skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social scores are bad.

Credit scores are good.

I'm not exactly clear on the difference, but I'm sure it's very important.
For some reason that reminded me of "The Ascent of Man":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ascent_of_Man

My father made me watch this even though I was only 8 or so!
Hiring and training employees is expensive. Providing long term care and disabilities for disabled employees even more so though.

And I imagine some jobs, twenty years experience doesn't make you twenty times more valuable than some FNG, IE worth protecting. You're not an investment in that case.
I would recommend Kevin Kelly's website truefilms.com for a great list of documentaries on a large variety of topics. No matter what your interests are you're sure to find something interesting on here.

Werner Herzog has produced a number of fascinating documentaries that are just as good as his fictional films in my opinion. Wings of Hope, Encounters at the End of the World, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Grizzly Man--he has an enormous talent for drawing profound, almost mythical ideas out of the subjects he captures. He's not for everyone, certainly, but his films have a unique vision you don't often see in documentaries.
The Non-Revocable GPL
The Act of Killing - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375605/

"A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers."
from that egoistically lawless point of view, they will do better on each privacy violation that gets reported as it signal better return for the investment of advertisers.
1. The Look of Silence

2. Let the Fire Burn

3. Koyaanisqatsi

4. Samsara

5. Baraka

6. Vernon, Florida

7. Art and Craft

8. Black Panthers

9. F for Fake

10. Du Côté de la côte
One of the biggest strengths of Bootstrap is that everyone uses Bootstrap. I can come to a company, use Bootstrap, and expect that new employees will also use Bootstrap or that it's already been used there! It's so common in the industry.

It also means, for front-end developers like me, that I can create a company theme on Bootstrap, and get junior developers to use it can feel comfortable with being able to implement the brand design language and not have to pixel-fiddle. Not only does this strengthen the technical skillset of my team, but it also helps keep standards high when dealing with offshore resources.

We can get them to build UI for entirely separate projects, slap our branding on it, and dramatically cut down on resource allocation, time, and effort.

So, here's the thing: this is great, but Bootstrap also has utility classes these days. If I use Tailwind, or Foundation, or Bulma, I immediate lose out on developer leverage. This is so much more powerful than moving some classes around.

Approaching all of these design concerns in a slightly different way just isn't powerful enough to outweigh the leverage Bootstrap has over everything else out there.

It's just not significantly different enough. It doesn't standout to me. In fact, how it differentiates in its introduction is a _con_ to me. No, the industry doesn't need complete UI kits, design languages vary enough that this could provide additional undesired weight, however people use buttons, drop-downs, and many other common components _all the time_.

A major competitor to Bootstrap in the arena would need to do something revolutionary.
Not a true documentary (since it was released as a TV series in episodes), but I'd say The Long Way Round. It documents the real life journey by Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman as they attempt to road trip from London to New York on motorcycles (except for a plane from eastern Russia to Alaska).

They come across a number of different cultures and outdoor adventures along the way. It's very entertaining and an interesting look into different countries of the world.

I'm rarely hooked to TV shows, but this one got me.
You'd use a DNS canary.
The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone
does anyone have a link that doesnt hit me with "we noticed you're blocking ads"
Microsoft intelligent mobile phone keyboard SwiftKey now translates as you text
Are you hinting that FB advertisers are throwing 50 billion (expected 2018 revenue) at ads that are poorly performing? Obviously that is not correct, the result of all this detailed targeting is campaigns that are performing very well for experienced marketeers.
Moon Is Stepping Stone, Not Alternative to Mars, NASA Chief Says
I am becoming anxious to see some action out of the DOJ Anti-Trust division against Google, Facebook, and Amazon, etc. These tech behemoths effectively own most of the consumer internet and they use their muscle to either acquire or force out the majority of other players. More regulation is not going to cut it (or else it would have already).

In America (and most places), law normally lags quite a bit behind the events of the day. Standard Oil destroyed markets unchecked for several decades in the 1800s. No individual or company could withstand their market power. Then the government divided it into dozens of vertically integrated companies, which allowed for a wave of new market entrants, better deals for consumers, and higher standards of living for more people.

We are obviously at that breaking point now with the tech behemoths and their sprawling, impregnable market power. It is time for antitrust action against Facebook and the gang.
You can personally decide not to use Facebook, which is good. But you can't convince everybody to do that. So if you or your family members do use Facebook, at least install an ad blocker for all of them.

Not for privacy, but to deny them revenue. I block Google ads on every single site I visit, period. I don't care if the advertising is non-obtrusive. If it's being run through Google, part of that revenue is going to fuel Google's tracking. I support creators directly instead. And if creators refuse to give me a way to support them, that's not an excuse to expect me to contribute to Google's bottom line.

Huge props to the people who are working on blocking trackers and protecting privacy. I'm very glad they exist, and I don't think their efforts are worthless. But, it is currently a losing battle to fight these companies on the privacy front, because the tracking model is so profitable that they will always be pushing more resources into it than we are. Collectively, the people fighting for privacy don't have enough resources to win.

But there's an easy, completely legal solution to that problem; the one thing companies haven't figured out how to get around is ad blocking. And a good ad blocker will block even native ads. For a company like Facebook, all of this boils down to getting you to click on ads. If enough people target that chokepoint, then the advertisers will start pulling out of the system, and there'll be less financial incentive for these companies to undermine people's security and privacy.

And we have evidence that this works. Even Google, which is the powerhouse for getting their ads to actually show up, is starting to devote more resources into trying to figure out how to stop mainstream people from installing adblockers. That's where all the autoplay stuff came from, that's where the acceptable ads initiative came from. They desperately want your roommate to say, "I'm not going to mess around with these weird Chrome extensions or whatever, that's too complicated. Chrome blocks this stuff itself, anyway."

Install adblock on every browser you get access to, tell ordinary people who aren't on HN to use it, and let the advertising industry kill itself. Make it very obvious to companies that buying ads on Facebook is a complete waste of time because even non-technical users just won't see them.
This should not be a surprise to anyone. Facebook is all about making money with your info.
In a public space, which is the implicit context of everything we are talking about here? No. Because listeners matter, too.

If you want to tell somebody in a 1:1 "this sucks" when you know--know, not assume--that that is their preferred mode of communication? Sure. Fine. I think that resorting to such modes of communication makes you a lousy leader because it's important to train your people out of high-tension and low-value communications, but fine. But y'know what? Nobody here is talking about that situation, so table it and move on.

I won't reply to your diversion again.
Nice to see that the compiler performance work is yielding benefits. This release is showing a 10% reduction in compile times compared to 2.12.6.

Release notes here: https://github.com/scala/scala/releases/tag/v2.12.7
This is likely the most ignorant comment I've ever seen on HN.

> Make a linux SJW edition or something.

If you aren't you should be dog-whistling for the alt-right. You'd be great at it.
Here is a C++ wrapper for SFML that I made, you can use it as an example: https://github.com/dom96/nim-in-action-code/tree/master/Chap...

You can also try using `c2nim`'s cpp mode.
The Lenovo Mirage has the same chipset and a 6DOF controller dev kit was just announced. That makes it the ideal test platform for the Quest.
> https://opensource.com/article/18/9/happy-birthday-gnu

why?
The phone number isn't for your protection (it's actually really terrible for 2FA), it's for Facebook's protection. It's an anti-bot mechanism to require a unique phone number for each account, or no more than 5 accounts per number or so.

They also refuse VoIP numbers for authentication.
y2k was a long time ago and y3k isn't our problem. :p
We already did. Dumping saltwater is illegal in a lot of places.
You literally wrote an assertion regarding what Linus thinks in the original comment.
How does one "land" on an asteroid which is spinning too fast ?

Is it at all possible to match the spin of a smallish android from orbit ?
Can you give examples of apps which you would pay money to run on an old phone? I might be looking for a project.
Because social scores include thing like "thought crime" and can only be improved if you are behind the state...a credit score can be fixed through bankruptcy, and the US is arguably the easiest country to fix your credit score.
The tu quoque fallacy [1] is not proof.

Stealing IP without contributing to creation costs is bad behavior on several levels.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque#The_fallacy
cambridge, whatsapp founders, instagram founders, 2FA exploit and so on. What's next for Mark?
And actually what would be the trigger for people to flee away?
Funny story (now), caring too much once got me "separated" from a high paying job, when an impulsive lead walked in and took over our project shortly before what would have been a successful delivery.
My comment is all about “me”, specifically people who say they are pushed away from good behavior because advocates are jerks. If you don’t do that then I don’t think this is the right comment thread for you.
On that note, would love to see developer tools in the major browsers complain with warnings about missing CSS classes :/
Shouldn't you be watching this?
Same, wanted to play around with this but I won't risk it
This. Though I will say, in my opinion tech companies are more or less wild animals we pretend are domesticated.

Nothing is free.

Facebook continues to do good for people. Twitter as well. These are invaluable communication channels for many people.

I imagine this problem will get fixed about the same time my physical spam mail stops arriving. I'm not holding my breath, given that I can _say_ something to my wife in the privacy of our own home and get a cold call or physical mailing about it a few weeks later.

I try to encourage people to pay for the services they believe in. Whether you love or hate Microsoft for $6.99/mo you can get Office, (decently private) email, cloud storage, and Skype. Hate Skype? Don't blame you but from there you can get a phone number that you can give out and keep your personal number just for family/emergencies.

This sends a powerful message to folks trying to build a better mouse trap. It is _very_ hard to produce a free service that competes with these folks but if we show we're willing to pay for privacy then maybe we'll start to see competitive innovation in that space again.

Now that I have a family it inspires rage that my phone rings constantly from spammers and I might ignore a call that's time sensitive and important.
I was purging my life of all things Google(Facebook went first), so I was changing my email addresses under all my various accounts. An odd thing happened when I was changing my info for my Microsoft account: they texted my as a security precaution. The only problem is that I NEVER gave Microsoft my phone number. I do not have 2FA set up. In my contact details, there is a blank for my phone number. WTF Microsoft.
Side note, my daughter was born at Semmelweis hospital in Vienna. My wife was studying in Vienna at the time. That's when I heard of Semmelweis and read up all about him.
Weakness in Apple MDM Tool Allows Access to Sensitive Corporate Info
Why penalize folks who didn't know what they wanted to do in high school. It took me a long time to get a vague idea of what I wanted to do for a career and it's something I have to constantly contend with. In fact, I'm still trying to pinpoint what exactly I'm looking for. I know things have changed in the last few years, to the point where high school kids are in pre-engineering or pre-cs programs and getting special instruction.

As an aside, the advantages of knowing what you want early are huge assuming that you continue down that path for a long while. If we consider something like graduate school, knowing as a freshmen that you want a PhD means growing your network early, cozying up to professors to write recs, doing REUs. You could have someone figure out towards the end of undergrad that they want to continue on and really struggle to put together a compelling package even though they might be just as passionate or have just as much potential.

Sorry that was kind of a rant.
Sigh. Reddit is not a completely terrible place to get expert advice. Yes, there is a great deal of awful advice to be found there. But there are also a fair number of subreddits that are the primary gathering place for that community, and thus the best place to go for advice on that topic.

When I google something non-programming related, the correct answer is very frequently found in a Reddit post.

Reddit isn't usually the absolute best place for advice on a topic, but painting it as "completely terrible" seems like hyperbole to me.
The majority of web apps are SharePoint? I’m far away from the HN bubble and it’s true that .Net Core’s adoption is in its infancy. But the oldest corporate web deployments that people are using is Web Forms, then ASP.Net MVC 3/4 on top of .Net framework and the corresponding Web API framework before they were merged into one with ASP.Net 5 (ASP.Net Core)
> you can't become a doc for love of the profession, because it's a profession you can't test drive

oh, I don't know about that. It's like a 6 week community college course to become an EMT. There's a test drive for you. There are 2 year programs that will get you a nursing license.

You can get a taste of the medical career path without going the full MD route. Maybe not as accessible as coding, but it is accessible.

As my kids are just now graduating HS, this is something I try to drill into them. College can be like an assembly line that spits you out saddled with the equivalent of a 30 year mortgage, trained for a job space that you literally have no idea if you'll even want to do ... or it can be like a Baskin Robins of careers, and you can try every last one of them until you find what you really like.

passion and knowledge of self are everything. the rest is a commodity.
I don't understand this. If their problem is that they HAVE TO use Giffgaff, I can't sympathise with that - I use it myself and love the service Giffgaff provides.

So this doesn't make sense to me - it doesn't feel they're forced into a corner at all. I'd rather sell the phone and donate money to asylum-seeker supporting charities.
Is Donald Trump Doing a Good Job?
Related might be some articles about people dying when they retire. Not working and not having a purpose was, according to some of these articles I read, causal of death. Not sure how well supported.
I do get to pull that. I choose not to engage with people locked on to their ideas, so I don't have to. Complete waste of time. The worst thing you can do me is downvote my comments.

That's all the power you have. Have at it bub.
I thought the most hipster thing was hating stuff that is popular.
might also be worth mentioning that devices with lipo batteries which live in a drawer will survive the longest if stored at 40% charge.
> a single gvim instance with no files open is 37MB emacs is 51MB and atom is 300MB.

this does not really strike me as odd for emacs and vim - pretty sure that if you load them in a computer with a 640 by 480 screen in a 32-bit OS on IceWM it will be comparable to the olden days. On todays's 4k screens, just opening a window that takes half of your screen will alone cost a good dozen megabytes of RAM - and if your UI widgets do caching (they should, text rendering is expensive), then each of your widgets may allocate a pixmap too. When screens were 72 DPI and a button was 30 by 10 pixels it was fine... but nowadays you have to multiply all the values by at least 4.

And the switch to 64bit has instantaneously doubled the size of all the data structures working with pointers - which is generally a lot in GUI apps since most are trees of widgets. In some of the apps I've been working on, the RAM hit of 64bit has been more than 30%, and sadly the world does not seem to accept the x32 ABI.
It is not well understood that they are a service.

To many people it is more like a place, and places are free. Sure, technically you can buy a place and own it and charge for access, and technically somebody owns almost all places you might care to go to, but mostly we think of them as free.

The fact that it costs nothing, monetarily, to access… that very thing often makes something seem like it has no cost.
I wish I knew. However, I believe that this only works up to a certain company size.

The author blogs here http://chuckblakeman.com/blog you may find examples there
you gave an idea for a weekend project. posting here in case I change my mind and slack on something else.

instead of deleting facebook (or not having it), create a shell profile, just enough for you family to pointlessly add. then subscribe the account with a service (aka The Idea) that simply post a once a month post on how to install ad blockers and such.
What's wrong with your org experience? I use it for this.
Liz RIce – A Go Programmer's Guide to Secure Connections
https://archive.fo/7Phr0

Edit: Putting "archive.is" in front of a URL works often for me.
As someone who was born in Burkina Faso, this was a great read. Thank you for sharing. If you found this article interesting I recommend you look into Salif Kieta and Ali Blondy.
Show HN: Pandora for Clothes
Not sure what part of China is supposed to be communist these days

There are parts of China where one can be pretty free in one's personal life, so long as one keeps their heads down and one isn't rich or famous. If one becomes rich or famous, one is inevitably drawn into politics, which can have high stakes consequences.

Not sure what part of China is supposed to be communist these days, except in name and maybe totalitarianism

Communism isn't what's bad about Communism. It's the resulting totalitarianism that's the bad part. If it were possible to and stable to reorganize the world into 450 person communes, there would be something utopian about that. It's very possible to seek out and find such communal experiences. The problem is that such organization isn't stable for Homo sapiens.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17433487

Here's what we know about democracy. It's short term stable, even when pitted against
other forms of government. It often changes from within and becomes totalitarianism, however.
I'm starting to think many of you have never read Hayek in any serious manner, including the author. The mere existence of the Hayekian information problem, which is the core tenant of Hayek's ideology, refutes the fairly loose framing of what this post tries to convey.
Funny you mentioned the injections, we’ve done the same thing. Anytime he stops taking the pills, invariably the psychosis starts again.
For what it's worth, I work at one of the large tech companies mentioned. I would disagree with some of the characterization. For example "Don't do whiteboard coding on riddles or puzzles" - I think this is great advice, because questions like that are frowned on where I work too! Generally, the coding questions we ask come from real world applications.

I've also worked at a startup, and I think this article misses something that really could be helpful: there are different skills needed to work at most large companies and most start-ups. At most early-stage start-ups, scaling is not a problem. There are examples of companies that had to scale quickly, but for the most part life at a startup is about finding where your market is. I think that start-up hires also need to be more flexible: there's more room for specialization in larger companies, whereas in smaller companies, engineers that focus on one or two things can be pretty disruptive as the needed work shifts.
_The Look of Silence_ is a companion to that film and I personally feel the more powerful of the two.
Both of you are right.

The only thing I'd add is that there's absolutely a huge weight in the form of industry pressure sitting on the scales. E.g. efforts to limit antibiotic use in food animal production. And it's fair to say that swamps regulations that would otherwise be passed.
FWIW, we've found that passion for music is a huge positive signal that somebody will be successful as a developer within our product line (small portion of a large company - don't know if that signal holds true outside my group).

Obviously, we don't limit candidates to those who are also musicians. Heck, we don't even tend to ask about it in interviews. But, it serves as a general "we probably did ok with this hire" shortly after on-boarding.
Seems to me that at some point hiring moved away from hiring based on potential to hiring based on pure skill and how many boxes the candidate has checked. Companies seem to just want people who can turn the crank, which doesn't sound all that appealing.
Going by a recent sudden change in the tenor of comments, I suspect that HN is being brigaded by political activists this week.
From Steven Pinker's great book "Enlightenment Now":

The miner, it was said, “went down to work as to an open grave, not knowing when it might close on him.” . . . Unprotected powershafts maimed and killed hoopskirted workers. . . . The circus stuntman and test pilot today enjoy greater life assurance than did the [railroad] brakeman of yesterday, whose work called for precarious leaps between bucking freight cars at the command of the locomotive’s whistle. . . . Also subject to sudden death . . . were the train couplers, whose omnipresent hazard was loss of hands and fingers in the primitive link-and-pin devices. . . . Whether a worker was mutilated by a buzz saw, crushed by a beam, interred in a mine, or fell down a shaft, it was always “his own bad luck.”

A railroad superintendent, justifying his refusal to put a roof over a loading platform, explained that “men are cheaper than shingles...There’s a dozen waiting when one drops out.”
What's the best software to turn an old iPhone (or Android phone?) into a security camera?

The concept does seem good, they certainly have more capable hardware and cost less than a lot of network attached cameras.