skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Next time I have a disagreement with another coder, I might ask them whether they see computers as primarily circuits, set theory implementations, or AI. (I might add "filing cabinet" as another category.) It would help me understand which assumptions I can probably make.
Wow, Zoho is down a second time today now with a 400 Bad Request...
True, but in the context of a pilot program to target native species elsewhere. In short it wouldn’t meet that criteria, because the Asian Tiger mosquito is a recent invader. In the narrow case of targeting recent (decades rather than centuries, and then ATM qualifies as the former) invaders alone, I agree that few rational people would object.
Yes, here it is again, the nearly ten year old magazine article written by an intern. Nothing could be more definitive.
> From all outwards appearances, Elon Musk may be on the verge of a nervous breakdown

A couple of stupid comments don’t indicate you are on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

If that was true the vast majority of us would permanently be on the verge of a breakdown.
Regarding consent, these are for image analysis, not bioinformatics (I can't ID the person from the information). As such this is a standard tissue repository use case. The courts have held, in cases (UCLA, WashU, and Florida come to mind) that the archive is the property of the institution and the patients have no claim to "remnant tissue". As DNA is considered identifiable, that would be a separate issue, but they're not going after genomics.
"Hello, cobra? I'd like to pay $1,300 for a month of health insurance"
I hope they move to a proper domain register after this...

The lack of decent options of domain registers for technical people that don't need their hand held and have decent security, while not being $$$$ enterprise options is depressing...

I use Uniregistry which has TOTP support and what seems to be a competent team, and a friend swears by AWS's Route53 domain registration, but more choices with actual good policies and aren't just a reseller would be welcome.
What if your employer went bankrupt?
This seems more like a throttle rather than a debounce:

https://css-tricks.com/debouncing-throttling-explained-examp...
> Doing the "right thing" for 99% of your users isn't actually the right thing if it does harm to your most vulnerable users.

But aren't the most vulnerable users the one who actually aren't tech savvy? And, arguably this change may actually make things simpler for them.
But really, when has that ever happened before?
Companies also get good rates because they can negotiate based on volume.
Ask HN: How to get everyone on the same page (dashboards/data/analytics)?
Hi HN,

Has anyone here worked at a company where everyone was on the same page regarding which dashboards/analytics tools to go to when looking for dashboards and/or analytics presentation platforms?

Am part of a growing company and as we grow, we're wanting to resolve the issue of "not having everyone on the same page" when it comes to numbers and metrics. A common scenario we're finding is Sales Analyst doing reporting from Salesforce, Product Analyst building dashboards on Tableau (which pulls in data from the actual product database), and Marketing Analyst building reports in Google Analytics with each of them having a different view of the "business". Note that we already have a business function that tries to ingest and merge all the data from our product database, marketing tools, etc but there is significant delay in processing all these down to a tidy data set.

Among some of the different sources of dashboards and analytics are (non-exhaustive):

* Google Analytics / BigQuery.
* Salesforce / Wave Analytics.
* Hubspot.
* Tableau.
* Some other custom built analytics tools.

Is there ultimately anyway to get everyone to agree (a meta dashboard with links to other dashboards or put a stake in the ground and say everyone needs to wait until the data has been processed by the centralised data team) or is this an exercise in futility?

Thanks.
> TTG shtick was essentially “emotional abuse simulators” all their games had one trick get you attached to characters and see them die with very little actual player control over it.

Some of their games were like this, but others were not. The Tales from the Borderlands series and Guardians of the Galaxy series were primarily vehicles for comedy, and did not rely on the trope you're mentioning.
Hi Ted.

This event seems to have been triggered from abuse complaints - and involved the registrar not reaching out to the client in question.

Curiously enough, I had a very similar incident with Namecheap last week: an unsubstantiated email (without subpoena, judge's order, or even validation of who actually sent the email) - was sent to namecheap abuse /alleging/ (correct, no proof) trademark infringement.

Namecheap rolled over and provided all information to the third party - and didn't bother to inform me of the incident. The only way I found out was a menacing legal letter using the address that I have on file at namecheap.

If Namecheap doesn't respect due process (ie, requiring legal documents to turn over customer information) or customer privacy (Hi, we have just had to turn over information) - on a 10+ year customer, I'm not sure that you're in a better position than Terra.

Severely disappointed with you guys.
So in a world where there's a glut of labor, you're absolutely right. We, however, are not in a glut of labor for software engineers and game designers.

And besides, if you explained to the employer the risks you forsee in joining their company, they will most likely understand that reason for asking for a higher salary than the norm.
Immune mosquitoes would be good too, though certainly more challenging to engineer than "kill everything".
$450/week maximum. There's a waiting period (2 weeks?) as well.
Yeah...and that thread says that the change is basically nothing, just a UI indicator:

> Q: I don’t get, though — if you’re signed in to the browser but sync is off, then what does it mean to be signed in to the browser? What does it do besides sync?

> A: Not much, you can think of it like a Gmail login state indicator.

If that's fully the case, then there's nothing to see here and people are freaking out over nothing. Am I missing an important element here, other than that people don't trust Google?
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Without reading it, you can book a ticket for pretty much anyone with a credit card.

You can do the same with frequent flyer points as well.

Some ticket classes let you do name changes for some chunk of money.

Corporate travel accounts are probably another vector.

Last-minute tickets are usually the most expensive, but the least likely to be noticed in time by true payers.
The struggle of choosing a name and domain for your startup
I would also suspect a significant part of the difference is that the company is likely subsidizing the premium cost.
> which is anonymized

How reliably is the anonymization? Based on very little reading, data can at least sometime be de-anonymized. If that becomes possible 5 years from now, what happens then to the data already made public? How will individual's privacy be protected?
Interesting to note though, employer provided health insurance is a direct outcome of govt policy:

Most insurance in the first half of the 20th century was bought privately, but few people wanted it. In 1942, with so many eligible workers diverted to military service, the nation was facing a severe labor shortage. Economists feared that businesses would keep raising salaries to compete for workers, and that inflation would spiral out of control as the country came out of the Depression. To prevent this, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9250, establishing the Office of Economic Stabilization. This froze wages. Businesses were not allowed to raise pay to attract workers. Businesses were smart, though, and instead they began to use benefits to compete. Specifically, to offer more, and more generous, health care insurance. Then, in 1943, the Internal Revenue Service decided that employer-based health insurance should be exempt from taxation. This made it cheaper to get health insurance through a job than by other means.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-th...
Seriously. Headlines like this really infuriate me because it lends credence to the cry of "fake news!"

The article is well aware of this limitation and explicitly mentions it, thereby giving it cover. However, the headline has grabbed clicks and damage is done.
FCC Enforcement Advisory [pdf]
google might be doing the same thing, but google doesn't have men with guns forcing you to use google play services
Sure... but "Slack buys Astro" means absolutely nothing to me. What does Astro do? How will this affect how I use Slack? What new features am I likely to get as a Slack user?
Nonsense false equivalency.

Yes, in terms of implementing secrets & National Security-related spying there is overall parity, with the US probably a bit ahead of China & Russia.

But in terms of being an average citizen, it is night and day. At least for now, the US is an active open democracy, with a large majority of citizens actively engaged in maintaining the governmental and extra-governmental institutions the maintain democracy, e.g., independent judiciary, co-equal branches of govt, elections, independent journalism, free speech, etc. Even though these are imperfectly implemented and under threat by the current administration (w/increasing evidence of significant compromise by Russia), the US remains overly in the OPEN and FREE column.

In contrast, China is a straight-up autocracy, and it is openly working to ensure it's citizens do not even know their own history (e.g., Tiananmen, Tibet) or current news (e.g., Uyghurs), and have no capability to independently either obtain accurate information, or to organize to respond appropriately if they can somehow get it. And of course the spyware topic of this article, where ordinary citizens can get stopped on the street for failure to install.

This is little different than "May I see your papers please".

Russia is not far behind.

To falsely equate these regimes and their surveillance & interference levels is tantamount to propaganda.
At least in China they are open about.
Don't consider a mobile phone to be a secure device.

Only if you completely "own", manage, and trust all suppliers can you say that you even know the scope of trust to associate with your phone. This is not possible on even a "rooted" phone without the software due to the baseband being non-free and non-audited.
40M users doesn't really give a good idea of how significant 3 complaints are. Still it sounds like some additional screening and protection against phishing needs to be implemented on Zoho's side.
Sure they are, if you register a .com the registrar is "Amazon Registrar, Inc." since 2016 or so (https://www.icann.org/registrar-reports/accredited-list.html). For some other TLDs, they might outsource it.
> The privacy is much better.
Is it? I strongly challenge that at least in the iOS ecosystem. Sandboxing and privacy on the web is not as strong in many cases as iOS.
I agree, Quern was great and much more Myst-like than the Witness.

The Eyes of Ara is another Myst-like I enjoyed.

I'm always looking for more.
Now if you log into a Google account, Chrome is logged into that same account as well. Also if you clear all cookies, cookies from Google aren't cleared. Some people (myself included) don't like that.
That is pretty terrible if the web is being split into "google knows who you are and approves of you visiting this website" vs not being tracked by google and being treated as a second class user.
iOS has permission explanations. I imagine this should probably carry over to macOS.
How is China handling iphones: is there any equivalent to this app? Will they ban iphones in some sensitive locations if the phones can't be breached?

AFAIK iphones don't allow spyware apps to gather most of the data the android app does.
Oldest known* not first. If this was the first then you're saying there was a major jump from single cellular to billions of cellular animals. Oh accuracy of headlines...
Sometimes things go wrong
Sometimes things go wrong. Its frustrating, but its also real life. Here is a (very long) thread about bad things happening to good people > https://forums.mddhosting.com/topic/1582-major-outage-092118-09222018/

TLDR> MDDHosting, a small hosting company that has always provided a great product, stellar support and great prices, the thread is their story about losing all their customers data and having to resort to ultra slow restoration system, but the highlight is how well they communicate...

I primarily use AWS (monthyly bill between $4k and $5k) but for side clients and side projects I have used these guys for years. From personal experience I can say that their ticket response time is ridiculous, you can always rely on them replying within minutes or an hour or so...the kinda stuff money cant buy. Im staying with them even through this mess and as a silver lining if i may, its great to see how they respond with in thier darkest moment.

For anyone on bluehost or hostgator etc, here is a read for ya > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_International_Group
The thing with those guys is they have a reputation for buying up small hosting companies and turning them into crappy companies.
https://www.reviewhell.com/blog/endurance-international-group-eig-hosting/
(A year later) 'Over 90% of our users don't choose to turn these settings off. So we made on the default and removed the option.'

... We passed the point where dark UX patterns deserved the benefit of doubt a few years ago.

If it benefits the company, it's intentional.
It's a potential privacy violation for Alice and Bob!

How about this scenario:

Alice has Chrome synced to her Google account on her PC.

Bob uses Chrome on his PC but has no Google account and does not log in to Google services. He does uses bookmarks though.

Alice visits Bob and borrows his PC to check her gmail, which logs her in to Bobs Chrome. Then either Alice at that time or Bob at a later date accidentally triggers sync in Bobs Chrome.

TWO bad things happen at this point.

1) all Alice's synced data is downloaded onto Bob's PC. Including her bookmarks and passwords

2) all Bob's bookmarks are synced with Alice's account and Chrome on her PC will download them next time it's online.
I don't like how people equate the algebraic FP style of programming with "math" -- there are plenty of ways to model execution time and memory footprint using math, for example. A functional program is no more "mathematical" than an imperative one.
Their games steeply declined in sales after the first Walking Dead. From selling many millions to the last few selling only a few hundred thousand in spite of high profile licenses like Batman.
Basically, you have to go through the ICANN accreditation process, which is documented here:

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/accreditation-2012-02-...

The cheaper, and easier way, if you're looking to start selling domains with a lower barrier to entry (but less control over how much you pay/how you sell your domains) is to find a white-label reseller registrar.
Looking at the recent news about Marzipan, I'm fairly certain the App Store we got is actually the iOS App Store. There's so many iOS design motif quirks.
LucasArts, while they made adventure games, was just as if not more well known for their action and franchise titles such as all the Star Wars games. Knights of the Old Republic and sequel, Jedi Knight and several smash hit sequels, TIE Fighter, Republic Commando (basically all the Star Wars games) were squarely in other genres, and all very successful titles. They had some less successful ones as well, which probably fed to their collapse.

But in general, the crux of the matter is that games are still adapting to internet-age business models -- selling a title for $30-$60 with higher and higher development standards has been unsustainable for some time now. Going F2P is also hit or miss: not every game can be a League of Legends, and 99% quietly die running deserted servers with a tiny tiny fraction of the player base they may have had in their peak. It's the reason indie games have risen in popularity -- AAA studios are now just hoping to arrive at a hit franchise, and then furtively milk it for as long as they can, still fully aware they're one bad title away from biting the dust. Meanwhile thousands upon thousands of indies throw their life in the pool and a few good games reliably come out. Few hear or care about all the indies that disappear and return to their day jobs after a failed 5-year game. This model works fine for gamers, and making games is quickly becoming a cottage art industry like music or films - yes there are some studios churning out blockbusters, but mostly indies struggling, while consumers just get a glut of stuff at low costs. The unstable part is that most game devs can easily abandon the art for tech jobs with gobs of money, unlike musicians and (most) filmmakers, so it's possible the entire industry could die out if we enter an era of uninspiring games for too long.
Isn't it a "high-assurance distributed AI/ML system"? It is interesting that there is indeed a tendency to factorize it. I believe, this tendency arises because there are two groups of people that are available - traditional engineers, that are excellent and experienced, but do not know the language of AI and can't tell an ensemble from an embedding. And AI engineers, who are yet to build their first product.
The thing I love about Python as a teaching language is that you don't need to tell people anything about objects to get them started, and even to do some more advanced stuff (e.g. turtle graphics). And then you can introduce objects, and they light up the mental image of the world that is already there - because objects were part of the ride all along, just staying in the background.
Earlier comment said "Once people understand, they care."

Your comment basically implied "maybe they don't really understand which is why they don't care".

So I am refuting the original statement because I presumably do understand, and I still don't care.
Maybe it is more of a niche genre, with the occasional breakout hit that make it seem like there is more sales potential than there is.
I suppose this would be less of an issue if the first launch didn't try to open every single app/service that was running before the reboot all at the same time.

This is frustrating behaviour in general when you have a bunch of apps open at work. Slack will repeatedly attempt to steal focus on launch as it displays a splash screen and then the real app (a chat client requires a splash screen now!?), most apps using Sparkle for auto-updating will throw more prompts at you as new versions roll in, a different updater from Microsoft or Adobe will boot up to check on those installs...meanwhile all of them are trying to resize to full screen or appearing in some next-best position, because they're all competing for the foreground.

You can't do shit until you're sure the computer's settled down. And that's before you get the extra permission prompts.
I didn’t know that this happened at LucasArts. I grew up on Sam & Max, Full Throttle, and Day of the Tentacle. Any good articles about LucasArts’ demise?
Please stop pretending you deserve things for free. He provides the content on Github, which is more than he needs to. If you don't want to pay for it (either via social media promotion or just buying it), then don't read it and don't complain.

The author is giving us options. So you don't like one of the options provided. Spare the outrage for important matters.
People are blaming mismanagement, bad licensing terms etc., and while that all may be true, it is also worth noting that Telltale has not released anything really worth playing since The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us. No studio will survive after releasing ~12 bad to average games in a row over 4 years.
What does the cause matter? Company's dead, the employee "involuntarily departed."
Yeh that happened
Can someone post an example of the documents FB would have you sign to be a moderator?

I feel like this is something that gets signed right before you sign another thing saying you wont disclose or talk about the first thing you signed for.

(But if anyone posts it I'd read it in a heartbeat)

Also: This seems like the type of job role where Facebook should really (if they don't already) have immediate/on-call professionals for. I know people who have worked in 911 call centers and listening to the horror stories they've lived through or watched others go through that involved frequent mental breakdowns of colleagues and coworkers-while on the clock even-seems that with how much money Facebook has to throw around they don't have an excuse for not going above and beyond to ensure the mental stability of this group of workers, if any.

If anyone has any details on that, I'd be just as eager to read them.
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It's perfectly reasonable, but what's relevant is whether it's optimal. In today's world, with the ascendancy of cloud services and containerization, shell scripting continues to be just as important a skill for software engineers as it was in 2008, 1998, or 1988. And today, the language of production shell scripting is bash. Therefore, using bash in one's personal system is good training for the skills you will make use of in production systems.

E.g. see https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml

> bash is the only shell scripting language permitted for executables.

I'm surprised you choose to write would-be shell scripts in python. I think that a major reason that shell scripting endures is that handling process management and process output is much more work in real programming languages than in dedicated shell languages.

EDIT: But thanks for the pointer to xonsh; that looks fun. Something innovative like that could definitely tip the balance in favor of using that for local shell work and leaving bash as a language one has to know for production work.
I really doubt the discovery of force touch itself is an issue.. it was in all their ads and they made a big deal out of it; when force touch can be applied, and for what purpose, is the bigger issue. The same problem apple has with option key. Right click is somewhat sensible: it works mostly everywhere, and gives you a “little menu” that you can equivalently find from the apps main menu. and it returns some result, always.

But option and force touch.. its unclear when its applicable, what it’ll get you, if it even went through and for option, where the resulting button even is
Documents issued by the federal government, mostly a social security number or Visa or green card.
I've never heard of micro.blog before now, but after reading the article, I'm still not sure what the "problem" is.

I read three major points: Ownership, curation, and diversity. As the latter two, I feel, require hands-on experience, I'll focus on the first.

For Ownership, the author / OP appear to suggest that content ownership is about where the content is hosted. From the article (again, never heard of the service before now), it seems that preserving redirects and letting you create whatever URIs you want, and therefore move / control content, would suffice. Am I just missing something?
So what happens if the company in insolvent in your country? Who pays the severance?
PWA's are available through the store on Windows 10 on desktop as well
market-based approach? sequential rounds of bidding with limited trading?
What happens in the US if you leave your employer when in a degraded health state (let's say cancer)?
Just to play devils advocate.. what's the worst possible way this technology could be used? What if you give the mutation to people? Maybe people you don't like for some reason?