skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't seem to have a list of vulnerable sites. I imagine that there are tools out there to check against but I don't know. It doesn't seem to be a very helpful article, merely alarming.
Join[1] is a nice alternative to PushBullet. Does most of what PushBullet does [including sending SMS from your computer] but costs a one-time fee of £4,99, instead of PushBullet's monthly subscription.

[1] https://joaoapps.com/join/
I don't think it's that bad yet, and it may well not end up that way. I think David Frum's article was pretty good in terms of how things might go badly:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-...

My wife has a green card though, so who knows. They've already shown they have no regard for things like that.
The highest marginal income tax rate in Vancouver, BC is 47%.

The highest marginal income tax rate in California is 52%.

For that tax money, in Vancouver, you will also get free* healthcare.

In San Francisco, you will get... Actually, I'm not sure what you'll get. The biggest prison system in the world? The biggest military in the world?

* At the higher tax brackets, you will need to pay a $1,800/year MSP premium for a family, or $900/year for an individual.
I understand that, the original OP was stating that none of the "browser skins" had JIT because they all used UIWebView, which isn't the case with the link I posted :p.
The US is a democracy with a flawed government in power. The system of checks and balances is still in place. The president isn't nearly as powerful as he wants to be.

China is an actual authoritarian regime guilty of many human rights violations. I can say whatever I want about Trump in the states. Try that in China against Chinese leadership.
I don't think Slack really nailed it any better than Google hangouts, other than it's IRC like interface that differentiates it. It's chock full of it's own horrible bugs and problems. I can't even have it open for more than a few hours before it slows my system to a complete halt.
What do you use for CI?

And yes, that is a great question. I would love to know. I guess, however, the follow-up question is how current the audit package is kept. It seems like this is the sort of thing that would need -constant- update in order to be useful. However, as is often the case, please do correct me if I am wrong.

Edit: one of the folks from Snyk responded to me below: https://snyk.io/ This seems to be what they do. No endorsement, but this certainly seems interesting.
Maybe put the slightest bit of effort into researching this.

Look at yourself. You got the job, right? You don't want to admit this to yourself, but it was easier for you than a woman.
>it's an indicator that they lack a basic ability to evaluate a handful of economic choices and choose the most appropriate (and thrifty) one. It's the smartphone equivalent of getting chrome rims on your car wheels.

You act like an iPhone is a Rolls Royce to an Android being like a Kia. It's absolutely not that materially different in cost, and most decent Android devices worth their salt cost as much, or almost as much as an iPhone. Nearly all of these device (irrespective of platform) are bought on time/installments as part of one's monthly bill anyway! Another thing to consider is that if someone of limited means needed a device and was trying to buy a cheaper unlocked Android, that actually might be harder for their cash flow since the monthly installment plans are lower and easier to manage from a cash flow standpoint than dropping $200-$300 at once for a more economical (but already inferior!) model. These seem like small trivial things, but they're the kinds of decisions people need to make, and again a lot of pople have to have some kind of net/web connected device for more than leisure.

Ultimately, it just does not follow to me that people who need a decent and reliable smart phone in 2017 would have better healthcare outcomes if only they skipped having one, or bought a flip phone or even an Android phone instead of an iPhone. Medical procedures run into the thousands or tens of thousands. Premiums on family medical coverage are like 2 iPhones _per month_, so getting that less robust model device really isn't going to make much difference and it may not last as long, costing more in the end, anyway.

FWIW, I use an Android device, I just don't think iPhones are the culprit or an automatic indicator that the person of limited means using one is irresponsible or incapable of making good financial decisions. That seem like a harsh judgment.
I did not make that statement at all. The part you quoted references an implication that if you ask cops, ambulance drivers, and immigration officers about immigrants they will talk about immigrants in the light of what they see.

I'll be very clear. Immigrants and non-immigrants are not equally beneficial to the country. No one is equally beneficial to the country.
It's interesting that in certain subcultures, including a large portion of the tech community, things that are non-racial are now considered racist. Not only do you have to be "racially aware", as they say, but you have to be racially aware in the right way. Being "colorblind" isn't enough anymore. Even the emoticons have to express race!

Perhaps predictably, this has backfired and will continue to backfire quite spectacularly; it turns out that when you force people to start thinking along racial lines, they might not end up with the exact same ideas about race that you have. I suspect this may be a large contributing factor behind the recent resurgence of ethno-nationalism (see the Alt Right et al.).
It's "1080p" (1920x1080) and 4 of them in a 2x2 grid are 3840x2160. Which is why it's called "4K".

No one said the term "4k" had to make sense. :-)
1. The recent leaks were concerning CIA and not NSA.

2. I am not talking about all leaks ever, I am talking about the ones that CIA found. Also, NOBUS is in the domain of NSA, not CIA.
Yes

Disclosure: Not a Google Employee, and I don't work on Cloud SQL
This is not their fault really. Economics are out of their control. So are terms of usage of various cloud data providers. Not to mention, none of them have any native way of accessing the storage as a file system (at least on linux). Nothing is unlimited as bargain prices. Amazon's unlimited pricing was neer meant for this, much like cellphone unlimited internet is not meant as a replacement for broadband (at their prices). They'll eventually throttle or just terminate your contract.
Isn't it a bitter irony that someone who became successful in Silicon Valley (Peter Thiel) was a driving force to get a president, whose policies could potentially lead to a bit of a decline for Silicon Valley, elected?
Amazon to build CIA cloud (2013)
Study: Cannabis boosts risk of stroke and heart attack independently of tobacco
I know a mentally challenged person who uses android just fine. Whatever learning curve there is, it's not worth an extra 650 dollars to a poor person.

Maybe it's worth extra money to a businessman who refuses to learn a slightly different UI, but he isn't asking for subsides to afford it.

If you apply to the same logic to all of a poor person's decision they'd go broke. Cooking it pretty hard. You need pots and pans and stuff. Better eat McDonalds every meal!
This is the take away here:

What held them back from applying was not a mistaken perception about themselves, but a mistaken perception about the hiring process.

This is critical, because it suggests that if the HP finding speaks to a larger trend, women don’t need to try and find that elusive quality, “confidence,” they just need better information about how hiring processes really work.

This fits exactly with my experience in terms of being female seems to have somehow denied me certain kinds of information, skills and experience that are critical to getting things done. If I can somehow access that info, then I start getting stuff done more on par with the guys.

It has nothing to do with suggesting women lack confidence or are filled with anxiety. In fact, the article is basically rebutting that idea.
I sometimes wonder how Google's Product/PM team views their products and how they think having a reputation among techies for a very fragmented software base and focus helps them.

I get the idea of internally challenging yourselves to come up with replacements for your products but at least have some clear focus. Why are there so many different ways for me to connect with people when using Google's platform?

The beauty of iMessage at least in the mobile space is that it's your single app for text communications and Facetime for video. That's it. Bonus if you have a Mac since you can use it from your computer as well.
Here is a tip for you - line up as many interviews as you can from companies you aren't necessarily super jazzed about. Take a full month and go through all the painful process. You will probably fail a lot, at least for the first month or so. It depends on your availability, if you can line-up 2 to 3 interviews per week that would be ideal. Then when you're done interviewing for a while with these "whatever" companies, start applying at your favorite ones.

I found out that putting 2 months of preparation reading books, practicing on your own, etc. is not relevant enough. Chances are, you will get questions that aren't directly related to what you've studies. Another thing I found out is that interviewers ask the same coding questions and this happens very often! ta-da!! You know where I'm going?

After a month interviewing, you'll have a chance to think about all the questions you've been asked, then you'll be able to come up with an answer next time. You'll be surprised when you'll start getting the exact same questions over and over. Don't study on your own, involved companies and real interviewers in your practice. Jump straight into the interview process and take a lot of notes ;)
Okay, but App Engine also scales up and down on demand. And an HTTP trigger is just an HTTP request; it can be stateless if you like. So that sounds an awful lot like a function in the cloud.

The part I'm not clear about is whether you can send non-HTTP events to App Engine or not? It seems like it might be useful.
Sure, it's just almost 100% the system's fault. When tons of people are living in poverty you can't look at that and go "well, they just made some poor purchasing decisions".
Is anyone trying to solve this right now? It seems like a really interesting problem that would be really useful to solve.

It isn't just online, and it isn't just a technology problem. I recently bought a car and the manufacturer sent me a survey about the process. The salesman made sure, numerous times, to let me know that I'd be getting said survey and that anything less than a 10 meant he failed and that there would be negative consequences for him. Since I was mostly happy with the process, I gave him all 10s, even though one or two areas I would have rated a little lower. He got his good review and it didn't really bother me, but the car company lost out on some potentially useful feedback.

Some of the problems - like different people having a tendency to rate on different scales, ratings coming from different factors, etc - seem pretty amenable to a ML approach to make reviews a lot more useful, though. I wonder if anyone outside of a handful of companies (Amazon, Yelp, AirBnB, Google, etc) has enough data to make it useful, though?
I've yet to hear a good argument against determinism, though. Not that is matters, our brains are obviously wired to pre-suppose free will, but nonetheless.
I have to say, I give you props for responding so cordially after I was overtly harsh. I'm sure you could have bashed me, but didn't so thank you.

That being said, I think the best way to improve the process is to try to standardize it by area of expertise. I'm sure that is done to some degree, but I think more pronounced may be better. I think of roles within companies are too static and don't actually represent role(s).

Regardless, best of luck. I didn't mean to be a dick, but I felt obligated to share my opinion in this case.
In many pursuits, from romantic to professional, let those in charge of choosing make the decision, don't decide for them.
As the saying goes, fortune favors the bold.
FINALLY! What we were all waiting and hoping for: another chat app from the same company.
What's ugly is only attractive men getting funding regardless of substance. Like a beauty pageant.
Awesome! I'm glad you said something because that looks great.
You might find embedded systems development more up your alley. The hardware is always broken in some way and you often have to get very creative to work around those deficiencies. Especially when there's an ASIC involved.

You'll get to experience a whole different class of aneurysms ;-)
Yeah, but we all know this stuff because we live on the internet. How much tech experience does the average homeless/poor person have when they buy their first phone (ie get their first internet access)?
Jamo, Emoji (including flag combinators), Arabic, and Indic scripts all combine according on effectively per-character basis. There's not really any existing character that says "display any Unicode grapheme A and grapheme B in the same visual cell with A above B." The proposed additions to Egyptian hieroglyphs would be the first addition of such a generic positioning control character to my knowledge, albeit perhaps limited just to characters in the Egyptian Unicode repertoire.

Research on what to do vis à vis Mayan characters (including perhaps reusing Egyptian control characters for layout) is still ongoing, as is better handling of Egyptian.
So he didn't mean it literally, just meant to insult the poor and shirk his own party's responsibility for providing healthcare to people (especially children) that can't afford it out of no fault of their own. But hey, if you're making $20k a year, you should be able to throw down $10-$15k a year on health insurance with no problem, right? Conservative math is amazing!
I was wondering how long until Google would try to one-up Amazon in this case.
Are you suggesting something like http://espresso.caffei.net/ ?
Used iPhones (even the 6, for example) cost less than $150, and as low as $50. And you don't need a phone plan to use free wifi.
Yup, great job.
Is this what Garry Tan was referring to on Twitter?

https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/838101657107881984
It is a highly unfortunate and indisputable fact that certain misguided individuals find libertarianism to be a convenient excuse for not caring about others. However, that tendency is antithetical to most libertarian thought.

In the absence of government coercion, it should be obvious that the moral responsibility for aiding the poor and unfortunate falls heavily upon us as individuals (primarily acting through voluntary civic associations). Libertarians acknowledge that the "free-rider problem" that requires taking of resources by force is a real thing, but believe that it is a result of the withering of civic responsibility as government has increased in scope over time.

You can disagree with any and all of these premises, but to accuse all libertarians of being psychopaths is not a great way of convincing them to rethink their assumptions.
I've learned that there's no rational discourse to be found with certain people and debating just legitimizes ignorance.
Great idea, looks like you've got the right team to do it as well
If they are so timid as to not even rise to the challenge of applying for a job with some uncertainty, how can you expect them to deal with uncertainty in the field?
That's not what privilege means, it's not an on-off switch. It's just about recognizing factors out of your control that might give you slight advantages over other people. When people talk about "white privilege" they don't mean your life must be great because you're white, they mean regardless of your situation, you have more opportunities because of your skin color, which increases the odds of having a better life.

Some people take it too far, but the next time you hear someone talk about privilege, try to interpret it to mean "marginal advantage" rather than "privilege=wealth", because that's probably what they mean.

Also, "alienates men who would otherwise be potential allies" doesn't really make sense. Your support for gender equality in tech should not depend on how inclusive and understanding feminists are, it should depend on whether or not you think women deserve equal rights and access in the workplace. Obviously the world is a better place when we all work together and get along, but I think you should strive to make sure your beliefs are not affected by how much you dislike other people who share those beliefs.
All of the responses listed in the questionnaire loosely relate to confidence, and that's the sense in which I was using it.

Confidence means not being afraid of bluffing your way through an interview when you only have 60% of the required skills, for example. Note that more men than women didn't apply to jobs for this reason.
Show HN: Pipe ANY streaming site to VLC / media player
Apple exposes how it teaches new languages to Siri, staying ahead of competition
Trickle-down economics.
Scientists create ‘designer yeast’ in major step toward synthetic life
I think this is based on a misunderstanding of the kind of "economic choices" a person with little or no income will face. If a person can't afford to pay for housing or food, it's probably not because they're blowing lots of cash on phones. If you buy a $100 smartphone instead of a new iPhone, you'll save maybe $650 over a period of years, which won't cover even a month of expenses in most cities.

For many middle class and upper middle class people, being financially responsible is a matter of being thrifty with the adequate resources they have; for a person who is truly poor the issue is more likely to be a straight up lack of income, and no amount of pinching pennies is going to result in enough money to pay rent.
Both can be used as a swarm of workers, that's basically what "functions as a service" are.

The difference is usually in the pricing strategy. with "FAAS", you pay only when the worker works, you're not paying when the server running them is idle, as opposed to classic server instances.

App Engine standard has a few nice ideas in the way it implements push and pull worker queues, but given its limitations it was never going to be a huge success.

But "FAAS" is obviously not suitable to serve a "user facing" website, and rely heavily on vendor locked in API that cannot be transferred to another vendor.

Containerized worker jobs make more sense than "FAAS" IMHO. SAAS like iron.io provide that.
The less demanding the crops are, in terms of sheltering them from Mars, the cheaper they will be to grow. So it's useful, even if you don't get them to a natural Martian environment. Lowering the temperature and pressure they can grow at would still be a win.
I've found that some companies when they interview they send you a challenge that doesn't represent a real world scenario and it takes a different type of skill than real world skills.

If that's the case the only way to get better at it is by practicing, do leetcode questions and refresh your A&DS knowledge.

If the challenge was a real world scenario and you failed maybe was in an area you don't have much experience with. That's normal, nobody nails the 100% of the interviews they give.
That's all well and good, but at the end of the day, some unknowing developer has to write this functionality into whatever input-related code for some program that doesn't use OS-level components, and it just creates a mess.
Robust? No, just more shiny. iPhones have had tons of hardware problems I've never heard of Androids having.
Plenty of providers exist for those who are cost conscious. As an exmaple, Ting offers service for $15/month for a line, 100 minutes, sms, & MBs. Not gonna compare to a Verizon plan, but not something most people would consider an expensive ongoing payment.
Then why bring gender into it at all?
I think exposing rich people to the same conditions as poor people in jail is extremely important.

Monetary wealth translates to social power more often than not.

If rich people experience the same jail as poor, they will push in society to improve it. If you let the rich opt-out they'll never see it and won't be motivated to induce change.

I have spent a couple nights in jail. I know what it's like, and it's not acceptable for anyone to be exposed to this. Change is needed whether you're rich, poor, black, white or purple.
You don't give bot authors enough credit. They can run JavaScript too and try to replicate human behavior.
So, some of this bothers me and makes me even more wary of traveling to the US.

I don't own a personal cell phone. I don't own a personal laptop (yeah, I have this weird computer box that sits under my desk, go figure). If I were traveling for personal reasons, as a tourist, I would have no digital devices with me (beyond a cheap digital camera). What we are saying here is that I would possibly be subjected to extra scrutiny and possibly be denied entry to the US because I live simply.

My wife's flip phone with no data plan? Unusual, requires scrutiny, I guess.

Guess I'm not traveling to the US any time soon.
Awesome, was the main service needed before being able to consider moving from AWS - let the cloud wars begin!
This is a really big deal.
Having recently written an extension that integrates with Gmail[1], I've found that InboxSDK[2] was a lifesaver.

Having the power to do this with Google's consent _and_ have it be available on mobile devices is huge.

I hope this solves the problem of conflicting Gmail extensions, I currently just have too many installed that don't place nice together.

[1]: https://gmail-message-id-finder.co/
[2]: https://www.inboxsdk.com/
Facebook Copies Snapchat Again with Facebook Messenger Day
http://www.elemental.com/node/4241 leads to Access Denied. Doesn't look like it's available from the main page either.
Why China instead of say, the EU?
Do you still live in the 1980's? Belle Haven is not gangland.
I don't think that's necessary. They can all have their own logins. Plex allows coarse sharing for free and more fine grained sharing in their paid product.
I own a 4 year old Nexus 4 that I got for $200. Almost everyone I encounter thinks it's an iPhone initially. Many people (especially the older ones) still think it's an iPhone after I tell them it isn't.
Right. Feynman's quote is much more applicable to Theranos, Magic Leap, and uBeam.
At least they seem to be shutting down in an orderly fashion (maybe because of the State intervention) and attempting to refund most customers. The bankruptcy court documents also talk about some potentially valuable IP and patents.
OMG, give me an example for crying out loud!

If I'm young and have owned more than one smartphone, I more or less know how they work. To suggest that the poor are somehow too dumb and stupid to appreciate the mysterious, multi-layered nuances of a fucking _App store_ is to crap all over them from your ivory tower.
The first point ("don't invite me to an event...") seems to create a bit of a conundrum. Let's say you're running an event. You've done everything you can to make the submission and selection process as gender-neutral and woman-friendly as possible, but you still have an overwhelmingly male slate. Maybe there's still some vestige of sexism left in the system. What do you do?

(1) Go with the mostly-male slate. After all, you tried.

(2) Reach out to women more, and admit you're doing so because you think it's important for women in the audience to see that they have a chance to be on the stage some day and/or you can't rule out the possibility that your process wasn't as gender-blind as you wanted it to be.

(3) Reach out to women more, but hide your reasons.

The article seems to discourage (2), but is that really worse than the other options? I'm skeptical. I'd say that (2) done well would be the best option, though I can also see how it might be done very poorly.