skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is still not clear, it seems more like a logic error to me. Zero means success and a non zero value is an error code. It basically says "if login fails, then do this". If they would have used a boolean instead, or a result enum, the code would have taken the same path! I argue that strong typing would not have detected the logic error! The bad code was probably rushed in to make the upgrade work. All tests turning up green can really put you into a false sense of security. But that is another strongly opinioned topic!
How on earth is that your takeaway from reading the article? It's not even a long article.
Found this from google search.

https://www.theroot.com/black-immigrants-overrepresented-in-...

Can't remember the article I original read. I went to MIT and of the handful of black students I knew well, half were foreign.
Why on earth do people downvote that? I want a language that isn't going to change. Every single other language community seems to understand that, but something about it pisses off Python people.
> all of my friends made fun of me for paying for a free software

That's a pretty unethical attitude. A developer, who by definition makes her living by creating software, more than anyone else should be able to appreciate that developers have to make a living.

I'm not exactly sure what this widespread attitude is caused by. Perhaps a mixture of a lack of empathy, a feeling of powerlessness and not having significant say in an organisation's direction.
Went from a 120,000 person company to a 12 person company and this is so true.

If you’ve got great leadership, a small company can be an incredibly fun, almost artistic like experience to work at. A

That being said I really enjoyed my time at Bigco. It teaches you a ton about bureaucracy, the inevitable issues large groups of humans has, there is a built in social network, lots of legal protections, etc.
Works with IPFS if you use Pubsub, cryptographic capabilities, and CRDTs :) Check out PeerPad: https://peerpad.net

edit: what I also meant to say is, a chat room doesn't need computation (although there certainly use cases that do)
I think amazon is the target because they apparently have program dedicated to hiring temporary workers who lives in RVs:

http://www.amazondelivers.jobs/about/camperforce/

(it's almost unbelievable)
"being elected as an election judge"

Is America unique in having so many elections and positions? This job title reminds me of the "Fuse alarm fuse" (which was the fuse for the alarm that checked if a fuse had blown)
> The point is that this is the system and it has been for decades, and everybody involved knew it and knows it.

This system is also why I didn't get much from my grants because the university took out the "tuition". So just because everyone knows it and has been around is not a good enough reason to keep it around. With that approach nothing would ever change.

> but this is not some kind of swindle universities have been getting away with, it's the system working as it was designed to work.

Paying students $10-$30k a year doing cutting edge research is not what I call "working as designed". This is often coming from institution with billions of dollar in endowments.
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I am surprised people are surprised by this. I went to B school over twenty years ago, and my experience was after I applied and was accepted and passed on going, they offered a scholarship. It was clear it had nothing to do with need, they wete just trying to persuade me to go. Tuition amounts are just sticker prices that you can negotiate down based on your bargaining power. If you don't know that you don't belong in business school.

Although as I am sure many here would agree, it makes little sense for those who want to participate in startups.
Lately "scholarships" reminds me very much of negotiating a discount with a used car dealer.
While I agree it's definitely something that should not go on a job posting, I can see what it stemmed from. And it's probably the fact that they did indeed give bootcamp grads a test.

The author seems like a motivated person and while she speaks inclusively of all the bootcamp participants(a lot of "we"), I am willing to bet that many of them do not share her drive. It's also worth noting that just because someone taught you something and you studied, it doesn't necessarily mean that you can apply it to the real world. Which is why experience is probably still the best learning tool.

In the end, I do feel sort of the same even toward normal grads. I believe that it's not where your knowledge comes from but what do you do with that matters. The question then becomes, how do you weed out the bad ones? Well, we are back at square 0, with an interview.

To recap, I agree that you shouldn't have a job post like that but for different reasons than the author's.
I've worked with developers who have 20 years of development on their résumé who haven't spent 3 months thinking about data yet. I've also worked with interns who are weeks in to their first professional role who have taught me things about data I haven't seen before. Time served is a terrible way of measuring knowledge and passion for a subject.
Some articles have said it will land on Mars, but others have said it will just sit in orbit. Which is it?
Whats the point of crypting when workers read them anyway ?? Cmon, is this a hoax or what ??
We've banned this account for trolling. Could you please stop creating accounts to break the site guidelines with?
Epigenetic tags are inheritable, yes, but when they're expressed and to what extent the epigenetic tags are expressed changes between individuals.

Since expression of these tags result from external influences, I don't see what the relevance is. Can you explain? How does inheritance of these epigenetic tags, unexpressed, contradict the article?
That doesn't properly explain the freak-out from the extreme left ~45 years ago, which resulted in dramatically more violence and terrorism than the recent extreme right freak-out. There was no loneliness epidemic at the time among that group.

Which is to say, there are plenty of other plausible explanations to consider when a large group of people start behaving in what is an abnormal manner in contrast to the prevailing culture.
That link is more about the pitfalls of page alignment. Caches being a very dangerous topic.

Getting the data aligned in a cache friendly way returns those loops to the expected behavior of one iteration being faster than two.
Um... They would be in the form of smart card+pin, not a file on desktop.
> While the science is amazing, why go this route rather than having a surrogate mother?

Or even just adoption. Adoption is far cheaper as well.

There are plenty of reasons why people want their own biological children... but this seems like it carries a ton more risk with it. With complications from the transplant and heck even just childbirth.
Yes, it's such a favored status to pay more than ten percent of your income to state taxes. People are literally stomping over each other to move to places where their state taxes are the highest, not wanting others to get there first and pay more taxes than they do. These people are clearly, incredibly privileged to have the honor to pay such high state taxes. What favoritism. In the meantime people in states with no taxes are furious. "Why don't we get to pay high taxes?" they cry. We are not favored. The money in their bank accounts is filling up their accounts and they're worried they might not get FDIC protections on all the vast sums of money they accumulated by not being favored by the law. "Such favoritism," they scream. Certainly, the only solution is to make those favored even more favored by raising their taxes even more. Somehow this, in the mind of the unfavored, those poor souls not allowed to pay state taxes, might magically fix things. Clearly no-one has thought anything out really. What favoritism indeed ...
Aren't there people who _want_ to do this?
Nah. Just casually mentioned what came to mind. I coukd have said ice cream ;)
Oh, so you think Net Neutrality was unconstitutional?
It is (or at least sounds so from the details given), but this dovetails right into the current discussions about identity and verification and how to do each well in an age where much of your personal identification is spread around the internet and easily obtainable.

Would we really think it was less mind-bogglingly stupid if there was an email verification beforehand but the hacker had compromised the email account? Probably, but maybe not by much. It's a hurdle, but not always an unsurpassable one, and sometimes not hard at all (how hard is it to convince the tech that the reason you're calling is because you route all mail to the server in question and it has crashed, so email verification doesn't work so you need to fall back on other provided info?).

Good procedures and policies can help, but that also means the attacker knows exactly what's needed to defeat them.
"Want" as in they are biologically wired to want to do so; hormones/evolution/etc.
I'm honestly curious why you would infer that I think it's likely there are likely no genetic differences. I said nothing of the kind.
> the comparison to race or gender issues in the beginning is in extremely bad taste

Coding "bootcamps" have been broadly embraced by people trying to get programming (about as gender-selected a profession as there is) opened up to people from broader backgrounds. Obviously there are white dudes that come out of these programs too, but... no, it's not too much a stretch to imagine someone talk about "bootcamp applicants" as shorthand for post-college women looking for a change of career.

Likewise, sure, it's possible that someone is just using "bootcamp" as shorthand for "unqualified" and trying to sincerely convey the deep background required of the position. But it's not in "bad taste" to imagine something a little less wholesome either. Which is to say (pause while people get out their SJW hatchets): check your privilege a bit. It's easy for people like us who followed the rules and have the right chromosomes to imagine that injustice doesn't exist. Those closer to the problem have a different perspective.
http://www.rockinst.org/pdf/government_finance/2017-09-28_Ba...

It's been analyzed by many groups, multiple times. New York contributes more than it recieves.

The Rockefeller Institute of Government report linked above estimated a deficit of 47 billion dollars in FY 2017 alone.

It should come as no surprise considering these states are home to the some of the most successful economic regions in the country.

Your second point doesn't jive with support of this tax plan. It's forcing a tax hike on productive populated blue states to pay more to the federal government which are less represented in how it's spent compared to rural states. I'd love more state and local control, the last thing I want my taxes going to is more GOP funded military pork.
...how do you get the private key off the card and into my future banks website when I apply for a credit card?
Any reason a man couldn't get one, with correct hormones?
Are you sure of that? There is an almost finished call for algorithms right now from NIST, because RSA and elliptic curve are known to be broken by quantum cryptography.

While you might not personally believe this to be true, it's not a good design decision to enforce upon the entire world a concept of identity that many security professionals will tell you is broken at scale.

This doesn't even address key management issues such rotation, theft, loss, planting, etc.
It’s a pretty minimal responsibility. It’s basically the person whose job it is to setup the polling place, collect the ballots, and make sure there is no funny business. You literally work 2 days a year, and have no other responsibilities.
Jokes aside, I wonder if we're really seeing the long term erosion of democracy because people just don't care. You can see it in most aspects of the nation, from the NSA revelations largely being accepted in a sigh of hopelessness to the several social issues that have been in the news since 2014 and haven't seemed to move.
People just don't take an interest in the larger issues except to tweet their thoughts and move on. I wonder if, for example, when events like 9/11 or Katrina happened people were moved more to donate or help because they couldn't just say "thinking of the victims" in a public social media space and move on with their day.
And I don't think mandatory voting is a solution to this issue because people will default to laziest method, which would probably be whose name they heard the most. The big picture idea is how to make people care, and that is probably the biggest unsolved issue of our day.
I find it interesting that the Baylor team chose a shorter timeframe from surgery to implantation with success. According to the article, the initial thought was that a longer wait time gave a chance for the women to heal, but the Baylor team thought the immune-system-suppressants (used to ensure the body does not reject a foreign organ) too harmful to continue for long periods.
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Actually, AWS S3 console will now SCREAM at you if you leave anything public.

Now, if you don't know your S3 bucket is public that's entirely on you.
My friend went to GSB and works in PE. I hung out with his co workers once and they talk about things I can never afford and I'm in the 1%!
I'm not sure we have decent case law for the situation we're in now... the speech of Americans is largely controlled by a few entities that have the power to silence your speech almost completely, at least in the ways that speech is used today.
You'd get a low grade in economics class with such an argument -- the issue is that in the long run, the market responds to the availability of new inputs (in this case, lots more labor), and in the long run you have no idea how the relationship between supply and demand will change.
Free Martin! It's horrible that people think it's ok to put someone in jail just for being offensive. Freedom of speech?
Very true. There are devs that spent years of their careers changing magic numbers in code they never understood. I believe that a lot of comes down to attitude and eagerness to learn. Because some people maybe haven't even had the opportunity yet to think about data but would love to.
I've been curious about this issue, because I've been relatively successful in my so-far short career as a web developer. Yet I'm self-taught, and can't math my way out of a paper bag. I'm good at logic so that's gone a long way in helping me.

I always wonder, though, whether I'll eventually run into a math-critical issue and cannot just reason my way through it. It's a terrifying prospect, but luckily in my 5 years of dev experience I haven't faced that scenario.
> don’t invest money that isn’t closed

Are you talking to the VC or the company?

When a VC says they have “closed” a fund, it means they have collected commitments. (I have found no consistency in what companies mean by having “closed” a round.)
Headspace uses local notifications (meditation reminders) which triggers the springboard bug.
Yes that's what I was trying to get at. The increased cost comes with significantly increased risk yet the same end result (a biological child).
The unhelpfulness isn't related to my getting the funding. It's about changes at the VC
There was an accident involving a contraceptive and a time machine.
What are you trying to say? Break the law, go to jail.
If I interpret your sarcasm correctly, you're saying they're being punished by high state taxes? Place the blame for that where it belongs, on the state government. But if the people of a state choose to pay higher state taxes, that doesn't entitle them to pay lower federal taxes.
You can regulate these companies through the political process, but you do need to get involved...

What chance do you have of convincing consumers to use a less convenient more expensive alternative to Amazon, when you can barely convince them to vote in their own interest?
no the analogy would be that if a citizen has a request the mayor is obliged to listen, but also the citizen should not run away right after making the request or wear earplugs. i am trying to follow the argument eff is making here and i also see that it leads to absurd conclusions

but i don't like analogies in general, analogies suck
> LUCKY graduate students

The overall tenor of your post is a bit disingenuous. The data tells us that getting a PhD does not substantially improve your material existence, or at least that the picture is murky.

The data also tells us that the science that comes out of the research performed during those PhDs has an enormous positive ROI for society.

So in other words, phd students are under-paid take a lifelong financial hit to provide large but diffuse benefits to society, benefits that most students won't be able to capture because, well, that's the nature of basic science..

> You can argue that graduate students and universities are just another special interest lobbying the government for a tax exemption that benefits them

Since everything's a special interest, we might as well throw the money at oil executives?

No, of course not. Some of those special interests really are worth investing in. Roads, schools, and labs provide enormous and measurable, if diffuse, value.

> You could further argue that it's unfair to ask blue-collar workers in fly-over states to pay higher taxes because of the impact of such a subsidy.

This bill will most harm the public and low-endowment universities in those flyover states. The schools those workers' children will attend will be less well-staffed and there will be fewer opportunities for funded graduate programs.

> You could easily make the same argument for active-duty armed service members. Frankly, I'd support a tax reduction on those people

Good news: they already receive very large tax exemptions. As they should; the armed services are also an important special interest...
Self-censorship on Facebook: analysis of what people type but don't post (2013)
Oddly enough, I made no network in while college, but learned math, physics, programming, and electronics, among other things. I think what I learned has helped me in my career.
> Oh, so you think Net Neutrality was unconstitutional?

I can't even understand your logic to try to make sense of this and respond to you. Are you saying you think if the first amendment doesn't imply X then X is unconstitutional?
As I mentioned in a sister thread, the issue is largely moot because of changes at the VC.
> When the owner of Amazon it's the richest person on the planet I would say it's fair game.

How is the structure of ownership of the company changes the rules of the game for the company? Company's goal is to create value for shareholders.

If you want punish people for having more than others, there's already an instrument for that, progressive taxation.
Sorry if I offended you. When I speak to our Bay Area representatives about privacy, Internet regulation and related commercial matters, I’m usually alone. Few are politically involved, in the Bay Area, on non-social topics.
No to Google fiber here. But FIOS and Xfinity offer gig speeds. It could have been coincidence but neither paid much attention to speed prior to GF.

Comcast also offers special rates for lower income households. Good PR. But it also does play to Google's objectives. I would think.
The vast majority of actual profit-generating programming that is done in the world requires almost no mathematics beyond basic arithmetic. Unless you explicitly want to get into something more maths-heavy, I think you'll be fine.

I used to do and enjoy algorithm competitions as a student, but in "real life" I've found there is almost no correlation between the complexity of the algorithms and the amount of money to be made.
> That is a clear-cut violation of the First Amendment.

The problem is, he has not censored their speech. The message still goes out, it just never reaches Trump's mailbox. Like I stated in the above comment, the First Amendment does not guarantee an audience. Trump has not stopped messages from being tweeted, just from those tweets reaching him.

> Twitter is also not being restricted at all. They can block anyone that they want.

By setting a precedent that Twitter, as a private organization, can be the provider of a public space for free speech, does that not force them to keep everyone's views on the platform?
They will sit unsecured on personal computers in some folder on the Desktop waiting for any malware to scoop them up. They will overnight beclem the highest value target for hackers.

Most modern phones have secure elements that can generate and store a private key that cannot be extracted through software. Also, it is easy to set up things such that a physical confirmation is required to sign something (this is eg. what some U2F keys or touch ID do).

Of course, you still need a procedure to map public keys to identities and people need to secure their phones in order to prevent someone stealing the phone to make signatures.

But using the secure element of a phone for various forms of authentication is orders of magnitude safer than relying on a credit card or social security number.
There's a long running joke in the US, dating back to the 1880s, that involves so many positions being elected:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/could_not_get_elected_dogcatc...
You know its a good language when you have this much trouble writing a simple for loop.
Data is identity. What else could be? The problem is which data is identity.
Web of Trust systems only work in cooperative environments. In the presence of malicious parties they fail spectacularly.
Other comments have good observations about big vs small.

One of the main markers of a startup is there tends to be One Big Challenge to get the company to The Next Level (generally talked about as a funding round, but that's just a convenience). Initially you're finding product / market fit, then you're figuring out a scalable go-to-market, then you're scaling the product, then you're launching a new product, etc.

It's weird to go through one of these transitions, because you'll need to change your focus pretty drastically. Sometimes you'll feel sidelined, because your department isn't the one primarily on the hook. If you're figuring out how to build a sales team, engineering gets chill and potentially complacent. The most successful startups have leaders that paint a clear picture that gets all departments working autonomously towards the same goal.

This is different than a smallco, because without a war chest of cash, your options are more limited. Because cash flow dictates the cadence of the business, and that's never going to change. This can feel more stable, but does mean you'll have to occasionally make hard choices that delay a valuable project or work on something outside your speciality.
You can argue that this isn’t punishment. But I don’t think you can argue that this isn’t targeted or a clear expression of priorities. Churches aren’t being taxed here. They could have lost their tax exempt status. The Increase to the Child tax credit that would have helped low income families isn’t in the bill. There is no reduction in military spending to offset the cost. And it sure looks like the states most severely affected by removing the state tax deduction vote democratic. Especially since these states actually subsidize most of the other states through their much larger tax base and its contributions to federal tax that is redistributed to the rest of the country.

Let’s remember that grad students are now being taxed for money they never receive. It’s not like money is changing hands for tuition. If they were a business and the university paid them $100k they would be able to expense the tuition.
You don't get to choose what your taxes goes to.