skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stop signs and police citations are a small price to pay for the traffic control that has eliminated fatal road accidents.

Oh, traffic control hasn't actually eliminated every fatality? Then why the fuck are we tolerating stop signs and police citations?
'Awesome' directories have really given a nice resurgence to the Yahoo! style of organization. I think the problem with Yahoo! is that it simply got too big to be used as a directory. Niche directories are where it's at. (Also: Reddit wikis, which often are used similarly.)
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The other side of this being that we want oil to be drilled in the jurisdictions with the best environmental protections. Grading aside, a barrel of oil from Alberta, Texas, Niger, Venezuela, or Norway all carry different environmental costs.

In that regard, I think Norway not drilling may be a net loss for the environment since they have some of the better protections. It may even be a net global loss, even if it means a localized win.
> You can get a used FLIR for around $100.

The cheapest ones I have found are around $500. What FLIR device are you talking about?
No, I don't introduce myself that way - that would be crazy.

There is a popular theory that the handshake originated as a way to show your hand wasn't holding a weapon.

I think the evidence for this history is shaky at best, but it's been repeated because it's somehow a compelling idea -- what were people thinking many hundreds of years ago when crime was so common that you genuinely wondered about whether you could trust a casual acquaintance not to hurt you? What did they do to protect themselves?

It doesn't seem unreasonable to wonder about how to present yourself as "safe" in the deeply untrustworthy home-sharing privacy landscape where casual home surveillance is ultra-common (and where neither landlord nor tenant knows how much they can trust the other). I'm not sure there is a good answer and it's not crazy to try to look for one.
As a person running a business it is your job to ensure that such a thing doesn’t happen. If you have to do sudden immediate layoffs or face bankruptcy that means somebody (probably you) massively messed up.
Sounds like RabbitMQ would be a good fit.

Several good managed offerings exist if you do not want to run it yourself.
> I have seen way more damage done by the people "mostly working prototypes in hours or days" than people who want to write beautiful code

Because people who write "beautiful code" don't often achieve anything that can be seen. Successful companies are based on quickly written code that delivers.
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I'm not arguing against layoffs at all, when they are justified.
The finding seems to be that jerks cause toxic work environments and non-jerk bosses (i.e. "ethical leadership") do not.

Unfortunately, hoping that leaders are not jerks isn't useful advice: if a jerk is appointed and supported from above the damage is mostly already done.
Who would trust Google to build expensive products on their platform? I wouldn't be surprised if the prices change dramatically or they decide to discontinue the service. Worst decision you can make is to invest in cloud proprietary APIs/services(i.e Google Datastore/Firestore). You can put Google next to Facebook(with Parse or whatever "cloud" service they've been offering)
Source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1615908/posts

tl;dr Someone dolt at the Queensland zoo thought fairy penguin would offend the gay community so they changed the name to little penguins. The gay community responded to the change calling it ridiculous. No one was offended. It was NOT an issue but merely and amusing footnote.

Why the BBC author chose to dredge up a 13 year old political non issue is beyond me.
"Reputable SEO company from India" is to blame.
That's true, but that's also hardly a unique case - many other countries have special requirements and demand (e.g. Russia also uses metric system).

Also many other countries demand Google Maps manipulation (USA being one of them by demanding hiding of military bases, not to mention many other border disputes over the world). So I'm not sure how authors point really links up to the difference in avionics in Boeing JUST for China.

What are those different requirements?
Yeah I really don't get enabling the outrageously expensive carrying of genetic diseases such as SMA, especially at a time where prenatal screening can be done.
It potentially means fewer people will need petroleum fuels.

Petroleum fuels are only the only game in town for some of their applications. For everything else, raising or lowering the price relative to the alternatives will cause switching to or from petroleum fuels. This is going to be lagging (because there are usually capital costs associated with the switch, so it doesn't make sense to switch if you won't recoup the expense, so the fuel cost difference needs to be substantial), complex (because the switching will actually be based on the perceived future price difference, not the current price difference) and somewhat sticky.
What nonregular job do you do? What kind of code do you deal with, for what kinds of customers? If you're a freelancer or consultant, how often do you end up revisiting code that you write a year or more later?
Sorry you had to go through that!

I tend to ignore the negative feedback, and reply to the postive feedback (with a simple thank you or something of the likes).

If you did something for fun, it doesn't really matter what people think. Just keep doing stuff for fun, and kudos for putting it out there for others to enjoy! Even if you get some people who don't like it, remember you did not do it for them :-)
That really hasn't been my experience. There certainly can be hard emotions surrounding the event (telling someone their loved one has died, etc), but CPR itself is pretty straightforward.
I was thinking that a domestic entity has no protections from the NSA, they have to open up if NSA says so "for national security reasons"? Whilst a foreign entity has not requirements to do so. Both domestic and foreign entities are subject to the same practical abilities; ergo a foreign entity is safer?

As for "no domestic spying", I thought the five-eyes group spied on each other to order so as to circumvent those requirements in domestic law??
This is nothing new. The defense contractors working with the university have clear rules on how and what they can share with which people.
I did, using both Marauder II and XCopy. They failed.
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> Your ISP is almost always in the same legal jurisdiction as you are. A VPN need not be.

Most of them are registered in five eyes countries, or twelve eyes. If they have anything in the US even if its just a single server they will claim jurisdiction over the lot.

There are too many agreements and loopholes to rely on the whole jurisdiction thing. Unless you use a 100% Estonia VPN company and server with no other locations you are not safe, even then its not enough. 5 years ago Sweeden was the safest country for privacy, things change.

> A VPN has some incentive to deliver on privacy. Your ISP does not.

While they generally don't an ISP can give you better privacy than a VPN, no worries about dns leaks, they can route every one through a low latency mixer etc.

I would rather pay an extra £20 a month to my ISP for real privacy than pay a VPN £5 a month for fake peace of mind.
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Sure, but if we're going to redefine words to just mean anything, a discussion will get nowhere.

Hate just means a strong dislike of something. Someone can be hateful of a presidential candidate without wanting them dead or gone. Is that hateful speech, or is this acceptable? Furthermore, do we really trust governments to decide what is?*

*: note that I'm not saying that I do trust FAANGs to make this decision either.
Political arguments that differ from the mainstream and that could only happen on a platform which is both anonymous and has a hands off approach to moderation and monetisation.
How current is that page? Yahoo used Google since 2015.
>> How does it measure the curvature

> ... it probalby measure the curvature

So how does it measure the curvature?
To me, it read like more like a veiled rant than a lesson. I just hope it was cathartic for the author, at least. I know it is for me when I put my frustrations into words. Although, I usually just delete those words when I'm done.
With async/await you have to wrap everything in try/catch, so it only looks better if you do not handle errors. It also makes it harder to do more advanced designs like rate limiting, loading bars, etc. I really like callback convention with error first. Something being async also means it can fail. The most important part of async code is error handling.
It's a matter of taste, of course, but they make my least favorite scotch I've tried. Not sure exactly which it was, but certainly under that brand.
In what circumstances do you think a government should warn someone that they will be arrested if they enter the country?

The USA has a habit of arresting people who have somehow managed to break US law without ever visiting the place and are merely trying to fly somewhere else via the USA. Should they have been warned beforehand?

A different case involved an Israeli general who flew to London. The British government warned him that he might be arrested for crimes against humanity (or whatever) and arranged for him to stay on the aircraft until it departed again, so the British government in effect helped him evade the British legal system, some might say, or is that the way things should work? Or should it depend on the category of suspected crime?

And can I get travel insurance that covers this kind of mishap?
> 3) "deprecate request and start new" - and discard 10 years of commits, stability and tests? Wouldn't be a rational way to go.

The new package doesn’t have to start from zero — it can start from where the old package left off. In terms of version control history it could even start life as a copy of the old git repo.

The developers having worked on the old version for that long certainly know what will be best for them I should hope. Whether that means reworking the old code for the new package, or taking some parts of it with them, or rewriting everything. As long as they don’t fall for the temptation of implementing new features in the rewrite, or at least not any significant number of new features.

> 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)

Just because people are using it doesn’t automatically mean people enjoy using it.
No, fullstory is an analytics platform that lets you replay a users actions, rather than a time-travel debugger for general Javascript code.
holy crap, thanks for sharing Wiby!

For the past two weeks I have been trying to find an old website by searching for "old mysterious site search engines" and "how to search deep parts of web" and "search engine tricks old site" and Google has not returned anything, even when I limited the time span to 2005-2006.

I made the same search on Wilby and it returned search lores (maintained by the hacker Fravia) as the first result! I was so happy to find that website again because I haven't been on it for 10 years. Unfortunately I just found out that Fravia passed away in 2009 because of cancer :(...

Wiby seems like a search engine Fravia would have enjoyed.
The opinion of that A&E "consultant" is unsupported by the available evidence. Public access defibrillation is clearly linked to better survival to discharge rates (i.e. people actually leaving the hospital).

EDIT: As an anecdotal example, I know of at least one person who is walking around today because of a defibrillator at a stadium. 17 year old male took a lacrosse ball to the chest, instantly triggering ventricular fibrillation[1]. The athletic trainer used an AED from the seating area and his heart was beating again before the ambulance arrived.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commotio_cordis
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Should all online platforms be required to do that? I can post here on HN right now and no moderator is pre-approving my content.

I could go find the shooter’s illegal manifesto and post it here, I might be banned after some period of time but just like on Facebook it would have had time for other people to see it.

Applied consistently this standard would kill most online forums and that type of thing.
What I'm missing in this discussion is that, from my personal experience, people who are very result-oriented hardly ever write correct code. They tend to leave a trail of subtle, hard to find bugs (because foreseeing edge cases is one of hardest parts of programming and doesn't happen naturally while thinking about the happy-path) and poorly designed persistence structures (refactoring code is easy, but refactoring data is painful-to-impossible - you just can't retrospectively collect what you forgot to collect initially).

Of course both extremes are bad. I lean towards the perfectionist camp, so I actively seek to work with someone result-oriented. I've found this teaming to bring great results, where both my partner and myself end up happy with the outcome and fulfilled in ways neither of us would by ourselves (for me because I produce more givem the same time, and for them because they feel much more confident in the resulting programs - corroborated later by the much lower number of bugs found in them).

I know this is the case because I've been told many times by many different people (and most of them actively seek to work with me again afterwards if the opportunity arises).
That can be cathartic, but normalizing hostility towards users will ultimately hurt both you and your project. There are no winners in this context once you decide to draw your weapon.
DDG is much better to get a wider scope of search results while Google is good for personal things. Most the old forums and post do come in the first DDG search, but not on the first Google search. I have started to hate Google's Personalised filter bubble.
To all Mint developers: THANK YOU!!!

I use Mint for over 5 years as my main OS and it allowed me to make a seamless transition from Windows/macOS to Linux for everyday tasks, on high-end hardware with multiple HiDPI monitors and including games with recent Steam updates (thanks to Ubuntu + Valve as well!). I can't imagine being stuck with Windows 10/macOS these days.
You get to decide how much support you're going to give, and what kind of access. The easier access people have to you, the more they're going to share their frustrations and start demanding things.

My first suggestion is to limit access. Only provide a mailing list e-mail address, so people know their comments are going to be public, and they have to subscribe to it and craft an e-mail.

Second I'd suggest you provide your users with clear expectations of use and support. Tell them you're not producing it for them, but for you, so you're not going to take feature requests, but you are open to suggestions. Tell them you aren't responsible if they can't get it working, but you are open to legitimate bug reports. Provide a mechanism to determine bug reports such as system information dumps to spend less time troubleshooting.

If people get through your filters and are still rude, there's always public shaming.
You'll know who this is about if you've read any of the Cadfael series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cadfael_Chronicles
Fair point, I did not find a date there. Might have been outdated, oops!
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So, it seems like there is a potential way for a non-dev user to help out with open source, here. Basically, if a person volunteers to be an intermediary, reading the feedback and distilling it down to the relevant content (stripping out the unproductive negativity), that could be useful. It would also be emotionally easier to read harsh feedback, when it's not about _your_ work, just the work of a product you use. Many open source projects have plenty of non-dev users, who cannot really help out currently, but some of them might be willing to if shown a good entry point.

Again, they wouldn't be blocking the feedback, just distilling it down to the most relevant part (e.g. "your piece of sh*t update broke the f#$King feature I depend on for my work!" becomes "newest update caused a regression in this menu item").

Just an idea.
If the US government engaged in industrial espionage against a foreign company, whatever US company benefitted could be sued in a US court.

What troubles me (and many others) about the PRC's behavior is the PRC's disregard for IP: US/European/other countries have no recourse.

https://law.stanford.edu/2018/04/10/intellectual-property-ch...
Docker hub allows any user with the appropriate permissions to `docker push` any image they want.
Well, search may have bugs (or undocumented features) too, I have googled content from other pages on this site (related to Metallica).
Page 6 for example: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Listen+up+you+fags+metall...
>I am in my 30s and when I was on dating apps I'd suddenly get a ton of matches.

Which is another problem men in their 20s face. They're competing with men in their 30s for the same women. There's simply a larger number of men trying to date a smaller number of women. The numbers mean someone gets left out.
You're so short-sighted it's amazing. We've seen numerous times how things lacking copies are lost to time, Doctor Who is probably the most prominent example, had people pirated it, we might still have something that has a big cultural value.

Piracy is also the only way a lot of us can get access to content, georestrictions are a huge annoyance for far too many of us literally no way to get paid access for years and years and years. That's not fair treatment.
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Is there a charger I can use across devices that can give the required power based on the devices and not harm the device? Would be great if it has multiple ports. I have an iphone se, Samsung note 9, kindle, Samsung Bluetooth Wireless headphones.

I did see the Anker - https://www.amazon.com/Anker-PowerPort-Charger-Charge-PowerIQ/dp/B01N2HIR9R/. Just want to know if their claims are true. Anyone that understands the technical side of charging?
Linux Mint seems to take a fairly regular beating from the Linux community at large, and I'm not sure why. It became fashionable after their ISO downloads were briefly compromised in 2016, and a popular LWN post became the script for people to reiterate every time Mint is mentioned in any capacity.[0]

I think it's a terrible shame. For all the stuff I wish it did better, it does so much right that I still overwhelmingly consider it the best distro for converting friends and family away from Windows or OSX, even if I don't use it myself.

[0]https://lwn.net/Articles/676664/
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I hate to be cynical, but isn't this decision made also because oil prices are very low now? It's not as low as in the '60, but adjusting for inflation it is not that much higher. Norway is a very small country in terms of population, it does not need much oil for its own needs so it makes perfect sense to keep it for times when prices will go up.
Are you cool with it happening now? Then maybe it's not right, and maybe it wasn't right before.
It would be great if the scope of this article wasn't just limited to the US.
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But isn't Australia (the South at least) doing some serious work around renewable energy and in specific stationary energy storage?

https://electrek.co/2017/11/23/tesla-worlds-largest-li-ion-b...

https://electrek.co/2018/05/11/tesla-giant-battery-australia...

And another one:

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-virtual-power-plant-south-au...

I'd like to think since the land of Oz has a very thin ozone it is great for solar. As the cost of industrial batteries come down, this seems like much more of a sensible future. In the US, battery + solar/wind is just now becoming cheaper than building new coal / natgas peaker plants. This will only continue as the economies of scale and tech improvements drive the cost further down for renewables.
OK, and when that happens should 100% of the company be reduced to ashes or take a shot at 75% of the company surviving and reviving?

Given enough businesses and enough trials, it's a certainty that some leaders will drive them off a cliff.
It seems like it isn't necessary for you, but you can't project that lack of desire onto the majority. The reality is that if a large subset of people have a strong instinctual desire that goes continually unfulfilled, many will not have satisfying lives. That's not to deny that some won't move beyond it, through focus on other areas or deconstruction of their desire. However, that's unrealistic to expect for the majority.
There's a Netflix series called Occupied based on the premise that Norway stopped producing oil & gas for environmental reasons. I watched a few episodes before getting distracted, as you do with Netflix.

"Occupied depicts a fictional near future in which Russia, with support from the European Union, occupies Norway to restore its oil and gas production, in response to a Europe-wide energy crisis caused by the coming to power of Norway's Green Party, which stopped the country's oil and gas production."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupied
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Yes, though actually the ZX Spectrum was also pretty good.. the famous Chapter 24 about the memory map was my first introduction to such matters and left a deep impression at a young age.
https://scirate.com/arxiv/1403.0297

>We present a traffic analysis attack against over 6000 webpages spanning the HTTPS deployments of 10 widely used, industry-leading websites in areas such as healthcare, finance, legal services and streaming video. Our attack identifies individual pages in the same website with 89% accuracy, exposing personal details including medical conditions, financial and legal affairs and sexual orientation. //
Why do I get the feeling there is an underground market of sorts where people are paying to watch streams of hidden cameras in hotel rooms?

Whoops, don’t get any ideas now!
Another option is to choose not to be afraid. If one really care, get good at sweeping a place for cameras & remove the fear. If one is too lazy to sweep for cameras (like me!), decide to accept there's a low, non-zero chance that I'll get taped and move on.

"You've got a tape of me? Congratulations! Send me a copy.
It's a good thing there wasn't a camera covering all of the apartment. I had a little digestion shenanigans going on, I'm glad there's no evidence I am the one who left that floor. I tried to clean it up, but I didn't have any industrial chemicals."
There are actually far more practical reasons for public management of oil and gas resources. The reservoirs are huge and span more than a single owners private property. In order to harvest efficiently you may require coordination or non local maxima decisions to improve overall production. Otherwise you'll leave the majority of the resources in the ground with no way to get them out
No. I am (not having ever published a single book yet).
Get out at any price?
If I could change the past, I would.
Indeed, why were they obsessed with bowls of fruit?
Do people really use Pinterest? I never found their website useful.
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