skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a freelancer in the US with local and international clients who are often small businesses or individuals, this has not been my experience at all. I have never found a way of accepting fiat payments that isn't some form of scam. Wire transfers are ok in theory (the $20-$45+ fees are unreasonable but tolerable), but falls apart when the client's way of sending an international wire transfer is through some 3rd party service that's capable of holding the payment in limbo indefinitely (and they do). I prefer Bitcoin because it's cheaper and more reliable than money transmitting services, faster than mailing a check, and I can accept payment from anyone without worrying about chargeback scams. For clients who don't want to do that, if the gig is large enough to warrant the overhead of determining whether I can trust them enough to accept a reversible payment, I accept a check in the mail like it's the '80s.
When anybody pretends to be authorized by a company, and employee is in conversation with authorized person, than both the company and individual shall be held liable for sexual harassment
Dropbox/ideas/ideas.txt

From any app on my Mac, I can type command-space to open a spotlight search dialog, type ideas.txt and it will open the file above.

On my phone I use http://captio.co/ to send myself a quick note to my gmail account, then I copy it to ideas.txt when I'm on my laptop.

That's it.
Jack Schafer's piece on the superficiality of the Pulitzers comes to mind[1]. Awarding one to Fowler might be a decent corrective.

[1]: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/recycled/200...
> The cognitive overhead of reading code is high enough without having to alias common operators.

The cognitive overhead of reading code is, IME, often lower with context-approprate operator overloading (just as it is with well-chosen vs. poorly-chosen method names.)

There is a reason human languages (and, yes, even the notation of mathematics) develops context-specific dialects, and it is to reduce the cognitive overhead of communication. Code switching with clear contextual boundaries is often far more efficient than using a one-size-fits-all notation that is context-insensitive.
here is the problem with the NYT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_controversies

you'll find that their bias is toward whatever is convenient for the US state department at the time. generally speaking, they can't be trusted because they're on a leash. that's not to say that any individual story is factually incorrect so much as the stories they're allowed to work on and publish are kept within a certain narrow range. they sit on stories when told to. they don't write certain stories because it'd make their masters mad. they don't pick up stories which might invalidate their formerly expressed views. they are neutered in a dozen different ways.

you'll also find that their op/eds are profoundly mediocre and "reasonable" reiterations of status quo thought that aren't particularly well contextualized or built to withstand critical responses. they never rock the boat. they never say anything perceptive. they never take a stand until long after there is a well established "safe" stand to take. and even then, it's a weak stand.

as far as "just the facts" goes, they're not even that information dense. frequently, the lack of context (not necessarily intentional) is so severe as to be very misleading.

you can do worse than the NYT by quite a bit. but it's still a rag.

if you want an example of a better media outlet, check out the intercept. it's gone downhill recently, but the difference is palpable: the intercept offers contextualized fact-checked facts that people don't want published.
With bitcoin, it is agreed upon using byzantine consensus. The only way a bad actor can manipulate the ledger is if they own enough nodes to gain a majority, which is virtually impossible. After just a handful of bit times is economically and mathematically impossible to reverse the contract.

I suggest listening to this Tim Ferris podcast with Nick Szabo: http://tim.blog/2017/06/04/nick-szabo/

The entire idea is that no arbiter is truly neutral, no third party is truly trustworthy. Block chain is the onset of FAT protocols and trustful computing.

If the poor of the world can understand the social mobility that crypto currency affords them, there will be no stopping it, in my opinion.
I hope OP helps lots of people, because if they've been so abused by their computers as to think "Track Changes" is anything other than a torture device, they really need help.
Ask HN: How to Monetize via Native Advertising?
How do sites such as Facebook, Yelp, and others determine what to charge companies or users for native advertising? How would a new company do the same thing? There are services such as Adzerk (AaaS?)- but how does it work in real life?
Thanks, I see they're related to BuySellAds. Do you know a minimum number of monthly impressions required to join Carbon as a Publisher?

Does anyone have experience with Carbon or BuySellAds they can share?
I could be totally wrong, but I just don't see it, at least not down there in Jefferson County. That's not a densely populated area. It's over an hour's drive from Downtown St. Louis. [0]

I have to say, though, I'll probably leave earlier that morning than I'd originally planned, because of the comments in this thread.

[0] https://goo.gl/maps/bJRKJndLnQG2
If we wait just a little longer we can discuss the product itself.
People can use things without understanding how they work.
How many format strings does Python have already?
Fair warning for anyone about to spend much time looking into Wirth's personal material: much of it is unfortunately neither comprehensive nor up to date. If you start to dig in to the Oberon code, you'll find (non-trivial) gaps in the documentation and stuff that's downright untrue.
Yes, it's fair. If you're not willing to pay what's being charged, you don't get the thing.
> Design is easy because it happens in your imagination.

Your argument is contradictory. If having an intuitive sense of composition is enough to build a proportional design, having an intuitive sense of the human body proportions should be enough to draw one. Yet you recognize that drawing a body requires more skills than simply imagining it in your mind, so why don't you also recognize this need for building a design with a proper composition?

> Implementing a modern design is even easier because of the minimal nature of the style and the canned graphics that are available for you to move around and resize.

This is like saying that drawing the contour of a human body in a complex pose is easy because you have pen and paper, you don't need to extract the pigments from rocks nor prepare the parchment from calf's skin. Building a proportionate desing requires more than having access to the basic elements.

These would be the equivalences in the components for a design, and for a human body drawing:

* web components == lines and points

* building a web page == scribbling a sketch on paper

* building an ugly minimalistic design == drawing a stick figure

* building a proportional minimalistic design with a beautiful composition == drawing a realistic human body in any posture and perspective

What is a drawing of a body, but a composition of lines and shapes on a paper? Yet having an instinct on how a proper body looks like (and this instinct is a strong sense; any distortion triggers the "uncanny valley") is not enough for knowing how to put it in paper. In the same way, having an instinct for recognizing a beautiful composition is not enough to build a good design. Building a page by laying down "cover pictures, stock photos, fonts, geometric tools" is equivalent to drawing a stick figure. Yes, anyone can do it, but that's not the same as creating a succesful minimalistic design, any more than laying down some lines on paper to form a stick figure is making art. It could be art, but it requires some skill beyond merely dropping the basic shapes anywhere on the canvas. The proper implementation is difficult for the design as well, even if your imaginary mental image is perfect in your brain.

>> Gestalt laws

> These rules can be mastered in a week man.

Sure, the Gestalt laws can be learned in a week. In the same way, you can learn how to draw a basic canonic human figure with circles in an afternoon; and the laws of perspective are as simple as a vanishing point and some converging straight lines. But recognize than being a master in either takes much more than learning the theory. If all it takes to be a master is learning a few rules by rote memory, why aren't there any courses to "become a professional designer and start your design company in 7 days"? And why rendering a human body requires more skill than just knowing the basic shapes for each body part?
Or Audible if your public lib doesn't have an inflow of new audio books.
This makes me think of another potential privacy risk: if you paste a URL in WhatsApp, or click Android's share button and select WhatsApp, it doesn't add a space after the url. Most users are probably aware that they have to add a space, but if they forget, WhatsApp will probably send the first word of the rest of the message to the server. (Similarly if you paste a URL at the start of an already-written message, but maybe that's even more contrived.)
I host on Digital Ocean, self setup vps.

Tech stack: go, php, c, python, sqlite, mysql, nginx, redis, aws s3

Traffic: couple 10 thousand maybe
Same, tells me it's the security certificate.

Your connection is not private.
NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID
I actually grew up on both sides of the Iron Curtain, maybe that's why I struggle playing along with this Star Wars like narrative which insists it's "good guys vs bad guys".

No place is perfect and how "bad" a place ends up, always depending on how much an individual adapts to the given circumstances of said place. This holds true regardless of where you are, a democracy, a dictatorship or anything in-between.

Btw: If you want to talk about Crimea then we first need to start talking about Kiev [0]. Of course, that won't happen because then the whole "Russia as aggressor" narrative wouldn't fit as neatly.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa
Well, I can think of a couple of reasons why the OP thought it is stupid now:

- He understands the article is preaching to the choir.

- He thinks the article does not take into account the total flow of capital. His better understanding of economics makes him understand this now.

- The article does not cite any sources.

- It (apparently) is a common theme that older plebians tend to vote more conservative. Perhaps he is referring to his changing political position.

- Without dialogue, these articles are fundamentally empty. They do not help different actors come together.

- The article is using various framing devices to make it appealing to a certain audience. The OP currently feels exalted from this pleading to the hoi polloi.

- Due to the effects of filter bubbles and targeted psy-profiling, the OP has unknowingly narrowed his vision, causing him to label the article stupid.

Which one is it? I'd like to know because I might be missing the point here.

So, my point is: I can create many layers of depth by just using my imagination. But that doesn't add anything to the discussion. I could say I'm a post-post-modernist or a holistic a-structuralist, which might capture some depth and raise some questions, but it does not allow for any kind of true dialogue.
Universal healthcare works in various countries because everyone is forced to participate. Everyone pays into the system, everyone gets care when they get sick or are injured.

A US state can't do this on it's own because they can't force everyone to participate and they can't reject entrants from outside. In the Virginia/Maryland example Maryland would face an exodus of healthy and productive people who want lower taxes and an influx of sick people who want the free health care. It's not about "remaining equal in all other categories." It's that it wouldn't really work at all.

That's why you can't really have a system with massively different social services at the state level: the unbridled state to state migration.
I think you and some other people posting on HN are high on crack, eating out of any big company CEO's hand. Honestly.

> Also, Satya doesn't act like a clown in public

Are we talking about the same Satya who said that women shouldn't ask for better salaries but instead trust karma? Are you fucking kidding me?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/10/microsoft...
The premium on top of aggregate cost complaint would also apply to "pure insurance". Or else no one would bother selling it.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure they were saying that insurance didn't work, which is manifestly untrue. If they are complaining that it makes healthcare more expensive, well fine, but that is probably more about the principal agent problem than the administrative costs and profits of insurers.
But still... why every character? Wait a couple hundred ms after each keystroke to see if they are done.
Creating a Computer Science Canon (2003) [pdf]
Latency Distribution Graph in AWS X-Ray
"insurance" in this case is also a savings account. People need to be forced to put money into the system when young and/or healthy so that's there's enough money available when they are not.

If they're not forced to do this, then they won't and people are forced to stand by and watch as they fall ill and due which is bad for the economy and may already disease, even if you don't care about the moral aspects.

There's little benefit to seperating these things out and obvious downsides to them not being mandated.
Have you ever considered that your beliefs are utopian in nature? That if we give over everything to the market things won't just solve themselves?

Besides healthcare costs are lower in countries where the government intervenes more than ours does disproving the point.
It is an analogy. It breaks down. I clearly admire her but am trying to point out that there is someone just like her aiming at a Pulitzer.
This is very exciting.

I agree that fresher is better. But starting from green beans and ROASTING, grinding, brewing them per cup while-you-wait??

Roasting is usually done in large batches over a period of hours and is very bean-dependent. If you're drastically shortening this process, that means a much higher temperature, right? How does the process avoid breaking down the bean (and all its aromatics) at high temp?

The only thing I can think of something like a pressure cooker which allows fast cooking of legumes using steam heat without breaking down the structure of the legume itself.

Anyone have details on how this works?
There are currencies with governance built in: PIVX and DASH are the two main exampled I know of.

Basically the nodes that have a stake in the system are allowed to vote on the direction the project is going.

My personal impression is that currently this model is still very rudimentary, but in the future I could still an almost autonomous system taking off.
Correct. Because it's decentralized it's not susceptible to being taken offline by a single blocked site
15% is a lot.
Devils advocate I guess: Snowden leaks was a single source. Fake news?
But not everyone is (or becomes) healthy or unhealthy to the same degree. If I have no family history of health issues, or I simply want to take a chance that I'll remain healthy, why should anyone else tell me how much I should value my health?
The category that would be applicable here is autobiography or maybe personal essay. Those aren't listed.

There is a difference between writing about events in which you are a principal actor and ones where you are not, though needless to say that line is often very blurry.
The banality of saying that cheaper goods are good is impressive and doesn't have much to do with the argument rayiner was making.
The definition of news is "newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events."

If your news is about events that never happened, and not just biased towards one particular ideology but completely fictional, it shouldn't be considered news.

The Onion for example is fake news, not just an angle on particular information. I agree that this label is overused to describe REAL news that doesn't from a different point of view.

But completely fictional stories, made by papers that don't exist, that happen in towns that don't exist, about people that don't exist, made exclusively for profit, can't be included in your definition of "news".
Absolutely, but for many those stories to gain traction in the first place, often there needs to be a marketing seed of some sort. That's where the "fake news" machinery comes in.

(Of course, some sizeable subset is a chain mail or story that spreads organically, or some fake news mill trying to make money.)
Not being able to successfully and clearly communicate their thought process about a simple problem one-on-one is a bad signal for being able to communicate clearly about a difficult problem in a group setting or being a useful sounding board for technical ideas.
Facebook-teaches-machines-to-negotiate-with-humans
One would expect an engineering firm to be able to set up doc conversion for the special people who need "proper documentation" and consider Word to be at all related to that. Every "document" I've ever gotten from an engineer has been a PDF, which should work even for special people.
And another extension to undo that. Such contrivances are ultimately pointless.
https://pyformat.info/ should know, ask it
E: Disregard. Whatsapp is doing exactly what they should be doing. Telegram seems to proxy the requests.

Why is no one saying anything about end to end crypto?

Whatsapp shouldn't be able to see my messages, isn't that what they say themselves?
I too am curious about how they will define LinkedIn.

From a mannerism/general code of conduct - I agree that it should be treated like an office or work-related event.

Legally - it's a weird stance. If it's a direct extension of your workplace what will that mean for NDAs and corporate policies? Do they "own" the rights to all information you post while working there? What happens when you move on?
That will change how people interpret facts, yes. But it can't really change whether, e.g., a court ruled for or against someone in a case.
A "Quo Vadis" brand notebook with unruled pages and a fountain pen.
I have a note 4 (2560x1440) and it has a slight blur for me too.
Detect and Track a Human in a given video
> The Onion for example is fake news

No, the Onion is overt satire. To be fake news, it would have to try to make you believe that it is news.
I wish to convert 1964 geodetic system to WGS84 on search panel
Sure - but then you're not really charging $400 for the software. You're charging $400 for the services associated with that software, and a (typically significant) portion of that money will go towards funding the service, not the OSS software.

This change in how the money is allocated is a subtle, but important, distinction. Monetizing a service means you now have a minimum of two products to manage, and from my time at a company which did exactly this I've found that the OSS software development is the product which absorbs any shortfalls. It's hard to watch the budget for OSS development shrink constantly; to watch developers passionate about the OSS software being reassigned to grow the service instead.

It's probably still the best way to handle a crummy situation, but it's not what the OP described.
The official inflation numbers in US are calculated in a rather dodgy way. You should read about that. Government statisticians take a very big effort to exclude a lion share of basic living necessities out of CPI calculation
rr := https://github.com/mozilla/rr

rr is a lightweight tool for recording and replaying execution of applications (trees of processes and threads).
Show HN: Your Own Task Queue for Python
And I think copyleft licenses offer a solution here: if you are worried that corporations (or rival corporations) might monetize your product (or derive any profit from it indirectly), licensing it under a copyleft license would make their lives very, very hard. It's near impossible, for instance, to keep an AGPLv3-licensed product within a walled-garden, hence good luck while trying to build a *AAS on that.
This is my experience after working at quite a few large companies over the last 4 years since uni.

You should optimise for passing the pub test not the programming test, and you probably don't want to work at a place that hands out codility tests.

Here's some anecdotes from my hiring experience:

My team and I once rejected a lad because we thought he would get bored after a couple of weeks. He got 100% in his codility, flawless technical interviews etc... He was too good for us and our trivial domain (this was a FTSE100, our services were consumed by 90% of the companies teams, in a very buzzwordy area).

Same company: two candidates, the first was technically better than the second. However no one who spoke to the first said they would be keen to go for a pint with him. The second was an absolute mensch so he got the job. He even said in the interview that he thought it was going terribly...

Once I interviewed two Devs on the same day, HR sent the offer to the wrong one and he accepted. Our team didn't know until he turned up on Monday morning.

Before my current gig I interviewed for a contract at a startup. The product was simple: just applying tech to a sector that is all man power based at the moment. This was the hardest technical interview I've ever had to give. I was asked to write the longest common subsequence algorithm. I did not write one line of code: eventually it turned into me watching the interviewer write the code. I was sure it was a disaster. The guy said he loved me, and wanted me to do the 'pairing' test again... All because of the pub test. I declined.

The interview for my current gig was a 30 minute chat on Skype. A team mate told me it was between me and another, but he was boring.
It probably won't affect LinkedIn much, even if the courts were to rule strongly in favor of the plaintiff. Reason being is that this guy was using his work account, meaning he directly represented the company. If it was his personal account that he uses for himself only, I doubt there would be a case at all. But this fool was using the company's account and directly representing the company, just as would be the case if they were talking on the phone or face to face. If he's conducting company business, the general rule is that the company is responsible for their employee. That's pretty much always been the case. The fact that this happened on the internet or, specifically, LinkedIn, is largely meaningless. That's why I don't think it will affect LinkedIn at all. Employers already know the risks about choosing who represents them.
If you don't get their support, then that $400,000 has to go a lot further (or you have to work towards a branch reconciliation at the end of the work). Ongoing maintenance is not free.
This is mostly about shaming the guy. Whether or not the allegations are true (I didn't see the evidence), his name is forever besmirched. I did laugh a little when I googled the guy's name.
The 4th comment is:

doing a GET request over the internet is already violating e2e
The app obviously can see the messages, this happens on the clients.
That doesn't really help if the exporting application distributed the figure across multiple pages. E.g. in Visio you have to work around that by using the "export current viewport" option, which is quite annoying and irreproducible to use.
Ask HN: Will AI create an impossible barrier to entry for software development?
Will software worth using eventually require advanced AI to differentiate or add value, limiting the ability for startups or individuals to create desirable software ?