skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would still be a pretty dumb move in itself - nobody would want to work with anyone who claims to have CIA connections not even for vast amounts of bribery.

I know that countries with less than stellar records of civil rights don't care too much about due process but the not a violent complete moron thing to do would be to ask questions before shooting - namely being sure that they actually are spies or traitors and investigate the claims. For one it could point out peripheral connections down the chain and you know make sure that you aren't getting 'spies lists' of anyone who is close to finding the actual spy.

Granted in that sector it seems that there isn't a scarcity of violent immoral morons even in the west given a love for torture among the CIA. Given the known effects pushing torture is really saying a few things: They want to be able to fool themselves by hearing exactly what they want to hear. They want their foes to fight to the death like a cornered rattlesnake - putting their last breaths in killing as many as possible in the face of insurmountable odds. Finally they want no mercy shown to them if captured.

There are no words for that except evil and stupid - their deaths will not be mourned no matter how horrific because they deserve it and the world will be better off with their passing. I guess that means that the CIA really may be that stupid which isn't a surprise given their real goal with Castro appears to have been to make him as assassination resistant as possible.
Weirdest video on the Internet (what is this)
Wasn't one of the suggested causes of this that legalizing prostitution made it possible for the trafficked women in question to report their trafficking without being arrested? (And to still have a living afterwards)

When your metric is "crimes discovered" or "crimes reported", you have to make sure improvements come from reduction in crime, not detection rates...
Ask HN: Web-search for kids
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Yo! This is "pitch-night", right?

Ok, either I'm the greatest lier in the world or this is a great idea.

People of ages 12 and 79 and your daughters or sons, are not the same consumer groups and neither are sixty-year old Islandians, so we have a very large world market with one market leader, Google, and this market has many segments, language, culture and age wise and a segment that is the market of Sweden. This is web search for Swedish students.

It's a small segment of the world market. We don't need a lot of money. Instead we want to start with Swedish, English and Nigerian. Here is how we beat the leaders of those segments.

We work with open source, cutting-as-hell-edge of course, Very Good UI (TM), and as openly as would possibly make any market sence, which is MIT I think, the "do what the fuck you want" license, because that is our intention with the tech, that our tech should be everyone's tech.

Once a year we contribute whatever closed source we've been working on, unless we feel that source is what gives us an edge. If we feel we have source code that all of a sudden contributes to positive trends market-wise for us, then that code will not be released openly.

If we're way ahead, way, way ahead of the market, well, then that code will be our's but just for a while. We need our pay-day. We need to stash up. We need to get a little ahead, tech and money wise. Then after a while we'll release, whatever code we feel we can entrust you with, because, haha, we have something even better. We'll make it so that you never catch up.

Will we be evil? Who are you or, can say at this point in time? Not me. I don't think I'm evil. But who knows when a complete shitload of money drops on your ass. A shitload times a shitload. Like him Zuckerberg. Look at him. Turns out, he's evil as shit!

So most likely we'll be working fully in the open for a while, code wise. How much does that cost?</pre>
It is not. The last sentence is utter speculation. I would look into the measurement errors, interference, multiple data points collected by independent monitoring systems, and check for errors against an unbiased/known body of similar mass etcetc. None of this has been done.

It's similar to "my camera spotted this amazing illusory effect and I think it's an artificial body"...
They have to knowingly and intentionally lie to the federal government in an annual report

So it's a nonstarter, since the people being prosecuted for these things will have lawyers adept at whittling down intent to only the most brazen and malicious behavior. Not only that, but Sarbanes-Oxley showed us how effective "annual report" red lines are.
Companies will have a Chief Privacy Officer whose job is basically to provide oversight and, of course, absorb the risk. That person will probably be paid well.

I'm actually OK with that. We're always complaining that companies don't take security/privacy seriously because there's no incentive to do so. See e.g. the Equifax HN threads. Having a person in the C suite who'll end up in jail if the company seriously fucks up is, IMO, a net positive for the world.
Not only that:

1) It encourages companies to be silent or remain ignorant.

2) I didn't see anything mentioned about the cyber-sec aspect, but I would imagine this will put a bounty on the heads of the largest companies.

Perhaps I watch too many (bad?) movies but shorting a stock on the cusp of being hacked could be lucrative.
> Organisations that can keep their mistakes secret, can make themselves seem much more capable than other, similarly large organisations.

Organizations gain only corruption through secrecy. Fix the reason for having to keep a secret, and you build a strong organization.
There's one specific problem with tech hiring that generally doesn't get a mention and maybe should: HR hiring staff apparently has a really high rate of turnover, especially among contract sourcers and recruiters (and it seems like many of these people are contractors).

One really easy way to get ghosted during the recruiting process is if your primary handler quits, gets fired, or just doesn't get their contract renewed.

I don't think this is the primary problem with tech hiring, but it might be a quite significant secondary problem.
Snap, crackle and pop: high order derivatives of the position vector
> I continue to be completely mystified with the concept of outrage about video games.

What about the concept of outrage about programming languages, frameworks, web browsers, operating systems, laptops, phones, open source? I guess 99.9% of the population would be mystified with the outrages that we can see on Hacker News.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221527

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17413572

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15940144

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18052923

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17927972

(just few recent examples, the list could go on)
> No, rhetorical questions have expected answers.

Not necessarily, but either way the answer is not the point.

> You simply rejected answers which you did not expect and then declared your own questions "not to be answered".

Okay Dr. Mind Reader. Do you believe I didn't expect that someone could google who does organic certifications and give me links to that? Do you believe I have never heard of such a thing as organic certification, even after multiple people have pointed it out to me right here?

Once again, I don't actually expect you to answer these question. The point of the questions is to make you think. You could answer them, but you would be missing the point.

> Your idea that organic farming should be atomically definable, doesn't make nonsense bullshit out of organic agriculture and labeling - it has made nonsense of your understanding of organic agriculture.

I didn't say it should be and indeed it doesn't. I really just mentioned it, you don't even seem to disagree that it doesn't have a clearly defined meaning, so what is your problem?

Anyway, what actually makes organic farming bullshit is the fact that it's based on bullshit theories. It has no basis in science. It comes out of nonsense beliefs, like Antroposophy. What makes it marketing bullshit is the fact that "organic" is used as a label of quality, even though the practice is based on bullshit theories, just like Homeopathy, which also has certifications. The farmers following these inefficient practices often do it only for the marketing effect. I don't even see you contest that at all, so I must conclude that you actually agree with me on this. Glad we're on the same page!
Simple. It's bullying. Put others down to feel better about yourself. And thanks to the power dynamic there's no way to push back other then to never work at the company - which might even be a good company with a couple bad apples.
>Maybe (much) spy work isn't quite the serious business the national security apparatus would have us believe?

Well,... the saying is "Allen Dulles was much of a clown first, politician second, and serviceman the third."

Regarding US foreign intel service: when something the size and budget of CIA does recon, something useful will come out of it regardless of how lame is their tradecraft.
> freezing and shaking method sounds pretty good in terms of environmental cost.

Freeze dried? I'd be glad to have an instant version of myself- two teaspoons in hot water, stir, and you can chat with your dead uncle for an hour or so. That is, until the jar is empty.
You're making a point that keeps being brought up about expectations, which is valid and I get it, but I think the point was not that people should not rightfully criticize Blizzard for that, but rather that the absolute outrage seems ridiculous. This sort of over-the-top accusative outrage is a sad fixture in modern culture, but it seems bizarrely more common in video game news than elsewhere.
How do I downvote this comment on Materialistic app for HN?

I mean you are in a cabin in a company with one guy (isn't it normal) during office hours (I assume) and you are scared?

What are you? A 4 year old baby?
Since when is the office layout considered part of the interview process? Unless it’s some high security defense contractor, I don’t see how disclosing the office layout damages the company in any way. Unless thee are damages, there’s nothing to enforce with an NDA.
How well do any of these work?
Perhaps. But that's not a compelling argument against this bill. Perfect enemy of better and all that.
Don't blame it on react native
> If you don't like it, you are free not to play it

And Blizzard is free not to listen to the otherwise more than justified response.

And when they have to close because all the fanbase has moved on, and we get thousands of tweets about how great the developers working there were, and how sad it is they don't have a job any more, we'll be free to ignore them.
That sounds like the renaissance we've all been waiting for. Every would-be entrepreneur's wet dream is a $20/month subscription for Facebook.
I have a bit more positive look on the future: Jan-2038 is just before my retirement. I can make some money with old computer knowledge while the post-post millennial generation does not even know what the inside of an old operating system looks like.
I unfortunately am getting the same error however I'm not getting any inbound connections either

https://i.imgur.com/49VaP62.png
I'll explain it: In the olden Windows days, the application is in charge of painting its titlebar by handling the WM_NCPAINT message. The default window handler for this will paint the Windows Vista-era buttons.

During Windows 7's development, the responsibility of painting window frames moved from the application to a separate process known as the Desktop Window Manager, "dwm.exe". DWM tells the app that it should stop drawing its own frame when the application is windowed, and tells it is in charge of drawing "the frame" when fullscreen.

This is communicated using an asynchronous protocol (private window messages), thus during the transition it's possible for the window's idea of its frame state to be "out of sync" with the real state because the client hasn't processed all of its messages yet.
Well, this depends on the level on which you want to be. A good way to start is with an elementary (i.e. non-calculus based) physics course. Despite being called "elementary," it might get you a long way towards learning a lot of non-trivial, often quite complex - and useful - physics. This could take a few months to a year. It will introduce you to vector algebra and the practical use of trigonometry. The next round would be a "general" course. It is the best chance to learn much of the "high-end" physics a "normal" person or an engineer will ever have. This course uses some simple ways of doing calculus and vector analysis, much of which will be explained as you go. Be prepared to spend a couple of years on this course. After that, you could cut your teeth into a traditional course on theoretical physics (e.g. Landau and Lifschitz). Not many people will end up there, and there may be little practical benefit for most of us. This course will require much of the traditional higher math. There is no telling how many years and how big an effort you will have to devote to this. And, finally, there's the "modern" theoretical physics, which is heavily based on modern (abstract) mathematics - very cool stuff indeed!
I'm living in post-USSR country and a lot of old consumer goods which were "made in USSR" are an etalon of quality compared to modern goods.

If you replace USSR with "period up to the late 80s", that statement is repeated in many countries, so maybe the central planning part is not the distinguishing factor.
I disagree, just as in the food example. Consumers are also to blame. If you know that your induced demand will be filled in the same way that current demand is being filled, then creating more demand is irresponsible, if it can be avoided. What benefit does wasting so much energy have? At least Siberian homes using mining to heat their house in the winter have a good side effect.
Fortunately, this is just a "discussion draft" and I don't believe it would ever be passed as it is written. This clause would expose mom-and-pop app developers who have apps that happen to go viral and get more than 1 million installs to the same expensive, onerous requirements as an entity with $1 billion or more in revenue:

Each covered entity that has not less than $1,000,000,000 per year in revenue and stores, shares, or uses personal information on more than 1,000,000 consumers or consumer devices or any covered entity that stores, shares, or uses personal information.."

Putting those two vastly different classes of entities under the same umbrella and exposing them to decades in prison seems like it would have a chilling effect on the startup community. You would just have to hope that your app/website doesn't get to 1 million users, otherwise you're exposed to requirements where the implementation will bankrupt a small team or independent developer.

I guess you could simply stop allowing new registrations at 999,999 people, but it seems like a bad idea to discourage businesses from growing beyond that.
What's HNs best sociological guess for why recommendation systems are still pretty crappy? It can't be that it's technically or mathematically too challenging to figure out. There are too many smart people out there for this not to be cracked and then immediately spread to everyone. I feel like there's a Peter Thiel-esque explanation to it. Something about a lack of diversity of thought and/or the lack of an incentive to encourage first-principles inventions in software engineering (or a lack of investments into long-term innovations which benefit everyone).
I'm in Houston and most of the Thai restaurants are run by Thai. And it was easier here to get things ridiculously spicy, and the curries thicker which maybe cuts the sweetness.

What about the thickness/heaviness of the curries? They seemed thinner in Thailand. Here in the states a lot of the curries feel heavier like closer to an north Indian curry in terms of consistency.

It totally could be that I'm just more selective about where I go in my home town than I was in Thailand. And I was just wandering into a bunch of tourist shops there.
> Hard to show it was management's fault, and not the result of a developer...

No. A leader is ultimately responsible for everything that happens or fails to happen under his or her leadership. Full stop.

The people in charge of your hypothetical developer are the only ones with the ability to put processes in place to prevent it from happening. They are the least-cost avoider. Therefore, the power and the responsibility belong there.

Strict liability for the least-cost avoider is a sound strategy from both a moral perspective and a law & economics perspective. When proving knowledge and proximate cause are difficult, and someone is clearly in charge, and the harm is great - you place the liability on the people in charge whenever something goes wrong, and be done with it.
I know that cow antibodies are also generally more effective than human antibodies due to their increased length... Why specifically use lamas?
You can actually set an environmental variable with any color code you want: STDERRED_ESC_CODE. As for color codes in stderr, they work in most cases. If all the color codes are in a single write(), it will more or less be unaffected by the extra red and reset color codes that get stuck on either end.
I think the trade-off should be a lot more explicit though, e.g. you get to choose whether pay 5€ per month or your usage data gets sold.
But hearthstone exists. This is clear evidence that some portion of the community does care about mobile games at blizzcon.
> Nothing is handling the order because there is only one buffer being written to.

Ah, that's what I was missing. Thank you, that makes sense.
> we shouldn't make everything free.

why?
I believe v_lisivka is talking about a specific planning job in some USSR-era organization, not the whole of the USSR.
i would pay $2/month at most for facebook.
I believe they’re using GPS data here more for analytics, rather than navigation.

They can use GPS data to chart usage metrics, plan pool rides, check for anomalies, and harass journalists, for example.
That would be a clbuttic mistake, indeed.
Looks like the Activision part of the company finally took complete control over the Bizzard part...
See developer get RIF'd
plenty of people are not so lucky, modern medicine notwithstanding. its not god im thanking.
This is an aside for European visitors to such sites. If you visit from a non-European country, don't worry. Everything is fine.

If you get a big GDPR "We Value Your Privacy" pop-up with a 'AGREE!' button, well, guess what? They don't value your privacy.

The officially sanctioned way of dealing with this is to re-open the link in a 'private' or 'incognito' tab and click AGREE! This hits two birds with one stone: from the perspective of the analysts of such sites,

a) one person has visited the site and 'bounced', that is to say, left the site, never to return. And:
b) one person visited the site, 'agreed' and then never visited again.

I mean, unless you like being tracked. Then, by all means, carry on.
I want a Viking funeral myself.

But, more seriously, part of me hopes that I'll recognize when my time is coming and be able to just wander off into the woods or something and die that way, with my body left where it drops. Even though I feel like that might be against what the article is suggesting.
yes i know
I would expect it to drive monopolization, since you now have to have resources and competency in yet another thing. Seems like it would be harder on incumbents.

EDIT: since people are downvoting this, I should clarify that I’m not advocating against the policy, it just doesn’t seem intuitive to me that this policy would reduce monopolization (data privacy may well be worth the tradeoff). If I’m wrong I’d love to be corrected!
theres bots/sites that df memes most people arent adding filters to memes to post on ig/twitter/sc
for me it’s because minimum wage is a shit way to do income redistribution.

you can do income redistribution without the potential for killing jobs - negative income tax.
Discussed in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12536211.
Weird article. Author isn't technical enough to get how Jeri thinks. I've met her. She sees the physical world in terms of first principles, like Feynman. She built a short range radar from a satellite downlink dish by turning one of the transistors around. I would never have thought you could use a transistor from a low-noise amp to produce enough power to emit a usable signal. I'd be thinking "small-signal transistor" vs "power transistor". But it's an amp, it's got gain, it's fast enough, and she made it work.
I could see this seriously effing with software jobs. Even if a company intends to keep their noses squeaky clean, every developer hired becomes an additional risk. Companies will try to control more of the process from the top down (and that works out great LOL) and they'll try to do more with less. Or GTFO of the country.
Those aren't called milk because they're a substitute for anything, they're called milk because that's the English word for a cloudy translucent liquid. See also milk glass, milk thistle, and milk of magnesia.

Speaking for myself, I drink almond milk because it tastes better than cow milk.
If I’m not misunderstood this is what Token Binding sets out to solve
If you look at what the audience does it's not that different from what happens elsewhere in entertainment.

What is unique in gaming is the feedback loop that happens. First the media responds by saying the guy is an asshole. Then the gamers respond with more vitriol. Then there is "Everyone hating the mobile diablo is a misogynist" kind of tweets. Rinse and repeat.

Do note I'm not justifying it. Merely trying to reason about why especially in gaming these outrages escalate into insane heights instead of dying in meh after a day or two.

We have been seeing this kind of vicious circle elsewhere too lately. As an example the latest Star Wars film where it ended up so bad that if you didn't like the film you were a Russian troll.
Java's Future-Looking Projects: Panama, Loom, Amber, and Valhalla
I don't know if you are referring to Amazon bar raisers but most of them are Dev Managers who don't write code on day-to-day basis. And this is a common problem where they don't understand the technical depth of the problem a candidate has worked but still have most weightage in debrief even on technical strengths.
is there an upper limit to minimum wage ?

what would it be and why?
You can actually turn on case insensitivity in windows, though not all software will like it.

NT has always supported case-insensitivity (at least somewhat) via a registry key[1].

With windows 10's linux subsystem, there is now a new command to make a _directory_ case sensitive[2].

[1]: http://www.nicklowe.org/2012/02/understanding-case-sensitivi...
[2]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/02/28/per-...
My favorite cultural fit failure was trying to opt out of the weekly mandatory surfing lessons, barely got my wet suit off before I was called to a Friday morning meeting with the founders and told to grab my stuff and leave quietly.

No more startups for me, thank you very much.
Your old computer knowledge will be about the same worth as what income that can be generated today having extensive knowledge of Multi-User Dungeon forum software.