skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't quite look like the same bug described in the article. Maybe the inconsistency with the comma separator is a separate bug?
Spotify is basically a wrapped webapp, so that makes their life a little easier.
Citron Research claims UBNT is a fraud
Under "otherwise", I suggest applying hygiene to the multitude ideas we have for projects.

Treat them as flowers in a garden. Cultivate some, weed out others. The most focus should be on the few that flourish best, and they'll be products.
Samsung Galaxy S9 is going to be launch soon with its interesting features
As a laravel developer w/ the skills to build out a new app/mvp -- Bubble looks pretty awesome. I have a ton of MVP ideas but never get started because, while coding isn't difficult--the time level to code all the aspects is daunting when I have a 9-5 job to hold down too.

I could see myself using something like this for side project validation until they start gaining revenue, then I'd probably transition to something more solid and choose a framework that can scale properly. But for validation this looks pretty awesome.
Would love to go back to Thinkpads, but I've had bad experiences with the LCD panel quality (not resolution) being terrible. Maybe it's my eyes, but certain manufacturer LCDs have left a bad impression that I'm unlikely to even consider them - Ones in Thinkpads, Nokia devices, ASUS tablets, some Acer. Even to the point of giving me eye strain.

I think the only non-Apple display in a laptop I've really enjoyed is the 4k one in my Dell (heavy as all but plays games).
Swiss Probe Cash Flushed Down Toilets Including at UBS Branch
if the nerve endings between brain and shoulder are there, it could still work. The device would need to give consistent feedback for the brain to be trained. it's similar to a stroke victim learning to walk again.
A "proper" setup integrates Zelle directly with your bank, aside from clicking the "Send money with Zelle" button being the only hint a third-party is involved the transaction is initiated and settled directly within your banks online account management system. When done this way your bank of choice takes responsibility for fraud and customer service, with the Zelle network silently working behind the scenes to match email/mobile numbers up with destination accounts.

If you don't have a participating bank, things get a little more annoying since you can still use the service on its own by registering an account and tying your checking account to it - then the classic 3rd-party intermediary problem comes in. On that note though, Zelle is owned by big banks, Bank of America, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, etc., so even as sleazy as the banks are I have a lot more faith in them not screwing it up (they don't like fraud, and they want you to keep your money with them - even as greedy as they are).

In all honesty, it's probably the best setup we have for Person-to-Person transfers in the US - as more banks and credit unions adopt it you'll hopefully just open the app for your bank of choice on your phone and initiate a payment, no third party trying to take a cut, you call the bank you (hopefully) already trust for support, and as a result you remove one more account tied to your banking information that can be compromised to steal your money.
A lot of this is due to self-esteem. Once they've internalized that they are "dumb", they don't even bother trying because they don't think trying will affect the outcome. It's really sad to see. They need to learn to derive some sort of self-esteem from studying, regardless of the outcome, so that's why praising effort and getting these students to acquire self-esteem from effort instead of results is so very important for success. Once they get the self-esteem from trying, then the results will naturally follow and it turns into a virtuous circle.
Who is more anti-science: conservatives or liberals?
Unqualified for Tech
You can have a 15hour work week if you are an independent contractor, or if you pair up with a buddy to share your job time, as long as you only demand the wealth of an average person in Keynes's time. Economically, Keynes was spot-on, but he failed to account for political and social changes
No, but it demonstrates that new business models are worth exploring.

The NYT site The Wirecutter makes it's money from affiliate codes. Before that happened, I would have doubted that the NYT would ever look for money by linking product reviews back to Amazon.

If the NYT doesn't stabilize and Buzzfeed continues to grow, I could see Buzzfeed buying the Times as a more respected place to publish serious stories.

That probably won't happen because I think the NYT is in decent shape today.
Finding Dominant Colour on an Image
I can't wait for the people building and deploying AI / Machine Learning tools on a large scale to become aware of the broad societal implications of what they are helping to do. Or, if they are, impress that knowledge loudly and clearly onto their peers.

Not change, or stop nessesarily. Just be aware. This is going to be one of the enablers for the biggest "behind the scenes" changes in how we work as a society in our generation. As Devs, we should take some responsibility for how we act in that regard. I don't see enough of that attitude at the moment.
I'll just take this moment to say if you don't already have EXTREME caution when installing extensions, you should. Hackers and malware teams acquire existing popular Chrome extensions every day, then release auto-updates (which Chrome doesn't notify you of) that can do all kinds of terrible things.

I'd recommend these 2 items:

1. View source of any extension (and optionally auto-disable): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-s...

2. Get notified up updates to any extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/extensions-update-...
If I'm not wrong SWIFT is already on the downward. Most services that had my SWIFT code requested me to update it to my IBAN code instead because SWIFT was being replaced.

Plus, inside the Eurozone+Friends, you can use SEPA payments across borders, and it is very cheap or even free.
He struck me as prickly and on edge for portions of that interview.

While the question about lack of gender diversity in RS's writers seemed aggressive compared to the normal How I Built This "So a billion dollar valuation. That's a lot of money. What does it feel like to be...rich?", Wenner's response seemed out of touch and dismissive.
Moreover, none of these services would exist if it weren't for the artists and labels capitulating and licensing their products for penurious rates.
Introducing the terminal for developers
You should change the name of the extension away from GitHub ASAP.
Why don't you just mine coins in your browser instead of visiting web sites?
Comprehensive guide for international field research
would be cool if this could somehow be setup on gryd (https://gryd.us)
And why would any company want to invest in desktop Linux when it's a bit of a toxic community? Even Apple is not really investing in the desktop anymore. The die hard Mac users are desperate for updated hardware and software these days.
> The real problem with kraits is that they enter homes in the dead of night and bite people in their sleep.

A krait in the bed is the premise for the excellent short story "Poison" by Roald Dahl.
The name confused me into thinking it might be an official product announcement.
Most certainly something is leaking:

l-lbiegaj ~ -> curl -sI -X OPTIONS http://mysite/ | grep ^Allow
Allow: allow,HEAD,GET,HEAD,POST,OPTIONS

Value returned in 'Allow' changes with every apache2 restart, but I haven't yet seen any parts of the config or something other than extraneous commans or 'allow' string.
I recently got a second-hand 2012 MacBook Pro for $340.

It's got 8g RAM, an upgraded 1TB SSD and 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU. That's more than enough power for most programmers, probably for another 3 years.

Only downside is it doesn't have a retina display, but that doesn't bother me too much.
Chroma – A a pure Go syntax highlighting engine with support for ~150 languages
There are classic Thinkpad keyboards in the used market: http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Genuine-IBM-Lenovo-ThinkPad-USB-...

With some hardware hacking a USB keyboard can potentially be turned into a bluetooth device: https://lifehacker.com/convert-any-usb-keyboard-to-bluetooth...
"The Royal Surgical Society even issued a strongly worded Manifesto..."

"the Department of Defence declared a moratorium on all funding of sterilization research..."

I can find no evidence that such a manifesto ever existed or that the DoD ever took such an action. When I search for these, the top link is this essay. I know there was resistance to sterilization, but I suspect Dijkstra may have been exaggerating it to make his point.
I have always assumed the vast majority of software meeting this description is malware. I don't know if I should feel silly or if it's a sensible assumption for end users to make.
Canada’s no-fly list is in desperate need of some innovation
Can't use the electron app anymore b/c it'll consume all memory available on my development machine - I have 16gb worth. It's not consistent in memory consumption either, random times it'll get hungry.
The connectivity thing (on debian based linux at least) is a major issue for me; it'll never resync after reconnecting to the internet. Only solution is to turn it off and on again.
Speed is one of the reasons to stay on apache. Using nginx to serve static and using php_mod vs fpm-php will be faster as long as you disable directory level .htaccess
Ask HN: How common is part-time contracting work?
I have left my full-time employment in order to pursue a path of contracting and working on my own projects. I have done small consulting gigs in the past, but now it seems that I am available full-time, I only get offered 40hr/week contracting gigs. If I wanted a full-time job, I would have simply continued with my original job.

Should I take one of these offers or hold out? Honestly, I have not searched for any gigs myself, they have all approached me from word of mouth.
Yes it depends, I meant if your contracts says 37.5h, then if you go for lunch every day you should be in office 40h per week. Some companies will have paid lunch break though.
Conquering Impostor Syndrome
One of the features of their stack is live single-click or even auto-update of you technology stack while your application keeps running. While that doesn't necessarily mean that you will keep your stack up-to-date, it makes patching security issues considerably easier and less painful, which means it's far less likely that you will be running a known-vulnerable version. So it's not entirely BS, even though why CoreOS helps security isn't spelled out here. I happen to have watched a talk where Alex Polvi did spell this out just last night, which is the only reason I know this. But yes, the rhetoric is a bit heavy-handed.
Shame they didn't include pictures though. The one with the car racing along for food/fuel was pretty awesome.
Pretty much my impression too. My CV doesn't list my grades and I never got a transcript of records from my university because I've never been asked for one, including in my first couple of jobs. Hell in fact I've never even had to prove to an employer that I finished my studies, it's pointless now that I'm an experienced professional in my mid-thirties but I feel that anyone could get away with it too.
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SEPA, guaranteed wire transfers over night and in November this year a payment under 15000€ will happen in 10s (ten seconds!). Not even Bitcoin can do that anymore with transactions taking more and more time (or fees).

If the US gov would put some weight behind it, the US could easily catch up.
Yeah, this should state "Chrome extension" or similar in the title.
Is a company morally obligated to serve all customers, and not permitted to exercise discretion about who they provide services to?

Even if those people are using the company's services to break the laws of the country the company operates in?
This was made into a documentary and is currently available on Netflix. If you can spare 90 minutes check it out, it's a hell of a good watch.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80107656
In my mind (biased) responsible disclosure includes ensuring that a respected database for tracking security issues has the issue described and publicly available either before or at the same time that a blog publicly discusses it. Otherwise the impression is that the blog is discussing a security issue before it's been addressed by interested parties.

That's just my opinion. Whether or not that's the "definition" of responsibility is of course up for discussion.
So your suggestion is to install a potentially unsafe extension to notify me of extensions.
I hadn't seen that, thanks! For others, it's at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15274509
If you have installed this extension, please leave a review making it clear that this is not officially endorsed by GitHub in any way.
Google Offers to Auction Off Shopping Ad Spaces to Rivals
I've enjoyed Zenhub.
PC Mag Roundup: The Best Lead Management Software
I'm sorry to be the hater, but I find Slack is a horrible productivity sink for me.

I am currently a member on seven Slacks. Each one has a different username and password combination. I have to log in to each one separately. AFAICT there is no way to link them so I can log into all of them all at once. And then once I'm in, every Slack has multiple channels. Trying to keep up with all of them is hopeless. But if I'm not paying attention to a conversation in real time, going back after the fact and trying to extract meaningful content is difficult (it's hard just to find where a particular conversation starts and ends). Trying to go back and make a contribution to the conversation after the fact is completely hopeless.

Yes, real-time chat can be very handy, but I don't see anything that Slack does that Adium or Skype doesn't do better IMHO. And for archival discussions I'd much rather have a Google group. Keeping a threaded structure makes it so much easier to go back and trace the conversation after the fact.
Money can't buy human decency, but it can help you get Ferraris and penthouses.

My question is thus: was he raised this way or did he become this horrible person once he struck it rich?
Vox Popoli: Gab kicked off registrar
I've had great success applying his principles to conditional formatting in spreadsheets, unexpectedly.
Ask HN: Engineering team consists of all friends
Hello HN,

A company I've recently had the opportunity to interview has a small engineering team consisting of "best friends". My first reaction is that this seems to be a red flag because of the way in which friends interact with each other isn't always professional. How would one deal with working on a team consisting of friends where you're not part of the friend group?

Also, can anyone relate to this type of culture, and if so, what did you think, and how did you react?
Is that true? It's not like effective counter-culture stuff is ever easily recognizable by older generations. Otherwise it wouldn't be fun. Remember ever cool word/ term you knew as a kid and how they immediately stopped being cool once you heard your parents use them?
Your first concern seems like a non-issue. Assuming your fingers are always making the same movements, it's effectively like the F and J are magically wherever your index fingers happen to be. "Can't reach the whole keyboard" is a bit of a problem, but the obvious way it would work is that the signal which the computer interprets as "position my hand over the numpad" becomes a input mode shift. There's probably more there. Without knowing anything about how the sensor tech works, I suspect that there's a difference between the signals when my hands are on home row and when my right hand is on the numpad.

The mouse seems like it might be even easier in the long run. I'm assuming the training is harder, but waving hands in the air sounds way better than resting hands on a padded surface. RSI in general sounds like the X factor. Input via odd muscle twitching sounds like it could raise all sorts of weird muscle issues long-term.
> installing powertop, thinkfan, and tp_smapi and enabling a few systemd units.

Wouldn't TLP take care of all that?

http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/tlp.html
Durov sued senior tech lead for $1.7m for disclosure of Telegram job title on FB
Blue Peacock
The headline and thesis is completely bogus, because the author has no idea how much Ng's company pays or how much an applicant is earning elsewhere.
The only reason I ever go to RS online is to read Matt Taibbi, who has been a valuable documenter of our era of too big to fail bank antics and the bizarre US political circus.

The rest of it seems run of the mill corporate entertainment shilling and promotion...
That not what the EU requested, they demanded Googleshop removed from first search results.
I think it's in Palo Alto.

https://www.deeplearning.ai/machinelearningsoftwareengjobdes...
Loans and sanctions. China helped SriLanka in UN when human rights issues came up. Also India's cultural influence is not an answer to everything. It has limited influence. Myanmar for example evicted Indians forcefully in 60's. Bangladesh and Nepal are trying to balance China and India influence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_Indians
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Regarding (2) there already was an idea for that. It's called PAN. Your comment seems a little disingenuous on purpose.
Equifax Stock Sales Are the Focus of U.S. Criminal Probe
Your Culture is Rotting
Once upon a time, a friend of mine needed to repay me for a loan of about $1000. Since we both banked at HSBC, we figured walking into the bank together might be a simple way to do that. Nope. I had opened my hsbc account online, he had opened his account in person. Therefore we may as well have been two separate banks, apparently. After debating the sanity of this system with a bank manager (whose fault it clearly was not), I noticed a big sign on their ATM. It said "Now accepting cash deposits!". I asked the guy if there was a limit on the size of those deposits. There was. I can't remember how much, but it was in the neighborhood of five grand I think.

My friend took a withdrawal in cash. He handed me the money. I walked over to the machine and deposited it.

Makes sense if you look at it sideways.
>it's highly convenient that the standard US work-week happens to be the exact "correct" amount of hours to work to maximize productivity.

I mean, why do you think people arrived at the 40hour/week metric? How do you think we came to standardize on it?
It's not a pay cut if the pay is $500K-$1M/yr including expected value of stock options...
They all have minimum listing criteria that you can find, a private industry solution to curb what they considered abuses.
I think this must be the posting:

http://startupjobs.asia/job/33056-backend-developer-fast-gro...
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>The way I see it: you're wealthy when you can do, wear or say nearly whatever the fuck you want and not worry about your money/lifestyle going away.

That is not the point I was trying to make. The point is, people in that income bracket have an easy time living a good life AND saving.

If you make $250K a year, you are fully capable of being financially independent very quickly. The average family in the US lives on 50K a year. So lets double that - you use 100K a year. That still leaves $150. Lets say your taxes are 50K (20% which is about right) you still have 100k a year in Savings. That is twice the incoming in savings of the average US family. In 10 years you will have 1 million in savings (not to mention the other assets you ave created over the years).

If you can't bring yourself to live on that budget, you really need to take a good deep look at yourself and your priorities in life.

Putting kids in private schools and getting a rent-a-maid are not requirements to a good life.
> We need to teach people how to use these apps.

MPESA has been a huge success in Kenya, no teaching required. You just have to make it very secure and convenient.
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6 things you can do to avoid cloud vendor lock-in
Not sure about all the claims in the article, but I do know from personal use their hardware is nice, features are great and UI is better than comparably priced products. So if they are a fraud they sure make great products. I also know several WISP providers who can provide quality, affordable service due to the hardware.
Maybe on a state by state basis as I just googled it and you can't do it in California.
Regarding payment processing etc -- the Xanadu proposal dates from the mid-20th century so it includes a quaint assumption from that era: people expect to be paid for the work they do. What, people are supposed to spend hours typing at a computer for no payment in order to make some billionaire even richer? Who would do that? It's nuts.
And in those countries, how many generations will pass before the mob demands the statue be torn down?
i had to swap the panel on my T440S. the LG panel is crap and suffers from ghosting, image retention, small gamut & poor viewing angles. The AU Optronics is the much nicer one but hard to find a genuine one these days (had to get on ebay from China). i verified with the seller that the part was real. "NEW/Exact Laptop Lcd Screen AUO B140HAN01.1 14.0" IPS FHD eDP Matte B140HAN01.2"

https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/4cnrde/anyone_kno...

be careful when getting one, most that are sold online (like amazon) are "generic" or "compatible" and not the genuine panels.

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-T400-T500-and-newer-T/...
Michelle Obama has said that something to the effect of: "the presidency does not change who you are, it reveals who you are."

Wealth, like power, I imagine, has the same effect.
> there is no problem first off and malware is not how you would solve this fantasy of a "problem".

If you think consuming content online without paying anything for it isn't a problem, you're wrong and it's not even debatable [1]. I'm not saying this is a good solution. I'm just pointing out it's not a "fantasy" of a problem.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq2_wSsDwkQ
I'm afraid this is a case of when the winners rewrite history.

Unfortunately the 40-hour week seems to have been among the last big wins of the US labor movement. Hence the popular (on HN at least) idea that this win was the result of Ford's top-down pioneering.
> you don't want to let the naturally gifted coast through.

As someone who isn't in the arts field at all, so please bear with my probable ignorance: why do you not want to let them coast through?

Each class has a set of requirements that need to be passed and the pupil's level of performance at it graded; if someone is gifted at it then they're already at a high performance level.

To put it in a way that's more related to me: I'm a software engineer and lets say that I decide to go take some first year software engineering classes again, particularly the ones related to learning how to program: I will blow through the classes in 1/5th of the time while playing a game on another monitor and still do very well. Shouldn't I get a high grade despite the fact that I put a lot more effort into my invasion of the Soviet Union while playing Japan on Hearts of Iron while I was also developing?
> XKCD still relevant today

and I wish this to be true for any *nix system.

The ability to venture down the rabbit as far as you want, without black-boxes.

I think a lot of us sit here today because of that privilege.
Can you expand on those 4? 12-factor has been a great guiding principle for me the last few years.