skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hadn't heard about Slack until I started in my current job (4 years ago) and when they told me that Slack was among their commonly used tools I immediately thought they were talking about Slackware and said I was surprised anyone was still using it. Came off as a total "bleeding edge" snob/hipster until we figured out what was happening.
For a non-creepy company, an employee request can be more concerning than a customer.

They might know the systems in detail, and have information spread around all of them.

Former employees can also make a request.

(This is not a new right, it was in the earlier Data Protection Regulation.)
Anecdotally, I feel as though the trend amongst my friends and family has been that the cost of benefits has increased, while the benefits themselves have contracted. I'm lucky to work at a fairly young company where we get nice health insurance options, but even so, our sick leave policy leaves something to be desired.
Twitter thread from sdboyer about dependency management process
The only reason this 'fooled' his mom is because cell phone sound is already bad, so the obvious garbles, fluctuating intonation and weird pauses seem normal.

So it's impressive, but let's not get ahead of ourselves here.
Cosmologists propose new way to form primordial black holes
Efficient Tools and Techniques to Build a Viral Video Chat App
Europe has less big tech companies but also less people shooting each other in the street or being homeless. I think the two are connected but that's a debate for another time...
This doesn't sound remotely plausible.
I have a hard time with so-called "educated" people. People who go to college fit into a bell curve of intelligence, the same as all human beings. Regardless of their education level, their true intelligence remains the same. Going to college does not make you more intelligent. It might make your more well-rounded, it definitely subjects you to Marxist indoctrination attempts. Generally, people tend to migrate to places where opportunities exist, regardless of education or intelligence.

Currently, there is a huge outflow of people from California and NY, which are NOT red states. Rather, they are high-tax, high-cost-of-living states. I can't exactly understand which states you are talking about? Maybe Alabama? Red states such as Texas and North Dakota, where job opportunities are increasing, have seen inflows of all kinds of people.

I'm not even sure who you think these "ignorant populations" are. Sure, there are ignorant rural people who fit into specific stereotypes, but the majority of the low information, "ignorant" live in big cities like Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. These are the bluest of the blue areas! Rural poor people tend to be much more self-sufficient than urban poor, but both have many issues they must deal with in life.
Not if they know that they will loose their 30 day vacation, paternity leave, health insurance, 40 hour week, unions support, ...
Given the recent amount of reports of counterfeiting on Amazon (not specifically this product), I'd buy my security keys elsewhere.
Ask HN: What were tech stacks like during the dot com boom?
Hi All,

I was pretty young during the dot com boom and I was talking about it with some guys at work when they experienced the crash. It got me thinking about what tech stacks were companies or startups using at the time and what was it like to maintain them/keep them running.
Aruba.it blind to malicious code hosting
I tried to notify aruba.it of someone obviously hosting malicious code and trying to attack web servers:
http://80.211.112.150/k

(Reverse DNS resolves to their domain)

Their reaction?
1. in the chat they redirect me to dedicated hosting support form („only way to do it“)
2. Dedicated hosting support just closes my ticket.

Wow!
That’s an extremely freaky and unsettling design choice, to include such a feature in a system involving customer relations and client service.

It seems like the kind of idea you’d throw in, if you absolutely did not care about any amount of success.

Something like that is bound to blow up sooner or later, and destroy confidence in professionalism. It goes against an almost universal idea, cutting across all cultures, that customers shouldn’t be judged if you expect to do business with them.
Maybe at the time, from 40's to 70's, (1) there were low hanging fruits. It's reasonable to think the discovery process has become harder and (2) we didn't know much about how a fast clinical trial could go wrong [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide
You skipped over

> while Europe was busy recovering from WW II.

Many of those inventions started here during WW II.

Also innovation is not only IT stuff, I bet many in US enjoy being treated with Bayer medicine, stuffing their house with IKEA furniture, doing games in Unity, talking with their friends over Skype, having a mobile phone that one can easily swap out a SIM card, ....
I see the word "CRUD app" thrown around here like it's always a triviality. That's only true in textbook exercises. CRUD is almost NEVER trivial in real life, especially in enterprise environments.

Aside from the fact that each of those letters in the acronym may have arbitrarily complex requirements and challenges behind it. There are _REAL_ organizational problems of getting the application designed, implemented, approved. And there's training, deployment, lifespan maintenance and decommissioning.

I mean, sure, many enterprise apps look like they were designed by an institutionalized autist in 1995 (cough... Oracle EBS) and these _ARE_ CRUD apps. Wanna be an ERP software billionaire? Beat the crap out of Oracle, SAP, Siemens, etc. Come on, they're just "CRUD" apps.
Indeed; the author linked to this midway through the article and credited it with the "illegibility" idea.
Incredible code review!

I wish this inspires clever people to produce huge amounts of parody-videos "refactoring" the same piece of code. :)
New Silicon Valley trend: Bosses demand subordinates eat their feces.

> Well, I read this article that said eating poop makes you a better worker so I thought I'd give it a shot.
Can I use it for my bank too?
I'm surprised that the guide doesn't address automated decision making about users. In my day job, we are using a scheduling platform for short-notice, short-term work e.g. social care. A job is loaded on the sytem and pushed to x users for acceptance (fastest finger first).

The system has a ratings module (not active yet) whereby clients can rate the worker and vice versa. The system then makes decisions on future job releases based on the ratings. Part of the reason for not having the module active is due to the issue of communicating to the affected users how those decisions are being made and providing them with a right of manual review.

As organisations increasingly rely on AI or ML to make decisions affecting individuals, so the need for greater transparency into those decision making processes so they can be communicated to the people concerned.
Slow leak detected aboard Space Station
>It helps nobody

I think you may be just looking from your own point of view that you find things obvious but that doesn't mean general advice won't help others.
LAteral Movement Encryption technique (a.k.a. The “LAME” technique)
A few years ago, well before Trump was a thing, a writer asked me what I feared about the future. After thinking about it for a few minutes, I answered 'the post-truth society'.
Even without AI algos, we were already well on our way with 'traditional' evidence forging technology and public discourse manipulations, to cast reasonable suspicion on everything we see or hear.

Simple AI accelerated and deskilled the former, and combined with ubiquitous social networks exponentially empowered the latter.

The thing is: these truth undermining technologies need not be perfect to have the effect, just 'good enough' to cast significant doubt and allow near everyone to believe their own 'truths'.

The result will be a highly dis-empathic society, where trust beyond the most closest 'clan' is close to nil and even then some.

Confusion always empowered narcissist and sociopaths, the con-artists and the cultists. It isn't so hard to see anymore how old civilizations could devolve into the dark ages.
Just got PureVPN account and so far liking it.
عملية شفط الدهون و ممارسة الرياضة
Definitely not convincing to me either. But things sound so bad over a cell phone conversation, which kinda makes this works if you squint your ears and drink a liter of spirits.
Yalp Store is a great app! Incidentally, it violates the Play Store ToS (this is even written in their FAQ[0])

[0] https://github.com/yeriomin/YalpStore#faq
It's an abomination for the simple fact of how do you bundle a lib directory with an artifact? Someone will chime in with some solution, but originally, everything was supposed to be an osgi module. It was f-cking nuts, pita.
Related article by Krebs on Gooogle's security key deployment.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/07/google-security-keys-neu...

Related video by me and another googler about anti-phishing work by Google.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu6VkVmRMow
The red vs. blue dichotomy is the man pulling the wool over your eyes in order to divide and conquer. The smartest thing to do would be to not let him get away with it.
Anyone typed in penis yet ?
Which they won't, if they pick the right company, in a place where the market, rather than the government, dictates what kind of benefits a company can offer.

>30 day vacation, paternity leave, health insurance, 40 hour week, unions support

And thank you for providing yet another (or rather a whole 5) perfect explanation of why it's darn near impossible to innovate in Europe.
That's really cool. Was expecting more of a intel / research role answer, but that makes a lot of sense
It seems to be fixed now.
I dont think this is a bad thing actually. This describes me perfectly. You gain a lot more wisdom being familiar with many topics

What I do divide split different cycles out.

-dev cycle -I only focus on development only or 1 specific project. I limit myself to working on 2 projects max/day

-exploratory cycle -I let my mind wander. I realize how potentially unproductive it can be, so i limit this time to a few hours at most/day. Normally I do this when Im constantly distracted by clients / coworkers at work. Or when I get tired on my dev cycle.

What helps is I write what I wish to accomplish everyday. Its 1 to 3 things that take at least a few hours to do.

At the end of the week, i look back to see what I accomplished. What did I accompish for work, personally, and what major events transpired? How do I feel about this weeks productivity vs the last 2 weeks? Am i getting shit done?
universities duplicate many services offered by businesses (and even the government, to an extent) in the surrounding area. i certainly found this convenient as a student, but i always found it a bit silly. wouldn't it be more efficient to just offer an expansive shuttle service to take the students to important places? you could even give stipends to the poorest students. institutions tend to be pretty wasteful when they implement a ton of different out of band stuff in house.
From the conversations I've had and from my own experience I think the ludicrous real estate cost is a larger factor than this article implies.

It's tolerable if you're a just out of college bachelor/ette, but if you want to have a bit more space (let alone a family) you pretty much have to leave unless you've gotten rich. Even for young people if you do the math your big Bay Area salary actually doesn't get you ahead as much as a slightly lower salary in a much lower cost of living city. Your whole paycheck goes to the landlord.

A secondary factor caused by real estate hyperinflation is that all the stuff that once made the SF Bay Area so interesting has been priced out. I remember the Bay Area in the 1990s. It was a hub not just of tech but of art, music, and culture. It was a magical in a way that's hard to explain today, and I say this as someone who only visited. My main experience of it was from the culture and "vibe" it exported. All that is gone now. It's a glorified office park. Why spend so much to live there if it's no different from any other city?
The number one thing Silicon Valley had and lost is the narrative thrust of playing the good guy. The inequality, sexism, racial monoculture, NIMBYism, political indifference, disregard for civil liberties and shift from technological exuberance to something much shallower has large fractions of the country and world hoping some smug faces smack hard into the mud. That's not healthy, and out of all the possible solutions, diluting away the Valley's power seems like the best outcome.
> One proposal, developed by American economist Bartley Madden, is "free-to-choose medicine." Once drugs have passed Phase I trials demonstrating safety, doctors would be able to prescribe them...
>
> More radically, it might be possible to repeal the 1962 Kefauver-Harris amendment to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, a provision that requires drug developers to prove a medication's efficacy (rather than just its safety) before it can receive FDA approval.

Personally I'd be in favour of letting seriously ill people try whatever they want. However I would not be in favour of allowing companies to charge for drugs which had not yet been proved effective.

Providing drugs for free might give companies more data to help develop (or potentially prove safety, efficacy) but generating revenue here is too open to abuse.
The wireless one has Bluetooth - which is the only way to go on iOS for now.
> If an employer can make $15 an hour per marginal employee, then that employer will not pay more than $15 an hour, regardless of what employees demand.

If a company needs 10 employees, then it will hire 10 employees at whatever cost, or stop operating. If it can only hire those employees at $100 an hour, then it will have to set its prices so that it makes at least $100 / employee-hour. And if it can't, it will operate at a loss or stop operating.
What is the author even talking about, saying there is no progress in cancer therapy? Hanahan doesn't even mention immunology in the "Hallmarks of Cancer" (that's an influential review article from 2000), and less than ten years later it's a huge field of research, with several very powerful drugs in the clinic.
Yes. Sorry I should have made it clear I was addressing the second part of your comment, i.e. a reason to pay $50 for hardware you can get for $42 elsewhere
An article on startups leaving the Valley, and not a single mention of California having one of the highest income tax rate and highest real estate priced market in the US?

I think they're missing the point.
1) My current recurring is Mercy Ships: https://www.mercyships.org.au/

I did a bunch of research and felt this was a quality charity that gives great impact for dollars spent.

2) Any free software/service I use multiple times. I'll look for a donate option. I'm not particularly generous but do like to support with something.
Given the content of the link nikanj provided, it makes more sense to interpret “Takes a lot of people to manage that much money,” not literally, but rather as meaning “Takes a lot of people to run an organization that big.”

From the link:

In 2017–18, Stanford is a $6.3 billion enterprise. This figure represents the university’s consolidated budget for operations, a compilation of all annual operating and restricted budgets that support teaching, scholarship and research, including the budgets of all schools and administrative areas and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. It does not include the $1 billion capital budget and excludes the budget for Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.
Yes. For small purchases (typically, under $1K), typically a department head will have a corporate credit card and budget authorization (or can get budget authorization and charge it to the card). Some but not all companies will require purchase orders for large purchases.

The currency might be an issue, though - aside from not having any idea of what the cost would work out to in USD because they don’t know the exchange rate, credit cards often levy a currency conversion surcharge. At the very least, you should display an estimate of the cost in USD at current exchange rates and some sort of disclaimer that that’s an estimate and fees may apply yada yada.
> 2. Advertisement is an education campaign. There are always new people that have a problem to solve and they may not be aware of what exists.

That's motte-and-bailey defense of advertising. Yes, it also serves to help people discover off-the-shelf solutions to their problems. But that's not its primary function, nor it's where most money is being made. The discovery part is easy - in fact, most of the times it's best done in pull fashion ("I have a problem, let me look for solutions") instead of push ("here is a solution for the problem you didn't know you had"). Most of advertising is about misleading people to make suboptimal choices - choosing the product whose vendor is best at advertising, instead of the one best suited for the need - and about fighting for a fixed-size pie of customers in a given market.
I think that to post here, is a good sign. Show HN wherever you are able to do, alone or after a 100M financing is one of the reason forums like this one exists. The other is to just share your code and meet digital people.

> It doesn't feel adolescent but more grownup to me

Showing skepticism is also fine, our industry is not just nice code review and beautiful moments where people want to encourage you.
>why not going from usb-c to usb A with adapter than the other way round

To my knowledge there are no such adapters that are compliant with the USB spec.
> * ludicrous real estate cost is a larger factor than this article implies*

California's housing problem, particularly the Bay Area's, is a symptom of its political dysfunction. The Bay Area's elite consistently optimize for the short term.
http://blog-idcuk.com/are-public-sector-organizations-exempt...

After further investigation it seems you are right though that exclusions can be introduced for:
* national security;
* defence;
* public security;
* the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences;
* other important public interests, in particular economic or financial interests, including budgetary and taxation matters, public health and security;
* the protection of judicial independence and proceedings;
breaches of ethics in regulated professions;
* monitoring, inspection or regulatory functions connected to the exercise of official authority regarding security, defence, other important public interests or crime/ethics prevention;
* the protection of the individual, or the rights and freedoms of others; or
the enforcement of civil law matters.
The article says three things:

"The reasons for this shift are manifold, but chief among them is the sheer expense of the Valley. The cost of living is among the highest in the world....
The problem is that the wider playing-field for innovation is also being levelled down. One issue is the dominance of the tech giants."

And third, government policies on immigration and education.
Approaching Access Control on the Web (Part I)
We have lots of innovations without capitalists abusing our worker rights.
These are your customers. If you don't have the time or resources to talk to your customers, then your business is going to fail anyway.

This point isn't about your customers. It's about the bitter ex-customer who decides to take revenge through legal means by exploiting the rights they have under the GDPR to waste your time and money. And if you think this is a hypothetical risk, read the news today about kids lining up to damage exam boards in exactly this way if they didn't get the grades they wanted, and explain to me how that isn't a threat to the integrity of the examination system.

You don't have to monitor them, you just need to read them. If you don't have time to read contracts that you're singing, then your business is going to fail anyway.

The fact that you have read the privacy policy of one of your suppliers does nothing to help the data subject. Unless they have meaningful information about how personal data about them is being processed and who is doing that processing, they haven't really gained any meaningful control or protection.

And no small business has the time to fully read all of the legal paperwork affecting them. Like consumer contracts, it's the great fiction of the legal community. Most new businesses won't even have had time to read the contract with their banks and other financial services before signing to open their account, and those often contain some very nasty and one-sided terms. But of course those contracts all tend to contain similarly nasty and one-sided terms, and you're going to need those services to do business anyway.
Each pixel receives light from each point in the room, so almost all of them have the same value.

You need a pinhole to block vast majority of that light, so that each pixel on screen receives light from a different point on the other side of the pinhole.
People love to point out the problems in that area and say SV will evaporate. I just moved from sf to a city that’s in the top 3 for venture capital.

The job opportunities, talent, networks, and standards of code here are so much lower I wouldn’t have believed it if somebody had told me.

Maybe some startups are leaving but I’d move back if I had a startup. It’s a lot of small ponds out here
> Apples and oranges. You also need to factor in the weight of the engines and the reenforced fuselage you need to support jet engines. It's not just the fuel that is heavy. Electrical engines are really light and compact. The resulting planes can be much lighter.

Electric engines are lighter than ICEs but batteries are very heavy and unlike jet fuel they don't shed their weight as they are used.
> Pointer colouring

(Is this the same as pointer tagging?)
Check out §38 6

> 1The data protection officer may fulfil other tasks and duties. 2The controller or processor shall ensure that any such tasks and duties do not result in a conflict of interests.

It's difficult to ensure that there is no conflict of interests if the CEO === DPO.
> not a single mention of California having one of the highest income tax rate and highest real estate priced market in the US?

From the article:

"The reasons for this shift are manifold, but chief among them is the sheer expense of the Valley...the cost of living is among the highest in the world..."
Ok smart-arse.
> Dyson's cyclonic separation idea

It's not his idea, though he was probably the 1st one to use it in vacuums https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclonic_separation
"Terms of Use" are part of the agreement between you and a service provider with regards to the service being provided. That's a civil law contract like any other.
> how many Fortran job openings are there?

A ton, mostly for people who can help companies replace existing Fortran software with more modern code. When a language becomes unpopular, there is still the lingering radioactive codebase after the coders leave.

Best thing about Software Development is that I'm continuously creating new job opportunities for myself. Create a tool to automate some part of my job? I'll be relieved because then I can focus on creating more work for myself in the form of a new project. It's too bad other industries aren't working out like that.

I don't agree with this article, but I do like some of the points they make.
What city? How are you measuring standards of code?
Are any of those things new to the equation?