skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also change politics. The BND has now pretty much the same damaging image as the CIA, as the last resort for the old fascists, actively supporting Nazis and treating non-violent antifascists (ie democrats) as potential violent terrorists. Nobody wants to work in such an environment, esp. under Seehofer. The cited green party member was completely right. See also Sascha Lobos comment https://www.google.de/amp/www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpoliti...
Mapping Startup Aims to Disrupt Addresses Using Three-Word System
That tech sounds scary - cause people to fall asleep with the press of a button - image walking up to a bank, pushing the button on your device to make everyone inside fall asleep, then walking away with the bank's cash...among other things.

OR - a "freedom fighter" making a political statement while onboard an airplane.
Digging a new tunnel immediately underneath an old tunnel is going to introduce different stresses on the old tunnel

So then dig the new tunnel beside it.

Maintaining access to existing infrastructure during construction is complex after all.

For many complex industries, there is innovation and cost reduction. Digging larger parallel tunnels is something that the industry should be making easier and cheaper, leveraging the existing infrastructure. The mindset that "tunneling is expensive" is exactly the kind of self-fulfilling prophecy which prevents such progress.
That's very likely. I only posted that Netcraft survey because it was the only statistical data I know of :)
That's a lot! Where did you get that information?
> Labor gets more expensive, less labor is purchased. It is fundamental.

This is exactly correct. The laws of economics dictate that if you don't cut labor costs, your competitors will, and you will be out-competed on price.
Panasonic to move European headquarters out of UK
Even as a network engineer who worked for ISPs for years I have always been on the side of anyone against the big ISP. There is a big difference between SLA (service level agreement) between enterprise and consumer internet circuits. The unfortunate part here is that with proper advice they could have gotten a dedicated fiber circuit with a SLA and unlimited bandwidth.

Municipal governments should band together and make their own fiber networks.
Also, this limitation is easily worked around.

1. Use a digital signature.

2. Encrypt your signed message using Hybrid Encryption.

After your recipient decrypts your message (which, as Thomas notes, has AEAD), they can then verify your signature.
No one ever claimed it was a general-purpose computer. Like all special-purpose computers, it performs a specific computation when used.
Do I have a choice, other than cancelling all of my MasterCard cards? This business of tracking and profiling is increasingly evil. If I dystopically discovered that someone has been following me around all the time, writing down everything I look at or do or purchase, in public and at home, I could not tolerate it.
Ask HN: Should Medium be more upfront when it censors content?
Yesterday I've been reading this page:

https://medium.com/@kesterratcliff/international-assadists-references-directory-8038067fe394

Today it's gone. If I didn't search the author on Twitter, I wouldn't know it was removed by Medium.

"This page is unavailable."

doesn't really cut it. "We removed this content because it violated XYZ" would be less confusing.

I think websites that publish other people's content should be more upfront about these kinds of removals. Otherwise it's confusing to the users. I mean if it's not spam, but something users might have read and liked, why not state the reason for removal?
Having a stone wall on the inside of the insulated barrier is great for adding thermal mass to the inside. Having all that masonry inside probably helps regulate the temperature nicely. I suspect it's more expensive to do it that way than to use wood studs and batting between them. (Of course it depends on the region you're building in. Wood is cheap in North America, maybe not so much in other parts of the world?)

And because earthquakes are also plentiful in California, we don't want our walls to be too heavy. Tensile strength is more important, as well as flexibility.
"Capitalism" was the answer that I was expecting
Sorry, I disagree. I honestly find this whole business of not just marketing to relatively young children but paying them to be your marketing drones pretty disgusting.

I mean, some of the kids in this story are 12 and 13. I find this commoditization of "friendship" distressing enough when adults do it, but with developing children I find it to be a gross abuse of power.

As another poster said, perhaps the one good to come from this is that (hopefully) kids will get so turned off from the constant stream of bullshit that they will disconnect entirely.
Is that similar tape as the metal infused 'speed tape' that they use for temporary repairs or to seal panels on jetliners?
Diffbot launches AI-powered knowledge graph of 1T facts
I do it all the time too. Hate when something happens. I've seen sites that also start loading next article if I click on the right side of the text column...
> 112 is less than a rounding error when there are well over a million people currently employed in some sort of software development position.

But there aren't over a million people employed in software development in the bay area (where those jobs are located) - that number is closer to 60-90K [1]. Not to mention that those are 112 job postings, not positions. It's likely that many of those roles have more than 1 headcount allocated (e.g. "Senior Video Engineer").

Regardless, ultimately the question isn't "what % of software jobs are at FAANG companies?" it's "For every 100 software developer hires in the bay area, what % are at FAANG companies and is that % increasing over time?"

It may be true that the answer to the first question is "a minority", but it can also be true that the answer to the second question is "yes, at an appreciable rate".

> I haven't personally seen any evidence of this, and every time their processes come up for discussion here there seems to be no end of defenders of these practices.

As a minor-but-concrete example: I've heard that Google is starting to de-emphasize whiteboards and giving candidates Chromebooks to code on instead.

As a more gossip-y example: I've definitely heard that a few of the larger tech companies, as they've started to acquire more and more, have allowed the acquired teams to maintain control of their hiring process with some token changes. The result I've heard is that the interview process with some of these acquired teams is... less rigorous, and largely ignored by the parent company (even if they say otherwise).

I'm hesitant to draw a trend from some anecdotes, but I can say for certain that I interviewed for a position with one of those acquired companies a couple years back and the interview process was much easier than I anticipated (though I ultimately didn't take the position).

1: https://www.quora.com/How-many-software-engineers-work-in-Si...
No, it's still a separate fork for Java 8/10/11 as of right now, although some distributions like Red Hat/Fedora do ship with it enabled as a "Technology Preview" on all their enabled JDKs, so you can just get it out of the box. I think Gentoo has it as well.

(If it also means anything, I can confirm that enabling Shenandoah is as simple as taking the corresponding OpenJDK code and replacing the `hotspot` subcomponent with the (compatible) Shenandoah fork'd hotspot component, then just building everything normally.)
As I've said elsewhere, what about non-customer interaction activities? I grew up digging ditches for my family's business. I WILL say shoveling clay in the summer in North Carolina humidity is a much grittier experience than reading someone's comment on the internet I don't know verbally attacking me.
I heard a possibly apocryphal story about finding leaks in military transport aircraft -- they'd toss rolls of toilet paper around inside the craft and watch for it drifting toward and sticking to the inside of the fuselage. Apparently there was a particularly bad leak one time that simply ate the entire roll was consumed with a "FWUMP".
Indeed, a CPU is a space heater that can perform math, while incidentally also transmitting that math through space as a software-defined radio.

An Athlon XP was my space heater during my gap decade.
wow its a big url...not trying to advert sell or endorse, but you asked where do i get, so heres one place...

https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Technic-Power-Functions-Motor/dp...
The first two-thirds of that sentence was the "citation" for the final third.
Here is one cautionary tale showing why you would not want to use Macaroons:

https://about.sourcegraph.com/go/gophercon-2018-an-over-engi...
Exactly!

You're welcome, and good luck with everything! :)
Next major release of Creative Cloud won’t support older Windows and Mac OSes
> I forget who

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/28/san-francisco-will-regulat...

ISTR it was Lime, and this article from March seems to back that up. The other two launched shortly after because they were afraid to lose first-mover benefits. Woopsie.
But the flight was first premium economy/business only, then converted to business only, and then cancelled entirely because they couldn't make the economics work out.
Flexprints by-and-large are based on Kapton-like substrate as well.
The Truth About User Onboarding
Pretty sure MS has a ton of internal services running on Linux based systems too.
Forecasting earthquake aftershock locations with AI-assisted science
My new AC unit cools very effectively, and is the lowest energy usage of its category.
Rather specific question: does anyone have experience working with a college student who organically promoted service or product on their physical campus? If so, how did you find them initially and how successful was the effort?

This is about validating/bootstraping an idea that requires a set of users in the same physical and social space, and as I have no confidence in myself or my direct friends being able to create the right seed culture for this, I’m trying to find a person within an existing community (like at a university) who can. To be clear, I’m not looking for like a one off, Tupperware party style infleuncer, but almost like a social evangelist for the product who can stick with it for a few months and who can also tell me why the product sucks
Why are you hoarding this data when you can't even retrieve it easily, what is the point ?

Do you have a filing system for every email you ever wrote? Can you identify every backup copy, every forwarded message, every print-out, every excerpt copied and pasted into a Word document? Can you remember or look up every individual ever referenced in those messages?

Now, let's talk about letters. The paper kind. And faxes. Including unsolicited ones that aren't part of any formal process where a customer helpfully included their password so you knew it was from them. And mentioned that it's their mother's birthday, in case you were wondering.

Have you ever written down an address or phone number on a piece of paper because that was what you had to hand when someone read it out to you over the phone? Or opened up a quick text file to keep notes from a meeting?

If you're a director responsible for a company of 2,000 staff, do you think anyone else in your company has ever done any of those things, and would you like to bet your job that no-one ever kept a record other than as part of your comprehensive, perfectly-specified and loophole-free official processes?

If you're a director of a startup with 5 people, do you even have those processes, or is almost everything actually being done with text files and Post-It notes (or Slack channels and Google Docs, or...)?

This is not an easy problem. People have made very, very large amounts of money building businesses trying to solve this problem, and the first people who really nail it are going to make even more. You can't just hand-wave away the possibility of having personal data that is not immaculately organised, rigorously controlled and fully indexed in any organisation of significant size and lifetime. A law that makes such a requirement is like a law that says you can only ship software with no bugs, or a law that says all laws will be unambiguous and enforced with zero tolerance.
Nothing fancy. I simply use the Zsh dirstack (with auto_pushd) so 'cd -' instead to be limited to the previous path only like in Bash, can be expanded with Tab to one of the last DIRSTACKSIZE path.

The dirstack can also be saved to a file and reused on the next session.

Then I've stolen the "up" function somewhere to cd to a specific level using a part of the path when I'm deep in a FS tree.

Finally, not limited to cd only, Zsh can also expand paths with only the initials of the dirs, so 'cd /v/c/a/aTab' is expanded to 'cd /var/cache/apt/archives/', usually with less typing required on Bash...
One of my core beliefs for AI/automation is that by removing the need to do menial custodial and service tasks, society can focus on cultivating more artists, philosophers, and programmers. If anything I think that we will put a much larger focus on learning when we reach this point of automation.

Specifically regarding teaching, I don't expect much to change. We're already in a position where we could educate students by having them watch videos and read out of textbooks by themselves, but we don't. At the moment, teachers can offer alternative explanations to struggling students, respond to questions, and perform other markedly human tasks. You can emulate this with AI, but I think we're a far ways off of making this human touch obsolete.
I apologize, I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with. Also, I agree, commoditization of friendship is not good and I do not support that.

I was more referring to this as the modern-day hussle and that if people are going to choose Instagram'ing as their occupation, they aren't gaining necessary "grit" from other types of work
> What is stopping them from charging me an exorbitant rate

Nothing. That's why everyone always asks for a good and trustworthy mechanic. Or an HVAC repairman.
The problem is not the OS, the problem are the now the backdoors in the CPU's. In all of them. With them you get even into a foreign OS, like L3 or OpenBSD.
Open Source != Free Software.

"Free as in beer, not as in speech."

You're welcome to pick your own license / source availability terms for your own work.
> If there's one thing all start-ups should conspire to abolish, it's liquidity preferences.

Liquidation preferences are not the norm in the normal seed/A/B rounds etc. right now. At least not in the silicon valley VC ecosystem.
I don't know if it is "luckily" or not, but my stay here isn't actually conditional on work, since I wound up here through marriage. It is very conditional on being married, but that hasn't been an issue either. I have a in-house Norwegian to help through most of the bureaucracy.

And you are correct, it isn't perfect, but I think those stories happen everywhere. I'm still happy to be dealing with these bureaucratic monsters as opposed to the american immigration monsters.

You are most definitely correct on the current political climate. If anything, they have made things more difficult for folks. Initial immigration hasn't been so bad, but they did increase the requirements for permanent residency so that I have to prove I'm self-supporting, work for 12 months, be in school for a year, (even though my spouse has to prove he makes enough to support me each year) or be here a long time - I think they said 8-10 years. Again, though, not impossible by any means. It just made me wait longer for citizenship.
Indeed they used an ultrasonic leak detector.
> 200 years later, with a population that's multiplied several magnitudes over - would you expect to still see a completely equal people? I wouldn't

I would. South Koreans are 2-3 inches taller than North Koreans, plus a miriad of other biological differences, in a relatively short span of time. This is for the same ethnicity, yet alone race.

For me, that alone is proof we are much more similar than we think, and environmental factors, which your hypothetical scenario accounts for perfectly, has a much greater impact on us compared to genetics.

Which is why, for perfectly randomly selected humans raised identically for 200 years, I would not expect significant differences.
Trains generally dont deal with turbulance. We cant have a situation where a 10000' drop sees people flying around the cabin. And doors/bars on each bunk would be a safety nightmare.
The basic concept of Net Neutrality is quite easy to understand - an "ISP" should be in the business of transporting opaque bits, period.

It's generally extremely lucrative for them to attempt to infer the purpose of a communication, and then attempt to put the customer over a barrel to extract value based on it [0]. Hence how this recent topic ties in - "Awfully big fire you're fighting there - it'd be a shame if it got even bigger because you didn't pay us more money".

[0] in fact this was the historic model of the phone and cable companies, which technology moved past - cf. "Ma Bell has you by the calls".
> What if you don't want it on your KaiOS-powered Nokia phone

Buy a different phone?
Meanwhile I'm dreading an upcoming 11 hr flight.

Honestly at 20 hours I'd rather they split it into two legs with a pause in the middle. Really not in that much of a hurry that I can't spare the extra hour or two.
When Java was created, they wanted to get rid of that complexity, so primitives always go on the stack and objects always go on the heap.*

This was inherited from Smalltalk. Everything was an "object reference," with tag bits and all, but SmallInteger was optimized by using the low 16 bits of the object reference pointer to store the SmallInteger. So you can think of Smalltalk as having SmallInteger as a "primitive" type with pass by value.
I'm reasonably certain that OpenBSD has never agreed to any NDA from anyone as a matter of principle. It's one of the things that makes me love the project so much.
> Also turn off all CSS and JS by default

Arguably, that creates a more user-hostile internet browsing experience compared to just allowing for those in-page modal pop ups. At least with those they're few and far between and you can just close the tab and forget about the site.
For further details on how objects are not exactly allocated on the stack: https://shipilev.net/jvm-anatomy-park/18-scalar-replacement/
You can't beat fake news with science communication
They're breathing far more dead skin. So are you, though.
Extremely thankful the "Opera did it first" meme lives on.
Banks are always like that. They are more than happy to take your money, but unwilling to let you take it out for spurious reasons.
Is there a version which is readable from the EU?

> Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism.
Then that is the part that needs citation.
They are referring to a basis for formal complaint of rulebreaking which is adjudicatable in a venue with the power to issue compulsory rulings.

Yeah, they can complain now, but that's under a radically different sense of “complain”; an argument
based on conflating the two embodies the fallacy of equivocation.
If you tell them you really want to work there, they can use that asymmetry of information to their advantage in order to give a lower offer. What you’re doing is asking someone to take a highly disadvantaged negotiating position.
From the article

"The company said people can opt out of ad tracking using Google’s “Web and App Activity” online console. Inside Google, multiple people raised objections that the service did not have a more obvious way for cardholders to opt out of the tracking, one of the people said."
And it's getting better too, port Flutter and React """Native""" to your platform and there will already be developers who can make apps.
Holy leading question, Batman!

My default inclination is to entirely skip over arguments that use this tactic even if I'd otherwise agree with them, because it suggests that the person writing it can't phrase their thoughts in a non-clickbaity way.
But that doesnt mean they arent paying more per foot. Profitability and the ratio between classes are different concepts.
> It is not the case that the person with the higher GPA/SAT necessarily has more leadership potential.

And somehow these "lacking in leadership potential" students happen to be Asian more often than the norm? Year after year? Seems like a convenient coincidence.
Hi imglorp - send me an email at becca@scripted.org . We're considering growing to more regions, and would love to hear from folks who are interested in volunteering outside of NYC or SF. In the meantime, I may also be able to recommend some other orgs that need volunteers near you.
It's good to see an article about Firefox enhancing privacy, rather than for backdoor installing plugins for Mr Robot, integrating closed source Pocket (the server is still closed source despite the Mozilla acquisition), or opting in sending browsing history to commercial companies like Cliqz without explicit user consent.

Mozilla has done incredibly well to have Firefox survive at all against competition from Microsoft and Google, and has undoubtedly had to make some tradeoffs (such as DRM), but it's at its best when it sticks to its principles.
If you're a consumer brand you can turn to factoring and vendor financing to run your business. There's more options open to you.
Are learning styles for various individuals still a thing? I thought that was a well debunked claim a while ago
Even from this post its clear you just don’t understand.
(Disclaimer: I work in the travel industry.)

What you want to do is search on these sites and then book at the actual business's sites. Even if the fares are different, it's worth it.

Ever had to try to get a flight/hotel/car changed or cancelled through Expedia or a similar site? Whatever savings you get from aggregator sites aren't worth it.
The facebook extension by mozilla solves this: https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/facebook-container-extensio...
'hack' really annoys me when used like this: 'life hack'. In this context: 'anyone got any good life hacks?'.

Your asking to tips or suggestions not fucking hacks.
This is totally against "test takers". Knowing the rules will make them better at taking tests but Harvard wants to be about something else. I may sure be downvoted to say that from my experience asians are the great test takers, and gotta also add that they have amazing rote memory, one of the best imho.
They forgot this part: Heats up to 100c within 1 hour of heavy graphical application usage since it has a 1050 within an 18mm thickness frame.
Yes, but most of the time you will have more than two sources.
It's shocking to see people take pride in staying up all night to finish a presentation before a 7am call. We're all suckers.