skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google doesn't have any good options here. They can either ignore the problem of fake news, or they can become the arbiters of what is or is not fake news. If the latter, the boundary between filtering out misinformation and actively manipulating public opinion is rather fuzzy.

As a news consuming public, our best option seems to be to not use Google as our primary news filter. Long term, we probably need an entirely different kind of news aggregator that isn't under the control of any single entity as you're suggesting, but I'm not sure what that would look like and how it would work.
I agree that a lot of a manager's job may be tasks that are necessary to get things done, but I still don't see how your success isn't tied to your direct's/team's success? I understand that as a manager you may be given a stacked deck team wise, but even then I would imagine that you were put into that situation to be a change agent. If you weren't, well, that's someone sandbagging you and a different problem!
I'm considering "work" to be related to things you have contractual or financial obligations to, i.e. your primary employment or company that you own. Work that you enjoy doing still counts as "work" if you have obligations to customers, bosses, employees, investors, or anyone.

I consider "recreation" to be things that you are doing because you want to, and do not have obligations to do (of any kind, including but not limited to contractual, health, etc.).

I consider side projects (real side projects, not 20% projects) to be recreation. You're allowed to rest when you're tired, you're allowed to procastinate, you're allowed to take breaks whenever and however long you want, you're allowed to take your laptop to the beach, you're allowed to abandon them, change them, and do as you please with them. This kind of mental freedom is very, very important to qualitatively count as recreation.

If side projects evolve into a contractual obligation, then it becomes work by my book.

Exercise counts as recreation if you're doing it because you want to. It doesn't count as recreation if your work makes you do it (i.e. move boxes in a warehouse). It doesn't count if you're working 100 hours a week and spend 5 of those hours exercising in the office gym out of necessity for your health because you couldn't find time to exercise in a way that you find fun.

I hike for exercise. I hike because I want to, and nobody makes me do it. That counts as recreation.
Software age is a non-sequitur- there are plenty of active multi-decade projects that can update their marketing material once in ten years.
Nobody suggested they do so every year, even though it takes what like an hour?
For a product costing $thousands there is not really an excuse.
its not hierarchically wrong; services never required their own subdomain - example.com is just as valid a host as www.example.com

sure it is helpful for organization, but when was the last time you used ssh.example.com?
Cool to talk to the writer directly. You're first selected quote is indeed not gendered. I could not find your second quote. Perhaps that is from another piece you wrote?

The article overall is very gendered: 14 instances of the word "woman" nearly all in the context of women being victims, none as perpetrators, and no mention of men as victims.
Standards forfeit control. If you can become a de facto standard, without standardizing, you wield insane power over lives and business. Of your examples, Blu-ray, DirectX, and the "new age" closed silo IM protocols like WhatsApp that superseded an XMPP world are all corporate controlled properties that have no standards body considering the needs of the industry. They behave and act to fulfill the needs of their creators, to the detriment of the users and broader ecosystem.

That is why standards are hard. Because it requires those with power to voluntarily relinquish it, which very rarely will happen. And then to never try to circumvent standards with first mover advantage to reclaim that kind of monopoly power. At least right now societies around the world are very poorly structured to align the incentives towards cooperation.
Would be funny to see, say, an enterprise software filled with gamedev patterns. Would you care to elaborate on any of it? What kind of patterns were specifically glaring/out of place?
You should be writing code, experimenting, attending technical reviews, but never put yourself in the critical path. Your job is no longer to deliver code, it is to lead the team or product.
I already admitted my respect for her as a professional. There is nothing negative in what she does. I'm just stating a fact - if you want more details you need to turn to people who she sources from.

What is bad about it?
Interesting. I used a disk-based hash table very similar to this one in DOS Point-Of -Sale applications in 1989. Goal was to have consistent lookup time when scanning barcode labels. Of course my average lookup times were much slower due to low seek times.
I can't wait for for spatial databases with GPU acceleration. Things like massively parallel collision checking for complex shapes become relatively fast when you have a GPU.
Plus crazy experiments. Don't forget the crazy experiments.
Angelhack ignites the passion of the world’s most vibrant community of code creators + change makers to invent the new and make change happen, together. I think that's true. Addition to develop good service in 24hr, you commit to run the real business in near future. 2 min pitch was exciting for us
Amazon already does this.
It is called "People who purchased this item also purchased this item"
For what reason would you interpret my comment as satire?
>"Until the 1990s, Grand Central Station in New York had almost everything - 60Hz commercial power,..."

Do you mean 50Hz there?
Did you forget the link?
In the startup world finding a mentor may be hard, and if you are in that situation you may want to look outside for a mentor. But if you are at a large organization, there is often a support network or mentor program already available. Take advantage of it!

If you can, ask your current manager to write a SWOT and use it to pair you up within a mentor to make strengthen your weaknesses. Try to find a mentor outside of your reporting chain.
The Montana Mogul: RightNow CEO Greg Gianforte (Part 1) (2008)
I've heard of European broadcasters speeding up a film slightly so that it's 25 fps instead of 24. Thus the same movie could be several minutes shorter on European broadcast TV. As long as the speed difference is small enough, people don't notice.
Somehow I didn't know that - thanks for the info!
User Interactions and Permission Use on Android [pdf]
There's some OK stuff here, but the list on the whole isn't very coherent. If this is a guide specifically for "APIs" that are driven almost entirely from browser Javascript SPA's, it makes sense. Otherwise, a lot of these recommendations are a little weak; for instance, most of the HTTP option headers this list recommends won't be honored by typical HTTP clients.

Further, the list succumbs to the cardinal sin of software security advice: "validate input so you don't have X, Y, and Z vulnerabilities". Simply describing X, Y, and Z vulnerabilities provides the same level of advice for developers (that is to say: not much). What developers really need is advice about how to structure their programs to foreclose on the possibility of having those bugs. For instance: rather than sprinkling authentication checks on every endpoint, have the handlers of all endpoints inherit from a base class that performs the check automatically. Stuff like that.

Finally: don't use JWT. JWT terrifies me, and it terrifies all the crypto engineers I know. As a security standard, it is a series of own-goals foreseeable even 10 years ago based on the history of crypto standard vulnerabilities. Almost every application I've seen that uses JWT would be better off with simple bearer tokens.

JWT might be the one case in all of practical computing where you might be better off rolling your own crypto token standard than adopting the existing standard.
- variadic template arg (static va_start/end)

- rvalue&& (avoid few copies)

- enum class (enum with a size and a namespace)
> There are plenty of counterexamples from before that regulation

Name one :-)
As a workaround, couldn't you just have, say, nginx listen on 80/443 and either redirect or reverse proxy to the correct endpoints based on the SRV records?

That way, compliant browsers can connect directly while SRV-ignoring browsers would just get proxied (or redirected), and once set up there would be no special actions needed by the users, save for telling the proxy about the keys and certs.
I have an uncommon last name - about 3 families in the world with it as far as I can tell.
Some asshole has been squatting <mylastname>.com for over 20 years and said he "hadn't considered selling it" then wanted $100,000 for it. The same guy has been squatting hundreds of domains since the 90s, many of them 1 letter off from major websites.

What can I do against this scum? I saw that there have been many successful disputes against him so I was thinking of constructing one in a similar vein saying that his use of my unique last name to serve malware and ads is damaging to my reputation but it seems a little weak.

Also no other TLD is even an option for an email address because people always assume you made a mistake and just send things to .com anyway in my experience.
Defending you here:

I too feel strongly for the refugees.

I'll be happy to pay more tax if it helps solve the problem.

However I see Merkels let-them-come attitude as dangerous feel-good politics.

Why?

1. Because moving that many people around creates dangerous (for us and them) conflicts.

2. Because for every refugee we help in Europe we let down 100 in the middle east. Why? Because it costs enourmously much more to help people here than to help them down there.

So - IMO - today's feel-good let-them-come policy should be replaced with a targeted approach aimed at helping them where they are or in neighbouring countries.

As I said I'll be happy to pay more a little more tax for this.
It's easier to remove dynamic range on playback than to add it back in... don't many stereos have a "loudness" function which brickwalls the audio?
Since Youtube and most streaming services started to automatically balance tracks based on their average perceived loudness (not all of them use the same metric, but the purpose is the same), loudness war is almost dead. If you brickwall your song, it will not be played louder than competition anymore.
> Whether it's Metric vs. Imperial

To be fair, humanity did standardize that long ago. There is a country that is refusing to switch to the standard.
As far as I can tell;

None of the authors are real people, the website is registered behind a anonymization service, there is no company registered with their name, the address of their office doesn't exist, the phone number connects to a 'subscriber not in service'...

If you look at their Google Ad ID, it was used in the past on the now defunct "TheSportsTruth.com" -- which looks like it primarily existed to shuffle people to a supplement site. From there, there are a ton of links to other random affiliate schemes with sports, 'internet marketing', etc. No sense outing anyone, but I believe I figured out who's behind a few dozen of this shitty sites. The NYStockNews site seems to make its money by referrals to some penny stock scam sites.

It's crazy how much 'content' on the internet exists solely to get people to click on links to supplements & penny stock scams.
Identify someone from one picture
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With regard to OpenGL vs. DirectX, the competing standards push each other to keep improving. I suspect that graphics APIs and thus hardware would have really stagnated without the competition.
> boost the clarity of softer sections or to make louder sections more comfortable to the ears

You can create these effects during playback with a compressor, which are available in many players[1]. Knowledge about compressors isn't as widely known as it should be; it's an important feature that would help a lot of people, especially anyone dealing with hearing loss.

> headphones

Maybe try better headphones (or a different type, such as enclosed headphones with good room attenuation)? Many cheap[2] headphones have terrible response to different volumes; quieter parts may be overly attenuated, for example. Cheap/bad headphones also tend to have a highly variable frequency response, which can sometimes sound like volume problems. If this is the case, spending some time with a highly configurable EQ might help (possibly in addition to a compressor).

[1] also available in some audio systems (e.g. jack) and as a feature in some drivers/soundcards

[2] and some "name brand", such as older Bose, anything Beats or other brands sold as fashion statements.

edit: re-added sentence that died during a bad copy/paste

edit2: Appendix for anybody that isn't familiar with dynamic range compression.

> need to adjust the volume several times

This is literally what a basic compressor is automating[3] for you. It turns down the output volume when the input level is over a threshold. There are a lot of (often configurable) details like how much to reduce the volume as the input level increases past the threshold, how quickly[4] it responds to a loud transient, and how quickly it returns to normal when the input becomes quiet again. Really nice compressors even smooth[5] the changes near the threshold so the whole effect is less noticeable.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression#Desi...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression#Atta...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression#Soft...
Well, different systems have different tradeoffs. It makes sense that people have different priorities, and thus prefer different systems. Almost everyone likes cooperation, but for that compromise is needed, which is always difficult to achieve in a manner satisfactory to all parties involved.
Sentences like this make me question everything about the article (and taint the research by association):

"Use of the drugs was associated with a 25 percent greater risk of death,"

Given that we all have a 100% chance of death, what does this mean?
Good example. Elections are definitely winner-take-all, i.e. we get red cars or green cars. But under capitalism, I can choose which I want. Elections are not about individual choices.
There are a few that are loaded and have designers that they are happy with. The ones that aren't rich? There are a lot more of them and they can't pay you.
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Why I downloaded a fake social media networking app
Ask HN: So I want to create an adaptation
My friend and I are working on a digital adaptation of a board game, with the hope and dream that it will one day be a nice source of side income.

However, this board game is quite unique and we want to engage with the IP owners for their consent.

We've come up with some questions that would be pretty universal with others who have some similar dream:

* When should we reach out to the IP owners?

* How should we engage? With an attorney or just firing off an email?

* How does profit sharing work in situations like this?

I can't think of any extras right now, but I'm sure discussion will spark some more.

So, does anybody have suggestions on how to answer these?
> Do the people doing this work deserve no credit?

Of course they deserve credit. The question is, what about the people with "skill, ability, creativity, ambition, determination" but no family wealth and connections? Do they deserve even more credit if they succeed?

What if a lack of wealth and connections proves too much of a limiting factor (i.e. nothing to show other than a serious attempt)? Do they still deserve credit? Of course, credit for failure is a bit of an oxymoron so maybe those with the necessary wealth and connections will only ever be the ones to get credit. Is that not a problem?
Seconded. Happy customer since 3 years here. The only thing that's not nice is that they do not offer Bring-Your-Own-Domain. You can only have a @posteo.tld address (with a certain range of TLD).
Just the other day, there was a job posting on HN for a new health care startup.

It pissed me off, frankly, because the ad was not framed in terms of actual accomplishments or credentials or skills, but in terms of whether or not you attended an elite school. As in it literally stated that they were looking for people from "top 10 schools" or some such thing.

They made it abundantly clear they did not care about someone's actual abilities or skills, only what their pedigree was.

What makes me so angry is that this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy at that point. This article is a natural extension of that process.

I loathe recent political trends in the US, but I'm not surprised at all to see the populism that's arisen. Society is dripping with nepotism of various forms.
Seastar (https://github.com/scylladb/seastar) and Scylla (https://github.com/scylladb/scylla).
That was moderately interesting, and nudged me to go and update my own journal for the first time in a while. That said, the author didn't mention one of the first things that jumped to my mind (for better or for worse) and that is "legal proceedings". That is, FSM forbid you should be sued for something, a journal could prove invaluable. Whether the journal itself is admitted as evidence, or whether it simply serves to help you remember some key fact that would otherwise have been forgotten, I can see how a good journal could save your ass in certain situations.

Of course the flip-side is that your journal could presumably be subpoenaed by the other side, but all in all, assuming you're really not doing anything dodgy, I think you'd be better off having one than not.
Where+The+Sun's+Plasma+Jets+Come+From?
The point your predecessor was making was that if you make bad design decisions or create bugs, your output isn't growing.
As an analogy, how about if all text was served to you as .png files where the person writing the text has guessed what size text you want?

This is vaguely equivalent - it is difficult to go from image->text, just as it is difficult (or impossible) to go from low dynamic range -> high dynamic range. The reverse direction is cheap (and possible).

In fact, some compression codecs even have well defined compression curves to use - so your codec isn't just "bitstream in, pcm out" it is "bitstream+listening environment in, pcm out".
It should be "I can't even point out their bad spelling or writing style". When the preposition gets separated from its object, it's referred to as "dangling". There's a famous (probably apocryphal) example where Winston Churchill humorously wrote, "This is a situation up with which I will not put." - the humour being, of course, that the arguably more grammatical phrasing sounds absurdly unidiomatic.

If you cc me on all your work correspondence, I'll be happy to point out any grammatical errors I find (for a fee, obviously).
https://www.amazon.com/Genius-China-Science-Discovery-Invent...
I don't bookmark many links but here's [1] a good one for all to keep on a similar topic.

It's a SO article on security for web transactions.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/549/the-definitive-guide...
Uber Says Levandowski Took Waymo Files to Justify a Bonus
I usually use gperf created tables or cdb tables for that purpose.
Just talking about the first item: you're asserting that first verifying your understanding of specifications, discovering then specifying currently implicit requirements of an in-production system, then automating your system's compliance with specs in a way that does not require changing the automation while specs remain constant but the system grows, is menial. At least to me, as a person who struggles even with math proofs, and is trying to figure out a robust way to discover features in complex systems (for example, to reverse engineer/port video games without access to the source), that is -very surprising-.
You can take Stanford's Compilers course for free as an online course from Stanford's Lagunita.
I suppose that depends on your definition of modern!

The id Tech 4 engine is over a decade old, and like most game engines uses their own data structures. Many additionals to the C++ standard have been in the standard libraries.
The US Army’s new truck is silent – and driving it is surreal
But media companies could already do this with human writers if they wanted to. Maybe they do?
One of the best things my high school physics teacher did was show students how to make telescope mirrors. Every day after school there'd be two or three students there grinding away at their mirrors.
The problem is public opinion. Americans either don't care or think imperial is superior.

It doesn't have to be a federal law. Change can start gradually with private companies. Pokemon Go, for instance, shows only kilometers and doesn't offer imperial units as an option. All water bottles in the US have both mililiters and fluid ounces on their label.
It would be great if telegram incorporated email into their system.
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That's true, though I've found information on this very hard to come by.

Keep in mind as well that natural gas differs markedly from petroleum on a number of accounts: it's lighter, leaks in open air are somewhat less a problem (the gas dissipates rather than pooling on the ground and contaminating soil, buildings, etc.). Though it's also a terrific fire hazard, which makes me wonder about China's experience with this.

Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China is apparently one of the authoritiative sources. I've access to a copy nearby, and may see what turns up there.

Otherwise: there's little mention of major pipelines. Take the following academic article, which makes mention of clay, stone, lead, and copper piping of ancient Egypt and Rome, briefly mentions China ... and then skips forward to Colonel Drake and Titusville.

The case that there was a booming practice of laying pipe prior to 1859 doesn't stand to inspection.

http://www.engr.mun.ca/~spkenny/Courses/Undergraduate/ENGI86...
Literally the entire reason antitrust laws were written? Standard Oil? General Motors? AT&T?

A little disingenuous to pretend that never happened.
The "loudness" switch on stereo amplifiers is for loudness compensation [1], not compression.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_compensation
If you want your mind blown on China and technology: Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Civilisation_in_...
That's very far from Modern C++. It's more the C with classes style of C++.
> provided that you also write unit tests and do code review

Not necessarily. Imagine submitting a patch on 8 PM, when everyone has already been in the office for 10 hours. It has a glaring bug in a particular branch that's not covered by the unit tests in a way that coverage testing doesn't show, yet everyone is too tired to see that bug. Thus the patch gets greenlit and applied to production. Just as everyone is heading home to fall into bed, pagers start ringing because prod is on fire.