skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intra-corporate e-mail is often used as an ad hoc document collaboration tool.

"See my comments in blue", strikethroughs, inline diagrams, bullet points, big red font for emphasis.

Of course that should all be done in a dedicated application, but who is going to provision and authorise users for that versus just adding Bob to the cc line and giving him implicit editing capabilities?

The functional overloading of corporate e-mail is a user-driven reaction to the awfulness of most " collaborative' software.
But as in the UK teachers would game the system eg by having "difficult" kids in this case those of only average intelligence excluded from the school to make their position in the league tables look good.
u partisan bro?
People are different. Some people react badly to alcohol, some don't. Facebook depressed me, closed it years ago. Enjoy your facebook.
Submitting Changes to Voter Registrations Online to Disrupt Elections
I'd guess the population of magazine models who want minimum-information access is an acceptable false negative rate for Facebook.
I haven't seen .11 Eur/kWh in Germany :-) It's more like .25 Eur/kWh.
This kind of article is a reminder of how much we need traditional newspapers, and what we'd lose if they went away. I sometimes read suggestions that independent bloggers will replace newspapers, but I don't think they can do everything newspaper reporters do. This reporter worked undercover for a month. There would also have been a lot of time spent on background research before she went undercover. Then it would have taken her more time after that to write the article. During all that time she was paid by the Toronto Star. An independent writer could work undercover, and some have, but they're stuck for that period making a very low salary and having to worry about making ends meet.

Then, at least as important, the reporter is backed by the Toronto Star's legal team. I suspect that if she were an independent and published her story on her own blog, this writer would have been sued by the bakery owners and compelled to take the story down. And she would also pay a lot for her legal defense. In this case, if the bakery owners want to sue, they can, but they'll be suing the Toronto Star, which has resources to mount a legal defense, and a voice with which to write about an unjustified lawsuit.

So this seems like real journalism to me, and I don't want it to go away. And when I say "real journalism" I'm thinking of George Orwell's view that "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations."

I'm also thinking of Finley Peter Dunne, who said the point of journalism is to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."
The Fog Creek link is 404: https://blog.fogcreek.com/why-do-we-pay-sales-commissions/
Everyone praises Karl Marx and Keynes …

Speak for yourself.
If I own a company, I can justify anything short of illegal activities to increase profit. If you don't want companies to behave in a certain way, get it outlawed.
I wouldn't personally do this because Venmo isn't a bank and that money is not FDIC insured.
And what happens when a hurricane takes down the cell tower? Or the power is out for days and the cell tower's backup batteries run dry?

Decentralised radio is essentially ham radio. Individual units talking directly to each other, without relying on a single point of failure (the cell company). As others have said above, ham radio is a godsend in some situations. If you use the right bands, you can talk halfway around the world while running off batteries and using a wire thrown over a tree for an antenna.
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I think it's more likely that they have hidden links and references to these URLs scattered across their "normal" pages. A human would never click on them, but any bot that's just blindly following links would stumble across them, which alerts Yelp that it's likely a bot accessing the site.
On sampling:

> It is likely that some attackers will aim to target specific users by isolating and analyzing reports from that user, or a small group of users that includes them. Even so, some randomly-chosen users need not fear such attacks at all...

For the limitation, the whole section 6.1 explains that this only protects a single question. If you collect more than single question, you must rely on other techniques to protect the privacy.
I used to work in similar places. They suck. There's a reason people don't wear loose fitting clothing around machinery though.

A lot of the author's complaints are just part for the course in these kinds of environments. Low margin industries suck in general.

The problem here isn't temp agencies it's companies that would be doing bad things anyway hire their full time workforce though temp agencies to create level of abstraction that helps avoid liability. Obviously there's temp agencies that cater directly to this but the problem is on the demand side. Some companies want to treat people badly and they can use temp agencies to do it.

I know people who have done very well (or as well as you can for those kinds of jobs) at temp agencies. Employers can use a temp agency and if they like the temp(s) they get they can direct hire the temp(s) and cut out the middle man. This doesn't happen when your entire workforce is temps though.
Muito interessante e muito bem explicado. Parabéns!!
What they have to launch is a cheaper service. Their prices are laughable, although I can understand that, given they have no competition.
One thing in training you are constantly reminded of, is not to become one of the victims.
From what I've heard - chatbots are bigger in China and other parts of Asia. In the US, we primarily use chat to communicate with others. In China, with apps like WeChat, you can fill out forms, send payments, etc...
I did some inventory work for a company during y2k. I got assigned to Holland, MI, and our jobs were sent electronically to a fancy bespoke app running on a Palm VII. There's a section of Holland where the roads running East-West were <number> Avenue, and the roads running North-South were <number> Street. The app stripped the St/Ave designation, so I was being sent to addresses like "45678 123". Good times.
I'm always a big fan of org. wikis...but the challenge is some users slack off on creating/posting content...but this topicbox seems like users can simply draft/send an email, and bam its content for a sort of "wiki". This is a great idea, even if only for the low curve of easily "creating" organizational content! Kudos to fastmail!
You can at least sniff all the traffic coming in and out of wi-fi. Unless someone knows differently
So Austrian economics is just like communism in that it doesn't let facts get in the way of a good ideology.
A new way to say “Fork Me on GitHub.”
Yelp is indeed sht company and needs to be investigated for its own shakedown techniques. But this doesn't mean that Google isn't behaving in an anti-competitive way.

Side note, Yelp literally called my partner who ran PR for non profits art org and asked to be paid $$ or else competitors ads would run on their page. Literal words. One would pay for NOTHING except not having competitors getting promoted on your own pages.

Partner laughed and hung up.
Like you, I built a similar system for BM this year, but based it around two 48v Li-ion ebike batteries (550 Wh and 1000 Wh).

BMSBattery (China) sells a 48v 30AH Lipo battery pack [1] for $530 + $120 shipping, with delivery in 2-3 weeks. That's 1440 Wh! And the battery includes a "BMS", circuitry that prevents under/over-voltages, over-temperature, cell balancing, and allows for simultaneous charging and discharging. This last feature is really useful if you are using the battery with a solar setup and want to be able to source loads bigger than your panels can supply from time to time.

If you need batteries ASAP in the bay area, you can get similar products from AA Portable Power Corp / Batteryspace.com [2] located in northeast bay (caution - these do not include BMS so no simultaneous charging+discharging).

So, if you are spending $500 for the battery, you can get much higher capacity (Wh) Li-ion batteries around the same price point from suppliers serving the diy ebike market.

Caveat is that these batteries are typically in the 36-48v, so depending on your application, you may need to add a buck converter (to regulate voltage down to 12v or 5v) or a boost/ac inverter for 120v. Sometimes having a higher voltage can lead to some efficiencies vs lower voltages - can use thinner wires, less power loss over same wire lengths, voltage converters / inverters may be more efficient.

"DROK"-brand voltage converters are around $30 on amazon[3].

If you want to charge your 36-48v Li-ion battery, try the $38 MPT-7210A "Docooler® MPPT Solar Panel Battery Regulator Charge Controller 10A"[4]. If you have two ~20v panels, wire them in series so the panel voltage going to the charge controller is ~40v; it won't have to work as hard to boost the voltage for battery charging and will be more efficient.

[1]: https://bmsbattery.com/ebike-battery/715-high-power-48v30ah-...
[2]: http://www.batteryspace.com/lithium-26650-battery-pack-50-4v...
[3]: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_scat_10967761_9119938011_...
[4]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HCL7LEW
But doing that won't protect the route between Cloudflare and Github pages, only the route between the user and Cloudflare.
69% of respondents thought training should be mandatory for Drone Owners
Oh wow, totally missed that. I think it's time for more coffee.
There was a burst of news stories in the UK about how EVs would melt the grid, you wouldn't even be able to boil your kettle and change your EV at the same time.

The company running the grid had to put out a "myth-buster" PDF to clean up after the misinformation:

http://fes.nationalgrid.com/media/1264/ev-myth-buster-v032.p...
Essentially, the hackers who now possess the EquiFax "asset" can not just commit fraudulent economic activity but also hack the US election system:

"We found that in 2016, the District of Columbia and 35 of the 50 states had websites that allowed voters to submit registration changes. These websites determined whether a visitor was an actual voter by requesting commonly available personal information. Some websites gave multiple ways for a voter to self-identify. Of these, {name, date of birth, address} was required in 15, {name, date of birth, driver’s license number} was required in 27, and {name, date of birth, last 4 SSN} was required in 3. We found that an attacker could acquire the voter names, demographic information and government-issued numbers needed to impersonate voters on all 36 websites from government offices, data brokers, the deep web, or darknet markets."
CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes) with Async/ Await
I don't see where in that issue it says output changes from java to js? Other than the runtime option
The Royal Mail postcode finder (http://www.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode) offers 1 and 1A for that postcode, but not 0. I had a look on Street View too and I think the houses to the left of number 1 (which you can clearly see) are probably 1A and belonging to the orthogonal road, respectively.
And what a great loss that is :-)
TIL a house number can have a leading zero. I've always liked your Portland (I live in the other one).
Volkswagen plans electric option for all models by 2030
Meh sounds like Reddit just needs a sort by 'weight' option that sorts by amount of comments.
Indeed, to sew in the name of a third person is not admittable as far as I know.

They didn't represent the animal, they defended a copyright infringement charge, if I'm not mistaken.
One more reason to move away from current financial system to bitcoin.
The same applies for any unique ids in general.
After you've gone through the 3/8"-3/4" plywood/osb that's nailed on well enough to not come of in a hurricane?
Recruiters: What a developer sees when reading your email
>Temp offices should not be allowed to exist.

I disagree.

Working for a temp agency doing catering, sports venue and whatnot is generally more stable income than working for several places like that directly. Temp agencies work well for industries where demand is variable but predictable.

Companies that use temps to fill their baseline staffing requirements to skirt legal/ethical requirements are terrible though.
That was really good, can you please explain how did you do it?
Setting up Vim for React development
Looking for CTO for our Startup
Hey!

We're looking for a chief architect/CTO who's specifically interested, or open to building in the B2C food space (huge market).

Our front-end is already designed and coded(HTML, CSS, JS).

If you are the type of person that believes we can go to market in 2-3 months with a focused dedicated effort, I'd like to find some time to chat.

Please send me an email at justbookedyyz@gmail.com.

We're based in Toronto, ideal fit would be also a Torontonian but open to discuss if skill level and work ethic is there.

Best!
Anthony
I disagree - by coincidence, the Blatt's book I mentioned elsewhere has a nice model of decision-making under uncertainty that is different from rational expectations. It's not more complicated.

Same goes for Keen's models, they are dynamic and pretty simple. He even writes in his books, to paraphrase, "equilibrium is feasible" was a good excuse at the beginning of 20th century, when Marshall came up with supply/demand model, but it's not today, when we can actually analyze dynamical systems mathematically.
Given the scale at which phone scammers operate these days, and the fact that many of the scammed business owners are likely not savvy to this, it's plausible.

One wonders how profitable it'd be for Yelp to call small, local businesses at scale for shakedown, considering what's on the line reputationally if one or two people know how to record calls.
I would love to only use plain text e-mail. However, how does this work in practice when you are not a well known person (albeit in a niche) that decides the rules?

In work I have to accept whatever my colleagues, clients and bosses will send me. For personal communication I use mail with two people. And services that let you choose whether they'll send you plain text are practically inexistent.
Because they whitelist the exit IP for the phone network, else one person could block access for millions.
And has a counter anyway: https://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
Ask HN: Open source web based solution to create movie catalog/inventory?
I started working in an organization that use spreadsheets to catalog and organize their movie inventory. Their inventory also includes movies that they don't have anymore (because they need to know that the movie exist) and it's basically local stuff (not even in IMDB). For every new movie, they manually give an unique ID. But, after a few years doing this, the spreadsheets have a lot of repeated IDs and relies on one person that attributes the IDs.

I started looking for open source solutions in Github, but there are a lot of (dead) projects and they focus more on your files and your local library or how to import IMDB metadata.

They asked for a web based centralized system that give them unique sequential IDs and relate with the movie title, director and year of production. I was thinking to import the CSV (current ID, title, production year, director) and use Trac tickets[1] to control it. Any tips in this direction? Or should I try a whole catalog system?

[1] https://trac.edgewall.org/
Getting commissions does not necessarily mean getting paid more. Often people paid on commissions have smaller base salaries.

Payments with commissions are a managerial tool to incentivize a certain behavior, the same way there are other structures to help organizations behave in a certain way.

For example, you can incentivize people based on an easily measurable metric fully under their control (e.g. $ sales, customer support tickets solved, factory throughput, etc.), or choose to align everyone's behavior (e.g. Profits of xyz division of the company - hardly under a particular person's control).

That's the same principle behind giving CEO and other senior executives incentives based on stock options: you want them to create value and get share price up, while leaving them maximum freedom on how to get there.

Each approach has its pros and cons in terms of how easy it is to explain to employees, track the metrics, create a collaborative environment (or not), incentivize intra-company communications (or not), and the impact it has on workforce productivity (also, it depends on how you measure productivity...)

In designing an incentive plan, one has to decide which one of these factors one wants to prioritize.

Because of the salesperson role, and because of the type of mindset/profile these people predominantly have, it is easy/common to have their pay structure heavily based on commissions.

Looking at things from the other side: if you ask a salesperson about compensation structures, possibly she would be wondering why engineers' or designers' pay is not linked to sales, so (instead of working on interesting and beautiful stuff) they would prioritize shipping features that help her sell... (as an example of not so beautiful designs that sell more think about the design of certain low cost airlines websites)
...Then again, possibly, the salesperson only knows what would help her sell more easily TODAY, and not what she is going to need in a year's time... you need an engineer not directly incentivized on current sales to think about that!
I agree 100%.

That is why I am starting a conversation. Change starts with a conversation.
I summarized the information I have read on this topic in an answer on Skeptics.SO:

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/31144/1792

To quote a much more authoritative Europhysics article that subsequently came out (and which I since put at the head of my answer):

> ... The NIST reports, which attempted to support that unlikely conclusion [that a steel frame building collapsed from a fire], fail to persuade a growing number of architects, engineers, and scientists. Instead, the evidence points overwhelmingly to the conclusion that all three buildings were destroyed by controlled demolition. ...
Your comment is full of misconceptions. I never claimed the Coast Guard was a "pacifist organization," and the person I was responding to was, when asking for a "not military or less military" option, wasn't asking for one. And I certainly respect them as much as any other branch of the armed forces. Right now, immediately after a natural disaster, I'm sure I'm not the only one.
5 reasons Facebook's React license was a mistake
Had no problems reading this even as a non-native speaker. This is similar to the case when you mess around with "inner" letters of the word, but leave first and the last ones in their places (I've read about this experiment 10 years ago maybe). While the word changes - you still able to read it in text (other words are transformed too in this case obviously).
They don't really look at the URL in the email body either, especially if it's long and intimidatingly technical-looking.
You could have a statistical model. You record supply, demand and price over time period and then you can predict price by matching it to supply and demand. No knowledge of supply/demand curves is needed.

But I am not clear if this is what parent wants to do.
You are conflating "new and cool language" with a "language that eliminates ton of possible bugs from the get go".

These two terms are far from identical.

You might be masquerading your conservative approach to new languages by hiding behind "C is mature". No it's not. Right now somebody on the planet is introducing a buffer overflow without knowing it, while coding in the "mature C".

Get real already, please. It's high time.

Random example: I dislike Go's error handling but the explicit nature of it has saved me from working half-asleep 50+ times already. Another one: one meager if/else in a supervised Elixir worker saved a server from infinite repeating of a bugged task that would otherwise keep crashing forever. There are others, lots of them. I am sure people can give plenty of examples for Rust as well.
> you can talk halfway around the world while running off batteries and using a wire thrown over a tree for an antenna.

And then what when everyone talks. Isn't it already regulated for this same reasoning? Seems to me a combination of open protocols and mesh networking would be better than government restricted ham.
>putty from www.putty.org (again, no https, which is not even the actual site, but nevertheless the first result from Google)

Doesn't matter on windows. The binaries are authenticode signed.
didn't have too much difficultly, but now all the letters on every page are swimming.
It was not actually as hard as the author had probably thought. Relevant?[0]

[0]https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/8628/is-it-true-...
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The paper says it does not work with Ethereum. Wondering if there is a parser out there for the Ethereum blockchain?
Watching Hurricanes Irma, Jose and Katia From Above Earth
It's actually quite easy to read such scrambled words, unless they are some uncommon technical term that I've never seen before.
Lovely. I love to see how the brain can manage going through "hurdles". Gives insight in how our brains handle parsing. Very nice.

Also: it tames my pseudo ADHD and helps me focus a lot. I'm tempted to have this for all text.
Indiegogo AI to crack down on copycats and criminals
From 0 to 16K users in 2 weeks – Visual Inspector is designer's dream come true
Interesting — although presumably annoying — how the cycle lanes just stop at the boundary!
Just use "View Source" (Ctrl/Cmd + U) in your browser, the source is clear and not minified. Look for "messUpWords".
It's curious to see these occasional "cool little apps using google sheets for a datastore" when there are many "database as a service" around with free tiers, like firebase, restdb, and a whole bunch of others. Why not just use a real database instead of hacking google sheets?
Non-paywall link (twitter redirect): https://t.co/5sCeMykOWW
Wouldn't SSL via GitHub's cert protect that part?
Qualcomm Fires a Shot at Apple on Eve of iPhone Launch
IMO it's not unreasonable. <$400 / month for 200 employees seems fair, especially given their standard email service is $3 / month / user.

It's also for Enterprise, which typically has a higher price tag.
"Hasn't happened yet" is not the same as "it's not possible" though.
The threat model here is phishing, not drive-by downloads. Browsers have a much greater ability to mitigate those. Also, a drive-by download email doesn't have to impersonate any particular sender, it just has to look like something that a user might want to click on.
Ah, Keynesians, singing the praises of a bum who never had a real job while U.S. government debt surpasses $20 trillion.

“It’s not the size of the debt but its structure,” the hucksters insist.

tl;dr Print more money.
Well, yes and no. I have seen "sales" types get accounts handed to them, after which they are essentially collecting rent. If their protectors are sufficiently powerful, this can continue indefinitely.
Not the author, but you can find sources following the link: https://github.com/geon/geon.github.com/blob/master/_posts/2...

Basically - you leave first and last letters of the word where they are, and mix all other characters randomly at random times.
Because it's cool that you can
300 models could be a van/pickup platform with some creative accounting.

3 cab configurations, 3 bed lengths, 5 trims and 2 powertrain options ups that to 90. Apply all 90 variations to the 1/2, 3/4 and 1-ton variants and you've got 270.
I meant their regular service. $5 per account is completely unreasonable, I don't understand where the money goes. (I talk about the $5 plan because it's the same as the $3 plan, but you can use your own domain, which doesn't really make it more complicated for them to give you service or anything)