skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is wrong in about fifty different ways right from the first paragraph. Photojournalism has impartiality at its core, not 'neutrality'. Everyone has biases, nobody can be neutral. But you can certainly be impartial.

Framing, composition are also aesthetic decisions, not just political ones, and those decisions are made both by the photographer at shooting time and picture editors at publishing time. The point is to draw the reader into the story.

Making corrections and alterations to digital images is not 'stupid', it is a development that has occurred over time in response to accusations and revelations of genuine manipulations and fakery. With film, large-scale changes were very hard and almost impossible to do with the original negative or positive, so elaborate printing techniques were considered to be almost entirely aesthetic and artistic. With the advent and ascent of digital darkrooms, manipulation and alteration is easier and harder to catch, therefore the appropriate approach is to respect the original pixels and not change any: the integrity of the picture can never be called into question.

This is a potted summary and there are certainly more nuances, complexities and subtleties than I can relate here, I also have a Masters in Photojournalism and do not appreciate the abusive tone bolted onto the previous comment.
Before I worked for Twilio, I worked for an tier-1 SMS aggregator. Integrating with the various providers - even in the US - was a pain in the ass and connectivity fees started in the $10k+ range with monthly minimums and 10c/message iirc. When I played with Twilio then, I knew they'd win, it was just a matter of when.

When I joined Twilio, I focused on use cases that connected communications to revenue.. either on the sales side or the customer support side. Sure, 1c/message in isolation seems expensive until you realize that by sending a handful of messages (aka pennies) and being more transparent with customers, your churn drops (aka dollars). At that point, it's not even a debate.

On the international front, it got even more complex. The aggregator I worked for had contracts in the US, LATAM, and throughout Europe, each one had different interfaces, connectors, and agreements. Twilio has one. Once again, not even a debate.

Disclosure: I've been out of Twilio for 3.5 years, so no inside info here but I still have shares.
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Mystery glow of Milky Way likely not dark matter
Probably a fun combination of both!
Now, don't pretend like you don't know that that is not a reliable selector for that purpose. Also, you don't need an add-on to edit the user stylesheet.
Also in job ad from them:
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It will depend on your tap water.
IMO that is also not consistent with observations of real-world markets. Part of the reason, perhaps, is that such feedback would only exist if a relatively small part of the market is irrational, while the rest of it is - then the irrational part is, in a sense, "punished" by the rational part for deviation. But if the entirety of it is irrational, then it's not at all a given that acting irrationally would actually produce a worse result for that particular actor - it may well produce a better result due to irrational behavior of other actors.

It could be argued that so long as someone in the market is worse off, they would "correct" their behavior, and that would cause a cascade of punishment/correction for other actors in the chain. The problem with that is that it's not an instant process, and the time scales on which it works - especially when the actors that get the short end of the stick also have relatively little market power individually (and so often would need to organize to effect any meaningful pushback), and so this process is simply too slow - it doesn't actually produce an observable result on a scale on which individual humans feel it, and so it's insufficient to affect their behavior. And by the time it does happen, other irrationalities may well be introduced that may often mask the effect, or simply make it irrelevant.

(FWIW, I'm generally very suspicious of the Austrian school precisely because it actively rejects empiricism in economics, and substitutes hacks like "praxeology" in its place.)
Having used both SWIG and Boost.Python professionally, I find manual work required by the latter to be 100% worthwhile and usually necessary.

C++ and Python are not very similar, and the result of auto-binding them typically gives up a combination of fluency and performance.

A simple example of the former is a C++ algorithm which writes to an output iterator. In Python this might be expressed as a generator. But none of the auto-binding tools can do this transformation.

As for the latter--performance--I have seen 100x performance penalties in practice when the blind lead the bind. A good example is that in Python we have memoryview and the buffer protocol, but auto-binding tools take these no further than std::vector (if that). A C++ API which produces a large stream of numeric data just begs to be bound using the buffer protocol or perhaps even NumPy directly. But if a C++ API produces small values really quickly, an auto-bound one will produce the same small values really slowly.

Some people see the writing of bindings as manual labor to be avoided. I see it as an optimization opportunity. There are huge gains available.
Is this truly fresh? I think I've been seeing this design for awhile...
At early stage startups it happens a lot for the sake of time or just having worked with someone before if nothing else.

I wouldn't necessarily be discouraged by it as a lot of referrals are nothing more than "I met this person at meetups a couple times" which doesn't give them much of an advantage in the interview process — if anything it's a minor factor most of the time. The real leg up that these people have is knowing of new positions early or possibly before they're posted.

The best thing you can do is network yourself and attend events where the people you want to work with go.

If you are less social, you can find other ways to break into the scene like submitting pull requests and contributing code to projects that people in your field care about. Writing blog posts about the tech too. That kinda stuff doesn't go unnoticed.
A more advanced MP3 visualization plugin. One that uses materials and textures mapped onto a canned subset of seed models, lit with a raytracing shader.

I feel like use of the term "procedurally generated" is an effort to conflate a degree of complexity beyond well-known, existing graphics techniques not available in common software.
Can this wrap Qt (or barring Qt, wxWidgets)? There are great Qt bindings in Python, but in other languages, not so much.
I wondered how long it would take before someone posted CLIF here since we haven't put up a blog post about it yet... :)

Interesting stat: Around 80% of our the Python C++ extension module wrappings being added to our code base are now being done using CLIF instead of SWIG. We are actively working on forbidding new Python SWIG wrappers from being added and migrating important legacy wrappings off of it onto CLIF.

Who am I? I am TL of the team that create CLIF (design and code reviewer, _not_ a primary author; they can identify themselves as they see fit). -gps@
The .NET Framework 4.7 is supported on the following Windows versions:

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It wasn't and I think that's the point. Essentially soma was hard to distinguish from tap water, which OP had said tasted chlorinated, given that soma was supposed to filter and improve tap water it was failing to meet its stated objective.
No monthly who's firing thread for may?
There's a difference between an interest in yoga pants and an 'interest' in predatory loans or military service for lack of other options.
Which makes Zuck admirably qualified to be our next US President - his "Meet The Proles" tour is now in progress
Thanks patio11. This is exactly what I was looking for, some pointers from experienced persons on this matter. This will be helpful when I talk to my accountant.

Does software like TaxJar, etc. useful in this scenario?
This is definitely a common thought, and has long been considered the proper way to read Marx. You should check out Marx's Inferno for an interesting—and, I've long thought, more accurate—take otherwise.
How to Act Quickly Without Sacrificing Critical Thinking
Sample size of 1 works for me. In all seriousness though in issues of personal taste as long as you are happy with your decision then it's the correct one.
Bizarre that you'd speculate about what populations "go with their gut" based entirely on gut feeling.
How does an ad cause poverty?
I wonder how it compares to Douane[1] which is touted as the alternative to Little Snitch.

I wasn't very happy with Douane since it was a kernel module and a memory bug (Think it missed a free) caused kernel panics on every single boot after an update. But other than that I would say it was pretty good.

[1]:http://douaneapp.com/
There was one today, but it seems to have disappeared.
> that happens on teleconferences using phonelines

Phonelines do not have packet loss, latency and volume auto adjust issues. And a big screen that can fit a couple of gauges.

> High compression is obvious from the blockiness.

Not when you are the sender - and not when you are using audio only.
An ORM is a gateway...not a good gateway.
Quite a lot, or at least by proxy given that you would have to talk to library and compilers that are written in C++.

However: Some libraries/packages do expose a C api, which you could use in a language assuming it had a decent FFI.

A lot of major C++ projects use exceptions, which you will have to catch and handle inside of the C++ because even if C could catch exceptions, there is no guarantee of ABI compatibility. Some languages, I think D can do it, can catch an exception thrown in C++ code.

You might have better luck integrating a standard data interface between the C++ and any other language: However, that could be a little slow.
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Are you sure it's not the other way around? It appears that the commercial opportunity for infosec has increased drastically in the last 10 years.

I mean, yeah, it's not the early 1990s anymore, where mostly academics and enthusiasts were on the internet. But is the hacker manifesto a standard to hold infosec practitioners who likely were in diapers during the halcyon days you refer to?
Hey! Robin here - the creator of TASK: The Amazing Shortcut Keypad. Great to see so many comments and some interesting engagement :D

A lot of you are identifying other ways to achieve this sort of automation either with AutoHotKey or custom scripts and if that works for you then good on ya, no point in changing :)

However, the keypad was designed to give you quick, easy and intuitive automation in seconds. No writing code, no binding keys or running scripts. You just drag and drop and it's there.

It's not supposed to be revolutionary new tech, it's just taking a fairly standard macropad and making it easier, faster and less bother to get working. Added benefits are you can share automation 'recipes' and it'll be open source so you can hack/tweak it to your own needs.
Your argument sounds a lot like "criminals will always find a way, no point in gun control." The thing is, that argument can be applied to all laws. Why even have laws? Criminals will always find a way.

Look, I agree that anonymity is important. I agree that the world is better if some things are kept absolutely private, from everyone, to whatever extent is possible. But let's not pretend that there aren't trade-offs.
>I don't at all see the ethical analogy between luxury athleisure and payday loans

The "athleisure" market has bilked people out of $35 billion dollars a year using offshore sweatshops to turn $1 into $20 a pop, mainly by amplifying people's insecurities day after day after day through mass advertising.
This bothered me a lot too.

If he can tell the difference between 'tap v bottled' but not 'tap vs soma'... then 'soma vs bottled' would intuitively have a different result if his conclusion is 100% correct.

I suspect there's more to it, but the author was focusing on winning an argument so... I guess that killed the curiosity required to dig further for a more thorough conclusion.
AMA = Ask Me Anything

And people doing these AMAs on reddit usually post a picture of themselves with a sign, see https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=reddit+ama+proof&source=ln...
Marx's Inferno +1

It's absolutely worth reading, and properly positions Capital as a work of intentional political theory.
As soon as Facebook takes a political stance, the other half of the population will leave.
There are also consequences to your battery for utilizing cellular data instead of/in addition to WiFi. I'm an atypical user in that I don't really care about cellular data costs, but it annoys me when my battery begins dropping at a visible rate and my phone becomes toasty warm.
This is what I'd love to see die the most. All too often logic will be spread out through unmanageable inheritance trees. I've never seen a completely necessary use for inheritance and I've seen tonnes of misuse.
Matching 401K up to 6% with no vesting period is exceptional.

Yes, paying 25% of the cost of an individual health plan is on the high end for a tech company. However, Basecamp continues to pay 75% of the premium for family plans. Often companies pay for a much lower portion of these expensive plans. It's also a very good health plan with nationwide coverage.
On Lumo's (ClojureScript REPL) Growth and Sustainability
I run tens of terabytes every month through my $3 Scaleway server, going on about a year now. I use it as a seedbox for Linux ISO's.

As these graphs suggest, their disk speed is not great compared to my Vultr servers.
He says he can differentiate tap v bottled.

He also says he can _not_ differentiate tap v soma.

So the difference between soma and bottled should be obvious (or there is some other factor in play), but it's clearly not.

Obviously taste is not commutative, but there's something fishy here regardless.
> Using Amazon Web Services (“AWS”) because of its best-in-class commodity “run-and-forget” infrastructure

[citation needed]

The title needs AWS as it's pretty much not applicable to anywhere else. I would be more interested in a bare metal tutorial for production grade clusters.
I spend a lot of time with Etsy sellers, all one-person micro-businesses creating fully-handcraft items.

They tell me there are three major problems that are all interconnected: 1) search is poor, 2) cheap knockoffs swamp the search results, 3) there's no obvious way to emphasize truly handcraft items.

All the sellers are experimenting with alternate platforms, such as Shopify, Wordpress, Wix, etc.
That sounds like an awesome setup. Can't deny that programming up your own layout to your exact needs definitely gives you the best results.
> You can land a job almost everywhere with almost no knowledge if you are a jr female developer, which is not true for men.

Not only do I find that unlikely, I would say that it's blatantly false since you most certainly (AFAIK) couldn't land a job as an engineer in one of the large tech companies without a degree or significant experience.

Far more likely is that women who become developers, because of the state of the industry, on average are more employable since they are likely to have more formal education and skills that the industry lacks. But wouldn't necessarily recognized as such by other developers because they aren't seen as "cool hackers".
TOR is the legacy name, an acronym for The Onion Router. The modern spelling is preferred, but it isn't incorrect to call the project TOR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)
I guess we'll just have to disagree then. The only people I've met who actually notice Bing's and Google's search result pages looking different are techies. But I don't have any solid statistics or data just my anecdotal experience.
This hit the nail on the head for me. Etsy was all the parts I loved about Ebay mashed with the parts of an art fair I loved. It's been on a slow slide to another Ebay in my eyes.
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Apparently asbestos mining in Canada has ended.

Asbestos opponents and those weary of seeing Canada's mesothelioma rate rise celebrated in 2011 when the country's asbestos industry ground to a standstill. Canada's last two remaining active mines, the Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos, Quebec, and the Lac d'amiante du Canada in the nearby town of Thetford Mines, Quebec, shut down because of financial, labor and development issues — the first time in 130 years that the Canadian asbestos production stalled.[1]

1. https://www.asbestos.com/mesothelioma/canada/
I guess I'm a contrarian. I hate the current trend of a narrow band of text with tons of blank space. I would rather scan my eyes more than have to scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll
It is sad that voter participation is a partisan issue in the United States.
There's an interesting video by Veratasium "Is Most Published Research Wrong?" (Clickbaity title to be sure.)

It shows, on the overall statistics of valid/invalid vs. published/unpublished papers, the arbitrary p-value threshold is wholy inadequate to prevent a sizable fraction of published papers from being false positives (invalid but published).

https://youtu.be/42QuXLucH3Q
That was a fascinating read. Thank you!
Not to detract or digress, but oxygen is damaging to cellular life as well, just long term. If nothing else gets you beforehand, with age as all mammals "we caramelize (glycation) & we go rancid" (oxidation). When photosynthesizing microorganisms emerged and oxygenated the planet, it likely wiped out 90% of life as it existed pre-oxygen (not multicellular back then --- which could well predominantly be an adaptation to protect weaker "inner" cells against oxygen, anyway --- the other great adaptation was proto-mitochondria getting an actual massive energy boost from burning oxygen rather than being burned by it, and here we are today!)
Wow, I certainly hope not. I opened up Chrome DOM inspector, clicked "Edit as HTML", selected all and copied, pasted into code editor, and saved the file as HTML. The file quickly grows as soon as you take any action and load more DOM. One quick scroll, and I was already up to 1.65MB.
Facebook: Connecting the world ... to advertisers!
They are really sturdy pieces of kit and they're UTF-8 too so great for custom characters etc. However, they're really expensive in the UK (where I'm from) and the interface is seriously old and clunky so there is room for improvement, especially if you're looking for a more customisable solution.
How would they ever enforce this?

I mean, maybe you can figure it out for the AliExpress case—but what about when it becomes one local "artisan" supplier supplying slightly-customized variants to each of its thousand Etsy-shop customers?

Or, beyond that, what about the case where something is 99% a pre-fab vendor good "base", and then 1% (or less) original work? Would an Etsy seller's signature on a store-bought mug make it "their" work?
It's worth the money!
It makes sense to write system APIs in C, but there are many more things than system APIs, and many of them find it useful to use C++ constructs.

(edit) Clang's internals are also several orders of magnitude easier to work with than GCC's internals. In fact, clang is designed to be used as a library, and CLIF leverages that very, very highly.

See, for example, https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangTools.html . Clang tools are very powerful, and much of CLIF is based on a Clang tool, not a GCC internals hack.
> We will provide support to efforts

"Provide support", and not just "support"? So a startup that isn't actively involved in efforts around keeping the DACA policy would be breaking this pledge? This seems to only make sense for giant companies.
Wow, this has been a bad day for tech stocks.
Quite right, sir. Quite right.
I really thought it was just me and my network. I disable my wifi daily starting my commute as Spotify chokes on loading songs as I walk away and lose the connection. I've been searching for a way to make it drop faster but no dice yet.
They didn't use it themselves, they sold the tool to political campaigns.
Of course it's carbonated water, with some artificial sweetener and usually a little acid bite. That's what people like and that's why they drink it.
Just like the latest discussion about electron, I say: our primary concern is the users. Tron said so.

We should be concerned for their privacy, for their security and for their computers in general. Giving them applications that will eat up their resources as the only option is downright unethical if we remember that our primary concern is "fighting for the users."

I love javascript, I like working the web frontend, but porting the web to desktop by... not doing it, only hiding the browser, is just not the way to do things.

And, by the way, it saddens me that a lot of arguments in favor come down to "we already wrote the website, why do it twice?" That's just lazy and shows a remarkable lack of intellectual curiosity for a field in which being on top of things and updating constantly is key.
>The best, most difficult, most time-consuming way is, of course, to meet lots of people.

It really is true that networking is a high cost (in time) but high payoff approach. That is also why, when time is of the essence, networking is not a realistic option.

The longer you go without a job, the faster you want to get hired. But networking, you can't rush that. I know at least that much.

That's mostly why I posted this question- to at least get some rough idea of how much of my competition is entering "cold". I've talked to people on LinkedIn, where I'm from (Chicago) I talk to people in the immediate area. They don't answer back much, they probably have busy lives, but I wear my job search on my sleeve.
Right, but neither are they necessarily correlated, and they might even be correlated oppositely.
Decaf still has caffeine. Maybe not enough to affect you personally, but pay closer attention and maybe it does.
> Do you really think any company could or should publicly commit to refuse to comply with valid court orders?

The could create a situation where they can't comply, at least meaningfully. "Here's the data judge, too bad it's encrypted and we don't have the key".
Yeah I get that it is unfortunate to say the least that people need/want these loans. However, what is the right thing to do about the loans? If they are predatory, maybe they should be illegal. But who am I to tell people what they can and cannot do with their money? That would be rather patronizing. If we assume that people getting these loans are grown adults why shouldn't we allow people offering them to advertise to the people most interested in them? Is it ethically "better" if even wealthy women from the Marina see the ads despite everyone knowing they don't care about pay day loans for purposes other than discussing then on HN? I think it's honestly a really hard ethical question that I don't see a obvious answer to.
It's bizarre to see how Etsy went from producing a significant amount of technical software and community engagement a few years ago and then suddenly stopped. Their GitHub is a testament to this sudden dropoff. Was there anything ever mentioned about why they went from super public about things like dashboarding to nothing?