skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's great that they have time to do that. I'm happy that somebody in this country has working public services.

I'm just honestly surprised. I've only lived in Amsterdam inside The Netherlands and wouldn't expect the police to respond to something like that.

> it’s not a “search a whole neighborhood” situation

In retrospect I may have misread this:

> They gave the police the exact
> coordinates of my car and it only
> took the surveilling car 5 minutes
> to get to the car

I thought they had somewhat correct coordinates, but took 5 minutes to drive around the area to locate the car, as opposed to 5 minutes from wherever they were located before.

In any case, it doesn't make much difference. I think if someone called the police here in Amsterdam with the exact location of a broken-in car they'd say tough titty and have the owner show up at the closest station and file a police report.
UPDATE: https://lawgimenez.me/2018/08/07/g-suite-happy-ending/

Google reached out to the author and got the situation resolved.
> I believe voice ducking is supported (at least on windows)

I can't find it on the Linux client, at least.

> I don't think their infrastructure is made to self host, it's not a self contained binary is a set of databases, different servers for voice vs text etc.

Sounds like their infrastructure is broken then? Even if it's not something you supply to users you'd still want to be able to run a local testing server during development.

> How does decoupling voice and text channels encourage spam? Why would you want it to not be persistent? Many communities now use discord instead of slack/irc/etc, barely touching the voice features if at all. Everyone already has discord and they have great community management features for groups of people.

I've primarily been forced to use this abomination for various WoW guilds. The chat tends to be used for three things: 1) announcements, 2) discussions, and 3) context (links and images, primarily) for the discussions going on in voice.

Since Discord doesn't couple the chat channels to the voice channels people end up spamming #3 in the general channels, causing very annoying constant notifications, and clogging up the history. The persistent history is also an anti-feature here, since the history ends up being nearly useless without the accompanying voice conversations.

Since #3 invariably annoys everyone into turning off notifications it becomes an arms race to get people to actually pay attention to #1.

#2 tends to get sidetracked when people spam #3 all over the place, but even without that it's nearly impossible to keep track of multiple discussions at once. Trying to find and/or make sense of old discussions gets even messier. This case is always much better served by a real forum.
I think there's a big difference between a camera put there specifically to surveil you, and a camera you purchased as part of your electronic device, which is, absent someone specifically targeting you, under your control and used for your convenience to video chat with your loved ones.

I think there's also a big difference between how one would act with the possibility of someone watching them (who, if they are watching, are doing so only by illegally accessing my personal device) and how one would act with the certain knowledge of being watched by legitimate authorities.

Nuance is a thing that exists.
New Incentives (Non-Profit) Is Hiring a Data-Driven Program Manager
Indeed! It powers all of the internal loadbalancing (non-direct customer facing) for ticketmaster.com. I was on the core systems team ~12 or so years ago and learned all about how great it is.
oo ouch.
Don't want any blue light from your devices at night?

- AMOLED Android device with a custom kernel that supports color profiles set to fire only the red pixels.

- Get transparent red film from Amazon and cover your Kindle screen.

- Wear orange safety glasses at night to dramatically reduce all blue light.

- Bonus difficulty: Wear red laser goggles. Do not attempt to drive!
Nay. I do not understand the obsession with whiteboards. I've had coworkers that went gaga when they discovered that whiteboard paint was a thing, and they could cover their office in whiteboard surface. Doodles and doodles and doodles all over the place, but not very much working code ever makes its way into production from those offices. Lots and lots of movement and noise and grandiose planning, signifying nothing, too often.

Lock me in a dark closet under the stairs with just the glow from a couple LCDs and throw pizza and requirements documents through the slot, like you're feeding the Rancor. /s
It seems overly complicated when just relaying your key fob is a known attack that's working. The scenario of them just failing to steal the car seems more plausible.
> e. Friends and family and supporters can participate - especially from their retirement accounts. This is really important - the wealth creation being broad has a real good-news feel. Sharing the wealth.

It's a really bad idea to do stock picking, or any other risky investment strategy, with your retirement account, and a really bad idea to promote it. One company goes bust and suddenly you lost your retirement savings. Or your parents did and you'll have to explain them why they'll have to continue working in their 70s and 80s.
Short answer: you are right, the goal is to make the maximum amount of money. I believe that justifying themselves with other reasons allows them to make more money that if they openly said they want to "Make money".

Basically, PR and a nicely crafted story maximizes the amount of money you get in return. People like nice stories.
An approximate metric of the security of a system is the cost of a vulnerability to the OS divided by the number of users.

It's hard to find an up to date price list, but the relative difficulty of breaking into these bits of software hasn't changed much:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/23/shoppi...

Edit: More up to date prices are here:
https://www.zerodium.com/program.html
Do You have any plan, when the on premise tool will be publicly available on github?
You don't have to look outside the UK for that.
is there any community, you know of, that helps other people in different phases of journey?

really need one!
> I guess some people historically would see it as a utopia. One's perspective changes with age and life experience. Some would find it depressing.

Most people in the world, if not the US, spend at least five days a week working to have even far less then that. I would put a true utopia, with e.g. the good parts from unlimited free energy, at a hundred or more on that imaginary scale.
TSMC:Outbreak of Malware Triggered Delays&Losses Caused by Software for New Tool
I just ordered one of these last week. I'm stoked to have a phone that I control. It will be amazing as a dev to just write an application, scp it over, and have it draining my battery in no time.
Liebniz is something of an unacknowledged grandfather of computer science. Everyone knows Babbage for designing but never finishing a universal mechanical computer, but a century earlier Lienbniz materially advanced the state-of-the-art by designed and actually constructing the first mechanical calculator capable of all four basic mathematical operations: addition, subtraction, multipication, and division.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepped_reckoner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz_wheel

Liebniz's design was the basis of the first successful mass produced mechanical calculator more than a century later:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmometer

He also wrote extensively on the concept of artificial languages and what we today recognize as Boolean algebra:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristica_universalis

https://www.iep.utm.edu/leib-log/

His work on these subjects was explicitly cited by Frege as the inspiration for his own seminal work on formal logic.
And, widely considered, I believe that being banned by the Great Firewall is a badge of honor.
Deployment strategies
I think we already have it, basically.

I suspect you're not going to fall for that attractive stranger if your sympathetic nervous system is calmed down by beta-blockers.
None of it came from the phone sysadmins. Rather, it came from a benefactor that wanted to work with Moxie and Trevor.
As far as I can tell there are just two moderators, and this is a big website. Is it possible that they’re just focusing on what gets the most flags and not scouring every post? Maybe the pro-Tesla people flag articles critical of the brand in a way that gets moderator attention more than everyone else flags a post like this?

It seems more likely to me than any other explanation.
If you look at ranks for worldwide sporting events , you’ll note that approximately none of them indicates first (zeroth ?) place with a 0. Can you give an example of a place where education at early childhood level is carried out as you claim ?
> When I drive daily in a sea of Prii (pl. of Prius).

What's next, Teslae?
The only thing that fuels partisan gridlock is a refusal to hold the parties responsible for their moral failings, including and especially Congressional Republicans' ideological resistance to helping each other.

There are a great many Republican voters who support social safety nets and yet continue voting for the party that is ideologically opposed to them. Continuing to pretend this doesn't happen, as you propose, cannot fix the problem.

(Note: My comment is in response to your comment about the parties. I cannot and will not defend GP's comment as applying to "half the country," as I think this is overbroad.)
That's super interesting. I'm torn between thinking the terms of this deal are clever and thinking they're usurious.

Putting that aside for a moment, though, this seems like a pre-accelerator. Traditional startup accelerators invest like vcs, but earlier and with worse terms. This company invests like an accelerator, but earlier (before the company's even started) and with worse terms. It invests in people years before they even start their business.

It's a people accelerator. They say they'll fund musicians + artists, which is interesting because those people aren't super likely to go on to found venture-friendly businesses. My guess is that those people are funded in order to provide a better + more creative environment for the people who are more likely to go on to start a company. And probably also some amount of marketing: a collection of geniuses of all ilks sounds like more fun to hang out with than just a bunch of pre-seed startup founders.
Maybe there was nothing in the car, but you are correct, should have taken something or at least opened the glovebox to make it seem like they were searching for valuables and found nothing.
Sorry, I would have told the client no. Sure, it's technically possible to have the freshly squeezed orange juice ready at 7am. But it's not just a matter of cost. It's also more likely something will go wrong. And your business may not be able to afford having something go wrong.

Plus, a client asking for something like this - that's a huge red flag that the person asking is going to be very demanding, very clueless, or both. The kind of client that won't be happy with anything you do, and won't be easy to work with.

Our business culture is always teaching us to say yes. But there are some real assholes out there. For your own wellbeing, say no more often. Stand up for yourself. This guy can squeeze his own oranges.

Edit: I should add - it's even more of a red flag when your client does things to "test" you. Sounds like the kind of person who doesn't respect your professional ability, and won't trust you to do your job.
Oh WON... Those were the days! HLDS (Half-Life Dedicated Server) was a very big part of how I became a sysadmin - I'm sure I owe a big chunk of my career to whoever wrote it and it's documentation!
I went to the link and could not read anything ... is there any alternative to read it, if not why post it? It is not even a soft-paywall
No, not entirely. Please give me the instructions on how to opt out. Whenever someone asks (which is rare), the forums are filled with replies like "why would you not want BMW to monitor you? are you a fraudster?" IOW the forums do not know how to opt out either.

Everytime I take my 2016 in to service, I ask both sales and service to disable teleservices. They say they cannot. I then call BMW teleservices (every time), and they tell me that the dealer has to do it.

There are explicit instructions from BMW online that in Germany you can take it to the dealer to have it disabled. No mention of any other country.

Yes, the emergency aspect of it is valuable. It's not worth the compromise in privacy, at the complete discretion and ineptitude of a corporation that has a profit motive.

In 2016, I certainly did not sign (and was not asked) any kind of doc authorizing location disclosure. My car definitely does have teleservices activated. (don't know if they will report my location)
Love. Love never changes. https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/CuresforLove...
> "probably a nightmare to explain to your insurer given there will be no evidence of a break in."

Is that really an issue? This isn't the first type of theft that doesn't require a break-in. Tow the car and there's no evidence either.

If you say it's been stolen then it's been stolen. File the police report and that's the end of that, no? Unless they have specific reason not to believe you personally (history of fraud), it'd be a crappy insurance company that would question it.
We have survivors' benefits from Social Security in the US. The logical thing to do, from my perspective, would be to make the existing government program designed to insure everyone cover people sufficiently. Given that baseline, the market for life insurance doesn't matter so much.
PDF Embedding Attacks
Well, most people are ignorant and naive.
That's almost certainly worse than not using it. A third-party app controlling the camera is an attack vector, or could interfere with Apple's native hardware security, and provides false peace-of-mind.
Also http://httpforever.com/
>Why invest in your company if you don't have the conviction that it will be worth more 3-6 months from now.

errr... they do, but they also want to buy that apartment or car that they held off on, or pay off loans they took. Employees and founders don't sell all of their stock.

Not to mention that regardless of personal convictions, as an employee or founder you'd like to diversify your investments.

Is it reasonable for investors to want a lock-up period - sure, but the fact that the company would prefer not to have a lock-up period shouldn't really be a red flag.
> she'd already antagonized the whole company in her first 6 months by throwing probably the most explosive political grenade that you can.

Questioning the lack of diversity of body types for female avatars compared to make avatars is “throwing probably the most explosive political grenade that you can.”?

I don't see it. Or, I sure see how the blatantly sexist response [0] could be viewed as politically explosive, but I don't think she anticipated or reasonably should have that that would be the response.

[0] which either outright claimed or implicitly relied on each of these: (1) that avatars of a particular gender matter only to players of that gender, (2) that female players are concerned only with the attractiveness of their avatar, while men have more varied interests, (3) that only a single female body type is attractive.

> a lot of modern feminism starts from the assumption that there are zero differences between men and women

No, it doesn't, though a lot of sexist rants about feminism start with the claim that it does.

> I don't agree with it but it's just a stupid political argument he's having with her, it's not in any form sexual harassment.

Alone, it's maybe not extreme enough to constitute sexual harassment as a single event, though it's quite easily the kind of thing that with a bunch of other stuff reported in the story could easily qualify as part of a pattern constituting sexual harassment by creation of a hostile workplace.
The BMW just reported some ambiguous state of distress, whereas a person calling the police and telling them that some car has had its windows smashed in in downtown is by all reasonable criteria equivalent to a burglary in process. If someone's not stealing from that car now, they will be in 5 minutes.
I bet there are terrorists who are not always interested in safe flies.

In contrast to voting, the majority of a (democratic) society wants to have a reliable and trustworthy way of voting.
Isn't the whole point of owning a company is have a share of its profits? That's why the stock market never made sense to me. The price and price gains or losses on stocks are not related at all to the profits.
> I think the Ho thing was clearly an attempt at humor,

Employment lawyers fucking love it when employees say "It was only banter", because that's almost a guarantee of a payout.
Rotavator
>The BMW just reported some ambiguous state of distress

It reported damage to the car severe enough to sever the door frame!!
Thanks for the feedback. Page has been updated.
I don't really follow the argument. If the number of errors in the vault were nonzero, it would most likely indicate that the vault did not screen some ("real", "physical") effect that could cause errors. For instance, you could have errors due to radioisotope decay, low-probability interactions with neutrinos, etc.
Serious question, if whiteboard interview aren't the best or helpful at all, what are the successful/useful alternatives for engineering interviews?
Exchange can be just the tip of the iceberg. Our organization had a hundred or so custom applications and databases in Notes.

That being said, Exchange migration can be really tricky too depending on your retention policies, legal obligations around data preservation, and other factors. If you're doing onprem installs of Exchange rather than hosted solutions, you also have to worry about disaster recovery.

Say what you want about LN but it's built-in backup, retention, and recovery mechanisms put Exchange and even most Databases to shame.

I wasn't directly involved in our org's migration but from what I understand, the org waited until it had settled most or all outstanding litigation before attempting to migration. When they did, we changed our data retention policy for email from forever to 6 months before starting. This significantly reduced the volume and scope of work. And I think we kept the 6 month policy after migration because it's legally advantageous.
The person in question is in CA
My reaction to this, as someone who doesn’t use many of these on a regular basis (probably guilty of overusing __new__ though) is actually that I can imagine these causing some real problems. The operator ones seem particularly tempting and dangerous at the same time.
Well the call center said it was a break-in or an accident. I'm sure the Amsterdam police would come if it was an accident and someone could have been injured.
Even if you have children (which is a choice btw), it's still a matter of priorities and choice.
Step up feature delivery x100 Build APIs
I know the JS ecosystem has some pretty counterproductive culture when it comes to package management (leftpad), but can you provide some examples of terrible issues still present in NPM? I hear this complaint often and I'm wondering what other people think of as insurmountable technical issues or design flaws in NPM.
chroem-'s comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17634720

Full thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17634316
The detractor's here are completely nuts. Most people, even Americans, can't even dream of $5000 that only expects repayment if the business is very successful. "Seed rounds" are basically a top 3 city only type thing.
>Our technology differentiation is taking advantage of the growth of delivery platforms to scale our business via commissary kitchens.

I'm reading this as having commissaries specially for take-out/delivery apps to make use of, rather than being for dine-in space (and presumably a level of prep work), which sounds like an interesting concept. I own a food truck and have been considering how to go about having availability on delivery apps myself, definitely great food for thought. Best of luck on your endeavor!
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Prometheus Graduation
> - Users want persistent chat more than they don't. Spam isn't an issue for most people who are are running servers for their friends and coupling them with voice wouldn't really help anyway. Users want to be in a different chat than their voice coms

Looking at my old WoW guild's channel now, it's 95% spam that was only relevant to the 4 or so people who were on voice comms at the time any given thing was posted. It'd be fine to have text-only channels, but each voice channel should also have an associated unlogged text channel. For bonus points: prevent people from sending messages to text-only channels without (temporarily) leaving the voice channel.

> - Users don't even know what voice ducking is and would probably be surprised by it.

Tell that to.. anyone trying to listen to music in the background?

> - Nobody cares about self hosting. Gamers clamour for dedicated servers to reduce lag more than than for P2P.

Yup, it's lovely when Discord crashes mid-raid, and there is nothing to do aside from twiddling your thumbs.
Here's a scenario: Musk doesn't have to buy every share at $420 (interesting choice of price points, that); in theory, he could sell a lot of shares privately at say, $250/share, then use some of the proceeds to buy out a respectable number of public shareholders to maintain appearances, and swap the rest of them into a fund. The remainder of the money from the private sale, he can use to fund growth. Tesla's public share price soars, giving Musk symbolic public vindication, and once the deal is done, there's no public visibility on the private share value. Basically, a way of doing an effective down-round. Obviously, this all depends on convincing enough existing holders to swap into the fund, and that in turn depends on maintaining the Musk reality-distortion field. Any slip, or acknowledgment of what's really going on, and those shareholders may spook.
> And guess who inherited that wealth, since that generation is mostly dead now?

By that standard, Millennials are the eventual beneficiaries, too.
Honestly I’m not afraid of whiteboards as earlier in the career. The interviever is whether some fresh graduate smartass trained in a narrow domain and it’s easy to route the discussion out of their comfort zone, or someone with particular problem - well, I’m not able to pull out immediately answers to the world problems and if this is the case I’ll just admit it. In the worse case I’ll not get hired - I hadn’t got hired too many times in my life to care.
Thanks I'll pass that along
>This was confirmed by the CEO of the project, Lars Thaaning Pedersen, who said in a statement that federal tax credits and a long-term power-purchase agreement had helped the wind farm “offer an attractive price” to consumers.

Would it not make more sense to include the federal tax credits since they would be at the cost of the tax payer?
Optimization (or any gradient based algorithm) is a good use case for AD, but I don’t see why Julia’s approaches are any better than Python’s, eg autograd, theano, pytorch etc.

And sure that wouldn’t work with arbitrary Cython modules because Cython was designed as a Pythonic syntax over the Python C-API, and it just happened to become popular for numerical work.

I don’t think that’s a strong argument, though, because anything small enough to be usable with AD can be rewritten without too much time lost, whereas those massive Fortran routines with iterative algorithms wouldn’t produce useful gradients in any language.
Probably $3-6k but with the associated risks and punishments of a $30k crime, and much more if you happen to have a firearm on you while committing it.
Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are removed