skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if my case has anything to do with this.

I (male) really enjoy watching all gymnastics (both female and male competitions). I always sort of admire people who can perform feats that I cannot do (I used to watch Bob Ross for hours, for example. I know, kill me, but I was mesmerized by his works).

Anyway, one day I was watching the female competition and a relative told me that it was "creepy to be watching girls." It kind of took me aback. Since then, I avoid it.

There has been this sad evolution in our society where adult males interacting with girls or teenagers in a normal way is still considered "creepy." Sadly, I don't hug my nieces anymore, for example.

It's sad.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the drop in stats.
Do tax payers benefit from the protections (e.g. safety) specified in the laws?
And such meta-sport competition could be addressed easily and effectively by bringing back pankration under the aegis of IMMAF. Any martial art not contested separately as a pure discipline could enter competitors in the mixed discipline tournament.

Wrestling, boxing, taekwondo, and judo are all martial arts officially contested during the 2016 international games. Additionally, Budo (Japanese) was exhibited in 1964, Glima (Viking) in 1912, and Savate (French) in 1924.

Demonstration sports were suspended after 1992, so Wushu (Chinese) was not exhibited at the Beijing games. Instead, a Wushu tournament ran concurrently with the international games, in Beijing, with permission from the international committee. Looked like a duck; quacked like a duck.

Sports with a compliant international governing body now get to be in a differently-branded international games every 4 years rather than a one-time demonstration sport just when it is popular in the current host country. Sports can be "promoted" from the "next year" games to the main event. Ju-jutsu, Sumo, Muay Thai, Kickboxing, and Karate will be contested in 2017. I am not familiar with any reason why the International Wushu body chooses not to organize events at the other games.

But wrestling is not removed. Wrestling is in for 2020, as is Karate--receiving one of the aforementioned promotions.
That's what PO boxes are for. Some friends I know even managed to get the PO box on their driver's license (using suit 1234 instead of PO BOX 1234).
Amazon engineer here.

Before I worked here, I read Steve Yegge's posts on interviews at Amazon and Google. You cannot get information more straight from the horse's mouth.

I also agree with the general point that you are better off doing interview prep than your general undergrad algorithms courses.

But the catch is that interview prep will lead you back to CS fundamentals anyway. This is a both/and, not an either/or.

The other thing I wanted to address is whether working at Amazon can be practical and cool.

My team is the full stack physical rentals team. When you press a Rent-Now button on Amazon.com, you enter my team's world. Today, we rent physical textbooks to millions of students every semester, and they all get returned at the same time.

We own custom checkout, order management, and return customer experiences. Underlying them is a service ecosystem we built and maintain. To handle the seasonal, spiky nature of our business (back to school, Christmas vacation returns), we use AWS to scale up and down during peaks.

Success breeds success, and we're working on category expansion. Twenty engineers in three teams run the software for this business. That is cool.

There is an incredibly broad spectrum of work going on at Amazon, from mammoth services to front end optimization and everything in between, including unfortunately some very unhappy firefighting operations. Undergirding it is heavy company investment in builder tools and infrastructure, and excellent engineers.

One person's cool is another person's depressing, but I would look at the job listing carefully before writing off a stint at any of the Titans of software.
>Not enough drama for you? How about the fact that gymnasts risk their health every time they step onto the mat?

>One of the factors preventing Americans from appreciating just how difficult it is to do what an Olympic gymnast does is the fact that competitors are expected to perform their routines without betraying any evidence of effort.

I've stopped reading twitter/news due to this constant moral chiding. I don't understand this (recent?) obsession with pointing out how Americans are stupid/ignorant/racists/misogynists/shallow. Wish we could keep this kind of stuff out of HN.

Only egomaniacs overestimate their own virtuousness and underestimate everyone else's.
That's a LastPass bug; if your 2FA can be disabled with nothing more than an email challenge-response, your second factor is just email.

For comparison, when I had trouble with Linode's 2FA - I set up a new phone and wiped the old one before realizing that Google Authenticator doesn't include TOTP secrets in iPhone backups, in effect destroying my 2FA token - and my scratch codes failed to work, I had to provide government ID matching my account information before their support department would disable 2FA on the account. I'm not overjoyed by the fact that an implementation error prevented my scratch codes from working, but I was pleased by the nature of the verification required to disable 2FA so I could log in again and re-enable it. Linode may have had some security problems in the last few years, but this at least they got exactly right.
>>Tech lacks a real officer class that commands respect.

That generally happens when people luck out, ride a once in a lifetime wave and land at the top. And now think it was all due to their hard work. While it was luck all along.

I've had mentors whom I would follow anywhere. But I also have had people I wouldn't like to see their face again.

There are a plenty of career managers in Tech, whose solve purpose to work for their won existence.
Oh, I wasn't aware of that, thank you.
Currently, the presidency is like a public park bench placed on private land. The bench is public property and everyone has the same theoretical right to sit on it - but there are only two paths to the bench, and both paths' owners charge huge fees.

A hundred years ago, it probably seemed possible to build a third path - but with our modern understanding of game theory, we know a two-party system is the inevitable result of first-past-the-post. Building a third path is impossible.

This creates an inconvenient contradiction - the moral legitimacy of the person sitting on the bench derives from the fact that everyone has the same right to sit on it, but we can quite plainly see the criteria for moral legitimacy are not met in practice.

Some people would say we should aspire to meet the criteria for moral legitimacy; and therefore that, regardless of their private status, their internal elections for access to the path should be free, fair and open to all.

Of course, other opinions are available. Some people would argue that the private property owners' rights were more important, morally, than the legitimacy of the presidency. Or that the idea of pursuing morality in politics is a joke. Or that our consent to our rulers isn't derived from the moral legitimacy of their being fairly elected, but comes from some other source such as habit or force of arms. Or that everything is a shade of grey, america is better than russia or north korea, and improving sounds like a hassle who can be bothered?
There's a lot of truth here, and I generally agree with the sentiment, and can think of close friends of mine who are unusually good at this and are unusually successful and well liked.

As a prescriptive piece of advice though, it has a semi-fatal flaw. It is based on the concept of what you "really" feel and what you "really" think. Which of course isn't how the human mind works at all. Some days we think our job is the best thing in the world and we're grateful for it, some days we think it's the one thing holding us back from glory. Sometimes we feel connected to a person, sometimes resentful of the same person.

What do we do if our rational brain says that our boss is totally being a reasonable person but our lizard brain wants to choke him because he just told to do something all over again. Must we not speak the white lie that it's "no problem"?

What if one finds their emotions are all over the place, and just not evenly regulated, and you have unexplained and somewhat destructive impulses to say tactless and hurtful things to people? Should we go ahead and do that because it's a more "transparent, honest, authentic" version of ourselves? Or should we aim to be more stable, and do our best to "fake it" until it becomes second nature?

Here's a secret nobody tells you: The internal conflict and struggles in life you encounter are almost never of the bad/good variety. Such problems create failures of will rather than failures of reasoning, since choosing between being purely cruel and being kind requires little insight.

The conflicts that vex us are are between two positive things we value, like balancing giving and sharing and being a team player with independence and growth and looking out for ones self, or balancing being responsible and consistent with being adaptable and curious.

Or in this case, balancing being authentic and honest with being focused, professional, and pleasant to be around.

You'll never reduce the tradeoff between those values down to simple rules of thumb, they will always be complex, outcomes will always be uncertain, and scenarios will never present themselves again in precisely the same way.

You'll have to mostly make it up as you go along, forever. Get a helmet.
The article is not about Applebaum's dismissal from the Tor project, it is about the rape/abuse allegations. Allegations that so far appear to be at best false (1 case apparently completely fabricated and withdrawn on request by the alleged "victim" [and FYI, the scare quotes are entirely appropriate here], 1 other case contradicted by witnesses).

Depending on the organisation and the relationship to that organisation, no reasons are necessary whatsoever to sever a relationship (for example in the US almost all employment relationships are "at will").

So what exactly is your point regarding the content of the article, which, again, is about the rape/abuse allegations?
Every part of this statement is alarming. Had the statement not been made at all, and all I knew was that the FreeBSD update system had some vulnerabilities, I'd be left with a higher opinion of FreeBSD.

1. If there's a public exploit for a vulnerability, you disclose it to users, full stop. This is obvious.

2. If the steps you might normally take to remediate a vulnerability are themselves exploitable, you print that in bold letters in the announcement, full stop. "Requires active MITM" is just another way to say "requires real attacker".

3. You don't leave memory corruption vulnerabilities in software to preserve backwards compatibility. It is better to break software briefly than to leave memory corruption vulnerabilities in it.

All three of these FreeBSD statements are admissions not only of mistakes in the announcement process, but of broken principles as well. Yikes.
Chrome removing backspace navigation functionality
Check this one:
Build APIs You Won't Hate - Phil Sturgeon
Nevermind all the sports that don't get any TV coverage I guess?
My issue is with NBC's rights to the coverage. I've seen way too many articles now with entertaining headlines and info, but no video of the actual occurrence because NBC has the rights. If you're lucky you'll find a tweet of somebody filming their TV screen.
Not at all. If you don't understand how to employ false smiles as needed, you won't get very far in life. This was one of the biggest mistakes I made when I was young. Once I learned how to stop being totally honest and how to be friendly to even those I didn't like, a lot of opportunities opened up that I would have never been exposed to otherwise.

Simple example: I maintain friendships with people I don't genuinely like primarily because they have wide social circles. Through those people, I've met individuals who I do genuinely like.
Google maps shows a nice view of it:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7265257,-74.0139319,158m/dat...

May need to adjust the framing a bit.
Widikedpa references: 1894 The Mummy: A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Which predates the listed references and the excavation of king tuts tomb.

There are also other discovery's. "The honey stains found in the ceramic vessels, found 170 kilometers west of Tbilisi, are believed to be made by bees that buzzed around in Georgia 5,500 years ago" http://www.eurasianet.org/node/65204

Honey stains are not honey, but the residue might be edible.

PS: Less reputable reference: Traveller 10:35AM on 03/04/11

When I was in my previous profession (archaeology), I had the opportunity to have roughly 3000 year old honey. It's the one food that never goes off really. You just have to heat it and mix it to be able to eat it again. Actually, it was delicious! Just like honey that I have in my cupboards right now! Just a little grainy...but that might be because we were impatient about getting to try it! ;)
By any chance do you use the HTTPS Everywhere browser extension? If so, try disabling it. A friend of mine just figured out (after a few days not understanding the strange errors) that the extension is incompatible with nbcolympics.com.
And here I thought your second line was going to be along the lines of "why do you think Google, Facebook, and Amazon are solving 'real' problems?"

I have encountered that point of view several times "I'm spending all my time writing this stupid app that collects purchase orders from one data base and puts them in a shippers database, I want to solve real problems like putting mustaches on the pictures of all my friends in Facebook!" That is when I have my WTF moment. Airlines desperately need to upgrade their systems, that is a real problem that affects people every day, but who is aspiring to work at the airlines in their IT department?
Looking there up until 2004 I see mostly SU, Romania, China. There is only a single gold for US in 1984 by Retton and a silver for Miller in 92.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_g...

That kind of jives with my recollection how medals were distributed.
My phone screen is smudged, but it doesn't really bother me. If I spot something on my monitor, I can't get any work done until I have it cleaned off.
That's true for off-topic stories, which stories are the actual purpose of the flag button. It's not true for stories we simply disagree with. In this case, you happen to be right, but everyone has a bunch of topics they believe themselves to be right about.
Thank you for advice. This revision of the website is a stub, it does not contain any useful information, just some general words. It will be heavily reworked soon.

Also, I will add the comparison table with Syncthing, BTSync and some cloud storages, like Dropbox.
It's a really small front yard, maybe 15 feet tall and 30 - 35 feet wide with a driveway taking up most of it. I'm in the northeast US. I have a few trees that I want to build mulch beds around and some mulch beds in front of the porch as well as a side walk that leads to the front door so I want to fill in the rest with nice river stone (not gravel). This would allow us to travel without hiring someone to come out and work on the lawn. I can do it for the cost of a decent push mower. I have a little over half an acre in the back and I'll be leaving the grass there so I won't be entirely devoid of green, I'll just be able to slack on it as nobody can see it.
Gender bias is a huge topic in tech, here's an article about arguably gender bias in a different area.
HN heavily leans white suburban kid culture. I think when you make claims like I do that goes against their experiences and they simply don't understand. They don't understand situations when the police aren't automatically on your side. That's how life has always been for them.

I remember one of the first times I was pulled over. I was driving my dad's car, which was a nicer but not terribly expensive, luxury model. The cop literally had his gun out in a battle pose as his partner approached my window. I thought that was normal until someone told me otherwise. Apparently, the cop thought the car was stolen and was expecting a gunfight due to how I looked (young dark guy in a bmw driving the way most teenagers drive).

I'm decently well off now and don't often deal with this stuff much or just don't notice it anymore, but growing up I was certainly treated a certain way my white friends were not. I don't blame them if they don't understand this automatically. They never had those experiences and its understandable. But it is annoying to be auto-downvoted like I'm making all of this up or have some big agenda. I rarely talk about this stuff to be honest, mostly because of reactions like this.
You seem to understand it perfectly.
I bet. But it was one gold medal in what 50 years?
Do you seriously not understand what the problem is with a public entity (i.e. a city government) making private laws and then charging fees to access those laws?

Extrapolate it to the federal government. How would you feel if you were trying to look up tax laws and the IRS told you that you needed to pay them $250 before they could send you the information?
What you quoted is a criticism of American sports-media, not Americans.
How does it compare to syncthing et al?
I am going to start at Google in two weeks. Having recently passed Google interviews, I would give you the following tips:

1. Unless they contacted you at LinkedIn or you know someone at Google who can refer you, the most difficult part is actually getting an interview.

2. Apply as soon as possible. They don't mind scheduling an interview 3 months in advance and they will send you preparation material and they will be able to answer questions. (This is specific to Google, I would not do that at most other companies).

3. Check out Quora they have a ton of information about the Google interview process. Also some info, but not so much about other companies. That shouldn't matter because the preparation is mostly the same.

4. I don't think it's a bad idea to follow courses as well. At least for me it would motivate me more if I learned something of value in addition to just getting a job. However, unless you are interested in it, don't worry about Math.

5. As others I would recommend to work through the book Cracking the Coding Interview. I also found the website interviewbit.com helpful. It's similar to leetcode, but they organize the questions by topic and gamified it. This helped me to stay motivated.

6. Also prepare for system design questions. Those are equally important as coding, algorithms and data structures for candidates that have industry experience.

7. Do mock interviews. Ask friends, otherwise there is a YC startup called Pramp.com. They allow to do mock interviews with peers for free. There also services that let you do payed mock interviews with people that actually work at big tech companies.

8. Don't be naive about what impact you can have working at big companies like Google. You are going to work on a small subpart.
Notes from the 2016 Ansible Community Survey
Very nice. But nobody is going to use it as it's solving a non problem. Nobody has any issue giving people an address.
It is a very nice shot, glad you risked it.
Doesn't make any difference at all. Its the same thing. Rewards/bonuses/raises et al are always limited. And people who suck up make it big in any set up.
It is called the social contract, and you are bound by it whether you like it or not.
I watch weightlifting pretty closely, and most of the globe's networks seem to stream the BBC feed. It's one of the better broadcasts out there -- really knowledgeable commentators, completely neutral, just there for the joy of the sport and competition.
I wonder what the actual work she did at Google that would make you work up to 130 hours a week, or at the least pull one all nighter a week. Was it heads down programming? I don't think anyone can maintain a great level of code for long at that level. Manager stuff? Maybe. Infrastructure, did she supervise or help set up servers? Startups don't have to do that anymore, at least in the beginning, just spin up servers at AWS. Like the blog author says, a lot of things that needed to be done in house back in the day can be done remotely now.
Is there a widely agreed limit on how heavy dark matter particles must be?

I remember some Starts with a Bang post that said they must me "warm" particles, and heavy ones couldn't accumulate enough energy for matching. But I've never seen anybody else alk about it.
Putting humanoid robots in contact with their environment
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/us/politics/dnc-emails-san...

Don't you think fair means, at a minimum, not doing that kind of thing? The DNC's officials were trying to persuade their own party's voters against one primary candidate and for another primary candidate.

As I understand it, a party's purpose is to organize and provide membership for people sharing whatever ideology they share, who are then (among other things) capable of signing petitions for candidates seeking to run under that Party's name. If enough party members from enough districts sign your petition, you're on that party's primary ballot in that State.

Most of what the DNC and RNC do, or what they should do, is either administrative, or attacking the other party. I'm not defending that DNC vs RNC dynamic; I think we'd probably be better off without the party system, at least as it currently exists as a privatized crony-capitalism bullshit theater with very public repercussions... and I'm also in favor of fixing the voting systems used by the States. But, in the meantime, the DNC and RNC should be banned from trying to influence their own primaries.

If DNC officials want to attack one primary candidate, they should quit the DNC and go work for an opposing primary candidate's campaign. They don't want to do that, because they'd lose the status of working under the aegis of the DNC; they'd be working merely for one candidate or another, any of which could lose.

To put it succinctly, a political party official should act in a purely administrative manner with respect to the party's own internal operation, including its primaries.
Pleasing people most definitely pays. That is how the world works; you give people what they want, and you get paid. Supply and demand.

Preachers of self-reliance seem to confuse "not letting other people affect you" and "not caring about other people".

Self-reliance and people-pleasing are two separate axes on a Cartesian plane. You can be both self-reliant and people-pleasing.

Being self-reliant, but not people-pleasing is trivial. If you isolate yourself, there is nobody to rely on!

In the same vein, it's easy to be moral and idealistic when alone. The real test is with real people, and whether you are still able to keep those ideals.

Wield both: self-reliance and people-pleasing. Then you will be a force to be reckoned with.

EDIT: Talking about truth and white lie as a dichotomy is childish. They are tools in a toolbox. If you feel guilty because you lied, then you are a slave to the principle of honesty. If you are thinking about which (truth or white lie) is better for the relationship, then you are a master in command of both principles.
Why the need every time this comes up to compare it to looking at doors from the sidewalk while walking our dogs? We're geeks, we understand what portscanning is well enough to form our own conclusions as to whether it is more right than wrong.

Conversely, we don't need a pedestrian ethicist to conceptualize looking at doors by asking us to think about walking around and observing houses innocently as being somehow congruent to portscanning. Analogies offer similarities, not equations.