skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
where there's an abundance of money, harboring people with just the right mindset to invest.

Right now it's the best time in the last 15 years in mainland China to seek VC.
Oh totally, I'm not disagreeing. I just think those regulations are there for a reason, and in our case the regulations have been wound back too far and now we have to adjust in the opposite direction.
Exactly. Most of the people who say "Oh its not that bad at Amazon" are white collared workers who are living in their bubble and don't know the hardships of different class of employees.
Have less children.
If Amazon had a good track record for people working only 40 hours a week, I might be less skeptical about this 30 hour week situation.

There are very few technical teams inside that seem to come even close to that, so I'm extremely doubtful that managers are going to be sufficiently disciplined to keep their staff down to 30 hours, nor employees sufficiently empowered either. It's so hard to see this as anything other than a way to pay people less for comparable work.
I'm just sharing my experience of what happens when you disclose bugs responsibly.

I'd be happy to share bug tickets with anyone who isn't on some silly chill hunting crusade, for sure, despite my trollish throwaway name.
That was one half of the reason. The other being that existing taxis are good enough.

A similar story is playing out in Hong Kong, even without the government cracking down as hard. There are some annoying taxi drivers, but for the most part, local taxis are cheap, fast and comfortable.
It really depends on the data you are scraping. My main business relies on scraping and my data mining application has been running for over 5 years. If you have enough IP addresses available to you, it becomes almost impossible to distinguish it from normal users hitting the site...and bandwidth has gotten so cheap, the overhead is very affordable.

I've noticed that most sites actually don't change that often. I deal with changes once or twice every 3 months.

"If you scrape for a living, only do it as a side job."

This is true if you are scraping the low hanging fruit. I scrape 40+ sources (I do have access to a few APIs as well) and then have to extract the patterns/data I need to then integrate it into my business model. This is all automatic now and I only work on upgrading for speed and efficiency.

If you have to scan millions of urls daily from 1 site, it's probably not going to work out. You need to figure out clever ways of getting the data and using it without breaking any laws or pissing off the site owner.
Timekeeping in VMware Virtual Machines [pdf] (2005)
No, it's just a different viewpoint.

If you don't have measurable inputs and outputs (i.e. Tickets, service requests, widgets, cases, etc), you typically lose productivity. Not necessarily because of the employee, but also because of managers who don't function well with out of sight people.

Personally, I think in many cases you'd get better outcomes out of sending people home at noon on Fridays than having them telework.
I really doubt DO would hire me. And any admin could look up what you said and disprove it. I'm not using any proxies or VPN.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3870088/a-monad-is-just-a...
Manned multicopters have already happened. [1] MIT has also demonstrated a variable pitch quadcopter. [2]

If they can use plasma laminar detachment and reattachment to somehow simulate a variable pitch propeller, while still getting some weight savings over a design with multiple swashplates, then yes I think it should help the quadcopter design scale up to larger propellers. That's a big if though, since to simulate a negative angle of attack I'm guessing your propeller design would have to be pretty inefficient with all plasma turned off.

I'm not entirely sure why you want this though, since the single large rotor is more efficient. There was a novel design a few years ago with one large rotor for lift and three smaller ones to counter torque and provide control. [3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L75ESD9PBOw

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy5Ky50eGJs

[3] http://www.geek.com/science/weve-been-designing-quadcopters-...
I think Uber's failure in Japan means the failures in Tokyo downtown and other large cities like Osaka. In those cities you don't have to wait much to pick the cars up. It's not the same like in SF. Discovering a niche market for Uber in Japanese large cities might be difficult.
That has only been my experience around swift. Have you used it for C++?
I'm living in Colombia as well, and the fear of the people is mostly about impunity not about becoming Venezuela 2.0. The USA gov doesn't fear another Venezuela, that's why they support this agreement.

The fear mongering as been done by a self-proclaimed enemy of the current president, the ex-president Alvaro Uribe. Wich has been involved in many paramilitary scandals but somehow he is still free (despite many of his close friends being not)

By the way deaths by war have been decreased in a 95% since the first agreements with FARC.
It's only marginally helpful: it doesn't actually prevent attackers from uploading code to your server.

Instead of having 'nc -l 8080 | bash' or whatever as your payload, an attacker can just run code instead. "pwd > /var/www/html/exfiltration.html". If they absolutely need a shell, they could e.g. alter nginx or its config files to run `bash` on POSTs to a hidden route.

This does make it a little trickier, and potentially a little easier to detect. But it certainly doesn't make it so that "they cannot download new code".
Oh no the climate is changing.

Nani?!

What do you mean it's never stopped changing in the entire history of the earth?
Yeah, if it wasn't obvious enough already, I used that number because it's the one in the headline of the article........
Agreed, it's not a bad idea for shared desktops.
The Union and Confederate armies both had around 200,000 soldiers each in 1861. That is a war on equal terms. FARC guerillas are about 17,000 now (about 5000 in 2010, before this 'peace process'). The colombian army is 500,000 plus 40 million regular citizens who despise FARC. The situation is quite different from US post-civil war reconstruction efforts.
It sounds like you're confusing what the author is describing with GNU "Change Logs" (https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs.htm...), which track every source file change and are indeed redundant with `git log` (or any other version control system record).

This is calling for more use of what GNU calls a "NEWS file" (https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/NEWS-File.html), which is what virtually everybody else means when they say "changelog". Per the page itself:

> Why can’t people just use a git log diff?

> Because log diffs are full of noise — by nature. They could not make a suitable change log even in a hypothetical project run by perfect humans who never make typos, never forget to commit new files, never miss any part of a refactoring. The purpose of a commit is to document one atomic step in the process by which the code evolves from one state to another. The purpose of a change log is to document the noteworthy differences between these states.

> As is the difference between good comments and the code itself, so is the difference between a change log and the commit log: one describes the why, the other the how.
lighten up :) the giant "Itsy Bitsy Data Structures" in itself was pretty light hearted.
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no I think even in that situation I still wouldn't call the cops. It still seems like an extreme and paranoid response to jump to "he's casing me, better call the cops" from someone wanting to borrow a ladder and not being able to give a reason.

I find it hard to believe that anyone goes about their daily lives with that level of paranoia towards every new person they meet. I think it's much more likely that it's because he's black. . . especially considering the background of negative race relations and stereotypes about black people and crime.
If this thesis holds true:

> The past several years has shown the social
> communities grow organically. But its hard to
> make users adopt one. If you build it, they probably
> won't come. It's easier for a big company to buy one
> up than start one from scratch. (Think Instagram
> versus Google Plus).

Then the best use of someone's time might be to start as many social networks as possible on the possibility that one of them develops enough community to go "big." At which point you sell it to the highest bidder. Sort of "community farming" on a meta level.
What did your mom say when you told her that?
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Sanjay was very clear that the "Pottery Barn Rule" is convenient and commonly understood shorthand for "You break it, you buy it" even though it isn't actually based on a policy of the store. So what? How possibly does using this coined term invalidate the rest of his good argument? It is a fantastic idea.
Puts things in perspective eh?

Not just with the political situation in the US, but in other maligned places like China (which has recently had conflicts with the Philippines over parts of the South China Sea) and Russia, which is blamed for every single societal ill these days it seems (Hillary seems to think Putin is the head of the 'alt-right' movement).
This plus stack-ranking means 60 hour workweeks. I worked at Amazon for several years, their culture may pretend to support this, but, like almost everything you read about Amazon, it's PR fluff. Never going to happen.

Simply only showing up in the office 30 hours a week would be enough to put your team on the bottom end of the stack.

Amazon is organized such that the politics are vicious and anything that can be used to put another team down (And thus elevate your team in the stack) will be used.

Managers like Bezos are proud of creating this toxic cult like culture because they rationalize it and are not interested in hearing about how they are screwing up.

A real example of this is Bezos claiming after the NYT article that if anyone saw abuse they should email him directly... and now the ex-amazon alumni group has grown by several people who did exactly that and were fired.

My boss was committing felonies on the PacMed grounds on a regular basis, drove %80 of his team to leave, and he still got promoted.

Because he was good at politics and BS (and terrible at actually getting product done, easily wasting %25 of our time with nonsense because he didn't understand how the system worked but wanted to "manage" (which really meant micro-manage.))

Felonies, I'm not kidding.
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Yes, especially for those jobs that already require 60-80 hour weeks (doctor, IB etc). We get paid well for our hours.
Scala is a really great OO language, enabling very useful statically typed mixin compositions that you won't find in any other language. Uunfortunately, the vocal side of the community is very much anti OOP, so you don't hear about them much, but it is still there.
Why Nearly Every Film Ends by Saying It’s Fiction
There was no 'stalemate'. FARC in 2010 were 5000 strong, taking heavy losses and on the run. Then came Santos, who obsessed over winning international recognition that has eluded him at home, legitimized FARC, gave them an international stage and set in motion a 6 year 'peace process' that has left FARC in congress and senate, with all their crimes whitewashed, and with our already weak justice system mortally wounded.
0F 1A and 0F 1B have recently become memory bound verification instructions, as part of MPX. So really, only 0F 1F is likely to be long-term safe to use as a multibyte NOP.

Likewise, after Pentium 4 REP NOP (F3 90) became PAUSE, the spinlock waiting hint instruction, so one needs to be careful about prefixes with the old NOP as well.
Except that Pegatron has many customers. Including the name Apple at all is pure clickbait.
How did you get your phones display on your desktop?
The fridge would block the ability of the microphone to pick up sounds, not block the cell tower signal
Show HN: Avoiding distractions with /etc/hosts
Last week I discovered slither.io, and it nearly ruined me. If you don't know what it is, turn around and continue about your day. However, if you've had the unfortunate luck of stumbling upon it, please read on... I've logged countless hours attaining leader board status to display my politically antagonizing username only to be killed by some punk name joey. The glow of dead snakes clouds my vision when I'm not playing this terribly terribly addicting game. My family looks at me with distain when they see me playing it. My work is suffering, my personal life non existent.

Today is the day I killed slither.io

According to toggl, it took me 2 hours and 17 minutes to do so (including this post). If you too suffer from an addition to slither.io or any other web based distraction (perhaps even hn?) my solution is available to you for the low low cost of the time it takes you to edit a txt file.

Open up /etc/hosts in your favorite text editor (vim of course) and add the following...

104.131.217.198 slither.io

Windows users (do they still exist?), you are on your own. Beside you probably need a good distraction to avoid bashing your computer with a hammer the next time that pleasant little paperclip tells you what to do.

Upon future visits to slither.io you will be greeted with a friendly reminder that you are not working. Your life will be saved.
The opinion of a lot of Phillipinos is that if they simply arrest them, the criminals will weasel out. Either via bribes or lawyers. Killing them on the spot "solves" that problem.

Considering he's doing exactly what he said he'd do, I'd say the people got what they asked for.

The policy I find even more interesting is where he tells the populace to take matters into their own hands and do the killings themselves. I think he said he'd pardon anyone that kills a drug dealer.
I am also Colombian and I would honestly recommend you and every other Colombian out there to read the peace terms before taking a stand. Either if you are voting yes or no. I know 297 pages sound like a lot, but the terms are written in an easy to follow language and are worth the reading.
Then you've been through their back end being compromised and customer details leaked several times. I'd been using them since about 2009ish and used them until earlier this year.
That and, having taken taxis in Japan... they're honestly very decent. Much better than the taxis I've taken elsewhere.

Partly because the roads are less congested, even in the heart of Tokyo, since so many take the train. I never found myself wishing I could take an Uber in Japan -- a taxi was always there when I needed it... and that was only if I wasn't near a train station, which was almost never.
FARC apologists will always find a way to make everything about Uribe. All manners of crime are justified because 'Uribe did it first'. Colombian leftists are nothing if not hypocritical.
Actually we just had a major of the capital (Bogota) of the country wich was part of M19 and he is still alive, so I'm not sure which revenge you talk about in that case.

Many of the victims actually want the want the war over with no revenge in mind, as you can see in many posts going viral through the country (https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=947235368719875&id=100...)
I'd like to know what percentage of their business is from Apple though. I suspect it is their biggest customer by far.
It's a dog whistle.

They use irradiation and 9000 mile sea journey very close to each other, to create an association.

You don't want to think of your food traveling 9000 miles by boat, and you're also conditioned to think that radiation is a bad scary thing.

This article is definitely click baity. It uses scare terms and word unnecessarily.
I think in many countries the freedom to engage in gay sex is seen to be a challenge to the democratic will of the people. It should be no surprise that we don't care very much for this!

Those of us who are less democratic and more individualistic recognize how horrible it is when democracy prevents consenting adults from engaging in harmless private activities. The tyranny of the majority is still tyranny.

Also, "democratic will of the people" cannot exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...
I'm not aware of any meme with the usage of "'murican" that paints certain part of the US as parochial and unintelligent.

In any case, that's not what I intended. My usage of "'murican" would have been closer to the joke about Canadians always apologizing than your reading.
Yeah, Japan does not really have the problem that Uber is supposed to solve. At least, not to the degree that we have in the US.

EDIT: however, I did see TONS of AirBnB (or the like) in Japan. Temporary housing is certainly a problem they DO have (at least in the cities)... perhaps even more than western nations...
I'm not being facetious, but this might be a personal problem (not being able to get your mind off of work). For people who experience this, something like meditation might help, seriously. I certainly wouldn't fault an employer.

I'd love a 30 work week (if I wasn't trying to fast track towards retirement): those 10 hours (or more if working 4 days and not having to commute one weekday) would be entirely mine.
I've always dislike the idea that "people vote with their dollars" because theirs no way people "voted" that all their dollars go to a 1% of individuals, who strictly speaking are rarely model or even popular citizens (.i.e. the Walton family).
Neat, I've been working on a similar tool, but I've been trying to make it not require a 3rd party service for cross machine notifications.

I've been testing things out like udp multicast and zyre.

mobile notifications are tricky, looks like one can use https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/push-notif..., but that still technically piggybacks over google cloud messaging.
The hope is that this will be a system shock that will expunge the crime and corruption that plagues this country. It's probably wishful thinking that after all this that normal rule of law will be easily established. The pendulum always swings too far. There will be a hangover.
I haven't found any bugs in Spotify yet. And I think the experience is far superior to play music in the browser. Things just feel smoother and snappier. Also both apple music and Spotify let you download tracks for offline playback.

Another problem is the play music android app. It's probably the worst designed android music player. OTOH Spotify and apple music are so well designed that I consider them actually beautiful.
Here in Germany companies like Uber are largely perceived exactly as the author points it out, especially this stuck out in the article:

>Their significant price advantage comes from the fact that they choose to ignore a great many laws and regulations that their competition must follow.
Airbnb hosts routinely ignore zoning laws, hotel taxes, safety regulations and insurance requirements. Most Uber drivers do not have taxi or chauffeur licenses, obtain commercial insurance, pass safely inspections or comply with ADA regulations.

In my opinion Uber is nothing but a business that makes money by shifting every responsibility that an employer should hold on the drivers who function as pseudo self-employed individuals while Uber rakes in a quick buck. A business that any nation can do without. Companies need to be able to be held reliable to regulations and standards. Uber's whole model is incompatible with this.
I know, 10ish year old me just remembers him as an old guy (probably in his 40s).

Quite a small town as well.
I tend to agree with both of these comments, that git commits are a very acceptable (and actionable change log) and that git log diffs are full of noise. That doesn't invalidate them as change logs though.

I've got a command that will add everything that has changed in a directory tree except for ignored files, into a commit. And it is very helpful to write in the commit exactly what you're doing . You do this once a day and you've got an excellent log not only of how you have changed things but you can hop back to a previous commit and reset to a previous day.

Now when it comes time to create a pull request ...

Then you can go back and rebase and squash from the original start, and things into a commit history that is explainable and readable for the project. The only thing that would make this even more seamless if you could do a split-squash where you take a commit, "ungroup" it into its individual changes, then put the changes into their respective commits, and then squash those with the commits for what something should be at the end point.
Seems to work, and it looks to be from a trustworthy source, so that's a plus.

Do you happen to know about a reputable way to disable WebGL?
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I think you'd have to be incredibly naive to think all of those people are drug dealers, let alone the moral problems with executing people for being addicts, or the absurdity of banning drugs in the first place.
These kinds of analysis tend not to work because GDP is really not a very objective measure or anything. Value is very relative. It's entirely possible that 100% of those people are sad living in the city and would rather live elsewhere, but due to economic issues, cannot. They continue to 'consume'. Were they to live in the country, maybe their 'consumption' would be less, but the real value they ascribe to 'peace of mind' and 'clean air' is much higher. Since there is no 'cost' and no 'exchange of currency' - there is no measure of value created.

The GDP is a very crude thing.
Why would I work for something that should be readily available as a basic feature? In my opinion this is a perfect example of the contrast between apple and Google. Google simply does not care about user experience. They will make a functional service and that's it. Apple will create a good user experience. The service exists to enhance that experience.
I'm not the author but If I have to guess, author must have recorded the phone screen ( using something similar to https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hecorat.sc... ) and desktop screen, overlapped the phone screen video onto the desktop using video overlay feature during post production.
> If you’ve attended a movie in Japan ... you understand that many laws can be broken as long as everyone breaks them together.

What is this referring to?
Facebook says humans won’t write its trending topic descriptions anymore
That was a one-off event. Folks who don't regularly remote work will think of that as a "treat". In their minds they're probably viewing it as an unofficial day off.

Assuming that's comparable to a true remote work policy is silly.
> They could release an electron app, but I believe it'd be an identical experience.

That's why they should release a proper native app.
The story of (almost) every Wikipedia page related to any kind of international politics, ever.
Because web clients are annoying and do not work as well as native apps. Also I don't want more and more crap to get tied to the browser.
That's always the hope. This vigilantism is a symptom of decades of rotting institutions.

Maybe a fraction of this wave of violence's victims were guilty of bona fide crimes. But most were politically-convenient targets. I don't know of a single country, in history, that recovered from a similar event inside two generations.

Revolution would have been more productive.
gfody's description reads to me like a description of genius-level work. it's not "not being able to get your mind off of work". it's, wow, you're a genius for being able to do this at all - it's not some fungible thing anyone could do instead of you. yours sounds like the description of more fungible work, that could be done by someone else and for which hours may even be a good measure. it just doesn't sound like you two are talking about the same thing.