skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, medium to big companies don't advertise a WhatsApp contact number but local businesses do. With the new WhatsApp Business API I'm pretty sure this will change in the near future.

Texts are fine, but as I said above, there're good reasons to not use SMS:

> (1) 0 encryption (2) ISP's full control (3) Doesn't support videocalls (4) Doesn't support neither complex files nor previewing files (5) Doesn't support groups (6) Doesn't support voice messages (7) There're plans which don't include texts so they're not always free

And as I mentioned earlier, here in Spain if you don't have WhatsApp you're literally isolated. I end up using WhatsApp + iMessage but I just.. can't quit WhatsApp.

To sum up, I think it's much harder to ditch WhatsApp than Facebook itself and WhatsApp is too much power for a single company, that's my point :)
It lets me grow as a better specialist in this field of work I'm doing
> A long time ago I had an Outlook account which was linked to my Facebook which was linked to my Spotify.

I suppose you mean it the other way around? The way you're describing it suggests that you could use Spotify to reset your Facebook password, which is either confusing or terrifying. :)
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To Quote or Not to Quote? That Is the Question
Sorry, but unless there's an option to hold back the update until I explicitly allow it, that's not being in control. This is still my computer and I decide when to update software.
> I, like you, assumed it was only known to a small group of scholars like Eratosthenes. But digging around a bit, it seems like any literate person in the Mediterranean basin and Middle East during the time of the early Roman Empire could've been exposed to the idea of a spherical earth, via Aristotle or the Pythagoreans.

Don't forget that the literacy rate for pre-modern societies was 10% and probably much lower on average. There were some extreme exceptions, I think the Hebrews had much higher rates, but as a whole, the world's population couldn't even write their own name.
Modernizing IDA Pro: how to make processor module glitches go away
Yep, I know, it was the reference to the little time allowed that struck me:

>but I'd put this down to "bosses want this out by DATE? Alrighty..."
I agree that we should tax wealth.

I wouldn’t say tax property per se, but rather just tax the land itself. Land is the fixed resource, but you can always develop more buildings on it. This would encourage people to use the land to it’s full extent.

Part 16 of the Mirrlees comprehensive review of taxation [0] in the UK goes into more detail.

[0]: https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/5353
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It's an incredible story. One of the co-founders went on to build his own submarine, then brought a Swedish journalist along for a voyage on which he murdered and dismembered her. Or should we all just pretend it never happened?
Only having a paid version seems more honest to me. An adware version that purposely annoys your users seems like a fuck-you move.
More than that, Sears had Prodigy, an early and very successful online service.

They had all the pieces in place and still dropped the ball.
And all I'm saying is that Google was not using Java, they were using an alternative implementation of the same APIs (derived from Apache Harmony). The difference is that using Java™ gives you a license to the copyright and patents (and hence protection from Oracle), whereas using something else does not.
So obvious they don't need stating or defending, huh
Probably could have boosted the "walletFreeVend" value also.
I don’t think the sincerity of his statement is related to his individual action at all. He’s talking about principle applying to the whole group.
May someone tell me where this article was published (magazine, congress, etc), please?
What's also worth noting and easily observable:

I went to Egypt a couple of weeks ago. Around half-moon, my wife noted that the moon was looking strangely to her eyes. I realized that being more south, the terminator on the moon has a much shallower angle than more up in the north where I live. This indicates that the angle of observation has changed and hints also to a spherical earth.
Massive traffic hit us and we are trying to bring it back now. HN traffic was unexpectedly huge lol
Brave New World Revisited, Revisited
> The reason Oracle's behavior is so bad, and raises the question of whether Java is really Free Software anymore, is they sued Google over re-implimenting an ostensibly Open Source language.

While OpenJDK is, indeed, very much open source, Android did not use it -- although I think it does now -- as they didn't want to use its open source license. Google, on the other hand, uses OpenJDK extensively, and have even forked it internally, without any complaint from Oracle [1].

So no open-source software was the subject of the lawsuit (well, no Oracle open-source software).

> they never sued Mono, a re-implimentation of their non-Open Source .Net Framework.

That is not about benevolence but the simple fact that Mono did not harm their business in any way (few people used it; Microsoft did, however, sue or threaten to sue over the wildly successful Android). On the other hand, licensing Java for use on mobile devices was Sun's main income from Java.

Companies don't generally do things on principle, but for business reasons, nor do they refrain from business out of principle. Both Oracle and Microsoft sued (or threatened to) over Android for business reasons, and Google chose not to use the open-source Java for business reasons.

[1]: https://video.oracle.com/detail/videos/featured-videos/video...
So in the end he informed the company, and they fixed it? I wasn't clear on the ending with 'hogus bogus', maybe I missed something.

Pretty neat project to undertake. Kudos :D
"Leveraged buyout". I.e. borrow cash to buy out a company, using the company's own assets as security for the debt. Gotta love these innocuous sounding financial engineering terms.

Barbarians at the Gate is a classic business book about such a case (the takeover of RJR Nabisco).
I've seen far too many projects where security/usability/accessibility is compromised because a project manager with limited technical qualifications decides that a time-frame is much more important than these features, and the programmers just have to get XYZ built to release for the date.

I've even been a part of some of those projects.
Yes, this is the kind of corruption where someone should go to jail but won't. It might not even be illegal for the Secretary of State to simply deregister voters who will be voting for his opponent.
omg the naivety of those founders..
I think something simpler like (n)(n+1)/2 is better.
This means that the difference between the n-th and (n+1)-th indentation level is n spaces (barring of by one errors I made).

We still get a curving indentation, and we are still warned against nesting, but the indentation doesn't explode exponentially.
So in which bucket do you place Xamarin or C++ tooling for mobile OSes for example?
Didn't get much out of that article. A bunch of kids were messing around in largely undocumented ways and burned through a pile of someone else's money.
Maybe only in Chrome, because it definitely does the wrong thing in Firefox.
I however do feel that the best way to learn that you're wasting time with overly-complex solutions is to suffer the consequences for it, and the earlier you suffer them the better. So, I would say that wasting time (as long as it doesn't take long for you to realize you're the one who f'ed it up) when you're young has a high benefit, too. You learned it the hard way.
Yeah known issue, I am not a JS master:(
Why not? Google Docs does not show any stupid popovers, ads or anything
Daikatana, Duke Nukem Forever, Broken Age, Star Citizen...

Even experienced industry professionals need some guidance and supervision.

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
I think that the lesson is that you can't avoid reality in the long run and government's role is to manage the transitions with the least destruction of human capital possible. This is what is so notable about Greece - there has been an utter disregard of the destruction of people's place in their community. I believe that this was due to the fact that the imposing authority was so overwheeningly powerful and so disconnected from Greek democracy.
Different data and different governments? They're not really the same issue at all, there's no government level campaign for privacy in the US that corresponds to the EU approach.
It is indeed. But even more so for me is that then Epicurus, starting from this, deducted a whole ethic that is essentially modern. If you haven't read it yet, I think you would appreciate an account of the whole story, of how it was supressed by the church for centuries and eventually triumphed: "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern" https://www.amazon.com/Swerve-How-World-Became-Modern/dp/039....
You could have added a description, though, so that uninterested people don't have to click the link. Here it goes:

"Alfred 3 for Mac

Alfred is an award-winning app for Mac OS X which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and more. Search your Mac and the web, and be more productive with custom actions to control your Mac."
Just so you know the trial is causing a symantec endpoint protection alert in a corporate environment.
I've tweeted you a screenshot
Best of luck
India gets its first cryptocurrency ATM amidst the central bank's crackdown
And before the mid 90s, Apple was in constant peril of being wiped out.
I think this is what separates it as Science Fiction as opposed to ancient classical legend telling or religious texts. I'm now thinking about L Ron Hubbard and Scientology - perhaps it's too easy to switch from "this is a lie, I am telling the truth" to "This is not a lie, I am telling the truth".

All great writers will also write truthfully - their works will have truths in them, even if it's fiction - I think thats how they are recognised as being great.

I once worked with someone who viewed all types of fiction, including science fiction as "bullshit". He would only read non fiction. I felt sad for him for missing the point.
TeMPOraL got the adjective wrong. The correct adjective is "useless".

* http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html
Isn’t that inscribed on road signs as you enter San Francisco?
It takes a while to load, and heavy traffic stops some features from working. You're much better off writing in markdown and generating the site with some static site generator, although I'll admit that is more work.

It's not a huge deal though - I'm fine with it, just an interesting choice :)
snafu in any other startup around the world, right?
Comparing MySQL, Cassandra and DynamoDB as primary data store for a service
"79% have an unusually small number of followers
76% follow an unusual number of accounts"

I wonder what metrics they use for a claim like this.
Generic resource (mac/OsX):

https://tinyapps.org/osx.html

Cannot judge for Mac, but the selection of Windows little tools has traditionally been very good, the only Mac one I ever used (and it proved to work well) was WakeOnLan:

http://www.readpixel.com/wakeonlan/
Hello,
Thank you for the question!

oatpp has been recently tested on:
- Linux (Ubuntu 16, 18. CentOS 7.5)
- MacOS

Windows support is not currently available. But I would love to add it.
If there someone with windows machine and willing to help, I will provide all needed assistance.
Windows support issue: https://github.com/oatpp/oatpp/issues/2
Maybe they think the bitcoin price is going to shoot up
3xin the coming months so using their money to buy tether
would be pretty stupid in that case no?

For Tether to be backed by US$, for every 1 USDT they need to hold $1 in cash or cash equivalents.

If they have invested the fiat in bitcoins, they aren't backed by US$ any more.
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I know that in some jobs if you resign they don't have to pay out to the end of your contract. If they fire you they do (unless you're in breach on contract I suppose).

Also if you resign it can be more difficult to get social welfare benefits.
Novel approach at shuffling a looping sequence
> The word 'bogus' has a pejorative connotation

"Bogus" is one of those words that carries different emotional weights based on your background. The 1980s street-tough in me sees bogus in the Bill & Ted's sense, but the data scientist in me sees it in the "I didn't control all the variables in my experiment, and got bogus results" way.

I think we can assume good faith in this case, that it wasn't meant as an insult.
is this some wannabe hacker? it's pretty clear from those descriptions it's something for their voice/smart assistant or organizing tool (hivoice, hiboard or whatever, they have million names) which can scan you calendar, SMS and other items to notify you about upcoming flight, train, movie in cinema etc and remind you this or find friends (contacts) based on your location after arriving to destination and they are very clear in their privacy policy about what information how they use and how to opt out from submitting these (sensitive) personal information

i work for several Chinese companies including Huawei, OPPO etc, all of them have this assistant which scan also your SMS for package delivery info so they can track your package and provide you with simplified information in form of cards, i guess closest western equivalent would be Google assistant (never used either), though personally my Honor phone is running Lineage without gapps, because i don't like western/Chinese spyware and most importantly unnecessary battery eaters
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That’s true. There is more competition. After feeling stuck at one job because the number of openings for my specialty then was slim, I’ve been paranoid every since then. There are so many job openings for your standard “full stack developer” roles that I’ve been able to get another, better paying job within two or three weeks every time I have tried over the past ten years.

Staying at a job too long meant that I was also so underpaid, and ill equipped that I might as well have been just starting my career in my mid 30s. A high level entry job that I got as a C# developer was more than I was making after working for 10 years.

It was fine being a commodity developer when even your standard full stack developer was making $45K more than I was making when I started my transition and the salaries were rising. I moved up the rank as a “full stack” developer and got to the other side as a dev team lead/architect after switching companies 4 times.

Last year, I looked at the market and realized two things - Enterprise developers are an interchangeable commodity and are ripe for outsourcing and that even if I just picked up skills to fill in some gaps that I had from jumping jobs so often (mostly front end cool kids frameworks), I still couldn’t command a higher salary.

My “specialty” is coming at infrastructure and specifically AWS from a developer,software architect Devops perspective. Most “AWS Architects” come from a Netops background and that’s all they know. They end up costing companies more than they would spend on prem or at a colo because they just do a lift and shift and neither the netops, devops, or the developers do anything different. They just replace their on prem VMs with a bunch of more costly EC2 instances.

Back on topic: yes you can successfully be a developer in your 40s if you keep your skills relevant but after a certain point, your skillset as a developer isn’t worth enough to a company to keep up with your increasing salary demands. If you are okay with your salary stagnating or even becoming lower as your skillset is commoditized, they can go with that.

Otherwise, you have to figure out how your skillset can be multiplied - the easiest way to do that is to become a team lead, mentor, or just the “adult supervision” that can be the first among equals.

(Side note: the previous post with “thier” and “but twiddlers” is what happens when I post sleepy).
Would be interesting to know how much of those are bots.
Show HN: Realtime group chat app using GraphQL with ZERO backend code
We don’t _need_ shorteners. Twitter could exclude a URL’s length from the limit. Etc
I took the stock photo of coins to suggest that they disabled the App, leaving the only means to pay as the old fashioned method.
it's definitely installed for European markets
Well, obviously you're going to be doing all the development, testing, sysadmin and office IT work until you get more staff, at which point interviewing will take a lot of your time. You need to be adequately good at all of these.

Less obviously you'll be making the technical decisions, and then having to work out where responsibility for these and "product" decisions lie.

It's not clear where the cash is coming from; are you all paying in? Did that decide the split? Who's getting paid and who's putting in "sweat equity"? You're also a founder, right?

Given your position you should entrench your status ASAP as "CTO" or similar title before you start hiring. You should decide how you feel about people getting hired "above" you (good or bad) and plan accordingly.

There will be at least one stand-up shouting argument early on. This is normal, but needs to be handled maturely - done successfully it will improve the business. Being the "remote" partner puts you at a disadvantage here.
practice like a pro athlete. the common belief that you need 10k hours to master something is imo, applicable to a 10x dev. when you hit 10k, if it's only during work hours you've likely mastered whatever mattered to your manager/org in that time frame, but that is not always transferrable or valuable to a new manager/org; practice is though.

practice creates experience, and if you have the resolve to push yourself out of your comfort zone and learn to master new areas, you should find yourself able to do things quicker than people that aren't familiar with the problem domains, easily attaining a 10x output while not creating problems.
For Mac automation I use: Keyboard Maestro, Hazel, Automator, AppleScript. Not a tiny ones, though.
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But I have to install this and run my own server- the cheapest one I can find is 5usd/month, so I’m paying for that and the time to set it up + maintain it. Inkdrop still looks like better value for money
Sun and Oracle never sued their partners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines#...

Only those that tried to misuse Java by creating partial implementations of it (Microsoft and Google).

In fact, Sun only put a show to avoid losing their face, as what they really wanted was to sue Google, but their bank account wasn't any longer like in the Microsoft suit days.

Gosling interview on how it all came to be from internal point of view, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYw3X4RZv6Y&feature=youtu.be...

Finally Google had the opportunity to buy Sun assets and thus avoid being sued, while having the freedom to steer Java however they would have liked to do.

Opportunity that they decided wasn't worthwhile to pursue.
because you can generate a html out of your google docs? or you can use google pages (where you can edit your page in google docs)...
Ah, weird I never noticed till I used Firefox Developer Tools and saw the 302 redirect, when you hover over URLs it works normal, but when you click I guess JS hijacks everything... Does it do it on any Discord hosted forum with their own url tracker or is it just part of the forum itself? I wouldnt want them tracking all my users URL traffic... or else I wouldnt want to use this forum script at all, I often wondered how they track the clicks, seems to me it would of been easier to just increment onclick? Do a POST and once fulfilled, then redirect the user with JS.
Trump admits climate change isn’t a hoax but suggests ‘it’ll change back’
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What I meant was "macros written in Nim for Nim" which they called macros and not "we don't have macros, because we have them, but we don't call them macros, so we can say we are simpler because we don't have macros!" XD
Any data to support that claim, or to assume the claim above cannot be trusted?
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> and at least in the UK I've almost never witnessed any kind of prejudice keeping people down

You haven't been paying attention.

Black people are more likely to be subject to stop and search than white people. In particular for drugs even though they use drugs at a lower rate than white people. Despite knowing about this injustice for years rates have got worse. https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/oct/13/racial-bias-poli...

Black people are more likely to be detained under the MH Act, more likely to be subjected to restraint and rapid tranquilisation, and more likely to be on a community treatment order. This is probably racism. https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/independent-review-of-t...

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mental-health-act...

Black carribean pupils are excluded at 3 times the rate of white pupils, and this is probably racism. https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/education...

Black doctors get paid less than white doctors; BAME health care professionals have complaints investigated more often than their white collagues and those complaints are more often upheld. THis is probably racism. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2018/01/31/amitava-banerjee-instit...
Also https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
If you're the engineer in a startup that's at all "technical", rather than a thin business layer over a CRUD db, then you're where the business is and the other two are remote!
in Firefox, when I hover over the links in Google results I see the original URL on the bottom left tooltip but when I copy the address, I get the redirect link, and then when I go back and hover over the link the url shown in the tooltip is also changed to the redirected link.
It suggests four actions, one of which is "provide affordable housing", which isn't as broad as your reading. It could just mean "build housing projects".

The bulk of the article implies some sort of zero sum problem. But Bay Area salaries in general aren't bad. The problem is almost entirely cost of living and transportation related. It's strange to think the tech elite are preventing better infrastructure and housing development.
What is the future of chatbots in banking industry?
This reminded me a lot of how DHH described their thinking (paraphrasing A LOT): other people don't have to have a bad product for yours to be successful. Good article!