skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure my 300 friends have given fb more data about me, than I have. [ed: and that doesn't even interlude the tracking from "like"-buttons etc]
With near 100% probability actually. There was a detailed report on that few years ago.

Googling for "why stores ask for the zip code" brings up a lot of press post, e.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/06/19/theres-a-...
I was going to say that it would have been not "meaningful" anyway, but I have just noticed that they report EBITDA growth. It's a bit misleading to say that EBITDA has doubled (from -$93mn to -$188mn). This is why growth is usually not calculated when the baseline is negative. Going from losses to profits implies growth "lower" than -100%, for example.
I understand you're trying to follow up in conversations. Posting a link once or twice is okay. This is beginning to look like spam.
RocksDB: The birth of RocksDB-Cloud
No standard, it's common for companies to make up their own (ridiculous) metrics defined however they want.

At the end of the day it's just something that the board have defined and decided to use, and if they mess up the collection then it's embarrassing for them, they lose credibility, and investors will sell or install a new board.

Even for things that have (more) precise definitions like profit or earnings, how does one know that the numbers are not deliberately or accidentally incorrect? You just have to trust the board, accountants, and auditors to do their job, and if you don't you shouldn't own the stock.
Also if it records images it would fall under data protection legislation in the EU
Patreon is a perfect example how people are willing to support good works. Currently, the Vue's creator is receiving $10k monthly for his works [0].

I was happy recursively paying for Pycharm even sometimes I didn't use it for months. I see many people do that with Adobe products. If I had an option to pay Postgresql, Flask, VSCode developers a small amount every month , I would be happy to pay it.

One thing I would love to see is to have an option to pay the OSS developers. There works are worth not only donations but payments. In the other side, I've seen enough higher managers refuse to use OSS. Their reasons are really understandable: "Who I'm gonna call if the software has some bugs?". Contracts, and sometimes expensive prices, are what they need before invest in new softwares.

So how these contracts should work in a Patreon-like site? If I had implemented the site, I would shamelessly copy the Patreon's tiers model. The cheap tier would require the developers just keep doing whatever they are currently doing. More expensive tiers would be for support contracts. I pay this developer for that project, and I'm guaranteed that I'll receive email support within 24h. If I pay more, I may have access to phone support. What kind of supports and how much are they worth is the OSS developer's decision.

[0]: https://www.patreon.com/evanyou
Sure, but you can choose not to be on Facebook.
Can UberEATS eat the Indian food market?
I love how many people replied to your comment about how creepy this is with their age, appearance, and gender.
Perhaps this email was worthy of Steve's time :)
An insurance company’s API exposed customers’ car location histories
So all the terrorists have to do is convince the USA they've figured out how to hide bombs in humans and they'll ban humans from flights.
No worries. For a few hundred dollars, I'm sure you'll be able to register as a certified patriotic laptop carrier. Everything will go back to normal and the airline will get to collect yet another fee for something we used to get for free.

And we're totally safer from terrorists as a result.
> Break the rules. Max out your credit.

Survivorship bias?

That's terrible advice. It worked out in their case and we get to hear their story, what about the people who did this and failed? Don't extrapolate what worked for them into generic advice, to say the least, it's dangerous.
News is now coming out that Rothstein threatened to resign when the White House was saying that Rothstein was the one who originally wanted to fire Comey. Rothstein wrote the letter, but Trump was the one who asked him to write it.

This is impeachment level shit.
Can't wait for their server counterparts. Will be interesting to compare them to Intel at their slightly lower performance but much lesser cost.
Sometimes the credit card terminal will ask especially at gas pumps for my zip code as an anti fraud measure, and will reject the transaction of you enter the wrong number.
If a cashier is asking I always use 90210.
Ha, well spotted. I think Columbo would have made a great designer - I consider him a virtual mentor.

He gets to the bottom of things, he gets people and their motivations and he's a humble and likeable guy.

Going to look out for your future podcast about your book.

PS just noticed I got your name wrong, but couldn't edit my post anymore... soz
What is a "real estate company", and how is it different from an "information company"?

Real estate brokers and appraisers also sell information (not real estate).
FairPhone 3, the first data on the next generation of sustainable modular mobile
I had fun playing this game for a while. Eventually I discovered some fairly reliable algorithms which enabled me to collect all the achievements. I'd like some bigger boards to have a go with now!
Everything curl – printed
South Africa Wants People to Pay TV Licenses for Smartphones Computers and Tablets
China Is on Track to Fully Phase Out Cash
That's a bit of a pain. I wonder why a laptop bomb would cause problems in the cabin but not in the cargo hold.
Abdominoplasty – Drfilgood
Exactly. For example, in C#, it is still customary to use List<T> everywhere, although what the developer really needs is just IEnumerable<T> (which also guarantees that the collection will not be mutated).
Wait, you don't? :-)

Seriously, I mostly shop in the same neighbourhoods. And when not, there's often something on the counter with their address...or I can give a mate's address and let him get the junk mail....
Previous discussion from 10 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14311073 (56 points, 19 comments)
I think there are enough solo developers -- solo either because they're the only person working on a project, or because they're the only person working on a specific part of a project -- that this could be very useful even without the headache of splitting money between teams.

I agree that it would be good to be able to handle larger teams at some point, but it might be easier to figure out how to do that after seeing how people used a "solo developer" version of this.
مهیج ترین پارک آبی بلک مونتین در تایلند
They already plan to support C++. Boom, done. No, I'm kidding here. I have no idea what they're planning to add. This thread started because it actually looked (I commented on this somewhere else) like it would support C++ from the website interface. I do at least have some reason to believe that they have a C++ dev manager named Steve, and that they will add support for more languages over time.
"You can’t buy ethics offsets for the terrible things you do at your day job." https://deardesignstudent.com/ethics-cant-be-a-side-hustle-b...

and from the same guy:

"Don’t ask how you’re going to pay your rent working ethically. Ask why you’re open to behaving unethically in the first place." https://deardesignstudent.com/ethics-and-paying-rent-86e972c...
Is "thedailybeast" a reliable source?
It's AI, it knows you are secretly trans.
This has already been answered elsewhere in the thread.
Gender differences and bias in open source: PR acceptance of women versus men
Abdominoplasty FAQ – Drfilgood
Hmm, assuming broadwell-e IPC and same speeds Xenon counterparts run where does speculation about lower performance comes form?
There is a demo where Naples is crushing E5-2699 V4
Spanish voice artists
Looking for acronyms is a waste of time, let alone save you time. Just make enough mistakes fast enough to learn from them. And Let The Acronyms Be Alone. ALTABA.
In githubs defense, they are pretty quick to restore it if you have been falsely flagged.

> It would be interesting to know how the 'harmless' bot came to that conclusion.

If you copy paste a bunch on their website their bot might think you're spamming (my own experience).
Ingress was a social phenomenon in Japan and a smashing success.
That's a good point. My mother never studied computer science or even went to university, but she learned to write basic programs (I'm guessing in uh, BASIC) in high school, and it carried over into her office work, which definitely wasn't theory heavy. She's totally lost with modern PCs and languages, but there's probably still a place for theory-agnostic "pipe-laying" roles like the one she had.
Awesome article OP, thanks for linking it here; I've been looking for something along these lines for the Amiga for a while, actually.

Tangentially related: if you haven't already, I'd suggest dabbling in development for these "retro" systems. Not only will they teach you about memory management, &c but you will also be able to familiarize yourself with architecture of decades past. Much like a Shakespearean scholar doesn't just reader William's texts, but also attempts to understand the sociopolitical climate in which they were written; so, too, ought a proficient programmer see where she has come from to integrate not just "best practices" but an optimism which guides her progress.

Or one could just read Stack Overflow. shrugs
France has a law that campaigning has to end the day before the election. Perhaps the news could be construed as campaigning-related and thus prevented?
Extracting my data from the Hello Sense sleep tracker
Sure, it's written on the About page. It's CxJS - https://cxjs.io/.
> As a security guy, I prefer to create systems which are hard to exploit

Yeah, me too. BountyOSS would even send contributors cryptographically signed receipts, which they could forward to developers to give the latter a way to check that BountyOSS wasn't skimming off more than our advertised share of the proceeds.

> If you're contributing $100 into a pot towards some code being written, how many hours are you going to want to spend to verify that the code being submitted is actually good?

Well, it depends. Maybe you needed that bug fix badly. My sense was that it would be sufficient to provide an approval process whereby, if a contributor didn't go to the effort to test the work product properly; the other contributors collectively approved the work (so the developer got paid); and then this contributor later discovered a flaw that was critical for them, they would at least feel that they had the opportunity to test it and it was their own fault they failed to do so. The site as built gave users 10 days to test the code and cast their votes; I could imagine adjusting that upward (and maybe even scaling it by the bounty amount, on the theory that large amounts of work take longer to test).

I think the reality, most of the time, would be that only the most demanding contributors would really invest much testing effort, but that's all you would need anyway. (The fact that their votes are weighted by their contributions is another incentive to pledge a substantial amount if the functionality is important to them.)

Not sure what I think about the subscription idea. That seems a lot like a support contract; and then what's the added value of having this site in the middle of the transaction? The attraction of the bounty model is that there's a good answer to that question: the site, with its approval process, performs an escrow-like function (though one must be careful with that word so as not to run afoul of laws governing escrow providers; I convinced myself at the time that my site was in the clear on this, but IANAL and YMMV).
My electric costs are 0.035 USD/kWh here in Europe (Czech Republic).

Wth is wrong with the USA? It seems like you're getting screwed over everything. 10x electricity, 100x healthcare and education - is US market really just a bunch of colluding monopolies?
And what if you wouldn't be able to interpret evidence (either way) correctly because you don't have the skill for that ?

Because that's the case in 99.99% of topics, at least for me.

Additionally, what if one's education would, if honestly evaluated, conflict with widely held political views ? What if it is perceived that they may lead to policy changes ?

For instance, taking two points that are sure to be controversial here:

Among psychologists there was a long drawn-out fight about whether being shown violence (tv, video games) causes people to be more violent. That fight is over (there are extremely thorough and long duration studies available). The answer is yes, being shown violence, especially as a child, makes you more violent. Participating in violence does the same, but more so (ie. video games, and keep in mind these are decade long studies. We're talking about things like duke nukem (NON-3d version), and other ancient games, including believe it or not tetris. Not that one game was studied in isolation) (It also seems rather unclear how someone could honestly believe at this point that games like DOOM aren't worse). Participating, or being victimized, in real violence (ie. living in a bad neighbourhood) even more. Exposure to criminal acts makes people more criminal. And yes, that includes the victims.
How do would you test that your application works at all as it should?

I never believed in cross compilation without testing.
Though the market is expensive now resulting in a lower expected return going forward.
Wow, this is so much better than Trello. You implement exactly what's missing: a "planning" view (Trello's card view sucks so much) and task tracking. Congratulations.

However, in order to jump there I'd need an import/export feature. Import because I can't manually add the hundreds of cards and comments I have in Trello. Export because, well, you're a startup and I want to know that if you shut down in the future at least I can export my cards and not lose data.

Are those things planned?

Edit: As general feedback, what I'm missing the most from the product are keyboard shortcuts and a sidebar to move quickly between projects.
Occies – Designer eyewear with screen light protection
On reflection, we might be talking about different things here. Can you use this Faster Payments service to transfer money to any bank account, like to a friend? It reads like this might only be meant for instantaneous payments to merchants. Those services exist elsewhere as well, yes.
Streisand and Beyonce could've used them.
A laptop bomb would presumably be fairly small in size and would probably have to be placed directly against some sensitive part of the plane in order to be effective. The cargo hold meanwhile is already reinforced and any bomb would most likely end up in a middle of a lot of baggage that would absorb most of the blast. It would probably force the plane to make an emergency landing but it's unlikely to be catastrophic.
They extrapolated your accuracy from auditing a relatively small sampling of it, or fed you known-value items and automatically audited them.
1) Nationalise Github.

2) Create a brand new tax for business.

3) Distribute that money proportionally to stars over Github projects.
As long as you have a Mac and an iOS device to connect to.
You can't choose to not have a shadow profile tho...
Nope

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14311758

edit maybe, given the child comment's claim.
Book review: Microservices in .NET core
That's not the opinion of everyone. Gedit for example has an up to date Windows version. Inkscape and GIMP both have macOS and Windows versions, but I think they still run version 2.

GNOME definitely is the focus as their resources are quite limited. That's why I welcome Microsoft using it and hope to see some improvements for Windows and macOS in the future.
Pick a phrase (name, address, phone number would do), discard white space, and convert the upper two bits to binary.

Example: "Pick a phrase" would become

00 01 11 11 01 00 00 10 01 11 01...

That's certainly not random, but unlikely to be detectable for shorter sequences.

(Edit: it probably is a fun exercise to write a program that decodes this code that reaches >75% (lossy) compression)
> It can happen multiple times, even after your account was restored.

This is actually most concerning. Although I understand that there is such a thing as selling legitimate accounts to spammers the fear of getting falsely flagged again makes me cautious of using their service to anything mission critical.
SoftBank takes $1.4b hit from Snapdeal, Ola bets
I know you're joking but it seems like it is possible that Richard Reid the shoe bomber could have inserted the explosives inside a plastic bag and then put that inside himself (either swallow it or in the rectum) and then remove the explosive in the airplane bathroom and ignited it. Not sure why they have not done this already.
I love how people tried it in the first place. Now the site has faces tied to IP addresses.
A bomb hidden in the cargo hold is effective if the intent is to simply blow up the plane by timer/remote/altitude. But if the goal is to hijack the plane, then a bomb in hand could be a more convincing negotiation tool.
It saddens me that most people refuse to accept that not everybody shares their morals, and that it might be them that are wrong.

I'm not saying there isn't an absolute right and wrong, but I certainly don't find this as abhorrent as most people here, apparently.
Wine still doesn't support many Win32 APIs or typical Windows deployment scenarios, specially in the enterprise contexts.
In premultiplied alpha, you can think of all the legal (non-emissive) colors as a triangle. At an alpha of 1, all colors are legal, tapering off as alpha decreases until you reach an alpha of 0, where no colors are legal. To turn the triangle into a square, you could scale it up by two, cut off the top, and rotate the top over into the empty space (like this: https://i.imgur.com/6hjNe7X.png). That would give you twice the colors you had before.
And their monitization strategy so far has led to larger losses than expected, less revenue per user, and slower user growth.

It might make for a better user experience but that's not good for a free service
Uh, I guess? But where did I say I develop Mac apps? God, do I have to lowercase mac now?
if you ever are homeless you could be like the guy from The Imposter (2012 film) and trick a family into believing you are their long lost daughter.
Afraid not - there's no real concept of constraints with CosmosDB.
Before jumping to conclusions we should acknowledge perhaps that US intelligence is hearing increased "chatter" or intel thus the reason for this policy.
This is nothing new; Ad Companies are actively marketing this features. See i.e. http://livedooh.com

Quote from their website:
"Audience Measurement included

The information and statistics needed in order to realize audience targeting in DOOH is gathered through livedooh’s integrated anonymous video analysis, which collects information about gender, age and length of view. Audience metrics are used by the ad server’s decision engine to optimize advertisement delivery and increase performance."
Given that flights are one of the leading sources of CO2 pollution, maybe this would finally be something where terrorists made a service to humankind.

(I am not being against technology, I just believe that modern humans can live perfectly well with flying much, much less.)
Actually big businesses pay to people to develop FOSS
> Consider a candle flame that exists as mostly emission and low to no occlusion.

I don't think associated alpha helps much here. You can special case pixels that are doing pure emission, but when a pixel is doing both you need the lighting to affect the color of the occlusion but not affect the color of the emission.
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The main problem I see with this is misalignment of interests. If you are a founder of OSS project who gets contracted to do support work then the amount of money depends on number of users and pain level of their problems. Which means it is not in your interest to develop robust and bug-free software. Of course, it must still be usable, just not technically perfect (there are many successful OSS projects which are nightmare to support - the latest I saw was SuiteCRM, but there are many others).

The solution would be to build a platform which would collect some fixed amount of money from enterprises in exchange for support on all OSS projects said enterprise uses (limited by hours per month?). Foundation behind the platform should employ or sign contracts with maintainers of different projects. It would also employ developers willing to maintain different projects where maintainers are not prepared to help. All fixes should then be offered as pull requests back to original maintainers, or in case of still used but abandoned projects a support fork could be made.

I am sure there are hole in this scheme too - if there weren't somebody would have implemented it already. But I see this as win/win/win solution. Hell, I would love to work for such foundation. I also see my company paying for such support. And it definitely benefits OSS projects. So what am I missing?

EDIT: just to clarify, enterprise gets a number of hours per month which are used in part for active support and features development but also for maintenance of projects (cleaning / refactoring code, writing tests, documentation,...) they use. And maintenance should also be used on libraries these projects use, so the effect should trickle all the way down.
More solar will likely result in higher grid energy prices, since people will buy a lot less energy while the grid costs the same to maintain.
So what happens if the terrorist first flies to canada... Then the US? Or what if they are already in the US? Is there something so special about the bomb that it can't be made anywhere?

I'm just wondering how this does anything but ensure that battery fires will never be put out.
Python does now have a distributable binary format: wheels (.whl files). A wheel contains everything already built for the target operating system/architecture, and installation consists solely of moving files into their destinations.

Also, I don't have the raw numbers to know for certain, but I suspect packages which have compiled extensions are more rare than pure-Python packages.
>That's a bit of a pain. I wonder why a laptop bomb would cause problems in the cabin but not in the cargo hold.

Bags in the cabin can be put right next to the "skin" of the plane; when in the cargo hold, it's much more of a lottery.

(That's what I've read at least, I'm not too familiar with cargo holds myself.)
Some people are stamp enthusiasts, pokemon enthusiasts, tea enthusiasts...why not CPU cores enthusiasts? It just means you want to collect more of something, right?
Here in Australia, underestimating by realty companies is the norm. I watched a friend go through buying a house last year, and some houses were advertised at prices that were below reserve [1]. As in, at auction, the bidding reached the advertised price, but the buyer's floor price hadn't been reached yet, so the house was not 'on the market' yet...

[1] In one case, 80k below reserve. You know you've hit the reserve price, because in my state, the auctioneer is legally required to annouce the house is 'now on the market'
yes,I agree that.Low coupling and high cohesion is the gold rule.