skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that there is a big issue in the field w.r.t. "unknown unknowns", where more effort needs to be put into making useful knowledge available.
However, I do not think that many of these technologies are hard for someone who understands data science, at least at the level neccessary to use them.
Doing productive developement in these more systems or CS focused topics is a wholly different topic though...
Our end is not stuck with 40+ years old, non-upgradable electronics. The Voyager end is where the magic is.
The better analogy in this case would be to an AmazonBasics USB cable, not to a phone charger.

Are there issues when anyone can provide a product? Yes. But this would certainly not involve Amazon opening the storefront to allow selling any sort of drugs, but rather them sourcing generic product themselves and selling it as private label.

I would have no problems trusting this product to be genuine, just as I have no problems trusting their other private label products. It's a different sort of issue.
PwC Hong Kong first Big Four firm to accept bitcoin
I don't know if you accept it as normal, but I've seen that in each of the four companies I've worked in. Sometimes the chief of staff at the VP level is not an engineer, but the chief of staff to CxO I've seen are usually engineers.
Also engineers love constraints and compromises. It's a nice dance between getting shit done and getting shit done right.
Sure. And the "no blocking" rule was eventually struck down. My point is there were no existing laws that would have forced AT&T to reverse their decision.
What's the "bribe" here? It's unlawful to bribe an official (to subvert the will of the people by subverting individual government employees). It's unlawful to bribe a witness in an actual current court case. There are doubtless other particular instances of unlawful "bribery". Which of them does this fit into?
I know this is technically unrelated, but your site (http://cognii.com/) needs a redesign. I've been interested in your pitch on Who Is Hiring a few times, but I just can't take your site seriously.
You can, but pleading the Fifth on a civil case can be held against you (adverse inference). IANAL as well.
I'm not sure I'd call it great news. But I too have stopped reading a few magazines that went all digital. There is just too much other digital competition when I've got a browser open. But when I'm sitting at breakfast and what to read something physical, there was very little competition (I don't like getting iPads sticky, so don't use them when eating!).
I hear a very small violin playing a sad song, just for StartCom/WoSign. Who’d have thought that lying and cheating would cause people to lose trust in a company whose only offering is trust?
Saw that you were super active in this thread, so I googled your username. It looks like you're their competitor and you're acting like you're an unbiased/concerned person. Pretty dishonest - I'm sure it's great, but you should disclose that you're shilling for your company.
There is no such implication. In fact she specifically implies otherwise. It's just a matter of not making assumptions of specific knowledge.
Third NSA worker pleads guilty to taking secrets home
As an addendum apple released a fix for this less than 48 hours after it was reported (I think I've got the timeframe right), so there's something to be said for irresponsibly disclosing to light a fire under the ass of whomever is responsible for fixing a vulnerability.
> This keeps going around but it's simply not true

How do you know?

> Why would [...]

Because you can't think of a reason it must not be true? Or are you claiming internal knowledge or taking the company's word for it? I don't know for sure what's retained, and therefore I won't go around saying I know.
He released the information about the security failure (which occurred a year before he was hired) and fired 3 security managers because of it.

He just issued a new company culture statement (with massive employee participation) that eliminates the prior version's language that encouraged jerks, and includes the statement "We do the right thing".

He's been there 3 months. What else do you expect him to do? It takes time to acclimate to a new company. A CEO really needs to learn the staff, meet as many employees and customers as possible, and soak all this in before they start making big decisions. Being a CEO is never a "shoot first, aim later" type of job.
Uber’s disastrous head of security will probably get another awesome job soon
TL;DR for those who forgot the back story: StartCom was a low-cost certificate authority that sold to interests whose web of ownership links back to a telecom owned by the authoritarian government of China.

Given the brazen nature of that government's internet surveillance practices, that alone was cause for suspicion, and then Apple, Google, and Microsoft all stopped trusting Startcom-issued certificates after an investigation concluded that WoSign intentionally mis-issued certificates in order to circumvent browser restrictions[1].

So, good riddance.

[1]: https://security.googleblog.com/2016/10/distrusting-wosign-a...
I agree, but I don't know if that applies here. Again, there are grants twice a year without any restrictions like this. If you've got a good solution to a problem in the relevant domain then you're not being excluded by another grant being made available.
Higher education seems like more of a "class marker" to me.
I've always been confused as to why people are so dissatisfied with airline quality. If what you say is all I care about is price and nothing else matters, then of course your experience is going to be awful as carriers slash everything to save money. If you are willing to pay (nicer seats, priority boarding, airport lounge access, food, booze etc) then flying isn't that bad. This goes double for flying international.
I think so (like 99+% sure).

I'm on my way home from re:Invent at the moment, but will put a tape measure on it when I get home. The 19" dimension on server racks is not the inside clearance, but includes the rack "ears" dimension, so 16.5" wide to fit inside the clearance between 19" rails sounds like it's probably the right thing. Shoot me an email (in my profile) if you need any pics or other confirmation.
There's no good reason to violate the guidelines, which ask us not to post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> If companies find it hard to reliably staff generalist positions, _and_ you're a generalist as you claim, then you would find it _easy_ to get a job.

It's incredibly hard to get a job. But your versatility will ensure job security for as long as you care once you're in the door, thanks to your ability to get into the critical path of different department's operations.

I'm a competent, high performing generalist who can work autonomously and self-sufficiently with enough confidence in my capabilities to have a high risk tolerance. In my current company I got tossed around from starting under a marketing manager, to getting shifted under the CTO after stepping on IT's toes too often, to getting pushed into a newly formed Operations group, to finally just reporting directly to the owner. While officially I manage a data management and BI team, in practice I'm the guy you escalate random problems and needs to. Creating a BI team was a byproduct of being a generalist and being the first person that needed a consolidated view of everything (and having the ability to execute on that need).

Looking for a new job is a pain. Companies don't explicitly hire for it, politics can come into play if the generalist doesn't know how to dance around the company in a way that doesn't threaten others' fiefdoms, there's no easy way to suss out competence from arrogance during an interview, no manager wants to frontload your salary on their budget when they won't be getting the full benefit of it, and a host of other things.

Generalists are valuable to a company, holistically. They're oil to the machine and fit in between all the specialized cogs to smooth things out and let you run the engine hotter without breaking down. But managers only manage their own cogs, hiring only looks for the cogs they're told to find, and at the end of the day whether there's oil in the machine is Someone Else's Problem. Very few teams exist which have the prerogative and budget to hire for that holistic need, so most companies just go without oil and don't think about it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Google also didn't know how to operate as a communications infrastructure provider. Many of the fiberhuts they built sit with few customers connected today due to poor marketing and long delays to get each customer connected.

Comparatively, Centurylink will have salespeople knocking on peoples doors two weeks after running fiber, with installs occurring a few days later.
The best way to avoid civil asset forfeiture in a traffic stop is to just not ever answer any nosy questions the officer may ask.

When pulled over, never answer questions. You don't have to.

If the police officer asks you to remain once they've written the ticket, ask if you're being detained or if you're free to go. Once they've written the ticket, the stop is over, but aggressive police will try to fool people into thinking the stop is not over. The longer they can keep you there, the more pressure they can apply.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDJrQBwJpqk
Spoiler: they all fucking suck.

I used to have a Kyocera 7135[1] on Verizon with Minutes of Use(!) for data long before any unlimited data plan existed.

This was a device that didn't support cellular data in the traditional sense so they couldn't bill extra for for it.

Once the Treo 650+ started rolling out they started coming out with the $50 data plans. Mysteriously everyone with a Kyocera 7135(including myself) started having "issues" where those devices wouldn't authenticate on Verizon's CDMA network. They offered a Treo 650 as a replacement with a promise no plan change.

Of course, plan change and $500+ bill the next month as it moved me over to a per-KB data plan.

Fought them a long time on it and eventually had to give up and pick up the $50/mo extra. They weren't allowing Kyocera 7135s or Minutes of Use plans any more.

Found out a while later that everyone else on HowardForums hit the exact same thing and yet other CDMA providers outside the US had no issues the the 7135.

Verizon, ATT, T-Mobile. Take your pick they're all going to probably try to screw you one way or another. Although I'll give that T-Mobile tends to better about what devices they let you bring and what they open their network to.

[1] https://www.phonearena.com/phones/Kyocera-7135_id400
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> I don't see Walgreens or CVS to be any more competent than Amazon.

The places with people behind the counter holding Pharmacist degrees? You trust LAZR shipping and the rest of the supply chain as much as them? Wow.

Also, selfishly, I don't want Amazon delivering meds because package theft will go through the roof when there's a chance of scoring an Amazon box with drugs.
Regardless, my point is that it's entirely possible that without this current legal structure the alternatives will only increase low-level employees legal exposure, while having a marginal impact on the behaviour of wealthy top level executives (which is what people really care about, isn't it?), and while simultaneously flooding the courts with massive inefficient cases, consuming finite resources which could be better spent elsewhere.

Just because you can point out the current system's flaws doesn't automatically mean a comparable better one exists.

Plenty of systems in our economy and legal system are a matter of lesser-of-evils. It's easy to complain but unless you can propose a better alternative, an alternative that won't end up being worse for the poor/middle class average person, then you aren't really helping the situation.

This disconnect from the on-the-ground reality is one of the big reasons I don't support many of these populist activist causes... and yes I've seen "The Corporation" film many times.
Your linked-to job ad mentions "very competitive compensation". Can you quantify that in some way?

I'm asking because I wouldn't think $1M goes very far in a labor market such as Cambridge.
Give it time. The courts don't move fast, but they do move. Recall that this stuff came out because the judge in the Waymo case referred the situation to federal prosecutors.
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They probably have proportionately far fewer security employees, just far more effective ones.

All snark aside, I'd guess that the vast amount of Uber security staff's role is investigating driver fraud. Uber grew so immensely fast because they offered compelling sign up inducements to drivers, and in lots of cases those were easy to game. It's why Uber got caught "fingerprinting" iPhones by Apple so they could detect whether the same phone was being used to sign up for multiple driver accounts to double dip the signup bonus programs.
I would not interpret it that way at all. Being able to understand requirements and implement stuff based on those requirements, or work as part of a team, or maintain dedication to a task for weeks or months at a time, has nothing to do with teenage notions of the world being populated by conformists vs. nonconformists (which ironically is usually based on very conformist notions of what it means to be a nonconformist).

On the other hand, I have known a number of people who used their self-identification as a nonconformist as an excuse for why they couldn't cut it someplace, whether it's school or a job or some interpersonal situation. It's a bad excuse because it gives the person an easy out for not reflecting on how they could have handled the situation better, or avoided getting into the situation in the first place. It also pushes all of the blame on other people, which is comforting but very rarely 100% true. We should all be our own worst critics, lest someone else beats us to it.
Good ones are run by experienced operators, have money behind them to support that (many domains), reasonable policies and have something behind them promising that it'll stay that way.

For older ones you can look at history: e.g. .com, .org, .net, .de can be trusted because they've been run under the same rules since "forever" and work. Same for other large ccTLDs.

New gTLDs are run by all kinds of organisations. They can set their prices as they want, so there might be ugly surprises (some have raised prices by hundreds of percent), and they might or might not have the other factors. E.g. Google and Amazon own a bunch, they'd very likely do a good job of running them technically, probably stable price-wise, we'll have to see how their other policies are. Small companies that exist just to run a few TLDs are more risky, but don't necessarily have to be bad.
I can see a Gravity Gate happening when Andromeda Patriots tweak the Earth gravity simulator of their home stadium to gain an advantage.
So... if you're doing something illegal, and you know your phone is tapped by the police, it is MANDATORY to use this phone to discuss your illegal activities. Otherwise you'll be prosecuted for it.

I hate how stupid laws can get...
Google wanted a stick to bash Comcast, Verizon, AT&T and Centurylink with, to get them to offer better connectivity to more potential users of Google's services.

Google Fiber ultimately wasn't executed well (with fiber being installed and sitting dormant for ~1 year post installation in many areas). Had Google looked at how other ISPs operate, their ROI would've been much improved and they'd have significantly more customers today.
The attacker with physical access to the phone does not have direct access to the data, only to UI of applications that use that data, which is often something significantly different.
for sure more than your comment had.
As said by someone else, to each his own. But a friend of mine has an i3 and every time I ride in it, I'm underwhelmed.

It's like if IKEA designed a car. If I'm riding in a BMW, I expect a certain amount of luxury, not bamboo and vast open spaces where the dashboard should be.
You say "IRC" to your marketing or sales cohorts and enjoy the contorted face they make.

It's not just a dancey, polished IRC. It _is_ a dancey, polished IRC that invites people from all backgrounds to use it and enjoy it. As a communications glue for a company, I find it to be very valuable in talking not just with other developers, but other departments.
With orders of magnitude less processing power. Government projects just cost more..
I'm very distractible, and I get on fine with Slack. I genuinely feel work is easier with it, you just have to aggressively filter the attention-grabbing. My strategy is: notifications for mentions and ultra-important channels only, mute any channel I don't want to definitely read all of (joining a channel and immediately muting is common for me), disable the unread dot completely for non-primary teams, and unsubscribe from threads as soon as I'm done in them.

As mentioned elsewhere, if I don't want to do something straight away, I star it for the next morning's run through my starred list, or if it's more particular than that set a reminder or something. It's really not too bad.
This is a fab short explanation. It is the understanding I have come to after battling complex trauma myself. Recovery for me has been a long process of discovery. To find a better life you need to first learn to feel your emotions and secondly to retrain them. Learning to feel took me years. Meditating helped tremendously because it gave me the ability to focus. And i could turn that focus towards feeling. I have learned to hold my attention on a feeling. Which allows me to calm myself when I am frightened and gradually over time my fear of daily life - which was mostly invisible to me as a younger man - has diminished.

Two hints to anyone that might need help with this. If you think you cant feel anything, consider this. What is the feeling of not feeling anything?

Last suggestion: find a pillow and hold it to your chest. Hug the crap out of that thing. See if you can feel the comfort. Your job as a traumatised person is to learn to feel that same comfort when you need it, but without the pillow. Sounds weird but this is what un traumatised person learned to do before they could ride a bike and promptly forgot that they ever learned it. You need to learn it in adulthood. And fortunately its not that hard.
This isn't uncommon in large tech companies. People 1-2 levels from the CEO tend to have a chief of staff.

Out of curiosity, why do you assume the person is a "he"?
When does a conversation stop being about a tool or a platform and become about how it's used?

Slack is not perfectly opinionated. It does not enforce a single way of working on everyone that uses it. One of the weakest areas I have found on HN has been discussion around organizations and how they function. New tools, like Slack, open new doors, but they are not silver bullets. Switching to Slack doesn't solve inherent organizational problems, bad organizational habits, poor management practices, or unrealistic (or misaligned) expectations.

We don't blame email for the emails your boss sends you at 2 in the morning.
it ends every time i get out of the car and give my driver 5 stars. And then it begins again with me being picked up damn near any where i want to at any time in the bay area.

The scandals are for the company , the employees , and the gov to figure out.

As a user (and Im also guessing for the drivers) its one of the best companies out there. Reliable , efficient, high quality.
Question everything. Sounds easy, but apparently not.
Lmfao, why would a data scientist need to know TCP/IP, Server Setup, SOAP/REST Web Services, SDLC, etc?

Sounds like someone looked up a list of IT stuff you should know and applied it to data scientists randomly. In fact, most of those things in the list may or may not apply to a "software engineer".
Yes I agree the original post oversimplified it.
Does it need to be a job? If not, you can build your own low orbit satellites, scale rockets, satellites communications, aquatic robotics and more. In fact, aquatic robotics are one of the most approachable ones because you can do it in a nearby lake/river/beach and do proper science. Plus you can team up with local scientists and help them gather/process data.
OneWeb's satellite constellation is ahead of Starlink by a couple of years. Even though I live in an urban area, which will have limited OneWeb/Starlink service due to the density of people, I hope they'll blow the lid off my current cable/phone monopsony problem.
I think you overstate the "research" and "work" in this "field". Psychiatry isn't a science, and never will be one by it's very definition.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy is just another flavor of the day for a discipline that has embraced unscientific quack theories since the days of Freud, and continues to do that today.
"Chief of Staff" is valley-speak for secretary.