skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HR shouldn't be pulling credit reports for 99% of the applicants.

It's against the law to look at credit ratings in California in a hiring situation.
So can we go Samsung -> Linux -> Virtual Box -> Windows?

Or is that not how this works?
I wouldn't mind going back to the simple web pages of yesteryear, stuff you can write in a simple text editor. Black text on a white background, blue underlined hyperlinks that turn purple when visited, simple formatting that respects your browser's default fonts and pages that degrade gracefully to slow connections and low-resolution devices.

HTML is for content, not styling.

Even Hacker News feels a little bit too fancy with its threaded discussions and such, but it is by far one of the best sites today, in the Web 2.0 quagmire of needlessly active content and out-of-control styling.

This is about as fancy as I want a website to be:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3194/2830673252_16c7bf336e_o....
https://d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net/uploads/2016/07/popula...
Not in CA.
Exactly. It's what humanity set out to do--we applied chemistry and other sciences to the problem and solved it and now somebody is complaining. Someone who didn't get malaria.
At least Flash developers already realized that Flash was not meant for content delivery.

It seems that the HTML5 proponents still need to learn that lesson.

HTML for content, plugins for rich media. I never saw a problem with that. But I'm probably getting old.
Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) Release Notes
Thunderbolt is hardly a universal means of connecting mobile devices (even from Apple) to desktop peripherals.
That capability actually sounds pretty darn cool to me.
Yes, and if they didn't do that nobody would want to be outside for most of the summer. The mosquitos in MN are bad, really really bad. Some summers are worse than others, but there's a reason why the mosquito is the state bird.
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There used to be a time when SPAs were meant for real web-apps (as in, things like the Admin area of your PayPal account) and everything else lived happily as website pages.

Yes, I am tired of everyone trying to shoehorn everything into an SPA. It shows developers who want to jump onto the hype-wagon without always thinking if the problem they're solving is appropriate for it.
Whoops, I meant Godement's Analysis.
Yes, BASIC is an abstraction that hides eg instruction re-ordering. But if you are working with abstractions anyway, then imperative programming loses that claim to a privileged position.
I dont think this will ever be a thing. For me phones are (sorrily) throw away products, usually not build to last. Computers are expandable, upgradeable machines that you build for your use case and have for years without having to worry to much.

Even mac folks have their Macbooks at least twice as long as their phones.

So i dont see this happening for any kind of professional use anytime soon. But who knows.

Disclaimer: My last phone (downgraded recently, because battery life > 4k screens) is more powerful than my Laptop.
Be it measured in raw materials, labor, time or "merely" money, most failures cost. In fact I've yet to hear of a fallible endeavor that can fail without first expending at least some portion of the investment required for success. (And if it requires no investment, I've no idea how it is supposed to produce anything.)
People should know that Ubuntu-mate with mutiny layout is an alternative for some. Unlike 17.10, it keeps the global menus and HUD, but not the launcher (uses synapse instead).
Via emscripten. Slow, but it does "work".

http://badassjs.com/post/43158184752/qt-gui-toolkit-ported-t...
Killing yourself is not easy.

There are literally millions of people who have tried repeatedly but the instinct is strong and prevents you from actually doing it. Just go to any psychatric hospital and you will see many people wanting to die, living a miserable life, but who have not quite succeeded in killing themselves, and are just barely maintained alive by the system.

In addition, the fact that life is bearable for one person at one moment doesn't mean it will be so as well for its children in 30 /50 / 60 years.

You can dismiss the argument, but it makes sense and this is why eastern european countries have had such a low fertility for decades now.
Thanks,

So for the first issue you claim her premise that cosmologists arbitrarily prefer values "near" to 1 is incorrect. Ok, I have no idea. I guess that would make for a good review article or even just some science journalism where all the bigshots get asked.

For the second issue you seem to be in agreement with her for the most part:

>"What happens if you ignore this and go with the belief that the likely initial value for the curvature density should be about 1? Well, then you do have a problem indeed, because that’s incompatible with data to a high level of significance.

Inflation then “solves” this supposed problem by taking the initial value and shrinking it by, I dunno, 100 or so orders of magnitude. This has the consequence that if you start with something of order 1 and add inflation, the result today is compatible with observation. But of course if you start with some very large value, say 1060, then the result will still be incompatible with data. That is, you really need the assumption that the initial values are likely to be of order 1. Or, to put it differently, you are not allowed to ask why the initial value was not larger than some other number."

She is claiming that the inflation theory presupposes the initial value should be near 1, this value is not derived from anywhere.
An economic system is an agreement to forgo violence and theft as acceptable means to get what you want, in order to establish mutually beneficial conditions for the exchange of goods and services. As soon as the system stops being mutually beneficial and instead benefits the few at the expense of the many (regardless of skill, regardless of effort), the entire moral foundation on which the system was built crumbles and what you call wanton theft can sometimes be the rational response. Does this sound revolting to you? Well, too bad, life indeed isn't fair.
https://ronanquillevere.github.io/2017/05/16/kubernetes-ovh....

https://github.com/antoineco/kOVHernetes

Go with OVH, unlimited resource usage (including traffic) and they allow you to create/own your own private network (vRack) of dark fiber. Look into using multiple points of presence that they offer. If you don't need it nownow, wait for OVH to offer local US machines rather than just geolocated IPs.

You can do this well with bare metal servers or with a number of whatever dedicated and/or shared cloud stuff they offer.
Some software could probably be compiled on a different ARM machine. Or would work when distributed in binary form. (Just speculation, but i dont see why not)
This tool is hardly new, I think it was introduced back in the nineties. http://linux-ip.net/gl/ip-cref/ says April 14, 1999.
Signal needs quite a bit of work to be as useful as email.

No choice in clients, requiring a cell number, no search, and no threads.

Hard to imagine someone that uses email heavily with large volume of email trying to cram that much information into signal and then be able to find it again years later.
Ask HN: What jobs will exist in 10 years that don't exist now?
Figure the HN crowd will have a better sense of this than most.
I wouldn't say it's irrelevant, as they're directly related to the OP and are in some cases interesting.

You could certainly say that it's "not conclusive proof" of anything. However, this isn't a crowdsourced thesis paper. It's a web forum discussion thread, about a topic with only a thin tangential connection to the forum's main subject matter (i.e. technology and tech entrepreneurship).
> I am mainly speaking out against the pay gap myth

I'm sure you're very smart and know better than all[1] the current[2] research[3].

[1] https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/publication-download/...

[2] https://www.accenture.com/gb-en/gender-equality-research-201...

[3] https://www.strath.ac.uk/business/research/research/highligh...
Some of us have reservations about using, for example, NIST curves.
My hypothesis is that the difference is related to how memory works by associations and spatial cognition.

I read lots of research papers and books. I have tried to switch to e-readers several times, but it never works. I learn the subject slower and I remember much less of what I read from e-reader. I use computers and e-readers to skim or check some details, but never to thoroughly study.

If I read physical book or printed article and underline it, leave coffee stains on the paper etc. I'm working with actual physical object. When I achieve the paper in a map, I can often recall where the book is stored physically and even the coffee stains and notes in the paper.

I think physical book or paper works the same way as memory palace technique. You remember stuff by working with them physically better than in abstract. Physical library might be mirrored in our mind. Ancient augmented memory technology we did not know we have and might lose. E-reader or computer associates everything to the same object.
I think it's a combination of a number of factors. It's still really fascinating to me how the grey squirrel's survival tactic pretty much seems like it's built on exploiting the survival tactic of the red squirrels.

I wonder if the grey squirrels adapted this behavior because of previous encounters with red squirrels, displacing them in the process, or if it's just "bad luck" for the red squirrels to run into grey squirrels who just happen to perfectly counter their survival tactics?
This sounds like amazing news. LuaJIT being given a future direction by people who know what they're doing & have additional bright ideas to add, funded by Cloudflare.

I mean... wow. Sure, we'll see how things go, but as a user this signifies that LuaJIT now actually has a future.
Yeah. This will no doubt affect me too.

On a related note, I've been meaning to read this article from 2011 for a good while now: https://dougvitale.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/deprecated-linux...

I guess it's getting about time to get it done now :)
Here's a photo of it running Ubuntu 16.04 at a Samsung booth with a 4.4. Kernel.

https://twitter.com/TizenHelper/status/920507238485233664
Also their free cert terminates at their servers. If you're in e.g. GCE or AWS, that means part of your trip is unencrypted between their servers and yours, unless you pay for their FullSSL product.

https://puu.sh/y1RUm/03b77351ee.png from https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/
AT&T killed that idea fast 6 years ago. When the Motorola Atrix came out with the ability to do that AT&T charge a $20 tethering fee to use the laptop dock with the phone! That blew my mind. The phone wasn't tethering data to anything but itself. https://www.wired.com/2011/03/motorola-atrix/
To be fair this is already what we do. Android already IS linux. You can install plenty of scripting environments like Ruby or Python while having access to the underlaying Linux system which is only partly crippled.

Personally i see this more as a marketing thing from Samsung than anything else.
Wait for the first time you'll want to copy a text snippet form there.
I look forward to the resulting RAD tools and OO frameworks, as we reach the end of our journey back to the '90s and another generation learns (or fails to learn) all the same lessons, but now with ubiquitous ads and tracking for the online-generation version.
McSoftware
How much does traditional banking consume?
That mechanism also exists, notably in Vista and 7 there were a number of older applications where Windows would display a warning prior to running it that the application has known incompatibilities and may not run correctly.

However, a user who just upgraded Windows and half their programs stop working will simply not upgrade. In many cases such dodgy applications are also never fixed because the vendor doesn't exist anymore, doesn't care, or the flaw is in some library they use and they don't really want to invest that much time to change it.

Besides, detecting such behaviour is pretty much the same as fixing it with a compat shim, since you have to do more or less the same work. So from MS's perspective the benefit of working around the buggy behaviour is much more prominent than trying to discipline developers by making users suffer.
Heh. PowerBuilder WASM edition.
I think you should at least take a good look at how they handled that one catastrophic failure, and also consider whether it was the result of an unfortunate accident or a momentary lapse, rather than just the first of many failures-waiting-to-happen that actually happened.
I’m fairly confident the full SSL option is free.
I don't see how you can say that, unless you've not actually used Windows ME and/or 10 for any significant period of time.

Windows 10 is very well polished. It's also the first windows where most of the user's gripes are stuff added on top of it (telemetry, simplified/restricted update system, ...).

Windows ME, by comparison, was so bad that merely leaving it running would end up causing PC Health crashes.
Just a side thought. But afaik in all of europe you do not void your warrant when you root your phone or otherwise brick it software sidely. Its usually written somewhere, but afaik not legally enforceable (because as you said, you bought the hardware).
LinkedIn is horrible as well. Their chat feature (on mobile web) is unusable. The Send button goes further and further down the screen as you type until it disappears... permanently. No amount of refreshing will bring it back. They took the app paradigm and ran with it until they created a broken website when in fact, a single textarea and a button would have sufficed.
> An economic system is an agreement to forgo violence and theft as acceptable means to get what you want

No, its not.

I mean, sure, an economic system is always imposed by a political system, and some modern political systems have in their theoretical background an ideal of being established through free agreement, but that ideal is never actually fully realized in those systems, and plenty of political systems don't even have that in theory; in practice, participants in an economic system mostly do not get there as part of any agreement, and especially not a free and uncoerced agreement.

And economic systems often (in practice, always) involve violence and only avoid theft in that “theft” is defined as that which defies the rules of the state.
That is what it is - it's a compatibility layer to provide (a subset of) Linux kernel system calls on Windows, allowing the user to run ELF binaries as-is.

The problem is Microsoft's phrasing. They're calling the distros (eg ubuntu or suse) that can run on WSL sans Linux (as they use the NT kernel w/WSL) "Linux".

https://twitter.com/TechBandCamp/status/920733089948504064

It's like saying "for our lactose intolerant customers we sell cheeseburgers without cheese".
> Nearly everyone in this world holds to some central and defining philosopy or faith or religion that shapes the meaning of life for them.

Is that a fact? Seems like a false assumption to me. Unless you just mean whatever deeper beliefs everyone has, whether aware of it or not, but it seems you're making a stronger claim. For example, I'm in Australia, and I'd say 95% at least of the people I've met in my life aren't among this "nearly everyone".
It could be RSUs
"Premium User Interface" - you know how when you ring up a bank and essentially they're just reading you stuff on screen and typing your answers in? They're basically just an extra layer of UI. AI and text-to-speech will increasingly make that redundant, but it'll mean the UX will get demonstrably worse. So some companies will pride themselves on retaining those real humans as the front end of the UI, even though all they're doing is relaying information to and from the computer.
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paywall. I dont want a google device in my house.. they give you a google device.. I already carry a device
"In practice, a lot of the transaction action happens inside the individual exchanges, not on the blockchain itself - so we already have a "level 1" and "level 2" system."

Can you expand on this a bit? Is it somewhat analogous to the role that dark pools play in the stock market?
I believe there's gotta be a middle ground. Web Apps (and Progressive Web Apps) should be treated as the new standard because they take the best part of web and enhance it with patterns and features that we already know works thanks to mobile. Now, I agree that most implementations are very bad and need to be improved. I think the whole "javascript framework" situation is getting very close to total mayhem and I hope somebody will figure out a way to create web apps that have both functionality and simplicity to user and developer
Note that nowadays there aren't many of such compat hacks in the actual Windows codebase. Most applications can be coaxed to work by just shimming a few API calls and those shims can be kept separately and don't impact other software that doesn't need them. The simplest one of those would be the one that simply pretends to be an older Windows version for broken version checks to still work. There are others where HeapAlloc simply allocates a little more to prevent a buffer overflow, etc.

The OS architecture no longer suffers from such things.
Personally, I'd love this (except without any dependence on Qt).
So maybe the world isn't entirely used to the concept yet, but that doesn't mean there isn't a valid separation. A web app should not be like an informational web site, and vice versa.

I respectfully disagree. There's a spectrum here, and there's no reason you shouldn't have a site that has some relatively static parts that are purely about providing information and other more interactive parts that work more like an app, if that is what the purpose of the site calls for.
The appropriate way for users to defend themselves is to simply install https-everywhere and check "Block all unencrypted requests".
This avoids sslstrip, requires no redirect magic and no HSTS.

Although somebody should really patch it to just display big fat warnings because it is somewhat annoying to turn it on and off all the time.
>> Computers are expandable, upgradeable machines

Not anymore they're not. I haven't bought an upgradeable laptop since 2011.
I'm going to go against what appears to be popular opinion and suggest that this reeks of a "back in my day..." complaint.

There's always been poorly-written software, poorly-created websites, bad UIs, bad UX, etc. And I don't see that changing anytime soon. Suggesting that the entire web is devolving into a vat of poor decisions is, I think, a bit alarmist. Technology changes, things progress, sometimes things get slightly worse before they get better. But I think, on the whole, things are moving in a good direction. And we'll always be able to pick out a few bad examples to justify why the sky is falling. But in the end, I much prefer the current state of affairs to the way things were a decade ago.
I'm curious what the "We're ::lightning:: by Drift" means in the contact box. What verb is supposed to be conveyed by ::lightning::? Fast? It's just the chat box.
Even if you aren't fitting it in to an existing JVM shop, the available libraries on the JVM beat anything else for variety and quality. There are specific niches (e.g. visualization of data) that you can find better options, but if you don't know exactly what your project is going to entail in advance, JVM is the safest choice.
I actually have moved from VIM (I had an Amiga that I learned Vim on) to VS Code. The Vim plugin is just great but the VS Code ecosystem id great and when I switched was much fast than Atom. If people can look past their Electron Bias they might actually find a great open source tool.
Idk about old, but you certainly are stupid
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I'd say if they were explicit about using the data to construct a theory, it's okay, no?
Spacemacs you mean ;)
I'm going to guess over X11 with Xwayland. Or does anyone else have any better solution?
You are not getting older, (in fact you are getting older) it is just that the http protocol was never designed for this and we are paying the price.
I find your approach very rational, it is something that was lost in time.
Oops, looks like I made several mistakes in the above calculations.

For a 768 bit number the primes would be 384 bits each, gaps between numbers of the form "27a^2 ..." would be 10^58 apart, and weak primes would be at worst one out of 10^56.

Still extremely unlikely, but not by as much as I thought.
I'm not using web apps at all. To be honest, I thought they were a fad and am amazed that they are still deemed successful and trendy. I haven't seen a web app so far that would even remotely match a corresponding desktop application in terms of quality and features. But I guess times are changing and people are happy with less quality, as long as its shiny and new.

Most web apps violate basic user interface design and don't even have working keyboard shortcuts. And let's not get started on user-definable menus, arbitrary undo, re-ordering of interface elements, scripting, and other advanced features.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to sound negative and to each his own. I personally don't use a web app for mail and have found absolutely zero use for any other web application I've tried so far.
There is what I believe to be a common misconception about the economic term "rationality" - it is actually devoid of morality. In economic theory, rationality is defined only as: when faced with a decision over many choices, the actor always chooses the choice they value most, according to their own "utility function". Self-interest is a misleading term for this because it could be selfish for a person to give away their all their wealth since altruism gives themselves the most internal "utility" /happiness. Regardless, if a billionaire maximizes their wealth, conditional on the billionaire getting more utility from more wealth than more of other things, then they are a rational economic actor.

What you are describing is a moral judgement about what people should "value", not how they make choices conditional on what they value. Rationality is not a technically correct term here.
How different is from this free tool?

https://wkhtmltopdf.org/
I agree the mobile Reddit is awkward to use and a horrible experience. However i dont think this is a very big issue. Sure everything started to look like Bootstrap in the last years, but IMO most people did it right without making UX worse.

Afaik most modern websites load every single request with Ajax (often through things like Turbolinks) but it feels so passive that nobody would ever bother complaining. Also it always perfectly falls back.
Actually sounds good. I'm tired of Apple devices going in a direction that doesn't fit with what I want, and have never been impressed with Android.
content really does outweigh any cutting edge buzzword, 4chan is stuck in 2003 and it doesnt stop it from gaining users.
> or has he been charged guilty by an overzealous prosecutor?

Isn't that the point of a prosecutor?
Do you remember back in the older days of IE4/IE5 there used to be filters, page transitions, DXImageTransform (do I recall it right?)... a totally cool tech and a selling point.