skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are solution that follow standards and have been tested in audits.

I don't think their point was that you can get text vs images.
Not that it matters since this was flagged to death, but it's amusingly hypocritical to talk about "Private Surveillance Valley" (not-so-subtly referring to Google in this particular thread) and yet go on using an @gmail.com address.

Either stop using the free services, or stop bitching about the "surveillance"
You're thinking of DNS over HTTPS, which Firefox nightly does have support for. This submission is about DNS over TLS, which has been around a little longer and has a few working DNS clients and servers already. :)
The adversary under consideration is more likely the courts.
The way I usually do it is I handle the phone to the person I met to let him type his email, and made a shortcut to the bot on the home screen. I hear you but cards assume you have them with you and take a mental note where you got it.
I feel there's got to be a simpler way.
There are potential religious conflicts there so I assume it would defer to whatever the drivers license says. Not really sure. It seems strange to me that we will just let people die because of the way they injured themselves, seems arbitrary.
Well, there is COBRA but you'll have to cover whatever subsidy your employer was providing.
Yes, sorry, I should have clarified. I just remembered DNS-over-HTTPS because of this article and looked into how it worked, so I thought I'd show others in case someone was also curious.
If I were to take advantage of this opportunity, my main question would be about darklang.

While it is interesting to be paid to give some feedback to a system and maybe learn something, it would be interesting to know just what it was.

Consider: if you told me darklang was a python based language that was built on top of django/AWS and automated a lot of the work around it.

Consider: you told me darklang was a JSON storage model, with a react-like front end.

Consider: you told me that darklang was based on RUST in the browser.

All these things would appeal to very different startups. It would tell me that the work I did would not be wasted and I could take the basic models (ORMs, etc) if the project failed.

That's why I think it would be useful to say a little more about the stack around darklang. Even if it is "totally new", what is it based on?
The 1% are getting richer and its not going to stop any time soon
Sure, answered it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16803660
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Here’s what I like in a workspace: natural light, quiet, knowing that I won’t be interrupted if I don’t want to be, long blocks of time, and being comfortable and relaxed

Sounds good to me.

Is there some hope that we’ll see Y Combinator declare war on the open plan office?
The thing they never get right is that the answer to a question is only useful if you can write the entire question. You should never be forced to select a question from a list.

Also, I can’t believe how stupid some of these sites’ questions are. While I always make up the answers, frequently they require at least 3 questions and only 1 or 2 even apply to me (assuming I answered truthfully)! And one airline wanted FIVE of them!!!
Ahh, hahahaha. And it’s by Henry Kissinger.
> Anti-vaxers, pizzagaters, people who don't watch anough TV.

Let’s be honest: What we’re after is Trump voters, Alex Jones/Milo fans, supporters of James Damore, non-feminists, non-supporters of Emmy Awards stances and generally all people who don’t laugh enough at Steven Colbert jokes.

It was made very clear, for example at Google, that managers are building blacklists, and that HR supports them.
I miss the old Diggnation podcast with Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose.
I like this article a lot. Productivity articles are usually pretty redundant, long-winded, and pretentious. I'm glad Sam Altman was able to write down some surprisingly counter-intuitive advice in a concise and unpretentious way.
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To be fair, much of America spent the 19th century heroically drunk.
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>Software engineering doesn't have the same ethical consequences and motivations as other fields (medicine, law, etc.)

All occupations have the same ethical concerns, they're just a function of how much money can be made.
Value store is not an investment. And a US default is extremely unlikely.
> What would you do if you didn't have to work?

For me the question isn't what would I do if I didn't have to work. The question is: What if I could have absolute control over what I do and wasn't beholden to anyone else because of rent and food and such?

That would be neat. I happen to find getting there (working more) more enjoyable than watching Netflix and other time wastey things so it works out. I enjoy my work so I want to do more of it. And I want to do less of the work I don't enjoy.
Actually, what is really exceptionally ignorant is to apply laws of supply and demand to digital assets.

What I find really ignorant though, is you've decided that lowering demand is equivalent to theft. Does that mean competitors are "stealing" from one another.
I like the idea of trolling people with security questions that you never actually use in a password-recovery workflow.

What is your third favorite vacation spot? Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? For how much money would you go to jail for 1 year?
Or they have a thick skin.

In every group I've been in where things went south, there's always one guy with a nest egg and a firm sense of self who shows up every day, puts in the work, brushes it off and goes home to hug his family and pursue outside interests.

Typically the same guy, when I was somewhere between panic and burnout, would gently try to tell me that I take this stuff way too seriously. For a long while this horrified me. It can be hard to distinguish between letting go and giving up, and I often assumed the latter.
"Mark Zuckerberg swears he found out just two weeks ago that bad actors were harvesting users’ private info by the millions."

So what he is basically saying is that Facebook isn't employing devops engineers who are doing statistical analysis on their platform to ensure all services and servers are running smoothly and no abuse of resources is taking place as part of their job.

Aaaaaaalllllrighty then....
In your opinion, what is the probability of that happening?
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Don't forget that a lot of them were refugees in need of a good job to sustain their family.
I still can't believe how Elizabeth Holmes got away with just a slap in the wrist. Is it because the board was full of connected people? Or because it's a successful woman CEO story? Either way, it's a disgrace. Sociopaths will pick this signal as a boost of confidence.
Why are you asking for my email? I just want to stick the RSS URL into my pod catcher.
To me this was one of the most interesting things to visit in Egypt. The pyramids were older and less refined as this structure and the complexity of moving that temple was a breathtaking endeavour!
That depends a lot on what your position was. For most employees their day to day activities were probably full above board.
He whored himself out for so little.
Doesn’t 2fa mean password + phone? How is getting the phone sufficient?
I think the problem is that people often get away with doing ethically dubious things in early-stage startups. It only makes news when they got caught.

For example: Airbnb started out by scraping Craiglist for their listings. This was not only ethically dubious, it was against Craigslist's terms of service.

They got away with it, though, and have obviously gone legitimate since. Same with YouTube and copyrighted content.
They "secure" it through legal force. Many startups are shut down by legal threats based on the CFAA, which effectively makes it illegal to talk to a server after you've been informed that you aren't allowed to do so (ordinarily, this information is conveyed through the Terms of Service -- a C&D is typical but not strictly required).
How would you put into words the opposing, "non-productivity focused" viewpoint? I'm an American and I don't know that I can currently comprehend what the opposite would be.
Is there any kind of organization for engineers that supports these types of ethical issues? I recently resigned from a job because because of similar privacy concerns and I found it really hard to talk to anyone. My situation was a very clear violation of California law but everyone I talked to said the same thing, "if you blow the whistle, you'll never work again."
This is the relevant voluntary treaty:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferatio...

The treaty admits the US, Russia, UK, France and China to maintain nuclear weapons. Israel, India and Pakistan never agreed, and North Korea acceded.

Some of those countries can deliver a nuke to anywhere on the planet in an hour.

edit: added Israel to the list of non-signatories.
A bash script to securely create a bootable USB device from one ISO file
https://github.com/jsamr/bootiso

Many of you might think of dd command as a one-liner. bootiso adds security guards such as checking the device you selected is connected through USB. It can also autodetect the USB device if there is exactly one connected to the system. So you might just give it a try and judge by yourself!

PS: I could not post a link, guess it's because I'm a new user.
Personally, I just want to realize more of my own potential. I believe I'm capable of a lot, including becoming more capable. Such things do have an impact on mental well-being (please find your own citations) so I'm fine with this being an end in itself.
Your argument is not on great footing if you have to reach 70 years back to WW2 in order to find an ethical example of working for the War Industry.
The best solution is to not show the secret answer to the representative. Let them type in guesses until they get it right. It’s so nonsensical that we put such a critical duty on tired, rushed, poorly trained, and poorly paid workers. I’m guessing that would cost the company more money, though, by adding friction and making the call take 3.5 seconds longer.
The cynic in me wonders if this is just grandiose self-promotion as a bargaining chip for the next datamining job.
It's what I'm planning on doing!
> It's the output model that eventually makes it into the back-end ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Yes, the model itself is part of the backend, not the code used to generate the model. But the website explicitly mentions "machine-learning __models__" as an example of something that's "not backend".

> Back-end has always meant the CRUD/API portions of a CRUD app.

This is not true. Compilers have backends. Speech processing pipelines have backends. The dragon book, which pre-dates the advent of the WWW, distinguished frontend from backend (and in those words).

Web-based CRUD apps inherited the terminology.
Well, many people in startup circles have to optimize for time. They are taking risks without seeing any money, taking a salary for long periods of time. In most cases, they are also answerable to their employees. By being productive, you increase your chances of success and be happy that you are doing the best you can.
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I believe protein drinks are over-hyped. The reason they work so well for gaining muscles/weight is probably because of the extra calories.
Will it be possible to deploy Dark apps outside your platform? I don't mind paying for the language and SDK. We already do that for Visual Studio and C#. But being locked in your PaaS forever is a nonstarter.
I'm curious as to how this works out in practice. I can see the motivation for stickers like this -- half-assed attempts to repair a device can result in the device being in a state where it is no longer reparable by the manufacturer.

Is it still possible for a manufacturer to refuse to honor a warranty if that is the case, namely that the device was damaged by a botched repair, and this just says that they can't make that determination based on a sticker alone?
At my current workplace we're moving to GraphQL slowly and use it as a Gateway to front our backend REST APIs.

Backend feature teams own their APIs, but are all consumed by one GraphQL API which is the nexus of backend communication for things like periodic tasks and our client applications. None of the APIs call each other directly.

I think it's working out really well for the front end teams and aligning well with our engineering organization as a whole. As for who owns the GraphQL repos, everyone contributes to it but we rely on engineering leadership to keep an eye on changes as the system solidifies.
The number one automatic tax calculation is CryptoInsight (https://www.trackr.im/), they're coming up with a new version that automatically synchronize your exchange/s accounts and trading, according to your country of origin (for tax purposes).
you can get a lot more people to try the language if you make closed beta
Agreed. And besides that, I decided I didn't want to work for FB long ago, even if they somehow came calling... But it wasn't about ethics. Now it'd be about ethics, but I wasn't even aware they were doing anything unethical until now.

I'd expect people working there to know the deal a bit better, but even so they might not be directly involved with anything unethical, and even if they knew about unethical things, they might not have had an opportunity to switch jobs.
I think the missing discussion is that some bad law exists, but that SESTA/FOSTA is not that bad law: Websites should not be immune to prosecution for intentionally facilitating criminal activity. Section 230 is a bad thing and it going away is a good thing. Headlines I've seen like "sex workers are the canary in the coal mine for free speech" are not really accurate, because this is about activity which is and has been illegal, not suppressing speech.

The problem is that there's no good reason for prostitution in general to be illegal in the United States. While I have no interest in partaking in such activity myself, I realize that the sole interest in banning it appears to be religion... something which cannot and should not govern our country's laws. I'm a Christian, but I don't think Christian views should be the determining factor in our legislature... that's the Constitution's job.
tl;dr: Instead of having a password for each website, we'll use our phones' built-in security (pin, pattern, etc) to log into websites
Indeed. And this is how the absence of a social safety net enables fraud and waste.
FYI - they are using TKR token for their project - https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/trackr/
Would be nice if this could somehow integrate with GPG and scdaemon so that you can use OpenPGP cards to authenticate...
In my opinion, it will happen around 2040 with almost certainty, but probably in the form of hyperinflation out of debt, rather than actual default.
Why should they be regulated? They provide a popular, non-essential product for free. What threat are we protecting the consumer from in the name of this regulation? Consumers are free to visit any competitor site with identical ease of accessibility and competitors have very few barriers to entry (though this trend is slowly changing, e.g. in wireless land where a lack of net-netruality has enabled cell phone providers to harm competition by offering free data-transfer for partnered services like Spotify. A start-up will never be able to compete because their potential customers will pay streaming data fees to use their service or pay nothing to stick with the established incumbent.
"Others will judge the technical aspects of Theranos, but the social implications are vast."

Indeed.
> Donald Trump is expected to sign the law this week, but sex workers across the country told the Guardian they were already suffering consequences. Craigslist shut down its personals section, and federal authorities seized Backpage.com, releasing an indictment this week accusing its founders of money laundering and “facilitating prostitution”. The list of charges did not include trafficking.

And just a reminder this law was 100% unnecessary to prosecute Backpage.

This was purely puritanical bullshit designed to hurt sex workers in the US that are here legally. They just needed a "cause" to sell to rubes.
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> And they got the best projects and the most money.

I think what they don't have is their CEO testifying in front of the Congress after building a platform whose hunger for money made it an exceptional weapon against society. Smart, young people start avoiding companies only after public perception turns against them. Facebook is closer to that than Amazon or even Google.
I remembered reading about her back then and I was thinking her story sounded a little too good to be true.
YouTube Face is clickbait, attaining human form
https://github.com/jsamr/bootiso
I really enjoyed reading this article and I'm happy it's working out for you guys (doing something you love).

After being in Mexico a few times and coming back home not having enough of it, I have realized that is a country that unites adventure, exoticism and culture.

There is a lot to discover!
Looking at the history of social media apps, there's too much temptation for data monetization thru the app. So I prefer to forego app access to social media on my devices and interact via the mobile website, or via a third-party app.
> And the first element is "iPhone game", which is certainly an example of something that is "not backend-heavy"!

I thought they were referring to a multiplayer game with a server that has to be very low latency, handle a lot of connections, and not easily distributable, so that did seem backend-heavy.

But whatever they mean then, it's obviously not clear enough.
Unless you’re famous or wealthy. Has happened numerous times.
What's the opposite of "nobody every got fired for choosing IBM"?

This woman needs to steer far, far away from anything in the medical field for a LONG time. If she does end up back in that field, she needs to be way behind the scenes. Not presenting at a conference.
The author says they spent a million euro for a year. Even assuming that includes the one FTE in Germany, for 10 devs in India, they definitely weren't paying bottom dollar.
And let's not forget that some people don't have fingerprints
Not sure, personally. The scandal is that the company is exposing user data, not that employees are siphoning data and selling it on the side.

I can understand it if you're in a situation where the bottom can kind of dictate the company direction in a "hey, with this data, we could make the company a killing, our shareholders happy, etc." sort of way. Perhaps avoid the upper level employees, but engineering talent is probably safe.
Good question. Conceptually, Dark is most similar to your django/aws example.

There's a lot more types, though in a really good way. We're aiming for all the advantages of static typing, coupled with all the advantages of dynamic typing. For example, you use the same types all the way from DB schemas to API validation.
I've been really concerned about how freely people seem to give their DNA away to testing services like 23andMe or Ancestry DNA.

I just get this feeling that in the next few decades genetic code may become the pinnacle of biometrics as a part of multi-factor authentication. i.e. something I know, something I have, and something I am.

And DNA databases that are potentially loosely secured, or at least secured as well as credit bureau's data, seem like a great way to unwittingly expose one's future self.

I bring this up because multi-factor authentication still seems to be a struggle to implement well for the masses, and while people here complain about these personal questions being insecure, I can't really think of a reason why genetic code won't become the ubiquitous standard for the vast majority of the population to prove their identity.

Yet here people are giving it away, and even paying for the privilege.
I believe people say that because by announcing your digital assets you are making yourself a target and raising the opportunity benefit of compromising your computer and/or web accounts.
Yes, but even for your WiFi example, fixes to work with a non-compliant third party are often reactive. In many cases, that’s the only practical way.
I agree with you and for accounts that matter (bank, etc), I'll generally generate additional passwords with my PW manager for each question and store them there.

That said, I have a peeve with one of the standard questions they ask, which is the "favorite" question. Favorite movie, favorite band, favorite song, etc. Besides the fact that I don't have One Favorite anything, does anyone actually have life-long singular favorite things? How the hell should I know what my favorite movie was 3 years ago when I rushed through some account creation process on some random website?
If you succeed, you have some blood in you, and can work on V2 architecture on some other cloud or in your own cage at a DC. This seems like a good bargain for a business that is validating whether they can make money at all, especially a VC-backed startup that is fine with burning cash to prove a concept. Seems like something in-between totally-infinitely-scalable-and-portable-bulletproof-infra and "fake it with spreadsheets and manual work".
If someone is serious about starting a company, betting the success or failure of that company on an entirely new piece of technology (unless it’s critical for the product) in exchange for $3K/month doesn’t sound compelling.
I feel like a smooth interface between BEAM and Julia would be particularly useful. Elixir would be a nice platform since both have lisp-y macros and 1st class AST support, so each language could pass ASTs to each other for execution. Julia could be used for heavy computational loads (which it excels at), and BEAM could handle IO, reliability, supervision, and process management (which it excels at).

An APL on BEAM would probably be terrible; since BEAM intentionally does not support arrays. Having lists all be linked lists is a deliberate choice because you have O(1) immutable copy, which is absolutely critical for passing data between procs without "sharing memory", and creating an absolutely safe concurrent system. Given the relative heavy weight of BEAM, and the featureset it provides, it's quite impressive that for I/O and routing heavy tasks its performance is within an order of magnitude of, say, C.

You could maybe bootstrap arrays as binaries, but as you start making extensive modifications to the array, you will get crazy sharding of the binary information, and performance will die.
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Even if humans were excellent at remembering passwords - I look into my pwd manager and I have over 500 passwords. OK, I am not a common case - I have passwords from various systems, logins, keys, etc. there. But even a common person can have accounts on a hundred sites. And now add rotation requirements. Nobody outside of trained mnemotechnic performers can remember those - and keep them up to date for years. It's not just humanly possible in current environment. Either you use one password virtually everywhere, or you don't remember any of them.
Looks like they don't have an RSS URL because they don't have a podcast yet. So I guess the email is to get notified of when they have a podcast?

Not giving them my email but I'll gladly listen once this actually exists.