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Hi! I wrote a bunch of the code for CRNA (although it obviously builds on a lot of great work from Facebook and Expo people). Happy to answer questions.

I'll be doing a brief demo during my lightning talk at ReactConf -- livestreamed at ~5:45pm pacific time today at http://conf.reactjs.org/livestream.
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I've done this before in a site, probably badly. But the way I handled it is that on sign up I hashed the password on the client side and stored that once. Then during login as part of the form I also included a "challenge" (i suspect I was not rigorous with it) that went with it, so I had: HMAC(HASH(password), challenge), and that's what got sent across. Since the server had the original HASH(password) and the challenge it could verify that you knew the password without either the hash or password being sent. I know for a fact that I wasn't handling replay of the challenge properly but it wouldn't be too difficult to deal with it (add the time and have it expire after so long). But I definitely had other problems with it (no SSL, and probably bad sidechannel issues).
I'm curious to know why a chatbot sucks more than a web form in your opinion?
In my experience web forms are static, tedious, not interactive and as a candidate can feel quite disrespectful that the company does not want to "talk" to me.
Happy to see work on Cap'n Proto continue!
Does this have the potential to kill Uber?
It would be more honest if this mission were made explicit--to serve as a holding place for children without daytime caretakers. Then, one of its primary objectives would be to pragmatically assess which children were capable of self-care, or even full independence, before the arbitrarily designated age of graduation.
If that's something of interest to you, get in touch with me via email and we can see if we can't get Co-dfns supporting what you need to make it a reality! There are a number of things that could make this nice in Co-dfns, including the possibility of using idioms instead of library calls, potentially making adaptation of algorithms easier.
For graphical browsers uMatrix is a good way to do this sort of thing. For every website you visit, you can tell it what resources from which domains to load and it'll block everything else.
CIA is doing their job spying on tech that they care about, news at 11!

SCADA systems are often very old and sit unconnected to the internet for decades at a time. There are likely hundreds of nuclear reactors around the world running this old, unpatched, and very vulnerable software. They'll likely not patch it until they refurbish the entire system.
TBH 'prestige ' is fine, sounds like the schools have a diversity problem?
I, too, read the Daily WTF when that article first came out (in middle school! Time flies.) Although, to be honest, it was a lot funnier then than it is now.
There's a ton of work going into polishing many different parts of React Native right now. So "the Android experience" has definitely improved overall. But it probably depends on what specifically you were running into last year that was frustrating during Android development?
Mumps is everything a programming language should aspire not to be. It's worse than RPG, worse than MAPPER, worse than MIMER and all of those put together.

If a job description contains the word 'Mumps' and it is not in a sentence about your medical history: run like hell unless you are starving.

Source: was a Mumps programmer long long ago in a short stint at a bank that fortunately got bought out by another bank which had saner ideas about automation.
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Hell, there's plenty of industrial equipment in the 1st world that still does. This doesn't surprise me at all.
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Where do I subscribe for the weekly digests on highscalability.com/? Thanks
Sad to here sandstorm.io didn't make it into a viable business for you. I can only imagine just how much energy went into it (and hopefully continues to go).

When time allows, I'd very much appreciate a reflection on the economic viability for innovative infrastructure software in general (hosted vs enterprise sales, also taking RethinkDB's demise and that of other "new stack" startups into account, etc.), and I'm sure others here will as well.
It's just anecdotal. Take it with a grain of salt if you're skeptical.
Well, Eastern European countries are growing much more rapidly than the others.

But they are definitely different - they were closed economies, way behind, and there's advantages to their having the Euro (should they get it). Which is different from Greece/Spain.

Moreover, they want to be in the Euro :) the Swedes, Danes, English etc. chose to not use it.
Seems to have some troubles opening large old solutions. I tried it and it just hangs and never responds with an error or anything. This is on an old aspnet solution with around 40 projects. Googling seems similar issues, but I haven't found a fix yet. I guess that's why you wait for revisions.
is this a limitation of C++ oder LLVM?
I think he looked at publically available data and drew his own conclusions in line with his expertise. All valid. Feynman never built a space shuttle (I believe) but was instrumental in identifying reasons for the Challenger disaster.
Some poor sod that did take that offer is likely still working there.
> The big problem is, historically the very thing has happened and that's how a lot of baby boomers got their first job.

To subvert your comment; High school jobs used to be a thing. Whether running a successful lawn mowing business or working at the nearest construction site when you turned 16.

I say this and I'm 30. However, I noticed when I was 16 that I was the only one on the block mowing lawns; none of my neighbors started mowing lawns when they were 12. [ or that I'm one of the few that has worked on a construction site, even some.]
Thanks for explaining further about your father's invention. Is there any additional news you can share regarding working installations beyond what was mentioned in the video?
Vista ran very well for me in 2 GB of RAM. It was absurdly slow in 1 GB machines, especially on laptops shipped with Vista plus bloatware.

I used Vista until 7 came out. I usually upgrade Windows versions rapidly. Linux too, I usually jump into the Fedora betas. I haven't been sorry yet.

Anyway, your own statement is contradictory. From what you said 10% is not "no one."
Hard to think of a response other than "good" to that.
I agree with you cynicism when dealing with a software vendor like Oracle. Where bug reports are fixed for only the reported instance alone (if at all).

For a FOSS project like the LLVM I think getting >100 parser bugs might cause a slight re-evaluation of the current code structure. Maybe I'm a bit too optimistic, but the LLVM team has done a fine job of fixing outstanding issues.

Lastly Fuzzers like the AFL (American Fuzzing Loop) attempt to model input, sort of doing a lazy search for bugs (taking parser run-time into account). So when it finds a cluster of bugs they're normally clustered in the source code as well.
I have an Android app in production that works as well as its ios counterpart. Launched it in the fall of 2016.
> Maybe great coders like it so much because they are good at it.

I think there's more to it than that. When I first started writing code it was pretty clear that I was not very good at it (at the time), but absolutely loved it anyway. Man, the rush of power when you realize you can get the computer to obey you... that's what got me hooked.
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I disagree. They were in a prime position to be "the" self driving car company, if anyone was. Instead, hyper aggressive business tactics (which were largely unwarranted) has backfired.
Definition: favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom.

I'm specifically referring to the current WH. It's authoritarian because it refuses to accept facts and wants to distort them to fit its own narrative. It will discredit the press if it does not "fall in line".
Like so: https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b...

To combat this sort of thing, @jbenet made hashpipe: https://jbenet.github.io/hashpipe
> "Uber gets dealt an injunction on their self-driving car project. They have to start again, a long way behind other companies."

How is this actually implemented? How do you prevent a new project starting from scratch with the same employees from ending up with the exact same tech as before?
I think there's value in relieving the mind from holding on to the context by writing it down, even if your intent of execution changes. The process of writing it down releases my mind from thinking about it.
If true, would that open Uber to lawsuits from their investors for misuse of funds?
Ok, I went to Uni, indeed I did postgrad. But I never studied CS, I think I did two programming subjects in total. Plus some others that simply expected me to know how to program.

The point is that non-CS STEM education doesn't teach programming, it just collects people who learn it on the side. Given the poor abilities of most CS students, I would say the good ones are also people who "learned it on the side".

For a company recruiter, looking for (any) STEM degree is a cheap way of finding such people. But for society, this is inefficient. And unfair on people from poor communities who never get that degree.
That's because they drop the stack.

Yes, basic did better than that but you can actually 'goto' into some line in another subroutine in BASIC which can cause all kinds of interesting results (usually not the ones you intended though).
I think a lot of people do, but it's best not to rate it too highly. It's a lot easier to communicate clearly and effectively when your propositions are simple, and it's a lot easier to have simple propositions when you're not constrained by the evidence.

That's pretty much the whole story of demagoguery and why it continues to work.
The company was just caught shadow-banning users who work for municipal government to avoid potential regulatory issues. Uber deserves zero benefit of the doubt, as they have proven themselves as an organization to be unworthy of trust.
All 3 of them!
> He spoke admiringly of Napoleon, whom he considers to be "kind of the Steve Jobs of France."

I think the problem with journalism about the alt-right is it's near impossible to tell who's sincere, who's joking, and who's half-joking-half-serious. I've been on 4chan for over a decade and I have trouble telling. It's even harder to tell who's actually influential in the community (tip: it's almost never the people who claim they are).
Try actually reading the article -- and perhaps doing some research -- before deciding to make an ignorant attack.

- she doesn't have auto-immune disease any more, but still has symptoms
- auto-immune diseases are typically triggered by stress
- we know that stress is a trigger for CFS and it fits the etiology

>Hashimoto's is an actual disease, as we understand the mechanism behind it

No, not quite. Many people have thyroid auto-antibodies but don't have thyroiditis, and some people (like the author of this article) have no auto-antibodies, but still have symptoms. Also there have been no placebo-controlled trials on the treatment, so we don't even know if it is effective. Do some research and you'll see it's not quite cut and dried.
I think you're missing the point of the example. When I make plans to meet someone "at 10AM Central time on Friday", I don't mean "let's meet at UTC epoch 1489762800". I mean "let's meet when the clock says 10:00". If the government suddenly decided to cancel daylight saving time on Thursday, then our meeting would still happen at 10:00 on Friday, even though in absolute (UTC) terms it would be an hour earlier.

A calendar appointment isn't identified by a UTC instant; it's identified by a predicate.
When I was staying at a mountain motel in the middle of Sichuan, the power went out. Turns out, they only had power from a stream of water, and the pipe feeding the turbine was blocked. It was all very haphazard, but it worked!
So it's a Muslim ban, because the majority of potential immigrants from the targeted countries are Muslim.

But you have to admit that it got quite outrageous once they started removing LPRs and dual-citizens of foreign countries from inbound flights.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13861124
Yabbut if you're taking out a 30 year mortgage, you're not just going to look at current oil prices. The media are full of stories about the end of oil and looming price increases.
Postgres has messaging service inside, did you consider to use it?
https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b...

Summary: Fill your script with an invisible payload that fills any buffers, and put something time consuming (say `sleep 5`) early in your script in order to detect that the script is being executed directly rather than just stored to disk. If the client halts before having read all data, it is likely a `curl | bash` scenario. If it just keeps reading, it's a regular browser just downloading.
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The Mossad has assassinated Iranian physicists. Has the Mossad ever assassinated supporters of BDS?
Certifying is a form of endorsement.

Then, let me paste a claim from "Scrum Alliance", one of the top institutions granting these McCertifications:

"A Certified ScrumMaster® helps project teams properly use Scrum, increasing the likelihood of the project's overall success. CSMs understand Scrum values, practices, and applications and provide a level of knowledge and expertise above and beyond that of typical project managers."

How are you supposed to be "above and beyond" a project manager if the certification itself:

- Has no training requirement

- Has no experience requirement

- Requires 16 hours, a ~30 question test over the Internet with a 66% passing score.

As a result, you have someone who is supposedly capable of balancing a software engineering team requirements with stakeholders... after sixteen hours...

Scrum has nice values but in practice, it is a get rich quick ponzi scheme. It is a telephone game that after person #100 is completely distorted from its original meaning.
This article is protesting the idea of further limiting H1-B visas. Presumably most if not all H1-B recipients are "useful". The problem is that there is a massive amount of H1-B abuse, mostly on the part of the employers bringing them over here. Large, cut-rate contractors such as Infosys have abused the system to profit at the expense of Americans and highly qualified legal immigrants alike. Evidence of abuse is everywhere. Here are just a few examples:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3004501/h1b/proof-that-h-1b...

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/top-10-companies-request-visa...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/11/us/large-companies-game-h...

Legislation is needed to reform the system. I would be in favor of expanding the program if the widely abused loopholes were taken out.
I think watching a cursor and text dance across the screen that isn't me typing would be hyper distracting for my self.

"{..} and less like the chore of reviewing pull requests."

I would much rather review completed chunks of work than watch another developer trial and error through a days worth of work while I'm also typing away.

Don't get me wrong - it is very neat idea - just definitely not for me.
If merely hosting a headline & link like this is problematic, you must also have an issue walking by news stands, visiting bookstores, or watching CNN. It sounds exhausting.
Uber is too big to fail really
Your comments in this thread are repetitive and totally devoid of content. The one above is a non sequitur that is unnecessarily aggressive.

I think it is you not paying attention if you haven't noticed yet that Democrats and Republicans are nearly the same and equally blunderous and corrupted. They both support war, surveillance, mass incarceration, mass deportation, drug prohibition, and more. Barack Obama was a terrible president, so much so that I'm not sure even Trump will do worse. At least Trump seems to attract more scrutiny.
I wonder how React fiber will stack up against preact. Both in performance in areas like animation and in more "regular" workloads.
The difference is that you were an employee of the store. Uber drivers are supposedly free agents.
Speaking of emotional arguments, we're not all doomed.

Again, a lot of those public services are paid for through taxes immigrants do pay into, like property taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes, registration fees, and even income taxes. And again, their children are Americans by birthright so public education is an investment in Americans.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/oct/02/...

http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2013/pdf/sr133.pdf

We can argue resource allocation, entitlement programs but considering China has 1 billion more people with a land mass not much larger than ours, we're certainly not running out of space.

And if you gave them a pathway to amnesty it would be much easier to allocate entitlement programs and have common sense taxation.
Their "taxi" business model was completely unsustainable. A moonshot was/is the only thing that'd save them. That's why they did this (the self-driving part we know for sure, and the alleged stuff, if proven).
> Thinking that listening to a radio program is exactly the same or better as a college course is the kind of thing you hear from people that haven't actually gone to college.

I've gone to college I agree with the GP that most gen. ed. college courses are mostly useless. Just the way they're structured usually means you never get a good picture of what you're learning and why. Instead, you usually learn to do a bunch of exercises, with little context about what the point of the exercises are.
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Yes exactly. I'd rather the entity doing the leading not be the government, but I do not know what other entity could. For purely digital resources you could use a blockchain. But digital resources tend not to be scarce.
>> if Bannon and Miller were removed, Trumps policies are not that much different from any other boilerplate republican.

First and foremost thing that is apparent about Trump's administration is the anti-globalist "america first" approach. It's not just the rhetoric either - he's acting on his promises of bringing american jobs back, addressing the trade deficit disparities, cutting down on the debt (US debt is down by almost 70 billion in the last 2 months) and so on.

This sets him apart not only from the Dems but also from the mainstream and rhino GOP which is why they publicly denounce him.
Unfortunate that a credit card has to be provided for a "free" trial
Sure, I started to read about economy, and I think I have now a good understanding about how the system works. That changed my mind.

It's my believe now that my country just give away a very important part of their sovereignty (maybe the most important) to entities that have not our best interest in mind. I would not be against the Euro if I though that the people in charge is on my side.

As an example (even if I'm not greek), we have seen the ECB just closing the Greece bank system when they are supposed to protect it.

For anyone interested, there are some discussion now about the legality of that movement:
https://diem25.org/thegreekfiles/
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I am curious how you would define "spying" though.

- Should NGA not use imaging satellites to keep track of national disasters and environmental issues?

- Should NGA not use imaging satellites for nuclear non-proliferation monitoring?

- Should DoD not have digital sensors at the egress points of their networks to gather information on attacks by foreign actors?

- Should NSA not monitor the communications of foreign adversaries to determine their intentions on the battlefield?

- Should NSA not investigate adversarial nations launching attacks and information-gathering operations against DoD infrastructure as well as US private industry?

- Should our military intelligence branches not monitor weapons development of adversarial nations (using ELINT measurements, imaging satellites, along with other forms of intelligence gathering to determine their offensive/defensive capabilities)

- Should we not use SIGINT sensors and capabilities to detect an incoming attack on the USA or an ally?

- I can add a whole lot more to this list if interested.

The act of "spying" is far more than just SIGINT collection and processing of internet data. Can you elaborate on what you specifically take issue with? Do you take issue with all intelligence collection as a whole, or specifically SIGINT collection, or more specifically SIGINT collection of internet data or phone records? I am curious and like to keep an open mind about these things, so am being genuine when I ask this.
This usually means the government will bail you out if you do fail...

Can you define your usage here?
Can't argue with that! Winter is always coming...
I'll be really interested in seeing what happens if Uber can't recover from the burn rate and make a sustainable business without self driving.

I can see in the best possible scenario we end up with more cities like Austin, Texas that have their own nonprofit ride sharing app. I actually have huge respect for what Austin did in banning Uber and Lyft and making their own app (Ride Austin) that isn't designed to make investors and owners rich, instead just benefit drivers and riders.
Pretty much the same way you could do it with any other manufacturing/industrial process.

Imagine re-creating a fairly large complex project without access to any source control, build systems, or bug reports. It'd be easier than starting from scratch, but not much - especially for hardware, all the tradeoffs and manufacturing tricks you had to investigate and implement your devices would have to be recreated.

Your end result would probably look similar, but the way you get there would be different. Just like the wings on an insect are different from the wings of a bird.
"building the wall" is racism....

regardless, the problem is if you are perceived as not wanting immigrants, the most skilled ones will go elsewhere, because they can.
They're not. Every major car company plus competitors are focusing on self-driving cars. Why pay a human what a machine can do for cheaper? Uber's future depends on being first with self driving cars.

Being a good taxi company in the 21st century will mean good at self-driving cars.
we should all use:
utc
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one can dream.
I am not trying to make a political stance here. I don't disagree that the media is controlled by be an elite minority.

I was simply pointing out that the rhetoric you just spewed is meaningless in this context and contributed nothing of substance to the conversation.

I suppose I am at fault here as well. I shouldn't have given such a useless comment the dignity and value provided by a response.
Let's just hope God doesn't patent any of it all.
(Isn't everything in our life "for now", given a sufficiently long now?)

What kind of hostile commercial interest there might be, especially when the technology is protected by open-source licenses?

If there were a non-hostile commercial interest, akin to Citus in Postgres, won't it be a win for all?
I can anecdotally confirm this to be true in my experience as well.
Not related - but I do find it ironic that google is up in arms about stolen tech given Steve Jobs' vendetta against google over stolen smart phone ideas. And yes I realize that the gravity of the situation here is different but it's still an amusing thought - not sure why everyone is so offended by this comment.

Regarding the lawsuit - I've learned that we have no clue what is going on behind the scenes, so why stress over it. For all I know this is a power play by google or some evil scheme by Uber. Let's just wait and see how it plays out.