skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the first things I remember about moving to a rich country was the absence of knockoff products sold in retail stores. It seemed amazing to me that companies would deal only with authorized distributors.

These days, I feel like I'm in a twilight zone where 'wealth creation' is happening by putting a fresh face on 3rd-world country business models.

First it was Uber with the "hire a random guy off the street to be my driver". Next it was Fiverr/Upwork/ etc, the digital equivalent of rounding up day labourers in the Home Depot parking lot.

Now it's Amazon selling bootleg crap at scale. What's their excuse? Some variant of "move fast, break things", no doubt.
I also have no proof, but I have heard enough other stories like this one that I firmly belief something is going on. Using GoDaddy to check if a domain is available is a good way to make that domain become unavailable.
As a side spectator I'm looking forward to see what happends with BTC
100% not MS Paint or Paint.net...

Tell her to download Adobe XD, it's free right now and that's the standard in the industry.

#3, I wouldn't call that dragdrop but at this point, it'd make more sense for her to learn a vector program for the things that Adobe XD can't do. That would require Illustrator and would be a better use of her time.

For #4 you will have to have a good understanding of HTML to be able to do anything with CSS- that has to be the foundation before she learns CSS.
I agree with this. Amazon could still be a huge marketplace if they stocked the virtual shelves and only sold legitimate items or their own brands. Target does it and that is where my business has been going instead of Amazon.
It's great you've noticed immutability in a singled threaded environment is a nonsense. Why to go further with own implementation then?
“Plaid consolidates financial data from multiple sources and categorizes transaction data with up to 24 months of history, making it easy to use and analyze.”
Whatsapp and Youtube are way more convenient then the previous alternatives in my opinion, and I think we will eventually have more widespread use of open source and decentralized versions of these to combat censorship issues.

Software is immensely helpful. But maybe your average bs b2b SaaS app that is merely devised to take money out of each others pockets is less meaningful and helpful to our world.
Former Canadian diplomat missing in China following arrest of Huawei executive
Well currently their main application is inaccessible, so you have the issue of downtime making it impossible to see anything you've made. Collaboration is cool but even mature applications like GitHub have downtime sometimes that seriously interrupts operations at downstream companies. Always consider this before relying on a service for something core to the business.
It is probably considered their job but I don't have any confidence in the SEC to proactively investigate anything of real substance. However they did not even have to spot it since Mr. Markopolos turned up with a ton of evidence that it was a Ponzi scheme. They did not even do basic things like verify that he was actually trading.
I'd be curious to hear your experiences hiring - I've been on the hiring side in the chemical industry, but not in data science.

Let's say that the funnel of applicants for one position starts with 250 resumes. How do you proceed? Among the applicants with github profiles, are all of the github profiles looked at?
1-800-Flowers Buys Plants.com for $450,000
What makes it interesting is that the syntaxes have (most likely) been designed with different goals. I can say that Elixir was designed with extensibility and meta-programming in mind. So there are some cases where I prefer the Erlang syntax (for example, I still find defining multiple function clauses each with a single expression more elegant and concise in Erlang) while there are other cases I prefer Elixir's syntax exactly because we were able to extend the language (such as the `with` special form for handling nested case expressions).

The funny thing is, if you try to add those features to the other language, they are usually refused. Erlang wants to avoid new syntactical expressions to keep it simple while Elixir's extensibility is bound to a set of limited AST rules (and we don't want to add new ones).
The point is that it does nothing to improve accountability of the electricity company.
I wonder how much of the overall datacenter/server market Amazon and other cloud providers have captured.
Would suggest learning some usability as well. Don't Make Me Think is a good one. Also, read up on Nielsen Group's publications
What Happens When 25,000 Amazon Workers Flush Toilets?
Because you don't have to have only one reason to work. I mean, everybody needs some amount of money for basic neccessities, but after that, it's a complicated equation of different priorities. And if you choose money only, then you're spending the best time of your day maximizing only one resources, while letting everything else take the back seat. Why do it if you can get socialization and meaning from work too?

Also, I don't understand your point about company not being hesitant to eliminate you. Yes, but so what? There are two parties in the work-for-hire transactions, and of course, both parties are looking out for their own self-interest. I see no reason why they should extract the same exact resources from this transaction, though.
For this precise reason, I've stopped buying things like baby food, baby toiletries, skin lotion, etc. from Amazon. I now purchase direct from the respective online store, or sites like walmart.com/target.com
>>People are legally entitled to use the road on his property to access the beach, which is slightly different.

To be fair, the courts are deciding this as we speak and maybe in the next 20 years :). The person has the right to argue this in courts, until the doors are slammed in his face.

Before or after they are ways to do this--legally, price is the only issue.
> `data` > modern

Everything old is new again.
Why? Of all the places to detonate a nuclear bomb in the name of science, the moon seems a pretty safe one with little consequence to any living thing.

I don't really see it as all that different than drilling for a core sample, except in scale, but that scale still doesn't affect anything, so I'm not sure it matters.
In 1995, Americans over 55 bought about one-third of all new cars. Today they’re buying almost two-thirds.

That's an interesting stat.
I think those more complicated things are there to make things easy for developers. The standard library is not that big, and the extra syntax is there for a reason - for example `with` is pretty fantastic for reducing `case` clutter (a real thing with erlang), and pipes are also great.

I don't love that there are two ways to make lambdas but it's nit the worst thing in the world.
I've used invision multiple times for university courses. It's really great how they made an extension to photoshop to render out artboards to generate the screens. My support experience is also quite pleasant. Even just with a single free prototype, it takes a lot of hassle out of making interactive demos when I'm exporting straight out of what is essentially mockup material
If that was your experience, then don't delete the comment. Doing so promotes echo chambers. If you are concerned about Karma, simply submit some articles to balance it out.
If the designs are uploaded correctly, you can see CSS snippets for different UI elements. Definitely helps to recreate it faster.
WSJ – The Loneliest Generation: Americans, More Than Ever, Are Aging Alone
> CBS Killian Papers pretty much

Meh. I'm in the camp that believes Karl Rove pulled off one of his greatest dirty tricks of all time.
This is an exaggeration, especially on modern Windows. I have a decent anecdotal sample size of average people whose PCs run fine and have no apparent infestations, including someone in their 70s with a laptop running Vista.
Sundar testifies in front of US House committee [live]
Collection Operations on Lazy Sequences in TypeScript with Itiriri
Nothing, just like nothing will happen to the outlets who are currently pushing this "Huwai is spying on everybody" narrative with not an ounce of evidence for it except for unfounded and unsourced claims by FiveEyes intelligence services [0].

Afaik that whole Bloomberg/Super Micro thing was similarly set up, referring to "anonymous intelligence/industry services", not even naming the company that supposedly did the security audit.

People have to realize that these kinds of narratives are often pushed by parties in the West, with a vested interest, just as much as it happens in the supposedly "propaganda riddled" East.

It's for those same reasons that the amendments to the Smith-Mundson act, which happened back in 2013, haven't seen any widespread attention or even mention anywhere in the mainstream [1] because the good guys don't do "propaganda", they do "interventions" [2] and "information campaigns" [3].

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/afa7fd54-79b1-11e8-bc55-50daf11b7...

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op...

[3] https://vimeo.com/67739294
I'm not sure there's any way to judge whether most great artists in history were "kind people" or not. We all have our short comings though and "feet of clay".

For all we know he may have wanted to be a better person, for whatever that means, but not been able to be any other way.

He is not his artwork.
Use a javascript blocker and then go to the namecheap.com site -- it takes about 10 minutes to click permission on the staggering array of ad script thats on there.
This piece is an obvious plant by the anti-electric lobby.

The article does not mention the word "battery" in any of its forms ("battery", "batteries") even once. And yet batteries are the proven solution to exactly the problem they are pretending is unsolvable.
That's not uncommon; a big paper like the Times will typically research and write draft obituaries for all sorts of notable people long in advance of their passing. That way, if it's decided when the sad day comes to publish an obit for that person, the draft can be pulled off the shelf and made ready to publish with just a quick pass to cover anything that happened in the subject's life since the draft was written. Part of the fact-checking process for producing that draft obit would involve reaching out to the subject to make sure it has its facts straight.

I've heard some people say that the idea of getting a phone call to discuss your own obituary is pretty morbid; but to me, it seems like it would be flattering. It means you lived a life notable enough to merit an obit in the New York Times!
The hand that flicked the first grain was the idiot that built a house in the wildland fire zone.

That's the problem, is people aren't looking at the actual problem. Fires are natural for this area, your house is not.
Information gathering is entirely in the read part of the spec.

Things have been improving, but SNMP used to break at every network bridge, no matter if any part of it was external or had any kind of difference security requirements. It was completely reliable that if you got into an organization, you wouldn't be able to communicate with anything in a different network segment, even for status messages. This was one of the obstacles for IPv6 adoption, since it used to require status messages for setting datagram sizes (I think that changed).

It looked like every sysadmin on Earth would look at SNMP, say "I don't want an attacker to have status and infrastructure information of my network", and block it. As did all network security guides on the Web.

I once worked for a company that basically had a client software that transmitted the same information of SNMP-read over HTTP. When I would go at clients I often asked their sysadmins why SNMP was blocked, they would always say "security", then I would tell them that they were buying this that was exactly the same as SNMP, and they would just say it's different somehow...
Grandia II? Skies of Arcadia? Shenmue? There were a number of good RPGs for the Dreamcast.
Godaddy is for sure a scam.

They once charged me, if memory serves, $75 to resolve a complaint about one of my domains. They wouldn't tell me what the complaint was, who brought it, or how it was resolved. They just charged my card on file $75 for the "service".

I transferred my domains out and never looked back.
Wow, brand new post, 5 green name throwaway account comments. Talk about astroturfing

https://i.imgur.com/drS3CCk.png
> literally syntactic ways to do the same thing.

Yup! They are not that many though (6 rules) and they are all documented here: https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/syntax-reference.html#syntactic-su...
Then the cost of fire insurance needs to increase dramatically to stop development in these areas.
Since there's no particular reason Bitcoin should have any value at all, of course $50 is possible. Any value, or none, is possible.
> sorry for sharing my experience with godaddy

Personal experiences are sometimes useful information. However, yours is somewhat out of date and lacked detail.
Drop to a bash shell and do this: $ whois example.com

It's what I've always turned to first for availability. Super fast and less chance of a middleman grabbing it because you expressed interest.
I'm also very surprised to see "employment stability" as something good. I'm the kind of person who likes to change things in life pretty often, and I change jobs around once a year, also taking shorter contracts. In the "old" world of job-for-life employment I would be complete outcast; I am really happy to work in the industry that is much more friendlier to my temperament.
If anyone needs to do the same thing, use this one: https://whois.icann.org
<i>Why shouldn't it? Isn't it just hardware too?</i>

In a mechanical hard drive, there are moving parts which can wear out due to friction, etc.

SSDs are solid-state, so it seems like at least theoretically, it should be possible to build one that keeps working for decades. e.g. I have solid-state hardware from the 70s and 80s which still functions.

I've always been a little mystified as to why SSDs' data areas wear out for that reason,[1] but that's a whole separate issue. The author of the article is writing about sudden failure of the device as a whole.

There are only two explanations I've ever heard for short lifetimes in electronics as a general industry.[2]

For devices manufactured after about 2000 there's tin whiskers,[3] which began to be a problem because of RoHS requirements. I'm not sure if that applies here, though.

If the device includes electrolytic capacitors, my understanding is that those generally have a finite lifetime as well, and it can be fairly short if they're poorly-made.

I'm not a hardware expert, though, so I'd be interested in hearing about other factors, and I'm sure the author of the article would too.

[1] I've seen lots of writeups of how wear-leveling works, etc., but never a good physical explanation of what is actually wearing out over time.

[2] Obviously there are other factors for specific devices, or specific designs. E.g. maybe parts of a specific device break over time due to thermal expansion and contraction if the device wasn't engineered to handle that properly.

[3] https://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/background/
Sure, I'll bite.

Is Netflix "prevented" or "not preferred". Let's pick our battle before we fight it.

But there is some useful grounding here. I use the term consenting adults, but perhaps we should refer to "legal entities". I think it is fair to start from a place where legal entities are allowed to enter into agreements with one another.

You are a legal entity. I am a legal entity. Netflix is a legal entity. Google is a legal entity. EI is a legal entity. (I have given the hypothetical ISP in your post a name, Evil ISP.)

There's my starting point. Would you like to continue a discussion about this? Please feel free to let me know if you disagree with anything above, and we can start there.
Speaker–listener neural coupling underlies successful communication (2010)
The Top Changing Lead Generation Goals Today, and Ways to Achieve Them
Yeah, there's a lot of specific products that are always wildly overpriced on Amazon. Mostly anything that is out of print/out of production, no matter how recently it went out or how easy it is to find, but I recently ran into it with Hanes underwear of all things--there wasn't a single seller that wasn't asking at least 50% over Target's online price.

For out-of-print books/toys/games/etc., eBay is usually your best bet. Computer hardware (video cards, RAM, etc.) is often cheaper on either eBay or NewEgg. Et cetera.
This is exactly what YAGNI is meant to counter: the constant tendency of programmers to add speculative extension capabilities that are never used. These add complexity and cognitive overhead. It's a net loss.

Also, people pretend like refactoring is hard. My experience is that refactoring is only hard on the ends of the spectrum, where someone has added all the wrong abstractions, or no abstractions at all. Of the two, I'd prefer the latter, but obviously anything in the middle is usually better.
BitTorrent wasn’t how pirated material was distributed in those days. DCC over Irc and FTP were widely used at this time.
You're taking it pretty far off track. This article is about listening to music.

The "premium" only applies to new products. The author here tried using a CD player, so the storage (and novelty) requirements are pretty low. A $5 used iPod would work just fine.
> Tangentially, that last aspect has me starting to suspect that the house and condo market is something of a Ponzi scheme that we are collectively pulling on ourselves

In some markets, yes. I sometimes suspect that NIMBYism is an unconscious way to prop up the ponzi scheme.
> These days, I feel like I'm in a twilight zone where 'wealth creation' is happening by putting a fresh face on 3rd-world country business models.

It's not a secret that lots of business models coming out of Silicon Valley are just regulatory workarounds/loopholes. It's a matter of chance that they coincide with some 3rd world country models as the latter's fuels are survival/corruption/perceived lawlessness while over here it's 'disruption'/first-to-market and the drive to become a temporary monopoly on a regulatory loophole.
Believing in Creationism is being willfully unintelligent.

One can be a Christian and not be a creationist -- that's a choice.
And we all know the Mongolian Empire lasted for centuries using this method (Hint: they collapsed relatively quickly)
China telecom at home and probably china unicom + china telecom for the office. Audio and video work fine for me, even if it's on the 4g network. Note that my company forked over money for enterprise licenses which maybe the difference here, i think the qos is a lot higher with enterprise license.
Get 10nm out.
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My advice is to skip 1 and 2.

She should learn Photoshop/Illustrator (or equivalent software) and recreate famous interfaces. (Facebook, Google Docs, Gmail, etc.) If she can get them to be pixel perfect, she has enough technical skill and can start exploring.

She should work on industry tools right away. She should skip theory - she'll learn more from doing. She can go back to theory if she feels like she's missing something.
>it's not clear if it actually harmed the newspapers themselves

As long as 1.) it's a rare event and 2.) the publication gives the appearance, and perhaps the reality of, throwing the guilty and those in the wrong place at the wrong time under the bus, putting better processes in place, apologizing profusely,and being very introspective about the whole affair, people tend to forgive and forget--or at least forget. And their peers probably have at least a bit of "there but for the grace..." about the whole thing anyway.

I'm being a bit snarky about throwing people under the bus. Usually there are people who are guilty mostly in a "the buck stops here" sort of way. But, in most of the recent cases I can think of, there were individuals in the news organizations who so wanted stories to be true that they were at best inept in a way it's not clear they understood even in retrospect.
Finally.
Card activation was only possible by calling my bank and for now this only works with the credit card, not my debit card.

Using my series 1 watch at the supermarket later worked like a charm.

Great experience!

Looking forward to me educating cashiers about this for the next couple of months (still have some of them trying to grab my card)
It would appear that the marketing department in these companies was focused in helping the sales people push more product, rather than work with product to highlight new functionality. This does make sense: most companies are sales driven, not product driven.
The best way to get better at building things is to build more things from scratch. You're last sentence though suggests that maybe you aren't that interested in getting better at building things and instead you want to get better at shipping product, finding market fit and doing the stuff usually associated with starting a business. If that's the case then building more things probably won't help you. Those skills aren't really engineering related. If you want to be better at shipping product for example, then the best way to do that is to get better at planning and to practice regularly deploying your product. Finding market fit requires a lot of talking to people in your target audience and shipping a product that meets those needs.

Essentially, if you want to get better at building things, then simply build more things. if you want to get better at everything else, then step away for your computer, talk to people, make connections, and put your work out there for others to see early and often.
Not a Plaid user, but I believe Mint works the same way. It seems to only decrypt my bank credentials with a key derived from my session password, so I suspect Plaid, if what you say is correct, do something similar.

Basically, my password is hashed to see if I can log on. Then it's passed through a PBKDF to get the decryption key for my actual accounts, then that information gets sent to the scrapers to do the actual job. They don't store the keys after the job is done. The upshot is that a full database breach doesn't result in any bank credentials leaking, at the cost of inability to update accounts without the user explicitly logging in.
Godaddy got a domain I searched and did not buy, and generally the user experience is like doing business with a scammer and penny pincher. On the other hand, they found a buyer for one of my domains for $5000. Kinda of a wash.
It works for the label, but does it enable the artists to live off of their music? I doubt it.
Would love to see this product tmaly!
Since GoDaddy were bought by a hedge fund a few years ago, they have basically gone in to "screw you buddy" mode. AS an example, I tried to purchase a domain using one of their famous coupons. I put it in, it worked, (10% off or something like that) I then went to pay and discovered that it wouldnt apply when I put in my CC to complete the transaction. I rang Customer support and I'm told that since I have used 10% coupon ONCE before (about a year and a half previous) that I could no longer avail of 10% coupons.

The next day after I hung up, I moved ALL sites to another vendor. It was relatively painfree.

I'm not mad at godaddy, I'm mad at the hedgefund thats clearly setting policy and that thinks it can just drop its balls about in a consequence free manner.

Never use a product from GoDaddy again.
I think that China doesn't really deserve the benefit of the doubt anymore. They'll probably make up some bullshit excuse and why they detained the man, but it'll be clear to everyone it's retaliation for the Huawei thing.