skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bit about the manager and director is in the main article. There's nothing about pay, but they're presented as entirely sympathetic and angry about the system on his behalf.

As for "fishy", I find it very strange that someone writes an article emphasising twice that they're out three weeks of pay, but then couldn't be bothered to do anything about it. There's breach of contract, this isn't a long and arduous appeals process, it's open and shut, and if it isn't you have a lawyer deal with it, and recoup expenses, too. And if the guy just doesn't care about it, then why does he mention it twice?

And for the purposes of this, and the other sub-thread that is incredulous about this, this is not an American thing: If you're a contractor in Europe, and you don't get paid, and you then don't do anything about that, then you don't get paid. There's no process that automatically fixes things when the aggrieved party doesn't ask for them to be fixed (and yes, even in Europe, there's a bit of annoying process and paperwork to deal with).
Can a Hollywood scale movie be funded by crypto tokens?
I am thinking about a platform where wannabe and professional directors, artists etc.... ask for funding for their movies and the the people purchasing token can easily vet the people and their project.

Is there anything like this?
Vint Cerf AND Tim Berners-Lee declare it "an imminent threat to the future of the Internet." Then Cory Doctorow calls it foolish. This feels like a no-brainer for opposition.
The prescription was for the wrong drug, i.e. the wrong drug was prescribed and conversely the right drug was not prescribed. The pharmacist can, should, and quite possibly did use their human judgement to refuse to dispense the wrong drug, even though it was prescribed. But by design they don't have the authority to dispense the right drug without getting a doctor to formally prescribe it.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17350122
JP Morgan downgrades Oracle because it's losing to Amazon, Microsoft
I think that is a defendable position so long as you are willing to accept the other side, which is massive tariffs against big EU industries.

Someone has to take it to the German auto industry which has used lies & deception to up their market share while destroying the environment.

Note that I disagree with both points, but they are internally consistent so long as you accept both.
Wrap it in a `keybase encrypt ...` and it's a pretty solid solution
It is silly because food cost is only one part of the cost of providing a meal. Really all of the costs should be dumped into a program which spits out exactly what to charge for each menu item.
"Daily standups" are morale killers.
Just because nothing in it is realistic, does not make it a comedy.
No, the point of Chesterton's fence isn't presuming there is a reason:

> The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."

The point is that there might be a reason, and before careful consideration we won't understand what that might be.
Right, but today's vote was just a committee. Next month it comes before the full Parliament. If sufficient awareness can be raised among MEPs before the vote next month that it becomes a toxic issue politically, my understanding is that voting it down at that stage would be an opportunity to effectively stop the whole process.
“How are you?”

“Good”

Tons of people have this exchange out of politeness. The person asking “How are you?” doesn’t really want to know details. The person answering is expected to be brief and positive. It’s only among friends that the same question is expected to get an honest and detailed answer.
C++ is used by most games and widely used in embedded computing, often with Qt. All major HTML engines are written in C++, too. You seem to be confusing your immediate environment with the world.
You can't call out the meat eaters so directly, it makes them upset and there are a lot of them.
I was going to submit this news from the source I learned it from, which has the novel peculiarity of coming from a site that's name is similar to this one: https://thehackernews.com/thn/2018/06/openbsd-hyper-threadin...
You're absolutely right. "job hoppers" are often the very motivated people that are worth their weight in gold, but don't find a company that is on their level.

However as a manager you should probably not institute sweeping changes a "newbie" (he could actually be more of an expert than your own team, but you don't know this yet) suggests, but finding out why the newbie suggests them should be in your best interest. Often fresh eyes are the only ones that can see what is wrong. Dan Luu put this really well:
https://danluu.com/wat/.

A lot of catastrophe's could have been avoided (especially stuff that's morally questionable) if people listened more to the newbie who still isn't conforming enough to your team that he still sees what's wrong.

So my advice (to the managers): listen to the suggestions, and put your managerial clout and preexisting rapport with your team (which the newbie lacks) to implement the good ones, if there are good ones.

If they aren't you can still explain why.
Nvidia releases libraries for fast image augmentation
Bithumb hacked
MyHeritage Says 92M User Accounts Have Been Compromised
Now that think about this, this is a clear example of the famous Frame problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_problem)
Speed up e-commerce sites by caching personalized (now cacheable) content
Every new person on my teams, I have document what knowledge they are missing and what their questions are. We then fix and update the documents we have to address this. If you're on a growing team, this approach saves time/money in the long run.
This will pretty much guarantee a decrease in productivity, as opposed to the original intention to increase productivity. Why can't everyone use their own editor? Enforce standards, not tools. Something like editorconfig (I use it in pretty much every large project I have) solves this for you.
I am from same generation with you but I think your assertions in your long comment very hand wavy and super simplified. Needless to say I disagree with many of them.
Yes, there's a component that some people are attracted to viewing CP, thus there's incentive to produce it.

This component is probably not that present in an addiction to gore material. People can be sensitive to the way the material was produced and react differently to accidental/documentary, staged voluntary, or staged involuntary recordings. If you search online you'll find accounts of people being horrified, yet attracted to gore.

Psychology of these things is quite interesting.
Static binaries are magic :)
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Germany presses U.S. on potential Eurofighter nuclear role
I think it's inevitable we research what exactly drugs do to people as science progresses; I am strictly against exposing the whole population to it though. What I would be in favor of is to give adults a choice to take those drugs for 20-30 years but require them to be enrolled into a health monitoring system so that the effects could be researched properly and then an informed judgement be made (only for those persons that don't posses known risk factors). So removing the stigma of "junkies" by willing participation (license + mandatory insurance?), regulate it on manufacturing side, but also place an obligation on users to provide some benefit to society as well in better understanding of how human body works. Of course, there would be automatic limitations imposed like participation in sport competitions, high-risk jobs etc.

And ramblings are fine, it's always refreshing to read somebody's unfiltered opinion; even in disagreement it sometimes removes some innate tunnel vision ;-) I agree with what you've written about escapism.
Any lawsuit in progress with regards to that?
They do have some baffling decent decisions every now and then though. I remember having to change the headlight on a VW transporter in the army (200X model can’t remember exact model). My hands (and all the other guys around) were too big to fit the space/hole left for such a routine operation. Had to take off the whole front mask. Took around 4 hours (never done that before). A 4 hour headlight change...
I'm in the UK. Conservative MEP did as you said, Labour one sent a bit of a boilerplate that they are considering it, UKIP are of course against it but thats par for the course with them, the green one sent a detailed response and is voting against both art 11 and 13 (the ones I raised issue with).
> That's not racism, that's laziness. Or perhaps just being a bad engineer, if you want to be more cynical about it.

I wasn't ready to admit the genius of the show before, but I am now: what you said is quite close to a line from the same episode (said by the sociopathic boss, Veronica) when told by the protagonist that the sensors were effectively racist "[...] it's actually the opposite of racist, because it's not targeting black people. It's just ignoring them. [company] insist the worst people can call it is "indifferent.""
A thing to try: Mono(LLVM) -> mkbundle(static, aot full) -> BOLT.
It'd be interesting to modify this or a similar program to work with rsync
> Under federal law, which adopts the United Nations definition, torture is: “any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as … punishing him or her for an act he or she or a third person … has committed or is suspected of having committed.” And though in theory any action inflicting such suffering is banned, that is what is inflicted by separating parents and children in border detention.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/0...
Sometimes those things that are working imposed a hefty load of technical debt, which newcomers are tasked to pay up with compound interest due to the unfamiliarity with the codebase. Therefore rewriting some components may actually pay off in productivity in the short run.
I thought that getting the same system/behavior would require reproducible builds too. Perhaps I am wrong.
UK’s first Space Camp Accelerator unveils its first 6 startups
You're right, it's not just good decentralizing media, but for decentralized everything. The technology to go fully decentralized has been ready for years, but its usability is still lacking (high latency, low bandwidth etc.). But at some point, if the copyright industry goes to far and the existing services are significantly reduced or outlawed, decentralized solutions become attractive again.

Right now the offer from Netflix is somewhat ok, although extremely reduced due to geographical restrictions, so not much need for Popcorntime. If the offer is further reduced while keeping the same price, at some point it'll be time for popcorn again...

Analogously, if this media linking copyright stuff goes through and too far, somebody might build the popcorntime equivalent for news consumption...
NvJPEG – high-performance GPU-accelerated library for JPEG decoding
Hm. Saner regulatory environments seem to be pretty thin on the ground, lately.

Not sure I share your optimism that a significant number of companies will be willing to abandon a major world market, or to depend on a nudge-nudge-wink-wink "bypass our geofence and we'll pretend we don't notice your EU billing address" kind of thing...
Google News is still shut in Spain: https://support.google.com/news/answer/6140047?hl=es
The dangers were known at the time. The League of Nations had treaty in the 1920s to ban lead paint, knowledge of the dangers of course proceeded it by a lot. The same with leaded gas. The millions of lives affected and $trillions in damages were completely avoidable except for greed.
Who came up with that, given that "three amigos" is a pretty well-known term for Booch, Rumbaugh and Jacobson?
Also three weeks old.
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Lobbyists don't usually hand over money. Usually they are just good at appearing trustworthy and, uh, explaining the positions of their clients in terms that politicians understand.

Therefore, their explainees think they are doing genuinely good things.
The Truth About Veritasium [video]
Laws don't work like that. It you think any law was defeated you very mistaken about how laws and government bureaucracy works.

The law still applies and all that happened is that Google gets a free license and everyone who is not Google has to pay licensing fees.
Blockchain: A Love Story. Inside the Crypto World's Biggest Scandal
I dislike this bill as much as other HNers but writing "Disastrous" in the title makes this look more like an option piece rather than a news piece. How hard is it to ask for news to report facts and for me to decide if the facts are disastrous or not?
Would you fund the lawsuits they'll get?
A leasing agent for my apartment put the wrong (slightly cheaper) rent amount on our lease, and only realized as we were moving in, well after all parties had signed.

She told us we needed to sign a corrected lease because there was no way to make the rent billing system charge us the lower amount.

We explained to her that the building’s legal obligations trumped what their computer would do. They figured out how to change the amount in their billing system.
Time for Silicon Valley to Get Behind a National Privacy Law
I haven't been recommending Stylish since their questionable browser history tracking was introduced by default (analysis by uBlock Origin author here [1]).

[1] https://www.ghacks.net/2017/01/04/major-stylish-add-on-chang...
"left-leaning". Hehe.

Goes to show how much the left-right axis has tilted to the right since WW2.
Surely they don't hand over cash, I didn't mean that, but they give benefits by different means.
Do you have opportunity to compare? I mean he/she at least is bi-national. Why do you call someone liar on his/her own ideas?
More People Die Taking Selfies in India Than Anywhere Else in the World
I love using this for simple transfers I need from computer to server
Belgium, too (only Walloon publishers sued); I'm not sure if that was before or after Germany, but the result was the same.
> I cant say i've ever heard of anyone ever using heroine responsibly.

I don't think its the sort of thing people will advertise. Apparently only around 10% of users become addicts
Amsterdam airport launches new Bitcoin and Ethereum ATM
I have had some very intelligent non-boilerplate replies from Green Party UK MEPs. However, it looks as though we won't have another opportunity to vote for them.
The Science Behind the World Cup Ball
I always keep the frame of mind that you cannot really predict if you will be subject to a lay off or if you will get hit by a car walking down the street. And if you could predict it, then why not apply for another job if you think it will happen! So it's a very unlikely possibility.
"It looks like the devs didn't do their job properly..."?
In theory. In practice, the code will often have corner case behaviours that eludes any of the tests, yet are still important.

As an aside, as I understand it, refactoring was popularised as a response basically to this conundrum - it's a technique for reorganising code without changing its functionality. So you can gradually "rewrite" your two page function without losing the accumulated knowledge.
> European newspapers are left-leaning

You missed "some". I can assure you there are plenty of right-leaning newspapers in Europe: The Times, Financial Times, Evening Standard, Daily Mail, The Sun, Corriere della Sera, Libero, Il Giornale, Il Foglio, L'Opinion, La Croix, Frankfurter Allgemein Zeitung, Die Welt, El Paìs...

It is true that the objections on this atrocious law are subdued to say the least, because the entire sector is complicit. Battered by the internet revolution, the press is desperate to find revenues. Part of the responsibility is squarely on "internet people" for their inability to find a modern business model for the sector, though: Google and friends have been happy to pick at the dying carcass of traditional media without giving anything back.
Public Relation from a Journalist's perspective
To say it was equivalent to b.add(a) was incorrect and unwise. But to say a.add(b) or Add::add(a, b) was correct. It used to be more complex in the distant past when the operators worked by reference, but since some time before 1.0 they operate by value, and so the following are all equivalent:

• `a + b`

• `a.add(b)` (provided std::ops::Add is imported and the type of a doesn’t have an intrinsic method named add, which would take precedence)

• `Add::add(a, b)` (provided std::ops::Add is imported)

• `<A as ::std::ops::Add<B>>::add(a, b)`, where A and B are the types of a and b (provided we’re not no_std).

(Note that `a.add(b)` would work if a is of type A and &A implements Add but A doesn’t, because of autoref/autoderef in method calls, while the other three approaches would not work, and would instead want you to write &a.)

Demonstration of most of this: https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=c70a8c62fa0f304b1a8dceddf98...
Good. As a former employee, I can assure you that working at Oracle was a complete and total arbitrary mess.

The company has 133,000 employees, of which 80,000 are sales people.

Many don't show up to work. Like ever. And I don't mean like, "Oh I'm working from home"-- I mean don't work. And they still receive salary AND more importantly bonus checks/commission.

Have you ever seen someone be paid $90,000 for a deal they didn't work on? I have. Hundreds of times, often to the same rep. Oracle has a "sales team" for certain accounts, so most of the work/relationship is guarded by the "principal rep". The others get paid for doing no work as a "secondary rep". Those roles are handed out based on nepotism.

Most of the time spent by employees at the office involves beer pong, 3 hour lunches, fake meetings and trainings, and the occasional cold call to a telephone directory ("fake dials", as we would call them).

And this is not even talking about Oracle's terrible pricing for actual users, its pitiful legal/open source history, and its pitiful customer service.

Seriously. Corporations are bad. Oracle is worse.
right, it would already by a good place to kill it, so yes, go call your MEPs!

But there's still another chance afterwards, which might be more successful given the timing of the election and people now maybe more likely to argue that it can be "fixed" in negotiations.
And the whole law was enacted because of Google.... Let's have regulation for regulation's sake!
It is very easy to make unenforceable laws. Actually blocking VPNs would require something akin to the great firewall of China, which I don't see the EU building in the near future.

Criminalizing something means nothing if the laws can't be enforced. Torrenting copyrighted works is a criminal act, and yet torrenting has never been easier after years of efforts to shut it down from all sides.
Yes, but it's always fun to go faster ;)
Each hack individually, yes, is likely to be there because of requirements changing.

But collectively, it's likely that one of those hacks is there to account for some edge case that's not intuitive and will be missed on the rewrite.
I really like that mobx + vuex have their version of "memoized selectors" (computed getters) straight out of the box, fully integrated. They're so insanely useful.
Looks cool. I currently use finviz, and the insider trading feature looks similar. Are you looking to quantify the risks anytime in the future, ie how would revenues/ earnings be affected if they materialized.
So because it isn't a "scandal" it's not interesting news that a major company half-assed a fix for safety problem?
Tiny, tiny addendum here:

> a + b is (always) equivalent to Add::add(a, b)

method call synatx does auto ref/deref, so it may be

Add::add(&mut a, b)

or

Add::add(&a, b)

too, etc.
Tim Draper says Elizabeth Holmes 'was doing really good work' before attacked
The maker movement is happening
Agreed. Not sure why this is the favorite pet theory on HN. It’s interesting, but very little data to actually support the connection.
All you need to know about Display Resolutions
I think it is an amazing project, just a small suggestion, dont use this expression on the homepage 'pipelined crap'. It is a bit unprofessional from my point of view.
The (recent) SPARC Hypervisor does a fair job at this. Fujitsu has an interesting implementation. But it would be conceivably difficult to do this with time sharing on Intel chips without exposing side channels. That kind of control should be supervisory and in control of the chip. I haven’t yet seen that on Intel, but I’ve heard there are some hardware manufacturers that are looking to do something like that.
Nix doesn't "solve" reproducibility. For example, if the thing being packaged builds non-deterministically (e.g. if components are built concurrently, and added to a tarball in whichever order they finish). Nix can make it easier to avoid introducing new problems, and it also gives an audit trail of which versions of things were used to build things.

Also Debian doesn't use Nix, so that wouldn't solve the problem for Debian. Nix (along with everyone else) does benefit from the improvements that Debian is making, e.g. finding non-determinism in programs and getting it fixed upstream.
Curious, why did you care? I think I'd just leave the account open.
I love magic wormhole, you give the recipient three words and a number and the file is sent peer-to-peer. No messing about with routing or anything.
If it was hitting the same percentages? Very likely yes.
No, the problem was that publishers were not permitted to grant free licenses.
I've read interesting comparisons between veteran experiences after WWII and the Vietnam War. In the case of the former, the nation was relatively united, and the draft was quite universal. The cohort effect was very strong, and integration back into society was relatively automatic.

Also consider that the US forces did not get the worst of the war in global terms. Plus, the relationship between the occupying forces and civilians was totally different for WWII / Vietnam.
Contact the FCC: https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us

My wife is a victim of the OPM breach and had someone apply for (and in some cases open) numerous accounts with her data. One of those accounts was with T-Mobile and after three months of phone calls and strongly worded bills we filed an FCC complaint. A T-Mobile rep called us two days later and the issue was resolved (or so it seems anyway, haven’t heard anything in the past few weeks).