skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, exactly. Specifically the bit where tenured faculty really need the cheap labor of PhD students, so they're incentivized to paint a rosy picture of the tenure-track prospects to encourage students to enter PhD programs -- "look at me! I achieved the dream!". Yet in reality the chance of these students reaching the tenure track are slim to none, and in fact the only way to be successful is by pulling more people into the pyramid below you to stand on.

Much like how successful MLM sellers are incentivized to bring more and more sellers into the program under them ("look at me! I achieved the dream!"), even though the chance of any of those new sellers actually becoming successful are slim to none, and in fact the only way to be successful is by pulling more people into the pyramid below you to stand on.
I can't bring myself to be in any way happy from reading stuff like this. We get articles like this every freaking day and probably only a fraction of them will ever get into production.
From conversations with a new vet, it also appears that they have a weird ethos of self-sacrifice. Basically, too many of them go into the field to just do good and help the poor animals, and they end up working for free too often, or simply not charging enough. (I don't know the details here, I'm simply relaying the rant from said vet.)
Mercury, the other geologically persistent planetary poison
Unless inflation happens...
This only applies to big businesses now, but in 25 years it will start effecting medium sized firms and it will eventually hit small businesses. This will create a morass of bureaucratic regulations stifling entrepreneurship...
I just hope it’s crafted such that it won’t inhibit small businesses or hobbyists.
> some portion, however large

The largest, from what I gather.

Speaking as a non-fan, it was an egregious mistake to announce it at a conference geared toward hardcore Diablo consumers. This is conspicuously glossed over in social media commentary: had they announced it online in business-as-usual fashion no one would care. Instead we're directed to shame fans about not collectively giving a fuck about mediocre cash grabs.
Those are HTML entities. Most modern programming languages come with tools to decode this, e.g. in python:

text = urllib.parse.unquote(text)
I always compare my React debugging experience to something like GWT debugging from 5 years back ... and I find it very lacking indeed.
still much, much luckier than other generations. You could've been the King of England or Persia and you would have died from a simple infection that today is cured with pennies.
The mobile version of hearthstone came long after the pc version.
> The ratings agencies lied

They published opinions about the future performance of certain securities. Those opinions were incorrect. Lying would mean misrepresenting the present state of those securities, which they didn’t do. Everyone know they were buying subprime mortgages. They just expected them to trade like prime mortgages.
On the other hand, I've found it much more likely that your bosses will shine you on and say that if you accomplish something (usually a big project, hard problem, etc.) you'll get a promotion/raise, and then them not following through. That is usually the kiss of death for morale, and it's a lot easier it seems to make people mad than reward them, and then they are gone.

I agree, the praise part is somewhat wishy-washy, but having a good boss that has your back is worth a lot. There are a lot of non-monetary (intangible) ways that they can make your job easier and better that are actually useful. Most times I'm with you though, and would just rather take the money.
Most entrepreneurs aren't inventors, and vice versa.
The thing I find most obnoxious is that people don't seem to understand that a minimum wage is necessary to prevent employee abuse. Without a minimum wage, corporations will gladly hire people who are unable to negotiate hire rates despite doing the same work as everyone else. The disabled, prison labor and immigrants are all examples of people who have been historically abused by companies in order to pay them much less.

Ultimately when any job is better than no job, people will take what they can get. Companies know this, and will pay people obscenely low amounts to take advantage of people without any other options. Therefore to protect them and ensure they can have a livable wage, we need to maintain a minimum wage.
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> and Clojure’s syntax is pretty limited

Erm, what? I am confused by the use of the word 'limited' in this context.
Mostly disappointment after hyping themselves up for a PC sequel to Diablo. I am not outraged, but just cynical:

From the article:

"it’s a fully fledged Diablo experience on mobile, which everybody will get to play, and hopefully, which will bring new heroes to Sanctuary as well as welcoming our community back into it and something we’re very excited about."

Blizzard has simplified their games to grow their customer base, such as the Cataclysm expansion to World of Warcraft. These simplifications have not been well received by the existing players. My reaction to Diablo Immortal is skepticism about how much crunch there will be. Diablo 3 was not terribly interesting for me after you got past the first few playthroughs, compared to Diablo 2 or more modern ARPGs like Path of Exile.

It's not really anger, it's disappointment; if Immortal turns out to be a great game, I'll happily buy it. The noises Blizzard are hearing from the fans are basically a reminder that they have lost customers when trying to get new ones.
I'm not even Jewish and "putz!" is usually what I shout when I'm driving in heavy traffic.

For all the emphasis we put on design principles and naming conventions, we collectively suck at naming our products.

Then again, maybe that name is genius.
The article mentions why.
Pixilang is a pixel-oriented programming language
Very true. But I do believe it's possible to create a profitable company around ethical, open source software that doesn't create user lock-in and doesn't steal people's data or sell them out. That's exactly the aim of The Mimix Company.
It's actually quite amazing that it's possible to run Lisp in 48k of RAM, but it is.

http://www.flownet.com/ron/plisp.html
Brain cancer: drink that makes tumours glow could make surgery more effective
OPC-DA is the worst. Fortunately at least a few vendors are pushing OPC-UA (no DCOM!), but the whole industry moves like molasses.
Ask HN: Service to mail individual USB drives?
Sometimes in my business I need to mail one or two USB drives to a customer with custom data files. Is there any service to automate this? Doing it myself is an increasing hassle.
EventStore: Open-Source, Functional Database with Complex Event Processing in JS
One of my favorite pastime activities: googling for certain unsecured automation systems and messing around with them. They can be found with zero false positive rate thanks to an obvious misspelling on the login page. There's no need to resort to inurl, intitle and similar modifiers that trigger the captcha almost every time.
I do feel that the world of mobile games is tarnished in reputation for good reason, and that backlash against mobile games is primarily from parents, because the population they've been targeting has been very young kids.

In some ways it also tarnishes the Android and Apple brand, which is why I think Google reacted with multi-accounts device sharing and YouTube kids. I wonder how much mobile gaming revenue is because parents signed in with their credit card and there aren't multiple accounts on iOS, and you can't update a game without the parent signing back in, and Family Sharing has no granularity. I have to think that Apple has walked over every inch of their UX and knows this.

On Blizzard, I'm feeling what they mismanaged was the fact that their conference is expensive and anticipated enough to travel to, but what they announced is for a different audience.
It truly is the bratty self-centered rage that's incredible to witness.

"Hey, we're working on the game you want. In the mean time here's another game for different users."

"Noooooo! I've been betrayed! This is the ultimate insult!!!!"

And as much as people don't want to admit it, gamergate was the same thing.

I've spent a lot of time gaming in my past, but there's something unhealthy floating around here. If you saw this own behavior in your own son or daughter you'd recognize it instantly.

And now to take this one step too far, to where I'll get negative responses: It's almost as if the hundreds of hours spent in online cultures where flaming vitriol is spewed at the smallest slight has developed a subculture where (obviously not all) but a significant group of people can't handle when things slightly deviate from their wants.

It's funny, but I'm reminded of Willy Wonka's factory tour.
Why do some people get CTE? It may be in their genes – CNN
How would caching improve realtime point to point connections?
I read this and immediately thought "oh shit, yet another regulation for a small bootstrapped software business where we try to be honest while the big guys will still find a way to circumvent it". Thankfully, I looked into the fine print and was wrong. This bill is only for Corporations that do over $50,000,000 in revenues or higher OR (EDITED from AND) have info on at least 1,000,000 or more customers. Of course, I don't mean to imply that smaller tech. companies are all saints but this bill clearly seems to be drafted for the bigger fishes who are powerful enough to blatantly ignore privacy laws.

EDIT: I clarified one thing user downandout pointed that it could apply to App developers who may have a million users as well but overall, it should not affect bootstrappers or smaller tech. businesses that don't have that high amount of consumer data so my overall point still remains.

Below is the link to the details on this bill:

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-relea...
"Fans" feel entitled to something but aren't actually entitled to anything, complain a lot. LOUDLY CRYING FACE
Alright then, I can play that game too. Apple Watches collect and process your DNA and the US Army uses it to create waves of genetic clone soldiers.

It must be true, because some random person said it on the Internet. If you want to assume Apple is doing awful things based on laughably improbable rumors with absolutely no proof, you must believe this is true. Every soldier is actually a genetic clone of an Apple Watch wearer, and you must explicitly accept this as true because I said it's true. I don't have to prove it's right, and you can't prove it's wrong, which by your logic means it must be true with no exceptions.

Unless you truly believe you can't be impacted by DNA theft or your genes are so petty that they would never be useful to the US Army, or you own Apple stock or some other stake, you must believe that Apple is creating an army of clones that will replace you and integrate into society as sleeper agents until the revolution is upon us.

You see how ridiculous that sounds? That is your argument.
Encrypt Bookmark Folders, Cache, etc. inside a profile for privacy
At the family printshop my mother experienced some typing glitches, she would sometimes type "simulate" instead of "stimulate" and "muck" instead of "mark". This led to two disasters, which required us to stop the presses (the pressman was a great proofreader!),

In a political brochure: "...will introduce bills to simulate progress..."
In a funeral booklet: "...he left his muck upon us all."

She asked me to go into computer's master dictionary and patch it to disable the words 'simulate' and 'muck' so it would bring these mistakes to her attention.
Thanks, Ed. You are right that we need different and better business models that incentivize good behavior on the parts of the big players. The Mimix Company certainly intends to act like good guys. Our business isn't built around holding or selling people's data or locking them to a platform. Having said that, I also believe that better tools are needed and that current software doesn't understand enough context to be useful in the kind of reading and writing we do every day.
The fully opinioned coffin now comes with heated seats and mirrors, adaptive cruise control, and a hybrid turbo diesel-electric engine that only sort-of-cheats on emissions.

I joke, but: funerals are as expensive as a secondhand car.

Whereas I figure I’ll die at home and my dogs will eat me before anybody realises. Much cheaper.

I only sort of joke here: all the bits of cows, sheep, and pigs, we don’t want to eat we turn in to other products. Why can’t we do the same for human bodies? I mean, so long as the person didn’t die of infectious disease their remains could probably be recycled in to the biosphere?
"The problem is nontermination. Static analysis of arbitrary programs to detect nontermination is the famous Halting Problem and known to be impossible."

People reading that might think you can never prove termination of programs automatically. Sounds overstated given the results happening in CompSci. There are a few tools that can automatically prove termination of a given program. AProVe was an older example that used rewriting like a lot of them:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2877806_Automated_T...

Terminator is one for C programs:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/automatically...

There's also a site where many tool builders competed in lots of categories:

http://termination-portal.org/wiki/Termination_Competition

Lots of research happens under the "temporal logic" banner where they run it through model checkers, provers, and so on. Anyway, it seems proving termination of useful programs, protocols, or just critical portions is possible in general and doable with current tools for some subset.
Maybe cars are a better comparison, since the price is in the same ballpark?

I bet you could get a personal loan for a piano about as easily as you could get one for a car (from your bank, of course, not a car dealership).
Both seem often pretty accurate.
> But by the time a candidate is passed a phone screen that’s a validated lead. A company that was really desperate to hire wouldn’t treat validated leads so poorly.

They certainly shouldn't treat validated leads poorly, but we've seen ample evidence that they often do. Part of the problem may be (I'm less sure about this part) is that it is essentially the same people -- and same organization -- managing the overall hiring process through all stages of the funnel. They start with a shotgun process and they keep using a shotgun process in later stages when they absolutely shouldn't be.

It's better if you've got a prospective hiring manager inside the company that wants to hire you and is keeping an eye on the overall process -- this is what often happens whey you're recruited by employee referral. However, this just isn't an option at places like Google (and I think Facebook and Amazon as well) where you get hired into a global pool rather than hired into a specific team.
Motorola One launches in the US on November 11th for $399
More like widgets, since each of them wouldn't be yet another HTML document. And "multiple SPAs" sound like multiple isolated instances of React/Angular/etc. Which wouldn't be the case either.

"Web Components" is a great name IMO.
So then big corps do all their customer information risking behavior in spun out small wholly owned subsidiaries or even arms length non owned ones and if successful acquire them for some fixed amount but if they screw up with this law the company just folds and the parent is free from financial damage.
And this would be a linguistic "prion" - systemic defect that replicate itself, yet does not rise up to the level of complexity we require of a life-form.
A brief analysis of the CSS for Twitter's PWA vs. Twitter's legacy website
If it was CTF you'd probably try to get the official solution from their recruiter's computer. I wonder if it would give them pause if it was verbatim the same.
As a new-comer to the topic of manifolds, learning it from math textbooks is painful. That seems to be the case even if you're reasonably strong at analysis, topology and linear algebra. I find textbooks written for theoretical physicists much gentler read. Physics textbooks can be a good place to start learning, say, differential geometry even if you don't care about physics (I don't).
Note: These were published in 2015.

Here are a couple of articles from the time that discuss the content:

https://shadowproof.com/2015/06/23/the-saudi-cables-revelati...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/21/saudi-arabia-i...
Talk about bad writing! I guess you need to write things like "molten vitriol" to get your point across when every sentence is hyberbolic. Some journalists need to learn that turning it to 11 isn't a legitimate approach outside of tabloids. Maybe Kotaku is a tabloid though.
What percentage of people have the discipline to use this app, but lack financial discipline?

Website: "You want new clothes, an iced coffee, but does it fit your budget?"

Oh the irony if the user were to get ads for new clothes and iced coffee...
In principle, there's no way to fix the interleaving issue. But maybe you can minimise it by reading both from a single process, without monkey patching libc.

The first solution (with the JSON adaptor) is the best solution, the only problem is the implementation (because it doesn't make sure that everything that goes to stdout/stderr goes through the JSON adaptors)

You could fix this problem by using a little C program to do the JSON wrapping.

- The C program would start by setting up two pipes, let's call them pipe_stdout and pipe_stderr.

- Then the C program forks

- The child replaces file descriptors 1 & 2 with the write end of the pipes and closes the read ends.

- The parent process closes file descriptor 0, closes the write end of the pipes, and calls select() on the read end of the pipes

- The child process calls execve to start the interpreter. All output to stdout/stderr now goes into the pipes to the parent process.

- the parent process reads data from the pipes, wraps it in JSON, and sends it to stdout.

Is there a reason why you didn't go this route? This way you should have minimal interleaving, and there's no way the interpreter writes data directly to stdout breaking the JSON stream.
I think a lot of people have overly strong opinions on things like programming languages and web browsers as well.
Common table expressions are in my genes? Nice - SQL for days.
Or it could make things more transparent.

Twitter wouldn’t need to pretend that it didn’t know that a substantial part of its user base is fraud-bots if it just charged some nominal fees for something other than advertising.
Maybe we just need a doctrine where you own the copyright on your personal data.
Journalists are much better than me at obtaining and reporting information. This story just isn't very important; it's a "discussion draft" of controversial legislation by a lone member of the minority party. It wasn't allocated many resources by Reuters.
I recently wondered how the "Login alert for Mobile Safari on Apple iPhone 7 Plus"-email from Facebook could tell my what device I used to log in to the html version of Facebook. They must be doing the same correlation between SOC and screen size that is mentioned in the article.
That sounds like a great idea....unless you are the poor person who stumbles upon the decomposing corpse.
It certainly looks like a deliberate move to introduce anonymous functions and thus justify replacing the named function.
You read that wrong. In order to NOT be a "covered entity," you must meet ALL of the following criteria:

1) Revenue of less than $50 million; AND 2) Must not have info on 1 million or more people; AND 3) cannot be a data broker

That means an independent app developer who gets more than 1 million installs, or a website with more than 1 million users, IS a covered entity, regardless of revenue. Also, ANY "data broker," regardless of size, is covered.

This info is on page 4 and 5.

Edit: How is a factual comment getting downvotes? OP read it wrong, and I told him so. There's nothing in this comment to disagree with. There are only facts.
Granting the assumption of monotonically increasing inflation at a wild rate, this is still only true ceteris paribus. I can't imagine inflation that would make a small coffee shop chain into 50m/year revenue (customer floor requirement notwithstanding) would happen in a vacuum.
Agreed? An empirical claim that $15 minimum wage is better than $10 could be proven false by some set of metrics and controls. That $1 is better than zero? That is a different type of argument, and one for which expounding upon the scientific method is irrelevant.

The belief in chasing a continuous optimum is as much a belief as choosing the endpoint, so I think there is disagreement about what the debate is.
> I can see people snapping to rage mode.

"I can see" doesn't make it reasonable, nor rational. Maybe because you're deeper in it you're more acclimated, but to most viewers it's like saying "I can see my 5 year old throwing a tantrum, crying and throwing his clothes off in the middle of the grocery store because he wants to eat the ice cream now and not wait until we're home."
I think there was once an encyclopedia-inspired website that worked on that model. One could even add new content, in addition to correcting typos and misinformation.
Nope! WireGuard just presents to the rest of the system as a standard IP interface, and integrates into the rest of the Linux network system, so presumably BGP works fine. DHCP might be trickier?

What's the use case for running BGP over WireGuard? I'm just curious.
Only a fraction of them end up being repeatable.
I am not an expert bill reader but seems like this loophole is covered as there is another point that says :

"(ii) is not substantially owned, oper
ated, or controlled by a person, partner
ship, or corporation that does not meet the
6 requirements under clause"
>Also strange that the author warns against exotic topics and then 3/5 of these recommendations are exotic things 99.9% of readers will never encounter.

I don't think you understand what "exotic" means in this context. Literally everything on this list except QFT is something pretty much every physicist will study. (And every theorist will study QFT.) No coincidence that it's almost topic for topic what I studied in grad school. This is "how to actually learn physics", not "how to learn a subset of physics."

Exotic topics would be quantum loop gravity or supersymmetry; things which sound cool but aren't foundational in the same way.
I don't know what this is supposed to mean. The ethical status of white supremacist organizing hasn't changed.
Do you have any more information about this? Surely there must be some pretty strict rules on where the "forest or similar area" is?

I kind of wanted to be shot into deep space, but eaten by worms seems more apt.
That cost is actually spot on: Facebook, for US users, makes about $26 per user per year IIRC.
As a member of upper management, how would you address this then? More QA? More management of development practices? Move way from "devops" and back toward a world where there's a clear isolation between ops and development?

Over the past few years, developers have seen more and more autonomy and power. I can't imagine there's a way to avoid walking some of that back (if it can be)
> society, family, and spouse

Got it. Anyone but themselves.
That is why the new Captchas ask the user to identify traffic lights and storefronts, as opposed to fire hydrants and fence posts!