skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends. It could've been grooming for recruitment or unwitting exploitation: either he was trying to prove he wasn't Israeli by dabbling in anti-semitism and/or collect Kompropat that could ratchet up leverage from one minor ask to gradually larger ones.

Several agencies of the US govt are known to deploy facial recognition monitoring of social media for known foreign agents and place calls to employers if their employees take selfies with them, in order to scare the employees that they're a) being watched and b) to make them more paranoid around unknown individuals. Even if it's a casual hang-out at a conference, the US government will nudge average people to make sure they don't associate with people on certain watch-lists if they work for a large corporation in a sensitive field.

PS: If you watch Thom Hartmann and TRNN, Mossad and the Israeli government actively sabotage BDS and nonviolent pro-Palestinian groups on American college campuses with a deep, well-coordinated campaign of dirty tricks and manipulation in order to cover up and confuse people about the Likud hard-liner apartheid state. They're well-funded and student activist groups are absolutely no match to their tactics, resourced and support from both Christian evangelicals and Likud.
Technically if you buy locally (in the same country), shipping the raspberry pi zero would fit in a small enveloped and cost probably only one dollar max. The surcharge is ridiculous.
> But you can't fill it the last moment

I remember as a kid flying "standby". You got a cheap ticket but had to sit around until a seat opened up. What killed standby tickets? Post-9/11 security hell?
I’d go for software running power stations. Without power we’re fucked.
AP is well know for its anti Israeli agenda.
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have you experienced this problem with the surface trackpad or whatever they call ms certified trackpads?
Facebook sucks for privacy, but how good are advertisers at targeting me?
Cuts both ways, right? For example, we are remodelling our house. It’s nice that YouTube presents me with more DIY videos on how to tile as I research the topic.

The recommendation engine only turns evil when it takes the viewer down a never-ending path into dark, negative, useless material and misinformation.
When writing in Ruby the "what the hell is this object I'm dealing with here and what methods does it have available?" Tax is like 320% for me. I love Ruby. It's so much fun and it's just neat in general but I find it much more taxing than a nice statically typed codebase I can navigate and reason about with ease.

Everything is just taxed differently. No such thing as duty free programming.
It raises a good question. Why can't they meet market demand? There have been shortages for years now.

Do they not want to?
What is the... point... of all this? It seems like a lot of money spent on, what, finding out not-very-secret information from journalists?
Do you know where I can buy the board itself? (without the TPU), I only saw "SOM" versions which I'm not equipped to use.
Its actually no more single button. A button per apk source
Reporting on Israeli espionage stuff is not anti-Israeli per se. The Israelis are just, next to the US/5 Eyes and China/Russia, the most capable nations on Earth when it comes to espionage skills and scope of their programs.

And every so often, scandals get dragged through the media. The US / 5 Eyes had Snowden, Russia the whole Trump/Democrat email hacking, China a boatload of industrial espionage and now it's this Israeli half-scandal here.

I would not throw this into the bin with the usual anti-Israeli agenda pieces that arise e.g. with reports about the Palestine conflict.
As a Canadian who flies a lot, Air Canada has absolutely the worst customer service. They make the “crappy” American carriers (United, etc) seem luxurious by comparison.

I remember one time connecting in to Vancouver and asking if I could could jump on the earlier flight rather than waiting 3 hours. Done this multiple times with US carriers if there is room. What do they care if the seat would have been empty otherwise?

I was informed by the AC agent that there would be a $175 fee for the ticket change. Plenty of other examples of rigidly following the rules even though it cost them nothing.
All those words are in various categories.
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Textbooks are definitely a spooky world. Open textbooks and open educational resources are an interesting idea - institution pays profs to write a book instead of the publishers.
That only works if don't get banned from said market.
> ...and I have no interest in learning...

Single biggest red flag when hiring engineers.
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@dang, it's (2015)
There is some question whether for emerging or rapidly evolving positions employers hire competencies over academic badges.

Wise institutions are working on this but the average rate at which they react may be a challenge.
Because the CRRC is a state backed SOE not a private company. So the Chinese government will highly subsidize these companies which is why Sieman and Alstom will never actually have a chance to compete with them.
I disagree. Even if it was meant as flirting, the repeated calls from multiple phone numbers approaches harassment, not "just hitting on" someone.
There will be a world of interest and attention to build for if social media doesn't evolve and people do.
I think the significant difference between those two statements is that static typing is concretely achievable for relatively cheap effort (i.e. use a language with static typing), but "better tests" is something you will never finish doing. Even if you have 100% code branch coverage, your tests don't necessarily cover all the combinatorial cases that could cause bugs, so you could continue to write "better tests" to prevent further bugs. If the code is non-trivial, the combinatorial explosion is so big that you could probably write 100 times as much test code as implementation code, and you will still have bugs that could be solved by "better tests".
> there is sometime about compensation if they can't get you on a flight within X number of hours as a result of the fault of the airline

EU air passenger rights https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-right...
> developers that don't think specifying types is helpful are still early in their careers (those who suffered in the dungeons of Java get some slack)

I'm not high-confidence about this heuristic because 1) the "class label" is a bit subjective and 2) I don't have a massive sample size, but attitudes toward typing is one of the best filters for engineer quality I've come across.

(No, I haven't put this in practice in interviews, and I don't ask any related question. It's just a correlation whose strength I've found really striking)

It's part of a broader class of heuristic I've been noticing recently (again, still a very preliminary, low-confidence model): things like "lack of reliable, quality devtools" and "inability to customize interfaces" bother highly-productive engineers more than less-productive ones, which is what you'd expect given that inefficient interfaces to their work has a far greater cost to the former. Along these same lines, if (eg) you're already pretty bad at understanding complex systems by reading code, you're much less likely to notice or care about how much more difficult dynamic typing makes this.

I should be clear: this isn't a general-purpose argument against dynamic typing, and I'm not suggesting that the situation is as simple as "dynamic typing bad, static good". They both have their strengths and weaknesses, which make each appropriate for different situations; I ended up picking Python for a company whose tech org I was responsible for building, and as much as I personally find engineering in Python to be horribly unpleasant, it was the right choice for the company given the environment it was in, and I would make the same choice in the same situation.

I don't think my theory above is particularly novel, and I understand the self-serving bias that it aligns with, which is part of why it's still such a low-confidence model. But I've been unable to wrap my head around the number of nonsensical defenses of dynamic typing I've seen over the last few years, and this model is the first to offer an explanation: if you can't tap into the benefits of static typing, of course the accessibility and flexibility of dynamic typing is going to seem like it far outweighs the foofy, theoretical benefits that static typing brings to stability and comprehensibility.
The Perl on nuclear warheads that aren't exploding.

http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol2_1/tpj0201-0004.html
People in general are not making conscious choices to seek out foods that give them vitamin C. Why would they? They don't have to seek out vitamin C and they still won't get scurvy with even a 7/11 or burger king diet.

Significant amounts of vitamin C are in potatoes. People in general don't even know that, so I don't buy the idea that people are generally seeking out foods for their vitamin C value to prevent scurvy.
Recently I learned that there are several Sami languages spoken in northern Finland, all of which are classified as endangered, at most a few thousand speakers each. Yet also, due to modern technology like health care and food security, there are more Sami speakers living right now than ever before...

Which leads me to suspect that such languages must have been evolving, breaking apart and dying all the time.
It's 5 dollars for one.

If you want 2-5, it's $10 each, and if you want 6+, it's $15 each.

This is exactly my point. It's asinine to advertise it at $5. If you don't live near a physical Microcenter, it's not even $5 for one, because they charge shipping too.
There is a cost to breaking up your logic into various modules/packages on the file system when you could simply write all your code in one gigantic file and not worry about any of that. Just because it saves time doesn't mean it's the best choice.
Huh is not used in spanish at all. Maybe in the more english-influenced caribbean regions but in the southern cone we don't say "huh" at all, rather "eh?".
As far as I know since the demise of Radio Shack, Fry's is the only hardware enthusiast shop with a real retail presence.
Wrong title. The linked piece is called "What the Tortoise should have said to Achilles." In this case in particular, this makes a huge difference.
Why does the maximum compound gain happen in middle of mortgage term?
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There was such a window manager, and it was absolutely brilliant. Powerful manual tiling with application tabs, full, comfortable mouse support, scripting using Lua. It was totally ahead of it's time. I never found anything as flexible and ergonomic as it. It was also one of the predecessors of i3.

Unfortunately the developer stopped supporting it. Because of that I stopped using Linux. There is a fork which was maintained at least for some time, but I don't know how feasible to use with modern X/Wayland apps it is right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_%28window_manager%29
And here's 3 pages of very vague, half-justifications as to why we didn't choose anything else to head off any complaints.
When devising terms and conditions for an online classifieds project of mine, the lawyer provided language prohibiting "stud service", which I always got a kick out of. Is brokering "stud service" actually illegal anywhere?
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I think AP is neutral. They are cooperative association -- every member submit whatever they see fit.
> and today we have Citus.

After reading this, I have been wondering if the other requests/ideas are not startup ideas
Microcaching is fantastically useful. Way back when, when Edgeio hosted Crunchboard (the Techcrunch job board), we added it to deal with the load it imposed. I don't remember if I'd read about it anywhere first, or was just desperately trying things to avoid it hammering our database.

[For anyone not clear on what is meant: Microcaching is the idea of doing caching with really short time intervals, maybe as low as a second. The point is to set the TTL for the cached data so short that users will rarely if ever notice stale data even for dynamically updated content. The upside is that even a 1 second cache time for a heavily requested page means only 1 request per second per frontend for that resources hits your backend, no matter how much your traffic increases. Super-short TTLs often allow you to cache resources that you otherwise couldn't, and still get a hard upper bound on the load they'll impose]
This used to work in the past in the US. But last 5 years or so, every single time I've asked this with major carriers in the US, I've been quoted similarly high change fees as well.
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That's absolutely awesome!

On a side note, I'd be super wary of having that kind of data in the cloud. A local raspberry pi server would be nice.
Seems like comparing apples and... uh, raspberries.
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I don't think I know anyone who hasn't heard this conventional wisdom many times before. Repeating common beliefs without adding any value (such additional evidence) is an example of what I would consider noise.
I think it's not the surgery, it's that the surgery was required due to gum disease
I would rather claw my eyes out than write any ML stuff in C#.

It's a fine enterprise language, but good lord writing data science and machine learning stuff in it would be an right pain. It's also not super high performance, and when you're doing a lot of maths heavy operations, high performance is absolutely crucial. I had great difficulty establishing whether SIMD/vectorisation was even supported, and then even more difficulty getting it to work.

Julia would have been a far, far superior choice than Swift.
Hi,

I am interested. I am an ok programmer - most of the work that I do is in Python and PowerShell. My exposure to Lisp is strictly limited to elisp and I am not very good at it (not the Dunning-Kruger not good, actually not good). However, I am willing to learn and can pick things up quickly.

What do you have in mind?
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We stopped solely using strong-types after decades of only doing JAVA and C#, and it hasn’t decreased our code-quality.

I think most people who’ve spent a significant amount of time with strong-types do them by heart.

We didn’t leave strong-typing to leave strong-typing btw, we just started doing more and more with Python.
Please report this to a local FBI office, this was obviously an agent trying to co-opt whatever movement you're associated with.
Probably you made the mistake of saying the word "change". If you want to change your ticket, i.e. get a guaranteed seat on a different flight, that costs money.

If you had asked to standby for the earlier flight, you would almost certainly have been told "ok we've put you on the list; check at the gate" with no charge.
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I don't believe this claim is correct... all 5 submissions were made by different users.
This comment was correctly flagged because it crosses into ideological and nationalistic (or racial or religious, your call) flamewar, as well as veering onto grandiose tangents that are way off topic. All of this is bad for intellectual curiosity, which is the core principle here, so please don't post like this to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't know any stores that include shipping on their price tags. But you're right, the Zeros are so popular that the MSRP of $5 is difficult to achieve without them being constantly sold out.

Hard to blame the market for correcting, they're worth way more than $5.
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Because this headline demands a cynical response - this isn't cooler than Apple, its cooler than RadioShack.

Also, why the couch? Unless there are some coding camps at the location, I can't imagine someone (even a parent) coming in and needing to sit down. Maybe an experienced sales associate that maps out the types of activities that can be done, but I doubt that as well.
It's all effectively the same eruption.

A brief history: in 1983, Kilauea started erupting out of Pu'o 'O'o. That eruption sent out multiple flows of lava, mostly south to the ocean, but one flank did threaten the access road to lower Puna--before dying within a few hundred feet of the road. In 2008, lava returned to the summit at Halemaumau crater, once again creating a lava lake there. Then, in April 2018, the big earthquake caused the lava to cease at both Halemaumau and Pu'o 'O'o. About a week later, lava came out in lower Puna, although the fresh Pu'o 'O'o lava didn't arrive until June I think. Meanwhile, the draining of the summit caused it to start collapsing in a periodic series of explosions.

To give a sense of how impressive the 2018 episode was, here's a link to the monitoring data for Kilauea: https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/monitoring_data... -- the spike in earthquakes and deflation is the 2018 eruption stuff that made the news big time.
Spotify still has a feature to share music through facebook, and that current feature doesn't require the ability to read messages. So that screenshot that only shows a "send recommendation" feature doesn't prove anything at all. No non-recommendation text is displayed on that screenshot.

Both Spotify and Netflix claim they only used access to send messages, and were unaware of broader powers. Netflix: “At no time did we access people’s private messages on Facebook, or ask for the ability to do so” Spotify: “Spotify’s integration with Facebook has always been about sharing and discovering music and podcasts. Spotify cannot read users’ private Facebook inbox messages across any of our current integrations. Previously, when users shared music from Spotify, they could add on text that was visible to Spotify. This has since been discontinued. We have no evidence that Spotify ever accessed users’ private Facebook messages.”

Note that even in the facebook statement, they don't say that the companies couldn't have accessed unrelated data. They claim that the permissions were appropriate (which they did not justify) and that none of the companies did access unrelated data.

I don't have an axe to grind, I'm pointing out that the spotify and netflix statements are pretty condemning and in a contradiction between them and facebook I trust the company saying "we did nothing wrong" less.

And nobody's voting on these posts...
It sounds like a really great program. Unfortunately, when I tried to sign up it wasn't available in my area. It wasn't really clear why until I read this article which says, "available in communities where a local partner has teamed up with the Imagination Library." I wished they had at least offered some sort of suggestion or mailing list for those who they can't service. I could likely afford to buy a book each month, but don't have the time to spend researching which ones are worth buying.

Similarly, my pediatrician hands out an age-appropriate book at each visit.
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The term “social justice warrior” is a wedge issue in internet politics. I would have been only slightly more distracted if you wrote that you weren’t an “abortionist”. It’s the only thing I’m going to remember about this article. Is that what you want?

It could possibly make sense if you were intentionally trying to target your service at conservative users, but why would you want to limit yourself like that?
>You'll note that I haven't defended anything except sovereignty over HK.

You did. I pointed out examples of bad things China is doing to explain why I don't want Chinese companies to partially own American media companies. You countered with: whatabout the bad stuff other countries have done.

If that wasn't a defense, then it was an irrelevant tangent that you had no reason to bring up. I don't go around to threads about the problems with US criminal justice system and start talking about Chinese organ harvesting.

Clearly you aren't here to argue in good faith.
Since other commenters are not getting through to you, let me put it differently: by using this particular term, you've just taken a side in an ongoing sociopolitical conflict. This conflict is kind of huge on the Internet these days, so a good chunk of your audience knows about it, whether through participating or hiding from collateral damage. Unless you want to participate in this turmoil, you should never do that.

Real-world analogy: imagine you're a a businessman in a real-world place that has suddenly gone to war for some reason. Even though the shootouts and shellings are happening elsewhere, you probably don't want to wear what happens to be insignia or flag or the holy symbol of one of the sides. Not only would that risk one side shooting you for misappropriation, and the other for being an enemy symphatizer, your customers would probably not want to be anywhere near to you, lest they get shot by association. Doesn't matter that the symbol is just a cross, or just a bird. What matters is that there are two sides willing to beat other people up over it.

--

Or, put yet another way: you're poking a dragon. Don't. Especially if you're not getting anything out if it.
How can they design a good responsive webpage if they don't understand HTML/CSS?
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I sense some anti-isreali sentiment among somewhat valid criticism right there.

The issue is complicated by Israel being a US-ally so technically it's not that much of an issue of Israeli "agents" talking to Americans.
For those interested in the activities of Mossad there’s a great documentary on Netflix at the moment called “Inside the Mossad”. They talk a lot about the tactics used in this article. I presume the operatives in this scenario are all ex-Mossad.
I cancelled Basecamp today, because it didn't fit with my workflow, and the whole thing was easy. So much so, I would probably be using it again in the future (I work mostly by myself, need a "master todo list" and with many different teams, Basecamp doesn't fit this working style, but nothing I've tried does). I'll recommend Basecamp to larger teams, and part of that is the exit.

Here's what Basecamp did:

* on their monthly receipt email, they have a link directly to the cancel option.

* They remind you to get your data on the way out, and give a link, right there, to go get it

* They give you your data

* They cancel straight away, and ask if it's ok to survey you (optional).

After reading the book It doesn't have to be crazy at work (https://basecamp.com/books/calm ) I understood the mentality perfectly. I wish them all the best for their product.
Here's a thought experiment for you: if it were shown that the costs and risks associated with GDPR - in its current form - were high enough to meaningfully reduce the number of startups starting and achieving success, would you still support it, as it currently exists?
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