skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems someone figured out how to play hide-and-seek with thousands of people. Just let Ikea know you are coming and they will provide the seeker. The last one thrown out by security or the police before closing is the winner. Bragging rights go to the person who is found the next morning by staff sleeping in one of the beds.
Ask a lawyer, depends on your bylaws and board rights
What's the advantage of this over some scripts like https://github.com/tomberek/easy-ca?
Someone smart in math, does this have implications in elliptic curve crypto? From what little I know about EC key generation, it seems related.
wikipedia.org

https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/wikipedia.org.html
Now that we have the answer, I wonder what the question was?

And why is that mouse looking at me?
As a user, I agree and cannot wait to exit the ecosystem.

With all apple's talk of privacy, I would love to be able to firewall the phone, see what apps are doing and prevent some of them from doing it. This includes apple apps.

But apple doesn't allow these sorts of things.

I installed adblock ios which allowed this (vpn though 127.0.0.1 which blocked things), but then apple changed their conditions so the developer had to cripple their app further.

Further back, I had an app that could show wifi signal strength which was incredibly useful -- but then apple banned it.
I'm not convinced it's in the same ballpark of complexity as a 2-speed gearbox, which would need just a simple two-way friction clutch.
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> It's used by large companies to justify their BS hiring practices when the reality is a bad hire won't hurt the company that much.

Then you haven't met enough of these people.
Create choice, such as by forbidding phone manufacturers from distributing custom versions of Android, if they want access to the Google Play store on any of the phones they sell? And then trying to keep those contracts secret [1], so that when Google lies to us about creating choice, we couldn't call them out on it?

Corporate PR misleads and lies to benefit its owner, and it's clear Google is no exception, so their words should be viewed in that light.

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/Google-s-Confidentia...
That SCP entry was not far off from the experience at the Oak Creek store:

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/store/oak_creek/indexPage

Unlike some others I've been to, it is designed as one long twisty maze from start to finish. While there are shortcuts that allow you to skip some sections, the place is so closed in it is hard to keep oriented. You can't really navigate like you would a traditional store.

I'll never go again, and I know others who feel the same way.
If the system is so poorly evaluating people that they have to train an irrelevant set of skills to succeed in it, what does that say about the system?
Most companies that produce articles in the hope of interesting HN are trying to "get free advertising" in the sense of attracting readers' attention. If the content is genuinely interesting to the audience here, there's nothing wrong with that.

If, on the other hand, they're using voting rings, astroturfing, or other forms of abuse to spike their ranking because the content isn't interesting enough on its own, that's bad, and yes we spend a lot of time counteracting that. But if you think that's happening, you should send links to hn@ycombinator.com so we can investigate, not post dyspeptic complaints about it in the threads. Those just add noise.
Re: Jonathan Blow,
I don't think it's a stretch to say different/better tools can have a profound effect on the industry and resulting games as a whole. As someone in games, quite a lot of software has had far-reaching impact that influenced games on a noteworthy level. Speedtree, Zbrush, and the substance package have basically defined modern AAA art assets. And while the major public engines have had a profound impact, even things like Source mods, RPG Maker, and Game Maker have had a profound impact in terms of enabling development of breakout indie hits or introducing people to game development as a whole who are now in the industry.

So I don't think it's a stretch to say a performant alternative to C++ with a game engine out of the box could have an impact which has broader reach than speedier development of his next game.
Is Blockchain Right for You?
To build on what tptacek said. If the flavor you are going for is "burn", then high proof will certainly get you there. However if you want more nuanced flavors, at high proofs some the taste buds actually become numb (or overloaded) and you will taste some flavors less, not to mention that at very high proofs many of the molecules that provide taste are "locked up" by the alcohol, and the addition of some water can free them for you to actually taste them more.

I believe it is common practice for masters blenders, such as when selecting casks for blending, actually dilute things down quite a bit, so their taste buds don't become "exhausted" and they can pick out more nuance.
Yeah, the author said that in a subthread.
My argument is not that there aren't some detention facilities in China there, my argument is that any number estimate that is being claimed should be supported by some reasonable proofs, and my impression is that the numbers promoted by those who obviously have some specific interests to overesimate these numbers appear to me to be completely over the top, and I've given the links which lead me to conclude that. I will welcome any links that explicitly shine more light on these topics. Until then, it's for me as supported as the US and UK pre-Iraq war claims of WMD.

E.g.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/feb/08/politics.iraq

"It emerged yesterday that the dossier issued last week - later found to include a plagiarised section written by an American PhD student - was compiled by mid-level officials in Alastair Campbell's Downing Street communications department with only cursory approval from intelligence or even Foreign Office sources.

Though it now appears to have been a journalistic cut and paste job rather than high-grade intelligence analysis, the dossier ended up being cited approvingly on worldwide TV by the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, when he addressed the UN security council on Wednesday. "

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/06/lie-after-lie-what-colin...

"Colin Powell delivered his presentation making the case for war with Iraq at the United Nations 15 years ago, on February 5, 2003.

As much criticism as Powell received for this — he’s called it “painful” and something that will “always be a part of my record” — it hasn’t been close to what’s justified. Powell, who was secretary of state under President George W. Bush, was much more than just horribly mistaken: He fabricated “evidence” and ignored repeated warnings that what he was saying was false."
I thought the same until I had kids. This sort of thing is part and parcel of having children, you really do learn not only to handle it, but to derive enjoyment from the situation overall.

If it helps any, my experience is that it's hardest on the day your child is born, but it gets progressively easier as the years go by and the children become increasingly self-sufficient.
I wonder if the bit about it only working for rational angles would be better phrased as it not being proven for these angles yet? It seems strange that it would not work for one of these if you can get arbitrarily close to it on either side and have that work.

Then again there all a lot of strange things in mathematics and my only knowledge of this problem is from this article.
How was what I wrote a 'flamewar'? And especially in the context of the anti-religious views that elsewhere were not flagged nor called flamewars. What's your agenda, Dang?

Politics, religion, philosophy, these are worthwhile things to discuss.

And fun.

Now leave us be to have fun.
Million thanks for this, Peter :)
While I do admit that I agree with a few of those points, the Verge isn't exactly reporting in good-faith either, IMO. They are very biased against Apple, for whatever reason.
It's down in several countries
They're not great, but the data they questions are trying to gather can be useful:

- What makes a team or a workplace a good one?

- What motivates you to seek change?

- Do you have self awareness of your own strengths and weeknesses?

- How do you respond to constructive, but perhaps difficult, feedback?

- Can you provide direct, actionable feedback to others?

This is all still valuable information for a hiring decision.

As a hiring manager of some time, I myself ask a similar question but in the form of:

- Given this previous situation we've just been talking about, how would you improve it? Did you attempt to make those changes? Why or why not?

I'm looking for someone who demonstrates:

- The ability to think beyond the current situation and look for ways for improvement

- Possible ability to affect change via influence rather than direct control

- A great answer might reveal how they championed changes or dealt with push back from management

- A great answer may also reveal an understanding of explicit and implicit power structures in an organization, i.e.- what changes are feasible versus unrealistic.

This question is better asked to someone with more experience as I expect a more nuanced answer from a "senior" compared to someone with just a few years of experience. If I don't get a good answer from someone with a decade or more of experience, I will probe further to understand if they are an agent of change in an organization or just go with the flow.

I'm totally open to feedback that I could be doing this all wrong, but one other thing to consider:

My approach to interviewing is to first and foremost gather data. I need a fair bit of data to make a hiring decision. In the moment, I'm not trying to make deep value assessments on the answers. To do that, I need a more comprehensive view of the data in context. Maybe I'm fine with someone who goes with the flow given other aspects of this person's skillset or the composition of the team or the mentality of their manager. Maybe just an attitude would be setting the person up to fail. All of that assessment is made later by the hiring manager or committee using as much data as we can possibly and reasonably gather during the interview process.
Aside from not providing much of any performance benefit, this will introduce difficulty coordinating regenerative braking through the shift point.

One of my former employers had a group trying really hard to make a 2-speed for EVs make sense. It just doesn't. If there is an efficiency gain, it's probably better to throw the extra money and weight into the motor. An exception might be if you want to cruise at 120+ mph for long distances, but that's not realistic.
My favourite space elevator alternative is the space fountain ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain ).

It's an active structure made of small parts that are held together with a stream of magnets.

If the fountain fails then each part can have its own parachute so that it can safely return to Earth. i.e. without destroying entire cities as would be the case for a traditional elevator design.
Why is there no Christian god? Where does the 'absolute not' come from?

I ask that for two reasons: scientist Christians clergyman invented the Big Bang theory AND are at the root of evolutionary theory.

That is a most bizarre coincidence. There just aren't that many scientist clergyman, even historically.

Secondly, because Christianity fully answers the outstanding question: why do the innocent suffer.

While almost all the other monotheisms define their supreme beings the same way, which is already evidence of a god, they don't fully address that question.

"I think that's the nuanced position of Dawkins"

First I've heard of Dawkins' 'nuanced' position. "the God Delusion" is not a subtle title. It also means he's a true believer and irrational.
What would make a lot more sense is a DNS mechanism for domains to indicate their subdomains are trusted/untrusted with parent domain cookies, possibly with a white/blacklist mechanism.

It would be a lot more manageable than some centralized list that tries to capture every user controllable content domain on the internet.
The Space Fountain
Give me physical opt-out. A "robots.txt"/do-not-track for computer surveillance spiders. Let me wear a necklace or QR code on my shoulder, and any commercial face tracking software, is required to create a big black blindspot where my facial micro-expressions used to be.
This. The only times that I've worked more than 40 hours a week is during an emergence or when working for my own company.
No no you ruined the joke that comes 15 years later!!!!
NPR Doesn't Know Spit About Saliva, Nitrates or Deli Meat
This reminds me of the Steve Jobs janitor story:
https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-on-the-difference...

Except that line should kick in WAY before the VP level. Getting out of the "schoolkid mentality" is key to success in your career.

* if you're blocked on a task, you need to specifically tell your boss and/or the person blocking you

* if a task is stalled on someone else's desk, you need to go chase it down, not just say "not my problem anymore"

* if a process is broken, you need to work on fixing the process, not just complaining or shrugging

Basically, you need to focus on SUCCESS and RESULTS, not just effort and following the rules.
I really admire Waffle House's dedication. They can't get everyone's power back on or grocery shelves restocked, but providing a normal meal for people after a disaster situation is really valuable.
I think this is part of the problem, but the more fundamental issue is that people are extremely bad about probabilistic reasoning. Even if we said "3% probability we're just seeing a pattern by accident" most people unconsciously round this down to zero.

People that work with computers often are slightly better about reasoning about probabilities because they often deal with high frequency events. A 1% error rate across 10 million events a day leads to 100,000 errors. If those events are transactions, payments, file uploads etc, a 1% chance starts to look very common. But even computer people are not immune to incorrectly reasoning about probabilities. I suspect there is some fundamental limitation at the cognitive level.
See the comparison to cfssl below. Step has lots more features, is easier to use, and harder to misuse. Relative to easy-rsa, the most important difference is that step-ca is a service that can issue certs via an API. Combined with step it can also help with lots of cert management tasks like root distribution and automated renewal.
The implication that everyone is forced to do something, forever, in order to not have their privacy violated, is a little silly. Explicit opt-ins should be the only legal method.
I guess most people downvoting and commenting against you have never been to India.

I've travelled extensively, and I've spent a lot of time in India - nowhere else have I seen such an extreme juxtaposition of wealth with such abject poverty, squalor and misery.

On multiple occasions I've had (Western) colleagues travel with me to India (outsourcing...), who simply couldn't cope with what they saw; there were tears, a realisation of complete futility, and promises never to return.

I also have several Indian colleagues, some living temporarily in the west, some permanently, and some spread across India - every one I've asked about this is disgusted.

The money India spent on this pointless endeavour is beyond reason; I can only imagine it's somehow politically motivated, just as the "aid" money that several western nations send to India undoubtedly is.
Feds demand names and IP of app downloaders
Speed differential when driving in traffic, OP said to get away from traffic. There is no differential when there is no car near you
Do yourself a favor and set up browser shortcuts. In Chrome, for example, you can add custom search engines. If you set the search URL to:

https://google.com/search?q=site:docs.python.org/3+%s&btnI

(That last character is a capital "eye"/I, for "I'm".) It does a Google "I'm Feeling Lucky" search for your query, and restricts the results to the Python docs. So, e.g., I can type:

py enum

And get the Python docs for the enum module.

I recommend this for MDN, too, e.g. I can type,

mdn map type

and get the JS `Map` docs.

I need to add one for crates.io & the Rust STL. Note, of course, that this sends your searches to Google by virtue of using the "I'm Feeling Lucky" functionality.
Actually Apple explicitly recommends not to give them bad publicity whenever a review doesn't go well. After what i realized, and given that i had a happy ending, forgive me for not taking any chance to piss them off.

It's a business application, doesn't have anything particular, and doesn't rely on fancy technological tricks, api or marketing tricks. I believe the reason they rejected the update was for a particular wording in a description that made them think i was tricking my customers (although i'm still having trouble understanding why).

Which would have been forgivable, if that was my first release. But it was just an update, and the part that got them triggered hasn't changed since day 1. The app makes something like 10k a year of profits, so it's not big, but if it were a scam, it would have been reported before...
Love this series! Hope the next one is on the way!
I hope they can get a StackOverflow offline archive https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
Sounds like what I learned from Ravens in Winter (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122665.Ravens_in_Winter) an excellent read.
Then just be honest and say it. "I left this organization because I felt uncomfortable there. If you want more detail I can provide it."

And yes, as the hiring manager, I may want to understand the cultural issues at your last company. Why?

Because I want to understand (a) what you value, (b) how you deal with conflict, (c) will you be able to help me improve our culture here and (d) what cultural issues you may or may not bring with you.

If I'm going to help you be successful here, I do want to understand your background. I may not need all that information before hiring, but I will get to it eventually because it's pertinent to helping you and the team succeed.
I can't say I've ever had that sweet of a deal (perhaps a byproduct of working at smaller startups), but what you describe is much more in line with my experiences than the nightmare described in comment you responded to.
What an amazing video, enough technical detail while maintaining high-level concepts - thanks!
Which part of cruising at 120+ mph for long distances is not realistic?
I got the distinct impression that there is a lot of overlap between those most likely to decry US history, and those that invoke supposedly foundational multicultural ideals to promote diversity.
I'd care about a Rotten Tomatoes for books, if there were one. Because I can't make sense of Goodreads' ratings: it seems the entire useful range is compressed somewhere between 4.0 and 4.3, but at the same time quite a lot of books randomly have too low or too high ratings.

IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes also have weird useful ranges, but they are consistent: on IMDB, 6 is very meh, 8 is hella good, 9 is genius. On RT, 70% is borderline rubbish, best to choose something above 80%.

Also, it's pretty clear that ‘Atlas Shrugged’ is anywhere near 4 only due to the political theme.
What is the "correct company name" that they should have used? Was the company not called TestFlight?
I was going to post a comment like this if I couldn't find one! As a DevOps-type engineer who writes mostly internal tooling - I really couldn't relate to any of the 3 camps that the author mentioned, but I can relate to what you wrote. Tooling for developers and opearations / SRE types in general all follow a similar paradigm to what you mentioned.

I'd add to add:
Fav languages: Whatever is already installed and easy to deploy and maintain/debug on your target system. For linux systems, this might mean Python, Bash, Go.

Additional Hangouts: Forums about AWS/GCP/Azure tooling, Hashicorp projects, Config Management Software projects (ie, ansible)
I think this depends on the particular child. I had one who needed to be put to bed early or the next day was going to be a nightmare for everybody. But I had another one who didn't do well with an early bedtime.

I don't think there are many one-size-fits-all answers when it comes to kids.
And then the minute it even isn't slightly visible, Facebook et al will likely take that as you consenting.
We already expect data to sometimes indicate significant evidence against the null hypothesis when the null hypothesis is actually correct. That's just the nature of the way we structure our statistics practices. But for each additional set of variables you have and could test for relationships, you increase your chances of finding a strong relationship that appears to be significant due to random chance, but was in fact not. (You may notice that this is just a different flavor of the issues that arise from the way researchers use significance tests).

The reason you need to pick your hypothesis ahead of time is because otherwise you may use intuition or just your eyeballs to find relationships in the data that are only there due to random chance. This will supposedly increase the probability of detecting spurious relationships and erroneously rejecting the null.
Incidentally, in my city, the suburban mall is thriving and expanding, but the downtown city center mall is completely dead.

The thriving mall is focusing on extremely high end retail and restaurants.
Of course, knowing that the theorem proves that a room of mirrors is fully lit by a candle is totally worth $3M. /s

Seriously though, the article glances over the applications of such a theorem that make it so useful.
Is that the truth or will a court later fine your company for lying?
What do you mean by:

vaping weed and marijuana at the same time

? Or do you mean weed + nicotine?
>iCloud has been hacked how many times now?

The platform itself has not been hacked, so I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. All the "hacks" against iCloud have been social engineering and/or user exploits. I don't see how users re-using passwords across sites or using weak passwords makes iCloud security a joke. Some of the impetus has to fall on users to be responsible for their own data.
Ask HN: Where can I download Amazon reviews as a dataset?
Are there any datasets where I can download product reviews, product descriptions on Amazon or on Walmart? Looking to do some NLP for specific categories like cameras.
This sounds fun. I’ll give it a shot next week. My prediction - 30% food related, 20% co-workers names followed by linkedin (hoping for a picture, I can’t remember names), 20% random stuff (e.g. population of Brazil), the remainder is actually job related.
Google receives antitrust discovery request from Department of Justice
This game was called "sardines" in my childhood neighborhood.
> do you really have a passion for maintaining projects?

I don't. I have a passion for clearing roadblocks and that means different things at different times. Sometimes that means automation.

I think you parsed that sentence in a different way than I intended. I think a legitimate handoff is part of building a tool for someone. We have people who run the gamut from rent-seeking to dropping the mic and walking away.
A link would be appreciated.