skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not gonna bother quoting you to fisk you. Your approach towards my evidence is weak overall. I'm gonna throw more evidence at you.

Miller and Dean Tribble have been working on WeakRefs lately: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-weakrefs

Crockford's personal site no longer has the original JSON description, and neither does the Wayback Machine, but his site does still have a section on E: http://www.crockford.com/

In this talk [0], Crockford discusses the origin of JSON. He mentions working with Chip Morningstar (this guy http://habitatchronicles.com/2017/05/what-are-capabilities/) and has oblique references to his prior work. He doesn't bother to explain what he was doing during the 90s here, and at this point social interaction becomes required to learn more.

'hammering the ES peg in the E hole' is wrong. They're hammering the E peg into the ES hole. Not all of us believe in this approach; some of us think that JS is irredeemable and that we should keep iterating with languages like Pony and Monte which expand on the original E concepts.

Like I said, kicking and screaming. I don't know why you all kick and scream so much, but you do.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C-JoyNuQJs
I've been working professionally as an engineer for almost 5 years, the past two in dedicated DevOps / SRE capacities. At my current firm, which is a large global company, I make 150k/yr + variable bonus (usually ~%20).

This is in NYC. I kind of hate the work, though. Would much prefer to go back to a pure programming role as I miss the problem solving and analytical aspect of coding. SRE is a lot of plumbing and then twiddling config files or sitting on the line with cloud support. But it is cool to bring up huge clusters at the click of a button.
> When i'm using Google Maps, sometimes i have a feeling that you're not using the product you have produced.

I have this feeling all the time with Maps. I remember distinctly a time in Boston when I was almost late for a meeting. I was running down the street looking for the office building (first time in town) and using Maps to find my way.

But Maps wouldn't let me look at a map. At all. It decided that "shake to provide feedback" was far more important and as I was in a rush down the street, was interrupted every 1-2 seconds by a huge popup in Maps, preventing me from using the product at all when I needed it.

Yes, I know the setting can be turned off. But what kind of default setting is that? Don't let the user use your product? Pretty sure nobody in the Android Maps team had let the office building once before that feature was shipped. It simply rendered the product unusable.

Edit: I don't mean to detract from the product. It's an incredible product. Obviously. But it has simple flaws that seem clear if you use Maps for even 1 day as a regular person.
Both options will break mixins.

function CatDog () {
Cat.apply(this, arguments);
}

CatDog.prototype = Object.assign(Dog.prototype, Cat.prototype);

In the above example, CatDog is not an instance of Cat, since it never actually inherits from the Cat prototype.
Annoyed by Facebook, here is the email you need to send
89up Is Hiring a Senior Python Developer. Europe's First Impact Agency, London
The original right to be forgotten case was about how a guy in Spain couldn't get cheap credit because of past defaults.

It arguably is in the public interest for creditors to know whether or not someone has defaulted in the past. It allows society to lend money at reasonable rates.

And it's interesting that the European court found that the Spanish newspaper that originally published had no obligation to remove this information, but the foreign tech company that simply relays this existing publication should change how it does business.

There were no new rules for the Spanish government. That very government literally ordered the publication as a matter of public interest in the first place. Why change anything at the source?

If someone were cynical, they might suspect the right to be forgotten had a touch of protectionism baked into its rationale, alongside the European idealism.
I found this article helpful: https://web-in-security.blogspot.com/2015/09/practical-inval...

Essentially, a bunch of ECC implementations didn't do proper bounds checking and leaked data. ECC still offers a lot of benefits in terms of key size, performance, and security, however, so do your research carefully.
Well, they made an economic tradeoff, and now people have been injured. As the famous comic says: "But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”
Fortunately, use of Facebook isn't required by law.
> And tell me, in case you had to "make hard decisions" like "throwing 10% of team under the bus in form of layoffs" what would you do instead? That's exactly one of the cases where the skills of an engineer are the last a company needs.

Layoffs are an effect of organizational dysfunction. In which case, the responsibility lies squarely on the shoulders of management. It’s just that there is a perverse incentive structure in most corporations, so 10% of the team gets laid off to continue to pay for the exorbitant bonuses and lifestyles of management.
> GDPR is ripe for the same treatment

Nonsense. Patent litigation allows trolls to sue for and receive damages from the other party. GDPR violations lead to fines fines that go to the government; the plaintiff does not receive damages.

Law firms working GDPR cases will only make money off of their clients, not from the companies they bring suits against.

This is fundamentally different from patent law.
Ctrl+shift+v pastes without formatting
3D Home Printing for the Developing World
The irony being that Musk pushed the original engineers out of Tesla and took credit for their work.
the Russian trolls have pretty much taken over HN at this point wrt political discussion. either that or Silicon Valley really really loves Putin and hates democracy. Any criticism of extremist right wing politics gets immediately flagged and downvoted into irrelevance.
Same here, was a mid-90s Health Science major spending way too much time playing an LPMud. Started to learn how to build my own areas, got hooked, and switched to Computer Science the following fall.
Year-Round Home Gardening System – Need Feedback
Hello!

We’re looking to launch our product later this year and would love to hear some feedback from the community. Here is the product video: https://vimeo.com/263023056

Aero is an indoor vertical garden that utilizes aeroponics technology. This allows you to grow just about any leafy greens and herbs any time of the year without ever needing sunlight and soil. Think of farming, but without the mess involved with it.

Aero simplifies farming into three easy steps:

1. Add the seeds of your favorite leafy green, herb, or flower to the top of each growing tray.

2. Turn on the system.

3. Harvest when ready.

We want to cater towards a luxury audience, with real carrara marble and brushed, gold anodized aluminum components. The tower dimensions are approximately 2 ft * 2 ft * 2 ft.

Please comment your critiques and how much you think it should cost. Thanks! If you name the price that we end up going with we will send you a free tower!

Check out our website and sign up for the newsletter to receive updates on the product!
http://aero.inventum.bio/shop/
Ok but you haven't answered my question - does he really have a "shallow view from 35,000ft"?

You said "He isn’t in the field and no one I know who is in the field seem to know even his name" but the article I linked to seems to clearly indicate he is in the field - can you reconcile the two?

You also said "I have zero clue on what is his contribution to the field" but the linked article does seem to cover this. Is it wrong?
VLC is great-- it's what I use for viewing RTSP on my LAN.
Yeah, I hope its something like that because if he actually thinks the commit is a good idea then he really is taking the piss.
I recently picked up 3k again after a 10-15 year hiatus. It's still going on, with a ton of changes from the last time I played. I came back to it after a nasty breakup, and it's the one thing consistently keeping my mind occupied from day to day. Totally glad I came back to it.
I am not sure what the employment status of the attacker or the victims has to do with your post, other than being a dig at the "obviously stupid people who think they can make money on Youtube". Let's also call out all the obviously stupid people who think they can make money from a startup.

There are many popular creators on YouTube earning an honest full-time living from the YouTube platform, some even have more lucrative relationships with YouTube(e.g. Slo Mo Guys, Vsauce). It's hyperbole to compare them to beggars on the street. Is that income absolutely secure? No, but that seems to kinda be the trend we're heading towards, where fewer jobs provide income security. Should YouTube be more open and transparent about demonetizing content? Yes, especially considering their effective monopoly on the indie video-on-demand scene, and parent Google's effective monopoly on internet ads.
Discussed this in the other thread, but there's nothing stopping YouTube from doing a video tagging system and making creators tag their works.

Softly (the toilet paper brand) simply deselects 'pranks' as a tag to advertise on.
A few years ago there was a nice government report here in Sweden on gender segregation for teachers, and guess what they wrote? Hordes of men revealing patterns of regular and constant discrimination, very similar to that in technological fields today, and cited research which points that any work place which is dominated by a single gender has a tendency to create a discriminating culture against the minority.

I would bet that if one looked at the drop rates of male nurse students it will look very similar to that of female programming students. If one looked at the reason cited why they decide to drop it will align to very similar answer, where the minority will cite an increase self-doubt and low support. If one looked at the rate people leave the field after working the first year, again we will likely find identical reason for programmers where many will citing clashing work culture as a top reason for leaving the profession. Looking at those staying after 3-4 year, again there is a similar pattern where the minority will move towards specialization (sub groups of the profession) where there is a higher ratio of members of the minority.

We have medical specializations which have a gender segregation that is above 99%, where for every person of the minority gender there is several hundreds of the majority. Why do such extreme segregation exist where both men and women has equal access to the same profession?
I don't think 'entitled people will come and shoot at our employees' is something that any normal business should have to plan for.
Of course not. Facebook's entire business model is to be as creepy as possible and harvest as much personal information as they can.
I can't comment on the acid attacks, I doubt they're common.

But the knife vs gun argument is also very clear cut to me. It takes very little effort or training to point a barrel and pull a trigger from across several meters or a courtyard.

While a knife is actually not so easy to get into an expecting person. The knife would be most effective against unsuspecting persons but once a struggle breaks out it's down to physical strength and training.

The knife vs gun thing hits close to home too because one of the very few school rampages performed here by an unbalanced student was actually performed with a sword because that's the only weapon the student was able to put their hands on. Despite being relatively far north in the country where there are more people with hunting licenses.

And sure enough I believe they did manage to murder at least one person, it was a teacher or a teacher's aide who defended the other students. But that's where it ended. It requires significant strength and training to go on a killing spree with melee weapons, compared to firearms.
What about Firefox?
> Why do we care so much about design?

Well, in the article they specifically say the site is confusing to newcomers, and they're trying to fix that problem. So that's why.
I wanted to add that your father probably has his own shit he is trying to process. Maybe he is worried about money and doesn't want to let go of his mealticket. Maybe he has difficulty trusting others. So what would happen if he handed over 50% of the company? Maybe he's worried that by you asking for equity that you're trying to take away what is his.
I know! I know! That's how stupid I felt writing the comment but I still had to say it because it's just that obvious to me.

And every single time people counter with the same arguments.

Background checks.

Knives.

Statistics.
>Surprise surprise, he's the founder of a company selling a service to help people erase shit from google.

You mean like all of the other front page links about people selling their stuff? Or people who blatantly link directly to product pages when Apple or Google or MS launches the next shiny thing? I bet if we go through your comment history we'll see that you were all up in arms when people posted those too!!

>Not Quite A Classic Submarine Article (thank you for the correction, thisisit!). Just an overt marketing piece in this case.

You forgot hes also wearing a very specific sweater, pants and glasses. I bet he got paid to pimp those too! Oh and and a book behind him was suspiciously placed a bit weird to attract your attention. You're totally on the right track here buddy ! /s

>Way to go NPR.. doing the tough journalism, really pounding the pavement here.

NPR didn't submit or upvote the article. Oh wait.. do they have bots?
Robot Bingo – Live Game Powered by AWS Lambda+Transcribe
If wanton violence against random employees of a company is a rational response in your mind to ad policies, I don't know what to tell you.

Maybe get some help.
Just for context:

1) Site isolation is not enabled in Chrome yet.

2) As far as I can tell, there are no plans to enable it in Chrome on Android even when it's enabled on desktop.

Yes, this would mean SharedArrayBuffer on desktop but not Android.
Yeah, and free speech and workers rights tend to be two separate questions.
It looks like it depends how you group the causes around it. A more easily defensible way to put it is that around one in ten US workplace deaths are caused by homicide.
That could be rather useful - many thanks.
As an aside, I used to follow various organisations' RSS feeds from Facebook, before that was shut down. It was a great way to keep up with their activities.
VLC does the job but what you really want to do is run ffmpeg against it and generate HLS
Tend to agree. This article from January 2018 is pretty on point https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/01/11/brutal-lifecycle-javas...
Ask HN: Blogging to get contracting/job leads?
How many of you have received contracting or job leads purely from blogs/articles you've written? What sort of posts were they, and for what sort of client? Are they heavily domain-specific, or more broad in nature? How valuable is this as a source of leads vs. other means (e.g. in-person networking, referrals by past clients, etc.). Do you have other advice here?

My own short story stolen from a co-worker: they had written an article on basic vagrant setup of popular open-source online school software (think edX, Canvas, etc.). This had eventually resulted in a contact by an agency doing work on that platform, who needed contract hours. I was always struck by how relatively "cheap" an ad this article was, and liked that it did provide value in the dev community.
You can create geo-zones for your MongoDB shards. [1] It has pretty powerful geo-spatial queries too, but that's unrelated.

[1] https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/sharding-segmenting...
Sentry tracks the last few events prior to the exception happening as well. You can't replay the actual interaction, but seeing the activity log has always been enough to meet my needs.
A certain number of selfish and ambitious property-believers must be retained in a system of equal distribution, in order to keep the pendulum from swinging too far in that direction.

Ideological purity is murder. Don't waste your intellect arguing over the various types of extremism.

If there were no socialists, capitalists would be living in a hellish dystopia. If there were no capitalists, socialists would be living in a hellish dystopia. So just stick the chocolate in the peanut butter (or put the peanut butter in the chocolate) and enjoy your mixed economic system.
Oh yeah, it goes really slow and scrolling is broken and really off center. I gave up.
Could you please email me as well? Will look into this, and figure out if there's some systematic reason for why we're missing applications.
You would want to work for people who hadn't heard of it?
Questionable legality? Dealing with scammers and people interested in get rich quick schemes? The biggest downside is probably negative signaling. The ICO market is so scam-ridden that any company doing an ICO can easily be labeled a scam.
Most seem to just be postgres drivers.
Agreed it can't be solved completely (like a lot of problems), but a non-binary monetisation option (ie, content tags, where advertisers pick tags they'd like to include/excluse) would be a hell of a lot better.
Sentry does not offer that product natively, but they do have an integration with SessionStack to do it https://blog.sentry.io/2017/09/20/see-errors-through-users-e...
That‘s really up to the game developer, who can (and often do) use Steam DRM, but it‘s certainly not mandatory.
Appreciate the insight
If someone likes to rip all the links from this wonderful discussion, please use this script and paste it in browser console.
https://gist.github.com/mohanmca/481056956ca618a3b21a2b3a0d1...
Wow, this is impressively polished. Will look for an opportunity to test it out on a project we're working on.
This. They didn't have money, so they bartered with information.
Ask HN: Will countries matter more or less in the future?
With globalization, and wealthy people’s financial, and therefore political interests, spanning multiple countries, will countries as coherent political entities matter more or less?
Congrats on a major achievement, CRDB! It’s been really hard-core and cool stuff! Super excited to see that one more use case is coming in, the one with the Blockchain! In case someone is interested, TiDB released a case study with Mobike (with a daily data growth at ~30TB) just one day before: https://www.pingcap.com/blog/Use-Case-TiDB-in-Mobike/
Meet Bitbucket Cloud’s new chatbot
Software companies have similar inefficiencies, but they're harder to see and measure. Instead of piles of rotting inventory they live in bug trackers and post-it notes and long meetings. Managing to metrics is harder, because the metrics (bugs retired, KLOCs written) are so meaningless and easily fudged.

Also, good programmers tend to be undisciplined. Good programmers are good because they're creative and they can keep a lot in their head, but that makes it hard to get them to follow processes and track everything rigorously. Replacing them with mediocre but disciplined programmers doesn't usually improve things.

It's such a hard problem to run an efficient software shop that most companies don't even try -- instead, they only go after businesses with 80% gross margins.
There's a virtuous cycle thing going on here: Someone releases a product with hackable/open specs (Xiaomi has a good track record here), people are overjoyed because you can't easily get good hardware for cheap and build a bunch of software around it, thus (usually greatly) extending the capabilities of the product, other people buy that product because it's much more advanced than competitors (because of all the extra software), profit for the parent company.

Basically, the company gets a bunch of people to do work for free, the product gets improved, the company makes profit, everybody wins.
Came to comments to see what this even is.
Yet we're always transpliling JS anyway, all the time, for browser support. Might as well just bite the bullet and leave it as a compilation target and use something better, with less foot-guns.
Show HN: We made a podcast host then we made a podcast about SaaS
Live Music may help you live longer
[Virtual model] Miquela: I think most of the celebrities in popular culture are virtual!

I can't disagree. When I was a kid, I wanted to eat Butterfingers because of Bart Simpson and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles made me want Pizza Hut. Along the same lines, "physical" celebrities have teams of PR agents telling their clients how to act and shaping the public's perception of them.

This isn't really a new idea, just a new vector, right?
Trench Wars forever
> then move to ultra beefy bare metal servers in colocation with AWS Direct Connect.

You will still need another beefy server in another datacenter with configured replication and failover, which is one of the problem Cockroach is trying to solve.
At some stage Americans need to expand their definition of what "freedom" is. Right now maintaining freedom from government is almost a national passtime (and arguably quite effect), but in the meantime infringement from private organizations has expanded and I'd argue is now the predominant issue facing your average citizen.

You have HOAs acting as government, tech companies acting as intelligence organizations, private security acting as police, and heck even private companies buying up roads/bridges maintaining them and charging a fee.

The whole "make a different choice" retort whenever private organizations do something evil is getting less and less believable with every passing day. For example, in a lot of cities almost every neighborhood has a HOA.
This literally never happens, and you are completely wrong.

I would explain how totally wrong your are more... but I don't have enough time in my day to make the full commitment this comment should require.

I would have more time in my day if I was better organized, or kept my tasks in a program like Asana. But alas, I haven't even signed up for the free trial, because i have so little time. If I actually had Asana, I could even put writing an adequate reply to your comment as a task, so that I wouldn't forget, and I could make sure it got done.

But again. I don't even have Asana, so that won't be happening.

https://asana.com/ (Move your work forward)

Edit: I'm not complaining, I'm genuinely curious about the downvotes. People understand this is a joke right? Is it just not funny to you?
I definitely get this argument. In the US it is quite common for people to blast their music from their cars.

It gives them "freedom to" blast their music.
However it definitely takes away my "freedom from" having to hear that shit.

And I think this is why young people are libs and older people are more conservative - probably the exact reason actually. When I was young I never blasted my music, but I also didn't care if others did. Now I'm older and I definitely hate hearing other's music blasting everywhere - no matter where I am. So I NOW want a government that would limit others blasting their music.

It really sucks that simple things like are also things people go to war for. I'm not kidding, if the government tomorrow issued a decree saying that blasting music is punishable by 10 years in prison, the US would literally be at war and millions would die.

Instead we settle for individual cities making noise ordinances and hoping that it's not challenged in court.
The Pegasus launcher launches satellites to orbit from an air-launched vehicle.
How is this different from cartoon characters?
Former Valve VR ambassador about the involvement Facebook has with VR
I think it's also worth noting that the US does have laws against slander and libel.

I feel like this article missed that the "right to be forgotten" is meant to cover speech that is true.
I like the adblock analogy, might work on it, thanks.
It worked for me, but the page took a very long time to load (1 minute or longer).