skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it's far worse than that. Look further down in the thread where a security guy has pre-emptively invoked the "acceptable use" policy to cover for up for incompetence to secure the MITM proxy appropriately.

Acceptable use policies are not self-enforcing, they are really only used selectively, regardless if they say you shouldn't use your computer for personal use. Everybody does that to some degree and it is accepted in reality as long as it's within certain limits.

If the policy was self-enforcing then half the internet would be blocked, but of course companies don't do that because no one wants to work in that environment.

If you're watching porn or torrented movies, you'll either get a warning or fired, but the company will do nothing if you make an online payment.

But what happens if the proxy gets hacked and the attacker gets hold of your banking/personal logins/data? Who is most likely to discover the hack? Probably the same security guys who are managing the proxy. Will the security guys do the right thing and inform management that a hack occurred? Will the company also then do the right thing and inform all their employees that a hack occurred and now you might be missing some money? Will the company choose to hide behind the “acceptable use” policy to absolve itself from liability and say that it was you doing the wrong thing and stuck with the costs of your actions?

At each layer beginning at the individual working in the security team, to the whole security team, to the company management team, to everyone working at the company, that the incentives are aligned to cover up such an incident rather than reveal it.

The TLS inspection proxy is a bad system and worse still it’s a dangerous system in the hands of people who are not capable of providing and unbiased assessment of the risks they are exposing themselves and everyone else to, not to mention the company. It’s more than just financial risk, it’s the moral-hazard kinds of risk that really concern me because of the lack of transparency/understanding of its roll out, the incentives to cover up when something bad happens, and the lack of legal protections afterwards.
When something is said to be "lacking", it implies that something should be there but isn't. The headline only introduces one actor — the company. In this context, there is only one party to put fault on for the "lack" of the comma, which is the company.

When you read the article, you see that the comma is not from a company document, but from a statute. So the "lack" is due to legislative drafting. But reading just the headline, how could one have imagined that the "lack" was due to an unnamed actor that drafted an unnamed statute?

While the implication I described is not the clearest implication, there is no way a reader could see this headline and have any clue that what really happened was:

Legislators drafted ambiguous statute and company's interpretation lost out

But that would make for a lousy headline, I suppose.
Too bad. I found their newsletter timely, informative and well written. What alternatives are there for keeping up with cyber security issues on a regular basis?
This is my last remark here, because this chain is getting a bit long. But I'll try my best to clarify myself. Because I really want this to help you in the future, or anyone who might read this. Because I used to have similar opinions as you, and it hurt my progress.

When you're done building the minimum viable product. You're not done, his value is not used up. You've done only a fraction of the work involved with building a company. The real hard work now begins. I've done this a few times, so i'm talking from experience here. Build it, and they will come... is a fallacy.

You'll need him to get in the door. Yeah, getting in the door of customers is hard, even if you have a product they want/need. You'll need him to help you gain their trust (you're not selling steak knives here, you're selling enterprise software!). High value sales means building a relationship, understanding the process of having clear goals with each engagement, demonstrating the value, integrating feedback, etc. You need an expert who understands sales, and the industry. If he's a consultant, presumably he has this.

You MIGHT be able to do this yourself, but even if you eventually succeed you're probably going to fail a lot before you get it. If he already has the skill set, and he already has the network, and he already has the relationships. He's bringing A LOT to the table. This isn't you working for him, this isn't you working for fee. This is adding his complementary skill set to your own, and building a company.

The one last thing I think every engineer who wants to break out and do their own thing should know. You can outsource product development (not saying you should, just saying you can) but you CAN NOT outsource sales. There are consultants who will help you, there are distributors, but none of that can completely replace having your own dedicated sales/marketing staff. They're augmentations. Building a company is not just having a product, it's having a market, it's knowing the market, and it's having a strategy to penetrate the market. The product is just a part of the company.

I recently quit my job to bootstrap a SaaS. I spend 60 hours working on it a week, and 55 of those hours i'm doing something that isn't coding. I REALLY want to just write some code, but that's not the most important part... not right now at least.

My advice is don't underestimate the value an industry expert who knows sales can bring to the table, and try to be realistic about what your skill set is.
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What is driving the Ethereum price spike?
Wait, you always get organic results, no?
> a few (bilion) years back, when the universe had a radius smaller than ~14B ly, it was sufficiently dense to be a black hole?

> at some point in the past, it grew out of being a black hole when it expanded above its Schwartzschild radius?

No and no. The calculations of the "Schwarzschild radius" corresponding to a given mass assume that the mass is static. They do not apply to an expanding universe.
The article abuses Kolmogorov complexity...

> When it is applied to the algorithms, it means that an algorithm with the shortest implementation is simpler.

That is misleading. Kolmogorov complexity is the length of the shortest program (in a pre-defined language) that produces a given object. So, if the shortest program that produces Algorithm A is smaller than the shortest program that produces Algorithm B, then the Algorithm A is less Kolmogorov-complex ("simpler") than Algorithm A.

This does not mean you can take two existing implementations (in C, say) and compare the implementation length and declare one is "simpler," unless you are claiming that both implementations are as short as possible. Since Kolmogorov complexity is not computable, that seems like a tall order.

Maybe they are right that Single-Decree Paxos is simpler (either in the sense of Kolmogorov complexity or in some other sense, who knows), but invoking Kolmogorov complexity here seems totally unwarranted -- it doesn't add anything substantive.
Netflix have said for years that the star ratings they gather are not actually very good indicators for their recommendation engines compared to implicit signals such as - 'did the user watch the show / film to the end?' If they still believe this, it seems fairly irrelevant what they use.
I'm trying to move away from Google, but I'm struggling to find anything close to the quality of Inbox. It's pretty much perfect. And it gets a lot of its greatness by reading my email and organizing my information and events for me. Is there anything non-cloud-based that I could use that even comes close to this?
Unions can be useful or harmful depending on the details, but I genuinely think some kind of collective bargaining is essential to protect society as a whole. Entities with capital want to turn some of that capital into labor in order to generate more capital. Entities who have the supply of labor (populations, or skilled sub-groups) should be able to negotiate as a group if they choose, and get a better deal for themselves while still allowing a profit for the ones with the money. By disallowing the formation of labor unions, we tip the scales in favor of those who already have capital so that returns are maximized and worker gains are minimized. And when the economy grows, the gains go to the top, because workers can't collectively control the labor supply the way other entities control the supply of capital.
Glad you asked!

http://minimaxir.com/2017/01/amazon-spark/

http://minimaxir.com/2014/09/one-star-five-stars/
I'm surprised. At least here in Indiana, as best as I recall, drivers cannot be pulled over for seatbelt violations, only if some other offense occurs.
>I always wondered how big companies did accounting

Many big corporations use SAP or Oracle.
> if it turns out that the whole universe is at least 64 times larger than the visible portion then we are in fact already in a black hole!

No. The universe is expanding. If it were a black hole, it would not be expanding.
It's justified by logical argument, but not by empirical evidence. There is no empirical measurement we can take or experiment we can perform that would falsify it, because things like "theories" and "truth" are not physical. If your argument is that it's falsifiable because it follows logically from a set of premises that we've all agreed to accept, and we could show it to be false by showing a flaw in that logical reasoning, then I don't see how you can state that most philosophy is not falsifiable and remain consistent.
I also find the Netflix critics somewhat harsh, perhaps we are more critical from our sofa, then at the cinemas
Let me be the devil's advocate for a moment:

Why is it a problem if Google knows more about you?
Doesn't it just mean that you will be served content more relevant to you?
Implementing Redux is tedious. But it doesn’t have to be
Uh? Can't find the similarities.
I've found some solace using Mubi, which has a pretty devoted film fan base that really puts thought into written reviews + star ratings. I almost always read a handful of these before following-through with a viewing. They also have a nice 1-in-1-out movie per day system which lets them theme films by event (Cannes, director birthdays, etc). Not for everyone, but it's out there.
I believe that the primary reason people give when stating why they enjoy their work is that, to them, "it doesn't feel like work".

If you are lucky enough to be paid to "do what you love" is it work or is it a hobby for which you are paid?
I wish more companies did this, not just Bay Area companies.

I'm in Texas and looking to relocate to SoCal (specifically Torrance) in the second half of this year, and while I'm hoping my employer will let me either go remote or relocate me to their LA office, I'm terrified that they won't and I'll have to find a new job (I really like my employer, so I'll only leave if I absolutely have to).
The author's argument is a good one, but note that, in the (perhaps rare) case of just wars, he doesn't even have to concede this point:

> The normative ideal in this case is the absence of war, yet the reality of war precludes that ideal. Therefore, any applied ethics of war are by definition morally flawed.

With the exception of true pacifism, which is exceptionally rare, essentially everyone agrees that there are just uses of violence. When within a nation with a functioning government, this is the police's uses of force. When it's between nations, it's war. No one would think that rules governing the police's use of violence are inconsistent with the fact that we'd all prefer violence be unnecessary. Likewise, there are at least some just wars (by at least one of the participants), and in these cases the just participant need not be morally flawed at all.
Hikikomori: The Postmodern Hermits of Japan
I read it "huh? You have to subclass it eventually to make an instance, right? I dunno, let's go see what the comments say...WTF?"
To a large extent that's on the employee. If you choose to move to an area with no industrial foundation, then you are stuck with the horse you rode in on.

(It's also -- knowing the Zapier history of being aggressive on the employee-friendliness front, and having interacted with them in their earlier days -- somewhat uncharitable as a default position.)
There is an ontology issue here - when people think of Robots now I think most people think of CP30 and R2D2. These are actors in a drama, their decisions and interventions change the flow of the story. Robots in the AI sense (as in technology not magic or fiction) are not actors in this way, they are... Robots! They have a very limited type of autonomy, they can choose from sets of options to attempt to achieve a goal, and can choose from a set of goals that are pre-provided depending on the current context. However I don't think that there are agents or robots that are able to develop and define their own goals.

Based on that I think that the Robots will always be acting on orders - our orders - outside fiction. So the incentive will be "because we are told to do it".

Of course some people may tell them to do other things - like "go kill those people" but we have that issue in spades with things like the Trident D5 robot which is highly purposed to "go kill many people" on demand.
Google makes it easier for companies to transfer data to its cloud
The vast majority of "wall street's" corruption is its relationship to the rent seeking opportunities that the US government makes available for them. And what's hilarious is that its the same bleeding heart liberals who demand things like the government provide low interest home loans who are shocked and outraged to learn that "wall street" commits "frauds" around them (i.e. bankers are doing what they're asked to, and when it blows up in the government's face, get scapegoated).
Ask HN: How do /you/ annotate a legacy code base?
We've all encountered those legacy code bases that are years old and thoroughly spaghettied. Ideally, you'd like to go through, reformat it all, leave comments throughout, and generally make the world a better place. However, a "useless" commit like that probably opens the code up to merge conflicts and other problems everyone else will get on your case about.

So how have you solved this problem in the past?
Checkbox vs. toggle
> Things can be turned into singularities a la the LHC

The LHC is not creating any singularities.
> A lack of an Oxford comma is always an ambiguity.

Not true. The example given ("I'd like to thank my mother, Ayn Rand and God") lacks a serial comma yet is unambiguously a list of three items.
First off - this is a great thing to hear; I'm glad that WebGL is advancing.

That said, there are a few voices hear bemoaning the fact that this update still isn't up-to-par with the latest native API abilities or whatnot.

These kind of comments remind me of comments complaining about artificial intelligence not being useful because it can't do x/y/z (ie - something that a human can do), and so it is worthless.

Never mind the fact that when x/y/z tasks are demonstrated, the goal posts are moved to a/b/c...

I see the same thing here with WebGL. Personally, I feel this is unfair. Instead of complaining about what it can't do, instead one should work with it and push it to do what it can do. I dare-say that in the hands of talent, the current WebGL could easily do things that would be almost considered "impossible". By talent, I mean those who really push the capabilities of hardware and software, pulling tricks and such to maximize the apparent capability (demoscene).

Even with that taken off the table, though - WebGL (even 1.0) can still do things and represent ideas and worlds in enough detail to be fun for a game or other use. I feel that those who complain will always complain. Instead, those who can - use it! So what if it isn't perfect; I dare say that a Infocom's Zork is a better game than many of today's triple-A FPS shooters or whatnot! Graphics aren't everything; if you know what you are doing, you can make a compelling and fun game today without them - there are plenty of recent IF titles to attest to that.

I sometimes wonder if the complaints aren't excuses or something; that developers are complaining about WebGL because they don't want to move the the platform of the web browser (for some reason)? So any excuse not to develop on the platform is a valid excuse? Perhaps. For me, what I see in WebGL is extreme promise; in fact, it holds it right now, with WebGL 1.0 - if more people would just develop for it.

Maybe I'm just biased, having grown up with computers from a time when the idea of 3D graphics was either simple wire-frames or other slow software rendering - or you dropped many thousands to tens-of-thousands of dollars on hardware to get output that wouldn't even be worthy of the old-school Quake engine. For me, what I see with WebGL blows me away, despite it not being "realistic". It's realistic enough for me to see compelling action and stories developed with it.

...and with native API access? Well - what little I have seen (because I run *nix and you don't see much there) - it's amazing. One day it will be on the browser too. But what we have already available, in the right hands, should be more than enough. So quit complaining, and get to creating.

/personally wish I had the talent to work in this field...
The Bay Area needs to re-think traffic. Perhaps the hyperloop isn't so much needed between two already congested cities, but between lots of rural areas that can feed into congested cities. Live 5 hours (by car) from the BA and get there by hyperloop in 25 minutes.
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House style where I work (legal industry) is to set off appositive phrases with em dashes, and to use commas and semi-colons to indicate lists.
If you mean, "The Part-time Parliament," it's indeed a little complex.

It's worth reading his description of the paper to understand why: http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html#lamport-paxo...

In short, not everyone has the same sense of humor.
Has nobody seen Real Genius?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoT-h0S1gkE
> Utah says it won 'war on homelessness', but shelters tell a different story

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/27/utah-homeles...
DX 9 class graphics are great for a lot of applications. Not every project has to be at the cutting edge of rendering technique to achieve its goals.
Did the commenter mean "holders of stake" (stakeholder)?
> For Joe Ortega, it means ... getting used to being alone.

I would not have figured that moving off the street would be more isolating than living on the street. Don't these housing options mean that someone else is living just in an adjacent room or across the hall?
Is there any evidence of Google actually doing this on a widespread basis? The Home is specifically designed to be an always-on microphone. My phone isn't.
"This isn’t an ad; the beauty in the Assistant is that it invites our partners to be our guest and share their tales."

It just boggles my mind that anyone could read nonsense like this and not immediately say "I want nothing to do with that". This is evil corporatist greed along the lines of Monsanto, Goldman Sachs, or Halliburton. Alphabet needs to start getting called out forcefully, especially by their own employees and other tech leaders, whenever they pull this crap.
> There is a minimum threshold for stellar black holes–the ones created through stellar evolution–it's called the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit.

That limit gives the maximum size of a neutron star, but it does not say an object smaller than that cannot form a black hole. In fact, it is considered likely that supernova explosions could cause an implosion that could form a black hole smaller than the limit, simply because it happens too fast for neutron degeneracy pressure to stop it before the implosion reaches the Schwarzschild radius.
So what's the alternative? Give up and cry before even trying?

Knowing that you might fail and flame out is the definiton of risk; you do it because the upside is worth it
It's not exploitation.
Humans in space in my eyes make as much sense as motorized fishbowls on highways. We're even less competitive compared to robots in non-terraformed environments.
> Live 5 hours (by car) from the BA and get there by hyperloop in 25 minutes.

And after n years, the place where you start your voyage within the hyperloop is becoming another huge city of its own.
I do wonder whether the future of gaming will eventually move towards a model like DF, ADOM, WoW, DOTA 2, EVE etc, whereby instead of completely new games every year that generally just feature updated graphics, we will instead see a few games in each genre becoming more and more fleshed out over the course of years or even decades.

Really, there are not a whole lot of different game genres when you get down to it. If one had a good RTS engine, for example, you could build a WWII simulator or a sci-fi setting on top of it with only a few mods plus new unit models. And from a player's standpoint, there is something amazing about playing a game that has been developed for decades like DF or ADOM, because it is so much deeper, more detailed, and well-balanced than the average new game. And has less bugs. I think this thinking is behind what must be a massive effort to reskin Morrowwind. The increase in modding's popularity is another indicator of this trend.

Of course I doubt new games will entirely cease to be made. There are certainly genres that haven't been discovered yet. But it seems that the bulk of player-time is moving gradually towards games like this IMO.
Servers are better poised to detect it. Caddy can serve sites that warn browsers of HTTPS interception: https://github.com/mholt/caddy/pull/1430
Is better TLS interception actually possible? Is it just that it's usually badly implemented, or is it a fundamental weakening?

Other than the unavoidable weakening of having another system seeing the unencrypted data, which is inherent in using one of these systems and can never go away.
I've heard from people who work for military contractors that development is very expensive because everything is very inflexible and clamped down and there is so much paperwork.
Many sports have the same "X bum". Even aviation!
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Depends, usually the content and engine become quite intertwined about 3 months before release as you try to squeeze every MB/cycle out of hardware.

Even then game design will dictate architectural choices(off the top of my head streaming, networking and platform all have huge engine implications and can't be easily retrofitted).
Cost and congestion are driven by the commuting time to job centers.

If Bakersfield becomes a bedroom community for San Francisco with a 25 minute commute, you can count on Bakersfield housing prices converging on Bay Area costs.

This is probably a net win for the community of Bakersfield, but it may not change things very much for you as a pre-existing worker in San Francisco.
Yeah, that was definitely the #1 story in the news when it happened. Much like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 there's no shortage of uncertainty around the real story.
Was it GameStop, or the store manager? I'd bet money the GameStop corporate HR people would have fired the guy on the spot if they heard about something like that. My own retail experience (big box office supply store) was so metrics driven I can absolutely imagine a scenario where the store manager tries to illegally cut work hours to make his store's numbers look better.
How does the headline imply it was a typo made by the company? I did not get that impression at all.