skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CAD stuff is such a nightmare. Attempting to navigate the mixture of poorly/undocumented file formats (AutoCAD, as a perfect example) is a massive pain. Attempting to get any form of generic viewer in the browser, or convert the files from one format to a common format is nearly non existent. This is just for 2D, don't even get me started on the clusterfuck which is 3D. AutoCAD have a "solution" which is just to use their cloud platform...because that's what everyone wants, right? To upload their most sensitive drawings to a US based company's servers, somewhere.

We've ended up using several hacks around link removed' C# implementation, which seems to be one of the few tools in this space which you can programatically interact with. If i have the opportunity to say one thing directly to the AutoCAD/AutoDesk guys, please, God, allow some form of offline SDK, and clarify your incredibly confusing, hard to navigate website, and expensive and lackluster offerings. All I want is a web based DWG/DXF viewer, which i can load files into from a (java or C#) stream, no cloud/SaaS nonsense, and works well. Apologies for the rant.
You'd think an employer would be willing to pay for that too - it's a much better deal than loss of an employee or reduced productivity due to injury.

I mean we live in a market where beginning developers make (and by extension, cost the employer) over $100K.
Would also like to plus one this. I suffered from nagging back and shoulder pain in my mid-twenties until I started regularly lifting. I'd recommend a program like GZCL as an easy, short routine that can be added to over time: https://imgur.com/WIhiBOy
Partly for openly and tactlessly disagreeing with company hiring policies! Still, he found rather widespread dissemination and some amount of support for his views. Is that silencing? And can “women are naturally uninterested in/poorer at science” really, over the recent course of human history, be regarded as NOT a common or mainstream opinion? I remember a Feynman quote where he was amazed that women could understand graphs in sewing patterns!
You can get articulated forearm supports for desks (says Google). https://theergonomicstore.com/collections/arm-elbow-supports
Isn't that what the DNS Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) DNS record [1] is supposed to solve? Combine that with certificate transparency enforced with the `Expect-CT` header [2] and its pretty locked down. If a CA does not respect the CAA record and issues anyways, the cert will be logged to a public log. Tools like CertSpotter [3] can be setup to give notifications when certs are created. If a cert is created that should not have, then you can get an alert about it and can begin the reporting and revocation process. If a cert is created without being written to a certificate transparency log, then browsers that support `Expect-CT` header should reject it with a big error message. This works in chrome, but not yet in firefox or safari [4].

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6844

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ex...

[3] https://sslmate.com/signup?for=certspotter

[4] https://invalid-expected-sct.badssl.com/
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And if you actually read the WSJ article it states:

>"Some 37% of people in the new survey said social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are not regulated enough, while the same share said the sites have the right amount of government regulation, and 14% said there was too much regulation."

So its actually pretty evenly split between the "not regulated enough" and "have the right amount of regulation."

I think its fair to say that the 14% that said "there was too much regulation" of social media when in fact there is virtually none are simply doctrinaire anti-regulation Republicans who don't support regulation of any kind anywhere. So the fact that they were specifically being asked specifically about social media is basically irrelevant.
Today's Pascal is called Oberon, which is also designed by Niklaus Wirth. Oberon is a pure structured language* with support for modular and object-oriented programming. In a sense Oberon represents more than 50 years of refinement starting from Algol-60 via Pascal and Modula-2. The language report has shrunk to about 16 A4 pages. I would say that Oberon is about as close as you get to Dijkstra's idea of a humble programming language. Among the compilers I can recommend OBNC (http://miasap.se/obnc).

*in a pure structured language each statement sequence is either fully executed or not executed (there are no goto-like statements)
Have a look at dn42.

https://dn42.net/Home
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Far right is having a strong time in many parts of the world, partly due to the rejection by electors of "establishment", but also because some politicians are quick to kindle nationalism and xenophobia to get cheap votes from angry people. Not sure what it has to do with the collapse of the USSR.
In sociology, the opposite is almost always true, in psychology, it’s usually false, in medicine, maybe half true, but what about machine learning?
Is there really such a thing as "mainstream" anymore? What I think the Internet has done is allowed many, many microcosms to exist -- and exist in ways that are often unknown to the vast majority, even if they are extremely big in their own sphere.

In music, I have heard "who?" reactions from folks reacting to news about artists as well known as Avicii and One Direction. And it's true: if you don't follow any of the worlds they represent (stadium-style EDM and teen pop), you wouldn't have a clue who they are.

This, I feel, is more of how entertainment choice has expanded so rapidly. You are no longer limited to three channels of TV and a handful of radio programs. People thus gravitate to more specific niches that suite them. Therefore, you can both be enormously popular in your own niche and be quite unknown outside of it.

I would argue that the "true mainstream media" of the Internet has nothing to do with politics at all (eg, it's funny memes, cute pics, music and other general entertainment, etc.), and even within this mainstream, there's a lot of microdivisions. So is it surprising that specific right-wing political commentary is just another niche? (Political commentary as a whole is a niche.)

That's not really non-representation and silencing. It's more like we live in a world of niches, and increasingly you don't hear much of the niches beyond your sphere, because there's already an overwhelming amount of material in the niches you like already.
Anyone know the Iridiums that have been deorbited? Or, more specifically, anyone know the status of 61, 10, 14, and 32? 32 is the most important to me as it'll be giving a bright flare near where I am soon...

[edit] and 84, my girlfriend and I will be staying in a dark spot where we should be able to see 84, hopefully it's still doing OK...

[edit 2] Decayed so far:

25, 72, 14 may

13, 29 april

94, 18 april

19, 7 april

Started to decay:

68, 10 may

21, 3 may

72, 27 april

25, 19 april

All decayed: 25, 72, 13, 94, 19, 23, 49, 43, 3, 34, 6, 8, 30, 77, 74.

It appears to take between two to four weeks for an Iridium satellite to decay from the start of the deorbiting process.

I got all my information from this excellent page here: http://www.rod.sladen.org.uk/iridium.htm
> what does the EU offer other than a lot of regulations

The fact that there have no longer been wars between the participants?

After thousands of years of endless strife, wars & massacres.

Ask people from my great-parents generation (who lived throught WW2) if this is not a HUGE benefit...
That's four countries out of 28, and the Polish government is losing popularity (my girlfriend is Polish, I visit Poland often) due to its ultra-conservative Catholic views.

Poland was one of the most pro-EU countries in the union, and it will be again. It has seen the benefits firsthand, regardless of a vocal minority of xenophobes.

Le Pen had big gains yes, and still lost because the country decided to vote tactically, together to stop a fascist getting any power. She lost.

Hungary I'll give you, because it has been hardcore right-wing for a long while and massively corrupt.
Uber is not superfluous. It has added a massive amount of value to the economy and created hundreds of thousands of service jobs that did not previously exist, taking a service that was previously lower quality, less desirable and less useful and improved it on all fronts. A private equity downturn/a bad IPO/tech crash puts those jobs in peril. Not to mention many of the jobs of people posting on this site.
Remind me again what net profit the banking sector had during the same five year period? I know last year alone it was over $48 billion.
For each of those destructive things you mentioned I could name a positive and contributing thing.

Humans aren't all bad or all good. It's a spectrum of traits and behaviours, and they absolutely can be altered and conditioned.
But beyond free movement of goods, capital, services, and labour... what has the EU ever done for us???
Do you have the source for the alcohol study and the corrections? Didn't hear about this.
Since the music is generated with the 3 custom sliders which you can change over time, I wonder how often YT would even detect a match? How often would people use similar-enough parameters of similar-enough parts that it would seem to be the same?
That's interesting! I ride the E train every day that I commute into the city (half of the weak), and I'm pretty sure that even at peak times, in Manhattan, it's more than 4-minute spacing. I once lived by the F train, and it's hard to believe that it ran enough trains to make up for that. So 30TPH seems wistful, indeed!

The 4/5 actually seems to achieve 3-minute spacing consistently, though.
Can you provide a citation that demonstrates a significant deletion of FB user accounts form EU citizen compared to the US?
Since you already have a job role in mind, I suggest that you take a look at at job applications in that area, for example on https://www.indeed.com/. Look through the job requirements in various listings and see which languages they require. They probably mention a lot of non-language requirements as well that you should be familiar with. Don't just focus on learning a bunch of languages. If you do, you will be overly strong in languages and weak in other areas.
Or to rephrase it, it's one of the most affordable ways to travel longer distances.
the pole doesn't need to be straight. It could be hook shaped.
The case against non-compete clauses
Indeed that seems to be the moral of the story for a lot of cases that I know of:

- plain JavaScript/jQuery to React

- Ruby on Rails/Node.js to Golang

Many people might dismiss the former as an inferior language, but the point is, you might not have enough time to write a successful software in latter given the time and window of opportunity. And the initial boost of productivity with a simpler language might be important.

Of course the reverse can be bad as well when you have an unmaintainable 50k lines jQuery app and nobody wants to rewrite that with a proper framework.
Nice anecdote. I have one, the conservative billionaire Koch brothers use donations to force conservative curriculum and the hiring of conservative professors at several universities.
So it’s your position that since you would not be healthy if you ate nothing but eggs, that eggs are not healthy?

Most people are not trying to minmax their nutrient intake. The numbers you give seem to make eggs a useful component of a healthy, varied diet.
One of the biggest industry standard PCB design packages, Altium Designer, is written in Delphi (wiki is wrong claiming C#) https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/altium-designe...
Don't worry, after 40 your "programming career" is on borrowed time anyways. You will have years to recover.
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Uber gives drivers sick pay and parental leave in Europe
This is just another "this is how we setup the hoops people need to jump through to get hired at our company!" article. I don't particularly think making it more difficult to fill out an application is the kind of filter you're looking for. I don't see how you are going to find "great talent" (another term that's been rendered meaningless) without looking at a Github page, sample projects, or viewing sample code. No mention even of Hacker News Who's Hiring thread!
They were not forced, it was their choice, and the choosen editor (vs6) do have search/replace. My personal guess is that keeping those BEGIN/END was seen as a smart move.
i have almost zero knowledge of CAD, so can anyone comment on whether being able to run an industrial-strength CAD application inside a web browser is something that people want? What use cases are driving this massive effort?
Totally agree - Content creators shouldn't have to be penalised unjustly for stuff like that. We (Filmstro) as the publishers decide if and where to collect royalty income. In the case of Youtube we made the decision not to register our music for royalties with Youtube - Which means, you won't have ANY issues with 'permissions' and ContentID marks :)
You must edit the title!!!

This is a new post in the "What if?" thread after a long pause (a few months? a year?). It's a unusual event, but from the title I thought it was a post of the old articles archive. Following the guidelines I suggest: "What If?: Earth-Moon Fire Pole"
Maybe you're right. I will
think about it
Eh, being fired seems to constitute silencing, at least to me.
The craziest expense account items at Time Inc
You've pretty much hit the nail on the head with your description.

Just regarding your comment about music students, please feel free to get in touch with us if you are interested in writing music for Filmstro. send an email to composer@filmstro.com
This is just a new reality. Even if that is indeed illegal, who would have put handcuffs on him? Law just doesn't apply to everyone, it is only to keep the plebs in control.
Can't help feeling the TLDR here is "luck". Heavy survivor bias, no metrics on things that either weren't working or feedback from candidates/hires of what worked.
Data portability (and careless, incentivised users) is what started the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
That's because it's much harder to track, and any estimates on illegal immigration are just that - estimates, based on how many people are actually caught.
it seems it does, see here: https://appleid.apple.com/choose-your-country
Heading to Valley to check out the scene..where to go?
Heading to Silicon Valley next week for 10 days for Augmented World Expo and to check out opportunities. Any ideas on cool things to see and do would be great.
Sounds like another obnoxious silicon-valley wannabe company. The kind of place that is "changing the world" one internet search at a time.

"Define your company values and mission" 90% of these are tautological marketing catch lines, anybody with a brain will be able to smell the bullsh*t on this one.

Also keep in mind that their tagline is that they "create enterprise-level search visibility tools for internet samurais of the future". Samurais - enough said.
Great advice. Hitting modifier keys with the thumb is how Emacs is meant to be used, in my opinion. It's the strongest finger, after all.

> For Emacs users, common wisdom is to swap control and caps.

This is terrible advice and it causes so much unnecessary pain.

- The pinkie is the weakest finger.

- Stretching sideways is a terrible movement. Try it several times and compare it to moving a finger up, or curling the thumb. Stretching sideways should be reserved for infrequent actions -- hitting a modifier key is much too frequent for Emacs users.

- You should have modifier keys on BOTH sides of the keyboard. Using Emacs with just one Ctrl key is just... awkward. There are so many common keybindings (like C-x C-c) that are difficult with this scheme. With Ctrl to the left and right of the keyboard, however, I can just curl my right thumb a bit and then press x and c.

If you have RSI, maybe one of your hands is overworked (i.e. you only use Shift with one hand). Big opportunity for improvement there. Unfortunately not all modern keyboards have modifier keys on both sides of the keyboard, so you definitely have to watch out for this when e.g. buying a laptop.

With the key system you suggest, Emacs bindings are even better even than Vi modal editing, in my opinion. Pressing/lifting a thumb is much easier than changing editing modes.
But the walled garden is nicely maintained with neatly trimmed lawns, beautiful flowers, cool rippling ponds and shady trees

You forgot the landmines and the iOS police watching your every steps, kicking you out of the garden without much recourse if you feel it was unwarranted.
Yes you can reset the device yourself. (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204306). The device will be locked to your account and you have to use your account credentials to use it.

In this case, you're talking about backing up what's on your device. No device has 2TB of data to backup.

If Apple exposed the file system unencrypted, that kind of defeats the whole purpose of encryption. How many people are really going to manually connect to a computer and backup?

What's the state of backing up Android? Can you just log in to a new Android phone and have all of your data - including app data restored?
I attribute my initial RSI to typing a large amount (live transcription) in a very air conditioned room on a table that was too high.

Within three days I couldn't type without pain. The height and volume alone may have done it, but the cold felt like it was bad for my arms.
The mentioned loop around the pole attached to your waist would do but since none of the extremely detailed drawings contained the loop we must assume that the person travaled the pole without the loop.

Moon orbits Earth at about 1km/s and you have to loose orbital speed as you move along the pole.

Since the pole distance is about 400000km and the orbital speed to loose is 1km/s it means you need to loose about 2.5mm/s for every km of the pole that you travel. It may not sound much, but if you propel yourself along the pole in the direction of Earth at L1 you would be surprised to find yourself travelling away from the pole at 2.5mm/s after 1km. If you push yourself hard at say 36km/h (or 10m/s) and decide to get some sleep then you would travel almost 290km but you would also find yourself moving away from the pole at almost 1m/s and at about 10km from the pole.
Twitter mobs on their own are indeed mostly harmless. Employers and other organizations that can have an actual impact on the target of the mob and who are complicit with it to avoid the possibility of making the life of PR people more difficult by having to defend the distinction between corporation and the personal opinions of low level employees are not.

Of course both sides are guilty of that and they basically crib from each other's playbook in the spirit of "having them taste their own medicine". In the end it it is never what one would call civilized discourse, no matter who is doing it and who you disagree with.
Seems like that would be by design.
What data are you referring to?
The new CEO at my company is doing exactly the same thing. Trimming all of our product lines, except for the absolute most profitable. Just not worth it.
I don't think it's fair for you to pretend you understand the psyche of everyone commenting on this thread and their opinions on "too big to fail" just because you don't agree with their viewpoints.

HN has a sizable portion of commenters with libertarianesque views, who would be in favor of reduced regulation while simultaneously deadset against subsidies and guarantees to banks and megacorps.
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I recently unfollowed most "media" on my Twitter, and transitioned those sources to RSS / Feedly app on iOS. Feedly works good enough, and my Twitter feed is now much quieter, and I feel good about spending less time on Twitter (for various reasons).

I have found that finding an RSS feed for a website/brand can sometimes be difficult. Feedly does a good job making this easy, but sometimes I need to resort to Google, to find the proper feed.

I also find it rewarding to follow (on Twitter) journalists, instead of the paper/website/org they work for. You get more personal tweets, story follow ups, and can engage them in conversation, unlike most media feeds which are managed by staff uninterested in engaging.
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But is that how you market yourself to consumers, as a VPN, that also provides additional functionality? Or as a traffic analytics tool (that just so happens to be a VPN)?

The way YOU view your product is one thing- but how you market and present the app to customers is another.

A spammer might view their spam as "marketing email", but that doesn't make it so just because of their viewpoint
Can't say I'm surprised, dealing with returns is expensive, I'd want to block people who abused the system.
>"The most commonly cited example now is Haskell, which is a fairly state-of-the-art language in terms of PLT research, and is a great illustration of the functional paradigm, due to its purity."

What is PLT? I didn't recognize this acronym and it was too general to Google. Thanks.
This form risks loosing the best candidates, for being too extensive (as @ddorian43 has noted) and requiring the candidates to dedicate a solid amount of time to formulate their answers in writing; and the best candidates don't have too much time on their hands. And it is not just the time to write the answers; the questions are quite open-ended and require the candidate to consider their inner motivation. Some candidates might even be compelled to lie when answering questions such as "What are your prospects, dreams and expectations?" because they might fear a negative reaction to the truth, which is often along the lines of "I want to be fairly compensated for my contribution".

It would be much better if they offered multiple pre-defined options, with an additional option to write in another answer; e.g. for the first question it could be something like:

Why would you like to work at Nightwatch? (select all that apply)

[ ] I like the product
[ ] My skillset is a right match to the position
[ ] I hope to learn new skills
[ ] I am the watcher on the walls
[ ] Other (please specify): _________________________________________
Yet many people obviously disagree.

I don't think the EU is a recipe for peace or is making Europe more peaceful. Far from it. The EU looks a lot like a bunch of very unhappy neighbours kept in line by the threat of wildly over the top retaliation from the federalist core if they even think about stepping out of line.

Look at Brexit. The EU is talking about grounding all flights, banning British firms, insisting on obedience, suggesting that the UK be split up to convenience them and demanding huge ransom payments (and don't argue with me about this, these are my perceptions). Then you look at eastern Europe, Catalonia and so on.

I do not perceive the EU as a happy peaceful entity. If it looks peaceful it's only in the sense that a successfully dominated population doesn't fight back. True peace comes from understanding, collaboration and compromise. The EU sucks at all three.
Am I missing something? Feedly has an iOS app - is it new?
As strange as it sounds. I think people really improve just by reading the book.

Imagine one day you find an itch on your little pinky on your left foot. You never notice it before. Now spend all day thinking about it. Every day. It will be magnified, it will become unbearable. I think the book teaches you to shift your attention.
monopolist platform

There's your problem, you have no control over your main distribution channel.

Unless they allow people to sideload apps like on Android, the situation is unlikely to change.