skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I can also see how cases like this creat a negativity that prevents companies from collaborating to fundamentally improve security.

The security community works like this (public responsible disclosure), _because_ companies overwhelmingly proved that they couldn't be trusted to collaborate with security researchers.
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> One possible answer: they want to limit who they live nextdoor to. This sounds dickish, but, overall, on average, it serves as a rough proxy for "not living next to hillbillies who shoot fireworks all night", etc.

That's a possible answer, sure. But I find that "the merely poor" and "hillbillies" often don't really overlap much. The merely poor can't afford their own home. "Hillbillies" generally live in the middle of nowhere and generally don't want to live in the city anyway. There's far too many people who'd try to hell "hillbillies" how they can and can't live.

> For example, say one of your new neighbors is an outspoken homosexual, and the other is an intolerant redneck. Then, despite yourself being perfectly tolerant and reasonable, trouble is inevitable. And you're going to be right there in the middle of it.

I don't see the problem. Outspoken homosexual can do what they want as long as it doesn't involve me. Intolerant redneck can do and say what they want as long as it doesn't involve me.

> Assuming you absolutely want to avoid a scenario like the latter, how can you accomplish it?

Here's a thought: why should I be permitted to hate my lawful neighbors? If I don't like what they do, then use the force of law to force them to change. If the force of law doesn't exist for the change I want, then perhaps I am in the wrong.
A volcano wouldn't need to. The meteorites we have from Mars and the Moon came here when something big and fast hit them and sent fragments our way.
Unhooking the cable seems easier than installing covers. On most cars, you can get to it by peeling back the lining on the sides of the trunk.
Hey Peter,

I have a startup project (c-corp via stripe atlas) and I have a developer interested in working with me.

Developer is a citizen of Mexico and currently works for FANG company in Washington State on TN Visa.

What would be the most ideal approach to having this person work with me on the startup project (equity-only 1099 contractor)?

I have learned that one can get a 2nd TN Visa, but we're unsure if the primary employer would be notified? Since it's on nights/weekends, it shouldn't be employer #1's business, but at the same time I don't want this person to risk their immigration status.

Additionally I'm unsure how a 1099 for a c-corp, equity compensation only, qualifies?

Would it be easier to just work in quiet for the time being until working on the project full-time is a reality?

Thanks!
I can't find the setting to disable this. The EFF says they "have questions" about how Facebook is implementing this.

"Throughout Facebook’s deliberately vague announcement, it takes great pains to note that the change applies only to new Facebook users and people who currently have the “tag suggestions” setting. However, Facebook migrated many, if not most, existing users from “tag suggestions” to “face recognition” in December 2017 (see here for Facebook’s explanation of the difference between tag suggestions and face recognition). That means this safeguard does not apply to the billions of current Facebook users who have already been moved."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/facebook-changing-its-...
I’m with you on this. It’s yet another happy re-branding of unpleasant, rent-seeking, worker-hostile things. Behold:

Tenement buildings -> Co-living

Serfdom -> Gig economy

Mass propaganda -> Targeted content
In big box stores... I needed a small part a few days ago and don't think I'd been in a Fry's Electronics for several years. It was downright disturbing how barren the place felt. There were maybe a dozen cars in the parking lot and 3 people on the 40+ checkout registers. I remember that place being full up and busy to the hilt. Now 1/3+ of the shelves are empty and it's clearly past its' best days.

The electronics area is completely stripped out, and the computer components area is staffed by kids who frankly don't know much of anything. It's really sad as I do have some fond memories of the place.

A mall nearby is about to be torn down, converting an indoor mall into an outdoor mall, which the more busy malls in the Phoenix area are. If movie theaters weren't largely in malls, I wouldn't even notice.
Hi, Peter.

- is it possible to get a work permit (and what kind of visa) for a non-graduate person, but with a 20 years of experience? (IT)

- if it is, what kind of confirmations should i provide along with my application?

- as far as i know, even if i get a visa, i couldn't get a green card without at least a masters degree. Is it right?
GitHub Action to assign and enforce GitHub issue due dates
The GPL grants significantly more freedom to users. Users of MIT-licensed software don't necessarily even have the freedom to see the source code! All they're guaranteed is the ability to see a credit.
Maybe they just think your sarcasm detracts from the conversation.
Google and Duckduckgo use floating point rather than arbitrary precision integers. Wolfram Alpha's solver is significantly more advanced (including arbitrary precision for integers and floating point numbers)
This type of article is like politically targeting citizens, their purpose is not to unite but divide...

Hack, I started as a FE intern in Amazon, originated Amazon Kinesis, built tools for managing google's data center network software, Borg core and user library, and now other stuff.

My work as a programmer constantly change. Am I in any tribe then?...
Yep. At a certain point you start hitting diminishing returns and increased costs.
Water supply as rad shield might be better, presuming you have a large water store. Designing a chamber within the water supply would put mass between you and radiation.
They are however totally cool with the arbitrary year zero, and also never mind the last five billion years or so.
Discoverability, payment processing, and effort barrier still matter. This isn't just a hobby project, he intended it to be his primary income. Don't be obtuse.
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Opening medium in midori will flash the content on the screen and then half a second later replace it with a giant full page “500 error” message.

Which is strange because that’s usually a server side problem. If the content made it then it should be a 200 anyway, so if some other asset has a problem they just kill the whole page using client side scripts?

Opening it in elinks fixes the problem of course.
I am so, so angry at Zuck's repeated public exhortations of "We care about you"... while ruthlessly crushing their competition and having repeated scandals. I don't like bad things people do in general but when it comes with a smile it makes me want to see heads roll.
Yes, but also makes it look much more stable which is disingenuous, esp. with something notoriously volatile like bitcoin.
An often forgotten use for paper clips: when one needs to reset that darn router/access point/whatever, and the pen (a pen? ...what's a pen?!?:^) just doesn't fit the reset button hole.
Do you have family in the U.S.? What's their immigration status?
Is it generally ok to ask if a person has work rights in the USA?
The explosion of ‘alternative’ data
I never learned statistics until my second year in university, it was really mind opening, especially with showing me just how much poorly done statistics with tiny sample sizes or misrepresented data are quoted and used as facts.

I actually found statistics pretty fun and eventually we learned to use R for it. Though I ended up missing 1 lecture and it almost screwed me over for the rest of the class. I found a Kahn academy video though that covered it and was able to catch up. There really is a ton of information to learn. It would have been nice to have at least touched on it a little bit in highschool beyond learning about means and the tiniest bit about standard deviations.
I have 100 sequential uncirculated and bound 100 trillion dollar notes that I bought on ebay ten years ago for probably $5. I remember when you could buy literally bricks of trillion dollar notes for a few dollars!
Even better, would you rather market to the Hot Blonde girl with 1000s of suitors or the proverbial "Kip Drordy" from south park? Now you can figure out who's word of mouth really matters and that is the beginning of a dark society where only the elite and beautiful have power.
A CVT can't handle as much torque as a gear-based transmission.
>> I find that people who are religious talk about virtue more than those who don't

There's a lot of practical stored up value in the religion that I practice - listening to the wisdom of generations of people certainly helps with discerning how it live well in the short time we have here on this earth.

While I have no doubt that a sensitive and intelligent person could figure most of this out for themselves, it would take them most of their lives - and I suspect that by then their life would be too spent to be able enjoy the fruits of their labor.
Non-fiction is what I mainly consume nowadays on my Kindle Oasis 3. I try to buy the books directly from Amazon, as then all my highlights sync to my Goodreads account so that even other users can view them.

In the case when the book is side-loaded, I load the highlights using clippings [1] service. The habit of taking notes significantly increases the consumption time, but in the end, I remember much more.

When the book isn't highly technical, such as biographies or self-development books, I tend to listen to the audiobooks with an Android app [2].

[1] https://www.clippings.io/

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.acmeandroi...
You seem to be ignoring the rest of the issue entirely.
Accidental zip code formatter.
could you give an example of a complex search? I've never bothered using advanced Google search patterns
It's especially clickbait because most people who exclusively use Windows aren't aware of any tiled window managers so they are going to assume this is the only way to do it and draw a conclusion about tiled window managers based on Fancy Zones specifically.

Heck the 6 minute Youtube tutorial in the README is just 6 minutes of trying to explain the convoluted configuration to set up and use layouts. There's not even 1 second of video showing 2 tiled windows together when the project is supposed to be the official Microsoft tiled window manager.
The formula you want is a=r*w^2 where r is the radius and w is the rotational rate. 1g is ~10m/s^2

The challenge in realizing it almost entirely an issue of getting materials into orbit, which is the problem space tethers are targeting. The cost of getting to geosynchronous orbit is around $30k per kilo, so at the moment economics is limiting us rather than tech when it comes to building crazy space stations. If we could bring the cost per kilo down 100x or so then so many more possibilities open up.
"Dont worry people, it just affected Uyghurs, who cares?"
Have you thought about getting a pet raccoon instead? /s
As an aside, Georgia periodically tries to claim a chunk of Tennessee to get access to the Tennessee River.

"“I just want to threaten them and then stick a straw into the Tennessee River,” state Senate President Pro Tempore Butch Miller, R-Gainesville, said during a hearing..." (2018)

If you have been through north Georgia recently, you probably noticed that all of the lake levels are very low. Atlanta takes a lot of water.
I expect such a 'senior software engineer' to be extremely competent with some of the best practices in the industry and to have a very strong portfolio of experience that is worthy of the role.

Some of the typical expectations of what I regard as 'senior' are usually as follows.

Technical Skills:

* A polyglot at many programming languages and has no trouble at learning new ones to a proficient level if required.

* Has useful open-source projects and significant open-source contributions in widely used projects. (Bonus for commit-access) No silly hello-world/test-123/git-push-demo repositories.

* Competent at data-structures and algorithms and must be able to write a proof to help explain some of the time/space complexities of these concepts.

* An understanding of the appropriate tool/library for the scenario, dismisses programmer zealotry and can compare and reason about choosing one tool over another.

* Writes clean documentation, tests (or delegates them to SDETs) and uses continuous integration for changes in the code.

* Expert-level on at least one version-control software, Git/SVN or TFS and conducts code-reviews on patches either in open-source or company-level contributions.

* Knowledge of a development methodology to use for software development and delivery to meet the user/client requirements.

Soft skills:

* Participates or leads in the interviewing process and justifies the questions they ask with the projects that they work on.

(It is really no good, throwing a leet-code problem and then the candidate asks if you use it and you will look rather silly as an interviewer if you don't.)

* Gives both technical and non-technical presentations at conferences or meetings about difficult engineering problems or the like.

* Can communicate towards many teams and or different audiences eloquently and understands different perspectives of the user. Not just engineering teams.

* Mentors junior programmers to adopt the best practices enforced in the company to become better programmers.

In this industry we have self-proclaimed 'senior' engineers that don't know what a AVL-Tree is, can't implement a LRU cache or cannot talk to a non-technical audience about what they do. If these 'engineers' contributed to a large compiler project, then all of these requirements would have been met. Unfortunately in 2019, the title of being 'senior' can be given to literally anyone (even with less than 2 years of experience) in their own organization but elsewhere, they are equivalent to a entry-level coder with a heavily decorated CV.

They may look 'good' on paper, but I think that is not enough to truly find out if they are senior-level. So my approach is more or less of a senior-software-engineering CAPTCHA test.
Weren't APIs the next big thing a decade or so back?
> Do I think Google would look out for me like that? Hahah, no, I do not think so.

This article is literally about things that Google's Project Zero did which were for your benefit.
> The 11 million people China is placing in concentration camps

There are certainly no 11 million people in concentration camps there. Also nobody cites any sensible proof of the estimates pushed by the US-supported organizations and the US directly. For example, here Zenz, who claims that 1.5 million are detained, quotes that:

"Zenz found abundant local county budgets and procurement bids indicating that large police or security guard units were hired for the camps. In one example, a county’s 2019 budget stated that its “training centers” employ 212 teaching staff, but more than twice as many security guards."

400 security guards can't guard 1.5 million.

https://www.inkstonenews.com/politics/china-calls-xinjiang-c...

The whole "China oppresses Muslim Uighurs in millions" is supported in the UN by 22 countries (1), while 37 specifically deny that:

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-joint-letter-condemn-m...

Those 22 signatories of a "joint letter condemning oppression" are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK.

https://www.businessinsider.de/syria-saudi-nk-support-china-...

Note that there are 47 Muslim countries in the UN and not a one is in the above list. Whereas among those who apparently support China's treatment are Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Algeria, United Arab Emirates and Qatar, all Muslim countries:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-07/13/c_138222183.htm
In Common Lisp the way I usually handle this is with an optional arg. If the caller passes in a buffer[0] that's where I put the result; otherwise I allocate one and return it. The more general approach is to accept a continuation argument. One can even do both at the same time by dispatching a generic function on the type of the arg (but in that case the arg cannot be optional unless you write a wrapper function around the generic function.)

[0] Passing buffers around is much less necessary in Lisp than in C-like languages. This is about the times when it still makes sense to do so.
Most often this is solved because the model is retrained only on the current data every N days.
Openssh server and client are included in windows 10 as an optional feature for a while already.
> I don’t feel motivated knowing what is possible will be subpar, constrained, unwelcome, unappreciated and on the bad side of Apple. I feel crippled as an Apple Developer to make the best of all available platforms and technologies.

In a former life I was an iOS developer, and got my share of App Store rejections. It's important to not take it personally. A rejection letter from the App Store is not some personal judgment of your morals, an insult to your coding ability, or a referendum on how good/useful your software is. It's simply a notice that as it stands, they won't publish your app through the AppStore for [reasons]. You can disagree with the reasons, and reasonable people can debate whether the reasons are fair or not, but you're not some kind of lesser developer just for getting rejected.

Sometimes you can fix your app to comply with their rules, and sometimes the fundamental concept of the app is incompatible with AppStore distribution and you can't. Either way, it doesn't necessarily mean the app is shitty or that you're "on Apple's bad side."
You don’t think “the attack affected fewer than a dozen websites that focus on content related to the Uighur community” qualifies as “narrowly focused”?

The phrase “just the Uighurs” does not show up anywhere in the press release; what does show up is “we take the safety and security of all users extremely seriously”.

The point of the press release is not to discuss China’s human rights violations, but to reassure customers that this particular attack did not compromise anyone who did not visit those particular <12 websites during that particular 2-month period.

The same websites also included exploits affecting non-iOS visitors. It would be great if Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. would come together to jointly denounce China’s suppression of its ethnic minorities, and more generally denounce any state’s use of exploits in public software, but that’s well out of scope for this particular press release.
This is far less about astronaut comfort and far more about health. Zero G turns out to be harmful in numerous ways, in addition to the other problems of space environments (radiation, iosolation, contamination).

My sense is that the most valuable information to come from ISS is of astronaut adaptation and long-term space effects on health.
Exactly. Of course, we do have to be a bit careful how we ask about past projects, to avoid the appearance of being exposed to IP, but it's doable. We can also just talk about hypothetical design problems (and they can learn about us based on the questions we ask, even if we're not doing a collaborative exercise). But no whiteboard CS101 coding negging.
Funny, I was hoping for NumberWang, or at least the German version...
Even well before his presidency, right after the British surrendered, he had to quash small scale conspiracies to have the army take power. And they would have easily made him a military leader similar to Cromwell if he wanted.

Example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newburgh_Conspiracy
But the poorly hidden players are exactly the ones who are worse at finding clever hiding spots!
His or her current employer wouldn't be notified but equity as the form of compensation doesn't qualify.
From a trademarking stance, the only 'True" unixes are those that pay to get certified by Single UNIX specification. Of those, two are commercial Linux distributions, and the rest (including macOS) are proprietary unix operating systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification#Curr...
This is very similar to [CFSSL](https://cfssl.org/), any specific reasons to use this over Cloudflare's PKI?
You just make priors up, just like the 0.05 limit is made up. Making up a prior is basically asking the question: How likely does it seem that X has Y effect? Without having any data specific to that question.

Our 0.05 p-value limit is effectively just answering that question with a fixed 5%, no matter how ridiculous the proposition is.
I didn't mean to twist the topic. I don't see any other benefit of outsourcing. IMO NASA can't afford to pay it's scientists to think about getting something from point A on earth to point B in outer space anymore.
Its most definately not down for me
The people that push for Indian space exploration are either (1) not living in India, or (2) they are living in India and doing well economically.

If you ask people living in the slums about this, they’ll give you a very different perspective than what you read on HN. And they vastly outnumber the people in India who are doing well.
I often search for "X sucks" to see if others agree with me that X indeed sucks.
>ZDI's Wednesday post said researchers notified Google of the vulnerability in mid-March and that by the end of June, the company had confirmed that the flaw would be fixed. When ZDI asked Google for an update last month, Google responded there would be no further updates. Google released the Android Security Bulletin for September on Tuesday, and the flaw still wasn't fixed. Google didn't respond to a request for comment.
this is a cap-subject H-1B
There are some interesting tidbits (tax laws between beer vs distilled spirits), the reason everyone I know drinks it is it's a low carb alcoholic beverage. You can bring it ready made to a party, which is easier than mixing a drink of seltzer and vodka at your friends house.
In NYC if you see "homeless people who repeatedly inhabit the same location or establish encampments" report them and they'll be moved on or arrested & their belongings thrown out.

https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-02253
Keep in mind that Amazon now offers their own free certs for customers that aren't from LE. That probably also has a big impact on things.
Or "IT guy" versus "computer scientist".
That just seems too super convenient to me. Why would they not laser focused on Android bugs?

I suspect they are, but backchannel them to the development team, versus airing them.
How long until we get a cheap $5 app that acts like this computer controlled rifle: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/03/bullseye-from-1000-y...

Seems easy enough to throw together some OpenCV calls that estimate distance, gravity drop, jitter, and then download a local weather report for pressure/wind. After which you can draw a reticle that highlights when/where to fire, similar to those HUD trackers in combat flight simulators.
Hey Peter,
I am currently in US on an H1B visa. My employer has applied greencard and I fall under E2 category. I am also a cofounder in a company which is based out in India and my other co founder is currently taking care of running this.

Is it possible to apply for E1B with my past/now co-founder experience.

Thanks!