skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spamming employees with officious emails and hoping one of them is dumb enough to respond with pertinent information that subverts them or their organization is the textbook definition of phishing. What does it mean to you?
>I sometimes think that if/when Britain becomes a dictatorship it'll be a brutally-enforced version of Middle England, with death sentences for people who don't put their bins out properly and so on.

You just reminded me of this old bit of news -

- Half of councils use anti-terror laws to spy on 'bin crimes'

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3333366/Half-of-coun...
I'll take it as one uninformed bigot spreading the word of another uninformed bigot.
Corel Draw is similar to Adobe Illustrator, not Photoshop
Seems to be:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide...
Wha? I leave my PCs on for years at a time. Except for natural disasters (storms, cut power lines) they operate 24X365. A personal website is pretty straightforward.

I think its pretty straightforward to host things yourself.
My favorite article on this topic was from The Independent in 2000 that stated snowfalls in England were a thing of the past and children would not know what snow is within a few years.

The Independent finally deleted the article but here’s a summary of it:

http://www.globalwarming.org/2010/12/27/headline-2000-snowfa...
Dear writer, I am forwarding this to my product lead, and going back to Jira.
I love catching up on the news in bed after waking up. Best part of the morning.
One major downside is that the schedule is very unpredictable between Portland and Seattle, due to right of way being preempted by freight traffic. It's not uncommon to have to pull into a siding and sit for 10-20 minutes several times.

That said the comfort between train and air travel is night and day, you get much more space, plenty of outlets, room to get up and move around, purchase food and drinks, even if the food is worse than airline food.
Show HN: Unofficial Google Search Timeline Built with AMP
I do in order to be able to keep the phone somewhere that it will not tempt me into looking at it when I'm supposed to be sleeping.
> I feel like you're being deceptive here

Giving precise quote with full source link for everyone interested is deceptive? How so?

> RELX, the parent company of Elsevier, hasn't been involved in this for over a decade

Yes, the article is dated 2005. It was clearly a major issue for the journal's reputation at the time, that went through the trouble to write it. The guardian article is from 2008, so 3 years after. Does 2008 being 10 years ago erase that part of the history?

This very subject was brought in this tweet:
https://twitter.com/paul_abrahams/status/1062402097172414464

> If anyone doubts the value provided by academic publishers, they should read this story of the inner workings of @TheLancet, one of @ElsevierConnect 's leading journals http://bit.ly/relx-lancet, the link celebrating 200 years of history of the journal!

Either Elsevier takes credit for 200 years of The Lancet, including the last 20 years, or we need to erase all the history up until 10 years ago? :) Wasn't that tweet perhaps deceptive?

> There are perfectly good reasons to criticize Elsevier - you may feel like they should have a way for patients and caregivers to access research about their condition, for example - so there's really no need to be disingenuous.

It was a quote, no added critics on my part.
If you note "suggestions for publishers" under the following link, that can hardly be intepreted as criticising :)
https://gitlab.com/publishing-reform/discussion/issues/100#s...
i've found some of the 'water cooler' talk could easily foster gossip and cliques, leading to people "in the know" getting tapped for special projects and promotions, simply because they 'fit in' with a particular manager better, skills be damned. The 'smoke break' phenom too - if your boss smokes, figure out a way to get out there and spend time - that's their water cooler time, and the spoils go to the other smokers.

Of course it's not 100% that way, but my own experience has seen it play out a few times that way.
The blog post about it is probably a better link for HN: https://statsbot.co/blog/building-open-source-google-analyti...
Your friend's problem is that she's a bigot.
Vue.js: Up and Running – Building Accessible and Performant Web Apps
Why would it be cost effective for a city that isn't dense enough for a subway to waste time and money digging an underground tunnel for 1 lane of cars instead of just expanding their existing streets by 1 lane for a fraction of the time and cost?
That is the key differentiation between a speculator and an investor or God forbid, a user.
the California reference document on this topic might be .. a 71 page April 2017 pdf .. "Rising Seas in California -- an Update on Sea-Level Rise Science" through California OPC_SAT
How does this compare to Trint in terms of speech recognition performance?
It is nice to just walk up to the train and board at your leisure. And having a power outlet and legroom is also nice too.
Python is not C. There are no pointers in Python.

I have no idea why would you mention BASIC here.
I hear you, especially on the block caching. ARC just does not interact well with FreeBSD's native block cache either.
Some people don’t want to put a GA tag on their site because of concerns around how Google uses the data. Also you can’t arbitrarily query GA data so this gives you that capability.
Email/newsletters are a promising protocol, but you would have to rethink the UX to be more like a newsfeed, where a concise version of the message is shown once, and then automatically marked as read.

I have noticed friends reverting back to RSVP e-mails via Paperless Post Flyer. I'm still not sure if one person in this social group is not on Facebook, causing the change, but it has been a welcome adjustment. If Facebook Events can be replaced by an e-mail approach, I don't see why other products can't follow suit.
Speculation is when you bought cheap land where the next corridor will be. There is a tax on nearsightedness now.
That's pretty much my threat model. I tunnel everything over a Digital Ocean box, where I can assume that three letter agencies have access to my traffic but be reasonably confident that my ISP isn't building up a profile on me that it may be sharing with third parties in my country like insurance companies or credit agencies. I can also roll my IP every few weeks which might assist in messing up various tracking/profiling measures.

My initial concern was that it would slow down my browsing because my VPS is in another country but I haven't noticed much difference.
Amazing isn't it? I still prefer Corel Draw to the Inkscape or any of the Adobe products. I have their PowerDVD software on a laptop which is used as a portable DVD player for visiting nieces and nephews.
Huh? Big bend is nowhere near sea level..
So, the problem is that medical billing can be made too complicated for the free market to work - not the flat ~30% tax break?
Nah. For the users that like your JS-based responsiveness, a properly designed server-side HTML is likely to render faster. There have been demos that show that on good connection, a server roundtrip and re-render of styled HTML will be faster than AJAX and client-side renders.

And for the users on weak machines or connections, the reload version at least works, unlike the JS one.

The "users love AJAX" argument is both silly and honestly also a bait&switch. It's not really because of AJAX that people build their sites in JS frameworks.
Iran does not recognize changes in citizenship.

The U.S. government doesn't care what Iran recognizes. The correct quotation would be "anyone who is legally an Iranian citizen in the eyes of the U.S. government."

When an Iranian citizen becomes a naturalized U.S. citizen, their Iranian citizenship is no longer valid in the U.S.

There is a limited number of nations that have dual citizenship agreements with the United States, and Iran isn't one of them.

https://flagtheory.com/dual-citizenship/
Yep. It's not hard. People are pretty clever and will work things out if they need to. It's just that we hand feed them shit like slack and tell each other that they're surely too dumb to use anything else.
The problem with Fakebook is that it perpetuates unnatural outsized social networks because Zuckerburg worked out at its formation that this is 1 very addictive and 2 highly profitable.

Clone Facebook. Limit it to Family + 50 friends max which actually seems to many. The numbers arbitrary. I think 150 social relationships is the max a human can handle.

The digital social network would resemble the real social network and some form of human decency and dignity would re-emerge.

Constrict the size of individuals digital social networks to what they evolved to be able to handle and watch online behaviour and content improve.
I agree. We as a society should have this discussion, no one wants their children to live in poverty and people, while they live, transfer their value to their children - so someone who dies early has missed the opportunity to do the same to their children. But, the fact that the Waltons exist is just stupid.
I (used to?) own a student license for Parallels Desktop circa 2012, though it may have expired by now.

In my experience, I could see no major differences between their solution and, say, Virtualbox.
There were some Mac-specific features like working well with Exposé when in Seamless mode and a few other UI niceties, but Parallels seems primarily geared towards supporting Windows.
Linux Guest OS support of features like Seamless mode refused to work unless you had specific kernel versions and was always several versions behind in my experience.
I'm sure the feature parity gap between Virtualbox and Parallels Desktop is even smaller today than it used to be.

The pricetag is usually less for Parallels products compared to the leading commercial competitor, FWIW.
"Electric skates" sound cool, but if you've already got autonomous vehicles with perfectly good wheels why are they necessary?

Yes each tunnel is limited by the speed of the slowest vehicle, but if the tunneling cost is low enough (it certainly would be lower without skates and special tracks) you could have a "slow lane" and a "fast lane"
For research and curation of content.
I'll be the first one to get my guild card, but I really hope we think this thing through.
Their obsession with thinness and lightness has stretched their manufacturing QC beyond its breaking point. Almost all of the widespread hardware problems Apple is experiencing these days could've been avoided if they would just allow themselves an extra millimeter or gram here and there.
Same with product manager. Many descriptions list working with product management as a requirement. There have not been 425 product management jobs listed this year. Trust me, I've applied to most of them.
Are you being deliberately obtuse? Canada doesn't have anything to do with this. Amir's account was closed because of his Iranian ties, not his Canadian ones.
I'd get out of bed, retrieve the paper, and read it over breakfast. Not really all that different from reading the news online over breakfast.
The status of being a student does not expunge your status of being a citizen of your country of origin nor does it cut all your ties with said country. Part of sanctions is to pressure citizens of sanctioned countries in order for them to seek change in their governments.
First time I have ever agreed with vice.

Must be a cold day in hell.
I'd like to be more a people person. But when I try I realize I just don't usually like people. So I get stuck, because it feels like faking it. Anyway I'd like to improve the ability to talk to people and be more open not just the one who gets the stuff done
I'm not the one you are replying to, but my 50 cent: It seems many replies think the article is claiming that ancient literature does contain emotions.

This is not what the article is saying. It is saying that medieval authors represented characters’ mental states mainly through their direct speech and gestures, which were used to convey intense emotions in a stereotypical way—lots of hand-wringing and tearing of hair, but few subtle gestures such as raised eyebrows or faint smiles flickering over lips.

So examples from poetry, classical drama, Ecclesiastes etc. does not disprove this. Those are all examples of direct speech. And the gestures of Achilles are not exactly subtle. (And in any case Greek antiquity is not medieval.)

The article is concerned about how mental states are described in fiction. The sagas does not say "Eric felt conflicting emotions about this but kept silent". They describe what he said and did, and you have to figure out the mental state yourself unless he outright says (or sings) what he is feeling. In contrast modern literature may have an all-knowing narrator which tells you the emotions and thoughts of the characters, or you may have internal monologue or stream-of-consciousnesses which give you a direct view into the mind of the characters.

A question then is why pre-modern literature use direct speech to convey emotion while modern use mentalizing? A possible explanation is that pre-modern literature was read or acted out in public, while modern literature is read silently in private.

The article further propose that reading literary fiction may in itself improve your mentalizing skills, i.e. your ability to imagine what other people are thinking and feeling.
The Fat Burning Heart-Rate Zone Is a Myth
I'm not sure why people keep saying this. If all you want is a web client, it doesn't get much easier than qwebirc: https://webchat.freenode.net/
This is great, but I would have liked to see more data around how many jobs are entry level, management, executive, etc. Thanks for this! Really cool.
Yup. The actual issues with the design patterns come from a) most problems not mapping well to OOP, and b) patterns that exist only to compensate for low expressiveness of a language (e.g. all the patterns that compensate for not having proper closures).
> My general impression is that workplaces today are more pleasant than they have ever been.

I believe that statement is highly biased, unless you are some kind of occupational researcher.

We know that the "gig economy" is growing three times faster than the overall US workforce[1]. Besides the gig economy, at least in the US, median incomes are falling (wrt PPP). Homelessness is on the rise. 65% of americans save nothing.

> This means flexible working hours, ability to work remotely and overall workplace environment.

I don't care to do any quick research, but I very, very much doubt that this is true for the median. Everywhere I go, outside of my tech bubble of drab cubicle office workers with free snacks, work environments appear pretty dismal to me.

[1] https://www.slideshare.net/upwork/freelancing-in-america-201... (and apologies for a slideshare link, can't even tell you how much i detest slideshare)
There Is No Such Thing as Conscious Thought
>Uber lost $1 billion in the third quarter 2018.

Another way to say this is, "Uber invested billions in expansion in Q3 2018". Uber is known to be profitable in almost all its mature markets. Rideshare will still exist, even if it consolidates to a single app, so you'd have to convince me Lyft or some other app would win over Uber before you can convince me Uber is going to go bankrupt. I can see Uber pulling out of non-mature markets that it isn't making headway in.
> Now I won't know which vendor to perform tests on or avoid altogether

Anti Virus Scanners? At this point, all of them.
It's good that you say that and that so many people are upvoting you. It means that any kind of debate around this is not possible because most people here are just out there to badmouth Facebook as much as they can. I like it when people are honest.
> And that is proved to be a good decision in some cases.

No it hasn't, because it doesn't exist as you describe. It exists as I've described. Everything you can do, while obese, you can also do while not-obese.
There's an implicit position that those qualities ("just works", etc) are more prevalent in rails than django.
I'd like to plug https://circles.app/

We are open to opensourcing Circles. What if anyone could start their own Facebook-equivalent site using opensource? What if we could splinter FB into 10,000 sites?
What a vapid article.

> Mint, as ever, out of the box is more secure than macOS or Windows ever dreamed of being. On my Mac and Windows boxes, I'm always tinkering with patches and security software. On Mint? It's a none issue. I have never had a single security problem.

OK then..
//assert(scanFace(testpic) == true)
assert((true) == true)

He's right everyone, the tests pass!
Ah, but if I'm too broad, then I get a firehose of news. RSS gives you everything that comes down the pipe- unless you set up filters, I suppose
If I remember correctly, Hyper-V is not strictly a type 1 hypervisor ("runs your windows as a hyper-v VM") but comes close. The VMs still run pretty close to the metal, but your host OS is mostly free from hypervisor interference.
The rumor is that the decision was made above that level.
I don't think you can blame this on AV in general, or Symantec specifically. What you're describing is an overzealous InfoSec department that's unable to consider the actual needs of different kinds of users.
I don't think it matters if you show businesses that climate will impact them financially. The people running the show may not be running it when the financial burden actually comes around.

If there is no impact or very little for the person/people currently running the business, then there is no reason to make a move to prevent/mitigate the problem.
Diaspora never gained traction because being worse at all of these things than Facebook didn't trump "Decentralization", "Freedom" and "Privacy".

Indeed, for many, the centralization of Facebook is a selling point, 'Freedom' might appeal to political activists / journalists but isn't of much interest to people who just want to find their friends rather than talk to 'happybunny123' and 'Privacy' has consistently shown itself to be something people are 'meh' about in deeds.

I've got nothing against Diaspora per se, but it's for geeks and privacy nuts. https://diasporafoundation.org/ suggests that one of the things I might want to "Join the Conversation" about is "Linux".

For the broader population, when you offer very few of the same benefits and introduce additional costs, it's not a surprise it doesn't gain traction.
I've been using Parallels Desktop to develop & test Windows software from a Mac for the last decade. It's excellent, and I would definitely grab a perpetual copy of the current version while you can. VMware Fusion is the other contender, but consensus seems to be that Parallels is now dramatically faster than all the competition [1].

I just bought a Thinkpad and switched back to Windows, so I'm looking for VM software on the Windows side now. Hyper-V is just painfully slow compared to Parallels. If the Corel acquistion means Parallels is coming to Windows I'll be very happy, but I'd still like to know the best Windows VM software in the meantime.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2018/09/02/a-long-time-vmware-fusion-use...
Does Amazon keep the raw recordings for GDPR compliance reasons?

It seems to me keeping them just creates liability? (Yes data analysis for targeting and such would be valuable, but those can be done with, say transcripts instead of the raw recordings)
Nevergrad: A Python library for performing derivative-free ML optimization
This seems like a cop-out to me. I love Apple products but dismissing manufacturing issues as something we should accept as okay is just wrong. I recently bought the iPhone XS Max so I'm not anti-Apple but I expect premium quality for a premium price.
Wait, so sanctions against a country should affect all people who share the common ethnicity in that country regardless of citizenship status or location in the world? So essentially it's a sanction against an ethnic group, not a state. Are you sure that's a reasonable idea?

How did Slack figure out this guy's ethnicity / citizenship / status? Why are they allowed to access that information and unilaterally act on it? Sounds like there's a valid question being asked here to me.
Buying and installing your own permanent elevators is too difficult and expensive. Think of what happens in 25 years when they need to be replaced. You'd be a fool not to pay a monthly fee for elevators-as-a-service.
I mean as a POC its not bad, but google analytics is not the same as analyzing server logs (contrary to what most people would suggest). Most of the value of ga comes from session and user level metrics, which are 1000x more difficult to implement than showing pageviews. Unless you are planning on building a device graph that rivals google, you can't clone ga.
I can't disagree with that. :-)
The good old dot com days. I remember buying Corel stock at $6 and it popping to $32 in a few weeks (or was it a few months, I can't seem to find Corel listed as a public company now to check the price history) on the Linux hype, only to crash down soon after (got out at $8 :) ).
The Congressional Report on Equifax Hack
Craig does amazing work to support veterans. As someone who helps to run a non-profit aimed at getting more veterans to start tech companies he has been a supreme advocate and has put his money where his mouth is.
When people talk about sea level rise, they usually mean the global average sea level, or the change in total amount of liquid water in the ocean. When talking about local sea level rise, they usually mean the change in maximum high tide. Given all the unique coastlines, gravitational/water tides, and temperature differences, an average global sea rise means different things to different regions.

A shallow bay in the tropics that is right in the way of ocean currents, for example, can see an order of magnitude more change in high tide than the global sea level, let alone during surges and swells.
Another good code set to build off of http://freedomcontroller.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws....
Using Crowdsourcing, ML to Measure Violence and Abuse Against Women on Twitter
Show HN: Verilog simulation in 8bitworkshop IDE
While this happens, is it a good thing? Or should try to avoid logical fallacies?

If you want an accurate understanding of what's going on in the world, then you should probably believe that people who are habitually late do sometimes also get flat tires. If they say they had a flat, the logical conclusion isn't blind trust or being sure they're lying, but mild skepticism.
I keep seeing charts that say otherwise:
https://cei.org/sites/default/files/Figure%201.JPG .
This suggests the models are not accurate.

Who is right?
At the last AWS users group I was at in Toronto everyone was hiring. Can’t speak for the rest of the country.
It's basically like Antares Autotune in music, to correct "singers" who can't really actually sing, which is most in the top charts today. There are few current top-chart artists who can truly sing (Gaga, Sheeran are some who can actually sing - with 0 effects). I'm not talking about using it as a vocal effect, but as it was originally intended - to correct pitch of singers who can't really sing. Although I think many using it as an effect also can't really sing and hide behind the effect to mask that fact. It's just a crutch for sub-par singers.
It's not at all clear that AGI is technically feasible. Human brains exist but we have only a shallow understanding of how they work.

Even if we assume for the sake of argument that AGI is possible, there's no scientific basis to assume that will make humanity obsolete. For all we know there could be fundamental limits on cognition. A hypothetical AGI might be no smarter than humans, or might be unable to leverage it's intelligence in ways that impact us.

Nuclear weapons and malware can cause damage but there's no conceivable scenario where they actually make us extinct.
Have you seen this interactive map of HN job offers? https://whoishiring.io/search/0/0/2?source=hn