skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To get a visa for France, I had to provide my full financial details -- bank statements, information on investments, etc. I also had to provide an FBI background check. To get a visa for China, you can be denied for content of social media posts. In Thailand, you can be arrested upon arrival if you've ever written a blog post critical of the king. The UK can bar entry based on the prior speech of applicants: rapper Tyler, the Creator was banned from entry. Right wing journalists have been denied entry to the UK, even a very popular talk radio host from the US has been denied entry into the UK for nothing more than his opinions -- despite no criminal record or any other "threat." Julien Blanc, an American "dating coach" has been denied entry by Britain, Australia and Brazil because he's a YouTube star "pickup artist."

Let's not pretend the US is unique in actually screening visa applicants and choosing to decide who can enter and who can not. I'm getting tired of the self-righteous condemnation of the United States when pretty much every country in the world discriminates in visa issuance. But the immigration policies of India, Mexico, Japan, Korea or Australia are far less interesting in this click-bait media world in which we live.
To protect them from Iran and Israel. Not directly as weapons systems but as a means to transfer billions to the US as a political retainer.
Yeah, but it's more fun if you read it as a headline from the future.
Same here - my new roommate is constantly closing the blinds at night because he doesn't want the old lady in the building across from us see us sit around and play video games, I guess.

I remember refusing to shower after the gym because I didn't want people to see my wiener.

I think it changed when my friend's bathroom's door lock was broken. His brother was about to go in and was the kind of guy that liked to announce it before doing so. I warned him about the door, and he goes "so?" I remember being very surprised he didn't care, so I ask "Well, what if someone walks in on you taking a dump?"

He laughs. "I'd say, 'get out of here, I'm taking a dump!'"

That was nearly 18 years ago and it sticks in my mind so well.
Excellent! Another step closer to bankruptcy!

The sooner that leach on the face of taxpayers is removed, the better.
Thank you, sir. Well-stated, and appreciate the reading list.

One example. In the area I grew up in the US, millions of acres of virgin forest were stripped (but not cleanly) within a century. This expedient, wanton and careless destruction also largely destroyed the means of 'self-determination' for tens of thousands of natives - oftentimes forcing them into dependence on meagre handouts. Never mind the cultural disruption.
Bureaucracy is often the result of hysteria. The USA is hysterical over terrorism when it should be hysterical over cancer, college cost increases, and health care. It's all a product of the government realizing that it's easy to fool the bleating masses with terrorist straw men.
Imagine this happening in any other industry.

"Oh hi users, the things you gave to us and we were supposed to keep safe, well, someone came and took them."

Say the bank sent all their customers a similar message, how would their customers be expected to react? Why is it any different in the tech industry?

Basically these apology messages amount to: "Someone accessed your private stuff, please change the special key you use to access your stuff. End."

Should there be more to this than just that? Yes you'll make sure the locks are stronger, but what about that thing I've now lost? What are you going to do about that?
It's pretty much exactly like seasoning a cast iron pan -- get the grill grates screaming hot, switch off the heat, sop up a paper towel in your high-heat oil of choice (eg: canola oil) but not dripping, and wipe your grill grates.

This is generally only possible with a cleaned grill and it would be prudent to clean your grill after it's heated up and before you apply oil.
Does anyone finds the new getDerivedStateFromProps adds too much boilerplate code for the developer to write and be aware? So for every previous prop that I need to compare with I need to remember to update it in the state? If before it was as simple as this.props.X!==nextProps.X now I need to set the state with the current prop!
They’re terrible, especially in a turbulent and/or cold environment. A good EFIS should have physical buttons on the perimeter of the display, and many do.
Since November I have applied at every type of job: silicon valley start-ups with just a few people, software consulting firms with a dozen or two dozen consultants, and large corporations like GS. Initially GS told me the felony wouldn't be an issue, made me an offer, and dragged me along for about 4 weeks after that, reassuring me the job was a sure thing. Only this morning they changed their mind out of nowhere. Otherwise I wouldn't have wasted so much time with them, as I was up-front with them early on.
Studio Gorm on Balance Between Function and Aesthetics in Furniture Design
Congress members represent everyone in their district, not only registered voters. Green card holders etc are allowed to write to their representatives.
I agree that it's getting simpler and better -- tons of dedicated developers are making that happen. I wasn't trying to say that the rewrite shouldn't have happened or something, I just feel like there's a lot of zealotry festering, so many companies are picking React just to attract developers (anecdotal evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u80GTmVtdG4&t=2898s).

My problem is that it was being marketed (heavily) as simple and amazing at the beginning when it simply wasn't. From what I remember, the FB team was explicit about it not being for beginners, but the amount of marketing and trumpeting made that basically impossible, and now bootcamps are teaching it to beginners.

I just am super tired of having to talk people out of using it on their first project after learning and using HTML+CSS for the first time. I always sound like the insane person, saying "react is complicated" when all the marketing and blogs and everything else is saying "react is simple".
Trump’s Complaints About Amazon Have a Historical Precedent
Well, there's your next startup idea.
They are getting rid of explicit profiles btw...
I'm always kind of mystified by comments like this, which I see a lot of. SpaceX has a cost target, and if they can't meet it, they aren't going to send humans to Mars. And that target's a lot less than $10B; most of the BFR engineering is not about Mars but about a fully-reusable launcher, which is useful for launching anything, not just going to Mars.
Depends on how many people are in the cockpit.
yes, fixed wireless LTE (baicells, other competing LTE based products for WISPs), or traditionalmobile wireless... Whatever local methods are possible to distribute service from an islanded ISP's local 'core' routers. As an example an ISP in a town in Nunavut that was previously dependent on C-band geostationary satellite capacity.

When I say 'islanded' ISP I mean an ISP that has no access to terrestrial point to point microwave, or fiber, to reach any sort of upstreams or major IX points. Either physically islanded (such as an ISP on the island of Nauru) or somewhere in a terestrial location, but logically islanded because it would cost at minimum several million dollars to build PTP microwave or fiber to the nearest medium sized city. One example might be any of the communities on Hudson Bay which are fly-in access only.

In previous discussions of the spaceX system, I have mentioned o3b as an example of a new, clean sheet of paper design satellite network that people should familiarize themselves with. The ordinary internet user will rarely if ever see an o3b terminal, since it is at minimum about $45,000 in hardware costs and is a pair of 1.8 meter motorized, multiple axis tracking antennas, modems, BUC + SSPA, etc. o3b is intended for high capacity trunk links to replace a setup like a 6.3 meter Ku-band antenna and dedicated geostationary transponder KHz.

Satellite architecture wise one of the interesting things of the spaceX plan is that the satellites will be in polar orbits (orbital inclinations anywhere from 82 to 105 degrees, not sure exactly). Whereas o3b orbits its satellites at low inclinations around the equator, meaning that their effective coverage area reaches from +/- 45 degrees latitude only.
If you can get a 1Gbps up-link and VPN within China that's going to be harder to track down and could service a lot of people.

However, I suspect SpaceX will however allow China to monitor/limit connections. Further, China has a lot more power to crack down on purely internal operations would deter many.
> It's bad enough that more college students see 'being very well off financially' as a more important goal than helping others (compared to other generations)

That's not surprising, considering that current college students did a lot of their growing up in the aftermath of the housing crash. It's kind of unfair to chide them for being preoccupied with financial stability (or for claiming to be when asked, not the same thing). Meanwhile, what's the messaging like about college today? That you should drop out to start a company, and that if you're studying anything not STEM related you're kind of a dope.

But really, in the link "helping others" is a close second at 65%, only a point behind the boomers and two points ahead of gen x. So, there goes declinism. Millenials are only about 4 points higher than gen-x in "well off financially" (70.8 to 74.4), hardly a generational sea change. The real difference is with the boomers, who come in at 73% "develop a meaningful philosophy of life" and 44% "well off financially". Perhaps rather than rejecting helping others, every generation since the boomers has rejected the solipsism it takes for a college student to list "develop my philosophy" as their primary goal.
And provided very valuable service that has improved life quality for many costumers and drivers.
https://www.instapaper.com/
It's important to see how people will react under pressure, especially in consulting / client-facing gigs. You don't want to hire people whom are thin-skinned, dramatic, insecure or otherwise volatile. Think of these sort of gambits like shittests for candidates.
My impression has been that Swift is still very much seen as an “Apple” language, rather than a cross platform one. Another issue is that there are some operations that lead to crashes if they detect illegal behavior, in the name of providing safety and consistency. Some feel that this kind of behavior is counterproductive in a server environment because it would lead to the server keeling over if something goes wrong.
Did you use the 2.0 beta version or the latest stable release? They improved performance a lot in the 2.0 beta released this month.
High housing costs and long commutes drive more workers to sleep in cars
I'm almost 40 and this sort of thing doesn't bother me whatsoever. If someone wants to spend months flipping through billions of photos of strangers who are trying to lose weight, I couldn't possibly be bothered by it.

In most cases, when I send _anything_ to anyone, I do so accepting the fact that it may one-day end up as public knowledge. That hasn't stopped me from the occasional drunk tweet, but I won't send naked photos of myself to anyone, even privately. If I hadn't regained the 25 lbs I lost last year using MyFitnessPal, I might not mind as much.

That said, I also do my banking online, so I'm not exactly strict about it.
Venture capital's stakes are getting much higher
There are so many ultra-optimistic assumptions in that post it’s hard to pick out just one. If all of those numbers were true it would represent the career/salary growth of an outlier employee. Although I’m sure it does happen every so often, no way the median “rank and file” software engineer at any of these top companies has that kind of outcome.
I don't have any specific examples but it really isn't all that difficult... anything you probably think is important...no one gives a shit about.

Simply explain why I should want to contact you with a unique selling proposition. Why should your customer care about talking to you. That is a single sentence. What are you offering and why does it have immediate value?
Ricky can't help that he was born a cockroach. :(
Mapping Wikipedia economic data using R and ggplot2
If corporations become nation-states it is simply because our government is drastically ineffective. Sad stuff, but it does seem to be happening.
> Normal fiber travels at the speed of light in fiber (which is significantly lower than speed of light in vacuum), and usually takes a route signifiantly longer than a straight line

A rule of thumb is that the speed of light in fibre is 2/3 the speed of light in air, or in a vacuum.
So it seems that yes - this is a generational thing :-)

(I'd be curious to run a straw-poll to find out how many Hackernews ever actually got "photographs developed"...)
Say it like it is: their opinion goes against your indoctrination so you cry out an accusation.

I didn't question him and I didn't downvote him either. You are mixed up. I'm the one calling bullshit here.
A Chinese Startup’s Big Ambition: Amazon for Services
Well if this isn't late stage capitalism, then I don't know what is. In a couple hundred years, I could see this magazine cover being hung up on display in a "museum of capitalism".

As other commenters have pointed out, it's certainly better than celebrity gossip, and probably not any worse than the other crap they would be exposed to. Entrepreneurship is a fantastic thing to promote, and being a social media star is certainly more fun and lucrative than being a 9-5 office drone with health insurance.

But there's something insidious about priming teenagers into this materialistic mindset, that the way to "make it" is to gain a large social media following competing in a shallow clickbait-ridden space, where only the top 1% or so can ever make it anyways (not everybody can be a social media star, just like not everybody can make a living as a musician. Our attention span is limited).

I don't have a problem with this magazine. This magazine is simply a sad reflection of our hypercapitalist reality.
Cronometer and Carb manager are better
The problem is twofold from a China perspective:

a) the rooftop CPE needs to be reasonably large and have high gain to be used effectively, and needs clear unobstructed line of sight to as much of the sky and horizon as possible.

and

b) It needs to transmit, it will transmit in very known frequency ranges, and the chinese authorities have plenty of budget to buy portable spectrum analyzers, horn antennas and to reach people how to use them. It only takes a couple of hours maximum to reach somebody how to use a portable spectrum analyzer to physically locate and identify transmitters in almost any band.
And those people who would be interested in smuggled ground terminals will already be using VPNs. Maybe this will be more convienient and possibly somewhat safer, but not it won't be a game-changer for even a minority (at least not in the firewall problem, general internet connectivity in rural China is another issue)
So this is for stationary internet only, not for mobile.
I'm sorry, but it's completely self evident. The point was that the natural right to perform/produce a service/product should be the null hypothesis (as opposed to government removing that right and granting it at their discretion) in any such case; and while on the extremes the answers may seem obvious (launching communication satellites vs braiding hair), it's often not always so. Finally, I concluded that people should ideally care about this before it adversely affects them. In other words, the OP's post was not without reason.
Vaulted API keys with lifecycle management.
Tooling outside of Mac I imagine is lacking as well. I also asume libraries outside of Mac too? Strong standard libraries make languages easier to adopt. Go had a web server out of the box removing the whole "which web library do I use?" element out of the equation.
It won't happen "simply" because our government is drastically ineffective. It will happen because there are a large number of Americans ideologically committed to the notion that government despite what the rest of us believe and know.
I know C#, learned it over winter break a few years ago, but have not used it for 3+ years in a professional setting. That's the issue. Even if I try to make hobby apps with it, nobody will hire me for a job using it. Unless I look for entry-level jobs, but even then a recent college grad is a better choice than me.
Great News!
I think it's entirely personal, and I wouldn't judge anybody for being less, er, voyeuristic than me.

I'm kinda into it TBH.

From my perspective, what's the worse that could happen? Russia already has my dick pics, probably. If someone sent them to my mom, I'd say, "mom, don't look at those." If they sent them to my employer, I'd say "hey guys, looks like I was hacked lol." Probably wouldn't be fired over it and if I was I could just get a different job. If it somehow blew up on the internet I'd just become an anonymous remote contract worker or something.

This is kind of a fun exercise in threat management actually, the threat being my dadbod being exposed. Maybe I'm not taking it seriously enough? I know people that have had naked pictures of them exposed and it was traumatizing for them. For some reason I just don't think it would be for me.

EDIT: That's not to say the exposure wouldn't be an objectively shitty thing to do... just because I think I can handle it doesn't mean anybody else should have to worry about this kind of thing happening to them.
What Netflix might have looked like in 1995 – Dangerous Minds
But the PC was open quite by accident, and that enabled cloners to rise up, and that allowed the PC platform to get inside the OODA loop of Commodore, Atari, and Apple. As great as those machines were in the early days, betting the whole company on coming up with a perfect cinnamon roll of a whole-system design can't keep up when the market has many companies making video hardware, companies making sound hardware, companies making mobos, companies making memory, and companies plugging them all together and they Just Work. Compatible systems with superior specs to the 5150, and lower prices, emerged in almost negligible time after the 5150's release, and it was only a matter of time before even the gap with the mighty Amiga would be closed. This is why the engineers at SGI ended up making video cards for PCs. If Commodore had had the best management team in the world, eventually they would have ended up primarily producing PC compatibles and/or PC preripherals, because by the early 90s the open ISA (and later PCI) architecture and the reasonable-for-the-time license terms of DOS became VERY convenient Schelling points for the entire industry.
Study: Number of High-Skilled Immigration Visas Quadruples Legal Cap
Same with schools. If they’re from Stanford I guarantee the article will mention it. If they’re from Generic State University they won’t (unless the article is for GSU’s campus paper).
Except when you get to the part about “the rest of the passwords were hashed with SHA1”...
>bring in a few

Bring in a few from where? Where do you think these devices will be manufactured anyway? ;)
If you use it despite bad UX due to speed, it must mean that they have great PMfit though?
What is China going to do when their citizens have access to the Internet via these Satellites?
Why I have a feeling that we gonna have now news.. "Oh, we are doing all this only to help you better".
Thats why we collect your sms, locations and phonecalls data.
I believe any brand loyalty metric would be helpful if tracked consistently over time. If sales are climbing and loyalty is cratering it's time for the board to step in and ask questions.
Why Stormy Daniels story is in fact, stormy -personal responsibility decoded
the sell data on bonkers!
I should have looked up HOC before I wrote that bit -- Higher Order Components do not seem like a particuarly bad design decision, but IIRC this pattern was introduced somewhere around the launch of React 16?

Also, I'm not sure the characterization as a factory is correct, seems closer to higher order functions (at the very least name wise), and/or enhancing features by composition.
Absolutely agree: a86/d86 and later a386/d386 were my go-to assemblers for the early-to-mid PC era. Great macro facilities, library tools, listing files, and very fast.

a86 works great under DOSBOX but, sadly, d86 does not. I'm stuck using Turbo Debugger. Which, as tools of the time go, wasn't at all shabby and DOSBOX emulates it very well.
Authorize.net rejects customer emails containing “+”
7-8 seconds? Something definitely sounds misconfigured. I've been running a 1.1.x cluster for quite a while and I've never seen a single row transaction take that long. And even the slowest queries took at most ~500ms, and that was with:

- Replication factor increased to 5x (rather than the 3x default)
- 8 indexes on the table being modified which also needed to be updated
- Nodes spread across North America, incurring higher RTT latency between nodes
- Relatively high contention on the data triggering client-side retries
- HDD's as the storage medium (RockDB is optimized for SSDs)
Why was it uncalled for? He exposed himself to underaged girls multiple times. He thinks that he deserves a high paying programming job after that. I disagree and apparently most of the employers do too.
I found it quaint that NYC buildings skip the 13th floor.
And that period, alas, was all too brief.
From their CS department, per the above page:

'I've reached our to our developers and engineers,
since this is a highly unusual question. They have
confirmed that our system does not allow that character,
and that this is an intentional decision. They provided
the following reason as an explanation of why that
decision was made:

"It is a security issue. We do not allow the special
characters so that hackers cannot do SQL injection in
the field"
It will not affect it in any way. They have released their plans for Starlink and there will be a "blackout" zone over China, so China doesn't shoot down their satellites. In 2007, China shot down FY-1C as a test of a kinetic kill vehicle (leaving tons of high speed space debris). Unless they receive approval from China to broadcast, they won't over China.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-internet-satellite-con...
If they are certified, welders have taken a test that uses x-ray to determine if they are a good welder. You could have your own welds tested....might ease your mind a bit. https://goo.gl/jrECSv
What is the big advancement here compared to say Hughes Satellite Internet that is slower then DSL?
Tesla Looked Like the Future, Now Some Ask If It Has One
How to message a stranger for a job referral without being annoying
Any EU/EEA citizen has the right to settle in Denmark or Norway, so if getting in directly is hard, just get citizenship in another EU/EEA country first.
>vehiculates the concept of identity as a first citizen.

What the heck does that even mean?