skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've gone through all the questions on that website at least twice many of them three times with a whiteboard, I'll try putting it on the wall.

Like I said though I knew that I had done this question before and knew how to do it. Just like I knew that (x > 0 || x < 0) is the same thing as (x != 0). I think its the actual being in front of a stranger part that I need to practice most.
I was tempted not to reply given the topic but she mentioned them exemplary enough that it was worth checking. Plus, I added "ruthless" to her recommendation that determination trumps all other traits for success. Made me curious. So, I looked at their policy pages to find something about location listings. Here's my first find:

"Misrepresenting your spaces
You should not provide inaccurate location information, have incorrect availability, mislead people about the type, nature, or details of your listing, substitute one listing for another, set up fake or fraudulent listings, leave fraudulent reviews, engage in deceptive pricing, or fail to disclose hazards and habitability issues."

From here:

https://www.airbnb.com/standards

In the privacy policy here...

https://www.airbnb.com/terms/privacy_policy

...I noticed they had permission to display location-related stuff, which should be affected by other policy, in your profile with an "approximate location" on a map. There could be problems if approximation was wrong due to crappy, mapping service but good ones are usually pretty good.

Which policy link and quotes do you have that lets them lie about what has to be honest in the above sections? Or another I haven't seen?
There are companies like Novartis that are making glyphosate using the original now expired patent.

Monsanto has updated the product with a slightly improved formulation. I'm enough removed nowadays to be able to tell you if it's worth the slight extra money, but Monsanto still has the majority of the market.
Ah, yeah, this totally comes down to the age-old (or at least, decades-old) debate about what universities should be for: higher education or job training? The "job training" forces seem to be starting to win most of the mindshare, which I think is a bit of a shame, but c'est la vie.

Personally, I think splitting the two roles into different kinds of institutions with different goals makes a lot of sense, and we already have this with universities vs. trade schools and community colleges, but (unfortunately, IMO) employers have consistently shown that they prefer to hire people from places that at least make a show of being more of the "higher education" persuasion than the "job training" persuasion. Sooo, yeah, you're probably right that in the current world, universities should just do a better job of teaching job skills.
Settlements that are classified as penalties are generally not tax deductible. Settlements that are classified as remedial/restorative generally are.

This was no doubt a topic of discussion and planning before the settlement was entered into. The article repeatedly refers to it as a "penalty", but it's unclear if that's colloquial or specifically informed language.
Alex Jones’ Infowars Hacked; Thousands of Accounts Sold Online – JeK LoY
Its interesting to me you think youngest generation of internet users get this. I do hope its the case. I always thought it was the people around at start of net who would get it. I was around preNet and remember how dangerous and scammy everything was so I never sign up for things like facebook or use real name etc. My first thought when I saw facebook was its a great way to get stalked and killed or targeted for whatever people can think of.
Why do you think there's an evolutionary explanation for it beyond "the human brain is a big lump of meat in a chemical stew and stuff happens sometimes"?
The future of driver-less cars, from Audi to Volvo
A similar thing happen to me, so I feel your pain
continue=https://www.google.com/amp/yahoo.com is taking me to a Google error page that says yahoo.com is invalid amp code.
> In the US, the fact that waiters are paid less than minimum wage and expected to make it up on tips is often cited to explain why it is so bad to not tip at all.

Where in the world did you hear that?
I'm confused by your post. "Roundup Ready" plants are genetically engineered to be resistant to the effects of glyphosate.
Having experienced this personally, no, it isn't.
Me too. I was thinking of this Nature article from 1906: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v75/n1938/abs/075173c0....
I don't know. It doesn't feel as bad to me, but I suppose you could make a case that it is.

The witch hunt dynamic is really a problem and when it gets going—which unfortunately it did in this case—intervention is required.
you could live in a regular mansion
I don't think there needs to be malice here. They do need to sell newspapers and Theranos cultivated a high profile media image so people are interested in them.
First, do no harm.
My company spends hundreds of thousands of dollars every month with Adwords, soon to be in the millions. My business partner and I have spent many nights discussing whether or not we should try and build another company with the sole intent of solving Adwords fraud. It exists on an enormous scale. If someone already has, please send me a PM and we'll happily be a customer.
I'm sorry, what? I think you're probably trying to say I'm wrong in some offensive way, but I have no idea what you're talking about.
The Strategic Subjects List
> Sure, it's a little bothersome when the information that you've given them goes farther than your personal preference, but it's not a 'dark pattern', it's just a feature that you don't like.

Convincing users to accept a feature they would otherwise opt out of if they had a reasonable choice and/or fully understood the feature seems like a textbook dark pattern to me. Hiding the data collection policy inside a giant EULA or using a carrot feature as a lure is indeed intended to trick the user. The fact that many services have adopted these tactics does not change their being dark patterns; it just means dark patterns have proliferated and become the norm.
That's not how it works.

Eating the livestock (or drinking the milk) transfers antibiotics to our bodies, and then we become the environment in which bacteria are selected for resistance to antibiotics.
"Huh, and here I thought it was access to family money and Ivy League elite connections. Who knew?"

That, too. There's many more who have access to those than who run Fortune 100 companies or the U.S. government. Additional traits factored in to filter the ones that made it. My reading on many of them led me to think a few were important. So, connections and starting point plus those traits.
> Uglify has its own parser and transformer and generator, so arguably any work that goes into that is duplicate work because Babel already covers most of what it does.

That seems a little hubristic... Not everyone uses Babel, and working with the Uglify devs to get it ES2015+ compliant (through whatever means, including adding a different AST parser) would make the entire community better, not just Babel. Since not all browsers support ES2015, I have to use babel, but if I didn't need to use Babel, I wouldn't. But now I'm kind of forced to for uglification now until ES2015 support comes to Uglify.

> Re parsers: we had to fork acorn because they were understandably skeptical of adding all the experimental and non-standard features (JSX and flow types) that Babel supports.

JSX and Flow are not part of ES spec. I can understand those being in a different parser, but that's a flimsy argument for creating a whole new parser. If you had to create a brand new parser to handle this, it seems like a Babel issue, not a parser issue.
Guillotineplex
Not quite.

1. Their tech is _deeply_ unproven. Theranos doesn't even use it internally, and the sanctions against them in the past year have been very instructive about that. They have exactly zero publically disclosed, peer-reviewed pieces of evidence that detail the clinical use and efficacy of their primary technology.

2. Thou Shalt have an IRB [0]. No exceptions. The tuskegee experiment[1] and other utter failures of medical ethics in this country is why.

[0]: http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/regulations/4...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment
This is what I get: "Sorry, this page is not valid AMP HTML"
Or, another way to think of it is that a company that has already harmed people with false claims about the suitability of nanotainer technology in medical screening is prevented from doing further damage because they still can't manage to clear even the lower bar the FDA the has set for approval in such public health emergencies--a lower bar that other vendors have managed to clear for their already-approved Zika tests.
If it's as successful as Google+, you'll also be stuck waiting for 15 years.
August 2016 GNU Toolchain Update
The reason the government incentivizes whistleblowing and protects those that do so is because without those laws there is a legitimate fear of retaliation. In order to protect itself, the government makes sure that that fear is actualized when whistleblowing on it.

I have to agree with the GP that when pointing out breaking the law is breaking the law, there is a loss of legitimacy.
All these garbage tests need to go into the standard lib.

from jobinterviews import fizzbuzz, redblacktree, irrelevanttheoreticaltest

fizzbuzz()
redblacktree()
irrelevanttheoreticaltest()
Can't speak for the OP but: everywhere?
Do you happen to be on mobile? This particular site only works on desktop, at the moment. I’ll do a screenrecording for you mobile users in a moment.

https://cdn.kuschku.de/ServiceLogin/video.mp4
> Working in SV magically makes you a better developer now?

I don't think that follows from the comment. You've reversed the causality. The comment was just saying that there's a correlation between better developers and living in SV. Not saying I agree, but it seems likely. Wouldn't it be a self selected group of more driven programmers?
+1 on RiakCS. They now call it RiakS2 for kicks. The scalability and reliability of their server is insane. You just can't beat Erlang software in that regard.

Unfortunately, Basho has been so successful with their TSDB and KV products that they have basically put S2 on maintenance mode. They are still "supporting" it, but no new features. I was hoping this Minio tool could do something similar, but with a single daemon is a single point of failure. Unacceptable for serious deployments.
While Chrome technically does not have the kind of root program that other OS or browser vendors run, they have the ability to revoke trust for specific roots, plus other things, like enforcing CT for specific CAs. Given that there's already a root program that's being run transparently, there's not that big of an incentive to run yet another root program, IMO. Plus, while I'm extremely happy that Mozilla is running their own root program for various reasons, using existing OS APIs for these things seems like the cleanest approach (if you can't trust your OS to make these decisions, you probably have bigger problems and shouldn't run that OS anyway).
I think they meant trading firms and funds.
What? Are you kidding me? The law is the law. The regulations are there for a reason. The people you should be mad at here are Theranos if you really think they were going to do something good, they are the ones who screwed up.

I'm not comfortable with companies skirting the law "because it's an emergency."
Starting with the firmware released in July it caused my iphone to lock up for seconds at a time in any other application. It took me a long time to narrow it down to the pebble app, but that was definitely the culprit.

Before I figured out that it was the pebble, I thought it was bluetooth itself - because when I turned off the bluetooth, the phone acted normally. Which sucked because I use about 6 bluetooth devices with my phone. Two cars, headphones, and indoor/outdoor home entertainment systems.

6+ with always the latest iOS if any of you pebble people are reading this. It's been a nightmare for the past two months, what was otherwise an absolute brilliant experience up until that point. This is a pebble time kickstarter edition.
When that chain is complicit all the way up, there's no longer a legitimate path to raise the red flag.

We know the chain was complicit all the way up to Clapper, and so did Snowden, which then makes "proper paths" illegitimate.
"Flight-proven" as opposed to those inferior non-flight-proven rockets we're so used to.
In a few years, perhaps flying your cargo on an un-flight-proven rocket will be the risky option. I applaud SES for being the early adopters, and SpaceX for always pushing the boundaries.
It's true that WebSockets is nothing new, and the title did make it sound like the next new shiny thing. I wouldn't say that it's abandoned though - its adoption is still spreading from where I see, and it's very useful during build/development too, i.e., live-reload on code change.

"..that we abused the web to become a new desktop"

Yesterday's hacks become tomorrow's standards..!
Ignore this person, they don't know what they are talking about.
Guess what asshole, if you are so unstable in your existence that simply losing your job would mean you cant take care of your kids, THEN YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE KIDS.
Dell aims for eye tracking
Your profile picture would go away on the second page though, which might be unusual.

I recommend installing this extension, however: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/password-alert/noo...
It takes an extra click to figure out who the execs are if only the company name is released. The drop off is probably an order of magnitude. Guess that makes sense.
Digital “lava lamp” with .js
Lisa Steen: The wilderness of the medically unexplained
> burb-rats

Ironic, considering that "Silicon Valley" is a bougie suburban wasteland where Michelin restaurants can be found in strip malls.
I found that mock interviews helped me to some degree with this. It's hard for me to talk and write code simultaneously, so practicing in front of someone who is an experienced interviewer helped me gain some confidence in whiteboard coding.
And that’s the thing, thanks to Let’s Encrypt, the padlock on the fake site also stays, everything looks normal.

If you now also register something like accountsgoogle.com or a similar page, people likely wouldn’t even notice.

This is like it’s made for phishing.
India's new startup hub Bhubaneswar is serious about catching up with Bangalore
First of all, open redirection is not a serious vulnerability. Serious vulnerabilities include remote code execution, SQL injection and cross-slide scripting (depending on the context). Serious vulnerabilities can be used to compromise user accounts without their interaction. Vulnerability severity is always a bit of a touchy subject, but calling open redirection serious is either hyperbolic or report-padding for security consultants.

Second, this vulnerability cannot be used to compromise user accounts or data, let alone with or without their interaction. It is a social engineering attack that could work, yes, but the Google Vulnerability Rewards Program is specifically designed to reward researchers for reporting technical security vulnerabilities, not those leveraged through social engineering.

Third, this is a rabbit hole. Google's core functionality is redirecting users to third party websites. You can just as easily send someone a link to a Google redirector that occurs in the browser when you click on a search result. It's not feasible to prevent this, and it's not feasible to prevent social engineering in general.

Bug bounty programs require a hard line somewhere in order to function. In order for an attack to be acceptable, it must have a clearly demonstrable foundation in a software implementation failure. It must be clearly defined as a logic error, not an error in human reasoning. The only cases where open redirection and social engineering are eligible are those where they are simply peripheral - an actual technical vulnerability that allows these attacks to scale far beyond manual means (an example might be a technical failure in Facebook's linkshim service).

I am disappointed in seeing that this story has risen to the top of the HN front page, because I believe there isn't a single security engineer here that would agree this is a technical vulnerability that should be eligible for a reward.
> a company news release[0] said Theranos had collected finger-stick blood samples from patients, including in the Dominican Republic, and run the tests on the new miniLab device, which showed that the Zika test worked.

From the news release:

> The company collected finger- stick samples from subjects, including in the Dominican Republic, and shipped those to Palo Alto to run on the miniLab.

0: https://news.theranos.com/2016/08/02/theranos-unveils-diagno...
For anyone with questions about how to properly shard a table, how to fit a problem to a distribution strategy, or general questions about deployment, Citus has a Slack channel which is active and extremely welcoming. You can request an invite here: https://slack.citusdata.com/

Disclaimer: don't work there, but on the Slack and the Citus team is nothing short of awesome.
I also Gnus to read my email every once in a while and when I tried it last week, it complained

Opening connection to imap.gmail.com via tls...
Opening TLS connection to `imap.gmail.com'...
Opening TLS connection with `gnutls-cli --insecure -p 993 imap.gmail.com'...done
Opening TLS connection to `imap.gmail.com'...done
nnimap (gmail) open error: 'NO (ALERT) Please log in via your web browser:
https://support.google.com/mail/accounts/answer/78754 (Failure)'. Continue? (y or n)

This used to work until a few months ago. It is also possible that something is missing on my computer. My computer was stolen recently and I haven't quite had the time to get to the bottom of this and several other similar things :/
Correction: CMU CS undergraduate program admits 300 each year, 135 enroll. The acceptance rate is around 6%
I primarily use mine for OctoPrint for controlling my 3d printer. Plan on getting a second to finish up a ambilight TV DIY mod.
My sister's public middle school in Indiana has student book fees, and various fees for using mandatory assigned Chromebooks, some of which are refunded if it's returned in good order at the end of the year, some aren't.

If you are low-income, you can get the fees waived, and the majority of her school books are still free. But not all.
> proving a new use for an out-of-patent drug is a lot of work for very little money.

That's not entirely true. There are programs in the US and UK which offer "marketing exclusivity" for companies that perform trials validating new uses for existing drugs. These aren't exactly patents, but it does provide a financial incentive.
I may be alone on this, but I assume that the de-prioritization of safety is a learned behavior. I don't check a town before I move to see if their water is potable (never lived in Michigan) because that's been a reliable guarantee for me. On the other hand, I have picked locations by the ISP because I know that getting stuck with Comcast is likely to cause me suffering.

Another example for me is roller coasters. In the US I trust implicitly in their safety. On the other hand, when I was recently presented to ride one of those handbrake car tracks down a mountain in southern China, I thought about the rickety bus I rode to get there, on horrendous streets with serious flooding problems, and I actually did consider the safety because I that I was in a place where it may not be automatic.
That makes sense. I think its the talking while thinking/writing part thats hard. When I'm around strangers I usually want to fill the silence with some kind of conversation, silence feels awkward, yet I need to allow myself time to think.
A lot of the people that hate on programming interviews haven't had to interview candidates. Don't get me wrong, interviews are still annoying and sorta broken but your perspective really changes when you're the one filtering candidates.
Maybe I missed the sarcasm, but FSU's football team has been ranked well several times recently.

Of course, I'm from UF....so maybe I should be agreeing with you ;)
Which might be unusual, unless you add an error message, as in this example:

https://cdn.kuschku.de/ServiceLogin/video.mp4
Joke? Non-dictatorship is one of the mutually impossible criteria of Arrow's impossibility theorem. "The only fair voted government is a dictatorship" is an accurate statement of the theorem, as far as it goes.
Grateful Dead Fan Timothy Tyler Has Been Granted Clemency
I spent 10 years in the medical research world. Not having IRB approval is such a basic error. IRBs are set up to ensure that all research conducted on humans is safe and ethical. If this was not Theranos and someone was say giving high level of radiation as part of an experiment I doubt you would be as forgiving. Or maybe PII gets published as part of a study on STDs and people are publicly identified. IRBs exist to protect patients and prevent researchers from harming them, either intentionally or unintentionally.
Gen.lib.rus.ec

It has really an impressive selection on textbooks of any kind.
And in other news, their general counsel stepped down.
I just found this other Ask HN thread on the topic that has some good thoughts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1618500
Fitness doesn't require intentional exercise.
An amblight! thats sounds like something I could use, are you gonna follow any tutotial for that? do you have the link?
This isn't quite true. Yes, the BofA head office is in Charlotte. I used to work there. All the interesting work happened at BofA NYC, regardless of its smaller size. The same was true with Wells Fargo. In fact even BofA SF in the financial district does a lot more interesting math especially in hedging and risk, compared to Charlotte.
So don't be fooled by the physical location of the bank's head office - most of the interesting work happens in the bank's NYC branch, which is where the talent is.
it's all relative man... most of the mundane scenery out here in the MTN West would be packaged as a state park in the uninspiring parts of the country.

Sorry, I'm such as scenery snob now, after moving to the Mtn West from the Midwest...
> We don't use FizzBuzz or anything like it when we screen potential new hires at PromptWorks, and I've never actually been asked to implement it.

welp
It has happened yet. You know what William Gibson says- the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed yet.

There are several X that are the new "silicon valley". you just don't recognize them because your pattern recognition is tuned for the current silicon valley.

Several of those predictions, by the way, have come true. Of course if you define "silicon valley" narrow enough you'll never see it. And it seems to me the people in SV do so. (You can always come up with a difference between SV and what ever place and say "see that doesn't qualify")

Also, the attitude and smugness of silicon valley is grating, and its' getting worse as your decline deepens.
Dark patterns ask you to sit in a chair, without telling you that you can get paid to stand. (masking benefit without restricting access to the benefit; misdirection but without total erosion of trust)

This is about exploiting the exposure of unique identifiers (phone number mapped to email), and an interloping tattle-tale ratting out their correlation to the same owner.

It's something more akin to a Prisoner's Dilema, except people aren't cognizant that "They Are The Product" so no one thinks of themselves as prisoners ratting out conspirators.
There was an article I read (can't find the link now) about how people discard unused antibiotics improperly and how bacteria in the wild become resistant over time.