skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are asking HN ... as a community we are pretty biased toward start-ups. In many ways you seem ideally set up for technical leadership in a start-up.

[1] You have led teams creating key portions of really successful tech.

[2] Money is not a concern for you. This means that you have "infinite runway" to initially explore ideas as long as it is software oriented. This also means that you have the luxury of delaying or being picky about taking on investors.

[3] Real business problems - you get to choose

[4] Risk, reward - although you are unlikely to succeed, you might be one of those who succeeds, either in building a nice sustainable business worth a few million or maybe even create a high growth "unicorn." In any case you will almost certainly stretch yourself in many different ways.
odd things about this story:

1) were the tools taken out of a secure environment? Or did he download it from the net when it was published?

2) how could he have taken such sensitive tools out?

3) why so many leaks of an ongoing investigation?
The error page would be a hell of a lot less irritating if they just said that, instead of the nosensical Newspeak they've chosen instead.
It's the same rationale that companies like Microsoft use when they say a certain version of Word is for "Home Use Only".

I think I'll wait 15 years until a GPL autopilot comes out. AutGNUpilot?
The sad thing about UNIX fetishism is buying computers able to be 3D graphics workstations, use them as twm was the latest revolution in window managers and work as if one just had multiple PDP-11 instances running simultaneously.

In any case POSIX doesn't allow for much more anyway.

As for the modern web, it should just fade back to being the old web with HTML/CSS and leave interactivity to native applications.
>Such articles like this one stereotype Nigeria in a falsely negative manner.

Err, the author actually WENT to Nigeria to meet her actual Nigerian scammer -- and others doing the same. What stereotype? She doesn't say that most Nigerians or only Nigerians do such things -- but that's what happened to her.
Undoubtedly you're turning away the best candidates and almost exclusively interviewing candidates whom have extreme difficulty finding work elsewhere; so much so that the applicants value their own time so poorly that they believe it worthwhile to interview for a job which may not meet their personal financial requirements. I'd strongly suggest you change your practices and observe the improved calibre of interviewees.

EDIT: Also, if you really want good candidates, stop using a recruiter.
I've actually been running an instance of VcXsrv and then running something similar to `bash -c "DISPLAY=:0.0 terminator` to run that under the X session. Way better than the CMD emulator
I've read about this crash (following the recent exploration) before. One thing this article did not really delve into is the 'lizard skins' found. There was a large illicit trade in caiman skins around this time, one that Eastern were believed to be complicit in.

An article from the two explorers goes into this in more detail, and it would seem a reasonable conclusion that it was one of the driving factors of the 'cover up'. Discovery of further illegal smuggling by Eastern Airlines would have likely resulted in bans and embargoes.
https://operationthonapa.com/an-international-smuggling-ring...
How exactly does passing through the initial screening make for a good indicator on salary range match?
Exploring Whiteness
Would anyone be surprised if a high fraction of similar goods at Target et al were also counterfeits, though? The supply chain can be long and complicated, full of opportunities for an enterprising person to skim a few dollars.
Con men do tend to be practical. It'd have been much more shocking if he'd gotten a liberal arts degree.
> "Madness."

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It's becoming less common. Many people here in Australia are aware that they're living in the US.
When ever I see a posting with out a range I figure they're just trying to hire someone they just aren't willing to pay for. They think they're going to wow someone with their great culture and/or the awesome technology their working on. Good luck on that.
People who care about ethics in software?

edit: Though I agree with the vague collective sentiment that they're slipping. Still, I would never feed Google.
Sounds like a good idea to me.
Oil Sector... Being in south Texas, I believe I've made an incorrect assumption that readers would understand the potential volatility of such jobs, especially for a Nigerian immigrant.

To clarify, I've watched friends and colleagues gain and lose employment like crazy and I've seen a lot of racism in the industry, among other things.
I really hope you are wrong, but did the journalist check the following sentence or they take the report at face value?

> Although they have not met each other again since, she continued to provide him with financial assistance until he completed his degree a few years ago and got a job in the American oil sector.
I'm not an astronomer, but I imagine there are too many small untracked objects, between Mars and Jupiter for instance, that periodically occlude stars. I imagine the signal-to-noise ratio is too high to start a search every time something blocks a star. How many millions of times per day must an asteroid somewhere block a star as visible from Earth? Gravitational perturbations are a smaller signal, but the signal-to-noise ratio is better, I imagine.
If we compete for resources, sometimes my tribe and yours aren't exactly friendly. Perhaps seeing you (alone or in groups) wasn't exactly a pleasant experience, so I might not like your hair, skin color, eyes format, and so on... Not liking you and not being liked by you might have happened in the past.

And if my group was more aggressive, there are some probability that yours didn't even survived and mine did. Or if I was more "racist", perhaps my genes would spread better. So, some genetic that makes me don't like "different" people might have a role.

If our genes didn't evolve (in that aspect) in some few thousand years, simply because there wasn't enough ambiental/social/whatever pressure in that direction... here we are.
Ah, I must have skimmed it too quickly to notice that. Thanks!

Anyway, I doubt it is close enough to Latin to be mutually intelligible, as all modern Romance languages are derived from Vulgar Latin, which is known to be very different form the written Classical Latin.
ChartMogul and cleverbridge integration
You are describing the current status. That is not where the doubt is. The article worries about the future and how trends will change. As mentioned in the article what "a real watch" means changed a couple of times and it could change in the future. I'm sure the very ornate gold pocket watch wearer of decades ago sneered at those ridiculous little simple looking things that went on the wrist.
If you are just coming to the Planet Nine story, the best background information is the scientists' blog at www.findplanetnine.com.
Apple Event: hello again
That's one of those cases where you can be right and broke or cave.
You're quite right, of course.

In my scenario, I want to provide a package for easy download and deployment. Each customer will indeed run their own mysql db, if they choose to self-host the containerised software.

I plan to offer a paid hosting service, where I'll rent bare metal in a data centre, onto which I'll install management and orchestration tools of my choosing.

An identical container for any environment is my ideal, since this will make maintenance, testing, development etc simpler. Consequently each customer hosted in my data centre will, in effect, get their own mysql instance.

This way the identical software in each container will be dumb, and expect an identical situation wherever it's installed.

Now, in reality, I may do something clever under the hood with all those mysql instances, I just haven't worked out what yet :)

Actually it will probably be Postgres, but I'll use whatever db is most suited.

So yes, some duplication and wasted disk space, but that's a trade off for simplified development, testing, support, debugging, backups, etc.
"...and red light cameras, we have established well-tested legal frameworks which determine whether a driver is dangerous or not."

https://www.motorists.org/issues/red-light-cameras/increase-...

I believe we have established red light cameras are the cause of danger in a large number of circumstances, with yellow light time being reduced to increase government revenue.

Not to mention the lack of due process.

I don't think the government should rely on private companies algorithms to determine danger or guilt.
Machine Learning – What Is It Good For?
Since the time of IBM mainframes this business model had been known as the Golden Screwdriver.

Http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Golden%20Screwdriver
Reminds me of Adventure Time s04e10 "Goliad", though said episode is about a creature, not a robot.
I don't think Scott Adams has grasped Object Permanence [1].

My version of his metaphor is:

If everyone in the room can see a man yelling racist, sexist, opportunistic, populist nonsense and you can't see it, maybe you're just wilfully ignorant.

If you can't judge a person for what they say and do, then what else is there?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_permanence
Honest question: Is a salary range of $50 - $100k really valuable to you as a job seeker?
I hope they know that when there's a south eastern style afternoon thunderstorm that dumps several inches of rain in 20 minutes that it is best to just pull over and wait.
I think your definitely on to something. I can't wait to see how far you take it.
Pizza, the unsung agent of the robot revolution
Based on the description of preparation, the texture would be the defining difference, not the taste.
This I like to hear. Hopefully LAMP will be the VBA of my seventies (:
The New Jihadist: Social Networks, Secret Chats and Terror Plots
Very fast code in C often means manually vectorized code, written in SSE/AVX/Neon intrinsics.

Rust type system prevents same for Rust. Those __m128 values are just raw bytes, different SIMD instructions view them as different types, and Rust's type system ain't OK with that.
reminded me of a family guy episode where Carter Pewterschmidt gets scammed by Nigerians and flies to Nigeria to get his money back and eventually decides to donate the money as he sees the people there really need it, or something like that.
Because the second you post a wide salary range, people assume they are going to land on the mid-upper end of it no matter what the range is. If somebody lands on the lower end of it, they are going to feel slighted or insulted for just about all cases aside from new grads.

If I post a salary range of $50,000-$150,000 most people are going to look at it and decide that it probably pays $100,000-120,000. If somebody applies for that job and you offer them $60,000-70,000 they are going to be insulted just by the offer because of how much was left on the table (even if it's a perfectly good salary for the job).

Nobody wants to hear they are on the lower end of anything. That's why most people view themselves as "middle class".
A Secure Self-Adaptable Application-Level Firewall for IaaS Clouds [pdf]
How does that apply in this case, in a job posting for "old geeks"?
Google Nearline seems to be $0.01 / GB / month which would be about $24 / year for you. Sounds good since you can retrieve data whenever you want without any extra cost. I would probably use that for my backups if I ran out of space on my normal storage.
2 of my Apple laptop chargers have died in the same way: There's a little rubber clip on the cable for if you want to wrap the cable up. I never use it because my cables live on a desk or next to a sofa. But after a year or so, that rubber in that clip has reacted with the plastic sheathing of the cable so if you touch it, the whole cable just splits at that point. They use some tensioning in the cable to keep it from tangling, and once there's a tiny split in the sheathing, the cable is doomed.
Well done and nicely executed!

That early "Hacker News Effect" really got you off to a roll, and you made the most of it. Have you ever thought what would have happened if that Wordpress write-up was not created, or didn't get such a good response on HN?
Yes, but in that case there was a clear benefit to the implementor. Faster checkout = more money or at least more free time.

In this case what would be an incentive for Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat & co to implement this? There would be also issues to have the badge always visible, reducing its functionality.

I think this kind of change would only come if it were mandated by regulators. But in that case it could be more interesting to upload your face to some red-list database and then the sites would have to blur images where it is detected. Next step is replacement eyes and blocking à la Black Mirror.
Why should one write a blog?
Sure. People have been doing something for a hundred years, and they do it more now that it's easier, but that doesn't necessarily mean they'll keep doing it at the increased rate.

But I think we're at the point where if you say "social norms should should be shaped around what people actually want", the onus is on you to show that people don't "actually want" to have cameras and use them.
Researchers Bypass ASLR Protection on Intel Haswell CPUs
Not sure why you're downvoted for an honest question. Take a look at this research paper linked above by another commenter on why scammers say they're from Nigeria:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
Evaluating speech of a conversational character with deep learning
IBM deploying 1,300 Macs per week, users need less support than PC counterparts
Funny that, my interest in watches started /because/ of the smart watches. I picked a cheap chinese automatic watch on aliexpress last year, just to see if it'd still annoy me to wear a watch, as it used to last time I tried a few years back.
Idea was, if I can wear a basic watch, i'd buy a smart one...

Lo' and behold, I loved it. My £12 chinese crapiola was actually pretty darn good and I wore it for several weeks, before I bought another 'proper' watch, and I since bough half a dozen, including 'expensive' swiss ones...

The really funny thing is -- it has increased my phone battery life! I'm not kidding, since I no longer have to wake up the phone to check the time, my phone battery lasts significantly longer!

Now that's a side effect people aren't talking about :-)
8cc.vim: C Compiler written in Vim script
> is that a class without a constructor might not really be a class at all.

Yes, but there are several cases where this doesn't matter. Exceptions for example.

> Number and size of methods are both code smells

Yes, but Pylint's default values comes from where? It's pretty easy to trigger them without being a God object

20 methods is fine, 50 lines is what fits in my terminal, and a lot of functions don't fit that (especially with blank lines, splitting lines bigger than 80 chars, etc
Rust's regex library uses manually vectorized code to speed up its search algorithms, so it follows that Rust's type system is more than OK with such things.
Reminds me of:

Go to a bank. Get a job there and work there for years and years learning the place from the inside, and also learning how all of the processes and procedures are done, earning everyone's trust and respect, and simultaneously building up a 401k with matching while also going up the career ladder and taking more and more positions with more responsibility and more pay until one day you finally decide that it's over and walk out the door like nothing ever happened!
Access control of single instance data storage in hybrid cloud [pdf]
I guess it's possible but "put me through college" seems like a pretty lousy con.
Stephen Hawking – will AI kill or save humankind
There is much suffering in the world.
It did actually, even longer ago[1]. I used Interix for a while, but it required (in my experience) an even greater love for yak shaving than most unices and was eventually scrapped. I'm excited to see whether this new attempt will work.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix
Dirty cow – privilege escalation vuln. in the Linux Kernel
Real-Time POV for Cloud Storage Without Caching Hash Values of Files [pdf]
> posting ridiculously wide salary range

why is this wrong?

if your actual, real wide salary range is not acceptable, people won't apply. if it is, and they agree with your philosophy, they will.
How come the biggest names in IT don't work towards creating a modern, better security library?

It's pennies for them, they wouldn't even see it on the balance. Having security issues slows down business significantly. Non-geeks keep hearing about major bugs in basic security and it surely has a negative effect on the spread of internet and services based on it.
Freakonomics Podcast:  in Praise of Maintenance
PHP framework Yii version 2.0.10 is released
Here's a handy tool for checking whether contrast between text and background colors meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0: http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
May reason trump the Trump in all of us (Shtetl-Optimized, Scott Aaronson)
If you're after a salary greater than $100k, then yes, absolutely. Some (factual) information is always better than no information.
Here's a video of their full self-driving system in action: https://www.tesla.com/autopilot/
I have the same hair "problem" (it runs in the family on my mother's side), I'm early 30s as well with significant gray hair showing and refusing to dye my hair, and... for me it has always been pretty much an advantage to get senior / management positions relatively fast since I was about 25 (I always tell anyone who asks/mocks about my hair that "at least they take me more seriously") and it has worked out pretty well so far.

My resume never goes back more than 5-7 yrs because it's not meant to be a history report but should be a strong 1-pager with just the highlights of your career, relative and relevant to the position you're applying for (for example, I started leaving out my education because it's not relevant to my experience anymore and it's not been a problem at all). I hope, for my own sake, that I don't owe everything to my hair, but it's definitely not been an obstacle to my progress.

I think confidence and attitude signal more than whatever you think people think about your hair (for starters, stop worrying/thinking about what other people may or may not perceive about you, simply project the self that you want to be) and if you worry about the gap in age perception so much, why not just put your birth date on your resume?
I'll write in and complain about this for sure; I pay a tax to see and fund the BBCs content and directly or indirectly that pays for BBC worldwide to exist. It's like saying I funded a startup and they did well from that and set up a subsidiary with the money and that subsidiary blocked me because of this. It wouldn't be defensible.
I tend to agree, but I think the argument against is basically that when you put a range, candidates' eyes go toward the high end and employers' eyes go toward the low end and then nobody ends up happy.
In the spirit of famous-English-chefs-unable-to-make-thin-noodles, here's Gordon Ramsay unable to make la mian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaeyFyQemDw
Robot and Frank
Why? Recruiters aren't shy about asking about pay expectations up-front and it lets you know if you're all on the same page before wasting everybody's time.
- Being able to sort my stack would be nice. I put up my company and noticed that random small libraries I added dominated the first few positions instead of the bigger elements.

- The scrollbars (or iframe?) and typeaheads can be pretty slow on mobile.

- The scrollbars (or iframe?) end up with a lot of unnecessary whitespace and may be difficult to navigate.
Brainstation: A small video game console for Arduino uses Brainduino interpreter
Petuum: Distributed Machine Learning Platform Closes $10M+ Series A
Excellent job.

It is great to see the birth of an idea and watch it grow.

Thank you for sharing with us. It is greatly appreciated.
It'd seem more likely to be the opposite, in fact.
Former Ferrari F1 engineer says gaze tracking is key to self-driving cars
Sounds like a great con to me. It's literally worth tens of thousands of dollars.
Lot of people in this thread crapping on Microsoft, but that's not to say that there's not some valid criticism here.

Microsoft is trying to unscrew the single platform nature of dotnet. This is going to take some time. They are having to break bones to set them correctly. Let's not pretend that any of us devs have never inherited an old project that we had to fix, and left a wake of destruction.

That said, shame on them for not listening to the community more. Many, many people on Github were very vocal about the project formats and the build system, and it was obvious that Microsoft made up it's mind.

While I'm a huge fan of dotnet, I also have to chastise Microsoft here. You can't leap to open source and then crap on your contributors when they are telling you that you're making a blind decision. If it was the one contrarian person that always complains about everything, I could see it, but it wasn't. Very notable members in the dotnet ecosystem raised the warning flag on this.

I for one kept with the mindset of not building anything for production with their v1 release. This is an old rule. By v2, I'm betting this thing will be awesome. Hell it already is. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I expect it certainly can be automated, but there's an ROI to be considered. If it was just a matter of new dies and some process tweaks using existing machinery, it absolutely would be done and that's likely what the Barilla people were trying for.

If new technology has to be developed to match the manual process, that's far a riskier proposition just for the purpose of adding yet another box of pasta in fancy grocery stores.

It probably makes far more sense, economically, for a small number of elite chefs to learn and replicate the technique for their restaurants. I am sure folks are trying.
A Creative Commons White Paper on Platform Design
This is almost like the plot of Inside Man!
What "crusade?" I don't care if other people don't use ad blockers; in fact, it's probably to my benefit.
Do you see similar behavior from the big guys like GM who seem committed to self-driving , investing tons in buying startups ,etc ?
Web Bloat Score Calculator
A lot of "rich kids" are as empty as it goes with no morals and screwed values. Trust me, they are nowhere close to rich adults. Imagine you being 8 years old and having access to the unlimited credit card. Majority people in such situation would show off in school, don t you think? That is majority rich kids mentality - they will not grow up and change. It's too easy to solve all issues through money so they are usually as lazy as it goes. They are empty, and the only way for them to be somebody, someone unique is by using their parent's credit card and by showing off.

edit: Just to be clear - at one stage of my life I lived in a "millionaires" closed community, so I know from my own experience how the kids are. Not all but I would say it goes 50/50. 50% are empty and showing off, and rest are either quite normal or even ambitious.
> Someone with a BS just out of college?

> An engineer with 10 years of matching experience?

> Tech lead wo [sic] just built X elsewhere?

Sounds like you have three job postings crammed into one listing. Y'all on that tight of a budget?
Really? Then what's the role of the parent?
New Algorithm Solves Cake Cutting Problem
But this way they can't tell how many accidents the hands-off autopilot could have caused. Number of accidents avoided alone is not enough to say this technology would decrease the number of accidents.