skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the sad part is the current LOM stuff is not better (even somewhat worse) then the stuff on Sun gear from the late 90s. Oh well.
In TCS, is the salary scale same for Indians on H1B and American Citizens? (Assuming they are equally qualified/competent)
Not everyone has bought into Docker and Kubernetes.

Again, yet to use any of them, beyond watching some talks at a few conferences.

Still classical server deployment processes.

Of course, companies using software written in Go, are open to use Go somehow.
Personally I'd think that in more modern times, as close as we've been to wars (e.g cold war times, which I'll admit predates me), there are probably countless times where frantic phone calls and backroom diplomacy (importantly, that you do not see) have saved everybody's skin from war (or nuclear war).

I'll admit, this is speculation, but I'd be seriously blown away if not true.

But yes, sometimes nations just have to battle it out. I'm just not one of those people.
Just curious: how did you decide what the consensus is? I'd like to read more about this but I'm unable to find much.
> Insulin is the Miracle-Gro for your fat cells. A child with new onset type 1 diabetes — unable to make enough insulin — will invariable lose weight until receiving treatment, no matter how many calories she consumes. Give that child the right amount of insulin, and weight trajectory returns to normal. Give that child (or an adult with type 2 diabetes) too much insulin and excessive weight gain will predictably result. This is just Endocrinology 101.

This is incorrect. Giving too much insulin to a type 1 diabetic causes rapid death, not weight gain. Giving no insulin to a type 1 diabetic causes weight loss because most calories leave through urine rather than getting used or stored, not because insulin is "miracle-gro for your fat cells".
> In my own PhD program, the productivity of the Americans was much lower than the foreigners. That productivity led to discoveries that benefit everyone.

The original claim was an anecdote generalized to everyone. They are stereotyping millions of people based off a handful they have met.

It could be true. The reverse could be true. We don't have good data. Why assume that there are differences based on background?
No. The integrations will use Public APIs in most cases.

Atlassian is free to use and invent what they need to provide a given feature.

Granted, it can take years, but compared to a collection of Add ons, "beats" a mix-and-match tool set.
Reflexively dismissive comments often get lots of upvotes, especially when the dismissal expresses a common prejudice. That is a weakness of the upvoting system, not evidence of goodness in a comment.
I am making wine for 5 years. During this time I was subletting small part of another winery, but now it is time to move to my own place.

Winery can have many different forms, mine is going to be oversized garage/small warehouse. I hired architect who did many of those projects and we are currently waiting for building permission, which is very tricky. After that I will simply pay contractor to build whole thing and then move in my equipment.

As you see it is not that complicated, it just cost a lot of money. There is also going to be phase two which will add tasting room and underground cellar for aging and storing wine, but thats a project for another year.
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I remember predicting this back when the Snowden first leaked, and someone popular on HN saying it wouldn't happen. I suspect the reorg and general politics outside NSA have had a bigger impact than "oh, spying is wrong" in popular culture, though.
> No one is keeping domestic elephants for the ivory.

Of course, since selling ivory is illegal. I've known people that had large acreage out in Texas that wanted to raise elephants just for the ivory. The reason illegal ivory is such a lucrative business is because it is illegal! This is why the prices are high. If the market was flooded with legal ivory, there'd be no black market.
Writing everything down and relentlessly questioning my priors.

2017 was a very difficult year, but one of the decisions I’ve most benefitted from was deciding to write down my goals. I spent about a month, directly putting in at least an hour a day.

I started by writing down what I already knew: I wanted to have a positive impact on the world, there are certain types of impact that I care about more than others, and that I wanted all of my decisions to operate on a long time-horizon.

Immediately I found flaws. What actually is impact? What are the types of impact I care about? How much of impact is a result of mitigating risk vs. creating something new?

When I got stuck, I would open up a new text file and write stream of consciousness until it physically hurt to continue.

After a lot of iteration, I ended with an outline of my goals and my rationale that I was relatively happy with. And then I worked backwards to figure out what I should be doing today.

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Or who could afford a $15 camera like that. ($400 in today's money based on another comment)
>>It seems like it's pretty hard for the government to compete with private industry in compensation.

Pension, and other retirement benefits are awesome though. Over a period of time that actually makes up for everything else.
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Perhaps you haven't yet read the excellent replies the comment received?

Even when an article is a puff piece, though, that doesn't make damaging this community ok.
And you don't even see those projections in full; each eye samples small areas of those projections very fast.

Bottomline, yes, it's irrelevant. 3D is what feels 3D.
I think the first language people cut their teeth with will be the language they use to reason about new problems. So it helps for it to be close to the language they will eventually end up using, unless you want to waste a lot of time translating the solution you have in your mind to the language you are required to program in
Would it be possible to slow down segfault notifications to mitigate the attack? For example, if the segfault was not on kernel space, halt the application for the time offset of a kernel read. In this way all segfaults would be reported at more or less the same time and the attack could be avoided.

Are there any sane apps that depends on timely segfault handling and thus might be affected by such a workaround?
They turn into glucose and hang out in the blood causing problems until the kidneys filter it out and excrete it.
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There is no way to trace identity fraud directly to Equifax, especially since there are so many data breaches that this becomes just another one.
So if my app is running on core 1 and makes a syscall, the entire state must be shifted to the kernel core? That seems slower than swapping the memory maps.
I don't agree that the HN community is 'insanely toxic', and have the sense that exaggerating the problem like that contributes to the problem. Many users who make this complaint also post their own share of examples of it. In other words the problem is partly unconscious. Pointing the finger at other people ("HN") takes us a step further from a solution.

Certainly it is a major concern, one we spend a lot of time on. But every public internet community of any size is at least this bad, no? and there are also many good qualities here. Let's not make the mistake of failing to take care of what we have because of its bad qualities.
The amount of traffic HN provides is insignificant to these companies.
Why did you switch from GitLab? What should we improve?
A big reason for it is the opportunity it might provide to discover or better understand a failure mode for jet transportation over the ocean.

For example, consider another flight that disappeared mysteriously over the ocean: Air France 447.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

It took nearly 2 years to find and recover the flight recorders. Once they were analyzed, the results were shocking: the pilots flew a perfectly good aircraft into the ocean after a relatively minor technical fault. It had a major impact on pilot training and procedures across the globe.

That's why they'll keep searching for MH370. Beyond closure for the families, there's a chance that there was something in that crash that we all need to know.
The assumption that the owner of a piece of equipment (be it cars or computers)know is always responsible for how it is used is not valid. Cars are stolen with significant frequency, for example. People also drive them without permission (e.g. a spouse gives the keys to a visiting in-law). There are plenty of situations where somebody may not be able to identify who was using the car.

Computer crimes are the same way. It may be possible to prove what equipment it's implicated in a crime, but that's rarely sufficient to make any individual responsible without other evidence. People give WiFi passwords to their guests, equipment is hacked, etc. Establishing that an owner of a router or computer is responsible for anything it is used for unless proven otherwise opens a massive attack surface for blackmail, extortion, etc.
Access to internet has only become cheaper over time. These days even homeless have internet access.

Not sure what is your point.
JavaScript would also be suitable, it is easy, it is ubiquitous. The kids would need to be introduced to the basics of tcp/ip and HTTP and then be able to use Node.
Interesting, I didn't realize Earth's gravity was still so strong at 500km up. Getting payloads to the station from space would still be cheaper because we could rely on aerobraking, but accelerating mass to Earth escape velocity from LEO would require an extra 1km/s of delta-V compared to the Moon. I think the Moon might make sense if we can mine significant materials from it, but I haven't read much about what's there.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget#/media/File:Del...
Talking about "the law" is a red herring. The NSA is in explicit violation of USG's founding charter, and yet it remains in comfortable operation.

But more importantly, the concept of patriotism is orthogonal.
> Giving no insulin to a type 1 diabetic causes weight loss because most calories leave through urine rather than getting used or stored

Isn't that precisely his point?
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Young Chinese Americans are opting to move to big cities, like other young Americans. Chinese are still immigrating to the USA at a similar rate to the last, but are almost all settling in big cities as well. The amount of Chinese coming to study in the USA has exploded in recent years, but those who have stayed have remained relatively the same. Suffice it to say, china’s net emigration rate has been constant over the last few years.

The last big immigration of Asians into the rural south happened to be via Vietnam refugees (many ethnic Chinese).
Equifax is more than just a company in this business. It is part of cartel with just two other participants. It is not completely inaccurate to single out Equifax as a controller of this industry.
Was this a critique of the author or a critique of the book? It read as more the former than the latter.
I think this does not tell the whole story. I will show you three countries that are outperforming the vast majority of countries and why:

- Switzerland: Switzerland is undoubtedly one of the richest countries. I contribute this largely to the fact that they have a direct democracy. All laws are voted upon by the people which makes lobbying much harder. Who profits from lobbying? Almost exclusively BigCos.

- Singapore: Singapore pays it’s top officials a competitive salary. The Prime Minister earns close to 2m dollars. As a result, Singapore attracts higher qualified staff for state positions.

- Estonia: Estonia’s growth since its independence some 25 years ago has outperformed nearly every Eastern European country. The reasons for this growth are their lean government, a high degree of digitalisation (nearly all government services can be accessed online), and an innovative culture at the state level.

In brief, a lot of the inefficiencies in government agencies come down to the facts that in many countries these agencies are intensively lobbied, risk-averse and - as stated by you - do not reward performance (i.e. efficiency improvements and innovation).
It was always my understanding that people didn't smile in older photos because it's easier to hold a neutral pose for a long exposure period.
Yes this is happening in Australia with POLI payments into BTCMarkets
> A badly built database isn't the reason to toss out good practices.

It's a good reason to toss out bad practices like, for example, using natural keys as primary keys. Which is, almost universally, considered a bad practice. It is, in fact, the bad practice that causes the most pain in this bad database.

> if changing username to something else is causing a 24 shutdown, there are many deeper issues than a PK on username.

This is true; the software is so old it pre-dates most modern RDBMS features and that is a factor in the database design. And it contains a few decades worth of data. And the process to go through the all records and re-do every foreign and primary key value is expensive (through the app server) but is a well-tested path. None of this would be necessary, however, if they had used surrogate keys for these tables. They did use surrogate keys for other tables so it wasn't a technical limitation.
Those fine people who have shown such a good jugement in choosing their previous job will be perfectly fine managing my google history and the cookies in my browser, I’m really looking forwards to it.

I’m really curious if they’ll have the power to get more people killed at google or at the NSA.
Cross marketing with the data they collect, perhaps.
More importantly, worker bees aren't called drones.

Drones are males - they don't actually do any work, living exclusively to have sex with a queen in spring. Once mating season is over, they are evicted from the hive to die - they are unable to fend for themselves. I believe it'd be rare to find drones as part of a swarm of bees in the normal case of a swarm.

Worker bees are females. I've never heard them called anything other than a worker bee.
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> Wanting to get to know lots of secrets

A bit tongue in cheek, but that's the people NSA should least want. They should be looking for those who want to know only the minimum amount of secrets to get their job done.

> Wanting to have one's unusual abilities appreciated and put to use

That's a hard too I'd imagine. I wonder if many end up going in thinking they'd be writing kernel exploits all day and end up twiddling excel spreadsheets or porting a bunch of scripts from python 2.4 to 2.6 once they pass the clearance process. It's not something they could check in advance and not something they could advertise much if they want to tell others when they look for employment elsewhere.

> Wanting to be in a spy movie/novel

Wonder how much the recruitment appeals to those tendencies. Just like with wanting to know secrets bit. They probably really don't want people who think themselves as James Bond. Though when recruiting college kids, I could see them pulling a bait-and-switch.

> Wanting to get to perform real attacks against real people and organizations and not go to prison for it

That's a tough one as well. If there is a desire and tendency to attack real people and organizations, there are probably red flags to look for in there as well. Did they already attack? Did they break the law? Did it bother them that they broke the law? Will they continue to break rules and possibly leak classified info...

> I know I've met people in all of the first three categories, and I imagine I've met people in the other categories and not known it.

Yeah I was offered something like that from a teacher in college. But I was an international student so it didn't possible.
> If the problem is attracting better people, how would that get fixed just by making it easier to fire people?

Because most high quality employees don't want to work somewhere where low quality is rewarded.

Nobody said it's full of incompetent people that need to get fired. But they are there as they are everywhere. I disagree with the idea that getting rid of lower quality employees won't help. It ignores the reality of quality disparity and implicitly encourages low quality due to no accountability.

It should be noted this same problem exists at many entrenched, older, large companies as well.
If you mean an office, there is already an engineering office here in Vancouver, BC. (As others have posted, there is also a few retail stores)
I did not know about your experiences, it comes very strange to me that people on the spectrum can lie. But I can imagine that some people on the spectrum can.

Maybe there is a difference between Autism and Aspergers? Many people on the tech scene start programming at an early age and are obsessed with computers at some point in their lives. Thus many of us at least can relate to people with Aspergers.

Nevertheless, I still think an interviewer should note that the candidate is stubborn or pretentious, rather than just writing "on the spectrum". As you've there could be people on the milder side on the spectrum who could work really well.
Unfortunately, this only works from a specific angle, as the calibration needs to take viewer perspective into consideration. They criticize the more standard Pepper's Ghost and its "undesirable seams and [...] difficult[ty] to fuse at oblique viewing angles" -- but their project has no viewing angles. It's basically a 2D plane because your head and eyes must remain stationary (but the iPad can spin).
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Top Reuters story is currently #2 with 365 upvotes. Its top comment is from one of the original engineers of MP3.com recounting his experience in having to do data munging in response to recording industry lawsuits:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16056156

Seems like a pretty good HN topic and discussion to me.
I think it's a lot of these things. The other thing not mentioned is "Status". When you hand over that metal card you feel special, sometimes the person receiving the card comments on its weight or its thickness. If not consciously, at least subconsciously this is a card that rewards your pleasure centers when you use it. There's no doubt I use it more than any of my other cards. My guess is they're crushing it on fees and giving ~40% of those earned fees back to the cardholder as benefits.