skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do think that, in my experience, most organizations don't think the amount of code they already have written, is a thing they need to minimize or even track. Yet, most organizations are limited in their ability to develop, by the amount of already existing code that has to be understood and maintained. The usual attitude seems to be that "it's already written, we don't have to pay anything more for that". The idea that existing code, the sheer quantity of it, is a drag on an organization's ability to write new code, was not clearly understood in any place I've ever worked.
While it is great, there are many instances where you can't make a data request without making an account first including facebook and google services (Alphabet is not on the list btw) which quickly brings up the question, especially if you are European, how to report GDPR violations[1]?

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17318773
What's up with Android APIs – why are they getting more convoluted?
> Also there seems to be a kind of relationship between Google and Yubico that I would love to know more about.

Google and Yubico developed U2F, so....

Still, precisely because of this, I would say it's poor form for Google to award Yubico a bug bounty relating to U2F (would they award a bug bounty to an Android manufacturer for a kernel bug?).

It also seems like poor form for Yubico not to disclose their research when asking about the same topic to another researcher, and poor form for Google to be unwilling to award two bounties (this isn't the patent office, acknowledging and even incentivizing multiple discovery is fine).
This is probably the best way to go at the moment. There are some general health advice that works for all humans (your gums are bleeding during a 6 month sea voyage. Eat some vitamin C). And things we were told were true but now are likely not true (eating fat makes you fat). Each personal genome and life history will have its own quirks in how it interacts with diet, exercise, sleep, etc. Maybe with individual DNA sequencing we might get some more personal insight, but the best thing at the moment might be try out some food and health ideas your ancestors used before the modern era (1900?) industrial food and marketing complex got rolling.
Your answer is idealistic in a very limited way. You are suggesting that their is moral value in being humble and accepting the input of other people. I'll point out that it is even more moral to fight for what you know is right, and it is not moral to retreat from the fight simply because it is exhausting or tedious or repetitive or badly managed or the odds are lopsided. Over the last 20 years I've run into people with your attitude many times. I believe I understand your argument -- that sometimes we have to accept outcomes that we disagree with. However, what my life has taught me is that their is no valor in being passive while bad decisions are made. When I'm hired, I've been hired as an experienced professional whose advice is valuable, therefore I have an ethical obligation to fight as hard as I possibly can to be sure what I've learned over the years ends up benefiting the company. That is what I'm paid for. Passive acceptance of bad outcomes is neither ethical nor moral. We each have an obligation to fight as much as we can for what we know to be right. In the professional context, that is what we are being paid for.

As a practical matter, "be humble and accept the input of others" quickly shades over into "be lazy and allow stupid people to dominate the meeting, because letting them dominate the meeting is easier than fighting them." I agree it is easier, but it is unethical to accept money while allowing bad decisions to be made.
Washington Post employees want to go on strike because Bezos isn’t paying enough
Every theory "explains data we don't have," for example F=ma makes a prediction about the motion of a 10^100^100^100kg particle under a 10^100^100^100N force.
Yes, the U2F spec was developed by Google and Yubico, founding members of the FIDO Alliance. Google seems happy to have more companies on board—their Advanced Protection Program, which requires getting two security keys, suggests buying a Feitian device (which supports U2F as well as Google Smart Lock on iOS via a non-U2F Bluetooth protocol) and a Yubico one.
Was there some work-around I'm missing or did they literally go "yeah this website can send anything to the YK device directly, waht could go wrong?". Because the folks at Google Security are definitely smart and many orders of magnitude more experienced than me, and that's a vuln even I can understand / see the problem with so something institutional must have gone way wrong if WebUSB shipped on the stable release without some kind of block-U2F-forgery filter.

As far as Yubico, I get that they are doing something pretty hard in the hardware / product-market-fit domains, and I respect that and I want them to succeed, but they appear to be seriously dropping the ball on the software part of their product [1], as well as "simplicity breeds security". They could do so much better on the actual UI/UX if they piece-by-piece copied the setup UX of a "smart" vacuum cleaner.

1. I emailed & on-site support ticket submitted them days ago about some of their certs having expired on 2017-05-10, and have gotten not a peep in response & no fix in sight. Did nobody set a team calendar reminder and is nobody responsible for checking it on a monthly / quarterly / at the very least end-of-year cycle? That seems pretty elementary "underwear goes inside the pants" kind of security competence.

https://i.imgur.com/bOCfXJ2.png
https://developers.yubico.com/yubikey-neo-manager/Releases/y...
That does not always follow. A db designer still has the flexibility to give a client less than serializable/linearizable consistency if the client so wishes.

For example, it is possible for the db to allow direct access to any replica, not just the leader, and if the replica is not part of the quorum, the client will see outdated information. This may be just fine for data that seldom changes, or where a certain amount of staleness is just fine.
But that could easily just be a selection bias effect. It’s marketed as a web app with a mobile interface, so it self-selects for people who already prefer that, and it would be a potential usage confounder, and would especially skew age demographics (as would questions about data privacy).

Also it’s not clear if this is just general page views or account activity that actually engages the functionality. Pageviews generally wouldn’t matter because it would be swamped out by a prior heavily favoring the model that people prefer to browse the web on mobile devices, unrelated to what they prefer for other products or application interfaces.

For example, I tend to browse job sites on either mobile or desktop indifferently. But I would absolutely only ever apply when browsing from a desktop, because application portals are too variable and require me to verify things and read more closely.

Hypothetically, if someone looked at traffic data naively and saw it was “50/50” between desktop and mobile for some job portal, they might wrongly conclude they need to change the interface to support mobile differently, when really the difference is between cursory traffic that has no intention to apply (uses mobile device) vs. someone intending to apply and thus would not use a mobile device to do it no matter what changes were made to the job portal (uses desktop with strict desktop-only preference for anything involving e.g. resumes, cover letters, etc.).

From a statistics point of view I suspect that baseline traffic numbers contain nearly zero information about customer preferences regarding app vs web form vs desktop spreadsheet when they finally sit down to actually enter the data and maintain it across time.

The other thing is that I’d suspect weeks, or even months, worth of data would be far too little to draw any type of significant conclusion from for this type of usage question.
Your employees need skills that are useful and in demand. They need those going forward, whether you close your data centers or not.

I'd suggest you be upfront with them. Use this as a pro-active way to show you want them around, but it's not business-as-usual. The good ones will see this as an opportunity for the long term, while others may view this as a time to move on.

To reinforce plans, show them what skills you need after the move. This will give a north star to motivate those who want career mobility.
> Except they don't fluctuate, there is just a certain amount of lower fares (going up in stages, the closer you get to the travel date and depending if all tickets of that category were booked already).

This isn't true, or at least that's not true in a general sense. IIRC ticket prices of all high-speed services offered by Spain's high-speed train operator, Renfe, increase as we get close to the travel day. In some cases, I assume due to low demand, sometimes prices drop a couple of weeks to the travel day. I assume all prices follow a predetermined progression accompanied by ad-hoc adjustments depending on demand levels.

Source: I've scraped price data out of Renfe's site for fun.
At least you have a repair option. It's too late for me - I'm retired. ;)
So he was driving it and didn't realize it was on fire? I thought there are several temperature sensors near and around the battery that would set some sort of alarm off in such a case.
That was already the case back when WoW was first released. Everquest (1) got pretty extensively documented during its lifetime (and mapped, there were no in-game maps until the 4th expansion).
No one was hurt thankfully
Speaking for myself, everyone does have a right to everyone else's ideas, even in patent systems. Patents are supposed to be a temporary monopoly to encourage investment, but quite a lot of investment happens anyway even when patents are not bothered with.

Not all, certainly, and I cannot quantify how much as a fraction. However, I can give the anecdote of a former friend who worked in audio needing to get a patent on something (encryption I think) to get industry certification for their products. Their patent was modified by the lawyers from something novel to something which already existed, but the patent was granted anyway and nobody really cared because the patent was only applied for to get the certification.
For cooking I use a mixture of sodium chloride, potassium chloride, magnesium sulphate (50:40:9, the remainder is iodine) tastes just like pure NaCl to me. It's a brand called Seltin here in Norway.
Agreed, the grind is massive compared to current WoW. Also, you’ll need friends to play vanilla, there’s very few stuff which can be done solo and finding groups is very time consuming.
I’ll definitely be checking this out for nostalgia but I don’t expect to reach the level cap. Probably not even 40 which used to be quite a feat already back then.
Recently started meditating daily, and I was worried about exactly this towards the beginning. I work with my mind, I like using my mind to solve problems. The guidance I was getting for the sessions was of this "let thoughts come and go, just observe, be neutral" variety. While I see the value, and I've enjoyed the overall effects, it seemed to be pointing away from thinking as a thing to do. How can you do something like brainstorming if you're just letting thoughts pass, not following up with them?

Later, there have been some hints about a more "concentrating" style of exercise. I.e. rather than just focusing on the breath, body, outside sounds, whatever, actually spending the session with an idea as the starting point of the focus. Then staying on track with it, exploring just that one thing.

I've tried this once or twice now, unprompted, and I'm eager to learn more about it. I haven't reached any conclusions, but the meditative state of mind seems to be good for this. Brainstorming is more effective if you're in a less distraction-prone mode.

I don't know if this matches up with your experience, but it might be worth trying to use a session to, so to speak, untie a knot, rather than just letting it go.
Since the LEDs often serve a useful function you might like LED Dimming stickers. They blunt how bright the LEDs are while leaving them visible.

https://www.amazon.com/LightDims-Original-Strength-Electroni...
I have actually written to facebook (without having an account) and requested my personal data, worked fine. I believe the adress I used was support@facebook.com. They replied that they do not have any data on me. They requested a copy of my ID though, if I remember correctly.
The MBA is the Western version of the Soviet "apparatchik." This term denoted a party functionary educated in party ideology who was promoted and transferred around to different posts where they would lead things they did not actually understand.
I have only one rule for that: never think that you are old. Accept everything (physical changes) as it is & never compare yourself with the "old" you.

Well, maybe that's not exactly one (rule)...
Thank you for saying this. You've managed to condense down a lot of what I was trying to say in "One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meetings waste time"

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/one-on-one-meetings-are...
> It's not true.

Sorry but how do you know this?
Yes agree, although the mechanism of measurement is important.
This is what bugs me a lot, when it comes to bugbounties including HackerOne. The absolute lack of accountability and transparency. One can only hope the companies act in good faith.
In my opinion this should rather be handled by an independet organisaton like the CERT community or since it's a vital security interest at state level. Though latter might be prone to conflicting interests as well.
>"They privatized everything in the early 90ies and even attempted to go to the stock exchange - this resulted in cuts and bad long-term decisions - now most of the Deutsche Bahn is public owned but a private company"

Can you say how it is "public owned" if it is not a publicly traded stock? It sound like their bid to list it on the stock exchange failed?
We do not lack the technology to produce clean water. What is lacking, however, is the infrastructure to deliver that water safely and effectively to those who need it.

Unfortunately, "lay more pipe" is not nearly as sexy a headline as "seemingly insignificant thing that could do x for y millions of people in z place", so we get these resume boosters and they never turn out all that well.
Meanwhile, about 300 non-Teslas burned in the UK yesterday, and about 300 will burn today, and tomorrow, and....
I was taught that salt (sodium) unmasks hypertension, but doesn't cause hypertension. In other words, sodium is the tool that the body's regulatory systems use when trying to raise blood pressure. So a healthy younger person can probably not worry about sodium intake. But for an older person with congestive heart failure, a bag of potato chips might end them up in the hospital.
>To make it clear: I’m not after fame, credits, or want to take some bounty away from @girlswhocode!

Why mention them then, if not to pressure them into refunding the donation?
Oh most definitely! It's certainly not for everyone. I mean even back then, if I'm remembering correctly. There was a site called Thottbot for exactly that. Which I occasionally turned to when the quest was lacking in information. Even before Blizzard officially added a quest helper to the game there was a third party add-on. However, with sites like Thottbot you still had to investigate to figure out what you had to do and I think this still gives you sense of accomplishment over just being told what and where all the time.

Edit: words
Neither am I, so take with two grains, but from an outside westerner's perspective, it seems the government is quite impotent. I was surprised to find how small the roads are for New Delhi's size. If they can't raise better roads with their clear time saving advantages, perhaps millions of hours per day, it's hard to imagine how they can do much. In this case, the health of the entire population is at risk and the governments apathy rings through it all.

If I had to guess, the cause could be due to how much focus is spent on non-secular issues. There is little time left for issues like better air, water, roads, etc... If this hurdle is cleared, you then have to get past the selfishness and corruption built into the system. Set your gods, ideology and your selfishness aside for half a minute so you can at least breath a little easier. It's going to take some work and sacrifice, but in reality it's not that bad.
Devil we know...
This sort of things happens with cars sometimes. It's unfortunate, but Teslas seem to do this less & their design protects the occupants really well.

I have a suspiction that he will continue driving a Tesla.
You should prefer to translate the image rather than rotate the camera. Rotation creates images that need to be spherically reprojected to get the rectangular image back out again. You end up losing resolution at the edges of the image, because they are further away from the camera than the center.
Actually that quote is in the article for the opposite reason. He is referencing that because historically Fibonochi hashing was coupled with a hashing function and that is why it’s overlooked as a mapping function. His article is specifically advocating using the Fibonacci method only for mapping.

He is writing from the context of writing a hash table library where the user is expected to provide their own hashing function.
I did read the article. And it is based on a scientific study. And it was discussed previously on HN.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-throu...
It is true for any cipher, but remember that you are not allowed to reuse the key. If you are just scrambling the alphabet, you can never encrypt more than a single character without key reuse.
Which thread is this?
It almost sounds like, if-when I were to hear my significant other is pregnant, I should start decreasing my sleep. That way, in eight months, I'd be closer to 'adapted' than if I have to develop the new habit of responding to a human alarm _and_ less sleep.
What's a car from another brand that just burst into flames during normal operation?
Problem is that also ensnares sincere people on the autistic spectrum, recent immigrants, and anyone else different for any reason.
Different meditative practices surely have different goals, but to my experience the big advantage is making clearer to myself the actual content of the emotional state I'm in. And thus making better decisions about "handling" that state.

In other words, (for me) meditation does not directly solve the problem: it just lets me see and consider the problem more clearly.
What made vanilla special was the restrictions placed on the world. Everybody packed into Ironforge or Orgrimmar because that's where the auction houses were. You could chat with tons of people or easily join groups to raid dungeons. Physicality in the world was an important part of the experience. You hung out at the gates of a battleground to play in them, so there was usually a crowd to chat with. When BC came along I remember feeling disappointed that the player base became so fractured all of a sudden. Places that used to be lively were now dead. Sure you always had guild chat to keep the conversation going, but as the expansions grew I remember feeling less connected to the rest of the people on my server.
Geometry of space and counterspace
Afaik most european train companies get their biggest share of money from the cities the trains stop at. Without this they would make big losses.
The patent doesn't belong to Google. This is just Google's patent search site.
1. Where's Manrick's wife??!!!11one1!!!?
AFIAK sociopathy is now more or less regarded as just non violent psychopathy. Most psychopaths are not violent.
I'm an insurance broker for businesses. I sit down in person with employees nearly every day to explain their benefits to them.

Nearly every job at these businesses is bullshit. Like, it's actually shocking to me. And these jobs are filled by a variety of people, young and old, rich and poor, male and female, skilled and non skilled.

Basically what happens is the original founders of the business land a big client. Then they hire people to service that client. And they hire more people to service the other people they hired.

This will continue until the client goes away or stops paying or etc. Then, there's about 3 months of trying to find a new client to fill the void. If this doesn't happen, eventually the business owner suddenly feels the pain of salary bloat and fires everyone in one go.

And then he rehires even more deadweight when he lands a new client...
That usually requires having access to the account in question. Are you willing to grant that?
Plus, things that are newsworthy are rare pretty much by definition.
This is by far the most likely scenario.
The one thing that I suspect will be missing is new players.

One of the things I enjoyed the most was seeing in chat a player that didn't know how to get from Iron Forge to catch a boat to the other continent, and I'd have fun showing him how to get through the Wetlands to the port. The Wetlands was a higher level than we were at the time the quests wanted us to visit the other continent, so it was a dangerous journey and you'd usually become friends by the time it was over.

Of course everyone knows how to get there now, so I don't know how they can recreate the fun of helping someone out that is inexperienced. The same goes with dungeon fights, etc., -- everyone will already know all the tricks I expect.

I certainly miss the days of exploring a brand new world, the likes I had never seen in a video game before, and helping others (and being helped by others) along the way. Wonderful times! :-)
I think it was:

ARG 73% to win
for a draw 19%
ISL 8% to win
As unusual as it may be I hate seeing the Tesla denial machine jump into action. At least Tesla didn't blame the driver....yet.
Is the figure 300 rhetorical or literal?
I was jotting this out on paper this week actually. Especially the 'based on income' divide is quite usefull. My significant other is studying and hasn't enough income currently to reach the 50-50 split. This is pretty nice, and will definitly give it a apin!
How Rihanna forced the beauty industry to acknowledge non-whites
Pay rents ? Do you think the Linux kernel just magically appears out of thin air ? If not, then someone is paying for the kernel development. If it isn't you, then that organization(s) or person(s) may have goals that are completely antithetical to your goals.
You're right. Salesforce is a big, complicated, multi-tenant, CRUD application coupled to an Oracle database. Multi tenant architectures themselves aren't an issue, but Salesforce implemented it well before the days of containers. All the Apex code has to be "bulkified" which means writing almost everything for multiple records in an execution context. This adds to the mental effort and reduces readability. A major concern when not all consultants do it well.

They've been trying for years to replace the Oracle database with Postgres, but it's not easy in such a large, heavily used enterprise application.

For many situations I recommend integrating with a messaging system and using the REST apis from something like Ruby.

Lightning is not bad, but it's slow compared to the front end framework competition. It is pretty fast to develop with though.
Being on fire is surely — by definition — not part of normal operation.

Both electric and internal combustion vehicles have failure modes that involve fire.
I’ve worked on clustered computers. It’s been a while, but I doubt they’ve progressed to more closed.

I feel like you’re listing small pieces of the system and for some reason acting as if those are the majority of the code.
Not disputing this happens to other cars but 300 a day - in the UK alone no less - seems plausibly high. Got a source to back up that figure?