skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would just be syntactic sugar anyway, F# surely compiles its ADTs and parametric polymorphism down to something supported in MSIL bytecode.. but potentially powerfully productive "sugar", any highly expressive language is 80-90% sugar (just the right kind) over a much smaller intermediate core language of way fewer actual primitives
Seems like a cool service, but not really a fan that the acronym mirrors a different service from AWS (Identity and Access Management.) Could be confusing.
I was under the impression it used to be on all pages. I just checked http://http-password.badssl.com/ and it still showed up there, maybe you're right.
> “If I have a guy’s number from Tinder, sometimes I’ll prematurely save it on my phone so it comes up in Snapchat if he uses it. I probably won’t add him immediately, but I’ll try and deduce his Instagram or other handles from his Snapchat one.”

As an aside, it might be a good idea to check privacy settings for Snapchat (I know, I know.. if you're already using it, you're blown) unless you want to be humblebragging.

Last year, I noticed women I had gone on dates with were coming up as suggested people to follow on Instagram. IG claimed it was because of photos I liked, but I knew that wasn't the case and assumed it connected us through our numbers and the other women did not turn off their discoverability (I had turned off mine). Call me old fashioned, but Instagrams and Tweeters are things I don't share until the 3 or 4th date.
yay! this would also help me in learning css animations. thank you so much
What Google products run on GCP? That's news to me. I would think they would have announced that in the keynote.
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Totally agree. I got scammed with fancy airbnb pictures a couple of times and now I don't go near it with a 100ft pole.

It's totally lost its feel of welcoming host. Now it's just another hotel that's poorly run by people who want to make a quick buck.

I stay to hotels even if it's slightly expensive. The level of service and quality is always guaranteed
It might be a submarine or PR firm action, but it might also simply be that they're a billion dollar company that just had an IPO, so articles about them are simply timely.

I don't really put much merit into journalists saying something is good or bad. shrug
This kind of real news will get you into hot water with your masters.

And which masters would those be, Mr. Rodriguez? Perhaps you're unaware of the background, Mr. Rodriguez, but everything I've seen from her and a lot of other people who know and care about security have been laying into mainstream news media for quite a while over their reckless and breathless inaccurate reporting on security and encryption, and pointing out that media outlets are going to get people killed by turning them away from secure options and toward things that major governments can crack and spy on.

But acknowledging that wouldn't let you spout creepy and condescending comments like the one I'm replying to, now would it, Mr. Rodriguez? So I can see why you didn't go there.
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The way Trump has been acting? We'll see.
I suspect most people using C# don't see this issue because they're using an IDE that tells them about methods which are never called.
We do have migration guides to the Flexible environment available per language. This is the link to the Python version:
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/python/migr...

I hope that helps. A key tenet in the Flexible environment is portability. In the Datastore case, in particular, if you move to Cloud Datastore, that gives you portability across the Cloud Platform offerings or even if you want to run on premises or in a different Cloud provider.
>That's just an example that i find interesting enough, that quite a few US companies tried to solve, but still have a long way to go.

Because it's not a technical problem. Nobody cares about the ability to pay with their phone in the US when a credit card works so well and doesn't have a battery that dies.

Android and Apple pay work perfectly fine but almost nobody in my tech circles feels the urge to use them, let alone normal citizens. The credit card infrastructure in the US is so prevalent and reliable that there needs to be some serious perks to unseat the dominance.
The purpose of ascertaining device identity is to prevent someone who can't obtain legitimate Google issued hardware from using stolen user credentials. If you're already a Google employee you can just ask for more trusted hardware, so there would be little point in breaking that part of the security model.
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This is so true. I live in an affordable area two hours from a minor tech hub. I get plenty offers for that hub, but next to nothing nearby. I have a good enough job so I have no interest in moving. Maybe 1/10 are interested in remote work, so I tend to at least hear them out.
You're incorrect in assuming that I've only/first learnt JS. But its sort of a trend for people to look down on JS programmers, since its considered a "low-status" language ;)

And I'm well aware that the direct inspiration for many of ES6's features is probably Python (and now C# with async/await, which in turn flowed there from F#)

I'm assuming some cross-borrowing is happening here due to developments on the TypeScript team, and due to much higher similarities of the specifics with TypeScript. After all, F# has been around for quite a while, yet we're only seeing this development now - so if F# is the inspiration, why did it not happen much earlier?
Sure, but that convenience still depends on what they want. Something they can share and then throw away within 24 hours, or something that they want to keep so that future followers can look at.
There's a lot of tech talent all across the US and North America too, but they end up flocking to SF. For the same reasons they'd hypothetically flock to Vancouver in this situation.
See https://requires.io/ for this as a service with source-control integration.
You're totally right. Some some examples of crazy stuff you can run on App Engine: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-custom-runt...
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My modern frontend experience is pretty limited, but AFAICT there is no "this year's recommended header list." Rather, these issues are presented to developers as a bunch of independent problems, each one of which you have to individually hear about, research and understand in depth before you can figure out what you actually need to do to make your application secure.

If the website works from a user perspective, and it's not being actively attacked in a way that leaves obvious signs in normal operations monitoring, then a lot of IT orgs simply won't have the mandate or the budget to go Googling to find out the very latest recommended HTTP headers.
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Out variables can be used for 'while were at it' code - separate concerns that are handy to code in the place where the data is available locally but have no place to be there.
exceeded bandwidth limit. how much traffic you think getting on hn's frontpage might bring in?
That's right. Airbnb is the Uber of hotels. One place I stayed, I reported to the hoa and my host basically threatened me until I had to block his number.

Until airbnb starts cleaning up their mess I think people will eventually realize that this is just another scam in the long run.
There are a number of questions that have not been asked:

How many applicants does YC have from countries with visa issues?

Has any YC applicant been denied entry into the US? If so, what were the circumstances?

In looking though YC historical records, how many people, on average, would typically apply from affected regions?

How many of those people were accepted into the program?

How many of those people succeeded?

In the age of Skype, why can't interviews be conducted without the need to travel?

Yes, I understand speaking to someone in person delivers a lot more information than possible through online meetings. An initial online meeting could function well as a 1 to 3 pass filter leading up to an in-person meeting, thereby providing a lot more time to deal with visa issues.

I am taking a wait-and-see attitude with regards to visa restriction issues. As is the case with any startup or new venture, mistakes are made, non-ideal rules are implemented, some confusion seeps in, etc. So long as the process is one where the right solution is evolved and the ability to pivot is retained things eventually improve. These rules should not behave differently.

What gives me hope? Take a look at who sits in Trump's business advisory council (not sure this is a current list):

http://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-on-trump-business-advi...

It would be inconceivable that this topic isn't discussed with frequency in these meetings.

If I were to presume to be able to give YC advice it would be this:

Use your connections to gain a seat in this council.

Being part of the dialog is the best way to affect positive change. That doesn't mean agreeing with all policies, it does mean you'd be heard at the highest levels rather than not.

And, if you do gain a seat in this council I would further ask that you work hard to convince the administration to take the SBA and convert it into a YC-style program where, in every city of this country, entrepreneurs can have access to not just funding but a real support infrastructure to chase after their ideas.

The SBA has never been of real use to the myriad of startups that have revolutionized the world. If you want to borrow $100K from the SBA you better have $100K in the bank, or more. And the "advisers" they offer-up are often so far behind the times they are only good to help open a doughnut shop or more traditional non-scale-able businesses.

Yeah, do that and the immigration thing and you'll change this country. But you have to be on the inside to do it.
> I'm sure she'll get to it after another hit-piece on Wikileaks for actually bringing this discussion to the table instead of trying to kill it.

If this stuff is worth bringing to the table then Wikileaks can bring it to the table with facts, not sensationalism and misinformation.

> That is, once she gets over her political biases (which are sprinkled throughout the article) and does some real journalism.

It says quite clearly at the top of the page: The Opinion Pages, and it even has "contributing op-ed writer" in all caps.
I get it.

I was referencing poor people as a whole, not solely from the U.S.A.
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> Are you checking your dependencies into your repository (we do this, it works very well).

it work if you are working on a project, it does not if you are library author who rely on other dependencies.
I hadn't before this thread. It looks cool. I'm definitely going to look into it more. Thanks!
It isnt a logical reason, but it is good to remind the "clean coal" crowd of such facts when they scream about radiation from nuke plants.
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They remind me of the Delphi / Pascal days, which is no surprise since Anders Hejlsberg was the chief architect behind Turbo Pascal & Delphi and is the father of C#.
Just to play counterpoint to this, these features being available in various tools is precisely why I like org mode. Workflowy has always struck me as "org-lite", and plain tasks for sublime is also a good package, as is nvalt. But the combination of org-velocity or deft and org give me all that in an integrated tool. The only thing I don't get is the clipping ability of Evernote. Plus my data is my own, not locked into someone else's ecosystem.
Windows 95 Defrag Simulator (makes noise)
This: https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/DDWFTTW.htm
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> I do feel like an outlier in that I really enjoy living in distinct seasons.

You're not really an outlier, I learned that I feel the same way after living in SF for a while. It's just that it doesn't occur to many people because many people don't live in two such radically different climates.
That has no bearing on the truth of the claim.

It's disingenuous (and insulting) to suggest that the reason poor people can't afford expensive health insurance is that they all have brand new iPhones, or some other unnecessary luxury.

It is a valid rebuttal of that argument that poor people don't all spend their money on brand new iPhones, or the like. One cannot rebut that rebuttal by repeating the original claim.
No idea. The information comes from Tim Hockin, Engineering Manager at Google: https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/5vuyls/apache_m...
> What I don't get is why more folks don't just use per-project GOPATHs.

because that's not how go works. You need extra work to make it work. That's not up to debate anymore anyway, dep will be the official package manager and will be merged with the rest of the official ecosystem.
> "How well does this person do the job"

And people use experience and continued employment as proxy. Sorry, companies have not figured out a better method in general.

If you only look at women who never married and never had children the pay gap is tiny.
Another (cheaper?) solution would be to randomise the location of the keys each unlock attempt.

It would cause me a massive problem - I basically only remember my pattern
The goal is for WebAssembly to get access to the same GC as JavaScript eventually, right? Not mandatory, but available.
What are these expensive ongoing payments?
I wonder how this will affect the cost and availability of the yellow fever vaccine in the us.
There's an area Airbnb clearly fails for me, and it's the one your describe: short stays in populated areas. It's slightly cheaper than a hotel, but a hotel has a front desk that's staffed 24 hours a day to solve any problem you have, and you can usually cancel at no charge up to 24 hours before arriving. It's worth the small extra every night.

That said, I've had good experiences with Airbnb for a very vacation-y vacation: house, middle of nowhere, by the beach sort of thing. I don't know of any sites that come close to the global selection Airbnb has.

THAT said, vacation-y vacation rentals are a lot smaller market than short term stays in very populated areas. If I recall, Airbnb launched some business travel capabilities not that long ago and they were not particularly successful. So my general impression is that Airbnb can be a totally successful business, but while it tries to justify a valuation like $31B (rather than focusing on core competencies) it runs the risk of ruining the whole thing.
Probably just access to more symbols as a substitute for proper iconography.
Calling it "Always Free" suggests to me it will be free forever.

The little asterisk saying "subject to change anytime" quickly dispells this myth.

Why choose such a misleading name? Why not just "Free tier"?
I tried to look up what U+2FA1D, the highest-numbered printable character, means in context.

It is a Traditional Chinese character. It's a variant of U+2F600, 𪘀, which is pronounced "pián". It apparently is used in zero words. It's in Unicode because it's listed in the 7th section of TCA-CNS 11643-1992, a Taiwanese computing standard.

Searching for it gives lots of sites that acknowledge that it's a character that exists and then provide no definition for it.

My guess: it occurred in someone's name at some point. Pretty strange that it ended up requiring a compatibility mapping, though, when nobody seems to use the character or the character it's mapped to!
Do you think it's possible that most poor people don't do that, though? Who do you think the $6/mo deals are made for?
> SNAP has a market cap of 29 billion USD, and does not support XMPP.

Berkshire Hathaway has a market cap of over 400B. They also don't support XMPP. I think we're definitely seeing a trend here...
Which language do you like?
F# could have caught on if MS had pushed it as a first class citizen. Instead of pitching it as aimed at really smart people that just need more than C#, they should have sold it as "everything C# can do but better", which is practically true.
I have a picture, my education listed (CS B.S. degree from top 30 university), prior internship (with short description), and my current position at a huge company in Silicon Valley (also with a short description). On average 1-2 recruiters look at my profile without contact. What the hell am I doing wrong?
Incentives matter. If you allow prisons to charge for improved prisoner experience, you make the default prison experience the BATNA for negotiating how much money you give the folks running the prison.

Like, if you pay ransoms when terrorists take Americans hostage, you're funding kidnap-Americans-and-ransom-them businesses. If you pay prisons for more humane treatment, you're funding imprison-people-and-threaten-them-with-inhumane-conditions businesses.

IMO, it should be illegal for prisons to get money from prisoners. There's a bunch of really shitty things that inevitably happen. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/us/steep-costs-of-inmate-...
Wouldn't something like Caddy's multipass[1] be easier and with less third-party approval?

That said, I just use Caddy to proxy all my home's internal services with basic auth. At work I use the same setup, except it authenticates against our LDAP server.

[1]: https://caddyserver.com/docs/multipass
> after years of the media allowing false equivalence to obscure the overwhelming scientific consensus around it

Grouping all "media" together isn't meaningful; it's like saying "all programmers are lazy". It doesn't provide information that helps identify and solve a problem.

Some specific news outlets, especially Fox and the WSJ, actively promote climate denial.
Have you learned to use it?
> OTOH, if Sublime and markdown works for you, keep using it. Nothing beats a functioning tool, in the end.

I don't understand. You can just use a tool and not fiddle with it constantly? Tell me of this strange way of working.
yup, i also wrote a deeper analysis after someone posted about opendoor in december.

what will be super interesting to watch is how the market size (i.e., annual real estate transactions) changes in response to reduced friction. historically, disruptive technology like uber widens the market substantially because it unlocks all this demand artificially suppressed by friction. because of opendoor and similar startups, will transaction volume increase by 10%? 50%? 200%?

opendoor is the classic VC investment: huge upside with controllable, sane risks.
Zeynep Tufekci was the organizer of the open letter about the Guardian reporting on WhatsApp.

http://technosociology.org/?page_id=1687

In this connection, she's particularly concerned that misreporting the nature of attacks, (edit:) or reporting them without context, will cause people to make bad security decisions. That issue is raised in reporting on these tools just as it was raised in the WhatsApp reporting, and it's the focus of her editorial here.

I don't think Tufekci wants people to refrain from talking about the terrible state of information security in general, or about how we could improve it. (While she also dislikes Wikileaks in general, which is very apparent in this editorial and slightly complicates the point, I don't think she means to suggest that we shouldn't know or talk about these capabilities or how to respond to them.)
I'm just replying to the comment above, not the article.
Ask HN: Why was my Google cloud trial extended?
I'm hosting a small project on G cloud and just got an extension of their free trial. Is this normal?

FWIW, it's a single 8G box and it's serving the landing page for a few hundred dollars a week of adwords traffic.

Text of the email below:

As we continue to enhance our platform, we want to give
you more time to build with it. We’ve extended your trial
period from 60 days to 12 months.

Nothing has changed with your credits or project settings,
so all you have to do is keep coding.
You're fighting JS more than you fight C# because you don't know JS as well as you know C#.

As someone who has coded in both I won't deny for a second that C# is the better language, but I spend most of my time in JS these days I don't "fight against" it at all. I know how it works, and I use it accordingly.
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One of the most annoying things for me about Postgres when I switched from MySQL is that in the former you can't put LIMIT clauses on UPDATE/DELETE statements.

When I'm doing surgical work on a DB, I always, always want to do something like :

- SELECT statement showing me the relevant rows (and rowcount=N)

- UPDATE/DELETE statement with a corresponding limit equal to N+1

It gives nice, easy peace of mind that you aren't accidentally wiping out your whole table because you messed up the logic on your WHERE clause. Of course if you made a mistake, you probably still killed N records, but often that is much much better than killing the whole table (and maybe also downstream tables that are linked with FKEY cascade delete!)
Why not make one call to a local agent and have it sold for 5% more money?

I'm all for paying $2 for convenience if coffee on the run. Not sure I would pay $20k to save a few hours work around selling a house.
My big question with org mode is how to really handle todos. Should I always capture tasks into one big file? When I finish them, do I just leave them for this file to grow forever with more tasks being done and having to hunt for the todos in the file unless I use agenda view?
Well, what is loud can also just be noise. Noise will wake people up, but repeated noise is just white noise.
The point of the article is that there are no exploits and those apps aren't mentioned by the leaked data. The leaked data merely says that if you gain full access to someone's phone then you can see what the user sees, which would include their Whatsapp and Signal messages.

> in my experience journalists have the incentive to just pick the headline that is the most sensational rather than the most informative.

Considering what the article actually says, it seems this author and publication didn't do that.
Is data science going to become obsolete in 20 years?
It didn't happen much earlier because the Microsoft languages team is very deliberate and careful about rolling out new features. They have to be. There are something like 1.5 billion machines running some sort of Windows, and (I don't know) on the order of 1/2 - 1 million developers who work with MS languages and tools. Lots of backward compatibility to think about. At this scale even five 9s quality ends up breaking things.