skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
35 days, 23 companies, 4 offers. Is this typical?

This, for me, was the key section of the article:

> I had the luxury of having a few weeks free due to gaps in my consulting schedule. This time block is something that is a rare case in a job search. Performing such an exhaustive search must be nearly impossible if you also have a full-time job.

(Emphasis added.)

The amount of time off required to do this is insane. Is this how most people do it?

Also, I agree that speed of communication is key. I want to be on site within 2-3 weeks if everything is going well. Take much longer than that, and I'll probably either have a job by the time you get back to me, or be too busy talking to people who actually want to talk to me.
that wouldn't be reinventing email. it'd be reinventing an email client, which is a great idea. HOWEVER a repo per thread seems ... not good. I'd go with a branch per thread. Maybe encode the subject in a way that git is happy with as a branch name but can be decoded to the original text or looked up from.
Speaking as not-me, the average, non-technical homeowner who just installed his new internet connected washing machine at home.

Great, now I can throw in a load and get a notice on my phone when it's done. This is awesome! (3 hours later) Wait, why can't I get to the internet? I call my ISP, they tell me that my connection is fine (it's tech support, they aren't security experts). But, I tell them, Google doesn't work for me. They do some tests, everything should work. I bitch, moan, cry a little, rage quite my ISP and sign up with someone new. It works for a few days until my washing machine (having been offline for a bit) gets exploited again.

I still don't have a clue as to why I'm being blocked from Google and company. Maybe they kick back a message as a 4xx (what would be appropriate?) that says my network has been hacked. But I've seen those sorts of things all the time in ads, I know that's just someone trying to scam me, convince me to run something that'll install a virus on my computer.

Must be my computer! Damn Dell piece of shit. I can't afford a new one. Maybe that neighbor kid can come over again and help me out with this.

($200 and several trips for the neighbor kid later it's still not solved)
The only solution that's not a band-aid is to kick out multiple property owners, retirees, and generally all non-productive people out of metropolitan areas to drive prices down, while at the same time removing rent controls. Oh and also to remove most of the bullshit NIMBY zoning laws.

But that's obviously not politically feasible now, is it?
I'm really glad you like. A good friend put it together.

The tech is powered by cloud functions.
The reason why it'S so uncompetitive is because we still have a bunch of colonial institutions. We're colonized by our own oligarchy.
Does it poll? Or does it use push notifications?
In anticipation of this day I added support for PointerEvents to HumanInput months ago:

https://github.com/liftoff/HumanInput

It really is a superior way to handle mouse and touch (and stylus!) events. If you look at pointer.js in the repo you can see how much simpler it is to handle PointerEvents VS the combination of traditional mouse and touch events.
It's a shame it's come to this, but I'm sympathetic to NYC here. AirBnB had the time, resources, and advance notice to modify their policies and offerings in ways that allowed real homeowners to use the system but keep greedy land owners from running unregulated hotel chains.

AirBnB chose to keep the money hose pouring instead. They implicitly encouraged owners to operate in a way that violated the spirit of moderate, sensible couch sharing.

This is well deserved.
Do you really think of twitter as the center of right-wing lunacy?
Tried to sign up at TripleByte, got this:

"Unfortunately we're only able to work with people with legal status permitting employment in the US. We hope in the future to help set up visa sponsorships."

I appreciate that they cleared expectations upfront. I tried to sign up on Hired.com once, after going through effort of filling up their lengthy registration forms, which took me several hours, they conveniently told me that their services are not available in my country.
They (kind of) have a point though. I agree you should aim to be polyglot, but a particular project may not afford the learning curve if the dev doesn't already know the best stack.

For example, I'm working (part time) on a relatively simple backend server for a nonprofit with a tiny budget and short deadlines. I know I can do it cheap and fast in Python, and it will work "ok". Go would be better, and I'd like to learn it, but I'm uncertain I could pull it off in time.

EDIT: Then again, it looks like I could realistically learn enough Go for this project in a weekend. Only problem is there could be data analysis, I know good libs in Python, don't know how hard that would be in Go.
Oh, each human being is definitely exposed to more diversity, but that doesn't mean the world is getting more diverse. Now, I can be English and interact with people who are French, German, American, Chinese and so on; previously, I could have spent my whole life only interacting with Anglo-Saxons, but not know about the Bretons, Picts, Gaels, Geats, Swedes, Goths, Navajo, Hopi, Anasazi and so on nearby and around the world.

Perhaps we'll settle on one culture as we choose the best one. I more imagine we'll end up with one culture in an endless echo chamber, forever unable to sense our own biases.
Not in the Windows way, but we maintain (read: throw together, once) separate images for fusion drives, on/off domain, and some other minor use and test cases.

But no one here is patching kernels or blacklisting modules to fix hardware issues on Macs, or working around some Intel security technology that disables xhci controllers on Skylake if you aren't on Win10 because the last LCR didn't cull enough of the incompatible hardware to upgrade from Win7. Things like that are why our Mac group can support as many systems as the PC team with 1/5 the staff.

And that's not including Service, who deal almost exclusively with PC issues by volume.
Why do a test run at all? So that every security expert is on edge when it does happen?

... Perhaps if you try to argue that they did it in order to make sure everyone was on edge for the election... but even then it makes very little sense.
It polls. If too many people join we'll end up DDoSing github again
Uh, remind me not to come over for dinner. Seriously if you think OP's account is, business as usual, well - you and I live in different worlds, or you've seen a lot more of the seedy underbelly of criminal organizations than I have! Which is what makes OP's write-up interesting.

It's interesting because it's first-person. The list you've given is interesting too but all over the map - OP can report as a direct source, in the first person, not curate information from elsewhere. (Which is why I think it's important for him to not to accidentally sound like he's saying he's able to levitate things with his mind or anything like that. his followup makes this clear.)

if he does write something, you don't have to read it - but I certainly will!
I don't know how big PagerDuty is; IIRC over 200 employees, so, a decent size.

I was giving a bare-minimum example of how this or (some other backup solution) should have already been setup and ready to be switched over.

DNS is bog-simple to serve and secure (provided you don't try to do the fancier stuff and just serve DNS records): it is basically like serving static HTML in terms of difficulty.

That a company would have a backup of all important sites/IP addresses locally available and ready to deploy on some other service, or even be built by hand via some quickly rented servers, is I think quite a reasonable thing to have. I guess it would also be simple to run on GCE and Azure as well, if you don't like the idea of dedicated servers.
I think moving to fewer moving parts helps for some things. I no longer worry about magnets, hard drive heads, removable media, or even fans on some machines. So it feels overall that things are getting better, but I've been on Apple hardware for 15 years now.

I agree, things should be a bit better. I'm hoping that some of the IP67 dust/water resistance from phones trickles over to laptops soon.
Not that I'm saying that you're completely wrong, but you're oversimplifying the problem and the solution to it. Your last statement is not necessarily true; you have to balance the cost and how much of a PITA it is to set up and maintain vs how much money would be lost by disgruntled customers for a single rare outage. Granted, it depends on the kind of business you are running, but not every business is so fragile. In fact, I'd say that most(as in >50%) are not that fragile. Even better when you can simply put the blame on someone else, which everyone can do in our case right now.
I don't know about NYC, but in SF, collection of any sort of hotel tax (or any attempt at following regulation) on these units is a joke.

If having hotel taxes and regulations are otherwise a good thing, why should hotel bookings be exempt if they are made through AirBnB?

If, instead of building a hotel, somebody rents several units in a building and turns them into perpetual AirBnBs, is that fair? What if they are also rent controlled units that the person is turning an additional profit on?

And of course, there are legitimate reasons why you might not want the unit next to yours to be a de-facto hotel. (Having lived next to one, it can be a little frustrating, since every night is party night if you're on vacation!)
> For a long time, I've wondered what would finally be the Securitypocalypse, the thing that finally caused our industry as a whole to take security seriously.

Nothing. If the economic system revolves around capital's valorization of itself, security is a distraction from that. I have to spend five seconds typing my password in every time I sit at my desk? I can't just easily e-mail this executable file to my co-worker and have them run it? My desktop is locked down by the desktop admins to prevent me being able to do this, and many other things? Every implementation of security costs money for the personnel to do it and possibly the product cost. Plus any lost productivity it might cause (15 seconds to type in a password each time one sits at their desk, compounded).

Donn Parker wrote one of the first books on computer security in 1976, Crime by Computer. The opening words are as apt for corporate security now as it was then. The #1 fear for the corporate manager are the employees of that company. They are the ones with the greatest control over the means of production, so to speak, even more than the managers themselves who are de jure in charge, but are de facto one step away from actual control. Look at how much access someone like Snowden had at Booz Allen.

Obviously, if all products have wide open holes, script kiddies will be able to get control. Some minimal security will always be done to stop this sort of thing. On the other hand, one (or better yet, several) dedicated people who want to get past some security arrangement can almost always get in. Even if the firewall is supposedly impenetrable, the wifi or the building security or the social engineering credulity of employees or something will be there. There will be some weak link in the chain. Especially for a company that needs to make a profit.

The real security is that semi-intelligent, persistent agents that seek to access and control systems without authorization are lacking. Things depend on the conditions that cause this to rise or diminish. Because once it rises, there is little that can be done. I forget who said that the czar's Russian Okhrana was one of the largest, most extensive security forces that existed. That meant little when Russia began collapsing in 1916 though - all it meant was that they were even more aware that virtually everyone in the country was becoming the czar's enemy.

Securitypocalypse events due result in business and government putting more focus on security for a while, but time moves on, and attention drifts back to the main focus. These things go in waves, and total security is never something of the highest priority.
>> In a decent corp environment with a gigE LAN, the data compression benefits of RDP compared to TeamViewer or Apple's Remote Desktop aren't that necessary.

The performance gap is very noticeable even on GB LAN, especially as the screen resolution goes up. There were a couple of products on Mac that were almost as fast as Windows RDP, but they weren't cheap, and one of the two major companies (iRapp from CodeRebel [1]) went out of business earlier this year. I can't remember the name of the second company, but I think it came from an academia background.

1: https://www.coderebel.com/about/
We wish we could work with you :(

In the meantime, we're working on making companies more aware of the H1-B transfer options (http://blog.triplebyte.com/gaming-the-h-1b-system-for-good) and the recent OPT visa STEM extenstion (https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/students-and-exc...).
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I think that's okay.

We don't expect all homeowners to be, say, experts in electrical wiring, or gas supply, plumbing, drainage, or waste management. But all of these things—if they are poorly modified, managed, or maintained—can cause impacts on third parties. In the case of networked devices, the possible impact on third parties is even greater. We also enforce strong regulation on these systems – defining what may and may not be legally connected to public utility networks, for example.

We would probably expect a homeowner to hire a tradesperson to maintain these services, and in some cases it's legally mandated that only a qualified person may install or modify these systems. Is it then unreasonable to kick consumers off of the Internet when they install poorly-maintained devices, and require them to resolve the problem – perhaps by hiring the networking equivalent of a qualified plumber?
You're conflating happiness with meaning.
The NYC subway system is full of Bombardier subway cars, in case you've been there.
Can anyone tell me why chairs are so expensive though?
As someone who happened to be a young adult before the advent of iPhones and AirBnB I can promise you that it was indeed possible for people to do things without technologies available since 2010.

I successfully moved to a number of different cities with neither money nor job prospects. It involved using the ancient human rituals of "using a telephone", "riding the bus", "speaking with other persons" and "walking around".

In the process I had to deal with some minor inconveniences and sometimes things didn't go exactly the way I wanted. The horror!
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hosts file settings:

- to deploy to Heroku

174.129.22.147 git.heroku.com

- to enable Twitter from Web

104.244.42.65 twitter.com
93.184.220.70 pbs.twimg.com
104.244.43.7 o.twimg.com

- to access Github (as another poster wrote):

192.30.253.113 github.com
151.101.4.133 assets-cdn.github.com

You can find any other IPs you need on sites like http://www.hcidata.info/host2ip.cgi

Just remember to rollback your hosts file after the outage finishes.
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I think you're hung up on the kindergarden meaning of "sharing." The word doesn't mean "free" -- it only means to subdivide something amongst multiple people.

We use the word "share" in commerce all the time. Time share, shares in a company, profit sharing, etc.
Same Im in Illinios and I can't play destiny which is made by bungie which is down for some fucking reason
Please stop doing this.
These attacks are possible because the US Congress hasn't extended tort liability to manufacturers of software and network hardware. The full weight of the US products liability bar will quickly and rapidly motivate manufacturers to ship secure devices. The lack of accountability is enabling vulnerability.
Everyone usually frames this debate as compensating the little man instead of lining the rich pockets of the hotel industry. I have personally not seen this. I am a NYC condo owner and I do not know a single other condo owner that I have met that welcomes illegal short-term renters in their buildings. We enacted a $1000/day fine in our building against the owner on record if we catch someone doing this. We invested in real estate in this city and all signed contracts agreeing that only long-term subleases would be allowed (>= 12 months), and so we are upholding those contracts. Just because someone wants to visit the city and not stay in a hotel does not mean that all the other unit owners in a particular building want you there. It is not just a transaction between you and whoever hands you the keys. The last 2 Airbnb cases in our building were legal long-term subletters themselves listing the apartment on Airbnb without the owner's knowledge. There is so much straight-up illegal activity going on it's not even funny.
But then there is also the risk of government mandating a firmware update that has government features.
What I was actually referring to was Cantrill's talk about tail -f on Solaris, and how he improved it (so that it at least handled some cases). He looked at the GNU behavior, and determined that truncation was noted, but nothing was done about it. This is true if you use -f. However, if you use -F, truncation is handled properly.
From what I understand though, that's exactly why Johnson invested his own money and turned down outside investment: this is just the first step on a very long road, and it doesn't sound like he anticipates a viable return in an amount of time that a venture fund could justify participating in.
You have to draw the line somewhere, though, and this kind of proto-fascism is beyond the pale.
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Thanks for the suggestion! I have put Incendies on my to-watch list, with a caveat. I'll probably watch it in the spring or summer, when I bounce back from hard emotional experiences more easily.
Can we just set some explosive along the fault line and end this state already?

How is it possible that this largely Democrat-leaning state can be so pro-wealth/anti-middle class and poor?
Remote Desktop passes draw calls from server to client instead of screen-capping and sending bitmaps. Similar to remote X11.
Convince the people living along the coast to allow the construction of a desalination plant nearby. Which won't happen because it'd devalue their million-dollar property (multi-million in places like Laguna Beach).
>It seems to me like this is best left up to individual building associations and landlords.

That is to say "I think that this issue shouldn't be regulated" or "I disagree with this law." And it's fine to think either of those.

But if you decide that you don't want these unregulated-essentially-hotels existing (which the lawmakers apparently decided), how to craft that into law that is practical to monitor and enforce?

The legislation does a good job of creating a clear rule that can be implemented by scanning the advertisements. More complex rules that sometimes allow renters to use the whole apartment would suffer from more complex monitoring requirements.
Sweet dude. Does the performance improvements eventually plateau or does it scale well for larger projects?
Do you, or anyone else here, know of a good, privacy-conscious personal information management system? Other than Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, or Apple?

Having a system that manages such critical info in a seamless way is huge. I'm acutely aware that free services are not truly "free," so if there is a good alternative that has a reasonable premium subscription plan, I would seriously consider it.
I like this idea. Grab a new elastic IP on AWS. Set up an EC2 listening on 80, maybe some other interesting ports, and see if anything juicy comes in. Or just respond with some canned SPAM or phishing attempt. Repeat.
If Airbnb had rules regarding non-share rentals that restricted repeated listings of them they wouldn't have this problem. Yes this law is slightly heavy-handed in that it blocks someone that goes on a trip from time to time from booking their places out, but that is not the majority of listings on Airbnb. The majority of full apartment rentals are people that are running illegal hotels basically. This is hurting real hotels that have much more regulation, and decreasing availability of housing in a city that is getting more residents every year than the entire population of most other places in the USA.

Also when you are living in Manhattan, you do not want to have someone different in the place down the hall or above you every day. These people staying short term have no onus to respect neighbors. Airbnb knows that professional illegal sub-letters are the bulk of their business and is not stopping it. Renting a ski cabin out weekly is a lot different than renting out an apartment in the most densely populated city in the USA.
Weird, I don't see any mention of accessibility.
Please don't create new accounts to violate the guidelines with. Not only do we ban them (which we've done), but we ban the main account if it continues.
This is not a dyn error, this is all the companies failed to prevent this to happen, is an old practice having different NS Servers for your domain, but it can prevent this to happen.
How we added 10 people without hiring a soul
Ok, nothing will shock you then. If you don't believe the head of the party giving insider information from people who were supposed to be working for Sen. Sanders campaign feeding his opponent doesn't cause you fits, then all is fair game.

anyway search #PodestaEmails14 on twitter for the rest
That's fine, if you connect some cheap webcam and it causes you to be knocked off the internet you're going to be mad, leave a bad review for the camera, and not buy from them again. Market forces would then incentivize better security to be built into these devices.
INAL and this is not legal advice. This is my understanding based on looking into this change a while ago (they have been lobbying NYC residents hard) but I haven't looked at what got passed.

Subletting is generally legal in NYC and lease provisions banning it aren't allowed in most cases. What isn't allowed is subletting for more than you are paying in rent. If the host was charging more than his rent it was already illegal to perform the sublet and it is now illegal to advertise the illegal sublet.

If he is charging the same amount or less than it continues to be legal to both perform the sublet and advertise the legal sublet on platforms like AirBnB.
Ok I plugged in sept 1986 - sept 2016

Here are the numbers I got:

Annualized S&P 500 Return: 7.656%

Annualized S&P 500 Return (Dividends Reinvested): 10.047%

I didn't use CPI.

If you want to invest into MSFT at this price be my guest. I believe it is overvalued at this level with such limited growth.
I read somewhere that Amsterdam has a rule that states you can only use your lodging for short-term rental for up to 60 days a year.

This seems like it maintains the sharing spirit of something like AirBnB (rent your place out occasionally when you're away) while preventing the problems that come from people essentially running unregulated hotels..
Then we need to regulate the installation and maintenance of home networks like we do plumbing and electric. This is not a small requirement, and given the current ubiquity of home networks and networked devices it will be an incredible challenge to implement.

Probably a startup idea or two would come out of that sort of regulation. Now that, to install that Nanny Cam, I have to hire a certified network administrator.
ARD is functionally the same as RDP on Windows, but if you're used to the speed of RDP, it can be painful to use ARD even on a fast network.

There aren't many things that Windows does better than Mac, but in my opinion, RDP is definitely one of them.