skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Planetbid hosts a lot of state agencies in California. Google planetbid plus a city name and that should get you some results.
So I can't view the article because they're asking me to agree to cookies, which I'm happy to do, only some tool has decided that a plain checkbox needs JavaScript to work, and I can't check it on IE mobile. It literally won't toggle
I was looking on Amazon for a Lightning / 3.5mm splitter so I could simultaneously charge and listen to my iPhone in the car. I found a listing on he first SERP that had 800+ 5-star reviews. No reviews whatsoever in the 1-4 star range. A closer look, all 800 of those reviews were dated within a 3 day period. Obviously fake.
Really? Have you not tried our solution - Codeanywhere? We have 1.2M Users on our platform, and we have been here a while :)
You can plug Reflexil [0] into ILSpy for on-the-fly code patching. Then once you've got something going, you can (manually) port your changes over to a Mono.Cecil-based [1] patching program. This is how I hack up Unity games written with C#.

[0] http://reflexil.net/

[1] https://github.com/jbevain/cecil
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Rather tangential, and someone correct me if I'm wrong... I'm genuinely open to changing my views on this.

You know what's fucked up? To the best of the knowledge you can't get the official IEEE 754 spec without paying a decent amount of money.

Why do we support the IEEE when pulling this kind of crap? Tons of standards are open! Like WHATWG, W3C, and IETF. Am I unreasonable for expecting standards documents to be free and open? I'm not an implementer, but being able to reference the spec is incredibly valuable in identifying what kind of behavior I can reasonably expect when developing something. If I'm researching something in a professional setting I can get my job to pay for it, but I don't really wanna pay for specs when I'm just poking around for fun.

Having a paywall behind specs also makes them nigh inaccessible for people from less privileged countries. There's no way a kid from, say, India or Latin America would be able to afford tons of these specs.

I'm certainly not an expert on the subject, but couldn't someone create an open "fork" of the IEEE 754 spec and have people refer to that instead?
Is it really discrimination if the system has separate water fountains for whites and coloreds?

It sucks that the system is the way it is, and I think having the same water fountains for everyone is far more efficient.

(There is a term for when the system discriminates. It's called... you guessed it, systemic discrimination.)
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I used mawk for many years and wrote numerous >1000 line programs for manufacturing automation. It is just about the fastest interpreter I have ever encountered, processing multi-megabyte files in just seconds.
These all look totally fine to me? The top items have 1000s of reviews at 4.5+ rating. For a general query of "wireless headphones" without any other specifics this seems like a pretty damned good result page. If you're specifically looking for high-quality headphones, the $200 & Above option is right there in the sidebar.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_13?url=search-alia...
for #2 id imagine that less likely to commit suicide would be the calculus the military came up with
Google has just as much, if not more data on you than Facebook. The difference is that they _don't_ play fast and loose with your data.

Google's business security interests and my privacy interests overlap. The way that Facebook uses user data does not produce that overlap, in fact, it's the opposite, they make money by telling people about you.
To follow up on this, the design of git is inherently open and free. The very act of checking out a repo is mere seconds away from pushing it to any other server or platform/service provider.

Thus, by the great design of git, there is no way to make it a "walled garden" like your email/calendar/facebook. Should Microsoft ever show any inkling of restricting content, moving thousands of repos to another provider would be trivial (i.e. I could do it in a day)
Amazon are complicit because they sell third party inventory while marketing it as "sold by and shipped from Amazon.com". That's deliberate deception.
If the comments even here are an indication, it’s because people have absolutely zero level of understanding into the level of data Google produces and has access to on you.
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Even before Amazon became a problem, anything camera related I always ordered from B&H or Adorama. Camera equipment is just so ripe for fakes and grey market stuff.
Could you explain the connection you see between illegal-immigration policies and legal-immigration policies?
I bought 2 big cube ice trays, same brand, 1 was really bad quality, I thought it was most likely a cheap knockoff, never even thought it was fake or counterfeit.

Interesting...
Considering how often I heard the "Customer Obsession" (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/principles) principle come up in both technical and business decisions at Amazon, I'm completely baffled that the marketplace product remains, and shows no sign of intending to clean up its act.

It's arguably wrecking intolerable damage to customer trust, the one thing that is supposed to be being held above all others there.
Archived copy:

https://archive.is/veTbZ
It's not even "most people" that are outraged with Facebook though. It's the media. The same media which is financially threatened by the democratization of news and information (fake or otherwise) through social networks, and by recent moves that FB made to deprioritize news feeds in favor of social content.
https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/KI-Spezialist-Wave-C...
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In fact many of the results are almost identical to searches on eBay.

It’s a shame that just about the only stores that don’t have this problem are target and Best Buy as they don’t have third party merchant results.
Politicians won't kill the federal budget though because of the job losses. Neither party will. All you gotta do is span your work across a couple of agencies and you're largely insulated.

The worst part of federal contacting is running the business. The accounting, the contacting, etc, and almost all revenue is based on butts in seats. If you can sell a product instead of time then you are much better off.
Really? They take your car and then crush it?
Sure you can protest. But your post very much sounded like you’re upset that any restrictions are imposed. And that’s just an unrealistic stance. I own my flat and I’m not whining that I can’t do whatever I want with it because it was in those pesky laws and the effin contract that I signed when I bought it. So yeah, I suck it up and deal with it. It’s called being a member of society.
This is exactly what happens. Items from different sellers are mixed together and then randomly dispatched by Amazon under their own name.
If so, the post buried the lede. That’d be a bigger change than allowing them to be discharged in bankruptcy.
Google and Facebook both have privacy issues, but Facebook seems to have some negative impacts that google doesn’t. It’s addictive; it encourages shallow social engagement; it contributes to political polarization and the spread of disinformation, and so on. I’m not saying that those charges are right, but while the people at HN are possibly most concerned about the privacy issue the average Facebook hater has a lot of other issues with them.

And a person who hates Facebook for non-privacy reasons is likely to give them a harder time about privacy too. They may not be rational, but I think it’s pretty normal human behavior.
As far as ordering is concerned they are the same. How Amazon handle within a warehouse or across multiple doesn't change the effect to consumers:

If FakeCo send 200 fake headphones to Amazon, co mingle, and Amazon have 800 genuine headphones:

80% of purchases from both Amazon and FakeCo will be genuine, and 20% fake. Amazon is effectively subsidising the counterfeiter and encourages legitimately good reviews for an entirely fraudulent supplier! If they're allocated to different warehouses then chances of fake may vary by which warehouse is nearest. In aggregate the effect is the same.

It's no wonder reviews are so often such a confusing and contradictory mess.
eBay makes it much clearer what’s going on. There are some things I buy there with the full knowledge that it’s coming from some rando, probably in China. I limit what I buy there to products where that’s ok. With Amazon they make it look like many products are more than they really are.
Comcast's monolith to microservices shift spotlights pains, gains
Surprised nobody else mentioned the possibly counterfeit eclipse glasses:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/lawsuit-amazon-s...

Amazon did in fact try to avoid shipping fake glasses, but some may have gone out.
Wow, what a toxic website. As soon as you open it it'll show you a modal asking for money and to sign up for their newsletter.
Web IDEs like ours (Codeanywhere) and C9 Have been around since before 2010...so we have been all around for a while. The Web IDE is a valid product and it has a use case (we have over 1.2M users), but not that all anticipated way back then.
You would eat more than yams. The enclosure would be a "build-and-forget" thing to ensure you have some food down the road when times are lean.

Other videos show the guy fishing, among other things.
Codeanywhere has a iOS app!
I hear it’s got a great view too, no building blocking the beaches. But you can’t drill for oil on your own property in Antarctica, they’re everywhere taking away your rights.
Ask HN: Is there something like Google assistant that made a call?
Something programmable.

My idea is to check up on customers by calling them. And have that bot talk to them.
It's cleaner, you have version controlled dropbox files, edit seamlessly on your computer using any editor. All the pain points/features are listed on the site.
If the military member is overseas and the spouse is stuck in the US, the chaplain isn't much help.
What do you mean by "curtailed products"?
Amazon’s slogan is “The most customer-centric company on Earth”. It seems like customer care should be a top priority. But it’s not. Especially for customers who pay Amazon for marketing and logistical services.
I want to read this, but only after someone goes through and puts all the commas back in.
When I was younger I too was trading games. Being in middle school my ability to crack games was not great.. It really interesting how clever people get trying to prevent copies and how those counter measures get discovered.

A friend's father got this card that went in the apple // card slot and had a button. If you pressed the button you could dump whatever was in memory at that time to a copyable disk. It was called the "Wild card". This was fascinating to me.. It took some digging but there are a few ads for it on the internet..

I wonder if some of the lack of title sequences and extras were because people were using these cards, adding a "cracked splash" screen and calling it a day.

Ad: "Avoid the IRS (Iandvertently Ruined Software)"
https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/Apple%20II%20Documentation%20P...

Ad2:

"Wildcards are copy cards that stack the deck in your favor, rather than copying protected disks track by track like the old nibble copiers, Wildcards ignore the disk and any copy protection on it. Instrad wildcards take a snapsot of your Apple's memory. This creates an accurate copy of the original program"

https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/Apple%20II%20Documentation%20P...
The one that seems to be gaining the most traction is IPFS[1].
/ipfs/ URLs are content-addressed (like git objects). As long as someone has a copy of the data somewhere on the IPFS network it will continue to be available, and if you manage to get a copy of the content from somewhere else you can try hashing it and make sure it matches. (And if it does you can `ipfs add` it and it will become available again, even if nobody who had an original copy was still connected to the network.)

[1]: https://ipfs.io/
Why would they support anything but Windows? Unless it's a bleeding edge tool, it predates .NET Core, and .net Core is still immature.
B&H openly sells grey market products.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/find/HelpCenter/USGrey.jsp

Just to be clear, the only thing that's really wrong with grey market products is they don't come with a warranty. The are the same exact products you get on the white market.
>> He understood it was a “necessary evil” at the time

Looking back at those days, I'm not sure it was a necessary evil. None of my friends, including myself, owned any originals, and incurred real expenses (buying tons of floppies, double side punchers, long distance fees for BBSes) to get the stuff. I could have at least forgone buying a few boxes of discs and bought a game or two in its place.

It's not like today where the Internet is a fixed cost for most home users (in the West at least) and storage costs nearly nothing. There's definitely some residual guilt for those activities from the 80s, especially now that I work in the tech industry.

These days, I don't have reason to copy much at all. In general, software is reasonably priced or free/oss, tv/music/movie streaming is reasonably priced, and for games, I have Steam (and mainly buy when stuff is heavily discounted).
I believe there is also an earlier reference where he said something similar. If I recall correctly, he said he was surprised when he became aware people were writing large programs in awk.

I also recall a more recent interview where when asked about his language preferences, he admitted he does very little programming anymore. When the interviewer pressed for what language he would use now (sigh), he said he would just use Python.
Amazon's customer service is legendary. It's why this whole thing is such a mystery. If Comcast were doing something so bad for customers, nobody would be surprised.
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Really interesting to learn the Dyson sphere is just a misunderstanding!
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There's probably some youtube video of it. Here's an article from 2011 about uninsured vehicles: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/8247837/Cars-to-be...

I don't know how many they actually crushed, but it was some.
European Union Blue Card. Just consider the healthcare mess in the US.
As tomahony has pointed out, a resume is different from a portfolio. If you are thinking resume only, I'd make it available online as a pdf file - nothing more: simply adding HTML markup is not likely to make a difference or impress. Besides, maintaining the 'source content' elsewhere (desktop, google docs, etc.) and uploading a new pdf file each time you have a change is easier, more efficient and avoids duplication (you'll need it as a pdf regardless).

If you want to showcase your coding (HTML, etc..) skills, I second what others suggest: make an online portfolio, or add your projects to your personal website. Check online - there are lots you can use for inspiration. I'm mostly back-end, so mine is minimalist: http://icode4.fun/projects .
And aren't they clearly marked? I'm not against buying grey market equipment. The problem is getting sent grey market stuff when paying US prices.
It's because fashion brands don't want to let Amazon sell their products. Lax counterfeit enforcement is Amazon saying "you can do this the easy way or the hard way." Kind of like how Youtube couldn't figure out how to enforce copyright until the music industry started cutting deals with them.

I fully support it, fuck fashion brands and their ridiculous manufactured exclusivity.
I think that is a lame excuse. Of course it can be done, it’s just a matter of priorities and how many resources you’re willing to put in. To give you an example, nobody is saying that there are no more traffic fatalities or aviation accidents, but the numbers are declining even as traffic is increasing.

Another example is Apple’s app store that seems to be well managed, even though the number of apps is absurdly high.
Oh dear! I've just realized that she was sustained by her religion, I thought her religion was creating the poverty!
One factor that the framework makes worse is linking and tabs. The further everything goes towards single page apps, the harder it is to bookmark things or open them in new tabs. The frameworks people use to make single page apps usually come with tools to give everything urls and solve this problem, but using those is more work for the devs, so the tendency is for things to become harder to open in a new tab or come back to.
curated.
You are not running out of time (2010)
Umm reforming the immigration policy is exactly what progressives are calling for. The only difference is that the conservatives want to somehow deport everyone who is here and has been here for decades to somewhere while the “progressives” recognize that they are an integral part of the economy and want them to pay a penalty, and stand in the back of the line for American citizenship while they are provided recognized status so they can live in the country legally in the meanwhile.

This isn’t both sides not wanting to do anything. This is both sides having very different solutions.

All of which is irrelevant to the article since this is discussing legal immigration.
How can they come without a warranty? Isn't the seller responsible for returns?
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What kind of financial news do you read to inform your judgment on larger issues? I feel I tend to get overwhelmed with short-term and often irrelevant news on finance/global economics/markets with my current curation routine, as I read daily sources that focus on immediate markets news with little in-depth substance (Reuters/WSJ/Bloomberg...)? Do you also read more in-depth analysis, featured in weekly or monthly magazines such as The Econommist or other?
Holmes was not following the same playbook, there's a big difference. What you say holds true for the early investors who may have been sold the future expectations, however, long after that Holmes recruited investors by stating that they have a "working Mars rocket" that's being used right now, when in fact it was smoke&mirrors using altered Siemens machines instead of the claimed Theranos technology.

The difference between saying "we expect to have X working within a year" and "we have had X for a year" is that if X doesn't work out, the second sentence is a crime of fraud. And Holmes was on the wrong end of this difference.

They're not prosecuting for the broken hopes of 2004-2006 investors (who were sold a future that didn't materialize, oh well), they're prosecuting for misleading the investors of, say, 2014 by lying about the achievements of their first 10 years.
And the Latino Caucus insists on family-based immigration. This is a trans-party issue, consequently any kind of point system will never get off the ground.
I was hoping for some kind of crazy compression. Dissapointed to find a state store after the headline.
Because consumers want lower prices. And consumers don't care that their anchor headphone hook is not made by the original manufacturer.

If the product is quality, and the price is good, the consumer is happy. Period. And that's all that Amazon cares about.
How does this wait play out in real life? I doubt any company actually waits 15 years, and clearly not lengths exceeding a human lifespan, to fill a position, even if it went through the trouble of filing an I-140 and certified that zero US workers were available.

So what do all these applicants do in the meantime? Are they overseas? Are they in the States on dual-intent visas? Are they in some creative legal limbo?

If somehow, in the meantime, they obtain a green card or work permit, are they allowed to take that same position, if it's still open -- clearly, they can accept any other position, as they're fully allowed to work in the States, but can they take the one EB-2 and I-140 was filed for originally?
TL;DR - Guy who inspired a couple of interesting sci-fi ideas is speaking out on topics he knows nothing about. Shockingly, his uninformed opinion disagrees with people who are informed on the subjects.
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This feels especially true in the areas where I work (mostly backend web dev.) In an office where the dress code is jeans and a t-shirt or hoodie anyway, having some tattoos doesn't seem especially unprofessional. I had always been warned as a kid that I would never find a job if I got tattoos and have been relieved to find after nearly two full sleeves that this is not the case.
Well, if sci-fi is the model of where the tech is going, we'll probably be using contact lenses or implants when the tech "crosses the chasm", so to speak.
You can import your contacts no?
Tech changes. Even since react-create-app came out, there's been a ton of adoption in GraphQL and Redux, to the point where starting a CRA app still requires you to do pretty significant setup to get started.
Do you actually think there would be fewer dead bodies if there were significantly fewer police?
It needs to be cut out, the point being that the brand can't identify who they originally sold the product to. The brand may take a hard line of their authorized sellers diverting to the grey market. The authorized sellers want to keep being authorized sellers.
That's interesting, I know facebook has done some research on emotion/sentiment analysis on posts and comments. I could see a browser extension, a feature of a search engine or a content aggregator which analyses the emotional context of an article during indexing and displays an emoji describing the general tone of the article alongside an article's headline or link text. I might even go ahead and build a hacker news clone which tries to do this.

The funniest part will be to put the poop emoji next to a "fake news" or clickbait article.
Google and Facebook both have privacy issues, but Facebook seems to have some negative impacts that google doesn’t. It’s addictive; it encourages shallow social engagement; it contributes to political polarization and the spread of disinformation, and so on.

Sure, all true, but perhaps that's because Facebook has to 'get engagement'?

I'm no notifications addict like many of my friends. However, I'm using a Google phone, rely on Google Maps, Mail, single sign on, and a lot more. There's no FacebookMail, FacebookMaps, and so forth that's glued to operating systems like a FacedroidOS.

Google has the best of all worlds, because it's in the infrastructure. It's free to spy in plain sight while Facebook is the canary (even if a very real, and totally predictable one.)
On sites like this I "sign up" a bunch of times with sarcastic made up email addresses at their domain like calmdownneedysiteletmecheckitoutfirst@theirdomain.com.
A search of the browsing history didn't turn up anything, unfortunately.
Same for eyeglass frames. It’s also a way of slowing Alibaba from growing US marketshare.
Hoverboards were a big one a couple years ago - burned a few houses down and killed at least one kid. The vast majority of brands of hoverboards sold on Amazon, as far as I know, were private labels from the same handful of Chinese factories.

I would also especially worry about cosmetics and baby products/toys and I hope nobody's buying power tools from Amazon. There was an article here on hacker news a couple weeks ago that mentioned a lady who was (partially?) blinded by an unsafe dog leash she bought on Amazon.
You're assuming customers care about the manufacturer of the product at all.

For batteries, cables, earbuds, paper, dog toys, etc etc etc - the customer does not care who the manufacturer is as long as the item is good quality.