skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gosh, that sounds an awfully lot like ending a nasty drug habit:

- Quit smoking.

- 1st week, light up a cigarette in a stressful situation, enjoy it...

- 2nd week, light up a cigarette and immediateley regret it...

- 3rd week, wonder why you still have this package of ciggis at home (and the inner schweinehund responding: they are for emergency situations, EMERGENCY IS NOW!!!)

- 4th week, throw away the "emergency"-package, lighters and ashtrays, just to be sure...

No shit, I never used facebook, but it seems like it has a similiar addiction-potency as nicotine (wich is quite high).
>I can't see the mention of "classified" in that particular statement.

That is why I mentioned the context. He said this in response to allegations that he had shared classified information.
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I don't see any of what you said is opposite to what I said (Local message is just for sake of displaying)

I think we meant the same thing.
Not sure what the norm is, but I reported a fake account using my wife's picture (just a single, regular portrait) and it was removed within 5 minutes.

A month would be ridiculous. I wonder if that happens often?
Are you interested in tackling this challenge? If so, let me know.
They have a clause to lessen that problem

"Franchise tax is based on a taxable entity’s margin."

https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/publications/98-806.php
No-one is going to go on record regarding the contents of a private meeting between the US President and the Russian ambassador, and no-one has. It is pointless to keep asking this question.
Lead levels are only elevated in certain areas. Getting clean water might be as easy as your neighbor's hose. Flint authorities weren't treating the water properly and it corroded the pipes in some areas. Lead levels were expected to drop as soon as treatment resumed but it spooked everyone bad enough that it doesn't matter if the water is safe, they want new pipes. Lead pipes are not unusual at all in older cities and nobody else has this problem.

I don't see how a single small city whose water supply was tainted by incompetence of local water utilities is representative of the US as a whole. 99.99% of us have access to drinkable water.
The easier way is for FB to wait until the GP friends the friends, and with some or many of them having already synced their contacts/address book with FB, tie the GP back to the old ("deleted") identity using the phone number. This is a simplistic explanation, but there are more ways to identify people based on the name and other attributes one's "friends" upload on to FB.

In effect, what the GP does in no way helps provide more privacy from FB for the GP.
You mean to beg taxpayers for money?
> We didn't think this would be a problem because the current version of the software wasn't compatible with WinXP any longer.

> There was some debate internally whether the better fix was to including the legacy encryption protocols or just leave the HTTP version of the site running and use Strict-Transport-Security to move capable browsers to HTTPS.

Where can I read about this? Is there any way to display a special "Your browser is outdated" page for the users on WinXP?

Sorry if these seem like basic questions. I am just curious and would like to hear some expert advice.
> Everyone knows the classic example of cellular automata, Conway’s Game of Life. Instead of rehashing an implementation of that, I wanted to build something just a little bit different while learning the Nim language.

Haha, nice catch because I just did that on the other thread ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14387684 boring implementation of the classic game of life. I don't know if it's a pure coïncidence or not but I'll have a look at your repo, nice work !
"Free market" is a political trope.

It has been used in various ways, in various contexts, over the years and generations. But at base, it remains a political trope.
We sell a product through Amazon on their vendor program. After all the deductions we come up with about 50% more cash per product than through the one traditional retailer we have. We only make few more percent through our own website as Amazon's own margins are so thin. They offer a much better deal than the rest of retail.
Only if you're standing above them and looking down.
That's not a very good analogy. If you're going to compare ND and it's oil boom, then you need to contrast it with somewhere like Saudi Arabia which has very little economically except for it's oil production.

Or more accurately compare any of the non-oil related rural areas in the country. Or any of the particularly poor rural areas of the black or white southern US.
Here's a lil stressful method to wean yourself off Facebook. It's what I did.

Use the settings / notification tab to disable certain notification type. E.g.:

* Some one tagged you

* comments on a discussion you liked, commented...

* who viewed your page

* who shared a link....

Eventually, Facebook ignores some of these settings in a desperate attempt to bring you back.

So create email filters to delete Facebook notifications based on certain keywords.

Also use an extension to block those fun / addicting autoplaying videos.
284 lines! I'm impressed by the brevity. Were the SDL bindings as straightforward to use as they appear?
Of course the taxpayer props it up. It is a taxpayer funded system. That is like saying that the taxpayer "props up" the military or the court system.
I'm a security analyst at an MSSP with hundreds of large companies as customers. The typical response would be to press charges and try to send you to prison.
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I love it SO much. I wouldn't be able to be a software engineer without it. The amount of neck, shoulder, elbow, forearm, wrist and hand pain I once had is now gone completely. Not to mention I am a much faster and more accurate typist.
"We can have secrets while we know exactly what we are keeping secret"

I'm not sure that's true. You might think you know what I'm doing in the bathroom. I don't think privacy and secrecy are truly separate things.
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Google needs to kill AMP. Like many other teams in Google they are filled with arrogant people who believes everything Google have to become "standards" and don't give a damn about how they are being arseholes on other platforms.
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I wasn't really trying to get into the whole liberal/conservative/size-of-government debate.

My experience with most rural towns is that it's like entering a time machine to 1985. When those places set the agenda, we are going to be "behind" when it comes to the metrics economists use (regardless of how relevant or misleading those metrics may be).

When it comes to letting places go their own way (like sanctuary cities, medical marijuana, gay marriage, etc.), I totally agree with you!
Pretty sure you both mean Scrum.
What's a mudroom?
Would this not be solved by TensorFlow XLA?

https://www.tensorflow.org/performance/xla/
Alex Epstein unfortunately is well known for being heavily biased in the climate-change denial direction.

I don't think anyone would argue against the idea that fossil fuels have helped technological progress over the last century and a half, which seems like the core of his thrust.

The problem is the almost dismissive attitude about the future prediction consensus. Generally, the scientific consensus is against his statement: "The [future] warming impact of CO2 is mild and quite possibly positive".

From there, it seems like he is selectively framing his arguments. For instance, higher CO2 concentrations does increase crop yields (as stated), but scientists believe this will be offset by higher temperatures and drier conditions. (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-study-rising-...). Statements like "Warming is almost universally desired among civilizations" seem to ignore that there is such a thing as too hot for the human body, let alone for other things such as food or having a reliable water supply (http://www.fao.org/3/a-i5188e.pdf).

It seems like a strange bias to think that there is zero room to improve our energy pattern and sources compared to what we have now. Or that only three industries (hydro, fossil fuel, nuclear) will possibly ever exist to provide cheap, plentiful energy. (For a start, I'll ding him an additional point for forgetting about the original cheap, plentiful energy source humans used: "traditional biomass". EG: wood, crop waste, dung, etc.)
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Expanding into more product categories is a logical evolution for Anker, but it’s also a response to a looming existential threat: Yang says he foresees a future where portable chargers won’t be necessary due to advancements in both fast charging and wireless charging. “I think we all agree that the portable charger isn’t forever,” Yang says. But consumers will always need wall plugs and cables, and Anker sees its goal now as keeping pace with changing standards, like the introduction of USB-C. In the meantime, Yang says it’s diversifying with a future expansion into audio, smart home, and automotive product lines.

It looks like something they are already taking into consideration
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I've purchased 4-5 anker battery packs and usb chargers, very happy with quality of product, however recently switched to ravpower because of lower price for, as of now, comparable quality, so far I purchased battery pack and USB charger (6 outputs) for 30% cheaper than anker.

I have no connection to either company, this is my personal experience, and both make great products.
Regarding this question about a "witch hunt". What would a legitimate objection to an institutional practice look like?

Would it not be a witch hunt against Google if people here complained about Google Docs? Would it not be a witch hunt against facebook if people here also complained about Google Docs?

I'm putting "witch hunt" on my list of stop words. I don't see the phrase being used in utterances that move a discussion forwards.
right? the only thing I can think of is that "you're asking me to do too much with too little" is a very easy thing for an underperforming manager to say. which means that when that head gets assigned, there isn't anything to do but give them busywork.
I use the Disconnect-plugin[0] for these concerns. It disables loading (and executing) javascript, cookies and graphics from the most notorious tracking sites.

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disconnect/jeoacaf...
I admittedly used 'stealing' as a shorthand for copyright infringement so I'll rephrase: How is it not copyright infringement?
I'd argue the users can't identify anything if they are rendered unconscious:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetic_coma

You definitely don't want anything buggy with medical devices.
> Why do CEO's think they're alone in the need for quiet spaces where they can focus?

No, they just think they're more deserving of it.
None taken. It probably depends on the marketing department. There is a lot of brainstorming and back-and-forth, but I personally need my own space to brainstorm.

A lot of my conversations go like this:

Person A: Hey, have you decided what you want to do with [x] thing?

Person B: No, I was thinking [y], but I got stuck with [z].

Person A: That makes sense, what happens if we do [w]?

Person B: That's a good idea, but [v] might be a problem. I'll think about it and get back to you.

Person B sits down and works for a few more hours

If you have individual offices, that conversation might take ten minutes, and it only occupies 20 man-minutes. If you have an open-office with your entire marketing department, the conversation will probably take a full-man hour between all the people who get distracted and the other people who need to chime in.

Honestly, I think easy collaboration works better for programming/IT than it does for sales/marketing/communication, because the problems in IT are more concrete. So I think you are more likely to be able to chime in with a useful comment when the problem is "I'm getting this weird error" than when the problem is "does this have the tone we are looking for?"

In both cases, I think open offices are terrible. 2-3 people per office seems about right to me.
What about for a public web app ?
At first I thought you wrote "32kb" and I was going to correct you.

Note to others: that's 32 BYTES! :)
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even a complex app, large web app?
What is your favorite programming language and why?
>How would you feel about larger offices that fit ~8, and housed your entire immediate team, but no one else?

I've experienced that kind of environment and it is slightly better than the sea of tables filling a floor but is still very bad. A few of the things I've noticed:

- Collaboration inside an individual team was never a problem with individual offices and so it isn't noticeably improved

- Unless the programming/debugging work is very simple, it will often require intense concentration. With distractions an engineer is less productive

- People waste a lot of time looking for an area to have a private conversation, talk to their Dr on the phone, etc.

- When we had offices, people would tend to decorate them with pictures of their kids, awards, etc. With an open floor plan, the place looks very sterile and it seems like overall morale and interest in the company is lower than it used to be.

- The big issue with any organization (with more than say 10 people) is communication BETWEEN teams, not inside the team. This design of isolating each individual team has led to a lot of inefficiency as the sort of ad-hoc conversations people would have with others on other teams basically stops.
Link to the infringing source, for the curious:

https://github.com/ncw/rclone/blob/a9d29c22645c9b5d2ab938ebb...
Your current script name seems to imply that it only helps delete everything one has posted/shared. But you mention exporting as well. Is it going to be anywhere close to the paid/subscription product digi.me [1], except for not being in a proprietary format? Digi.me allows export of one's content from groups and pages too.

[1]: https://www.digi.me/
I responded to the other comment. It basically boils down to "data/marketing for a NPO."
^ This was not meant as a denial of global warming. I'm just complaining about media sensationalism and Chinese air quality standards.
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> Social issues are used to keep the low-wage sector from challenging the policies favored by the high-income sector.

Yet change two words and suddenly things align again. Particularly if you take high-wage sector to be that demographic of the republican party. (Obviously this isn't exclusive to the republican party, but what's present in the party matches the form in developing countries).

Another way to look at the thesis is this: The republican party's politics and functioning/platform execution matches that of a developing country. While they aren't they only party, their views/framework have been taking over American politics since Clinton's triangulation of the 90s (and arguably since Reagan's arrival in the 80s).
I don't think it's really wrong to consider what responsibility a victim has in their fate. If you know that touching a kettle with a barehand may burn you, you are to blame when the kettle burns you when you touch it! You can blame the kettle, as children do, but it's not helpful, so we teach and learn not to touch it. The kettle doesn't have agency, but I suspect that for many who 'victim blame' they see crime, disasters etc as forces of nature that don't really make sense to blame as we can't readily change them, but can predict them. Few blame babies for the mishaps they encounter because they do not know better. At some point, this changes. We can and do try to control our environment to prevent these incidences where we can, but in many ways it is wiser to prepare ourselves. Don't pave the road, wear shoes...etc etc.

Revenge porn is a well known tactic. I'd be surprised if she didn't pause to consider the ramifications when the media was made. As per your example, I think it depends on what she knew apriori... if she could reasonably assume that he was a psychopath who may murder and she dated him and broke up with him anyway, we'd probably give her some share of the blame. From another example, If you walk through a war zone knowing it's a war zone, maybe it's stupid to blame the soldier who shoots you?
So, how/where do you gain access to buying this as a private customer? (willing to do this the long twisted way if there is a way)
>Going to Direct Law at that point would have allowed the pilot to reestablish straight and level flight while they figured things out. That seems like it would have been safer than what happened.

It may have been safer in this specific incident. The question is whether it would make things safer to tell pilots to switch to direct law whenever something occurs that they think might be due to a problem with the flight control computer. I suspect you would just see lots of accidents causes by the absence of the protections.

It's worth noting that an Airbus has never had a fatal accident as the result of this kind of incident. So the correct response to is probably no response at all. It's easy to get fixated on these kinds of incidents because there's something terrifying about the idea of a crazy computer overruling the pilots, but the actual chance of a fatal accident is way lower than the chance of an accident caused by pilot error owing to an absence of protections.

Thanks for the correction about the flight control computer. I'm not sure how reliable the technical info in the article is, though.
Class action by victims of patent trolls?
One of the best spaces I ever worked in was at my employer prior to my current employer.

When I started work at the company, they had hired a couple of other guys as well, but they didn't have as much experience in software development for an employer (one had done mainly contract work alone, the other was fresh outta college but earned a compsci masters). They didn't have a cubical to put us each in (they were planning to move), so we three (plus one of their more experienced devs as a lead) stuck us in what we eventually termed "The Oven".

It used to be their "conference room" - maybe 10 feet or so on a side, one side glass with a door, the other three walls, no windows. In fact, it was where we each were interviewed. They set up a desk system, put two of us on one side, and two on the other. There wasn't a vent to the a/c system, unfortunately. Four computers blasting hot air, no air circulation save for some desk fans, and four guys in there hacking on code - well, you see where the name came from...

...but we did some amazing work inside that small room, and had a pretty damn good time doing it. We eventually got a portable A/C unit that we stuck in the corner and vented to the ceiling plenum. That helped immensely. Our lead had a weird spotify playlist - that became our music to listen to by day. The lights in the room were kept off, so we only had the glow of our monitors to light our way. In effect, it was a perfect development environment.

About a year passed, and the company moved to better digs. While the new location had certain amenities and such that made it more appealing, at the same time, it had horrible downsides:

Open office floor plan, concrete flooring, lights that were always one, west and south facing windows that guaranteed to pan the sun thru the blinds (which the managers and c-level guys always wanted to have open) and blind you. Massive echoing. Most of us took to using headphones all the time. While we got some good work done, nothing was ever the same, ultimately. The goofy thing is that half the office space was wasted; there was a good chunk that wasn't being used for anything, and we tried to make a case for moving the dev team over there, and spreading things out more so we could have a space to our own (and not have us bothering sales and customer support and vice-versa - who were also in the same space, of course). No dice, no moving on that.

I don't thing I'd want to do an open-office situation ever again, even if the money was better. For me, it just doesn't work.
A co-worker of mine is doing a similar kinda thing but with circulating tumor cells, so I have some 3rd hand knowledge of these kinda tests.

Fact of the matter is that the human body is, chemically and pathologically speaking, fucking bulletproof. Our bodies are just super freaking good at maintaining homeostasis. This means that a lot of tests like blood-glucose, cancer diagnosis, etc that are trying for non-invasive blood testing just have a HUGE parameter space to contend with. Apple's idea may work with calm light-skinned office workers, but will it work with sweating dark-skinned day laborers? African Americans are the population most at risk for DM-II. How about if your blood pressure goes all wonky? What about someone going through a growth spurt? Does it work when you put your arm in motor oil? What about people without arms? Lives aren't 'edge cases'; your device MUST cover all those real people with families and children. I'll believe their device when it passes FDA approval and the clinical data is out there for us all to see and argue over.
The author seems really concerned with privacy and surveillance. I'm no expert on the subject.

But, why all the concern? He said they're working really hard to keep that stuff private. Are there legal risks here? Will the government come after you if you say the wrong thing? I don't really get it.

I think the biggest security risk is just your email, if hackers get into that: that's where all the potentially financially devastating information is.
Hi All, author of the article here. Happy to answer any questions you may have about the laptop ban, aviation security, TSA assholery, Trump's travel-related civil rights abuses (incl. the "Muslim ban"), or other such topics of interest.

And, thanks for the support... HN is always one of the first communities to upvote my work and help me share it with the world. As a computer scientist turned almost-lawyer, I definitely appreciate!
> The idea that creative extroverted people work better the more riotous an environment is is absolute nonsense.

The only place where that worked well was the old-timey trading floor, as seen in Gary Cooper-era movies.
Currently Amazon "owns" the customer, plus it owns very large fullfilment network - i.e. a caching for the physical world - making it's cost per packet the lowest. This is a powerful combination.

Furthermore, if Fedex/UPS will start to find sucsess in this "prime" project, Amazon could instantly change it's software to add a box "only from branded manufacturer's store", or some other software change, and solve this hit and miss experience you speak of.
Thanks! It took me a while to work out how to do this even reading your description.

- First I thought you select lines, like other git apps. No, it's not just that numbered line, it's the actual digits on the left.

- Then I selected some digits, expecting a 'stage' button to appear.

Then finally I realised just selecting the lines committed only them.

Even working out how to do it, it's still weird because lines with blue digits now get committed, lines with green ones don't.
That's the problem: You're telling him that you did.
> Many suburban American houses have a mud room, a casual, generally secondary entryway intended as an area to remove and store footwear, outerwear, and wet clothing before entering the main house. As well as providing storage space, a mud room serves to increase the cleanliness of a house proper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entryway