skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If we fail to offer high-quality support, our business and reputation could suffer.

I don't know how common this is in S-1 filings but it stuck out to me. Support is often viewed as a cost center, I love that PagerDuty makes it such a high priority.

Edit: After some research, it turns out this is common. Docusign, Dropbox, Okta, Zuora, and MongoDB all have this statement exactly or similar.
I can see how that remark could have felt bad, but there are plenty of opportunities not to take it that way. This is why we have a site guideline that asks all of us to "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
1M -> 4 months? o_O
So the Earth article should give equal time to flat-Earthers, the Apollo moon landings should devote 50% to the "it was faked" idea, and Queen Elizabeth II's page should talk about her being a lizard person?

I think I'd prefer a useful encyclopedia.
I played roughly from 1999 until 2001. The biggest pain points for me were:

* The game wanted to motivate PVP, but it did so by punishing PVE players horribly: at higher levels, dying to a mob meant losing more than one whole level, which was hard to get back.

* If you played anything but a tank, ping mattered too damn much. I like scouts/thieves. My ping stank. My experience wasn't very happy ;)

* Mandos sleep. Need I say more? Whose idea was that? I'm lucky I never got it, but it's inexcusably bad game design.

* I understand that playing evil races is supposed to be inherently harder, but it was too damn hard. My favorite moments were when the "darkies" (I apologize, but that was the slang for evil races back then) would come raid Bree and Fornost. Yes, it was terrifying for us pukes, but I loved it.

I have contemplated going back many, many times, but the first pain point I mentioned always keeps me back. I just can't dedicate that much time to a game that rewards so little and punishes so much. But I miss it a lot, too :)
Right, because Apple does not want them using the App Store platform to promote, sell, and execute payment on a premium service without paying a cut of the premium price to Apple, as per their explicit platform rules.
Interesting. The article seems to emphasize that the conflict was over merging the messaging apps (Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp).

What are the upsides and downsides of merging the messaging apps? I wonder if there's any way that could turn out to be a good thing.
I'd say very good. Talent very good as well. Have worked for a bunch of years with a team in Krakow, great people.
> ...they're now websites where people incite and plan violent crimes.

Can you cite any evidence that people are planning crimes on a public-only anonymous forum that has no vetting of its members?

Again, there are Nazi forums that are public, there are also Nazi networks that are certainly not public and where such attacks may have been planned, but 4chan? That would be a pretty absurd place to plan anything.

As for incitement, at least in the legal sense in the US, the bar for that is quite high:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action
Cannibal cults disintegrate whatever wishy-washy point you were trying to make here.
There's lots of misinformation here about the definition of blackmail

Blackmail is the threat of an action _unrelated to an existing right_.

A good case is Autumn Jackson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn_Jackson. It was not blackmail for her mother to request $2k/month in child support in exchange for silence, because she had a right to child support. But it was illegal for her to request $40M, because that was unrelated to child support.

Another example: you can threaten a restaurant with a bad review unless you receive a refund for a bad meal. You can't threaten a restaurant with a bad review unless they give you $1K.
That's true. I mostly meant that it isn't a new development, it's been in the news before.
Here in the Netherlands, cows only go into the fields half of the year, simply because during winter time it is too cold for them to be outside with no protection against wind and rain.
Because that doesn't benefit the cardholder. It only benefits the merchant. And, due to contractual restrictions, merchants cannot offer different prices based on payment methods.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Munitions_List

It seems distributing TAC online should be fine, I thought it might fall under some kind of ITAR requirement but I am just ignorant of the truth.
EA has other 737 models in their fleet. Their last accident, a 737-800, ET409 [1][2] out of Lebanon, CRM issues were cited as the primary factor. Not arguing with you, and they could have addressed all the training problems. But I don't think the previous accident should be overlooked when speculating. Especially, the fact that EA was hostile to the conclusions of the report. [3]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_409

[2]: https://www.bea.aero/docspa/2010/et-b100125.en/pdf/et-b10012...

[3]: https://www.isasi.org/Documents/library/technical-papers/201...
I've met foreign exchange students from China that believed the control of free information online was a good thing.
Classic Computer Science Problems in Python Is Published
You may need different versions of the same source files or targets, due to incompatibilities of the underlying runtime environment. For example, custom compiled versions of TensorFlow with different sets of optimization flags enabled for different use cases, or different build variants of the same conda package for different runtime compiled versions of e.g. numpy for different services.

Trying to solve this without providing versioned artifacts in an external storage repository is bad, don’t do it.
And he did significantly better than most people and polls expected he'd do. 3 points, getting more votes than Hillary and Obama in a midterm year through persuasion more than turnout.
Give your perspective as it fits into and supports the larger business context of the company. This perspective (in moderation) would likely benefit your team as well.

I've also found that many non-technical executives have some level of fear of technology, so remembering to explain things in ways that they can understand (and helping them gain some degree of technical understanding in the process) can also be effective.
> public health insurance, generous jobless benefits, good work/life culture

What a surprise when foreigners learn that they cannot opt-out from their monthly healthcare contributions (while debt is accumulating proactively already), the jobless benefits are a minefield and they don't qualify for them, the miserable startup they got job in prays on people depending on visas and stay permits while big industry hire only "doctors" and those from "good families".
Why did Broadcom buy waffle?
The problem with selective enforcement is that we have no idea under which circumstances future authorities will select to enforce.
NZ does strictly regulate weapons.
That's one reason I only keep essential apps ;) also use DNS blocking for trackers.

It's much better than Android even without that though. Especially since Google became more aggressive with tricking users to sign away their privacy.
If you interview at a traditional tech company, you go through 5-8 interviews in a day. If somebody were to review, say, around 4 of these packets every week, they see about 20-30 interviews every week. That's ~1000-1500 a year. The 5K mark comes faster than you think.

And if you work at a company that size, changing the interview process is a bit more work than "oh, we just won't do that".

Not everybody works at a small startup.
I think they did -- it looks like it took six minutes from the first distress call claiming a control issue (at 7000ft) to impact, and they stayed at around 7000ft for much of those six minutes.
I like your art. Have a gallery anywhere?
It's an understandable correction though. For instance, if one were to say "People in the US are are Nazis" you can be certain many people would argue that a correction is both necessary and helpful.
Probably because if they are going to move its easier to just move to one of the other areas of the US. I'd assume cross-Atlantic movement would be after all options in the US, then NA were exhausted of which there are plenty and many up-and-coming areas.
At least in the Netherlands (where the inventor is from), all cows pass the winter in confinements. Some stay there all year round. In this situation urine separation is very advantageous.
Timezones can be tricky if you need to interface with US stake holders or customers.
Cruz is only unlikable in the liberal bubble, most Texans approve of him and he still only won by < 3 in a state Trump won by 9 and Romney won by 15.
It's true that the music-consuming public is less sophisticated nowadays--for boring reasons, unfortunately. Before recorded music became dominant, if you wanted to hear it, you had know to play it (or talk someone else into playing it for you). More people knew how to play music well. Now it's unnecessary to learn to play, and even those people who do play take it less seriously. So the public has largely lost the kind of sophistication you learn from actual performance.
or living a lavish lifestyle ala Paul Le Roux

https://magazine.atavist.com/he-always-had-a-dark-side
Others have pointed out that the government doesn't seem to have banned anything.
So when I asked "What will that let you do?", the only "benefit" you-can-think-of is the possibility of switching from editing code in visualnc64.im to editing code in quad.im without a mouse-click ?
What about capturing methane from cows? Isn't that arguably bigger problem? Cows emit an enormous amount of methane which is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.
tech is one thing but sales is key
Venture capitalists need to be close to the CEO, who in turns needs to be close to the initial team.

The Bay Area is popular because that is where the VCs are.
Not to disparage the environmental argument, but for a movement in which a majority of its members also lean socialist I see a lot of arguments that in practice boil down to "Only the 1% should be able to enjoy meat/own personal transport/fly on vacation/etc."

I mean, I don't care if you aim for either "Luxury for all" or "Luxury isn't sustainable" but at least be consistent.
> explicitly enumerated potential crimes like propagation of child pornography and money forgery

Clarification: "money forgery" would refer to counterfeiting, where I might print up a bunch of notes that look like $100 bills and spend them as if the government had printed them. "Money laundering" would refer to disguising the origins of some money, where I might report a pile of cash that came from illicit drug sales as cash receipts from the convenience store I conveniently (see) happen to own.

It's hard for me to imagine how you'd use Tor to forge money, although I guess it might be involved in your scheme to hack into your bank and increase the value of your account(s) there. What kind of money-related acts are enumerated?
Do You Need a VPN in 2019?
If blackmail should be illegal, it should be on the grounds that it is a form of harassment, like stalking.

Basically, the content of the harassment is immaterial.
It's not technically free: you have to buy a Mac and pay the annual Apple Developer Program fee.

This alone irks me. Why do I need to pay Apple, even if I develop my app in Flutter or some other cross-platform SDK?

But sure, there is no additional per-unit cost.
>Networking

Yeah, in SV you can hook up with all the USC and Stanford kids who bribed their way into college!
U.S. presidential candidate BetoORourke, former member of cult of dead CoW
I grew up in Europe and now live in Seattle. I'd agree with @DVassallo about Dublin being a good jumping off point.

Moving over to the US typically requires a corporate sponsor for L-1, and you must work 12+ months for them overseas before they can petition to transfer you to the US, or winning the H-1B lottery.

I think the cost to relocate someone to the US is between $50-100k depending on what benefits they offer employees. Therefore you need to consider the companies motivation - why would they spend that money, and increase their payroll cost by having you in a more expensive market?

You need to be a good investment for them.

Additionally, I think it's _also_ worth noting that FB E7+ and the equivalent roles at AMZN and GOOG which pay $1MM+ are typically 1-3% of engineers in the company, and for every person making $1MM+ there are many making much less.

Finally when you're a 'visa slave' (here on a corporate-sponsored visa which doesn't give you an option to quit and find another employer, the L-1 is an example of this) there's less motivation for the US entity to pay you extraordinary amounts of money.

I don't mean to discourage you. I do think it's worth noting this is a hard road to travel. Some luck is involved too.
It all melts.

I trust that the experts know the difference between permanent snow and annual melting. They use satellite pictures to determine how much water will be available after it melts.

Edit: If someone knows more about the planning process than I do, please chime in.
They're probably leaving for home, or for other cities where they have connections. The idea of an entrepreneur taking off from the hottest startup climate in the world to another country, where they don't speak the language, may not have direct access to their target customers, etc... it's just not viable.

I'd love to see a startup culture of note form in places like Warsaw, but it's unrealistic to expect cost of living alone to bring brand-new startups there.
I actually agree with the core sentiment of your post, but find you playing a victim without yet being victimized in any way with "Let the downvotes flow..." to be really counter productive.
Fairly sure we don't. We have a hyper competitive ISP market, nobody does any kind of website slowing here. We don't really need NN in law.
Apple is most likely using predatory pricing against Spotify which is illegal [0]. I highly doubt Apple music is profitable at a price point of $10 once the 30% cut is taken into account.
But since they also get the 30% cut back, they can subsidize their product while Spotify has to charge $10 at a loss or price it at $14 which is more than Apples price and makes the un-competitive.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing
Except I am only comparing the effect dramatic pictures had on sales. (Not that much). I'm not equating the two in terms of health or legislation that should be brought forth. Implying I am seems pretty ridiculous. :p

Rising meat prices, for whatever reason, would tend to reduce consumption.
And if you own a Mac it costs $0 to develop for any other platform. See the imbalance here?
I agree, and it creates a real chicken-and-egg problem.

I've also been on the other side of things, working for such companies. I've always felt a bit of unease knowing that prospective customers may be taking on more risk than our salespeople were letting on.
Maybe you've seen something different, but so far I've only seen one news report stating that the reason the shooter moved on to a second location (at least 40 victims) from his first location (at least 9 victims) is because someone at that first location started shooting back at him!
As a modest counterpoint --

Things I do care about in a debit card:

* cash back on transactions I can't put on a CC -- i.e. rent
* OFX/Quicken APIs I can use to import transactions
* the ability to choose a PIN rather than memorize a randomly assigned one
* the ability to send money via western union to family from my house
* is accepted at all retailers / Paypal / misc
* does not lose my money

Things I do not care about because I have other banking products:

* high APR on cash balances

Things that are dumb:

* emoji
* large spend alerts / restrictions
* card customization
I thought it was the WaffleJS in SF.
Although funny, it's probably not as effective or economical (or ethical/sanitary) as pepper spray.
Connecting a few government-owned buildings is a far cry from requirements in the US, where typically every area above a very low population threshold must be connected.
> Abnormally Dry:

* Short-term dryness slowing planting, growth of crops
* Some lingering water deficits
* Pastures or crops not fully recovered

Maybe it's a confusing use of the word. I think they might just mean that the area is still experiencing residual effects of the drought.
Totally agree. I've used your product in the past, and I was quite happy with it. I think you can take pride in a job well done.
In fact, you could even roughly quantify the degree to which cows like/dislike this experience by looking at the quality of food (or treats) that have to be paired with this versus a non-toilet feeder for the cows to be indifferent between the two options.
Some misinformation here. Using a bastion server does not prevent you from using your tools. Use ssh to setup tunnels that forward through your bastion server to your internal servers and then connect through the local port.
2600 isn't a hacking group, it's a publication that has meetups.

Both 2600 and cDc started in 1984, however. LOD did too.
> Rust provides the RefCell wrapper

There is also `Cell` (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/cell/struct.Cell.html), which offers a different set of tradeoffs.

> which policy do you want to be the zero-overhead default

The one where:

- The compiler can make more optimizations

- I'm less likely to shoot myself in the foot my conflicting mutations

is a good default for me, so I'm in favor of Rust.

> a hypothetical future scenario where it is demonstrated that the optimizers are good enough

This sounds like the sufficiently smart compiler (http://wiki.c2.com/?SufficientlySmartCompiler) argument. While I'd love to live in this world, we aren't there yet.

Even in such a world, there would still be reasons to choose Rust over C, such as standardized dependency management or a rich type system.
I know exactly how they _can_ improve things but the engineering organization is not well run to do big infra-only projects like that.
For anyone else who was wondering why SMS is insecure for 2FA:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/18/16328172/sms-two-factor-a...
> Throughout the 20th century, the Eastern Bloc had to deal with western media eroding the narratives of their society. Now, it seems that the tables have turned through social media. But instead of creating images, stories, and music of the wealth and richness of life brought by self determination, it's far more effective to simply sow chaos and jam our society's means of information exchange.

That's not new. Even in the 20th century, Eastern Bloc countries were working to "simply sow chaos and jam our society's means of information exchange":

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/opinion/russia-meddling-d...

They've just updated their techniques for the web, where it turns out they are much more effective.
> telling small children scary stories so they would refrain from doing something particular damaging is quite common among many cultures.

I mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnation right?
Well they're already not flying, likely won't be for many months, and the vast majority of 737 MAXes aren't built yet.

Adding another sensor definitely seems like it might be in the cards, if it would help to resolve this issue.
The "graffiti" you see in Berlin on the buildings' walls are mostly fully legal pain-work done by hired professionals.
Ah but this is the seeing point of New Zealand: they have a low population of people, and a lot of open grazing land. Heck there are more sheep than people there! That is a no go in the US.
Now that you mention it, I do use unbound on my router. I should check to see if you're right, though I can't right now.

There is no mandatory block in place, that much I am sure. Such a thing could not be put in place without me hearing about it, I'm sure about that.
On a related topic, I’m wondering what careers are like for CS researchers in industry outside of Silicon Valley but still in the United States. My specialties are in systems software research (e.g., operating systems, distributed systems), machine learning, and databases. Most of the companies that I’m familiar with that do research in these areas are Silicon Valley-based, although there are some obvious options in Seattle (Amazon and Microsoft are headquartered there, and Facebook and Google have offices there). My ideal situation would be a culturally diverse area with a low-to-moderate cost of living. I like Silicon Valley due to its amenities and opportunities, but I could see myself starting a family within the next 3-5 years and I don’t think I’d be able to afford it in Silicon Valley unless I give up research, hit Leetcode really hard, and apply for a FAANG software engineering position.
That’s what I said in my comment, and what Spotify is arguing. They have to follow rules set by Apple that Apple doesn’t apply to Apple Music.
It depends on the type of marketing those pictures were. Pictures used in anti-smoking campaigns were of the humans consuming them and the related health issues that ensued. They weren't of manufacturing cigarettes.

If you showed a bunch of in shape healthy people on low carb diets I'm not sure that would cause meat sales to decline.

If you mean slaughter, well maybe it would have an effect on sales, maybe it wouldn't. But it's not comparable to the anti-smoking ads.
Could you rephrase the core sentiment of the post that you agree with? I can't understand what it's saying at all, other than expressing anger at the reporting of climate issues.
They would be close in general I guess, but possibly differ in maneuvers with banking and yaw? Perhaps some comparisons of averages over time would be best, rather than reacting to instantaneous disagreement.

(Not an aeronautical engineer ... see for example description of turning stalls at https://www.experimentalaircraft.info/flight-planning/aircra... ).
Thanks for the clinical discussion around environmental droughts.

As usual such technical views ignore the on-the-ground experience for people to provide context for the language you’re criticizing.

Yes, to the ecosystem itself, in a vacuum, it’s not bad.

To human existence there it’s been problematic. Emotions are up over it. Perhaps that’s an alternative argument you’re not considering?

This is like telling people dealing with cancer “We all die some day.”

Damn those humans and their generalizing to maintain social connection. We should all just stick to highly technical interpretations (even though not all of us want to!)
AirPods, other wireless headphones could pose cancer risk, scientists warn
I remember hearing about this from family members and seeing it online. I understand it happens, but is it really healthy or just urban legend/religious BS?
This is why I think Python programmers are suffering from Stockholm syndrome. Why you'd write your app in Python and dealing with crashing C extensions, asyncio, mypy, etc, when you can write Go, which is fast, allows you to approach concurrency synchronously, and has a type system for anything other than data science is beyond me.

Go is really the successor to Python more than any other language. If combines the same love of simplicity, readability, and the "one way to do things" approach that made Python so successful with modern day takes on multithreading and safety.
Scientists found moving water molecules on the Moon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Molyneux#Alt-right, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Molyneux#White_genocide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Southern#%22White_genoc...
> Support is often viewed as a cost center

Support is a cost-center for B2C companies, but one of the most important parts for B2B.
I feel like the author should have said "longest running," but sensationalized it a bit instead. I'm sure there were many hacker groups before 1984.