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Mikeal is working on `bent` [1] but I'm not sure I like how it results in a few lines extra over a `request` like library. Can anyone explain why this syntax?

[1] https://github.com/mikeal/bent
Are you sure you're talking about the same thing?

This article is about psychological patterns related to task management and productivity. The book you linked to seems about software messaging system design.
Or a router with an SD card when the network drops.
The Death of an Adjunct
The article mentions that most are here for legitimate reasons. It seems like the headline could have had a better choice of words to be less of a blanket statement.
At least in NYC, there are now after school programs where they pick you up directly from elementary school and take you to play in professionally run D&D campaigns. Plus there is no social stigma attached for the kids playing - its seen as "cool" as any other activity. I am sad to bequeath to my children a climate ravaged over-indebted husk of a planet but at least in some crucial ways they have it better than I did!
Great Hill Partners Agrees to Acquire Gizmodo Media Group
> 4chan, despite all its vileness, has convinced me of the necessity to maintain as much unrestrained human freedom ...

Can you provide an example of something valuable you found on 4chan/8chan that could not be found on a site with less "vileness"?
I observe that universities treat adjuncts as they do because they can: https://jakeseliger.com/2016/02/25/universities-treat-adjunc... and the smartest thing would-be academics can do is choose another career. The way is barred.
I still use Photoshop and Illustrator (because for my money there's nothing comparable, and I'll pay for them because of it) but for video I've moved almost entirely over to DaVinci Resolve. BlackMagic's free version is really complete and (possibly because it started life mostly as a color grading application) I find that the way it presents options and tools works better with the way I like to do things.

The Studio version's pretty cheap, too, if you want to upgrade.
Exactly no one is surprised.
No, they didn't do the modern day ceremonies around programming such as TDD. What they did was code a lot. Code a lot of different things, knew where to draw the line and "finish" up their projects. Maybe out of their many projects, they really took one or two all the way and polished, but most were fast, done and the lessons learned. ... They also stayed deep in the language and didn't rely much on frameworks & libraries.

Here's a sample of things you can do to vary your programming knowledge fast.

Learn multiple languages C, asm, forth, lisp, prolog, any OOP

Code a card game, blackjack, cribbage, poker
Code a board game, checkers
Code a puzzle game, tetris
Code an adventure game (text)
Code your own text editor
Code your own interpreter (BASIC or your own language)
Code a network server & client (not REST, socket programming & threads)
Code a basic CRUD app

They are deeply curious about a lot of things and soak up as much as they can, that's all I can say.
Running Django in Production
Funny yet /r/NHLStreams persists. The internet is a funny place.
https://outline.com/zgaw23

This is such an unbelievable story. Thanks for sharing. TIFL!
Ask HN: Google flagged us as malware, what to do?
Hello,

We are providing checkout service to our partners on their website. We are running for 2.5+ years already.

Our checkout integrates with placing a javascript line on partners website (They ask their developer to place it directly to HEAD or via Google Tag Manager).

That script loads react app, that controls all customer journey from product selection to payment to download (Our partners are selling online tickets)

Now our customers report, that GTM tags they use to include our script is reported as malware in GTM.
Even customers without GTM that run AdWords get notifications that they are running malware on their website and should remove it.

We can not find any way how we can figure out what is going wrong, what triggered this and how to solve it.

Our customers are losing sales and money and this is killing our business.

Any help would be appreciated?
Hi everyone!

I’m one of the founders of Vocalize, a voice application company, and I wanted to share our latest project - Digital Socrates for voice. A few months ago, Ben Issenmann made Digital Socrates to much success. It received almost 800 upvotes on producthunt and thousands of people continue to use it over a year later (a few of those people being ourselves).

With Ben’s permission we decided to convert the questionnaire to voice and to launch it for Amazon Alexa and Google Voice.

Digital Socrates 2.0 now has twice the number of questions, and is expanding on functionality every week. We hope to implement a way to save your answers and to crowd-source more questions in the near future. If you have any questions or suggestions for improvement please let us know!

https://vocalize.dev/products/digital-socrates
They haven't actually found oil there yet. They just assume it exists. And it probably does.

There has to my knowledge not been explorative drilling in Lofoten/Vesterålen/Senja yet.

If that was what your comment was addressing...
Eh, I use Dvorak and typing in QWERTY isn't that big of a pain. For the first few months, it was pretty hard to switch between them, but I use both nearly every day so it's become a non-issue.

I much prefer to type in Dvorak, but I'm reasonably fast as both.
I moved from the Nexus 5 to the Motorola G series of phones. Cheap but not too fast.
The Slippery Slope of In-Product Messaging
Not arguing one way or the other for these regulations, but I think dismissing the negative effects of this type of online content is a huge mistake, as it does cause real, sizable problems. ISIS probably wouldn't have been able to exist without their propaganda videos. Multiple mass shootings had direct connections to the perpetrators' radicalization in online forums. Fake, foreign-state-sponsored news had an impact in democratic elections from the 2016 US presidential election to Brexit.

It's one thing to argue these regulations will have negative (unintended or otherwise) consequences, but it's quite another to just pretend the porblem doesn't exist.
The point of the article was if the person didn't lose their "perfect job" they would never have forced themselves to look for other, better, and more enjoyable opportunities.
As people left, the cost of housing would come down as demand decreased. If people owning the stores saw they couldn’t make a profit there, they would not open businesses.

People wanting the goods and services wouldn’t be happy with what is available and they would leave.
Ask HN: Why are most remote job ads salaried full time roles?
Job boards like RemoteOK and We Work Remotely have plenty of job ads for developers. However, almost all of them are exclusively looking for full time employees.

Why are there no job ads for freelancers?
> The risk of pregnancy is a biological fact with far more severe penalties for women.

This is arguable with modern society ensuring that support is provided from men. Men are wising up to the long term consequences of pregnancy and relationships with women - see the MGTOW movement.
I haven't read the book (yet), but I believe this talk is a good intro: https://www.c-span.org/video/?196682-1/the-power-broker
With Google’s history of cancelling huge and expensive initiatives, why would anyone build on something like this.

It will be different this time, they said.
> What incorrect assumption were you referring to then?

Pretty much every word in this comment[0]:

"So everyone is also paying slightly higher taxes to pay for it. It is not free, the cost is just obfuscated."

"Imagine if they just raised taxes and then made every week book week."

Yes, the cost is obfuscated, just like every marketing cost of every commercial company is obfuscated. It has nothing to do with being state-owned. Nobody is paying extra taxes for this. Not every week is ever going to be book week, and even if somehow it was, that wouldn't magically make train travel free on every day.

That said, I would absolutely support making train travel cheaper or free and funding it from taxes, making the Dutch railways not focus on financial profit, but on improving mobility; making it an even more attractive alternative to cars, reducing traffic jams, and freeing up highways for traffic that has no alternative.

But that's never going to happen in the current political landscape.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19600233
On the flip side, imagine being a business owner, and having absolutely no options left but to make this decision and salvage what you can left of your business. Should the business risk bankruptcy and cause 100% of the workforce to be jobless, or is it better if just 25% lose it? The company could rebound, and hire an additional 50% on top of the original 100%. It's the circle of business life.
Yeah, and people just moved elsewhere. All it's going to do is hurt Reddit's bottom line. Let me guess porn is next? Digg is looming
As does Vuex!
Yes, let's say that the UK draws it so far from where it should be, then I think most parents should feel like the State is way beyond its responsibility and into attempting to control its citizens.
Show HN: Room.sh – a simple online meeting space
Ask HN: How to grow a one-person business and hire more people when contracting?
I am contracting in the UK since 2012 and providing software development services but I am a one-man limited company and working for companies as if I am a permanent employee for them since most of them requires me present on the premise.

So the question is: How I can turn this 9 to 5 work routine in a multi-person, multi-contract operation that I could get contracts from companies and send my people to in my place.

Some things to consider;

* I am earning enough but not enough to cover the costs of an additional employee.

* I always get my contracts through recruitment agencies so I don't have a vast network I can reach to.

* I don't have much knowledge about the enterprise world, so don't know how to get 5-6 figure contracts from them.
>That’s exactly the theory developed by circles like the red pill.

In the sea of disgusting theories and toxicity that is the red pill there is one thing that they got right: Men should approach and try to "pick up" as many women as possible. The guy that's 1/10 as desirable as another guy will get more dates if they attempt to "pick up" 20 times as many women.

Of course, it's a bit like the Red Queen running as fast as you can to stay still. If every man tries approaching 20 times the women eventually you end up back where you started but worse. You can see it online. The success rates for men outside of the top 5% are abysmal. You almost have to spam in order to have any reasonable chance of getting dates.
I know here in the United States we have the WARN Act to require notification about layoffs, but I have no knowledge of how that ends up working out in the real world and whether it would apply in these circumstances. Anybody at Hacker News know?

Edit: You can see an example of WARN Act filings in California here, for example (PDF): https://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/warn/WARN_Report_fo...

On there you'll find Instacart, Tesla, Apple, Boeing, PayPal, and others (mostly non-tech, of course).
Opensource anything...

It’s not completely thankless, but the thanks seem to be mostly direct and private and then you face public ridicule for errors, bugs, missteps or just when people have different aesthetics or taste and don’t like your project. There are so many “behind the scenes” sorts of projects too, stuff that matters and isn’t quite as visible to the common end user.

I think of OpenSSL, the big security hole got more marketing and PR than the project ever did with “heart bleed.” Then some of the comments during the libressl review were very harsh. They did their thing in anonymity for decades, got used by everything and then took a public beating; clearly it depends on where the developers’ hearts are when that happened, maybe it wasn't so bad, it felt bad to watch.

With something like mint, just about everything is subjective. There are going to be a lot of haters just because of opinion.
Hey HN, co-founder of room.sh here, happy to answer any questions.

We started out building online tools for education but soon began using them to have our own meetings. Behind the scenes, things are powered by a CRDT (specifically, https://github.com/y-js/yjs) and we're using Janus as a WebRTC SFU.

It's not peer to peer, but this brings some advantages (simplicity, more reliable connections, better support for large rooms) and a few disadvantages (bandwidth usage, among others). We're still in beta and working on new features and bug fixes so any feedback is greatly appreciated!
The website that made Google image search suck does an IPO?
Why is nobody mentioning the potential biological basis for this?

Men's sperm counts are going down 3% a year and have been consistently for over 30 years. Nobody knows exactly why, but environmental contamination through "xenoestrogens" (e.g. BPA in receipt paper) is a major theory.

This is no freak trend and has been researched by over a thousand papers with no good answer (so don't reply with a pet hypothesis like exercise-- it's not).

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/10/sperm-cou...

2. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=spe...
"The effect of layering is so powerful that it has transcended its roots in painting with oils and is now in­corporated into all professional digital illustration tools. If you use Photoshop, or Illustrator, or any other computer graphics tools, you'll be making images in layers."

The layering described there, is more about what blend modes are for, layering can also be quite dumb by itself. The roots of DTP software layers lie pretty much all in the necessities of print, not painting, where you have to have a layer per color anyway.

Wondering why the article stops short of the point, why (digital) reproduction of paintings is a lossy process in general, and especially for archiving. Total Appearance Capture systems exist but are rarely applied to paintings. A 2D-RGB raster can only represent the appearance of a light reflective object from a single angle und very specific ambient conditions. How a painting interacts with light in a room is a complex process of all kinds of optical phenomena (reflection, absorbtion, diffraction, refraction ...) as described in the arcticle.
It's not particularly baffling if you think that Western nations are taking these stances for approximately the same reasons as Russia and China are.
They still got paid. Compared to the tragedies of global warming and potential oil spills, I'd say we chose the right alternative.
Slightly older but there were BBCs at my school and a pal had one, but I was never allowed to use them at school as this was a privilege reserved for those that were better at maths than I :) Probably also the reason I ended up studying Chemistry at Uni and getting a hodge podge of credits Science BSc at the end of it. Exposure there to a VAX/VMS cluster ultimately took me on my journey from analyst/programmer to sysadmin/DBA/SAN/backup and now cloud IaC Devops engineer.
You might be interested in quantized inertia http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/ which is a model that does away with the need for dark matter and that has been gaining some interest. For instance, author claims it replicates the success of MOND but also predicts where MOND and GR both fail (see wide binaries posts on the blog).

I 100% agree that when the model doesn’t fit the data, making up some hitherto undetected kind of matter, distributed in just the right way to explain the discrepancies, is kinda odd... the QI author is constantly complaining about this.
A government of the people by the people. Such a wonderful ideal, one I wish more strived towards.
I generally agree with libertarians in that people should not be overly taxed when they create a house or plant a crop. But in this case, the person who owns the land did not create the natural resources. So no, they should not be entitled to it. Also the current public is not entitled to it either. Future generations need to be considered as well.
adding `-pinterest` to your search terms makes it suck less.
I worked as a front line developer at a major Linux distro known for making some unpopular decisions. I came to the position knowing full well how 10% of all people out there are loudmouth asscracks . People without experience or inside knowledge who think they know better than those with, and expect to have only their own personal demands met at the expense of everyone else probably because they are getting something for free.

As long as he approaches the job knowing he is going to see some of the most wretched examples of scum and villainy, the dude can abide with grace. Just don't take it personally.
That's good news indeed that I skimmed through. Thanks for pointing it out.
And Vanguard specifically only supports Chrome (last I checked), so it's a nonstarter if you primarily use Firefox, even though my Yubikey works fine on other sites with Firefox. Perhaps WebAuthn will fix that, but it's the current reality.

Instead of SMS, I wish more sites would fall back to email. There are a lot more scenarios IMO where I don't have access to my phone/SMS than not having access to email, and most email providers are better protected than SMS.
Are you sure you read the whole thing? You completely missed the point. They writer has turned getting fired from their "perfect dev job" into realizing their skills had grown out of date and they had simply gotten complacent. Now they are trying a new role, and finding it more fulfilling. I thought i was interesting, and understandably anonymous.
Leases are only a mechanism for achieving housing. People will need homes for the rest of their lives, so the length of the lease is not 'definitional' for establishing anything. The length of the lease is only the length of a commitment to living in some particular place. The overall housing still needs to remain affordable in aggregate, and that doesn't happen if everyone is expecting rent to increase after their lease lapses.

Moreover, moving is expensive and can take months of planning. If rent prices rise beyond affordability, you're pushing a heavy burden on your tenants, and landlords should have an obligation to exercise that power responsibly.
Non-amp link: https://searchengineland.com/googles-de-indexing-issue-still...
Good. Long term habitability of this world takes precedence over short term profit.
It should be noted that SSLstrip is a thing. Those sites would need to properly force HTTPS, which is easy to get wrong. And it's much easier to allow both HTTP/HTTPS.
> Beyond that, keep in mind that while donations keep Linux Mint and other distributions afloat, the occasional message of appreciation can be encouraging, and at times personally invaluable.

Exactly. This issue isn't just something that "maintainers deal with"; it's also something that "users can help with".

The next time you install a library that makes your life easier, write someone an email. Star the project on GitHub. Open up a "TODO: Keep Being Awesome" ticket where others can show their gratitude.

Even if you don't have the skills or bandwidth to contribute to a project's development, you can contribute to its morale.
While I agree with this sentiment in their consumer products (and what I'll call "consumer devs"), I feel this industry (i.e. medical) is different.

These customers are different, Google had to go through a lot of work to allow them to legally use their products, and will get to charge a premium. This is the high end of B2B, and unless they're moronic (which is possible) they'll know the medical industry moves slow, so any customers they acquire will almost guaranteed be long term customers.
Turn out the lights and rub super glue over the lens?
The Chem Engineer finds terms like Resin, useless.

It's kind of like saying, tape.

Which tape? Easy peel? Or duct tape?

I imagine that this is possible because there is only one type of resin that's useful in this field. Or trade secrets...
You can see this where it is acceptible to have all female organizations or institutions, but unacceptable to have similar organizations or institutions for males. Similarly, there are many programs specifically targeting women for certain careers, such as STEM. The result is that increasingly there is a "gender gap" favoring women at university.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/datablog/2013/jan/29/h...
A few years ago I worked with a healthcare analytics company, creating an HL7 FHIR server as well as a de-identification product. The main problem with this area isn't technical - FHIR, HL7 etc all exist to meet these problems, rather the issue is buy-in/the market.

Most of those healthcare companies take the approach of "if it works don't touch it" or they where already bought into one of the existing large EPR's - which is why we ended up putting our product on the back-burner as the market wasn't there yet.
I'll start from bottom options:

3) "deprecate request and start new" - and discard 10 years of commits, stability and tests? Wouldn't be a rational way to go.

2) "ignore it and become a thorn in the side of devs everywhere" - it wouldn't become a thorn more than it is now, would it? It's a 10 year old package that's downloaded 14 million times a week. It doesn't feel a thorn with those numbers. You can also `util.promisify` it if a callback is a "thorn" for you as a developer. (but see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19604867)

1) "there are a lot of google results with solutions that the new breaking changes will make obsolete" - that's what semver and major versions are for. "We'll break Stack Overflow answers" doesn't feel like a valid reason. jQuery has had its fair share of breaking changes in the last 12 years, and we know the numbers if we compare `jQuery` vs `request` questions on Google/Stack Overflow, so again, it doesn't feel like a valid reason.
Here is an example:

http://www.gnoosic.com/discussion/metallica__5.html

No matter how you search for the content on Google, nothing comes up:

https://www.google.com/search?q="Metallica+only+played+2+son...

DuckDuckGo has it:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q="Metallica+only+played+2+songs+fro...

I checked the wayback machine and the content has constantly been on that url for over 10 years.

This is the first example of an old forum page I tried after reading the article. So I tend to think it's true. Google is discarding the "classic" web.
That's been all of world history for 1300 years, what difference does it make?
I agree with the over confident architect syndrome you suggest, but there is more to solving the current set of problems than just democratizing access to opportunities. There is an accelerating shift towards a world where the only valuable human labor is that of ever more exclusive elites. We deal more and more with information, and going from information to things requires fewer and fewer humans. You need only one search engine, one Operating System, one browser, one online retailer. And only a handful of engineers, scientists, a few artists, writers, athletes, politicians, to satisfy the needs of the entire population. In other words while for a few outliers the rewards will be fantastic most human's economic value is trending towards 0. There is really a need to address the resulting inequality and crisis in meaning, tweaking capitalism is not going to be enough.
HL7 is a joke as are most acronyms in the healthcare tech space.

It's like reading through a framework devised by lawyers and policy makers. I cant wrap my head around healthcare tech to save my life and ive been working the field for 15 years. It's a jumbled mess.

HL7 is what happens when a regulator designs a tech framework.