skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t get it. How can a browser extension mine data that otherwise is inaccessible? This should be covered by basic RBAC. Or are they just convenient scrapers, saving time but otherwise not accessing privileged information. If so, the LinkedIn story about “protecting our users” seems a bit shaky.
Yep. Healthcare, and gun culture.
Problem with those two is the first three letters. I'm fine with Bitbucket but decided against it in the near-term. Long-term, we'll probably move toward it.
Already do. I don't use Gmail's HTML interface (I always will prefer IMAP over an HTML gateway) but Gmail is my primary personal eMail server.
I mean, it's kind of in the name.
you'll get downvoted for bringing God into it but humans do have a bad habit of arrogance
I work in the self driving car industry. Building a level 5 self-driving car is not possible with a small team. Period.

What they are building is more of advanced cruise control. This I believe they can succeed at. ACC is orders of magnitude less difficult than level 5 AV.
More importantly, most people would prefer that the other drivers not disable those features in their arrogance. The false positive rate for things like automatic emergency braking is low enough that it definitely can't cause more harm than it prevents, and it really shouldn't be easy to turn off.

The same goes for the milder forms of lane keeping assist; that only gets problematic if the system does enough steering that the driver can get away with taking their hands off the wheel entirely when traveling on a typical interstate highway. The assist systems that give the wheel a minor nudge and audibly alert the driver are an obvious net safety gain, especially for the innocent bystanders in the next lane over.

Many of the more advanced safety features that are being rolled out to the market these days can be done wrong and become a danger of their own. But when implemented properly, complaints against them are no more valid than complaints about anti-lock brakes and electronic stability control overriding the driver's intentions.
Love Apex Up
> Well-written Java programs are generally more concise and less verbose than well-written JS/Python/Ruby programs.

This isn't at all true. I can say this from experience using statically typed Python extensively, in an average code base, 80% of your functions, if not more, are already statically correct in Python, one just need add an annotation. Then you're just as "well written" as the Java.

With or without the annotations, the code is still just as "correct".

> BTW absolutely nothing prevents you from building Java apps by declaring everything as Map<String, Object>. Nobody does that because it's a horrible way to program

Yes, but only because you'd need to explicitly cast things everywhere and write out declarations everywhere. If you could always elide casts and type defs, it becomes a lot less horrible.

> Correct, that's what you have to do in dynamic languages - look at what came in from the database and manually validate+convert it into the format you actually want.

You still have to do this in static languages. Maybe a library does it for you, and it gives your an error or something you know is a DbRecordFieldStream or whatever, but dynamic languages can do the same thing. Orms validate input in dynamic languages too. Rails and Django can validate request formats. Protobufs work in every language.
Samsung Echoes Apple’s Gloomy Outlook as Tech Woes Get Worse
I've registered a custom domain, which will be our primary user-facing point of contact. Developers use SF essentially purely as a Mercurial host; everything else is run over eMail.
Quietly, tech has become a private equity-backed industry
I actually like gRPC better than JSON these days so it saves me from that pain, code just gets generated for you.

But yeah json is much nicer in JS generally
yeah, it's much crazy radical like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18850770
So basically the hospital charge extra money for those legal residency's human right to support those illegal ones' human right. That's great!
Smart Contracts: The Big Questions – Charles Kerrigan, CMS
This happens all the time. Some endeavours fail, other succeed. Some are more likely to succeed or fail than other and some succeed or fail unexpectedly.

Nothing to do with prophecies though.

Not every demand can be fulfilled, no matter what.
> On top of Apache ... abandoning open source

Hold on ... what?!?
Thanks for the explanation!

From reading more about it, it seems these are all benign (in the sense of Chromium couldn't ship h264 because it's licensed but Chrome can).
Talking of LinkedIn. Any suggestions of how I can bulk-remove contacts? I was wondering if there’s a Chrome Extension? I’m assuming all I’m missing is the motivation to script it?
re: clean. What happened to Qbs? [1] Is it still not popular?

I ask because this same tutorial has an explanation on how to use CMake with Qt. Arguably Qbs is a lot "cleaner" than CMake scripting... but it doesn't appear to be a popular choice.

1: http://doc.qt.io/qbs/
ASUS TUF Gaming FX505DY and FX705DY Laptops Take Ryzen and FreeSync on the Road
Any plans to actually bootstrap the compiler?
Briefly, twisted pairs reduce noice and crosstalk.
> LinkedIn violates their own users' privacy in an effort to detect the usage of browser extensions. At the time of writing this, LinkedIn is scanning visitors for 38 different browser extensions.

No it is defending against malicious actors from abusing its API.
It's not obvious that just expanding a variable runs code though.
For those who are not into rock music or music in general necessarily, this article is still worth reading and thinking about. A couple of lines stand out for me, especially:
"...every group has a threshold for tension that represents its optimal level of conflict. Uncontrolled conflict can destroy the group, but without conflict, boredom and apathy set in."

This is consistent with my own experience, both in bands and in companies, and perhaps in personal relationships also. A certain amount of friction is actually optimal in terms of output of the band / company / couple.
Maybe https://cloud.drone.io/ is more for you then
Guess I still have to wait for a 13/14" ultrabook with 32GB of ram.
Additionally, actually make use of binary libraries across modules, and extern templates for common type parameters.
So far I’ve listed Waymo and Verily.

What about,

Loon - https://loon.co/

Dandelion - https://dandelionenergy.com/

Wing - https://x.company/wing/

Chronicle - https://chronicle.security/

Malta - https://blog.x.company/introducing-malta-81bceb559061

Apple is almost 100% definitively not working on a molten salt energy storage solution I can promise you. And the reason is because it’s just not in it’s corporate structure or culture. Far too constrained / trapped in it’s niche to expand outwards into such a vastly different market.
My reading summary for 2018 (with recommendations)
One thing to watch out for is CCA cat cabling. It’s cheaper, because it’s copper coated aluminum. I have no clue if it reaches spec, but i don’t think it’s worth it because it would cost so much to rewire your house again later (or trace down an outage/packet loss in production).
The rational heads are saying there was no attack.

That was a fiction to fit the narative anti-normalisation proponents such a Rubio wanted to push.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/01/the-real-story-behin...
Toyota demonstrated a test where the car determines that it cannot brake in time to avoid hitting an obstacle, so it decides to swerve around it instead. No combination of blind spot warnings and lane keeping assist can come anywhere close to performing such a feat. I'm also not aware of any car currently for sale that will accelerate to avoid being hit from behind.

There are quite a few vehicles that have at least some of the sensor capability required for this kind of functionality, but the hard part is the software/AI, not the cameras and LIDAR.
IIRC coaxial was terrible back then. It was stiffer and hence harder to place around corners, and the connectors were harder to clip on. I don't know if those reasons were important or even considered, back then.
Thanks Microsoft, you just saved me $84 dollars a year. I just cancelled my paid account.
Doesnt this mean that the coin is worthless when people are able to manipulate the value of coins like this? Why would you still invest in these coins when you know this is possible.
BitBucket has a terrible UI, historically suffers from outages, and is owned by Atlassian which is yet another downside.
And they do, when given PGO data, or when doing LTO.
Agree, unfortunately the Qt company decided to "deprecate" it, or rather to not put anymore resources into it:
http://blog.qt.io/blog/2018/10/29/deprecation-of-qbs/
This is discussed in the book Incognito by David Eagleman. I remember reading about someone learning to "see" with their tongue. Along the same line, his team developed a vest which translates information into vibration patterns on the torso: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/could-this-futuris...
6 Lessons self-taught developers can learn from J.D. Salinger
Look, as an ex-MSFT person I'm only glad to see someone shit on Ballmer. I didn't like the guy myself. But the pillars of today's Microsoft success were all created by him. Azure? Ballmer. Subscription services (and Office 365 in particular)? Ballmer. XBOX? Ballmer. Satya gets _way_ too much credit for what Microsoft is today. I feel that's mostly because he looks better on stage, and that's a very low bar. A raging gorilla looks better on stage than Ballmer.
The pertinent point is 5 users. That is not mentioned in “The Fine Article”
SoftBank has cut $16B investment in WeWork, will now invest $2B
I downvoted you, even though you make some very good points.

But fundamentally, you are wrong. Grandparent’s proposal doesn’t violate the Four Freedoms and would still be open source software.

In point of fact, DARPA funds the development of FOSS and isn’t the only organization which transfers taxpayer money to developers for FOSS.

Regardless of the other shortcomings of the proposal, making the software ‘no longer FOSS’ is not among them.
I am curious what you are doing that is 10GB+ on your home network. Not snark. Genuinely curious.
LinkedIn contains lots of personal data, a large part of which is only available to users who are signed in and/or paid members. They want to protect this information from potential exfiltration by these extensions and their backing companies.
Deep Chain Reorg Including Double Spend Detected on Ethereum Classic (ETC)
Note that this is the Kickstarter for the Windows version of HERMES Mail. It's an entirely different codebase and, as such, Visual Studio is the perfect IDE for the job.

The high mobile data cost was because said developer lives in the arse end of the middle of nowhere, and he refuses to use Mercurial properly (does a full hg clone instead of hg pull every time he contributes, drives me bonkers to be honest but the man writes good code!)

Said developer also admitted, publicly, to using an unlicenced copy of VS Enterprise after a disk crash. That was an indefensible state of affairs to me, and so the only thing I could do without wasting scads of time was to buy him a licence.

Please don't conflate HERMES Mail with Mail/X. They have similar user interfaces and are mail clients formerly written by different developers at the same company, but they are in different languages, different devs as stated before, and target different platforms.
Ask HN: Would you still pick React Native?
Hi all.
If you have been developing using React Native then would you still using it for your new project?
(Please tell me your experience)
One reason is because I think there isn't such an obsession with becoming a billionaire here. If you're a founder, and someone offers you a deal which will personally see you net €10-20m after tax, why wouldn't you take it?
people high on the autism spectrum don't get those jokes. in case you have been wondering why you were downvoted. +1 from me.
True, in the same way Facebook and Twitter are tools.

The argument against them is the same, does the benefit outweight the damage that can also be done?
Currently a person still needs to pass a regular driving test which ascertains that they can correctly drive in a "regular" car for 30min.

I would actually be very pleased if in the future there is a simpler test for driving a "clever" car, but which doesn't convey a regular license.
It is still wins in "portability + expressiveness + safer than C" areas.

There are still more platforms with a C++ compiler available than Ada, Java or C# ones, let alone Go, D, Rust, Swift.

So if the goal is to make the code available to all platforms, without having to deal with C's lack of safety, then C++ it is.
Hi there, apologies for replying to a completely irrelevant thread (HN locks down replies), but was curious if you are planning to Show HN your project [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18611208
This is the source:

http://www.pizzanapoletana.org/public/pdf/disciplinare%20200...

Most popular mistakes are:

- too much yeast
- no salt
- cheap ingredients
"Just this week I shipped ten new boxes of these pens to Elon Musk’s office..."

Unless this was somehow literally true, the use of a lie to name-drop would have me interrupt the salesperson right there and tell him to leave.
Opera contributed jumbo build feature to Chromium. The idea is to feed to the compiler not the individual sources, but a file that includes many sources. This way common headers are compiled only once. The compilation time saving can be up to factor of 2 or more on a laptop.

The drawback is that sources from the jumbo can not be compiled in parallel. So if one has access to extremely parallel compilation farm, like developers at Google, it will slow down things.
The outcome of violating the GPL is license termination: you cannot distribute it any more. I don't think there has ever been a case of enforced further distribution or disclosure.
Install Linux with Rufus
Is that inherently wrong if the website doesn't want to serve anonymous clients?
I am really in two minds about Linkedin, I cancelled my account years ago after getting spammed by recruiters, this could be an attempt to clean up but looking quite sinister in the attempt
Those LUT or power or logarithm functions are not free... linear light scaling is about 2x slower in practice. Not that it matters until you get to 8K.
What people misunderstand about OOP
Run https://www.shellcheck.net/ on all your bash code

Read https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
Westrum Organizational Culture. Where are you at?
Again, Apple has a more diversified revenue stream than Alphabet and it is growing. Contrary to what you are trying to imply, Apple is actually more successful than Alphabet. The difference is they don't tell the world about their internal projects.
I wonder what it would take to create the set of conditions for another "Silicon Valley / SF Bay Area" to appear in Europe. It seems like inevitably, any tech companies that are successful always end up getting bought out and leave to the U.S. instead of staying.

What are the primary issues? Lack of VC funding, culture, government policy? On the surface, it doesn't seem like there's anything particularly lacking, at least from my superficial understanding as an American viewing in from the outside.
Calling this "nefarious-linkedin" when it's obvious that LinkedIn is trying to protect itself from unauthorized data collection shows that the developer is either seeking for attention or didn't really look into the purpose of those extensions (https://github.com/dandrews/nefarious-linkedin/pull/1)
Who said you cannot run full nodes?
Microsoft Now Has IntelliCode for TypeScript/JavaScript
Testing Yourself
Categorically opposed to 15"? X1 extreme ships with 32GB, and apparently it has room for another module. Quite sleek too.
Simplicity is hard to sell (2012)
Portland SU Says Hoax 'Grievance Studies' Experiment Violated Research Ethics
The other poster was probably thinking about bamboo fibre-epoxy composite which is more like fibreglass.

I vaguely remember the sealant is not really food safe, which is why many bambio utensils still crack after a few years.
You're not running a multi MB image but a small block thereof. Not that 5-6KiB LUT matters, but the extra conditional multiply ops or power or logarithm function evaluations do.
Latter are need a few MACs for a good approximation (at least 12 bit precise, preferably 16 bit - like 5th order polynomial), former have masks, worse for SIMD.
The Stones are like Apple, arguably Brian Jones was their Steve Jobs, after Jones passed they became this tried and true formula, they may have added in a disco beat in the late 70s but it was basically an iconic sound with iconic songs, but their creative genius had passed long before. I don't expect Apple to die off any time soon but Jobs was definitely their Brian Jones. But like the Stones I expect them to continue long into the future playing out the same formula over and over.
I think you're mis-parsing what i (hastily) wrote. On top of (these) Apache (projects being abandoned), ....
Either/Or is noted for presenting two perspectives, with the first volume demonstrating a hedonistic take on life, and the second a more "adult" religious take.

I couldn't personally get through the second volume yet, but I plan to some day, when I'm older. In the meanwhile, I would quite recommend the first volume, which I've read twice.
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Disclaimer : I'm a maker of Freshping.
Ballmer left a company that was a mess. He was boosting profits through repeated layoffs and price squeezing. It had just bought my former employer (Nokia's phone business) without a clear strategy. Windows Phone was already failing in the market due to a series of strategic blunders, arrogance, and poor product positioning and platform strategy. Windows 7 and 8 had largely flopped in the market with lackluster adoption for the same reason. The cloud business was heavily windows focused and not an easy sell either: same reason. Meanwhile developers were jumping ship in favor of Apple laptops and Linux servers, android/ios phones, and standards based web applications on top of Chrome and Firefox.

I grew up in the nineties; things were different then. Visual Studio was the go to product for many developers and developing on windows was a given. Macs didn't become useful as developer machines until a decade later and Linux was a something you ran in your closet or on a old hand me down PC (been there done that). That changed under Ballmer's rule and he failed to adapt. He alienated developers and failed to move windows forward; all while bashing Linux and the Open source community in futile attempts to stem the bleeding of mindshare, revenue, and share holder value.

Fast forward five years or so since Nadella took over and the stock has responded positively to post Ballmer changes by Nadella to bring MS into this century after what was a lost decade.

MS now does open source and established itself as a credible player in the OSS community, it killed off windows phone, opened up the lucrative office ecosystem to non windows platforms by e.g. treating Android and IOS as first class citizens and supporting things like Chrome OS. By embracing linux and open source, and by turning Azure into a very competitive product that mostly runs Linux. He just took Edge out the back and shot it as well.

The net result of all this is that he re-established MS as a company that appeals to developers because despite his famous Mantra, developers were running away under Ballmer. VS Code, having SQL Server supported on linux, supporting Linux and contributing to it, embracing the wider C# ecosystem outside of the Windows silo, buying Github, etc. are all clever moves that rebuilt lost trust. All these things were unthinkable under Ballmer. Even Windows 10 is starting to look pretty nice to people like me with it's linux subsystem, Docker support, and nice hardware options.

As a consequence they have a lot of healthy growth in their cloud business because developers take them serious again. Shareholders are liking this and their prospects for more growth through a portfolio that is no longer just wintel laptop based revenue.
My opinion is that it’s good in sparsely populated areas and becomes progressively worse as density increases due to the probability of random altercations getting out of hand.
TypeScript and WebAssembly.
Ah Xenix, my introduction to UNIX.

Our teacher used to carry a 486 PC tower into the class, where each group would take rounds at it, using the code that we initally prepared on MS-DOS.

It was a bit like using cards for programming, given that we could not test nor compile UNIX IPC code on MS-DOS.
There is very little VC funding and the culture/language barriers between countries are huge.
People reacted in so irrational ways to any BTC news related to crypto (the "this is good for bitcoin" meme), that I am not sure if it would crash the price. On hte other hand a "bank run" on attacked exchange is likely. And the victim of attack will almost always be the exchange. BTW no matter what crypto fans claim ("code is law") getting anything from a service and then canceling transaction that paid for it by 51% attack will be a criminal act under many jurisdictions.
Considering that shorting crypto is probably better solution. Thought I am not sure if it is even possible to borrow required amount of coins.
Public repo wikis would get read by an arbitrary number of people. Private repo wikis would only get read by the 1 to 3 repo collaborators. So perhaps they thought it wouldn't be a big deal to disallow them.
The EU doesn't tax anything, though. You may be talking about the non-UK EU members, instead. And no, I was not referring to parts of that business...
> Furthermore, there's no good reason to use web accessible resources in an extension! You can always find a solution to your problem that does not require them.

How would I e.g inject an extension-provided image into a web page without using web accessible resources?

The only ways I can think of would be copying the image to a blob or drawing it on a canvas - both seem significantly more complex than just injecting an IMG tag and would still be detectable as side effects.
there is already another Silicon Valley. And that is China. Alibaba is a Chinese company...
I agree. However, I know the Data Artisans founders personally. There like like 6 or 7 of them, and Prof Volker Merkl (main person behind the original project, Stratosphere). Then, they did two funding rounds. Nobody is coming out with near 10m euro. Half that, before tax, probably after a few years of golden handcuffs. So, my guess is 3m euro after 10+ years. Not bad, but you couldn't buy a good house in the valley or SF for that.
Ask HN: What are unusual perks of a job?
Companies often offer perks aside from wages, common perks in the Western world include:

Company Computer

Phone service

maybe paid lunch (in Denmark my experience is not because of, as I understand it, tax rules)

in the U.S Health Insurance (also in European countries but as an add-on, not an all-important employee lock-in device)

Banks often have low interest rate loans for employees.

Other stuff people can think of? And also if you know anything about how particular perks are used by companies, tax-wise or studies on how they affect employee retention/enticement please let me know.

edited: improved formatting
It's mostly generations of VC Funding. There's a genuine lack of experience on both sides so only the 0,01% of Entrepreneurs and VCs are capable of playing at an international level.

It's getting better, but not fast enough so that "just raise elsewhere" is a common answer, of course that's a route also most can't take for one reason or another.
Show HN: View top Reddit posts by year / month / type
For people who want to know my skill sets:

Php, Laravel, VueJS, NodeJe, React. Language isn't a barrier. I've worked on Python/Django, RoR, etc. as well.