skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loved this line, never saw it before.

We are told by Suetonius that Julius Caesar communicated with the Orator Cicero in a cipher in which 'A' was sent as 'B', 'B' as 'C' and so on. If you apply this cipher to HAL - the computer in the Stanley Kubrick movie: 2001 - you get IBM.
Genuinely curious, do people really not consider these things? I've noticed it is continually easy to wow people with dollar numbers, but I don't know what their thought process is.
The book is a wild, wild ride. He regularly sold "investments" that would ostensibly benefit the Nazis, and never did a mark make moral objections to the investment. Another striking aspect is the value that con men put on their props: there were cottage industries at the time to produce formal-looking documents and fake telecommunications equipment. The Sting was surprisingly accurate, it turns out; there really were many cons of that sort.
> If somebody else wants to take over the concept, I can FedEx you a disk containing the archive (as an NNTP spool).

Lights candles to summon Jason Scott to ingest it into the Internet Archive
Check it out on GitHub: https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose-iot
Another really cool trick it plays is that it enables Secure Input, as it should, but then never disables it. So it breaks 3rd party tools that expand shortcuts, automate UI actions, etc. like TextExpander, which I use a lot.
Extended useragent parser for Node.js
As Ar-Curunir mentioned, you can use a technique called non-interactive zero knowledge proofs (NIZKs). Usually in ZKPs the prover will go through a part of the proof, send it to the verifier, the verifier will then send back a challenge, and the prover will reply with the final part of the proof based on the challenge. The basic flavor of NIZK I've seen is that instead of getting a challenge from the verifier, the prover simply does hash(prover id | first part of proof) and uses the result as the challenge. The `prover id` part is there such that they don't have complete control over the input to the hash. Doing it this way allows the prover to do the entire proof on their own and then send the whole thing to the verifier who can check the proof without any further interaction, saving network costs in exchange for a single hash.
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Yeah... I did that, and sfc /scannow, which was also recommended. All the necessary directories are fully indexed. If the Anniversary Update fixes it I'll be a happy camper.
The commenter above you is trying to make you aware that "triggered" is an internet SJW dog-whistle to attract attention to an event. His statement is forcing you to acknowledge the definition of the word "triggered" in its most literal sense.
At one job, our management asked us to write a status email to be sent in every Friday afternoon by COB. After about six months, the management decided that it couldn't be bothered to sift through 30 emails from engineers each Friday afternoon. Therefore, they requested that we put our weekly status into a single Word document stored on a Sharepoint site.

You can guess what happened next -- someone would check the document out of Sharepoint, locking it for everyone else. Then that person would inevitably get interrupted and go handle the latest crisis. Meanwhile everyone else was unable to enter their status into the shared Word document.

Eventually management gave up and returned to having us send emails.

Fortunately I don't work there anymore.
Upvotes, but no comments :(

If anyone comes back to this ever, still interested in knowing!
The comments here demonstrate one way in which larger companies are not as nimble as smaller companies. I feel like no one read the part where Hootsuite got a substantial amount of additional business from the client as a result of regularly scheduled meetings in a semi-informal context.

The gamble here is exactly what seems to be getting missed -- paying the opportunity cost of additional gains during negotiation, and in return receiving more face time with a current client, who might offer additional partnership chances later.

This isn't suggesting you trade your services for dinners, it's suggesting you gamble on yourself by embedding semi-informal regular meetings with your clients into your contracts. It doesn't have to be a steak dinner, your client doesn't have to be the one paying, what matters is the social bonding with current clients to expand your relationship with them.
Yup, same space as NetSuite. Dynamics gets into pretty much every SMB ERP evaluation in the market. (MSFT does have a massive partner network to serve that market.)
I really shouldn't ask leading questions, because they are technically equivalent to blaming statements.

What I meant was that "it does NOT matter" whether it's a UX bug or an intentional pattern. The effects can be the same. If a company doesn't have a lot of money to produce a good UX because they spent it all on trips up to Tahoe for a "workcation", and people rely on that software, it's the same damn thing no matter how you look at it.

i.e. a lack of intent is just as bad as ill intent, in some cases.
Does x.T.dot(y) work?
I know I didn't until it was pointed out to me that I should. It's one of those things where it's totally logical but also not something somebody who's never moved from city to city (like me, until that point) would realize.
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This is not an acceptable practice and it's surprising a deal desk or CFO would sign off on this.

Credit Card fee negotiation results in a benefit or cost to a company. Steak dinner is a benefit to an individual. "Relationship building" activities are important, but should be treated separately and unrelated to contract negotiations and deal terms.
With organizations like banks and such, usually all your logins stop working just as security shows up and escorts you out... that's how you find out you've been fired.

If he left his review thinking "they're going to fire me" then there was a miscommunication somewhere along the line.

There's a reason employers don't say "We're firing you at the end of the week... so uh... play nice until then, k?"
Brian Salcedo got 9 years.
Yeah these guys are the real deal. Saw them play live a few times around Austin. All-hardware setup, no laptops, just raw knowledge of old synths. Michael Stein (one of the composers) worked at Switched On for a long time as a repair technician.
> I was honestly pretty shocked that I had gotten an offer, and told the HR person that I would get back to them within a week after I discussed this with my family.

Upvote if your startup pretended that your offer would expire in 48 hours

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I can't recommend using G2A on any level. While there may be some reputable "grey market" sellers that take advantage of pricing in different regions etc, g2a seem to be far shadier [0]. (specifically the keys are being bought with stolen credit cards, and the original seller gets hit with chargebacks)

[0] - http://tinybuild.com/g2a-sold-450k-worth-of-our-game-keys
It would be great to see a home robot revolution finally take hold. We just need that "iPhone" moment with a must-have product and billions in consumer spending to fuel more R&D.
> I instantly want to post a link to Guantanamo as a counter argument.

That's not a counter argument, it's a fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes. It's also an argumentative tactic that means that no country can ever be criticized for what it's doing because the country of the person doing the criticizing will always be doing something worthy of criticism as well.

It's also intellectually and morally bankrupt to compare a country's treatment of more than 50% of its population (women + the foreign laborers that outnumber Emirati citizens) with a country's treatment of a few hundred people captured on foreign battlefields.
True, but your bias is showing.

There is also a difference between anaesthetizing someone to slice them open for an elective hip procedure vs having someone analyze your biomechanics and work to correct that through subtle lowerback/hip adjustments and strengthening supporting muscles through various exercises.

We could spend days going back and forth like this but it really boils down to you us having different ideas of what we're talking about when we say "chiropractics". I get the sense you've either never been to one, or else you went to a shitty one.
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Unfortunately https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics still has big red boxes for broadwell and skylake.
It's wasteful for companies to focus so much on implementing data structures for front-end coding jobs when they're packaged commodities nowadays.

If you're going to be building search engines or whatever, OK. And, time complexity questions should be asked. But chances are, the broad majority will end up doing line of business apps that require three data structures of which you will never write a better version than your stdlib: list, hash, set.

There's only one time in my 20 year career I've ever had to implement my own data structure (Directed Graph), and I basically copied it line by line out of a book and ended up replacing it with Neo4j.
California bans car hacker George Hotz from its roads. So, he heads to Nevada
Especially when management introduces several layers of bureaucracy in an attempt to prevent it in the future.
One very big difference between a military company town and the ones described in this article:

The military pays you in cash, which is useful anywhere US dollars are accepted.

Cash gives you freedom to exit the company town without losing all that stored value.
A google search returned this PDF as the actual court filing:

http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
Floppy disks have entirely disappeared from our daily lives except as an icon (and then largely only on Windows). A computer-savvy 18 year old that grew up on Macs could have entirely grown up without ever using a floppy disk and rarely if ever seeing the icon. I know adolescents that have never seen a floppy disk. Being unfamiliar with an obsolete media format doesn't make them stupid.

As for the rest of your comment, I'm not sure what you think I was trying to make sound difficult. I was arguing that it's entirely possible to replace the floppy disk with an arbitrary symbol, and it's just inertia (user training and a strange sacredness afforded this one random icon) that really keeps it around. I think assosciating a distinct symbol with an action is pretty damned easy, actually. (Designing a good symbol can be hard, though.)
Can we have some sort of "actually exists" flag for HN? I'm sick of clicking on stories about interesting sounding products, only to find I'm actually taken to some crowd-funding campaign page.

If you give me enough money up front, I'll probably find a way to start breeding unicorns that shit gold bars. But I'm not going to be penning "Unicorn Excretes Bullion" headlines just yet.
It was like reading a description of Amazon. Thousands of talented and intelligent employees with thousands of ideas that could make or save godless amounts of money, 99% of which were shot down after they bubble their way up through a leadership telephone game which eventually totally misrepresents the idea, and the remaining 1% of ideas get the resource strangle after some VP decides his pet project needs all the resources and allocates his budget accordingly.

Amazon is a place where intelligent ambition is rewarded with plenty of money, but never used for anything but implementing other people's ideas.
Another question:

Are you paid in cash, or in company scrip?
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> This kind of thing makes me wish I had done better in high school and could have studied at a school of Stanford's caliber.

Yes. Yes, indeed. Boy, my life could have taken a completely different course had I been able to make more decisions once my brain became more fully-developed.
6.0 was a canceled release.

7.x. is used by Cluster.

8.0 is the next number along, and makes it easy to follow as "it just drops the 5".
Couldn't be a more evil company to be sued.

Wish Thier would represent him and kick a hole in Getty!
I can show you several form-fillable PDF files which FF does not merely break, but absolutely destroys. Then again, I'm not interested in my Web browser invading my offline activity.
It's like any city, there are tons to do. When we talk about Detroit, we talk about the Detroit Greater Area, not just the city of Detroit. But all the cities around it.

There is an awesome tech scene here too, Detroit downtown is bubbling with a lot of startups, and we interact with the scene in Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor. Lots of tech meetups.

If nightlife is your thing, there are tons of places for that from Windsor, Ontario which is just across the river, to Royal Oak, Rochester, Birmingham, Dearborn.

If you're a foodie, there are tons of great restaurants out here, my favorite are the hole in the wall spots with great and cheap food. Tons of farmer's markets if buying fresh and preparing a meal is yours.

Lots of golf courses, Michigan ranks #6 by golf.com. If water is your thing, there are lot's of waters, boating is big. Michigan has always been the #1 country by boat registrations in the US until California just took over, we are still #2.

Big on sports, we have an NFL team, NBA team, NHL, MLB and of course college sports team, we have Univeristy of Michigan and Michigan state with great teams.

Proximity to other places is not too bad, 4 hrs drive to Toronto, 4hrs drive to Chicago, 3 hrs to Columbus or Cleveland.

Cost of living can be cheap, you can buy a $50,000 4 bedroom house or a million dollar 4 bedroom house. If you are wise and buy in the cheap areas, you can save a lot of money for your future.
No. People are stupid and ignorant.

Ebay doesn't show the lowest-price option by default; its default is "best match", whateverTF that is. You have to explicitly choose "lowest price + shipping". I'm in the habit of always doing this, and generally researching things to death when buying online to make sure I get the best deal, but I know I'm not a normal shopper. Most people just see something that looks good and click on it and buy it.
This is a great idea! I think it really attacks the (outwardly) worst part about advertising: deterring users. That being said, I wonder how this would effect the typical bidding-based models of major ad networks and how this would ultimately impact the ad revenue publishers take in.
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How does that actually work? I'm tempted to think it's down to one person who validates that two signatures are present.
I applied to amazon last month, they asked me to do interviewstreet coding for 2 hrs. After that Recruiter didn't even have the minimum courtesy to let me know what happened. He simply stopped all communications with me.

Reflects their attitude of treating ppl as mere 'resources' , I would work for amazon if I have no self-respect.
Netflix has blocked VPNs for at least a few months now. Unless she uses VPNs for other things, she won't be using one anyway.
I did notice. People lie about this stuff for their own ego boosting. Which is weird because, you know, its the internet and its anonymous. They're only lying to themselves really.
Thanks for posting this. This is the best perspective & concrete advice on DSU I've seen. I'm not a big fan of going through the motions, but understanding why we go through the motions changes my outlook.
There was a bubble....
> After about six months, the management decided that it couldn't be bothered to sift through 30 emails from engineers each Friday afternoon. Therefore, they requested that we put our weekly status into a single Word document stored on a Sharepoint site.

Would they have/did they bother to go through the Word document either? To me, it seems like a fun new way to test a Markov chain generator.
And then others aren't dark patterns. One of the first examples, British Airways, is pretty unfairly called out.

The article says that they imply "cheapest at the top". No, the flights aren't shown "cheapest at the top", and they never imply they are. They're sorted in chronological order.

There is a summary item that says the lowest fare for a booking class that day, but that's all.
The critical difference is factory workers can shut everything down by not showing up. IT needs active sabotage which is a very different situation.
> So if you make $60,000 in a small midwestern town, that's the same as making $120k in Seattle or the Bay Area.

Not true at all. I made almost that exact jump when moving from the Midwest to Seattle.

You're forgetting things like raises, bonuses, and 401(k) matching that are a % of your salary. Sign-on bonuses and stock benefits are common out here but rare in the Midwest.

Plus, even if your housing cost doubles, other expenses don't. Food costs, gas, vacations, and everything on Amazon is the same. I actually spend a lot less on transportation because I can take public transit instead of a car. We were able to sell one of our cars too.

Not to mention you can probably keep most of your salary if you decide to move back to the Midwest.
Thanks. Actually, I like DBSCAN a lot and use it often, though I am not much familiar with it's internals. It looks like it is iterative and thus does not fit very well to a GPU. The only way I see is to pick several seed points at start...
I see, that's unfortunate. TBH, I wasn't entirely sure what to make of the comments in the ASLR Phabricator ticket, and it looked like they gave up after failing to address the VM comments.

Do you know if there are there plans to implement the rest of the important mitigation techniques?
I had an IT internship where my manager handed me a master key to the building and root logins for quite a few boxes. I also had the admin credentials to every user computer in the building.

Literally the "keys to the kingdom".

Sometimes the default level of trust is just really high...
The standard package cannot be changed.
There's also MarkMail and Marc. But neither have the NNTP interface (and no idea on how the # of lists tracked compares).

Regardless, hope to see Gmane stick around.
Just reading the headline, but isn't the use of a VPN to access a blocked service a criminal CFAA abuse in the US? Aaron Swartz did basically just that and was threatened with decades in prison.
Does speed of communicate with entangled photons travel faster than speed of light?

For example if we have the device that encode/decode voice with entangled photons and put that on Moon, Mars, does that form of communication has any delay like normal electronic communication would?
It's a thing. I've only seen it once, at a pub in the countryside where there is no phone signal. I refused to sign in, but then several of my friends did.

This is a service provided by Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/business/facebook-wifi
People in the middle of a deal or with crucial know-how will be called to serve out their notice period for handover - which if the HR is switched-on is 1-3 months. Usually some extra severance money will be offered as a sweetener compared to running away immediately.

However, potential to do damage usually supersedes potential to benefit the business in the notice period. A company with sane HR has preventative policies in place:

- Never have single-person key-man risk in the first place; always have a backup/deputy designated well in advance because anyone can be hit by a bus. Helps with covering holidays too.

- For highly sensitive jobs like sysops or people dealing with customer money, revoke access to systems first thing in the morning, then tell them, then immediately escort them out.

- Don't have shared or master passwords anywhere, but have user-based ACL instead so access can be revoked.
It would be awesome to just import the Gmane archive into Matrix.org and/or IPFS and continue it as a decentralised archive. Which would also (in time) be harder to DDoS, and would be run by the participants rather than being a centralised service!
haha. when I worked at AWS we considered retail where people went to rest and vest.
I'm also living at such a busy street. It's a big difference compared to a house in a quiet street without any traffic.

Keeping the window open during night is a huge problem now. In my old home I did that always, now I have to fight against the heat in the rooms or the noise.

Also looking a movie with open windows is not much fun. The cars stop at the traffic lights, the engines start crying when the light turns green and I missed part of a dialog...

That beeing said, choose your home carefully. Especially when you lived before in a quiet neighborhood.
But it's different things to include religion, which is just stuff people believe, and actual souls. Religion is just a belief. Churches are just companies.

But I admit, in that sense any fantasy novel containing magic might be "religious" in some sense. The soul thing just seemed rather Christian to me.

I am an atheist and not that well versed in Christianity, though.
Since online applications haven't been working out for me, I'm going to start going in person, so I wrote the CV with that perspective in mind.

I don't know about CVs either, at all really. I know the limits of my knowledge and I don't want to oversell myself, I just wanted to clarify what I do and don't know. My experience is heavily linux-based so if someone is looking for a windows expert to debug their registers, that's not me. Sure I can poke around and apply critical thinking to the issue, go online and download a new dat file, reinstall the OS, virus scans or whatever, but I've never debugged a VB app. I don't even know what else is out there in the windowsverse past that point. If tinkering got me nowhere, it's not in the manual, and it's not online, I'll pass it on to someone else. As opposed to linux, OSX, BSD debugging which I can handle fine.

Thanks for pointing the firewall thing out, I fixed it.
> The critical difference is factory workers can shut everything down by not showing up. IT needs active sabotage which is a very different situation.

If you have achieved a genuinely 100% ops-free setup, sure. Otherwise, an IT walkout will shut things down just as surely as a factory walkout.
Can you paste an example specification for a small program?

I use a whiteboard (or paper), as do many others, to diagram things out, as a means to put a program's abstract form into my brain. That whiteboard doesn't contain the entire program.
$120k in Seattle is not equivalent to $120k in the Bay Area...
Anyone could become a target anytime. An attacker would just have to attack one person at a time.
Oh God, there's a special place in hell for stamps.com.

I did not read the fine print, but made the mistake of thinking that it was a partnership with USPS and did not incur extra fees (like a crazy $13 monthly fee, even if you're not using the service).

By the time I discovered that, I also discovered that you can sign up on line, but you have to cancel by phone (or "being on hold", I discovered it).

Seriously. Never stamps.com.
Thank you, you've been able to accurately describe my problem with all the true Netflix originals ("true" in that they haven't been bought from other countries or licensed). Except for OITNB, I kinda love that show and it doesn't seem entirely created and written to pander to a demo.

I'd love to see a day when Netflix premiers a show on the level of Better Call Saul or The Wire.
Thanks - I've read and liked Earthsea, but it might be time for another one.
I was actually quite surprised the questions were relatively basic (and web-dev focused) for a position with the AWS team.
Is coining a new portmanteau in order?

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