skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To sum it up, "splitting a system into easier to understand parts until each part is trivially understandable causes the actual complexity to become hidden between the interaction of the parts."

Is that in quotes because it's a quote? If so, from where? Or is this a form of emphasis?
I was burned out after 5 years of 7x24x365. Days were filled with conference calls and escalations about conference calls, nights were filled with the technical work I was supposed to be doing during the day. I was prohibited from filing patents due to some sort of corporate reporting arcanity, which derailed my technical career. I had (and apparently still have) an extremely negative reputation in the executive ranks from all of the times I told people that no, they couldn't run an IBM site under their desk, and many others.

Appreciate that it's not similar to today's concept of CTO. I was not only responsible for all IBM web sites, I was expected to design, develop, deploy, manage, diagnose software for all IBM web sites, even those that I had no direct control over. IBM’s own software products tended to trail what we were doing in production by 12-24 months, when they were actually released.

It was a fun job, until it wasn't.
3) Fingerprinting and tracking in general are heavily javascript-focused. Less common in practice (I assume), but still possible, are 4) Rowhammer or Spectre/Meltdown style attacks that break out of the permission system. Finally, there's general trickery, manipulation, and malware, like trying to embed a frame from Facebook and steal user credentials or so on (I'm fuzzy on these sorts of attacks, not an expert).
Adtech is interesting because of the scale, complexity, and timing required compared to many other software projects. It gets a bad look but the engineering involved is not boring.
Disclosure: im an automotive mechanic for a chain of midwest shops. Chrysler has been the "frat boy on probation" for nearly 40 years now. Renault was wise to reconsider what they would get.

wind back the clock to Daimler Chrysler and youll see there was nothing but mistrust from the start. German execs wanted an inroad into an american market segment that their luxury brands couldnt target at the time, and Chrysler wanted cash and technology. In the end, Daimler wound up with almost nothing in terms of IP or licensing, and Chrysler got the E class for its charger and challenger. Right down to the windows that roll down when you exit and enter by a few centimeters.

Fiat was at least pragmatic about its interaction and kept Chrysler at arms length. they got the GM fiat small platform developed almost entirely for them as they pumped cash into chrysler. The bitter irony here is that Chrysler once partnered with Maserati to get them off the ground, and now the same group is basically taking them to the cleaners. the promasters made it to the states as basically rebadged Ducatos basically at cost. Chrysler saw very limited revenue from it.

Chryslers other big problem is they are market-blind. Their strong suits are already dominated by fiat. Americans want reliable cheap cars that are good on gas, but things like the Charger RT and Hellcat challenger are loss-leaders that arent doing much of anything but filling press releases and patching the bald spots on the dwindling boomer market that remembers hellcat (and can afford it.)
What is "ricing" in this context?

I do agree I need to come up with a better way to maintain and distribute this, I'll look into LARBS.
On the contrary, the fact that services like Plaid are able to exist, indicates otherwise. If banks had a problem with the implementation, they would send cease and desists.
"also to keep Apple itself from learning device locations, even as it allows you to pinpoint yours."
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I suppose trump actually signed the checks. Seems it is impossible to get away from political opinion even when "hacking".
I have some other project I'm working on now. No plans to continue with this one. I just wanted to give it away so people can learn some new stuff so my effort didnt go to waste completely
Hah, really? Perhaps I should move to Hollywood!
I don't personally run paid ads for my video courses but whenever I ask people what almost prevented them from signing up, a huge portion of the answers say they didn't know the course existed.

Reviews aren't enough for discover-ability, but they are awesome once you know the product exists.

I'm not convinced paid ads are the right move for me, but I do think general advertising (having someone talk about a product or service on a site that isn't yours) is absolutely essential.
While quoted in the article, Matthew Green’s writeup provides a lot of neat ideas on how it may actually work

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2019/06/05/how-does...
The ironic thing of course is that it's hard to imagine what actual advantage a practice of age discrimination might provide. All real and true criteria for a job can be tested for directly; there's no need to make age a dubiously-accurate proxy for any of those. It literally makes no sense. From the COMPANY'S point of view.
Renaults are the only cars sold in the middle east whose entire range have steering mounted speed limiters. I love that feature.
I have no interest in exposing other people and tarnishing their names. Hes welcome to continue screwing people over if he chooses
As the people above mentioned, look for one that supports a catch-all address. It makes it very easy to manage. You can even respond using a real "DoNotReply" account and the alias as the "replyto" address for the rare occasions you do want to reply. Yes, Google Apps does this well, but there must be others.
Templates are a copy of a non empty word document

Cloning is a word document with versions turned on that copied all the previous versioning information
People on Twitter don’t expect spokespeople, they expect the actual person whose name is on the account. If they can’t be bothered to Tweet 280 characters on an issue personally, maybe they shouldn’t be Tweeting about it at all, or leave it to the “office of” or “campaign of” accounts.
I guess that seems really materialistic and self-destructive to me as well, just from the opposite direction. Obsessing about everything that one could possibly spend money on (early retirement in this case, I believe), then spending one's entire young adulthood obsessing over how to accumulate and not spend money to get it? It's just consumerism and materialism in another form, obsessing over which things to save up for and micromanaging one's finances to get those things.

To me the biggest luxury in the world is being able to live reasonably happily within one's means and not having to worry about it. To think about one's finances as little as reasonably possible while not overspending and still getting to have fun with it sometimes, with the confidence that a reasonable amount of it is being saved for retirement someday. It doesn't require being rich, just having a sense of the value of things and the value of one's own time and life and life experiences, and getting good at quick, rough estimates of one's financial situation.

The more I have to worry about money the less happy I am, even if it's tons of money and I'm just figuring out how to best utilize it. Obsessing over money leads to a person thinking about nickel-and-dime bullshit throughout the day, every day. That's fun for some people, I get it, but they need to realize they're wasting time thinking about nickel-and-dime bullshit because it's fun to them, not because it's practical or pragmatic to do so. And that's fine if they want to do that, but they just tend to be miserable people to spend time with who are always missing the forest for the trees when living life.
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Is it just me or is there a way lower bar for evidence when it comes to age discrimination in tech on Hackernews compared to gender or race discrimination.

I’m not saying that it’s not a real phenomenon, but pretty much all the evidence I’ve seen is anecdotal or fairly weak.

While it’s true that a lot of older people are great programmers, I also think programming ability is only about 50% of what most people are looking for. The other 50% is about how well you work with others, and I have to say, when I read a lot of these anecdotes I can’t help but feel like some of people these people aren’t getting hired because they come off as stubborn assholes.
Head of HR once asked me what type of people we needed. I said we desperately needed older people. 20-year-old project managers don't have a clue. Company went under, he sells air-conditioning now.
You will note that the original commenter that I replied to replied back, with a yes that it should be a free for all.
I recently interviewed with a 23andMe employee and specifically asked about the company's concerns regarding the public's perception of data privacy. The 23andMe employee was absolutely adamant that 23andMe would never sell customer data or allow anyone else access to it for commercial reasons. They said it went totally against company principles and that the company cares deeply about it.

And now this. I wonder if that employee was just not very attentive to what was actually going on, or perhaps the company leadership deceived the rest of the company? Or maybe this is just yet another example of a once-noble company inevitably succumbing to the allure of "growth at all costs".
There’s no room for those young people, so the chance one will be 100x, whatever you mean by that, is effectively 0. Young people are malleable and cheap. The majority of workers are never more than commodity labor. As the saying goes anyone can be replaced. That being the case cheaper and easier to exploit is what’s being optimized for. But they’ll let you think you got a shot at 100x, it’s how the scam work kiddo.
I like it. Aka remove local incentives for corruption.
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I started out as a typical 12 year old computer geek. But, by the time I turned 35, I became much more cynical. Computers became a way to put food on my table. I don’t “have fun” with technology. I don’t hate my career by any means, but, I do what’s necessary to stay buzzword compliant.

I got into vicious codependent cycle with my job by the time I was 35. I didn’t know enough to be competitive and leave, I was bitter about my pay and they just kept me around because I knew where the bodies were buried. Since then, it’s all about optionality. If I go more than a month not enjoying my environment it’s time to leave.
We use LDAP for managing group memberships (i.e. person x is a member of `engineering` and `eng_team_y`; only members of `eng_team_y` can change the deployment status of service Z). We then define ACLs for these groups. IDK how they are enforced, but they're visible/malleable via Ansible recipes, such that the process of adding permissions for your group (or user) involves submitting a diff to said Ansible recipe and getting approval from an SRE.

In practice, we use Kerberos to obtain/distribute authorization tokens, which live for less than 24 hours. The authorization-value of these tokens is determined by the LDAP affinities of the bearer. If everything is configured correctly (which it always is, until you need new permissions / switch teams), all you have to do is auth with kerberos at the beginning of each day. We have ~200 engineers.
I found these in about 10 minutes. Don't act like being part of a conspiracy theory website makes calling you a conspiracy theorist is some sort of disingenuous leap. Like the point of the website is spreading conspiracy theories.

A lot of the prison planet blog was deleted it seems, I guess due to his and alex jones' fallout, but here are your links.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifIAlft47bM

https://www.infowars.com/obama-birth-certificate-raises-as-m...

https://web.archive.org/web/20180123234120/https://www.priso...

https://web.archive.org/web/20170702085649/https://www.priso...

https://web.archive.org/web/20171226050840/https://www.priso...
Teams is so bad. It’s surprising how they only needed to clone Slack, but instead it’s a weird mixup of a giant desktop app that tries to mix Skype, OneDrive, and SharePoint for some bizarre reason.
HyperPhysics?

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html
You literally drop your DNA in public everywhere you go. It’d be like walking around dropping copies of your bank statements 24/7 and then saying that they are private. Nearly all of it is a straight clone off the main branch anyway. So I wouldn’t worry about it too much. Source—I do genomics work at a cancer lab.
"I absolutely hate WeChat (not necessarily just for the reasons in the article, but many other technical reasons) but I'm forced to use it because all of my friends and my entire social life happens on it."

Genuinely curious - is there a non-app (ie., plain SMS) interface to wechat ?

There is a plain SMS interaction layer for groupme and because I host my own phone service at twilio, I have total control over messaging to groupme groups because I can just interact with groupme on the command line ...
Yea right. 150 years ago there was no such a thing as 5 work days weeks. And then suddenly, we had got it, across all of the western (and eastern world). And we have it now, and not a single developed country repealed these laws.
Augmented Reality Webview example for Unity AR Foundation
When you say speed limiter are you referring to cruise control? Or an actual speed limiter that won't let you go over X kph with your foot on the pedal?

If the latter, it seems like a strange feature to have/want.
It's not feasible for Twitter to evaluate what person actually typed the characters, and that isn't very relevant to the issue of knowing whether the message is something the person supports anyway. The check-mark means the account is verified to be owned by a certain person, and I think it's very useful to know whether an account is owned by a certain figure/politician. It's very useful to know that this account is making posts supported by Mike Gravel, and that these kids are not just people he's never met making posts under his name. Most popular politicians have a lot of popular parody accounts, and knowing whether you're looking at a message made by a campaign vs one made by someone parodying a campaign is valuable information. At the end of the day, if an account is making posts [verified person] does not support that person can either (a) change their password or (b) ask twitter to remove the verification. The blue checkmark then signifies the account is actually run by that person, regardless of who is typing the majority of the posts. It's a matter of common sense that it's possible for me and anyone else with an online account to give my password to someone else, and then that person could make posts with my account. What the check mark tells me is that no one has taken the account and locked the owner out of it, because if they did the person would have just told Twitter and the check mark would be gone.
The perceived benefit is avoiding someone with reasonable salary and work hour expectations.
> he has gone to the mat repeatedly to make good on his campaign promises no matter how misguided.

Where's his wall?
What about space implies fast? Sitting equipment at L2 is all the rage these days and SpaceX has launched there before.

Not that I think this particular case wouldn't work in LEO, just for things that wouldn't there are much better options - we just have historically had trouble getting there affordably/reliably enough to make it worth while.
There is a classic phrase to keep in mind with things like this: "don't ask, don't tell".
Trump had a point, for example, to put tariffs on steel to protect the US steel industry.

Tariffs are common. Europe, for example, has huge tariffs on Brazilian meat (was 230% don't know how much today) and 42% percent on Chinese bicycles. So Trump simply had to put tariffs where tariffs are reasonable (does his dictionary contain the word 'reasonable' ?) and never use the words 'trade war'.
Android Firefox 67 is non-funtional. Also noticed that on mobile Chrome, the list of *porn links covers the full screen; stopping you from seeing the images.
Skype for Business is being shut down and moved to Teams over the next few weeks. Which is good news, I suppose.
It was Rosa Klebb in From Russia with Love.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Klebb
I can't speak to California law, but in general the bar for age discrimination is so high that it doesn't mean much.
Or maybe because some people have access to the information and means to get somewhere else, and some are just proles and can be made to march under radioactive rain without being told anything.
> 4) Organic postings and SEO? The big plumber app is way ahead of you. And 100 other worse apps clog up the listings. No one sees your posts.

This is especially interesting in the world of tech.

Because sites like digitalocean post a massive amount of really in depth tutorials. Much more than any single person can churn out. So as a tech person interested in even giving away free tech info, it's a really uphill SEO battle. You can't compete with 65,000+ articles (based on Googling for this: site:digitalocean.com/community).
It sounds pretty appropriate. This is another SF reference "Stand on Zanzibar", one of the earliest inspirations for cyberpunk, in which we are routinely remembered that all of humanity would be able to stand on the small island of Zanzibar, but that growth is problematic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_on_Zanzibar
Before javascript took over tracking the 1x1 white pixel ruled the land. No javascript needed there.
I just have a shitty memory, and if I game them, I won't remember what answer I gave. If I were to take that strategy I'd need to write them down, which is basically already a great sign of a terrible security policy.
Do you have your dinner table in your bedroom as the author does?
What amazes me about cold fusion is that anyone, even the cranks, think it's plausible.

I mean, look at it from a conditional probability point of view. Initially, before any of the furor, the chance of it being real would have been very low. Then P&F have their fiasco. Their results were wrong. But somehow this was taken as meaning Cold Fusion was more likely than it had been previously. But how could that be? Their results, properly interpreted, were negative. Negative results can only reduce the probability something is correct, not increase it.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20130075.
Mach+MIT and-+FSFE
It's a Sinclair news thing. If you don't watch your local Fox affiliate for your local news, you'd never see it, regardless of what part of the country you're in.
that sounds like a dick move but a dev charing crap code should have that coming lol
>...but I think medicine does need vast amounts of genetic data available to actually make some progress.

How does more genetic data equate to better progress with medicine? Are we testing medicine against specific genome sequences, now? If so, how are we doing that without the source host[s] to test against?

>Medical progress is not advancing fast enough by some very real metrics...

Again, I'm not seeing how these two equate, whatsoever.

For what you're talking about the genomes would have to be reproduced, such as the markers that are the precursors for breastcancer. Then, the tissues, themselves, would have to be reproduced and then you'd have an effective field with which to test new medicines against (unless you just use the people with the markers to test).

How you're getting from a mapped sequence to better medicine is... ...we're simply not there, yet, technologically, I believe. Unless you know something I don't? (Which could very well be the case, admittedly, but I doubt we're at the stage of computer models for genome engineering, tissue growth, cellular division, etc. all in one.)
I would like to take this opportunity to recommend that everyone who is into C#/.NET Core and high-performance Windows UX development take a look at the following: https://github.com/prasannavl/WinApi

I was able to get a workable demo app going in just a few minutes using their Win32 approach. Seems very promising to me for purposes of building native-levels of performance into windows apps using managed C#. The performance statistics published on the repository seem fantastical, but I can believe it now that I've played around with a few of their demos.
One thing I'm a bit confused about is why doesn't salary bidding fix this?

For example if a 25 yr old coder is $X per year surely, even if you have terrible age discrimination, there must be some salary level, say $0.75*X where having the older worker is preferable?

Is it that older workers are much more expensive and are bidding themselves out the market? Is it that people value youth so much they will pay a 3x markup for it or something?

If there's a large pool of super skilled people begging for work I don't quite understand why someone wouldn't want to leverage that. I get why maybe you pay older workers less if you discriminate, but to not hire them at all seems strange.
> The overwhelming majority of modern ads serve a singular purpose: to drive sales.

You don't say!

> absolutely nothing to improve the quality of purchasing decisions.

They do communicate the existence of competing products, and are basically the only way to compete with an entrenched market leader. In this sense, advertising is rather important to keep markets fluid and allow better products to flourish.

> rationally consider the direct marketing points you convey

For someone considering themselves hyper-rational, you comment shows a surprising amount of negative emotions.

It's also rather irrationally to believe one of the largest industries is consistently wrong by not following your preferred format of notarised feature comparison spreadsheets.

Because marketing is really full of spreadsheets: those showing that people do sometimes have emotions, and that appealing to them is good business and, frankly, not quite the end of the world.
I'm 41 and still have recruiters contacting me and generally do well in interviews. I'm lucky in that the skills I have are harder to find (8 or so years doing iOS development). I also have to admit that one thing that helps me tremendously is that I look young. Just about everyone I work with assumes I am still in my 20s based on my appearance. They all act shocked once they do find out that I'm older. Looking young helps a lot with rapport in interviews since the interviewers feel more at ease that I'm "one of them" rather than some old guy.
Not too hard to beat Slack's user experience though.
It feels like that can be exploited in some ways. As a first thought it reduces the privacy of the reporting 3rd party phone. I.e. I can leave a fully charged phone in my wife’s car and track her for weeks while she will have the burden to recharge her phone for network/gps power.

A regular gps tracker would need much more energy.

Edit: another scenario, leave it in an isolated hut. If I get a signal, someone is close to the hut.

Edit 2: if I piggy back the protocol and can manipulate the key schedule (chose key A or B) then I can leak one bit of information through the third party phone. The third party phone may be allowed to communicate while my sender isn’t.
They have the "I am not a robot" captcha before every single box. They thought about it. They engineered a solution against it. They are not even trying to hide the fact that they want to make it difficult.
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"The mere existence of such tool is destine to be misused, regardless who made it. This is what real power looks like."

I encourage you to read the novel _A Deepness in the Sky_ which introduces the concept of "localizers" which are the technological end-state of "smart speakers" and social networks like wechat. Very well fleshed out and very thought provoking:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky#Localize...