skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Australian Government does not like whistleblowers:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-28/witness-k-and-bernard...

I can't stress enough the potential for harm in any attempt to bypass various laws.

The Australian Government even refused to allow independent Medical Doctors into their off-shore immigration detention centres for fear of the detention conditions being made public.

Australia did nothing to even consider trying to maybe help Julian Assange, an Australian citizen seeking protection from nation-backed harassment, way back when, and two Australian citizens were murdered by the Indonesian Government for drug trafficking (Australia negotiated prior to the event, but no negative action was taken afterwards). These are admittedly both divisive examples - with the intention to point out that it depends on the direction of political winds as to how the Australian Government will react.

Australia is a good place to live and the anecdotes above are specifically chosen as the far end of the bad scale, but if you choose a fight with any of the few specific issues the Government is paranoid about or sensitive to, you may face significant resources aimed at your incarceration.

Just make sure your ass is thrice covered if you're going to go up against it...
Labeling one person (or even one department) as "Duke" is very disingenuous. It was one researcher who committed fraud. The negligent researchers, as mentioned in the article, are guilty of wrongdoing, but not fraud.
I agree, perception probably plays a lot into this. It seemed mostly feminine to me but wavered a lot between what I perceive feminine and masculine voices are. This doesn't seem like the answer but I agree with whoever created this in that it would be nice to have non-gendered computer voices. My reasoning is just that I don't want to give machines a fake gender - it's something that's always bothered me. That thing is not a him nor a her.
Do they have to tell you they are an Australian citizen? E.g. if they happen to also have local citizenship of your country?
George: When Do Airline Pilots Turn on the Autopilot?
Not necessarily. Websites should use CSS media queries to work at all aspect ratios and sizes without needing server-side code or JavaScript.
Yep, I ran into this. It really soured me on signal, I definitely disabled it as my default SMS. I have a history of combined SMS and signal messages trapped on one phone. I can read them in the signal app, make backups, but not import them on a new phone.

Even if the backup works, the process is rather tricky. You have to get the backup file into a specific directory on the new phone BEFORE you open signal. There's no "import from backup option". If you mess up, you have to uninstall, then do the file copy.

There are issues like this going back years.
Oh yeah, I agree, I am either having to listen to discover weeklys that essential seem like a randomly generated workout playlist, or listen to songs I've heard a million times. Maybe it's also partially a factor of having a reduced library being in Canada, I am not sure :/
It looks like this is a low end Cisco device, released over 5 years ago. Patches are probably handled by underpaid interns, not well-paid engineers.
deleted because of hackernews "bros"

https://twitter.com/kf/status/1110922957721731072
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> You'll also be denied entry at most hotels that aren't 4-5 star because they don't allow foreigners, ...

This reminds me the trip to Shanghai in 2013. We were a group attending Student Cluster Competition at ASC13 [1]. The first night we arrived Shanghai, we were rejected by one or two hotels, with the reason that they cannot accept foreigners （外賓: direct translation to "foreign guests"） to stay. It is so irony that Taiwanese are treated as Chinese citizen at airports but not at hotels.

An another funny but out-of-topic story during the trip is at the first day of the competition. Team members got their T-shirts with school name, "National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan." But after the opening ceremony, we were asked to return the T-shirts soon. The new ones arrived in the afternoon with "Taiwanese Tsing Hua University" on it. But you can find that the first press release [2] was not updated correspondingly. My personal interpretation to this was that, it is safe to assume that CCP ideology is not rooted in Chinese academic people, but as they notice anything that might be inappropriate they would still eliminate potential threats to ASAP for their good.

[1] http://www.studentclustercomp.com/tag/asc13/

[2] http://www.studentclustercomp.com/asc13-field-of-ten-chosen/
I remember when these commercials came out, they seemed annoying - just corporate hype with nothing real. There was even a parody on some show (SNL?) that made fun of them: "Have you ever been seduced by your toaster? You will." Of course the real predictor from 1993 was Demolition Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnSIOlF132w
^^ This guy's my hero.
I work out of own of the first coworking spaces in the country, Indy Hall. I have been a member of it since 2012. I can say hands down that going there was the true catalyst to my professional career.

Unlike most high tech "fancy" workspaces, Indy Hall purposefully has the literal cheapest Ikea desks and an assortment of random chairs to use at them. I'm not saying it's a dump, but it does not have the "wow" factor that a WeWork has. Instead of coming to The Hall for the space you come for the community. It's the people who make it a place where you want to be at.

It has a super diverse community. There are obviously people in tech but there are also non-profit, journalists from USA Today, WaPo and Gizmodo, artists, and even a plumber. The collective experience of this community is awe inspiring.

One of the best parts is the lunch table. On any given day you can engage in surprisingly intellectual conversations about almost anything (from the Phillies to social issues to intricacies of the patent law with a lawyer member).

There is a big downside to the space though, distraction. It literally a giant open office plan and it is way to easy to get distracted. They have a quiet zone and I have noise canceling headphones which help - but it's not ideal.

All in all I'm happier at a coworking space than I am at home.
It's becoming standard because they're able to skirt employment law using a continuing relationship with an arbitrator as a lever. So yes, they're all trying to screw you. Or least, have the option to screw you at their leisure.

Legal protections should not be signed away. Collective action is the power labour wields.
What? Microsoft intentionally reducing their licence revenue?
Do trains cause traffic congestion? Like if there were 10 more trains passing through downtown Detroit per day, would it add minutes to the commute of cars due to train track crossings having to stop traffic more?
Plus what is a non-tracked FB experience? I'm seriously asking because I might not understand what 'tracking' means in this specific legal context
I think I’d prefer an easy, but banal lifestyle to one of strenuous toil.
Yeah, I am pretty close to stopping my subscription purely because of the poor recommendations.

The mobile app I feel like has only gotten worse. They removed tabs on the bottom and made the search page have more on it, and it just feels even more painful to discover new things. And the homepage is basically just chalked full of "new music" that is based on me apparently being super into hip hop and rap music. Which on the surface may seem true if you look at the workout music I listen to, but in reality is the complete opposite of what I enjoy listening to anywhere else.
My father once told me, before he passed:

"No matter what you need to fix in your life, start with sleep and food. You'll have difficulties improving anything else if these two basic needs aren't fulfilled"

That sounded very Captain Obvious at the time, but as I'm getting older, I realize more and more he was so right.
What about the RHS of the equation? x^2-xy+y^2 are three big-number multiplications and two big-number adds, where digit number do matters.
"Real programmers aren't afraid of GOTO"
Didn’t Google find no useful correlation between either GPA or school attended and job performance? I’m not sure if they categorized people by “easy” or “hard” degrees.
I have to be honest, the linking of 'nationalism' to this discussion looks like hyperbole to me.

I have seen a lot of people in my area assert that my political will should be subordinate to theirs because I came from somewhere else. Last place I lived, the notion that a particular demographic I fall into should be kept out of the general housing market when possible due to pricing others out was not just a fringe idea but part of several (ultimately successful) city council candidates' platforms. Perhaps people in your area are less nutty about outsiders.

If someone can't afford to live in some area…

Yes, those who can't afford the rent can live elsewhere, so rent control is not needed.
web search -> data from the american community survey (done by the US census bureau)

But here’s a BLS page, https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11b.htm

Adding up a few related categories that’s only counting about 2 million workers, so it’s also possible that some younger workers aren’t being properly counted in the right category. Dunno...

Also keep in mind, a whole lot of programmers are working on some legacy enterprise applications instead of working at young companies on web apps. In some companies the age distribution is going to skew much younger.
It is a demonstration of your people skills as much as technical.

I was in a phone screen for a ML job and failed to recognize the term "regularization.". They explained what it meant and I realized I had been doing it all along and it turned out I did know the subject, just not the word.

Software jobs require people who can master details; if you were a Pythoner I wouldn't expect you to know everything but I'd love to know that you've thought seriously about some aspect. If I wanted to hire somebody who was resentful about focusing on details I would be hiring a salesman!
Businesses are the true customer (since they spend the money) and businesses don't want to waste money on users who are less likely to click or buy either.
Show HN: DevTracker, track time spent working based on your working directory
Any ideas what might be causing your.. imaginative dreams?

Cheese before bed? Art-house movies? Art-house substances?
Lost in translation: Exposing hidden compiler optimization opportunities
Of course they have the same power. Australia is just more open about it because the compulsion power is formalised.
Yeah, I’m currently going through the rounds of testing - just had the echocardiogram a week ago. Fortunately, that turned out normal. They gave me metoprolol, but that doesn’t seem to help. My potassium was kind of low, so they gave me a supplement for that, but it didn’t help either. If these PVCs keep up at the current rate, I suspect they will suggest ablation. Not really looking forward to that...

Anyway, I’m not sure exactly how Apple is analyzing the data. I’ve performed probably 15 EKGs with only one or two PVCs present, and it reported a normal sinus rhythm every time. It only reported afib once, and there were quite a few PVCs in that capture. I can email it to anyone interested.

Apparently, occasional (a few a day) PVCs are very common, so I imagine Apple had to encounter this situation during development.
I wish my dad was still that clever and he's almost two decades younger. Your dad is awesome.
And as I get older, the more I realize how hard it is despite the best intentions.
Well, that straw man is obviously useless, which is why the bad old days had an intense vocabulary for all the different proportions of mixed race. Research today shows that people's classifications generally lines up with genetic ancestry. So, for example, doctors are well served to judge racial/genetic makeup by appearance when diagnosing and treating patients. Likewise, if you want to make an ethnostate or the opposite, it's certainly a useful concept. (American immigration laws by design do the opposite, using national quotas as a proxy for race.)
That framing isn’t right. The F35 is not sent in to “win.” it has a specific mission. With regard to winning, both the USSR and the US (or China,etc.) could win a war in AF. The question is are they willing to do what it would take? The answer is no. It would cause too many casualties (no one is willing to bear that, even the taliban). So war becomes more a tool to serve a policy rather than a way to vanquish an enemy.
From the release:

> Our own review of hate figures and organizations – as defined by our Dangerous Individuals & Organizations policy – further revealed the overlap between white nationalism and separatism and white supremacy.

It doesn't appear that this content is being banned because Facebook surrogates find the politics in question abhorrent (though they likely do so find). It is being banned because it is acting as part of a recruitment funnel for an ideology that openly advocates violence. They collected evidence of this before acting.

The line is somewhat blurry, but it does exist. On one side, we have a sensible use of editorial discretion; on the other, we have censorship. Is Facebook going to cross the line at some point? Almost certainly. Basically every individual or entity to have editorial discretion has both made mistakes and abused that power.

It remains to be seen to what extent that will happen here. If anything, they've erred on the side of permissiveness so far (e.g. how long it took to ban ISIS). If that changes, we should call them out at that time.
Now I want to see $200 buy-in basketball tournaments.
i'm just sitting here looking from Africa smiling... eventually you'll come to us.
It does partially solve the issue of continuing to send messages without any sort of warning -- new devices mean your messages won't send unless you hit the "send anyway" button (and in your settings you can disable the send anyway option).

It also solves a problem that Keybase has which is that all new devices are automatically trusted (so a compromised device can just register more devices to avoid being blocked). To be fair, this makes for a pretty bad UX -- and the Matrix folks are working on cross-signing to make this easier -- but it is very useful for a user to be able to detect new devices to be detected (especially their own).
Hello, this is my first open source project written in python. Let me know what you think, I'd appreciate any feedback!
The US people and companies do. We just have incompetent leadership in our government, we're waiting it out too.
I'm the biggest Apple fanboy out there, but I think they've lost their way and I hope someone helps them find a way back before I need to replace my laptop. Listen guys and gals I know you've worked hard on your news service, and your shiny new credit card but it's time to buckle down and make something worth spending my money on. Something I can use to make media and apps for your users to consume.
It's also a deterrent against more conventional opponents or potential opponents like Russia and China.
That’s precisely the situation where I’d want a drop-off receipt just in case my package goes missing or magically opens itself.
The Australian government is increasingly becoming an abuser of human rights. I could not have left fast enough.
It should probably be highlighted at the top of the article that three of those pilots are employees of lockmart.
"Is it easy to handle salary payments to China "
- yes, through Paypal

"will the Chinese Firewall interfere with any web development activity they have to do"
- Most of the Chinese programmers know how to bypass the firewall by using VPN or shadowsocks.

Rails developer here, I have been following remote job listing sites for a really long time. Its frustrating when most of them set limitation as for "US"/"EU"/"NA" citizens only.
Avoiding rush hour traffic.
I'm not inclined to take this article at face value. The pilots could have been cherry picked and bribed, and Lockheed-Martin is a major donor to the Air & Space Museum, the parent organization of the publisher [0].

[0] https://airandspace.si.edu/theater-type/lockheed-martin-imax...
It’s cause A10’s are cheap and F-35’s are expensive. Same reason why the SR-71 was killed (10 planes to own the sky and any adversary vs an order for hundreds).
> I can publish a standalone .NET Core app that's only around 30MB in size.

Honestly, it shouldn't need to be that big. There's plenty of cruft even in .NET core.
Cluetrain at 20
$3.67 per mile is just the "cost of gas". I bet he has to pay to get the train from storage to the spot where they'd pick it up, do the same on the other end to come back home, and do it again to get back to his parking spot.
Hard to say.

Me = 35+ years in harness.
Black coworkers in that time = 0
Female coworkers in that time = 3
>i dont understand the logic of removing someones ability to converse if they dont understand why they're wrong.. they cant ask questions.

I don't think I've ever seen someone already radicalized reason their way out of it through conversing on the internet. I'm guessing the calculus is that exposing this content to people makes it easy to be suckered in, but we don't see the opposite affect.
Seems entirely possible that the F-35 has grown into a solid piece of engineering and is great to fly from a pilot's perspective without that necessarily invalidating cost-related and overrun-related criticisms of the project.
How are you solving any problems?

Edit: my point being that it's a rude and combative way to pose that question
The Docker part seems thoroughly unnecessary.
"That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works."
are you sad about any of the "stupid" (relative and subjective term) laws in the US? Would be curious to know which, if any.
The US has a very different system in a lot of ways. The UK doesn't have a formal constitution, its executive is subject to the legislature in a way it isn't in the US, one house, etc. The UK is a parliamentary democracy and the US is a republic. Also, the UK wasn't a democracy in any meaningful sense in 1776. The History Of Parliament Online is a very useful resource (https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/research/constitue...). Out of some 6 million people in 1776 that lived in Britain, approximately 100,000 had the right to vote, most of which were in a small segment (i.e. the ability to vote was highly geographically concentrated).
> What makes it just a fine and a slap in the wrist just because they're a big company?

Yes ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsplLiZHbj0 )
Is DNA pretty clear on the whole male/female thing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XX_male_syndrome
Cold Turkey can unfortunately be defeated if you are realllllly clever

Err no, you just change the date/time and voila.
Any good liberterian/conservative could/should have seen this coming a mile away. Human beings are not inherently good and any solution that doesn't take human nature into consideration is fundamentally flawed. That's why Socialism never works: it fails to take into account the fact that the power to redistribute wealth in the hands of a human being is breeds corruption. And I know we're all so smug to think that if only WE had the power, we could do better... But we won't because no one ever has.
Different Kinds of Information
You signed something when you left? What do you think they were planning to do if you didn’t? Fire you?
Technologists need to understand that governments do not form policies, legislate and operate in isolation. There is cooperation. Tax and trade treaties are another example.

See [1] for commentary about the international agenda in this case.

[1] https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/disruptors-dis...
My all-time best PhD moment, as the holder of one of those much-vaunted doctorate thingies, was last year when GlaxoSmithKline told me that too much time had passed since I obtained my PhD therefore it was no longer considered valuable. So watch out everyone, these advanced degrees apparently come with expiration dates now! Always check for freshness.
There is a list of countries (Iran and friends, I'm not sure if China was on the list) that if you have or had ever previously held citizenship you are permanently barred from working with ITAR controlled materiel.

The reason being that otherwise there's nothing stopping you from renouncing your citizenship, stealing the secrets, and defecting in exchange for being granted citizenship again.
The Rise of Tech in Vancouver
The A-10 is amazing. This pilot landed her plane after receiving massive damage, including a giant hole in the wing and loss of all hydraulics. [1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Campbell_(pilot)
From my head: MtGox 1000 -> 200, DDos: 230 -> 70. There was a bigger one before, which was over 90% drop , I think it was the hard fork with the database bug, but it was a long time ago, I don't remember well.
What? Of course everybody has some laws they dislike that are stupid. To get a sampler, check out @crimeaday on Twitter (https://twitter.com/CrimeADay).
I use KeyBase. Not long ago, one of my contacts deleted all their devices. So I got the skull-and-crossbones warning. Then they messaged me as a new account.

Now this is an anonymous contact. There is no way that we will authenticate in meatspace. So I said "sorry", and pointed out that they should have shared a public GnuPG key with me before triggering a reset.
Improving Communication Inside a Dev Team
CEOs don’t go to jail.
Right.

I would argue it is possible for better classification; I don't have a reason why apple chose not to do this (especially if they're capturing the data) other than the algorithms are not as guaranteed as we would like and they don't want to assume that kind of liability. (ECG printouts include the computer's interpretation; a standard way of reading them is to completely ignore whatever the computer says, because it is not infrequently completely wrong. And those are the professional grade machines with 12-leads capturing 10 different points on the body)

Edit; As I thought more about this, I realized that analyzing QRS duration or presence of p-waves can be lead dependent, which can change based on which parts of the body are being used to generate the lead.
This is racist. What about other forms of nationalist content? Nope. Just that by white people.

Chomsky's reversal test: Would it be racist to ban black nationalist content? If the answer is yes, then it is also racist to ban white nationalist content.

Don't be racist, facebook. Ban all nationalist content.
In fact, the anti-vaxx movement is more than a century old:

https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/history-a...
There is presumably some way, at least hypothetically, to fix the mess that User-Agent has become. (Everybody is 'Mozilla' now! And yet somehow a unique snowflake 'Mozilla' that lets you be tracked...)

But it's not quite that. It's not that a device is "mobile" instead of "stationary" that matters. It's maybe that it's a touch screen. It's maybe that it's a small screen. (With an especially uneven aspect ratio?) Maybe that it's handheld. It's maybe the combination of all of those things. But it's not really that it's "mobile" exactly. And there are, and possibly will be increasing proportions of, devices that have some but not all of these qualities we package together in our brains as 'typical mobile'
Land value tax requires a constitutional amendment in California. Once again, with feeling: it does not solve short term problems and is therefore not an alternative to rent control.

Also, you've ignored that renters are still encouraged to increase housing supply with rental subsidies. If they have enough votes to enact rent control, they have enough votes to increase housing supply for the long term solution.
Unfortunately, most court cases involving businesses don't involve facts of law as much as they involve having more money to fling at lawyers.
The “continuation of politics by other means”