skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's already very difficult to get out of that stupid "Secret Santa gift" tradition that has encompassed most of the world's corporate offices, i.e. gifts that almost nobody really cares for, which are not given with "strings" attached, but you'd have to be a very brave individual to say to your office colleagues "hey, this year I'm not going to play this Secret Santa game".

I think it's because a lot of people see this as an externally imposed custom, the kind of "teambuilding" bullshit in which you technically don't have to participate, but will earn negative social points if you don't. I dislike Secret Santa too. I have no problem buying someone a gift just because I like them, but being forced to do that by external circumstances feels just wrong.

BTW. this applies to Christmas as well. I don't think I've ever seen or heard of a more "joyful holiday" which so many people secretly hate. It's that one time of the year where cultural norms force everyone to pretend to be super-nice to each other.

Those are some observations, but I don't have any clarified opinion on whether customs like these are net good or bad. But they seem to turn into strings for many.

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RE FOSS and reprimands, a lot of this feels like an issue of temper and personal manners - which many don't have[0]. Also, FOSS creates a peculiar type of self-imposed burden on creators. You're not just giving a piece of software away, you start to feel responsible for maintaining and troubleshooting it. If you don't have time or will for that, you'll fall behind, and as issues start to pile up, you can start to feel bad about yourself. I regularly feel bad about a bunch of outstanding tickets I have on a small animated cat for Emacs, a joke project I made 8 years ago. I can easily imagine how overwhelmed people can start lashing out, when a ticket description or a comment pushes them over the edge. It takes some self-reflection and maturity to recognize that most of the problem here is self-imposed.

Human psychology is weird.

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[0] - In "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living", Dale Carnegie makes an observation that expecting gratitude is a fool's errand, and if you predispose your gift-giving on expectations of gratitude, you'll be unhappy.
Always good to do some math. I double checked your input figure, and that should be per day, not per year. So 365 times as high. Other assumptions being the same that would give 0.2% rise per year, or 4% in twenty years. Not 50%, but not insignificant.
You sound severely depressed. I hope things get better for you.
> Pretty much everything else had a meaningful value.

My childhood. And I'm not that old.

I still feel the urge to peel wrapping paper carefully off and stash it away for next celebration. (I don't do it though :-)

Oh, and I'm hoping to get some animals to eat the peelings and old bread.
How to attract customers for your company app?
I've been developing websites and plugins with Kirby 2 for 3 years and have had a great experience with it. I find it great for building custom websites. Clients love the simplicity of the Panel too.

Kirby 3 is a huge step forward. Some of my favorite new features are:

- New Panel powered by Vue.js

- Panel tabs & sections

- Better plugin API

- Built-in REST API which allows it to be used as a headless CMS

- External data sources

- Asynchronous media API

- Better cache system

- Simpler language management
I was a kid when I first encountered the home of a hoarder. My mother brought me there because she was dropping off schoolwork to one of her students (a year younger than me) that lived in the home. I think that was just an excuse, I think she was concerned for the child who lived there. What I remember most vividly was the pile of toilet paper cardboard tubes. The pile was taller than I was, and wider than I was tall. That wasn't even close to the worst, but it stood out because it must have represented decades of hoarding. It takes a long time to use that much toilet paper.

That's not simple materialism. That's not loving your motorcycle like somebody loves a dog. It's a serious mental illness that shouldn't be taken lightly or brushed off.
i'm in north Texas and into Oklahoma a lot, and Apple Maps has been fantastic here. I haven't had Google Maps installed on my iPhone in years.
Yikes, Affero GPLv3... I guess that bans it for many non-personal uses.
What you mention seems more like (also common) advice to keep your skills sharp (for example, have a hobby project on Github in a different programming language) outside your professional job. It is a related but different advice than to go shopping around on job interviews.
I was the deputy director of the Sunlight Foundation and have covered the space for a decade. I tracked Trump's record on open government and documented it daily: https://sunlightfoundation.com/tracking-trumps-attacks-on-tr...
It is, in other words, just my opinion, but a statement of fact. Moreover, bill in question is the OPEN Government Data Act. This president's record on transparency, accountability, ethics and civic engagement is atrocious. Therefore, these issues are directly related.
Ask HN: NameCheap – Site down. Their mistake. What's a fair compensation?
Today I was alerted that my site was showing "Whois verification pending" and that it was down.
I contacted them and they said "The contact details are verified. The nameservers were not reverted back to old ones due to a glitch, we are sorry about that."

I asked and they confirmed it was their fault.
They fixed it and wrote " It may take 24-48 hours for the DNS changes to be accepted globally. Please give it some time to propagate."

The site sells some products and I may miss a few hundreds of Euros in that time, plus possible damage for being down, plus I may have discovered this much later.

So I asked if they have a compensation:

- first answer: no compensation.

I said "does not seems fair, I'll complain officially and write in twitter".

- second answer: ok, 5 U$ worth of services (PremiumDNS protection against DNS-Based DDOS attack).

I complained

- third answer: "register 5 separate non-premium domain names for 1-year of the following extensions: .pw .host .xyz .icu" which I don't need.

I was wondering if there's some established practice to define compensation and how much a fair compensation is.
Thank you!

[Edit: formatting and I added the 24/48 hours propagation time. It's still down]
Fortnite's Vulnerability: Only the Secure Survive – Check Point Software Blog
Letter on Denialism
What about people who don't have children or younger relatives?

I agree that there's plenty of side-benefits, but I think the distinction between "business" and "altruism" is that altruism happens when people don't calculate those side benefits explicitly. Of course, we're talking about a spectrum here, not binary thresholds.
Should have set up letsencrypt with automatic renewal? Doesn't seem like these were set up in a very savvy way by the site admins.
Geological fingerprinting of volcanic ash
Or, you know, it's just a red herring, and they aren't really based in The Cotswolds.
It's rather off-putting to have a corrupt, amoral president who uses transparency as a weapon against his political opponents, lies, and doesn't show respect for civil servants.
Sounds like they're trying to defraud you, not just cancel their service.
Jerry Bishop (the original Svengoolie) started the BERWYN gag.
This is what makes this no better than any other VPN service. I still need to completely trust that the provider is not watching me. Even with full hardware access, there could be an invisible sandbox or hardware DMA to some chip I can't see. There is no easy scalable solution to avoid this in a technical level. But you can be one anonymous user in a sea of many others and hope for the best, which is why I'd advise to go to a trusted mainstream VPN provider.
> Again, this is nonsense. Exchanges between fiat and bitcoin can operate directly on the Lightning Network. There's no need to constantly open and close channels. You would send a direct lightning payment to your exchange to deposit money, or you would issue a lightning invoice to your exchange to withdraw money.

In this world where no LN-transaction touches the Bitcoin blockchain, what's the reason for having a blockchain in the first place?
This article reviews Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (https://www.amazon.com/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Fr...).
A worthwhile and detailed analysis of modern social computer systems and the issues associated with survveillance. The question is, do the benefits justify the costs.
JavaScript trends to watch and apply in 2019
I used PHPStorem for a while, but lately VSCode has been giving it decent competition.
Besides other problems that USSR had, like the pervasive corruption and the lack of incentives for taking initiative in almost anything, it's worth considering that it achieved economic development by large scale investments. That meant huge farms, huge factories, huge everything please! The good was the immediate results of the said investments thanks to the good (enough) efficiency as the economies of scale kicked in. The bad was in the costs required to keep those damn behemoths competitive as the world evolved! Factor in the fact that the declared reason behind those huge investments was not economic efficiency but employment of people, and you get something that will have trouble in the long term keeping up with their counterparts in the capitalist world. That was short-term (political) capital seeking policy at its best! That however, mattered less because usually it was just about some bureaucrat's career bet for getting results fast, cashing out in time the political merits, and then exit by propelling himself to another position somewhere, a game played up to the highest levels (e.g. Leonid Brezhnev and Virgin Lands Campaign). The ending question is, does China differ in this regard?
If you get your kids a "collectible," you're not buying them a toy, you're buying them a decorative box. If you open it and play with it, it stops being collectible and the resale price plummets.
Job promotion can be a trap, but the OP makes a poor case for it. I've seen this work out three ways.

First, I've seen people who were very happy and productive in pure hands-on roles promoted into positions with more and more of a focus on "leadership" where they seemed inept and unhappy.

Second, there can be an earnings trap. If the salary bands are close (some even overlap) and bonuses are large, a string of good reviews at the lower level can bring in more money than a string of ho-hum reviews at the higher one.

Third, being at a higher level will usually affect how you're interviewed and evaluated at your next job, and if you're "over level" that effect can be negative.

The result can be that someone who has been over-promoted will fare poorly when they interview for their next job. The employer sees someone who is not particularly strong in their role, with reviews reflecting that, and who might lack enthusiasm. Then they look at the unpromoted person who has excellent reviews and plenty of enthusiasm. Seems like a good person to take a chance on, right? Oh, and BTW, they've been making more so let's make a higher offer.

The moral is: don't pursue promotions and titles for their own sake. Think about if you want the job, including all of the parts that might actually be worse than what you already have, and not just the title. Remember, titles are free for the employer to give. Some will take advantage of their psychological/cultural importance to give titles instead of anything meaningful, and that's when it's likely to be a trap.
This really inspires me to get out of my comfort zone. You're absolutely right, I don't have anything to lose. Thanks for the advice, it made my day.
You make a good point, and I was similarly disappointed in the homepage, so let me elaborate a bit on why I use it:

1. I want a Git log viewer right in my terminal, that gives me most of the benefits of visualizing a Git log like a "real" GUI.

2. Fast startup. I work in dozens of Git repositories a day, many submodules, etc. To visualize these effectively, I want to type a few characters in my terminal and see the Git history in a digestible way.

3. This essentially `git log --graph --pretty` with the ability to deep-dive into a single commit view of `git log -p` with nothing more than a stroke of the return key. To exit, I hit ESC.

4. Vim-like bindings in a Git viewer. Every visual app that I use daily in my terminal has "roughly Vim" bindings, from Emacs (https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil) to Zsh (bindkey -v) to Tig.

5. This is just as fast to start as `git log --graph --oneline`, but I get a fully interactive view of a Git Repo history. For example, the Linux source [1].

Perhaps I should compile my thoughts and send some README updates and screenshots to help the project.

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/yd7cSd1.jpg
There's a difference between legal advice and representation in a court of law (which I fully support no matter how bad the accusations), and back-room political dealing.
Many GCs are licensed home inspectors because they give free estimates all day so they may as well get paid for a few of them. A lot of people buy homes then immediately get work done and if you're not an obvious scumbag the fact that you've already conducted one transaction with the new owner will not hurt you.
Isle of Man is the first place in the British Isles to decriminalise abortion
India missing?
I assume they ran experiments with test subjects navigating websites with both eye and mouse movement tracking, and then trained a model to predict eye tracking from the mouse movement.
17 days into 2019 and companies still haven't updated their copyright year
This is awesome but how do you deal with circular references?
Things That Beep: A Brief History of Product Sound Design
I'm not sure if you're joking or not but 50 years is a long time to store them, how are you planning on keeping them in good condition?
GAFAS tends to never do their homework before choosing a name: they know they can roll over most previous projects and just don't care about the community as long as they can't get PR from it.
the CBS app did this to me. I signed up for a free trial, watched some Star Trek, and then cancelled. it immediately cut off all my access, and I didn't even get the duration of the month to use. The month that I had paid for.
My S7 handless this as well, and every Android phone I ever tried this on has a rear camera receptive to IR (I usually test it on TV remotes).
Have there been any notable cases of actual enforcement GDPR enforcement yet?
I believe at least some desalination plants add copper and or chlorine to the input water to prevent biofouling. In that case running more water through the plant to produce less concentrated brine would require more chemicals
There is a difference between faking some standard lab tests and infecting people with deadly viruses or giving them fatal immune reactions.
Obv something that can be solved with futures.
Sounds like a good definition to me. Better than the widely used "troll", which used to mean a different thing, before being appropriated by the mainstream media. Trolls used to mean people provoking emotional reactions with the intent of disrupting communities and ridiculing their members. And unless Putin is doing this for the laugh...
There is the rumor that it is called Collection #1 because it was part of a larger dump consisting of Collection #1, Collection #2, etc. There is also the rumor that the whole set was sold for - now hold on tight - the ginormous sum of $45.
Nice. Anyone have experience using this?
We all grow hooves (Niemanlab 2019 Prediction)
PostgreSQL is pronounced "post gress."
Into the Zone: 4 days inside Chernobyl’s secretive ‘stalker’ subculture
What do you mean by 'mental' accounting?
I have a more specific concern which is really just "the iPad" and related appliance-type devices.

My plan for my kids when they're old enough is they'll get Linux laptops to play with, and the option to use Windows if they can figure out how to install it for games.

Because what I want to encourage is understanding how the machine works, that it is a machine and that it can be manipulated, since my most important formative memories when I was young was that my dad was writing his own software to run his business and that core message was something me and my brothers spent a lot of time emulating as play.
Design Conferences 2019 (UX, UI, User Research, Product Design)
I just launched a site that lists all Design Conferences worldwide in 2019.

There will be one featured conference per week (right now that's Epicurrence) and you can also filter by location, dates or the price, so you can find the perfect conference for you.

You can see it right here: https://design-conferences-2019.com

It's also the #6 of ProductHunt today, and I would love to get it into the Top 3: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/design-conferences-2019

Let me know what you think of it and if there is anything else you would like to see!
It’s generally durability that’s better with modern hand made goods not precision. A soda can for example is very precisely as weak as possible to still be useful. A hand made chair on the other hand tends to be excessively durable.
I heard it was because US regulations were more lax for larger trucks, and the smaller trucks couldn't keep up with the regulations.

I'm hopeful that electric trucks can bring back the smaller options.
You must have never seen a hoarder's house. Look up pictures.
> Solar panels and wind turbines could generate electricity which would be stored in batteries and then used to drive electric motors propelling the ship.

I wonder what the efficiency of a wind turbine + engine would be compared to a sail.

Ie. if the wind blows so a ship with a sail moves at 20 mph, how fast could the wind turbine + engine move it?
What you describe is exactly the problem I have with index funds. I manage a decent amount of money through Vanguard. The index funds in my portfolio fell less and recovered sooner, but at the cost of raw gains. The managed funds I have basically fell apart because apparently the fund managers are idiots who didn't even try to keep up with market trends. I do expect those to recover quickly and have some decent gains again, but we'll see. More risk, more reward. 2019 better be good for the premium I'm paying.

I noticed awhile back that a lot of my funds were very Apple heavy, and so not as well diversified as I would have hoped (index funds included). They disclose this, mind you, but you have to read what you are buying. Anyways, I moved more money towards international and mid-caps to try and offset risk. Index funds have a way of being frustratingly constrained. It's not a silver bullet is all I'm saying.

Don't get me started on bond funds. Total, total crap the last few years. REITs same way.

The only really decently reliable returns I have gotten were from my own portfolio of stocks (not a fund) and some high-dividend yield funds. But even dividend paying stocks nosedived last quarter (Q4 2018), which I attribute directly to the FEDERAL RESERVE and its fuckery with the funds rate.

Everything is manipulated one way or another, never forget that. It's hard to be a small investor with others moving billions around all the time.

If you're still reading, I ditched a lot of bond funds in 2018 and went towards shorter term individually purchased bonds and even brokered CDs until interest rates settle back down.

Vanguard's bond funds are just kind of trash and don't do what they are purported to do for your portfolio which is try to solve the ever-elusive correlation problem. Many times, I've watched bond funds move in lockstep with equities because the Fed is king. Not a safe haven during a big drop, just smaller losses?

The people on Bogleheads will hate me for saying this stuff. If you're new to investing or naive or don't care, just do a 2-fund portfolio with total stock and total bond and call it a day. There.

RIP John.
(I am not from Hasura.)

AGPL only makes a difference if you link that program and your own code together into one executable (including through dynamic linking). If you're calling from another executable over an API then it makes no practical difference whether it's AGPL, regular GPL or even BSD-style. This is, by definition, a remote API so you'd really have to make an effort to infect your code with the licence.

Just saying "it's too risky" sounds like ignorance. Like if I refused to compile my code with GCC because I heard GCC has a GPL licence. There's not much that vendors can do to counter an attitude like that.
For those of you who want to start visiting the gym
Previous discussion two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18458908
Arguably this is the ideal case for AGPL
You can't just "move to the cloud" by firing Ops people and giving an AWS account to your Devs.

Or, well, you can, but then don't forget to set your billing limit to infinity as well. Because AWS wants to make money.

Anyway, I'm not saying RDS/Aurora/etc. is bad, but eventually the heavy lifting will be available for anyone ( https://github.com/beekhof/rss-operator and similar projects ), and it's not like AWS likes to pay when they don't perform according to their SLA.
Blast from the Past: Retrieving Old Game Source Code
Indeed. Why would they get paid more if the house happens to be more expensive?! That's like a doctor charging 1% of the patients income... "rich people should pay more".
The bit about hoarding not existing in the past except for gold was a real eye-roller. Stuff was expensive then so it wouldn't be abnormal and more readily pawnable. You could sell anything from old clothes to a dead horse or headless axe and get something of value from it. Virtually nothing was worthless.
Citibank, BofA and others let you create virtual credit card numbers off of your actual credit card. These numbers can only be used by one merchant, and you can specify the max amount they are able to charge, as well as how many months the number is valid. You can delete your virtual number any time. What does privacy.com have that is better?

https://www.cardbenefits.citi.com/Products/Virtual-Account-N...

https://www.bankofamerica.com/privacy/accounts-cards/shopsaf...
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I honestly think it has a lot to do with mass media and advertising. There are some people who just can't handle near-constant and well-crafted messages to consume and buy.

One anecdote was a woman I know who (when someone cleaned out her nearly condemned) house became enraged that he was "getting rid of all her memories." The thing has supplanted the good feeling of having the thing.

"Nostalgia marketing" does this. How many versions of Monopoly do you need?? Well, here's one with the ORIGINAL TOKENS and WOODEN HOUSES!! And here's one with SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS!! and OHIO STATE FOOTBALL!!!! You need them ALL or your life is incomplete.
Oracle Database 19c Now Available on LiveSQL
Works for android generally: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.a0soft.gph...
The ever dreamed of space slingshot seems to be the only safest, everlasting option to dispose brine.
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Always thought it stands for "Sir Hat", because of your HN username :).
So my dream of an LBS ETF will remain a dream.
Facebook has the worst image compression on any website, their photos are compressed to a point where they look horrible. Why would anyone want to use this?

I do not see what this benefits any developer over just using mozjpeg with better settings.
Amazon Exceeds 100M US Prime Members [pdf]
Secure beneath the watchful eyes... only these record audio as well. Hope you didn't plan on having a conversation in private.
Until very recently it was funded by the Foreign Office. It effectively serves as a sort of low intensity advertising for Britain and "soft power".
If you are looking for an app, you could give "RealizD" a try.