skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's an anecdote from several years ago of which I have only rough numbers. The "2 people who were good" and the "67% fired" numbers are correct, for one particular project we had hired 6 people and eventually fired 4 of them over the course of two years. I'm guessing at 50% acceptance rate for the offer (it probably wasn't that low, but it wasn't better than 75% either), and the two 10% numbers to get to 1% applicant acceptance rate. It's a rough guess to give an idea of the magnitude of things, and as such it's not an order of magnitude off.
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"Seagate brags of 1m SMR drives - where are they?

Disks with tiny tracks shipping, 5TB boxes by 2014, we're told.

Seagate has said it's shipped a million shingled disk drives to date."

Hmmm, I wonder who might have the budget to purchase Seagate's entire output of latest-tech super-high-capacity drives, and has a use case where tremendously slow over-writing of data wouldn't be a problem? Almost as though these are targeted directly at organisations that archive monumental amounts of data and never delete any of it…
Hey, not to break up the bash-the-NSA discussion, which is legit and badly needed, but did anyone notice just how bad the fact-checking is in this article? It's terrible.

Error 1: article says the A7 is a "40x CPU performance bump". Wrong; it's 40x over the original iPhone, not over the A6.

Error 2: article says graphics are "56x faster". Same error.

Error 3: article claims the M7 is a motion sensor; it's not. It's a chip which handles data from the various sensors.

Error 4: next paragraph after the first M7 paragraph finally gets it right. Bad editing.

Error 5: Apple didn't skirt the megapixel count for the new sensor as claimed. The new sensor has the same MP count, as was stated.

Error 6: article mentions a "10-shot burst mode". Wrong again. The burst mode is 10 frames per second, but is not limited to any specific number of frames.

Just an incredibly bad job, here.
For the ssh section, I'd also include sshfs. It's super handy when you want to use local (or GUI) applications for a file on a server, or just to mount your home computer as a drive while you are away. I personally use it to mount my backup server's drive on my Chromebook, effectively giving myself a 500GB hard drive whenever I need it.
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> Just because I put a photo on the internet that's not encrypted doesn't make it fair game to go sell my photo.

But it should. Copying is not theft, and shouldn't be treated as such by law, even though it is now. IP is just wrong, we just haven't adjusted to that truth yet; we will eventually.
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If scientific facts not define what is legally considered 'radio communication', by what arbitrary rules is this defined?

Not to point out the obvious, but laws are written using legal definintions. And those are made by the legislature and the Judiciary. The NSA (and I'm not here to defend them) at least has a prima-facie need to see certain types of protected speech under limited (court ordered, direct national threat) circumstances. Google is a merely a business, with no public policy need to creep around the neighborhood. That being said, this decisino is merely putting the issue to a trial/jury. Nobody has said google is guilty. But they are not so innocent, or so in the right, with repsect to how the law is apparently written/interpreted, than they can dismiss the claims of impropriety as "baseless, without merit" &tc.

...The unanimous, 35-page decision by a three-judge panel found little merit in Google’s legal maneuverings, stating at one critical point that the company was basically inventing meanings in an effort to declare its actions legal
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Are you trolling? If you don't read the post's first paragraph to say that regular people want software that "just works" rather than open source (thereby implying said conclusion), it would turn the paragraph into gibberish. Reading the two statements as unrelated makes the statement about regular people not wanting open source into a baseless conclusion without explanation and makes the statement about wanting things that just work into an irrelevant tangent having nothing to do with the topic of discussion. I prefer to give the poster the benefit of the doubt that the post was intended to convey a coherent meaning rather than an arbitrary amalgamation of unsubstantiated opinions.
Divorce lawyers and maybe holidays to places with presumed-available people might also be popular.
I recently gave up on making my room blackout dark when I sleep. Instead, I wear sleep masks. They're not perfect: they slip a little as I sleep, and the cheap ones wear out fast. But it's still not expensive ($10 for 3), and the masks themselves block all light. I'm happy with them. They do the job, and they come with me when I travel. Plus, it makes some intuitive sense to block light at the narrowest point - just in front of your eyes, versus from every possible source.
Thanks. I've not heard of them and I couldn't find them via a google search.

Do you mind sharing their URL?
Better yet, we should demand to open source their firmware if they want our trust, after all of this.

If Apple open-sourced their code, how long do you think it will take before a dozen cheap chinese knock-offs appear with an almost exact replica of iOS? Thus killing off a huge market share for them. At least at the moment, the user experience of those cheap knock-offs is vastly inferior.

Although a nice sentiment, but too far fetch from reality.
Look into Gitian, which is used by the bitcoin developers to create deterministic, verifiable builds that can be compared by multiple developers on multiple machines before doing a binary release. In theory, the process could be extended to an entire *nix distribution (and there is interest in doing so).
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Yeah, this essentially comes down to the "hardness scale" of science fiction writing. If you're making a big budget film then it's all for mass consumption, and realistic extrapolation only really makes the cut if the novelty or plausibility of it impresses the audience. Special effects and space battles are a better bet most of the time.

As you've said, exceptions exist, but they're even less present in the film market for obvious reasons. I'd actually say there's no dearth of good hard written scifi, though. Charles Stross (sometimes seen around here and on Reddit) has introduced a bunch of incredible new things in "Accelerando" that appear obvious in retrospect, things in Hannu Rajaniemi's "The Quantum Thief" like the privacy settings on Mars were insightful as hell. Just about everything written by Greg Egan is grounded in some jaw-dropping speculative physics or steeped in new thought on the philosophical or social ramifications of foreseeable technologies.
They don't even want Debian, since it has optional binary blobs and hosted repositories of commercial software.

FSF isn't complciated - don't give your users anything without including the source. And don't restrict the users ability to modify and run said software however they want.
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It is a long road between becoming a parent, and having a kid in high-school. Parenthood sometimes doesn't play out exactly how you thought it would.
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A case could be made that Apple and FSF are on the same page there. Apple’s revenues from software sales pale in comparison to its total revenue.

Apple makes software in order to sell more hardware, that’s why they make so little software for other platforms. Apple either gives its software away or it sells it for way less than similar products by competitors.

Today, Apple announced it will start giving its iLife and iWork apps away for free with all new iOS devices.

Currently, Apple sells its OS X upgrades for $20 and it’s not unthinkable that they will start it giving it away, as they already do with iOS upgrades.

Other examples are Apple’s Pro apps. It would acquire those apps from other companies and then discontinue the versions for other platforms while slashing the prices for OS X.
It's definitely worthwhile to take extreme measures to lightproof your room. Foil works, but if the budget permits, you can use a layer of Dynamat, Auralex Sheetblok, or a similar substance to block a fair bit of external sound from your bedroom while eliminating light entirely.

Yes, your bedroom will look like a schizophrenic's sex dungeon after you do this. Yes, that's fine, because you may be able to get much better sleep, which is more important than the aesthetics of your bedroom.

My bedroom is so dark that I can't use LED light bulbs in the ceiling fixtures. It turns out that they use an incredibly efficient fluorescent coating that glows brightly for hours, enough to let me make out objects on the floor. That's how I knew the room was finally dark enough.
> My long term goal is to tailor an IRC bot to represent me virtually while I am unavailable (at work, etc).

Sounds like you want http://wiki.znc.in/ZNC
Interesting art. For me, this was definitely reminiscent of Buddhist philosophy, which encourages contemplation of the temporal nature of all experience as a means to habituate insightful modes of thought.

When, friends, a noble disciple understands aging and death, the origin of aging and death, the cessation of aging and death, and the way leading to the cessation of aging and death, in that way he is one of right view... and has arrived at this true Dhamma.

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/index-subject.html#aging
As the parent of two young children who are terrible sleepers I LOLed, then cried a little bit, then what was I talking about again?
Great point and I should have added that because it is my solution now as well. FWIW if you have the opportunity to snag a sleep mask from an Emirates international business or first class, do so; it is by far the finest I have used and mine has lasted 6 years now.
Is it too much to hope that this tech will be implemented in a program that's within an "average" user's budget? (i.e. non-enterprise).
> applications tend to "borrow" the OS's, and no OS I know of uses a design taken directly from NIST.

Windows has support for it (although it's up to applications to choose to use it or not).

If it's part of a standard then it might be required by some organisations. For example other government/military agencies and people dealing with them. They could also look to pass laws to require corporations protect their customers private data using the standard. And just have people recommend the standard to everyone, after all was designed by NIST/NSA.

It's also likely to end up in software that wants to support those use cases which could have seen it filter out to other uses. And possibly hardware support.

If the potential for a backdoor hadn't been discovered people wouldn't have objected/noticed.

> Dual EC is very slow. Nobody would willingly use it.

Which leaves the question of why it would end up in the NIST standard if it's not very good.

Of course maybe they where just testing the waters.
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I still think that quantity over quality is the way to go, though I would opt for a little more depth than these are.

There's a lot of "one-time" stuff that's important in web-dev--primarily server & app config--that can be a big obstacle, for instance. Getting it down pat is a huge step in the right direction.

Anyway, for beginners, I think this is a great way to do things.
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Maybe they can justify thinking it wasn't really a security vulnerability, or maybe they can say, hey, everyone makes mistakes, we didn't realize it was a security vulnerability.

But what the heck is the justification for deciding it's a security vulnerability that needs to be fixed only when the guy says he's going to advertise it publicaly? What the hell is that?

If he had sold it privately, without telling Google, instead of letting them know he'd be advertising it publicly -- then it still wouldn't be worth fixing?
I'm currently in the job hunting situation out of college and, along with sending out resumes, I'm working on a bunch of different side projects to try to show that I can a) actually execute, and b) learn new things.

Not sure if it's the best way to work on getting hired, but I don't want to practice "interview questions". I know I don't do as well in interview because of my lack of specific preparation, but I feel like I'd be a better candidate than someone who just prepares for an interview. Curious to see how that might affect potential employers.
One simple way to optimize your sleep: make your spouse deal with kids in the middle of the night.

(note, this may work for one night, after which you'll be optimizing on the couch)
I don't claim to understand African issues very well, so take my comments with the grain of salt that I'm very ignorant.

The civil wars that happen in certain African nations are troubling. But what was more troubling to me was reading news how factions would take control by poisoning wells that provided water for citizens. It was unthinkable to me that someone could actually do that, especially in certain areas where water was scarce. Long-term effects seemed to be ignored in favour of short-term war gains. Having never experienced such a difficult situation, I can't process what kind of motivation and thinking could cause such horrific action.

If such water supplies are found in areas where there is conflict, I worry that it only would add to the conflict, as they would be found as key tactical points to conquer and hold. It makes me sick that such good news brings such negative thoughts to my mind.
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Humans have been automating away labor in various ways for thousands of years. At one point, everyone would've had to devote most of their time to obtaining food -- now one guy (plus some farm equipment) can feed thousands.

There are countless other examples industry-and-job-destroying innovations, and from a long-term historical standpoint they've always been a huge net win for humanity. And none of them required us to convert to socialism to prevent mass starvation.

And yet, this time around, innovation is evil somehow if it results in labor being done by software rather than people? The essay alludes to global financial collapse, but doesn't explain how that's supposed to happen. Are we supposed to guess? Or, more likely, just feel general outrage at the 1% and not think too hard?

He also claims that the minimum wage hasn't kept up with inflation. That's totally false -- the minimum wage in the U.S. was established in 1938 at $0.25/hr. That would be $4.14 in today's dollars, and we're at nearly double that!
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Prior to this(or maybe Crypto 2007 where the suspicions were first aired), would you have have batted an eye if you saw Dual_EC_DRBG in a code base with some configuration bit for which NIST RNG you used?

Messing with the standard gets a backdoored RNG onto almost every system. Now NSA just has to convince companies to use it( and it's a NIST standard, so the company has some deniability) or surreptitiously swap it out.

Microsoft's CNG api has a default random number generator. How hard would it be to detect if that default was switched to BCRYPT_RNG_DUAL_EC_ALGORITHM for say, all windows copies sent to Iran or China?
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These are great points. To add to your list - I'd love it if as part of mobile payments they do what's needed to completely replace a wallet.
If I'm at a restaurant paying for a drink with my phone, I should also be able to send them a verified copy of my id with photo and age. Then I could stop carrying a wallet entirely.

Integration with low power peripherals will be nice, but don't forget about high powered peripherals like tablets and tvs. If I put down my phone right now and pick up a tablet, I should be able to finish typing this comment with no interruption.
You have absolutely no protection from the U.S. government. Your European rights and protections meaning nothing in an American court.
Sleep masks make me sweaty and squish my eyeballs. I opted for tying a silk scarf around my head instead. Luxury.
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Well if your wife has so little faith in you that she goes snooping in your email history, again, "you might want to take some time to think hard about your relationship."
>> The team today started selling their ‘plant egg’, called Beyond Eggs, in Whole Foods in California - and say it could soon be available in supermarkets worldwide.

It's also backed by Bill Gates.
I definitely commend the author for his work, but I think that there might have been a slight misunderstanding here. In his last email, the author talks about how public disclosure would "force" Google to fix the vulnerability. But I read Google's response as simply saying that they did not think the bug qualified for the program, not that they didn't intend to fix it. Then again, my reading is definitely influenced by my time at Google and how seriously my team took this sort of thing.
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I'm aware. It doesn't change the fact that it's not possible to obstruct a future court order.
is it more than a concept at his point?
Note that neither of your quotes even begin to imply that the NSA is spying on "everyone".

They obviously have broad powers to spy on individuals through a variety of channels, which isn't, or shouldn't be, news.
How are deterministic builds better than distributing binaries with hashes for verification? Just because I don't have to trust the original author's compiler?

Indeed, that's precisely why it's such an important protection mechanism. But it's about more than just not having to trust the original author's compiler. The original author might maliciously copy-paste some additional source code into the build process just before compilation.

Deterministic builds are a way for any of us to download any source code, build it, and verify that all of us are using a binary derived from exactly that source code, and nothing else.
My partner and I sleep alone. We are both light sleepers.
This is certainly great news for the people of Kenya!

I've always wondered how they estimate how long a water resource can last. In this case, they said 70 years. But does that take into account the increased usage/population the area will get now that it has more water? It seems to me that the water needs are ever growing, while the water source stays relatively the same.
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This peeved me much too, as everybody in my lab, infact the whole research floor has Google Scholar accounts including my professor. Phishing of researchers through an email officially sent by Google, to researchers official emails would have had repercussions. Excerpts from the email exchange described in the article:

1. Additionally, as you said you can register google-scholar.com and phish from there as well.

Yes you can do it that way too, but now the link to that domain would have been provided through a Google sanctioned email. Driving traffic to that domain alone vs. from an phishing email through author's vulnerability would have different impact.

2. we do not believe that there is a security sensitive change that needs to be done here.

Wow. Security researchers at Corporations professionally working to secure products. This vulnerability was passed onto Kevin after being vetted by Aleksandr. Maybe the team works on more potent vulnerabilities.
I've also just begun to incorporate Angular into a number of my projects. I must say that without AngularFire and Firebase, I would have been helpless with regard to finding a good starting point - and the ability to develop apps quickly and painlessly in order to provide me with instant gratification.

That been said, in around 2-3 weeks, I've managed to incorporate AngularFire/Firebase into an MVC4 web app (which handles user accounts more securely) and allows Firebase to do what it does best - real-time updates to the users' UI.

The site, http://www.whereubeat.com tracks users' locations in real-time and provides an animated UI that acts as a homing device when trying to find your friends at a concert, festival, or sporting event. I would still consider myself a novice in both javascript and MVC4/C#; however, I was able to produce results soooo quickly using AngularFire/Firebase that I couldn't stop!

All that being said, I am aware that there are shortcomings with AngularFire/Firebase; however, let's face it... simplicity will always result in functionality shortcomings. Personally, I'd rather spend my time painting the canvas as opposed to stretching it myself.
I used Glassdoor to get a rough idea of what salary to ask for when I moved countries. Same issue as you. It massively peevs me when I want to download a free-to-try piece of software, or a whitepaper and they require my email address so they can mail me the link.

So I did what I always do when something that shouldn't seemingly require an email address, forces me to register. I used a disposable email address (Yopmail is my favourite one :))

Did it add any value to process? Not particularly. If I like what you have to offer, then I will go back and sign-up for the newsletters, until then, stop filling up my inbox with random rubbsih!
Totally stretching the point. Apple had to make stands as to where to trust developers and where not to trust them. Certain developers broke that trust with Apple, and Apple had to regain the trust with users.

Blame Path &c., not Apple, for abusing a feature that was originally provided for the convenience of developers and users together.
Is it just me or is it something we don't expect from Apple? http://imgur.com/KYgtVDb
When Google Web Designer fails in a forest of IDEs, will anybody hear?
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tsort is one of my favorites, mostly because it's totally pointless until you need it and then it works exactly right. I love it.
The best explanation is probably that NSA isn't infallible. Like any government organization, they do things that turn out not to be very effective.
> It was unthinkable to me that someone could actually do that, especially in certain areas where water was scarce.

What would be the point of poisoning a well that nobody needed?
No shit. New iMac with thinner display for many months now, yet no new monitor. Considering the 27HM from Dell.
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It's very difficult to achieve what you mentioned, though I agree with you. Organization that can easily scale and keep itself stay at organic growth status? I don't see any example existing yet. Do you have some cases like this to share?
Welcome to techcrunch where the titles are clickbait and the facts don't matter
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That's because the "audience" is not necessarily defined by properties that are set in stone. Yes, they're the same people that read certain other sites/mags/newspapers, but they're different in that they are horny, and not distracted by the visual cues advertisers usually employ.

In other words: no, this is a different audience than the audience that's reading those sites; these are horny readers of those sites.

A big difference.