skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've started frequenting the subreddits /r/csmajors and /r/cscareerquestions and it's truly disheartening to see the number of people who are obsessed with doing just enough to get a high paying job. I've seen people claim that the point of going to Stanford is to get a good job or that one shouldn't bother with courses past data structures because they won't help with a job. The cynical part of me hopes that a tech crash will eliminate some of the more careerist people.
Recovering 3D Shape Around a Corner Using Ultra-Fast Time-Of-Flight Imaging [pdf]
The kids were brought by their parents. Not ICE. So ICE has to solve the situation without giving incentives to people to continue coming. Not an easy situation to solve. Don't forget the policies must also have the effects of deterrents.
The biggest problem with 1km distance is that it prevents random meetings where kids just hang around and meet randomly often enough to get to know each other without planning. It also means that they will say fuck it and stay home doing their own thing. Not all that many kids like biking alone in all directions.

Lastly, low density likely means that the one kid available close enough is not good friend match.
The history of real-time text probably goes back to at least the 1960's on the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(software) if you're on macOS, you have this command installed

http://mailman.postel.org/pipermail/internet-history/2002-De... (click on "Previous message" a few times too)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_text
It's healthy to not use autofill, and to not have your password manager integrate with your browser, and to use an ad blocker that blocks analytics stuff including intercom, segment, etc.
That does sound bad, but I would want to know more about the specific situation.

For instance, top law firms often pay interns the same salary as a first year associate (prorated for summer months, of course). That can be $180k/yr for some firms. My guess is that you could be a fairly senior paralegal, with arguably more responsibility and a greater impact on the firm, but still earn less than the summer associates. It would seem unfair, though I suppose the answer could be, well, go get admitted to the University of Chicago law school, give up three years salary and spend 200k on tuition, and get high enough grades to be hired into a top law firm, and we'll pay you at the rate of 180k a year.

This situation is starting to emerge in some Silicon Valley companies, where a bi-modal pay system similar to law is emerging. Just as graduates of lower ranked law firms might never earn a salary comparable to a first year associate from an elite school at a top firm, I have noticed that starting salaries for recent grads at Facebook may exceed what veteran programmers elsewhere earn. I wouldn't be terribly surprised to hear that the intern salaries are higher than some other job titles at the company.
> I’m fairly sure I heard some small sounds from their end so they didn’t just switch to another line.

Ever heard a concept of comfort noise [0]? Maybe some call center software can add something analogous when necessary. Like noises you'd expect in a call center.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_noise
Running a Hedge Fund Isn’t All Bad
My reaction to customizations that shave off seconds is: "so what, it'll be blown away the next time the tech stack changes." I do automate, but there's a subtle difference in goals.

If I automate my personal toolset, I follow the same procedure I use around automation anywhere else: don't start off doing it to save time, do it to increase reliability. I will write small scripts, sometimes one-liner scripts, sometimes largish hundreds-of-lines scripts. But the outcome I am aiming for is that I have a procedure that is documented and puts all the configuration in a place where I can see it, so that when the situation changes, it is fixable. A productivity boost is a frequent byproduct of successfully automating, but it's usually a side component to "reliable and documented". The boost is perceived as reduced friction and increased conceptual integrity: fewer things to check or to accidentally get out of sync, and thus less stress involved.

Focusing on UI being both shiny and fast is likewise often missing the point - which is the case when discussing new hardware. There are order-of-magnitude thresholds for human attention that are important to keep in mind, but hitting a lower attention threshold usually doesn't solve a productivity problem. It creates a case of "wrong solution faster", drawing the user into a fast but unplanned and reactive feedback loop.

See for example the case of writers who like the Alphasmart, a device that makes doing editing so tedious that you don't do it, you just write the draft and edit later.
Confocal non-line-of-sight imaging based on the light-cone transform
Probably doesn't matter that much. I expect the feature is more useful on grandma speed 1 word per minute typing.
not everything is your title+tenure; someone with the same profile might not have the same impact as another. I could see someone getting upset about another person making more and thinking they should be equals when the other person has a greater positive impact on the organization. I'm not as much a fan of open transparency for all positions, including options and bonuses, as I am in favor of published ranges for each position that are reflective of the overwhelming majority of folks in that role at that company.
Is there a way to change Firefox's behavior for passwords so that I need to click to fill them in? I couldn't find anything in a quick Google search.
Frankly, private industry has been lucky up until this point that anything other than your financial history has been allowed to factor into your credit score or credit worthiness __at all__. I wouldn't be surprised if it gets limited to solely financial factors by regulation within the next 10-20 years.

In terms of regulations, I think by regulation they shouldn't be allowed to give the algorithms anything but loan amounts, payment schedules, and payment history. Don't give them locations. Don't give them age, name, race, or gender. Don't even give them the names of banks, since this too can be used in a discriminatory way that can be used to imply geographic location and thus race etc. Yes, people with no credit history will get terrible scores, but that's the point of a credit system. It should be based solely off of your merits and what you've actually done, not off of what people in your area/situation tend to do based on statistics. Then it's just statistics creating statistics, and socioeconomic mobility freezes
Will probably make it worse. I mean, people are actually surprisingly often motivated by substance. Going to an ivy league school and joining a large tech firm is one of the few ways to guarantee success in a time with few guarantees in general.
Updated Debian 9: 9.7 released
ThinkPad X1 Extreme. See my other comment.
Mate, you're coming across like a cunt. Stop it.
Lots of issues with Travis CI feature velocity as well. Most of the other pain points others have mentioned I have felt. Random build failures, network issues, and etc.

A particular issue is the PR merge-commit builds. Between stages a merge/push into master can change the merge-commit! This means code between stages can diverge. You may build an artifact in one stage, then run an out-of-date test suite against it in another. Known issue for years, had an employee acknowledge months ago on the community forum then.. Nothing.

Another pain point that is not unique to Travis, is the lack of true "pipelines". Inter-project builds are a complete DIY crap fest. Coupled with roll-your-own artifact storage and retrieval.. Self-hosted solutions like Bamboo and TeamCity(Bamboos superior IMHO) are light years ahead of the SaaS solutions I've viewed.

Test report analysis is another big feature missing from most. Would be good to be able to visualize and report on tests. I was almost considering this being a valid stand-alone SaaS idea because nobody has it!

I believe the future of our integration/system tests will be build on codepipelines or the like for scale. Travis or CircleCI will be the public facing component.
What's wrong with wanting a job? Being poor is objectively awful.
Is that architecture helpful for a saas app that needs to support users from corporate customers using single sign-on via an OIDC or SAML provider like Azure AD or ADFS?

I looked into using Okta or Auth0 for this sort of setup, but both were prohibitively expensive for a saas app.
If you're running Docker and minikube locally on a Mac (both DevOps tools), then it can be important.
>(and we don't live in a rural area, we live in a densely populated suburban area)

That doesn't necessarily mean much. Moving from urban areas to suburban ones already greatly reduces density and access to services and the sort of institutions we are talking about.

To give some sense of proportion, the average American suburb has[1] a density of about 2.7k people per square mile. That's about 2 1/2 times less dense than a Western European suburb (6.2k), and about eight times less dense than a Western European core urban area (18.8k).

American suburbia is extremely sparsely populated and fundamentally unfit to provide the cultural institutions that modern, small families and communities require. Calls for larger families is simply unrealistic, because the opportunities that each kid in a large family on a single income in a developed knowledge economy gets are abysmal. In our modern world, quality trumps quantity so to speak.

[1]http://www.demographia.com/db-intlsub.htm
Unfortunately, its rather similar in Australia. Got a recent quote for a pair of glasses to be at $1000.
Autonomous car is harder than autonomous plaine. An autonomous plane can be flown with near-zero accidents by dGPS and traffic control alone. Try that with a car ;) . But take an autonomus plane, add an atmospheric model - you can have an autonomous sailplane.
>10 minutes of lost productivity a day due to inadequate hardware

What on earth are you doing that a 2 year old mac is inadequate for?

Yeah there is a point that the hardware is a problem. I'm working on a 5 year old, mid range PC and I don't think an upgrade would really change any of my day to day work. Maybe InjeliJ would be a little faster and compile times would be a fraction faster but I doubt I'd notice it.

I have a 10 year old PC at home and the only pull to upgrade is gaming, but I'd rather not sink time into that (I get enough time sitting behind a screen at work) so I hold back on spending money on it too.

Maybe the developers happiness does drop if you give them older hardware but I don't think that's based on realistic changes in performance of that hardware.
Very encouraging news for our environment to see a meat producer actively debut a non-meat product that will actively take away from meat sales. Reminds me of Kodak. Where Kodak did not embrace digital early enough, and then many years later was bankrupt.
This article kinda glossed over what the fuck openID Connection is actually for.

Like in a big way that I have no idea what the fuck OpenID is, what authorization and authentication are in this context, and why oauth doesn't handle both.
You can play this game all day, at what point is the other party at fault?
“AI Is a Human Right” – Marc Benioff, CEO SalesForce
> Offering that sponsorship has very real costs to the company, well into the thousands of dollars per year. It seems perfectly reasonable to me for the employer to deduct that cost relative to what another employee who doesn’t bring those additional costs.

How much? I have a friend who just got their green card after 10 years of working at the same company. Based on the experience of others in the same situation, they estimated the company would require them to repay 10-15k in expenses if they leave immediately (they're required to stay for two more years before the company will waive the full cost). I take that to be the employer's actual immigration sponsorship cost.

If the employer were to deduct that cost from their salary (ignoring the fact the employer could be repayed in other ways), it would have amounted to about $1,000-2,000/year, which is not a level of underpayment I think many people would make much noise about at software developer salaries.

I think using sponsorship costs to justify underpaying immigrants is just a convenient excuse.
So Luxottica strikes again, and continues to build their monopoly. Even when you think you're voting with your wallet, they still profit.
I bought (and returned) an XPS 13 9360 last year. Touchpad was trash - overly sensitive, skipped, unrecognized movements, etc. I understand part of that is software, but it's embarrassing how much better the touchpads are on Macbooks.

It seems all the trackpads got worse when they went button-less to copy Apple.
They say that but I have never gotten it to actually find my chromecast. My goto for casting is now https://github.com/keredson/gnomecast which just works.
If the vehicle is flying and autonomus (like what Boeing is developing), then there's plenty of space in three dimensions. Coordination should be solvable with software. Energy use is an interesting factor, of course. There are possibilities (like cheap nuclear power) to solve that.
That's cool! What were using the galois fields for?
(Not GP) -- That may be the official definition, but I think he's right in that it is the same exact principle applied at the industry level.
Stanford's undergraduate tuition is likely in the $200k+ range over 4 years; many other US schools have similar tuition fees. Why shouldn't CS students obsess about a 6-figure job?

Also, FA_NG (left out Apple) doesn't sell anything other than surveillance and ads, and the mainstream use case of AR is superimposing dog ears on a selfie, what motivation is there for CS students to push the boundaries of their learning?
> basically does what you suggest

ehhh, there's a bit of a difference. if i record encrypted traffic then i am granted a decryption key later, i can be certain that nothing was edited out.
Exactly. When I became a lawyer I was astounded by people speaking in lofty language about how serving people is the highest good and then turning around and saying that we have to protect the legal field from “low skilled” entrants because those people will harm clients with the inevitable malpractice that will occur.

As a lawyer, I know for a fact that a lot of legal work is not complicated enough to require a law degree, but it does because otherwise lawyers would make substantially less money.

There’s a giant gap in the legal market where there are poor people who need simple services and they aren’t getting them because there are no lawyers who can afford to work that cheap and pay off their loans, or the lawyers are doing the work pro bono, which is generous, but why don’t we just let people who aren’t lawyers do more of this clerical work?
Please don't do that here. HN is a place for civil debate, not ad hominem attacks.
It's not like schools choose Chromebooks because of the spying. They choose Chromebooks because they're cheap and the software is reliable. iOS is equally reliable but much more expensive. Desktop Linux isn't even in the running.
Average age of Americans with $25M or more dropped by 11 years since 2014, to 47
On a tangent and just because these discussions almost never happen; Jfrog has been my most terrible support experience. We have an OSS and paid plan and I expect 4+ days before hearing back from them. If/when are repos experience an issue we would be dead in the water. I have even tried calling their emergency contact number with no answer or call-back.
There's nothing preventing "flying cars" of delivering a lot of people to various locations. 3D space is quite large.
London and Paris are very large cities as well.

Both have excellent public transport.
I know we're not meant to say people didn't read the article. But did you click the link to the chair?

I think it was a joke.
Ask HN: Where do you deploy to in 2019 and how?
Personally I'm looking for an experience as similar as possible to Heroku or zeit.co, any recommendations?
True, but OP claimed the entire category of on-demand food delivery has major problems. And 3 out of 4 of their concerns are about delivery logistics not menu standardization. Domino's turnaround shows that the food delivery model can work.

(If that sounds funny, read up on how Domino's has improved customer sat regarding their pizza quality in the past few years. It's a great case study, incl. how to do marketing when your brand is in the dumps.)
"Just enough" and "high paying" don't really seem to belong in the same sentence - aren't really high paying job offers pretty hard to get these days? I expect that filtering out the more clueless "careerists" would be a pretty big priority for any hiring manager in a position to offer a high-paying position.
In my experience, in Britain middle class means driving an Audi and eating hummus (eg a lifestyle), nothing to do with owning a business
@rpavuluri: If at any point you were to move forward with white labeling and selling that, I would recommend you consult a lawyer about whether the IRS would consider this unrelated business taxable income (UBTI). Too much UBTI can put your 501c3 status at risk. IANAL / IANYL / YMMV / etc.
Only person i ever had difficulties with would ask me to explain him something then cut me off mid sentence, come up with some wrong assumptions and critize and then not let you explain why his concerns were wrong before he got into some defensive mode and stop the conversation with either that he dident want to discuss about it or dident care about it.... really fustrating. Often it would be solving Exactly What he was concerned about but it just never came to a full sentence before he turned it to some kind of hostility or other times it was just done another way that he wasent used to or dident see the full picture.
Agree with the current level of technology. That's why Boeing is developing new technology to solves these issues.
I wish they would focus more on what causes these symptoms rather than on pain control.

I began having migraines in my early thirties. My mother was a long time sufferer. Coincidentally, a few months before I began having them, she told me birth control pills had caused hers. I was having them the three weeks of the month that I took the pill and not having them the week I was off the pill to menstruate.

When I went for a refill, they didn't have my usual brand available. My headaches temporarily went away, but soon came back. With this additional piece of evidence, I concluded the pill was indeed the most likely cause.

I informed my husband that I would complete the pill packets I had on hand, I think three months worth, but I wasn't getting my prescription renewed. So we had three months to come up with some other birth control method.

I went off the pill and the headaches promptly cleared up.

I'm sure there are myriad different things that can cause a combination of headache and nausea. If you can figure out the cause for the person in question and treat that, it's a vastly superior solution to pain management type approaches.

Also, the light and noise sensitivity mentioned in the article is something I successfully treat as a symptom of magnesium deficiency by upping my consumption of magnesium rich foods. I routinely get such symptoms following fever or vomiting and they are readily cleared up by improving my magnesium status.

I didn't invent that solution. I learned it from an internet forum. It has worked consistently for me for years.
scary... is there any valid scenario where user expects browser to auto-fill the hidden fields?
I didn't know this for sure, but assumed that agents can see me typing for the sake of better response time.

I usually type my questions in a text editor first and then paste it into a service agent chat when I am sure that it is exactly what I want them to see.
> I hear Appveyor and Azure Pipelines are the two most usable Windows build systems; I'm quite happy on Appveyor.

Doing better than me. Only inertia keeps me on Appveyor. Once I have time to look into Azure Pipelines, I'm off Appveyor for my Rust projects.

At least for open source, Appveyor builds are serial (across all of my projects?) and you have to (had to?) go through hoops to setup cron triggers.

For serial builds, it is so bad, half the time I give up waiting and just submit.

For cron, I only care about scheduling about once a month or so to double check none of the tools I rely on break so contributors aren't the first to see them and have a negative experience.
They'd probably toil for 5-10 years for wages significantly less than what they could've earned working for a FAANG. At least, that's the usual outcome I see for bootstrapped founders.

VCs react to the extreme winner-take-all dynamics of the economy, they don't cause it. Those dynamics will still chew you up and spit you out even if you don't take VC, they'll just do so with a lot less drama and nobody to blame.
For me, my ~4 year old MacBook Air (Yeah, not really a top end dev machine) has started to struggle with more than 15 or 20 browser tabs open. I regularly spend _way_ more time researching than compiling, so it's starting to annoy me enough to think about pushing for an upgrade.

(I put the blame half on the browser vendors, and half on modern cloud web apps. My tabs usually include Gmail, Jira, Confluence, Trello, and Slack. Even doing nothing, between them they'll sometime have the fans spinning...)
I leaned to the Thinkpad X1 Carbon initially but then bought the T480s (i5, 16 GB/24 GB later, 1 TB). Works nicely (so far;)). The XPS 13 is certainly a nice machine also.
PeerTube is a decentralised alternative which uses ActivityPub and can federate with Mastodon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube
or provide journalists with decryption tools?
It's not even true. This behaviour is not obvious at all. No consumer messaging application allows you to see what the other person is typing before they have sent it.
You don't sneakily access other people's draft thoughts without very explicitly asking for permission. The eavesdroppers are not reciprocating and sharing their typing either. They're not only creating an asymmetry: they're actively hiding it!
Even more ideally you can fly anywhere quickly instead of settling for either long transportation times or walking to whatever is nearby.
Japan is more isolationist than America, aren't they? They don't allow much immigration at all.
>The lack of food and medicine in Venezuela is purely the Venezuelan government's fault

We live in a highly interdependent and interconnected globalized world. Lack of access to the global market hurts Venezuelan farmers, leaving them unable to export their excess and cushion local market fluctuations. It has also hurt Venezuelan consumers unable to purchase imported goods with their Bolivars, rendering them worth less.

Medicine is a patent-encumbered, capital-intensive industry that is protected at the WTO level[1]. When your economy is highly specialized (due to globalization, the post-colonial resource curse, political pressures and/or brain-drain emigration) it becomes dependent on foreign imports of medicine. When those suppliers become malicious, a shortage is what emerges.

No one is blameless, but we must examine the situation with a clear understanding of the actors with power and the actors without.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...