skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CEO pay is bound by the same thing that everyone else pay is - the market rate.

Okay, there's a market rate. Why is that rate so high? I'm sure we all thought "hell, I could have run HP into the ground for half what they paid Fiorina." Yeah, except you and I aren't in the "potential CEO" club. That club is determined by wealth, birth, and connections, not what the market will bear.
Can't say how good or bad those mercenaries were but I can definitely say that the info coming from the UAE intelligence services was dog-s.it. For instance, they were not even able to correctly spell the name of the Toyota Hilux, they mis-spelled it as "Haloux" (?!?). (https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2018-10/15/1...)

I'm pretty sure that an intelligence-gathering organization that cannot spell/remember the name of one of the most used Toyota models in the Middle East is not good at providing correct geo-coordinates or the target's meeting times.
Indeed a great talk.

Here's the related HN discussion link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18093158
That's certainly a possibility, but is it possible for other (malware) apps to scan private facebook posts?
This was not a sms or anything like that, but a regular private facebook post made from her computer.
Isn't that what psychiatrists are for? A friend of mine has sessions on a 2-week basis although he doesn't have any issues. His reasoning is basically that it's nice to have time to talk about himself with someone.
Just another kind comment for GitLab CI: we deployed it on prem and built a whole data analysis and quality tracking system for a clinical trial on top. I know it’s not the most powerful thing out there but for our small deadline-ridden team the comprehensive and all in one nature + on-prem is just awesome.
I think the big thorny issue is the same one pg highlights when hiring programmers: if you're not a good one, you can't discern between the good and the bad.

You shouldn't hire me, because I'm not a professional, and you probably couldn't tell if I were, but I've recently had great personal victories in this area after many years of frustrating failure. I'd be happy to spend some time on Skype sharing what I've learned, particularly on how to approach what you call the "unstructured abyss."

Email is in my profile.
Thanks for the explanation. It makes sense and hopefully replacements are generally available before we lose the old apis.
>Sure, we'd all prefer a public subsidy of litigation costs, but public law enforcement doesn't have infinite resources, so not every loss, even where a crime is involved, is going to have public resources expended on it.

What in the hell are you talking about? Your big takeaway from this conversation is what I would like and other who were victims of crimes where in this thread is that what we want is Subsidize our litigation costs?

Im the victim of a crime, the majority of criminal courts have power to order restitution for a reason...it’s not to subsidize litigation, it’s efficiency of the courts and it actually is a savings for tax payer money. Why pay for a civil and criminal case instead of 1 where things may be resolved globally?

Yes, resources are limited not every crime will be solved. That’s a great political response, it kindly ignores the specific facts of this case, where there is video evidence of grand theft and credit card fraud, but the police won’t muster the energy to write an email to request it. If we don’t have have the resources to email a request for a video (which I believe they do), then a public platform to conduct crowdsourced investigations by the public is more warranted than even I originally believed.

As one lawyer o another, I hope your not the victim of a felony some day and the response from fellow man (or lawyer) isn’t...police don’t have resources to investigate your case, stop trying to subsidize your civil litigation costs, that’s what suing John Doe is for.
Funny how this doesn't require executives to take responsibility for anything other than profit.
> What competitive advantage does Uber have over other companies?

Local network effects. Kalanick's strategic mistake was assuming network effects in New York create network effects in Hanoi. They don't, apart from cash.

But in New York, there are more drivers on Uber than other services. Which brings more riders. Which brings more drivers. Et cetera.
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>Not everyone has the experience or requisite knowledge to take a developer job...

Or to become a contractor.

No one's gonna pay you 160k and trust you to operate in Yemen just because you play militia on the weekends with some overweight guys from your state and you won a marksmanship match once out at your local shooting range.
On the other hand, the OOP approach allows you to add printing the function name (for disassembly views), metadata attributes about what flags are affected, clock cycles, etc. You could argue that each of those could be separate tables. Funny how it comes back to the array-of-structs vs struct-of-arrays design question, or maybe I'm just seeing that everywhere because of thinking about Mike Acton's Data Oriented Programming talk.
This is not even accurate: the service is incredibly popular in Middle East, Latin America and India [1] and is both popular and legally permitted in London as of June 2018 [2]. The article you've linked is almost a year old and out of date.

[1] https://www.recode.net/2018/3/26/17164388/ubers-southeast-as...
[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44612837
Can you share anything more about your workflow tool? These tools fascinate me and yours sounds particularly interesting.
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Not all that good when there are quite the few bigger worries affecting all of us... but some would rather care about what's on a bagel emoji.
It's not clear to me why Roman Empire would be relevant in this case. Society, economy, politics, military, culture, technology, wars, the life of soldiers... a lot of things were different back then.
I haven't used GAE since early days, but I heard it supports Docker now. Why wouldn't I just use Docker with whatever runtime I want?
How do you keep track of the nodes in the "graveyard"? Does that mean that each node has to have some sort of UUID across clients?
You professionally audit secure messaging applications? For what kinds of vulnerabilities? I have turned down invitations to audit some of these applications because I didn't feel qualified to render an assessment (I've been doing professional software security assessment, of closed/open source applications, since 1996). Did you take money for those assessments? Which ones did you do? I'd like to take a closer look at some of them sometime.
In my opinion whenever SSPL is classified as Open Source license or not they could have done better job rolling it out.

Making announcement and having all MongoDB Community Software change license the same day for all current major versions (not just new major releases) is not very friendly to users of such software

Many companies which are serious about their software licenses will need to evaluate whenever they can use SSPL, in the meanwhile being left without access to security updates... not a good place to be.

Though I suspect MongoDB would just like such companies to use Commercially Licensed Enterprise Version and not deal with all these Open Source (or not) license change

Advance Submission to OSI and validating it as Open Source License would reduce the concerns of companies looking to use MongoDB Community as they could rely on OSI's legal analyses rather than perform their own
Implementing a stdlib isn't a thing you do every day. Presumably GP was referring to more common situations, where using the stdlib is (usually) preferable to rolling your own solution.
In another article on the same story

>"And that's a debt iceberg with titanic credit risks," they added, estimating that the ratio of all government debt to GDP was 60 percent last year. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/16/china-hidden-local-governmen...

60% doesn't seem that bad. Compare USA: 82%, UK 78%, Italy 120% etc. And at least China is still growing fast unlike say Italy which does have some issues.
Passwørd Safe

https://github.com/andy-goryachev/PasswordSafe
>>> If the [American] mercenaries had killed a civilian in the street, who would have even investigated?

Like what?... is the U.S. government the ultimate arbiter of actions of Americans overseas? Like is there no "local" rule of law? Clearly the jurisdiction is the country where assassinations and collateral damage occur. The country may have inadequate resources to investigate and prosecute, or may not have the "moral standing" to do so adequately, but quit the American myopia already. What a stupid question.
Roubini is risking significant social capital recently IMHO I believe calling bitcoin a 'scam' and the block chain ledger 'histories least useful technolog'
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There's nothing literally magical about China and their government isn't omnipotent, no more than the Soviets were.

The Soviet leaders were omnipotent enough to plunge half of the developed world into 70 years of darkness and decay.

My guess is that the Chinese communist leaders are no less potent, just a bit less self-destructive.
It's a bit strange that you don't respond to my main complaint, namely making up statements for an academic publication, but now keep reiterating that you really implemented some homomorphic encryption scheme in Python.

It's a very cute scheme, but it has little to do with the supposed "new Dutch digital passport solution ready for global adoption". I brought it up in the context of the only shred of evidence (but apparently no so) that such a solution exists. The paper itself also literally states that the "implementation of the Zero-Knowledge Proofs will remain outside of the scope of this paper".

I'm indeed a bit frustrated with the overblown claims being made, but I don't think that's particularly unhealthy in this case. I've given ample motivation, to which you can choose to respond substantively.
> This bias isn't necessarily intentional: human nature (competitive evolution) just naturally pushes us to interpret the world in a way that makes ourselves as valuable as possible.

For the surgeon example, the simpler explanation is that, given a particular ailment, they just know only the surgical treatment, not the alternative drug-based therapy.

Or if they know, they know it way back in their head and don't think of it unless explicitly prompted, whereas the surgical procedure is probably recent experience.

I could also see this apply to IT. Given some problem, maybe there would be a simpler solution if I implemented this particular problem in, say, Python, but I'll implement it in Go because I work with Go a lot and all its idioms are much more salient in my mind.
going after google but not apple sets a weird lesson. That lesson is: don't be in the "licensable smart mobile operating system" market.

I'm not sure if this is an outcome I want.
I've never heard that. I do remember seeing here on Hacker News an old job ad for Amazon (close to founding) that was looking for C++ programmers.

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Just found it: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ba.jobs.offered/-rvJ...
Might be a security thing rather than money?
Show HN: Private server to server networking with ansible and wireguard
Do we need a Cloud Chassis?
only tangentially related but I have always thought that Executive Outcomes is such an ominous and great name..
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Add to the fact that Paul Allen was probably the only person who saw the meteoric rise to billionaire-dom at the same time as Gates and in the same way.

I am sure there were things between them, that no one else could empathize with.
Ah, yeah, looks like you have to activate billing. You'll be solidly within the free tier, though, so you won't be charged.
When I was in college one of the candidates for some open position in the engineering school gave an open talk which I attended. He had this whole thing where he researched the right/left brain tendencies of engineering students. He actually had two axis on his pictures but I don't recall what the other axis was so lets keep to the the left/right (logical/creative) axis. He said most students entering engineering were more left brained. He also said retesting people exiting engineering has shifted. Not that the right brains dropped out, but that the same students tested more to the left after an engineering education.

It wasn't clear if that was a shift in thinking or just improving ones skills at a particular way of thinking. In other words, no evidence of any loss just a shift in score on a right/left test. The other notable thing he said is that the right brained people who complete an engineering degree were rather likely to spend some time working in the field and then just change to something completely different.

I remember this well because I tested as a dominant right-brain thinker and have always had this odd feeling that I might want to just stop and do something completely different. Fortunately I've been able to find ways to use creativity in engineering :-)
Wow that's awesome! Can you share any more about the system you built?
You might enjoy "Barry", an HBO black comedy series which touches on this topic. The protagonist is a discharged Marine turned civilian hitman who discovers a passion for acting. He encounters a few fellow "killer Marines" who have had issues transitioning to civilian life.
(GCP Gopher here)

If you can run within the standard environment, I'd suggest you do (but you should check pricing, etc to see if it suits). Especially if you want 0-1 scaling.

I migrated golang.org from standard to flexible a couple weeks ago, primarily because of increased control over the runtime (custom Docker image) and increased instance sizes (configurable memory, CPU past the App Engine limits, which caps out at 2 GB). See https://golang.org/issues/27205 if you want to read more.
Is there a term for costs that are purely associated with growth and not regular operations?

For example, research and development on new products/features, expansion of manufacturing capabilities, building new offices, etc.?

I frequently see people talk about X corporation not being profitable, but the claim is often extremely short-sighted as they ignore money being spent on growth and development. Ever dollar kept as "profit" is money not being spent on growth, which is huge when your company is still growing.
i think become a seal/green beret is pretty challenging !
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In practice, blockchain is nothing more than a glorified spreadsheet. But it has also become the byword for a libertarian ideology that treats all governments, central banks, traditional financial institutions, and real-world currencies as evil concentrations of power that must be destroyed. Blockchain fundamentalists’ ideal world is one in which all economic activity and human interactions are subject to anarchist or libertarian decentralization. They would like the entirety of social and political life to end up on public ledgers that are supposedly “permissionless” (accessible to everyone) and “trustless” (not reliant on a credible intermediary such as a bank).
Is this a GA product or still "beta"? Google's consistent announcement of products as available while in beta is getting annoying, because their SLAs for "beta" products are still 0 and thus impossible to be able to use in actual business applications.
I tend to dislike them because of their past but I'll defend with a thought about their roadmap.

With their current business model, I don't think they have it in the bag. They don't have much that other ride shares don't.

But I think that if they had the infrastructure built out to support their current model for the whole country, they would be the only company capable of being the software side of autonomous vehicles. Or, at least, the best positioned company to win that contract.

I think that transportation itself is big enough to warrant such a big valuation. So I think their competitive advantage will be built over time and, right now, it's not anything sustainable by replacing taxis.

Of course, once someone wins the race, maybe we won't need anymore clones since the cost/transaction will reach a good equilibrium for everyone. Then they can build a different type of sustainable competitive advantage.
No, I have been struggling with my whole life. Let me know if you find out something.
Graveyard is just another root, like the main one. So, the same way that all elements have the same position in the main root for all clients, elements in graveyard also have the same position for all clients. Thus, their path is kind of UUID for them.
A lot's hanging on the definition of "decent" here, and utilitarianism is also an established ethical and moral framework even if you consider it a pernicious one.

So let's avoid arguing over the definition of "decent" by being more specific. I claim:

It's possible for someone to endorse the position taken by Google management on this even though that person is highly intelligent, is far from indifferent to others' suffering and oppression, and habitually goes out of their way to treat others well, including others who are unlike them and far away.

I do, of course, agree that if you get to define what "decent" means then you can make it so that no decent person disagrees with you. In this case, I think that requires a definition that has built into it either an answer to the specific object-level question at hand, or else a specific position on a subtle philosophical question (consequentialism versus deontology versus virtue ethics versus whatever else) on which smart people who spend their whole lives thinking about this stuff are far from all agreeing.
This is not the Buzzfeed of old. This story is something you'd expect from the NY Times or the Washington Post.
What's in the water?
What's the benefit of this, over using the websocket layer for Apollo?
Awesome! Have you looked at our Meltano project for data?
I'm not sure what is particularly surprising in this article. Surely if somebody is working as a warrior for hire, than people would hire them to do warrior stuff. Is the point here that the particular mercs are ex-US Army soldiers? In this case, I wonder if one has acquired a particular set of skills (yeah, I know, the movie reference) in the Army, and wants to monetize them in civilian market, what would be the better option? I mean, assassinations of course is not a good way of earning money, and certainly immoral in most cases, but as you can, regrettably, expect a certain number of trained software security professionals to become criminals, so you can expect from warfare specialists? Is there any way around it?
Stop having pointless meetings
Given that the US is not, in fact, at war with Yemen, it doesn't seem to be legal outside the US for US citizens or people within US jurisdiction when doing any planning, etc., related to it; see, U.S. Code tit. 18, ch. 45, particularly §§ 956, 958, and 960.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-45
Seals do a lot of direct action. Someone more qualified should explain how much direct action they do.

I think a lot.
Or they could get a desk job or warehouse manager job with their security clearance in the US for like $90k.
China's crazy bad water pollution.
"A gay man who fell victim to HIV."

The number of times I have heard of this misfortune is sometime truly astounding. A whole community ravaged by an illness that we don't have a solution to, with the government turning their back to it.
Mmm, I agree that if Auto DevOps runs once, fails, and is disabled it shouldn't show a failed icon. Anyone that has a link to an issue or fix?
I just came up with that name a couple days ago. Didn't check what alternative meanings it might have. I've been hacking on it since 2012. This project has gone by more than one name in the past. I easily get bored of staring at the same old name after awhile.
I think it's more about the tone and the caps lock, than the exact words, although you shouldn't be embarrassed if some people disagree and think the phrase has been generalized. If anything, I think it might be embarrassing how many "defenders" jumped in and prolonged this drama, instead of just downvoting and moving on with their day. How's this for a conundrum: I support the OSI being able to claim it isn't "open source" according to them, but I think the top-level post by the VP was unprofessional and rightly called out. (I have not commented elsewhere in this thread.)
In what sense is HTTP/2 or TLS 1.3 federated?
The question of "Who has power in the British Empire" was settled pretty definitively back in 1649, when Charles I lost his head.

If you want to split hairs, we can say that it was settled more definitively in 1661, when Cromwell's head was put on a spike outside Westminster hall.

The empire was governed by Parliament.

The queen/king had some power, sure. Today, Larry Page has some power. Rupert Murdoch has power. The Koch brothers have power. Aristocrats, throughout history have had power, even if they have no formal posts in government. Just because a few well-connected individuals have power in a country, doesn't mean that it isn't a democracy.
I switched to keepassxc[1] a while back.

[1] https://keepassxc.org/
Ethics and privacy have been trending... since the dawn of mankind.
I doubt they just started investigating this story when the journalist was assassinated. For a story like this, the investigation probably began months or years ago, as a wild guess.
Developers, hackers, and startup folks are people. People like to be entertained.

This is quite entertaining especially as someone who lives in the west coast and has a few east coast friends with strong bagel and pizza preferences. It's entertaining because it's a discussion about culture, which is easy to miss if you don't accept that Emoji are quickly becoming culture.

Entertainment has value, humor has value, and silliness has value (clearly, something HN may not get). This is the difference between something sterile and something human.
If their skill set is more on the pointy end of the stick, however, they may not qualify for that.

There's a lot of civilians going around the federal contracting job market who have a few years of experience working as a middle-management fobbit at LSA Anaconda in Iraq, or similar, who will get that job before another applicant who is an ex army ranger who did 5 rotations through Kapisa and Kunar provinces.
My wish for the next 10 years is no major global conflict, and I'm very pessimistic at this point about that.
Snake wasn't lying when he said "War has changed". Mercenaries are as old as war itself but this type of operation seems like its on a completely different level.

Post WW2 it seems like most conflicts are being fought via guerrilla warfare. When you have a theatre of war that essentially a couple of rural provinces having some skilled American soldiers with a decade of experience of war seems highly valuable.
no, it kinda works, but not like a regular email.
like when i send some email with to: contact@abc.com with bcc: we@def.com the receiver of the bcc sees the full email header and sees who the original receiver is. but with mandrill you simply get two emails, one for the original receiver and one for bcc, both send with to fields, the bcc recipient does not see who the original recipient is
That makes a lot of sense, thanks for writing it up.