skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes software like Docker (in certain network configurations) will use iptables for its own purposes, clobbering some of your own iptables rules. Having an external firewall for access control is super advantageous in cases like this.
Whiteboard Interviews Suck, Get Good at Them Anyway
The original title is far too long to fit: Student evaluations of teaching are not only unreliable, they are significantly biased against female instructors.
It's listing what technologies are used by developers. I would wager very few use Macs to develop for Windows.

The vast majority of developers out there are using Windows. I would believe the majority of start-up engineers are using Macs, but the world of software development is probably 100x that of "start-up engineers."
Taxes aren't that high in Germany. 40% - compared to what, 35% in the US?

Especially considering that a lot of what you pay in Germany is not a tax but insurance - health, social security, rent.

Also, no the taxes for high earners aren't that huge. Basically, the progressive tax stops growing at 50k and stays at 42% income tax. The insurances aren't progressive. If you take the total tax payed it's pretty flat over the whole income spectrum. I.e. sales tax hit rich people less because they don't have to consume all their income. Tax on property and wealth are low to non-existent. No inheritance tax either.

Middle class is actually where the tax increase is the steepest. Poor people as in working poor are relatively new in Germany - low income sector was created about two decades ago.

And no, our richt don't pay their taxes either. Top 0.1% evades 30% of taxes, among the 99.9% rest it's pretty much uniform 5%. There was an awesome report that I can't find right now. Workers in Germany also often can't evade. My tax is deduced before I'm, payed. Some jobs can evade tax by moonlighting.

Generally, _people_, even rich, pay their taxes (as they have no choice) - it's companies that evade big time. And the filthy rich.

Situation is much better than in the US, but the whole tax system is still bad. Basically, tax on profit is the best you can have. Companies either pay or invest - both cases are a win. Tax evasion breaks that and workers have to pay.
One could argue that Germany has an undervalued currency, which makes its exports more competitive, both in and out of the EU. The flipside is that countries like Spain have overvalued currencies, which means the jobs flow from there to Germany. Hence the chronic unemployment in Spain.

Sure, they have solid fundamental economic strengths, but a huge part of their recent success comes at the expense of other eurozone countries, due to the flawed euro currency union.
Freerider. The other replier has the link for you. Mountain Project is a great website to use if you hear someone say they climbed up a route, and are curious about the route.

You might want to checkout related articles on r/climbing, it's a reasonable community.
I don't think people are literally criticizing Uber for doing this investigation; I think they're just skeptical that it represents a real change of heart on the part of upper management including Kalanick. Until there's been a substantial period of time over which the change in behavior has been clear and consistent, I think that skepticism is warranted.
> I google him about once a year to see if he is still alive, and I'm surprised each time.

That's wickedly funny :) but alas I'm guilty of that too.

I think he should just stop now
It should be count(*), not count (activity_type_id), because count(expressions) evaluates expression for every row returned, whereas what you actually want is the total number of rows (which also happens to be what you get because activity_type_jd always evaluates to true.

Then, I'd try an INDEX(user_id, activity_type_id) on activities. InnoDB only uses a single index per table IIRC, and that would mean reading the entire table every time.

Lastly, and I'm not sure if this makes a difference, but it feels wrong to specify the activities.user_id = #{id} in the ON clause. It really should be in WHERE... That may not change anything, or it could cause some really bad cross products currently being produced as intermediate results.
I'd like to hope the US is just better at catching criminals than the rest of the world. Sadly these conflicts of interest make that the less likely explanation.
Open beer fidget spinner hack
Yea it was, but the down payment we were able to make from the huge profit we made from the last place meant the monthly payments were only a few hundred bucks more a month.
When I first started using GNU/Linux as my desktop system, I kept a Windows installation around for watching DVDs - back then, CPUs were not powerful enough for that, so I had bought a PCI card that did the decoding in hardware, but drivers were available only for Windows (IIRC), so I to boot into Windows to watch DVDs.

In retrospect it is rather funny, but I did use Windows ME for that, and it never gave me the slightest trouble. (Of course, one might say, I hardly used it. True enough.)
> I have independently verified
> Nope. I don't need to be to have a conversation

You can't publicly claim that you independently verified something and provide absolutely no information on that verification. You are not a Pope.

You started the conversation and chose to share that piece information.
> After the mandated increase in pay

Another perspective is that without the mandated pay increase these people were working for a wage below the poverty line. (An assumption on my part, but why else would a pay increase be forced upon a business?)

So what you really mean to ask are we better off paying folks a wage below the poverty line, or force business to pay a livable wage? I think history has provided numerous examples of why labor laws are important.

So, my question to you, are you unfamiliar with history and why labor laws are important?
If you haven't read "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson, you'd probably enjoy it. It's a science fiction story about basically math monks (there's also a heavy dose of philosophy, though it's pretty much all connected to math in some way).
If you go with gsuite you can have unlimited drive for 10/month. It says you need five users but it's not currently enforced. I'm rocking almost 8tb and there's no sign of a cap.
You can't. It's not that hard to make a controller that lets you physically turn the wheel using an RC remote, it's just a matter of attaching a servo to some cords pulling it (there's a guide on Instructables).

The reason terrorists don't do that has nothing to do with being hard.
I have a slowly-brewing notion that it will eventually be a matter of etiquette, to ensure that any content your produce is properly tagged such that people can treat you as a subset of yourself. Eventually—hopefully—it will be seen as incredibly uncouth to intermingle personal, political, and pastime content into one feed with no ability to re-separate them.

But that time is, sadly, not today. Until then, building feed-readers with topic-analysis auto-tagging might help.
Someone in the ML programming language community should use the name DeepML to further sow the seeds of confusion.
JavaScript is easy to debug and test, its relative safe, and closures makes it easy to write async programs. Compared to C or C++ you'll have a huge productivity boost with a very small performance penalty. It's also easy to learn compared to other languages. It also doesn't have a standard library which makes it easy to integrate into any platform. For example in Windows OS and other Microsoft products you've been able to use JavaScript as a scripting language for a very long time. So JavaScript is not a language that has only been available in browsers. There are actually people out there that prefer JavaScript and write in it voluntarily.
It's not as sophisticated as you may suppose :)

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_73/...
Agreed, the other replies to this question seem to understate the difficulty of the route. It's a lifetime achievement for almost any climber. I'd ballpark that it's been free climbed by 100-300 people?
I'm not at all refuting what you're saying. I believe it.

I do want to say, however, that from my limited understanding it's more likely not the negative effects of television itself, but more a lack of positive influence. That is, time spent watching television is time spent not engaging in more creative pastimes typical to children of that age. Things like play, exercise, socializing, and testing limits in various ways.

Almost any resource on brain development and function will spell out that the early years of childhood are the most crucial, and development during that time will influence your development throughout the rest of your life.

I mean, without diving deeper and finding real resources, I'll predict that there's no special poison that makes television so detrimental, it's the displacement of other positive stimuli in childhood.

I didn't read your other sources, don't have the time presently -- is this generally apt? Or are they more pointed than my take?
> Wealthy individuals commit time, money, and effort to important problem. Screw those guys... am I right?

No, this is not right and the attitude dripping off your post isn't very constructive either.

These individuals have disproportionate leverage as a result of their wealth and available time. The likelihood is that they are going to make a bit of a mess with this leverage (you even say it yourself - "overall vector...off slightly"). So they can have a seriously deleterious effect on really very large numbers of children as a result of the power they wield.

A group of misguided parents in a PTA might might end up getting, say, Intelligent Design onto the science curriculum in their district; an opinionated billionaire could do rather more harm than that to very much larger numbers of students.

As for volunteering, many people do exactly that (and how do you know 6stringmerc doesn't?) by standing for school board elections, chairing the PTA, campaigning locally, giving talks in schools, and so on. The key point is that these are _local_ actions with local fallout. Conducting experiments at scale based on the idiosyncratic preferences of individuals who happen to have got lucky in business is a terrible, terrible thing to do to a city full of children.

I mean look at the proposals! They're classic examples of turning problems into nails when you're holding a hammer. Neflix recommendation algorithms to select lessons! Why? What the hell happened to pedagogy? Frankly, where's the humility? If Reed Hastings had got himself a masters in education and spent a few years teaching, even part time, there'd at least be some practical experience in the problem domain to guide his transformative efforts; otherwise it looks like dilettantism.
Why a web-app instead of a local application? Why does this need to be connected to the internet, when it doesnt interact with anything?

Is it because you want to be able to sync to other devices, such as a phone app in the future?
Add university. I graduated with 20k savings, Americans with 200k debt.
I love this. I want to stick it on an RPi and keep it on at all times.
>In the very next sentence you offer one such evidence, and then go on to discredit it with you can't just extrapolate.

Right. Because in the first case we're talking about a systemic problem applying to a global company of 12,000 possibly spanning all levels of management as well as its polices and mandates. In the second case we're talking about a person's singular experience - which I've never disputed. The former is a much stronger statement than the latter so you cannot use the latter to prove the former.
I aould certainly like to hear the caregiver perspective on this. Is it truly just that the "low end" of the market hs moved away from legal status to "cash under the table"? Are caregivers overall happier (or better off) working fewer hours for less pay and dealing with the increased issues brought about by constant change when caring for a dimensia patient?
> Universities are just giving the students what they want: a piece of paper that allows access to the job market. Most modern university students do not appear to want an education

Please not generalize - this is not the case in some other countries.
Why did Jet start here? Legitimate question.
>...Also, "The Thirteenth Amendment has also been interpreted to permit the government to require certain forms of public service, presumably extending to military service and jury duty.”

That’s a handy excuse to use to justify involuntary servitude. I guess they feel the part about "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,“ wasn’t meant to be taken seriously.
There is a bubble of people who claim that harassment don't happen and the negative reaction to it is always unfair.

Then there is bubble of people who claim that serious harassment is all the time around to almist all women and most companies and non victims (e.g. males) don't care.

Which of these bubbles were you trying to prove wrong?
Good talk from pycon 2017 on hacking the CAN:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bZNhMcv4Y8
I wonder - did you try to ask Ford for a .dbc-file containing the desired IDs to query? It's worth a shot plus those files save a ton of time.
Pro-tip: put your link to the newsletter, github and your twitter profile in the header of your site :).

Clearly states if it's open source, self hostable or a service.
The self driving car doesn't need to be perfect, it needs to be better than humans. That is a much lower bar. Self driving cars have already demonstrated their ability to handle traffic better than humans, but there are other situations where they are much worse.
It's in the "Security" tab of the developer tools actually.
Nobody likes having their costs more than doubled and having no choice but to pass that on to the customer.
I'm all for fair pay and I also think people should be able to afford in-home care for those that need it. It seems evident that the latter is no longer the case.

It's a hard line to walk.

Caregivers are getting paid more, but demand is much lower.
Thanks for bringing that to my attention! That's fantastic and I think they should put more focus on this option on the homepage.
>"There is a general feeling in the pure math community that popularizing mathematics is betraying mathematics,”

I don't think this is true at all. My experience with math professors is that they either would welcome more popularity in the field, or they simply don't care.

I DO think that they would be very dissatisfied with the kind of farcical representation of physics that sometimes goes on (looking at you Michio Kaku).

I also think it's very misleading to say mathematics has nothing to do with the real world. The obvious contradiction would be physics, since it's applied math, but I think the quoted person was talking about mathematical research, which is a much fairer point. While it's true that a lot, if not most, of mathematical research has little to offer in terms of applications, but a lot of times "useless" math can still describe real world phenomena, sometimes very beautifully.
Sure, but, just spitballing here, could a substantial fraction of imported code benefit even with a very conservative heuristic?

In any case, given your points, it seems like a future Python version ought to introduce a new version of the import statement with lazy semantics (which, besides eliminating dead code, is also IMO the more correct/explicit behavior when importing symbols).
Perhaps even beyond the money is the real economy version of quality of life derived from the consumption of produced good and services. Politicians talk about jobs and work because it is unseemly to talk about enjoying wealth.

When all public discourse talks about effort, it is easy to understand why people begin to think that lowered productivity, and decreased specialization are advantages rather than the enormous impediments to economic growth and prosperity.

Manufacturing is also much less "real" work than agriculture or perhaps construction, if you claim that mass produced goods don't feed you or put a roof over your head, yet few people bemoan the decline fro 50% to 2-3% of the workforce being in agriculture.

I suppose the answer to what other people are thinking requires an understanding of what their mental model of the economy is. For example, in real economy terms a trade deficit today means that we are getting a lot more stuff from our trading partner than they are getting from us in return.

So, ask these people to explain why our partner would agree to these terms right now, and also ask how they believe that they imbalance will play out over time. The potential answers are numerous, and it's really difficult to guess how you can shed any light on the dynamics of international trade unless you understand why people are worried about it in the first place.
It's an internal investigation. The point is to protect the company from lawsuits, bad PR, and future incidents. It'll only be effective at figuring out how to prevent future incidents if leadership values that aspect. From what I can tell, Uber's leadership has a particularly intense and narrow-minded emphasis on Uber's business performance.

I'm not holding out much hope of getting clarity from the investigation.
Thank you. Great tip.
The JavaScript Engineer Skill Tree
Set Up a CI/CD Pipeline with a Jenkins Pod in Kubernetes (Part 2)
Possibly. My guess is that only the exceptionally good leadoff guys will make it to a team, making them more expensive. Other teams might rather have a slugger hitting first than an average fast guy. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEYCU62yeYk and the mentioned paper i assume is https://ioactive.com/pdfs/IOActive_Remote_Car_Hacking.pdf
Absolutely. Codemonkey.ai analyzes every source code commit and correlates each with an issue tracking system to understand when defects are introduced, features added, etc.

We build a predictive model using the prior commit history as a training set to predict the risk of new commits going forward. This model leverages over 50+ metrics that we derive from each commit.

With this model we can do the following:
* Correlate code commits/changes to features, stories, and work items to understand the quality and risk impact that those things have on the codebase
* Utilize clustering to provide insights around developer productivity and quality impact to the codebase
* Utilize clustering to help with sizing of future features based on historical actuals

These are just a few of the areas where we are using ML within Codemonkey.ai today. In the future our goal is to tie additional information from production environments into this model as well.
Many many people work in environment where their machines are firewalled by a different time so perhaps it's no worse to them. These sorts of services are never as flexible as iptable and friends but they're still useful, especially for defense in depth (my planned usage).
You need to learn more. It is warmed-over Calvinism and this strain is widespread in the US thanks to the influence of theologians like the late RJ Rushdoony. Look into the work of Chip Berlet on Christian Dominionism and its influence on politics, as well as Colin Woodard's excellent history book American Nations.
This a recycled WSJ article from May 18. Here's the story, if you can get access:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-ryan-zimmerman-became-a-slu...
> You should be able to do both with far fewer than 12,000 people.

You're absolutely right. You could probably run Uber with a tenth of that headcount.

The thing is, at a lot of companies - and I'm guessing Uber is the same - there's no incentive to have a small team. In fact, managers are incentivized to have a bigger team. Having more reports, and more levels of management, under you is a status symbol. Plus, people use it to justify taking on bigger roles and more responsibility - "better to give the promotion to the person who already has experience managing a 300 person team and already has experience managing managers who manage managers than the person who's been making do with 10 direct reports."

So a lot more people end up getting hired than perhaps are really strictly necessary. It's a dynamic that probably most high-growth companies fall into at some point. You have to really consciously make an effort to stay lean if you want to.

Of course, what's wrong with having a little fat in the workforce as long as you have plenty of cash in the bank and can still operate effectively? Even if the hiring is driven in part by execs jockeying for position it's still spreading some of Uber's cash out to a broader swath of people. From a societal standpoint it's arguably better for Uber to employ 12,000 than 1,200 people.
Robin Hood has now officially thinged that PRM thing, sayeth Hacker News™.
I really don't care, but I'll further convolute your logic by commenting. In my anecdotal experience, there are many people that do not care about these controversies. They care more more about whether Uber is solving their transportation problem.
> the NSA simply looked up everyone who had accessed the document and inspected their workstations for clues.

The FBI doesn't mention the watermark in their affidavits, but they do mention that The Intercept gave away that the document had been printed and mailed from Augusta, GA. That allowed them to quickly zero in on Winner. The only "clue" on her workstation was that she had e-mailed The Intercept asking for a podcast transcript months before. In other words, she knew The Intercept existed.
The Intercept burned her.
Colorado Takes on 'Highway Robbery' (By Police)
Because it's 20 people out 12,000 and I (we) have no idea what it is they were fired for exactly. We don't know the context, the exact infraction, and how it was dealt with initially. I can't even tell if that rate is high, average or low when compared with any other company of similar size who would create a special sexual-harassment probe to investigate itself.
Because I just know web stuff. I did some .net like 15 years ago, but now I just know PHP and HTML, basically. Moreover, I'd love to create an app too, which would require an API, which requires to be available online.
TIL about John Gill. Mathematician and climber.
Or just logged into Gmail on her work computer?
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in ready-to-eat foods
Is ditch crashplan and install duplicati. I'm using it to backup to gdrive just fine.
Thanks for the comments.
I'd be interested in why RDF is important (ideally, on the OM discussion list :). To me, OM is better than the semantic web (on which I am not an expert), for reasons I try to explain in OM's FAQs.
Wow. I thought it's a bug in my copy. I tried furiously clicking around and the popup had no cert-info. That's really bad! Bring the cert info feature back! Why should I trust HTTPS if one cannot even read basic cert info to begin with!? Even IE11 has it, as does FF.
palms literally raining phew
That's what I was wondering. Whose brilliant idea was this and what was the rationale, does anyone know?

There are quite a few decisions/bugs/lack-of-feature I see in google product that makes me wonder to whom such things make sense or doesn't matter.
>Certainly The Intercept had no way of knowing that the serial number would correspond to an office printer at the NSA or one of their contractors.

They should have assumed it. While I agree they can't be expected to have enough technical savvy to remove watermarks, they should have re-typed it and hid or (better) destroyed the original.

What she did was illegal and the government is going to nail her to the wall for it, if for no other reason than as an example to others contemplating the same thing. I'm astounded how little effort they (both the leaker and the Intercept) put into avoiding discovery.

If it were me the watermarks would have been gone before the document left my possession. If you depend on other people to keep your secrets you're doomed.