skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterpoint: A lot of people have played CAH and it is arguably the most popular board/card/party game of the 21st century.
Not at all. My latest campaign gave me 129 clicks for $30.
Latin isn't a set of cast-in-stone strings of words. While sic semper tyrannis is very well known, sic semper tyrannus is also grammatical.

"Rest in peace" is well known, but "Rest in pieces" is neither unhead of, nor wrong. It's a riff on a well known phrase.

Same here: "Thus always (do) tyrants"

As I said, I think it makes more sense here. I think he wanted to call the UK government tyrants, not the spied-upon people.
I hate these links to articles that are behind a pay wall. If people cannot read it, what's the point?
In recent months, "pretentious" (along with "elitist" and "smug") is starting to sound like a high compliment. Humanity could really use a few more pretentious nitpickers right about now.
The MBa fan beeps, resetting the SMC is inactive. Can I tear it down?
I am in Mac OS.

The fan never sounded before, including CPU105 ℃ when.

According to the online method to reset NVRAM or PRAM, SMC, still does not work.

So, can I buy a screwdriver, opening the back cover and the unpluging the line connected to the fan?

Seeking possible consequences, feasibility analysis or other recommendations.
So require that the actual victim has to be satisfied with the payment, with measures to make sure they haven't been intimidated.

You can come hit my car with yours in exchange for a big pile of money. It may not be the purest form of justice but if everyone's life is improved in the interaction then that's pretty good.
If you're going to recommend a Linux for security, I would have assumed it'd be Tails. For maximum greybeard, I'd go with Gentoo. But this is hacker news, I don't think your average user here is just hearing about Linux from this thread.
where can I find the text of the email?
That's exactly how responsible disclosure works. You wait until after the patch, then you do the blog post. In that order.

Publishing early just damages your relationship with the company, the community, and makes it more well known that you _don't_ have good intentions.
I would start by kicking off the process of codifying your knowledge. I've used confluence for this, and it's a real art to sit down and work out how to structure your information, the level of detail required, and what should be documented in the first place. I've found that the people I've worked with the went from a technical to managerial role were mostly relied on for that vast technical and organisational knowledge that they had built up over the years.

I'm not sure if you're managing a project, product or divisional team structure, but I would say that no matter what level you're attempting to manage, set some sort of vision for your team to align themselves with. This can cover things such as technical aspirations, or organisational strategic goals.

Trust your team. It doesn't sound like there is any mistrust in your team, but I understand the difficulty in getting over that initial knowledge hump when introducing people to a new domain, especially as an "expert" in the area. Documenting knowledge in clear and concise ways, and making different members of your team experts in certain areas of your knowledge will help them to become more self-sufficient in their quest for knowledge and answers. Consider this an investment.

As a general piece of advice, not aimed at any particular part of your post, you were in the same position as your team members are now not long ago, think about the pain points you had and try to learn from them.
As has happened before on these threads, every opinion on Amazon is super negative. To balance things out I'll chime in to say that I had a highly positive experience working there as an SDE for 3 years, and would estimate that most of my coworkers felt the same way.
I don't understand this. Amazon seems to have seriously cutting edge infrastructure; they sell it as a service and operate more servers than google. Also, according to the article 20k people work for them, although I am not sure if that was total or engineers.

I am curious how they can retain people to manage all of their operations. Those terms sound terrible and not competitive. I would take those terms, but I am desperate. Why would others.

Interested to know if you(others) took terms out of naivete, need, broken promises/misrepresentation, career or skill boost, ect.

Tl;dr seems like a lot of good engineers work there, but many recount horrific exp.
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Strange cultures
We were able to get in touch with the hacker and he told us he was just mining and not stealing stuff. We're still cleaning the whole system; might even pay him/her a bounty for this though.
I just want to mention that Le Tote and Vet Pronto are awesome. We use them both and they make life easier and more pleasurable. Always great things to wear and our cat doesn't have to leave home.
Well, if you are not certified, you are not allowed to pre install the whole suite of Google binaries and Google Market along with Google Pay and probably other services are not going to work on your device (at least you wont be able to make purchases).
er... which numbers? can someone expand on this?
Here you go: https://kevinchen.co/blog/postmortem-server-compromised/
This is spot on for why I dislike code reviews (though they're better than none at all) -- they either remain shallow, or take up so much time that it might have been better to just pair program it in the first place. And if the code review is being done remotely? Ugh.
Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation. I interpreted it more along the lines of the petition as a form of rebellion against the government, which I think would warrant sic temper tyrannis, correct?

(Maybe the poster will weigh in and save us the trouble of deciphering his intent :)
I'm experiencing the same battery drain in my 5. I plugged into pc to save photos and another update was detected. I was going to backup so I could do a Firmware reset as Apple Store tech suggested.
I can't tell if battery improved yet but the other problem from 10 update seems to have corrected, reduced sensitivity to touch. Touch sensitivity is improved noticeably.
Hope battery is too.
Segment (YC S11) Is Hiring Senior Solutions Engineers in NYC and SF
Nissan banks on after-sales 'hyper-personalization' revenue
However, people will endure much pain and problems to save a few dollars. Reminds me a bit of the "inexpensive footwear" Dilbert cartoon: http://dilbert.com/strip/2007-05-01
Update: I sent an email to the email on that script. And the person at the other end replied and mentioned that he/she is doing it for extra pocket money and was only mining on the server.
We aren't going to pursue any legal charges, might even pay the person a bounty for pointing out this vulnerability.
I'd like to thank all of you, with special mention to some folks over at reddit for all your help!
Call me when linus in all of his trumpiness accepts rust until then i'm #teamwindows
Lost. Old TV show. Netflix maybe?
I was at AWS for six months as a contractor and a year as an SDE3.

Equity vesting was low for the first year, but they gave me a (cash) signing bonus that made up for it. Pretty much one-to-one based on the starting value of the equity, and it paid out monthly instead of waiting until the end of the year.

The cafes were awesome and the prices there were decent. I was paid more than enough to buy my own lunch. Catered food is a cute perk, but it's hardly critical.

I don't drink soda, but they had free coffee and tea. Tea is my drink of choice, so I was happy. Soda is bad for you anyway. ;)

They did have free "snacks" if you count breakfast cereal. Which many people would grab a cup full of as a snack (there were no bowls, oddly enough). There were a mountain of breakfast cereal boxes on every floor near the kitchen. But yes, they also had paid snack machines.

The oncall routines were terrible, though, I agree. Luckily I was in a strange situation and was able to avoid them.

Our team was far better, technically speaking, than what you describe. Everyone was a pretty awesome developer, including my manager, who was really awesome overall. Developers went home at night; no one was being driven as if in a sweatshop. We had game nights and played board games. Periodic team dinners (that were awesome!). It was a blast.

And I think the latter really makes the difference. There are 20,000 people working at Amazon, according to the article. When you scale that big, some corners of the org are going to suck, and some will be better.

I may someday return to Amazon, now that they have an office near me in Colorado. But I'm still working on the game that I put on hold while I worked at Amazon, and I need to finish it before I reattach the golden handcuffs.
> On September 9th, 2015 we received $127,827.01 from Kickstarter. This sounds like a lot of money, until we say that this week, November 22nd 2016, we have finally gotten out of debt. That’s 440 days of work after creating the product and running the Kickstarter before we made $1.

As someone who's spent their professional career working for venture-backed tech companies that hadn't yet made a profit, that sounds damn good. Many many companies never get that far.
The "web" link beneath the submission title will bring you to a search page with a link to the actual article, which should get you around the paywall.
This makes sense, we can rest easy knowing they didn't break out of the container. Thanks!
If you have Bitlocker setup with TPM and PIN, you should be secure even from attackers with physical access.
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I misread your post too, but now it's clear on a reread that you meant the hat!

I am also a proud and happy Linux user going on about 10 years now, and what's great is that I know all the knowledge I've acquired will still be relevant many decades into the future -- not sure the same can be said of Windows or MacOS.
Anyone know other good alternatives to this project? I've used the open-source Freeboard project[1] before, but curious what else is out there.

[1] https://github.com/Freeboard/freeboard
I wonder if it's re-evaluating the previous statements up to that juncture each time, though that would be easy to test probs.
What? I had a 2004 BMW that would charge the key battery through induction when you had it in the ignition and the car was running. Battery never died in 10 years owning the car. How have things gotten worse since then?
> 2. Attend every lecture and take notes very few if any notes. Most of what you need is in the book and math is about understanding. You cannot grok and write at the same time, and it's better to try to grok while an expert is explaining it to you.

My highschool calc teacher gave us the same advice and I carried it through uni.
So you did. Sorry I missed that. Cheers!
What's the fix of it?

There must be an option to stop full automation of upgrade process or MS can just recommend disconnecting from network while upgrade is taking place.

MS does it for connivence I assume, so people aren't promoted while upgrade is taking place. This is my presumption, I may be wrong.
The part where they list "airplanes" as something it could potentially power was where it became silly... that's gonna be a lot of spent fuel rod mass.
Yes, this exactly. If anyone cared to check out the advanced configuration it is pretty much exclusively turning off security vulnerabilities.

One of them is "Automatically trust WiFi connections my contacts trust", a bunch of others are sending data to Microsoft. It's been a few months since I turned on a new Windows 10 PC but I was completely turned off by the advanced configuration.

The #3 story on HN right now is "Windows 10 in-place upgrades are a severe security risk"

I thought this was a good read the other day https://www.brokenbrowser.com/abusing-of-protocols/

It just seems terrible security wise, the OS itself is spyware.

That is to say, I was excited to be trying out a sexy new Asus Ultrabook with Ubuntu mixed in but didn't care to try after setting it up.
Putting that much power density on your lap is kinda scary. It's like carrying a slab of C4. Imagine if the galaxy note incident happen again but with a much much higher power density battery which can go kaboom.
This is the reality for the lower quartile of the American workforce. When I was a part of it, I faced either braving the snow and icy roads or getting fired. I left an hour early because I knew I would be driving about 20 miles per hour. I'm not condoning this practice, just providing context. The state governor's prohibition on road travel be damned. The next time it snows, think about how the workers in your pharmacy or bar got to work while you have the day off.

Incidentally, one of my coworkers actually suggested our manager pick him up in a 4x4 during a particularly brutal blizzard. The request was laughed off; there was no way it was worth the fuel and time to go pick up the worker to come to work. It makes sense; a sub- $20-per-hour worker is too cheap for it to work out in most cases. The humane thing to do is just to leave the store or bar closed if staff have to come in. But that extra $1000 of net revenue sounds tempting...
So what'd you find out?

Also sounds like it's back up so I call myself impressed.
I don't get it, this is presenting "design review" as an alternative to code review, while they fundamentally go together.

The problem described in this post with code reviews is when there has been a lack of design review in the first place and the reviewer at code review time had to deal with design questions!

Any large or complex change should start with a design review phase to have people agree on the right design, the code review with small incremental patch should be straightforward if developer and reviewer both know (and agree) with the end result in the first place.
This was an episode in the latest season of black mirror
268,900. That is the number of employees amazon has. According to this article, we should expect 25.2 suicides out of these employees.
I'm curious, so what do you do if the fine is never paid?

ETA: IS a non-bankruptable fne proportional if the fraud actually bankrupted many others? What if the consequence of the fraud on said victims then led them to further crimes which led them to a ruined life of pverty and squalor? Is a non-bankruptable fine still proportionate? What if it led to suicide, or armed robbery, or even murder...
The diamond is the carbon-14.
I only stayed at Amazon for one year, but I was told that if I'd stayed for two years they would have offered me more equity.

So yes, there are refresh equity grants. I've heard from a good source that they do that at Apple as well.
Sorry to hear that. I work for AWS, and I like to think we're pretty organized. I'm not sure what part of your experience was "unorganized". You probably caught the team on a busy day or something.

LPs are just guidelines for what the company "wants" out of its employees. They're used heavily in hiring to weed out small thinkers and bad culture fits, and a bit in performance reviews. Outside of that, nobody really cares about them. You get upper management worship anywhere. It's the same thing as obsessing over celebrities.

Judging corporate based on fulfillment center working conditions isn't fair. One is a $15k job, and the other is a $115k job.
Direct recoding electronic machines should be eliminated. Paper ballots, possibly with Scantron for tallying. Auditable and easy to understand.
Wonderful article. Due to its length, I recommend saving it to pocket and reading it on there before settling in for the long read. :)
Yes, you can pretty easily beat the compiler in simple cases when you do this.

I would seriously challenge anyone to try to, by hand, do what PLUTO+ does .
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2688512
It is implemented in at least one real production C++ compiler. The analogue would be graphite in gcc, and polly in llvm, but they don't have the full cost modeling it does.
Then try to do it for multiple architectures or even different cache models (IE newer vs older processors).

Even simpler things than that, like deciding when it is profitable to add runtime vectorization/alignment checks, etc, is really hard by hand.
Hell, in larger functions, i doubt people can even optimally do register allocation (including live range splitting, remat, etc).

So yeah, stupid quicksort, sure, you can beat it.

I'm not sure what it's supposed to prove?

If you restrict yourselves to small cases that are easily optimizable without any thought, and not amenable to any even slightly advanced optimization, yes, you can beat the compiler.
You're missing the point entirely.

> You want 5,000 in cash? Well let us just report you to a government agency that will monitor you for the next little while to make sure you're not doing anything nefarious.

Bullshit. You can easily change/withdraw money in casinos to your heart's content, up to either 6k or 10k dollars PER transaction, if you remove more than that, paperwork gets involved

> Each time I visit A&W and then quit, they send me coupons to get me back. Same thing with the liquor shop and I drink a single Crabbies every month.

Yes, do you pay with cash or credit card, and do you use a rewards card? If you pay with credit card or use a rewards card, that's exactly what you're complaining about. I pay in cash for most minor transactions like that, without a rewards card, and nothing of the sort has happened to me. How would it? They have no information about me.

If you're voluntarily using a credit card or rewards programs to save a few bucks or build up airplane miles, yeah you kinda made the trade off.

A cashless society legislates the tradeoff for you.
Can anyone think of a single instance where an employee survived the PIP in any organization? I've never heard of one.
"It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage."
Ask HN: Cloud providers offering custom kernels, booting from MBR
I'm interested in compiling a list of cloud providers which offer raw disk access with their virtualization. My limited knowledge on this topic shows that at least KVM provides the ability to boot from an MBR, permitting one to install any custom kernel and operating system at the discretion of the user, with no restrictions whatsoever.

I'm looking for providers which allow you to natively install any MBR, kernel, and operating system you want from scratch. I want to exclude providers that don't natively support this setup, where the only way to obtain the result is to jump through the hoop of having to install an initial operating system in order to run a shell script to "convert" to another kernel/OS.

I'm aware of only one provider that provides this kind of access to the virtualized boot disk, such that you don't have to choose from a select list of supported kernels. I'm not referring to AWS; if it's possible to drop any configuration in place without having to organize a custom AMI via a convoluted AWS-specific process, please advise.

It seems that the market for "use our virtualization as if it were bare metal" is quite small. I am very interested in expanding this list to as any providers as possible.
Exactly. And other firms will adapt that working style. Why shouldn't they? Amazon gets away with it.
I can see that they are emphasizing on the #DiamondBattery hashtag so that general public will be hooked and share it more, but why haven't they given any hints (mildly technical) to the capabilities of the battery?

// A team of physicists and chemists from the University of Bristol have grown a man-made diamond that, when placed in a radioactive field, is able to generate a small electrical current.//

When I read the "small electrical current", the physicist in me was naturally assuming a very small current of the order of pico to nano amperes (without being conservative) - essentially useless. Metrics like the half life of the battery doesn't make any sense at all if the power or current rating is not specified. Current rating is something you could trust, that it will end up as a viable product.

This would appeal more if they can give a direct link to their research paper.
I considered working at Pixar at one point, and spoke to their hiring department.

Curiously, they considered the salary they were offering you to be for 50 hours per week. This wasn't an upper limit; no, you were expected to do occasional overtime past 50. But 50 was the baseline.

I didn't follow through with the interview process. Screw that.
Big four almost always includes google and facebook but the other two slots seem to vary a bit based on who is saying it. I've even seen companies like yahoo and twitter thrown in there.
They don't even include the Edge browser on Windows 10 LTSB. That's ... strange. Edge has been out for like 18 months on Windows 10. They really seem to have taken out the whole UWP platform on LTSB, so we once again see that the whole "one Windows to rule them all" spiel is nothing but a nice marketing story Microsoft likes to tell its fans, but not as real as they might like it to be. Unfortunately this just means Internet Explorer will have to be supported that much longer by developers.

https://redmondmag.com/articles/2015/06/09/edge-windows-10-s...

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/microsoft-edge-s-ente...
Plane carrying Brazilian football team crashes in Colombia
In France, the law "Informatique et Liberte" from the 6th of January 1978 allows anyone to access datas stored about them and have them corrected or removed from any database.

https://www.cnil.fr/en/rights-and-obligations
noaah... more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succ%C3%A8s_de_scandale
Development time is a lot quicker with RN. Not only are you targeting a single code base instead of maintaining two apps, but the React environment helps you to be productive.

The React way of managing views makes a lot of sense - change a variable and the whole UI updates accordingly. Also, rather than going through the typical debug, modify code, recompile cycle, there is a Hot Reload mode in RN where your code updates are immediately applied when you save. Laying the UI out with RN's CSS-style syntax is a lot easier than doing it by hand or mucking with Interface Builder / Android XML files. There is a lot that RN wraps around that gives easier management of than the native approach to, e.g. a BackButton component vs. dealing with a stack of Android fragments.

I haven't done any PhoneGap programming, the lack of native UI always scared me off. Without that, I never felt like I could hit a level of polish that was acceptable. The nice thing with RN is you can build you own native components and access native functionality as needed. It's not super well documented, but powerful when you need it.
I would love to place my comment in a block of coal right now and then set the coal on fire.
DNSBLs, wildcards and domain expiration
No offense - but if $5K is an issue for your employer, after a year of essential magic, you might have the wrong employer and they might have the wrong employee...
Balaji Srinivasan at Startup School 2013 – Voice Through Exit [video]
It should work that way (especially for people who want to leave anyway), but things like "performance improvement plans" exist in part because outright firing someone without a long paper trail risks a wrongful termination lawsuit. If you fire someone months after putting them on a "performance improvement plan", you have a hard-to-refute paper trail that makes it much harder to prove any non-performance-related cause.