skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like you've seen earn.com and the emails they send users. For $1 sign-up and get some crypto.... the monetary value here is crazy low. The tasks they seem to set probably take ~5mins which translates into $12 p/h... so you've got to really be into crypto.

Service am I willing to provide for $1? Watch my favorite Netflix shows and give you a thumbs up or down :).
Lawyers Send Mobile Ads To Phones In ER Waiting Rooms
I agree. This makes me feel old now, and I'm in my early 30s. My wife has access to all my financial information, but I can't imagine sharing it publicly!
What's with the all caps headline?
Note that the article takes Breyer's question about phonograph record stores way out of context: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcr... (page 6).

Breyer asked:

> If we take the public performance, maybe we run into what Professor Nimmer saw as a problem. Why isn't what used to be called a phonograph record store that sells phonograph records to 10,000 customers giving a public performance?

The bit about "phonograph record stores" is actually referencing a hypothetical posed by Prof. Nimmer in a 1982 textbook, which addressed the 1976 Copyright Act amendments at issue in the Aereo case. That hypothetical came up in an amicus brief to the court: https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/sup... (at 7-8).

Breyer is talking about phonographs because that hypothetical references phonographs (and everyone is trying to understand what Congress meant in 1976). Note that a few pages later, Justice Sotomayor asks the attorney to extend the hypothetical to Dropbox and iCloud.
People love to talk about trolley problems, but they almost never happen. Every accident myself or anyone I know of has gotten into was entirely the result of simple human error, with no difficult ethical decisions involved.
The Expression Problem in .NET
This is because oral arguments don't actually matter. Chief Justice Rehnquist makes this abundantly clear in his wonderful book The Supreme Court.
Resources: Key Ingredients for Web
No, it's because it's not a delusion, and furthermore it's none of your damn business. There is precisely zero reason you need to concern yourself with how someone wishes to identify, other than to be able to address them appropriately to be polite.
Even if they can work only in good weather it can have a big impact. If, say, 50% of driving time can be automated that will bring big changes.
Same for my Ubisoft account last night.
I've been using 1password for all my new passwords, but obviously there are still old accounts lying around with overused passwords of mine.
I personally allocate the work day into one 4-hour block as my "big pipe", one 2-hour block as my "little pipe", and let the other 2 hours be "fluff". For limited intervals, I can combine the two pipes into one "mega pipe", to get a "big pipe" task done faster, but it takes a toll over time. The "big pipe" can also theoretically be split into two more temporary "little pipes", but in general, I usually want to have the "big pipe" around to get something important done, and multitasking on three things creates too much organizational overhead, so that also takes a toll.

"Fluff" time is for sitting in meetings or writing reports, as work functions, or for just looking busy. I intentionally avoid doing real work that requires any focus or creativity in the fluff slot. After six hours of real work, any more time spent doing the same thing starts to become counterproductive. So just leave it for tomorrow.

I have been more productive while explicitly dedicating 2 hours a day to getting nothing useful done, than when trying to stay focused on one thing for 8 hours, and ending up goofing off, getting sidetracked, or procrastinating for some amount of time anyway.

That's the theory, anyway. My current employer doesn't keep my pipelines reliably filled. During the dry spells, I have a hard time expanding the fluff slot to more than two hours, and end up doing stuff like coding stupid CLI games, or vectorizing the company logo, or setting up a new vanilla VM that I might not ever use.
You can easily learn that stuff yourself if you care to; the hardest thing is getting interviews when you don't have the work history yet.
In case you hadn't noticed:

When you post firsthand testimony like this, the typical reaction is a pile on of unsolicited advice. When you don't grovel in gratitude and promptly turn your life around in response to the brilliant wisdom of a bunch of internet strangers who know an entire paragraph about your problem, you will be quickly labeled as clearly the cause of your problem, never mind the information in the very article currently under discussion that makes it clear there are large scale forces at work. No, you cannot possibly be a victim of circumstance. You just must not be trying hard enough and making lame excuses to cover that up, like playing the victim card because you obviously have a victim mentality. If you argue it, that will be further evidence of your personal defects.
In fact, the class of people the GP is talking about do not.
Thanks for your reply.

For now I'll check JQBX again, because last time I was so focused on finding a collaborative queue app for my workplace that I hadn't stopped to see its public rooms.
Young people vote with their feet and the brain drain in France is very much real according to a co-worker.
Perishability is a factor. Other factors are start-up cost (e.g. chickens require building a coop), time, and preferred taste (some things just taste better from a store and some are better homemade).

The book is more of a fun read. There's some funny anecdotes about trying to raise bees and chickens.
Yeah, it is. But that wasn't the question. MS Office SaaS or Adobe Creative Cloud is expensive too. AWS/GCloud is already quite pricey as it is, and every cloudified thing they roll out is just a money pump for people who don't know better.

But if you want to roll your own, then you can, it's FOSS after all. kubeadm works very well.

Comparing Synology with anything Google is silly, but useful. You can rent dedicated machines easily. Leaseweb is nice. And then you can build your infrastructure for cheaper.
HIPAA allows health care providers to disclose medical records in response to a court order as long as the order specifies the scope of the records required to be disclosed and is signed by a judge.
Looks like they are using https://bgplayjs.com/ for that graph.
Looks like his talk wasn't recorded[0]? He published the slides but they're sadly not very informative[1].

To be honest I can't believe the registry is still using CouchDB under the hood. It's not a good fit for the problem space.

I'm also not surprised he says this in his talk:

> Ultimately, I don’t like anyone else having control. If I’m going to give npm to a company, I want control of the company.

The npm registry and client should be controlled by a foundation for all the same reasons Node is. Yarn was a great step in that direction but it seems npm Inc is doubling down and based on how communication between the yarn maintainers and npm Inc went when they accidentally broke yarn[2][3], it feels like they're trying to fight yarn rather than cooperate.

I've seen npm Inc employees (including "community managers") attack people ("paying customers") on Twitter in response to criticism of how npm Inc runs their open source projects. They also don't seem to make any distinction between personal opinion and representing npm Inc, pretty much dot-com era startup "bro culture" but with different social politics.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0CdgOSSGlBaxNkrUIHrh...

[1]: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9rx9aalvts60w5y/why-npm-inc.pdf?dl...

[2]: https://twitter.com/jamiebuilds/status/1000198463269699584

[3]: https://twitter.com/mikeal/status/1000164993667555328
Maybe it's just fond memories from a long-ago era, but didn't the original Airport Express have multi-room audio? I remember it working quite well.

How is this a feature, 15 years later?
If the civil suit is about medical treatment, do you really think posting responsive documents to the court docket is a HIPAA violation?
That's in a way a similar problem - how do you distinguish between deliberate and accidental (especially if you start banning deliberate misinformation, and deliberate misinformers start trying to make it look accidental)? You might be able to catch the more blatant examples (such as it being the only thing they tweet about and it being consistently wrong), but in general I'm not sure how you can look at a false message and decide if it was deliberate or a mistake.

If you then decide to ban all misinformation (because false information is a problem even if it is a mistake), that goes back to the difficulty of deciding what is misinformation - people can cherry-pick true information in a way that gives a misleading impression, or if someone makes a statement that might be true, but there is no evidence for it, do you have to assume that it is false?

I agree that there is a problem here, but I don't know that banning misinformation is the right way to solve it - there are too many gray areas, and it grants _a lot_ of power to social media companies to let them determine what is true.
It really depends on the skill area you are looking to focus on. If you're looking for senior web developers or general backend system developers, it can be a good place.

If you're looking for a special technical skill set like security, cryptography, specific database systems, machine learning, other mathematics focuses, etc., it can be a lot harder.

In my experience talking with candidates from SO the main issues are:

- it is perceived as being overrun with start-up job ads looking for cheap, "full-stack" engineers, with job ads that have a distinctly "disposable engineer" vibe to them.

- among more legitimate-sounding ads, the perception is that it's all web development, not really worth the effort to search if you're in a technical specialty area.

- Stack Overflow itself does not really enforce employers to be any nicer than they have to be on any other site. Employers still give little or no feedback, waste candidate time, and 'ghost' them by dropping out of communication inexplicably in parts of the interview process.

- I've also heard from candidates, and experienced myself, almost outright antagonism for having a high reputation score on the site, or having a curated list of well-written answers highlighting skills.

The last point goes into much bigger issues with tech hiring, like the whole whiteboard hazing phenomenon, and the arms race to have more and more outrageously complex interview practices or inappropriate hiring standards (like rapidly answering esoteric trivia through some online coding test portal).

It seems like when a candidate can give you something, like a link to their GitHub page, a link to a live-running personal project, a link to their Stack Overflow answers -- then other developers in the interview process almost act more antagonistic and more skeptical of someone's software skills -- almost like they need to prove that the candidate is not as skilled as they are, and that these outward credentials don't matter.

It's an attitude like, "only the credentials that I have matter, so I need to poke holes in this other person's profile, to validate myself as being better."

I've definitely reached out to passive candidates on Stack Overflow and learned feedback like this, that they don't pay much attention to job activity there because if they put effort into their Q&A activity, it's as likely to be held against them as it is to help get them a job.

These are just my experiences ... your mileage may vary.
There's another universe near ours where libxo caught on widely, and every command supports text and JSON output out of the box:

https://juniper.github.io/libxo/libxo-manual.html
I think this sounds like a solid plan. Have you thought getting involved with organizing? Do you know people who are?

There are a lot of truck drivers out there, they have families and friends. And I hope that there are unions.

I refuse to be cynical about the “unchangeability” of laws because that makes me powerless. Better go for it and fail until it’s done.

Such legislation is not impossible.
Will do, are there any specific tech hot spots in Belgium? I no very little about the country but so far very disappointed with what France had to offer to startups.
The Importance of Layer 2
Good interviewers try not to read the CV before the interview to help reduce bias.
Especially when “the wrong word could get you in trouble”:

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_571f8057e4b01a5ebde34b97/...
DreamHost Cloud
Thanks. However your comment is still unintentionally enigmatic and emblematic!
It's a free-for-all. (welcome to my world :( )

Something small but meaningful that I believe in are tools like versoneer (https://github.com/warner/python-versioneer/) which bump the version of your code on every commit.

Then, embed this version string in all output. Figures, serialized data, whatever.

It is very powerful to be able to point at a figure and say "this graph was produced by precisely this code". If you're feeling particularly anal, include the hashes of the datasets that generated it too.
>"A research team led by scientists at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health didn't simply attempt to count dead bodies in the wake of the powerful storm. Instead, they surveyed randomly chosen households and asked the occupants about their experiences."

I expected the death toll to refer to the former. Whatever was measured here was more like "estimated deaths due to the stressful seqeulae of Hurricane Maria."

>"The researchers calculate there is a 95 percent likelihood the death toll was somewhere between about 800 and 8,500 people."

This actually interprets a confidence interval correctly. Something is getting through to NPR. EDIT: Wait, no it is still wrong. (If assumptions are ok, etc) there is a 95% chance any given CI contains the actual mean, we can't say anything about the chance this particular CI contains it.

>"This household-based survey suggests that the number of excess deaths related to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico is more than 70 times the official estimate... surveys can provide an independent estimate of mortality that does not rely on death-certificate data"
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1803972

Maybe, but then you need use the death certificate data as a gold standard (somewhere where those records are good) to see if your survey was measuring the same thing. In this case though, like mentioned above, they measured something different from what people usually mean by "killed by hurricane".
It's not the same thing. On amazon you judge a book by its cover. On this site you judge it by its content
Once upon a time "discrimination" had positive connotations, e.g. "he has discriminating tastes".

Somehow the word has been twisted to be almost exclusively negative.

But show me an organization that doesn't discriminate, and I'll show you an organization of utter incompetence.
Apparently people -- even the so called "Smart ones" at Harvard -- just submit their private, personal info.

> Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

> Zuck: Just ask.

> Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

> [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

> Zuck: People just submitted it.

> Zuck: I don't know why.

> Zuck: They "trust me"

> Zuck: Dumb fucks.

Source: Mark Zuckerberg Called People Who Handed Over Their Data "Dumb F_cks" => https://www.esquire.com/uk/latest-news/a19490586/mark-zucker...
"I don't want to stay on a platform where I have to be careful with my speech so I don't offend anyone"

So you don't want to think about the feelings of others?

"and I don't want to be banned, blocked etc. for discussing wrong ideas."

Isn't the whole point of Mastodon that different instances have the capability to block those they don't wish to interact with?
Why Reproducibility Matters in Deep Learning
Reminds me of "100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories" edited by Asimov. The format works really well for hard sci-fi, gets straight to the point. Some of them have stuck with me for decades.
> Not everyone has a public/business phone number, those cost actual real money

No. Google Voice numbers are free, I use one as the throwaway phone number for my personal domains.

https://www.google.com/voice
> but quite visible--i.e. the boss laughing about your accent.

Yeah, this kind of shit made me appreciate North America a lot more and made me realize I am living in possibly one of the most open and accepting societies West has to offer.
I am absolutely with you on replacing family cars. The last 100m problem is really hard and isn’t going to get solved for many real world scenarios any time soon.

However there are a huge range of driving situations in which the last 100m can be designed around self driving vehicles. Many trucking and general pickup/delivery end points could be designed this way. Even many taxi style services could use this approach, with designated parking points for self driving buses and cabs. So I can see near future self driving tech accounting for a significant fraction of road traffic over the next decade, given that it will take time to develop the infrastructure to match.
"describing the format"?
i dont believe facebook allows targetting by company and in general this shouldnt be allowed to targeted advertising.
“Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg” is a name that almost comes with a prefab backstory. Heir to a mysterious but large fortune, Danish royalty on his father’s side with minor French nobility on his mother’s, great-great-grandson of the most decorated officer of the Crimean War, one-half owner of a castle in Lichtenstein rumored to house up to three Vermeers unknown to the outside world, and of course the grisly fratricide in the family’s history which was the talk of society at the time but has now been papered over by the family’s philanthropic efforts in arts education in the wake of the tragedy.
> And overestimating the racial issue is the best way to isolate groups according to race, and in the end, create a hate able to cause civil wars

holy fuck
Tesla must sell 70K Model 3s to reach profitability in Q3 2018
The maths of randomness by Martin Hairer
`npm i` breaks. Then we delete the lock file (and usually node_modules), run npm i again and it works. Probably it works for you and we are just unlucky or we were too lazy to use some cli magic, dunno. Yarn people here (at the company) usually say that yarn worked for them better, can't clarify about that.

One time out of fun and curiosity we flushed the cache and deleted the lockfile and the node modules dir, did npm i on a mac and a windows and they were undiffably different. Okay, this was months ago and probably there is a good explanation for it, but it was not reassuring.
Connect to WIFI without any password – geekhubb
Just thinking, if I would be Oracle, how much data would I put in this page? :)
So it's a bunch of EU Germans receiving payment for downloading your entire social graph and click-jacking your facebook session (this looks to be a chrome extension that would have access to everything, not something that uses even the marginally-permissioned oauth API).

1. Where is the GDPR privacy notice?

2. In light of all the cambridge analytica fallout, where is ANY privacy notice?
At least one organization agrees with you and is trying to do something about it.

https://www.slow-journalism.com/
The price they billed her (after her insurance negotiated its standard discount) was $427.
Can you speak to ageism at facebook? You must be quite rare there. Anecdotally speaking, whenever I visit the campus it definitely is a majority of 20-somethings walking around (or at least not many devs over the age of 40. I believe there are proportionally a lot more at Google).
Some additional questions about it on my mind:

• Does "Messages in iCloud" work for syncing regular SMS messages too, or does it only include iMessages?

• It looks like there's no corresponding macOS update today to add Messages in iCloud support, is there? Should we expect it to be bundled into the next minor macOS patch, or is it more likely to be pushed into macOS 10.14?
Yeah. As of right now there’s no absolutely fool proof way to ensure all clients aren’t possibly going to slip through some crack, and I’m not sure if we’ll ever get there.
I agree 100%. I meant to sum up the prevailing attitude on housing out here.
How do you even stay in business w/ 90% turnover rate. That's insane!
To be fair, the max load factor for this hash map is set to 0.5, which is quite wasteful in terms of memory. If you allow for 50% load in dense_hash_map (and most hash maps for that matter,) they become much faster themselves.
> In contrast to privately insured people (basically, public servants, company founders, rich and ultra rich)

And many self-employed people and also some middle class people. Private insurance isn't that rare here.

PS: Interesting to see LN linked ;)
I submitted a complaint to BBB once and the business owner sent me a letter threatening to sue.

That was the day I realized we as consumers are truly vulnerable.
I still don't think returning a 418 (in the realm of client errors) is the correct code, even if it is a connected teapot which you're trying to identify!

I think the appropriate action would be a client sends an HTTP HEAD to the service, which responds 200 "TEAPOT".
I think the idea comes from earlier times where programming skills came in high demand but few actually knew how to code.

I resulted in high influx of older but inexperienced people, maybe with some background in a somewhat related field like electronics. And they were probably slower than young and equally inexperienced people. Experienced developers simply weren't available.

I understand why companies may prefer younger developers now. Cheaper, less constraints, more long term potential, ... but I think that the idea that older developers are "slower" is outdated.
So what happens when those sunny spots get inclement weather? Do those vehicles just not run?

I believe that they need to be able to operate in all reasonable conditions safely.
Yelp exists only because people trust it.
This is off topic for HN. Please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Nothing in the article about "cheating spouses."
Yes, but two things := DIYers on another level, not 'lemme watch some youtube tutorials, I can build this in a weekend' and second thing - alternative methods might be developed in the (near) future. To do what is proposed here (and for a bunch of other goodies) you would be able to do A LOT of things on a micron level. It would be a great start and a revolution of sorts.
The problem is that it's hard to make it really look that simple. If you order a number of items at once, the shipping costs can probably be amortized throughout them. It's difficult to make an incentive system that makes customers want to do that without shipping costs.
... but ... but ... no one really cares about that. k8s is targeted at startups who will do the sales dance with the big Enterprises and they'll do a SaaS that's backed by k8s managed infra. (Or the Enterprise will use k8s on their Linux servers. Maybe hosted on VMware, maybe on HyperV, maybe in Azure maybe at AWS.)

k8s is a project, a lot of people find it useful. A lot of big corps have IT R&D groups (basically all Fortune 500 have), and they have their own test network. Or they test on their own rack, or on their own cloud, or on their own AWS account.

I think I don't really understand what your belief with regards to k8s is, but I'm interested, so could you give some details?
People who have received messages from the account will still have those copies when the originating instance goes down.
How is this done? Where do you get the books and their first pages? I am wondering if Amazon API gives book preview also.
God bless Hunter.