skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you sure you haven't already given it to them? Most people don't read that fine print of the contracts, or terms of service, or privacy statements that they are signing or otherwise agreeing to, but it's generally in there how they will use your info.

> If you use FB, have you read all of this? You agreed to it

There's something messed up about the idea that you shouldn't expect privacy unless you wade through the fine print perfectly, every time. The deck is stacked against the privacy-seeking individual, and it's practically impossible to guard one's privacy as an individual.

Businesses have gotten used to getting a free ride when it comes to managing consent for personal data use. Those costs need to be shifted to be more equitably shared between those businesses and individual consumers. We reforms that put GDPR-type requirements around the use of personal data.
sorry. It means you go hard as a motherf*er. cool work man.
>A centralized system has a better way of tracking this. If everybody involved with the health care system is working for a government salary, and everybody who sells equipment is selling it to the government, then we know who is getting rich by exactly how much.

Did you not see the audit from the pentagon that came out today???

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pentagon-audit/pentag...

Why would you think they will track things well when they clearly do not.
The “re-humanizing retail” line left a bad taste in my mouth. When I think of lots of cameras in a store designed to get you in and out as quickly as possible without having to talk to a cashier or a stocker, it feels de-humanizing and sterile. It is also one of the ways I interact with people at different income levels. That’s why people go to farmers markets and do CSA boxes - they want to feel connection to their food providers and community.

I don’t doubt this technology is the future or will be a big market, but let’s not kid ourselves that this will generate more human connection.
There was. He is not facing the death penalty. Solitary confinement in a Supermax facility for life is arguably worse though. 23 hours a day alone in a room with no windows for the rest of your life.
Where is your evidence that H1B candidates are paid less? That is false based on my experience hiring. Further, H1B sponsorship costs money and commitment to the applicant and government, so hiring an H1B is actually more expensive than domestic candidates. Not only that, but in the H1B process you have to show that there isn’t an equivalent domestic candidate and you, as a company, made an effort to find such a candidate.

You are also ignoring the contributions such immigrants make to the broader economy by inventing, building, and hell, just using their salaries to buy things. We are stronger when we take the labor of or competition and put it to efficient use.

If you’re really concerned about wage increases for employees you need to focus on the imbalance of power we have as employers. I make hiring decisions every month, and I can tell you, as much as this is the best job market in a generation, and employees have the best bargaining position they’ve had in a long time, our company has way more power than any one employee.
In which way? Libertarians aren't necessarily globalists. They are just indifferent towards the concept. But if the globalists weave in too much influence, it would definitely been seen from an libertrain's perspective, a threat to their liberty.
An object with a diameter of roughly 1.5km (which is very close to 1 mile) doesn't break up in the atmosphere. Considering that the vast majority of the atmosphere's mass is within the first 16 km, this object has a width just over 9% of the thickness of the most dense part of the atmosphere), and it's likely moving at tens of thousands of km per second. It would have punched right on through the atmosphere in no time, impacted the Earth, and ejected molten crust all over the place.
That's great! How is WebRender on Wayland + Vulkan progressing by the way?

I'm still postponing switch to Wayland, until major KWin bugs (like flickering one) are fixed.
You need to clearly understand the difference between making money from selling software licenses to your customers vs. having the investors as your primary customers.

In the current market you will hardly find a private player looking for a return on their investment through profits/dividends; they will be more likely trying to cash out when you create enough buzz to get acquired or IPOed. That's a completely different game from the naive "sell licenses - make profit" option, but that's the game private equity plays in 2018. And no, desktop applications are not buzzwordy enough for that game, sorry.

That said, there's plenty of money to be made selling desktop products to businesses. You just need to approach it differently, get the actual product/market fit, grow your presence organically, listen to your customers, learn from your mistakes and so on. Don't get discouraged by bootstrapping - you don't need a fully functional product to see if there is a market for the problem you are solving. Create a minimal prototype, write a few articles showing it off and tune in on the feedback. Once you start hearing from real people trying to solve real problems with your prototype, it will be very easy to find which next features will make your product more usable and will inevitably bring more revenue.
Garbage?

I found Zapier many years ago because I was searching for a way to connect two specific products together. They made a page to advertise their general purpose tool as a way to solve my specific need. It was effective, and at a time when there was no other way.

Not sure why you see this as such a negative thing.
I've always wished this to be open sourced. Oh man I'm glad there is no javascript nonsense, overall design is great. Thank you so much for opening this beauty :)
I posed a question in a public forum of generally thoughtful people to figure out what I’m missing and why I should be worried. I am literally asking for other viewpoints because it’s clear that people disagree and I want to understand why.
Reading. The second one is writing.
Hah. It would be a hit piece if it were untrue and simply attempting to sway opinion against.

Facebook applying for patents on distinctly creepy inferences from photos is hardly a hit piece. It puts it squarely in the category of Facebook bringing it on itself.
I hope you and all your family are running FB cookie blockers because that's another huge trove of info they can use to target and sell.

Shadow accounts for those who don't comply and real accounts for those who login.
Nobody in a big enterprise can buy from the Windows Store. Better sell license keys from a website.
To be fair, not using a computer is pretty much the gold standard when it comes to maintaining your cyber security.
New composite image of galaxy cluster Abell 1033 looks like Starship Enterprise
Are facts inconvenient for Facebook?
Yes, it is a lot worse.

I live in Brazil, where a Facebook company, was used in a plot to spread fake news to elect a far right president. They are really against doing anything that may affect their bottom line.

No other tech company is this bad.
Not sure if there is a conspiracy at play. But if we were to use our imagination we can probabaly come up with some pretty good ones. But I suspect it's to provoke and antagonize. If people in my community "one of the worst in the country" were to wake up to find out their favorite type of cigarette had been banned. I don't think people would be happy to find their liberty being encroached upon so egregiously.

It's intresting they chose flavored cigarettes and not alcohol. One is a greater public safety issue than the other. The fact that they chose something so innocuous is the dead giveaway, that there is ulterior motive.
Outlook for Mac Data File (.OLM) Support and MBX to PST Conversion in Android
Anyone remember when Steve Jobs and other tech leaders were caught making secret agreements to prevent employees from moving?
How does being free trade and open-borders not make you a globalist? Those are like the primary pillars of globalization.
• 15 Sep 2016 "If Obama grants Manning clemency, Assange will agree to US prison in exchange -- despite its clear unlawfulness" [1]

• 12 Jan 2017 "If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear unconstitutionality of DoJ case" [2]

• 17 Jan 2017 "Assange lawyer @themtchair on Assange-Manning extradition 'deal': "Everything that he has said he's standing by." [3]

[1] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/776437869376262144

[2] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/819630102787059713

[3] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/821528189625372672
Yeah MAME is great (and I've actually played through Space Harrier on MAME, it's only like 15 minutes long ha ha ha) but there's nothing like playing on real hardware on a CRT for a true zero lag experience.

Playing a game on a modern platform (including MAME running on a PC) adds about 100ms of latency, minimum. That's not a ton of latency, and games can still be plenty fun, but it's on the threshold of being noticeable and even if we're not conscious of that input lag, it's just not the game as that "I'm wired directly into the machine" feeling of a true zero latency setup.

http://renderingpipeline.com/2013/09/measuring-input-latency...

(of course, even in an all-analog setup, there can be latency, but not on the order of 100ms. at least not on the hardware side of things)
I can't decide if this is a beautiful troll or what goes for taking a moral stance these days.
If you search for “The Tube Guys”, the front cover of that book shows a 94 GHz, 1 MW tube used for an airborne active denial system.

Traveling Wave tubes are still widely used for SATCOM.
Totally agree. A lot of simple brochure sites could be done that way.
When you click on the underlined blank, it opens the dictionary and gives you the answer. Not sure if that's an I feature
Other than sharing a view you disagree with, what exactly did the author say to justify labeling them as ignorant?

You show utmost disrespect to the author, I feel you should at least go to the trouble of explaining your points.
Have you ever been an actual end user of one of those Delphi/VB RAD crapplications that were so easy to build?

I think your goal is very misguided. They all sucked, and were basically no better than MS Access forms.
WILL take over?
I have a generic Android phone and its lack of background noise was quite surprising, so either it has active noise canceling or an extremely short-range mic. I suspect most if not all of them already have such functionality.
Where is it ethical to work?

I'm coming to the conclusion, pretty much nowhere is inscrutable and free from scandal in one form or another.

However that doesn't give us a pass to be glib and just throw our hands up and say, it's all bad who cares, get money. Nothing positive comes from cynicism.

It's especially important to call this out when companies are talking about "making the world better" or otherwise making broad statements about them being a positive force in the world. It's incongruous between reality and their public relations, and that needs to be talked about.
It reads like a sponsored piece from the DoJ.

"I took my courtroom musings to the ACLU’s Jennifer Granick, an expert on digital privacy and a former criminal defense attorney. She said even if law enforcement and prosecutors can’t access every morsel of digital information when investigating a crime, there is often more than one way to compile the same evidence or corroborating information."

Yet, why not give up our freedoms to make life easier for law enforcement.
Sounded like a great gag gift for Christmas haha
> > Monopolies are predominantly, in anti-trust law, judged by market (pricing) power, not raw market percentage.

> In theory sure. In practice, explain the Whole Foods/Wild Oats case

Pricing power explains that. Pricing power occurs when price increases from one market player do not result in losing business to a competitor; the fact that other players could in principle choose to enter the market and unbermine that pricing power is not an argument against the existence of pricing power.

> Trader Joe's/Albertson's/etc could start carrying the goods overnight.

But, whatever one might argue they could do, they didn't in places Wild Oats or Whole Foods were alone in the segment, with price competition occurring where one of the two opened stores where the other already operated, and avoiding that price competition being documented as Whole Foods own analysis of and CEO’s motivation for the deal.

> My point is that there can be "effective competition" even if there are zero competitors at the moment

Which is false. There can be speculative, potential future competition, but that's not what anti-trust law cares about, for good reason.
> Facebook applying for patents on distinctly creepy inferences from photos is hardly a hit piece.

That one is by buzzfeednews, not the nytimes. I know it's hard to tell the difference between news companies today. There are 3 hitpieces on facebook on the frontpage. 2 of those are by the nytimes.

There is a 4th by the businessinsider trying to make it's way to the frontpage.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18465553

But the ones I was referring to were from the nytimes only.
You are already a lead. And one who has performed well. They are acknowledging you as a senior dev. For a year! Whether deliberate or not, this obviously has to be fixed.

This shouldn't be something related to performance reviews. Set your BATNA[1] to give you psychological support, approach your director/previous manager and in the nicest way possible say that you love working here and want to continue to do so but you need them to fix the situation. Put the pressure on them. When it comes to your performance review you want them to be on the back foot.

Note its important to keep communications really nice, really positive, but be willing to walk away. There is a chance they will not accept, for whatever reason. If this is the case then you may be better off someplace else.

[1] Your best alternative to the negotiations failing. Typically this means having a job offer from another company ready (not as ammo, just personal psychological support). But also committing to yourself that you will leave if they don't accept is fine too.
The difference is that Airtable's core data structure is a relational database whereas Google Sheets' core is a spreadsheet. It's very easy to link to records in other tables in Airtable. Google Sheets does not have the concept of records. You could hack something together, but it just works in Airtable. Airtable shines when you want to have a list X, and then for each item in X, have a list Y. X could be homes, clients, or events, and Y could be rooms, tasks, or guests. In Google Sheets, these types of relationships are awkward to represent.
It really depends on your definition of normal and comfortable, and how able you are to entertain yourself when you are not working or shacking up in your tornado shelter (which you will probably have to dig yourself.)
https://web.archive.org/web/20180304005047/https://theblog.o...
I don't qualify for this offer, and I wouldn't accept it if I did. I have a ragweed allergy. I was horribly ill when I lived in Kansas, probably at least in part because it is ragweed central. Oklahoma is also ragweed central. So that doesn't work for me.

I liked Oklahoma when I went through there. I spent a few years kind of wishing I could live in Oklahoma. I am a homebody who spends a lot of time online. I need a few decent places to eat and shop, but I can kind of make my own fun.

I mostly don't understand complaints that a city is "boring." I mean, if it has 500 people, okay, I can see that. I need a certain amount of city fabric. But I don't really get it when that gets said about big cities. Tulsa is 400k people.
Really? 12000 years ago would have pre-dated any known invention of written language by something like 8000 years. Even if Atlantis existed 12000 years ago when this event happened, how can we trust any description of it that was passed along orally for 8000 years before anyone had any chance of writing it down (and then maintain accuracy for another 4000 years of religions, states, entertainers and others who would readily change such a story for their own benefit)?

Atlantis is likely a made-up story, for entertainment purposes, just as Hollywood has made a billion dollar business out of making up stories for entertainment. I wonder if historians in 1000 years will wonder where Frodo Baggins is buried, or how to get to the planet featured in Avatar.
I guess being married to someone who speaks the language counts as immersion :)
There is rarely outright falsehood, but lots of misdirection and omission, and a ton of fluffy echo chamber pieces.

There are some good articles but I personally would not rely upon the paper's content as accurate unless all of the facts and assertions were independently verified elsewhere.
I don't know how often people are filing bankruptcy over hospital bills but I don't it would matter even if there was price transparency. I haven't seen any hospitals going bankrupt lately.

The cost of healthcare for those not under a group insurance plan or subsidized ACA plans is crazy expensive for a family regardless. To the point of what's more important your house payment or health ins payment? People are just barely scraping by so the intent to pay in the bill in full is just a dream, even if it's just a $100. They would rather face the consequences of bill collectors nagging them which they just ignore.
How about stop buying back so many freaking shares all the time. So tired of companies spending so much money on this.
C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines
Totally agree. I think a good example is the tobacco industry.
It definitely is.

https://www.tdi.texas.gov/news/2018/tdi10082018.html

> The problem meant consumers couldn’t get in-network anesthesia services at more than 20 hospitals and surgical centers in three of the state’s largest metro areas.

https://www.vox.com/2018/5/23/17353284/emergency-room-doctor...

> Except he wasn’t: While the emergency room where Kohan was seen was in his insurance network, the oral surgeon who worked in that ER was not. That’s how Kohan ended up with a $7,924 bill from the oral surgeon that his health plan declined.

> Separate data from the Center for Public Policy Priorities, an Austin-based think tank, finds that a staggering number of Texas emergency rooms have zero in-network emergency physicians — meaning that patients are guaranteed to see a doctor who does not accept their health insurance.
Amazon has "Leadership Principles". Lots of them. And they (we? I work there) do seem to take them seriously.

Hiring? Every interviewer is trying to gain insight into one or two of those specific leadership principles. Promotions? Better have demonstrated them and have documentation to prove it.

It's not perfect, but the company tries really hard to make them not be bullshit.
You'll at least quote an hourly rate, a doctor won't do that.
Show HN: My new personal site
I was browsing through Awwwards and a number of articles related to web design this morning and it inspired me to re-make my personal/portfolio site.

I have never made a decent looking theme before, from scratch. I've been primarily in backend developer roles while working professionally and freelancing. I'm looking for any and all feedback! What do you like? What do you dislike? Any tips? Comments? etc...

I am excited to hear back from the community. Please note that I haven't even tried to make this responsive on mobile devices, yet. I plan to do that tomorrow or later tonight if I feel up to it. Anyways, enjoy!

https://jesseh.xyz

https://github.com/jessehorne/personalsite
I’ll try this tomorrow with airline lane recordings from a black box. It would be interesting to see what will happen.
Jeong and Swisher are the captains of the anti-tech crusade at the Times. Guess the clicks for those Trump articles are drying up.
See, I would be afraid to move to Tulsa with this context. I don't have a firm grasp on the economic outlook of the region, nor the demographics or the culture. Nor do I know how welcoming the citizens in Tulsa are toward gay, athiests like myself. I know most of my friends wouldn't feel comfortable (one calls the place she hails from Misery, in reference to the state and her former state of mind while growing up there).
Was mainly going by this book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

It's well known and has good research on how multiple media outlets can produce the same output basically.

Did you mean they do explicitly coordinate? I haven't seen or heard of that happening. Not that it's impossible.
How Japan can cope with the 100-year-life society
To be fair, they're more secure in the average case where someone leaves their phone on the bus and someone else picks it up. Joe Shmo the phone thief isn't likely to know how to lift fingerprints (e.g. off the phone itself), but they can unlock an unsecured phone.

If that's the difference we're talking about, fingerprint security is way better than no security and has about the same convenience.

I don't use the fingerprint sensor on my phone because I prefer better security through a relatively long password. However, I'd much prefer that someone use something than nothing. I think patterns are a reasonable alternative, as are PINs.
I think they usually tax by where you do business (which is usually where you live, for remote work), not where it's incorporated.
“Still work”? Was there a time that shareware worked? Serious question.. citations appreciated.

Also it sounds like you are doing enterprise software. Shareware was more of a consumer pricing model. With enterprise you want to make it totally free for small scale grassroots adoption by champions and then monetize large scale adoption.
Does that mean nike are in favor of performance enhancing drugs?
This is why we use data and not your memory.
The plastic backlash: what's behind our sudden rage?
Neat, thanks for the link!

What I'm really thinking though, is a simpler looking map. Like a political map of the world, the kinds you had hanging up in your 2nd grade classroom. I'm surprised no one has made one yet of our starry neighborhood.

I'd make one, but I unfortunately cannot draw or do any graphic design to save my life.
Which both run an app made by Facebook.
Have a friend who went on tour recently and they mentioned how much they liked Tulsa. They live in San Diego right now and definitely can't afford a house in the area. Weird to see this post after talking to them about it.
Nice tu quote!
Yup, I'm agreeing with you there- I don't think Snowden ever intended to end up exiled in Russia. He might be beholden to the Russians now- for his physical safety- he's very likely more blameless in that than Assange might be, I haven't seen actual evidence that he wanted to end up in Russia.

Whereas Assange might have (depending on the facts) happily taken help from the Russian state in the name of sowing chaos. Assange has no particular ties to the US, and might have found a way to square it with whatever his morals are. Or he found an encrypted archive in his email and he just published it, provenance unknown.
Exactly. As I put it in another comment, if someone leaked information that led to Jerry Sandusky being stopped several years sooner, would it matter if the leaker was affiliated with a rival football program?

Because of how WL releases full, minimally redacted documents, there is really no reason to worry about the details. Failures of journalistic integrity happen because of strategic omissions or intentional misdirection. WL essentially can't do that because it releases the source material in essentially raw form.
FB is already close to there in my opinion. My main concern is someone like Ellison running Google. For all of Google’s faults, they could be a lot more evil.