skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the risks of refusing to talk about services is that you're at the mercy of games of telephone. People describe what you're doing to journalists who carefully dilute anecdotes and details to obscure their exact source. Then you don't comment directly on the system because it's a secret, and here you are.

The problem for Uber is that they /are/ scummy. They proudly bend every possible rule to their advantage. It's easy to believe the worst about them.
Because this is asm.js

It is a sub-set of javascript that you can roughly think of as javascript-bytecode and this can be heavily optimised in the browser compared to full javascript.

http://asmjs.org/faq.html
Yes people are getting jobs. It's just the ones that don't who write the blogs that get up voted. Many college seniors I know have gotten offers without preparing that much outside of their usual work
> Nothing. Radio silence. No emails. No answered emails. I had ceased to exist.

Actually, that seems to be the standard behavior for rejected candidates these days, at least in my personal experience. (I've seen some references calling it the "California no", suggesting that the practice is widespread.)

It's really kind of annoying.
If you are not referring to all Indians, as you mentioned, where is this 'cultural thing' coming from? I'm quite confused about, what you exactly mean by saying 'cultural thing'?

Edit: you mentioned many Indian wants to be managers and dont see development as career choice, I disagree. I view the situation as, many Indians forced to follow companies culture set by founders. There is difference between the two.

Edit2:
>My Indian friends who work or worked at such companies tell me this comes not just from management and the company itself, but also from a desire for the perception of prestige; to appear 'important' to their families in particular.

hmm, i think your Indian friend shared wrong info with you. Indian Families doesn't know difference between manager or tech-lead, technical architect. Most often middle class families doesn't care about the designation in IT but they do care about salary :)
> too many taxis

> There should be enough

And who gets to decide how many is "enough" or "too many"?

Shouldn't it be the voluntary actions of individuals coordinated by the price system, rather than a centralized planning board? When ride prices are very high, new competitors come in to serve the demand. When prices are low, the least efficient cars stop giving rides, and the supply shrinks. The price system coordinates the actions of countless individuals without the need for a central planner.

Note: I'm not defending Uber / Lyft in any way, as I'm not familiar enough with the latest drama.
Most modern disk encryption mechanisms have settled on XTS (with AES). That includes dm-crypt, FileVault2, BitLocker... XTS is effectively a way to build a really wide block cipher: typically 512 (== 1 classic sector) to 4096 bits (== 1 modern sector) instead of the usual 128 bits (for AES). (Yes, yes. Technically a tweakable block cipher, four points for Gryffindor &c.)

With these systems, file system corruption is not a significantly different issue than it is with other systems. It is not the case that a filesystem is much more likely to become entirely or largely inaccessible than it would be if it had not been encrypted, unless if course if you lose the key!

I'd be in remiss if I didn't mention that while XTS is the standard, it fixes a very specific kind of problem, and you probably still want something on top with a more traditional form of encryption for specific sensitive files. To be clear, the advise is not "don't use FileVault 2"! It's: "do not only use FV2". My work machine, for example, is FV2, but all important credentials are GPG'd using a smart card that's normally not attached to the machine.
I doubt they are lacking good resumes. They can afford to miss good people
I've lost track of the number of times I've gone through the interview wringer at Google. It sounds like a great place to work, which is unanimously confirmed by a number of people I know who work there, but I'm no longer going to go out of my way looking for the chance. Prepping and going through the process is like a second full-time job.

And so unnecessary. Think about it--it's Google. They should have enough data on me by now to know my skills and potential with high confidence, to the point where their interview shouldn't even need humans in the loop.
So what else changed. Did you get more coverage for things? What happened to your premium? How much did you use your $400 insurance (i.e. did it actually provide coverage.)

Price is an important aspect to health-care but devoid of any other information it doesn't mean much.
To me it looks like the author is oblivious of the pun in MOKNEY-SEE-NO-EVAL, even though he made the same pun in the title.
Properly stuffy is "To all whom these presents come, greeting", common opening words of English letters patent, one of the oldest forms of "to whom it may concern" still in use.

Can be found on grants of arms and various other formal/monarchical documents up to the present day...
USA Today was the first newspaper of its kind. Flashier, more concise, graphic-laden news. A larger focus on celebrity, entertainment, etc. news. From wikipedia on USA Today: "derided by critics, who referred to it as "McPaper" or "television you can wrap fish in," ". It was the Buzzfeed of its time.
A few things:

First, they aren't apples to apples comparisons. The render loops of these two games will look completely different from each other.

OpenLaura is built with Emscripten, so it's actually a C or C++ program that is complied to ASM.js, a subset of JavaScript that some JavaScript interpreters can basically convert 1-to-1 to native code that runs directly on the C runtime rather than needing to be interpreted, specifically because it avoids the dynamic features of JavaScript that require interpreting.

Mine3D is straight, object oriented JavaScript. And while I haven't had time to dig too deep into the code yet, I know from experience that it can be very difficult to avoid garbage collections in such a design. There are a lot of places in JS where you implicitly create objects, and there are a lot of idiomatic JS patterns that involve creating short-lived objects that get dumped on the floor very quickly. It's possible to make high-performance, object-oriented JavaScript, but it's very hard.

So between the two (and again, this is just speculation), there could be upwards of an 8 to 10x improvement in "performance". That's difficult to put into meaningful terms, though, because again, the two games are built completely differently and do different things.

One of the ways in which they are completely different is that Mine3D is using relatively large image files for its textures. Almost all of the variations in materials in Mine3D appear to be done through the textures. I don't want to go to the trouble of checking, but I would not be surprised if the textures used in the OpenLaura demo completely fit inside one of the letters inside one of the Mine3D textures. However, I doubt that is the source of the problems. It could actually go either way. The large textures could be impacting fill rate, or having all of the materials based on the same texture could be improving draw call batching.

Much more likely is that Mine3D uses a lot of idle animation, transition effects, and DOM manipulation. A lot of modern graphic design (or rather, more modern than the original Tomb Raider games) emphasize having a lot of visual "breath" in a game. All of that sort of stuff runs on the CPU, where it will be hurt the most by not being tuned completely.

And it's really hard to get DOM and WebGL working together smoothly. There are a variety of things you can do in DOM that will trigger disabling hardware-accelerated 2D compositing in the browser, and I am not aware of anywhere they are documented clearly and plainly, so trying to mix the two is fraught with peril. It's best to just not do it and implement your UI for your game 100% in WebGL.
Article with no paywall

http://facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the...
Slice (unroll.me) is owned by Rakuten, who also owns a whole family of companies including Ebates, Rakuten Marketing (a fairly large adtech company), Viber, Buy.com, and lots of others. Slice's data has all sorts of interesting applications, both within the Rakuten family and to third parties like Uber. If you're a Slice/unroll.me user, I'd bet that a lot of your online experience is shaped by the data you share with Slice. A lot of Rakuten's other properties actually share office space with Slice in San Mateo, so there's obviously plenty of opportunity for collaboration. :-)

The irony is that Rakuten also owns a significant (12 percent?) stake in Lyft. Pretty funny that one Rakuten property was selling data to Uber who used it to hurt a second Rakuten property.
Plays smooth like a totally native game on my old android!!
Airlines have new entrants all the time. Sure it's costly to start a new airline, but not by the standards of available capital. But there are also lots of regulatory barriers, available landing slots and terminals for example. For some reasons we think it necessary to have government run airports.

Amazon has to compete with other online retailers and local retailers. How many scams it allows is a measure of it's competence, not it's market power. If I get scammed on Amazon they are getting a charge-back and will have to deal with my credit card company.
It would be interesting (although I expect impossible) to figure out how many of those thousands were compromised by the NSA vs those compromised by people who got the tools through the leak. It was nice that Microsoft had already fixed a bunch of them (almost like they were told ahead of time they were coming).

It is also interesting to read the outrage about the tools and the presentations on how to use them. If you have ever read the user's manual for a cluster bomb which no doubt tells you in detail how to maximize the number of people it will kill, you get a sense of how destructive and outrageous war can be. Why should cyber war be any different? And how is it any different to use a zero day to compromise a system than it is to use an architectural feature of a building to bring it down on top of its occupants (other than the obvious loss of life). Exploiting defects in the deployed system to maximize the effectiveness of a munition, not a new thing at all. Just the reality of warfare.

We're pretty clearly already in a form of warfare and it is having visible effects on things like infrastructure and elections. So how do we make the battles visible to the common folks? How do convince Mom & Dad to patch their router so that they don't inadvertently aid the 'badguys' in their quest for dominance on the digital battlefield?

Definitely feels like Phase III of the Internet has begun to me.
It is not better at all. The deductibles increased tremendously, and it wound up turning normal insurance into expensive catastrophic insurance. Many poor people are worse off under it, because at least before it was possible to pay for insurance with a decent deductible as part time help. Now most of them just eat the tax penalty (or avoid it, there is a provision where it can be waived if you demonstrate it's literally too expensive to afford) and have no insurance at all.

The solution would be employer-matched health savings accounts for casual care, with mandatory from 18-up catastrophic insurance at low premiums.
Arguing to HC on behalf of someone I gave 4.0 (which is rare, and which I did give a few times) is something I would do gladly (and I expect most others will do as well).

It's not like going in front of HC is an inquisition or anything -- they are just your peers.
FWIW, the behaviour is not just not endorsed, but actively disendorsed, e.g. the code of conduct (which applies to the Rust-team-run venues) includes "Respect that people have differences of opinion and that every design or implementation choice carries a trade-off and numerous costs. There is seldom a right answer.", and /r/rust has a "No zealotry" rule. Both of these are enforced in their respective spaces, and both of these have existed for years: they're not a reaction to the recent RESF meme.

It's... harder/less-defensible to enforce codes of conduct/rules like these in third-party spaces, but Rust people still do often call out incorrect assertions/ridiculous comments. Someone not familiar with the community may not recognise that the people doing the calling out are actually "prominent" voices.
I worked for a company that nearly acquired unroll.me. At the time, which was over three years ago, they had kept a copy of every single email of yours that you sent or received while a part of their service. Those emails were kept in a series of poorly secured S3 buckets. A large part of Slice buying unroll.me was for access to those email archives. Specifically, they wanted to look for keyword trends and for receipts from online purchases.

The founders of unroll.me were pretty dishonest, which is a large part of why the company I worked for declined to purchase the company. As an example, one of the problems was how the founders had valued and then diluted equity shares that employees held. To make a long story short, there weren't any circumstances in which employees who held options or an equity stake would see any money.

I hope you weren't emailed any legal documents or passwords written in the clear.
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I'm just brown enough to get constantly asked where I'm from or what race I am. I seriously don't care. This is who I am and if it can be a conversation starter, so be it.
‘OK Google,’ your conversational search is awesome as hell [video]
Are you familiar with intelligence squared? I encourage you to watch their debate on the value of walmart to society.
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For A, isn't it a risk that only certain areas of the country will get the ability to acquire talent from abroad? Or that only rich companies can afford this, and have a better chance?

For B, you really want to give your highly paid jobs to foreign workers, who can easily leave the country with all that money? Once again, the richer the company, the better the chance.
Show HN:  Happy tweets are red, sad are blue, neutral are green
RFC's were informal. Kind of like 'Sup, here is my proposal for...'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments

"Unlike the modern RFCs, many of the early RFCs were actual requests for comments and were titled as such to avoid sounding too declarative and to encourage discussion"
Ditto and I'd done a lot of rides; https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1804713823185446&set...
I've said this before in other related threads. My wife is indian and her first job in the states was with cognizant.

Cognizant is unequivocally the worst most atrocious slave labor, nepotism infested, abusive companies She and I have ever been exposed to.

They treated her like a slave.

Making her do the work of others and letting the other person get the credit.

Passing her up on raises and promotions no matter how well she did in "reviews" or how many awards they gave her and the clients she worked for gave her. I would lost the clients she worked for but I won't. They should be ashamed for hiring cognizant. Absolutely shamed to death.

Making her stay up late to take offshore conference calls to India to work with her incompetent offshore team. Who were all related. It's so incestuous how indian IT works. Southern Indians really dislike northern Indians which I never understood no matter how many times it's explained to me. So there is some racism involved in indian IT as well as nepotism.

She was severely underpaid. I mean laughable so. Like 50% less of what she made at her next job.

She was lied to constantly. Especially about moving expenses being covered and then they would refuse to talk about why they only paid half of what the agreed to pay.

They just treated her like a slave. It's a wretched company run by wretched people from the bottom to the top. I hope they all get hit by bus.
4.0 is more like: I'll give up my job to get this person hired, she (or he) is that good.
https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-worker...
ah drat. I forgot about needing an extra newline. Apologies :/
Minikube
I would suggest Harvard School of Public Health, which also provides evidence-based advices and, in addition, issues frequent updates.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you...
Protect your management interfaces – NCSC Site
stoic in the face of aggression

like surface of zen mind

no error
Machine Learning Gets an InfiniBand Boost with Caffe2
Dell Launches Five New Linux Systems
I read the article. I am still not sure which rule was violated by these companies. Can someone tell me which violation is being referred in this article?

Also, about the average wage. TCS, Infosys, Cognizant send their employees in all states of US. Including the the states in south, mid-west, and Appalachian region. So what is this comparison with salaries in Silicon Valley?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bury_the_lede

OP is implying the "real story" (i.e. the most important part of the article) is not what the article begins with
I'm sorry, but without any evidence your post comes off as anti-Trump conspiracy theory. What fines are you even talking about?
The compatibility of this products with vulkan
What I was told was that "Dear Sir" should be used when writing to a specific person but they are unknown to you, whereas "To Whom it May Concern" is more appropriate if the letter could be dealt with multiple people (e.g. a department) or you expect it to be passed on to someone before being dealt with. I was also told that it's far from a hard and fast rule, and that it doesn't matter all that much.
Here's another side project from a couple years ago. It's called Austin's Sweet and Sour. Tweets from the Austin area are overlaid on a map of Austin with the their sentiment classified. Happy tweets show up as red, sad as blue, and neutral as green. Hover over the markers to see the tweet.

The API I used to classify the tweets isn't totally accurate (50% of the time it works every time), but it's still pretty fun seeing the tweets on a map with a rough sentiment. The link directly below is Austin's Sweet and Sour.

http://52.36.131.248:3000/

https://github.com/amend/austins-sweet-and-sour
Replace Windows XP with a minimal Ubuntu based thin client (2013)
Here's an open source Google Script that lets you easily unsubscribe from bulk emails in Gmail. Source on Github. https://www.labnol.org/internet/gmail-unsubscribe/28806/
The online advertisement market has got much less lucrative per impression since then. It's resulted in most online news sources trying other things to keep the lights on (donations, as with the Graun; paywalls, as at the NY Times; native advertising as at the Huffington Post; lots of other things...)
Oh you mean like Comcast?
LinuxKit operating system built for container
I believe you're talking about encfs, not ecryptfs. The specific vulnerability is in the bizarro last-block encryption that encfs 1.x uses; see: https://defuse.ca/audits/encfs.htm

I use FileVault 2 with Yubikey 4-backed GPG for sensitive files. (Turn disk encryption on, but don't count on it to keep your files secret in a lot of threat models.)
Fair enough. I've been absent from the Java ecosystem for quite a while, so have no opinion or anecdata to share. It's good to hear though that there are multiple, sane options available to get stuff done.
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> The article never establishes what is wrong with rural America in the first place.

She presented numbers related to how many new businesses were formed recently in small towns vs large towns. Sure, she didn't go through the hoops to explain that more new businesses = more new jobs = more local wealth, but would that have even contributed to the article?

> The premise that monopolies are bad is never explained.

The article did attempt to explain this through an anecdote about a superior syringe being blocked off the market by another company that held a monopoly on medical devices & arranged contracts with buyers to lock them in.

Maybe she should have been more explicit - and I'm not trying to say that the article's good material for HN - but she did at least touch on most of those points.
That is nonsense. There are plenty of natural monopolies [1], where competitors are free to enter the market but simple can't compete. E.g. if there are economies of scale (e.g. Google search engine) or network effects (e.g. Facebook).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
Thick accidents and borderline language proficiency is even worse on phone screens, where interviewers always seem to sound like they are talking through a sheet of plastic placed over the phone. I've lost count of the number of times I've had to get someone to repeat their question over and over and over on (not Google) phone screens. Once did a phone screen with an exec who I'm pretty certain was conducting it from his handsfree in an open-top convertible car (clearly heard traffic noise). I've always wondered how many opportunities I've missed out on due to poor audio quality.
> it's not a scandal that people don't read a privacy policy that says, "We may collect, use, transfer, sell, and disclose non-personal information for any purpose."

That companies are allowed to have such a non-privacy policy damned well should be. The number of privacy policies I'd have to read on a daily basis to function on the Internet is ludicrous and it is only because of my job working for companies like that that I know that those privacy policies exist in the first place.
What's an 'American' company these days?

US companies like Oracle, MS, Google, etc. have offices all over the world.

They also tend to use various visas to import 10% of their own US based staff (probably a much higher ratio of engineers) from foreign nations.

The US has gotten very wealthy from offshoring, foreign talent, and technical exports, but it causes a massive problem when keeping secrets locally.
Would it be possible to scan for infected systems if you know the 0-day?
I see. I misread your comment, because there was another comment which said they never heard back from Google after their onsite.

In that case it's true, you generally don't get any feedback after you interview at big tech companies. I would recommend to do a mock interview to prepare and get honest feedback.
> Their current process must cost them a lot of talent
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They optimize to reduce false positives. They're completely fine with false negatives. They don't have any shortage of talented engineers willing to interview there.

That last bit is why I think it's quite silly for smaller/unknown startups to be copying Google's interview process, as seems to be the trend.
Yep. There are other things that significantly affect perf in addition to newer technology (like XTS): for most users, the block device is an SSD, and for most users, your CPU knows how to do AES quickly. Both have significant improvements to performance, up to the point where turning on FileVault 2 for a Mac is a no-brainer now.
The thing is, societies that were close to ideal free market capitalism have done extremely well, whereas societies that were close to ideal socialism have generally done very poorly (in the long term). On account of local linearity, I think it's probably OK to use societies that were almost like what is proposed to judge the proposal.

The US isn't even close to a free market (although it used to be very close), so I don't think the current performance of the US economy is a reasonable basis on which to judge free markets.

Similarly, many people used countries that were barely socialist to judge socialism, which is also a bad idea.
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