skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Local bookstore has the value of being a bookstore. Personally I love the feeling of space filled with works of print, any of them browsable by will. The experience of connecting with something physical is what makes it different from just browsing amazon's kindle store.
There's nothing unethical in port scanning.
And funnily enough, Google itself is behind a lot of that JS bloat and background tracking. They are probably not the ones that should be pointing fingers at Flash.
It's not every single post. "How do HTTP requests get sent to the right place?" have been posted on HN (because anyone can do that) but not gotten more than a couple of votes. Some, like "PolyConf 2016," didn't get posted at all.

It's fine for you not to find every post on HN interesting or discussion-worthy. There are other people who are interested and having a good discussion.
> If you say two knots are equivalent, in mathematics, that means they are equal, one and the same.

As far as I know a knot is a continuous embedding of S^1 into R^3. Equal means exactly same subset of R^3. Equivalence of knots means that there is a suitable ambient isotopy between the nots (I just looked this up in wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_theory#Knot_equivalence). So equality is a much stronger criterion than equivalence.

So 'equal => equivalence', but the other direction 'equivalence => equal' trivially does not hold (just apply some transition in R^3; these knots are equivalent but not equal).
> Simple things such as disabling updates is not possible -- because it is not in Apple's interest.

That seems disingenuous. Yes there is no explicit switch that prevents the user being informed about updates ever again, but there are no forced updates that I'm aware of. If you don't want to update, don't.
The shortcuts are .u and .r (note the dot). Hover over the "Mark" button to see it. Maybe they don't communicate the shortcuts in the best way but your post is overly inflammatory. This kind of language has no place on HN.
If knowing that a certain port is open at a certian ip address compromises your security, you have already lost in my opinion. Anything that deofuscates secuity though obscurity is a good thing.
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Please stop. Invoking race was completely unnecessary for making your point. If you really meant class, you should have said so. I know middle class people of all backgrounds.
Why doesn't the government use them to buy stuff from Microsoft or some other vendor they have that accepts BitCoin?
Note that Safari 10 hasn't actually been released yet - it's only in a Developer Preview
And maybe it's just me but I think colored lines would be clearer than those colored surfaces which seem to originate at 0 after the gapss.
Sometimes you get a bad manager or you get into a bad situation. Sometimes you don't. Without the details on why this person actually was fired, we're just speculating and adding more to rumors.
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Google's TPU claims to have a >10x perf/w advantage over GPUs (they state competitors, but GPUs are the defacto standard) and thats frankly more important that raw throughput at scale.

If Intel can ape Nvidia at deep learning then it is a big growth opportunity for them.
Last place I was at the payback was pro-rata, so there was no real incentive for firing on that basis.
Add "Outside Steam". FTL just works in Steam.
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Many Big Cos do. One reason you are often better off working for small companies. Risk is they can't always pay as well.
And age
Nothing per se. It's just that it lags far enough behind CUDA that unless you have a specific reason to avoid NVIDIA hardware there are very few pragmatic reasons to use it.
What bad grammar?
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Thanks, couldn't find info on storage space over at kolabnow. Posteo I've looked at before, it would cost me 6€ for 22GB, which is not too bad.
Building the ring would be interesting engineering challenge. Once you build it with sun in its center of mass, it's in unstable equilibrium, so you only need to compensate for the drift. But until it is built, your components have to orbit the sun. So the finished ring would also keep this momentum and it would be rotating around its center.
Probably their usual supplier is slower. I haven't had a bookstore order something for me in a few years, but it used to take more than 2 days to get the item. I'm guessing that the distributors that supply bookstores are optimized to deliver large shipments, not one-off orders.
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Very good. See https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/search.html for an overview of what it can do. It's also quite fast, I have a decade of email in my account (tens of thousands of messages) and a search through all of these messages takes only a second.
I would prefer Amazon knows I read game of thrones vs putting on pants to leave the house.
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I don't live in the US, I mean in most developed economies contactless is fairly common place.
this, + a lot of job searching happens in a desperate daze.
Yes. A lot of people on here are being too literal. If one just wants the facts associated with something as historically convoluted as this, you probably want a numerical table with lots of footnotes.
Kademlia search is also rather useless as it is flooded with false results. This is of interest not only to malware writers but also as a service to sell to rights holders.
Ex amzn here: survivor bias is a huge. You hear very different stories when talking to the few (starry-eyed) employees and the many ex employees.
Why is this just making its way to HN front page right now?
Pure guesswork:

Java stems from Sun. Sun made Solaris. And Solaris had an ideology about transparency and discoverability of running systems. They have some outright amazing tools for introspection into a binary that is running. This probably creates an environment in which the same would happen for the JVM. In fact, the `jstack` name seem very familiar to DTrace (and mdb(1)) users.

Days since I last solved a problem on the JVM through a heapDump: 2.
a friend of mine who works at Amazon (Toronto), got an 8K signing bonus. He just graduated from University (and he worked there for 4 months before graduating on a co-op).

As for signing bonuses, I have read contracts from various startups that want you to pay your signing bonus (which is generally about 5k) back if you leave within the first year.
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Runs previous command with replace
Again, caveat emptor. The code is readable and runnable by everyone. In this case, the analogy is entering a contract without reading the contract.
Digging deeper into my thoughts, I found that I was wanting to express this gratitude I am feeling for those who have lost their battle to ALS. I am saddened that anyone had to lose their life to this nasty disease and it pains me that so many suffered a horrible fight and continue to this day to loose to this battle. I want to give thanks to all the amazing and courageous fighters that have faced this disease head on, who endured so much and gave a strong fight to the end. These people paved the way for all of us now who are getting cured...including myself.
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Works for me on Chrome 52 / Linux.
Digging deeper into my thoughts, I found that I was wanting to express this gratitude I am feeling for those who have lost their battle to ALS. I am saddened that anyone had to lose their life to this nasty disease and it pains me that so many suffered a horrible fight and continue to this day to loose to this battle. I want to give thanks to all the amazing and courageous fighters that have faced this disease head on, who endured so much and gave a strong fight to the end. These people paved the way for all of us now who are getting cured...including myself.
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So, what does this mean? Should I consider Secure Boot broken on x86 systems?
That iGPU (HD 4400, 20 EU) is more than enough for most of these games. I guess Intel's Linux driver is more buggy than AMD.
For quick scripts I don't see how it's wrong. I mean, even wrong is really just "wasting time a bit" here.
It is an important but somehow always glossed over argument in the "are snap/flatpack necessary?" debate, if our most successful way of game distribution uses related technologies (with related drawbacks).
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In arenas of scale, yes. If you are the low-cost, mass offering, then wringing out unit economics is all that matters to you. Your customers are interchangeable and you can safely assume that there are more price-sensitive ones than there are those who value morals higher.

Morals are God's concern, therefore it's up to God to enforce them. God needs to reach his hand down and decree to the land that thou shalt not abuse your employees. This reverberates throughout the land and causes the powerful to tremble in fear. They all get together in a room and quietly make plans to appease the masses so they don't pray for blood or start a revolution.

Of course, in this case God is the government. Given enough political pressure, legislators can pass laws that change the landscape of commerce. Pressure can compel prosecutors to prosecute, regulators to punish. The threat of these punishments is often enough to keep the unscrupulous in line and allow the virtuous to have their say.
Agreed.

The last time I was involved in anything like this I used zmap to scan for open rsync shares. Without wanting to be click-baity the results shocked me!

https://blog.steve.fi/Secure_your_rsync_shares__please_.html
Thanks! We work hard on it. If you like Wine and want to support its development financially, the best way is to buy a copy of CrossOver from my employer, even if you don't use it. Our salaries don't come from nowhere ;)
I was recently recruited by Amazon's video division but I had to decline due to personal issues. Looks like I dodged a bullet.
It's just the impression I got from your comment.

I'm very interested in knowing what do you expect Apple to offer in addition to what we have in the UK.
Ex amzn here: most of my ex colleagues agree that claims regarding opportunities for growth and so on are massively exaggerated by managers and HR.
Maybe I'm daft, but his table says 502 lines in 1.558 seconds. So 322 lines/second. I thought the Go compiler was supposed to be amazingly fast? That is not fast at all.
There are several tunnel effects in the XScreensaver collection and rss-glx (timetunnel, atunnel, blocktube, hufo's tunnel). I don't know if any of them use this same approach. Maybe Hufo's tunnel does, it looks similar.
Okay I can buy that type of scenario. Something along the lines of cperciva's sibling comment. This could be such a case. But I still think it's a stretch. I wonder if they ever redact random things just to distract.
Intel's linux driver isn't necessarily buggy, but doesn't support the same OpenGL version/extensions. If a game needs those, tough luck on Intel.
> the Palestinian can't because he's not a Jew. Comparing the Mexican to the Palestinian is a laugh.

The palestinian is a Jordanian citizen and can vote in whatever election process Jordan allows its citizens. Or, at least, was until Jordan revoked that citizenship (which it has been doing for a while, incidentally because palestinians were threatening the Jordanian rulers[0]). I think Jordan at some point voided all of its claims to the west bank.

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

No, there aren't. Some of them wish it was annexed, and are working towards this, but fifty years later, there has been zero official movement towards. Those same people, by the way, talked exactly the same way about annexing Gaza -- which was unilaterally pulled out from.

> Then you say Palestinians are separate so should not be in the Knesset.

Yes. Just like the Gazans before them. It is likely that Israel will pull out, possibly unilaterally, out of the west bank, possibly following some forced land exchange.

Soundbites not withstanding, pre-1948 Palestinians that accepted Israel at its founding are Israeli citizens to this day (about 16% of the population, of which ~90% are Muslim and ~10% are christian).

> .... So Israelis condemning Hamas carries little weight.

So? The west supported Saddam Hussein up until the day they didn't. Alliances change. The Hamas of 1980 was against PLO and not throwing rockets at Israel, so it was supported by Israel. The Hamas of 2006 is throwing rockets at Israel, so is condemned by Israel.

> Also, Israel has a large and rapidly growing population of Jewish religious fundamentalists who control ALL marriages in Israel .... Israel has a large population of Jews like this.

You are deeply misinformed about this (and I suspect about other issues as well). Indeed there are jewish sects that are as horrible in their approach to freedom as Hamas and Saudi Arabia is, but

(a) they absolutely no control of "all marriages" and not even jewish marriages (and legally, not even within those same sects, although believers may choose to adhere), and

(b) even though they might like to, they cannot shoot or jail gay people or drop them off buildings the way Hamas and Saudi Arabia do, because that's not the law of the land. In fact, one of them just got life in prison for stabbing a gay pride participant. and

(c) While it this population is of nontrivial size, it is still a very small minority.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September
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> Playdead's Limbo is a case in point

What do you mean ?　Limbo is on Steam for Linux as well...
http://store.steampowered.com/app/48000/
Author here. It is quite true that I am no fan of cryptocurrency in general, for all sorts of detailed reasons.

If you can posit a positive outlook on this idea that isn't just hype and scams - and that would stand up to examination by people who know the technology, the cryptocurrency field (and the sort of thing that happens there) and the music industry - I would be most interested to hear it.
Unless I'm completely getting myself confused then it's doing something I didn't think was possible and drawing over the browser chrome.

Can anyone explain what's going on here.
"it's not too difficult to get hired" - is this right? I've had friends go through 3-4 (I think five, for one) rounds of interviews.
Interestingly I use `ls -p` all the time, just to list directories:

# ls for Directories.
function lsd
{
ls -1p $* | grep '/$'
}

Works nicely.
Everytime I hear these stories, there are 2 things that go through my mind.

1) I'm never going to work at Amazon

2) If you're judging a company based on the experiences of those who are dissatisfied, isn't that always going to be heavily biased?

At any large company, there will be many people who are unhappy and dissatisfied. If you go out looking for stories from such people, and compile them into a single digest, it's going to make any company look dysfunctional.

Using a glassdoor-esque rating system seems like the best way to judge a company. And Amazon's rating there is 3.4 (https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Amazon-com-Reviews-E6036.h...). Which is nowhere near Google (4.4) or Facebook (4.5), but it isn't horrible either. It's even slightly above average (3.3) across all companies in Glassdoor.

Which does kind of make sense... no tech company can churn out great technology products over many years, if the work-culture is dysfunctional. Purely for that reason alone, I'm sure Bezos would put a lid on how bad the work culture at Amazon can possibly get.

All of which is to say... I get the feeling that Amazon is probably an okay place to work. It's not great. It's probably a little below-average for the tech industry. But it's probably not as dysfunctional as these reviews and horror stories seem to suggest.
Well done, thanks!

BTW, this is a quick way to generate an higher resolution map on the site. Open the developer tools, remove the width from .note (it's the container of the column), inspect the map at the bottom and set the height and width of the canvas to suit your needs. Then click on the Generate button.

Maybe the page could be changed to extract that canvas from the column layout and make it fit the viewport.
My brother's laptop has an Intel HD 4xxx (it might be 4440) and it works perfectly. Intel Linux drivers tend to be good in my experience.
"You can fool some people some times, but you can't fool all the people all the time..."
These dolphins are laughing at your ridiculous tech mistakes
Surely that would just lead to companies that own lots of smaller companies? (Aware this is already the case on a different scale) And then communication gets completely dredged between companies as there are so many to work with?
August 10, 2016 12:30 UTC the link contains two .jpg images implying the material has been removed.

Related story at The Register:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/10/microsoft_secure_boo...

and the source it links to:

https://rol.im/securegoldenkeyboot/
My understanding is that math doesn't predict anything. What actually happens is that a few hundred PhD candidates every year try and extrapolate from current data to viable new models - of which there are many.

Once in a while someone gets lucky and makes a guess that happens to match experimental reality. But it's more like a lottery than a demonstration of the predictive power of maths. They get a career and possibly a Nobel prize, and all the many, many people who made equally plausible predictions that happened not to match experimental reality are quietly forgotten.

Game changers like Einstein and Newton turn up occasionally, but they're very rare. We're desperately in need of one now, but the current academic system would probably exclude someone like Einstein. ("Works in a patent office" won't get you into Nature.)

The problem now is it's getting harder and more expensive to test new possibilities. The Standard Model is obviously incomplete, SUSY doesn't seem to be working out, there are a lot of loose ends, but it's hard to sell funding bodies on bigger accelerator designs if there's no serious prospect of finding new stuff.
Yeah, but they are also tightly regulated by APRA and when the GFC was happening and everyone else was worried about their banking system ours was stronger than ever.
Only because Microsoft pours a lot of effort into their compatibility modes, emulating older API versions for old programs.
This number is not true I guess.
scalac with idomatic Scala code (no Macro's) is at 500-700 loc/sec. (And scalac is considered slow by many people)

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxyyJyB_Ssc

That would be a slowdown of like 4x to current javac, I guess his computer is just not good enough?
Entire IPv4 Internet, I think they mean.
I agree with you, although many years ago I got an official warning from the head of IT security at the university I was attending (and working at the computer labs) for allowing a friend of mine to run a port scanning script across a large portion of the allocated IPv4 address space. Apparently they'd had complaints... They saw the ethics of port scanning as a grey area, tending towards black.
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It is great. My mobile career exposed a huge /8 network and we could even scan it to find some lonely IoT devices with default root passwords with masscan in minutes.
Vulnerable devices are vulnerable. It doesn't matter if this tool exists they are eventually going to found out. Just look at shodan.io to get an idea.

What this does is allow security researchers to better assess the vulnerability of the Internet as a whole. We need a better understanding of what's going on.

You could be a white knight and patch vulnerable devices using that very same security hole. In fact I would really enjoy having our governments offering this as a service instead of spending so much energy on attacking the others (or at least notify the owner).
Not now it seems.
Curious about this as well, didn't think you could escape the viewport but clearly it was overlaying the lock icon in my address bar.

The tracking wasn't great, but maybe that was intentional to illustrate a point.
Ask HN: How to Prepare for the Final On-Site Interview?
I passed four rounds of interviews (3 technicals) and the company is now flying me to their HQ for a final on site interview. They said half day.

They didn't give me any details about the agenda so I don't know exactly what to expect. I believe it will be hand shaking, some more tech interviewing and the "culture" test.

Now this is my first time doing an onsite and I don't really know how I should better prepare. Advices?
Many reasons but one is money for equipment. Things like running and boxing have very low barrier of entry. While a healthy human can run anywhere for free (I guess preferably with some decent shoes) you need a modern very expensive bicycle to compete in that sport just as an example. Also a large middle class that has working parents who can support and spend money on a child to train and learn is a big part. Many poorer nations children young/adults need to be working and not training for the Olympics. Overall it's disposable income and disposable time being the crucial factor.
angular2 uses it.

I have an additional node.
considering I change a upper shadow-root which has 50+ shadow-roots it's 50 more node's.

We have lists which have a component per cell and per row which is like 100x10 lines. That would mean 1000 x 2 node's more? Changing the whole table would probably be way slower without the inner shadow-root's.
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It really depends on the games. The vast majority won't even be interesting after a year, but there's a few gems that are timeless.

Although those are also the games that tend to get regular remakes; while I still have my Final Fantasy VII disks for Playstation 1 I'd rather fire up the Steam port than mess around with an emulator. Or OpenXcom rather than the DOXBox'd original.
Yeah, that's hilarious. NoScript improves the web yet again.
Anecdotal from the Midwest:

Ethiopian restaurant - 12.6 miles

Improv Theatre - 64.9 miles

Dueling Pianos - 65.1 miles
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Apparently if you actually try it, you get fired

Well, of course you get fired. You're obviously a malcontent, and clearly not a team player. But, in fairness to Bezos, this is pretty much SOP at many companies.
There just wasn't enough work and money put into these open source players.

For instance there is proprietary Flash implementation called Scaleform used for games UI. Even long ago before Autodesk acquired them it's had both decent compatibility with normal SWF as well as full GPU acceleration for every platform possible include Linux.
Let A Hundred Flowers Bloom.
Tests prevent you from accidentally breaking features. If you want to deliberately break a feature to see whether anyone uses it, you can still do that. Surely it's better for this to be a conscious decision rather than random accident.
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