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Alright, I'm burnt out and I don't want to think about work for a few mins, so: I tire of the logic such as "well...what IF... someone ...did that intentionally!" Then people think…

- Not you personally. I have experience with HN comments. Just covering my bases. - No, it's not the case here. Unless you can prove it. There's no evidence it was done intentional…

No. A backdoor is considered to be deliberate and obfuscated from easy discovery, with the intent to be secret access. If every system flaw or coding bug is a backdoor, then defect…

It may not be that hard. Mormons believe jesus is coming again and will arrive at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam-ondi-Ahman . Some people have been buying land there for this r…

OP isn't clueless, just pointing out the obvious.

MaxPoint Interactive | Austin, TX and Morrisville, NC | Full-time | On Site MaxPoint Interactive has multiple positions open for Data Science, Software Engineering and Project Mana…

One less dependency is not a bad thing.

Download Fare and keep your eye on RideAustin when you return. Fare is doing great, plenty of cars out and no surge.

Arcade City has worked really well via the FB group. You post a ride request, multiple drivers respond. Many link their uber/lyft profiles. Then the client chooses their driver (bi…

Some data scientists I work with prefer Julia or Erlang, but the real interest is now Spark. Since Scala works with Spark and is more of a datsci's type of language (similar to Jul…

YES! to both parents here. Type erasure is a bitch. Need to pass in a class type, but it's of a list? List list = new ArrayList (); yourfunc(list.getClass()); C# got all this junk …

Think you missed the sarcasm.

I just want uber and lyft back. The alternatives are awful. My friends have changed their weekend habits. I tried GetMe but it really sucks. Even the drivers were complaining the s…

Orphan Black neolution territory. Other actors will do it. Scientists who want to do it will find a place where they can.

While the US debates such efforts in fear what could happen, other nations who don't see it as a problem will do this. It has always been a matter of time.

Like standardized testing, interviewing is a bullshit measure of what you really know. Like standardized testing, the way to win is to get good at taking the tests. Even if you dis…

I heard it as a mormon growing up.

Living to be 1000 sounds great until you realize some of the awful people in this world would be right there with you..forever.

I've worked at places where they set any pcs on the domain to accept their ssl cert. Then they mitm all your https traffic and scan everything. That would include banking, gmail, e…

Lyft caps its surge at 200% or 2x, while Uber intentionally goes to 8-10x on busy nights. The outrage at uber over insane fares has a history far beyond this past New Year's Eve. P…

V2's deep nesting recently caused trouble for us at work. We had errors where our node_modules folder was too long for Windows, due to the deep folder structure. Updating to v3 res…

If I could get off HN, yes.

What's the best way to prevent a mormon from drinking your beer? Bring another mormon.

Yes, because every system has flaws in it. Nothing is perfect and given enough time and resources an exploit will be found. Knowing that, if the team listens and fixes the issue, t…