skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m interested in how the vagraties of the law plays out. I’m working on software that won’t use ads or CDNs. All traffic terminates with my system. I will use cookies. I have no intent on putting up one of those cookie notification banner. All data I collect is to run the site. While that is valid under GDPR, I bet the EU will come a knockin for a fine if the site gets big enough
> The actual effects of the UK's exit are not yet known (the post-Brexit UK might even grandfather in some EU law like GDPR)

By default all existing EU law is grandfathered in, as a new legal category of "retained EU law". Changing or dropping individual laws would be considered on a case-by-case basis. The main legal significance of Brexit is that EU institutions will no longer be able to impose new legislation on the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_(Withdrawal)_Ac...
So which parts of your example does Qualtrics provide/solve? Probably not the prototypes. Once I have these, logging/counting usage is simple. The decision is made with a one-page Excel sheet with the raw numbers. Where does Qualtrics come in? Perhaps it has similar data from competitors, so my decision making process does not require as much field-testing but then I'd have to worry about my findings being used to improve competitor's products as well?
How Passion for Programming Can Make Us Worse at Our Jobs
The question is if this is thanks to or instead of capitalism. I would say it's the latter. Capitalism put a lot of those 'peasants' in terrible conditions for a few hundred years, for the last 40 years or so things are getting slightly better and that's supposed to be thanks to capitalism? Post hoc ergo propter hoc is a fallacy for a reason.
You can see all of these as data structures instead of programs and then derivatives transfer and generalize nicely: see Conoc McBride’s work on zippers.
Do I risk getting banned if I only use this against my own websites?
If it had been a considered move, planned well in advance they would have designed some Xeon dies to use EMIB interconnects rather than making due with the designs they had on hand.

[1]https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/foundry/emib.html
The financial crisis still haunting Greece
TDD-based algorithm training exercices
why is this here? as a pole I don't understand what's the connection between this and hackernews?
You can do it with GNU C. It would be nice if it was standard.
I'm not really worried about the effects of Brexit on the GDPR, as someone else has said, it's likely that the UK will keep it, or something similar. But it's not yet clear what the other consequences of Brexit are going to be (deal / no deal, borders with Ireland, etc.), and the deadline is getting closer and closer. I wouldn't be surprised if investment has decreased because investors are waiting until after Brexit to see the effects. It's even possible that the decrease in investment can be explained entirely by the ever-nearing Brexit deadline.

Again, this isn't to say that I don't think the GDPR could possible result in lower investment, it's just since Brexit is happening in slow-motion at the same time, and I don't think the authors have tried to measure how much that contributes to their results.
Ariba as well - although they haven't touched it much due to it being a cash cow.
Tech giants’ infrastructure spending doubled in three years
JD Is the Real Winner of Double 11
This does not take the issue off the table, as far as practical applications of neural-network object recognition and scene analysis are concerned. Firstly, it leaves open the issue of an additional category of images for which neural networks alone very confidently misidentify things. Secondly, the time limitation, while being a perfectly valid aspect of the experiment, means that parity has not yet been achieved in these cases, either.
Interesting. I think the ideal use case might be as a glorified - but light weight - blog post idea store.

That is, thoughts for a new blog post come at the most inconvenient times. If there was a way to capture that via the device in my hand and have that end up a non-published CPT that would be great. Let me flesh flesh that out (outside WP) and eventually login, look it over and decide to move from CPT to post, page or other CPT.

I can see that being helpful in a number of cases.
Show HN: A JavaScript Handbook
EPO tries to explain how to grant software patents despite the law [pdf]
This totally confuses me.

So I am supposed to either sign up for $10 per month or trust somebody from the internet and run their executable on my machine?

Is there anybody here on HN that sees this as viable ways to get into blogging?

We totally need more and better ways to communicate online. But I just cannot see how this has any chance to take off.
I work in a medium office in Pittsburgh (we're getting a new building soon.)

The culture is very good here, part of it due to it being formerly a big Ariba office, but the benefits are good, work from home is fantastic. Honestly I don't love my work but the benefits keep me here.
No, and I wish people would stop that meme.

Humans can obviously be tricked, in a variety of ways. But adversarial images take advantage of the fact that image-recognizing neural networks do not fit their image recognition into a full fledged understanding of the world like we do. So a few pixels here and there can make a truck look like a panda and the algorithm never says, "But wait, pandas are mostly black and white and this is mostly yellow," or, "But I don't see legs anywhere, or ears."

Optical illusions mostly don't cause high level image misclassifications. To the extent that they are anything similar, they're the reverse: using our general world understanding to cause glitches in our information processing, such as cases where you think something is darker or lighter than it is, or bigger or smaller, or bent or straight. Those are your mind applying rules that are based on "how the world usually appears at a high level" to an image where those rules do not in fact apply.
Mishra argues from a perspective aligned with the Marxist-socialists we have all heard before.

WTF, it is too simplistic to assert that the West (yes, I capitalised it) opted to rely on a racial caste system and colonies to support liberal democracy for Whites. Also, I point to ethnic groups in the Far East who saw themselves as master races, civilised above all others in the world. These others did plenty of looting and colonizing too.

Instead, think of the USA Civil War, WW1, WW2, the Cold War, and the coming WW3 as a contest: liberal democracy / represrntative government versus monarchies, autocracies, and oligarchies.
How IO monad in Haskell works [video]
Salary transparency. Let's imagine you have a brilliant employee, you want to pay her or him twice more than others, because that person truly brings that much value for your company. Do you really think other employees would say - yes, this guy/gal is really smarter than we are, she deserves all those money? Wouldn't such person be bullied by others (think of what often happens to the best pupil in the class, where you have "grades transparency").

Let me cite François de La Rochefoucauld, "Although no one is happy with his fortune, but everyone - with his wits.
Must be advanced because:

> Throw away your paid tools because this is some God level shit. Now with 4 hand written parsers, an intelligent payload generator, powerful fuzzing engine, DOM scanner, hidden parameter discovery and an incredibly fast crawler.
F*cking retweet it!

- https://twitter.com/s0md3v/status/1061255510677057537

> Exactly, that's why you have no idea how it works and all. Well, it took me a month and being a developer of 30+ open source software, this is the first time I am saying this is some God level shit and I mean it.

- https://twitter.com/s0md3v/status/1061662698335723520
Pretty sure Github also has an option for enabling signed only commits.
Cellular Automata Meets Putnam Problem
> study after study shows that humans very much define happiness in relative terms

Whether or not the gap is widening, that definition of happiness is very problematic. There's something wrong when, as an example, someone is happy with a "rice-and-beans" lifestyle when all their neighbors have the same lifestyle but is unhappy with a better "chicken-in-every-pot" lifestyle because some of their neighbors have caviar and foie gras (insert your preferred luxury foods).
Much irrelevant hand-waving.

Legal issues are always somewhat 'fuzzy' and subject to judgement -- it's why we have judges. And this is not that fuzzy, the IRS has published clear standards for decades and it's well litigated. Nothing about that prevents a company from defining the boundaries of it's behavior and communicating clearly & behaving ethically.

Timing is utterly irrelevant here. The ONLY reason he found out is that he had the good luck to have a well-placed friend who could see the issue AND had a communication side-channel. Absent that luck, he'd be permanently screwed.

We've got no data on what other customers were able to buy or not, and it is also irrelevant -- particularly for a contractor primarily occupied with a single buyer, who would not have tuned his marketing to the broader market, and due to Upwork's unethical behavior would have no notice that he needed to.

"...in a teapot"? BS! A scaled business like this is a large system, and this is an example of how the system works, and limits the range of possible root causes.

In Upwork's case, it is either one of two things.

1) A sloppy mess of incompetence and make-it-up-as-you-go-along supported by ill-invested venture funds. Or,

2) A management that has specifically decided to implement a system of unethical behaviors in hopes of extracting higher profits regardless of the cost to it's users.

Either way, they are either unqualified to be in biz, or unqualified for anyone to do biz with.

I'm left wondering why you are such an eager and persistent apologist for this behavior, grasping any straw to excuse it . . .
Have we reached the sustainability ‘tipping point’ for data centers?
This is where I got the VM analogy from: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp2.html

My whole comment was about tenuous but interesting analogies, and whether they can lead to somewhere interesting.
Thanks! I am indeed inclined to work on the data privacy before focusing on growth. It is just that it goes against to some advice for lean startups.
Unlikely to happen. This isn't "how do we rethink C", there are plenty of other, better places for that to happen. It's how do we make incremental improvements that benefit us, but remain in the spirit of C and compatible with the enormous existing body of code.

In fact there's a Charter describing it better than I can:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2086.htm
Guessing: privacy
What we just don't understand about the 1%
Monkey Sort: Blockchain/Bitcoin Fever Is Over, Govts Stockpile Exploits and More
getline is POSIX. If you want to see arc4random in POSIX, you should write to the Austin Group mailing list: austin-group-l@opengroup.org. They also have public biweekly meetings you can attend and present your case at.
If you're mid-to-high middle class (which probably describes most of HN audience), torches and pitchforks will come for you first, because 1) you live next door, and 2) you don't have a personal jet to scramble to New Zealand when SHTF. Look at the Russian communist revolution for an example of how it happens, and who is the first the mob drags out against the wall.

So I wouldn't exactly look forward to it. The educated, well-off classes in US need to understand that fixing the inequality problem isn't just about empathy, or some abstract political thinking. It is literally a matter of physical survival, if you look at it long term. Either we build a society which the majority of its members consider fair, or those of us who are significantly better off than the median will perish.
If writing Java code, I agree re: IntelliJ, but thankfully that’s not 100% of my day to day programming. IntelliJ does work “ok” via a VNC app though.
Ask HN: Is there a service that escalates emails to SMS or Phone call reminders?
Hi everyone,

I am looking for a service that lets me remind people to respond to emails via an SMS, Email or phone reminder(to the recipients) whenever there is no reply before a stipulated time. Is there any such service available?
> You can use C++ as some kind of C with destructors though :P Scoped cleanup is really a nice thing..

C++ is not a strict superset of C. You actually have to cast void pointers, for example.

> But then you also want templates of course to get rid of your void*.

No, actually, I think I can live without that, but thank you.

> And oh, wait, what's that? A cross-platform thread implementation (well, sort of, depends on platform)?

C11, threads.h. Been there, got that.

> A string thing which I can search without strstr?

Okay, I'll give you that, string handling is hell.

> Anonymous functions which capture?

Have their uses, but I'm not sure if C is really the right place for it.

> Auto?

auto (as used in C++11 and later) is a solution in need of a problem in C. When you don't have piles of templates and iterators, you also tend not to need to automatically derive types. In a world where signed/unsigned integer comparison can have fatal consequences, you probably do want to be very sure about your types.
Imagine the teams that would be let go, if they would suddenly pursuit another business model.

Adds doesn't even have to be the most profitable, just the most job-securing option. Statistics can be bend and numbers generated.
Ask HN: Does agile need innovation or back to basics?
Based on the post from few days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18426043) I would say that agile is pretty much making a lot of troubles to tech teams and business teams are still trying to understand it.

Do you think we need innovation regarding processes and organizations structure?
How is the model of "download our open source software or pay us to run it" confusing to you?

If you want to "start blogging", you probably don't want to get a full instance, but more a blog on theirs: https://write.as/pricing
Falsified ... into what? It's not clear to me what stance they held.
I run a business on Wordpress, and $29 is nothing. This is pretty much instant purchase territory.

Edit: it looks like the price was higher than $40 before. That’s still insta-purchase. OP, the parent commentor isn’t your audience.
I wonder, could one use users as bridges- like in irc - and communicate with whats app groups from outside the walled garden?
I'm 100 % sure that link is completely unbiased and independent.
> trust somebody from the internet and run their executable on my machine

It’s open source. You can read the source code and compile it yourself.
APPLE: THE SECOND-BEST TECH COMPANY IN THE WORLD
You can do this with GCC/CLang via the cleanup attribute: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attribute...

It would be nice to have this be a part of the standard.
Can you link to the Apple developer docs on this?
First of all, the copyright laws int he entire world were forced by the US companies and the US state.

Second thing, I did not seen enough evidence that in general EU has more birocracy then other similar countries.

I assume you also complain about don't spam me law, because you have to actualy do some work to comply,
Are there test cases for metagames?
> Improve array bound propagation and checks

Looking forward to this one, specially since Annex K ( Bounds Checking Interfaces) has proven to have not solved anything and is now scheduled for possible removal.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1969.htm#ad...

These other ones are also interesting from security point of view.

> Add a new calling conventions with error return for library functions that avoids the use of errno

> Extend specifications for enum types

> Add a simple specification of nullptr, similar to C++
Does SpaceX use similar tool? KSP does[1].

[1]: https://github.com/hudsonfoo/kerbal-openmct
You thought fake news was bad? Deep fakes are where truth goes to die
Skype was far better before the MS acquisition - there doesn’t seem to be a comparable video platform anymore, considering that Skype offered amazing video at a time when (U.S.) internet speeds were even slower than what they are now.
> I'm not in that industry anymore

It's the same in automotive industry (development and end-of-line-testing) (XCP and MDF helped, but ultimately devolved into a meta-standard for vendor specific functions) and in the rest of the industry I've had contact with (cooling, heating), fragmentation is as bad as ever.

Standardizing on web standards will probably follow the pattern of making of adding another layer that is worse than anything in the previous 30 years.
You can get a lot past the TestFlight review, which seems to be automated now. Probably just checks for API abuse and whatnot.

Getting to App Store is a human review.
It's a quite popular term, but only within media fandoms. So if you don't fancy searching for clues in each single frame of a new episode of $TV_SHOW and arguing with strangers on the internet about how to interpret the exact wording in that dialogue, you probably haven't come across it yet.
Freshchat’s 2018 marketing misfires: A case against growth hacking and more
If you get 4 times the throughput for 4 times the price, but can get away with single socket instead of 4 socket at half the energy, space and cooling budget of the similar 4 socket solution, it's still an impressive gain.

Processor is a relatively small part of the TCO of a server. As of late, memory and storage have been as impactful in the total upfront cost as processors used to be, if not more, and space and cooling dominate the ongoing costs.
When a government is clearly deadlocked and damaging the country rather than delivering on its promised better deal, people don't insist there is anything "disingenuous" about suggesting that the country might be better off calling another election rather than the living with their mistakes for the originally-proposed full five year term. Why would a referendum in which the EU status quo lost narrowly to a range of optimistic alternative visions of the future, most of which are now ruled out be any more irrevocable?

It seems far more disingenuous to frame the issue in terms of taking a cut in GDP in order to protect national sovereignty when the Leave campaign's key argument was framing it as the precise opposite: their headline claim was about how much more money our government would have to spend on public services. Sure, some of the people that voted Leave would have accepted the "less EU jurisdiction for less GDP" tradeoff, but certainly not enough of them to have won the referendum if they believed that was the choice they were making.
I clicked on 'get started' and then 'hosting plans' on writefreely and got these prices:

https://writefreely.org/hosting

Now I see that the prices you mention are linked on the bottom of that page.
Yeah the point was that biodegradability also eventually releases it to the atmosphere. Nonbiodegradability technically sequesters it until burnt but causes its own problems given things like microplastics.
Are you talking about for an automated service, or are you talking about for your own personal emails that you're sending through something like Gmail?

Either way, I'm pretty sure anyone who received such a message would absolutely hate it. You might want to explore whether infuriating someone with spammy reminders is better or worse than just sending another email, as is often the custom.
Does this work on web-pages behind a login?
I’d rather have it that way than at my last company, where I discussed salary with someone of lesser education and talents, but who was female. She found out I was making more due to my education and negotiation, then she went complaining to all of my bosses and HR about a gender pay gap, and come Christmas time she got a raise much larger than mine so we were making the same. Even though she didn’t negotiate and had no masters.

How is that fair to me as someone who arguably deserved the higher salary? I knew more and played the market game better, yet because of my gender I then make the same as a less productive worker?

Salaries should be transparent and the reasons for higher pay should be merit based. I left that company immediately afterwards because another one offered me 50% more to do what the first company wasn’t even thinking of doing yet. So overall, I think the current system of secrecy and unjustified numbers is far from ideal.
I was referring to this: "All good things must come to an end". It's a very Buddhist way of looking at your online service. Most services try to stay afloat for a decade, and few make it that far.
We have had grades transparence in both elementary and high school and good grades were not grounds for bullying. Most kids did not care about your grades at all, one way or the other. I would also argue that when there are large differences between salaries of people on similar positions, in most cases it is result of negotiation skills and random (e.g. nepotism or friendship base or I feel bad about telling no until money run out) decision making on the side of management. Because otherwise manager could explain and qualify which duties make difference and possible motivate others to learn same duties.
It's not like there are large camps of illegal migrants in France (an EU member) trying to smuggle themselves into the UK (an EU member for the moment).
The post begins with

"I'd like to ignore the comparison to WhatsApp because WhatsApp does not advertise itself as a "secure" messaging option."

and ends with

"If you want a real secure means of communication on your phone, look to more reputable projects such as Signal or WhatsApp"

This seems weird.

It would also be nice if anything would be written about exactly the point - how is Telegram not secure i.e. in what scenarios can my messages be read by a 3rd party.
You can starve or have no health care in a country with a big economy, even have a big percentage of people poor in such a country, so how big the economy is is not relevant for many people.
When my mind is idle it will consider jumping off the bridge I'm walking over, or pushing strangers in front of the passing train at a station. I never thought I would do any of this, and the thoughts are easy to dismiss. To me, these thoughts were just part of the normal what-if and should-i scenarios my mind plays all the time.

I was surprised to learn that some people don't have these thoughts and consider it worrying if I have them. I still think they must have a very boring mind if they never consider anything off the beaten path. But there was a time in my life where I had the recurring image of punching my conversation partner in the face. It was quite intrusive and while I wasn't ever close to carrying through I started wondering what caused it. I had to change some things in my life to reduce this back to a passing idea like before.
If you have someone worth twice as much as your other employees at the same level, then you can promote that person or perhaps figure out why your other employees aren't as productive.

I don't see why such a situation should need to affect salary transparency. It's also useful for employees to know the standards required to earn more.