skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK. Here goes... Advice...

Firstly, download the regulation itself. At the very least, read article 17. Article 17 concerns something called "The right to be forgotten". It is about 25 lines of legalese. Once you have read it, have a think about it. Then read it again and have a longer thing about its implications. Then, just to be sure you have not gone stark staring bonkers, read the rest. Carefully. Be under no illusion, the GDPR is a game changer in information management terms, let alone anything else.
I've lost .38 Eth because of the Mist wallet on macOS.

Seems they've a password issue where the password is always wrong even if you wrote it down at the time of setup.

The suggested solution on the GitHub issues is to use a brute force attack using a python script. Such an issue just screams poor testing.
Yes, but it was a token gesture to DPA and in reality

1) It was not their main role

2) It was a token gesture, someone to address post too!

Every consulting firm I know is trying to sell GDPR services atm...
Actually, I wouldn’t mind as much if they gave hints at what the problem might be so I could study for it. A day to prepare for a one hour coding test, that might be fun.
The article mentioned that the bug reporter claimed that MacOS and Linux were also possibly affected. I run Skype on Xubuntu and it is installed via apt and a signed repo / package. Also Linux by default doesn't have '.' in the search path for dlopen() / ld.so.
This is personally why I’m of the opinion, why we should always try to avoid as much centralization as we can.

Host your own blog, run your own systems, use distributed software. I even keep two payment systems available, just in case. I get gigs often enough (as often as I want) mostly just through people reading my blog[1] (where I can advertise when available)

[1] https://austingwalters.com
Xwoaf is still floating around out there. It was almost unusably minimal, though.
This is absolutely the situation I am in right now, and I desperately need all the guidance I can get. We’re talking thousands of lines of React components that rely regularly on manipulating global js variables, mixed with MVC 5 written in Razor delivering variables in script tags, mixed with outdated jQuery, that’s all just concat’d together with gulp and that hasn’t seen a refactor in years of changing hands with no style guide. The company started in 2004 and I swear some of this code is still floating around from the day it started. We have three sets of scss breakpoints, three or four layers of “common.scss” files that act like a piece of furniture that has been painted over dozens of time (with shit like * {padding:5px} floating around), and an unknown amount of dead code. There’s lines written back-to-back with vastly different styles (with a random distribution of semi-colons and arrow functions and etc), and major global variables named with misspellings. And while I clean this all up, I am expected to continue pushing out features and addressing serious bugs with stop-gap measures.

Please advise.
Of course it's not really old. Though in my experience age has only a loose correlation to overall code quality. Some really old programs were well architected to start and have been carefully maintained. OTOH, I've worked with devs who are one-person technical debt factories, and allowed to work on relatively young and sparse applications will quickly make it an unmaintainable monstrosity.
The new Skype version has been terrible, at least on macOS.

What are some good alternatives that offer group calls and screen sharing?
Yes. Its fostering brand awareness.
When sites are specifically proxying their miners, to act as if they're running in a first-party context, that is deceptive, and done specifically to get around adblockers and mining blockers.

Make it 100% opt-in and tell people in no uncertain terms up front what they're signing up for, then maybe.
I would bet that if looked the number of books in the kids household you would see a strong correlation.
> .. too distracted playing market games and politics for their personal, short-term benefit.

I'm guessing you didn't watch the youtube link in the message to which you're responding?
A group of cryptocurrency traders will file a lawsuit against Coincheck
But it is only part of a series of new bits of legislation that is being introduced in Europe related to computer security Some other acronyms "PECR" something all marketeers should have a look at as it governs things like email distribution
Bringing AMP to Gmail
Are they mining monero? Seems like it w/ CPU usage and apparently being profitable
> Microsoft was abusing its position long before Windows was 'a thing'.

Care to give some concrete exemple ? This is again a very genuine query.

As far as my knowledge goes, Microsoft sometimes went fast and aggressively in the DOS and Win3.1 days, but there was no abuse of position until the win98 days and forward where they started on the browsers, the jvm, ...
Yes. I enjoy his blog and twitter postings, but somehow his book didn't come alive for me.
to be fair, by commenting on this very forum, you're already not "the norm" ... the average user can barely keep track of their password!! I'd argue that most users already have some form of 2 factor auth, because they can literally never remember their password, so they (barely) remember their password as the 1st, and then the "change password" email serves as the 2nd.

So yeah, not very good at maintaining data secure for the average person ;)
Fair enough, this is probably why I always have side gigs.
It was a build system written in C# and configured via XML-style job files. We moved because we felt that there were open source alternatives that were powerful, flexible, and would allow us to focus on more important things (ie the actual builds vs fiddling with features we may or may not have or fixing bugs in our proprietary system). There wasn't much point continuing to maintain this in-house anymore when existing tools could do everything we needed.
Not necessarily a reply.
As others have already noted, yes, it’s a pain ship fixes in a company setting, and I fully understand that. On the oth r hand, 4 months for no fix is inexcusable.
Then you might as well scramble the data completely as the customer is not supposed to be able to recover the data after deletion.
Wow. This has to be some of the worst customer support I’ve ever seen. The only thing I experienced that was worse was American Express cancelling my account, telling the credit bureaus I was dead, not allowing me to pay them, and hanging up on me when I called them. Eventually I managed to find out that they sold the account and got ahold of who had it now, but they wouldn’t accept my payment because I wasn’t really dead, and had to transfer my account back to American Express. After finally resolving this and paying them in full, they report to the bureaus that I was late several months on my payments, and any attempt to appeal this has just been ignored. So I just have to wait for it to fall off my report. Until then, I’m paying over 12% interest on a fucking auto loan.
Steam also sells games very cheaply in Russia specifically to compete with piracy.

(For reference: the launch price for all AAA releases is 2000 RUB (~35 USD), while the same games on consoles often go up to ~$60 and even beyond. Especially on the Switch: Zelda is ~$80!)

People here kinda grew up with the idea that paying money for non-physical things is just ridiculous. And still many people only pay money for multiplayer games that rely on official servers.

Steam offers the multiplayer AND good launch prices AND sales with huge discounts AND a very convenient interface for downloading and launching games… so tons of PC gamers did get sucked into it :D
That's like 20 years in JavaScript years.
Openwrt's pretty tiny imo
> I absolutely despise these statements.

The statement is true and you give yourself a very good description of it. He did not say "it will come of some damned fools" but "some damned foolish thing in the Balkans", i.e. the power play between Russia and Austria-Hungary.
I've found this technique also helps when trying to learn challenging (for me) things on the guitar. The act of learning to play something new means inducing muscle memory as well as simply memorizing the tune. I work on it in the evening to the point where I don't feel like I'm making progress any more. When I come back to it the next day, I find I've made progress.
It is ambiguous. It's not clear whether or not they performed the experiments with # samples / class > 20.
Thee term you should know is "slotting fees":

https://www.vox.com/2016/11/22/13707022/grocery-store-slotti...
CF still exists?
because the GDPR is a tad vague, given the interconnected world we live in nowadays (I am a brit living in a small (very) town called Tidworth which is a pin prick o the map) there is something called "Working Party 29" which is providing some fairly detailed and verbose refinements of definition of key phrases and terms. This is an attorneys bean feast as far as I am concerned because of the vagueness, if nothing else..
Market Size Doesn’t Equal Market Demand
Teslas Are Finally Replacing Porsches on the Autobahn
MAARK | Senior Web Developer | Cambridge, MA | Contractor/Freelance | Onsite or Remote

MAARK, a strategic marketing and innovation agency, is hiring a Senior Web Developer (contractor or freelance) who can develop and implement responsive/MVC web apps and websites with a high degree of focus on the visual design and the overall UX. As a dev team, we work on creative projects, utilize a wide variety of fullstack technologies (e.g., React, Marrionette, Node.js, Laravel), and empower our developers to create innovative solutions and explore/learn emerging tech.

For this contractor role, the ideal candidate is in the Boston area, but remote candidates will also be considered.

For info on MAARK, see https://www.maark.com/

To apply or for questions, email me (I head up engineering) directly at rwagner@maark.com. (No recruiters please.)
As a person who "buys time" on upwork quite frequently, I regularly get sent links to 3rd party sites housing example work and portfolios. And almost all of my developers will send me private repos on github. My writers will submit work on Google Docs so we can collaborate. Rarely do I get any worker who doesn't "violate" the TOS, because the TOS is a POS that hinders mine and the freelancer's business.
We were taught to do it that way, without having access to spice and computers in general, using the data sheets and maybe a curve tracer if you were lucky.
Got any tips on how to get going on a site like Upwork? I'm not sure I tried that one before, but I had a horrible experience on Freelancer.com and I've sorta shied away from those since then. I have enough on my plate with grad school and a full-time job at the moment, but if I ever find myself in dire straits I'd like to have options.
Bureaucracy makes absolutely no provision for the correction of mistakes. I dread ever having to talk to large companies. They're much too eager to blame the customer for any problem regardless of reason, just so long as they're no longer their problem.
From what I've seen it strongly depends on the vertical but there are outliers both ways. With medical and fintech (banks, IPSPs, insurance) you can expect they are on average doing ok though there are some bad counterexamples. E-commerce is only just now starting to wake up and everybody else is going to be playing catch-up for the next couple of years.

Note that my sample is relatively small and mostly western European countries (nl, be, de, uk).
Great deals - the Rust book is easily worth $15 by itself.
That's not actually the context.

They're being unreliable and stonewalling an extraordinarily tiny percentage of their massive userbases. That's precisely why it doesn't matter to them in a business sense.
> Because it's a way to make money

You're not making money if they're refunding the client. This article and people in this thread suggest it's a terrible way to make money and to AVOID at all costs.

Or, you can use this company and I look forward to reading more of these articles.
NB: Minsky, with a 'y'.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsky_moment
Almost 100% positive upwork somehow magically unsuspends his account after seeing this thread. When will these companies ever learn that it’s not okay to misbehave and quietly “fix” things when publicity gets bad?
Loss of young children is considered and handled differently in different cultures though. Where it is more normal, the impact on the parent's lifes will not be as heavy.
While I agree that those companies and many others have become quite successful taking this tact, it was really only successful because of those businesses are nearly monopolies. Obviously this is similar to ISPs. Upwork competes with tons of other boards directly as well as LinkedIn, Indeed/Job Boards, Craigslist, general networking and other preferences (not working an additional part time job).

Also, similar to recruiting these places need to attract top talent consistently not just warm-bodies. Highly skilled workers can afford to exercise other options much better.
Seems like sort of a theoretical argument, so I have to point out that I believe it's theoretically wrong. Caveat that I'm not a blockchain programmer so somebody may be able to correct me here, but I believe it's true. Bitcoin aren't individually identifiable, the "state" of ownership in the chain is stored as "unspent transactions." Meaning, once stolen are mixed with un-stolen, you can't differentiate them.

Obviously, the next step is we can reformulate your statement to say that the total number of Bitcoin lost or stolen will eclipse the total supply, given enough time. However, since the total supply is fixed, and time is not, that's not a very profound revelation.
It actually is a igm contract. Base salary + "freiwillige Leistungszulage". Also I haven't had significantly less in my last job (in the last position there). Also a lot of friends (engineers/Maschinenbau mostly) earn (at least) the same. All at around 80k (with a 40h work week) all in my age (i.e. around 3-5 years out of university). And yes, bigger companies.
This is what happens when you outsource customer support to someone outside your company's culture.
I travel London-Amsterdam once or twice a month. I don't agree with the article's assumption that Eurostar from St Pancras will beat flying, except perhaps for people whose starting point in London is close to St Pancras.

As I see it, once the twice-daily London-Amsterdam Eurostar service starts in April:

- To the 3h41 train travel time, allow at least an hour to get through the London Eurostar bag/passport checks. On a good day it can be 20 minutes but you have to plan for the worst case of an hour. Then once you are departure-side, the cafes have massive queues and there is a scramble for seats.

- Compare that with London City Airport, where getting airside usually takes 5-15 minutes, queues for cafes are short to non-existent, and there's more seating where you can do useful work, etc.

- Then Eurostar has just two departures a day. Great if those times suits you. Not great otherwise. LCY has at least three airlines flying to Amsterdam (BA, KLM, CityJet, maybe FlyBE), giving roughly hourly departure options.

- In my particular case, I work at Canary Wharf. So if I fly back from Amsterdam on a Monday morning, I am at my desk 20 minutes after the plane touches down at LCY.

Anyway, in April my partner and I plan to try Eurostar for the London-Amsterdam direction. We will continue to fly back Schiphol to LCY, to avoid the change of trains in Brussels on the reverse trip.
It's just that the javascript language, frameworks and ecosystems have seen massive changes over the last couple of years. C for example hasn't seen this change. So yeah, C code from 5 years ago would look the same if written today, while javascript of just 2 year old might seem outdated.
Sorry to hear about your experience with upwork. Sounds like you might have still had PHP in your profile from years ago and when you said you don't do PHP development in the video chat that was enough to trigger a suspension.

Honestly you're probably better off you ended your upwork journey after only a couple gigs.

I did a few projects on elance years ago but it was always a hassle and tough to find good projects/clients.

It sounds like you are providing good value/quality work to clients. Look to your network to find Go projects instead. Become more active in the community. Keep blogging.

Connect with other Go developers, ask around if anyone knows anyone needing a Go developer. Lots of times developers don't have time to handle all the projects/clients they run in to and will hand them off to someone else they respect in the community.

You're going to find better projects/clients and higher paying side work that way than using upwork. And not have to deal with their hassle, fees and issues like this.

This might be a little bit of a gray area since it violates their ToS but since your account is suspended anyway if you have the emails of the two clients you worked with you could contact them and contract with them on new projects directly. (Don't mention here that you are doing this in case your usernames are the same on HN/upwork)

Especially the last one where you completed the gig, he paid you a higher amount than agreed on and then upwork refunded your fee for work completed. He should be open to moving forward contracting directly.

Good luck finding side work.
You can 'edit' your comments until they are one hour old, so you don't have to make many different top level comments.

Also, if you want to make a larger comment it is usually possible to resize the input field.
The more I learn the more I realize everything is a cat and mouse game. Commitment comes when you believe you've invested enough that you have more to lose if you stop than to keep going.
> all the metadata correct, including album art

https://picard.musicbrainz.org/

I even… buy music on iTunes… and overwrite all of their metadata with MusicBrainz's.
Note : You have to watch the embedded video as the article text is sparse in content.

Many may raise eyebrows at the source (am not a fan either), but i shared it anyway because i found the video quite eye-opening wrt how precisely Google tracks your whereabouts even in airplane mode. Honestly, i am surprised that i am hearing about this from Fox before any of the other traditional tech sources.
Money is freedom. You can do a lot more projects that tickle your "true greatness and satisfaction" when you're not worrying where your next check is coming in.
The Code is the Model [pdf]
The problem is cache coherency, also known as consistency protocols. It's The Hard Problem of computing science, because you have to synchronize state. You have to use information to tell the other party what do you have, and that can be done with a HTTP header, like the Cookie.
I never had an issue with it on Windows. Recently, they even added HiDPI support!
I sometimes like to boot up my old 386 into MS-DOS from a 3.5" floppy... I haven't done much research into it but I used to have a disk with linux on it that would boot fine.

Can't seem to find anything today that would fit on one, but then again I haven't done much more than a cursory dig.
Depends. Some programmers have absolutely no hygiene wrt formatting. You'd want that sorted for readability.

But the bigger point is that you reduce merge conflicts since you won't have all sorts of unrelated formatting changes mixed in with the real changes.
Brutalist developments in London are weirdly polarised. Either they've been torn down because of chronic social problems like the Heygate estate, or they're Grade II listed and massively desirable like Trellick Tower, the Barbican or Rowley Way.
"@but there is this Hollywood simplistic approach where one man is responsible for all things [..] I don't subscribe to this way of looking into historical figures"

I applaud you for that, this gives some hope that not all is lost. A real historian can only be someone who loves the truth ( .. more than his personal well-beign)
There are also two critical replies, one by an economist and one by a computer scientist in the same issue of the Journal of Microsimulation:

http://microsimulation.org/ijm/issues/volume-103-winter-2017...
Oh yeah, I heard about this guy on the Joe Rogan Experience!
Apparently. I just started laughing when I heard about it. I'm going to pitch an ASP (classic) project next!
hat's always been true to some extent, though. A very good friend of mine has exactly what was referred to in the last paragraph of the article (a sociology degree from State U.) and 20 years later she earns around $15/hr. She has always been angry that her degree did not get her any further (quote "My boss was a former hairdresser, my co-workers have HS degrees", etc.) but what she can't seem to understand is that even a college degree is a foot in the door at best. But what I understood when got a job at https://www.writemyessayfast.org, a degree may get you in the door but if you don't display any skills or initiative over and beyond what your former hairdresser boss or HR degree co-workers do then why are you worth more?
This is a great idea. I could see becoming a customer of yours if you added:
- payment in USD
- Ability to provide a post-receive hook to run validation / tests / benchmarks, and see results with the notification of submission. I appreciate that doing this in secure fashion is a nontrivial effort.
their entire business model is making sure that their users never get a fair deal by communicating directly with the people they find via upwork.

is it really so surprising that they are fucking abysmal at customer service?

my experiences with them are 100% bad, but nowhere near as bad as what the OP article discusses.
Sure, it would work perfectly for crypto, because of the constant volatility, but there is no way in hell I am going to transfer quarter or half a million to one of those exchanges, where it can be hacked, stolen, etc and there is not government protection to get my money back...

That's why I focus on on high quality / volume stocks traded on the major stock exchanges and I am using the APIs (provided by the well know discount brokers), been doing it for years and the compounding is what makes it worth while...
What I meant was: How do other parts of the organization know what's being worked on? How do marketing, sales, product management influence the decision making process? GP made it sound as if engineering on its own decides what improvement to work on next. How does that work in the context of the larger organization?

Taking the bigger picture into account when designing a solution is simply good engineering practice. I don't think that's what the GP was talking about.
I think the great powers had more to do with it than that. The Yugoslav region was right at the line between the Ottoman and Byzantine empires, and the Catholic world of the west. The great powers spent centuries turning that region into an elite military culture dedicated to defending against the other side. They stopped the Mongols (or at least the Mongols mysteriously turned around there and went home), they stopped the Turks and they stopped the Russians. And then when Tito was gone, their natural state was to go back to war due to centuries of tradition.
Golang accepting patches? Great! Let's see if somebody adds

* generics

* elegant exception handling

* sum types

* (optional) compile-time metaprogramming or at the very least, automatic, transparent, implicit templating.

Seriously. It would be great.
Perhaps a small-claims lawsuit could recompense your suffering? There might be some law that absolves them from liability, but they would have to show up to argue the point, and they can’t send in the lawyers.
Improved Format of Online Tutoring Is Here – HackerNoon