skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm self-taught. I still learn stuff that probably never will help me to get money (like, how make programming languages).

I go to the university and get severely disappointed, and after 3 semester all the passion get sucked and I left.

However, I WISH that college/university were way better. Be on a class with others help a lot, and despite I'm not very social at all, be along others with the same interests? that is so rare that is a prize on itself.

How make things better and why I get disappointed is other matter that have been discussed on HN a lot, so instead I wanna point that having a good experience in an education setting (that I have in a tech course!) not only is good for the people that like to walk the common path, but also the self-taught!

How lovely If I could get into some very rewarding clases, not matter if in a university or in a backyard....
I've seen a few services which do this as a matter of course. Sadly few allow the email address change to be rescinded without a customer-service call. By that point, the account may already be in fraudulent use.
> right wing concentrated multimedia

I read that to mean: their primary focus/concentration is criticism of the right-from-center political wing. Perhaps poor wording on the OP, but I read it with the understanding that no one would consider CNN or CNBC (did they mean MSNBC?) favorable to the right. The bias is very clear with regard to those outlets.
> Um. Yes. Wait, there are people that use influxdb _without_ kapacitor alerting???

People who use InfluxDB for reporting, not for alarms.

Our reporting team uses InfluxDB-sourced data to send customers reports on things such as bandwidth utilization and performance statistics, and we also have some reports and dashboards for internal purposes. And honestly, we use Zabbix for a lot of internal metrics too. For simple things, it's much easier for me to just set up an item and a graph in Zabbix than it is to stand up a "cron" job to farm data into InfluxDB ("cron" in quotes because it's not literal cron but a Jenkins-based system).

For actually monitoring devices for problems and generating alarms, we use Zabbix for internal systems and Netcool for customer-facing systems.

(for the record, I'm an NMS engineer at a mid-sized telecom)
Layoffs Hit HuffPost After $4.6B Verizon Media Write-Down
Road to Better Stand-Ups
Sorry but isn't it just because we innovate? We innovate without evolution. Does any other species innovate without evolution? Something feels wrong to me here. It almost like it's the exact opposite: shared fiction is what hold us back (though it's probably good from a survival stand point), and innovation is what makes us unique, and it specially happens when there is no fiction but a real search for the truth.
The only one I've needed to claim against was Curve. I lost my wallet and my card was used in a McDonalds. I knew immediately and froze the card. Curve then refunded me a week later, when I contacted them.

Thanks for letting me know about Amex doing this. Might provide better customer service and many places do accept it.
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Standard security practices: not allow delivery to a new address without reconfirming credit card details, sending email confirmation upon login from a new location/device, and in the more extreme cases, 2 factor auth.
Social Democracy and Democratic Socialism are both subsets of the giant umbrella of socialism. Also communism falls under this umbrella.

The U.S. state does control the means of production in certain industries which you see with this current govt shutdown.

Aircraft, roads and highways, and many other industries.

The key tenant of some schools of socialism is for govt to control the means of production for key areas of the public interest such as police,fire fighters, roads, health care. Etc.

What bothers me is the inability of people to differentiate between full on communism and America's/Sweden's/France's measured version of socialism.

It's all lumped under the same umbrella of 'socialism is bad reeeee'.
If I think that castling should be removed from the chess rules. Am I a hypocrite when I use it when I play with others?

In the same way proposing laws that would limit legal tax evasion loopholes and using those loopholes is not a hypocricy. They work at different levels.

Wanting to change rules (laws) so that everyone must play with the same rules and using rules until they are changed is not hypocrisy.

Court battle is like debate competition, you can use arguments you don't believe in.
> There isn't any restriction to prevent any employee from using a non-employer email system for organizing the very same activities.

Actually, in some cases there is. By using third-party email systems employees might violate non-disclosure agreements or company rules, which would in turn give the company cause for direct termination.
>Do workers rights include the right to not be constantly bombarded with political messaging you don't agree with and to be intimidated into keeping your own opinions silent?

As a said, workers but also in a broader sense society.

edit: Maybe a more concrete example would help, lets take Whistleblower protection for example
The autonomous car community is learning the same lesson the aviation community found. Autopilot is a very powerful tool that increases safety, but it doesn’t replace pilots. Similarly car automation will increase safety but it won’t broadly replace drivers.
Ironically, it is often the non-tenure track positions that pay horribly that attract the best natural teachers, at least initially. These are the people who are doing it for the love of teaching their subject rather than the pay or research opportunities. However, in my experience, this only lasts for a few years, and those passionate people become jaded about their situation and leave the profession.
> It occurred to me that they could just have the dogs alert basically whenever they wanted them to.

Yes. The dog will pick up on the small (sometimes entirely unconscious) cues that their handler is really, really hoping for an alert.
I’m glad that Yarn will continue. Npm has improved, but it’s still less pleasant to work with than yarn (which basically always does what I expect, not so for npm).
Just a warning for those who don't know, but this only applies to lecturers in certain countries. In the UK, a lecturer can do teaching, research and be a permanent, tenure-track position.
> Many mirrorless cameras only have an LCD screen, so are we saying they don’t have a viewfinder?

Yes. That's what everyone says, manufacturers, retailers, and customers. Take for example this comparison chart on Olympus' website. Note some cameras, with a rear display have no Viewfinder listed where there is none:

https://www.getolympus.com/us/en/pen#products-table-1

They call the rear screen the "monitor." Which seems fine, but I've also read it called the rear display, main display, preview screen, and so on.

> The context wasn’t your pedantic view of what a viewfinder is

If I call an apple an "apple," that isn't a pedantic view, that's the name of the object. If I call a Viewfinder a "Viewfinder" that is no less a pedantic view, and instead the name of thing we're discussing.

In general you obviously misunderstood what the word viewfinder meant, and went off on a rant that didn't make a whole lot of sense as a result. I'd suggest you go try a mirrorless camera with a digital viewfinder and report back when you have the prerequisite knowledge for this topic.
"Brainwash" by targeting Ads. Clickbait of doom!
I agree. I'd also add that my experience with fintech services, in regards to fraud detection, has been excellent.

I've been using Revolut for the past year. Just 2 weeks ago, they detected a potential fraudulent transaction with - you guess it - Deliveroo, for an amount of £25 (I don't live in the UK). The transaction, as well as my card, was immediately blocked. I then received a push message asking me to confirm whether the transaction was fraudulent - pushing "Confirm" triggered the expedition of a new card to my address. In contrast to legacy banks for which it is still recommended you call on the phone to notify you're going abroad, this is excellent service.
That thing probably belongs in the hands of Johnny Greenwood, if anyone.
Pricing
64-key Una Corda® Piano……………………………………………………..€ 15,900 net*
Including big wheels, tone modulator, and music stand

88-key Una Corda® Piano……………………………………………………..€ 21,900 net*
Including big wheels, tone modulator, and music stand

Why would any serious musician spend 22k Euros on this piano when they could get an actual grand piano from a reputable maker? If you're super wealthy and you like fun toys, sure, but this is going to be an inferior instrument in volume, tone, tone control, sustain, and pretty much all the features a serious pianist is adept at manipulating.
Where are feminists when you need them.
But the company shouldn't prevent employees from trying to improve their workplace for their fellow employees either way, especially given the power imbalance between employers and employees. Children, debt, high COL, and health emergencyes can easily prevent employees from seeking new places to work.
There are certain things that really don't make sense for delivery, like McDonald's. I could drive there, go through the drive-thru, and be home by the time someone else is picking it up. Most other restaurants do make sense for online ordering and delivery. Most of the time I just go and get the food myself as I'm usually just too cheap to pay the delivery fee and tip and longer wait. I'll order pickup and can go get it myself for a couple bucks of gas at most and at least I'll know it's as hot and fresh as it can be.
How a Vermont social network became a model for online communities
Stretch tuning would make sense for small niches of synthesized instruments that lie beyond the typical musician or sound designer's skills and tastes:

- physical models that strive for realism enough to reproduce a defect
- deliberately inharmonic additive synthesis
- carefully designed FM/PM synthesis

Conversely, popular synthesis methods, particularly subtractive synthesis, are usually perfectly harmonic and do not need stretch tuning.
Verizon says some of its media assets are so useless it won’t try to sell them
One I'm running into right now is the science of IP addresses.

Unfortunately, 99% of criminal cases are where IP address "science" (if you can call it that) typically follows the formulaic story where somebody starts downloading certain graphical images, agents working the pipe or the other end log the IP, the ISP identifies the IP account's subscriber (after the law enforcement agency compensates them for their time), and then a search of the corresponding premises is authorized. Luckily I'm not dealing with that.

But in that case, the IP address forms the Court's idea of probable cause. If the IP address is a single family home with a single computer and no wi-fi, seems pretty open-and-shut. If it's a Starbucks or a workplace, and that actually results in a team of agents descending on it and searching and seizing the occupants' computers, then I think most would agree it's an abuse of power.

The challenge the Courts have is that middle category. What if I told you with a straight face that I believe you did something illegal, I have an IP address that used to be yours connected with that act, though no proof it was yours at the time, no proof you were using that location's internet at that time or even there to use it, and no idea how many other people were using the wifi there?

That's good enough to convict until US courts rule otherwise.
Also worth pointing out that most bathrooms in India do not have toilet paper - this is not a societal norm.
> >3.2 malloc Overhead - When using allocators implemented in C...

That's not even about malloc overhead, it's about the overhead of just calling C malloc. So actual malloc overhead is on top of that.

Malloc and free have pretty unpredictable runtime over time, once a lot of allocations and deallocations have been performed. That's why you don't use either in latency sensitive code, like with realtime requirements.

> In other words, even if malloc/free is not instantaneous and not cost-free, it can still be faster than GC.

Whoah, faster than GC in what regard? GC will probably win the throughput race, or average latency. Manual allocation will likely win the jitter race, lower latency standard deviation.

(I write low level code in C/C++, including kernel drivers and bare metal firmware with hard realtime requirements. Hopefully in the future in Rust or some other memory and concurrency safe language.)
Making matters worse, if you talk a big game about allowing free and open discussion and then make a big show of firing people for expressing views that are too right-of-center, you’ve thrown your institutional weight in the direction of radicalizing the left wing.
I didn't finish my degree, but I can tell you that "a year or two" is nowhere near enough to "learn CS on (one's) own". On a daily basis, I use the foundations that I did learn in a formal environment much more than any of my self-taught skills. It's a very complex subject that cannot be effectively navigated without some guidance. Otherwise, you may think you know it, but you're just skimming the surface (and likely doing so in a very inefficient way). Now, if you've been self-taught for a decade or more, that's a different story.
After Brexit (March 29, 2019) is the GDPR still valid?
I'm not from the UK but I remember hearing that they were making school much easier over time their, almost to the point of "impossible to fail". Is this true of age 5-18?
Ask HN: How do you manage yourself for side projects?
When I work on something I'm interested in and building for myself, I find it's really easy to start working non-stop and lose sight of the goal (to ship). I've started using a Trello board just to break down tasks into workable chunks, and it's helped a bit. I'd ideally like to be able to convert the initial energy into a more sustainable cadence-- any tips from people who have successfully done this?
They wouldn't.

This is a piece of functional art like a Rolex.
Average and variance are different things, though.
I'm not surprised they were having issues if their systems are optimized for less than a million monthly unique users. The article says 320,000. A single popular news article could easily absolutely overwhelm that level of traffic.
you could attach a resistor to the ground wire, and touch the other electrode of the resistor, with 2 resistors appropriately chosen (so that you don't fry the MM), you can put a multimeter across one of them and observe the discharge, or alternatively build a simple circuit that lights a LED as long as the voltage across the resistor is higher than some value... Discharging doesn't need to hurt..

That said, depending on the setup (type of ground system and electronics) it is not necessarily safe to touch the ground from an outlet!
There was this guy who got an interview at Reddit using facebook targeting to target Reddit CEO Steve Huffman.

http://twicsy-blog.tumblr.com/post/174063770074/how-i-target...

>It turns out the Reddit CEO had a public Facebook profile, so I could go there to see details about him. Where he lived. What he was interested in. I took that info to the Facebook platform to help narrow down the campaign. But I didn’t want everyone to click on it, just one person. So I custom tailored the ad to directly target the one person I wanted to read it.

>“Steve: Reddit needs recommendations”

>The ad reached 197 people. 4 People clicked on it. One of them was the CEO of Reddit. I spent a total of $10.62.

>Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, saw my ad, clicked on it, read (probably skimmed) my article, and liked it well enough to send a note to Reddit HR to contact me about a position.
Shameless plug: we're starting a new computer science research group at SLAC and hiring for full time staff scientist positions.

You might think a CS research group is a little odd at a linear accelerator center, but one of the things we learned when the forefront of particle physics moved to the LHC is that we have to diversify. So SLAC's mission is a lot more broad now than it was at the time. Also, I'd make the observation that there are a lot of problems in programming languages, compilers, OSes, etc. that are a lot less solved than you might think, and because a relatively small fraction of the CS community is paying attention to scientific computing there are a lot of areas that are surprisingly underdeveloped compared to the relatively well beaten path of commercial computing.

Contact info in profile if interested.
Of course the most important comment is towards the bottom. If they laid off 200 out of 5000, then it really means nothing
"The problem is equality of opportunity is it's invariably applied in a way that ignores some very racist and uneven starting conditions and the effects of the past."

Then that's where the energy ought to go. Adjusting the end result (e.g. by adjusting the college admission criteria based on race/ethnicity) doesn't really fix the root cause; it's a band-aid on America's broken leg.

If the starting conditions are unequal, then that is by definition not equal opportunity, so correcting those conditions should be Priority 1.
> Is it really that different when you can do it with $29 on one person than with $290 on 100 persons or $100k on a million?

Yes.

It would take tons of time to protect individuals from deceptive advertising. The bigger the group and the more public the ad the easier it is to protect the public.

Also, for $29 someone could bombard you with content about suicide or other dark topics and just be relentless with negativity.

It's so much different than showing an ad to 100 women ages 30-45 in Chicago.
Yau is the connection. He's a professor at Harvard, but he's also been a major force in the development of Chinese mathematical academic institutions. He's the director of several of them.
Starting professors make less at my alma mater...a lot less.

Since it's a public school you can find out how much each one makes - https://www.newsobserver.com/news/databases/public-salaries/
Same with BoA MC's ShopSafe feature.
Thats a list of self declared socialist states...

North Korea has self declared itself to be a Republic.

Don't believe the marketing friend.
There's a feature I didn't know about - that's enormously useful, thanks! Now to remember applying that to all my different repo's...
It sure is expensive though, as it's four years of lost production. Four years' income is a big deal. Cost of opportunity.
It's the one saving grace for using something so insecure for payments. At least the credit card company and/or merchant share that risk.
Random cryptocoins address pair key generator checking for lucky balance
The hard part of computer science is the staggering complexity, the abstraction, the language/framework/library learning fatigue, the stress of trying to deliver on overoptimistic deadlines. Getting into a class is nothing in comparison to these actual challenges.
Apologies, wasn't trying to be snarky. If you are configured to allow resources to load from anywhere, the CSS can load a resource from anywhere, not just the location it originated from. These kinds of configurations are increasingly less the default, however, so depending your specific setup, you may find that some origin policies are in place by default. This is entirely dependent on your chain, however, including browser settings.
Not engage in this kind of actions would be a start. Not building weapons, not lying to people...
I believe the current plan is to keep laws as they are until parliament gets around to replacing them, so I'd expect the equivalent of GDPR (without the EU-coordination bits) to apply for at least a while.
I loved this feature when I had Amex. The unique number-vendor pairing makes it easier to track down the vendor that spilled the beans to the charge defrauder. I was thrilled when capone started offering a similar service but its offering requires a browser addon with a backend anal about matching domain names to merchant names and sometimes rejecting valid purchases (I'm looking at you Dell factory refurb outlet).
if it's not 1:1 to meat then forgettaboutit

guess im eating steak tonite
Google Blacklisting Search Results Based on Political Orientation
Facebook (excuse me, bunch of FB employees from the Flow team) says no: https://github.com/facebook/flow/issues/7365#issuecomment-45.... Of course, that's exactly what I'd say if I was in charge of a dying project.

Edit: but, their main codebase is in Flow, and that sounds like a mess to migrate, so I wouldn't be _too_ worried. It might slow down, but I doubt it will become unmaintained anytime before Facebook gets sued out of business :-P
A little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers (2017)
Because you keep hearing it?
If one holds strongly a principle that opposes monopolies and supports strong anti-trust protections in the market, it would explain why the same argument is made regardless of industry.

Also, the issue focusing on using the company email system sounds to me like a bit of a strawman. Why in the world would you want to use a communication medium owned and controlled by your opponent for such a thing? And even if you wanted to, being not allowed to doesn't in anyway limit your ability to organize in any practical way. I mean seriously, these are presumably some of the smartest tech people on the planet. They can't figure out a way to commmunicate independently?
thats not what he/she is saying
I’d say the Earth was fairly well dominated by the time Abrahamic religion started to become mainstream around 300AD.
While I agree generally, I think it's ironic that you have a conviction that you seem to feel strongly about that there is only one absolute, one-sided truth on this topic (not that absolute one-sided truths don't exist in simple cases, but to me this is a pretty perfect example of an ideologically emotional occurrence that is not absolutely one-sided).
Record number of Americans see climate change as a current threat
The bit about not thinking Flickr was worth the effort of selling it to Smugmug -- at a profit -- says something about what to expect of their future moves.
My experience is not from the US, but sometimes companies/universities/etc self-sabotage themselves in weird ways.

I teach in http://www.sena.edu.co/ (the biggest trainer in Colombia, run by the gov) because for a advance class about databases them not have anyone and one of the faculty ask me the favor to cover for it (I was there as part of a program for startups).

It work well, and I do it because the time commit was not bas and the extra money help. So I was ready to continue to teach about mobile development. I was like the only one that apply for it.

I was not selected, because I don't have certain diplomas related to how operate the (very) arcane Sena "education platform" and other side stuff that demand ONE YEAR of extra courses for me.

In the end, only the people that accept that get it the job, but how many with actual skills on the field?
> but my graduating class had $105k avg salary.

I hope that's not TC!
The profit motive does not give a single fuck about logical consistency. Quite the opposite, if everyone else is constrained by trying to be consistent, it means there a market opportunity available by breaking free of the constraints.

Hence you get libertarians who build the surveillance state. It’s the inevitable consequence of right libertarianism (they disregard economic power); left libertarianism avoids this by consistently refusing to get any real power.
I would argue the two CS courses I took is school gave me my passion for programming. I ended up switching majors but because of those classes I had the fundamentals I needed to go out on my own and learn new CS principles and get a good job out of college. I don't think I would have been able to learn what I know without those two courses.