skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything. Especially investor's money, because that's what it's there for.

So long as your belief is justified (even if mistaken). Some people think that they can believe hard enough to make fiction a reality. It’s not always easy to tell when this is thinking outside the box vs self-delusion.

From what I have read, this is a third case. It seems to have crossed from belief, to delusion, to deliberate fraud.
I highly doubt most of the operating costs come from the journals. Considering there are far more people working for other publications in the Elsevier company. Usually the publications with high turnaround have low profit or break even, and I do not think the journals are among those and actually raise the profit margin substantially.

But then, I can't back this up with numbers as they do not publish specifics...
https://twitter.com/triskweline/status/798443082740023296

> Valve's Steam Store renders on the server, uses ancient jQuery 1.8, loads 12 unminified JavaScripts.

> It moved 3.5 billion dollars in 2015.
In the UK, what you’re describing — The right to be identified as the creator of work — would be called a “moral right” rather than a “copyright”.

I literally only know this because my first job contract, my university industrial year, signed that right away for the work I did there.
It's something to do with requiring that values stored in buckets are not relocated. This requires link-list storage in buckets, and rules out open-addressing. Something like that at least :)
`recoll(apse)` is a verb. `onready` is an event condition. They are not interchangable. (Though it might be combined into a single line with an anonymous function argument to addEventListener.)
Yeah, the list isn't perfect (for example, 羊肉 is listed even though 牛肉 isn't). 牛肉 isn't common enough to make the list, but for some reason the Chinese government decided 羊肉 should be one of the first 300 words you learn (it's in HSK 2), so it ended up high on my list because my list partially pulls from HSK, in addition to another list called SUBTLEX-CH.

In this case, I think actually neither should be on the list, and you should instead learn 牛，羊，and 肉 separately and infer the meaning of 牛肉 and 羊肉 from those. I'll change it.
> In any large airliner the pilot's controls are indirectly linked to the flight surfaces by either hydraulic or electrical systems.

I understand the 777 and 787 are special cases, but my impression of the rest of their line was that the flight controls are directly linked by control cables and are assisted by mechanical-hydraulic servos, a bit like hydraulic power steering on cars. So with a total loss of electrical systems they would still have normal primary flight controls.

Of hydraulic servos can fail (for example the aforementioned 737) and even triple hydraulic systems can be taken out by something like the uncontained engine failure of United Airlines Flight 232.

I tend to think that electrical and electronic systems can ultimately be more reliable and maintainable, but I worry that the safety culture is much worse among the designers of such systems than their mechanical equivalents (no wonder, we've been tinkering with the latter for thousands of years and the former only a few decades).
No ES2046, is that legacy?
In the 1980s I worked for CMG, an IT consultany here in London. Salaries were completely open, and openly discussed. However the culture was that you were expected to perform to that salary,not that the salary was a reward for performance.

Every year all staff were ranked, completely ignoring current salary, and then new salaries were set from that. Some would see a decrease.

I got used to it quickly and it felt very liberating.
Tesla has plenty of parts built by other car makers / suppliers.

https://www.carscoops.com/2018/05/tesla-blames-bosch-recall-...
The claim is that Go maps are "very fast" but that's relative to what you're trying to do. If you're writing an interpreter loop, you want to avoid maps as much as you can and use arrays instead.
My family uses Sitzfleisch too, to describe a person who is always the last one to leave a party. Efficiency, productivity and work ethic are the last things on my mind if I hear someone being described as having "Sitzfleisch".
I'm more annoyed that we cannot encrypt our full notes/account and they only offer selections of text from inside a single note.
Just letting another chip do the loading seems to be only part of the solution. The other part is to load it from read-only memory so it cannot be modified after production. That is what I consider to be the crucial property: the firmware must not be updateable.
Yes, this benchmark is relatively flawed.

Allocating a new string simulates heap fragmentation.
I want you to know up front that I agree with you - this is such, from the very people we were warned about, and we should oppose it wherever it exists. But...

Do you care to elaborate why this is Fascism? Why we should care? Or most importantly...

How do you respond to this instance of "Fascism"? Any ideas? Suggestions? Pointers? Calling it out is nice, but "calling Hitler a Nazi" is just an obvious Tautology. I expect better on HN.
What is relevant for HN?
http://ftp.iza.org/dp5222.pdf

>union members are less likely to lose their jobs than non-members. In particular, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel we can show that roughly 50% of the observed raw differential in individual dismissal rates can be explained by the estimated average partial effect of union membership.

If you read the whole thing you’ll also see that it’s significantly more expensive to fire a union member.

It’s much harder and more expensive to fire union members. The natural result of this is that bad or underperforming employees are more likely to remain in the workforce. Like unions or don’t, but this is one of the costs they impose on the workforce.
Instagram is building a standalone app for shopping
> So you're saying a technology that has spawned a new market doing volume to the tune of $500 million per day is 'not very useful'?

Well, actually that's pretty obvious. Most of the volume you speak of is just trading. Trading isn't very useful, especially when it's just speculations on speculations on virtual things that nobody really trusts enough to actually go whole-hog on.
In the U.S. 4 year degrees revolve around a shared, core curriculum. This is the case at both small, liberal arts colleges and large universities. A biology major has to take multiple writing classes; a gender studies major has to take multiple math classes. Both will take core classes in history, economics, sociology or psychology, etc.

Moreover, the way students are taught and graded can be different, especially compared to say, a German university. An American education emphasizes the process and discipline of learning. Seminars or seminar-style classes are common, even in the first two years. Basic facts and formulas can be learned on your own. If you don't care much for the process travel to Germany, sign up for the exams, and get a degree in a semester.

It's a different, more traditional, approach. Whether its better or worse depends on your metrics and goals.

Also, I've never heard of a minor being required. According to Google it's a thing, but also appears to be an exception rather than the norm. Anyhow, once you get past the distinctions between liberal arts, science, and engineering programs, employers couldn't care less about majors and minors, precisely because the primary indicator of a degree is that you've persevered through the core curriculum. You may hate writing/arithmetic but if you've made it through 3 college-level writing/math classes that says something about your discipline and follow-through, regardless of whether the material is relevant to a particular job position. Esoteric majors and minors is mostly a way for colleges to distinguish themselves; it's a sales strategy.

I think the U.S. would do well to adopt European models of higher-education. But I don't think such schools would ever replace a traditional 4-year degree for the upper-middle class or wealthy, for both substantive and cultural reasons. I also don't think it will ever happen, period, because the European model of education goes hand-in-hand with government policy, corporate culture, and union structures. The U.S. is unlikely to mimic the latter three, so the more generalist educational model will dominate.
I think this is quite similar to ad-blocking. If ads would have stayed small instead of becoming assholes, nobody would have adblockers. And if the intelligence agencys wouldn't spy on anyone but only with a court-order, encryption wouldn't be that interesting as well.
Similar story here. My account wasn't stolen but merely used by a bot to send out spam to my business contacts. Afterwards the account was locked for good... What?
I have exactly the same thought, I remember then I was a kid blood was taken by fingerstick and it hurt so much, I have bad memories even now. It might look less scary for children, but it hurts much more.
It's definitely noticeable on the Google/Facebook/Twitter properties, which is unfortunate because they're the ones behind a lot of the tech (and ads) commonly used across the web.

I wonder how much of the bloat comes from everyone using React/Angular/Polymer/Bootstrap and the layers and layers of libraries and another DOM and rendering engine.
> Who you are is almost entirely contained within your genes, with a minority contribution from enviroment and parents and schooling. Nature won the debate

It would be more precise to say that maximum potential is largely genetic. Watson was wrong in that sense, but right in the opposite sense: an extremely bad environment - malnutrition, disease, pollution, very poor or no education, and so on - can definitely prevent someone from reaching their genetic potential. Unfortunately, an extremely good environment does not seem to reliably eliminate a genetic ceiling (for want of a better term) to a similar extent.
I liked the Art of War in high school. Feel like it helped me a lot with stuff like negotiating salary in my early years.

Later -- The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione -- same topic as Art of War I'd say.
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>Don’t bother with writing (which interestingly is much harder than typing on a pinyin keyboard), traditional Chinese (there are tools which convert back and forth between the two of you need

I personally find traditional Chinese characters easier to learn to read than simplified characters. Simplified characters are definitely much easier to write but that's not very useful in modern times. Plus learning traditional Chinese characters helps with Japanese.

The reason that traditional Chinese characters are easier for me to learn is that it keeps components that hints toward the meaning that are left out of the simplified version.

For example, hear is 聽 (traditional) and 听 (simplified). The traditional character has 耳 which means ear, the new simplified character has 口 (mouth) and 斤 (axe). That's not necessarily the best example since some of the other components of the traditional character are a bit weird in a character related to hearing but I do feel that it's easier to derive the meaning from the traditional character.

Likewise, I prefer 愛 (love) to have the heart component 心.
May I ask what your app is?
My anecdote doesn't quite explain the symptoms you had, but as an Optus customer I would find terrible download speeds correlated with Sea-Me-We3 being damaged. Local sites or content cached in Australia performed fine (for obvious reasons).

Recently it seems it gets damaged every four months or so. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEA-ME-WE_3#Service_disruption...
If only SW engineer "plebs" could band together and strike to demand recognition of their profession like doctors and lawyer
Has screening practices changed? Could be that most people were always shortsighted but not detected.
Yeah, I recently researched a piece on secure messaging apps. Briar and Ricochet are the only arguably secure ones. They're both P2P, and use Tor .onion services. Tox and Ring are also both P2P, but peer IPs are readily discoverable, so users are vulnerable to identity compromise. For the rest, all bets are off. Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp say in their privacy policies that they may disclose such account information as IP address and phone number when legally required. And there are no others that protect against identity compromise.
This is neat (how the up/downvote onclick handler sends the info to the server).

new Image().src = el.href;

Where href looks like this:

vote?id=xxxxxxxx&how=up&auth=yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy&goto=item%3Fid%3Dzzzzzzzz#wwwwwwww
It seems like many commenters here (the ones who aren’t questioning the methodology) are drawing the lesson that you should use vector rather than set.

From these charts, isn’t unordered_set clearly the best all-rounder? Which is exactly as I’d expect. Am I missing something?

Sure, a simple vector might be a bit faster for 10 or 100 or 1000 elements, but after a certain point performance is awful.
It is unclear what is the objective. Minimize deadhead costs? If so, solving it with min-cost circulation with lower-bound. It would be much cleaner.
And burned 3.5 trillion developer brain cells just this january. Sensationalist metrics like this belong in the same trash bin as 'js is objectively bad and non-serious' bs.
Do the pricking on the side of your fingertip, not the pad.
That’s certainly a fair point which I had not given due thought.

Of course, if the government was competent then we wouldn’t have this problem in the first place…
Eight bird species are first confirmed avian extinctions this decade
Google automatically sharing geotagged photos from Photos to Maps
https://github.com/euclio/vim-markdown-composer

Requires a rust compile of the code in the plugin, but once that's working it works well.
any more javascript than this and you're probably making something that's full of ads
The article is full of screenshots with skype in full screen mode. But is anyone using skype that way? I want it on the side, not taking real estate space when nothing is happening. Instead they created a big block where you cannot hide the conversation even when there is none. I guess Microsoft must think that their users want to stare at a stale, old conversation and that when they use their computers they should focus on nothing else than skype (and full screen dialog messages notifying them that windows needs to be updated).
Ask HN: How do you keep energy to work on personal projects after work hours?
I have been on vacation when I started working on a personal project, so I had plenty of time. Now that I’m back to work, I feel I’m struggling to keep up, because once I arrive home (I work from 9am to 6pm and commute time is 1 hour) I’m so tired that I can barely focus and code. I’m very passionate about this project and don’t want to just work on it during week-ends.

How do you do it?

PS : I also want to start working out, but do I even have time for that if I can’t free time to work on my project?
If you're on Optus cable it could also be that they have let the network fall into disrepair due to the NBN eventually replacing it
While I appreciate the JS on this page (for usability reasons), I was surprised by the amount (149 lines) that is used for a page which looks like plain HTML.

Nevertheless, the code looks kinda beautiful.
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Sounds like a lot of hot air. There's a lot written about how some new companies are going to encourage LINK use and reward the users (doesn't exactly sound very decentralized), and then a bunch of vague lines about how LINK can be used to incentivize users of decentralized apps (dApps) of every possible category. Nothing specific about those dApps though. Where do they run? Ethereum? A brand new blockchain with its own vm and language? Systems that focus on just a single of those categories have had a lot of hard technical problems in being decentralized, but LINK is going to accomplish all of those?

New cryptocurrency press releases that read like press releases and spend all the time talking about company partnerships rather than the difficulties and trade-offs of decentralization almost always end up being pump-and-dump schemes in my experience.
> My Struggle

That's going to be a doozy to try to market in Germany
Curious how Discord compares to Slack.
I believe they're referring to the traffic analysis style attacks. You don't have to know the content of the traffic if you control the entry node and exit node, either the guard relay, or the hidden service by monitoring the size and timing of individual packets. This doesn't deanonymize on its own unless you control the hidden service, but can be used with other data to link anonymous identities to the IP connecting to the entry node.

That being said, what they're referring to is pretty old research and I haven't heard about any evidence proving any agency controls a large amount of the network.

For a more current account of modern attack methods against Tor this paper[1] is a pretty recent compilation of researched attacks. The Tor developers actively try to defend against these but you should still be careful, it isn't researched enough yet (read: Tor isn't that old) to defend against resource rich attackers.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.02816.pdf
Optus was (and probably is still) slow, but extra slow at the times SMW3 was broken.
learned chinese to have access to one of the biggest content sources in this world and thus prevent boredom

this roi is pretty good

also have huge respect for the chinese ultra realist world view though i dont agree with it

a story like the three body problem is basically impossible from anywhere else

chinese is also devastatingly succinct on a whole another level and much appreciated
I wouldn't recommend it as a way to win a message board argument but some living in a society-of-really-not-laws tends to disabuse one of this particular considered opinion.
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On the decline of skype since the Microsoft acquisition in 2011, there is a metric to observe it:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=s...
Spreadsheets for the mind
Nobody really uses the internet, most of the traffic you speak of is just usenet boards and people pirating books. The internet isn't very useful especially when you can get all the information you need at the library. Nobody really trusts all these servers in different locations, it's to slow to actually go whole-hog on anyway.
Either run it through a minifier or have the whole thing unminified, these single lined functions look horrific, and are saving characters for the sake of it.

Terrible naming, e.g. 'vis' -> reading the function it means toggle visibility, so it should be called 'toggleVisibility', you shouldn't have to read what the function is doing to understand what it will do.

You ever get a bug in your code, It's not fun to look back at badly maintained code and go 'oh, shit, what does this do again?'.
so actual information is bad and "3.5 trillion brain cells burned" is good? Hrm....yeah, I'm going to Steam approach and focus on features that matter to the user rather than pedantic code which serves nothing but the developers ego in a vast majority of cases.
> […] Make payments easier and more independent of third parties.
>
> So far, Bitcoin has not achieved this well.

The second goal is achieved spot on, it was one of the main reasons why Bitcoin was created in the first place.

The first goal, well, that one is a bit more complicated. What's missing are good apps with decent UX. Though keep in mind that wallet apps should be seen as something separate from the bitcoin protocol. The protocol is solid, proven, it's here to stay. What needs to improve are the apps. And out of the many apps. I usually recommend coinbase app. It's still the easiest way to get started (buy crypto using fiat), even if it's developed by a third-party.
And given how Microsoft trashed the skype brand, I wonder why they thought it was a good idea to use it for a new product.
your choice, it's your cells :) I would not want to dot that to my sanity.
Go hashmaps are generics, or at least parameterized types. You can't create new parameterized types in Go, but you get maps and channels built in.
The code is very much readable, without suffering from being concise. Love it.
Yeah I prefer ripgrep with a bunch of markdown files.
As of 07:15 UTC on the 5th of September 2018 the Azure status message reported:

"NEXT UPDATE: The next update will be provided by 07:00 UTC 05 Sep 2018 or as events warrant."

As I finished writing this they finally updated with essentially the same message except stalling for an additional two hours.

So, if you're thinking "Well, surprises will happen". Yeah, and Microsoft is not actually prepared for that at all, so, sucks to be their customer I guess?
Sure there is, just not in US where everyone can make cards with software engineers written on them after a bootcamp.

http://www.ordemengenheiros.pt/pt/a-ordem/colegios-e-especia...

https://blog.vdi.de/tag/informatik/
Hi, that cctv4 looks like a great resource; thanks! Can you recommend any others? Are there archives of cctv4?
a new market doing volume to the
tune of $500 million per day

The question is what definition of 'market' this meets. All we can see are balances moving between addresses.
Hacker News also works pretty well without JavaScript at all, which is really nice. Not something that I use often, but it comes in handy when you want to post a comment from your potato device that can't handle the modern web.
Really? Plenty of needlessly abbreviated function names IMO. At a quick glance is it immediately obvious what posf or arem are without looking into the context in which they're being used?
Don't get me wrong it's a nice piece of code but super-readable it isn't.
> Likewise, Model S is selling pretty substantially in Europe, and out selling several of the BMW an Mercedes models in the same price class. In Germany! Model 3 has yet to start shipping here in serious volume.

Where did you get that from? I could not readily find numbers for Europe. But for Germany this is certainly not the case. Looking at [1,2], Mercedes sells ~500 S-Class per month, where Tesla sells 50 Model S. Tesla Model S did outsell (in July):

- MASERATI GHIBLI
- BMW 8ER
- CADILLAC CTS
- JAGUAR XJ
- ROLLS ROYCE PHANTOM
- LEXUS LS
- CADILLAC CT6
- MASERATI QUATTROPORTE
- ROLLS ROYCE DAWN
- ROLLS ROYCE WRAITH

[1] https://www.kba.de/SharedDocs/Publikationen/DE/Statistik/Fah...
[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSb3BXluJYs1...
I actually think this code is nice!
Love the one liners.
Variable names could be a little more....explicit.