skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone is better off getting graphics and colors in their email, even if they enjoy it. After all, the email is supposed to inform of something. A website can be an interactive app, but email?

Also, text-only doesn't mean monospace. I'm happy to read email in whatever sans-serif font the email client picks, with nice whitespacing.
We don't use Roman numerals for thousands, why should we do so for millions? The right way is obviously using metric prefixes, so 1k$, 1M$ and 1G$.

And don't forget that 'cents' is short for 'centidollars'.
When I setup a file-server for myself, I set it up on the local network I use most, so the Internet speed is relevant, but not that much.
I actually still use a travel agent for nicer vacation bookings. I almost always pay the same price as on the website, but get upgrades, free breakfast, spa credits, etc. etc.

When it's more than the website, I do a cost-benefit analysis and decide whether the value I'll derive from paying a slightly higher price for amenities is worth it or not.

And, I get the benefit of the travel agent's expertise, as you say, who knows a little bit about me and what I care about. Sure I can do the research myself (and I will often do so), but it's nice to get all this stuff for basically nothing.
To me it depends; a simple exploit, sure. The air-gapped ip over bare audio seems like it would take a fair amount of processing on its own, unless the system libraries provide signal analysis functions. Also, unless it can just decode raw bits and somehow shuffle them to the network layer of one of the existing adapters you're going to need quite a bit of code to handle that part of it as well.
Do you know of any usability research or somesuch that confirms this?
I've been using this for a bit. It's relatively cheap, and the tickets I've gotten have been worth a lot more and were pretty fun -- and not stuff I would have done myself.
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If it would be a real time interview - for sure. But after sending CV I just got that mail with task.
Let me underline it - they never TALKED to me. They asked if I want to send them CV - and right after I got this.
I don't have any problems with recruiter - I'm more than sure it could be a great person - but if the company gives her such a workflow - it's, from my point of view, is scary at the least.
Thanks troll master. I am so glad you could explain to me what it is I meant. Seems like you would rather aimlessly debate than discuss the topics at hand.
Importing already created projects and editing that website.
Are you using any specific font setup? Infinality patches etc? At least default install leaves the fonts in a pretty bad state.
I really like the timer concept here. Too often I've found that suggestion services just serve to further choice paralysis. The timer adds a time imperative that overrides my usual action of overanalyzing everything.
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We've seen the idea floated non-sarcastically on HN. I think it's troubling that in our community a statement such as this has uncertain seriousness.

It makes me wonder the thorough and complete disconnection from reality that much occur for someone to suggest this sort of thing seriously.
I seriously doubt that the problem here is that Facebook is trying to make you a cog in their wheel (at least not with respect to the coding puzzle). Rather, I think it's just because they feel that requiring this work will lead to better candidates. If you don't like doing this, vote with your feet and just tell them "Thanks but no thanks". If enough people do that, they'll probably stop offering those kinds of questions.
But isn't the phone number information part intriguing? You dial a phone number (or just had been called from one), and it potentially provides you with company name, address, operating hours. Directions are just a touch away. After you complete a call, it could ask you if you'd like to insert a calendar item at the listed address.

This is welcome functionality for me. Google's ads all said and done seem to be fairly unobtrusive, so I trust that if there are advertisements (beyond this), it won't be hostile.
> and now you want me to spend 8-10 hours working on a puzzle?

Perhaps the kind of applicants Facebook are looking for are those that do want to spend 8-10 hours on a puzzle.
You can't buy insurance for an illegal activity.
kk=okay, cool
This is a cool extension that acts as a nice forcing function for my indecisiveness. Nice job.
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I typically do the following for DELETE requests:

Look up the item in the database. If it does not exist, serve a 404.

If it exists and would be otherwise accessible (e.g. a GET would return 200), then I set a delete flag in the database, and serve a 204.

If it exists, but would not otherwise be accessible (e.g. a GET would return 404), I would serve a 404.

If it exists, but has a delete flag set in the database, I would serve a 410.
This site is awesome! So much potential
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Based on the feedback people has given in the other threads and how voted it was, there's certainly a good amount of people that think that Meteor will kill Rails. Yes, I might have exagerated a little bit, I agree.
At least it's just one sub-reddit this time instead of the site-wide ban they implemented last time.
Done: It is legal. This is a contract issue and is therefore covered by civil procedure and not criminal code. So, it is "legal". But, you may be sued for breach of contract and be found to have damaged the other party. But, that all has to be argued in civil court and you may win or the other party may be found to have no damages. Finally, be sure to pay your taxes. That actually is a law.
I even think 3-5 years can be a good duration if your company is doing interesting things and moving you around a bit. Multiple 2 year stints could start to scare some people, but I definitely feel that someone with five 2 year stints could very well be better off than someone with 10 years at the same place.
The point is - it was BEFORE phone/person interview.
I actually like coding during the interview - when I in person can show my skills and approach - it just helps to understand each other. I have been to several interviews with 1-3h coding before, but I knew people I was doing it for.
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I'm currently using this site and its a fun way to get answers from people you know and from strangers too.
Indeed.

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Just FYI, kickbackpoints.com/jobs doesn't lead anywhere, and I didn't notice any direct contact route to send messages.
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I am in no way a proponent of racist culture, no matter who propagated this ad, it is still wrong and it is still gaining traction among the uneducated. Fake or not, it is becoming a factor in the decision process.

This country needs to change. Here we are, almost twenty years down the line from stopping our racist ways, and yet we've arrived at this.

The current government needs to get it's head out of it's ass and stop spending what little tax money we have on their big fat mansions.

I was born in 1993, so I am by no means an expert on Apartheid, nor do I have any experience with it - but after twenty years, surely you'd think things would have changed?

I visited Cape Town before and after the DA. After the DA got hold of it, it feels like an entirely separate country. No potholes from Kimberly to Cape Town. There are street cleaning machines. Free wifi in so many places. Accommodation is cheap now (a 10 bedroom 7 bathroom apartment prefurbished with water + electricty for R3500 a month. in Camps Bay was on sale). In my entire stay there I encountered 0 homeless people. And young people, especially white people, are opening businesses there, and creating jobs - despite Black Economic Empowerment.

And then we have the ANC...
I totally agree with your point. Not only does it bypass the need for an OS update, but it also allows more consistent experiences across all android devices.

While the cynic in me is deathly afraid of Google having complete control over my digital interactions, I find myself in favor of a Google-controlled experience. Google Now is making contextual computing possible in a way that no other company is remotely capable of bringing to the market. For the time being, I invite Google to control Android this way.
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I would be interested in empirical evidence of the contrary too.

It seems likely that the percentage of linux users using KDE has shrank, while probably the total number went up, but I'd be very curious to get hard data.
Lockitron works over WiFi, Bluetooth 4, NFC, and text messaging.
Hiring for an open source project with open issues on GitHub? Sounds like a good first step would be a pull request!

https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum
It looks like AirBnB also allows that.
No. Hotels do this all the time (see, e.g., the Ritz Carlton, which sells condos at the top of its hotels). Just having someone live in the building is not enough to make a hotel not a hotel.

Letting someone live in your apartment while you're temporarily away (or while you're still present) is a very different thing from regularly renting out a unit in which you don't reside. If you can't see the difference between those situations, I don't know much more clearly I can make it.
>Otherwise, you'll end up just whitewashing the situation.

no, what you end up with is homeless people having a chance to sleep under the roof whenever they want and for whatever long they want (why shelters kick people out on the street every morning? At least why not provide the homeless with a fixed guaranteed bed every night and a locker to keep her/his stuff?)
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NAFTA. That is what allows US companies to hire Canadian immigrants much easier than from any other country, and so it made it a lot easier for smaller companies (like startups) to actually hire immigrants at all.
I like this and I've prototyped similar things. I think this could definitely be a complement to (or wedge into) some types of event discovery. The movie tickets is a good idea too.

My suggestion would be to have an annual plan and push that harder (like $25/month but $199/year). I say that because this seems like a no-brainer Christmas gift for people and $20 is too low.
A wise man once said "More money than brains"
I'm not sure about the US, but in the UK GCHQ has this sort of activity explicitly as one of its three principal mandates - it's something along the lines of "protect the economic interests of the UK". You can imagine the applications to the UK's huge arms industry, for example, which has historically had very strong ties to the government.
It would be funny if the standards for /r/politics stories became more rigorous than the one for HN.
(2) Yay! The client wins! :) On a more serious note: That is how internet companies continue to stay in business: automate, lower prices, increase competition, etc. Agents just beat them at their game.

(1) How many online reviews are fake? How many are written out of spite? There is a level of trust you have to give someone: either an online reviewer or a person.

(3) Having a human to work with is usually better service than not. But it really depends on the situation.

Edit: I'd like to mention that I am not an agent of any sort. I do more business online than anyone I know, but I also realize the pros/cons of both sides of the spectrum.
I would love to see the levels of traffic resulting from that.
Microsoft to can Skype API, third party products will not work
Disagree. The point of Reddit (imho) is to function as a platform for communities, each with their own rules. Some have stricter moderation, some are laxer.
This is always a great read. I think most programmers fail to realize what a hellish nightmare floating-point arithmetic was and still could be if not for the amazing work of Kahan and his colleagues and a lot of luck that allowed this standardization process to be one of the most successful ones ever.
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Free fiber networks for entire towns isn't social welfare?
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Great suggestion! We've thought about doing an annual/6month etc plan but figured we'd get the product right first.

I do like hearing it be called a "no brainer"!
Doesn't sound too risky at all to me. Cheap price for the unit (would be $200k where I live) and has already made back a reasonable portion of his investment.
For the servers I'm talking about, blowing the whole thing away and installing any packages from the new disc is just fine and keeps away the clutter.

I look at it this way, if all I'm really doing is adding some flags or configuration files, I would rather just blow it away and do the reinstall. Last couple of times I did that with my firewall, it was a 20 minute install.
I'm afraid that Facebook will make a precedent that will turn 10 hours free coding in a standard, moreover - before even a phone interview.
Each of my arguments is clearly outlined in the aptly titled book "The Divine Default".
Ask.fm is broken, Inqre is here to take it's place.
> it's a banana republic

Milk republic? Potato republic? Egg republic? Atlantic salmon republic?
"The [Waterloo] Region's population was 507,096 as of the 2011 census."

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_Region
I think my first term was $2700/school term + 500/work term as a co-op fee. (in 2001).
Ask HN: We asked for tech IPs when they didn't exist, and now it's a problem
Should patents in software not exist at all, to leave the market open to competition?
> but can't everyone agree that no child should be in this situation?

The problem is that you'll never get everyone to agree that the government needs to be involved in fixing the situation, even though there is no other entity which can be relied upon to solve it.

It's gone from being politics to being religion: Socialism is Evil. It isn't just bad policy, it's Evil and therefore must not be compromised with, for all the same reasons you don't compromise with Satan Himself. The people who believe that will spin stories about how private groups will step up to solve all of the problems, even though they never have in the past, simply to prevent Evil, which they call Socialism.
Sorry, I was unclear. By "story" I meant the specific story about the machine they attempted to wipe clean but that still remained infected somehow. The theory that the virus could communicate over air gaps would be irrelevent to that specific story, because if we assume that the computer was still infected, jumping air gaps is irrelevant to what was observed in that specific instance.

In other words I'm agreeing with you that the Ars article was misleading. But my initial comment was not meant to be critical of Dragos or anybody else. It was an honest, uncharged question about how my reading of the Ars article would be possible, even theoretically. The answer (it sounds like) is that the Ars article misled me about what Dragos was actually claiming.
Only if Reddit.com blocked the sites.

Each subreddit is its own privately moderated world. Some subreddits only allow self-posts, which means you can't post third party sites at all. Some subreddits only allow scholarly journals. Some subreddits filter based on political bias.

Everyone chooses what subreddits they want to subscribe to, and if you want a different set of rules you can create your own subreddit.
But they automatically send this without even talking to person. They already assume that it's fine and I should be happy to do so. That's why I call it sweatshop approach.
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I don't mind doing a puzzle to get a job in a good company as I already did. If you think you shouldn't do the puzzle but you still were interested on working for Facebook, you could have said: I don't have the time to solve the puzzle however I have more than 10 hours of contribution on my github, I still wanna work for Facebook, what's the next step?
Or you can use the malware to affect the behavior of a known OS and get it to do the rest of the work for you.

IIRC, the Code Red worm wasn't a terribly large exhibit of malware, but it still managed to propagate.

As it stands, I think the biggest complaint currently regarding badBIOS is the lack of information. Until we find out more, much of the commentary in the linked article (and the comments here and elsewhere) are little more than conjecture.

Still, conjecture can be fun! Let your imaginations run wild--until we get something more concrete.
I thought Reddit was full of Libertarians who were against censorship?
That's true but r/politics is a default subreddit.
Incredibly valuable would mean it cost more than $40k.
I would like to point out that the modern way to er.. "sidestep" the windows activation process on a UEFI system is to simply install a new bootloader. This is accomplished simply by writing a compiled EFI program to the EFI boot partition and setting it as your bootloader. It them lies to the kernel and makes it think it's running on an already-activated OEM system. Look up WindSLIC, I can't really give a link here for obvious reasons.

To note: this is a single binary that works on all x86_64 UEFI systems and can be written to the boot partition as any other file. Additionally, you can write a program to change boot order on UEFI bioses from within a running OS; example: efibootmgr. So while it is probably infeasible to infect the BIOS itself, it is somewhat trivial to infect the bootloader and do whatever you desire.
In nearly all US jurisdictions, hotels are required to maintain units free of vermin, including bedbugs. Private residences are not. Thus, if a hotel fails to keep the room free of bedbugs, they are generally (1) obligated to refund your room charges and (2) pay to replace any luggage or clothing rendered unusable by the pest infestation.
Well, that was the same theory behind the Republican effort to defund Obamacare by shutting down the government and breaking the debt ceiling. Stay relentlessly on message and get what you want. Obviously, that was not a PR success.

We're not congress, though, we're an interest group. We want congresspeople to debate, reason, and compromise; we ideally want interest groups to do the same, but I fear it may be necessary for at least some of us to be relentlessly consistent in our appearance, to counteract the relentlessness of the other sides (NSA, RIAA, etc.).

I prefer the system where we actually talk to each other to see which ideas make sense and which ones are insane instead of trying to debate via religion.

So do I, but we don't necessarily exist within that system.
They're mostly against government censorship.
I am very glad to see how the company which I love and follow for so many years is getting more and more share in the US market. The best thing I like about Nokia is how they are obsessed with quality of their products, I think in terms of build quality and design, Nokia is the only smartphone/tablet maker at this time to be a real competitor to Apple.
> coding is truly useful for already somewhat technical, detail-oriented people who can get more work done or get it done faster with code.

"Ah, yes. The same way writing was for exceptionally dull monks. And yet, strangely, the world became a better place as more people learnt reading and writing.

I might be dull - I let my friends judge - but I'd like to make one point very clearly. Pretty much the entire world runs based on some code written somewhere. Anything of consequence is more and more computer-controlled. If you'd really want to have your kids ignorant, helplessly observing a small priest caste "perform magic", without any chance of changing the world, please, by all means, do leave programming to us weirdos." I read this here: https://plus.google.com/+RachelBlum/posts/WWiJtjeCoxj
The subreddits have always enforced culture through mod rules. The (often-cited) example of this is /r/AskHistorians, which is very stringently moderated.
Uhm. . . http://www.slideshare.net/matrosov/modern-bootkit-trends-byp...

Considering how much research goes into these bootkits/rootkits lately, it is interesting. Kernelmode has some ideas on it(http://www.kernelmode.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2998) and are running a thread on it. This is a rather unique malware though if it even does the airgap communication as well.
Zoning laws are a legal issue, not a civil one. So are licensing requirements and other hotel codes. The HOA stuff would be a civil matter, but that is only one of the things preventing this sort of action.
> I just mostly suspect that the BadBIOS story is ridiculous.

I agree. The Ars piece yesterday seemed a bit paranoid and short on details. Then this piece today seems to be blowing smoke in the opposite direction. Somewhere in between lies the truth.

I'm hoping we'll hear of something more concrete in the coming days or weeks.