skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for that. Perhaps what I see in the anecdotal 'marketing clown' is a lack of human empathy, which is kind of the foundation stone for understanding 'human psychology'. Some people lack the wiring to care about others and see things from their point of view, whether it is the customer or the workmate. They also do not pick up on basic psychology, in my example there is little appreciation of how upsells work - there are facets and nuances to this that anyone who works in retail gets to grasp.

So it is a case of these people not knowing what they are doing, far from knowing the customer psychology and deliberately deceiving them, there is just no thought beyond doing some silly marketing campaign for the month end results.

What is also wrong with dark pattern is that the customers have to be churned - they will not be coming back after the customer service disaster that goes with the sale.

I don't care about quarterly results, I care about building a business that does not need marketing beyond word of mouth and white-hat SEO. So, in ten years time, customers will return for customer service provided to them, not to facilitate whatever silly offer is needed for my marketing clown's month end. I want customers to want to come back for a great product and great service, this is not compatible with 'dark patterns'.

We often give intellect where there is none. Notably in TV dramas where the 'killer' is supposed to be clever, in reality most people that commit crime really are not thinking at all, they have not thought it all through. 'Dark patterns' is a bit like that.
There's a tumblr for that! They call it "confirm shaming".

http://confirmshaming.tumblr.com/

And yeah, it's UX cancer.
The article claims an aircraft design. To meet such a design would require no less than a revolution in materials science.
The easy and dangerous way is to mount your entire hard drive inside virtualbox. Follow instructions here: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk

The issue occurs when you for example accidentally boot windows within windows, you can possibly get file corruption.

The workaround is to configure a virtual disk with only the partition you need plus a bootloader that can load it up. I haven't gotten that far.

EDIT: It seems there is an article about how to do this: http://lifehacker.com/how-to-dual-boot-and-virtualize-the-sa...
idlewords is trolling.
It's by William Gibson, so it kind of does.
Change job and relocate, even if temporarily! Devs jobs are plenty, and you should take advantage of it while it's still the case. Working abroad for instance is a good way to get out of your comfort zone and keep on learning.
lmfao.

"I agree, stories like this are very triggering. I come here for code only. I don't want to know about anything related to governments, politics, and fake news EVER again.

Thank you mods, please remove ASAP"

EDIT: to downvoters, i'm confused, are you for censoring political posts or not? Cause I'm not, lol
I think you and the other commenters may be closer to agreement than you think, and perhaps just mixing terminology. By my reading they are both saying that sheer will is not the answer, and are not suggesting a dualistic mind either.

If the mind is the brain and vice versa, then it might stand to reason that in some cases the thought<->physiology<->environment feedback cycle that traps one in depression can be addressed not by willpower, but by selectively interrupting whatever part of the feedback cycle is easiest to access or most pronounced for a particular depressed person.
Trouble with the iPhone users is that they don't know about other brands. Even the main competition.

The Gear S3 Frontier manages mobile connectivity and superior UX with a supposed 4. Day battery life
An old one, Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. It can be fairly slow at times but it's such an inspiring read.
It's not really clear from their website but to register a domain only ( no hosting ) you have to deposit into an NFS account first including 'deposit fees' that they charge, plus any international payment fees charged by your institution.

Slightly awkward and seems likely to leave an unusuable residue, as opposed to just paying the required amount directly.
IIRC, you can hit the back button on that.
Not explicitly mentioned but presumably intended is the reference to Steve Jobs' 1996 statement: “If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth — and get busy on the next great thing.”
50k+, probably none (at least with a CS background, finance with a math background is another story).

With a diploma from a good engineering school and a previous work experience (internship and/or apprenticeship) the companies I talked about in [1] will pay you above 40k when coming out of school. With the two financial companies in the beginning being above 45k.

The main problem I see with developer employment in Paris, is the weight of the diploma in the remuneration. People with a university degree being offered around 30k most of the time.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13117207
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It seems to be a standard term in game development at least: http://www.gamasutra.com/features/postmortem/

You're right that in our corner of the industry it typically refers to particular incidents, though.

It seems pointless to argue which one is more correct, though.

For the record, here's Wikipedia's take: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmortem_documentation

Key quote:

> A project post-mortem is a process, usually performed at the conclusion of a project, to determine and analyze elements of the project that were successful or unsuccessful.

(emphasis added)
That means 17% of traffic/attacks all around the globe right now is in the UK. There is nothing useful to understand with that information ^^

[Either traffic or attacks depending on which graphs you look at]

The graph I gave show current attacks in live. If there was a DDoS going you'd see a shittons of lines going toward a single location.
Did you read the highly upvoted thread above saying depression is just in the mind, people who beat it gain "super-powers", and ranting about stoicism and meditation?

There is a hell of a lot of deeply condescending woo here.
Not only is privacy an inherently political issue, but the point of departure for the article is Apple resisting the FBI.

I disagree with dang's decision to impose "political detox" on the site this week, but since he's done it, let's hold him to it.
It's not necessary at all.
Sure. But that's part and parcel to doing anything on there. It's not really a big deal when you can get a Mac that can do it for $300 used--it's probably going to be cheaper than the phone was.
isServiceUp looks great.

One suggestion, bubble to the top any services that isn't operational ... that way you can easily see at the top all servics which are down.
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Thanks, there are some good resources here. I rushed through CLRS to help prepare for these interviews but I failed at the phonescreen, which was mostly comprised of Leetcode / Hackerrank type questions. I'll definitely take a look at the coursera course specialization but it seems as though these interviews comprise of a 'programming challenge' type question for the phone screen and more with a focus on data structures, algorithms and system design for the onsite.
Samsung victorious at Supreme Court fight with 8-0 opinion against Apple
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See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404
Maybe I'm not understanding the premise of this article. I always thought a bit over $1m seemed cheap to get access to self selecting, really bright AI people to hammer on an issue for a couple of years. Easy to confirm the results. Lots of publicity. Sets a bound for production to compare against, and stop worrying about it.
I dunno what big ideas out there are not being investigated to some extent. It's just that we've saturated the domain. Anything you can imagine we've done something about it. I mean we don't have teleportation. We will soon have robotics to do everything. We will soon be colonizing space. I mean there is only so much you can do in the world and we're already doing it. Infinity is saturated. The problem is that we can't make society work with what we have invented. So the problem is not that we don't have ideas. The problem is that we can't make society work in the way that it has, and that's a good thing. But not for people who run society who don't want to lose power. But their time is up.

Shareholders are irrelevant. CEOs are irrelevant. And management is irrelevant. Just like employees are irrelevant. Anyone in the future can come up with an idea and be empowered to bring that idea to market through manufacturing done by robotics which is completely automated. You tell mama AI what to make and it makes it on demand for whoever wants it. Society needs complete re-engineering with completely new rules.

That's really the big idea. And yes we can not work on that within the framework of current system. Because it's transcending the system and requiring new rules.
That is not part of the risk of startups. If you can't pay someone indefinitely, don't hire them. The word for people who risk a reasonably assured salary to participate in a startup is "cofounder".
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> No European countries speak or learn french, too badd ^^

Don't be mean, Belgium and Switzerland are crying right now !
Many studies have demonstrated that the brain can modulate inflammation and immune activity. Ergo even if it was just a result of inflammation (which it isn't) you can absolutely think your way into and out of depression. Your attitude of powerlessness is harmful to people who buy into it.
The difference is mostly a technicality, taking into account that I referenced an Apple Premium Reseller site. The iPhone 5s is not discontinued yet and that was exactly the point of the article (mass-production of cheaper iPhone models).
Jean-Louis Gassée on the evolution of macOS and iOS
I wanted to say thanks for your game! I loved it when it first came out!
This will basically be a custom job. Every freelancer does it differently.

It would help to start by putting together a portfolio and then putting the word out that you are available. This can be started with just putting a blurb in your HN profile and on social media, where it seems appropriate.

That will not likely magically solve your problem. But it starts the ball rolling.

You can also participate in HN's monthly "Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer?" post on the first of every month. Keep your eye out for the next one.
I appreciate your opposing take. There is a lot of push back against non traditional remedies, and also against the pharmaceutical route (in both cases, deserved). As someone else who is suffering, I have found comfort in meditation, mindful practices, and most importantly acceptance. These mental states allow me to function enough to exercise or eat well, or mind my sleep or stay away from drugs (which provides a physiological basis for "getting better"). So I agree you can't just think your way out, but the right frame of mind can provide the momentum to put the rest of the pieces together.
If 1-2 ms is too much to recover from a crash, you better have three or four backup systems written in different languages and running on different hardware. Yet there is no guarantee you will have 100% uptime. And in such a system, having data corruption would probably be far worse then a crash.

One application where I think crashes are bad are computer games, for example if you are fighting a boss, it's better to get a few glitches then having the game crash.
Looking at the generated code, we have a couple issues that prevent full optimization. One of them I already knew about (https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-2926) -- as a debugging aid, we guard every trap we emit with the equivalent of an `asm volatile("")` barrier, because LLVM will otherwise happily fold all the traps together into one trap. We really want every trap to have a distinct address so that the debugger can map that trap back to the source code that emitted it, but the asm barrier prevents other optimizations as well. As for `reduce`, it looks like the compiler does inline away the closure and turn the inner loop into what you would expect, but for some reason there's more pre-matter validation of the array than there is with a for loop. That's a bug; by all means, reduce is intended to optimize the same.
Buying tickets with RyanAir is stressful due to these kind of practices. They're less aggressive than in the past, when I wouldn't even continue because I just had zero trust in the company, but they're still sly.

A sneaky one I saw recently is something like:

[ ] Subscribe to newsletter about our services by unchecking this box.

(It doesn't matter whether the box is initially checked or not, the user will be tricked into the desired behavior.)

I don't remember the exact phrasing, and it was much more shrewd than my own, but it relied on a boolean flipping of the value of the checkbox towards the end of the field label. Any user seeding the start of the sentence will leave it in its current state.
Was it worth it for Microsoft?
This is both amusing and slightly terrifying.

I think he'll be in mending bridges mode. He needs SV if he is serious about reform.

On the other hand the Media had their Red Wedding.

“It was like a fucking firing squad,” one source said of the encounter.

I wonder what it's like to be shouted at by somebody with access to nuclear weapons.
Gomix
Does Fog Creek have a diversity report card yet?
Quite the contrary, Above Avalon is a relentless Apple bull and one of their many apologists.

Good analysis overall, but it's typically with some variation of "this is greatest" with some hint at a greater big idea just around the corner.
Aside from the tech required to enable a web UI for creating and collaboratively editing full applications and providing the infrastructure to quickly spin up and deploy these apps... a big part of the appeal to me is the design and personality of the site.

The playfulness makes me curious and interested to go build something "just because", rather than start coming up with all the reasons why I would or wouldn't want to use this over my normal workflow. Plus, the starter app prompts "Tell me your hopes and dreams" - something my wife would say, so <heartstrings>.
Court order no longer required for DNA samples by Police in Victoria
It's really not anything like either of those scenarios. Zara (and many companies like them) like to rip off working artists because its essentially already been market tested by the trend leaders from which they take their cues.

There are degrees of success in any form of commercial art, and the people companies like to rip off are not people pittering away in obscurity or hobbyists. Instead, it's those that are appealing enough to get by and have an audience, but with not enough resources to mount a significant legal defense to their out-and-out thievery. If you look into the Zara case, these are the exact circumstances of the illustrators from whom they're stealing work.

I understand that audience members have different kinds of social relationships with works of art, but you should trust artists when we say we don't want or need wealthy conglomerates stealing our work. In the age of the internet, we have tools to get our work out there (thanks to those on this site that work on building these tools). And if large companies want to find and pay to work with us, well, that's even easier than ever too.
> So when google named their project, they basically took a word from JavaScript/CompSci that starts with the same letter as "Compiler" (plus other similar sounds). I don't think there's much more to it than that.

Isn't it because it can optimize the output so that it only includes those dependencies that the program references, i.e. the whole program is like a closure that closes over its dependencies?
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See also: the Windows 10 "upgrade" fiasco. It's as if they took their ethics lessons from the bully in _Calvin and Hobbes_: "Yes means no and no means yes. Do you want me to hit you?"
Can you talk about the resolution on the device? On the video, it looked to be fairly low, probably lower than the Kindle PaperWhite which I have. I'd be really interested in this for reading PDF's papers and PDF tech books, but only if the text isn't too jaggy.
Direct brain control of robotic systems promises improvements in health care
Thanks. I've looked at the AC Lite and the AC PRO also, but haven't narrowed the search for a small box to run the router.

Seems the box you linked to has only 1 ethernet port. How do you connect to both WAN and AP?
I have 38k gross a year. A little bit over 2400 after tax a month. I know friends who earn more. I don't know how much tax I'll get at the end of the year. Probably going to hurt :(
Agree! I'm far more interested in how they con LPs into paying them to lose money. Why should entrepreneurs do all the work to build companies, create jobs and solve problems for customers when we could just get paid to lose money for pension funds?!
Here you have another alternative: Pipedrive https://www.pipedrive.com

It's easy to use, it has tons of integrations and it's cheap. About why you should use a CRM, for example, to classify different leads.
What it says is "most stories about politics", which is deliberately vague, but not the same as the current experiment.
I was unaware and, in the future, I will keep more of an open mind with their articles...
It's so common here in NYC that there's a scam where people go door to door, trick you into believing you're signing up for 100% wind power, and then jack up prices after a few months.
Is that allusion to a conspiracy pro-Trump or anti-Trump?
That's a personal attack.
Yes, but they could easily offset that by producing more renewable energy than they consume and selling it on the market.
I think depression is closer to an inability to walk because of muscle atrophy: you can't tell them to just get over it and start walking, but retraining the muscles is a critical part of treatment.
Using Clojure to visualize dependencies in Clojure code
cough Volkswagen cough
Sure, blockchain-based applications might have that ability... but what incentive do companies like LinkedIn have for doing this? What incentive does any company that uses these dark patterns constantly have to use a blockchain-based application? Especially because most of the time, the users data is the profit machine, so companies certainly want to own the data that backs the application.
It's a little bit surprising that using a fold rather than a simple loop has such a high overhead. I was already pretty sure of the result, but I went ahead and wrote a quick benchmark in Rust, and there is no overhead to using a fold rather than a loop (each iteration is addition of a million values of the stated numeric type):

test tests::bench_fold_f64 ... bench: 984,829 ns/iter (+/- 30,827)
test tests::bench_fold_i32 ... bench: 84,497 ns/iter (+/- 16,109)
test tests::bench_loop_f64 ... bench: 993,406 ns/iter (+/- 45,791)
test tests::bench_loop_i32 ... bench: 81,306 ns/iter (+/- 17,815)

That this isn't true in Swift is way more interesting to me than the fact that overflow checking has overhead (duh). It's not difficult to come up with some theories as to why this might be the case, but still, if using these "functional" constructs in Swift has such a high overhead, programmers should probably be questioning whether it's worth using them at all.

edit: I see that I've been beaten to the punch posting a Rust benchmark :)
> To me the real problem with housing in Paris is, landlords request to see 2 years of tax sheet.

Landlords are insane in Paris ! I had a friend who made 48k in his first job, he came from Grenoble and his parents weren't rich enough to "vouch" for him, so he spent almost a month before finding a flat, because landlords rejected him all the time, despite his salary.
He is earning 50k more in the US. Are you insinuating that the social welfare state of France provides close to 50k worth of services!? Because that would have to be true for the position in the US to be at all comparable.

This ignores the much lower price of consumables in the US as well.
I'm pleased with it.

At first I had some issues with it thinking my external display was a TV -- but now that I've taught it the difference between shit and Shinola, everything's good.

I'm stoked that the company bought me a new machine -- and I think it's pretty nice. My only complaint is that I wish they still made a 17" MBP. My eyes aren't what they used to be.
I wonder how many of these could be made to run in the browser now, a-la the Internet Archive.
The 'deficiency' of PGP lay in the leaky nature of the computer itself. How do you maintain your all important private keys? On disk? In memory? USB? All are leaky from the get go. And this, I posit, is the problem gents.
It is really hard to get people to open up about their interests. People with interests are so used to being shut down by other people "yeah that is interesting now let's talk more about me" that you need to slowly coax them out. The best way is to listen intently and ask probing questions to draw them out. Once they feel safe you will have some amazing conversations.

Just watch out for the bores that will just parrot whatever they heard on FOX/CNN last night.
That's contrasting, not comparing.
We can at least try :)
Yes by all means, though the phrase "hold him to it" sounds odd to my ears. You're talking about giving us what we asked for, which I appreciate, especially since you don't agree with the idea, which I respect.

I also appreciate your including the qualifier 'this week', because that's a critical detail and one thing I learned yesterday is that there's a risk of it getting lost in the shuffle. We don't want this to go beyond a week, least of all if it was a bad idea in the first place.
Thank you, and good luck to you!
Homoiconicity at it's best! To do the same in a non-lisp is a non-trivial matter.
It's a fun what-if, but I can't imagine Apple choosing anything but an offshoot of OSX for the iPhone. It's easy to see in retrospect how much they gained in engineering confidence and developer familiarity with that decision.
If it were truly the case that you couldn't see it without signing in, that would not be a dark pattern - there's nothing misleading about that, it's just a policy you don't like. using the buzzword of the moment to criticize something you don't like, without considering whether it really applies, is how phrases lose all their meaning.

(of course, that's not true here and you don't have to sign in)
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You're putting a lot of words into someones mouth here.