skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my view, the sophistication is implied by the breadth of expertise required to put the whole thing together. Google Search and the OS landscape are for sure broad and sophisticated. However, their development was accomplished by computer scientists.

In order for stuxnet to be effective, it was necessary to employ expertise in:

- Uranium enrichment methods and processes

- Capital equipment control systems and their development environments

- Theory of operation of centrifuge machines

- Corporate espionage of some sort

- Organizational management skills that can pull all that together

- and deep understanding of the operating systems referenced above
...as if “world peace” is a thing.
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For a lighter take on a Friday, read how Site-Lokd™ brewery technology solves GDPR crisis: https://www.inversoft.com/blog/2018/05/16/site-lokd-brewery-...

Enjoy.
Thank you, I didn't know, I haven't crossed a lot of boundaries.
That page seems to be saying they estimate the star’s brightness by its color, then distance by its apparent brightness. If so, that’s an unfortunate name because it’s been seriously proposed to measure distance by how much the apparent brightness changes at half-year intervals. (But the particular seasons would of course be different for different stars.)
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It's funny that the senator's party's platform is based around little to no government regulation and healthy capitalistic competition. Here he is granting an artificial monopoly for 7 generations. I'll bet his hands were well greased.

Gotta love corrupt America.
Some proportion of perfectly good engineers couldn't pass a whiteboard interview to save their lives, for much the same reason I couldn't pass a job interview that measured communication skills by karaoke performance and emoji literacy.
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> Steve sighed and explained that “iMac was for first-time computer buyers and every study showed that if you put more than one button on the mouse, the users ended up staring at the mouse.”

That's a bit like saying that the worst thing about losing an arm is that now your shirts don't fit.

The iMac mouse sucked because it was round, making it nearly impossible to tell without looking at it whether it was pointed the right way. So when you thought you were moving it straight up, the pointer would nearly always wander off to the side. I never did understand how they could make such a huge blunder, given that the mouse is literally the first control (after the power button) one would typically use to interact with a Mac.
This is great work.

I've seen a lot of Keras tutorials out there, but well-written and commented pure TensorFlow tutorials are so rare to find.

Thanks for doing all of this!
> Which is to say Elsevier has seen this "open access" movement coming for a better part of a decade now

A lot earlier than that, I was discussing the options for online publishing with the then CTO of Elsevier in 1987.
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Cost of doing business. Not willing to put in your free time? No need to worry about getting a new job.

Are you also job hunting at work, doing interviews on your employers time, etc?
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> People crave silence

Not really. Just an escape from noise.

> unnerved by it

... when it seems unusual, or unnatural.
In the woods you don't expect the deer to be shouting on their cellphones.

A heavy, windless snowfall is as quiet as the world gets. Nobody finds that particularly unnerving.
Does the submitter have to use their or their company's real name? As long as it does the job of a name (stable, recognizable) it could be any name and still accomplish the goal of letting the MT worker sift through hits.
Here's the EFF link to contact your senator:

https://act.eff.org/action/stop-another-expansion-of-copyrig...

If you do so, be brief, polite, and state your position, for or against as well as the strength of your position (strongly against, etc.). The staffer will simply aggregate everyone's for/against positions. Verbal abuse or extra emotion is not helpful.
Unless you're disputing Node.js' popularity I'm not sure how your anecdote is relevant...
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Because too many people these days are the "school is overrated, vocational schools are all we need" types who don't understand the basic value of going through the old philosophers... the title is case in point. To me it seems so obvious that there are numerous reasons that it just seems click-baity.

You know what they teach at the elite schools (like Eton for example) that most others don't? The trivium and quadrivium. Together, they form the seven liberal arts, and are a vital parts of the preperation for reading the old philosophers. More than that though, they are vital parts of having a well rounded education where knowledge at a base level in areas almost always elevates your ability to think well in others.

It is also extremely important to be able to go back and see how the old philosophers were right and how they were wrong, but also just to see the amount of wisdom they had. I'm a constitutionalist myself, so reading Montesquieu for example is a great way to dig into the meat of the underpinnings of the checks and balances system, for example. I hardly see a modern textbook get half as deep as him on the subject...

There is still vast amounts of wisdom to be gleaned from the old philosophers, and I highly disagree with the assertion of the author about it being more like poetry than knowledge.
Now if the government interpretation of GDPR will differ from a website owner's they'll be able to shut it down with a fine. Since this law can be interpreted in so many ways they can virtually fine any site they don't like, because depending on interpretation every site can be found non complaint. This is huge and dangerous.
i think for something to be sophisticated we are looking at how complex it is. this worm does nothing new in that regard (taking advantage of 0days, hiding, covering tracks etc.) it is no more sophisticated than a regular worm. quora is a fucking joke.
RouterOS on Mikrotik, pfsense on x86, VyOS(debian) on x86 are all good options. It's just hard to find off-the-shelf parts to build your 1u/2u router/switches running open source though, software is there, but no such hardware, the best you get is some random formats(e.g. mini-itx) and you can not really put them on the rack.
* Scott Forstall doesn't work at Apple anymore*

and neither does software ...
You're 100% right, but you should use the word cyber, not virtual.

I know hackers hate the word cyber because grandma uses it, but it's the right word for it. The stand-in "computer based" almost works, but it doesn't cover things like hacking radios.
If I asked you to furnish me with the reasons why Islam has the ultimate answer (rather than Buddhism, or Christianity, or ultimately Philosophy) you would immediately find yourself in the terrain of the philosopher. Sorry.

The only way in which religious thought survives the 21st century is a set of once sacred truths rendered palatable for the secular world. The past belonged to you, the present and future belongs to us.
Ask HN: Has anyone else looked into their NCTUE credit report?
After reading one of the Krebs security posts about the various credit agencies I decided to look into the NCTUE agency I hadn't heard of, and decided to get a free copy of my report after freezing with this organization

Much to my surprise the report showed that both Comcast and Verizon have charged me "disconnect fees" that I never agreed to, heard of, or received any bill for despite them having all my contact info and it not changing for many years. Verizon did this in 2012, and Comcast in 2015. Both accounts are now marked as "delinquent/unpaid" despite these charges appearing to be fradulent.

I was quite surprised by this since I've maintained a flawless credit score for 20 years now, and didn't even know there was this secret way to mark me as a deadbeat from this organization I had never heard of, and most importantly, that these charges appear to be wrong and somewhat hidden.

Has anyone else looked into their NCTUE report and found odd info?

https://www.nctue.com/consumers
I don’t think anyone could ask for more than this post provides.
Agreed, whiteboard are way too useful to leave out. That's why we have them in every room in the office, not to scare candidates when we happen to conduct interviews in them.

In my opinion it is all about aligning your questions with the day to day task you expect from people. If the work is very algorithm heavy, by all means probe for that in the interview.

I base my interviews around one main question: assume the tech challenge you written beforehand is a prototype for a complete product/service. what are the steps necessary to get us there and beyond?

I do not care about the candidates tech preferences or the exact solution as long as the argument for it is coherent and not just based on heresay. Then I probe for a couple of things within their solution where I see potential weaknesses based on their argument, experience or code in relation what we look for. It is more about problem solving, decision making and communication than computer science.

Candidates are free to just talk trought it or use whiteboard/paper to draw it out. But if you choose the former you better not forgett what you said five minutes ago.
> Examples. We are hosting example projects with the most popular project starts: create-react-app, Next.js, Gatsby, CDN and Parcel.

"Example projects" link is broken. But the master branch seems to contain them: https://github.com/mui-org/material-ui/tree/master/examples
But everyone would have to have those, or else the first country to develop them would have an insurmountable advantage. A country that has both nuclear weapons and the ability to block all attacks including nuclear would rule the world, or at least dominate it without opposition.
Do a linear regression, call it ML with AI and you'll be running your own team in a week
I'm just saying, if you can't quantify it, anything goes.
Ask HN: Why can't I comment on this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17100309 appeared on the front page of HN but it has no comments, nor any option to comment.

Why is that?
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They wanted a measure of quality. We are an embedded system where we sometimes have to pay a tech to go our and update customer devices. Last time we had to do this the recall cost us something like 10 million dollars - that is just the price we paid the techs to drive to the customer and do the update, and doesn't count the engineering costs to create the fix. As such not having a recall event is important. (We do have customer installable updates, but for "reasons" some code cannot be updated by customers)

The negative is some people don't believe in through tests. They write a few unit tests for things they know are tricky. Then when their code coverage is low they get their coverage up by writing "tests" that take all the branches, but never actually assert anything. They know all the tricks to sneaking these bad tests in and the result is the metrics look good while hiding the fact that code is not covered.
Is it though? Has philosophy actually made any advances in understanding the "great questions" of the meaning of life and what not? Perhaps the reason that people find reading Plato and Aristotle worthwhile is that people are still beating their heads against the same unanswerable questions.
> closest without going over

That's The Price Is Right, not Wheel of Fortune ;-)
Plenty of people are doing it - that's why having the fastest bot is helpful.
The Naturalization Act is actually quite interesting. Hadn't heard of it before being non-American. Looking into it, it seems like the act caused a load of confusion over race and nationality from the start, all the way up to the early 20th century. [1]

I agree with what you're saying about the Irish and "whiteness" having looked into it further. A lot of sources indicate they were seen as "white" but not in the same way as other Europeans, mainly being generally lower-class and Catholic.

Regardless, I think this discussion should have been present in the interview, or at least mentioned: this was just meant to be one example of points they have completely glossed over or ignored. I'm honestly quite saddened that this type of article is being upvoted on HN, there are a lot of flaws in the post which are not being discussed in the comments.

[1] https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2002/summer/i...
It can backfire spectacularly, though, as the US (but sadly not the CIA) learned with their adventures with the Shah in Iran.
It is not possible, unless you'll check id and residence certificate of all visitors. Blocking EU IP is not sufficient.
Full stack development, desktop, mobile and Web.

A UI tree component is not an AVL tree, plus most shops just stick with whatever comes with the framework, or buy some stuff like DevExpress toolbox.

Also UI knowledge requires design skills and knowing what the stack is capable of, not CS bingo about stuff I haven't used in 20 years.

I can dust off my data structures and algorithms CS book if I ever need to implement one.
Which recording was this bill written for?
I don’t know what a Thanos is, but upon first reading my brain said “Theranos”. Probably not a great brand typo-association either.
> And given your comments above, I'd put you in the company of "Hoover, Dyson, and Electrolux".

Comments like this come across like a personal insult.

For you an others, please refrain from such comments I see it shutting down interesting conversations(that help me understand additional view points).
Signal merged support for devices without Play Services about a year ago. Is that what you're looking for?
Stuff like this makes me concerned that subsequent generations will have a really bizarre/erroneous understanding of what science is. I'm an analyst/developer who frequently has their work referred to as 'Data Science', and the scientific method could not apply less to my work.

This and similar titles strike me as being created by PMs / other business-side people who were struggling come up with a name for their "Extra Double-Senior Superanalyst Who Can Do Some Programming Also".
That's what I see too with the data scientists at my company. They run a few SQL queries and create spreadsheets. Nothing really groundbreaking.
Speaking as a pfSense user, it isn't hard to build a rack mountable router. I used an Intel Rangeley C2758 and put it and a power supply, and a pair of SSDs to mirror the install in a 2U chassis. Nothing would have stopped me using a 1U chassis, but I have no experience with smaller power supplies yet.
I built a small shed in my backyard. I didn't follow any building codes. I cooked a meal at home, I didn't follow any food safety standards. I build a gokart from scratch and ride it around my own property.

Should any of these be banned? Now if I tell my friend, 'Hey, you can store stuff in my shed/grab a plate of food/take the gokart for a spin', should any of it be banned?
That doesn't mean the regulations are bad. Just because the food is given free, doesn't mean you are allowed to poison people
Yeah how terrible that this will help restore endocrine function in young cancer patients
Unrelated: love your pwgen username
Sometimes HN runs hiring ads from Y Combinator-funded startups. They are on the front page for a set amount of time and cannot be voted or commented on. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
^ Exactly

If Stuxnet was as successful as I'm sure its creators wanted it to be, we wouldn't be discussing it.
If I were European i'd scope up one of those boring jobs and then do another job while at work. Those job protection laws (at least in France) are free money if you work it right
How is 'film' a strong word? What's the difference between a 'film' and a 'movie'? I'd normally call them films myself. Does it mean anything else to you?
Just the other day, I heard someone talking about a "single layer neural network with no activation"...
I saw Steve Jobs at a grocery store in Los Angeles. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
I mean part of the issue is that I literally cannot answer the question "are we GDPR compliant?". The amount of time we've spent figuring out whether we need to sanitize apache logs has been ridiculous.

If you search for GDPR IP address you'll get 100 different opinions on what you need to do. That in my opinion is what makes this law ridiculous. How can companies be expected to comply with something this unclear? I'm sure I would have had your opinion before I was the person who is ultimately responsible if my answer to GDPR compliance is wrong.

Everyone having issues with this is somewhere in the line of fire for a wrong answer to any of these questions. Our concern over the fuzziness of this law is very valid, I don't like uncertainty personally.
Extending copyright long after the life of an artist is bad economics. Because of the value of future money any revenue from future sales 30+ is essentially worthless now. So it doesn’t induce people to create more works of art and entertainment.
And as the old saying continues, "...so instead you invented a proprietary one, with hidden code, and told everyone it's secure."
My original comment referred to a different headline of the article, "This Man Is the Godfather the AI Community Wants to Forget"
This whole thing misses the point. We need WhiteboardFreeAndAlsoTakeHomeFree. In other industries, my resume and a quick discussion verifying that I actually did the work I said I did is suffficient
NASA asks for Europa lander science experiments–and that’s a big deal
> Music Modernization Act

I don't know if/how it could legally be done, but I'd love to see "cute" names for laws barred from use in Congress. Refer to them all by number not brand names dreamed up by marketing professionals to make the proposed law seem unassailable ("Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act" aka USA PATRIOT Act).
I don’t necessarily want a dumb phone, but I’d like a simpler phone. I’d like navigation (which is the entire reason I got a smartphone in the first place), a Web browser & Signal (or an equivalently-secure text- & video-chat app), calling & texting.

Maybe that Jelly phone would be sufficient?
This confuses cleverness for sophistication. Yes, Stuxnet is ingenious, but mostly in concept/access to secret Windows bugs, not execution. Something like Pagerank or modern video encoders easily beats Stuxnet in terms of sophistication/complexity.
But do those things really contribute to the sophistication of the software? For example imagine some code written with no understanding of uranium enrichment:

const int CENTRIFUGE_RPM = 500;

And then some other code written with a deep understanding of uranium enrichment:

const int CENTRIFUGE_RPM = 1203;

Can you really say that the second bit of code is more "complex"? Same goes for stolen driver signing keys and some of the other things mentioned in the post.

Other large software projects like operating systems or Google search involve much more complex software concepts which I think is the primary thing that should be measured when discussing the sophistication of software.
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I took it and I'm 39 and have only had like two cavities my entire life.

Accutane is a popular "scare drug" for some reason, when in fact it's a magical life-changing medicine.
Why can't users comment on ads? I can see obvious reasons why corporate partners buying the ads would want to disable comments, but is it actually good for the site?

HN is one of the few places where there is honest discourse calling out much of the bullshit in startup culture, seems odd to limit the most compelling aspect of this community.
Then half the submissions here would be “Github.com”.
External Questions

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSMechTurk/latest/AWSMturkAPI/A...

This seems one of the more popular ways to do turks. You send people off to your own site, to show them stuff. All you really provide is a url, like www.mysite.com/questionId=123456... and render whatever you want when that appears
Lets not forget software used for extremely complicated and risky operations like Mars Rover or Rosetta mission, developers did some quite amazing things there with very limited hardware resources...
This is a misleading title - I thought this would be about open floor plan offices, which is a current hot topic, but instead is about open floor plan housing, which is an entirely different topic and not necessarily relevant to HN.
That's (among other things) what the walkthrough / debrief is for.

I like the format, but it obviously has other downsides, such as a higher up-front investment from the candidate.

That being said I found the format enjoyable last time I went through it. It was less stressful during the interview itself, and I felt more confident walking in. I would recommend it to companies who are considering it.
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I don't mind whiteboarding. I do mind questions that are puzzles or algorithmic in a way that does not directly reflect the company's current software.

I usually (ok, almost always) flesh out designs and pseudocode with pencil and paper anyway, so changing to use a whiteboard isn't an issue.

Standing in front of a handful of strangers glaring at me while I try and figure out some stupid algorithm they had to Google themselves is hazing and should be stopped.

Edit: Also, dinging me for small syntax issues on a whiteboard when I'm used to using an IDE is not really cool.
If you create a dielectric barrier, the required charge to overcome it can have more effective power than the constant flow that would otherwise occur at a low resistance.
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Ultimately anything does indeed "go" intellectually speaking. You can draw an arbitrary line and say "it is fruitless to step over this boundary" but that is just a matter of shrinking the universe down to what you can manage. Which is fine. It does not invalidate the desire some people have to have internal intellectual experiences that do not have to be validated by you.
Not directly related, but I just watched the demonstration video for SURVIVAL— I am pretty blown away by the apparent scale of it.

I haven't heard of Improbable before now and it looks like so much work has been done already.

Has anybody worked with SpatialOS here yet?