skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have found that once a sociopath is unveiled, they start falling apart. However, they turn on a dime so it's very, very important that once you've realised what you are dealing with that you cut communication to the bare essentials. That's because they will be prepared to say and do whatever it takes to manipulate your emotions, and unlike the sociopath you have a conscience and you will be manipulated.

The solution is to get a third party who has no pre-existing relationship with them if you need something. In my case, I was owed close to $15,000, of which I knew I could not recover all of so I took the guy to a debt collector. He used his father to attempt to get out of the debt, and claimed I hadn't done the work. Sadly for him he had burned a LOT of people and it took a few emails to some key folks to disprove his claims.

He tried to bluff his way out, but at this point I was somewhat back on my feet and willing to lose $2,000 in court costs - if I lost, then I wouldn't go under, if I didn't lose I'd get it all back including the $2,000 which I could claim as court costs.

When it became clear I wasn't budging, I got paid $10,500 of which 10% went to the agency. Frankly, the agency earned that money and I was very happy to pay it!

So the golden rule is: cut off direct communications with a sociopath. A sociopath works by manipulating you, and quite often they cannot achieve their goals without you or someone else, so it drives them crazy if you don't engage. But that also reduces their effectiveness, so if you need something then use an intermediary.
What can I do when the AWS IoT Button runs out of charge?
In case anyone was wondering about point 1, there have been three terrorist attacks in the US since 9/11 perpetrated by immigrants from countries on the list, with zero deaths.

(http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jan/...)
This is the Israeli company the FBI hired to crack the San Bernadino iPhone, right?

Though that company may have been working on such things already, and though Israel is an ally, American law enforcement using a foreign company of a nation that, for example, exports technology to China, to hack the iPhone in a manner that Cook and many others (even myself) would make its way to the public ... argh.
It might but protectionism alone can't make it work. Essentially there still needs to be enough money on the table structurally to make it worth manufacturing even with protection vs. alternative ways to deploy capital. If wages and expenses for instance are so high that you can't make an attractive profit, even protectionism won't bring back jobs.
You seem to just assume a code of conduct can not include mature and reasonable policies. I don't share that assumption.
I feel lucky in that I have a job that involves social interaction, but moving to a new city left me without any "third place". I definitely empathize with the loneliness that can stir up and so many public spaces seem designed around creating new social interactions between people who aren't already associated.

I read an article not long ago about upscale private clubs. I'm strongly attracted to the status/networking aspect often involved, but the idea of a place gather and socialize that doesn't require buying alcohol/coffee/food is appealing. Place it in a neighborhood. Keep the membership fees accessible to the people who live in that community and then offer some small perks that bars/coffee shops don't (e.g. free billiards on a real table). Hopefully, membership would make people a little more open to socializing with whomever show up, rather than the typical bar in which most people stick to their own group.

Does anyone have experience with private clubs (of any kind)?
Did they open up social interaction in this way?
I don't know about most consumers, but the "smart" stuff is a big product negative feature when I'm shopping. I'd much rather add an external device of my choosing, Roku or Apple TV or something else than use the TV internal "smart" apps/channels which may or may not get updated.

Now if some TV added a nice little shelf space, or mount point for an external box behind the TV - I would think that would be a selling feature.

You can just not activate/use the feature, but I find I keep tripping over the button on the remote.
Neat looking graph but there's no explanation of what it represents. (I can guess but the data does match the most obvious option.) Also clearly has little to do with the OP.
You argue either way over whether or not something "is", or "has been".

It's the "will be" that you should be wary of.
Does this say Amazon grew by just over 17%, close to 1/2 of that growth came from previously Microsoft employees, and about 3% of Amazon's workforce moved to Google? I'm obviously not your target audience but to be honest I'm not sure how to read your graph. It seems like a prime candidate for some interactivity too, if I hover a chord between two employers you should highlight those employers.

Also is this only tech sector employees? I find it hard to believe anywhere near 1/2 of Amazon's employee growth is in that sector, I'd expect warehouses etc. are growing much faster?
I suspect working in an Amazon warehouse is much more physically intensive with commensurate increases in injuries and other job-induced ailments as compared to most retail jobs.
Scientists Plan to Replace Fossil Fuels with Nuclear Fusion by 2030
If the ordering is important, then you should be using

a()
.then(()=>b())
.then(()=>c())

Assuming anything about the completion order of:

a():
b();
c();

Where a, b and c are async tasks of any kind (be they classic old callbacks, Promises, Observables, whatever) is just asking for trouble. The whole point is that you don't care about when it finishes, you just want to know that it has finished. If the order is that important and you don't want to handle managing it, you should just write standard synchronous code.
I have to confess I didn't see the link to the whitepaper in my first read through - shame on me for commenting before I did :) I think you all did a pretty good job putting this together overall after reading through it, and I applaud the effort. That said, the critical HNer in me sees some bias in the questions and answers. Specifics:

* The results on page 17 jumped out at me the most. There are 4 specific options for negative emotional reactions, and one generic positive option. It's easy to underestimate the powerful effect this has on pushing the responder to a specific answer. Imagine if your answer options were only "content, secure, informed, protected, neutral, misled" and how different your results might be.

* The question for the above, specifically the tone of "[...] does not offer any additional protection [...]" is also a form of leading the responder to an answer. While the statement is mostly true, there's some contention on the point esp. regarding cookies (see the other comments on this thread). Either way, you'd get a more honest answer if you strictly list the things private browsing does, and the things it does not do in a way that's as objective and incontrovertible as possible.

* It would be useful to see the benefits underlying the "correctly identified" category on page 13. I couldn't find those anywhere which was a bit suspicious.

In consulting, I used to survey users on their personal security practices (password strength, adherence to policies, secure disposal, etc.) and gained a huge appreciation for how powerful bias and misinterpretation can be in surveys, and how hard it is to control. But to reiterate, I think this is overall pretty well done and has some really interesting results, esp. the usage data in the first few sections.
Apple already has several ARM powered laptops drifting around internally
Here's how protectionism hurts.

Last month I wanted to buy protein powder. It cost about $80/tub, as compared to $35 in the US. In the US I drink 3 scoops/day - my (much poorer) Indian workout partner is losing gains because that's too expensive.

I would also enjoy drinking a can of Guinness at my local pub. Unfortunately Guinness is insanely expensive and mostly unavailable. In India I just drink swill - domestically produced Fosters and Kingfisher. Thanks to protectionism, the only good drink available in India is Old Monk, and even that is threatened [1]. (The situation is improving a bit - Birra is new and pretty ok and local breweries are sprouting up for rich people.)

I'm regularly asked to bring various products into the country - a new phone, a laptop, etc, because they are too expensive or just unavailable locally.

I wanted to cook some non-Indian foods for one of my friends. But many of the things I wanted to cook for her were impossible due to lack of ingredients - the import duties make them too expensive, and no local market exists. Another friend of mine is begging for me to bring her a bagel and a bunch of philadelphia cheese next time I come.

Protectionism hurts because we are all consumers.

[1] Something bad happened and now Old Monk tastes bad. It's truly sad - Old Monk used to be a world class liquor.
I'm pretty sure the author hasn't encountered real sociopaths yet.
>Everyone is thinking, "just let them take the photo" or "the clerk is just doing their job".

Maybe, or maybe you made them second guess their own personal policy of what they are comfortable sharing. So long as you are confident I don't think a reasonable person would look down on you for protecting your privacy. I usually just say something like "I don't do that" when asked to share email/phone/zip with stores, never had a clerk get weird about it.
I flat out deleted Facebook (the hidden option that truly deletes you). Turned out to improve my social life. I focused on and nurtured the friendships that truly mattered to me.
There was a (possibly mistaken) belief that some data could be recovered with an electron microscope. AFAIK it is definitively not true with modern spinning drives and its the "AFAIK" portion of that statement that keeps people doing multiple wipes.
Mesh networking: Why it's coming to a home or office near you
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> and this difference is what drives wage. Every time you try to reduce the gap, you drive down wages.

I'm not going to argue any more on this reasoning at all. I have explained quite clearly why this kind of thinking is incorrect and hasn't worked so far and won't work in the future either. See my peer comments.

> No, there just isn't enough money willing to proactively train more people. The outreach programs can take an unlimited amount more funding.

> If you are claiming that there is literally a shortage of people that can be trained below loss for most of the IT industry, I'd like to see more evidence.

I don't quite understand what you're trying to say here. Of course my evidence for shortage is anecdotal. You seem to agree that the demand outstrips supply and so far Americans have not taken up CS in large enough numbers to satisfy that demand. That is my only "evidence".
How do we know facebook doesn't serve up tracking scripts from other domains?
As a newbie in the software engineering world (college senior), I thought this was a really interesting explanation of FP.

I wonder if there is software that takes a program as an input and outputs a 2D block diagram of that program similar to the figures in the blog post.
TribalScale Works with Amazon Alexa to Build New Skills
I kinda feel like this is an unnecessarily judgmental article about what comes down to two people with incompatible core values that never should've worked together in the first place.
> And there were Sacco and Vanzetti, of course.

They were, of course, guilty — as their lawyer later told Upton Sinclair.
A Guide to Optimizing Your PPC Ads
Useless trivia without a demographics breakdown. Age. Gender. Wage. You know, helpful information to examine what kind of jobs these are and who is taking them.
How Enterprise Federation Helps Shorten the Sales Cycle
Software Is Eating the World, and You Need to See It
HN has those kind of people too.
Not you personally, I mean in general there is a public trust differential between Kalanick and Musk
They certainly did not, if for nothing other than `async.auto()`, which automatically runs a dependency graph of async functions.
Why does this matter to you?

Stop thinking of Amazon as a business. Start thinking of it as tightly managed private VC fund with a shared management structure. As successful startups start spinning off cash, it reinvests in more startups. Most fail, some succeed, and the cycle continues. As long as they do this well, the result is no profit and rapid growth.

Amazon can turn a substantial profit at any moment that they want by just cutting back on this internal reinvestment cycle. The second that they do, that will be a sign that they have internal trouble.
A record 14 weeks
I dispute your attempt to conflate protests against Trump's ban on entry with an indictment of middle America. People who support the ban do so for a variety of reasons and are not neatly grouped in the political center as you suggest, just as people who oppose the ban do so for a variety of reasons and can not be neatly grouped on the left.

it may not matter if it seems like they're calling middle America racist

It's true that promoting such a perception would benefit the Trump administration, but as I always say to people seeking to capture some ideological territory, 'you don't speak for the American people.' At present the administration is rather overdrawn at the credibility bank.
The significant figure here is Trump. So anyone associating with him will be tainted by that association.
I agree with you, but just a reminder that the Industrial Revolution was also a time of mass civil unrest, war, nationalism, and the growth of revolutionary groups advocating the overthrow of the existing social and economic order (some of which succeeded, e.g. Leninist Russia).

You could make a fairly strong argument that is was the very real threat of Communist revolution in Western Europe (e.g. Germany in the 1930s, or Italy and France post-WW2) that forced governments to adopt socialist programs that moderated many of the excesses of the market, or in the US, the massive government investment in the middle class as well as draconian anti-left measures that prevented a similar threat.

We've so far ended up in a somewhat decent place, but if history is any measure, we're going to have a rocky next few decades if technology does end up destroying or transforming demand for labor. People generally don't go quietly when their livelihoods or place in the social order are threatened.
> Contrast to say, Germany, where saying something objectively wrong but still harmless like the Holocaust didn't happen will land you in prison.

Is this a problem?

> I'll concede some places have lower taxes

I believe this won't help you, as you will have to pay the US rate at a minimum. It's hard to to say something sarcastic about that rule, because maybe other countries do it too?
Remember that Amazon has also been in a private contract with the USPS since 2013 to perform Sunday deliveries. Wanna bet that contract expires soon?
Have you noticed that Starbucks has wifi sponsored from Google? Considering that Google tracks everything else, it is reasonable to assume they track MAC addresses at nearly every Starbucks, too. It has been reported that shopping centers do this as well. You do not have to actually be connected to their SSID either because your MAC address will be broadcast with any frames transmitted.
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You can load *.info Datastore backups into BigQuery tables natively. You could probably write up a quick apps script to automate data refreshes it if you wanted.

Still not the same as reporting directly from a live datastore though :)
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People's answers to things like the trolly problem says we do have different morals and the way you frame a question has a lot to do with what we think is moral.
Strength of friendships in Germany can't be granular?

Aren't there just people that have been good to you in the present or past, that you want to see succeed, that you want to root for? Those are the perfect candidates for Facebook.
Majority of them are in delivery.
Show HN: Fabric Tasks That Install Nginx, Gunicorn, Postgres, Redis, and Flask
All the dietary minerals are chemical elements:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_(nutrient)
I think Macy's announced 4K last January and in January 2017 announced 10k job cuts. Not sure about Sears but I saw a 5400+ number as it closes low performing stores.
Italians were literally accused of terrorism. That's what "anarchism" meant in the 1920s. And just as there is today with "Radical Islamism", there was a nationwide panic about anarchism.
I think that she was right that rescheduling the incubator interview would have hurt her chances - I've had experiences like this in my life which confirmed this.

I think maybe it's because most investors are sociopaths themselves and they don't feel comfortable dealing with non-sociopaths - They prefer to deal with people who will consistently put money above all else. Any sign of non-sociopathy is considered inefficient and bad.
Manny different reasons, including:
- monitors have better refresh rate and color accuracy
- tvs don't have sleep functions and won't wake up with your computer.
- tvs that cost $350 don't have have refresh rate, contract etc.

Monitors are more expensive because the have to be more detailed in color reproduction, accuracy, etc.
Did they really need to make a name collision?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVfs
Im personally not a fan of the new review & promo process. There seem to be some obvious, and some hidden, risks. In my opinion it reduces depth of the content, breadth of the review, and broader exposure/evaluation inside the org.

The "new" transfer policy is actually from 2015 or 2016. Historically transfers in less than 1 year of employment required senior manager approval. New policy is free to transfer after 30 days. As I recall. For details see inside/wiki/

There are also changes in the SDE1 to SDE2 promo process and SDE leveling/coaching/role normalization across amazon.

From what I saw of timing and content neither change was strictly related to the nyt article.

Source: Principal Engineer in AWS, coming up on 6 years at amazon, a few years doing tech/promo assessments.
The Failure That Led Snap Inc. To Its Business Model
Just making sure you know you can read your messages at messenger.com and avoid the rest.
Agreed. "Satan's Daughter" had different priorities than the author, but nothing in the reprinted conversations suggested she had any malicious intent. In fact, I can understand why she accused the author of being paranoid.
I'm using a 55" 4K TV as a monitor and it works fine at full resolution, so my advice is just buy a TV for this.
The pixel density on the 32 inch is mich higher, perhaps this leads to larger manufacturing cost? That seems unlikely to explain the entire gap however.
As discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13451924 .

Further to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13458186 , there still hasn't been a response.
... Though the privacy is more from non-Bloomberg users than from Bloomberg itself. Eg:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/may/10/bloomberg-gold...
Exactly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_per_watt