skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do what that progressive in New York did to challenge the #4 Democrat in the house and win. (Osario-Cortez)

She did exactly that.

Campaign was as follows:

Identify policy platform and benefit to winning majority of voters.

Identify win numbers.

Two of hers were Medicare for All and Living Wages.

Organize volunteers to canvass. Break it down and insure coverage.

Canvass, hold events, town hall, rallies, etc...

Continue, until win numbers plausibly met.

Continue.

Win election, which she did.

The beauty of that campaign is the strategy I put here was announced and implemented. All well ahead of the election. Was nearly a two year effort.

No big money, no big media, no extensive marketing campaign.

The single most important thing that team did was actually ask people for their votes.

A ton of campaigns do not actually do that. They imply and or talk about how bad it can be if you do not vote.

Big difference. And it takes much more of a spend to do too.

This works at any scale.

Sanders showed it in 2016. Same overall approach.

Won 22 States and 45 percent of Delegates doing mostly that.

On a national level, some AD spends are needed, but are not the core of the campaign.

People to people politics work, but that is a clear vote for politicking, not the usual vote against we see most of the time.

On FOR type issues, very large numbers of people will invest FOR, because they see a clear return potential.

Without that, yes more ADS and such are needed, because the ask for vote part is not as prominent, often implied.

My point here is we totally have ways of politicking that work and do not require massive political contributions and or ADS.

I perfer them and would gladly regulate political ADS.

Do the same for perscription drugs, just because doing that makes about as much sense.
And I thought they were cool..
It’s just that RStudio’s vim support is so extremely bad, compared to VSCode or even the Jupyter Notebook vim plug-in. I guess this won’t bother you if you don’t have a developer background, but I find that editing code in RStudio is a real pain.

I wish I could use RStudio with the exact same keybindings and vim behavior as Jupyter in the browser. That alone would make things bearable. Like the exact same keys for cell execution, adding new cells, etc. Call it “Jupyter mode”.
Yes... Cable is widely available here, yet I live too far away from any broadcast stations to pick them up.
Seems to be that you went to the management pretty soon. Seems to pay much better.
Training is great, but they can't feel when it hurts. Only the person with the ear can do that.
Your post makes sense.

What doesn't make sense to me, and drove me down this rabbit hole, is that I do the same things with the X that I used to do with the 3GS, 4, 6, 7+ and 8+. Never had a single problem.

> Stop trying to read a phone screen (or look at anything on a phone close up) in a dark room. That's it. Don't do that. It's a thing that makes your eyes and head sore. It's really well documented.

True, true. But it doesn't mean that if you sore eyes it's always because of that.

Do you ever have the feeling of wanting to know what causes something. Not to prove something, not for any other reason other than figure out why and how. I am in that rabbit hole. I am very happy with the 8+ and have no eye problems at all. But I have to known what is it in X that causes my eyes to go sore.
The Yawning Divide That Explains American Politics
He mentions Google frequently in his posts for context. It's very useful, and there was nothing disparaging that he said.
Nvidia blob doesn't really support PRIME properly. You can't use integrated GPU (Intel) to run your DE, while offloading specific heavy tasks to discrete one (Nvidia) which is kind of the main point. If you want to use PRIME, stick to AMD / Mesa.
Even a normal American doctor will use a tweezers if the wax is bad enough.

For ordinary wax, you can use hydrogen peroxide or carbamide peroxide. This is far more effective than water.
Show HN: FetchPDF – Custom PDF Designer and API
Hi,

FetchPDF is a template designer and API to generate PDFs from custom templates. (It's also possible to generate from your own HTML or URLs)
The template designer can be shared or embedded, bringing PDF customisation and rendering to your own application with a few simple API calls.
Placeholders can be added to templates and replaced with your data when generating via the API.

Background: I was working for a platform that delivered certificates and invoices on behalf of other organisations, but used a single template for everyone. Needless to say, organisations wanted control over the designs and information on their PDF outputs. There was a bit of hacking to get by, but no scalable solution. I built FetchPDF to solve this problem.

My current focus is on getting it out there and growing!
The main technologies I used are ASP.NET and Mithril.js

https://fetchpdf.com
Right! It's not like an "allergy" to helium is going to be a problem for any user at any time unless, you know, there's a big helium leak, at which point the phone is the least of your problems
I like the ThinkPads best where the size of the touchpad/trackpoint is reduced to the logical extreme. (It wasn't until I discovered ThinkPads, and specifically TrackPoints, that I could use a laptop as a "lap" top. I just unplug the touchpad on models which have 'em as I'll only ever touch it by mistake.)
Yes. Same in the US. Things like private jet use are applied as income. However, I'm not sure you would have to do so at retail rates. For example, you would have to pay taxes on the cost of the private jet use. The marginal cost of something like running your personal ads on the favebook platform is so low as to probably not be considered "material" by the tax man.
finance is a different culture than hackernews, and the people speak different languages with different philosophy and assumptions about the world.

maybe this is not a technical issue, maybe its a subculture interaction issue that involves a lot of technical details.

i dont think its easy to 'understand' unless one group spends time with another, and i dont mean half an hour meeting, i mean like, shadowing someone for a week.
I'm actually the creator! Had no idea this post was a thing.

The fact that cats "don't get bored" is a huge misconception!

PetMD says "Our misunderstanding of cats as ‘low-maintenance’ pets has led to cats that are bored and stressed. This has resulted in an epidemic of feline obesity as well as stress-associated diseases”

Besides that, we are definitely targeting indoor cat owners. People who can't give their cat the luxury of an outdoor life. This is not for people who leave their cats alone for days, it's for people who leave their cats alone when they go to work. 8 hours alone is stressful for the indoor cat. So we built them Mew and Me!
I never used much physical media (napster generation), but I still keep a local music collection on hard drive. I tried cloud options but it's simply a horrible experience when travelling, which is where I spend most of my time listening to music.

General problems that aren't going away soon are the latency between clicking next and the song starting is way too high, especially annoying when you shuffle through a few songs at once. And I've only got 2GB of data a month, so I need to cache locally anyway, killing most of the benefits. The absolute worst thing is that you're tied to the shitty players that cloud-music companies produce.

Some google music specific problems were using tonnes of data even when I'm just playing cached files and things like hitting the next button twice in a row will give random results depending on which web request comes back first. I'm sure it works fine on the google campus though.

For the foreseeable future I'll be sticking with poweramp and music on SD.
No college, certs only.

2003-2006 SysAdmin $30k in FL. (No certs) as an FTE.

2006-2012 Netadmin $35k in FL. (a+, net+, sec+) as an FTE.

2012 SysEng $85k in OR. (CEH v7) as contractor at Intel.

2013 Pentester $110k in OR. as contractor at Intel.

2014 Security Analyst $150k in OR. Contractor at local power company.

2015 Sr. Security Analyst $120k in OR as FTE at insurance company.

2016 SecEng $170k in OR as FTE at aws

2017 SecEng $210k in OR as FTE at aws. (OSCP)

2018 SecEng $245k in OR as FTE at aws.
We had the same thing when our AdSense account was unexpectedly closed back in 2010 as soon as it reached $10,000/mo. We discovered that the only available help was on Google product forums via "PeggyK" who was also a top contibutor / volunteer with some strange access to AdSense policy team.
An Open Letter to Fred Wilson from a VC Based in Gulf
They just need to overhual the entire profession altogether. Surgeons should just supervise a live surgery, while attending physicians and assistants will do the actual operation. The person with the knowledge and information will oversee and manage the entire procedure, the lower level people will do the actual cutting and sewing. People with more specialized skills doing what they're each better out. Better outcomes.
One can usually tell which countries have experienced terrorism, or at least pondered it, by the type and construction of trash receptacles. America has many tens of thousands of thick decorative stone, concrete and metal public trash receptacles vulnerable to bombings. When that happens, they will be gone, but rarely before.

Last time I was in Victoria Station in London, there was one alumin(i)um hoop with a clear trash bag, emptied constantly.
How I Built a CS:GO Statistics Visualization for National TV Using React
They're selling trust, something even the high end Chinese (and many elsewhere) brands don't have.

Trust it's going to work, trust they'll support it and trust that it won't come with spyware built in.
I don’t know anything about chemistry beyond high school (US public school) but presumably helium is the smallest single-atom molecule you’ll encounter if hydrogen is off the table.
Burner account. Los Angeles. I've worked in the same large public company since college (about 15 years), but have changed roles a few times. I have a bachelor's in Computer Engineering from a somewhat prestigious regional school. Numbers are approximate but pretty close. I left out options and RSUs because I can't remember them all, but they were typically around $5k-$10k/year with 4 year vesting.

Embedded Firmware V&V:

2003: Software Engineer I. $62k/yr.

2004: Software Engineer II. $75k/yr.

2006: Sr. Software Engineer. $92k/yr.

2007-2010: ?

Rapid prototyping role in same company:

2011: Principal Software Engineer. $130k/year + 10%n bonus.

2012-2016: ?

Mostly a data science role. Company got bought by another large public company.

2017: Staff Software Engineer: $165k/year + 15% bonus + $10k/year RSUs w/ 3 year vest.

2018: Sr. Staff Software Engineer: $170k/year + 15% bonus + $10k/year RSUs w/ 3 year vest.
That's a big part of the reason we made this! It actually cycles content and experiments to figure out what engages your cat best :)
I always like to joke that it's free to download except that you have to enable Amazon One Click Purchasing.... haha
PHP's Packagist disagrees with over 1.4m packages and around a half billion package downloads a month. (More than NPM FYI)

https://packagist.org/statistics
Definitely a concern! I always say that this is "not the best solution, just the most accessible one,"

Many of our users use old devices or screen protectors. Eventually, we'd like to be able to offer physical smart toys too!
For simple recordings, I use https://screencast-o-matic.com
> If you're doing synchronous replication correctly, at least one replica is guaranteed to be completely up-to-date, even after an unexpected failure.

Exactly? Maybe? Im reading a lot in to little information here. It wasnt clear to me if "one or more" was the master + a single specific replica, or something closer to master + 1/N. And then there's the automated optimistic leader election. Combine those with (multiple) partitions and you could have a very bad day.

Rereading their RCA now I'm guessing the above isnt the case. "Restore the entire datacenter" reads more like they preserved the ~40 seconds of east coast partition writes, restored everything in east to a known checkpoint, and resumed replication off the more advanced masters in the west coast. If it's "just" two masters per cluster, both of which are available and internally consistent, you "just" have to reconcile those two write streams.
Just wear an orange lanyard attached to your phone in your breast pocket.

Works in every Home Depot I’ve ever been in, and many other stores.

People don’t even bother to actually look at the lanyard enough to notice it says “Star Wars” and “REBEL” on it, with the Star Wars Rebel insignia.
For those interested in the ahem, apples to apples comparison, a 1TB Samsung Evo 970 (M.2 2280 NVMe) is currently $280 on Amazon, so the Apple upgrade is is 2.6X, or $440 more expensive.
Google CEO: Apology for past harassment issues not enough
Is that legal? I didn’t think you were allowed to ask... or require a ssn. This doesn’t seem like one of the exceptions.
May I ask what your setup is like? I have an Ubiquiti ER-POE and a Unifi AP. Is it straightforward to assign different SSIDs on the AP to different networks, or do you also need one of the unifi security gateways?
It shames me to admit this made me hungry, octopus is delicious.
The fact that the Zuckerberg ad was rejected seems to indicate that they really were being put through a vetting process. It's possible they are vetted again after payment is received but that seems unlikely.
Show HN: Space Invaders, but it doesn't work for French people
ENOSPC latching. Not just you. It never ends.
No way to resume BBS and later FTP uploads back in the day.
> The Java plugin, like Flash, was a security nightmare

Neither is inherently less secure than javascript running in a web browser.

> and poorly integrated with the rest of the stack.

Yeah, but, so? Maybe I'm too old and curmudgeonly but I preferred it when applications acted like applications and websites acted like websites. Now I have to deal with websites that are half application, without the responsiveness of either and built on a pile of franken-code.
Odd, I assumed that subs would run at least a few atmospheres to compensate for pressure differential. Structural assistance not worth giving the crew the bends on fast ascents?
Google launches reCAPTCHA v3 that detects bad traffic without user interaction
If network connection is down for any reasons, or deauth packet is received, Google Home falls back to setup mode.[0]

In this mode, essentially Google Home becomes an access point without internet access and Google Home app can be used to configure new network.

[0]:
https://9to5google.com/2014/07/21/chromecast-vulnerability-t...
Seeing as Experian leaked every single SSN in America to hackers, I'd say a SSN is a very small hurdle. Even if it had to match, which I'm sure it does not have to match the disclosure name - just the name of the payor.
Yeah I here you there I’m sure that happens all the time.

I’ve mostly done R&D work in my career so I guess my real question to you is what are all the problems that happen when zip ties are used in production.
Look at the Passive Aggressive First Bullet Point of This Amazon Listing
Is there a recent repo?
This is one of the biggest motivations for going (and staying) on the Moon, Mars, and so on. Going after this object is not just an issue of money. Intercepting objects in space is really hard. Intercepting objects that are hauling ass away and have already shown an ability to exhibit let's say 'aberrant acceleration', when we don't currently have the technology developed, let alone tested and refined, to intercept it makes the entire idea perhaps not impossible, but extremely unlikely to succeed.

By contrast when we have ships moving regularly between Earth, Mars, the Moon, and wherever else - we'll have much more infrastructure and technological development enabling us to have a much better chance of being able to rapidly react to the next 'weird thing' we see in space. And seeing how many weird things we're already starting to observe now that we've just barely begun to be able to open our eyes, I expect this is just the beginning. Consider we still lack the technology to determine whether or not there is some giant super-earth floating around in our own solar system. Sometimes in space it's much easier to see things billions of light years away than it it is to see something right next door.
SSL Certificate and Implement HTTPS to Your Website in 10 Minutes (Part 1 of 2)
This is hilarious, additionally the software quality of iDevices have gone down the tube.
Chimpanzees React Faster to Cooperate Than Make Selfish Choices
Different SSIDs aren't enough, even different subnets aren't enough, you might want to put them on different VLANs.
At our facility, we take in US-sourced sheet metal, aluminum extrusions, and other raw materials. ... We use components that we source outside the US, like the motherboard, memory, and drives.

So these guys just make the case.

What's the point? You're not going to get a more secure machine that way.
Michigan. BS in CS.

2005 - $9/hour web dev intern

2007 - $14/hour part-time web developer and software engineer. (This was still in college.)

2010 - $60K/year software engineer.

2013 - $85K/year sr. software engineer (including bonuses).

2018 - $103K/year sr. software engineer (including bonuses).

I feel I've been somewhat underpaid compared to market averages, but I have reasonable money for now. Lived super-frugally in college and paid off student debts ~1 year after graduation. Never worked crazy overtime, although some jobs were pretty stressful due to sheer bad management. Had opportunities to become manager or architect, but don't want to move into a non-coding position.
I suppose the main snag will be pointers. The approach that worked for me was the holistic approach of using C as a way of controlling the machine's memory itself.

In my view, C really only makes sense in the context of manipulating data in and out of the heap and the stack. So once you're past basic syntax, I guess start there: the heap and the stack. When you grasp that, I feel like you can stand on solid fundamentals on how computers work going forward.
Secure Code Warrior – gamified online security training for software developers
You could crack the case and do stuff to an Apple ][. From day one the Mac has been hostile to this, right down to weird recessed screws.
Helium is much lighter than Nitrogen and Oxygen and may not displace them rather it will float at the top of the room or escape to the atmosphere quite easily. Though if it were Carbon Di'oxide it would have been a different story.
I thought it was fairly obvious I wasn't talking about banking. I was providing an example of a much more common scenario, which many businesses have to deal with, that also provides a good reason for taking care with currency.

> This doesn't give you any more precision than using floats directly, just a wider 'mantissa' range.

Floating point errors sometimes result in slightly smaller values than expected, and this can result in problems when they are passed around if even one spot if missed that needs to round. For example, some databases might truncate 1.9999999999 to 1.99 instead of round to 2.00.

As a simple illustration, consider the following Javascript (because it's easily available):

price1 = 0.10;
price2 = 0.20;
package1 = price1 + price2; // Hmm, 0.30000000000000004 on my system
ten_packages = 10*package1
money_received = 5.00;
change_due = money_received - ten_packages;
// change_due is 1.9999999999999996,should be 2.00

So, either you choose floating point, and make sure to always round prior to display or passing to any other system and if you miss a spot it will probably just work fine until you hit specific values, or you convert to cents, and you only have to worry about overflow, and any place you don't convert is obvious because it's not formatted with cents and is an order of magnitude too large. And if you're worried that an int is too small and might overflow, just use a long, and that problem goes away for all conceivable real values in your lifetime.

If you're coding defensively (and we're talking about money here, so why wouldn't you be?), one of them is obviously a better choice
The rich companies are generally pretty demanding about the skillsets of job applicants. They can afford to be picky.
Do people actually like the butterfly keys on the keyboard? They may have fixed the issues, but it still feels like crap every time I try it.
This is very cool work! I particularly like the idea of a "human in the loop" as objective function for the GA.

Yes, it's slow and I didn't end up playing more than a few rounds, but the core idea is a Good One.

Thank you for making and sharing!
In other words twitter's backend did not sanitize image uploads properly.
Most painless config for me is to enable Nvidia only when I really need it. Say when I need to run a graphic-heavy application I spawn up a new X11 process running atop Nvidia drivers. For daily stuffs, I stick with Intel drivers
> I think you're nitpicking here.

If it were the only issue it might be a nitpick, but it is just one of many issues screaming "we put forth the least effort possible to port this". In other words, the developers do not give a shit about the customer's experience on the PC. I mean seriously, mapping a mouse to an analog stick input like that? I'm a little shocked they didn't just hardcode the buttons to be XYAB while they were at it.

And the worst part, the most damning and unforgivable part, is that they never bothered to fix it themselves. I honestly don't know how people can defend this behavior. Be a fan of the game all you want, I hear it's pretty good, but this is bullshit and you know it.

> That's still a port though, and there's been plenty like it in the past.

Some people make crap software. This does not excuse making crap software.

Frankly, if they're going to do this bad a job porting a game, they should just not have bothered.
The story of a team focused on eventually automating everything for GO-JEK
Ask HN: How do you ask other seniors questions and not get shit on long-term?
I've noticed that when I ask other seniors questions I don't know the answers of, or that I even know the answers of but just want to make sure(the case most of the time),

they immediately start thinking they're better than me, they start questioning any technical decision I make in a humiliating way,

How can I talk with other seniors without them feeling superior over the long-run?
Get crypto currency for watching eSports
Fun with Symbolic Derivatives in Lisp
Website has no zip code entry mechanism, and zip code doesn't mesh with district boundaries well at all anyway.
No it only proves they reject ads from the founder of the company. That’s the only proof you can establish based on the facts. There is no evidence they are vetting anything, and in fact it’s more likely they just filter out zuck.* than the implication that a larger system is at work (Occams razor).
They sell Linux machines that "just work" out of the box. Think of them as the Macintosh of Linux. You can build a Hackintosh out of cheap Chinese machines and cracked MacOS versions. Virtually nobody does, because the reason you buy from Apple in the first place is that you want the convenience of an all-in-one solution that just works and are willing to pay a premium for it.

I used a Pangolin for my personal machine from 2013-2015. Replaced it with a MBP because I wanted to do some iOS/watchOS development, but it still works, and I still go back to it when I need a Linux laptop in a pinch. They're good, solid machines, and I could unbox it and boot up Linux without worrying whether some driver would be incompatible with the hardware.