skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that's rooted in arcane parts of the IRS regs where you are subject to certain limits based on the room charge but not on the taxes paid on the rooms, and for high-cost areas the combined total may exceed the room-charge-only limit.
The more questions you ask on a survey, the more the results tend to be garbage. Either people will give up on it, or they'll fill in everything with the same value.
One issue I have is when feedback is clearly being collected with intent to manipulate, like with a cable company. They ask you to specifically rate the individual person, and you know that the person sitting in a call center all day might lose their job because of a bad rating. You might give a good rating even if you had bad service (or at least you’ll give a 5 instead of a 3). Then the company turns around and advertises that they have the best customer satisfaction ratings, etc. when in reality everyone hates them, but doesn’t want to blame it on the poor person stuck in the call center.
A lot of families already have a Windows computer and not everyone can afford a spare computer to run Linux on, and some people's PCs can't run a full Linux in a VM either.

Windows has a lot of ways to develop for Linux/Unix now. It sure isn't FOSS, but let's not discourage a promising way to get more people into software, even if it's on Windows.
I share your concern regarding text fields. That's the one area where I never want to mess with native behavior. The search results for "flutter ios text field copy paste" aren't encouraging.
> International trade in real goods demands cheap. IPR demands rent which is "not cheap" -So the US demands for IPR rents on goods made in china, is like cutting your nose to spite your face: If you drive China to pay IPR taxes, you will drive china to seek IPR inside itself to avoid the taxes and charge YOU to copy them.

Back in Shanzhai days, there was a popular saying about the attitude of American "Big Business" to Chinese industry: "you do all the hard work, and we will do all the money." That's a very equitable separation of labour :) American Big Co. people are mad because they can't continue doing that.
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After being a loyal Nexus Android phone user, made the mistake of getting a recent Samsung Galaxy phone. Never again. Updates will undo menu settings and break user settings arbitrarily, that if if Samsung even respects your settings configurations. Don't get me started on the uninstallable Samsung bloatware that is redundant to Google apps (calendar, photo gallery etc) that breaks all the time and backs up your data on its own if your aren't careful.
> The west would be smart to wait to see how easy it really is to do business in China without giving over IP before giving China credit.

Has this not already happened? HPE is majority owned Chinese company now isn't it?
Would be cool if it didn't leak half the authentication setup. Seems like the error handler could scan the text for configured values and mask before echoing it out.
> First, the history is different. Chinese civilization has an unbroken history of five thousand years.

Despite that this is a inspired article, this sentence still interrupt my immersive reading. Such claim has always been ridiculous to me, but it is still too often spoken to be ignore. Chinese has unique own point of view to their history, which includes legends and myths. Check this ( http://camphorpress.com/5000-years-of-history/ ) if you have interests.
Can't speak from a kid's perspective... but as an adult O365, and the related apps (MS Teams in particular) are leaps and bounds better than the Google options.
For example, if it were the case that NULL = NULL, really counterintuitive stuff would happen on joins because a null cell would match with every other null cell you are joining on:

person
name home_address
---------------------------
"Alice" NULL
"Bob" "123 Jump Street"

letter
return_address description
----------------------------------
NULL "Ransom Letter"
NULL "Spy Document"
"123 Jump Street" "Hello, from Bob"

Then

SELECT name, description FROM person INNER JOIN letter ON home_address = return_address

would return

name description
------------
"Alice" "Ransom Letter"
"Alice" "Anonymous Spy Document"
"Bob" "Hello from Bob"

So now Alice is associated with a bunch of letters she didn't necessarily write because she doesn't have a home address.
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Australian here, and same. We won’t buy food made in China.
I watched the video confused after reading your comment, proceeding to learn:

1. What motion smoothing is.
2. It can probably be turned off on your television, and you should try.

For someone who doesn’t own one or follow developments about them, it was worth the full 90 seconds.
I wonder how much of this is related to where these couples are in life, financially, career-wise, etc
What next? FBML again?
Bird scooters showed up in my city unexpectedly, literally overnight. We woke up and they were everywhere, like... a swarm of... Birds I guess. Suddenly everyone is zipping everywhere on these things and everyone says how awesome everything is. But then mad people go to Facebook and say that someone once saw a Bird scooter in a crosswalk and the city loses it's mind. They get lawyers to write letters to Bird (to demand... what? We don't know). They hear nothing back. Soon city council is complaining on Facebook too. The police impound them by the dozens, creating a phalanx of Birds in their lot. For a couple of weeks after that you are lucky to see one on the sidewalk. People are sad, but then, unexpectedly, Lime scooters appear, literally overnight, everywhere. Somehow the Birds are now free of their cage and everyone is zipping about town on scooters again. I think they are cool.
I think MS should probably just abandon the "Windows" moniker for this OS... call it XBox Laptop, hell "Surface Lite" would be a better name. No windows name as part of it at all. People have expectations with Windows, that it will run all their stuff... different brand would make it easier.
That's not an iPhone in the picture, is it?
Copyright is much like serfdom in my reflection - its a system I have tried to consider both sides of, and no matter how I think about it the ends never justify the means.

In my experience its no different than the hyperbolic policy of hiring people to fill in holes someone else dug. Its a market built on fiction to feed the special interests that profit from it.

And my position has just grown more extreme in the last decade - I originally thought compromise had to be right because copyright has become so pervasive so relatively fast in human history it might have had merit. But in the day to day action of actually creating information in myriad forms and interacting with it I can't obscure the reality that none if it is meant to benefit anyone but a select few who built (or in modern times dramatically expanded) their temple to IP to feed their own greed.
Hostility in Open Source Is Good. Too Much Collaboration Leads to Monoculture
What a funny statement! Thankfully, mathematics does not care about an uneducated politician's beliefs.

Sadly, they will only end up harming the privacy of normal citizens, while adept criminals shift towards truly secure schemes.

Encryption == Liberty
Reminded of this Chamath quote attributed to Bill Gates in an interview with Semil Shah about Facebook's platform.

"I remember when we raised money from Bill Gates...and Gates said something along the lines of, 'That’s a crock of shit. This isn’t a platform. A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it, exceeds the value of the company that creates it. Then it’s a platform.'"

http://haystack.vc/2015/09/17/transcript-chamath-at-strictly...
I don't mind deleting comments without replies but as far as I'm concerned, "deleting" a comment that's been replied to is an act of vandalism.

I don't know why HN allows that, but given that they do, it should be a bannable offense.
Ah, see, there's the big difference. You and I have vastly different use-cases - something I've noticed seems to get disregarded lately in dev circles. I don't need a software library manager, I already have a file manager (Windows Explorer) for that, and I really can't help but read to the end of a chapter. So all I need is the XML parser and renderer. There is no such thing as 'one true way' to use a computer. I don't ask you to use my solutions to the problems you face; I just ask that if you develop one of the programs I rely on for that solution, that you don't go and break it.

Over time, I've found that (in general) Microsoft is less prone to breaking what has already worked than Mozilla or Google. I don't know about Apple beyond iOS, and I don't know about that for the backend, because on the iPad, the only non-OS Apple software I use is iBooks (hasn't changed much in terms of 'tap a book, read a book'), Notes (hasn't changed much in terms of 'open a note, type a note, it autosaves'), and Podcasts, which also hasn't undergone much change. Heck, it's the App Store itself that's most broken for me now, to the point that I've come to rely on sites like appapp.io when I want to find a program or game; and then I pop over directly to the app store page for the software. With Google, I'm glad I never used GMail in the first place because I've heard the redesign is terrible. Maps are still pretty good though there's been some new "features" that made my life more complex; but every new version of Android that I get when I change mobile devices seems to bring with it a new host of settings issues and things it doesn't allow me to do without rooting it. Mozilla, well, let's just say the downturn started when Australis was mentioned and there have been no significant bright spots (Pocket, the introduction of telemetry, & Mr. Robot being significant lows).

Sorry for going a bit sideways to the topic, but honestly, TL;DR: different strokes for different folks. I hope you genuinely like your desktop ebook reader of choice so much that you wouldn't feel a web browser can do the job as well, but I don't need the heavy-duty support of a separate reader program when the addon or built-in feature works for my needs.
I think OpenSSL is indicative of the enthusiasm most unpaid contributors have for working with legacy code.
for the record, that’s a picture of hong kong, though it is a part of china, it’s not representative of where most of these “stories” happen
It's MySQL
Legally, those cars should be yielding (to pedestrians in a cross-walk).[1] But, as you mentioned, it varies by state, and the laws are rife with "yield here, but not there, and only on Tuesdays after a full moon." Would probably be easier to just say "humans are fragile, cross only when it's clear."

1 - http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/pedestrian-cross...
Better yet, the error handler could not print anything back. A generic 500 is the way to go. Log your errors.

If you think you'd get worthwhile bug reports / don't want to implement log analysis or whatever, take whatever errors, stack traces, etc. you'd like, encrypt and base64 encode them, and print that.

Printing any hints about the nature of errors should be regarded as a security risk.
They've disabled that setting.
Auth0 Outage Post-Mortem [pdf]
Sidewalks are usually right-of-way private property. Dumping scooters in them, might as well be litter.
It depends on what you mean by best.

For us, we want to use the web stack so our stuff works across all platforms. So we use Cordova. We realize that over 90% of users just want to use the main interface and not some fancy OS feature. All our effort goes into making the product rock solid stable, engaging and easy to use. We aren’t actually interested in making it feel exactly like a native iOS or Android app.
Economic Analysis of Medicare for All
It's as if these companies were an extraterrestrial intelligence and mathematics our only common language. What does a 4 express? The other absurdity is that the only context for these rating is the value that appears under a driver's portrait. One person is 4.67 driver, while another is a 4.89. Now rate your driver using the numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5.
Well of course, ironically that general statement is true sometimes. But in this case, I think a general, absolute stance on digital ownership is folly.
> Can Microsoft use open contributed WPF code in UWP?

They can, because the open source version of WPF is MIT-licensed.
Goldman Sachs invests 20M in Gitlab
The thing is so many people store their cars incorrectly nothing is usually done, so poorly parked cars and scooters are about the same problem -- except that a poorly parked car is potentially life threatening whereas a poorly parked scooters is annoying.
Absolutely true, and how I implement error handling personally (meaning give a friendly non technical message and track the error internally) I blame a brain collapse after a long day :)
Porto is Europe’s 3rd fastest growing tech hub
*flock of Birds
I read the article but don't see a comment on whether the holes will self-repair with stress reduction.
How to Start a Healthy Blog and Make Money Online
Either using a browser, or if wild speculation is to be believed, using a MS fork of Electron (much like VS code).
> Isnt vandalism a problem with dock-less scooters ?

Yes.

http://www.foxla.com/news/local-news/electric-scooters-accus...
I think that’s called a computer monitor
haha true.
> Maintaining your own email server is crazy and not feasible unless you're passionate about email servers.

Sorry but I think this is FUD and it potentially discouraged people from taking steps to be part of the solution and not the problem.

I’ve run my own mail server for years on a $5/mo Linode VPS, and am not passionate about email servers. It was a little difficult to set up but no more difficult than a lot of weekend projects the smart people on this site undertake. It should not be scary. You can also make the switch gradually by first setting up your MX and forwarding to gmail if you want to take it slow. There’s no reason anyone with a moderate amount of Linux skills and patience can’t host their own Email.
I’ve always wondered what it was that made content on modern televisions look like amateur productions, far too smooth, or giving an incredibly unsettling feeling.
I’m not sure I buy this definition of type even in theory.

From a category theoretic point of view a type would be nothing more then the constraints on how terms may be composed.

Either you simply view types as as objects in some category or, perhaps a bit more interesting, as a functor. See f.ex http://noamz.org/papers/funts.pdf

Or rather it seems to be a common theme in language design to conflate these two notions of types, and we should probably stop doing that.
exactly! :D
Those aren’t exclusive attributes, either colloquially or legally. As a renter you have a variety of rights (including to “quiet enjoyment” of the property) that prevent, for example, the legal owner from entering the premises without advance notice and a legitimate reason. Similarly, while exterior cameras aren’t explicitly illegal, interior cameras are. Don’t allow simplistic maxims to occlude your tenant rights.
I like it, but in permissions it says:
"This add-on can: Access your data for all websites"

This doesn't sound good, I wouldn't like to allow an extension to access my data in bank websites.
We asked for the blog to be corrected to match the official recommendation from the engineering team (as it was presented in Jeff's blog at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/firecracker-lightweight-vir...)

The post was updated within 16 hours from the original post date.
Ha, but their answer to a similar comment (on another comment thread) is that they are benevolent or some crap like that.

This is just a group of devs looking to pad their resume, not build something for everyone to use. (not that there is anything wrong with that)
Those rules are incredibly generous with how they allocate incredibly valuable real estate to cars, often for the price of free.

If every other block has enough room on the curb, for 30 cars to be parked for free, then surely, there should be room for one or two scooters to do the same.
How to make an animated video for your startup – for free
George Bush saved the CIA
Local doesn't work for managing your groups I think, it is restricted to events isn't it ?
What kinds of food have you found to have been made in China?
Are they sharing a computer somewhere?
Isn't a big part of the advantage of ride-share is that the vehicle is just there for your journey, you don't need to take care of it outside of that?

These companies companies seems to have exploded in valuation, driven I guess by VC money. I wonder how much of the rider-growth fueling that is just people trying out an electric scooter for the first time.
> love to see the topic of user feedback on Hacker News

I'm also very interested in the topic, but in a slightly different domain. I'm on a mission to get "was this page helpful?" feedback widgets on all technical documentation across the web. Recently I just helped the Kubernetes folks [1] add it to their docs site.

One of my high-level goals is to get the docs community to aggregate all of this data in order to benchmark typical ratings for common types of documents. E.g. what's the typical rating for a tutorial? I also want us to start actively experimenting in order to validate what kinds of changes lead to meaningful improvements in documentation. E.g. adding examples to conceptual overviews improves the rating by 5% (not real numbers).

Find me on the interwebz if you'd like help implementing one of these systems in your docs, or want to join this project.

[1] https://github.com/kubernetes/website/pull/11037
This is what I have been saying to my colleagues. Microsoft should not put their branding anywhere near the new browser even if it is industry acknowledged as their browser. That definitely includes any and all IE branding.
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> One of them mentioned their actual IQ.

Very few people had their IQ measured properly.

Either way, I doubt you ever worked with a programmer who really did have 90 IQ. Not to put too fine a point on it: such a person would appear dumb and slow. It will take them a long time to understand anything. They'll be disruptive and a drag on everyone else.

There's a reason top tech spends billions (!) recruiting a highly intelligent workforce.

> Look at the number of 17 year olds in the US compare that with the top schools minus smart people not going to top schools. Now consider each school gets a fraction of that and Stanford students really don’t have that high of a median IQ.

Well, I did the math.

Per the NCES, there were 16.9m undergraduates in 2016. Stanford had about 7,000 undergrads the same year, which includes all departments, including non-STEM like Art and English. Let's say there are 10 schools at Stanford's level (there aren't). That still means schools at that top level will accept only 0.4% of applicants.

That means they could easily pick only candidates with 140 IQ or more.

Of course, they don't, but the IQ at these institutions will still be pretty high.

> I think people vastly over estimate IQ’s of people they work with.

I think you under estimate the IQ of people you work with :)

I'll be surprised if you worked with anyone below 100 IQ (population average).

In fact I'll be pretty surprised if you worked with any programmer below 110 IQ.
Are you implying that Microsoft wanted to use Github for their internal projects? Doubtful. The big strength of Github is collaboration, and there are better tools out there if you want to enforce an internal company process.
It's not about company size or profitability, it's about words + past actions. As I mentioned, I made a similar argument recently about Apple.

If you assume all organizations are equally ready to ignore user privacy, what do you use? Do you program your own everything or do you only use FSF-approved software whose source code you have personally examined and compiled?

It's all about degrees.
Good idea! I will go with the link in the comments first. I have to test where a link in the fiddle makes most sense.
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I'm surprised Uber doesn't add a remark like "Your rating for <Driver> will be compared to your ratings of other drivers." beneath the rating. This could (a) encourage people to give 1-5 star ratings more uniformly and (b) discourage constantly giving 5-star ratings.

Depending on how much they wanted to get more uniformly distributed ratings, they could (a) make the rider rating depend on the uniformity of the ratings given or (b) just use a comparison rating ("Was this better or worse than your previous trip?").
> "I remember when we raised money from Bill Gates...and Gates said something along the lines of, 'That’s a crock of shit. This isn’t a platform. A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it, exceeds the value of the company that creates it. Then it’s a platform.'"

Interesting. But Facebook's platform != Facebook, so I don't understand the maxim that "the value of everybody that uses the platform must exceed the value of the company that created it" in order for it to be true.

You could say Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store are platforms, they even offer services (api/web-services, libs, frameworks, etc.) and devs build on-top and make living off it. But that ISN'T the company. Google has search, cars, ads, etc. Apple has it's own crap going.

Furthermore, Apple is worth 1 trillion dollars. Must the value of the platform as determined by "everybody that uses it" exceed 1 trillion? Or must it exceed the yearly revenue of Apple instead?
Never mind, that article about the routine, rampant, targeted censorship and harassment by Silicon Valley's most powerful players has been deleted, and the author has been banned from both Medium and Twitter. Sad, terrifying irony.
Even in Chinese schools we are told in history classes that we really don't have five thousands years of real history. It is just an often used, maybe canonized, phrase to emphasize our long history. I really would not get distracted over it.
On top of that, someone could probably script this process to extract the text from a link or create this page from a series of links automatically. Well, at least the quotes and links if they want to hand-write the intro or ending. The result would help both for people with weak/slow connections and any impairments that tools assist with.
Exactly what I thought.
"... and then, once we are satisfied for a couple more years, we can put the same policy back into place"
The amount of companies that have been burned from Facebook is staggering. And it not just fasgarewq
This is really neat! Have left it going all day and it’s quite an improvement.

That said, what it’s really done for me is remind me of how much I miss Nocturne: https://github.com/strider72/blacktree-nocturne (but originally from Blacktree, the original publisher of Quicksilver). Even the Github version linked there is long abandoned, so hard to try on for yourself—but the monochrome inverted night mode was far and away the best late night coding environment I’ve tested my eyes on.
What isn’t Pai hiding would be a better question.
Gmail, Docs, and Calendar weren't around in 2000. The first release of Gmail wasn't until invite-only beta in 2004[0] (invites were required until 2006/7); Google bought Upstartle (Writely -> Docs) and released Docs and Calendar in 2006[1][2].

[0]: http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2004/04/google-gets-message-...
[1]: http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2006/10/google-announces-goo...
[2]: http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2006/04/google-calendar_13.h...
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