skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're wrong about when you have to pay the TV license. Currently the law states that you have to pay if you watch any streamed live TV (regardless of whether it is from the BBC, Sky or another TV provider). Having equipment capable of watching live TV does not automatically incur the license fee.

The law is changing in September, such that you will also be required to pay it if you use iPlayer - however, just having a system that can use iPlayer does not mean you have to pay it - it will be payable only if you use it to watch either live or catch-up TV on iPlayer (other catch-up applications such as ITV's or Channel 5's are not included in this). For some reason, the BBC has decided that either adding a login system or monitoring IP addresses that connect to iPlayer is not the way to go and their official line is that they will continue to monitor usage in the same way as they currently do.

There are many long arguments about whether the TV license vans even exist or if they use radio emissions from devices to monitor what you're watching - some contend that flat screen TVs do not produce sufficient emissions, but there is research that says otherwise.
I would have thought the same. However instead of adding random latency, one could have a buffer, that only allows a couple of fixed output rates (eg, 150,160,...,300 CPM), when typing.
This would probably be quite annoying to type on though :-)
And he'll have to do it again, since Google (and other companies) clearly does not maintain a blacklist of the sort he wants them to.

It's the part where he gets all Wrath of Khan about it that is a little entertaining.
Some tips from somebody that has done lots of interviews and has also interviewed others:

* Use technologies they have in their stack. There are websites that help you find out what technologies companies are using to build their product. For client side code it's not very hard to find out by yourself, look at the source, look at the libraries that get loaded, beautify their code and have a look at what gets imported. Try to find out if they use react, backbone, angular or something else ... when you have found out, use those libraries for your project. When building your project use as much of those technologies to show them that you are familiar with the technologies they use.

* Make something related to the company you want to apply to, if you want to work for a game company, don't make a blog about cooking recipes, make a game ;). Try to find the idea for a tool that does something that is related to their business. Show then that you have taken the time to look into what they do. Maybe that prototype you have created will be so impressive that they may want to transform it into a real project after hiring you.

* If they have an API, use their API to get data for your project. Don't do a project that uses dummy date. Use their API and try to create something new using their data. Use the data they use for their product but display it in a different way, to show that you thought about what can be done with that data. So copy or create a page or tool they already have but try to innovate using their API. Or even better do a mashup. Combine their API with another one to create something new that is more spectacular than just using their data. Or if you can, grab their data and enhance it, for example by sorting it using some intelligent algorithm.

* Not that important but always worked well for me ... make something fun :) Try to avoid making a tool that is boring. For example let's say you want to apply at twitch, then don't just make a page that lists the top ten streamers, but make a page where people enter the name of two streamers and then a dust cloud appears with some fighting sounds and after your code has compared the stats of both streamers, a winner gets displayed. Ok this is not super fun ;) but it's an example, I guess you get the idea. If the people that review you, have a smile on their face while testing your project, it's a good thing and will help them remember you.

* Also not so important, but it can still make the difference, try to make something beautiful. Don't just apply some basic css rules to your project. Yeah developers will tell you the most important is code quality, but I'm sure that some good code that outputs something beautiful, will always be better than just some good code. People and even developers ;) also judge with their eyes. People might be unconscious of it, but I'm sure something that looks good, helps to give the feeling that it is actually good. If you don't have the skills yourself to make your project look good, than ask a friend to help or ask somebody on the web to help you.
Author here: We did some research on enterprise websites, using the Fortune 1000 as our main cohort, and we found that only 13% of them were mobile-friendly and fast. This is in stark contrast to the number that are mobile-friendly (60%).

We're not exactly sure why performance lags so far behind mobile-friendliness, but we'd like to get some thoughts on this.
OT: Those are some neat robots. I spent a bit of time researching warehouse robotics and the whole thing is fascinating. Do you have more info about them aside from the one on your website? I'm intrigued.
H1Bs aren't that much money, especially if it is a transfer [0]. You will of course need legal help but since H1B has become so popular that process has been streamlined and attorneys now use it as a loss leader in order to expand their business.

The other aspect, is that yes it'll be about $4k to transfer an H1B all in, but... consider the savings. A Level 1 "Computer Programmer" in Santa Clara has a minimum wage of $52k[1]. I'm not too familiar with Santa Clara but that is probably a 50% savings over a typical software engineer wage. Paying $30k for 8 H1B transfers all in looks really attractive when payroll is shrunk by $300k+...

EDIT: looking at some of their linkedin profiles they fit the profile of an F1 OPT employee (Bachelors from an unknown university in china, masters from a large state university STEM degree mill, recently graduated), which is even better for the employer, you get a built in tax benefit discount on their wage.

[0] https://www.uscis.gov/forms/h-and-l-filing-fees-form-i-129-p...

[1] http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesQuickResults.aspx?code=15-11...
I imagine in the near future with micro-machines that can produce molecules on demand, food will also become equal to power. Its all about the power.
Docker, you lied to me
They're not going to invest hours in you until they've determined that you're at least minimally interested.
Introduction to Data Visualization with Altair – Practical Business Python
As a former SAIC employee (prior to the Leidos split), I thought it was interesting that this article mentioned the hiring of Gregory Dahlberg to the board. He was previously a senior VP at lockheed.

From 2003-2009 or so the CEO of SAIC was Ken Dahlberg. He's the one who took the company public and away from being an employee-owned company (which I think only 11% of the employees, including me, voted against).

Can't seem to find any relation between the two but ...that's not that common of a name, is it?
because too many people think code=business...
This is a soft, squishy octopus robot with a translucent skin that is super-simple and does almost nothing, but as I was watching it on video, all I could think was that, sooner or later, we will have soft and squishy (and perhaps translucent) robots around us, doing all sorts of things. All of this robot's components are soft.

I don't know if it will take 10 or 50 years, but the soft robots are coming; and they will have supple skin and squishy synthetic organs, not metal surfaces and 'boxy' components.
I obviously knew that but I did it to be sure to do the right things and to write a more understanding code.
I will edit it very soon, thanks!
Ask HN: Ultimate guide for configuring IKEv2 in pfSense to connect behind NAT?
I want to connect Windows 10 to a pfSense IKEv2 VPN. The Windows 10 could be behind NAT.

Yes, I followed the detailed guide here [1] but it doesn't work (Windows 13801 error). I tried before configuring L2TP/IPsec with this guide [2] and it didn't work either, so I think there are some details missing there. OpenVPN is another option but I prefer to use the VPN protocols already present on the OS instead of installing additional software.

[1] https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/IKEv2_with_EAP-MSCHAPv2

[2] https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/L2TP/IPsec
It can happen anywhere. It's all about how much power you have. Random programmer #134 of a Fortune 500 company? Not so much. Hired to lead a new VR projects? Plausible.

For most developer jobs, you don't need it.. because with the job market, it is very easy to find a new job if one flops. But if you had to make a move cross country? It may be easier to get signoff on severance.
I'd imagine that every major US bank, healthcare provider and government department have been breached at some point by unauthorized person or persons. It's almost impossible for this not to be the case to my mind.
> I should be able to read anything and handle it rationally

You are not a robot. That belief is intellectually dishonest, and is only there because of ego.
It's not just economic realities, they live in different economic, social, moral realities, and more. And these realities are subject to change on a whim. The more complex and multi-faceted an issue is, the easier it is to adopt a perspective that suits your own position. I mean that from the simple basis that it's more challenging to take a wholistic, objective look at an issue the more complicated something is. Plus, it is in our nature to be self-serving.

The most frustrating part to me is that it is generally accepted to align your world view with a political party.

Politics in general has deteriorated to mere sport. The realities, the issues and the facts do not matter. It comes down to winning. Unfortunately, this appears to be what people want.

So, the mechanisms of shaping reality within a party, and the reality or the party as a whole really don't matter. It's just another game, on any given Sunday, or just another stage performance for our entertainment.

When we move past parties reality and the mechanisms for shaping it will matter.

Go Browns!
To me, this sounds like the sort of thing that a person will probably have to build themselves...maybe start by automating the build process so that the -x- flag doesn't get skipped. Which points out an advantage of building it one's self: the tooling can be incremental, modular, and tailored to specific needs and not require learning a third party package and tuning the configuration.

Good luck.
I have always been a fan of the Pirate game puzzle. https://omohundro.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/stewart99_a_pu...
Oh, someone came to a conclusion that you had come to before? How inferior must they be to you.
Rust seems very complex and C is more about simplicity (in the sense that K&R is a short read). Other languages with the same spirit of simplicity would be Tcl and perhaps Go. I just wish Go had more supported machine architectures.
Completely agreed. This is beyond "bad startup" and is actually an issue not just for HN but also for the criminal justice system. The tax issues mentioned suggest a history of this kind of behavior.
They do, for a few minutes; the rest of the time, everything becomes even worse. And the experience is never quite like the first times, even by pushing up the doses. At least, that's what the users and ex-users I've known describe. Personally, I wouldn't trade even a life of quiet desperation for that.
You are right. Just like we should all just be using Word 97 on Windows 95 because, you know, word processing is just word processing in the end, isn't it?
Ask HN: Help with acqhire from EU by US company?
I'm a european single founder working on a niche startup and have received an acqhire offer from a US company. The package is vested equity (a mix of shares and options), no cash and is conditioned by my employment in the EU subsidiary of the company (different country than I currently live in).

I'm not sure if this is a good offer or not and this is largely conditioned by what taxes apply as I might not be able to pay them. My work contract would be with the EU subsidiary of the company, but the equity is held and transfered by the US company.

Is receiving equity through a vesting program a taxable event in the US? Is my situation any different from the typical vesting situation from a taxes point of view?

In my current country of residence this is not taxable and there is also a double-tax treaty with the US. Would it make sense to set up a holding company here and use it for equity transfer or do things really not work that way?

Any thoughts / advice would be appreciated!
My own employment history in the past 10 years or so clearly demonstrates this is not the case. Companies I have worked on spent at least days, if not weeks before approaching me with a job offer (and no recruiters, direct contact from my future manager). A job they needed done, and a job they clearly understood I was an expert in.

I am am talking about senior-level jobs here, where the employee is hired because of his specific skill set and expertise in some particular domain. If the company does something that doesn't require any particular expertise, and no particular skill set, or if they don't know what they need, yeah... I don't want to be working there. Why would I? I would be selling myself short, and I would not advance in my technical career.

Companies can very well assess whether someone is interested in the job. They can't know without asking if someone is willing to tolerate the company, but they should be able to tell whether someone would likely be interested in a particular job. And if someone likes a job, most likely they won't mind the company, so it's worthwhile for the company to reach out.

Companies should also be able to assess with good reliability how qualified is someone for a particular job before contacting that person. If they can't, they either don't know what they need, or they are looking at the wrong person to hire.
Startup Chile projects valued in US$ 1.351,9
Google+?

I'd rather work on accounts receivable for a ball bearing factory.
Deep Learning with TensorFlow
A while back I read that states which get their funding from natural resources instead of taxes very seldom turn into liberal democracies. I think it was in Zakaria's Future of Freedom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_of_Freedom

So maybe oil hasn't been a net benefit for these countries. In any case, if we stop needing their oil, their capacity for causing trouble will be drastically diminished.
Sure, but the linked post is titled "Balls to learning how to animate, let's film some parkour!"
That actually makes a lot of sense to me. What with E=MC^2, antimatter explosions, generating new particles from collisions, everything.
Cash rules everything around me.
The thing you missing is leadership. People won't bust there ass off over and above what they are paid for a lazy person that looks to exploit them. But, if you can work your ass off and have a vision people want to follow with a whole lot of luck you might create something special.
HackerRank's Machine Learning CodeSprint
Ha! I was fully mounted and strapped in on my high horse thinking, "Oh man, another 'you have to be PASSIONATE about my disrupt-random-industry startup" guy.

Then I looked at your site, and man, that looks like a fun place to work, with subject matter to really dig into. Ahhh... go ahead, screen for passion, you get a pass. :)
The best solution would probably be to have the HTML input field not fire events for key down.
I'm have some trouble understanding the solution to the 3 natives puzzle. Is the objective to find the road guarded by the truth teller?

SPOILER BELOW

The solution suggests

Q1) --> A

Q1): Is B least likely to tell the truth out of B and C?

If yes ask Q2 --> B, If no, ask Q2 --> C

Q2): If I were to ask you does your road lead to the truth village, would you say yes?

If yes, you know where the truth village is. If no, you would know the person you are questioning in the liar, but both of the other two could be the truth teller or the random answerer?

For example, if A is the random answerer and randomly selects 'truth', or if A is the truth teller, they will both direct you to the liar for Q2.

Let me know where I've gone wrong.
Explosions do transmit sound in space. If you detonated a stick of TNT 100 feet from ISS they really would hear a boom. The medium is the debris which impacts ships, the ship, and then the air inside the ship. What's missing is space combat should be at very long ranges, and of course all explosions in movies are far to slow.

So, I agree that augmented reality is probably the most realistic idea. But, even without that space battles could be very loud.
Correct. The term I meant to use was anthropic bias.
> The FBI bulletin listed eight separate IP addresses that were the sources of the two attacks and suggested that the attacks may have been linked, noting that one of the IP addresses was used in both intrusions... “Attempts should not be made to touch or ping the IP addresses directly.”

The whole thing just sounds so basic and rudimentary. They didn't spoof ip addresses or cover their tracks. Then FBI has to remind techs not to contact the hackers directly by resolving the ip. It reminds me that we are a sitting duck if someone with skills wants to do damage.
What does mobile friendly really mean?

As a tablet user the main problem I have is with pop ups that are hard or impossible to dismiss.
I guess he doesn't get downvoted for stating that France had a colonial past, but for implying that the colonial past is an excuse for not integrating into the society you live in.
The ban is extremely complex and I am not talking about its justifications - I am talking about GP's.
Sometimes records aren't as fungible as books, i.e., a particular record is going to have a certain rarity, condition, and (obviously) location, whereas a book is a book and it doesn't really matter which specific copy of that book it is. In this case a brick and mortar record store can sell online (such as is often done through discogs) and not really compete with other online music sales.
I've had the [dis]pleasure of having an even more fraudulent co-founder in China. Heard plenty of stories too. Perhaps stories from SV are just more likely to get exposed to the public (and get attention).
Interesting hypothesis, has anything been written about it?
It's a problem because people use vanity metrics like follower counts as a proxy for the popularity of a company and its product. That incentivizes businesses to inflate their follow counts.

In the real world, 10,000 useless bot or "follow back" followers should be less valuable than a thousand interested followers who are likely to buy something and promote your business.

In social media world its easier for startups to get the thousand "good" followers if they also have 10,000 worthless followers because the good followers will dismiss a business if its only followers are the co-founders and their moms.
Does anyone know how the term rotoscoping was coined? I've never understood the etymology and have yet to get a good search result on it either.
Frost's The Road Not Taken, originally written as a joke, is an easy frame to view my life, imho

"And indeed, that IS the question: whether to float with the tide, or to swim for a goal. " is just the choice Thompson postulates.

To me, I now believe the overarching purpose of life is to have children. Two distinct groups: those with children and those to help those with children.

Parenting (becoming a parent) puts a humans heartbeat into perspective like nothing else can
> well written, horrifying article on deception and underhanded shenanigans

In this case, the phrase "criminal acts" seems more appropriate.
>> https://phabricator.whonix.org/T542
>> Attack summary: the timings of and between key presses are unique to each person. They are actively used in the wild to track individuals with extreme accuracy and leads to complete unmasking.

Holy sh*t
Virtual reality saves lives helping neurosurgeons
First winners from LaunchVic’s $60M startup fund announced
> People in-the-know know what company and people are
> being discussed in these posts.
> I wish that, for the sake of those outside the loop (me
> at least),

Read on to the comments below. You are "in the loop" ;)
Such that you can be tracked by your hunt-n-peck timings?
The Hows and Whys of a GPU Database
I think you have to put things in the right perspective. The bar for a software engineering internship (for a student) is not that high. The expectations are not that high. When I was in college, I knew several fellow students who were bored with their projects, felt like they didn't get along with their team, and didn't really do anything useful, who got return offers (which implies positive feedback).

Did you deliver any code features / bug fixes during the internship, even if you hated it and/or the code got thrown away? There is a good chance that is considered enough for an internship. I'm pretty sure one of my internship project's code got thrown out at a company, but I still got a return offer.

For some reason I doubt the recruiter would lie about something like this. Perhaps the recruiter couldn't name names because the feedback was years-old and/or anonymized?
A federal carbon tax is imminent in the USA, and Exxon is pushing it
Uber and Careem, its rival in Muslim world, suspended in Abu Dhabi after arrests
Firstly, have you spoken to a lawyer/accountant? This is complicated enough to justify a conversation.

Secondly, what type of options? IRS has a short piece about taxation on options here: https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc427.html
The conformist part is believing that to raise kids to the best of one's ability requires one to do something one doesn’t want to do for the rest of one's life.
Thanks for posting this! Nice project by our team at Dpt.co!
I knew "the" solution was something DH-like, but my solution was:

Maria mails Jan one of her padlocks, and he mails her the ring back in a box that's locked by that padlock.

...I think others are overcomplicating this.
Its hopeless dude just give up - on yourself. Live for others and see what happens.
Syncookied: syn flood protection
> Another similar use of rotoscoping was by Eric Chahi in his masterpiece Another World

Aside: "Another World" (aka "Out of this World") is available on Steam.
"... I do not wish to work for Google. Not now, not tomorrow, not ever."

Are you really sure? How about in 15 years when nearly all programming jobs have been replaced with AI[1]. Programmers are jobless, hungry, homeless and without any access to healthcare. However Google bizarrely needs some keyboard firmware written because AI is pretty shitty when it comes to keyboard firmware.

[1] maybe even less dramatic, how about a year 2000 dot-com-style crash when you are out of work for 12 months?
The story behind the world's first social networking site
They took over the world ,then they gave it back a few months later.
Toggling visibility (and other stuff) is best done by changing classes on the element.
Ask HN: Why is Google so bad at UI Design?
Have you ever looked at a google product and thought.why thats a nicely designed product? I doubt many of you have. I just want to get an understanding, from a company that attracts the best talent. Why are they still producing such underwhelming designs?
RDBL – manipulate data in-database with R code only
Very possible to import immigrants, illegally or through visas, to labor for below market rates.
Sounds alarming - elections at risk!

But its just data taken, right? Aren't voting records public domain already? Is this equivalent to stealing a phone book?