skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft's hiring pretty much went down the drain because there was no common hiring bar. I can point different orgs with different level of devs. This is not the case at Google no matter how much HN complains about Google it consistently hires smart and above average engineers. Google is growing, it will meet its challenges, wait and watch.
I've heard this about Instagram, too, which makes sense I guess since they have the same ad infrastructure. One woman I was talking to the other week said her favorite thing about Instagram was the ads. I was like.. "huh."
One thing I do with take-home exercises after I'm done interviewing with a company is adapting them and then open-sourcing them (obviously removing identifying information about the company). This has really helped me and I have more side projects to show later on. With that said, I've gone above and beyond with the implementation of these exercises so typically many of them are worth open-sourcing.
Not quite my cup of tea, but I've watched people reach for their Psion PDAs all the time, even when they had large keyboards within reach.

Evidently some people can become friends with some very small keyboards.
Another thing I saw in US is that they can't make the distinction between hardcore porn, soft porn, erotica, nudity and showing some cleavage.

I used to work at a European game company that made erotic games for PocketPC. Our biggest market was US, and most negativity also came from US. Video striptease is labeled as "porn".

What they preach is very different from how they act. You cannot say fuck or shit on tv or internet, but in real life everyone does it.

When Janet Jackson show a nipple on TV, it's a huge fuzz. But having a colleagues gathering in a striptease bar is normal.

I'm pretty sure the prudish public behavior enforces the excessive private behavior.
I'm pretty sure that having "just" 3 networks don't explain the costs by themselves. My country has 3 networks and we have one of the lowest prices in EU.

What probably does make it expensive is big territory with little population density.
The thing you’re buying from an insurance company is “Can you pay me in case of a covered claim?” not “Can you pay me if I need money because something bad happened?” If you buy medical insurance and file a claim because your house burned down, expect not to get money. If you file a claim which falls into the policy exclusions which are briefed at excruciating length and which you had your lawyers review because you are a professional risk manager and know this policy’s value to you is potentially nine figures, expect to not get money.

The reason companies with very intelligent risk managers keep paying Zurich money is that Zurich reliably pays out covered claims, as you would expect from a highly-regulated entity. HN’s incredulity about insurance companies routinely paying out claims staggers the imagination. They’re highly regulated publicly traded companies which denominated claims expenses in (in this case) billions of dollars; that isn’t code for “Psych we actually just bought mountains of cocaine and would have successfully hoodwinked all counterparties, regulators, and courts but for the diligence of Internet commenters.”
nah.

as long as advertising stays the most popular way for site owners to pay the costs -- this is about advertising, sorry.

once patreons or subscriptions will become bigger -- we will talk. but as of now, it's about advertising.
In the US we absolutely don't treat DNA as personal property.

For instance, there's no need to get a warrant to follow you around and pick up something that you discard and then examine that object for DNA.
You’re showing the exact cultural bias that the GP is talking about.
You are an individual. You are not an average. The average is entirely irrelevant for you.

The calculation you need to make is "how is MY life effected by this decision".

If you choose to pay the small insurance amount you probably won't even miss the money in your day to day life.

But when that unexpected event happens, one version of you can come back strong while the sucker can console himself with the thought that the average human is at least being happy.
and then you have the genes, but zero algorithm to analyse them. feels unlikely that any company would rent offline copies of their analysis solutions, but you never know
Regularly paying out vaguely-calculated $100 million claims wouldn't bode well for their long-term existence either. I'm guessing that Zurich did their own assessment of the losses and came up with a much, much lower number. The article states that they were originally willing to pay $10 million. Before casting aspersions on Zurich, we should take a critical look at how Mondelez calculated $100 million of losses.

Mondelez likely threatened Zurich with extensive lawsuits when they realized the companies were an order of magnitude apart (10 vs 100mm), and Zurich threatened back with their version of Judge Smalls -- you'll get nothing, and like it!

To a commentator below who doubted they could prove Act of War conclusively in court: they will never have to -- this would be a civil case, they only have to achieve "more likely than not," which may not be difficult given the extensive declarations, as mentioned in the article, from FBI, DoD, Pentagon, etc.
Nothing sets off my sleezy salesman proximity sensor faster than someone using my name more than once in a few sentences.
Also DTrace has a replacement in place anyway.

"Creating Custom Instruments" at WWDC 2018

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/410/
a genome is useless without a huge set of algorithms and datasets to analyse the genome
That nest egg is much better insurance overall though, as it protects in many more scenarios... job loss, bad boss, loss of residence rights...
The basic rule of insurance is "never insure that which you would be able to pay out yourself".

There may be a few exceptions where you know that the risk/premium ratio is in your favour... I twice got my banks purchase protection "insurance" to replace bikes that a bike insurance wouldn't have even insured in that city. And that was with a free bank account.
> "hostile or warlike action in time of peace or war"

A lot of comments jump on the war and cyber war definitions, but the article states the exclusion is based on a "hostile or warlike action", which is a much looser definition.

Based on the announcement of multiple governments that this attack is from Russian origin this exclusion might very well be justified.
Crypto is a scam and the only reason anyone should partake in it is to either test your gullibility, or scam others.

Anything that 4chan's /biz/ board promotes aggressively is a scam 9/10 times
Aren't these Victorian era leftovers? It would explain UK and USA to some extent. Also I'm not sure, but isn't Spain also more relaxed in case of nudity?
Concurrency and parallelism are two different things
> Atom boards

It's more than a double price of RPi. It's definetly not afforable for education purpose.

> Beaglebone

I love this SBC but it is seriously underpowered than RPi in 2019. It focus more on real-time embedded system performance and rapid hardware prototyping.
Those were pretty much the only reasons I continued to admire Google for as long as I did. They gave hope that the company might one day have a meaningful consumer revenue stream that isn’t advertising.

They’ve gone for “cloud services” instead. Drastically, drastically, less inspiring — and also pretty competitive. What happens if Amazon drop their prices a bit?
Aren't you doing anything weird with your cookies? For me recaptcha is almost always solvable from the first try. Regarding Youtube, usually reloading the page 2-3 times allows me to skip ads, but this trick doesn't work with all videos.
The salem witch-hunts are taught but agree on the back burner.
If that were the case, why does practically every company that has engineers also have engineering managers? Are we all just doing it wrong?
It also means you're in a position to pick up your stack and deploy it elsewhere if such a thing makes business sense in future. A lot of organisations are putting themselves in a position where that's not an option.
i don’t like talking about this in public due to the safety risk, but it’s also very easy in the united stages. you just need paper pen, white out and a fax machine. most death certificates are easily available online. perhaps i restored some of your faith in humanity. Deading someone isn’t more common
> US-ONLY REMOTE

Paperwork wise, working with foreign contractors is much easier compared to US ones - they just send invoice PDF-s at the end of the months, and the company does the regular bank wire transfer. So what's the reason you are not open to this?
There are lots of laptops which have better price/quality ratio than MacBooks. HP ZBook is one example, there are of course more. I've bought my previous HP EliteBook 6 years ago which was already in used condition, had better performance than MacBooks for fraction of their price. I had to switch to a newer HP model only because I've needed more than 8GB of RAM.

Some EliteBook/ZBook models have 2 slots for hard disks plus a DVD tray, which can be replaced to 3rd HDD slot. They can be plugged to a docking station that give them plenty of ports, even old ones like LPT or PS/2 should anyone need them. I really see no benefit of using a MacBookPro with 2 multifunction ports that requires buying expensive cable converters.

Enterprise-graded laptops (like EliteBooks) often allow upgrading the graphics card inside the laptop, because they often use the MXM slot.

I won't even mention the fact that RAM is never soldered in and can be replaced / extended if needed.

Keyboard is changable, so if a key will be damaged, user can buy a replacement keyboard and switch it after unscrewing 3 or 4 screws. Bought a laptop from Scandinavia? You can change the keyboard to your local one after buying it for $25.

Apple products quality is good, but they're overpriced to a level of ridicule.
As someone who is a Sr. Software Engineer at this point in my life, I started in mechanical engineering. I've been on both sides of the table for both positions and the differences between how candidates are evaluated is vastly different.

Mechanical engineers from my experience essentially go through talks with their future boss and coworkers to evaluate if the person would be a good fit on the team, with technical ability coming up very rarely as it's ON THE RESUME.

Software engineers on the otherhand are treated as if they do not have past experience in industry and are subjected to college tutoring whiteboard sessions (I was also a tutor in college). From my experience, the interviews rarely even introduce you to the team, or even talk about the toolings required for the job.

The hands down best software interview I've been through, unsurprisingly was not at a "tech" company, but rather Alaska Airlines. Talked about the project with the manager and how I would be able to contribute, met the team, did an actual coding exercise RELATED to the actual project that lasted 5 minutes and landed the job.
This thing needs more exposure. Apple fix your reputation!
I'm not sure about your definition of often. I have not seen a Japanese eating cheese or even stopping at the small cheese collection in my local supermarket in the last four months I've been here.

I think price above value is a somewhat good indicator how commonly used a product actually is. The Camembert you linked also costs between ¥400 and ¥600 in my local supermarket. That's a 5-8 times price increase to Camembert of the same or I think even larger size in German supermarkets. The price imho indicates this is a exotic rarely used speciality.

Milk and Jogurth on the other hand have only a smaller 30-50% price increase to German supermarkets for the same quantity and quality. I also see Japanese frequently buying these.
Inherently invasive: FBI counter-hacking operations raise red flags over privacy
I was about to write an whole comment about how Violet Blue's perspective wasn't matched with reality. But you hit the main point dead on.

I feel that her perspective is not very sympathetic to the average couple nor is it relatable with the average corporation. It hasn't been in the past and it isn't now. The closest that she can get to what she's asking for is Fetlife.
Who knew click bait and fake news isn't a business model?!
No it didn't, those coins got back into the supply before the theft was reported publicly. I think the coins stolen from bitfinex are still sitting there so it does happen, just not with the MtGox theft.
No, she found a close relative of the anonymous donor by sending her daughter's dna to 23andMe. It's a privacy / deanonymization issue, not a case of the sperm bank not checking if the donor is related to the recipient.
I love my pi! Today I took the 5 mins to install PiHole and it's great! No more ads on any device on my home network. Lovely! :)
All of these things (violence guns, police, censorship, etc) are about controlling people and restricting freedom. "Land of the free" is an advertising slogan; America is one of the least free countries there is.
It reminds me of the story about the TV show Hannibal. There was an episode where a couple was murdered and flayed but because they were naked and their butt cracks were visible, the network wanted to censor the scene. The solution? Fill it with blood. The network's happy and they get to keep their TV-14 rating.
It’s nice that the rpi project has been received warmly but I think it’s success has come at a price here.

If anyone remembers why the rpi started life: it was to get cheap affordable hackable “computers” in front of kids and hobbyists for programming purposes.

The affordability and ease of use has become a bar that everything else is measured by “that’s x times more expensive than a pi” is a common response when better solutions for your use-case exist.

The raspberry pi has made many compromises to be at the price it is. No dedicated Ethernet controller, no SATA bridge, no eMMC-

It’s literally the definition of suffering from success because now it seems people don’t judge it on what it was meant to do; just on what it’s possible to do with it.

It’s worth remembering that it is not meant as a one size fits all general purpose computer. It’s a hobbyist programming board.
ROCK64. Same form factor, up to 4GB of LPDDR3, USB 3.0, GbE, eMMC, SPI flash, mainline support (except GPU, but Lima sort of can display a Weston desktop already).
> Unfortunately ease of use is more important to me than that.

Why even mention "environmentally sound" hardware if the only thing you care about is convenience? When it comes time to ask yourself why you didn't do the right thing you already have your excuse: it was just so convenient. No shit.
> Only if you have bad luck.

I hope your storage is not an SD Card though, because if that's the case you are tempting fate ;-)

Thank you very much for the "Scooter Computer" link! I had seen those off-brand x86 boxes on Alibaba and I wanted to get a couple for a project but didn't know where to start from, that article by Atwood is a good start.
War, hostilities, civil unrest and acts of god have been standard exclusions in insurance policies, well, forever.

I'm not sure why this would be any different, but for the "cyber" that gives HN something to talk about. After all, a bloodless coup or invasion would be an act of war without retaliation.

Normal civil standards of proof would be all that's needed.
Except the Chinese clones! They compete in price, ports and clock speed. The downside is smaller community, less images etc.
Tbf while Cook doesn't have the product vision of Jobs, he does have a clear strategic/what we want Apple to be vision. He's a post founder CEO for sure, but one of the best and a different league from Pichai by all accounts.
For me the moral of the story is that sperm banks are not in a position to guarantee donors anonymity. Donating DNA is like donating the most effective way to track you.
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What about the child? She didn't agree to anything.
Would be quite handy if there was a model with built-in SSD level flash storage (8, 16GB or something like that) and option to write the image on that storage by just connecting the device to computer USB port.
> So as a citizen of an EU country [...] why do I have to suffer from the censorship of US companies?

Technically, because you volunteer to. If the internet companies on your continent are not relieving your suffering, it's either the fault of them or an extremely unfortunate side effect of applying the lowest common denominator of laws on a global medium. Considering the latter, one might similarly question why other countries have to suffer the internet censorship laws of EU countries/companies.

Speaking of double standards, I do find it amusing that depending upon the article one might either despise or cheer country-specific rules affecting the global internet. We should be mindful that others may not share our morals when we impose our will on a global medium. Instead we should apply our morals to ourselves and try to encourage what we want instead of punitively trying to get our way.
It reminds me of Android 5 where every time you enable GPS, Google shows a popup asking you to share your location with them (very annoying). And besides, there is a checkbox "Don't ask me again", but if you tick it, the "Decline" button gets disabled to ensure that you don't make the wrong choice.

[1] https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/115944/how-to-pr...
It's not about upgrading, it's about repairing when it gets broken. Which no matter how well made SSD, batteries or memory is, it will in a few years (at least on average).

If it's soldered on instead of simply connected, that means repairing it requires much more skill, and can easily result in damage to other parts. What it means really is that fixing a broken macbook costs way more then it should if they just used a normal connector.

In the case of this specific example, the fact that the display cables are part of display itself means that "a 5$ repair by replacing a cable turns into a 500$ replacement of the display". Which basically equates to a 500$ yearly subscription on a 2000$ machine.
NanoPi is a good replacement, they provide distros, have all infos in the wiki and their libraries are open source on Github. You can order directly from friendlyarm https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/category...
I don't see this for Google, using a German IP. But I do see it for Startpage, until I turn off the family filter. Searching for "porn start suicide". First hits:

Google: Fifth porn star dies: Drugs, suicide factors in deaths - The Mercury News <https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/22/fifth-young-porn-star...

DDG: Fifth young porn star dies: Drugs, despair, suicide factors ... <https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/22/fifth-young-porn-star...

Startpage: Did porn star August Ames really commit suicide because of cyber ... <https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6544965/Did-porn-st...

Searx: Suicide Girls Porn Videos | Pornhub.com <https://www.pornhub.com/video/search?search=suicide+girls>

It is interesting that Searx (using Bing, I think) returned Pornhub as the top hit, rather than one of the news stories. But maybe that was just randomness.
Magic keyboard also suffer from this design
Orange Pi has no mainline Linux support though, or did that change?
"Because it is women, people of color, LGBTQ communities, writers and artists who compose the majority population of sex communities"

While it seems her concerns are warranted, that kind of writing just puts me off. It seems also unlikely that women are more concerned with sex than men. And it is not nazis and incels taking over the internet and censoring sexual content, but presumably US puritanism. And also, presumably, liberals who worry that porn is exploitation of women. Google and Facebook are dominated by SJWs, not by nazis (unless you admit those amount to the same thing).

Maybe Puritanism simply won - their work ethic resulted in creating Silicon Valley, so now they get to establish their puritan rules in the global digital network.
> The now-confessed killer was the DJ at my wedding.

That is a bit morbid.
LePotato has no GIgabit Ethernet support though.
They are called PWA, not WA, with P meaning Progressive.

The idea is that the app should check for available browser/OS APIs that progressively enhance user's experience.

And no they aren't necessarily just a native app with a webview, on UWP a store delived PWA has full access to the UWP APIs, just like .NET and C++, no need to write extra FFI manually.

No need for Frankenstein solutions like Cordova.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/pwa

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/progressive-...
I wrote that. And the reason that I didn't go into connectivity/port issues is that they have almost nothing to do with battery lifetime. I saw no reason to digress into those topics.
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Self insuring is a completely valid strategy. People do it all the time - that’s what a deductible is meant to allow for. Only makes sense to pay for insurance in a financial sense to cover losses you couldn’t comfortably afford to cover yourself or where you are required to by law.

Having said that, psychologically there is a behaviour changing effect of insurance even where it’s not financially needed which is also beneficial at least for me - eg you don’t worry about taking your expensive things on holiday, you don’t self ration medical treatment, etc. I value this and so am probably overinsured in a financial sense but I view it as money well spent.
Pi Project for Adding Privacy to Amazon Echo or Google Home
> Total surveillance or global DNA law enforcement database would solve many murders and prevent wrongful convictions. However, it would also give many opportunities for framing convenient suspects and "encouraging" confessions.

I am afraid it could cause wrongful convictions as well. Let's say there is a 1 in a million chance of a false positive, if you have an enormous database there is a large probability of a false positive even though your individual risk is low. As far as I understand DNA evidence is often damaged or incomplete, meaning this could be a serious risk.
US jurisprudence may be different from the Australian law I studied, but as I understand it the "more likely than not" applies to the facts in a civil case not to the legal issue of what constitutes an act of war. That is a question of existing legal precedent and statute law. If there isn't a clear legal definition of cyber war they may indeed have a difficult time proving that cyber attacks are an act of war. But they may think it is worth the effort to try and establish a precedent.
Aren't you sharing the ride with other passengers?
Make is a very underappreciated tool outside C/C++ circles.

I'm currently using it in an environment which uses Concourse as the CI tooling - Concourse takes care of version and dependency management at its level, and Make fills in the gaps for fetching the latest versions for local development environments. Because Make won't re-download files for already-made targets, local build cycles are fast after initial setup. Concourse can then re-use these Makefiles by symlinking the resources it manages before calling make, and Make won't try to re-download the resources. If you're not concerned with portability, you can even use make to fetch (and clean) Docker images since they live in predictable directories on Linux (but not OS X).

More people ought to approach the tool with an open mind.
If you want reliability, get an industrial grade microSD card. Here's a random option:

https://www.mouser.com/new/Swissbit/swissbit-industrial-SD-m...