skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me the answer would be to leave me alone. Think of it like this - every company has some slogan like "be a part of such and such amazing this and that". To me, this is the opposite of the relationship I want. I don't want my life to be part of your company. I want your company to be a medium-sized part of my life. Some of my colleagues might end up being my friends. That's fine. In general though, I expect to give you 8 hours of my life per day and receive money and associated benefits of being an employee. Some colleagues might be friends, but the company is not my friend. I don't want the company to care for me personally or stick its nose in my personal life. My work and my personal life are separate. The best thing you can do is respect my boundaries.
By extension, if it were fully illegal, then this would be a good time to check whether the law needs updating. Laws are not commandments. Saying something like it doesn't matter whether it's wrong or right "it's the law", misunderstands what law is.
I would recommend removing your skill level graph, it doesn't provide meaningful information to recruiting or hiring managers, and takes away due to using an unorthodox visual in a professional document.
> Even today there’s nothing I can deploy on my own server that would be anywhere near as good.

Well... https://syncthing.net/
No link, as this is a scratch my own itch thing for now, but I'm working on a personal 'hub' web app that is part UX/UI experiment, and part a way to integrate various tools I've created over the years to ease various pain points in my life.

Some of this has to do with solving the problem of the deluge of information I consume, through psychological 'intervention' as well as some way to store all this stuff and make it easy to filter and find the useful bits.

Some of it is journalling-related, and vaguely in the Quantified Self area.

A significant portion is about finding ways to actually use this amazing, powerful computer that I have in my pocket for things that actually, quantifiably, provably improve my life (and hopefully, eventually, that of others). This is mostly in the direction of autism-related issues, anxiety, maintaining social connections, and so on. Applying the (relatively) well-supported lessons from psychology to the bafflingly advanced technology that is part of my daily life, and that of most people around me.

Mostly it's a vanity project though, that I can currently afford indulging in. I figure that after years of working and making money off building stuff I don't care about much, it's time to let my more creative side express itself in ways that might prove useful somehow. I'm not an painter, or a musician, or a poet, but I can code, I love to code (when it's on my own terms), and I'm still amazed that for less than five bucks I can have a server running that does whatever I want it to do, and as a 'full-stack developer', that's quite a lot!

Part of me wants to work on things that are more directly beneficial to others, but 1) I have enough 'runway' to do that too, eventually, and 2) I've grown weary of always trying to make sure that what I do is 'useful' by some measure that doesn't quite feel like it originates from within. Many of the best things I've done started out as scratches to personal itches, so perhaps it's okay to 'indulge' for now.
I watched a whole movie about garbage pickers in a Brazilian waste dump: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1268204/
Congress giving NASA more money than requested to build a second launch platform
I never implied that it was.
Universities and by extension the rest of society funded the R&D for Tesla. Why do Tesla fans have such a persecution complex?
sign language will be everyone's primary language. Better yet a combination of sign and spoken.
There was also property damage with the gate being broken, but I doubt that applies.

There was also a specific injunction against the protest, not just trespassing, and it was multiday trespassing, not just entering a private propety to film something of interest and then leaving.

Was it necessary for him to be there integrated as one of them for the whole disruption to get the story? Im curious what line youd have to cross to be a protestor, not just a reporter.
Toys ‘R’ Us Champion Larian Steps Forward with $100M to Save Stores
Facebook's discovery is enhanced because they have more information about you, and so can correlate you and your friends information with information about the page to more effectively match you to that particular page.

For example, you are likely to like an event/business/venue your friends already liked, so facebook can suggest that business to you. Or you see in your feed that your friends checked into a certain event/business/venue, resulting in you being exposed to that.

All this happens without you even performing a search. And if you do perform a search, the top search result will most likely be correct, because it used you and your friends' information.
But then it's not even that they are competing in that segment, they are that segment. Outside of people with sufficient disposable income who hate fossil fuels so much they are willing to wait for a full charge (and I've seen some of their supercharger centers; might be better than your average gas station ion a middle of nowhere, but not really a place where I'd want to spend well over an hour for a full charge, when I can be in and out of a gas pump in 5 minutes). It's a legitimate niche, but not necessarily a very large one.

Also, I am not sure if they really make a better car. Unique, for sure. Myself, if it doesn't have AWD, I don't buy it...
I think you’d at least passive aggressively be mad too if a moving company blew up the truck with your stuff on it, accidentally or not.
Additionally, if the company gives you other perks, it's often worth it.

If I can generally set my own hours, and you give me a ton of vacation time, pay me well, and give me other good incentives just for working there, I'm much more likely to put in a few extra hours every now and then if something comes up.
> My point is that absent some measure by the US government, EU laws are not applicable to companies without business presence in the EU

They are applicable if they say they are applicable. Effective enforceability is optional to applicability.

The case is pretty simple in my eyes.

We have separate, sovereign jurisdictions and governments. They can do about anything they want, if they have the means to do so and aren't bound by some treaty or law. For example, they can take legal or executive measures against anybody in the world, and it is irrelevant if that person agrees or disagrees. In fact, in the first place, it is also irrelevant what position the sovereign of that entity takes.

Now, can each sovereign entity enforce what they have decided? Well, that depends on many factors, but is optional to their decision.

The sovereign we are dealing with here is the EU. They can, within the bounds by their law and international treaties, judge and take measures against entities not residing under their jurisdiction. Who's stopping them?

See for example the sanctions on Russian officials currently imposed by the EU.

The EU has many tools to enforce it's decisions.

I don't see what's the difficulty of understanding this situation, besides not agreeing with it.
I'm having trouble understanding what the motivation for such a rule could have been in the first place. Certainly cellphones can't be the origin of enough genuine robocalls for this to have been necessary to curb them.
Playable in-browser over here at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mac_DarkCastle_1_2

An article about that collection: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/mac-a...
thanks for pointing that out. I fixed it, and have absolutely no idea how I made the mistake in the first place.
The only notable format I can remember was the guy that applied for a Unix Ops role, and along with his PDF resume he included the troff source for the resume.

He got the job (though not only because of the troff).

Unix Ops resumes submitted as MS Word files are less impressive.
For a little while, until there's more general support from third parties to help small businesses address this. Just like taxes, insurance, and everything else small and medium businesses are required to deal with.

Oh, and EU users finally get the privacy they deserve.
Astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the Apollo 13 mission, turns 90 this weekend
I haven't really experienced it as much as you. I do wonder if you use a VPN. That might throw some red flags if you are logging in from various places. I know GMail has this issue for me when I am on a VPN.
I deleted Instagram 6 months ago. I recently came into contact with somebody in person, and they told me that they were aware I was deleting social media because Instagram told them to re-invite me back to the platform. It was this moment that I realized you're never truly out of the system. What is the point of me deleting my Instagram if I am still showing up on people's application?
The current governments are about as sympathetic as you can get, so I doubt that's the reason for this prosecution.
A few years back when the Mac App Store launched, I put an app up there and got a tweet from one of the future founders of Figma. I think he was in early college, or even high school. We corresponded a bit and I followed him on Twitter. Pretty interesting to see how much cool stuff he has done since then.
I don't want to sound dismissive, but if I was hiring, I woudn't even read this one. Not because it's ugly, but because you're supposed to produce sth. I'll read but not helping even a little bit about that.
Meh, I don't miss the headphone jack. Nor do I miss PS/2, VGA, DB13W3, ADB, parallel, serial, or SCSI ports.

You know what sucks? No lightning port on my Mac!
Congrats Topher and team! Awesome writeup, and look forward seeing you all soon for our next SC reunion dinner.

-All the GridCure folks
Maybe the rule had good intentions, but I agree with the court's ruling. The rule, as written, is far too broad.

"The FCC's 2015 decision said that a device meets the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) definition of an "autodialer" if it can be modified to make robocalls, even if the smartphone user hasn't actually downloaded an autodialing app.

That interpretation treats all smartphones as autodialers because any smartphone has the capability of downloading an autodialing app, judges ruled. Since any call made by an autodialer could violate anti-robocall rules, this led to a troubling conclusion: judges said that an unwanted call from a smartphone could violate anti-robocall rules even if the smartphone user hasn't downloaded an autodialing app.

Imagine, for instance, that a person wishes to send an invitation for a social gathering to a person she recently met for the first time. If she lacks prior express consent to send the invitation, and if she obtains the acquaintance's cell phone number from a mutual friend, she ostensibly commits a violation of federal law by calling or sending a text message from her smartphone to extend the invitation. And if she sends a group message inviting 10 people to the gathering, again without securing prior express consent from any of the recipients, she not only would have infringed the TCPA 10 distinct times but would also face a minimum damages recovery against her of $5,000."
As someone pointed out to me one time on HN, guns aren't going to save people from the drone armies of the wealthiest individuals. The next day I watched the Black Mirror Heavy Metal episode. I was sort of depressed for about two weeks.
> For a little while, until there's more general support from third parties to help small businesses address this.

By subsidizing them? By exempting them?

Both are terrible ideas.
Yes, I think it's an experiment. I am more-less certain without technology this approach would fall apart in 1-2 generations due to human nature; the question for me is if current/future tech is sufficient or we will mess it all up. Warning signs are there - you have plenty of males that decided it's no longer worth it to be involved with society as they are denied females due to their low attractiveness, so if this continues, we might be already past the peak of civilization as more and more potentially productive elements of society no longer see any point (as sex is one of primary motivations for most men to do anything).

It's easier if you restrict access to sex to males, make rules that almost everybody can get it at some point in a committed relationship, instead of having only the most attractive males having it all with most females and the rest waiting for leftovers, and to drive any aberrations from this ideal underground, out of sight. I believe that's how past civilizations worked and in general people didn't talk openly about their side affairs and society built guilt/shaming wall to publicly scorn anyone that was doing it outside private sphere and didn't keep secrecy/discretion. We call it repression now, though it likely had its evolutionary reason as those rules survived and attempts to get rid of them vanished.
That's not the point. The point is that it's a cluster of network-connected nodes that can run something like Kubernetes.
Ask HN: What abandoned OSS project would you like to see revived?
I've been writing code forever but took a break to pursue some other interests. Now I'm ready to come back.

I'm looking for an open-source project to busy myself with while I resume networking and freelancing.

Ideally, I'd like to revive an practical OSS project that's been abandoned. Something useful but left untended for whatever reason.

What are some candidates? What project is broadly useful but seems to have lost its maintainer or their interest? What do you wish somebody was actively working on so that you didn't have to?

I've chosen not to offer constraints so that this can be more of a wishlist for the community than an answer just for me. I know there's some other people out there that would be eager to do the same thing I am.

Thanks, all!
Looking again at what you'd put earlier, your acknowledgement very much seems to have the not-total-impossibility of them being correct as a throwaway caveat, not as a real consideration of the situation in any sense. I suspect that it being used now to address that they were using sloppy wording is a retroactive understanding after I pointed it out, and by luck is a plausible explanation.
that post mostly says, "the price was wrong, but no-one cares for reasons".
Time to download that Robocall app and call the FCC about why this was a dumb idea.
There's a plenty of measures the EU could take within it's jurisdiction to enforce it's laws around the world.

It might suck if the EU started blocking payments to you.
I’ll bet money that Ajit won’t do anything to curb VoIP robocallers. They are scamming money out of American consumers so that’s kind of a bummer.
> I was reading earlier today people are uploading their gun vids to PornHub.

Funny thing is, my coworker and I were talking about this earlier today... we ended up agreeing that it wouldn't be surprising at all if PornHub ends up creating an SFW site under a different name (VidHub?) for things like this.
TL;DR "So Pivotal decided to employ both a stick and a carrot. The stick is a mandatory morning meeting at 9 a.m., where your absence will likely be noted. The carrot is the breakfast buffet, "sort of a prize to get in,""

I'm glad I read this. Now I'm sure to never apply for this company
Yes, this is it as far as I can tell.
REST API here: https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/visual-recognition...

"no way to define the layers, the loss function, or any knobs to play around with the network". -- This is the point of the service - to enable the (vast group of) users who want to custom-classify images of X/Y/Z without having to understand the difference between momentum and learning rate, or hire people who do. If you do want full control of the model, you should look at Deep Learning as a Service - https://www.ibm.com/cloud/deep-learning
Show HN: Hash strings into Heroku-like names
BIG congratulations! What an amazing journey and I look forward to tracking Dropbox and its impact!
In practice, I am getting more and more robocalls nowadays on my cell phone, about one every couple days. I wish my phone had the ability to only pick up when it was a human-dialed call.
A large part of the reason for that is because many Western academic fields were largely infested with ideological leftists. (And to a great extent they still are.)

Few people expected the Communist political system to collapse the way it did, but the lowercase-communist economic system was pretty obviously on its last legs by then. And indeed, look at what's happened: Russia abandoned lowercase-communism along with uppercase-Communism but certain features of the Communist political system managed to reassert themselves, in the form of the former KGB man Putin seizing and consolidating power. By this point, Russia's sphere of influence had retracted from eastern Germany all the way back to struggling to maintain control over Ukraine, but a little bit of brute force managed to keep Ukraine in line, too.

China, unlike Russia, managed to reform away from lowercase-communism while still maintaining the uppercase-Communist political structure. They are also just now attempting Great Power-style diplomacy over their neighbors, whereas Russia was overextended into that role ever since the end of WWII.
Canarytoken allows you to download a docker instance, so you can host the server on any domain you like.
Ah, I found that out later but had forgotten all about it. :)

I don't remember how I found out, but it seemed oddly magical until I just now read the docs: String implements Deref<Target=str>. Makes more sense now.

I still had a bunch of to_strings()'s, though, as things tended to take String whenever I had &str's. I found this to be a very unexpected nuisance.

EDIT: Maybe I needed as_str() as the & trick doesn't work if the target type cannot be inferred as &str?
As far as I know they both had support from their respective boards. But Rice was 'only' up for the position as board member. Eich was to be the highest public and private facing position of the company. The controversy surrounding him, unfairly or not, also affected people personally. Basically Rice only needed the trust of the rest of the board, while Eich would have had to fight to run or represent the company. Your own comment being an example of how the Internet doesn't easily forget things.
Thanks, we've updated the link from http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3706604 which points to this.
You suspect incorrectly. And I am done with this discussion.
Smart move by the CEO of the company that makes Bratz dolls and Little Tikes. He is right when he says that without Toy”R”Us the toy industry is going to have two terrible years: grown-ups might prefer to shop for toys online, but (small) children need physical stores to pick their toys (and tell their parents what they like)
It's a simple question. When Trump complained that his campaign had been wiretapped, was he correct or was he incorrect?
Remember when people used two floppy disks to save files so if one floppy break you have a backup one?

I remember the first day I heard about Dropbox and I was amazed by it, it made perfect sense. Since then I'm a client and as an entrepreneur, it's a company I always looked up to.
Where X is between one and six.

I think perhaps they should have made it infinite, because having a set range causes anchoring. It might seem like 3 is a good choice because 2 is at the low end of things.
My comment doesn't say others won't be successful, I perhaps should have said it's a reason why he's so successful - albeit not the only reason.
There's not even remotely the same magnitude of error between those two cases in my mind. One you can miss by accident, the other you're actively doing.
No iOS support that I can discern. A deal breaker for me.
That's a good strategy. I searched for the plugin you mentioned and found activityremover, however apparently it no longer works.
Apple isn't packaging and selling your data. They don't even look at it. iCloud is about the same as Amazon S3 -- it's just a storage system. They aren't doing analytics on your data to sell you things.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/
What is the future of the mobile web, and can we actually compete with native?
This is neat.. Its currently a single type of token (ie. a URL).

If you check out https://canarytokens.org you will notice the ability to create several others (be notified when someone resolves an IP address, be notified when someone opens a file, be notified when someone views a QR code, etc)
How not to suffer with APIs
I agree with you in the broad sense. Social experimentation is dangerous and despite our rapid technological progress over the last 100 years, people are still governed by biological, not technological, forces. Many in society have lost sight of that today -- not uncommon when luxury and wealth abounds and people come disconnected from the hard realities they're forced to recognize when they're fighting for daily survival.

I have a few nits. Due to some lesser social sicknesses, polygamy gets a bad rap in the West. It's not always the right course and like everything else, there is the potential for abuse, but it is a normal and functional component in most pre-Roman/non-Christian social structures.

Also, national law is the wrong place to codify such intimate issues. Self-sufficiency is important along all axes, including moral and social ones. The community needs to be empowered and entrusted with the ability to make these standards on its own. Federal law is a very dangerous place for such things to wind up.

Anyway, this isn't really the right venue for this type of discussion, but I thought I'd lend some moral support since I expect you'll get eviscerated for this.
What an achievement it was. Of the 12 people who have walked on the moon, only 5 are still alive.

(Note: Lovell flew to the Moon twice, but did not land on it.)
To give my personal answer for it, there's no other cross-platform messaging service that everyone uses.

There are other chat services sure, but the Facebook has by far the most number of people I know on it. Also, not everyone I know exchange numbers. There's no usernames, etc on Facebook so its easy to find people too.

Weird, I know, but guess generations are changing. Apparently now Snapchat has become the main form of 'communication' for many millennial with their friends. So looks like I'm falling behind.
Yeah, there's a huge opportunity for 'pickaxe sellers' in this new world, and they'd actually be doing something valuable this time.
Oh, and added thing that bugged me a lot: The error part of Result<T, E>. During my short time of coding Rust (I'll get back to it later), I never really found a way to ergonomically handle errors.

I find it really awkward that the error is a concrete type, making it so that you must convert all errors to "rethrow". Go's error interface, and even exception inheritance seems to have lower friction than this.
Email lacks an inherent Follow dynamic. Blog + RSS / Atom will give that.

You can use mailing lists, though those impose a bit of additional friction in several dynamics.

There's also the matter of format conventions and client rendering, which can be quite significant particularly across various schools / application models: Usenet / Unix style top quoting, ccmail, LotusMail, or Exchange quote & reply styles.
Oh man, the number of libraries I've used over the years where I got nailed by their use after free/mem overwrite.

Just because you're a perfect developer doesn't mean some downstream dependency isn't going to come along and wreck your day.
Why Adults Can't Develop Perfect Pitch [video]
getcoleman.com is really funny, made me laugh, but hire? I don't think so.
Tell that to James Damore.