skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, like I alluded to it's trivial drawing from any other trusted boot chain implementation.

The even better and less user-intensive way to do it would be with asymmetric encryption - the ECU only trusts flashes signed with the vendor public key and to make things even more secure, you could encrypt each flash file server side with a keypair derived each boot on the ECU and sent over the Internet (many manufacturers require online flashing anyway).

Manufacturers dislike tuners because they make warranty claims for tune damaged parts like blown turbos. VW especially are very, very aggressive about detection and enforcement around this. Long term I think giving a few dishonest tuned customers free turbos is probably fine but they seem to disagree and I assume they have access to the metrics driving this decision (which I don't).
Yeah honestly it sounds pretty gross. But I’m sure there are a lot of people out there that want to eat very un healthy food. I mean, look how many McDonald’s there are in the world. Personally I would never start a company whose sole mission is to feed people things that are definitely bad for them, and I’m surprised that this is the product they chose to launch with when there are SO many easy and cheap ways to get unhealthy food already. Uber eats will deliver me McDonald’s for free in under 20 mins, plus Taco Bell, jack in the box etc etc. It seems like a huge opportunity to bring that kind of convenience and cost effectiveness to healthy food. Almost everything healthy near me is 2-5x more expensive. But if someone could figure out how to make delicious healthy food at scale and deliver it to me, wow. I would be so stoked. So I hope these founders will consider thinking about more than a bottom line as they scale up. The world doesn’t need more Mac n cheese.
Haha - thanks! We have a few SICP lovers :P
For whatever reason, instead of counting the extra pay periods in the specific months he raised the per-pay-period cost to compensate. An odd way to do it, but there we are.

There's also a "his side of the story": http://fortune.com/2015/08/13/zirtuals-outsourced-cfo-gives-...
Lots comments are focused on the funding structure, and that misses the point. Pioneer takes the risk in funding early projects not companies. They explicitly call out that they will invest in researchers or artists who aren't sure whether they want to start a company.

If you can raise funding through traditional VC channels, go for it. If you're a researcher in Iowa with a new physics idea, Pioneer is a better than a government grant.

The average size of an NIH grant in 2015 was under $500k. And that amount is intended to support the project expenses, not just the researcher. A close friend of mine is a physician at Stanford. She received a prestigious NIH grant. The grant amount to fund herself was $50k...in the bay area. This is common in academia.

Congrats on launching! Hope you guys are successful.
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> "You missed an edge case, even though your core algorithm was correct".

That may have been a reason why I have failed some interviews but I feel like most interviewers are actually good about this and will say something along the lines of "what about this input?" where my code does not work and then I have that "oh shit, that won't work for that" and then I fix it.
I mean if it works for you then great but I've seen that back fire far too many times where I had to interview an incoming candidate who didn't do any coding over collaboration software and then couldn't do simple FizzBuzz. Basically wastes their time traveling and interviewing and my time when a quick check just to make sure they can do a few, quick basic things over the phone can save so much time.

While I dislike the way most large tech companies handle their interview process this one I don't mind as much.
Many packages have declared them selves compatible with any future version of Julia... which is clearly a lie. These need upper bounds on their version compatibility, but that will take some time to propagate through the system.
For what it's worth: To the user, Gab is just "free speech Twitter". It just happens that the people whose speech is being repressed say things which make you want to repress their speech. Twitter used to be "the free speech Twitter" for many of these people, and their arguments shared a platform with unhindered common speech (and, as was my personal pleasure, were rebutted by many people who were at no personal risk of being repressed).

There happen to be plenty of people who go around collecting and rebutting white (and other ethnic) separatists/nationalists on Gab, and they aren't being repressed (in fact, some are receiving tips for the service).
Even in China Ofo is failing. In Shanghai there are unused ofo bikes everywhere. The problem is that they took the approach of spamming the market with large numbers of super cheap bikes, so their bikes are really shoddy. I use Mobike and Hellobike constantly, but with ofo every time I try to use their bikes here I find they're broken in some new and exciting way. I don't know anyone who uses ofo except as a desperate last resort if all the mobikes and Hellobikes are gone. The rumor I keep hearing in Shanghai is that ofo is going to go out of business.
> The entire board computer was taking from a friend’s car and the screws and cables etc were all tidily set aside as if it was a professional replacement.

Probably the thief didn't want to risk any kind of damage on the board caused e.g. by shorting two wires during cutting the cabling and thus shorting a capacitor on the board.
There's a community called Work in Progress that's kind of like what you describe: http://wip.chat/

Note: $20/mo subscription
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> 1.) How does authentication to retool apps work? Can I use 3rd party such as Google or GitHub? Is enforced 2fa supported?

Yep - we integrate with Google, Okta, as well as any other SAML 2.0 provider (e.g. ADFS).

> 2.) Do you support visualizations from data such as graphs and charts?

We have a few charts, but that's not our focus. If you're looking to graph a lot of things, you're probably looking for a BI tool like Looker.

> 3.) You mention to allow access to my database we just whitelist the Retool IP. Are there a group of IP's to whitelist? If somebody compromised your service, then they have access to my database. A bit scary.

Yep - there is a group of IPs for you to whitelist. But yes - if you care about security, you should probably be using the on-premise version of Retool. That's hosted by you, and you can control all inbound + outbound traffic. (70% of our customers are on on-premise.)

Thanks for the questions!
Have you considered building up through freelancing? Having a technical writer available would be a godsend for small startups who lack the time or discipline to document decisions or processes (or anything). I am certain you could find enough SaaS teams to support with a pitch of “I’ll speak with you for 2 hours and save you 2 days”.

At 10-15 hours per week you could do this at nights and weekends, and quickly test if you want this as a job.

In fact I have a lot of writing that needs to be done, mainly internal for capturing what the product does etc. no massive time pressures so could be done in spare time over few weeks. Feel free to reach out via email in the profile.
What about good ideas that are squashed by corporations, and are never known about by most of the public, because it might threaten their profits?

This includes corporate influence on governments, so that the politicians act as their servants in also squashing said good ideas.

Not sure what some of these ideas might be, off the top of my head right now, but I know that some have to exist.
So many of these postmortems end in "we should have hired an expert". I don't really understand what drives people to not hire experts.
I'm confused by what you mean by self-directed. Would you give the person a specific problem to solve? Or would they be coming up with both the problem and the solution?
I am surprised that (if) he is allowed to disclose this type of detail about a client to the press...
Elm goes a step further, it enforces semantic versioning. If the package has any breaking interface changes, it forces major version change.
Twitter hosts its own servers AFAIK.
This is not the history of Rust, and it's rather disingenuous of you to pretend that it is.

Rust has featured unwinding in some form or another since its inception.

It has never been the position of the Rust developers that "exceptions suck", only that the failure mode of code that is not exception-safe is especially severe for low-level languages, especially ones that intend to be memory-safe. Rust's aversion to exceptions is not intended as a condemnation of their use in languages that make different tradeoffs.

The only way to "catch" a panic in Rust is via an obscure stdlib API whose purpose is to prevent unwinding from crossing FFI boundaries when Rust code is called from another language (because most host languages consider unwinding across FFI to be undefined behavior). I have read a lot of Rust code; never have I seen anyone attempt to abuse this mechanism as a replacement for general exception handling (which wouldn't even work in general, because Rust code can (and often is) compiled without the ability to unwind at all).

I implore you to actually make an attempt to learn Rust, so that in the future you may be more informed when commenting about it.
Wind power is becoming cheaper relative to other sources of electricity, so it is becoming more popular. But why? Primarily, we figured out how to build bigger wind turbines. Bigger turbines give you:

- Wind higher up that is stronger and more constant

- Bigger turbines with longer blades that harvest more energy

- Fewer bigger turbines are cheaper to install and maintain than more numerous smaller turbines

Frankly, these things are well into the size of sky scrapers and isn't the sort of thing you just create overnight. Each generation incorporates learnings from the previous generation and gets iteratively bigger.

This Vox article does a better job of explaining things than I ever could:

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/3/8/17084158...
That isn't building an interception mechanism, it's revealing some private information Lavabit held.
These mistakes and the ending advice are pretty distracting tangents to a fundamental flaw: The business model can't afford employee overhead at even poverty salary levels. Everything else is just noise.

The best take away is yet another damning piece of evidence against the "gig" economy.
whiteboard tests are always going to produce fuzzy red and white flags. those will come handy later when it gets to assessing the applicant based on sympathy and arbitrary objective arguments are required to back whatever the interviewer wants to conclude.
I appreciate how the characters in the example are named Bart and Lisa.
Agree. I'm interested in how he generate those reports.
"He pointed out that Zinc cannot support hardware cryptographic accelerators, something that Donenfeld regards as a feature. "

Why is not supporting hardware acceleration a feature? Or is the objection to something more specific having to do with currently-available accelerators?
Did chem eng undergrad, a PhD (not fun), and am now a data scientist! I also worked on a website using public data and found out that only 7% of chem eng majors work in the field...

link: https://careertrend.com/major-chemical-engineering.html

Other majors (e.g. accounting, nursing) work much more in their field. There just arent many chem e jobs.
* Money.

* Not knowing the difference between ignorance and knowledge.

Most probably both at the same time.
He's very polite, and really that is admirable after getting thrown under this particular bus, but nothing he said here or there really explains why he would have done this. The CEO needed projections she could use without deep analysis on her part. Instead he gave her some riddles in spreadsheet form. There are probably some SV CEOs who enjoy that sort of thing...
Most organisations seem to stumble around using a combination of unstructured Word documents, file systems and email.

When they find themselves totally at a loss they’ll try and shove the whole mess into a document management system, but a combination of unstructured documents and organisational inertia means it usually does more harm than good.

There’s SharePoint, but that’s best avoided.

Some places, with a bit more technical skill use wikis, and issue tracking systems like Jira, but even they aren’t quite what Notes was in its heyday.

I sometimes wonder why there isn’t a compelling successor to Notes built on CouchDB.
Bubble has many more features than this but this seems little easy to use ..
The reason I completely hated my phd program:

- it was incredibly political, much, much more than companies I worked at.

- most students were just trying to tweak some equations and get the hell out of that place.

Overall it was a very unhealthy environment and wasnt worth It.
Yes, proposing that a group have more rights that they don't currently enjoy is just like saying a group should be suppressed and have their rights curtailed.
It's really interesting, they have a much higher percentage of people who smoke, but the number of cigarettes they smoke a day is far less than even in the united states.
China still needs to import most of the oil it uses. Any major economy would be crippled if it needed to cut down oil consumption by half or more within a short time frame.
VIA/Centaur C3 processors are internally RISC and the front end converts x86 instructions into RISC instructions that the processor executes. People used to ask "can I generate native RISC code?" and Centaur always said no, but you know they must have debugging functionality to do that.

And now someone has discovered that sometimes you can enter debug mode from ring 3 and they're calling it a backdoor.
Agreed. I hate my NYT subscription exactly for this reason. But I’m tempted to keep it to support them. What a sad reading experience: they show the same ad 6 times in a short article.

NYT employees: please lobby internally for this. We can pay 2$ more for no ads. How much % of the ad traffic is subscription users anyway?
Granted it was in response to Ken making fun of "incels". Presumably the point is that an infertile person who is not particularly attractive has little to stand on when mocking people with poor romantic success... or something to that effect. It's not my Tweet (and I have no bone to pick with Ken White), but wouldn't take this as solid evidence that Gab (or the person operating the Gab Twitter profile) agrees in general with white nationalists (and clearly, the deeds of Gab as a company do not indicate that they do either).

Do you have a more straightforward example?
Exactly. By “unwanted,” I meant things like subscriptions I forgot I was paying or (innocent?) merchant mistakes but that rarely happened.
Yeah, but they're only blue during the day!
Seriously. People have better things to do with their lives.
Isn't it incredible how much the smoking culture of America has shifted over time? If only the forces who put the anti-smoking effort into motion could come together and work towards making renewable energy, alternative commuting methods, or universal healthcare acceptable ideas in this country.

I used to smoke a pack a day and I'm glad I don't anymore.
Thank you! Yes - a few customers use it for exactly that! Please try it out some time - it's one of our coolest (IMO) components. :)

(There was surprisingly - no good open source library for drawing bounding boxes / landmarking on images. So we built our own - and now every Retool user gets to use it!)
I think your statement is rhetorical, but it is obviously the compensation that experts require along with short term thinking.
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What exactly do you mean by societal dysfunction? Or is it like pornography: you know it when you see it.
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Thank you very much! As tennien mentioned, most (around 70%) of our customers are on on-premise. Updates and distribution are managed via Docker.

I will send you an email! Thanks again for the kind words!
I have no complaints about the discussion I can see. I have no desire to go through Karma on people who would just rather down vote because they don't like what they read. Personally, I almost never downvote, would much rather engage and have a chat about things. Most of the time that happens here, on this topic it's obviously not.

And the whole thing is by no means definitive. I happen to have a very significant amount of experience with this.

If the speech is Criminal, then it can get people killed, (among other non trivial harm) so apply the law. Secondly, apply the law where it needs to be applied. Using a bludgeon, where Precision Instruments are more effective, only makes a bigger mess than intended.

There is a huge difference between, "fuck this guy we're done", and we're removing these because you're over the line. Even worse, what was done to Jones, is the bludgeon. And it was done without the precision, and consistent action needed to give the feedback necessary to justify and help people understand what just happened.

There will be negative and severe implications from all of that. It may seem fine now, but some precedents were just set, lines crossed. I'm not sure people thought that all through. Some important trust was just lost.

That stuff is different from speech that isn't Criminal, where the answer is more speech. It is also a matter of people learning to use all the tools they have, not just righteous indignation.

I'm not wrong at all.

However, I can tell the dominant mode here is some people think they can control other people. They also happen to think they know best for others, neither of which is true.

At the same time, recognizing our own personal agency in conversation, and educating people about that, and all the good it can do, is being near completely ignored in this discussion. That's an error.

And they are just going to have to learn the hard way.

I'll Stand By and Watch.

Wrote this on voice, sorry for the various spelling and other errors in this comment.
It's not a platitude. And it's actually quite a good rule, when enforced consistently. That was not done in recent cases.

And, like I said. I'm just going to watch it play out. I'll be on the tail end of this thing to talk about it then. When people are more receptive.
There are all kinds of quirks and questionable decisions in this presentation. It's good data but I found myself doing a double take every other chart.
They also write at the bottom: "You are not obligated to accept this offer if you’re a Pioneer Tournament winner."
I agree that the problem of selecting which research to fund is difficult and (usually but not always) subjective. While a very interesting question, it's not actually relevant to what I was arguing. I'm getting the impression that you didn't understand one of my points, so I'll restate it in more detail.

> While this is an admirable academic exercise, is it better than any other study that produces in the end a more palpable result, like money?

You seem to believe that research results in the most revenue when managers and bureaucrats are in control, but I disagree. Wiener's argument is that managers and bureaucrats often don't even accomplish their stated goals (which should be fairly objective) due to their lack of subject knowledge, e.g., in your example, how to increase revenue. Required subject knowledge makes the right path forward invisible to most people. Many people are fond of efficient market type arguments suggesting these things are unlikely, but if the number of eyes who can spot the problem is small, efficient market ideas don't work.

Jacob Rabinow, a prolific inventor, had a list of "laws", and this is one of them, which basically summarizes the problem:

> When a purchaser, who doesn't know the difference between good technology and garbage, orders "good technology," he will always get garbage.

If someone can't tell the difference between good quality research and bad quality research, they'll likely optimize on cost or some other axis and make a poor decision.

I try hard to provide value to industry, but I find that industry folks avoid the sort of theoretical engineering work I do because they don't like math. Again, some of this is a marketing failure on my part, but this is only a fraction of the problem in my view. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

Some of this seems to stem from managers and bureaucrats not trusting researchers. Yes, many researchers would waste the money, but this to me is similar to managers and bureaucrats wasting money because they don't know what they're doing. I see no reason to be "acutely aware" of researchers' faults but not the faults of managers and bureaucrats. Ultimately we need a hybrid approach, not the largely top-down manager and bureaucrat controlled approach we have right now.
I really like Wire, for a large number of reasons - privacy and user experience among them. I've talked about it in the past[1].

If you get the time, please give it a proper whirl. With the recent open-sourcing of their server and proper E2EE by default[2] (but abstracted away from the "regular user"), it's shaping up to be a really solid application. As far as I'm aware they use the same double-ratchet protocol as Signal, but you don't need your cellphone number to register (a big thing for some people - myself included).

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16655743

2. https://wire-docs.wire.com/download/Wire+Security+Whitepaper...
Possibly requiring state-actor level of expertise, but I'd be paranoid about escaping the container / vm and gaining elevated privileges ;)

Sandbox will in all probability be running alongside application code so the risk is an attacker gaining complete covert control!
The alert emails do not contain “detail of [my] account,” only the last 4 digits of my account (for Chase). Even if someone were to intercept those emails, they couldn't do much with them.
Thank you for your kind words! Yes - dragging and dropping + resizing is one problem we should spend a lot of time improving. It currently works... but we could probably make your Retool experience a lot better by just improving that, haha.

Yep - as tennien mentioned - React.
My experience is that result passing in `.then` makes code brittler.

The part about people panicking everywhere is hyperbole (on the mood of the article). I've seen more panics than it makes sense and resorted to them too on disposable code, even they being more up-front work than handling it correctly.