skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* Company mission statement, department mission statement, role mission statement, and how all 3 of those things fit together. I want to make sure that people actually know how they fit into the grander scheme of the company.

* Salary range

* Actual responsibilities and day to day activities. If the job is going to be to hack on some awful legacy code base then you should say that.

* How large is your company, where are you at with funding, and where are you at with product development.

* Interview process
I remember running into GOAL and GOOL a ways back and was fascinated with it. One thing I never got good info on was how they handled their memory. Generally game developers frown upon garbage collection, so I'd love to find out if GOOL/GOAL did anything to target that specifically. I tried reaching out to one of the developers on his blog about it but never got a response
De-identification of data sets (like cryptography) is a very difficult problem.

It is great that people are building tools for this. Even if I were skeptical of one or another in particular, the availability of tools popularizes the discussion of what is necessary and sufficient for de-identifying data.

The main use case I worked on was how to test an event driven (SOA at the time) pipeline without production data. Health information handling is very tightly regulated, so generating a test data set large enough that reflected the needs of the system was a significant challenge. Engineers couldn't just copy some production data and use it for testing. The regime I worked in that defined these rules (early PHIPA, PIPEDA in Ontario) is not unlike what people may encounter with GDPR.

When I was doing this sort of work, I found that it made more sense to find the structure of the data, then synthesize it from scratch. For a data format like HL7, this is non-trivial.

Synthesizing a few gigabytes of json/xml/text from a small training corpus provides incomplete test data. There are a few companies in the de-identification business, and I remember a few consulting services for it.

I can think of a few ways to do this, and they aren't simple.
Clear description of the project and customers. Accurate description of the team, philosophy, tooling, and culture. Reliable salary range. Links to employment contract and any NDA that might be required.

If the company is private, a link to a fiscal summary equivalent to the SEC's 10-K.

If any of the statements above are intentionally misleading, the job candidate is due compensatory damages.
Elon Musk complains of 'holier-than-thou hypocrisy of big media companies’
Entirely selfishly - absolutely nothing.

I'm quite happy to find a phone number and call the company directly if I want to know something. In my experience that gives me a huge advantage over 99% of candidates who are only willing to read adverts passively.
Using a VPN for everything they have right to care though. All job-related traffic goes through it as well, hence potentially leaking sensitive stuff?
Aerobics and its mental and bodily benefits
Do you have a source for people getting more time than murderers for "effectively the digital form of trespass". I agree that some parts of the legal system do not work very well, but I think that's a big exaggeration.
Team Rocket Drops ‘Breakthrough’ Family of Consensus Algorithms on IPFS
Same sex relationships in prisons and subs aside, I actually think intimate relationships between a confined team that works and lives together is a bad idea. The team needs to depend on each other hugely and having the emotional demands of a intimate relationship could make things pretty difficult for those involved directly or indirectly.

Obviously relationships will develop regardless, you put people together they are going to do stuff. It's just a another challenge, in my mind, rather than an advantage.
There is no mention of this in the document, but the timing suggests there may be a GPDR-related factor. It's hard to get consent from users that haven't touched the service for years.
Salary, part-time possibility and work-life balance info in general, and whether REMOTE is possible outside US or no.
A lack of definite knowledge isn’t an excuse to fantasize. Every time people have insisted that the gaps in our knowledge imply gods or ghosts, they’re rudely disabused. Every time we learn more about how things work, it turns out magic isn’t a factor at all. Meanwhile we really desperately want to believe in magic. It’s probsbly a good idea to be skeptical of God of The Gaps arguments that appeal to what we wish were true in the face of what appears to be more likely.
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Believing is not hard no, anyone can believe whatever they want.

What is hard is proving that what you believe is true.
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Because one thing is criminal and the other is just negligent?
I was considering dropping Reddit and going back to StumbleUpon, because I realised that it is very hard to use reddit without making it another filter bubble, which defeats the purpose of information discovery. Plus, the fact that SU doesn't have a toxic comment section makes it better imho. I am sad that it is gone.
Latency.at is shutting down
Hi everyone,

I've built Latency.at believing that everbody would benefit from performance and availability metrics from real offsite locations. While many agree, fewer signed up and only a handful are on a paying plan.

It was a very interesting experience and I've learned a ton, yet I can't even
cover the costs of the infrastructure right now.

While my plan to build a low maintainence service worked out quite well, I'm still left with ongoing (and boring!) tax and legal concerns that can't be just engineered away.

As you might be aware, the General Data Protection
Regulation [1] takes effect tomorow and while I've disabled all non-critical external services and disable request logging across the stack, making sure I'm fully in compliance is a lot more work, like signing up contracts with all 3d party providers I depend on. The additional risk would also warrant to finally incorporate some form, which again is a lot of work for a service that won't be profitable anytime soon.

Therefor, not without a heavy heart, I hereby announce to shutdown Latency.at by July 1. 2017. Let me know if the rather short shutdown notice causes trouble for you. In that case I might provide the probes some time longer while shutting down the website and frontend.

As already announced earlier[2], I've open sourced the core components of the platform already and will release the remaining components soon. Although all you need to replace the probers is the [official blackbox exporter](https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter).

Feel free to reply with any questions you might have.

Links:
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation
2: https://blog.latency.at/2018-03-28-we-open-source-everything

---
Johannes Ziemke, Founder of Latency.at
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In the familiar Game of Life automata the smallest known replicator takes 34 million generations:

http://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=399&start=0

But in HighLife there is a trivial replicator:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicator_(cellular_automat...

Of course for life you need not just replication but mutation and antifraility
The misunderstanding of this is widespread. GDPR does not make any mention of EU citizens OR residents. It only says "data subjects who are IN the Union".

See my other comment for more detail:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17143923
>And you can see why everyone’s diving in. As we’ve covered before: According to Nielsen research, “in the year ended 2017, in-store meal kits generated $154.6 million in sales, posting growth of more than 26% year-over-year. For context, total brick-and-mortar sales for center store edibles (grocery, dairy, frozen foods) dipped 0.1% last year to $374 billion.”

So, "everyone's diving in" because meal kits are a rounding error to the other category?
This zeitgeist is exactly what cable companies still try to fight against. We no longer need content to be served whenever someone streams it; we need content available whenever we want to access it.

For this, we no longer need cable companies; we need internet service providers.
Sort of like when Amazon entered cloud space.

For PH it makes sense due to them already have infra to support it especially video streaming.

The challenge with privacy VPNs is a matter of trust.
You're talking such a slight variable the point isn't worth belaboring.
I work for a competitor to sendwithus, and, while I can't speak to specifics or the industry as a whole, I can definitely say that it is proven possible to run a company whose revenue model is to charge something comparable to sendwithus's previous monthly subscription fees, be profitable, grow steadily, and not make a single dime on the side selling data to advertisers.
Was the person I'm replacing promoted, fired, or did they leave voluntarily, and how long did they work there? What are the criteria for promotion? Describe three people in the group (in the last decade) who were promoted. What made them special?

How many hours of meetings each week? What fraction of my time is spent outside creative software development (req specing, designing, and coding)?
It's interesting to see research done in this space but it's not even remotely practical yet. Their 410Wh system is more complex, five times larger, and has a much higher up front cost than an equivalent amount of lithium battery storage.
Do, I'll give yours a go as well. Always looking to learn new methods!
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Buying (or trying to buy) 50% of the total supply of mining equipment would substantially increase the price, to the point where the ROI is so long that it becomes unprofitable (especially if your long-term goal is a $0 bitcoin).
No different than sex in the workplace, clearly not a good idea, obviously it's going to happen. You hang out with someone long enough, they start being attractive.
That's an interesting point. I wonder if at some point in the future we'll start getting historical exemptions, similar to those for real world properties with historical value.

It might even free up faster innovation in technical law, since new laws could be as onerous (or not) as lawmakers wish.
ASK HN: Does news like the FB scandal demotivates u from studying CS/programming
After hearing about data scandals like the FB one and the level to which some people misuse the technology I sometimes question my decision to study CS and pursue it as a career option. Does anybody else feels in the same way & how do you keep yourself motivated when you hear these kind of news?
The problem is that servers on Earth may still fail with timeouts of different kinds above the networking level. For example, when requesting a video stream from Netflix, they may send some control packets along, and with round-trip times of >1 minute, the server may think that your client is behaving erratically, and disconnect you.
> “VPNhub is free and unlimited, anonymous and easy to use, [...] a good number of [people] use [VPNs] to circumvent and bypass restrictions to access adult content. It only makes sense that they use Pornhub’s.”

So wait, as a UK citizen I can use Pornhub's VPN to circumvent the UK Government's "Porn Filter", a system that's run by..... Pornhub.
> four-dimensional with cards/rules that rewind/fastfoward/fork time

Or use a fourth spatial dimension, like a 4D Rubik's Cube or Miegakure.
Associated paper: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmUy4jh5mGNZvLkjies1RWM4YuvJh5o2FYopNPV...

Please post any interesting suggestions on bitcoin related papers that appear to have some theoretical content, or present simple ideas that could be proved secure. PoS seems to be plagued with lots of 40-50 page whitepapers that are not very easy to read, with the above being a nice exception.
Does anyone have a non-paywalled link? Thanks :)
Non-technical founder isn't the real problem here, it's a non-skilled founder. I wouldn't have a huge problem working with a business/marketing oriented founder, as I know I lack those skills. However, this is a founder working on a moral philosophy PhD, who apparently could only interview people and come up with pie in the sky ideas. I can't blame the developers for not taking this seriously.

Plus, this isn't even a great idea, it sounds like a pitch for a silicon valley joke. Who wants an app to randomly nag them throughout the day to enter information to determine if you are happy or not. And his ideas for making you happy are telling- offer to watch a TED talk?

There's nothing wrong with being non-technical, but you have to be able to bring some sort of value. Same thing as the common advice for indie game devs: your game idea is worthless, we all have at least 5 ideas kicking around. Show me a basic implementation, or some nearly-finished art assets, or at the very least a compelling business plan with data to back it up.

Edit: this was maybe a bit harsh, I think his developer should share some blame here too. 2 years of part-time work and they were having trouble sending random push notifications? Aside from the random timing, sending a push notification is essentially android's hello world project. If you aren't interested in working on the project, then say so, don't pretend you will and then not do anything.
The VPN has as much a view in your traffic as your ISP or mobile carrier, for what it's worth.
Seriously, does anyone know if WordPress.com had a way of knowing that it was a good time to show the pop-up? I'm not sure if I can reproduce it now that I've installed the add-on.
Rust has a different take on the standard library than many other languages. It's kept quite minimal, because it's trivial to use a package.
Who the company is (beyond their name), what they do, or what their mission is.
I've always thought about this. Basically, drive through for dinner kits and/or a Uber Eats for dinner kits.

You drive up, and you can get:

- Kit of ingredients and instructions for a home cooked meal

- Kit of prepped ingredients for a home cooked meal

- A pre-cooked meal ready to take home and eat

By combining with an app/website/service, you would develop meal plans, number of portions, food allergies.

You could walk up and pay full price, or get a discount by pre-buying a meal plan that gives the store more ability to plan and purchase in bulk.

I think the key to profit here is healthy, local, appropriately priced meal kits for families.
I forked Louis D'hauwe's plain text editor - Textor to make it compatible with rich text documents which is pretty simple thanks to UIDocumentBrowserViewController, UITextView, and NSFileWrapper. Take a look!
Notwithstanding a click-baiting take from the headline writer, why on earth would that be a configurable option?
For home use you also have to consider that you're basically making a bomb every time you store energy in the thing.
If you truly need an immutable list there's no shortage of them available. It's more a "is this such a strong, common need that everyone must have it?"

So far I've never needed guaranteed immutability, I've just used kotlin's List (which is an immutable view). If that's the only thing anyone gets then it's functionally guaranteed immutable even though it's not sitting on an immutable implementation.
The hoops you will have to jump through for an interview. Build a mini app that will likely take you more than a weekend? Hackerrank?
And, Hydrogen embrittlement makes the tanks fail prematurely. (http://www.corrosionclinic.com/types_of_corrosion/hydrogen_e...)
like connecting to the prod MySQL server?
Hold on... So if you take a Tesla, remove the batteries, remove the electro engine, and replace that with a trivial compressed air based pneumatic motor it would be more eco friendly, more powerful and have a higher autonomy ?
I think it is just a tough needle to thread. They can't charge all that much of a premium over unprepared foods and then they have to balance demand and waste and so on.
Even if you pay for the product, you are the product.
I picture Rick Moranis operating a large space-based vacuum cleaner.
That sounds interesting. Is it documented anywhere?
Because its tried and tested and has worked for decades.
Surfing on the Internet (1995)
I can think of many things one might do on a VPN that an employer might and probably should care about
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I'm in academia and I wish job ads would be more honest and straightforward. They are usually full of boilerplate about how great their college is and diversity statements and you have to read between the lines to find out what they really want.

I wish they could just say, "we already have someone we want to hire but the dean is making us do an formal search." I know they can't really say that but it would be nice if they could say something like "we want someone to teach X, Y, and Z," "we have listed a bunch of specialties but we really want someone who researches X," "this is a new position," or "the person that had this job retired."
I'm guessing there would be some sort of CDN edge node with optimistic pre-caching.

I'm sure Netflix would be willing to set up a Netflix Open Connect box on Mars so at least they can binge watch Stranger Things and The Santa Clarita Diet.

Plus, put enough people (a few hundred?) on mars and and the content they could produce on their own local domain might be compelling.
few mechanical engineer~ youtubers said so many times; compressed gas seems less dangerous than water but compression is terribly dangerous
I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect an answer to that question; at least not from someone other than their legal representative.
Direct link to NTSB preliminary report: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/...

According to data obtained from the self-driving system, the system first registered radar and LIDAR
observations of the pedestrian about 6 seconds before impact, when the vehicle was traveling at 43 mph.
As the vehicle and pedestrian paths converged, the self-driving system software classified the pedestrian
as an unknown object, as a vehicle, and then as a bicycle with varying expectations of future travel path.
At 1.3 seconds before impact, the self-driving system determined that an emergency braking maneuver
was needed to mitigate a collision (see figure 2).
2 According to Uber, emergency braking maneuvers are
not enabled while the vehicle is under computer control, to reduce the potential for erratic vehicle
behavior. The vehicle operator is relied on to intervene and take action. The system is not designed to
alert the operator.
# of hours of mandatory meetings per day.
Wasn't the porn filter supposed to be enabled by default, but optional for adults? As in the adults could change whether or not they could see the porn, at will?

I believe there was some bureaucracy involved and maybe a "porn tax" you had to pay to disable the filter, but maybe this VPN service effectively solves both of those problems.
That makes me wonder, what kind of bandwidth could you get out there? Obviously latency will be bad, but if bandwidth is good enough they might still be able to download a data pack daily containing messages from loved ones, news, and the occasional movie
Isn't there a loss in efficiency due to heat? Compressing air heats it up, which is lost (this is the basic principle behind refrigeration, though it doesn't use air). And then there's the loss in converting this PE back into electricity. Are these losses less than what's lost in LiON cells?
That's great, but you alleged this was the cause of a specific person's symptoms. Your citation does not support your claim – it's circumstantial and speculative.
Unfortunately there are downsides, but compressed air vehicles are already a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed-air_vehicle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_air_car
Modern (post 1990-something) ABS has its own pump.

Air brakes on trucks run in reverse. Compressed air releases spring pressure therefore releasing the brake.
This is hilarious. Is PornHub still one of the largest Google Cloud customers?
I'm sure they are, so asking this question is useless... I won't believe the answer.
>In late 2015, Apple bought two Lexus S.U.V.s and hired a Virginia firm called Torc Robotics to retrofit the vehicles

More about Torc Robotics, founded by Virginia Tech autonomous vehicle competition team:

https://torc.ai/our-story/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torc_Robotics
I believe it's not the entire library, bus a dynamically maintained cache of the most popular content over that connection.

More seriously, the problem is a static dump will get old very quickly, and keeping the internet "up-to-date" will require an enormous bandwidth to the spaceship.
Open one of your contact's addresses in Google Maps. It's trivial to replace the default mapping application in Android and impossible on iOS.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/290873
There's one level worse: Human Capital, as in Human Capital Management (HCM).
Here's a NYT article on some museum budgets from 2014: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/20/arts/artsspecial/start-up...
From the article, it looks like you could do it on ~10mm + ~6mm endowment for a small museum.

For a university department, Duke has some good numbers: https://giving.duke.edu/ways-to-give/endowment/endowment-giv...
Assuming three full professors and three assistant professors, plus some extra for the chair and one visiting professor, I'd estimate a 16mm endowment would run a department quite nicely for a while.
> But we're not talking about building a business. You do not launch an MVP and call it a business.

Then what exactly were you talking about when you wrote this:

> businesses with basically 0 startup capital requirements, > 90% margins and minimal time commitments ala software.

?

> I was specifically talking about proving a business case for a solution that could turn into a business.

At that point, however, you do not have a business. And you're not an entrepreneur.
I know that’s too much, but:

- A link to senior executives explaining their worst mistake and what they learned from it;

- The same, but their actual reaction to: “What are your corporate values? -- Those are the same corporate values as Enron.”

- Noise curve in the office;

- what the interviews are testing for.
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I'm not sure the title is click-baiting; the reality sounds exactly as dire as the headline.

> The agency, which investigates deadly transit accidents, said Uber’s self-driving system determined the need to emergency-brake the car 1.3 seconds before the deadly impact. The NTSB report said that, according to Uber, automatic emergency braking isn’t enabled in order to “reduce the potential for erratic vehicle behavior” and that the system also isn’t designed to alert the operator in case of an emergency.
>So wait, as a UK citizen I can use Pornhub's VPN to circumvent the UK Government's "Porn Filter", a system that's run by..... Pornhub.

I had no idea that PornHub is in charge of filtering adult content for the UK government. Got any more info about this relationship?
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_air_car#Disadvantag...

- A 2005 study demonstrated that cars running on lithium-ion batteries out-perform both compressed air and fuel cell vehicles more than threefold at the same speeds.

- A 2009 University of Berkeley Research Letter found that "Even under highly optimistic assumptions the compressed-air car is significantly less efficient than a battery electric vehicle and produces more greenhouse gas emissions than a conventional gas-powered car with a coal intensive power mix."