skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rather than lumping more established companies into one bucket, realize that your experience at a large company is going to be determined by the team you are in and the managers who dictate the fate of your group. If the goals of your team and it's place in the company are aligned with what you want you will be fine. Otherwise you'll be unsatisfied.

With a small startup it's probably easier to see what you are going to get before you accept the offer. It may be easier to avoid jobs which are a bad fit since small startups may be less obfuscated than large companies.

Also realize there are plenty of large non-tech companies that hire tech people. These companies don't pay the salaries or provide the perks you see at large tech companies. But they may offer solid 9-5 jobs in locations with reasonable costs of living.

Bad management, politics, and bureaucracy will probably damage the motivation of somebody who actually cares about their work and wants to do a good job. I suspect you'll see more of this at large companies as opposed to startups, but there are probably plenty of startups (I worked at one) that have this issues. Many people don't seem to care about these things so this stuff matters less to them - they do their jobs and go home.
I am sorry, so do you not believe in the First Amendment?

Nothing that they did was illegal.
I'm curious, what is there to regret about having a shared core machine type? Some people have a use for them and appreciate the cost savings.
I get that you were talking about FBA... I was just ranting a bit about middleman sellers in general I guess. You didn't need to do a point by point explanation of why it doesn't apply to FBA, especially after you surmised I wasn't talking about FBA. ;]

I'm well aware about the dangers of relying on Amazon sales. Sadly in the used book world it's almost impossible to break free of it. The store does list on many different online marketplaces, but no matter how diversified, the majority of the sales come from Amazon.

To answer your questions...

1. I'm not sure if it's be beneficial to cancel the order if it were repercussion-free (which it most certainly isn't and never will be). I haven't done an analysis of money made versus time wasted yet, since Amazon will never make it repercussion-free. I have a feeling that even if it's still _technically_ financially worth it to not cancel the middleman orders, it'd be very close to being not worth it.

2. Middlemen are usually _very_ easy to spot due to their ordering habits and addressing habits, at least if they've ordered from us more than once. It's possible that some of the only-ordered-once people are middlemen as well, but last I looked, only a small percentage of them were likely to be (based on shipping names not matching Amazon names).

I haven't really looked into middlemen sellers in FBA, since they never really bothered me much. Plus most of the stock that we send for FBA are things that don't move in store, and we've kind of given up on and are just trying to get a little bit of profit on. So we generally don't care about the FBA stock (beyond ensuring that any lingering stock is "disposed" before the 6/12 month fees hit if it's not selling).
This overstates the difficulty of creating a JPEG. If you have an image editor on hand that isn't MS Paint (or you're using macOS, which has Preview), you merely need to export a JPEG and choose a low quality setting.

For a Windows user with no decent image editor or viewer installed, though, it could certainly be a hassle.
> or that someone can pwn a tech-literate person with a phishing email when he's expecting it.

It appears the phishing email attempted to target the fact that he was in a more heightened state of being 'security aware' at the time by offering him a way to make his Squarespace site more secure! The contents of the email based on a screenshot in the article -

in light of recent security issues surrounding SSL, Squarespace is taking the initiative to make our services more secure! We've made a number of change to our editor that will require changes to your local SSL certificates. Please visit http://squarespace.com/certificates for instructions on how to take advantage of our strongest security offering ever."

Also noted was the domain was one character different from the real one.

Tricky!
Similarly the word mango comes from the Malayalam word māṅṅa (pronounced: "manga"). The European traders mispronounced them into the now known mango.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mango#Etymology
That's already covered by antitrust law
I'm not very surprised, but glad that this has been validated. I've always felt that bees are very intelligent.
The verbal explanation is long but worth it, probably best (as mentioned) after watching the video.

Source code is at: https://github.com/MrWint/gb-tas-gen
How to secure your data after the Cloudflare leak
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As someone who loves Inbox and Gmail, what does Fastmail do that Gmail doesn't? It needs to do a lot to make it worth the high price of $36 per year.
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Agreed, but with things like Crystal coming out, you can still use it as elegant glue, but it will be stupid fast too. One language for everything.
Consent of the governed is important. When the winning side is disenfranchised, repeatedly, it undermines the legitimacy of the democracy.
How would an ISP identify spammers without directly inspecting unencrypted packets?
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Oh, sorry, I should have made my point clearer. This is that Holocaust deniers often say they are not antisemitic,just trying to be factual, but if you question them the right way, it turns out they are.

What is really going on in their minds is that they mistakenly believe Jews are evil, and so they defend anyone who think the same, in this case the Nazis against the accusation of killing millions of Jews, even though they themselves think it would be great.
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Example in the other direction: "baks" (бакс), from English plural "bucks", was borrowed into Russian as the singular colloquialism for a US dollar. A hundred bucks would be "sto baksov" (~ a hundred buckses).
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Interesting, thanks for the details.

A very slight softening of the blow. :)
It's not that easy. Not all CNAME clients used the three services that had the issue.

These lists are bad, because they list any Cloudflare clients that can be found, not just the ones that might have had exposed data.
So if Joe Shmo's router is compromised, then the ISP turns it off. How then is Joe supposed to learn that he's compromised by looking up symptoms, or download an antivirus to clean it up?

It's a pretty solution to the problem in theory, but when you actually apply it, it doesn't quite work out as well.
They most definitely do. I worked for a company that had unsuccessfully tried to get amazon to carry their products. Eventually, one of their smaller retailers (that already did a lot of FBA) put the product up as an FBA item, and it sold reasonably well. Within 6 weeks amazon was calling wanting to buy the product from us directly. This was completely unheard of for us. Even if they were interested in the product, retailers NEVER called asking about it. But Amazon seems to know exactly what they want and when they want it.
Do you mean filtering explanations by reading level, or displaying the answers that best match an audiences comprehension level of certain things?
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What do you mean "charge less for a lower QoS band"? Net neutrality has nothing to say about an ISP that wants to offer both 10Mbps and 100Mbps plans, or business-class plans that offer an SLA for a higher price than ordinary residential plans.
Bruce Schneier talk on improving the state of medical data
You can make CF cache HTML.
> That article shows Google wanting new regulations imposed in some areas

Where did you get that? Kevin Lo from Google is quoted as saying "Regulations tied to physical infrastructure sometimes defer the investment altogether". Are you saying that in reference to something else?
For what it's worth, here's a service that does that https://documentalchemy.com/demo/pdf2txt (and more: https://documentalchemy.com/demo)
I have to just say here that WebKit is one of the most over-the-top software projects I've ever tried to dig into, in my twenty years of programming. Building it inside a vanilla container was impossible following their directions exactly and required so much research on my part to get working. I'm used to a bit of back-and-forth with just about every project, but WebKit was ridiculous. After two workdays of trying, I'd been able to build a WebKit from the source, but at that point had to concede to the universe the futility of trying to build a golang-based Phantom, as my friend and former coworker originally wanted. And that also gave me mad respect for Phantom's author and immediately taught me why they do not often incorporate new WebKit versions into the project instead of just pegging to the first one they can get to build.
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You're right. I always wondered what Cher was on about.
> you claim the solution - providing a hash of it, and your address

Unless it is SHA-1 hash :)
I had high hopes for fastmail and it's an awesome product, just not quite ready for me yet.

I'm not yet at a point where I need to lug my reading glasses everywhere - provided I can adjust font sizes on my phone.

The fastmail app is just a wrapper over the mobile site and you can't adjust the font size. The font as it is is tiny and unusable for me.

I contacted support and while they were curteous and prompt, they basically said too bad and refused to give me a refund, even though I had purchased the year subscription just a few days before.

Still have good things to say about them, just wish the app were more accessible.
How hard are you thinking? I can think of numerous scenarios where an entire working set being in RAM is useful and occasionally essential, and it is quite common as an optimization in several industries. Finance comes to mind (kdb+ is designed to weaponize tons of RAM), as does high-scale Web operations. This is part of why solid state NVMe devices are compelling, too, to help bridge the gap, but it sounds like not for your purposes.

Even on the less complicated end, some years ago throwing a shitload of page cache at MongoDB was the only way to maintain high write loads, and eventually one reached a point where one had to keep an entire shard in cache. That bottom end threshold is lower than you think. I don't know if that's changed.
No mention of fizsh?
It's the modern version of the captain going down with the ship.
There's a weighting in many such systems, but ultimately it's still just a queue, usually a FIFO one.

Niceness allows for higher-priority processes to preempt others, but doesn't address the problem of an overwhelmed queue.

And processor scheduling isn't memory allocation. Time is ultimately some percentage of wall-clock (and/or overcommittment). Memory is ... different.

There's also the question of such stuff as garbage collection and scheduling of that. I had the opportunity to do some JVM tuning "ergonomics" (horrible name) a few years back. Turns out that you get far better behaviour in most cases by decreasing the sweep frequency and increasing the the allocation chunks (terminology is escaping me), due to the fact that natural attrition deallocates memory, and running sweeps too frequently simply chews up massive amounts of CPU time with no return on freed memory.

We also identified processes which genuinely did require very large memory allocations, and allocated hardware specific to those.

Specific workflow and process understanding (always idiosyncratic to a particular work assignment) was necessary, and took time to acquire.
I get my Amazon Affiliates commission (non-US) using Payoneer. Takes a couple of days instead of 4 weeks, cost is about the same as what my local bank wants for an overseas cheque anyway.
Privacy is the reason I'd prefer to do this in house.
HTTP only sign up page? really? in 2017?
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it seems to be rather against the very spirit of a system that
1) routes traffic in the manner it does
2) specifies access in the manner it does
3) has a history and culture as such

in short: it's against the internet itself...

is the internet biased?

I think the issue is rather like a court case:
sure, there are 2 litigants, but in the end one is determined to be "correct" and the other loses...

if a famous data scientist publishes a research paper and I stand up naked on my desk and shout "peanut butter sandwiches!" at the top of my lungs, the peer review committee has no obligation to include my response in the process surrounding the review of said paper.

If a doctor or car mechanic gives a diagnosis in the field of their expertise, their opinion will be given more weight than if I ask a passerby their opinion on my illness or automobile.... i could go on and on making examples where 2 or more "sides" may appear wishing representation and where they don't necessarily warrant/merit it.

one has no obligation to represent litigants as holding an equal stature in validity, it's the a-priori presumption of the possibility of such that allows people to initially listen and nod, before one makes them aware of how bat-poo crazy one is, lol
Many updates, new features and a redesign? Seems very nice.
Thanks.

STWM: short-term working memory. A fascinating presentation by Sander van der Leeuw on the interactions of that and anthropology: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=80dR9Q2glgY
I think you have to see it as short term revenue. There are opportunities right now, but they might not be there for long and I wouldn't stake my business on them.
You need to train your personal spam filter [1]. To do this you will need to mark 200 messages as both spam and non-spam. Once the personal spam filter kicks in, it performs very well. In the control panel there should be a section which tells you how many spam/non-spam messages have been recorded. If you do not have enough recorded non-spam messages, you will need to start archiving legitimate messages so they can be seen as non-spam.

[1] https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/stopspam.html
Your pricing page is not mobile-friendly.
Would you say the same about drinking? Because in the scenario we're discussing, they seem pretty analogous to me: potentially addicting habits that are (to varying degrees) socially accepted, and make having conversations easier.
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9m?
Uber has done this before.

Even though it was under different circumstances...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/nyregion/investigation-of...
Not a Trump supporter in the slightest but after seeing how they mis-characterized Pewdiepie I have to say I have no trust in the media either so do hell with them.
That makes a lot more sense then. It's still a misleading statement to say "writes" vs "transactions" since you could (potentially) make fewer writes and support more transactions. The ratio between the two is a measure of efficiency, but only transactions matter to end-users.
"Look at the war in Iraq and the mess that we’re in. I would never have handled it that way. Does anybody really believe that Iraq is going to be a wonderful democracy where people are going to run down to the voting box and gently put in their ballot and the winner is happily going to step up to lead the county? C’mon. Two minutes after we leave, there’s going to be a revolution, and the meanest, toughest, smartest, most vicious guy will take over. And he’ll have weapons of mass destruction, which Saddam didn’t have. - Trump in Esquire 2004
Most big sellers will list on both and eBay's fees are lower. So in terms of marketplace products you can likely find them cheaper on eBay.
When my son was 4, he found out he was a Pisces, thought that was a plural and proudly announced "I'm a Pisce!" (Rhymes with "icy".)
Oh, it might just well happen. The engineers that actually make this stuff work generally know whats up, and if things start to turn too sour, just watch them bring the whole damn net to a screeching halt. It'll make the SOPA blackout of 2012 look like daylight.
>Which makes me wonder if we could gamify NP-complete problems and use gamers to come up with better solutions. Like a game to lay out circuit traces, route delivery trucks, or organize a warehouse.

see "How online gamers are solving science's biggest problems" - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/25/online-ga...

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8815917
I thought I heard that some file formats have "headers" that go at the end of the file. I think a demo of this was a file that was both a zip and a PNG or something. If I remembered right, you should be able to make a similar hack here.
Is this like dabbledb?
There should be two parts:
part 1. Gather as many facts as possible
part 2. Separate the wheat facts from the chaff(sp?) facts in relation to whatever problem you are working on
> That's not to advocate against gaming, or to generalize all games, but I've thought about how much time I spent playing games in the past and if I was happy with what I gained from it: I largely was not.

I feel the same. I like games and still play them here and there (and enjoy them), but a couple points in the past I was clearly addicted to them. First it was DAoC that was like a second job, and then to a much lesser extent WoW.

I think if you treat games as entertainment/downtime things then they are fine. It's only when they start replacing TV, and then reading, and hanging out with friends, etc... that they really become an issue.
Curiously it's manga in Portuguese I believe.
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Cloudbleed: Users can't fix themselves
Could you explain who this was, and how ISIS and NN intersected? This seems like an...odd argument. NN is protecting business as usual, so using NN to censor isis is kinda novel.
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I'm compiling a list of affected domains (with data found in the wild): http://doma.io/2017/02/24/list-of-affected-cloudbleed-domain...

If you find some samples with domain names / unique identifiers of domains (e.g. X-Uber-...) you are welcome to contribute to the list: https://github.com/Dorian/doma/blob/master/_data/cloudbleed....
Abogado (lawyer) --> avocado.
There is a stated delivery timeframe though, if the sellers frequently miss that they will get suspended. If the product matches the description and comes within the quoted timespan, I don't think it should matter where it comes from.
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This issue could well turn out to be Trump's Achilles heal. If they go too far, the engineers that actually make the Internet work can easily bring the whole shebang down in protest -- and the world is so addicted to the Internet at this point the outrage would be deafening. And if Trump is too proud to back down...
Yea...flipped through Zed's book. It seemed alright, but Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner is an amazing piece of work. Crystal clear, and you get to build fun little text games.
A (perhaps stupid) question, are USPTO judgment dates public ahead-of-the-fact? In other words, how do you prevent being too early and your options expiring worthless?
This is already a comment on the site, in the relevant thread. Seems a little meta as a post.
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Charging more for something that costs more to the ISP isn't a net neutrality issue. Net neutrality is about charging for things that cost nothing to the ISP, but are worth more to the consumer.
The problem isn't the length of the text representation of the hash, it's the length of the actual binary representation of the hash.
One more nice detail: it seems that the German word and pronunciation for "cherry" somehow turned to have again similarity to the Akkadian "karšu" it's Kirsche, pronounced like "kirše."
This seems to serve the same purpose as, e.g., Access. What is different about this?
Folks should review their banks' policies before doing this.

For example Bank of America won't hold customers liable for fraudulent transfers or bill pay transactions through their website, but sharing your online ID and password seems to void that protection.

https://www.bankofamerica.com/onlinebanking/online-banking-s...
Top sign-up link is https, but you're correct that it's possible to load it as http and the sign-up in the body of the page links to the http version.

They need to redirect any http to https for the sign-up page; they already do this for the login page.
Rule #1 of breaches: you can't unbreach

At this point if you don't consider all data that was sent or received by CloudFlare during the "weaponized" window compromised, you're lying to yourself.
Yeah, I think FBA and scumminess have sort of gotten confused.

FBA is just a delivery/fulfillment mechanism. Nothing more, nothing less. You have inventory in an Amazon warehouse, they ship it out for you and take a cut. Nothing inherently scummy about that, they're providing a service maybe you don't want to deal with.

The seminars are different, where they're pitching a whole supply chain/way of business which has a last step of fulfilled by Amazon.

I think FBA is a pretty amazing thing that gives huge market access to small retailers, and it's a shame it's gotten caught up with these ponzi scheme seminar sellers.
I hope they're working on the street protocol for the metaverse!
Thanks for the link @wmf.

I took a look at the front page of iconfactory.com which is the site where the book author posted this:

http://blog.iconfactory.com/2016/12/making-sense-of-color-ma...

It looks like they aren't demonstrating a least common denominator fix there. This is understandable, as least common denominator probably doesn't look great for most modern icons.

Took this screenshot:

http://imgur.com/a/mNxJo

Might still buy the book. Just did the screenshot as a quick study.
Curious if this works better than the pdftotext utility that comes in the Debian poppler-utils package.

That has a --layout option that works really well sometimes and really terrible other times. Doesn't seem to be related to document complexity either.
I think you reversed the meaning of my response. So I'm going to count this as extremely "strenuous agreement."
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Overall life satisfaction of a middle-class that where people feel as wealthy as the upper-class also seems to be destroying our labor force among the young.

From: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/opinion/the-national-deat...

"Nationwide, there are now about 200,000 unfilled construction jobs, according to the National Association of Home Builders. If America were as simple as a lake, builders would just raise wages, incomes would rise and the problem would be over.

But that hasn’t happened. Builders have gone recruiting in high schools and elsewhere, looking for people willing to learn building skills, but they’re not having much luck."

Why would anyone go work on a farm or construction when they could play video games instead?
Gitlab also uses an insanely high amount of RAM. They currently recommend 4gb of ram. I have seen many other times where Rails apps use a stupid amount of RAM.
I would really like to see a good tool in the "beyond Google Sheets"-space.

I tried Ragic just now for 10-15 minutes and it is far from simple, like their landing page claims. It is nothing at all like a database and it also is nothing at all like a spreadsheet (and not in a good way).

Edit: Looking at previous discussions about it here on HN, the criticism in this 5 year old comment all still holds true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3960207