skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe there are safeguards, but it seems like this lets Uber racially discriminate by proxy.
What's your productivity metric? Perhaps having only 10% fewer bugs per hour makes someone 10x faster at writing complete programs.
When they’ve already burned their reputation and need to convince portential partners that they won’t do it again.

I can’t think of any real world examples, though. So this is all hypothetical.
I wasn't talking about the broader market, I was talking about the fashion market.

The fashion market in the US and China are comparably difficult for a US based business to access. That's just reality. I didn't comment on Euro businesses, because I don't know how things work in Europe. But I doubt that you can get into Nordstrom, Target, or what have you as easily as you claim simply because you are European. Maybe you mean it's easy for Euro fashion houses to get into EURO retail outlets. But American outlets are just hard to access for everyone. That's just reality.

Chinese market is hard to access too, again, just reality. (Again, it gets easier for an American if you are a six foot plus black guy with a wicked three point shot who's already famous in China. His success is more a function of popularity than access.)
New tools need to signal their trustworthiness by exporting to legacy formats. Even if it means losing something in the process. Give me CSV, DOCX, or an SQLite DB. Not exactly rocket science.
From the "article":

> This means it only needs memory to read the file once, then it never needs to store it again. It's only in the VGA framebuffer, which is separate memory from the CPU's RAM.
So how the fuck is it animated?

Color cycling is not the only option available with these constraints. Windows 95 could have also used VGA "hardware accelerated blit" latching to copy animation frames entirely inside VGA framebuffer (one 8-bit x86 read and 8-bit store copies 32 bits of VGA data inside VRAM) had they so decided. No conventional/extended memory needed for the animation frames that way.

VGA has at least 256 kB of VRAM while this screen requires just 128000 bytes. So there'd been ample room to store animation frames instead of color cycling.

And there's even one more option! If the bar could have been at top of the screen, they could have used VGA hardware scrolling for it. Top, because VGA only supports stationary part of the screen on the bottom while using hardware scrolling feature.

VGA could do a lot more than most people knew or still know. Like latching based "blitting", although it's probably only a net win on 286 and some 386 level CPUs and requires both source and destination to be aligned to 4 horizontal pixels. And pixel perfect scrolling without copying the graphics data around with a free (no busy CPU based scanline waiting required), hardware based screen split.
It depends on ambient light.
So literally everyone using a hosted service of any sort?
It's a PR move. Probably proposed by one of many third party agencies that Sandberg 'wasn't aware of but takes full responsibility for'.
For anyone else who couldn't figure out what's going on, the context is that the app he built (https://hnprofile.com/) has a disabled (for privacy reasons) feature that can figure out alternate HN accounts based on speech patterns.

Here's the link to the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17942981
Under pressure and surrounded by 10+ people he was afraid for his life. And it was difficult to getaway without providing id and contact information.
The EXT4 Corruption Issue on Linux 4.19 Is Caused by BLK-MQ
You'll love it here, if you make 80k you're rich. honkey tonks and hacks.
I seem to remember it coming from Golang people.
Truth of makeup tools
Some places want you to rate the employee (e.g. 1 to 5 stars at touchpad at checkout, or at toilet exit at airport in some countries).

Just about every time I want to rate the employee as a 5, and the company (or management?) at a low rating because the business has obviously been the one to screw up, not the employee.

Asking to rate an employee is a sign to me that the company service is poor.
I feel like this was a missed opportunity to use emacs.rocks (which as of right now is not registered. Hurry!)
No, the author is simply unaware. Look at the comments:

Commenter: "Man, you are not using these memes correctly..."

Author: "Well, maybe. Which ones would you suggest?"
Posting like this breaks the rules at the top of the thread. Please don't.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18589722 and marked it off-topic.
You wrote a couple of sentence fragments in between my quotes, it's not clear at all what you were trying to say.

But you're right that it's important. We've got to keep building up cultural connections and avoid a cold war. Everyone loses from that. It would be a travesty to give up the amazing human gains of the last 30 years.
Even if you were targeted with racist misinformation, isn't it your responsibility not to be easily convinced?
Hmm. My Samsung watch does this just fine. E.g. it vibrates when I receive a Slack message.
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What parts of the U.S.? I understand all the states are supposed to be united, but that's not so true in practice.
Tom Cruise wants to fix your TV by turning off motion smoothing
Not mentioned in the article but WorkFlowy (YC ‘10) is still going strong. Minimalist web-based word processor with a flexible outline format. Can hold hundreds of thousands of items, without you getting overwhelmed.
The difference is that you don't just know that it has actually happened, but also you are footing the bill for it.

As a Russian I find chinese ultra-unrealism pretty wimpy. We've got cooler, more fierce stuff.
Why the PewDiePie Printer Hack Is a Warning for Crypto Investors
Surely sampling bias would be really hard to remove from this.

How did they control for couples that remove themselves from the sample set because they broke up due to bickering (or a correlation with bickering)?
I don't approve of that tactic (in fact it drives me nuts), but I will say, Qt's license fees are quite reasonable, and then you get to link statically with no risk of violating the GPL.
If your database can’t handle the load, your queue will grow indefinitely. So users will have an infinite wait or timeout. Not a panacea.
I believe the author meant something like "intricate". English is not their first language.
Conjure: a code-generator for multi-language HTTP/JSON clients and servers
I'm not a human being, but I want to be: An exercise in authenticity
TuQuejaSuma – Crowdsolving community for consumer complaints
In effect, that couple stopped aging because that couple ceased to be.
What you think they want to let Facebook control mobile development?
And these companies have evaluated that exploiting cheap workers overseas is worth giving up IP for.
At least they do not seem to have oppression by minorities. One important ultra-unreal piece they don't have.
I'm gonna go Dwight Shrute on ya here, False: I graduated here and never went to college, stick to Smyrna + Murfreesboro schools.
TypeScript seed
Yeah but the look is associated with cheap tv series productions like soaps, the whole magic of the film as the director wanted it dissolves. Of course, the acting seems to suffer a bit to, I watched some movie on high frame rate and lost interest rather quickly. It may be a learned thing sure, but why bother going through that unpleasant unlearning experience when a setting could do it. I talked to some young people who grew up with hd and high framerate and still prefer the cinematic feel of lower frame rate..
I think Microsoft is aggressively trying to attract developers to use their products and this is yet another action in that direction. I think it’s a good move but I’m far from a conversion. My next OS will be a GNU/Linux
A few reasons.

SOPS is fine, I was more referring to my implementation.

The reason my pipeline scales poorly is because it requires a full build and deployment cycle to update my dev / stg / prod configurations.

Also, if you store the encrypted files in our git repos as I do, you get constant merge conflicts and basically useless git history.

It is an extremely lazy implementation and literally the bare minimum I could do to get get my application configurations updating in my CI/CD stack.
The same author actually wrote about WorkFlowy a few months back: https://www.geekwire.com/2018/workflowly-founder-new-list-up...
Iirc tiktok is just an evolution of musical.ly
Replied here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18605767
Why do you need 8x more memory for Windows? The NT kernel isn’t 8x worse than Linux, not even close.
Too little and too late since Indians mastered the art of corruption https://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2016/09/22/india-is-the-... and http://business.rediff.com/report/2009/sep/24/indians-among-...
Forgery-impeding typeface
If $50K worth of facebook ads can "subvert a democracy" then we have a very serious problem on our hands.
Remember when as a kid eating vegetables at dinner, you kept excusing yourself to go to the bathroom and consequently vegetables disappeared from your plate and in your mind you were like "this is a fool proof plan. No one will notice"?
Well, China hopes you will only see its nothing but a solid business strategy for everyone yet...
Hah! I've def made this mistake
Look at the less sturdy versions of digital signage devices.
Iiyama is one of these manufacturers that in my experience doesn't sell bullshit, but results always wary and I don't buy a new screen that often, nor does (close) family/friends where one'd notice badly behaving devices.

I haven't yet found large OLED screens with none of the smart BS though, so if that's what you want, good luck.
What sort of "other purposes" would it serve for the UX to be worse? Do you have any IRL examples of this happening?
wow, we took that instance down: but here is their stat list if people still wanna try the service.

https://stats.searx.xyz/
Why should medallion owners be protected for their investment decisions? I thought that was the gripe about the banks to (albeit - the banks are far less deserving of sympathy).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profiling_(information_science...
Maybe, but other countries still have it. Vietnamese have one of the worst passports on the planet. Their govt. won't let them leave without proof that they will come back, usually in the form of a job, cash in the bank, spouse and tour or reservation based trips.
> Unsurprising consistent behavior is a value.

Looking at the last 30 years of software development, it's pretty clear that users don't care very much.
Concurrency and parallelism are properties of the resolution with which you view your program. View a program at the distributed system level, vs the OS-scheduled level, vs the microarchitectural superscalar / OoO / SIMD level, and you will come to different conclusions about whether the program is "parallel" and/or "concurrent." These are contextual.
Supporting older browsers–Part 3: JavaScript
Asana: 16 weeks for either gender to be taken in the first year following birth or adoption. The leave can be split into two parts (e.g. 2+14, 8+8).

Full salary and benefits but vesting is paused.
LATAM Cargo launches Huntsville freighter service to transport Panalpina cargo
> To me this sounds reasonable. A very large number of searches are locality based, and it is entirely reasonable to localize them based on IP address (and - as you note - the device type).

I wish this was trivial to disable. I regularly search for things where I want the global result, and instead get weird local results that I don't care about. It's much easier to narrow a global search to a local one by adding an appropriate region name to the search than it is to expand a local search to a global one via search terms.
Earlier this year Recode compiled a list of parental leave policies from various tech companies: https://www.recode.net/2018/1/31/16944976/new-parents-tech-c...
Huh. My coworkers have been talking about React's context API as an alternative/replacement for Redux and that the industry is generally "moving away from using Redux." Is this at all true/valid? I've been skeptical since I like Redux a lot and haven't been able to understand how Context is a true replacement for Redux given what I have read.
I use Notion for personal projects and love it. Very easy to learn. I used it to plan and execute my NaNoWriMo challenge last month and really have nothing bad to say about it. Works well on all my devices.

But it's unstructured. I think in a work environment it's most useful as a wiki/project planner/lightweight tracker, but still can't replace the MS/Google office suite, and can't replace Jira/Asana for in depth ticketing.
A Simple Application of Probabilistic Programming with PyMC3 in Python
C# – Creating .GIF files by hand
> Their are around 1.17 million programmers in the US, that’s far from an elite field.

There were 162.63 million people employed in the US as of October 2018, according to the BLS: https://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet?graph_name=LN_c...

That makes programmers 0.7% of the total working population.

It can easily be seen as an elite field.

Tech companies could theoretically disqualify anyone with an IQ less than 130 and still be left with over x3 times more candidates than working programmer positions in the US.
>>Udemy's was $10 for 19 hours of content + responses to any questions I had within hours, and gave me everything I wanted + more.

To add to your point. $10 comes up to some thing 600 rupees in India. Most students can, and do buy courses when its that cheap.

Accessibility increases reach.
Building Cloud Search as a Service with AI
Hah. Apple had to be sued, or threatened with a suit, in order to add the disclaimer in the first place, because they were talking about how amazing the iPhone's performance was... with shortened screen sequences.
I wonder if it's partly due to the growing use of "alternate/traditional medicine" pathways people are taking in opposition of modern medicine.

Whereby the use of exorcisms is now less of a religious driver, but that of a way to cure disease or behavior outside of traditional medicine.

I'm looking at you anti-vaxers...
They had a platform. Then they killed it by killing anybody who did something better than them on the platform. Now they have a burned out husk of a platform. Who wants to live and work in that? The kids don't even like facebook, anymore (perhaps partly because it's been stagnant due to lack of fresh outside ideas, I dunno...it's not really my area, and I've always been ambivalent about facebook even when it was still cool).
Hi Coinbase, not complaining. Just wanted to know about my recent experience with you. Here is what happened when you called me:

CB: Since you're in the middle of your job search, and you have good work experience and we have limited time, we'll skip technical interview if you pass our test with 4.5 score or above and I will connect you right with Director of Engineering.

ME: OK

CB: Here is 40-minute TripleByte test.

ME: Done

CB (the next day): You scored a 5/5 and in the 96th percentile! I would love to move forward and have you speak with XXX, Director of Engineering

ME: OK

(non-technical call with director of engineering)

CB (next day): we have decided to proceed with other candidates (automated response)

ME: (reached out to HR, no response)

Just wanted to know if you have any updates on this? I believe you're doing a great job and I wanted to know what went wrong? (I don't believe it's my age, nationality, or technical experience). This is the only place I can get reply from you since you're not responding.
It’s kind of hard to share links because google personalizes results against our wishes. But a search for ‘"monkeys" burritos san diego “fries”’[0] returns a first link [1] that doesn’t include ‘monkeys.’

There are also other results [2] that include ‘monkey’ not what I asked for.

It’s infuriating. I just want to grep the internet. Is that too much to ask?

[0] https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&hl=en-us&ei=P1oH...

[1] https://www.pinterest.com/pin/481463016388903842/

[2] https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g55543-d4580159-...
> There are no disclaimers or the “simulation” notes ethical companies use.

Well, other than:

> * All images are simulated for demo purpose.

you mean...
I wrote a post earlier this year that talks about how things like context, GraphQL, etc, all relate to Redux. It's still relevant:

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2018/03/redux-not-dead-yet...

Also, Dave Ceddia wrote a good post comparing Redux and the context API:

https://daveceddia.com/context-api-vs-redux/

FWIW, my rough stats indicate that somewhere around half of all React apps use Redux, and Redux is also used with other UI frameworks as well. Redux definitely isn't going away any time soon :)
My anecdotal experience shows a) less of a battery hog than Chrome for like 40-50 tabs b) now works with all my sites (exception being Google drive share box has blinky UI) c) it doesn't keep begging me to "sign in"

For this it's become my main work browser. At home I mainly use safari and it works great for 15-ish tabs.
Life is really a sort of a joke. But it's one thing to know something and quite a different thing to admit and accept it.

As I grow older, I still try to resist those thoughts - I still like to think that there is that big shift ahead, that something life-changing will happen. That this is not all there is.

And I rationalize this to myself by saying - "otherwise what would be the point?"

Anyway, thank you for putting it the way you did. It was another bump for me to accept the inevitable.

Maybe, the big shift would happen once I've accepted! And then it wouldn't matter!

Edit: Yes, I haven't got the joke yet!
Isn't religion looked at as a possible source of dissent against the government in China?
Is there a chrome extension or easy way to randomize canvas properties programmatically to avoid canvas fingerprinting when opening a new chrome tab?

Canvas fingerprinting is highly concerning to say the least, thanks in advance to anyone with working solutions.
I just showed this to my mother, a nurse. She laughed and said “it’s pretty stupid, but they would rather fix it with a pill if that’s an option”.
Google operated censored search in China from 2006 to 2010. They haven't really changed that much.
Is there any alternative to XML? How often do you find yourself hacking XML directly?
They cost <$500 at retail prices. Assuming they have 15 miles of range at max speed (15mph), worst case one charge only gets them $10 ($1 to start + 0.15/min * 60min), $5 of which goes to the person who picks it up and recharges it. That's 100 cycles to breakeven on worse case (one person rides one scooter until it dies).

They've disclosed that an average scooter does 5.5 trips/day ($5.50), assuming everyone rides at max speed nonstop, that still ~$14.50/day. Pays for itself in under 2 months.
The easiest way to run code on a mobile device is to serve it as HTML. A simple way to do this is from a laptop over the local LAN with Python's simpleHTTPServer or Python3's http.server. Any mobile (or non-mobile) device can connect to the 192.168.XXX.XXX:port so long as it has a web browser.

This avoids a dependency on the app store, complex tooling, emulators, fees, registrations, etc. It touches on many topics more practical and widely applicable than the iOS ecosystem...and a Hello World can be up and running in a few minutes. Short feedback loops are great...even for children.

A hack, no doubt, but does everything important except tick the "built an iOS app" box on a future college education.

Good luck.
This shows how clueless politicians are when it comes to technology.

PGP and similar are widely available since the 90's.

Mailvelope and many other OpenPGP tools exist.

This idea is as clueless as Abbotts plan to kill the NBN fibre-to-the-home infrastructure.

Except he succeeded :-/
presque vu
I've tried emailing the address, but it bounces
I liken it to conspiracy theories: market forces can make it seem like there are single entities conspiring to do things when they are emergent forces. Happens all the time in economic markets, political stories, business stories, etc.
Don't take this the wrong way, but... you've flipped multiple startups. Why would I believe that "you have no plans to go anywhere" this time?
Their example is in Tacoma, WA. If I had to guess it would be in the south west U.S. and up the west coast where Catholicism has the highest population numbers because of Latino populations. Maybe up into the north eastern U.S. where it held sway with Italian and Irish populations traditionally, but I thought it had been on the decline. Maybe not.
Since bootstrapping my own sleep aid startup (https://trycosmo.com/), I've been surprised at the lack of priority society places on sleep in general. Better sleep would help patients recover better and shorten hospital stays. The inability to sleep, especially in the ICU, likely results in tens of thousands of unnecessary secondary infections and deaths per year.

I like the author's approach of simply refusing to give blood at night. My guess is that hospitals default to checking vitals so frequently to avoid liability-- could you imagine the headline if a patient died because his vitals had not been checked for eight hours?

A simple "Do not disturb" sign for patients would resolve all of these issues.
(this comment gets removed every time I post it. It will be posted anyway)

Hi Coinbase, not complaining. Just wanted to know about my recent experience with you. Here is what happened when you called me:

CB: Since you're in the middle of your job search, and you have good work experience and we have limited time, we'll skip technical interview if you pass our test with 4.5 score or above and I will connect you right with Director of Engineering.

ME: OK

CB: Here is 40-minute TripleByte test.

ME: Done

CB (the next day): You scored a 5/5 and in the 96th percentile! I would love to move forward and have you speak with XXX, Director of Engineering

ME: OK

(non-technical call with director of engineering)

CB (next day): we have decided to proceed with other candidates (automated response)

ME: (reached out to HR, no response)

Just wanted to know if you have any updates on this? I believe you're doing a great job and I wanted to know what went wrong? (I don't believe it's my age, nationality, or technical experience). This is the only place I can get reply from you since you're not responding.
Yeah that's it, I'll spell it out next time for those who don't know.