skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Overview of the three main improvements in this release:

1. Detect secrets and credentials in the repository

A recurring problem when developing applications is that developers may unintentionally commit secrets and credentials to their remote repositories. If other people have access to the source, or if the project is public, the sensitive information is then exposed and can be leveraged by malicious users to gain access to resources like deployment environments.
GitLab 11.9 includes a new check called Secret Detection. It scans the content of the repository to find API keys and other information that should not be there. GitLab displays results in the SAST report in the merge request widget, pipelines reports, and the security dashboards.

2. Merge request approval rules

Code review is an essential practice of every successful project, but who should review the changes is not always clear. It is often desirable to have a variety of reviewers from different teams like Engineering, UX, and Product.
Approval Rules allow you to better communicate who should participate in code reviews by specifying the eligible approvers and the minimum number of approvals for each. Approval rules are shown in the merge request widget so the next reviewer can quickly be assigned.

3. Move ChatOps to Core

Initially introduced in GitLab Ultimate 10.6, ChatOps has now moved to GitLab Core. GitLab ChatOps provides the ability to trigger GitLab CI jobs from Slack by using the slash commands feature.
We are open sourcing this feature in alignment with our buyer-driven tier designation to encourage its use and contribution by the community.
The sites are well studied.
The near impossibility of building a robot to do something as simple as taking out the trash leads me to believe that the impending automation apocalypse is much further out than many people think.

There are limitless tasks that humans can perform with ease. There are very few tasks we've discovered that machines do with ease. Those few discoveries have changed the world.

In 2019, we can design and implement solutions for robots to do almost anything. But with very few exceptions these designs fall apart when they perform outside of a controlled environment or even inside of controlled environments when tasks need to be done reliably.
Fiber: The Tech Revolution and Why America Might Miss Itwith Susan Crawford
One can partly achieve it, thereby falling into an "uncanny valley" of robots which are crappy cleaners, crappy laundry folders, crappy cooks...
> There is not such thing as "good" people raping, torturing, humiliating, terrorizing and doing evil things to other helpless and disarmed people.

There's no indication that he directly participated in any of that, and quite a bit to indicate he didn't. After all, he was heading towards pacifism before he was deployed, and became so disillusions that he was honorably discharged as a conscientious objector. I wouldn't be surprised if the people doing those evil things were careful to hide those activities from him. He seems like the kind of person who'd have caused problems for them, and they probably understood that.
I have an interesting personal anecdote on this. I'm a 27-year-old Caucasian American (relevant) who doesn't speak any Japanese and who recently spent 3 months in Japan with my girlfriend.

Her aunt by adoption is an ethnically Japanese native of Tokyo who of course speaks fluent Japanese, and we spent a month living with her there.

At one point, we went over her aunt's friend's family's house for dinner. The friend's family does not speak any English.

All night we managed to have a really interesting and fun time by using Google translate to translate what I wanted to say (my gf mostly just spectated), and Google translate would horribly mistranslate it to humorous and confusing effect, and then Yuka (the aunt) would explain to the family what I actually meant with a proper translation.

Now in the middle of dinner, after a good hour of this and now at a stage where we had mostly set google translate aside, it came up that I don't drink alcohol, and the father commented how much money I must save this way. And I, fool that I am, joked "oh no I blow all the savings on cocaine." And I looked at Yuka, who chuckled and said "no, no, I'm not going to translate that." But she didn't add any cultural warning, so I thought she was just being a little formal. So I said, "fine I'll translate it with google translate!"

Now sure, you might say it was a bad joke, but in the US depending who you're eating with it would still elicit chuckles or smiles, even if it was just polite.

Not in Japan. When I held up the phone with the translation for them to see, the reaction was shocked silence. It was as though I had held up an image of hardcore pornography at the table. Even the two high school age boys were horrified, not so much as a smile.

After a moment the father muttered in halting English "bad joke."

And that is how I learned just how taboo drugs are in Japan.

In retrospect Yuka found it hilarious. "I told you not to say it!" "No you didn't, you just said you wouldn't translate it, that's not the same thing!" "Ha ha well..."
The Dutch have gained 8 inches in height, on average, over the last 150 years. Americans meanwhile onl gained 6cm of height

'Natural selection'. From another, similar article:

Average-height women seemed to be
favored when it came to having kids, even though taller women had kids who
I'm sure the height of the average American has been lowered by immigration from typically shorter people from China, Mexicao, and India were more likely to survive. That, in turn, contributed to the reproductive
success of tall men.
Admittedly, I spent next to no real time investigating, but I did sign up and attempt to use it after some friends recommended it. There is no way any normal non-tech savvy person is going to go through that many hoops. I also couldn't figure out how to search other servers with any success. So unless I bring people I want to connect with into a server, I'm not grasping what good it's going to do as a social tool.
I helped write a book on this: https://www.amazon.com/Software-Engineers-Guide-Freelance-Co...

If you just email me (email in profile), I will send you a free pdf copy. All I ask is that you leave a review once you find your first client.
Engineering Manager (Remote)
Throwing it in [outline.com](https://outline.com) has been the easiest for me so far
It's pretty obvious this is about immigration and origin, not income or healthcare.

Mesoamericans, which became Central Americans, and have since immigrated in large numbers to the US, tend to be shorter than Europeans.

Japan has some of the healthiest people on Earth, as measured by things like nutrition, healthcare, and lifespan. But they are still shorter on average than the much poorer Estonians.

It feels like the author is inappropriately shoehorning this data into a statement about healthcare.
No, I think it’s the airlines fervor for cost cutting and seat maximization that leads to dangerous problems.
Or just bypass them to being with. Here's a good plugin for firefox: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox
How useful would a full-screen GUI application that runs on existing operating systems be? That way eliminates dealing with device drivers or building custom hardware.

The Lisp-all-the-way-down part doesn’t seem as useful as it was originally. You could get 80% of the functionality with 10% of the work of a full OS.
I wonder how this posts overlays with Jess' experience at GitHub. She only worked there for a couple of months and I've heard from insiders that there was a lot of tension. It would be great to hear her side of the story and see if this post was partially a comment on GH's culture or her own growth after the experience.
No thank you, I lost faith in Purism after they continually misled their customers about the Librem 15 laptop.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3anjgm/on_the_librem...
$1 beers instead of $10
As the other comments mention, I avoid the + sign on a e-mail - way too many systems (from form validators to other systems) freak out with dashes, dots and plus signs in e-mails.

The format I have settled is somewhat like prefixFixedSizeSuffix@domain, both prefix and suffix being plain alphanumeric characters. Yes, the suffix is rather dumb (it could be a smarter like a hash when I used procmail) but still better than a catchall with no filtering.

I could have opted to a whitelist. Not sure how automatable GSuite services are (I guess a bit) but this simple regex allows me to just come up with email address on demand with with minimal fuzz.
> I might not care as much

I'd say you would care too much! (abstract/general 'you', not @CalRobert). The problem any sort of reform faces is antipathy, not apathy.
Yes. For example, most people that have ever seen any of the relevant statistics.
I've thought the same, but is this true?

A shout-out to HN folks w/ experience at full-remote companies: are there hiring and onboarding practices you've used that allow less-experienced hires to be successful when working remotely?
Making Trapdoor Decisions
Transitioning from military to civilian life is difficult, especially right after a deployment. I shot myself in the foot a few times because I just didn't fit in. To be honest, I was a real asshole. For instance, shredding someone to pieces like a PFC who's just done something really stupid - it just doesn't work in the "real world".
> I'll put my money on an actual tech company coordinating with banks rather than a bank itself

Banks basically are tech companies these days. I'd put JPMC's development capabilities over and above IBM's any day, and their domain knowledge much higher.

(Disclaimer - I've worked for both, but obviously speak for neither)
What's DLDN? I tried Googling it with some relevant keywords but it just brings me back to this comment.
You can hire good designers on fivver, but the price will be a lot higher than $5!

Fivver is a general marketplace for skilled services, fully legitimate design firms, from all around the world, are available there.
Global inequality: Do we live in a one-hump world?
Assuming this works and is scalable, it's potentially a game-changer for Saudi Arabia.

All wells produce water along with the oil. Great background from the old theoildrum blog: http://theoildrum.com/node/6052 and http://theoildrum.com/node/9045

The "water cut" is the percentage of water in the fluid coming out of the drill hole. Normally this is a disposal problem. If it's drinkable (and not saline!), Saudi no longer need to desalinate quite so much water, they can just use the water from the oil wells.
I think that the concept around logo has been changed in recent times.

Having a great, professional logo that has been put hours of work in is no longer something that start ups (generally speaking) spend time and money on.

The logo is not that important in the early stages, what matters if whether the product is something that solves a problem and people love it.

Once that part is checked, then you can focus on creating a good brand-able logo that your brand will be remembered by.
Are you trying to import YNAB's budgeting philosphy into Beancount? If so, how? I've considered the same transition but was unsure how to handle having budgetary categories dissociated from physical accounts.
If you can afford a subscription, please consider supporting our Free Press. Last year, 53 journalists like khashoggi were murdered in their quest to keep us informed. America's leader has a war on the Fourth Estate constantly labeling them, "Fake News". American Journalists are paying the price for this toxic rhetoric.[2][3] In this time more than ever, those that can afford it, please support real journalism like WSJ, NYT, and Wapo.

Social Media has been a gift to dictators, allowing them to speak directly to their subjects. It also has embolden them to use violence against journalists that report the world in a way that conflicts with their message.

I've been trying to do my part by giving out digital subscriptions to friends and family that share actual fake news on social media.

[1] https://www.apnews.com/2deb8e97a7454800803bc5d156c36d2f

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Gazette_shooting

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2018_United_States_mai...
I think it's important to be rational about what will or won't have an impact on the global problem. People want to have a sense of personal agency, but pretending that individual choices like reducing travel, turning the thermostat down and not eating meat will have any impact is actually counterproductive, because they create the false impression that measures short of massive retooling of our economy can make a dent in this problem.

I'm not saying those are bad choices, or that there are not other ethical arguments for them. But let's be clear-eyed about the drastic level of structural change required to stabilize (let alone reduce, let alone get to net-negative) CO2 emissions.

(And anyone who chose to have children is automatically disqualified from talking about individual carbon impacts.)
Great, thank you! Do most people just follow the blog instead of checking the changelog?
I looked at this because we've mostly given up folding clothes with our 3 kids. I watched a video of that machine and it seems to be more for people who hate the act of folding clothes instead of people who don't have the time to fold clothes.

In comparison, our Roomba is a time saver because it means we don't have to do anything at all to vacuum every day.
Have you actually looked at the kernel code or worked with it? It's some of the cleanest code I've ever seen. It does have to do some things very differently due to it being kernel code rather than userspace, and it is a VERY large codebase (esp. when you add in all the driver code), but aside from that it's quite nice IMO.

Most commercial projects I've worked on really were a "garbled mess" by comparison, and far less maintainable.
I'm not sure if it's factored in in the study, but the Netherlands is far from ethnically homogenous. Also, most immigration to NL has been post-1950 whereas the USA pre-1950 was an outlier in the Western world for its intake of immigrants.
> humans are bad at noticing absence of things.

Until you ask them whether a scene is a photo or a render. They won't know to look for shadow acne, but they will still make a judgement that includes it. RTX has a few things that we've had for years, but it seems to do a way better job at energy preservation.
Why phone numbers stink as identity proof
I’d pay a similar amount just for folding —- especially with a kid or two and two working parents, it’s our biggest household time-suck.
This sort of hyper-sensitivity to any negative effects of your actions is absolutely paralyzing, as you clearly demonstrate.

It will keep you from enjoying anything. People believe they shouldn't have kids because "there's too many people". Or spend the $10 on a reusable bottle of water they are going to lose instead of buying the $1 and giving $9 to your cause of choice (charity, church, weed for the homeless).

The only way to really go zero-emissions, which would really benefit everyone (I guess, by this logic) is to just off yourself.

But I'd argue that you could do more good, have more potential to solve these problems you are concerned about, by exposing yourself to things outside your comfort zone. Other places, people, cultures, great works of art and engineering, and rich experiences.

All of the planes you ride on are going to fly anyway, get out there and get it!
I'm pretty sure toy story 1 didn't use ray tracing. Iirc cars was the first that did.
It's supposed to be a price.

Suppose there are fines for both texting while driving and blocking traffic. Now someone is driving in a place where they can't stop without blocking traffic, when they think of a piece of information that they need someone else to know as an urgent matter of life and death.

If they don't send the information right away their kid is going to die. No fine is going to deter them from that. To account for the probability of getting caught, the deterrence-level penalty would have to be something like death for you and your whole family.

I assume nobody is going suggest that the penalty for blocking traffic should be that the government will snuff out your bloodline. Because that's disproportionate, because the fine is supposed to be a price -- and in that case it's one worth paying, because the alternative is worse, so that's what we should want to happen. It's not a problem that we failed to deter someone from blocking traffic for a minute in order to save their child. "Fixing" things so that we actually deter them from that (and then their child dies) is not an improvement.

And the same is true for less drastic events that are still worth more than the cost of blocking traffic for a minute. Which is why a fine is a price, proportional to the harm.
It's amazing how much taller second and third generation immigrants are than their parents/grandparents.

It's all diet. I'm ten inches taller than my grandfather and 7 inches taller than my dad. When I was a kid I remember my granda joking about eating 'white people food' like milk, peanut butter and jelly, and hamburgers, and that being why I got so tall.
They have this with car clubs all over the place already.
Haha what relevance does that quote have?
We live in a time where international air travel has become ridiculously cheap relative to domestic travel. I regularly see roundtrip flights between SFO and Singapore/HK for ~$600 and RT flights between US and Europe for ~$400 or so, but expect to pay at least $650 to go between SF<>NY and even $350 just to go between SF and LA sometimes.

Point is, it's never been cheaper to travel internationally. Enjoy it while it's still true.
The phenomenon also results in huge costs that the individual ends up imposing on society. I'm not saying that means the substance must be banned. But clearly there's a difference between freedom of speech/association, and freedom to consume addictive substances, and maybe that freedom ought to be modulated according to how addictive the substance is.
Bitcoin is also 5-10%+ owned by an unknown person/entity.
They also get immigrants in the NL, and quite a lot of them are also shorter.
A lot of broken links on https://adstudio.contextcue.com/register
Yeah, I believe it. It may be slight, and depend quite a bit on the individual, but I believe it for the same reason I believe attractive people have advantages (and height is an attribute in attractiveness for many), including getting paid more, which is to say for a plethora of small reasons that make sense to me and all add up to the same conclusion.

Increased confidence in dealing with others, including negotiating pay. Increased physical capability. Favoratism. Any number of other things.

On the flip side, why wouldn't being more attractive provide benefits? Because people strive to always be rational and know their own biases so they can be fair? That's hardly how I see most people acting on a day to day basis. Because less attractive people will try to punish attractive people? Also not something I see often (or at all, really).
Agreed. If you're American, maybe start with Vancouver or London so that there is no language issue, which can be the biggest issue.

It's also not hard to get by in most places in Europe, particularly Scandanavia. Most folks there speak English, among other languages.
It's more of an inter-bank settlement coin isn't it, than anything business oriented?
Next Challenge, Rehabilitation of Manila Bay in Philippines
Unless something has changed since the early 2000s, `mysqli_` doesn't have a gazillion PHP/MySQL tutorials that are riddled with insecure code. That alone was a good reason to deprecate `mysql_`.
>Many of the C++ gigs I've had were at places which only used fractions of the language.

I don't think any project or person uses or even knows the entire language. I think even Bjarne himself said that no human can possibly know all of C++.

Seriously, in every C++ project I've seen, it seems like whoever's in charge picks some subset of the language to confine themselves to, and uses that. One of C++'s strengths is that you can do this; it's adaptable to your project and style.
WriteMapper 2.2.0 Released
I avoid PayPal totally for any online purchase unless it's the only option. I learned it the hard way.

Once I paid $5 to buy the trial version of some software tool. Since I didn't know the seller, I used PayPal thinking it would offer more protection. After one week I was charged another $100 for the full license. I contacted the seller asking for a refund, but they declined it on the grounds of me having already accepted "recurring charges" on my PayPal transaction. Apparently I had but it was kind of hidden on the transaction and I hadn't paid enough attention. I contacted PayPal but they refused to help either. Finally I reached the credit card service attached to my PayPal to initiate a charge back. But at the same time I informed the seller about my intent and they refunded me instantly.

So long story short; don't use PayPal and if you have to, use only reputable credit cards. Never use your debit card on PayPal. PayPal doesn't protect you any more than your credit card does.
https://github.com/jpmorganchase You are selling JPM short they have pretty good tech talent and a lot of resources and domain expertise.
Job titles/level are really nice at my company because they have a help provide a language and social acceptable way to talk about the scope of tasks someone can accomplish AND a way to talk about the scope of a task or project.
I hardly ever comment, but this is a really cool idea. Could you elaborate a little more? (On technical aspects, not political obstacles.)
It's not obvious to me how subsidized healthcare is both better and cheaper in all cases. It certainly makes it more accessible for everybody, but that also has many downsides here in Quebec, including a very long wait-list for many types of surgeries, long wait-time for urgent care, many doctors/hospital staff are overburdened, or so I hear through the news.

I've also been meaning to read more on how the pharmaceutic industry works in the states, if the high prices on drugs are fair or not. Because even though prices may be high, it doesn't necessarily follow that the companies setting those prices are gouging people/being greedy, as many people claim.
Why would it be a problem that he has
a personality disorder?

On reflection, it wasn't constructive for me to sound off about his mental health. It's none of my business. If my original comment were still editable, I'd delete it.
What we now think of as "robot" companies aren't really robot companies, they are software companies. The hardware is easy and will be commoditized.
While true, it's mostly pedantic. OP is talking about a potential earthquake harvesting power plant. So generating in this sense means releasing the trigger, in the same way that burning coal is generating energy. It's just releasing the stored chemical energy of the coal, but we still say that coal powerplants generate energy.
having caught his program on 13 several times, i would venture to assert that your association is about as apt one as could be.

i associate rick steves with sick days, nick stellino, and pati jinich.
But edge detection is a lot easier on comics than on photos I would think. The background on a comic would also have a mostly solid color background which makes it easier.