skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, even a singular anecdote is data.

Having worked for a 99% Indian/Pakistani company in tech myself, I can confirm that 'it's really different'. We were treated well, but when we were not ... it was in odd ways. And can confirm salaries were generally lower as so many people were in visa-limbo or migration situations, the company used it to it's advantage. It was a slide on the deck to investors. Which is maybe not so nice, but the logic makes sense: company of largely newcomers, lead by newcomers, uses cultural aspect of migration sensitivity to their advantage.

Also, curiously, though the notion of Indians and Pakistanis coming together to form a successful enterprise is amazing and progressive ... a lot of the 'class based' issues were imported as well. The execs were all from elite Indian Subcontinent families.
This happens to all of my blog posts - on dozens of "aggregator" sites. Some, like Outline, are happy to offer an opt-out. But the rest are just SEO farms - lifting content and passing it off as their own.

I occasionally report them. If they're hosted in the EU, I'm usually successful in getting them taken down. US hosting companies just don't care. Chinese & Russian companies don't even answer emails.

It's rather frustrating.
learning" SQL takes a weekend...but then you know you'll wind up having to spend a lot longer learning the patterns of the language,

SQL is a skill that rewards investment in it 1000x over, in terms of longevity. It has spanned people’s entire careers! What’s the shelf life of the latest JS framework, 18 months at most...
What’s wrong with the stock market right now, explained
> That system has proven very stable.

Caveat: with a small, well-educated population. Try and apply the same system elsewhere and your mileage may vary.
I aim to please :)
Not the nanny mercs!
only if you have js enabled, otherwise it's a blank page
Why We Love Dinosaurs
There's a big unanswered question about whether "debate" is quite so useful at improving accuracy of answers when it consists of an audience with strong priors listening to motivated reasoning rather than people deferring to the people who are most confident they have a decent grasp of the subject of a neutral trivia question. I think it's conceivable the opposite effect might occur if the experiment were be to repeated using polarising political issues, even if the questions themselves were fact-based (economic growth rates, crime rates, immigration figures, global temperature changes etc).
They were not a joke. They were at an earlier stage of growth and all those prices were fair for what it was at the time.
Neither will the FPGS emulators. Just because they are in FPGA form doesn't make them inherently more accurate.
Better security achieved with randomly generating biological encryption keys
Japan extended the copyright term from 50 to 70 years after the author's death[1].

So this change would only help someone pay for rent if you, in this example, had written a book in 1968, had a child at the same time and then promptly died.

That child would now be 50 and somehow hadn't managed to do anything worthwhile with their life to pay their own rent, but had been living on the proceeds of your book published in 1968. Now they'll be able to extend that into their 70s.

And that's in the very best case. This could also be a written in 1918 by someone that was 20, died in 1968, and whose copyright would only now just be expiring.

1. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/10/national/japan-...
Now with drones, I think the military are accelerated by video games.
Yes and it wasn’t alone, I’ve programmed on several machines that didn’t have 8-bit organization. The DEC PDP-9 and some others had 18 bit words and the big CDC 6600 series had 60 bit words with 10 chars per word, not exactly Unicode.
> Their efforts this year to make the desktop site look and work more like 9gag unless you plug "old.reddit.com" into the url bar was pretty fun too.

I've used reddit for almost a decade at this point. What makes the new changes similar to 9gag?

I disliked the redesign for 5 minutes, after getting used to the modal behavior I would not want to go back to the old reddit site.
10 years might be good enough for software, maybe movies and TV, but 50 is certainly a lot more appropriate for a book.

I know of one case where a guy wrote a book -- a gardening book -- which was quite popular for its territory and niche. Then the author died. Fortunately for his widow the copyright protects her now primary source of income. But for copyright existing beyond the author's life she'd be destitute. Books are a writer's pension plan.
Transitive dependencies (or what I called inherited from other packages) can be solved with pip freeze in existing working environment; it will list them too.

New development, on the other hand, will be difficult. As it usually is, when you develop in something that has been obsoleted years ago. If you are still developing the system, instead of just keeping it running, shouldn't you spend some resources on python3 migration, too? The modules you need are already there.
Last.Back end launched lightweight Kubernetes replacement
Because of how different they are, taking advantage of them requires using them in specific ways that are also very different. If you have an abstraction layer that hides those differences, it's practically a given that it does so with the lowest common denominator approach, where you get all the flaws of both and none of their unique benefits.

(Alternatively, people find ways to use the abstraction layer such that it produces the desired usage pattern. Of course, then the code is no longer truly portable to another DB, because that same pattern is likely to be a perf issue there.)
No usage of hypervisor.framework... so never mind.
It's probably good to note that this was at 9pm, at night, coming up on the shortest day of the year.

So while it's possible they were seen, it's not going to be as cut and dry as during the day.
Here is the dirty secret of Mongo: you always have a schema, you just don’t have any tools for validating it or enforcing it or manipulating it.
This is one of the reasons why I went with Arq for backups - it's a thing I tend to forget about, so if five years down the line the software turns out to no longer exist for whatever reason, I can be confident there's an open source unpacker somewhere.
68 Resources to Help You to Create Programming Languages
Only until they figure suing others would be worth a grab for them.
Yeah, nah, yeah. In the middle of stinking hot Australia, so probably not.
The state we're in: visualizing the health of an organization's IT estate
> We've all seen this comment at least a thousand times in the last 15 years.

No, some of us have. Lots of us haven't.

https://www.xkcd.com/1053/

So it is valuable for "today's lucky 10000" and obviously relevant to the discussion. Also, the phrases you list are less "memes" and more "truisms".
Show HN: Meeve, a hyperlocal platform for offline interaction through events
One could even build a public platform to enable and crowdsource bothering the police.
Be careful about VirtualBox Extensions which is non free on commercial environments. Oracle is hunting non compliance and VB provides them with lots of telemetry.
Looking forward to all the new cancers this will bring into the world
We're now working on that basically full time, sprinting ahead to the finish line. The EV code signing certificate arrived a few days ago, even: https://twitter.com/EdgeSecurity/status/1073599888158535680
Meeve is a hyperlocal platform to help people discover people nearby through events that have similar interests. You can discover local events based on your interests and can also create gender only events that are not shown to people of other genders.
How was it an accident when they found a ninth planet while looking for a ninth planet?
There's just one thing that really struck me:

"Apple, Amazon, Blackberry and Yahoo"

I think the person who wrote this piece first ordered those companies on alphabetic order to look as neutral as possible, then somebody standing behind the editor leaned over and said "Perhaps you could move Apple to the first spot?"

There isn't a single comma accidental in this article.

Anyway: as somebody pointed out the dialog clearly stated that Spotify could access your data even without using Spotify. I think people should be a bit more conscious about what they trust to a third party to begin with. No, you're not paranoid running your own mail server.
I hope this doesn't lead to an infinite loop ;)
> But according to the company, this is a side effect of the device’s manufacturing process and shouldn’t worsen over time or negatively affect the flagship iPad’s performance in any practical way. Apple does not consider it to be a defect.

> https://www.dropbox.com/s/qh0mngf2ek8k1x3/Photo%20Nov%2025%2...
Is there not some collective action that can be taken to have Google penalise Saowen.com and other sites that engage in this kind of plagiarism?
There's more to it than that. Elsevier etc are just bleeding out the academic publishing business. Just like Alden Global Capital has been bleeding out The Denver Post and many other newspapers.
> prevent Linux from using ZFS now that Sun is gone.

Considering btrfs isn't really going anywhere why would they not rather take the effort to relicense zfs than put any effort on btrfs if they have no bad intention with zfs?

Fixing zfs' situation surely can buy some mindshare for Oracle.
i may be useless at many things in life but when i catch an interest in one i tend to learn a lot, psychoactives became one of those interests once so i did a lot of research at one point, i may not work in the field but i have more than a reasonable amount of knowledge
I'm far from an expert, but aren't manholes (and streetlights and traffic lights, by extension) effectively grounded, hence incurring into insane loss?
That's not how this works. If you are from outside of EU you are not limited to private doctors and hospitals - you can still go and be seen by any NHS doctor, but you have to disclose the fact that you are not covered by national insurance - they will simply ask you for personal details and send you the bill few weeks later(well, if it's worth if - if you're only seeing a doctor about a cold or a broken wrist they will not even bill you anything because it's not worth the time spent filling out documentation, and pretty much no hospital even has a billing department).
I tried to document this on archive.org but got "This url is not available on the live web or can not be archived."
> Be careful about VirtualBox Extensions

Don't you mean: Be careful to follow the licensing for whatever products you use.
Tiny Casimir torque is measured at long last
Re 5:

Adding an abstraction on top of DB query won't help much if you are moving from one type of DB to another, say SQL to document, or document to graph.
> Oracle is not capable of relicensing OpenZFS, as they do not hold the copyright for it past code that is common between ZFS v28/ZPOOL v5 and OpenZFS.

Yes, all the parties that contributed code would have to agree, not just Oracle. However, I doubt anyone would object relicensing ZFS to some license that both FreeBSD and Linux would find acceptable.
Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
I got smarter reading those comments.
> You can run Linux on a surface device just fine.

Where "working" includes problems like multitouch not working, pen not working, some problems with wifi and cameras not working. Some of that can be made to work by using a custom kernel, but the compatibility is decidedly worse than comparable devices.
Microsoft lives on enterprise sales; AD domain servers, CALs, Exchange, SQL server. I’m not sure Facebook has an equivalent product.
The Dutch police are training eagles. The article is some 3 years old but is now trending on the BBC News website, for some reason.
These Chinese aggregators are all the same, just like Toutiao from Bytedance (that TikTok company), not long ago the world's most valuable startup.

Together with Tencent's WeChat and other me-too sites they created the "self-media" cottage industry, basically lend credibility and let laymen publish all sorts of lowbrow and sensationalistic content to earn ad money.

If you check https://www.bilibili.com/, a very popular Chinese video site (I'd say also a stomping ground for anime pedophiles which the site was built upon. US listed btw.), you can find pirated US tv shows and basicially every popular yutube video, reprocessed, edited and watermarked as their "original" content, raking in money for their uploaders. Toutiao again is just the same model.

Part of the reason why Bytedance is so valuable, is Chinese just love these things, their de facto "news" source, the vast majority of people didn't receive higher edcation and doesn't want to read serious articles (which Chinese state-controlled media also lack).

Nobody care if it's original, they just want entertaining, explosive and easy-to-consume content.
How to start working remotely as web developer – based on my own true story
I can't wait...
> This article hot links images hosted at nickmchardy.com

Yeahhh, I would quickly have changed the contents of those images..
Interesting cultural difference? Where I live, packages either: get delivered in person, placed somewhere secure, handed to the neighbours (who sign for it), withheld, or delivered to a service point. They never end up on a porch. And not just because we don't have porches either. Point is, they're not left in public view.
If I'd be asked to develop technology for this, I'd look at a building a directional EMP gun.

Frequency jamming won't work if the drone is flying autonomously (waypoint following is trivial). Netguns have limited range (how do you shoot something up 200m in the air?). Laser is not powerful enough, or, it it is, it's very dangerous to those in vicinity.

Directional EMP pulse that disables the electronics seems the best bet.
A new p2p Virtual LAN app from the makers of Evolve
sometimes you just want a simple vb ubuntu vm. however virtualbox locks copy paste from host to vm support behind extensions which are free only for personal use(which you are using but good luck proving that in court)
The Universal Decay of Collective Memory and Attention
You're right in that nobody cares about the EU.

But they care about things like migration.

Folks would vote en masse on clearly articulated issues, and if leaders took note of it, there'd be less calamity.

Right now the Executive doesn't really care what Europeans think, because they assume they know best, it's appallingly clear. It happens everywhere there aren't proper checks and balances.

FYI the treaty of Lisbon was shot down in a few referendums, and the leaders decided to go forward with some rather fundamental, 'constitutional' issues anyhow. As a result of failed referendums in some countries, they decided to skip referendums in the remaining countries because of the high likelihood of failure. Instead of truly reconsidering the legislation, they just went ahead and passed it. And now they are paying the price.
> I'd venture a surprising number of people who really care about killing Facebook would back it, and a surprising number of people who don't care that much about Facebook would take the $50.

And an obscene amount would take the $50 and create a new account (or simply not reveal their real account).

I agree it'd be a fun experiment, though. And I see no reason to keep it hypothetical. I'd be particularly interested in seeing how much is raised (which I suspect would be relatively little).
Swiggy raises $1B in the largest ever funding round for Indian food-tech startup
While I also come from a country like the one you described, there is a very simple fact that cannot be ignored - when my dad got cancer 8 years ago, every single one of his operations and all the drugs(including incredibly expensive Glivec) were 100% free. He was even reimbursed for the cost of travelling to the hospital for his monthly check-up.

If he had the same disease in US, he would die much earlier than he did, I'm 100% certain of it, because quite simply there is no way he could afford the treatment or the premiums that americans are paying for their healthcare. Even when he was sick enough that he couldn't work anymore, he was still 100% covered and didn't have to pay anything for anything ever.

My point is - there are people in our countries who are probably dying because they have to wait months to be seen by someone. True. But there are also people in US who are dying because they cannot afford the treatment they need. I feel like this is far worse than the first situation - after all, we only have a finite number of doctors, a finite amount of hospitals, and limited capacity to add more(for reasons other than financial too). But US is the richest country in the world - and its citizens die because they cannot afford cancer drugs? That's abhorrent.
No, yes, no, yes, no, yes. Why would there be snow in Australian summer?
Top languages 2018 – GitHub
Not just that, you could redirect requests from their URL to images of whatever you want wherever you want via htaccess
Ask HN: How to Create Personal Feedback Loops?
I am reading the book "Apprenticeship Patterns" by Dave Hoover & Adewale Oshineye. It's a very interesting book and lists a set of patterns which (novice?) software developers can use to get better at the craft of programming.

One of the patterns listed is called "Create Feedback Loops" which states that one of the best ways to not get stuck with whatever wrong you're doing is to create feedback loops which provide objective data about your performance and allow you to fail early & fast, without wasting your time stuck with bad practices and implementations.

While coding, this can be something like TDD. At a higher level, this can be pair programming, code reviews, finding mentors, etc.

I wanted to know if any HN users have created their own personal feedback loops. How has it helped you in progressing in your careers and saved you from following the wrong path?
A workmate just suggested water cannon (the police are reluctant to fire rounds at the drones in case a stray bullet hurts someone). I do believe London have some water cannons they bought but couldn't use (PM decided they were unsafe).
They have actually stopped that programme. https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/politie-stopt-met-inzetten-van-...
> Just wait until you encounter vaporware, and it's upcoming block chain variant: plasmaware

But then please introduce also the relevant variants of realtime (in analogy of hard, firm and soft realtime): vapor realtime and plasma realtime.
>There is quite a fundamental 'scope creep' going on in the EU

How can you scope creep from "ever closer union"? The scope was as big as it could get already. Now, that passage has been removed at the behest of Cameron, but I can't remember any statement constricting the scope, so now the scope is simply undefined, I guess.
Hardware met Software on the road to Changtse. Software said: “You are yin and I am yang. If we travel together we will become famous and earn vast amounts of money.” And so they set forth together, thinking to conquer the world.

Presently they met Firmware, who was dressed in tattered rags and hobbled along propped on a thorny stick. Firmware said to them: “The Tao lies beyond yin and yang. It is silent and still as a pool of water.

It does not seek fame, therefore nobody knows its presence. It does not seek fortune, for it is complete within itself. It exists beyond space and time.”

Hardware and Software, ashamed, returned to their homes.

— The Tao of Programming, Geoffrey James, 1987
The more they are talked about the higher google and other search engines will rank them
Try archive.is
I think what outline does would be much harder to implement without JS. As it stands, it seems to take parse the URL, fetch the page with a specific UA / some other magic, then automatically format it, without having to store anything on disk and without having to generate static html. Wouldn't this be much, much harder without using JS?
I wonder why Google is so bad at picking up that these pages are clickfarms, and not instead return the original when searching.

In my native language (norwegian), I have lately had issues with searching for stuff, opening the page linked by google, to quickly realise it's not even legible norwegian, just auto-generated content (google translate of some product review I guess?). Absolutely useless content, no idea why it ranks so high. How can they not manage to filter out stuff like this?
Blurring out the ticket id isn't that useful when the TXT record still exists...
> Added support for using Hyper-V as the fallback execution core on Windows host, to avoid inability to run VMs at the price of reduced performance

Any comparisons between hyper-v and virtual box performance? I would have assumed hyper-v would be more performant.
Personal Anecdote : Lived and worked in the UK for a little over an year as an Indian person. Enjoyed every bit of it.

Though I can see some data regarding race related crimes going up.
Best Practices to Improve Knowledge Base Information Architecture
Alphabet's hot salt energy-storage project becomes its own company
All European residents will file for an ILR?
> I've experienced medicine in both the UK and the US. I can tell you, there isn't a difference in quality.

My experience was very different. In January-February this year I had to visit (unfortunately) both the Emergency Room in NYC and the A&E in London. While the quality of the medical equipment in London matches the one in NYC, the understaffing is much more severe. In neither place was my wait time only 10 minutes, but in NYC I had to wait for about 1 hour (including paperwork), while in London for about 6 hours.

I talked with other people in London about my experience that the medical system is severely understaffed, and all agreed. On the plus side, I did not have to pay anything in the UK (they didn't even care that I was not a UK resident). In the US I had to pay north of $1000, despite having insurance.
Time to add a map of Taiwan as independent state, Senkaku Islands as Japanese, etc., as an aside to any and all articles published? ;)
I've switched our development environment years ago to VMWare (OSX) from VirtualBox because it didn't work well with fixed IPs, would change the IPs and I couldn't pin them - worked for some time then changed the IP. Has this changed?
It makes a lot of sense if you write octal instead of hexadecimal.
Is the link down for anyone else?
InstaScaler | Traffic-as-a-Service
And making money out of all the page views that hacker news is bringing them!
Well, the Minecraft world is represented as voxels, so it's not that far off to say it 'has voxel graphics'.
Because almost nobody uses it so they don't care. The only reason they even made WSL was to compete with Mac, and make devices with odd hardware that didn't easily run desktop Linux (like Surface) more appealing to developers.
Microsoft issues emergency update to fix critical IE flaw under active exploit
They sold off Boris' water cannon at a loss - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/19/boris-johnso...
A Culinary History of Panettone, the Italian and South American Christmas Treat
The airport has fire trucks, same thing really. Not sure you'd accurately reach a drone from the ground though, since it could be > 1000ft AGL and they'd still have to close the airport.
Dragon shows off its new, integrated solar arrays as SpaceX nears first flight
I mean, interesting, but after reading the first link I found this pretty good rebuttal:

So it is odd to hear today that America stole secrets from Arkwright when Arkwright himself was claiming that he had disclosed the machines in his patent specifications to a degree sufficient to make and use them.

Comment #5: Edward Heller July 6, 2017 9:43 am