skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an apple fanboy - but I do really like their magsafe & iPad mini connectors (whatever those are called officially). One thing I really like is the lack of "sticky-out-bit" in the middle of the connector, which all USB sockets seem to have, and which always feels kind of unstable or weak to me.

Is there a reason why all USB sockets - including these new diagrams - have a feeble looking centre part rather than it being part of the outer ring?
I'm surprised that you could get anyone for that kind of money. I wouldn't have taken it 15 years ago, either.

If people are willing to take so little, it does mean that I could finance a pretty decent startup for a little while without significantly damaging my savings. New information to me.
>Web developers are making these errors because of the high demand for cheap web devs churned out of "learn to code!" bootcamps coupled with the fact that the people writing the checks don't understand security.

Cheap developers with no senior oversight and code review? No [automated] security testing to catch the basics?

You're getting what you deserve if this is the only level of talent and organization you want to put on task.
I think probably that if we do vat-grown meat, the sheep all die without offspring, since we'd have no reason to breed them and they're not very good at surviving on their own.
Sure.

1. There are data entry tasks, writing descriptions for online shops, filling out surveys etc. We are looking for partners who have smaller tasks like this that they would like to see completed by our almost 70,000 users now.

2. It's targeted to people who are often on the road, where they have spare time that they want to use to make money. Students, freelancers, travelers come to mind.

3. Tasks vary between mini tasks of <$1 that can be done very quickly and tasks for $10+, which users see later once they have had several tasks approved by our clients, so that we know that they can complete work reliably.
Global IPv4 routing table grows causing problems with many Cisco routers
They also said it supports the USB PD to up to 100W (@ 20V) which is enough current (5A) to support stuff like a Macbook Air.
Software has a ton of examples of things we believe in without ever having conducted some rigorous scientific study. There are lots of opportunities for intelligent people to come up with ideas or methods strictly from analyzing anecdotal information they've accumulated.

Science is probably the most effect method of understanding the natural world, but people are notoriously difficult to characterize in that type of manner.
I'm a happy Backblaze customer, but I've noticed it typically uses around 240MB of memory. Is this normal? Why is it so high?
>> might be more stubborn and resistant to leadership.

If you mean "stubborn and resistant to bullshit" then yes.

Older employees are much less likely to be deceived, because they've seen enough of the working world to notice common patterns and pitfalls.

Tell a 23 year old that you're going to disrupt an industry and need some rockstars to pull it off, and they might jump onboard. Tell the same thing to a 35 year old and they will just laugh at you.
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Doesn't look "dominance" to me aside from the initial launch (where the PS3 was supply-constrained iirc):

http://www.geekwire.com/2013/xbox-360-wii-ps3-won-console-ge...

Really, the winner was Nintendo, which sold a buttload of very cheaply made consoles for close to the same price as far loss-leading higher-powered competitors.

Of these companies, only Microsoft was spending profits from other sectors to build its position in the console market.
Childhood Lead Exposure Causes a Lot More Than Just a Rise in Violent Crime
Oh joy, they still use that damn diving board design on the device side. I've broken 3 devices when that diving board breaks.
It's called 'burying the lede' and while it would get you fired from daily-newspaper type reporting (where you should articulate the important facts as clearly as possible up front) it's a staple of American long-form journalism. I don't know enough about the history of American literature to know who pioneered this sort of rambling slow-reveal narrative style - maybe Mark Twain? It can be very pleasurable to read for relaxation, or if the work aims to slowly introduce some philosophical idea. Indeed, it can be essential in book-length works, in order to make complex ideas digestible by leavening them with experiential information that provides the reader with valuable context.

But a lot of the time it can just be annoying or a stylistic cliche. As soon as I realize I'm reading an article like this, I usually skip towards the end to see whether there's any sign of a significant payoff. Sometimes there is and I'll go back to the start settle in for the ride, more often I pick up the few facts that I wanted to know and save myself a lot of eye-rolling.
You are correct. I know many PhDs who finished their degree around 28-35. Several of them are in a conundrum because they don't have management experience nor do they have professional software development experience. When companies interview these people as senior developers (the level corresponding to the 6 figure salary some PhDs expect), they find the person with a PhD lacking. It is quite a mess really ... I tell people to not do a PhD in CS unless they are independently wealthy or don't want a normal (kids, house, yard) life. Sad but that's life.
I take it you have a lottery license?
Well, putting it that way, it is an insult. This is why companies have someone who is intelligent craft delicate messages.

There are a lot of common sense things in this world. Washing behind your ears, changing your sheets... etc.
Not this tripe again...

Please, no one really cares about the makeup of companies except those people who will never work for them anyway. It's like what's happening in the UK at the moment. Everything is so politically correct. My cousin is a detective just south of London, and he now has to treat suspects with kid gloves unlike just a few years ago. He actually has to knock on doors if the suspect is a muslim and wait for their prayers to finish before proceeding. If diversity insistence and this PC tripe that makes life more difficult. Companies should NOT be even percentages of this colour or that gender "just because". It's stupid and most people agree it's stupid. Unless of course your're PC...
>>The key with ageism in tech is to move into mgmt. You're not supposed to be a code monkey at 30.

Said the pointy-haired boss who once used to be a code monkey.
Powering an external monitor from a laptop is appealing. One cord to the wall.

Even cooler, would be driving an external monitor from a smartphone.
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Sounds great! For anyone not sure of the context, right now Type-A is the "host" end and type-B is the "device" end. However since OTG was introduced that correlation isn't concreted and can reverse during the connection. I might have misunderstood but it sounds like Type-C will be a symmetrical affair (the cable will be reversible). I guess this opens the door for totally new use cases for USB? With extensions to the OTG system we could be connecting two hosts for e.g. transferring files between laptops. Again I could be wrong about that.

Also 100W power is great - The power delivery capability of current USB is really limiting.

And reversible cable orientation? We are entering a glorious new era.
Not sure how mindfulness and “strive-and-drive” are incompatible/contradictory. Isn't one of the goals of mindfulness to take time to ensure everything is working as efficiently as possible? And I feel rewarded when I impact work processes, when I’m able to share my ideas and see them discussed and implemented. Monetary reward is not the only motivator or measure of fulfillment for people. (And I don't even work at Asana)

Also the lululemon piece seemed to be about the company creating a marketing campaign with whatever made-up version of yoga most improved sales, which seems far from the internal practices that are discussed in this article.
How an iPhone could work with an Android Wear watch
I'm a huge fan of Arq. It's reliable, easy to use, inexpensive, and keeps getting better. I highly recommend it.
Don't forget that we have baby boomers entering the middle/later stages of life, where we would expect such diagnoses to be made. I'd expect the death rate in the US to steadily increase with respect to population over the next couple decades, then gradually decline.
I can't wait for the virtual assistant that realizes something will be a waste of my time and flags it as such.
If the employer only wants one year of experience or less noobs and excludes anyone experienced as out of date or too expensive, then the recent PHD grad is by definition excluded unless the PHD took less than a year.
For most people S3/Glacier hybrid zones are probably still cheaper. But gDrive is definitely more "noob" (or your mom and dad) friendly than AWS. Anything under 1TB is less expensive.
You should have a look over here :)

https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch/wiki
Really? How aggressively are you plugging in your USB cables?
It's often companies with retail outlets that are willing to provide this data - I suspect a lot of the diversity comes from the people that work at retail Apple stores.

In a way, it is similar to how the government operates - the diversity of people who call the shots is very different than the diversity of people in DMV or SSA offices, but overall it gives the impression that things are diverse.
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That sounds like a bad offer no matter your age, health, marital status, and so on. 30K/year, 80 hours a week and (I assume) no equity? Pass.
Make money on the go with simple tasks for who and why?
Again, water at the tap is that which is ingested and otherwise utilized, thus the only water of relevance. This is why NSF Standard 60 certification requirements begin with water at the tap. It makes no difference what additives are used, the process by which these additives are produced, or the location from where they are obtained. If the water at the tap does not meet Standard 60 certification requirements, it is not allowed.

If you want to argue with the US EPA about its standards and procedures, feel free. I, personally, have survived just fine with them for 61 years.

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Came to ask the same thing. Those little pins always break for me.
What if that same male VC met a male founder and he got some gay vibes off of him? Oh no!

Best take him to the gym and do manly guy things like working out and hanging out in the steam room to prove his masculinity.
Um.. wouldn't the small piece in the computer's end break easily since it is so thin.. and small.

And how does it delivery 100W of power with cable that thin?
I think the PS3 having failed to dominate the market as the PS2 did made them wake up and smell the coffee.
seems broken.. I signed up via the website and cant quite figure out how to search for tasks?
> Even cooler, would be driving an external monitor from a smartphone.

I worry somewhat about the smartphone's battery in this context. I wonder if any have good 'passthrough' for when the battery is full and a wall socket is connected - even then I doubt it. :/
I don't understand your comment. The survey may have formed the basis for the diversity reports, but it shouldn't be difficult to supplement them with age data, since the companies already have the information.
Yes, you can retire before your 40th birthday
I'd like to see you bit-bang a 10MHz signal with an 8 MHz clock.

You'd need something substantially faster (Nyquist and such).
USB devices that can attack the host computer have been known for some time, and are not the point of the talk. The demonstration methods of attack that use them are only examples. This threat is about the other direction, where the (compromised) kernel attacks the USB devices firmware.

Nothing the kernel can do defends against the BIOS trusting the mass storage device and booting from it (possibly with an extra HID to press F2 or F12 or whatever to enable the correct boot order), which was covered in the talk.

Also, there's nothing the kernel can do to detect a device that is modifying the data during some of the reads, which was also discussed.

More importantly, it doesn't matter what a handful of technical people do to try and defend their own computers: there is currently a very large set of users that are currently wildly vulnerable running Windows or stock-and-never/rarely-updated Ubuntu. These people like to use their devices in the manner in which they were intended to be used. This has the potential to spread malicious firmware very quickly.

The main vulnerability this talk was trying to demonstrate was not that the USB port on a traditional computer has poor defenses; they are showing that USB devices are easily re-flashable; any USB hardware could become infected, closing the loop.

This possibility of recursive infection over sneakernet suggests that normal, non-technical people need to learn to not trust any kind of shared USB until new devices with unchangeable firmaware can be made.
I don't understand this: 6TB drives are more expensive per gigabyte and they even mention it in their post. They say that they expect the drives to become cheaper over time and that's why they are switching now. Wait, what? Switching now when they are, I quote, "at the top of the curve"[1] does not make sense?

It might be that the physical space reduction compensates for it, but they don't mention that so I don't get it.

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bl...
Might be a part of it at least, but what percentage of employees are retail and what are office? Purely anecdotal, but the Apple store here in Charleston, SC is pretty damned white.
I downloaded the app and signed up, but the only tasks I see are follow on Twitter/Facebook. Are there any actual tasks that I can start doing? Do I have to do those follows first to see the actual tasks?
The primary author of this document is Peter Koonce, who is a pretty serious bicycle guy. You might be interested in his blog: http://koonceportland.blogspot.com/
If you want massive performance, you most likely want to avoid erlang; if you want massive scalability, erlang might very well be a great fit. I think it's quite different.
pg:diagnose looks awesome, can I use it on my own Linux server? https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2014/8/12/pg-diagnose
How Tesla-Toyota Project Led to Culture Clash by Opposites
Not insignificant, but major amount of relationships and subsequent marriages have sprung from flirts and advances at work, obviously frequently including power-disbalanced positions. [1]

While this particular (and pretty stringent at that) declaration of code of conduct is probably conducive to business and PR goals of YC, I'm far from convinced it will be advancing health of relationships between individuals concerned.

[1] http://www.careerbuilder.com/share/aboutus/pressreleasesdeta...
Interesting.. that wasn't the way I interpreted your comment. Thanks for the clarification.
The server-side upload code let him put it somewhere where PHP was enabled. So he "started" it by just going to its URL.
I think I get it but in some countries age is not a privacy issue, business-wise. Actually, in some places (like Brazil) people expect you to disclose it, eventually. There's not much privacy protection about it like there is in US.
Anecdata: I'm over 40. I interviewed with a well known VR company which, aside from the dev manager, was staffed by 20 somethings. I've been doing that kind of work for my entire career and have written a number of multi-million seller games as a lead programmer. Still, they didn't want me. It was 7 hours of mostly rapid fire technical questions, which aside from one whiteboard problem that I didn't really understand what they were asking, I felt I did pretty good at. Obviously they felt different. I did go into the interview telling them that given my experience and record of shipping quality titles I expected a higher level of salary. Maybe that did me in, I don't know. But I did sniff that they thought of me as the old guy, and why would I still want to be coding & not in management at my age?

The upside is that by not getting/taking that job my current job bumped my salary by 50%. I was already making a bunch before, now I'm retiring even earlier! So I guess it all worked out in the end.
I can't decide if this is fun, but fiscally pointless, or kinda brilliant.

It looks like a pretty simple app, which I doubt took too much time to put together, and is likely incredibly cheap to run. Assuming the most recent two hours are more representative of engagement than the previous two (not a given by any means, and no I haven't been tracking this before then), it looks like it's producing several hundred Stellars an hour minimum for the creators.

Stellars aren't worth much right now, and may never be (I'll leave that sort of speculation to those with more knowledge of the subject), but this seems like a cheap and quick way to build a stockpile.

Anyway, food for thought.
Although containing zinc oxide, that product includes ingredients that I believe the parent post was looking to avoid. In particular, retinyl palmitate [1].

As an aside, the EWG's Skin Deep database is a useful place to find ingredients of potential concern for popular products:

http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/

[1] http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/product/567689/Neutrogena_Sensit...
I'm twenty-three and I would turn them down without thinking twice. I get double that and only have to work the expected 40 at my job and there isn't any pressure to put in more hours than that.
I took a leap of faith and signed up. All i see after completing the FB and Twitter tasks is "Sorry, but no projects are available for you at the moment. Please pick a different category." but there is no way to select a category.
Very disappointing / frustrating UX.
from "Century Link Labs" - didn't realize CL was that kind of company, very cool to see.
Devil's advocate: We should be careful about doing this as we could end up harassing someone over a false claim or overreaction. In this case, maybe some discretion is necessary. I do support public humiliation in cases that are well documented and blatant.
If their "tech" and "non-tech" categories are what they sound like, then you're right. Their "tech" category is still 80% male, and 54% + 23% white plus Asian. For such a hip company, they look just as bad as their competitors.
Any links to the result that suncreen usage doesn't affect Vitamin D production? (Intake seems the wrong word)?

It's the first time I heard that.
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I am just about to turn 40. Been developing software for 11 and a half years professionally. I realise that I am a lot better developer than I was a while ago. Actually I have seen a lot more problems, and I have a good idea what will work two months down the line, and what will be a constant fire fighting exercise due to a half though through design.

How do I get this across to employers? All they seem interested is if I have experience in MongoDB (which in 9 out of 10 cases seems to be a crap choice).
>Well... For one it wouldn't be the emacs of window managers.

Emacs is some primitives written in C wrapped by a massive amount of Elisp extensions.
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70% male! Holy shit. That's shameful.
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> Even cooler, would be driving an external monitor from a smartphone.

That will be expensive though. You'll have to pay the medical bills for getting your back fixed after having to carry the suitcase with the batteries :).

Current cell-phones have batteries around 2 Amp-hours. At 5 volts, that's 10 Watt-hours. The least-power hungry display according to [1] is a 15 inch LED; it clocks in at 15 Watts. This means you'd be able to use your external 15 inch display for 40 minutes before completely draining your battery. That is not counting anything the phone is actually doing, just powering the display.

[1] http://energyusecalculator.com/electricity_lcdleddisplay.htm
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A lot of opinion, but as a normal consumer, I think this looks fine, or at least "good enough".

I agree, the Mobius video does look better. But, I think that most of the decision doesn't come down to video quality for a normal person. Its like graphics on video games. There's a very vocal crowd that espouses 1080p / 60 Hz refresh rates, but most normal people are as likely to play Candy Crush as a cinematic Final Fantasy or God of War. Its just not that much of a discriminator for the non-hardcore.

Anecdotally, I bought a Go Pro a while back. What really mattered was: "Can I easily use this for the activity I'm planning (I wanted to be able to set a camera on my shoulder)?", "Can I easily work with / upload the video after I'm done?", and "Is this a product that people online say works?"
You're right that you shouldn't be a code monkey at 30. You should have graduated to programmer by then.
The Emscripten author wrote a blog post when Cheerp (then called duetto) was first announced:

http://mozakai.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/c-to-javascript-emscri...
Tony and Ziva are colleagues, which makes their relationship different in power terms from a supervisor-supervised relationship.

For contrast, look at Gibbs and Abby, who do have a supervisor-supervised relationship with the same power dynamics as that between investors and entrepreneurs. In their case, the show goes out of its way to make sure everyone understands that their relationship, while affectionate, is neither romantic nor sexual.

Why? Because it would be super creepy if Gibbs, who is both Abby's boss and much older than her, suddenly made a pass at her out of nowhere.
I've had a similar cartoonish experience talking with folks from the NY State Tax Department (specifically unemployment insurance & worker's comp). Brief backstory was I had a production company and we paid everyone as independent contractors and got caught.

The cartoonish aspect of this was actually negotiating the fine with them over the phone. I thought there would be a set fine or something, instead we spent about 20 minutes haggling about what I would have to pay.
I'm wondering why Backblaze hasn't been moving toward cold storage? With a wait time on recovering/downloading files, I don't see an obvious reason why not. But I can see some cost and energy savings to be had.
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Who knows? YC does a lot of good stuff we never hear about.
>Can we have it some other time?

No, this 'intellectual conversation' should never happen. The people involved in any sort of conversation of this type(as I am sure many have happened in the past) will only dull their sympathy for people who do have to struggle/contend with this happening to them. It's morally disgusting and I could care less about your definition of 'morality'.
Our tcp stack is written in tcl. The window size is set to 1. It works fine.
I have the same problem. One faulty or aggressive plug angle, and you break some pins or the inner paddle cracks.
The terms are conflicting across the board so they get to choose the interpretation that suits them best.
If we're talking about taxi drivers, it's reasonable to assume they're more experienced because they spent more hours on the road (unless, of course, you drive more than they do).
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If these stats are for the US, it means that whites are about 17% underrepresented at Apple.