skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Staffjoy helps businesses to create and share schedules with hourly workers. We were apart of the first Y Combinator Fellowship class last Fall, and now we are a 6-person team based in Fisherman's Wharf.

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> Now, we could ask ourselves, why do many websites have to be so fat?

Lots of javascript to get ad dollars.
> Apple is around two years ahead of most of its competition.
I grabbed this from the first review article that popped up on google[1], so buyer beware. It says that non-repetitive sounds in general may create the effect:

Concerning tasks that do not involve auditory targets, studies with adults have consistently shown that especially short-term memory is sensitive to negative effects of noise. Immediate serial recall of visually presented verbal items is reliably impaired by task-irrelevant sounds (for reviews see Hughes and Jones, 2001; Beaman, 2005; Schlittmeier et al., 2012). Impairments occur with single talker speech and non-speech sounds such as tones or instrumental music, but not with continuous broadband noise or babble noise. This so-called irrelevant sound effect (ISE) occurs reliably even with low-intensity sounds, with meaningless speech (e.g., speech in a language unknown to participants), and when sound presentation is confined to a rehearsal phase after encoding of the list items. However, the ISE magnitude is determined by inherent properties of the irrelevant sound. Recall performance is specifically impaired by sounds with a changing-state characteristic, i.e., by auditory streams which consist of distinct auditory–perceptive objects that vary consecutively. For example, irrelevant sounds consisting of different syllables or tones evoke an ISE, whereas steady state sounds, e.g., continuous broadband noise or repetitions of single syllables or tones, have a minor or no effect.

In general, I've seen the argument that removing the effect can happen through habituating to repeated sounds, but also seem to recall some people showing that prolonged exposure to the irrelevant speech/stimuli before a task can also remove the effect--so maybe people wouldn't suffer as much with stimuli they're familiar with playing in the background. (there's also the issue of the things people actually do vs laboratory tasks).

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3757288/
Using Microservices to Encode and Publish Videos at The New York Times
Like many theories... Peter Higgs et al had to wait ~50 years for evidence.
and ios backup encrypt way also change,it encrypt the manifest.db
Biggest Ship Ever Harmony of the Seas Coming to Ft. Lauderdale
What's the difference between being onsite and working 'remotely' at a coworking space?
Restrictions are easy to push too far, but a basic safety checklist that includes things like factory randomised logins shouldn't be too heavy handed.
I don't see this as a failure of the "security industry" (I put that in quotes as it's very hard to say who is and is not part of that group)

The simple fact is that there are very limited economic incentives for a company in the IoT space to spend money on security, and as a result they don't.

It's not easy for an ordinary consumer to differentiate between a company who just says "security is our top priority" and one who puts meaningful effort behind that (e.g. there is a strong market for lemons here).

Also there's no effective regulation which could substitute for that information. In other markets (property, consumer goods, food and drink) we have safety regulations as it was recognised that consumers can't effectively differentiate. In IoT and other areas of IT this doesn't exist, so there's nothing to stop insecure devices being sold.

As to the "security industry" well there have been enough practitioners warning about this, to limited effect. Realistically there's a limited amount that can be done without some form of top-down intervention.
...or, "A few traditions whose passing I lament".

In all honesty, though, I do a fair bit of calligraphy (I know, that's not necessarily cursive) and it can be a very soothing and rewarding experience. I suspect it has to do with using a bit of both halves of the brain, whereas keyboarding is likely more mechanical.
Cursive is slower to write and harder to read. Also, people outside the examination and testing system don't used handwriting anymore (except for squiggling their signatures occasionally!)

Although I myself was taught 'joined up' handwriting at school I have chipped away at it over the years to create a more convenient mix of print and cursive.

e.g. the tailed letters ygjq(f) slow down writing considerably if you join them up. Where the nib ends on the right hand side of the letter (i.e. in the direction of the flow of text) then joining is fast e.g. 'c','e'
Oh - I haven't heard of TuneIn. Any recommended stations that you've found there for J-Pop?
> Really most CBL is good.. :)

I seem to re-discover them about once per year and I am amazed every time. Twenty Three works great for me when programming.
Decentralized Anonymous Micropayments [pdf]
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> It panics sometimes instead of returning the errors and there's no way to catch that in a clean way in go.

https://golang.org/ref/spec#Run_time_panics
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SEEKING WORK - London UK or remote. NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES.

I'm a senior/lead DevOps with 15 years experience tuning & hosting web applications and I'm on the lookout for the next challenge.

I work closely with developers throughout the application lifecycle to build scalable and long-term robust architectures. Load testing, CI, deploy systems, monitoring, config management, security audits, dev projects of my own - you name it I've done it. For larger organisations I've even led whole infrastructure teams.

Recent work includes:

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+ AWS/Docker platform to securely host a large public-sector microservice-based web app taking millions of pounds per month in payments.

+ Chef-managed deployment of large microservice stack across varied configurations on cloud and physical servers

+ Large multithreaded Python 3 application for automated cryptocurrency trading. Didn't get rich, still posting on the HN freelancer thread.

+ Jenkins + docker-compose platform for efficient builds of microservice-based projects

+ Lots, lots more.

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But of course all of that old code is still there and maintained. We live in a post-file-system-compression world with ubiquitous file-system-compression.
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> My MacBook Pro from 2011 goes all day with serious activity without a charge

As an owner of a 2011 MacBook Pro with a recently replaced battery, I don't believe you. We either don't share the same understanding of "all day", "serious activity", "without a charge", or "goes".
the Guardian (https://theguardian.com) | Software Engineers | Full-time | London, UK | ONSITE

Hello! We are Guardian Digital and we develop the website, the apps, and a variety of internal tools. We are looking for enthusiastic developers to join our web and iOS teams.

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DeltaProjects is looking for remote developers in Poland.

We are looking for motivated developers for two roles:

Frontend developers: We develop using Facebook Flow, React and usual front end tooling around JavaScript. Our legacy software is written in ObjectiveJ/Cappucino so knowledge of these would be a plus, but is not mandatory. We have multiple web based applications coming soon.

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We are looking for a handful of people for each role throughout the coming year. Our aim is to have a long term relationship with mutual investment of time and energy for deep business and technology understanding on behalf of the candidate.

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Probably because anaesthesia has significant risks, and even if it was safe, most people would spend the first few hours on arrival puking (a very common side effect of anaesthesia).
Hey yPlan – how do you dare go bust?
I'm not sure I've registered the genre name, but the artists you mentioned, sure! They're great!
I have not used Embarcadero's Delphi, just their database client. I have used Free Pascal, though. Interesting, but no demand for it :-(

The whole 90s C/C++ thing was such a debacle. Running C for app work in the internet era reminded me of "Hunt for Red October" - "Next, he'll be removing the safeties from his torpedos" - "you arrogant ass, now you have killed us!". Widespread internet adoption was the "extinction level event" for C/C++ apps. (along with faster processors and garbage collection)

Anyway, if more companies had used an Algol descended language that actually did bounds checking, and made less use of points constantly, the crisis that forced Java adoption could have been avoided.
I have favorited about a month worth of continuous listening on Soundcloud [1] but I hardly ever listen to it because there's something new presented in my Stream every day. The trick to Soundcloud as a steady source for programming music is to follow other users (for programming music you'll want mixes instead of tracks, so follow DJs instead of musicians), but it does take some time to build your Following list and it also takes some commitment to scan through the music every day. When that becomes a distraction, I just turn on SomaFM as mentioned by others [2] where my favorite stations are Space Station Soma, Deep Space One and Illinois Street Lounge.

[1] https://soundcloud.com/wiredearp/likes

[2] http://somafm.com/
It's not the failure of the security industry, it's the success of market forces over the security industry.

Normal folk want to consume new gadgets because that's the culture we have. So it's a race to put new gadgets with new features in front of people. Sure, as a customer I could insist on my manufacturer having taken security seriously and having their products thoroughly tested and reviewed and hardened and patchable and all that good stuff, but then I'm going to have to pay more money for my gadget than my buddy here who just wants to be able to flush his toilet from his smartphone.

There is literally no consequence for manufacturers of poor quality products where the impact isn't directly impacting their own consumers, and so there's no market force that is going to address this.

When viewed this way, it's a classic case of where we need government/legislature involvement.
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About me: I am a software engineer, passionate about building applications across the stack that meaningfully enhance user experience, and solve problems involving front-end design/optimization, big data and REST APIs. In my recent applications, I have leveraged a wide range of modern web technologies and frameworks across the stack, and have written clean, modular code for scalable codebases.
Key word: prefers.

The grandparent comment is framing this as "that word is wrong, because in the context I've encountered it in, we used this other, right, word".

When, assuredly meeting whatever measure you might use to qualify this besides the GP poster's personal experience (... though they do seem to recognize its meaning well enough), "mid-atlantic accent" and "trans-atlantic accent" are synonyms.

----

Like, here's how this conversation looks in a different domain:

Article: ... so I found this horrific spaghetti code for traversing the tree ...

GGP comment: What is with this childish writing, being "horrific spaghetti" code, instead of not-yet-organized? It's the writing calibre of a young teen, and it seems to be popular. [actual quote. this is the thread we are participating in.]

GP comment: This is incorrect anyway. Speak to any network administrator: it's called iterating

me: Even the wikipedia article says "Traversing a tree involves iterating over all nodes in some manner"

you: As wikipedia mentions, don't cite wikipedia itself. The first reference on that article prefers "iterating".
Looks like it is getting hammered with HN traffic and they posted their iOS app on Product Hunt yesterday too. Their iOS app eventually comes around to working (crashes sometimes when trying to listen to music) -- but they just released it + HN/PH traffic so its a good problem to have
Sure. How's "Don't come across as hyping your own product when you disclose an 0day"?

Even if the wording was "Browsers such as Chrome which block win32k.sys system calls using the Win32k lockdown mitigation on Windows 10 prevent exploitation of this sandbox escape vulnerability," I would've given a partial pass because it looks less overtly self-promotional.
Telemetricor Limited

A small end-to-end hardware/software company building real-time sensors and data interfaces. Our current focus is on TelemetriCop (radio mesh-networked cameras for rural security) and TelemetriTrace (a retail loss prevention system).

Our stack is primarily embedded C, PostgreSQL, and NodeJS, however there are a smattering of other languages where applicable.

We are looking to hire for two new positions (our fourth and fifth employees):

Machine Learning / Data Scientist | Winchester, Hampshire, UK | Full-Time | ONSITE

We are looking for someone to take on the task of improving the image classification in the TelemetriCop system (radio networked cameras), as well as help us build and improve the data analytics of the TelemetriTrace system. There is a lot of room for growth in this role, we are mostly interested in a candidate with the desire to continuously learn and the ability to independently direct their work.

Ideal skills:

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Introduce yourself to us at contact@telemetricor.com, and make sure to include your portfolio or, for recent graduates, information on your studies.

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As part of a small and technically diverse team you will be responsible for maintaining and improving our customer-facing apps (Android, web, and iOS) as well as working on our internal tooling.

Ideal Skills:

* Java (Android), swift (iOS), Javascript, HTML+CSS for use in apps

* Bash, Python, Java, C for tooling

Introduce yourself to us at contact@telemetricor.com, and make sure to include your portfolio.q
Does anybody make the argument that the lack of a receipt prevents vote buying?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12846216.
If you're including non-flight travel, I don't think you can beat Pitcairn Island in terms of sheer PITA-factor to get there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7MWxADnko
A proposal I saw and liked was liability for software vendors based on what they charge for the software, so open source software doesn't have the problem, but people who bundle a load of open source software together, slap a management interface on it and charge loads of cash for that, do.
Putting a couple ads in free games in the App Store is not "screwing over people". Nor is it "anti-consumer".

In fact, the whole point isn't even to make money from them, but to support the Windows developer ecosystem by promoting other apps and jump starting a viable ad network.

Also note that Apple and Google do the same thing.
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$140-$160k + equity

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This is the right gig for you if you:

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That's a good point. If we are talking about the quality being indistinguishable to humans, it is probably possible at some point. Although I will probably stick with wired for a long time, as I have a nice wired headset, and I don't like the thought of my headphones not being charged!
That's where we'd like to see things go as well. Same for Apache. -Josh, head of Let's Encrypt
Sanketh is awesome, as is this opportunity!
Honestly, the general public may benefit from the first few attacks targeting IoT owners.

If your toaster attacks Dyn, that's an indirect failure. But if your lights decide to shut off permanently because some kid thought it would be funny, you're going to throw them away and buy some dumb lightbulbs.

Short of regulation or bribery, I can only hope that we'll see progress after some IoT products are directly attacked instead of repurposed into botnets.
And as usual, the ends justify the means:

Those researchers violated their principles

The big story isn't the conspiracy theory about Trump, but that these malware researchers exploited their privileged access for some purpose other than malware research.

Malware research consists of a lot of informal relationships. Researchers get DNS information from ISPs, from root servers, from services like Google's 8.8.8.8 public DNS. It's a huge privacy violation -- justified on the principle that it's for the general good. Sometimes the fact that DNS information is shared is explicit, like with Google's service. Sometimes people don't realize how their ISP shares information, or how many of the root DNS servers are monitored.

People should be angrily calling their ISPs and ask them if they share DNS information with untrustworthy researchers. People should be angrily asking ICANN, which is no longer controlled by the US government (sic), whether it's their policy to share DNS lookup information with those who would attempt to change US elections.