skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with all of that, though spending 4 years to make that determination seems crazy to me. A competent employer can figure out which hires are worthwhile in about a month or so.

There’s another issue with using educational attainment as a proxy of intelligence: it doesn’t really help you distinguish among candidates who all have a bachelors degree. All you know is that they’re above some threshold, but not how far above. You can use the prestige of the school as a proxy for this, but it all seems like a hell of a lot of hassle when you can figure this all out in a half hour with an IQ test.
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What, pray tell, is BSC?
Sure but that's still a far cry from saying that even a significant percentage of the Mac user base is aware of it. Social media moves so fast that there's almost no chance it penetrated the zeitgeist. A big well known flaw was the iOS 8.0.1 update that bricked iPhones. That was pulled within a few hours of it being released but the scale of the iPhone meant that it impacted a large number of people. This is too invisible for anyone to notice.
I think EY Switzerland was actually the first.
I agree we should get the money out of politics, but let's be honest with our terms. The people do elect congress, though corrupt money is allowed to influence the people.
One I like is Wechall. It's sort of an index of other challenge sites (including a nifty API that can track your progress through some of their indexed sites), although they have a few of their own challenges as well. The sites it indexes tend to be geared towards security topics like web security and cryptography, though there are some more general programming challenges as well.
Yeah, the day after they put out the initial update (17B1002), they put out a second update (17B1003) that fixed the file sharing issue caused by the first one.
>LPE matters a lot for enterprise and educational customers.

Surely not. In real life LPE bugs are far too common to matter a lot to anyone.

>What do you mean by exploited from within the sandbox? This is exploitable from any login prompt where the user has the ability to enter a username, including ones in the shell.

I'm not familiar enough with the OS X sandbox, but I would guess that sandboxed applications aren't allowed to fill in login prompts. I might be wrong though.
aerospace (airliners, hardened electronics for space, etc) / robotics (all those problems with the fukushima robots, precision medical and industrial bots) / medical devices of all kinds

Of course, you can work on whatever you want to whatever standard you want if you do it on your own time & dime, if you have the willpower and the budget, or can find a patron, crowdfunding is viable now.
I’ll check it out, thanks.
1. AT&T claimed it has NEVER blocked third party apps when that concern was raised in relation to Net Neutrality.

2. AT&T DID block Facetime, and wanted to allow access only on special plans.

3. The magic of the free market and competition did not step them

4. Special regulations about not blocking third party apps could have stopped them.

This issue is always framed as some lofty philosophical debate about "free market vs. regulation!!!" by companies.

In reality its perfectly clear that neither extreme works or even exists currently, just a precarious balance we as consumers have to protect that companies are always trying to erode.
Whiteboard tests are directly relevant to the position being hired for and, thus, okay to use.
this doesn't even come close to being the greatest security failure in the decade. Equifax and intel ME are both much worse
Judging by Apple's security updates page[1], they're still releasing standalone security updates for older versions of macOS. Unfortunately, the same is not true for iOS where security updates are rolled into OS updates.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222
It didn't happen again in the /next release/, it happened when upgrading from an older release to the current one.
Yeah, but most universities engage in affirmative action, which theoretically negates this.
Major Study Finds The US Is An Oligarchy

http://www.businessinsider.com/major-study-finds-that-the-us...

> Researchers concluded that U.S. government policies rarely align with the preferences of the majority of Americans, but do favour special interests and lobbying organizations: "When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the US political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favour policy change, they generally do not get it."
They say if you want to master something, teach it.

Looking forward to more crypto-focused podcasts. It's always preferable to hear from more technical guests who aren't just trying to sell something.
You can't stop a person from buying some minimal amount (the lawsuits claim damages of 1BTC, IIRC) just to sue you later.

One hostile contributor doesn't tell you anything about the intentions of the rest.
Ah, that's far more interesting. Do you know if SSH is affected?
All those Zug-incorporated ICOs exploiting loopholes in civil law:

1. Tokenizing non-profit foundations (stiftungs), while traditional "stiftung foundation has no shares or members" [1]

2. Pretending that token allocations are unrelated to donations/contributions.

3. Using nonprofit foundations for clearly for-profit speculative activity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiftung
Slack managed to get a whole new demographic of people that have never heard of IRC to use IRC. That seems fairly hype-worthy.

The only problem is that it's not IRC, it's another closed source data gathering operation.
Sure, but past performance is not a predictor of future results. Just because many of them are built poorly today doesn't mean they have to be built that way.
Oh, only a quarter of the yearly revenue of the world's fifth-largest company by revenue, or the second-largest if we exclude state-run enterprises (c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...). Alright then.
Which is only narrow subset of what PLM system does. PLM is generally about tracking what data artifacts (drawings, manufacturer datasheets and so, formal specifications are somewhat secondary to that) are relevant for given assembly and how such subassemblies fit together on high level.
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Queue obligatory 'this wouldn't have happened under Jobs' posts.
It's fine if you think the government should intervene aggressively for consumer protection. But it's inaccurate to suggest that cellular is somehow unusual in the level of market concentration as the reason for such regulations.
> The efficient market hypothesis says that profit is an error

No it doesn't. It's a pricing hypothesis. It says nothing about the presence or absence of profits.
If the value is in the idea, then multiple execution of the same idea should result in the same/similar values.
But... this isn't true irl, therefore the differences in value isn't in the idea but the execution
Conservatism is a choice. Gender and race are not.
Upvoted purely because I love the fact that there's someone here who hasn't seen ST:TMP.

(And you needn't bother, honestly. It's the franchise's answer to 2001, put together by people who didn't really get what made 2001 great. If, like me, you can't get enough absurdly prolonged sequences of old-school practical model effects in effectively static poses, then you'll love it to pieces, but otherwise...)
after i first time last year (our BigCo like any other BigCo likes SUSE and that one isn't fast on bringing in new changes) faced GNOME 3, i was wonderstruck at the engineering feat what it is ( no joking, great engineering achievement, just for different world, and it took some effort to downgrade back to GNOME 2). Seeing GNOME 3 made me completely sure that Linux desktop of our dreams just isn't coming.
That's why you need to start a company ;-) It's also why there are so many startups.
It's certainly a factor, but I'd argue that by a very long margin, people management skills are the best indicator for engineers suited to making the managerial move.

You have to know what you're talking about and know when to defer to experts, and being a generalist might prepare you well for that. But once you've reached the threshold on knowledge and critical thinking, the biggest barrier to being a good manager is mastering the mechanics of people wrangling.
Being a tech generalist is a great background for a manager. But there are some caveats.

Firstly, besides understanding the work, a manager also has to be able to actually manage subordinates. This is orthogonal to technical ability.
Secondly, internal promotion of a generalist carries risk of that generalist being too opinionated based on his own work. They are much more likely to be a conservative force. This might be an unnecessary barrier to good changes.
> But that's the bigger issue isnt it?

Yes, but so what? There is no chance we're going to get meaningful competition among Internet providers in the USA.

So you can choose an imperfect but helpful solution that exists today, or a perfect theoretical solution that doesn't and won't.
> ICO founders are getting a quick education...

It's not fun for them, but after raising a couple of hundred million dollars, I don't feel too sorry for them either.
I mean, if your reference point is a state fund run by the government of an OECD country I suppose it's not that big.
It probably was this great idea of merging the iOS and MacOS teams. That just screams management.
Linux desktop user here, I'm pretty happy so far to end 2017.

https://i.imgur.com/yG3ep3M.jpg
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I think it depends on the company. I don't find it attention grabbing at all and I have it running on the default settings.

I certainly find it much easier to follow than massive chain emails.
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Mac-a-mole
Those have nothing to do with Apple. They are massive failures from other companies.
In case that wasn’t clear, i’m talking about Apple.
Bittrex wants its own subreddit to be shut down for no reason
I think that should be grounds to terminate a contract with the carrier. No doubt if they instantly started bleeding customers because of a stupid decision like this their minds would quickly change.
Your error is in concluding that because execution matters, ideas don't matter. But that's erroneous. Both matter.
I'm a fellow generalist. I got lucky that the company I'm with values my work, but I can see something that isn't said out loud about generalists but appears to be true (in my experience at least)... generalists are harder to manage.

If you've got someone who is largely autonomous and can wear multiple hats, steering them in a single direction may be more tricky than a specialist that doesn't seek work outside their remit.
Seriously. It’s shitty, but rebooting isn’t the end of the world. The problem is they don’t force a reboot with the fix. Now they just need to roll a new 10.13.1 with the fix and force a reboot with the standalone patch, problem solved.
Kudos to Aerojet Rocketdyne on their thrusters lighting up after 37 years. That's genuinely impressive engineering.

Certain Volkswagen models apparently have an even more amazing MTBF. It's a real sleeper. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo2kSu6O8cU

But Voyager's got it beat on mileage...
> Because when you’ve had the greatest security failure in a decade

It's nowhere close to the greatest security failure in a decade. It's not even a contender in the far off distance. It's a well publicized vulnerability, and it's quite silly, but in the scheme of things it's just a Tuesday for CVE writers. We even had a vulnerability functionally identical to this, and similar in both severity and silliness, hit Linux within the past year.

If you're talking about Apple specifically, it's still not that bad. The vulnerability couldn't be arbitrarily executed remotely with default OS settings, and it didn't grant kernel access. The Trident flaws were significantly worse than this, and that's just the first that comes to mind.

Yes, yes, I know this wasn't the thrust of your point...but still. People get kind of hyperbolic when it comes to rating security vulnerabilities. It's more silly than it is severe. I expect at least one vulnerability of comparable impact on every major point release of every major operating system and web browser (not that this is a good thing, but it's logistically realistic). I don't think this is particularly bad for Apple's public image or reputation. Headlines about "the sky is falling!" vulnerabilities make the rounds every so often; for better or worse, it never really seems to stick in public consciousness.
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Indeed, there's a lot of pent-up vending machine assumptions out there. To help segregate from that baggage, we made the decision to call them 'service locations' instead.

The US market has many challenges, including but not limited to a famously high degree of food-related regulation and limited urban density. I think in the US we would test alternate formats such as drive-thrus, but frankly by the time we get there we'll already have made it in Asia.

After China we will likely test HK, then probably wealthy, dense, nearby markets with high mobile payment penetration, familiarity with automated retail and aging populations such as Japan and Korea.
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That's fanon. Yeah, I sort of like the idea too, and yeah, Goldsmith to some extent may have styled the First Contact Borg leitmotif after V'ger's from TMP, and yeah, maybe he did that deliberately, and yeah, somebody's friend of a friend said that Gene Roddenberry once coughed in a way that could be interpreted as suggesting he'd had in mind the Borg creating V'ger all along - but it's fanon all the same.

(Me, I like Ron Jones's theme from The Best of Both Worlds a lot better, anyway...)
Sure, so we can say that people vote against their interests. We can't say that the U.S. is a dictatorship. Let's be precise with our terms, rather than contributing to political polarization and blustering.
The value of the Tezos token can't be lower than the value of the raised funds now, can it? That would be like saying a company with 100k in cash is only worth 50k. Since the foundation kept most of the raised BTC and ETH, the funds appreciated at the same rate as if they were kept by the investors. The investors have tokens that represent shares of the funds raised. Those derive their value from 1. the money raised and 2. the technology being developed (that will be useful hopefully). Therefore, it would be very strange if the token was worth less than the share of funds used to raise it, XTZ "futures" price notwithstanding.

"Futures" because they are just a pile of tokens bought by the exchange, and you can't sell your own tokens before release, so no way to get them into the exchange and no functioning market.
>(Not the exact wording, but the intent was clear. They even educated every employee on the importance of not writing down stuff that may be later quote-mined in a lawsuit.)

There's a MASSIVE difference between not writing stuff down because you have no idea if your competitors may use it against you in a future lawsuit, and not writing stuff down because you know what you're discussing is illegal.
What I wonder is, given a system with perverse incentives, won't people find a way to abuse Bayesian statistics?
"We're going to be doing illegal stuff, so don't talk about it where the courts might hear"

Sounds like the underlying implication of an ethics class. I think reasonable anticipation would be at the point that Uber knew or should have known they were deriving development from stolen material.
There is already a javascript snippet that is linked from the post itself.
I agree with most points except this one:

>> Most open source software is written by programmers who are full-time employed by companies which directly consume the software, at the explicit or implicit blessing of their employers. It is not charity work, any more than they charitably file taxes.

Most open source projects don't go anywhere... They have about 3 stars on Github and nobody uses them.

To say that open source is not charity work is quite unfair. The number of people who make money from their open source projects is tiny... Even among popular projects with thousands of stars. The real motivation behind most open source projects is a strong desire to learn and explore new ideas and to share these ideas with others.

The financial stuff might come later but most of the time it doesn't come at all.

Outside of the cryptocurrency space and big corporations, very few people who get into open source do so because they think it is a good way to make money... Because it's not.

I believe very strongly that most open source projects are founded on altruism. The motivation might change over time but you cannot disregard the initial intent.
Their announcement lacks details, but it's probable they are using an existing Bitcoin checkout service and never have to touch BTC themselves.
Maybe they're trying to become more of a tech company so they can pay lower wages relative to finance firms. :v
Here's a dilemma about the extremely bullish Bitcoin market: I would be happy to get paid in Bitcoins, but do people want to pay in Bitcoins? Everyone I've heard wants to hoard them ("hodl").

I only remember buying a single item with Bitcoins and that was because the online store had difficulty with my credit card.
The 'whose hiring' thread already includes instructions on how to search the whole thing in the post body.
Would a problem with something as fundamental as this happen with an open source UNIX-like distribution and fail to be discovered or adequately fixed?

Would anyone feel compelled to apologize for mentioning a mistake by an open source project on Twitter?

The gentleman who tweeted about Apple's mistake actually apologized for it on Medium. Crazy.

https://medium.com/@lemiorhan/the-story-behind-anyone-can-lo...

Apple can claim it is "certified" as UNIX(TM). And publish the source for userland code it copied from open source projects.

Microsoft is trying again to subsume "UNIX" into Windows allowing users to run Linux binaries without running a Linux kernel.

But neither is a substitute for the original open source UNIX-like projects.

This blunder by Apple proves that even the wealthiest company on Earth does not necessarily produce better "UNIX" than a group of unpaid volunteers. At least if the user cares about the basics.
Updates do two things. They repair old bugs, and they introduce new bugs, often called features. It would be great if you could subscribe to just the former, but the idea that it is uniformly better to update seems absurd to me.

From a user perspective, I never want my experience to change without my express consent. Sometimes I don't have the power to prevent it, but for my OS, I definitely have that power, and exercise it regularly.
For what it's worth, these bootcamps are the current "trade schools" for software jobs where the barrier to entry is lower. They're accelerated programs that use job placement as a strong selling point.

It's almost like they rose from the death of many for-profit technical schools (DeVry, WestWood et al.) and took their ecological niche. But in contrast to bootcamps, these for-profit schools were too big, slow, and ineffective.
Typically retailers who accept Bitcoin do just that.

PWC don't charge "cup of coffee" money for anything so I guess accepting bitcoin could work for them, despite the high transaction fees.
I really hope we see greater specialization of mid-line universities that don't know whether they want to be an academic school or a trade school. Programming-as-inquiry is extremely difficult due to the amount of effort and math required to produce novelty, and programming-as-trade is much less difficult in comparison as a lot of the systems you're composing together already have their principles worked out. You can work from the manual in the latter case, while you're defining the manual in the former.

Meanwhile a university not knowing whether it wants to be a trade school or a research school has mixed incentives that results in an inconsistent quality of education. You get professors who don't know how to teach and teachers who don't know how to go in depth. By requiring both you've made your staffing requirements that much harder to fulfill if you don't want to trade off education quality.

On that note how have bootcamps been doing lately?
Duh! If we normalize impeachment then we can just impeach Pence for wrongthink! Then we can impeach his replacement for looking at someone funny! Then we can impeach his replacement for being a stupid doodie head! Then why not impeach his replacement for backing the wrong football team! Finally we get away from the semi-stable form of government the world has known the US for nearly 240 years.
It’s not difficult to demonstrate that IQ is relevant to job performance (its the best predictor of performance for most jobs). The problem is to demonstrate that it doesn’t have a discriminatory effect (there are large, persistent differences in IQ between races).
You don't say what kind of engineering you do, but you could do worse than working at a particle physics lab.
You have everything from data analysis, complex control systems, physics simulations, high voltage electrical engineering... the list goes on.

Ok, the pay isn't silicon valley level but most labs take work life balance and professional development quite seriously and you get to work on cool stuff.