skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not use base64 instead? 64 random characters are much better than 16.

$ perl -e 'use Digest::SHA "sha256_base64"; print sha256_base64("master_password mail.google.com"), "\n";'
g/sOxZfr2DFE12r8Gs/D0bhwat5kku41L+kFmuCCQOo
I also "love" how they re-designed the issue UI. What do you need in an issue? Obviously, issue description. Now even on largest monitors issue description starts below the fold. Everything else is taken up by nice crisp white-space-separated "important" information: the sprint name, the epic link, number of hours projected, who it is assigned to, etc. etc.
That seems to be standard with automated product recommendations. I recently purchased a coffee maker for my girlfriend. My Facebook account has become linked my credit card account, somehow, so Facebook has started showing me advertisements for the manufacturer of the coffee maker. There are at least a few faulty assumptions at work there.
How is that different from Whole Foods?
Agree with you on this. Many (most?) sites work just fine with the time-tested method of server-side rendering. When taking compression and browser caching into consideration, you are typically not sending much data across the wire after the first page load.
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If you're interested in this domain, I'd highly recommend watching the following Defcon Talk from Intel's Chief Medical Officer (who'd've thunkit?) which is illuminating and borderline terrifying..

'DEF CON 25 - John Sotos - Genetic Diseases to Guide Digital Hacks of the Human Genome'
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Because you're developing automated tools to deploy to prod & you're verifying the correctness of the system end-to-end with a no-op command. The connecting to an external system is not what's under test, and assume I've written unit tests that mock out the sshing, and that even with a staging environment I have to smoke test the new code before switching everyone over to the new version.

Where are those env variables stored on the CI system? In the job config? I would use Vault for this.
And that would be the day I switch to Samsung.
I think you're being too harsh on my former colleagues, they were not evil or even particularly bad people. Hyperparameter tuning is necessary and future pollution is often accidental. The problem is when the tuning is goal seeked and the future pollution is not accidental and these problems are endemic to the industry and science in general. CRU East Anglia of Climategate fame went much further and actually published their results and I'm pretty sure none of them are in jail.

My colleagues left the industry which makes me less optimistic about those who stayed.
> Someone with an Indian accent and really bad phone connection calls

People are used to this when getting a call from a call center. They imagine the IRS being the kind of behemoth that might need to outsource to a large call center.

> tells you they are from the IRS

It's not inherently apparent that the IRS would never call someone. Although the IRS would rather use mail which can be certified and better archived, it's not apparent that recorded calls couldn't do the same thing.

See: https://xkcd.com/1053/

> you need to pay them "taxes" with an Apple gift card

If you're not up to date on "fancy new things happening with banking" and you're the kind of person who only ever uses checks and thinks your debit card is a credit card because of the Visa logo maybe this is just legitimate enough to trick you. Assuming the person fell for the first two aspects of this, they're probably flummoxed, thinking the "big bad IRS" is trying to go after them and want to resolve it with zero friction, so you're easily influenced. These used to be prepaid debit cards until crackdowns on Moneypak cards used for scams, maybe the person says "Get the prepaid debit card with the Apple symbol on it".

>I guess a fool and their money are soon parted, but this is a pretty unbelievable level of gullibility.

It's not being a fool, these scams target vulnerable people. Often times fear of being shamed the way your post does only furthers the harm as people stay in denial they're being scammed so they can avoid that shame.
Why do the remote positions not have USD compensation offered as well?
I love JIRA from a tech leadership perspective. It's very adaptable to different situations even if configuration isn't straightforward. Once you have a good workflow, it's great for devs and managers. The value for managers really should not be understated here. It's great for devs to have a simple ticket management system to help the flow of work, but being able to show measurable progress against priorities to management is absolutely to everyone's benefit.
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This actually gives Amazon a backdoor entrance to CVS/Caremark medication distribution. You see CVS has been slowing down building new free standing locations because they've taken over all of Target's pharmacy.

If Amazon does actually buy Target I would look at CVS start delivering prescriptions and equipment directly to homes via Amazon's distribution system. This is yet another reason not to go to a competitor.

I would also look at all Targets to become order pick-ups for rural and high crime areas.
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Target is failing? That is news to me.
Actually, as someone else pointed out, in Mapzen's terms of service:

> These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern the terms by which you (if registering on behalf of yourself) or the entity you represent (if registering as a business) (“Customer,” “you” or “your”) may utilize the mapping tools and services made available by Samsung Research America, Inc. on behalf of its Mapzen business unit (“Mapzen˝ or ˝we˝ or ˝us˝ or “our”).

Seems they were actually part of Samsung. Makes me wonder why they shuttered Mapzen. I can see this being useful to them for Tizen amongst other things.
Logos on "e" pills were pretty common back in the day (the 90s). Stuff like the Nike "swoosh", Pokemon, etc. So it's probably not that far fetched.
Sounds like you need patient advocate insurance. I wish I were trolling.
It's not just the initial page load though (although that's essentially similar speed). Navigate through the site, and you shave off seconds at every next click.
I work directly in this field. This article covers a lot of a material that is at the forefront of theoretical high energy physics where we are neck-deep in the 'fog of war.' Truthfully, I can think of few subjects more difficult to describe to people not in the field than the conformal bootstrap; there are a lot of technical details that are easy to get hung up on but are crucial for understanding the big picture.
They actually DID have hardware RAID controllers, but not like you're talking about.
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The number of people these companies have in US is a minuscule fraction of their total worldwide employees (Infosys employs 200K, TCS 380K). The salary of H-1Bs in US is also a minuscule fraction of their revenue (Infosys makes 10B annually, TCS 17B).

> 5%-10% are employed in US, while the rest is outsources, such models with few employees onsite just helps to outsource more.

My point, precisely. These companies would not mind paying good salaries to their employees on H-1B, or hire local employees, if they can keep the outsourcing business humming along.

> Employing a few citizens/green card holders, doesn't mean it's not about money

Well, it is about the money as in every business is about that. But these companies hire H-1Bs not to save money primarily. It is not clear to me from your comment wether you are agreeing or disagreeing with that.
Sad to see this. I've been using Mapbox for my projects, if only because their documentation was pretty good for a beginner like me- but Mapzen seemed like an excellent service, and I hate to see that competition die.
For-profit healthcare is a crime against humanity.
I disagree - their goal isn't to kill off traditional retail. Their goal is to get a cut of every transaction you make AND remove as much friction from the purchase as possible - wherever you make it...it makes perfect sense that Amazon would buy up a chain with lots of local presence.
I am also under the impression not many people get caught doing a pump and dump.
It is the first real news day since the holiday.
Now that we have more information about the situation (police reports, call transcript, police debriefing) I still stand behind my first impression of: "those officers acted as they were trained to and shouldn't be blamed for it. They should't be dealt with harshly but get therapy and counseling for it. Those individual know that they shot an innocent man."

How someone can think that those officers are to blame is beyond me. To me, THAT is extraordinarily reductionist. It describes the situation as if we were living in a movie or a video game where people who do mistakes are "evil" and should be "punished".

(Am I wrong in using the word "belief" in the context of "the state of mind in which a person thinks something to be the case with or without there being empirical evidence to prove that something is the case with factual certainty."?

English is not my primary language and this might be the root of our incomprehension. You say that going from "assumption" to "belief" is a big jump, so perhaps you should reread my first message with the word "assumption" where I put in "belief".

I specifically added the word for people to avoid getting the false idea that I was attempting to convince anyone since there was no hard evidence at that point.

Isn't the difference between an assumption and a belief that beliefs are rooted in previous experiences and values?

I looked at this situation through the lens of Hanlon's razor "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" and through my own personal experience with police as human beings. This led me to believe that the truth of the situation was a systemic issue in how police are trained in the USA and not in those particular officers require to be punished.

It is my assumption that acting reckless in front of police during a raid will get you shot. It is my belief that the officers which shot the man are not in the wrong.)
I know a bunch of the team there but don't know all the inside scoop.

They were trying freemium with the hosted services but not many people were paying.
One of the issues (imo) is that there really isn't open traffic data (but there should be).
This really hampers some of the more interesting routing things and they were focused on a
lot of the more multi-modal and pulling in elevation data for biking, etc. Some people were
doing some pretty cool stuff with their tools but I think in the end Google gives away enough
API transactions for most people and the quality is good enough.
There are many products at Target that are simply inferior and more expensive than their alternatives on Amazon.

If target could more intelligently replace those inferior and pricier products with their cheaper, Amazon-based alternative, then Target would provide a more competitive buying experience.

But Target is locked in with old brands and not necessarily the best ones in the market for their given vertical.

Seems like an extremely simple fix, but maybe Target is mired in longer term contracts with big brands that they can't break.

As a quick example, is Bic still the best manufacturer of the best available pens?
Heavy to shove out to sea from shore, but not if you've got a dock!

So you're proposing something like Aldrin's cycler craft. Given our experience on Mir and the ISS, we are going to have to get a whole lot better at environmental engineering to be able to do that for human passengers. I've read that the inside of the ISS smells like some kind of porta potty.

we need to become robots and cut out the malarkey.

I hope we will still have "human fundamentalists." (To use Charles Stross' term)
This is a trend I can get behind, recruiting by advertising that you pay well instead of telling people they should get a sense of pride and accomplishment by working on hard problems after surviving your interview process. Unfortunately I didn't see any numbers in the article.
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I could actually imagine things being better if proof-of-identity was required for a phone number.

I really don't want IP access to run by the same scheme though.

How do these swatters fake phone numbers?
excellent insight - access to CVS would be huge for them
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I belong to a book discussion mini-club and one of the subjects we want to study this year is climate change.

I'd like to find some objective materials that deal with the scientific data rather than the politics, however most of the books I'm finding are written from presupposition, trying to prove or disprove something from the outset rather than rationally examining and discussing the data.

Any recommendations for non-partisan and objective books (or online sources)?
Okay, but JSX is not 'just JavaScript' either - it's a DSL embedded in JS. You could make the same argument that Svelte is 'just HTML' with a script block, style block etc.
The bit about duplicates likely being "unintentional at this scale" is an important part of the use context too though. There are many cases where allowing duplicate names increases errors and confusion for users -- not only because of unintentional duplication, but because users themselves often think of names as unique.

To me, surrogate keys are just about always preferable over natural keys, but it's also important to think about the "naturalness" of natural keys from a user's pov. In some contexts, using a surrogate key while also enforcing unique names (with the rare possibility of a case where an admin has to go in and do something weird like add a genuinely identical name with a "2" after it, say) can be a better trade-off.
Does American insurance cover this? I have inquired about something like this before when I was getting conflicting diagnoses and treatment plans. Everyone I asked (at my insurance company) acted like they didn’t know what I was talking about. I did not size the phrase “patient advocate” but if one were available, I think my need for them would have been clear.
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While the exact amount is interesting too, the linked article [1] sends a stronger message.

[1] https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-pay-people-at-basecamp-f1d...
That is the only thing people are hold on for this not happening. The politics of this merger is the only thing possibly stopping this.
Am I wrong, or are iCloud and Apple Music both better than terrible cloud services?
I'm still waiting for my web framework in pure ASM idea to manifest.
> Amazon's goal is to kill off traditional retail, as far as I can tell.

Then why are they opening up bookstores?
I think this post speaks to a lot of the issues I see not just with JIRA, but with enterprise tools in general.

Instead of adopting a sound process, customers will take an overly complicated business process and make the tool conform to this process. And please note that in this cases how you manage your code workflow is, in fact, the business process.

Any tool will struggle - often it's the process that's cumbersome and not the tools.
Aggregators aren't interesting in themselves so it would be better to post the most interesting specific article from the set.
"I don't think that follows at all, because I think engineering at 2g or 0.5g or even 0.01g has a lot more in common with engineering at 1g or 0.15g than it does with engineering at 0g. Zero-g is qualitatively very different from non-zero g; stuff like room design, plumbing, HVAC, material constraints (the need to avoid things that can powder) are totally different."

Those are mostly things that can be explored on earth, no need to build a moonbase to figure that out.

The opportunity with a space station is to figure out things that can't be explored realistically in other environments.

"Within the solar system all journeys are relatively short and it's ok for spaceships to not be closed systems. For interstellar travel I think space arks will be necessary anyway. There's no really plausible way to get to another star in anything short of multiple decades."

So it's much more useful what we learn on a space station than what we learn on a moon base. Being in space without access to any resources other than what you already have is a much more important thing to solve and solving that will allow us to reach other planets much easier, cheaper and safer.

I really don't see what advantage a moon base is giving us compared to a space station for now.