skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Removing options seems to be a common trend in modern software design

Here's a Slack example of this. We moved from HipChat to Slack and two of the "options" we as a team dearly miss are:

1. Being able to set a status that reflects what we're doing if unable to chat for the time being, not just a binary online or away. Now I have to inform the team I'm on a conf call or will "brb - making lunch" in a chat room which distracts everyone. HipChat was pretty flexible that way, it's a small thing, but for our team hugely important, especially for remote workers.

2. Being able to specify how long I'm AFK before setting me to "Away". Sometimes I take calls on my mobile (we have apps for our internal SIP/asterisk stuff) and I like to wander around when chatting because it stretches my legs. But I find annoying that on longer calls Slack assumes after 30 mins of no activity I'm "Away" and "grey blobs" me making it look like I'm completely offline. Unfortunately the "Snooze notifications" don't cut it because it still doesn't let me convey, at-a-glance, why I'm deferring your messages.

From googling around it seems these are common gripes that Slack don't see as a priority to fix.

Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of things Slack does well, but as paying customers, not addressing these two issues causes some low level resentment.
That may be what he stated. I can say that I plan to launch pigs from a catapult tomorrow. Doesn't make it true.

I would understand filing that documentation prior to selling. But I'm also familiar with using "Filing with govt" as a tool of oppression that large companies try to pass as a barrier of market entry. Lawyers are rather expensive, and requiring more volumnous paperwork requires more lawyers.

And speaking of that, what is the repercussions of what you send to NHTSA? Say he sends something inaccurate or glosses over details. What is the liability of sending something wrong to govt? Hmm...

Yes. Wait till he's selling them. And when there's a claim, act on it. Not before.
We received an email from Github yesterday informing us that one of our repositories had been accessed by a third party due to this issue. While it's not a fun notification to receive, it definitely made our general security paranoia feel justified – we're lucky that from the get-go we've held best practices around keeping secrets out of the codebase. Obviously we still dedicated time as a team to prune through our repository history with a fine-toothed comb for anything that could potentially be a vulnerability, as we take this very seriously.

One of our engineers came up with a useful script to grab all unique lines from the history of the repository and sort them according to entropy. This helps to lift any access keys or passwords which may have been committed at any point to the top.

I think this is a great example to illustrate the tough edges of security to less experienced engineers. Github will most likely never let something like this happen to you, but on the off-chance that they do it's great to be prepared. Additionally, the response from Github was very well received. No excuses, just a thorough explanation of what happened.

I also can't help but mention that we're hiring, if you'd like to work at an organization that values security and data privacy very highly. :) usebutton.com/join-us
It definitely feels like Apple is concentrating on the amateur market. I wouldn't say it is geared towards pro users. What they showed would be great for the kind of people who buy the air. Personally, I don't care how much my laptop weighs or how big it is as long as it fits in my backpack.

The touch strip is great for scrubbing, that part I liked, but pro users do not use contextual menus like that. They know all the keyboard shortcuts. Scrolling through photos, sliders, scrubbing, timelines, all good use for the touch strip. Menus, not so much.

In Photoshop, why would I go through menus to get to the control to change the brush size when I can just press '[' or ']'. And if a person was really a pro they would have a pen with pressure sensitivity already that allows them to change opacity, size, etc by pressing harder.

The DJ demo interface looked extremely cumbersome. It's a great alternative if your controller breaks but there's a reason physical sliders and knobs exist. They are easier to use. If you're a professional DJ you are going to use a dedicated external controller. Great if you want to tinker or are an amateur, but not for a professional.
Except this is exactly what happened last time. They had concrete evidence, they essentially said what she did was illegal, it would have been a slam-dunk case, but regardless said they didn't recommend prosecuting because they didn't think it was feasible.
It's curious because all the companies in France are looking for developers. Specially in web development. What's your stack?

Since you have studied in France, I assume you have done one or several internships (usually 6 months) or even one or several years of apprenticeship (really common here in IT)?

If yes, did you try to get a job in the same company? Did you ask for references to your manager, your product owner, your team members, your CTO?

If no, you should start with an internship I think. Unfortunately, what your learn at school is rarely useful in your daily job. I don't know any company that hire candidates without some real xp.
Must be a great morale boost for the employees.
Angela Merkel wants Facebook and Google's secrets revealed
http://www.archiveteam.org/ is specifically dedicated to archiving web services before they go down.
Hopefully the payment processor institutes some form of check or delay into the process so that funds can be refunded in the event of fraud.
Same. Every single time my bank has killed my card for "suspected fraudulent use", it's been legitimate. The one time I was actually hit by a fraudulent use, they didn't even notice and I had to catch it myself and notify them. Even normal things like buying gas often get my card shut down and I have to call them and go through a long verification process to get access to my money again.
Vampires never die. He's in a dark room somewhere, I'm sure.
> Every person living outside of the states has this problem.

WTF are you saying?
They've been building their own fabrication facilities in Ft. Lauderdale, they are trying their best to keep the chinese factories from stealing their IP.
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> She has Obama, using tax payer money, campaigning for her - while not illegal, is pretty morally bankrupt in my opinion.

Just a point, this is normal with the sitting President campaigning either for themselves for their second term or their parties nominee. Both Trump and Hilary have plenty of valid points against them, so there is no need to muddy the water with points that don't really matter.
It is useful in cases where you want to verify something is the same as a stored (encrypted) value - e.g. passwords.

One-way encryption where the entire process including the equivalent of salt/pepper is publicly available and not reversible might have some interesting applications.
There are more details in this lecture Hotz gave at Berkeley this September: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxoke1lDJ9w

One of the things that seemed missing from the lecture when I watched it is how data was going to be collected for handling exceptional situations/collision avoidance. Hotz also glossed over the question in this interview from July: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zy_07g2IrM#t=35m

I suspect they ran into trouble with edge cases. Also suspicious is this job posting on their website right now:

"Localization Lead Engineer
DESCRIPTION

We have over 50,000 miles of video data from cars, and will have millions by the end of the year. Looking for someone to build a SLAM algorithm capable of scaling to the world.

Imagine an API that, given a picture, returns the exact location of the camera with cm accuracy.

Build this

REQUIREMENTS

Strong math background.
Ability to write concise, reliable, and readable code quickly.
Github with stars is nice.
Computer vision experience a plus.

Basically someone who could have written https://github.com/mapillary/OpenSfM or https://github.com/raulmur/ORB_SLAM2"

http://www.comma.ai/positions.html

Hotz has been claiming that they would not need mapping and SLAM like Google's self-driving car. The whole "Looking for someone to build a SLAM algorithm capable of scaling to the world" sure sounds like "I guess this time he couldn't find anyone on IRC to finish the hard parts for him and let him take the credit" that
lawnchair_larry posted elsewhere in this discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12818219).
I'd bet they will be one-day, or perhaps they are in a lab, but they can't achieve it at-scale, or at an acceptable cost. It's likely why they're trending the existing keyboards towards a flatter profile -- in preparation for the sensation they know they'll be able to pull-off in 3 or 5 or however many years it'll take to deliver a haptic implementation on their products.
Apple touch bar is “great” but lets talk price
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/59plnp/lets_talk_about_those_prices/

How the hell are students supposed to afford one?
Its nice they have a "cheaper" option for $1500 but its seriously under powered and has no ports!

PS: I am a computer science student and I waited almost 1 year for the new MBP and was prepared to make the move to using a MacBook but I cant afford it. $1800 for a low end 13" laptop? really?
You were a masters student, and an undergrad presumably in a field that may have lent itself to CS, so you had fellow students, and maybe even undergrads you taught or did research with. Are there local firms nearby with alumnus from your schools, that you might reach out to? All of that is a network of people who might help you. Have you been able to leverage that network to find opportunities?
>> Apple was never niche within the industry, they were the forefront of mainstream.

My Apple days go back to the first era of Steve Jobs. I remember when Macs served mainly DTP (desktop publishing) and Education markets and not much else. Back when people literally said "Macs are toys". I used to get weird "Why?" looks when I told people I used a Mac. I don't think any Mac user from that era would say Apple was "at the forefront of mainstream".
One problem with that model is that if the product ends up being unsafe and someone dies, it becomes the regulator's fault that they failed to prevent an unsafe product from being marketed and sold in the first place. Heads will roll.

We as a democratic society decided awhile ago that the benefit of knowing a car product was probably safe outweighs the frictional burden of testing them before they can be sold.

There's a lot of insinuation here that the regulator is actively trying to kill his product, but no evidence. This seems like a run-of-the-mill request, one that the NHTSA probably sends out thousands of times a year to various automakers and auto parts suppliers.

As a counterpoint, I'm sure Tesla has gotten these letters as well, but the NHTSA didn't prevent them from putting AutoPilot on the market.

> what is the repercussions of what you send to NHTSA? Say he sends something inaccurate or glosses over details.

The letter specifically says that estimates are ok. There's nothing wrong with telling the regulator 'We're not sure yet, give us a month to figure it out please?'.
See discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11416376
> AI have hardcoded (as in, on their physical hardware) automatic code to shut down external communication in the event external communication is attempting to takeover the AI

This sounds very much like you're describing an antivirus program, which we all know works perfectly well /s
> Technically it had never been closed in the first place, so if you want to be technical Chaffetz is still full of shit.

I'll give you the point on being technically correct (and Chaffetz being full of...) but counter that by that logic she's been under FBI investigation this whole time.
> Did Tesla got a similar letter?

Did Mercedes? Did Volvo? They have the same systems in place in production vehicles.

Mercedes even advertised their vehicles as autonomous.

http://blog.caranddriver.com/mercedes-benz-pulls-e-class-ad-...

> Here are three dashcam videos of Teslas crashing on autopilot.

Glad you had the opportunity to bash Tesla.
Perhaps I am naive. My understanding is that in general, debit cards do not enable charge backs. Further, I've never had a fraud alert on my card (even when traveling internationally) that I couldn't resolve with a phone call to the bank. Does a debit card not solve your problem?
Your critique is based on the assumption that this is something testing could have caught. Toxins, bacterial contamination or something similar.

If it is just an intolerance or allergic reaction exhibited to particular ingredients by a small fraction of the population that is very difficult to test for. Even more so if the magnitude of the reaction depends on processing of the ingredients.

If they are using uncommon ingredients or process them in unusual ways it may be entirely possible that it was simply a previously unknown issue that nobody tests for, i.e. in-house testing could not have caught it either and human beta-testing could be inconclusive due to low prevalence of the intolerance.

I wonder how other large food manufacturers handle such things.
The creator of the Triangle of Power (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sULa9Lc4pck) and the Essence of Linear Algebra (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjBOesZCoqc). He is now trying to focus full time on online math education.
"If it weren't for Trump, in fact, Clinton would be the most unpopular major-party presidential nominee in modern American history."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/31/a-...
Maybe if they optimized for features instead of making it smaller. This is the Pro not the air. People who care about size are going to get the Air. People who get the Pro want Pro features and don't care as much about size and weight.
Which is fine if you do everything locally (because you control that configuration), but not having escape really sucks when you are on servers a lot and you can't necessarily go changing vim settings around.
Ask HN: How to go from zero knowledge to employable as a junior developer?
I am 37 yo, from Brazil and I made the decision of somehow radical (and late) career change, from manager to developer

As a summary, I graduated in Economics, worked 8 years with non-profit project management and fundraising, then about 4 years with startups (non-tech founder and marketing). Now I decided that I want to invest in being a developer. I believe I will be professionally happier as a developer.

I would like to ask HN your help with some doubts around the goal that I set myself:

Start from scratch and, in 4 months, be employable as a junior developer.

Is it possible at all? How is it possible? Where should I start? What path to follow? Learn from where? Bootcamps, online, self-learning, mentors, classes?

I am inclined to focus on front-end development, but maybe at least some back-end knowledge to be kind of a full-stack web developer.
I can go trial-and-error-and-google mode with CSS/HTML, but JS (and everything else) I have zero knowledge.
I believe I have some affinity with the craft of programming, good logical thinking and expect to learn things fast.

I am open to brutally honest feedback and diversity of opinion, even questioning my decision at all if you will.
fraction?? The money supply of the world is about between 30 and 80 trillion dollars. Let's call it 50 trillion. Let's say crypto gets 10% share over time, and these guys get 10% of crypto. That's 1% of the money supply. So... 500 billion dollars. 10% for founders = 50 billion dollars. Isn't that just, a bit, ambitious in your opinion? This fork of bitcoin is worth 5 million dollars MAX for the founders efforts up to now (it's a fork, remember), namely 1/1000 of my already conservative scenario. Let's hyperbolically discount that for the huge risk, and therefore generously multiply my scenario by 10. We're talking 1% premine fair value, max.

Let's get real here. These guys are fucking opportunists at best, ponzi median, outright thieves at worst.
The Archive Team[1] tries to scrape such records when the sites are in danger of closing down. Currently my Warrior[2] is pulling pictures from Panoramio[3]. Unfortunately, resources are often scarce, particularly storage.

[1] http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

[2] http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warri...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12732692
> And Trump is the one threatening our democracy?

He has stated that if elected, he'll spend the first 100 days suing his accusers.

He believes the press has too much freedom of speech.

He has claimed the election is rigged against him, and has all but told his supporters to engage in vote suppression.

He has said he will attempt to force all Muslims to register into a database.

He has said he will ban all Muslims from entering the nation.

Would you like me to go? If you listen to his words at campaign rallies, they bear a striking resemblance to fascist dictators on the rise.

Clinton may fit the mold of the "crooked Washington politician", but at the least, she has a basic respect for democracy. Trump, on the other hand, would attempt to utterly plow his way through our legal system for his own gain.
Has Clinton's ethics ever not been constantly questioned?

I think the Democrats are prepared for that much, at least.
Impeachment doesn't mean she will be forced to resign. Look at what happened with Bill Clinton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton
Incoming Noogler: Can I Travel Like This?
Incoming Noogler who interned in this past summer. Have a quick question about traveling to other offices. Traveling is a big passion of mine and I noticed a lot of Googlers take trips to different cities/countries and work out of the local office. Someone on my team went to LA for a week and worked out of that office. Someone else went to Germany and worked out of that office etc.

I was wondering if I could spend one week a month or so going to a Google office in another country. This would be really awesome for me if I could make it happen, as I'm very passionate about traveling. Current Googlers, how would you feel in your new hire did this (assuming he got his work done remotely no problem)?
There's a lot of anti-soylent in this thread, purporting it as a "holier-than-thou" attitude by tech-bros who are too good to eat "normal food". How ironic.

Everyone here has had moments where they need to eat something because they're hungry, but are in the middle of something, a team meeting, in the zone fixing a bug, or just up late at night. The standard solutions are to either be distracted by hunger and keep working, or go eat something junk-like real fast, or prepare super well in advance a series of healthy snacks meant for times like this.

Well, not everyone prioritizes organizing emergency meals, or enjoys cooking, or wants to spend time on it. But they still value eating something cost-effective, and at least moderately healthy. For all the people whose default choice is ordering pizza or ringing up Postmates for some junk food, Soylent (while not making people sick) is several orders of magnitude better in terms of cost, convenience AND nutrition.

What's wrong with that? Why would you diss that choice so much? Surely you can't believe ordering a Domino's cheese pizza is better than consuming a bottle of Soylent? If your only suggestion is "they should learn to cook/mix their own/pay attention to food" you're missing the point and refusing to empathize. Different people have different priorities and inclinations, and it makes sense for products to be marketed for some set of those without demanding behaviour change.
Couldn't each driver just propose a fare and let the customer accept it?
Yes, being "well connected" is critical to working with regulatory agencies. A minimum of 56 kbps is recommended.

Seriously, with agencies like the FAA, FCC, EPA, FDA, NHTSA, etc. you can just call them up and you will be connected to a regulator who can help you with every step of getting your product past regulatory requirements. The Small Business Administration also has a lot of people dedicated to helping entrepreneurs with regulatory oversight.
I understand that, that's why I said "impeached AND forced to resign" :)
Do I have to check with every relevant government agency for permission every time I do something? If an endeavor not specifically outlawed, it should be presumed legal.
Read a review, no haptic feedback [0]. Bummer. You are definitely right about haptic making a touch bar less prone to accidental touch.

[0] https://digg.com/2016/macbook-touch-bar-reviews-apple
There's no $21,000/day penalty. That's the statutory maximum possible. If NHTSA wants to fine Hotz they would have to propose a fine, let him respond with a defense, and then convince a court that it is the most reasonable solution to impose the fine amount recommended. There's no way on earth it would come to anything like $21,000/day.
That's how I learned as well. Turns out it's very comfortable once you're used to it though. I've never gone back to QWERTY since then.
SHUT IT DOWN!
Or he just earned a "very good" (top 25%) score from HR (by itself, pretty impressive for a 3-month boot camp and zilch experience). But the Bloomberg reporter thought it would sound better if he wrote "top ranking for Java developers globally".
Your gut's wrong on this one: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/clinton-voters-arent-jus...

Most Clinton voters are voting for her, not against Trump.
There is a lot of historical precedent. A US President can generally claim immunity to everything except an impeachment. Regardless of laws, you'd never find someone capable of arrest the US President. Secret service would quickly fill anyone attempting to do so with bullets. Worst case scenario, the President can go hang out at a military base of which he or she has absolute authority. Good luck having the DC Police SWAT one of those.
Comma's main advantage over Tesla's Autopilot was, as I understand it, the use of cameras to collect video data. Hotz presented that as the advantage at TechCrunch Disrupt, at least, saying that he could beat Tesla's Autopilot because he had full video data from a small smartphone app that he had test users running as they drove while Tesla's vehicles had no video input.

I wonder if his choice to cancel Comma is related to Tesla's recent announcement that all new Tesla vehicles would ship with a full video camera outfit.
Going by https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/792082223461695488

You start to wonder what Huma Abedin might have said to her husband.
On the other hand, if density were no problem at all, everybody would be using APL/J/Kx, and that isn't the case either.
I bought a Razer Blade a couple of years ago (switching from a late 2008 MBP) and it's served me well. I run Windows 10 and Ubuntu (dual boot) on it.
Thank you for your input.

I have a Github with a couple dozen projects that I have made over the years, however none of them are "completed products", most are a few thousands lines of code that I put together during the weekend.

Do you think that I should be pushing more finished and cleaner projects?

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I'm mainly applying in Europe because the local market for developers/engineers in my Arab country is very poor and under-developed. It is very rare to find a junior position that would allow me to enrich my CV, plus with a starting average salary of 400$/month it very hard to make any long-term economies.
Genuine, blunt question here, why is this technology important and needed?

I ask this as someone who is intrigued by cryptocurrency, but never felt a pressing need to be able to transact 100% anonymously.