skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> The problem isn't the marijuana convictions, the problem is a society that believes people with criminal records can and should have their entire lives ruined for it.

Can't it be both? :-)
This is very cool, but how do you limit an end user to only being able to read a given set of values. It seems to me that this scheme puts all credentials for access in the browser, and they'll be able to just run roughshod all over your data without constraints in place.

Can you create data spaces/keys for ones that are read-write per-user and others that are read-only for a given user?
In all honesty, I don't know of a single employer who cares if you were rehabilitated or not. They see a checkbox and filter it out.

Your best bet is to move to a state with "ban the box" type legislation that prevents them from asking about criminal history until they've sent an offer. Those laws usually set up a regime around criminal history checks as well, that require companies to spend a decent chunk of change on compliance if they request criminal history. As most of these companies we're just being lazy and didn't actually care about criminal history they all tend to use cheap background check companies which give them the legal protection of having done a "check", but which usually find nothing that doesn't come up in 30 seconds of googling. The only companies that tend to do official background checks anymore are healthcare, banks, and government contractors.

I have one friend who had a checkered past and hasn't had anything come up in their background check in the past 5 background checks he's done, so there is a way forward.
Introducing VirusTotal Enterprise
where can one watch it?
A friend in HR that has friends in many of the Bay's companies told me that people at Google and other big companies hire to keep people away from other companies. Because they can.

So, yes, I believe they are trying to corner the market on the best programmers.
Regardless, since both thrived at 1 message per minute or slower for years, your blanket rejection of non-realtime social opportunities is shown false.
How the heck have I never heard of this company that is apparently worth $75 billion.

I haven't seen hacker news posts. I haven't recieved Bay area recruiting emails. Just out of nowhere.

Edit: oh. This is a conglomerate that aoorently owns music.ly
Atom by atom: Fabricating materials for a quantum computer
What do you think all the Mac users were using before they switched to the Mac. Apple had a huge switching campaign over many years. They might not be competing much now but MS didn't want to give up that segment. That's before we get on to what the iPhone did to Windows mobile.
I don't understand the warning here. The LLC is registered with the state, the owner of the LLC is registered with the state, the LLC is the property owner of record with the local/regional government.

Can you explain what you're warning about?
Making a passive income from Golem, iExec, Grid Coin and beyond
> Meanwhile, in Canada, we’re steadfast against paid donations. But the volunteer model doesn’t generate enough blood products, so we have to import from the US too.

Steadfast against paid donations, but yet willing to import paid-donation blood? Wouldn't it be better to regulate your own for-profit blood donation system than it is to trust that the US (or any other country) is doing things the way you want?

I suppose the idea is that discouraging it domestically will eventually catch up to the demand. But if you allow prostituting of blood domestically you'll never get there?
This seems to be a problem easily solved by a shotgun. Don't like guns? Try a slingshot instead.
From Facebook's announcement: "After they have logged back in, people will get a notification at the top of their News Feed explaining what happened."

I personally did not get any explanation as to why I had to log back in. It did surprise me to be logged out this morning and was wondering why.
Could have been any other mechanism on the site.
What happens on the far side of the moon doesn't matter for us, either, but we still looked.
What exactly would an international corporation like Google gain if they'd start being a tool of American external politics and propaganda? Besides being kicked out of their other markets (EU, India, Russia) Trump considers enemies right now?
I think there is an economic theory that the price of products tends towards their marginal cost which in the case of software is near zero.
What, exactly, is wrong with the expectation that people make senior level eventually? What exactly is wrong with being able to work at any time? I worked there for years, and if I was landing code at 12am, it was because I was excited about what I was doing. It was wonderful being able to work with people from all over the world on high-impact projects, and fixing important bugs was definitely high-impact. People who fixed vexsome bugs were heroes.
YC Safes are great way to raise money for early stage startups. It allow them to focus on business which is most important during early stages.

This is right step in simplifying it even further.
Thanks, that begins to answer some of my questions/concerns.
Mmmh, one large scar across your abdomen (~20cm, I think in case of my grandfather) vs. four incisions about 1cm each makes a huge difference.

Being able to get up and move around on the next day vs. having to lie in bed for weeks certainly makes a difference psychologically, but the laparoscopic procedure does put a much smaller burden on the body, too.
http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=132
What other big companies are associated with similar prestige?
Or a start up script on SysV Init systems.
Mac:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ce1cf2847d8303a8e7e708cb378d9e7ab1534628&dn=Stage9-Mac-v009.zip

Windows:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:f2b84daf5a60ad9a452c933523de7ec786bbb0bd&dn=Stage9-Windows-v10.exe

Windows, Linux and VR:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2fa616b75593e7e3561e1b80552a70a1b1a14ff5&dn=Stage9%20-%20Windows%20%2b%20Linux%20%2b%20VR
with all those differences, reference counting is not garbage collecting, it's like calling free in c garbage collecting, which is incorrect.
Logging out when finished with an online service is good practice. You should do it too. (and don't make fun of her) :-)
Is there a loophole?

If the creatures within a simulation can make contact with the creatures (or physics) outside it, then perhaps they can look in from the outside, to get all the information necessary for any proof?
> Upgrade early and upgrade often

It seems daft to keep seeing this lesson being learned by tech companies, and keep seeing blog posts where most of the pain would have been handled easily by just making upgrading a key feature.

Instead, tech managers and engineers seem to make the same mistakes over and over again, delaying those upgrades, until suddenly they discover it's a hard task to upgrade. I get delaying to _some_ degree, it's better to let other people figure out those sharp bits on the bleeding edge for you, but you need to set an explicit target for upgrading.

At another large tech company I worked for, it took the security team swinging the sledgehammer to get teams to upgrade from known-vulnerable versions of Ruby on Rails. When they came to do it, they discovered the changes were so extreme that the effort involved in migrating was likely more than the effort involved in a complete re-write (they did at least have pretty comprehensive tests)
The idea of waste or debris in space is simply wrong.

It's a bit of flatlander nonsense that should not be brought off the surface. I was shocked as hell when I found out astronauts vent trash and waste.

"Come, let us reason together."

There are not a lot of atoms in space, by definition, compared to terrestrial conditions. (Okay, technically all atoms are in space. You know what I mean. ;-P ) So, if you have some atoms together in space already it's just stupid to disperse them into small bundles and then lose track of their orbit. (You can't throw things away in space, you can only lose track of them. They'll be back.)

It takes a lot of energy to get a bunch of atoms to orbit from the surface. It's wasteful to discard "waste"! (Say it with me, "No waste in space!") Literally, in space, matter is only "waste" because you let go of it and stopped paying attention to it. It's still useful, just not to you right now. Even if you're sure you'll never have a use for it, it's criminally irresponsible to "throw away" matter in space. It's like firing a gun into the air: that bullet is coming down somewhere... At the very least bundle it up and tag it with a radar reflector or something.

In conclusion, space is big and empty and curved, atoms are rare, important, useful, and expensive to bring with you. Keep them nearby and on stable orbits. That way you don't have to waste energy collecting them again and they aren't rattling around forming a collision lottery in LEO.

No waste in space.

- - - -

Now then, as a bit of a tangent, are you familiar with the "spittlebug", Cercopoidea? Their nymphs form nests of bubbles that look like little blobs of spittle. I say this is the correct design for space vehicles and stations. Spittlebug nest. Not metal can. Cheap, simple, ridiculously easy construction methods, durable, self-repairing, reusable, flexible, etc... I'm sure we could make materials that permitted different kinds of bubble, for e.g. storage, blocking radiation, absorbing collision energy, etc...

So, build your space stations out of bubbles. If you do it right you can collect debris for free. (Hint: you have to intersperse threads with your bubbles and have the right kinds of glue and stick'um. It's all down to materials science at this point, the spittlebug design doesn't really have any other constraints. You could make a space vehicle that "landed" by simply crashing. Density of the atmosphere and the vehicle would determine velocity at touch down. Or, you just make the bubble nest really big. Like 10K diameter. Then when you "crash" your core ship (which actually might be a metal can) settles to the ground through ~5k of bubblewrap.
Hardware used is listed at the top of the readme. https://github.com/drujensen/fib/blob/master/README.md
That does seem like a logical conclusion. Conveniently, the GOP has made disenfranchisement part of their platform, which of course the Democrats then oppose by supporting zero-id elections, and we end up with a silly stalemate, hackable voting systemc, etc.

Staff up the FEC and then make it their job to seek out and provide ID to every single eligible voter in the country. Kinda like the census, be proactive and don't make disenfranchisement a thing. And then make it so polling places are open for days, maybe a week, including a full weekend, so everyone gets a chance to vote.

Or vote-by-mail. We've established it works.
I think this is under appreciated by the press as well. Money is going to get washed, there is just too much of it not too and everyone has a price. Efforts to suggest that "this" is the best reason to abolish crypto currencies have struggled (in my opinion) to make this case.
It was a little different when you could afford to buy a house in the Bay Area without $2m in the bank.
>The actual voting takes place on paper, and while it takes time to prepare the ballots and count the votes, the process of voting doesn’t take very longer than a few minutes for the individual citizen. From they enter the voting place till they are done.

How is the counting done in Denmark? Do they still have to collect all the paper ballots and count them in a central place? If so, how do you avoid all the 'hanging chad' issues?
Inspired – $100M cryptos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8X8pX5mXOk

Watch the above clip at about the 1:10 second mark - I was inspired by this.

Trying to get a buzz - I work in IT for a blockchain startup, which advertises the fastest speeds (transactions in seconds!).

So here's the million dollar question to this community ...

What would motivate you to develop on our platform and give us a test drive?

If we announced that we'd give an outrageous amount of cryptos for the first 10,000 people to contribute + legend status = would that motivate you?

Give me something to present to my CEO. Comments, anything welcomed! The more buzz, hits, responses, re-posts ==> LET's DO THIS!!!
well, for one example off the top of my head would be using geohashes for proximity in records... if you could glob every geohash with the same first 6-8 characters, you could do range queries pretty quickly.

I've considered similar for shard keys in terms of proximity related information.
The FB press release was probably shared early with the agreement it would be embargoed by the media until FB made it official.

It's not uncommon. It's how you build "friendly" relationships with the media. I scratch your back, you scratch mine.
Any samples available on the open web?
lol, yes it did.
It is essential that tech companies, especially ones that provide critical infrastructure, place technical excellence above other priorities. Denigrating meritocracy is like pollution: the impact may not be immediate, and in the short term, it may look like you can have your cake and eat it too, but the universe is not caring and not kind, and if you forget about the need for excellence in the continual struggle against entropy, nature will eventually get around to teaching you a harsh and remedial lesson.
This story comes out every fall for every major-ish November election period. The resolution is always the same: WONTFIX.
Respecting Article 19 of the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights [0] and concerns from 14 human rights organizations [1] is not America specific. It is about not secretly sacrificing basic freedoms in exchange for access to markets.

[0] http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/udhr/article_19.html
[1] https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/08/28/open-letter-google-repor...
The expression inside a {list,dictionary,etc} comprehension is semantically the same as an anonymous function.
Bit of a joke at first, but became more serious when people started to frame it as a compliment. I wouldn't blame anyone for missing humor on here.

Ultimately, it's a difference of opinion and social influences. It got an article click anyway, so mission accomplished for Bloomberg.
No need for “aggression”. The CIA wrote a sabotage manual, which involved things like “forgetting” to lubricate wheels, spending lots of time in meetings which go nowhere, slowing down and getting distracted while working, etc.

I consider all of the energy being spent in the maintenance of facebook to be malicious. If a datacenter caved in because of a structural flaw in the building, then that’s a lot less energy going into supporting facebook. How many datacenters would have to cave in before they wouldn’t be able to recover?

https://www.businessinsider.com/cia-manual-sabotage-producti...
From everyone I know at top tech companies this isn't happening at all. If anything the stock dip was a good thing for new grads because they got more shares.
Slack is planning to go public in 2019 at a reported $7B valuation
Which links were broken?

What makes it dated specifically? Versus let’s say https://joinmastodon.org/

Also did you visit from a mobile phone or desktop?
> at least they are using Tika

Why is that important? Is it advantageous versus the alternatives? (Genuinely curious)

I have been using GNU libextractor but I see Tika quite often brought up in the same breath. When I tried Tika a while back I didn't find it as good nor as fast. Has that changed?
I agree, though Instagram is images based with plenty of sources for good contents (photos created by shopping web site, the makers of those products, etc.), but videos are not as plentyful.
Is Facebook now considered critical infrastructure?
Imaginary metal is weightless as well :-) And what it doesn't have is a chain of transaction receipts showing where it has been.
Tesla is a luxury car manufacturer and isn't competing with GM/Ford/etc.
How YC Has Changed
By hiring talent out of college when every other company's looking for 10 years of experience in Kubernetes.
It absolutely is considering that can be invested with a stable ROI. It still means more in a year than your peers without signing bonuses.
Being an application security consultant, I see this stuff a lot unfortunately. Just takes a missing authorization check on the feature, then you got the keys to the kingdom.
...but it wasn't. Which is the point, no?
Because it is the closest that C++ has to something like Lisp macros.

While it will never match the simplicity of Lisp, it is easier to get C++ accepted into most companies than Lisp.

And if one has access to a C++17 compiler, many tricks can now be replaced by more developer friendly constructs.
There’s also another aspect: whether it’s one life sentence or 5 consecutive might make very little difference. Since prisons in US are big business nobody deals in short sentences. Rehabilitation or deterrence are not the goals, so of course the strategy won’t have the effect you imagine.

When punishments are so disproportionately high a good chunk of the ofenders will stop caring. The preventative effect is gone, it’s more an incentive to escalate the crime to a level where it matches the punishment.
Implementing Zomato-like restaurant search screen using React-Native
Review: Google’s Wear OS 2.0 can’t fix its obsolete smartwatch hardware
When you exclude the bulk of the market, saying the 1/3 of the remainder does not say much.
This concept is called the leeching and ranking. In this, mostly Google Sites & AWS S3 is preferred as a source by the leechers. Mostly used by coupon and movie download sites.

Finally, someone has openly spoken about it, instead of exploiting it a bit more!
But I seem to remember watching a talk by Kate Gregory in the last few weeks where her main point is that you really need to have a full understanding of the language to program in it. So if C++ has baroque complexity that is shunned by best practices you still need to be aware of it. I know the C++ folks would like to escape their past but there just isn't a good way to do that, short of a clean break with backwards compatibility.

I bet they could actually pull off a break with old code if they would release tools, ala Abseil, which took care of migration for you. I think it's reasonable to accept that legacy code needs to be freshened up every so often to allow the language to evolve. We have Google translate for human languages, why don't we have it for code? It seems like a far easier task.
that's clever
They've been running 3.2 with local monkeypatches -- which is part of the reason that upgrading was problematic. (Though certainly not all; over that span, there were lots of breaking changes to supported and documented APIs.)
Haven't you got that backwards? It would be the rest of England leaving, against London's wishes, while there's nothing but inaction on London's part. How have you got that turned around so that it's London forcing their will on the rest of England?
haha true. I watched 10 days non-stop of cute cats on Douyin, then I tried to find other types, but found very lacking.
Agreed. This is also the reason why just because a group of rebels can retain enough cohesion to overthrow a government doesn't mean they can govern effectively.

When a vote is for 'status quo' or 'not status quo' then there'll be a lot of people voting for 'not status quo' that want radically different and incompatible things.
But without knowing how many murders and the relevant population sizes I'm not sure that your point is made.
What you call being "excited about working at 12am" I call "accepting being a corporate slave".
Auto-Tracing HTTP(s) Calls on AWS Lambda
ASP.NET MVC as uncool as that might be. IMO this is as close to the benefits of Rails you can get in a statically typed language. And it really doesn't take very long in developing a project for static typing to start saving you time either. IDEs can just be a lot more intelligent with static types, and it can be a big help in the readability of code without fully understanding the broader context.

The upgrade to .NET Core is probably worse than a Rails upgrade though, although it's not really the same thing as .NET Framework will continue to be updated for awhile. Switching to Core is really only necessary if running on Linux servers is a big win for you.
In addition, the site isn't responsive, which is quite problematic considering that statistics show ~60% of web traffic is on mobile devices.
So happy to see this language develop rapidly. I want Zig for simple, rapid and fun microcontroller development. There's just no satisfying options right now.

I played around with it some months ago. It was an adventure so to speak. Even discovered bugs in LLVM itself. Andy was very responsive to bug requests, so I got a demo working pretty quickly.

I'm hoping to do another pass soon, perhaps contribute a bit to the compiler.

The demo is here: https://github.com/skyfex/zig-nrf-demo

Probably doesn't work anymore.. but that's the way it goes with a developing language :) That's part of the fun
NIST: Computer Security Resource Center Glossary
I am all for it. Have you ever tried to sit out on a deck on a warm summer night?
> What happens on the far side of the moon doesn't matter for us, either,

How do you know? Maybe the far side of the moon is chock-full of exploitable resources. You can't know until you look.

> but we still looked.

Sure, because we could. We cannot look beyond our light cone.
Not a fan of the company, but they are much more than musical.ly.

- Toutiao, the content farm (think Buzzfeed++), a pivot from the original news aggregator model. It has 120M DAU as of last October, per YC's report [1].

- Douyin, or Tik Tok, the short video platform, a pivot from originally a copycat of Musical.ly (ironically). It has 150M DAU [2].

- Dailyhunt, Toutiao for the India market.

- Musical.ly, an acquisition.

I have a strong disdain for the company, because the content is almost completely garbage, rumors, and click-baits, and it is dangerously addictive.

[1] https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-hidden-forces-behind-toutia...

[2] https://walkthechat.com/douyin-became-chinas-top-short-video...
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What are some secure Facebook Messenger alternatives to use? The only reason I currently have Facebook is because of the ease behind Messenger but I do not want to continue using their services. I also need to be able to convince my friends to try a different platform since I want to be able to continue to communicate with them. Any advice?
"The automaker had been guiding a production of 50,000 to 55,000 Model 3 vehicles for the third quarter.

According to a reliable source familiar with Tesla’s production, the automaker had a strong week of production and managed to bring the total number Model 3 produced to over 51,000 vehicles."
You write the Worker code which runs on our infrastructure, not in a browser. You have complete control over who can access which piece of data, as it's your code doing the accessing.
We raised on safes, it was harder because some VCs don't like them as they've not really been litigated yet (or something) - but I tend to agree they're a great convertible security. Lets end this pre-money nightmare, cap table hell.
>Are Apple products different now that Jobs are gone?

Air pods.