skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I recall, there was a time when Google Maps showed native names and glyphs, with english/latin "subtitles". I liked it. And I hoped it was the start the new way this would be handled. Regrettably not.
> you can use signal without any google services though, for more than a year now even.

I tried it less than a year ago, because I had heard that too, but it still didn't work. I should try again on my new phone I guess.
I mean, when you're learning a different language, isn't it normal to make mistakes? Why should other languages optimize for English learning?
Not the point. It isn't that SO is meaner to marginalized people because SO knows who they are. It's that marginalized people are more sensitive to being excluded, and less likely to voluntarily endure the hazing.
I not only cancelled my Prime subscription last year, but I also bugged the hell out of Amazon customer support until they refunded me for the entire year as well. Word of warning; they classify really inane things as a "use" of your Prime service. 1 Amazon Music MP3 play == 1 parcel delivered. They have a limit of how many times you can "use" your service and still be refunded. I did eventually get a full refund, however.

Prime was great when it launched here in the UK, now it's so unreliable in many places that it's completely worthless. The primary reason I used it (and I used it from the very first day) was for the 1-day postage. I think it's 2 days in the US, but frankly our country is pretty tiny so it's not exactly optimistic to do 1 day delivery when the Royal Mail can get me a parcel at 9am in South Wales that was posted at 5pm in the Scottish Highlands the day before.

I had a single parcel delivered on time in the past year, all the rest would be at least a day late. I live on what is essentially a ring-road of Cardiff, and it's insanely easy to deliver to me. There's one of the older Amazon depots within about 45 minutes of my flat, and I think a new one over near Bristol now.

My apartment block has banned Amazon's couriers from leaving parcels with the concierge, because they would rock up, pretend to deliver parcels/eat their lunch, then dump 30 parcels in the concierge office. So now they just dump them outside doors, indicating when you aren't home. They can't even deliver to the Amazon Lockers nearby within the delivery window, and the lockers are nearly always full because we have so few other options.

I've spent the past few months actively seeking to purchase everything via alternative vendors in the UK, and overall, I don't miss Amazon in the slightest. Although eBuyer also sucks (no weekend customer services, wut).

I'm so glad Waterstones is back on form here too; it feels quite poetic to ditch Amazon for its original purpose as a bookstore. Good riddance to them.
This is an argument to invest the value of your equity in a bold bet. It doesn’t say why that bet ought to be on your employer.
>> (It serves a valuable purpose by keeping signal high, but also suggests that we just might be Zuckerbots who aren’t even trying very hard to pass as actual humans)

Why randomly attack Zuck? That is such an unnecessary meanness in an article about being nice to people :(
I greatly prefer MATE.

Gnome2 until I die! ;)
I believe the "bottom part" should be interchangeable, like switching to a different CPU architecture, or switching to a different framework. The bottom part is an implementation detail. The API is important since that's what you interact with.

I think it's best to have as few dependencies as possible, try to keep everything independent and interchangeable. I like to view my code as a graph structure, try to keep the functions and its dependent functions as a Directed-Acyclic-Graph and avoid cycles.
Why should I need to learn about measurements and rulers to design and build a house?
You'd first need to pull a hair from that stranger on the subway though.
"I never really understood what their issue is with broad questions."

The people there are too obtuse to see a broad question as one that is looking for guidance, and not as a 'do my homework for me' question.

Some people ask the question in a general manner so that they don't have the answer just given to them. They'd like an explanation with reasoning that they can follow.

Good luck ever getting that on SO.
As much as I don't want it (I'm a web developer after all), I'm surprised Facebook hasn't tried to compete deeper in this space yet. They already have a firm grasp on many businesses. So many local businesses in my city only have a Facebook page and don't have a website, or if they do it's extremely outdated (hasn't been updated in years and lacks search engine ranking). Facebook is the website for many local businesses.

All Facebook needs to do is add a few more features:

- Online menus (most restaurants are just uploading a photo of their menus)

- Online reservations, and online ordering (for delivery/pick-up)

- Ecommerce store (payments, delivery, etc.) and management (inventory) for retail shops (boutiques, etc.)
Lots of things here.

First, you seem overly concerned about semantics. "Universal basic income that is not universal is not Universal" is a tautology. There's no reason you assume you couldn't have UBI plus other government programs of some kind. The "universal" is that everyone gets it, universally, not that it's all you ever get for any reason.

Second, you bring up arguments against UBI that equally apply against current systems. "People are starving" and "10k isn't enough" might be true, that doesn't mean UBI isn't an improvement over the current situation.

Third - you bring up disabled people and children as if this couldn't possibly be addressed within UBI. Two ideas off the top of my head: include children in UBI (maybe at reduced rate?), and support disabled people with socialized medicine and other care (home care aids, whatever). You again seem to be assuming that UBI would be the only thing government would give to citizens.

Fourth - taxes/money. One thing is the cost savings may be greater than they seem, if UBI ends up reducing poverty and associated crime. We'll table that for now though. Corporate and VAT are hardly the only taxes you can tweak. Income tax is key, and yes, the "average" taxpayer will have to pay more, similar to the amount of UBI he receives. Maybe his tax rate will be 44%, or 40%, or 50% (I'm not going to check all your math, also you'd probably bump up corporate and VAT at the same time). Whether that is demotivating or not is a valid question, it's worth testing to see what the impact would be. As for "a hard working person will have barely more than a freeloader" - as long as you use marginal tax rates (and maybe you'd improve this with a continuous rather than discrete function), higher gross income always means higher net income. Will someone making 25k be really angry that someone lying at home makes 10k? Maybe. But in tests that have been done so far, there don't seem to be that many freeloaders. The people that worked less than they did before were new parents, people in school, and disabled people.

A lot of your arguments seem to be "UBI wouldn't be perfect" and I don't think that's a great argument against something. If you're against UBI, argue why UBI is worse than what we have currently.
> What they should do is allow broad, general, subjective questions.

But you can’t answer those questions. You have to engage in an extended discussion with the asker to find out what they want, what they know/don’t know. And SO isn’t a discussion forum. Honestly I think those sorts of of questions are better asked in the chat channels, or somewhere like Reddit.
The comment I replied to said minorities.

This isn't about society, it's about a website with worldwide access using anonymous usernames. Nobody is inherently disadvantaged. The exact issue is harsh replies and actions that stem from the gamification dynamics and strict moderation. It has nothing to do with physical traits of the user on either side, especially when users are anonymous. Minorities and marginalized groups are nice to mention in the current PC climate but have little do with the actual topic.

Law is based on provable damages, which is why it's particularly focused on physical harm. Your feelings are not included in that. Experiencing an emotion is not damage. Also tort law means the defendant had a duty to act in a certain way and failed to do so, with the plaintiff proving the failure of that duty led to the harm. Intent also matters a great deal so unless you can now derive and prove intentions and duty behind StackOverflow comments, this example does not apply to this topic.
I think you’d be amazed how few items are ONLY shipped and sold by Amazon themselves. And if you only want to see Amazon’s offer, it’s not much better.

If it’s coming from an Amazon warehouse and has multiple sellers, you have no way of knowing who supplied the product you’re receiving. Could be Amazon, could be some random dude.
Ok? Not every service has to be worth it for everyone does it? I don't spend much money on skateboards to be honest but I don't see the need to ask sarcastic questions about their business model just because it doesn't apply to me.
Fingerprints are much less likely to be unique.
I didn't even know Go had a logo, so long as they aren't touching the Gopher I honestly don't care.
Congrats! I have a couple of friends that are "professional students". Not a lot of security in that, but is it any worse than "starving artist"? I'm reading what you are writing and I see nothing wrong except that you are unhappy. I don't think you need to fix what isn't broken. I hope that helps a bit, but I'm sure it doesn't :-) Good luck!
This might be true but Turkish alphabet was designed in late 1920s when computers barely existed. Maybe they could update it now? I find it hard to believe they would do it though.

EDIT: I guess you could make a case about Kazakh alphabet not inheriting this feature. But having written systems for both Turkish and English I don't find this a huge deal. I guess this alphabet reform has mostly nationalistic motivation and Kazakhs might have wanted to fit their alphabet to similar languages like Turkish or Azeri for which the alphabet is tested and we know it works.
I was pretty involved the Drupal community for a while (permanent member of the DA, multiple modules, running a Drupal dev shop...) but left a while ago [1].

Just move to Jekyll or similar. Combined with a CMS like Jekyll+ [2] you can create very large sites and apps without having to bend a bloated stack to do what you it do in the front-end. You'll spend less time configuring things in an admin panel, and more time actually investing in the UX.

For reference, we used it to build the new Starbucks website [3].

1: http://teddy.fr/2013/01/25/dropping-the-drop/

2: https://github.com/Wiredcraft/jekyllplus

3: https://wiredcraft.com/blog/the-new-starbucks-cn-website-bol...
Given how often Amazon has shipped me counterfeit merchandise, I should be allowed to pay for Prime with counterfeit money.
This is my observation as well. Often you can find the total cost including shipping is at or under the Amazon Prime cost with free shipping. However, most of the time this means you will have to take "standard" instead of two-day shipping. Is it worth $10/mo?
Diversification is the #1 rule of passive investing.

When you're working at a company you'll have access to all sorts of insider information, which you could use to make some informed large bets.

Also note that at a startup "equity" usually really means "options on equity" (unless you're a founder), so you actually can work somewhere for a bit before deciding to take a position that might not be optimal from a diversification perspective.
Is this too different from looking up a person's name in Google or Facebook search boxes? In all three scenarios Police are taking advantage of publicly available information written/published by you or about you by others. Police can inspect openly viewable property without a warrant as well. They did not find the killer's DNA in a web site, but blood relatives provided enough triangulation to hone in on a person and get their "abandoned DNA" (maybe cup, cigarette, bloody nose napkin in the trash).
Been using a 2010 15" Macbook Pro since i found it in the dumpster in 2014 (yup...), it was my first ever time owning a macbook and using OSX (outside of some time on friends computers, etc) and i love that thing. I used linux before but wasn't so hot on the grueling labor of repairing simple stuff, and so i was stuck on windows coming from a windows-fanboy past - now i am a huge OSX fan for its combination of ease of use and POSIX compliance; but i refuse to buy any new macbook pro.

I want my magsafe charger, i want my displayport and ethernet port, i want my CD drive, i want to be able to replace the battery myself (done it twice), and to swap hard drives (done it four times) and RAM (once) easily, I want physical keys for escape and media buttons.

I have gone so far as to personally take out the motherboard and replace a single tanatalum capacitor with an aluminum-polymer capacitor (requiring me to scrape off some of the soldermask off so i could solder to the ground plane easier since the Al-Poly cap is much larger) because the tantalum one was causing GPU kernel panic crashes. (Big thanks to Louie Rossman for the tutorial video!)

I've brought this thing back from the brink of death many times and i will continue to do so until Apple cleans up their act and makes a true developers laptop again.
Nope.

• Prime Video is losing selection to "channels" that require extra payment on its own platform.

• Prime shipping is no longer certain to be two days.

• Those which are assured to arrive within two days don't always do so, but I never get a credit for that delay against my prime membership for a failure to meet their SLA even though I'm supposedly covered with some sort of guarantee.

• Prime shipping is no longer certain to source from Amazon warehouses.

• "Add-on items" — items that don't ship alone because they're too small/cheap.

• "Prime Pantry" — select non-perishable everyday items which inexplicably don't qualify for prime shipping even though variants of the same item may be sold under regular Prime rules.

• And worst of all: Amazon commingles Amazon-sourced with FBA merchandise. I've had numerous issues with counterfeits from "sold by Amazon" listings in the last two years because of this.

Disabled auto renewal. This broke the camel's back.
As an SF resident, I love these things and regularly use them instead of calling an Uber. Requiring helmets (as the draft regulation does) is a bad idea; it would drastically reduce usage and push people back into cars.

One problem that some of these scooters have is that they seem to be easy to sabotage. I’ve seen vandals pulling on the brake cables near the front wheel, which would probably weaken the brakes or make them not function.
For me, the bigger problem with Stack Overflow is simply that it is not aging well.

There are a LOT of answers that have huge numbers of upvotes that are simply wrong--mostly because things change and evolve.

SO is good for something which just came out in the last 6 months--anything older than 3 years needs to be treated with extreme skepticism.
It's 10 bucks a month. Ok. Netflix is $10/month. Google Play/YouTube Red is $10/month. Spotify is whatever, probably about that. Now you're at $40/month. At some point your start making choices.
RAND corporation in both depth and longevity is pretty impressive.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/a/asimov_isaac.html

https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/v/vonneumann_john.html

https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/b/baran_paul.html

https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/n/nash_john_f.html

https://www.rand.org/about/history/nobel/bibliography.html
This seems more like they got his DNA, and then backfilled the correlations.

This is always a concern with any investigation or analytical work. I'm curious to find out which other suspects they looked at after the initial DNA lead, and how they went about eliminating other suspects. But keep in mind the public isn't yet privy to all the physical evidence that were collected at the crime scenes.
I have noticed this with our purchases as well. Because of Prime, most of our online purchases are Amazon-first. Only when they don't carry it do we check elsewhere.

We recently cancelled because of customer service issues with Amazon, but we are close to signing up again. I'm on the fence, but my wife just assumes we'll be back on the wagon, that it's our 'default state'. It makes me wonder whether that by itself is good or bad.
Open question: what are other options to Amazon? I don't live in an area that has easy access to big box stores, so I order lots of what I use online. Who provides a good service? I'm not a fan of Walmart either, and I'll happily use Newegg for tech and Chain Reaction for bike parts, but for the generic ephemera of everyday life I'm at a total loss. Suggestions?
Oh, I didn't mean difficulty of performing the parallel parking (that's straightforward with a modern car with rear camera), but the difficulty of finding a parking spot that fits your car length.
With Amazon I feel confident that my credit card information will not be stolen, but I do not have the same level of confidence about getting legitimate products.
The article is readable at http://archive.is/pqSMw.
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It is a joke, as so many interviewers complain that people lie about their technical skills and experience, if you listed String as a technical skill and the interviewer thought you didn't know what a mutable String was then they would conclude that you lied about your skill set. Hopefully you can see the humor. I feel your pain so can understand why you might not think it is funny.
You're right - it seems like they have added "Titan" to the agreement since it was first posted on HN:

http://www.nvidia.com/content/DriverDownload-March2009/licen...

Thanks for the tip!
If you're interested in commodore's history here's a good book.

Commodore: A Company on the Edge
by Brian Bagna
This is nice, but what would be better is the glue they use to integrate them into other monitoring solutions. How do these merge these tools into their existing infrastructure? Do they parse the logs from BSM, santa and osquery into ELK? If so, how.

The real difficulty is not finding useful open source tools, it is integrating them into existing monitoring solutions used within an organisation to get a single view of activity on a system and on a collection of systems (i.e. how do you make the tool scale).
People are such thin skinned whiners nowadays.
Exactly. We need to make zoning and permitting easier, thereby lowering the cost...
That includes people who don't work at all and people who only work part-time. When looking at a full-time job, it would be better to compare only to other full-time workers. Last quarter the median weekly wage for full-time workers was $873[1]. That's a bit over $45k/year. I would not consider 20-30% above average particularly high-paying for a job that is difficult and physically dangerous.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.t01.htm
The real truth is that equity is primarily used as a way for startups to pay lower salaries. 3 and 4 year vests further reduce the likelihood you will ever see the equity offered. Let alone that you will have usually a one month period to put up the purchase price of your options. So if you don’t have an extra 2-10 grand lying around (because you were given equity instead of salary, for instance) you will forfeit your equity. Founders and execs also get waay more equity than than the code monkeys, and exercise priority.

I’m not saying don’t think about equity, but don’t let someone sell you a bill of goods either.
[Russian Internet censorship] I'm fed up with Roskomnadzor
So what's wronng with signal?
Meh. Feminists bloggers have a notorious axe to grind with developers (this is Dame magazine after all). In my experience, regular people don’t try to project this stereotype on tech employees. Most people will not know what a “brogrammer” is.
Just use sanic. It's a mostly drop in replacement for flask that is async first and runs on uvloop.
My understanding is the patch removed certain branch prediction optimizations. Systems post-patch were running some loads at 30% higher usage. I don’t see how a reboot would affect that?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16931491

270+ comments
Sounds like they submitted to another, smaller, site.
Coding challenges involving number-theoretical math have small, simple input cases, and can be stated compactly, yet can be fairly complicated and subtle. They often have the property that it's easy to test whether a solution is correct. They are also a good way to test someone's understanding of subtleties in requirements; if you misunderstand some key element in the problem, you will solve the wrong thing. Some problems in this area will drag in the use of data structures; you may have to keeps some hashes or lists, or even construct a graph. Or generate permutations, or some sort of tree with backtracking and such; it's not necessarily just numbers and nothing but numbers.
Coinbase, Uber, AirBnb, Pinterest, Lyft are a few. Look at where the tech media is focused on right now. Sharing economy, Social Media, Ride Sharing, AR/VR, Cryptocurrencies, and companies working with machine learning. That's where you're going to find smart people flocking.
Now, you could go live in a cave, and it would reduce your consumption footprint more than if I drove a Kia.

I wonder if that's true? My household energy consumption is around 250KWh/month, which is around the amount of energy in 8 gallons of gasoline. My laptop can run for nearly 3 months on the amount of energy in a single gallon of gasoline.

Of course, the difference is that living in a cave is a huge difference in lifestyle, but is switching to smaller/lighter more energy efficient cars really a significant change in lifestyle? I've lied in countries where small cars are the norm, yet people seem to get by.
My Journey to Music-Speech with DL(Part 1) - Music Generation with LSTM
This was my experience too, I've had multiple instances of fake items or really old stock (circa 2014) showing up, and in the latter case I'd even asked beforehand to ensure I didn't end up with an older revision of the product. Ended up being a few grand worth of hardware to return, and a week and change delay to that project. Not risking buying from Amazon again!
> But this isn't true. No one knows anything about a user on Stack Overflow unless they explicitly announce it, and generally my perception seems to be a disdain towards newer members in general, not ones from any particular group.

Why would you say this with such conviction when you don't know anything about what the team is doing behind the scenes? They do yearly surveys that do include things like culture / minority status as well as questions about inclusion.

I can't help but feel like this is just another white male majority site jumping to shut down this type of discussion before it even starts.
They should throw in a lighsail instance.
So we have a management team, many of who could have blown the whistle on this. They act like scum. They suffer no personal penalty under law.

Wow we must have a sophisticated, moral civilisation here.
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in my opinion that disenfranchises the rank and file who should, and usually do, have as much interest and voice in the organization's future as the hiring managers
No it doesn't. I should have asked, "besides Prime video" but I assumed that was well known enough. I was wondering if there was some lesser known benefits that might be interesting, because otherwise, with this price increase, I'll probably cancel.
There shouldn't be any overhead to long polling in comparison to websockets.
That is skewed by non-workers and part-time workers. Median for a full-time worker is about $45k[1].

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.t01.htm