skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A paradigm shift helps. Many people go buy stuff and ask for a bag to go with it. I have done so for half my life, but since I'm aware of the impact I now just bring my own bag/crate. I must have saved 500 bags and thats just me as 1 person. If everyone would do something as simple then the upfront nature cost will be so much lower.

Funnily enough bags often cost 10 cents so it even saves money albeit a trivial amount saved nonetheless.
CYA for firing with cause. I have never seen it used with the intention of improving a persons performance.
Just ban cigarettes? They're ridiculous, I don't understand why we allow them.
> If plastic bottle costs more then a glass/metal one then you will buy the metal one

There is truth in that, but the consumer situation in the UK is currently that plastic is the only choice. Not that it's the cheapest.
On top of that, these days paper isn't manufactured by cutting down forests we have more eco friendly ways of manufacturing paper, in and out of India
ehnto mentions the ombudsman. I don't think they have this position in the U.S
You have to understand that it’s not as simple as that for the company.

In order to sponsor your visa they have to demonstrate that they attempted to hire New Zealanders for the role and there was nobody suitable for the role.

That means being able to supply proof that you made a reasonable effort to advertise for the role, and giving lists of NZ candidates who applied but where not suitable because they lacked the technical requirements for the role.
We agree that that use-case is useful, and that’s exactly why we’re focusing on it. Augment, not replace.
>This is the solution I've used and it works pretty well.

Just make sure consul-template never writes bad config as that will stop everything reloading. That's bit me a couple of times.
Good. I want them to be as far away from Microsoft as possible. It seems a lot of young developers are buying into the PR of Microsoft (that now they have changed!) which is unfortunate but not surprising. I've found a lot of young devs having a different view of Microsoft since they didn't experience Microsofts embrace and extinguish tactics themselves.

But buying Github is exactly this behavior. They will use it to steer people into Azure and increase the illusion that they think open source is awesome. Young devs will fall for it.

..
> It is not just about harm. FDA rules on medical products also in fitness of purpose.

This is because most drugs aren't really that good for you, however in the context of some illness, the disease may be worse than the unwanted effects of the drug.

A good example is methotrexate (MTX): wow, it really clears up its patients' arthritis, but it's so toxic that it's only administered to patients who are more at risk of dying of cancer than of the MTX.

I've appeared before the FDA (in pursuit of drug approval) and in my experience they're actually more than fair. The biggest problem is the assholes who try to game the system, which just gums up the works for everyone.

edit: I'm no longer in that biz so have nothing to gain by praising or condemning the FDA. The approval process is far from perfect but I honestly think it's pretty good overall.
Unless you have lived in Poland, Romania or Portugal, I wouldn't be so sure in suggesting these places. These countries have their own challenges starting from language barrier to inefficient bureaucracy. I don't think either of these countries are well-known for their tech quality either.
In my experience Trello is fine until your cards don't all fit on the same screen.
They make it seem like they want to give you something free, but their only intention is to get money from you i guess
Truth be told, this came quote late. A friend of mine told me that the town of alibag banned plastics few years back. Of course they are a tourism based economy
Cool game! One thing: I would make sure to validate all NORA results, because sometimes your random letters generate a second option that is not valid according to you app.
Which game was it? The only NZ one I saw on the list was Flutter VR and I don't think they'll like being called "two guys in a garage" https://idealog.co.nz/workplace/2018/02/girlsbehindthegames-...
This is a convenience tool, that uses your existing X11 session. You would not use it when testing malicious programs because they would be able to attack the X11 session (but not your host's filesystem).

If you want to test programs that might be malicious, then you would set up a separate X11 server like Xephyr and get the output to get directed over there. In that way, both the filesystem and X11 session would be separate from those of your host.

I mention the use of Xephyr in the Conclusions of the post. There is some new functionality in LXD that is being released soon that will make it very easy to use Xephyr as well.
Horizontal or vertical staggers?

In my personal opinion, default keyboards (horizontally staggered) are a pain to use, I loathe them and have my ideas why they still adopt that century old layout even if they don't have the mechanical constraint of the typewriters (mostly inertia).

I have never tried the Kinesis Advantage but I have an Ergodox (that I don't use) and a TECK that's my daily driver; I find the vertical stagger layout (keys aligned on columns) the most natural for the hands (switched to Colemak 2~3 years ago, but that is another can of worms ^__^;).

Ortholinear/matrix style, even if never tried I suspect I wouldn't like it, I'm thinking about the Plank models I've seen that use the Signature Plastic DSA keycaps. I have them on my Ergodox, the flat look is fabulous but I find it uncomfortable (the plan is to sell it and invest in a Advantage 2)...
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I recently wrote a small tool to download the whole password database from HIBP and turn it into a Bloom filter that can be used from Golang or Python.

The tool also includes a webserver that lets you check for plaintext password matches (only recommended over a secure network) and SHA1 values:

https://github.com/adewes/have-i-been-bloomed

The filter is about 1.7 GB in size with a 10e-6 false positive rate, so it can be used even on moderate hardware to check user passwords against the database (the entire filter must be loaded into memory currently, though it would be possible to use a memmapped file).
It seems so obvious now you've pointed it out. I do like to over complicate things.
I wrote "It has exactly the same upside / downside" and yet almost immediately I get a reply in which the author with no self-reflection has imagined there are additional downsides to STARTTLS.

As others have explained an on-path adversary who'd be able to rewrite packets in order to stop STARTTLS can even more trivially block port 465 altogether. In fact cheap appliances can do the latter but can't do the former, so if anything STARTTLS very slightly improves this.

If you are imagining "Well I could have a policy of only using port 465" well, sure, but you could just as easily have a policy of requiring STARTTLS. In both cases an adversary can deny you, and your only options are to re-think your policy or give up and not deliver email.
Small price to pay. Not a terribly difficult problem to solve either. Some cities have already with last mile bike cargo carriers.
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The state of Gujarat is a total dry state and yet a local politician's son was found to be drunk as fuck wreaking havoc in the main airport!

Regulations, laws are a joke in India. The political class controls everythinf
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I have heard similar stories from other people who visited USA. So it does seem to be a normal behavior.
Re your third option:

Let's say bonds are yielding 10%. Here's a stock that has a dividend of $1/year. What should the price be? $10 (assuming the company is not growing), because that's the price you would pay to get the same return in bonds. (Note that the bond market is twice as big as the stock market, so it defines the "normal" rate of return.)

Now bonds drop to 2.5% rate of return. Now the same stock is worth $40.

It's not just that the stock market is the only good outlet for extra cash. It's that the low rate of return in other markets raises the price of stocks until the risk-adjusted yield rates match.
Same in Japan.
I spent a couple of years in the UK and then moved back to sunny Dunedin. That first grocery shop tore me a new one, it was at least double the price.
strncpy is not safe strcpy, for any value of safe. Period. str in the name is really misleading as it's not really a string function to begin with.
Pray tell me how you found out that Bihar's alcohol ban has worked out?

I was under the impression that there is a vibrant black market in Bihar too
>because in the framework of the law, we are not to deprive another person of rights or possessions without demonstrating they have done wrong.

Employment is not a right, and a job not the possession of the employee (it's rather the other way around,) and employers in the US can in most cases terminate an employee without demonstrating any cause at all. This isn't a "real" court and jury system, so the rules of that framework don't actually matter here.

The purpose of this is not to find fact and arbitrate fairly, it's to discourage employees from engaging in lawsuits against Amazon.
I work out of a very small studio in Auckland mostly building ecom (cofounder/dev). The reality is NZ is such a tiny market that is has a really funny quality to it (and some really odd stuff in places like an unspoken pay invoices on the 20th of the month rule). Two degrees of separation is the running joke here because just about anyone you hear about has met someone you know. We are doing an increasing amount of overseas work because in many ways it’s just easier, asides from Skyping at odd hours of the day.

I’d love for NZ to be the next Tech hub, but I fear the culture just isn’t there yet. It’s easy to start a company here but it’s very hard to locally source materials or tools at anything like competitive prices thanks to the 100% markup almost any importer puts on anything (if you can get it at all). Software at least doesn’t have that barrier, good developers here are generally very busy. That’s good I guess.
The headline of the article says as much ;)
Why are all of these articles written under the premise that this software sends you automatically to jail? It’s just a first step in the vetting process.
There many Indian Australian and Asian Australian developers, but there are also has many Indian and Chinese citizens working in Australia, employed by large contracting firms like TCS, on contacts under _Indian_ labor laws, with worse entitlements and in more vulnerable negotiating positions than their Australia co-workers. Some of these people are very highly skilled, they also get rotated out as they are useful for establishing teams with new clients. I work with many people who who have asked me, and others, to help lobby on there behalf to stay in their jobs, because they have been told by their contracting company that they will be moved, and if they refuse, their contract contains provisions that could force require them quit and pay back the previous three months pay. I struggle to believe this is legal under Australian law, but I am close to one developer who did this and chose to pay back three months pay rather than speak to a lawyer.
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Because after decades of capitalists whining about the large and bloated state and trying to cut down from every possible angle, there is probably noone left to do these jobs.

This is the market sorting itself out.
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In my experience, it's quite common to have raffles and similar events rigged.

I've heard of lots of companies that have booths at conferences where they scan your badge for a """chance""" to win some prize. Then they look up each person's credentials, and if someone is high up in a company that they wish to establish communications with, they give that person a prize to get their foot in the door.
The electrodes also have the benefit that you can stimulate the neurones as well potentially creating a full feedback loop.

It would be interesting to see if the brain could adapt to a new input and learn how to interpret it.

Rat experiments seem promising: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/10/brain-implant-lets-ra...
Kind of bad, but what's the alternative? Cut everyone off on reload?
> I would love to do frontend web development but the current high-churn Javascript ecosystem makes me dizzy

Learn the actual web: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are stable and don’t require any tooling in modern browsers. It’s pretty civilized these days with native support for ES6 classes, modules, arrow functions, data structures, spread & destructuring, fetch, async/await, etc. and things like CSS Grid for layout (head over to https://developer.mozilla.org for anything unfamiliar in that list). Support for non-current browsers can wait, hopefully until someone is paying you, and that’s a great time to learn about polyfills and transpilers.

The nice part about that is that it also plays great with WASM: you can write clean JS and call back and forth easily rather than trying to get dreadnaught-weight frameworks to work differently. I’m enjoying that right now since I see substantial gains swapping Rust-based hashing code to replace pure-JS alternatives.
Don't forget to consider the revenue side of the equation. I imagine these promotions wouldn't exist if they didn't make money, for at least a few, business entities in the chain.

If they have:

0.3% conversion;

$25,000 average price;

20% margins

Which aren't unrealistic numbers for timeshares. They break even at $15 cost per lead when ignoring call center costs and other overhead. It's pretty easy to find people to work at an outbound call center for a campaign like this for $9-$12 an hour. (that's without looking offshore) There's also the possibility for additional revenue on customer financing and data resale.

When I was a very very broke college student, I worked on cold calling campaigns trying to set appointments to sell security systems. Now I do analytics for a a business that is happy with doing outbound dials on $20 CPL for largely semi-qualified leads. It ain't the most fulfilling work. But it does pay well and the owners have never, and will never take outside investment.
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If you're doing work for a foreign company it's best to pay an accountant to sort out the tax for you. I know people who work in UK for foreign companies usually set up and LTD company and then pay themselves through that, through dividends etc, effectively only paying about 20% tax on everything.
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a) Own country. Generally most countries use residence-based taxation (where you live most of the year is where you pay your taxes), with a few very specific exceptions (the USA, ship crew, diplomats, deployed military, etc).

b) Freelancer because I'm too cheap to set up a company/hire an accountant, and it's really simple to just do my own taxes. Those extra taxes are thinks your employer now doesn't have to pay (healthcare, unemployment insurance, etc) so ask for a raise to match.
Have confidence in yourself and make a decision. Sounds to me like you already know what you need to do.
Doesnt Mumbai do that every couple of years and the the whole thing fizzles out and then some new bureaucrat tries it again.

This is from 2009

http://business.rediff.com/report/2009/dec/30/bmc-plans-to-b...
These are all through Bali. The scam is that you appear to win something, but really it is just to get you into a high pressure sales environment. So you go back to their office (where everyone is amazed that you won!) and then realise the prize is a tour of some holiday destination they want you to invest in etc.
by vetting the supplier...you may not pass given this public statement ;)
Yet Axon (formally Taser International) is building systems to recognizes faces for law enforcement body cams. [1]

Especially disturbing is that these systems seem to have a much higher rate of misidentifying minorities.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/05/12/610632088/what-artificial-int...
As in many things, a blanket statement of 'not ready for use' isn't really the most helpful way to look at the situation. There's a range of ways such technology could be usefully deployed, even with current technological problems, that might aid law enforcement officers in the field. It's a very wide continuum from zero to "automatically locking people away for life based on a facial match".

As the article says, there are huge concerns about how such tools might be misused, whether legally or not. So the title might more accurately stated not as 'facial recognition software is not ready for law enforcement', but that 'law enforcement is not ready for facial recognition software'. I'm fairly sure there are countries out there where citizens do not lie awake at night in fear of their government, and where such technologies might be responsibly deployed as a tool in law enforcement.
I think the even bigger problem here is that if face recognition software is malfunctioning those who have been identified by mistake are suddenly subjected to an investigation that can pose serious threat to their privacy.
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> I don't understand why we allow them.

because some people like them.

Should we ban Alcohol, fast food and sugar as well?
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My background is web development. One of my biggest peeves when it came to Java was the fact I was heavily reliant on IDE for the longest time, that meant if my IDE couldn't make sense of the project I imported, neither could I.

I'd like to start from bottom-up with game development. What engine would you guys recommend to use that had CLI capabilities for live reloading/hotswapping(if that's even a thing)?

I understand eventually I will need to use a scene builder and shader/animation editors and whatnot, but I want to understand it on CLI/code level first.
I said there was some truth to it. Its obviously an absurd overstatement, but my point was my RDBMS experience made a fair few things more difficult. I initially designed myself into a few corners by applying my experience to solve problems in ways that ended up being hilariously wrong.
The solution I came up with is to have the winner come into a store location to claim their prize. They can see their brand new motorcycle, be told that to drive this away we need to report the gift to the IRS so they can collect their cut.

I think most people will give up the digits then.
We can assume the most positive meaning of the expressed text.
Not yet. I'm still falling for the trap that after a few days "doing well" I'll award myself a binge (I'm not very overweight but would like to lose 5-10kg).
Thanks!

We’re changing the naming for this exact reason, the next iteration of the book is being called the “2018 edition” to match with the new edition scheme generally.
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If it’s a spectacular failure (someone who doesn’t like at all like the criminal) he’ll be let go right away. If there’s a reasonable resemblance, it would be as if some person reported the guy manually to the police.
We started using excel for task lists and gantt, google drive, slack and whatsapp (yes, whatsapp). We tried Trello for the Kanban view. Lately we started using ZOHO Projects. So far its been great. Especially after their recent update. Its got all the functionality of EVERY tool I mentioned earlier. I, for one, am not a big fan of using Whatsapp for official communication, and post Zoho Projects, we only use Whatsapp to plan team outings :P

Its free. Give it a shot.
>We need movement from the top of every single company in this space to put a stop to these kinds of sales.

What are some historical examples in which industry coalitions of unprovoked top private executives refused government contracts in the name of the civil rights of their fellow citizens?
I've been using Consul as part of micro (https://github.com/micro/micro) for 3 years now. It's a great mechanism for service discovery. This additional feature is going to be seamlessly integrated. They've done a fantastic job of pushing forward Consul as a whole.
Isn't New Zealand hugely underpopulated? I fear that their real problem is elsewhere...

Just checked quickly:

* the UK: 65 million people, 242 000 sqkm -> crowded

* Romania: 19 million people, 238 000 sqkm -> not that crowded

* New Zealand: 4.8 million people, 268 000 sqkm -> it's definitely not overpopulated...

Edit: Heh, I also checked the density, it's the 203rd country in the world regarding population density. There's definitely a ton of space for people there, if the government wants it and is diligent about promoting construction of affordable housing.
Not really. That's the odd one out in that respect, and is not even a part of this discussion.
Better yet, just use the fact that NULL is false and get shorter, cleaner, and safer code.

if (!s)
Unfortunately my block of flats was built in 1902 and is on a narrow street.

Deliveries so often don't show up that I have given up - I now use collect+, amazon lockers or get items delivered to work.
Can you explain why the government would want to depress wages?
Speaking of subsidizing shipping, i seem to recall that the price of postage is fixed no matter the distance and remoteness with the calculation that more trafficed areas then subsidize less trafficed areas.
Gmail says 89% of inbound email is encrypted (up from 60% 2 years ago). So theoretically you'd lose 11% of your mail. https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email/overview?h...
Somewhere is a very rich (clueless) consultant who sold them that (bullshit) idea.
Mentioning your citizenship might help, certain countries look for certain groups (e.g. they have a satellite team in ___ where you speak the language, bonus!).
> Employment is not a right,

Article 23.

(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.

(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.

(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
I don't know about Portugal, but both Romania and Poland have a well developed tech sector. They're not dumping grounds for projects (think Infosys & co).

But you're right that the bureaucracy is really bad right now...
Is there a way to provide private feedback? There's no email address I could find on the site, or your profile here.
2000 all over again.
Replace BASIC with JavaScript and book about Scala language on Spark for a contemporary topic adjustment. You'll see the same there.
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You've tried Vend, Xero, Auror etc? Look for the big local companies who have global offices.
> data harvesting attack

Think I missed that, what happened? I don't enable 1Password autofill or any of it's browser extensions, I just see it as additional attack vectors waiting to be compromised.
Here's the HN thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17292476
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