skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of those have been fixed a long time ago, but we simply don't have the resources to triage them.

This effort we start is in no small part to decrease the number of issues that will be created by empowering the users to unblock themselves* and solidifying Yarn's codebase.

* You wouldn't believe the number of issues that are simply about things working as they should - we can't really blame their authors because it can be quite hard to find the right paragraph in the documentation, but it's extremely taxing on a small team. Similarly, we often have issues created against older releases, or without reproducible test case.
Well the impact is to persuade you to download and run a file. I think most people on HN will be savy enough not to do that... even if it does claim to be a Flash update.

As others have noted this issue is more about the lax security of ad networks (and their sub networks). Rather than introducing real security, most major ad networks play a cat and mouse game with malware.
Same thing as Oracle owning MySQL. Keep your friends close but enemies closer.
Portable faraday bags are effective enough. They are not much larger than the phone and I can't call one when it's inside the bag. I haven't done any kind of tests to see what signals might be leaking from it.
I don't think there's any benefit to have all a users comments public facing. Sure have age+points to vet flame accounts, but why should I be able to see everything you've ever written in one click? It is intrusive and also devoid of the contexts of the discussions.
A cashless society does have some risks and of course penalises poor working class people and older ones.
> I know people working at minimum wage, never enrolled in college,

If your starting point is "didn't go to college", then why comment on an article specifically about college students trying to enroll in a class?

Would you suggest that in addition to a full course load + tuition, students should set time aside to learn on their own? When they already go to a school with a highly regarded CS program?
Fair enough, seems like you're giving them a fair shake.
Thank you. As someone who worked in a union before switching jobs, it is not all rainbows and unicorns like so many people try to present it. In one shop I worked in, I was a truck driver delivering fuel to airplanes. If my truck broke down in any way, even something as stupid as the key got jammed, if I pulled out my leatherman and pulled it free, I could be fired for violating union agreements. Even most of the mechanics agreed how dumb it was. I was the sucker sitting out in 100 degree summer sun in the airport with zero shade, waiting 30 to 60 minutes for somebody to come do a job that would take me 10 seconds.

That's before we even talk about collective bargaining. Getting a pay raise was completely out of the question, as raises were almost entirely based on seniority and how long your ass had been in the chair. It was highly punitive to younger people like myself. We also got crap shifts because shift preference was also awarded by seniority in the union. The non-unionized shop paid a shift differential, so people willing to work 2nd and 3rd shift got more money for their time. That was a great solution, as it increased the supply for shift work to approximately the levels of demand (basic economics).

So tl;dr: unions have and had a place, but the cure can sometimes be worse than the disease. Acting like unions are this amazing shining solution with no downsides is pure ignorance.
For a similar business reason as to why Azure offers Linux, Microsoft develops for Android and iPhone and Oracle owns MySQL.

Microsoft doesn't regard PostgreSQL as a direct threat to SQL Server and it's happy to make money where it can so long as it doesn't perceive something to be a mortal threat.
It is not a "justice" system, it is a legal system.
OAuth is going to be hard to use if you don’t create an account though, there’s no way for DS to know what scopes to restrict the user to, it sounds like that was the core issue that broke their workflow.
By contrast, I just took a vacation in Germany and took public transit a fair amount, and never did see any police in the subways. But I didn't see any belligerent riders or all these other problems either.
Layoffs happen all the time so I am not reading too much into this re. macro economics.

However, I firmly believe the autonomous driving bubble will pop eventually, and you will have layoffs across that entire segment of the tech industry.
They are a compile time contract at best, they are nothing like a test.
BlackEnergy Behavioral Analysis
This. It seems like the default model for ad impressions is just "run whatever you want, go wild." Untrusted code? SURE! Ads for blatantly fraudulent product? PARTY TIME! Even more basic shadiness is astonishingly rampant---I recently made the mistake of opening a well-known and very stuffy academic blog with countless daily visitors from a browser not stuffed full of ad blockers, and immediately got a half-naked Ashley Madison ad on my work machine.

What we need is some third-party intermediary to screen, not the ads, but the sites hosting the ads---some kind of certification authority that says "this is a list of websites that don't allow people to run untrusted code or scams," and then allows users to block everything else by default.
Agreed. More people should just pay for a magazine or paper subscription. I pay money for an editorial magazine. Next year I'll probably do the same for a different publication. News online is clickbait garbage, and even when it's not, it's fill with ads and trackers. The solution for consumers is to ignore the temptation of "free" information, and pay for quality writing.
Also tourists and people with many products in their vicinity. Suddenly I really want to collect numbers of this. What's the proportion of age to product count, for example? How many tourists are one pensioner?
I'm not sure on what portion goes to recyclers, but I have been to the plant that processes all these return bottles, and I suspect that a fairly high percent is going through that facility. It's a 24/7 operation with sophisticated grinding, washing, and sorting equipment, producing clean flake for use by bottle manufacturers.

The owners say demand has been very strong for the finished product.
> we might lose all of our best people if we do this

This is the argument media seems to be making for long time. So far instead of all not even 0.01% seems to have shown conviction and left Google. Or it just might be the case the best people seems more concerned only with technical issues at work.
I don't have a problem with a job board for women only; I have a problem with those who object to a job board for men only or for Asian-Americans only or for any other group. That is, what is permissible and proper in the realm of gender or race or what have you should have nothing to do with who is currently "in the lead" -- nor should it be put forth as unquestionable dogma that unequal outcomes are necessarily the result of unfair behavior.

From this day forward, just do the right thing and treat each human as an individual...
> The best programmers I know are self-taught, because they have a passion for it.

This doesn't preclude getting CS degrees--that is often a part of that passion as well. But I agree that the best programmers would get there with or without it. And people who start programming in college are extremely unlikely to ever really get very good at it (in my experience).
Azure gives you Linux and Windows as options for hosting, because money is money and engineers are not free.
That's great for you but I'm saying that the great mass of 'progressives' who are outraged by this filing were 100% on board with firing these people in the first place.

So which is it? Speech is protected or speech should be punished?
Not only is it reducing QoL in downtown...but also the surrounding area. I also work in the Pearl District and I recall my boss (who lives around 15 minutes drive from the office) stating that once in a while homeless people go to his neighborhood and pillage the trash and leaving shopping carts all over the place, which is quite unsettling.

In addition, I'm glad I stay away from the target for can recycling. I think I'll stick with the Whole Paychecks down in the Pearl, even of that POS breaks way too often.
> To use an equally contrived example of my own — there's plenty of jurisdictions where arguing something along the lines of "look at how she was dressed, she was asking for it" will get you off the hook on rape charges.

Rape is an unusually problematic situation because consensual sex and unconsensual sex produce a lot of the same physical evidence, and it's possible for someone to consent but after the fact have regrets or experience social pressure.

That leaves you having to evaluate evidence of whether or not there was consent. If you're a falsely accused defendant trying to rebut a claim that she didn't consent, what evidence of that do you propose to use?

Also notice that look at how she was dressed is a particularly ineffective "get out of jail free card" when the accuser was a nun dressed in her habit.

The implications of that, i.e. that you're more credible if you dress conservatively and don't attend frat parties, are very politically inconvenient.

But a black man has a constitutional right to carry a handgun, which also makes it more likely that he'll be shot by the police who will use it as a defense. It would be better if these trade offs didn't exist, but how do you propose to make them not?
Actors' unions do impact salary. Union contracts set and enforce minimum amounts that all working actors have to be paid, for example. An actor earning these amounts is said to be "working for scale."

For illustration, SAG-AFTRA's current rate sheet for TV productions can be found here: https://www.sagaftra.org/files/2017%202020%20wages%20TV%2010...
FitzyTV Uses TV Everywhere to Let You Watch 75+ Live Channels from a Single App
It is all about choice. As both AWS and Azure user, I can attest that Microsoft is doing a lot more with OSS and contributing than AWS. We are both a SQL Server and PostgreSQL shop and are excited about this move by Microsoft and Citus.
The difference is that actors were treated like shit first. Even the stars. Just look at what they did to Judy Garland, not to mention everyone else on Wizard of Oz.

That hasn't happened yet to developers.
Coming from a background of being comfortable with Ruby, Python, and Java; I started with ES6 a few years ago and moved over to Typescript last year. While ES6 makes Javascript much nicer, Typescript makes it way better and easier to maintain especially with a decent IDE. I already had a lot of respect for Javascript developers previously, but when I started developing node apps with ES6 it grew even more. I can only imagine the discipline needed to maintain large Javascript apps before ES6 and Typescript
There's not really a competition between ES6 and Typescript because they are generally on the same side. Typescript is mostly just ES6 (ES2015) + Types. (It also supports ES2016 + Types, ES2017 + Types, and ES2018 + Types, and generally as TC39 proposals make it to at least Stage 3 Typescript adds support for them.)
I've been out of academia for a long time, but isn't the notion that 'natural' high dimensional data lies on low dimensional manifolds the basic premise of all machine learning techniques?
Exactly what I was going to write. There is no import of cans from Ohio to Michigan, because it doesn't work.
We did exactly this integration, it was fairly seamless. I walked a Jr dev through the high level plan and we cooked up a POC in postman in about an hour that did a very rough bare bones version of what we were looking for. He was then able to run with that rough POC and build a production service that managed all of our docusign integration. I wonder what caused us to have such different experiences with the API.
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"I just hope Microsoft allow the tech to evolve as open source!"

Current Microsoft sure will. They're good with open source stuff.
Yes? I don't understand what the issue is.
To be fair, it’s probably much more expensive to run a residential recycling collection program in areas of low population density.
So if someone hacks your email because you didn't have sufficient protections in place, does that make the email provider liable? Seems like an argument that falls apart very quickly.
Also, there's no incentive to keep them clean - people will come in no matter what condition the place is in. They often end up smelling like stale beer and corn syrup.
This is being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18990469
Target overhauled their self checkout system a year or so ago and it's much better. You can scan items as fast as the cashier at a standard checkout would. When I'm at a different store that uses the old "please place item in the bagging area" system it's like stepping backwards in time.
To save others a click, I think this is the relevant James Taylor video that you were talking about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2xnXArjPts

And thanks for the video reference & your comment, this helps me feel better about tuning my guitar, I thought I was just really bad at it.
Hmmmm, I can't find anything nearly as comprehensive. But, that could be because DDG doesn't have all that many.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duck+duck+go+cheat+sheet&ia=cheats...

https://duck.co/help/results/syntax

I think the coolest thing about DDG are the 'Bang' searches: https://duckduckgo.com/bang
That's an equivocation. The word has been around for hundreds of years and represents many different things. For example, "Liberalism" in the US is both associated with American Libertarianism and with FDR's New Deal, and those two things have about as much in common as oil and water.
No. But these days they often provide an editorialized summary. Or sometimes a libelous summary. Whatever you think of Trump, you have to think less of the media for this.
hosted postgres is already available on azure, ala rds.
Especially if it claims to be a Flash update! What's the intersection of StillUsesFlash & ReadsHN? It's gotta be the empty set at this point, right?

Which, come to think of it, is a great way to screen malware---anyone who will run a flash update probably thinks they need it to get their AOL e-mail, and will happily take the forthcoming call from Apple's Tech Support (TM) asking them for their password and SSN.
One huge thing we're giving up when moving from JS to TS is iteration speed though. The typescript compiler is not only an additional step, it's also ridiculously slow compared to other languages' compilers.
The two are completely unrelated. When I was writing vanilla JS it felt like half my tests were just focused on ensuring that everything remained the type it was supposed to be. Not in a static type sense but in a duck type sense at least - does this object still have field X? Can I still call function Y on this object? Is this variable still defined?

All those kinds of tests can be eliminated with static typing. It's true that a lot of those types of errors would get picked up in functional tests, but at least from my perspective it's not great practice to rely on a functional test to catch that kind of change. If your functional test changes it's easy to lose coverage of your basic unit tests that were only happening implicitly.
people get paid for that? think im in the wrong job
A third party doesn't need to know who you are to advertise to you. If I'm an app user, and I see an ad targeted to people who are toward the end of their cycle, then the only thing the third party knows about me is that I'm toward the end of my cycle. They don't know my name or address or other PII simply by virtue of advertising to me.

But if an app sells this data to a third party and includes PII that allows the third party to make observations such as, "Jane Doe did X on date Y," then that's certainly a privacy concern.
The large grocery stores in Oregon are required to accept up to 144 bottles per person per day (or $14.40/person/store/day in potential profit). At that price it doesn't really seem to be worth it to do that sort of arbitrage.
Because MS is more and more in the business of selling the operation of software as a service, instead of selling licenses for their customers to operate themselves.

Think of them like a wedding event rental company, they are more than happy to rent you their own brand of tables, flatware, and silverware, but if you want another brand that’s fine too as long is you buy from them.
What are the odds that Citus's Enterprise is released to community version like Github's private repos in near future?
> If the IP address is a single family home with a single computer and no wi-fi, seems pretty open-and-shut

So say you do have WiFi but you leave it wide open to the public, does that mean you have plausible deniability in IP-address related cases?

"could have been my neighbor, could have been a guy walking down the street using my wifi, could have been anyone"
Microsoft is hedging their bets. PostgreSQL has the potential to disrupt the traditional relational database market, so if they're going to be disrupted then better to do it themselves.

I expect they'll also try to port Citus Data functionality to the SQL Server platform.
Secret sauce: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-container-image-conver...
I couldn't be self taught without learning materials that others have produced, the programming languages that others wrote, or the technology that others built.

I'm also not speaking mentors and peers just in school. I mean literally I do not believe I could be self-taught with 0 outside mentorship or learning materials or community and be considered a highly successful developer. I needed learning materials and mentors to teach me best practices in software development. I needed programming languages that I didn't write myself. I needed a computer, whether paid for by myself, family, or the public taxes via libraries.

Not stopping to recognize that I program on the shoulders of giants would make me arrogant and foolish, I think.
The washing machine is the canonical labor-saving device that changed society by freeing women from a large chunk of their tedious manual work.
One of HIPAA's weaknesses is that the data protection requirements only apply to certain kinds of entities - basically just health care providers.

That means that data may not be covered, depending on who collects it. Worse, data that was protected can legally fall out of protection if it's shared with entities that aren't bound by HIPAA.

(Which, intentionally or otherwise, is something that health care providers often request the right to do as part of those HIPAA consent forms that we all sign without reading.)
Outbrain does this. People hate Outbrain.
There’s something very rotten at the top levels at Google. The “Don’t be evil” motto has long disappeared and has been replaced by apathy and/or hostility on different fronts.

Maybe this move by Google is actually good...to help more employees and others realize how the company has morphed into something that’s no longer doing as much good for humanity as it used to boast about.

I’m still hopeful that the rot in companies like Google and Facebook will be the biggest trigger for decentralized and privacy respecting platforms (and also in this context, preserving the freedom of people to dissent) to grow faster.
Can a Self-Help Book a Month Yield a Year’s Worth of Life Changes?
> Another objection I had to unions is, they tend to promote an "us vs them" mentality, when instead, everyone should be working together.

That might be the stupidest thing I've ever read on this subject.

Management ALWAYS has an "us vs them" mentality.

Only dupes and fools would think they should be "working together" with the sociopaths that run US companies.
Google launches new certification courses for cloud developers and engineers
> This conversation isn't about equal access.

You're right. It's about workers rights. I'm telling you that I think construing the ability of workers to effectively organize as a convenience is also an insulting stance. In fact, I'm glad I chose an example that you find important. Maybe you can consider the possibility that there is a higher principle at work, maybe one that is as important to society as equal access is.
You misunderstand: I am not critical of physics experimentation in general; I am critical of the never-ending pursuit of evermore powerful particle accelerators.

At this time I oppose further pursuit of ever-bigger accelerators which draw interest and money away from other more productive areas of science.
I grew up in Vermont where there was/is a 5 cent deposit on cans and a 10 or 15 cent deposit on larger bottles or liquor bottles. I did dozens of, "bottle drives" where we'd go around and ask houses if we could take their cans to raise money.

If we spent a few hours doing it we'd get a couple hundred dollars easily. But damn I've never smelt anything worse than a blue massive trash barrel filled with beers cans that are all a year or older. Worth about $20 on it's own though.
Since we all tend to live in bubbles to some extent, do we have any numbers to back this up (like, # of repos/commits in each language on GitHub, or questions on StackOverflow)?

I tend to view TypeScript similar to CoffeeScript — it brings to JavaScript some features from other languages that are convenient and preferred by a subset of frontend developers. It allows for experimentation in the language, and helps inform TC39 proposals.

In time, I suspect support will coalesce around a specific TC39 process proposal to add type support, it will graduate to stage 3 or 4, get integrated into browsers and Babel, and enthusiasm around TypeScript will wane.
I find it as typographically awkward as if you put Chinese person in that response. It's a whole chunk of lower case and what does someone choose to pull my attention to? The C in Chinese? And every mention must do that? For sake of orthodoxy.

When someone underuses a typographic convention I find it suddenly more powerful.
Michigan's bottle return isn't really a good system considering most of the machines will always reject bottles from other store brands, and will often reject less popular bottles/cans from the same store. Plus, it only applies to carbonated drinks.
Ask HN: Industrial Operation Optimization using AI – any case studies?
Any case studies, research or projects about industrial operation optimization using AI/ML?

There's a lot of vendor-driven noise out there - but nothing with numbers, metrics or success stories.

What I'm interested in is facility/plant operation optimization using machine learning. My, slightly naive, vision is that plant operations can be modeled using neural networks (and there are some evidence that it works on a small scale) - but I can't seem to find prior public work done in that area.
> I wouldn’t be surprised if there is some spillover from Washington or California, but I doubt that it can be an incredibly high percentage.

Why do you doubt that it could be a high percentage? A huge number of folks live in Vancouver across the OR/WA border and commute into Portland every day, and do their shopping in OR for the lack of sales tax.
That sound great, if we assume all these workers knew they could, and has the time and resources to do so, and if Silicon Valley companies weren’t literally conspiring to keep wages down for workers who tried to switch companies.

Corporations have professionals bargaining on behalf of the company. Every solution I hear that doesn’t involve professionals actively bargaining for the workers is putting them right back at the mercy of the company.