skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been through this.

I'd need to know more about you to give useful advice. You can talk more about your background here or click on my HN profile link to take this off line.
> Just stop pretending that working at {Google, Facebook, Amazon, ...} is the highest goal that a tech person can strife for. A see a lot of students who seem to have that as their goal in life.

It's not, you have to admit, a terrible goal. Granted, a lot of the people at the big 4 do rather mundane things but there are also opportunities at those places to build software that (literally) affects the whole world and leave lasting contributions to the software engineering field for those with the talent and drive.

> Also, we have to be honest with ourselves. While we (as a community) were hating Microsoft, we made Google our tech darling. Now they are ethically probably as rotten as Microsoft were in the early ~2000s.

I'm incredibly amused to see people starting to say this because I've been around enough to remember when IBM was the "ethically rotten" behemoth and Microsoft was the tech darling who saved us from their evil clutches; the more things change, the more they stay the same. I don't think people will stop putting companies on a pedestal; it makes for too compelling a narrative.

Who will be the new tech darling to save us from Google's evil clutches?
It's only trespassing if you're not paying your taxes though.
There seem to be two different phenomena that are both called PC - they might be glibly described as preoccupied with victims and preoccupied with persecutors. If you're not a member of a group associated with victimhood, it's a good bet you've only ever interacted with the latter, but the former are actually motivated primarily by empathy.
Yeah. New project at my work is to get everyone onto a stripped down Windows 10 dumb terminal with IE and MS Office installed, no admin rights, no extra software.

I flat out refused to upgrade. I'm a software engineer. You want me catting, grepping and manipulating files on OneCloud ? really?

You want my VMs (also not allowed by default) to be stored in one cloud?

Like... this was clearly not well thought out
I've been getting temporarily banned from blocking ads on Facebook lately. Apparently I am "abusing" their feature of clicking "why am I seeing this" button too frequently.
I hold title to the roads because I paid for them, whether voluntarily or at gunpoint makes no difference.
From the comments on the page:

jimmyfrasche commented

The language spec is easier to read than the contribution guidelines
It cracks me up how much the hn userbase has changed. Apple has traditionally been very user hostile, but they make some grandstand PR move and so many people fall for it like Apple cares about user privacy/freedom, etc.

As Richard Stallman said, Apple puts the user in a prison. Just because the warden is getting better at playing nice some of the time and making the prison more beautiful doesn't change the fact it is a prison.

In a free system, the users could have done this themselves years ago instead of waiting for Apple.
Not everyone draws the line at the same spot. Everyone's constraints in life are different.

Also, talking from a position of "I know I am right. Why are you not thinking the same way as me?" is generally not effective at getting other people to see things from your perspective.
I hate getting my contact forms spammed with fake emails.
Are you saying poor people shouldn't use roads?
Call It ‘Fintech’ and Watch the Valuation Soar
Unless we are talking about talent agents (which are rare in software engineering), the actual job of a recruiter is to work in the interest of his company. Then there are third-party recruiters and sorcerers who don't represent your interests either.

"They are just doing their job" is a weak excuse. Most of the recruiters are doing such a bad job in matching the workforce with companies that they end up wasting everyone's time. The only reason why these brute-force approaches work is the surplus of demand in the current SE labour market.
Wow, a proper use of the word "epic".

I thought the original meaning was gone.
Homomorphisms are structure-preserving mappings between different types (called “category” in the post, in usual terminology, these would be »objects« in a »category«, though). Endomorphisms are special homomorphisms, mapping from a single type (»object«) to the same type (»object«).

It is indeed very unfortunate that the article conflates terminology.
Is it tho? And even if it is, why is the system setup for them and not me? But I’m also not convinced that this is the way to go even for “not smart” people. But to some extent I also believe that he idea of being smart or not is given too much emphasis. Like if you go at your own pace, you’ll get there when you get there. A guide pushing you and telling you to go faster isn’t going to help you.
That makes no sense... iPhone users spend more money... on what?

Android Apps? Nail trimmers?
Dieet plan – Hoe maak je makkelijk je eigen dieet plan?
Agreed. Consider if theft if the total amount after deductions is more than is spent by the government on your ability to conduct business and earn a living. Start, for example, with your police whose existence I'd posit is a large reason you can fill a home with expensive goods and park a nice car in a driveway.

Also: it's fairly easy to pay lower taxes with a good accountant. A cry to lower taxes is made by the elite to convince the middle class to vote for corporate-friendly interests.
Telegram ? https://raw.githubusercontent.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/d...

Battle.Net ? https://i.imgur.com/VCNEhgm.jpg

both are made with Qt
My nightmare is DRM cars--it's exactly what has become of almost all consumer electronics and it totally sucks not just from a hacking perspective but from a recycling and re-use perspective as well. Watch some of the Apple laptop repair videos on Youtube.

Cars are flat out too expensive these days, and then to make them "disposable" on top of that? No way. I like fixing my cars, I like having a fighting chance at self rescue if stranded far from help. Accessibility and flexibility is necessary for survival.
Sorry to say that I do think you should talk to a lawyer before you do anything else. An initial free consultation would be worthwhile.

I’m not sure it’s Equifax suing you that you should be most concerned about. Equifax’s giant fuckup has already stirred up the prosecutorial wasps, they’re all looking for something to sting.
What exactly do you mean by "shared web hosting?"
Sorry, you want me to make your argument for you?

I'm not sure that even given your selection criteria I could do so, but if I did your methodology is still fundamentally flawed. There is very little reason to continue attempting to prove an argument if you know the outcome is fictional because the method of proving it is flawed.
No NAT.
I think you need to get a sense of perspective. It's really not a massive step backwards.

TL;DR - calm your tits.
We just sold a contract with Y but they need it to do X

Heh. Company I used to work for almost bought that contract. Based on what we read on their homepage and some initial talks the thing they where selling was perfect for us and we were basically ready to cut them a check for $~10-20k and possibly quite a lot more over time. However the more we talked with them and the more we started asking to actually be allowed to test the full capabilities of what they where promising the more it became obvious that they where full of shit. Eventually they just admitted to us that they'd straight up lied on their homepage.

The funny thing was that they then asked if we wanted to become investors in their company so that they could afford to possibly build the thing they had been trying to sell us.
Very interesting point about the context switching. When I was a student I didn't consider such matters, but as an adult I recognise needless context switching as an enormous inefficiency. You're point about only needing a teacher when you get stuck is quite valid as well, especially in the age of high tech. Presentation of the information should be optimized and presented via recording. The duty of the teacher should be to facilitate learning by helping out where there are any problems. But with all the politics and tradition, the status-quo isn't about to change unfortunately. The upside is that there is room for huge improvement, hence opportunities exist.
BigData and ML Example and Toolset Weekly Roundup – Sep. 21, 2017
>it's the difference of seeing relevant communication to you

There is no relevant communication from any advertiser to me.
When I need something or want to know about things, I research it. Other information might come from friends and family. I do not care about what a to-me-unknown third party thinks a product is worth (including my attention), because their entire agenda is to bullshit me into buying something REGARDLESS of the need or quality of the product they talk about.
Link doesn't work for me, but I found the article on the site: http://simblob.blogspot.com/2017/09/mapgen2-html5.html
I would prefer targeted TV ads as well. I really don't need to see ads for Viagra and other stupid things.
"Your gross, or pre-tax income, is the money the market delivers to you"

I'm going to sit at home and wait for my delivery of money from the market for the next few months and contemplate the logic of this article.
Mutant butterflies reveal the genetic roots of colorful wings
Drone Scam Ships Half-Price Budget Drone to Backers
Shock Tactics: The quiet disappearance of Taser's potent X26 stun gun
There's very little inertia in the belt and pulleys, no more than other types of transmissions.
It's a sad fact that regular google results are sometimes better than encrypted.google.com. It is like regular google knows what "I" want.
Revolutionizing Innovation – The Move Towards Artificial Intelligence
“The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason”
Except they got the license back in the distant past before anyone had any idea it would be so valuable.
And expect emergency services to reply "Fend for yourself!" when you call them
When I say taxation is theft, I mean federal income taxes. I'd rather pay more to my state and local governments. I interact with those more local levels way more often and receive more benefits from them than from the federal government. States maintain their own roads.
> That data is stored in your phone - when the FBI has to ask permission to Apple to have access to a phone, that phone doesn't belong to you - it belongs to Apple.

Not even Apple can gain access to the secure enclave as this older article explains: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/10/04/why-cant...

The SE has advanced further since then, with Apple's stance appearing to be even if compelled by law they would rather be able to say there is nothing they can do to help.
Type-safe functional sequences for processing iterable data in TypeScript
It's ironic. GitHub, a closed, centralized and for-profit platform, has become the sole viable place for open source.
And as long as you don't have any customers or employees, since taxation paid for their education, health care, security, et cetera.
Did they pay their "fair share"? See now you don't like that phrase...
There's also the famous tweet were Zooko said he'd consider bypassing anonymity of ZCash in order to help authorities catch the WannaCry hackers [0] [lol j/k]

I like ZCash but I think Z-transactions (anonymous) should be the default as there has been advances in the performance and memory requirements [1]

[0] - https://twitter.com/zooko/status/863202798883577856

[lol j/k] - https://twitter.com/zooko/status/863543600663101440

[1] - https://twitter.com/ebfull/status/907997752709091329
TripAdvisor also supports fake and unverified reviews:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/avaseave/2014/01/27/when-online...
Show HN: TR-101 – A drum synth/sequencer made with Vue and the web audio API
I recently read here that a Raspberry Pi can be turned into an SDR transmitter by attaching a wire to a pin. On paper, the specs look impressive (for a $20-$30 device), but I would love to know the RF quality of the resulting waveform.

I cannot find the discussion, but the info is here: http://www.rtl-sdr.com/tag/rpitx/
Get Rid of Equifax
You mean a planned autocracy that persisted - oh bravo! Maybe Kim will do that.
It might be fun, but the remote is not that bad.

I have a Logitech remote that fits easily in the palm and has forward and next buttons that are easy to find by touch. It has a laser pointer too.
HN is full of cynics today. Google commits to taking a step in the right direction and people just refuse to believe it. I don't mind the downvotes, I've got karma to spare, but it is pretty silly. They should be applauded and encouraged, and we should be happy they are going this far.

It's in Google's best interest to make ads less intrusive and offensive. That way, people have less incentive to block them. Google can, and will, still profit from ads. However, they need to be good stewards or more people are going to just block them.
The "locked tiers" model shits me to tears.

I've managed to find a good Xen based vps/dedi host that let you customise memory/disk independently (but regular vps are all "just" 2 vcpus I believe).
It's bad in a sense that you're possible to identify uniquely by the advertisers.

Do not track is snake oil anyway...
iOS has had ad blockers for several years. I’m using one right now.
Actually you can now download ad blocker extensions for Safari in the App Store.
> Hubble discovers first known binary asteroid also classified as a comet

Unless the title has changed in the last 2 hours, or that it's not the first occurrence of such, the title is an accurate depiction on the phenomenon described in the article.
How We Grow Junior Developers at the BBC
Do you really think Google can really put their whole development and review infrastructure into the hands of a relatively small company named GitHub?

The same platform where you see "GitHub is down" on HN every couple of months?
Poor people who believe taxation is theft I guess if they want to be consistent with their belief. Although technically they could do some mental gymnastic and say roads are a product of theft and therefore it's ok to trespass.
This is bigger than the tech sector. Look at the credit companies. 3 big names. One of them just had a massive data breach. So far the CEO has kept his job, and no major business customers have left the platform (nor will they).
I got one implemented in D at https://github.com/olaost/snowflake

Should try to put it up on Shadertoy...
Go for the energy audit. This is done by real professionals and is generally not expensive.
Great extension, thanks!

Oh, I wish there were a way to rate the results in a opposite way. Maybe it's just me, but sometimes I want even mark some site as 'a hidden gem'. Usually it's something rather niche though, like a bunch of great little articles about anti-aliasing filters design and sampling, full of engineering wisdom from the decades of experience. So I think it would be perfect to have a way to tag it by some topic.
On non-3d touch devices you just tap and hold until the action triggers.
In the early '00s, we joked that it was the History-of-World-War-II Channel. Sometimes they'd rotate to other wars in which they could portray the United States in a heroic light. Back then, they were pandering with selectively chosen facts. Now they're just pandering with straight-up BS.
At Artsy, my team of long-time native developers, started using React Native on valentine’s day 2016 in our pre-existing iOS app. Overall it has been a net-positive for us. In short, the developer experience and ability to be productive is much better, we now are able to leverage the product engineering skills from devs that would previously only work on web projects, and our initial tests in porting our React Native iOS code to Android are looking promising.

I think there’s no binary answer to whether or not React Native is a viable option. I can definitely imagine a bunch of situations where that would not be the case, but in our case the app is largely just a collection of views that show remote JSON data. Some small animations are done using the React Native animations API, but e.g. our navigation completely relies on native APIs and also has custom native transitions.

In short, I think that the companies that will succeed with RN are those that have native experience and a can-do-self attitude, both to ensure proper platform UX and deal with lower-level details such as RN bugs and limitations that would prohibit the product design from being possible to implement at all (for instance, in our case nested scrollviews); or those that are willing to sacrifice on UX and product design. (Not making any judgements here btw.)

We’ve written a bunch about our experiences https://artsy.github.io/series/react-native-at-artsy/ and I recently spoke about our specific case of integrating RN into our existing native app at React Native EU https://github.com/alloy/react-native-eu.
> I want a desk and a textbook. I need a teacher only when I get stuck.

Kudos to you for being a self-starter, but that barely described me. I have the ability to learn on my own, but if I didn't have an instructor yammering at me, then I was much more likely to spend the time in an unproductive manner.

I didn't have Wolfram|Alpha when I was in high school. TI-8x was my cheatsheet iff I knew how to get it to tell me what I wanted. If W|A had been a thing alongside self-study, I don't think I would have retained any information. I was a knucklehead. I figured that if I was doing the bare minimum to get an 'A' or a 'B', then I was doing it right. College was a rude awakening in that regard.

I do think that the US education system needs a bit of an overhaul. I don't think we have the manpower nor the funding to do it though. Public schools don't let students run at their own pace, because that would require a higher administrative burden than what schools already have. Technology has come a long way though. Digital lessons, the Internet, communication tools, grading tools, etc. have positioned us such that it would be much, much easier to implement these types of curricula. But that's still an uphill battle.
>but I would love to know the RF quality of the resulting waveform.

Technically it works, but it's very noisy and the transmission range isn't far enough for anything too serious.

A full duplex SDR would be a better investment.
Most people that say Taxation is theft aren't literally calling for zero taxes though. It's just a saying, and definitely a hyperbole. There are definitely specific functions of the government that need tax funds. They should get the funds. But the amount we pay in taxes to the federal government is outrageous and most of us don't see a return on our "investment."

The only people that 100% literally mean taxation is theft are anarchists.
Booleans and enums
I'm being trolled at this point, but okay:

On apps: http://fortune.com/2014/06/27/apples-users-spend-4x-as-much-...

And in general: https://www.neowin.net/news/ios-users-spend-more-money-onlin...
If one cannot figure out how to setup a development environment (with detailed guides), how can one be expected to actually make a meaningful contribution in a much more difficult domain like compiler development? For this purpose alone I think the current approach is something that Google will not get rid of.

Moreover, why on Earth would Google want to create an external dependency for code-hosting and development like GitHub, that may go down anytime, making them lose a lot of time and money, especially since their own system is much more reliable (at least for internal usage) and they have all resources they need to maintain it?

Finally, it is somewhat really silly to think that a giant corp like Google will develop something truly free and opensource, without their own interests above anything else, which obviously will become an issue sooner or later with the truly freedom spirit.
Apparently flagging a submission doesn't get the mods attention, and we should email them if we see these kinds of errors in links/typos in titles. What's the email address to use?
Reminds me of the guy on the Cummins Forums (Dodge RAM diesel trucks) who bought the salvaged flooded RAM 3500 that had rolled into a river a few days after it was purchased new. He paid some small but still risky amount of cash for a truck that was almost brand-new but presumably destroyed. With the help of people on the forums, he got it cleaned up and got the motor and electronics working again and ended up with a $80,000 truck for less than $10K.

“The RAM 3500 that the Internet fixed”.

http://www.cumminsforum.com/forum/2013-general-discussion/19...

edit: fixed link. Sorry, Cummins Forum is a crappy AutoGuide site. Bring your ad blocker.
It's good that they have that, but most of the OO API's (including the web server stuff AFAIR) is single dispatch.
How flying messes with the mind
just joking. nonetheless my question was serious.

I wouldn't like to pay more than €500 on a smartphone. And ...,iP6 < €500 < iP7,...

Actually I am a happy Android user. But I don't like too much of my data in one basket. Which is why I would consider iPhone for my next phone.

But the praise of iOS regarding privacy is rather new. So my question aims at whether I could expect also the privacy for older iPhones or if this is only coming with newer versions.

Of course data safety is in this case a result of an Apple policy - which would affect all products - but possibly older iPhones still send too much data to Apple.

F.x. let's assume a Catalonian opposition politician who's investigated by the Spanish police and a judge decides his data should be searched. With this warrant they contact Apple. Would apple now send all their data about the guy to the police - how much do they have?

That's another question I ponder besides ad tracking policies.
There are many more of "them" than you.

They need their bread and circuses, otherwise, they will come pillage your property.
Electronic trading of securities has been around for a while now. But it's only immediate and easy if someone wants to buy it at a value you're willing to sell for, and that's going to depend heavily on whether it does have terms and conditions attached which make holding it favourable.
>Can it not be that this instead proves that systems can be and are biased, in both directions?

I believe that's the point GP was making. Where does it imply otherwise?
Yes, but everyone thought it was mad at the time.
Except Content Blocker extensions have been around since iOS 9?
you folks remember steve's letter on flash?

https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

i'd love to see such thing wrt the ad industry whinging like this. it would be so great.
GitHub has always had far superior code search features. BitBucket is gradually trying to add these, but they still pale compared to GitHub. I love just going through a repo by searching for things.
I am comforted seeing articles like this calling for a top; which make it less likely to happen.