skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Call it "teaching," "training," "learning," "conditioning," or whatever else you like, but it seems pretty self-evident that people change how they think and feel based on their experiences. Some of those experiences involve acting a certain way and seeing how others react.

Think about it the other way—in terms of negative emotions. A person with anger problems might practice suppressing blowups and taking a moment to try to deal with the anger before moving on. Would you accuse them of being fake-not-angry? Of course not. They're practicing healthy behavior, and over time the practice becomes natural and they don't even have to think about it anymore. They have become a genuinely less angry person by practicing non-angry behaviors.

Practicing gratitude is the same thing, except you're reinforcing a positive emotion rather than suppressing a negative one. You can become a genuinely more thankful person by reminding yourself to express gratitude.

I question any person's ability to truly read the thoughts or emotions of another. At any given moment, a person's thoughts and feelings are very complex and entangled, yet when we interpret their actions we reduce them down to a simple emotion or intention. That oversimplification is always inaccurate, and we should work to develop more complex understandings of other people. So when someone looks like they're faking modesty, they may in fact feel somewhat modest, or at least be faking it for "good" reasons.

There is, of course, a difference between "saying what you're supposed to say" and "trying to be more outwardly grateful," but in reality the lines blur a lot and neither is a bad thing. This may be an unpopular opinion, but when it comes to public discourse, I'll take fake expressions of gratitude over genuine expressions of contempt any day of the week.
In Greece?
From what I can tell, it's written in Electron. I assume they did this so that they could share the code base between desktop (win/mac), ios/android/winphone, and web -- keeping the features sets the same on all platforms. VS Code is the same way and that works beautifully on Mac. I expect that same for this.

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft (Azure) but have no relation to Office or Microsoft Teams.
Complaints of syringes and feces rise dramatically in SF
I meant like the way youtube does it
Islands leave distinctive cloud formations in their wake, sometimes stretching many hundreds of miles. Here's an example from satellite photography: http://m.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?i...

A popular theory is that Polynesian navigators would hone in on these cloud patterns in the sky, treating them as the big arrows in the sky pointing to land that they essentially are.
This definitely has an air of defensiveness to it. I'm not sure why Slack would choose to position themselves in this way; it's not what I'd expect from the market leader in their space.
Yeh, we know how that turned out for Apple in the 80s/90s :)
> Retailers complaining about how Amazon is creating a race-to-the-bottom with free shipping calls

Only thing worse is 20 years of financial journalists predicting Amazon's unsustainability and forthcoming demise.
to be fair, glassdoor still averages in salaries from 5 years ago into the current salary
Ask HN: What's the last cool gadget you bought?
I was just sharing my latest gadget buy, a bluetooth receiver for my car, (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EFPYQ2I/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) with some coworkers and figured I'd ask the HN community to share yours.
ITT: engineers who think they understand product
When Hillary and Donald were friends
What I find really laughable is when people say macOS Sierra or the new MBP2016 is underwhelming, and then they start talking about something as inferior as Elementary OS and laptops that doesn’t even have a useable touchpad.
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Interview Process: - apply via AngelList (https://angel.co/colony/jobs) - screening interview with co-founder (me, Collin) - submit code samples, preferably react - code challenge - additional conversations w/ team you'd work with - make decision / make offer

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Believe it or not, the origin is in question as well. Until the complete order is known, we can't make an optimal choice of which warehouse to ship from. We might want to get it to you faster by fulfilling it from the nearest warehouse, but if one of your products isn't in stock there, we may need to change strategy, selecting a different warehouse. That may not be the customer's problem directly, but if we try to hide it, then the difference is going to surface in the seller's expenses, and thus in the price.
Time to start taking the Internet seriously (2010)
Credit where due: this is leaps and bounds ahead of the gaslighting nightmare that is the AWS status page. Deeply appreciate the transparency.
> Controlling what my own mechanical device does with the information it receives from other people's machines.

"receives from other people's machines" makes it sound like PornHub is seeking you out and sending you stuff you didn't ask for. If you visited their site, you and your computer asked for whatever they sent. If you don't want parts of what they send, they offer you a convenient way of stopping that by paying for their content.
That was a much older, dumber Apple. They would never do that now.
The difference is if you outright screw someone, they can leave. The ability to acquire new drivers is the limiting factor on the growth of Uber and Lyft. If they screw someone who has already gone through the process, it will likely cost them more than $350 to get a replacement.

Despite many folks talking conspiracy theories, I think this is just a process breakdown. I would be very surprised if the driver isn't made whole after the PR goes big.
Can anyone find any source on that? Sounds like an interesting read.
Obviously, it won't. But it would at least free up some manpower.
> Basically my problem is with having one password for everything.

LDAP does not mandate single password. You are absolutely free to use something that will generate one-time passwords and send them via LDAP.
The other amazing thing is it takes infants months if not years to grasp certain fundamental realities about the world. They also take in a massive amount of constant data that gets parsed through sensory inputs and lower level instincts before it even registers with emotions.

I would not be surprised if we find the secret is in building up from base instincts and flooding it with sensory data while we"parent' the AI.
That's 17 hours a day, every day without breaks. If he took a day off or worked only 14 hours he's got to make that up. It's more than two-thirds of the time in a year on the job. Not conscious time, total time.

Looks like he did do it, but it's at the edge of physical possibility. As you get up there every hour is a much larger chunk of your available time. 114-120 is a lot more than 100.
Here's all you really need to know about randomness:

1. You need two things: an entropy source, and a whitener. No entropy source is perfect, so you need a whitener no matter what. You don't have to do anything fancy in your whitener. Any cryptographically secure hash function (like SHA512) will do.

2. Since you need a whitener no matter what, it doesn't really matter how good your entropy source is, except insofar as it might take a long time to collect enough entropy from a very poor source. All that matters is that you have an accurate lower bound for how much entropy your source actually provides, and this is the case no matter how good (or bad) your source actually is. As long as you feed >N bits of entropy into your whitener, you can safely extract N bits of true randomness out of it.

3. You don't need more than a few hundred bits of randomness. 128 bits is enough, 256 is a comfortable margin, 512 is serious overkill. Seed a cryptographically secure PRNG with a few hundred bits of entropy and you can safely extract gigabytes of key material out of it.

4. Because of 1-4, putting a lot of effort into designing and tuning a HWRNG is pointless. Such a device provides no value over a poor entropy source fed through a whitener provided you have an accurate lower bound on the entropy content so you can be sure you have seeded your PRNG with enough initial entropy.
Boss: "Robert isn't a team player, let's contrive a reason to fire him so we don't have to pay unemployment."
Ask HN: Simple on-premesis uptime monitor?
Is there a simple tool I can install to monitor a few basic services: http, https and ssh?

I've bookmarked like 100 of these things over the years but most are hideously complicated for my current needs. I'm looking for a simple web gui and maybe one cron job here. Know of anything?

(I use pingdom for the 'outside the firewall' view, but that is way more complex than what I need)
> Non-profits, despite the name, are not prohibited from making a profit.

Sure, but I would argue non-profit is still a useful term because while technically not accurate, it's not accurate in the same way people aren't being technically accurate in what they mean when they refer to an organization as non-profit. A non-profit cannot distribute its funds to owners or shareholders, it can only retain them to further its goal or ensure it's future survival. At the same time, I would argue more people mean "there isn't one or more people at the top profiting from ownership" when they say non-profit. This is an important distinction because it may lead to different incentives for the organization beyond survival (maximizing shareholder/owner profits vs maximizing customers served or some other metric).

> Why would non-profits inherently be able to beat Lyft or Uber's margins?

Presumably by doing everything Lyft or Uber do but without the need to ever pay out to investors. Whether that's likely is another story, but I don't think it's impossible, it just takes longer to self bootstrap and can be very hard (for example you might have to fight loss-leading tactics from a for-profit that's willing to defer profits until you are gone).
I know this isn't the point of the document but it is so strange that it has hyperlinks (from the TOC to the pages) but the equations ans diagrams are in ASCII art.
Why is he an idiot? Not completing 8th grade doesn't make someone an idiot.
But you don't see much reaction when NK or Iran gets accused of hacking.. but the mention of Russia seems to get people really up in arms about it.
As somebody working in the healthcare industry, this is the killer feature for me:

>Q. What level of security and compliance does Microsoft Teams support?

>A. Microsoft Teams is expected to be Office 365 Tier C compliant at launch. This broad set of global compliance and data protection requirements includes ISO 27001, ISO 27018, EUMC, SOC 1 Type I & II, SOC 2 Type I and II, HIPAA and FERPA. Microsoft Teams also enforces two-factor authentication, single sign on through Active Directory and encryption of data in transit and at rest.

The last time I'd looked into it, Slack was explicitly not HIPAA-compliant and therefore a non-starter for my team. We've basically had to stick to a combination of Hangouts for general chat and internal email for any HIPAA-covered data, so this would be a big win for us.
Okay, now we're getting somewhere. So what do you do for a website that doesn't have ads? That website could still attack with you JS bugs, HTML rendering bugs, JPG/PNG rendering bugs, etc.

You're still not really completely protecting yourself. So it seems to me like you're hedging your bets by assuming that primarily websites which have ads are a liability, but websites with no ads, but with equal opportunity for exploiting vulnerabilities are not.
I was unable to parse "animals other than dogs such as cats" because it isn't a sentence, it has no predicate. Shouldn't language sort of be their thing here?
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A friend of mine sent me a $50 credit but it only ended up being $10 when I went to use it. I didn't really investigate but I feel like they do this a lot. I know this is for a driver but still.
- right

- kind of, I think really Amazon made this the default and did it unprofitably.

- right

I think they are just looking at the logistical costs using truckloads instead of small parcels, etc. The cost of slow moving inventory at a store is much higher than at a distribution center. The economics of a store is much different than the economics of a distribution center. There is a reason products are more expensive at a store than online and it is that the cost basis of running a retail store is higher than running an e-commerce business. This claim is absurdly intentionally misleading.
I don't think it has anything to do with racial differences in specific kinds of intelligence. I really just think it's a matter of practice makes perfect. If your entire culture is based around seafaring then you've created the perfect environment to foster a tradition and cadre of good navigators, and that's what they got.
Thanks for the confirmation. I expect new engines like Servo to support content and request filtering at a lower layer for efficiency reasons, while of course still exposing it to JavaScript as needed. Opera already does this out of the box, though I don't know the internals and it's not as full featured as uBlock Origin. Without uBlock Origin and uMatrix, the web would be unusable from a UX perspective. thanks gorhill and friends!
I did not actually get a job, but reached out to 3 companies (Robinhood.io, Intel and can't recall third one) and all of them responded.

Robinhood.io (it was 3-4 years back). Got a coding challenge on HackerRank. I did horribly and obviously did not make progress.

Intel's position was in Portland, OR. I am in Bay Area. I inquired about working from Bay Area offices. The position required me to be onsite.

Can't recall 3rd company. Email communications only and figured it doesn't work for us.

So, I had 100% success in terms of responses, by far best acknowledgement rate.
but you would trust slack with your data ?
Also Microsoft has on prem version so you don't have to trust anyone
> Amazon & eBay have configured their fees to charge you more on any extra shipping line item to encourage sellers to make shipping "free".

Are you sure that is why? I thought it was because sellers started selling $1 items with $50 shipping and handling fees attached.

Also places where competitors are listed together are hard to browse unless "total cost" is listed explicitly somewhere (having to figure out whether the $19 or $5 with $5 shipping is better is annoying).
No better slack
Most corporations are so scared of violating employment law that they never ask for specifics. The last two companies I worked at had a third-party verifier who simply confirmed (by pay stubs, calls, etc) my employment history. I assume they don't share anything else other than that I worked somewhere for the periods I stated on my resume.

The more difficult part is tolerating the passive-aggressive culture of "polite society" that exists at most "legitimate" companies. Porn company culture is very aggressive. At my current dull-corporation job it's almost a weekly occurrence where I want to tell my manager or someone else up the chain to fuck off and get out of my way, in regard to getting work done. Porn is the only industry I've worked in where an aggressive (tinged with a modicum of respect) attitude is rewarded. I hate the hypocrisy at large corporations who encourage "take initiative/leadership, get-it-done!" attitudes, but then push back when an employee actually does that.
Agreed. Back when I was using Linode I had a crazy setup that used iptables on each server to accept traffic only from my other servers. With benefit of hindsight I might have maintained it differently, but needless to say, it was a bit fragile.
I have used Teams for a few months on Mac and Windows (most time spent on Mac), this is the exact same quality: thanks electron.
I thought that was the marketing for Windows 7 after the Vista fiasco.
For the record, I am neither employed in or near Silicon Valley (not that it should matter), nor do I have any strong beliefs about whether or not actively weeding out developers is a good tactic for a business (five years ago I would have said it wasn't, now I'm agnostic).

Whatever my beliefs or situation though, it's not hard for anyone to understand how a medium-to-large scale organization with a high hiring bar could make a rational decision to "hire the best" while still making an effort to release the least valuable developers in the company.

An alternative strategy is Google's. Google tunes their hiring process to produce almost exclusively false negatives rather than false positives (they very deliberately reject qualified candidates far more often than they hire under-qualified candidates). With this hiring strategy in place, it wouldn't make as much sense for Google to "weed out" developers.

And for the record I think 20th-century impersonal, statistical business thinking is toxic, but that doesn't mean I don't see its use or that I know of a better way to do things.
probably means the buggy part. i worked at microsoft and one note worked great on windows but was shit on my mac. it wouldn't even sync properly
Dear Microsoft (from slack)
There are many news sites which do Adblocker detection. I guess this is a known trick by many people in the industry and they are not doing anything here.
A post from "the other side of the table" :).

The previous company I worked at, I hired two people through who's hiring posts. We pretty much tried it out for about six months as we didn't have much luck through the more traditional channels our division's HR department used. So yes, there are real positions being filled through these posts.

That said, just because it's on Hacker News and this is an informal place doesn't mean you don't need to put at least a little effort into your application. I don't think I ever received that many emails in response to a job posting that didn't even contain one complete sentence to go with the resume. I seem to remember that I received multiple emails from candidates that contained fewer than five words. The best one was the one that just contained a random link (presumably to his/her resume, but I didn't need to click on a potential phishing link that badly), no words, nothing else...

The two people who ended up getting hired (one a very junior developer, the other one a mid-level developer) wrote informal cover emails that showed signs of intelligent life at the other end of the keyboard, much like you'd expect from someone trying to apply for a job :).
Have there been any deep-dives into what Amazon pays for shipping on a per-package basis? At their volume, I can imagine that the cost per item shipped has the potential to be low enough that it costs more for the worker to put the item in the box than it does to ship the item out.
I guess it never occurred to me before, but with the increased amounts of attacks lately it's been near the top of my mind. These guys seem to be throwing around the physical addresses of data centers pretty freely. What is the security of these places like? How decentralized are we really? It seems like a few strategic strikes could deal a devastating blow to our edge infrastructure. I know personally, my servers are only hosted in a single datacenter. The company I work for is in 3 datacenters, but I'm not sure the other 2 data centers could handle the full load for an extended period of time if the primary one was completely taken down.

Granted not as big of deal as power plants etc, but if you're looking for soft targets, it's a scary thought.
I didn't purposefully misconstrue, I asked you if that was your intention. But there's no doubt that you purposefully blame the victims of malware instead of blaming the criminals who purvey it.

Again, I'd like your List of Malware-Free Sites, so I dont get anymore malware.
As a seller, you want to make any sale that's profitable above your minimum margin, but want to charge the most you can get away with. When you have competition, you lower your price to compete. When you're selling on your own site you can charge more and still have sales.
Even worse is when their application process is "different" and they ask that you write code addressing some specific problem to submit with your resume. I'm not talking something simple, but a well thought out problem that requires a few hundred lines.

I get that they're trying to be different and evaluate candidates on metrics other than just resume, but to send that kind of thing in (which takes a week of effort outside of your real job) and receive no acknowledgement or response to a follow up a couple weeks later is lame.
Are you sure about WebAssembly? I thought it's a new byte code standard and a completely new runtime on its own.
This is weird to write this. What's the point? Seems like someone got really mad and needed to be a bit passive-aggressive.
> On the other hand, maybe it shouldn't matter, and you should always act like the network is compromised.

What about cases like AWS's VPCs?
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> Many notable for-profit companies don't distribute dividends. From an accounting perspective, if they also reinvest all of their money back into the company before year's end, they are essentially equivalent to a non-profit company.

Only if you discount the pressure to raise stock prices for public companies. There are plenty of cases where the pressure to do this in the short term, or even just to mitigate an expected drop in prices, has produced a strategy that is not optimal for the business itself.
That's not true at all, and I expect them to become increasingly important over time. Now that we have the DOM being abstracted away into the virtual DOM in React, Angular 2, Vue, etc., it should be almost entirely possible to run your framework code entirely in a WebWorker while sending back some type of delta/patch to update the actual DOM.

I'm not sure what you mean that web sockets aren't supported since the MDN shows it as being fully available:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers...

Where this falls down is in handling events where some actions inherently need to be synchronous (preventDefault, stopPropagation), however I think Angular 2 was starting to consider options on how to overcome that. I can't speak for progress in other frameworks.
> "Data Scientist" -- Title not found. Please select a valid title.

I thought Patil invented that term for LinkedIn (along with Hammerbacher at Facebook).
Slack, Microsoft, and the Other Unicorn Hedge
not trying to insult you or anything but microsoft probably doesn't really care. make most of their money from contracts with companies with thousands of people.
My 2 cents... It's an underutilized resource. They have career data for the highest value people in the world. Yet their technology and interface are woefully dated. The mobile search is awful, and it should be a tool that everyone uses before every meeting. The "You may know X" ability to find new contacts goes down dramatically. It would be beaten by a heuristic that just checks people who work at your current or prior company in the same city.

I do think there's room for a turnaround.
Slack and Microsoft Teams are both Electron apps. Web tech under the hood.
https://concept.research.microsoft.com/Home/Demo
I thought they don't have on prem version. Cool!