skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that anyone who thinks that this is fixable doesn't understand how bad or difficult the misinformation problem is. For example, remember that time no less a person than the White House Press Secretary tweeted a video which had been doctored by selectively speeding parts up to make it look more violent? There was a really viral, popular video on Twitter which vividly demonstrated this by overlaying that version on the original and got 10.4 million views.

The proof video was doctored, and not subtly either - the original video is 6 or 7 frames behind the overlaid video from the very start and remains that way the whole way through. When watching it at normal speed the faintness of the overlay made this almost invisible except during fast motion, giving the illusion that the overlaid video was sped up during those parts, but if you look at it in freeze-frame mode the very first frame gives the game away. No-one noticed. Every right-thinking, smart, social media savvy person now thinks that they caught an evil attempt to deceive the world with faked video, when in reality they'd been conned by some really simple video trickery - and nothing will ever change this.

(This is also why the expert AP got to look at it frame by frame couldn't point to any part of the video that had been sped up. There wasn't any since he got the initial frame alignment right. I've compared the two for myself.)

Oh, and even the White House Press Secretary seems to have now been convinced that the video was sped up despite the fact that it wasn't.
What surprised me is that Commodore 64 had really "fragmentable" filesystem

> Every file is stored as a linked list. Every block holds the track/sector tuple of the next block in its first two bytes, followed by 254 data bytes.

On ZX Spectrum, TR-DOS, one of available disk OSes, didn't support file fragmentation at all: files occupied consecutive sectors, and new files could be written only to free space at the end of floppy. Once file is deleted, it continued to occupy space. Instead of defragmentation, there was "MOVE" command that packed files together by moving towards start of the disk to fill freed space.

https://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/hardware-info/B... (section 9.3)

(I don't know, however, how ZX Spectrum +3 filesystem works (another disk system for ZX Spectrum) (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXSpectrum128+3Manual/)
It's because making a chat app isn't actually that hard... The product has been commotodized. Maps on the other hand..incredibly complicated and we are still far from a "perfect" maps experience.
Reasons you're not losing weight
Do you refer to ren or ka?
> How does one explicitly "un-play" their male card then? I'm male, and if I have implicitly played mine I'd love to reverse that to do my fair share to give women equality on the workplace.

It can come up like, turn down a game of golf when women aren’t invited, or invite them. Suggesting people who aren’t like you for teams as well.
> Contrary to popular belief, Java's choice of erasure was not dictated by backward compatibility concerns but because erasure is a sound approach for type system representation...

...for languages that don't have casting and have correct variance. Java fails on both.
I would finish your degree, you won't regret having it and it will open some doors for you.

Getting a degree is hard, it's work that is why not everyone has one. You learn lots of things at university that will help you later that are unrelated to your degree. So dig in study hard, play hard and enjoy your time there. It's some the best times of your life.

As far as making money. I would start learning Rails or Laravel, there are lots of web application positions out there making web applications for businesses. These pay really well, you can work remote or even have your own consulting business.

You might also find StartupsForTheRestOfUs.com interesting, start in the archives. I don't want to sell you a dream of having your own lifestyle business but it's definitely possible.
Dude, first off, congrats!
Secondly, regarding this:
"I do not THINK I have any real hobbies."
FIND SOME HOBBIES!!!
You've got all the time in world to what you love, or what you used to love.
As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
What makes you tick now? What are you interested in or think you could be interested in?
Do you have academic interests? If so, cold email some professors in your area and join their labs. Or go back to school in a fascinating subject.
Go traveling and do cool things like parasailing, eat good food, listen to good music.
Learn how to cook, PLAY some music. Learn an instrument with some adults that are also newbies to music.
Learn to dance!
Go clubbing with your wife, even though it's not your scene.
Get a couple's massage!
Have some kinky sex!

And, most importantly, do some cannabis with your closest friends. Take 5mg of an edible if you don't like to smoke.

Then sleep in the next morning. The day after, get up at 600 and get after it :)
She changed East Lansing with the design of the Broad Art Museum. I smile everytime that I drive by it on Grand River Avenue. Who wouldn't want a touch of the Guggenheim in Bilbao in their town? It has the best light for the display of art of any museum I've ever visited. There were visitors from over forty countries in the first thirty days after it opened.

https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x8822e82a4f7ed4d...
I had a version of this that had a trampoline to bounce a trimmed/plucked chicken, and the more you bounced it the higher it would go before crashing through your desktop. Can’t find it now. It was a high quality little program, though. Fun times :D
The only way to punish Australia will be to completely distrust every bit of code from that police state island. Move all your code off Atlassian bitbucket and close your Jira tickets. Shut down your AWS Sydney EC2 instances. Fire all the Google Australia employees. It is all now tainted, and you can't trust a thing.
When you go to the actual conference in the calendar event, do you still see a Hangouts URL and UI?

Maybe we are on different sides of an A/B test.
Concerning realpolitik, this isn't even the first time it's been used on a telecom executive in the US.

Joseph Nacchio, the CEO of Qwest, was jailed for insider trading in 2001 and wasn't allowed to use his defence in court that it was retaliation for refusing NSA data requests.
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The real utility of these products is in generating dynamic short lived credentials. The longer a set of credentials exist the greater chance they end up written down or widely distributednor going home with a former employee. With something like Vault your credentials have a lifespan of days, hours, minutes, whatever the shortest timespan your comfortable with is. That limits your attack surface greatly. If your doing a break glass procedure you can be assured that credentials are revoked after a reasonable amount of time.
Aint no lie, bye bye byeeeee
Previously, they made a hard push to make sure that their science was "applied" science, but that's softened a bit in their pitches lately [0].

The current iteration has a 4-axis evaluation metric [1], where the value of a given project is measured by the area of the polygon.

So, you can make theoretical advances that don't go into products, but it's better for you if they do.

[0]: Disclaimer: I've been recruited by Google's research arm, but haven't worked there.

[1]: https://ai.google/research/philosophy/
The lack of hormones would probably create some very very weird effects. Food allergies, immunological effects, social habits...

I bet there’s a market for a sci fi book in which a generation of test tube babies simultaneously develop a fetishization for some low quality diet supplement that happens to be present in the natal feeding fluid they were exposed to for their formative years.
My Oddly Interesting Observations at Anime NYC 2018
Branding / re-branding is clearly not one of Google's strengths. Why change the name? Just change the feature set.
Oh, in that, I agree. I would hope a more friendly datastructure would be used for the immutable version. Data sharing should be possible.
Luxembourg to become first country to make all public transport free
Here's the part of management that is hard to understand as an IC:

1/3rd of my job is "managing up," that is, getting my boss what they need to get their job done. This can be defining a hiring process, or writing part of a powerpoint deck or getting them the information they need to write it up for their presentation.

1/3rd of my job is "managing across," or working with other managers - the "shit shield" is often from other managers who have their own pain points and are trying to work through issues like whose team has to deal with this ill-defined goal that doesn't really belong in any of the teams but is important. (Or saying that it isn't important after delving into the issue!) Or it's identifying a department-wide problem and working with a small group to have a proposal to solve it.

That leaves 1/3rd of the work on actually "managing down." That is mentoring, performance evaluation, conflict management, 1:1s.

And if your team is hiring, you spend another block on that. Most of us can't work 60 hour weeks consistently.

Are there bad managers? Sure! But some of what makes a good/bad manager is completely hidden. (I'd argue that it's a flaw in our organizational system in general - I'm starting to think we need more people whose job it is to organize the department as a system, and then have the engineering manager as a tech lead++.)
I see I misunderstood that you were specifically questioning the equivalence for this postulated negative mass. I thought your statement was a more general one.
The difference between the few companies I've been at has been made to seem like a laying down in a valley versus standing atop a mountain now that I have a good manager.
Isn’t that like saying one must be a foolish consumer because they live in a western nation?
If an USA or EU pays a bribe in Argentina, they may be prosecuted in their origin country. Also, the legislation about bribes abroad is very different in USA than in the EU, so when there is an important bidding process where there are companies from both sites, there are always problems and accusations afterwards. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens#2005_and_continuing:_w...
Sometimes I think the US could do with a communist revolution. Then I realize the semi-luxurious half acre plot my parents live in will have to be shared with a couple of other probably very poor families. I don't know, just a random thought when I read it, and how lucky it is to be in the top 10% wealthy in the US.
I'm a Workflowy user but would never describe it as a general-purpose word processor, even with the "minimal" modifier. There are no formatting tools whatsoever. It's more of a minimalist mind-mapping tool.
This is a great example of defining deviancy down.
Sure. But it a company wants to sue you just for the hell of it, then whether or not you signed a non-compete is irrelevant. Maybe you negotiated this out of your contract, but they decide to sue you anyway.

The better solution to all of this is not to "ignore" the non compete risk, it is instead be to simply lie to your former employer.

What are they going to do? Hire a private investigator to track down all ex employees, to see if they have another job? Probably not.

It is pretty easy to get away with this stuff if an employee really feels like it.
I know how to program. I've contributed to Mozilla projects. Including minor contributions to components of Firefox.

I do not have the time or the money to personally develop a secure web browser for the rest of the world, nor does any other individual. Your demand is unreasonable.

Moreover, I'm not demanding that Mozilla do something. I'm explaining what would have to change for me to be able to promote Firefox and contribute to reversing the declining market share. Short of not breaking the law I make no claims that Mozilla must do anything.

PS. Chromium is also free software. The difference is how Mozilla develops it's free software.
Yes, those are excellent examples. Telecoms are heavily, heavily regulated.
The developers of game dev tycoon released a cracked version of their software with a twist. The players using the cracked software would eventually have their business go bankrupt due to piracy. Best part is that people who were using the pirated software were actually posting on forums asking how to... get people to stop pirating! The irony!

https://www.greenheartgames.com/2013/04/29/what-happens-when...
Wasn't chat just an extension of Google Talk into the gmail web client?
Is it though, beyond the initial setup (team creation etc., which only needs to be done by a single person)?
Wow, that thread is horrible. It's just flamebait from both sides. From metroholografix:

> I fear that webkit can not be salvaged

> How about all the huge OSX vulnerabilities that have been discovered?

> You are so out of touch with the state of cybersecurity that it's terrifying. Not only that, but you insist on this nonsensical adversarial attitude towards me when I'm spending my personal time trying to inform you.

> WebKit, which is abysmally bad security-wise to begin with

From the other side:

> If I didn't know any better I would say you were a paid blink shill

> Safari, which runs webkit is safer than Chromium. Because at least we know that Apple cares about security.

In all, I disagree with u/metroholografix's claims that Chrome is inherently significantly more secure than Safari. Sure, it might be if you are comparing yourself with running WebKit in-process and with no sandbox. But with the appropriate protections which macOS provides (which is where I fault u/jmercouris, because he cannot compare his project with Safari because his project doesn't actually implement these security features), it is stupid to move a project to Blink in this case.
Interesting, haven't heard of this one. From a quick perusal of the site it looks kind of like a more feature-ful Workflowy, is that a fair impression?
The big difference is that the overall performance of spinning disks is not much different than what it was 10 years ago. However, a best-in-class 2018 SSD is an entirely different beast than a 2008 model. They are somewhere around 5-30x faster now with significantly better write endurance, wear leveling, and capacity (you can get up to 4TB in consumer models for reasonable prices). The market hasn't pushed for solid state drives replacing bulk hard drive storage, instead it's pushed for much, much faster drives (yielding 1-2 orders of magnitude improvement over just the last decade alone) along with small form factor portable storage (SD cards and USB drives). The technology is there for someone to manufacture slow SSDs with the same capacity as hard drives at around the same cost, but the market demand isn't.
The tone of the question reads angry and incredulous, not curious, hence the downvotes.

You will also note that the poster of the question never came back to acknowledge the work people put into replying and explaining the situation. I believe that eduction wasn't the intent here.
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The biggest requirement for a messaging app is that people you talk to need to be using it. How often does she use messaging, and who all does she communicate with the most? Start from there, and you'll soon find an obvious answer. WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Kik, Signal, WeChat, Line, Skype, iMessage all work well.
I forgot which HN thread I read this, but an ex-googler said something like: "the most important thing to do for career growth at google is to launch your product, doesn't matter how shit/half assed/etc it is. You don't get credit for maintaining the old stuff."

Reading that put a lot of Google's actions into perspective (how many chat clients do they really need?, youtube music, etc)
Standard Ranges
You can buy identities alright, the real challenge is how to cash out the money. The account will likely be locked upon investigation, if not, the moment whoever cash it over the ATM or counter will be arrested on site.

Scammers often hire innocent agent cash out these accounts. But still with very low success rate.
This is essentially saying that it should be legal to circumvent embargos. I understand that prohibiting resale can be abused - it's illegal to prohibit resale under many circumstances in the US under antitrust law for example. But that only applies within the US market. The example here is a company deliberately breaching an embargo. If we allowed these sorts of sales then this could prompt the US to take even more drastic measures to enforce its sanctions, like blockading Iranian ports.
In the context of heavily subsidized roads and freeways, free public transit makes sense on pure balance sheet economics. It costs the state more for someone to drive than the cost for them to take a bus for free.

Also I think free buses potentially means you can design buses for very quick entry/exit.
Sounds like a wildly successful competitor against Twitter to me
> but a spinning-disk drive looks 100 times more complicated to me to manufacture.

Fun-fact: The "head fly height", i.e. the distance from the underside of the R/W head to the platter surface, is less than a handful nanometers in most hard drives; this makes the gap not just smaller than any production transistor, but also smaller than any production feature size.
Based on numbers from http://law2.umkc.edu/Faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynching... lynchings dropped off pretty rapidly after 1922, and were in the single digits annually by the mid 1930s. I suspect that there's also a drop in pictures of crowds and a social change that made them considered if not wrong at least "not something that people like US do."

There are very few people still alive who were adults when there were large numbers of lynchings happening in the US.
I live in a Seattle neighborhood that has suffered increasingly worse crime and longer police wait times. The Open Society Foundation was one of the top 5 funders of Initiative-940 paid signature-gatherers and PR (according to their website, and a professional inter-state signature gatherer I chatted with). I find I-940 objectionable and voted against it.

https://www.deescalatewa.org/about_us

The Open Society Foundation has arguably increased tension and partisan gridlock in Israeli-Palestinian relations. Here is a research paper on the subject:

https://www.ngo-monitor.org/soros.pdf

The Kavanaugh hearing disruptors were also paid and legally supported by the Open Society Foundation:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/george-soross-march-on-washingt...

There are many published criticisms of Soros (including from Jewish sources) that do not merely consist of "rich Jew". To imply otherwise is disingenuous. Go find some!
This is really reminiscent of an old PC program called COMPRESS, which was a defragmenter and not a compression utility, despite the name. Neat stuff.
Not sure what you're talking about. I've been using a hardware token to log into USAA for seven years now.
You seem to know a lot about her management style. Care to share some more details?
I think they saw Microsoft miss the Next Big Thing™, and they're afraid it could happen to them, so they're investing in everything while the AdSense/AdWords cash cows last.
It's just a bit odd that highly specific examples like this make it into written law. A pretty clear example of what happens when you have a Government that can be heavily influenced by corporate lobbying.

I don't think your average reasonable person is in opposition to requirements to label food correctly and not mislead consumers. These things are already written in law, in the case of food it's governed by the FDA. However, when we start including overly specific laws like this, of which this is but one of many (sheesh, check-out what was in the TPP), then every other company in every other industry wants the same treatment, and we end up with a convoluted mess that we have today. This is a problem because your average citizen can't possibly keep up with all this; but more importantly these overly specific laws are a nightmare when it comes time to introduce new legislation. So much time is wasted on garbage like this.

The TPP actually had plenty of reasonable components to it, but it was also filled to the brim with corporate garbage. It's hard enough to form trade agreements and pass legislation without corporations insisting their obscure needs must be met. Particularly when legislation and agreements are either signed and passed as entire unit, or not at all. It just wastes everyone's time when there's a few odd sticking points holding up the whole process.
Used to be that whole series of SSDs had data corruption problems (which in one case ultimately lead to the demise of the manufacturer). Still happens. Recent example: Apple.

Power failure behavior of most consumer oriented SSDs is also data corrupting.
For JSON querying, checkout JSONata(http://jsonata.org/ - Inspired by the location path semantics of XPath 3.1) . It was created by Andrew Coleman(Part of W3C XML Query WG).
You're using Egyptian terms, yes? I'm not referring to either.
Nor are they going to be coordinated, because each of these services addresses a number of different units in the hospital. In order to have all of these services available for each patient in concert, we'd need to multiply the staffing by four or five fold. That holds as true for coordinating physician visits as it does for the other services.

I don't want to make it sound like it's impossible. It's not. But it is incredibly inefficient - which is why it doesn't happen - and the answer to "How can we make it happen?" is "Pay for it."
> First it was Chinese foreigners buying up all the real estate, but that was proven false.

How was it proven false?
Well for one thing, Canadian (and many other) extradition treaties require the notion of dual criminality - the thing you're being extradited for has to also be a crime in Canada.

Second, Canada (and most democracies) does not extradite to countries where the Canadian courts are not satisfied you will get a fair trial, or where the person would face capital punishment. So all these comparisons of being extradited to Russia or China or any other dictatorship are not exactly valid. That kind of thing is not on the table.

In fact right now Canada has a major dispute with China because the Canadian government won't return even run of the mill Chinese criminals because they will likely be executed after a sham trial in China.
This is exactly correct (former Googler; still in touch with many). This is one of the reasons for the endless usability-destroying redesigns on their successful products -- people need listable accomplishments in order to advance, either internally or externally.

Google has destroyed, or at least nullified, a generation of engineering talent with their unambitious, checkbox-resume based advancement scheme. We should all expect more from a supposedly engineering-driven organization.
This is a mockery of globalization, free markets and rule of law. It's sad for those of us who have supported some of these values to see them mocked like this. This is like China or Russia getting Trump's or Bill Gates daughter arrested on some made up charge in a third country. Who will support that?

Unilateral sanctions against Iran or Cuba without the consensus of the UN is questionable in law in the first place. What crimes have Iran or Cuba committed? And yet these sanctions without basis by countries who count Saudi Arabia as their closest ally are allowed to cause suffering to millions of people for decades on end and no one cares. This is the twisted state of our world.

It seems ultimately foolish to believe in ideals when they only apply to a certain group of countries in their benefit, and when not will use propaganda and their collective political and diplomatic power to harass others.
What's the marketing angle for Snappr here?
What is GraphQL?