skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CEO's statement on Reddit : https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/8ogup1/ipvanish_cla...

>We don't typically jump into Reddit or other forums but this topic is too important to me. I'm the CEO of StackPath and we acquired IPVanish in February, 2017 (more than a year after the lawsuit from 2016). With no exception IPVanish does not, has not, and will not log or store logs of our users as a StackPath company. Most important, StackPath will defend the privacy of our users regardless of who demands otherwise. I can't speak to what happened on someone else's watch but Technology is my life and I've spent my career helping customers build on and use the Internet on their terms. StackPath takes that even further—security and privacy is our core mission. I also happen to be a lawyer and I will spend my last breath protecting individuals' rights to privacy, especially our customers.
> Where ever I read it

Where indeed?

> multiple experiments

There are exactly two: LSND and MiniBooNE. I admit that's better than most other anomalies, since two experiments are quite different and you need to explain how they made compatible errors. Still, it's important to note that there are also multiple experiments against sterile neutrino explanation.
They would've been welcome to do that, if they didn't have a monopoly. There are different rules if you have a monopoly.
Not only that, the Japanese actually invented (synthesized) Meth in 1919. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamine

It's still one of the most popular (if not the most popular) illegal drugs in Japan. source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_methamphetamin...
You are using an experience with a driver to someone with an office job. That is not a fair comparison. The president of the US lies constantly. What does that say about US?
In my view, giving someone a negative review is only one among many options for dealing with a performance issue. You could always give a neutral review (in terms of the overall rating) and discuss the issue with them verbally, or pledge to resolve the issue in the next year.

If it means you have to let someone have a neutral review that they don't deserve... swallow hard, and start managing after the review is done.

Remember that your employees will be interpreting the review in light of the corporate culture, which they are fully aware of. They will also know whether the problem that you discovered is real or not.
I did some reading on the impact of remote work on the environment last year, unfortunately it seems I may have been too aggressive with my bookmark pruning and can no longer find the material I managed to dig up. Between just the pure numbers of cars being removed from the road and the improved efficiency of those that remain (less stop & go traffic, etc), the impact seems to be fairly substantial.

Plus then companies can have smaller offices, saving money and energy. People save themselves an hour or two every day by avoiding the commute. You have to wonder how much the butts-in-seats philosophy is actually costing the world.
What's up with Indiegogo just showing nothing unless you have JavaScript enabled?
In my travels, I learned very quickly not to let that bother me, or else I would have gone nuts. I mean, the number of times somebody acted like I was an insane person because I started to eat X food with my hands instead of silverware, or silverware instead of hands. ("But in the last country I was in...!")

Fact is, you're the one choosing to be aware of and experience different cultures and travel, but they're not making that choice. And I had to conclude that they shouldn't need to make that choice if they don't want to. So I just sucked it up and would go along with the joke, "yeah us foreigners are such weirdos, ha!"
> these projects devolved into internet searches, copy-pasting online articles and pictures and calling it a day.

In every education system I've ever participated in, that's how the majority of students deals with homework. I saw it in Germany from primary school to university. I saw it at a Chinese university. I saw PhD students get called out for copying from each other, with the TA writing "at least don't be so obvious about it" in the course chat. (Then he deleted the message for plausible deniability, of course.)

I'm convinced that it's like this everywhere in the world. Creative problem solving is hard, and most students are constantly struggling to keep up. If they have no motivation to learn, there is not much that educators can do to make them learn. That wouldn't be such a problem if there weren't the motivation to be able to claim that they learned about something, when in fact they didn't.

There are measures that can prevent cheating (today I got a warning that jammers would be in use around Chinese high schools to prevent cheating during the national exams), but you can't always enforce that students are actually studying instead of just pretending to. In the end the responsibility lies with the student to make an honest attempt before they resort to copying.

I agree that such an education system doesn't create a large pool of talented problem solvers, but no country has a system that achieves that. The system is for everyone else, those who wouldn't even pretend to learn if they weren't forced to do so.
> Indians are fixated on certifications.

It acts a filter, when you have couple of hundred people for a job application, you cannot read each and every CV but you can easily narrow down your search by saying candidates having XYZ certification will be shortlisted.
I've been working remotely for the past half year (same job and same place, I just started doing it remotely) and I was a little afraid of that: mixing my personal and professional time.

For me at least it turns out that the fear was completely unfounded, before I always got in at roughly the same time and always left at the same time, leaving the laptop and phone on the office. Now while technically the laptop and phone are always accessible I've found that I've no problem in keeping my working time within a very strict schedule, normally I start at ~8.00 and usually at 16.00 almost exactly I'm logging out, plus the phone goes automatically into do not disturb mode until the following morning, effectively recreating my office working routine. Your mileage may vary of course but I was surprised at how easy it was to completely separate my activities and preventing them blending together.
Seems pretty naive to risk jail timeover the commercial claims of some internet company...

I use a vpn to reduce tracking and keep my ISP in the dark - and so have gravitated to the names in the space that seem to be more solid corporate citizens

F-secure - https://www.f-secure.com/en/web/home_global/freedome

Proton Tech - https://protonvpn.com
"Just make an 8 with your nose. :-)"
I have lived in the states for 20 yrs.
The comments in this thread are unbelievably culturally insensitive.
Is that meant to be Yerba mate auto corrected?
We have a saying here in India: "You pay peanuts, you hire donkeys".

So a lot many comments in the thread is either generalization or a confirmation bias.

The India I know and software developers I know of are no less either in dream or dedication from peers in Silicon Valley or any other part of developed world. :)
NoScript really accelerates performance on my FF install. Places like Buzzfeed are unusable on my laptop without it.

Excessive JS usage is probably the culprit behind the move to Chrome. A number of popular sites are so packed with JS that using Chrome is the only way for normal users to achieve reasonable performance.
I've tried Zoho and it's the most unreliable, "ghetto" thing I've ever tried (for lack of better words). UX/UI-wise, it looks like it was slapped together by a bunch of amateur programmers.
I was dealing with a smart IT engineer from India and then I found out that he has sold me code for peanuts he had created for another client (and was already owned exclusively by that client, which was a major venture backed company), and then I caught him selling the code I paid him well to create exclusively to a third client also for peanuts. Basically no regard at all for IP rights and the contracts he signed, just doing whatever he could to make a quick buck. Not sure if it was just him or a cultural thing. But ended up an IP nightmare.
Plenty of sites do that, unfortunately. Why would you expect Indiegogo to handle disabled JS gracefully?

(I'm not saying I like it -- I often disable JS myself. It works great for most news sites.)
I've been saying this for a decade. Not many things have changed since :(
At some point problems reach the "Call Kevin now, I don't care what time it is" level. Your processes should enable anyone to handle problems that are not at this level.
> that sounds quite sad that they define their self-worth by some piece of paper given to them

That sounds sad to you because you are looking at it from a Western perspective, when you have couple of hundred people interested for a job you can use a certification to filter lot of the candidates.
When Is Testing Using Mocks Still a Good Idea?
No way. Even on Stack Overflow the ratio of answers to questions is below 1.

Yup, found it:

select 1000
* (select count() from Posts where PostTypeId = 1 and AnswerCount = 0)
/ (select count() from Posts where PostTypeId = 1);

https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/new

=> 132 for me.

so 132 answers for 1000 questions, on average.

You're looking at popular questions, that have a ton of answers. But the long tail is huge and most of those questions have 0/1 answers, most likely 0.
Anecdotal I know but since trying to eliminate refined sugar from my diet I can manage the occasional night or two without sleep pretty well, no caffeine required.
> No, if you knew the null model was flawed to begin with nothing has been learned.

We don't know that the null is flawed to begin with. Not in a way that matters to the analysis anyway, otherwise you've picked the wrong null. No one runs analyses to discover the pion for the millionth time.

For BSM work, the way it generally works is this (ignoring limit setting):

- Pick a signature predicted by one or more BSM models (or even none), that either isn't predicted by the SM or is exceedingly rare in the SM. For example, you might predict a new particle that decays in some predetermined way.

- Define a signal region in some combination of variables where you expect to find a signal corresponding to this signature. This region is blinded, and you don't look at it until after fixing your entire procedure.

- Estimate the background in this signal region with a combination of Monte Carlo simulations and extrapolation from outside this region (data-driven backgrounds). This obviously has both statistical and systematic uncertainties, and a lot of the hard work is in getting this right. For instance, you might use independent Monte Carlo generators, or define control regions to check your estimation in.

- "Open the box" and look at the signal region data. If you see an excess over the estimated background, calculate the significance. Even here, if you were looking for a new particle, for instance, and the excess isn't a localized bump, this would be an indication that the background estimation may be flawed.

- If the significance is over 5 sigma, you have a discovery.

As you can see, you aren't using a null hypothesis that you already know is flawed. Your null is specifically "no signal exists". A positive deviation that isn't a statistical fluctuation is by definition a discovery of a signal.

Things like malfunctioning equipment go into the uncertainties if they occur in a way that the researchers have considered (which often means uncertainties are set conservatively if the equipment behaviour is poorly understood). If they occur in a way that no one considered, there's no statistical trickery that's every going to compensate for that. If we just went straight to setting limits, we would still see a deviation from what's expected there if equipment malfunctioned in a manner that faked a signal.

> In summary: If there is anything wrong with the null/background model at all, the p-value will converge on zero, it is just a matter of collecting enough data.

In summary: Assuming the background estimation is correct, the p-value will only converge to zero if a true signal exists. If the background estimation is wrong, then the background estimation is wrong and this is a problem with the background estimation, not hypothesis testing.

I'm by no means claiming the system is perfect, but it isn't systematically flawed the way you seem to be claiming.
Nothing has any defence against global traffic analysis.

Tor still does better than anything else. I don't think it's worth scaring people away from using Tor, because whatever else they'd be using instead is certainly worse.

EDIT: Parent comment originally said words to the effect of "Reminder that Tor has no defence against global traffic analysis".
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> the most obvious are missing real human contacts

Human contact for me is more about friends and out of work activity. Colleagues are colleagues, if you want "real human" interaction, you'd need to get out of the office anyway.
No, Club-Mate is a reasonably well known brand of yerba mate drink in Germany.
Maybe the bar is lower than you think. As your comment demonstrates, you are able to form complete sentences that are either correct in terms of spelling and grammar, or so close that I can't tell the difference.

I don't know where exactly the bar is, but a sentence is certainly below it if I can't figure out whether someone told me they did X or they are asking me to do X.
So you're saying that "Will" is your organization's single point of failure? So, when he goes on vacation or when he's sick or quits the whole thing comes crashing down?

If that's the case, I hope I don't own any stock of it, as you're a single injury away from disaster.
No - foreigners (ie non Indians / Chinese etc) are missing this fact : there’s 40 students to 1 teacher in india, or more.

The exam and grading workload is unserviceable.

This is the crux of it.

And it’s the crux of MANY MANY other problems human beings face every day!

Recruitment ? How do you prove that this person is actually an expert in his field/as good as he says he is withiut tying up my entire tech team in test checking?

Online communication ? How do I know this information is correct? Who can provide proof of work for this comment?

Testing is onerous- And when incentives and resources are inverted/out of Sync, it’s not possible to test effectively.

This is the hidden factor.

If all Indian/Chinese teachers could turn around tomorrow and complete assessments accurately, rote learning would drop dramatically.

Failing that you must resort to large scale standardized testing. Which humans optimize for by just learning the test.
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> scheduling team meetings

See written & async first communication. Mailing lists work for things like linux kernel development.
I am a huge fan of Beanstalk. https://beanstalkapp.com/

Pricing is good, service is excellent, code reviews are really very nice. I have found them excellent to work with.

They don't really do the pull request model (at least they didn't a year ago when I switched companies), but work great for feature branches.
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The US has some of the laxest data retention and filtering laws in the world. Especially compared to most European countries. Mullvad is based in Sweden which has much more strict data retention and filtering requirements for ISPs than in the US and the government has already expressed a desire to expand these to VPN providers.

And as the Snowden leaks have shown being located outside the US is not even a speed bump to the NSA being able to access your communications.
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And what happens when Kevin is on vacation or is sick or quits?
Ok, so it is the yerba mate was correct, but the auto correct not.

Edit, OK I see it is actually yerba mate based soft drink.
Capitalism Has Failed, and Jay-Z’s Streaming Scandal Is Proof
They could link to the censored object in question in the articles. For example, in this [1] report they mention that the tweet was reinstated, but they never link to it. After some searching, I eventually found it here [2]

[1] https://www.eff.org/takedowns/critic-uses-dmca-avoid-critici...

[2] https://twitter.com/PhoxelHQ/status/991790495088173056
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Never heard of Apollo, had to dig :) In short, it is a predecessor of AWS CodeDeploy.

www.allthingsdistributed.com/2014/11/apollo-amazon-deployment-engine.html
Hungary for sure! (I'm a dual Canadian-Hungarian citizen.)
caffeine + l-theanine + picamillon. get you going steady. awake or asleep. Sleeping though is in no way replaceable. 8-9 hrs 10-6. Even fact this is mentioned here, is a bit insulting. There should be a study of how many bugs that you produce when awake but sleep deprived with/without caffeine vs well rested( no caffeine after 1pm, no food after 6pm)
Datomic keeps your database in the same memory space as your application code, backed by SSD, backed by EFS, backed by S3/DynamoDB. Each layer of this cache provides a different value, and the whole cache system is automatic and eternally consistent because the database is an immutable value.

You want the illusion that your database is entirely in memory, just as want the illusion that all your memory is in your L1 cache.
interesting, i have to really sit on this and think about it before I form an opinion
Part I discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17028892
No screenshots. No demo. Do they really want anyone to use it?
Careful, Friedman and Hayek basically took Smith's theories warped it beyond recognition, and it is these two men that most of western economics has been tirelessly focused on this last few decades.

Believing that humans are merely information processors acting at all times only in their 'rational self-interest' is an incredibly narrow and simplistic view of humanity.
exactly :-) Me(he) is asking about actionable TLDR;
I also coveted the YotaPhone.

The best part of the Light Phone 2 is that pitch video. Showing how pervasive (invasive) smartphones have been become. Bullseye.

As appealing as the Light Phone 2 is... Google Maps was the killer feature that got me to board the smartphone crazy train. Especially when traveling. The thought of forfeiting maps gives me pangs of separation anxiety.
Microsoft successfully pushed internet explorer to the front by making it cheaper and more accessible than Netscape. If they didn’t, the internet may have still lacked competition today and you’d still be paying money for Netscape. The foresight and competition that Microsoft brang to the browser market was probably the most significant factor for the adoption of the internet by the whole world back in those days.
I had not checked these for a good long while. (Probably around round 10 or 11.) Looking back in on it now, holy MAN!

C (C++) and Java. Wow.

Even though I'm old, I'd sort of forgotten how speedy they can be. It's strange, because I actually work with Java and C in making streaming game engines. And you kind of get used to thinking in terms of millions on a set of hardware. So you think Java and C are slow. Then you realize if you were using Python or Node or anything other than C or Java really, you'd likely still be working out how to support tens of thousands on that same set of hardware. (If that.)

We can get so used to what we have. Maybe that's just a human thing.
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It's not really fair to call it bloatware. Bloatware serves no purpose other than to sucker users into paying for something they either don't want or don't need. systemd serves a purpose, has benefits for the user, and doesn't ask for money or push ads.
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The whole experience in hindsight made me realize that annual reviews would be a lot better. Although I deeply empathize with the idea that performance reviews in general are kind of misguided, because you should be getting accurate feedback continuously.
Beware of Microsoft bearing gifts...
Not sure about that... I worked at an investment bank in London, and had a tech team support our quant desk from India. I signed off on the costs and they were ranging from 10 lakhs to 35 lakhs per person. I think that's comparable, or even better than MS or Amazon for the city they were in (Pune).
The remarkable [0] seems like what you're looking for. It runs Linux, and you get root + ssh access to it out of the box.

[0] https://remarkable.com
Yerba mate contains other stimulants as well, like red bull does. So yes caffeine = caffeine, but caffeineted drink!= caffeineted drink.
Modafinil scares me. I completely lose time and have little memory of the day - like that movie where the guy fast-forwards his life.
No, I’m saying that when I google, it’s not because I just switched from a different language.
Sandardized translations with some minor meaning mismatches are preferable to individual courts translating the law ad hoc for each individual case.
empathize with our users

So why isn't this reflected in their actions?
Doesn't really help to know peoples hours. If they're not overlapping with yours then you have a potentially crazy overhead on time it takes to get responses to issues that could hold up your work completely.
Compare, compare, compare everything! Climates too.
It definitely does help to exercise muscle memory, in this case...training your brain to use whiteboards from the start so they don't feel foreign.

Thank you for the comment about the bottom of the post. I'm experimenting with techniques suggested by other authors to increase reader interaction...maybe I could do a little less when the articles are short.

I edited the article based your feedback.
Financial crime is everywhere. That includes the blockchain
I've been following these benchmarks for some time, and am always shocked that Spring does so poorly (it's 7% here). I haven't had any performance issues with Spring in production, so these benchmarks are puzzling. Are the other frameworks really that much faster in practice?
New payments architecture: the next big innovation in UK banking
Is 'Fortunes' a test involving the quote generating program? Also, is the difference between 'Single Query' and 'Multiple Queries' concurrency? I always look at these but I have trouble understanding the test cases.
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