skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judging by what I've seen - many.

My company still uses modems for some things, we have devices that are configured via serial, they can act as a primitive getty, enough to do modem control anyhow - and so we dial in.
To me, it seems all this long explanation is just posturing when a simple example would have proven your point.
Finally auto correct of "ducking" from the ruder alternative will make sense.

"I spent the day ducking around on the internet"
I created the same app in React and Vue (Part 2: Angular)
Ask HN: What's a great place on the web to find  beautiful deck templates?
I’m curating a list of beautiful/slick presentation deck templates for busy professionals. (free or paid)

What are some of the places you have used personally and would recommend highly? Thank you in advance!
I like that I can trust the food in the supermarket. I like that my water is drinkable.

I don't like the straight, clear highway with no exits that drops from 70 mph to 55mph for the sole purpose of generating revenue for the police department. I don't like that books written by authors who died years ago, and are no longer in print, may be lost forever because no one one can legally make a new copy until a very long time in the future.

There are good regulations and bad ones. The generalized "regulation is good/bad" debate is a waste of time. And FYI, there are plenty of wealthy people abusing regulations to get richer, see the patent system for more info.
I read ATDT -- thought "Oh, the Hayes command to dial - wonder what it means now." Great story. Good memories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_command_set
> This whole article is incredibly self serving.

Mmmmhmmmm. It's executive CYA, and a public article for a public clusterfuck.

5 years ago is when this stuff probably started going sideways and those failures manifest later as massive outages, breaches, etc. Could be that the author IS WHY a lot of these issues cropped up later, so take proactive steps to blame others.

Gotta keep that executive cachet high so that you can slide into a CTO role elsewhere.
It is well known that people with higher IQ and higher education lean left, and you'd expect HN's demography to be significantly biased that way. Also, conflating "Democrat" and "socialist" would get you laughed out of any non-American room. Perhaps this mistake is due to a lack of education about the world? ;)
Her novel A Place of Greater Safety about the French Revolution is also really good.
Uninformed speculation:

+ "showdead" affects which thirty posts get displayed next.

+ a user may have added a post since the current page was displayed.

+ Reverse chronological numbering would require renumbering all posts each time a post is added...or deleted.

+ No dependency on Javascript when browsing HN.
"nobody wants to raise rates to generate cash for upgrades."

So maybe we change that mindset, rayiner.
We used to use modems for almost everything. I even contributed a small piece of code to the kermit project a long time ago, maybe 1989 or so? A kermit script could have made this easier to do with 2 keystrokes...
http://www.kermitproject.org/
You think Opera of a few years ago was better than Chromium and Firefox today?
Harvard's undergraduate size is absolutely not limited by funding.
Why we re-designed our engineering career paths at CircleCI
Shoe Dog was great
I stopped using Facebook in 2009 when my parents and grandparents hopped on, I was 19 and felt like it wasn't cool anymore. Now I am telling them all to leave it due to privacy concerns, but hardly any of my family cares about privacy concerns and are just worried about keeping in touch. Which I understand but it is sad to see so little being understood about privacy. However, I don't see people like my parents ever leaving Facebook, and if they do, they will be the ones rejoining in a couple of days.
Taking no profits in retail was a very intentional decision they made. Bezos has talked publicly at length about it.
Oh, you were talking about RDS, sorry missed that.
Yes, I know. I'm using xkeysnail on Linux for C-n, C-p and C-m keybindings which I haven't seem to make it work in cVim. And for Windows, AHK for the same functionality.
NotPetya leads to unprecedented insurance coverage dispute
Euphony: http://literary-devices.com/content/euphony
Android Trojan steals money from PayPal even with 2FA enabled
Well yes.

But that doesn't mean we should outlaw speech... Because speech leads to good things a lot more often than firebombing mobs.

Those people we can put in jail. Only those.

The rest are helpful or neutral, even if you don't agree with them. Democracy (in any form) grows stronger with dissent/speech.
Is There Really a Fourth Neutrino Out There in the Universe?
well that is interesting, but i'm not sure how practical it is, unless you have spare space to put one to rent out.
less searchable, but free advertising from gboard...
Los Angeles passes regulation targeting Airbnb and short-term rental services
"Let me duck that for you" might get a few doubletakes.
And that description is wrong. The userpsace and other common software is not necessarily tied to the Linux kernel.

Case in point, this whole article is about software originally developed for OpenBSD. OpenSSH has nothing to do with Linux.
I wouldn't say it's better than Google - it's a bit worse for non-English queries, and similar for English ones.

Both have in common that if they don't know the answer to your query, they assume they know better than you and give you unrelated results. I'd prefer if they'd just print "Can't find anything" and let me tweak my query instead of sending back random results.
Who else went through this:

"Star Wars? no that's not right"

"Modems? no nobody writes about those anymore"

<click>
The same as the problem with not including the tax in the price up front: it hides the true cost behind a series of computations that most people won't do and a tourist certainly cannot do without research.

It is essentially a trick to get people to not think about how much money they are spending.
Just to be sure, I just asked bing.com for "duck". I never, ever, EVER use bing, so unless they get their search results from someone else, they should be relatively unbiased.

Once more, duckduckgo.com comes up as the first result. Once more, from _Germany_. "duck" is a German word (imperative, as in "duck and cover"), but it is really rare, so I would not be surprised if the search results were biased in favor of our new fowl overlords. But I don't think it's all filter bubble, either.
IDEs with output displayed inline
I find it hilarious that the overwhelmingly "move everything to the cloud" community here is advocating a build-your-own route over outsourcing the job to a massive company.
It was an ICO, there are no such liabilities.
> What does cause a lot of mental overhead (and consider myself a decent engineer) is creating commits that have a single purpose in the first place.

I agree, this is what demonstrates maturity in an engineer. Perhaps we need to focus on commit driven development.

I personally do not allow teammates to ship macro commits covering multiple features. I call this out in code review process.
LibraryThing reports 854 editions of books identified by "Bad Blood". Please add at least the author's name to make life easier for people who want to check your suggestions.

(I am not picking out specifically you, I had similar problems with whoever suggested "Code" above, and I am sure more will be found in the rest of the thread...)
Couple out of the box ones:

Lost Languages - Andrew Robinson. Starts with the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphs, Mayan hieroglyphs, and "Minoan" Linear B, then goes into detail about many still undeciphered writing systems. Existing examples, what's been studied and tried, the personalities of people involved, etc. Fascinating stuff. One of the few examples of the "Isthmian script" or epi-Olmec script[0] (a precursor to the Mayan writing system) is owned by the Smithsonian Natural History museum, and while I think they usually keep it in storage, it coincidentally was on display this summer and I took a trip to go see it after reading the book.

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts - Christopher de Hamel. 12 different medieval manuscripts the author goes to visit. Describes their history, where they are now and what it's like to see them, contains many detailed reproductions of pages, etc. Not at all dry; the author writes well and adds bits of humor, while still getting across all the necessary details.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isthmian_script
I guess I'll ask the question: in the US, insider trading is (generally) trading on material non-public information. There are other nuances (various courts have found there needs to be a benefit or not and so on).

Is the law similar in the UK?

Does it even exist for currencies? Presumably not because there is no company to be the insider of?
It’s been explained to me a number of times but I still don’t get it.

How does a short actually work?

The part I don’t get is, how do you actually get out of the position and make the money?
Top 3 for the year for me below. All of these are completable in 2 or so hours and non-fiction. For me at least, this is notable since so many non-fiction reads take 400 pages to make a point that could be summarized in 150:

- Free Will, Sam Harris - one of my buddies strongly recommended this book after debating me on the subject for an hour plus. While some of the question of free will is semantics, Harris deeply changed my position on to what extent we determine our own actions. When someone can present an argument to you for an hour and a half uninterrupted, it also makes a difference - perhaps the best way to influence someone is to recommend a book.

- It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy At Work, DHH and Jason Fried - made me rethink the tradeoff between working harder and working smarter. This book strongly debates how most companies structure PTO, the work week, meetings and so much more and offers opinionated alternatives. Basecamp is clearly thinking independently from first principles here, and I really admire that.

- The Way to Love, Anthony de Mello - meditations on freeing yourself from attachment and your own programming. This book pairs really well with Free Will (I read them around the same time) because both offer unique perspectives on why we are the way we are and why change is possible (Free Will actually optimistically concludes change is possible without us being in control of our actions).

Shameless plugs - I blog on my favorite reads of the month at theconsider.com , which also is available as a monthly e-mail (https://theconsider.com/subscribe/).
My favorites are Make Me Smart, which focuses on the intersection of technology, culture, and the economy, and Embedded.FM, which discusses all the different aspects of embedded software.
Note an important diffetence, that Microsoft keyboard has staggered keys.
StrongLoop – Simplify Your Database Migrations Using LoopBack 4
Rather than `git add -p`, I suggest creating a second clone of your repo, staging your foundational refactor changes in the second repo, creating and merging your commits there, and then rebasing your working branch.

This makes sure you can fully test your refractors and that their change sets stand alone.
reminder that most praise you find about DDG in popular online communities (e.g. HN, Reddit, /g/, etc...) is mostly by their own paid influencers and shills, Weinberg even bragged about it once on Quora and deleted it later.
The only question that he cares about: what's his exit number?
So I am, too, from a country where internet is (was) great while ISPs own the last mile (Russia). It seems there are two prerequisites for that:

1. Low level of regulation (i.e. lawlessness) so small ISPs can just string cables in the air without any licensing

2. Relatively young infrastructure

Both of those aren't true for most developed countries. And even if it's not (Russia isn't), at some point market dynamics inevitably lead to monopoly. Most local competing ISPs are forced out of the market recently by state-sponsored mega-ISP that controls uplinks and finally went for last mile, too. As you can guess, the quality went down, while the prices went up.

You can't cheat the market forces unless you eliminate the market. Physical fiber is an amazing moat, there is no way how upstart ISPs can be price-competitive while duplicating an already existing network.
Volvo’s New Pitch: ‘Don’t Buy This Car’
The point was that there wasn't much they could do to make nicer shells if the backing text infrastructure was poor.
I use it consciously! I'd rather not support Google, and after a few comparison searches between DDG and Google back in the day I used Google, I found DDG to be far inferior.

Plus Bing has nice background images (I use it as my homepage).
Until you realize over 50% of the school is the progeny of the 1%. Then you realize what's actually going on.
At least in the US, trading based on non-public information is totally fine, unless trading on it would violate a duty of trust to the source of the information [1] (which can be indirect, e.g. an employee tells his wife about some insider information: she had a duty of trust to him, and he to the company/shareholders, so she can be prosecuted for trading on that.)

The savvy prediction of events exogenous to a company’s operations is very much not insider trading.

[1] It’s a little more complicated, but I think this is as good a succinct formulation as one can hope for.
My answer to most of these questions is either "No, that's not what universities are for" or "yes, and they've been doing that for decades."
A slick screen-sharing based mobile messenger
Australia's tech industry savages Labor for backing bill
Warframe players refuse to let Fortuna instance number 69 end
This sounds great until you read something HN says is objectively wrong and has upvotes.

Then you think everyone here is less intelligent than they lead on.
There's no reasonable amount of money that Google can charge for this that will make up for the amount of meetings they'd need to correctly determine the amount and get all the signoffs for it, and charging for it would also negatively impact the PR for it.
Maker culture is pretty common on HN.
maps.google.com is good for navigation but if you want to search for things and especially if you want to search for multiple things at once, bing is far better.

Here's an example: https://binged.it/2EhrUDm
I don't think you can line up multiple searches like that on Google. It's far and away my favorite feature of Bing.
Ask HN: Where to find good mobile devs?
I am planning on building a small side-income project. I would build the website and backend. If it is profitable enough and made sense to have iOS and Android apps, I would like to have them. However, I won't have time to build the apps while working on the website and api, in addition to my fulltime job and other responsibilities.

Where is a good place to find iOS and Android devs that may be interested in working together for a side income project like this?
Unfortunately, basketball fans will probably keep Kansas from being moved to Manhattan and merged with Kansas State.
you can also just add `!gm` to your query and it will then populate Google Maps with it :)
"Atomic Habits" by James Clear - best book on the psychology and practice of habit formation.

"Personal MBA" by Josh Kaufman - best introduction to business administration studies.

"Why Switzerland?" by Jonathan Steinberg - book on why Switzerland is the best European country.
Why not be honest and direct?
Conflating the App Store to how Apple has developed WebKit is a huge distraction. If I were better at arguing on the Internet I’d cite some logical fallacy.
But when "temps" can be employed for 10+ years in the same role with the same host company, is that model still true?
I can't speak for Google, but I work in a big company that has a lot of contractors. And ... there's not much "wrong" here.

The real engineering work is done by employees.

Contractors are for:

- Kitchen

- Security

- Maintenance & Repairs

- IT support (the regular IT are still employees)

- Engineers

The first 3 being contractors are standard in many companies.

The "engineers" category is not for cost cutting. In fact, often (most?) of the times, the company is paying a lot more per head for one of them than they pay for their own employees. I recall one case where the company was easily paying double what they pay their own engineers. The manager was upset because that contractor did not care for the company's deadlines, etc (one of the perks of being a contractor). The manager felt the company should just kill the agreement and hire a regular engineer - save money and get work done on time. But he was overruled.

The only category I think are royally getting screwed are the IT support staff. I spoke to one to get an idea of their pay, and it was abysmal. For his skills and the work he did, he was definitely more useful to the company than many of our FTE's.

At least in my company, this isn't a case of perma-temps.
Huh, that's weird! How does inverting a waveform affect the process?
An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth
can it just replace ELK with a single golang binary? big if it does
Old Norse is a germanic language.
Did you just assume my search engine?
The tanker was already in contact over radio with the frigate. Voice comms (when established) are better than horns.
Are you an employee or a contractor? If the former, are you not violating IP by subcontracting?
I was thinking it would be funny to call it Logki.
I think this is a UK/US disconnect. In the UK (and much of Europe) the point of many trading laws is to prevent trading on non-public information. In the US we tend to think this is a dumb goal because much of the point of markets is to incentive price discovery, which is done primarily via trading on research. Thus, we tend to have a hard time believing that that is what the law really means, even if it is what it says.
> it’s the same with tipping

Nowadays it’s even more ridiculous with payment terminals all set to 15%, 20%, 25% options and to tip $0 you have to go to “custom amount” and type 0. The most idiotic part about it is that most of the places that use this practice provide no service at all! You pick your food! You clean after yourself! What are you tipping them for???
As someone who's stared at market news announcements for years, it's not that easy, even with the data. I've never traded on insider info (and neither should you!) but even when I had it, I didn't think it was that obvious which way things would go.

Often the market moves the opposite way of what you'd think, given the news. Any these can be reasonable:

"Rates went up, and that means firms will have a hard time borrowing, which lowers investment spending"

"Rates went up, but the market (risk assets) also went up because it's a sign the economy is healthy"

"Earnings were up, but people were hoping for a surprise"

The other entertaining one is when a CEO gets fired because of bad performance, and the price shoots up. Oh, the ignominy.
> My one criticism is that sometimes he ignores oppositional arguments where I think he should address them.

Yes, that's because Thomas Sowell skews libertarian as mentioned by another commenter elsewhere in the thread.

I think this Amazon review [0] and a few others did a decent job of mentally preparing me wrt Sowell's biases before I committed to reading his very well-written book. It's essentially a caveat that there are quite a range of economic views out there but Basic Economics only exposes you to the economic view which he considers worthy of his time.

Regardless, Sowell does an excellent job of clearly expounding on what constitutes economic thinking.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3RFDB6MCBI1BI/re...
A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley: Decent. I think this book would best be read in conjunction while working through a textbook. I will admit that it did do quite a bit to help relieve math anxiety, but the nature of the book is practicality.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley: A reread. A bit depressing considering the state of the world today. I found myself wondering which reality would be preferable.

Letters to a Young Mathematician by Ian Stewart: Easy, but fruitful read. I've struggled a lot with math confidence, and this helped alleviate a lot of that.

How to Speak, How to Listen by Mortimer J. Adler: A lot of practical advice. My biggest takeaway was this: if it's worth talking about, even if the conversation sucks or the other person doesn't understand, any bit of advancement and understanding is worth the effort. Really helped me increase my patience when talking to people.

Quack This Way by David Foster Wallace and Bryan Garner: Super useful and practical discussion between two lovers of language. I keep a copy with me at all times.

The Autobiography of Gucci Mane: Just a fun read while on vacation. "If Gucci can do it, you can do it".

Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson: A nice if brutal read. It was my first foray in DJ. I felt Cormac McCarthyish vibes.

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy: A classic. The Judge.

Thinking About Mathematics by Stuart Shapiro: Highly recommended for anyone interested in the philosophical questions of mathematics. Shapiro writes clearly, concisely, and in a manner that is easy to read.

The Liars' Club by Mary Karr: Pretty great but brutal.

The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace: I really enjoyed it. It's ode to Wittgenstein and it helped me cope with a lot of questions that I felt after studying LW.

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I think we've all been in Werther's shoes. Though I hope that nobody comes to the same conclusion he came to.

Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, & Sharpen Your Creative Mind: A pretty great book. I find myself writing a book report on it to make sure I internalize a lot of the lessons. If you're having trouble doing creative work while working, read this.
Since no one has mentioned it so far, I recommend the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. This year, I finished (numbers in Discworld order, annotated by the series):

9. Eric [Rincewind]

10. Moving Pictures [Independent]

12. Witches Abroad [Witches]

18. Maskerade [Witches]

19. Feet of clay [The City Watch]

23. Carpe Jugulum [Witches]

32. A Hat Full of Sky [Tiffany Aching]

37. Unseen Academicals [Wizards]

38. I Shall Wear Midnight [Tiffany Aching]

Brilliant series, highly recommended. Whenever I feel down, I re-read one of the Witches series - I spot something I never noticed before - an immediate mood-booster!
> the blathering would start, I'd look over, he'd nod, I'd do the phone trick, and then it would be over.

A coworker and I had a similar arrangement at the last office I worked at :)
We use the same settings in Github of squashing PR commits. I guess it's a matter of preference but IMO this workflow is a better version of what the article describes.

You get the best of both worlds, you end up with a very readable history of commit messages, where each one describes a single feature or unit. But while you're working you don't have to break your flow to write documentation every time you commit, or go back later to rearrange/rebase commits.
Also ddg.co

ddg.gg is the easiest to type, but would be a strange URL to send to a (non technical) person.
If you use !bangs, its a duck hunt.
> I am writing 3000 lines of code with this approach daily.

Don't you mean you "collect" ~3000 lines of code per day?

And how much does that even cost you? How do you ensure quality? Do you pay per hour or result?
> providing customer support

It could be argued that they don't even provide this adequately in areas where they are a market monopoly.

My local government provides far better customer support. When there is an issue or grievance, there is a place to file it and someone will always respond. As an added bonus, they don't try to sell me additional services every 5 minutes.