skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If nine to five is barbaric, what does that make jobs requiring you to wake up early and stay late? This guy seems to have a chip on his shoulder because of some bad workplace experiences and now seems to think every job sucks.

Jobs with regular, stable work hours are not simply there by corporate decree. People actually like having that predictability in their lives. It makes it a lot easier to budget your time when you have that block of time carved out where you're making money.

Now, this guy would say hey, you could work half the time if you quit your job and started your own business. Well, that doesn't match up with the experience of any of the business owners I know (they regularly work 12-16 hour days), but even it was true...now I have to run and operate my own business. I can't just show up and do good work and take home a paycheck. I have to deal with insurance, I have to deal with payroll, or I have to pay someone to deal with all of that. If the only benefit I get from that is saying, "but at least I don't have a boss," it's not even close to worth it.
You have that backwards: why should your phone present the same UI when it's plugged into a keyboard and mouse and when it's not docked?
This is the right approach imo. You could call it jhgjgddsdghkkl. As long as the product is awesome, people will figure it out.
Wow, thanks for agreeing with me. That's a great way to put it actually.
This is cool, but I'm genuinely curious how/why this hit the front page?
Ask HN: Best VPN for personal use / privacy?
I am looking for a great VPN service (cost is not really an issue), to increase my privacy and security, and occasionally to access content from other countries. Any good suggestions?

In particular, I am worried about some of the VPN services that offer "shady" software to use with their VPN.
Correct. Top of thread first mentioned looking at cities outside of Asia...though I guess technically Mumbai is in Asia.
He earned that title, and he was your teacher (a superior), so I don't understand why you were annoyed. Most importantly, it was the first day! Think of an interview for example: would it be polite to address your interviewer using his/her first name? No, unless the interviewer gives you permission to do so.

Edit: It seems like a lot of HN users have a severe aversion to authority, so I guess I've learned something new today :P
A great intro to Prolog can be found here if you're not the type that learns solely from reading.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SykxWpFwMGs
I'm quite sure that said alpha species is providing far more pigs with food and shelter than dogs. The suicidal strategy of being tasty seems to work quite well on the species level.
"Hayek is my homeboy"

...

that must be a bumper sticker...
Hahahaha, was it that obvious? I grew up around here and graduated from one of the four schools (gotta stay a little anonymous) in 2009. I'm not sure why I'm still here, really.
I use Bookmark OS and really enjoy it. It's super clean and intuitive. https://bookmarkos.com
That of course is only valid in a few countries. In most European countries, firing someone for that would immediately be overturned by a court.
Thank you, I'd like to read this. Added to my reading bookmarks. :)
bad publicity for the upcoming scorpio system
I asked one of Amazon's ELB Product Managers this a few months ago and was told that no, there's no longer a need to warm up an ELB/ALB except perhaps in extreme cases.
Problem is, I don't want to be assigned a username. I hate it when I get assigned a username. I want my username. If you hand me a username of "$&OdUgr606cZ", I will never remember that, I will never share that, and I will consequently never ever log in.

But it doesn't matter because this issue is already solved. We already have globally unique usernames. They're called email addresses, they are unique by their very nature, and they are (for all intents and purposes) already decentralized.
It sounds like MS has been able to get a lot out of their hardware. It will be interesting to see how much it costs.
I don't disagree with the point of the article. There are sites I don't visit simply because digesting the information presented on those sites takes too long due to poor design choices.

Having said that, the "aesthetic choices" that The Outline makes negatively affect the usability of the site, just like all of the other sites I intentionally don't visit.

I'm in agreement with the other posts here: I couldn't tell if the article's presentation was supposed to be a parody or not. Based on your comment it seems like the article (and presentation) were intended to be taken seriously. If that is truly the case, then the "aesthetic choices" used greatly decrease the readability and usability of the article. If you're looking for specifics:

* Narrow central column of text that leaves large, empty left and right gutters on desktop browsers;
* Excessively large default font size and leading yields 1-2 sentences per screen page;
* Giant paragraph breaks littered with examples referenced from the article that take away from article space;
* Poor choices of color (readability) and useless animations.

All of the aforementioned "aesthetic choices" decrease usability and comprehension because they take away from the reader's ability to read the article. So while you may think these are simple "aesthetic choices", they are all "usability choices" as well.

An example of better choices that don't distract from reading the article: http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2017/04/ec...

Note that the example I provided still has huge gutters and the font size is still too large for my liking, but I understand the compromise that was made to make one site usable for both mobile and desktop. Otherwise, the use of black-on-white, sane leading, and sane paragraph spacing means I can quickly scan and comprehend the article because there are no distractions from doing so. I can quickly read and comprehend articles on the Economist. My reading and comprehension of articles on The Outline is slower due to the aforementioned usability issues. Since my time is limited, that means I'll prefer articles from The Economist first and defer (or ignore) articles from The Outline.
Astronomers close in on first direct view of a black hole
This is tricky. If receiver has sender's email (cause that's how it goes because I don't want to make people create accounts) he can reply back directly going round veropost. In that case we run the service for free. If we want to track answers everything needs to be through our servers and I don't want to create gmail, just a front.
I am not resistant to change though if there is demand for that.
The game was written twice for different hardware, having different CPU, GPU, memory constraints, controllers and operating systems.

Who is supposed to pay the salaries of the development team that wrote the Switch version?

So all digital assets are supposed to be pay one take two model?
The site looks like a designer "concept" site. Kind of like concept cars or high-end fashion. But the difference is that those concept cars are never really created because its impractical.

The site was definitely done by a good designer who knows what good design is, but its a tad over-the-top for everyday use. It looks good though.
All excellent points. I would like to add that I personally think one word was missing in the article that being sincere. Praise needs to be sincere as well or it will be sniffed out as feigned.
Seriously? Pot meet kettle?
Easy, there will be special agreements for some of those bigger fish. And of course on the special versions of Windows enterprise customers get (which you can't buy individually that easy) this will still be allowed
That's probably how they want to do it, but it's not how the law requires them to do it. They must still repair it for free unless the underwater use or third-party repair caused the problem.

They cannot say, "somebody else touched this, so tough luck." If they can demonstrate that your problem is a result of someone else touching it, then they can say tough luck. If they can't, then they have to fix it even if you didn't do things the way they want you to.

I think it's important to remember that these consumer protections aren't some random government overreach. They were put in place as a reaction to abuses by manufacturers. Without them, we'd probably have Apple charging $50 for a charger, with the threat of voiding your warranty if you use an unapproved charger, or similar tactics.

To bring it into another realm where the problem might be more obvious, imagine if your car manufacturer could void your warranty if you installed unapproved (and un-overpriced) tires or brake pads. Again, if those tires or brake pads cause your problem then they don't have to fix it, but they can't just void your warranty because of their mere presence.
> shuts this down before the media finds out. And based on the speed of votes this article is getting, they will find out.

And then what? People are going to just now start hating Bank Of America? I've got some news for you...
TARP made money for the US government. They lent banks money at interest, and were paid back. If the government were a private entity that would be recorded as "profit".

If you want more government revenue, you should be pushing for more frequent bank bailouts.
I've also seen how businesses do not like it if there's a person at a table ordering nothing while their buddies booze it up at high margins. That person gets treated poorly by waitstaff for not making any money or tips, even though their buddies wouldn't be able to drink nearly so much otherwise.
I've never been to India nor had an interest, I'm somewhat sorry to tell you. But I think I probably ought to check it out at some point hearing your comment and other things. Thanks!
Pediatric Dentist
Profile of iFixit, a company that sells repair parts and tools
When IBM did that it made Microsoft rich instead of IBM. I bet phone manufacturers aren't eager to repeat the blunder. In other words it seems like there needs to be an open source hardware effort too.
I guess it's time to dig out the good old spam solution checklist (https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt) again.

I've already filled it in for this case: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/joepie91/d06939ead53bba9f...
It's questionable whether this is currently a slippery slope. There is no precedence for this move on the PC platform. That alone weakens the argument that Microsoft will eventually make that move. To be clear, it is still possible, but there is not enough evidence to build a case that guarantees your conclusion.

Edit: You could argue that the ChromeOS platform is an example of a completed locked ecosystem. I've never really considered Chromebooks to be a PCs, but I'm sure under some context they meet the classifications of a PC.
Or you could just download one from the internet and run the executable "manually." You aren't restricted to the app store.
Impraise (YC S14) Is Hiring an UI Designer in Beautiful Amsterdam
Why not, most likely they weren't even written by the same developers, who pays the salaries of the Zelda Switch team, when one adopts take two pay one?
May be Google can start lowering rank of shitty pages. Oh but those shitty pages have Google ads so they'll lose revenue and their stock would tank.

Also why would a news website care if you have a shitty experience. Their A/B tests are saying customers are more likely to click on ads and sign up if they use the dark patterns.

Their end goal is to make more money. That's what they are optimizing for. If you don't like it, don't go to the website. That's the only signal they give a shit about.
I think that SPKI's name certs would be a good next step for this, so people could associate human-readable petnames with keys.

C.f. http://theworld.com/~cme/spki.txt and RFCs 2692 & 2693.
teacher (a superior)

Because that's stupid. Provisional respect, sure. Continued respect after acting like a buffoon? Nah.

Of course, it might be pragmatic to continue the expected ceremonies of respect, but that ain't respect.
In React Native, you don't have the standard DOM elements since you're not working in a DOM, so it provides some standard elements that get turned into native components (Button, Text, etc). It looks like this is porting those components back to the web. Sounds silly at first, but looks like it can be useful for RN shops.
I discovered Lyft after a friend of mine got a DWI.

His DWI was enough to get him to turn himself around, so he started using Lyft every time he went out drinking (years later, he's still steadfast about not driving when he's drinking), and he told me about Lyft, so now I use it all the time instead of relying on public transit or asking my friends to give me rides.
Good idea. This would occasionally be a valuable function to include in a password manager.
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Why do all "social networks" have to be a feed of news? Couldn't anyone think of anything better than a system in which people are only encouraged to talk about themselves and try to get other people's approval? In which having more "friends" is always better, because you have more potential for self-agrandissement in your narcissistic posts?
Every UWP app I saw poses a risk, results in discomfort, injures its users with ridiculous uselessness. Windows Store should be banned altogether, once and for all, for a brighter future of the humankind.
How is this bad publicity? Why would someone spend >$400 just to play emulators on a TV?
UI dev tools are tools for producing a UI. Prototyping and modeling tools are quite different; it would be unthinkable today for a professional architect to build the building they are architecting and not actually model the structure. Also consider that much of the design that goes on is far away from the actual pixels that show up on the screen; e.g. interaction designers have very little to do with the UI.

> Why can't we have the same in software?

Because devs and designers have different needs.
Wow, if so, this should be "front and center" news. This best practices page [1], upd. 2014 still talks about "Pre-Warming"

Tangent: I wonder how often we utilize outdated "truths" in our best practices. For example, the "you must minimize the number of assets" rule was obsoleted with HTTP/2, but will probably take years to take hold.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/articles/1636185810492479
I think jobs in IT are tricky. I doubt anybody likes giving up their IP to others for cash, but you gotta eat. I find it funny companies want entrepreneurial types that are creative, self-motivated, fast learners, with expert level understanding of latest technology, but are completely ignorant too how much value they give away everyday they code for someone else. You really want to attract talent, pay them a fair wage, let them work on a side projects 20% of the time until they find something that pays for itself and then split the IP with them 50/50.

sort of like a job/incubator hybrid.

(wish I could patent ideas)
The correct term is "priming"
As someone who still has an HP Touchpad, the unfortunate pattern of AOSP / Cyanogenmod / LineageOS support is the following:

1) One volunteer spearheads the development effort towards keeping phone/tablet/device X supported.
2) Various other people draw on the 90% base work already done by Lead #1, add their own wrappers, tweaks, etc, such that the community on the whole appears to be vibrant and bustling around development for device X.
3) Lead #1 eventually stops supporting the project because he gets a newer device.
4) None of the developer's behind Lead #1's forks have sufficient technical knowledge to continue the base development without him, and all of their forks stop updating as well.
5) Community on the whole for Device X fizzles out.

I've seen it happen multiple times on XDA-developers forums. That dozens/hundreds/thousands of people are using an AOSP-based ROM on a device does not mean that the community necessarily has the technical knowledge to continue it without someone to steward the project. The volunteer leads do an incredible job, but at the end of the day, they usually only last as long as the device is the lead's daily driver--after that, they usually stop.
Consider taking LASD, BofA and the LAPD to small claims court in a single case in Northern California.

All three of them acted together to take the $3.4k, and I suspect there would be a settlement rather than an actual day in court.

It might be too late, but maybe call the BofA fraud department and tell them it was an unauthorized charge. "Unauthorized charge" is like the root password for banks.
Are you raising any money for this venture or bootstrapping?
The classic way, people upvoted it. The 8 points it has is a relatively high number of upvotes for 1 hour. It also helps that it's on a domain that doesn't get a penalty.
Maybe "functional" is a valid adjective, but "effective" is not. If the guy had gotten on a phone with a lawyer, and the lawyer said "All you need to is go to small claims court against x and bring Y" that might have made things possible.

The awful interface of our legal system is one of the key ways that the less wealthy and less educated get an unfair treatment. Any wealthy person would get this reversed and get their legal fees paid for too.
He earned the title, not respect. Yes, we should be respectful of everyone, but just because you have a title doesn't mean you can go around demanding to be respected [if you're also being a pompous ass].

Edit: Well, you can go around demanding it but you're delusional if you think people actually respect you.
> You'd file [...] an order to show cause hearing where
> they are tasked to show up and show cause as to why
> the transfer of money should go forward.

The article very plainly describes how he was not notified until after the transfer of money already occurred.
Correction: 100 hours
For this purpose, a theoretical CDN-hash that gives an incrementing ID number for every file ever stored in a CDN would work just fine.
> NYC - where access to public transport might be the best in the United States

Same with access to taxis… being able to just walk outside and find one vs in many other cities having to call one (and have their phone number already) and wait.
I didn't know about netlify, it looks neat!
WAT, No that was not the point I was making. The point I was making was twitter have done this to produce a lower usage client for users who are still upon the likes of 2G networks and with that they already had SMS, which is about as lite as you can get upon that platform.

As for the rest of your assertions, that is entirely a different matter and not one I raised in the slightest.
LAX Is Raking in Millions from Uber and Lyft
Oh wow, this must be a recent feature, I remember looking for a way to configure `--ff-only` by default a few years ago and it didn't seem possible. I ended up making a git alias of `git puff` which calls pull with the `--ff-only` flag.
We do also loose much accuracy/stability of physics info when varying timesteps, without adjusting velocities to the new half timestep (eg. verlet type refinement) which is a bit demanding to do most accurately.
The judge specifically says that the 5th is only valid in criminal cases and leads to adverse inference in a civil case like this. Meaning the judge is very well able to assume that files ended up at Uber if they don't show enough effort to produce proof. So the fact that the employee uses the 5th hurts Uber significantly in this case.
Correct me if I am wrong - but this thing being branded as "Twitter Lite" and marketed on lite.twitter.com is actually just the mobile web app, available at mobile.twitter.com ... right?
What are "WP"?
I feel a little uncomfortable by the fact we don't know (yet) how consciousness emerge in our brain and we have already numbers to quantity it..

Another point, the problem is not a super-human artificial intelligence with the power to destroy us all.. I guess we'll develop a very stupid version of it with enough power much before that..
And if the singularity arises, it wont be a apocalipse-like event... we may just evolve into something like a pet for the machines..
I don't see the problem. Third-party repairs make it difficult to troubleshoot? Too bad, do it anyway. Either demonstrate that the third-party repair is at fault, or fix the problem. If that's too hard for some reason, maybe they should design their hardware to make it easier. Or they can put up with erring on the side of caution in their troubleshooting process.

These protections were put in place because companies have proven that they will be abusive with their warranties without the protections. I see no reason why these protections shouldn't still apply to smartphones, and lots of reasons why they still need to.
> Same with those videos of police officers trying to cease cash from people after pulling them over. I would just refuse to give it to them. Are they going to shoot me for money on the side of the road?

That depends. How dark is your skin? How nice is your car? How well do you speak?

One of the mitigating factors for police criminality seems to be the apparent race and class of the victim. Most police may not shoot you on the side of the road for your money, but it's a matter of privilege to be able to refuse their demands and not be met with immediate violence.
> Are they going to shoot me for money on the side of the road?

you're simply not given an opportunity to "refuse". it's usually going to go something like:

1) "mr doe, step out of the car." refuse? you're getting tased and definitely going to jail for refusing a lawful order.

2) "mr doe, i'm going to search your car now." well you're out of your car. you can (and should) say "no", but your car is getting searched regardless. maybe you jump the cop? or shoot at them? now you're definitely going to jail for assaulting the cop, if you even survive the night.

3) they find cash. they bundle it up, pull it out and probably just go stuff it in their car. if they're smart they're not even going to tell you what they're moving until it's locked up in their trunk. if you figure it out and say "hey you can't take that blah blah", they're going to ignore you. so you're back to assaulting them somehow. you're definitely going to jail.
I hate Comcast. Haven't used them in many years, but seemingly every month I read about something shady they have done to their customers.

I seriously question how many Comcast customers will opt to use any more services than they absolutely have to from an abusive cable monopoly. Maybe I am missing something here?
High School is secondary education. Primary education is much harder and for some reason much less well rewarded. Everyone remembers the high school teachers who were phoning it in, but forgets about the elementary school teachers who taught them well enough to be able to make the distinction.
Did you miss the fact that the game is actually release and runs on all those platforms?!
No way! We switched to this model exactly because it's TOO painful to run a single master with thousands of jobs, you don't scale that at all, it's impossible to do any kind of upgrade because there's always someone using Jenkins for something quite urgent or important.

We have more than 500 engineers, it's seriously impossible to run a single master in this environment. We run both pipeline jobs and JobDSL (and some teams still rely on JJB).

There's nothing in Jenkinsfile/Pipeline that would help to mitigate any of the problems of scaling a master to hundreds of developers and tens of teams.

The dev teams all have control of their jobs through source control, and already had before the federation of instances.
If you read between the lines, it seems odd to me that the district superintendent "encouraged" the investigation prior to publication. Sounds like a turf war.

So if this decision was made by the Board without staff assistance, I can see them being swayed heavily by a female candidate who had international experience. It's the ol' out-of-town expert bias.