skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://stevenpinker.com/files/comments_on_taleb_by_s_pinker... He addresses a lot of of John Grey's issues in the forward of his book. I think it is interesting that people have such problems with data.. its so Post-Modern. this book is for people real people not ideals of people - I cannot read philosophy I can even read this book I have to listen to it. I love how Grey tries so hard but when I read it I did not understand what Grey was saying.. so either I am stupid or he is not answering a question that I had.. about the book. Grey goes on about the US prison system .. uhh wow.. even that is getting better - The crackpot in charge of it had to make it worse.. so its getting better because why because we eat so much food we have so much more energy no.. its because we are getting better and we need to work harder to make things better the sun is shining we can progress because well things are considerably better than when I was a kid. Its still tough on American children but we can change this and we want to change it... I mean look at Germany - Look at what happened that place was nearly a nuclear wasteland but now It is a freaking garden of eden for civilization - things are even better in Mississippi - mostly because if you are born there you have a great chance of moving out and up to Colorado.. and things are not that bad yeah there are opiates and school shootings but less and less and less compared to when I was a kid. less childhood abuse less disease.. its a reality that cannot just be denied - I mean you can and Pinker explains why that is so easy and so delicious to our brains.. but hey its for you do do man
From the OSS community if I'm making a public repo anyway I'd be happy to have someone buy me a coffee if they found my code useful.
Make works on Windows. You can get it standalone, or as part of MinGW (and then even other Unix tools will work).
Agreed, but I'm not sure whether the hiring norms go along with that principle.
>we cannot also 'see' the event horizon being formed

I think what you're saying here is the confusing part.

If no observer in the universe can ever witness a black hole being formed, it stands to reason they cannot exist (within the reference frame of observers outside it).

Now I'm not asserting this as true or not, because I wouldn't assert such contrarian conclusions on a subject I have not properly studied; rather I am just highlighting what appears to be the confusing bit here.
> How could Apple or Google or Amazon or Facebook make money by promoting a distributed internet?

Perhaps unprofitability is a feature, not a bug.

Individuals can choose to seed content they care about (given an effective UI), which means the content will be available as long as enough people care about it. “Enough” does need to be a sufficiently small number.
good point, I thought that people tend to buy right away, however you might be right, it worth at least experimenting with a favourite function, probably can be done without requiring an account neither.
The recurring problem is that there are only 2 players in this game, Comcast and Verizon and they pay lobbyists, and get their way.

There needs to be duopoly/monopoly busting, because here we are in 2018 and we can tell that Americas High speed internet offerings are expensive and choice limited And worse any competition has to deal with Verizon or comcast on the backend making competition frustrating or impossible.

This is not how capitalism is supposed to work.
"In-house tools", do you mean something built in house?

If you're spending 100K in integrations you think building an entire service, or suite of services is going to be LESS than that? Now take into consideration opportunity costs. This is insane.

I'll be generous though and believe that you're talking about using open source solutions. That's a more viable option, but you still have to do integrations so the cost is effectively the same, probably more because Open Source solutions are typically far less polished.

And even Open Source projects change dramatically over their life. Everything changes. That's technology. Better to get better at dealing with change than try and hold the world still.
When I went from being an all-star clean up batter one season in little league baseball to barely being able to make contact the next season. I was 10 or 11 years old.

The glasses I got during the season got me mostly back to my previous form, but by that point I had decided that I actually liked soccer more. That was my last season of baseball.
Machoc hash is a fuzzy hash mechanism based on the CFG of a function
People do this with all build systems. The difference is that Grunt/Gulp/Broccoli files are a Lost Art in 3 years, and Makefiles have been around for decades.
Mostly that's true. More specifically, the Republican Party is a champion of states' rights when it comes to regulating civil liberties or implementing health care, education and anti-poverty measures. They are quiet about states' rights when it comes to control of corporations, where they prefer to have the power centralized but unused.

The Democratic Party, by way of contrast, never talks about states' rights, but supports various individual initiatives that align with their federal policy.

There are very few people who care about states' rights as a concept divorced from particular policies.
In design class we were taught light text on dark backgrounds are easier on the eyes for light emitting mediums. A nice side-effect of forcing such themes on browsers and Windows is that it cut out colorful distractions.

Sadly these themes and style overrides often make sites unusable.

Edit: typo fix
The best UX improvement in this release (IMHO) is pretty buried in the changelog, and I don't see it mentioned here: no more lock files!

If you use Keepass on something like Dropbox it's a blessing.
Why wouldn’t it be?
I mean, if "expensive" equates to "failing," then sure.
Excellent communication and responsiveness. If you’re able to respond to any question on Slack or email within 2min during waking hours, that drastically improves the remote dynamic.
South Africa Votes to Seize White-Owned Land Without Compensation
DigiCert Statement on Trustico Certificate Revocation
What does the merit of spaces in file names matter? You still will need to deal with files with spaces in the real world. If your tooling doesn't support it, it's a non-starter for many.
Starbucks used to have something call "Tweet a Coffee" where you could tweet a coffee to someone, and Starbucks would tweet them a link to a gift card where they could redeem it.

I used it a lot to replace cold emailing and it did lead to a lot of serendipitous online conversations with decision makers. Starbucks have since removed this feature, so I now just email random people Amazon gift cards instead, hoping they'll respond (which they do, with a very good response rate!)

However, for my use case, I would never use this because A) this isn't that serendipitous/random B) There's really no way for me to send a custom message with my email address so I can start a conversation with them, is there?
Google's chat strategy is the Mary Celeste of our time.
> Or figure out how to play.

There's a third way. Don't go to Google. There are literally thousands of smaller places you can work for/in/with, some of them do pretty cool things. There'd be politics too, probably, but not as much as in Google, and you could control your destiny to a more significant degree. Small(er) companies - if you pick right - tend to have significantly better environment in that regard (not perfect, mind you, but better).

Or, if you want that specific experience and line in your resume, and of course all that sweet cash and stock, do it with the open eyes - don't expect it to be a fairy land where unicorns crap out rainbows, expect it to be a humongous bureaucratic corporation where you will get exactly your share of care and agency - the full 0.001%. Approach to it transactionally, know what you came for to get and what you are willing to pay for it, and if playing exhausting games is not part of it, get what you can for the price you're prepared to pay, and move on. Don't let the fact that you can't get some things for the price you're prepared to pay get to you and make you think you're somehow unworthy. If the price for getting title X in Google is behaving like you'd hate to behave, then you can't get title X at Google. So what, there are probably tons of things you can't get and always will be. Don't let it bother you too much.
If that happens get ready to watch ram/ssd prices to go through the roof.
> At a certain point, I realized that I should be managing this processing somehow, so I thought of using a simple Makefile.

I don't understand why one would think that make would be a good tool for this...

> Demanding the support of spaces in filenames significantly complicates code as simple space delimination no longer works and other delimination schemes are much more error prone -- forgetting balancing quotes, any one?

Yes this is a limitation of make, but not a million other tools out there.

Make is not a panacea, no tool is - pressing a tool into a job it is un-suited for because you understand it is "Not good" (trade mark and copy right pending).

This is the classic case of having a hammer and a screw -
Unless you're trading >$1M you're not going to move the EURUSD market, and even then you're almost certainly fine. It's big institutional 9 figure orders where you need to worry. EURUSD is one of the most liquid markets in the world.
The threads found on this are disappointing as well ([1] and [2]). The author(s), as far as I can tell, only make the source available for each release. They do not want a public repository and are very resistant when others ask.

They do make the source available with each release, and a user has mirrored them onto GitHub [3]. I also cannot find the source for older releases.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/discussion/329220/thread/0...

[2] https://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/discussion/329220/thread/b...

[3] https://github.com/dlech/KeePass2.x
This post literally came at the right time for me as I was just looking into options for this exact functionality for my side project. Excited to give it a whirl.

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/merrywhether
I agree. You really feel how people in Zurich (in social settings) are more tolerant towards drugs than in most other European cities. It's almost like Amsterdam.
The difficulty in compliance to 50 different regulations is exactly what's going to drive Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon to re-lobby for a legislative (permanent) position of the FCC on NN.
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence to Pursue Common Sense for AI
And even if everyone completely ignored them when they direct messaged their teammates... why do nothing. Why not dig in and figure out how to get it to build and update the Readme? I don't understand why someone would just sit there and do nothing instead of trying to fix the problem.
Awesome! I'd also recommend having all HTTP requests redirect to HTTPS, but I know that can be a little tricky if you're not too familiar with configuring your web server, and can be difficult to fix if something goes awry.
Airflow: Why is nothing working?
Making billions but spending more is not "massaging revenue." It's being shitty at turning a profit.

Please explain the scenario in which you can take the same balance sheet and use it to show two different revenue figures. You can't. You can easily do the same thing with profit.
DZone: DevSecOps Is an Abomination
We remember it the same way we remember System.out.printLn(), undefined == null, and other trivia in other languages.
I agree. I had tuned my FB feed to be cute animals, updates on F&F (& their kids) and physics and math jokes. The US 2016 election completely messed that up and I eventually just stopped visiting. I just went back a couple of days ago and most of the stuff I consider noise is gone.
I just noticed this myself in the past week.
The 'silent Zeppelin raid' that killed 32 people in London
Interesting, I've been using my phone in grayscale only mode for a couple of years mostly for battery life and cause it doesn't really matter when all I use it for us reading and writing. But when I try to use it for something else I have to disable the grayscale, which is annoying, so I guess I've been unknowingly curbing my usage by doing this...
This is the book that I came across in the early 90s in a second hand book shop that got me thinking about functional programming! I wouldn't recommend it now, as there are better resources, but I really liked this book, I still have it in my bookshelf
Solving Cache First Bug Recovery in Service Workers
Setting aside GDPR - Setting a 3rd Party cookie already fails in enough situations (Safari) that if you really wanted to trace a user cross several site, you'd require a different solution anyway.
To add on to this, many jobs won't have good metrics in place, so promotion will depend on emotion and cognitive biases. Learning how to work these two factors is crucial.
As somebody doing this now I am absolutely out of the loop on certain discussions but while it's often challenging, it can actually be helpful in certain cases. Many of my teammates end up being roped into meetings and ad-hoc tasks as backup but ultimately provide little or no input and just waste their time. Meanwhile, I'm protected from a lot of the distracting, low-value work and am left to focus on things I'm leading and anything important enough to be communicated to the group as a broadcast or call to action. Additionally, my group has become so accustomed to working in a way that accommodates remote work that the colocated team members have started working from home more often, encouraging further adjustment to support remote work. That being said, I don't think my arrangement would have been successful without having my manager and a couple of colleagues acting as my advocates on the ground.
MIT and SenseTime Become Allies in AI
Guess it's about intent. They write "data spillage" which I take as "accidently sent to wrong people" while "data breach" which I would take as "someone took the data with intent to spread it".

From the article:

> Personal information can be used by criminals or entities to steal identities, commit bank and credit fraud, or phishing schemes.

Getting a bit tired of this. You can't really steal someones identity. But a criminal could use this to commit fraud, but you still have your own identity.

Guess it's the same as with piracy. It's not really stealing so much as copying, but everyone calls it stealing...
* Negotiate the title hard! very hard! Harder than you ever have. It is much easier to get a higher level at hiring than ever after.

* Do NOT buy any line of the form "It is our policy to hire people with $YEARS of experience / $DEGREE degree / $OTHER_PROPERTY at level $LEVEL only"! It is all lies!
I have the opposite problem, I'm on fi and all SMSes end up in hangouts, even though I have signal set as default sms app.
Show HN: Auto lazy image load / resizing based on viewport size in react
you know... he's going to jail for none of the reasons you provided, and instead for plain old fraud.

Fraud sounds like a perfectly normal thing to go to jail for.
> the social network can only share as much as you give it

You and your "friends".
Correct URL: http://www.businessinsider.com/dick-costolo-explains-shut-do...
When someone under-performs, I always look at who they report to. Nobody wants to perform poorly. Typically the lead / manager has given inadequate guidance, or there is a serious skill set mismatch, both of which are on the lead / manager.

Sometimes it's on me.

Source: I manage managers
Too bad caffeine makes me anxious!

Jokes aside, I think this is kinda neat. Platforms like this are becoming more and more necessary for a segment of the population. I have been considering taking up a blog or other writing endeavor, but beyond building an audience, paying to keep a domain or hosting can also be an issue.

Anyway, I am sure you've heard that before. I will likely be a user, and will provide more feedback once I have used it for its intended purpose (it might be awhile).

I do have a question about your policy on "any creator" though. I know a few people that had a bad experience with Patreon/other similar sites because they produced adult content. I do not work in this space, but my understanding has been that this is a pain point for many self-employed content creators.

Anecdotally, I have heard from more than one person that systems like this help protect people (disproportionately women) from exploitation in this industry, by giving one autonomy over their finances without having to contract with a studio or whatnot.

So, is this an issue that has been adressed in designing this platform?

(I know this looks like the ultimate "JUST ASKING FOR A FRIEND!!" post, but I am not in that business, not that anyone should feel ashamed to be.)
Not to mention that gulp, grunt (do people still use this?) and webpack configs are written in JavaScript, so they're likely to have very hard to debug errors in them on the first 5 revisions.
No I'm not. I'm hybrid British/Italian, suffering thirtyfive-plus years as a resident of the latter has taught me what real corruption and inefficiency look like. I've visited Iceland and found it to be quite amazing both in terms of landscape and society. Hence my reference. I don't think having some instances of corruption actually negates the core import of my statement.
Remove lock file [#1231] is a good one for the ones who sync their KPXC databases between devices
It's weird, I have "invert colors" but not any other options. I'm on Marshmallow (samsung s5)
Why this real estate startup wants to buy your house before you’ve even sold it
and it's even local to me. cheers!
Hi,

I am not able to edit the url. Correct url: http://www.businessinsider.com/dick-costolo-explains-shut-do...
IMO there's a particularly dire need to free the JS world from the tyranny of the ever-shifting Build System of the Day(TM).
Ask HN: How do you manage your open source contributor identity?
For those of you who contribute to open source projects as part of your employment, how do you manage your identity? Do you have a separate identity for each of your employers or do you maintain only one that you continue to reuse from job to job? What are the reasons behind your approach? (possibly legal reasons, ability to show case, etc.?)
They always have been. In what world would sending confidential information to someone who isn't supposed to have access to it not be considered a breach? Intent doesn't matter in these situations.
People shouldn't bear the burden of trying to prevent others from doing illegal things to them.

That's not to say people shouldn't take reasonable precautions, but the fact that people can shouldn't excuse opening up more avenues of abuse.
I'm a musician who gives their work away for free. I'm intrigued by this. I don't make a living off my music, but I have a small following that supports me in small ways (5 bucks here, 10 bucks there).

Can you tell me what the difference is between using this and say, using a paypal donation button? If I use your product, aren't I being charged twice, since you take a cut, and so does paypal / stripe?
I meant that for example JRPG's have both context sensitivity and tab based menu systems.

EX: Only showing spells after the character learns them, or disabling Magic menu for non magic characters.

Now if they want a narrow patent that covers say hair dryers but not floor heaters that's not as hard to defend. But narrow patents are also less useful.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/humans.txt :)
> Personally I don't see how it's much different to take a ridiculously underpriced drug and raise the price to what the market will bear vs. being CEO of a company and keeping your drugs' prices at its historically high point. I know everyone hates CEO's of pharmaceutical companies anyways but my point is how is he any worse than the lot of them? Purely because of emotion.

This, it seems like people consider Shkreli to be the the "designated punching bag" for Big Pharma, directing their ire and outrage at him specifically instead of the industry as a whole.
Then it just becomes secular identity politics.
As a PhD student in CS who's seen other people go through the academic job market gauntlet in the last couple of years, this is news to me. My understanding from up close (disclaimer: but, still, secondhand) is that competition among faculty candidates is high, and extremely high at top schools.

Even looking through the report linked in this article, I'm confused about where they got this "factor of five" number. I suspect there's something odd going on with the accounting here. Universities tend to advertise faculty openings saying "we want to hire tons of people!" when they really mean "if tons of elite candidates want to come here, we will certainly hire them". However, there are necessarily not many elite candidates.

More broadly, what appears to be going on here is an illustration of the tension between faculty as researchers and the way they're hired, funded, and work. Tenure-track faculty candidates are still evaluated overwhelmingly based on research and funded in the same way (by research grants, many of which come from outside the university). Research funding is tight, so competition for these research grants is fierce. Accordingly, new faculty must be quite competitive as researchers to get hired, get grants, and get tenure. And as a result, there are not that many new faculty each year, though the number is ticking up. This is all pretty orthogonal to the problem of actually having enough people to teach undergrad CS.

It's as if you hired firefighters by requiring that a hired firefighter must be able to bench press 600 lbs and maintain that bench press ability for five years, and then you expressed surprise that you find it hard to hire enough firefighters who are actually good at...firefighting. There are plenty of good firefighters out there, but this quirk in the hiring and performance evaluation process means you're making it harder for yourself to find them.

IMO, we need more reasonably-paid adjuncts. Adjunct pay needs to stop being a place to cut costs to the bone. There are plenty of CS PhDs who are good but not spectacular researchers who would gladly take a pay cut from industry to be full-time lecturers. But you'll probably have to pay well (maybe even high five figures!) to get them.
What is industry 4.0? What was industry 3.0?
Perhaps publisher traffic will recover once people become used to clicking the button to see non-friends and family content?
"most computer science students transition directly from graduate school to an industry job, as opposed to a teaching position, because of the stark contrast in employment incentives and opportunities."

Or they leave for an industry job before grad school, because a Ph.D is not a money-making proposition compared with three to five years of experience while making a salary.

But the biggest problem is this: academics are afraid of anyone who hasn't demonstrated commitment to their system by earning a Ph.D, writing a thesis, and accepting terrible wages and living conditions for a number of years as junior or adjunct faculty. So the number of 50 year old software engineers who decide to semi-retire and take up an academic position is effectively zero.
consider that the internet is the new imperialism of the west. people are so quick to wag the finger at china but no one stops to think that they are looking iut for themselves. Companies like google and facebook promote western values and they do it subversively: whats the old Billy G quote? Integrate, assimilate, dominate, elimate or some such?

this article is just another western propaganda piece trying to paint China as this overbearing big brother entity (which I will admit is a very compelling narrative to western individualists).
always has been if the contents of the mail are sensitive