skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm pretty sure wget won't buffer an entire document before writing anything through the pipe to sh. And since it's possible for retries to fail, you have to assume sh could be sent a partial document, followed by EOF, no matter if http/https were used, or chunked/content-length, etc.

Nope. By default wget will literally try forever (you can even shut down your network stack, wait for 10 minutes, and then turn it back on, and wget will proceed from there), and until it closes the stream, the shell interpreter will act as though data is still coming. Any normal way of telling wget to stop will also stop the shell interpreter. Worst case is you end up in some "in the middle" state of the script, but you won't be misinterpreting the script due to early termination of the stream.
It was a cache directive gone wrong. Shouldn't still be happening.
You keep 100% of your income, but employers do set a nominal amount of credits (usually $1-3) per bid on their projects. This is really beneficial for both parties. If you've ever used other freelance marketplaces, you'll know that it's difficult to get noticed when you drown in a sea of bids. And usually, the freelancers never even read the project description. The bid fee ensures that freelancers are serious and qualified for the job, reducing spam and making you much more noticeable.
Could you link some of the good Dragos debunkings?

I should disclaim that I know nothing about the author of this piece, and my knowledge of this whole area of computing is extremely limited. I just mostly suspect that the BadBIOS story is ridiculous.
Nice ui. Your blog doesn't load btw.
The higher up you are, the longer you're expected to stay

This is partly it, but also, it's because as you get more senior, your personal network within the company counts for more and more. If you're going to make big, potentially controversial decisions, then you can't afford to argue every point - you'll get nowhere. You need a critical mass of people who already trust and respect you, and who you trust and respect in return, so you don't have to get bogged down in managing day-to-day stuff. That takes years to develop.

I have seen this a few times, people who job hop for promotions then end up in a position where they're so high up they're starved of oxygen - none of their direct reports take them seriously, ringleaders in the middle ranks openly disrespect them, in a few months they're gone. That's damaging to the organization too, partly because it paralyzes it, and partly because it destroys morale (and confidence in the top leadership).
this is very true, very low valuation, a friends company got into an incubator, a very well known incubator in SV, and their current investor called them retards because the valuations wasn't proportionate to revenue...
I wish I could do the same in London. But in that price range, I can only rent out a closet.
I sent the email to request the first set of challenges on 10/21 but never heard back
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You'd be joining the company at a great time. Our engineering team is still small enough that we feel like an elite task force, but unlike two years ago, we are making millions in revenue and have a ridiculous amount of data to draw insight out of on behalf of our customers.

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Facebook has just invited me to interview and now I’m pissed off
A lot of people are dreaming about working for one those top companies: Google, Facebook, Apple.
Here is a public response to an invitation from Facebook - it seems the Social Network has lost all of it's senses and humanity if it looks for new slaves, not team members.
But the difference is, you bought something where short-term/vacation rentals are one of the main purposes. Your condo was designed so that it could be used as a short-term rental. You are working within an established business model.

Many dedicated AirBnB locations are supposed to be strictly residential with longer-term leases.
The Tale of Two Bridges
yeah, the same comparison is often used to explain current & voltage in electronics. i guess in his case, it was bandwidth being discussed, so it's quite appropriate.
The general "sad" for me is that HN has so many strong libertarian types who start from an assumption that government regulation is practically always wrong and done for corrupt purposes. Learning that this is not the case is a lesson one could easily pick up much earlier in life, so it's sad that they made it this far without understanding that.
That's just infuriating. You're choosing to break functionality that I rely on to help me log in to your website, and there's absolutely no reason to do so.

> especially if the site is accessed on public or shared computers

People setting up those computers need to learn how to provide clean sessions for their users, rather than relying on every single website in the world doing weird things in forms.
>It's arguable that a lot of this is just a wave of echoes from the Reconstruction after the Civil War, which was unprecedented in a lot of ways (the rise of the central executive using what was unquestionably force to suppress rebellion and secession; the breaking of the institution of slavery on a national scale; the deliberate and callous humbling of the losers in the war), and merely delayed until the 1980s because of the two World Wars and Vietnam.

It wasn't so much "delayed" so much as faded over time without completely subsiding until, as the post-WWII realignment of the major parties progressed, it eventually became political useful for one of them to deliberately expend resources and propaganda efforts to fan it, starting with Nixon's "Southern Strategy".
Either way, the quarrels between Apple and Motorola started far before Google bought them.

I don't even know who Don Reisinger is. I googled it and linked the first result.
I have read about LoD/MoD, 8lGm etc..it seemed that low hanging fruit was probably the reasoning right? I mean, there were probably so many systems you could access through stupid bugs, that delving deep into SO wasn't necessary?
And it's not at all surprising that it honours a command without a newline. Commands are terminated by semicolons, newlines OR EOF. That's pretty much how all shells work. You really wouldn't want the last line of a shell script to be ignored simply because someone didn't put a newline at the end of it.
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I could be American myself, for all you know.
Thanks for the detailed response! Sounds like that is working pretty good for you guys.
I went to Waterloo as a Psychology major and I would say that is true. That mathematical attitude does seep into a lot of of the culture and programs. Talking to other psychology grads, the program at Waterloo had significantly more emphasis on stats and analysis.
My understanding is that patent trolls persist with bogus patents because it's not in any one firms interest to challenge them. When it's a central insurance company taking the risk, they have much more incentive to do damage to the trolls. This is a good feature of this scheme.

The protection racket shape of this whole thing is a bit worrying though.
Sounds risky. Four years is a long time. The price of the property can fall sharply, cities might decide they don't want "commercial" one-room hotels, and finally a renter might wreck the place or sue you for something.

Yeah, I know, reputation system, rare chance, but rare chances is the kind of thing you often don't want happening to 60K investment!
Probably a fake, haven't been able to find another source for it. Much milder posters (like "don't vote against black") have already caused an outrage there, so something of this kind?
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I haven't found very much for verification overall, but this Fox Sports columnist seems to have been tweeting live from within. https://twitter.com/foxsportsreiter
Adventures in Dockerland (switch AUFS to lvm thin provisioning)
Sure my email is in my profile... it's $110 US/night but 4 can stay. Cheaper than a hotel and separate bedrooms. So compared to a hotel, way cheaper. Also, safer than zonaprop or BYT where you have to show up w/$700 cash for a week PLUS $700 deposit. Then they argue w/you about the deposit, etc...
HAHA, take that ole Blighty!

But really, the whole idea that AirBNB should be able to ignore established zoning is another example of why I consider the "sharing" economy to be the "taking" economy.

Sharing space peacefully is exactly what zoning is aimed at.
Given the context of this discussion, it must be mentioned that LLVM license do not include a patent grant. Apple has patented several frontends of LLVM, and is likely to have several patents on the core parts of LLVM. Apple could do a oracle at any time.
Noted...though this link has the advantage of not being behind a login-wall.
This happens on the Red Line as well. 1:20 each way.

The nice thing about the Blue Line is they generally don't make you get off at O'Hare. You can doze until the train goes back downtown. That means you can get a 2+ hour sleep in a round-trip between Forest Park and O'Hare.
Go isn't a panace either, especially when it comes to dealing with OS-level threads and goroutines.
The problem here is rather that Google chose not to participate in the company buying the patents.

What do you do after that. Leave the companies that didn't pay alone ?

There used to be a time where companies would have been doing just that. But in mobile market, there is no competition anymore, there is a very rough war. 2 market leader (Nokia, Blackberry) have basically been pushed out of the market in less than 5 years. That's like incredible speed ( I work in financial software company, it takes decades of continuous bad strategy to doom a company ). Their error of judgement was all considered minor and the correction they have done should have been more than enough to limit the losses. In addition of that, only 2 players on the market manage to make money, a lot of money.

In that climate, anything that can give you even a few months edge can be the difference between competing and becoming irrelevant.

The smartphone market is brutal - too brutal for regular competition strategies.
Pretty much tacit acknowledgement that Dalvik was a huge design mistake.

Funny how Apple got the runtime right in 2007 and now, more than six years later, Google is still struggling with it.
Twitter is an interesting contender but it doesn't have the stickiness that teens really want. Many teens tell me that they don't see a use for Twitter, so it should be interesting to see what happens.
May 25, 2010. http://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design
I'm not even going to bother reading this because of the weird scrolling you implemented.
Why would he need to lie? Landlord insurance is trivial to get and IIRC (it's been a few years) cheaper than regular homeowner's insurance.
No, it doesn't (and I wasn't asking for me). Thanks.
Our maid runs it now (hands off keys/cleans up). It costs us about 15% of the rental money we get. We focus around 1 week stays.
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SORRY BUT THIS VIDEO IS UNAVAILABLE FROM YOUR LOCATION

Its one of the detriments of living under a monarchy. But in case you can't give up your silly accents and move to America, watch clips from .... etc.
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To which I say ... "GOD SAVE OUR GRACIOUS QUEEN!"
I've been a developer for a little over five years now, and I've had four jobs. The longest of them lasted over two years, and shortest lasted three months. I'm actually leaving a job today after a little over eighteen months.

In my limited experience, rapid job changes at the outset of one's career aren't particularly damaging -- providing you can offer an honest and reasonable explanation. I left my longest job because I had to move in support of my wife's career. I left my shortest job because the technical lead was toxic and the work would have led to a dead-end career. I'm leaving my job today for a variety of reasons which I've discussed amicably yet honestly over a period of several months with my manager. In no case was a better salary or some other material gain the primary motivation behind my decision to leave.

There's something to be said for getting exposure to a variety of environments early on. Freelancing, consulting, part-time jobs, summer jobs, and co-op terms can help to maximize exposure without much risk of negative career implications. If you have good priorities -- e.g. eventually ending up in a fulfulling, long-term job with appropriate pay -- a few changes will likely do more good than harm. But if you routinely leave when the technical challenge stops being sexy or if you attempt to get a cushy job with nothing but shortcuts, you can find yourself in trouble.
Maybe. But there was low-hanging fruit well into the late '90s (and remember that SQL Injection, the "ultimate" low-hanging fruit, is also a late '90s bug) --- but after the 8lgm stack overflow mania, there was a decisive shift towards using memory corruption to take over machines directly, rather than (say) overwriting strategic files on target systems with NFS bugs.
Fake or not, it is gaining traction and I've seen over a thousand comments agreeing with it, all from the lower class uneducated ethnic population. The ANC is currently under threat because the DA has taken the whole Western Cape and are very close to taking the Gauteng province as well. If this happens, the ANC will have lost it's two biggest economic powerhouses - so convenient that this pops up right before voting time.
> There are very few people using KDE.

Interesting. Please provide empirical evidence indicating that fewer people use KDE now than 10 years ago. Thanks.

> Everyone I know uses Ubuntu/Unity.
> They may not like Unity but KDE4/Plasma is worse.

I'm surprised that people who prefer Ubuntu would dislike a desktop environment that is highly configurable and allows knowledgeable users to take greater control of their computing experience.
I have two alternating schedules because I work an Industry Job in addition to my Project(s). The first half of the week (3-4 days alternating) is dedicated to my Project(s). I work 10 Hour Days from Home, Lunch Break and all. The last half of the week (3-4 days alternating) I work my Industry Job, 12 Hour Shifts (Network Engineer) from 6am to 6pm. I'll usually work an additional 2 Hours on my Project(s) when I get home. So I'm looking at around 82-86 Hours a Week. Pretty wild schedule. I'm moving to San Jose soon so this will all change (finding a new Industry Job and hopefully finding success with some of these Projects)
Seems to be primarily aimed at creating ads. Also, it's been shown to create code that's far from being considered semantic HTML.
I just remember picking up the Blue Line in Forest Park, the southern terminus of the line, at 8:30AM, and the train always having several sleeping homeless people on it.
For those looking for more details visit dr Kahan home page at http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/

For example: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ARITH_17U.pdf explains what gradual underflow is.

And for Excel haters: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mind1ess.pdf :-)
It solves the immediate problem, but doesn't come anywhere near actually solving the reason why people end up using hotel 22. To do so means doing things like destigmatizing mental health issues so that people are willing to get help before the problems spiral out of control.

You also need to work on outreach -- letting people on the streets know that there is a place they can go to get help. Social services departments tend to not be nearly explicit enough in helping get people to the right sorts of help they need; additionally, a lot of social workers are overworked and underpaid, which leads to a good amount of burnout which further exacerbates the problem.

Saying we need more housing shows a misunderstanding as to why this problem exists. There are a lot of things that need to be done before, and concurrent with, housing in order to fix this problem. Otherwise, you'll end up just whitewashing the situation.
Because the vast majority of people enjoy pretty emails with non-monospaced fonts, whitespace and colors. It's mostly hackers who want to show off how old school they are that complain about html emails. Also, most emails like this have a text version you can receive - I believe it's necessary for CANSPAM compliance.
Ah, I see. This isn't about a critically important worm, this is about who can be as vague to the point of being unverifiable as possible.
Funny thing that I actually moved away from ubuntu several years ago, and from gnome a little bit before that and

I wonder where you got your data, the 2013 /r/linux survey found out: "Just like last year, there is a lot of variety in what /r/Linux is using as it's graphical environment of choice with "Other" being the top category. The top three are KDE 4, Gnome 3, and XFCE. (...)
KDE 4.x was third last year. This year it moved up to first place.

For the second year in a row Unity wins "Most Hated Environment" of /r/Linux, followed by GNOME 3, KDE 4, and then KDE 3.

And gnome is well known for telling their users they're stupid and clueless, but I don't remember reading such a thing from kde in the ten years I've been using it.
Another is the schools consistently high placement in the ACM's ICPC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM_International_Collegiate_P...
An Introspection On Intro Security
I understand you to be arguing that it is not clear that Google would, if given the choice, drop all patent litigation (sued and suing), and Apple would not?
Give Slate [1] a try, it's a little bit of a pain to set up initially, but it lets you easily assign hotkeys to your prefered window locations.

Personally I've also got PCKeyboardHack [2] and KeyRemap4Macbook [3] setup to disable capslock and remap it to a 'hyper' key (command+option+control+shift) so that I can assign my own key combos without having to conflict with other software.

[1] https://github.com/jigish/slate

[2] https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/pckeyboardhack.html...

[3] https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/index.html.en
This seems like a very childish response to me. Perhaps it would have been better to simply decline the offer and list your reasons, rather than berating the recruiter.

As it currently appears, the argument is not even very clearly thought out. You just kind of yell at them about slavery and feudalism, which imho doesn't have any relation to the puzzle you were asked to solve.

I agree that I wouldn't have done it, but then again, I don't want to work for Facebook.
This game is still pre-alpha. If anything breaks, please just post it here and I'll probably see it faster.
While part of hotel taxes are simple politics (the best tax base is the one that can't vote for or against you), some of it is also rational: a large tourist population adds cost to running a city, so the cost should be borne by the tourists. For instance, Las Vegas has a population of 600,000, and receives 40 million visitors. If the tourists stay one night a piece, that's an average of 110,000 tourists at any given time -- an extra 18% to the city population which isn't paying most city taxes.
As an employer I am acutely aware of:

1. Are you a contractor who is short of work
2. Are you a full-time individual that can't stick at a job for > 2 years

If you appear to be either of the above then I won't even get you in for an interview,

A recruiter earlier in this thread said that a "job hopper" could also just be someone that is good at getting hired. That may be true, but I am not remotely interested in employing you, regardless of how good you may be.

If my investment of time in you is out the window in a year then you may as well be a junior programmer, because I will have to start all over again.

Employees aren't obliged to be at a company for any amount of time, but it really looks bad if you appear to not care (IMHO).
Ask HN: Where to find work building iOS apps?
I've recently picked up iOS development by chance and learned Objective-C in a short while. Though I've worked on a single app so far, it was quite big and complex in its nature. I feel as though I could design apps with more common use cases reasonably well.

And I'm planning on putting some life into my github page, working on a sample app to show as proof work since my previous project was NDA disclosed.

But I'm not sure exact about how iOS devs find work, until very recently I never had to think about it finding contract work for mobile apps.

It would be nice if anyone could explain how you find and maintain clients.

EDIT - ofcourse if anyone is looking for a mid-novice iOS developer, email me at xii.0684@gmail.com

Thank you.
So, uh... don't do the puzzle? I don't really see the problem here.

I really doubt this puzzle constitutes "work" (in the sense of being beneficial for Facebook's bottom line). This seems analogous to an audition to me.
Slavery, Factory Sweatshops?

You have a chance of a job at a household name company (who can afford to be selective) , probably with cushy salary and benefits.

8-10 hours worth of work isn't a great deal, especially if they give you a few weeks. Even a person working a full time job should be able to squeeze that in by temporarily reducing hours spent watching TV.

It's not like facebook even get any benefit from you performing this work for them.