skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Appelbaum can still sue the organization, if he feels he's being slandered.
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The Churn
And every single one of the authors speaks English! Talk about unbalanced!

Seriously, they're just recommending a bunch of books which they think are interesting, insightful, and in many cases relevant to what they do. There is a large bias in the publishing industry in terms of what subjects men and women write about; YC has their hands full trying to bring more gender equity to technology without trying to fix the publishing industry.
None of the arguments you raise point in one direction or the other. It's possible Applebaum is the psychopath you describe. It's also possible that a different psychopath has "came in, [is] stirr[ing] up trouble, drove out the existing leadership [...] due to their missteps".

The fact that psychopaths exist is not evidence of Applebaum's guilt. This torch wielding angry mob might have a legitimate grievance, or they might be a spontaneous torch wielding angry mob, they might even be stirred up by a psychopath like the one you describe.

That's why we need a process better than the torch wielding angry mob.
I live in Bentonville and I can tell you it's a mess. They switch IT contractors every few years because each one agrees to more than it can handle to get the contract.

Just recently, like 2012-2013, NCR had it. CompuCom made a killer deal which they couldn't actually afford and cut a lot of corners and provided shitty service because they didn't hire enough competent staff.

CompuCom lost the contract to NCR again, so everyone in CompuCom got laid off. Now since Toshiba bought out IBM's "Retail Store Point-of-Sale Solutions Business", they also hired on their own support team, a lot of them were previous CompuCom employees. There's layers and layers and layers of tech support and bureaucracy, it's amazing anything ever gets fixed.

Their inhouse service, "Information Service Desk", or "ISD" is full of people here on H1B visas, shoulder to shoulder in a huge building called the "David Glass Technology Center". There are no cubicles, just long rows of tiny tiny desks.

It's a damn terrifying sight.
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they have merely established a correlation. I wouldn't pin my hopes on it.
> indignant hysteria

Stating a fact is indignant hysteria? I was replying to his comment which was a lie.

> outright harassment

I'll come back to this.

> a commenter over something completely irrelevant

OK. From OP:

"The man deserved what he got, but there are dozens of accounts that were his "executors" - doing the actual harassment for him in many cases - who got off scot-free, while he remains banned. There is no consistency."

From the article:

"However, the decision to ban Milo because of the actions of a few of his 500,000 followers (if that is indeed why this occurred) is horribly inconsistent."

Both of these statements are semantically similar—there is inconsistency.

That's an example of where the comment is low quality due to the OP not reading the article. So I reject that it's irrelevant.

Back to the harassment. I stated facts as plainly as I could. If he/she finds facts intimidating then I would say it's on the OP to examine what he/she said & did, and not on me to ignore or use mental gymnastics to defend incorrect statements.
> My point was correct to the specific attack you broadly described.

But you didn't correct it, you proposed a solution that didn't address the attack I described.

> Your example required a web server attack that allowed arbitrary code execution and privladge elevation; which is a hugely specific attack and it's pretty fair to say it's unlikely (in the case of gaining root access and then choosing to enable SSH, which I'll get to).

The XSS attack is just an example of a vulnerability that wouldn't be addressed by hardening SSH. There are plenty of other vulnerabilities that wouldn't be addressed by hardening SSH.

> Furthermore, and at risk of sounding like a broken record, if an attacker can remotely execute code as root then they have absolutely no need to enable SSH for they already have far easier methods of firing off a remote shell. (To be honest they don't even need root to accomplish this).

There's a good reason to demonstrate SSH access even if they have root access: they might want to show their capabilities without exposing how they gained those capabilities (because knowing how they gained those capabilities would allow the OP to fix the problem).

> This is not a mistake, this is something I've done in practice when auditing security at work.

Just because you've made mistakes in practice when auditing security at work doesn't mean they aren't mistakes.

This isn't even time for a security audit. OP first really needs to do some forensics. A security audit should happen, but it can wait until the vulnerability has been found and fixed.
Do you have a blog by any chance?
It's not a number, it depends which side of the issue you're on.

Dorsey & BLM's Leader are friends therefore so long as you're cheering on the murder of cops you're ok.
Those are everywhere here nowadays. UPS, DHL, etc also almost exclusively use electric vehicles in and around Hamburg, which is really amazing.
Hydrogen is low energy density and next to impossible to contain or transport without lossage. These are major barriers to commercial adoption absent a breakthrough, laying aside the problem of generation.
If you ask welders, there is definitely an art to it. Check out /r/welding sometime.
New chapters for 50 Shades of Grey – authored by an artifical neural network
could be a variety of factors. might be a small department, which means if you call back, thats another extended call for them, which is bad for the metric. better to get it solved the first time.

Or it could be simply a place that doesn't use the call length metric, I imagine every call center has its own set of rules. I can only speak for the ones that my friends work[ed] for. Overseas call centers may have less focus on call length since the cost of the call to the company is less.
Afaict, it only teaches you a good lesson about voiding warranties and looking before prying the whole thing apart. (Almost destroyed mine opening it up to clean up the airways)

Not much otherwise.
I think the grandparent was referring to the other side of the table; despite being aware that the recruitment process is flawed, companies rarely ask interviewees for feedback on making the process better.
+1 for link to lynis. I had never heard of that before!
what exactly is Facebook a monopoly of?
https://www.schneierfacts.com/
Short answer, yes. In practice they would probably switch off with another drone after some period of time (months?) to do a maintenance check.
It would be the height of insanity to not read this piece and be wary of the combination of ideologies that can lead to fascism, and to draw parallels to modern times. I can't comment much on the individual points because I've never lived in a fascist country, but they do seem to lead to a combined ideology that would further the reaching powers of an aspiring fascist.

As an American, however, I can't help but think that the increasingly bold steps that our government is taking towards authoritarianism is making this piece all the more relevant: both parties are guilty of increasing the strength and powers of the government, as well as unnecessarily using the might of the military for nebulous gains. No longer do political candidates debate individual issues; instead, they appeal to a persona that the populous wants to see. Some might simply call it "entertainment", not "politics." This is an unnerving trend.

Were our federal government less powerful overall: financially, legally, etc., pieces like this would be less pertinent due to the "spreading out" of power that Italy nor Germany never had.
> I'll clarify my position: acusing someone of lawbreaking should not be permissible if you won't back yourself up in court.

That's an interesting position which you haven't presented much reasoning for; its not, however, what the US has generally decided, so if you want it to change, you should probably say why.

The decision the US has mostly come to is this:

(1) You can't impose legal sanction without proving something in court.

(2) If someone is harmed (including by accusation of criminal behavior) by something you say, they can challenge it in court as defamation (e.g., slander, libel). and they must show evidence that it is false.

Your proposal is a fairly radical restriction on free speech.
> They only focus on the trading algorithms with no support whatsoever for portfolio allocation, risk management, money management, etc.

Sorry what?

The algos are coded with python. How can you not include proper risk management, portfolio allocation etc with python?
Trolleybuses exist in the US too in a couple of cities. SF and Seattle both really like them because they have all their torque available from a standstill, unlike ICE buses, so they are great on our absurd hills.

Seattle's new ones also have batteries so that they can run off-wire if they need to detour.
Disseminating news to luddites too lazy to move beyond facebook.
> If this guy is innocent, his life is ruined now. And we've seen this pattern elsewhere, outside of tech; teenagers/adults falsely accused of rape or worse. People pissing behind a bar with a permanent contextless "sex offender" mark on their record. Etc. Lives ruined - innocent people escaping justice.

What exactly do you even mean by "his life is ruined"? There are no criminal charges. No pre-trial detention. No trial. No prison sentence. This is a loooong way from his life being ruined. In all likelihood he will move on with his life, with no connection to Tor project.
US Government Agency Calls for the End of SMS Authentication
What is the answer for the rephrased question?

The CIA and other organisations have been torturing "terrorists" quite a bit, they are remarkably quiet when it comes to naming examples to justify their actions. I'd honestly assume they have tortured more people that didn't have any knowledge about terrorism than they saved with the intel from those that did.

Can you name examples for your ticking bomb scenario? (as in, someone with the necessary information was in custody and known to have the information?) As far as I know, this wasn't the case for any of the high-profile attacks you appeal to.

There is little evidence torture actually works, and allowing it as a tool is way to ripe for abuse, even if you don't believe that torturing people is generally amoral. The data to support it just is not there.
I think this comment lowers the quality of the discussion. The comment asks us not take an exhaustively prepared article seriously without providing any evidence.

It's as though the comment is trying to prevent overracting, however weigh it against the threat of underreacting. The harm in taking these allegations too seriously (false positive) is doing research and finding out the statistics are invalid (extra research time). The harm in taking these allegations not-seriously-enough (false negative) is mass-scale election fraud.

Given how hard it is for such allegations to even be considered at all in our social climate (even when we all know they're much more technically feasible than people would like to admit) I think a defusing this article detracts from pursuit of truth in exchange for peace of mind.
You're right, she was only a "teaching assistant for some course"

http://news.stanford.edu/news/1999/june16/taawards-616.html
> "Cost in terms of lifestyle" compared to what?

> I have kids and this is not the future I want for them.

Why did you choose to have kids? Was not having kids an acceptable lifestyle cost for you in order to save the planet ?
If he's still open to technology, I would recommend picking up Salesforce. As a Salesforce admin with experience working in sales, he could be a valuable asset to a company. The admin certification is not as difficult to pick up and many people within the industry see the industry experience to be a big asset.
Best of luck with it all. 13 years is some staying power!
I moved that image around to sort by mortality in both columns. Somehow it makes more sense to me this way.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rya23mkfihb4ma3/hyU8ohq-reordered....
This is awesome! This is the update we were all waiting for. I'm impressed with the Remix OS possibilities and the future seems brighter.
Yeah, this is exactly what I thought of too. Searched for "CGP" and there your comment is! :)
Thanks for the recommendations. Went ahead and bookmarked the links. If anyone is interested:

https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html

https://vimeo.com/monitorama

https://atscaleconference.com/videos-articles/
I had that done after I crushed a toe and the nail-bed was damaged such that it basically immediately in-grew. Looks a bit odd, but problem definitely solved.
Right, legally it's okay for facebook to censor stuff. But ethically/morally, some people do not think that's the case because they feel they're abusing their large marketshare.
Good. So, he can't be arrested for rape and does not get a criminal record as a sex offender. All he's got is a bad reputation and a lost job.
`go get` has to change for proper vendoring in Go. Right now its such a mess. Go needs a bundler like functional. e.g go bundle which will read a Gemfile like file to install your external packages.

I hope this comes before the end of the year. This has been put on the back burner for too long and I can understand GC was priority but now GC is very good.
I do this all the time... on iOS. It's very useful.
Is there convincing evidence in this document that the amount of irregularities were actually sufficient to change the result?

I haven't read the entire document yet but have sampled a couple of parts. The exit polls section, by the way, is irresponsibly flawed.

It's well-known that the primary purpose of exit polls in the US is not to audit elections. It's not even to project winners. It's to update demographic models. It's well-known that using the vote count to update an exit poll's model is normal and expected practice, and not evidence of conspiracy. Yes, there have been cases where exit poll divergence has been used as evidence to point out likely fraud. But that only happens when the divergence reaches a certain level, and - this is more key - this determination is made by the exit poll organizations themselves.

Here, in order to believe that exit polling shows evidence of fraud, you'd have to not only believe that the exit poll divergence does not have simpler, alternative explanations, and that the level of divergence goes beyond a reasonable range, but that our exit poll organization - a non-partisan coalition of several different independent news organizations - was aware of it and unanimously chose to suppress the information. This is tinfoil hat territory.

I call it irresponsible because the point of view advanced in this report is willfully ignorant of how exit polls even work.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/22/ho...
I could write a toughtful response to that... but given the quality of the original, this will suffice:

Eight

Be skeptical to any advice from a developer that is not old enough to have grown some white hair. If the advicer is male, gray beard preempts other white hair.

Nine

Be actively hostile to any advice by male developers that ar not old enough to have grown a beard at all.
Density: a real-time people counter and an API
"because when your beliefs are wrong, they won't be constructively challenged."

Does this ever happen? It seems to me like every time someone says something unpopular, the world goes on a witch hunt to destroy that person's life. That's not what I call "constructively challenged". I call it "just short of hanging them, which is what people really want to do."

I'd love to see a world where I could debate a matter with someone without everyone getting so emotionally charged that logic gets thrown out the window, and ideas that are incorrect can be pointed out to a person without everyone hating one another.
i think it's relevant to consider if this is a COINTELPRO type operation. and important, given the treatment of what's-his-face, who wound up in the Ecuadorian embassy.

that said, it seems like we can dismiss the likelihood of a COINTELPRO-type operation happening right now. rather, it seems that Jake's a snake... sadly. Sad for the folks at tor who had to put up with it. Sad for all the chumps who are distracted from the importance of Tor, in favor of disputing the validity of claims about sexual harassment (or worse).

maybe Applebaum is a narc?
And I... Kind of agree? :).

You do have to plan out your software, I guess I kind of de ied that. I was wrong. You were right. Take your victory dance, then sit down, I'm not quite done yet.

>It's not "certainly less complex". The total complexity of the system is still the same.

The total complexity of the system is the same, yes, but the GLOBAL complexity of the system is significantly reduced: A lot of complexity is isolated, and if the components interact through well-defined interfaces, you can treat each as a black box (theoretically, once they work), and use them as building blocks to build your system. Every programming paradigm, language, and system in the last 60+ years is based around this idea, from structural, to OO, to Unix, to Lisp, to Microservices, and on to the next craze.

So, I assume that this something you agree with. In which case, congrats, you've convinced me.
That was really informative. Thanks.

My point, however, isn't about collateral. It's about future cashflow. A Senior engineer at Google might have a salary of $150k, but total compensation package including 270 shares of GOOG distributed per year (~23 shares per month) for a total comp of $350k. For such an individual, do you lend based on salary alone or do you factor in the stock?

I imagine that with a correct discount the stock can and should be used in the cashflow calculation.
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FYI This is nonsensical, not even wrong, and relatively bizarre.
You could say that if you've made it to v2.0, you have already been evolutionarily selected in your favor.
> and you must have no idea how much it costs to live in the bay area

I live in New York City. I could probably grok the basic concept.
Sounds like he watched what the Draft Kings guys were doing, and said... jeez I want to do that on the stock market.
I've been using LastPass for years now, but I'm starting to explore other options.

For me, the biggest pain point is the interface. The automatic form filling rarely works as it should; I click the LastPass icon in the username field, select the site, and it only populates the username (even though there is an input with type="password" right below it).

I then have to:
1) Press ALT+W to bring up the LastPass site search
2) Type in the domain name
3) Find the correct entry, and then click "Show Password"
4) Use my mouse to highlight the password and copy it (there is no quick way to copy the password)
5) Close the tab, go back to the original site, put my cursor in the password field and paste it

And then I have to worry about what password I may or may not have lingering in my clipboard.

If anyone has a better workflow please let me know. I'm envious when I watch coworkers use 1Password to populate a form in two steps using hotkeys.
You also have to remember the people championing this deal probably have bonuses and other economic incentives that might run counter to the best interests of the company.
If they allocate 10 million for your algo and you get 10% of the profits but pay none of the losses... Well you can calculate the math.

Plus they don't require exclusivity for the algos so you can start your own hedge fund and trade your algos if you want to. IMHO It's a pretty good deal.
Salaries, job-titles, and all things related to hiring are _INTRINSICALLY_ subjective and that's the way it should be (and really the only way it can be).

Even though the stackoverflow folks are using "a formula", there's still a lot of subjective judgment in scoring the skill-levels and stuff like years of experience (5 years at company-X isn't necessarily the same thing as five years at company-Y).

As far as I can tell, stackoverflow is successful at their mission, has a good reputation and doesn't have retention problems. That's great for stackoverflow and the folks that work there. And while it is better than most places, other companies are doing just as well and don't have transparency in their salaries. Is transparency _really_ that important? I don't think so.
Forget Brexit, Quitaly is Europe's next worry
This is clearly false. If someone steals my wallet, I'm the victim of pickpocketing even if the perpetrator is never identified, let alone convicted.
Human commensals producing a novel antibiotic impair pathogen colonization
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This is the announcement of a correlation. The question would be whether knowledge of the gene is useful in dealing with the disease.

The difference is probably that they sequenced full genomes, whereas 23andme (mostly?) looks at known genes.
The only question we should be asking is this. Why do some votes count more than others? The fact that there are delegates, let alone super delegates, is damning. You should always question someone claiming they will "represent" you.

Democracy at its best does not need any systems or hierarchies or even parties. It needs people, all equal, to all vote, and to all be counted. That's it.

I for one am all for mandatory voting, and a mandatory voting national holiday. Those who don't want to vote can vote "null" in protest. And they will feel their voice was heard because it will be. That would be a true democracy and a holiday America would be proud of.
Wow... plane noise flying above you (how high?) every 90 seconds? all day!?

How can you live with that amount of noise? isn't it like way too much?

And of course I don't mean you you but in general people living there.
I can see that if the same attacker managed to get access to two of my passwords and was particularly interested in me, but how likely is that compared to an exploit on a password manager? Besides, I change all my passwords twice a year.
Except that the Ice Bucket Challenge did not misappropriate research dollars. They created new research dollars out of thin air. There is not much reason to believe that the people who donated in response to the Ice Bucket Challenge would have otherwise donated those same dollars to some other, more common disease.

As usual, Surowiecki does a great job:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/als-and-the-ice...
I guess there's a 'not' in the wrong place?
I don't know how to _not_ come off sounding argumentative here, so don't take this harshly, but:

> I don't think anyone can be _the_ very best and I think that's not a reasonable or attainable goal.

... kinda proves my point of not needing a "five" rating.
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>Currently Android Java is a mixture of Java 6, 7 and 8, doesn't implement 100% of any of those versions, which fails the Java TCK with a glorious score.

Does Google call it Java? No, and you clearly know this. So why is there a need to pass the TCK? As for the TCK itself, you need look no further than Apache to see what a farce it is.

>Both runtimes (Dalvik/ART) are still slower than industrial Java Embedded JDKs like J9 or PTC.

I'd love to see the performance and resource usage of the JVM on a mobile device. You see, there's a reason Oracle failed miserably trying to build their Java phone.
Last digits are changed to zeroes when you type long numbers in cells of Excel