skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could do this for any historical name. Just pick up a history book, find a random person in there, and then look up people with the same last name: you're bound to find some. Who would cold-call some person who happens to share a last name with some 16th-century person who got a footnote in a history book somewhere? And why does this matter? At what point can we finally say "this person has been dead for ages, and we don't need to worry about protecting their privacy any more"? Do we need to worry about protecting the privacy of people whose corpses were found in Pompeii, who were killed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius almost 2000 years ago, in 79CE? Seriously, this is absurd.
The difference is well explained by the 25% VAT applied in Norway.
I disagree with that first part. At least in software engineering. Remember when you just had software engineers? Eventually we got things like game programmers and web developers. Now every game has at the very least an audio programmer, gameplay programmers, network programmers, graphics programmers, platform engineers, etc. Web Developers are even more specialized, walk into any web development shop and you can find people that only ever work with say React on mobile, or one person that specializes on browser compatibility, or analytics engineering.

Part of it is the size and scope of the projects and the general complexity added to the field, but 20 years ago 1-2 people would have done all of these.
I don't know much about the product either, but there are not good quantitative tests to measure ADHD. ADHD is a multifactorial diagnosis that can present with myriad symptoms, and it's diagnosed by examining a list of symptoms and their effect on the patient's life. For instance, do you lose things you need, are you attentive to details, do you daydream or space out to your own detriment, do you fidget or move when it's inappropriate, etc. It'd be very lackluster for a single test, or a single person, to judge these symptoms.

The gold standard ADHD diagnosis would involve examining the child (or adult) in multiple settings with multiple people's evidence, and then comparing symptoms against those for anxiety, depression, and other MH diagnoses. If they have enough symptoms from the official list, and they've been carefully examined, they may qualify. A simple game/test will never be able to replace that process.
Nice, can you install custom ones or do they need to be from steam?
Modern architecture wasn't a monolithic movement (and it has changed a lot in the last 100 or so years. It is generally explained and contextualized badly (I spent years in architecture school) partly because architecture is a very anti-intellectual discipline at the best of times.

The key modernist move was to throw away history (the classical orders and ornaments) and to some extent this meant throwing away existing techniques and theories as well.

So that's why defenders of traditional architecture are often aligned with a certain kind of Enlightenment intellectualism. In a sense, traditional architecture sits easily with faith in reason and analysis, whereas modernism is stereotypically distracted by the need to be avant garde and to avoid kitsch. Within the profession of architecture, though, there is a very strong sense of continuity in terms of architectural values. It might not seem plausible from a surface inspection, but the percentage difference in the genomes of traditional and modern architecture is slight. The continuity inherent in the fairly restricted possibilities for rational, economical assembly of building materials guarantees that the golden rules of construction don't change very much, although superficial appearances might. There are new construction technologies, but tectonics is pretty much a timeless art.

The types of accommodation that are created have changed a lot, for example the genre of the office building has developed into something very new and not necessarily something that will last. But if you look at how the Shard is actually put together, I think a 17th C architect seeing it for the first time would get it immediately. They might find the economic/business side of the building's purpose completely inscrutable, though.

A major theme of Bauhaus design was avoiding pretentiousness or "striving for effect". Simplicity and economy of means was seen as psychologically preferable to the alternative, which was moribund 19th C ornamentation and kitsch. That went for frivolous things like Bauhaus jewellery just as much as essential programmes like urgently needed housing. Maximum effect with as little wasted effort as possible was the guiding principle across the board.

Obviously prestigious, expensive and pretentious buildings, like the Shard, are now built in a modernist style (that didn't take long to start happening at all). That's really architecture slipping back into its old ways (as a symbol of wealth and power, of excess rather than economy). Personally I think the Shard is a great building, but as far as I know it doesn't have a good reason to exist. The major Bauhaus theorists would have hated that.
VAT is 25% in Norway so that makes $500 of the difference. Put in a 3% margin for forex swings and you are pretty much at the difference.
When will people finally realize that Apple hardware is a status symbol, and not indicative of quality any more?

How many more disasters, mishaps, and otherwise shoddy QA do they have to have before people start demanding something else?

Edit: "Nice". Disagree and suffer the wrath of -1's and ratelimiting.
This is essentially what static code analysis attempts to do. Unfortunately, there are many ways of writing programs that today's static code analysis cannot understand.
Thanks for writing this very insightful comment. Unfortunately, many people will never read it since it is not a “hot” submission. Many years ago, I met with a primary care doctor who explained to me how presenting at conferences is a signal (and perhaps driver) of the doctor’s reputation. He says that it goes: local then regional then national then international. He was working on his regional reputation in his speciality (not primary care, I believe he was a resident).
I like what I see, but they do a poor job of explaining the use cases, which is a common issue for most technical projects. Is this for:

- learning?

- developing personal projects?

- developing business projects?

- can be deployed to desktop platforms? mobile ? web?

- Has GUI library support?

Without a clear break down of use cases, I am just lost in the cool technology without any way of determining if it fits my needs.

A good example of how to do this well is GameMaker Studio: https://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker
I deployed a few web apps running on gemstone based on their community edition starter license.
You can get a lot going just based on that and it really isn't as expensive as Oracle.
Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel
The phones have been getting thicker for years. This myth needs to die.

That said, I agree on the laptops.
> College education was something only upper class folks could receive (especially a liberal arts degree with dubious value in society) due to it's expense. With the emergence of things like state schools, the barrier became lower.

This is not factually correct - tuition at non-state schools increased 10X in the last 30 years, way ahead of the pace of inflation. College education is significantly much less affordable than it was years ago.
>Let me guess, your country / nation luckily never had anything to do with the Ottoman empire?

Occupied people should never have a monopoly on the narrative.
Where do you get $7K?

It really seems like Apple could stop over engineering their hardware, add some ports, maybe make it a mm or two thicker, add up to a pound in weight, and still have a 5 pound 15" professional work horse?
Seems like the discovery of this vuln was a direct result of yesterday's discussion about HTTPS on apt here on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18958679).
>That being said, with AWS Certs going for between $75-$300 how long do colleges think they can survive?

Well, colleges used to be for the elites (either rich or very talented) to learn science and to do research.

It wasn't meant for vocational training for the general salaried worker. Now it's mostly that.
>If you aren't interested in a novel immersive programming environment then you can safely ignore Pharo too.

I was curious and so downloaded and ran the default image, and I'm beyond captivated by it, but I have to agree that neither the link nor the homepage do a good job of enticing me to do so, or even hinting and what can I expect.

If I didn't feel like setting up and checking out random projects I stumble upon, I would have never even seen what Pharo is about, given the abundance of marginally different programming languages that pop up on HN.

So yeah, I also think Pharo's best "Hello, World" is just opening it and trying out stuff, but maybe it should try to sell itself, at least a little, for the uninitiated?
WebAssembly and Electron are different things. If games were delivered over the web in WebAssembly, not being able to load an old version should not be a problem - the web is largeyl forwards-compatible, and browser vendors take care to Not Break The Web.
I don't understand the arrogance and the stubbornness of Apple to keep that stupid Touch Bar. They have completely lost me as a customer because I absolutely refuse to buy a Macbook Pro until they give me the OPTION of a regular keyboard. The fact they are arrogant enough to think they don't need to provide me with the option makes me angry as a consumer, and I'm about to ditch it completely at this point and go to a Surface Pro.
Politicians have already ruined the perception of objectivity for climate scientists. They have nothing to lose now.
Including VAT? Remember that most (if not all) European, public-facing prices already include VAT. Not sure for Norway, but I'd think they do too.
Sounds similar to Firebase. Can you provide some financial/user metrics for potential buyers?
The card payment industry duopoly (in europe at least) is a really weird one that seems to go mostly unnoticed.

I often wonder how much goes into the pockets of these companies who are essentially providing an easily replaceable service if it were not for the entrenched reality. (IE; to compete you'd need an entirely new card system that would be incompatible with the others, and thus your card would be unusable in most places)

That said, I can't complain too much about VISA; which (Apple Pay and Samsung Pay also uses on the backend, there is no escape in Europe) -- they seem to be processing things fairly well, even if I don't understand how much both parties paying for such a service.
>The fact that kidnapped kid becomes valued soldier due to training and ideologization in isolation from original family and culture does not changes anything on that.

It's trivial to point out the converse: The fact that a soldier became valued due to training and ideologization is not changed by the fact that they were kidnapped.
Currently finishing my retrospective slack bot, it's my first product, so I am pretty excited to see what people say about it.

Also working on some startup in the cybersecurity industry. The vision we have is really cool, there is a lot of new stuff to learn for me and I feel that contributing to this project will make me a better web dev in general, but especially in understanding web security problems that big companies face. Working along with a somewhat veteran in that field feels really cool. Think when you last worked with a guy that was very passionate about the subject you worked on. Now, this is the type of my guy. A great story is about to unfold: )
Could you expound on this more generally? I think it could be excellent prior art for pairing student/student and student/teacher.
I have a Thinkpad through work and the main thing I notice with it is that the hard edge at the front is a killer on my wrists. Is this not a thing other people run into?
Yes they do, but it's bigger than technicalities. People buy products when the person behind it, shows confidence and a sense of "predictability" and consistency. Apple says (as extension from Steve Jobs), we care about the design, Apple goes for thin and slick, people will buy this, because "apple stand for slick design". This creates a bond between company-consumer.

This is more a psychology thing. It's why people like Trump get voted in. A weird example perhaps, but trump is 'simple', straightforward and 'predictable'. If he hates something, he will hate it with confidence and you can predict already how things will play out, when he's interviewed about it. This create "knowingness", and people might want a good leader, most of all, they want a leader that's consistent , good or bad, as long as it can be placed on the backburner in your mind.

You see this in many places where emotions are a factor. A mother mourning a missing child, eventually just "Want to know what happened". They likely will (partially) heal from the sadness of loss, but 'not knowing' will keep people awake indefinitely.
I have a 2012 Mac book pro 15” and it is thin enough for me. But I thought that with my 12” Powerbook and saw a picture of it the other day and that thing was real thick.

I think for me the thinness should take a back seat to design issues like this monitor cable thing. But everyone talking about just making the iPhone a little thicker and adding lots of battery life need to realize their use patterns are probably out on the edge of the curve. My iPhones have rarely lasted less than a day of use. And if you aren’t going to get like a week or a month then what good is a little more battery?
It actually piques your interest.
The syntax is similar, and for the most part, compatible. Pharo's syntax has a few extra extensions, but nothing incompatible.

But Pharo's is inspired by Smalltalk, and I myself consider it Smalltalk, but the purpose of the detachment is to not be constrained by having to continue being Smalltalk.

E.g. in Pharo instance variables are first class objects (called "Slots").
I generally agree. I'm speaking more from the implementor's side: if you do ILP64, then you either won't have one of 8, 16, or 32-bit integers, or you'll have to make some non-standard type to cover the gap. LP64 and LLP64 let you cover all the sizes you typically want with the standard types. That is, I assume, why 32-bit int on 64-bit systems is so common.
I've got a T480 and my hands rest in front of the edge.
Technically Guillaume Apollinaire died during the war, 9 November 1918 according to wikipedia. That's just a nit tho, a little fact I came across looking up these authors, but it got me thinking...

Theres a couple of interesting questions in there though - during the war he sustained wounds he was still suffering from at the time of his death. Did these weaken him in a way that made him more susceptible to the flu? Did the subpar conditions everyone in Paris was dealing with due to the total war (and fronts not too far away) contribute?

In the broad scale - WW1 and the Spansish flu pandemic certainly had effects on each other. Many of the early outbreaks are linked directly to troop movements, and the living conditions in barracks, camps and trenches certainly aided the spread of the flu. Governments were keeping quiet about the potency and spread of the disease for morale reasons. Basically the question of "Is a soldier dying of spanish flu during ww1 a war-related death?" is much deeper than just sorting on proximate cause of death (e.g. flu, or gunshot, etc).
> Likewise, Valve fears that Microsoft will eat their cake. MS could lock down their platform, and force all software sales through a store where they take a 30% cut, just like iOS and Android do already.

This isn't theoretical, right? It was stated upfront as a plan for Windows 10 and it inspired Valve to invest in Linux/SteamOS/Steam Box ecosystem.
>>> The game involves asking players to watch a series of digits from two to nine flashing up one by one, at a rate of 100 digits per minute. Over the course of five minutes, players must press a button when they start to see a sequence emerge.

C'mon, this could be cloned in a weekend ;)

Publish neuroscience findings in a public access journal by all means. Even including pseudocode of the sequence generation algorithm.

But I am all for distributing their particular implementation via private sector partnerships. That could yield further funding and experimentation. And possibly alleviate taxpayer research dependency for their lab in future.

The work itself taps into some novel neuroscience. Do we we possess a Bayesian brain that estimates probabilities in real time? Altering a belief net based on new evidence. Or are patterns hard wired and must be learned. I think this sort of training game based on integer series could work just as well with text, images, music, video, animation, etc.
[Growth Eng] the 2 most popular growth channels for unicorn consumer companies
Discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18958679
I find the tone of articles like these to be patronizing.

Let's be clear, the hollowing out of rural economies is a direct and explicit effect of trade policy, and not some accident of economics and markets.

The precise dynamic in this article is that where previously cities provided capital and farms provided food, with a spectrum of services in between - with globalization, cities no longer depend on their regional rural partners, and can meet demand for food and goods using cheap international suppliers, financial flows of hot money, and massive debt funded deficits.

Unskilled labour and manufacturing don't have a problem when countries enact policies with a national interest because tariffs and anti-dumping rules create a price preference for nationally produced goods and services.

It has almost nothing to do with the skills or qualifications of rural workers. This is policy. The Bloomberg author's false lament for these "left behind" workers is nothing but sanctimonious cant.

edit: tl;dr: what's more likely to prevail, a system of globalization or the interests of rural people? I know where I will place my bet.
Europe seems to be on a roll lately but is brexit going to change that? Is GDPR and all these other consumer focused regulations lessened by losing that market?
It also affects non Touch Bar models as can be seen in this video[1]. At 0:41 you can see the function keys.

[1] https://youtu.be/NzjoELvrkYo
There is steadily growing industry backing for Pharo formalised in the Pharo Consortium - companies putting hard cash on the line to support its open source development.
http://consortium.pharo.org/web
I work for a small company and do lots of work that would be nice to just share with my boss through a service like this versus having to deploy. I think it's more for a testbed than a replacement for actual web servers.
Nope, I reported this bug several days ago. Funny coincidence though.
Honest? The premise is of the article is "Okay, maybe the Janissaries were taken as slaves as children but here's why that's a good thing."
Um, microtasks are in the Js/browser model, too: https://jakearchibald.com/2015/tasks-microtasks-queues-and-s...
I’m working on an algorithm to ingest utility RFPs, transmission line capacity, fossil generation capacity, land prices, and load center demand information, and solve for ideal locations for solar plants and their required size. This could have handed off to solar developers and their tax partners to best target renewable installations.
I sit about 1m away from the screen, so I don't have to move my neck much anyway.

I do still find the full height a bit much, so I typically have each screen split half and half, or one third and two thirds. Depending on what I'm doing and which program(s) I'm using, this either means two windows, and I use a window layout program to arrange things, or one window split into panels, and I just put the split points where I want them.

(3 x 1/3 is also quite usable - 3 x 1440x850. On some laptops, that's about all you get in total...)
Ask HN: Patterns for better collaboration with remote teams in India?
Like many tech companies, we also have a remote office in India. Its been couple of years and we are seeing increasing pain points in terms of coordinating work. The bigger issue I see are:

1. Cultural Differences - Both offices use scrum but US offices are more Agile/Lean and in general very collaborative. India office on the other hand has more Enterprise mindset and try to mold the work in waterfall model with expectations of perfect requirements and pinger pointing when things go wrong instead of owning it.
2. Roles - In US offices, everyone writes code including our CTO. In India, Managers and above don’t write code. This makes coordination very painful since the guy you are dealing with didn’t write code in last half a decade or more. Not sure if this is unique to just us or its a trend in India. Do managers in other Indian software companies write code?

Anyone faced similar issues and what patterns worked to make it better going forward?
Thanks!
One explanation I read somewhere is that, by constantly pushing the envelope on form factor constraints and manufacturing complexity, they are making it impossible for knock-off companies to make convincing counterfeits.
GitLab 11.7 Shipped with Releases, Multi-Level Child Epics, and NPM Registry
How many of these would result in RCE?
Ask HN: Cons of choosing Ansible as Iaac mananger?
I've use Terraform as my prefered choise when dealing with cloud resources but I've felt in love with ansible because it makes easy the provision of those cloud resources. So, I've a some doubts if its a good choice to use Ansible in the same way I use terraform.
Hi,

Yes, It's like Firebase with more turnkeys services, serverless capabilities, and with the ability to host it anywhere.
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I like the Touch Bar. I use it all the time contextually in whatever app I am using. For regular, non-tech users, I've noticed that they use it too. It allows those folks to quickly access options that were previously keyboard shortcuts.

As an aside, I also enjoy the quick access to emojis.‍
San Francisco is a 'train wreck' of inequality
These are commercial vendors, but there are industrial uses of Pharo itself, and as Pharo gets better a lot of companies are moving from their commercial dialects to Pharo. In particular from Cincom Smalltalk to Pharo.
Touchbar would be really cool if they would just move it up a slot and re-implement the fn row side by side.
The DS is much much thicker than the Macbook. The larger bend radius no doubt helps the cables not fatigue as quickly, in addition to having more slack.
GTD: Mastering Capture
Nations(companies) have no permanent friends and no permanent enemies, only permanent interests.

Microsoft has a permanent interest to lock you in a box, paying tax. Open sourcing some products or whatever PR move is orthogonal to that, that's why they can do it.
Our plan is to get our subscription numbers to at least 3,000 or 5,000 and then start charging employers to post jobs. We don't want to sell emails or let recruiters on the platform - we're devs too.
> Do they really think that a few [millimeters] off the depth of a laptop is worth sacrificing reliability like this?

Probably. I mean why else would they have done it?
was unsure whether I should change the title to something less clickbaity or not. It's the article's original title after all..
For me, one of the most crucial ways is to have a separate room where I do work. When I'm in my office, the door is closed. Our daughter is instructed not to interrupt me unless she's been told to do so. She leaves me alone to work while she's home.

When I come out the door gets closed again and it's family time.

I realize not everyone has this option, but for us, it's been amazing.