skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The guy I picked to run my company belong in the same sentence as Steve Jobs." Of course you would say that while handing over the reins, to build confidence in him, and in your choice to choose him.

Im not saying its not true, just that their is other motive.
USDA marketing orders created an inflated market and USDA checkoffs robbed dairy farmers to fund pointless marketing campaigns. This is exactly what was always going to happen when we decided to put a finger on the scale for thirty years.

http://reason.com/archives/2019/03/02/thanks-to-decades-of-g...
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TV stars and coaches charged in college bribery scheme
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There's so much discussion from the perspective of the parents, but what about the message this sends to the kids that it's OK to cheat your way through life?

If you could get into USC with a ~1000 SAT score like Huffman's daughter, would you even want to go? I wouldn't. It is shortchanging the achievement, and really missing the point of what admission to such a university represents.

The reality is that the college you attend, especially for undergrad, has relatively little bearing on your life as a whole. If you're in the GPA/SAT range to get into Stanford, but end up attending UC Irvine instead, you'll be just fine. You might even graduate with less debt and at the top of your class. On the other hand, if your parents bail you out and buy your way into Stanford when you're not qualified, it sets you up for a life of disappointment. You'll likely struggle to keep up with classmates, and won't know what it feels like to achieve on your own. It teaches reliance on mommy and daddy rather than reliance on yourself, which is not a sustainable approach to life when you get into the real world.
I give you that its not a verbose or complicated hack. but I still would say that a hidden checkbox acting as the middle man for modals etc is pretty hacky :). A hack doesn't need to be complicated, most times its not. But after all I can't imagine anyone thinking about this as a feature when they implemented checkbox inputs back in the days.
Those were produced pre-FAANG, Boeing probably paid comparatively better then. Do the smartest software engineers flock to Boeing in 2019?

I think the relatively low pay and status of software engineers outside of the Bay Area is a huge risk to society. We are going to start seeing it show up in interesting places.
I worked on Oracle software for several years while my close friend worked on Ingres software 4 offices over. We both touted the advantages of what we worked with, and lamented the advantages of the other's software. I was sorry to see Ingres fall out of the market. Cool they are coming back, in whatever shape.
But the reason we remember the Pet Rock is because it was the silly idea that managed to be successful. No one remembers the thousands of floor tiling businesses that were successful or the thousands of silly ideas that were unsuccessful.
I reject the notion that Elastic is in this situation because they need rent money. In my view, they're in this situation because they accepted over 100M in venture capital, and now those investors want to see a return.

I believe that "open core" was not a response to the question of "how do we write open source and still earn a living?" but rather "how do we leverage open source to make a billion dollar company?". I think the distinction, however minor, is important.
Investors also say, "Charge $900 for insulin," and, "All I want are dividends, I don't care if you're dumping pollution into the Love Canal.

Management's difficult job is to know when to say to investors, "Sorry."
Isn't "a collection of other open source projects" pretty much exactly what a "distribution" usually implies? What you get is the curation/selection of what's included and some reassurance that all the pieces really do work together and other people are using them that way.
There are plenty of studious music majors, plenty of liberal arts majors capable of catching up with their C.S. major peers with a year or so of dedicated study, and plenty of people who party hard and are still qualified and capable to do the work that you do.

Your comment reads more like sour grapes about your own college experience than anything else ;)
As a Mac user, macs are not luxury devices. They are a little more expensive for a vastly (in my opinion) more coherent and Unix-y experience, in comparison to Windows machines. In reality I spent a few hundred more on a computer that I’ve used going on 5 years now, recouping the extra cost with a few more hours of freelance work.

If any software I use suddenly charged more for Mac than Windows, I would use a different product immediately.
I feel like another unstated risk here is that if someone can get his plate number through the DMV registration, they could buy tracking on it from one of the large ALPR firms and deduce his home location.
HTTPS: //Hivecode.io
Nowadays source code becomes the most valuable asset of the companies worldwide.
Companies sign NDAs with their employees, but it doesn't work, as it's very hard to know who and how using your source code.
There is no reason to trust your employees unless you check them. Hivecode helps companies to keep an eye on their digital assets and track web applications and software usage.
No longer worries about copying web design of your web site, you will know in seconds about it.
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I'm getting an error at https://www.startupschool.org/
Here is some reading that may inform you why your blog is different than FB.

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/internet-speech/facebo...

https://verdict.justia.com/2019/01/09/why-facebooks-hate-spe...
I don't think it's accurate to describe Sigmund Freud as a scientific mind in psychology. He didn't follow the scientific method.
Im so thankful to wake up this morning.nothin or any person will take take that.stay miserable. One thing's for sure I won't be your company.
My db security is rather lax, and wouldn't notice an anomalous row count, and certainly wouldn't generate a "red flag" as a result.

Anyone know of some lightweight foss monitoring tools that are in this arena? (for single server MySQL setups).
Oh look, someone meta complaining about gender studies who actually doesn't have anything of value to contribute. This never happens and is always productive.
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Specifically in this case, there's no reason to show a list of all of the users in the system. What would you do with a list with millions of rows?

A search makes more sense here.
Previous big thread on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19365108

Other discussions at https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Boeing%20points%3E10&sort=byDa...
For parsing this kind of information having a more structured format like the `sidenote` suggests would be a very nice improvement (such as RSS for the new additions).
It sounds crazy but nuclear accidents show nuclear safety instead
So how do we trust third party software not to be collecting data and sending it back? How does Facebook give access to the customer’s information and ensure that the third party doesn’t abuse it?

My browser doesn’t have access to scrape all of my Facebook information and all of my friends FB information.
Sure. Browse Upwork or Freelancer.com and see what the buyers are asking for. They may be delusional in terms of what they want to pay, but at least those are examples of needs people have that they are willing to spend money on.
"very nearly like" is also extremely dangerous when it comes to risk prevention.

People are pattern-matchers, and if 99% of flying the plane is the same except the part that will kill you if you don't do it the new way--well, people will do it the old way and die. That's infinitely more true in an emergency situation where you tend to fall back strictly on training and instinct.

If you want to jar people into different behavior, the interface needs to be different as well. Otherwise it looks like the same old contract.

I think many of us kind of know this from GUI/API/whatever design, but there's no reason jet planes would be any different.
> You really think they didn’t set out to dominate mobile, search, the gaming market, etc?

No, I think they were, at a minimum, more restrained in unlawfully leveraging their existing monopolies to do that thsn they were in the 1990s with the browser, not that they didn't try to dominate those markets.
Use the word "atypical" instead.

If your audit system knows that this application never runs such queries, and today it did, it knows something changed and flags it.
>> This is decidedly not the case when it comes to enterprise-focused startups: that sector is thriving with all kinds of new businesses being created, acquired, and going public.

Bullshit. If you don't have VC investment under your belt, no corporation would use your services. I have seen this first hand. They refuse to deal with small bootstrapped players. It doesn't matter how great your tech is.
It’s true that well-intentioned people do ask uncomfortable questions, but especially online they’re dwarfed by trolls and people arguing in bad faith.

Then isn't it incumbent on people to carefully consider what's being said and not knee-jerk react? As far as I can tell, all of the knee-jerk reactions in either direction simply add to the noise and outrage.

All told it makes for a difficult topic to discuss in good faith, absent agendas on or offline, but online it’s pure poison.

It makes a lot more sense to think of the whole situation as an exercise in the generation of outrage and toxicity in the service of attention and virality. Given that outrage is the easiest way to achieve virality, it doesn't take some sort of underlying conspiracy to explain this. We've created a sociopolitical milieu combined with networks which create these perverse incentives. The same combination amplifies the most toxic and nonsensical voices, and acts to disguise intelligent voices as nonsense.

The solution is for intelligent and reasonable voices to fight back against the nonsense. This means 1) calling out the excesses of one's own side and 2) uniting with voices of reason across the aisle. The opponent who values truth and with whom one can reasonably disagree with is much preferable to the sociopath no one can reason with because they are really motivated by power stemming from outrage.
> If only you'd written an offline-first PWA and used background-loading and prefetching with some intelligence to retry failed requests in order to deliver content before I actually need it this would have worked so much better.

Then I would have waited too long to load the page the first time and give up.
Yeah, slice it whichever way, but this basically looks shitty on AWS.

At the end of the day, Open source developers need to be able to put food on the table. What AWS is doing here, is like a logging company, recklessly destroying things in its path as long as what they do is "legal", they don't seem to care.

Thing is, we should look at Open source software just like a precious rainforest or any other natural resource. If every company started doing what AWS were doing, soon there would be very few companies like Elastic in business and that kind of open software will cease to exist.

But hey, at least HNers won't be able to argue about technicalities of the license then, right?
> Will this protect him against a slightly funded and half motivated actor? Probably not.

He hired a PI to test the work. Presumably that defeats this viewpoint? Not saying it protects him from the FBI, but I'd say if a PI can't find you then anyone who does want to is going to need to be more than slightly motivated to do so.
How does stuff like this not delegitimize prestigious schools? Imagine having a school full of kids so dumb their rich parents have to pay milluons just to get them in. I wouldnt want to go there, how am I supposed to believe the institution has any integrity? If they're taking money for admissions what else could they be taking money for?
> As if other people do "everything they want to do in their lives"?

Certainly not. Further up, someone else talked about the 'success/productivity porn' that has piled up in tech.

I'm not trying to "measure up" so much as I am trying to get more out of myself. My goal isn't to "seem" to be someone I'm not, only to short circuit whatever I have that keeps me from executing next steps.

> Who exactly does "all the things"?

For me, "all the things" boils down into a few priorities: 1) faith, 2) family, 3) health, 4) school, 5) work.

I don't think it is unreasonable to want to be healthy and developing in each of these.

> That's just a sucker myth sold to people to keep them in the rat race.

Sounds like a conspiracy theory. ;) I think I see what you're saying, though.
Draw a banana on a piece of paper. Chances are in doing so you subconsciously eliminated the dimension of the banana that is 'non curvy' / 'not really varying as much'. You've mentally done a form of PCA, and eliminated the least interesting dimension in reducing it to 2 dimensions instead of 3.

It is a means of defining a new coordinate system that is ordered by dimensions of decreasing variance.
This brought a lot of the learning that has been gathered from the Fukishima aftermath to light. In particular the LNT theory of Nuclear risk has been completely discredited and the WHO should throw it out. There is no data set that supports it.
EU spends €71m promoting meat, despite climate goals
Sounds like you created a system instead of a goal. Check this out: https://www.inc.com/john-boitnott/dilbert-s-scott-adams-on-w...
Some of those points are relevant and some aren't. For logging in to a website, "just use SSL/TLS instead" makes sense, but not for this use case. There's better options nowadays for doing crypto in the browser, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were at least theoretically vulnerable to side channel attacks from JS running in another tab.

The main thing is that unless you're paying really really close attention to the JS that you're executing, you can't trust this any more than you can trust Mozilla and the security of whatever computer is serving their pages. I wouldn't use this for sending data that you're trying to hide from a nation-state, but it looks like a great option if you want to send a video to your grandma without posting it publicly on the internet or teaching her how to use GPG.
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The statistic looks appallingly bad to me viewed as a poisson process. If you had thousands of planes with zero crashes over decades would you consider that as zero data points?
What I find interesting is that when my kid got into a UC via a semi-sport yes, it helped her, but only a tiny bit -- the overall average GPA for these students is only slightly lower (by two points -- 4.0 vs 4.2) than the overall average of who get in, but you still HAVE to make the requirements, and the SAT requirements and other requirements stay exactly the same. Why is it different at other schools like UCLA? That would seem to be an easy fix for this.
Somewhat unrelated, but you seem knowledgeable enough and I have this burning need to ask this question to someone: when prescribed to the average non-diabetic person, does the average diet for diabetics promote improved health? In other words, should we all just be eating as if we were diabetics?
How to write a job post that doesn't suck (because most of them do)
Inspiring really to see the engineering teams prevail despite the marketing and business headwinds. That's what tech is really all about!
Pilots have been pushing back hard on the narrative that this was simply pilot error.

The crux is that safety agencies never mandated training on these new systems, and new procedures weren't created with them in mind. Worse still procedures from older models of the same aircraft (such as automatic overriding of auto-trim) were removed without re-training on that either.

Lion Air had to repair the AOA sensor multiple times (replace, then flush), but a single sensor failure should not bring down an aircraft; and if the AOA sensor is that safety critical then why did Boeing put two of them instead of three (i.e. for cross-checking readings)? Either it wasn't safety critical and Lion Air's actions are reasonable, or it was and Boeing cut costs on safety.

So the justifications blaming either the pilots (who didn't get training, because safety agencies told them it wasn't needed) or maintenance (who were repairing a non-critical sensor that turns out to be safety critical) are weak.
Thought I was just getting old ;) but yes, the thin text was annoying on mobile — harder to read while scrolling through the page
This is pseudo-academic posturing nonsense. The issue people take is attributing value to the differences between sexes, not the biological differences in themselves.
All properly configured applications should be running with least required db credentials, limiting what they can do. That Accenture was monitoring all administrative level queries against the db makes perfect sense in a locked down production environment.
Look, if you want to attack my point with a house analogy, you're doing it wrong. A better attack by analogy would be, "I don't want a lock on my front door, because locks make you complacent."
HN is slowly walking towards facebook culture. People up/down vote things they like or dislike, with the goal of disappearing opinions with which they even mildly disagree. Valid points and thoughtful discussion are increasingly unwelcome.

Lol. Thanks for the downvote all below. Thanks for proving my point about the change of behavior.
I think his point though is that the premise that these companies achieved their success through domination and monopolistic powers is inaccurate because they rose to prominence while not being dominate or possessing any monopolistic powers. Facebook beat out MySpace by making a better product at a time when MySpace had a huge lead. So through innovation and creating a better product alone a company can theoretically compete as the examples she cites did at one point. In fairness, he does go on to say that they have now reached a critical mass such that in the ad space nobody can compete because they throw off so much cash that they can deploy that into acquisitions or developing free products just to maintain their leads and steal share from up and coming companies. It's a complex issue.

One thing I didn't get about Warren's comment was her assertion that if you provide the store for others to sell in you aren't allowed to sell because you have access to data and product placement that gives you an unfair advantage. Okay according to that line of reasoning Wal-Mart and all major grocery chains should be broken up because they all sell private label merchandise. Or none of them should be allowed to sell private label merchandise because they can give it the best placement and know which products are best to make. Obviously that argument quickly falls apart because a consumer who goes to a grocery store is quickly going to become frustrated and go elsewhere if all they can find are the store's own versions of products that they are shopping for. Amazon and Google have demonstrated a very clear understanding of this since they started, knowing that giving the customer what they want quickly and conveniently is the most important thing. If it happens to be Amazon's own brand of duffel bag or Google's own restaurant reviews based on the search then so be it. But I seriously doubt Google is withholding Yelp results to be anticompetitive. The far more likely explanation in my mind is that a searcher would rather see a Google Map with all of the restaurants and pictures and reviews quickly and reliably and Google knows that. That they might profit by it is a happy accident not because they control the means of search. Sooner or later the better product experience is going to win out regardless of whether it is made by Google or somebody else. Google has tried for a decade to compete in social and has failed despite having far greater resources for most of that time.

In short, I think "monopoly!" is a convenient scapegoat for the Yelp's of the world so they don't have to admit that Google simply built a better product experience than they did.
Often they take the classy move and name it after a relative, often a parent. Harvard's Maxwell-Dworkin building got that name because those are the maiden names of Bill Gates's and Steve Ballmer's moms.
Protest isn't censorship
I've found that I start procrastinating most after I've run myself too hard. It's important to have lazy days, where the goal is to accomplish nothing at all. This is one area I really struggle in, even after all these years...
Didn't we learn anything at all from the grim history of religious authorities impeding scientific inquiry because the conclusions were uncomfortable?

No. Many of the same social instincts underpinning religion are now motivating tribal groupthink.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR7x-tUxyvY
I’m learning to program: it’s an endurance sport
"These days, more and more are always grayed out, because they were on some other service that’s no longer connected."

More likely people just stopped using instant messaging. Ubiquitous mobile email, Facebook, and text messaging has not only replaced I stant messaging but have shoved our social circle into a much narrower geographic circle. Back in the day there might have been one person out of ten I talked to online that I knew in person. Now it's just the opposite.
It seems like the research shows that, pre-transition, a trans person's brain resembles that of the "target" sex more closely than their assigned sex. From what I understand, this effect is more pronounced in trans men than trans women.
> I am not advocating for anything just pointing out that the features atributed to Docker existed before.

No one contends that they existed before in isolation or even as a proprietary assemblage; the contention is whether or not they were available as an off-the-shelf tool or a simpler assemblage that is affordable to companies who are not "leading tech companies".

> Absolutely not. Amazon never had such system. You are confusing Google with all leading tech companies probably.

Why do you think "Amazon never had such a system" is a definitive rebuttal to "most leading tech companies had a system like X"? In any case, tell me about the systems that existed at leading tech companies that were comparable to Docker and accessible/practical for non-industry leaders...

> Is this why the same features set claimed by both things?

I'm not sure how to parse this, but it sounds like you might be implying something like "because Docker has a naive image building story, its primary purpose is to be an softare build system".

> Again, what is the problem you are trying to solve with Docker/K8?

Docker solves for standard software packaging and distribution; kubernetes solves for standard, efficient software orchestration. Of course you can throw really smart, well-paid engineers at the problem to devise, build, maintain, and operate a bespoke system that accomplishes a similar end.
It's a book review of a popular science book.
Title of the article: "Where Warren's Wrong"

First phrase: "Senator Elizabeth Warren deserves credit"

Rest of article: Giving Warren no credit, merely quoting her proposal and refuting parts of it.

It's clear this is a proposal, it's like Green New Deal or Medicare for All. There's almost zero chance anything like these policies would not get heavily changed in a legislative process. Politicians just release these to market themselves and guide the policy discussions pre-election.
Google – GDC 2019
Oh how I miss the days of simple self-publishing from your WYSIWYG html editor direct to a cheap VPS.

Why's everything gotta be so complicated?