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Yeah, last month wasn't great for me, busy chasing several things. Looking back, I didn't reply to 3 of the applications that came in via HN (excluding the recruiter spam, of course)

I don't really believe in canned responses for applications, though, which is why you didn't get one from me. In your case, it was either (1) you were remote, or (2/3) new grad from either college or bootcamp. As a small team we're not well setup to provide the mentorship I believe is crucial for new devs, which is why we're looking for a few years experience today.

I know it's hard on your end, though. Sorry you didn't hear back. I do try to reply to everyone, but I haven't been able to keep up, so maybe a canned response really would be better.

Cheers
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IIRC the default ruleset allows browsers to make any connections on 80/443. You could delete that rule and do it on a case-by-case basis, but it'd be painful.

There are probably browser extensions better suited to restricting browser connections. Maybe run LS on top of one of those so the browser can catch most of them witout making a ton of popups.
This seems incredibly overblown. According to the diff, all they were collecting is time spent editing certain file extensions, along with a list of installed packages:

https://github.com/SideBarEnhancements-org/SideBarEnhancemen...

They're trying to figure out what languages people are actually editing on a day-to-day basis, and people here are calling for them to leave the company? Like, really?

People have been whipped up into a frenzy for data that a webapp wouldn't blink twice at collecting. But when it's installed locally it's somehow different than if we load a webapp in a browser?

I agree with you in principle, but it seems like people here didn't actually look at what was being collected. They just saw "data collection" and went absolutely nuts.

Yeah, collecting installed package names isn't really great, but it's pretty harmless, right? It's a stupid decision, but people seem to be looking for reasons to get upset.

They're not collecting filenames, and they take the sha1 hash of whatever could be personally identifiable. Why is any of this bad, or a violation of trust? They even say right in the readme that they're doing it and how to opt out: https://github.com/SideBarEnhancements-org/SideBarEnhancemen...

If they made it opt-in, no one would opt-in. I understand it's a slippery slope, but is this reaction appropriate?
Wait. Do you have to include the runtime with the app? That seems backwards.
Except that I have seen way too many incompetent uses of APIs that support bad ideas, and so, in reality, everyone would use "the best setting!", aka, all validations switched on, and thus probably lead to all kinds of false positives with hard rejects. See also the common rejection of +-suffix addresses, for example.

For address validation, connection checks are a bad idea. For address validation, turning any temporary failure into something that could end up as a hard reject is a bad idea.
"The Good Wife" is a great source of information on this.
I don't think anyone would take offense to that term. It is used in a professional context quite frequently. Everyone knows what the word means.
I think your best bet is just to refer to regions or specific countries. The "developing" part of developing countries creates a false dichotomy. The World Bank doesn't even use it anymore (https://qz.com/685626/the-world-bank-is-eliminating-the-term...). Just say South East Asia or Sub-Saharan Africa, or whatever you mean.
I think ZCash is the only coin that is private in a real sense; Monero is somewhat private, but as I recall, by watching the mempool, it is possible to see the chains being built and to reconstruct the payments. That's all transient data that is not included in the blockchain itself, but for agents interested in tracing future transactions or logging current transactions there's a significant amount of pseudonymous traceability.
Keep dreaming.

Forced to choose between the agencies and big business who do you think the legislators will choose? Sure they can side with the agencies but if business isn't on-board with that checks will get written and there will be new legislators.

I hope the agencies force the choice. It gives the legislators a chance to do all the things they should have done after Hoover left.
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> The colored boxes should be replaced very quickly to the gif.

In several attempts, 4-5 of them were GIFS and the rest waited colored- it was enough for me to assume they were meant to be empty. I have a fast LTE connection. Spinners are a distraction but the slightest, faintest spinner concept can do- and they don't need to spin just maybe just wave or show something is coming.

or maybe don't show the colored boxes at all ..
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Very small wind systems do have "dump loads", big resistors to use up spare energy and act as a brake for the turbine.

The key word is "curtailment" for renewables: https://electrek.co/2017/03/27/california-solar-wind-renewab...

For wind farms, this just involves turning the blades on their axes like "feathering" a propellor. This reduces efficiency and hence power output, potentially to zero. Turbines may also need to feather if the wind is too high to avoid exceeding max speed.

All larger systems - coal, CCGT etc - have some kind of system for throttling back input of steam or gas to turbines. Nuclear power is slightly different in that it takes a long time to cool down the reactor even once you slow the reaction, and heat is still generated from intermediate decay products. So they have "bypass" systems instead for dumping steam.

All power plants have to be able to survive the loss of their upstream output load without self-destructing. In case the wires go down.

Spot prices may also go negative for short periods, but that's a different thing. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/why-power-prices-...
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Strictly staying within US law is not the only thing that the US intelligence apparatus tries to do. There are also agreements not to monitor the citizens of "Five-Eyes" citizens in those countries without due process; even if not illegal, it would violate the intelligence-sharing agreements we have with those nations and would be highly improper due to the damage to national security that risking those intelligence-sharing agreements would entail.

That being said, this story is incredibly thin.

>It aimed to explain why Dotcom and others charged in the FBI's Megaupload investigation were spied on for two months longer than previously admitted.

There's no reason this would even be improper, if the FBI had gone through due process in the US, which it appears they had. This story appears to be entirely Kim Dotcom's lawyer trying to politicize his case in order to fight a lawful extradition.
I wish Soundcloud would improve its UI. I really want to use Soundcloud when I'm on the go, but it's app is so shitty it's constantly crashing.
I know this isn't directly relevant to your post, but do you know anything about Facebook's London Software Engineering Co-op, or could you put me in touch with someone who does?

I'm trying to clarify whether the role is full-time, and if so, whether it might be possible to create a part-time equivalent position for a student enrolled in a MRes program.

Alternatively, is there a part-time/internship equivalent of the Solutions Engineer position?
It's not just "lazy developers".

For most freelancers and contractors the economics of the market means most of the time you have to be lazy or you will lose the job to someone else.
Labels such as "altcoin" are propaganda. It does nothing to describe actual physical/technical properties of a chain. It is only meant as a tool to alter people's perceptions of a coin.
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That's the exact argument that was used by sysadmins to explain why their jobs could not be automated.
Dropping the silly commas somehow wasn't obvious right away to McCarthy, either!

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14885779

The "Algebraic Manipulation of Symbolic Expressions" was basically predecessor to S-exps, but with commas.

The interesting thing is that math notation has some comma-based things (function arguments, sets, sequences) and some that don't use commas (like matrices and vectors).
It's a confusing headline. What the NSA does is probably illegal in every country but the US, but the implication is it's illegal in the US.

It's probable they do things that are illegal under US law, but I doubt this is one of them.
Heard Patrick on The Ezra Klein Show[0]. Astute af.

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So what's going on with the data collection? Do you still control the IP the system reports back to, or are users reporting their details to somebody else? Are you still using data arriving there?
> What relevance does this social contract have when we see it is violated all the time?

You cannot understand the notion of natural rights without understanding why they are fundamentally theologically based rights.

That doesn't necessarily mean religious theology - which is where it was rooted from ("that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" etc.). In an atheistic context, these rights can also be made unalienable by a firm societal devotion to humanism, or even just belief in the liberating power of free markets.

> What you call "legitimate" is wholly based on your own opinion of it.

Not by my opinion, but by my beliefs, and by the common beliefs of the rest of the society of which I am a part. Opinion and faith are different concepts. To have an opinion is to make a subjective judgement; to have faith is to optimistically take a risk on a productive course of action in the absence of evidence or guarantee.

What relevance does the social contract have? Society's collective faith defines our common ethics. The social contract does not only bind our government in its treatment of us; it binds us in how we treat each other, because our culture is not narrowly limited to our political beliefs but rather defines how we treat each other. Yes, it is rather laissez-faire, but it still firmly binds us to treat each other with mutual respect for our lives, our freedom, and the fruits of our labor. To reject the social contract is to be an anarchist.

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... We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.
... General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
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Their particular position is one thing, but giving only 4 days notice is quite another. Especially considering any BTC held in their "vault" service takes 48h to transfer into standard wallet. I (and I'm assuming many other folks) would have happily withdrawn if I had the time and wasn't busy doing things over the weekend.
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I haven't found that to be a big issue.

I choose clustering and dimensionality reduction hyperparameters to penalize clusterings with few repeated individuals (high entropy), while trying to maximize the entropy of the distribution of cluster labels.

To prevent cluster count explosion, you can put a regularization term/prior on the total number of clusters. An exponential or gamma with the expectation set to the square root of the number of distinct individuals is a good starting point.

Of course a big part of any analysis is responding to the data, no single approach will work every time.
Notable point: Red Hat are effectively declaring btrfs has no future.

From the release notes: "The Btrfs file system has been in Technology Preview state since the initial release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat will not be moving Btrfs to a fully supported feature and it will be removed in a future major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux."

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterp...
I think that is due to Federal subsidies, as long as they pay less than the subsidy they profit so you could also say:

The Federal government is subsidizing solar production to displace fossil fuel generation.

Which, unlike the headlines about 'negative prices' and being 'forced to pay other states to take their excess' sounds boring and sensible.
This assumption/worldview is interesting. I recognize myself thinking this way too, but on the face of it, it's a bit weird: if a project does not see continuous updates then we consider it to be outdated and worthless.

This definitely applies more to some things than others, but I think it's worth questioning, too. Does the thing still work? Was it great 3 years ago? Is there a reason it's less great now (other than that it was created 3 years ago)?

FWIW I based my blog theme on Skeleton. I must admit that the 3 year age gave me pause (irrationally, probably) and that it's worked out nicely.
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People need to stop creating awesome services, for free. That is the issue. You set the precedent, and attract people because it's free, and this is the end result. No one wants to pay for it. Netflix isn't free, look how awesome it is. People will pay for SoundCloud once you lock it down, and put a subscription fee to use it.
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Nuclear plants get something similar. Their liability is capped at $12.6 billion. A meltdown near a major population center would cost a lot more, but they don't have to insure against much of because of that cap.
Good analogy! And like Saturday Night Live as well, I've heard.
That's one possible analogy. Another analogy would be: an unrelated third-party decides to give, to everyone who has HP shares, an equivalent number of shares in a new company. In that case, a broker would be under no obligation to give you these new shares.

Which analogy is the best one depends on your point of view on this debate.
I don't mean that I have concerns about Ethereum itself, just the fact that it's currently too easy to write insecure contracts. And there has been some low-hanging fruit in remedying that, such as the whole "functions are public unless otherwise specified" thing.
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A barge in international waters where I would harvest organs from willing donors in third-world countries paid for in cash and sell them to rich alcoholics and whoever else wanted them.
No, not quite. It's like having $25 in your wallet in USD, and then next time you look at your wallet you have $25 in USD and also $25 in USD-different. Then you go to the store and find out they only accept USD, and not USD-different, but if you go to a currency exchange you can trade your USD-different for $1 or $2 in USD each.

Not a great analogy I guess, but the point is that it's definitely not the same as having a new denomination of currency. It's a whole new currency entirely, it's just that everyone who had Bitcoin was "granted" (sorta) this new currency too, in the same volume that they had the old currency.
This is correct- my daily environment usually involves multiple VMs and a Docker Compose setup, either a JetBrains IDE or Visual Studio Code, Chrome with some reasonable number of tabs open, Slack, and a few utilities. To further illustrate the reason why this sounds insane, before I was at 32GB, I was at 8GB, and conserved RAM by running Linux with an extremely lean setup (i3 + st + Chrome.) Now I have plenty to spare, and I'm using a much more rich environment.

So yeah, it is a little more complicated than just "Slack needed 32GB" - in fact, and thankfully, even my whole stack fits comfortably. It's what I upgraded from that it didn't work well on.
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1) Principle is what matters. This behavior is utterly and completely indefensible; screwing with people's private code for your whatever-nobody-cares startup is absolutely unacceptable at any level. I don't care how big your Series A round was or who your investors are, you just don't do it and you don't hide it and you don't lie about "forgetting" about it (and it should be considered a lie until proven otherwise because after the last couple weeks Adam Smith could fit in some Baghdad Bob photoshops).

2) Collecting non-bundled package names is another way to phrase "exfiltrating competitors' upcoming products." That by itself is sufficient evidence for me to want some heads.
Kite is a small fish in the bond... everyone working for FB and Google should be ashamed of themselves for working spy machines. I mean it. It sounds harsh but that's the way it is. But I guess money trumps morals.
Thank you for your clarification as to the law on key disclosure. I was sloppy when I said "UK" and I did not exclude Scotland. NI also has a separate law of their own for this, too.

> I'd suggest it could be argued lots of hentai fails (c).

I'm not so sure. Perhaps images that don't display any act of sex taking place, and just nudity or even swimsuit (e.g ecchi) would qualify, but most hentai does display acts of sex taking place. Either way, might the subject, being a "child" hold sway on whether it is considered "disgusting" or not? I'd think it would.

>the predominant impression conveyed is that the person shown is a child despite the fact that some of the physical characteristics shown are not those of a child.

Yes, this is the part that I was talking about when I talked about breast size and antennae.

Either way I am wholly opposed to such a law, and I think the arguments used to support it are weak.
The Pi (and other mathematical constant) computation records don't go that far. They verify random results towards the end with a different algorithm.
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But they won't. The people creating content on it did not have money and just wanted exposure. The consumers did not have money either.
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That's the crux of it. BCC is truly the end result of the years long civil war within Bitcoin, and so represents a significant minority of users and miners who really wanted larger blocks over Segwit and are willing to put their money where their beliefs are. This hard fork has been a very long time coming, unlike some Bitcoin clone that anyone could set up.
I've seen plenty of this. The most common offenders are junior to mid-level developers who, in the pursuit of attaining the trappings of sophistication, cargo cult various patterns without understanding the original rationale behind those patterns, nor when they should be applied. What they fail to realize is that needless indirection is not the same as useful abstraction.

Think what you will of Zed Shaw, but he actually has a pretty good piece on how indirection and abstraction get mixed up:

https://zedshaw.com/archive/indirection-is-not-abstraction/
Can someone state in a nutshell why this guy keeps getting bullied by the government?
Yea how many people delete source content after they've uploaded. I wouldn't be surprised a lot of people do that. General population doesn't think it's worth to simply buy more space either online or on disk. It can be expensive to do so even for people like me who realize that disk on the whole is cheap compared to losing the data.
Question is when will Stripe (or someone else) operate even =more= like a merchant account (ie, interchange+ pricing).
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Yup you got it. Bitcoin cash is a game of musical chairs - you can only raise the block size so much before its completely centralized (even more than it already is), by hardware requirements.
Will them?

Amazon differential is not the quality of their app. Unless they create something really impressive some day, they can only lose customers by moving faster there.

Besides, none of those are small startups anymore. All of them have something to lose.
Do you know if any of their patents are valuable? I don't know enough about the field to tell.

But they've been at this since 2003 and have pages of patents, http://patents.justia.com/assignee/theranos-inc

It'd be surprising if there was nothing of value.
I vividly remember how difficult it was. You had to print pages off and fill out all this stuff and mail it to someone.
Piracy. MegaUpload was a huge warez distributor around the same time as RapidShare. File Hosters over HTTP
I don't understand why bitcoin is afraid of hardforks. Ethereum hard forks like there is no tomorrow, and so far the number of major block-chain-splits is equal, two. The offical implementation not forking does by no means prevent anybody else from hardforking to begin with, Bitcoin cash demonstrates.
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