skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bars at the end of the article are some of my favorite in hip hop. Jay Z is tackling the claims that the most skilled rappers don't sell head on...

He's taking our assumption that good art isn't the most popular art, or that pop isn't skill, and deconstructing it while making a platinum record, his best selling of the decade.

Chapelle talks about listening to that line on the Black Album with Common, Kanye, and Talib Kweli:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4SYIfhzMmU

Maybe it happened that way and maybe not, funny story though.
It doesn't absolve you from responsibility for the harms done as a result of an action and for the financial liabilities that follow from that. But if we as engineers are evaluating the competence of an organization, it does mean that "Marriott was incompetent at security" is false.
I had a similar experience with a personal project. I scrapped NFL player/game stats dating back past 2000 and spent a bunch of time on the data, feature engineering, and modeling. Although my original goal was to beat vegas models (got to even in some metrics, but not enough to cover the juice), it ended up being the best line on my resume. Every interviewer during my last job search asked about it, and it was very easy to talk about.

I did make money in the end however, but only because I was buying bitcoins to gamble with in the 2017 season.
An incredible amount of butt-hurt and cynicism rolled up with well-worded storytelling and topped off with a bevy of stereotypes and buzzwords, quoted for effect.

As I approach "the hill" and prepare to age over it, I have accumulated a metric ton of cynicism. But after spending nearly 20 years in the business and having worked for multiple startups there's just one thing that I can't get past with this article - the author just comes across as _incredibly outmoded and get-off-my-lawn-y_.
Getting rid of CFCs is orders of magnitude less painful than fossil fuels, concrete, and habitat destruction.
“Initial testing suggests the measures can dramatically cut death rates; in one pilot project in Zambia, they dropped by 96 percent.”
22-Year-Old Found Dead Inside Google’s NYC Office
There are two approaches to detecting exfiltration that I consider state of the art:

* Network traffic capture for deferred analysis
* Egress analysis (including decrypting SSL/HTTPS)

The first approach is, IMO, more realistic. Although you can't prevent the exfiltration, you can detect it lazily after it's happened, including where it went, what was sent, etc. Although I'm sure several companies support this, [Eastwind Networks](https://www.eastwindnetworks.com/) does a great job for Cloud and on-prem workloads.

The second option, while more thorough, requires big boxes to run, doesn't scale well, is hard to install on clients (the only way I know to "break" HTTPS is to install a custom CA on all clients and MITM all public traffic, which would break for sites using HSTS and HTTP Public Key Pinning). It's only vaguely feasible, and is fraught with issues.
General Smedley Butler's "War Is A Racket" is every bit as relevant today as it was when he published is it in 1935.

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

For those of you who have never heard of Smedley Butler, he was a rare kind of American hero. WWI commander, advocate for veteran's rights, and single handly thwarted a Fascist coup in the United States.
I completely agree, the refinement meeting is the key.

We've just spent a year interviewing 200+ product owners about the problem that the article are describing. For most teams, JIRA works great for monitoring progress on closely defined tasks, but context "above story level" is a real problem. The better teams do already use another tool than JIRA to write such documents, typically at "epic level", and typically using Google Docs and/or Confluence.

But almost all struggle with writing this document, where common problems include:
* duplication of work and manual updating between the document and JIRA
* unclear handover of the source of truth, since things that are written in the document are "true until stated otherwise in JIRA or a JIRA comment.. or somewhere on Slack"
* lots on input/questions/decisions from refinement meetings not captured in either the document or in JIRA

I think the solution is to think of this document less as a "requirements document" (many label this doc a "PRD"), and more as a "refinement document".
This "refinement document" should
* try to capture the conversation that happens in refinement meetings
* involve also the developers to cover not only "why" and "what", but also a bit of "how"
* evolve and be updated all the way through development as new insights are gained
* be the source of truth and available to the developer working on the JIRA issue

We have made a tool specifically to support working this way with "refinement documents". One dedicated place to refine features. Structure, collaborate, keep track of questions and capture not only decisions, but also conversations. Seamlessy transform your work into crystal clear Jira epics and stories. When you turn notes into Jira issues, you can see all the details via our Jira plugin. Happy to hear your thoughts, please do check it out at https://www.delibr.com/
Housing Slowdown Unnerves the Fix-And-Flip Crowd
And if you have apps that are non removable bloatware, like Facebook app family on the GS6, you can still do a Disable and a Force Stop.
Lightning mostly does not start fires in California. California doesn't get hit with very much lightning at all.
I'd also be interested in something like a WordNet similarity comparison score; i.e., how semantically different are words that are used together. To me, that's a better measure of linguistic creativity than unique words or rhyming words.
Wow I really miss Radioshack. I needed a resistor to hack my my cars evaporation sensor. A $1000 job to replace the sensor (remove dashboard) or a $.20 resistor. Luckily found a shop not to far away.
> could this author have found something that fit between the bro-culture-10x sales targets and a magazine editor-change-isnt-always-good?

Maybe they didn’t want to? They tried a few tech startups and didn’t like the experience; it seems natural to then say “I think I’ll do something else instead”.
Is Tumblr's acquisition by Yahoo, then Verizon, on there?
Article is not about concrete. It's about effectiveness of concrete on modern battlefield (especially in guerilla-like war), with false claim that it's most effective weapon.

As officer of army at war, I know that concrete will not help much at battlefield. Hard concrete causes ricochet, soft concrete spreads fragments. Concrete is not movable. Concrete is hard to recycle. Concrete is hard to destroy in case of retreat.

In case of guerilla-like war, propaganda, agents, double agents, and false news are much more effective, about thousand times more effective than concrete. Make double agent in a guerilla, then spread false news about his glory, then shot in the back everybody who will join him. Problem solved.
>'They design the node for the process and way to fabricate it."

What is a "node" in this context? I'm not familiar enough with FAB terminology.
Exactly. I think we're in agreement.
Apologies in advance for the layperson question:

It's my understanding that a lot of CPU gains come from caching. That suggests to me that there is potential performance to be gained by caching across a larger number of machines.

Is that something Amazon could do here? Somehow connect all their machines and cache in a huge space?

Maybe individual physical machines would be more like a front end for a cache space, and when I get an Amazon instance, it's actually a "virtual" CPU that pieces together instructions that are mostly already cached in various places throughout the network?

Is that even theoretically possible, or is it total fantasy?
How is GDPR a problem at all? Is it so hard to avoid personalized tracking of unregistered users, ask users for their consent at sign-up time and implement a button for them to export and delete their data?
Flatline: How the Amiga Languished
We've tried several video conference solutions. Google hangout was nice for up to 10 people. Then it get really slow and the quality of the video decrease. It also do not work in China (need a VPN).

By far, the best one is Zoom. It can easily handle with a really great quality 25 people on 1 page, in a conference with 80+ people. It also works smoothly for people in China (without VPN). Anyone has any know the magic behind their tech?
> Basically, asset seizure enables the state to go after someone without no known source of income flaunting millions of dollars in sports cars, mansions, etc. Even if the state has no idea _what_ the suspect doing, just that they've got millions of dollars and no explanation on where it came from.

Why should seizing assets be okay under those circumstances?

> In this modern world of ransomware, mail-order drug trade and other lucrative side jobs, invisible crime is easier and more prevalent than ever.

In this modern world of internet-connected financial institutions and big data, following large amounts of money through the system is easier and more prevalent than ever.
Is there any mammalian prion disease not linked to the PRNP gene (which is fairly conserved across mammals)?

At first I assumed that 'prions' came in many flavors, like virus. However from my brief lit search, it seems like people are talking about (p)rion proteins as if they were't all (P)rion proteins (PRNP). If all mammalian 'prion' disease can be traced to a single conserved gene, I think the risk of another 'prion-like' disease cropping up is pretty low.

But then again, who knows? Prion disease still seems shrouded mystery, which I find odd given (1) how inherently interesting this topic seems, and (2) we've gotten really, really good at molecular biology.

I feel like we are missing a key piece of the puzzle when it comes to understanding prion disease. The literature seems to want people to conceptualize the disease etiology as such: an alternately folded (disease causing) variant of PRNP protein (PrPs) bumps into a normal version of PRNP (PrPc), causing a normal copy of PrPc to also misfold into PrPs. Rinse, repeat. So you can basically think of it like an enzyme that catalyzes a conformational change on versions of itself, in a feed-forward cascade. I feel like an alternative hypothesis however, could be one of an autoimmune response. The mammalian immune system, particularly the antibody system, is mind blowing. This system can recognize virtually any foreign protein -- it can even recognize specific sub-moieties and conformations of proteins (antigens). It must, do this while never mistaking an endogenous protein to be foreign; if it does, you get an autoimmune disease. My idea is basically that PrPs is just slightly different enough from PrPc to get tagged as foreign by the antibody system (which it absolutely can do, given that we can perform western blots to detect the PrPs variant), but also just similar enough for the antibody system to mistake some endogenous PRNP for the foreign version.
Show HN: Netflix Chrome extension to remove annoying autoplaying video and more
You can keep calling it "news" until you're blue in the face.

The point was that people more and more disassociate these things with "news", and when they say they're not reading the news, that's not what they mean — regardless of the origin of the word "journalism".

The fact they don't refer to that as news might however have to do with the fact that information comes to them through apps that are not news apps. (Weather app, social media apps, etc.).

I'm also puzzled as to the statement that "all news is local." No, when you watch the news, most news is definitely remote and irrelevant to the life of the people who watch it. That's why they stop watching/reading it, usually.
50 Years Later, We Still Don't Grasp the Mother of All Demos
Cache is insanely fast, orders of magnitude faster than ram, and basically instant compared to going to disk or another machine on the network. I would find it unlikely that they could overcome the added network latency introduced in such a system.

Edit: check this out for more info https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_l...
As someone in the heart of trying to help people get off G+, what's particularly newsworthy is that after two full months (and two days) of radio silence on the Google+ sunset, the first substantive comment from Google is ... that the sunset has been advanced by four months.

We'd be recommending people be starting their migrations by Feb - May, and now they've got to complete them by April. That's something of a PITA.

https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Exodus_Planning_a...

There are 7.9 million Google+ Communities. Sure, 3.9 million of those are 1 (or fewer) users, but that leaves tens of thousands of 1,000 or more members. Even at only a few percent of those as active, that's a lot of communities and people involved. And Google+ has no effective community migration process.

Source on communities: I counted them myself, well, via sampling:
https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/9zx67d/google_com...
MAGA: Let the royals eat cake Trump is IRL Zetsu of the real Akatsuki
Adding to your quote and to your point, the next sentence in the article also is important:

The office has sold at least one property since Krasner took office ...

My understanding is that the reporter could find only one property sold by the current DA.
The Race to Understand Antarctica’s Most Terrifying Glacier
Your analogy doesn't quite fit. A wildfire zone with large amounts of flammable dry vegetation isn't analogous to an ordinary house. It's more like a house with a gas leak that's been left alone long enough for the entire building to fill up with natural gas.

Now, in that situation, does it matter whether your house gets struck by lightning or your neighbour's cigarette lighter happens to set it off near a cracked window? Assuming your neighbour is miraculously unhurt, the answer is no.
Dysfunctional Programming in Java #5: No Exceptions
Netflix’s worst nightmare is coming true
>> Basically, asset seizure enables the state to go after someone without no known source of income flaunting millions of dollars in sports cars, mansions, etc. Even if the state has no idea _what_ the suspect doing, just that they've got millions of dollars and no explanation on where it came from.

> Why should seizing assets be okay under those circumstances?

That one is a value judgement, and there is no right answer. Personally, I think the system should be biased to discourage crime, even if it's very unlikely you'll get caught. I know others place the value of freedom higher than the value of, well, fairness. I prefer a nation where crime doesn't pay, or if it does, you lose the spoils.
Plea deals always involve injustice, by their nature.
"Pretty common back in the day from what I read. Very low chance of revolt."

Yes, but then you have to build up everything yourself.
So to have a working province that can be milked soon, quite often local structures were also left intact.
Important is to crush their culture/religion if you want to crush their spirit to revolt. Thats why the romans killed the druids of the gaulls and took away children of the nobles to make little romans out of them.
> the report says the opposite

My comment was not aimed at agreeing with the majority report. Would you dispute my characterization of those expired certs as "negligence"? Or perhaps you don't consider the budget meetings that declared how low cybersecurity fell on the list of priorities as "fairly deliberate"?

> insane ideas

Hmm, maybe you're right. Monetary penalties for undesirable behavior is insane. Let's repeal all tort laws and cancel criminal fines, and make no attempt to levy proportional damages for anything. Let the C-suite keep their options!

> How can the government take you seriously?

If all else fails, a yellow vest might help. I'm hoping it doesn't come to that here.
> Federated and decentralized platforms are very vulnerable in ways that silos are not, and this has to be thought about.

It's funny because current FLOSS decentralized platforms are so horrendously designed, hopelessly unscalable, and obviously unmaintainable that the silos like Facebook and Twitter should be decades ahead in their ability to eradicate nation-state trolls and sock puppets.

Yet look at the recent NY Times article on Facebook-- their Republican lobbyist said they couldn't publicly release the results of their 2016 election investigation because his own mother had friended one of the Russian trolls revealed by their chief security officer. And we only know any of this because of leaks.

And that's apparently after their security officer ignored the board and legal's advice to stop investigating!

So right now you've got two choices:

1. silos with a business model that prevents effective defense of users from the attacks you describe.

2. poorly designed/conceived decentralized FLOSS thingies that will probably fail in ways similar to Debian's openssl RNG/valgrind debacle.

Debian eventually fixed that bug. How do you predict Twitter/Facebook will fix their business models?
I agree with the general point of this article. Showing that you have the skill to accomplish a job effectively will get you a job most anywhere.

There's a major issue when this is applied to a certain class of problems in ML and Data Science that people tend to ignore.

If you could get a job as a civil or mechanical engineer (building bridges or whatnot) by showing that you built a small bridge in your backyard... We'd have some unstable bridges.

If hospitals just let residents run the hospital... We'd have a lot of mistreated illnesses.

If you could show a realty company that you can build a recommendation engine and they hire you to build their advertisement algorithm... Suddenly you're breaking housing discrimination laws.

I am all for folks being able to get jobs from their cool projects. But we need ethical standards and educational standards before folks are given large, real-world problems to work with.

We need to take a page out of engineering and medical playbooks and build official education or apprenticeship requirements. We need to have licenses that can be revoked if someone fails to follow ethical or quality standards.

So - love creative people getting jobs. Now give them a high-quality education program along with those jobs.
Nothing prevents it beyond awkward save/load semantics in the browser. Webgl acceleration would be fairly trivial (to one familiar with opengl) if necessary as well.
Just exited a company the was competitive to Tableau and Looker. The BI space is insanely competitive, the lock in is very deep, and there are a thousand small players swimming in the wake of Tableau, Looker, PowerBI, and a few other "owners" of the category.

Looker doesn't threaten Tableau. It doesn't need to--at least for now. The space is growing at a crazy rate.
I enjoyed the article; I find the description entirely plausible and totally depressing. It definitely reminds me of Dan Lyons' book "Disrupted", which was also perfectly believable.

I've been around since Bubble 1.0; I started working in San Francisco in 1997. The thing I find horrifying about this article is the way Vision Critical apparently takes the worst aspects of startups and amplifies them, while taking the best aspects and perverting them.

As example, I was an early Agile person; I went to the main US Agile conferences 2001 to 2008 or so. The whole point of things like sprints and standups was to control schedule pressure and keep our work lives sane. The point of agility was not to increase risk and fear, but to make it safe to take risks so that we could be both bold and serene. If you had focused on "maximizing productivity", you would have received stern talkings-to about "outcome, not output." The point was not to put on a show of working hard; it was to radically increase effectiveness.

The sales-bro culture of competition and aggression is also nightmarish to me. It's inevitably short-sighted. I'm sure it works to generate rapid growth, but at what cost to the people and the long-term prospects of the company? It's a sign to me that they definitely aren't changing the world, but instead are likely pushing a mediocre-or-worse product on the world. As if that's new.

For what it's worth, I have the impression that this sort of awfulness is is more common in tech startups that aren't in SF/SV. I take it as classic cargo culting: instead of adopting the important parts, they adopt the visible parts. So maybe some of the saltiness here is just where people are working.
It turns out that the effect is typically exactly the opposite. Design and process are already coupled where a given process will have design rules that must be adhered to to achieve a successfully manufacturable design. Intel only has to support their own designs so can have very strict design rules. Fabs like TSMC have to be more lenient in what they allow from their customers so have looser design rules that result in a less optimized process to achieve the same yield.
Having seen a fire almost from the beginning I would say a drone won't spot it much before it's spotted anyways. The one I saw went from zero to a few hundred meters in minutes.
Infrastructure planning: users, baselines and timeframes
Also his book "Understanding Digital Computers" (1978). The details (magnetic core and bubble memory) are dated, but the fundamentals (logic, gates, ALU, ...) are still relevant and clearly explained at a level that a school child should be able to understand.
Just tell me how to use Go Modules
There are over 3.3 billion G+ profiles, based on the March 2017 sitemaps files, though how many of those profiles are active is something of an open question.

About 9% of Google+ accounts ever posted any public data. That's roughly 300 million profiles there, though for many of them, the posting was at best minimal.

Based on publicly-visible posting activity, I and Stone Temple Consulting independently determined that there were ~4 - 16 million profiles publishing on a monthly basis or better in 1Q2015. Given other forms of participation, it's reasonable to assume a ~10x larger general active, but lurking, population, which gets us to about 40 - 160 million users.

Various other forms of population estimation come up with fairly similar statistics. Keep in mind that until 2007, an online community with >10m users was extraordinary of itself. A few were larger (Google's own Blogger had 200m MUA in 2008, larger than Facebook at the time: https://techcrunch.com/2008/12/31/top-social-media-sites-of-...).

The most interesting thing about the 52 million user statistic reported is that it is in the general ballpark of at least one set of estimates of G+ user counts. A number on which Google have been showing remarkably more candor as of late, though far from crystal clarity.
Oracle does this almost 3x per year.

It took senior people making 90-120 base and laid them off to employ (me and others) at 47-60k base salary in Massachusetts.

Then after 3 years, they laid us college kids off to employ even lower paid fresh graduates in Austin and San Antonio, because Texas cut them an even better deal than MA did I believe.
Anybody with the number can join your Zoom meeting and since there's very little indication of their presence you might not even notice. You can also command other people's rooms to join your meeting, if you can figure out how to contact them, and you can force their microphones to turn on, which in my opinion is pretty disturbing.
Curious what metric you use to base your bold claim upon? It can't be Android or their corporate security strategy which was thoroughly breached by APT3.
I waited in trepidation for the value of my index funds' shares in Equifax to go to zero, but it didn't end up happening. False alarm. Don't know why I got so worked up.