skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Fifth Amendment gives witnesses a right not to testify against themselves. Rawls argued that producing a password for the hard drives would amount to an admission that he owned the hard drives. But the 3rd Circuit rejected that argument. It held that the government already had ample evidence that Rawls owned the hard drives and knew the passwords required to decrypt them. So ordering Rawls to decrypt the drives wouldn't give the government any information it didn't already have. Of course, the contents of the hard drive might incriminate Rawls, but the contents of the hard drive are not considered testimony for Fifth Amendment purposes.

It sounds like this ruling is more against indefinite detention than a ruling that allows you to invoke the 5th before handing over your passwords. The quoted text above [1] tells me that the courts have thus far not recognized any right to keep your data encrypted against the wishes of law enforcement. Maybe it means they can only lock you up for 18 months, but I don't see how this changes things appreciably. I guess if the crime you're accused of carries a sentence worse than 18 months, it might be worthwhile, but who knows...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/man-who-refused-...
Those interested in small phones are usually looking for one-handed operation and zero-width bezels are not the right tool for that.
Are you should not be eating oats, almonds or soy beans?
Since the poll was commissioned by NortonLifeLock, and they don't tell us what the questions asked were, I think it's pretty safe to ignore the results as bogus marketing.

Particularly since they seem surprisingly high.
Why would that be? There are far more dangerous software jobs, and also examples of successful digital systems like in Brazil.
100% agree. Software Engineer/Architect gives plans to the software developers. Software developers actually build the thing to the specifications of the engineer just like a construction crew. But, all of that is only true if there is an actual license to be a Software Engineer that is held in the same esteem as other engineering fields. Until then the conflation of software engineer and programmer/developer will persist because it makes sound cool.
My company has over 400 Data Scientists and 1000s of Data Analysts.

Buy them a machine each at a cost of $40-60 billion ?

Or would it make more sense to buy one Spark cluster and then share the resources at a fraction of the cost.
Thanks for the $3.35M/$3.82M figures -- is this published officially anywhere? $3.6M was the latest figure I was able to find on your website: https://letsencrypt.org/2018/12/31/looking-forward-to-2019.h...

The philanthropy-based funding model, coupled with the fact that this is now load-bearing Internet infrastructure, still makes me quite nervous, but I'm glad that you're able to sock away ~$500k for a rainy day.
Those were some poorly built systems. I worked on probably 10 of them and they not-infrequently had .. major issues. HP's support model was to send a tech out with 2 sticks of RAM, and try them in different places to try to trace memory failures... across 4 (or 8?) cassettes, and 64 sticks of ram, and 20+ minute POST times.

We eventually had one server entirely replaced at HP's cost after yelling at them long enough, and that one never worked well enough to ever use in production, either. I'd say we had maybe a 70-80% success rate with those servers. They were beasts, though, with 4TB of RAM as I recall, and 288 cores.
According to this article, the court can’t seem to understand why the prosecution is going to such lengths to compel production of password. Is they court willfully ignorant or is the article misleading?

It seems pretty clear the prosecution was trying to use this case to set a precedent that not producing a password means you stay in jail forever. That the accused is all but convicted for child porn makes it easy, from a PR standpoint, for the prosecution to play hardball. If it was a journalist or a whistleblower, amicus curae brief would be stacked to the rafters.
I think it depends on the chance that the student gets a job that is either in software engineering, or some job with a salary high enough to trigger the clause in the ISA to initiate payback.

I'm curious as to how legal these income "sharing" agreements are, can they be enforced by US law?
Why are you using HN then, when its terms include a similar arbitration agreement?

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HN doesn't even offer the ability to opt out of arbitration, so it's even worse than Quora in this aspect.
Just curious, did the audit cost as much as they estimated? $15k is a serious expense for small companies.
>Agile is, for the most part, the absence of planning

That's just blatantly false. Agile is about adjusting to the changing environment.

Even wiki says: "Agile software development comprises various approaches to software development under which requirements and solutions evolve through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customer(s)/end user(s)."
Only 6% thought taking a nap was okay though...
16% thought texting was okay.

So clearly not the majority in all aspects and the other names had similar results for those questions.
And Nokia was one such company, in the latter days of S60 smartphones. One (of many) re-orgs produced three main phone divisions called something like: entertainment, executive, and enterprise, with high-level features partitioned between them [1]. So "entertainment" gets the high-quality auto-focus camera because that's great for blogging hipsters, and "executive" gets the barcode reading software so suits can scan the QR codes on business cards [2] ... except they couldn't because without a decent auto-focus camera the QR code needed to be printed on A3 paper and stuck on the wall to be scanable. Yes, this was discovered in internal testing. Yes, it shipped anyway.

Down in the trenches we made bitter jokes about "three bald men fighting over a comb" as we watched our Lords and Masters engage with the looming competition by making snide public remarks about "that fruit company", having long before killed the touchscreen prototypes. But at least Boeing would have handled this situation differently: we'd have been fired for those jokes.

[1] and what if you're an "executive" working in an "enterprise" who likes to kick back with some "entertainment" on the commute? KA-CHING! you're gonna buy three Nokia phones! Or zero, more likely.

[2] that was seriously advanced as a leading use case. Quite probably by an in-house futurist.
Whether we're bad at software engineering or not doesn't seem to be the point to me. I think the point is economics and other factors causes us to forego engineering almost every time. The space shuttle control software is a massive outlier in a giant body of software.

edit: although looking back at the article and paying closer attention to the title, I can see why the point I replied to was made.
I self fund Linux Academy because the hands on labs make it much more useful than many of the other options. While I do have my own home lab and cloud accounts the LA setup makes it easy to pickup a course when I'm on the road with just my work laptop.

I had pluralsight too but stopped when I realised I'd watched lots of videos but not done many labs.
This applies to me as well.
This isn't unique to Quora and somewhat unfairly picks on them.

However, just because it is common doesn't mean it isn't utterly ridiculous and unenforceable.
Over time, over multiple iterations on multiple versions on various platforms (maybe excluding tests), this seems about right.

I remember when I was prototyping an OpenGL thing on SunOS or a Renderman on same (maybe Solaris?), I was working ALL of the time and cranking out LOTS of code. Then refactor-refactor, fix technical debt, slowly add features without breaking, more automated tests, more platforms, and then, tada! My effective rate of coding (measured by LoC) was depressingly low.

I guess that I'm happy that it appears that I'm effective and relatively efficient, but I'm not the LoC-cranking-out machine that I thought I was. Sobering.
Ask HN: Are Exit Interviews Honest?
I had people leave my team under different circumstances and Im always asked if I did an exit interview. Honestly i don’t even think Entrance interviews are all that useful or telling. Yes you talk. You ask questions you get answers. Most of the time they’re nervous. What do you get out of it that is really useful?
Now the exit interview is even weirder. The very existence of it proves the first one was useless. And also what would compel the exiting person to be truthful and objective?
What do you guys get out of it realistically and how do you act on that knowledge?
100%, yes. When was the last time the US killed a public company with legal action? Enron? And that was a very different situation, and a far less valuable company.

Banks like Wells Fargo have done astonishingly evil and illegal things and gotten away with a slap on the wrist. Hard to see why FB would be different.

While Zuck is too rich and ruthless to ever be relegated to the sidelines of power, we can at least hope FB gets broken up.
How we fought bad apps and malicious developers in 2019
Back to the “Cash Age”: A Chinese Writer in Japan
What does SWE actually do? I mean, I have some ideas how e.g. building or bridge engineers work and how they plan their projects. Standards, blueprints, legal safety requirements, physics, calculations, approval, etc. But what is software engineering in short?

Upd: is there AutoCAD for software?
You can save a few $$ by signing up for ACM instead.

https://learning.acm.org/e-learning/oreilly
For two reasons -- first, I wasn't aware of the arbitration clause, and second, HN is actually valuable.

You're right, though, the arbitration clause is awful.
Just raise the annual fee to 500 USD. 3 letter domains 50 k, 2 letter domains 100 k, words that are in the dictionary 25 k, refunds for squatters.
Ask HN: How did you overcame fear?
As someone who thinks I don't fear anything, sometimes when I pass through an event, I'm very scared. E.g I'm surrounded by 9 dogs, someone want to agress me etc..
Add this to your global git config `[alias]` block:

cpr="!f() { git fetch origin refs/pull/$1/head && git checkout FETCH_HEAD; }; f"

`git cpr 207` then checks out PR #207.
The 3 wolves and a sheep voting on dinner metaphor seems... Not so metaphorical in this case.
For the 777 it would be even harder to break out a software only a number only because while there will be new lines of code written there will also be many more old lines of code reused from earlier models.
My most important passphrases are very complicated, and I lose the ability to reproduce them from muscle memory (the only place they exist) after a few days of non-use. How can you prove passphrases are remembered?
I don’t typically goto TechDirt if I can find an original source (that isn’t hard paywalled or 50% video ads), but in this case, the writing and reporting was fine and the original court doc is included. Also, the Ars story you provide links to the TechDirt story in its opening sentence.
FIFA executives. Even though I found it awesome.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/nine-fifa-officials-and...
Huawei is the reason why this was cancelled.
Huawei has MWC as the big show up/party/global event of the year.
Any excuse is good. Huawei spend Millions in this event, more than anybody else

Recap of screwing Huawei history: Daughter of President jailed for business with Iran, baning their products ( network infrastructure, google apps in devices...), MWC cancelation....

🧐
This is a shitty comment. It wasn't DRM on fruit. It was an expiration date so that juice bars couldn't sell expired product to end customers. And it's really smart of you to try to judge someone so quickly. I would looove to see your LinkedIn profile and see what great flawless decisions you've made or will make in your lifetime.
Thanks for the feedback. There's also a --preview flag in the view commands if you want to see the body in your terminal. We're still working on a bunch more functionality, and we intend to add more flags to allow you to customize the things that are most useful to you. But we wanted to get this in people's hands early to get feedback to help inform where we go from here.
Astronauts are still the monkeys in a can. The success or failure now as it always was is in the engineering team, not the warm body who (to paraphrase Carl Sagan) is /still/ really only present for PR purposes rather than to optimise the advancement of technology and science.

Head of space flight engineering or whatever at NASA - yeah? Heuristic would be listen to them, they might know something. Monkey in the can on top of the fire-cracker? If they do know something it's more coincidence with their usefulness in PR than anything else. Sad but true. If NASA abandoned human flight tomorrow they'd probably get a lot more bang for buck - other than in PR because we love us a person to fuel our imagination and I am no different there. How flippin' cool is it ride the fireball into space?!?
Works fine with noscript and ublock active.. wish all sites played this well
Looks like the author doesn't know what a contract is either - it's something that requires consideration, which is clearly lacking when using a website.

Contracts, licenses, and terms of service are all completely different things.
I've always thought that TechDirt should be named The Daily Outrage with the tag line A Place for Clicks.
A transparent and verifiable governance model. Much better than what we have today.
StackExchange manages to do this, and it's not just the developers of StackOverflow, it's also all the other communities. Set a proper model and see good information flow.
This is a good place to note that a lot of current cookie disclosure popups state that "by using our site, you agree to our use of cookies".
Yes, that's an excellent point, but I think the lever law is more general than that. For example, it continues to apply when the lever in question is stationary, even though no value of the forces involved would violate conservation. In fact, it holds to higher precision in that situation because your measurements aren't confounded by vibration and accelerating masses.

Maybe you can derive it from some kind of generalization of Hooke’s Law to cover nonlinear stress–strain relationships, elastic hysteresis, anisotropy, viscoelastic behavior, and so on, but it's not obvious to me what that would be. Also, I feel like the concept of angular moments acting to produce angular acceleration is simpler and more general than all that stuff, but I'm not sure if conservation of energy and geometry alone are sufficient to derive it.
but what do you do for living?
I'm writing a textbook on a topic no existing book covers: the internals of a web browser.

For your broader question---I understand what you're saying, but it's very difficult to edit someone else's writing. That's where "committee voice" comes from: it's the lowest common denominator to multiple authors working together. And often how I visualize things comes from how I look at things, and coming up with a visualization for how someone else looks at things is hard.

Take the OP as an example. This is a long blog post on gears in general, but animated by the specific question "what shape are gear teeth". If I were writing a blog post about gears, I wouldn't start at that place. And then, imagine if this blog post started text-only instead of visual. "Involute" would now be described with algebra, not a picture. The algebra is complex (compare the Wiki at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involute), and that algebra itself would need pictures. Illustrations and explorables aren't, ideally, something you sprinkle onto existing text.
> Hilarious, your source is an article that's criticizing China's statistical methods on flu deaths reporting.

That's literally the point. If the U.S. has 330M people and 30k flu deaths per year, then all else being equal one would expect that what China reports as 144 deaths is really 120,000. Which means that if Corona virus has already killed 7.8 times as many people who have died of the flu (per China's reporting), one would expect that it's really killed 936,000.

Obviously that's very simplistic, but that's basically why people are worried -- no one knows what the real numbers out of China are, so that kind of back-of-the-napkin math is about the best we can do right now.
I guess, on paper Agile's wiki may define itself as being "pro-adjustment", but I think in practice it's been pretty well-proven to be a "just plan less" approach.

You can take a positive spin on "We'll just figure it out iteratively as we go", but I think ultimately you get orders of magnitude less actual "planning" by kicking the can down the road. YMMV though, as with everything.
This is not braindead simple 5th amendment stuff. Among the unsettled the questions in this case: (1) is providing a decryption key a testimonial act? (2) are the contents of the drives would constitute testimony protected by the 5th Amendment?

Courts have come to different conclusions on both questions. Experts disagree on both questions. Even the precursor question (is requiring a defendant to provide the combination for a safe subject to the 5th Amendment?) is unsettled.

The court in this case came down on the side of treating the decryption key as a testimonial act, but avoided dealing with the 5th Amendment issues.
Epic Games wanted to enable players to sideload Fortnite directly from the Epic Games site, rather than through the Google Play store. Sweeney said that Google put up “scary” pop-ups in front of users about the risks of sideloading (viruses, malware)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/fo...

As spotted by Android Central, Google has disclosed a huge vulnerability in Epic Games' original Fortnite installer for Android, one that could have taken advantage of the Fortnite installer to install and launch a rogue app, and even give that app access to your phone's data without you ever knowing.
A minor miracle, while Chelsea Manning still rots in Alexandria City Jail for not cooperating with the political persecution of Assange.
No disrespect to hub whatsoever, and it helped inspire much of how we've thought about `gh`. We're fans of hub too and just decided to take this in a bit different direction.
> Almond milk is great for you

Is it though? It's essentially flavored water with a thicker texture and a high percentage of the nutritional benefit of Almonds discarded in the production process.

If "great for you" is lower calories compared to dairy fair enough. If you want to loose weight, drink a lot of dairy and swap to almond milk it will help you reduce calorie consumption.

If great is high nutritional value it's not very good and why many brands fortify it adding additional vitamins etc.

I used to drink Almond milk but avoid it now as it's expensive water, little nutritional value and the environmental impact producing almonds at scale is pretty bad.
Yeah I guess I just very much do not agree with your stance on Agile, but that's okay. YMMV.
Which documentary? I'd really like to see it before passing any judgment. There are a lot of really sharp astronauts out there, current and former.

NASA also employs a confidential psychological evaluation process for astronauts. I have heard some argue that the process has been biased, in the past, toward outcomes that may produce astronauts who, for example, struggle--relative to their other strengths, that is--to keep a handle on the emergence of emotion or complex experiential outcomes. (And I would mention that many of us humans down here on earth fall into this boat as well)
Maybe you sent their emails to spam it was planned ages ago
> Unlike in barter, in a gift economy no one keeps track of who owes what to whom

My reading of gift economies is that there often is some element reciprocity. In any given context, there might not be a direct exchange of gifts, but those not participating in the process over time get excluded from future gifting. And there are all sorts of "social status" and signaling effects that make this much more than just altruism.
Check some Bluetooth scales which measure the percentages of fat and muscle by impedance. I bought a couple of them in amazon for 20€. Congratulations for the healthy weight goal.
Presentation skills, speaking in general. Learning how to read a room, drove consensus, and tease apart what someone is really after
Even more importantly, does your data have to fit in RAM?

There are tons of problems that need to process large data, but touch each item just once (or a few times). You can go a really long way by storing them in disk (or some cloud storage like S3) and writing a script to scan through them.

I know, pretty obvious, but somehow escapes many devs.
^ relevant username!
Absolutely, thanks for sharing and apologies that we're not quite there yet!
I have never conducted or been subjected to an exit interview, so this is 100% speculative...

I think how honest the departing employee will be in an exit interview will depend on why they're leaving.

If it's because of an unrelated life change, then they're probably honest.

If it's because of a problem with the company, then they probably aren't -- I know that when I've left jobs because of a problem with the company, I would never tell them that because I wouldn't want it to affect what they say when potential employers call them. I'd probably just say it was because of an unrelated life change of some sort.
DNS CAA Records
If the day is a single digits do you prepend D to it? Eg October 2nd?
If an aircraft's engine dies mid flight pure physics of falling generates speed and the plane at speed generates lift so you slowly descend in a (semi) controlled manner. In a flight sim you just plummet to the ground unless someone thought far enough ahead to your virtual engine dying and implemented ambient aerodynamics to make sure a gliding mechanic would work.
Apparently the solution to Valve, Microsoft, Apple, Google and gog.com online game stores charging too much is to create yet another online game store.
> There was no local "center" at all for community.

Really? Your town didn't just put a sign in front your supermarket proclaiming the area the "Town Centre"? Centre because centre implies class and sophistication while center reeks of commoners. I wonder how much the genius "consultant" ( aka politician's family member ) got for that bright idea.