skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, he was really good at getting great guests onto his show, with a long-enough format to have some time for conversation.

He was absolutely atrocious at the actual interviewing part.

He would constantly make stupid paragraph-long statements and then at the end ask “don’t you agree?”, then when the guest started to explain that no the statement was wrong or oversimplified, he would interrupt them and repeat his point again. He was constantly shitting all over guests who he disagreed with or didn’t think were cool enough, telling them they were wrong and trying to get them to repeat whatever he happened to think, even if they were world-class experts on some topic he didn’t know anything about. He was constantly kissing up like crazy to anyone he thought was rich or famous or powerful, in a way that was really uncomfortable to watch (his numerous sycophantic interviews with Tom Friedman make my skin crawl). He never seemed to listen very closely to what anyone was saying: I don’t think I ever heard a poignant or insightful follow-up question in the hundreds of his interviews I have seen. Instead he would often interrupt right in the middle of some complicated interesting thought, and throw in a non-sequitur, jolting the conversation to a new (often stupid) topic.

My favorite Charlie Rose moment was sometime like 15 years ago when he had on (if I recall correctly) Bill Joy. Charlie made some incredibly banal and obvious paragraph-long statement with a question mark at the end, and then looked at the guest, who was just staring at him. There was a long uncomfortable pause, after which the response was, “well, duh.”

If you want to see a stark comparison, find any week where the same guest was interviewed by both Charlie Rose and Terry Gross, and listen to the two interviews back to back.
Really good article
Also on Twitter if anyone wants to follow there: https://twitter.com/spacehckrsclub
> Deliberately design the user onboarding process. How are complete newcomers going to find out the best way to solve their use case with your tool? Have an answer ready. Make sure your onboarding material closely maps to what your users care about: don't teach newcomers how your API is implemented, teach them how they can use it to solve their own problems.

Really good tip! Going to spend a little more time reworking my onboarding workflow with this in mind.
If these 'hackers' were white hat and signed a contract saying they responsibly handled and deleted the data, and then uber checked the access logs of the data and verified that nobody else accessed it, then IMO it is not a data breach. It was a potential breach.

A white hat hacker you have an agreement with on how the data should be handled is the same as an employee who has access to the same data, where you also have an agreement on the employees use of the data.

You might say "Ooh, but can you trust the hacker not to keep a copy of the data!?!", but it's exactly the same as saying "Can you trust the employee not to copy the data?". I don't think a company would announce a data breach just because the database administrator had access to a backup tape...
I don't count national standards as "culture." But I am curious what other culture you think goes unnoticed inside of Japanese cars?
The way to improve things is to post civilly and substantively yourself, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I absolutely think that way, that we can and should separate the person from the achievements (case in point: I love Roman Polanski's films). Nevertheless, it's a natural reaction to be sad when a person you hold in high esteem is revealed to have negative aspects in other areas.
Implications for Burning Man?
Your comments are continually tangential, don't answer the questions posed, and are now contradictory.

What I'm actually saying is that SV is NOT different than anywhere else. Corporations and ownership are universally practiced, and China for example is just as big. Business wealth (outside of wages) is proportional to ownership, founders are the biggest owners so they gain the most wealth from an exit. They've earned their money and can spend it freely. This is the fundamental way corporations work.

However giving away equity more often actually is a relatively new thing. I have no issue with this but am merely asking you what this has to do with a majority owner not being able to spend proceeds because there exists a minority owner? I'm asking you to backup the statements you made regarding the "startup/SV/get rich together" model which seems to be your theory - I see 0 examples of this pact outside of the founders circle. If you feel that everyone in a company should share equal ownership then that's certainly not the case in SV, which you seem to be praising.
How many people have ICE deported this year compared to previous years?
Though I appreciate your post, it only further emphasizes my original point. You, apparently a professor at CMU, praise folks for merely uninstalling an app. Something you only knew because they bothered to post it on an internet board. This further reinforces that people should post that they're doing such virtuous things to begin with. Why, because they want to increase social standing among people in a given area, that is computer science, to which you already have a high standing in, given that you're a CS professor at CMU.

So yes, it is virtue signalling, pretty much by definition -- "the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue." That being said, I don't think virtue signalling is bad. In fact, it's virtue signalling that has led to the pressure on Uber that brought about this very discussion.

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As an aside, I didn't realize "virtue signalling" was such a bad word, as well as "hypocrisy." I guess I'll have to stop using those words.
Surely you understand that the both statements are true and that culture and people are an iterative process where both affect each other?
> You're right that having some mechanism to act gracefully in the case of errors is almost always required. "Internally" this might be a "main loop" with an exception handler.

This isn't (just) about exceptions that escape; you also need to guarantee that fst (0, ⊥) returns 0 rather than ⊥. Heck, you're practically required to do the same for

fst (0, [0..(10 ^ 10)] !! (10 ^ 10))

and for that evaluation order isn't even visible at the denotational level.

> Keep in mind that confluence isn't just academic, it's the thing which makes functional programming attractive for parallelism.

Automatic parallelisation of functional languages is academic.
Given the response time, I would say that this is an amazing example of the protection that open source provides.
Could you please follow the guidelines by commenting civilly and substantively and not trolling?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would expect HPE to get bought by Oracle or IBM at some point in the next few years.
I'm not sure this is ready for prime time:

1.54MB - https://github.com/aws/aws-amplify/blob/master/packages/aws-...
Azure shared access signatures provide the same functionality as S3 pre-signed URLs with a few extra features:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storag...
In principle CAs aren't supposed to hand out EV certificates without a way to actually make sure the Subject entity exists. It's common for EV to only be available for certain countries, because you're right that it's not obvious how to check that the government of Mali really authorised you to operate a company named "Ringaround, Ltd" in Timbuktu (a city in their country).

The basics are First there needs to be some sort of government agency that can say authoritatively which companies exist in their country, and either give a date when they were created or a "serial number" in some sort of register - preferably via a secure online API. Second the country must have some reliable "business directory" or similar that lists authoritative contact details for that type of business. For example Dun & Bradstreet. This is to be used to phone the business up and ask to talk to someone about this certificate they supposedly want issued.

However you're quite right that places like Delaware or the United Kingdom, despite having a reputation as perfectly law-abiding places actually have very lax regulation for starting dodgy companies; the only reason scammers aren't buying EV certificates for dodgy company names in those places is that it doesn't matter. The day we make ordinary users demand an EV certificate to trust they're really dealing with "PayPal" is the same day scammers will start brass plate companies in London or Delaware named "Pay A Friend, Incorporated" or "My Pal, Ltd" or "PP Internet Payments" or whatever. Fools will still get separated from their money. No technical fix (and EV is a technical fix) can prevent that.
Might be possible, but the tensile strength required may be beyond our material science capabilities.

A harpoon impacting an object going 26km/s would experience something like 12,000gs even if you gave it a 1km-long buffer.

So your harpoon would have to be rocket-assisted. The problem now is how long does your need to be? The tensile strength to carry the weight of the tether itself may make this impossible.
Yes, we do, in the linked articles. The Polanski Standard is a bad one. Someone can make great movies but if they are a creep, they're a creep. If he made bad movies would it be okay to judge him?

I've gotta believe you can be a decent person and still do great things. Otherwise, what's the point? No need to excuse bad behavior, maybe by excusing it, we make it possible.

If predators got run out of industries instead of being allowed to stick around for decades (Hastert, Weinstein, Paterno, Spacey, Trump, the media is even starting to turn on Bill Clinton), then we wouldn't have to be so disappointed. It's not acceptable.
i would be convinced, if i was the lead's boss' boss, to consider firing him. if they refuse to support those upon whom they place responsibility, it's unlikely you can trust and rely on their support of you.
Please avoid giving Google money.
Could you please not do this and post civilly and substantively instead?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The UI being 1999 is a positive. The website has nothing it doesn't need. There's a Dieter Rams quote on this topic.

As an example, switching between folders in the source tree feels faster than it does using Explorer. This is what the web should be.
In the EU, data protection rules mean they must delete all user data on request.

That means every day I'm a new customer and get $20 off my first ride of $22. One day, they'll wise up and stop making such silly deals.
Before anyone who didn't actually read the link goes off at it - this is a peer reviewed, repeated study - mice react to drugs differently depending on the sex of the researcher, don't in a fume hood, do always in a fume hood with a human male's t-shirt.

It potentially plays havoc with ALL past experiments with rodents ...
I tested it on a fresh profile on Firefox Nightly 59.0a1 (2017-11-21), using https://panopticlick.eff.org/.

And well, apparently it has a pretty bad bug. It spoofs my screen size from previously 1366x768, which 1 in 9.43 browsers have, to 1318x686, which by itself is already unique, because that really is just not a screen size that anyone sells.

So, that's a thing. Maybe it's just isolated to Nightly, but if in doubt, maybe also just test yourself. Now where to report this...
This was a great intro to how just-in-time compilation works, thank you!
Ask HN: What is a recommended bonus strategy for developers?
Executives at my company have asked our development management team for advice on a way to implement "performance based bonus structure".

To that end they're asking for a metric to measure the team on.

I've ready several reasons why this doesn't work well with knowledge workers, but I'm curious if anyone has a system that actually worked.
It's already dumped a lot of it's stuff to Micro Focus.
Because it was in response to a post about how low the fines were:

"i mean look at HSBC - laundered trillions of dollars of mega-organized-crime money. for a decade. 400m dollar fine probably isnt even .01% of what they made off that endeavor"

$1.9b may sound like a lot, but there's a lot of blood attached to it.
"Money can buy bandwidth. Latency requires bribing God."
Does anybody have a link to a good source on this? I'm behind on this myself.
Actually, yes. On second, thought that is a much better idea.
Spent some time at Camp Pendleton. We had a pallet of MREs sitting out at the range. We came back from some training to find numerous boxes of MREs opened, the contents strewn all over those place. It's amazing to me that crows can open a heavy-duty cardboard box, pull out MRE packages and open them, and then get to the individually packed food items inside. These birds are cool.
This has no relevance to the comment you’re replying to except that it’s about cryptocurrency.
> It depends if you want "yes" men, or people to disagree with you.

having an opinion and outright insubordination are two entirely different things. the former is fine, while the latter is toxic and destructive.

> Remember, they aren't making widgets, they are engineering software; it's a high knowledge, high skill task.

honestly, this mostly applies to areas that have advanced requirements. a lot of programming is not particularly "high knowledge, high skill", from business process stuff to web development.
apt-mark is nothing like masking from gentoo. A-M is just for making modifications to the database that remembers whether a package was intentionally installed or was automatically pulled in as part of a dependency. This database is how apt generates the list of "packages that were automatically installed and no longer needed." The closest thing that I can think of to masking in Debi an is pulling in a package from experimental or a PPA that you added. There are no packages in the repo (stable, testing, unstable) you are using that require anything other than "apt-get install package" to install them.
Would a more correct term be "data security consultant"?
Yep. When I was a teenager, I had a job delivering newspapers. I had to get up and out very early in the morning, even in bad weather, and deliver papers on my bike, and collect the payments for them in the evening.

Nowadays, far fewer people get newspapers, and the newspaper deliver jobs are looking for someone with a car. And I assume they pay for them online.
Thanks for sharing! Came to know about her for the first time. She is great and has done some amazing things in astrophysics.
Doesn't someone on HN work at fucking Intel that can leak the ME source?
How would that be bad? People catching knives would stabilize the price.
1 within 1 AU of the sun means that there should be one passing within 0.16 AU of us on a ~yearly basis.
There's a lot of things we as adults agree to where the consequences can be steep. This is one of the easier ones: we just show up on time. We plan accordingly and we, as responsible adults, manage to pull it off. That's not hard: so why not agree to such a thing?

Another perspective on this is why should we expect someone else to bear the consequences of our failing to meet our responsibilities? If we're late picking up our kid, they staff at the day care leave late to see their own families, they incur higher operational costs, etc.

Their request that we show up prior to their closing time is completely reasonable and that there are stern consequences for failing to meet our responsibilities doesn't seem unreasonable either... especially in light of the comment I was responding to.... I assure you the day care really doesn't want to collect that fee.
So what is next? Washington Post sits down with 18 women and men and they report that Keith Richards screwed them the wrong way after the concerts in 1960s and 70s, and demands pile up from the "public" to remove the Rolling Stones from the streaming services and stop the concerts? Where is the end to this madness?
Based on what I read about the details, if the boss of your company was making unwanted sexual advances to the people that worked for him/her, most people to whom this happened would think "Eww".

From the news -
A former Pixar employee requesting anonymity says Lasseter's leave of absence statement is "ridiculous" and "trivializing this behavior." The employee adds, "To sum this up as unwanted hugs is belittling and demeaning. If it was just unwanted hugs, he wouldn't be stepping down."
If this was the case, why the secrecy? Why did staff get fired?

If it is as you describe, do you think the public would understand and react differently?
This actually sounds like the kind of challenge a computer can do VERY easily - much more so than a human.
Why does the article say that the same effect will not hold for humans? Is there anything to substantiate that?
I'm guessing migration of existing apps/code could be quicker/cheaper. But as you say it shouldn't be that hard to port.
You need user data to feed machine learning algorithms to make your product (siri, predictive text, face unlock, etc.) better.

That alone is a very strong reason to hoard data if you're Apple.
This was very helpful. Perhaps you could simply break down future responses into a list of fallacies being used in the parent post and link to them. Might save you some time so you can attack a larger number of troll responses.
Some markets are more false than others. With cryptocurrencies 1) you can’t measure intrinsic demand, so you don’t know if a price increase is being driven by sheep-like speculators or real buyers who want to hold the asset for its own sake. 2) you can’t validate counterparty identity so people can buy and sell with themselves, thereby creating a false sense of market demand. 3) because of a lack of market transparency you have no idea at all what you can sell bitcoin for in a certain size, similar to diamonds where people pay $1000 for a commodity that they wouldn’t be able to sell themselves for $100, so ‘investments’ in it are an instant money loss. It’s one of these markets where if you aren’t scamming someone yourself then you are the one being scammed. All that said, this bubble is still mid froth, and I expect my comment to get downvoted, by scammers and suckers.

EDIT (from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/technology/bitcoin-bitfin...):

> Tether and Bitfinex have insisted that the two operations are separate. But leaked documents known as the Paradise Papers, which were made public this month, show that Appleby, an offshore law firm, helped Mr. Potter and Mr. Devasini, the Bitfinex operators, set up Tether in the British Virgin Islands in late 2014.

> One persistent online critic, going by the screen name Bitfinex’ed, has written several very detailed essays on Medium arguing that Bitfinex appears to be creating Tether coins out of thin air and then using them to buy Bitcoin and push the price up.

I rest my case.
> why would they not?

Because this sort of thing inevitably leaks? Apple has a formula that demonstrably works, a formula that everyone can directly observe making them an utterly stupid amount of money. It would be the height of stupidity to risk their unparalleled monetary successes to pursue a few dirty little crumbs.
What you have described makes sense only if they were originally hired as penetration testers. I think an external hack of this nature, even if done by white hat hackers, should rightfully be treated differently.

Having said that, you raise an interesting point, because if this money was paid as a bug bounty, then perhaps the lines would be blurred again. I guess the difference is that a bug bounty would have more clearly defined parameters about how far the hack should go. Logging into AWS using credentials that were found lying around, then continuing on to download data, seems like it is beyond the realm of reasonable bug-bounty hunting and responsible disclosure.
Posting like this will get your account banned. Would you please take a look at the guidelines, which as us to comment civilly and substantively, and then follow them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That goes for pretty much all corvids. Brilliant birds, even if they haven't much of a singing voice.
What you're describing is spasming of the tensor tempani muscle.
In what world is stealing information and then holding it for ransom 'white hat'?

> You might say "Ooh, but can you trust the hacker not to keep a copy of the data!?!", but it's exactly the same as saying "Can you trust the employee not to copy the data?".

I trust someone I vetted and hired a hell of a lot more than the person who just extorted $100K from me.
> You're eliding the critical issue of consent.

There are plenty of types of relationships that are consensual, but that are still either illegal or else forbidden by the ethics standards for various industries. Just because something is widely accepted today, doesn't mean that it will be acceptable in the future as long as there is consent.

Ethical standards are shaped by the conflict between the world as it exists currently and the type of society we'd like to have. They're not immutable, nor are they guaranteed to move in any particular direction. E.g. if the human population outstrips the supply of cheap natural resources, liberal western values may go out the window very quickly around the world, just like they did in Iran.
I wouldn't call either of these "decent arguments" for forsaking net neutrality. They can both be solved by offering tiered pricing and data caps. For instance, grandma pays $10 a month for a Gb of data, Netflix Youtube kid pays $100 for unlimited. Same goes for small startup ISP.
It was Flavor Aid :P
Let me quote from your original comment:

> people don't actually care. It's just virtue signaling.

You're making claims about their underlying motivation, and dismissing their actions as just virtue signaling.

"They're not doing A, they're only doing B"

Showing the presence of B is not sufficient to demonstrate the absence of A.

Second, you haven't actually shown that they're virtue signaling. Note that your definition specifically includes intent: "publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character" -- the OP could be expressing their sentiments publicly in order to induce others to follow suit, for example. The same post admits many possible explanations, and you are in no position to read the mind of the posters in order to divine their intent. You're making assumptions, but you again haven't presented any evidence to suggest that your hypothesis is better than any others.
I'm sorry, but I disagree and find you to be twisting and exaggerating a huge volume of work. There are miles and miles of treasure in his archive from people that never spoke for long unstructured amounts of time with anyone else.

Terry Gross has big flaws, the biggest of which is how she approaches her interviews much more from a political activist's lens, to the point of being absolutely obnoxious about certain topics or people. There are a wide array of issues I would never want to hear her interview someone about.
How far can you climb with s balloon and jump down? Wouldn't it be more cost effective. I'm not sure if this guy is trolling or not, but if he really believes in flat earth I give him respect to "showing the proof" instead of moaning online.
New York Attorney General launches investigation of Uber’s $100,000 hack coverup
It really has been amazing to see the momentum building with people speaking out against aggressors. I wonder when critical mass will be reached in terms of when people feel that there's little negative consequence to sharing stories of harassment.
If I was going to pay you 100k, would you rather receive it in btc or yuan? You are a chinese citizen in this scenario.