skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no such thing, no law that allows one to place their work in the public domain! Yes, you can attach a copyright license that allows one to use your work for any purpose, but you still retain the copyright.
If no one is going to read it, I'm not going to take the time to write and send it. That's my first rule of email. I really don't like to do things for appearances, and while I am professional I also do what I can to cut out the things that truly don't need doing - for myself and for my teams. I'd like to think I'm a good manager in that regard.
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I have had people I trust a lot more than myself argue this. That humans are better exploratory testers than robots.

Totally agree that humans doing manual regressions is bad. I would almost argue that needing humans to do regressions means that something is broke in your coding / testing / deployment process. If page X must REALLY do Y and always work, why aren't you testing it on 30 browsers automatically? Even a very good human would have a hard time matching what you can code automagically.

I trust that there is something there though in humans for exploratory testing. And indeed I have worked with good QA people over the years that found awesome stuff. But I have also worked with many man QA that have added massive negative value to projects. Perhaps I let reality taint my taste of QA?
At financial institutions I've worked at, if you're getting fired you are taken to a room (managers office, conf room etc.) and immediately escorted out of the building after. No returning to your desk at all. Someone else will gather the belongings that you need and bring them like wallets/handbags. The rest of your stuff will be mailed/couriered to you later after someone has had the chance to go through them to make sure that there is no IP in them.
"As long as you don't break the law you are fine" this is the excuse that dictatorship apologists give "well, if you behaved and didn't demonstrate and didn't join a left/right party you were fine under Pinochet/Ceaucescu"
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tesla stock is going to 300 easily. buy it!
The Green Chef cancellation isn't easy either. You have to email them and request a cancellation link.

FWIW, I got terrible food poisoning from one of Green Chef's meals. Always make sure the food is still cold when you receive it, I thought it was "cold enough" but I was wrong.
IEEE Spectrum actually uses Hacker News as one of its data points.
One pattern I've seen recently that's been increasingly prevalent (but I haven't seen discussed anywhere) is of a form where a site gives you two options in a dialog box along the lines of:

Would you like to sign up to our newsletter?
o [[[ OK!! ]]]
o No I'm an idiot and I don't want to save money or hear about the latest job offers that may change my life

(Exaggerated slightly.)

I'm not sure this if this technically counts as a dark pattern as it's fairly transparent but I find it is very annoying because it is an attempt to force a user to state an opinion they probably don't hold if they don't want to sign up for whatever service.

I assume it does work or it wouldn't spread so widely but exploiting people's reluctance to criticise themselves seems quite unpleasant: I imagine this affects people with the weakest self-esteem the most.
This lack of respect is also infuriating for me. But the reason is also that I was a developer before I became a PM.
When I've seen this with people interviewing in Amazon, it's generally because they're tagged to a higher level position, and during the interview, they decide they're not a fit at that level, but possibly at the one below it. i.e., he might have originally been interviewing for an SDEII position, but they felt his skill-set was closer to what they look for in an SDEI, but still wanted to make him an offer to join the team.
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Just because you haven't found a use for it doesn't mean it's useless.

The stdlib datetime class is terrible and desperately needs to be wrapped. Arrow is a good wrapper. I don't know what you're on about with counting bytes.
I'd go with the latest, most eyeballs are on the latest version of code, which runs on more recent versions of ruby, stuff is just more happening.

Things change so quickly, that it makes sense to start with the most recent bits. You get exposed to the leading thinkers more as well, rather than asking questions about older technology that is being maintained as an obligation.
Your example of performance tuning caches is a perfect.

It's enough to generally know about caches. Databases have query caches. Memcache and Redis are memory caches. Retrieval is O(1) because they're based on hashes. You can influence object expiration and turn on LRU.

I can't implement a cache with LRU by the seat of my pants though, but I'm experienced enough to know you shouldn't do that anyways. And, I know enough to read the docs and ask intelligent questions.

None of that changes the fact that when my cache blows up in production, I'm going to be in the exact same position as my all-algo-knowing colleague -- scared, grasping at straws, and applying grit to fix the problem.
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I have yet to work out whether "limited hours for an automated system" is a dark pattern, or sheer stupidity.

The most horrifying variant I've seen recently was a government website that kept 9am-5pm hours. No human interaction or real-time events anywhere, but logins were locked after business hours. I'm guessing they didn't want to arrange special downtime periods for changes, and the only alternative they could think of was 16 hours/day of scheduled downtime.

It's a bad day when registered mail would be easier than using the automated system.
From a previous HN discussion...IMO, obnoxious and genius.

http://confirmshaming.tumblr.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11855787
How does Harry Brignull get his dark patterns site covered so regularly? About once a year for the past decade, somebody does an article about it. Weird.

Anyway. I'm a designer and my work has even featured on his site (after he did some freelancing with us - cheeky begger). His implication that people like me sit around trying to making life harder for customers is complete bollocks. We don't. Businesses just don't. It's bad business and nobody would willing do it.

Usually (and I grant their might be a tiny number of exceptions) they have to do things crappily because of constraints beyond their control. It may seem malicious to the likes of a freelance design-and-run merchant like Brignull, but it's not. It can also just be clueless visual designers wanting to make things pretty at the expense of being usable. But mostly it's just hidden constraints.

But hey who cares. It's good rant material.
There was a prior HN discussion around who owns what IP when public funding is involved. It was an interesting discussion for those who are interested:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9268349
To be honest, I am not sure there are such plans. First of all, there's that discussion (and lack of agreement) between FBSD implementation author and the ASLR idea author on what's the 'L' there really is (or what it should be), and second, there is another division of opinions wether the ASLR is worth much in first place, given there were successful bruteforce (and other) cracking reports for other platforms proud ASLR implementations.
Say you're making $60k with $40k in expenses. Saving $20k.

You move and now make $120k and your expenses double to $80k. You're saving $40k; twice as much. But in reality, not all of your expenses increase that much, and the other benefits (bonuses, matching, raises, interest, etc.) are % based, so the discrepancy increases quickly.
Agreed. As much as I personally would like to see a smaller federal gov't, I think that if the federal gov't is going to concern itself with something big like energy, health care, or education, then it might as well take it over completely. As much as that scares me, it's probably better than this perversion of a free market society that we currently have.
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So your argument is that the author is wrong because somebody else might have been wrong for something that happened in the past.

Makes total sense.
No different than calling yourself a Googler.
I'm gonna ignore the fact that this is for Amazon, which has its own criticism. Anybody who is baffled by the author's insistence on $170-200k but the offer of low 6 figures needs to read up on negotiation. I recommend the various videos/books/posts by Ramit Sethi that are specific to salary negotiation.

If you give the number first, you lose. They will only negotiate downward from there. You can deflect in a million different ways (which are covered by Ramit extensively), and each time you deflect your advantage increases. They can persist in a million different ways ("I'm sorry, this is just procedure" is probably the most common), but if you cave and give them a number, it will only go down from there. If you give them a range, the best offer you will ever get is the low part of the range. Don't give them a number...wait for them to offer, then negotiate upwards.
>can have open read transactions for a VERY long time without impacting other parts of the system

Unless you're on a replica.
This looks remarkably similar to Audible's unsubscribe flow. I was a member, but I've had less time to listen and increased my podcast count, so I decided to cancel and pick it back up in a year or so.

They ask a million times if you're sure and then offer another million other options (suspend the account for a few months, after which they will automatically charge you again). After you get through that, including a screen warning that you will lose unused credits, they offer a plan that will let you keep the credits you've already paid for by paying them another, smaller sum (I think $10 a year).

I will definitely think hard before reactivating.
That's not what the users say.

Sure, it could be darker. But when you see a bit of a crummy pattern you usually walk away instead of checking out just how bad it could get.
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And the vendor is the one who benefits more from the steak dinner. Most vendors love taking out clients to expensive meals. It grows the business as a result.

I'm a big fan of creative outs in negotiations (figure out what you value and the other party doesn't value and ask for it as a concession, or change the deal to create more value) but this was more like "in return for giving a concession to the vendor, we are giving another one."
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That sounds oddly similar to GRSec. Sometimes i really do wonder about the _sec world...
The Object Lessons book series, of which this excerpt is part, is stunning. It's edited by Ian Bogost (a philosopher and video game designer, of Cow Clicker, "Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism", and pressure washer[1] fame), and every single volume is delightful. Highly recommended!

My favorites are "Cigarette Lighter" and "Dust", but most everyone will find one that resonates most with them. People on Hacker News are likely to enjoy "Password", released today!

http://objectsobjectsobjects.com

[1]: http://bogostpressurewasherstatus.tumblr.com
I think not being on a logarithmic scale makes that slightly misleading.
This is how business works -- people will openly lie to you to get what they want. The recruiter most likely knew that number was out of range, but also most likely didn't care, because they probably get paid based on how many people they put through the process that reach some milestone in the interview process.

Recruiters are just sales people. They usually have limited if any tech background and heavy business or sales background. They should be treated skeptically, like any other sales person.
It baffles me how your ignorance fuels you to connect two unrelated things, cyber crime vs sexual offenses. The problem everyone trying to discuss here is "Whether any usage of VPN" is banned in the UAE?

Next time you go see a doctor for a throat rash are you going to get colonoscopy too?

A good discussion here on same topic: https://www.quora.com/Is-using-a-VPN-in-the-UAE-illegal

UAE is not USA where anyone can use/say/do anything by anyway they like. It is a sovereign state, a monarchy. She welcomes people to live there in a very healthy and free lifestyle as long as you dont step out of your bounds. Trouble makers are going to find troubles to make even they live on an isolated island. I hope UAE govt come through and make an official elaborated statement that VPN usage for business/work related purpose is not discouraged.
Sure, I think a QA team writing tests is good. I maybe think QA teams doing exploratory testing is good. The rows and rows of QA in cube farms doing regression testing? That is not good.
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Really, so its a tinier ad window with a big colored heart and the publisher's logo. How is this such an improvement?

And can we please kill off all this fake "love" and "heart" crap?
It's the perfect kind of law for oppressive governments. Everybody does it. If you play nice they will ignore it but if you don't play along they immediately have something against you.
I seriously doubt the returns. The publisher calculator said that switching to them would earn 7x what I make from normal ads. If anyone could accomplish that, they would instantly be successful and bought for a huge premium by FB, Google, etc.
> Plus, even if your housing cost doubles, other expenses don't. Food costs, gas, vacations, and everything on Amazon is the same.

Well, perhaps less than double, but still higher overall (except, obviously, stuff on Amazon will probably be the same, as I don't think they've implemented destination-specific pricing.) Gas is definitely higher in California than the national average, and higher in the Bay Area than the statewide average. Vacations will depend on where you want to vacation. Lots of services will be more expensive, because the people selling those services need to make enough money to live in the area. (Similar with goods where locally-sourced labor is a significant factor to the total cost of getting the good to you.)
I believe you're thinking of Chelsea Manning (Formerly Bradley Manning). If I remember correctly, she took a blank CDRW printed to look like a Lady Gaga album into the secure area to burn files. Even put on headphones to bop her head and mime listening to the music
All the open source code in GitHub now shared within BigQuery
Growing service company's like Uber or Grubhub don't need new software in they way your thinking. Once your on the takeoff directory your product is already useful, no updates for a while is not going to kill you when your burn rate just fell though the floor.

The same is true of a software company without developers has a vastly lowered burn rate. They need people for critical bug fixes, but a <90 day strike is recoverable and people are replaceable on longer time scales. Microsoft on a 90 day strike may actually be more profitable that year. It would be bad long term, but they don't need to keep pumping oil to pay for loans.

A mature company tends to spend a lot of time dealing with software rot. Using an older phone system for another 3 months is just not a major issue. Not having email is huge problem but that's the kind of thing a tiny staff can keep running. Unless they are at the point where they are already operating like this, but replacing a tiny team that walks out is not a strike it's a cost of doing business.
Note that the U.S. considered something somewhat analogous to this several years ago. (I worked on that issue and testified at the Sentencing Commission hearing.)

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/03/extra-jail-time-f...

The rationale and legal posture of the proposal were different from this legislation, but the consequence would have been that people who used a proxy or VPN in the course of committing a Federal crime would be punished more harshly. The proposal was ultimately rejected.
I admit, I don't know why ptaipale bought that up as an example of their laws, since there are plenty of electronic examples that are relevant to the VPN issue.

For instance, posting vacation photos on Facebook. If you don't get permission from someone in a photo, even in a public space, it's illegal in the UAE. And if you were posting to Facebook through a VPN, stack on an extra half million dollars.

That part was previously covered under this law, with the new additions being to cover VOIP and other blocked services. Regardless of the recent changes, the UAE is awfully far down on the list of places I'd ever consider traveling.
"If somebody else wants to take over the concept, I can FedEx you a disk containing the archive (as an NNTP spool)."

It sounds like a great opportunity for someone (or a group of people) passionate about Gmane to take over the reins here. I'd hate to see a project with so much useful archived content to disappear.
Netflix has always been classy about that - canceling is genuinely easy, and I believe you can cancel rollover on your free trial as soon as you get it. After you leave, it's like one email and then a followup with another free trial 6-12 months later.

I guess selling an actually-good product with few competitors has its advantages.
> Further to that though, we now know that this problem is fixed in LastPass. We don't know about other password managers.

Um...it was a really stupid mistake. Writing your own bug-prone regex here instead of using an existing, trustworthy function is just really bad. Especially when the consequences of a bug mean a hacker can steal someone's passwords.

You should really hope that any company that prides itself (and bases itself) on security would never release this bug. It absolutely lowers the reputation of lastpass.
Narcissism?
Except that Google totally failed at this and facebook will probably fail at it too. And Amazon is just regular M&Aing with the random subsidiary spinoff happening.
I'm aware that people can say whatever they want and took it with a big pile of salt, just wanted to give another piece of anecdata.
If the author reads this, how large are the dumps and is it something that can be pushed over SFTP or any other file transfer protocol? I might be tempted to have a play but I don't want you to be out of pocket FedExing the content for something that I cannot guarantee will go live.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_(Gulliver%27s_Travels)
At one point they were yahooligans. I suppose that term fell out of favor at some point.
I primarily run Ubuntu on two different machines. Both have Windows installations as well. I upgraded both and the two other PC's around the house to Windows 10.

All the telemetry can be turned off. Except for one of my machines all of it is (but for the peer to peer upgrade delivery). The other machine I turned most of it off but I used a Microsoft associated email account and the PIN sign in rather than local sign in because I wanted to have a better experience.

Windows 8 defaulted to collecting data via the login. Ubuntu defaults to collecting data and sending it to Amazon and which ever search engine is currently paying for product placement. Apple and Google collect data by default with their operating systems. Use apt on Debian, or NPM, or Github or Facebook or Linkedin, everyone is collecting data.

The reason to upgrade to Windows 10 is that it's a better Windows. Now that it has multiple workspaces I might even switch back because the interface is gorgeous. On the scale of companies I trust with my data, Microsoft is higher than those which have a first order business plan based on monetizing it. Mostly, I'm a Microsoft customer not a Microsoft product and that creates a slightly better alignment with whatever interests I might have in regard to confidentiality.

Good luck.
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Yes, when I was there (2004-2011), my job title was Technical Yahoo!, but nowadays they've lost the punctuation. The security team was called the Paranoids. Lots of little goofy names.
Mark Hurd is very talented and HP was stupid to oust him after the scandal surrounding him. Oracle saw a tremendous opportunity and hired him immediately. Larry Ellison's ability to see past public opinion and make tactical long term maneuvers is one of his few admirable qualities.

Without Googling it, Do you even remember what Mark Hurd's scandal was about? I don't...
I have just under ten years of experience and lead teams of developers, Amazon routinely spams me asking me to do 120 min online coding tasks before even a phone screen too. It's just fucking disrespectful of my time, to be honest.
> The thing that unstuck the negotiation was conceding to the disputed term (agreeing to pay the credit card fees). The "steak dinner" trick seems to have
little to do with it.

No, a concession would be if they just ate the credit card fees. The "steak dinner" was the fair value trade for the credit card fees.
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I have to admit that when she started in Yahoo, they tried to do their best to not suck that much, but I think it was too late. In a time where internet and word of mouth can punish very hard bad PR/bad UX, they tried with Tumblr showing they weren't going to screw up anymore, but still they couldn't go back to what they were before.
I danced with Amazon once (casually, I have zero desire to move to a Pacific Coast state), and had a similar "first step" experience, just with no webcam. Had they asked me to code on a webcam I too would've refused. At this point I don't recall if it was CollabEdit, InterviewStreet, or something similar (it's been some time and I deleted the emails), but I remember that if I tabbed out of the interview page at any time I would instantly fail it. And here I thought that was bad.... Leaning out of frame fails you? Wow.

For comparison's sake I'm an experienced dev and have been hacking on embedded Linux stuff for more than a decade, though I have doubts that's the trigger for "webcam or not."

Was there any data retention period mentioned regarding your interview? Do they keep those videos forever, or are they discarded as soon as they're reviewed (assuming they're not live)?
Bezos set a mandate to HR a few years ago that he wanted them to be able to hire a new grad without ever needing to speak to a human engineer. That is, he wants the entire interview process automated (specifically for new grads, at least for now).

What you experienced is part of their experiment in figuring out how to make this work. They've got a number of variations of interviews going on right now. I believe this is so that they can scale up as rapidly as they need to.

Apologies for the lack of citation but I don't believe this is something Amazon has spoken publicly about.
I wished Gnu Emacs had...
Off topic but what would the selling price for Yahoo have to be for MM to be considered a success? 20B, 100B,..
That's a good read. Just goes to show that it's important to remember people's humanity, especially when all the cards are stacked against them. People have said some really ugly stuff about MM.
>> How's NetSuite unique in that regard?

With your standard ERP software, after you buy the software, it's yours. They can't take it away from you, they can only charge you for support. You might even have unlimited users/business units. Add 100 employees and it doesn't cost you a dime.

With a SaaS solution like NetSuite, they can charge you per user. You might pay $x/year per user, but if you add 100 users you're paying x*100 more per year.

You're also going to be paying the SaaS provider for every month/year you continue using the system. You might own your server and software but with a hosted system you're paying over, and over again. Which can be good if you're doing opex vs capex.

Companies generally switch ERP platforms every 10-12 years. Not only do new products come on the scene, but systems decay over time.
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