skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the UK (temporarily still in the EU). We have a single payer health system, much loved by the general population. However, it is also being systematically underfunded by the government, who are mostly getting away with blaming "health tourism" of foreigners rather than suffering from their own policies in elections.

(This is why there was a bus with "£350 million per week" written on the side in the referendum: the NHS is really popular, and it's easy to blame outsiders).

In principle, the NHS covers me when I'm anywhere in the EU, by paying for local treatment. In practice, it's not identical quality treatment, and there are edge cases.

I suspect that the NHS will disintegrate under the pressure of Brexit, but on e other hand I'm extremely pessimistic about the whole thing and half the country thinks it will be great.
Some states make exceptions for recordings that take place for business security purposes. California does not.

However, CA does make an exception for recording "in any other circumstance in which the parties to the communication may reasonably expect that the communication may be overheard or recorded."

You could certainly make an argument that this douchebag might reasonably expect audio to be recorded in his company's driver's cars. Not so sure you could make that argument for the other passengers.

Interestingly, Bloomberg could be sued (or prosecuted; $5000 fine) for distributing the recording if it indeed falls under CA's wiretapping laws.
> I don't know what number crunching web applications they're thinking of...

Games, and WebGL games in particular.
Yes it is down

https://status.aws.amazon.com/

Half internet is down the data center in Virginia the one with the cloud is totally dead apparently. Enjoy the cloud bullshit :)
Mercurial, SHA-1, and Trusting Version Control
So, let me get this straight. Uber has lowered the fair once on Uber Black to $3.75/mile, yet it seems that this driver was falsely insisting it was $2.75/mile. That would be frustrating to me too.
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It's not just a RAID that can fail. And everyone who uses AWS should expect failures. You should build your infrastructure to handle such failures well.
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As I've said previously: I love the Backblaze folks, but B2 is apparently hosted in a single building. So that's not a question of if, but when.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
https://webkit.org/experimental-features.html
> To conflate speech with privilege is absurd. We are all equally empowered and equally vulnerable in a free speech society.

No, we're not. As a straight white guy, I can say "video games suck because X, Y, and Z" and people might call it stupid or call me a "cuck", but that's about it. A woman who say "video games are generally cool but have some problematic tendencies like X, Y, and Z" gets death and rape threats and have people post her personal information online. I know this happens because a friend did this, had it happen, and ended up crashing on my couch for a few days while she found a new apartment and moved because she feared for her safety, something which literally-literally does not happen to straight white men (though does happen, in varying but generally lesser quantities, to queer and minority men, and happens a lot more to trans people in general) who express similar opinions in that space.

Almost as if the numbers I drew in the genetic lottery has led to the privileged position of being able to speak in ways that others cannot without being literally endangered. How very strange.
Did they actually manage that transition, though? I haven't heard anyone talk about Foursquare in years. My entire social circle effectively ran itself via Dodgeball when that was active; many of us remembered it fondly enough to give Foursquare a try, after Dodgeball's founders came back out of Google purgatory. It quickly became obvious that they really just wanted to become a cheap Yelp knockoff, though, and we all left. I don't remember hearing anyone propose a group migration to Swarm at the time, and I certainly haven't heard anyone talk about it since.

Checkin-based spontaneous social organization just... doesn't happen anymore, so far as I can see. Shame, because I really enjoyed it. If a new service came along which looked like it wasn't going to be evil, I might sign up and try to get my friends on board - but I wouldn't trust the foursquare people at this point.
Asking developers to program in front of strangers is primarily testing for ability to perform in front of strangers and developer skills secondarily (if at all.)

I never ask people to code in front of me. I ask them questions to get a feel for where their areas of expertise are, and to get to know them.

I wrote a post about my feelings on it last year:
https://medium.com/@ebbv/my-case-against-coding-tests-6b15c1...
> Trump could get a big win-win on healthcare by proposing a single-payer system

hmm, but wha-

> Furthermore, he could bring in Bernie Sanders to implement it

uh... yeah, the Republicans aren't going to go for that. The President doesn't get to adopt the role of dictator for four years (as much as many would wish they do), and there is zero chance Republicans would go for this.

Right now many Republicans are tolerating Trump's antics because they see him as a means to implement the legislation they've wanted for the last eight years. If that turns out to not be true they'll kick him to the curb.
> Hello, my name is David. I would fail to write bubble sort on a whiteboard. I look code up on the internet all the time. I don't do riddles.

Does the interviewer explain what bubble sort is, or do they expect the candidate to know it? The first is a reasonable interview, the second one isn't.
>I have an immigrant in my family who's just like the driver. He's not interested in "fighting over a good idea

You may want to rephrase that, because it sounds an awful lot like you're attributing "stubbornness" to the fact that this guy's an immigrant.

>Additionally, it's plain rude to engage in this sort of thing with a stranger.

He's not a stranger. He's the boss.
Low TTL on DNS entries might do more harm than good: if your DNS provider gets seriously DDoS, being able to rely on caches can save the day.

Anyway, I agree with your conclusion.
Article seems to be trying pretty hard to find controversy.
Boston Dynamics introduces its latest future robot overlord
Travis is right on a technicality they did not lower Uber Black prices much if any. What they did instead was coerced Uber Black drivers to take Uber X request. Yes drivers can reject Uber X request, but if you reject a certain amount of Uber rides, they kick you off their system. Probably why the driver is complaining about going bankrupt, you need a luxury car to drive Uber Black, but if you're stuck picking Uber X fares you'll lose money.
There are studies that have shown that CEOs are more likely to be psychopaths than the general population. If you assume being a psychopath also makes you an asshole, and some level of success is required in order to become a CEO, it wouldn't be unreasonable to claim that being an asshole makes you more successful.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/13/1-in-5-ceos-are-p...
S3 bucket creation was down in us-west-2, because it relied on us-east-1 (I expect that dependency will get fixed after this), but all S3 operations should have continued to function in us-west-2, other than cross-region replication from us-east-1.
I just spent the last hour trying to figure out why in the hell I can't update the function code on a lambda instance. Next time I will remember to check HN first!
On the upside.. no one is stealing more data from the CloudPets thing we were talking about earlier today.
This will probably be an unpopular opinion, but I actually thought the driver was exceedingly rude. He clearly took advantage of Kalanick being in the public eye, and thus a "target". Filming him without acknowledging it was totally immoral, it should reduce any fair person's bayesian priors as to the credibility of the driver.

I'm no fan of Kalanick, but I thought he comported himself reasonably, taking the time to explain things from his perspective. He could have just said: "sorry no time". Instead he shook the driver's hand, tried to explain the logic of his moving down the luxury scale.

The fact that the footage of him with two women wasn't cut out is frankly disgusting and a total invasion of his privacy. He didn't do anything wrong except flirt a bit. How tawdry of Bloomberg to show that material.

What is wrong with newspapers nowadays? It seems the press decides someone's "fair game" and they just engage in the most blatant character assassination.
This is cool, though part of the reason I like things like Hulu Plus is that I don't have to worry about commercials, and it's literally a third of the price.

I do find it interesting though; Youtube/Google is taking all the steps to be the next Time Warner or Comcast it seems. I wonder if this proves that that industry isn't impossible to break into.
> There's no European Union-wide single-payer system, either.

I think that's purely for historical reasons, though. There's no EU-wide military either.
quicksort would be fine too :-)
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> “Whiteboard” interviews are widely hated. They also discriminate against people who are already underrepresented in the field.

I don't particularly like whiteboard interviews. How can they be discrimination if the expectations are laid out and are such that anyone can reasonably practice to reach them.

I understand you can create a test that is deliberately discriminatory (e.g. voting tests).

You can create a test and realize later that people from certain backgrounds do worse (IQ tests apparently?)

But with whiteboarding you are taking knowledge people should have (lets set aside the idiocy of some of these problems). It's foundational stuff for the industry. So the problem might be with the nature of the test, but anyone can go grab a set of whiteboard markers and start working problems. In fact this is part of why I so dislike these interviews, they are setup to make it easy to game them. So how can that really be discriminatory?
>Growth of economic activity and population is a collective choice

Collective choice, not government mandate as the person to whom I replied suggested.
I work in healthcare and I can appreciate his comments. Imagine a horribly complex system with perverse incentives and regulatory bureaucracy.

It's worse than even that.
I don't consider it a fair discussion when the driver falsely insists the fair is $2.75/mile, when it is $3.75/mile and continues to pound the theme when Kalanick had already given his explanation. What is the driver expecting? For Uber to go back and raise fairs on Uber Black?
A good interview should be conducted more like pair-programming than performance art. The interviewer should be explaining things about the problem space and asking questions about the interviewee's code (especially when they're going astray).
Yes, that's a personal decision in deciding where to work. But it's easy to come up with specific examples of CEOs that are assholes who grow gigantic companies. I was just using this specific example with Kalanick to raise the question. Perhaps a better example is Steve Jobs, someone who had something of a cult following but from what I've heard was an all around terrible person. If these people truly weren't tolerated, they wouldn't get to the top in the first place.
Surely they're not chasing native just for games
Had a 2 hour technical interview last month where there was a lot of white boarding, but the panel of interviewers understood when I said "Well I don't know the specifics of X but between Google and stack overflow I'll manage." - got the job by the way...
Very interesting. It's a shame Apple shied away from providing TV streaming.
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“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
-- Albert Einstein
Wasn't this in reaction to the story that Homeland Security had asked the question to a programmer entering the US? I don't know how this was extrapolated to a broken job interview process.
The problem is not the first sentence. It is the second one.

We all knew it was complex.
He said it wasn't. But had no clue.
I'm not sure I follow what you're railing against here. You're absolutely correct that none of the disciplines you've listed have been completely solved yet, and that they likely won't be any time soon. But I'm not sure it's fair to say they are not all actively fed by and deeply integrated with the work done in their precursor philsophical fields. This is particularly noticeable in more abstract fields like mathematics and computation where often times, empiricism can't be a driving factor because there's no empirical ground to stand on. If your point is, "There's still Philosophy left in these spaces", that seems to me to be like arguing that men cannot have evolved from apes, because there's still apes around.
Sour grapes.
I don't own an Echo because I don't feel the convenience of such a device is outweighed by the obvious privacy implications. I would be more likely to use it if it was located within my home but at that point the limiting factor would probably be cost. This is why such a device would have to provide additional functionality.

In a world where it is just expected that you have a personal cloud server in your home Alexa becomes an "app" on that server and the Echo continues life as a very nice speaker/microphone device you can place in a visible area in order to interact with that server.
there is experimental evidence suggests that the ad hoc approach is the worst approach.

why not have them write code, not in front of people.

give them a laptop and some time alone?
If they don't do whiteboards, what does foursquare do now?
A cute hack that has been up and running in a fully decentralized fashion for more than 18 months. Something that MaidSafe cannot claim even after over a decade of development.

Sia certainly has less ambitious goals. But it also has a strong track record of delivering.
Is this similar to Direct TV Now[1]?

Both of these services seem like an interesting step forward, but then, who really wants to watch live TV anymore, besides sports fans? The whole idea of watching something at a specific time that it's aired just seems unimaginable to me after years of on demand streaming. Not to mention commercial breaks.

1. https://directvnow.com/
Why can you not miss out on SEO as a Growth Hacker?
I love #7. A lot of people would pay a monthly fee to maintain a checkmark on their profile as a part of a "Twitter Pro" account. That fee could cover the manual verification of the user via scanned photo-ID and become a profit center for the company. Think of it like Twitter's version of an EV SSL cert.
Do you use angular2 with typescript? How would you describe your experience for you in the last weeks/months and releases? Do you use angular-cli?

The only thing I'm going saying is that it is reaching the 4.0 version with the stability and concisiness of a 0.3 alpha.
> Inside of a private car with the windows up isn't public.

If it was your car and someone got in and recorded you, then I'd say that's more clear cut. But if you get into someone else's car do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy?
I think both. Don't take away the need to be a public figure and to verify your identity. Just make them pay in addition to these things.

If you're a big enough public figure to want/need the blue tick, you're arguably making commercial use of twitter already, so you probably have a marketing budget that can sink a thousand bucks a year into maintaining your verified status with Twitter (in addition to proving your identity in usual ways).

If some famous person doesn't want to pay, that's fine: either quit using twitter's platform to market yourself, or continue but live without the tick.
well then, plan9 finally becomes useful for something!
I played NetHack for a long time and wanted something more. NetHack becomes pretty repetitious after a while. I tried various roguelikes and hit upon DF.

Also, I see Dwarf Fortress as the natural progression of programming games. As programmers, we always look to abstract away busywork. DF takes away the busywork of dungeon-building and hands it off to little applets.

Basically it became popular by word of mouth. I think the popularity of Minecraft led more people to hear about it, since Minecraft was said to be influenced by it. But as far as I know, it's always been a slow build, never went viral or became an overnight success.
I don't think this has anything to do with durability & reliability (they probably haven't lost data). It's about availability.
Really? Even Australia? Can you provide evidence of this so I know for any clients that call me today? :)

EDIT: Found my answer. "Just to stress: this is one S3 region that has become inaccessible, yet web apps are tripping up and vanishing as their backend evaporates away." -- https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/28/aws_is_awol_as_s3_g...
CloudFlare, Data Breaches, and the HIPAA Conduit Exemption
When they deny you auto insurance or double your rates, because your brother living 1000 miles away looks like an alcoholic on Facebook. THEN, you'll start thinking about your privacy.

You do realize, companies are already lobbying for and soliciting access to Facebook data.

Tick tock...

P.S. I became friends with and helped out a convicted felon, this past year. Three DUI's. Their life is now back on track.

Per corporate-sought data maximalism, our Facebook friendship could cost me in terms of insurance premiums or even simple insurability, employability, perhaps my ability to get or maintain a mortgage. God knows. And that's a further part of the problem, that this is all feeding into corporate "black box" algorithms and decisions.

Maybe I start getting "enhanced screening" at every pass through an airport, because the government -- or a private/privatized screener -- is using Facebook to acquire this third party data that, so far, it's (supposedly) prevented from acquiring directly. You see, it's not just alcohol, but this person used to be into drugs.

So, do I need to rethink my whole decision to help this person? Will data domination dissuade simple kindness and decency? And that proverbial "second chance"?

Privacy. Ultimately, it strikes at the core of our society and our humanity.

A far greater threat than the ostensible threats ostensibly (um, data, please) being prevented.

Or, in the case of private business, a far greater loss than the profit supposedly being maximized.
A git-course on reinforcement learning in the wild
> You may want to rephrase that, because it sounds an awful lot like you're attributing "stubbornness" to the fact that this guy's an immigrant.

I am. This sort of behavior is common among older people from the country my family member -- and I -- emigrated from.

> He's not a stranger. He's the boss.

That's a bit of an exaggeration. Travis isn't directly overseeing this specific driver's operations (ignoring the whole "Uber is a contractor not an employer").
I've been paid to write code for 20 years or so and can't remember any of those friggin algorithms.

Being able to understand a problem enough to successfully google an answer is the most valuable skill for a programmer.
that was joke
just a senior CS Student, though not a valid excuse the first attempt is not something I'm proud of....but yeah I will work on the UX and give it an update
Will sure do! Thanks.
They offer no RAID on local storage and only the expensive, IO restricted EBS as an alternative.
How Can You Tell When Science Is Fake?
The housemates who found a lost plane wreck
That's what I currently use as well. I would have liked to see some mention of it -- whether or not they tested it, or if they couldn't find any vulnerabilities using the same tests they did for other applications.
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This is a tough subject. I don't believe deep understanding of algorithms and data structures is necessary for the vast majority of engineering tasks. Most (almost all) engineers can get by understanding complexity notation and a matrix comparing time/space complexity for various algorithms and data stuctures, no memorization required. And even that is overkill, as most of time the "natural" one suggested by a problem will suffice. For example, "I need to map keys to value, so I'll use the Python dict class" will get the job done with acceptable performance almost every time.

Whiteboard interviewing based on these things isn't useful unless the candidate is being considered for a position in which knowing these things is fundamentally necessary (e.g. they'll be responsible for developing new algorithms or squeezing out the last 10% of optimization available).

On the other hand, substituting requirements for having public code profiles, and the assortment of take-home projects, in-office projects, pair programming to solve a problem the company is facing (especially if unpaid) is just as bad, for different reasons.

And certainly not asking technical questions is problematic.

I just don't know what the solution is. It's one of those things where I know a bad interview when I see it.
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All of those projects are related to Chrome/Chromium, and maybe P0 is a part of the same team, all under @laparisa? http://www.googblogs.com/why-attend-usenix-enigma-2/ here you can see her introducing Ben Hawkes.
I've been coding for almost 40 years. Without an Internet connection, my productivity drops by at least 60%.

"Cut and paste fragments from {SO,Github,Gist,.etc} and edit to taste"
My advice is: don't keep your eggs in one basket. AZs a localised redundancy, but as Cloud is cheap and plentiful, you should be using two or more regions, at least, to house your solution (if it's important to you.)

EDIT: less arrogant. I need a coffee.
Bubble sort the first sort I learned 17 years ago the 3rd week in my first year in CS at college. 4th week we learned quick sort and a bunch of other sorts that are faster aka forget everything you learned about it.
As I admitted, I am not privy to the details you refer to. For all we know, he merely misquoted or forgot. The point I'm making is it is just a discussion until Kalanick accuses the driver of playing victim when he has no right to do so. It's a matter of degrees.
can you share a link?
I thought DHH posted this before the guy who had border problems.

But well, I only had one strange interview where I had to programm Tetris and failed. In most interviews I just got asked, if I could do the job...
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

Apologies if you find this to be in poor taste, but GCS directly supports the S3 XML API (including v4):

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/interoperability

and has easy to use multi-regional support at a fraction of the cost of what it would take on AWS. I directly point my NAS box at home to GCS instead of S3 (sadly having to modify the little PHP client code to point it to storage.googleapis.com), and it works like a charm. Resumable uploads work differently between us, but honestly since we let you do up to 5TB per object, I haven't needed to bother yet.

Again, Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and we've had our own outages!).
I want to see the smirk on Obama's face so badly right now.