skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like many others here, I'm not a lawyer, so don't take this as qualified legal advice.

But yes, I totally agree here. I once lost out on a great opportunity because I was stubborn about signing an NDA that probably would have had zero effect on my future work. In reality, it's usually a formality that companies make you sign to protect themselves. Or maybe because their investors demand it. But most companies aren't looking to sue you and most people signing NDAs aren't looking to screw over the companies they do work for. But yes, occasionally companies do come across someone who is up to no good (e.g. an unscrupulous consultant who also does work for a competitor) and in those rare cases they want the NDAs there to protect themselves.
dirty bombs are totally ineffectual at anything beyond freaking people out per multiple studies. [1] the US wouldnt invade canada because canada is already essentially a client state that rarely doesn't bow to the US, and there is practically no added value in invading compared to the current arrangement. 90% of canada lives within 50 miles of the US border for a reason, and it aint just the weather. whoever told you this has no idea what they're talking about.

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/f...
It's not obvious that land was valuable enough to fight a genocidal war over. I mean Germany has a bigger population today than it did then.

But Hitler wanted a genocidal war, so he had to come up with some reasons to bolster the case.
Trump has repeatedly promoted using nuclear weapons against adversaries without any nuclear deterrent [0] and refers to people he doesn't like as animals [1]. What do you call that? Sounds like the pretext for genocide to me.

[0] https://thinkprogress.org/9-terrifying-things-donald-trump-h...
[1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78778261363320832...
Then don't buy their cars and their stock. The people who do obviously have a very different worldview than yours.
The analogy helped me understand things a bit, but I have a question coming from what I think is an oversimplification in the explanation of Thompson's Trusting Trust concept.

In the Trusting Trust attack, not only you change the compiler to miscompile the "login" program, but you change the compiler to miscompile the compiler itself so the "login" miscompilation persists even if you later revert all changes to the compiler source (as long as you use the new binary once, of course). Does this part of the attack have a gene drive analogy?
Re. Gene drives, the article points out (and links to [1]) a major issue, but doesn't quite give the full story on that issue. Resistance to gene drives will arise, and isn't even that difficult to have happen.

Key point:

One source of this resistance is the CRISPR system itself, which uses an enzyme to cut a specific DNA sequence and insert whatever genetic code a researcher wants. Occasionally, however, cells sew the incision back together after adding or deleting random DNA letters. This can result in a sequence that the CRISPR gene-drive system no longer recognizes, halting the spread of the modified code.

CRISPR/Cas9 is a nuclease, it cuts DNA. It does not stitch it back together, the cell does that afterwards. Sometimes that goes smoothly, other times it doesn't, but one thing that happens frequently when you cut DNA is mutation. It's why radiation exposure is bad, DNA breaks cause mutations. If mutations yield immunity, then something that depends on mutations NOT happening to keep operating, but itself CAUSES mutation, is unlikely to function for very long.

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/gene-drives-thwarted-by-emergence...
You can bury things just as easily in a stack of single page sized letters.
>Why wouldn't they?

Because it causes friction, it's a distraction for management, and there is a danger that some of those rebel handset makers could have some success or get poached by Microsoft/Bing even if they fail at creating an alternative OS.

There is risk without much upside for Google compared to the gradual approach they are taking now.
If your definition of trivially easy is hiring a lawyer and waiting months or longer for a trial all while having a hard/impossible time to hold a job. You'd still have no guarantee of winning either.
> It would be borderline unprofessional

This is absolutely not correct at all and is complete propaganda that severely damages our profession. As advice it is totally unprofessional. It is so extremist that one must advise not to listen to anything tptacek has to say.
On the Windows 10 performance, I did a single test and found something mildly interesting.

I tested in Notepad and have the "Hide pointer while typing" setting enabled, and found the first thing that happens on screen is the pointing becoming hidden. That happens after 50 ms. The character shows up in Notepad 16.7 ms later.

This was measured with a 120 FPS camera and an old 60 Hz monitor.
Target market would not be folks already massively invested in these stocks. Target market would be student loan debtors who have comfortable jobs and salaries north of 50k.

Apps like Robinhood have opened the ability for folks earning even less than 50k , to comfortably invest.

Many tens of thousands may be interested; there could be a bigger market opportunity than you think.
It's pretty sad that my email address is a better unique identifier than most of the values the government tries to use.

I suppose it's an incentives thing - if I give different emails for different events, that's a problem for the government. If they have multiple people 'assigned' to my name and birthdate, that's my problem. But it's still damned sad that they're using an identifier which isn't even close to unique for topics this important.
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It's not a generic claim at all, and not surprising a town like Portland has a number of Teslas.

Tesla ships nowhere near as many cars as Ford. Doesn't matter what you may see locally or what "blends in", but there is nothing generic about the number of cars Tesla produces (which is very small compared to Ford, and other major Auto companies). Tesla has nowhere near the level of business as the other major auto companies.

As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, there is nothing generic about:

"Tesla sold 40,697 vehicles in the U.S. last year, according to researcher IHS Markit. Ford sells that many F-Series trucks in the U.S. about every three weeks"

Ford sells that many trucks every three weeks. Every three weeks, versus an entire year for Tesla.

Maybe the Model 3 will change that, but I do not have high hopes with how thinly spread Elon is.
Walked. Apparently their idea wasn't worth $10k. Or they probably didn't think their idea was worth paying 2x hourly rate on top of the deposit.

NDA's and Non-Competes both change my requirements.

Without them my rates are $150/hr with 40 hours pre-paid upfront to discuss the project. When we move forward those 40 hours are credited to them.

If non-compete/NDA is involved, my rate goes to $300/hr with non-refundable $10,000 deposit that does not translate to credits.
I can't help but think that there's an insidiousness behind the push to treat banking as if it's some a life fundamental.

Banks are surely convenient, but they come with tradeoffs. It's plausible that some people choose to be "unbanked" or "underbanked" because they don't like the risk profile attached to banking, and sometimes that's a totally rational decision.

If you don't have a bank account, you don't have to worry about the bank inventing new fees to assess. Last time I opened a bank account, it came with a list of conditions and said 2 out of 3 of these MUST be met each month to avoid account maintenance fees. They're things like "Use your bank debit card at least 10 times this month" and "Maintain an average daily minimum balance of $x".

Fret not, however, for the bank distributes a small chart that can be used to help you ensure that you are complying with their demands, and thus can avoid punishment both for not spending enough money in a way they like and also for not having enough money on deposit. If you don't spend and/or have enough, you are getting dinged each month with a non-trivial fee.

Without a bank account, you also don't have to worry about information security, bank policies or hiccups impeding your access to your money, federal anti-money laundering regulations that require depositors to justify "large" cash withdrawals, state-imposed garnishments and/or levies ripping your money out from under you, and so on.

So again, I have a bank account and I appreciate the convenience of banking. But I think some people choose to forgo banking rationally, and that it's not something that should be treated as a social ill.

The only real potential issue around this is the regulations that the government put into place after 9/11, which may or may not be blocking some legitimate people from being legally allowed to open a bank account. Otherwise, I think it's silly to treat this like it's some big unjustice rather than a personal choice or an issue with super crappy banks ripping off depositors (which, again, hurts the poor the most; if you have $20k in your bank account, a $30 fee is an annoyance; if you have 20 bucks in your bank account, a $30 fee is now a cascade of $30 fees, and you end up owing the bank $250).
Why I will not exercise my GitLab stock options
and it's clear that the trump administration is going to take a whole new slant on this work visa thing...just like he said he would....
The value of a business is what someone would be willing to pay for control over it, or its market cap (value of all shares). This is typically disconnected from its DCF which is a modelled value based on expected future returns.

Enterprise value is also market cap + net debt, not its cumulative present value DCFs.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/enterprisevalue.asp
"The mind sees all logical relations of being with an apparant subtlety and instantaniety to which its normal consciousness offers no parallel." I'll have what he's having.
You are right, they are just being completely self interested and it would all just work out happily if only they would just beat people over the head repeatedly. That has worked out so great in the past for them and others, and would not result in Android being abandoned wholesale for something worse inside of two years.

If only they had thought of this. Oh, that's right, I forgot, it's not that this is much more nuanced and complex ecosystem interplay, it's that it's very black and white and they uniformly don't give a crap.
> I've heard it colloquially, but I highly doubt anyone was scanning IP address ranges so often that you could be passively attacked on the internet without any interaction by two minutes in.

I witnessed this myself back in the day. I was probably about 14 at the time, had just freshly reinstalled a machine, installed AV (from a CD, hah.) and connected it to the internet for the first time via PPPoE DSL. Within minutes I had AV popups from having been hit by Blaster before I could even update Windows. In that day, few people had routers or WiFi, many, my family included just had a single machine connected to a modem directly and so had no NAT.

It was never individual attackers - it was worms running on other systems that had reached critical mass and were just hitting random IPs on the internet with the exploit in an attempt to infect more systems.

You're extremely unlikely to see something this bad with a modern OS - most of the time you're behind a NAT, provided by your router or your mobile provider which effectively blocks inbound connections. There's also exploit mitigations like NX and ASLR which are pretty much how the Stagefright bug didn't turn into a nice new MMS worm - it just sounded scary, but over a year later we've not seen any major attacks from it.

If you plug directly into the internet or DMZ your machine, you'll still see this type of stuff. I've heard it called "internet background radiation" - old worms out scanning for possible targets to this day.
Near as I can tell, the number one way people stereotype the other side is by saying those people stereotype us all the time. Everyone knows that the country is too divided--and we all know the people responsible for that division are those motherfuckers on the other side!

(Not to say that there's total equivalency between positions, I do actually think one is much less empathetic than the other and centrism isn't automatically smart, but it's been interesting to notice.)
x86 is still ahead in terms of compute power per watt in the server space... though doesn't have much that goes as low power as ARM can. I see ARM taking over more personal devices, as it has.
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No dealerships isn't an innovation.

I do find it ironic that those that complain about Uber "violating the law" when it comes to taxi services seem to have no problem not complaining when Tesla attempts to subvert many state laws against direct-sales. For the record, I think Uber should challenge ridiculous anti-competitive regulations just as Tesla should challenge ridiculous anti-competitive regulations.

But you can't cheer Tesla fighting the law while condemning Uber for doing the same and stay intellectually consistent.

Dealership laws were passed ostensibly to 'protect the consumer' just as taxi regulations were passed for the same reason. In reality, both types of laws don't protect anyone -- except industry incumbents.
Or they're counting on other people thinking the same thing and running off w/ their money at just the right time before the ship sinks.
For one, you're excluding all the people who've only done work that they can't bring in.
> The bidding may go high, but it will only go as high as how much it would cost to hire an American instead.

If someone made a "tech H-1B" bucket that would work, because the training lag is short(er).

Speciality professions have a long lag before policy changes circle back to results - H-1B's wide reach covers anesthesiologists and radiologists too.

The immediate effect of forcing a price war is that you get folks who are at the end of their careers instead of folks in the middle of their careers.

The way this plays out is that the mid-career gets starved - because you get experts even if you don't nurture the 45 year old into being one.

And you end up with a 55 year old expert working with a 28 year old who's on the verge of going back to do some more research, fully knowing that there aren't any 40 year olds who will stick around there to pass their chair to in a few years.

Money isn't time ... and this is one case, where the supply-side needs to be worked on, not the demand surge.
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While I agree that it's not correct and damaging, this part is foolish to say...

> It is so extremist that one must advise not to listen to anything tptacek has to say.
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I'm aware it's not GAAP. They're showing they can deliver with models x and s. They didn't even have to get to model 3 for me to be up 60% (in four months).

I was a little concerned that they missed 2016, but the stock actually went up that day; most thought they would miss by more.
Not OP, but also in software consulting.
Working with software means in most cases working with customer data, which is sensible by nature (either because it contains some kind of knowledge or employee details).
Many people mentioning countries like India and Indonesia here, but even in Germany (and specifically Berlin) Cash is very much King. Even for larger purchases. It's one of surprising things for many people visiting.
New immigration policy could increase scrutiny of visas for computer programmers
A Modest Proposal: Let's just all agree to have totally unique names. A simple way to do this would be to append a UUID to our surnames. That way we don't have to create new fields, any system that supports at least 2 names will continue to work. Socially we can "drop the UUID" - at least in informal situations.

Also cannibalism.
Because suing customers is sure to improve things!
That's definitely the path to greater cooperation and goodness.
Do you really believe any of these companies would sign that instead of going with whatever plan b is?
If so, I guess n-gate is right.

But let's follow this silly thread anyway. On average, the lawsuit would take three to seven years to resolve.

Assume they win: great, they get some small amount of damages and everyone stops using Android. They can't and won't ever get the remedy of forcing security updates. It's not even something available.

Assume they lose: great, they get nothing and everyone stops using Android.

...

What did this solve again?
> "Why hasn't Ford built the gigafactory"

Nissan "built the gigafactory" a decade ago and it didn't work out for them at all.

In 2007, Nissan and NEC entered into a joint venture just like Tesla/Panasonic's: they created AESC, Automotive Energy Supply Corporation, and built a $1.1 billion lithium ion battery factory near one of Nissan's manufacturing plants. Nissan committed to buying the plant's output for some years. These became the batteries and battery packs for the Nissan Leaf, of which they've sold more than 200,000 to date.

However, AESC eventually lagged at least a generation behind Panasonic (and now several others) in chemistry, process and price, which significantly worsened Nissan's position in the market. It took them some years to get out of that arrangement (relatively recently) so that they can buy batteries for the next-generation Leaf and other Nissan-Renault vehicles at less than 1/2 the price from other suppliers.

There's no guarantee that 10 years from now, we'll look back and say the Gigafactory was a wise investment for Tesla. They feared insufficient supply or being locked out of adequate supply for batteries, but now that everyone's seen the writing on the wall that EVs could become a big chunk of the new car market in the 2020s, it seems far less likely that battery supply will be a short-term issue.

Boston Power, BYD, Foxconn, SK Innovation, Samsung SDI, LG Chem, etc have built, broken ground or committed funds for over 150 GWh of annual vehicle battery production over the next 3-5 years. Tesla will not be the only major player in that market, and Panasonic is free to supply batteries to other car makers than Tesla from their other factories.
I don't think I follow. In what sense is Android horribly insecure? More interestingly: in what sense is it horribly insecure that it wouldn't be if we lived in a world where Google didn't have the market agreements to, say, force security patches for pieces of the Android OS core that were broken?

Because we already lived in that world, and it was less secure than the one we live in now, to my memory. Security issue in one of the Android libraries that are now part of Play Services? Good luck; wait for your OEM to update your OS.
The Model X is essentially their answer for an SUV/Crossover.
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Present assests- probably, but when taken over a longer time scale this makes increasing sense. many folks with >100k debt usually have several grad degrees , medical, engineering, law, etc, & whether annualized or summed, their future earnings may be productively invested into an advocacy campaign which would not only benefit them but others who have less natural income cushion and thus less of a parachute.

Individual mega-investors are no doubt powerful, but what about investor collectives. if a single company and/or entity can take on even 1/10th the power of Icahn collectively, it is something worth considering.