skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is any this of this specific to "tech"? It just seems to confirm that a lot of companies are run by sociopaths (see Gervais principle) who don't care about the impact of their actions on the people that work for them.
I'm thinking about Google, Mozilla, Dropbox, etc. They still use a lot of Python 2.
So you can rent a car on Uber and then use that car to Uber people around?
Why do computer science curriculums yield such a common thought toxicity? How can they engage greater diversity and cultivate empathy, compassion, and give students perspective to self-evaluate themselves?
The fact that the FTC allowed Facebook to acquire them at all is a great signal that our current antitrust regulation does not understand the power of networks in the context of monopolies.
In math a standardized final exam written by a third party would be a much better measurement of learning in my opinion

I don't know about that. Standardized exams get students to focus on exam prep to the exclusion of all else. Then, when they encounter material outside the scope of the exam, they struggle mightily.

I think we should be teaching broadly applicable problem-solving skills, not highly specific standardized exam material.
Sell to whom and how is the real question though?

Should Instagram/WhatsApp together be their own public company? I don't think that's the worst scenario, though it might accelerate the death of Snapchat if you have a completely focussed investment in Instagram.
Reddit’s 2017 transparency report and suspect account findings
Invest in monolith; extract highly specialized microservices
>Didn't protect Liberty Reserve.

According to wiki, it was in Costa Rica, not Panama.
Ugh, I need themes to differentiate different personal mailboxes or various work related inboxes. There are days I might have 5 or 6 google inboxes open at any given time.
So I used Facebook for years. Even if my personal information was inadvertently accessed by advertisers, nobody was damaged by it.

I just don't understand the outrage.
I agree with your comment on being "focused." In analyzing my own learning preferences, I found it is much easier for me to stay focused if I can speed my way through something. Speed is the key for me, not the format.

For example, if I have the choice to learn the same information via a video or book, I'd opt for the book because I know I can read a lot quicker than the person in the video is going to speak. This helps me to stay focused. On the other hand, if I can speed the video up to 4 or 5 times its normal rate, I would opt for that over the printed page because I can listen faster than I can read. For me, it isn't the format as much as the speed at which I can complete my learning that is important.
What measure of proof do you require?

PS- One of Seisent's selling points was helping to solve cold cases. The successful example I remember was matching MOs from a set of crimes in multiple areas and then identifying all the persons matching the profile who could also be in those areas at those times.
Hard to believe Uber did this without some sort of equity ownership in Getaround...
> I'm a Rubyist. Why are Python users so doubled down on keeping on with Python 2?

There's a lot of good reasons Python 2 was stickier than Ruby 1.8.x, the biggest one of which is that Py 2 had had much broader use over a longer time than Ruby 1.8, which meant there were lots of people depending on lots of basically “done” code with non-active maintenance in lots of little but overlapping niches, while Ruby was mostly Rails and a few other big actively-maintained ecosystems that amounted to essentially the whole community.

And the move off Ruby 1.8 still took years, was often bitterly divisive, and with plenty of talk of need to fork 1.8 and continue maintenance because large chunks of the community would never move (which, as with Python, continued even after most of the community had already moved.) It's just that's all a few years back (a lifetime in tech industry time) so most people forget that it happened.
This looks absolutely beautiful, and I'm a huge React + MobX fan as well. If I were still in my gaming prime, I'd be all over this. Great job!
Filtering out top 1M domains from corporate network traffic
Doesn't even need to be considered as a punishment, merely sensible anti-monopoly regulation. You shouldn't be able to buy your closest competitors so that you form a monopoly.
It's worth noting that the messages exported from facebook with their tool are often truncated. It seems to be more comprehensive with your more recent contacts, so analysis will skew favorably to people you were in contact with most recently.
Breaking CFI: Exploiting CVE-2015-5122 Using COOP
If you are working in SV for one of the MAFANGs or tech unicorns, you will have: healthcare covered by employer, generous severance package, 99 weeks unemployment benefits from California govt, parental leaves, 401k benefits. You will not have great public education in most of SV, but the salary differential will more than make up for the cost of private schools.

If you are upper middle class or higher in the US (which a SV software engineer most certainly is), life here is better than most other places in the world.
I'm reminded of an article about zombie companies I read recently: they're companies which are inefficient/pporly-managed/poorly-executing, but due to market/regulatory inefficiencies they're not dead yet. Companies which use MySQL are in a similar situation: they're not doing as well as they could be, and all other things being equal they ought to be put out of business by their competitors — but all other things are rarely equal.

Still, if you are making choices for yourself, you don't choose mediocrity and hope to muddle through: you choose excellence. Choosing MySQL isn't choosing excellence.
I don't think punish is the right word. Even if Facebook had been more clear about its privacy policies from the get-go, I think you could make a solid argument that having Instagram or WhatsApp as separate companies would be better for the creative destruction we want out of capitalist competition.
_Started_ working on it late December? That's an incredible amount of progress for less than 4 months.
Anecdotally I've heard my friends who work in small business food and alcohol places as servers, cooks, bartenders, etc. call their bosses and business owners sociopaths more than once in unrelated conversations.
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Thank you! That's great to hear :)
It makes it easier if it's a learning style you enjoy. If a professor is just going to read from a book all day, I'm honestly going to have a bad time. I came to this class for you to convey the concept; hence why I'm paying for said class.

I had a professor who everyone seemed to love, but I did terribly in his class and just hated going. He'd constantly go off on tangents and every day he'd give us a totally illegible, handwritten page of notes. I never did well in his classes. Someone told me, "Well you rarely read the text books right; you just always go to class and take notes? Maybe you're not a book learner and people who like x are book learners?"

No, people who like his class put up with all his idiocy and find it cutsie pootsie. I took architecture classes in grad school that went over the exact same material (op codes and VLIW) and the professor was just better at explaining things. I was like, "Oh...this makes sense .."

It wasn't the teaching style, that other professor was just terrible at explaining these concepts (and really even understanding them).
You can export it as a HTML document, PDF or Markdown and do what ever you want with it.
Save the planet? Its what humans are doing on the planet rather than having more humans, just because a small number of people dont want children to save the planet is not going to stop all the other humans from polluting it. Its an ineffective solution, its better to have fewer children and educate people on meat pollution and carbon output.

What I fear most is intelligent people having fewer children creating a even dumber society.
The other downside being that if you stop paying, or Adobe stops providing, you can no longer work natively with your PSD and DNG files.

That's a huge business risk. And as searching for 'Creative Cloud suspended' shows, it's not theoretical.
Yeah -- that should be the one they're talking about.
> Are their any services that provide usage figures for any of these Dapps?

The closest I've seen to this, eg. an Alexa.com/AppAnnie for Dapps, is https://dappradar.com.

It measures DAUs, transaction counts and daily/weekly tx value (in ETH) across many Ethereum smart contracts. It's not perfect but does provide a decent standardized view of some Dapp usage/traction.
Please don't.

> Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Indeed, on the other hand facebook has (mostly/significantly) moved to py3, Google is chugging in that direction at a feverish pace, etc.
> my own WhatsApp client that's and actual native desktop application.

What would it do differently?
> Ensure that the input you receive is not malicious

To do that input needs to be decidable. Input from possibly-malicious sources needs to be limited to a grammar no more complex than deterministic context-free[1]. Accepting Turing complete input introduces the possibility that recognizing anything about the input might be provably undecidable.

[1] https://archive.org/details/The_Science_of_Insecurity_
I haven't seen truncation, but it is misleading the way it breaks up conversations. Instead of getting full threads, you'll get chunks of convos in chronological order which makes it a nightmare to follow anything.
If you just wanted Photoshop and not the cloud storage, your best bet would be the Photography plan, which is $10 a month and includes Photoshop and Lightroom. Placing the data in Excel, and assuming someone were to take the $585 Amazon price for Photoshop and upgrade every 2 years, it would take 14 years before that was a better deal than using the subscription plan. If you assume the $700 price tag, it takes 25 years. However, it only takes 3 years if you use the student plan numbers (though as a side note, it looks like the subscription plan is the only way to get Photoshop now).
So, it's basically what I've been waiting for.
Love the landing page. Just a heads up, navigating to the page breaks my browser's back button. Otherwise, looks fantastic!
I interpreted this as being an option for riders, not drivers.
That's a pretty recent development. I don't think you would argue that was true until the 80s/90s.
The point of these is body positivity basically. You are fat and it isn't your fault. Even if you do exercise it won't be enough. It is strange though, pretty much no one thinks that just exercising is enough. Any workout program will tell you that a 6 pack is made in the kitchen. Lifting weights and doing some cardio will certainly help the process and help you be healthier in general.

The biggest factor is nutrition.
I avoid EC2 instances as much as possible. If you are just using a cloud provider to host your VMs, you’re really not taking advantage of “being in the cloud”.

As far as lock in, it’s just like “providing a facade over your database access so you. n change databases. Few people ever change database backends.
Jacked my back button as well..
"Fork putdowns" have been the commonly recommended "exercise" for weight loss by many in fitness community for a long time for good reason :)
I wonder how many libertarian ideologies get forged simply because they don't understand progressive tax rates.
"My own performance at university improved tremendously when I went back after working for many years, and I was able to harness a tremendous motivation that I just didn't have when I was younger. I was also able to eliminate distractions, focus completely on performing well at school, and over the years had finally learned how to learn (a skill usually not taught at school). As a result I greatly outperformed virtually all the rest of my much younger classmates."

I had much the same experience -- after dropping out twice before going on a 7-year hiatus from higher education, when I went back I had purpose. I was also paying my own way and remaining debt-free, so I had a vested financial stake in getting my money's worth. I got one professor forced into early retirement and another barred from teaching undergraduate courses because of unsatisfactory performance (I never hesitated to remind anyone of WHO was paying WHOM), but student apathy and short-cutting (CHEGG-ing homework) were much larger issues than poor professorship.

"Finding a sense of direction, becoming effectively self-motivating, seeing academic performance as more important than partying or other outside interests, knowing how to learn, understanding how tough it is as an adult in the "real world" and what a difference having skills and knowledge could make, having a genuine interest in the subject matter, valuing knowledge and learning for their own sake, and many other things that could help students perform academically are things that schools could help students with, but unfortunately usually they don't."

Perhaps the idea that students default straight into higher education after completion of secondary education, without first gaining real-world experience and focus, should be reexamined.
The update is an all-or-nothing type of deal though. You either update the entire system or you don't. So now people with a third-party screen don't get new features and - more importantly - they don't get security fixes.

If the update wasn't all-or-nothing, now you have to test interoperability between this generic driver and the rest of the system. That might be OK if it was just this one driver, but what if you suddenly have a generic driver for N subsystems? The combinatorics explode quite quickly.
Which authority specifically? My experience is with two Portuguese regulators (one of Data Protection, other of Telecommunications). The first was pretty good, the second required a bit of insistence to prevent them from closing the matter after the company sent a reply that said nothing, but both worked out with nothing more than a few emails.
At the pure physical level, yes: calories remaining = calories in - calories out

However, the "calories out" portion of that equation is actually quite complicated. In recent years many studies have indicated that the body does not process all calories in the same way. So "calories out" depends on a lot of things, including:

- metabolism, which can be increased by exercise and muscle mass

- what specific kind of "calories in" you're getting, and how your body processes these

- calories burned directly by exercise

To highlight one specific example of this, a calorie of fructose may be processed by the body very differently than a calorie of, say, vegetable fat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Villa for Sale Bodrum Turkey
That's neat. Thanks for sharing.
I don't. I use pyenv and it's always just python, even though I have many different versions on my system.
Better also to not just grasp but live on concepts like opportunity cost and technical debt. You are Not adding value making the wrong choices in these areas, nevermind your ability to type code.
Earlier work is at https://github.com/xbpeng/DeepTerrainRL
I like it, the size is way to small though.
Resource Monitor gives this information as well btw:edit, reread your post for the arbitrary file size thing-makes more sense now.

Couple requests: option to scroll the timeline, option to export the timeline, ability to view more than one drive at a time.
GDPR compliance seems pretty all-or-nothing. It wouldn't be sane to respond to a "hello, are you complying with GDPR for my data" letter with "You aren't a European citizen so we don't have to". If you're wrong, you get screwed over. The only sane options IMHO is either set things up to be GDPR compliant or to have zero business presence in Europe and tell them to pound sand.
Correct.

Article talking about why Houdini is different from normal CSS polyfills: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/03/houdini-maybe-the-m...

And the related HN discussion (possibly a bit outdated): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11357794
Oops, that was a last-minute change that didn't work out right - fixing that right now, thanks.

Edit: should be fixed now
I mean, that's always going to be a standard capital v. labor argument. What I'm saying is that industries like tech shouldn't be singled out for run-of-the-mill decisions.
It would also play back flawlessly even without the hardware decoder, because H.264 is so fast to decode nowadays. If AV1 is fast enough it can allow people to use AV1 without buying new hardware.
This is an easy answer I’m sure I’ve given on here before; when you adapt a book to a movie you have an excess of story and character development. You boil it down to its essential ingredients. Sometimes it still turns out bad but this is why book adaptations are far more successful than video hames.

Video games get away with a lot less plot and character development because of their interactive nature and because they are graded on a curve. Many classic games have basically no character development at all.

People think adapting a game into a movie should be a natural transition but it isn’t at all. They are totally different forms.
Looks like it redirects you to /v2/ which in turn redirects you back so you have to click back twice really fast :(
It's still CICO. It's just that the way we currently measure the caloric content of a food does not represent what is actually bioavailable.
We had robust training/quizes setup on WordPress using gravity forms.

Also we found that making people specifically responsible for documenting their job/building training for others before they "moved up" into a higher role was really effective. Wikis didn't allow for the granular control we wanted over who got to see training/documentation.
1.) I hardly think the brand of suit detracts from my point.

2.) Go read the comments on the article itself. It’s littered with antecdotes about training your own replacement, being fired before a stock vest, etc.

3.) I would argue that bars and restaurants are a different story all together. The article mentions being a contractor in charge of six-figure decisions which to me reads as a could treat people appropriately chooses not to.
The intercept of a log-scaled axis should always be positive, and a value of 0 would not appear on the chart. Many times it's non-sensical for a value of 0 (e.g. pressure, frequency), but wikipedia[1] has an example of tracking pandemic cases (which tends to be logistic, so includes an exponential growth phase) and you see that values below 0 do not appear at all on the graph.

In this case, the slope of each dataset is the important thing, and very low values are probably too noisy to give you information anyways

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Influenza-2009-cases-loga...
WebAssembly Studio
This looks really cool! This is not super related to your business, but do you have any recommendations for how to get started with frontend dev as a beginner? I usually do backend/infra stuff, and the frontend world is overwhelming - particularly CSS.

Do you have any tips on the best way to learn CSS? And do you think using React + MobX allows faster dev compared to vanilla javascript?
In fact, if you run and keep eating too much you'll stay fat and destroy your joints.
I hope this stops Sparkpost. Most of spam I receive is traceable back to them. Sure I forward it to abuse@ and few times I received open ticket receipt. They followed up few times then completely ignored my further request for info or status updates. These days I don't even receive new ticket or any kind of confirmation. I started forwarding those to FBI and FCC, but I'm sure they too busy.

It seems that yahoo really loves Sparkpost spam that goes straight to my mailbox even when sender domain is no-existent, not to mention any DKIM or SPF records; gmail is much better at catching those.

This is my experience for the last 2 years.
It's not about effectiveness; lectures are the added value that the university system provides to the educational process. I don't need to be paying thousands a year to have someone point out the best videos to watch online, or to pick problem numbers from a math textbook, or to come up with project ideas, or any of that. The whole point of lectures is for experts to share their knowledge. Universities are (ideally) a funding mechanism to ensure that there is enough capital to support those who want to teach, and they generate the capital by keeping many of those lectures private.

I would 100% rather watch a live person give a talk than burn out my eyes on another online video where I can't even ask real time questions.
Ask HN: WebAssembly  JavaScript Overhead?
Is there some good data about the overhead in JS<->WebGL communication?

Specifically, I'm interested in using JS to handle the view (whether WebGL or DOM) and as like a broker between worker threads, as well as general gluey things and simple app logic - and WebAssembly for some heavy lifting and number crunching.

Not sure _exactly_ where the balance of all that would land - but I am curious about the overhead of passing messages between the JS and WebAssembly layers, so that I can consider things a bit more carefully.

To pre-empt some answers - I do get that it might make more sense to split that balance more heavily one way or the other, but at this point I'm just wondering about hard data on what the communication costs.

Thanks!
Not quite. This article is about riders being able to rent cars for their own personal trips. There is a separate flow for partners to be able to rent a car from Getaround to drive for Uber [1], which has been around for about a year.

[1] https://www.uber.com/newsroom/getaround/
What will happen to american drug cartel now? FOr that matter china would be having its own drug and animal-organ-drug cartel.
So you start at the hardest to replace item around that is also the one with the smallest overall impact?
> Instagram or WhatsApp as separate companies would be better for the creative destruction we want out of capitalist competition.

The rise of Instagram and WhatsApp IS creative destruction! Creative destruction occurs with or without breaking up Facebook...

I'll be honest I have no idea what you're trying to say.
I would, for a chance to be trained in a technology that I don't know and have a steady job for 5 years or so.
https://forums.meteor.com/t/meteor-is-not-dead-in-fact-its-q...
> People do write replies, but I feel the conversation is much terse these days.

I'm not sure how recent that phenomenon actually is. I think it's more that the social tools where people congregate made it easier and even incentivize responses.

A larger number of people with less to say will respond because these systems are designed to cultivate response.
> Everything is verifiable.

Nah. If there's a will, there's a way.

Trustworthy data is more of a social contract thing than anything else.
I've had the exact same experience, but the other side of the coin was getting bullied and beat up because I was more interested in electronics and programming my Vic-20 then other 'conventional' interests for young boys (and being quite small physically at the time).

Programming is a form of expression for me, and I derive great satisfaction from solving and creating software which truly helps the users I work for. On the the other hand my lack of detachment from 'myself' and 'my work' also can cause some unnecessary pain at times, but it's a work in progress.

If anyone has achieved the balance I seek, I'd be glad to hear their story!
If you already believe taxation is theft, why would you bother with the specifics?
But, if you put it on IPFS, what hosts the wallet, and wallet API?

Also, last I checked, IPFS is not censorship resistant:
https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/36#issuecomment-140567411