skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would someone (pilot?) wanting/planning/executing a mass murder-suicide deviate so much off course? There's a lot of water en-route. The suspected "author" could have crashed anywhere in the Yellow Sea, East China Sear or South China Sea with relatively minor deviation.

On the other hand, assuming such an hypothesis, crashing into water far away from the route would "explicitly" decrease the chances of finding the wreckage and thus the black box.
Maybe he left a review of the shipping process on another product, the seller reported it and now his reviews are being reviewed?
Samsung says the Galaxy S9 isn’t selling very well| I think it's marketing issue
Like it or not, people tend to review the whole purchase experience. And I can't really blame them.
How to Make Sure Your Next AWS Summit Is Not a Waste of Time
You shouldn't trust random strangers on the internet at all, no matter what good story they spin for you.
With their marketing strategy it's even more hilarious. I mean they always shading other brands while being far from the market's top. What do you think?
The special/segregated track is one of the major reasons they're more secure.
Social Security in the 21st Century
For quality translation of complex, non repetitive ideas, a human is, and will always be required.

I have been in the translation business field for about 20 years now, so I have seen the rise of desktop tools, then server-based solutions, and lastly, of course, cloud-based tools. While each generation is better than the previous, the increments are decreasing.

We are based in Canada, where we receive around 300,000 new immigrants per year. That's 6 million over those 20 years. Guess what? Those people are hitting the job market, and now, their children too.

Consequence: the overall quality of English texts is noticably decreasing, from ALL of our customers. I notice the names, and they are not your typical English, French, German, Italian or Ukrainian names (traditional settler groups in Canada). We do more and more of what is called "transcreation", a fancy way to say complete re-interpretation of a text. We basically extract the main ideas, and re-write the whole thing, because basing the translation on the provided source text always yield disappointing results.

I really don't see how machines could distill the ideas out of a text and reinterpret them in a nice way.

I can see AI work for short, simple, well-written texts. Heck, even long manuals with repetitive blocks of text from manual to manual. But with creative, complex text: still a looooong way baby!
What is the best CRM for middle size businesses?
Looks easy, right? Too bad it's been looking easy for 50+ years now, with no solution in sight.
The socialist dream of banning stuff.
I'm loving the "new" microsoft.
Show HN: Pre-beta ERP system
I'm working on an ERP system and would like some feedback on intuitiveness. Https://JBitPro.com
If it is done with malice, it's the dumbest, waste of malice evil project ever because nobody really benefits.

It is not done with malice.

The IMF/WB believe that nations that have basic infrastructure, basic forms of democracy, low corruption and relatively open markets ... will be successfull. This is neither malicious nor entirely naive.

It's pragmatically naive when you consider the leader of some nation may take a 10% cut off the loan, hire his buddies to 'build the dam that never gets built' and then of course you have a nation in debt ... but those debts are not advantageous to the West at all, so the conspiracy theories are wrong.

Now - where there is actual malice is when a large, Western industrial conglomerate might win a big contract and so they influence, bribe, fake data - and then get the contract to 'totally overbuild' some kind of capacity leaving a nation with way more than they need. That's malice, but it's definitely not the IMF/WB or lending nations that win there.
What's the difference between "mansplaining" and being patronising?
How can an open source company so blatantly rip off Gitlab? Total madness.
I'd much prefer that optional type annotations make it into the spec, like they did for Python and PHP.
Beautiful logos, but I found no reason to "reset" the iconic fox. Is there a problem with it I am not aware?
I can't blame them either, but it doesn't change the fact that his review has nothing to do with the item. He wrote a review of item X and it had nothing to do with that item. It's like writing a review of a hotel resort and giving it a 1* because the flight there was cancelled. It's just not helpful at all.
>To write off the economic successes of the west under the guise of “problem” with western culture is deeply problematic.

Well, there is a problem with western culture in this area -- it can never be content, and its eating away the planet. It's own visionaries and thought leaders imagined a society of leisure and 3 hour workdays and such, but we have many times the efficiency per hour of previous ages, and people are overworked more than ever (not to mention increasingly in debt as well).

>Economic success requires efficiency in all aspects of a business.

Well, I'm against "economic success" beyond a certain point, and especially when it comes to the detriment of the society, and the environment. I'm for economic sustainability, and with utilizing the vast technological resources to improve life (as opposed to induce consumption).
Any extra effort I have to expend to understand your thing within the first five minutes of seeing your webpage means I get closer to closing the tab and never looking at it again. I'm capable of following extremely dense developer-oriented information, but I won't do so without an extremely good reason. I'd much rather speedread through a paragraph of information that had some effort put into making it legible.
Online-only copyprotected games will be quite difficult to run in emulators.
Doesn't this sort of thing self regulate. If there is not enough passengers, people will stop offering lifts as a primary income. If roads are full and slow, people will use public transport.

I realise short term there may be some negative effects on city culture and transit finances.

Regulating ride shares is not very different from taxis.
>Whilst there may not be a perfect correlation between punctuality and efficiency, I'd suggest that it seems likely punctuality in business is more likely to be efficient than not.

Efficient towards what, and what for? Those are good questions seldom asked.
I think the sentiment is true, though, that the giant tech companies are a diverse set of businesses. There’s overlap between them, but they focus on different things and are successful in (mostly) each their own market.
I hope you at least anonymously reported that behavior to appropriate authorities. And started searching for a new job.
I don't listen to his music, knowing what he did I can't separate the art from the artist.
Is it a whale? Is it a dolphin? 1-of-a-kind hybrid fascinates scientists
They are kind of useless for other customers. The customer reading the review might get the product from another seller, shipped by another service (might depend on shipping address).

If you think it is the sellers fault, review the seller. If you think it's the parcel delivery service's fault send it back with that as reason. That is signal enough.
You cannot fight in cyberspace when a foot soldier turns the server off.
What would stop the punctual testees telling the questions to the late testees?
Because I for one can't change the DOCSIS parameters my ISP set for the segment I am on, and neither can I affect radio communications reliability without impaired movement.
While the error detection is rather weird, and a simple erasure code might well work better, this is a good idea.
Elsevier is an European publisher. I wonder if EU countries could choose to nationalize it.
Let's say you are interviewing for a managerial position, how would you like to be interviewed in a way that shows you can lead people?
The UniFi range is very easy. The Edge series (such as EdgeMAX) is slightly less easy, but also more powerful.

Easy and secure are not always a good match though. Take UPnP for example. Disabled by default on my ER-L, it can be enabled, but its ultimately insecure. And ultimately, HTTP over SSL could download payloads.
My first thought was the Fenix twitter app.
Couldn’t it be a self-fulfilling situation? If you feel empowered, you’d be more likely to act boldly, and boldness is a source of power.
Hey, I’m sure that video does not show how to build an anti-scammer solution. The scam stuff seems to be a nice back story for showing some python stuff.
OTOH, any time a scammer is required to go and look at the data, write filters and what not, it’s a win!
Istio v1.0.0
On android a least if you have the gear VR you can get vr minecraft. Think it might be on occulous too.

I've tried it, felt sick though after half an hour.
Very fun to read and sounds very true. In my experience though, I found no correlation between programmers with a CS degree and being a good developer/architect.

I will say that those of us who didn't graduate (including me, I dropped out) often feel they have something to prove and will work harder.
The UK has a lot of previous form in that department - the TSR-2 (cancelled in favour of the F-111) and the Miles M.52 (blueprints given to the US and formed the basis of the Bell X-1 design) to name but two:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_TSR-2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_M.52
That's pretty much undeniable. That said, German academic libraries have also supposedly spent a lot of effort into making sure that accessing the content is still as painless as possible, e.g. through making Inter-library Loan easier.
How do you, from your own perspective, define a culture-fit? How would you like to be assessed on that metric?
Not sure why you're getting downvoted but I'm with you.

Screw this subtle racism.

Being someone who was born in a country with far from ideal stereotypes is not fun, specially those related to work ethic which are potentially harmful should you want to make a career abroad.
Loads of people within Netherlands use an app called "Flitsmeister" which does this and more. It basically gives you traffic information by determining where you're going to. It's different from Waze/Google Maps and so on that primarily it a) can auto start if you're using a bluetooth carkit b) it just looks at where you're currently headed. Not needing to set a navigation is quite handy because often you're headed towards the same places (e.g. work) and do not want to setup your navigation 2x/day.

Things it warns about: emergency vehicles (!), open bridges, speed/red light cameras (name is based upon this), (dynamic) speed limits (if on a highway it shows e.g. 70 instead of 130 the app will know), stopped vehicles, bad road, etc.

See https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.flitsmeiste...

I'm guessing they had to cooperate with a lot of different government bodies to make all of the functionality possible. Anyway, it works quite well in practice. Also, emergency vehicle notification is automatic, it's not based on people needing to report it!
Umm, wat. Alphabet has two classes of shares that trade under different ticker symbols, GOOG and GOOGL. Together they add up to $1.6t. The fact the author has overlooked this is astonishing.

[edit: sorry, my mistake: the market cap reported is not actually outstanding shares times price, pointed out below]
What's the incentive people have to combine type systems with functional programming? At least in broad strokes I think of typing and immutability (which is the goal of functional-style programming) as solving the same problem in two different ways. If you write control flow that returns values which are immutably bound lexically, what is the point of a type system?
Phoenix used a mozilly icon [1] for the file image and a Phoenix [2] for the about image.

[1] https://imgur.com/223ev57

[2] https://imgur.com/OiAwuvB
Yes, agreed. But if Amazon only prompts you to give a single type of review (and makes reviewing the seller/delivery not nearly as discoverable), they shouldn't be surprised if people "misuse" the feature.
The ACCC and strong consumer protection laws are something I didn't realise I took for granted until I moved to the US recently. I had a pair of pants develop a hole within a few weeks of purchase so I took them back to the store and it was difficult to convince them that pants should last longer than that and get a replacement. This is in contrast to my Fitbit, for example, which I had replaced about three times in two years without question in Australia because of a fault in the band.

It's interesting that capitalism comes into it somewhat, insofar as companies like Amazon and REI have consumer-friendly return policies as a sort of competitive advantage. I know I've bought things from REI despite a higher price just because I know I won't have any problems returning it for any reason within 12 months.
so what if NASA says it?
I’ve also noticed that they don’t let me ship a lot of products (mostly food, but also random harmless electronics) to shipping points or Amazon boxes in my city (in Spain), telling me they are full (they are not, they let me ship other products there and it tells me it’s full with literally any shipping point or Amazon box). They only let me ship it to a home address.

I can’t prove it’s not a bug, but it seems such a blaring issue that it’s impossible that they haven’t been noticed, specially since some people can’t ever ship to a home address.
> Note that I only got this message AFTER trying to leave a 2 star review. What would have happend if I had left a more positive review? Would that be allowed?

This is highly speculative, and without evidence it's pretty shady to suggest it, imo.
It's not polite. It's a lack of respect. (it depend if it's a party or a dinner.) Party generally don't have a strict meal but if you attend a meal, being late is really disrespectful.
If anyone on the project knows the copyright issues on the graphics, why is the project not official started with the conversion tool. Other projects will do it: https://github.com/cdev-tux/q3lite/wiki
A good thing about this site is that it's legible and nicely designed which, ironically , is not often the case on typographic ressources.
Don't know which European country and which product category you're thinking of, but e.g. for tech that's not true. There are plenty of reputable tech online stores in Germany (e.g. Mindfactory, Alternate, Reichelt, Cyberport, Arlt in no particular order). I expect all of these to be able to ship to at least all of the continental EU.
Tassel phone for stylish women mini shoulder
A Conversation with the Only Scientist in Congress
Similarly to Feynman's quote on the hole dug in the road, in South Africa, it is also common to simply leave a construction site.

However, the comment that I want to make relates more to how South Africans are often late and why the reasons are different to Brazillians.

In South African English there exists a word "now now". This was adopted from Afrikaans, which is largely based on Dutch. The existence of this word is probably due to something that is true of the larger continent and relates to African time. In my words: time does not pass uniformly, rather it passes with events, such as rain, sunset or the latest regime change.

In any case, what "now now" means is either: in a short while, in a (not so short) while, now; or even, a short while ago. The English, as usual, only had one part of the story. In fact, in the original Afrikaans, there exists multiple variations of this term that all have closely related meanings: "net-nou", "nou-nou", "net-net" and "nou-net".

A shrewd observer would notice that we covered all four combinations diligently. The first two terms are almost identical in meaning and correspond loosely to "now now", the second means "by a small margin" and the last refers to "a short while ago" (thankfully, it is always in the past). Moreover, when used in isolation, "nou" can either mean "right now" or "in a (short) while", although you can expect a long wait if someone says that to you.
Pretty much.

Some app-store marketing guru told the startup I'm contracting with, that this is the way to go, because you're pretty much f*cked if you get reviews below 4.
Ok, let's say the company proposes an on-site interview that would last 0.5-1 day, how would you like to be interviewed on that day?
Modern C++ is an almost entirely different language from the C++ back then.
I believe Archive.org have at least all the FLAC rips + metadata from what.CD.

Also there's https://interviewfor.red/
How is he supposed to know if this is a problem with “shipping” or with the warehouse, the manufacturing, or the design of the product? What if it left the warehouse in that condition? Or the factory? I previously have avoided products with a large number of “arrived damaged” reviews, because it’s a sign of something other than a “shipping problem”.
If the person who wrote the post could immediately identify the clearly fake reviews I see no reason why Amazon could not use the same method.
Which API do most Reddit bots use? Do they use the Reddit APIs directly, or do they use one of the third-party services (F5Bot, pushshift)? And are there any other options for getting a firehose of new Reddit posts/comments?
If your maybes are valid it simply means that these Amazon guys are new in the business and will figure out how to design user interface once they have the resources.Lets give them a slack, aye?

Seriously though, I canceled my prime after I got a fake SD Card that was sold by Amazon. There was no straightforward way of returning it, had to contact customer support.

Later I looked closely and I noticed the reviews warning against fake SD Cards but these were buried in enthusiastic 5 star comments celebrating their new SD Cards and trying to tell the world what a good purchase that was.

Maybe it’s just due to the scale, maybe it’s in the business model but dealing with fakes wasn’t working for me. If I wanted the eBay experience I would have been buying my SD Cards from eBay.
UniFi products also work from the cloud, if you enable that (it is optional) and you're not tied into the system of one of the largest data gatherers in the world.

Microsoft with Windows 10 uses machine learning to figure out when its most convenient for the user to update (latest Insider build has this function). Either way, Windows has come a long way from 9x randomly crashing and every other piece of software requiring a reboot.
Author doesn't know what dark patterns means.
Honest question: why would being an economist allow you to competently answer that question? Is knowledge of how to change the mindset and behaviour of a complete country within the purview of economists?
Well, this bad UX has a positive consequence for Amazon, unintended or not.

Products with good reviews generate more sales than those with comments stating problems with the product or delivery process, specially among infrequent buyers. (Frequent buyers may learn to ignore comments altogether, or at least spot valuable comments from fakes).

So the bad pattern is not allowing fake reviews as much as it is rejecting legitimate negative reviews.
They where vastly off in terms of size, weight, transfer speed, latency, and cost. In 1990 you could get a cheap RAID array so pick do you want 100x that capacity for far less than that price and weight.
Are you by any chance referring to "Brain Teaser" questions?
Owl is much more limited. That's not a problem because the documentation tells outright what it can and can't do and what it's for; experts can get things done better if we have specialised tools for different tasks.

ANTLR claims to be a general parser¹ but it falls short of its promise. People should stop using it; the software is popular only due to its relentless marketing, but not actually very good. It does not return all possible results for ambiguous grammars. It fails dozens of torture tests, including any grammar that's left-recursive, those cause the software to abort at compile time. You can't simply implement a huge number of language descriptions with it. Instead of simply admitting the algorithm's flaw, the maintainer would rather misdirect in bug reports. I find this disgusting.

If you want a general parser that does not disappoint, get Marpa/libmarpa.

¹ https://github.com/antlr/antlr4/blob/4.6/doc/getting-started... "ANTLR v4 takes whatever you give it--it just doesn't give a crap!"
No, it's a cultural thing among 20-35. In the same vein you now have to set up really complex birthday parties: renting a room or a cafe, setting up a theme (80's fashion, cinema, etc.) and have a band or a DJ. Starts at 20:00, people coming in around 23:00.
As far as I know, the rule is, you can only show the native app-store review dialog once, if the user cancels, you won't get any review ever. So the idea is, to show your own until the user finally decides to review.

But now the growth hackers of the world had the brilliant idea to treat bad reviews like "the user isn't ready for a review"
This rant is not well written. The first issue looks like a bug on Amazon's side. I'm not going to assume malice without something pointing in that direction. The author writes "What would have happend if I had left a more positive review? Would that be allowed?" Well, would it? I see no indication it would.

Those reviews are indeed suspicious, and Amazon should do a better job of detecting fake review accounts.

The third issue is the author complaining about the shipping in a product review. An understandable mistake, but Amazon is right not to publish it. When trying to learn about a product it's annoying to scroll past shipping reviews like "Arrived quickly, five stars!"

In total, I see no dark pattern at all.
Windows 10 has these settings, the tradeoff offerered is Visual Quality vs System Performance.

While I like these setting and only have a few turned on, Clear Type, Transparent Drag and such, I take umbrage at the idea that my preferences are some how of lower visual quality.
I think this is great. Hopefully the entire academic world will switch to Open Access for all future publishing. Then by fixing copyright lengths we can just wait them out.
Cloudflare manually extended Let's Encrypt's DNS entries
Strangely it wasn't so bad for me, I live in the UK. I wonder if EU rules are different?

I have to say for all the people complaining but still staying with Amazon, there's a simple solution that will force their hand if enough people act:

Stop buying from them.

Personally I cancelled my Prime subscription because no service is worth enough to me to force other human beings to pee in bottles to avoid work breaks for fear of being sanctioned.
I’ve lived in China for six years. The consensus among Western businesspeople is that if you have a joint venture it’s not a matter of if you’ll be screwed but when. Once you find a good contact in a company, someone who will deliver you the goods you wanted, at the time and place you wanted, in the correct quality and at the agreed price, you hold on to that relationship. Once they leave you have to go back to fine tooth comb quality control, asking every day on the status of the delivery, and going ballistic when someone inevitably messes something up. It is very, very uncommon for a foreigner to make a great success of a business here without a Chinese business partner but that business partner is their wife a large majority of the time.

The Party is a large part of the difference in culture. Taiwanese and Singaporeans are Chinese but they didn’t have the Cultural Revolution or the Great Leap Forward to deal with. Communism does bad things to cultures. I’m sure things will get better in time but I doubt it will be the work of just one generation.
If you're looking for a reasonably technical (but not completely rocket science!) history of the British space programme A Vertical Empire by C. N. Hill is really good, although, as a Brit, also quite depressing as you realise what might have been
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vertical-Empire-History-Programme-1...