skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Berlin will have a place for you ;) ! Honestly, just another bad news from a country that now began to close its doors to be happy alone. Instead of embracing change and new people, it now makes it extremely difficult for anyone to legally come in. The American Culture became not so wide spreaded because of its interesting closedness, but because it gave many, many people a chance and because it incorporated cultures into this enormous melting pot. I think conservative Americans have not yet realized to what extent the current Administration destroys the glorious brand the country once was. Last time I checked the USA on google maps, there were large areas of empty land that could be the home of a hundred million more without disturbing anyone. At least the acre of Texas prarie that we own is a very lonely space to camp on...
What's ironic about it?
price discrimination can get you into trouble, some forms are straight up illegal in US.
At first I thought it was an onion article; its sad for the business but funny headline.
If you like this article, check out the book Secret Sauce: https://www.secretsaucenow.com.

Same author. Expanded content.
Need? No.

Compelling and valid temptation? Yes.
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Do most remote job interview loops include whiteboard-esque coding challenges, or more focused on soft skills and project/contract based assignments to assess your skills?
Everyone's saying that JS is bad, it's been proven, big league, the most expert programmers use Oberon-2, and believe me that's what we've got here only the most expert legitimate programmers, getting tired of winning.
yes, but it could be better.

People who don't are unemployed but don't get benefits still have to pay about 180€ a month for health insurance.
Twitter Users Blocked by Trump File Lawsuit
It's hardly odd for a computer security company to seek government contracts. The released emails don't seem point to anything nefarious (unless merely working with the FSB is considered nefarious). The remainder is a lot of "could" and "would be possible" speculation. Conspiracy mongering clickbait. Moving on.
But its easy to see how having a computer can make someone intending to pay attention be distracted and miss critical information. A distracted mind is not going to create connections to understand the material as a whole, but rather will simply grab bits and pieces as their concentration is split.
This is a really weird comment.

I re-read the article and it only mentions labour vs capital once, in passing. Mostly it talks in terms of owners vs managers, and the principal-agent problem. You refer to "greedy pigs" and exploitation making it sound as though the author is anti-capitalist, but that does not seem to be the case).

(I was curious enough to look him up. He's a finance professor at HBS. That probably explains the different slant compared to other Atlantic articles).
IBM: A Future Blockchain Leader?
But His Emails
> and the industry standard is that companies pay for BOTH their own legal counsel and the investor’s legal fees.

Serious question - how is this still the case, or make any sense? Wouldn't it be in the investor's interest that the company doesn't spend $60K out of their raise on this, and instead on hires, product, etc?

And given how standard a process this must be for every VC firm, I imagine they would have a well-negotiated rate, which for them is an incremental cost of investing?

I'd like to believe that there are firms out there that don't do this, and that this is turns out to be some sort of advantage for them (a form of founder-friendly/company-friendly, if you will).
If people stopped wanting to burn hydrocarbons for energy all of these companies would stop digging it up from the ground.

Conversely, if all of these companies were suddenly shut down 100 new ones would rise up in their place to replace them.

Demand drives consumption.

Writing a report about how 71% of emissions come from 100 companies doesn't convey meaningful information to the reader about the nature of the problem of global warming.
Given the state of the IPO market its not obvious to me that you are right about public markets. MSFT is trading at 30000% IPO price. Facebook, having delayed its IPO to the last possible minute so private equity & VCs can maximize their returns, is trading at 500% IPO, so will need to grow 60x for the common man to see similar returns as MSFT, is that possible in any amount of time? I'm no economist and my analysis is surely bunk but am i in the ballpark? Income inequality is a tricky issue and parent analysis doesn't even come close to a compelling argument in either direction.
CBC Report on diversity in Canadian tech companies
Then perhaps you missed one of the novel ideas Cloudflare is also filing a complaint with the ethics committee. And their talking to reporters.
I don't think many do conflate the two, I think most people just don't see value in software patents.

Software is great because it has no cost to copy, so when someone creates a new algorithm it can be put in use everywhere applicable rapidly. This pace of advancement is so awesomely powerful that many do not appreciate how much positive change it can bring or how different the world was just a few years ago. An advancement in algorithms becomes and advancement for humanity pretty quickly.

Software patents are the exact opposite of this.

I will take it one step further and claim that patents on the whole are bad. I don't think they do what most Americans think they do in terms of incentivizing inventors or protecting small business.

EDIT - Also software is already covered by copyright, why does this IP deserve two kinds of protection and most other IP gets 1 or 0 kinds of protection.
If I was to review (CS-related) math after a break of many years, what would be a good starting point? High school math? Discrete math? What are the foundations and the path like for the stuff more closely related to algorithms and core CS stuff?
I believe they are different in that a SAFE does have interest.
I'm not a fan of the argument that if Blackbird weren't a NPE it'd be okay because Cloudflare could then aim it's 150 strong patent portfolio cannon back at them. It's basically saying incumbents like Cloudflare don't really want to fix the system, they want to keep the untenable 'cold war' status quo which protects them but burdens new entrants.
Yes. It's easier to find people with Javascript experience to work on your Node.JS app. But are they as good as the engineer doing Ruby for 6 years? Are they as good as someone doing Python for the last 10 years?

I am not going to try and answer these, it will be idiotic but all of these articles and some of the thrust behind leaving Ruby and these articles are just driven by the wrong reasons.
yes, but if you get ALG1, they are quite chill.

ALG2 admins are harder, but you get ALG2 after being unemployed for more than a year, so it's understandable, I think.
I trust the government even less. Charlie Gard is a good example - the UK government has not only decided that he should die, but that his parents are barred from bringing him to another country for treatment.

On top that, the UK is saying that he has to die at the hospital and that his parents can't bring him home on hospice.
The thing I like the most about MAAS is the smallest commit in history:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maas-committers/maas/trunk/revi...

It flips a single bit.
Even Edmonton (a.k.a. Deadmonton) is getting some attention; DeepMind will open a branch in here and EMC2 will expand their offices.

It seems Trump is turning out to be a good Canadian president, so far.
America’s gap between black and white infants’ mortality has stopped narrowing
I agree, but have a small caveat: math does typically strongly involve numbers, so in a way, it is about numbers, though it's definitely not about just memorizing things or blindly applying formulas.

It just bugs me sometimes when people make hyperbolic statements like that. I remember coworkers saying things like "software consulting isn't about programming". Yes it is! The primary skill involved is programming, even programming is not the ONLY required skill.
Chicago's 911. http://youarelistening.to/chicago For some reason and in my timezone difference to Chicago it puts my brain into coding mode, sometimes hours. I doubt anybody else around me would enjoy that.
FCC whitebox to sniff your home internet
That sounds like an excellent format. What were the hours?

I can imagine that taking a lot of planning and refinement over multiple offerings to get the timing just right on the exercises.
The Technology That Will Make It Impossible for You to Believe What You See
So it's like Algolia, with a UI baked in? How does ongoing support and maintenance work?
Rich Chinese immigrants are fueling Vancouver's housing bubble. Good luck with that.
Is this suggesting that the same TV network which airs a show called "ANCIENT ALIENS" would have some completely inaccurate and poorly researched easily debunked claim on one of their TV shows?

What's next? Is some blogger going to reveal to the world that Seinfeld and Star Trek aren't real too??
This seems quite close to doxxing in my opinion. Flagged.

Edit: If there's a goal other than shaming these doctors and making it easy for people to harass them, please let me know , and I'll gladly remove my flag.
My friend created an advanced fluid scanner using a dodecahedron. His method is novel in that it:

1. Does not require rotation of the DUT, but instead uses just rising fluid level.

2. Uses permeable fluid so it achieves full density scans.

He spent a number of years trying to get the product to market as a startup, but ran out of personal funding.

He believes Archimedes may have used the Roman dodecahedron as a fluid scanner to test the quality of their projectiles to improve accuracy.

See http://www.romansystemsengineering.com/our_product.html
>calculate the price after the discount

It is the discount they care about, not the price. These have no calculations, only gut feelings, which are perfectly exploited.

Btw, how many world-ruling decisions are made this way?
Maybe she found easier math boring, therefore did low effort, therefore had bad results. It is a cycle, happen to kids that have aptitude but are in easy class. The teacher might have been right.

I used to have bad grades from classes I considered easy.
>And what do you do if your preferred media posts what may be construed as a [opposing viewpoint] headline? Just unsubscribe immediately?

No, because I'm not fragile like liberals are.
Micromégas by Voltaire (1752)
The most charitable explanation I can think of is that this is a relic of old times, and that is changing. I know of founders who have insisted on this being paid by the VC, and successfully gotten so.

But I'd also like to know how standard/non-standard this is.. and why is it even the case in the first place?

Given how Fred Wilson (and others) talk about not liking SAFE, they really should then make it easier to do priced rounds without putting the burden on founders.
The Kaspersky AMA thread from May of this year:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/6ajstf/im_eugene_kasp...
Shocker. I remember being part of Clemson's laptop pilot program in 1998. If you were ever presenting you basically had to ask everyone to close their laptops or their eyes would never even look up.
As an intermediate dev - is it even ~really~ possible to get a remote job then?

Assuming all of your demonstrating points are just from previous employment?
> Honestly, the whole "you need to get them when they are young" idea never convinced me very much. It's never too late to learn a thing and often you need a certain age to actually appreciate something. You don't have to be a childhood prodigy to be good at something.

While starting early is neither necessary nor sufficient for success, the question should be: do the benefits of starting early outweigh risks? Like the parent comment, I think they do, if done correctly and gently, but it should be decided case-by-case for each child. The only risk I can think of is: if you push too hard, it can have the opposite effect of making the child hate it. So, one has to do it with utmost sensitivity and by responding to cues and feedback from the pupil.
I don't think you'll find more about Reflex. The language is still in the late design stages, it has not yet been released. That video is probably the only public information about Reflex, straight from its creator's lips.
| Wait and see how long before Seattle adjusts the minimum down.

Inflation already does the dirty work.
This is an enormously serious problem with humans. All humans. Cognitive biases, miscommunication, misinterpreting patterns and data and evidence, inability to differentiate what something looks like from what's inside, inability to believe statistics that contradict personal experience, the list goes on and on...

People who have learned math and are comfortable with it's symbols and abstractions are less susceptible, but all people are susceptible to this confusion.
Bullshit. It's very easy to get kicked out of the system, while one is still required to pay full contributions while employed in Germany. Let's say e.g. one works in Germany for years, moves to another EU country, ends up without a job within couple of months. German benefits are forfeit, that's about it regarding their social security. Money sunk in a black hole.
Here's the actual quote from Kaspersky's email about his firm's projects with the FSB:

> The project includes both technology to protect against attacks (filters) as well as interaction with the hosters (‘spreading’ of sacrifice) and active countermeasures (about which, we keep quiet) and so on

Does anybody know what "interaction with the hosters" means?
I think this is cool! One way to do something similar is just return the result in modification function and then do chaining, like typical js.
On a somewhat related tangent, I think about programming the same way.

I always tell people programming and syntax are easy - it's learning to think in a systems and design mindset that is the hard part.
I feel like the conclusion is a bit off base: that students lack the self control to restrict the use of laptops laptops to class-related activities is somehow a sign that the problem is the laptop and not the students? I think it's very possible that younger generations have big issues with self-control and instant gratification. But I think it's wrong to think that laptops are the faulty party.
The sibling commenter is right re: bachelors and certifications, but due to shortages in the US often teachers with no certification in a subject are teaching. See Table 2 in [1] and find that 70% of high school math teachers have a math major and 81% are certified, while 10% of public high school math teachers have neither a math major nor a certification in math.

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2015/2015814.pdf
Magic Leap is still figuring out what 'mixed reality' is
Why are lectures still being conducted in the classroom? Students shouldn't just be sitting there copying what the teacher writes on the board anyway. They should be having discussions, working together or independently on practice problems, teaching each other the material, or just doing anything that's actually engaging. Lecturing should be done at home via YouTube.
First Look to Support Defense of Reality Winner in Espionage Act Prosecution
It's cutting off your nose to spite your face. No one is better off by sabotaging our economy except those who want to further their political careers by saying "I told you so" at the end of his term. It's politicking of the worst kind and damages the democracy.

Good democracy:

- fierce competition in the election

- choose winner

- work together as much as possible to do what's best for the country

Replacing step 3 with "do as much as possible to obstruct the winner and hurt the country until we win again" is stupid. It slows us down and weakens the functioning of the democracy.

Nothing wrong with anyone saying "We are fully against policy X". There is something wrong with "We are fully against policy X, so we will harm unrelated things: Y and Z (the economy in this case)".
The point is there isn't like a formal definition of "a blow" that you can resort to. It can be "a blow" for any number of reasons, and it doesn't take a ton of imagination to conjure a few.
The .NET and .NET Core version numbers are another minefield, and I still can't remember (and don't really care) what's what. Your choices are either to laugh or be filled with rage. I'm coming round to the first one having mostly opted for the second in recent months.
There's a BigInt proposal at stage 2, which might meet some of your needs: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-bigint
So based on these differences, women should thus work more hours then men since they have less strength in manual work.
Kubernetes 1.7 on Ubuntu, the Easy Way
Could you have your "get" handler do its thing and have it forward on the arguments it received to the "apply" handler if necessary with an extra flag argument and vice versa?
>I would not interpret "one of the most dramatic periods of economic development in history" as referring to the boom of China's internet sector starting in 2008.

The economic development in the last decade can be safely regarded as the most dramatic period in history, it added ~40% of US GDP in that period. The Internet sector is of course one of the major driving forces for that.

> If you intend to give credit to the GWF for that particular thing, then by all means do so. But that is not at all what I got from your original comment, nor your first reply.

Sorry to get you confused but it is pretty clear to me that 1) GFW is being built/maintained as a tool for protectionism agendas, 2) it blocked most western Internet services to allow Chinese Internet sector to grow faster in the last decade, 3) with such help from the GFW, the Chinese Internet sector managed to get to where it is now and helped to fuel the economic growth in that period.
I think the Bloomberg reporting goes beyond that. They claim lots of networking hardware comes pre-installed with Kaspersky software that the end-user may not even be aware of.

I can't find specific products so I don't know whether this is just Dell-preinstalled crapware that can be wiped with an OS reinstall or some sort of embedded device where the end user has no interface to disable/uninstall it.
I see it too. Here in Cape Canaveral, we don't have a tech industry. Sure, we build plenty of rockets and electronics, and we have a lot of coders, but you won't see much javascript and we don't have a single VC firm. From a finance perspective, we just aren't tech. If you want to start a rocket company or land a rover on the moon, you'd better know someone on Sand Hill Road.

As far as I can see, the issue is this: the Fed is trying to apply a macroeconomic loosening of the money supply to fight the deflation from the financial crisis. For political reasons, the old school Keynesian method of borrowing for more government spending can't be used. So, they are maintaining low rates to try to jumpstart the economy. Unfortunately, this money has to enter the economy through a financial system which is geographically imbalanced. So, we get inflation in SF, and NY, less inflation in cities with less finance industry, and deflation in much of the rest of the country. This seems to be the big economic issue of our time in the developed world.

Why we have two economies, and the financial system isn't arbitraging this difference away, I'm not sure. I recall reading an economist (Harold Innis maybe?) who warned about the centralizing effects of a Keynesian inflationary theory. Anyone know more about this?
We let X people into the country every year.

The question is WHICH X people should we let in. Should we let in X low skilled workers or X high skilled workers?

You could perhaps make the argument that the US should lower the TOTAL amount of people let into the country.

But if that is your argument, then there is no point in talking about software engineers. You should be worried about the construction workers wages that are being reduced.
Is is much below the IPO price now

currently 15/62 but trending lower

This is before the lockup period ends when ususal new stocks drop
Find me a VC panel where the VC's say anything other than "we're keen to invest in quality" and I will find you a hedgehog that likes naked skydiving.
Intel renews data center push with launch of Xeon Scalable processors
Celery needs help badly. I'm one of the maintainers and we're swamped with issues to triage, bugs to fix etc.
I don't think it's entirely unfair. We know that the Russian government sponsors cyber attacks. They're not the only ones, we know the USA and China and North Korea and Israel and probably every other country does too. It all has to be taken into account.

If I buy Cisco gear, what's the likelihood that it has an NSA tap in it? [1] If I buy Check Point gear, what's the likelihood that it has a Mossad tap in it? [2] If I buy Kaspersky software, what's the likelihood that it has an FSB tap in it? Who would I rather be spied on by?

Does it change the risk rating if we know we're under active attack by a particular country? As someone who works for a major tech company, I can tell you Snowden's information about the NSA cut deeply into the trust we had built up with our foreign customers.

It is entirely fair to judge a Russian security company based on the actions of their government related to cyber attacks. Especially considering the not-entirely-democratic government of Russia does not allow private sector companies to be entirely private sector.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/21/nsa-technique-for-cisco-...

[2] http://greatcircle.com/firewalls/mhonarc/firewalls.199707/ms...
It seems like an easy problem to solve. Line the taxiway with red/blue/green or whatever color is appropriate lights.
Yeowch. I was about ready to make a comment about how the airport/approach plates should make something like this impossible, but then I looked up the diagram for SEA:

https://flightaware.com/resources/airport/SEA/APD/AIRPORT+DI...

Basically, you've got a runway, the taxiway of the same length as the runway!, and then two longer runways from left to right. I totally see how someone could make this mistake in bad lighting or weather!
I agree, but I don't think going through and reworking any actual content of the articles (these are all essentially wiki pages) is in scope for this stage of the redesign. 'atopal mentioned elsewhere in this thread [0] that they're doing this incrementally, and the next phase will be dedicated to article page layout.

You might want to mention this on the accompanying Discourse feedback thread [1] so it's noted for the next phase.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14745947

[1] https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/beta-redesign-feed...
Because you don't "just" develop your next project in some other language/framework. You and your team have to throw out domain knowledge and make a whole bunch of mistakes with the new language/framework before reaching the competency you "just" threw away.

"Just" is a terrible word we use far too frequently in the software industry.
This is something I think Django got much more right than Rails - it encourages splitting up of "sites" into smaller "apps", where an app is a bundled set of model/view/controller/routing and maybe a few other things. We exercise this design pattern a lot on the project I work on (we have ~350 apps in our monolith) and it's mostly a very nice codebase to work on.

I think microservices become far less necessary when the monolith is structured in this way. I'd rather have a clean API to a subsystem exposed as a Python function call than as an HTTP endpoint with all the reliability and distributed systems issues that come along with that.
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Where no ransomware has gone before...
One vote in favour of hot corners here. As long as they are implemented in a reasonable way.