skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember mentioning a double digit overaccounting to my econ prof in 2011 and being laughed off.

Economic stats of major nations are all being compiled, revised, and audited with involvement of no joke international institutes.

Now, how these no joke international institutes miss a double digit overaccounting for over a decade?
> The charge would be negligent homicide

What even happens when a corporation is convicted of a crime like that?

A fine? Slap on the wrist? It's not like Uber can go to jail.
I don’t think it’s circular at all. I’m saying that if the level of tech debt is held equal between both a microservice design and an analogous monolith design, then the fact that the microservice design has greater properties of decoupling, isolation and modularity make it de facto better.

Obviously if the baseline levels of tech debt or poor implementation are not equal, all bets are off.
I think you are right actually. I will experiment with some ways to make blocking vs non-blocking operations. I need to try out @paulddraper's suggestion below to see if I can do that over http. I'd like to make a raw socket version regardless. Like you said, I just need to figure out the best way to pass the key.

Edit: One nice thing about the https interface is that you get an encrypted channel. Maybe SSH would be another option for transport. That would also make passing keys easier.
What does 'know' even mean in this context?
I would be interested to know what these friends do.

From my personal experience in game-dev in Berlin, the highest earning coding individual-contributor (so not a manager) salary I ever saw was 70-something €k per year (and it is quite rare to go above €65k even as a very senior programmer).

You will literally have to be C-level at a large and succesful company to earn €120k+ as far as I can tell (in this sector).
I never installed the FB app for the very reason of being metadata spammed for anything.
There's a community devoted to this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/patientgamers

I usually wait for most games to go on a Steam sale, unless it's Bethesda or a game that just looks exciting.
Apparently there are desalination plants, but they are not cost-competitive with other freshwater sources, so only industrial developments that are required to provide their own water supply use them. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601861/chinas-massive-eff...
It’s mostly passive, to be honest. About 20-30 recruiters reach out daily, so I typically tell them that I’m only willing to work remote contracts (if I’m not looking for something full time) with a bill rate of $125 / hour or more. It only takes one out of a hundred to come back with an opportunity that brings in 20-25k per month for six plus months that I can do in addition to my day job to make the effort well worth it.

There’s so much work out there - let recruiters find it for you and be super selective if you already have income. After a while, repeat business will allow you to raise your bill rates. A motivated engineer willing to put in the work can pull in $300-$400k per year, even in middle America, without trying to source work for themselves.
This will make sharing accounts between people much harder
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Some languages guarantee memory safety even in the presence of data races (for example Java), while others simply prevent data races in their safe subset (rust). Go is normally memory safe but data races on some critical objects can compromise it.
How's agency life compared to working at a startup? I'm currently at an agency in Stockholm and I'm thinking if I should go try out what's it like on the other side.
.Net Core 1.0 'End of Life' Coming in June
Whether or not free will exists (I'm a compatiblist) there are certain cases where the threat of punishment will cause people to change how they act and there are certain cases where it won't. If it were the case the the people at Uber intended to kill someone then the threat of punishment might have prevented that and Elain Herzberg would still be alive. But as the people at Uber did not expect that their actions would result in her death the threat of punishment isn't going to be very effective at preventing deaths like hers.

The distinctions our legal system makes regarding coercion, mens rea, insanity, etc are mostly trying to get at this same underlying distinction.
unless... https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=HWWCXNPmLKeLj...
What about a RC car with a camera ?
> But the engines have a lifespan measured in hours

I think it's slightly more correct to say that they have a service interval measured in hours. The jetcat ones require service every 25h of use, but there are other companies that require service less frequently, although the highest interval I found is 100h.
The Guardian's "The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged" feature https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/07/the-class-pa... seems to me a more detailed and more nuanced treatment of much the same topic.
For a fair comparison, look at contracting/freelance in Europe. You will have the same social safety net and benefits as the US (i.e. none) and the pay will be around 160kEUR per year (180kUSD) with 7 weeks of holiday. Given our lower cost of living you might even be better off.
I was going to say this is nothing new..

20 years ago my first roommate worked for a company that did direct mail marketing, and they regularly engaged a "cleaning" firm that would scrub and update their mailing lists.

This company had a huge databases of information on people (name/work/address/DOB/income/etc) and they would send them data and they would clean it up.

Now they would not give them any new data, they could only update records they already owned.

Back then in Canada there were apparently only a small handful of well-known cleaners like this who traded on their reputation for accuracy and dataset completeness..
It's one of my favourite smells. Right up there with ripe tomatoes and freshly baked bread. I have very strong & happy associations with all three of those smells. Whenever I pick up a book, I automatically give it a sniff.
Looks like somebody found a new buzzword.
Surely a dictionary that uses a particular word but does not define that word is not a very good dictionary. It feels like one easy test of "completeness" would be to check if every word used has been defined.
I'm moving to Denmark in a month. A few questions, if you have time:

- Do you have an opinion on the Copenhagen tech scene? Companies, talent, access to funding etc.

- How've you found integrating with the Danish culture?

- Any suggestions for how to build your network there?
Is jitsi any good?
I only run into banks hating those, and obscure websites I am pretty sure I don't bother going back to. I don't understand why they're such an issue, but now I have less keys for a hacker to guess.
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Mark Zuckerberg Outlines Privacy-Focused Vision for Facebook
It's not a lie.

Booking has received tremendous regulatory/legal scrutiny on that group of features and they wouldn't be caught red handed doing something indefensible in that space. That being said, there are clearly some decisions to be made about what "currently looking at" means: As engineers, we all know that nothing is tracking user eyeballs (thankfully), so in reality these things are necessarily implemented as a rolling sum of non-bot page views within X minutes.

Whether or not the information is correct, of course, doesn't mean anybody has to like the feature. I personally really don't like it, but acknowledge that it was a feature with shockingly significant business impact when first released.

Source: Used to work there. Read the respective code at the time (~2015/2016 or so).
I'm seriously thinking about it :)
Clearly you don't listen to NPR News. Basically everyone not in a public radio studio is talking on Skype and they say so.
> information about your native country's visa system is almost entirely irrelevant to you

It's not irrelevant to me - I depend on doctors and nurses who are recruited on that system to give just a single concrete example, and what's more I'm responsible for the system via my representative as a voter.
In Python for those who don't want to install node and run Debian / Ubuntu or any distro that includes Python out of the box:

>>> import uuid

>>> uuid.uuid4().hex

Interesting someone else mentioned the 14th character is always a 4... I am creeped out just a little bit (cause I never noticed).
I used to dream about hyper genericity for UIs .. deeply. Now I don't really care. odd.
The AI has seen ducks and rabbits. It has build a good enough internal model of "duckness" and "rabbitness" that even more abstract renderings of ducks and rabbits activate the relevant parts of the net. I mean, that's exactly what we want them to do! Figure out the aspects of the input data salient to the classification task and ignore the irrelevant parts.

That said, I the response here is likely filtered and normalized to only include "duck" and "rabbit" classifications; after all the bird looks much more like a seagull than a duck.
If you throw yourself at it without any prep it won't be good for you.

But a proper marathon training plan at my sort of level includes a long run between 13 and 20 miles most weeks. My full recovery time after hammering for a PB at half distance is over a week but going even a little easier brings that down considerably. So a half every ~three weeks, with a couple of longer breaks here or there, should be perfectly fine. I'm not particularly planning to gun for a PB on any of these.

Doing a full is a different beast requiring more R&R afterwards, even if taking it easy, as is a fairly technical trail run, and if I'm travelling further to a new place I want time to see some of that place beyond running through part of it, hence the plan is now "several years" to spread the annual leave & travel costs out a bit more, and to allow more time for R&R and reconditioning as needed.

This way some of the more local road halfs fold nicely into a conditioning (or condition maintaining) plan for the longer/harder runs too. The longer time also helps with arranging the runs: due to the way the organised events tend to bunch around spring & autumn that becomes a constraint if you want to do it in a short time (not being able to do that particular B because it is too close to the C & D I've already set sights on, etc.)
I moved from Tunisia to France 4 years ago, feel free to email, I'd be glad to help with any information.

Email is in my profile.
Doesn't work with regular google searches either
It's "fair (market) price", not "fair market".

> And the market, and economy, should serve the people. Not the people the market.

This is a meaningless slogan. The market is the people. Demand reflects what people need. Supply reflects what people have to offer. Prices reflect their agreement.
Physical analogies for security like the one you just made are useless because they don't reflect how the computers and the internet work. You can't just ping a rock and ask it if it's got a key. The rock isn't expected to exist in a world where some script kiddie in China is going to ask it if is has a key every 5min. The analogy simply falls flat on its face once you try to use it to reason about anything because existing as an internet connected device is far different than existing on private (but easily accessible) property.
Yeah, Arizona law seems to put drivers über alles.
I think it's still pretty common in business. I actually did a web-based interview for a Unicorn Silicon Valley startup over it. So there's that.
The - excludes the next term from results, so you are searching for nothing here.

A normal Google search returns no result, so Images must be handling it differently.
If humanity fails today this would be a throwback how far we came.
Yes, for in-order designs all the classic RISC benefits are much more relevant.
It's mentioned in passing a couple of times, so I assume they've tried it wasn't faster for them.
That was also the argument for why many things needed to be IE-only back in the day, since they needed ActiveX to be full on web applications.
This strikes me as a somewhat better treatment of much the same topic as the "The $2 Million Urinal: Why Hard Work Doesn’t Cut It" article http://behavioralscientist.org/the-2-million-urinal-why-hard... which trended here recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19328451 . So I resubmitted it even though it's had a couple of submissions already in the past month or so (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19110001 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19249317 ).
Hackers Breach College-Applicant Databases, Seek Ransom
I like https://appear.in for video chats with friends and family, in fact their "room"-based approach works much better there IMHO than the "call"-based approach from Skype. But appear.in is absolutely not a full Skype replacement, if you are looking for contact lists and presence and chat functionality (you can chat in an appear.in room, but it is made for video) and/or the possibility to call phone lines.
I moved to Paris from San Francisco. The startup I joined uses English as its working language, so the language barrier hasn't been a problem at all. Also I found French to be relatively similar to English and quite easy to learn. It's been a huge joy being able to speak to people in a second language. I've wanted to learn a second language for a long time and I finally have a good reason to do it.

Also there are interesting startups in Paris outside of fintech, like Alan (where I work), Algolia, and Datadog. Airbnb, Facebook and Google have offices here as well I believe.

I've never been to Berlin, so I can't really compare, but I really enjoy living in Paris so far. I certainly like Paris more than San Francisco.

I wrote a blog post about my move a few weeks ago: https://medium.com/@kkwteh/why-i-moved-from-san-francisco-to...
Show HN: Smooth UI System, a new way to style components
> It doesn't move his clothing

It doesn't even seem to move the clothing of the guy that ducks behind him around 2:30.

There are a few paint flakes that come off and blow around a bit at 2:50 or so.
Penetration Test – Transparent Cost Calculator
Smooth UI System: une nouvelle façon de styler vos composants
Depends on how you use Skype, but I have used both https://appear.in/ and Zoom (there is a web version!) successfully.

Think you would have to define your use case slightly more.
+++ that, stayed in airbnb 70+ times, a light sleeper myself... how many times I hated apartments for being noisy and reviewers for hiding this fact.
Recessions: It's Been a While
>On big things failing to scale down:

It occurs to me that the same applied in the transition to mobile. Microsoft was obsessed with making hand-helds and phones into little PCs, keyboard and all. It actually required a radically new interaction model and interface technology to unlock the potential of the form factor.
I understand, I read my comment again a few hours later and it could be misinterpreted. Or maybe the parent edited the original message (can't remember)

I wanted to point the fact that the argument "exploiting people who are bad at math" is not a strong argument, given we are all exploited at some point because we aren't "math machine". Miscalculation can happen to anyone who is human.
with free trading software like robinhood, don't pay any fees and just buy index funds
I used to listen to his podcast during my morning commute. I'll miss him when he retires.
> but in other jurisdictions learning how to do an emergency stop is required for all drivers before being allowed on the road independently.

People learn to parallel park too. Those that don't do it regularly tend to be pretty terrible at it. The fact that people had to check a particular box at the time they got their licenses says little about what they can be expected to be able to do years after that.
Considering that the web was supposed to be both open and decentralized I feel really sad that most of it is confined to just one proprietary browser.
A New Trend – Sending Messages into Space by Paying Bitcoin
This summer I was in Wales with a Dutch car. One day we parked the car on the side of a road and went for a hike. When we turned back to the car we could easily see the car from up high.

And the weird thing was, there was a van parked right next to it. There was no reason for it to be parked there; there was plenty of space; why park very close to my car? I assumed something was wrong.

When we returned to the car it turned out that the driver of the van was just curious what foreigners would show up.

Living in a city that is packed with tourists, it would never occur to me that someone would just wait next to a foreign car to see who shows up.
A side benefit of paying less is that I don't feel the same pressure to get my money's worth out of everything. Or, I suppose, I can get my money's worth out of a $10-20 purchase in only a few hours and not feel that I need to complete something I'm just not enjoying.
I've always found this story a little odd. OSX is really just NeXTSTEP with an updated UI and application framework. NeXTSTEP was developed and ran on Intel CPUs throughout the 90s. Right through until OSX was initially released, even while at Apple Steve Job's personal machine was a Think Pad running NeXTSTEP.
The other thing is that Darwin, the underlying OS of OSX, was released publicly as PowerPC and Intel binaries, as well as source, right through the PowerPC years. So people at Apple were at least running the base OS layer on Intel boxes for development and QA testing, out in the open, right through to the switch to Intel Mac hardware in 2006. They were even giving Intel Darwin to the public on installation discs. The only thing missing was the Cocoa UI layer. Surely Bertrand Serlet would have known all of this? His reaction of shock and surprise in this story doesn't make any sense.

I can understand that the plan to switch to Intel hardware was a big secret, but the fact the software ran on Intel the whole time was perfectly obvious. That such a huge deal was made out of Apple's amazing achievement porting OSX to Intel, then and even now, leaves me a bit nonplussed.
The dash is the NOT operator. This is the error that occurs when the query contains only NOT terms. It’s common to check for this special case in query processing and throw an error. Otherwise it’s easy to write a query that returns all or nearly all of the documents in the index.

Try `-1 2`, `-1 -2`, and `1 2`
Oh for some games, that's absolutely true! In games that are 'open world' I always enjoyed using cheats. GTA III and Vice City I've played exclusively with Cheats. To this day, I've never finished the story of a GTA game. :P
Edge will start using WebKit... I mean Blink, so it's not an unrelated party anymore.
Unrelated, but interesting in this context: Michael Burry, one of the guys who predicted 2007 housing bubble (and made good money thanks to that), is investing in water. Looks like he might be right again.
This is a total puff piece but this quote stood out:

>”...For groovy models of how random acts by [group] "undergo a phase transition into a synchronized state"”

So groups of people who start out from different groups or no groups after they enter a dominant group can coalesce around looks.
I think the idea behind the tesla is too creative & innovative
Details of how it is to return to earth: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/03/eom-spacex-crew-drag...
Well, that is exactly what the "businesses" revolving around it are doing.

Offering in your words a "centralized service which handles the hard part of a business such as transactions, business models, and disputes" cutting a fee from the value of the transaction.

The point of disagreement between our opinions only revolves around that service(s) being the "hard part" of the business and about the actual amount of the fees involved for these services.

Anyway a line needs to be drawn between an actual "sharing car" approach, as an example we have here blablacar where someone already has to go from A to B and offers a ride to recover some costs and something like Uber and Lyft, here the driver is going from A to B only because the customer(s) needs to go from A to B.
I wonder if he can find a trendy pop-up street-food restaurant that sells humble pie.
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More interestingly perhaps searching for “<term> -n to n” where n is an integer returns no results (e.g https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=google+-1+to+1
... has this person never checked out an ebook from their local library? That Adobe DRM is the industry state-of-the-art.
Only PhD graduates, according to the Belastingdienst.

https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontenten/...

https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontenten/...
Skype for Business is very different from Skype. The business version, at least for online customers is also being deprecated in favor of Teams. --No clue if/when that will happen if you use the on-premises version.
Not supporting Safari is weird, but not supporting Firefox is perfectly normal, given that it's at a whopping 4.46% of market share in the US.
Introduction to Web Assembly
Too bad Behavioral Programming isn’t discussed as I find it to be the most fascinating one especially because its main objective is to better align programming to how humans think: https://lmatteis.github.io/react-behavioral/
Here’s a quick question, what makes you think it’s the lack of technology that is the cause for poor farming yields? What makes you think it’s not due to property rights and rule of law?

If you went 50 years in to the future and came back with X widget for farming and just dropped it in random place in South Sudan or Niger, I don’t think they would just become farming power houses.
Thanks.

Ir sounds like a very "fair" price (to the customer), whenever there are these kinds of "middlemen" the question is always how much of that goes to the actual people that actually do the work.
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Works fine for me with uBlock Origin and Firefox's Content Blocking enabled.
I have a rather simple test that I use to verify my view of the political climate. I take news and replace the word men with immigrant and woman with nationalist, and vice verse. Hate being hate it should then not matter if I change the targeted demographic.

Immigrant free concert, nationalist exclusive events, people writing that all immigrants are lazy, toxic, violent and dangerous. That immigrant culture is medically defined as harmful.

The filter even picked some extreme cases like a suggestion by the national political party that we should have reeducation camps for immigrants, and a wish to reduce the immigrant population down to 10% through genetic modification. It a rather scary filter.
Really nice website, you deserve more attention!
Tax collectors chase rich New Yorkers moving to low-tax states
When I look at the anticlockwise one I can see it as going either direction. When I look at the clockwise one I can only see it going clockwise
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Philosophy on Elon Musk [video]
All western, liberal media sources refuse to publish anything that paints China in a good light. <conspiracy-theory>I think it is because the US is falling behind while China is pushing forward.</conspiracy-theory> However, China media sources are as completely bias as western sources, only in the opposite direction. I suspect reality is some where in the middle.
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Yeah I'm only getting a Bachelor's.
If they constantly say they are using Skype it's because they are being paid to say so, not because they are actually using Skype (which they could be, of course).
has this person never checked out an ebook from their local library?

To be fair I don't know anybody who has either. I know it's possible and I know my local library offers this, but I've never met anybody who's actually used this service.