skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your response here. Any frustrations that I express are not directed at you personally. I was a cashier & CSM for WalMart a decade ago, before I went to college for CS (finishing up my PhD now). I'm angry because I actually _enjoyed_ my time with the company & my co-workers, and it is both irritating and frustrating that WM has betrayed my trust in this way. I'm sorry if I sound like I'm over-reacting, but I value my personal privacy above everything else, and this breaches a division of identity and privacy that I have intentionally worked to maintain. And, no, I don't wear a tin foil hat. :)

I can absolutely, positively, without a doubt, confirm that I have never paid using the Walmart app. I don't know about the QR code, but I cannot remember ever scanning one. I do know for sure that I have never even downloaded the Walmart app (I just looked through my Google Play history to confirm). In fact, I don't use apps in this way at all. Is it possible that some 3rd party has connected the information? If so, could you tell me who that would be because I will most certainly extract them from my life with extreem prejudice. I did not give permission for this breach of privacy. This is my primary concern.

The fact that I can't keep the "Ready to reorder?" block from appearing on the front page is a secondary concern, because it leaks my personal actions in potentially public settings. For that matter, I don't want any of my offline purchases to ever be conflated with my online presence.

I would like to report that I tried to talk to someone on the customer service chat on the website, and they disconnected from the chat almost immediately. That's why I posted here; I was frustrated that I had no ability for my voice to be heard. Searching online only found a few other people who shared my concern/distain, but no answers as to how to fix it:
* http://www.myproana.com/index.php/topic/1686249-walmart-know...
* http://www.greentractortalk.com/forums/off-topic/149002-some...

I would appreciate any help you could give in at least having these concerns heard. Otherwise, I feel that control of my private life is being stripped away, and I am to the point that I will pay triple the prices at another store before I let that happen. Thankfully, there is a super Target, a Meijer, and several other grocery stores within a few blocks that I can choose from. I am a steadfast evangelist of voting with your dollars, and I vote for privacy. I stopped shopping at Harbor Freight for the same reason.
> Apparently they didn't want the 1080TI though because it was not as power efficient for mining compared to the 1070

I'm sure there's still a demand for them, because it's still possible to turn a profit over the lifetime of the card; it's just not as high as that of the 1070.
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Thanks! I wish Europe would realize that as well...
You're at the mercy of the disk.

The best you can do is assume that anyone who uses your application in production will have enterprise hardware, those (usually) don't lie about fsync (consumer hdd's are somewhat likely to do this)

I've also not yet run across a SSD that lies about fsync.

The disappointing thing is that most filesystems also blindly assume this. Ext4 is somewhat robust by design but I've heard of atleast one time where a (very) cheap consumer harddisk trashed any filesystem on crash, including ZFS to the point of becoming unmountable.
I find the "native look and feel" concept quite valuable, but my experience in enterprise, it that most departments either want a "department/corporate look and feel" or "whatever works look and feel".

Thanks for your Xamarin feedback.
Ask HN: Risky SaaS, how to protect my personal assets?
I have a SaaS product which is fairly successful ($XX,XXXX MRR). I have done this product entirely on my own and I have been filing as a sole proprietor (USA) so far.

There's one very large company that has picked up on my product and needless to say, doesn't like what I'm doing.

How can I protect my personal assets from a company that would happily burn a fortune on a bogus lawsuit to see my service fail?

Would an LLC still provide protection although I'm the sole owner/operator? Is there an alternative entity that is better suited for this?
Are we talking the homeless or third world poor here?

Because the average american squanders 2-3 hours on tv and social media every day -- more than enough to start a podcast, even if they also work.
I wonder if gliders that are powered by electric motors only during takeoff and landing could be a solution here. It's not like we get very annoyed by eagles soaring in the sky.
Jumping to the conclusion based on pure conjecture ?

See their launch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeFxjRMv5U8 where they specifically mention how quiet it is (and the noise profile in the video indeed seems not annoying at all).
Funny, but also efficient.
Well, we have rules but we don't have a silly prescriptive law in our hackerspace. The rules are all made by experience not guesswork and intentions.

Sample rules that were retired:

* any member may ask anyone else to desist and go away or shut up and you have to comply (hasn't been invoked yet to any real extent - people tend to comply)

* any member may ask a non-member to leave (likewise) - criminal stuff is covered already

* we have a list of persona non grata - preferably do not let them in or keep them under constant supervision - list gets outdated, these people tend to not show up, new members have no idea

* do not take excessive phone calls in open space - just asking is good enough

Rules that we kept:

* is not a hotel or sleeping space - do not abuse the coach - crashing is fine, doing that many times in a row is not

* is not a pub - take excessive drinking elsewhere, likewise drug use or dealing

* members can be banned by a vote in a specific matter - it has happened

* keep the place clean (esp. put things back in their designated places, take out the trash and keep fridge clean of old mold)

* how meetings and rule changes are made (consensus on an actual face to face meeting announced at least 48h ahead; must be at least one person from steering committee which is also chosen by consensus on a big meet by majority)

Note there is nothing about harassment since there is no need to. The general rules are fine.
There is also clear definition of who is responsible for upholding the rules.

If we had a CoC like one of those "inclusive" ones we'd have to ban half to two thirds of the members. They are fond of religious and sometimes lewd jokes. Or are sometimes abrasive or crude.

Abuse (incl. verbal, stalking) is not tolerated regardless since it is a bad plan and if it recurs it will get you banned - it has in the past. We do not write it in rules as it is dealt with on case by case basis. Mostly as it requires a vote and vote requires a discussion and presenting the points clearly.
And anything illegal and disruptive will get the police called on you. Obviously.
> We can tell people it's not attractive to be ranty, but I'm not very comfortable going further than that, at the risk of wandering into thought policing.

I don't want to see it going much further than that either. I was thinking more along the lines of making it so being thoughtful is "sexy" and being ranty isn't, the way today owning a car is "sexy" and smoking isn't.

Free speech has its positive and negative consequences on stability and happiness; I do not want to fight free speech, I'm looking for ways to reduce the negative consequences. I'll protect your (and mine) right to rant about whatever you want, but I sure as hell would like the general policy discussion to involve less rants and more thoughtful cooperation.
It's not a bad metaphor. If your community is ignoring trolls instead of banning them, it's effectively sending the message that the trolls are very welcome. I've never observed that a no-moderation community is free of trolls, and ignoring trolls often results in them just taking over because they just start talking to each other and everyone else leaves.

These things are caused poison because even a small amount can cause serious problems if left unchecked, and the effect creeps out across an area (how many people are hit) like poison spreading.

I think what you're missing is that a very large amount of people simply do not enjoy a certain style of discourse to the point that they'll opt out of a community that doesn't ban that discourse. You may not like it, you may think those people are weak or something, but the rest of us want to talk to them, and we want them to feel welcome.
Workflow engines
what are some of workflow engines which allows embedding inside mobile apps ? if anyone has used them
Interestingly, I used to work for a company that worked with the London Black cab manufacture to developer ride-hailing from a mobile phone. This was back in the early 00's. I always wondered if there was any patent portfolio that is relevant to Lyft/Uber. It was called Zingo, sadly the only reference I could dig out from a cursory Google was a story about it going bust: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2004/nov/25/transportin...
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Speaking of Coltrane and musical palindromes, he played a tune that was partially a palindromic twelve-tone melody, called Miles' Mode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6BkV37OQK0&index=3&list=PLl...
It actually may have been written by Eric Dolphy (called by him Red Planet):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP6MXNkgr4A
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And that's awesome and a boon to society!
IMO the problem is size/scale. If you're too small, then you just have people going through the motions of talking to each other in an attempt to make the platform seem real so more people will join it. If you're too big, you won't be able to curate effectively. There's a sweet spot in the middle, you start heading up around only maybe 20 or 30 users (the point at which it becomes impractical for everyone to know everyone), and when it starts heading back down depends on the culture, but go down it will.
Developers love trendy new languages, but earn more with functional programming
It’s time we focus on women’s access to better sanitation facilities
I'd say that it's possible on a Mac, but not on an iOS device. You can't develop iOS apps on an iOS device, for starters. Just that is an additional encumbrance. Last time I checked, you also need some dev account with Apple to upload apps to your iOS device. (Remember, these rules are subject to interpretation, in court in the extreme case.)
Tivoization provision of GPLv3 only applies to software distributed as with a hardware “ussr product” (in the same transaction in which possessory interest in the hardware is transferred), so while it would apply to core components of iOS (of they used GPLv3 upstream, which they won't), it wouldn't seem to apply to any third party software distributed through the App Store.

(The same concerns that motivated anti-tivoization may apply, but the actual license terms don't appear to.)

This is not to say that there aren't other incompatibilities, but anti-tivoization doesn't seem to be a problem.
As another poster said - syncing is unreliable.

On Windows even if you use native API to open a file in a write-through mode with no caching (FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH | FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING), you will still end up with zero-filled files if the machine is power cycled or blue-screened in the right moment. Disk controllers cache aggressively and there's not much an OS can do about it.
And in the case of a Mac, so far you don't need keys to install software you compiled yourself. On iOS there are additional encumbrances, like the need for a dev account, a separate computing device (a Mac) to compile for the iOS device, and so on.
No, because the provision you cite only applies for software distributed as part of a qualified device or in the same transaction where possessory interest in the device is transferred. That wouldn't apply to iOS Apps outside of the stock bundled apps, as App Store apps are transferred in separate transactions from the device.
URL monitor written in Go that sends notifications to Slack
> That wouldn't count as a deadlock. A deadlock implies that it's possible to make a logical determination that the system is permanently stuck, and that state cannot possibly change without external intervention. i.e. a deadlock can only be determined when you look at the system as a whole from the outside and determine that it's permanently stuck.

yes, i know.

as i have pointed out elsewhere, with synchronous invocations, it is easy to get into a loop (or deadlock) i.e. pid-a -> pid-b -> pid-c -> pid-a. for the async case, which is what was elucidated by gp, it seems to me that the example is 'deadlocking' only because no one is sending messages expected by the other party...
I love the part about SO developer story: 84% either do not use it or have never even heard about it (which basically shows its failure) yet insights team tries to interpret it as 40% actually using it. Based only on this point, I wonder how extremely biased their conclusions are overall.
But I'd venture a guess that this source code is GPLv2 licensed, not GPLv3 licensed. They could make their firmware GPLv3 compliant, but it would be quite a bit of extra work.
why not add an android-style permission flags on nodeJS?

eg) nodejs profile with:

- exec disabled

- file write access limited to ./tmp, ./docs, ./tests

- file read access limited to ./tmp, ./docs

- network listening: port 1000~11000 allowed

And why not have a 'sesame points' system for dependencies?

eg)

- ownership-change within 3 weeks: -20 points,

- static analysis finds something wrong: -20 points

- badges: 'file-read badge', 'exec-badge', etc.
Noise cancellation tech will catch up too.
Interesting that you brought this up...shenzhen I/O actually had to release some updates after they found some puzzles were too difficult to complete, not even optimized!

I suppose one of the downsides of modern day indie game-dev is not having playtesters. But surely with early access these difficulties could be figured out.

Still I'm not necessarily suggesting that failure to optimize should block the player's progress. Rather that the optimization affects the game somehow.
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I've never shopped off-line in an Amazon store, so I can't tell you. But, in regards to online shopping, on Amazon, I do exclude every single purchase from their recommendation engine and I have recently began to hide the recommendation block with a CSS-based ad blocker, just in case I miss one.

I just value my privacy. I don't even tell them my name at Burger King because I don't believe that they need to know my name when I go through the drive-thru.

About 10 years ago, I decided that my default answer is always "No". "No, you do not need my phone number." "No, you do not need my zip code." "No, you do not need my name." "No, you do not need my email address." "No, you do not need my mailing address." Unless we're on a blind date, I don't need to give this info to someone I just met. It makes you very sensitive, then, to the frequency of events in which someone wants you to give up your privacy.
When Amazon started they were far from dominant. For a long time they only sold books. Then they only sold classical music CDs. Bit by bit they added other things, like other music, DVDs, and eventually basically all retail goods.

But for years they were basically just one among many sites, and not even terribly notable in the overall retail space. There were lots of other companies selling lots of other stuff at the time. Buy.com, for example, and ebay of course. Of all the ways to buy things online amazon was pretty far down the list until the mid 2000s.

What Amazon brought to the table was a unique combination of good web dev / services skills and top notch fulfillment logistics. And highly competitive pricing. Buying things on amazon was just a better overall experience compared to other sites. For example, when you put something in your shopping cart on amazon it stays there, it doesn't magically disappear for some artificial reason. And the overall experience of search/browse, read reviews, add to cart, then checkout, which today is commonplace throughout online retail was really particularly well honed by amazon. They didn't invent the form but they shaved off all the hard edges. This meant that amazon had much better customer retention than other sites and as amazon added new product lines existing amazon customers often decided to just use amazon for those things too. It took years and years for that momentum to snowball into the online retail juggernaut that Amazon is today.

A lot of other companies at the time had more revenue and invested more money into their stores than Amazon did, but they didn't win because ultimately they didn't execute as well. Amazon was helped by being online early, it gave them the experience necessary to build into what they became, but it's a stretch to claim they had first mover advantage.
BSNL, ISRO cases show India not a country for ethical hackers
Takeoff and landing are probably always going to be the noisiest part thrust-powered flight.
Since the type system is so strict, the compiler can often infer immutability even for mutable variables, and avoid copying in those cases. Swift’s compiler will even warn you if you declared a variable mutable when it’s never mutated. It’s an optimization rather than a guiding principle, but a very powerful one. Swift now is quasi on par with C++ performance, also thanks to optimizations like this.
> many of the kinds of jobs that expect CS degrees

... most of which don't actually need CS degrees, but in the absence of the rigorous vocational programs, it's a reasonable filter to get candidates who have a clue.
Amazon also shows you your purchases whether you like it or not. Log out and clear cookies.
Just for clarification, I want to stress that I have never used the Walmart app. That is why it is unexpected.
You may want to look at MoveFileEx
Quite a few of those stats seem suspect. For example, I personally find it hard to believe that "80% of professional developers" prize Javascript above all other languages. Seems unlikely based on my network (which of course is a representative sample of all developers).
Is it not easier to ignore trolls and let them realize they will not get attention that way, even without being censored? And if they are not ignored, then perhaps they are more than the simple trolls we imagine them to be?
You can, nowadays, use a BIOS patch and an X220 palmrest to put the X220 keyboard into an X230.
I map it to Capslock along with Ctrl using xcape. Tap for ESC, hold for Ctrl.
or Ed, Edd n Eddy cartoon :)
Do you suggest that the untold billions of both animated and static GIFs should be lossily transcoded to mp4 (which presumably also has a limited shelf life?) so that we can finally remove GIF support from web browsers because [reason here]?

Btw, mp4 is a container format.
Metafilter does this as well. A one-time payment to post along with heavy moderation will remove/keep away most of the toxicity.
Were are you reading that? It's a long report but I wasn't able to find what you're referring to. Would be awesome if you could clarify!
Right now it has a range of 62 miles. That's obviously just a starting point.
Baku can beat Dubai for the per-capita ratio of AMG S-Classe Benz ownership.

Having a loan is a lesser concern to your imaginary poor farmer than being constantly on the run from the mob that runs every thing* in the country* and tolerate no competitors.
I'm unlikely to renew LastPass when it comes up, it seems there no security, devops, or even browser integration talent remaining, and it hasn't really progressed in years apart from a minor Vault UI overhaul and a price doubling. When I think back I heard about them from the shameless SecurityNow podcast around 2009 - this was before the terms paid "influencer" was a well known thing.

What are the decent 2018 alternatives that work on both Firefox and Chrome and work on the linux desktop (so 1password is out last time I looked), securely synced to the cloud (yes, I'll take that risk over Keepass) but also with offline support too, and maybe a android mobile app too?

Companies that don't update their status page is often straw that breaks the camel’s back for me... #fail
Yeah, I got stuck in that sentence. I know lots of people do these hours, but people from Henry Ford onwards have been finding people are more efficient with less hours.

Then again if your job is learning about new tech, cooking and exercise-the sort of thing others are doing in their hobby time, I can see how you can make 12 hours of that a day.
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They are also typically working alone (or are suppsoed to be!) in the early classes. Team projects tend to come later.

If you're working by yourself on the sorts of programs that are in introductory classes, you don't loose a lot without VC and it greatly simplifies things and lets students focus on the actual exercises/assignments.

Git would be horrendous overkill for a freshman programming class and it has so many footgun possibilities that the TAs would be going nuts helping students recover from various disasters.
You would commit your guess in a block prior to the random bits being determined.

This is actually a popular scheme used by a lot of 'provably fair' gambling sites/smart contracts.
But it is by design. A code of conduct is meant to exclude people based on their behaviour. Most of these alleged codes have no clear guidelines how to exercise them and so are either ignored or applied to the letter without the spirit.

Or the examples are strawmen. You can easily spot these by a nonspecific, generalized language or lawyering up.

Our rule set (not some CoC) provides concrete examples of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour. (Quotes and actual descriptions of things that actually happened.)
Something being apparent (in a certain demographic) does not in any sense reduce the validity of scientific research in this area. There have been great papers on topics like these in the past, some of them even award-winning and read-worthy.
Wow. You seem to be experiencing your own conspiracy theory. Not every popular idea has some puppet master controlling it. It's completely understandable that supporters of a widely ridiculed underdog would gloat about his success. It was just another election, and just another president, not the end of the world. America hasn't collapsed.

Nonetheless, I don't want to censor your ideas. Let people make their own minds up. McCarthyism censored communist ideas because they were too dangerous and people might get brainwashed. Was that a good idea too? I though the whole free speech ideal of America was to keep political ideas out in the open where they can stand and fall on their own merits, not silenced groups of violent supporters like you get in Venezuela or Egypt which leads to revolution after revolution.

For an example of what might be a dangerous idea of the left - how about the popular one that blacks are poor because whites oppress(ed) them? That sounds like a recipe for endless failure. Don't work to improve yourself - just get angry at the bogeyman. They did it in Zimbabwe and it ruined them. They're doing it now in South Africa. And American blacks are listening to the left mantra of oppression too. All it can do it make people angry and hateful - what if it leads to race riots?
100 kilometre range, even 50k in and 50k out, has the potential to make a lot of hard to reach places not.
Microtik gets frequent updates. You get what you pay for.

Crap router for $20, no updates. Microtik or other well supported router for >$100, I've done about 20 updates since I got it years ago.