skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True but hardly relevant to the great majority of people throughout history. The modern civil service is a copy of the Chinese Imperial model but outside the Sinosphetr that started in what the ~1800’s? In China throughout the vast majority of its history you had well under one professional, career civil servant per 1,000 of population. The professionalised military is also a creature of the European Wars of Religion at the earliest. Officers didn’t get pensions, they got the opportunity to loot and if they survived and were lucky they got land. Converting officers from nobles or mercenary captains who brought their own men and equipped them to military civil servants was a long drawn out process.

Parastatal companies like the EIC or VOC were products of societies that had just barely mastered professional rather than personal administration. They were also very unusual. Setting them up took special acts of the legislature and vanishingly small portions of the population served in them, or any similar organisation.

Professional bureaucratic organisations outside the state were absolutely in place by the Renaissance, like Florentine banking houses but they were small.

Entrepreneurs and mega corps are not recent inventions but mega corps not intimately entwines with the state are. In what Francis Fukuyama calls a closed access order they’re impossible and open access orders are at most two centuries old. See his book, Origins of Political Order.

The efflorescence of megacorps, outside the state, that could believably promise a lifetime career with the security of the civil service was a time limited thing.
The project has been archived and closed for comments, but the issues posted 3 days ago are - special: https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues/121
I have abosutely no problem with Apple devices being thinner, and near impossible to repair. As long as, say the average Apple computer requiring repair is less than 0.1% per year. On a 100M Mac user scale, that is 100,000 repair per year. Apple could easily give them free replacement or fix it for them for free. That would be perfect.

But in reality the failure rate of Apple is only half of HP and Dell. Initial Cost 40%+, and repair cost 100% more. And for business / professional users, HP and Dell make same day replacement to fixing. Apple? Try that with Genius Bar.

Whatever it is, I think Apple is on the verge with consumer confidence collapse. Next 2 year will be crucial.
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You are conflating communities formed around religions with explanations that religions have about the world. Religions provide many different things, one being community and sense of belonging, another being a sense of understanding of the world. You can be part of the former without necessarily beleiving the latter.
You know, you're right. There are literally thousands of ICO promotors that were given nothing. They took the risk themselves. Well, they took the risk of their premined coins never becoming valuable, but there was no actual 100k$ payment.

This is a brilliant insight that if you have money you can encourage people to behave unethically in exchange for a quick buck. You're right. The brown guys are the villains.
No, it is not that easy to find desirable men for large majority of young women. No, women can not hop relationships as easily as you seem to believe.

Also real sociologists do not claim what you claim. They have a lot more nuance into it and in terms of marriages, talk a lot a lot more about economy and it's affects.

Your version sounds like something that emerges on chat when people cherry pick half understood studies, not what sociologists says.
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To me, it looks like just 'Your account details are safe.'

> Additionally, Dell cybersecurity measures are in place to limit the impact of any potential exposure. These include the hashing of our customers’ passwords and a mandatory Dell.com password reset.

Hashed, how? Still using MD5? Is there even a salt?

Verified, by whom? Tim's brother-in-law's new startup who have no security expert staff? Verified as in had the encryption technique tested for collisions? That Dell were using it in the correct manner? Or just, 'Hey, I know that library, it works if you use it right.'

> Dell also retained a digital forensics firm to conduct an independent investigation

Who? Is this just someone who will tick boxes? Or is it a group who know what they're doing? Or were they just hired by marketing based on a pretty website?

> We are disclosing this incident now based on findings communicated to us by our independent digital forensics firm about the attempted extraction.

Wait... This investigation has already been done? Okay... They would have told you a hell of a lot more than you're telling us... So we can't look forward to more information?

> Though it is possible some of this information was removed from Dell’s network, our investigations found no conclusive evidence that any was extracted.

> Credit card and other sensitive customer information was not targeted.

One cannot be said conclusively, whilst the other can... Why? Tell us that CC data is kept separately, and tell us it is safe too. Just saying it's hashed doesn't mean bupkus, so feel free to say it publicly, you reveal nothing about your security features.

> The potentially extracted customer information is limited to names, email addresses and hashed passwords. There is no conclusive evidence any customer information was extracted. Additionally, Dell cybersecurity measures are in place to limit the effects of a potential exposure.

What additional cybersecurity measures? If the data is gone, it's in the wind. Names, and emails and possibly-breakable passwords. Are you talking about how you closed the hole? Then say how you accidentally exposed your victims.

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Finally, before anyone says that this is an excessive amount of information for Dell to give out... It's what other tech companies relay in their post-mortems. [0]

All this is, is Dell admitting they had a problem. Not saying what that problem was, and not saying what they're doing to prevent it in future. And assuring their victims that they're taking care of them, despite their victims possibly sitting on lost information (a password, possibly in the wild) for nearly a month.

[0] https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
There's a lot to a particular individual's situation and life goals to indicate whether the advice is bad or not (for them).
Exactly. It's easy to tell a privacy-unsavvy person to install this and the Facebook-only container rather than explaining how to containerize and set up all the specific URLs and what the broader concept means. The multi-account container is pretty cumbersome to set up despite being easy.
All you need in order to be happy is to be treated like a minor demigod by all around you. Sounds legit.

My favourite example of this (albeit not one that's always been at peace) is the Dalai Lama. Dude goes around talking about love and acceptance and whatnot, which is great and he seems like a great guy, but his experience as someone with an international organisation dedicated to looking after him is maybe not 100% relevant to the life of some random pleb in a Western country.
I don't like the new beta website. It doesn't feel rusty. It would have been better if they just kept slowly improving the old website.
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Super fast on my Macbook Pro. Might I suggest using Nativefier?
Controlling the TP-LINK HS100 Wi-Fi smart plug (2017)
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Moving goal posts? The OP asserted they did not exist.
Always surprised to hear friends & acquaintances remark that a $50 dry-aged steak from a steakhouse is overpriced.

24 ounces of Prime beef, aged for a month? I'm not sure I can get it myself for less than $25/lb.

No way they're making money on the beef.
... a tarpit nominally designed for bot detection and anti-spam. I'm sure the patent wasn't created with sinister motives but it somehow enforced a system in which you have to either accept full surveillance or end up being increasingly excluded from the socioeconomic sphere. This is the danger of solving the human factor with pure technological means - it doesn't really solve it, instead the human conflict is transported into a more radical one.
A lot of people would salivate at the opportunity to become a Googler. Some of us actively shoo away the recruiters. To each their own, but I would have made the same choice.
Using Nativefier helps most of the issues you have with there being no app.
Yeah, figured Google wouldn't see serious reform. Much like Google's "efforts" to diversify their workforce by dropping nearly all Asian/Indian/White applicants, things aren't going to notably improve at Google if they continue with their current board and management.

Avoiding addressing the root issues that cause these poor work environments is going to catch up with Google eventually, its been sapping talent for years (though the current executives likely don't adequately grasp that).
The TP-LINK HS100 firmware is the basis for a wide range of Wifi power sockets. We discuss how we reverse-engineered the communication protocol and wrote a shell script which can switch the plug on and off.
A Mathematical Theory of Codesign: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.08055.pdf
Many "innovative" companies achieve their goals only thanks to those outsourcing companies that do the actual work.
In the disability rights movement, disability is defined basically as having a trait that the social and built environment discriminates against: a disability is something the society is doing to you, not a flaw in yourself.
While I agree with you and wouldn't use it myself, it is relevant that Firefox uses human reviewers for their add-ons. So with every update someone will look at what changed and judge if it is benign.
For perspective there is also the chinese zodiac where you will exhibit particular traits depending on which part of a 12 year cycle you belong.

People like to categorise and be categorised to justify their actions or lack of action.
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I'm amazed at how relaxed their response is. If I told someone about some of my work and then found out they'd tried to patent it, I would be pissed!
I am 26 and would definitely not have been ready for my father to die in the past year.
What makes this terrible advice? Is there something in particular about landing a job at Google that makes it objectively better in every value system than continuing with a PhD that one is already seeking?

I left a very good position on the table after my undergrad, in favor of pursuing a graduate degree. I weighed my options and decided that I would rather spend some years in my youth learning how to conduct research -- lessons I believed, and still believe, will carry through into my future endeavors. I picked up an excellent job after my Master's (at the same place I had left behind previously!) and am very happy with how things played out.

I realize this is the best possible outcome, but what makes this general arc such a bad idea?
I worked for several years as a data analyst for plaintiffs' firms. I've attended numerous depositions, of both technical people and management. I can't go into specifics, so I'll just say that the apparent compartmentalization was extremely impressive.
Yahoo Japan had access to Yahoo US's source... auctions in Japan was based on the us auctions, but it continued to run after the us auctions shut down. (I don't know how it evolved after that)
Probably renting outside of Manhattan. In Jersey. And commuting for 2-3 hours per day. That might not be poverty but it is suffering.
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For the most part a software engineering job at google is pretty mediocre from a coding perspective. Most people hired there will never work on cutting edge tech. For the enlightened few its amazing. This is speaking strictly about the work, and not the money/prestige/perks.
No kidding. This is very nice. I might be taking some liberties here, but the point about the shape of the output driving the shape of the program reminds me of using schema information in SQL (think of declared foreign keys) to generate queries: the schema tells you the shape of the data in more ways than just tables and columns, and this in turn tells you about the queries you might want.

If you enrich a relational schema with more metadata, then you can generate even more queries. Think of declaring the set of all relations that define authorization data, not just group memberships, but access controls that refer to groups, define ownership, and so on.

So, for example, 'give me all the authorization-relevant entities "to the right" of this entity' might be a query that, given enough schema metadata, can generate a much more complex SQL query. But that abstract query itself becomes an obvious query given the shape of the data (i.e., the schema). A more concrete example is "what can this user do?" and "who can do what to this resource?", "what groups is this user a member of?", "what are all the members of this group?" (note: these are not trivial if groups nest) which are instantiations of "what are all the entities to the {left, right} of this entity, using the set {name} of relations?".

In terms of SQL these are all JOINs or LEFT JOINs (depending on declared relation NULLability, or relation cardinalities), with RECURSIVE queries using UNION (not UNION ALL, to avoid infinite recursion in the presence of circular relations) for "nesting" relations (from a table to itself, perhaps crossing relations on other tables in the process). SQL is extremely powerful and expressive, but we can make these queries pithier and more obvious with a more abstract language that takes advantage of schema metadata. Indeed, graph databases are such a language.

SQL needs a richer schema definition language (extensions will do) by which to formally describe more of the shape of the data.
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And the Windows Platform Binary Table let Lenovo put it back on the drive via UEFI at boot. [0]

[0] https://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2013
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That’s what I tell myself!
Your handle says it all - I hate Taj Mahal BBC, and your comment reads like a bullet list from a government apologist.

Addressing basic needs are not massive progress, the government is expected to do these things in response to the growing taxation, it's not a favor but their duty. India's whole problem is mismanagement and corruption, and the current culture placing profiteering over everything else and the parent explains these very issues.
You can get an offer from Google many times if you are good, getting a PhD offer from MIT, even if you are good, won't come that many times.
1337 hacker conference check-in.
You keep bringing in disparate arguments as if they are part of the same thing - infallibility, knowledge ceiling, dogmatism - and also throwing in the odd barb - "whatever passes for science these days" (the answer to which, is "science!").

Yes, agreed that human systems have a tendency to corruption, however the scientific method at least has within it the seeds to "keep the bastards honest" (as we say where I come from). i.e.

1. Nothing stops you from learning and becoming a scientist.
2. Nothing stops you from attempting to repeat published experiments, or if you can't, then to point out why (which are likely to be faults in either the description or execution of the original experiment).

In other words, there is transparency and a basis for objective comparison. Lack of transparency (either through gatekeeping or lack of detail) is considered a bad sign in science. That's what differentiates the scientific method, from say, the "political method", or "the religious method".
What does a test suite look like for an application structured using lambda functions?
Even for people who have earned lifetime Platinum Premier status, the suckage of the Marriott takeover is materially encroaching on their experience. The benefits are rapidly being destroyed. For Starwood members, it has not been a positive experience.
> I picked up an excellent job after my Master's (at the same place I had left behind previously!)

It sounds like you would agree that joining a PhD program is not a good idea.
Thank you for the kind words and for the tip! I forgot about that, but you reminded me that my server is not configured properly and the links should say http://reboot.love

I’ve updated my profile and I’ll have to fix my server!
It might seem like overkill at first, but if you start a project from Sinatra, you’ll end up implementing a lot of rails features that won’t be as well thought out or integrated. If “weight” is a concern, it’s pretty easy to turn off rails features that you don’t need.
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OK yeah this looks good. Was expecting a tech demo but this is such a sales pitch glorifying a pretty common solution to a pretty common problem. The Intro on eval result not being a data is something that I don't get. If it's not data then what is it? Atleast what is it for the thing that's presenting it? All these while the folks were flaunting how awesome the REPL experience has been and suddenly Stu gives a small intro on how painful it is to eval a code. Just to glorify how awesome this REBL wud be? . I generally love most talks from clj community but not this one.
It sounds like you have read far, far too much into my message.
It’s almost always better to achieve for yourself instead of others. A PhD. is infinitely more valuable than a couple of years working for any company, especially if your subject is interesting enough to on-spot hire you before you finish.

And I say that as a manager who’s hired a lot of people before they earned X because their work was interesting. I don’t do it anymore, as a rule, because it crushed a lot of those people with regret later and I have to live with that.
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> Free hotel stays for personal use? Do you want to stay in a same corporate business hotels that you are doing a lot for business in your free time as well?

I take vacations with my mother, who is in a wheelchair, and without specific personal experience to recommend a place it is basically not worth the trouble to stay at a non-corporate hotel. Bathrooms that she can't get into, or most often a shower or bath that she can't use, a step at the entrance to the dining room, charming doorways that are not quite wide enough for a chair - lots of little things that I still barely notice when traveling alone that are capable of making a trip miserable. It's really increased my appreciation for the reliable minimum quality they offer.
Discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566134
:) Thank you! I’m glad my story is appreciated.
Why would I want to support such a creep though? Booty bumping bath salts with his sixteen year old girlfriend while he plots the murder of his neighbor, then runs away when he realizes his life of crime is a poor choice of his time given the consequences?
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I want to let you know that your previous 2FA was so awful that I had to turn it off. I had Project FI service, and ported my number back to google voice, which permanently locked me out of my namecheap account. I contacted support for help, but by the time they had responded, I had already lost my opportunity on responding to a gig.

This is probably the worst place to air a grievance like this, but it seemed like my frustrations had fallen on deaf ears.
I haven't bought a domain from namecheap since.
To expand:

Lenovo's LSE used UEFI to redeploy the binaries thanks to Microsoft's wonderful Windows Platform Binary Table.

Microsoft's default Disk Management system cannot remove EFI partitions (in all cases), and you need to.
Truth be told, putting MOOCs on a resume is not good either. Some employers actually consider MOOCs on CVs as red flags.
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Yes indeed, and now that repl.it is popular with noob programmers I think that distinction has been lost. Who told them that what they are offering is a REPL? Sigh...
> Makes sense, it is a very non-machine activity to consume food.

Dang. Now I feel like running a GAN to come up with new recipes!
I thought dropbox was a really cool idea, well executed both in engineering and marketing... but not 7.1 billion really cool.

A product that straightforwardly saves businesses time/money is easy-to-buy. Company valuation is just a few steps further. Primary danger is competition.
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Thank you for the kind words! :)
An MIT Phd opens many doors in many areas and will do throughout your life. Trust me, you won’t always be young and you won’t always be interested in the same thing.

It shouldn’t be, but it is way more difficult to get high level professional qualifications when you’re older. The expectation that reaearch students are young is quite embedded.
Don't be evil.

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Very interesting! I had not heard of these incidences.
Leah Buechley is the PhD advisor, Regina Dugan is Google ATAP, Joi Ito is Media Lab but... who is the first person speaker of the text?

Am I missing something obvious or is it really omitted?

Edit: possibly (probably?) https://twitter.com/qijie
The second (and sometimes much harder) part of each days problem is only revealed when you complete the first part.
One Google away - this is a lazy question. First link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/...

You can find the rest. (There are more)
funnily enough Ram Das has a great quote on this - something like "If you think you're enlightened go and spend some time with your family".
There is a site that is very popular here that does just that (haveibeenpwned).
And Adobe stole my hyper-layer management patents too. What's your point?
So Python users are actively trying to kill Ruby? Stopping their Employers from supporting Ruby?

Not the first time I heard of it. But actively trying to kill it is a whole different level.
Suburban density has been the norm for most of human existence until the last century. Not everyone prefers to live in crowded dirtty noisy "exciting" environments. Stress shortens lifespan.
https://medium.com/@googlersagainstdragonfly/we-are-google-e...
> Destroying cultures and languages in the name of progress doesn't really empower people.

Languages don't get destroyed by rearing children in isolation so they're left unable to speak. Languages die when their population shifts over to a language with more to offer. (Generally, the ability to participate in a larger market.)

You can go pretty much anywhere rare languages are spoken and hear parents tell you they hope their children will grow up to speak something more useful. Where do you get the idea that this doesn't empower people?
Reminds me of this cartoon:

https://dilbert.com/strip/2006-05-06
Maybe they wanted to hire so they can patent it because some of the work was done during their employment?
If you have to harm someone, is Google the best choice? Have they asked for moral opprobrium?

The situation certainly seems like it.
I’ve been brushing up my Calculus and Linear Algebra, and this will help immensely. Thanks!
Fun fact:
My favourite contemporary Science-Fiction author Ted Chiang is also a 'Technical Writer' by main profession, possibly still for Microsoft?

https://blog.csoftintl.com/ted-chiang-technical-writer/