skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This type of predatory behavior has been happening for a long time. When I was about 9 years old, my brother and I bought Link's Awakening on Gameboy. On the back of the booklet that comes with the game was a line that read, "Need Help? Call this number" with an 800 phone number listed.

We had access to the home phone and wanted to beat the game. So of course, we called the number a few times to get hints on how to beat hards parts of the game. This was before the internet where you could just lookup a walkthrough online.

You can imagine my mother's shock when she received a $200+ charge on her phone bill for a phone number she had never heard of. Apparently the cost of the call was about $5/minute.

We got yelled at and we weren't allowed to call the number anymore after that. I'm proud to say we still be the game though.
Medical device companies have very high gross profit margins but net profit margins around 7%, which is pretty typical for high tech manufacturing. That suggests that there isn't much in the way of excess profit.
In this case (or the online casino case GP was suggesting), the parent should keep his/her credit card safe. How this not the parent's responsibility?
It was 10pm in the evening. I drove home in my hyundai but the tank was empty. I probably couldn't make it if I went full speed at 130km/h so I drove carefully at 80km/h. Nothing eventful happened on the highway and I got off safely. 5 minutes later I am roughly 100m away from home. I have to take a right turn uphill which meant that my car slowed down to slightly less than 20km/h and then I have to turn left to get to the parking lot. As you can guess it was dark and I was primarily paying attention to the sidewalk because pedestrians are hard to see. As I turn left suddenly BAM. A bicycle with a small hard to see light has crashed into the rear door on the right side at a pace of possibly more than 30km/h as it was going downhill. The car door and the front of bicycle were completely trashed. Luckily the cyclist didn't sustain any serious injuries. I was obviously protected in a huge cage of steel (compared to american one's its still tiny) but I slowly started to hate driving, especially at night. All the bullshit speeding tickets, the annoying maintenance and now accidents are adding up to a miserable experience.

If I had 360° night vision this wouldn't have happened. I can't trust my own two eyes. I wouldn't trust anyone's two eyes for that matter to drive a car safely. They weren't good enough last year and they won't be enough next year. Replicating humans will just replicate their weaknesses. I'll take all the crutches I can get.
I found that you could do the same for many business books, and had made a site to provide summaries of the books. What sparked me to do it was reading "The No Asshole Rule", which was so devoid of actual content that it could be summed up by its title. It was full of anecdotes and statistics that ended up drawing the wrong conclusion.
If you look at city photos pre-iPhone people are walking with their heads up (no one is looking at their phone).

Not a judgement, just a stark contrast from ~10 years ago.
> I do not understand where the Irani animosity towards Israel comes from. Both countries are surrounded by arabs that hate them, wouldn't they all be better of as best buddies?

I have studied this very question previously and it's a bit more complex than that.

Iran had a democratically elected government, but in the early 50s, the UK & US orchestrated a coup that ousted that government, since they wanted to nationalize their natural resources and kick foreign oil firms out of the country.

The U.S. the installed the King of Iran as their puppet dictator. The King was a close ally of Israel and Saudi Arabia as well.

After some 20+ years, the dictator was overthrown in the Iranian Revolution of 1979.

Part of Iran's national defense strategy since then, is to have allied forces in some neighboring countries like Lebanon, Iraq etc. These forces are not occupying the territories, they're native to the land, but just ideologically align more with Iran than other countries in the region.

This strategy exists because Iran knows it would not be able to defeat an invasion on its own, were that to ever happen.

Part of how Iran was able to attract their support was by positioning itself as the force to stand against Western abuses in the region, (including Israel).

Because Israel was an ally of the old Iranian dictator, who was hated in Iran and because their abuses against the Palestinians, it was natural for Iran to position itself as against Israeli abuses, both because of its own history and because it strengthened its image as an alternative in the region against Western abuse.

It is therefore far from true that "arabs hate them". Some Arabs hate Iranians, mostly Sunni gulf states, who supported the previous Iranian regime, but some consider them an ally, including a significant portion of Lebanon, Syria, portions of Yemen and the Palestinians.

Looking at it this way, it does at least make some sense.
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It's much harder to get an H1-B anymore. The people who manage to get one are mostly top-tier talent that are either battle-tested (rose through the ranks at a consulting firm) or are very good, domain experts.

It's like saying, not every former Google developer is awesome. It might be true, but the bar to get a job there is so high that the person is very likely to be awesome.
It's clear however that the article had an agenda.

It's also a bit misleading to call 2 employees out of over 25,000 "Facebook."
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DevOps: Key differences in small, midsize, and large organizations
Only it was 15 year old. Misleading title to get people outraged and behold, people get outraged.
So, the linked article is simply flaming the media, as far as I can see.

The media has always put dominant companies under substantial scrutiny, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Equifax have all had their fair share of tough stories over the years.

I see nothing particularly unfair in the way that Facebook's travails have been reported. Rather than talking in generalities, perhaps you could give some specific examples of stories that have treated Facebook unfairly.
Not sure if this is the correct use of 'Glass Ceiling'.

Anyway, have you tried fundraising sites like GoFundMe, or Kickstarter?
Have you shown your project on various social media sites, like Github/Reddit/HN?
Have you tried Grant Search Sites like Grantspace?
Have you considered if your technology would be useful to a local business? I have had success in this route myself, I had a Local VFW contract my services to build a local website to track their dart-league scores, it was a great opportunity.
Have you hosted a trial for a select group, and received feedback? This can be great fodder for bargaining.

There are a lot of options, but patience and perseverance are your best friends here. It's not easy. Period. You have to work hard and fail through many avenues before you can rightfully join the ranks of 'failed startups'.
Apparently not because of what is said above about caches being unencrypted.

Past Intel architecture allows two threads to share a physical core in such a way as the cached data of the first thread may be probed with a timing attack to reveal confidential data.
Not on this one, but in the original where the story was first posted is a screenshot of said documents where in fact they refer to the kids as whales (iirc)
> converting it to little-endian first

Ack, is there anything little-endian doesn't ruin?

/me misses 68000 assembler …
I'd say so. Google is a joke, it doesn't give relevant results anymore and limits itself solely to 'pop culture' results. There needs to be 'contextual search', i.e look at your previous queries and factor that into your current search.
I was kind of with him right up until this:

> But if you ask yourself who's the healthiest person you know, almost certainly they subscribe to some sort of named philosophy that helps them make consistent and value-driven decisions about what they eat and how they move. Maybe they're vegan or paleo.

Maybe I’m an outlier, but that tends to be more true of the least healthy people I know.

Named philosophies with strict rules give you far more opportunities to measure your failures. It’s too easy to slip, notice you’ve slipped, and figure, “well, I’ve done that much, I guess I’m just off the wagon today.” (Not to mention that vegan and paleo both leave room for some wildly unhealthful decisions without breaking the rules.)

It seems like his philosophy isn’t as strict as that, though. I like the approach in large part because it isn’t like going vegan or paleo. As with so many things, it’s all about finding moderation and an approach that you can stick to sustainably.
Yes, it was, in fact, his advice on working in isolation is one of the best things I have taken. That book has improved my productivity by 12% (i measured)
This being hacker news, I thought there was a revolution in Armenia because people started running Windows applications on their Linux computers.
I’m sure the the op knows this. The point that was made is that the article’s title stated that FB staff is using that term to describe children. The article doesn’t actually support the claim it makes in the title.
I must ardently oppose this, it is completely wrong.

"If you are, like me, a software engineer, you should cheer every immigrant. They aren't competitors, they are complements and create more jobs. Economics is complicated and sometimes counterintuitive, but just because "immigrants lower wages" is "common knowledge" doesn't make it true. [1]"

Whether you realize it or not, the absolute position you're taking is exploitative and false. It's the equivalent of asking if one supports a soldier on the battlefield in order to pressure their position on the war i.e."support the troops".

Furthermore, your source doesn't say what you cherry picked out of it. It says immigrants can be complements OR substitutes, and proceeds to lend some supporting data while remaining inconclusive, which is typical of fed publications. Your conclusion is your own.

"To prime your intuition a bit, consider how woman and minorities more than doubled the work force from the 1960s to 1990s with no loss in jobs or lowering of wages."

As someone else pointed out, this very simply false.

If you think that immigrants are a net-job +, by all means, do that math, but what the St. Louis FED has done is far from conclusive.
Yes. Try moving to Minneapolis, which has plenty of everything you ask for and housing prices are not out of control. If you don't need a large city, Des Moines does well too on the rest of your qualifications.
These conundrums are irrelevant anyway. Over one million people die every year on the roads. The instant AI becomes better than humans, it's a moral imperative to adopt it, no matter what it does in these rare and contrived circumstances.
because the millenials had kids
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I've just been to Georgia and been very impressed, and can't wait to go to Armenia soonest. I would not be surprised if this hugely diverse region with a long history, delicious food, and friendly peoples becomes one of the next digital nomad hotspots (like SEA, Medellin, etc.).
Your comment is good as a joke. If it is not, it's sad.
Agent jets into Paris ‘waiting for green light’ to get Chelsea Willian deal done
Ask HN: Best language to learn for technical interviews: Java, Python or C++?
I have a few years experience but I am not proficient at any of the 'typical' programming languages: Java, Python, C++.

I am now looking at how to move my career forward and it seems I need to get 'good enough' at one of these languages to pass a typical interview.

Summarizing: my goal is to pass a technical interview and optimize the time / effort I spend pursuing this goal -- what language would be best to learn here?
Oracle Bringing Commercial Licensing to Java
> but 15 is not 5.

What is the relevant difference in this context?
layman here, does lidar necessarily have to sample the whole environment uniformly?

I ask because, as I understand it, humans actually have quite poor visual acuity through most of our FOV, with a small very precise region near the center. the visual cortex does some nifty postprocessing to stitch together a detailed image, but it seems to me that human vision is mainly effective because we know what to pay attention to. when I'm driving, I'm not constantly swiveling my head 360 degrees and uniformly sampling my environment; instead, I'm looking mostly in the direction of travel, identifying objects of interest, and taking a closer look when I don't quite understand what something is.

is it possible for a lidar system to work this way? maybe start with a sparse pass of the whole environment at the start of a "cycle", and then more densely sample any objects of interest?
Bref: Serverless PHP Applications on AWS Lambda
I’m not sure I agree it’s less of a scandal in that case.

If you’re dealing with a service that could potentially psychologically manipulate children, it’s on you to go the extra mile to separate metrics or risk factors related to that possibility and distinguish it from a lumped population.

If Facebook internally referred to high spenders as “whales” in an aggregate manner, and had not already done due diligence to distinguish & guard against this being applied to young children, that’s already maximally severe. Had they gone even further and intentionally applied the term to children, it would just be maximally severe from an ethical standpoint rather than an incompetence / negligence standpoint.
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You’ve completely left out the cost of the car though. Even over a 14 year period if you bought the car new for $15k (2005 MSRP Corolla LE) you’re still at roughly $90/month. Factor in insurance, gas, and continued maintenance and you’re at a couple hundred a month. Of course that number continues to fall but eventually you buy a new car. If ride sharing moves to a subscription model of just a straight $200-300/mo I think it completely obliterates the market for individually owned small cars used primarily for commuting.
A 15 year old could be working in many places - probably at least has a functional understanding of value for money based on past experiences, a 5 year old almost certainly doesn't.
Agreed I think the (financial) excesses of the health care system are mostly related to the litigiousness of the USA and the administrative burden.
Have you ever misplaced something? Have you dealt with kids with curiosity or who desire something without thinking about the consequences? Facebook had an employee who gave the company specific steps it could easily take to prevent children from becoming whales. They refused to do this. Let’s not lose sight of just how shitty the people at Facebook who decided to do this are. This was a deliberate act on their part. The focus ought to be on them.
Humans also have 576 MP quality eyes

This is a spectacularly misleading claim. Humans have a very small field of high-definition vision, and a wide range of low definition vision, easily exceeded by almost any camera system. Where humans excel is in the heuristics of taking marginal information and teasing out meaning (not always the correct meaning), though neural networks approximate that system.
I would argue that everyone is privileged enough to make that choice. Who are these people whose only choice is FB or starve? Surely in this field anyone who can get hired there can get hired elsewhere.
It is accurate. Reread what I've said. "It's a fairly accurate portrayal of the national discourse and the court of public opinion," to paraphrase

When was the last time you found yourself questioning capitalism in the USA? That tends to be the center in Europe, and is unthinkable by the general public and national discourse in media in the USA.

Obviously, I am not defending generalizations and recognize extremist political factions exist in the USA. I am not going to get into a semantic battle about what someone else said when the general idea is there and was just expressed poorly, and the poor semantics are used to somehow disprove the actual idea.
how do we create a society where this can't happen

Don't hire developers who have worked for companies involved in these products. If you see Facebook on a resume, put it in the bin.
That could be a result of selection bias as well though. People who are already healthy are probably less likely to reach for extreme diets than people who are unsatisfied with their health.
And Canada reflects the emission levels of rich Americans. Canada is no roll model on carbon emission.
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Why? Why do they bend over backwards for these people?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/02/france-blames-...

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/eu-sanctions-iran-o...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/08/iran-behind-tw...

And on and on and on.
I love the spirit of this comment: Facebook employees as poor pawns to be pitied.

I share the sentiment as a corporate family-oriented programmer from a flyover state that has been heavily recruited by FANNGs. I don't like working for anyone, and being a teensy cog being ground up in a duct-taped together machine like that seems like torture.
Related:

http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html
One of the more interesting theories in that book is that Europe and Asia were technologically so far ahead of Africa and the North Americas was because Europe and Asia are lined up "horizontally" which allowed for easier migration by nomadic tribes in prehistoric times, thus allowing for faster spread of ideas like writing, farming, domestication of animals, etc.
Is WPF Still Relevant in 2019?
> Economics is complicated and sometimes counterintuitive,

In our case, it's pretty intuitive: more software in the world increases the demand for software engineers. You need people to maintain software; profitable software packages spurs reinvestment into new features; the improved efficiency of companies will drive competitors to also invest in software.

The downside is that easy-to-use software displaces low-end engineers. So demand may continue to grow, but so too will the educational requirements. When I started, I rarely used math beyond arithmetic in my job, but today, I'm often doing calculus.
DrRacket is a bigger deal to Racket than IDLE is to Python. Specifically because it provides a graphics capable REPL, which is used by a lot of the pedagogical languages and intro to programming courses that racket is perhaps best known for.

(Personally I use xrepl instead, mostly because I don't like DrRacket's text editing. https://docs.racket-lang.org/xrepl/index.html)
Actually, not using paredit (or equivalent) for editing Lisps is something I'm unable to do anymore. I sometimes use DrRacket for debugging, but racket-mode and paredit make Emacs hundreds times more efficient for me.
If you think people haven't protested needless military action, you're paying as much attention to the American people as the politicians we've elected.
Put it in the bin, write a blog post about it, submit the post to hn.
It depends, OP. I have a lot of side projects going but I barely get time to work on them. Some Devs make time, some just cannot afford to.

As for where I get my ideas, I keep finding stuff I want to improve all the time. I believe in writing code to solve everyday problems. Even if sometimes the code bit takes long :P

I also try to solve these problems using new stuff I learn. I am not a CS grad but I am reading computer architecture just to be able to better Appreciate GPUs better. It'll help me eventually learn OpenCL some day.

Coding is fun. Make sure you are having fun with whatever you do.
AFAICT that video on youtube is infringing. But you can watch it on Amazon Prime Video (and they also have it available on DVD -- you have to pay a premium for the convenience of DVD, though: 144 USD).
Thank you for your comment , joshe, and for being a small light in the darkness. There's so much hatred in here. I'm on an H-1B, and I've never worked for a low-paying or shitty company, and I've been very well-paid. At my last company, I was the highest paid person in my team. And, I've on one occasion made over $200,000 in a single year. I've never met one of underpaid immigrant engineers. Every immigrant I've known in NYC makes over $140,000. Of course, the facts don't matter--as we live in a "post-truth" age.

Reading the comments here, makes one feel hated, and like a Jew in Nazi Germany. Of course, the immigrant-haters in here have zero respect or regard for the truth. Like the antisemitic canard[1], they try to draw this picture of people like me being "slaves" and being underpaid. A picture that is totally alien to me. It's useless to engage with the people here--the only thing they understand is hatred for immigrants. Sometimes, I wish their ancestors would have never been allowed to immigrate (they certainly would not have succeeded in moving here, under the law today).

Not acknowledging this country has among the worst and least-welcoming laws for skilled workers in the whole world: https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8823349/immigration-system-bro... The dedicated haters on this thread want to eliminate the tiny trickle of skilled immigrants that this 330+ million country lets in. To be precise, that's about 0.02% of the population[2]. It's a joke (the quota).

I've lived here since mid-2007, have all my friends and relationships and community here, but the majority of people on this HN thread would love to see my life destroyed. They would love to see my forced out of the country by ICE at gunpoint. They're filled with nothing but vile hatred and darkness. A hatred whose consequence is real violence.

And to be clear, Americans are generally warm, welcoming, and friendly people, but the ones in this thread are among the worst specimens. They remind me of the bunch of angry men with Tiki torches at Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. The people here are screaming to destroy my life. Who knew many in Silicon Valley and Hacker News would hold the most repugnant alt-right views when it came to immigrants and of protecting their basic human dignity? It's a disgrace.

This whole thread is disgusting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitic_canard

[2] About 65k principal EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3 green cards are granted annually. (Principal here means non-derivative, ie. not spouses or children.) That's about 5% of the 1.2 million total green cards issued. The remaining 95% of greencards are granted on the basis of a family relationship or on a humanitarian claim.
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Because law should be tailored to the issue it seeks to address and written as close to the root of a problem as is practical? Cookies and tracking scripts are only one aspect of privacy invasion, not privacy invasion itself.

You're looking at a cat and mouse game and suggesting the government put it's effort towards building a better mouse instead of telling the cat to fuck off.
Yeah the book is good but I found it to be insanely padded and bloated.
> While using multiple keys has legitimate advantages for the user, it's also a step towards unbreakable DRM and other malware.

No it’s not. With MKTME, the kernel can read all memory, ptrace still works, etc. I don’t even see how a future MKTME v2 would be useful for DRM.