skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah both these things are true. A lot of comments in this thread are about how an expectation of fairness at the party level is too much to ask for, and that's fine, but fraud and voter suppression are a whole different level. If it's happening here it's going to happen in the general election too.

Waxing political I wonder if Trump will be able to build an infrastructure to hack/disenfranchise as many people as Clinton will since he's not as firmly inserted into the political machine. In other words elections of the future won't be settled by how many votes a candidate wins but by how many votes a candidate steals. Gives a whole new meaning to "Candidate A has locked in the [insert demographic here] vote."
> but I am perfectly capable of reading up on stuff and relearning it

How do you prove this to a potential employer though? Also, it should be possible to read up on algorithms for the interview.correct?.
Can you explain this more? It doesn't make any sense to me.

Note, I am aware of the use of trigger as in "trigger warning" for potentially disturbing content. Even with that context I'm lost. Did you mean "literal" literally?
A new, independent review of the Orion spacecraft is pretty damning
This isn't a repost, it's a blog post by Ayende in response to yesterday's article.

I thought it worthy of posting since Ayende heads up RavenDB and knows a thing or two about databases and their low level implentation
Smell of a storm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor
Anaplan (for SAP to acquire)
UpLabs (YC W16) Is Hiring for a Content and Community Lead in Europe
Taxes are also percentage based, and progressive at that. Your effective tax rate at $120k is quite a bit higher than at $60k, so you won't be saving double in that scenario because more of it will be going to taxes. Also, the percentage increase of 401k contributions etc. is very easy to calculate out to a dollar value, I recommend everyone do that when comparing salaries(though you have to remember not to consider taxes for those).

I find the idea of overall expenses only doubling for a family moving from OK or MI to a place like Seattle somewhat silly. The vast majority of household budget's largest expense by far is housing. If they want to downgrade their standard of living from a 3-4 br 2000+sq feet house, then maybe it will only double. Otherwise it could easily triple or quadruple, as the original article discusses and evidence for is easily found. Salaries are not 3-4x larger in high CoL areas generally. The difference is pretty stark even starting from an area like Metro DC/Baltimore that isn't exactly known for being cheap, but nowhere near SF, Seattle, NYC or Boston levels.
A lot of gmane is not archived on archive.org :/ Really hope someone volunteers to continue this project.
I doubt the business policy is that you can't take partners out for meals and/or invest in relationship building via meals and entertainment expenditures. Nor is the policy likely that you cannot participate in such activities when offered by the partner.

The key is that you should not exchange company resources for what may be perceived as or actually be personal benefit. Outside a contractual term, set up a quarterly dinner to strategize, synchronize, assess, etc where the vendor pays? Sure! But, explicitly concede a material business term in a contract in direct exchange for a term that personally enriches you? No!
I can think of few things more unbearable than dinner with a vendor.

But the real question is, who is so bad at negotiation that the two sides dig in on a silly issue like this? If anything, this is a sign the deal should be dropped.

> For some reason, neither side was willing to budge on this small detail. We wouldn’t pay; they wouldn’t pay; and no one was willing to split the difference
Kickstarter Announces Singapore and Hong Kong Launch
> also things like how color shift when white fades out (it's about different color sensitivity curves in real film)

This is my favorite detail - very subtle and authentic looking. I was hoping someone could explain it, thanks for the pointer.
Oh that is great, robots hiring staff.
Amsterdam commuters are playing a super low-tech Augmented Reality game
On the topic of Marc, i have found that its not as reliable about tracking threads.
If on Windows, install Unchecky https://unchecky.com/

It unselects everything by default...
But not every dev working at Amazon works on the search engine, or anything super challenging (from a CS standpoint).
I skimmed the beginning and end of 95 page report, but its recommendations were pretty good:

1) Exclusive use of hand-counted paper ballots in all future US elections.

2) Automatic voter registration, with same-day party affiliation switching as a mandatory condition for all elections that are publicly funded.

3) Restoration of voting rights legislation which would ensure adequate access to polling sites.

So it's cool: no jail time for anybody, just better preventative measures.
> Wish Thier would represent him and kick a hole in Getty!

The photographer is a female, and the person you named spells his last name Thiel.
This is a really thoughtful article* and I plan to read the book ("Hillbilly Elegy") discussed.

*Despite the URL, it's not kneejerk anything. Ignore the comments at the end as usual though...
We were asked by our board to move our accounting system to the cloud in 2015. We were using in-house Great Plains at that time. When I did my research MS's Dynamics "cloud" options were simply off-site hosting, you still ran their client instead of accessing it via a browser.

They had something in the works and this was about a year ago so I don't know if anything's changed since then. But I do remember the company that helped us manage our MS licensed software suggesting that their true cloud offering wouldn't be ready for quite a while.

In the end we went with NetSuite. Just like most software it's good at some things, not so much at others. But all in all I don't miss Great Plains that much, NetSuite does the job.
Or instead, just have a crowdsourced list of dark pattern sites, so that when you first load them, you know right away that it has some sort of dark pattern and can stay aware.
"She welcomes people to live there in a very healthy and free lifestyle as long as you dont step out of your bounds."

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic with that statement...

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/series/modern...
Negligence is a stand-alone tort/cause of action in civil litigation, as well as a qualifier for intention-based infractions in criminal law. The two meanings to the term are connected, but do not overlap 1:1.

The poster above you is correct as to the test for negligence in civil causes of action.

The likely cause of this mix-up is that false-licensing touches upon the law of misrepresentation, which contains as a subset, rules for both fraudulent misrepresentation as well as negligent misrepresentation.
Several decades of African aid has demonstrated that is a lot easier said than done.
[ignore: Didn't they get an offer from Microsoft a few years ago for 125B or something?]

I think what makes it a huge failure is that 5B is basically what they spent just to acquire one company.

Edit: Based on the replies the first part of my comment is inaccurate.
I was curious as to why the two numbers differed so much. A lot of it seems to be deprecation charges on servers and networking gear.
This offers an opportunity - a browser plug-in that brings up a warning whenever a known page with a dark pattern is accessed. That would be a useful feature to add to an ad-blocker.

I've been thinking of writing a simple add-on just to get rid of that annoying "Get to Google Faster" box Google puts on every search result if Google isn't your default search engine. (Google is my default search engine, but because I have their tracking blocked, their web site doesn't know this.)

Companies that do this sort of crap may not win much by it in the long run. One of the reasons for Amazon's success is easy order cancellation. That's what makes one-click ordering work. Their innovation was not that you can order with one click; it's that you can easily undo a one-click order. That makes it a safe feature for consumers. Most businesses still don't get this.
Only YouTube was acquired (Android and Maps were too, but not really). YouTube does OK, the rest not so much. Just because they are popular doesn't mean they are profitable. And they are most definitely not independent.

On the other hand, Waze, Orkut, Nest. They spent billions on those and all they got was a lousy t-shirt.
World's Deepest Blue Hole Found in South China Sea
HENkaku: Vita homebrew for everyone
It's an SMS, not a formal email to a client.
She was consoled with ~$200M for not having had a chance.
I like it. Where's the inflection? TYPOR-NOGRAPHY?
Q&A with Jack Dorsey
Maybe this is the origin of the prohibition of male American Marines from carrying umbrellas. I always wondered why the accessory was permitted for female Marines, but not for males.

That said, the trench coat (All-Weather Coat, Pewter Gray) is very water repellant. And Marines in utilities can wear the Gore-tex or poncho.
There was the timezone thing a few years back, but I think that was resolved, according to some definition of resolved. But that wasn't about lack of support, more a legal attack on the maintainer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#History
Defend me maybe
I may get downvoted for saying this since it's not fashionable to say things like this but I will anyway:

When a company is going down, the type of people you need is people who are enthusiastic and team players. The last type of people you need are competent yet not so much of a team player. It's because:

1. Pampering these people will only result in lowering rest of the team's morale.
2. When a company is going down, a 10x or 100x or even 1000x developer (whatever that means) won't be able to save the company alone.

In a sense I think she was trying to filter out people who were not "all-in", because that's what it takes for a sinking ship to have even 1% chance of coming back up.
Success would have been growing revenues, instead of watching them decline.

Success would have been at least one really successful mobile app.

Success would have been not selling Yahoo....
You could change the color of your login prompt as a visual indicator.
The whole point is that Amazon DOES work on search engines, and systems of a kind of scale matched by less than a dozen other companies and requires in depth understanding of algorithms, data structures, and distributed design.
Network-wide blocking for ads, malware and other privacy/security impediments
Hocus pocus.

>"Ordinary Display Advertising Performance:
Estimated percent successful 1%"

>"Estimated Adlove Performance:
Estimated percent successful 50 %"

Do you have ANY success metrics to back up this claim?
I wanted to comment, but what is there to say? Anyone here can figure out themselves that this is shit. It's not like there's a question about it. And it's neither terribly surprising that Microsoft would do this.

I mean, maybe it's surprising for the Microsoft fanboys who adamantly defended Microsoft, because you could turn off Cortana, but they'll avoid a discussion about such a change anyways.
All because they decided that was easier than simply treating their employees like human beings.
I'd rather be homeless and broke in a sunny third world country than ever visit Seattle again. So what?
Also worth looking at is Google's Certificate Transparency project [0], [1].

Certificate Transparency makes it possible to detect SSL
certificates that have been mistakenly issued by a certificate
authority or maliciously acquired from an otherwise
unimpeachable certificate authority. It also makes it possible
to identify certificate authorities that have gone rogue and
are maliciously issuing certificates.

Certificate Transparency Lookup Tool [2].

[0] https://www.certificate-transparency.org/

[1] https://github.com/google/certificate-transparency

[2] https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/https/ct/
Services should be as easy to cancel as they are to sign up for! Too bad that's the exception rather than the norm.

I consider myself a savvy shopper. I pay attention to every single charge, I read the fine print, I keep spreadsheets for "cancel dates" but even I've been burned before. I apparently signed up for auto renewal with magazines.com. They at least emailed me before renewing but I had to call to cancel that and I was on hold for a while. Wouldn't have signed up if I knew there was that annoyance to deal with.
Don't get a chair, get a standing desk. Has worked wonders for my back the last two years. I do have a bar-stool that I use at times.
I tend to agree. But why don't people want to strap something to their face? Is it the physical discomfort of the straps and the weight of the headset? That can be incrementally improved.

Is it the way the display cuts them off from the outside world? Some degree of immersion is desired -- people sit in dark theaters to watch movies -- but maybe VR is too much. I think it's fitting that Facebook/Zuckerberg thinks VR is the future of social networking. A "social" product that makes you feel more isolated.
Show HN: Control your MacBook lights using Swift
Looking at the actual legal filing[0] it seems that the relevant section is 35:

35. Since approximately 1988, Ms. Highsmith has made her photographs available to
the public for free through the U.S. Library of Congress, thereby exercising her exclusive rights
under 17 U.S.C. § 106 to distribute copies of her copyrighted work to the public by sale or other
transfer of ownership, and to authorize others to do so

Now looking at what 17 U.S.C. § 106 says[1], it appears that they are claiming that she did not transfer her copyright over to the Library of Congress to put the works in the public domain, but merely provided the library of congress with the right to distribute copies of the work to the public.

(Not a lawyer).

[0] http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/106
Visualization: Central Park Shadowing from Supertall Skyscrapers
From a non-insider perspective, it certainly looks as if MM accomplished the mission. Stock price went up, and she locked it in with a well-timed sale. Her compensation package appears to have been designed to produce exactly this outcome. It's not Steve Jobs' return to Apple. But she did help the investors salvage a respectable outcome.
I did notice that the most common 'trick question' is a setup where "accept our emails" and "accept third-party emails" have opposite checkbox behavior, and it's the same behavior system in every example. My first thought was that it's probably a quirk in some shared service/template, or else regulatory weirdness. Hanlon's Razor and all that.

But the claim that no one is intentionally annoying/scamming customers is a bit of a joke. Good businesses don't, and mistakes happen, but a lot of the entries on that site are obviously, consistently screwing their customers (RyanAir, anyone?) There are, in fact, entire businesses that exist to screw unsuspecting customers with rollover billing, data sales, and opt-outs. Among other things, if you're extracting value from customers once each and they don't know your company name, there isn't any consequence to mistreating them.

Broadly, I see three things on that site. There are failures of design and constraint, but there are also dark patterns (where you're basically sincere, but manipulating people with things like opt-outs), and a fair amount of straight-up abuse (where you have victims instead of customers).
Don't use Nodemon, there are better ways!
> unlike HN, I've never seriously considered joining a mega-corporation

Isn't the startup deified on HN more than any other type of company? Of course there are all kinds on here; it seems strange to stereotype HN posters that way.
No, that's noise, that's "so close to 50-50", it's ridiculous that we're even talking about it.

Even if most of the voters give their best effort to think this through, for a lot of them that wasn't much, other than what UKIP barfed into the air and into their minds. Now a lot of them are having second thoughts.
Yes- it's important to stay human while thousands of employees get laid off and the CEO makes a few hundred million for the valiant effort of letting good employees go
> Couldn't Lars do that himself? The plastering it all in ads, I mean

Perhaps he doesn't think the money is worth the admin time involved. He's still have to deal with take down requests and DoS attacks, and also have to deal with advertising companies too on top.

He may also prefer not to see his creation go that way under his watch.

I would suggest a better option would be to throw the content of the disk at a public hosting service if any of those who offer free hosting for public data sets would be relevant, or alternately put it out as a torrent until the content is sufficiently well distributed. I'd be happy to throw a chunk of bandwidth at the initial seeding effort as I'm sure would others.

> the age of online altruism is dead (re: plastering it all in ads)

Just because it is difficult to maintain the old ways, doesn't mean all us old timers are willing to take part in propagating the new ones that we don't like!

> I wouldn't know, I adblock

An example of your "online altruism is dead" fact. "You can pay for it with ads (that I personally won't see so don't expect me to contribute)". As more and more people block ads you have to get more and more crafty to make money out of them which makes the whole business just that little bit more shady with each passing day. As per my first two points I can certainly understand him not wanting to go in that direction, as I'd never volunteer for it myself.
With your standard ERP software, after you buy the software, it's yours.

Any company that uses an ERP system is pretty much forced to upgrade regularly to keep in compliance. And every ERP system I've ever used or evaluated charged by the user.

When we used Great Plains, sure it was ours. But the price was based on the license count. Then after 1-3 years support would end and we'd have to upgrade. Oh, we could have decided not to upgrade. But then our owner's auditors would come along and give us bad grades for using an unsupported system. We'd be out of compliance with our lenders. And we just sell stuff, we don't have to worry about HIPAA or ISO standards or any other compliance issues that some companies deal with.

So we subscribed to the support plan, paid yearly and were entitled to all upgrades as they came out + some limited support from MS (which we never used).

Now we are on NetSuite and we pay annually, just like we did before. Except now upgrades are handled for us and I don't have to purchase a new server every 3-5 years.
As a tech guy turned lawyer turned tech guy, I loved this. It's a really creative solution to mitigate hurt feelings over contract terms.

Yeah it's a small term when conceding a big one, but it goes beyond dollars to something that's really important to smaller companies building relationships. I wouldn't expect to see it at a Fortune 500, but I don't have a problem with it at a smaller company.

* Disclaimer: I'm not your lawyer, this is not legal advice, I reserve the right to be a dog masquerading as a lawyer online.

EDIT: I've read some of the other comments and I don't think I love it - I still like it though. I'm just not in love with it :)
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_wave
Build and run your Nim files with a Docker container
Spring Framework 5.0M1 Begins Reactive Era for Spring Framework
Sorry, Elizabeth Warren, Women Already Have Equal Pay
Rule number one: if you don't understand a claim, don't repeat it. Nobody benefits.
> I can't imagine how to solve that without a total change of copyright laws

Wouldn't prosecution for fraud be enough?
There is something to be said about this dinner being a part of the contract which makes it impossible for the vendor to weasel out of it. Not sure what's so special about this particular vendor, but a guaranteed recurring facetime with an important partner seems worth a few thousand bucks paid in fees.
This explains the seemingly easy path Theresa May had to becoming Prime Minister following the Brexit vote.
A NNTP service could definitely still work, but it would have to be a lot more locked down. I really hate that the alternative is web forums which are always stuck with a small fraction of the functionality of any good news reader and get bogged down easily if they get popular and never have a good search feature.
> I think he had a similar case to mine where he felt he was stuck in a situation with his manager(s) and felt like he had no recourse.

Still no excuse to take down 90% of a company's connectivity.
You must never used Apple products then.

Have fun with your antivirus, and call me when Windows finally has DPI figured out, or when I can receive and make calls with my tablet or laptop, and send files via wifi even when there's no wifi network, or have PIP for videos or have 10 hours battery life, but in the real world.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12181468
https://ctadvisor.lolware.net does about the same.
No. The $125b was the valuation during the 1990s.
Microsoft offered way less - $44b.
It is not unreasonable to me that a preview build would not allow the disabling of telemetry regarding important OS features.

It's not clear whether PC World is describing the behavior of a preview build or not.

Microsoft's customer base includes defense contractors, militaries, governments, and other security conscious organizations. I would not be surprised if the commercial version provided more control.
I would argue that it's a dark pattern if that's the only way past the form.

A lot of sites using that technique also let you click an X button or click the darkened non-form area to continue. If that's supported, I always choose it as a tiny protest (in hopes that someone actually profiles how click-outs are happening).

If you make users click something obnoxious and self-deprecating to continue, then I'd certainly call that a dark pattern. It's like an incredibly mild version of the cult tactic where you shame people for skepticism.
Neither side was willing to shoulder the fees. Eventually one side did, but threw this in to mitigate any ill feelings as a result of the negotiation and contract terms. This isn't instead of a fee split, this is Hootsuite blinking first but throwing in an additional term meant to be fun and healthy to the relationship. A $450 dinner every $100k in revenue is de minimis (or whatever is below that, I slept through law school latin) and to me was a great solution to the relationship aspect.

This is neither a business courtesy nor a kickback. It's a negotiated term in the contract.
> They've never been found of having to put stuff on their faces.

Obvious counterexamples are eye glasses and sunglasses. There is some tradeoff between utility and discomfort where it becomes viable, but it's not clear whether the technology can get there in 5-10 years.
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I believe what you actually need is to hire 2-3 teams of 10x developers/artists including a few visionaires and let them figure out projects that might one day become cash cows keeping company afloat (and give them massive stake in success). You need to both expose them to problems of the company so that they feel pressure as well as completely isolate them from toxic culture that brought down your company, so that they can give an all-out effort.

Imagine if that lone guy at Microsoft didn't figure out trick with 286 protected mode that allowed Windows to survive and wasn't heard by top management - we would all be running OS/2 10 now.