skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Culture fit in a nutshell:

> “There are all these generic terms used to find things wrong with women that aren’t specific,” she said. “When I hear ‘She’s emotional,’ I’d say, ‘Okay, why do you think she was being emotional?’ ‘Well she seemed to get intense and was pushing back on this thing.’ The other candidate did that and you liked that because you thought he had ‘grit.’ Why is that different? Is it because this person is a different gender?”
Pen-and-paper banking doesn't exist. Everything is done electronically, and BofA is a massive behemoth of a bank.

Tech companies also aren't subject to the same level of scrutiny / regulatory requirements as big banks, plus the need to support old processes and software, etc
I avoid the principles espoused by this book like the plague. There are entire domains of programming don't cover this stuff.

I'm not saying that design patterns isn't right for you, but the fact that me and many other programmers avoid it shows that it's not fundamental at all.
We study fifteen months of human mobility data for one and a half million individuals and find that human mobility traces are highly unique. In fact, in a dataset where the location of an individual is specified hourly, and with a spatial resolution equal to that given by the carrier's antennas, four spatio-temporal points are enough to uniquely identify 95% of the individuals.
Public cloud is definitely a great value for startups. When you are small and want the flexibility and speed and the sophistication that cloud providers make possible. The premium they charge is well worth up to a certain point at least.
When you are an established business with mature tech and of the size of BoA, it is a whole different math.
Your investment in your own cloud if done right can be a huge saving that can give more mileage (on Wall Street) than your competitors speed in execution, esp if you are a bank, where time to market isn’t exactly a winner.
Use voice/video when possible. Text only can make people brave in a bad way
This morning I woke up to an uproar on Twitter. There was a white man and software engineer who was having a discussion with a female software engineer. He was being extremely denigrating to the woman. This was all happening over Twitter which is primarily a text based form of communication. It made me wonder if he would have been willing to be so brash and insulting had he been talking to a woman face to face. As a white male and software engineer myself it made me want to apologize to all women and especially to the wonderful and smart women in engineering fields. I hope that you can be patient with those of us who want to treat you as co-workers and potential clients and not as inferior. I also want to remind you that picking up the phone or chatting over video is a much faster way to communicate. It also allows you to get conversation context that you cannot see in text only form. Here is my post on that subject:

https://blog.taylorbuiltsolutions.com/three-important-points-of-communication/
Indeed, it was awfully buggy a couple of months ago when I gave it a try. Hope to reiterate in a couple of months. It would be a very useful tool.
Good schools are more about the parents than location. We opted our kid into the poorest school in the city: the one where many of the students speak Spanish at home so they made it a dual language immersion school. The school administrators were shocked when we said we didn't want to waste our time applying for the subsidized lunch program (It would probably be cheaper to give every kid a free lunch than process the paper work for those who qualify)

Those poor kids are just like every other kid in the world - other than they lack money. Their parents love them, and the best for them. What they define as best might not match my definition, but they want the best for them. And my son is well on his way to a second language, something that will be useful - in our opinion.
I like rust but how the heck is this fundamental?
I’ve been using it almost exclusively for a few months and I think I’m going to switch back. DDG is really bad at showing results from my own country near the top, which is really annoying when I wish to purchase something. I imagine the experience is much better in the United States as that’s where all the top results come from.
This is the sort of thougt-terminating cliche that western Sinophobia enables. If you simultaneously believe that Chinese people are just as capable of critical thought as Americans and that they often support their government, then you need to engage with that support in good faith and try to figure out why it'd be the case.

Instead, I think we often look at this as 'if p and q then X; certainly not X; probably q; therefore not p; QED'

For a nation that is overwhelmingly okay with (often vocally supportive of) our own actual concentration camps, we're weirdly obsessed with the faraway 're-education' camps of our main economic and socio-political rival.

(I do want to say that I think China is, really, objectively worse when it comes to human rights violations than the US itself is. I just find the unanimity of our criticism vs that of ourselves or, say, Saudi Arabia, Chile, Brazil, or other US-aligned states to leave a sour taste in my mouth.)

Edit: I forgot to tie this back in to the originally linked article. Basically, when we engage in criticism, we should in turn be critical of the interests of those whom that criticism serves. Zuckerberg wants us to believe in a Fifth Estate, of, for, and by the masses. We all probably know that this is double-speak aimed at protecting his own personal power and bottom line, but that narrative enables and supports external criticism, focused on his rivals the scary Chinese, rather than the already vast power that Facebook wields over us.
Sorry, I confused the two. I'm out here using Tor for my privacy (good kid; didn't do nuffin').
You have it backwards: Saudi produces heavy / sour crude whereas fracking produces light / sweet crude. And fracking has (so far) been completely or almost completely limited to the US and Canada.
UK Spy Agency Opens 'Safe Citizen' Accelerator and New Manchester Base
You are arguing against the article.

If Bill Gates didn't exist we could all easily be using Osbournes instead of PCs, or something equivalent would have occurred.
This corporation should be dissolved, its assets expropriated, and its management consigned to a gulag.
I use plugins to force SSL to all connections. I block outbound non-SSL http traffic.

So, 0%? But personally I don't go to many sites that dont have full SSL coverage. Do you?

I highly recommend you do this.

> It’s so much easier to attack machines on public WiFi than compromise a VPN provider... and much more anonymous, and less likely to incite law enforcement activity.

Do you think there will be a successful law enforcement follow up to this breach? I doubt it.

> Public airports, libraries, etc are hotbeds of nefarious activity.

As are VPN data centers, as evidenced here.

If you really want to just shift your egress point, lots of self-hosted VPN options exist. These are much better able to do the things you want to do, without being as vulnerable to corporate VPN attacks.
I've had okay experiences on StackOverflow, but only because

1. I tend to answer questions thoroughly, in keeping with the spirit of StackOverflow being a common target from web searches

2. I dare not ask a question, ever
I don't have an answer for you, but just want to mention that Google is a moving target, and if DDG ever became a significant threat to them it's very likely that they'd do something to counter it, such as just buying DDG and possibly killing it off, releasing a separate DDG competitor product, or changing their own modus operandi.

In fact, for all we know, DDG might be owned by Google already.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-was-joki...

Wondering if Trump will try to get involved to influence his 2020 campaign.
Diablo 3 was a bad game.

They destroyed the fun of the trading economy by making the auction house the most efficient way to obtain things - even allowing real-money purchases for a while to make it literally pay-to-win until they walked that back.

They entirely removed the concept of "builds" as everything about your character was changeable at whim, so you just had to max out a class and you had access to every build within that class. Made choosing builds feel unimportant.

Then, they didn't add enough interesting unique item effects, so item grinding largely just became "look for the item with a slightly bigger number"
(Except when it's not.)

It's not really uncommon to see "no smoking on the patio" or "no smoking within 100 feet of this door" signs. And some states have legalized smoking cannabis, except outdoors.
On to microservices with you and give the developer the pager!

Embrace the change :)
I've tried a lot before. Ended up creating a tiny wrapper around my terminal text editor: https://crates.io/crates/mj

It essentially is markdown files in the fixed directory structure, searchable and simple.
> Sure. You just need more people to keep an eye on what your consumption rates are. Or to handle access control systems or manage service accounts and client certificates, ensure firewalls, additional tooling around firewalls to ensure things aren’t getting exposed outside. Countless cost projections on top of a complicated billing system.

At a certain scale, you need all these things with internal clouds too. Resource provisioning, basic security, and managing "insider risk" don't just go away when you own the infrastructure.
UK Inventor Claims Aluminum-Air Battery Breakthrough
Did this change? I thought there used to be a direct additional cost to not comingle.
Seed Financing Landscape (with data, what and how long long it takes)
If they're that deeply affected by autism, they almost certainly have a caregiver at that point. I imagine that's the solution - whoever has power of attorney for medical decisions would make the call for them. From there, it's simply a personal decision for the caregiver.

If they've got it light enough that they can handle life in the real world (i.e. can enter contracts for renting an apartment, getting a car loan, etc.), then they can give meaningful consent for themselves.
> Mine runs off the natural gas line

This has always felt risky to me. Sure, your setup will work for a garden-variety power outage, but not when it really matters like an earthquake or other natural disaster.
Interesting. I'm sure you know more about it than I do, but in Swift for example, it seems like this mostly results in an error like "unable to infer the type of X in the current context" which is maybe not the simplest error in the world to figure out, but it's really not too difficult to unwind as compared to say, cryptic C++ template errors.

I suppose you can't have everything, but in my experience top level inference makes code a lot easier to read because it removes a lot of noise and redundant information while largely leaving the "intent" of the code in place.
> Skip the spider. Big table.

I don't understand these expressions.
That sounds like a Cloud in name only.
In 2015ish PIA got hacked via https://old-support.privateinternetaccess.com because of https://classichelp.kayako.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000646089... and never told anyone.

This bug loudly announces itself on every pageload, it speaks of tremendous incompetence that they ever let this go into production.

The site used to set a cookie that looked like this:

Set-Cookie: SWIFT_client=a%3A1%3A%7Bs%3A15%3A%22templategroupid%22%3Bs%3A1%3A%221%22%3B%7D; expires=Wed, 28-Dec-2016 23:24:13 GMT; path=/; httponly

Obvious PHP object injection vulnerability that should've been caught by any automated auditing tool.
I'm not so convinced how great of a job they did.Bank of America has by far the worst user experience I've ever seen. I had an experience recently where I changed my password, and after 2 days my new password stopped working and my old one did.
Semi-Weak Supervised Learning
Not everyone has to be a political activist, especially an 11yr old. Life is short and full of competing priorities,
I doubt it will get much worse because a father and his daughter didn't protest.

I wouldn't worry about it.

Hopefully no one harasses those who still decide to go or causes any violence. That never helps anyone.
And now the question is, how is Startpage paying Google without monetizing its users?
If you read the HN thread... I tell my similar story of being invited and meeting Google ATAP. They are pigs and its not just that one R&D department either!
RoboTrump – A fully convincing Trump AI text generator
I m sure psychiatry has already answers to the last question

And if i m detectably on the spectrum- yes i would! Not because i hate myself, but to experience the other side. I m kinda surprised that people say no - do they also say no to all recreational drugs? This crispring would be reversible anyway
> unlike other ML-family languages

I'm curious about this comment, for my current project I chose reasonML over Elm very much because reasonML plays well with old javascript and it plays nice with the rest of the web.

My bundle is very small, compile times fast, and interop with even quite old JQuery libraries is a breeze.

Is there something else I'm giving up that I'm not aware of?
That is also an impressive achievement considering the technology and logistics he had available from a certain perspective
Honestly, I don't think it's exclusive to NordVPN, I've found that all VPN advertising has increased significantly in the last year or two. Noticeably, ExpressVPN is also everywhere. Almost every podcast or youtube video has some VPN ads in it. It seems like with the recent focus on privacy, they are really these two companies and others are really trying to make a run for it.
I call bullshit. But yeah.
Charging for the sending and the receiving of the same data within a region, huh?
In darkness our eyes can easily detect a 1W LED from kilometers away.
This is the last time I trust a product endorsement from the Angry Videogame Nerd.
Former co-founder & CEO of Dropcam (Nest cam) here.

There's no way to say this humbly, but imo stuff like this is the reason that companies lose their way when they lose an empowered "buck stops here" product-oriented CEO with enough engineering chops to modulate product decisions.

I had an endless to-do list of improvements, including security enhancements like the one you suggest (but done in a way that would not impair usability, like anything with QR codes :-)).

The problem is, a string of well-meaning but amazingly risk-averse managers came in and killed the soul of the company by introducing enough bureaucracy that the team and I no longer cared to bang our heads against brick walls anymore.

If the leadership doesn't a) understand product, b) understand business, c) know/respect good engineering, or d) have "fuck you, we're doing this" authority ... it will fail in spectacular ways through a series of seemingly good short-term decisions, it's just a matter of time.

Combine product, business, engineering, and authority to lead, sprinkle in some ethics and respect for your customers/employees, and baby you've got a stew going.

This whole privacy mess in home & so-called "IoT" is a result of people who don't even know what would be required to operate ethically with such powerful technology in the first place. I believe they are mostly good people, they just don't have the mindset or philosophy to know what to do. It kinda makes me misty-eyed. They know where to find me if it sounds like some of this could help... I'd be happy to try and get the band back together again.
There's nothing simple about debugging opaque error messages & client quirks on AWS.
Yes, they use Google results without tracking.
Just think: if he'd not tried to flee rape allegations in Sweden, he'd be free (or at least in a much more favourable situation) right now. Despite all the crap he said, being extradited to Sweden would have made extradition to the US less likely: two legal systems would need to approve (Sweden and UK), not just the UK.
its ok guys they changed it to "equifax123" so everything is fine now.
Many services send you an email when someone logs in from a new device. Does Nest not do that?
> Why do you believe that is the case? And what can be done to change that situation for the better?

The current HTML/CSS rendering is currently done by the browser. That part is native which means it can benefit heavily by the resources available that way (usage of the CPU/GPU, direct access to memory, etc...). It's also made by a bunch of people, with years of experience in the domain, they can make all this

Your solution would put this all on the Javascript side, which is already often put to its limits with our current usage.

React seems like a better solution. It render directly to HTML/CSS, so it profit from the browser performance to render it, but you can replace the rendering with something else (like React Native).
Grammatical error on the landing page.

"Are you a Hiring?"

Any github link where we can post issues?
But at a large company, how likely is it that a team is going to have their own AWS account AND have free rein over it?

The two companies I've used AWS at both operated this way. In fact, each team has multiple product accounts (for dev, testing, production). So I don't think it's unusual at all.
Switched to DDG + Brave browser on my laptop and I am surprised how subtly different browsing feels with this combo. Simply you realize how "watched" you feel on Google products and the tracked internet.

Without realizing it there is a "how would this search/page visit etc. look on a tracked profile" process running in my head that is greatly reduced by DDG+Brave. A chilling effect not just on speech, but on browsing behavior that we have to counteract.
The difference is that with American cultural values the freedom to criticize them remains. The option exists to say "I don't care for the US's culture or values".

I fear the concept of an internet where posts are censored and police arrive at your door for the wrong opinion.
As we all know, Trump is the Systemd of presidents.
Wouldn't it make sense to "retire", start a business and teach your children how to take over and run it instead of worry and invest in their "education"? If it is profitable and succeeds they can get their education in whatever they wish without breaking your bank or going to college before they are sure what they enjoy.
I love that the company that used a generic username and password is offering us security monitoring as a service to make up for their lack of security.
> Especially since I've been posting anti-communist since, well, forever and even today

Which is congruous with you being a GRU operative, or even a CCP shill spreading black propaganda by making poor arguments.

> And also that's fine. Ban me. But remember, when they silence everyone else, there's no one left to speak up for you.

Stop being melodramatic. Somebody disagreed with you on HN, you're not getting sent to a death camp. Plus you weren't exactly "speaking up" for me in the first place.
It seems like it's a commonly used undergrad textbook?
The C Programming Language.

And I am surprised no one mentioned Operating System Concepts (the dinosaur book).

It was the most useful CS text I read in college. I see a lot of SICP love; I never had it for a college course, but it looks good as well.
The www.startpage.com is not so bad either.
so, bandwidth cartel
It's kind of like back in the day Emacs was considered a programmer's tool. Yet secretaries not only used it, they learned how to configure it to their liking in Lisp! (If you tell a normie they are "customizing" the editor rather than "programming" it, they won't even realize it's hard!)

These days, people calling themselves professional developers with years of experience won't even touch Emacs.
I trained this by fine-tuning the Salesforce CTRL transformer model, then surveyed 1,000 to see if people could tell the difference between RoboTrump and real Trump. They can't.
> This is a myth directly from cloud providers marketing campaigns

I agree the cloud providers like this idea, but I'm not sure I agree it's a myth. Businesses need to choose what competencies to focus on. For nearly every other area, businesses rely on suppliers. Auto manufacturers use machines built by other businesses and parts built by other businesses. They also obviously do some amount of in-house part and tool design. It's a balance and I think that it's a lot more likely that most businesses will want a good partner to provide infrastructure (ultimately at margins less than AWS) instead of building it themselves.
You are a good parent. Thank you. She doesn't deserve to lose out because Blizzard decided that their financial interests in China are more important than ethics and morality. I hope you both have fun there!
We created a new website with Gatsby exactly for this: https://til.cybertec-postgresql.com/

Each day, a GitHub Actions bot chooses one of the open post PRs and merges it.

The content is open source here: https://github.com/cybertec-postgresql/today-i-learned-conte...
I also use lawnchair because I couldn't delete the google search from my "desktop" on my phone and that irritated me.

Lawnchair is great, I always forget it's even there.
Parity 7.0.0-Pre.3
This statistics page is amazing, giving annual, monthly, and daily query counts dating back to April 2010, and no other data.

When I first read it I was expecting to see a list of the most frequently searched terms, which would be front and center in a Google report, but goes against everything DDG stands for. :)
The onset of idiocracy
or Hotel California ...
I think very few people criticise systemd for its init system, which is pretty decent as far as init systems go. The main complaint is everything else systemd does. It's trying to swallow the universe and there seems to be no limits to where its "scope" will end.
i get the idea that google wants to keep widevine away from open source.

This fellow developing a streaming app attempts to gain license for widevine usage, and google says sorry we are not doing that right now.

https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/widevine/gmail-thread.html
I've actually been working on a library to help mitigate cloud storage lock-in. The idea is to treat cloud storage providers like disks are treated in RAID. For example, you have 3 separate cloud providers. Cloud providers 1 and 2 have every other byte of data striped across them. Cloud provider 3 has parity data. To pull a file you can only need 2 of the 3 cloud providers. If you don't like how a cloud storage provider is treating you or charging you just pull from the other 2 providers and use them as a backup in case one goes down. You can also just remove them entirely from the equation, but then you have no redundancy if one of the others goes down. It gives you a lot of negotiating power to lower egress costs because you can just pull them out of the equation at any time and reinstate them once you get better pricing.
What’s your setup?
In 5 years, I used !g maybe once. I use !pg, !wen and others very frequently.
My GP's practice went to a SaaS provider for electronic health records. Never mind transmission costs -- there is no standard way to export their patient records in order to move to a different provider. It requires a custom consulting services contract with their existing provider to retrieve their patient records, at an exorbitant price tag.
Federated Machine Learning Without Centralized Training Data
Very interested in this as well. How do you do automatic deployments?