skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
work could mean :

- 'having a broad vision of a project & being able to anticipate', well, this seems unrelated to Scrum to me, Scrum might work, or not. The biggest error in Development management being 'estimates', which was partly solved in scrum by replacing hours/days/months with bananas/story points, but there is still some equivalence in people head. And estimates are WRONG. I've never been good at estimates, and I keep telling my employers that's not what they should be paying me for...

- cutting a project in small iterations so that budget can be adapted / stopped at any time, and developers kept in check (because management don't trust them) : this is maybe the most compelling use-case for scrum / Agile methodologies.

- having happy & productive developers: well this depends on what THEY like. Some people need structure to feel good, and Scrum can provide that. Others are more at ease with autonomy / being responsible for their work...
Here's what I don't understand -- why would I use work email for organizing purposes? Even if there were very clear laws in place prohibiting employers from stopping me, wouldn't organizers be paranoid that their employer would find out and position themselves accordingly, making the unionization drive likelier to fail? I just don't see why anyone would choose to use an employer-owned communications channel to organize something that will inevitably be fought aggressively by their employer.
This is fine, but then you can't claim the moral high ground if your legal defense is that employees don't actually have the rights that your policy says they do.

It's worth noting that people don't like doing business with hypocrites either, so Google has a fiduciary duty to avoid pissing its customers and employees off by systematically eroding their rights through legal arguments as well.
I'm a web developer / gamer. My guilty pleasure is leatherworking. :)
You can probably pick the CS and math up as you go. I haven’t gone through that resource but it looks interesting and useful.
In my view, the lawyer is absolutely obligated to present all viable (in their view) legal options to their client. But the buck stops with the client -- they decide which legal arguments to make.
Three spectrums, not one, may define autism
Essentials, like food, are at 0%. From Sep 2018:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/6657416/period-poverty-uk-tax...

> Then-Chancellor George Osborne said he was not allowed to lower the VAT rate because of EU rules that class sanitary products as "luxury" or "non-essential".

> Equalities minister Victoria Atkins also said VAT would be scrapped as soon as Britain leaves the EU.
I showed a google map to a police officer (border control on the highway) to show where I was going, no problem. Had setup a few VPN on my iphone before going to have options in case one or two got flagged. My uni VPN worked during my entire stay.
Tenure track implies research.
I’ve seen Uber respond to a chargeback by leaving the account active but disallowing all payment methods. With most companies I’d expect it was a customer support mistake rather than vindictiveness, but with Uber it’s hard to be sure.
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Some universities hire non-tenure track instructors, with no research requirements, sometimes called "Lecturers".

Of course, they are compensated horribly, so nobody wants to do that unless they have no other choice, and once you do that, good luck ever getting a tenure-track position.

The whole academic job market is pretty dysfunctional. It's more interesting to look at the flawed ways universities have of measuring research contributions, but sometimes it just comes down to money. Universities are trying to save money by paying as many people as possible peanuts, while paying "stars" hugely.
Sadly, HN doesn't have a very good way of connecting prior threads together, but potentially of interest, previous discussions of infection-cause theories of Alzheimers:

3mo ago: Some studies show an association between the herpes virus and Alzheimer’s https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18265115

6mo ago: Alzheimer's risk 10 times lower with herpes medication https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540094

6mo ago: Link Between Alzheimer’s and Herpes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17521994

7mo ago: Researchers Find Herpes Viruses in Brains Marked by Alzheimer's Disease https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17366591

One thing worth noting is that some specialists believe that Alzheimer's has multiple subtypes, eg: https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/dale-bredesen

"1. The inflammatory subtype of Alzheimer’s disease.

A type characterized by systemic inflammation, reflected in such laboratory results as a high hs-CRP (high-sensitivity C-reactive protein), low albumin:globulin ratio, and high cytokine levels such as interleukin-1 and interleukin-6.

2. The atrophic subtype of Alzheimer's disease — a reduction in support for synaptogenesis.

A type characterized by an atrophic profile, with reduced support from molecules such as estradiol, progesterone, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), nerve growth factor (NGF), testosterone, insulin, and vitamin D, often accompanied by increased homocysteine and insulin resistance, the last feature of which Dr. Bredesen refers to as type 1.5 or glycotoxicity.

3. The cortical subtype of Alzheimer's disease — an environmental toxin-related type associated with chronic Inflammatory response syndrome (CIRS) that presents with more general cerebral atrophy and frontal-temporal-parietal abnormalities, resulting in an emphasis on executive deficits, rather than the more amnestic quality of hippocampal impairment."

There's also plenty linking (and potentially reversing) Alzheimers related to insulin resistance:

Insulin Resistance and Alzheimer’s Disease: Bioenergetic Linkages (2017)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5671587/

Reversal of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease (2016)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4931830/

Effects of ketone bodies in Alzheimer's disease in relation to neural hypometabolism, β‐amyloid toxicity, and astrocyte function (2015)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jnc.13107

Insulin resistance and Alzheimer’s disease (2009)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4600067/
Also what about ssh?
Aside from sampled instruments, there's the entire world of synthesis, including the endless number of virtual instruments that have become staples in modern popular and electronic music. As to your question: they are not generally stretched tuned. Many instruments support alternate temperaments through the use of .tun files, but temperament (with a few outlying exceptions) only speaks to the interval deltas of the notes within an octave, not of the entire range of the instrument.

However, it doesn't matter. The reason for the stretch-tuning of a piano is due to the physical limitations of a vibrating string being unable to produce the same harmonic intervals at the extremities of the instrument's range, and does not apply to electronic instruments which, particularly in additive synthesis, can generate whatever harmonics are desired, including harmonic configurations that no physical instrument would be able to produce.
>there's no reason to expect another 75-year economic event again

Because that so called 75-year economic event never really happened, or at least its full consequences, has been delayed by doctors injecting lots of adrenaline keeping it alive.

Japan, China, EU, and US has since printed unprecedented amount of money. A lot of people think there wont be another 2008, I would be happy if it was only 2008 recessions. I am worry it will end up like 1930 with Great Depression.
Well I don't fully follow what "digital signatures inside Postgres" really means, but if it means essentially the same thing as digital signatures in, say, a Java program or a Python program or any other Turing-complete programming language, what about... writing code? Ha! I said it! Roll your own crypto! The title is "Programming: mostly a hate story", but it should be "Managing dependencies and trying to live up to this ridiculous pipe dream of reusing code and never writing any of your own because somebody on the internet said 'never roll your own': Mostly a hate story"
If you have a foreign phone and turn on international roaming the firewall Doesn't apply. Has been my experience.
Think you're calling a plumber? You may be calling Google Local Services instead
That makes more sense to me now why doing server side reason compiles to a node.js app and not a more performant OCaml app. Server is not a priority yet.
It may be worth your time to consult with a real intellectual property attorney, not us HN IP fanboys.

You have alot of time and money involved in this endeavor.
Yahoo also have a similar tool nowadays called YQL, I tried it but faild to make a query..
Even electric (sampled) pianos are tuned that way. The difference from the well-tempered tuning is given by the Railsback Curve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_acoustics#The_Railsback_...). For the highest and lowest notes it is as much as 30 cent. It comes from the inharmonicity of the strings.
> having a conscience

What does having a conscience have to do with whether or not you use a food delivery service?
For me it's a bit more than accepting it might happen. If someone is so hungry that they have to steal bread, I hope they will steal my bread. For two reasons: bread is a really basic necessity. You starve if you can't eat. Fortunately almost nobody is that desperate, but if they are, I can't blame them for trying to stay alive. Secondly: bread is cheap. I can easily afford to lose some and not care. If it helps someone stay alive, then I'm glad.

And I'm not the only one who thinks this way. A Dutch bishop has said something similar a decade or so ago. To some controversy, because condoning crime, but if your life is at stake, you've got to do what you've got to do. Of course society has some responsibility to ensure nobody ever gets that desperate, and seems to be doing a reasonable job at that, since nobody has stolen my bread yet. But if they did, I'd be fine with it.

To get back to the original topic: I don't think sanitary pads and tampons are quite on the same level of bread, but I still don't see theft from public toilets as a serious source of concern.
This kind of articles and journalism makes me a bit uneasy.

This article only exists because the Journalist was affected. If anyone would contact the this paper saying company X has fraudsters leveraging their service (which is not uncommon), this article would never have been written.

That aside, I've been on the other side, resolving cases like this. Sometimes cases are complex, take months to figure out while involving multiple stakeholders (police, banks, payment processors, etc), and you have no idea who to trust on the other side of a phone line (it can be a victim, it can be the fraudster).
Yep, and nothing of value is lost.
Although I join you in deploring the sloppy usage of "enormity" to merely mean big size, I thought the word perfectly captured the _scariness_ of the size of the research task ahead. Centuries of usage agree: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enormity#usage-1
yep, that was a whoosh
No, that's just an arms race, and it's advantage attacker since in security we generally assume the attacker has our source and executables. Plus it's ultimately an instance of the halting problem; there is no way to run code to determine if another piece of code is "good" for any sensible definition of "good". (See Rice's Theorem.)

You need to ensure bad stuff can't get in, not let stuff in and try to determine what's bad after the fact.
Potentially insecure Perl scripts
I think you're overthinking here. Children going through puberty are accompanied by mood swings, so if that was the case they'd all be shaming each other, boys and girls, for all kinds of things (To be fair, they basically are. Children suck this way).

The stigma around menstruation is entirely cultural. It's about someone being unclean/icky. The mood swings feel like a complete red herring.
Saying that something is always unreliable isn't the same as saying it is never correct. Eyewitness testimony is an important part of any prosecution, but it should never be relied on, and juries need to be informed of the unreliability.
Calling Appalachia “Trump Country” is misleading and ignores its radical past
Actually, the driver already knows where the destination is before going to pickup. If he rejects offer after getting to restaurant, it's probably because he asks the staff how long it will take, they reply 10 minutes, which usually means 20, and the driver decides to go looking for another offer. This is largely because some restaurants start making the order only after a driver arrives.
> Much like the idea that slower drivers cause more accidents

I think this might be statistically valid, due to correlation with the root cause. Drivers who are inexperienced or uncomfortable due to poor eyesight, poor reflexes, unfamiliarity with the vehicle or area naturally slow down.

These are the same sorts of “driver disadvantages” that would cause more accidents.

No references, just intuition based on decades driving in Chicago traffic.
FWIW MIT and Stanford are as I described.
It's not pathological. Most universities have flirted with hiring non phds to teach. It can work, but there's a reason they prefer traditional candidates: thebfaikure rate is way lower.
I don't think this points to a problem with the workflow, but rather to a problem with the codebase. If your codebase is so big and complicated and interlinked that it requires frequently recompiling large swaths of it - it may be poorly designed.
Midway through writing this story, I got my money back, by the way – and from Deliveroo itself. Other victims have not been so lucky.

The author's experience is not uncommon and seems sensationalised to create a Twitter storm and garnering sympathy, which is uncharacteristic for a journo, who writes about 'tech and digital culture'. It would have been more apt to go into triage mode i.e. stop the bleed of finances and dispute transactions immediately, before entering into communications with the delivery firm. After a resolution, choose to go turbo and further explore the implications of GDPR, then write about your experience in detail.

The article does not leave the reader any more informed or equipped to deal with such a fraud. It does not even pretend to offer any piecemeal advice e.g. don't use/re-use easily guessed passwords, use 2FA, use credit cards or virtual/disposable cards, contact your bank/issuer first, don't bother contacting low-level support via social media, explore data protection laws after a resolution etc.
Not blindly pulling in dependencies from the internet?

"Blindly" is the problem here, not "pulling dependencies" or "internet".

Also, no, you won't get to a literally 0.0000...% chance of bad stuff getting in to your code, but some simple due diligence will slice several factors of magnitude off your probabilities; pick up another couple of factors if the community in general also tends to have people examining their dependencies. It gets to be pretty hard to sneak stuff in under those circumstances. It's been done, so we know it's not 0.0000...% likely, but it's less likely than the current state of the art in several language communities.

(And, also, yes, said language communities are working on it. I salute them for this effort, not condemn them for the existing problem.)
IANAL but "We're in an extremely competitive industry and we might lose all of our best people if we do this" is a perfectly good reason to give shareholders. It only breaks fiduciary duty if the executives have concrete data that their actions will have zero impact on hiring, which is a stretch.
Golang: CPU DoS vulnerability affecting P-521 and P-384
I've been there for a while (2 years straight and more than 6 years since my first trip), I used many different VPNs providers and even setup my own servers.

Although the company is a bit shady and I'm pretty sure they have some connection with the party, Astrill is the best to use in terms of performance, bandwidth and ease of use.
They recently added WireGuard support which is blazing fast.

However, if your priority is privacy, probably you should use your own server, or just stay out of China.
I find it funny how the new "I know I guy" is the "I tweeted to my many followers" when it comes to dealing with problems.
While there are foreign nationals who come in as undergrads, it doesn’t sway the percentage that much (x domestic and 3x international). Most undergrad Asians I’ve met at elite schools are US residents/citizens who have been in the country for a while (i.e., not just someone who came for high school).

That can be quite different for grad schools, though.
Last Year in D
I was not aware that it’s possible to target Facebook ads that closely. Does anyone know how this company can do this?
I think it was found thanks to Wycheproof, which is quite cool.
That completely removes all meaning from the term, then.
>just because some sociopathic asshole decides to be oppressive and they happen to follow a certain religion all of a sudden their religion is to blame?

Yes, when that religion and the culture around it not only encourages that oppression, but discourages negative consequences for that oppression, and propagates that oppression across generations, and sometimes defends it with the force of law, then religion should justifiably carry the blame.

In the case of menstruation and other women's issues, what should merely be medical and hygiene concerns are conflated into "the will of God" because a holy book or scripture says that women and their bodies are impure, and as a result the imposition of religious dogma upon society has had a direct and negative consequence for women that it hasn't had for men, or that it likely wouldn't have in a purely secular context.
Well, the EU agreed that they could be 0% rated in March 2016.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35834142

If the Government haven't addressed it, it's entirely down to their own instransigence, no?
Please tell me this isn’t real. I wonder if harassment or stalking laws could apply (I know nothing about law).
As I understand it, some of the newer (and likely more expensive) hearing aids support bluetooth, and you can change the levels and tuning from your phone. That would give you the best of both worlds, since you could give yourself good hearing for very important things (meetings, etc) or enjoyable things things that benefit from good hearing (some movies, listening to music, etc).
Yet several companies on the tourism world circuit happen to use semi-automatic gear boxes that outperform any human driving with manual, so much for the typical car comparisasions.
Do you have a source for that? If that is the case then pretty much every major website is in breach. Credential stuffing is rampant and very easy to do these days. It's not the website's fault that the user gave out their password.

However, I do agree that Deliveroo needs to do more to protect users against this. 2-factor authentication, email confirmation from a new IP, re-entry of card details when ordering to a new address are all simple ways to handle this. Deliveroo has not prioritised this because their main priority is growth.
Probably at the point when they can no longer offer sky-high starting salaries. You should see the job boards for my school co-op program. Job postings by Google, Apple, et al get ridiculous numbers of applications for just 1 position. Nobody here cares about Google's stance on activist employees. They want to get their money and pad their resume.
That would have gone awry of “don’t implement your own crypto”.
Yes. And is being scaled. There is unlimited access to freeCodeCamp and the WGU C.S. degree. I'm pretty sure that if you go through those, you'll get a start as a software dev. The C.S. degree is probably unnecessary for getting employed. It's still a multi-year process, but available to anyone who wants it.
Should really be called "Devops: Mostly a hate story".

That aside, man! this is relatable!
Sapiens is a must read for anyone who wants to better understand the fabrics of humanity. It's one of my most favourite books and reading it definitely has opened up my eyes to the world.

An example:

Humans are the "creators of the world", the most dominant species on the planet and at the top of the food chain by a long distance and yet we are the most jumpy/scary species of all.

If a tiny spider would crawl up the leg of a lion they wouldn't give a bit of a shit. A lion would remain calm, knowing that the spider cannot do anything and it wouldn't even bother to entertain the spider for a split second.

However if the same tiny spider would crawl up the leg of a human there's a real chance that this person would start jumping up and down, perhaps trying to kill the spider or maybe even rush out of the room until the spider is gone.

This is completely irrational for someone like us - the species who literally dominates everything on this planet - and yet so common. Why is that? Because lions had millions of years to climb the ladder to the top of the food chain and therefore had the time to develop a nature which reflects their strength, whereas humans have jumped to the top so quickly that we still have the fears and behaviour of someone who is extremely weak and vulnerable. It's actually quite scary and also explains why humans often respond to tiny issues with violence, bombings and other out of proportion threats when things could just be ignored.
Gävle goat
sure! I was just reacting to the general threading angst in the comments.
Get real! How many DJs, outside of home setups, use blenders in their audio rigs?
As a corporate leader what is more important: allowing employees to use employer resources for personal politics or solving for toxic/hostile behavior?
Satellites the Size of a Grilled Cheese Sandwich Could Change the World
> Of course, they are compensated horribly

Non-tenure track academic teaching positions that pay "horribly"... I can already imagine the kind of talent they attract.
"Most people in the United States" haven't admitted to themselves that the overriding purpose of all popular news media is constantly, insidiously to advocate for more spending on armaments and war. Historically that would have been considered rightist, but in the current context one could be forgiven some confusion...
Your right and left hands are not separate organisms.

Also, if every volunteer quit tomorrow the website could still function, even if just by disabling edits until they employ enough people to review them. So, it’s clearly not the volunteers that are most critical.
Some of us don't care about "Western society" as much as "humans". Also, some of the people on this site are, spoiler, from Asia! They might be interested in this.

But you do you bro.
> What's import is DC, LA, and many other metro cities that can't build more roads, but still need population and economic growth.

> People don't need a car to drive them anywhere at any time. They need a reasonable option to get to work in the places where the jobs are.

Mass transit. We know it works, and works well in circumstances you described. We know it increases in effectiveness in response to investment and added resources. Why bet on a long shot, if we know what works?
There was an article here a couple of years ago about a guy targeting his roommate with Facebook ads using only their demographic targeting.