skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The ugly and frightening truth about vigilantism is that it works.

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Interesting. If you're right, the manual leaves out the rather critical "or the default identity file" bit:

> Specifies that ssh(1) should only use the authentication identity and certificate files explicitly configured in the ssh_config files or passed on the ssh(1) command-line, even if ssh-agent(1) or a PKCS11Provider offers more identities.
> if entrepreneurship weren't seen as this holy grail mount Kilimanjaro thing.

So you want successful entrepreneurs to be poor? It's only seen as a holy grail because it allows for tremendous fiscal success.
That "carefully remove the speaker grill" is the chosen phraseology means that these are instructions meant for maintenance and service, not instructions meant for emergency egress. Furthermore, the latch release cable doesn't provide much leverage and access at all, given it's literally at floor level. It's also possible that the latch release cable requires a lot of force to pull (if you have to pull against springs or pull against frictional forces on contact surfaces of latches). These factors make me conclude that this system was never designed for emergency egress purposes.

However, these are not an inherent issue; it's certainly possible to store energy (compressed gas, auxiliary battery, springs, pyrotechnic charge) to provide a redundant opening system in case the main power supply is offline. Using stored energy to activate emergency safety apparatus (hi, airbags) is not a new thing in passenger vehicles. Hell, some cars have pyrotechnic cable-cutters that isolate all non-essential 12V/HV circuits with explosives milliseconds after a severe collision are detected (to avoid post-crash fire/heating and electronics damage).

To solve a eminently predictable post-crash problem with "take off a speaker grill that's on the floor (right next to a battery fire) and pull hard on a Bowden cable" is simply not acceptable and the state of the art in post-crash systems indicates that Tesla could have done much better.
Here is an fascinating instance of astroturfing by MedCrave on Quora, with painfully bad "smart-people" English https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-get-rid-of-the-rumours-about-...
They're not required, but they make things a whole lot easier.
This is not qualitatively different from existing situations, and will be only a minor legal wrinkle. Estates have been licensing the likeness of dead people for commercial purposes for a good while, now those likenesses are simply more sophisticated.

I'll tell you what will get complicated, copyright holders complaining that their product was used as input for the training algorithm and demanding a slice of any profits because they made the famous individual more famous by casting them.
(One of?) the underlying interpretation is that this is a response to that gentrification.
Fun fact: The first time the Beatles did LSD, they were unknowingly dosed by their dentist.
The "I don't recognize this transaction" and "the goods were not delivered as promised" chargebacks trigger different resolution flows and if the merchant can prove they are following the procedure they agreed to when signing up with the payment processor (especially when requesting a CVV to be provided by the end user and signing up for some sort of fraud detection service) they have a decent chance of fighting against the chargeback.
The quality of code and level of popularity are not directly correlated.

In fact, I've found often times they're inversely correlated. Maybe something to do with where time is spent?
If you are really skilled at running a business, then going to startup conferences and such will certainly give you a bunch of ideas.
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I code mostly in the .Net web stack, and lead a team of web developers that do both .Net and Java work using Angular. I blogged a couple months ago about my favorite tech podcasts:

http://agilecoder.net/2016/08/23/developer-podcasts/
> $44 for 32GB of high speed caching is impressive.

You can get 120GB of SSD for that price, and it would probably do a better job as a hard drive cache.

But yes the better performance at doing persistent writes is very useful for some cases.
If a company gets users but fails to retain them, causing the product to fail and the investors to lose their funds, then it certainly isn't a success.
Heartland is such an utter piece of garbage. I'd use almost anything before I'd touch it (or any typical shitty enterprise processor) again.

Source: spent a year helping a client migrate from Stripe to Heartland to save a few basis points. Things like faxing docs to terrible APIs to constant lies from sales, who is a bunch of ignorant, rude good ol' boys, just like most of their competitors. Pure incompetence at virtually every point of interaction. Literally have not a single good thing to say.

I'd invest a significant part of my net worth in Stripe if I could. They and companies like them are going to destroy Heartland in the long run, and it can't come soon enough.
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I'm not really sure what point you're making. Or rather I violently disagree with you that vigilantism works. How does it work? Are you saying Goetz shooting people on the NYC subway led to a dramatic reduction in crime? Are you basing your claim from one line from a Huffington post article from this author?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/sogfeld-774

Somehow info from BART officials made it to the various news outlets. The news outlets wrote stories on it. I knew about the incident by Sunday. I read about it somewhere. I was not on the train.

BART didn't pretend the robbery didn't happen.
As a long time Internet user I could actually imagine myself becoming passionate about "Make The Internet Fast Again". I wonder how one would start a career in that direction. It's a bit of a dilemma: In order to build fast modern websites you probably need to know how to build horrible modern websites. And I can't really motivate myself to imitate horrendous websites just for kicks. In fact, I stopped creating websites when jQuery wasn't enough anymore. In other words, more than ten years ago... It's not that I shun more recent technologies, I am willing to learn. I just don't want to create Frankensteinish websites first.

Any tips for a more direct path towards website optimization jobs?
> Let's put it this way: the more educated and effective a sysadmin becomes, the more they appreciate programming their way out of their problems rather than doing things one-off.

I'd agree with that.

I watched a (very) experienced sysadmin struggle to edit some JSON today. He had several notepads with JSON that he would copy and paste into various screens. I suspect when he gets a flat tire, he changes each one to see which one is flat.

> If management wants it to be a set of rigid silos, they are losing efficiency in exchange for what they perceive to be control.

I think (this kind of) management doesn't know better, but natural selection doesn't move swiftly enough.

Is there something we can do about that?
Superhero comics?
>Yeah, I just have to worry about higher beings justifying the termination of my primitive nervous system "for science".

They might as well just terminate your primitive nervous system for their own nutritional needs or out of mere hunting instinct. Plenty of animals do this all the time, nature isn't romantic idealistic, it's ruthless and unforgiving.
Surely that's completely unreasonable. Who can claim that any piece of software is without bugs/security holes?

The problem is absolutely owned by Atlassian, but they actually did do something to fix it.

I don't believe anyone (apart from maybe Daniel J Bernstein) can claim any piece of software is bug/hole free, and neither does anyone need to!
It looks quite good!

In all fairness, I wanted to make sure your points were heard clearly and I felt the tongue in cheek comments distracted from the clear explanation of how the author was offbase and incorrect.

Looking forward to the future releases of React!
What's the expected (specs, and real life) lifespan of these connectors? (How many typical connection/disconnection pairs?) I know that was an issue with earlier generation USB connectors, but I'm skeptical that C has achieved desired robustness.

I'm not talking about abuse, just expected use. Though if particular vulnerabilities to abuse or whatnot are showing up, that would be of concern.
I really don't think there are. As long as they complied with authorities when somebody used Yik-Yak to do something illegal they're in the clear.
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This is a throwaway because I am throwing the truth down.

The people who work with me describe me as a visionary CEO.

If you want to end the cult of the CEO, why don't you introduce me to another visionary of my caliber - because there aren't any in my organization.

I assign inventions to my cofounders: "Invent this. This is the requirement."

They come back with nothing. Why? Because they're not a visionary CEO, I am. Why can I invent something meeting the requirements, but they not only can't come up with the requirements to begin with, but when handed the requirements, can't invent something that meets those requirements? (Leaving me to do so.)

The visionary CEO is not over. The reason it is not over is because there is nobody you can introduce me to who will come work with me as another visionary. They exist, of course. Elon Musk is one of them.

What do you think the chances are that I can get Musk to join my board?

Made as a throwaway because even in this crowd it is rare to acknowledge what other people repeatedly call visionary intelligence.
Yes, but presumably as part of the acquisition they're getting $X00,000 of stock/cash on a 4-year vest. That's far more than one would get for a standard new hire options package at a company of Square's size/maturity.

I'd say that's accurate to describe as "golden handcuffs", since they (probably) can't just walk down the street to another company and get that offer matched.
Where does that vulnerability report fit in with the Atlassian acquisition? (circa spring 2012)
Follow the money and Apple, Google and Valve are making a killing off the backs of creators. The cost of delivery is what 1% if that?

Well, if the cost of delivery and maintenance of these platforms is so low and the charge to developers is so high, why not arbitrage this? Create your own trusted multi-billion hardware/software platform with expedited payment and protection from cheating, and you can cut developers a better deal!
They might not have been owners, just along for the ride with the owner incapacitated due to the accident.
Chevy sponsored a short film a few decades ago that looks at small version of that: What if all springs disappeared?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ttYlcrA7ys
A problem I've mused on for a few years is related to this: when a phone submits a lonlat to an API server, how can you make the server more confident it can trust the location? I mean with curl I could POST any lonlat I want---I don't even need a phone! I don't think this is truly solvable, but how can you make spoofing the location harder?

The scale I'm thinking about is "Are you really in the store you say you're in?" where all users are from the same fairly dense city. So geolocating the IP isn't good enough. Accuracy to a city block or two seems good enough though.

My best idea so far is to submit a list of available wifi access points, and use that as a "password" to prove that you're where you say you are. If your list is 80% like the list of other users at that location, we trust you.

Unfortunately in iOS you can't get that list! It requires a private API, so calling that method will get your app rejected from the store.

Does anyone have any other ideas?
You're right, though it does not appear to be linear.

I could swear that it didn't work that way before -- did somethibg change?
No, that just means it's popular garbage.
It was first reported around this time last year, so "after".
Sure, but it's a calculated risk -- maybe they decided that growth features were more important than uptime or data integrity. That still doesn't mean the app is garbage.
That sounds like the typical word of mouth story FUD that spreads about LSD. I'd be curious to hear more evidence of this "uncovering latent mental illness" as well.
Does this actually get them to move it here? Apple has huge amounts of money around the world, and I'm not sure what they'd even do with it if they could repatriate it more cheaply. Give it back to investors?
The servers should have definitely been prepared for the increased load. Perhaps I'm overly optimistically using the plural form in this case.

Truth to be told I can only assume this was done in a short burst, given my limited sample of (hopefully ever narrowing) circle of people who use Atlassian products. But would distributing the bulk-mail over an hour (two, three) using a randomized sample of their customer base really made a significant impact to security or their support?

I wonder how I'd do it, really, if let's say, beefing up my infrastructure for some reason isn't an option.
And that's infinitely better than scalable, well-designed garbage nobody uses.
I was a frequent user for quite a while. It was never truly anonymous in that Yikyak obviously maintained some type of internal ID to identify you. This was fine with me. We had some deep, real conversations (along with the usual nonsense).

I stopped using it when they added mandatory profiles. For online discussion, there is a huge difference between anonymous and pseudonymous. While anonymous, no persona is formed in the mind of other users, except within the context of a specific discussion. It is impossible to form factions. Group think is somewhat minimized, because no one knows it is you that is not following the party line on issue A, even though you are totally on board for issue B.

When you are pseudonymous, factions form, grudges form, prejudices form. Suddenly someone remembers your position on gun control and assumes your position on the death penalty. If you say something stupid, it stays with you.

I don't want to share my sexual interests and my political point of views with strangers and have those things be linked to the same account (from the user perspective). I DO want to do that without that link. I think it tends to focus more on the issues, and let's people avoid the artificial barriers that otherwise might come between them.

When they made this switch, it was suddenly an entirely different app. It was no different than just finding a random web forum, except that you could be sure the people around you were geographically close to you (sort of). Completely non-anonymous Next Door is better in that regard anyway, and Yikyak no longer had anything to offer me.
I would imagine MC would qualify as a unicorn.

Off topic - I always get such bizarre vibes when I interact with anyone from MC or hear of others' interactions with MC employees (ATL here).
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I'm an iOS developer and I'd definitely say that.

I think you should forget about "hard" costs. They're completely irrelevant to how valuable something is.
The % is misleading because more people may have joined the field as time went on, or tech became more popular.
That's the thing though: as the size of the company, customer count, and revenue numbers increase, the founder/CEO has less and less _directly_ to do with that.

If I found a company and directly hire 10 people and act as a day-to-day leader where everyone reports to me, you can say that I had a large impact on everything that happened.

Two years later, when we have 300 people, I'm out of the day-to-day hiring decisions and I'm not directly making all the deals that the company makes, I can still claim to be steering the ship, but I can't claim direct credit for much of what the company does. Sure, it was my initial founding decision that has made all of it possible, but I'd be incapable of being involved in literally everything at a larger scale such that I could take credit for it.
OP said: "replacing otherwise completely perfect Apple hardware that gets conveniently software upgraded to be too old for normal daily functions"

For iOS v10, the iPhone 5, which was released in 2012, is still supported. So no, Apple is not forcing you to purchase a new iPhone every 2.5 years.
> Forcing PMs to use software designed for the purpose of creating software instead of accepting requirements through email/slack/invision/zeplin/google docs/tool of someone else's choice

Could you please specify examples of proper software for this purpose (communicating product/feature requirements is meant here I suppose)? Do you mean reqs must go through the issue tracker or official original spec document?
I imagine most government regulations (i.e. FDA) would apply to pharmaceuticals or medicines. Since this isn't being ingested (FDA) or grown in a field (EPA), I would think it's ok. What did you have in mind?
ThinkPads allow you to set the charging limits, e.g. "Charge up to 90% but don't start charging if above 80%". Works on Linux, too (e.g. using tlp, which also has a "fully charge it this one time" command when you need it)
Reminds me of the Warriors' slogan, "Strength in Numbers".

In all seriousness though, as a daily BART commuter, I hope this doesn't become a trend. I don't think there's any reason to panic just yet -- I feel a lot safer inside of a BART car than on the freeway.
> the colloquial definition of multi-cloud.

I know you can use multi-cloud to prevent lock in, but I've never heard the term used to strictly mean that. Almost everyone I work with uses the term multi-cloud as "workloads on multiple cloud vendors."
I think the reason that API is private is because people do not want that level of tracking. And there are very few applications which absolutely, positively need this level of accuracy. And, I'm sorry, but marketing/advertising doesn't count.
This is bad, but these kinds of stories serve to convince people that crime is up when, in fact, it is down.
Nothing in life is free.

Quality software doesn't create itself out of thin air (yet, if ever). That means someone has to make an investment.

You don't have to invest in the upkeep of the foundation of your house, but if some bugs, say termites, were to sneak in you can't blame the original builders for the donated foundation.

Please downvote for the bad analogy.
No surprise. Given they have patents for airborne warehouses (dirigibles) and drone recharging stations on lamp posts and have been exploring driverless trucks equipped with drone delivery for the last mile and even underwater warehouses, it's about time they focused on near term driverless transportation systems. Their logistics expertise and experience with 30K+ robots in their warehouses gives them some advantages and 'street cred'.
I miss IRC. All it needs is a few tweaks to bring it to 2017..
Does HipChat hash client side or server side?
I would be very surprised if something as complicated as Android phones didn't contain anything that can be back doored.

Obviously that is Google's problem, but I haven't seen Google (nor Atlassian in this case) claim anyone else is to blame.
Police typically don't release booking photos of minors, because there is nothing to gain, and there is the potential cost you mention. But surveillance footage that might assist in the apprehension of the criminals, even kids, is often released, and rightfully so.
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In my experience, using irc or xmpp mostly results in people not using it unless a) the team is largely technical or b) there's a common, easy interface like gchat used to be.
I noticed you linked to python-git instead of the main Python repo. The whole project has been moved as of a couple months.

https://github.com/python/cpython
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What 3rd world country did this happen in? Ah, that's right. California.

I'll stick to my peaceful train ride along the coast up here in Seattle.
I highly doubt that in California and SF in particular, with their strict gun laws, but I could be wrong.

These flash mob robberies are quite common on the east coast. I've heard about a number of them in Philadelphia on reddit where a group of 'youths' shows up and attacks people.

It's a surprisingly little reported on phenomenon. Yet it sounds quite psychologically jarring.
Burying paper or other organic items. In a sense your recreating the fossil fuel cycle.
That's extremely hard to believe, just because it's such an unusual complaint. You generally get something in the mail, even if it's a Chinese counterfeit. There must be a logical explanation -- what do you think is contributing to the problem?
Do they really need a captcha on BOTH username AND password input? I get that they are different submit pages, so they are likely querying the database on each page, but is that really necessary? I don't see any benefit from it, as a user, while trying to log in to my account.
I already gave one, just a few sentences above.
I am hoping that they ditch in the iPhone 8. It really doesn't make sense to use lightning anymore.
It's a great, lifelong disservice to these students to focus on jobs and especially initial job skills. Life is so much more than your career, and your initial job is usually the most meaningless of your career. They should spend 4 years preparing for their initial job? Why even go to college - 4 years of work would better prepare them. When I'm hiring, I hardly care what people study in college and in fact people showing more intellectual curiosity impress me more than those whose imagination starts and stops at numbers with dollar signs.

Also, looking at what is going on around the Western world, we are lacking not for job skills and but for critical thinking and the understanding of history, politics, science, the nature of knowledge and reason (including being able to discriminate between fact and falsehood), of other cultures, and most importantly, of each other.
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This really depends on the use case of the library. It's entirely possible to find bugs that are outside your expertise to fix.

I can't speak to this case, obviously.
Seeing all those services hooked together gives me the willies. It sounds like a right PITA to debug, and chaining them together in serial for a single request multiplies the chance of an error even if each individual node is pretty stable.

I guess it's okay for a demo though. They're probably not setting an example so much as trying to throw as many services together to show off the technique.
> How do you do this?

Give half-order-of-magnitude estimates as confidence intervals. Avoid using "hours" or "days" as estimates. Story points work really well here.

Be extra clear on priorities and burndowns to make it clear that you're not just blowing them off. Give short but frequent demos (not just reports) of progress. If later they're concerned about progress, you can point back to all the times you reviewed the product, touched base about priorities, and agreed on next steps.

Make risk really clear to them. If the project is 'get it done in three months or bust', then the payoff (ten times the principal?) better be high enough to account for the risk (30%? 50%? 70%) that you won't make it on time and on budget. That is, you don't want to wait until failure to discover a bad business plan.

At the end of the day, you need to be willing to be patient with and/or walk away from 'business people' that can't wrap their heads around the fact that 20% profit on a venture with a 50% failure rate is a bad business plan. Making employees stressed or overworked to compensate is not a humane solution to the problem. To that end, don't work crazy hours to meet a deadline. That is bad for you, bad for your team, and bad for management since it enables dysfunctional planning.