skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I always look extremely carefully at companies that operate machinery (cars, machine tools and other connected devices) and do OTA updates. This sometimes leads to interesting discoveries and blind spots. Who ever thought that updating software connected to the cars' buses without first checking that the car is stationary was a good idea?...
Google's already canceled the domain registration: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-cancels-domain-registr...
> is there something about the JVM that gives rise to such vibrant ecosystems

Java.

It evolves too slowly, that’s why people try to fix it creating another languages on top of JVM. MS did much better developing C#, therefore less need for alternative languages.
Not bad. Could go further and call them "dependent" to make it unambiguous that they are not standalone devices but out of your control and potentially worthless if the connected services close or fail.
Breaching the corporate veil is definitely possible. An article from 1991 mentions ~2000 cases where it was attempted, 40% of which were successful[1]. However, this is much more common with smaller and more closely held corporate entities. None of the piercings attempted against public companies were successful. If I were in Benchmark's shoes I would not be particularly worried about that.

I think personal liability for their director is a somewhat more likely concern in the same vein. Smith v Van Gorkam[2] is a relevant case for that. Intentional misconduct is definitely something that can trigger this. I'm not sure that getting their obliviousness on the record is a particularly helpful defense against this though.

Overall, I doubt this theory is a major motivation on Benchmark's part. Benchmark obviously has billions at stake here and has also obviously concluded Kalanick is toxic to those billions. Seems reason enough to me for scorched earth legal tactics.

[1] http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_v._Van_Gorkom
I wonder what constantly being mad at everything does to our psyche.
Google says it will ban neo-Nazi site after domain name switch
Winter Leak – HBO Hack Coverage
Recently I spent an entire evening trying to get Gajim and ChatSecure work together with OMEMO and delivery of messages to multiple devices. I'm a technical person, but I failed, I got into all kinds of weird error modes, but ultimately no success. What a frustrating evening that was, a waste of time.

I have stopped to recommend Jabber/XMPP to people. Too many times I did that over the past 15 years and even when I succeeded in making them curious to try out... in the end there were too many problems and things didn't work right, and ultimately I too often looked like an idiot for recommending what is to other people just a broken tool. In the end, people don't care about "it's the choice that gives you freedom". People use the things that just work. And honestly, I can't even blame them (even if I'm personally not willing to give in to the privacy compromises that come with the other tools).
No, I don't really expect an average Joe to check certificate details. Explaining certificates to developers is hard enough — I can't imagine trying to get an average joe to comprehend it.

What details would they realistically look at, anyways? If the certificate validates, that's an automated check of most of the interesting bits. But the first thing in my dialog, for example, is the subject, which is garbage for many DV certs. Then there's the difference between CN and subjectAltName…
Not following the analogy here...
But one thing is to post a blog, another is to post a blog and share it on hacker news to generate feedback.
Re 3) it mightn't make an appreciable difference to the skill set as a whole, but it's sexist.

Why do something sexist that didn't have a benefit.

How is it OK to respond to a candidate for hiring "sorry you're the wrong sex" if they're otherwise the best candidate. That's completely wrong IMO.
So, from the context of Google, you are implying that is not what Google does (hires only to the bar). However, that is exactly what Google does. To get hired you have to pass the 5-interview in-person panel. Period.

What the original memo author was railing about, incorrectly, is the perception that spending more time widening the recruiting funnel for "diversity candidates" was lowering the bar. That is not true.

The reason is simple, Google doesn't hire people to fill positions, we hire people who are awesome/pass the interview bar. If there are 10 awesome people, we hire them. If there are 11, we hire them. There are always more positions than qualified candidates.

If you want to talk about if the bar is the correct measurement, etc, that's a completely separate conversation and wasn't part of the little "anti-diversity memo".
It's ridiculous because most countries have one or two at most and the US has eleven.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_in_s...
Perhaps apple users are significantly more likely to click on ads?
IMO, Waze is hit or miss, but fun. If you're doing a multi-car road trip the little messaging/beep features and stuff are fun. It overweights traffic and underweights stop signs and lights. It's great for inter-city travel, especially if you're a little familiar with the road.

But it's subject to flights of fancy similar to MapQuest circa 2002 where you find yourself taking some strange back road to save little or no travel time.
IMO if you're going to run a site like that, don't be surprised if you're forced to self-host. I am a little confused by the article. Did the stormer lose it's domain registration at GoDaddy? If so, I really wish someone else had bought it and squatted on it just for the lulz.
We use Eto.Forms for our cross platform dotnet core app.

https://github.com/picoe/Eto
Cooperative and competitive approaches both have their place, and are both necessary to move us forward. I'd say it's pretty fucking honest to admit one's attempt has failed rather than doubling down - about the best we can hope for.

To me, a lot of "off the grid" attempts look like elective attempts at re-solving issues dealt with by plain rural poverty out of necessity, often overspending on capital goods to do so (eg how much are storage batteries, shipped to Hawaii?). But even so, they are valuable as a different starting culture means different assumptions about what amenities are necessary, and different approaches to solving/suffering problems - eg the expectation that there will be dependable electricity for solid refrigeration, copious light at night, computers, and electronic entertainment - rather than simply shrugging off that the benefits aren't needed.
That was really entertaining, thanks for linking it.

I especially liked this bit:

David Johnson famously once said,
For any instance {G = (V, E)} that one could fit into the known universe, one would easily prefer {|V |^{70}} to even constant time, if that constant had to be one of Robertson and Seymour’s.

I was curious so I tracked down this:

Johnson estimated that the hidden constant is “somewhat larger” than 2 ⇑ (2 ⇑ (2 ⇑ (h/2)) + 3), where 2 ⇑ t denotes an exponential tower of t 2s (2 ⇑ 0 = 1 and 2 ⇑ t = 2^2⇑(t−1)) and h is the number of vertices in H.
> I'm not a lawyer but as I understand the law: to prove libel, it's not necessary to prove that the claim is false, only that the defendant is unable to prove it's true.

You are wrong in US law; the burden of proof for falsity is on the plaintiff.

Of course, the standard of proof in most civil cases is only preponderance of the evidence, so you only need more convincing evidence than the defense has, but the burden is still on the plaintiff.

And for a public figure on a matter of concern, you have to also prove that the defendant knew the statement to be false or made it with reckless disregard for the truth.
Both https://www.ycombinator.com/ and https://news.ycombinator.com/ have valid SSL certs. What domain are you referring to?

EDIT: Hmmm, https://ycombinator.com/ redirects to http://www.ycombinator.com/, which is lame.
> and who's going to do extensive research on the founders of a new VC fund

...Anyone who actually cares about their firm and is smart enough to actually attract VC interest?
It's generally not the case though: problems that arise 'naturally', i.e have not been constructed to counter my forthcoming point, in P seem to be of low order.

If NPC problems where P in n^{10^100}, wouldn't we expect a wealth of problems between there and the myriad at n^2 or so?
That's not even counting the half dozen under construction.
That's a great question and one that I've struggled with myself. Best I can do is tell you to find a guitarist who you respect and appears to play without effort, find videos of them playing and try to emulate what they do. Practice with a metronome at very slow speeds and really focus on the motions and positioning required as you move from note to note and string to string. Arpeggios work really well for this type of practice because they're going to require you to hybrid pick and sweep to play them really fast.
Market Share does not represent Usage Share. It is a known fact that even though the market share of Android is more than iOS is used much more than Android and generate more quality earnings than Android. All app developers develop iOS first and make a disproportionate percentage of revenue on iOS than any other mobile platform
> I hope these devices are validating the certificate of publisher and the updates are signed.

You're joking right? Really, the vast majority of this iot stuff is ridiculously bad in this respect. Plain text data transfer, unsigned updates from any source based on a text message and so on. It's a disaster waiting to happen.
Hi folks, I just had a look at the user statistics of our guitar teaching app Uberchord. More than 10% of our user base is actually older than 50. If you look at the most active users, the percentage is even higher. So it seems that even if you are late in the game, you can still start learning with a little help of your phone.
I think you greatly overestimate the number of people who root their iPhones; using numbers from Cydia you get about 0.4% of people with jailbroken iPhones: https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-iPhones-have-been-j...

Even if you assume it's 10x larger than that number for whatever reason, you're still only at 4% of users.
“In defending me as a woman, you’ve insulted me as someone who works in STEM”
how are you going to stop someone from scuttling a ship? sink it?
Apache+Sqoop+-+Data+Lake+for+Enterprises+Book
Garcia from Criminal Minds, Chloe from 24 (more antisocial than specifically Hot Topic), Jenna Simmons from Agents of Shield, one of the clones from Orphan Black (IIRC... didn't watch this much).

Basically anyone in Big Bang Theory, Bones (herself). They're certainly STEM, but maybe not "tech" depending on what people mean by that.

I don't necessarily think the equivalent male characters are treated comparably well, for what it's worth. But if you want to encourage teenage girls to look at tech, showing them that it's also for normal people would help a lot.

I will say that Silicon Valley does a decent job subverting the trend with a handful of minor female characters.
Nvidia Is a Textbook Case of Sowing and Reaping Markets
Jason I wanted to request you for your source for saying that 50 companies in the US raised more than $250M in 2016.
Seems to me that Google has a better privacy record than Apple. Both companies get all sorts of data about their users, but Apple has had some serious data breaches.
Yeah, the whole FX market operates largely outside international law unless you're talking about a handful of currencies. And even there the conversion path for almost everything runs through USD or EUR (with some regional exceptions).
That is an interesting question.

I've also read about other counter-intuitive revenue statistics. Apple's share of hardware revenues is way higher than its share of unit sales. And I've read that for many app makers, their revenues on iOS is higher than their revenues on Android, despite there being a larger number of Android units in the market.

If the latter claim is true, it could be that iOS users as a whole spend more money than Android users as a whole. That could filter through to Google in the form of iOS users being more inclined to click on higher-value ads.

Note: The above is speculative, I recall reading these claims on Daring Fireball, but that is not evidence.
> Google knows how much money it makes through iPhone

Doesn't always even matter. It's branding and advertising for google. Same type of thing as a company spending $5m on Superbowl ads. Idea isn't to ring up sales (or in the case of google clicks). Goodyear has the blimp nobody is buying tires directly my point being there is a value to the indirect advertising and marketing.
Does someone has some experience running .NET Core on Linux? Any problems/experiences you could share?
You don't have to glorify violence to remember someone's achievements. So George washington killed Indians and owned slaves. Ya, that's bad of course, but he still helped found the USA, fought the British, and was a decent first president. History is just nuanced.
AI anime character generators, of course.
So Lyft played nice and is having more long term success as a result?
It's domain registration - not hosting.
>But aren't regular non-devs supposed to verify certificate name and the name of the website they are on? But aren't regular non-devs supposed to verify certificate name and the name of the website they are on?

The browser does this for you. Chrome (and all major browsers) have a certificate validation that parses the hostname in the certificate and compares it to the site you are on.

Checking certificate details manually is primarily useful for troubleshooting. It serves little to no security benefit for 99% of users.
> I hear you when you say,"the only mandate for the interview process would be to hire the best person, no exceptions". It just sounds like an HR platitude. If you know how to do that, I actually think you have a multi-$B idea! Unless you mean "cultural fit", or "went to the same school I did" as the best person, I'm doubtful you have one though. I've done enough interviewing and worked with enough people to know that even the best hiring managers turn away good candidates and get a few duds.

Well, make me a multi-billionaire, I now present to you:

BLIND SOURCING AND HIRING

I should only share the details in private, you say it's a multi-billion dollar idea and I'd hate to tip off the competitors.

In all seriousness, though, I know this is challenging. Especially at Google, there's still an opportunity for trouble after you've been hired but not yet assigned; though I doubt it would be enough of a problem to trash the whole system.

The only reason not to do blind hiring is if it produces results which are indistinguishable from standard hiring.
If this were written by a male, do we really think the reception would be so positive?

> To solve diversity, we must start at the source of the problem — encouraging women to pursue engineering in college!

That is absolutely right. The solution is not to give people who aren't qualified or deserving jobs just so companies can fill a quota or prevent media backlash. Hire the best candidates for positions.
Not really. I don't care for what they say, but it's important that they have the ability to say it. It's concerning that private companies, through registrars have the ability to erase viewpoints from the public internet. More signs that the internet be treated as a right.

I liken the internet to press. Most of it sucks, but having it and being able to freely speak through it, is essential to liberty.

I mean, if we as a society don't believe people like this should have a free internet like everyone else, we deserve the closed internet we will get. Freedom sucks because you have to listen to a lot of assholes, but it's much better than the alternative.
Native Encryption for ZFS on Linux
In hindsight I'm sure they will do something different. For folks who are maintaining systems with OTA updates that can't survive an OTA failure, hopefully they now realize they are in the middle of a train wreck and should get to work.

An 8 MB (64 megabits) SPI flash chip[1] is about $2. Two jumpers to power the SPI flash and set the boot/load option is another 3 - 4 cents. These take up less than 30 sq mm of board space. And they give you a tremendous back up in case of failure.

[1] http://www.mouser.com/Semiconductors/Memory/Flash-Memory/_/N...
Growing meat cell by cell is better for your wallet and the world
what an odd comment.
>Any packages that absolutely cannot be built in a reproducible way[1] ... [1] Such as random noise added to kernel and firmware data structures during local builds, to be used as a last defense to avoid the herd using same keys effects, etc.

Shouldn't this example of randomness still be pushed to the installation stage, instead of in the distribution. If Debian's binary package contains a "random" key, then we have a pretty large herd already using it.
The key for me was realizing that I could treat this like a 20 year project.

Gawd, I wished I had that realization when I was 20. Or 8. I wanted to learn everything now, and grew frustrated when I didn't. Took shortcuts that I'd pay for later. I'd be a better guitarist today had I taken your mature outlook.

Thankfully, I grew up and when time came to pick up the mandolin, I now have an outlook similar to yours. Not as explicit as "20 year project", but I knew I needed to be in it for the long haul. So I haven't skipped things, I practice the mechanics (scales and the like) nearly daily, and sometimes I save something for later (like cross-picking; I'll get to it eventually after I get those arpeggios down). I've made more progress more quickly on the mandolin than I ever did on the guitar, even discounting the headstart of knowing another fretted instrument first.
It can, and it can also harm it.

If you reduce your quality bar to fill a quota for a group, then that group can end up having a lower quality than the majority group, which then works to reinforce bad stereotypes in some of the majority against that minority.

That can then harm those in the minority group who were in fact above the bar and for whom the bar did not need to be lowered.

I'm not against quota systems but they need to be aggressively monitored so you don't get unintended effects.
This letter reads as faceless (who's Benchmark's representative on the board as of now anyways?) and a bit condescending to me. "We've never interacted with you in the past, but trust us, we're on your side and have your best interests in mind."

Not sure what this letter is supposed to accomplish. Employees who were behind Benchmark already will continue to support them, and employees who were behind Travis will continue to support him, and if anything, the polarization will increase with this message.
You should read up on J Edgar Hoover and the way he used FBI information to manipulate political figures who he saw as obstructing his mission.

I see Zuckerberg being in a position to do the same several steps in advance. If you send the right corporate execs the right embarrassing information they could certainly refrain from recommending that their company donate to an anti-Zuckerberg PAC.
It looks like a version is now playable on archive.org

https://archive.org/details/Rockys_Boots_1982_Learning_Compa...
Overselling "Secure" to help lower people's defenses on a site like https://bank.com.fraudster.com actively hurts. That button does not code to most people as "this site is merely who they say they are", rather than "this site is who I think they are".

My MIL is unable to make that distinction and used to regularly get passwords stolen. The solution is to only use ios devices and rely on apples app curation. She doesn't do banking or anything else sensitive on her computer.
Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Pleads Not Guilty to Creating Banking Malware
All fair criticisms. I'm not a hiring manager and my experience with hiring processes is limited.

What I had in mind is the mandate of hiring the best person for the job and any/all other policies are designed with that directive in mind. This is analogous to how the court system is supposed to be designed to be the discoverer of truth and the entire legal process as it relates to court proceedings is to further that search for truth.

What would my suggestion in reality look like? Similar to a company I once worked for. They had an interview process where all candidates were interviewed by at least 5 individuals. This was required to be done separately in one-on-one 30 minute sessions. Each interviewer scores the candidate in a combination of numerical and written feedback which is presented to HR. HR is also required to be one of the interview sessions. HR is also the pre-screener of all resumes unless an internal employee has a recommendation. After that, it boils down to a consensus system where HR reviews the feedback from everyone and determines who has the highest overall rating. This obviously required specific traits and requirements to be detailed in advance prior to the interview that were specific to the position. Some obviously overlapped like "communication skills" and others were very specific to the individual role and required work history and experience.

They also used a very similar process for their performance evaluations (you first two line managers had significant weight in the performance review, but you had to also get feedback from no less than 5 other colleagues. And your manager had to approve who could provide feedback on you so you couldn't just choose your best friend at work who would write a glowing review. That process was super-annoying and time consuming, but I think it did a pretty solid job. I never felt like I was ever treated unfairly or got shafted in any way. And the reason HR played a key role in the process was to make sure the rules were being followed and if there was any discrimination or unconscious biases, it would show over time and HR could take action if they saw fit like restricting a possibly biased individual from interviewing anyone who fit into a certain category (women, racial minority, disabled, etc.).
America is going to have a hard time reconciling freedom of speech on the one hand and curtailing the new Nazi's on the other.
There is a great way to make it to Mongolia: by train. You can take the Trans-Siberian Railway [0] and connect with the Trans-Mongolian Line [1]. These are relatively slow trains, it takes about a week to go from Moskow to Ulaanbaatar. I haven't done it myself, but it's definitively on my bucket list.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Railway#Trans-M...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Railway#Trans-M...
https://github.com/BotCube/awesome-bots#nlp-tools-engines-sd...

Superscript: https://medium.com/@rob_ellis/superscript-ce40e9720bef
How to Write a Song
> Intuitively, almost everyone assumes that P != NP

Donald Knuth believes P = NP.

Source: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2213858&WT.m... (question 17). Also cf. https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Donald-Knuth-think-that-P-NP
Don't forget R...
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