :)

You said, "I was one of the people offering advice on hardening SSH. I mentioned firewalling sshd to a subset of trusted IPs - which would still secure you against the above attack."

If you want to claim you didn't say anything wrong and you were intending to suggest your solution in addition to the solution that actually solves the problem, that's your prerogative, but people can read the post history which shows that isn't true, so it would be more dignified to just admit you made a mistake. Nobody cares that you made a mistake--I'm not attacking you for that. I'm just trying to put up the correct information, since you didn't. It's not about you, so there's not much reason to take it personally, and you're not making yourself look good by claiming you didn't make mistakes that everyone can read.
> It wasn't the event that made him look bad, it was his actions.

It was what somebody else claimed his actions were.
I think the problem is far worse for high end Android manufactures. Apple at least has a unique ecosystem that serves as a point of differentiation. What does Samsung have to differentiate itself? A logo?

Apple is a luxury brand and people are willing to pay for luxury goods. If you amortize the additional cost of an iPhone over a year or two it's really not that expensive from a luxury/status good standpoint. Less expensive than visiting Starbucks 5 days a week.

People need to be able to justify that cost though and with Apple they can because it is a substantively different product and integrates well into the entire Apple product line. What can premium brand Android purchasers say?
I would seriously recommend the Dell Xps 13. It is the size of a 12 inch laptop because of zero bezels. Comes with easily replaceable nvme ssd (soldered 16 GB RAM though) and the integrated Intel 540 graphics helps me play Dota, Bioshock,etc easily...

Superb Linux compatibility...and can be charged using the Dell companion battery pack !!

And if I might add - excellent swag appeal.
Whoever sent it has ego issues (common among hackers). Play on that. Act impressed with their skills, and concerned with how you may have exposed the company to attack, and ask for their advice. Email them as the sysadmin, not the CEO.
Well, at 52-48, it's clearly more the will of the people to leave. Not massively so, but a bit more than to remain.

Now, what do you do with that? Britain could have required some level of majority before making that change (60-40? 67-33? 75-25?), but they didn't. On the other hand, they could have made it a binding referendum, and if I understand correctly, they didn't do that, either.

But one of the big reasons people wanted to leave "the unpopular and undemocratic European Union" (as wjnc said), was that when people voted "the wrong way" (as determined by Brussels), that vote got ignored. If this vote gets ignored/sidelined/not implemented somehow, for the 52%, that's going to be pouring gasoline on a fire.
It wasn't just that they didn't give him feedback -- it was the overt snarkiness of the interviewers' closing remarks that seems very telling about the Bridgewater culture.
I had thought that having superior IT infrastructure was one of the things that propelled Wal-Mart to success when it was not yet a giant.

I suppose, open-sourcing their stuff back then would have benefited the competition more than Wal-Mart. It might still do that today -- but now that it is a giant, they expect the resulting loss in market share to be tiny.
Note that Liston was a very celebrated surgeon -- he was a professor of surgery and developed several important procedures and tools, some of which are still in use today. Things were a lot more speedy and dangerous before the invention of disinfectants and general anesthesia!
> I don't want longer tweets. That's what URL's are for.

This right here.

Medium, PostHaven, Wordpress, blog services, etc. All of those products exist for an extended thought. I always believed that where Twitter excels is in micro-sharing/blogging.

I am not willing to read, let alone comment on a 500+ word Facebook status post. But I'm certainly willing to enjoy/participate in a discourse over a 160 character thought.

If I am in the 500+ word reading mood, I goto Medium or PostHaven or the equivalent blog-platform. Where there's a forum, there's an audience. And Twitter's quick digestible tweets cultivates an insane amount of diverse discourse.

Sure, there's harassment. Sure there's spam. But there's a lot of gems on Twitter.
Plumbing is super easy and very hard to mess up. There's no reason to be messing around with copper any more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linked_polyethylene
I noticed IR services are not listed on your website.

I hate to be this guy, but you don't want to offer IR/forensic services if you don't have experience doing exactly that.

Your client can sue you if you get it wrong. (http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/01/security-firm-sued-f...)
I'd love to see the progression of costs over the years... Would be useful for extrapolation. Where'd you get the more current figure?
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Then he is free to sue the accusers for libel.
Linux has its headaches, but

> The only reason yum, apt, pacman, etc exist independently of each other is because the maintainers of each package manager are too stubborn and prideful to see the value in combining their efforts.

To me this seems a bit like complaining that Chrome, Safari, IE, and Firefox have different keyboard shortcuts, and saying it'd be better if everyone just joined forces and worked on one browser. There is a huge amount of value in diversity and competition. If that means I occasionally have to google "pacman apache package," so be it.
"Milo" appears nine times in the article. The discussion about him is a large part of the content.
Climate models are accurately predicting ocean and global warming
Tim Sweeney claims that Microsoft will remove Win32, destroy Steam
Probably, just not secured to prevent people from entering. The complaint is likely that the property is a nuisance and/or hazard due to failure to properly secure the building/property (it doesn't help that the building/container wasn't permitted).

If you own abandoned property you are usually required to board up windows/doors or otherwise prevent people from entering as well as place no trespassing signs on the property.

For permitted active residential construction you can usually get by with construction fencing and no trespassing signs.

It doesn't seem like he is actively developing or living in the property; more or less just using it as a occasional getaway.
Doesn't the Bolt use a fairly standard charging cable? I see those connectors in parking garages and grocery store parking lots.
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Actually, what I find Twitter best for is directly talking to CEOs, lead developers, lead marketers, or other people in high positions. They usually reply.

For instance, I asked John Carmack if he'd ever consider doing anything on the Atari Jaguar again (he ported Wolf3d and Doom to that platform back in 1993) and he replied saying that he'd more likely do Apple ][ stuff if he went retro.

How many times in a person's life do they directly talk to John Carmack? It's amazing that you can just type a few things in and someone that powerful replies to a relative nobody.
The author was actually born in Slovakia but it seems like he got infected with white guilt when he came to the US.
I don't think it is fair to say "we almost never ask for feedback". Every dev I know asks for feedback during the interview process. They rarely get it because of strict company policies on not giving out feedback. Simply asking does not make a company give feedback. I've found feedback can be gotten from even the strictest companies though but it has to be "hacked", for example, by asking somewhat indirect but still very feedback-related questions to your interviewer at the end of your sessions when you get 5 minutes, etc.
A word of warning, docker-compose isn't meant for production. I'm not sure if that's what you're suggesting, but just in case.
I agree that the person you're replying to is being cavalier, but Twitter does have tools to mass-ignore accounts you don't care about. You can change notifications to only be from people you follow. There's also a "Tailored for you" option for each notification type. I'm not sure if it's the default, but that seems to be the setting on my phone. It basically makes egg accounts invisible.

It's rare that I get involved in drama on Twitter, but thanks to notification settings, I've found it pretty easy to filter out the negative people.
The blog post said nearly nothing about what the investigation determined about Jacob's behavior. The focus is on mechanisms that Tor is putting in place to ensure that future allegations are taken seriously and investigated fairly.
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The majority might be bots. Surely for financial reasons the most tenuous definition of "active" will be applied.

Still, its like the old saying about email, I don't care if 99% of email is spam, as long as I get my electric bill email on time, I'm all good.

Twitter might become like TV, where everyone knows everyone watches, but it turns out statistics prove almost no one actually watches.

Its like the endless debates about religion where its a ritual to say X where X is "I believe in Y" and people endlessly argue about the difference between doing something and being something, as if they have to be linked.
...and I know people who aren't working to burnout levels who are doing just fine, so YMMV. Typically these people make deliberate lifestyle choices (avoiding car ownership, renting near work instead of owning far away from work, using the time they don't spend commuting to cook more, etc.) combined with reasonable financial choices.

They also tend to have less traditional employment (e.g. consulting / freelancing instead of W-2), giving them more "time flexibility" (which is different from more time, and somewhat orthogonal), "space flexibility" (e.g. don't need to commute, can blend travel and work as desired), and "situation flexibility" (e.g. freedom to switch clients / employers, or to turn down high-paying high-stress work in favor of lower-paying lower-stress work).

Finally, most people in this category are also much better at saying no, communicating clear expectations around deadlines, identifying the right problems to solve, and negotiating raises than most people.

It sounds like you want it both ways: you want to reduce your workload without giving anything up or learning the skills that make that possible. You're right - it doesn't work that way, and you have to decide what you want more. Personally, I'd take the added time in a pinch.
We have word-phrases for what you're talking about. More nuanced than your proposed catch-all of 'violent communication.'

As someone who's been on the receiving end of a large portion of 'violent communication', it's much easier, and significantly more validating to say 'emotional abuse' or 'hate speech'.

I don't understand what about asking violence to retain its definition is unrealistic. It's an important word with important implications.

(I did read the links -- that's how I pulled an example out of them. You really are a fan of rhetorical pot shots!)
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In my experience HR in big organizations doesn't always tell interviewers if a candidate is an applicant or being recruited. Always fun when you ask a question that reveals a lack of communication like that.
I read/skimmed the whole article, and still don't understand why this is better than Dropbox. Also, aside from mentioning Middle Out compression, this was indistinguishable from Pied Piper… :-p
Yeah, it's interesting. They can't prevent it, but if you do it, you can guarantee you'll be fired. They'll just eliminate your position for some other reason.
I am a burnt out and long-term unemployed engineer who has had no luck on the job market.

I've taken to writing a lot of poetry lately as a way to process my feelings and it has been very helpful.

I actually recently read the book How Music Works by David Byrne and I enjoyed reading his account of one of his creative processes. He said that he often begins by coming up with a vocalization, grunts or hums or breaths, that fits into a certain rhythmic pattern, even though it has no linguistic meaning at that point.

He'll work to sharpen it, refine it, all without even trying to add words. Then, after getting that basic guttural rhythm down, he will begin to search for words that fit into it.

This kind of syllabic constraint also reminded me of Oulipo, of which I've been a long-time admirer.

Anyway, I started doing the same thing, and what I've been amazed with is the way the syllabic constraints cause you to sculpt and shape words and sentences that you sort of didn't even consciously realize were inside yourself.

Just a quick example, I came up with the idea to have stanzas with a syllable structure (for each line) of 3, 3, 4, 4, 3, 3, 8. I was actually sitting in my computer chair moving my shoulders to the 3-3-4-4 part and even drew a sort of bastardized Morse code thing on a post-it note to make sure I didn't forget it. I also felt like I wanted a longer line at the end of the stanza, because I couldn't see how continuing the 3-3-4-4 pattern could reach anything that verbally felt "conclusive" -- if that makes any sense (it probably doesn't).

At any rate, here [0] is the poem I came up with out of that experiment (warning: I'm not a poet, and this is totally amateur, but it was still enjoyable to write):

-----

In my hand

made of sand

electric pulse,

wavefront growing.

Integrate

mass and weight

and the broken fragments of slate.

Now tell me why do I ache for

that which I don't know?

Now tell me why do I ache for

that which I don't know?

In my mind

fruit and rind

fall away from

trees on fire.

Multiply

time by land

by the darkened lines of my hand.

Now tell me why do I ache for

one who I don't know?

Now tell me why do I ache for

one who I don't know?

But do I really ache for

one who I don't know?

But do I really ache for

one who I don't know?

What do I really ache for

can my kind ever know?

Is it the chance to know her

or the chance to know me?

-----
[0] < http://suitdummy.blogspot.com/2016/07/ache4.html >

Many of the phrases from the poem were not ideas that I rationally or consciously accessed. The two stanzas are about the way that I feel this sort of electric reverberation of loss over some relationship experiences, and that it sometimes feels like a devastated landscape inside of myself. But I think if I had sat down to write that directly, instead of letting it just kind of fall into the framework of the syllable constraints, I would have sounded more like the emo kids from South Park (err, maybe I do anyway).
The tires noise probably has to do with the road and tire quality. I remember walking on a quiet street in the suburbs and being very surprised by a seeing a Prius driving past me as I didnt hear it coming at all.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12171026
I also very very very strongly do not want any hosted service requirement for using 1password. I am very proud user of 1P but a hosted requirement would kill it for me. No matter how much you (the generic 'you') tell me you're super secure, nothing will be as secure as owning my own data and using local Wi-Fi sync to put it on my phone.
>but worldwide trend is clear.

And you're following that trend off a cognitive cliffe.

Apple's market share is in high end devices. Sales for both Apple and every permium Android handset maker have stalled. So the market for premium phones is static and Apple isn't losing any market share in that space. All that's happened is that high end phones have reached saturation point so now it's about market share preservation instead of growth - at the high end.

The only reason the overall market is tilted so highly towards Android is because the ultra low end market is exploding and that's all Android (actually, all AOSP). But that poses no threat to Apple whatsoever. It's completely irrelevant to them. If anything, the growing significance of AOSP is more of a threat to Google and their full-feature licensed Android.
Link is down:

> Couldn't find blog.stackoverflow.com

> The Q&A site blog.stackoverflow.com doesn't seem to exist…yet.
That's the exact problem. They are not objectively better. If they would be, they would not grant Microsoft more control and no one would complain.
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Yup. Notorious progressives Bush and Cheney gave us "free speech zones":

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/free-speech-...
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So she arguably had all this going on and still couldn't save Yahoo.
This must speak of the dire nature Yahoo was in or her incompetence(both maybe?). Though it doesn't seem like her performance was stellar.

Could it have been the entire team(very good) she worked with at Google that made her seem like such a superstar?
That's not true under Napoleonic code.