skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think that's fun, the FSA exams are a whole new level of crazy. The math mostly goes away outside of financial statement type stuff, and in comes thousands of note cards on bland regulations (stuff like FAS106).

But, people have to be weeded out in some way, amirite?
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When I first started smoking, it was hugely beneficial. I grew up in a high-stress environment, and while art and philosophy helped me cope on an intellectual level, it wasn't until I started smoking that I believed in a physical way many of the things I understood intellectually. When I had to quit for a couple months, it was very difficult, though, because I was still very much a work in progress. I recently quit again (temporarily) for a little over a month, and it's been much, much easier. I was worried that I might be psychologically dependent, because I smoked pretty much every day, and while I felt great, and am generally very happy, I was concerned that sense of well-being would go away when I quit again. Thankfully, I don't really miss it overall, and I feel great - just like when I was smoking regularly (same but different). I do miss it at specific times for specific activities, though.
The version published in NYJM is also still available: http://nyjm.albany.edu/j/2017/23-72v-orig.pdf. It contains references to political controversies in the third paragraph lacking from other posted editions.
have they been useful yet, or just sounded good?
> The us amazon seems like a place where you can get anything, quickly and cheaply.

And its a very rude awakening whenever you actually try ordering something from a non-Amazon place that isn't trying to compete with them.

Suddenly you're waiting 2-3 days for "processing", then another week for something to arrive, after having paid $20+ for shipping.
> Edit: To the people who couldn't get past the first sentence of my last paragraph. I'm not saying that because the security treadmill is hard the companies get a pass. I'm saying the infosec community has a responsibility to make it easier to stay on it. If the barrier to securing something appropriately was so low you could trip over it, we wouldn't have this many problems.

Security should be everyone's responsibility and working with InfoSec to make your treadmill easier is your responsibility too.
Woah, papers on "dark motives", that sounds interesting. Anyone know of any other good papers on hidden motives similar to this one?
Does that mean that if user A makes an update to the database, then user B (on a different computer) will see the update?
> they are sometimes harsher than the men as if to "prove" themselves or out of bitterness

Not out of bitterness, but rather because you are often assumed to be weak, emotional, and incompetent as a women and you need to overcome that negative bias. There's no such negative bias towards men in the role.
I honestly expected this to be talking about discriminatory use of these questions, so I'm not sure if I should be relieved to see that's not what it's about.
The way to win is to abandon the "war" and use the money to help people recover not lock them up. Also opens new research opportunities to find new helpful drugs. AND helps stops money flowing into the hands of drug cartels. Its a win win win if we "lose" the war.
Ugh. Do you have any source / evidence for that?
Weird. UPS has always been the worst. I'd say about 50% of UPS packages either get misdelivered or marked as undeliverable for me. The numbers on my street are a little odd, but it's not that hard to actually find my house, and it is listed correctly on Google/Apple maps. No matter how hard I try to get UPS to get on the ball and fix their mistake, nothing ever changes.

USPS, OTOH, never messes up my deliveries.
Love the ReviewMeta (website or chrome extension) for exactly this. It gives a computed "true score" based on some of the dimensions you mention above. (I am not in any way affiliated with this product)

https://reviewmeta.com/
That area is pretty tech oriented and there are a number of research groups in at ETHZ that work with drone platforms exclusively.

It's no accident that the Valley is next to a group of strong universities.
It's still available on the site, AND I've grabbed it. http://nyjm.albany.edu/j/2017/23-72v-orig.pdf
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> 19 ISPs have more than 100 customers per advertised IPv4 address

I guess this means carrier-grade NAT works well enough; given this, I can imagine ISPs just don't see enough upside to IPv6 to spend on it.
You should validate credentials all at the same time. In general, you only fail a login at the end of the process, not halfway through. Also every login failure, regardless of reason, should be accompanied by short, random server-side sleep before returning (e.g. random between a couple hundred milliseconds and a second).
Yes, people who get the job are less likely to complain about the process. I don't see that that vindicates the way it was performed.
~$6 per (short) ton ($0.10 per tree planted, which removes ~34 lbs of carbon per year). More here: http://shindyapin.tumblr.com/post/141034501197/climate-chang...
> I'm also curious about how one would test a macro.

The same way you test any other kind of function call?
You can substitute Google Photos for Amazon Photos. I have several Google accounts that have soccer photos, family photos, etc. I want to keep pictures of other people's kids from trying to be recognized as my own. And the family photos account can be be given to someone else to control without giving access to my email. You get 15G of storage with unaltered originals, unlimited if you let them compress.

If you set up a separate account, you probably don't have to worry about hitting the 15G limit unless you have many, many photos or are taking them at very, very high resolution.

We pay for family subscriptions to Google Play Music and Spotify. My wife and kids listen to music on our Google Home device and they do a lot of Youtube. I didn't want to do Spotify, too, but the older two asked for Spotify for Christmas because of the playlists only available there. $14.99/month x 2.

I was a devoted Google Reader user and I don't trust Google very much to keep things around. But it's easy to share the links with family and let them download the photos to their own storage.

I was also using Amazon storage to backup when they stopped doing the free backup storage, cutting it to 5GB (I think) for free. So I don't trust them, either.
I think a good compromise is to modify the questions so it's actually applicable to the context of the job.
I'm suspicious of any practice whose proponents offer multiple, incompatible rationales.
How about for websites that give you some functionality without a verified email address? At that point, you can't let a user dink around if the address is in use.

Granted, this doesn't apply to eg banks, but there's plenty of websites where this could apply.
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While I agree that war is a bad thing, the money is not necessarily wasted. At least not all of it.

All this money isn't being thrown into a burn pile.

It pays American soldier salaries, it buys products from American defense contractors that provide hundreds of thousands of jobs, it funds R&D that trickles down to the rest of society.

Thats more than 1 million soldier salaries and probably hundreds of thousands of jobs with companies like Boeing, Raytheon, etc.

And I know this is a generalization, and that some of our sharpest minds and highest caliber people are in the military. But I also have quite a few aquantences that really seemed to be on a bad path until they joined the military. It adds discipline and provides an outlet for agression as well as a salary for some people who would otherwise be difficult to employ. I would hazard a guess that without the military, domestic crime would go up a fair amount.

Again, this is not an endorsement of the military industrial complex, but I think that many tend to think of government waste as just total waste. When in reality, it's just a really inefficient engine of wealth distribution.
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This version is some ways worse than the Arxiv version: it opens with an invocation of Summers and Damore, and the "Proofs" section lacks the disclaimer about him "proving" elementary conclusions in probability because he hasn't seen the proofs written down anywhere else.
This suggests to me a more democractic approach to corporate culture / action.

Let's say we have a giant backlog of work, each item ranked by voting by employees

Now the security team adds their "Stop sending passwords in plain text" item.

Which companies will it get voted up in?
arXiv contains more recent versions of the paper, it's probably a good idea to check the versions closer to the publication date. In my uneducated opinion they are even less mathy than v9.

In addition, the NYJM version of the paper is also still available: http://nyjm.albany.edu/j/2017/23-72v-orig.pdf
However, IMF directors said the potential benefits of the move were much smaller than the potential costs of "economic, reputational and governance risks".

Who is really in charge?
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No, I've been using Macs for years and have never created an apple account. They really encourage it, but you can in fact skip all the prompts.
I just found a report that claims that the cost of a employee to the company 22% over the wage, while in Brazil is 71%.

http://www.uhy.com/wp-content/uploads/UHY-study-on-employmen...
Hmm. I was hoping for something more definitive here, like "The masses of each particle are known to be correct to 5 decimal places. Even if we nudge each value as far as we can, the result is still slightly less than 2/3."
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For smaller markets it may just not be worth it for them. Next day delivery? Everyone does that. Return policy? Everyone does that.

So whats left for Amazon besides the big brand name? Slash prices.
I think it's "[search term' -pinterest.com], but I'd need to double check. GIS has started to de-emphasize Pinterest hits though, but for some queries like "furniture", there's probably still tons of hits from there.
There are two things about Java syntax that are my sore points.

Not having had the guts to make override a keyword, forcing the dumb @Override annotation. It is a matter of taste I know. But they could have made use of contextual keywords, thus keeping backwards compatibility.

I really would like to have a typename kind of statement instead of making empty classes to simply typing with generic code.
A single parameter to benchmark seems like quite a big statement, given how varied the use cases are. Perhaps you can tell us more about it, and why it's a worthwhile measure?
> Is this, or next-day, available for every single product, or just a selection of products?

Same-day is available for a subset of products if you order early enough in the day. Next-day is available for almost everything (for a premium). Two day is the default and also available for almost everything.
Yeah. Definitely seems like their “predictive analytics” push is reaction to the rise in popularity of “data science”.
Any examples you can share?
Marinol is around. Maybe not a massive commercial success, but I can tell you a lot of that is because older faculty in hospitals have biases against this kind of thing. Younger fellows seem to be OK with prescribing it when appropriate.
> This version is [in] some ways worse

My impression too, admittedly as a non-mathematician. The Damore invocation is especially damning.

When I dredged this up I couldn't help but find it funny that the standard of "suppression" in an online-only journal is removing a PDF from the HTML listing of said journal while leaving the actual PDFs and abstract up.
Glass Steagal didn’t make banking stable. Most countries (including those who weathered the storm much better than the US) don’t have a similar law.

In fact, marrying investment and commercial banks during the crisis was a key part of stopping a banking collapse.

And the whole crash started by investment only banks failing.
I've been a cpp and java programmer for 12 years and not once needed to use algorithmic complexity on the job. The fact that so many places focus on this baffles me. Big-O questions should be reserved for system architect positions only. Out of all the arbitrary topics, I think they should focus on pedantic syntax questions for whatever language they use. Show snippets of code and ask "what's wrong with this picture?". That would at least select for people with better language mastery and, in theory, faster development times.
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On X11 and Windows (except UWP apps probably?), yes. On Wayland, random apps can't listen to global keyboard events.
Conclusion from the article:

I say: Let’s just legalize drugs, which would, in one
fell swoop, eradicate drug gangs and drug cartels, along
with the necessity for DEA agents and federal prosecutors
and federal judges whose jobs depend on the drug war. It
would also keep drug use and drug abuse in the private
sector, including rehabilitation, where they belong.
I sympathize with the temptation, but I try to keep a good attitude towards the interviewer(s) until it's over, and draw conclusions afterwards. My comment above might suggest otherwise, but in reality I mostly analyze later, after I've left.
Which does not require to occupy countries without a costline? Especially if you own the largest fleat of aircraft carriers in the world.
I worked on an application which was essentially a multi master, offline capable, synchronizing app that utilized websql heavily. Websql wasn't perfect (it was essentially an old version of sqlite, I think), but as a whole it worked pretty well. Was sad to see it die.
What you've built here is a rudimentary boost converter, using the motor inductance as your inductor, and your battery as your output capacitance.
The next step up here is to build a controllable device that can implement maximum power point tracking; a buck-boost power topology might be what you're looking for here.
Note that MPPT on a wind turbine is more difficult than, say solar, because the rotor speed is another state variable to consider. A naive/greedy algorithm might apply maximum torque to the rotor to extract maximum power for a moment, but this strategy will try to stall the rotor. As power is torque * angular velocity, both terms require consideration.
But then there's the small matter that social media doesn't actually make anything better...it just makes a bunch of things worse.
Ego, embarrassment, lack of taking someone seriously, ignorance, and laziness all contribute to not taking security reports seriously, and results in creating rationalizations to prevent fixing them.

At that point, you need pressure to create change. Shame definitely works, but it isn't professional, and it isn't nice at all. Many people may be open to help if you can get off of Twitter.

You can send a positive letter through a private channel that details the problem and offers help in fixing it. You can make an automated, impartial test that clearly proves the problem and provides links to fixes. Failing these, you can start a petition. You can have famous, well respected, and powerful people sign it. You can add carrots and sticks, like an award for security response, a hall of shame entry, or the nuclear option, a PR release and interview with national media about the dangers of the problem.

Even just sending a list of these problems as they have happened in the past and how they resolved to executives at the company is probably all the visibility needed to get the ball rolling.
I’ve found AngelList and the Who’s Hiring threads here on HN to be fairly accurate.
I agree with you, but I suppose I'm just unsurprised by what shady things people and companies will do for money.
Yeah, I share this sentiment. I live in Canada, we get gouged bad here. Thankfully my employer covers my cell phone, because my bill would regularly be well over $100/month with the amount of data I use.
RF radiation is non-ionizing.
Reduced emissions are not enough. Even if we got to zero emissions worldwide in the next 20 years (impossible), the excess carbon in the atmosphere already needs to be dealt with. There are greenhouses gases coming from the permafrost. The forest carbon sinks we depend on are being reduced every year by logging and wildfires. The ocean is heating up and probably becoming less effective as a carbon sink. Basically, not only are we putting out more carbon per year, we're also removing less of it. We need more crackpot schemes, and we need them yesterday. Not instead of emission reduction but in conjunction with it
CBD and THC can easily be monetized for profit so what's the issue?
> Google's alleged practice of recording location data about Android device owners even when they believe they have opted out of such tracking has sparked an investigation in Arizona, where the state's attorney general could potentially levy a hefty fine against the search giant.

If they get fined, I hope the fine is hefty enough that a company as large as Google notices and changes its behavior, not something piddling like $10 million that they'll just write off as a cost of doing business.
You're not taking into consideration the fact that Amazon prices fluctuate rapidly, sometimes daily (hourly?). You can still find good deals on Amazon, you just need to get lucky and/or be patient with their pricing algorithm. Using a third party website like camelcamelcamel.com can help you see if you are really getting the "best price" that Amazon offers.
Most of them seem to make sense, but why is Zoology #2?
Ah maybe, i don't know. But that app (command q) lets you still use CMD+Q, but you have to hold it down for 5 seconds or so before it'll quit any app.

(it isn't my app - i just like using it and get annoyed when i use a machine with it and i accidentally hit cmd q instead of cmd+a )
If you are stressing over an interview, what will you do when you lose $1 million in 10 seconds?

Beats me - but the "skills" demonstrated in the interview process you're defending -- "suck up; just keep going online until you memorize enough canned answers to most of these dang questions; suck up, suck up, suck up" -- certainly aren't going to help.

If anything, they're basically orthogonal to the set of competencies needed to deal with that kind of a situation.
"Well, you're not hiring a trickster."
Here's the GCP Next 2018 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1sRy0Q2qig

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/bringing-the-be...
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Small but significant: I don't buy diapers from Amazon anymore, after so many reports of counterfeits. Target has my dollars. (Certainly a different kind of safety-critical!)

The supply chain problems are very worrisome for Amazon.
But your experience, combined with the article in question, would suggest that "narcissism", "sadism", and "callousness" would be rampant at FAANG and hedge funds; surely that can't be right. Or...?

I would not actually use this one criterion to disqualify a prospective employer, but for the record I would gladly give up a good chunk of my salary to work for one without those traits. It's not like you would have to work for pennies. In Austin, anyway, I have held contracts at a dozen different employers and not one used these kinds of questions in the interview.
They could reduce fees and cut ad prices. That does have a big impact. They can also offer better deals to brands. They tend to offer really crap deals to brands on the vendor side, but they could easily just give them more margin.
I do the same thing, but I only use strings that are maybe four or five characters of letters only. Most of these answers are expected to be things like people and street names, so I think it's still vastly more secure without looking like the system had an internal error.
It isn't anything new. When you order something from another jurisdiction you aren't a simple consumer. You are an importer, subject to all the rule of any other importer. Amazon just implements what everyone was supposed to be doing already.

Allow online sales to occur without sales tax and one day nobody will ever pay sales tax. Every transaction could be structured in terms of online order and local delivery. Starbucks could let you order coffee online, then pick it up at the counter. This is why states are moving on this issue now. Amazon is just the first to implement it on their side of the transaction.
You can have non-healthcare applications of biology (e.g. agriculture, materials) and non-bio applications in healthcare (e.g. patient management systems). It’s not a great definition.
Occam's Razor. It's good publicity for them. I'd never heard of them until today. Now I have a new company to hate.
Public shaming definitely works but there is only so many times you can play this card. It may give you quick small wins but such organizations which downplay or do not understand fundamental security concepts have many other serious security/technical debt which eventually leads to a breach.
How about $5B with a 99% confidence interval between $0 and $1 trillion. That's a number.
The guilty plea system is pretty much used to intimidate defendants into waiving their right to a fair trial. Far, far, from every person serving time in a prison has been convicted by a jury in a court of law.
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Thanks for this concise example! This helped me to understand why I should try it out, and led me to demoing this myself. I'll report back my findings
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strength exercises... https://mic.com/articles/61037/study-proves-that-lumberjacks...
> Also, very few people have ever died because they weren't allowed to drive.

How in the world would you know that?
It's been intermittently disruptive (disrupted?) for several hours now.
One of the authors, Prof. Hyndman, was also a moderator on stats.stackexchange.com .

See

https://stats.stackexchange.com/users/159/rob-hyndman
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> Why would anyone want something outlawing automation in their TOS? Is their 'service' maximizing human effort and minimizing throughput?

It could be that they want to make usage painful to keep control of the data. Automated scraping/bulk downloads would be much easier to detect than TOS violations that occur after the data is downloaded.

For instance, I wish my county recorder's office forced people to manually retrieve property public records rather than providing them electronically. The extra cost would make it unfeasible for data brokers and people search websites to slurp up all the data for resale, while still allowing access for legitimate purposes.
This looks interesting for making SPAs and more app-like things, but then I haven't found things like Nuxt to be inflexible for that (never actually created a SPA with it though, just attempted to use it as an SSG).

Doesn't look like it would work for me though for the same reasons Nuxt doesn't. It's not really lock-in pain that's my problem btw, but more config fatigue and missing features, and if the SSG has a plugin system to counteract this, then there's the problem that most don't work well or age quickly (imo this is usually because the plugin system is not strict enough), and regardless of whether they work, you end up with this patchwork of plugins, with a bunch of hacks and glue code to make them interact nicely, it's awful.