skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are a terrible person with really weird requirements you might prefer the charges related to destruction of evidence to the charges related to the evidence itself.

(if you are a terrible person without really weird requirements you avoid capturing or destroy the evidence on an ongoing basis, not after you are caught)
What is a little senior? Does he now he is not performing enough?
If setenv() is not thread-safe, then why is it using locks?
I travel to the US semi-regularly. I never have trouble. Though it's a shame to have to mention it, I was born in the UK and have white skin. My colleague, who was also born in the UK but has darker skin, was detained for half an hour last time we crossed the border.

I'm a classic "nothing to hide". But I am seriously considering taking no electronics with me next time I cross the border. Might make work more of a hassle, but I'm sure it's doable.
I don't agree that WordPress is as bad as your saying... But the static HTML caching part can be easily achieved, with plugins or with Cloudflare for instance.
Putting a shell script in front of a third-party binary is easier than setting up a build pipeline to build that binary with the modifications that you need, and maintaining those patches across releases. (And that's implying that you have the source code for the binary at all.)

Of course, the perfect solution is to upstream the necessary changes into the binaries that you need, so that you can supply all configuration via args and env.
This is gold! Can't thank you enough for your input.

Just as a side note, while my professional life is very "narrow", I have been doing stuff on the side! I own 3 dropshipping sites (WooCommerce & Shopify) and 2 pseudo-SaaS sites (one MEAN stack and the other Meteor.JS). I started these projects last year just so that I can get my hands dirty in the latest web technologies (last time i made a full fledged website, I was using LAMP and/or Perl!) and also, hopefully, generate some side income for myself (my FI goals is a story for another day).

Anyway, I did include these projects in some of my applications where appropriate but it seems to be ignored. There was another Ask HN thread on this particular topic [1] and it seems that side projects are generally ignored?

You did raise an interesting point on meetups, coding dojos, conferences, etc which will provide an avenue for me to meet people to hopefully build a network outside of my current profession. There is one thing I am absolutely confident with is talking to people! I love being in customer support. :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13463105
This isn't entirely Google's fault. A lot of smartphones use Qualcomm's baseband chips which require kernel drivers. But Qualcomm refuses to port their driver over to newer kernel and so every device is stuck with a specific kernel version for its lifetime. So you might have Android 7.1 but the kernel is still 3.10 even though the actual kernel in Android 7.1 should be 4.4. This is often (not always) because Qualcomm's driver is only compatible with 3.10 and Qualcomm wants to be paid a lot of money to change this.
The "container" is common, but typically not needed.

Sometimes it's a redundant stand-in for "body > .content" or similar (eg: divs dropped directly in body) - and is prevalent because developers don't understand and care about css selectors (or there's that one person on the team that doesn't -- don't get me wrong -- I realize the real world is full of real co-workers, and making a change isn't always easy).

And partially it can be an artifact of abusing floats for "grid layout". Most typically though, the "container div" just ends up being a completely redundant extra "body" element.
What about docker-compose? We've recently started using it, and we don't see any problems; did your colleagues evaluate it?
Would you agree it does often mean that?

More specifically, for what percentage of startups would you consider it fair to say?
We've had machines that can automatically produces lattes for years, but people choose cafes with human baristas for social/relational reasons.
What is the org-mode plugin? I went looking but I could not find it.
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You used to be able not to use any of their payment services. Also identity verification processes that they offer/ed are/were not obligatory.
So in many cases references were all people used to trust someone.

(I have been using the service for years)
Thank you for your great work. For me, security is by far the most important selling point. Firefox is a bit late to the party but not that far behind Chrome, as we can see on the competitions and bug bounties (a Chrome 0day is worth more than a Firefox 0day). Please continue to improve the sandboxing, the website permission model for APIs, the security of extensions (auto reviews, permission model), the binary hardening via compilation options, etc. etc.
Privacy is good but if any website/ISP/government can compromise your browser, what good is it to not send the URLs you visit to Google? Performance for sure is important but that's not a criteria for me. Again, different user profile I guess!
The Internet is mostly bots
> Paying cash is a non-starter.

That certainly depends on the country. Good luck living cashless in Europe, especially in Germany where virtually no small store, food vendor etc. has a CC reader.
They operated for years without accepting payments, the payment is a recent thing.
Tables are meant to be used for ... tables. Not layout. The downsides are enormous.

From hard-to-find bugs through SEO-penalty to code-maintainance [1].

I lived the time when there was no CSS at all. Back then we used tables for everything. I'm happy those times are over.

1: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/83073/why-not-use-tables-...
Russia to ban cigarette sale 'to anyone born after 2015'
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>If a yellow cab can be hailed within a few seconds, it sounds like there are enough cabs to serve the market.

That's only true of certain areas and certain times.
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Interesting. I thought RimWorld hid a few pentagons. Maybe the creator changed that plan?
If you haven't yet, document asuch as you can stand about 1) your expectations of him and 2) how he's not meeting those expectations.

Additionally, it would probably be worth trying a performance improvement plan. Your ideal is not to fire him, but to get what you expect out of him. Give him a chance to explicitly try to meet that.
Why would you feel bad for a man selling you bad and overpriced service and demanding a weird monopoly on it anyway?
> all about getting to know the regulars and making everyone welcome. They take huge pride in what they do, which I guess is what my little rant was about. To call them servants undermines a job that is their passion and that's a bummer.

Couldn't one say exactly the same about a good butler?
The version of CSS Grid that's supported by IE isn't the version that's in the standard and supported by all other browsers. Same with Flexbox.
Exactly!

There is one thing I am absolutely confident with is my ability to not only deal with customers but to also lead technical teams to deliver what they require. I have great references from both my clients and internal teams hence why I thought this will be an easy enough transferable skill to other industry. Nope! After applying for similar pre-sales roles in other industries, I get the feeling that most require actual experience in the industry that role is in (which is fair enough).
grok-machine:glibc dendisuhubdy$ gcc -g -o mtenv metenv.c -lpthread && ./mtenv
start

no segfault detected
"I think you mean 'shed/cast light on'."

Yes, mixed metaphor.

"The author believes that having a family to support (apparently that's a characteristic of latecomers) makes them deserving of a more equal stake."

Good point. Btw I respect the OP for making these comments. They have every right and don't really need to defend them. I make comment because of the ^Ronco principle^.

"In a sufficiently connected and unpredictable
world, you can't seem good without being good." [0]

That's what I'm thinking of when I read the essay and comments here. And this. [1]

Reference

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/ronco.html

[1] "Steve didn't really care about gaining wealth. Money was really never much of a problem for him after launching Apple and receiving the initial investment from Mike Markkula. I think he just cared about making great stuff and figured the wealth would come along with that belief."

"As for Woz, he was content with his initial portion of the ~$190-million he received on Apple's IPO. He did end up giving quite a large number of his shares to other early employees of Apple, who Jobs felt weren't worthy of a share grant." ~ Paul Salzman, https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Steve-Jobs-so-much-richer-than...
How is this different from me remembering a bunch of cab phone numbers and calling them? What is this app doing?
I have no idea, but a statistical correlation does not justify the blanket characterization made by the article, where "risk-taker" is essentially held as a synonym for "privileged".
How reliable is this?
Comprehensive and Complete Analysis on Cost of Developing a Taxi App Like Uber
Not a plausible alternate reality. The UK had draconian detention regulations in WWII (Defence Regulation 18B allowed the detention of citizens without habeas corpus) but even we were weren't daft enough to use it on the entire German-descended citizen population - mainly just our homegrown fascists (and never more than 1000, I think).

No mass murders. Obviously.
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It is, but it also illustrates the problem of drawing a simple diagram for the web. It was in response to user mattmanser's illustration of diabolical nested tables and user einar's nested divs. HTML is problematic for anything complex. I suppose the best way to represent the data is to not use HTML at all, but instead use an image (SVG? for scalabilty) or a big PDF that opens a new tab?

I googled for a solution that I could add to and maintain myself and this was what The Internet threw up as the best solution, but it is far from good.
Mytaxi (mytaxi.com) is a popular taxi app in germany. Since they are using "real" taxis, they get around all the problems Uber and Lyft face.
Give them a low review after the ride and help the problem sort itself out.
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Who is being denigrated?
i feel sympathy for the idea, but it kinda undermines the case against these practices. If we're saying "terrorism" isn't enough of a reason for wide-scale privacy invasion, how could "getting the US to change its policy" ever be enough? Additionally, it's an individual's rights being infringed, almost none of whom have influence on policy beyond voting, and the vast majority of whom, belonging to the subset of Americans traveling to Europe, didn't even vote for Trump.
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Interesting hack: Office 2016 in night mode
Same way anything would be: the set is atomic, and if you the programmer want something specific then you'll have to arrange that. It doesn't have to be magic - it just has not to crash. That's a much lower bar.

As for how you do this sort of thing in general, fork/exec from a multithreaded POSIX program is a minefield and you're best off not doing it. But, if you insist, it looks like posix_spawn might help, or you can do your setenv in the child before the exec. setenv isn't async signal-safe, so strictly speaking you're not allowed to do this.

If this turns out actually to be a problem, introduce a second wrapper EXE that you spawn, supplying environment stuff and arguments for subchild EXE. Fork, exec the wrapper, have it do its thing, then have it exec the EXE you actually want (no fork).

I haven't done that for setting the environment, but I have for setting CLOEXEC on file descriptors when doing fork/exec as part of a (large, gnarly, zillions of FDs, tons of threads, closed source) program.
This repository gives a nice overview of existing financing solutions with some pros/cons. It's oriented towards open source projects, but this doesn't mean it can't apply for other kind of projects.

https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand
Perhaps the article was created to provoke conversation about an issue, rather than to solutionise it.
This is all talk. They own the front page of google. They have the power to put up the worlds most read protest sign in history.
> My car is due for a brake fluid flush soon, not sure if I will do that myself or have the mechanic do it.My car is due for a brake fluid flush soon, not sure if I will do that myself or have the mechanic do it.

Leave brake fluid stuff to the experts. If you manage to get any moisture or air into your brake systems, say goodbye to your brakes. Back when I had a car, I did everything by myself except brakes, engine works and steering - mess up on these three and you can end up dead.
Really? That's pretty surprising - I live in Barcelona, and I use cards 99% of the time, and in the UK it was even easier. Even taxis here have card machines, and every small shop definitely does. The only holdouts are the occasional tiny old wine bar here and there, but even most of them have moved with the times.
Thanks for the offer mate! That was really nice!

I want to note that I actually do still have a job (funny enough, most consider my company as "consulting") and the reason I want to change jobs is simply that I been in it for 12 years and want to move on from my niche.

Also, being in telco for so long, I have had my fair share of dealing with Accenture, IBM, Deloitte, Infosys, etc and no offense to these companies but it is not exactly the sort of working environment I will like to be in having been in a similar company for the past 5 years. ;)
I wouldn't want to deal with cash. That's always a pain and also insecure for both the driver and for the passenger. it should leverage some online payment (even sg. like Bitcoin)
>That is a first world problem.

But owning a smartphone with a touch screen (instead of tin cans connected by a string) and having the luxury of choosing between Uber vs LibreTaxi (instead of waving your arms on the street to hail a taxi) is also a 1st world problem. If we're discussing percentage of world market, 51%+ do not have combined attributes of (1) smartphone ownership[1] + (2) Uber availability + (3) preference for paying cash.

For customers, one of the key attractions to Uber is that drivers can't play the game of "oh sorry my credit card reader is broken, you'll have to pay cash". In other words, many customers deliberately choose Uber as way of not having to pay cash. (This point is more relevant in Uber-USA and not Uber-India that allows cash payment.)

The developer name I see on the LibreTaxi page is "Roman Pushkin, San Francisco, California" and since he's based in a 1st-world location, it seems like the Uber-vs-LibreTaxi has relevance to cashless people like me. If he intends for the service to be used mostly by 3rd-world countries where cash is king, I misunderstood the point of the Uber vs LibreTaxi comparison.

EDIT ADD 40-minutes later: I found author's comment on the intended market of customers: "Just started http://libretaxi.org - uber alternative for communities and remote regions." : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13328052

also see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13530355: "Uber, a company evaluated at $60B, will unlikely go to remote Siberian region where I was born."

Conclusion: LibreTaxi isn't really a competitor to Uber -- it's more of an alternative to remote villages having no ride sharing at all and therefore cash payments makes perfect sense for that market.

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/203734/global-smartphone...
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Good tip! Added to the post
I looked at all the major engines a while back. Of all the smaller engines (non-Unity/UE4) Godot had the greatest range of tutorials that just worked.

However using it I kept running into issues in the editor. Lockups and weird niggly things that eventually put me off using it.

I'll have another look when 3.x lands though.
I was a teenager coding god. 30 years ago. Now I'm just a creepy old guy who hangs out with teenagers.
>something I wish browsers provided is a way to automatically format time elements based on user's preferences

That'd quickly get awkward. I live in Norway where the default format is DD/MM as opposed to MM/DD used in the US. This works fine for us in general, we know to expect the first one when we read something in Norwegian and the second one when we read something in English. If a computer formatted a date based on a default preference and considering that most websites probably don't specify the lang attribute, I think it'd get messy quickly. Also, different date formats will lead to different sentence structures making sense. For example you might say "ever since 9/11 something something" but you wouldn't naturally write "ever since 11. September 2001 something something" (you'd write "ever since the 11th of September 2001 something something") and likewise you also wouldn't naturally write "ever since 2001-09-11T08:46:40-0400 something something".
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Gosh, reading what you just typed hits home real hard. Replacing all the technologies, companies and achievements with my own and I can relate word for word. And i am almost a decade younger!

I won't be much help since I am in the same boat as you but all I can say is keep your chin up mate and hope you pull through and find something!
That took FOREVER. My son when he was 7 thought it was the greatest thing ever. I bought him one month and then I never allowed him to spend a dime on it. It was really not a quality product. There were better games and more social things then that site.

He ended up addicted to Pokemon :)
To add to that: Safe Harbor had already been ruled inadequate in 2015 by the European Court of Justice, in light of the Snowden revelations. A new agreement (Privacy Shield) had been drafted and signed in 2016, even though it was considered equally inadequate by everyone except the European Commission.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_Shield
It's just a meme to enable people to look down on them. Snowflake could probably be fit in here too.
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That may or may not be the case now, but it certainly isn't true historically. There's a reason why "What do we want? Something! When do we want it? Now!" is a protest cliche.

Grassroots activism used to be better organised. Trade unions and other working-class organisations provided structure and institutional expertise. Discontent could be directed as part of a broader strategic campaign. The atomization of society has diminished the influence of these organisations. Most activism today is disorganised and strategically inept, simply because the instigators are inexperienced and lack the support of a wider network.
Not having to carry cash is the one main reason those apps work well. Otherwise, just call/hail a cab. Done.
That is seriously cool! How long does it retain data for? In our case we had to assume the operators might power off the machine for a long weekend, so we spec'd a 7-day data retention.
The title "Club Penguin is shutting down" isn't perfect. They are launching something called "Club Penguin Island".
I'd never heard of a pre-mortem before.

This is definitely going on my list of useful analysis techniques.
A few month ago I was looking for a JS library for a SPA project. After days of WTF moments with those hip JS libraries and their insane tooling I was lucky to find Mithril. I was productive since day one with it. Thank you for providing this ray of hope in JS land.
There's only one thing no vending machine or robotic barista can do:
justify the cost of a $5 cappuccino.
I don't know how to say it politely but what has been achieved by using ad-hoc syntax such as this gem (and similar complex CSS syntax):

display: grid;
grid-template-rows: 150px [nav-start]
auto 100px [nav-end];
grid-template-columns: [header-start]
minmax(200px, 3fr) 9fr [header-end];

CSS fans for some reason seem to think that its somehow better to have rendering/presentational properties in an ad-hoc language. Originally, plain markup attributes where designed to accomodate rendering properties, with type checking and all. The naive dichotomy established by putting "semantics" into markup and "presentational" properties into CSS was accidental, and it didn't make sense back then, nor does it now.
This actually crossed my mind! I worked with these guy and he was recently "fired" and straight off in 2 weeks, he found a job in another industry. I was curious why and took a look quickly at his LinkedIn profile and wow, every cliche buzzword you can imagine is on his profile.

My profile is fairly straight forward plus I just can't bullshit the way he did it.
That mention actually made me question the genuine understanding of the author. As much as mircotsoft is pushing to be a big player in this, I do not see them taking a significant part of the market for home media center. There are just too many android box doing the same job for media streaming and big players pushing their own (Holu and Amazon come to mind).
A bit off topic, but I honestly think Retro Report (sponsored by NYT) is wonderful in that it highlights how often the media misses the mark. Especially in the age of the 24 hour news cycle. Sure, they'll issue retractions and such, but the damage to someone is usually done. Richard Jewell is a case in point.

Anyway, it is indeed disheartening that if we consider some other viewpoint or perhaps even sympathise with it how easy it is to be branded an enemy to the other. It's a 'you're with us or against us' mentality that is becoming more and more ingrained.
Now thats how you design a welcoming website!
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Asian cars, Japanese in particular, are generally less advanced. They do not use turbocharged gas engines, have less bells and whistles inside and have worse design for many European tastes. That's just it.

Of course, there are exceptions - Mazda is considered to look pretty cool across whole model range. Still, for my use, I much prefer my 1.4 TSI than whatever I saw available in Asian cars.

Volkswagen cheating was unacceptable and I'm pretty happy they got their asses handed to them over the issue. At the same time I'm aware that American diesel regulations are a way to protect your own brands, since Americans don't have the tech to make their own - you're more gas/hybrid/electric market.
After seeing the picture where they are literally using paper, my initial assumption was that this is was an old April fools joke.
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Haha I definitely not think myself as old! I think antiquated will be a better term. ;)
As a person still minimally younger than 35 your opinions are quite sobering. I think at this point of my career I should focus on high salary (in live in EU though) while maintaining a good physical condition as I might have no other choice than salary and lifestyle downgrade in 10-15 years from now.