skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found it interesting that intelligence and terrorism investigations would no longer be covered by the bill. You read that right - what seems like the primary justification is no longer covered. As the article's author says, it seems particularly odd given that the bill’s sponsors are, after all, members of their respective chambers’ intelligence committees:

A second change would eliminate section (B) under the bill’s definition of “court order,” which obligated recipients to comply with decryption orders issued for investigations related to “foreign intelligence, espionage, and terrorism.” The bill would then be strictly about law enforcement investigations into a variety of serious crimes, including federal drug crimes and their state equivalents.

The article author makes a few guesses about why that would be: 1) A concession in a recurring jurisdictional turf war with the judiciary committees; I understand turf wars and concessions; though I don't quite understand how this change fits that description, I'll take his word for it. 2) Intelligence agencies have opposed back doors; and 3) major tech companies are worried about a high volume of requests from intelligence agencies.

But what about this possibility: Intelligence agencies and/or tech companies don't want intelligence investigations to be codified and legalized, giving all parties laws that can be broken. Better to be in a legal gray area. (I don't know what already is codified or how much gray area there is.)
I don't get your concern. You can always treat an ordered collection as unordered without harm, aside from maybe not picking the most optimized solution had you considered order. Existing code will assume it's unordered, code written for 3.6+ can assume it's ordered.
TensorFlow Example: Fit a straight line
Thanks for taking the time to explain. It sounds like people are really pushing for changes to accommodate social anxiety. I do wonder if some people are avoiding calling it that since mental disorders have a stigma against them.
I see that we're not that familiar with various versions of the anthropic principle. Okay then.
I realize this is a completely selfish request, but is there a chance that the challenges and games you made will continue to be available, or self-hostable? :-D I now regret not having participated in the CTFs that you three built.
As important as this question is for usability, it seems off the original post's topic of Dropbox circumventing accessibility prompts.
Still a terrible idea. Speaking from hard experience.
Thomas, were many starfighters you referred not getting offers? I love the idea of a (properly scoped) project/challenge in the hiring process and find myself profoundly worried when no code gets discussed in tech interviews.

I also really enjoyed stockfighter challenges. Between those six and my university's copy of Harris' Trading and Exchanges, I learned quite a bit. I bailed out on the AVR challenges though.

From a purely selfish viewpoint, I also want to work at places where the hiring process isn't really just whiteboard or gotcha questions, but instead actually has some consideration that, you know, demonstrating the ability to produce working useful code matters. Maybe I'm just nuts. The last interview I was in (for what people here would say is data science/engineering) involved a couple of big-O questions and two ill-specified SQL queries . . . sigh.
This includes their wealth management division. The relationship between customer and their wealth manager can range from very stringent "Buy AAA bonds and index funds for my account, rotate quarterly to harvest tax losses, always keep 5% in cash" to "Maximize my gains by taking various bets that might or might not be associated with UBS".

On the trading side they would have a variety of instruments (hedge fund is probably the most convenient and easily understood wrapper for various "miscellaneous" financial activity, but there are also private REITs, MLPs, CEFs, etc.) which would then try to attract funds. The funds would bring money from various sources, such as firm's own money, partners' personal capital, as well as wealth managers, some of which could be associated with UBS. This is the actual money available to quants.
There is already a planned Channels integration for DRF to enable realtime API support. http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/mozilla-grant/

Initial plans for the Mozilla grant also included making DRF an official Django project, but details are sparse.
I feel bad for contributing to the hijacking of this thread, but I simply have to pitch in: please do something about the abysmal performance of Dropbox. We have what are practically supercomputers on our desks, and Dropbox has problems dealing with hundreds or low thousands of files. It is something you need to work on.

As to the original article, I think you have a lot of explaining to do and a lot to clean up. Too much has been swept under the rug.
Almost no jobs allow you to be a shut-in with an obsessive focus on one task. You're right, degrees don't always indicate one's aptitude for such things.
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The only question of yours that is not answered by the Wikipedia link I provided is the timing (although I'm sure you can google that ) - this went on from the very
beginning of the transatlantic slave trade in the U.S. all the way through the civil war.

And the point of course is that the civil war wasn't fought to abolish "the right of whites to own blacks" as things were a bit more complex than that. Cherokee Indians for example owned thousands of slaves too. There's a pretty interesting issue that goes on right now with descendants of Cherokee-owned slaves suing the Chetokee nation for the right to be a part of the Cherokee nation.
I started to see this really happen when backing up. When Arq is doing some work, Dropbox is slamming the CPU. I checked with the Arq team and they said during the time I was monitoring it, there's no way they would be touching the Dropbox folder, so it really did seem like some kind of global intercept was going on and was killing the box. I guess this is as good a way as any to raise this -- Dropbox team, test with Arq!
> I don't see any flames in that picture.

The flame and smoke from the napalm attack that all the people in the picture are running from is pretty much the whole background of the picture, though the fact that its black and white and the cloud is fairly thick may make that less immediately recognizable.

> but I've been told (since junior high school) that it is a picture of a burning child.

Its not a picture of a child in flames [0], though its picture of a child experiencing burning as a result of the napalm drop (according to her, her recollection is that she was screaming "too hot, too hot" at the time the photo was taken), and the absence of visible flame isn't the same thing as the absence of continued burning.

[0] Well, not the child that's the central feature of the photograph. There are children burning in that sense as well in the picture, I suppose, if you consider the background and what is actually burning there.
Like not replying to urgent work e-mails at weekends, I wish I could do that too.
For loading to RAM, applying fair use is a good choice. Since usually, copying that program would require permission, but there it's needed for system to function and it's for intended purpose of running said program and not some illegal reason, thus it's fair use.

Argument against copyrightability of APIs is their different, more abstract nature than actual programs. I.e. they are meta information, rather than information itself. It's like abstract function vs function implementation, or idea vs its actualization. EU courts got it right, and they declared APIs explicitly uncopyrightable.
Yeah I used to code like that a lot. The next step was to work out the "core layout" for the "overlay loader". There wasn't enough memory to keep the whole program resident at once so you had to invoke the loader to bring in the next piece.

There was a "front panel" on every computer that showed the registers and memory. You could "single step" through your program to see what was in the registers. When DEC shipped the PDP-11 series the front panel was gone. I didn't know how I was going to debug. (Imagine single-stepping a program that runs on a 3 GHz machine.)

Next task was to transfer the program to paper tape using a piece of plastic with a slot for the tape, 8 holes, and a slim rod to punch out the bits. Be sure to leave a couple extra bytes so you can "hot patch" the program. This involved changing the bits into a jump to an address where you had punched new instructions.

Oddly though, I don't see the literate programming markup. I guess that's on the next page.
John Adams and others much like him thought cities were just dens of iniquity and filth. Since he lost a son to drink, it's no small wonder. You can only imagine the filth, crime and degradation of those places then.

Even before the Romantics, people like Jefferson considered networks of small freeholders the only sustainable way to have people live.
This was back in the day when everyone used jQuery for everything, and the company was only looking for experienced people, so a candidate who hadn't used jQuery before probably wouldn't have been a good match for the position anyways. I don't think a single candidate had that issue though.

As far as the product gallery goes, I wasn't looking for a pixel-perfect product. Just spit out a bit of html and matching CSS that look vaguely like the mockup. The mockup images had things like the hex values of the colors written on the image to make that part easy.

Basically, it was trying to focus on things that would be the main part of the candidate's job there. The folks that we did hire all did well on both that interview and long-term at the company.
> assume it's ordered

That's discouraged for general dict usage, as non-CPython interpreters may choose a different implementation. Only kwargs and class creation dicts will be specified as ordered.
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Here are a few notes:

* 91% of seafood consumed in the United States is imported, and half of it is farmed. Yet only one-thousandth of 1 percent of imports are inspected for fraud.

* A study of NYC seafood done by Oceana, a non-profit marine conservation group, found fraud in 58% of retail outlets and 39% of restaurants.

* Every sushi restaurant from which samples were collected—100%—served fake fish

* A supermarket test 2011 found that the five top-selling imported "extra virgin" olive oil brands in the United States failed to meet the basic legal standard 73% of the time.

* In 2001, the USDA banned the importation of Kobe eef due to cases of mad cow disease. The ban was lifted in 2012, but only a handful of restaurants/suppliers are able to obtain real Kobe Beef. Yet, we've all seen Kobe beef plastered everywhere on menus; it's all fake.

* Kobe is a completely unregulated term. Under USDA regulations, the legal requirement for calling something Kobe beef is that it qualifies as beef.
Way too much.[1] $4700 for a 32 inch color E-ink display right now. $3600 for black and white. $1000 for 13 inch b/w. Everything bigger than e-reader size seems to be insanely expensive.

[1] https://www.visionect.com/development_kits
Great information both from the linked document and the fellow posts, thanks to all for sharing.

I follow with great interest everything Burroughs related, specially their approaches to safe programming.
There are benefits for the merchant too. Those rewards programs get people to spend more money because they get more points.
Just uninstalled too. I was only using it for syncing 1password data and this pushed me to just switch to a 1pass account
Very sorry to hear about your experience (which unfortunately jibs with the general word-of-mouth reputation of GA). Can you go into specifics about how they misled you about the job prospects, or the things the career counselors said?

Any advice? What should I do? Is there any hope?

Yes, quite definitely there is hope. Unfortunately there's something of a negative backlash against coding camps going on right now. But in the longer term, if you love what you do, life will find a way of making opportunities for you.
It's just the fact that it'll cause there to be "iPhone only" headsets/products, which is just frustrating. I get the problems associated with moving, but they're already making a huge leap with the headphone jack.

Also, I guess, but I'm surprised if they'd go down that path they wouldn't implement some form of it currently, but I guess there's problems there .
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12406455 and marked it off-topic.
And, often, such assigned parking spots can be sublet to others if you don't need them yourself.
Personally I'm not interested in Wine improving DRM support. So I don't mind the fact that the game is failing there because of DRM even if I don't like that the game doesn't work in general. The shame is the fact of DRM usage, not that Wine doesn't support it.

More likely though, Denuvo will simply be broken for good (it's already happening), and versions with DRM removed will surface.
Today I learned that my dog is doing her part to improve National Security.
Right, they have all your files already, so there's clearly some level of trust.
I think the idea is that as Atlas rolls out to each country, it will be run by the respective Stripe team in that country (ergo patio11 joining Stripe Japan) and be responsible for building Atlas's business-as-a-service model respective of that country's laws and customs.

It's similar to their rollout of payment processing across the globe - they've done it slowly as they've had to incorporate each jurisdiction's regulations.
"answered questions"

Yes. Like, "Given everything we understand, how could it be that in the physical world, there aren't more dwarf galaxies?"

And there was no answer to that question, until now.

Now they come up with a new model, and run it, and they end up with a number of dwarf galaxies that much more closely matches the physical world. No one had done that before, so we didn't know how it could be.

This has answered the question, "HOW COULD IT BE?"

The answer is, "If reality matches this new model."
We're based in South Africa and joined the Stripe Atlas beta earlier this year.

Solving the incorporation problem is only the first of many problems.

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Please understand that none of the following is a criticism of Stripe. If we hadn't been accepted to the beta we'd be dead in the water right now and our customers would have been screwed. I also expect the solutions to become easier as more people in more countries face the same problems.

(Btw… one small suggestion for the Stripe Atlas team if anyone there is reading this… how about a forum where Atlas users in the same countries can swap information?)

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So, the questions you asked are completely legitimate.

Trying to answer them ourselves has cost us an inordinate amount of money on legal & tax advice so far and we're still no closer to answers.

The problem is this:

The moment you're operating in two countries you are subject to the same legal, tax & accounting rules that multi-national corporations have to conform to.

There _are_ existing services that are geared towards tackling the insane levels of complexity involved but the pricing also assumes that you are a large multi-national corporation.

So, to give you an idea: Several reputable firms all quoted us the equivalent of an engineer's salary for a month just to _estimate_ the price of getting our ducks in a row.

For my company this is a LOT of money. We're bootstrapping and are barely ramen profitable.

Also, and I'm sure this happens to everyone at least once, at the time I did not understand that what they were quoting for was to prepare an estimate for what it would cost to answer our questions. I thought this was the quote to answer our questions!

When the estimate itself arrived it was for the equivalent to an engineer's salary for a year, with _no_ guarantee that further complexities (and costs) would not come up during or after the process.

An expensive lesson.

Currently we're trying to navigate the process ourselves by interacting directly with the .za & USA revenue services and the .za Reserve Bank.

Needless to say, this is hell on trying to get any actual work done in the meantime :-)
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On second thought, s/strange/interesting/.
Failure happens. I would be interested in reading a retrospective.
@newhouseb

Off topic: can you help me understand why when a file is locked (e.g. Outlook accessing .PST file) this causes Dropbox to peg the CPU to 100%.

I've opened multiple bug reports over the years and support dismisses my finding.

This makes Dropbox un-usable for me. I literally have to run Dropbox as "paused" 90% of the time and only "unpause" Dropbox when I close Outlook.
I met with Patrick for a couple hours this spring to talk about Starfighter and recruiting and such (I've been in recruiting for almost 20 years), and I shared some of the challenges the industry has faced. Patrick shared some anecdotes about his brief experience (at the time) on the recruiting side of the business, and it does take some time to get to the point where you don't take rejection personally. Recruiting is hard for a lot of reasons, and you do need to have a certain stomach for the industry. I'm not a huge fan of it either.

The advantage Starfighter had was that the most painful rejections for recruiters aren't necessarily the "no offer" at the end of an interview, but the "no response" to outreach - even when highly targeted.

Starfighter was designed to have a pipeline of qualified candidates who would conceivably be much more approachable than those who are cold-called/emailed by agency recruiters, not to mention the benefit of the names. Getting approached by Patrick or Thomas & Erin is much different for a candidate than getting approached by a recruiter with no name recognition. Even recruiters with a bit of name recognition don't get high response rates all the time.

I was personally rooting for Starfighter for several reasons, most of which to try and take recruiting in a bit of a different direction. I still hope the idea can be salvaged in some way, and wish Patrick and Thomas & Erin the best in the new endeavors.
Despite SpaceX setback, future of private space exploration is bright
Trout is usually commercial farm-raised trout. Salmon is usually farm-raised salmon. Beyond that, one wonders.
Echoing others, as blog posts go, that's the exception and not the rule. Inline demos are furthermore not "primary content" but supplementary material.
Yes, he's guilty but get the rest of the crooks too.

This brings Enron to mind. Yes the accountants did all the bookkeeping and they are guilty but the fraud was run from the executive suite.

What this guy did was a result of what the executives wanted not the initiator. Not just that, it went on and on and on...

To me, it's irritating that the 1st person to make the news is the engineer when clearly he's just part of the scandal. He probably had the least to spend on attorneys so he was the first to fall.
Shared the image? yes. Shared the image in the same post? Not clear.

That's all I was trying to say. The way the two cited sentences are written — and "her post" os on a different sentence from "who shared the iconic image" — does not say the image share was in the same post as the one being talked about.
I'm sure this guy will just get a little slap on the wrist.
> Every sushi restaurant from which samples were collected—100%—served fake fish

I'm confused, what were they serving instead? Bison? Crab? Chicken? Tofu? Sharks? How can you fake fish?

If I'm being honest, this sounds like an exaggeration to me. Maybe rephrase if that's not what you meant?

(Edit: See my comment below [1] referring to Wikipedia -- it appears it's not even clear these are being mislabeled in the first place. Some people just don't think there is a huge distinction between the species; others do. That's another reason why this seems like a gross exaggeration of what is going on.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12466029
To not ever use a computer again
I've been liking this app a lot too, but the scrolling gets very choppy on long comment threads. Is this a common issue?
Something really bugs me about the extent and influence of PR firms. It reminds me of how lobbiests often end up writing the bills submitted by legislature. Or sponsored articles masquerading as unbiased informative reporting.

It all seems very corrupt to me.
Uh, no. Chicago Midway happens to fit very nicely inside 1 mi² = 2.56 km². Its main runways (5 of them) with feeder ramps collectively take up at best ½ the space, so a single runway itself is not 1 km² but more like .2-.3 km².
I originally liked Jira, but as I've spent more time with it, I just find it to be a speedbump in my workflow.

I've tried configuring my own workflows, but that is very hard. I can't do things like require log files, or have a good way to guide QA in writing a good bug report. Mandatory fields just become a nuisance.
And done. With this absolutely amazing API (https://github.com/cheeaun/node-hnapi/), items don't load individually and everything loads roughly with half the bandwidth than right here on the original site.

Not to mention that requests now get cached :)
> Referring someone for an interview and watching them get turned down was, for me at least, about 80% of the psychic cost of applying myself and getting turned down.

Wow it actually makes a lot of sense. Especially since you seemed to handpick candidates and vouch for them from a technical point of view.

I wonder if classic recruiters have this problem as they (most of the time) just bet on the number and are not invested personally.
> Devil's advocate: I don't see why Facebook isn't allowed to choose what is or isn't displayed on their site.

They are allowed to. If they weren't allowed to, this wouldn't have happened at all.

OTOH, everyone else is allowed to criticize their particular choices, even while recognizing that they have the right to make choices.

> The only reason Facebook is a platform people choose to use is because of the editorial decisions they have been making.

I disagree that this is the only reason, but even if this was true that wouldn't be an argument against public commentary and criticism regarding Facebook's editorial decisions.

> And the problem was that the policy was too consistent?

No, the problem that has been suggested is that the policy is too simplistic, not too consistent.
I thought the problem comes with the fillings/taxes you have to do after you create the company.
Or just use an encrypted line.
I don't want to see those things either. I don't go on Facebook for some historical reality check, or to be reminded of the horrors that are happening around the world. Every news media organization sensors itself and doesn't show the full extent of the horrors it reports on b/c it counterproductive. It's upsetting and it ultimately just desensitizes you. I think that this photo has already been overused and turns into something like an art piece. If you had a similar new photo of a traumatized naked girl after, for instance, a recent school shooting in the US people could feel a lot more shocked than when they see this photo for the Nth time - and people wouldn't object to it being removed.

You have to draw a line somewhere. No naked children or gore seems reasonable.
It's not spoofing the prompt. The prompt is OS X native, DB is basically telling the OS "Hey I need root", the OS displays the prompt, and grants root access to DB. So it is a system prompt
Escolar contains a natural wax ester that can cause digestive distress and diarrhea for days.

It's been banned in Japan for 40 years.

The USDA banned it in the 90s and then unbanned it in 1998.