skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed on unnecessary complexity, but it's not a trivial app. Quick scrolling through sources and we see dozens of endpoints and each is potentially vulnerable.

Trusting the server, developers, Flask (which is by no means a good choice for secure app, my word) etc... messengers is a better option for sure.
There's no blame here. There's the fact that he's in a subversive, police state... in the open to them... producing solutions to resist subversive, police states. Peer review them carefully. He should also tread carefully on that.
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Yep, guess you're right :D
we do have customers, you can see them in the bottom of the top strip and regarding scale, it actually gets better with scale.
ANDROid + chROME + DArt = ANDROMEDA?
Why not get rid of NTP altogether? For servers, they ought to be able to accept a hardware time and frequency inputs. Typically this would mean a 1 Pulse-Per-Second (PPS) signal and a 10 MHz signal. You might also want some kind of serial signal that describes the date and time to label the last second pulse.

Why don't any professional servers come with this kind of connection built-in? Why can't I synchronize my Xeon chip's clock to my own reference frequency?
That's true, the MTurk questions he asked are very similar.

It could maybe be coincidental, since that's basically the default things you'd ask someone when trying to understand pain points and product ideas, but I do see your point since it seems like it's the same 4 questions.
Read a science blog (almost any one made by an actual academic), and then read a journalist science column. Tell me which one displays "daily full-time commitment by trained men and women who return to the same beats day in and day out". Then go read about tech for example, and see if it's any different.

Indeed, if you ignore economic news, political journalism seems to be better done by biggish professional entities. But they don't seem to have any other niche remaining.

Also, the GP claim about "social media", well, if you listen to it and hear "Facebook", it's certainly wrong. We badly need a better platform. But that does not open the niche to journalists.
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For me it touches on some things I experienced in college/grad school. Moreover the idea of "adjustment fatigue" is an interesting idea, and an interesting way to think about interactions you have with people from different cultural backgrounds. Do you only work with people from your exact cultural background? I don't, so I find these things interesting. Especially working in open source I often run into situations where friction is caused by cultural misunderstanding.
No, my point was it's very, very easy to come away with the impression that ESR is a complete nutjob and he's developed a well-deserved reputation for being one. Maybe you think his views on guns are perfectly sane but that's not even a fraction of the tenth of it. The record is extensive so whenever you run across someone who thinks ESR is bananas, I think it's pretty safe to assume they're familiar with it and are simply picking some issue they feel is particularly striking to them. 'I feel this person is an extremist so I wouldn't want to work with them' is not an unreasonable or 'uncool' position.
The market is definitely strange in Toronto.

Did the #2 type companies offer any equity at all?
See also "When a Chinese PhD Student Meets a German Supervisor "
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12769385
| In my ideal world, it wouldn't matter what ideas companies have. All that matters is the "needs" of customers

your "ideal world" is actually (surprisingly) the world of free market capitalism.

You see, most "free market" "private sector" types base their views on microeconomics, "let the market decide" what "the market clearing price" is, there will be no shortages, price gouging is a signal to competitors and new market entrants...

But they forget that microeconomic theory is entirely based on some assumptions and axioms, one of which is "perfect (symmetric) information", buyers, sellers, competitors, and investors are assumed to all share the same information, no secrets, and without that openness, the market will never find the market clearing price.

creating wealth is not the raison d'etre of free market capitalism; cheap and abundant goods and services for consumers is
34C3 might not happen in Hamburg this year. CCH is closed due to renovations :/
saw an article that in the last 40 years the number of administrators has increased 400% while tenure track professors has only increased 23%. Number of students has increase 300%. They could easily cut costs but the money is there so there's no incentive

These college admins should honestly be charged criminally
Is 4 questions really your business value?
RMS(Richard Stallman) comes to mind after reading the title. Probably because he was really capable and had this attitude for real and not faking it.
Justin, I think you should rename the post "Someone created a startup just like mine and here is why that is awesome".
It is the same for almost anybody studying in a foreign country. It takes a fairly high level of self-confidence to really put yourself out there and cultural/linguistic differences can be confusing to navigate. I myself have studied in 3 foreign countries and can say that it requires a lot of effort to make local friends.
If "It's not that the other person is lazy or "doesn't love the web"." then why is it "reasonable to take that into account?" Those two sentiments seem to contradict each other.

The real problem here is that there is now yet another terrible signal being used as a measure of acceptability in the vetting and interview process.

"Have some GitHub/GitLab/etc profiles" is in the same category as "give the most personable person in the office promotions and raises".
I'm not even sure there's an implementation that could do even the most common synchronous operation.

Like opening a socket, sending data, and blocking on the response.
Your idea was not stolen, you still have it.

He might have copied it, but you can't be sure.
Ok sure. But instead of that experience we just have a very generalized article with some wild statistic. 40% of foreign students have no close friends? Really?

It's a garbage article that somebody is posting for up votes.
"Sprig" was not a real street name; it was a bad address.
I am too lazy to look it up on the mailing lists but a while back I recall ESR contacted certain BSD projects trying to convince them to change to Git. I mistook it for the occasional incoherent spam that slips through the filters.
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Didn't you get the memo? Anything that's anti-Trump, pro-immigration, or shows how repressed foreigners are in the U.S. must be relevant to hackers. Granted, this is one of the better articles of this nature.
People should know the Quartz headline is wrong.

Follow the source link and you find that 40% have no close American friends, which is different from "friends on campus". I checked the source looking for a baseline (how many domestic students have no close friends) and discovered that it was specifically about international students making friends with Americans.

> "Nearly 40 percent of the survey respondents had no close American friends and would have liked more meaningful interaction with people born here"

This is a very different result - still important, but the corrected stat and the free-response listed in the source make clear that we're looking at a different question than simple loneliness.

edit: The HN headline has been updated, which is great news. Now if only Quartz could meet the same standards...
This is "I had a bad experience with X so here's why X is bad"
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>Recent history is especially illustrative of this.

Are you referring to Trump's election?

Well, some people's problems were solved by the ballot box, and they got their man elected. The fact that you disagree with the politics doesn't negate the system working as intended.
That market can only possibly be diminishing over time. I mean sure, $bigco can afford ~3k/user/year, but eventually, that's gonna dry up.

Charging for basic development tools in 2017 just seems weird, and I'm afraid by the time they realize that the company is dying, the mindshare will be gone, never to return.
For comparison:

Mine:

I work in the eCommerce/re-seller business. In particular I sell products on Amazon. Specifically Amazon FBA.

As my business is scaling up it is becoming more difficult to keep track of what we scoured for product in the field and the costs associated with it. Tracking COGS and the sources to monitor and report would be great.

The software would need to be something mobile so I can put in the costs, source of product and expected profits. It would also need to be linked to Amazon.

Yes I would pay for this software.

Theirs:

I sell vinyl records on eBay, Amazon, Discogs, and Etsy.

I find it time-consuming to list products on each of these different sites.

Software that facilitated the listing and cross-listing of products would save me time and make me more money because I have far too much product on hand and not enough time to list it. Ideally the software could automatically pull info from one listing on one site and populate the other sites for me.

I would pay a monthly service fee for this.
I challenge the "hilarious inaccurate" because I suspect it is due to people not knowing how a rhino actually look, combined with a prejudice towards pre-modern artistic depiction of exotic animals. If you actually compare the drawing to the photo, the drawing is actually amazingly accurate, down to details like the skin on the legs and the toes.

And if you look at the photo you will notice the rhino actually has hairy ears.
>I feel the true meaning of a discussion has been lost. It has warped from "lets share our opinions to achieve a greater understanding" to "Let me show you how I'm right and try to dismiss all your opinions in every way possible".

What a wonderfully astute observation. Conversations have become a competition where each side feels they need to "win", often at any cost. I grew up on the internet, having first gotten a connection in '93. I remember a time when online conversations were "let's share..." and have watched them transform into their current state. I suspect a lot of the current deteriorated state of in-person conversations came from the deterioration of the online conversation, which agrees with this articles premise. Can any older members comment on whether this was happening so much before the internet was commonly used?

>And, in reality, what happens is "let me say my opinions to the air so the ones who already agree with me agree even more".

I would add that it's also a lot of virtual signaling[0]. Making statements you know your in-group agrees with in order to increase your social standing.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling
Really? I dislike his policies, but running Trump's business empire was probably about the same level of stress as the presidency.
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Disclosure: I work for a large University (combined residential+online presence of ~100k) and we have contracts with Pearson, McGraw, Cengage, and Top Hat.

Top Hat has been surprisingly enjoyable to work with from a contractual side. They've been accommodating to our needs and worked with us to improve their product -- I'm actually working on a SOW with them right now where they'll be adding new features for us at 0 cost.

Even though we have strategic partnerships with these large publishers, I wouldn't mind seeing them go by the wayside in favor of integrating more of Top Hat's digital content.
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Things you would use maybe a few times a month or year and they really help you, but you won't buy a year long subscription for it, even if it's just 5€ or something. Also you wouldn't get your credit card or PayPal every time you use it, because it's so cheap.
..which blocks off a lot of arbitrary features, including iOS, OSX, UWP, and 64 bit compilation of all things.
LaTeX is not going anywhere, but for 90% of everyday typeset doc creation (letters, articles, etc) - groff / troff is often a superior choice.

I had my troff phase, but I don't see why I'd want to write troff directly for simpler documents if I can just write in org-mode or Markdown and convert it to a myriad of formats (including LaTeX and HTML). With org-mode I can also run inline code snippets, feed tables directly to gnuplot, use org-mode's todo/agenda functionality, etc.
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Currently yes, but that's because it's in Beta.
That’s exactly what we are building. And self-publishing authors are at the center of our focus.

I hope we will indeed ‘get it right’. I can tell you, it’s not something so trivial as ‘put a fancy GUI on top of LaTeX’. Instead, we are developing a complete typographic design engine, which involves natural language processing, file normalizations, drama parsing, complicated algorithms for type fitting, sectioning, page count quiring, color space conversions, Unicode common locale, multilingual hyphenation, opentype feature development, etc., etc.

12 meters of typographic literature are backing us, while we spend countless late nights in front of our code editor. My printing experience with my Original Heidelberg letterpresses in my garage puts some extra weight on the scale — I just love letters and books, the whole lot of typographic history!

It might assure you, if I tell you I am also methodically working my way through the Chicago Manual of Style, turning those prescriptive rules into working software.

So, do subscribe to our waiting list, and expect your invite coming soon: http://textus.io!
Yep, you captured the point I was going for here. It's not that all stubs and oddities are deleted, it's that if an article catches someone's eye the default decision is "delete".

That's almost worse, since the results are so haphazard. Outside of a few predictable topics (virtually all cities/towns get long-lasting stubs), Wikipedia is "comprehensive" only to the limits of "no one noticed, or someone powerful stepped up to defend it".
Yes, the cost is ridiculous. Delphi used to be an affordable tool. I've been a big fan of Delphi and would still be developing Windows apps in Delphi, except for the excessive pricing. Stopped renewing my licenses two years ago.

Delphi had the flexibility of Visual Basic without the deployment problems.

Unlike VB, all the controls and libraries were written in Delphi itself, which allowed you to walk through each and every library when debugging problems.
Funny, physical textbooks have never blocked me from using Linux, nor has physical paper coursework...
More money wouldn't help that cause though. The US doesn't need the billions to solve issues, it already has it. The lack of solutions in the US is due to people not working towards them, not the resources being lacked.
The endpoints don't do much, the app delegates most of its functionality to very well-known Python libraries, there's minimal backend, no account system... it's a pretty auditable piece of code. If you can't get a handle on the security of this thing, there's no web app you can get a handle on.
I shouldn't have to read the comments to determine if the headline is a lie or not.
The sound of inevitability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIbEj1CIpuU

Every idea has multiple people who are considering it at around the same time. And rarely people act on it, because giving birth to new idea's can be like a 9 year gestation period. Not for the faint of heart.

Personally I know when I see someone who is also executing on an idea that I have had, I subscribe to them, just to keep up.
Now let's say you're in a route handler where the buck stops, and you need to compose any number of async calls, some branching on if-else logic and/or the results of other async calls.

This is where the "just wrap it" argument breaks down.

Though I think promises are only slightly better when you have if-else branches that add to the async chain. It's not til async/await where Javascript finally hits its stride.
Well, I guess I make three then.
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Oh, and publicising user-activity data about a specific user?

No Nugget for me ever.
Maybe the CEO made the decision subconsciously and later rationalized the decision
I might be a few years out of date now (no WPF since 2011) but all I remember of Blend is it was so complex to learn and use that it was easier just to hand-code my XAML. Not at all like the GUI builders of yore. That may have changed though.
this, look at the 180 switch in his persona from the 80s to after his struggles in the 90s. He was fairly soft-spoken and thoughtful then transitioned to his current brash persona to build his brand to do licensing deals.

Combined with the fact he may be suffering from early Alzheimer's/dementia like his father and you have present day Trump.
Also worth shouting out to Global Leaks, a similar sort of system with some interesting other features.

https://www.globaleaks.org
RIP Aaron Swartz, who originally built this. He'd be 30 now.
They all do.

the first ones offer anywhere between 30% (if you are a co-founder), 15% - 1% (if you are in the first 10 to get hired).

The 2nd type offer equity (generally less than 1%) and in all honesty it's pointless - chances are they'll fail before your 4 yr vesting period (and if you work for 12 hrs/day everyday you'll probably get burnt out even before you hit your year 4). And even if they don't fail, if you do get equity (and convert it to cash) divide it by 4 + salary / yr, you are basically making less than the avg salary for your position / exp in your area.
Three questions: 1) what will replace plastic for convenience products ( aka single serving consumables )? 2) are there organizations championing this effort elsewhere? 3) where can i read more facts about Delhi's efforts?
If you are interested in Kubernetes, DevOps, containerization and microservices, please check out CloudNativeCon/KubeCon in Berlin on March 29 & 30.

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Personally, 5 of the 6 phones I've used in the last 14 years were still in great condition after the ~2 year contract period that I used them for (plus the one I'm currently using, but I don't get credit for that yet as it's only 4 months old). The one exception got dropped on a bus, and still works fine, but has a cracked but still functional screen.

I think most people are more like me, but there are indeed a non-negligible segment of the population like you (and my sister) who just destroy their phones. Based on everything I've seen, it's definitely more of a you thing than a modern phone thing.
If you take a step back, there is a lot of hatred generated by much of today's media. I compared it to newspapers from 1970 and the nastiness and the sexism has increased by at least one if not two orders of magnitude. I challenge you to go to your local library or archive and compare for yourself. It's a stark contrast. I compared an entire year's worth of papers, so, I have a good basis to compare.

Here are a few examples of things that did not happen in 1970 in the papers I read and there was nothing like it at all,

The Verge lead a nasty attack on Matt Taylor for wearing a shirt designed by a woman,
http://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2014/11/13/7213819/your...

Or, many of the articles about Donald Trump (lunatic is a common term used by some big media outlets, Google it, there are too many links to list). Irrespective of whether you like his policies, the personal attacks (which are even very popular on HN) are unacceptable. To disagree with policy is fine, to personally attack the man is not.

Or try the website equalmeansequal.com . It is very extreme in its gender prejudice and had gone without being challenged. For example, read the section about prisons/incarceration. Like Australia, even when police reports demonstrate there are many violent women (25-33% of perpetrators according to US and Australian statistics such as ABS), there is an almost universal denial in the media about domestic violence and female aggressors. Why? Why condone violence? You can't get much worse in breaching ethics and human rights. Why does it persist so universally?

The linked article at nautilus.us also defends feminism. The central theme to each of these examples above is ... feminism. Feminism does not equal female (nor equality). I currently work with mostly females (about 95%). I'm anti feminist and not anti female! I strongly disrespect prejudiced movements/ideologies (KKK, neo nazis AND feminism).

I also pointed out in another post that Hillary Clinton's exit speech was very sexist (far worse than Matt Taylor's shirt). Why were her segregating words necessary (ie. excluding boys completely in several instances)? Why did every single media outlet ignore this? Feminism. No matter how extreme or nasty, people won't condemn feminism. The absence of protests by almost every single feminist about reporting on domestic violence (or Hillary's sexism) is a clear illustration of the nature of the entire movement.

Feminism is absolutely not the only scourge we have to deal with today, however, it's the only scourge that almost no media outlet will tackle. It's like opposing the KKK 100 years ago.

Until we truly are willing to hold everyone to the same standard, hate speech will thrive. This hate speech often lives under the banner of political correctness. If I had to point 2 fingers at why the media has deteriorated so much compared to 1970, I'd put it down to feminism and political correctness and a refusal to condemn these selective prejudices. The attacks that we see (above) would rarely (if ever) have happened in the Australian media in 1970. However, today, they are the norm.
As a sound/music app person the inclusion of ASIO for audio is exciting, Google's new is should be on par with iOS for sound with ASIO audio drivers at the core.
Is this Microsoft's answer to OpenAI Universe?
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Good points. Would we have the same conversation about the US though? "Electric cars taking over?" - "Wow but pollution due to fracking is a way bigger problem!"
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Sure, so how about a good article about it instead of this QZ garbage? Did you even read the article?

Chinese student is used to always having one answer but in America there are ambiguous answers.

Saudi student has to be around women and work with women. But it's different in Saudi Arabia

Really? Oh wait I forgot I have to have a absolutely mind-blowing statistic. Like you won't even believe this statistic. Click here to find out what it is!

It's like a more lengthy clickbait article targeted toward people like us. But it's just clickbait. Read for substance.
Borland screwed up across the board. There's an entertaining, if somewhat depressing, discussion of their woes in Merrill Chapman's "In Search of Stupidity".
I'm about as shitlordy as it gets, and I'm glad this was on HN.
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Not only passwords, but api keys as well. I can't tell you how many times I've come across public repos that have full api credentials in them. Boggles the mind..
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