skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much all the endpoint solutions MITM exactly the same way as the middle box by running as a proxy listening on localhost. They also pretty much universally do an even worse job than the network middleboxes on handling invalid certs and supporting modern tls, hard as that may be to believe. Then you have the added nightmare of ensuring a client on tens or hundreds of thousands of enpoints is fully patched and functioning correctly.

Most of the solutions I have seen for devices outside the corporate perimeter are some combination of enforced vpn and authenticated proxy that is internet accessible.
Seeing many folks that went to MacBook Pros last cycle but now going to Dell or Lenovo HW. I lean more towards Lenovo, but the recent Dell semi-unibody builds are very nice.
I can only imagine that the bulk of the employees at Uber in that room with her were young and still intoxicated by startup success to allow Mike#2 to say things like that.

I am 12 years away from the valley, but was at half a dozen startups in 20 years prior and I can't remember ever being on a team that would have put up with a manager saying something like that to a coworker.
Probably. It's basically a certain bet that anything you post here, the NSA can read, given that anything you post here, the entire Internet can read.

But I think most people overestimate how interesting they are. Hacker News is one forum on the Internet among literally millions. There are millions of other people who are also social libertarians, and millions of people worried about eroding digital rights. These characteristics do not make you interesting. Hell, digital rights in general are not that interesting to people in Washington - for the most part, our legislators vote the way that whichever lobbyist who last had their ear wants them to, and the American public just gets caught in the crossfire.

The folks that the NSA cares about are those that advocate violent overthrow of governments, or who are a credible threat to U.S. interests abroad. Hacker News readers, by and large, are not a credible threat; we talk, but few of us will get off our butts and do. And so we're just not important enough for the NSA to care.
A very good set of prompts, thanks for taking the time to think of them.
- On Glassdoor: I assume it's mostly-anonymous replies are an issue. Has anyone verified what is posted there, say comparing it to official data or something? You're of course right that it's a place to start. I'm more troubled by the lack of sleuthing done before accepting an offer to uncover the blindingly obvious problems.

-How to encourage others to call out bad behavior? I don't see an easy answer there. The power differential is still there. If a VP humiliates a subordinate, another subordniate may not have the power to change behavior. Ideally a complaint goes up to the VP level and a discussion is had there (or higher).

- On unions: I've heard this passed around for years, most famously when Steve Jobs's posthumous testimony was in that hiring/collusion lawsuit. I think it's mostly an academic issue at this point similar to other pre-union industries: it's a challenge getting highly-paid employees to favor organizing (and possibly a lower wage) for the benefits.
In itself, this single sentence is true about every country on Earth; what gives it meaning is the context where it's followed by heaps of praise of Western racial policies, the positive example against Russia's and others' negative examples. I think it is relevant that this contrast does not quite make sense. If you allow yourself to smear a society of 140 million people in a single sentence, perhaps your hundreds of pages summarizing a society 10x as large is also a bit of a smear.

BTW, from a brief glance at your comment history, most appear to have a strong anti-Chinese sentiment. I think that if you want to argue that the report is largely correct, it will be more interesting if you elaborate on that instead of talking about whatever I said in the grandparent comment.
This isn't a criminal court.

Your two sides dodge is the same thing used by sexual harassers: oh, well, if it wasn't on video, then I guess opinions differ!

This is more than a hint of an accusation: Google HR investigated, and found some evidence to create a belief that Amit acted improperly enough to warrant termination. That's far from a foregone conclusion (how many execs are fired for sexual harassment? Not many.)
Smash or Pass DISS TRACK
I wonder what the breakdown is? I'd guess discrimination against Indian names would be a lot stronger than east asian due to quantity/quality issues.

I'd also like to see results of the reverse, which I think would be worse.
But that's because new companies can't compete with the incredible amount of VC funding Uber (and Lyft) have received. Down here in Austin, after Uber and Lyft left, about a half dozen different competitors popped up in about a month. My favorite, Ride Austin, is a non-profit that takes a significantly smaller cut than Uber or Lyft and donates a ton of money to charity.
You drove around with a battery swollen by 1-2 cm? I'm equally shocked that the Apple store didn't evacuate the area when you brought the laptop to their counter. That is some serious swelling.
This is interesting. How long does GCC take? Have you tried TCC?
Do you have a link to your 3D printed growth substrate or an info page?
It's by Alex Blumberg, former producer on "This American Life" and "Planet Money" by NPR. He recorded the podcast while founding a podcasting company named Gimlet Media and it documents how he got started, chose a name, got investment, found a partner, and various other parts of being a startup. I'd highly recommend the podcast for its amazing story telling and its transparency in including details that most companies would prefer to keep secret.
Could they try to find an alternative source of funds (as the San Francisco Public Library did), or adopt an interpretation of CIPA under which they don't have to use this particular feature?
Travis is such a coward. How is firing someone hired last month going to fix the rampant toxicity over at Uber? I think the biggest action Travis could take is stepping down as CEO. It sounds like he is central to all of the reports of the culture of sexism and harassment over at Uber we've heard thus far. Travis needs to go, the entire HR team needs to go and all higher up executives and management staff needs to go as well.
How much do you value your professional time at? How long does it take you to read, comprehend, and respond to 12 recruiter spams a month? Take that dollar figure and imagine what you could buy with it after 6 months!
There's very little chance of that happening, but we aren't rushing in to buy a bunch of touchbar macbook pros to replace our existing machines either.
>The future is probably artificially produced food, like the porridge / sludge shown in the Matrix. Something out of a chemical process instead of a biological one.

I imagine we can synthesize relatively simple molecules such as glucose to supplement calories when needed by astronauts.
I think it's about time Uber was slapped with a class action lawsuit by all of it's former employees who have faced similar workplace abuse. Uber may smear the reputation of one of two women who try to sue them and bury their case, but if they all come together and file a class action lawsuit then their case cannot be just thrown out or buried and Uber certainly cannot manage to smear the reputation of all the plaintiffs in the group. The #ubersurvivors have a very strong chance of getting justice that way. And when the case is so strong, with all victims coming together as one, they will even receive legal support from top lawyers, who will also want to take their case since it's stronger and winnable now, and if not for justice, they'll do it with the incentive of a cut from the compensation or the glory of suing a billion dollar company. The good thing about class action lawsuits is that it leaves no room for the judge or jury to believe that a dozen people are lying and cannot just ignore the plaintiffs' allegation and proofs (chats, emails, alibis). So, I hope the #ubersurvivors seriously consider coming together, teaming up and getting the justice they rightfully deserve.
Rockets carry oxidizer along with fuel, so the composition of the local atmosphere doesn't really figure. Also, your factors are way off; Martian gravity is a bit shy of 0.4g, and lunar gravity a bit proud of 0.1.

Finally, we don't need to land on the moon, or Earth, or anywhere else, to validate a method of landing on Mars, because we already know how to land on all of those things. We've done it plenty of times before, in all cases; the difference between doing it manned and doing it unmanned is purely one of mass.
Very long read. TBH I only read the beginning and end carefully, and skimmed through the middle...200? pages.

What really stuck out to me was this line that explains how racism benefits the Chinese government:
"First, the Han Chinese possess a strong in group
identity with a polarized and tightly defined out group. This allows the Chinese government to expect sacrifice and as well as support from the considerable majority of the Chinese people."

Perhaps a lot of these attitudes come from how in many Chinese people's eyes, their golden years were when they had very little outside influence and were able to invent some of the most useful inventions in human history (compass, paper, gunpowder). From the time that they have mixed with the West, they have had some very negative experiences, (as the report brings up, the Opium wars, burning of the palace). Perhaps their attitudes will change slowly now. In my experiences, racism is something that is slowly taught/instilled, and so I don't expect any easy reversal.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant that it would be hard to design a device that released lots of SOX without also releasing lots of radioactive stuff. The simplest idea is an S-32 "casing". The good thing is that S-35 is the most stable sulfur isotope, with a half-life of 87.4 days. But I don't know what other products would be.
Don't forget PIPs. The fun things is that the laws for firing varies by state. I think California is one of the more strict ones.
Don’t Ever Forget About Linus Torvalds – Hacker Noon
Why can't government outbid Google in salary? They can certainly afford it.
> stupidly inefficient device.

Any idiot can say that in 2017.

In 1967 you'd have to special kind of idiot to discount it as ineffective.
Have had a dell xps 13 (project sputnik) for a while now. Best portable laptop I've ever had. Mac doesn't even come close. Every time I have to use a Mac at work I wonder why can't these people wise up. All our infra is Ubuntu. What is the point of running OS X and dealing with all the cross-OS issues.
Sure, it's a working draft, but companies are actively working to develop and test their server side integrations. Having to disable it like this harms those efforts as fewer users are making connections (by default).
Binary alias coding
I think that's an incorrect interpretation of what he said. He does not say there has never been an accusation, he says there has never _before_ been an accusation.
Heck, there are lots of ways this could screw up a citizen like me.

I don't live in the US. I'm only going to be there for visits at the most, and at this point I'm holding out. I'm too afraid that one day, I won't be able to leave for whatever reason. This doesn't help that. My non-American spouse refuses to travel there again.

Even being late catching a flight could make things rather inconvenient.
Very feasible -- don't plug it into the Internet.
Why is this aside in the article?

It's a separate point that isn't going to get her much sympathy in many circles, because that pay gap could be less real than you think.

18% less could be a result of negotiating skills or any other confounding factor. How has she quantified her qualifications vs all other male employees?

No need to add this unsubstantiated drivel to an otherwise potentially useful insight.
Those hundreds of pages have examples, references and sources. The section with this sentence doesn't single out Russia, the previous sentence is about South Asia, and the next one talks about Latin America. These are the things which are contrasted, and not Russia and "the West". I can see how, as a Russian, this sentence might have hurt your feelings and prevented you from understanding the article objectively, but it looks like you're seeing an issue where there's none.
Dell doesn't purchase from Microsoft at an open market bid, either. No big organization purchases at open market bid if they can help it. In contrast, the U.S. government is frequently required to purchase on an open market bid (more or less, I'm not sure what your definition of "open market bid" is).
That's a good argument, although "credible threat to U.S. interests abroad" is too narrow considering the degree to which allies and foreign political parties get spied on.

A counterpoint: https://theintercept.com/document/2014/03/20/hunt-sys-admins... (if you have access to other people's communications, or the ability to protect them more or less effectively or cause them to be protected more or less effectively, governments might be interested to the extent that they want to spy on other people)
Not judging cause the facts aren't fully known yet, but..

Doesn't matter. Court of law !== Court of public opinion.
In fact, courts sometimes suspiciously follow the public mood.

Seems there is some recent evidence, in sexual harassment matters:

--Single accuser, no-one believes you
--20 accusers, no one believes the accused

The floodgates don't open until #1 goes public, and more follow.
> An electrician whose company advertises it installs solar panels gets counted as a "full-time employee in the solar industry" even if installing solar panels is a minuscule part of the business -- they are a full-time employee (of the company) and the company is "in the solar industry" because installing solar panels is a service it offers.

Not saying you're wrong, but where does it state this? I didn't want to download the full report to check myself as it asks for email/name etc and so it'll have to wait until I get home. But all I could find on that was:

"Since 2010, the National Solar Jobs Census has defined solar workers as those who spend at least 50 percent of their time on solar-related work."

Which could be taken either way.

As an extension, are you saying they define "solar related work" as working > 50% of your time for any company which is any part of the solar industry? And if so, could you tell me where they state that?
The consensus has been on warming for as long as any sort of consensus has existed, about 40-50 years now.

If you'd done the slightest amount of investigation you'd know this and wouldn't be parroting the standard science-denier line.
At which point you have a brick with a microphone, and a pretty blue light, right?
Perfectly sensible and reasonable. Difficult to have any objections.
For those like me who are unfamiliar with what RCMP is - it's the Canadian police. The article is about the Canadian police commissioner raising concerns about the quality of IT support provided to them
Survivor i.e. being alive and not having killed herself - this type of abuse can drive people to kill themselves. Is that surprising? She may have also meant it in a less dramatic sense: been through it but got out. Many people who've been abused at Uber are probably still at Uber.
I'll present a contrary view: I love my new MacBook Pro. It's thinner and lighter than my last one; relevant to me because I travel extensively.

I find that the battery lasts longer than my last MacBook Pro as well.

I've seen the Surface Pro, and I find it intriguing, but can't really picture wanting to purchase or use one.
When the ultra-growth stops and they go corporate, ex. IPO.
But the traffic is totally understandable -- the right action does not require knowing what TLS 1.3 is.

The way it is supposed to work is as following: there is a protocol negotiation when the connection is established (which is obviously unencrypted), which contains TLS version supported. If MITM proxy does not understand the version, it can just change these bytes to force hosts to negotiate at a lower version.

So the only reason BlueCoat fails is because the authors failed to implement force version downgrade.
Im CTO at a startup that is working in that space — https://tablo.io

We currently offer a way to streamline creation, sharing and publishing of work through to the iBooks Store. Going forward we are focusing on being a new home for publishing.
There's a wonderful (and heartbreaking) essay, "The Median is not the Message" by Stephen Jay Gould about cancer survival statistics. It expresses some of those points beautifully.

https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...
Nowadays, I add an article to both Instapaper and Pocket. I used to use Pocket a lot but sticking on Instapaper more.

Things I love about Pocket are

- Curated (and from other people I followed) "recommendations",

- tags "Best Of", "Quick Reads".

- beautiful android app

Instapaper has less features than Pocket but I find that

- Instapaper article parser is better,

- UI is cleaner, highlights ( I love these!),

- ability to switch style (type faces, article background)

- speed read

- they also have "Browse" (something similar to Pocket's recommendation?) but in Android app, it's a bit hidden in the drawer menu so I don't use it often.
"Global Cooling" was briefly proposed in the 70's to explain why temperatures seemed to have gone down from WWII to them. It was later attributed to aerosols from pollution blocking some sunlight. It was never a consensus on the climatologist community but got attention due to news articles that missed the details and ambiguity of the proposal. It often gets brought up by climate change deniers and that may be why you think you've heard about it more than once.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
Great idea. Essentially the same approach as like bots on Instagram. Have you considered doing more targeted endorsing — for example, endorsing people in a skill you want to be endorsed in? I've had people do this manually before.
What are your thoughts on the re-write in hindsight, would you have done it differently looking back on it? Perhaps have gone for a more 'monolithic' approach?
why would you let this man write books? give him honest work please.

HONEST WORK
I agree with you. I think he's more of a negative than a positive for Uber right now. They have a huge image problem.
Client and Server exchange a list of capabilities at the beginning of a TLS connection, if the proxy just filters out the protocols/versions it doesn't understand, server/client will agree on a different version (like 1.2).
This is exactly right. There are a lot of forums higher on the NSA's list to target. This forum is (no offense fellow HN'ers) mostly just a bunch of angry startup people and tech news.

I know for a fact many NSA employees read and enjoy participating on HN.
I don't have stats for subsidy-less coal, but I'll point you to [1], which gives the unsubsidized installed price of grid-level solar (defined as >500kW) power as being about $2.30/Wdc in 2015. Page 14 has a summary graph of this parameter since 1998.

The report gives pre-incentive prices for residential (<10kW) and non-residential (<500kW) as well.

[1] https://emp.lbl.gov/sites/all/files/tracking_the_sun_ix_repo...
Used both. TP was a lot faster but TC was no slouch.

A Few years ago I managed to copy an old DOS diskette onto DOS VM and compiled and run a space invaders game I wrote. TC said it compiled but just kept returning me to the IDE when it executed! I eventually tweeked the VM speed down by about 100 at which point I saw the very fast invaders move to the bottom in about 2 seconds and kill my defender!
Do you see the comments on one site: "about 2 rich fat cats all ego-ed out who paid Space X tens of millions, just smiling from ear to ear and gloating that the whole world is watching them make history, and the rest of us "lowlanders" have to watch them with envy - - only to have it by mere chance turn into a Roman spectacle - - - - of the whole world watching as they get bar-be-qued in space, never to see earth again.

A massive crowd will be assembled to attempt a Guinness book of world records, to moon the stars with bare asses all in unison in a soccer stadium just as they blast off into space, yelling out like the Romans did at the coliseum: "We salute you those who are about to DIE !" then post it on YouTube !
No, idiots are still impressed by big explosions. There's a reason it was scaled down from 100 MT, and even then it was known to be a waste, it used no new tech, was not practically deliverable, and oh yes... much of the blast energy just shot up and out into the stratosphere. How useful. It was designed to be a political statement as part of Cold War politics, and it was known by even its designers then that it was a silly fucking thing to be doing. To be honest, most nuclear testing by that point fell into the, "Silly fucking thing to be doing category..." but idiots still haven't figured that out.
When's the last time that actually happened in the US?

A passport isn't just a document anymore, it's an entry in a database. Hard to fake.
Most startup fail. So though yes that's true, the chances of it happening twice are quite small. Even the first chance is quite small, so maybe... dunno have not seen numbers to back up hypothesizing.
These attitudes are a direct consequence of government propaganda, and what you've described as "golden years" and "negative experiences" are pretty much the de facto spin on history spread by the Chinese state media and education system.

The ironic thing is that the exact opposite situation happened as recently as in the last 50 years. China closed itself again to have "little outside influences" and started the Cultural Revolution, which destroyed millions of lives, irreparably damaged Chinese society, and set the country back in cognitive and cultural development for several centuries. And it was foreign investment that lifted China out of severe chaos and poverty after Deng Xiaoping's Reform and Opening Up.
If one substitutes United States for China and fixes geographical references, there still seems to be some truth in those statements, at least as far as I can tell from my outside perspective. One could probably also substitute still other countries or sometimes the West in general and still get some true statements.

In Chinese history and contemporary culture, the Chinese are seen to be unique and superior to the rest of the world. Other peoples and groups are seen to be inferior, with a sliding scale of inferiority.

The Chinese commonly believe that they are cleverer than others, and so may shape events in an oblique manner or through shi [势], the strategic manipulation of events. This conceit among the Chinese that they can manipulate others is supremely dangerous for Asian stability.

An overconfident China will continue to make the mistakes it is presently in the South China or East China Sea disputes. That is, making threats, issuing demands, heavy-handed shows of force, are generated by China’s overconfidence.

Analysts do have insight into how China will behave in the future based on its behavior in the past, when it was the hegemon of Asia, the known world as far as China was concerned. China sees itself as the center of the universe, all others are inferior, with varying degrees of inferiority. That is not an attractive model
of winning allies and influence.

In contrast, China portrays itself as an apolitical rising superpower that does business in your country, pays a fair price for your commodities, and builds your infrastructure with no string attached.

There often is considerable resentment toward the Chinese due to their ruthless business practices, which undercut and destroy African businesses.
One time I even got recruiter spam on LinkedIn from LinkedIn.