skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right, US is not there where UK already is. But unless people (and I don't mean 0.001% that hangs out on HN and like, I mean 99.999% that don't know what it is but vote) take serious interest in privacy and limiting government powers, we're moving in this direction, and moving there pretty fast. The fact that we have a president with which about 90% of the press are in deep and unquestioning love doesn't help either.

The "letter" of the law means nothing if the citizens are not ready to defend it. The congress can pass new laws, and as long as SCOTUS is ready to allow it - and experience teaches us when it comes to surveillance SCOTUS is ready to give a lot of allowances to the government - there's nothing to stop them but the citizens themselves. But if the citizens are more interested in voting in more government handouts for themselves than in liberty, then there's nobody else to stop it.
It is an interesting vote against local manufacturing. There is a small number of people who are betting that the 'future' won't be warehouses so much as they will be small 'build on demand' factories which create the item you ordered, when you order it. When you consider the 27.5yr depreciation life of this sort of physical plant you might guess that Amazon is betting against some sort of 'kindle' equivalent for goods (i.e. Shipping the information rather than the good itself)
> democracy is impossible with such an unworthy populace

Not impossible but imperfect, and it always will be so get used to it.
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Appalling behavior on Google's part. Amazingly, I know two other people to whom this exact thing has happened (neither of which are you based on details in your story). One was so determined to work for Google that she reapplied after getting the incident expunged from her record (and got rehired -- based on their hiring practices who knows if they had any idea she was the same person).

I'm moving out to the Bay Area next year (for non-work-related reasons) and while I hear plenty of good things about working for Google, I would never do it. For me personally, choosing to work for them would be an implicit endorsement of their hiring/personnel/privacy/politcal practices, which I can't abide.
Ouch it's basically the same (depends how you translate it): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeit_macht_frei
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Playing the devil's advocate... I admit there are diminishing returns, but would they really be negative?

Let's say the first hour is 100% productive, the 2nd is 60%. Perhaps the third is 30% and the 4th 20%? But would they really undo the good of hours one and two?

The research quoted in a lot of the Deliberate Practice literature suggests we can only focus intensely for 4 hours a day. Then it's a question of wasted time, or harmful time.
Thanks for answering. I respectfully disagree, but we can still have a civilized conversation.

> My neighbour has an old dumper truck he lets me use, probably 50 or 60 years old. It starts every time, first time. There is literally nothing to go wrong on it.

I guess apart from modern safety features and gas guzzling?

> What about when the government forces car makers to embed their own tracking software into them to monitor and spy on civilians.

Not necessary. People already carry cell phones.

I am actually looking forward to the self driving cars. Human error causes lots of accidents. But then, I don't own a car and probably never will.
Seems a little disingenuous to bring up better rating than SUVs. SUVs of the same rating as cars still have a 4.5 times better survivability rate. The rating is for comparing similar cars hitting each other. A comparatively light and low to the ground car is not going to fare well vs. a heavy, higher off the ground SUV. That's just simple physics.
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Facebook really doesn't need to save $10k by not paying this guy. It's about upholding the terms and not setting a precedent.

The blackhat market for Facebook exploits is not huge because the product is centrally controlled and can be patched at any time. It's not like 0-days for products with individual installations that aren't centrally controlled with forced updates - those are clearly valuable.
index billions of web sites, stock around 850+/share... but their recruiters/interviewers can't return a call/email or show up to give an interview on time. This something that small and large companies have been doing successfully for ages.

They seriously need to work on their culture in this aspect. It seems like such a trivial problem to fix inside of google. What is the hold up? I'm certain there are more good interviewing experiences than bad interviewing processes, but it does seem to be a common theme over there.
Thank you for your questions.

All of the over-billing is coming from supposed ongoing work (and of course not a retainer situation). It doesn't happen in any initial phase where it would be difficult to fake something.

The agency is small enough that we all have access to each other's client hours, invoice information, etc. and we often correspond directly with clients regarding their invoices, etc.
All it takes is for the government to make 'concealed communication' illegal in order to make any current or future privacy technology illegal. This has already happened in other countries, how can you prevent it from happening in yours?
So now that this series is nearing the end, what's the verdict on it, from anyone that has followed all parts?
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It does:

What about playing an instrument? Don’t you have to use right and left brain for a stringed instrument?

Yes. That has clear cognitive functions that do crossover. Especially learning to play and read the music at the same time. But exercise is number one, diet number two and then social interaction. These are the important things for brain function.
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So, Alice encrypts message with Bob's public key, that's EM1.
Then Alice encrypts EM1 with the server's public key, outputing EM2. And sends that to Bob thru the MTA.

The server decrypts EM2 revealing EM1 and some plaintext metatdata arbitrarily specified by Alice.
The MTA random-delays to keep them all out of order, and sends it on to Bob with encrypted body, whatever Alice felt like putting in the plaintext metadata supposedly representing the prior travels, and no attempt to disguise the MTA's IP, etc..

NSA now can see Alice's post to the MTA, but none of the mails coming out of the MTA match the text of Alice's email. The best the wiretapper can do is decide "someone in set A sent to someone in set B", and maybe apply statistical analysis. It is easy for the wiretapper if there are only a few people using this and hard if there are a lot.

The objection will be, but NSA/FBI etc. will trojan the code, coerce the secret keys, make the server deceive users. So the server owner would like to put in something that makes it all unavoidably, and conspicuously break if the code is compromised. Securing the latter behavior remains a problem when the adversary has, one must assume, physical control of the server.
Yup, see my reply to venus's more lengthy set of concerns. Oh well, I hope venus learns the Truth some day. ;)
My university used Haskell as the intro language for the math department. People who where already good at programming and people who had never programmed before picked it up quite quickly, but people in the middle who knew a bit of programming coming in had a terrible time with it.

However people who'd never programmed before the Haskell course had a very hard time transitioning that knowledge to Java and similar languages, which was used in some other courses.
Pardon me for being overly pedantic (although that's perhaps ok on HN), but they are not making their own batteries, are they? They probably purchase Li-Ion elements from some other entity.

But I see your point, I think. They are building the entire infrastructure that goes with the electric car, not just the car itself. I agree that's very smart.
Insulating the tools isn't really the issue. There's already a fair amount of insulation between me (the tool operator) and the business end of the tool.

The problem is, we're cutting through and crushing various bits of the car that weren't really designed to be indiscriminately cut into (which is why training is so important).

Both rescuers and victims have been seriously injured and killed when extrication activities turned potential energy stored in the car into kinetic energy. Air bag deployment systems, seat belt pretensioners, even the little hydraulic tubes that hold your trunk open and be extremely dangerous if their energy is released in an uncontrolled way.

So you can understand why we're a little leery of 85 kWh of potential energy sitting under the car...

Here's an example of airbags being deployed when the SRS controller was crushed with a hydraulic spreading tool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDSksTztHJk

Two firefighters were injured in that incident (one of them seriously).
Politics is how people agree between them (or are forced by others) to go about their lives.

You cannot "refrain from politics" anymore that you can "refrain from life" or "refrain from society".

As long as you are subject to law, for example, you are participating in politics (as a passive subject at least).

Or as long as you need to use any common infrastructure, from roads to water, you are participating in politics.

Anarchism itself is very much politics, and has a long history of political involvement that takes 200 volumes to recount, from the International to the Spanish Civil War and on.

The only alternative to politics is to go to some cabin in the woods and hunt for your food, but I don't think that's what you have in mind.
You seem to be conflating a few things here. The "expectation of privacy" is what really matters. The technological advances are a means to an end. If you expect privacy in filming your family gathering in your private residence, then Google Glass or no Google Glass, you would not expect the world to see. In fact, one could argue that the idea of "circles" in G+ creates the expectation of privacy by giving you a (false) sense of control over who has access to it.

The 4th amendment language is really quite amazing: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

When I think "papers, and effects" in today's world, that includes my smartphone, computer and all "papers" that are handled by Google and any other provider or stored on any medium I can possess. Just like people of 200 years ago did not expect others to read their mail, I don't expect it now. (Though I understand that it is now common practice.) Unfortunately, because such concepts have been abused and twisted in the court of law, Google now finds itself compelled to argue that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy when using email[1]. Do you expect your postman to read your letters too? Are these that different from an email?

If we, as the society (or the people), establish clear boundaries on what we expect and demand it, all will be fine with the world. A "shadow" profile on Facebook aimed at selling ads is a far cry from contents of my private correspondence. In fact, I welcome more relevant ads - they are less annoying. But that does not mean I will expect that there is no boundary between my private and public persona.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2013/08/20/its-not...
Almost noone I know still has a landline anymore. People usually go for cable or standalone DSL that provides the landline for a small fee but does not bill you for telephone service. Is that not an option there in the UK?
I'm pretty sure that storing emails or displaying ads is not nearly as generic or as easy as you think.

My justification for asking algorithmic interview questions is because I believe that engineers using libraries should understand exactly how they work, so they know what design compromises the implementation chose and how that affects their higher-level application. Just because you aren't going to be writing a database doesn't mean you shouldn't know the various levels of transaction isolation that exist.
It's sad to see valid opposing arguments down-voted into grayness.
IIRC it's actually around 95%-ish in italy. We had some data shown by an important web analytics player during the italian Search marketing conference in December 2012. http://www.convegnogt.it/2012/interventi/lo-stato-del-search...
If you're at liberty to share : did your acquaintances also disclose the incidents during the hiring process, only to be terminated randomly once employed? If so, that is utterly appalling.

Bad enough that it should happen once (to the parent), but repeated incidents would point to some gross organizational dysfunction.
I've had similar ideas for a long while. My flavor is using the router as an encrypted protocol gateway and some other centralized user queues. The centralized queue would hold encrypted messages for first time connections. Subsequent messages could be delivered p2p utilizing the fact that most people's routers are publicly available 90% of the time. A local standard mail client connects to a trusted mail server (router) for short haul com (LAN). For long haul, an app could be developed to decrypt the messages locally.
In addition to inversion of control mentioned elsewhere, consider situations where you could have used threads and synchronization points (mutexes etc.). In such situations co-routines can offer a much lighter weight alternative to full blown threads (for single core execution), as the points where control should switch can be explicitly known, and the "context switch" can often be done with far less data shuffling.
Whenever a company shows a too-big-to-care-about-candidate-experience attitude it's a symptom of their weakness not power. It's the sad aspect of scaling the organization without establishing a strong culture.
It's still a violation of privacy though, and these are viewed as serious by the ToS.
May be I am ignorant, but anarchism doesn't appear to be very different from tribal societies. No large concentrations of power, no permanent authority, minimal rules and localized politics. It is definitely a political choice about choosing a small but (all) powerful association than a large but weak association. and not analogous to atheism, unless you want to force that association.
>Are these examples really selling that?

http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/28/technology/social/facebook-c...
Agreed. Having worked on a few games that have been in the Android App Store, you can easily see download numbers from 50K - 100K based on an app being featured. Though I have heard that features have become less impactful since the Google Play store was reformatted.
I enjoyed this article and found it illuminating. I work with a number of manufacturers (in jewelry, apparel, furniture, watches, etc.) who sell using Amazon Warehouses (the FBA program). Already, before the new warehouses, it smokes competitor warehouses that I've tried in terms of time and reliability. 52% of Amazon non-media sales come from 3rd party sellers like the companies I work for, last I checked.

Some trends I think will come soon from Amazon FBA:

1) When Amazon perfects daily grocery delivery it will change the whole ballgame for UPS and USPS. Amazon will cut them out of the picture. I think the cost of shipping furniture especially will plummet.

2) Amazon launched FBA Export a while back to let merchants fulfilling through FBA U.S. ship anywhere in the world easily. Right now only a few SKUs are eligible, but they are working to expand this program ASAP. In a year or two, a ton of products on Amazon U.S. will be available anywhere.

3) A lot of mainstream people don't know but Amazon warehouses don't just ship to Amazon customers. Merchants can enable multichannel shipping for a price ($6 compared to $2.50 for Amazon orders), so a lot of eBay sellers, Rakuten sellers use FBA to fulfill.
You should just flat out tell people to type the words, prominently. I tried it because I figured it would be the best way, but a prominent hint at the start would be the best way to do it.

Every game should feature a "How to play" thing right off the bat.
This really rings true for me. I literally found out today that my co-founder is quitting so he can have a better lifestyle. I'm glad he was honest with me and I don't harbor ill feelings but it definitely is making me feel very alone. I'm not sure if I should give up and get a day job or continue on my own. I feel like taking a job would just cement my failure but maybe that has already happened. Anyway, this article was pretty timely for me. I think I'll be scheduling some lunches with friends who I can vent to and try not to keep it all in.
Whereas, on the other side of the coin if Amazon.com goes down, it takes 20% of global ecommerce down with it.

The scales of impact aren't even on the same register.
I'd like to hear what others are doing. This events of the past few days have prompted me to a few measures. What is everyone else doing (or have done)?

Since the NSA story broke up until today I have done (or in the process of doing): Pidgin XMPP + OTR. Switched to DuckDuckGo + StartPage for searches. Email hosted on my own server. File backup off the cloud and on to a SSH/SFTP server in house. Thunderbird + Enigmail (PGP): sending emails out signed only at the moment and explaining why. Firefox + many privacy add-ons. No private communications over social media networks.
What about purchased +1s ? https://www.seoclerks.com/categories/buy-google-plus-one
Yeah Birmingham seems to have become quite trendy, especially around the Jewellery Quarter too. Cardiff hasn't quite hit the expensive end yet, and there are a number of decent little galleries cropping up with craft work, which is great to see.
And, of course, the Haskell do-notation gets de-sugared into tons of call-backs by the compiler.
Using a bug to post to said founder's page against his will is definitely not white hat behaviour. Period.
I really hope this makes it to production. I'll be contributing code and money to see that happen. Thanks for this extremely useful tool.
Someone at moz is getting a raise for getting this POS spam on here.
> Anarchism isn't politics, and atheism isn't religion.

Anarchism is political even if anrachists generally do not favor organized government. Anarchism doesn't require that communities and people dissolve their relationships with each other.
About that, do cars attempt to shut down engines, fuel intake and electric pathways when detecting a collision ?

Some do, and a lot of people don't know about that. It can trip in small accidents too so sometimes people can figure out why their car won't start when it seems perfectly fine. Check your manual to see if you have it and how to reset it, it's good to know.

That said, my grandfather was in an accident where he slid off an icy roadway and flipped his Toyota truck. It didn't trip the cutoff (may not have had one) and the engine continued to run upside down. He had to reach in (after he had crawled out) and turn off the ignition. It surprised him because he had never owned a car that was fuel injected.
> Linked list questions are a favored choice of this class of interviewer despite the fact that 90%+ of programmers will never have a good reason to write a linked list - or even use one, for that matter.

If you can't write basic algorithms to manipulate linked lists (traversal, reversal, etc) on demand, you almost certainly aren't a good coder. These kinds of questions are a good weed-out pass. They don't correlate with many necessary skills of a good programmer (organization, communication, thoroughness), but at least can detect lack of critical thinking or basic coding chops. They also lead to good follow-up questions that further explore a prospect's critical thinking skills.

These questions shouldn't be used to find human compilers. Oversights like minor syntax errors and the like should be ignored. Answers should be interpreted generously. Even then, you might be surprised how many candidates I've seen that were beyond incorrect. They weren't even in the right ballpark.

You shouldn't be expected to know Floyd's algorithm [1]. But reversing a linked list? Come on, the solution is 50-100 lines of code, 90% of it boilerplate.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_detection#Tortoise_and_ha...
Many wikipedia articles have geolocations, so you're only one click away from a OSM map of the location.

And any Dutch travellers in that region will get an article about local towns suggested on their smart phones.

Finally, the wiki data project should soon (if not already) allow changes to data like population propagate from one language page to all the different versions.

In short, don't think small with wikipedia, it can be better than any Encyclopaedia in existence, possibly better than many can even imagine.
Personally I hate on-boarding that walks me through every silly element of the app that there is. Am I to remember all that? Dude, I just came in. I don't need to know where is your pantry and boiler room. I just want to know where's a bathroom I could use. Later you can show me where everybody else hangs out.
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How does Amazon perfecting daily grocery delivery relate to shipping furniture costs plummeting?
Interviewing at Google can be terrible. I was an intern who had high scores in my reviews (my host rated me just below 'superstar', whatever that means - I'm not really a superstar and just assume that was some rating jargon they used at Google).

Anyway when it came to my conversion interviews the person who was supposed to interview me wasn't at the office. I ended up waiting around for someone to interview me, and when they came in 15 minutes late we had to trek across campus to get a room. I was asked a fairly difficult problem and botched it pretty hard, and of course didn't have the complete time to attempt to solve it.

I thought I nailed the next interview though! After I answered a couple pretty complex problems the interviewer literally said there is no way you're not getting an offer, and we just ended up chatting a bit.

I got rejected a few days later, not totally unexpected as I knew I botched that first interview. When I asked my host about it later he said the second interview wasn't even on record.

C'est la vie, I guess. I'd still love to try again, I had a lot of fun working there, the people are top notch - even of the hiring process is extremely hit or miss.
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> I'm genuinely wondering whether Wikipedia should have a policy of deleting all such articles and disabling their creation. I don't think it's in the spirit of an encyclopedia.

Hopefully, it will soon be possible to generate such minimal articles automatically from the language-independent and structured data on Wikidata. At this point, hopefully, it will be possible to create just the stylesheets and get the data from Wikidata instead of populating small Wikipedias with bot-created articles; only the relevant work will remain (to be done on Wikidata in a language-independent way).
You're right I thought it was the time stamp below that applied not the one above.
Ha! I thought I was the only one this happened to.
Indeed, the fact that the founder can be so unaware is disturbing in itself and does encourage me at many moments to find another company.

I will certainly bring evidence. The type of work not completed can still be audited by the founder. This indeed will be crucial in his realization of the issue.

Thank you very much.