skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that there are so many successful fast food chains points to the fact that the food is good and healthy.
How are you getting around those issues? Very interesting! I only saw issues w stripping metadata on JPEGs (same issues you saw).
Yeah, that's key. "Explain how your piece fit into the bigger picture— what other things does it talk to, how tightly are they coupled, how are errors propagated, etc."
This is appealing to authority/popularity.

But since we’ve gone there, many high power companies also have a lot of chuckleheads running around.
StackOverflow's job board has the "Joel Test" part where employers posting jobs can check off the points from https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s... that they fulfill. One of them is "quiet working conditions", which comes close. Before looking it up just now, I could have sworn the point was something like "every developer has a door they can close", but oh well.

Anyway, I hoped you could search only for jobs where this box was checked by the company, but apparently not...

EDIT: It does allow searching for minimal salary and remote jobs, among the wishes listed in a sibling comment.
My reply was simply an answer to the claim that Microsoft's approach deserves credits when compared to Google's support to their products. And I explained why the situation with Microsoft products are similar, not better, compared to Google's support approach.

And from law point of view, Microsoft of course did not break any laws by not updating the phones. But when announcing Windows 10 Mobile phones, emphasising that the phones now have the same operating system as desktop counterparts and hence they will get the same updates, and not delivering this feature, is worth to be upset about.
What does that have to do with anything discussed here, or said in the article you responded to? "Creation" is a word used for more than that one thing that seems to occupy your mind as its only use. Please consult a dictionary, the religious meaning is only one of many. When I create software I'm not doing anything religious as far as I can tell. Never even mind that the submission title explicitly states what "creation" is meant: "of astronomy" (that's a scientific field). One might argue whether Kepler & Co. mark the time and place where "astronomy" was created or whether the article's subject actually is the creation of astronomy or just a famous episode from its much longer history, still has nothing to do with your purely religious interpretation of a common word. If you actually read the article you will find that this article is about - astronomy. As promised in the title.
>I'm super turned off by the incessant whining from the community about various interviewing practices.

Wow, what an incredibly tone deaf response.

>Some companies simply do not understand how to properly engage in employee selection.

Maybe changing this prospective is the point of the "incessant whining."

>I need to know you can do the work, prove to me you can, I will then hire you and pay you to work.

I'd have to know how you are testing, but I'd bet dollars to doughnuts your method has no way of predicting output in any meaningful way.

>What a cluster it's all becoming on the software engineering side.

Absolutely. I would say it's endangering the overall quality of the industry. The saying goes, if you are a bad manager or a bad company the first people to leave are the A and B players. The people that will never leave are the C and D players. I suspect people who do all this trivia don't even know what an A or B player looks like.
And indeed, you can build a perpetual motion machine out of a reactionless drive.

"any device with a thrust-to-power ratio greater than the photon rocket would be able to operate as a perpetual motion machine"
https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.00494
And this story leaves unanswered the question of why they compromised on a suboptimal architecture in the first place. In my experience, 95% of the time it's due to some other constraint imposed by an executive. E.g., a made-up ship date.

So it's perfectly possible that had the head of graphics gone for what he knew was the ideal solution in the first place, he would have been yelled at by Jobs for that. It wouldn't be the first time that a HiPPO caused a boss to do a 180 and implicitly blame the underlings rather than own up.
A UK privacy attorney I know considered 20k records (individuals) to be large scale. I haven't seen much helpful guidance. The WP29 guidance I've read only gives examples at the very extremes of large and small so not too helpful. Practical guidelines will evolve over time.
> is there any harm in going for cognitive behavioral therapy?

I don't know; I'm not a professional.

As an analogy, imagine a non-technical small business owner asked a psychologist, 'is there any harm in starting this critical, time-sensitive project in Java?'? Clearly the psychologist should say, 'I don't know; I have no expertise in software development.' But you could imagine the psychologist saying, not personally knowing of a difference between Java and other languages, or knowing someone whose Java project went well or reading something about how great Java is, saying, 'sure, what's the harm?'

The professional's answer to the hypothetical Java question is, yes, there very well may be harm. At least there's a good chance of opportunity cost because you may have to start over. But you know how these things go, especially on time-sensitive projects - once started in Java, probably they will be stuck with that technical debt and the compromises of the wrong choice for the life of the software. And this is a critical project. Letting a professional take even a quick look at your project beforehand could save you a lot of unnecessary pain.
Agreed, it wasn't meant to be a comprehensive guide to speed, just tackling the quickest one. You can run these compressors in a matter of minutes whereas CDNs can take a few hours to implement, and generally can't be run by everyone (whereas ImageOptim can be run by basically anyone).

Perhaps some day I'll create a mega checklist of all things to consider to speed up a site :)
Hard Multi-Tenancy in Kubernetes
Yes, it has the potential to break the MAD equilibrium. It's very ironic to me that offensive technologies do not threaten world peace as much as defensive technologies.
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not, but if not: the idea that Linux is any more secure against a nation state than windows is ridiculous. There are no shortage of regular vulns discovered in each part of the Linux OS as used by stuxnet.
What on earth? Not having a closed form for something is decidedly not the same as not being able to use it to predict anything. That’s like saying so-called computer programmers can’t actually predict anything about their programs will do.
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I have the same feeling but am still guided by the monkey in my head that has the habit of checking everything. Any good replacement ideas for that dopamine hit?
Not scared of what “we” are doing to “them”, but rather what “they” are doing to “us”... our power plants, dams, electrical grids, gas pipelines, traffic light networks, air traffic control systems.........
Conservation of momentum is almost as important as conservation of energy, and indeed, if you have a reactionless drive you can extract unlimited energy:

"applying a constant force results in a constant acceleration, the kinetic energy of a mass driven by such a device increases quadratically with time, while the energy input increases only linearly with time. Thus, at some point, the kinetic energy of the device-driven mass exceeds the energy input, and if this energy is collected via decelerating the mass (via regenerative electromagnetic braking, for example), then there would be a net gain in energy."

https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.00494
I'd recommend dropping the full day onsite. I mean what the hell do you talk about for a full day? The small talk must be unbearable after the first 30 minutes.
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Capitalist countries still centralize their control, surveillance, and communication into few hands with little diversity. The market forces you describe only apply to the early days of capitalism. Most capitalist societies are long past that, at a stage where the strong early players have re-written the rules and formed quasi-state monopolies.

Just look at how many communications companies the US has. And the government had to step in and break that up because there used to be just one. Even now they are quietly conglomerating back together, and there are no significantly different options available. It's still very vulnerable to an attack or flaw due to lack of diversity.
Anyone using redux, I created this using proxies - https://github.com/alnorris/redux-actiontyper
Would appreciate pointers to pure rust GUI libraries from any rust experts in this thread.
Employers rediscovering statistics.
No, it is still there. I use it because I am only on Facebook for one group. By having no "friends" I can look at the group without the clutter and no "friend requests".

And, since the group are moving to a WhatsApp group soon, I wont have to use Facebook at all.
Having a kid means caring for an incontinent, schizophrenic, homeless person that cant feed itself.
I'm actually not that impressed at $160k for "the hotest job" in a major metro, and it sounds like their example with a masters in Stat might be using something more than Xcel plots.

Kind of disgusted though, that Equifax "is shortening the hiring process to keep anyone from slipping away." They could fix their security practices before hiring anyone with Scientist on their resume.
Yes, companies don't realize people can get incredibly wealthy working for places like Google. That's why people tolerate that as well as the prestige of having a place like that on the resume. They are so self centered, they think Acme Trucking holds the same allure with "market rates" and shitty benefits.
Schmidhuber sounds like the Nassim Nicholas Taleb of neural networks. Good ideas, complicated personality.
Everything about the Salesforce JS experience from the ground up is horrible. They'd have to pay me a lot more money to do that again.
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Have you considered syslog, which represents a standard for shipping logs?
When I was a kid I made an animation of that on an amiga 500. Yellow smiley face, gunshot in the forehead and blood dripping down.

I showed my dad and I still don’t know if he was impressed that I figured out how to do that or thought I should see a psychiatrist.
The new Table APIs are fantastic. There used to be a lot of magic, but now all the selection handling is composable. Big props for the v1!
Is this just another implication that general relativity is incomplete? We already know it must not be because it does not work at the quantum level.
Yeah, most worms like this have detective capability to work out whether they’re on the systems that they’re wanting to be on. If not, they’ll either try to clean up and vanish or just serve for further propagation.

Stuxnet was discovered because it accidentally spread too far, and ended up on a malware analysts desk.

There was a targeted supplier, an upstream vendor as the insertion point, but it spread outside of that chain.
For example, what does the ability to reverse an AVL tree on the whiteboard have to do with doing UI design in XAML?
I think Elizabeth Holmes belongs in prison. However, I read her bio and she was a genius on par with Jobs.
Interesting. Like others point out in then article, I do field a lot of recruiters as an economist/data scientist, but most of the initial offer discussions have silly attributed.Base range max lower than current base salary, contract-to-hire, etc. Having been doing this type of work for almost a decade now, I think this kind of article comes across as recruiter uncertainty rather than identifying the real value add of data science: extracting valid insights from data.

If you want data scientists, pay a good salary and good equity.
When the business is being conducted outside the EU but the EU is enforcing GDPR, it is a problem. The GDPR is specifically written for extrajurisdictional enforcement which is a big change in the world of laws.

I am just saying that the EU will not be the only jurisdiction following this model. Be prepared.
I am quite stupefied by this statement. NASA and other organisations most certainly uses Classical mechanics (whether in its Newtonian, Lagrangian, or Hamiltonian formulations does not impinge upon the central issue) when simulating celestial motions and calculating trajectories. That there exists an acknowledged ”Three Body Problem” (i.e., that the trajectories followed by more than two bodies interacting gravitationally are in general not algebraic) matters not one iota for numerical simulations such as those performed by aforementioned organisations for aforementioned purposes. Some kind of relativistic correction might be made for motions that occur within the orbit of Mercury, but again, those are numerical in nature. And as far as I know there are no exact solutions known for general-relativistic interactions between two gravitational objects, placing it at an even greater ’disadvantage’ compared to the ’Newtonian’ mechanics you erroneously deplore.
Is there a reason to believe it's not? I'm not familiar with any particular Russian bias from Forbes.
Do not bother this guy. Apparently he is either crazy or ignorant. The solar system is stable in the sense of time periods necessary to make NASA their calculations and the Lyapunov are small - all that's needed can be deduced from either Newton or Einstein theories.
> has not cost me any money, only time

It sounds like you don't value your time. In my universe (software development), time is money.
>You don't know anything at all about the design of your targeted system and networks.

>They must have spent years devising ways to get in, slowly gathering info about their target, figuring out a way to achieve the assigned goal of screwing things up without getting detected.

I'd speculate that given who the intended targets were (Iran, North Korea) and who would have an interest in disrupting their enrichment operations (Israel, US), and given the level of intelligence gathering activity that both of these nation can (and ostensibly do) engage in, that the team tasked with creating this virus had plenty of information to go on from the start.

Centrifuge models with firmware revision, network topologies, deployed server configuration, etc were likely known in advance.
Unfortunately a lot of the "Data Scientist" I meet are nothing more than excel / sheets gurus. Most of them have never written a line of code or syntax that is more complex than a nested vlookup.

I hope the tide changes here and I think it will, but this has been my experience so far.
> This just makes the password the hash of the user's passphrase.

There are some other advantages that others have already mentioned, but even if that was all it did it would still be useful in inhibiting an attacker from learning the actual passphrase which many users are likely to have reused on other services.
Well it's about statistics rather than what an individual might possibly be able to accomplish.

Sure, maybe you'll find a way to survive a famine, but on average most will die because the math just doesn't add up. Not enough food for everyone. And it ends up killing far more than bombs and bullets, even nukes. Disease and famine are far worse than WMD when the numbers are in.
As a Magento developer, I agree with you.
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Engineering an election to install a malleable leader in a rival country is the holy grail if you ask me. Developing the cyber equivalent of WMDs to get what you want is a relatively blunt tool, just like how North Korea is doing but they use nukes
I thought this was good, interesting, intellectual reading, and I'm glad I read it. But it's also pure politics without any particular tech or business angle. Don't things like this usually get flagged off Hacker News?
The stuxnet dev team managed to get their hands on the exact same centrifuges as used in Natanz, so getting replica Linux control systems would’ve been a walk in the park.

Also, “less interest” is irrelevant when we are talking about nation states picking a specific target and throwing considerable engineering resource at exploitation.
> That's not how it works. You need the private key to sign the drivers. This is not a file that developers of those companies have access too.

No, you could unfortunately get around that very easily (or rather, ignore recommendations) at least a few years ago. So I bet there are a lot of certificates and private keys lying around on disks, build servers, version control systems and probably even on developer USB sticks.

The cert and key just needs to be something signtool can access. Signtool doesn't care whether it's relatively unprotected key in system software based key store or on a HSM.

Windows 10 1607+ enforces a much stricter standard, especially if you want your driver to work in Secure Boot mode. There are also stricter requirements for driver testing and static analysis, although those depend on the driver type. Microsoft requires and checks testing tool output as a part of the driver submission before finally signing it with their cert.

Tip: If you run Windows 10 and value security (and system stability), use Secure Boot.

(I've developed Windows kernel drivers.)
That's the first thing I noticed about the list. I interviewed with Lyft last year and they did whiteboard style interviews. Since when did this change?
3 seconds is still far too slow, even by Magento standards.
wasn't there just a story about background check startups finding these records and using them?
Yeah, I have interactions with managers all the time where I state my ideas, someone else disagrees and then my boss makes the right call.

For some reason that doesn’t sound dramatic without the possibility of someone being yelled at or fired.
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GOD CREATED THE WORLD. anythingselse is just useless garbage
> Newtonian physics cannot even predict the future positions of three body from their initial positions.

You're confusing chaotic systems with random systems. Chaotic systems are still deterministic. [1]

> according to Newton, God once in a while nudged the orbits to make them move correctly according to Newtonian doctrines

Newton thought that because he didn't know perturbation theory. Perturbation theory doesn't change the laws, it reformulates them as "simple thing + small tweaks + more complicated even smaller tweaks + ...". This allows you to quantify how stable the solar system is.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory "these systems are deterministic, meaning that their future behavior is fully determined by their initial conditions, with no random elements involved"
'Cost per Hour' Is a Terrible Way to Judge a Video Game
Yes, but that costs money and not all states do it. My state has a fully searchable arrest database with mugshots.
I'm still bummed that DarkShikari's blog is defunct. He's the lead x264 developer and x264 is one of the best H.264 encoders. The Internet Archive has a good copy though. https://web.archive.org/web/20141103202912/http://x264dev.mu...
This is a good idea, and I'd be very interested to see if they ever added that, as it would essentially solve the long running conversation problem that exists on HN now.
if the goal is to gain access to HSM’s signing functionality and you don’t need to know the HSM’s keys to gain access to its signing functionality then something else is being guarded that is essentially the key.. For example be it a machine locked in a room, then the room key is the key. Or maybe someone’s retina, or a sign-off from someone with clearance, etc. (at least in theory)

That’s a general theory though, but I’d think the same fundamentals apply

Also this only serves to prove that some powerful entity that operates on secrecy, like a government or mega corp, is likely who executed this. I’d like to fantasize some suave, determined black market salesman with a rough childhood and his band of cyber criminals broke into both of these facilities, but seeing how difficult it is to accomplish something like this, it seems more likely that someone just let them in through the front door.
A somewhat crazy guy once told me that he worked on Stuxnet. Obviously I didn't believe him. But he did seem to know quite a bit about it. How weird would it be if he wasn't lying. I mean, somebody had to work on this somewhere.
You are playing on semantics, anyway EU regulations apply to no country as it’s enforced by each member of the union, not by EU itself.
Defense of the United States is required by the US Constitution. Defense requires military spending. Military spending is money given to the military itself as well as arms produced by non military companies and contractors.

The military industrial complex is, essentially, a mandatory relationship, though with significant problems leading to inefficiency and poor management decisions.

The way to fix this is through reform. It could be argued that the election of a private citizen with no government experience however significant experience in the private sector is evidence of actual voting in for change in the military leadership. Whether this translates to actual long term efficiency is yet to be seen.
This is so wrong that it actually hurts my brain. Albert Einstein, a certifiable genius probably could not tell you how to invert a binary tree, this has nothing to do with intelligence and everything to do with how many HackerRank problems you have memorized.
Thank you!

Regarding this: "It could become a real project; anybody interested, feel free to contact me (email in my profile)." Start a Show HF thread on the board!
The house was sectioned off in to 3 areas. Mine had 6-7 people sharing 6 bedrooms and 1 bathroom. I'm not sure of the layouts in the other sections of the house. But the landlord had definitely divided the home in to as many small rooms as possible.
https://github.com/apprenda/kismatic

It just works...
Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vxJs6kC...

No negative mass, translations can occur purely by mechanical deformations in a curved spacetime.
""Improve"" your writing, maybe. It started as a joke, we simulated with some friends, in a telegram group, a game where you write, but the game favor using words not commonly used, and it assign a score to your writing in realtime.
In our "simulation" we scored ourself (that was the joke):

"that was part of the peculiarity +12 of the game."

see how I've put a random :) value next to a word? Wouldn't be cool if that is assigned by the "game"?

Well from that evolved, what if I write a "system" that can do that anywhere and in any app you use? And then it hit me, that is a mobile keyboard!
So, it is an experiment at this point, I'm building it.
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Seems unlikely, since Q3A used all the mouse buttons on PC by default, just like in previous versions of Quake. Those games also don't have secondary firing modes, Q3A is supposed to be a sort of ultimate refinement of Quake deathmatch.