skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Already closed? When going to the site I get this "Decided to close RemoteBootstrap for now, I might relaunch later though!"
That reminded me I needed to delete my account. Done.
An increasing Hispanic and Latino population won't turn Texas blue all by itself. The turnout among that population at the voting booth is really low in Texas. This was also true in California until proposition 187 gave a lot of motivation for people to starting getting in the habit of using their vote. Without a precipitating event of the Texas GOP shooting itself in the foot with an equivalent to proposition 187, its going to take longer than 20 years. Old caucasian people are very reliable voters and as we saw in the recent special election in Alabama, will the vast majority of the them vote GOP no matter what candidate.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/burka-blog/latinos-wont-turn-te...
California Lawmaker Sounds Alarm on Computer Chip Security Flaws
The answer is and always has been to judge people by the output of their work and nothing else. As soon as you bring identity politics into to equation, you’ve lost because many people will (rightly) take attacks on white people and men as racist and sexist respectively.
Maybe, but I think you're missing my point. When you buy Bitcoin (or whatever) you're betting that someone will want to trade you something else for it in the future. That "someone else" isn't a concrete entity, and "they" haven't given you any assurances of any kind.

I was replying to an argument that cryptocurrencies are superior to state-issued fiat because they don't require trust. IMO this is nonsense. Using anything with zero intrinsic value as a store of value is a gigantic leap of faith.
I see this sentiment coming a lot from Portlanders.

I understand that rent is rising in your area. That is awful.

But you do realize that Portland's rent is comparable to the rent in many other US metros? In fact, it's cheaper than quite a few! With better infrastructure and poverty rates!

I'm from Chicago, and the rent in Portland is pretty comparable. You can find cheap rent in Chicago if you don't mind commuting 45-60 minutes each way and living in an (almost) literal war-zone. When was the last time you witnessed a drive by? Or had an active gang-shooter outside your house having a gun-fight with other bangers?
TechLeaders sub-reddit: Programmers who lead programmers
Great!
I'm the uploader (to YouTube, not HN). I was present at the time and also gave a talk at that HOPE. I loved your talk and I'm happy to see it surface again here by surprise.

I uploaded it at the time as I wanted to subtitle this for my deaf (and also non English speaker) teacher, but I lost the password for that YouTube account mid progress. Maybe I should try to reset it.

Thank you!
> Wow. That's starting to get really shady.

Yes, there is a massive amount of crawling that happens in the service of financial forecasting. Satellite imagery, drones, web pages, API endpoints, receipt data (free financial aggregators sell this), location data (free geolocation services sell this), purchase history (free email clients sell this), etc. This rabbit hole goes very deep. Some of it is actively sold by free services for "market research", some of it is collected from sources that don't bother with authentication or access control and make all of their data public.

> Note to self: All things facing the web in ecommerce must be cryptographically randomized. :(

The bigger issue is that sensitive information should be behind authentication. If you require authentication instead of just a "browsewrap" terms and conditions clause at the bottom of the page, that data becomes legally actionable if it's ever found. Otherwise you're relying on (at best) a robots.txt to do the enforcement for you.

Many companies overlook this, even if they're told about it, because it doesn't compromise users or constitute a security vulnerability. So savvy firms take the data as a competitive advantage and use it for market research.
Paris? You have lost your mind. Dog shit everywhere. People peeing anywhere they want on the street. Loud scooters at all hours of the day and night. Crowded sidewalks, polluted air much of the year, extortionate housing prices, everything closed on Sundays or after 7pm. And there are the ubiquitous Gypsy pickpockets everywhere.

And Venice? It’s about the single most crowded and overpriced city in Europe. Beautiful to visit, but a nightmare to live there. Even in November it’s elbow to elbow people; the infrastructure is at the breaking point.
Apart from the cloak-and-dagger tone, this either says something obvious—that HN is moderated—or says nothing.
That's pretty cool. Just moved out here and have been wondering about how to meet people. Maybe I'll do what you do!
> In my childhood girls were never beaten. Boys were by each other.

No, they were just sexually harassed. To be fair, plenty of boys get sexually harassed to.

It's all gonna come out in the wash, man. Relative to all the shit (sexual harassment, rape, being denied the vote until 1919, getting their pussies grabbed by the President, etc) women have to put up with, a bias towards hiring them in certain situations is not that big a deal. IMHO, making change for all of the above issues would make our society such a better place, for women and men, and matters more than this. So you're right, it's not 50/50, however I'm not sure that making a list of all the things that are not 50/50 is really a game that one wants to play.
Not really, as an example bothering people that believe earth is flat by saying "it is not" is a positive in my book; in other words, bothering ideas that need to be bothered.
But is the high cost of those surgeries a product of the broken system? I say yes.
References to WordPad and notepad suggest they were not running Chrome or Firefox on iOS.
My suspicion is that Amazon has known all along where they want to put HQ2, and that this whole exercise is a negotiating tactic. Illinois would be a particularly rough choice, due to state finances.
We have 1000s and 1000s of devices and can easily Update them. It's not hard. The devices also has multiple micros and they can individually be updated and rolled back. It's not really hard to implement. Though in our case we had to build a lot of the infrastructure anyways for other reasons.
Receipts is a huge one for me for services I use as a Business. Even better is VAT receipts. My most frustrating is Backblaze as what they provide is next to nothing other than a transaction entry. So every month I print it to PDF and it's just a rolling total for that year.
It's cheap of you to try to conflate the issue of torturing prisoners with the issue of restrictions on immigration. It is not inconsistent to support immigration restrictions on countries with Muslim extremists while simultaneously being against the torture of prisoners. You're tapping into identity politics.
> My father told me that con men preferred to go after smart people, like doctors.

If there is one thing that I'm happy about with Ben Carson, it's that he proved that doctors are not generally smart.

They are highly practiced and highly skilled--like a professional athlete. "Smart", however, is only in their narrow field.
This is all nice and cynical sounding like HN loves when it comes to big companies, but even then: is that such a bad thing? You have ten years of a lot of people getting cheaper and better access to drugs, and you have a bunch of hospitals getting much-needed capacity increases with state-of-the-art facilities, and you have a proven business model for someone else to come in and take their turn at the money-making wheel.

It's like saying nobody should start a new company cause "best case they'll be another evil surveillance company like Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Amazon, worst case they'll lose all their money."
I can attest that many tech companies are hostile to older people. I'm a white male in my 40s, and I've felt it myself and heard many more accounts. The existence of counterexamples doesn't falsify the claim.

The temptation to blame victims is strong. I think it comes from wanting to reassure oneself that "it can't happen to me." So you have to actively silence that voice in your head, and assume that victims are actually victims unless there's real evidence to the contrary.

As advice for senior people, I'd suggest: don't apply for junior jobs. Apply to lead large teams, or start your own company. It can be more stressful than coding, but that's the way the industry is structured.
> Why does the small chain of bike repair shops in my area, also taking the stress and high risk of starting their own business, not exhort about how their bike repair shop will change the world of bikes forever?

may be not having such a vision is a reason why they aren't going to change the word of bikes forever. In the beginning was the Word ...
To your other questions:

Registration and listing: harder to automate because information systems on FDA’s side aren’t quite there yet. For GUDID, yes

CAPA, labeling, submissions: yes

Alternative submission pathways: what do you mean by this precisely?

Pre-cert: I think the premise is correct, in that the current quality system regulations aren’t well suited to modern SW development practice. But the devil will be in the details. Regardless it won’t affect us significantly because whatever gets released will have to have a phase-in for existing process that we’ll be able to adapt to.
What is the point of allowing discussion? HN would not allow a post on this topic from an opposing viewpoint to get to the front page. Moreover, this particular point of view is from a radical organization - you can't really have intellectual discourse with people who refuse to see any other position than theirs.
Real life is not an action movie. Your scenario is totally made up and has probably almost never happened.
Both the points and your third point about a centralized system being able to decentralize itself - I am saying all of them are impossible (given current knowledge - unless you have secret protocols...).
What is the opposing viewpoint? Is it articulated clearly somewhere?
We believe the pre-cert pilot will be transformative for both FDA and digital health companies. FDA is learning from some of the largest software companies how they manage their product life cycles. Apple, Verily and Samsung are aggressively entering the digital health marketplace, so their participation in the pilot alongside large traditional drug and device companies J&J and Roche will be tremendously informative for FDA. Smaller companies on the forefront of digital health approvals such as Pear Therapeutics, Phosphorous and Tidepool will round-out FDA's understanding of how subsequent guidance documents will impact startups in this space. Whether products are SaMD or software-enabled, this industry is on the cusp of exploding with FDA's recent open and progressive approach toward fostering innovation.
Wow, he has way more houses than I imagined. Two each in Medina, Wa and Beverly Hills, Ca. 30000 acres in Van Horn, Tx (not actually anywhere near Austin or Dallas despite being in Texas). Also, the single largest house in DC and a mere three condos in New York City (right next to Central Park).

http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-owns-five-massive-...
I'm glad I haven't experienced anything quite like that. Your decision to just get out is probably the best one.
Use Amazon SES to send your email. SES actually conceals your origin IP -- unlike other providers like Sendgrid, which include it.
That's what I thought. In case you were wondering, as a Luminati user (on the proxy end, not the VPN end thank god), my experience has been higher latency and request fail rate than on traditional proxy networks. It's definitely not my first weapon in the arsenal, but since the target for multiple reasons already has an effective high latency and my users are sufficiently motivated enough to wait for what I'm delivering, it's a pretty effective last resort.
> If any non-zero subset of reasonable people

Isn't the problem here that there is really no global (or even industry-wide) consensus on what's reasonable and what's not?

What feels perfectly reasonable to one may look absolutely and intolerably insane to someone else. And vice versa.
I think you should be supporting taxing car usage, not car ownership. 500% gasoline tax instead of 100% car tax.
Here, smart means intellectual quality and their subject on leadership is private profit making. Why the rest of us should like those smart (highly intellectual, however their interest lies in their own profit) leader?

I'd like to see the study on the subject of public/social
interest and I think that the result will be different.
If anyone is tired of Webpack configuration issues / slow performance, give Parcel a try:

https://parceljs.org/

The project is less than two months old, so Parcel might not be a good fit for you. But if it is, it's usually a drop-in replacement. Zero configuration. Just run it and go.

We're working hard to add the most requested features: source map support is coming very soon, for example. But if you can put up with a few rough edges, Parcel promises to give you a ~5x performance increase over webpack.

(We kick off multiple processes to do the actual bundling work, and we have an asset cache, which accounts for most of the speedups.)

If you'd like to participate or have any questions, hop on our Slack! https://slack.parceljs.org/ We have about 500 devs ready to help you out and chat with you (about anything, really).

Feel free to snag an issue and start working on it: https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%... There's plenty of work to go around.

It's been really cool to see so many people pitching in. We recently had a Japanese contributor help get Parcel up and running for multi-language projects: https://qiita.com/zacky1972/items/0ce05454b67506edc634
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16182520 and marked it off-topic.

Your first point is empirically false, though I'm too lazy to look for links. The second point seems circular, but doesn't matter in any case, since the idea here is to have good conversation with each other.
Dean Allen, R.I.P.
As a manager, you're absolutely responsible for your team member's feelings. Both morally and practically because if they feel bad at work, they'll leave.
There are a couple of things that are distinct about us contra an incorporation company:

1) Compliance is an ongoing activity regardless of how many new products you release. Think something like HIPAA, but more pervasive. So there’s an ongoing need that is ordinarily fulfilled by people - everything from a consultant for a garage startup to 1,000s of FTEs for a Fortune 500 company. This creates an ongoing, sticky customer relationship for anyone who can deliver significant value.

2) Our product and approach is valuable to more than just startups and enterprise life science companies routinely spend $10M+/yr on software systems.
I wonder if a lot of toxicity in tech culture is that it is billed as a lifestyle and identity more than just a job.

One of the big drivers for civil rights came from the experience in WWII. In war, there is an overarching purpose. You want to achieve your mission, and survive the war to make it home to your family. The identity of those who help you achieve those goals doesn't matter as much (very few people care about the skin color of someone who saves their life).

What if tech became less of an identity and more of just a job that you did with your co-workers not to "change to world", but just to make money?
Okay, if you will only accept extremely specific tailored data on tiny fractions of the population you are perfectly capable of finding it yourself. I'll be happy to review it with you when you do.

The other responder to you has already done this for you, in fact, and the data there backs up my claims.

Plus, my main claim is that Trump voters are not the poor, they are middle-class suburbanites. My source absolutely backs that claim up.

Also, I'm not sure you understand the electoral landscape very well. Iowa is one of the more purple states, it was VERY blue for Obama and almost exactly dead even on Bush both times.

The makeup of Iowa is actually very similar to nearby Wisconsin and Michigan, which were the surprise red states that took the election for Trump.
That's basically how it is in Seattle.
No, that's a myth. Look it up, fiduciary duty does not involve duty to maximize profits no matter what. There's no such law and the laws that exist give the management very wide leeway in how the company is managed, as long as it is not overtly subverting company's resources for one's own (or somebody else's own) benefit to the detriment of the company. As long as you have a plausible argument that it's for the good of the company, in a very wide understanding of it, it's fine with the law.
It's possible that people have an innate tendency to be resentful of leaders who are smarter than them, but there may be other explanations.

Perhaps high IQ test results correlate with some negative trait that wasn't captured.

Perhaps it's unusually difficult for some reason to simultaneously be successful in business, well liked by employees, and really smart.

Perhaps the population of business leaders contains an abnormally high proportion of highly intelligent sociopaths.

Perhaps high IQ correlates with wealth, and employees tend to be resentful of business leaders who earn, say, 100x or 1000x what they earn.

Perhaps on average high IQ leaders were more likely to have goals that contradicted the goals of the workers (e.g. maximize profit at all costs vs. make this a great place to work).
>Some of Trump's advisers are not to be underestimated. Their brilliance is in using Trump -- who has off the charts emotional intelligence -- as a president. They frame the issues, he taunts and captivates the press.

I like that you are one of the few people who seem to pick that up. The setup is almost the same for Russian political establishment, and as you see it worked with devastating efficiency.
"The Times reported in July that 74 projects were under construction in downtown Seattle. Two-thirds of the buildings will be residential towers, with most being apartments for rent, not condos...Seattle has gone from one of the most affordable West Coast cities to one of the least, Aaron Terrazas, a senior economist at Zillow, told CNN Money. The city and developers have tried to alleviate that by building tons of apartments. Downtown has added 20,000 units in the past decade, with another 27,000 on the way...But nearly all the buildings are considered luxury real estate, with rents 40% higher than in older buildings. The dueling 41-story Insignia towers include amenities like a "sky retreat," an indoor lap pool and sauna, and a screening room...From 2005 to 2015, Seattle's median rent jumped by three times as much as the national figure did. In downtown Seattle, average rent has climbed to $2,400 a month, meaning you'd need to make about $96,000 to afford it."

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-hq-photo-tour-seattle-...

And another article: http://gawker.com/how-amazon-swallowed-seattle-1724795265
You may want to look into the SEPA direct debit system. It lets you send a file to your bank to request transfers and they send you back a file with the results.

You have to register for a debitor identifier and ask your customers for permission to debit their accounts first but overall it works well and can be automated. It's the standard way to do direct debits in Europe.
This really shits me about updates to phones and other devices like my TV.

I always cringe a bit when there's an update because the companies never provide any way to downgrade if you're not happy after.

It's not only Apple responsible, I wish there was some kind of consumer protections.

There should always be a way for a consumer to get a product back to the state is was at the time of purchase.
The form should probably be different than what we think of as a social network anyway.
work life balance is double speak for : your life is your work

an extreme cynical view , but that is the beauty of it , its hidden in plain sight.

How can a company give indefinite vacation, only if it hires and prevays a culture of overwork? The type of people hired will never take that vacation.

Im not right , but im not wrong. The point is "work life balance" and "unlimited vacation" are not clear ideas on the reality of the environments and for some they can be a rose colored glass over the true experience.

SV is very much the benevolent dictator ... giving you everything you could ask for , just be its slave.

Can a slave only be a slave for 10 years and leave? Can a job that pays over 6 figures feel like slavery?

I answer yes to the latter. You are payed well , but you are not respected as a developer. This will only change when we become the heads of our industry and not the tools to be used by money men.
Would you please stop ranting on HN, and particularly in this thread? Whatever you're doing here, thoughtful conversation is not it.
Agreed entirely. Used to live in Durban and left >10 years ago now with zero confidence in the nation. I won't be surprised to see the whole country descend into chaos soon.

The apartheid government may have been morally reprehensible, but at least it knew how to run a country. Either option is kind of shitty…
Wait, it is? HN seems incredibly Silicon-Valley-culture-centric to me. Compared to the general population:

* Extremely interested in technical topics.

* Extremely interested in startups.

* Extremely interested in big tech company news and behavior.

* Extremely interested in cultural tech industry drama.

* Extremely interested in self-help/business-advice stuff.

* Somewhat interested in explicitly regional stuff like California politics.

* Libertarian+liberal political outlook.

What are the things that you think belong to mainstream Silicon Valley culture which HN is not about?
Maybe everyone keeps in mind what the boss wants and that aligns incentives even for smaller things?
People must speak up for values and ideals. Otherwise their power will fade. Results without values are hollow.
C++ and Rust are very different. A direct binding is near impossible. This project takes a pragmatic approach: the GUI part is QML/Qt and the logic part is Rust. The separation is quite strict. The demo application showcases more of the features than the blog does. Notably, the mapping between the Qt data models and the Rust code is something that makes development effective. This will be emphasized in the upcoming FOSDEM presentation.

https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/rust_qt_binding_gener...
> Even if amazon doesn't pay taxes

I think this is being overstated. Amazon may get a very generous tax break for something like twenty years, but they will almost certainly still be paying more net tax yearly than all but the very largest employers in the area.
Office for Mac now shares a codebase with Windows
They should just redo it in electron
Bend the rules? Are you for real?

Uber not only deliberately and flagrantly breaks the law, but it developed systems to prevent police and regulators from doing their jobs.

Uber is like someone who wants to rob banks until he gets rich, and then use the money to stay out of jail and transition into legitimate business.
What is the viewpoint you think this post holds? That parts of tech culture are toxic? That all of it is? Plenty of posts hit the front page every day holding the opposing viewpoint.

And as people who refuse to see other viewpoints go—would you say the same about posts from people who believe that, say, mass surveillance is bad, or net neutrality is good, or Apple should not cooperate with subpoenas for user data? The authors of those posts are also very unlikely to see opposing positions.