skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with laws that allow for "I'll know it when I see it" is that
- The need to be vague/broad enough to allow anything that could be <thing> to be classified as <thing> under the law
- The government actors are well know for acting in bad faith, ruining the lives of people that did nothing wrong because the law allowed for it.

A teenage couple tried as adults for child pornography because they sent each other naked pictures of themselves. That is clearly not what the law intended, but the state went after them for it anyways.

Vague/overly-broad laws can be abused. Any law that can be abused will be abused.
s/mobile/Android/

Unfortunately there are no extensions on iOS (I'm guessing due to Apple's policies).
It's thrilling content for a lot of us who would never consider doing anything like this.

It reads as a story where you want to hear 'what happened next?'.

Those who take inspiration from it we need to worry about wether or not the story is written.
Pets do NOT contribute more co2 than most people.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/4/16094674/cats-dogs-meat-di...

Pets do contribute surprisingly a lot of CO2 when you add them up, based on their meat consumption. But it's less than what a human would consume in meat and especially a lot less when you add how much humans transport themselves around.
I'm not in any feasible target market for them anyway because I'm happy to pay significantly more for higher spec SBCs with mainline kernel support, avoiding proprietary boot loaders/threadx and long-obsolete SoCs. The current crop of RK3399 boards are a great example of that.

But I do understand why the lower spec, lower price point devices appeal so much to hobbyists and makers. These people actually buy and use RPis in significant numbers, unlike the schoolchildren whom they keep aiming at and failing to reach. These people are the only reason for the RPi's success.

The RPi folks would be better to acknowledge and take credit for the important part they've been playing in the maker and hobbyist movement and plan their future devices on that basis.
The strongly authoritarian streak has always been there in UK culture - at least we've stopped the mass arrests, imprisonment without trial and torture of UK citizens that we had in the 1970s.
First tap down here: https://i.imgur.com/6SUbJeK.jpg

Scroll down and you will see lots of ads.
Nature’s Revenge: Wildlife in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone [images]
As noted, the best case scenario is that they may, eventually, be worth something. More likely, they'll not be.

View it as a perk, like receiving a free lottery ticket, but don't allow that to factor into your "real" compensation.
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It doesn't matter how much money you made. This is not much less stupid than the people that ran a gas station in Northern Ontario that I financed. They stole the till money (100's of thousands) to go gambling in the casino with the intention to put back the original money they stole once they had won.

Of course it did not work out that way. Gas station bankrupt, everybody out of a job. If one of my kids stole 30K from me I'd be more than happy to report them, wondering along the line where I'd failed in bringing them up to think that this would be an ok thing to do. Even if they would make millions.

I wrote about this here:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/stick-to-what-you-know-a-tale-of...
I like the idea, but there still seem to be some glitches: When I look for VPSs with at least 5GB RAM, I get a lot of VPSes with 1.5GB RAM (e.g. https://www.serverhunter.com/?search=D21-C9F-3C1).

Also, when you use the "reporting" feature, the report seems to get sent, but submitting it clears the "Issue description" field which is then highlighted in red which at first made me think something went wrong... Probably it should just close the modal window after the submission?
Could you break down how that's possible? The only way I can think of that being possible is if you move the goal posts for one group and compare apple mathematics to orange mathematics.
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Is a Pi Zero worth $15 to you? If so, buy one (or many). If not, don't.

High-demand cars often sell for well over sticker price. A few recent examples are the Civic Type R, the Focus RS when it was 1-3 years old, the BRZ when it came out... Demand is higher than supply, and vendors (car dealers in my car reference) are profiting from that.

I understand your outrage, but the fact that multiple vendors are selling at this high price means that the market is saying the product is worth it. If you choose the perspective that the Zero is a $15 board which you can occasionally buy for $5, you can be free from spite and simply decide if you want one. Ten bucks and a slightly different perspective is a small price for tinkering and being free from anguish!
Arter reading your comment I was envisioning a world that emitted no carbon. It made me wonder if the pendulum could possibly swing so far in the other direction that plants could start suffocating. Certainly not something we need to worry about now, but we humans aren’t great at avoiding unintended consequences.
Because that's what you'd have to deal with on Mars.

(OK, you can have a low-bandwidth, high-latency internet connection and one small shipping container every two years.)
Dont most cell phones connect to wifi?
See, you too can make it big as long as your parents can float you 30 grand!
> We would have to introduce totalitarism lead by Gandalfs

Thanks, I'm stealing that line. :)
Do you have more info on this? It seems counterintuitive on the face of it, my dog doesn't take a lot of flights or drive far for example.
> Taking care of your friends and family more than a furball

For many people, pets are family. How do they contribute more co2 than most people, anyway, when they rarely drive?
GraphQL, the Future of APIs
No, they're not.

(A) focuses on things that are easy. (B) focuses on things that are ambiguous. Their appearance is often a subset of (a).

edit: I wanted to clarify. Asking "is it this common, easily diagnosed (meaning: it has very specific features that can be easily elucidated by testing or physical examination) thing?" does not comprise a set of items that, if iterated, tells you what a patient has. Difficult diagnoses are made when things are rare, sure, but more commonly because they're ambiguous, polymorphic, and/or dynamic. Iterating through lists of (a) does not give you (b) - often, not even through a Holmesian process of elimination.

Turns out medicine is hard?
well according to the article they do give time to contribute and maintain projects, and the policy is in place to help employees if needed while contributing to open source at work.
Yupp, because so many apps are open source.
Only accept this if your landlord lets you use the coins to pay rent.
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I'm coming to the end of v1 development for a small app built using Postgres, Django, Redis, and React. I have a domain purchased as well. I'm looking for a good tutorial or experiences on deploying this stack to AWS. I'm not really familiar with the suite of AWS products and would definitely appreciate any insight on deployment workflows. I've added Dockerfiles to both the API and client builds and was also wondering how hard it would be to integrate Kubernetes (or when it would make sense to do so). Any help much appreciated!
The interview with the CTO of Meleap about augmented reality techno-sports
QBASIC Programming for Kids
Medium size printing, manufacturing, and fulfillment company with a small dev team. We have a few different systems for product manufacturing and fulfillment, and they use microservices for common tasks like combining PDFs for print, product serialization (keeping track of which numbers get assigned to which products), getting shipping labels, etc.
Ummmm... how do you think that things were hundreds or thousands of years ago?
I am being downvoted without a single counter argument, typical HN
They did a lot of things that weren't approved by a standards committee but many of them were genuinely progressive. You can draw a straight line from IE4's DHTML to today's modern web apps.
Any advices, caveats or other thoughts on this process?
Rosling, Gates etc are right that things are overall getting better.

The rich are getting richer and the very poor are also doing better, but this is coming at the cost of the middle class in Western Europe and the US, where the average couple of working adults can no longer afford to buy a home and have to live with the fact that their jobs are significantly less stable compared to the past. Many are forced to work part time or take on gigs to make ends meet.

I could go on, but something's clearly rotten in the west.
Why does criticizing capitalism not fly for you, assuming that is Hickel's position?
The same company that renamed Lync to Skype and then immediately replaced it with Teams.
"even though the data actually shows that the majority of the improvement comes from other brands of economic policy"

Can you expand on this? Genuinely interested.
If people call this article "fake news" they are using a grossly distorted meaning.
Interesting, I'm surprised that they're able to make money on that. Also Snapchat apparently thinks I'm Norwegian.
How did you collect all this data? How do you keep it updated?
>It doesn't matter how much money you made.

Actually it very much does. Life is all about outcomes.
Not really. Some loyalty programs could give you tax free value e.g. booking a hotel with points. A company can negotiate a better price for a given service, since it will be bought in bulk.
When Karl Popper popularized the "testability" definition of scientific theory, he had two targets in his sights: Freud and Marx.

Freudians and Marxists were promoting what was, in his view, scientism: a dangerous middle ground where theories and studies appear scientific but aren't.

These two fields (psychology & economics) are still having a lot of problems with that middle ground. On one hand, they aren't willing to cede the science label, and join the other humanities like history and philosophy. On the other, very few of their important theories are scientific. IE, the big debates in economics & psychology are about theories that will never be tested. They'll fall into and out of fashion due to anecdotes and other intellectual trends.

The Keynesian paradox of thrift, Friedman's monetarism... these will never be tested, confirmed or denied. They are likely to fall out and maybe back into fashion. Neither will historical materialism, etc.

Same exact thing in psychology.

It's a more aggressive conclusion than I'm happy with but.. behavioural psychology is pseudoscience.
Zero carbon from human energy production doesn’t arrest the natural carbon cycle. Plants will continue as plants.

The problem is we are literally digging carbon out of the ground and putting it into the atmosphere, thereby increasing the amount of atmospheric carbon over time.
Depending on your philosophical outlook.
No, it doesn't seem like it to me:

https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/r/rus...
Yes, but we spend on better outcomes for things that aren't remotely critical.

Women in the US have a C-Section rate of 26% compared to the 10 to 15% average just because doctors want better outcomes.
The answer is somewhere between “no” and “what??” .

As but one factor, dying plants would release CO2. The total amount of carbon in the atmosphere is (was) at equilibrium.
The Magpie Developer(2008)
This strategy mirrors vulture capitalists in other industries. Buy business, extract cash, wait two years, thrash and then file bankruptcy.
I guess I live in a world where enums aren’t the end-all be-all of language constructs. I can imagine a few nice to have use cases but I wouldn’t call them “necessary”. But since you clearly feel strongly about it, have you considered writing up a treatise on the necessity of enums for modern programming instead of making sarcastic, content-free snarks on barely related HN posts?
Oh wow, that's a blast from the past!

Had lots of fun with QBasic as a kid :)
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I'm pretty sure we've managed to colonize a tract of uninhabited land at least a couple of times throughout history.

Maybe we could better spend our time working on the things we haven't figured out.
If the energy to do the reverse is not from carbon fuels (solar, wind) then it gets interesting though, right?
>people following even the most simple of the rules is what makes any society work.

And some people breaking those rules is what makes society tolerable.
Pets can love you back. The same isn't necessarily true of most people.
Apple reportedly plans 3-lens and laser 3D cameras for 2019-2020 iPhones
Dreaming Is the Inverse of Anxious Mind-Wandering
> "As you can see, by going with the 'technical debt by default' approach, we ended up in a scenario whereby if you create a brand-new webpage today, run it in the local intranet zone, and don't add any additional markup, you will end up using a 1999 implementation of web standards by default. Yikes."

Meanwhile, Outlook and Windows Mail are even worse than this, using the MSO renderer and editor (essentially: Word) in all versions except Outlook 2003 (in which version they switched to the IE renderer and editor, but then regressed to MSO in the next release for terrible reasons).

That MSO menace is unconditionally stuck in a buggy and incomplete implementation of 1997 web standards. (As an outsider, I say that it appears to have been treated entirely as a black box for the last two decades; I am aware of no changes beyond supporting high-DPI displays, if you wish to count that.)

And this is what they are still actively advocating for email.

I wish they would apply this same reasoning to the MSO renderer. I hate it and the decision to go back to it in Outlook 2007 with a passion exceeded by little in the tech industry. With it they have singlehandedly manufactured jobs for tens, nay, hundreds of thousands of software developers and hacks, and held back the entire email space with their stranglehold by at least a decade. It’s that bad.
Or what we call 'Shadow IT' in my department.
Will you want to move to California at 32? It's kinda old to be starting over in a brand new place with no friends, high cost of living and terrible traffic (as well as about zero dating prospects). I mean usually 32 is the kind of age where you care about more than money.

OTOH there are plenty of places in Canada where you can go to university in-province for not a lot of money, most of the classes are online, and Canadian employers care more about degree than US ones. (But... if you eventually want to move to the US... does that matter?)

There are ways to achieve the move to the US part without the degree part, of which the two easiest ones are probably find a job at a multinational, get transferred, apply for green card and start vacationing in the area you eventually want to live, meet a nice girl, marry her, go join her family. Both would take years but so would getting a degree, so really, the only advantage of the degree is with it you can apply to FAANG internships.

> Can I both get a CS degree and work full-time?

Yes.

> How likely am I to complete the degree, given that things in my life could change (opportunities, disease, motivation, depression, passion, love, children)?

> What's the opportunity cost, in time/money/experience?

>Should the excuses I attribute to my lack of degree be attributed to something else (mental barrier, low confidence, imposter syndrome)?

That's something only you know.

> Is there a shortcut to get an accredited Master's degree without getting a Bachelor's degree?

Not really. There are ways to get a MS degree is a different field than your BS, or to get a MS degree if your BS GPA doesn't meet the degree program requirements, but I don't know anyone who'se done it with no degree.

> Are there different career paths in which I won't have to worry as much about my lack of degree (i.e., freelancing)? Are they sustainable?

I know people who freelance and have no problem making a living doing so, including some people who have always been freelancers. It depends what your professional network looks like.
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Multi-Factor Authentication: The Password Conundrum Part 3 – CKD3, LLC
That shouldn't count as an IAP.
I do believe taking CO2 from the air is critically important.

But meanwhile not far away from this site, all around Europe, power stations are burning mountains of coal. Surely its easier to stop that than scrubbing it.
Someone less convinced about these issues will react to this by saying: „good idea, make those who are interested in this climate thing pay and leave the rest of us alone“.
Self-Handicapping
> But programmers have to learn first and foremost to take responsibility;

That's not going to happen as long as all our licenses include something like "This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE."

> if you're writing code that ...

Being careful (I'd add: learn how to be careful) is a good platitude, though might as well just say so without the ifs. Especially for open source, you don't always know the context in which your program will run. There's responsibility of the dev, but also responsibility of downstream users. When companies wrap a cli program behind a web server they're asking for trouble.

Not failing on the data parse example above is expected of competent C/C++ programmers. I do think these days if you're going to use such languages outside of well-defined low-security-impact targets like non-networked games you're morally obligated to be better than competent. I can't change what exists though.

Managed languages help so much. I do think Java achieved its mission statement of dragging many C++ programmers halfway to Common Lisp (if halfway is a GC) and preventing many security bugs, but if more people were to go all the way, I think Naggum points to a big obstacle I don't know how to overcome: "What has to go before Common Lisp will conquer the world is the belief that passing unadorned machine words around is safe just because some external force has «approved» the exchange of those machine words."
Does this count Spotify and Netflix and other subscriptions offered via IAP?
A couple of positive notes: firstly the soon-to-be world's largest windfarm started supplying power for the first time this week:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/11/biggest-...

Secondly I've just become aware of how much e-bikes have come on, to the point that they could feasibly replace more and more journeys in future. Sadly in the UK the legislation lags behind the technology at present in that either you have a 250w/15.5 mph limited bike, or you have to go full blown motor vehicle registration with number plate, insurance, etc., whereas in Europe they recognise a third category between the two. Hoping this gets sorted out in future (no Brexit comments, please..).
All I get is gossip, clickbait and political propaganda. Very unethical, especially for an app where the dominant demographic is early teens. :/
Rebuilding the TenX Wallet in React Native
Well that's a different thing then.

It is oppressive that the US government won't let free people do business with people in Iran and Cuba, but it's not the same thing as banning people from acknowledging that those places exist.
>If we enforce some morals and not others in our app stores, who exactly do we choose as the arbiters of morality?

Apple and Google are, and their moral guideline is money. They are in the business of making money. If the content seems close enough to illegal and small enough revenue to not be worth investigating it, or if the content is legal but costs more to host than it brings in due to backlash, it will be censored. I would even guess that content that is illegal but brings in enough money won't be banned (unless a court order comes in that isn't worth the cost to fight).

One can just look at Reddit's history of banning content and see that it bans things not based on morals or laws but on when it stopped being a revenue generation. The allowed their most popular sub-reddit for years until moral outrage grew due to a news investigation, and then banned it under the guise of being illegal and protecting minors (despite the content not being illegal, as the federal government wouldn't have allowed to continue operating had it been).

Don't Apple and Google already block plenty of legal content they don't want to deal with? Consumers should force them to explain why they are willing to deal with this specific content.
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Tells a lot about me that I actually clicked through to the article and skimmed it.
People still money off of their parents like every day.

It's so unbelievable that someone did it to start a business?
Yeah you're right, I should've been more specific than "compiler" here.

In fact, the varcheck checker in gometalinter probably even covers this use case: https://github.com/alecthomas/gometalinter/blob/master/READM...
Maybe the guy can be chided for being stupid or for gambling. But for being morally bankrupt? I'm not sure about that one.

Here's a hypothetical: suppose you wake up tomorrow as a teenager in 1997, and have the ability to invest $30,000 in Google. Of course, you don't have the money for it, and your parents refuse to believe you. Would you steal it from your parents anyway, knowing that once you've made your money back, they will be taken care of? I would do it in a heartbeat.
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... and, due to said awareness, the issues were all fixed. The presence of the unsafe keyword made the audit much easier. Everything is working as intended!
I'm also generally a big supporter of the BBC, but I think their left bias is extremely apparent on their radio content. It must be down to internal culture in different offices, because the bias is different in different parts of the Corporation. Might be a diversity problem in hiring?
I think you are missing the bigger premise with colonization of another planet. I agree your challenge would be worth of consideration but the premise is that if earth due to some reason becomes uninhabitable having a colony on another planet gives human population ability to continue on. This is regardless of whether we have colonized every inch of this planet right?
Yeah, not certain why this article is relevant enough for the HN front page.
It's not clear what you're trying to say. All human colonization to date has been dependent upon fertile lands or extensive outside support. If we want to colonize Mars, we should prove we can survive without these things, and since nobody has done that on Earth, why should anybody they think it can be done on another planet?
Oops, this has now been fixed for those providers you found - I'll check if there are any others I can find.

The issue with the field being highlighted in red seems to be specific to Firefox, I'll investigate and hope to have this resolved shortly as well.

Thanks for letting us know about these issues. :)
I think we have to take a different stance. If you think a company is anathema for some position they take or product they offer, then stop supporting them. Boycott all Apple and/or Google products. Sell their stock out of your retirement holdings. Shed a light to others explaining why they should care and hope they do the same.

I also agree (as posted below) that a good place to start is the UN Declaration of Human Rights. We've collective agreed that this is a minimum line and should require all companies and countries to meet or exceed these requirements.
Apple isn’t stopping anyone from open-sourcing their apps.
What exactly are you trying to say? This post is nothing but empty snark. For example, are you trying to say that Saudi Arabia is not a sovereign nation?
In software out competing might be simple.. we can easily scale 2x :)

But I would imagine that scaling you train manufacturing by 2x is hard.