skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone explain to me why it isn't possible to simply give users the option to influence whether an extension can make a request to a remote server?

This way one could simply disallow extensions to do anything that isn't happeninging locally.
There’s no reference to going to sleep at a particular time.
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Magoosh is fixing a broken test prep industry. We’re a growing team of 33 in-office employees in the San Francisco Bay Area. We've been around for 7 years, are profitable, and growing steadily.

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We’re looking for a Software Engineer. You’ll bring your knowledge and experience to help us improve our products and ship bigger and better experiences for our students. You'll join a small, but impactful team of 3 engineers. As a core member of our small engineering team, you’ll have an opportunity to help us shape our engineering practices as we grow.

Our stack is Ruby on Rails, React (we use Typescript), and React Native.

Full job description here: https://magoosh.com/careers/

I'm the hiring manager - feel free to reach out with any questions or interest at evan@magoosh.com.
An epiphany I once had as I was waiting for that endless hour to come to an end was Nero has a logo of the Colosseum on fire. It is a circular structure, like a burning CD and it is on fire because "Nero set Rome on fire".
That doesn't follow, because there's a cost to the citizenry of being investigated. Also there's the increased ability of the IRS to abuse its power when you give it a bigger budget.
True, but a) it's very much on the plan of every country without significant per-capita carbon emissions to become a country with significant per-capita carbon emissions, and b) the expanding populations can and often do emigrate to countries with significant per-capita carbon emissions where they add to the per-capita.

High emissions come from a monetary economy with a requirement of profit. Soon each remaining part of the world outside that economy will be a part of it, because this is how the monetary economy expands: putting regions "outside" under it's control. I just don't understand how people are sanguine that "now" it's "fine" because the rapidly expanding populations are outside of regions with intensive economic development, because very soon they will be inside such regions, either because a capital-intensive region enveloped them (no more free sheep grazing on the meadow, etc) or because the need for money in some area of their lives drove them into a capital-intensive region (favelas, etc.).
I feel like the further you go in maths, the less attention is given to details, which are "left as exercise to the reader".
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«If a psychological effect is this big, we don’t need to discover it and publish it in a scientific journal—you would already know it exists.»

On the one hand, shoudn't we? There are a lot of supposed facts that need to be checked. Also, the size of the supposed effect everybody knows still needs to be measured, if, for instance, comparisons between different populations can be made at all.

On the other hand, and personally, I find it to be common sense never to have difficult conversations on an empty stomach.
Depends on your definition of "fork". Successor, maybe.

Neocities has been around for at least 5 years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5918724
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Cogo Labs is a startup accelerator. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer on our Platform Team to take ownership of key initiatives and systems that support our incubating teams and companies in their high growth efforts.

You'll work with engineers, analysts, and exec staff to flesh out requirements, scope projects, and lead implementation and rollout. Ownership and accountability are core to how we build successful teams and as a Senior Software Engineer you will enjoy a high degree of autonomy as we continue building some of Boston's fastest growing startups.

Our team is about 8 people, all local to Cambridge. We're passionate about Golang + Kubernetes, improving as engineers, and helping our customers as much as possible.

Other jobs available, and you can apply directly via https://grnh.se/dko5gxn42
JavaScript Developer | TutorMundi | Florianópolis, SC or São Paulo, SP - Brazil | Onsite, Full-time

// Company

TutorMundi helps students get into the universities of their dreams. They are tutored through our app by the brightest students from the best universities of the country.

We're a small startup (I'm the only dev) that just found product market fit this year and closed a round of funding recently.

The company was founded in Silicon Valley and the team is here in Florianópolis, opening an office in São Paulo.

// Role

Full stack JavaScript! From the front end of the site and mobile app to the back end and database. You'll be actively involved in crucial product and growth decisions too.
Required languages:

- Portuguese

- English

- HTML/CSS

- JavaScript

More information in Portuguese: https://github.com/frontendbr/vagas/issues/1273

// To apply

To apply email contact@tutormundi.com or any questions to bart@tutormundi.com
Well, when I was working there, employee premiums where exactly 0, company picking up the entire tab, but I am quite sure that this stuff does happen.
I think it’s the laptops and, especially, smartphones. If it weren’t for YouTube and Twitch we’d find a different way of wasting time.
SADA Systems, Inc | Mid-level/Senior Cloud Engineer | Los Angeles Onsite

The Cloud Engineer will work with the respective leads of delivering Cloud projects. The immediate technical focus will be on Google Cloud Platform. This individual would be part of the larger cloud team within SADA Systems. This individual will be focused on projects such as microservices from monolithic architecture, data analytics/machine learning, and more.

More here: https://sadasystems.com/open-positions/?p=job%2FoZW57fwR
I'd agree that most companies do prefer email for support, but not for sales. That's my main hurdle. I'd like to find a way to communicate to leads that we don't have a sales staff, but I'm not entirely sure how to do that without sounding unprofessional, if that makes sense.
It's more than that. The previous owners didn't allow unfettered access to the beach. Sometimes the gate was closed. And when it was open they ran a for-pay parking lot.

And Khosla's dispute isn't just about access. He also wants to stop running the for-pay parking lot and restrict access to the sandy beach above the high tide line (which marks the border of his property with public land). His argument seems quite strong on these latter two points imho.
Failed ‘asylum-seekers’ set fire to cell in Vienna
Ask HN: How do you stay fresh on the basics of computer science?
I had an uncomfortable experience last week where I realized I'd forgotten the basics of condition variables (in particular, how to prevent the thundering herd problem). The week before, I had the problem of working out CIDR from first principles and made some basic mistakes before I got it right. I would like to refresh my basic knowlesdge periodically to keep things current and accessible, does anyone here do this and if so how do you do it? Do you retake courses? Do you reread textbooks? In your opinion is it worth spending the time to do this? I'd be relearning and refreshing 3 out of 4 years of my undegraduate course over the course of a year.
> I have absolutely no doubts that the most used language is JavaScript - considering nearly every website in existence relies on it.

You should have doubts because every website you look at is on a device that most likely has tons of parts written in C.

Pretty much any piece of hardware you run your browser on, irrespective of whether you're looking at a website that has javascript code or not, has some C code running to support your javascript VM, browser, and operating system.

Whether you're on a computer, cell phone, gaming console, IoT device, you name it... you're most likely executing some C code quite frequently. And that's whether you're using a browser or not.

C is still the go-to language (no pun intended) for pretty much all drivers (with certain parts in assembly as needed) of any piece of hardware.
When i was like 10, every time my parents were grocery shopping i'd walk into the (attached) video rental store and ask for specific copies of a couple games that were hard to get. To date myself, this was likely NES era.
When an extension has the ability to inject arbitrary JS into a page, it's not easy to determine whether any given request is being triggered by the host page or by the extension.
This seems like the kind of thing Apple should be offering on their own already. But ultimately you're not going to see many enterprises adopt an Apple-only MDM unless they just love vendor lock-in to the most expensive vendor.

Negativity aside, I applaud the effort. The MDM space is messy and crowded with bloated products. I hope these guys can at the very least pop the bubble a bit.
Supreme Court Refuses Billionaire Who Wanted to Turn People Away from CA Beach
> The funny thing is that I predict that this HN thread will lead hundreds of folks to tell stories of confirmation bias.

Confirmation bias looks like on-topic content, and often spurs copycat posts that look like engagement. It's one of the faster ways of growing the number next to your user name in the upper right, which causes a dopamine release in most users.
You're right, it certainly doesn't scale to infinity. For instance shifting the entire military spending onto IRS would be unwise. Unless we are okay with living in an IRS police state. :)
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Web Platform Engineering at PayPal.

Looking for those with a great javascript skillset (client / server-side). Comfortable with infrastructure and frameworks. Public cloud experience a plus.

Benefits:

- Great culture, Autonomy

- Scale

- Great health care, packages, equity, etc.

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"There are currently no vacancies at the Department."
Anthropic principle by itself suggests a mechanism. We know that with probability one there is life that can ask questions about antimatter. Yet the only known explanation for the lack of antimatter is an extremely unlikely fluctuation. But then to solve this probability mismatch one can assume that there many universes separated either in time or space or coexisting via, say, some wonder of quantum mechanics. Only in very few universes the matter dominates just by random accident. Which in turn suggests to look for signs of those other universes.
Not much of an artifact - during my BLAW101 I was told that in North America judges really don't like people intentionally dragging on cases, but can't do much about them other than give the innuendo of them raising white flag - something along lines "you babbled for 3 hours, for sure we have enough argument from you that the worst case scenario ruling is now out of the question"
I remember like SMB3 early on was hard to get, also rent, but aside from a handful of situations that always seemed to end pretty fast.
Let me turn around your sentences.

The US benefits probably far less from developing cutting-edge weaponry than from curing a deadly but rare health problem that kills a couple of hundred thousand people each year.

It should be noted that scientific programs like cancer immuno therapy involve both research in many fields of hard science and engineering, and generates demand for highly technical and highly specialized areas of expertise.

These scientific programs may not result in the next GPS but improve the lives of a whole lot of people (directly through treatment and indirectly through being paid) within the US.
OK, hang on, i'm with you that the initial redesign had less features, and was slower, but people forget that Google Maps used to have 2 buttons - Maps and Satelite view.
Then they added Terrain

Then they added a little Street View guy

By making a pullout hamburger menu on the side, they were able to add:
* Traffic
* Google earth/globe integration
* Notifications
* Location Sharing
* Your maps (used to be an entirely different site)
* Your contributions
* Your timelines
* Multiple sharing options
* Transit - including schedule exploring
* Bicycle - including topographical elevation changes

And that's before you get to languages, tours, tips and tricks, settings, history, and ability to provide missing data.

Oh and every location, with contact information, photos, and menus.

You don't have to like the design aesthetic, and you can complain that all these features made the product unusably slow, but the re-design was NECESSARY to add the new features.
I have done plenty of research and I couldn't find a solution to backup and restore an Android phone quickly without losing all kinds of data and settings.

I have used the built in backup to Google and noticed that restore takes many hours and a lot of apps lost data and settings. It took considerable effort to get back to normal. Definitely too much work to spend on my first day of vacation.

A burner phone may work but then you don't have access to all your data.
> I think the general complaint is that MBA's have very little knowledge about the businesses they run.

Most managers don't have a lot of deep technical understanding of the products that are part of their business, even if they have a very good understanding of the business.

Most engineers don't have a lot of understanding of the business their product is a part of, even if they have a deep technical understanding of the product.

That's why you don't ask engineers for business decisions, or business managers for technical decisions.

Role specialization exists for a reason.

> So an MBA might promise a new feature to a client without really knowing if it can be delivered in that timeframe or even if it is technically possible.

That doesn't have anything to do with MBA, or even the job. I've seen pretty much every single profession, from a cleaner, to a car mechanic, to a doctor, do exactly the same.

Beyond that, if that is happening in your organization, it is a sign of bad managers, and bad processes.
It's polite ribbing amongst work colleagues where an engineer at Cloudflare (@zackbloom) offers praise to a colleague (@kentonv) for a mighty project (libc replacement) and Cloudflare's CTO (@jgrahamc) jokes that the project isn't hardcore enough ;)

tldr; Appears very much an in-joke between work colleagues at Cloudflare :)
What is the difference between market interventions that correct imbalances due to past prejudices and forcible appropriation of resources from later generations to repay the debts of former generations?
Google gets into game streaming with Project Stream
Fair enough. s/go to sleep at a time/have sleeping habits/

Although I somehow doubt the parents' issue is their kids go to bed promptly at eleven but then insist on getting up at five in the morning.
Yes, they're not banning minified code, only obfuscated code. Read a bit further:

> Ordinary minification, on the other hand, typically speeds up code execution as it reduces code size, and is much more straightforward to review. Thus, minification will still be allowed
For those curious, inflation adjusted $3,000 in 1994 is $5,173.99 and the budget $995 HP would be $1,669.23.

Source: https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
TIOBE is, AFAICT, using a single web search engine (Google) and searching for a string representing the language like "C programming" or "Ruby programming", and taking a count of results. This favors languages that have a lot written about them due to age, or student interest, or whatever leads people to write a web page about a language.

It'd be interesting, and no more or less valid, to see how many paper books and ebooks have been sold on each.

GitHub takes count of the projects on its own site in each language, but that microcosm may not represent other places. Anecdotally, my employer runs private git repos on private servers, and our ratios don't match GitHub's.

Another interesting metric would be number of job openings. Another would be average pay for a developer mainly using a particular language. Another would be asking people in a scientific poll which languages they use and which ones they enjoy using.
>By the early 1920s, the company had succeeded in developing fully automatic electrical substations, and its engineers were looking for ways to improve them. One operator requested a way to call the substation system remotely and initiate a change in the normal operating routine. Thus was born Televox, a set of control units that started Westinghouse down the path to developing robots.

>Roy J. Wensley designed Televox to change switches in a substation in response to sounds it detected.

Alexa, change the power mode on the transformer #1.
"abuse its power" — that sounds more like a talking point than constructive comment.
> Just because he owns a VC firm doesn't mean he isn't a douchebag in real life.

In fact, that may be a key indicator that he might be a douchebag. Though to me the more likely indicator is his involvement with real estate, which has been a pretty consistent tell in my experience.
The cost to citizenry aren't on the IRS's books so that's not relevant to them, and corruption also doesn't automatically follow increased funding.
In 1997 I upgraded my Yamaha SCSI CDR from 2x to 4x just by soldering out a 0R SMD resistor.
It makes me laugh when my banks fraud department calls me and then asks me to verify myself to them by giving personal information before asking me questions. I usually laugh at them and tell them they they are the unverified party in this phone call, not me.

I always pull up the website and confirm before telling them anything.
With 5G it won't
CustomCrimp, a Continental AG Company | Valparaiso, IN | Full-time | Sr. Systems Software Engineer | https://www.continental-corporation.com/en

We are searching for software engineer to join dynamic team to design and develop industry leading cloud connectivity platform and the next generation, intelligent, could-based controller. You will join the team build CrimpIQ and CrimpCloud.

Continental’s CrimpIQ™ controller is the next generation, intelligent, cloud-based controller for industrial equipment. CrimpCloud® is an industry leading cloud connectivity platform. These technologies work together to provide software updates, full device backup and track historical data wirelessly.

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• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• 3-5 years’ experience building quality software using modern programming languages
• A history of releasing successful products/applications on the App Store, Google Play Store or via the web
• Strong communication and documentation skills
Job Responsibilities
• Work on all parts of this product - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbw716NsIVQ
• Develop, test, deploy, and continually improve CrimpIQ and CrimpCloud
• Manage project priorities and deliverables, ensure on time delivery
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Technologies We Use:

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What's Next:

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Any questions, happy to answer in this thread or at Cameron.Banga@customcrimp.com, or @cameronbanga on Twitter.
By 1998, when I got my first external CD burner, a parallel port external 2x burner was $400 and discs were relatively cheap.

I was burning on a Gateway Solo laptop with a 200Mhz CPU.
Straw Buyer – Or How I Got Blacklisted by Jaguar, Mercedes, and Porsche
Oh hey there, you're in our building! We're on the bottom floor, Second Street. :)
Moreover, Apple is deprecating legacy Safari Extensions now and pushing developers to transition to Safari App Extensions – which are offered through traditional Mac apps via the Mac App Store.

More here - https://9to5mac.com/2018/06/09/safari-12-extensions-more/

It's another headache for us. So far we did not find any good step-by-step article on how to do it.
Why do people on twitter do these long text "threads" for writeups?
Can the Electricity System at the Heart of Europe Really Fail?
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Would love to learn more about the Technical PM role, but don't see it on your jobs page.
I concur on the malloc sentiment.
"What people don't understand about my job is that chances are you are not the person I'm examining. I examine doctors who expense three Cadillacs, insurance brokers who claim jet skis for business use only, and real estate agents who haven't paid taxes in eight years. The public doesn't realize that tax auditors are the only people between a balanced effective tax rate among all social classes and the bourgeoisie stealing what isn't bolted down. Don't kid yourself; these people are stealing from you. This money helps pay for schools, roads and with any luck can keep mortgage interest deduction alive for a few more years. I read a report on NPR that Italy has 40% of its population evading taxes. Imagine our debt crisis if we had the same problem. (Our tax evasion rate is estimated between 8-18%).

So if you're one of those "Joe the Plumber" people who take time out of work to throw teabags at me on my way into the office in the morning: You are the middle class! I'm helping you!"

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/09/what-pe...
Also, the full name was "Nero Burning ROM". It came from a German company, and Rome is spelled Rom in German.
Correct. Not so much an in-joke. I was just surprised Zack thought implementing your own libc was amazing. But I'm an old fart C/assembly programmer so YMMV.
Rule of thumb: Don't attend grad school unless somebody else is paying for it.
I've always wondered if decreasing the budget of the IRS enables political money laundering. Since there is less auditing of suspicious accounts, there is more room for nefarious activity.