skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there has ever been a better time to be on the job market as a software developer. There are more software companies than there have ever been, and job openings and salaries for developers are at an all-time high.

Even if you're happy where you are, if you started more than 5 years ago, you'd be shocked to hear what kinds of salaries are on offer now if you're willing to switch companies. That's a sign that companies view developers as scarce resources rather than replaceable commodities.
It's trivially not an accurate description, if you read the comment again that I quoted from. If we resort to simplification, I would say stoners feel good because they do nothing. But some feel paranoid, because they maybe want to do something and they can't manage. I mean, the inability to do anything demanding, that's actually an accurate description of the effect. Whether people feel good about it or not is a coin toss.
So if they only hire the best 1/7, why do so many people say there are not enough coders on the job market and the demand is high? Why don't they just hire good coders too, not only the very best?
This can’t be a serious question but the reason is we know how to find primes.
I have signed up to the DNC list. I have also used some call blockers since years ago. However, I think it's not completely stop these robocalls. They are never getting tired of trying to harass our privacy life. Now I choose to just ignore those calls. I have also read an article that might be useful for anyone who get multiple robocalls, especially from legit businesses at https://www.whycall.me/news/consumer-wins-massive-229500-rob.... Hope this helps.
They just do whatever the bare minimum is to comply with export laws.
I thought embargoes didn't apply to information anyway? You're still allowed to text someone in Cuba or even call North Korea, so how come Slack is banned?
Exactly. Embargos function by taking away the rights away of American businesses and people. Trade embargoes make it illegal for US entities and people to trade with certain groups of people.
You need friends and your group needs to be motivated to find fun. Doing that has resulted in completely new game experiences, and I've been a gamer for 22 years. I've sat with a buddy stranded in a satellite, while our other friend organized a rescue, shooting shit. I've infiltrated a capital ship in order to shut down the shields, so that the rest of my group can board it (after destroying the rest of the fleet). I've participated in the Jump Town shenanigans, on both sides of the law. If you have friends who play it, it is a kind of fun that has been impossible to experience until now.

If you don't have anyone to play it with, I can't recommend it at all. You will not have fun. Maybe once there's more to the game.
I think you're right, there is no reason the two must necessarily be connected. Although I think the legalization of gamified savings accounts might provide an opportunity to ban state-run lotteries.
When would you say the practice started?
Ask HN: How do you make accessible, privacy respecting, spam free website?
Effective picture captcha has accessibility issue. Setting up any simple audio captcha without resources like google makes it easy to game. Tracking user activity would be a privacy issue. How could one make accessible, privacy respecting, mostly spam free CRUD site ?
The point is interesting. A CO2 laser at 10 microns can melt steel, which emits a whole lot of 0.5 micron photons.

The problem with sunlight reflected off the moon is that it's like having a very low transmittance ND filter in the optical path. There aren't a whole lot of photons entering the aperture, and as the material begins to heat, there are more photons and overall probably more energy going out. (I'm not giving an answer here, just some thoughts.)
Max Cooper is an absolute genius. I’ve been a fan since echoes reality

https://youtu.be/gra4ugWIzLE
Only on HN...

Can I be honest with you? This reads like a humble brag. You're already very successful.

No one here can make this decision for you. You sound like a capable person that is over thinking things. Assess your risk tolerance and trust your gut.
Customers can and do independently test their products when they care, from the UL to review sites to kosher certification to gluten-free certification to animal welfare standards at grocery store deli counters. The free market is adequately capable of answering these questions.

When customers actually care enough to pass a law, they can. That's why certain practices are illegal. Other ones aren't because they don't want their taxes increased to fund investigations they don't care about. When the government starts enforcing protections for people's own good because they know better, you no longer have a free market.
It is a good practice to be aware of though - often constructive conversations can be derailed by well-intentioned but unintentional “but-what-about-X” arguments being introduced when no such arguments existed to begin with. It is a hard habit to break when it comes to important topics. Generally, as in this case, the two things are in no way mutually exclusive.
Yep. I still use my credit union from college, and get pestered asking why I won't switch. Knowing I can call them from anywhere in the world at any time and get most issues resolved by a person in their office is a huge plus. As is reciprocal deposit and withdrawal. Absolutely no reason for me to switch.
The LGPL works as you're describing; I can license my own code however I want, as long as I let people freely modify all the LGPL libraries it links in. The GPL proper is very deliberately viral.
Do you have a source on that? It is easy to underestimate just how _stupidly_ a non-free society can behave. I'm not even talking democracy vs other (there can be non-free democracies, or notionally authoritarian regimes that are quite free in practice), I mean the really basic "if you can work to better yourself, then go for it" style liberty.

The system of corporations we have today is a super-civilised way of wresting power and control from existing structures - if you can do something better and cheaper than the company currently in power, you can displace them quickly and with minimum fuss.

The core of that mechanism in the west is if you think a companies management are just clueless you can start your own company and compete. That is a big component of what freedom is - if you think you can do it better you can try to do it better.

Non-free societies would almost certainly disrupt that mechanism as the first thing they did. Given how complicated a modern economy is, I'm not sure they'd be competitive with a free society. The inefficiencies would build up to spectacular levels.
The Scribblings of John Adams Might Help Build a Better Search Engine
Marketers lie.
I think you’re confused. Ubisoft, Epic, Bethesda, etc. all have launchers/storefronts that people need to use to play their games. Saying they don’t have “traffic” is nonsensical.

(But as I mentioned previously, and you brushed off, traffic alone is an awful metric anyway.)
We use Mattermost at my company, which works well for us and is entirely self hosted.
Okay, so your position is that Facebook is unable to query for a list of activity by user, and does not have it divided by user in any other way? That seems nonsensical to me, but if you say so.
Steam holds messages for the past two weeks, you can see these messages I the support tools. GDPR complaincy
Show HN: 3D Convolutional Neural Networks for Speaker Verification
"Yubikey support" is a meaningless phrase, anyway.

Bitwarden supports 2FA with Yubico OTP - although there's a bug so it works only for QWERTY layouts. Or you can use Yubikey's static password feature for your master password, I guess.

There's also OpenPGP Card and PIV, which, to my knowledge, is not used/supported by any password manager software except for `pass` and some compatible implementations.
I can see how I've given you that impression, but why would I create an anonymous throw-away account to humbly brag?

If there's any ulterior motive here, it's cofounder sourcing.
Use NPM modules with deno
I wouldn’t count on it being coal fired much longer.
What universe do you live in where unreal engine launches in less than 30 seconds?
Surely you mean Captain Disillusion.
If increasing the savings rate were actually a priority, then it can be achieved easily. Raise interest rates.

The Fed and its nearly decade long war on savers gave those with money to save essentially negative return on their investment.

It should be no wonder that savers decided to walk.
i was using dashlane for a while. The features were great, but one thing really bothered me:

On macOS everytime I opened safari it launched a dashlane.com page reminding me to install the plugin. I did not want the plugin, and after much googling never was able to prevent this behavior. I had to uninstall it.

Switched to KeepassXC, its good.
I didn't see the comment you replied to as an attack on personal freedom, but as a commentary on what they think is and is not a poor life choice. Of course you're free to do as you wish with your own body and mind, provided it's legal and doesn't infringe on others' freedoms. But there's no denying that a lot of things you could choose to do to yourself would be pretty stupid by any reasonable standard.

Just because you can get stoned whenever you feel bored doesn't mean you should. The fact that nobody has the right to tell other people what to do to themselves shouldn't preclude discussion.
Is Lyft Hacked?
My brother has had >1 rear enders in heavy Southern California traffic coming home after 15 hours of driving. He claims at the time of the accidents:
1. He is responding to a Lyft alert that came through while signed off.
2. Somehow Lyft has been hacked and he is being targeted while in heavy traffic (note that his Lyft Driver ID is his license # which can't be changed).
3. Hackers penetrated Über until they got paid off and now Lyft is under attack.

Frankly I'm more suspicious of poor fatigue self management and have advised him to power off his phone when he's done and take a short nap if a long way from home.

But perhaps HN has some data. Interesting would be the accident frequency correlated with time on shift.
What would the penalty for non-compliance here be?
The numbers on glassdoor seem a lot lower. Not that glassdoor is a representative portion to be able to really compare.
This is the primary reason. You can no more start a fire with sunlight reflected off the moon at night than with sunlight reflected off a sheet of paper during the day. (In fact you can do better with the sheet of paper, because you could in theory surround it with lenses to recapture the diffuse light.)
CDMA phones (notably, 3G Sprint US, 3G Bell Canada, 3G Telus Canada) couldn't simultaneously use data (say, Google Maps) and voice.

GPS lat/long would work fine, but you won't be able to download turn-by-turn directions or map tiles/vectors from Google.

LTE (and 3G HSPA, such as AT&T, T-mo, 3G/4G/LTE Rogers Canada, LTE Bell Canada, LTE Telus Canada) don't have this behavior. Voice calls are packet switched (so you can do voice and data at the same time).
Why not setup a foundation so that the money is not an investment, but a contribution. People with that kind of money are always looking for ways to not pay taxes on it. Set up a charitable foundation where the 1% look to lower their tax liability can donate. The foundation can specialize in hiring crews to go collect ocean trash. How is it not a win-win. I know I'm over simplifying, but seriously, how is this not a thing?

Yes, running trash removal from the ocean is not profitable, so nobody will want to invest. So solve the problem by coming at it the other way. Even if it only gets enough money for a couple of years worth of operation, to an early comment's point, isn't that better than nothing?
How to Become a CEO; Traditional vs Hack
Slack missed an excellent opportunity here: to be first US company to suspend services momentarily due to egregious and broken* sanctions imposed by the US on other countries.

* Broken in that they are levied against random individual citizens of sanctioned countries instead of groups trading with or state entities otherwise interacting with the US.
What your iMessage data says about you – Part 2
Go to NYTM and maybe other meetups in your "space"…there's always people looking to get in on the ground floor on something. See if you can found a company while working for PTC without compromising your job/equity in PTC (hire one or more kids to do the day to day grunt work operating your MVP).
So how good is that speech recognition system in, let's say, to listen in on a phone conversation and use that information in, let's say, the Facebook news feed. You know the precise thing many, me including, suspect Facebook is actively doing. And if you say they don't do any things like that, why do they need a speech recognition system in the first given that Facebook is a text based system.
31 is still very young. We started at 36 and that was still young. Plenty of time.

That said, if it's truly 2020, then i'd say wait for the IPO. Some financial security will make it much easier to jump and do your thing later. If money isn't a concern now, then go for it.

Counter point, the market is looking to become more unstable and there is a good chance 2020 IPO won't happen, so raising funding now might be your best and get after your own thing.

Hopefully you've vested something at PTC so you have something to gain in the IPO.
Benchmark: Deep directory structure vs. flat directory structure
I think that parent is referring to standalone apps, not in browser extensions.
Many people under the age of 40 will probably not realize what an incredibly insightful prediction this was for 1976:

"You can call in through [a console] any information you want: airline flights, price of things at the supermarket, books you’ve always wanted to read…

News, selectively; you can tell the machine I’m interested in such and such items, sports, politics and so forth, and the machine will go to the main central library and bring all this to you, selectively – just what you want; not all the junk that you have to get when you buy the two or three pounds of wood pulp which is the daily newspaper."
From what I understand, this is less of a machine learning advancement and more of an engineering advancement? Trying to see if any of the bleeding edge stuff has been implemented. Still waiting for SeLUs to be standard!
this deserves a title change. another successful woman forced out of tech by trolls and on-line abuse.
I mean, it kind of has to fail-deadly to be of any use at all - since what's a tank with no IFF?
I'm not sure if you are joking or not, but something like this is still used for solar power generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_tower
Four months after its debut, sneaky Mac malware went undetected by AV providers
Is this a serious question?

Accident frequency does rise after hours on the job. This is why truckers and pilots have regulations on how much they can do in one go and even how often.

Meh source:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/12/06/driving-less-...
i find it hilarious, hilarious i tell you, that he felt the need to put a quasi-legal disclaimer at the bottom of his medium post. i suppose it is demanded by the field he is in (investment banking) but it just strikes me as nonsense.

too bad the article is quite thin.
By bombarding compound with ultraviolet radiation researchers created “D” in DNA
How Does the Bay Area Commute?
https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/
Maybe some iPad apps like
Bandimal

Loopimal

Everything Machine

Toca band or

Sago Mini
Solzhenitsyn: The Fall of a Prophet
If they have basic income, then would they need to be paid "livable" subsidized income for any activities they chose to do? I thought basic income was meant to be livable in itself.
How my video with 47M views was stolen on YouTube
Context for anyone who wants to understand what parent is referencing:

http://llvm.org/foundation/relicensing/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18699228
I'm a big fan and critic of apologies. This one is pretty good.

They admit the mistake was theirs and they take responsibility for it. They say sorry. They explain what they're going to do to fix the situation. They say they're going to learn from this and not have similar mistakes in the future. Pretty solid.

The only thing that is missing, in my view, is personalization. Tell me who you are, speaking for the organization. This humanizes the apology, and also gives a face to who it is saying they're going to improve. Ideally the CEO.

Still, I give it 8/10.
Texts/SMS/voice calls etc are not encrypted. The NSA slurps that data up like a sponge wrapped in Brawny wrapped in a ShamWow. There's a huge list of why we can't export/sale things to certain countries, but encryption is one of them. Things that seem "innocent" enough like a hardware video box might qualify as embargoed because it has the ability to decode SSL network traffic. Can't let that tech get in the hands of the "enemy".
There are different levels of “mainstream.” I talk to my nephew and games like Minecraft / Fortnite / FIFA and Twitch have the mindshare of a 13 year old boy that they categorically did not have 10 years ago. I ask him what he does with his friends and it all revolves around this stuff. They’re not even chasing girls!
Chinese battery expert is charged with stealing trade secrets from US employer
The thing is, radiative processes (like light) can’t store energy. To do that, you need some kind of engine, either electrical or mechanical.

Of course you could put a solar panel connected to a battery in moonlight for a few months and build up enough stored energy to power a laser for long enough to fry something. But that’s not “burning something with moonlight using a magnifying glass.”
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Malaysia seeks $7.5B in reparations from Goldman Sachs: FT
the subtext of what? your post or the subtext your projecting on the article or that of the article?
Very nice! I've used a spline tool in SolidWorks that I found useful and was hoping to find something outside of solid modeling that was similar and this seems to be it, super intuitive and clean!

Probably not the use it was intended for, but I wonder if this could be used to improve imagemap polylines. I use Wikipedia's imagemap tool [0] and I wish the interface was like this (actually, I use a separate site [1] to generate the polyline values).

[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ImageMap

[1] http://maschek.hu/imagemap/imgmap/
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The US elected Donald Trump as President, who then reversed the Obama Administration approach to Iran and reimposed sanctions.

With respect to Slack, if they intend to IPO in 2019 they may be going through a due diligence checklist as others have suggested.
EDIT: for anyone curious, here is the official guide on Wim Hof breathing, copy-pasted from https://www.wimhofmethod.com/breathing-exercises

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Never practice the breathing exercises in a place where it could be dangerous to faint.

Step 1: Get comfortable

Before you start practicing the breathing exercises, it is important to get as comfortable as possible. Sit in a comfortable posture in which you can expand your lungs freely. To make sure that you can expand your lung for the fullest, it is recommended to practice the exercises on an empty stomach.

Step 2: 30 power breaths

For this first breathing exercise, imagine that you are blowing up a balloon. While using your midriff fully, inhale through your nose and exhale through your mouth. Use short and powerful bursts. Close your eyes and repeat 30 times. You can become light-headed during this exercise or experience a tingling sensation. This is normal.

Step 3: Retention after exhalation

After your 30 power breaths, fill your lungs to maximum capacity, but don’t force it. Exhale and hold for as long as you can. Hold your breath without forcing it, until you experience the gasp reflex.

Step 4: Recovery breath

Inhale to maximum capacity and feel your chest expanding. When your lungs are full, hold your breath for 10 seconds. Release the breath, and begin a new round. Repeat 3 to 4 times.

Step 5: Enjoy the feeling

Take your time to enjoy the feeling that the breathing exercises invoke. This feeling is similar to the effects of meditation and will get more powerful when you practice more often.
My kids think it’s hilarious to fast travel to a giant camp and see mammoths spawn from the air fall and die.
This study is married with bias, the French have had it in for the English since Waterloo.

J/k
Option A: we attempt to prove a negative ("Lyft was not hacked.")

Option B: because of a lack of evidence, we can do nothing to determine whether or not that's the case.

edit: Option C: he's responding to alerts while driving and he's looking for any other explanation for being rear-ended
I personally like Gitea.
I used "will be" because the product has not actually been launched yet in a release version of Brave.
That's such a good point, the lottery revenues aren't "increasing", they are "replacing" funding.
Fines if it's not a criminal violation, or potential prison time if it is. Since it's a corp, and the group think here is that corps are shields from jail time for the employees, then probably no jail time.

There's also the negative PR that comes with being labeled as "aiding and abetting the enemy".
It sure does. Maybe Kathy Sierra - Trouble at the Koolaid Point (the title of the relevant section) would have been a better title than Kathy Sierra - Programming Training Eminence. Or your second sentence, even better, although it's too long for a title.

What a terrible story. Who are these jerks that abuse people like that? A better community wouldn't allow it.
They need speech recognition for their Alexa/Google Home like hardware product: https://portal.facebook.com

(Notice how much they emphasize privacy and security in their marketing...)
The original is definitely the better game.
Well I think the thermodynamic analysis is useful in understanding things, that was my point. I’m not quite understanding the scenario you describe - are you asking how it is possible that you can’t heat up the target more than the origin? If so then take an example where the sun is a single point at 5000 degrees. It is easy to see that the most you could do with this point sun is heat up one point on your object to the same temperature, no more. Now what if there were two point suns next to each other? The discussion on xkcd about optics is saying you can’t superimpose the points on each other on the target under any circumstances, even with two separate lenses at the right angle. This doesn’t seem like it should be impossible though...

What about two single photon sources, can’t they be pointed at exactly the same spot? Maybe the explanation here is that the target electron cannot interact with 2 photons at the same time, so you can’t ‘double heat’ a single particle. Or maybe that you can’t precisely target a single particle without decreasing the entropy of a closed system, which is impossible.
It’s an arms race but can always invest in detecting VPN access — see for example trying to watch Netflix through a VPN.
You could say the same thing with human rights violations about Saudi Arabia. 2018, Saudi Arabia finally allowed women to drive cars. Heck even China allows women to drive cars.

US is still pretty buddy-buddy with Saudi Arabia despite the Saudis' Middle Eastern regional hegemony in the GCC Gulf Area and the fact that US calling for LGBTQ rights and women rights in Saudi Arabia is almost unheard of (https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/05/opinions/un-death-penalty-res...), so there is more than a moral "protect world human rights" stance here at play when observing US policy, its more realpolitik.

Also there is no like necessary-evil situation here, the other alternative is to enable the Middle Eastern states to embrace democracy and to get rid of hereditary dictatorships.