skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consider FaceTime or Skype to be a good enough representation of this. It's still in the spirit of it. Something along the lines of "phones will be able to do video calls. And so wherever you are while you're away -- at a hotel or even on the side of the street -- you will be able to tuck your baby".

The only thing they missed was that you'd be able to carry such phones on your person, in your pocket. They couldn't fathom that we'd get really good at packing all that functionality into something so small.
Right – but then consider what its popularity might be today if AfD-aligned content had been banned by Facebook and other platforms from the start. Parties like the NPD have been around for ages, but unlike the AfD they were kept out of the Overton window and never managed to grow to significant numbers.
> 1. many people inside FB believe in censorship and that you can forbid people to speak or think and that it makes the problem disappear. Many people in tech actually believe this.

That sounds like you're making many assumptions and implications that aren't borne out by evidence. Why do you leap to this conclusion rather than:

"Many people inside FB believe that they don't want the platform they've built and created to be a platform for views they feel abhorrent, and if this means that those views need to feel an alternate home, that's not their problem"?
Well, "white" isn't a heritage at all unlike Irish, English, German, Scandinavian.. etc.
It would be extremely hard to do. The F-22 bus is antiquated, and not really designed for expansion. That's one of the reasons the F-22 still doesn't have an IRTS.
Exactly. Hacking your client to use another user-agent or another IP address is illegal under CFAA. See Craigslist Inc. v. 3Taps Inc. etc...
True, hard numbers get solid answers. But then what? Are you any closer to knowing what your day will be like? You can get those numbers from other people in the chain. This is your short chance to understand how the head of the company thinks; don't waste it on information you can get elsewhere.
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The article says "North American debut".
Fact. As someone who runs a startup that targets grandparents, they know the internet well. I’ve even had a customer say “why do young people think we don’t know how to use the web? We invented the fucking thing!”
I said they are crippled, not broken.

Unfortunately the poor naming is a big faux pas.

I really really expected timestamp with time zone to store the time zone.
The motto of the F-15 when it was initially designed was "not a pound for air to ground."
Determining PVCs vs afib is very trivial when you actually look at the strip. However, if Apple is only analyzing rate regularity and not actually doing analysis on the waveforms themselves they would be very difficult to differentiate.

If you're having so many PVCs that the watch thinks you're in afib, you should probably still see a doctor. As the grandparent noted, tens of thousands of PVCs in a couple day period is very unusual and should probably be seen by a specialist.
It's the least gendered synthetic voice I've heard but there is still a slight wobble between being first a hint more male and then a hint more female.

Also seems to me like it's somewhat camp - a neutral voice in that regard would also be worth exploring
I built the wireless modem that sent that fax. People often forget how primitive cell connections were. AMPS was the system, and the A or B ('B' as in 'Bell') carriers were your only choices. PenPoint OS had the notion of sporadic / opportunistic connections, and that's how one did email -- batched it up so when you'd plug in the RJ-11 you'd send/receive in batches.

The wireless (cellphone) capability would add a new dimension: on-the-go connectivity. In theory.

One of our sales guys was going to NYC and asked for us to load 'the latest build' and against our best judgement, we did. He reported back next day to us that he had successfully send a FAX to a potential client from the back seat of his cab. We all thought "What the heck! We never said that would work!" and then, "Oh, wow, looks like that worked!"
I put my Siri into British. Servants should be British. Is that racist?
This is quite funny
We have a back office/CRUD app written in html, bootstrap and thymeleaf (serverside templates). There is also a bit of Jquery when needed.

The current stack is dirt simple to debug and does the job. It’s also easy to hire people who can work on it and be productive right away. This ain’t rock star level coding.

In the end it’s hard for me to justify the investment in SPA/new framework.
Fair point, although there is no way that "year and a day" is enough punishment for this.
That looks pretty freakin' hard to get wrong.
Age discrimination for older workers everywhere is real.
Well, the F-23 was never going to be VSTOL, nor take off a carrier. So it never would have fulfilled the roles of the F-35. It would have been a nice replacement for the F-111 and Strike Eagle however.
The equivalent of a "pls dont hack" sign is not defense in depth.

Good to know they at least half fixed the problem, I guess. But that's not enough, and they should be capable of testing this.
How likely do you think it is that the settlement amount is less than the money made running this scam?
It's not just tech - lots of jobs require people to work 6 days a week in China.
why not just have their policy be the first amendment and they abide by the same rules as the country that created them? Why should corporations take on censorship powers that are prohibited for the government? Why should a private for-profit corporation controlled by one man have more power than a transparent institution controlled by democracy?
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What if the entity is, say, an independent contractor, staffing agency, or consultancy that provides engineering support to Apple?
While I do use an Apple Watch, I can second the build quality of Withings’ products. I also use their scales!
If I could bring somebody here from anywhere between 100 to 10,000 years ago, to show them the absolute state of society...
Part of the reason age discrimination does not get the coverage is that age discrimination disproportionately affects white males. This is due to the fact that as you go back in time in the US, white males made up a higher percent of college graduates and professionals than they do now. One side effect of this is that age discrimination likely makes your diversity numbers better.
This. Fortune 500s in China might not pay salaries as high as BATs (20-50% lower) nor sell dreams of being an early engineer at a startup. They do however offer 40 day work weeks with minimal overtime or shift, a good salary (development/tech is one of the highest paid professions in China as in the US), and plenty of work-life time to pursue hobbies/family/projects.
Your downvoters are terrible at detecting satire.
Australia has never been a proper democracy based country
its always been an National Socialist Democracy heading more left leaning since 2000 and getting worse by the year
>MIDI continues to show up in so many places

It always surprises me when people say that :)

The thing is, background MIDI on web pages was sort of an accidental quirk in the history of the protocol. Its primary function has always been its face value; it's literally in the name: Musical Instrument Digital Interface. And that's where MIDI has dominated since its introduction in the 80's.

Which, in some ways, is not for the best, because a better name for the protocol would have been Keyboard-Driven Instrument Interface. MIDI messages (to the extent that they are standardized) aren't good for anything else.

ROLI Seaboard is an example of pushing the protocol to its limits. The original spec didn't have polyphonic pitch bend (so a continuous slide from a minor chord into a major one is not possible); ROLI gets around it by transmitting each note one a different MIDI channel as if it were a separate instrument.

This example is just one limitation, but there are plenty; there's no good (read: standard) way to control a stringed instrument (or its emulation) with MIDI. You can play one note on a guitar in 4 ways (on 4 different strings), but MIDI isn't specced for that. Horns are passable because they are monophonic, but controlling performance aspects is up to the software. Drums get away by assigning different MIDI notes to different ways of playing a drum. Etc.

The thing is, the protocol was made just barely flexible enough that it lasted to these days; and the ability to drive an 80's synth with a controller built today (and connect them all to a modern computer/iPad/etc) is an amazing feature.

Because of that, MIDI underpins all modern digital instruments and music software. And because of that, anyone who makes electronic music is a keyboardist (or at least has a MIDI keyboard). The word MIDI controller pretty much defaults to MIDI keyboard.

Want to really have your mind blown about where MIDI shows up? The shape of the protocol defines the shape of the music. Just like different programming languages encourage different styles, so do musical instruments and their physical interfaces.

And so the absolute majority of electronic music today is written from a keyboardist perspective.

You won't get to hear a minor chord continuously slide into a major one in pretty much any music you hear that was made with digital/software instruments/computers.

Because the piano can't to that.

And because of that, the keyboards can't.

And so the synthesizers don't.

And so MIDI doesn't.

And so nearly all music software, for decades, wouldn't. (Some does, but it's not standard, so no mass adoption.)

And so your music doesn't have it a major chord slide into a minor. Because even if you don't play keyboards, your interface to digital instruments is still a piano roll.

Because MIDI.

I'm really looking forward to MIDI 2.0.
And those who say that would be full of shit. We have doctors, lawyers, judges, scientists, etc. all remaining productive and employable late in life, and those fields also see change that you have to stay on top of. The ageism in programming is a desire to avoid workers who have experience to see through the “work 100-hour weeks and you’ll get rich!” propaganda, and this explanation is nothing but a fig leaf.
Same as with POSIX - different implementations of the same standardized interface that target different hardware, and have different quality of implementation (possibly optimized for different use cases).
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An interesting aspect of this is that this is an online protest on a platform that the Chinese government doesn't control. They normally exercise strict control over their internet to prevent movements from getting out of their control (for example, censoring #metoo when it starts trending). Would the Chinese government be willing to block GitHub? Surely that would be damaging to China's tech industry.

What if people started creating repositories with nothing but information about topics that the Chinese government considers sensitive (like the Tiananmen Square massacre or other human rights abuses)?
Link doesn't work.. this one does...

https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2019/03/dont-change-your-twitt...
User agents shouldn't exist any more. They serve only to help unsuspecting users be fingerprinted.
I’ll allow it. Fuck gramps. Fuck me too.
Additionally, caring now, while self-serving in the long run, could appear to others to be a selfless act.
I think you generally have the right idea (go Bogleheads for the investing part), but please go easy on the "ruthless" part. There's way too much of that already in this industry and in the world, and it would be better for everyone if we tried to move the norm.
I used to have my own office but now my desk is in the basement.
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Reply All had a great podcast about it [0]. Beware it's very depressing. The expert points out that shutting down Backpage will have a worldwide impact on sex workers.

[0] https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/119-no-more-safe-harbo...
I think you should have added a /s tag... some people don't get jokes unless you hit them over the head with it.
In the gilded age owning your own rail car was like owning your own private jet. A lot of moguls owned one or more. Rockefeller was too cheap to buy one, but one of the railroads gave him one to curry favour with him. THAT is power.
Meanwhile, a comparable group of people keep spreading the image that unifying with China cause no harm. What do you say then? Taiwan is a divided society as always.

The truth is, it just seems that nobody cares about politics here anymore. Taiwanese media have been so sick that gossip is more than serious news. And guess what, most of the cable TV channels are Chinese-funded nowadays.

So when you say "The only problem is that they constantly have China talking about how they want to invade and retake it," you are either lying, or you have other intentions.
It's good to know the history here. For most of 50s and 60s we were roughly equidistant between US and USSR. It was the crass support for Pakistan's Ayub Khan by Nixon and Kissinger before the Bangladesh war in 1971, which forced India to shift a little closer to the Soviet Union. Both Nixon and Kissinger had a visceral hatred of India and Indira Gandhi - see [1].

The USSR did help us with arms and with votes in the United Nations. While this was generally helpful, it led to a shameful episode when India chose to tacitly support the USSR's invasion of Afghanistan. It may surprise many Indians to know that more recently, inspite of our tilt to the West, we have supported Russia's annexation of Crimea, and we were one of the first major countries to recognize the annexation.

[1] https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/indira-gandhi-is-...
I really wasn't expecting Ireland to be on the list this soon. I mean, we're still waiting for "visual voicemail" ..
I remember I was sitting at a coffee shop and a lady sat in front of me and we started chatting.

She would have been in her late 40s or early 50s. I thought she worked in banking or sales as many do around here. Turned out she was at IBM building early Unix systems. I was so impressed by our chat. She had left the industry at the time.
One of the main selling points of cryptocurrencies is decentralization, of not needing to trust a central party in order to use the currency. But the cryptocurrency doesn't actually eliminate that trust, it simply moves it. It moves it into trusting the protocol design, trusting the implementation of the clients, trusting your local hardware and OS to not be compromised, and in the case of smart contracts, trusting the smart contract to not be buggy. What's worse is in the centralized case, as long as the government continues to function you have lots of options for what to do if a transaction goes badly. In the cryptocurrency case, for the most part you're SOL, because cryptocurrencies by design don't allow anyone to e.g. void a transaction.
I know, that top comment has been a rollercoaster, +6, +2, 0, -3, -1, 2, and so on.
Well, it's not that hard to configure touchpad on GNU/Linux to feel even better than on macOS. What's actually hard is getting all the apps to make any use of your touchpad gestures and to not do it in a simple binary trigger way.
Pocrastination->loss of sleep-> procrastination->depression over procrastination->desperation->breakthrough->manic high productivity

That is my friends pattern. Kind of rough.
Ouch. Thankfully, I get to work on a more interesting router...
That's funny, because I avoid hiring non-PhDs. They typically don't seem capable of understanding the concept of sample size and tend to stereotype large and diverse groups of people based on anecdotal experiences.
I thought those were both mainstream opinions.
It was before my time, but I really love the Commodore 64's accessibility and learning curve in certain ways. One could mess around in Basic and slowly learn programming, as well as decide to drop into 6502 and manipulate things more intimately. Someone interested could slowly learn the ins/outs of their computer and become a competent operator while having fun making something interactive.

I really admire the generation older than me having that sort of experience, as I think by the time I was exposed to later PCs things had become more and more abstracted. Not that we should return to my romantic notion of Commodore 64s, but there's something that feels holistic about it than a more conventional PC setup today.
One book that I have really really enjoyed that is somewhat recent (2016) is The Grinders Manual [1]. It gives fantastic advice that is still relevant and is extremely readable. Covers a wide range of topics and came widely recommended to me. It’s helped my game a lot as I just started playing seriously about 5 months ago.

It’s geared toward online cash playing, but I ignore most of the HUD stuff and can use all the concepts in my live games.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Grinders-Manual-Complete-Course-Onlin...
Maybe it wouldn't be as big but I can assure you nothing gives a conspiracy theory more credence among it's followers than being deplatformed.
Actually when you get denied a clearance they give you a statement of reasons (SOR) in your rejection letter which you have a certain period to rebut. (I think 30 days?)
Putting aside the hysterical Orwellian reference, the world would be a better place if everyone from ISIS to Nazis had to go back to shouting on street corners.

That sounds nice on the surface. Here's the thing: if Free Speech isn't protected absolutely, especially paying attention to amplifying effects of technology, then those in power will start labeling those they don't like something terrible, like "Islamic Extremists." This is happening right this minute. This happened to Maajid Nawaz, with basically the whole of the Internet taking the SPLC's word for it. (Later they had to retract and settled out of court.) This also happened, and is happening with Tim Pool as a "holocaust denier." He also got a retraction from the SPLC. Tim Pool is regularly called "Alt Right" even though he's a politically left half Korean kid from the South Side of Chicago.

This sort of power is being abused all over the place, and it's largely invisible, because a false reality is constructed by Citogenesis ( https://xkcd.com/978/ ) and these scary labels keep most people from checking any further. There are small lies all over the place. A few of them have become big lies. There have been HUGE lies basically holding entire nations in thrall. There are ridiculous lies, such as many of the claims that various non-white people are "white supremacists."

You know that information bubbles exist. What you are advocating for, are particular information bubbles which become unassailable, via the power of the SV elites. Because the tools for effectively disseminating the corrective information are neutralized, and those outside the bubble will be reduced to methods orders of magnitude less, with no mass virality (outside a limited box) and no easy monetization.

What the SV elites want, is to dominate what comprises the virtual centers of media, culture, and the economy, with the ability to cast out whomever they don't like -- then to be able to call that "fair" and declare they "won" while they are actually using their technological power to manipulate public thought via sole control of the most powerful forms of speech. They want to preferentially maintain the information bubble they happen to like, ruling public thought via control of the most powerful forms of speech "for the greater good."
Sears automotive service all over again.
I think this is called "Test Driven Development". /s
POSIX doesn't mandate fork, that's why it invented posix_spawn.
it is an interesting idea. technology of course has no gender, and any synthesized speech can only express an arbitrary simulation of gender, so making this explicit reveals the underlying reality that all technological simulations of gender are by definition constructed. a piece of art that demonstrates the construction of gender probably will not catch on well as a product though.
Rubbish. They are incredibly useful for debugging.
> IBM appeared to be winding down the Millennial Corps, cited in several legal actions as evidence the firm was biased against younger workers.

Pretty awkward typo in the article. Should be “bias towards younger” or “discriminate against older”
In general it’s fascinating how the lack of constraints around time makes for worse code, business processes and tooling: if you can only 35 hours a week (RIP that French labor minister who thought reducing the number of working hours would create jobs) you better automate all that stuff you’d do manually if you could work 60 hours a week.
> my one sentence in history turns out to be something I said off the top of my head which became completely distorted and misunderstood

So yay on you for distorting it some more.
I would expect them to check for any RFC3514 bits as well. Defense in Depth.
We were taught a little linear algebra in high school. And more in college.

My impression of three semesters of calculus in college was that much was a waste of time. It was probably useful for a mechanical/electrical engineer circa 1950. But today no one solves problems that way.

I think more linear algebra and matrix theory would have been better.
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IANAL, but sadly, the law does seem to target people rather than (or in addition to) corporations.

https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bi...

> 317C:

> For the purposes of this Part, the following table defines:

> (a) designated communications provider;

> (b) the eligible activitiesof a designated communications provider

> A person is a designated communications provider if...

... Actually, there's too many to list. But here are a few examples:

> - the person provides an electronic service that has one or more end-users in Australia

> - the person develops, supplies or updates software used, for use, or likely to be used, in connection with: (a) a listed carriage service; or (b) an electronic service that has one or more end-users in Australia

> - the person manufactures or supplies components for use, or likely to be used,in the manufacture of a facility for use, or likely to be used,in Australia

> - the person is a constitutional corporation who: (a) manufactures; or (b) supplies; or (c) installs; or (d) maintains; data processing devices

Note that in the last situation they specifically mention corporations, but that prior situations do not require this. The requirements listed are to be interpreted as an OR not and AND... so ah, that's fun.

So yes, we Australians can be legally required by our Government to perform corporate espionage... and almost no-one in Australia (certainly not the public at large) seems to give a f--k.
I think popular subreddits tend to support more toxic behavior, especially those easily accessible by keyword and more so the defaults. They invite anyone and everyone to post. "Niche" subreddits tend to be smaller groups and seem more self-moderated. Sometimes you can find these in the sidebar of the subreddits you're interested in.

Reddit definitely didn't start this way. In many ways it was similar to HN in that it was a small group of technical users, but it grew into a public forum for all topics. The demise of Digg was another factor but is arguably small considering Reddit's popularity today.

Reddit is an immensely useful resource if you know what you're looking for.
The part where if people who you strongly disagree with were making the rules that you insist you would still be ok with that - is intellectually dishonest.
I will never stoop so low as to telegraph my own joke.