skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect this varies by nation. I met my then-local MP in Portcullis House, which required not just a phonecall but a pre-arranged appointment that she was forced to cancel at the last minute because of urgent business in the House of Commons. I had to rebook for the following day.

I said my piece, but she not only didn’t change her vote (I wasn’t expecting her to, it was her first term and I’m a political noob), but she didn’t even raise a single one of the issues I had when the relevant law was debated.

On the plus side, she did give me the contact email address of someone in charge of a committee about that law. On the down side, he never replied.
I have been doing this for a year. Check my Twitter for how it’s going, same handle.
I'm not a subscriber of WSJ, so I can only read the first paragraph. Based on the headline and the first paragraph, I don't see the problem. Wouldn't WeWork have to lease the space from someone? Why is it a problem if that someone is the CEO of WeWork? If WeWork is paying above market rent, then sure, that is corrupt.

A lot of people hop on the band-wagon of bashing "rent-seeking", mostly misusing the term in the process, confusing rent-seeking with leasing/renting land or capital. WeWork's whole business is built on renting as far as I can tell.
> I'm talking about real world software.

What an unexpected coincidence, so am I!

> It's unlikely that anyone cares if a Hello World program is bug-free.

Did you consider reading the link I provided at any point?
Or because Steve regularly goes on business trips and has rented the 3 series in the past. That's basically why I want a Mazda 3, because I drove it for 2 weeks and it was fun.
Hah, sorry, I guess that was a bit snarky. Still, this is a very silly study.
(2013)

It seems people have found a route out of beige, the Trump/Brexit outsider victory. This is ... not an improvement.
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> Bezos's salary is just $80,000 a year

So he's not subject to max SSN and Medicare taxes?
well in this case I assume that my frequent searches for Docker (the technology) led Google News astray :)
I'm shocked they used a commercial service to store their entire codebase. That could be easily subpeonad and if its a paid plan they will be dead in the water.
I want to echo this. I need a new bag and gym clothes. Instagram is hitting me hard with this. I haven't consciously shopped for them either, but I assume I've looked at enough content to get me in those buckets. I am considering getting one of the bags they've shown me.
She wrote a short story in which a number of authors are invited to a rich white South African estate to talk about their experiences, and all are given the chance to write a piece for some Western magazine. Well as it turns out one of the writers grew up in a city, one was a lesbian, one had his doctorate, etc. These writers' stories were seen as inauthentic by the people holding the retreat, who end up choosing to publish a pandering story about mud huts and wild animals.

I assume this is what worries her when being asked if she is an "African" author; people think they already know what that means.
Do you use / search for information about Docker (the container platform)?
Telemetry of any type usually fails to measure precisely the thing you want, but something adjacent that correlates strongly. What you mention are clear problems with inferring usage from downloads, but if you can infer the percentage of downloads that correlates to a machine running Fedora, you don't need much more precision.
> There is an app called Fing on iPhones and maybe Android.

This seemed like a really useful tool; I looked it up on the app store and - uh oh - it's free. Screenshots don't seem to show any ads and there's no IAP, so how do they make their money? Taking a look at their privacy policy[1], they collect:

> Information on MAC addresses and Wi-Fi networks you collect through the App or the Box. Please note that this Privacy Policy does not exempt you from any obligations you may incur should you collect other individuals’ personal data.

So basically, Fing will help you find devices on your network, and then store what it finds forever for other uses. And if you accidentally reveal some PII to Fing while scanning someone's network that's your problem.

This is the state of "apps". Collect everything, store everything, disavow any responsibility for anything. One of the first phone apps I used was a G-meter that just read the accelerometer and showed you a graph of your acceleration. It was a neat little toy. Today that app would send all accelerometer data back to some server farm in case there's anything that can be mined from that data.

[1] https://www.fing.io/fing-privacy-policy/
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I think it's fair to say that fear is always a product of not knowing. But when it comes to integrity and privacy online I think history has tought us that it's usually worse than we fear. Also: I think people (especially in adtech) underestimate the privacy people expect online.
> UBI is meant to cover the very basics, like a food and varying amounts of housing (depending on the local housing market). For some, it operates as a dividend that helps make ends meet on top of their regular work, especially in high cost areas.

This merely will keep wages low (what currently is happening) by subsidizing poor pay. Many cities have subsidized housing (and/or rent control). The net effect is these people can 'afford' to live in areas while making lower pay. Without subsidized housing, employers would literally have to pay more or rents would have to go down; there wouldn't be anyone able to sustain the rents.

The big difference is, with subsidized housing, society has created a captive poverty tier.
Agreed, it is anecdotal.

But for the record, I drank about 500ml of coffee per day. About a full single french press container.

I certainly drank a lot less than most people who swear that they felt fine drinking 5x as much as that per day... with some even claiming that drinking it just before bed helped them sleep.
Ehh, its pretty conceptually similar to the workflow of using Ida or radare2. Not as complex as binary RE, but there is some (minimal) obfuscation involved.
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I don't know, but probably, since we interpret reality through the lens of our biases & models we are exposed to/believe in. There's unknown unknowns in a complex phenomena re: climate.

According to this video, a signature of CO2 warming is the surface & lower atmosphere warms while the upper atmosphere cools.

https://youtu.be/H5kejSYPD7U?t=90

Yet the current heavy snow storm in Europe is being caused by the splitting of the polar vortex, caused by warming in the stratosphere.

https://weather.com/forecast/national/news/2019-01-10-the-po...

There's speculation that the acceleration of movement of the magnetic poles may have a factor, but it's a complex system...

https://weather.com/forecast/national/news/2018-12-18-polar-...

Point is, there are many complex dynamics at play & it's tempting to many people to subscribe a single factor as the primary cause. The reality is far more complex than what many of us would prefer, so many of us view reality with a simpler lens that we wish to see things with...
Examples of effective targeting:

- Intent targeting via search remains by far the most effective form of targeting. Type life insurance into Google, very high value ads. Mortgage, a car model, etc. This is why Google is so valuable.

- For display, the biggest lift from targeting is via retargeting (showing you the shirt you considered on a commerce site)

New York Times was definitely using ad exchanges only for their remnant inventory, so there is nothing surprising or interesting about this article.
Someone who didn't know to change their default Linksys password is probably not going to report the crime.
Yeah but the point is, from a practical standpoint, nothing has changed. You were doing that before if you were using MongoDB + RHEL, so you'll still be doing that now.
May I suggest that you alter or drop the "who cares" part? That kind of dismissive rhetorical question will make anyone listening more willing to dismiss what follows out-of-hand as well. I very much agree with the core idea of what you said, but I felt my hackles rise as soon as I read the first sentence and I imagine anyone who actually disagrees won't even bother considering your side after seeing that you seem to not even care to consider their side.
For S&Gs.
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I mean Spotify is built on CEF, so who gives a shit if this is on Electron or not. It's not like there's a huge difference. Adding a piece of text to the README just to alienate people isn't wise; it just makes the author look like a tool, ripe for criticism.
Researcher here. That argument is bullshit. Papers are the main method for researchers to communicate their findings. They're written by the researchers themselves, who are often funded by taxpayer dollars, and reviewed by other researchers for free. I hear that sometimes a publisher will do some copy editing at the end, but in my field there's nothing beyond some simple formatting checks.

Which is why you can find all of my "preprints" online.

It is incredibly silly that it's legal for taxpayer-funded research papers to be hidden behind a paywall, which sends money to a corporation that did not fund the authors of the paper.
It understand that you are missing is some free time to have a more fulfilling life. And I somewhat share the same urge to have more free time to pursue some technical endeavors.

Luckily, I have a few weeks every year when my wife is in vacation with the kids away from home while I keep working. So I have absolute freedom again for a short time !

So yes, the first few days I use my free time to look at some technology or experiment that are on my backlog and this is great and I do enjoy it.

However, depending on how frantic the day is at work, I generally don't have enough stamina to sustain a full day work, followed by a few hours of self study at home. So basically after 1 or 2 hours, I quit and go to bed. And after a few days, enjoying my free time, the excitement subsides somewhat, I get bored and I miss my family.

So basically, what I concluded, that even if magically I was free of all family constraints, I wouldn't probably be coding all the time, and likely more miserable.

In your situation, before triggering the divorce, I would at least try to negotiate with your wife to try to have a week/a month with more free time, eventually away from home. It is possible you will not enjoy it as much as you think you would.
The SEC’s complaint alleges that Ieremenko circumvented EDGAR controls that require user authentication and then navigated within the EDGAR system.

Looks like a way to say “exfiltrating data from the endpoints”.
>> Every decision WeWork made [..] was made with board support

History reveals that the list of bad and/or outright illegal corporate decisions made with board support is long.
Maybe. In a world of increasing automation (explosive in the last 15 years) there's not much value in training for anything less than medicine or engineering. And US has 30 million flipping burgers. When that's automated too, there's not many that could retrain to be engineers. And we don't need 30M more engineers anyway.

That's why UBI is a hot topic. Its a way out of a collapse.
> My whole post was that you can’t throw around absolutes while mocking people throwing around absolutes. Which is exactly what you are doing.

No, I'm "mocking" people that "throw around" falsehoods.

> The only ‘facts’ here are that we don’t know what causes autism.

Incorrect. It's also a fact that it's not connected to vaccines.

> It’s entirely possible that in some people it’s triggered during something that happens with the vaccine process.

Nope, because then we'd see evidence of it. Which we don't, after hundreds of thousands of samples.

Furthermore, analysis from the other direction have demonstrated that most of the "rise" in autism is due to better diagnostics. So we have here no observation of any connection between autism and vaccines, and from the other side the diagnostic changes have mostly been accounted for. Where do you think an alleged connection to vaccines would hide?

Face it, vaccines do not cause autism. There is and never was any reason to connect the two, just like there is little reason to connect vaccines with lightning strikes.
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Don't call it popcorn time for music.

It looks good enough to stand by itself.
What the fuck are you talking about? How many people in this industry indirectly rely on companies like Google for employment?

What percentage of mobile app development is paid for with ads?

What percentage of web development is paid for with ads?

How many open source projects are contributed to by developers who work at companies that rely on ads to you, pay their actual bills

How many “side projects” on this site are paid for with ads

How many projects are B2B where the other B is in ads, or relied on ads, or relies on something that relies on ads.

Sometimes I love HN but then I remember how, frankly, full of shit some people are.

We’ve built this house of cards on ads. If ads go, the industry will collapse into a shadow of itself and half of you won’t get to eat.

It’s nice to act like ads are just this evil thing devs invented but surprise surprise, they’re a form of payment because people don’t like to pay for stuff.

Remove the way people pay for stuff and suddenly this industry where you make 6 figures for jerking off to javascript frameworks doesn’t make sense.
I'm genuinely curious. WeWork seems seriously over priced. At one person it's maybe 25%-50% more then else where. At 4 people it's like 300% more and keeps getting worse.

A couple of examples. Friends in Pasadena have an office that could fit 6 comfortably, 8 less so. $1300 a month. Guy at WeWork 1 block way, $1100 a month for an office just big enough to fit one desk.

A "hot desk" in Tokyo is $490 a month where as at my co-working space my dedicated desk is $400 a month. That includes "fast internet", meeting rooms, printers, copiers, cheap snacks, receptionist, networking events, cleaners, open 24/7 etc... The rent 3 person private office for $1k where as WeWork a single person private office is $1100.

They claim "coffee". Hardly seems like coffee is work $1k a month. Besides, there's probably 11 craft coffee places withing a 3 minute walk of my office.

And it's not an exception, there's been an explosion of co-working / shared office spaces in Tokyo over the last 2-4 years.
This is a pretty great overview! However, I learned Git and Github from Udacity's free course [1] and it was amazing to me since I am more of a visual learner. It got me up and running with Git within a week or two. I recommend others who have no prior experience with Git to check it out.

[1] https://www.udacity.com/course/how-to-use-git-and-github--ud...
Because then they would only have one (completely valid!) criticism.
no, if it reaches food, each generation after that should follow the same path.

Thanks for pointing out. I will debug and update :)
I'm pretty sure everyone understood. There are many ways write code.
Nothing that May could have delivered would have been at all similar to Brexit as envisioned. That is because Brexit, as envisioned by it's supporters was largely a pack of fairy tales.

The problem here is that they went ahead and voted for it, without actually doing the hard work of drafting a concrete proposal for how Brexit will happen.
Would he, though? Really?

Functionally what is the difference in quality of life and power between the two?

The only thing I can think of is he'd no longer be astronomically one of the richest ten humans alive.
Is there anyone that still takes the BBB seriously? They operate as a pay-to-play scheme, charging money in exchange for their approval in an outright quid pro quo sales operation.

https://money.cnn.com/2015/09/30/news/better-business-bureau...

Beyond that, the advent of modern communication has taken a huge bite out of whatever relevancy they might've had. Why complain to the BBB when you can complain via Yelp/Google Reviews/Facebook, etc. and have a bigger impact.
Non-voting shares especially illustrate at least one of two things:

1. How divorced the financial markets are from the real economy.

2. How broken all our voting systems are.

Choose your narrative.
This isn't terribly promising. Since you've broken the guidelines a lot in the past, we'll ban the account if it continues.
git config --global alias.lg "log --color --graph --oneline --decorate"

for easy copy-pasting. HN doesn't support backticks or triple backticks like a lot of markdown parsers. To get fixed-width fonts, you have to insert 4 paces at the beginning of the 'code' block.
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> High-and-mighty types like this are exactly why working in IT or contributing to FLOSS is so draining at times.

Interesting, that's exactly what I'd say about your comment...

The way I interpret the author's point is, with a lot of real-world programming/engineering experience also comes the appreciation of tradeoffs and priorities. Like, people don't use Electron because it's well-designed or efficient, but because it allows you to quickly and easily create new software that mostly works mostly everywhere. If you can come up with a better alternative, or substantially improve Electron, you should definitely do it!
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> High-and-mighty types like this are exactly why working in IT or contributing to FLOSS is so draining at times.

To be fair: the high-and-mighty types that create issues saying that using Language/Framework/Architecture X is bad and that you should use Y is another reason why working in IT or contributing to FLOSS is so draining at times.
Right up until you're not.
It was the largest single change, yes.

I have always eaten healthy food, I go for walks and hikes and bike rides regularly but I wouldn't say that I "work out".

I just developed a massive headache one afternoon, realized it was because I hadn't had my morning cup of joe, felt disgusted with myself as a result, and decided to quit drinking it altogether.

I figure that anything as addictive as that has no place being consumed daily.

I grew out of my nicotine habits and other addictive drug habits years ago for the exact same reasons.
Cryptic variable names, weird indentation, ternary operator, string escaping, statements without braces.
I mean, additionally, the web is a really good multi-OS platform. It's write once run anywhere. No other platform/GUI library is getting anywhere near as much attention, so it makes sense to piggyback off web technologies.

I've written my fair share of low level systems languages but if I needed to write a cross-platform GUI app I would write it in electron no questions asked.
It's not. It's a product. Once you let go of the 'cool vibe' brand, you get an overpriced cowork and no one will use that.

Like a luxury alcohol makers, they are selling identity, not chair by hour.
National newspapers have several ways to target print ads:

- Calendar: You can buy an ad for one day, a whole week, the weekend, just Sunday, etc.

- Section: You can run your ad in the Travel section instead of Sports.

- Region: For national papers, you can have your ad printed in only one region--for example buying a full-page NY Times ad that is only printed in the papers printed in DC.

- Edition: Papers use to run a morning edition and an updated afternoon and evening edition. Some papers now produce a free thin version that is handed out free to commuters.

Big papers have also long offered ad campaign management services, where you work with their staff to optimize a campaign (including creative sometimes) to target the audience you want.
There are actually dozens of games in that genre. 1835 in Germany is very constructive and buildery, and aggressive 1830-style play is not going to do you any good. 1841 in Italy is epic in its complexity; borders popup and disappear, forcing splits and mergers. Companies can buy each other and start new subsidiary companies. There are several games in England, France, Europe as a whole, India, China, Russia, the Isle of Wight, several games for individual states in the US, and most recently, Lilliput. Many of them self-published. Worth checking out if this is your thing.

18EU is probably my favourite. Feels epic, but plays remarkably quickly.
I think the point in this example is that you can compare pre-check-in and post-check-out photos and demonstrably show damage or (visible) theft occurred during a specific reservation without impact the privacy of the guests.
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Fantastic! Well done!
That's true, but that just means you the consumer can be more discriminating on other factors, like price.
Former discussion with backstory of the Ukrainian case:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17831975
The fact that AirBnB even allows recording inside of the rented appartments is utterly mind-boggling to me. I always assumed they'd ban recording or guests outright. Your home (even a temporarily rented one) is pretty much the primary place where you should expect complete privacy at all times.
However, all ants will not follow the same path but most should.
Take it down a notch?

Lots of sites sell things, which is enough reason to make those sites. Millions of sites are representing businesses (restaurant etc). No, the web isn't going away because joe shmoe can't put up ads. Its so cheap to put up a website anyway, folks do it for many reasons.
Some feedback from existing customers so far ...

Many indicated they would not be interested in this value-added service because they are already doing their own repo backups to rsync.net with the 'git' command run over SSH.

Others have brought up the issue of backing up gist, wiki and issues - we understand that the wiki and each individual gist is a mini-repo on its own, so that works ... but what about issues ? Can issues be treated as a git repo ?
On the contrary, President Trump has managed to convince Democrats to unemploy a significant number of beige bureaucrats through the guise of a shutdown.
There is. RDRAND for x86/x64 has been in all Intel/AMD for several years.

Most ARM SoC have some equivalent device, but they are nonstandard and require driver support.

Even the TPM chips in basically every desktop, laptop, and server for over a decade have hardware RNG. Again driver support is needed.

The problem is cheap “blue plastic boxes” may not have a hardware RNG, nor will Virtual machines or containers. Writing code to figure out what RNG is available and how to use it is a nightmare so few people do it.

This is why most security people say “use the OS CSPRNG always”. That way user-space code doesn’t have to carry all the platform specifics with it. And presumably integrating the hardware RNG can be done once at the OS layer.
Maemo user? :D
Zoom doesn't work on Sierra w/ Safari for me in any way - only tapping the +/- buttons works.
Obviously Google treats "foo" as a placeholder and returns these stories whenever it thinks the user might be interested in a story about a conflict.
Indeed. I'd love an app that allowed me to download songs (from torrent etc.) - the desired version, quality, ID3 tags and so on without issues. That would be a big improvement on most music services (streaming and buying). However, this looks to mainly be a low-quality Spotify alternative, so...