skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can smell whatever you want, but that's not at all what is happening.

Is there politics within the company ? Yes, of course, like in any assembly of human beings.

This is not a management trick at all. Not everybody does have the same salary, some are better than others at negociating. But if there is a too big difference of people with the same level, then that is what creates problem.

By the way, it happened more than one time that we told a candidate he should up his salary, because it was too low compared to what we are paying similar employees. So, it goes both ways. And that's exactly about "what someone deserved to earn based on what he brings".

People are not "put into the room". Simply, the final step of a recruitment is an oral presentation on the topic of the choice of the candidate. Anybody can join. And whoever is in the room has a right to say something while the candidate is here, and once he's gone and we decide if he's hired or not.

This is a ritual of the company, everybody had to go through this (except trainees who were later hired).
Look like it's covering both Python 2 & 3. Good job.
I think RedHat lost the server market to Ubuntu by not offering an open source package (server). We want GitLab users to have a great install and upgrade experience with the open source version. The tradeoff is that the open source version won't contain all the features. For more background please see about.gitlab.com/about/#stewardship
Neutered / castrated cats are often prone to overeating, it's better to feed them at intervals (2-3 times per day).
Judging by the map mock-up, that is a massive land mass. It would also push the Netherlands well into territorial waters claimed Britain. This has got to be a non-starter. It's either a speculative article or the [pretty messed up] auto-translation is way off the mark.

Any genuine Dutchies care to chip in with an explanation?
Not sure if you're legitimately asking, but if it were client-side, that would remove the need for the server, and thus the recurring payment. A greedy, unnecessary, and not well thought out design (i.e. see what happened in this situation), but one that earns good money in this luxury product field.
mandatory XKCD reference?

https://xkcd.com/177/
Seriously? Unfounded to say the least. LastPass has always been super transparent and forthcoming regarding ANY security issue.
Rather than each individual company cobbling together systems like this with massive security/ privacy/ ... issues, it might be better to establish an Internet of Things operating system, no? That way, some common standards could be established and one company/ organisation would be in charge of patching things.
I love the rain, so I'm now considering moving to Bergen. Thanks :)
And to add to this, we cannot know, if the funding wouldn't have happened non the less if IBC didn't happen.

And also to quote from the article:
"NEK1 was discovered through a genome-wide search for ALS risk genes in over 1,000 ALS families, and was independently found through different means in an isolated population in The Netherlands. "

So they already knew about the gene and in time would have found out more on it non the less. So the influence of the IBC seems less and less important, while reading the piece.

Sad isn't it?
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Oh heaven forbid someone speaks to you in a regional accent, how awful it must have been for you. I'm so sorry we don't all speak like the queen, you must be lucky to come from a country where there are no regional accents or dialects of your native language.
Something tells me that you are wrong. Just because Edge is shipped with VP9 support that doesn't mean the MS grants all the windows patents to Google, right? Of course if you want to develop a VP9++ and patent it that could be an issue but I don't think that's necessary a bad thing for the codecs industry. Last thing I want is another proprietary codec to lock the content on specific players.
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Then this isn't really about V8 anymore and the web and as far as that's concerned MS is already extremely dominant.
Almost everybody in the .NET community knows who he is.
FWIW, the last time I cooked up something in C, I liked Judy very much: http://judy.sourceforge.net/

It has slightly awkward but very simple API, and it's very fast.
Thanks. That would have been the better link.
How to open a suitcase with just a pen, leaving no traces:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5mvvZl6pLI

"I love crypto; it tells me what part of the system not to bother attacking"
- Drew Gross
"I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.”

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Of course no-one else but a Russian person could have signed up for a Russian VPN company that has an English version of its webpage..
When the bacteria evolve they also have a chance to lose past immunities, especially if we back off some of the old ones.
I can understand having the option to control/monitor something over the network being useful, but making it deliberately dependent on Internet access is IMHO horrible design that could only be good for vendor lock-in, forced obolescence, or other anti-user measures.
Ask HN: Best ways to promote a B2D Product?
Hey Guys,

I work for a startup called Kueri.me. We have just launched our Natural Language to SQL SDK.
I'm trying to promote the SDK for as many developers as I can, as they are our target market. So I was wondering what do you think are the best channels to do that thru. Facebook?Linkedin? Groups? I'd love to get your input, Thanks!

(B2D = Business to developers)
Docker, for example, say "seriously just don't use it".

http://www.slideshare.net/jpetazzo/docker-and-go-why-did-we-...
"I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.”
ARM is trying to do just that with their m:bed platform.
> statistical error is governed by sqrt(N)

Yup.

> To halve your error, you've got to square your sample size.

Nope. You've got to multiply it by 4. (It's the 2 that gets squared.) The square root of 1/120 is half that of 1/30.
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Yeah, instead they could have built a digital timer into the device like in the 80s.

Even though this would be more reliable, you couldn't control it from your phone, which seems to be a selling feature for all of these badly designed IOT devices.

Somebody should design a timer module that can be controlled via bluetooth and (optionally) via Wifi.

Then you could program the timer from your iPad or whatever, but if connectivity is lost, the local controller would retain the settings and continue to work until connectivity is re-established.
Well, I can't answer this question for 2 reasons :
1. This is the first year this has been done (well, apparently, it was like that also in the past when there were only 6/7 people but that's a different dynamic I guess).
2. I will myself be part of this process only from next January on, so I was not in the room so to say.

Everyone is free to ask what they want. They are assessed by the others though.
The process is the following (again, I'm not part of it yet, so it's only what I remember being told) :
- You give your number in front of everybody else (here it means people in the "choose your salary category").
- People can make remarks directly or later if they choose to do so
- 1 week later, people meet again, and give a possibly updated number based on the feedback they got. They can also justify this number (be it because it's too "low" or it's too "high". For instance, you have the right to say "I had a hard year last year, I prefer to take it a bit more easy this year, therefore I put a lower number").

If there is a very big mismatch, then it can be decided there is no agreement and we should probably stop working together. Anyway, with a "normal" system, an employee would not have had the salary he/she asked for and would probably have looked elsewhere for a new job. Here at least it's pretty clear.
It can also be decided that the salary is granted but he/she has a year to prove he/she's worth it.

The goal is to have transparency, so all those decisions are clear from the beginning and throughout the process. Otherwise, it's useless.
Cause that's probably outside the scope of the request tht was given.

This is absoultely speculation, but my guess would be that the way this product came to life is as follows:

1. Company saw a niche for IoT products with pet owners willing to splurge on their pets (an aside, pets owners are very happy to spend...)

2. Requested IoT software for already existing auto-feeders to be written up as fast as possible

3. IoT part written and works, product is rushed out without designing an offline mode (either not interested or to be patched later) [1]

It was an imagined race to be first with the product and get the pet feeder IoT device on the market first and build up a brand name. The end result is this silliness.

Basically, I don't think they envisioned an issue where the servers would go down - if the customer's own net went down, obviously they're to blame for Sharik and Musya not being fed.

I sure this sounds overly cynnical, but as was mentioned by someone else, this is just the first of many such things to come with shoddy IoT devices. The practical consideration of "well, what if the servers go down?" just doesn't seem to be on people's minds with IoT.

[1] From their twitter, I was right - they didn't bother with an offline sync in the firmware, and had to build it out: https://twitter.com/petnetiosupport/status/75838081375903334...
Are we sure Tesla has no hand in the manufacture or know-how of building the actual cells? If that is true, why would they be contracting Jeff Dahn to do battery research for them? It is my understanding that the types of partnerships between companies like the Gigafactory are usually designed to allow both companies to learn from the other as part of the process.

Of course we can't know without seeing the agreement between Panasonic and Tesla but it seems a little misguided to suggest Tesla has no hand in the design of the cells.
Citibank IT guy deliberately wiped routers, shut down 90% of firm’s US networks
Well, in my country there were 2 terrorist acts since 50s, both by young political extremists. One by right-wing Catholic (well, I'm not sure he's Catholic, but I'm sure he's not Muslim), and the other by 2 most probably atheistic left-wing extremists.

And Poles had a lot experience with political terrorism when we were under occupation. Even our 1920s-30s leader Piłsudski was a terrorist once.

So yes, terrorism isn't about religion, it's just correlated with one (and not even that strongly, usually - the current wave of terrorism doesn't even have the highest victim count in the last 50 years in Europe).
Would it really be cheaper to make a large capital investment out of VC money upfront to build housing, or just up the salaries?

If we just run the numbers as an example, taking the 11000 Google employees at Mountain View, and assuming that each wants a ~$500k house, that's $5.5Bn of housing!
Having to convert isn't a problem. Having to write some algorithms multiple times for different string types is a problem.
In India these are not super uncommon. They are usually run a lot better than comparable government towns, and are considered to be quite the employment perk.
Fair. Most of these algorithms could be written generically I guess.
Hello everyone. This is Fred Ruckel, the Ripple Rug inventor. I am so pleased this story has sparked a conversation amongst some of the tech elite so to speak. The article only lightly touches on all I uncovered, there is much more to come. I have a long evidence trail that shows Amazon employees are behind the vast majority of arbitraging. That's right, the people we trust with our product are the ones actually stealing it.

The plain box shipping issue provided us a direct evidence trail proving it is happening internally at Amazon. I have tracked it down the the Hebron Kentucky warehouse. Together with Entrepreneur Magazines editor we conducted a test buy/sting op. He ordered it; I tracked it on the back side of my Amazon seller account. I watched as the person used their prime account to ship it from my own inventory to the magazine editor. We have all the tracking data, blank boxes, even their real names on their Amazon account. I ran this operation a handful of times, always with the same results. This is an internal operation at Amazon.

When I informed Amazon about the issues at Hebron, and offered my evidence, everything went haywire. Within few hours of reporting it, my entire inventory was placed in reserve (over $10,000 worth) and locked down for all of June. I was completely locked out of my own inventory. Amazon was also the multi-channel fulfillment center for my website. In a blink, both of my sales channels were shut down entirely. The arbitragers flexed their muscle to show me who' the boss' in the situation was. Both my website and Amazon were now out of stock in retaliation to my reporting it to Amazon. Ironically, all my inventory was sidelined at that very same Hebron fulfillment center. This was no coincidence. Hebron center is the root of the arbitrage ring in my situation, but other warehouses participate as well. I found 3 other centers also have arbitrage rings, or they work together, but I have data for all of it.

I proved conclusively, and repetitively that there is corruption within Amazon. I ran the same operation over and over yielding the same results. It may not be Amazon itself, however Amazons employees are running the show when it comes to the high level arbitraging. I recorded phone calls, have screen shots of everything. I sent Amazon lengthy message detailing everything. Amazon has turned a blind eye. These Amazon employees have the ability to manipulate the package details, inventory status, boxing preference, pretty much free run of the Amazon computer systems to do as they wish. they actually 'ghost' information so it looks as if nothing was manipulated (lucky i screen shot everything).

Lastly, when i tracked the real names of these people involved, they all live within a few miles of an Amazon fulfillment center and the all have computer science background. this is not a small isolated incident. I can prove millions in losses to this scheme, and with some digging, it might be billions.

crazy days ahead

thanks for any insight you can provide

Fred
Both C compilers and Turbo Pascal already existed in CP/M, which preceded MS-DOS.

Also there were C, Pascal and Modula-2 compilers available for ZX Spectrum.

And on my part tiny of the globe I can guarantee that everyone only cared about x86 Assembly, Turbo Basic and Turbo Pascal, with Clipper for business stuff.

I only got to learn C in 1993, after having been a Turbo Pascal 3, 5.5 and 6.0 user.
I don't know who he is but I can't think of a more clear title to convey that it's not a repost and also leave the namespace open for other people to make similar posts (changing it to the post title "re: <title>" doesn't convey any extra information)
Which I guess is normal since it does not create any dependency cycle. A new version might as well be thought as a completely different package (of perhaps similar functionality).
> Remember my name buddy, I won't remember yours.

Sure, I will remember your name, Olsco. My name isn't hard to remember - it's Away; Throw Away.

> Nice astro-turfing in your comment history

Do you not even know what astroturfing is? Keep attacking my HN handle - just shows that you know your statement was patently, absurdly and almost hilariously false.
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That's not related to the conversation at hand. Who said I like using v8?
KeePass plugin to expose password entries securely over HTTP
For me, when handled well when working for a good boss, starting the week with one was an excellent way of organizing that week. I'd remember, think about, and memorialize what happened last week (and enough times there's a large portion of "what happened" vs. "what I did", i.e. putting out fires), and then planning what to do in the next 5-6 days (6 for crunch mode: 6 days x 7 hours of real heads down work in each, which I could sustain for a number of weeks).

Sure, "No plan survives contact with the enemy", but I've always found the process of planning to be invaluable.

As others are noting, all this is very subject to abuse, but it can be a very good thing.
International English does exist. It's basically American English. Every international school around the world and English Cram school is Asia uses it.
That problem is mostly because ARM SoCs don't even have the concept of a standardised bootloader or dynamic device discovery like x86 chipsets which means every SoC needs it's own custom bootloader and it's own custom kernel where the available devices must be hardcoded.

See basically any single board ARM computer which suffer from the exact same problem. This is why the community forms around the specific device rather than the architecture in general.

ARM's openness ironically makes it unsuitable as an open software plaftorm whereas on x86 you just put your iso on a flash drive and it works pretty much everywhere.

BIOS/UEFI might be bloated but at the very least it actually achieved what it set out to do, meanwhile we are still waiting for the ARM SoC manufacturers to adopt a standard.

Source: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/bring-back-the-bios/
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I think the title was to differentiate from the actual Uber post regarding the switch.
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> one company/ organisation would be in charge of patching things

That company would also be the one that gets all the surveillance data and would be the one that gets to make all of the money.

This is part of the problem of IOT: lock-in is critical to the business model.
Depends on what one understands for web.

For me, the network protocols are what actually matters.

An on the mobile space for the time being, Apple and Google rule.
Does anyone have some experience with paid app installs? Do you get actual users there or just bots/people who install and de-install right away?
The option to hide paywalled stories is the same as with any other story - if you see a story you want to hide, click the 'hide' link.

It's literally no more work than flagging it (which is an abuse of flagging rights), and less work than complaining about it (which is off-topic ranting.)
So your counter-argument is this:

> Or perhaps because many people have been conditioned to
> dislike anything Microsoft does without actually
> analyzing it's impact or relevance.

> Certainly it seems like there aren't many rational facts
> to thia person's argument.

I could say the same thing about this comment.
LastPass does allow you to export all of your saved sites and passwords as an csv file. So moving away is simply exporting the vault and uninstalling the software.

The LastPass exploits presented exist after you have unlocked your vault, so 2fa on the LastPass vault won't stop them.

Personally, I'm not moving away from LastPass over these.
Internet-connected insulin pump.
Its just trolling, thats why the original comment is content free.
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Agreed. This feels like more a measure of how "blobby" a country is - the extent to which its territory is clustered around its centre. Countries that score lowest on this metric are island federations and long, thin countries like Chile or Western Sahara.
Exactly, it's nice to be able to change the frequency of the timer remotely via the web, but the device should cache the latest settings offline. This is definitely an instance of malice/greed rather than an oversight...
The way I see it, the packages that support both do so because they know over 90% of users are satisfied with the performance of the standard library package and don't want to install extra dependencies to get the library or utility to work.

Even more code just use the standard json package without any fallback. The ease of development or deployment is clearly worth more to them than what small speed advantage they can get from going with the external dependency.

The calculus will be different for Rust, of course, with different build and deployment system.
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Have you tried emailing jeff@amazon.com with your evidence?
It's a pretty large sample for qualitative research, actually.

When you're building an app, a good way to spot problems is to run a user experience test. Sit down at the side of random potential users for half an hour each. Observe how they're using the product, and let them walk you through what they were thinking when you find it interesting.

Past a certain number of users, major UI problems will surface again and again from test to test, alongside marginal - and arguably less important - tidbits of information that let you identify new UI issues. When you reach that stage you know you should stop. It kicks in at around a half dozen users in my experience - and is very rarely over a dozen.
Ah, a true advocate for the CLI, I see. GUIs - who needs them?
It's trivial to open luggage with zippers without disturbing the lock, just by jamming a pen directly into the zipper and opening it from there. Your bag could likely be opened without even touching the zip tie.
It happens at the point that the browser functionality interacts with a webpage on the internet that is controlled by a third-party. A well-written autofill function will strictly only allow the 3rd-party website code to access passwords for logging into that domain - the Lastpass allows it to capture passwords for other domains.

This bug could easily occur in Chrome/Firefox's built-in password manager autofill, though I must admit I have slightly more implicit trust of the developers behind Chrome/Firefox than of Lastpass (instinctively; this may well be unwarranted).
I traveled with a bass in a hard case once (domestically), they made sure to look through that.
Dutchie here, this site is subtle but rather brilliant satire, hadn't seen it before.

This article for example https://liefdevoorholland.wordpress.com/2016/07/27/plannen-b...

Benelexit, Benelux exit will introduce a new currency, the "florijn", in the Benelux. This was found in a government report called "to b€ or not to b€"... Yeah
the Powers That Be who regulate and approve such medical devices would surely have one or two things to say about a device whose functionality is dependent on connectivity to the internet.
We already have `std` for that. The point of a "Rust platform" is that you can have confidence that the libraries you are using are of decent quality, reasonable popularity, and will be maintained.
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There's a half-baked mobile game idea in that!
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