skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also know the model of device you have, its retail price, and possibly what cellular carrier you have.

They've also got your e-mail address, which has some predictive value for income. And access to your contacts, which likely includes the names / e-mail addresses / mailing addresses / phone numbers of people with which you interact. If you have an entry for yourself with your address, they can probably know your home's value and whether or not you're listed as an owner.

With enough cross-referencing between users, I imagine they could get a reasonably good guess.
If he has Windows 10 he could even go WSL, forgot about it.
iCLaner (sic), bluetooth grill and scraper that lets you know when to clean, only 19.99 per month
> lack of willingness to have a long-term view and wanting immediate ROI

This is the core of your comment, and the rest of it describes the whole mess more concisely & articulately than nearly anything I've read.

It's indisputable that being willing to train less experienced people leads to wasted money in the many cases where it doesn't work out. To those with attention spans longer than 6 months, however, it's equally indisputable that when it's done properly and does work out, it tends to more than make up for all the 'wasted' cases where it did not.

There is a ton of untapped, eager talent out there just waiting for a chance. You may have to wade through a lot of duds to get a good hire, but in my view there is no better way to acquire dedicated employees who actually care about the longer term well being of the company.
> why shouldn't we charge people who are more affluent more than those who are poor?

Some places have this thing called "public transportation" that is typically financed in this way.
A lot of these ideas assume childless adults. Bringing kids into things makes everything a lot different.
If your event loop is as slow as 1000+ coroutines or OS threads, you are doing it very very wrong.
I know, 70 years ago these phones would cost half a billion.
Omitting the “o” in .com Could Be Costly
He isn't wrong about the Cotton folks as they see hemp as a threat. There is a slight scale difference when great plains farmers (see North Dakota in WWII) can raise a lot of crop. I think its more a unfounded fear then real, but it will probably have a year of lower profits due to novelty when legalized.
This is the part I don’t understand. You know you can specify the stack size explicitly in POSIX? I can set the stack size to the same 2k in Go and have less overhead. The only difference is it won’t auto-expand like in Go.
Ask HN: What's your method to find and fix annoying bugs?
Debugging code you've written is way easier then debugging code you've inherited.

How do you find and fix a bug from legacy software?

What's your entry point?
Is it intuition? What tools do you use?
Amazon launched a social media platform? I am a Prime member, and had no clue. I'm not sure I would have been interested had I known, but this may be a marketing failure as much as anything else.
The opposite thing happens to me though - with regards to communicating with the telecom company. I usually do it over the phone, ensuring that I get escalated to their Customer Care manager, who in essence, have more power to give you better deals. I find most of the staff at kiosks for Telecom companies are only focused on selling, and does not have any power to provide you a deal that you cannot resist.
How is it that the manufacturers haven't had a class action put their way? I mean, they are knowingly making a product that fails in regular usage in a way that is almost impossible to prevent or detect completely.

I'd suggest these types of scrapers be legislated against since they are incapable of being used safely in reasonable intended usage.
There's definitely an element of this. My grandmother's basement was full of junk (in a very real sense - growing up in the War she could never throw away a jam jar or bottle). Now I don't know anyone with a basement, even a spare bedroom is luxury in London.
Because the freedom to switch is often a luxury. At the minimum, it requires foresight, which many lack. At the maximum, it requires buying the same thing twice.
"In fairness, the system deployed in Saudi Arabia — the
Patriot Advanced Capability-2 or PAC-2 — is not well
designed to intercept the Burkan-2 missiles that the Houthis
are firing at Riyadh. The Burkan-2 flies around 600 miles
and appears to have a warhead that separates from the
missile itself."

Seriously? The system can't intercept threads it wasn't designed to? That's the article?
Redux – Not Dead Yet
Its _almost_ like, and tell me if I'm crazy here, that Facebook may prefer making changes that benefit it while _appearing_ as if it were benefiting consumers.

Like surface-level changes that look good in a congressional hearing but actually just raise prices and increase ad-spending to maintain the same result.
The XRP was already sold ahead of time.
China seems to be somewhere that is happy with short term solutions without considering longer term impacts.
I didn't even know it existed. But, even if I did, why would I use it? Most products have a few hundred reviews that are already present, that I can use to decide if it's a good product or not. It definitely doesn't help it's cause, that it's only available for Prime users. Oh, it comes with some user uploaded images? Prepare to filter through a barrage of unprofessional images, that are too dark to even make out the product.

It almost feels like this product was conceived by someone's kid, and they allowed it's release to give him/her a participation trophy. Then abruptly afterward swept it under the rug, afraid someone might behold the abomination.

It:
-Has no market use.
-Has terrible application.
-Has no marketing, other than this article.
The supply isn't infinite, and they won't create more.
This should be regulated internationally by the UN. This solution is like turning on the AC when it's hot out. It won't make it less hot outside and you will need more and more electricity to power the AC as the world heats up from increased CO2 levels.

This technology releases significant amounts of CO2 and as the Earth's temperature rises from increased greenhouse gas concentrations, solutions such as these will show diminishing returns because the technology they are built upon only worsens the underlying problem by producing significant amounts of the gas causing the problem in the first place.

Disappointing approach to solving climate change and mitigating it's impacts.
If you like a wire brush for the grill, go to a hardware store, and buy a wire brush with really coarse bristles. They are probably in the paint section, or with the welding supplies, not the BBQ grill section. The bristles are about an inch long and quite stiff.
start a blog series.
Yes they should bake and throw away two waffles to be extra sure that they get all of the bristles
It wasn't designed to, but the system keeps being deployed to defend against these threats. Leads to a question: What's the point of continuing to deploy something that, by all (unclassified) accounts, seems to have no real utility?
Very simple way to avoid it. DON'T USE UBER
Thanks for sharing.

> I didn't know a janitor who thought that nurses or doctors didn't do valuable work (greatly more valuable than their own).

More than once I've heard staff (not janitors though) talking depreciatively about doctors (e.g. "he thinks he knows everything", "he said X but my uncle says Y").

I think if you read what I wrote a bit more charitably you'll see that my point wasn't really about janitors. I used them figuratively to comment on OP's attitude that seemed like the terrible combination that is confidence and ignorance.
Complacency is the right word. Loyalty gets redefined as complacency that can be exploited.
I thought they turned my iPhone into a Zune for a second.
That's the first claim the article makes. But it makes a much stronger one further down.
I am going to shamelessly link to a blog post where I answered this exact question.

https://sheep.horse/2018/3/podcasts_worth_listening_to.html

My interests tend towards history, film, and music.
Onion Inc. Has Unionized – Is This Real?
I would argue that they are not simply repeating the same motions over and over again, but adjusting with real time feedback, making the speed and error rates dynamic rather than static numbers.
Just to get things right, I said:

> It is much simpler, naturally more performant, and quite easy to reason about

That is, easy to reason about, not easier to reason about. Technically, preemptive scheduling is harder to reason about, but the point of it all is that you get to pretend it doesn't exist. Thus, from a high-level perspective, preemptive is easier than cooperative.

However, cooperative scheduling is very easy to reason about, like in the case of ECMAScript. In ECMAScript, most API's are async, but you can write "await" to preempt a task and wait for promise completion. In Go, things that cause blocking (I/O, synchronization primitives) automatically preempt.
i'm not sure how it would need bluetooth, just a decent mechanical setup would work.
Choosing the Best Linux Distro for Desktop (2018)
It's pretty easy to get running on Windows since 1.0 or whatnot, in my experience. I just ran `pip3 install --upgrade tensorflow-gpu` and do that on every release and it works just dandy. You get a binary wheel of course, so the install is quick and painless.

I did have to install a new cudnn 7 DLL recently after moving to 1.5 (or 1.6) with CUDA 9. That's about it.

I don't use all the fancier tools though (e.g. loading from GCS/S3 buckets etc, just local data for me). But everything seems to works just fine these days, it seems.
It depends a great deal on the complexity of the problem you are trying to solve. If you are pre-selling a solution to a problem that you have never solved then this is a recipe for disaster IMO. That is unless you have significant funds to invest in hiring people that have done it. This is not a knock on your skills to assemble something, but if you have never solved it you may estimate it will take you 1 month, and in reality it winds up taking 6 and you will have likely oversold your abilities too early harming your reputation for at least a portion of time.

Of course, if you have solved the problem before but think you could do it as a product and sell it, than a lot of the risk and unknowns are removed so you can be way more aggressive.

Personally, I like to market and get firm commitments, plus build up a list of needs as the product is being developed. And as soon as I can I start converting some of those commitments into sales by putting them on the system, I get them paying. This means some might be able to be on it in a month, others might have to wait 3 months while specific features are flushed out.

To me there is real exposure and risk to taking money for a product you can't deliver quickly (~30 days). Tesla is selling refundable reservations which is different and even then they have a material exposure if a large portion of reservations decided they wanted to back out. Also remember, there are banking rules around presales and credit card transactions especially as it relates to refunds, charge backs etc.
at first read, my thought was "oh, Amazon's getting into building fortified towns. that makes sense in Trumpistan..."
> fluoride water

So... tap water? Most countries add flouride to their tap water because it improves dental health. Unless you're a redneck screaming about alien mind control, that isn't some crazy scary chemical compound.

> soy sauce with sodium beonzoate

*Sodium Benzoate

Again, perfectly boring salt that reduces pH. Not some scary mind control substance, just a salt you can produce at home.

> sodium nitrate-laden

Every preserved meat in the world. Also found naturally in Chile.

> pesticide- and preservative-laden bread

Pretty much been the case since humans found out about vinegar. I wouldn't call < 1% in total to be "laden" though, unless you're eating an awful lot of bread.

> yellow #5

You realize that was a myth that it would reduce your sperm count right? There is a segment of the population that has a sensitivity to it, but it's pretty small.

> heats up frozen soup in a plastic bag

Again, most plastics are rated for this. Also helps cut down on glass shards in your food, or badly sanitized cookware giving you the runs.

I'm sorry, but your points here aren't some ultimate "gotcha", they're just anti-scientific scaremongering. I'd tell you to stock up on tinfoil for those hats, but I heard that causes alzheimer's.
This means we should try to recover original many varieties of the tomato.
Because in less than 50 years we killed most of them.

Compared to that widespread action, GMO is safe as it is thoroughly tested. Though diversity is not being increased with it either.
It’s also always worth thinking about the health impact of eating a lot of restaurant/fast/chain food simply from a nutritional perspective. If you’re eating a double quarter pounder with cheese, fries and a soda, the actual food is by far the worst part of the experience. The carcinogenic and cardiovascular downsides of such a fatty, low fiber, high sugar and sodium diet are profound and well understood.

A friend of mine recently came to me with an article that a “chemical found in silly putty” was found in fry oil. They were horrified, but I pointed out that it’s known to be inert. They were still horrified. I pointed out that to get a mg of the stuff, you’d have to eat half a kilogram of fry oil (not a kg of fries, but oil). If you’re packing in half s kilo of grease, it’s not the mg of additive you should be worried about!
I thought this title was referring to the euphemism.
Optimise Jest in CI and save hours a week (literally)
IMO writing from the third world, it is almost always a safer bet to eat from an established fast food chain franchise, than restaurants, due to the poor state of regulation and enforcement of food safety standards. At least the chain franchise will have some guidelines on the quality of food, which ensures atleast that the food is not deadly if not healthy, where as with traditional restaurants all bets are off.
> The only difference is it won’t auto-expand like in Go.

Well yeah that’s the difference I was talking about.
Sure, what if the rent/mortgage you pay per square foot in your home is greater than the rent for a storage locker down the road? And there are reasonable use cases for medium-long term storage, such as seasonal items. I don't know how many people use them this way, but I can see reasonable uses too.
That is already the case for the cooperative green threads that goroutines currently comprise of.
Yes, walk or bike >30 miles between cities before getting on an airplane for work. Your fellow passengers in coach will appreciate your odiferous devotion to the environment.

Sometimes the comments in here are truly insane. How could you even suggest walking or biking between two California cities?

Just to add to the hilarity of your "global warming machine", here's a Google breakdown of the THIRTEEN HOUR WALK you suggested that this man take https://www.google.com/maps/dir/San+Diego+International+Airp...
This constant struggle against not being abused is a real pain. Very unpleasant. Although it probably works for people who are aggressive by nature and live to fight.
We're getting enough candidates, but many good ones are simply turned off at some point because the salary or position doesn't match the high expectations we implicitly set.

This, in turn, results in a process of exclusion during the process more than actual evaluation (which then begs the question: why put such high requirements?).

I'm pretty sure we're discarding individuals which are just too afraid or see themselves too conservatively. I'm not afraid to say that I ended up in my position by pure chance, and probably wouldn't pass the hiring method we currently use, despite being here for quite a long time.
Because I don't want my meat to be covered in the ashes, the burnt food particles add bad flavors, ash-covered food looks unappealing, burning off hanging chunks of fat causes excess smoke, and ash-covered food is more difficult to visually measure doneness.

Pre-oiling your metal grates should be done to prevent sticking and burning off excess food particles should be done to prevent build-up.
Bottom line - it depends on life expectancy and rate of return on investment. In my case it's hands-down the best bet to take the £1m now. For her, an 18 year old, it's not. It's nice to have that option and she was smart for consulting a financial advisor.
AFAIK the main benefit to coroutines is getting to manually manage tiny stacks.

For example, in Go, they mark a goroutine's stack as "hasn't executed since the last time we marked", which makes GC with thousands of threads a lot faster.
You’re the fourth person on a tech site, out of five who commented, who didn’t even know it existed. That’s pretty telling.
Isn't "-man" an abbreviation of "human"? Justin Trudeau made a gaffe recently when an audience member referred to "mankind" and he erroneously insisted that she instead use the term "peoplekind". Surely "humankind" would be the term requested, if one felt the need to be pedantic.
Ocean Networks Canada Data Preview
Yeah, I've seen the reality TV shows where they auction these things off, even the cherry-picked units for TV are like 1/2 absolute junk that literally goes strait into a dumpster.
Never heard of this podcast before. Thanks for sharing it.
Are phthalates bad?
Definitely the result of larger companies with fewer competitions. Around my area there is usually one or two specific providers for any service, for example internet. If they hike the price, there's nowhere else to go.
First of, the episodes that Jerry Colonna took part in in Gimlet Media's podcasts, which are:

https://www.gimletmedia.com/startup/shadowed-qualities-seaso...

https://www.gimletmedia.com/startup/running-a-family-and-a-b...

https://www.gimletmedia.com/startup/sell-apartment-keep-star...

And then I'd recommend Jerry's own podcast series: The Reboot Podcast
From Meathead at amazingribs.com:

Grease and oils get rancid, particularly in hot weather, and rancid grease on the grates can make your food taste bad. Rancid grease on the bottom of the grates can vaporize and flavor the food, too.

The black crust on the grates is mostly carbon. It tastes bad. In addition carbon insulates the grates and can stick to food. So it is vital that your food go on clean grates.
Oh look another negative article about Uber.

Also they are struggling to make money and they just killed an innocent woman. I wonder if the lawsuit or lawsuits from their murder prompted by following the startup adage move fast, break things and learn will cause them irreparable harm?

Does anyone know if the victim has next of kins?
Fortunately, there's a sucker born every day:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-raytheon-poland-patriot/p...
We are paying for this now though. Soil depletion is a thing, as is the increase in pesticide use.

GMO are currently being deployed to fix the pesticide problem without breaking the economics...
Burger King and McDonald's are "fast food places".

TGI Fridays is a "chain restaurant" if we want to distinguish it from a "restaurant".
The Rise of Edge Compute
I read one theory that products like Amazon Spark or Facebook Mail exist to ward off antitrust regulators' attention by giving the appearance of more competition between tech giants without having a serious expectation of success. I'm not sure if that's true but it's interesting to consider.
I work there and have never heard of it.
I though it was one of the many AWS products. I would have guessed one that sends email/SMS, etc.
Agree. Some seem more geared for people who majored in it in undergrad, while professional degrees seem more forgiving on background.
That's exactly where I'm at. I downsized to a much smaller house, and I keep a lot of my uncommonly used and seasonal equipment in there. I'll be swapping out my snowblower for my lawnmower and grill pretty soon. I pay an extra monthly fee for the storage unit, of course, and it's not very convenient to have to drive a few miles to reach it... but my overall living expenses have been so dramatically reduced by living in a much smaller house, that it's an obvious win.

This article's headline is weirdly condescending; the "personal junk" I own are things I value, and the self storage industry has provided an efficient way for me to store it without having to own a gigantic house or a shed.
Everything is exponential. If most people are a 1 or 2, and Elon is a 3 - that's a huge lead/advantage that on an exponential scale puts him more than a little ahead.
In other words, it's waterproof.

Serious question, though: Do any of you actually use SD cards, I mean other than inserting a card the day you get the phone and leaving it in place forever? What's the use-case for inserting and removing storage?
Producing movies that clearly list where and by whom they are made is not propaganda. That's just a movie. Most countries produce movies and sell them abroad.
Why do you consider people from Chicago moving to the South "refugees"? They are moving for better weather, lower taxes, and more jobs. Those are very normal reasons, not "refugee" reasons.

Moving to the South is not a lower-class Chicago specific thing, in fact wealthy Jews are moving from New York to Florida. Are they refugees too?
Everything in business can be analyzed as data
I don't think so. Its a common argument that generally available products should be safe by default, not safe because of training. The reply is a bit of a straw man, there's obviously nuances to that stance. In this case, expecting _everyone_ to know exactly how a wire brush is unsafe is not realistic. If there weren't alternatives, well, there wouldn't be much to do. But in this case, there's plenty of safe alternatives to wire brushes, thus a strong argument can be made that they should simply be banned.
"Shit", mostly.

I actually can't think of a collective term that I would use for these places. If someone asked what a McDonalds was, I'd honestly probably reply "It's a fast food place that sells shitty burgers"
Well that is diabolical, and a very plausible theory. It does explain some of the more oddball products put out by large dominate companies.
Orson Scott Card wrote a decent but weird scifi book on this premise called "Pastwatch: The redemption of Christopher Columbus." It contains a really graphic description of how a time traveling character convinces the Mayans to trust him by pulling spikes out of his penis. Weird but interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastwatch:_The_Redemption_of_C...
I'm more interested in a greater availability of locally sourced hemp-based nutrition. Hemp seeds are great for you: http://www.purehealingfoods.com/hempHeartsInfo.php
Or maybe the United States and many countries they influence are off the list of potential customers for hemp products so if their economy is reliant on exporting it may not make sense to overhaul everything to a system that is pretty much designed not to make money.
Storage units are also quite nice if you are renting and want to be able to move every 1-3 years for the variety of reasons people do so. Keeping the bulk of your low frequency of use items in storage both reduces what you need from an apartment, and keeps you from needing to move all that crap with the rest of your stuff. You pack your clothes, throw your sofa, bed and TV in the back of a friend's truck, and you're done before lunch.
Ask HN: Strategies for mentoring junior developers?
Software development companies are often willing to hire developers who need a lot of guidance and direction. (Developers who can’t excel without help.) But a large segment of these companies have no strategy or program in place to help such developers reach proficiency and independence.

What are some good, holistic approaches for helping train up-and-coming developers all the way to “senior developer” skill level?