skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You, Sir, must be Libertarian. (confirmed via your profile).

I say this because only Libertarians see socialism/communism everywhere (and IMHO most often rightfully so)
Consider the bugle call "Reveille" [1], which has a long history of being used to wake the potentially recalcitrant. I've used it as a wake alarm for several years now, replacing the classic iOS "Alarm" tone that I used to use - "Reveille" is considerably less jarring, but I've found it much more effective in producing a transition from sleep to wakefulness that doesn't include the shock produced by something like "Alarm" - or the anger I'd surmise is produced by your method B above.

Works for me, at least. Might be worth a try for you, too. I should think almost anything would be preferable to the self-abuse of loud talk radio.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reveille - has a playable sample
FFS. If you're going to participate in an organized ring to deprive people of buying a scarce item so that you can flip it to your ring leader for a profit so that the ring leader can then mark it up and sell it for considerably more then you deserve what's coming to you.

This isn't just about reselling an individual phone. They knew full well what they were doing was shady.
Also, here is the raw slide deck in case anyone wants to skip the video:

https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3a%2...
Why does Google care about the trust of scammers? Some customers are not worth the effort. This time it was a mass phone scalping scheme, next time it might be a fraudulent click scheme. Google is better off if people like that never use one of their products again.

It's as if some person kicked out of a store for shoplifting swore they'd never shop there ever again. Good!
Yep, same has happened to me. Right before I was going to get my first payout of $100 or so, I got my AdSense account killed for invalid click activity. I never intentionally clicked, and the one time I accidentally did I reported it to them (which is what they said to do in the event of an accidental click). I turned over information, offered them server logs, etc., but never got anything more than stock replies that my request for reconsideration was denied and they wouldn't tell me anything more detailed.

That happened a number of years ago and I haven't had them kill any of my other accounts for any reason, but it remains a concern and I certainly don't trust them.
> I'm guessing he meant to link to this one about paid promotions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag

Yes, this one also. If anyone thinks this is a 'Conspiracy theory', you can confirm or refute it yourself for less than 50$, the way I did and the way the BBC reporter in this above video did.

After I left the Ad Team, and horrified at what I saw as widespread fraud, I registered a throwaway domain, put some viral videos from youtube, injected google analytics on the site / blog, bought a pre-paid visa card for 50$ (so facebook doesn't keep auto charging my card) and 'promoted' my blog posts shared on a Facebook page I set up.

Just like the BBC author, I noticed most of my 'Likes' on the FB page were from Indonesia, Pakistan, and many from Vietnam. And I checked some of the profiles, and they either appeared down right fake (i.e. no activity other than liking a 1000+ FB pages, or they weren't active since like 2011 or 12.

Worse still, for the pages I did promote - i.e. blog posts shared on FB wall for 5$ / day, I barely got 10 click-throughs to the actual post, but the Ad analytics said I "reached 600 / 700 something" viewers.

WTF does that mean??? ( I know what it means, that they "displayed" it in their feed) But how does this help any one, think small businesses, grow their brand or business??)
> People trusted each others and the state. All that seems to be disappearing.

I completely agree on that. Why is where we look at different measures. A lot of hard working people is seeing their income disappear. You can blame Wealth Inequality and fight for a better distribution. Or you can try to fight other low income groups to get as much as you can from the leftovers of the pie.

I agree that you should be sad or even angry. But not with people that has less than you, not with people that flees wars that they didnt started, but with the ones that are taking a bigger share of the cake that what's their fare share.
I used only my Mind to fly a plane around Seattle
They didn't resell anything, they ordered the phones directly to the scalping scum.

So Google sees a bunch of accounts trying to circumvent the individual order limit and bans them all, as is their right. Good riddance.
It is terrible that you can't get any help from a human unless you make a big stink and are lucky enough to get press coverage about your issue. PLEASE, please let us pay you money so that we can talk to a human when the products that we depend on, and our businesses depend on, become inaccessible to us.
not saying its the case for you, but it might be interesting to some:

some ISPs don't allow you to enable the bridge mode on the management website of the device. you need to logon to their website with your service account and either open an actual ticket or go through an automated process to "unlock" bridge-mode.

its kinda silly but understandable, as you need to have some understanding of networking for this but most people dont have any at all. and incorrectly configured bridge mode kills any chance of internet for consumers.
In my country I cannot be titled "programmer" (or anything like that) without a pertinent degree. I had problems getting credit from banks because I was showing them a $3000 monthly salary as an "unqualified worker" :)

Law is weird.
No, I'll concede the specifics, but the impact is the same. They show that Google, FB, etc are all sending their data to the NSA and others.

> That's the problem with intellectual americans - you guys know how bad things are in your country, but not realize how worse they are everywhere else.

What? Just because some situations are worse in other countries means the US can't be doing anything wrong?
TWITTER Alternative Rises After User Purge
Trump’s CIA Director Wants to Return to a Pre-Snowden World
I guess I never really "trusted" Google as much as I trust most (rich and leading) nation states to handle my identity trustfully, providing a suitable mechanism (this is often quite expensive) for dealing with clerical or automatic mistakes in a mostly decent way, etc.

I've been a Gmail user since 2004 and have since (like everyone else, more or less) tied my online life around it.
I don't care that much for backups (honestly, I don't store that much super memorable data in the google cloud - I have a separate, offline backup system for that stuff.)

What I do care for is the availability of my personal gmail as a fallback authentication mechanism for these hundreds of online services I've signed up for during the past years.
I would recommend anyone who uses Chrome and its password manager to use the recipe at https://github.com/megmage/chrome-export-passwords to get a list of sites and corresponding passwords. I just printed mine out (all eleven pages). Don't bother storing it on a local drive - it's just another fat target to be stolen.

Up next is going through all those services to see which is critical or non-critical, and how I can get into them if I no longer have access to my primary gmail address. Facebook is probably a big one for most people. (Annoyingly - I tried to add my mobile phone number to FB recently, but at a first attempt I couldn't get it to just be a rescue number, rather than a rescue + spam messages via sms number.)

Some services allow multiple email addresses - for that I guess something like Microsoft's free outlook.com service could be suitable.

I'm also considering removing my credit card details from my Google Account. Seems like you're much more likely to be a target of their automated policing if there's actual money involved. (If they don't want stuff like this to happen, maybe they should invest a little more in that dirty annoying customer management area.)
"Newspaper that print fake stories will take substantial credibility hits."

How, exactly? (I realize that you are not personally responsible for implementation, but I think this is an important question)

If "filtering" merely means blacklisting/whitelisting domains or organizations, this won't work.

And in regard to organizations not publishing falsehoods because it is in their best interest: let's consider Walter Duranty's reporting for the NYT in the 1930s. He won a Pulitzer for that, and that honor was enjoyed by the publication...it further cemented their reputation as the "newspaper of record".

It took 30 years before reports of his falsifications started getting traction, and almost 70 before serious calls were made to strip Duranty of the prize. It has yet to be revoked.

What lesson did the Times learn from that? Did they suffer any kind of financial penalty? What lesson would they learn from a smack on the hand from Facebook?

Would Facebook really ban news from the NYT if the latter had another Duranty, or even another Jayson Blair? What about the Washington Post? The LA Times?

Filtering out "fake news" will cut a lot of the obvious crap out: pointless lists, clickbait, "breakthrough diets", secrets "they" don't want you to know about, and celebrity gossip nonsense. I am not convinced that it will stop political propaganda, which is supposedly the whole point of this exercise.
Because they falsely accuse people of things, often—especially with AdSense—and that's it, you have zero recourse, your account is permanently dead. There are a ton of people who have been accused of invalid click fraud on AdSense and got banned, but who never clicked their own ads. The common Google and Google fanboy reply is to dismiss those claims and say people are lying, but I can tell you from personal experience that while maybe some are, not all are.
This defense contractor builds their stuff on OpenBSD:

https://www.genua.de/en/solutions.html

One can always strip out what's not necessary. One can also put it in user-mode on top of a secure microkernel with some services running directly on microkernel and some running in OpenBSD. That Kaspersky thought the choices were Linux-based or purely clean-slate shows limited knowledge of what's out there or a personal preference.
> "Subject is privacy conscious, educated"

1/2
Me too! I use !g so much that I end up inadvertently typing it when searching on google.com. The day of reckoning is near - use DDG as intended or just switch back to using Google as the default search.
That's a really cynical angle to look at this from.

I'd say most places putting out good content are investing far more than $40 on each piece.
Ask HN: What is the best startup name suggestion service?
i found one about a year ago that was great, it was generating small words sounds like Japaneses, like heroku, but i can't find it now
Why not Erica?
cmder developer also says:

> If you have trouble with anything I am happy to help. But you will have much better chances to find solutions on the pages of the upstream projects. Those are:

Console emulator ~ Conemu (https://conemu.github.io/)

Cmd.exe enhancements ~ clink (https://mridgers.github.io/clink/)

Unix tools on windows ~ git for windows (https://git-for-windows.github.io/)
Both fixed, was my bad, if you see any other please tell me. Indeed non-native over here.
Tenjin introduces self-service mobile marketing platform
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Yup, we used 4 wires for data and 4 for power - there's a 12V supply which is spread around and downregulated to 5V on each board. We picked ethernet because it's extremely cheap, hard-wearing, widely available and has enough wires to play with.
Get hell for being wrong?

All the same journalists who pushed for the Iraq war on false intelligence are still there at their jobs doing the same crap. There are zero consequences when "mainstream" journalists push fake news.
Yeah, I went down that rabbit hole a bit.

The point is - it's about the only way to do a real actual code audit on what your processor is doing.
some people are weak decision makers in real life.
Anything they can do with a lost phone they can do with a government order.. from any government big enough to strong arm them. And that PR just isn't worth it.

Edit: or god forbid malware or hackers, they are made up of people after all and haven't fucked up that bad before but there is a first time to everything.
You can do a lot more with compiler infrastructure than simply building programs. C89 is a useful starting point.
I have a Phd in optimization and I still think Cplex and Gurobi seem magical. The devil is in the details. Open source solvers are comparatively not very good.
I only worked at a satellite bakery[1], not the bread making part, which is not taxing mentally after 20 days. For the rest I honestly cannot speak.

[1] sandwich preparation, finishing touches for cakes, closer to a starbucks.
Powershell is designed for devops and admin work. I wouldn't use it for anything else.
Oil is used for many things [1][2][3], not just electricity generation. At this point, the falling price of solar only really affects a small subset of oil's potential customers.

[1] http://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=oil_use
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/307194/top-oil-consuming...
[3] http://alternativeenergy.procon.org/view.resource.php?resour...
First Time Ever, International Student Numbers Top 1M in the US
If you're a paid Gmail user, and by that I mean you're using "GSuite" or whatever it's called at the moment, the thing with a custom domain, it includes 24/7 phone support.

I don't think there's a way to start paying for your normal Gmail account (and have ads go away, get phone support, probably some other bonuses?), but there really should be.
I like the concept! But there is one thing that seems really weird to me: Edges connecting to other edges instead of nodes. I don't recall seeing that before, at least not very often. I suppose there might be some cases where it helps the layout but I still would make it optional and maybe even default off.
> The main issue for more OSS is that for pure software-based solutions (i.e. not the software of a medical device), the biggest cost for an hospital is usually maintenance, not the license, since (obviously) the hospital will want someone responsible for any issue and ready to fix it right away. This is a cost that is more difficult to share with others.

That actually seems like it would make OSS more competitive, not less. The ability to sell services and maintenance contracts really lowers the barrier to open-sourcing your software. When the main thing that customers are buying is your company's expertise with the software, the barrier for releasing your software open source is much lower, and you can reap the benefits that come along with that.
Well done on the guide. I'm used to being the crotchety Berlin emigration pedant on HN, and this actually gets almost everything right.

The process you described is still probably the most common (and the one that I took around 15 years ago). Worth adding, however, is the new-ish Blue Card system, which allows folks with relevant education to get a visa for 6 months to look for a job, in theory, simplifies the visa application process a bit, and gives you a faster track to permanent residence. My wife is a more recent immigrant (from Eastern Europe) and was able to get permanent residence much faster than I did because she went the Blue Card route.
it's already illegal to do what you're describing. let me repeat that, for effect: already. illegal. it's against the law. you will literally be arrested and go to jail if you do that.

but don't let that stop you from passing 20 more laws, and then banning people from driving altogether after you realize that, as it turns out, criminals don't follow the law.

which is already happening, just look at the autonomous driving effort. which i'm sure makes you very happy. soon, nobody will drive, we will all be living in a perfect harmonious utopia of robotic sentience.
I tried everything x100 on steroids over the last 2 years. I was strictly ignored and the only thing left for me to do is to go walk in to the Gmail teams office and sit down on a computer and fix it myself.
Yea the true controversy isn't weather the climate is changing but rather the rate at which it is occurring and the degree to which humans should intervene to take corrective action.
> The quality in life in Portugal is very good especially with a developer's salary.

What's the ballpark value?

From what I understand wages are very low there.
I don't think the Hippocratic Oath model quite applies to software. The purpose of the medical profession is to preserve life, a basic human right. Even a wounded mass murderer deserves decent medical care before being brought to trial. But that's very different from saying a mass murderer deserves a platform, deserves infrastructure, deserves tooling. Infrastructure is important (and I am in favor of it personally, especially good end-to-end cryptography), but it starts from a point of being morally neutral given no other information, whereas medical care starts from a point of being morally good given no other information. A lot of uses of infrastructure end up being morally good. A lot, like mass surveillance tech, end up being morally bad, and the fact that they can in theory be used by "the good guys" (or for amoral goals like ad targeting) don't swing that back to positive.
"... the anger and misinformation of the voters who helped propel him to the presidency."

And we start off with insults and dismissal-- the reason she didn't win and that the Times is reviled for its reporting by various groups.
It is an interesting chicken/egg problem when we (humans that is) build things more precise than anything else we've built which inevitably require tools that are not necessarily as precise as the things we're building. If this story makes you wonder how the CMM got as accurate as it is, this might give some ideas [1]. When I was taking a machine shop class in college it occurred to me daily that despite how challenging it might have been to get some part down to a thousandth [2] from where you want it, but that is with tools capable of that or better and with measurement tools capable of the same. I have a lot of respect for the engineers who have managed to iteratively increase the precision and accuracy of our tools.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1o404y/how_are_...
[2] http://www.southadams.k12.in.us/webpages/machinetrades/machi...
Just a point to note: Pricenomics also recommends writing well-researched, data-driven content -- specifically spending up to 40 hours per blog post. I think the intention is that if you are willing to spend a week or two of effort on writing content, you could do some upfront validation to try to avoid duds.
>There are options for paid, supported email, like Fastmail and others

also, gmail. Google Apps has paid support that you can call and talk to to get problems resolved.
wooohoo... 20 years later
most of the other shortcuts don'T work though.

i miss ctrl-d for example
Several:

* "The Elements Of Computing Systems", by Nisan and Schocken

Accompanies www.nand2tetris.org and leads you through implementing logic gates, a CPU, Assembler, right up to a functional computer, with the help of simulator software on a PC. Fascinating, but requires 100-200 hours to complete all the exercises.

* "The Rosie Project", by Graeme Simsion

Easy to read novel about a man searching for a wife, as recommended on Bill Gates' blog

* "Island Of The Lost", by Joan Druett

A true story of survival after being shipwrecked on a remote island

* "River Town", by Peter Hessler

The experiences of an English teacher who spent two years working in China
- Github link fixed.
- Ideally Wikipedia could add just a signature in the page metadata and the extension could check it against it's public key.
- CacheP2P has one solution implemented (checksums of links contents defined in the metadata of each page), but would require Wikipedia to enable it.
Java developer here, multi-OS fan. I'm using both PowerShell and bash from Windows Ubuntu subsystem. I prefer PS on Windows because I do like its object pipeline, but have to use bash for some cross-platform automation.
Doing good job there. MySql dead. Java bloated in politics...
The problem now also is that you can't upgrade your free account to paid one. Then you could have two addresses to one account - your initial free one and one on custom domain.

Currently when you get Google for Work (or however it is called now) you remain with two separate accounts. You can sync data if you work on it, but whatever you buy via one account stays with that one account.
It will also help you to remember that embedded space is extremely fragmented with many RTOS's & non-RTOS's to choose from. Developers also do custom stuff or just run on bare metal with runtimes. It's an interesting field due to diversity of solutions they use. That one product hits a billion installs with a bunch of vendors in a space that exclusively use Win Mobile, Symbian, and Android is significant.

It's popularity was just relative, though. In mobile phones, one microkernel was more popular than others. vxWorks and QNX were more popular in embedded space in general than L4's. I don't know the exact distribution.
Re: your job posting

> We're currently investigating React as an alternative to Angular

I've done little more than a couple of test projects in Angular, but we have 2 production applications using React right now and imo React was far less difficult to get the hang of and has actually been a blast to work with.
I for one am incredibly excited for both Pattern Matching and proper Tuples.

I have code bases that are about to become significantly shorter because of both. I do need to sit down and perform an analysis to understand the performance implications of this, thought I suspect there aren't many.

I'm not sure what to make of local functions. I've read and re-read about them but I still don't see the utility over a private function, unless they were intended to alleviate the performance issues that come with using a local Func<> inside of a method.
I just searched this thread, the site, and github...Here's the best I've found...apparently it supports saving attachments...

https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault/issues/73
>> Users asked about attachments. Put somewhere in the doc that they are saved.
Oh, I thought that wolframalpha was limited to maths. Thanks, TIL.
The President and the bomb
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Understanding TSan Data Race Detection by Implementing It in Swift
On my Mac they look as close to native as any other app, which is to say that applications no longer have a uniform look anymore anyway. Chrome, Firefox, Twitter, my email client and all of my editors look no more "native" than modern Java apps like NetBeans or IntelliJ.
I am a data scientist working at a big firm in the San Francisco Bay Area. I have a PhD in CS with a specialization in AI / Machine Learning / NLP from a US university.

I am from India. So I assume my nationality will be an immigration barrier in most countries. Is this something I should mention while formally applying?
It's 8 years old. That's not a young project. Even a project like this that's 2-3 years old should have significantly better documentation. Bad documentation in any project should be treated as a bug.
Great idea!

My brain jumps from the code being psuedocode to instead being actual Swift, and the chart would be displayed in the output section of an Xcode playground.

Anyone know if something like that exists? Or if it may be easy to port an idea like this to inside a Playground?
Please use the original title in submissions. (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) Thanks!
Yeah, I haven't liked many of the changes in Gnome over the past few years. Terminator as a terminal emulator has been rock solid though. Highly recommend it.