skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"TFA mentions ex-Googlers in the FCC, the FTC and the DOD,"

FWIW: Some of the folks they are counting are interns, AFAICT.

Otherwise, i have trouble seeing what the hullaboo is about.

For example, Matthew Bye (Disclaimer: i've worked closely with Matthew for years) is someone they claim went from the FTC to Google.

He got a job at the FTC out of law school for a few years.
Then he went to Wilson Sonshini for 3 years.
Then he went to Google, where's he's been 7 years (started regular counsel, now a director).

Not sure what is supposed to be wrong with this.

Moving between private law firms and corp counsel is common, people trade off "partner track millions with crazy hours" for "sane hours and reasonable pay".
Moving between government and private law firms is common too (note: there are specific legal ethics rules that cover this in both directions. I make no claim they are perfect, but they do exist!). People often start out idealistic, or in government, because they have a ton of jobs. Especially in a tough legal market, it's a good place to be. They get tired of the politics or whatever, and go elsewhere.
Some to private firms, some to corp counsel.

If you want a more mundane example:
Eric Hysen is listed in the data. I hired him (first as an intern, then as a regular employee) and he worked for me until I left the DC office.
He left mainly because he specifically wanted to help government get better, and USDS was a very hard thing to turn down in that regard.

Again, don't see what is wrong with that.

Staring at the actual US data, i'm also not sure who the "lobbying firms" are supposed to be.

Because the data doesn't list any[1]
So either they are incorrectly marking those folks as "Google" (they aren't. The lobbying firms are not exclusive to Google in any way, shape or form. It also doesn't even claim the folks who went from the lobbying firm ever handled google as a client), or it's not in the data they give.

The data also doesn't say when they left google vs when they joined government. If you click the linked in links, there are often multi-year gaps here where they worked for others.

[1] Edit: Oooh, finally found one person they list from a "Google lobbying firm" :
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/227736-obama-hi...

Not sure what that has to do with Google in any way (here's the linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marty-paone-90853718)
I wonder if this makes legal precedence that the US GOV is giving it's stamp of approval that bitcoin is valid and legal.

i.e. when they seize drugs they don't auction them off because they are illegal. When they seize fake iPhones I'm sure they don't auction them off because they are fake and illegal.

Buy auctioning BitCoins it seems to me they're saying "It's a legal thing you are allowed to buy and sell".
"But what would you propose instead of mathematics?"

It's not that we shouldn't use math, but I suggest that when using Math we are predisposed to want clean, simple equations that explain everything.
> You could just as well ask why illegal/undocumented mexicans do not have representation in congress.

You're comparing a Mexican who made the decision to cross a border yesterday, or last year, or a decade ago, with say a Palestinian man born in Nablus 75 years ago, whose family has been in Nablus for centuries? With a West Bank settlement which seized land next door, the Jew from Brooklyn who just moved in yesterday, and who is in a West Bank settlement, the Jew can have a Knesset vote but the Palestinian can't because he's not a Jew. Comparing the Mexican to the Palestinian is a laugh.

Then you say Palestinians are separate so should not be in the Knesset. The West Bank settlements and IDF in the West Bank belie this. Israel voting in the UN to deny Palestinian statehood belies this.

Plenty of statements from Netanyahu and the ruling Likud are that the West Bank was annexed.

Also Israel used to "secretly" fund Hamas and Hezbollah as a bulwark against the PLO, PFLP, George Habash etc. That has come out over the years, it mainly came out in the US in the 1980s when Israel and the US were caught arming Hezbollah and Iran (Iran-Contra), but other dribs and drabs came out over the years. The PFLP and elements of Fatah and the PLO were always the main enemy, and Israel has always opposed the secular left vehemently and sometimes supported Hamas. So Israelis condemning Hamas carries little weight.

Also, Israel has a large and rapidly growing population of Jewish religious fundamentalists who control ALL marriages in Israel with a Jewish fundamentalist take, and in their communities those women have to cover their heads and shave off their hair, being gay is verboten etc. Israel has a large population of Jews like this.
So I can't post something to my own corkpage? Or is it by design in order to ....

Please tell me what I should replace the ellipses with. :)
Since your goal is to clear interview at Google (or companies with similar interview style), I would recommend straight up interview preparation.

I have recently found "Elements of Programming Interviews" [1]. For people with 5+ years of experience trying to clear Google style interviews, this is the perfect book for following reasons:

+ The quality of problems is much much better than the other two books popular in this category ([2,3]). I am not saying problem are hard, but they found a right balance between quality and solvability in interview setting.
+ The solutions are methodical and of high standard. For experienced people, problems in [2,3] may appear too dumb down.
+ It has some 260 or more problems covering various areas of CS. By going through this book, you should get CS fundamentals and interview prep in one shot.

I have all three books but strongly recommend EPI

[1] Elements of Programming Interviews
[2] Cracking the Coding Interviews
[3] Programming Interviews Exposed.

I have no affiliation with authors/publishers of [1]
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Spin locks are not very power efficient.
Uber to invest in insects
I keep a note in the safe at work providing me with sufficient hints about my password manager password to be able to recreate it - without it being something that helps anybody else (think something along the lines of "every third word of the first two stanzas of that poem my second girlfriend loved").

I have the encrypted file synced across two phones, an iPad, a work machine (including it's on-site and off-site backups) two home machines (including a Dropbox account, a Time Machine networked backup drive, and a weekly rsync of the Time Machine backup to off-site storage).

I did once leave a bag containing my laptop, and my 60G iPod containing my laptop's only backup (including my only copy of my password manager file and a fair bit of confidential work-related source code) under an outside table at a cafe right before closing time. I spent a sleepless night worried as hell about it, but a friendly and familiar waitress who kind-of knew me had found it and stashed it behind the counter with a note to her manager describing me, so I got it back the next morning. That made me a) very happy, and b) somewhat more careful and paranoid about my backup and password storage habits...
I think disappointment is ok here.

They just spent 24 Billion and 30 years to discover nothing.

So next time they go to the governments of the world and say 'hey give us 24 Billion for the greatest experiment ever' ... what's going to happen?

Maybe we should give it to them, but there likely will be more scrutiny.
Shumway's potential is lost now. I would love for Firefox to take on the same model as Chrome and bundle Flash in the browser and Shumway was a half-baked way to do this.
I'm using a POP3 mailbox hosted by the registar of my custom domain and I download all the messages on my computer. No web mail. I'm trusting the DNS of my registar in the same way I would trust the one of FastMail, Zoho, etc. Is that any different?
And that is what is inherently wrong with stuff like this. Sacrificing person's wishes for stuff like "growth", "adoption" or "conversion".
Perhaps they want to use the money to buy something other than drugs and Reddit gold?
List comprehension are interesting and really come into their own when seen as part of the whole family of comprehensions. In addition to list comprehensions, you also have set, dict and generator comprehensions that all share the same syntax.
There obviously will be some constraints on a planet scale, I was addressing more the idea of planet level constraints being a constraint on humanity itself, which implies that humanity is all still on that planet. That is, I think "constraints on the people living on this planet" and "constraints on humanity" won't necessarily always be the same thing, and a in a discussion such as this, a qualification is appropriate.

You are right that the speed of light is very likely a constraint on human population growth based on exactly what you outlined, and while I wasn't thinking of it specifically, falls under what I meant by "some other constraint". :)
All of this sounds a bit pre-meditated to me. If you are a "planner" then perhaps this will work for you. The alternative is to just GO NUTS! and pick up whatever random stuff you find interesting TODAY and dig in there. Most of these roads lead to rome, and if you find something that makes you curious, even though you have no idea why, that curiosity is likely to make you 10 times faster at absorbing/processing (and creating) new ideas.

For example, you want to do some graphics programming, maybe a raytracer, and that leads to thinking about projective geometry and linear algebra and whoah, a few years later all of that stuff is useful when you end up in a machine learning job. (maybe)

But back to the plan, if that's your thing. All the blog posts that complain about the "interview process" seem to be about how they don't understand dynamic programming. So, put that at the top of your list! (And by the way it is loads of fun.)
Show HN: iOS 10 is coming. Are you ready to upgrade?
The usual way - social engineering.

Spoof an inside line's callerID and say "Hi, it's Dave. What's the root password?"

;-)
Distraction Can Make You a Faster Cyclist
Exactly this. Sadly, this is not the first time that somebody is immorally trying to profit off of public profiles.
Is America Any Safer?
Twitter Plans to Sublet Part of SF's HQ Amid Reports of Financial Difficulties
I think thermodynamics is pretty solid bro.
No, I use the definition that makes sense given the Snowden documents: high capacity cable taps on the backbone itself, not FBI style taps on specific companies after getting the keys via some sort of court process.
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I see the opposite happening. Remember when it was a big deal that a company was hacked and leaked user data? Or when a bunch of credit card numbers were stolen from a retailer? It feels like that's happened so often by now that it's not even surprising anymore. I expect that any retailer I use has been, is, or will be 0wn3d at some point.

Moreover, the tech industry is solidifying. Larger companies are becoming more entrenched, and it seems harder for new companies to start clean with a fresh stack. This is the most tenuous part of my argument -- maybe it's not true?

If the above is true, then I expect software quality to worsen over time. Large companies will not be rewriting huge parts of their stacks for any reason. The legacy systems will continue to balloon as they are inflated with new features, and morph as they are merged with the systems of acquired companies. Also, the original engineers deeply familiar with the systems will retire, and new maintenance programmers will have even less context into the big-picture of operations.

Also, as the surface area of software increases, there will be more and more places for bugs and security problems to occur, even while those bugs affect more people and in more critical ways.

I predict that over time, we will begin regarding software which routinely works as much as a pipe dream as software which is secure.

This is a fundamentally pessimistic perspective. I'd love to hear an opposing argument.
This corkpage thing is probably as tone-deaf as that startup that wanted to rate people [1].

Wait for the backlash... People typically do not like choices being made for them (once they are made aware of said actions).

[1] https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/251284
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Comparing an 80 year old Palestinian in Nablus whose family has been in Nablus for centuries with a Mexican who moved to the US five years ago is silly. Also, there was a 2000 amnesty bill, so it is Mexicans who chose to move to the US within fifteen years in that category. Also, a Jew who moves into a settlement next to Nablus can vote.

You can say Palestine is another country - but then why are settlements and the IDF there? Why does Israel fight UN bills saying Palestine is a country?
Very satisfied, and that is why I can't really switch to PyPy
If you're going that far perhaps factor in the costs of drilling and shipping fossil fuels on the other side ... admittedly it probably is a factor or so less than the proportion associated with foodstuffs - but - the foodstuffs side has plenty of room for optimisation whereas the fossil fuels side is on a degenerative trend
They are still doing shows, the title is bullshit.
I thought so too. Until I saw the HN thread on the recent acquisition of Quip by Salesforce
No worries, too bad. The mystery lives on.
The UI Mystery of Web Forms
I have lived in America for a long time and can speak English fluently. However if I say "Americans are stupid, and most people don't know how to speak their own languages properly." even though it may be based on my observation living here for over a decade, it is ignorant at best and racist at average. I'm showing my feeling or superiority when in fact I'm the stupid one because I don't understand regionism and slang.

But that's besides the point. Just because you lived there and learned the culture (who's to say how well) doesn't mean you can't be racist against them. Otherwise, there's a lot of colonists who we own an apology to.

I've read the author's bio on their site and even there it downplays Japan and Japanese culture and up plays the author themselves.
not "to" discover nothing, they set out to discover something but discovered nothing, they couldn't have known that would be the outcome
What Dollar Shave Club's $1B Acquisition Means for Content Marketing?
What's your stack like?
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If DigitalOcean and your mail server both talk TLS, what's the problem?
Look, se got a shill, with the top comment...
Try google's and see what you get from them.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=speed%20test
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The OpenSSD Project (2011)
That's called capitalism. Until the added friction of respecting a person's privacy is profitable it'll always be the lesser of the options available should you want to grow a company or product.

Morally it's questionable but trying to create a grow a product it certainly shouldn't be surprising. Gitter does this and the HN crowed seemed to really like it last I saw it posted.
Mind sharing location?
"This is egregious stupidity".
That aptly describes the ABS from what I hear. Now where do I get one of these bots from.
Maybe a stupid question but does this enable eg. Android running on a Surface with Windows RT?
>>wherever Islam is a majority religion or "near to majority" the oppression exists. At least women, "unbelievers" (in Islam) or both. And Islam stands nowhere there for a "freedom of expression," quite the opposite. And the reason for that are both the basic religious texts and the practice through the history.

This. The freedom lovers, liberals and humanists must understand this threat posed by the vicious ideology of mainstream Islam. The USA and the west now must also invest similar (if not more) efforts and resources to fight this vicious ideology as those that they invested to fight another vicious ideology called communism.

It should however be noted that there are many people who have been Muslims just by birth and they do not necessarily follow the vicious ideology to its core.

So the fight must be against Islam and not against all Muslims, per se.
The very real mess of virtual functions
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Potentially, depends if the Linux kernel you use has drivers etc.
My point wasn't to make a direct comparison to Mexicans in the US - my point was that it's citizenship that makes the difference, not physical location. As long as they're not citizens, it makes sense that they don't vote. There's a totally valid discussion around whether they should be citizens, but that's a separate discussion.

"You can say Palestine is another country - but then why are settlements and the IDF there?"

Well, I think the official position of Israel is that it isn't a separate country, it's a territory that's occupied by Israel, but that Israel chooses not to officially annex. I don't love this arrangement, and I certainly don't like that there continue to be settlements there, but like most people, I don't have an easy solution to this situation. Annexing the lands and turning the Palestinians into citizens means effectively destroying the entire point of Israel's existence (a country for the Jewish religion/nationality).

I think the majority of people today consider a two-state solution the only true option - make it actually another country, at which point, as you point out, there can't be settlements there and the IDF would have to completely stay out. But while this is probably a desired situation, it's not the situation now.
If the site is so poorly done that you have to fiddle with the user agent to get it to work, I'd say good riddance to that site.
Sites like that need a market pressure to become good, and you quitting said site is a vote in the right direction.
1. Volunteer

2. Participate in recreational activities suited for small groups, such as dance, rafting, backpacking

3. Join a local hackerspace

4. Practice the art of disinhibition
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12259366 and marked it off-topic. It was already dead, but it deserves to be marked off topic too.

You can't cast aspersions like that on users here, especially not in response to such an obviously substantive contribution.
That's kind of an "all your eggs in one basket" approach - you're relying completely on the security of one 3rd party (your registrar). Whether this is better or worse than relying on two 3rd parties (your registrar and a different email provider) is a good question.

Are you sure your POP3 mailbox is using encryption for the password? The original port 110 POP3 protocol sends it in cleartext unless there's an STLS command sent (which is MITM-able) - POP3S over port 995 (or 997?) will be encrypted (but then you need to consider whether all the software in the chain is actually checking SSL certs and their chains...)
Can someone explain what this is? Is it a leak? Searching for it led me to this Github repository: https://github.com/MakiseKurisu/Jailbreak/tree/master/Secure...
Hacking Hue: Researchers Worm into the Internet of Things
"boycotts"? "strikes"? "No animation, no service!"?
Think of it as an experiment to confirm or deny the standard model. So far it is confirming it.
> So you've fitted some curve, but why that curve?

Because it's the curve that's obtained by that particular minimization criteria, which is the minimization of the L² norm.

If some other criteria was used, or other approximation function, then the result would also be valid.

It appears that you are unaware that essentially all engineering in general, and whole field of computational mechanics in particular, is founded on what can be described as curve fitting. Whether it's plain old least squares approximation (in particular, moving least squares) or other techniques focused on the minimization of some other norm (Galerkin-type methods, for instance) the basis is all the same.

> What are the implications of assuming linearity between your input and output domains?

In short, because analytic functions and Taylor's theorem exist.

Is it that hard?

> As an engineer, if you don't understand the statistics behind your models enough to answer to such questions, their real-world applications aren't going to go far beyond wishful garbage-in-garbage-out number crunching.

You know nothing about engineering, and somehow you're assuming that everything can only be valid if it's interpreted as a statistical problem.

This isn't true, and it ignores complete knowledge field in physics and mathematics.
it seems weird to me to retroactively obey robots.txt for a _different_ version of the site.

It makes much more sense to archive the robots.txt along with the content, and use the robots.txt linked with that version of the site. Updating the current robots.txt shouldn't affect a past archive.
Playability Test of 100 Humble Bundle Games on Linux
The server is not going to deliver something unless the client requests it (or the client and server are using a protocol like HTTP/2 that can push content from the server).
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> "Amey said he’s not as concerned about programmers moving over

But the article is. The very first thing in the article is Mikey Dickerson's face. To call him a "top level executive" at Google is not even close to true, even if he has a high rank in his new role.
Indeed. I know of a few of them and all have interesting ideas and properties (fx. named-data.net, MinimaLT, CurveCP, ..). I wonder if it would possible to merge some of the ideas without creating a monster.

A survey of some of the most promising IP alternatives would be most interesting.
Mocket: socket mock framework (HTTPretty-ish with Py2/3 support)
2D Platformer Pathfinding (2015)
> All this is entirely opt in. So why any fuss at all?

That has been the banks' position. Then Apple started asking politicians to force the banks to do business with Apple (on Apple's terms, of course). This is a counter-punch: we'll open up, but only if you do.
Democracy dies behind closed doors.

Any supposed advantage we gain by spending our resources and credibility flooding the world with spies is far less then what we lose by having our society, our rights, and our freedoms completely subverted by the primacy of "national security".
If it is possible to build a universe simulator that runs for an infinite amount o time, it's infinitely more likely we live in it than in a real universe.
How to find beta testers for a desktop application?
We are looking for beta testers for our desktop UI prototyping tool. Where can I find interested people?

Here is the link to the website: http://mockupui.com
Haha, that's the reasoning google when they rolled out g+ and that worked out great for them.