skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They used their position with the public's trust to irrevocably harm people. Then when caught didn't seem to change much. That's an indication of an organization not to trust anymore.

But the real problem? It's just crappy journalism. Taking some half-assed, re-hashed current political narrative being peddled by somebody with emotional problems, forgetting the editing and fact-checking, and running with it front-page. They suck at their job. That's an indication of an organization that doesn't care about quality.

The best defense I can come up with for RS is that we live in a tough-as-nails media market, and everybody's having to cut corners and pump stories far past reason. Doesn't mean they suck any less, just that they suck as much as many other news outlets. They got caught.

Good journalism is rare and getting rarer. Whether RS fired anybody or not isn't very important. What _is_ important is that their publishing of the story and reaction to it forms a not-so-pretty picture of where the overall industry is.
Yes, Apple appears to be using Linux as their standard server for anything on the back end.

Here's an iCloud engineer job posting.

https://jobs.apple.com/us/search?#&ss=Linux&t=1&so=&lo=0*USA...

Edit: Or perhaps you meant the errant typo where I should have said "on Linux"? Fixed.
This doesn't reflect how the industry actually works among funds that have alpha.
Not really. Most of mines have had stuff like "the employee will work the amount of time needed to get stuff done", worded in legalese. Which is kind of the definition of being salaried, so it makes sense.
Hackers Hid Backdoor in CCleaner Security App with 2B Downloads
Some businesses are run in sprint mode (not agile style sprint) and others are run in marathon mode. For those trying to build a lasting business with a consistent group of employees you can only run in marathon mode.

If you're looking for businesses who operate in marathon mode you may have to look outside SF/SV or NYC (those are the top 2 markets for long hours built into the economic model and high employee turnover). Once the economic model for an area is based on 50-70 hour weeks then it gets baked into pay, baked into cost of living, etc. This is certainly a longer topic than I have time to comment on right now fully.
I did it around 2008, I put it into a kitchen over with a laser temperature meter present to check temps. Basically, you remove the motherboard, strip as much as possible, put it into a controlled high temperature space (an oven), melt the solder and then let it cool down.
Reddit bot which replies to sarcastic comments
The annoying part about using .test, .localhost, .invalid, etc. is that Chrome still treats "my-project.localhost" as a search instead of doing a DNS lookup. Need to add a trailing slash or specify the protocol, which honestly is just annoying enough that I'd rather risk collisions and use a TLD Chrome recognizes like .dev.
A couple of the other issues are hilarious too.

https://github.com/smaslennikov/whattimeisitrightmeow/issues
Obama goes to Wall Street
I'm surprised that so many on HN recommend Lenovo laptops considering the robust privacy / security concerns shared amongst us.

For years, the Chinese government has owned a substantial portion of Lenovo (28% as of 2006[1]). It's no secret that the Chinese government attempts to hack US firms[2].

Although I have no direct evidence that the Chinese government has installed backdoors/monitoring/etc. into Lenovo laptop hardware, I think there is much circumstantial evidence to warrant serious concerns. So much so that the U.S. government is restricting access to Lenovo computers[3].

I'm at a place with Lenovo laptops that I was with Kaspersky anti-virus[4]. Although it might arguably be easier to install nefarious stuff into software, why take chances with your hardware?

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4997288.stm
[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/china-hackers-us-companies-gi...
[3] http://freebeacon.com/national-security/military-warns-chine...
[4] https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2017-09-14/con...
My guess? Tax evasion is a different problem from money laundering, and Taler seems to care about the former, not the latter. Whether this turns into a legal obstacle for adoption remains to be seen.
New Cooperative Digital Economy Space Launched in London
you can, but it's a weird default nonetheless (plus the keyboard looks ugly with large "action" icons and small Fx labels underneath)
Once the Payment Handler API [1] is completed and implemented in browsers and browser extensions can register themselves as payment handlers, GNU Taler could be used through the Payment Request API.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-handler/
Praise them for trying hard instead, or (as the article says) for doing very well this time.
I don't know either, but I started seeing it after making a bunch of polite comments that challenged a popular political belief. They got a lot of downvotes, but they got a lot of upvotes too. I hope it was an algorithmic error (assuming that the goal of the algorithm isn't too punish polite but controversial conversation) and not petty moderation.
Uh have you been there recently? Like in the past year? The company is under new management, and cleaned up their act and download pages a lot. Sourceforge is headed in a better direction again.
Spin up a Docker container for every timezone, and make sure to destroy the old ones every time the timezone is updated.

Also have at least three instances running, for redundancy and zero-downtime updating.
Open-Source JavaScript Framework by SAP
Oh I think they're on point (with what they want) with that ad

They want the technical wizard with no social life that will give some years for the company while being paid ~50% less. They call it "strong work ethic" I call accepting such position "being naive"

Thanks but no thanks
Slight tangent here, but this is intriguing to me - the concept of devs ignoring known bugs until they are found by testers. Do other devs struggle with this? Are there certain working conditions that foster this behavior?
How to conduct a closed beta testing with zero budget
I have been told that praising a kid for effort vs. results is much more important.

As a child, I was told I was smart and basically tried to coast as much as possible. I still have a lot of trouble learning how to do something new, especially because I have kind of internalized that I'm good at everything.
How is this different from cash? Money laundering is about intent, not means of payment.
You're not going to see details. No one who works there (or at similar firms) has any incentive to give away that information. If you come across people who work at one of these firms, you'll find they are extremely cautious about saying much of anything about their work.

The comments you see on forums like this one are just best guesses - educated guesses, but generally underinformed and relatively out of date. I personally consider it a fluke that RenTec is as famous as it is - other comparable firms like TGS have far less notoriety (and are probably better off for it).
The goal of this post: incrementally show how we conducted a closed beta test from scratch — within a limited amount of time and with limited resources.
Impossible to type 's' or 'p' in GitHub text zones
Not sure if economic problems really come from long work days. Otherwise it'd be easy to boost the economy by forcing people to work less.

I totally agree with the health problems it causes though.
> It can evaporate in a moment.

I think that's the most interesting weakness about power without democracy. China, obviously, has not collapsed and it is going stronger than ever but there are changes in progress.

Are the motivations that precipitated the Tienanmen Square protests still present in the minds of the people? I think so.
Dism++, probably the most powerful utility
You are correct, thanks for educating me!
Fake app on Play Store looks exactly like legitimate Instagram
http://www.haneycodes.net/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how...

is a nice article on the subject of left-pad. If you can't implement a left-pad in less than 5 minutes yourself, you don't know how to code.
Dating app Tinder can be a tool for journalists
Bundled installers are the worst thing about the old way windows software was distributed.
Stanislav Petrov dead: Soviet who 'saved the world' by averting nuclear war dies
That sounds really horrible. I'd rather be out of a job than work for some place like that.

What kind of a job are you looking for? I assume you're some kind of engineer, but on my phone so didn't look into anything.
Why does that sound exactly like what most online media do nowadays?
Sick now I have something to blame for my chronic lying, thus clearly releasing me from any blame for my own mis-deeds. All makes sense to me though, I felt severe pressure for fitting into what I perceived as my 'role' growing up, and constantly being called smart created massive pressure to continue to be viewed that way.
""Time to put on your big-boy pants" which is ironic since most experienced developers i know work less, and stick to contracted hours.
Did you contact github? https://github.com/contact
Could use JS to generate and orchestrate dockerfiles I guess.
Sure, but getting the necessary data would be far from trivial.

How would you locate pools? Using areal photographs is an option, but you'd either have to do it manually which would be very time consuming or using image recognition which would be very error prone. Depending on where you live people might have to apply for a building permit to put in a pool on their property in which case the local municipality should have a database over which houses have pools, but there is no guarantee that it is up do date and getting a hold of that database is far from easy.

Connecting points to street addresses is also a bit hit and miss. Things like Google's geocoding API works OK for buildings, but is tends to be quite hit and miss for points outside of buildings. Generally it will give you the address of the closest building rather than the address the plot of land actually belongs to. So if you want to be correct you have to get a map with actual property lines and who owns what property.

So the ease of doing something like that is entirely dependent on what data you have access and how accurate you have to be. Basically the hard part of any GIS project is always data gathering/cleaing/pre-processing and never the actual analysis.
I'm the author. I'm taking requests on what to review next!
Install Ubuntu Persistently on a USB Drive
I assume the depth is measured using the two cameras and the dot projection. So you couldn't use a 2D copy that was depth adjusted (if that was what you were suggesting).

I also assume the dots are tracked to identify, so static dots wouldn't be considered, although it could cause problems.

I could see how using 2 phones could cause problems, perhaps they need to strobe them to avoid clashes.
Point of reference here - I plugged in an old 2008 Macbook Pro with no battery (it had expanded, so I took it back to Apple for recycling), and it booted up fine from a Magsafe 1 charger. So I don't know if that's the case.
I think people will find any way to simultaneously not pay for news while lamenting the lack of good news. Things will just be forever "almost there" and "all we need is" but no one's going to do it. Micropayments aren't going to work. People will say "if only it were 10 cents instead of 20" or "if only it were 1 cent instead of 10" until it's "if only this used Bitcoin so they don't know who I am" and so on and so forth until the publisher refuses to bow to some onerous request at which point it'll be this big deal about how they don't really care about their users.

I mean, the guy who solves this is going to be rich, but you only have to see about the complaints to Flattr, Patreon, etc. and you know no one else wants to touch this. The audience's Revealed Preferences are significantly different from their Stated Preferences.
That doesn't always work.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/business/a-shuffle-of-alum...

> The story of how this works begins in 27 industrial warehouses in the Detroit area where a Goldman subsidiary stores customers’ aluminum. Each day, a fleet of trucks shuffles 1,500-pound bars of the metal among the warehouses. Two or three times a day, sometimes more, the drivers make the same circuits. They load in one warehouse. They unload in another. And then they do it again.
Being praised for being smart begets cheating because of the pressure to continue to be perceived as smart ("The researchers believe that praising ability is tied to performance pressure in a way that praising behavior isn’t."). The behavior praise stressses the past while the ability praises uphold an idea of permanent ability; perhaps the phrasing of the praise is significant too ("'You are so smart' vs 'You did very well this time.'") because the behavior praise adds a reference to the action; while, the ability praise does not yet implies so.
You can! And usually with only a slight pay cut. There are a lot more remote-ok and remote-only companies now.
> I really wish there was a decent, widely supported micropayment system for journalism.

The audience for news isn't as big as I think lots of people wish it were. For the micropayment system to work, I bet the payments wouldn't be very micro.
That's how I'd do it for simple CMSes to be honest, just work in .md files instead of bothering with a CMS.
Calculate distance, bearing and more between Latitude/Longitude points
Keep it professional. Next time he tries to manage you by stress, respond:"okay so let's discuss overtime pay multiplications".

He wants you to do more, he won't fire you, so he only has to see the costs properly and understand that you are more serious about the overtime than him.

I have one kid so far, and zero overtime, I can't even imagine how it will be with three.
Stage rollout is usually done over hours and days, not months. Apple also uses staged rollouts but you'll usually get the notification within 12 hours after release.
s/compromised/comprised/
As much as I'd love to believe the "work more than 40 hours a week, because SCIENCE!" party line, I have a hard time accepting it, and I think so do most people who hear it (outside of HN, at least).

For one thing, it's highly convenient that the standard US work-week happens to be the exact "correct" amount of hours to work to maximize productivity.

For another, anecdotally at least, most people know plenty of people who work longer hours and do it successfully. And most of the really successful people out there will mention that they worked insanely hard at some point. Are they all lying? All wrong?

The article itself mentions people doing extra hours of coding on personal projects, and we all know some people who have started companies that way. What, do these projects simply not exist? How does that make any sense?

You can think it's exploitation to ask people to work hard, but this is to work on a team with a world-class researcher who most people would love to work with. Is it too much work for some people? Sure. Are there others for whom it is worth the trade-off? Probably. Why does everyoªne on HN just assume they know better than those people themselves, and set off to make them feel bad and exploited? Working really hard is a totally legit and rational choice under some circumstances.

(Btw, worth pointing out that this article is at least partly a pitch for a book about working less hours. Not saying this invalidates its points, but it is certainly taking advantage of the publicity Andrew Ng's post has gotten to sell a product).
Tech hasn't kept up with food stamp users' needs
> Given the presence of this compilation artifact as well as the fact that the binary was digitally signed using a valid certificate issued to the software developer, it is likely that an external attacker compromised a portion of their development or build environment and leveraged that access to insert malware into the CCleaner build that was released and hosted by the organization.

Did you read the article? It can happen to any company. It just so happens they targeted a very popular downloaded application. Who knows what other software installers have been compromised.
Props for standing up for yourself and not letting them use you without proper compensation. I'm sure you'll be better off somewhere else, where they actually value your personal life & free time.
About VCs: Isn't cold calling/mailing the worst thing you can do? - so how does this list help?
It seems that I am not the only one with this problem:

- https://twitter.com/FriendlyTester/status/909766104666529792

- https://twitter.com/_srph/status/909766541167562753
Definitely don't tell your kids that they are "talented". I took piano lessons for 10 years and hated every moment of it, because I was "talented."
I'm a Level 2/3 SysAdmin/Engineer in the ATL area. But I do "develop" in POSH if you can call that coding. I'm learning python now.
For those of you that think this isn't business as usual, I highly recommend Manufacturing Consent which shows how corporate media narrows the range of political discussion through methods like this one.
Doesn't seem to impact battery life much, so they handle that properly at least - I've got old Macbooks that were on AC all the time, marginal degradation of the batteries.
If you don't feel supportive of that zeal, or are on the wrong end of it, extreme zeal can be quite off putting.

That being said, it is far from the worst part of the community, that is by far reserved for the bullshit that some community members have pulled on those of us that are female. I've seen talking down to active Ubuntu Local Community heads at conferences and local happenings put on by said Ubuntu LoCos and it is HORRIBLE. Why the fuck do certain people feel the need to repeatedly harass a volunteer?
How to Install and Setup Vagrant
Hackers hid malware in CCleaner software – The Verge
Why P2P? Are they used as seedboxes? Isn't storage usually quite limited on older androids? Using them for P2P sounds unsual. Or is it just used to spread malware?
Yeah, except what this actually means is, "You don't have any interests outside of work and you do not have kids that may take you away from work and you don't have a SO/spouse to tell you that you're being taken advantage of."

It's not really about your interests, it's about you being naive.
Low contrast? You must be working in fully sun-lit room then.

I'm on my 3rd Thinkpad now and always fight with the screen being too bright. My xbacklight setting is usually around 10%.
> The culprit was the non-free AV.

Yes it was. After using it a couple years, when I decided to get it off my system, it was far from easy. It simply didn't go. Because of the trouble it was giving me, I thought I had no choice but to renew my subscription. It was at this point I started looking for an OS alternative.
Call up an employment lawyer. Firing someone for not working on their vacation is wrongful termination.

Companies that do this need to be sued out of existence.
Do you BackRub instead of Googling something?
He was fired.
The "bizarre" part is that the statement "San Jose is bigger than San Francisco" is technically true while also self-evidently ridiculous.

In other words, I hope nobody thought I was attacking tptacek! What he said is fine! Again, it does have the attractive quality of being true, even if it obviously isn't true :)

A more revealing example is the statement "Austin is bigger than Boston" which is, again, only true in the most narrow sense. What any reasonable person thinks of as "Boston" is much larger than Austin.

I mean this in the most common-sense way imaginable. Say your dream was to move to a "big city" and your choices were Austin and Boston. If you used the statistics within each city's political borders to decide which to move to, you'd paradoxically end up in the smaller city. That "Austin" has more people within its arbitrarily-drawn political borders is mostly just trivia. That fact doesn't help us make useful comparisons; in fact, it pretty clearly misleads. (At bottom, there's no other reason to have this conversation than this last point. We're just looking for a way to compare cities that adds value and clarifies. A system of comparison that leads you to believe Austin is bigger than Boston fails that test.)
Every company will not follow this ritual. Despite what some folks think, not every technology is run by 20-30 somethings without families. I know quite a few engineers in my city, and I've never heard any one of them say they are compelled to work more than 40 hours a week[0]. This includes engineers at at several "household name" companies.

Yes, some companies have poor management, but these companies are also not exclusively tech companies.

[0] Yes, sometimes we all work a bit of overtime because of issues in the field, or one poorly run iteration. These things happen. The critical thing is how management works to avoid those situations in the future.
Thinkpad retro is coming soon. Modern thinkpad with old school keyboard.
Many GNU hackers simply don't have those skills. I don't. Someone should offer their time/skills.
Ask HN: Best shared/managed multisite hosting?
Have decided that its time to say goodbye to my MediaTemple grid hosting plan for various performance/support/pricing reasons over the years.

I'm aware that Digital Ocean / Linode stuff seems to be all the rage these days but am not sure that I know enough about server admin to feel comfortable supporting clients on there.

I'm technical but not server-technical (mostly frontend + also dabble with PHP/db/nodeJS/GIT from time to time) so thats why my thinking is leaning towards shared/managed where I can quickly go into the admin interface and setup email/forwarders/(sub)domains/DBs/etc when I need to. Also support a few sites/domains for clients (from custom to WP sites) and my own experiments (PHP/NodeJS APIs, etc.). Lately have been doing a lot of mobile apps that access remote JSON/Apis and the last straw that prompted me to leave MT was very slow loading of static files - I know that I should manage my expectations with shared hosting but tried a very cheap shared host from a friend and that served the same JSON files like 4x faster than MT.

FastComet accounts (looking at Speedup) seem interesting and claim to be speedy (includes free SSL and CloudFlare CDN, various caching options and SSD hosting) + am beside that so far considering the good old reliable OVH/Kimsufi or Hetzner.

Any experiences with those - good or bad? And possibly others to recommend you guys are happy with? New exciting players?
Trump’s Pick for NASA’s New Administrator Used to Own a Rocket Racing Team
Yes, exactly this!
It sounds as though something like the Ethereum network would be exactly what you're looking for. It's decentralized, meaning no one entity has the ability to remove it. And it is as democratic as you want it to be, meaning the user base can push for the requirement of fairness you suggest.
This is anecdotal, but I have also noticed the related inverse problem as well. Students who think they are "one of the dumb kids" do much worse than similar students who do not think that. These students will randomly guess the answer to a multiple choice[1] question if they don't instantly know the answer, even if the answer to the question was basically given in another question on the test.

Part of helping this kind of student is also praising them for effort rather than "smartness" and teaching them how to be good test takers (e.g. How to use the test against itself, how to "guess" wisely, etc).

[1] Debate on the pedagogical value of multiple choice tests is left as an exercise to the reader.
"he won't fire you"

OP literally starts the post saying he was fired.
I think what you're looking for is Qubes OS https://qubes-os.org
After 8 months of isolation in Hawaii, NASA Mars research crew emerges
Bitmoji is about to get a major boost. I love that app. Imagine what you could do with that using the AI/AR/ML stuff...