skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> .. we as techs need to push up in the agenda of management

> .. It just seems like a losing battle at times

Bad management. Managers in tech companies must have tech background. I was burned before, joining big banking corps, where managers are just bureaucrats, quit with regret for a lost time.

Next time, I will vet the management layer before joining.
http://verve.co/our-products/

> VERVE EVENTS is the global market leader in word-of-mouth sales in the live entertainment industry. We use networks of advocates to sell products and experiences to their friends in exchange for rewards such as free tickets and backstage passes.

...

> POLLEN is a community of influential young people who are passionate about sharing the best events. We handpick Members and, through our tools and support, make it easy for them to share their passion.

...

This sounds like a hip, trendy veneer atop the concepts of affiliate sales, and offshore farms of fake review writers. I suspect that their landing page is vague by design.
Advanced CS work has more to do with psychology and sociology than science and engineering in my experience.
The government computer intrusions continue
You're quite the rebel prophet, huh? "Wake up, sheeple! Listen to me - I'll open your eyes to the truth". I understand there's a compound in Texas going cheap. One previous owner; slight fire damage.
"It said some records also included encrypted payment card information, but it could not rule out the possibility that the encryption keys had also been stolen."

Oh dear.
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>I just don’t get how people put up with this

They don't. In the past couple of years staples of the Northeast such as Wawa and Yuengling can be found in places as far away as Florida. The reason for this is because of the number of people leaving the Northeast due to the fiscal pressures that you describe.

Also, NJ is just as bad as NY when it comes to taxes. My parents live in Central Jersey, and their property taxes are insane.
Ah, so the refills are for fountain drinks only? I'm not from the US, and I never realized that. Thanks!
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He would only not have rights to the invention if he signed them over during or after the patent application process. If he was an inventor and not listed on the patent then that invalidates the patent.
I don’t think you need to worry about that. In my experience, unless your IP has really bad reputation (think tor exit nodes), a normal browser with a fresh profile will get an easy captcha (2-3 pictures at most).
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Wait, 13 years and not married? Highly sketch.
I don't think birth certificate is optional in the UK; and children get an NHS number at birth usually. Birth Certificates / entries in the register of births include the mother's name and child's -- though it can be a temporary name ("baby Smith", "Tuesday Jones") IIRC, to be corrected later if desired.

Also if you work, or claim benefits you'll have an officially recognised designation that comports with your birth certificate and have a National Insurance Number (NINO).

It's not quite as anarchistic as you imply.
What if I accept ads but reject paywalls?
What he probably did not predict is just how many of today's influencers are famous for very little besides getting paid for influencing.

I guess we all are a bit guilty of giving our attention in part because we'd like to be like those who receive it, and getting money for what others have to pay for, . It's most visible in networks with a follow/follow-back economy like Instagram, but bloggers, conference speakers, anywhere a personal brand has wider reach than friends and family.
This was an interesting read!

Being from Belgium, I wouldn't have expected the difference between how we index "Vincent Van Gogh". We always (or I do) thought that using the same software in Belgium (Flanders) and the Netherlands would be easy - i18n wise.

(There are issues with different laws though depending on the domain of your software)
I very much like the form of this, yet I wish that the dependencies were ordered differently, such that one would not need to jump around (e.g. eigenvalues before determinants, since the latter are defined by the former).
Well...there's Monty Python's John Gambolputty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDPqB9i1ScY

While a comical exaggeration, there simply isn't a hard limit - just somebody drawing the line and saying "640 kB should be enough for anybody."

As for "ridiculous" - having many names is apparently a nobility custom, even if most people don't insist on using the full name in everyday matters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Schwarzenberg is also Karl Johannes Nepomuk Josef Norbert Friedrich Antonius Wratislaw Menas Fürst zu Schwarzenberg and Karel Jan Nepomuk Josef Norbert Bedřich Antonín Vratislav Menas kníže ze Schwarzenbergu (oh look, several non-equivalent but canonical names!)
Guessing the pressed keyboard keys by analyzing the audio from the microphone
Or possibly better. Thinking of the explosion of DNA sequencing technology over the past decade, I'm kind of grateful that people reinvented the wheel about a half-dozen times (Solexa/Illumina, 454, IonTorrent, Solid, PacBio, ONT, etc.)
I think the main performance bottleneck is that I'm adding to a submatrix. Which seems to be a big performance hit in basically all high level languages.
The sadly-discontinued Udacity CS 253 (Web Application Engineering) with Steve Huffman. Partly because of the accessibility of the material and Steve’s sometimes puckish delivery (learning sick MongoDB burns in 2012 put me way ahead of the tech curve). Learning how to build and deploy a web app in Python with the super-lightweight webapp2, rolling your own salted-and-hashed account system... so many good tidbits that gave me a good intuition about how web apps are put together.

The timing of the course also couldn’t have been better for me personally. It was released about 2 weeks after I quit my job. I wanted to learn how to build digital products, and after struggling with scattered tutorials, CS 253 was like being thrown a life preserver.

Thanks, Steve.
dupe (a few seconds earlier) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18568552
It might be not a good decision for DO to provide VPN services. The reason is there are many DO users from China. Providing VPN services may cause China block all DO IPs and consequently force China users to use other hostings.
Marriott discloses a massive data breach affecting up to 500M guests
I wanted to acknowledge your reply. I don't really have anything to say but wanted to let you know I read it.
This was frustrating to read. He describes the romanticized notions promoted by silicon valley similarly to “making it” in Hollywood or as a singer. There, people waited tables and were peniless but at least they didn’t borrow huge sums from their parents who borrowed against their home, and then said it was a huge success when they ended up in the red. Not to mention all the drinking drugs and stress.

In the end, the guy got crowdfunded, and his girlfriend helped him a lot. They could have done that from anyplace, living near his parents, and gotten married.
Different libraries: yes
Different languages: no

You can use many already included libraries and install your own.
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Another one for "People’s names do not change." - transgender people will almost always change their name during their transition.
+$1k got invention disclosures? Ha, my company pays $150.
This are ver valid points, and I agree with that. You added tue nuance my post was missing.
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I have heard this is a really good resource for understanding this exact aspect of Rust

http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/too-many-lists/book/
Feel free to read the source code (the entire thing is 400 lines) and disable extension auto updates. Or sideload the addon from the github repo so there's no way for it to auto update in the first place.
Comparing a RDBMS with an object database is pretty useless for benchmarking.

I'd be more interested to see comparison to, for example, Realm[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realm_(database)
I always get a chuckle when hearing Democrats talk nonstop about how the rich need to be taxed to pay their fair share, and then they turn around and talk about how horrible the SALT cap is.
>I did as well until I moved to Chicago earlier this year,

Go to the SafeHouse restaurant, it's on the magnificent mile!

I finally got to go aboard U-505 in October which had been a dream of mine since going up there when we camped at Dunes state park and then road the train up to the museum in scouts when I was a pre-teen, after I ended up at that restaurant. It's really goofy but was quite a fun experience from entering in a unique way to exiting in a fun way.
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Google will continue to try to track me across unrelated websites, so I'll keep blocking them. I crucially specified "serve the ads from the website's own domain".
One for "people have names"- in the context of an emergency room or criminal investigation, a person's name may not be initially known.

ERs work around this by assigning a code name to every trauma patient... meaning those patients have an additional name in the context of the hospital system.
Binging with Babish could help https://www.bingingwithbabish.com/recipes/2017/6/27/chateaub...
Also the SEC has no criminal enforcement power. They have to refer the case go FBI/DOJ.
Instagram Stories rolls out 'Close Friends' feature
Is payment information not typically salted & hashed like a password?
Have you checked out similar services to see what they do? I.e. Scott’s Cheap Flights?

https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/scotts-cheap-flights-...
> IMO any competent CS grad is able to make a CRUD app and that's still the rage today and (3) they are not taking into account that people are able to learn (especially uni students). But I digress, sorry about that :)

If only this were universally true. I've so far had lackluster results actually hiring CS grads compared to self-taught people that moved in from the trades.
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> Yes, this is the real problem if you stop paying. You can still go bankrupt after this point though.

You sound like you have a lot of first-hand experience in this area. Mind sharing how?
I haven't felt this annoyed by something I've heard since the time ten years ago my boss tried to argue us into writing VB.NET instead of C#. At least the audio of that conversation was received normally...
They shouldn't, but that doesn't mean they aren't: https://apnews.com/828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0ecb
taking sides and not cherry picking the positive contributions to society while turning a blind eye to them aiding foreign regimes in committing crimes¹, is not easy to do. And I mean this in the most sincere way possible.

But in the words of Desmond Tutu, "if you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor"

¹ Tracking China’s Muslim Gulag: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/muslims-...
~"We encrypt sensitive data at rest. And we store decryption keys on our user facing app servers so that apps can decrypt the data. Cool, right?"
"8D audio", or in other words "Nothing new with added marketing spin"
Depends on your threat model, not everyone is going to pay for a hardware U2F . Not every application needs that high security. TOTP is an option definitely better than just plain password, which is what most services use today
>I read the article and I listened to the samples and I fail to see where the "8D" comes in.

"these go to eleven"
No, it just confirms who the person is. No agreement is presented on that device (I am a Googler who has guests now and then).
That was my usual extension management method for chrome, but sadly each time I tried that on firefox, it didn't fly (IIRC, you _can_ load extension from your local FS, but they only lives for the time of the session).

By the way, if someone from firefox team is reading this : I would _really_ love to be able to just load directories from my FS as extensions rather than having to trust someone on the internet that it does what it says it does. I love building extensions myself, but I just don't install extensions from the web anymore because I don't know what's in there (note that referring to a github repos is not enough : I have no guarantee the content of the extension is the same).
Why is that surprising? The proof that the HP is unsolvable is based on showing that, if there were a solution, it would fail on one specific input.
We don't have software patents (as such! [lol]) in Europe.

Software is different, in that source and decompilation exist, you can't really keep it secret.
I think you have misunderstood what is happening now.

Companies are staying private lot longer not because there is some obscurity or different interests etc. They are staying private for the same reason public companies are buying back more and more shares.

And giving them another market is not going to help, naivety or not. What is going to help is tightening interest rates and rising yields. It should change the flow. But that's not going to happen in short term. And certainly not with naive blockchain options.

That said, a quick google search throws up tons of places to sell your private stakes. Example - EB Exchange (source: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/12/uber-insiders-are-eager-to-s...)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18567771
From a previous comment of mine:

Barbara Oakley's Learning How To Learn class [0] was immensely helpful for understanding how brains work and how I could learn efficiently.

I made it through college with a combination of cramming and bad sleep habits, but focusing on spaced repetition, the diffuse/active modes, and sleep has made classes I've taken since feel like easy mode.

[0]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
Reminds me that anecdote, not sure who it was, he was wondering where are the Caesars or the Hitlers of our time, all that brand of ambitious, manipulative and dominant personalities. The answer, he found, was that nowadays those people are absorbed into corporate instead of going into politics.
I use Stylus with a set of rules to increase contrast and change the font. Just changing the font (with default weight 400) has a huge effect on legibility.

Stylus - https://add0n.com/stylus.html
Researchers built a smart dress to show how often women are groped at clubs
I suspect its a 4chan prank, 8-D
Rumor is that Espressif is actually working on LLVM support.
Personally I was expecting linear-algebra based recipes that let you vary proportions continuously or something.
It seems standard that all of these JS table libraries are rendering using <div> elements instead of a <table> element. Why? This really irks me. As far as I can tell, all of the features could be implemented using the correct HTML element rather than using <div> to mimic a table.
some cryptocurrencies come to mind. unfortunately none has caught up
Even if the site is, not all of the responses are. People really do think this way!
You could use separate profiles on Firefox (which I do, I have half a dozen) and in each profile set up different browser headers. Everything coming from the same IP address would still be an issue, but I doubt that trackers rely on that alone as it's too coarse. Families will easily have 6 - 12 devices for several different people in the home all NATed through the same ISP IP address. You could use proxies if you're really worried about it.
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I think a bigger reason is that Python prioritizes simplicity of internal implementation.

To be sure, the internal implementation of CPython (the only one I'm familiar with) is complicated as hell. But it's a whole lot simpler than any fast JavaScript runtime I've ever used. I think that's the result of a conscious choice by the maintainers/BDFL/community in Python, not a side effect of it having less funding (assuming that's the case).
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Prayagraj,+Uttar+Pradesh/@...
Meanwhile in useless podcast ads they try to paint Firefox as the parangon of virtue for users privacy.
Thanks.

There's no way we can keep up the maintenance of two entire copies of the site; we can barely do the work for one.
>"We deeply regret this incident happened," the company said in a statement.

This is peak non-apology apology.
It just means the hull design (and some other things) are different so it can function as its own icebreaker. If anything it's less risky than using normal tankers and constantly trying to clear a path for them.
I think that the statement "all the universe is love" is the ultimate example of a "Darwinian Truth" (I hesitate to reference Jordan Peterson here, but it's another useful definition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Q2qgdYB3I). I believe that in order for us humans to survive and thrive in life, individually and collectively, it is a truth must ultimately be consciously acknowledged. After all, we each represent projections of maternal lineage founded on an unbroken chain of our mothers' unconditional love for us. This way of viewing things is therefore primary since it has been there since very the beginnings of individual awareness. The original fact.

As to exactly how you personally should interpret "all the universe is love", well, it's a very personal thing. Perhaps the most general way to convey how that feels to me is: extend your deep inner-child maternal love outwards to encompass the rest of humanity, the Earth's ecosystem, and the natural conditions that gave rise to life itself. Like the feeling of warm sunshine on a cold day.
something similar is happening with ads nowadays. There is tons of fraud in ads and all earnings / payouts are approximate. yet the system works, even approximately. My guess is fraud will be a small percent, certainly tolerable
Yeah fountain drinks and occasionally tea (sweet or unsweet) depending on where you are at.

No problem!
I found it quite disconcerting, verging on making me feel seasick/dizzy. I tried a few different 8D's but it just makes listening to music feel like too much hard work. When I kick back with my tunes I don't really need the singer to be leaping and spinning inside my head. Nick Drake's vocal sound staging are just perfectly fine the way the studio recorded them.

That said, I could see a use for this in gaming with a VR headset (are they still a thing?) if that was your bag.
Yeah, I don’t get Mozilla fanboys when it’s not the first time they are doing things in the like.
What's wrong with profiles. They've had those forever and I have half a dozen. I don't see what any of this new "container" stuff really adds to that.
Why on earth would they hold onto passport numbers? The amount of data companies hold onto is ridiculous. It can't all be necessary.
Indeed. I'll see stuff and be like "that's idiotic" and them I'm like "Ryan, with your last company you did a 9/11 sale and got ripped apart online for it because you don't have a high EQ and didn't even think how it would be received, go stand in the corner".
> he represents financial success like almost no other athlete on the planet ever has in the history of mankind

What about Michael Jordon?
Can anyone recommend solutions (for those that don't know). On how to have an encrypted database for sensitive information, i.e first name, last name, ip, geo data, etc and the encryption keys not be available to hackers when they have essentially gained root?
>Emotions are likely result of chemicals.

Your entire brain is the result of chemicals. Emotions, as such, are a result of your interoceptive cortical systems.
I use iceweasel personally.
Bee DB is catchy, but would probably violate some sort of Buck Rogers IP
So HiDPI on multiple monitors works every time, in the overwhelming majority of apps too?

(This is usually the scenario where people say "Yes! all you have to do is swap ___ with ___ and tweak this one setting, and it's done!"
To be fair we can't be sure that she was personally involved or had knowledge of the patent application.
I'm very interested in working in the genetics/biotech industry as a software engineer - how much specialist knowledge do you feel is required to approach that career path? My background is computer science, so I have been looking around at biochemistry courses which might be helpful.

Would love to pick your brain if you have the time :)
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Curious if it matters much that the keys were stolen too. How long to brute force a 16 digit number? With a known subset of 4 digit leaders, and being able to cull the list first for ones with good luhn checksums.

Edit: Ugh. Yes. My mind was apparently elsewhere. Keyspace would drive the time needed.

Though it is a relatively short list of known plaintext. especially if you focus on the bin ranges for say the three most popular banks in the US.

But, only interesting if Marriot was using some encryption with a small keyspace.
i m honestly faster with vim , except for the times that i need to switch files etc.
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Leverage networks, find partnerships, build relationships, provide some form of guarantee, do demos and POCs.
Natural evolution is not directed and so cannot be seen as solving anything.
What is the mass equivalent of all electromagnetic radiation? Or more crudely, how much does light weigh?
It wouldn't be until I'm off for Christmas holidays (at the earliest) though. I don't have a whole lot of time left between work and family; and have a few projects on the go as it is already.
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Presumably because Google didn't communicate anything along the lines of "we were already working on this". Even then, there's so much prior art in open research that the patent was invalidated anyway.
Because they linked your IP to your profile. Now your searches are logged to a person, smooth sailing.
No, it is clearly unprofesssional. But let's be honest: So much of what happens in corporate America today is highly unethical and unprofessional. The people who innovate have to be on the lookout for those who will gladly steal to get ahead. These people are the same little shits who did all the devious things to other people in grade school.

My own experience with patents has been about the same: Circa 2000, under the direction of my thesis adviser, I invented a means to preview website pages in a sort of flip book. We demonstrated the tech at a conference later that year. I wanted the school to help us get it patented, but they wouldn't touch it because they didn't understand the value. They were just interested in patenting work out of the chemistry department, stuff that was more "real" I guess. Anyhow, just a couple years later I saw that a company had patented our work, despite the prior art. In another paper, I described a technique for how a web browser could display tiled snapshots of web pages you had already visited. What I was trying to do at the time was develop a way to capture headless screenshots of pages while crawling websites, but it was not such an easy thing to do at the time. The tiled "hey, check out what you already visited" didn't seem like that great of a use case at the time.

I'm just happy I graduated and I pretty much gladly gave away all my ideas for free because honestly, it's not the ideas that matter, it's the examples. I feel for anyone who pours their heart into their work and then has to deal with these corporate scum who just feast on anything they can. I'm dealing with it again right now in the big data world at another giant corporation. I never really learn my lesson.