skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A fish rots from the head. But is it just the head that's rotten? No, soon the whole fish is rotten; that's the point.

So yes, Zuck is rotten. And consequently we should expect to find systemic rot through the organization at all but the very lowest levels (the groundskeepers and maintenance guys are probably clean)
There is also Ulfius: https://github.com/babelouest/ulfius/
How would you suggest they fix the process?

The practice of hiring someone "because it is harder for them to switch jobs" so the company "can lock these employees for longer" and "can pay them less" sounds like unlawful wage discrimination.

If the existence of a governmental program helps a company in pursuing an unlawful practice should that be relevant in determining the wrongfulness of the practice?

That seems like a very weak argument.

It seems reasonable that a company should see the program as intended to make H1-B candidates attractive because of their skills, not because it will be "harder for them to switch jobs" and the company can "lock" them for longer and "pay them less".

If there are citizens or permanent residents that have the same skills then what legitimate reason exists why companies should be filling them with H1-B candidates instead?
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I'd be quite sure the author is well aware of the contradiction. Not every human activity and behavior has to be 100% rational.
Xggh
What he writes about version control and svn.

> its fully centralized design is largely considered obsolete

> ...it is still widely used, maintained, and appropriate for a few use cases, such as for folks who require centralization and/or increased security controls for one reason or another.

Statements like this sour the whole book for me and makes me feel it's written by one whose experience is lacking.
Agree. I remember Xbox Gold was a pig to cancel back in the day as well.
That isn't really true, though.

If 1000 people spend $1000, that isn't the same as a person spending all that in one month. The 1000 people are going to spend the money differently and on a variety of things. Phone bills, electric, car payments, groceries, rent, clothes, entertainment, coffee. Perhaps a restaurant or two or a bar. Might need school supplies and medicine. Even better, these 1000 people are likely to do this monthly.

One person spending 1,000,000 isn't likely to spend it on those categories nor spend that monthly. Even then, the spending is going to be different. The spending is also more likely to be stable.

The economy generally will survive if the one person doesn't spend their 1,000,000. Even if they stop spending that monthly, that'll be OK.

However, the economy will suffer if the many people do not spend 1000 a month, depending on how close the people are to each other. All in one town probably means an employer has had hard times, and eventually other businesses close because of it - unless, of course, things start getting better again.

The economy hurts if trends shift. When folks get more poor and cannot spend on small luxuries or stop buying as mnay cheap clothes, the economy suffers.

The person able to spend 1,000,000 a month likely very much depends on those 1000 people spending 1000 per month, consuming the things they do.
Poverty Is Like a Disease
Buildah (1.5+) and Podman (1.0+) will work in an unprivileged environment on Linux systems with Linux kernel 4.18+ or kernels with the relevant changes to userns backported (I believe the latest RHEL 7 kernels qualifies here).

[To note, I don't work for Red Hat]
Reminds me of this book, which I recommend; Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica http://feralhouse.com/big-dead-place/
Audits won't change much if the algorithm is learning with new data, which is all the race right now. You'd have to inspect the data, and think about all possible cases.
Innovation doesn't have to be stifled by regulation, but ad revenue will possibly be with weaker targeting accuracy. Is that really that bad for consumer? Maybe I will finally start seeing ads that would broaden my interests, instead of seeing what is too similar to what I already own and know to interest me? Or maybe each product should have an ad free paid version?
Testing Hawking radiation in laboratory black hole analogues
This is completely false. I am Jewish, my wife is Chinese, so I have a unique insight. Both the jews and the chinks would agree with the comment, not feel attacked by it. You know who does feel attacked by it? White suburban kids who have grown up taken care of all their needs by their upper middle class parents. They feel attacked because they have no real issues in their empty lives, and want to feel important and look cool in front of their friends. They are completely racist in a reverse kind of way, and fight the battles of others since they don't have any of their own. Others who never asked for their help, nor welcome it, as these idiots know nothing about the actual issues.

The funniest thing is if they here "nigger." Black people use it with each other, a white guy using it is racist. These kids fight for the rights of the black thugs from a bad neighborhood, but are too afraid to ever set foot there. Notice, I don't equate that word to black. It means a thug who also happens to be black, and uses the word himself.

So my question to you, racist suburban rat, is what makes you so special that not being Chinese, you know you would feel attacked by this if you were Chinese? Because the actual Chinese disagree with you completely, but do agree you are racist.
x86's MMU Is Turing Complete
You can also just serve HTTP.
Do you think it would be possible for me to make an application to work at a research station?

Surely they need to do some important experiments to see how cold affects the performance of a software developer, when it comes to typing and bug levels. :)
You are right, so is OP, but I don't think OP's post is heartless. It's simply descriptivist (positivist) and not normative. It is what it is, there's no point in sugar coating it.

And yes, of course our response to these facts are even more important. Do we just short steel mill stocks and Pittsburgh bonds or advocate for retraining, for subsidizing emerging industry establishments in the affected areas, etc.

Some of the affected people feel it as elitism, socialism, etc. Usually because outsiders are blind to and ignorant of the local complexities, and also because good fashioned bias and denialism. It's easier to simply deny climate change and hate green liberals than accepting that coal is out. And that software has a much higher ROI due to the marginally aomost zero cost of adding new users/customers than hard labour jobs, etc.
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Setting aside your subjective opinion about the state of the US's government, the Schengen area includes countries such as Slovakia and Austria. Apparently there have been no wave of Slovakians migrating into Austria despite the gap between their living standard, political transparency or corruption level. Hungary and Austria for that matter, or Poland and German. The agreement is only about open border. Nothing else.
Given that podman is in Arch Linux's aur[0] – and on their home page they refer to installing it with apt-get (debian) – then I imagine everything is handled in the podman tool, its userspace dependencies and the kernel.

I personally look forward to trying it out.

[0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libpod/
Security-usability tradeoff in correcting password typos
Would love to see this in PDF. Is there a way to get it?
Looks like the 95th percentile went up to $235K in 2017/2018.

https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/
Garbage content in my opinion is mindless, soulless content created by content farms. Which in a way is what YouTube encourages through their advertising business. Same issue with low quality results in search engines due to all the content farms.

Any content that makes me question things is good in my opinion.

I had a period when I was into UFOs and whatnot.. and it led to an interesting realization about what I actually know. So in my view everything has its place. For example a video about flat earth may very well engage the viewer to wonder WHY the earth wouldn't be flat?

You can't force people to ask questions. Some people will get into the deep end and lose themselves. So be it. You can never force someone else to wake up out of their dreams. It's each individual's choice. At best it is only through the heart, and not rationality, that you can help someone see more clearly. Everyone believes n one thing or another, in order to feel safe.

And yes you are right. YouTube is absolutely perfect right now in some funny ways. Through the limitation of their own business model, they allow everyone to express themselves. And this is better for everybody.

I think they're going to stick to moderation politics and whatnot anyway, so who cares.
If Google is like Facebook in this respect then a senior engineer who "meets expectations" in a performance review stands to make at least 15-20% of their salary as a bonus. If you get below "meets expectations" you are probably going to be fired very soon. Hence your "meets expectations" bonus target is essentially no less guaranteed than the base compensation you would also lose out on if you were fired. The bonus target at companies like this is not an "above and beyond" bonus. There are bonus multipliers (and potentially non-standardized discretionary equity bonuses) for higher than expected performance.
Safer bash scripts with 'set -euxo pipefail'
The second example is also leaking memory.
Ask HN: How and where to mentor people new to programming?
I've been thinking about the ways I could contribute to the industry and a few options immediately pop up: open-source projects, writing blogs or articles, but I think one of the ways of contributing isn't talked about that much - simply mentoring or helping out less experienced programmers.

There are obvious problems with mentoring since you can do more harm than good to someone who is barely starting.

Does anyone have any experience of doing this in an environment outside of work? I've spent long hours helping colleagues with code issues and mentoring interns or graduates, so I hope I can take a step in a different direction.
Advanced Wildcard Patterns Most People Don’t Know
That has nothing to do with my question. Of course you "serve HTTP". I want to know how one interfaces with a server without CGI or fastCGI.
So pretty much only companies in Bay Area or a couple similarly high $ hubs, and candidates wanting to go there specifically. That intuitively feels like promoting an unhealthy environment (not because of Bay Area in particular, but because of promoting concentration).
Homegrown Violent Extremist – Mobilization Indicators [pdf]
Vim Configuration Tutorial in 10 Minutes
It's the same argument but here in Sweden there a lot more people dying in motorcycle accidents (6x) and a lot fewer riders (1/100x). I think riding a bicycle is considered more scary because everyone can do it and you only consider the worst outcomes, but my 10km bike path is considereably more safe than almost all forms of transport (based on statistics of accidents).
> How much of this is the result of parents allowing children to play games unattended with games they themselves have not played to vet?

None of it. You can try it. You can have a million parents leave a million children alone for most of the day, and not even a bitmap image of one cartoon coin or anything will magically be created, much less the code and distribution channels for a whole game. It doesn't make existing "wholesome" games automatically devolve into other games either, the code and assets don't change at all.

The people who actually do make these things, who do exploit some parents having a lot on their plate: where were their parents then, and where are their peers now? The crime of "not paying enough attention to what your child is doing, which results in a person you love being harmed, and you paying money", is tiny versus the crime of "ruthlessly preying on children for financial gain". Looking away when your child plays such a game is nothing compared to looking away when people make and distribute them.

I don't have children so I'm hesitant to point fingers at parents. I have the ability to make derpy things to sell to children, and I'm not doing that also because in my mind, only a.) children and b.) very careful, well trained and aware adults should make entertainment for children. So unlike parents, I judge those "creators" mercilessly. I cannot even stand the overly "hyped" streamers and youtubers who makes sure they don't swear to be "family-friendly" and not get "demonetized", but otherwise talk crap 24/365 that is fit to turn any brain to mush... but apps and games pushed onto kids directly is yet another level of depraved.

Where is society making an effort to warn parents, that you get to call them lazy for maybe not even considering some people would be so sick and morally bankrupt? What effort was made since Elsagate to warn anything about that stuff? That there's millions of dollars on the line has nothing to do with it, just lazy parents?

Lazy, deplorable society, is what I'd call it.
Those statements are mostly true. One of those few use cases where centralized version control still has a lot traction is game dev. Because of large files and a need to manage them efficiently on relatively limited local disks.
Encounters at the End of the World is an entertaining documentary about the people and circumstances of living on Antarctica. If you’re curious about life on the ice and the researchers and people make up the society there.

> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounters_at_the_End_of_the...
I took some photos of Mt Fuji from a distance with a 28-70 at prob something like 60mm f8. To my horror when I got home and fired up Lightroom there were several, very visible, dark blotches against the bright clouds around the summit.

I learned my lesson and will often use an air spray squishy thing to get rid of dust from the lens.
No it is not necessary.
If no length is given, the string is assumed to be NULL-terminated.

It's a bit unfortunate that they use two code paths for that which are basically just copy & paste.

https://github.com/boazsegev/facil.io/blob/master/lib/facil/...
If you’re using CGI or FCGI, then you’re using a general web server that is probably serving lots of different applications.

These days, folks often write the app to contain a web server. Write your app in JavaScript, pull in a dependency that serves HTTP, write enough code to route requests and start the server listening- welcome to Node. Python and Ruby offer the same. Swift gets this functionality from Kitura and Vapor. I’ve experienced C and C++ varieties.

Back in the day when Apache was seriously hot, mimicking today’s architecture would have meant writing an Apache module - the app would then live within the server and no communication channel/pipe/socket/fork/spawn would be required.
Because density and homogenity. Entire cities are built on coal and related processing, mining, etc.

Whereas farm hands and secretaries have transformed, and were not so densely localized. (And farm hands are still needed, large industrialized farms are still rather labor intensive, just more area can be successfully managed by the same sized staff + a lot more capital/machinery.)
Note at the time (2011-2012) there was almost assuredly a lot of incentive at FB to look the other way regarding this kind of fraud, since they were preparing to go public (May 2012). When going public you want to get the best price on your IPO, so I imagine the order from higher up was to push revenue higher and look the other way on these types of issues.

FB's stock dropped 40% in the months after going public, so that incentive to not do anything to impact revenue remained as FB dug themselves out of that hole. It may have even been amplified because internal employees were in lockout period watching the stock drop and wanting to cash out at a good price, and probably were (psychologically) price anchored on the IPO price.
There is absolutely no way that immediate gratification culture is a generational problem. I've worked my entire adult life in R&D for medical diagnostic devices and in those forty years nearly all the bad decisions I've been subjected to had quarterly stock results as the eventual root cause (if you dug long enough).

Calling it a generational problem is like blaming Millennials for the participation prizes that they got as kids which the adults invented, created, and awarded.
Yes but the poster, above, is complaining about using CGI with a server. My question is, if you're not using CGI/fastCGI with Apache or nginx for example, what is he suggesting should be used instead?
If your toddler tried to use your credit card at an amusement park to buy $500 worth of cotton candy I imagine the person at the counter would not process it.
AMEX is what provides that solution, and fine the merchant as a bonus. It's called disputing a charge. Other cards have the option too, but AMEX will fight for you the most. I've literally had merchants issue a partial refund, disputed the original charge, and ended up with bonus money, multiple times.

There is a cost to using credit cards. One of the main reasons to use them is this protection against bad actors, and punishment of those actors by fines.
If you use websocket for short lived connections, you are doing something wrong.

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Meta observation:

Maybe this is the bane of smartphone era and small screens, but the context of the discussion seems to disappear instantly.

Subject: websockets > forking processes > .. aaand the websocket context is lost and we are talking generally about forks in web applications with growing thread.
In the 1970s, there was a woman in my social circle from New Zealand. She did two tours of work in Antarctica. Both times she said she took 500 condoms and two cases of liquor as part of her allowed personal luggage. I remember her talking about life there, basically periods of difficult work and lots of free time also. She said that it was an interesting experience but that two tours were enough.

Another friend in our social group had a job freeing trapped porpoises from tuna nets. As a programmer, my work life seemed tame compared to my two friends.
Ok, lemme spell it out: bundling the app and the server together; that’s what’s implied.
FreeBSD uses it for the operating system. While he complains that svn is obsolete, he then goes on to say it's widely used, and so far, it seems pretty important when games and operating systems--and more--are using it.
Uber Rewards Is a Bad Deal for Cities Hoping to Reduce Congestion
Promotion at Google does not mean management.
Trust is gone and it will be the end of the big Facebook (website).

I think Facebook (company) is lucky with Instagram because that's where the people are going right now.
It has to be. No way it can be real. I assumed it was trolling by the end. But perhaps someone is that sheltered and lacks that much self awareness.
Well - sorta in some use cases; my suspicion is that translators working in this way find most of what the machine can do marginal in value.
Well, see if your country has a research station, go to their homepage and check their openings. If you know how to fix electronics maybe there is a possibility.
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Where I live: Government pay for it if the company has fewer than 20 people.
This is part of the reason I can't get in to reverse engineering. It takes an incredible amount of time to get a little done when in the same time you probably could have written your own camera firmware. I do remember seeing an open source camera but it was a really high end one and very expensive.
I think this can make it easier for hackers to understand your data model right from the beginning. Even with Firebase I don't manipulate data in the client because anyone can just open a f12 and start changing the data as they wish, it's a good idea but it's a hacking world and we need to make sure that data manipulation stays in the backend only with CORS, SSL and requests protection against injections either in SQL or anything else can even be a header.

I understand were you're coming from, I used to think why not. Well the security is still the barrier and even back in the old ages of Java EE the beans stayed safe guarded in the backend from the Web Project.
Just one rather recent example: https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...

Assange also claimed to possess incriminating documents on several Russian oligarchs and Government corruption since about 2009-2010, before he got his show on RT.
I recommend checking out some websites which explain in detail, e.g.

https://www.nsf.gov/geo/opp/support/southp.jsp

> The station has an Atmospheric Research Observatory, the Martin A. Pomerantz Observatory for astrophysics, and computer systems for research and communication including Internet access. It has collected the longest continuous set of meteorological data from Antarctica's vast interior ice plateau, and it is well located for studies of the cusp region of the magnetosphere. Astronomy and astrophysics have flourished in recent years, taking advantage of excellent optical properties of the atmosphere (resulting from its high elevation, low temperature, and low humidity) and, for neutrino detection, the extremely clear and homogeneous thick ice below. A small biomedical research facility is present. Other areas of interest include glaciology, geophysics and seismology, ocean and climate systems, astrophysics, astronomy, and biology.
We are not a product either. We are just a subject as in a kingdom. Our behaviour is the product.
Not sure how it is in Linux, but in Windows it's only threads that can execute code. Spawning a process will cause the OS to create a thread for it as well.
The question looked like "why are aren't you making a PR for this".
Found a link regarding the Russia leaks announced in 2010: http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2028283,00...
Can you explain or link to details on the on-call policy restrictions and compensation?
It really doesn’t. You wouldn’t even need the email. If this ever went to court the NYT wouldn’t win. Judges are human beings, not computers, and they consider circumstances. All you have to do is demonstrate intent, and not use the service so they can’t argue you received benefit without making an attempt to cancel.
A Standard Audio API for C++: Motivation, Scope, and Basic Design [pdf]
This is exactly what happened with the gaming media too. More and more political commentary, often biased heavily towards one side of the political spectrum and somewhat disdainful towards their customers.

Then again, I hear it's happened in many specialist fields recently, like entertainment journalism (music, TV, literature), sports journalism, etc. Constant political focus, agenda pushing, a general detachment from their audience.

And in every case, it's caused the publication to lose readers/subscribers because they don't want this political stuff. Suspect it's caused the growth of a fair few online publications too.

Not everything has to be a soapbox for political commentary.
Said in different times, taken out of context. He realised he needs privacy after he married and had children.