skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I think it is more convenient to think about things like this (ie firewall rules) as data, which makes the use of an API a convenient way to work with the data. The converse, in my mind, is that I'd have to configure each node and ensure a text representation of my firewall rules are correct. That opens the door for some thinking about concurrency that I thankfully get to avoid with an API like this.

That said, I can see your point that you are hiding some details from the OS that might be helpful such as what hosts you can talk to.

Fortunately, just because you might configure a firewall with an API rather than some Ansible plays, it doesn't mean that you can't continue to use Ansible to fill in the gaps. For example, if you did use Ansible to previously configure your iptables, you might change the playbook to call the API based on some YAML. You might use the same YAML to write some information on the host that your application can use to understand the firewall rules that are used.

The point being is that it is always good to remember these are not either/or decisions.

Lastly, I'll also speak up for those folks that don't know much about firewalls and iptables. I understand the principles, but I'm far from feeling confident managing that system myself. In my case, I'm really glad to have an option that lets me get the benefits without forcing me to operate a system I'm not well equipped to do.
I work in tech. While there are problems, dudes are way better at social skills then you imply. Thay includes dudes with asperger.
What kind of changes happened to the hockey rules?
I'd like to agree with you but my current gig involved a WBI and the company itself actually has stellar software development processes and tools. It might just have been that the hiring manager wasn't too comfy doing it any other way, but in any case it did not correlate strongly to the culture inside the company.

Perhaps use it as a warning sign, but you might want to talk to your potential co-workers as well and see what they're actually doing and how.
"Exclusionary?" Seriously? I didn't know you're entitled to a job.
adding John "Yabo" to that list.... but I couldn't find how he died, (suicide iirc?)
Yes, but there were only six who printed it to begin with. I'm inclined to agree that the Intercept shouldn't have shared that information with the contractor, but it's not at all clear that the leaker wouldn't have been found anyway.
It keeps your hands dry when they get sweaty, making it easier to hold onto the rock. It's standard equipment for climbers.
I do whiteboard interviews at the whiteboard interview Mecca (Google), and detecting the digressions and putting the candidate back on the right track, is one of the skills the interviewers are explicitly trained for.
IIRC, US Law mandates a bunch of CAN IDs for general engine diagnostics like fuel flow, o2 sensors, etc.

The rest of the CAN IDs are unique to every manufacturer. GM (for instance) Tech Scan tool knows these CAN IDs. Independent 3rd parties can develop a simliar tool and license the CAN IDs from GM for a hefty fee. I imagine Ford has the same service available.
I recently moved from Silicon Valley back home to northern Colorado. And now I read the comments local newspaper articles and it's all about how bad the traffic congestion is and how housing prices are ridiculously high. It's all relative, I guess.
Thank you so much! I've been looking for something like this (and even contemplated making this myself despite not having any spare time to do so).

My one concern: Can you please make all of your contact information downloadable and backupable. My biggest fear would be putting so much precious data in your app and then having you guys go under... then I would lose everything. Also, I don't want vendor lock-in for something as important as this.
so it infact does do normalization on file create then? How is it managing this without doing so?
There are two types of growth, one that should irk, and the other that should not:

1) Growing for the sake of growth - buying users, anti-user lock-in features, dark patterns, etc.

2) Growing as technology improves - the cost of creating/publishing videos has decline massively in the last few years for the average user, thus products that utilize video to create better experiences should be built.
> I don't see that as the argument being made, which renders it a strawman.

But that's how I, and apparently others, read the grandparent's argument.

The grandparent made a personal statement about trust in The Intercept, and did not really substantiate this trust other than by mentioning two key players.

> It's possible for someone, without a specific talent X, to create an institution to ensure proper application of some talent X

I fully agree -- one need only think of huge conglomerates who manufacture everything from light bulbs MRI machines to aircraft engines, to use GE as an example.

> when the need for competent execution of X makes itself apparent.

And therein lies one problem as I see it: it has to make itself apparent to the creator (resp. leader).

Because the converse is also true: It's possible for someone, without a specific talent X, to create an institution which fails ensure proper application of some talent X.

From another comment, we seem to agree that there should absolutely have been policies and procedures in place that should have prevented this mess in the first place.

I posit that this is one of the things that should have been apparent from the start (as preserving anonymity is crucial to The Intercept's cause), yet most probably weren't.
It's evidence of what the person who wrote it thought at the time they wrote it. Your epistemology seems self-serving.
Mostly pair-programming coding session on site or homework that is later discussed and "developed" on site. Candidate picks which option works best for her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%E2%80%9306_NHL_season#Rul...
Worry not, I'm slowly assembling a massive Quora WARC file of all of the posts uncensored by the login wall (for cold storage). The moment they're out of business, a magnet torrent will be provided.
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Keeps your palms dry allowing for better grip
3,300 feet of climbing is a lot of climbing. Most non-pro climbers will be winded and in need of a rest after a couple hundred feet of climbing. Also, it is easier to move without ropes since you never have to sort gear or re-coil your rope.
John Gill was doing long free solos on easy 5th class well into his 60s. Peter Croft is still working as a mountain guide out of Bishop, CA, I have no idea if he still goes out for jaunts sans rope in the high sierras, but he free soloed almost daily for decades.
The article makes the following statement:

Whiteboard interviews have a very high false negative rate (rejecting people who are good), but they also have a low false positive rate (hiring people who are not good).

On what basis is this statement made? No study or source appears to be cited. The specific false negative and false positive rates are not given. Also, what exactly is the definition of "good" used?
Notice how it's a whiteboard and not a board of colour.
How is that she was a whistleblower? The US government wasn't breaking any laws and, for all we know, the evidence she had may be part of the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the election.
Especially so soon after Ueli Steck's death. I first heard about Alex's feat from FB, when I opened it up and saw "Alex Honnold" in the trending stories thing. I said out loud "oh god, no"...and then saw the headline about El Cap.
How do you suggest people hire for general programming positions?
I've never understood the hate that WBI get here and elsewhere on the internet. I see them the same way as standardized tests: without them, there's no good way to independently evaluate people's abilities in a way that is immune to cheating, dishonesty, or fraud (e.g. stealing someone's code and putting it on your github repo, being a terrible employee at previous jobs but just scraping by long enough to move onto the next company, straight up lying on a resume, etc.).

Sure, as the author notes, WBI have a high false negative rate. But if you're actually a good programmer, learning basic CS concepts should be extremely easy, and these types of problems, perhaps with a bit of practice, should be relatively trivial. I personally wouldn't want to work with someone who can't extract a path from a DFS, not out of any sense of elitism but just because such an employee likely would be unable to do many other problems properly.
In any good sized city there are venture capitalists and angles willing to fund SOMETHING. A number of them do not care where you are physically located (unless physical location is important) and will fund you wherever you are.

There is a lot more money in the valley for some reason, but there is still plenty in any great large city if you have a great idea. It is the okay ideas that they cannot fund in other places (note some seemingly bad ideas take off you will see more of that in the valley if this is worth it or not is an open question)
>>I wish we had something akin to a mathematics monastery. I'm not talking about academia - that avenue clearly leads to financial enslavement at this point. I'm talking about a place with lots of chalk boards and pretty basic room/board.

As soon as you wrote that, Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study[1][2] sprang to mind. In 2012-2013 a bunch of mathematics professors got together to organize a research program, from which homotopy type theory[3] (HoTT) was born and a book[4] written to explain their monastic achievement!

[1] https://www.ias.edu/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Advanced_Study

[3] https://www.ias.edu/idea-tags/homotopy-type-theory

[4] https://homotopytypetheory.org/book/
The difference in skill between Alex Honnold and the majority of other climbers can't be overstated. But I think the main difference in speed has to do with familiarity. Alex didn't just go up to this wall and start climbing it. He's done it over and over and over and over again. He know what moves he needs to make and how to do them. You climb much quicker when you don't have to do any route finding.
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Thor Aackerlund hits Tetris Level 30 and 999,999 point score (NES)
Prison should be run by the state to accomplish its aims (whether rehabilitative or retributive). Outsourcing it and attaching financial gain to it just encourages abuse.

Certainly they could have whipped him daily and that too would have discouraged future lawbreaking but at some point we have to ask "is this justice or abusive?"
They did not. They told a government contractor that the document had been printed and mailed from Augusta, GA, who then reported it to the government. That's what got her, microdots or not.

You can read the search warrant at https://www.buzzfeed.com/stevenperlberg/a-federal-government..., which is more complete than the arrest warrant. Just read paragraphs 12-19, which cover the relevant probable cause. If the FBI don't know how it leaked (printed) and from where (Winner's home town), the case becomes extremely difficult. Instead, they had so much that she just confessed when they showed up.
Dean Potter died in a squirrel suit, not soloing.
How about 1 small pizza for 250 coins?
Wasn't there something about the infield fly rule? :)
But the same goes for soccer which has altered very little since the rules were laid down in the 19th century.
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How about an option to organize family as a family tree? That's something I'm looking for currently.
What's weird about that is UNM has a research hospital.
> A large number of them have died.

Paul Preuss (October 3, 1913) died during an attempt to make the first ascent of the North Ridge of the Mandlkogel free solo, fell a thousand feet
Oh, I'm sure they recognized Honnold. There probably aren't many serious climbers who don't know who he is.
There are an infinite number of ways that "terrorists can kill people". Remote control cars is only one of them and probably nowhere near the top of the list.

We defend against killer-remote-control-cars like we defend against all forms of terrorism: plain old police and intelligence work to snatch the perps before they have a chance to strike.
CAN Bus is great. I highly recommend reading the CAN Open Spec if your going to be implementing new systems using CAN Bus.

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

Many more things besides auto's use CAN. One of my current projects involves exercise equipment that internally speaks CAN Bus. There is great support in Arduino for interfacing with stuff like this.
Are you sure he was coming down?
Yes, he committed suicide.
You don't have to be best friends with someone like that to be kind to them.

I think the limit should be in allowing that person to take advantage of your kindness.
I am intrigued by all the messages pointing out that the business was predicate on unfairly low payments to workers, and when that problem was rectified, their business model stopped working.

What intrigues me is that the common, tired narrative I see on this topic (from nerd friend on FB, typically) is more of a Libertarian/Ayn Rand oriented "the government shut down people who had had the freedom to work below a living wage, as should be their choice."

As it happens I disagree with that libertarian view, but even if I didn't, I'm glad to see a more complex understanding of business models and sympathy for the staff.
In public schools, this is often the case. In private schools, bad education will lead to a loss of profit. If you think this doesn't apply to teachers, you must've never been in a bad public school
And thus you dismiss all of them in one breath with "many have", and attempt to demonize anyone who would dare to say "in some spaces, some speech is not OK". You don't have to dehumanize someone to observe that they're causing problems and harming others. And you don't have to paint anyone who disagrees with you as an absolutist authoritarian with no sense of nuance. Next time, try addressing the arguments made, not the arguments that are easier to dismiss. I say "next time", because I really have no further interest in wasting more of my time here.
Gotcha. I don't agree 100% with this clarified position (I think), but it seems like a rational position that we could debate. Not here of course. :) But you know, over drinks or whatevs.

Anyway, the point is that it's a much less outlandish statement than how I interpreted your original comment.
Apps these days are purposefully design to be as addictive as possible. I wouldn't give my kid unlimited access to screens for the same reason I wouldn't give my kid unlimited access to candy or coffee or cocaine. Should we really encourage letting our children spend the most impressionable years of their lives in front of a screen? Playing computer games might stimulate a kid's brain to some extent, but a developing brain also needs physical activity. It's really not hard to see why ADHD is so prevalent in kids today. Non-stop instant gratification entertainment has a cost.
But of course he was smart and used ZFS so there is no issue with bit rot.
If the media wouldn't cover terrorism it would probably go away by itself. Israel is probably the only country dealing with it effectively.
Is www.Google.co.uk having problems? Not loading for me
First time for me - Google is down from here:

Unable to connect

Firefox can't establish a connection
to the server at www.google.co.uk.

Also tried www.google.com

Note that I can load HN, and have loaded several pages from the front page both after, and then before, getting the above message.

Anyone else having problems?

Update: It's been over 5 minutes. Everything else I've tried is working, it's just Google.

Update 2: It's back. That was interesting - I wonder what happened. I doubt we'll ever find out.
At some point blaming administrations 30 years ago for practices continued by subsequent administrations becomes deeply dishonest.

California for instance (referenced multiple times here) has had many governors since the Reagan days and could have ended the practice on a state level, and at a federal level the pendulum has swung to both sides on multiple occasions. Any of these administrations could have made it a priority, but did not.
> Tablets and phones don't count yet.

You've been able to develop on Android for years now. See AIDE (http://www.android-ide.com/) and Termux (https://termux.com/), for example.
They could. They should get to $1-$2 billion in sales and print a Facebook-like margin at 30% net income margins by keeping operations as slim as possible. Decent growth, 40 PE with a public listing (for however long this market stays up), $300m in net income on $1.2 billion in sales, $12 billion market cap. That'd be a real, sustainable business.

That's what Twitter should have done as well. Pinterest won't do it, for the same exact reason Twitter didn't, making the same business mistake with predictable consequences. They all want to be the next goliath and none of them are going to be (and when that reality sets in, they all become reactionaries under pressure from a dozen angles, working from a position of weakness).
Why would I want to hire a candidate that paid thousands of dollars for Algorithms and Data Structures classes but didn't feel the need to pay attention? Don't you think that says something about the candidate?
>Whiteboard interviews have a very high false negative rate (rejecting people who are good), but they also have a low false positive rate (hiring people who are not good).

That's a pretty bold assertion. Is there data to show this?
> They're both backup services, neither position themselves as online file storage in quite the same way.

Indeed, CrashPlan has a policy of removing backups if the machine hasn't connected in 6 months [1]. Those services aren't intended for long term document storage with no local copy, just for disaster recovery.

[1] https://support.crashplan.com/Subscriptions/Backup_Retention...
Many things have gone from extremely costly to almost free (Aluminum used to cost more than gold, now we wrap food in it), but that just freed up those resources to be allocated to something else where there is scarcity. This is what the force of Capitalism & free enterprise does.

Fame is an example of another scarce resource that will not diminish even with magic energy and magic alchemy. In fact, it would only become more valuable as there is a lot more resources freed up to allocate to it.

There's always going to be scarcity. You can't make more time. Unless you think we'll all have time machines as well?
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They were all established capable climbers before they earned a reputation free soloing. That's not really true in this case. I mean, every year there are inexperienced climbers who die, but comparing them to the masters is like comparing some kid with a spoiler on his Honda civic who loses control and hits a tree to a professional formula 1 driver.
I was reading a another article about this ascent yesterday and they brought up a great point. Prior to Roger Bannister running the 1st sub 4 minute mile it was thought to be impossible and beyond a humans capabilities. Once that barrier fell many more quickly pushed through it. There is something to someone moving the bar of what is possible. As a species we are incredible in our abilities and resolve to continually push ourselves.
Reasoning behind why whiteboard interviews suck is based that doesn't model real job skills. Maybe our org is an outlier but but we heavily rely on whiteboards to plan out architecture(ERDs,flow), problem solving, training/knowledge sharing. Our trello cards sometimes contains images of whiteboarded diagrams. Being able to explain and whiteboard your stuff is a very important skill at organization.
LOL no - not laughing at you, but laughing so as not to cry at the injustice. The US approach to this issue would be that you should spend more money suing the person who made the false accusation against you.

Although it's a little dense, a really good book on American legal culture is Adversarial Legalism by robert Kagan. Culturally the US is absolutely obsessed with property rights and the exhaustive accounting for them has provided fertile soil for a whole forest of complex litigation practices.

Many people would rather spent $10,000 on fighting a court case than pay $500 that they felt was unjustly billed to them. I once worked for a guy who got in a dispute with someone he had hired over ownership of the work product - he had not paid the bill for the photography and so the photographer was sitting on the footage. He took the photographer to small claims court; the court basically said 'meh, pay him what you owe and you, photographer, hand over the footage when he does.' We went outside and my erstwhile boss said 'well I showed him! that's the last time someone sues ME!' I literally walked away on the spot and never returned any of his calls even though he owed me some money; for my own sanity and safety I can not be around someone with that level of cognitive dissonance. I liked the guy, a lot, but he was literally editing reality in his head to fit his feelings from moment to moment. That sort of person is dangerous.
It's hard to maintain credibility when you say things like "I didn't say it was hearsay" when your words are just above and say "it's all a big swirling mess of hearsay at this point"
I neither accept your 'reality check' nor the ridiculous binary choice your presented where everyone just knows how to act or radical feminists need to run university workshops (completely ridiculous).

Social interactions and social boundaries are largely a learned behaviour - it is not something that is innate in us. Because there is a huge emotional component when dealing with things like attraction, love, infatuation, jealously, rejection - you really just learn through experience. And by the way, no where am I advocating that companies shouldn't set clear boundaries on conduct in the workplace. Shit happens, and people will fuck up purposely or accidentally and should be held accountable (which may involve termination or even involvement of the justice system - depending on severity). I'm disgusted by OP's characterization of individuals that were fired in this probe, the ugly words she/he uses to describe them and for implicitly advocating to ostracize them from society - people he knows nothing about.
WBIs will go away if the developer community rallies around not doing them. Companies can offer crazy incentives to work there like free massage, organic lunches, and game rooms, but they can't figure out a better way to hire than conducting WBIs? I call BS. They'll figure it out when they're pressured to do so...aka they can't find good talent anymore. Let's put on the pressure.
I've never climbed anything other than a rock wall in a gym. If I know Honnold, they know Honnold.
Honnold climbed it incredibly quickly. Most people take three or four days, this is a very long and very difficult route. If you've ever been to an indoor top rope gym, imagine picking the hardest route and doing it about 80 times.
I'll add Derek Hersey to that list. He's not as big of a name as those on this list, but there is a movie called Front Range Freaks which has a great segment about him and soloing. He died at 36.
Having a giant facility so close to Google's other offices has obvious benefits, but there are costs as well - more expensive real estate, difficult to compete with other companies for staff of all levels, hard for workers to find affordable housing, etc.

To mitigate some of these issues, would Google ever consider setting up such a giant campus outside of the Bay Area or in another state?