skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't like your story. The junior is clearly behaving immaturely and inappropriately by CCing others and not using an appropriate tone, but your response is to... retaliate by doing the exact same thing to him? What lesson is the junior supposed to learn here? That acting that way is A-OK as long as you have seniority and are factually correct? At least the junior has the "excuse" of being a junior, but really as a more senior person you should have known better.

Surely there must have been a better way for you to handle this situation.
Ironicaly, complexity is the enemy of security (as I’ve heard quoted a few times)
Get out of here.

(Still sore Apple did not stick to the 1kB = 1000 bytes of the original MacOS and gave in to the "powers of two" insanity ;-)
That "blindingly obvious loophole" is basically the standard.

These compensation deals are very often based on earnings per share or value per share. And you can increase it.

The link below is from the Conference Board, which is about as rock-ribbed big business friendly capital establishment types as they come. Even they caution about executive trickery here.

https://www.conference-board.org/blog/postdetail.cfm?post=68...
No doubt. So far the only defense against crap products is buying them from a physical store so you can test and easily return them and having a good warranty.
Most Chick-Fil-A employees are probably not engineers.
That's been going on for hundreds of years, is this surprising to anybody?
If an API is expected to return an array, but the data set is empty, I expect an empty array. I should be able to go straight from the request to a for-each loop without checking for null.
It’s not even a population density issue, it’s just a bad planning issue. Where I live (in the middle ring of a large Australian city) we have density comparable to an American suburb, but I have several mini-downtowns within walking distance.

I did the maths a while ago; even if every house has a quarter-acre block (subtract actual street space from that to get a slightly smaller block) you can fit 4000 houses, about twelve thousand people, within a 1km radius of a mini-downtown point. Twelve thousand people is certainly enough to support a supermarket, a bunch of restaurants, cafes, specialty stores etc (think of what a town of twelve thousand people looks like). The only trick is actually zoning rows of shops in appropriate places.

Of course I still drive to the supermarket anyway, unless I’m only buying a couple of items. This isn’t an argument against cars, it’s just an argument that low(ish) density housing and walkability aren’t incompatible.

More broadly I think that Americans looking for solutions to their city-planning problems should look less at Europe (or god forbid, Asia) and more at Australia, since I think we’ve done a decent (though as always imperfect in implementation) job of combining European and American city planning virtues.
It's based on employee ratings, so I do think there's still value if you use this the right way.

So, if one way you support what companies to give your business to is based on how well they treat their employees, then sure, maybe this list makes me 5% more likely to frequent In-N-Out Burger (if they ever set up shop in DC).

Or, maybe this data is interesting to investors, I don't know. Not because you're comparing the #1 slot to the #5, but just to say that anything in the top 10 is a sign of something positive that can be added to other factors you'd analyze.

So there could be useful ways to use it. But it wouldn't make me quit my job to work at Hubstop, either.
I've worked at a few places. Something that I wished existed in all those places is a library. It need not be filled with books. Just reserved room space for people to come and read without interruption. I really wish someday people give this a thought.
Crusaders want to preserve human culture online. Latest target: Yahoo Groups
Don't employee surveys factor heavily into these evaluations?
This is why Docker is suggested. It is the best thing so far even though a more polished system can/should take its place.

A well written Dockerfile and docker-compose files contain and describe all the dependencies you need and you can copy them to an Ansible playbook or just a script for your choice of OS/environment.
That is better.

One thing they learned with airplanes is to set up the gauges so that when things are good, the needles all point in the same direction, regardless of what they were measuring. This made it easy for the pilot to scan the instruments. Later they added green, yellow, and red indications so an out-of-normal indication showed yellow, and really bad showed red.

Something car manufacturers still haven't cottoned on to.
The reason we fight against censorship (which is what this debate comes down to) with literal religious fervor is because that's how the other side fights for it.

Don't want it archived forever? Don't put it on the Internet. Seems simple enough.
I think this is more of the dealerships wanting to hold onto their business model, vs the Ford Company seeing which way the puck is going.

Most dealerships make most of their money from their service department. Considering most electric vehicles require much less service, this presents a very large problem.

The entire dealership model is going to get turned on it's head over the next decade.
Regular expression engines are notoriously buggy. You definitely wouldn't want to pass random expressions to libpcre.

Web browsers are already running random expressions from the internet, but their regex implementations have proven the rule by being fodder from exploit writers. In any event, requiring a password manager to pull the engine from Firefox or Chrome wouldn't be cool. They're more likely to use libpcre or re2, but see above.

The NAPTR DNS record type uses regular expressions for domain rewriting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAPTR_record
Not many DNS libraries support that record type as it adds alot of problematic bloat.
... and that's exactly why Docker shines so much.
Ok, java was influential in a ton of subsequent design patterns. For a long time java was pretty much the test-bed for these ideas. And the other half of the point remains: modern design patterns were not part of the standard toolbox at the time. To be clear, I am not defending the design of the URL class. Just that you need to judge it in context.
[1] You've basically listed the very reason I'm using docker. It makes my code deployment agnostic. Bash "setup" files? been there. I write Dockerfiles.

I think that's the only thing I'm strongly opinionated about as a developer.

--- EDIT

This is a classic. Reading the backend "how to run" guide I see:

DATABASE=<your-mongodb-connection-string>
PORT=5000
SERVER_URL=http://localhost:5000

This should settle any debate about docker being "overkill". Developers are notoriously reluctant to install things on their dev machines. As-is this repo has non-trivial setup friction which will reduce # of potential users/testers.

TL;DR: docker-compose up
That's why the quotation marks, I don't believe it either.
It can, if you are comparing between similar positions. Comparing the environment of an In-N-Out engineer to a Google engineer is valid, and so is that of an In-N-Out cook to a Google cook. But I don't think that knowing whether life of an average Google employee is "better" or "worse" than that In-N-Out is gonna be useful or illustrative of anything at all to an average In-N-Out employee.

It's like making a lawyer compare his workplace to that of a surgeon at a private practice, you are comparing apples to oranges. In part, because the chosen field in itself affects the workplace environment, and there isn't really a good way to separate the effects of the field vs. the individual workplace environment for the purpose of that chart.
...to a computer professional?
OpenHW Group Announces Core-V Chassis SoC Project
This is not a popular idea in the US, but I think it would be smart to invest in the common health, education, and infrastructure.
Wouldn't this just make password crackers easier? If there's a Regex of what passwords are okay, it lowers the search space.

To save (potentially rate limited) requests, the ripper software could compare the regex against a candidate password and skip it altogether.

It's like expressing in machine-readable form how many/which characters they can skip.
I stopped going to my team's standups because of this. For a few weeks I was occasionally asked about what I was doing, I just always said I was busy on whatever I was working on. Now I'm the only member of my team who never joins the standups. I wonder if they resent me for that, but it's not worth going back.
If you want to feel good about dropping cash into the collection plate, never try to figure out the status of the Vatican's sovereign wealth fund, or assess the value of cultural artifacts kept in its private collections.

It's all taking from Paul to pay Peter.
If they use an ISM band the FCC wouldn't care. You wouldn't get cell signals while inside the room, but passive blocking is legal.

Researchers at Disney are probably looking at it because they want some walk-in interactive experience (like their VR stuff) where batteries would either be an ongoing maintenance hassle, or because they have dozens/hundreds of individual objects that would be impractical to recharge by hand. Hmm, like a big room filled with hundreds of mouse sized wheeled robots, or a thousand quadcopters...
It's related, but I don't think AOP has a concept of an immutable past?
Like with other "90% of X is wasted" sayings, you don't know which 90% it is.

Even if you look at classical art with an honest eye, you can find plenty of works that in themselves are, well, crap - but they're being preserved and reproduced and talked about, because they acquired meaning over time. They've become relevant in context.

Take your old Twitter account. It's probably not interesting. It probably won't ever be. But it might. Imagine several decades from now, your great-granddaughter becomes a well-known, influential politician. This might retroactively and posthumously make you relevant, and in the process your Twitter account. Biographists might find it useful. Or independently, people who're into historical train schedules. Etc.

It's near-impossible to predict what the future will find relevant, so if storing some memories is nearly free on the margin - as it is today, with digital technologies - then just storing it is a no-brainer.
I don't mean @deprecated. Just that the recommendation has been to use URI instead of URL wherever possible since URI was introduced. URL is not needed any longer with the new HttpClient stuff in java 11.
Why not? The web of late '90s (as I remember it) worked just fine without those. Ability to serve only documents but not programs, and inability to persist any identifiers would mean that both website developers and visitors would know that website cannot be disruptive, and would serve content (or nothing of substance at all).

I expect that advertisers won't go there because it contradicts modern beliefs in targeted advertising and how behavioral data obtained by tracking is worth everything.

And it's virtually impossible to distinguish between paid-for "native" advertising and honest product recommendation.
> Turns out historians may not be so upset. You can be a historian of early medieval France have a chance of reading 100% of the surviving documentation. Too much data can obscure the story.

I don't understand this reasoning. Yes, more data = more work, but less data = more likely you're wrong.
Which is why the comparison is pointless.
This is highly inaccurate for a number of reasons:

The scores are averaged which any statistician will know means that in a place like In And Out where most jobs are making $10-$20/hr. Maybe there are accountants at In-N-Out, but I doubt their opinion even moves the needle here.

You could say the same about the content flaggers or whatever. The majority opinion from FAANG companies is going to be engineers.

And side note: I think anyone who spends their time helping catch child predators is someone to be respected...
For this kind of project the Dockerfile is an executable README. It's a reproducible and predictable installation guide.
Using a car salesman as your source of info is honestly pretty dubious for any car, especially one that the dealership isn't even going to see in person for at least a year. Ford does require dealerships to have a designated EV lead who takes some relevant training if the dealership wants to be "EV certified" by Ford. I wonder how many of these dealerships had that certification?
They aren’t.

Disclaimer: I turned down higher paying/more prestigious companies for Amazon so YMMV
According to this article[0], they have trouble retaining employees, because their office location is so bad.

Well, that, and the whole Christian Taliban thing.
Yeah that was great - you could not actually represent real computer resources correctly without 4 decimal places.
We've banned this account as well as several others because they only post comments to defend Amazon against criticisms, and all the comments are more or less the same. That's not what this site is for.

You're welcome to participate on Hacker News if you want to submit stories and post comments about topics that gratify your intellectual curiosity. That is, you'd be welcome to participate as a true community member. But single-purpose accounts aren't allowed here, and certainly not single-purpose accounts for corporate agendas.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Just get a domain name and a cheap web hosting account and setup an email address and client through that
One of my measures for whether a tech job is "good" is how it compares to the pizza place that I worked for in college. Ignoring the lower pay, the pizza place wins more often than you'd think.

And as for Google, no not terrible, but no longer good enough that I'd accept a position there.
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> As noted above, I would appreciate a recognition that their decision to not defend the 2nd is actually political rather than legal in nature, which I believe is pretty obvious.

You're leaving out the third option, practical.

There are already well funded, effective organizations defending your interpretation of the Second Amendment. It makes little sense for the ACLU to divert resources to that endeavour as a result, even if they agreed with your political view on the individual vs. collective right to bear arms.
An emergency overweight/crash landing is the opposite of a safe landing.

Airliners will dump fuel or keep flying to get below maximum landing weight if possible. If they're still overweight and manage to land without issue, the plane will need to be inspected and repaired before it can fly again.
It’s a flawed list. Would you rather have them work at In-N-Out or Amazon, which isn’t on the list?
Ask HN: To experience the latest in VR, what should I rent?
I've been bearish on VR since Bubble 1.0, but every now and again I like to try the latest-gen stuff just to keep in touch. (Hopefully someday I'll be wrong!) If I'm going to rent a VR system for the fam to try out over the holidays for a week, which one should I pick? And what are the titles that best convey VR's potential? (Bonus points for not having to pay a lot for a game I'm unlikely to play again after the week is up.)
At Google you get amazing benefits, giant salary, world-class talent as peers, luxurious offices around the globe, first-hand knowledge of unparalleled technical systems, flexible schedule, ability to work on innovative products from healthcare to drone delivery, and the most prestigious alumni network in the world should you leave it.

At In-and-out, you don't get any of those things. Not that I don't like I&O - their burgers are great, and I'm sure work environment is better than other fast food companies. But it's just not comparable to Google.
the "best" in 'best places to work' is pretty vague. it's based on employee reviews and a lot goes in there. what is best for those who have left reviews? social atmosphere, pay, career path, etc.? it most likely differs from company to company, sector to sector. with this in mind, comparing In'n'Out to fb is comparing apples to oranges. however, the fact that fb and google have experienced such a noticeable drop in favourability over time is news.
Sure (well, I'm not sure I'd say it's "huge" amounts of data, but there's definitely some non-verbal information embedded in speech) but this is disaster communications, not a newscast, I don't want to try to read subtle emotions from tone of voice, I want information -- if the sender is feeling anxious about something, I want him to tell me, I don't want to try to guess how bad conditions are because his voice was a little shaky.
Totally agree with you. Blazor is a game changer. I can bet by the end of 2020, Blazor will surpass all the javascript frameworks in adaption.
Intel CPU Escalation of Privilege
Possibly, but it's far more likely that it's the non-tech/engineering employees who have well publicized subpar to inhumane working conditions that are skewing Amazon's rating. There are some reports of that culture permeating into it's cloud/tech business areas but it's difficult to know the relative ratio (both # of user reports and rating effect size) between the two.
Doesn't apart of their budget go towards providing for the poor? Did the donators assume the money goes directly in hands of needy? Or was the act inferred to them?
A person who helps the poor and also rapes children is called a child rapist. An organization that does the same is called a child rape organization. I seriously hope people aren’t donating money to such an organization.
If true, its a despicable system and deserves universal condemnation.

In fact, it deserves legal action. What other charity is 10% efficient, and gets away with it?
Yuck. When my company started pushing for more "agility" and my team moved to a sprint structure, I was lucky enough to have personal leverage as a senior team member. Early on I made it clear that tickets and sprints exclusively exist for the team to plan and manage expectations, and that I wasn't going to hold with upper management using them as leverage over anybody. To support that, I had to interrupt stand-ups a few times when someone would start iterating through tickets for progress instead of letting people report.

I wish misuse of these tools wasn't so widespread, but it was to be expected.
libpcre is exactly the implementation I’m not talking about, because it supports too much. I think re2 doesn’t do backtracking, so it’s probably a better choice.
Just about all public road systems are subsidised but are public transport systems?. This will work better in cities with cheap/free public transport
> Any increase in equality that comes along with it (honestly I'm skeptical it would make much of a difference) would be purely incidental.

"Equality" is perhaps a poor choice of words here. I will say that for people on the cusp—mainly young and poor people—having a car break down can spiral into a really bad situation or even homelessness. When you can't afford to fix your car and your car is required to get to your job, the situation can become untenable quickly.
Interesting! Imagine a world in which GNU had been more successful in developing their Hurd kernel and their vision of Guile as the general embedded scripting language for GNU applications.

Had that happened, the GNU OS could have had a more unified look and feel, unfettered by the chaotic bazaar that followed the rise of Linux.
For the uninitiated: https://securitytxt.org/

Original HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15416198
Video of a Man Hacking a Ring Camera Inside an 8-Year-Old Girl's Bedroom
You mean the horrific skinned version of their website that has no offline capabilities?

That’s hardly an app. I love fastmail and have been a happy paying customer for years. But that’s their biggest pitfall.
Not sure about Google but regarding Facebook, there is something to be said about your work culture when one of your engineers commits suicide [1] by jumping off a building at your HQ. I would imagine things like this would lead to a lower score on that top list.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/27/facebook-employee-death-was-...
Part of the solution might be using the local population density to inform how much of the street you devote to cars. For example, in rural areas, two lane blacktop with no shoulder and 100% devoted to cars is ok, because there aren't many cars, so people can still use the road even if they aren't driving. In the suburbs, car travel lanes should begin to narrow, sidewalks should appear, bike lanes should appear, etc. In the densest part of the city, the streets should give space to transit, delivery/infrastructure vehicles, low speed transport like bikes, scooters, etc. and people. Primarily people and transit
> Typically the biggest constraint is that it must relate to the business in some way.

This is so short-sighted, because it means you can't learn anything unless your boss is 100% sure it will be immediately useful (at which moment, someone else is probably already assigned to do it). Most things I learned in my life were not immediately useful when I learned them, but many became useful later. Programming itself is a good example of this; when I was a kid, computers were considered just an expensive toy. By this logic, I should have never learned programming in the first place.

These constraints do not allow you to explore. If there is a new framework or a new programming language which MIGHT improve your productivity, but also MIGHT be a useless fad, you are not allowed to find out which one it is. No one in your team is. Thus you get stuck with the old technologies forever (or someone breaks the rules, or someone studies the new technology in their free time).
> For two months last year, researchers at the University of Washington paid drivers of an unidentified ridesharing service to keep custom-made sensors in the trunks of their cars, converting those vehicles into mobile cellular data collectors. They used the results to map out practically every cell tower in the cities of Seattle and Milwaukee—along with at least two anomalous transmitters they believe were likely stingrays, located at the Seattle office of the US Customs and Immigration Service, and the Seattle-Tacoma Airport.

source: https://www.wired.com/2017/06/researchers-use-rideshares-sni...

> At Trudeau airport, Radio-Canada detected the catcher's presence through the use of a CryptoPhone — a cellphone look-alike that emits red alerts when a fake antenna tries to catch its signal. Several red alerts were received, throughout the afternoon and early evening, in the section of the airport for U.S. departures.

source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/trudeau-airport-spyi...

> The devices are operated out of at least five U.S. airports, "covering most of the U.S. population". It is unclear whether the U.S. Marshals Service requests court orders to use the devices.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirtbox_(cell_phone)
“You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.” - L. Ron Hubbard
Buybacks also represent profits being returned to the shareholders. They aren’t different from dividends in that respect. Companies are still paying out shareholders, they are just doing it in a different way.
What is the difference between a permanent stingray and a cell tower?
Well, there's the small matter of a couple hundred thousand dollars difference in comp.