skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Don't publish your number beside the 5 people (bank, accountant etc...) you are willing to receive call from.

Unfortunately this doesn't work. If the number itself has ever been used before (it has), it's already on a bunch of lists. Many banks and credit card providers will also share it with marketers.
> Considering only the answers with the high-confidence R3 rating, we found that the probability of providing the correct response was significantly elevated compared with all responses (0.60±0.03, P=0.0010),

For "high-confidence", that's a massive false-positive rate.
From 2006:

Responding to questions from New York Times correspondent John Markoff at a Churchill Club breakfast gathering Thursday morning, Colligan laughed off the idea that any company — including the wildly popular Apple Computer — could easily win customers in the finicky smart-phone sector.

“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he said. “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”
Yeah, short-term crunch can sometimes make sense, as long as it's actually short-term and doesn't repeat on a monthly basis.
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I think they're trying to say that stereotypically female industries are more on board with part-time positions, which is an interesting suggestion. I know I had a couple of years in elementary school where the teachers were job-sharing, but I don't know if it is actually common.
Sigh.

It's useful to have a "web" button, but only if the actual WSJ title isn't mangled beyond all recognition in the submission. I was unable to find the non-paywalled article without changing my search.

This worked for me in Google, based on the partial URL: fraud investigation ricochets through hedge fund

The actual title is: Fraud Probe Ricochets Through Platinum Partners, a Hedge Fund With Ties to Jewish Community
ESO Fund?
> I have no idea what the process would be, but a real step forward would be to for the Federal government to work to end the QIIP, though I recognize this would probably open a can of worms and raise a bunch of new issues with Quebec.

According to Ian Young the Feds can end the QIIP[1]:

Although Quebec is in charge of choosing its immigrants, Federal authorities actually issue their certificates of permanent residency, and decide the speed at which to do so.
According to Vancouver immigration lawyer Richard Kurland, there is no doubt that “the feds have the legal right, pure and simple, to cancel the program”. “This is not about a constitutional or legal barrier. There is neither,” he said.

1 - http://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/...
I had the new phone Google Authenticator lost data problem too. I use Authy now. It is attached to your email and phone number so you can login when you get a new phone
Like software was about to eat communication in 2006, software is about to eat transportation now.
This. Is Apple going to start making a world class ICE from scratch? No. Could they eventually? Yes of course. But why would they want to?

A car without an ICE is a reduced complexity space to engineer a vehicle in. I'll bet they can figure out how to iterate from an electric mule to a safe vehicle just fucking fine. People unfamiliar with the auto industry may also be surprised to learn just how many parts on a Model S tesla doesn't make.

But an ICE? Fuck I wouldn't want to start that war with zero patents.
It's a feature, which Blizzard has invested a significant amount of time and money into, and has definitely contributed to the game's success. It allows players to modify the game's interface, not just arbitrary game code. Think of it as crowd-sourcing UI improvements from the community. Blizzard is known to take great UI mods and implement them into the game directly.

For example, on release I created a mod that let you examine a player's equipped items from any distance. By default, the inspection window would close when a function returned true. This function checked to see if the distance to your target was greater than 5 meters. An easy way to change that behavior was to rebind the function to one that always returned false. It's a natural thing to do in Lua, I think.
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Cell magics just seem like one possible method of choosing which language to use, a menu such as what beaker uses seems alright too.
I was setting up cling (the C++ kernel) today and I gave up at realising that the interpreter is spun up in a subprocess, rather than a kernel persisted across cells. Without cross cell support, mixing languages is a limited feature of jupyter.
In my above post, I mentioned an idea where they work for an hour on those 1-2 days, focusing on communication/team stuff.
Here's a story about a friend whose phone number was hacked in a banking Trojan attack: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/24949768311/i-kno...

In this case it was a land line, but it's still a relevant empirical data point for those weighing options.
Your assessment, whether correct or not (I've no idea), has an oddly familiar ring:

> “We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.” -- November 16, 2006, Palm CEO, Ed Colligan

> “Apple is slated to come out with a new phone… And it will largely fail…. Sales for the phone will skyrocket initially. However, things will calm down, and the Apple phone will take its place on the shelves with the random video cameras, cell phones, wireless routers and other would-be hits… When the iPod emerged in late 2001, it solved some major problems with MP3 players. Unfortunately for Apple, problems like that don’t exist in the handset business. Cell phones aren’t clunky, inadequate devices. Instead, they are pretty good. Really good.” -- December 07, 2006, CNET, Michael Kanellos

http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/06/29/iphone-turns-5-here-ar...
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Reporting is a clear example of a case where it is acceptable to users to make decisions based on out of date data, and businesses function perfectly well on these "incorrect" decisions.

How important having up-to-date data is depends very much on the type of decision being made, and the expected impact of not being consistent.

Consistency should be carefully considered from the business perspective before deciding what level of consistency is best, and these choices should be communicated to business so they can take them into account when making decisions.
Probably true. However, those calls usually last couple of minutes tops and I'm always in a good mood afterwards. To me it's more of a IRL equivalent of watching cat gifs to reset your brain every now and then ;)

I don't mind them getting paid as long as I can have a good time at their expense. And hey, maybe me laughing at them will cause them to reconsider their chosen profession (but not holding my breath).

EDIT: typo.
The problem with 2FA is that quite often it will turn into (a weaker) 1FA when users gets a possibility to restore their primary password by the SMS.
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This is true. How many ideas were created out of frustration? (Dropbox, Airbnb, etc)
> I would not ever permit a new programmer near production code on day 1, let alone fix a bug.

You wouldn't let them check out and run the code? The business processes etc all have to be learned of course, but the code is where most of the time should be spent.

> The first bug I ever fixed resulted in costs for the company. My mentor had left the company within a week of me starting and I waded into the code with good intentions, but put us out of compliance with regulations.

I would consider that a failure of the company, too many responsibilities are pushed down to the developer. If there are strict compliance regulations then there should have been some sort of QA process and/or a domain expert validating the results.
I don't think eliminating SMS authentication is a good idea. While it is vulnerable to social engineering attack (and sniffing if you are near the receiving phone), SMS authentication has proven to be invaluable for most ordinary users. Those users are everything but eager to use anything more secure then their 6 letter password.
With tricking many users into using SMS authentication, companies like Google have improved the overall security of most account by a lot.
While it is possible to remove an SMS authentication mechanism, it is a lot harder and probably not worth for most accounts.

Most people will not bother to install Google authentication and just not use 2FA (who wants to steal their account anyways /s). Even if they did install it, recovering their authentication codes if they have lost their phone is incredible hard (because too many won't use backups – even if it is as simple as apples iCloud backup).

What I think companyies should do is give their users a choice not to use SMS authentication. Power users (and hopefully most high profile users) will make use of that and normal user can just use SMS.

In the end it is always a trade off between convenience and security and sadly convenience almost always wins for most users even for easy solutions. So we (the developers) should provide them with the most convenient way they accept which offers the maximum security and SMS does just that.
> insanely read heavy

Then LMDB is the engine for you
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Oh, I see now. Yeah, you're right. From our outside frames of references we'll never see anything cross the event horizon, instead matter approaches the event horizon asymptotically slowly. In our exterior frame of reference/coordinate system you'll not see one form and because they'll never form from the outside we'll never see a black hole because there aren't any.

So as far as that goes you're right. What this doesn't mean is that black holes don't exist in any reference frame. The simple test is to jump into the black hole. Time dilation won't affect you, you're in a free fall after all, following your geodesic. You'll pass a well defined event horizon and pass into what is undeniably a black hole.
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It would make benefits a more constant cost per 1k paid to employee, making the cost per hour of a 30 Hr/wk employee closer to that of a 40 Hr/wk employee.

Come to think of it, that's probably why I have so many colleagues on 20-32 Hr/wk contracts... Mostly, mothers of young children. But they're doing the same sort of technical work others on full time contracts are.

Yay, Germany!
It's true until the composition and data flow are hidden from view because they're implicit in the shared mutable state. Also aliasing issues don't occur with the composition as they may occur in mutable state.
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Wow. I just learned that there are worse places in regards to telco rip offs then Germany. OK; I had expected that, but having both parties paying for the same phone call is some kind of twisted evil genius's plan - isn't it?
Thank you for saying this. I don't think anybody else noticed. In fact, people in the J community occasionally get confused about this as well.

Most people shit their pants when confronted with something like FP (Backus language demonstrating these ideas): I know I did when I first encountered J. Much more confusing than ML or Lisp. Still not sure it's the right thing, but for parallel problems it probably is. Kids don't seem to have a problem with it though, so it's probably just old habits.

Wiki page for anyone who reads this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function-level_programming
At least someone else in the comments has heard of "tainted" data. How in the world incoming chat text from other players is ever allowed to wind up in an executable/scriptable context is baffling.
Oh wow, awesome!
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Any 2-factor auth is better than none.
I just saw that people seem to be downvoting your comment, and I can't for the life of me figure out why. :( It seems pretty spot on to me: the multipolarity of coercion (and the ability to set the coercive elements against each other) is the key difference between totalitarian and non-totalitarian systems!
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I think people grew taller generally after the 60s ?
Richer nutrition globally certainly, lots of meat (also leading to earlier puberty I seem to remember) ?
A lot of companies do, informally. At many tech companies programmers set their own hours, and high performers who have a lot of career capital sometimes use it to work fewer hours.

Personally as a manager I often work fairly different hours from my team, and try to avoid knowing when/how many hours they're working, since I consider it irrelevant.
Company has a constant overhead per programmer, so you will see a larger than 25% cut and most people are not ok with that. The solution is either freelancing or taking extended unpaid vacations when switching jobs.
But we don't "see" imdividual photons. The cell reacts to a chemical reaction/ absorbtion in the photopigment, thus dependent of the energy of the photon, which is directly related to the frequency of the wave duality of that photon.
Weirdly though huge IU doses of vitamin D are only by prescription there.
Surveillance technologies have went a long way since WWII. Now, when everybody caries a bugged device in their pocket and cameras are ubique, it's no brainer. Of course, I do not advocate losing our freedom in the name of security, but mass surveillance is only a political matter, we already have technology means to achieve it.
This looks interesting, but without support for Mercurial it's not a viable option for me.
Govt should limit end-to-end encryption AFTER open sourcing all their software;
This completely misses the point. Incoming chat messages from other players should simply be incapable of reaching a context in which it is interpreted as script. Inbound text chat should be treated as such - text. If the player types in commands that directly have an effect, that is their problem. If a single command provides remote code execution of anything another player types in their chat... that is simply ridiculous.
>We could literally see quantum mechanical behavior with our own eyes!

That occurred to me as well as I read that article. It certainly raises some interesting questions about potential observations and wavefunction collapse.
Happiness? Quite simple. Practice altruism.
> Can you please elaborate as to what causes that hidden power structure (i.e. what goes wrong)?

I think it is human nature to certain extent. Take any number of people, put them in a room give them a task. After a while you'd observe some will start to tell others what to do and so on. Sometimes it is those with experience, sometimes it is just those who are loudest. By default the groups won't necessarily settle into a democratic, egalitarian sort of state.

I imagine flat probably works for smaller groups. A few owners + a team of 5. Everyone works directly for the owners, they settle into a set of roles and so on. Everyone sees and communicates with each other often (ideally). There is no need to call employee #2 assistant general manager or employee #4 programmer V and make him report to #2 and so on.

But as the company grows, it stops being flat really. Owners start listening to employees they play golf with. Older employees want to feel special so they'd tell new employees what to do and act as managers. Potential candidates will detect this type of environment and if they are good at manipulation and social engineering will gravitate and want to work in such a place, because they'll know they'll thrive in there (so it attracts certain personalities perhaps as well).

On a more practical level. This system is also used as an advertising tool "oh look we are flat, we don't have titles, we are better than BigCorp". That has worked rather well at recruiting from what I've seen.

It also works in another ways -- such as to supress wages. Because everything is flat, it is easy to justify not giving raises.

That might sound overly negative but I just listed all the bad things I could think of. There were many good things too. I think it can work, but it requires a significant effort on both owners and everyone to keep everything in check, to have more communication, more transparency, and so on. It is a harder balancing act so to speak. That is why in most cases I can see this failing after a while.
I've been using bootstrap 4 in a current project and it is actually pretty good.

Cards are way cooler than panels but don't go overboard as some bootstrap-cards themes have done where everything is a card.
A lovely thought, but how do we know they didn't just sense some vibration caused by an electrical surge in the machine firing the photon.
checked out your site - nice. pinging you on linked in.
interesting, I was just chatting with a coworker today about lua and corona sdk ..serendipity?
Regarding potential terrorism death in Europe, two to four decades ago was a very dangerous time here.

Be it Ireland, Spain or Germany - the 70s, 80s and 90s had a way higher death toll from terror in any given year.

We had the RAF in Germany, ETA in Spain, IRA in Ireland/Britain and so on. Not to talk about Securitate in Romania and so on.

So statistically speaking we non the less have to fear less then our parents had to fear.

I am not saying, that we should just ignore it. No - on the contrary - but first we shouldn't give in to the media crazed panic and throw our freedoms in front of this Angst-Train.

We should identify the problems, look for valid solutions and then fight the causes, not the symptoms. In my eyes having our nations (living in Germany) export war and terror into the world, then take in the refugees without helping them cope with what they went through is a recipe for disaster.

We should take in refugees, as this is just basic humanity calling, but we also have the obligation to help these people with more then "just" shelter.

We also have the obligation to elect leaders wo are not trying every day to set the world on fire. Maybe in the long run this would help a "little bit" as well.

And yes - one might call me a naive idealist.
Hint: don't just scan the QR codes on one device, switch to the "type in the TFA secret" mode, and store that in your password safe (this makes it easier to add the key to all your devices too - I have thew Google Auth app in two phones and an iPad. I'd advise against doing that without at least considering something better than a 4 digit pin unlock for your devices).
As a tall Dutch man who has been dragged into this conversation a lot, it is interesting to note that only 150 years ago, the Dutch were the shortest nationality in Europe. To me this means that nutrition has a massive effect on growth. In fact, regular food in Dutch supermarkets is supposedly the most cost-effective fresh food on the planet, ie quality/freshness vs price. I wouldnt be surprised if the growth in relative length of the Dutch correlated with the increased centralization of commerce through the port of Rotterdam (and thus provide access to lots of fresh produce quickly, compared to countries "down the rivers".
Very good attitude. I tend to do the same.

Important is what they do, not when or where.
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Whilst being helpful is one thing, if you can't afford to give people a proper amount of time to bed in (3 months doesn't seem unreasonable), then you might hurt your chances of retention going forwards as well - depending on the size of the org of course, but there's plenty of places where to really understand the business needs to make informed decisions, it takes a long time. If you fail that step, then staying for any reasonable amount of time becomes untenable.
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Remember this is the same NIST that backdoored the EC coefficients [ http://safecurves.cr.yp.to/rigid.html ]. And before that devised the "explanation" of how WTC7 collapsed. [ http://www1.ae911truth.org/en/news-section/41-articles/927-n... ].

NIST is a political organisation more than a scientific one.

Here come the down votes.
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Tesla's market cap is $33 billion. Apple has $200 billion in cash. Why don't they just buy Tesla? They'll spend more than that trying to recreate all the work Teslas already done. I feel like this would help make the future happen faster.
The statement about detecting a single photon by an eye is new (and possibly contradictory), but detection of a very few number of photons by human eye is not a new thing. Cherenkov radiation[1] was discovered by observing a very small number of photons (actually only a few of them) in short time interval by eyes.

The experiments were conducted this way because there were no sensitive enough photodetectors in 1930s, so the eyes were the most sensitive available tool for this kind of experiments. Eyes of a physicist were prepared to the experiments by being in complete darkness for a few hours before the measurements. Description of the experimental procedure can be found here[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation

[2] http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3367/UFNe.0179.200911c....
You just need to spend it on education.
This is the correct answer, and I'm speaking as someone who got a large raise last week as I was forcibly switched from part time to full time. I'm working in a generally low-profit area and the numbers stopped working.
I started it because I'd repeatedly burned out of full-time jobs. Working 3 days/week was a great 4.5 years for me, far more rewarding than the added salary I passed on could have been. Aside from lower work anxiety, I had time to write two books, give three conference talks, get engaged, get married, take up several hobbies, and enjoy life thoroughly. My work has been overwhelmingly better: I stay out of rabbit holes, I recognize deep patterns, I prioritize ruthlessly, I deliver the things my users didn't realize they need. It's not magic, it's just downtime for my unconscious to noodle around with problems without pressure.
I think working part time is a hugely valuable experience for anyone who doesn't have a pressing need for dollars in the door (eg to pay off US medical bills or student loans). There are plenty of blogs out there on frugal living + investing (I recommend MrMoneyMustache and Bogleheads wiki), so you can live comfortably and still save significantly towards retirement.
I can't argue the financial math of why it rarely works, but I'd do 3 or 4 days a week again in a heartbeat. (15 year dev, currently Rails/Django/Haskell, Chicago/Remote, peter@valent.io if anyone's looking.)