skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the words of Dr. Cox - "I’m fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left, and it’d be called Bring back the porn!"

If there isn't a Tumblr called "Bring back the porn" I'd be surprised.
>During big refactorings, I admit I sometimes find myself relying on compiler errors as a crutch to find (for example) which API layer I haven’t added the parameter to yet.

Sure, I do the same. I wouldn't call it a 'crutch' though; it's just using the tools you have available to you.
This might be why a lot of people (including me) hate whiteboard-coding interviews: we’ve gotten so spoiled by our tools that we can’t code without them!

Isn't that like someone saying they've gotten so spoiled by training wheels, they can't ride a bike without them? It's not like I'm one to talk 100% of the time. I think I couldn't get my company's project to build, without a few weeks of reading and understanding a lot more of the build system. However, I've also coded on an 8 bit machine by flipping 8 switches and pressing a commit button for each byte.

It's a worthwhile exercise to do some coding with nothing but a text editor and a debugger once in a while. That isn't going 100% to the bare metal, but it's a level that's very worthwhile for working on basic skills. Entire programming education books have been based on this idea.
Show HN: Custom Website Support Chat with Vue.js
Question: Are cans much better for the environment? I've long preferred cans to bottles for things like soda (although I almost never drink it anymore), sparkling water, etc. They've always seemed to get and stay colder, although that may not be the case. I feel a little bit better about my preference when picking a canned La Croix over a bottled Arrowhead at work, but I realize now that I don't really have any idea about the environmental impact of cans v. bottles.
My point is that Hillary isn't guilty, really, by any reasonable definition of the word. She was investigated thoroughly and nothing terrible was ever found. Meanwhile, Trump and his cadre has done everything they accused Hillary of doing and then some, down to conducting government business on private e-mail servers. Their supporters don't care in the slightest.
Bertrand Russell on his meeting with Vladimir Lenin in 1920
Is there any way we could ask him? I don't wear Compsci T-shirts but I would wear a Don Knuth-designed one.
Yes! Ménière's disease [0] and other vestibular diseases are (thankfully) rare, but truly horrible. Diseases like Ménière's are sometimes clustered into the list of 'suicide' diseases, due to their severity. Vestibular science, in general, is very poorly funded and therefore poorly understood.

Hopefully, things like VR and the need for a better understanding of vestibular disorders will drive funding and understanding[1].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9ni%C3%A8re%27s_disease

[1] https://hearinghealthfoundation.org/donate/
History shows that you'd only need to be as good an actor as Mel Gibson.
"...the vulnerability was initially identified in 1990..."

STIG scans are automated and the basis for identifying a finding is sometimes a lot different from the name. You have to decode the scanners script and compare the description with the code. In this case it is likely a "medium" finding that an email service is running and may be a risk. "May" and not "is". It requires a manual evaluation to confirm.

My favorite is the vulnerability identified as [redacted] which merely identifies the operating system as Windows. It is a High severity.
California abandons plan to tax text messages
You will change your oppinion immediately. You must comply with this directive or you must stop distributing your oppinion. I will not be as educational next time.
I just want to say, it's slightly mind-boggling to see two Googlers on a thread talking about how to adapt legal work done for a mostly Apple-owned project to improve the licensing of a Microsoft product.
I think it's pretty common for CI, but I guess that use case can handle a little lower performance.
Even one or two weeks a month might be an exaggeration. The most on-call time I’ve had has been about one week out of every 6. As far as actually getting paged, I think it’s happened about 8 times in 5 years. This is primarily at smaller companies. YMMV at a large tech behemoth.
How, can (a) and (c) both be correct, if (a) is “no effect”, and (c) is, in your opinion, “yes it doubles the value, but may have different effects if bla bla...”
Ah, the answer I was looking for when I posted! I've long preferred cans (they seem to get and stay colder to me, although that may not be true), but wasn't sure about the environmental impact.
Most places keep the kegs in a centralised location and pipe it around, whatever the size.
I'd be surprised if the US were much different.

You don't want delivery men rolling barrels around hotels etc, and you want to keep the beer cool. Plus bar space tends to be at a premium.
Same. Great experience. Same with music.

The performance arts can crack an awful lot of inhibitions.
Or are not fast enough to run the Rust compiler.

I'm using Firefox 52 ESR on slower systems, doesn't need Rust and can be built just using GTK2+.
I think Amazon Prime has them now, or was it Hulu. So frustrating.
So why don't they get a banking license? Aren't they stuffed full of VC money? Either get a licence for RH, or buy a small bank that has a license.

A guy was telling me I could do that with just $10m a few years ago, just go and buy some small bank and there would be deposit capital to invest.

Surely the thought must have crossed their minds to become a bank?
I Sold My Data for Crypto.  How Much I Made
> His reveal is what brought it to
> the attention of other Google
> employees

Sad truth. And yet, <<we're a "very open" company that "encourages internal debate">>
Have you got a reference for that?
I said the death of 20 people a year does not make it the greatest threat to public safety in the state, not that it isn't a tragedy to be mitigated. Objectively this is true, does that make you upset?
Nautilus: Fishing for Deep Bugs with Grammars [pdf]
As the articles alluded to, buffets investments during the crisis (I think he also took a big bet on BoA), were not a result of him being able to move quickly. They didn't need the money as badly as they needed the good PR. If the headlines read that GS had raised some capital from a bunch of "no name" investors, that wouldn't have had nearly the impact of their press release that THE Warren Buffet just invested billions in GS - so obviously he thinks we are a good bet.

Now of course, buffet also needed timing and the ability to act fast, but lots of people had money to invest then.
Senate Votes to End Aid for Yemen Fight vs. Defunding PP
There are so many ways to frame pollution.

Taking 400 years to biodegrade is a big problem if you're worried about litter, or microplastics. On other hand, if you're more worried about things like climate change or smog, then turning it into something you bury and forget about might actually be the least harmful thing we could be doing with all this oil we've been pumping out of the ground lately.

If it biodegrades, then it becomes a source of atmospheric CO2 just about as efficiently as if you were instead to burn it to make cars go.
The 7 Deadly Sins of Using React
Disregarding the fanboyism, we all must thank AMD for the advances and much better deals we are getting these days.

2 years ago, Intel was laughing at "glued-together" CPUs, rolling their eyes at anything with more than 4 cores and more recently implying that CPUs with different process sizes was "cheating".

Look at them now..
I am honestly curious as to what you found confusing. I think it's fairly well structured and written.

> How on Earth is it related to populism?

A populist would generally be opposed to the concentration of wealth and power in a small subset of the population. Populism is on the rise today, as is the trend of family investment offices which are a result of concentrated wealth and power. Thus family offices are destined to face uncomfortable questions by populists.

> they didn't create inequality.
Yes, you're agreeing with the author. The surrounding sentances from the sentence you quoted:

"[...] the objections to them [family offices] will rise exponentially. The most obvious of these is the least convincing — that family offices have created inequality. They are a consequence, not its cause."

The article does not say that family offices have created inequality, it actually says that they have not.

Regarding the "point of the article":

This is an Economist "Leader", which is a one-page summary of the three-page full article published in the print version of the newspaper. It says the following:

1) Explains what "family offices" are: rich individual's DIY private investment firms.

2) Explains why the populist argument "family offices create inequality" is wrong.

3) Presents three arguments for "family offices are bad" with which the author does not agree, and their rebuttals:

a) "family offices destabilize the financial system" - but data shows that actually they are doing the opposite.

b) "family offices magnify the power of the wealthy" - but this is against the interests of their owners who want to diversify.

c) "family offices might beat regular investors because they have privileged access to information" - they don't outperform the markets right now, but privileged access to information and insider trading could be a problem with family offices.

The author arrives at the conclusion that family offices are a force for good, but more regulation and transparency might be required to address (3c).
China and Japan Push for a Global Charging Standard for EVs
> I just wonder how our ancestors did it. Not only did they survive without plastic bottles, but they even survived the last 99.99% of biological history without plumbing!

the species survived without those things. plenty of individuals didn't.
A Caravaggio for Christmas?
The point is that whether or not a super rich person has that money in a family office or not, the inequality is the same
Study Highlights Challenges Facing Black Computing Faculty
Their license doesn't bind your behavior, since you didn't release your code under that license. However, it is probably the case that your code was also not released under any license that forbids reuse by a downstream that does make patent promises. (Does such a poison-pill anti-patent-promise license even exist? I'm not aware of it.)

It might be a communications issue, that users of the downstream might assume they won't get sued by you. If such users have money, they should hire competent legal assistance.
I know its off-topic, but this remind me about some things, now that Firefox is taking the heat and losing more and more market share..

First about that famous Joel Spolsky post warning about software rewrites using Netscape as an example. Then the fact that Firefox have waited too much to create a multi-process browser which was really a needed rewrite to really catch up to Chrome.

If my memory doesnt fail me, Chrome was launched in 2008 and Firefox came up with the multi-process only 4 years later, in the end of 2012.

And then theres this rewrite of core pieces in Rust, that i'm sure was great for Rust language and community growth, but i dont think it was a good move for Firefox, because it take a lot of effort to stabilize the core pieces, specially while at the same time refactoring a compiler in the middle.

Rust turned out great, with a great performance, but what if it didn't?

Or maybe i'm being a half empty glass kind of person, and Firefox were actually turning out to the same faith, and at least a good tech, Rust came out of all this mess?
A Dictionary of Gestures
Great! So will Apple employees walk out next in protest of Apple assisting Chinese government by giving them iMessage and iCloud data?

Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...
Bitpay CEO: Crypto Payments Mass Adoption Within 5 Years
This is weaseling out.

The reason why people move cash into a brokerage account is because they intend to invest it at some point in future.

If I intend to invest my coverage limit amount at some point in future but for now I'm using it as a place to dump my cash into and use it as a DDA, i absolutely fall under that umbrella.

The reason why SIPC is having a fit is because someone who is supposed to be fleecing the retail clients is also planning on fleecing those those business is fleecing retail clients.
Installing an under-sink replaceable inline filter is a surprisingly easy DIY task if you want better tasting water. Parts are not expensive. Skip the thin white ones used for refrigerator/ice makers, and go the next size up.

Spend a little extra on a shut-off valve with a handle and install that first, just upstream of the new filter, to make changing filters easier (every 3-6 months, depends on water quality & volume). You will still have excellent water pressure at the sink, even if you use the newer thin and flexible 'push fit' tubes and couplings. I don't really have any plumbing experience and did not have any difficulty. Visit a professional plumbing supply business, explain what you are doing, and ask them to give you every single part you need. You may be pleasantly surprised at how simple it is. I think I spent the equivalent of about $80 for everything, including an upgraded valve and clear filter housing (to make visually inspecting the filter possible).

Don't forget the little bleed valve at the top of the filter container! After you turn the house water back on, it should hiss as the air escapes. When water dribbles out just hand tighten and you are done, no leaks.
I thought the front page was quite helpful for figuring out what the product was (once I realized the HN link pointed to the documentation page and not the front page).
The UP has some interesting stuff, but living in Ann Arbor, it's a shorter trip just to get on a plane and go to Utah.
>Doesn't amazon make it fairly obvious when you're ordering from a 3rd party or not?

I would say "no," because pretty much everyone I know thinks Amazon is a store with a single source of goods, not a "marketplace." This is probably intentional.
why a misnomer? its exactly what programming would look like if you wanted to try to implement computing as predicate calculus.
> Is there some sort of hidden rule somewhere that if you sell (or give away) the right to read and modify your proprietary software, that then you're suddenly evil?

In practice, there is, at least among some vocal activists.

It's not a short read, but I've brought up this very point, and examined it, here:

https://blog.licensezero.com/2018/09/16/two-party.html
Basically, Pale Moon is a fork of pre-Australis Firefox, and Basilisk is a fork of post-Australis and pre-Quantum firefox.
These books are truly amazing and I refer to them often. What I like the best is that they are so thorough that you know they are right, vs. the first google search hit.
Have you tried an annotated one? Shakespeare is full of, essentially, in-jokes and memes from the 1500s. There is a ton of depth in his writing that you'll totally miss if you don't know all of that context.
I'll just add my agreement. Fool's errand.

Some of the high frequency traders can rake it in. But they are using teams of highly paid analysts to look for opportunities and those opportunities don't last long before they have to move on to the next thing. And I would assume it's getting harder and harder for them as time goes on and more enter that market.
PewDiePie Fans Hack the Wall Street Journal
I wish they would just come out with Caspar, then we'd at least see if PoS actually works.
Chaim Soutine’s consoling portraiture
With common table expressions and windowing, SQL is Turing complete.
I believe cans are more easily recyclable, in part because they're so easy to seperate from other trash (using a big magnet).
There are a few names in CS that stand out to me as legendary. Some examples are Von Neumann and Turing. IMO, Knuth stands among them.
How are y'all getting the applet running? Doesn't work in my browser, and $ appletviewer sand7.jar isn't doing the trick.
Is their a lemon law for smartphones?
Possibly thanks to beer, St. Louis's water is also some of the best in the nation. A common myth (or is it?) is that Anheuser-Busch pressures the city maintain a high quality water system, so they can brew high quality beer. [0]

The funny part is if you go 4 miles west, coldwater creek comes into play, which is famously radioactive. [1]

[0] http://www.stlamerican.com/your_health_matters/health_news/s...

[1] http://www.coldwatercreekfacts.com/
Microsoft Offic 2013 for Windows Download
Usually, if you are a contractor or small business with less than 5 people, an Excel spread sheet should be sufficient to get a rough idea of how much money you need to set aside for expenses & taxes. From that, I knew that I had to set aside roughly 50% of my revenue (in the beginning).

The details are best left to your accountant / tax advisor, who will book everything correctly once a month / quarter / year, depending on the details of what kind of business you run.

Now that my income is pretty stable, I just "pay" myself a monthly salary (since I am a "sole proprietor", there isn't really a legal difference between me and my company, so this just means moving money from my business account to my personal account).

At the end of the year, I see how much money is left over and I put it in a savings account.

I've tried all kids of automation, but I found that just creating a manual excel spreadsheet is the easiest, and the most flexible.
It could be just a publicity stunt. Announce an unbelievable thing, get ton of attention and then figure it out later.
It's true AMEX has patents in this area; however, they license "clear payment card technology" to others.

https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/amex-licenses-c...
Most beverage cans are made from aluminum, which is not magnetic.
Because running a bank isn't easy, especially in post-2008 USA.

For example, you have to maintain a fraction of your total deposits in a cash account. That means that if RH becomes a wild success story, they may have to keep millions or even billions worth of cash stack.

I believe there are many other requirements that are not easy to satisfy when you're a small nimble startup.

Personally I hope the banking industry in the US gets disrupted, right now it's a dinosaur and consumers suffer.

However, with the current legal framework that doesn't seem easy.

Seems like RobinHood was trying to disrupt banks and then the big boys (SIPC) shut them down fast.
The IRA and Political Polarization in the United States [pdf]
A close friend of mine works for the Rothschild family office. He described to me how Lord R and his son don't see eye-to-eye on the family money. A lot of time has apparently been spent on reports making Lord R look better than his son at investing.
Which is why it's so interesting that the NY Times article ( that exposed his success as a product of a huge inheritance) didn't get much traction among any of his followers.
I imagine there can be some deals that people don't really want to make public even if they aren't strictly speaking illegal.

One such a deal that surfaced somewhat recently was that cum-ex trading. If you put that in the public market, you would essentially be killing the goose that's laying golden eggs since there would be outcry to make it illegal. If instead you just offered it to select few (people with enough capital & no moral qualms about using it), you could keep it under the wraps for longer time and get better long term return.
Sprite isn't shipped very much in bottles. The soda companies are very good at shipping concentrate and then adding water locally. Bottled water is different in that the entire transport occurs as water.
The Crypto Winter Is Deeper Than We Thought
The Tactics and Tropes of the Internet Research Agency (2018) [pdf]
>The piece is much more about Cornell Tech than about Amazon's decision.

Sure, but why does the article title mention Amazon and not Cornell Tech? It's dumb.
Because it’s impossible to come up with a fair value for these concepts. They are not fungible, traded goods, nor is there an actual amount paid at some point to buy them as a reference.
My grandfather had Ménière's disease, and I have had vertigo on a couple of occasions myself. It is debilitating. Unfortunately this device wouldn't restore balance, but at least it could relieve nausea.
How can you possibly think that ‘You will revise your...’ and ‘I will not be as educational next time’ is an appropriate way to speak to someone? That set the whole thing down the wrong path from the start. What a waste.
What I remember from middle school and early high school is the pressure to be funny in group settings. In terms of social status, that skill was at least as important as being good at sports. Failure was immediate and so public. My jokes were met with confusion, silence and people looking at their shoes. The most excruciating part was waiting for someone else to pick up the dropped ball and restart the conversation. It only took a few experiences like that before I stopped trying. Improv could help you learn what is funny to your peers and also how to participate in a way that keeps the conversation flowing.
I actually put that on my amazon wish list two years ago and presto it was successful.

I put the four volumes next to the three first editions that I have.
They got negative attention. Would you trust a company with your life savings, after they didn't bother making a phone call to SIPC to ensure something as basic as the insurance status on your accounts?

The timing was also terrible, right after their big crash earlier in the week. Every single interview addressed that.

Where trust is involved, bad publicity can be worse than no publicity.
Companies are racing to do things that were done in the 1920s, before modern financial regulation came into effect, only this time with an app. The regulators know how to handle that.

Yes. Come on, a fake bank?

The ICO industry is the penny-stock market, but with "blockchain". Some of the same suspects, too.
> (far beyond copyright law)

I don't know your jurisdiction, but in the US, this isn't just a matter of copyright law, and copyright law itself has developed to support rules about use in license terms.

Many old open source licenses came from legal activists who opposed the application of contract law to public license terms and conditions or restrictions on use under license, for whatever reason. Overall, US law hasn't gone their way.
I wonder if this is limited to improvisational theater or if something like a roleplaying game, where the person has to act out a role with no script, can help as well. I would think that they get to perform the same sort of social interactions and while still being "low cost".
>> Only allow reviews from people who have actually bought the product, and had time to receive it in the mail. I know, what a mind boggling concept.

Sorry, but that's not going to help at all. After Amazon banned incentivized reviews, pretty much all the sellers contacted the reviewers to buy products and then get reimbursed by PayPal. Sure, it's against the rules, but it's not being enforced.

They're not even hard to spot. I stopped doing incentivized reviews after the rule change, but I can see that a lot of the other reviewers are still reviewing a lot of stuff as verified purchasers. I know they're not real because I turned down offers from sellers to review the same products after the rule-change.

The worst part is that these reviews are even less honest than when incentivized reviews were allowed. Not all incentivized reviewers were shills (I tried hard to review stuff honestly - I would guess maybe a third of incentivized reviewers did as well). In the post-incentivized-review world, however, everyone who is participating an a verified purchase sham is giving 5 star reviews.