skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm amongst the most frequent guests at Starwood, spending >100 nights a year in their hotels. I wasn't thrilled when it was announced they'd be acquired by Marriott. This year, they began the switchover process to migrating to Marriott's technology, and the full switch officially happened in mid-August.

It was a complete and utter disaster.

Everything was buggy, points mysteriously disappeared, reservations disappeared. Inconsistent UI, a mix of old and new systems. A truly awful experience dealing with support agents who were incapable of comprehending what was happening. I'm still waiting for a handful of stays to be credited to my account months later and nobody can help me because the systems are broken.

I found myself staying mostly at Hyatt hotels while the dust settled. I'll end the year with another 100 nights with Starwood/Marriott, and 80 with Hyatt. But, given the direction the company has taken since the merger, that number will likely be going down on the Marriott side.

After hearing that Marriott laid off the majority of Starwood's technical staff before attempting this migration, I'm not surprised it went this way. I'm also very much inclined to believe that the data breach happened during this migration.
Do we have confirmation this was indeed at the same time? A comment below seems to indicate this truck was there previously.
> Yes, absolutely. Nonviolent terrorism is justified in many cases. Simply slapping the “terrorism” label on something to villify it doesn’t change the nature of the thing being described.

> I am not trying to diminish how serious this is; I find this to be an admirable innovation in nonviolent disruption of those that would harm our society. It is surprising it hasn’t happened more or sooner.

This is one of the most disgusting and disturbing comments I've read in 10 years on Hacker News, sneak. Calling in fake bomb threats isn't harmless or nonviolent and it increases the deadliness of real threats by diminishing their seriousness. I suggest you read the folktale "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Furthermore, people have died as a result of false swatting and I don't doubt people have also died as a result of fake bomb threats. Calling it a nonviolent form of protest is disturbing.

I strongly suggest you find more productive ways to voice your opinions.
Hey @dang / mod team, I can't flag this post for some reason.

Could you take a look at this post, which advocates for bomb threats against companies he doesn't like?
Oh so bomb threats and crashing trucks is non-violent now.

ok
Neither; by definition. Violence must involve physical force or action, or threat. Sometimes it can be extended to the realm of coercion without use of actual force, through threat of same.

A fake bomb threat where there is no real physical danger, and that threat is not being used to coerce or compel someone, simply isn’t a violent act.

You could make the argument that they are being coerced into leaving the building/stopping work, which would be a valid criticism of my viewpoint, but that is a stretch itself, on top of the already stretched definition of the term.
I don't think that the faith in China is much greater among most of those people. It's just that the censorship among anti-China sentiment is more aggressive than anti-US.
Good pattern recognition doesn't work that well when it's trained with biased datasets.
Oh boy I'm sure you are a western sympathizer of China, and I am almost ashamed of myself for not being nearly as defensive.

Japan and said nieghbors has been at war with the middle kindom for millennia, East Asians will be hating each other for another millennium, but does this justify China's never-ending hate towards the entire world? More specifically anyone else who's not a communist country or ally?

And the vast amount of people Japan so ruthlessly and nefariously massacred in China is only a fraction of what communism scored?

Not to mention the CCP just loves to ride this hatred, they are "the only savior and protector" of Chinese afterall.
Yep, I just renewed a bunch of domains and all privacy was free.
I listened to a good podcast series on Madoff a couple of years ago. There was good evidence that many of the investors knew that he was running a scam, and were looking the other way as long as they kept getting returns.
Preferred Networks announces MN-Core, a processor for deep learning
Interesting point. My impression is that YC/SV is a lot “sexier”, and that’s why people are drawn to Seibel rather than Greenleaf or French/Raven.

The PDF you linked looks incredibly dry; On the other hand the link in this post is very easy to digest and understand.
I can't answer what you're missing as I'm missing it too. Type annotations have seemed to me as useful documentation. If they're strictly enforced, it might make it easier for a new coder to interface with unfamiliar code...but if it was designed well in the first place, duck typing should handle it and raise exceptions as appropriate.
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Can you elaborate on the hidden bugs annotating old projects revealed?
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floatthead isn’t an awful name. It’s essentially meaningless. Bad names can make projects not take off as much as they would have due to ambiguity, unpleasant associations, and difficulty of expressing support. We often don’t hear about those projects precisely because they don’t succeed.
In that case the US would already have abducted her, transported to a black site, tortur....interrogated her with enhanced techniques, and locked up indefinitely without due process for good. And we never would have heard a thing.
The SPG password for phone has been a different password from the web login password for as long as I can remember (2014?)
Their interests in efficient delivery of healthcare and effective protection of the environment align with the general population's. Not so their interest in laws restricting the contracting rights of employers.
Love Digital Ocean! I've been a member since early '13 and I still use it monthly to host my projects as an open-source developer.

I love everything from their clean design, great tutorials and easy of use for everything VPS related.

I hope the best for them.
> Such access should be restricted (requiring approval) and logged, of course, but it's difficult to eliminate entirely at scale.

It’s not clear how you could practically enforce this requirement if devs just have the raw key on their workstations.
While I agree with your general desire to teach/learn leadership, I don't think true Leadership can be codified as easily as other skills/qualities can. As Siebel says at the end of the interview, the single biggest trait he looks for in a good leader is communication. How do you teach good communication? Is the combination of empathy, wit, general+specific knowledge, active listening, etc etc something you can really teach someone so they communicate better? I'd argue these traits, if teachable at all, are developed at a young age. I've frankly never seen an adult evolve from a bad communicator to a good one. And that's just one quality of a good leader. Now try to codify, much less teach, something like charisma. Or likeability. These things, while nebulous, are definitely part of the leadership equation.

This becomes even more complicated in a tech setting, where the 0s and 1s of computers clash fundamentally with the nuanced requisites of a good leader. They're not mutually exclusive, of course, but what we're talking about now is a true left brain/right brain individual with a healthy dose of X factor that makes him/her someone that developers, sales folk, and office managers alike trust and get behind.

I wish I were wrong. I wish you could teach these things, but I really don't think you can. Otherwise we'd be living in a much different world.
The Bitcoin protocol resolves conflicting forks by choosing the longer one while dropping the shorter one.
IHG (Holiday Inn, InterContinental) is still a 4 digit PIN and a numeric (or email) userid.
Quite possibly ... not too long ago, knowing what you could and couldn't eat and the effects were surely part of oral tradition.

E.G. US natives knowledge of the pain-killing effects of 'something' in birchbark existed long before Bayer synthesized the same chemical in the late 1800s.
"pNFS server support"

Very welcome suprise! I was excited about pNFS four years ago, but couldn't find any open source system to play with. Finally it is time for some mirrored pNFS testing.
Research is here: https://twin.sci-hub.se/6638/a9852778fa43b8bb70b67ce5abc71d7...
Thanks, I didn't know about that. That makes it seem a lot more viable.
Except that comment is likely referencing the regulatory environment, for which it is correct to state that the regulations are being rolled back to what they were before HW’s changes in this area.
You seem to be talking about EC2, or at least services available with EC2. You parent was talking about RDS and sysadmins who manage Postgres on RDS.
This guy appears to have no clue what he is talking about, and is painfully ignorant of both security and technology.

I realize that’s not a very substantive comment, but wow.

”The Valhalla system was fully activated in 2009, and my understanding is that all best practices were followed in its design (firewalls, DMZs, encryption, etc.).”

”It is difficult to imagine how an architectural or platform vulnerability would not have been discovered or exploited sooner.”

”It is almost impossible to imagine a scenario in which an external hacker is able to gain access to the primary encryption keys.”

This is just painful to read from someone so senior on their soapbox. It’s probably exactly why they got hacked. Also note that this isn’t the first major starwood breach: https://www.starwoodhotels.com/html/HTML_Blocks/Corporate/Co...
Laws are most certainly not always manifestations of inalienable rights. They often violate inalienable rights, and are based on manipulating public opinion with propaganda and ideology. Their position as the lens through which the public perceives the wider world gives them an extraordinary opportunity to manipulate public opinion to support social narratives and laws that benefit people in their circumstances.
And generally journalists are aware of their biases and good ones actively work against their impulse to favor one side.

The idea that journalists can be biased is not something the profession was somehow unaware of previously.

In the same way that scientists understand that they probably can make up data plausibly, they realize that they make their name with their credibility.

But of course society is presently at the adolescent phase of realizing you can physically say and do whatever you want...whether bad science and bad journalism are confronted by the social analog of thr prefrontal cortex is uncertain. Maybe repercussions will help (collapse of democracy and global warming being the two most likely)
> Unfortunately after writing this, I realized it's all about the customer base so never mind. Actually, can someone create Customer Base as a Service (CBaaS) to facilitate connecting startups with customers?

Someone did. It's called Google, and businesses pay through the nose for a chance to reach customers through it :)
I really want bookmarks with a specified container. I have a dedicated container for each of multiple Google apps/G Suite accounts I have and my personal Google account. It would be great to be able to specify what account to use along with the bookmark when saving a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet instead of manually opening the correct container first.
I see this pattern a lot: leadership advice in the form of general principles/first principles, but not a lot of advice on the nuts and bolts of how you accomplish those things. Human emotions, motivation, and communication are far fickler things than software, and it takes a lot of skill and work to create consistency and resilience from that mess.

For example: how do you tell someone that they're underperforming while still motivating them? There's a lot of partial advice out there like "frame it as a growth opportunity." But how? What words do you use? Half of the new managers will flinch before they give the feedback, and the other half will flub the delivery. It's a hard-earned, fundamental leadership skill.

MBA programs actually encode a lot of time-tested wisdom on leadership and management for the students who go looking for it. Huge emphasis on the caveat because not all MBA students are looking for that. They even do simulations to give you practice in a low-stakes setting. As a risky generalization based on my own observations, I think Silicon Valley has thrown the baby out with the bathwater with its historical hostility towards MBA's.

Speaking of which, I think executive coaching is worth its weight in gold for younger startup leadership.
There is a difference between expressing a positive opinion in a discussion forum for an action already taken by someone and advocating for others to undertake new actions in the future.

I encourage you to re-read what I wrote, because you have conflated the former with the latter, and made a false statement as a result of your confusion. I have advocated for nothing.

(Additionally, your call to the mods to hinder others from reading my words that you “don’t like” has some parallels to the very thing you condemn, if you choose to see them.)
This reminds me of that old quotation: "Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
> when law enforcement are clean

What are some differences between law enforcement in the US and Mexico?
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licence? link to repository? I'm not about to trust some unproven plugin with an organisation's BQ data
It really depends on how well the program/department is funded. Computer Science usually is. I was in a program (Environmental Engineering) where most masters degree students had to pay full price. Grants or graduate student positions wouldn't kick in until year 2. Even then, full tuition was never a guarantee. This was UC Berkeley.
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I'm questioning the truth of your statement. A court of law is a highly effective tool for ascertaining the truth of an argument, and the laws as set up will invalidate a contract that finds truthful the argument that it is non-voluntary. Yet no such working arrangements have been nullified on the basis that a court found them non-voluntary.

If a position has never been corroborated by court rulings, despite incentives existing to argue that position, then it's almost certainly not factually sound.
What are your criteria for a "proper operating system" that just happen to exclude the most-used desktop operating system?
This is an almost perfect article, and I don’t really care about surfing at all. Brilliant writing.
Mounting requires other ports to be opened, which no sysadmin will do on the internet. Ssh on the other hand can be started on a non standard port.
Man, Rhonda Patrick is awesome. With so much disinformation in the field of nutrition, everything she says is well thought out and researched.
Why not Mac? Best of both worlds.
This looks useful, thank you for sharing. I think the name is more than fine. It may look and sound weird but that is due to being unusual and that is totally ok. It is is unique, possible to find via search engine. It is immediately obvious that it relates to css. It is pronouncable as debuxer. My suggestion would be to stop depreciating your work.
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Interested to see how this plays out.

I'm a Slate Plus member, mainly for the extra segment on the Slate Political Gabfest. Ironically, none of the three hosts of that show have worked at Slate in years, which is probably a large part of what makes it enjoyable.

For reasons I'd be hard-pressed to explain, I listen to a number of other Slate podcasts, even though I often find them irritating. Most (but not all) Slate writers and hosts come across less like thoughtful journalists or experts in their field, and more like college bloggers writing an angry screed about how everything in the world is terrible.

There are a few exceptions, but not many. And I do enjoy hearing from the actual experts they have on the various podcasts.

Kind of looking forward to watching this group of clowns destroy their own jobs.
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So, I am not a big fan of windows- so do not take this for defence of windows.

But my understanding is that windows fleets are just administered drastically differently than Linux fleets.

On Linux we have a lot of config management tools and commandline remote administration kits.

In windows they have SCCM and remote access GUIs which do not get rendered on the target server. It’s very common to see a GUI program which does something pretty basic but over 500+ windows machines in windows heavy shops. In fact when I explained that I do all my scripting with a local target (because I use salt stack which is essentially a remote execution framework before it is a config management system) I was told in no uncertain terms that I was doing things the “old way”.
So rhetoric aside, what has Trump’s admin done to them?
And generally journalists are aware of their biases and good ones actively work against their impulse to favor one side.

From what I can tell, virtually none of those work at Slate.
Article does a very good job of burying the lede.

tl;dr; GitLab have have a FaaS offering in alpha.
Seconded. WSL on Windows 10 has a basic ubuntu CLI install that you can run any CLI program on it works great.
How do you teach good communication? Is the combination of empathy, wit, general+specific knowledge, active listening, etc etc something you can really teach someone so they communicate better? I'd argue these traits, if teachable at all, are developed at a young age.

They are definitely teachable. I had to learn them. I won't say I'm great at it, but there was a drastic difference between my effectiveness as a leader early on vs. later on.

Just like technical acumen, you have to start with building low level muscles, and then you build on top of that to develop increasingly complex, integrated skills.

Here's an example breakdown of how to build communication skills from a set of low level skills. I've seen adults (including engineers) improve dramatically with direction and practice:

1. Learning to tell when you are getting angry and building the habit of stepping away instead of escalating

2. Learning to tell when you are reacting in the moment vs. analyzing, and practicing the habit of moving to analysis during tense conversations

3. Learning to stop automatically attributing bad motives to things other people say that you dislike

4. Learning the formula for conflict handling: (1) acknowledging their point, (2) repeating it back with a charitable interpretation, then (3) responding with your point

5. Learning to make exploratory statements and ask questions to establish common understanding

6. Learning to identify and not make overconfident/dismissive/glib statements
Didn't conservatives accused tech companies, including Google, of censorship? Seems like they don't have any problems taking their money.
At a macro level, there are plenty of syscalls not wrapped by glibc that are used regularly in userspace. Then there's the micro level assumptions of behaviour. Look at the list of "doesn't work on WSL" software and all the bug fixes to get boring, every day stuff to run on it (or LX zones, or BSD personalities, or…)
Literally pay to play.
You don't get to SVP of a big corporation by being an expert in technology or security. That high up, your skill set is on organization, process, prioritization/planning, and budgeting. Sometimes you do see technical CTOs.
Yeah, I’m sure they have — It’s just that AWS’ limits are a lot more compatible with a startup (vs an indie developer) than DigitalOcean’s.
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How is it a willful misunderstanding? The only way not to view your statements in a terrible light would be to take everything you said out of context.

Your stupidity is astounding.
1. Jump straight to Figma.

2. Yes, and also grids and Google's Material Design. The MD spec is the most coherent document on a design language I have ever read. While it's not necessary to follow it to the letter, studying it would be definitely helpful.

3. Figma is better (and free for a single user).
As far as I can tell, you've described livestreaming. Streaming sites seem to do just fine without autoplay.
Hey Zach, thanks for chiming in. I’ve moved on from DO to AWS a long time ago, but I appreciate the sentiment.
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Yes. The traditional Indian medicinal system called Ayurveda (as well as traditional Indian culture in general) regarded food as a form of medicine. Every form of food could potentially affect your body in various ways and many disorders and diseases were treated by either modifying the diet or by special herbal concoctions (as the concept of synthetic, molecular medicine wasn't discovered back then)... it makes sense for preventing many lifestyle related problems.
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Looks like the Microsoft Natural Keyboard.[1] Minus the cursor and number pads. I still have one on my Windows 7 machine.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/keyboar...
It is pretty complicated. The article states that it took 9 years of R&D to get it to work.

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