skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That idea is so good. The ATM could also sound a silent alarm, just like some home alarms do. The phone could maybe even start recording all interactions and automatically submit to something like ACLU.
Do you guys know of organic is worth it?

I guess if I could get a list of pesticides and herbicides I'm avoiding it would bring me more value. Right now I have no idea if it's a gimmic or what.
> Because some companies make it very difficult to cancel out of a contract, like sitting for hours on the phone to speak to a retention specialist who accidentally hangs up the phone.

Can you not just give them notice in writing, say by registered post? Or do these contract limit termination so that it must be done over the phone and the contract isn't terminated until the company says it is? And if so, is that even legal?
>I'm a US citizen. Aside from "is this actually Ryan Lackey, the US citizen?", immigration has no power to keep me out of the country.

This is a dangerously simplistic view of the US security apparatus that will almost certainly backfire on you if you actually try to test it out.

If you happen to resist inquiries in any meaningful way, there's a significant chance that they will seize everything you're carrying, find a means to force you into unlocking your digital devices, then hit them with a fine-toothed comb until they find enough to a straw-man justification to continue detaining you and making your life hell. A few sarcastic or otherwise disestablishmentarian remarks to a CBP offer it all it takes to turn a minute-long interaction into a days or weeks-long holiday in a detention cell.

And sure, the extent to which CBP has the right to pry into your digital life is still an emerging area of law, but in the status quo, things lean very much in CBP's (and whatever other law enforcement agencies they decide to pull in) favor.

Sure, if you're a US citizen, they'll likely need to eventually let you in, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you're out of trouble at that point either. At the very least, you're now a strong candidate for continued surveillance, if not further sanctioning, depending on how the information collected during your re-entry to the country might correlate you with various 'risks to national security'.
I think the counterpoint to that is that working and sharing code for free < working and sharing code for free... and eating.

As my father once told me, "Son, anything worth getting is worth asking for."

Share your talent freely with those who need it, strike a fair bargain with those who can afford it, and sleep comfortable in having made the world a better place.

Or, in other words, pure altruism isn't sustainable.
Ask HN: Which companies have reasonable interview processes?
Many of us agree that traditional interview sucks.
Recently, a lot of startup companies notice this and try different types of interview to hire good software engineers.
Who are they? What kinds of interview do they conduct? What was your experience like?
And if they won't let you?
MongoDB Auditing/Pen-testing tool
Why? I understand the holy wars between devotees of Rust and Go, but if anything I'm impressed that the NYT would actually look beyond 1990s languages.
Maybe my perspective is California centric, but the safety regulations have affected almost every aspect of home building, from materials, to construction, to monitoring. So for example, mandatory safety glass, mandatory plywood sheathing, smoke detectors, electrical wiring, foundations.

It is all those incremental costs multiplied by the increase in average size (2 - 2.5x) and it ends up substantially affecting construction costs.
We just need to tax the rentiers. The rest will fall into place.
Making generalizations about HN like this without backing data to support it is unwarranted. There are plenty of diverse views, many of which do not fit nicely in the box you've constructed.
Where right-of-way is shared with freight, freight has priority.
One thing I love about xor is an interesting correspondence between bitwise xor and the outer product of the exterior algebra.

Say we have an N=4 dimensional vector space, and we use binary place values to represent units vector in a basis, like this:

w = 1000

x = 0100

y = 0010

z = 0001

Then a multivector basis could be represented e.g.:

xyz = 0111

xy = 0110

wz = 1001

Now, if ^ is the outer product:

xy^yz = xz ↔ 0110 xor 0011 = 0101.

wx^yz = wxyz ↔ 1100 xor 0011 = 1111.

and so on.

If anyone has more information about this, I'd be really interested in seeing it!
Any way to get that book under 50 bucks?
I for one welcome our new AI-elected overlords.
It can fix single bit flips within the same ECC domain but not 2 or more bit flips.
It's also doesn't help much in the detection realm, there are some ways of using performance counters to try to identify rowhammer but it only works on the most obvious attempts.
Lying to a border agent can automatically be taken as grounds for refusing entry.
Granted, its a very simple analogy but it needs to be simple because it can be used to counter an equal simple false equivalency in conversation.

My honest opinion is that we've unfortunately divided ourselves down the middle and we've picked causes and policies like we were picking players in dodgeball and you can only be on one team.

I think it so happens either by chance or by some kind of underlying tendency that one side tends to be more correct or at least more progressive (which tends to be more correct in the long run) than the other. I know plenty of people who correctly (I think and I think the data supports) acknowledge climate change is real and largely man-made but could no more discuss the actual causes or ramification than your average climate denier.

I want to be able to have honest, nuanced conversations with people but they typically end defensively and quickly (which is often the result of someone I agree with who can't help but be snarky and counterproductive) and I want to find quick and effective counters to some of these argument killers.
I think a large enough fraction of people are more scared of the external threats that the privacy invasions supposedly help fighting than of the loss of privacy itself.

A few events might change that (e.g., a large enough financial failure using the lost/leaked data originally collected by government). I hope the pendulum swings back sometime, but I'm afraid it is going to take a while (10+ years).
> You can usually just send your patch to mailing list without joining at all and you will be replied off the list.

News to me. The few times I've gone through the hoops, the ML's have said things like "you have to join to send mail". I think there's at least one ML I'm still waiting on the join confirmation mail.

> Unbelievable. The only explanation I can find is that you avoided dealing with diffs and used SVN only on your workplace.

No, you see there are other ways of interacting with shit like that. With tortoisesvn and tortoisegit, I maybe have to use the command-line git once or twice a month, and that's generally for unfucking coworkers merge-attempts. There are also other ways of dealing with merges, like actual tools for that (winmerge, meld, etc...). I don't see any reason to actually deal with the underlying diffs basically ever.

> Mailing lists are supposed to be read in your email client. If you want an archive, use NNTP archive like gmane.

I was specifically complaining about NNTP archives. I've yet to see a mailing list archive that's readable in a sane manner. And the point is, if I'm a new contributor, I'm not already subscribed to the mailing list, and therefore have no way to reading it in my client, which still doesn't provide a nice "forum-thread" like view which is the best way (in my opinion) of consuming that sort of discussion.
No, that's nonsense and you are projecting your own insecurities onto this issue.
I think it's important to improve oneself in every way, including fitness, demonstrable skills like guitar, and interpersonal skills (charisma).

I wasn't stating that only success matters, just that it is an additional factor and this is motivational.
> and will only support a single NVME drive,

What does this mean? That it will only support booting from a NVMe device if it is plugged in to one particular PCIe port?
I don't hate any and use both every day.
>if I want to attract a woman I need to be successful

fundamentally false
High Fidelity: Open source software for creating shared VR experiences
It's even worse with ddwrt. =(

I've pretty much given up hope that any of these *-wrt devs take security or dev seriously.
This is FUD. There are sensible responses to this comment, so I won't write a new one, but say one thing: You don't know how to use conventional tools, and and go on to blindly rant about them.

> Basically, e-mail is the death of any sort of low-effort contribution. If you're starting a new project, and chose a mailing list, you're probably excluding a huge quantity of potential contributors.

If those contributors are as incompetent to not be able to mail a patch, I'd rather be happy to have excluded them.
Should reporting never focus on a product or service?
I use Cask a ton too. But we have to be in the huge minority. No one I've shown Cask to has ended up using it. I'm mainly talking about slightly above average techies or a few people who are comfortable with the cli. I doubt any paid software listed in Cask has their download numbers change by more than a few percent, if that.
Seems like a bit reductionist to liken concern/acknowledgement that "free market" dynamics may not necessarily be desirable in every case to support for Soviet-style regulation.

Airbnb has caused increase in local rent by removing the available to-let properties from the market in London. Considering that there is already an increasing wealth-gap problem, it's hard to stomach something that is exacerbating the problem and reducing social-mobility in the name of free-market dynamics.
Its weird how S3 seems to be the unwanted stepchild of AWS.

So many obvious innovations just aren't turning up.

For example, strangely, AWS introduced tagging for S3 resources, but you can't search/filter by tag, nor is the tag even returned when you get a list of objects, you can only get the tag with an object request. The word "pointless" springs to mind.

In fact it's strange that there is NO useful filtering at all apart from the very useful folder/hierarchy/prefix filtering. But apart from that you can't do wildcard searches or filters or date filters or tag filters.

I'm building an application right now that needs to get a list of all the jpg files - the only way to do that is get every single object in the bucket and manually filter out the unwanted ones - feels like its 1988 again.

It seems like it would also be valuable for there to be alternate interfaces to S3 such as the ability to send data via ftp or SMTP or sftp or whatever, but there are no such interfaces.

Hopefully Google will goad AWS into action on S3 innovation by implementing such features.
>are still expected to pay hundreds of thousands in taxes to subsidise over our lifetime the retirement of the aforementioned baby-boomers

It's curious how the 0.1% can mysteriously grow fabulously wealthy, cut pensions that older people rely upon, cut NHS funding which older people rely upon, jack up tuition fees, jack up rail prices, trigger the largest financial crisis in decades, price younger people out of the housing market and yet still manage to convince the younger generation that their own parents are obviously the ones who ripped them off.
Why on earth have they done:

> Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

Rather than just

> Copyright (c) 2001-2017
> Posting a longish excerpt to give people a flavour of the book is covered by fair use. Otherwise literary criticism would grind to a halt.

> And I don't see why you say it _may_ be copyrighted, it was only written in 2004 therefore it's undoubtedly copyrighted. But so what, it's perfectly fine to post snippets without the author's explicit permission. I suspect 99.99% of authors would give you their eternal blessing for disseminating and praising their work.

When I selected and copied the selections from iBooks, the "Excerpt From:..." and "Check out this book..." lines automatically appeared in my clipboard along with the selections. I figured I'd leave 'em there instead of deleting them.

But thank you for the fair use information, I'll keep that in mind in the future.
Show HN: Configurable webhook listener
That's mostly because of other men in a male dominated workplace. It is statistically not going to be a woman that they're lying to.

That pesky toxic masculinity hurts men quite a bit, but a lot of men seem invested in maintaining it. Changing this status quo benefits everyone.
And I love that idea. But I worked at a coop that didn't work that way at all.

Maybe it was that the board and management had largely remain unchanged for years or that there was investment larger than normal ownership which may have incentivized board decisions towards returns and expansion.

Regardless, there are multiple types from farmer coops, consumer coops, to employee/worker coops out there. and even within those divisions they're all handled in very different ways with different goals. If you're with one of the good ones, that's awesome, help them all you can. But be careful assuming that they all operate similarly.
If it's domain logic, like calculating the total for a shopping cart then you gotta follow DRY. The risk of application inconsistencies are too high. But if it's anything else then I go with KISS.

I really think DRY is far more important for business logic than it is for infrastructure logic. If you calculate what taxes someone owes in two different ways that's terrible. If you serialize two different things in your application in two different ways, probably doesn't matter.
If you don't have a local SMTP setup (MTA is sth else): obtain your patch from your VCS (e.g. git diff revs...), save it to a file, attach to the mail via your mail client.
The relevant duration for an honest comparison is door-to-door timing -- lime left origin to time arrived at ultimate destination. Travel to/from airport, security, checked bag retrieval, early arrival for margin-of-error to not miss a flight, etc. favors rail, making the overall time-in-transit difference less.

Plus, we could see added environmental impact taxation for short-hop flights (carbon tax, if nothing else) that would raise airfare costs.
yes, yes, but you are not a NASA scientist so don't worry
The interesting thing about affordability, is that I've found that really seeing a place is much cheaper than following the tourist trail. 4-star hotels and restaurants look pretty much the same the world over, while a $5 meal or $20 room is distinctly local. I don't mean going overboard and "slumming" it, just look for nice places that lack international crowds and international branding. It takes a little more research, probably a guide, but it's a lot more interesting.
"I have no trouble imagining that the train can compete with flying between SF and LA. Even if the train has to stop in several backwater towns along the way."

Especially if the train stops in "several backwater towns" (Fresno and Bakersfield ain't particularly glamorous, but I'd hardly call them "backwaters"; I digress...), this will automatically be more useful than just an ordinary flight between SFO and LAX for that reason alone.

In addition, the time required to travel from each airport to where you actually want to be can be much less, since train stations can be built much closer to major metropolitan areas. Plus, weather is far less of a problem; when the planes at SFO are grounded due to fog, the trains will still run on time.

For me, the line is effectively useless without Phase 2 (since that connects to Sacramento). With Phase 2 added, you'd have a high-speed connection to all four of California's major cities, significantly improving the already-pretty-great utility of the line.
Looks like you can get a PDF legitimately for free.

https://www.modmypi.com/download/BuildYourOwnZ80.pdf
Have you seen any homeless men or janitors with high value women lately?

Did you know that women find 80% of men to be unattractive?

https://theblog.okcupid.com/your-looks-and-your-inbox-8715c0...

From the article: "As you can see from the gray line, women rate an incredible 80% of guys as worse-looking than medium. Very harsh."
> $ git send-email --to=<mailing list> <commit range to send>
>
> That was hard.

So how the hell does that work?

Like, how does git know how to send e-mail? Do I have to stick smtp creds in somewhere?

> I find this hard to believe. You've never hand-edited a diff file with `git add -p` or `git checkout -p` -- or even done a `git diff`, `git show` or `git log -p`? I did all of the above things just today, let alone in the past three years...

There are many, many ways to interact with git, such as the many, many tools that make it so you don't have to interact with all that shit. tortoisegit is a wonderful tool, and it makes git SO much nicer.

> But chronological order isn't what you want for ML threads. You want to read it as a tree, because that's how people use email... Patch review isn't like a YouTube comment thread.

Except generally, before I'd interact with a ML, I want to see what the ML is like, and having to click through many, many pages with little content on each is just dumb.

Also, you may use e-mail as a tree, but that's you. I use thunderbird, and you can set it to display as a tree, or you can set it to not, and I personally don't.

As far as I can tell, 99% of the ML content I've read is basically a shitty, shitty implementation of a simple forum on a much crapper transport.
This is a perfect example of why the correct place to fight this is at the judiciary.

Trying to outsmart the border guards essentially makes you a smuggler. Sure you're trying to smuggle your own personal data rather anything nefarious, but either way - you're trying to beat them at their own game, on their own turf, where they have every advantage, constant practice, and effectively get to write their own rules.

Every fantastic example you dream up, you have to pray no-one's thought of it before. The game's rigged.

The only real way to win is to double down on the legal position of such searches.
Civil liberties advocates have been gently coddling people's feels for years now in hopes of persuading people of the existence of a problem. Personally I don't feel like there's time for that any more.

Just last night I found that white nationalists are planning a 4 mile march from Oakland to Berkeley that's going to go right past my home in a few weeks. At their last big rally in sacramento last year, 10 people were stabbed, all by the neo-Nazi side. So I don't have the luxury of avoiding the comparison because it is literally coming to my doorstep.
Developer tools have always been biased towards text manipulation, and - in a Sapir-Whorf kind of a way - that has influenced which ideas are imaginable in computational languages.

Even the word "language" is biased towards text, or at least an atomic symbolic representation which is probably verbal.

I agree this is unimaginative, and probably naive. But dataflow/diagramatic systems tend to produce horrible messy graphs that are incredibly unwieldy for non-trivial applications. (My favourite anti-example is Max/MSP which is used for programming sound, music, and visuals. It's popular with visual artists, but its constructs map so poorly to traditional code that using it when you're used to coding with text is a form of torture.)

I think it's hard to do better, because human communication tends to be implicit, contextual, somewhat error prone, and signals emotional state, facts, emotional desires, or more abstract goals.

Computer communication lacks almost all of the above. Programming is a profoundly unnatural pastime that doesn't come easily to most of the population.

The fact that written languages and code both use text is very misleading. They don't use text in anything like the same ways, and code systems are brittle, explicit, and poor cousins of the formal theorem description used in math.

So the domains covered have almost no overlap. Coding is machine design, and human thought mostly isn't. It's hard to see how they can work together with minimal effort unless the machines explicitly include a model of human mental, emotional, and social states, in addition to the usual representations of traditional formal logic.
This seems to be a solved problem, housing co-operatives exist and enable the shareholders to regulate these things themselves.
I'm a Scientist. This Is What I'll Fight For
It's less about the VCS than the GitHub community.
Great tip, definitely helps to have an audience that advertisers consider valuable.
hmm, it's pretty strange. I don't understand why it was implemented in Python, not in JavaScript.
http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131%2814...

I think this is it. It even includes a nice Graphical Abstract which is kind of comical.
Then by definition, its not an entitlement.
It depends on the season. There are not a lot of greenhouses so when the weather gets colder more stuff gets imported.

This is fruit and vegetables that's organic and sourced in Austria that Billa sells currently https://shop.billa.at/warengruppe/obst-und-gemuese/B2-1?face...
GOLD: Targets Further Upside Pressure Short Term
Hypernormalization:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation#Etymology
agree - I do the same too.
> I'm happy to answer any questions people might have about the Times

You asked for it. :) If any of these are inappropriate for you to answer, I understand. Thanks much in advance:

1) The Innovation Report came out in 2014. Per the article (and corroborated by other things I've read), it changed attitudes at the Times because "You couldn’t read that report and think that the status quo was an option." People there still thought the status quo was an option as late as 2014! Is it just standard incumbency psychology - where the incumbent power in an industry lives in an echo chamber, is tied down by vested interests, and can't see change coming - or is something else going on?

2) I've read a few internal reports, leaked and released. All repeat how great the NY Times is -'the best in the world', 'the greatest', etc. - over and over. It was in the Innovation Report, which was supposed to be only for top management to read. These reports aren't marketing to the public (and NYT marketing doesn't use that message nearly as much as the internal reports I saw) and these aren't stated missions ('our goal is to be the world leader in ...'); it looks like flattery in internal communications. It seems like an odd bit of narcissism. What about the culture requires them to tell themselves how great they are? Are they that insecure? Usually highly successful organizations don't need to say that to each other; they know. OTOH, maybe my sample size is too small and it's not really an issue.

3) It still seems to me that they are still a newspaper (emphasis on that old medium, paper) making accommodations to the electronic medium, rather than a news publication on the Internet. Stories still are told almost entirely in text, which was a limitation of the old medium but not the new, and images and video usually are decoration rather than a primary means of story-telling. Even two-bit bloggers will, rather than describing something, just show it to the reader: 'The building is rundown: <img>'. I read a story that described how some innovative high school dance program started class each day with (a dance and song?) - why not just show me a video? Occasionally they have helpful graphics, but they talk like that's a special event rather than a norm of the medium and usually it's a separate story - 'the graphics story' - they can't seem to tell a story integrating different mediums as needed. What is going on? Are they just stuck? Will they let go of the old medium before it's too late?

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