skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We, the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

There you go. Stated purpose of our government. And I think several of those clauses apply to using UBI as a solution to our rapid economic dislocations.
That's why dogfooding is so powerful. The best way to first hand experience the shortcomings of your product is to use it. This makes me wonder if anyone at Google is using G-Suite themselves.
You seem adamant that users and their ISPs should deal with the spam problem without any speed bumps for you, but unwilling to accept the equal spam problem of sifting legitimate support problems from other replies.

I understand the frustration of seeing our simple and low effort mechanisms decay over the past 30 years. But I also appreciate that there might just be a need for a more symmetric social contract for engaging in the use of communications systems and other common infrastructure.
I do this so much to the point of extreme obsession, very unhealthy but super intense and feels so good when things go well. I then put my project on a shelf and never touch it again :) What a joy
I find most "smart" professionals I interact with are people, mostly like other people.

The internet is different of course, but if you're painting people with a broad brush based upon internet interactions, there are bigger problems than "smart" professionals saying dumb things.
Some studies you may separately find interesting in connection to this,

- https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/gordon_b/files/...

- https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/...

- https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/130/4/1941/191...
Southwest was one of the first airlines to come out with a strong response, declaring full confidence in the MAX 8s.
Probably a good reason for the industry to come together and make a tool that does work then. I can see how a magic number of errors is more convincing to the average person (and court) then a bunch of expert testimony saying otherwise. The industry should control the narrative.

You can bet the construction industry has people in the room when standards are set on what sort of elevators and ramps are required.
DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System
Is this somehow related to the recent articles on historic problems with rudder design in the 737?
If the company can’t figure out how to add a date to the subject line, they won’t be able to figure this out either.

It’s gmails bug, but I’m amazed they couldn’t figure out hiw to implement the fix. Amazed but not too surprised given how not nimble big companies are.
>I think your comment perfectly illustrates the lengths people will go to and the ways in which they will contort their minds in order to uphold an strange idea that is dear to their hearts, however

Ironic that I was pointing out that you're doing exactly this.

>Putting people in Zoos is a good thing? It dehumanizes Europeans to say that it is sick to put people in Zoos?

Are you even going to attempt to argue in good faith?

>Also, I never said anything about white people.

Of course you didn't! Then your racism would be overt. But your anti European narrative is an increasingly common one that has infested academia and is creeping into industry.
What harm does exposing $HOME to the world anyway. /s
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Good point. I guess this ability to condense knowledge into language and pass it on has brought us where we are today. Genetically, we aren't that different from cavemen who lived tens of thousands of years ago.
Religious flamewar is not allowed on HN. Please don't post like this, or like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19389868, here.

In addition, would you please stop posting uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments? You've done it repeatedly, and eventually we ban accounts for that too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have never hindered any investigative agency, internal or otherwise, attempting to discover flaws in systems I have built. Doing so would be morally abhorrent, and hopefully someday illegal
I rather enjoyed the documentary "1971".

https://thoughtmaybe.com/1971-fbi/
Oh wow, this is amazing. My favorite so far is:
https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/22890

>How can I do this software?

Although it sounds more like a question from Quora.
Not everything is about money, you know?
...because somebody pointed out that the opinion didn't make a damn lick of sense.
3.50€ for an IM app when there are dozens that are free? Yeah, no.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing this a lot, and we ban accounts that do it repeatedly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
OR A/B testing until every product fits only the lowest common denominator niche.

Same argument as the "dictatorship of the majority" in democratic government. Everybody doing what is most popular results in many people losing.
Surely any user that's going to bail because of advertising is already blocking the ads anyway?
>> Also, note that a having a certain theme does not automatically imply endorsing it.

That's true- often it's done for the shock value.

But that's a bit of a controversy there, rising on the horizon. Personally, I don't want to be the one to say that it's all a performance and all that stuff about uncompromising self-expression and antisocial-ness, is just, you know, posing.

When it comes to the fans (who are also the musicians, usually), I've seen my fair share of total dickheads and absolute darlings, and lots of folks in the middle so eh. Let's not generalise either way.

Edit: Btw, with "intellectual lyrics" you're talking about a new generation of bands, including Misþyrming and Mgła. They are still a little rare, I find. Or I just like more traditional stuff and I'm missing all the serious lyrics :0 Please point to more stuff like that you link above, thanks.
The argument for UBI is that society is going to write off the bottom half of the population anyway, so something is better than nothing.
Another commenter recommends interviewing at
https://lambdaschool.com/

But I would recommend applying and attending. You will very likely get a great job after you graduate.
Of course not, given the failure of the year of desktop GNU/Linux, there is hardly any money to be made.
>With those side project don't make you any money

Says who? Plenty of my side projects have made me quite a bit of money.

I'd say your mindset is equally as unhealthy as you'd never put any serious thought into it, making your statement about them not making money a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I have two young kids. While I can empathize with OP, I have found that if I discipline myself enough to get up at 5:00 I have enough time to work on side projects. Never as much time as I want, but some time. It is certainly not easy. And everything is in chaos when a newborn arrives.
Nim is much better than "Go plus some FP niceties.". Faster compile and run speeds, clean Python-like syntax, lisp-like macros, no runtime required, can compile to JS.
For those (like me) who are puzzled by some of the assertions made in this article -- I suspect that it's what journalists refer to as a "beat sweetener"[1].

Reporters have particular sectors, companies, etc. they're assigned to cover; these are referred to as their beat. To get stories, a journalist has to develop sources within those sectors/companies/etc. -- people "in the know" who are willing to share information with them. Developing sources is a hard thing to do, as people tend not to talk to reporters unless they've got an axe to grind, which biases their information and makes it less useful to you.

One way to get potential sources to open up to you is to butter them up in advance with some flattering coverage. Once you're fixed in their memory as the guy/gal who wrote that great story about them, they're less likely to see you as an adversary.

So it's not uncommon, when a new executive takes over somewhere, to see a glowing profile of them appear -- a profile that "explains" how all the problems the place the executive just took over at are the fault of their departed predecessor, who was an idiot whose momma dressed him funny, and how the new executive's bold, daring Vision for the Future™ will solve them all at a stroke.

I have no hard evidence whether that's the actual thought process that led to this puzzling article, of course. It just really, really reads that way.

[1] See https://www.thenation.com/article/washingtons-beat-sweetener..., https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/04/a-beat-sweetener...
You’re kidding, right? The Postal Service is the ultimate gatekeeper. You have only a companies that would make the last mile delivery.
Your post implies that companies (or even just Google in particular) don't make a habit of making truly boneheaded moves. I think that's a pretty difficult position to back up.
What do you mean if? Predatory policing and illegal surveillance are a normative experience for many Americans. For example, the muslim-American community. The FBI frequently seduces psychologically ill or mentally disabled individuals to create fake terror plots that are subsequently "foiled" by the FBI.
[Sorry, this question has been protected by a moderator.]

(^.^ this “so-SO” comment made me smile.)
Not OP, agree that the UI is still horrible in many ways, but still thank you!
Develop "the hacker" mindset and recon your target jobs and companies. Recon the target and find out everything you can about them. Use sentiment analysis to discern the type of personalities that operate the business. Locate their social media and Linkedin profiles. Pay attention to their style of writing, use of words. Do your homework and use the tools available; to social-engineer your success. Once, you have all of the contact points and information about the company. Profile them and tailor your approach. Widen your research to their customers and so on. Keep it all. If and when you approach them, do it in such a way that leaves them with no doubt as to your abilities. It helps to understand the role and the reason why they are recruiting. What problem is it that they are trying to solve? In your application, you should tailor your approach that is nuanced to meet their expectations. Good luck.
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> it works remarkably well and makes all these devices feel like they have a natural place and purpose

Um really those are artificial, not natural. The nature of the devices is that they're still general purpose computers, the artificial restrictions on them give them an artificial place and purpose. It's still a thing, but Apple isn't magically altering reality.
More simply, I'm just curious about what, as a developer in 2019, would be the selling point for using it if you were on a project which was relatively clean using Clang's warnings and static analysis toolchain, flawfinder, etc.
It all depends on where you want to work now.

If you intend to go work at FANG or similar companies, then you absolutely need to refresh your data structures and algorithms knowledge, and riddle solving knowledge. Without refreshing these domains, especially the riddle solving, you will fail the interview.

However if you want to work at small - medium sized companies that ship real products and value people with a proven track record, then you will be totally fine.
That can't be right, we have Google AdManager deliver to more than 3 slots.
That depends on the medium used to view the web. On my KoboHD e-ink reader, grey text is not legible. It's sad because thousands of web sites that would be gorgeously legible if their text were #000 are not. But this is more of a browser issue; Kobo should disable colors IMO. And this is something that people can do on regular browsers.
Fully agree and pretty much exactly my setup. A haproxy container which directs traffic (not only websites, but also syncthing, caldav/carddav etc.) and renews all Let's Encrypt certificates.

It's fun, easy to backup, easy to migrate, easy to just test something and cleanly throw it away. And in practice the containers are pretty much like VMs (talking about personal projects here, corporate is more complicated of course).

And the upfront work is not that much. Do the quick start guide and one or two things. Maybe you don't even need to configure iptables manually, "lxc config device add haproxy myport80 proxy listen=tcp:0.0.0.0:80 connect=tcp:localhost:80" does a lot for you.

Can also only recommend LXD/LXC.
This can’t differentiate between scrolling via the scrollbar and other means (keyboard, trackpad, mouse wheel).
I imagine the folks in your lab could decimate three pizzas, too.
I'm so cat positive, I'm like a cat lady. But sometimes cats get aggressive and attack people for sure. Even non-tormented ones. It does matter how you treat them and how much you play with them but make no mistake cats will attack, sometimes viscously.
Tesla in Talks with Chinese Battery Giant to Power Model 3s Made in China
Which means they won't run much new apps in 2020.
If you look at the 5-day chart for southwest, you will see 2 big drops that correspond to Monday opening bell and the faa announcement. https://www.google.com/search?q=southwest+stock

But the reason why I'm not a day trader is that I have no idea why they rebounded so quickly haha
There are 4[1] manufacturers of commercial jets today: Boeing (American), Airbus (European), Embraer (Brazilian), and Bombardier (Canadian).

Embraer's Boeing deal is being termed a "joint venture" rather than an acquisition, with Boeing getting 80% of most of Embraer's business. Important to note it has been rejected by regulators and shareholders on multiple occasions, and still hasn't gone through.

Bombardier recently was pushed to make a deal to sell its popular new CSeries jet to a JV majority owned by Airbus to get around some anti-competitive trade maneuvering by Boeing to add unfair tariffs on it in the US. That said, important to note they are still an independent company with their own jets in other series. Bombardier CRJs are frequently used as regional jets in the US.

[1]: Technically there are also Russian and Chinese manufacturers but nobody would willingly buy from them today. On the tiny turboprop end of the spectrum there are a few more European manufacturers that make plans like the popular ATR72.
Bank of America froze our account because we use TransferWise
TL;DR
Bank of America feels threatened by TransferWise and penalized us for using them.

Paperspace is a semi-remote company with employees spread around the world. Several years ago, we discovered TransferWise as an easy and affordable way to make international payments. We have since been using the tool to pay all remote employees. For those of you that are not familiar with TransferWise, it’s a UK based startup with the mission of lowering the costs associated with international money transfers. The crux of this problem is that banks use a fake exchange rate (made up by the bank) which costs companies collectively billions of dollars. It’s a dubious practice which IMO should be regulated but that’s a topic for a separate conversation. In any case, TransferWise is loved and trusted by thousands of organizations like ours and is backed by leading investors such as Richard Branson, Andreesen Horowitz etc. They have over 1,000 employees and move over $4B per month. In other words, they are legitimate.

So, what happened? My guess is, Bank of America decided it didn’t like that using a competitor and decided to freeze our account. We lost all ability to transfer money and had to scramble to pay vendors, make regular payroll (in the US) etc. To get up and running again, we were instructed to fill out a 16 page form on paper about what our business does that we had to wait up 48 hours to regain access to our money. We are in the midst of this process. We were on the phone all day yesterday and were told there is no way to expedite this process and that we would just have to wait until they got around to validating the information in the form.

I wanted mention this here as a warning to all TransferWise users and to hopefully draw attention to this nefarious practice such that banks stop the nonsense immediately.

Happy to answer any questions.
> Did your traffic increase ~10%?

It followed the same pattern as I've seen for years.

> Enough to not push away users, but not too much to deter users altogether.

That could be. I might've had a goldilocks amount.
I think it's the kind of thing that doesn't matter unless you can argue that a single company has monopoly control of marketplace
If you've spent your career at a company, who can fire you for not parroting the company line, in a field as small as aviation, chances are you'll not get hired elsewhere, and you'll do as your indirectly expected to.
>I don't need large scale research to tell me what I, personally, find easier or harder to read.

I think we do.

Your phrasing implies that everybody (or at least just you) already and always knows and uses the optimal code styles that make it "easier" for them to read code.

I very much doubt that's the case.

People are deluded about what's "best for them" all the time.

Not to mention "what's best" might change with familiarity with other styles, training, etc, and people could be stuck in a shallow local optimum.

>Forgive me if I'm missing your point here but some people like fast cars and some people like to cycle. Some people want kids while others do not. Some people enjoy working in IT while others want to be gardeners, carpenters, mechanics, doctors, lawyers, etc.

Those are matters of taste. Not matters of cognitive skills and how people read best, learn best, etc.

In fact, the popular myth of personal "learning styles" (X training style being best for some people, Y style best for others, etc) has been demolished.

And yet tons of people confused their "preferences" with some objective reality of their preferred style being better for them.

https://blog.mindresearch.org/blog/learning-styles-myth

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-myth...
As an aside, Apache Cassandra CQL is now used by a growing number of wire-compliant databases:
• Cassandra
• Scylla (full disclosure: I work for ScyllaDB)
• DataStax Enterprise (DSE)
• Cosmos DB
• Yugabyte

If you want to learn more about CQL:
https://docs.scylladb.com/using-scylla/cql/

If you want to learn how it's different, here's a quick StackOverflow answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/19140553/6995180
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You can have the best 3 shows on any platform, but if all you have is 3 shows, people won't sign up or stay. Netflix had to invest in quantity side by side with quality because the content providers started taking their ball and going home.
Yeah I really don't understand this move. HBO has a product that is profitable and well loved by it's users explicitly because it is not Netflix and features content that would never show up on Netflix (except maybe via FX). It makes no sense to blow that up in order to create Netflix 2.

Frankly I think going after Netflix in general is a dumb move. They own that mass market content space, you're never going to displace them, Hulu already tried and failed miserably, give up. Why not amass a series of these premium brands (eg Showtime) and focus on becoming the place for awesome smart content to augment Netflix?
It boils down to preferences. I personally feel the quality of HBO’s shows & series is dramatically higher than even the peak quality of Netflix or Prime original offerings. They are simply nowhere close. They’re not even playing the same sport.

Pretty much every Netflix darling I’ve spent time to watch (Stranger Things, House of Cards, Russian Doll, Maniac, Bird Box, Roma) has been a huge disappointment.

By comparison with HBO, I only feel that way about True Detective Season 2 and Crashing (the Pete Holmes show). Other shows have variation of course and some are more interesting or less to me, but none of them have been sincerely big disappointments, while nearly every single darling that Netflix puts out is pretty crap.
Completely agree - HBO's app is as good as any of them.

I'll add that Netflix is the only video app I've used that mismanages the chromecast control ui. Basically every other time I cast Netflix the app loses track of the cast stream, reverts to the browsing ui or other failure mode and I can't pause the stream from my phone. No other app does this.
Does it not collapse them? I have a few people I used to talk with that had the included reply but GMAIL just replaced it with [...] that I could click to expand.
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If chickens or geese could be taught to use a litter tray, they'd actually make quite cool indoor pets. Especially after a few generations of breeding for friendliness.

(I know some people claim to have house trained chickens, but I'm not super convinced it's a repeatable process.
>> developed without any concern for affording a good mental model of its operation to its users, and thus it is just a complex black box you chant arcane rituals at

That's not git, that's the command line - the interface with no inline visualization, no discoverability and no affordances.

git is not its command line interface. I use the git CLI like I use curl: a powerful tool for occasional surgical or automated operations directly on underlying protocol. Most of the time I prefer something that better fits my workflow: for git, it's Git Extensions; for HTTP, it's Chrome.
> I still miss pine, tbh

So use it then. alpine (the successor to pine) is my daily email client. I currently have 161,210 messages in my inbox, it handles it just fine.

It's still supported, and has new features like UTF-8 support and viewing HTML emails (without the images).

It's better than any other email program I've used with one exception: No images in HTML email (although you can view an HTML email in your browser, the attachments don't come along).
Can anyone post a good guide as to what analytics I should be collecting? I want to implement a system of my own like this, but would like a quick primer on the subject.
Object detection ensembles as graph cliques
> Please describe to me what you think corresponds to a typical and oh so recognizable CIA operation so we can all easily pin it back on them next time they make a move

Something slower, more covert, and less out of a blockbuster spy movie. More John Le Carré and less James Bond.
It’s not really social pressure when managers have so much direct power not just in major events like a lay off or promotion, but also day to day tasking. This generally results in people becoming hypersensitive to their boss’s disapproval.

Social networks on the other hand have far less direct impact which results in less socially accepted statements becoming common.
I think that’s also extended from the same mentality of treatingives as numbers, but I read it as Boeing didn’t want to fix it because of cost and the fact they’d be admitting there was a problem, and the lack of payouts was due to not wanting to accept legal liability separately of admitting there was a problem. Which honestly is Ben worse, adding insult to the families of the people their actions killed.
If you keep posting flamebait we're going to ban you again.
I don't see how I can. I can see the benefits of staying anonymous (simply living my life as is), but staying anonymous wouldn't be as impactful.
> True Detective, a Mindhunter.

"Mindhunter" was great but it's no "True Detective" IMO.