skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I've seen is that most orgs, once they reach a certain size (100-200 people), start to spend a significant time planning. Part of this is human nature: once there are enough people, there will be managers, and plans are something managers show their hire ups to prove they're in control and doing a good job. But, I don't want to sound cynical, clearly planning is useful.

I used to think that spending too much time on planning is a waste of time , but then I noticed that teams at Facebook also spend a lot of time at the beginning of each half (6 mo) doing planning. However, I wasn't able to pick up tricks or patterns that made FB good at this, other than obvious/useless things like all the people making the plans were really smart / domain experts. I did notice that the plans/planning process was very lose, there was no methodology, often the outcome was a bunch of bullet points. And they were very conscious about the value of the plan: they knew that if things go well and they move quickly, probably a lot of things will change in 3-4 months, and they will diverge from the plan. The value is thinking things through, agreeing on goals, spinning up teams, building things (eg. dashboards) to track progress, etc.

Another story about the value of planning: at another company we hired a manager, and one of the things this guy did was introduce Capacity Planning. At the core it's a simple thing: make a big matrix, where the rows are the projects people want to work on, and the columns are the available people/teams. Collect all the projects, and make people put down their estimates for each (requires X time from team Y, etc). The value is, it's a very explicit way to show what people want to work on, obviously it will be more than you can actually do. So then you can make a very explicit choice about what you're doing and what you're not doing in the next X months. Back when we did this, there was an interesting insight the first time around: since we could count man days, we learned we're spending iirc ~70% of our time keeping the lights on (infra, etc), and only ~30% working on new things.

But despite this insight, I thought it's a waste of time, it's too slow/formal/sluggish. But then I saw FB also spends significant time on planning (although it's much less formal, because they can get away with it, for a long list of reasons), so I thought okay, spending time planning is probably the way to go.

Then I went to a company which was suffering from a focus problem. Every 2 weeks they'd have a prioritization meeting, where projects would get re-prioritized, which leads to obvious problems. Here I realized, for this problem, Capacity Planning would be a good thing, because one of the things it gets you is a long(er) term commitment to certain projects.

Overall, my takeaway is to spend 10-20% of time on planning and related meta-activities. Be conscious that the value is in thinking things through etc, and the actual path may diverge, but that's okay. Depending on the culture, there are a number of things that planning gives you, eg. a commitment to work on X for Y time. Make metrics and dashboards to track things, but don't overdo it.
What's the fastest option when you do need UDP?

Generally I just use SSH, but for gaming i've resorted to 160bit OpenVPN.

Incidentally setting up a OpenVPN server on dd-wrt is a rather hellish experience.
Indeed; most Washington types who used to live on Blackberry (excluding those who haven’t yet had to give their precious up) moved to iPhones over Android, in my anecdotal experience. Outlook is the name of the game, and that runs quite well on iOS. Though it sounds like this training would push people toward the Gmail app, which is just fine.

One point I would make is that it’s rather easy to make Siri only respond after unlocking, but that’s probably out of scope of this training — and not something staffers are going to remember. For added security, disable Hey Siri, too, because that’s a hot mic. (But again, scope.)
https://keepassxc.org/images/screenshots/macos/screen_003.pn...

This is not really an acceptable UI for OSX
Using that argument, why are these worthwhile targets for North Korea?

A Hail Mary pass at least sometimes has a chance of winning.
Disagree, factual information is often hard to come by on "success", since it depends on what metrics you use.

Opinion pieces, clearly marked[0], are probably better than the alternative of nothing.

[0] https://puu.sh/ytqSJ/1b73204b14.png
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So there is this rumor hanging around the french community that use Coq, that the name was deliberately chosen to sound like "cock" in english. This way, french researcher could brag to other collegues about going to a conference about "cock", in all seriousness.
The change in culture was written in from the moment they took VC funding. The only thing that matters in capitalist markets is shareholder returns, and anyone who takes outside funding should understand that.

For all the talk of "doing good" and maintaining a strong corporate culture, if those things aren't contributing to the bottom line, they'll be axed.
Great tip. Did not know this command, I've been killing my terminal and opening a new one to reattach for the last two years.
When the option is do something unethical for work or run out of money and be unable to pay rent, pay for kids’ food, medicine, etc., I wouldn’t think twice about doing what my boss asked.
Ask HN: What should I do the summer after I graduate college?
I'm graduating in May and starting a full-time job in early August. So, I have 10 weeks of freedom — no obligations, no responsibilities.

What should I do with this time?
Flat-Earther Set to Launch Himself in Own Rocket
For non Australians, the “Liberal” in the Liberal parties name stand for economic liberal.
I believe tqbf is just trying to head off unproductive Android vs. iOS arguments, and agrees with you.
I’m not convinced anyone unfamiliar would likely fail. A pretty obvious solution is to just have a list of all nodes you’ve been to, and check if the current node is in that list. Not the most optimal solution, but one I’d imagine a lot of decent programmers would be able to come up with.

Not saying it’s a good interview question, just that most good programmers shoukd be able to come up with some form of answer if they understand linked lists.
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I have followed this but not that much since I'm not American.

I'm wondering, if the laws pass, can people use Tor to keep the actual site they visit hidden, and avoid caps?

Also, of course this would create a precedence--although I doubt we would pass such a law in Europe since companies here are not as infiltrated into the government as in the States--, but would the end of Net neutrality in the States directly affect other countries, and how?
This looks like a NSA checklist for things they'd prefer you to use in order to fall under the most backdoored stuff they have access to. If this is a legit document it makes me suspicous of iPhones and Signal.

e: Like this line right here: "If you have a Windows laptop, make sure it's running Windows 10. "

Yeah, being up-to-date on security patches is important but as far as I know, a patched 8.1 install doesn't have any known, open vulnerabilities that I'm aware of. Whereas Windows 10 is the first real OS that is susceptible to a NSL from the feds obligating MS to target specific systems on the next patch tuesday.
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I think this view is as dogmatic as it is religious. It's like saying that you must give an offering to the church because God is looking after you and gave you everything you have.

I don't recognize this "debt", let alone if you do "owe" society something, the state is not society the same way that the church is not God.

> social programs provide some minimal compensation to people who are systematically screwed by the society they live in.

Nobody stops you personally from helping the people that you considered harmed by the system.

Ultimately, the people that believe in giving their resources to other people in need, dont require any help or force from the state. They can do it whenever and however they want.

Taxes however, are compulsory. They don't care about what you think or why you do it.
I wouldn't say the ICBMs are obsolete, any more than an AR-15 is obsolete. They both function as intended. The Minuteman uses a solid booster; can't get more reliable than that. Subs aren't going to get any stealthier. Maybe orbital weapons would give the fastest launch; just drop it. Though they would not be stealthy either.

Though I always thought the proposed tunnel network carrying rail based ICBM was kind of cool. In the event of a nuclear apocalypse, it would be a good place for the mole people to live.
Why Muslim Extremists Attacked Egypt Mosque
Anyone using Tor will get capped by default.
Test yourself – are you surprised by any of these 15 technology predictions?
Thought experiment for both scenarios:

I’d guess that my emissions cheat code blob is “safe” since no one is looking. (That guess was wrong of course).

I’d guess that my fb app code, installed on billions of phones and scrutinized by researchers the world over isn’t going to be able to hide anything related to processing or transmitting speech recording surreptitiously.
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You're probably right! But, most software engineers aren't writing a compiler/database/OS, and some of the ones who are, probably shouldn't :)
The contrasting perspectives at the end of the article stand
out (I'm sure that's the intent of the reporter):

"There's only so much wiggle room as a public company,"
said Mr. Stinchcomb, the early employee. "If you
really want to build a company that works for people and
the planet, capitalism isn’t the solution."

...

"To all the people who say taking Etsy public was a
mistake, I say that's ridiculous," Mr. Wilson said.
"There are some people who will say, 'Well, it’s not
right for me. I like the old culture.' Well, I'm sorry
about that. Going public was the best thing that ever
happened to this company."

Mr. Wilson, the investor, is unwilling to accept that there
may be other value systems besides his own, and other
definitions of "best".
You can say that again. Cities are, for the most part, where humanity (i.e., compassion and community) goes to die. I’m seriously contemplating migrating someplace where people aren’t 80% deplorable jerks, like suburban Oregon or New Mexico.

Plus, all of the learned helplessness and ostensibly “incapable,” self-absorbed bullshit job people whom are disconnected from anything but a narrow specialty of bullshit... if food prices spiked for any reason, they’re boned.
In my country (EU), the tax authority has explicitly stated that profits from crypto trading are treated as capital gains. This means roughly 12% of your profits are taxed. However, this also means that if you've been hodling for over 2 yrs, you're exempt (still need to report it).

Now, the catch 22 is that the taxman in my country is still not technically sophisticated enough to be able to determine your holding period (although everything is public), so everything is still theoretical.

Germany, apparently, has similar thing. Two years and a day, and you're tax-free. (1) Spend 6 months there to get tax residency, (2) declare it after having been hodling for 2yrs + 1 day, (3) profit (tax-free). Never checked it myself, so it's purely anecdotal.
I get it: harm can be caused even if the person is not drinking... My advice is this: eat, drink, love, wear your new clothes, enjoy life... don't waste it worrying about non problems...
All it would take is eliminating 18 Ohio subs....that seems possibly more difficult than your statement portrays. Interesting comment. You're probably right about the interceptors. It's interesting to hear the perspective of someone who is hawkish on nuclear arms.
I really miss the back/forward arrows on the swipe gestures too - the gesture works but it feels wrong not to have that visual feedback.
> When U.S. President Donald Trump’s critics have demanded to know what his supporters got in exchange for voting for the genital-grabber-in-chief

Yeah can we at least pretend to be neutral and not editorialize on the first sentence of an article?
People know this and the"real" Uber rating scale is a ten point scale between 4 and 5. Same with Amazon product reviews. Anything under 4 doesn't get a look.

I think a simple thumbs up/thumbs down would be just as effective.
If you're in London, hit me up! I work for a mid-large company that is full of Scalia devs. We'd be more than happy to give you an interview :)
The title is incorrect, it's WG23, not WG32.
I've currently have enabled

* ProductHunt to stay on top of new products/projects and have ideas flowing through my system

* A news site (just one) to stay on top of critical news

I guess I would also enable others too but only if there is a reason.
Skipping over what others have pointed out - you don't interview a co-founder.

a) ensure this is someone you are going to get along with
b) get someone else to assess their technical competence - you can't assess it and the guidelines you provide won't work reliably.
The Daily Stormer is back up.[1]

[1] https://dailystormer.hk/
Your syntax highlighter is wrong (2014)
Even if it isn't caught up in partisan fighting, the average voter isn't going to want to spend money on upgrades.

Do you think your grandma wants to increase the price of her internet by 10 bucks a month to get gigabit? Mine wouldn't.
Metamath basically goes in the other direction than most proof assistants, it relies on human ingenuity. There is a bit of search in the original C metamath (the "improve" feature) and also just a tiny amount in mmj2 (unification), but if the user doesn't have a clear picture what the fine-grained steps are, they're going to have a bad time.

One of the interesting things about Metamath is that proofs tend to be very concise. In more automated proof systems, you use automated tactics and proof search techniques, and if you expanded out their output, they'd generally be quite verbose. I think this has led a lot of people to believe that automation is more necessary than it actually is.

All that said, you absolutely could build an inference engine of similar scope as the other big proof assistants, and use the existing Metamath database as a rich foundation.

Happy to answer other questions.
I could be wrong, but I believe WordPress' sharing features are built to share your WordPress posts out to other social networks - this tool is made to do the opposite, to take your posts from other forms of social media and import them as posts on your blog. I don't believe WordPress has that native capability - although it's worth noting that IFTTT natively supports posting to WordPress and other social networks as an action. Previously, my site was on Tumblr and I used IFTTT's Tumblr actions in a similar manner.

In my opinion, the primary advantage Github Pages has over a CMS like Wordpress is simplicity and lack of cruft. WordPress is an extremely powerful tool, but 95% of blogs, mine included, don't need the features that WP provides - and more importantly, the added code and serving overhead that comes with it.

When I've done WordPress development in the past, a lot of customization can be done on the theme level but sometimes you need to adjust the model around which a page is served and it can become confusing and complex with WP's expansive codebase. With Jekyll, it's easy to see every file and how those files combine to create my site pages. It's also easy to serve locally and I can rest assured that Github will build my site in the same manner as it's being built locally.

Finally, I would assert that I have much finer control over my source using Github Pages compared to WordPress - my site, in its native form, is literally a repository which I can move and rebuild on any number of platforms without any backend configuration. And that same repository is automatically open-sourced and built on Github without my having to maintain a build system. I never have to worry about migrating a database, I never have to worry about plugin updates breaking my page, and I never need to worry about PHP vulnerabilities compromising my data. When I look at Github Pages, I feel like GH really managed to abide by KISS principles, saying "what is the MVP for a blogging platform" and providing that in a clean & performant manner.
I can't speak for Android, but there are a number of precautions on iOS.

The first one is that iOS gives users very fine grained control over what apps are allowed to use the microphone. It's not just a list of permissions, it asks specifically with a system dialogue box whether you want to allow an app to have permission.

Second, the status bar turns a very obvious red color when an app is using the microphone when it's in the background.

If FB was able to bypass both of those safeguards without Apple knowing, it would be a major story.
OK, I wholeheartedly agree with that. I was thinking, though, that discussing a problem such as the one with the linked list at least would give one sample point of the candidate's ability to reason. In any case, what are you supposed to do if you are restricted to making your decision based on interviews?
I remember OS/2 was allegedly superior To Windows 95. But it failed because there were far fewer applications for it. IBM had to to pay Netscape to finally port their browser to it.

I used to say OS/2 was HALF an OS, as it was missing a very important half of the equation; all those annoying applications.

Plus I could never get it to stay installed on an IBM PC. I did it once, but never could do it a second time. So that third half of the equation was pretty weak too.
Chrome has a process-sandbox architecture that is significantly protective against new exploits; Firefox's equivalent, Electrolysis, isn't ready yet. In the 2017 Pwn2Own competition, Firefox was cracked and Chrome wasn't.

The Tor browser is almost certainly better at avoiding accidental disclosure of your IP address, but worse at general exploit-resistance. Making use of Tor in a way that fully protects their identity is probably beyond the capabilities of a Congressional candidate anyways, so it would at best create a sense of anonymity that was false.
Can you provide an example of a system being marketed as a tool to write "bug free code"? I saw nothing of the sort in the sites of Coq, TLA+ or Isabelle. Are you sure you're not the one arguing against a strawman?
The excellent "Reply All" podcast had an episode about it: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/109-facebook-spying/
Could you elaborate on how the Tor browser is more dangerous than Firefox?
I'm interested, would love to be added to any invite list. My email address is available by clicking on the word email here: http://www.nickbaily.com/
It may just be my experience, but as someone who works with Scala in London the market for Scala jobs is poor. I keep my eye on the market and every now and then get int touch with some company / do an interview, but usually it doesn't go anywhere. I get constantly pestered by recruiters about exact same positions for years now, so it looks like either those companies have a high turnaround or they are super picky and never give anyone a chance.
Civil law suits.
Not really, the English word "cock" has a very different vowel than the French "coq" - https://youtu.be/bIraCzL3dtI?t=4s is a pretty fair exemplar. It's a lot more like the "o" in "joke".

(edit: maybe you're English? Some English accents of England would articulate "cock" very close to French "coq" and "joke" would be far away. Apologies, one really does need to specify which "English" is meant, and I should have seen that at once. First cup of coffee still in progress.)
> I think good software engineers are just as much product guys (and data guys) as they are software guys.

ya often times they are women too
He should resign... for trying to rape the American people... Clinton resigned for less than that.
Well, there's this (in London):

https://www.ovoenergy.com/careers/vacancies?gh_jid=903885
There is a nice parallel between the legal profession and programming. Programmers write software in such a way that they try (if they're any good) to reduce the number of assumptions made and the number of bugs and the ambiguities in their code. Failure to do so results in undefined behavior, crashing code and in internet facing code in possibly being hacked.

Lawyers write code into contracts. Good lawyers try to do so by removing ambiguity where ever they can. Failure to do so results in court cases where that ambiguity is resolved, and in some cases will result in damage for the party that originally contracted them to write the code.

Neither lawyers nor programmers are legally liable for such fuck-ups.
>Unless you're interviewing Dijkstra, it's a ridiculous question to ask.

like many ridiculously looking interview questions, they are actually a filter. For this particular types of questions young people tend to quickly solve them. In 1987, in 9th grade, during one of the first computer classes, never before seeing or touching programming (previous years of school in a small town in USSR), I myself came up with Dijkstra algorithm in less than 10 minutes when we were assigned task of finding shortest path. I remember the teacher looking impressed :) These days i treat it more like a signal - if people asks such puzzles a lot then they either intentionally filtering or even don't understand that and seriously think it is important CS(cience).
It’s trivial to debunk by observing that many people who say they’ve experienced this are using iPhones. On iOS, apps can’t silently use the microphone in the background. A background app using the microphone is always accompanied by a red status bar saying that they’re doing it. This doesn’t show Facebook listening, therefore we can conclude that they’re not, at least on iOS.

It’s possible they might be doing it on Android, but once you show that a lot of people are imagining things, it’s a small leap to thinking that they all are.
"Bug"
My mom’s family were Dust Bowl refugees, and my grandfather had to hustle to not starve to death.

On a lighter note, check out this Canadian using a large backyard as a profitable farm: https://youtu.be/KO-OuqbR3EE

Here’s also a working Swedish homestead/farm (that’s being threated by the uncertainty of oil/mineral extraction): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7GkLSNBmds1DZit_oHk-Fg
To quote tqbf on this site, 'Do NOT EVER use Tor Browser. It's the least safe browser you can use: a lagged fork of Firefox for which whole classes of security bugs are potentially WONTFIX'd, and also the only browser that goes out of its way to collect high-value targets.'
It still works depending on what kind of item you’re looking for. Specific tea blends, cold process soaps, incense dipped to order, and specific kinda of pottery have all been successful in my getting handmade stuff I want. What kind of stuff are you looking for?
>Where does RememBear store my passwords and how are they protected?

>RememBear encrypts your passwords using both your Master Password and a unique device key generated by the application. It stores your passwords in an encrypted file on your device and on our secure servers for sync and backup purposes. However, RememBear will only encrypt and decrypt the items on your physical device. This means that your passwords and other items are always encrypted during syncing and remain encrypted when in storage on our secure servers. You and ONLY you are ever able to access your items as long as you keep your master password private.

Proprietary sync, no thanks.
> I use $15 in ear bluetooth ear piece (Looks like a hearing aid) Inovate G10.

Probably GoNovate, right? https://www.amazon.com/GoNovate-Bluetooth-Earpiece-Smallest-...