skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given how frequently they ran out of 65,000 tickets for <enter_any_big_ticket_event> within seconds (which would pop up under resale with > 200% markup minutes later), glad this is out in the open.

Also, Fenway Park is the worst. Had a terrible experience earlier this year while trying to book Pearl Jam tickets. Presale went live at 10:00 AM on February 10th (for shows in Sept) and they ran out of tickets at 10:01 AM, are you kidding me? Suddenly I see spike on StubHub an hour later with ridiculous markups.

Fortunately my Uber driver pointed out and suggested that I wait until day of the event (as fenway park puts up unsold scalper tickets back online at market price). I followed his advice and snagged couple of tickets on day of the event at market price as he suggested.

The whole experience was mind numbing.Can't wait for Amazon tickets to disrupt this space and drive 'em out.

Edit : When I said 65,000 tickets - I'm counting Pre-sale tickets as well including Verified Fan scheme they had going this year.
It is interesting because I went through this exact question recently with an intern.

My condensed advice is:

1. Are you still making progress? Keep going. Don't give up.

2. Are you spinning your wheels? Take a step back, re-evaluate what you know, investigate things you are not clear on.

3. Still stuck? Ask for help. Don't panic or be ashamed. Show the progress you've made in step 1 and share the things you studied in step 2.
DSTE and Gluon Maps look great there, but I didn't find actual artifacts to play with. The app I was able to find (https://github.com/RohitAwate/Everest) has a very poor scrolling behavior on MacOS and generally seems pretty simplistic compared to its Electron counterparts.
Apple is smart to focus in the health niche as there are no other valid reasons an average person would ever need a smart watch in their life.

Imagine how nice notifications (and the ability to respond if necessary) are for people who work long shifts where they can't have their phone with them!
thanks, that was a typo
That link is from more than 5 years ago. No problems these days with IDEA.
Ask HN: How can one be educated, smart, and believe in God?
I'm not sure this topic is appropriate, but I've been wondering this for a while.

I also don't mean this in a disrespectful way. I genuinely want to know how someone can both believe in God, and in science and facts.

How can being educated, smart, and believe in science not clash with believing in God?
Thanks for summing it up.

I avoided desktop because the last time I don't develop for desktop since 2008.

But I take a look at some options for Ruby near that time, and I don't think the ecosystem is much different now. There were a couple of options but very incomplete.

Regarding the JavaScript ecosystem, yes. Electron is a perfect killer.

I see the JavaScript ecosystem at the same level that Java was in 2006. If you pick it, you can virtually deliver to any channel.
Imagine all the companies who Equifax is probably contracted that need bulk query access to their data. It’s easy for the crowd here to poo poo this kind of behavior, and it is bad, and they should be punished for their incompetence. They should not be in business any longer, it’s not like there aren’t other companies operating in this space to fill the void.

That said, how do you seriously prevent such a thing from eventually happening? In this case it was their systems that were compromised but it could have easily been a downstream user or similar that had enough direct access. I’m curious to know what, if any technical solutions could be possible?

I’d never take a tech job protecting such a thing. The only way I could think would be to have some very trusted people manually reviewing all access to the primary data store, and even that probably wouldn’t be enough. Miss one unauthorized query and you’re toast.

The entire system of social security numbers is flawed by design from a security perspective and there in lies the problem.
so by his words, it means that if I live in a third world country but I work as hard as my peer in SF I'm going to get paid less by a unit of work? even tho we both are equally good and working as hard?
So what I'm understanding is that, if I'm stuck in an awful city with low wages, Gitlab would like to prevent upward mobility so I stay there.

What does this look like when it comes to company culture? Emphasis on maintaining a "diverse" team?
Here in the Netherlands, I enjoy using a little inflatable boat I bought for €13 on the various waterways around the country. It's a simple, free, enjoyable thing to do.

Paying 48 pounds (63 USD) per year for the ability to use my cheap inflatable on the inland waterways is preposterous. That's more than four thousand US dollars added up over a lifetime.

The cheapest/shortest license I could find was a princely £9.10. Fairly frequently I've gone out for a brief little trip - an hour or so with the boat, drift down a canal, get some lunch - with my girlfriend. Now in order to do that I need to fill out a multi-page form and pay someone £9.10? Ridiculous.

Why can't it work the way it works here? We have more waterways, more people on the water, more commercial shipping, and a substantially more involved system of canals, lakes and rivers, and it's totally free to plop your little inflatable wherever you please (excluding a very small number of areas only available to commercial traffic, far from where anyone would want to be in an inflatable.)

By the way, I've been to the UK, and your waterways are disgusting - certainly worse maintained than here in the Netherlands. I've seen heroin needles, human feces, and piles of trash. Meanwhile over here we keep our waterways clean without making people pay four thousand bucks over their lifetime for something as simple as an inflatable boat. This is despite the planeloads of British tourists coming to the Netherlands to throw trash in our waterways.
You start as a quantum mechanic, and once you're confidently wielding your quantum wrench, you start attending classes at quantum night school.
This is the "uniform access principle": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_access_principle
>you accidentally fat finger a button while banking one day and wipe out your checking account sending a transfer or something

Completely different situations
Are they telling me other companies in the West are not doing this and only Lenovo in China does it? I would find that hard to believe. You see, the reality is once your opponent has made the move first in an attempt to gain a competitive advantage, no matter how unethical that move is, you are forced to do the same or even more. If not you'll be quickly left so far behind and won't ever have the chance to come back in the race. Despite whatever anyone has told you, that's how the real world works. Our companies may not readily admit what they're doing but in reality they have little choices. It's similar to countries that don't possess nuclear weapons are always second class in the world's power order. The time limit to join first class was gone a long time ago and it will never come back.
Lots of venues check ID at the door for alcohol age limits and it's usually not any more of a bottleneck than scanning tickets.
Agreed, for me this is a killer feature. Being able to just download the gitlab-runner executable (1 file) on mac/windows/linux and register a private runner - even on gitlab.com - and the simple configuration of CI builds, with the deep integration of CI results in the whole gitlab experience (commit browser, merge requests ("merge if CI succeeds", etc)) is best of class.

Edit: I'm not usually bothered by downvotes but I'm curious about what kind of agenda whoever downvoted this has.
I don't follow.

Old people are bad? I don't have issues? Because I'm a particular color and ethnicity you've attached to me?

My comment is about education that is actual education. For example, let's teach kids math in a form that has worked for centuries. Not this new common core stuff. Let's teach students a more complete history, versus the cartoonish narrative that has produced these brainwashed masses. And the current cultural narrative is part of that problem. Check out Thomas Sowell or Camille Paglia. They have some ideas on education based in empirical evidence, not based on what sounds good.

And how has there not been progress? If you look at what the media says I can understand that impression. But walk around a city and you'll see people of all colors, ethnicities, wearing suits working in offices, etc.

I live in a world where, if you put your mind to it and work hard, you can get closer to where you want to be. No matter who you are. And no matter where you came from.

I don't walk around the world putting people in victim/oppressor categories based on someone's outward appearance. That's dark. And to me, more a reflection on the viewer than the actual people they claim to know which category they fit in.
That's not exactly true or those people won't settle for Electron either. Obviously that's not the case and I wonder why. Is it just that Electron apps are easier to do, native apps look and feel better, so JavaFX is a sort of no man's land?
Yes. Responding to this and some of the comments below, this has been a standard practice for some time.
There was a defcon talk about this years ago.

https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-20/dc-20-presentations/...

How do you record what was accessed by a query? Record the results of every query run somewhere? Imagine the resulting data volume explosion you would endure. Instead, you maintain transaction logs or database snapshots so you can approximate database state, and you record the queries that are run. thats a more efficient means, and lets you handle DR, compliance, and investigative needs together.
Given that a few months ago GitHub was valued at $7.5bn, why would GitLab need to have higher marketshare to get to the $1bn valuation?
It is a thing, and there's evidence for it in certain academic fields. [0] studies this effect in economics, and this would be reason to expect similar things in other fields like maths, CS, and physics where alphabetical surname order on research papers is standard. Modulo a lot of context, replicability issues, and the like (and of course career choices), there's a chance you actually are doing your daughter a tangible favour this way. :)

> Faculty with earlier surname initials are significantly more likely to receive tenure at top ten economics departments, are significantly more likely to become fellows of the Econometric Society, and, to a lesser extent, are more likely to receive the Clark Medal and the Nobel Prize.

> These statistically significant differences remain the same even after we control for country of origin, ethnicity, religion or departmental fixed effects. As a test, we replicate our analysis for faculty in the top 35 U.S. psychology departments, for which coauthorships are not normatively ordered alphabetically. We find no relationship between alphabetical placement and tenure status in psychology.

[0]: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/08953300677652608..., "What's in a Surname? The Effects of Surname Initials on Academic Success"
Live Chat Software Advice
> Noobs are tolerated

Sounds enticing!
Did you happen to receive an unexpected address change notification? I did when I checked out with Paypal. The address didn't change (maybe it's all caps now and wasn't before?) and now I'm wondering too.

It took them a month to find this--could there be other code they haven't discovered?
I've been a customer since before the fiasco and haven't changed because they have a ton of branches in the area and they have been great at quickly solving any issues I run into.

I've started using Chase and Cap One online but they have zero branches in my entire city...
Eventually?
> Good on Sid for fleecing the VCs though how GitLab ever supports that valuation is beyond me.

Good on the VCs who have deep connections to Google, Amazon, SalesForce, SAP, Oracle, Apple, etc. to make some serious money by selling GitLab to them at some point.

I am very critical of VCs, but when it comes to a market for selling software development tools, you have a limitless balance sheet out there (easily in the $200B market range).

Investors who clearly "not understanding the [software development] market" include:

Google Ventures (ya know, that Google)

Iconiq (Zuck family office provider)

Khosla (founder of Sun Microsystems)

Shaking my head...
So are you saying you'll be increasing the frequency of ACH transactions by 14x (e.g. daily vs. biweekly) or 30x ?

There is likely a cost with that, even if the bank allows the frequency change for free. Most banks are starting to provide APIs, but many still charge fees for large volumes of ACH formatted files for example. The costs in making sure things are tied out (ie, all amounts match to the penny) seem pretty high.

Every payroll cycle is difficult because you have things like [benefit|FSA|ESPP] deductions, and the occasional bonus earning or 0-dollar mandatory RSU vesting (to account for taxes paid).

The benefit for a daily payment is pretty low compared to the costs.
We're on the verge of baselining a reference architecture in JavaScript for all our projects. We did the research with parity of features that already exist in Rails (Rails Admin, Devise, Sidekiq, etc).

You might not need a year to, at least, get my thoughts on that.
I am happy and sad to hear this.
$1.1B in valuation is insane, and seems to exist to justify $100M funding rounds.
Looks like goaccess supports --anonymize-ip=true which sets the last octet of IPv4 user IP addresses and the last 80 bits of IPv6 addresses to zeros.

source: https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess/blob/master/config/goac...
Wait, I wasn't sure if any of those have a cellular radio in them - that was the first thing that comes to mind. I do like the Galaxy Watch quite a bit though, though it requires "buy in" to Samsung's suite of things (Samsung Pay instead of Android Pay/Google Pay for example... which is just me preferring google stuff over samsung to be fair).
While I think applying this to scooters is one thing, I do not want to live in a world where my car is artificially limited to 15mph in a 15 zone.

Yeah maybe we could reduce accidents by 0.1% or whatever. But you just know the damn thing will go on the fritz at some point or gps will be wrong and you’ll be going too slow somewhere else, or you’ll be a rush in an emergency and be unable to get where you’re going...plus (and this May be unpopular) that world just sounds boring and crappy. I don’t want my life controlled by the cloud.
The source mentioned in that page has more information: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/01/10/operation-vegetari...
The cost/benefit doesn't pan out. We're not talking about exercise here, we're talking about regulatory liabilities for any mistakes being very potentially costly.
Ownership Explained with Python
Thank you for making this point clear!
Yay for the incredibly slow bi-yearly update schedule.
This is a case of "just enforce the existing laws, you don't need to pass new ones". Road users are already supposed to follow all signage.
The Observability Pipeline
Looks interesting! My use case revolves a lot around PDF and trying to remember the best bits, I'll be trying this out.

For the general public to catch on to whatever the next Evernote is, I think it will have to have; inviting visual elements like Notion, collapsible text like workflowy, better reminder/project management. So many of the top feature requests of Evernote that have been neglected, some since nearly the beginning.
I have been trying to get professional musicians interested in ambisonics for about 20 years, since I first learnt about it from my brother and I haven't yet found a single one who is at all interested in experimenting with it.

I have had a few going as far as denying that ambisonics could even have any kind of useful application in music at all.

The visual arts crowd seem far less dismissive, weirdly.
If this is your argument, then nothing on this planet is secure or safe from the NSA. Take into account the speculative execution related flaws, like Spectre and Meltdown, found in all major CPUs (including ARM based ones), nothing is unbreakable.
What's in a Surname? The Effects of Surname Initials on Academic Success (2006) [pdf]
I personally use Colemak for comfort and it is great to type on. The key presses just seem to flow from beneath my fingertips without effort. My typing speed isn’t very high, but colemak greatly improves the comfort and accuracy of my typing. I also use an ergonomic keyboard because I’m at risk of RSI, though (my day job is programming and one of my hobbies is alright of hand, both are rough on my hands) and being a programmer, my hands are very, very important to me. I’m surprised that so few programmers take care of their hands.
So only rich people should be allowed to see major artists in concert?
It can help you differentiate between whether it register a quick tap on the touch screen vs a force press.

Not that they do it on the watch, but it could also have a ratcheting-type feel when you scroll to indicate a) that you're scrolling or b) how fast you're scrolling.

The Steam Controller actually used this to great effect.
There is linux-rt, a fork of linux but I don't think it's competitive in the industry.
I wonder how people play back those 3D recorded sounds?

If you want a 3D audio experience, it's possible to do that with just two microphones and a dummy head model [1]. Then you just play back the recording with earbuds. It's pretty fascinating that something so simple works, but you can only listen from the position where the recording was taken.

I guess if you record using one of those complicated mic arrays, it may be possible to simulate the effect of your pinnae in software, allowing you to move around in a virtual environment, and hear the 3D audio from different points?

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_head_recording
I find it profoundly unsatisfying, but this may be a good starting point for further exploration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-overlapping_magisteria
Hacking Power Grids: A Current Problem
A lot of us were conditioned under Job's tenure at Apple.

Every device seemed magical.

I have a relative who's an Apple addict. She literally has a unopened desktop that is five years old. She bought it as a spare. She basically just surfs the web, but Apple made such a imprint on her, she just buys, or used to. Her funds are getting tight.
You may be surprised to learn that software bugs put companies out of business. They also can kill people.
Also, will-call booths sometimes check IDs anyway, and some shows already have fairly slow security checks.
anyone else get a bunch of free tickets from ticket master in that lawsuit a few years back but then realize that basically none of the concerts are eligible ?

specifically talking about this: http://settlement.livenation.com/
If that's the goal, then active measures to deter reselling tickets should be used. Thom Yorke succeeded at this when I saw him earlier this year. All tickets were Will Call and you had to enter immediately after ticket pickup. Selling tickets in a way that puts fans in direct competition with well-resourced resellers doesn't help fans either.
I started using GitLab a week ago. Only because they offer free private repos. GitLab feels unpolished and I encountered so many small UI bugs. If they said they are three people and just founded their startup, ok, sure. But Series D, at a $1B valuation? I guess their priorities lie somewhere else.
Just the fact that you feel so offended about being called "mentally ill" shows how you feel about actually mentally ill people, like depressed people. That's all there is to it.
Yep, one of the things keeping me from going Android is rendering my 250$ toy that I bought a year and a half ago useless.
The observable functionality (what “requirements” ought to be specifying) is the same, no?
And what happens when that database leaks?
Oh, that bottle looks exactly like those shaker bottles people use for protein shakes. We had one of those bottles too, but it was red.
Thanks! We've updated this submission to the Ars article from https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06749-8.
You need an iPhone to even set it up I’m afraid
Author David Brin has (relatively) long advocated that we have two options: shoot for privacy resulting in those with power able to access the "private" info, or have it open where everyone can access. He then argues for the latter because it minimizes rather than maximizes abuse. (I'm paraphrasing and summarizing, possibly poorly)

I struggle with being _comfortable_ with that idea, but I don't have a problem believing the technical accuracy of it.
I previously worked at GitLab, and I can confirm this is the point that I find most commenters on HN miss. GitLab's web platform, at the moment, is essentially a marketing expense to get people to use GitLab and push it into their day jobs.
Maybe more western news pieces like this will cause the Chinese people to reconsider this system.
"Fuck you Matz" [0] is "nauseatingly wholesome?" I guess we have very different opinions about what makes a person wholesome.

[0]: https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/1029170073938944000
Startup Aims to Be Millennials’ Bank with Cash-Back Debit, High Interest Savings
>The costs in making sure things are tied out (ie, all amounts match to the penny) seem pretty high.

Could you elaborate on why it seems high? What you're describing is computations on distributed systems, and I'd be surprised if it's computation or communication that is the bottleneck for handling ACH transactions.
> The endless scroll with content right in your face is kind of addicting.

I think this is why Facebook, 9GAG and others are popular. People just want to binge content with the least amount of effort possible.
> But no one wants to use their grandma's old software

Maybe that will change as the industry matures.
So HFT taking advantage of ticket sales arbitrage?
Microsoft, Standards, and Incompatibility: 1991-2010
There is a forum for this https://www.badcaps.net/forum/ which I believe was started when there was a slew of bad capacitors a decade or two ago.

The main page appears to be someone who has a service of some sort, but maybe posting in the forums will get you somewhere.

I always had a softspot for the Exidy and those awesome vector graphics. Good luck on your restoration.
What a repugnant and confused comment.
It is wrong to eat chicken wings with ranch: they can be eaten undipped or with blue cheese dressing.
It doesn't auto-sync without your permission; you have to request that the browser save your password. If you want to save passwords locally without syncing, it's trivial to disable. You can additionally encrypt the passwords with a master password so that Google doesn't have access to them.

Auto-syncing of passwords is a core feature of every modern browser. Safari does it, Firefox does it, Vivaldi does it, Edge does it, Opera does it, and, of course, Chrome does it.

Want control over your child's account? Google has something for that: https://families.google.com/familylink/

Want the school to manage it for you? That's exactly what G Suite is.

Edit: The problem here is ignorance. It's easy to demonstrate that it's possible to control all the data about which this parent is concerned. Sure, there's data they can't easily control, but they make no mention of that. Your interests, demographics, everything else Google infers about you... you can't fully control that, and that's what parents should be worried about--not password syncing.
>While I think applying this to scooters is one thing

Yeah. The top of a slippery slope that ends in skateboard insurance, bicycle licesnes the DOT setting up stings to catch overweight wheelbarrows. No thanks. The level of regulation that applies to mopeds is too damn high. The last thing I want is a precedent for regulating even smaller things.