skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something other than the plurality voting system would greatly improve this. The "vote against somebody else" is a form of strategic voting, and a propensity for strategic voting is seen as a major flaw in a voting system (deterministic voting systems can never completely eliminate strategic voting, but there are systems that are far better).

Interestingly enough it seems like there is no federal rule barring states from adopting non-plurality voting systems for the president, as it is still technically the state governments that appoint the electors, and the constitution only requires that it not be "...in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime."

The House of Representatives elections rules are established with a lot more federal oversight, so I have no clue if non-plurality voting systems could be easily accomplished at the state level. Proportional representation would be specifically banned by 2 U.S. Code § 2c though.
im sure its all about 40 year olds not wanting to work 70+ hour weeks all the time.
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Our CMS people brought in a new shiny frontend for internal review today and I was asked to comment. Knowing the CMS-peoples' history I took a quick "curl -X POST"-look at the API endpoints and was harvesting the entire customer database through several injection attacks after a few pokes and tries. I told the CMS people - who are contractors - and the superior who is responsible for the CMS not to bring that frontend anywhere near production and what the problem was. When running into him and asking about it, the superior (who is actually not my boss - he can crash on the moon as far as I'm concerned) just shrugged and laughed about how he didn't read my email after it became too technical. I told him about our obligation by law to report data-breach incidents to the authorities in case the thing had gone online and been picked up by a bot. He didn't seem to see the light yet.

How should I deal with the situation? I don't want to be seen as an attention-whore at my company yet the people involved are obviously insensitive to what actually almost happened.

Please spare me with advice about how to strong-arm someone, go off the deep end and post our customer database to /b/ or start looking for a new job... I'm asking for real-life advice here :-/
Is the software development industry not bigger than it was twenty years ago? Developers still age. Ergo, as development as an industry grows, at a delayed rate, the number of aging developers will also grow.
My question was because if you look closely it isn't actually a thunk.
I would rather go to jail than participate in that kind of lunacy.
> What evidence is there that instant booking guests are more destructive than others?

OP isn't saying that they are, they're saying that they now want to apply a new screen (out-of-town-ness) that they think is evidence of not being destructive, but would be unable to do so if Airbnb forced everyone to allow instant bookings.
I think people's opinions are polarized this year because of the election. If Wikileaks had only released information on the Malaysian Prime Minister, for instance, I doubt that we'd be seeing the same kind of strong opinions about them.
intuition, abstract thinking, systems thinking, ability to detect patterns in large systems, ability to notice that certain problems have been solved in a different field, and lots more.

Basically, you become a pattern matching database of non-obvious cost/benefit trade-offs.
I get where he's coming from, and I don't dispute his thesis. The system does suck. That said, as an employer a lot of this rubs me the wrong way.

First of all, his chosen specialty is fraud prevention and security, which is one of very few areas where a background check is particularly relevant.

Secondly, formal education delivers (and demonstrates) more than just academic concepts; when he drops out of a great school and suggests that he's "a terrible fit for the current education system", I worry he's a terrible fit for us. Similarly, when he describes himself as an "MBA-type", he's missing the point of the very practical, and largely vocational, components of a solid MBA program.

Finally, when a self-professed "hustler who happens to code at a fairly competent level" without any professional training or history as a dedicated software developer asserts that he's "reverse engineered multiple billion-dollar companies tech stacks", I lose faith that he realizes how much he has to learn. Software development is hard, and expertise in massive tech stacks takes decades of focus to achieve.

To OP, as one person with a shitty history to another: stop comparing yourself with your peers of origin (felons), and start competing in the bigger pool. It isn't enough to be "better than your average felon", you need to be demonstrably better than the average Stanford-educated, classically pedigreed, natively networked elite. It isn't fair, but so long as high stakes job markets/investments are plagued by an under-investment in evaluation, reliance on pattern recognition and a strong bias towards false negatives, this isn't going to change.

So get it off your chest and make the best of the life you've got. You still have more privilege than most.

Note: This doesn't absolve US companies of their superficial biases and incredibly biased false meritocracy. That needs to change if the country wants to reach its full potential.
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I am not a doctor.

On days I don't eat, I supplement various vitamins and electrolytes to minimize risks of refeeding syndrome[0] and heart problems[1,2]. I don't know how bad the risks are in practice for these for short fasts (I've only gone up to 3 days), but I am sufficiently paranoid that I supplement anyway. Supplementing electrolytes also means I don't get headaches, restless leg syndrome, or (as much) weak feeling in muscles, all of which I used to get when I tried unsupplemented water fasting.

I also try to break the fast with skim milk or yoghurt so that I'm not phosphate depleted (refeeding syndrome again).

For what it's worth, my supplement regime amounts to: a generic A-Z multivitamin, 800mg potassium chloride, 300mg magnesium citrate (it seems to be important that it's citrate for bioavailability reasons), 800mg calcium, and a B-vitamin complex (as I remember it, vitamin B1, or thiamine, is important when refeeding, for reasons I can no longer find).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refeeding_syndrome

[1] http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/34/4/453.short

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6859052
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Current set of coders will continue to age, but they may also stop identifying as coders. Maybe because of ageism.
> How many times will it take you forgetting your dongle to just pony up and buy the apple approved headphones?

Perhaps I missed something in the announcement, but won't any Bluetooth headphones work with iPhone 7?

> Long-term, we are giving up a universal and open protocol that all devices work with for a proprietary one.

Does Bluetooth count as a proprietary protocol? It's not exclusive to Apple, but I don't think it's a totally open standard either.
I think you work for apigee
The seemingly high salaries in SV don't seem quite so excessive once paired with the long hours and exorbitant rents.
So it's basically the same word, one being a noun versus the other being an adjective. That difference is so tiny that I can't see how it can be legal or meaningful. Are consumers really expected to think of parts of speech when reading labels?
Serious question: Is this snark, or does the software in question do sketchy things with privilege escalation that might be leveraged into attacks?

I agree that much software has terrible UI, but it's good to distinguish surface stuff from objectively terrible security decisions.
That assumes they remain being developers as they age.
That poem could've been written about speech recognition software as well.
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Coding newsgroups - especially linux related, are famously rude and hostile, but now that IT is one of the major world industries the jewish powers that be push for "muh equality", "muh wimminz coders", "muh minority devs" and "let's make dis a happy space :) !!!!111".

Linus Torvalds telling someone to shut the fuck up:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
Dammit.... fart.IO is unavailable.
It cannot be about removing the DAC, there's still one for the internal speakers.
Considering that pokemon is also a card game... :)
Great explanation for the term. It was needed. I'll be showing it to some colleagues.
That will set off some fraud detection on sites as there will be mismatch between user agent and the browser being used. You can easily profile the DOM and Javascript features to figure out what browser a person is using.
As a millennial, I find it childish and saccharine. Makes the site look unprofessional, like it's trying to be "hip like you youngsters!"
For those interested, Steve Jobs wrote the open letter titled Thoughts on Music

https://web.archive.org/web/20080517114107/http://www.apple....
That looks really cool. Is there something similar for Linux?

Reminds me bit of Vault unsealing protocol: https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/concepts/seal.html
Anecdotal: there are times when I have been unable to access rt.com [1] through Comcast, though I could access it through my 4G connection just fine.

[1] yes, I know it's propaganda, but I was accessing it for research purposes
Who needs GNU/Linux when you can have Emacs/Linux?
> Sure. Or you can use the included lightning-jack adapter and just use normal, un-DRM'd headphones.

What prevents Apple from obsoleting the adapter in the future and making analog jack incompatible with lightning jack?
>No, its not. Its an express limitation on the applicability of the homeowner exception, [...]

To be clear, my response was not disagreeing with this part.
Anything can considered malware by some. The question of course is if it's a notable assessment or is it just these "some" having a random opinion.
What's the benefit for that? Why can't you just give ssh key / pass to the other party and share a multiuser screen?

$ echo 'multiuser on' > .screenrc
$ screen

Another tty

$ screen -x ID_OF_SCREEN
That should have happened long ago. I did CS and programming as high school subjects and am past 50. The tens of thousands of extra people trained up to solve the millenium bug crisis (that mostly didn't happen) are probably around 40 now.

Of my tech friends around my age a lot have drifted into other things - often dramatically different.

Some because they were sick of IT (often for similar reasons), and some because it was time for a change. Quite a few ran into ageism (agencies and HR rather than the actual techie people as a rule) and staying programming past 40 is somehow seen as failing your career rather than going into management.
> cases like this are perfect examples of why sealing/expunging exists.

It's not quite that easy.

Sealing or expunging a record doesn't necessarily seal the existence of that record, oddly. So, depending upon the laws of your state, you may still have to indicate that you were a felon on applications. And many places regard a sealed/expunged record as WORSE than just listing the offense.

In addition, sealing and expunging tend to be very subjectively dependent upon the judge you appear in front of rather than objective and automatic.
One tricky thing about databases is that the performance characteristics of a database running on local dev hardware versus production are quite different.

Therefore it's important to capture and analyze performance metrics _from production_. A really good commercial tool is SQL Sentry (http://www.sqlsentry.com/). You can, of course, patch together your own tooling from open source and homegrown solutions.
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I think most of practical basic income systems proposed don't actually go that far. I mean, theoretically the goal is to replace all welfare spending, maybe, but as said below, it may be hard to do practically, so most current proposals replace only portion of it, while leaving many targeted benefits intact. I don't feel currently informed enough to form opinion about whether this can work or not, so I'd be very curious about somebody trying it - preferably in some place where it won't hurt me if it fails in some unexpected way, like many social engineering projects had. Like in Japan :) Sorry, Japanese people, I know it's selfish from my side to want that. OTOH, if it works, you get a big win.
Whenever I see these posts I immediate translate them in my head to "we're in the middle of a talent shortage at a price I am willing to pay."

I've worked with very large amounts of data and high performance computing for most of my career; I mostly had finance related jobs in the last decade or so. I have most of the skill you want, including some you don't know you want. However when salary comes up, that is where we start to part ways. If you are really serious about a shortage, you should be really serious about making offers that can be competitive, but I keep seeing the same $150k offers. That isn't a "shortage" kind of offer.
Don't think of it as a stamp of approval. It's not. There's no public record. No one is going to say "Klathmon voted for the lesser of two evils; look what a compromised person he is!"

Vote the vote that has the best chance of improving (or screwing up less in this case) whatever you care about.
Don't forget that they will probably command a higher wage too. And they will probably take time off for family since they have one.
I posted an example above but instant book doesn't force a potential renter to be screened which makes it easier for destructive guests to book. If you're throwing a party, would you rather instant book or have to chat with the host?

As my example, if a renter instant books and is going to bring 40 people to a place you are legally approved locally for sleeping 14, other neighbors can report you to the city and you could be fined or lose your license to rent.

So you can have issues with instant bookers even if they aren't destructive.
We certainly won't be teleporting people by then (or even things), but hopefully there will be more exciting news to hear from the particle physics community.. Those developments, in turn, might make the idea less absurd among common people.
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Wow, this is extremely useful and really addresses a major pain point.

I love it!
But how does this affect the voting population? Wouldn't you just elect the most popular person anyway, thus making the no votes worthless?
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I'm not a doctor, but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refeeding_syndrome
I think you raise a good point, but when has this been the package manager's concern?

When I type in 'dnf search' or 'apt-get install' or 'pip search' or the equivalent, I don't get details, I just get a list of packages, one of whose title or description fields match what I pass on the command-line. A package's exported API is important (obviously, since without it you can't use it), but I'm not entirely sure the package manager is the best place to surface this information. Or maybe it should be, but no package manager so far does this well?
It was definitely possible a couple years back - https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36569

We describe how to disable the LED on a class of Apple internal iSight webcams used in some versions of MacBook laptops and iMac desktops. This enables video to be captured without any visual indication to the user and can be accomplished entirely in user space by an unprivileged (non- root) application.
Ok then their model succeeds mainly on the basis that it's freeloading by being an exception to rules that apply to hotels. They're cheaper because they're not doing pretty much any of the things hotels are required to do, not just limited to taxes, but including the various health inspection regimes that states require for places of public accommodation including hotels.

So yeah, you don't have to clean as well as a hotel if you don't want, you don't have to pay the taxes as a hotel or even a regular long term rental unit if you can get away with it (thinking IRS will consider a portion of your house converted into business property and thus subject to business property gains tax when you sell the house, but not limited to this), you don't have to follow or even give notice that you don't follow ADA, on and on, because AirBnB doesn't verify any of this and it's claimed it's not their responsibility to do so; but they also don't support even a licensing program by municipalities and rental history reporting so that these municipalities could do their own verifications.

Basically if you even the playing field across the board between an AirBnB and hotel, you end up with something like an actual Bed & Breakfast (although typically without breakfast but often with access to a kitchen). All things actually being equal, even price per square foot, I'd probably pick an AirBnB, but I actively avoid it whenever possible because I think their success mainly constitutes free loading (and enabling it by property owners)
That's how it should be however that's not how it is for all web cameras. I don't know specifics about Apple.
Depends which type of companies you want to apply for.

On the enterprise space, .NET Core is still quite irrelevant.

Our customers are slowly migrating from .NET 4.0 to .NET 4.5 (not even 4.5.2!), let alone .NET 4.6 or .NET Core.
> It’s Tough Being Over 40 in tech, anywhere.

I think it was more tech in 70s when they wore lab coats and did new things. Now it's more of a popularity thing or a way to extract gold.
> The argument "I was not prosecuted some years, so it was not illegal" doesn't work with any court.

That's exactly how it works. Look up statute of limitations.

Most civil violations have stringent limits.

> I'm no expert in tax law but would assume, here in Germany, there is no "Statutes of limitations" for taxes. Countries lose all their humor when it's about taxes.

I didn't know German law applied in Ireland. Perhaps that's the entire point of the EU, I don't know.

Anyway, Ireland explicitly says that nothing is owed. Maybe you should read a bit more about this issue before commenting?
All of those things are great, but you're assuming your manager and peers will value them like you do.

I see this type of thinking applied to an issue in a way that results in people becoming increasingly irritated. Silicon Valley wants to hear "yes yes yes", not reason why you think XYZ solution won't work.
We intentionally left those out and used pseudonyms so the engineers would feel comfortable answering candidly
Did you read the article? One of the points was employers don't value those skills and traits. They value youth and naivete.
I've always considered it a legitimate request when people want to live with others of the same gender for a shared room in their home.

For example, you especially see this on sites like Craigslist when people are seeking roommates. This policy seems to overturn the ability of hosts to do this. If I were a female in an all female home renting out one room, it would make me uncomfortable. Perhaps other do not see this as an issue in short-term renting, but I do.
So I'm staring down the bore of my 40th birthday.

That means that I graduated college in 1999. When I was looking at colleges (in 1995), many of the colleges that I looked at didn't have a computer science department. Many of the ones that did, had had that CS department for less than five years.

My class ('99, again) had twice as many CS majors as did '98. '00 had twice as many CS majors as '99 -- because this was the first dot-com boom, of course.

At my college, my freshman year was the first year that every dorm room was wired for ethernet (obviously, wifi was not a thing).

I suspect that the arrow of causality goes two ways, and that part of the reason for the low median age of programmers is indeed age discrimination. But it also true that 40 is an age which means that you were college-age during the first dot-com boom, and the occupation "programmer" suddenly was looking a lot more attractive and absolutely no doubt was pulling in a bunch of young people who ten years earlier would not have been interested in being programmers.
It's a small group of maybe 10,000, of which 5,000 don't even take the positions seriously

Then why the fuck is anyone talking about them? Is the left really so terrified of taking positions or believing in anything at all that they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel like this for something to talk about?
In theory the more experience you have the fewer hours you would need to put in. You've solved all the common problems engineers face 10 times before.
Why do you think a curling auditable shell code into an executable pipe is riskier than executing a compiled binary?
So buy and extinguish?
But when you're not spending 40+ hours a week working, an hour long journey to do cool stuff isn't as big a deal.

And besides, I think a most of the other people doing cool stuff will want cheaper accommodation as well, and over time particular kinds of cool stuff will congregate in different smaller towns.
I've heard more than one CTO/Sr. Engineer refer to people in these roles as 'data grunts' or something similarly dismissive. Then they're mystified as to why solid engineers are so quick to move up or out, year after year.
probably a misdemeanor larceny, but because it was credit card fraud done over the internet, that's felony wire fraud which is a much more serious crime. if it was an interstate transaction it might have even been a federal charge.
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If you scroll up, you'll see Frondo asserting that "It [discrimination] didn't hurt businesses in the American south enough to compel them to stop discriminating."

Frondo is attempting to argue that market forces don't punish people (much) for discrimination. I'm simply pointing out that market forces weren't even allowed. People discriminated because the law said things like this:

"No colored barber shall serve as a barber [to] white women or girls."

"Any instructor who shall teach in any school, college or institution where members of the white and colored race are received and enrolled as pupils for instruction shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor..."

"No persons, firms, or corporations, who or which furnish meals to passengers at station restaurants or station eating houses, in times limited by common carriers of said passengers, shall furnish said meals to white and colored passengers in the same room, or at the same table, or at the same counter."

" Every person...operating...any public hall, theatre, opera house, motion picture show or any place of public entertainment or public assemblage which is attended by both white and colored persons, shall separate the white race and the colored race..."

http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/links/misclink/examples/homepa...
There's a lot of companies that need or prefer on-prem or non-cloud offerings for storage. EMC does really well in enterprise services, and likely will continue to do well.
At the very least, there were one- and two-button runners in Flash for some time before Canabalt.

I think Canabalt is like Doom or Super Mario Brothers--it was the first really polished implemention of its genre that showed its full potential and led to an explosion of other games, but it didn't invent the core concept.
It's just parked too :( What a waste.

Could have make some nice parody material.
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