skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A minor nit but ABC claim to have some involvement with vehicles.

ABC are hiring.

http://www.abc.ca.gov/

here's the job spec.

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THE POSITION

The Agent, Alcoholic Beverage Control, is a deep class with three alternate ranges. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, conducting independent investigations of criminal and/or administrative violations committed on or about alcoholic beverage control licensed premises by licensees, their employees, and/or members of the general public; and interpreting and explaining the provisions of the laws, rules, and regulations of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, Penal Code, Health and Safety Code, and Vehicle Code.

Agents at Range A are entry level and conduct independent investigations of criminal and/or administrative violations committed on or about alcoholic beverage control licensed premises by licensees, their employees, and/or members of the general public; locate and interview witnesses and persons suspected of violations; collect and preserve evidence to support administrative action and/or prosecution; determine type of case and develop investigation plan; prepare clear, concise, and accurate documents and reports detailing investigation activities and findings; maintain accurate master investigation case files; develop field operation plans, and safely executing them; perform undercover assignments and surveillance operations; provide technical assistance to law enforcement agencies and others; make physical arrests; maintain liaison with Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies; and testify in criminal court and/or administrative hearings.

Agents at Range B are journey level and conduct more complex and difficult investigations and demonstrate a broader knowledge and application of investigative techniques and procedures. Agents, in addition to the above, conduct undercover and high-profile criminal investigations; and write, secure, and serve arrest and search warrants.

Agents at Range C are full journey level and conduct or participate in the most difficult and sensitive investigations. In addition to all of the above, investigations include, but are not limited to, vice, gambling, prostitution

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If the value of my land goes down, the amount I pay in taxes goes down too :)

That being said, I always look to get the best value for my dollars, and the way folks run government around here, it is rarely worth it to feed the beast anymore than I have to.
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I was curious about how this recommendation effects other Devs and the .git and other similar paths in the Dev workflow.

That is, is the root of each go project effected?
Seems like an example of how it's easy to be "fastest growing" when something is really small. These loans started about five years ago and the cumulative amount loaned is about $3.4 billion. Most of the activity has been in the past year, so of course the rate of growth is over 100%. But the absolute numbers are utterly tiny. For perspective, subprime loans peaked at over $600 billion per year, and total mortgages outstanding are around $14 trillion.
My university uses the same system as yours, and what's worse is that in order to install their custom 2FA app on Android you have to configure your phone to allow apps from unknown sources. So I have to choose between using SMS codes that can be intercepted or letting an entirely unvetted app run amok on my phone.
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From what I can tell, it's in the high priority backlog. Hopefully that means some progress along with... lots of other things. But, let's wait until we have some demonstrated burn down before we pop champagne.
sssst - you will get downvoted for asking such questions.
Answer: HN is pro-capitalism first and foremost. Everything else -democracy and truth included- take a back seat here.

@HN admins: you can hide your heads in the sand as much as you like. Good luck and thanks for the fish.

UPDATE: OK - I'll take at face value the replies and apologize for the attack to admins. I'm still not following though why/how this is flagged.
I think the quote about Marx is quite funny in that it is a fundamental misinterpretation of the idea it ascribes to Marx, but not in the way Marx is usually misinterpreted.

Marx thought the state would wither away once socialism had gradually transformed society until a point where there were no more capitalists and thus no more class distinctions.

In other words: At the end of a long journey where he first expect capitalism to engage in a long sequence of boom-bust cycles, eventually have fully globalised to an extent where there are no new markets to expand into, and proceeded to compete itself into the ground by cutting margins until the only viable way of continued cost reduction is to push down total salary costs, and which he expected would culminate in a revolution once people were desperate enough, following by a long transition phase.

If anything the idea that "capitalism has reduced the state until its chief functions are protecting the rich and policing the poor" could almost be a quote from Marx as it is pretty much exactly the Marxist view of the state:

Marx explicitly saw the state as existing in its current form as a tool for the ruling class to use to oppress the rest. His phrase "dictatorship of the proletariat" is well known because it's a favorite to use because people think it refers to Soviet style oppression, but he also used the phrase "dictatorship of the bourgeoisie" to refer to capitalist states - irrespective of level of oppression. The terms refers to which class is in control, not the means of control or the level of individual freedom, and highlights the idea of the state-as-oppressor:

The dictatorship of the proletariat as envisioned by Marx was the working class taking control and oppressing the capitalists, and gradually transforming society and pushing said capitalists into the working class.

By doing so, the capitalist would become part of the ruling class again, as a worker, and the capitalist class would eventually cease to exist.

That end-state would be the start of communism: Once there's nobody who is able to work who is living off the work of others, and no class differences.

Marx argued that if you reach that point, the state-as-oppressor has no function left that can not be served by purely administrative organs subordinate to more egalitarian power structures such as communes, and then it would wither away.

As such, the quote you picked from the article is trying to set current capitalism up as an example of how Marx is wrong, while instead succeeding in making an arguments that most Marxist would agree with.
The two times I applied at Google after being recommended by friends already in charge went quite badly. The recrutor asked for my CV thrice the first time (rejecting my application between each request, until I stopped answering), and the second time I had to wait three weeks between the first coding interview and the actual results. Apparently, my hiring manager took some vacations, and her replacement had no idea about my file.

I applied only once at Facebook, and the whole process was a bliss. Constant flow of communication with my recruiter, very interesting interviews, and a relatively short time between the start of the process and the final result. It was really weird to see such a big difference between two big tech companies.
California has specific laws about driving under the influence of drugs other than alcohol. So the DA isn't exactly casting about looking for a charge there.

It's also their essential function to prosecute people they believe they can prove guilty. It would be bizarre for a DA to be talking about prosecuting someone they didn't believe to be guilty.
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Well, first of all, just like any sane person have backups (your files, your plans etc) - any sane person or business have (or at least should have) a backup configuration in case prefered DNS goes down.

So this is not a problem really.
I love the crystal Ball analogy, LOL!
Maybe the entire thing is an orchestrated PR stunt by a hiring competitor. Or, maybe this is a guy who isn't lacking: 1) hubris and 2) cash flow, who wanted to give Google a go. Along the way, he compiled a massive amount of information and found another way to be successful - a techco interview consultant.
Why is this flagged? I would imagine that the nature of capitalism is something many tech employees with uncertain stock option payouts would be somewhat interested in.
What about being depressed that you can never be with any of the most beautiful women, whose model photos consume you when you open Instagram
It should work if you use the "web" link in an incognito window. WSJ remembers if you visited it directly and then shows the paywall even with a Google referer, but incognito mode defeats that. I agree it's getting to be something of a pain. Thankfully this article seems to be republished in many places.
True, a lot of work you do in any government has very little do to with any political agenda. In fact many officials rarely pursue things that make the headlines.
Here I was thinking it was an awfully cold office temperature.
You must be able to MitM something to get this to work.

If you can MitM connections on your network just by connecting a client to it, with no particular participation from the router, your network sucks.

Your linked site notes that they provide the router hardware.
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I just returned my XPS 13 developer edition due to the extremly bad "coil whine". It was so bad that I could heare it even with headphones on (different audio source). Also the anounced revision of the mainboard was yet again posponed. Baought a HP specter x360 and I'm very happy with it. Everything worked out of the box with Ubuntu 16.10.
Open office is about economics and limits choice. Privacy does not preclude the freedom to socialize when required or work temporarily in common spaces for some project. The other way there is no choice. Most of us who have been to boarding schools have fond memories but that does not mean we prefer to live in dorms our whole life.

Will the person negotiating deals or employee salaries be in a open office? No because there are certain kind of jobs that require privacy.

Similarly creative thinking is not a group but solitary activity that requires privacy and warrants private space and programming and creating things from scratch is creative. Either the company does not perceive the work as creative or fails to respect its employees work needs.

Usually these decisions are taken in arbitrary ways by a few folks in management who hang on to their privacy. And once these decisons are made it's difficult to reverse.

Theoretically in capitalism if workers prefer private cabins companies who continue to offer them stand to attract a higher quality and volume of candidates but in the real world even before you can exercise that 'capitalist choice' its taken away from you by the race to the bottom, so you are effectively left with no choice.
Seems to compete with the Amazon visa they've had for over a decade!
This reads like a vast oversimplification of types of Engineers and it paints certain design goals as "good" and "bad" .
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Applied and hired?

I know a few guys who did GSoC a few times, hired full-time, left for a start-up, rehired, left again for a start-up, rehired into Google X, left again for a start-up, and now has Google begging for him to come back again.

Google can identify talent, and will bend over backwards to retain that talent over time. This guy wasn't talent.
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According to our numbers, plain emails actually perform better than HTML emails when it comes to business mailings.
1. Your claim is people don't care about privacy. I say they never considered the implications, and provided evidence that people do switch from "not caring" to "caring" in some situations. We don't know whether people would care about the collection of meta-data because they've never seriously thought about the matter. Your assertion that people don't care is still false.

2. I am using the technical (dictionary) definition of "begging the question" and I'm using it correctly. We're not in agreement whether the data collection is fine. You say it is, I say it isn't. Begging the question is the fallacy where you assume the statement under examination to be true, which do you when you label collection "benign". After all, if I agreed it's benign we wouldn't be having this discussion.

3. Non-sequitur.

4. No evidence has been provided that opting out entirely will be possible, and it's not possible today, so it stands to reason it won't be possible in the future either (except perhaps with registry hacks).
It's not about taxation. It's about control.

The big difference between the US and a Machiavellian Frankish kingdom is that we have more or less a single military, rather than each state having its own army and lending that to the central government.
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I had a couple office spaces built out. While we used cubicles for odd spaces (no light/no sprinkler) we tried to use built offices as much as possible. Because it was much, much cheaper. Hundreds of dollars instead of thousands.

You can always double-up in a 10X12 office if you grow. And until then, its very nice. And cheap.
For those wondering why you should care: money.

Google has the cash, software, hardware and networking investments to expand very quickly into a very fast growing IAAS market.

Google doesn't have Amazon's long-lead momentum or Microsoft's established sales channels. It needs something, anything, to get a foothold in enterprise IAAS.

One such way is Kubernetes, which paves the road for "why are we building all these other bits ourselves? Let's just host on GCP".

Another such way is Cloud Foundry, which paves the road for "Goodbye, ${other_iaas}, we're moving our Cloud Foundry installations to GCP".

So Google works on both. For big companies rolling their own platforms on Kubernetes, Google has a solution. For big companies who leave platform-building to platform-builders, Google has a solution. The same is true of Microsoft Azure, which is another Pivotal partner. AWS are not as keen so far.

In the long run, for all three of the IAAS majors, we're talking sources of revenue that at a scale that alone would qualify as an F50.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal ...

Disclaimer: ... and none of this should be considered official comment. I'm just an engineer and I know next to nothing about anything, except how to name variables.
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Interesting, so would this look like a more expansive take on a "coding bootcamp?" Maybe combine the practical coding skills with some theory?
The share of taxes paid by the rich is greater than their share of income and wealth.
Flagging is the result of user action. Speculation, but one reason may be that users think the discussion is likely to generate much more heat than any additional new light on the topic.
What do you think about HAMMER2?
Build bigger; double up. Its still better than sharing with 50 people.
I'm not sure, then, why the lack of scrutiny in previous years is valid criticism; nobody shines a lamp in her doctor's eyes when she gives her a clean bill of health. Of course an unusual review will invite unusual scrutiny.

I just wish CR had been more open with the exact methodology from the start. What other settings do they activate that vary from a normal user's? They want us to take their word that their method sufficiently emulates light to moderate usage, but my own experience has been vastly different from that review.
Flexbox is great but auto adjusting/sizing columns are a real PITA if responsiveness (@meda query) is tied to the viewport and not the parent container element.

Would be really cool if Element Queries were a normal thing.

http://elementqueries.com/
To give an example, I've seen some multiplayer games with dynamic content, that use Websockets for communication with the server and update various information via data URIs. I've never seen a text/html data URI yet (mostly image transmission to be honest) but for a multi-client Websockets type application I definitely wouldn't rule out that sort of thing.

I agree that blocking the rendering of data:text/html (and any other MIME type that could be used maliciously) from the address bar is a good idea. I can't think of a valid use case for that scenario. It seems like similar attack vectors have been known for some time (https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/08/31/phishing-without...).
Open offices can be bad for you just like closed offices can.

It mostly IMO depends on the size and the layout.

Most places have both open spaces and places you can go to work in quite.
It's strange how the fact that it has an easily rememberable IP address has driven adoption of 8.8.8.8. I have a couple of other DNS servers memorized from before 8.8.8.8 appeared, I'd likely switch to them.

I guess the predictable would happen. Badly configured systems would stop working. Systems with a working secondary DNS would keep working.

More interesting question is what could you do if 8.8.8.8 was compromised? That could be interesting.
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What happened after the election is that a lot of those people decided to try to convince themselves that maybe a Trump administration won't be so bad, but yes, they were very-much anti-Trump on election day.
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I want to learn Rust. Partly because its talked about nonstop here on HN. But I have doubts:
- Will this language continue to grow and be relevant in the near future?
- Will people continue to expand available libraries?
- Is there an existing and active community out there that can help answer questions?
Fortunately, 18F isn't funded by Congress. Agencies pay us for our services out of their own budgets. As long as we keep delivering good work, our funding is secure.

*I'm an 18F employee.
100% of criminals were caught under the influence of the dangerous chemical dihydrogen monoxide.
Actually Haskell strives to be unpopular. Their community has a nice motto for it, but at the moment it escapes me.
> Hardly disrespect for private life.

Your are mistaking respect for private life with being a "company man".

Instead of setting professional boundaries the company in this case integrated themselves into your identity/family/life.
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Open an inspector on your HN comment.
Right, the cost savings in going with cubes over offices is not in materials. It's in the amount of people per sq ft you can jam into one office.
Is this a static website? When you fill out and submit the form, what code do you have that receives and processes said form? You indicated that you built this with CSS and HTML, but those aren't server languages. Is there something else that you are using to process the submitted form? Do you use some third party service to do that? What would be helpful is a technical explanation of what you are trying to do.
You can refuse to submit to the test, get arrested, and then do breathalyzer at the station. Police also have a portable breathalyzer you could submit to roadside.

I have an eye condition that makes the gaze test, in my opinion, unreliable and the two times I've been pulled over after drinking, the police noted this prior to my doing the test. In both instances I did fine in the one-leg test and the walk-a-line test (at least I assume I did fine). To avoid inconvenience, I did decide to allow the portable breathalyzer one of those times and I think the reading came up 0.0015. I knew I wasn't seriously impaired or over the legal limit and had only had 2 or 3 beers over a 3 or 4 hour period. If you're not sure if you're over the legal limit or not, I wouldn't submit to the roadside breathalyzer (obviously though you shouldn't be driving if you're not sure or think you're impaired).
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Hi HN! I launched BotMock yesterday. The tool allows bot designers / developers to quickly build a prototype and test out conversation flows and even create some sales presentation material before investing $$ or hours in development.

Would love to get your feedback on it.

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The RFC recommends a time step of 30 seconds + permitting at most one previous time step for handling out of sync clocks and slow/late entry:

The validation system should compare OTPs not only with the receiving timestamp but also the past timestamps that are within the transmission delay. A larger acceptable delay window would expose a larger window for attacks. We RECOMMEND that at most one time step is allowed as the network delay.

[...]

We RECOMMEND a default time-step size of 30 seconds. This default value of 30 seconds is selected as a balance between security and usability.

Since the client's clock could be in the behind or ahead of the server's clock, I have to correct myself and the window would be 90 seconds.

One could be a bit strict and e.g. the previous time step only until 1/2-way the current time step, which would bring the window make to 60 seconds.

At any rate, all these timeframes are far to large to avoid real-time phishing attacks.
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> Password managers really shine at times like these

I agree on some levels, but password managers can and have had vulnerabilities[0] that can allow the gmail password to be populated despite the wrong domain. Given that the autofill adds legitimacy and reduces friction, it could make this particular scenario go from bad to worse.

[0] https://labs.detectify.com/2016/07/27/how-i-made-lastpass-gi...
I started using mutt to avoid image tracking, but dodging clever stuff like this is an added bonus.

I probably would have fallen for this.
I overtook an off-duty police officer, who was driving his personal truck, whilst on holiday in California a few years ago (from the UK).

At the next town, I was pulled over by a police car (bull horn, hand on gun, full film-level drama). I had no idea why at the time. It was explained to me that the off-duty officer was annoyed, and called the police station in the next town.

I was told that the highway I was on was "not the autobahn" (I have never travelled on an autobahn), and given a ticket for crossing a solid lane marker. I hadn't at any point crossed a double yellow line marker. Not living in the US meant fighting it was hard, so I paid for fear of not being allowed back in the country on my next visit.

Lesson learned: people in positions of power, like this off-duty government agent, will happily use that power if someone pisses them off - and systems are in place to allow it. These systems need to be tested, fought, and abusers penalised. I'm just sorry I didn't fight harder in this instance.
They've broken that link since.
Can someone post links on where you guys bought the hardware second hand?
Changed within the last hour.
I feel like urbanists should talk about Mexico more. They have really narrow streets, as-of-right construction, and they are much closer than Vienna or Hong Kong.
And likewise, "The only reason to shoot film is because you're a pretentious hipster" is a pretty good paraphrase for your response.

And I was the OP. I know what I said, and you paraphrased it terribly. If I thought people should shoot film for everything, I'd do it myself. Instead, film is maybe 2-3% of my output.