skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's still Chinese prisoner organ harvesting.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-carrying-...
Haven't tried Pixelmator, but for the past 7 or so years, Acorn has been very useful to me for most of the same stuff I would have used Photoshop for.

http://www.flyingmeat.com/acorn/
Amazon pick up the item from you, pack it and deliever it to the purchaser. Craigslist invokes meeting up with people either at your home or at a public place. Now if you were selling say 3 items a day (random number plucked out of the air) you would only need the single pick up of items.

That is value in the fees from what I see of it.
I purchased Pixelmator a long time ago, but have never actually used it. I bought it to do web graphics, but their UI doesn't really speak to me. I've never cared for the floating docks like GIMP uses.

Affinity Designer has allowed me to not miss Photoshop/Illustrator at all. It came out right as I was thinking of buying a Mac and switching to Swift development. Saving the monthly Adobe fees helped me justify the cost of a Mac.

Also, the new Symbols stuff in Affinity Designer makes it useful for doing mockups. I haven't tried the layout constraint stuff they added.

For mockups I think Sketch is still easier/faster, but only barely. And it is kind of limited in what you can do, while Affinity Designer isn't. It's made me want to invest the time into getting good with Affinity Designer, since it's so powerful and fast. The buy once thing is also nice - I think paying monthly for desktop software is mostly bullshit.

Sorry for the long rambling, I just really want to praise Affinity. When I see that there's an update I actually get excited, and they keep adding non-trivial features. It's how I wish other software companies worked. I hope they do well and can continue with their current business model.
The gender balances of teachers vary wildly by level [1], and is over 40% male in high school.

I got a math undergrad at a good school. Once you got past calc/linear algebra/maybe diffeq 1 into classes that were mostly math/physics/eng students, future teachers were almost entirely in the bottom quartile of the classes. But maybe that's not so bad -- do you really need to understand real analysis to teach anything before calculus? Of course not. And to teach calc 1 or 2? Probably not.

My hypothesis is that's almost entirely because the career doesn't pay well. Consider working as a teacher on the peninsula in sfbay. It's basically a cute hobby that will have to be supported by a spouse if you'd ever like to own a house. You can see some of the numbers here [2], and they're horrible. Average salaries below, 2012 data, from [2]

Belmont-Redwood Shores Elementary SD $71,502
Burlingame School District $65,336
Hillsbourgh City School District $86,994
Las Lomitas Elementary SD $92,494
Menlo Park City SD $90,271
Millbrae Elementary School District $64,168
Redwood City Elementary SD $70,965
San Bruno Park Elementary SD $65,713
San Carlos Elementary SD $68,379
San Mateo-Foster City Elementary SD $65,720
San Mateo Union High School District $83,384
Sequoia Union High School District $81,674
South San Francisco Unified District $61,639
Woodside Elementary SD $88,406

Those are hobby wages, not live an adult life in the city you work in wages. And there's something sick about cities once teachers can no longer afford to live, purchase homes, and raise families in the cities in which they work. And much of the problem is due to the wildly out of control housing costs.

Anecdotally, a teacher 10 years in at a local school on the peninsula works another 20 hours/week at my gym to be able to afford a one bedroom apartment by himself and to have at least some spending money. When he gets to school at 7, leaves at 4, then works another 4-5 hours at a gym, how is he supposed to get up and be rested and ready to teach the next day?

[1] https://www.aaeteachers.org/index.php/blog/757-the-teacher-g...

[2] http://patch.com/california/redwoodcity-woodside/comparing-t...
It's not at all new. This has been going on since at least the early '80s in the form of targeted mailers.
Yes, but it will also lower the demand for organs due to less crashes with injuries. I'm not sure what the net would be.
Yes but quite confusing when we have another new style string format actively being discussed in recent months vs this "new-style formatting" which has existed since 2006.

It's much clearer to just refer to it as str.format.
You could work with dumbbells using one or both hands when listening to conference calls. It's good to get up and move around a bit regularly, so one can make a point to do ten pushups, burpees, or jumping jacks every time you start to step away from your desk. Small sets of exercise add up and can be very beneficial.
Narrowing the definition of "cities" certainly helps the title be closer to accurate.
>1 in 5 organ donations comes from the victim of a vehicular accident

So preventing 35,000 deaths a year, may lead to 6,000 less organ donations? I'd take that deal.

The article goes on to talk about changing from opt-in donations, to opt-out donations. Which seems completely orthogonal to self-driving cars, as (regardless of projected stats on future donor numbers) we should do whatever we can to decrease the number of people waiting on organ transplants.
In your GP comment, "they" referred to the Russians, but isn't "Grizzly Steppe" a collective term invented by the US?
Just connects a service like Twilio with Lob API, right?
Watch the talk here: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7946-console_hacking_2016
I saw some speculation that the DNC hack was retaliation for something the US had done previously.
... that's definitely what happens in Chicago...

What's Bayview like in San Francisco these days?
What are the real figures? I also wouldn't buy an electric car, at all, ever, but mostly due to pack health + replacement cost.
WaPo is now a blatant propaganda outlet. They don't seem to care about the truth anymore and they've become what they accuse others of: a fake news source.
This is just data that matches previously expressed intuition. There are literally millions of un- or under- funded ideas out there that want to be companies.

When you realize how much money the various public lotteries bring in every day, you can see that any idea that can skim off a nominal amount of "disposable" income from people who wish they were rich is going to do just that.

This is why I have always been opposed to loosening up the regulations around crowd funding investment. At least with a gizmo you get a gizmo, but for 99.9% of the people who have crowd-funded companies (according to the article, 1 in 1000 have been sold) do not have any return at all.

The part that annoys me is that it creates what is essentially a legitimate place for con artists to practice their skills, and enrich themselves, with no recourse for the investors. And as a result any "good" that might have come from allowing deserving companies to get access to a new pool of capital, you end up with a few bad apples enriching themselves and soiling the waters for everyone.
I would have said that SQL injection is caused by emitting unescaped user input to your SQL server
They are usually very poor in quality. They are also usually stuck in the 70s of architecture development.
At this point I am not sure if the justness of the argument makes much difference. When you make world changing decisions you have to accept that you will be judged by history, and not on the terms that you decide.
it should work on any modern browser. Warning though, the url has changed a little: see https://github.com/xem/minix86
It's true that some people already support increasing organ donation (I do), but this might be a convenient political argument to do so. i.e., we'll lose significant number of organ donors and so need this to become opt-out.
Isn't "obscure unicorn" an oxymoron?
Isn't that implicit in every comment in an online forum?
SessionBox lets me have multiple accounts open on 1 site: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sessionbox-free-mu...

Super Auto Refresh lets me set per-URL auto-refresh timers: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/super-auto-refresh...

iGive Button sends a portion of all my online shopping spending to the charity of my choice: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/igive-button/igcjd...

Wandertab gives me awesome photos in my 'New Tab': https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wandertab-by-hitli...
I've written before on HN about why I think equity crowdfunding is structurally disadvantaged and generally a bad idea for consumer investing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9874468#9875770
Sourceforge got bought out and the new owners eliminated that practice:

https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-fut...
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4n3e1s/the_state_...
Nope, but thanks for asking!

I have the same issue you do where I keep things around just in case I might someday make a project with them. I actually got rid of a bunch of my old chumby devices (plus a lot of old freescale developer boards and miscellaneous embedded devices) specifically in a purge to get rid of such things, so I don't want to relapse!

I've found (as you mentioned) that if such a project does turn up I'm better off just buying a newish device like whatever the newest raspberry pi is and using that... more expensive than using scavenged parts, but lots less wasted time trying to get a modern kernel up, etc.
I went to terrible public schools in a very poor neighborhood yet I came out just fine. I really think people put much too much emphasis on "good schools" as if they are magic, I think home environment matters much much more.
Great opportunities ahead for America's private prison investors.
What's NULL? Switch to the pure FP world. Haven't had a NPE in years, because we never create/pass/consume NULL.
What they don't have is 30 years of experience with putting them in cars which function from 0F to 130F ambient temperature and get put through much different duty cycles vs laptops with new battery management software and rapid charging from the various types of auto chargers out there. Many EVs used NiCd or NiMH batteries up until a few years ago.
Heyyyyyy I did not know that. TIL, thank you.
> it spreads the load around

My biggest weakness/opportunity for growth is my unwillingness to ask for help/ask questions. This strategy is key to me trying to save face and it's a good way to learn more about my team's expertise.

> Why does rkt store container images differently from Docker? ... The answer I got was super super helpful

IMO you'd have gotten a satisfactory answer just by virtue of the fact that you're posing a question about a difference from a competitive software product. And in this case it's the market leader by far. Whenever someone poses a difference in behavior or performance/specifications between two similar/compatible software packages it very often inspires a lot of interest.

Aside: I think that Julia's blog posts or at least this one in particular is a great highlight of female participation in software development. Not that men don't post stuff like this on occasion. But it seems like the focus is often more content regarding technical matters than social ones.
I don't have statistic handy, but I imagine most organ donation need comes from illness.
One concern of my own in even ever considering a Xiaomi product would be concerns over built-in spyware. That's not to say it isn't also possible with U.S. suppliers, it's just that with such tight control and interests from the Chinese government, it would definitely be a concern.
Not above it or any of the traps we all fall into as humans, but try to keep an eye out and recognize when I'm doing it.
Gambling with a more legitimate name.
I'm mostly quoting and summarizing Mark.
Is there a similar service in US?
i'm inclined to think there is no such thing as a "free press". i'm also of a mind that even when one presumes such a thing exists, there's no reason to believe that this leads to "truth" or "reliability" in reporting.

i hope there's a third way between corporate news and government news.
Man - I'm so impressed by Amazon pushing this stuff out and constantly leveraging their existing infrastructure.

This looks to be affiliated with Junglee (http://www.junglee.com) so might mean Amazon is repositioning it as P2P.
Yup, continents are pretty much in the same places, less ice though and a bit warmer. We have more canals though, oh and lower crime rates, and a much lower poverty rate.
An adult can also go to a casino or buy lotto tickets, activities not only statistically guaranteed to be losers on average but designed intentionally to be so. At least startup crowdfunding might fund some cool stuff.

BTW why can't VC funds be traded on the stock market? Seems like that might be a better way to allow public participation. You could buy some Sequoia, A16Z, etc. and let pros make actual picks.
It does effectively warn the readership and saves them from having to trawl the document and the web on their own for the source.
this is both reductive and a red herring.
While the characters in Bambi always seemed to have the same "flat" quality to them that characters had in all the other animated movies Disney made back then, I always thought the settings and backgrounds in Bambi were amazing and beautiful. That's where Mr. Wong's talent really stood out for me.

Thank you for adding beauty to the world, Mr. Wong. May you rest in peace.
33C3 talk on dissecting cellular modems
Unlike the suburbs you valorize, Cambridge hasn't shut out the poor, makes large investments in public housing. 45% of Cambridge students take free or subsided lunches. What the MCAS results actually show is when we take kids of out wealth segregated neighborhood elementary and middle schools, and put them into a single, unified high school, test score rise dramatically.

If Concord schools had to take any number of first generation impoverished immigrants with poor English language skills, their test scores would implode. That doesn't happen, because working class immigrants don't buy the $800K homes in Concord.
What is the most popular time machine?
An advert here just claimed that the DeLorean from Back to the Future is the most popular time machine, but someone I was with snorted and claimed that the TARDIS is more popular.

I suspect it's a time and space thing (if you see what I mean), with different generations and different countries having different opinions. So I'd like to ask this audience that is moderately wide-spread in age and geographical location, which do you think is the most popular time machine?

* The DeLorean?

* The TARDIS

* The "original" from H.G.Wells?

Something else?

Please put your suggestion, and your age(ish) and location(ish).

Just a bit of fun as we travel in time from 2016 to 2017.
Pixelmator is still trying to catch up to Windows paint.net and is still not even close.
"If you haven't already, would you mind reading about HN's approach to comments and site guidelines?"

This question does:

- Identify terms you don’t understand
- Ask questions where the answer is a fact

does not:

- Do some research // profile flag user accessed faq
- Decide who to ask // ^

Happy New Year, HN!
I have Dexcom CGM as well and I just use the hardware alarm that comes with it. The battery lasts days longer than a phone's and it is small enough to fit in my pocket with my phone. I'd argue you would have been safer buying Android and being forced to rely on Dexcom hardware instead of an app.
I can think of many startups with horrible names. A decent chunk of the failed.
It's what invariably happens when you incorporate words like "new", "super" or "high definition" in the name of something. I'm still hoping that at some point our industry learns that lesson.
This is journalistic ethics in action.

They do this bullshit all the time. Post poor and/or misleading reportage for clicks, then fix it in post[1]. It appears as an advertising scam masquerading as editorial policy. The WaPo has some great people working there, but there's a lot of hands in between theirs and the words we ultimately see on the screen or page.

1. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FixItInPost
I think asking how to sanitize it is really asking the wrong question. We shouldn't sanitize a format string from a user in the first place. We should get input and generate a format string rather than allow one to be supplied "raw".

For example, using re.sub as another commenter pointed out.

An even more Pythonic solution would be to use the built-in string.Template [1] which at a glance appears to be safe against this kind of attack (but I haven't tested in code).

I'm not sure why Armin didn't mention string.Template in his post other than that it is much more restricted than str.format, however that kind of seems like the point to me.

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/string.html#template-str...
Please don't be a jerk on HN, especially when responding to another user's work. Asking a polite question would have more than sufficed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Munchery is in Seattle: https://munchery.com/menus/seattle/#/0/dinner
Thanks for the reply. Definitely an interesting approach, and I appreciate your efforts to play it safe with respect to the environment. But you're correct that this didn't really address my question. Maybe I can ask another way. If someone used the ice age argument, how do you think a well educated and articulated person who disagreed with them would open up a meaningful dialogue?
Everytime console hacking comes up I start to wonder how well a manufacturer would do if their next console was open. Would they see a decrease in legit purchases if the console was open for hacking and exploitation? I would think it would be a lot like the PC game market which as far as I can tell is still thriving today.

So assuming there is no economic impact, what is it that makes us want to lock down consoles (similarly cell phones) when we do not do the same to the personal computer we hold so dearly? It is a fascinating story that I suspect is due to timing and when devices hit markets but curious what others think about this.
I found some information. The largest organ by far that is transplanted is the kidney. I also suspect most of them are from disease rather than an impact injury.

https://www.organdonor.gov/statistics-stories/statistics.htm...
Classification of Medical Devices
> The web shell is made by a Ukranian group but there is absolutely no reason to believe the people who used the web shell are Ukranian, nor is there any reason to believe whoever hacked the DNC uses the newer version.

I don't believe the comment you are replying to said otherwise.

The point is that the report made the link: "We found Russian malware, so it must be the Russians." And in reality it's not Russian malware, and as you point out, finding out who wrote it doesn't tell you who used it.
I don't think that's reasonable at all. How often do you return to story URLs you've already read to check whether they've changed or not?
I didn't fail to understand anything, the author was intentionally misleading/wrong in his comment so he can hop on the "but we don't KNOW" bandwagon, like every climate denier and anti-vaxxer does.
China has a concept of face (面子 mianzi), but this concept is quite absent in Japanese culture, despite both of them being 'Oriental', and what you described right now will be quite baffling to a Japanese mind.

Sure, Japan has a strong concept of avoiding causing trouble to others, and of respecting your superior by waiting for them to leave, but that's not the main cause for overtime.

Excessive worktime (長時間労働) is a very hot topic right now in Japan and I've seen several surveys popping out in TV shows. Here are some I found online:
https://jinjibu.jp/article/detl/manage/226/3/
http://www.jil.go.jp/institute/research/documents/research02...

All this surveys give more or less the same picture: the number one reason stated for working long hours is "Too much work to complete in normal working hours". "This type of job requires overtime by definition" and "I want to do my work properly" come second.
Unlike Western tech companies, deadlines only come in the middle, and "Not wanting to leave earlier than my peers or my superior" comes dead last.
The author is misinformed.

Jurij Milner who is Russian, is giving an unprecedented 100 million USD for SETI purposes as part of the Breakthrough Listen project.
Hacking and cheating are huge problems on PC.

And without a locked down client, these things run rampant, and can very frequently ruin a game.

Keeping the system locked and having it balk at every modification makes it much easier to control that.
> that is seeing their economies and tax bases decimated

Wat? That is literally the opposite of reality.

The problem is cities are TOO POPULAR. Cities so successful that only the rich can afford to live in them! Increased property values, more property tax revenue, higher resident earnings and spendings. Cities aren't being decimated. Cities are so economically successful that poor people are being forced out so more rich people can move in!

The article, titled "The Middle Class Can't Afford to Live in Cities Anymore" is about people earning $50,000 to $125,000 who can't afford housing in cities. It's not about rural or rust belt communities with no jobs. Housing is plenty cheap in those areas. They just lack the jobs to go with it. A very real but very different problem.
That's not the point I was making. The point I was making was if you are so offended by the idea of tipping imagine that:

* If we didn't tip, these experiences cost 20% more. (We can't know whether that's the right number or not, but I think it's a good place to start)

* Now just apply 20% to your check and go on about your day.

This is legitimate advice for a person baffled by tipping -- just pay 20% more and move on. If we lived in a world where that waiter got paid a meaningful wage, that's what you'd be paying.
They don't do it initially to lock the purchases so much so as to ensure people aren't getting free hardware.

Due to the economics and competition, consoles are almost always sold at a hardware loss early in the generation, and only begin to become profitable at some much later point.

Ergo, if someone buys a console and buys no games, Sony/MS/Nintendo (maybe not the last) loses money.
Agree that these are a much better solution that I wish Armin would have dedicated a few sentences to.
Sad I know.

Selling advertisement (tied to a "free" service) is mass market. My guess is power users are a) harder to capitalize on b) more demanding. There's plenty of low hanging fruit in general public so why bother?
>- Stock Market Prediction

I can assure you this is being done. Anything that works is kept secret.
While the article mentions at the end the Crystal[1] language. I will say that I found that C# with generics was very approachable, and F# has always been interesting. Wish some of the changes approaching with the acquisition of Xamarin by MS, the openness since ASP.Net MVC, and now .Net Core it's worth looking at again.

I've been in JS/Node land for most of the past 6 years now, and tbh, I've enjoyed it thoroughly, but I wouldn't mind dabbling back in modern C# without some of the "Enterprise" patterns that were way over-used. On the flip side, I still just don't care for Java. Even then, some of the things I might reach for C# to do may be a better opportunity to get into go or rust.

Definitely some interesting opportunities all around.

[1] http://crystal-lang.org/
That is what the commenting I'm replying to said, and it was incorrect to say so.
An extraordinary artist. I'm glad he was able to be honored at the Chinese American Museum before his death.
And for those who are wondering what I meant, this AP article covers both the history of "management trainees" being exempt from overtime and Obama's action, which is currently stopped by a court:

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/4aacfcafa43a42539d0e56e44ce93...