skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the office I see a pretty big overlap with the group expounding/demanding absolute meritocracy and the group of people without any personality (or with explicitly anti-social personalities).

They're toxic IMO and the best strategy seems to be making sure they're not on your critical path. Tech companies are often allergic to admitting that personality can be disqualifying on its own, so actually laying these toxic folks off can be borderline impossible before their behavior explicitly endangers a co-worker physically (e.g. Doxxing on 4chan).

Yes, these folks get outreach from sympathetic peers constantly, but it never seems to take.
Basel Institute: “Take Action Against Digital Currency Mixers/Tumblers”
I wish I could gild comments like they do on reddit. Chapeau.
Sorry, searched for it before posting. The original links to a different domain for some reason
Same! I have no idea how people would, like, start at the top of the front page and read their way down. I sometimes skim for security stories, but otherwise I start from a list of commenters.
They were. Given his position, he was able to have some source material digitized and posted somewhere (either the agency's website or the archives for the county/city/whatever). I think at one point the wiki lords were ragging on about the absence of an article interpreting primary sources.

At that point it was too late... anything he did was on some tickler list and waging wiki-war was not worth the time investment.
Its surprising how fast things can change.

If it ever changes for me I know ill have it hard because I eat a lot of snacks and delicious sandwiches.
I keep a few cheap notebooks by my workspace. Ones for paintings/planning, another for programming ideas/in progress developments, one for personal/venting and another for poetry and jazz. I find them useful as a way to organize my thoughts that just plain text can't match. I kind of use them as a break from my screens when I'm trying to think.

As far as tools. A pen and paper, that's it. If you want to get fancy flip a notebook over and write from the backside in for a simple two topic book. Earmark pages. No methodolgy. I prefer to keep it messy, then I don't have to deal with constraints. Learning cursive helps

To get the most out of it I keep a extra notebook and pen folded in my breastpocket of my jacket. When I'm commuting, need a quick scratch, out for a dart it's right there. I prefer loose stream of consciousness writing to just codify the damn ideas.

For me using paper for note taking is relaxing and more natural then trying to fill a text box or fighting software to make a graph. I refuse to use some service for this on the same grounds that I refuse to work with digital painting programs. Physicality matters
What are you suggesting then? How will you remember which YouTube video is for which website/account?

For the password manager you only need to remember one good password.
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While I'm not discounting the current geo-political climate, but every so often you'll see reports that some calamitous event will occur. When it invariably doesn't occur, no one follows up and says "why did you say that, nothing happened". If it does happen though, they can say "See, I told you so!"
Makes me wonder if its trivial why didnt't people just do it last few decades then? Even with AOT you will be shipping some kind of runtime if you want stuff like Hot reload etc.
They don't until they do.
That kind of makes sense. As for anything to become a law/directive at the end it has to pass in the parliament and thus needs to have a majority coalition there behind it. So it is a bit useless to have the guy running to Council (and thus having a huge say on its agenda) who is against the platform of the majority coalition in the Parliament.
For all their advantages, docking stations are hard to install (on whose land? power? plus it's another expense), and they're another piece of equipment to maintain. As for the tracking: the Czech bike-sharing ReKola did just that: has people riding around the city when a bike is reported as non-functional.
Ask HN: Your experience with PyImageSearch Gurus training
I'm an experienced software dev, and very familiar with Python. I am currently working on a vision project and looking further my knowledge in this field. Has any one of you taken 'PyImageSearch Gurus' training? Do you recommend it, or something similar?
I noped out of React the moment they made that clear they expect me to pass HTML as the JavaScript method attribute without quotes ;-)
A Four Planet System in Orbit – Directly Imaged
I linked to one HN whoishiring thread in the article - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12846216 - but if you look at some others, you will notice that a lot of companies are using both Rails and React. I've seen the same on other job boards. My own last consulting gig was at a company which was gradually porting its Rails view layer to React.
Discussion of paper a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12875868
Check out what linda luikas does. Her work is amazing
OmniDB 1.6.5 released
Discourse has devolved so much it is going to be tough getting people to debate respectfully around different viewpoints. It might be better to recruit a handful of people who can set the tone for these debates and then eventually open it up for a larger community.

I agree with your sentiment about publications just rehashing the same story. That's a large reason why I started http://emergentdata.co. It's not political focused rather focuses on technological acceleration and large global issues like water scarcity and mass migration. I try to curate content around a few principles:
-Try to get to the most original source
-Stick to real events, avoid speculation and hearsay
-Avoid sensationalist headlines

Good luck to you.

Edit: typo
I don't think it has anything to do with bananas. Brussels have too much power and byrocracy. It's mainly about mass immigration. EU was meant to be about trade and free movement inside our borders, not some EU super state and Brussels telling what to do. People want nation states, no one voted for mass immigration. You can say racist all you want but that doesn't change the fact.
When We Invented the Personal Computer Ad by Steve Jobs [pdf]
Indeed, I didn't claim otherwise. The point is that the US government wouldn't have prosecuted him for insulting a foreign leader.
The Computer for the 21st Century [pdf]
Games! Find games that the players can extend it with programming. It is the best way to make kids interested, imo. At least was what attracted me (games & animes).
Ha, definitely will consider this :D
I think you are partly correct. With a Clinton Presidency there would be no protests or opposition.

The danger is that, just like Obama, the President after Trump will decry what their predecessor did and then as soon as entering office extend and expand it.
Check out https://www.rekola.cz/en - running on the same principle since 2014, might have some ideas ;)
Re: the gems, you're right. There are multiple approaches. Putting everything in Rails is the easiest to get started, but you can gradually separate React from Rails if your app needs it. I wrote about it here - https://learnetto.com/blog/3-ways-to-use-react-with-ruby-on-...
How good developers write terrible code
Computers for Cynics (Ted Nelson)
Let's start with something similar: instead of YouTube URLs (which may change), you turn the domain name into a number. That number is a page of a specific translation of the Bible, and you pick the first verse. Same idea, but the format won't change.

Will this work for you? Yes. Will it scale? No. Here's why:

Once I know the system, I can easily use it to impersonate you. You could add a secret, in which case all I have to do is run all verses, one by one, until I find the correct one. You could add requirements for a "safe" secret, in which case we just re-invented passwords. Keeping the book secret won't work either, because if I know your scheme I just have to observe which books you check more often.

There's also the issue of password reuse, with many people using the same password. Running the scheme with the top most popular books is likely to work well.

At the end of the day, if you keep the whole scheme in your head then you'll be fine, and you'll have a reasonably safe password. But a system that gets more insecure the more people knows about it is unfortunately not a good scheme.
Patches are accepted, though.. SQLite is, by all accounts I've read, a very well written and tested piece of software, and I'd be surprised if there was an easy and safe win like this which hasn't already been proposed / considered.

Though, my guess shouldn't stop you looking for previous suggestions to implement this, and if there are none, submitting it yourself :)
They (lobbyist) will obviously try, if they will succeed is up to the people of the EU countries, nothing is a given. So far the right to privacy is strong is several countries, others less so. But lobbyists appear to have a somewhat hard time to influence the entirety of EU, maybe with the exception of agriculture.
It serves another purpose usually.

Anyone else planning to leave and poach people will have to do "a little more covering their bases".

It really comes down to what top level leaders within the org think the longterm payoff is.
^[ (control-[) is how escape is rendered. VT100/ANSI uses escape sequences for terminal control sequences (like positioning the cursor or changing the color).
AIUI is just that DOS was complying with the standard, while Unix had decided to break it. The standard was designed for physical teletypes and has a bunch of issues (like, what do you do with LF-CR?) but its not unreasonable of DOS to have stayed with it.
For the Next Election, Don’t Recount the Vote. Encrypt It
It seems that so many programming headaches have the same root cause: the set of characters that compose "text" is the same set that we use to talk about text. Hence the nightmares with levels of quoting and escaping. The use of out-of-band characters like NULLs to separate pieces of text does help, but I don't think there is a complete solution. Because, eventually, we want to explain how to use these special characters, which means we must talk about them, by including them in text....
Blogging and story telling isn't enough, if the audience doesn't care.

For example, there are lots of old papers from Xerox PARC, Burroughs, AT&T and many others freely accessible on the Internet.

Some of them, we have to thank to the laborious work from people that bothered to digitize their original form, produced by plain typewriters.

Yet, I doubt many youngsters bother to read them.
I don't feel like you addressed my concern. Which is a foreign nation having a database of my nations citizens movements, conversations, plans, history and relationships.

Apparently you don't see as that leading to any problems?
Huang and Snowden’s complete research paper further describing the methodology behind the introspection engine can be found here:

https://assets.pubpub.org/aacpjrja/AgainstTheLaw-CounteringL...
> However the masses of Facebook have no such obligation.

Assuming you're in the U.S. and part of the majority culture, "thou shalt not tell a lie"?
Yeah agree with you. And deploying it even without Forge and Envoyer is a breeze. Spin up a DO instance and git pull from your repo and point nginx root to pulled down repo and you're good to go, almost :)

Laravel is great, and I find PHP a lot prettier and easier than Ruby. Just wondering why all the big start ups are using Ruby on Rails? Twitter, AirBnB, BrainTree, Shopify. Literally no big startup uses Laravel, other than Slack, which is just PHP.
It can be thought of like another iPaas platform[1], such as Informatica Cloud or SnapLogic, but used more often in IoT use cases.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud-based_integration
Thanks, it seems that that link is the list of users's preferences for the HN top bar color (the topcolor value from our user page). And the list seems to me ordered by the number of users with that color selected.
I think every CS graduate does that as part of Compiler Construction course so rather than questioning people's degree I would say doing these advanced features is not a trivial task.
Shenzen's hire-bike explosion
That's exactly what I've done :) The checksum algorithm that suffixes each msg with a 2 byte check took a little bit of figuring out. I'm using tornado.tcpserver.TCPServer and tornado.iostream. Another plus is generating logs of the msg flow; useful for diagnostics, and the after the fact specs you often need with crufty old systems.
Care to explain why you prefer Elixir + Phoenix set up to Laravel? Always interested to learn new tech
Adding a bunch of her books to the mix is a good idea! Tnx
If you used newtypes for z and x it would have been caught.
Austria.
It is the right way. Different terminals require different line endings and abstracting that to a single new line character makes sense. The UNIX tty driver then translates that new line character to what is appropriate to start a new line on a given terminal. In most cases CRLF is enough but older devices also needed additional delays.
How to Qualify B2B Inbound Leads
Game hacking. I like it. Will be introducing them to Scratch obviously
> the US view of absolute free speech

That's just propaganda. Reality looks more like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone
Free his people? The man actually walked all over the will of the people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union_referendum,_1991

Those who grew up in Russia in the 90s see this differently.

People had to turn to growing vegetables in their rural cottages (dachas) to survive. Massive unemployment, staggering inflation. Gang leaders elected as mayors and governors who murdered anyone who dared to oppose them.

Does any of this sound like you would want in your country?
I've ditched facebook recently do to some mental health issues and it's pretty refreshing. As a bonus I find myself not constantly looking at my phone when I'm with other people. I honestly think I had some kind of dopamine addiction to facebook.

Although Facebook knows that I haven't logged in for a long time so they send me teaser emails: "X just updated her status and got 17 likes". People still tend to tag me since I didn't actually deactivate the account.
Or compile Elixir to native code with HiPE by adding:

@compile [:native, {:hipe, [:verbose, :o3]}]

to the top of the module with the arithmetic. It might not be as performant as C but it can be about 10-15X more performant than pure elixir (in my tests anyway).

I've no idea of the relative performance against numpy...
The mess that is attachment filenames. A journey to emojis in attachments
Huh. I remembered from school that "caudex" was a reasonable translation for the insult "blockhead"... now I know why!
Economists have for many years argued we should do just that.
POSIX locks semantics are implementation defined, hence why they are pretty much useless unless all applications access the same set of files play by the same rules.
And yet he doesn't know the PDP-11 is an octal machine even though it's 16 bits.
But I eat lots more and am not gaining or losing weight.
When I do nothing and stay home for a week I will eat even more and still not gain.
Which is frustrating because my ideal weight would be 80kg, but I cant get much above 75.

It isn't high on my priority list so I have not tried many things. I just go around life and enjoy the food I want to enjoy, but my concious is there telling me "don't eat too much bad stuff, you want to stay healthy"
Because even though I don't gain weight it is still bad to eat lots of fats etc.

So yes I do eat plenty of green, and other variations of things.

(also earlier I said "what feels good" I meant psychologically not physically)
And the squawk codes are broadcast as part of the ADS-B system[0]. These packets can be received with the inexpensive USB software-defined radios (e.g., [1]).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillan...

[1] http://www.rtl-sdr.com/adsb-aircraft-radar-with-rtl-sdr/
And these days

D) the B)s use various "social" tactics to tar and feather A)s that get in their way...
Probably not what OP meant, but I usually have to look something up on Google for every few lines of code I write.

It takes me less time to look things up than to learn em properly.
Already quite proficient in Laravel, but was just wondering why Ruby and Ruby on Rails is more popular than Laravel.

The very first time I watched into to Laravel (version 4 I think) on Laracasts I understood everything.

Watching Ruby on Rails videos... I had mixed feelings, wanting to stop as soon as I started. Don't know why.
This doesn't seem to be the answer for a scrum team. Often you have questions for other engineers, on your team. A product owner is also not interrupt driven and is hopefully digesting stories or talking to stakeholders.

If engineering/qa/architecture is the question, xp may help.
It's All About the Data Says Andy Stanford-Clarke
Yes GitLab support would be fantastic!
The canonical text discussing how this is achieved refers to data structures optimized for immutability as "purely functional data structures". [1] These type of data structures are the default for Clojure as well, and there are a number of blog posts and presentations discussing their implementation. [2] [3]

It's a reasonably complicated topic, but the basic idea is that since the data structures are immutable, much of their structure can be shared between versions with few changes. Most of these data structures end up using a Tree of some sort. Performance characteristics can be influenced to an extent by using bucketing to control the width/height of the tree.

[1] : Purely Functional Data Structures (Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Purely-Functional-Structures-Chris-Ok...)
[2] http://hypirion.com/musings/understanding-persistent-vector-...
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BFF50BHPPo
Most of what you said is also true for Laravel. There are packages, a very large and friendly community.

About the mentor.. I think Jeffrey Way is the only mentor you need when you're developing with Laravel :D

Your ideal way of doing things as in MVC structure or what do you mean exactly?
I'm not disagreeing with you, but what do you mean by "without any personality" - surely everyone has a personality of some kind?

While I wouldn't want to work with people with toxic personalities (and they do exist and can be hugely destructive) but I wouldn't want to equate someone being a bit shy and not in your face with their "personality" with being "toxic".
According to the article, Hayes was "chief informant, who in return would receive leniency and, more importantly, an agreement that he would be dealt with in the UK. To secure this arrangement Hayes had to agree to tell the SFO everything he knew and promise to testify against everybody involved. Crucially, he also had to plead guilty..."
Good points!
> There's a group of people doing it on the streets at every damn Pride event in the UK - at quite some expense to the taxpayer too, since they wind up having a number of police officers stationed near them.

Not that this is false (I have no knowledge either way), but... spinning it this way, like people are to blame for the costs of protecting them from violent retaliation against their speech, feels distasteful to me.
If there's one current technology that I wouldn't call omakase, it would be React. I thought it would get better once redux reached a certain mindshare, but now there's a plethora of redux helpers, "best" practices etc.
(Each of which seems to focus on a new and/or experimental JavaScript language feature)

Hey, I program Perl in my day job, but this is way too much Tim Toady even for me.

(And if "more money" were the only reason for technology adoption, there's probably more to be made in Enterprise Java development, at least on average)
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Can vouch that this is a mainstream point of view in Russia.

Virtually nobody takes Gorbachev seriously no matter their political views.
Escape codes for HP Laserjets

<esc>&l1O to switch to landscape :)

I'm just about to write some code to parse HP PJL so you never know when ...
Source showing this in "New York Times, Guardian, Atlantic, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, or Economist".
> Apparently you don't see as that leading to any problems?

That's not exactly a charitable assumption, and it's also untrue. First of all, that database is already in American hands. Don't for a second assume those "equivalent privacy" rules actually apply behind the scenes. It should be perfectly obvious how these rules cannot possibly be honored even in principle. What's prompting the supposed withdrawal from the data exchange agreement now is not how data is treated in practice, it's merely the loss of an already-weak public declaration that provided plausible deniability up to this point.

So yeah, I see problems from in every corner of this thing, but arguing for a balkanized internet is not the solution either. For starters I don't quite like the fact that my government feels the need to treat me like a child by preventing me from sharing information on Facebook under the pretense of "protecting" me, but then turns around and exchanges all the official data it has on me with the American intelligence community anyway.

When it seems like every move is about shafting the private citizen, the problem needs to be addressed on another layer. Plunging the world into a new information dark age is not a price I'm willing to pay.
Sadly looks moribund: https://github.com/devfd/react-native-workers/issues/23

EDIT - this fork looks like a good bet: https://github.com/ZhijieWang/react-native-workers
How many of these accesses of sqlite.so are the result of using cross platform tools? All of them? Is there any reason to do this otherwise?
The Women Scientists Standing Up to Trump
What I'm curious about is when he said things like "I'll pay you, you know, $50,000, $100,000, whatever. Whatever you want, all right?", was it just hot air, or did he actually follow through with these people? And if so, how (bank transfer, super-cars as gifts, cash in briefcases, etc.), and why weren't these picked up by things like Anti Money Laundering, Gifts & Entertainment policies etc.?
Why do some people simply HATE the word “Startup”?
'Myst' comes to Android
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The basic problem is that none of them are interested in actually keeping APIs stable. Likely because their big income stream is support contracts.

Observe by contrast the efforts Google goes to with the Android APIs.
Alphabet’s bets beyond search are starting to pay off
Key takeaway: "thanks to some mathematical sleight-of-hand known as “homomorphic encryption,” not even the election officials counting up the results can decrypt any individual votes. Homomorphic encryption allows simple arithmetic to be performed on encrypted data without decrypting it. So the encrypted votes can be added up and published online to produce an encrypted, public total tally that remains accurate without ever exposing anyone’s vote. Election officials decrypt only that final result, and even they can only do so when a certain number of overseers combine their secret passwords. After the results are decrypted and declared, anyone can re-encrypt them to check that they match the online encrypted tally, to prevent the officials from colluding to falsify the count."
Exactly, thanks for calling that out.
The problem with your argument is the existence of China, to this day ruled by the Communist party of China. It's GDP grew by a factor of 25 since the fall of the Soviet Union.
I seem to remember the Acorn BBC used \n\r for line endings.
Ask HN: Would you pay extra for an AI Agent that had a fiduciary duty to you
In a world were AI agents(like Siri and Alexa) present only one offer how do you know your getting the best offer?