skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many people do all kinds of jobs they wouldn't otherwise do for survival. Sex isn't magically different from backbreaking manual labor.
Yes, I do this personally.

The barrier to entry is certainly higher than setting up a web server, but it's not too hard.

Advice for improving deliverability would be to add SPF and DMARC records for your domain (don't worry about DKIM).

Other than that, if I end up in someone's spam filter, I tell them to fix their spam filter. If your spam filter is classifying legitimate emails as spam, it's a bad spam filter. Doesn't happen often though.
This is surprising given the recent articles on leaking inside of Facebook, and the response from other employees that such behavior lacks "integrity".
Thank you! It was an associate, quick call, stuck to strong growth narrative and kept it casual. Seemed to go well but who knows.
I think as a professional your job description should include using your skills to improve a critical metric or a process of the business, and this should include using your abilities to contribute in a meaningful way. IMHO, this attitude may be harmful to one's career. In the end, you can always find another job, but would not it be nice to actually care about the business? If you are in a place where you feel like they do not care about you, maybe you should look for something else, but maybe with a more caring approach, because it is a two way street.

Just my 2 cents, though.
MySplit Kickstarter Campaign
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Hey! I have edited create-react-app to build React libraries with it, it has exactly same features as CRA.

https://github.com/DimiMikadze/create-react-library
I'm literally working on a lib to solve this right now, specifically to be used with react-router. If you want I can contact you when finished and you can give it a whirl.

Implementation will look something like <TransitionGroupRoutes><CSSTransitionRoute path="..."/><CSSTransitionRoute path="..."/></TransitionGroupRoutes>
Since you're using strings, I guess this same query language could be implemented in other languages also. I like this idea.
> Prostitution is abhorrent to the women's rights movement -- it is another tool of oppression.

One of the core tenets of feminism is that women have a right to do what they please with their own bodies.

A lot of bad things come out of prostitution. That needs to be addressed and policed. Jailing the women practicing it to survive fixes nothing.
I was just reading a bit about animations in react, i honestly hadn't thought much about it before. It was because of an HN post about this library https://github.com/kutlugsahin/react-smooth-dnd. But just quickly looking back it seems they use CSS transitions for animations. That is an option, not sure how limiting it may or may not be.
How do you think this will impact the stock?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/us/politics/eric-schmidt-...
I wonder if this contributed to Eric Schmidt leaving.
"...but there is the pressure that I stay since it'll make the primary contractor look bad if I leave"

You need to ask yourself: why is that my problem?

Do you want to work with this large company again? Do you want to work with the staffing agency again? If the answer to both of these is either "no", or "not really", or anything less than 100% "yes", then you have permission from this random hackernews to burn the bridges and just quit. (If you do want to stay, stop reading here).

Your question doesn't mention any kind of employment contract and you are in the midwest which is pretty much full of at-will states, so...you can quit. You don't even need to give two weeks' notice if you expect the reaction to be hostile. Offer it as a professional courtesy but if they get nasty, pack your stuff and walk out the door.

Don't say anything to anyone in either company, but start brushing up your resume and get out on the street and start looking. You know deep down that the May deadline will go screaming by like an F-16 on fire, so ignore that. Make a goal to get out of the job as soon as possible.

Maybe look at it from a slightly different angle: after the project is done, will they ask you to stick around? You might be on the street anyway.

Use the time while you are employed to find the next job. That's always the best position to be in.
Linkbait (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

It's Monaco.
I'll add in to what has already been said by the fact that this should eliminate relay attacks completely as well assuming you have already visited the site before. The site presumably has a copy of your public key so they can send you messages you can only read with your private key and since you have their public key as well, no MITM is possible.
Also strikes me as related to the core difference in views on mental health (Western analytical psychology a la Jung vs Eastern demonological/mystical)
> Join our mailing list to learn more about Hacker Daily and to get notified when we launch.

LOL, is this a MVP joke?
EICAR test file
Same boat here. I got signed up to SVB via Stripe and I'm looking to switch bank accounts ASAP.

Does Stripe get huge kickbacks from SVB or something?
Very cool. It's interesting how powerful the recurrent network becomes with the addition of the learned hebbian term. For context, even without the Hebbian term, recurrent networks can learn to learn to do quite interesting things (Hochreiter et al. 2001).

Shameless plug -- our lab recently ported LSTMs to spiking networks without a significant loss in performance, and showed that learning to learn works quite well even with spiking networks (Bellec et al. 2018).

So it seems like this method of learning to learn could provide a extremely biologically realistic and fundamental paradigm for fast learning. The addition of the Hebbian term neatly fits in with this paradigm too.

Hochreiter et al. 2001: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-44668-0_13

Bellec et al. 2018: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09574
"Mad Mark: Beyond The Capitol Dome"
Backpage was taken down because they knowingly facilitated ads for unwilling sex work, sometimes involving children.

You wouldn't have SESTA / FOSTA if you didn't have the pathologically terrible Backpage.
I find it important to have a off shore managerial team fully responsible for the project in the same manner as the home office. You can't just hire the off shore team and tell the home office engineers to make use of them. Also the project should be divided so that there is minimal need for daily communications between the teams.
> lawyers arnt allowed

Not true - any time you take a big corp to small claims court, they're going to send a lawyer to represent them. You are suing an entity, not a person, and the entity will pick who represents them.
Again, what did you expect?

https://medium.com/multiple-personalities-order/how-to-be-th...
Could you expand a bit on your recommendation? Do you mean just ES6? Do you have specific resources to suggest? What do you think about all the associated tooling for writing, compiling, testing and debugging, when starting? Is a browser and a text editor good enough, or is a minimal setup vital, in particular when one is building something that is more than a toy project?
I understand this thread has really gotten off topic from the original, but I think it's a good discussion nevertheless. I think the criticisms we often hear about AMP tend to be more principle-based/philosophical in nature.

Yes, the overall user experience is better. It's not that the experience is bad, it's more about the means they're using to reach those ends.

I see AMP as a set of training wheels that Google was able to get publishers to adopt. All the tools were available for publishers and their developers to make performant/clean sites to begin with, they just chose not to do so. AMP is basically a standardized form of "the way they should have built their site in the first place".

My other issue with AMP is that it makes companies focus on performance for mobile, but not for desktop. Why not build a quality, high-performance site for all platforms?

At the end of the day, is AMP a net positive? Maybe, I'm willing to consider the end result, but I don't think it's a problem for us to explore and criticize the means or the reality that necessitated AMP's existence.
Ask HN: Who does YC invite for a video call interview?
Is it only for international companies?

Conversely, if an international company does not get offered a video interview, does that imply they will not move to the next round of in person interviews?
...all that goes out the window when it's sex for cash?

only if it is a private transaction. Making pornography is legal. You are correct, there lies no sense here.
Mind sharing what you mean? I don't find his advice to be unique, but having kids made me focus in a big way.
Of course that glib leech has a thousand advisors backing him, meticulously prepping him for these occasions. He's too big to fail.
That doesn't really count as a tested productivity tip. What I mean is most of those productivity tips are not helpful when a lot of your non work time is occupied by your relationship, kids and chores. Where are the startups that free up more time?
I think the obvious answer is because they could complain to the police if they were under threat. Of course, it being the obvious answer doesn't preclude it being nonsense, so feel free to tell me why I'm wrong.
If you think hyperinflation is coming on, you should be buying as much real estate as you can right now and lock in a 30-year low rate financing. When hyperinflation hits, your debt will just evaporate away!
MZ: "You control and own the content you post on Facebook"

Something seems just a tad bit disingenuous about this.
I grant you that it plays (or at least played) a huge part, but as things move towards ES6 classes (which are very similar to every other language with classes), I would still argue that you’re insisting upon learning prototype inheritance for no real reason.
It blows my mind that "low minimum wage" is listed as a reason why minorities don't earn more money. It is well known that increases in minimum wage result in higher unemployment. It is very basic supply/demand. In fact minimum wage laws were originally implemented in the south specifically to price minorities out of the market. [0]

It seems utterly nonsensical now to act as if they are some great boon to minorities and will help them rise out of their current collective predicament. The best thing for people with low skills is to allow them to enter the market to gain skills. Pricing them out of the market and legitimate employment pushes them to black markets as there is no legal way to participate in gainful employment. Which will thereby increase incarceration rates and contributes to the problem of fatherless homes, something we all know is a very undesirable outcome.

[0] https://nypost.com/2013/09/17/why-racists-love-the-minimum-w...
(I'm not the one you replied to.)

I'd like to see a complete and concise list of exactly what needs to be done to comply with GDPR. Everything I've seen so far has been vague legalese open to subjective interpretation. Pretty scary when the punishment for an incorrect interpretation is a 20M EUR fine.
Please ELI5 what the scam was? I know they did Bad Things TM, but I don't know what exactly took place.
Governmental attempts to suppress "immoral" but natural human behavior has been tried for thousands of years and has never worked. I.e. attempts to stop:

* drinking

* gambling

* prostitution

* drugs

* adultery

* homosexuality

* lending money

* black markets
There are some professors/researchers at Stanford and other CS-heavy schools building curricula around ethical CS/engineering. Perhaps it could be worth reaching out to some of these professors since you're in California. I'm not aware of any sort of organization for this topic, but I imagine you could talk with researchers in a private capacity.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/business/computer-science...

These are the Stanford profs mentioned in the article:

https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/people/rob-reich

https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/people/jeremy_m_weinstein
Yep. I once worked at a place that leveraged PII for profit. I won't work at a place like that again.

But I wouldn't hold working at Facebook against anyone, unless they knew and worked directly on monetizing PII and didn't see problems with it. That's for other reasons -- there are certain things you can't engineer without having a really good idea how, where, and why it'll be used. I don't want an engineer that is blindly solving technical problems.
How does your comment fit with children being drugged and forced into prostitution?

And then adults being drugged and forced into prostitution?

And then adults feeding a drug addiction?

At which point of this ladder do you start to say "no, this is where we need to make it illegal"?
Perhaps an easy way is to stop legal lobbying - and all this stops?
> we needed to reject some candidates because we simply could not understand their English pronunciation.

That could be a mistake - If you find someone who has good skills, and would otherwise make the team, there are language bootcamps you can send them to, which will help with their English. I have sent people to them, and they ended up being wonderful members of my team, once we got past the communication barriers. If you are willing to coach on other topics, refusing to coach on communications is an odd choice.

For my part, when building an offshore team, I did a few things:

1) Brought them here for a couple weeks. Seeing how we work, and getting to know each other in person made a huge difference, including being able to get used to accents and mannerisms. Like any other team, it built trust, which goes a long way towards working well together.

2) I took lessons in Hindi. Never spoke it to them, never got fluent, and many Indians don't speak it anyway... but just trying to learn it helped meet in the middle on accents, and helped communications to the point that I often ended up translating between 2 English speaking people who just couldn't understand each other. And they appreciated having an American who would just laugh with them when we couldn't understand each other vs. getting frustrated and making them fear for their job.
Unless there is some kind of political miracle and the governments of the developed world can devise a wealth tax that works, per Piketty, it won't stop until there is another major world war.
Is it because you want to the things you love. Not the other way around. People believe in YOLO (You only lice once), so they want to do as many things they love as possible. One way to do that is to be more productive. Another way would be to live longer, the research of which is still in its infancy.
Robo Wunderkind wants to build the Lego Mindstorms for everyone
Seems to overlap with U2F... can we extend that standard instead of rewriting it?
My favorite is DoubleClick and the tracking ad bubble though, where the flaws are more fundamental.
How is it 95% smaller? FLIF is a lossless compression, and AV1 in lossless mode can't do magic. It can't do 95% better.

https://wyohknott.github.io/image-formats-comparison/report....

FLIF is reported at 59.57% avg space savings

AV1 (2018-02-22) is reported at 66.02% avg space savings
The last two places I worked, the devs were expected in at 7:00am, and 8:00am. The second place gave you a five-minute grace period.

These weren't "tech" companies. They were companies in other industries. You're not going to find a lot of 11am devs in finance, healthcare, or manufacturing.
I took it as more of "these are my thoughts, straight to the point", which fits in the theme of 'productivity' and not wasting time
The DoJ can still bring charges. Settling with the SEC doesn’t shield her from legal action.
Avoiding the Distributed Monolith
Unless I'm mistaken, I tested out at 140 a long time ago.

There is no friggin way I'm remotely as intelligent as Feynman was so there goes any faith in IQ tests being meaningful. Most of the people who have worked for me are demonstrably smarter than me and none of them are close to Feynman. Smart people but not at his level IMO.

RIP IQ tests :)
I do know that supply/demands work very differently for goods whose marginal cost is 0.
That's a great point. Imagine if one of these sites got hacked. A hacker could literally walk away with a list of emails, each exchange on which that person has an account, and a list of assets. Time to sort by most valuable account, and go spear phishing...
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Yes and the congressman totally let the line of questioning go on that response. The problem seems to be that (1) many of the congressman are just too unfamiliar to pry at Zuck's bad answers and (2) 5 minutes just isn't long enough to build up a damning line of questions.
Not only entirely new, but not publicly forthcoming with details.
related: does having uber on your resume tarnish it?

At $JOB-1, my boss (only good boss in the whole company, TBH) got fired soon after I left. As a knee-jerk reaction by upper mgmt. (poorly run company.) His replacement knows 1/10 of what he knows, and hails from Uber.
Maybe this will increase my chances of getting a job at Facebook.
The title should be "it's" because it's a contraction of "it is".

But that's exactly how it's written in the headline :(
Uber for Charging Anything Electric
For me many of these techniques can be bundled by doing virtual coworking sessions with an accountability partner. I'm able to block off big chunks of time, I'm accountable to show up, I am forced to set meaningful intentions at frequent intervals, I work intensely when I have one and fully unplug when I don't. It is a little weird at first but insanely effective. You can do it with a friend, or colleague, or find partners via a (free) service like www.focusmate.com.
but at the same time there really isnt any point for them to send a lawyer that is going to cost massively more than what the claim could be even theoretically.
I'm pretty impressed with how well the chairmen are grilling Mark. He's dodging a bit and they're not having any of it.

I've never seen a hearing on this sort of thing before, but given the generational gap and the news that Facebook had donated to the campaigns of almost all of the people on the committee, I was expecting Zuck to get off early.
I guess I'm still confused about this matter. As I understand it, nothing was exploited. A company used intrinsic capabilities of the system to do a job. Are we just raising the question of whether this is an appropriate business model? I suppose that's a good discussion to have.

I'm just a bit miffed that we're effectively holding another obscenities hearing while the only thing going on with the Equifax debacle is that a tech manager has been charged with insider trading.
Productivity for me is more about managing my energy and motivation than time.

Hence I find a lot of planning and prioritization actually counter-productive. Some level is important, but not that much. I generally know what I need to do. More planning really doesn't clarify that.

Instead I work on energy. A lot of the things Sam mentions -- but for goals/priorities I tend to take a very long view (decades out) and a very short view (sometimes minutes out). So something inspirational I can get behind. Combined with something I can do right now.

Generally I find that creates the momentum.. and everything works out from there.
Eto: Cross Platform C# GUI Framework
My understanding was that The Witness doesn't really have a plot. Was I mistaken?

One of the unusually good things about Riven is how well integrated and justified every puzzle was into the world; the storyline and environment genuinely didn't just feel like an excuse for the game to throw puzzles at you. Sometimes I play games which are puzzles for puzzles sake (I'm fond of DROD), but it's a very different thing.
It depends. When Canada's anti-spam law was introduced in 2014, the intent was to allow a private right of action effective July 1, 2017. This would theoretically mean US/foreign companies could be dragged into class-action lawsuits in Canada. This private right of action was delayed and is currently under review, but nevertheless anyone marketing to Canadians is subject to CASL laws, regardless of where their business is located. We'll see what happens, but if/when the private right of action is implemented it could potentially be a big deal.

IANAL but I can imagine a similar situation happening with GDPR.
> The cynic in me wonders if these employees are just responding to how others are starting to view their positions

Employees rarely flip until the organization stops making them money, then they flip en masse. As long as Facebook's stock remains stagnant, the insider leaks will likely continue.
Basho's bankrupt?! When did this happen?
Yep, that's the absolute BS about it. That somehow government should intervene in your personal life choices that affect no one other than consenting adults.

However, I would hope no one has to resort to unwanted sex work to afford life and liberty--just for a simple roof over their head, for food and basic healthcare. That's what I fear with legalizing prostitution... I just personally think the idea of knowing people have to do that out of economic necessity is horrible.
Fish - A systems package manager like homebrew but cross-platform
Okay, I don't study this, but I don't think that's what "cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator" means. Not all things vaguely related to cryptography are required a CSPRNG and these answers are not being used cryptographically at all in many cases (like you just reading it over the phone to the representative). Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Lending money?
Class names and CSS transitions have worked just fine in my experience. That said, I'm much more in favor of external stylesheets than coupling styles with components themselves. It seems like the trend with React is to do the opposite.
Many small claims courts do not allow the company to send whoever they want. Some outright disallow sending lawyers.
> "The cynic in me wonders if these employees are just responding to how others are starting to view their positions, "
Or just giving politically correct reasons that conveniently fit the current broader narrative.

Might this be the last straw for some that were already close to leaving? Sure. But it's not the only reason, just the one that's simple to explain and/or easy to spot.

That said, I have to wonder how often unintended consequences are discussed at FB, or at any of the other (tech) powerhouses. I mean, targeting ads based on personal info hardly sounds like a big moral / ethical problem, until someone finds a loop hole and attempts to exploit it (in what should have been foreseeable ways?).