skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nitpick: Pixel has 3 years of security updates, and 2 years of Android OS updates.
>until a major company gets burned and the FBI gets involved.

Or until consumers start to become unsure enough about whether they are getting legit goods on Amazon that they become wary of shopping there.

>they don't understand that's a serious crime.

Oh, they understand this well. They are a multi-billion dollar company with teams of lawyers.

But, as long as they can get away with a passive response--like processing refunds when requested--without taking too much of a reputational or legal hit, they will continue to do so. Effectively, it's cheaper to outsource the policing to customers vs. trying to vet vendors at scale.
You're just arguing to argue. I didn't see any cognitive dissonance created in his comment.
Part of the reason is that rejected candidates tend to ask why they were rejected, which is a massive time sink. The logic goes that it's better to black hole than it is to be inundated with requests for reasons.
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This is an amazing article. Writings about slave holders all seem to fall into two sorts. One defends them and says they are the finest of people, and the very foundation of civilization. The other sort says they are evil through and through.

This article instead gets at the actual reality of their psychology, which turns out to be a lot more complicated.

Let me add one point, which is that slavery seems to largely be a function of economics and the level of technology of a society. In nomadic foraging societies, from what I have read, slavery is unknown because it is impractical and has no economic value.

But with agriculture slavery becomes possible and can produce great wealth and many other sorts of value, and so it becomes wide-spread. But then with industrialization it again becomes uneconomic, and so is abolished. What the article describes quite clearly is a country moving from a largely agrarian economy to an industrial one, and how slavery is being slowly eliminated in the process.
Fifty years ago potential competitors had their cities bombed to ash from the air.
Or on the flip side. Data caps will make people care about how much data their site uses. Cause customers will stop using data heavy sites as they have economic insentive not to.

Making the web all around faster as no more 10MiB webpages, and making the industry move back to server side rendering.
Edge's only practical purpose is to download Chrome or Firefox, and I hope it stays that way.

MS made it very painful for website developers to support Internet Explorer, and having to support IE crippled the web for years.

Today there is not a single developer that likes Internet Explorer or its successor Edge. You will not see a single human being on planet Earth with an Edge t-shirt, and if you see one, it's probably that person's laundry day.

The e logo only brings memories of your computer freezing or getting millions of stupid popups or a browser window with hundreds of toolbars (when you used someone else's computer), and conversations asking people to try another browser, or having to switch my user-agent string or create a VM with the sole purpose of running an IE only website, or having to stay late at work because some user with IE experienced problems.

Plus, Microsoft is dishonest and used their browser to mine Google Search activity and send it to their servers to improve Bing. And god knows what else.

Microsoft is selfish, plays dirty and does not deserve a seat at the table of people deciding web standards. They can make Chakra 100x faster, make you a sandwich and jump through hoops but nobody trusts them anymore so it doesn't matter.

We all lived a decade under the tyranny of Internet Explorer and we had enough. If there is a product that deserves to go away, it's Microsoft's web browser. The day it does I am going to throw away a party, and I am sure many others will as well. Please give up, use your time on something else.
Visual studio and 3D point cloud data being used
When I saw the page being slow to load and the video repeatedly trying to play, refresh, play, try to play a different way (trying unsuccessfully to circumvent my autoplay blocker), I just disabled javascript. Page loads instantly and the content is right there with no visual clutter.
> Anyone here on an Android phone ever been hacked?

You must be new, but here's some resources I suggest you review before you go on a crusade in future Apple articles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagefright_(bug)

https://arstechnica.com/security/2016/06/godless-apps-some-f...

https://arstechnica.com/security/2016/10/android-phones-root...

http://blog.elevenpaths.com/2016/07/another-month-another-ne...

Also, keep your bait to other sites like reddit, we don't stand for it here on HN.
I'm not presuming anything. writing came from Egypt, likely mathematics too, and where do you think the greeks get their knowledge from? Egypt. Obviously, they were creative in their own right, but that doesn't change the fact of where this stuff originated.
So let's make a list of all of the things that have a group of passionate enthusiasts who are certain it's the next big thing. I can only think of two things:

* Bitcoin

* Self driving vehicles
There's nothing wrong with disclosing a security bug immediately.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:tptacek%20responsible%2...
Why I’m not enabling Bitcode (2015)
Facebook "black holed" me after two phone interviews. Had to email them them a couple weeks later to see what was up. Never seen that before.

Edit: I guess "black holed" isn't the right term since I did get an interview but you know what I mean
Especially with Taleo-based sites. It's either auto-rejection or black hole. Has Taleo been successful for anyone?
This isn't what you want to hear, but protecting desktop software from piracy isn't something you can bolt on at the end of a project.

If everything lives on the user's machine, there is no technology that can stop it from being pirated. That's why SaaS software exists and why just about every software company of any significance founded since 1995 (the dawn of the web and the dawn of ubiquitous piracy) is either a SaaS model, advertising model, or open-source-plus-support-or-hosting model.
It does. But will it continue to do so in the long run or are they burning their brand to the ground?
Indiana's inmates could soon have access to tablets
I have almost 10 years of experience and I've been looking for a job for the last year. I've sent applications to some companies, carefully selected and for which I'm 100% enthusiast about. I've sent custom cover letters, I've been studied the product and provided feedback and improvements. And still I don't deserve even an email saying that I've been rejected.

With some companies I was exchanging email, providing all the info, and then suddenly I never received any further reply.

I think that it's good for the company to filter out candidates, but something must change, as candidates we expect at least a rejection email, especially when your life depends on it.
"total data transferred: X MB ($y.zz)" should be part of a browsers standard status bar.
The productivity paradox – Medium
The worst is when you have to fill out countless repetitive and exhaustive applications for ONE job because they don't have enough a proper interface to indeed/LinkedIn/etc

I probably spent 7 hours on application paperwork for my current job. Complete with detailed personal history that had to be 100% accurate going back 10 years.

I had 3 other offers expire before I got my offer from my current employer. Then once I accepted it was another month before I knew if I passed the background checks. That wanted me to start a few days after I finally knew without giving proper notice to my current employer too!

Thankfully this only had one 3 hour casual interview and it was more a waiting game than endless hours poured into interviews for a job I might not get. I knew this would be a better choice than the other offers and I'm glad I did what I did.
Yes (dunno why all the downvotes) but Apple went even further than the walled garden would require. They could have easily left an Apple backdoor. But they encrypt the protocol going over wires to/from the Enclave. They go insanely far rather than sufficiently far.

Yeah, nation state level attacks will still work, especially if they have the phone. But with Android it's not nation state level. It's corporate level and maybe less if they have the phone.
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Or Firefox/$free_software_browser with uBlock Origin + uMatrix, or NoScript.
I resisted using an ad blocker for many years; I kinda felt like if I wanted to use a site, I should be willing to trade for seeing their ads. I've changed my tune a couple of years ago, and this is a (small) part of the reason (but a bigger part of it now that I know how crazy usage for ads has gotten).

I'm on mobile data nearly 100% of the time most months. 14GB costs me $50-$70 (depending on which network I'm on, I have two) to download ("unlimited" plans actually aren't, when used as a hotspot, though T-Mobile now seems to actually have a mostly unlimited hotspot option, I haven't tried it yet). So, not only are ads intrusive, disrespectful of privacy, and generally of negative utility for me as a user...they're also ridiculously costly.

So, yeah, I use an ad blocker. Oddly, I tried disabling it earlier today for an LA Times article (because of their blocker blocker), but it didn't correctly detect that I'd disabled it, so I closed it and went elsewhere. Now I know I should never disable ad block for LA Times, no matter how interesting the story seems.
cppreference.com usually has [c++XYZ] marks on features introduced by a specific version of C++ and it is usually current with updates while having some basic examples for most things. The site doesn't have a comprehensive list of all the features introduced in the specific version of C++, but which ever feature is interesting to you should be easy to find there.
This is the finest account of the resume/employer process I have ever laid eyes on.
all of the other great profile 'stories':
https://storyengine.io/category/stories/
Is it even useful for gameplay to have a low-angle perspective as shown in the screenshot? It seems more useful to have the usual Civ perspective, mostly from the top, and isometric.
You're partially right, depending on laws around allocation schools in rich neighborhoods may not get more money. But they often do, and by a lot.

There are also differences at the neighborhood level. We see that in California quite a bit.

> A yawning gulf separates even school districts serving students from similar demographic backgrounds. For example, in 2009-10, the latest data available, per-pupil revenue was $14,076 in Palo Alto versus $7,679 in Milpitas, both unified districts serving K-12 students. But clearly, affluence counts: In San Mateo County, the Woodside elementary district took in $18,894 per student, while Millbrae elementary got $7,362 per student. [1]

The latter example is a 2.5x difference in funding, within the same county. This is in part due to some local support in Woodside [2] but its more than just that. The gaps are huge.

I disagree about not equalizing gaps, because there's one scarce resource here that isn't even discussed: quality teachers. By default, quality teachers are more likely to want to work in nicer communities, and we don't need to compound that by offering to pay them less (sometimes far less) to work in underprivileged schools.

Meanwhile, giving undereducated kids money instead of education is a great way to fulfill the old adage 'a fool and their money are soon parted'.

[1] http://www.mercurynews.com/2012/02/26/some-california-school...

[2] http://www.almanacnews.com/news/2015/12/01/woodside-elementa...
You're rewarding them for "the best political coverage in California".

Also if the article is paywalled, why would anyone keep it open and let ads play? Either buy the subscription or leave (or try to bypass the paywall some other way).
I've always wondered something: Does Taleo compare your resume across ALL of its sites? Like if you submit a resume for Company A, but you also sent one for Company B, and both use Taleo, does the software say "This applicant applied elsewhere and here's what they said that was different" ? I've never received a response from a Taleo system.
The sound of SID: 35 years of chiptune’s influence on electronic music
most places don't even seem to ask for/call references these days. they're hardly going to conduct a westlaw search to see if you've been involved in litigation.

if you specifically try to get a job with the golf buddy of someone you sued, maybe you'll run into an issue, but there's an elevated likelihood that they're the same brand of asshole you had to sue.
What if it crashes the browser!
The only questions an interviewer can ask is how to build a graph and do graph operation(to test data structure skill). Graph Theory is too specific and many programmers never use any graph algorithms in their life.

You can always ask these questions to reject a candidate because you don't like his body odor.
> if the rationale behind H1B program is designed to supplant a shortage in actual labor skills,

The intent of the law was to supplant shortages in labor skills, and that's the way the law is being used by most large "reputable" companies, not body shops.

I think you'd find it difficult to argue that when one of the big 5 brings somebody over on a H1b, it doesn't tend to depress the wages of engineers, as they usually only hire and recruit a highly selective (not necessarily talented) subset of engineers and compensate them extremely well.

The way the law is written allows a lot of consulting companies to game the system by bringing marginally talented labor to drive down the wages for skills that already exist in this country.

As an aside, this sort of argument against some H1-B seekers is a form of rent-seeking. You're trying to extract value from something that you inherited, e.g. your citizenship and your ability to legally work in this country, vs something you're able to do uniquely well.
I develop software used by newspapers. This is a problem with the whole industry. It's amazing how much crap they load.

These sites all use a third party "tag manager" (Google Tag Manager, Tealium, Piwik etc.) to manage the scripts they load: ads, analytics, trackers etc. The people who use the tag manager typically aren't techies, so they don't understand that adding another tag will cause the page to slow down. Typically I've seen a single newspaper use 3-4 different vendors for the exact same thing, such as analytics. They don't actually use all of them; who knows why they have multiple overlapping ones.

Scripts are often badly written, and it's common to see lots of nonsensical errors spewed to the console. It's very annoying to debug your own stuff when you have that crap loaded, which typically comes from a header/footer combo provided by the customer.
Why I use the Android app TextBrowser
Do they offer an RSS feed? Does adding the article to Pocket or a similar service work?
A clearly automatic rejection with some corporative language is not particularly nice or warm, but fulfills the role of notifying the rejection without any room for this time sinking demand.
More recent ARM chips (A9+) come bundled with ARM TrustZone[1]. In a nutshell, the processor has two (hardware) isolated execution environments each running a different OS and different software. By default, the secure environment of TrustZone runs an L4 kernel (edit: this is incorrect, see reply below).

Could it be the case that Apple is leveraging TrustZone but with a customized L4 kernel? Or is it confirmed that the Secure Enclave is a custom IC designed by Apple? I wouldn't be surprised if it's the former as it becomes much cheaper to implement the required security features.

Edit: Check out this previous discussion on this exact topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8410700

[1]: https://www.arm.com/products/security-on-arm/trustzone
Anyone who knows how to use a smartphone properly simply won't have security problems to deal with.

What difference does any of this make with iOS when we all know the US Gov't can simply access backdoors whenever they please? Don't fall for this security meme.

What does any of this matter when iCloud is a hacker's dream??

And I didn't ask if HN readers' phones CAN be hacked, I simply asked if they WERE asked. F off Elitist troll.
Hi I'm the author. I did the naive extrapolation. 5 * 2 * 1440 = 14,400. Perhaps this number is not entirely accurate. The fact it is any larger than, say, 10 is the problem.
> but being an ass by voicing your opinions alone should not be criminalized.

That's a great summary.
It could also be an indicator of the parents inability to discern what is best for the child. It can be a tough call but it should be a decision based on the characteristics of the child. I would never fault any reasonable parent on the choice. Statistics and all, it's 20/20 hindsight.
I'm in the same boat. I always used ff even though it's slower. it's better. Last month I ran ff and chrome both clean for 3 days. chrome was faster so I switched to it for two weeks. It's running ok, but I hate it. I hated it before, and I guess that didn't change all these years and this past month. It doesn't even have an option or a way for an addon to remove the x button from the tabs. I hate the way the chrome devs build chrome. It feels like tech-wise chrome runs better. But I will switch back to ff again end of the month. I gave chrome a good try. I am willing to wait 1 second longer every time I visit a website, every day. That's a lot. but at least it will work like I want it. And if it crashes, then I can just restore everything with one click. Unlike chrome that still crashes but I need to two clicks per window to restore everything..
New book 'Hit Makers' hits all the right notes
"Their ad blocker blocker and paywall works, preventing me from reading articles."

Well, Adblocker in Chrome seems to be blocking the ads on the page quite well. Some single requests are being logged after the page loads, but nothing as to what the article mentions.
I'd like to a see, or at least think about, a system in which everyone pays for egress and no one pays for ingress. That way the LA Times is welcome to throw as much crap as they want at you without charging you much. (One issue is that egresss is involved in every request. Some UI work would be needed to make this work well.)

Universal egress fees would go a long way to mitigating DDoS, too.
Then how would they know when to credit a seller for a sale? I believe the seller doesn't receive the money until someone actually buys it.
A counterfeit Horowitz and Hill? Is nothing sacred?

But srsly, I was just eyeing the new third edition. Thanks for the warning!
As a counter example, I got a great job from one of those black holes.
Machine learning on random data won't get you anything.

And is machine learning fast enough for live network filters?
They hired a Police recruiter.
>Universal egress fees would go a long way to mitigating DDoS, too.

How? By charging the owners of infected machines?
I think there's an elephant in the room, at least for many of us who are over 40:

We are in some ways less intelligent than we were 10 years earlier. We sometimes process complex problems a little more slowly, the maximum complexity of our mental models is a little lower, and we can sometimes learn more slowly.

We pray that our greater experience and wisdom compensate for that. For some of us it does, for others not so much.

Perhaps many hiring companies do reject us 40+ workers for the wrong reasons. But in some cases, perhaps their reasons are illegal but correct.
We have a system based on hbase with similar volume, with my elasticsearch experience, I cannot really see it replace hbase at these volumes. Also, Kafka is not a replacement, but complementary. The only other mature onprem store I can think of is Cassandra. There are other kids on the block, aerospike, cockroach db etc, with different guarantee semantics.

I do agree hbase is a monster to manage. When it works though, there aren't many systems which can mach it's insert/scan capabilities T scale.
It's not easy to discover how much data usage a specific site triggers. Android reports data usage per app, if you dig into the right preference panel, but that's not going to tell you anything about specific websites.

I'd like a notification to pop up when the current usage (within, say, a 3 minute window) exceeds my typical usage. That'd make it easier to notice a website started autoplaying a (muted) video, for instance. It's also something that could be done at the operating system level. The operating system could also conceivably show traffic by domain, but that's not ideal; you want traffic by referrer domain, ie. if the LA Times embeds megabytes of images from some random third party server, those should be aggregated under latimes.com and not under some meaningless CDN domain. But the OS probably doesn't have that information.

Of course browser vendors could add more detailed reporting. Say a brief in-browser notification ("Page finished downloading 5 MB.") after initial load is complete and repeating if excessive downloading continues. I guess that could annoying really fast, though. A less annoying alternative would be a special page (e.g. "about:data-usage") that has an overview per page in a user-selectable time range. Maybe link to it from the browser start page.
Are any of those really dark patterns? Annoying and shitty... sure. None of the above are meant to trick you, they're just a nuisance.
Singapore's philosophy of governance is the same as the PRC's, just with velvet gloves on. People look the other way because they've been able to keep the standard of living up, but if there's ever a sustained economic downtown and loud discontent with the PAP, the fiction will be disposed of quickly and we'll find out how much of a democracy it really is.
Wife and I were both home-schooled, as were significant chunks of our social groups.

Not saying it never makes sense, but I will do a LOT to avoid that being the best option for my kids.
Yea I do that too.. Now I have more than 1000 bookmarks. :(
> ... just tell me I didn't get the job already and cut out all the flowery soup.

Amen to that. Recently I submitted five applications and four of them ended up as duds. What really annoys me is that I had to chase the recruiters to find out for myself that either the job is too senior or they forgot to take down the advert. The best one so far is when a recruiter claimed they never received my application when I got a confirmation email earlier.

Please guys, don't be lazy! Don't play games! Don't make me look desperate, geez.
While I agree with your assessment, one could argue that the restriction of hateful or disparaging speech creates incorrect and harmful stereotypes that can lead to harm, whether it be in the form of street violence or democratic demagoguery.

And one could then extrapolate that such permissiveness in speech, even if it directly or indirectly leads to harm, could spill over into damage and instability to society as a whole, particularly to those who were neither a part of the class of those using hateful speech, nor those who were on the receiving end.

To me, it appears to be a reasonable tradeoff. Such like how in America the second amendment permits private firearm ownership, but federal law justifiably bans private ownership of automatic weapons, military grade explosives, and so on.