skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's a reasonable assessment of the comment, but to evaluate the girl's behavior as psychopathic (strongly implied by context?) seems unproven. What if she is just a spoiled brat?
Tempe police investigating self-driving Uber car involved in deadly crash
I started https://www.browserless.io/ when I found out that there wasn't a good hosted solution for headless-browser work. There's a ton of other higher-level services that do things like screenshots and pdfs, but what if I needed something that those services didn't cover (and had to scale out to 100's of concurrent sessions).

I didn't really set out to do this service, but it came after _not_ finding it anywhere else. I'm about ~4 months in and make $1k/month on it so far, which tells me that others need this service as well. Happy to answer other questions about the business if folks are curious.
On purpose to protect something "more valuable," or on accident?
Just one short note of appreciation for this book: Chapter 24 (Quarentine) helped Haskell IO and monads "click" to me. Now I understand what they mean when they say, for example, that "`IO String` represents not a string but a computation that will return a String. You can store this computation (and chain them), but they won't produce a value until you run them".
Great job describing some of the real advantages and manufactuting challenges of microLED displays. The 320x320 pixel wearble displays seem like a place to start with only 100k pixels (300k sub-pix). With that number of pixels they'll be able to have decent yield at 1ppm defect rates. The power, brightness, and lifetime arguments are even more compelling for a watch.

I don't think the cost side is so bad. LED wafers are only a few hundred $ at 8in for over 3M 50x50um2 die so ignoring other processing and placement costs they are in the right ballpark. Assuming they use some PWM or passive matrix method that keeps the power control substrate cost/yield reasonable they could have a very high performance square inch sized display for a reasonable price... soon?

For any larger displays the dicing and KGD placement yield become a huge issue. Ultra-reliable reworm and/or uncorrelated defects become critical when you need to approach 10ppb for reasonable yield at WQ.
"Rails" is in the title, but there isn't really anything in the article about what the advantages of using Rails for a Slack bot are. What have been people's experience using Rails for this kind of app?
I saw the one in the post, but it's a Chrome extension. I think this will be very useful for me, so I'm going to write a very simple one (basically you just log in with FB/Twitter/whatever) and it deletes every post older than what you specify.

It's going to live at https://forgetme.stavros.io/, if you want to take a look later on to see how far I've gotten. Hopefully, deleting posts will be doable from the APIs, and the app will be feasible.

I expect I'll have a useful app up in a day or two.
I think most on both sides would agree that the program as-is is BS (kinda like a lot of topics these days). The disagreement is what you want to do to fix it. Do you want to give more power to the immigrants so that they are not abused by the sweatshops? Or do you want to simply get rid of the program?

That being said, I do believe that the group behind the ads is on the "ban the program and immigrants" side.
> would like to see a good program for skilled immigration

It's very difficult to build a case that we need any immigration at all, skilled or otherwise. All claims that we need high skill immigration come from either the immigrants themselves, or employers with an interest in wage suppression. It's plain fact that most "high skill" jobs are not seeing real wage growth. Ergo, there is no real shortage. Americans would fill these jobs as wages and working conditions improved.
I'm not saying there aren't good network filesystems, I'm just saying that while NFS is hot garbage, it is totally useful hot garbage when used in the right way.
It’s a half truth at best, which many regard as a kind of lie. Hard work, even smart hard work, is often necessary for success. It’s often not sufficient by itself.
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It is hostile. Sadly, iOS does this with Mobile Safari.
Does that mean more medication use, or less?
Yes, I would like to know, too. Shouldn't we be happy that they are essentially creating competitors for Amazon? I'm no economizer, but couldn't this drive prices down?
Ask HN: Best apps for beginners to learn?
When teaching programming to new developers, what types of apps do you recommend they build from start to finish? Something simple enough to be completed in a day or two, but still has some utility and educational benefits.

ToDo, Game of Life, what else?
I think that the answer lies in Google's terms and conditions for both free and paid plans, but I'd subjectively go with the double-dipping answer.

Remember: the first part of the text is "If you're not paying, you're the product" but it's closely followed by "but paying doesn't shield you in any way from also being a product".
Heh. I wrote a paper about this a while ago https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/bio.2014.0069
Doesn't bit.ly access the url? Either at creation time or at any point later on?
It was work done at Microsoft Research (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...), but I don't think it was ever integrated into any products. Given our sensitivity to faces and eyes, I expect the result would be quite uncanny. Better to just side-step the problem by rendering sunglasses over the user's eyes.
I don't understand this. Someone just visits the URL and I get a email notification? If it's supposed to be secret, how does the script knows if the visit is OK or not, sending me the notification only when it's OK? Are the good guys supposed to know this is a sort of "honeypot" URL and not visit it?
It’s now officially a business-added service to skip the nag screens...
No, being pessimistic means being vulnerable to those who preach that the sky is falling. Not always, obviously. For example, Churchill spent the 30s isolated and ostracized for doing just that, but he was right. Appeasement in the 30s is a bit of a special case though: to believe the sky was falling was to believe that war was needed, and no one in Allied countries wanted war after the Great War -- there was a greater pessimism about war than there was about Hitler and Nazi Germany.

Malthusianism has been wrong for centuries, and people still buy that garbage. This is because people are born every day and want to believe the sky is falling. Most eventually grow up.
Whatsapp is the market leader in mobile (and desktop) IM in LATAM & EU. YMMV but I would go with ~75-80%
so i actually didn't know about that, so thanks.

But does new user have to run all migrations.

Say i get the repo, would i have to do migrate... because in git i dont have to run all commits. i get the final state of repo.
Of course they are immigrants.
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For any web/cloud service, I think this might be easily triggered when the service is trying to be helpful. I.e. when fetching previews, displaying in/active links, etc...
A common theme I notice in the question and the comments; respondents are not thinking globally or using numbers.

Just because in the US/Europe Facebook is getting bad press, or declining amongst young users, etc. doesn't mean that's the case in other countries.

The US isn't even Facebook's largest market anymore; it's India [1]. Sure, most money comes from the US/Candada region [2], but that's just now. As these countries' economies continue to grow the amount of money Facebook can make there will too. There's also strength in numbers; the US has around 300m people, the world minus China and the US has 5,400m others.

If you wanna make serious analysis you have to look at the numbers too. Facebook's active users worldwide aren't even stagnant; they are still growing at a fairly constant rate [3]. 2018 is not even close to being the end of facebook.

I see a ton of emotional and anecdotal comments here. The question itself is itself, I'd assume, based off the recent discussions here on HN and news articles around Facebook and Russia, and IMO written just to incite another hot Facebook thread since I'd assume anyone could guess that a $500+b company can't possibly die in 9 months. That's ok, but I am however surprised and disappointed by the lack of statistics and analysis though. I would've expected more from the HN community. I was hoping people here would like to stick more with facts, numbers and a rational view.

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/268136/top-15-countries-...

[2]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average...

[3]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...
That's a losing scenario for Google and a winning scenario for Amazon.

Google is primarily a search engine, as a product. Google shooting itself in the foot by not showing the best results, harms their reputation.

People already go directly to Amazon to search for things to buy. That has been a constantly growing trend for 15+ years. If Google's product goes backwards when it comes to delivering results people want, that will drive more people directly to Amazon and accelerate the trend of going straight to their site to search for things to buy and bypassing Google.

Google has likely already maxed out on search usage in the US, including on market share. Meanwhile online retail is still only ~11-12% of all US retail. That online share will double in the next ten years roughly. Amazon will be the size of Walmart, in retail, in another seven or eight years, further massively expanding its actual customer use.

Amazon easily wins that battle with Google. All of the expansion over the next ten years is on Amazon's side. Meanwhile Google has an aging, maxed out product in search, and a maxed out product in Android (annual global smartphone sales growth is near zero).
> My several years old laptop does this with the most straight forward C# implementation in 170 ms.

Sure, but writing a custom C# program for each query on data that has been pre-formatted in the most optimal manner for that program is not really comparable to writing a bog standard SQL query.
You won't share the URL in a public place, you'll store it alongside whatever you're trying to keep safe.

If the URL gets accessed at all, you will know your secret has been leaked.
Ah yes, the ever-famous both sides argument. I always hear this alongside arguments from people using the word Lynch in an incredibly inappropriate context.
How's that different from generative, property based testing?
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iOS is on a completely another level of lockdown, as you can't have third party browsers at all there, only UI wrappers on Apple provided webview widgets.
It is pretty hostile, and is rather amazing that Microsoft has learned nothing since the Windows 95/IE days and the shenanigans they used to pull.
But, if you're one of the coding sweatshops, you're able to get away with gross abuses of labor law. You can work them to the bone, far more hours than you would a citizen.
Considering Google, do you guys(and gals) think that Their moonshot factory and the businesses it created is factored in the price ? or that the stock market isn't good at factoring things at such early stage, but if we have good reason to believe that they'll do well in that area, Google is a good investment ?
I didn't know you could change your default browser on iOS.
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Nothing to do with sendfile, you claim that TLB management is "a hardware problem" which is completely wrong, whatever you think you know about virtual memory has no foundation and anyone with a basic understanding of computer architecture can tell you that.
https://www.efile.com/taxable-gambling-winnings-income-taxes... suggests that winnings are taxed at a flat 25% up to $5000 and beyond that it's treated as income.
> After realizing that everyone, even future politicians post stupid things, We probably will stop caring about online privacy.

Online privacy isn't just about hiding the stupid stuff you post online. Do you wear a name tag on your shirt with PII at all times when you go out in public or interact with others in a public setting? Why not?

I'd love for everyone who says "I don't care about online privacy" to start wearing badges in public with a unique identifier and all the information available about them on the internet for others to see.
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This tactic seems like a double-edged sword. I would think for many people, this behavior would annoy and dissuade them from continuing to use Windows Mail.
> "I was just following orders"

It is very clear what this means.

I asked a question, was it overreach? You responded with a foregone conclusion.
If a that person is concerned with is hiring skill then they wouldnt be putting up these ads.
There are solutions like that out there, and they work pretty well, but tend to also be pricey.

See Red Gate's SQL Compare: https://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-compar...
Forcing Cortana results to be displayed in Edge (and Bing) is the main reason I don't use Cortana.
I understand but you have to admit there is a pretty big difference in prices between the current one of the t430s and a 15" rMBP.
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<< Why not take this one step further and make it “white Murican workers”? Or how bout “white straight males of aryan descent”?

American worker doesn't mean "white Murican worker". It means American citizen. American citizen isn't a synonym for Caucasian.

You're doing that thing that people do when we talk about H1-B. You're conflating opposition to H1-B with racism and xenophobia.

It's not racist or xenophobia to say that American workers should have first crack at economic opportunities in their own country. As noted in my original remarks, this is something we have to talk about if we're serious about addressing things like income inequality and equal access to economic opportunity.

I think it's utterly wrong to give the best economic opportunities to foreign nationals when there are imminently qualified US workers.
The H1B doesn't directly allow worker exploitation. There are two classes of H1 workers: the vast majority who work for consulting firms/body shops and the better skilled minority that works for "product" companies in the Bay Area, New York, Seattle and other tech hubs.

The second type of worker typically has employer sponsorship for green cards and skills that allow them to find new jobs. Green cards are given out on a per-country-cap basis. Because India and China have large populations, H1 workers from those countries have to wait a long time to get their green cards. Whereas people from almost any other country can have an employer sponsored green card in a matter of 2-4 years.

Fix the green card system and you'll mostly not have many H1 workers in SV software companies (only those waiting for their green cards to be filed). It's hard to make the argument that tech workers making $200k/year are indentured servants or exploited in some way or a "cheaper" alternative to domestic talent.

That then just leaves workers from the first category, body shops, which draws most of the H1 ire for being cheap and low-skilled . I don't have a good solution for fixing it and agree that the numbers there probably need to be reduced. If no employer thinks you're worth the cost of sponsoring a GC then your skills probably aren't that great and it's a more fair system.
That's not true: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm. Though sometimes people look at the non-food/energy components separately because they're less volatile (supposed to be a better predictor of future inflation).
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I would not call that clear. Especially following the comparison to the Stasi. It feels like chain of random ways to say "Facebook is bad".

That is a reasonable interpretation, though, so thanks.
Requiring confirmation for an action should be something a user very rarely, if ever, sees. That ensures when it does occur it 1) is serious and 2) surprises the user, gaining their full attention.

Another approach here would have been implementing sane defaults. Blank field as wildcard is not a sane default. Default to that which has the least impact.
Do people actually use Windows Mail?
Ten years ago when Facebook was gaining momentum, I chose to stay away, and remain so today. In recent years a new mantra has emerged: "I wish we could live without Facebook, but that's not practical anymore." Not true. It is practical, and infinitely more desirable.

Social media was never a meaningful way to present ourselves to the public or interact with others.
> In places like San Francisco and Seattle it is no longer possible, if it ever was, to separate neo-fascism from neoliberal urban development caused or exacerbated by a growing tech industry, and its consequences of gentrification, homelessness, gender inequality and worker exploitation.

I think that a generic leftist publication can't be told apart from satire about it at this point.
Oh so youre fine with immigrants as long as most of them are in the underclass you can ignore except when you hire them to mow your lawn.
That is not something you need to protect against, it was only used to make hosting malware code easier.

For image hosting services it is required to process images anyway - for example to strip EXIF GPS data. It looks like imagemagick can't really do it for JPEGs: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2654281/how-to-remove-ex...
pretty much all corporate expendature is tax deductable.
You're right, and this does happen.

If that's a problem for you then you can mitigate it a bit by checking the User-Agent and IP address in the alert email you receive.
You can install other browsers, but the page rendering must be done by Apple’s iOS system version of WebKit. Basically it’s only good for things like bookmark / history syncing.
Please don't isolate the most flamebaity bit of a comment and then respond to that. It paves the way for full flamewar below. We're all responsible for fire safety here.

In a way you can think of this as a variant of the site guideline which asks:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

It's not what we originally had in mind when we added it, but "strongest plausible" can be taken to include "least flame-prone".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Why is this being downvoted?

A young teenager understands correlation and causation

If a study gets this wrong (it might happen) please explain how it has?

Or please explain or say how the study didn't try and differentiate?

Else OP is just producing spam. Studies obviously account for it. The default is something so very simple is looked at. It's up to OP to explain why the obvious isn't correct.

Besides you care about causation then a parents income is not really a changeable variable. People can chose to study further (Or helped to study further) or chose to study less. What's important is not a parents income, which lucky isn't anyway.
Excellent - would love to test out when you are done
I don't think the pro or anti immigration sides like the h1b as implemented. The anti immigration side obviously wants to limit immigration, but the pro side doesn't like the h1b system because it currently turns the h1b holders into a form of indentured servant.

The only ones who truly benefit from the h1b are companies using it to get cheap labor that can't leave. The h1b holders themselves might be getting a small benefit if the situation is better than at home, but they are not getting nearly the same value as if they were allowed to actually shop around
Then it seems that the most sensible way forward is not to limit immigrants ability to immigrate, but to limit corporations' power to abuse immigrants, doesn't it?
I did this to all my social media accounts and all personally identifiable information on them. No pictures, no dates, locations, etc.. They now exist for messaging and group participation, and nothing else.
There's an old saying around gun owners: "There's no such thing as a firearms accident. Only negligence."

I think the same thing applies to autonomous things.
Ask HN: Why is PayPal's password length limit still a thing?
With over 227 million active paypal accounts why is there seemingly no pressure on them to stop enforcing a password length limit?
I checked it out thinking maybe I was quick to assume the worst.

On review, it looks and sounds pretty dog-whistley to me. Worse than I expected.

As a Sri Lankan national, you may be missing some of the nativist overtones. "Undeserving" in particular is a loaded term in American public political discourse.

For an especially pernicious application, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen

This is a meme that still resonates with many people in America. It still resonates with me, as an ugly example of the way misleading rhetoric get deployed to stigmatize an underrepresented political class. This term immediately evokes associations like these.

Also, the color scheme and typography: seems designed to evoke a not very enlightened response. Definitely not embracing the light and airy look-and-feel I generally associate with progressive tech community.
Remember when Romney called Russia the greatest threat to U.S democracy and was made into a joke? I remember.
It's certainly possible to live on less (I'm a decent negotiator/dealhunter, so I'm speaking from experience here), but most people don't have this skillset. I can't assume everyone has this capability.

> Living with roommates lowers the cost of everything by a lot, especially if you do communal meals/food.

Wholesale pricing is a good strategy, correct. This isn't viable for everybody, or even for most people. Not everybody can live this way for various reasons, and certainly many engineers that I've interacted with aren't able to or need the alone time to be productive.

I've seen a pretty wide spread of living situations. I wouldn't call anything I said hyperbolic.
Nice work, Alex!
Is this the first death ever?

(Do we count Tesla's autopilot as self-driving?)
I think it's bad there, too, but it's maybe a slightly different situation: iOS has never pretended to be anything other than a very locked-down walled garden; Windows is supposed to add bit more flexibility. If iOS actually allows other browsers to be installed, then it's made some kind of 'progress', but Windows is moving in the other direction: there's a pretty undesirable average that they both seem to be heading for whereby you can install alternative applications, but the OS will make it much harder for you if you do.
I never even answer to mess with them because then they know it's a good number.
Obviously more information is needed, but I thought the entire point of having a driver behind the wheel is to manually intervene to prevent this very situation?

I'm very curious to see how they'll investigate this and who will be determined to be at fault (person behind the wheel or Uber). It will likely set a precedent.
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> Keep in mind that MySpace is still around.

More importantly, IBM "died" at least 10 times, Microsoft "died" at least a couple of times. Big companies have a huge shelf life, even in bad market conditions, if the management is half competent.