skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious, do you know something about the facts of this case that hasn't appeared on Hacker News before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9679312

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9688442

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9686175

It looks like they were asking for users' login credentials to scrape ADP's frontend, and that Zenefits had never talked directly to ADP. The scraping broke when ADP added DOS protection to their portal; they claim that Zenefits was responsible for 25% of their traffic despite serving only 0.25% of their clients.

I kinda want Zenefits to win here, because I one day dream of having employees and from what I've seen Zenefits is much easier to deal with than ADP. But the specific actions they've taken here look really bad. It's as if a third-party site asked users for their Google logins and then used it to aggressively scrape personalized search results off the SRP; such usage would get blocked by DOS protection, and it'd have nothing to do with Google targeting a competitor and everything to do with them protecting the security and integrity of their systems.
It's an IRS rule. Otherwise, the contractor could argue they were an employee and sue for back benefits. I think Microsoft got burned by this.
BTC requires electricity to power 1.5 to 4 US homes, to record one transaction
If the Stingray units are only $1000, and if the manufacturing company is prepared to keep purchases confidential as suggested by the OA, I'd imagine these units are being bought by a variety of agencies in many countries.

I'm wondering what they gather: I'm guessing that if I were to walk past one, it would be able to log a unique identifier in my phone. Then I presume it could log future visits to the area. Is this all it is? Same effect as having a CID officer in an unmarked car with a flask and an empty 2.5 litre coke bottle?
The authors of the study have done as much as they can to eliminate such effects. Not to mention that the correlation they find for 39 out of 55 conditions has already been demonstrated in the literature.
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That only means that products with more social awkwardness would need to deliver even more value. It doesn't change the cost/benefit calculation for the Apple Watch
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looks like I won't be complaining about the canadian government anymore. Everything from now on out of my mouth will be candy and roses. Who wants to be considered a terrorist for speaking out?
Sorry to say, I'm glad you burned out - otherwise no "Halting State",....
Anxiety is a symptom, not a root problem. The root problem is uncertainty about the things that are important to you. What are you uncertain about? If you suddenly knew it, would you still feel anxious? If not, what else are you worrying about?

Now that you've got a list, try figuring out how you'd learn about those things, and what you'd do differently if you knew. If you wouldn't do anything differently, try being okay with not knowing. If it's straightforward to find out, figure that stuff out.

The overall goal of this is not to fight anxiety, but to use it. You have emotions for important reasons. Trying to fight emotions without addressing the underlying reasons is an unnecessary battle against yourself.
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Zenefits needs a head of PR. Or a new one if they already have one.
> a Russian company started with government support

From what I know this is simply not true. Got a source?

But I think your overall point holds. Kaspersky's 400 million user base includes a boatload of US/Western users, including enterprise and government clients. This simply cannot NOT be of some concern to respective countries, so it's perfectly logical that they would want to keep an eye on the situation.
Hey, don't down-vote this comment, down-vote the title, containing this direct and barefaced lie! (For the record, I am a java programmer with years if daily java coding.)
Maybe including City / Local taxes?
I am curious what kind of non-technical uses for Java you are talking about?
The next step is to realize that you can use streams to communicate between processes. Stream parallelization is used not just to speed things up but as an easier way to write massively parallel programs.

Instead of bug inducing mutexes and semaphores, you write a series of threads who are only able to communicate between themselves through streams. Each thread possesses input streams to receive data from other threads and output streams to talk to other threads. Each thread is idle until it receives an input from one of the streams. It then performs some processing which can include sending messages to output streams before going back to sleep. A system may possess a large number of threads and

I wrote a pacman this way where interactive object was a thread: the pacman, ghosts, bonuses,... Even the score was in its own thread. Since the game was real time there was a special clock process to generate the ticks to advance through each frame of the game.

Except for the initial wiring up and flow control (when the emitter of the stream is faster than the receiver), the system is easy to reason with and debug. By looking at the stream you can get a high level of visualization.

I guess the next step after that is to realize that you can apply this to the entire system and replace messy one-to-one ESB RPC calls with something like Event Sourcing.
We're a very small company (10 FTEs), but we have been anything but impressed with Zenefits as a customer. We only use them for medical and dental insurance, but in reality, they provide very little, if any value. The Zenefits software is really nothing special, and in fact, the onboarding UI is pretty poor. Now that we have our insurance, Zenefits adds zero value to us. We deal directly with United and Zenefits collects a 10% commission on our monthly premiums. Its a genius business model, and little else.

Zenefits doesn't have any intrinsic rights to ADP's system. Twitter killed off plenty of companies when it decided to shut down the 3rd party ecosystem. Facebook obviously maintains similar strategic control over it's API. How many case studies must there be for companies to understand that building on another company's platform always carries business and strategic risks?
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ARE BOTH Sourceforge and Github other-verted or perverted-like? What are the alternatives?

Thank you. Thank you. the attack on code repo and the
infiltration of the clean database continues, perhaps.
Exactly right about Glass there. It blew my mind that Google dropped the ball so bad there. Why market it to drunk trustafarian boho douche bags that go hang gliding every day? Uh, there's a whole population of people that work with their hands for a living that could use an extra para-brain to do some light secretarial jobs like calling, taking a picture, texting, etc... I would say the working class is far more populous than the target audience in those original Glass-hole adds.
I'm a little skeptical. Sand Hill, Google, Apple, Samsung and Microsoft probably already have big head starts on holographics.
This is not one of those pieces bemoaning that Lego is all specialist parts and complaining about the lack of big buckets of bricks - the tl;dr of this article would be "What happened with Lego? Nothing, you just grew up.".
At the very least, you use up the particular 0-day attacks you used to gain access to the system - since they had to keep re-using them in order to re-infect machines over reboots there was a pretty high chance that once detected, Kaspersky would discover the exploits being used. Apart from entities like the NSA themselves you probably couldn’t choose a more security aware target.

Any large nation state probably has a nice cache of 0-days ready to roll out at any given time, but they’re still a limited resource that could be used to attack other targets. Attacking Kaspersky pretty much guarantees that the 0-days are blown once the infiltration is discovered.
If (debt.interest > investment.interest ), pay off debt first. Else, invest.

I disagree with this tremendously. With your strategy, essentially what you are doing is buying stocks on margin. This magnifies your profits if things goes your way and magnifies your losses if things go against you.

Think about it this way - Interactive Brokers is an online brokerage with extremely low margin rates which are often half of current mortgage rates (see https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=interest&p...). Using your logic, the right thing to do is to leverage yourself to the hilt for every penny Interactive Brokers will loan you at 1.63% or less and cross your fingers you make the right investment choices otherwise you're bankrupt.

Buying investments on margin, no matter how it is done, is extremely risky. You might understand those risks and have a high enough risk tolerance but please don't pretend investing on margin is a general rule everyone should follow.
Michael Chabon's essay "A Yiddish Pale Fire", which discusses his encounter with a Yiddish travel guidebook that eventually inspired "The Yiddish Policeman's Union", is a great read too, if you can track it down. Looks like it's disappeared from the Web.
The UN has a report on NK:

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/CoIDPRK/Pages/Reportoft...

It's a 372 page Word document(!) Anyway, buried deep inside you'll see the regime imported a dozen Mercedes-Benz for the elites. Importing these luxuries is against sanctions, so that must have been quite a feat in itself. How they keep them running is another issue.
An article from 2014 suggests the government use at least one Mercedes, and probably bought it via Russia or China. I'd guess they just drive it over the border...

Maybe parts don't count as "luxury vehicles", in which case they can buy them from Europe. Alternatively, China/Russia.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11...
Ah yes, the wonders of accidentally quadratic functions.
http://www.newelementary.com/2014/08/when-lego-was-never-jus...
sha256sum or b2sum (BLAKE2b) would be far better than sha1 :)
The parent is addressing whether ADP will win a defamation suit; it's possible that Zenefits violated TOS and that ADP shut them down with good reason, but that doesn't mean that Zenefits defamed ADP.
Disagree. The one UK speeding ticket I have was for being over 30mph in a 30 zone. The limit is set to 30 in those zones because of Science™ about braking distance and impact with human bodies that appear suddenly.

If I'm being careless and/or distracted in one of those zones, I want to know about it immediately, not up to 14 days later after I've already plowed through a bunch of schoolchildren.
Apparently he is expert on conspiracy theories:

> Most of the environmental movement is composed of
innocent Gaianists, but not all of it. There’s a hard
core that’s sort of a zombie remnant of Soviet psyops.
Thumbs up.

Too many people take on unnecessary debt (big house, new cars, toys, ...) It seems like many are at peace with their debt.

Going into debt for anything more than a modest house (rather than paying rent) doesn't make sense to me.
When you don't pay your web designer
What on earth are you talking about?

Take a look at the repository mirror here, for example: https://github.com/qtproject/qtbase/. You can easily see plenty of commits that change src/widgets.

Seriously, please point to where you get these ideas from, because they're just extremely odd and surprising, seemingly coming out of nowhere as if somebody were spreading FUD.

(One theory that I have is that there may be confusion about the API and ABI compatibility guarantees that Qt makes. If you're not used to the C++ way of doing things, it's easy to misunderstand their policy. I assure you that there are no artificial limitations to changes in Qt, and if you have concrete grievances with something you should try and get it fixed inside Qt just as with any other open source project.)
That sounds like a very silly policy. Would your mind be blown to learn out there exist many MBAs with engineering backgrounds, and that they're actually not idiots?
Can someone reframe the definition of the term "micro framework"? I understand the article as micro=very small, but the first example has a lot of batteries included. Isn't that the opposite?
I'm 100% going to give Apple Music a good try during their three month free trial period. I've been loyal to Spotify since they opened to U.S. customers and I left from Rhapsody, but Apple Music will have better integration into the iPhone, will hopefully have more selection (we'll see during the trial), and is cheaper for my household because we use three account, costing us $20.00 / month. Apple Music will cost $15 per month and I can use up to 6 accounts if I want to.
Yes, JEE is quite nice nowadays.

The culture that gave us J2EE has moved on to:

- SOA

- micro-services spaghetti dependencies

- JavaScript frameworks and build tools (each month a new one)

- MVVM

- From XML everywhere into JSON everywhere
Nope. I'm Irish and confirm those figures. There is no city or local taxes in Ireland. (Ireland, with a population of 4.5mil isn't split into many different juristicions like the USA)
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Neither are legal English.

In this context 'legal' can only mean 'having to do with the law' as there is no statutory definition of the English language (well not British English at least).
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I'm generally unimpressed with Packt. Bill Pollock said (so consider the source) that Packt is not really a publisher, but just a printer. They don't really have any (copy)editors. They make everyone else do the work and pay them with complimentary copies of their (in my opinion) low-quality books.
Well, the malware used some quite innovative techniques, for example, consider this quote from Ars Technica article:

>Kaspersky researchers have described it as a "0-day trampoline" because it allowed their malicious modules to jump directly into the Windows kernel, the inner part of the operating system that has unfettered access to system memory and all external devices. The trampoline exploit allowed the malware to bypass digital signature requirements designed to prevent the loading of malicious code into the OS kernel space.

>"What is really impressive here—what I call really amazing—is the entire malware platform depends on this zero-day to work," Raiu said. "So if there is no zero day to jump into kernel mode this doesn't work."

Now this will be patched, and they will need something completely different for the next framework.
Thanks! Yeah, I agree, I will definitely think how to make it simpler to set up, I have some ideas :)
Common interview problems solved in Rust
Is BOTH Sourceforge and Github -other-verted or per-verted?
or sub-verted?
The attack on the clean code-base continues.

Advice. Unix Linux - separate user. low privilege. configure,
make, but make install with ROOT PRIVILEGE. check files.

all source code should have search engine keywords for
vulnerabilies, updates, etc. for even BSD is somewhat broken, IMHO.

make it easier for the NOT C expert and ASM expert to
install reasonably clean software, PLEASE.

Thank U. Thank U. Thank U. ... 1000 times
We ran some experiments with HHVM last year. Unfortunately, some random library that has a random dependency was failing on HHVM. The surface area for this type of incompatibility is a bit too much for me to bear.

PHP once had its place to make .html files dynamic. Unfortunately, the ease of making this happen accidentally turned PHP into what it is today. Beyond this, there isn't much merit to the language, the frameworks, or the ecosystem at all.

We're certainly running. But rather than stopping at HHVM, we're dropping PHP altogether.
Last I heard, the Harris Stingrays were licensed for "emergency use only" in the US. So how are these things licensed in the UK?
Groovy also has its share of Smalltalk influence.

But no language can really claim the Smalltalk spirit without a similar work environment.
> What you need is: a roof over your head, food, laptop/phone, and a gym membership.

Erm... what about I don't know the most human thing before all that... some companionship?

Frankly, i find thats actually the real reason for most of these burnouts/crashes. Humans are the most social creatures in the world and this trait is diminished by our tech culture.
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I'm not really a big fan of ADP, but if Zenefits really did refuse to work with ADP to implement a real integration, I don't have much sympathy for Zenefits. They have enough funding they should be able to do things the right way now. I think Zenefits is trying to solve a real problem for small businesses, but we chose not to use them because the cost and the service level didn't make up for their nicer UI.
How much ballpark does a Cisco TelePresence MX cost?
Have you checked out Zurb's responsive email template? It might be something that you're looking for. -- http://zurb.com/playground/responsive-email-templates
I resent the fact that so many people here are calling this BURNOUT.

Can you not fathom the idea that Eevee simply saw and accepted the truth: that the job at Yelp was not personally meaningful?
As a tip: if you are building a specific project, and are looking for a large number X of a specific shape of brick, odds are there is an employee there who knows the best way to to pack the cups to get the most brick for your buck. The "shovel it in and pack it down approach" isn't always the best way, especially for oblong pieces. I recall that the best way to pack your average 2x4 brick was to arrange them in two layers in concentric circles, standing up on their tall axis. Also, counter intuitively, at the store that I went to, it was better to buy two smaller containers of 2x4s than one bigger container at the price points they had at the time.
Actual paper: https://securelist.com/files/2015/06/The_Mystery_of_Duqu_2_0...
Agreed. Learned that the hard way. I have since updated the app with an exclusion specifically for explorer.exe. Later I'll scan the registry and find what the user's shell is, just to cover the rare case that the user has a custom shell.
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I don't need to have certain words drilled into me because I've known them for over a decade. I also know what words come easily and immediately when I am trying to speak and thus are drilled into me by constant use.

The two other spaced repetition tools I use (which I mentioned) allow me to specify how well I know the answer and use when I have a high level of confidence in my knowledge, the words will come less frequently.

(edit: added second paragraph)
I am not questioning his nationality, I just asked about his ethnicity. I am an Iranian national from Azari (Turkic) ethnicity. We are not exactly a minority either. By some estimates more than 20 million Iranians are Azeri. [1]

Fun Political Fact: The current supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and the currently incarcerated leader of the opposition (he was arrested after 2009 elections), Mir-Hossein Mousavi, are both Azeri. I just wanted to point out that Azeris are by and large Iranian. We share most culture and costums, but we have a different language and cuisine.

Fun Historical Fact: Azerbaijan and Iran have historically been the same country. Safavid [2] and Qajar [3] dynasties which collectively ruled Iran for ~400 years were Azeri. It was less than 200 years ago that Iran lost half of Azerbaijan to Russia in a war [4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnicities_in_Iran

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safavid_dynasty

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qajar_dynasty

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Turkmenchay
What happened to my LEGO? This is a question I ask myself from time to time... and kick myself (a little) because I know part of that answer. I'm the youngest of 3 and all the various LEGO trickled down to me. My brother and I were big into the space themed sets. We had a bunch of those base boards in grey with moon craters and what not. When I left for college I had amassed a large suitcase full of bricks. One of my best friends in HS had a significantly younger brother that was the coolest little kid I knew. I gave him my suitcase. He was so happy. I think I quadrupled his collection. It felt good then and it still feels good now when I think of how happy little Elwood was. But now as an adult with kids of my own, I kick myself a little bit for not seeing the future. What I would give to go back and tell 18yr old me to hang on to those sets. Even back then I probably had at least $1k worth. Today that suitcase would probably be worth several thousand. But most of all, I would love to be sitting on the floor with my boys, building (non Star Wars themed) space ships with the same bricks I used 30 years ago.
Not if I'm wearing my urban sombrero!
Is this really burnout? I feel like I've been burned out before but from what the author was saying, this doesn't seem like it. If anything it just seems like he has a lot of other things he wants to do and work prevents him pursuing them which made him unhappy.

Of course, he still tried to pursue them in his spare time but then he just didn't have enough time to do them as much or as well as he wanted.

Is this really burnout though? I ask because I relate to much of this situation, but I actually love my job, my company, and my coworkers. It's very interesting and I am very happy working. I just wish there were more time because there are still other things I would like to work on and I'm only getting older.
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The language itself is verbose.
Instead of overloading operators, for instance, the convention is to have longer method names.