skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've consulted to the Canadian Government on both a data science project and on cyber security as well. The technical people inside GC know what they need and it isn't IBM building custom software for something like payroll. They should use off the shelf stuff for the 95% of employees that have run of the mill circumstances and just use humans to handle the super long tail of bespoke needs that no other Canadian employer has to deal with.

The problem is that the political side of the government doesn't trust their own technical staff and they get convinced by these horrible consulting companies like IBM that the only way to write good software is to spend hundreds of millions on it but don't worry it will pay for itself with all the cost savings on staff.

They try to minimize risk through bureaucracy but they end up getting the opposite of what they want. Less useable, less secure software at 50x the price. What they would do if they understood software is communicate to the public about how good software projects need fast iteration and that mistakes might be made sometimes, but that the important thing is that they are easy and fast to fix and that there are risk mitigation strategies to stop mass leaks when penetrators get into networks.

Also, the CSE should just be empowered to take GC servers offline whenever they don't conform to a predefined list of security practices. It's 2018 the fact that all of GC isn't on HTTPS / HSTS is quite frustrating and it requires all departments to get on HSTS preload lists because of the stupid way gc.ca is a subdomain of .ca.
There is a 25% vat tax and then on top of that you have income tax which is around 25% at that income bracket.
Yes, to confirm a recruiter's fee is typically anywhere from 15-25% of employee's first year annual salary. So that 150K engineer in NYC earns an independent recruiter (working for herself/himself) anywhere from 22-37K.

Now it's easy to see why some recruiters sometimes act the way they act. People are unlikely to lie just to earn a small fee, but when the numbers get big, the incentive changes.
>serving videos from youtube without alternatives doesn't make it accessible.

Why is that?
It's wrong to assume that "everyday artists" and people who actually care about art are insulated from this. Some worthwhile artists get promoted into this high-prices world of prestige, and their production/careers get distorted.

For better or worse, the humble $500 "everyday artists" you seem to be affirming are, for the most part, not intellectually or culturally relevant. But this isn't about affordability, it's about the valid art culture (the mainstream) being corrupt and overheated. Good artists get swept up in it.
> Any more indirections would be too risky.

I'm not sure this is quite true. There is a thriving and legitimate market in "eurodollars", deposits denominated in US dollars but held outside the US, and specifically beyond the reach of US authorities.

The question is whether you would be able to make much use of such deposits without US cooperation. It would definitely be difficult, but it might be possible. I am by no means an expert on this, but i came across an interesting case from the '80s - Libyan Arab Foreign Bank v Bankers Trust Co. Section 3.4 of this book describes it:

https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Freezing_Assets.html?...

And there's a wider discussion here:

http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...

The upshot is that a UK judge decided that it was possible to pay out a dollar balance held in London without involving the US. It seems there were several plausible ways to do it. Whether that's still true, i have no idea. Interesting stuff, anyway.
Shouldn’t there be a better way to hire coders?
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If making the rich trade their money for something that will hurt them mentally is "serving" I don't know in which world I'm leaving anymore.
See Nathan Ensmenger's "The Computer Boys Take Over" and Marie Hicks' "Programmed Inequality".

https://youtu.be/4vCDHJ4-D80
https://youtu.be/WTLJ7saIV3o
while wealth distribution follows a power law,

the distribution of human skills generally follows a normal distribution that is symmetric about an average value. For example, intelligence, as measured by IQ tests, follows this pattern. Average IQ is 100,

but nobody has an IQ of 1,000 or 10,000.
They are obviously talking about the implementation of our prison system and not just drugs being illegal.

I mean, it is really quite clear. I don't think I agree with how they are characterizing it, it's just that the intended meaning is easy to see.
This approach reminds of how to maintain privacy: constantly (as in a process) and damn it can be exhausting over time.

Very cool, though!
...remind you of the existence of something you already like.

That's why they run Subway ads on TV at night. So you'll remember them the next day when thinking about where to go for lunch.
Don't get me wrong, Apple is your best bet at being secure, just challenging the champion here :))

- there is no Debian phone yet

- Microsoft has more holes than Swiss cheese

- Android is ad malware you bought, instead of being paid for

- enabling full disk encryption in Linux is like BDSM

The post is inspired by https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide#fi... repo and securing my hackintosh setup with FileVault2 enabled.

Hackintosh requires few non-apple kernel extensions (kexts) loaded from ESP (EFI) partition, that is not encrypted. How do I restrict these from being changed, and from it being malicious?

Real Apple HW is also vulnerable to DarkMatter and QuarkMatter EFI firmware attacks ...
In Europe you find cheap American horse meat on the counter sometimes. It's far cheaper than local alternatives and i honestly never tried it to compare. Horse meat generally isn't bad. Not my favorite but a steak done by a pro is definitly a new taste experience that's worth it.

I totally think that this 'eat animal' 'pet animal' thinking is beyond stupid and only shows how limited we humans think.
Not a lot of people do that. As mentioned, it's a service idea I kicked around a bit and wrote an article about that still gets me inquiries years later. 1-5% might make it worthwhile depending on how high ticket an item you are.

The work required by an agent to place a 200K engineer isn't too much different than that of a 50K engineer, other than the 200K engineer likely being more marketable.

And the difference between 1% and 5% is substantial. I don't think I'd offer agent services for 1K, but for 5K I would.
Allende was choose in democratic election in a sovereign country.

If you believe in democratic freedom, you believe in the right of the people of a country to choose whatever they want even if, in your opinion, it's a mistake or too radical for your taste.

Compare that to Pinochet who was choose by the CIA and the Chile oligarchy. Defense of freedom certainly.
For my side projects I don't need things to be easy. I need them to be interesting, and I want them to be challenging. Deciding to do things for zero cost is an interesting constraint. I could do everything for a few dollars but I'd rather spend my time working out how to do it for free and then buy beer.
Another open source tool in this space that also supports writing your own rules, lambda/event based execution, config rules, guard duty support and wide coverage is https://github.com/capitalone/cloud-custodian
You are missing the point. Yes there is protectionism in the EU, but the claim was: China is very capitalistic compared to the EU. That is just false.

In the EU you can start your business wherever you are a legal resident, the regulations are a known quantity and essentially you just have to mind your own business. This is not so in mainland China, your applications can be arbitrarily denied, and if your business does too well, you will get a knock on the door asking if you are a "good comrade". All big businesses there are tied to the CCP one way or another.
That will never happen. Life isn't fair and never will be, just by virtue of the natural world itself.

We can and should do our best to clear the way to ensure equal opportunity (not outcome) but it's important to realize what is actually reasonable and achievable vs impossible.
BTW dog meat is not to uncommon in switzerland.
Well, not exactly papers, but this video gives a good introduction to Edward Bernays, the one who figured out modern propaganda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj_UWbifM2U
Correct, but whatever hat you wear if it talks to you and tells you to do stuff you should probably ignore it and seek medical advice.
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This is what the US Digital Service is doing. Recruiting these folks /is/ damn hard, but one thing that helps is being able to offer the opportunity to make truly meaningful large-scale impacts. It's a pretty unique environment with some interesting challenges...
> In April of 2017, Google’s Technology Stafﬁng Management team was instructed by Alogna to immediately cancel all Level 3 (0-5 years experience) software engineering interviews with every single applicant who was not either female, Black, or Hispanic and to purge entirely any applications by non-diverse employees from the hiring pipeline. Plaintiff refused to comply with this request.

Good for him. Google is now excluded from the "dream" companies I'd want to work for.
If you look for real FOSS ES security i recommend Search Guard
https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard . This is a ASL2 licensed repo which provide all kinds of basic security for Elasticsearch including SSL/TLS. So the content in this repo are real fully "open source".

Then there is a second non-FOSS repository https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-enterprise-modu... which contains all the enterprise/advanced stuff. The code is open but not "open source".

So FOSS and and non-FOSS/proprietary are well separated. I don't understand why elastic mix and merge FOSS and non-FOSS code in the same repo with a weird mixed license applicable for special folders. This all makes no sense to me.

And there are several other FOSS projects which provide x-pack like functionalities described here https://sematext.com/blog/x-pack-alternatives/ like elastalert for alerting or sentinl for reporting.

If one is really comitted and addicted to FOSS then i believe its better to go with the FOSS x-pack alternatives and support and contribute to them.

Just my 2c.
If a woman wants to come talk to me as a professional, I’m all for it. I love it when women take initiative to come talk to me, and not in some creep way like people may think, but rather because it instantly makes me a lot less anxious. I can’t be readily accused of hitting on her if she came to me first.

However, I can probably count on one hand the number of times a woman has come up to me in my professional career to talk to me about anything of professional significance.

Every time I approach a woman first however, there’s always an anxiety that I’ll be perceived as a creep, trying to play a really long game of hooking up with her. I know women must think this, because I constantly hear their stories about the various ways men hit on them in nearly any situation, and there always seems to be a bit of an awkwardness that isn’t there when they approach me first.

And if the woman I approach happens to be attractive and younger than me? It looks real bad. Indeed, if someone could have any reasonable doubt that my professional conversation with a woman is anything more than platonic, I would be uncomfortable in that conversation. Men would look at this and think “Yea he’s probably trying to get with her”.

I do not get the same anxiety when talking to a woman with her husband or boyfriend, or a woman who is much older than me, or homosexual women.

The thing about standing by and saying this is “not my problem” is that it really isn’t my problem. My problem is completely different from yours, even though it’s in the same domain, and nobody helps me with it either. As a basic straight white male, I’m a dime a dozen and if I voice any kind of problem the response is to go fuck myself.

This has nothing to do with you being a woman, there are also men with problems that I do nothing for. It’s nothing personal, it’s just business.
"Canada has launched a process to prepare a roadmap to explore the potential of on- and off-grid applications for small modular reactor (SMR) technology."

I'm a fan of building more nuclear reactors but this tag-line doesn't give me much hope - in essence it's a "process to plan to explore the potential". There's not even a hint of experimental science much less development in that sentence (I hope these are the writers words and that Canada's plans are (or involve) a bit more concrete.
I'm really asking for feedback here. Trying to gauge the level of interest in our offering. Is this something you would use yourself?
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So bias and discrimination aren't inherently wrong? If the newly introduced discrimination is alright what actually made the old one wrong in the first place?
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This is definitely being taken into account. For a quick summary see: https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/how-mu...
These are great points. On the obligations point: If you look at the whole uber/Lyft/gig economy dynamic and contrast that with salaried employment, I think you'll see that to the extent that a company owns the time of their employees, they are more likely to give them health benefits, paid vacation time, and so on analogous to how a lord treated his subjects. I think Nassim Taleb has made that point. Whereas a Lyft driver doesn't get taken care of in the same way.
"some seven hundred and fifty BILLION dollars a year"
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Just dropping this here was well. Some areas in switzerland have dog meat on the menu.

My point is that we apply questionable moral rules to differenciate us from 'the others'
Thats exactly why it will not work
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25% VAT would mean that 50k paid by the gallery is 30k to the artist, not 25k.

(50k inc VAT is 40k revenue, less 25% of that revenue as tax.)
Yes, essentially Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
I don't see the novelty on this at all. Geostationary satellites are pretty much the standard for satellite internet for years. I had a broadband connection like that on my first job, 15 years ago.

It's off course very welcome if they can get higher transfer speeds, cleaner and lighter satellites and newer technologies to the mix, but that's it. The biggest problem with satellite internet: the latency, is not going to be solved.

Which is fine, I must say, since they are in the business of bringing Internet to where there's none. But these new Internet users will arrive without access to the Internet's most incredible features, such as real time voice and video communication, interactive website experiences and online gamming.
Art is huge in money laundering, e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/arts/design/bernardo-paz-...

Casinos and jewelries as well, anything that might have a lot of non-tangible value and can be inflated without questions.

I am not too aware of markets outside of Brazil, but I'd assume sports teams and auctions are big too. I remember that in the last 15 years there were a lot of football team acquisitions by russians in europe.
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It sounds like it was one manager. Is that all you need to blacklist an entire company?
Pretty good way to launder money and, via the Art in Embassies program, smuggle anything anywhere.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-w...
This[0].

And if you're wondering about the techniques and possibility of detecting life, IIRC the eponymous book has a whole chapter about exactly that.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
Thanks for the hint, though I'm facing the issue on Ubuntu only (on Windows, everything seems fine). I think I've made the same investigation before, but to no avail.

HW_COMPOSITING says "unavailable by default: Hardware compositing is disabled", and OPENGL_COMPOSITING something similar. This corresponds with my experience of jumpy scrolling and Youtube making the the fans go berserk.

But apparently, WebGL isn't affected by this and performs okay.
"Thats not how ads actually work, although frankly 75% of people who actually work in advertising have no idea about this."

Statistic pulled out of his ass.

This linked article contains zero references. Has nothing to do with science.

But it is funny that I got taught pretty much this when I was 14 during economy class at high school.

And I still think it's missing various important marks:

What if the person just is not interested?

I got a sticker on my front door which reads: "no collections, religious, or salesmen. We know the way" (translated). Our phone numbers are blacklisted for telemarketing. Our email addresses run spam filters (possibly the funniest counter example to this "scientific" article). Our browsers run ad blockers. We bought some apps so we don't have to see ads in free versions. In that last regard, yes advertising works because its annoying as hell when people who clearly don't know you are trying to convince you to buy something. This negative emotion I get with regards to ads does not directly or indirectly increase sales. My point isn't that advertising always works or never works. That black and white thinking is extreme and wrong. Email spam doesn't work on you or me either.
On the other hand, a customer who doesn't realize that their private key should never leave their premises has no business asking for a certificate. It's like not selling guns to children.
One outage per month in DO? Curious, we had a dozen machines running there and never experienced that. Unless they were very short-lived (we used Uptime Robot's free plan, which has a 5m interval). Or maybe it's the DC? We used AMS2.
Oh boy, that and perturbation.
Indeed, that's the approach I use to run multiple copies of Thunderbird. Using a separate account does add protection against browser exploits though (if visiting an interesting-but-risky site, the 'guest' account approach prevents access to the main account - at least as long as a browser exploit doesn't then lead to a privilege escalation).
In fairness, all of those private keys were already compromised from the start. I have no clue why the CEO decided to take such harmful action to his own company, but one way or another all of those certificates needed to be reissued.
That happens every day, in every industry. That's why selecting managers is so important.
I can imagine that management meeting. "I don't think we should take the project because the client has more money than sense."
If your car consistently steered left, would you bias your steering right to compensate? Or sit there in a field going "This is fine, I don't want to introduce a new bias to my steering."
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How would you address it?
Because co-founders cost you equity and even a few % of the next Facebook is still many millions of dollars. Or so the thinking goes.

PG says to get a co-founder because (I'd assume) from what he's seen sole founders are much less likely to end up with the next hotdog stand, much less the next Facebook.
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If this is true and the recruiter has emails to back up his case it should be a pretty easy case to win.

According to the the rules:

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), which makes it illegal to discriminate against a person on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

It should also be a massive fine.
Your test is run every day by every company with a competent marketing team.
Fuck google
> One man's innocent, casual conversation with a female coworker can these days become that woman's #MeToo moment

Do you have any verified example of this happening?
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To be fair, from the outside it is often hard to tell what is one manager and what is company culture.
It seems to me, that what happens (and not only in Chile) is this:

A few political parties alternate in government without big changes. More or less, they have the same program, with minor differences. They, both, are part of the Establishment and the owners of everything, normally a few families, can live with them. Democracy it's good. Nevermind the conditions of the rest of society.

For some reason, despise the media being owned by "reasonable" hands, somebody outside of the establishment it's elected. Then, democracy it's not so good, and a dictatorship is needed to restore the power to the correct people, sorry, to "protect the freedom".

When the situation it's stabilized we can go back to the democracy simulacrum.

I would like to see how long would take for a new dictatorship appear if the people in power since always feel their position threaded.
I wouldn't be so quick to write them off. With the attention this article is getting, hackers are going to be lining up on eBay to get their hands on one of these. A veritable penisance of plotting devices!
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How long? 6 weeks? I lived there for quite a bit longer (years). What is even your point? Chinese people can also blame any president, Mao or the CCP without going to jail. It happens all the time in everyday conversation. If you post it online it will be deleted, but you certainly don't go to jail unless you do it on a daily basis and ignore multiple warnings by government officials.

Sure, technically not as free as most places on this planet, I don't even question that: just go read my initial post again. The point is that it doesnt matter to 99.999% of people. It simply never interferes with everyday life.
And I must say, during my time there I rarely felt unfree or oppressed by government. Obviously I needed VPN as a foreigner to access everyday stuff, but everything else was mostly minor annoyances, normal differences in culture or law.

I find it odd you mention security cameras. I consider that primarily a privacy issue, but apart from that it's a bit ironic to bring this up post-snowden. The government tracking my online movement worries me much more than cameras in public. And how everyone uploads all their photos and life to big cloud providers that don't give access to their users' data to the NSA ever /s. China definitely does all this too, but in comparison the cameras are really just the icing on the cake. The US is careful to spy on their people unnoticed. China doesn't give a fuck.
I remember many artists complaining that what they like to make I vastly different than what sells. I’m pretty sure it’s been that way for a long time.
There's also HSSQLPPP for Postgres, and it's written in Haskell

https://github.com/JakeWheat/hssqlppp
Do you really think that steering (a pretty neutral action) is a right analogy to an action that is inherently hurting people? The problem here is that you try to compensate injustice done to some people by doing injustice to others.
> equating the USA with 'Western countries'

This is an article in a British magazine. Why blame the US?

> people like Noam Chomsky who make this critique can freely live and talk in the US readily tells you how misleading it is

In the US freedom of speech is part of the system of control. It is a safety valve that releases social pressure to prevent explosive revolutionary outbursts.

The rulers of the US are no less dictatorial, they are just more sophisticated in their understanding of social control.