skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not criminal yet, but it is wrong enough that it could be. Cheating is in violation of university academic integrity policies and those aiding and abetting that cheating share responsibility.

As more companies and individuals smell the money to be made off tempting students to use this form of "contract cheating", governments are considering legislative responses which could result in the creation of criminal penalties for essay mills. ( https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/feb/21/plan-to-cr... )

Beyond any possible governmental responses, the essay mills create a large pool of risk just by collecting user data. What happens if criminals target the essay mills, looking for lists of people who may then be blackmailed? What if the essay mills themselves decide to cash in on the extortion potential? Cheating and cheating support are both dirty enough activities that people would probably not want that to be exposed. Google for "essay mills blackmail".

The more advanced a person becomes in their career, the higher their extortion value. How many future politicians, leaders, or other influential people are creating extortion/security risks for themselves? As an employer, how many frauds are in your company and what risk do they bring with them? What ethics do they bring with them or fail to bring with them? How many product failures, delays, firings, lawsuits, sexual harassment cases, violations of company policy and general anti-social behaviors are caused by the group of people who enjoy cheating for personal gain? Will the essay mill companies realize they have large lists of corrupt and corruptible people? Will other companies want to buy these lists so they can know more about who to hire or not hire and for what positions? Will credit companies start using this to adjust people's credit scores?

For all of the people with no regrets for using or participating in the contract cheating of essay ghostwriting and sales - would this turn into regret if the activity was exposed? For that matter, do government intelligence agencies already know who did what or at least have that data laying around?

The more I think about this, the more it seems like such a stupid risk. You can stay stupid by preventing your own learning, corrupt yourself, participate in the corruption of others, reduce literacy, reduce the value of institutional degrees, reduce trust in educational institutions, create an electronic trail of your cheating, and all for the low price of lifetime risk of exposure, extortion, and lower literacy.

What could go wrong?
* [The] much harder challenge is: How will people then have meaning? A lot of people derive meaning from their employment. If you’re not needed, what is the meaning? Do you feel useless? That is a much harder problem to deal with. How do we ensure the future is a future that we want, that we still like? *

I feel like work actually distracts many people from the realities of life and mortality and the meaning of life. Many people busy themselves with stuff that doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. Including many of us, too ... for example why do YOU have to be the person to build XYZ thing, when others can do it today, and in 20 years such a thing can be built by a second by an AI? It's like we are kids playing with toys and we think that this is the main thing in life, and without us playing with the toys, who would play?

I'm simplifying, and of course there are things that move humanity forward, including scientific and technological innovation. But people also work as a cashier at McDonalds and it's not like they REALLY derive meaning from that.

I was going to say that, throughout history, people engaged in religion and meditation much more than they do now. Work has become a sort of substitute, a way to escape having to think about the meaning of life and the big things. And people do it 8-10 hours a day.

Someone like Elon Musk has a hard time imagining how people can have meaning without work.
Linode user since 2009 here. Their support and network are rock solid [1].

I really hope they step up their game, but I won't be moving away anytime soon.

[1] The only major issue I had was a massive DDOS that took down their Atlanta data center around Christmas, couple of years ago.
Blockchains are shared global ledgers. If you want an individualized solution, blockchains are the opposite of that.
There is no problem at all here. I totally trust Mark "dumb fucks" Zuckerberg at Facebook to watch the watchmen. /s
I've been using it with Cattle for more than a year now, I've saved thousands of dollars in PaaS bills thanks for my little Rancher cluster. I just setup a new Rancher 2.0 cluster controlplane and dashboard in Scaleway Paris with a Worker in Digital Ocean NY. I'm starting to migrate all my apps from the 1.6 to the new cluster. I haven't tried the new CI/CD thing, but it looked great in the training sessions.
Their interests are to prevent Russia from invading Europe. Clearly every non Russian European country has an interest in that as well.

The US could clearly exit NATO to save some (a lot) money.

How is paying for someone else's defense a good deal for America?
What Fox News says is as trustworthy as any other mainstream news source.

What stories they cover (or ignore) and what details they include (or omit) are where the bias comes from. Every other news source is the same way.
isn't that more like "a virus that's transmittable that causes cancer", not "cancer that's transmittable"?
I dunno. The LG Prada deserved credit for being the first (mainstream?) phone with a capacitive touchscreen, but I think if you're really looking for a spiritual predecessor to the iPhone, so to speak, then -- assuming you don't allow PDAs with phone functionality, like Handspring's line -- the Danger Hiptop, a/k/a T-Mobile Sidekick, is probably much closer. The Prada looks much more like an iPhone but the Hiptop/Sidekick had visual voicemail, one of the best mobile web browsers on the market[1], and an on-device app store. It doesn't get nearly enough credit for the trailblazing it did.

[1] The Hiptop used server-side rewriting of web sites to adapt them to its screen. This seems bananas now, but remember, the web was less than a decade old, and the notion of "responsive design" was years in the future. Back then, most other phones were stuck with WML.
What about default search engine integration? How one makes such deal with Bing or Google?
Hehe, made me laugh.

(FTR: I make good money making web apps. I'm also an honest person who, if asked or given a chance to tell, will tell people that they'll often reach their goals faster and save money by building and old fashioned solution with minimal Javascript.)
Nashville Voters Reject $5.2B Transit Plan
Direct PDF access w/o "reader" crud:

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1145/356580.356581
Proton Native – React Native for the desktop
It's hyperbole. Something modern conversations are plagued with.
I prefer high-quality opinions, such as found in the Atlantic, Economist, and New Yorker, over "breaking news" which is usually just a copy-paste of someone's press release. Opinions have far more intellectual content. You can't have intellectual content without some point of view, and once you understand the POVs of some authors and publications, you can see around things you disagree with.

It's true that there are lots of low-quality opinions too, but there is more than enough high-quality opinionated content to fill your day reading. There's no reason to read "breaking news". If something's important, a weekly publication will soon enough have something thoughtful to say about it.
Maybe nobody cares because nobody got any fines maybe. This could be different with GDPR. Time will tell how hard they will enforce these rules, but it could be very harsh and very expensive for some people.
This runs on libui-node, which is a binding to the libui library.

https://github.com/parro-it/libui-node

https://github.com/andlabs/libui
Ask HN: Can a computer ever tell a when the user is lying?
Hi all,
I am designing a game based on deception, wherein the game often lies to the player and the player has to catch when it is lying. It occurred to me, what if the player could lie to the computer as well? Then I could make non-playable characters all the more dynamic. However, to achieve that, the computer should be able to tell that it is being lied to.

In short: is it possible under any circumstances?
Hello! It's wonderful that you're joining us here today. I found your article insightful as I'm dealing with a very similar situation at work. I was wondering if I could ask for some further advice. Here's my story:

I'm currently working on a multi-faceted project, where I have essentially become responsible for all things UI related. This is fine, considering UI/UX was a decent part of my educational background and I have experience from doing UI design on pretty much every team I've ever been a part of. However, what I'm struggling with is constantly being overruled by higher-ranking team members.

I feel like I'm just being dictated to, even for the most minute details. I've tried the "just give them what they want, preserve the relationship" route, but that has just led to a compounding of bad UX. I've tried backing up my decisions/ideas with appeals to textbook UI/UX principles, but that has led to the same polarized arguments you've described in your article.

I have no problem with appealing to rank when a decision is difficult to make. But the issue I have is, when someone pulls rank, they don't bother to explain the reasoning behind their decision. When I try to ask questions to better understand, responses basically boil down to "I just think it looks better this way".

I don't feel respected, despite the extensive background (more than the others when it comes to UI/UX, actually) that I bring to the table, and despite the fact that I'm the only one working on this part of the codebase day-in and day-out. I feel like the ideals of meritocracy are not being honored, and decisions are being made by rank before reason. No one seems open to discussion and understanding. And I'm basically being treated like a junior dev when I'm actually a senior-level engineer.

What should I do?
Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling
Wonder why it's written in Python 2.7 and not 3?
They probably saw something in their software to strip for Dropbox.
A recursive tweet
Findings from the Imagenet and CIFAR10 competitions
University of Basel has some nice project for 3d Modeling. They also have a scala project for 3d face model construction using Gaussian Processes. All the recent 3d modeling papers use Basel Face Model.

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/statistical-shape-modell...

http://gravis.dmi.unibas.ch/PMM/

https://github.com/unibas-gravis/scalismo-faces
We need more links indexed. The crawler that I wrote is pretty slow and right now we don't have a lot of documents indexed. I will be replacing the crawler I wrote with a faster one soon. Until then I have been using !bangs.
The ability to hire contractors who can actually do the work... that's a formidable asset to the company. You're not the moron. You're not the incompetent. You are actually very valuable.

The problem is, you're being very valuable doing something that you don't actually want to do. You may not feel that it is emotionally rewarding. You may just want to do what you like. That's fine; I'm not trying to argue with that. But don't feel like an incompetent or a failure at what you're doing. You're not.
Show HN: Everest: A gorgeous REST API client written in JavaFX
Everything you need to know about typography so your designer doesn’t kill you
Pro-tip: If you unfollow all major and minor news sources on facebook you will encounter no fake news, no real news, and no political commentary that links to a media article.

Totally improved my newsfeed UX though it took a few days to get em all.
> The US does spend a lot more, and doesn't cover everyone.

The US does spend a lot more, _because_ it doesn't cover everybody.

The use-value of private health care in the the US is:

- delta (getting treated, slow painful death and/or bankruptcy)

whereas most places it is more like:

- delta (private room in fancy building, non-private room in an oldish building)

If you were a salesman, and you sold the first product for less than 5x the price of the second, you would deserve to be sacked on the spot. How could a profit-seeking economic system be so inefficient that it would fail to extract a large portion of that value from the customer?

> he US needs to focus on lowering costs

Why would a profit-seeking system seek to lower costs when high costs led to higher prices that still get paid? Any CEO suggesting such a thing would be sacked by the board the same day.

Do the math; costs are about 3x what they should be, but 85% of the market still pays them. 3 * 0.85 > 1 * 1.0.
Speaking of desktop, has anyone else seen Proton Native?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16978901
> I haven't heard a single reason for holding off federation from Moxie (and the "best" reason I currently can come up with is that he has issues letting go of "his baby", other reasons being more nefarious).

I mean, there's no need to speculate here. There's an entire blog post on signal written about why they chose not to federate just a quick google search for 'signal federation' away, and the reasons, whether you agree with them or not, are pretty solid and sound.

https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
Glad you found it useful!

Sorry for the cryptic error. That happens because the two objects in the comments array reference post_id. If you change those keys to book_id everything should work.

The algorithm for generating a GraphQL schema from a JSON object could be improved, along with its error handling. I use the algorithm from this repo: https://github.com/marmelab/graphql-schema-from-json. Error messages come from there.

I'll work on improving this tool and make it more user friendly. But I think that it is worth sharing it, even at this stage.

Cheers!
by mobile you mean 'native apps'?
We've been trying the Rancher as our kubernetes management interface, looks promising but we're still in a very early stage of usage.
> First off, the VA isn't as bad as you're making it out to be.

From your own link, which is a press release by the firm which sponsored the research:

> Researchers say there were few studies [included in this meta-analyis] to evaluate equity, efficiency and patient-centeredness, and that the quality of the available studies vary.

Incidentally, those are three of the four main issues for which people typically criticize the VA.

In other words, that meta-analysis more or less confirms that the VA probably does well at the things people already knew it was good at doing, without looking into any of the areas where it's known to have problems.
No, not Code Complete. It is an obsolete book, made with sloppy research, that leads to shallow or incorrect conclusions (10x more productive programmers, code of uncertainty, etc).

Pragmatic Programmer is a much better book.
Python startup time: milliseconds matter
They support more than image input, their examples have inputs such as 3d models, accelerometer data, sound, 3d depth maps, and numeric data.

It goes the other way as well and supports generation.
My OTP 21 Highlights
Software Heritage is doing great things, and will be central to current efforts in research software sustainability, software citation, and most of all reproducible research!
That's a good idea, and in hindsight, you and the other commenters disliking the wording are correct. I just haven't received this feedback on the wording before, will change it!
> This is exactly what countless people on Hacker News [...] have been demanding for years.

And plenty of us thought it was stupid back then, too.
The real debate is between OSPF and QSFP-DD as they are the only ones with a shot at high density.

QSFP-DD is backwards compatible so that you can run your 400G port as a 100G or 40G with 4 lanes at 25G/10G. OSFP will be able to do the same thing but with an adapter from OSFP to QSFP

But what this article fails to mention is that OSFP is the connector of the future that will support 8 lanes of 100G to support 800G ethernet with good signal integrity and capability to support high power optics for longer distances. ( This looks to be in 2020 )

So QSFP-DD is a 1 generation connector...

OSFP will see us through 400G and 800G.

Disclaimer I work at Arista Networks who is bullish on OSFP.

For more info see Andy Bechtolsheim's talk on 400G optics at OCP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kotu6B7AQpk
Pretty slick!!
Would be nice to see a feature comparison with Thunderbird. What exactly can this do that Thunderbird can't?
I find it crazy that everyone is harping on Electron instead of the cool features that this clearly has that most clients do not. Demo looked pretty polished dude. Don't let the typical HN crowd rain on your parade. The fact that you posted an actual product out to the public is more than most can say.

Also: If you can't spare Max 300MB ram and you are complaining on HN wtf computer do you use?
ESCORTS LOLA – ESCORT ATHENS – ESCORTS ATHENS – ESCORTS
Noted. It was a poor choice of words / trick on my part it seems.
BatchOverflow Exploit Creates Trillions of Ethereum Tokens
Ask HN: How are you onboarding and managing your remote teams?
Looking for leaders of remote teams (engineering or non-engineering) to share advice/experience on the following areas.

Onboarding: What do you do upon hiring to help new team members ramp up? How do you ensure they feel like they’re part of the team/culture? How do you provide support and direction as they figure out their role and the codebase/responsibilities?

Management: How do you support these team members and manage their growth? What tools to do you use for communication/collaboration (e.g. Slack, task management tools, etc)?

Culture: Do you bring everyone together IRL at a certain cadence (annually?) for team building? What other activities/things do you do to foster culture and team building?

Anything you’d be willing to share would be really helpful and appreciated!
Back in 2004 when John Kerry was running for POS (that's President of the United States, he-he), he had a great idea (that I'm sure came from elsewhere, but a good idea is a good idea). The US government would become the "insurer of last resort" and cover catastrophic claims above a certain amount:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16748-2004Jun...

For his efforts, he was practically called a "Commie" by the Republican party, despite the fact that the proposed mandates were fairly mild and the plan worked within the existing employer-provided health insurance system. It was a good crack at the ~20% of the population that accounts for the majority of healthcare spending, and eliminates the possibility of someone losing their home and savings because of a serious illness. Plus, I'm sure that the levers could be tweaked a bit to get better outcomes.
I wouldn't label any major news outlets as trustworthy. They all have sensationalist, often outright lying headlines. They all clip parts of conversations and stories to make something sound much worse or better than it actually is. It's not honest in any regards.

How will Facebook, a brand built on dishonesty choose honest sources correctly?
Social media websites aren't private.

I think in numerous court cases (at least in the US) even email is considered public.

So, with that said, a DLT (dist. ledger tech; i.e. bitcoin) is a great solution for the problems facing a publicly facing company.
No offense but unless it’s a 1st party client email clients are something that is very hard to trust.

This seems an odd position to me.

Online clients are well known to be scanning your emails, necessarily involve giving access and control to third parties, are impossible to use while retaining control of private encryption keys, and so on.

Local clients might have some of those problems. If they're open source then in theory you could audit them and find out, but in practice even that gives a false sense of security because no-one has the resources and willingness to undertake that work every time they install a new version.

Ultimately software security is still all about who you trust, the same as always.
I was suggesting that consumers close their accounts, not that the phone company should close spammer accounts.

Also the telcos will not violate any rules by allowing consumers to opt into a service that blocks calls originating from companies reported as spammy by a large number of other consumers.

It is absolutely within their power to give consumers some control and choice about receiving spammy phone calls. The reason they are choosing not to give consumers this choice is because it would effectively eliminate their income from phone advertising, the public by and large does not want unsolicited phone calls.
I hear you there.

What I’m arguing is that the urge to have sex itself is the manifestion of the true urge, which is to procreate. You want to have sex because you naturally want to procreate, even if you don’t consciously want to.

Thinking about it more though, you might be right. There might be a reason that not 100% of sex turns into procreation. If we were truly focused on optimal procreation, why did we evolve into small familial groups? Maybe there is more natural purpose to sex beyond simply procreating. Maybe we do truly yearn for sex in of itself because it represents opportunity or potential, creating a metric for determining the best mate to procreate with. And that’s what we are actually focused on subconsciously...who knows.
No, 41% of patients of Ontario who needed an MRI, which is a small subset of the population. Meanwhile in 2016 you had 28 million Americans under 65, that's 10.4% uninsured [0]. I'm sure 10% less people would cut the waiting lines in Ontario a bit.

So yeah, fuck those 28 million, they're not rich, let them suffer if they get ill!

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/health-insurance.htm
Two of your anecdotal experiences don't speak for the overall effectiveness of charity organizations.
Go is not memorysafe unless one restricts the application to single CPU thread. Is it done in gVisor?
The problem with Electron
I want a feature on Facebook that says "avoid putting anything on my feed that has been seen by 10k+ people."

That would likely include all news.
No, management does not define reality. Validation and verification define reality. In a rational engineering organization, you and Kara would agree to test her change and see how well it works instead of having an argument from first principles.
The difference is where the exchange of money happens. Because Google's, and Facebook's, Amazon's, and most SV startups' services are free, you get the privacy problems and the ulterior motives and the trust issues. With Apple, you paid for the product up-front. The transaction is done and in the open. They don't have to do anything skeevy to make money off their product.
From the paper: "...we should realize that the historical interest of this program is in great measure due to its connection with the development of instruction codes for stored program computers; it is not the earliest instance of a computer program. We have Lady Lovelace's description of a program for calculating Bernoulli numbers that Babbage wrote for his Analytical Engine [1, Note G]; A. M. Turing's construction [16] of his abstract Universal Machine, which involves many important programming concepts; Eckert and Mauchly's first sample program
for the ENIAC [4]; and a collection of numerical programs, dating from 1944, written by H. H. Aiken, G. M. Hopper, R. V. D. Campbell, R. M. Bloch, B. J. Lockhart, and others, for the Harvard Mark I
[10, Chs. 4, 6]. "
Non-AMP link: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/01/h-1b-abuse-bay-area-t...
The video is from http://panthema.net/2013/sound-of-sorting/ and it's been submitted before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7454723