skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cost and risk banks take to ensure that US citizens comply with US law is absurdly draconian. It is massively safer for a bank to simply deny participation than to risk fines and expulsion from the global financial system that would effectively cripple it. Banks and other businesses globally are forced to become extensions of the US government without receiving funding to do so.

This is economic warfare. The United States is a great place and the people are amazing (as people have been everywhere I've travelled), but the institutions have essentially enslaved the population and strong-armed the rest of the world.

Thankfully, it ends soon with internal reform or collapse under its own paranoia and resource-intensive policing. I'm expecting this within a decade and am hopeful that it is the former.
There's a lot in its existence's justification that does...
It's a very jarring user experience when every link I click opens a new window and goes through 3 redirects before the article loads. The user should control where content loads, not the page. If I want it in a new window, I'll right click and choose "Open in new window".
Adding to this, once you quit/get fired you will want to get checked for mental health problems immediately. I quit a similar situation and entered a 6-8 month depression cycle where I couldn't even get out of bed some days. Also drained my savings since I wasn't working.
> blockchain reporter

I wonder if the general public has as negative a connotation of blockchain reporter as I assume most HN readers do.[1]

1: Even if you're bullish on blockchains, I don't think it's a stretch to say that blockchains reporters are not unfamiliar with overhyping news.
For what it's worth, I also consider the base "gameplay" pattern important, official "mod" tools: crafting, redstone, etc. The variety of things done with just those simple tools, no Java, rivals a lot of stuff done with "mods" to past games; don't discount it simply because it's done entirely within the ruleset of the "game" itself. Minecraft is this generation's ZZT.
My project stream was perfect for 2 hours, then was completely unplayable for the 10 minutes until I quit. I'm not sure what happened, but I've gone back once or twice and have horrible input lag. I'm using ethernet and get 350MB/s, but google says the issue is packet loss. I don't know how to remedy it, but I know that game streaming is and seemingly always will be just around the corner from perfect.

Edit - it was absolutely stunning to see my accepted email, login to google and ubisoft, and be playing within 5 minutes. Zero download time, zero load time, just instant gaming.
Of course they aren't in the same category. I wrote them in increasing intensity. But all of them happen more frequently than a lot of men think.

This has nothing to do with being attractive. Ask a bunch of your female friends how many of them started getting catcalls at age 12. You might be surprised.
It depends on the company. For some companies, the PM is responsible for "what" should be built and "how" (functional how) it will behave. Developers then try to implement the PM's "how" and then there's a back and forth between Dev and PM. For example, Dev might say - there's a better way to achieve this but it will change the functional behavior; or if we implement what you want, the page load time will be slow so is it OK if we do it this other way...

At the end of the day, the PM's focus is - how will the average user use this product, what does the average user expect this product to do. That is generally not Dev's focus. Dev's focus is typically - what is the best way to get this done so that application loads quickly, doesn't place undue stress on the server, etc. Sometimes, Dev doesn't pay attention to how the UI looks, they just care that the code runs efficiently
Ed Sheeran paid more in tax last year than both Starbucks and Amazon
My understanding is sexual harassment is aggressive, in a way that goes beyond confidence or assertiveness. I suppose it feels like being in a fight in a way. Most fights don't have lasting consequences, most fights occur in environments or cultures where they're almost excused in a way, but if somebody wants to fight you, and even if somebody wants to fight you in an environment that's normally very sober, such as your office, you tend to know it. (And depending on your relative sizes and prior levels of acquaintance, it will make you uneasy).
Well hopefully that's the exception and not the rule. I mean you end up needing the VIN for everything (which was news to me but mine didn't change). My delivery pickup was great with the exception of sitting in the waiting room for a half hour to get my car. During my delivery date they had 100 deliveries scheduled.
The Aurora handbook strongly recommends using these techniques, or using a connection proxy if connection pools won't work for your situation. Having too many connections can cause your Aurora instances to scale up as well, limiting database performance, and leaving you with hundreds more instances than you want to pay for.

https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/RDS/amazon-aurora-conne...
Peanut Gallery definition:

"A peanut gallery was, in the days of vaudeville, a nickname for the cheapest and ostensibly rowdiest seats in the theater, the occupants of which were often known to heckle the performers." (Wikipedia CC-SA, via Google)

That's a new one on me.
This seems like a bullshit solution imo. From the perspective of females, the solution to an industry having problems is not to create some safe haven. It's to fix the industry. From the perspective of males who aren't bad actors, a 'female friendly' silo creates inverse selection. We want a level playing field for all parties, not a safe haven.
ever searched for a job in AI? They ALL (at least in Europe) want senior developers with 5-8 years experience in all sort of areas and no junior AI devs. Anybody is offering AI jobs (international) for people who got out of college and specialized in that? Looking for my brother, he is specialized in AI and looking for months for an AI job in Germany.
Older.

I strongly prefer the aesthetic of Win9x, Mac OS 8/9, and NeXTSTEP to what's popular today.

In fact, I use QtCurve on my desktop to get pretty close to that aesthetic for any KDE/Qt programs I use.
How do you become one? I always assumed Product Managers should be former engineers, but looks like business folks have taken over it. I am not a good engineer but I really excel at production. In fact, what keeps me employed is the fact that I can see an idea through almost every time.

But whenever I look at PM jobs, I have exactly zero qualifications for them.

Not to mention the interview process is much, much easier and in fact most of the jobs you apply to does not need a "LeetCode grind" but confidence in your prior experience.
> This only becomes an issue once you need more hosts than the /8 offered by the 10/8 RFC1918 network, but the days when you need (and can afford) more than 16.7M nodes on a cloud computing provider are probably still a ways off.

It's not that you require more than a /8 can provide, it's more a function of convenience. I have 10 customers, each one of those has 4 environments (Dev, QA, Stage, Prod) and each of these environments need to live in 3 regions, and each region has 3 AZs, and each AZ has 6 subnets. Splitting that up with a 10.0.0.0/8 gets complicated. I would much rather say 2006:abcd:0001:::: is customer A, ::0002::: is customer B, etc. IPv6 gives me plenty of room to maneuver and eliminates the need to worry about IP exhaustion.
Asking for a Premarital Settlement
The Dark Ages never lacked for philosophical or scientific advances. What really defines the Dark Ages is a splintered Europe lacking a relatively cohesive identity and political structure by which ideas and goods could more freely travel. The speed of exchange is what accelerated advancement.[1]

The real question is whether and to what extent do shared identity and political structures matter in the Information Age. We're about to find out, not just in Brexit but as conservatives everywhere systematically dismantle the post-WWII order.

[1] If it accelerated at all. Again, the Dark Ages seem muddy because there's no singular historical narrative that can be articulated. Because we don't articulate a narrative, we tend to assume the period lacked an historical arc, and in particular lacked an arc of progression.
I was surprised to learn as a grown damn man this past week that Democracy, capital letter political system, was designed and architected to be a more stable political system less prone to systemic ripples, rather than a system designed for the people to govern themselves.

"For the people, by the people" is basically a marketing slogan.

Note that I'm not passing judgement on whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, just that it is, and that I didn't realize it until now.
This sounds like a high-tech, low-effectiveness solution. A lawyer reaches out and discusses their options? That’s easy. 1) take some kind of legal action, get outgunned by wealthy VC, blacklisted by VC community as a litigious founder, tank your startup with distractions. Or 2) keep quiet.

The real solution if YC wants to use their top-of-food-chain position is to name, shame, ban these investors from YC invites, and - most importantly - target their LPs. No need for a tech platform. I make no judgement as to whether that is appropriate or something YC wants to undertake.
on one level, yes

on another, they're down right scary and overwhelming, or at least dumbfounding and perplexing

..thinking specifically about The Humane Representation of Thought https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agOdP2Bmieg I had to stop it half way through.. :-/

see also Seeing Spaces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klTjiXjqHrQ and Media for Thinking the Unthinkable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUaOucZRlmE
The biggest one for me was when I realized that it isn't just that it happens to lots of women. It happens to lots of women a lot of times. I know people who have been harassed by professionals (teachers, doctors, etc) a dozen times.
What rent? We actually own our house ;)
Except they're going backwards this time.

First they said, "exposure of information from nearly 50 million of its users" and now it's "directly affected 29 million people on the social network".

John Gruber claimed the same thing a couple weeks ago:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/09/28/facebook-hack

Surprisingly quiet this time since it doesn't fit the narrative he wanted.
Granted the Venezuela example was a bad example of a legal use. Everything else stands though.
Most companies still have a very hard time building a good machine learning pipeline.
One thing that really stings here is that only the past few years have OS vendors, library vendors and so on started paying attention to how people use their crap to build things, and so software written / custom sites developed before that awakening are often flawed because the developers tried their best but weren't experts and weren't given the opportunity to ask for "You know, good security, whatever that is at the moment?" but had to pick specific values for things they didn't understand, including protocol versions, ciper suites, key lengths, trusted roots...

For example, in Python you can ask for a specific TLS version ("Oooh, TLS 1.1 just came out, let's use that") or you can ask for what it calls "SSLv23" which means any protocol in the SSL/ TLS family whatsoever. But only in very recent 3.x Python releases can you easily specify "Um, anything above TLS 1.0 is OK?" even though that is clearly both more useful AND more likely to result in the software working as intended in future.

In fact, software developers reading this: You probably didn't implement TLS yourself (OK, the six smug people thinking "Yes I did", this isn't for you, you've already read and perhaps written similar rants before). TLS 1.3 was finished earlier this year. How many programs that you wrote more than six months ago are you sure will "just work" with TLS 1.3 if the relevant libraries or OS features are upgraded to support it? How many do you think will tell the library/ OS/ framework/ whatever "Oh, no, I definitely want TLS 1.2" even though actually it wants security, and TLS 1.3 would improve that?
Companies around the world are building, shipping and supporting products simultaneously.

Really confused why Tesla can't do the same.
Meanwhile, the EPA is kicking academic scientists off advisory panels in this area, and replacing the panels with a small group consisting entirely of industry scientists and government officials from conservative state and local governments.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/10/14...
The scaling issue is close to solved - there are a number of rival solutions, time will tell what wins out. There are other issues though such as money laundering regulations.
Is there a reason you can't just pick up a book today and immerse yourself into it to learn? What book would you recommend someone read, if they wanted to self study?
You can use the regular NSLayoutConstraints.activate() API, or you can set it back to true.

Also, notice that translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints will only be set on the view which you call `layout` on. I.e. this is bogus:

self.contentView.layout { make in
make.left.equal(self.otherView)
}

But this is “fine”:

self.otherView.layout { make in
make.left.equal(self.contentView)
}

Of course now you’re relying on implementation details of SnapKot/Masonry/whatever.

I personally just use the built-in anchor APIs with a few helpers (e.g. to create constraints to match all 4 edges of two views). In swift you have operator+ for arrays, so NSLayoutConstraints.activate(...) can be pretty succint this way.
> Last number I heard, 6 million. I'm one of them. State department last said there was an estimated 9 million. I've also heard 3 million. So, 6. lol.

Put another way, the number of US citizens living outside the US is somewhere between the population of Iowa (the 30th most populous state) and New Jersey (11th), with the middle of that range being approximately Massachusetts (15th). It's more than the combined population of the 5 - 10 (median: 8) least populous states that elect 10-20% of the US senate.

Sadly, the political power of that constituency is seriously diluted. Voting is a pain in the ass, and if you have never lived in the US and your parents are from the wrong state you're shit out of luck; there's no way to even register to vote.

Of course, Puerto Rico (and other territories like Guam, American Samoa, VI, CNMI) are the real injustices - Puerto Rico would be the 29th most populous state, but even US citizens who move there from other parts of the US lose their rights to vote in federal elections. Because they're still resident in the US. Infuriating.

Sooner or later, the malapportionment of the US senate is going to tear the country apart. Again.
But the only people who could afford to pay it then would be the (relatively) wealthy.
Also from Tom Scott: "I know what you did five minutes ago"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYVBshcN7wU
Startups can be a good opportunity to jump into the deep end of product management. Startups tend to appreciate engineering backgrounds more than business backgrounds in my experience. On the other hand, startups have a much higher risk of failure in general.

Inside bigger companies, the key is to demonstrate progressively more ownership and leadership over time. If your boss mentions an idea or critical need, put together a proposal for how you would accomplish it. Take ownership of difficult projects and knock them out of the park. Get good at concise reporting and presentation skills, because communication is 50% of the job.
Google Has Announced Cloud Identity for Customers and Partners
You may well be right. I'm not qualified to say.
NAT is the devil. RFC1918 is the devil. Want to filter inbound traffic? It's called a firewall.
I don't think Mojang ever tried to actively stop the mod community like, say, Rockstar did. I would say Minecraft does have modding support in the sense that the installation files are an open book, inviting unlimited modding opportunities for anyone who wants to tinker.
The U.S. didn't create slavery, and hasn't had it for over a century. BTW, slavery STILL exists in many of those parts of the world.

If you see the US as the most evil country that has ever existed, you are either ignorant, stupid or a fool. Personally, I'd much rather see the U.S. withdraw a significant amount of military support throughout the world. Let 'em all burn. But that does very little to help anyone.

Communist and Muslim genocidal actions have killed far more than the US ever has. And while the U.S. drone strikes over the past two decades are imho deplorable, they still don't come close.
Well, Facebook also has to store those, in order for 2FA to work. The point is, Facebook collected all of the data that was leaked for legitimate purposes, and the OP who implied they should just not have collected it is wrong.

Facebook should have also designed their auth system more carefully, but that's a separate issue.
It doesn't have to be perfect- it just has to be profitable. And the increased control a streaming service will have over users guarantees that game streaming with be outrageously profitable.

Think of all the basic ways we already see services make money- from the subscription, to metered access, to congestion pricing, early access fees- and those are only the basics. This is an industry that figured out the loot crate, after all.

On a different note, once the profitability is figured out, publishers can give direction to developers that games need to be designed around the latency, or whatever issue appears. Games can also be designed around the assumption that they'll be streamed, allowing things to be a lot more cross platform.
The president of the united states has multiple sexual assault allegations against him. Clearly an allegation is not enough to destroy a career.
I am considering citizenship options for the same reasons - access to financial instruments that US institutions such as the SEC prohibit, despite some of those instruments being far better than can be obtained domestically.

It can be difficult to achieve but the optimal situation is to be a citizen of a minimal or tax-free country, reside in a separate country and do business or work in a third.

Treating countries/governments like companies that have to vie for your business is a perspective that helps protect oneself and family.
Fixed with fonts work well when you are using the alt key to work with multiple lines of code at once. This is especially helpful in the middle ground where the lines of code are similar enough that one can easily use a pattern but the extent needed to be written with that pattern doesn't justify creating some tool to automate writing the code.
He wasn't talking about the field of the women, but of the harassers. Yes it does changes things if the harassers are primarily non-STEM, given this is Hacker News. What are we supposed to do about the culture outside our field?
Everyone focuses on car production volume while completely ignoring the battery production & solar panel production volumes. Tesla is more of a battery company than a car company. In that regard their products always have waiting lists and are certainly very profitable. Their car business is simply a way to increase demand for their batteries.
Google Ads demographic targeting
But an S-curve approaching an asymptote won't.
This article is from 2016. The title should be updated to reflect that.
Vim Tutorial: How to Use Multiple Vim Registers and Windows
‘Hyperalarming’ study shows massive insect loss
Not that there would be a lot of these, but how are they managing fake/false reports? Is that even possible while maintaining privacy?
I would have expected an S-curve with an inflexion point at 50% but it seems to have already happened. We will probably have IPV4 for a long time.
I think the time has come for a The Wire reboot. Anyone else?

Edit: Downvotes, why? The Wire was a critically acclaimed series whose major themes included abuse of power, the use of technology to both surveil and evade surveillance, perverse incentives, and failure of institutions, among other things that are as relevant as ever in the post-Snowden era. But instead of pagers and burners we'd get tech circa 2018.
The answer: talk about how much your making - write the number down and publish it.

The whole cultural bias against talking about how much money one makes has to go away - it serves no one except the people writing checks.
Fools
someone replied with an actual study, "The Groupon Effect on Yelp Ratings: A Root Cause Analysis"

https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.2369
It leads to the supply for any given experience level >0 being smaller for the product people.

Also, even in the 0 experience group, the selection will be tougher. This is independent of the measurable or existing differences in skill. The person that is best at convincing the employer of hiring them as a solo product manager is in a better position to negotiate than the person who managed to be among the five seemingly best developers.
My other related question; why did they survey only females? It seems like a report of combined and gender separated statistics would have also served the same purpose. If (as I suspect, but we have no numbers to back it up) females are disproportionately targeted by VCs, wouldn't this have made a stronger case than surveying only women?
> Tesla will make or break on the production rate and the profitability per car

Sure. For now.

But every car company is releasing electric cars over the next few years. Many of which look like serious threats against Tesla's more profitable models. Electric as a differentiator will disappear and all that will be left is (a) brand, (b) design, (c) quality, (d) service. None of which Tesla is better than its competitors at. And you need executives around to be able to resolve this.
> you need to, in painful detail, outline their expectations of you, your capabilities, what you can and can't do, what you think should be done, and also give ideas and plans for how to tackle the toughest things they expect as well as how you'll go about outsourcing things you don't know how to do / don't want to do / can't do from 3rd parties who absolutely can deliver those things

Having been in OP's exact position, he/she will probably be, at the very least, threatened with termination in a highly unprofessional manner if this is asked. I'm talking under-the-breath threats to passive-aggressive actions designed to make OP's life a living hell. Non-tech founders are the worst and will do everything to make you feel in debt to them since they provided you with a job (aka an "amazing opportunity to disrupt XYZ field").
I’ve not heard it used that way, but I could be wrong. There’s possibly also a historical usage in this sense.
Thanks for the disclaimer.

Obviously the NHTSA does not want the trouble, but the "lowest probability of injury" came from their tests. Apparently they were not supposed to make this public.

Truth is, comparing the videos side by side with other 5 star rating vehicles it is pretty clear which one is safer.
Oh right, I forgot to mention Twine, Ink, et al. The web browser really is seeing some cool games work. Even things like WebVR and Babylon.JS allowing small devs to explore VR concepts in the browser.
This is amazing news. Congratulations and thanks so much for this present to humanity.
That never once crossed my mind, and doesn't bother me now. I've only had my 3 for two weeks and I'm definitely happy I didn't buy a new Audi A4 instead.
No better way to rustle jimmies than to mention the likely truth that Star Citizen is vaporware and will never see the light of day. The more time passes the more likely that is. Anyone not invested in its success can look at the timeline of moves by the company up to now, the scope of the project and its bloat, and especially the CEO, and reach the same conclusion. Nonetheless, I expect to have this same argument with a starry-eyed dreamer 5 years from now.