skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that this might be different in the US, but in Europe, there usually are minimum requirements for break time to ensure that workers aren't overly strained. E.g. screen workers should take regular short breaks to rest their eyes.

In that case, tracking could actually be beneficial by making sure that nobody sacrifices their break time to improve their quotas. It doesn't have to be used for detrimental purposes (although it's probably unrealistic to assume that Amazon will be so benevolent).
Heard this one second hand from an email directly from bezos. It's nothing that people don't already know. He said something along the lines of we don't have to worry about treating employees well as automation will be replacing most of them.
Right, I was referring to ES6 classes because that's what the article specifically refers to.
Supervisors can't monitor every worker every single minute that they are on shift. Supervisors also have their own work to do, which further limits the direct supervision each worker receives.

On the flip side, these bands can monitor every worker every minute of the day. And even the top 10% of workers are likely to receive reprimands for having a bad day, be it a sore knee or being distracted because their children are acting oddly. There's no judgment involved when its automated like this - just numbers that have to be kept above a certain line.
Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 all had built in telemetry too.

Windows 10 added some additional telemetry for Windows Store Apps and a few built in services to see if anyone is utilizing them, but overall if you set Diagnostic Data to "Basic" your privacy is in a similar state to previous versions of Windows.

Here's documentation on it:

- Basic diagnostic data: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/basic...

- Full diagnostic data: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/windo...

- How Microsoft handles the data, common questions, more info on what is collected, etc: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/confi...
I personally stopped reading when they switched from Wordpress to Medium - found out recently that they switched back after a year, but it was too late at that point.
Buying out a company requires either an agreement or it being publicly traded.
Given how little Microsoft changes Office between each version, I don't think that's going to be a strong reason to upgrade to windows 10. I can barely notice the difference between Office 2007 and Office 2016 save for the color scheme.
Sony's PlayStation 4 has nearly outsold the PlayStation 3
@ghshephard @riffic @tyingq Your feedback is really important to us, we internalize it and make sure it is heard loud and clear with our Product leads. Totally appreciate the feedback.
Yeah, I think that is a little rich of IKEA. They get tons of goodwill from the Swedish system but contributes very little to it themselves. For example, the Swedish King or some government official is often present when IKEA opens a new store somewhere in the world. If an new one is opened in Sweden, the local politicians help them out by adding bus stops and even new bus lines servicing it.

It's kind of crazy given that IKEA in reality is a Dutch charity for tax reasons. At this point in time, IKEA is about as Swedish as Media Markt.
This is completely non-malicious: why are you writing papers in Word instead of more advanced typesetting tools like LaTeX?
> the journal Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, concluding that instead, details “point compellingly to hand-to-mouth transmission.” Put more simply: The afflicted campers failed to properly wash their hands after using the bathroom.
> I do really value my friends, my relationship, and my family. They give me meaning in life more than anything else

If that's the case, then reframe the question to some variation of "what should I do with my life that will enhance/maximize the relationships I find meaningful?", or perhaps "what should I do with my life that will bring me into contact with more of the kind of people I would want as friends?".

For example, if your family/friends tend to be literary folks, you might consider becoming a librarian, or managing a bookstore.
I recently noticed Chrome Canary added a flag to enable AV1, any samples out there?
> So what vectors are there for those threats, if not unfiltered 'wilderness water'?

Lack of hygiene in the wild?
On the company, sure. On the website, no. I didn't delete my Facebook account because I hate the company or something, I just simply didn't use it much anymore.
xterm has a Tek 4014 mode. Here's an older comment with some examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7776904
Growth Hacking Your Way to Heavy Fines? Adjust Your Outbound Strategy for GDPR
Next election the "grab her by the p*" soundbite would have been "fake sound".

It's really two problems. One, making people say things they didn't say. And two, allowing people to deny things they really did say.
The difference is, Google is the only company that is both trying to sell cloud services, and giving their product away to their competitors.

The company I work for uses multiple cloud providers, but does not use GCE. They don't even think about it. I think the reason is a lack of confidence, along with other business and technical reasons. Google just isn't a serious company when it comes to supporting large businesses. Like it or not, that old adage about never getting fired for buying IBM is still true.
On Imposter Syndrome
Water filtration straws are cheap and easy to use. There is no reason for the risk, especially not while out in the wilderness.
PostCSS – beyond the Autoprefixer
There's a point of view where this transforms it from a game into a task. Execute the algorithm as quickly as possible.
Once I applied on your careers site, I required a lot of time because it asked a lot of things (including coding some problems), I never received a response, I even asked to someone via email who told me he'll ask HR and the, no response at all.

If you are going to require people to spend 30 minutes just to apply, at least be kind to give a response.
> Nothing.

I take issue with this. There are several problems with Windows 10:

- silent updates, that you cannot control them or disable them,

- these updates reset your setting, enable things you explicitly disabled, behind your back,

- Microsoft still didn't document what data they are exfiltrating, and doesn't allow to disable call-to-home functionality.

BTW, that free upgrade still works, it just isn't advertised. For above mentioned reasons, many consider Windows 10 to be the inferior version, not the previous ones.
This was helpful and enlightening. We have kids that we're planning on homeschooling. Finding curriculum or even good information on how to introduce technology to kids in a meaningful seems difficult.
> or if it will make it so bad that people learn to distrust any kind of digital media entirely.

There are already fake news sites out there that are "so bad" you'd think nobody would believe them, and yet...

Still, it's important we inform people this is possible, so that at least the more reasonable among them can view future videos through a skeptical lens. I'm sure by now many HN readers are not surprised by this technology, but many outside of HN would be blown away.
Well there is HTerm which is available for Linux.

http://41j.com/hterm/
Maybe we're seeing so much coverage of deepfakes just so there is plausible deniability if the watersports video leaks?
>Is there a place we want more garbage?

Of course not, but let's be completely logical about this. Let's pretend we have a finite amount of time and money to fix this issue. (which we do) Where should we spend this resource to fix the plastic pollution?

If we have evidence that up to 95% of the pollution comes from 10 rivers, why shouldn't we _start_ there first? Ending 100% of pollution everywhere else in the planet first, would only stop 5-10% of world pollution.
New Surface Book 2 released with cheaper price
With regards to static-analysis capability as an aid to developer productivity, I agree with you: find the compromise that best suits your preference.

With regards to static-analysis capability as a means of ensuring code reliability, I don't agree. Some people (I'm not characterizing you here since I am unsure if this is your position) consider static analyzability to be equivalent to a strong type system or various safety guarantees with regards to making code's behavior verifiable and/or predictable.

If you subscribe to that belief, having an 'escape hatch' that lets you use features of a platform that violate the analyzability guarantees is a virtual guarantee of trouble. I'm put in mind of Rust's "unsafe" areas (there are many other examples of this phenomenon): not only do people routinely overuse them (out of ignorance or misplaced, incorrect, and unverified assertions of "elegance" or "performance"), but their existence at all compromises the ability to verify even small subparts of the greater program: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15146330

Having analyzability/guarantees with an escape hatch is better than having none at all, but a lot of people don't understand the tradeoff there.
cool JS content
I have yet to encounter any arguments in favor of sticking with Windows 8.1 vs. 10. Isn't it pretty much universally regarded as a dud release? It seems like the smarter move here would be to kill the LTS for 8 than devote a bunch of effort to supporting their most popular product on their least popular platform.
I think it'll continue to be a very volatile store of value. For as long as there is greed in this world the price will continue to fluctuate. The key is that the supply gets cut in half every four years, so theoretically, as long as people continue to want to purchase bitcoin it will get more valuable with time.
For athletes, I think that's likely. There all kinds of quantitative optimization of training regimes going on, and if someone can't adapt as desired it's likely that their career will be cut short.
The “class” keyword was added fairly recently to simplify Java-style OO programming in JavaScript; it's true that that style of programming requires extensive use of “this” in JS, specifically because, unlike Java, JavaScript is not designed from the ground up to favor that style exclusively.

Java will probably always be a better language for writing Java than JavaScript is, but the Java-in-browsers story has sucked for a long time, so we’re stuck with people who want Java using JavaScript as Java.
I guess everybody also has to actually use IPv6 then. I must admit I'm guilty myself: whenever I set up a VM, I just check the v4 connectivity. When setting up Network stuff, the same holds true.

Sure the one or other device/service doesn't work with it well, but maybe that's a reason to not use that. Linux users also avoid Hardware that only goes well with Windows.
There is also the story that phoenicians circumnavigated Africa [0]. As well as people that actually circumnavigated Africa with 3rd century BC shipbuilding technology[1]. Its an intereting thought, but I would treat it as speculation unless actual remains of phoenician ships are found far enough south.

[0]: http://www.livius.org/sources/content/herodotus/herodotus-on...

[1]: https://themediterraneantraveller.com/phoenician-ship-expedi...
Reader-Writer Lock versus Mutex
Each semi-annual feature update, like Fall Creators Update, is only serviced for 18 months from date of release. They've been saying this for a while but the longer support dates were still published. On February 1st, I was reading Windows lifecycle fact sheet which listed Windows 10's mainstream support would end in 2020 and extended support would end in 2025. [0]

However, less than a day later, that page has been updated and is very different. Most versions of Windows 10 are now listed by version number (corresponding to the semi-annual updates released so far) with end of service dates 18 months after release. Only the LTSB editions (which aren't supposed to receive feature updates anyway) have mainstream and extended support dates (the 2015.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20180127173937/https://support.m...

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifec...
>We all just looked at him like something was deeply wrong with him. Little did I know that years later I would read this comment and know the truth.

tptacek, my sarcasm detector has been broken from birth, is this sarcasm?

>(Schneier wrote about NSA spying. In Applied Cryptography. In the 1990s.)

Schneier, Bamford, and Cryptome and some others (Prouty) were the origins of my knowledge of the NSA stuff since the 90's as well. At the time not many people listened and we were constantly derided as tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists... of course it would be logically fallacious to extrapolate that makes me right about another subject, (hence understandable if your comment is sarcasm), but I think it's worth remembering in context of similar claims of government technological overreach.
…most of the time.

"The idea that most wilderness water sources are inherently unsafe is baseless dogma" may be true, but if you only need to hit one sometimes unsafe source at the wrong time to be in trouble.
Everyone uses chrome or firefox anyway. I don't think the browser changes anything to OS adoption.
I haven't done an analysis, but I noticed they do an Amazon critical article now and then to show they aren't biased.
Ted Nelson's computer paradigm, expressed as one-liners
Sounds like a rave.
> If you say half of drivers are not at fault, it's only because we assume only one person can be at fault.

You're absolutely right; there are at least some collisions that are the fault of both/multiple drivers, or of no drivers. I did assume that fault is most often one driver in two-car collisions (and I still think that), but I shouldn't have stated it as fact, I was thinking of it as the premise of the subsequent point. My apologies.

> Most collisions involve more than one mistake

That's a strong claim you're making. Citation needed.

Here are some resources:

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalit...

> it's certainly possible for a sufficiently good driver to improve their odds by much better than half

Of course. Single vehicle crashes are already more than half. 30% of all car fatalities have been attributed to drunk driving. Don't ever get in a car after drinking, and your odds are already much better. Another 30% of car deaths occur when speeding. Stay under the limit, and your odds are that much better again.

I hope you can see that I wasn't claiming that half is the actual limit, I was making a point about the arithmetic of probabilities. My point is that if factors out of your control are responsible for x% of crashes, then the maximum upper limit of good you can do by honing your skill and being the best driver in the world is 100-x%. The point is there's an upper bound to what training and preparedness can do for you, and that upper bound can always be exceeded by avoiding the risk in the first place.
It's scary that Bacteroides fragilis is being seen as some kind of "autism cure" [1], and some people actively seek out probiotics with it.

[1] https://www.nature.com/news/bacterium-can-reverse-autism-lik...
Form over function? I think you nailed it.
Would it be less expensive to manufacture using circles? Would sales decrease if they had? Would anyone really notice?

I wonder how many man-hours were spent debating the shape of the corners.
I don't think this will be a big issue. The same could already be done with still images years ago, if not decades. And with enough time and resources, the same can be applied reasonably well to videos, manually frame by frame or using CGI.

It takes a lot more to make it undetectable as fake though, and I guess the same applies to deepfakes. Once people get used to the fact such face swaps can be done, they'll be more sceptical and demand realness verification in case of published sensitive material.
I really loved how The Hairpin, Awl, and Toast brought back the bloggy atmosphere other sites and publications abandoned.

Hopefully we'll still love to see quirky CMSes that hark back to the good old days of Blogspot, Typepad, and LiveJournal.
Not really, at a rave they don't die unless it is in exceptional cases.
Windows 10 Enterprise has the same 18 month service period for each feature update as Home and Pro. Only the LTSB editions, meant for embedded systems like ATMs and medical equipment, have the longer, traditional mainstream and extended support periods.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifec...
Somewhat shameless and off-topic, but I think I might have the unofficial world record in Minesweeper. I played it obsessively as a teenager on a Windows 95 Packard Bell. I was able to get 17 seconds on the largest board.

I never told anyone about it because I didn't think it was a big deal, but a couple of years ago I decided to look up the current world record and it's 23 seconds.

Unfortunately I can't prove it, but anytime Minesweeper comes up in discussion I'm obligated to annoyingly mention it.
Putting aside the US or first-world elections/media..

It's worrying to think of how this technology could be used in parts of the world where there is much less widespread understanding of this level of digital manipulation.
Just make your presentation with LaTeX! Then your lines will work forever.
Wow. What a gift this language has been. Thanks Guido! I'm using it this morning with GAE. I was using it last night to write a Luigi ingestor for Redis. It's my favorite language.
Yup, you can run a speaker cable between mic/line-in and speaker/line-out to pretty good effect. When I'm working on radio protocols I usually use this if I don't feel like setting up a pair of radios.
Haha oh man. I don't think a single human in academia I work with even knows what that is. We don't need typesetting tools, we just write the text and provide figures and the journal does the typesetting, etc. It just needs to be as easy as possible and looking up LaTex that seems to be a bizarre abstraction that seems even more difficult than typing in Word.
Robbed for Bitcoin: How a Dumb Crypto Criminal Botched a Kidnapping
The second probably being much more damaging.
ES proposal: numeric separators
I've had bad experience with the food from venky's. But this might be confirmation bias, since I never ordered anything from them again and it could've been a one off scenario.

Though I wonder what the long/short term effects of consuming such poultry would be.
Electric shock would be more effective.
Grocery stores act as a middleman; they aren't the sole provider of food. I don't think that analogy is sufficient.
Why not LibreOffice?
"It was not exactly so, as reporters found. His home was a villa overlooking Lake Geneva, and he had an estate in Sweden and vineyards in Provence. He drove a Porsche as well as the Volvo. His cut-rate flights, hotels and meals were taken in part as an exemplar to his executives, who were expected to follow suit, to regard employment by Ikea as a life’s commitment — and to write on both sides of a piece of paper." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/28/obituaries/ingvar-kamprad...
Most people barely question the validity or truth of news they see on TV, and that's real footage..

You really think those same people will actually question if a video was real in the first place, particularly if it reinforces their world-view?
Your fears are greatly overblown. Haven’t we been able to “Photoshop“ people convincingly for a very long time? People are less sceptible to this than you think.

Even when scandals do break, it’s not a picture or video that’s proof, it’s a picture or video that produces witnesses.
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If I bring you in to write code, what's wrong with hiring and keeping only people who write a certain amount of code every day?

Are you having a bad day because you're distracted? Too bad, you're receiving a reprimand for not meeting your quota.

Do you need to get up and walk around because your back is sore? Too bad, that's time you should be spending coding.

Are you stuck in the resolution of a problem? Too bad, prepare to be canned for repeatedly missing your quotas.

Time spent refining your tools? Nope, not allocated. Time spent learning? Nope, not allowed. Fixing a security issue unrelated to your code? You missed your quotas. Training the FNG? Sorry, but you didn't meet quota.

I hired you to write code, after all, and if you don't want to do that, I have a few dozen applications on my desk of people who do want to.

On a more meta note - these wristbands and things like them remove all judgement from the equation. Someone recovering from a hurt back is only viewed as unproductive for an extended period of time, and thus someone to fire. No matter what other things they do for the company, or how they performed prior to the injury.
How are you different from Ramco?
Yes, but the incentives are different. I would be more willing to wear one if:

1. The organization really has my best interests in mind.
2. The organization paid me millions of dollars to work for them.

With Amazon, I suspect #1 isn't the case and we all know #2 isn't.
yes, an apparel product.
No cryptocurrency can beat a centralized database for speed and cost.
Next Frontier for Blockchain? Libraries
Because academics shouldn't be typesetting their papers and very few journals accept LaTeX. Most journals will give you a Word template that you're supposed to use and handle the typesetting for you.
Skills for Technical Leadership: On Distributed Transactions
Well, you should try again and screencast it, so you'd finally have proof.
C++ templates are only typechecked for types that are actually instantiated. Rust generics are typechecked using the traits that the generic is declared with. That's a pretty big difference for people writing generic/templated functions though not as big of a difference for people using them.
I don't have kids, but have the same viewpoint from my personal experience growing up.

Anything that is built to 'encourage child engagement' usually comes off as patronizing or boring.

I learned about tech early on because I had natural curiosity and interest in it. My parents never went out of their way to 'encourage' me to learn about tech, and the things they did try to get me interested in never really stuck with me.

The teaching toys are just toys, and will be treated as such.
He owned several luxury houses and most certanly never bought 2nd hand clothes even if he wore simple clothes. So it was a carefully crafted image, not what he actually did.
Silent updates: Don't really know what you mean.
Can't control: You can postpone them for quite a while. I'm sure it's at least 30 days, but you can do for much longer I think.
Can't disable: Yea, what a pity, people won't be getting hacked by malware that got preventive updates shipped a year ago.

Reset settings: there was something like that, that's true, but the last time it happened, it was like a year ago, and I do think this is a case of "don't attribute malice to something that can by caused by a mistake".

Didn't still document: Half a month ago they put the windows diagnostic data viewer into windows, you can look up all telemetry that's getting sent back home.
> - silent updates, that you cannot control them or disable them,

Have you heard of Group Policy and WSUS? I guess its Enterprise versions only, but anyone who cares deeply about their IT Infrastructure should be running Windows Server and all those services.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/w...
I'm curious about what Intel will do now that they own Altera. Maybe they'll be able to push FPGA technology into mainstream CPUs.
> maybe I shouldn't save in pptx

Yes, you could save to PDF, your presentation won't suffer from the lack of transitions between slides. It does mean if you want to reveal one bullet at a time, having one page for each reveal.