skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do mobile phones not provide the option, "if caller is not in contacts, send immediately to voice mail". Seems like a simple check box.
But why do you think getting elected and then ending democracy is an exclusively Nazi pre-disposition, when it's mostly been communists doing that, and why do you think it was free speech that led to Hitler when free speech is the first thing people like him get rid of?

Democracy and freedom of speech are the primary bulwark against people like that, not the cause of it!
It could be a fork, but forks dont last past two or three blocks. Unless you're the target of a massive double spend its not a big threat. So simply waiting for more blocks is good enough.
Aren't unsolicited, electronic commercial messages illegal, or is calling somehow different from email?

As a Dutchman I've never received a call like that. Only once a text message (about 7 months ago), and I highly suspect that one was just sent by my ISP on the advertiser's behalf.
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I got my foot in the door via a front-end job/internship in England. What I did was I would find free website design templates (this was in 2014) and turn them into live websites. Then I quickly created a portfolio, hosted it on GH pages, linked to my github account at the time and started applying. It was easier for me because it was a paid internship through an EU funded program. They made me an offer and later on retracted. But thankfully right before the end they were nice enough to hook me up with a couple of other companies who were desperately looking for a Junior Dev (whatever that means). I must say I'm really greatful for the oppotunities because it exposed me to much much more talented devs and I got to learn tonnes of things (vim, back-end dev, basic devops, linux) I barely do front end anymore.

So to answer your question I guess, it depends on your area of expertise. It's easier in my opinion if you're a front-end guy because you'll have "something to show". If you're a backend developer you can always cook up a library in whatever language you use and share it with the community, that along with a blog can go a long way in helping you landing a job.

Hope this helps
I converted my internship to a job.

How did I get the internship in the first place? I begged. I begged and begged till they got tired of my begging and offered me an internship.

Actually to be fair to myself, I demonstrated my knowledge of Joomla (a PHP CMS) internals which they thought was cool. The company was a python shop running on Django so that was the second framework I mastered.

Four years later, I now work at Google :)
Yeah, I have seen that yesterday too, it's a good summary.

I think one of the important points is this: "The differences are much larger and more consistent for traits related to interest and enjoyment, rather than ability."

Damore argued based on this, and I hold a similar view, that gender quotas should not be used, because they don't correspond to personal preferences. This has nothing to do with abilities.
In my personal/anecdotal experience, I've noticed a higher performance ceiling using HTML/CSS over SVG. Doing similar operations between the two usually shows SVG with better performance but if you are willing to put in the effort HTML/CSS can be made to outperform SVG.
... only if one has used

getconf PATH

to set the path to the one that guarantees that.

* http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ge...

* http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/co...

* http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/uni...
What is going on?!

Why do they pick the bad examples to serve as the argument for what they are trying to shove down our throats?

What about the Good Boss? The person you look up to, the holder of the company vision, the one that motivates you - even without talking to you? Someone who's there, simply put.

Are they so disconnected from reality that they forget we're talking about people here? Do they think people would want to work for an organization without a head, who's directives trickle down from a blockchain decision in a memo on their email boxes?

There are plenty of examples where the board had no clue what they are talking about, because there's only that much that can be carried on a report.

This is ridiculous.
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I was a Western Union operator 10 years ago. Back then it was $15 for every $100 you were sending.

Today, they have much cheaper options, though every transaction looks to take several days.[0]

Amusingly, their Price Estimator [1] continuously reloads with adblockers enabled.

[0] http://onlinefx.westernunion.com/Fees

[1] https://www.westernunion.com/us/en/price-estimator/continue....
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These are drug addicts who largely don't have any savings. They are extremely cash poor. But they are "worth money" because each body can be used to bill an insurance company for outrageous amounts (which, one way or another, we all pay). Without an extremely flawed insurance industry this wouldn't be possible. How else could you make lots of money from people who don't have any?
I can get why such a thing would be scary to a government. But really, there's no reason this should be about Russia. "Government runs closed source software distributed by foreign company" should sound scary whatever government it is, wherever the company is based.

Governments need to be able to audit the code they run. If there is a place where the "100% libre software" ambition should rule, it's there (provided govs indeed have people who audit code, obviously).
They seem to work in similar ways, but Cloudflare focuses on speed and security, this just seems to focus on SEO. The security risk is in theory the same, but I'd argue that the risk from Cloudflare is lower as they're a well established service used by major companies.
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Perhaps, but what if it is accurate? It's been said that religion is opium for the masses. Deluding yourself might make you feel good but you're still suffering.

As I type this the following is on the front page: 'Body Brokers' Get Kickbacks to Lure People with Addictions to Bad Rehab.
> He should improve contraception instead.

Yeah. Perhaps he should imitate this charitable foundation run by a billionaire tech guy that's doing exactly that: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Developmen...
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True, though I’ve often found you have to be doing some rather obscure or strange things to screw up basic display

Or advanced CSS.
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There's an interesting implication here for redshift observations and Hubble expansion, insofar as it provides a mechanism for photons to lose energy while in a highly sparse medium, populated largely only by other photons.

I'm keeping my money on expansion and dark matter being hooey brought about by incomplete of incorrect understanding of light.

Only recently there was that rather interesting piece about simulated momentum transfer from photons in media.

It's exciting - we'll potentially be lopping off a huge branch of dead wood from the tree of science, from which new ideas can grow.
Why would you bother hiding Jews in your attic?
When your only point of reference is the events from your own life almost any strategy can seem rational.
I regularly send payments with 5c-10c in fees and it works just fine. Sometimes takes a bit longer, if we're in a high-demand period or going through a spam attack[0].

The "small block policy" view[1] is held by nearly every technical participant of the bitcoin space[2][3], myself included. Claiming that blockstream are somehow "forcing" anything is pure conspiracy nonsense.

[0] https://bravenewcoin.com/news/bitcoin-spam-attack-stressed-n...

[1] that is, the "let's start by doubling the blocksize with segwit first, analyze the results and then talk about further increasing it" view. not sure how valid the "small block" label is, considering that the people you're labeling with it want to double the block size.

[2] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Segwit_support#Developers

[3] https://bitcoincore.org/en/segwit_adoption/
Pfff. It's the strike breakers that make it hard.

Keep that up for a while longer, and it will become a physical impossibility, as any gesture of resistance leads to automatic extermination. Until then? Thanks for nothing.
The last part is not accurate for me
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Just a note of caution about Jolly Roger (http://www.jollyrogertelco.com/), I used to love forwarding spam calls to them. However, since you have to pick up the call to loop Jolly Roger in - the automated system might mark you for repeat calls. For instance I answered a call about student debt repayment or whatever to forward the call and since then I've been getting at least a few calls a week from different numbers about it as well as text messages.
With UWP, Visual C++ kind of finally caught up with C++ Builder, it even has support from Blend for UI design.

MFC is mostly on maintenance and new application should use XAML + C++/CX.

C++/CX makes use of the C++/CLI extensions but it targets AOT compilation to native code instead.

The alternatives are C++ with WRL (Windows Runtime Library), basically ATL replacement, and what most Microsoft teams actually use for the UWP kernel components.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/universal-windo...

Because most C++ devs would rather use something more standards friendly, there is work in progress to eventually replace C++/CX with C++/WinRT, taking advantage of C++17 features.

“Embracing Standard C++ for the Windows Runtime"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm4IwfiJ3EU

“Putting Coroutines to Work with the Windows Runtime"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0SjumbIips
> No political leader should single out one group or person with accusations of violence because:

You're defending trump for not condemning white supremacists. You say he's done nothing wrong, and should not condemn individuals.

But he does condemn Islamic extremists.

Is he wrong to do so?
I'm guessing the interactive fiction interpreter [1], which predated the version control system by a couple of years.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20120826174233/http://diden.net/i...
Or choose a host with deeper pockets (e.g., Amazon, Google, GoDaddy), but then you have to trust them.

Personal, my VPN is on almost all the time, even at home, not just on free unsecure wifi. I think, ultimately, that's the best option I have. Hopefully, the provider does what they say (i.e., no logs).
From a practical perspective, I've had lots of bad experience with devs insisting on being clever and drawing complex graphics with layers of pseudo elements and complex gradients when dropping in an svg is quicker and more maintainable.
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The US spends tens of billions of dollars a year on substance abuse treatment. In that context $58 million of fraud could be taken as evidence of fairly vigorous pursuit.
I had been receiving many spam calls and downloaded the Truecaller app. It crowdsources spam caller information and does a good job of notifying you if a call is spam.
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> It's a workstation-class motherboard with dual POWER9 CPUs

Isn't it more accurate to say it might at some point be available as a motherboard with power 9 CPUs?

I mean, it looks very interesting, but afaik no-one has been shown even a prototype yet?
The files could get quite huge after that. Also one feature of svg (whether it is an advantage is for everyone to decide) is that it can render fonts as they are rendered in the other parts of OS. Which is why it can be seamlessly embedded.
The problem does go away because of how addressing works. If you read my other comment, the address is masked for fast and safe sandboxing. If you have a huge virtual address space, it's practically guaranteed you'll have a contiguous chunk even when the actual memory is very fragmented.
Thank you for this amusing reply. You really believe all this :-)
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Or raise the costs.

Ultimately, this is a Telco problem. And they're going to have to address it or people will desert them.

(As I have.)
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That's only because you forgot about Lotus Notes. Perhaps they will have similar fates.
That's impressive. I'll take a look, thanks for the tip.
You'd be surprised at how quickly adaptive fraud detection systems can work.
The way I've always heard it, as a layman, is that red shift could be explained only by an expanding universe.

I'm sure there's more rigor to it than that, but it always seem s like a pretty big conclusion. A mildly surprising claim explained by a wildly surprising theory.
That seems like a pretty good summary according to the understanding I have and I've been following things fairly closely.

Couple additions:

- there are a few lightning implementations already out there (see https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd), three I believe, and they have worked on being interoperable. Getting segwit activated was a big blocking (hah!) point towards being able to actually use those, and that happens soon so we may start seeing some more activity in that space very soon now.

- I don't think lightning necessarily means KYC, at least no more so than any other bitcoin->bitcoin transaction. It is basically all the same thing as current bitcoin transaction except things are kept off chain until someone wants to settle (or the channel approaches its timeout). This took me a long time and many videos to grok but it is pretty clever and has me excited about Bitcoin scaling to everyday use again. But ya, though the specter of regulation is always looming there isn't anything in lightning that necessarily makes that worse.

The whole big block / small block thing is absolutely nuts in the amount of trolling that takes place, so totally expect some crazy replies to this.. troll on brothers!
A really simple VB.NET desktop application landed me a job writing C# code which still handles millions of dollars in banking transactions in Latin America.

I just started working on a simple Django cms called Amy[0] and that has also gotte me work. Weird.

[0] https://github.com/yelluw/amy

See Amy live at yelluw.com (https incoming!)
This article was presented before and here it is again.

Some other people intent on giving Eugene a hard time recently: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-kasperskylab-analysis-...

True, it must be hard to remain objective when this happens:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/kaspe...

On the recent embassy ban a former CIA station chief said it will mostly affect the russian staff whom they all assumed to be spies anyway as they suspected that nobody would get a job there unless they had been vetted by GRU.

May we assume they would think the same for KL employees?

Maybe US intelligence is still butthurt over exposure of and then also loss of tools - Equation group et al? Can you imagine how much crapola is coming down the old shitpipe currently - hacked elections, shadowbrokers, HBO/mandiant...? The list of agenda items on the briefing meetings just gets longer and longer and the politicians just get crazier and crazier.

Oh Lordy!
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There is also this kind of forest:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Forest.html
When the constitution was drafted, there were no companies like facebook or google. The state was the largest and most powerful entity. The first amendment is a product of its times, if it was drafted today it would be different to reflect the massive power that corporations hold over people.
I have no idea what half of that comment means (I'm not a programmer) so you aren't alone! (No insult meant to the original commenter!)
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Unfortunately that's not how identity politics works. The whole point is that your sexual anatomy can disqualify you from having an opinion - which really seems to be the crux of this whole debacle. If you're a man who agrees with identity politics then it's because you're intelligent and compassionate. But if you disagree.. Then it's time to check your privilege.
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>Those who disagreed with Damore already won the battle.

It's about the attitude. As a woman in Tech, there are so many men you don't feel like you belong. Men think you are really not very feminine anyway, you are a geek who likes programming. With memos like this more young women are going to rethink a career where they will feel alone and may have their biological identity questioned if they are successful
Millions are being poisoned every day in Bangladesh. Why is nothing being done?
You can migrate your landline number to a cellphone plan in Europe. There is no way to know whats on the other side when you are making a call.
Try answering and saying no/pressing the no button.

The article asserts that most robocallers are then somehow selling that information to other robocallers, but I doubt it (plus, uh, "pressed no" isn't a steaming hot sales lead).
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Thanks,
I had a read around and looked at other posts on HN and seems like a good place to start :)
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In our experience, API versioning hits a roadblock in three cases:

1. Mandatory new field.

2. Field is split. For example, address field is now divided into street1 and street2.

3. Change in datatype.

In the above three cases, we had to force users to upgrade their versions.
I'm pretty sure their main product is sidechains?

https://blockstream.com/about/

> Blockstream's primary area of innovation is in sidechains, a technology invented to extend the capabilities of Bitcoin's blockchain. Sidechains create the opportunity for new models of trust, extending and improving upon the properties of Bitcoin.
Actually the GP is incorrect. It's pretty well understood [1] these days that your body is like a "cup" that can only take a certain amount of stress before it starts getting counter productive. Mental stress and center-nervous-system stress (what weight training does) both contribute so if you already have a lot of one you're forced to have less than the other or everything suffers.

[1] I'm not in a position to hunt links but lookup "Alan Thrall stress" on youtube.
Your response is the kind of response that just builds support for him more.

What have I seen since this memo came out, from people who disagree with it?

His words are offensive. Poorly written. Yes there's science but it was cherry picked. He's a "sixth-grader" and "not a pro". He's wasting work time. He's naive. He's a bad person. He's "alt right". He wrote his memo with an air of authority that he should not have used. He doesn't understand the topic. OK, he's studied biology but not the right kind of biology. He said women suck compared to men. OK, maybe he didn't but he implied it. His memo was too long. Or maybe it was too short, because he cited 'very few facts'. Why is he "evidence bombing" people. He should have known readers would misinterpret it and that's his fault. He shouldn't have given interviews to YouTubers I don't like. OK, he interviewed with the WSJ but he was wearing a dumb t-shirt. He's the face of Silicon Valley sexism. Some women are offended and that's enough to stop discussing it. It's ridiculous that anyone agrees with him. He posted it to the wrong forums. Maybe he posted it to the right forums but he should have known it'd go viral. Why is he so naive? He deserves everything he gets.

These are all excuses to shoot the messenger. I am tired of reading them. They do not advance the debate at all, they are just ways to try and shut it down. And every time I see someone attack James Damore, or his writing style or whatever, instead of talking about the actual issues, I feel these people are losing the debate.
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> He uses high neuroticism as part of his argument against female software engineers

At no point did he argue "against female software engineers"
hey guys

this is a slightly different take on my previous project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14409255

whereas that project generates (potentially interesting) font pairings, this one is more about finding new fonts based on your preferences.

anyways, let me know if you have any questions or feedback!
I'm not saying those women aren't "smart", I don't know them personally. I'm saying it doesn't matter if they are or not.
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As a physics grad, red shift can only be explained by an expanding universe with our understanding of light physics in the mid 20th century.

If you look at the world only through green glasses, you could be forgiven for thinking that everything was green. Your interpretation of observations is only as good as the theory you use to interpret. Think of epicycles, which for millenia seemed obvious and correct, until heliocentricity (for all bodies, not just earth) became the dominant model due to improved theory - but no new observations.

If light behaves even slightly differently to how we currently believe, everything from galactic rotation to expansion goes out of the window.

Here's the bit on momentum transfer - they even explicitly cite the implication for Hubble expansion.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170630085627.h...
When I was a child, I remember to regularly see other children with disabilities. Recently, I figured that I see almost no children with real mental/physical disabilities any more. Then it dawned upon me that they are probably all "killed" before birth when the doctors detect their problem. Can't tell exactly what I feel from a moral standpoint.
There's a good argument that he was in the 1990s. That doesn't mean he is one now. People change.

But let's suppose for a moment that he was one, and he hasn't changed, and he still is a terrible person underneath. Does that make the people who would have got malaria but didn't because of the Gates Foundation's efforts any sicker?

Or, contrariwise, consider some area where it turns out that the work of the Gates Foundation has done harm as well as good. Education seems like it might be an example. Let's suppose that in fact Gates is a total saint, motivated by nothing but pure benevolence. Does that make someone whose education was worsened by the foundation's activities any better educated?

I find I don't really care very much whether Gates is a good person, for any particular definition of "good". I care about the effects of what he does. Maybe he's giving his money away to make himself look good, or for a bet, or because he hopes it will placate an angry Microsoft-hating god, or something. Who cares? What matters is what actually happens as a result of his giving that money away.

On the whole, that's looking pretty good.
Sorry, perhaps I misread your comment. I thought your second paragraph was disagreeing with my assertion that self-censoring is sometimes a valuable act.
These are great bits of advice - for people with smartphones. What's my mom supposed to do? She visited here for a week, owns a flip phone, and gets - at minimum - a dozen calls a day. We spent a whole day together, I counted.

The majority of them come from a single number, and apparently Verizon refuses to block it permanently without being paid a fee.
Frames have been improved into iframe and then deprecated in HTML 5.

Frames were a nightmare. You can't link to a page in frames, you can't bookmark it either. Frames break the back button. Come in via search engine? You're only in the main frame, your navigation frame is missing. Want to print? Lol, good luck with that. You always ended up (either intentionally or unintentionally) with a browsing session within someone else's unrelated frameset.

I also heard they were bad for screen readers.