skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pointing out the hypocrisy in government, how they crack down on illegal gambling because of its vice, yet exploit the poor with State endorsed gambling.

What are the alternatives? I'm sure they enjoy it, but that's part of addiction -- not being able to delay pleasure in the present for future rewards. They could save their money, buy new clothes, get some dental work done, etc. I'm not saying we force them or that we should deny people ostensibly-wasteful pleasures--a drink is fine every now and then, but when someone goes over the edge into full-blown alcoholism, I think society should extend a helping hand.
The Journey from Side Project to Open Source Company: Taking the First Step
Pay per use does work reasonably for movies and music. Arguably those aren't really micropayments though. And all you can eat subscriptions for most available content (in the case of music) and some available content (in the case of moviews & TV) is pretty popular as well.

True micropayments would be more like paying a nickel to read an article. All we can say is that this has been talked about for at least 15 years and it hasn't happened. [1] Some sort of subscription that pooled a bunch of sources might work. The ones I've seen around magazines aren't nearly comprehensive enough though.

[1] http://www.openp2p.com/lpt/a//p2p/2000/12/19/micropayments.h...
it would be an interesting math problem to try to create a model that could detect the bias
Ask HN: How do you deal with an ex-employer who is not writing a reference ltr?
Hi HNers,

I worked at a very large (100,000+ employees) corporation in California more than 5 years ago. I need an experience letter from that employer for my immigration process. The letter is supposed to document tasks performed and that I really was hired as a software developer and not as a janitor.

I contacted the manager there and he pointed me to HR. The HR then gave me a generic employment verification letter (which does not have job duties). They said that I should ask my manager for a letter with job duties and that they have no policy against writing such a letter.

When I contacted my manager again, he became unresponsive. No reply to emails or phone calls. He still works for the company and I had a friend check if he was logging into their IM system everyday.

Basically, he is screwing me and not writing me the letter. Very unprofessional.

Now, I really need the letter for my immigration process and they wouldn't accept any other proof of my employment there.

Does anybody know how I could ask for such a letter from that manager?

Thanks
I think that last question is really good, sniffing out bureaucracy is something I would focus highly on. As a developer it would be important to me to know what their environment provisioning is like. Maybe something like:

- I'm running a proof of concept for something that will exceed the limitations of my local machine. How would I get/walk me through the process of getting virtual space.
Thanks. I have found it to be a useful term for teams to describe getting unstuck. Glad you enjoyed!
Stickman+Ghost+Warrior+Para+Hile+Mod+Apk+İndir+-+Ferhat+Özal+-+Hile+Apk+İndir
My biggest complaint with GTKmm right now is the lack of composite widget support. It's actually nice to develop a GTK+ application in Vala because composite widgets kick ass and remove a huge pain point for just wanting to throw a window up without all the nasty GTK signal connection maddness. Once GTKmm gets that support I'll probably start using it more.
I agree in principle, but I feel that you have gone a step past the article. While the author did use the words "mental illness," I felt he was mostly talking about general mental well-being (i.e. how to avoid needing the doctor). To extend your analogy, you don't need to go to the doctor to eat well and exercise. You are correct, however, that a person should seek help if something does break. Further, for some people, it might be beneficial to seek assistance (such as therapy) before things break. To finish murdering the analogy, a nutritionist or personal trainer is probably not necessary to eat well or exercise, but they may be extremely valuable to some people.
Founderdocs: Lawyer approved shareholders’ agreements tailored in 20 minutes
like this? https://clyp.it/
Ormandy finds bugs in Trend Micro
Google Used Tiny Cameras to Street View the World’s Largest Model Railway
Zillow Names Hottest Housing Markets for 2016
Josh Marshall's take is worth reading:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/chainsaw-chris

Sample:

"As someone who has had to run a media operation at at least break-even levels for many years, I don't buy the idea that The New Republic had to run at a loss forever. But a lot of this is a matter of executive/owner priorities. It's been owned and run by people who had the luxury of sustaining some annual loss. The key is that The New Republic, as anything like what it's been for a century, was never going to be a profit-making operation, certainly not a vertically integrated media cineplex or whatever they were trying to make it."
UX problems, coding solutions for Slack chatbots
Should I post this again with a link so it ends up in the news or not?
Sounds like the girls are getting too much attention, and so are passively enjoying swatting flies more than enjoying the hunt for a match.

Actually answering questions takes a lot of effort when you're responding to 25 people in parallel. That you're even getting /any/ response is a testament to you, given that you're 41 and yet not looking for a "mom".

Anyway... As someone else suggested, it sounds like you need to get these girls out of the email-back-n-forth as fast as possible. e.g. "Hi, I see we have X in common. Want to meet up tomorrow for lunch?"
If that were true then the whole thing falls apart as soon as the first proposal is made. They all have to trust that A will follow through with the proposal, of which they apparently do not.

But yes, I glossed over that part apparently.
>I particularly don't like being forced to sign in to what should be an offline piece of software.

With JetBrains moving to a subscription model for their software won't you end up with the same problem?
> Yet the consensus seems to be the the millions of people buying lotto tickets are all rubes, but the folks flouting the law and running bookmaking operations on the internet are disrupting staid government regulation?

Structurally, this seems similar to thinking that drugs should be legal, but taking drugs is silly.
This seems as good a place as any for a HN model railroader roll call.
There's a difference between - "I am paying you with ACH routing and account information" and "The payment platform exposes, to the app, my account balances". A huge difference.
Show HN: I made a pay-what-you-want ACH Payments platform for freelancers
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A... will work better, I suppose.
Yes, I admit I missed that part from another response. But, as I said there, if there's no trust at all then how does any of it make any sense to begin with?
Misogynistic bullshit women put up with in tech
Anyone who has undergone a gauntlet of "cargo cult" style technical interviews knows full well that these "tricks" arent a dying art - they sometimes determine eligibility for a job.
Brutal honesty is highly underrated in online dating, but you have to be confident about it. Women (and men for that matter) can smell desperation from 3000 miles away over a 56k modem. Sounds like you've figured it out :).
> if I read correctly their blog

It looks like you didn't. Qt is still available under LGPL. Both the blog post itself and the top comment here (which is also the thread you responded to) spell that out.
Runs on the latest Internet Explorer, Safari, Mozilla or Chrome. iPhone is not fully supported.

This version stores user data in the browser's local storage. The final version will have a server component so you can share data across multiple devices.
Why post this when you can't even try it. What is the point?
I will check this out when I am at home not blocked by my company firewall.
Using Intel DAAL to Streamline Big-Data Processing
OK, but what about email read/composed on my personal gmail account using a work computer? When you say "personal email" do you mean @company.com email-- or do you mean _any_ personal email as long as it is read/composed on a company machine?

Is it safe to assume that the only way that that (or any https content) can be captured is by keylogging or some kind of desktop capture?
Why Women Aren’t Buying Smartwatches
Being on Amazon in Canada may not help you depending on the outcome of this: http://europe.newsweek.com/does-us-warrant-apply-data-stored... (as mentioned by @axelfontaine below)

And the requirements pertaining to Canadian data actually staying in Canada are largely overblown: http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2011/04/cloud-computing-and-pri...
I've tried all of JetBrains tools over and over throughout the years since I keep hearing about how much some people like their stuff - but every single time I am disappointed at how over-engineered everything they do seems to be. Furthermore, their cross platform tools like IntelliJ IDEA always wreak of badly emulated native components that don't look or behave the way that they should on any OS.

So for me - Visual Studio 2015 is the best tool I've ever used for HTML/CSS/JS (and Node.js and C#). It simply outshines everything else I've tried. I guess if I was forced to use an OS X or Linux desktop, I'd resign myself to using JetBrains tools because they probably are the best thing you can find outside of Windows...but as someone who prefers Windows and who wants native Windows apps that behave idiomatically instead of just fulfilling the lowest common denominator - VS can't be beat IMO.
ÉU-nord-1 (the US is États-Unis)! But I hope it would be ca-.
Micropayments are locally good for you, but might have a global effect of making news providers chase just the things that people will provide the micropayments for, creating another variant on the "Buzzfeed" problem, just with a different focus.

Although, to be honest, I'm not sure how to fix that problem. Trying to create a system that provides news people need instead of news people want is a fundamentally hard problem when those two things don't overlap.
Ask HN: What should you do if you are being harassed by HR?
This is really horrible and should get more attention.

For those who don't want to go through the whole thread, here is just a few I have picked out.

"Credit going to the men surrounding a project
instead of the woman spearheading it."

"Conversely, giving a woman all the credit when
someone needs to take the fall for a mistake."

"when requesting a promotion & using a male counterpart
as an example, was told "oh don't worry about him""

"presentations and research I compiled literally
stolen and presented c level without notifying me"

"being told to take notes in a meeting that was about
my team’s project, for which I was the lead developer."

"being made to do marketing when i was hired as the
senior software dev & project manager"

"no matter what, I am always taken as someone who has
just signed up on Codecademy. Even at conferences
where I am a speaker."

"being asked at meet ups if I am lost, if I'm /really/
there for the meet up. Even when I'm the speaker for the
night."
San Francisco Standup Comedy Show about Startups
Autonomous Driving on Snow-Covered Roads
Ask HN: Modern web sites that deviate from the standard “bootstrap” template
Just curious to see any great examples of modern web sites that deviate well (are still beautiful and usable) from the standard issue "bootstrap" style.

Note that whether or not the site uses bootstrap is irrelevant. This relates to style, not tooling.
It's not meant to teach you about people or pirates; it's a simplified tool used to teach concepts and methods of thinking.

Much like a two-body system is useful for explaining gravity, even though there's virtually no place in the real world where that particular example would be useful.
> Yeah you "explore stuff" in any field.

And you do experiments in many fields!

"An experiment is a procedure carried out to verify, refute, or establish the validity of a hypothesis. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a particular factor is manipulated. Experiments vary greatly in goal and scale, but always rely on repeatable procedure and logical analysis of the results."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiment

Particularly debugging, if you aren't completely random, usually takes on the form of repeated experiments.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DebuggingAndTheScientificMethod

I have done a lot of performance work in my career, and there you run experiments almost continuously. At least you do if you actually want to have an effect. Admittedly, many people try to optimize without running experiments. That tends to not be very effective.

And yes, computer systems are easily sufficiently complex that reasoning it out ahead of time without running the experiment tends to be completely futile except for the most trivial arrangements. In fact, even in some situations that seem completely trivial.

> I am going to buy milk -- it's an experiment to see what happens.

If you have a hypothesis and you're trying to find out if it is true or not, sure, that can be an experiment. Usually it probably won't be.

> I am drinking coffee in the morning, it's an experiment to see if it will still keep me awake.

That certainly can be an experiment, for example if you vary the amount of coffee to see how much of will be keep you awake. Though it seems unlikely that you will be isolating the variables sufficiently. With computers, isolating the variables is often a lot simpler.

> By that token we've diluted the word science to not really mean anything anymore.

Going with your straw-men: probably.
Perhaps this sound silly, but just a check:

Is he going to give money to you, or are you going to give money to him?

(For this calculation, don't count the money that he or his partners will give back in just a few month.)
Data structure nothing to do with language , you can implement all of them in any Turing complete language. My point was when you do use Qt , actually you are using specific version of C++ not ISO C++. And being preprocessor, does not change that fact.
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Generally the law in the US agrees with the corporate fascists' view because it's written by them.
The same group runs many other lottery games besides Powerball.
Why you should care about generative text
If it's anything like the other regions they will be building DCs scattered around the Montreal metro, not necessarily on the island.
Wait, what the fuck? Is this for real?

Here's the sample code cloudflare posted:

foo:~$ cat /usr/local/bin/pubkeygrab.sh
#!/bin/sh

USER=$1

/usr/sbin/unbound-host -v -D -t TXT ${USER}_pubkey.example.com \\
| /usr/bin/grep -v "no TXT record" \\
| /usr/bin/grep ' (secure)' \\
| /usr/bin/sed 's/.* "\(.*\)" (secure)/\1/'

They aren't actually doing any authentication besides DNSSEC , giving the people managing the TLD and your registrar root access to your server doesn't seem like such a good idea.

I seriously hope I'm missing something here, but with cloudflares security track record that seems pretty unlikely.

Edit: Made the mistake of assuming that grep was actually supposed to do something here, it doesn't actually do anything at all.
> I haven't seen any actual adaptivity in Inbox by Google. The interface is static, it's just different than ordinary GMail. Is there something I've missed?

If you turn on smart filters, it'll try to club promotions / payments / forums etc. smartly. It'd be right 90% time. But my threshold would be less than 1% failure.

If you open an email in Inbox, it'd recommend quick action replies like "Thanks, got it." or "Lets meet" etc.. It was on spot a lot of times, but I always wanted to add something more to the message and that's why I didn't use them.

> This is something I'd actually pay to use. Hell, long long time ago I backed a project for an Android tablet homescreen that was supposed to rearrange visible widgets depending on your location and time of day

I used One Plus2 briefly which had an area for smart apps. Since I could never predict what would be there, I never used it. I went there a few times to see if it would shorten time to action.

iOS has a recommended app at bottom left of lock screen. I use it purely as discovery. I've never found acceptable hit ratio of recommended app in my situational context and now I've blindness to that particular place.

If Knowmail guys are reading this, I'm not trying to discourage the product. I think Smartness should be in "Search mode" and not "Action mode". Action mode is when I want quick decision making and less evaluation. Search mode is when I'm open for back to back snap evaluations and unsure of next steps. i.e. don't interrupt my natural patterns. Ofcourse, I'm just one data point.
It's the sign of having more videos of shorter length than having less videos of longer length.

Most basic HTML courses are around 20-25 parts. That does not mean HTML is rocket science, or a broken mess.
Deploying WordPress themes (or any set of files) with Git
Google Maps for Android’s new Driving Mode guesses where you want to go
I guess I was going with the notion that this wasn't a group of pirates that had no prior interaction.
Hell, in 2010 when I was still single I encountered this through text/IM and all that. Worse scenario is if you end up "dating" or there seems to be a budding interest in person, but online/SMS communication still goes like this followed by "why don't you ever talk to me?" I'm so glad I'm married now heh.
Some+Really+Rather+Interesting+Trivia+about+Alaska
I tried to make the tutorial very thorough so even someone who only understands the very very basics of Git could follow it. It may be a pretty verbose method, I'm not super advanced myself, but it took me a lot of Googling to figure it out, because nowhere did everyone have one full post on what I wanted to do.
I believe that ads are killing journalism. The focus is not on creating good content, but mainly create content that will be clickable and sharable. Unfortunately, in our world, there is no direct correlation between good and sharable content.
I'm definitely willing to subscribe to media outlets focused on informing and providing great content to their readers or do some micropayments, basically pay for the content I read and care about.
Enter the O: Hiroki Tsukuda’s first exhibition in the U.S
The interesting question for me is how long you will be able to do that. I can imagine a future where the "application only" laptops have hard crypto that prevents anyone from tampering with the OS. And the OS only allows installs from the "App Store" (generic). Think IOS meets Macbook meets UEFI++.

That will be the "sweet spot" for people who just use laptops as tools and are tired of being afraid of being hacked all the time. That will be the only kind of laptop many business people can get.

Because of that the marginal cost to make a laptop that can have some other OS loaded on to it will go up, and probably go up dramatically. I think it is fortunate that for now a laptop can last 5 years easily as its easier to shell out 3 - 5K for a laptop if you'll have it for 5 years than it is for something that won't.
Off-topic question:

Here's a past (yesterday's) submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10891465

Linked URLs are identical, so how did it pass the 'previously submitted' filter?
> Better not to work for such companies.

Don't work for a company that monitors it's own IT equipment?

Monitoring the equipment is to ensure it's working properly, as well as to guard against employees misusing company equipment by installing toolbars and apps that have no business purpose (which ultimately leads to mis-performing equipment, and lost productivity).

I don't think I'd want to work for a company like that - the IT equipment would be in shambles, borderline unusable.
X11 support. Would be apropos.
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I wasn't saying there was. Or at least, that wasn't what I was trying to say.

I hadn't read that book until the middle of last year, and I didn't learn anything new from it because I taught myself all those concepts over the years. It was, nonetheless, a good read. So, I wouldn't make that claim to begin with.

I just thought nickpsecurity had seen your reading list before is all. I see you two commenting on the same threads all the time.
I think flexbox is a great tool. I spent some time learning and using it, but I found it hard to remember the names of the different properties. I created http://flexbox.help as an easy way to remember and check their effects.
This might be interesting to you: https://woboq.com/blog/reflection-in-cpp-and-qt-moc.html
Apple just doesn't seem like they'd make an f150 competitor. Which like what half of USA Fords sales?
Maybe I haven't express myself clearly, but what nly said was exactly my point. Qt is famous for being opensource camp.
Only if you purchase a monthly subscription. If you buy a one year license, you get a perpetual license and you don't have to sign in when. The monthly based subscription require logging in every 30 days or so, but you can also key in the licensing offline with out signing in.
It's good that it doesn't require it, but it sounds like it would be nicer if the Guile build system offered the option of using a trusted build of the compiler to compile itself, if you have one lying around.
Personal == Yours.

Any forensic analysis of a PC/Laptop or look at proxy logs will show your connectivity to an personal email account. In a discovery scenario, all that needs to be done is to present a pattern where personal mail was used for business in the company. (I guarantee that is happening somewhere)

It's one of these scenarios where it isn't a problem, until it is
I'm sure ring can disable the doorbell remotely since you have to link the individual device to your account.
Yes, you can do that. In Nevada that's cheating and in New Jersey it isn't (but if they see you doing it they can make your life very difficult), but at that point you're operating outside the norms of the game so I didn't count it.
Part of it could be explained by how the lotteries are marketed. For example, in the south side of Chicago (not exactly known for its manicured lawns and gated communities) there was a billboard advertising the lottery: "Your ticket to easy street." As more anecdotal data, it has been my observation (without actually recording my finds in an organized manner) that one will see considerably more lottery advertisements in low-income neighborhoods than in more wealthy neighborhoods.

I'm not saying that advertising is the explanation, but I'd be surprised to find that it had no bearing at all. I also kind of wish that state governments would, well, cut it out.
Hahaha. Yeah, I parsed what I thought they intended to say rather than what they said. :(
VS2015 starts up in ~1 second for me even with all the options installed. If I open a solution with 10 C# projects in it, it takes about 3 seconds.

So is your complaint basically that it's just taking up too much hard drive space? I can't see how the other stuff (TFS Explorer Winforms/WPF designers) could possibly be getting in your way, especially since you don't ever have to open them.