skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone needs to make a good market for this.
Giving Olympic athletes 900 identical bags backfires badly at baggage claim
How about let individuals decide if a school is good, and not the federal government? AKA Capitalism.
CrowdStrike finds a bridge to Google's VirusTotal
Ironic article given the innate moral hazard for VC firms on the subject. The interests of funding VCs and startup employees only align in unusual cases.
I think about hiring a lot and I see a lot of companies doing things that I think are completely opposed to their own goals. Specifically around technical talent where, given the current market, the goal is almost always to out-compete other companies by finding good candidates that others would have turned away because of cargo-cult awful interview processes and standards.

This looks great from what's printed on the page.

The question that jumps out at me from reading the interview prep screenshot is: How often does a candidate fail the "work on your own project" part simply because the people watching them have no interest in the problem space or worse, no idea what's going on? I just don't see how that type of interview could be scored equitably across a range of candidates.

Is that considered a failure on culture grounds? I'm highly suspect of basically all culture related hiring standards.
From what I can tell cyclists tend to ignore the rules more often in an attempt to conserve that all-important momentum. Particularly in downtown areas where traffic lights are very close together.
WhatsApp privacy backlash: Facebook angers users by harvesting their data
It is, but California's emissions standards have been adopted by other states, and a lot of companies just make one model that is compliant in all 50 states. I'm not sure what the cost difference is these days, but I wonder if it's worth having to maintain two separate lines of inventory. It presents a problem to people who buy a new car, then move to California. If there aren't enough miles on the odometer, California will refuse to register the car because it doesn't meet their emissions standards.
'Braidio' tech lets mobile devices share power
> I don't see a similar issue with for-profit schools. In order to attract students they need to to provide good education and foster a good reputation.

Or they just need to dupe people who don't know any better.

A lot of the people who end up at these places are poor, don't have friends or relatives with college degrees, didn't get good advice, and simply don't know how to recognize a scam. Now they have six figures of student loan debt they can't get rid of, and a low-prestige degree that many employers won't even consider.
Database development is hard - especially from scratch. Oracle reached mainstream stability only in version 5. In the early days you cycle between feature development and stabilization - nothing new there. I like the transparency and commitment from the team. Source: I've been an early database core engineer.
I am concerned that we will kill the golden goose...neighborhoods will consist of only the elderly (who remain by virtue of prop 13), and the wealthy. Seems inevitable that neighborhoods of this composition can only support service industries (hair salons, restaurants etc) and will eventually become economic dead zones.

In this model, the Bay Area becomes a glorified version of Sand Hill Road...cozy offices for a very few at the top...and every other facet of industry pushed out to affordable areas.
No doubt ITT's problem is that Kaplan University had already hired Anita Dunn and there wasn't another White House staffer ready to transition to the private sector.
If they don't trust you enough to keep that information confidential, then why are they extending an offer to you at all?
Free Course–Create Complete Web Apps Without Coding (4.7/5, 1000+students)
How does one browse the slides on mobile?
If you surf LinkedIn logged out, you'll see that there isn't very much information available anyway. And there's no money in people search.

Yelp was very responsive when blekko wrote them; as you can see ScoutJet has the same access as googlebot.
How does one monitor the infection of an iOS device and how do you capture and store all the stages of an infection?

I've never done any reverse engineering so I'm not sure how you'd go about recording what an infection like this does to your device...
How Xiaomi lost $40bn in valuation over just 18 months
Yes, that's better put.
But the business got bought. That's not being not successful.
It's really good to hear that some tech companies are being mature about the process.

I've been in almost all positions of a hiring team: phone screen, white boarding, Q&A, etc.; and in the end I want to hear what this person can bring to the company and see if they're a good fit or vice versa.

I feel like so many places put emphasis on abstract knowledge and technical ability and leave out so many other traits that are good. Also, in Techlandia, I feel there is too much of a male machismo that permeates through and there are many people that treat the interview as a chance to demonstrate ability to the interviewee and/or trick them - to the point of intimidation.
It seems that would be confusing (at best) for your contacts that remain on Facebook.
This doesn't justify anything, but doesn't every single IM client do the whole "so-and-so" is typing thing?
Interesting question is if you sell out your app for a ton of cash, there isn't any structural issue preventing remaking it in the pre-sold out version (well maybe the original authors sign a doc that says they won't but others don't). So in theory you all can move another service with morals intact. But that is "hard" because your friends don't feel like moving. So the moralist says to their friends, "fine but I won't chat on whatsapp" and then they find their friends like them but not enough to change the app they use. So the moralist now has no friends (or they are always grumpy because their friends chose convienience over privacy) and they have to vent that frustration on the people who sold out.

It is a really interconnected set of issues, where the simplest person to blame is often not the actual problem.
Here is the idea; while I see some benefit, it also seems problematic:

* Old way: I give cash to homeless person

* New way: I see homeless person, use an app to make an electronic payment to GiveSafe, and GiveSafe distributes something (what exactly?) to a local institution which gives something (what?) to (the? a? this? all? any?) homeless person.

...

My concerns:

It adds friction; cash is much more efficient and easier, with less overhead. It's a brilliant technological feat: Full faith financial trust in a piece of paper.

More importantly, it takes away yet more autonomy and liberty from the homeless person, who already is very vulnerable to the state and other institutions. Under this program, even to get the little bit of cash I want to give them, they are in the power of an institution: They have to register, carry this electronic device, collect the money from the institution, only spend it in certain places, etc. Should they displease the institution, they are screwed. Should there be any corruption in the institution (don't imagine those institutions are different than others), they are screwed. And they have very little power to protect themselves: They have no access to courts, they have no political pressure to bring to bear, no pocketbook/consumer power, and because they are homeless, nobody will take them seriously anyway.[0]

They already are powerless; I don't know if I want to make it worse.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/i-wasnt-crazy-a-homeles...
This presumes that the exploits can only be found by companies with deep pockets, which are probably deep only because they are willing to sell them. What if there are equally good teams who are not in it for the money?
Someone should make a website listing all the backdoor codes to various safes - maybe that would get safe manufacturers to stop using backdoor codes.
Java’s Forgotten Forebear (2009)
In my first year investing, I read The Intelligent Investor, then promptly found out that no stocks were trading below their value. Not even close; more often at multiples. The only time shares trade below book these days are either when book is seriously questionable, or when cash burn is expected to deplete the value.
No. None of this is an excuse for getting fucked.
Good call. Done. Also cathartic.
thanks! will look into that, that's the first day I released it to the public and any feedback is much welcomed, thanks again
One of Peter Thiel's fellows created a new startup that will fund your lawsuit
Electric airplanes (batteries included)
The Lack of EpiPen Competitors Is the FDA's Fault
> If anything, the fact that Yale fosters closer relationships with administrators and faculty should make it _more_ likely that students would take gentle advice from their house master with equanimity instead of unhinged screaming and calls for his ouster.

That's one way it's relevant, to answer your first sentence. The fact that Yale fosters this family-esque relationship with peers, faculty, and deans is one of the contributing factors to extremely emotional response of the protesters, right or wrong. This fact was glossed over in almost all media reportings.
Doubt it. Once you have control of the system, why would you not be able to just disable the check? What they should do is enforce code signing at the processor level.
It can be, yes.

But if you're trying to discuss native american problems and someone just keeps interjecting that focusing on native american problems is racist - then you're not really getting anywhere either - was sort of my point.

I don't think they exist to stifle opposing viewpoints, but to at least attempt sane discussion on certain topics that would otherwise not get the opportunity to be discussed.
It means that, in the "real world" -- when you have a job or are operating a business, or are requesting donations for your non-profit, or otherwise interacting with people on a purely mutually voluntary basis, rather than because you are paying tuition to them and they are obligated to interact with you -- almost nobody cares about coddling your personality quirks and interacting with you in some rules-based circumspect way in order to avoid topics that you find unpleasant, or to otherwise make it easier for you to handle the interaction. (Note that this is an empirical description of how things actually are, not a moral evaluation of how things ought to be. Whether it would be nicer if things were some other way is beside the point.)

It therefore behooves you to learn how to deal with unpleasant topics and "mean" people in general in a constructive and adult way while you are at university, rather than creating formalized institutional barriers that create artificial "safe spaces" to shield you from such things, and thus allow you to avoid learning to deal with them.
Presumably you would tell them via backchannels (or even Facebook) that you were doing it.
It could sour your relationships with actual friends. But if you're ok with them being deceptively advertised to, maybe they weren't such close friends to begin with...
If a business gets bought for less than the capital invested, it's not a success.
There are often good reasons to have unequal split, having the product idea is NOT one of them. Ideas are a dime a dozen, and they are basically worthless without the execution ahead.

If the cofounder can give you a clear execution edge, then the said cofounder might deserve a higher share. Some examples include:
1) Existing business relationships with potential clients
2) Experience starting and selling startups (which gives you a big edge in raising capital)
3) Commanding expertise in the domain that you are in (i.e. start a video company with a hollywood producer)
4) Specialized technical knowledge (i.e. one of few PhDs in the world who knows how to build autonomous vehicles)
>you can't "just" give everyone gigabit fiber for $60 a month when you have to play by the rules.

The rules that encourage and enable broadband duopolies.
Graduation rates at non profit schools are appalling. University of Pheonix routinely graduates less than 20% of its students within six years. Even if all of the benefit is signaling, which I disagree with, the students at many for profit institutions aren't even getting that benefit.
When 2% is not enough
No? What do you mean no? To which part? You don't think what I said is an accurate description of how the world works?

When you fail that doesn't mean you got fucked. It just means you've failed. As I said, that's life.
Likely not helpful, however it is possible to check registration records in Germany (Europe?).
Isn't there a way to check these in the US too? Is the type of car recorded (and on which administrative level)?

If you could get these info and subtract cars previously registered, a blurred picture of recent sales should emerge.
Not at all naive. In fact, the language barrier plays a huge part in why Japan's software abilities have lagged behind.

Programming in itself is relatively easy to abstract from English, as math is a universal language. If you write it enough times, "print" and other commands are just concepts.

Where the language barrier rears its head is in documentation. All those countless hours we save with Stack Overflow is something a Japanese developer frankly can't leverage. Even basic documentation is lacking. Python and many other languages don't have a Japanese version of it's documentation. Ruby is the best supported language there.
>They will be at your job soon. Publicly shaming you or reporting you to HR for using the wrong word or asking "Did you and your girlfriend do anything fun this weekend?"

Be careful on that slippery slope!
Maybe I'm taking crazy pills, but that looked more like a Ferrari or LeTigre to me.
"Department officials say they are acting out of concerns raised by the for-profit chain’s accreditor, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, that ITT is not living up to the demands of its accreditation. ITT is under threat of having its accreditation revoked"
>There is informational asymmetry in every transaction

Yes, but informational asymmetry is a much bigger problem for larger, less frequent decisions, like buying a house, or going to college.

With small, frequent decisions, like buying groceries, you can quickly learn from your mistakes and the harm done from potentially choosing an inferior/overly expensive grocer a few times is small.

With college, if you don't figure out that the educational provider was poor until after you've graduated, you're already wasted tens of thousands of dollars and years of your life for a useless degree. That's a much bigger issue.
I'm on my phone in Chrome (so no extensions) and it's super blurry.
People used to congregate for miles around to watch a good beheading. They sold beer and pastries, and people fought to dip their handkerchief in the blood of the executed. It was a grand entertainment.

Now we watch Bachelor in Paradise. I'm not sure it's an advancement.
Horizon 7 on Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform: Better Together
Assigning a variable to a destination declared to be an incompatible type should produce an error at compile time if possible, and at at run time otherwise. That's what type declarations are all about.
I don't think "hackers" in this context is the right term for people who game the advertising/metadata industry. Maybe "independent advertisers"?
It's blurry for me unless I disable uBlock (ad blocker) and I don't use NoScript. It does still pop up the full clear version if you click on it. That's a new 'reason to disable ad blocker on our site' though without something pointing it out not sure if it's doing any good.
Apple patch security flaw used against Human Rights activist
> Literally every place I've worked uses red gate.

I've had the opposite experience, I've only been at one place that used it and a couple that considered it.

> I've never had an issue with it, If you make sure your database is constantly up to date. So changes are small.

This is not an option in many places, if you have 3 month release cycles for instance (although I favor continuous deployment). Another is when you have apps installed on site, some clients can be multiple versions behind.
Maybe it's an artistic statement on how a beautiful city may exist before your eyes but if you can't afford it then it may as well be a mirage.
And for the Wikipedia cite, I'll reply with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosling_Emacs which I used to find the RMS Slashdot AMA quote that confirms the fork.
Of course, the zoning, parking regulations, mortgage subsidies &c. which led to the present situation are all also instances of making folks live the way planners want.
Carvana ?
Python's arrays are already typed, and have been for long years. Python's lists may hold arbitrary objects and would be much harder to reason about in this context.
Elixir and Data Ingestion
>It somewhat saddens me that programmers, supposedly logical thinkers, can't see the distinction between a value and an object.

We can see the distinction, we just don't use the same terminology you use. We use standard terminology by which what you call an object is a value. Your definition of the terms only shows up in an obscure part of FP, which is still a bit obscure in itself. Use alternate terminology, or explain yourself the first time you use it in a thread - otherwise, we'll all be confused.

I've tried to point this out to you at least three times, and I'm losing my patience.

This brings to mind another Munroe quote: "You're like the religious zealots who are burdened by their superiority with the sad duty of decrying the obvious moral decay of each new generation. And you're just as wrong."
I didn't hear anyone say that a trigger warning means "shutting down topics and discussions". Isn't the whole point that it is a warning: that the topic is going to be discussed, and that you're giving a heads up so that folks can brace themselves if necessary (or make arrangements to engage with the material in another way).

Maybe some definitions of "safe space" mean "shut down topics and discussions", but trigger warnings are specifically about having conversations, in a considerate way.
In terms of signing and verification, doing trusted pulls of the official ubuntu image (or any other official image) is quite easy:

export DOCKER_CONTENT_TRUST=1
docker pull ubuntu
I like the as syntax, it may conflict with casting though when used on variables.

public SomeMethod(bool b) -> (string name, int id) { ... }

When was this added to c++? I think I need to brush up on my lower level skills.
Faster dictionary decoding with SIMD instructions
This is true. It's quite hard. Oracle started in a day and age before we had many good or popular tools to make robust software. They also cared more about profit than robustness. Hard to see that their case proves anything. Whereas, the OpenVMS's records and clusters were very stable by adding features for a week, testing on weekends, fixing problems for a week, and repeating that. Uptime of 17+ years with a few being more common. This is aiming at a milestone of... 2 weeks?

It's certainly hard. There are worked examples of getting the job done, though. All it took was focus and effort on QA. I believe the distributed nature will cause more difficulties than the older systems. Yet, same remedy. Even more so given its so much easier to fail.

"I like the transparency and commitment from the team"

I liked that a lot as I saw in post and HN comments. It gave me the impression of a database being designed for correctness, speed, scale, consistency, and reliability. Then, this post says a few got dropped a while back. That's a lack of transparency and commitment on a key issue. Or a resurgence of it. Hope that problem goes away.
Donald Trump is like a biased machine learning algorithm
SF specific anecdote - I had a radical idea while walking up Divisadero last week. What if we removed Divisadero and Geary St. and built apartments where the road is today. You'd have European style narrow streets for pedestrians and could increase the density massively. Imagine taking out the multiple lanes across Geary St and how much housing could be built. Would there even be a NIMBY problem since the road is publicly owned?
Track iOS 10 and Android Nougat Adoption and Crashes
KBB has existed for quite a while for precisely this reason.
Your last sentence pretty much nailed it. I believe that is exactly the message they are sending. I went to UChicago, and this is a core ideal that is part of what makes the school so great.
I am not sure if there is ever non-biased machine learning algorithm, though.
Nothing, if they also accept the downside risk of financing a crap education. The default rates for many private universities are astounding - and the taxpayer helps backstop them from losses via federal student loans.
I used tigase server and tried building an open source messaging client that you can use to chat as well as share your realtime location with your friends and groups : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.getintouch....

Never took off in developed world but I strangely got plenty of users in Iran & middle east
I'm on mobile so links are annoying to get, but Apple has a great PDF on iOS security in general, which includes details on their protections against kernel patching. Windows has KPP, and Mac OS has SIP. Not familiar with anything for Linix but I'd be shocked if there weren't multiple incompatible implementations of similar features.

Realistically, this is also something virtualization can help guard against. If your OS is initialized from a known good version external to the VM, every time the VM starts, you greatly increase the difficulty for an attacker to get persistant root.

KPP: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_Patch_Protection

SIP: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Integrity_Protection
What's a genome? (2003)
I wish I could remember. I think one of them was something along the lines of 'what would you expect from an ideal candidate for this position?'
I'd argue it's more meaningful, not more cumbersome. Do you only exclusively communicate with people via Facebook today?
Too bad that has it's own issues. Android/Google definitely has the clout to be able to call the shots (ie force the processor manufacturer to issue them a CA cert for their own use), but what would happen if ARM then became a dominant server arch?

Also, putting code signing in the processor wouldn't fix the problem: code signing already happens in higher levels (ie higher than userland), so moving the verification a level up would likely take the exploitable bugs with it. The problem remains.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Disabling notifications (sometimes I go as far as disabling the red "1" bubble on messaging services) has been the best productivity boost.
Only "Military or intelligence cryptographic (including key management) systems" are included in the current US munitions list [1]. Everything else is handled by the Department of Commerce as part of the export administration regulations (EAR) [2].

[1]https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/regulations_laws/documents/offi...

[2] https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/encryption
Man, hobby electronics has come along way. Love em' or hate em' 3d printing is really adding that polish which takes things from a hack to professional looking prototype much more viable. What a time to be alive! :)
Filtering and Automated Decisions with PEG.js and React-Mentions
Very tangential: which server do you personally use Conversations with, and does it have gateways to other networks?
As a counterpoint to the rest of the comments, I'm probably better off with WhatsApp than plain SMS, which the Indian government has access to. I'll pick Facebook spying over government spying.

Other networks are not an option, since WhatsApp is the universal choice.
Study Finds ADHD Drugs Alter Developing Brain