skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IBM won't grow, says analyst firm while eyeing flatlining share price
Let's say Bloomberg did its due-diligence is telling the truth. That doesn't mean Apple here can't also be telling the truth as they see it. Bloomberg could have spoken to a few select individuals who shared things only they knew. I don't see any reason they couldn't have kept this hidden from others, allowing the upper management plausible deniability. These people lower on the totem pole could report to the government, and upper management could deny all day long.

Couple this with my own personal experience with Apple sharing personal data it had no right to share, and the fact that only a single person signed this letter, and Bloomberg still not backing down, Apple has a way to go. They could start by having every person would would remotely be involved with something like this (from top to bottom) signing a legally binding letter attesting that Bloomberg's story is not true. Until you have this, it only takes one individual who hid something from Seniors to make this true.
Note that the author of the tweet you're linking also believes that these reporters were being honest about what sources were telling them.
Apple wants you to share your public beta links. Now go find those testers
TypeScript has been very helpful in our react projects. There isn't much clutter, as usually the only types you define are props and state – things you want to know anyway.

TypeScript doesn't prevent any bugs that tests would not, but it does so faster and more concisely.

Tooling slowdown depends on your tooling setup; TypeScript can compile JSX on its own.

PropTypes are useful if you're transitioning from a plain JS codebase. But if you can start with and go full TS, I highly recommend going that route.
I'm no optics expert, but considering the large width of the emission spectra of LEDs (https://www.comsol.com/blogs/calculating-the-emission-spectr...) and OLEDs (https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/exploiting-the-poten...), I'd say it's physically impossible to block their light to any acceptable degree of specificity.
Not sure what you're arguing. If you use numpy and pandas properly, most of your computations happen in optimized C routines.

So you will write Python, but get very good resource (both time and space) efficiency.
What is the chinese pin theory?
Is this the name being used for the supposedly embedded on the PCB layers chip?
Or the one that attaches on unpopulated pins/pads near the BMC memory area?
Sometimes it's sad to see these also-ran phones and tablets. So much work, time, money with so little payoff. Android has stagnated so much it's really not worth it anymore.
Reliability That Works (2018)
Thanks for the links here, I'll check out Sparkpost in addition to SendGrid. Didn't realize Sparkpost was the sanctioned escape hatch from Mandrill's own blog postings.

Also I mean "absorption" because at some point Mailchimp required Mandrill users to start using Mailchimp credentials to log in. Even though they were the same company ultimately, the transition felt like an extremely sloppy acquisition!
Yeah, the downvotes are a bit harsh :-)

The only reason I know about the area is that lots of banks I have worked for have "Near Shore" tech centres there - Deutsche, Credit Suisse, etc.
If Super Micro goes under and we discover this story was massively incorrect, can they sue for the lost market value? If so, this may cost bloomberg billions.
> I really like Sundar, he comes off as a pretty authentic

Authentic? Perhaps to you he comes across that way. Far from it he feels to me. He seems just... well, thoughtful, I guess. To the point that he clearly insults the intelligence of the company’s employees.
10M text-only 4chan threads dating from 2006-2008
Optical notch filters do exist, but LEDs are not notch emitters[0].

[0]https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/149683/do-st...
NYC and LA, yes, of course (both are larger and more expensive). Maybe Miami? Miami seems like a metro area that specializes in nightlife. But Boston? Why would you think Boston was better in that regard? Move there and report back, please.
Ask HN: How can you tell fear from useful gut feeling?
This is a broad question, but I'll give you an example based on my situation:
I'm working with a client as IT/marketing consultant.
I've had a strange feeling about it since day one, but it's my main source of revenue and I ignored it.

In this project I'm also stretching my capabilities - I'm doing some things I've never done before, I want to grow as a professional so I thought the gut feeling was just fear of getting out of my comfort zone.

Now I'm torn: the strange feeling is growing by the day, and I'm not sure whether it's because I don't know whether I can deliver on some objectives or because I don't like my relationship with the client.

Do you have any key questions you ask yourself in this case? Any useful advice?
Thanks.
> They're already on the hook for an enormous liability if it's true

Correct, but this liability would (most probably) be based on showing some kind of negligence.

> so lying about it isn't really the worst option if there's even a small chance it avoids the issue

Deliberately lying about it would be fraud. Getting caught
with that would dramatically increase the liability.

Since you used the VW example: do you really think it would have cost VW something around the order of $30bn if some foreign power had manipulated their emissions test without their knowledge? Or that executives would have been arrested?

> After seeing what VW did with emissions, I wouldn't say any huge corporate cover-up

This isn't a cover-up, though. This is Apple expressly addressing the issue, and categorically denying every part of it. To everyone, up to and including Congress, no less.
Parents would pay. I'm a parent and have already paid for services to help me manage my kids phone addiction
Agreed. I've switched out my complicated GitHub+S3+CloudFront+Cloudflare for static hosting to Netlify. Netlify also handles some of the stuff you don't even think about - e.g. partial deploy failure. With my past scripts I might push `index.html`, lose network, error out, etc, and not push the updated `assets/blah.css`.

They also have Functions https://www.netlify.com/features/functions/ for dynamic content, but I haven't worked with those, yet.
Self Defense Classes:  Today's Offer in West Sacrement
It's uh... pretty obvious that occasionally the mods will kick stuff they like to the front page to mix it up a bit. If you observe the new page you can occasionally see them do it.
If you or your organization uses Google Apps, then for now you aren't yet forced to switch. At least that's been my experience. I'm not sure whether the rollout just hasn't made it to my domain yet, or an actual setting is controlling it.
You know this whole time I’ve been wondering that if this is true, I see some manufacturing coming back to the US. But I completely missed the part where China also makes stuff for the rest of the world and other countries might also be pulling manufacturing back to their home countries. Sometimes it’s just easy to stay focused in. Your comment made me take a step back and look at the bigger picture.
Reminds me of this tweet:

SOCIALIST: late capitalism has created a moral rot that pervades our entire society
NEOLIBERAL: but imagine if we monetized the rot

https://twitter.com/trillburne/status/750721471157198848?lan...
Quite some time unless we develop a radically cheaper and more reliable way to develop OLED screens at scale.
Stop hiring for culture fit: 4 ways to get the talent you want
Neither of you explained in layman terms what they actually do.
Here's one study on the subject:

https://www.air.org/system/files/downloads/report/Delta-Cost...

The table on page 11 summarizes the story. The big consistent increases in spending are on student services and academic support.

The growth in spending on student services covers a lot of things. One big chunk is explained by the trend toward organizing and professionalizing things that were historically handled in a sort of ad-hoc manner by a student's academic advisor, sometimes by the Greek system, or by nothing at all: Career counseling and networking, academic advising, mental health services, stuff like that. Another big chunk is non-academic, non-instructional activities like student clubs and athletics. I believe advertising costs also tend to get lumped in under the "student services" budget item.

Academic support is stuff that's related, but maybe not quite so directly student facing: Dean's offices, instructional material development, the IT department, stuff like that.
Didn't one of Bloomberg's own technical sources do an interview on Risky.biz yesterday about how flawed the story was, and release letters they sent to Bloomberg after reading the story complaining about it?
Checkpoint Nation: Immigration authorities extend their reach into the interior
OK so this is a different hack than Bloomberg reported before: ethernet jack piggyback instead of bmc. I'm not sure this adds credibility to the allegations in the other story.

The details that Bloomberg related previously are so different that this couldnt be what they originally were reporting on. This adds to the China hacking server board narrative, but it does nothing to prove the Bloomberg reporting actually true.

It does cast doubt on the denials made previously.

It seems this story isn't totally smoke and mirrors as Apple, Amazon and Super Micro seem to want us to believe.
Cool, but he's not maintaining the Corvette, he's running it into the ground.
There are a lot of these comments as the result of bad science writing copy on the wired article.
Better to be the ones censoring over a billion internet users than to miss out on that sweet sweet profit

lol if any of these employees think they will be protected from the repercussions of doing this. I would never hire or want to work with someone with such cheap morals
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Hi, I'm Francis. I'm looking for a software engineering role. I started my own company, GrowPro where I worked on developing firmware to sense biometrics in a cannabis' plants environment ,a RESTful API, image classifier, analysis engine, and an iOS application which ties this all together.

I've been a consultant to multiple startups where I have provided services in backend development, mainly developing RESTful APIs and deploying these applications to sustain high volume traffic using AWS Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, cloudfront, and Elastic Load balancing. I released an iOS application called SetGov into production in 2017. I'm currently working on an open source NPM package called Jiff-MPC.
The grass is always greener on someone else's lawn. But the mold is always greener on someone else's bread, too. That is, there are people better off than you, and there are people worse off than you. But when people post to Facebook, they post the picture of the green lawn, not the green bread...
Thanks! Yes, deciding how to define whether you know something or not wasn't easy. Eventually I settled on "uniquely identify" and I'm happy you understood it correctly -- it's not enough just to have heard of somebody or something, but you need to be able to name one (any) unique fact about them.
Sounds like the Ethernet connector module was not from the, ahem, correct manufacturer: “Appleboum said one key sign of the implant is that the manipulated Ethernet connector has metal sides instead of the usual plastic ones. The metal is necessary to diffuse heat from the chip hidden inside, which acts like a mini computer. "The module looks really innocent, high quality and 'original' but it was added as part of a supply chain attack," he said.”
Google+ users, upset over data leak, sue Google
I think what people forget, or don't really consider, is that a third of the human race alive today is a monthly active user of Facebook. Yes, they're doing well.
> "Finger me for my public key".

Double entendre, or unix geek obliviousness?
haha! nice
and if it is correct?
Ceres might have tilted over onto its side
Check out who's behind icestorm, and compare that with who's behind symbiflow.
From Why Haven't We Met Any Aliens http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/why_we_havent_met_an...

"I suggest a different, even darker solution to the Paradox. Basically, I think the aliens don’t blow themselves up; they just get addicted to computer games. They forget to send radio signals or colonize space because they’re too busy with runaway consumerism and virtual-reality narcissism. They don’t need Sentinels to enslave them in a Matrix; they do it to themselves, just as we are doing today. Once they turn inwards to chase their shiny pennies of pleasure, they lose the cosmic plot. They become like a self-stimulating rat, pressing a bar to deliver electricity to its brain’s ventral tegmental area, which stimulates its nucleus accumbens to release dopamine, which feels…ever so good."
Not the post you were replying to, but one of our biggest gripes while trying to work around Mandrill outages was the lack of idempotency keys in their API. Presumed uptime improvements aside, what does SendGrid provide in terms of idempotent requests?
This seems different than the extra chip attack according to the article.
"subsequent physical inspection revealed an implant built into the server’s Ethernet connector"
Reddit has always been social media, unless you're thinking of a different definition of it?
It pretty clearly states that the first prototype used a film that selectively filters out just the frequencies of light used by RGB displays, but that they're doing the production run using the much, much cheaper horizontal polarization trick. It wasn't bad science writing, because that film really does exist. There are in fact a wide variety of these films for every conceivable use. The most common might well be the hydrogen-alpha film that every astronomer has used.
Breaking: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/evidence-hacked-supermicro-ha...
This is a library that I've used before to handle some complicated animation: https://github.com/joshwcomeau/react-flip-move

No longer actively maintained, though, so you might want to check out https://github.com/aholachek/react-flip-toolkit instead.
I thought I would roll my own side gig once. The plan was to find broken cars on Craigslist and fix them for a profit. We're talking things like needs an engine or a transmission. I could do maybe ten a year. I'd be keeping a car out of the junk yard (which I imagine is good for GDP in a very small way) and making a very modest profit of $10,000/yr if I was lucky.

Well it turns out that is HIGHLY regulated. You need a dealers license which means you need a building to act as the place of business (can't be your residence), the business has to have $75,000 in assets or you have to get bonded. You have to pay insurance. You need signage. You, of course, have to pay taxes on everything. Basically by the time everyone takes their little piece there's nothing left for you.

I think this happens in any industry. It gets regulated to the point of a normal person not being able to participate. You dont own a bakery, you work for the bakery. You don't own a corner store, you work at Walmart.

What I see is a lot of closed doors yet we still act like they're open. They aren't real options anymore. So what are the real options?
We’ve started Solo, an open source security key for two-factor auth. It’s cool because it’s the first to be open and support the newest FIDO2 standard.

We worked for about 2 months on a kickstarter that launched last Wed and is going beyond expectations! If we reach 10K backers, this will be the most backed security product on Kickstarter... for an open source product that’d be a dream coming true!

https://solokeys.com/kickstarter
Today I learned that tau/4 radians is a much smarter sounding way of writing 90*. Of course it takes up more space, and isn’t any more precise, so I’ll probably never remember or choose to use it. At least I won’t have to google it again the next time someone smarter than me writes it!
How seventeenth-century sisters broke the mould on scientific illustration
The Fetch API and asynchronous redux state
It's an opportunity— not sure it's a market opportunity.
I'm interested in this solution, and hadn't even heard of this ios app. Maybe you were reaching wrong markets?
Reusable Assertions
So which company is the "major U.S. telecommunications company"?
This article talks about something elsewhere entirely than the original one, and unrelated to the BMC.
ETHletter – set up the price for incoming emails [beta]
ETHletter is a mail service - like Gmail, Yahoo mail or any other. But there's one big difference - during the email creation, you can set up the price for 1 incoming email (in Ethers, fiat money will be available soon). So, anyone who sends you an email needs to pay to you.

All the transfers are implemented within the Ethereum blockchain. No tokens - only Ethers are used. The Ethers are transferring directly to your address, right after the payment is confirmed by the miners. If the sender doesn't have enough funds/don't know about ETHletter - don't worry, we will respond him with the instructions and description. The sender doesn't need to sign up at the ETHletter service - he just needs to top up his balance with one click.

You can easily use ETHletter within the web-interface. Or you can set up your favorite mail client - Thunderbird, Outlook, etc. Also, you can set up the email forwarding, so you don't even need to use your ethletter email directly.

The service is free, no limits on emails or any other pitfalls
https://app.ethletter.com
Things were good for EB1 till 2008. Then, EB1 was abused by the so-called managers of outsourcing companies: every project manager, team lead, etc, got green cards on EB1, by showing how exceptional they were. Immigration caught up with this game by complaints by other applicants. That's why there is a lot of scrutiny.
2018 iPad Pro details leak
> I'd grant that there's two distinct audiences: one who's familiar with the codebase already and has to read these symbols but knows what they mean, and one who's new to the code. I think your point only works for the former and doesn't help the latter at all.

With the exception of the "i" (possibly inverse?), the rest of the parts seem like things you would very quickly become familiar with after a short period of looking at the code and reading up on the subject matter (both of which would be required if you wanted to contribute or port).

I guess having names that are immediately understandable to any fresh reader with zero domain knowledge is a noble goal, but it's a high bar.

It's not a perfect function name (you've pointed out some other, valid, problems) but it's far from being objectively bad.
AllThingsXR AR/VR podcast
There were tons of happy vegans at East Wind last time I was there.

For common meals, East Wind wasn’t quite as on top of the wide variety of dietary preferences people express as Twin Oaks was last time I checked, but vegans are most definitely welcome.
Shares are worthless unless you can convert them to something. If the company is not public or doesn't have a secondary market, you're just getting paper money that you can never spend. Morale will definitely tank once people figure that out.
Hi guys, My first post here :)

I wanted to introduce my recent podcast project AllThingsXR. In this podcast I talk with the biggest names in AR/VR field such as Paul Reynolds CEO of Torch3D, Tom Emrich partner at SuperVentures and AWE organizer, Martin Herdina CEO of Wikitude, Shel Israel etc.

You can access all the episodes at AllThingsXR.com , Hope you enjoy it :)

Thanks
For others who would like to know: Mozart died at 35.

From Wikipedia:

The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died on 5 December 1791 at the age of 35. The circumstances of his death have attracted much research and speculation. Some principal sources of contention are as follows.

* Whether Mozart declined gradually, experiencing great fear and sadness, or whether he was fundamentally in good spirits toward the end of his life, then felled by a relatively sudden illness. The former hypothesis was accepted for most of the history of Mozart biography, but the latter has been advanced by contemporary scholars.

* The actual cause of his death: whether it was from disease or poisoning. The poisoning hypothesis is widely discredited. If a particular disease was the actual cause of death, then it remains unknown; only plausible conjectures can be offered.

* His funeral arrangements, and whether they were the normal procedures for his day, or if they were of a disrespectful nature. Modern scholarship generally supports the view that the funeral arrangements were normal for Mozart's time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wolfgang_Amadeus_Moza...
None of that detracts my point. The company's pre-existing financial standing is not a suitable defense for loosening the standards of due diligence in journalism. If you're in a store and you break an item that was already scratched, you don't get a pass.
I am one of the handful of people to use a white background in my terminals. A significant amount of coloured output is illegible to me.

I would suggest these rules for using default coloured output:

1. Don't.

2. Really, don't. Bold is fine, though!

3. (experts only) Make sure the colour scheme works with white-on-black, black-on-white, white-on-navy (for powershell), and Monokai/Solarized/whatever the flavour of the month for insecure hipsters is.

If you use colours, by default or not, make it really easy to configure the colours, so people can make it work with their terminal's colour scheme.
I think this is a pretty good argument in favor of any large enough corporation having its mission become corrupted over time. It is impossible to maintain a certain employee culture over decades of employee turnover and growth, doubly so if you have public shareholders.
Brexit warning: EU's inaction could hit £41tn derivatives market