skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Another HN user who actually works for Telstra saw my post above and reached out to me via email to try and reach a resolution

Good to hear.

Checking your profile seems you're rural - The old Telstra Countrywide unit used to have a lot of influence over the organisation, to the point where they basically ran their own show and told the rest of the organisation to GTFO on most of the corp processes.

Ended up with some interesting showdowns, but usually meant a better outcome for TCW customers (sometimes at the expense of Retail customers where there were boundary conflicts)

> I have spoken to her twice now with no result either.

If you don't get a good response, Escalate it - find out who their manager is and call that person.

One of the advantages for having a business service is that there's a defined SLA with penalties. It used to be 4 hour response, 8 hour restore minimum for all business services.

If it's been down this long you should be getting a decent rebate.
If Apple doesn't offer you a job they're insane.
Do you have a link where we can learn more about you / your startup?
I think John Carmack should be on that list and ahead of many of them on that list.
- Provide mentorship to 4 Students

- Support a non-profit with technology

- Travel to 14 new places

- Write 40+ blog posts
Really? I propose tons of ideas to my team/org about technical decisions I think we should move towards and while a good portion of them get shot down, lots get positive feedback/management backing from my team. This combined with me owning the projects/proposals I made got me promoted very quickly.
The UK doesn't allow anyone to buy a gun, and certainly not a military grade assault rifle.
Agreed, What a great mini game!
Ask HN: What are your tech-related New Year's resolutions?
Unfortunately this sounds pretty typical, there is often a disconnect between the different 'deciders' in the process.
Well, he was also 12.
An important factor is that email is a protocol, you could still email your pals on Hotmail after having switched to Gmail. It is way harder to sway a captive audience like WhatsApp's as a whole, now that most of the community is there in many countries.
Also recommended, the charming, rather British presentation of the Atari Video Music at the Techmoan channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wle0eqBwtL8
Remain committed to reason, especially when emotions run high.

Grow more willing to stand up to bullies, including on HN.

Be kind to people, including myself.

Cause 10% less animal suffering through my eating habits.

Spend at least one week in a country and culture I don't understand.
For what it's worth, I agree with you. When I was younger I went to a lot of shows with my friends. Not so much electronic music, but jam bands - which share a lot in common in terms of drugs, extended jams, festivals, etc. I liked the drugs, and I liked the music, but something about the experience of going to shows often left me feeling completely empty.

When I was young and looking to find my way in life, I think that music was sold to me as something that should have been very profound and meaningful. And without a doubt I knew plenty of people who pretty much dedicated themselves to the "scene" - dressing a certain way, talking a certain way, holding certain beliefs, and traveling all over to see a handful of bands play in different cities. But despite putting in no small amount of effort to fit in, it just wasn't for me. At one of the last shows I went to in college, I remember being at some huge sold out stadium for a Phish concert and feeling like I was witnessing mass hysteria.

I think my negative experiences were more a reflection of my own lack of direction and naive beliefs at the time than anything else. I was looking to get something more valuable out of the experience than it could ever possibly provide. Also... I'm sure the drugs also had an effect on my mood. I've been to shows since, with no expectations beyond catching up with friends and having a fun night out, and had a good time. I also have tons of respect for the performers - all of whom are talented, work hard, and have probably made sacrifices in the pursuit of their passions than I have in mine.

But that uncomfortable feeling of sameness in the crowds and that sense of mass hysteria is always still there for me. Kind of like people speaking in tongues, or rioting in the streets when their sports team wins or loses. I guess I'm just more a small gathering kind of person.
Well these jobs aren't worth the pay American expect to be paid

It really sounds as if you're agreeing with the critics from the article mentioned. From that article:

According to federal guidelines, the visas are intended for foreigners with advanced science or computer skills to fill discrete positions when American workers with those skills cannot be found. Their use, the guidelines say, should not “adversely affect the wages and working conditions” of Americans. Because of legal loopholes, however, in practice, companies do not have to recruit American workers first or guarantee that Americans will not be displaced.

Too often, critics say, the visas are being used to bring in immigrants to do the work of Americans for less money, with laid-off American workers having to train their replacements.
Registers may be stored to RAM (though there are often local register files in the CPU). If you're on a modern x86 platform, you may have encrypted memory support.

For Intel, look up SGX. For AMD, look up SEV. Each of these is way more secure than reliance on registers as secure scratch memory.
Bank will freeze funds indefinitely until they can make a decision.

It's not applicable to what the swat has to deal with: hostage situations, armed fights, bombings, etc... they can't hold on the phone forever and do nothing.
Not only is it possible to beat Google, it could happen sooner than we think
I assume I'm missing something obvious, but presumably there would have to be a big button labeled "Start ACH transfer" on the coinbase website, and if they don't support ACH transfers, they just wouldn't put that button there?
Kim Jong-un: North Korea's nuclear arsenal is now complete
Been super stoked on deep dream so I've been trying to ask myself how this could be more mainstream. Maybe get photographers hooked on it. I've been posting my code thoughts on the subject at http://GitHub.com/drmly/bind
Metric Expansion of Space
https://startyourownisp.com/
Thank you! :)

This was only possible because of all the contributors [1]: some of the design paradigms were entirely their ideas, so credits to them as well.

[1] https://github.com/adtac/commento/graphs/contributors
It is important work, part of the ensemble of the delivery, but not the bulk. We also shouldn't let the skill of the outliers paint the flock.
That's an amazing photo!

But it still does seem like it could be dealt with - the abrasion does not completely destroy it, so it seems just incremental hardness improvement would handle it.

Or even ablative tips.
Well, it has been disclosed to black hats - just not for money. To end users the result is the same; black hats have an unpatched 0day to play with, and we have no mitigations to deploy.
PICASSO: High Performance R and Python Library for Sparse Learning
Yes, most of the time qrcode is seen as a gimmick, ie you might as well write the url instead of downloading a qr reader app.

Here is my hope for making good use of it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16041245
I thought about asking for a rebate, but honestly, I've been so disenchanted and discouraged by their lack of service that I just want my office number redirected to my mobile, and my VoIP and NBN Internet service with them terminated immediately. I can't terminate my mobile services yet as they are on plan until the end of 2018 and the penalties are too high.

I'll see what our helpful HN Telstra user can do for me, then I might consider applying for a rebate for the weeks upon weeks now that my customers have been getting a 'this number is not connected' message when they try to ring my business, resulting in many clients assuming I am not operating anymore.
You won't be treated poorly if you are considered desirable.

If you want to know what that actually means, I suggest befriending people who work as recruiters (or in other hiring roles) at major tech companies and getting the inside scoop from them. You shouldn't just believe everything you read on the internet, after all.
Improve my Spanish vocabulary by extensively reading at least one million words of Spanish. I’m currently at the level where I can read about 12 pages of Harry Potter per hour without a dictionary, or faster with Readlang. One million words is about the length of the entire Harry Potter series.

Continue my porn-free streak to prioritize real life sexual experiences.
After weeks of stamping out CRUD features to order, conducting an interview might be their only chance to hang out and talk about high performance computing for once.
What is the legal Ivory trade?
Yep, I am aware. In fact there's a bunch of other offerings as well (someone else with a similar product once posted a summary comment; can't find it right now).

I just quickly registered and it appears the moderation/dashboard functionality is slightly limited in HostedComments. I only have the option to view all the comments. But with SaaS commento, you'll have a full fledged dashboard. Here's a sneek peak: https://i.imgur.com/j23BfKN.png
Off topic but give it’s 2018 in most of the world, I think it’s safe to say that 2017 was the safest year in aviation history.
Great show, not every episode ends in a disaster. These are interesting stories, learning about the circumstances, watching how people handle these high pressure situations many of us would never have to face and the efforts investigators go to finding the cause/causes of the event. One can also take solace in the fact that although these events are tragic, what we learn from them saves more lives in the future.
Eat less sugar. Drink less coffee.
This is a fascinating topic worthy of several blog posts. I've spent many years thinking about why HN and Reddit managed to succeed when all other communities failed. Much of it has to do with inertia, but part of it is design.

One of the central aspects of HN is that humans control it, and they have good taste. I don't think you can take either of those qualities away without sacrificing what makes HN good.

And part of that implies that any HN competitor needs to have those qualities in abundance – which means allowing them to wield real power, and not being constantly second-guessed by the community.

It's a tradeoff, and it's the "good king" problem. You want someone in power who wants to do the right thing, and who is capable of doing it well. But that's extremely rare.

Dan is close, and we're all lucky to have him. Scott is a close second. But their weakness is that they don't really participate on HN anymore. Neither of them post here, and we don't get to feel connected with them like we felt with pg in the early days.

I think I'm not alone in missing that connection. So my theory is that if another site springs up with similar characteristics to HN, but with actual humans running it – people you can actually strike up a conversation with – then those who are interested in good conversation will flock to it.

That requires being capable of executing that plan, which is the tricky part.
I had to log in to HN just to upvote this comment!!! Haven't done that in years.
Being true to the resolution, wrote something - http://avinash.com.np/2018/01/01/A-resolution-that-makes-sen...
Data science jobs are tricky when you're coming in from the cold. If you're in one domain, you might use certain approaches and if you're in another domain, well, you'll use different approaches. The thing that gets me about the tests is that, after a while, you might not remember the specifics of a particular approach.

This might be field specific, honestly. Just pass on the places that require the tests without a human involved in the process, or take some refresher courses. The process is rougher the further you are away from school.
I have to ask what ad this is, it sounds pretty funny from the description.
You imply by framing without explicitly stating that "coordinated disclosure" is "unlimited time", but that's not the time frame under discussion.

I consider 24 hours notice bare minimum responsible disclosure, and 1 business day in the operating timezone of the company as an polite courtesy to the human beings who have to respond to uncoordinated security disclosures with emergency builds of their product.

What do you consider the bare minimum notice sufficient to respect the human beings who use the products we find vulns in? One business day? One hour? Zero seconds?

(Siguza, I'd also love to hear from you on this question, if you're willing to share. I know Apple said they don't need advance notice but if they hadn't, and offered no guidance, what would you have chosen?)
Had my first full year working on my startup https://www.taskade.com/

It have been challenging. I switch from being an iOS engineer to a full stack web developer. I always thought its easy to manage a team but I was so wrong. Struggling between doing and delegating.

I hope to I learn and improve going forward into 2018, trying to be good at enabling my teammates more. Hope we make Taskade becoming great.

I'm grateful I have good relationship with my co-founders though and still enjoy very much working with them. Hope we achieve great things together.

Happy New Year HN!

Cheers,
Stan
Are you a game journalist by any chance?
I am asking because this is the opinion I used to see on the gaming sites when I still read them. I suspect it's because the 6th generation made games mainstream and brought in "normies" to their despair.

Games like GTA3, really popular MMOs (WoW, Lineage, RO etc all had subscriber numbers many times over the previous generation of UO and EQ), online play accessible to normal people (before Halo and SOCOM you had to lug your Xtr33m g4mIng PC to some "LAN party" with other geeks), piles of unique yet well made games never done before like Katamari Damaci, Ico, Rez, music and dance games, MGS, 3D metroids, crazy shit like voice controlled pinball or bongo-operated Donkey Kong or Tekki with a giant controller etc. etc. This was not a crappy age by any measure you'd like to apply other than extreme bitterness.
Oh no I totally agree with you that you are right it's not normal at all. For myself lowering my sugar levels (my diet consisted of high amounts of sugars and salts....a great combo I know), more psychial activity, and lowering caffeine levels resolved the issue. This was after doing a few checkups including dealing with a urologist (not pleseant at all, but better safe then sorry)

So ya in a nutshell, if this is happening to you, dont' ignore it. Because your'e right, it's not normal.
The “talent shortage” is a myth.
Ukraine! Not a common one but one of my favorite places I've visited. Why do you want to go there?
Or maybe it takes almost an hour to service each of their 200 requests/month, and they're desperate to get their response into the sub 30 minute range :)
> I took it as a story about his journey to maturity.

Why does so much of society today equate cynicism with maturity? As a grown man with 3 kids, 4 houses, 3 cars one wife, I like to think I’m fairly mature, yet I find cynicism to be a thief of joy.
What causes your migraines?

For me it was stress. I could always kind of tell but since I've been working for myself for the past few years I have had hardly any migraines.

An acquaintence gets them very often and they are extremely severe---incapacitating her for a day or more at a time. She has been battling this for decades and has been unable to find any causes.

Edit: does the veganism have anything to do with the migraines?
Just watched the last season of 'Black Mirror'- the one episode with the Bees on it. Incidents like these surely triggers persons like me to think that somebody please start building artificial alternatives to bees and avoid the Colony Collapse Disorder from happening.
SSE registers will never get stored to ram without emitting explicit instructions (or getting an interrupt) to do so on any Intel/amd cpu as far as I know. It can be tricky to deal with such situations, but if you have a stretch of code where you can stop that registers can be used to hide data from memory.
People pay for car parking at BART stations, but car windows are still routinely smashed.
Hey, I tried doing something similar in my city. I found designing a useful curriculum a challenge. I would love to ask a few questions. Couldn't get hold of your email. My email is raghav.toshniwal at google's service.

Thanks!
Hyperbole is a type of humor.
Aren't they designed specifically for SIMD instructions though? This seems to be more just using them as another cache layer and not using them for their intended-SIMD use.
Wow. I was thinking about doing this.
Out of a country with a population of 320+ million, with 750,000+ "sworn officers" (able to make arrests) [0], 1188 is not "absurdly common", especially as that count is an overestimate of the objectionable cases (by how much is difficult to determine).

The issue with police shooting deaths is not that there is a high likelihood of an individual dieing tomorrow (for reference, drunk driving deaths are 10x police shooting deaths [1]), but the injustice of innocent people being killed.

Accurately representing the problem, and avoiding the "all police are terrible" comments is vital to actually trying to fix this, as a solution necessitates actively working with police, the vast majority of which have not, and will never, shoot anyone.

[0]: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/nsleed.pdf

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impa...
It means ivory trading is still legal or the ban is intentionally not enforced, e.g. in Japan,

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/20/japan-in...
A few things I want to try to accomplish this year:

1. Read fiction slower. Sometimes I just read to get to the ending and I miss _a lot_.

2. Read more non fiction. I read 1 or 2 non fiction books in 2017. I want around 30% of my reading to be non fiction in 2018.

3. Go to the gym at least 3 times a week. I've started this two weeks ago and I hope to keep going :)

4. Finish a side project.
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/appi.ajp.20...
I was treated like that several times.

How would you react if I agreed but... sent them a link to working web application, such as on Heroku, instead of full source code ? This clearly demonstrates a person can code, and they have no rights to demand that I hand it back. (They still did in the last place I got a job, so I ended up working for them for free for a week and then 3 weeks as an intern initially). If they insist on source code, I can offer to come with printouts and discuss it.

Basically how to defend against this ? Can I have the cookie and eat it ? There isn't plenty of offers to choose from in my area.

The last time I did such an assignment they had the nerve to say it really only takes 2 hours (rather than a week), and ask for documentation and 70% test coverage. Basically a short review then plug and play.
> Maybe I'll start with posting on sites rather than just reading the comments :)

I like this idea! Primarily because for the longest of time, I have felt that passively consuming content wasn't helping to make the world a better place.

Instead, if only each of us contributed genuine, well-thought-out comments, it would be much more meaningful. A friend once said to me, "the meat of things for HN posts are in the comments" (paraphrased)

Can't agree more.
Haha, so true.

There was one interview with a company I did where they explicitly said not to take more than a few hours but actually gave you a few days to complete it. So I legitimately cranked something out as fast as possible in under 2 hours and actually achieved the task at hand. But, since it was just 2 hours, I didn't bother making a makefile or splitting stuff into multiple files, or I used shortcut APIs.

In the end, every shortcut I used to get the job done in 2 hours became their justification for passing. So yeah, don't actually do the job in 2 hours.
What are some business models that could support a user-oriented search interface? Probably not advertising, if (big if) the new approach will return better search results than Google. Subscriptions have only worked for a few well-known services with exclusive content.

Would users be willing to learn a more powerful interface, if they consider current search engine results “good enough”?

Could Wikipedia or Archive.org address a subset of the search market, since they offer user-focused services? Archive.org already crawls a subset of the web.
Suggestion for anyone interested in this.

I recommend not copying and pasting the blocks of code into your terminal. Look at the install commands first and make sure you are running them from the preferred root directory.
> I also launched https://themalaysianpulse.com, a Malaysian news aggregator.

Wonderful work! Any chance you could talk more about how you built this website? For example, where do you get your news from, how do you aggregate it, and which technology stack do you use on the server side?
No joke. I made no specific resolution, but a few weeks ago I promised myself to do this. Includes origami, programming and coloring books (if you're impressed by drawing, and want to learn drawing, you should start somewhere.)
So no evidence is offered, only imagination.
Most people want the accessibility achieved through quick searches on their phones. The only users that would use a more powerful interface would be professionals. The professionals that would use it would be researchers, developers, and health practitioners.
It feels like this Quora answer explains why Google is successful, but doesn't really discuss or provide any compelling evidence as to why the author thinks it's "becoming more and more likely to happen soon".

Also,

> I predict this will become more of a real possibility under decentralized smart contract systems such as the Ethereum blockchain, where value exchange itself can happen on a peer to peer basis

...
I advise against daily workouts. You'll end up overtraining. You need days of rest for your muscles to grow.

A common advice is either 3 days of general exercise, or 2 leg days + 2 upper body days. Note some exercises can't be pidgeon-holed that way, like swimming.

This is currently my favorite training program:
http://www.50pullups.com/

You get the essential exercises: pushups, squats, pullups, with advice how to train, how to rest, how and when to advance.
The judge and the jury care for the circumstances and the intent.

This case, a repeated offender (he did many calls like that) who made highly specific buggy claims (armed hostage taking with already dead hostages) with the intend to arm or kill the target (see his message) and a trace of everything (see twitter messages and recordings).

It's a perfect school case. It makes perfect sense to charge him for murder. Everything is the worst it could possibly be with the worst possibly aggravating circumstances.

Can't wait to see the proceedings. Won't be surprised if they make an example out of him.
> using iframes to embed comments in websites

why an iframe?