skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Saying yes is easy, saying no hard. But to focus on what’s important, you must learn how to say no.

This is so true. I still struggle telling people no. I'm a coward and just got really good at not saying yes. Lots of "maybe" and lots of "if" (usually impossible conditionals).

"Hey umvi, I have a great app idea, we should partner up."

"Yeah maybe, if I can finish up my current project!"
Wow, I have truly been schooled today.

Thank you, notahacker :-)
It's rare that I get to quote Atlas Shrugged so I'll just leave this below:

> There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

What's even more worrying in my opinion from the article:

- references to Puritanical punishment seemingly framed in a positive light

- citing of the linguistic/anthropological context of gossip without much further qualification

- the Binaloan authorities' clear lack of understanding of what merits free speech

- the mention of this law being beneficial to upcoming political candidates (of whom public discussion should be encouraged)
Your post has no content. Saying "read this book" isn't a response - maybe summarise the point you want to make?
whats is more likely?
one diver selling gold coins, or a huge conspiracy of >500 years
That may well be the case, so I voted you up as I'm not sure why you were greyed out for pointing this out. But taxis are heavily regulated partly because the taxi lobby itself demanded these sorts of barriers and taxi lobbys have been notoriously effective at shutting Uber down. They appear to have a lot of political power, and convincing politicians to let taxi firms use new technology should be the easiest lobbying gig in the world.

Reality is, even in parts of the world where taxis are not heavily regulated, no taxi firms got even close to Uber's competence and sophistication. They simply don't have access to the right people or technical knowledge to produce the same experience (evidence: my local taxi apps that are trying to compete with Uber are all buggy incompetent messes).
I agree, but for different reasons.

We need some orders of magnitude reductions in data prices.

If I’m paying dollars for each gigabyte, making them faster serves to use to me.
http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2019/04/19/its-better-with-jav...
If you have navigation technology and knowledge it switches from being luck to routine. Accurate clocks and maps of ocean currents make vast ocean distances much smaller.
"white supremacist furry pedophile elf manchild"

I'm gonna need a citation on a claim that wild
I'll be honest, it's been a long time since I was studying classical mechanics, but 15 years ago I remember answering a similar question with "read the Feynman Lectures Volume I!" They are the edited version of the intro physics course he gave at CalTech... Here is a link: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_toc.html
Education and increasing level of consciousness and awareness is the answer to this. A society with a higher level of compassion will have a lesser need for this. This question had been answered thousands of years ago.
Their data centers can be seized and net connections cut.
Suggest you read The Accidental Superpower for why this structure is now breaking down.
If an employer issues phones to its employees, is it really unethical to maintain control over its own devices?
I wonder how to setup browser history, cookies and Ip address in chrome. You some got idea please share.
> It's a bit anti competitive, yes, [...], but [...]

Reasonable enough, but it's really worth pointing out the interpretation skew here. If this was another major platform vendor, HN would have multiple heads on stakes posted at the top of the topic and flamethrowers would be deployed deep into the subthreads.

But it's Apple, so "it's bad, but" is what we're greeted with on opening the page.
Your landing page looks really clean, and services like this can eliminate a lot of tedious work.

I tried it with one easy invoice. It extracted the buyer name+city, invoice amount, date, invoice number and amount. It didn't get the line items or the invoice currency.

A couple of thoughts about onboarding/conversion:

- Pricing should reflect your target market. If you're only targeting India, then "The cost is usually a few Indian Rupees per document." is fine. But if you are targeting the whole world, USD is probably better.

- As you don't require a credit card to try for free, adding 'no credit card needed' below the button should increase sign-ups

- In the document list view, I expected that clicking on a row would do something, but I had to choose a specific action (view, review, delete). Maybe if I click a row you can assume I wanted to do whatever the primary action is for that item.
Exactly.. life in general is about constant refinement.. if today's hacker could time travel to 1999, she would be in a nirvana of Bind, SSHv1, Apache, IIS etc.. vulnerabilities. Hacks happen and we learn and improve, even down to the language being used.. a la Rust.
That's actually a disclosure, not a disclaimer.
I love historical pieces about technology. There's so much new and shiny all the time in tech, it's nice to reflect on where we've been.

Makes me want to re-watch Bryan's talk at Monktoberfest a few years ago on oral tradition in tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PaWFYm0kEw
As another comment mentioned you can just use build tags to make assert a no-op in release builds
No one.

Nobody has gotten better than Google, but Google has gotten much worse (and shaped the Internet for the worse with it).

It is a de facto search monopoly and without competition it rots. (or degrades to a symbiotic money harvesting machine between searcher and searched)
This title is clickbait
Because Slack's product assumes you have an HR department, and that's an HR issue.
No, because judicial systems are centralized
> Google has no incentive to fix these kinds of problems.

Even worse, they have incentive to create these problems.

Gsuite is extremely profitable for them, I am sure. Charging $5/user/month for hosted email must make them a pretty penny.

I would guess that no gsuite sent emails are ever blocked with this suspicious message 550 error.
It might not be persistent by default, but there is a lot of its content that is being logged and made available on the web...
You cannot run "Linux" on your "Linux phone" as in going to kernel.org, downloading the source, compiling it and installing it.
Thanks for the tips. What hip and glute exercises would you do to supplement the deadlifts, or are deadlifts enough once you’re in shape?
social networks with a lot more capital have tried and failed. it's the network effect and the inertia of migrating that keep people on the network, not the lack of a "fbclone"
I’d settle for a robot that could pick up LEGO bricks and just drop them in a box. It’d have a lifetime of employment in my living room.
I seriously doubt that both harassment and spam is a much of a problem as Mozilla, or others make it out to be. That's not to say that it's not a huge issue for a subset of people and it should be dealt with, to some extend.

If someone want to harass you online, they will find a way, regardless of what governance or censorship you put in place.
We could debate this a long time. I work for an oil company. So I suppose I will be biased, and that makes things difficult. But, I will leave you with this. Are you sure every oil company did this? And by "this" I mean, convinced that the science in the 1970s was certain and unambiguous as to the impending destruction of the planet, decided to hide that information. Also, keep in mind that whenever they did break the law (as it existed. Yes I know of regulatory capture.) they were punished. We can quibble on the magnitude of the fines, but then again that is indeed what the current article is about. Hence my comment about the equivalence of the scapegoats. Keep in mind, I am not a climate change denier. I am just saying that it took the acceleration of the effects to clarify the cause and effect to a point that it is unambiguous and it was not the case back in 1970.

Now contrast the messy science of climate change with very controllable A/B testable situation with privacy violations and echo chamber amplification and large scale social engineering that is happening with Twitter Facebook etc. I would argue that they know exactly what they are doing and choose to continue only because... profit.
I learned to do multiplication in my head in a similar way, except I'd usually split on a multiples of 10 for simplicity.

For 25x63, I would go: 60102+3102+560+53
THe list of countries I've read is long time lost for me, but I've checked regulations in dozen countries from there and it was correct.

For US: https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/kdb/forms/FTSSearchResultPage.cfm...
Show HN: ReSeq – Reusing HiSeq DNA Sequencers
From my experience with Wiktionary which uses Webster's as the basis, it's exactly descriptive and has the different meanings that are in use. If OED has one meaning, it doesn't mean that people don't use other ones.

It happens that Wiktionary doesn't have one of meanings, but very rare.
Freelancer.com stole from me, and then closed my account
I posted a link to a Trustpilot review yesterday about what happened, but freelancer.com, had it removed, so here's the review again here.

THIS IS A WARNING TO ANYONE WHO USES FREELANCER, STAY AWAY, STAY AWAY, STAY AWAY!!!

This company has screwed me over so many times and screwed so many developers and clients that it’s a mystery how they haven't been shut down yet.

It all started with a simple contract i received, and once i received an initial payment of $1300, my account got limited and frozen, i contacted them asking about the reason behind this, and they just simply told me it was because of outside communication, to which i responded that it's very normal call to go over everything, that is a business standard, and the contract went through the platform and so did the payment, so there was no reason behind these extreme majors they took.

The money was frozen and they told me that it would stay that way, up until they closed my account for good one week after with a simple email, saying that they closed my account.

I have worked on this platform for over 7 years, finished countless projects with full perfect five star reviews, never hurt anyone or hurt the platform in any way, and the only thing i did occasionally that was frowned upon was a call here or there to explain something to a client or to share my screen with them, and its not my fault that they did not provide these features on their platform and i had to use something else to make up for their short comings.

In conclusion, i gave them 7 years of my life; they closed my account for nothing, stole from me, and took away my main source of living.

I have not been able to even leave my house for the past week, and had to force myself to write this review, even as just a warning for people, and I’ll make sure that everyone hears about what happened to me.
I tried searching for keywords on Google and Twitter and couldn't find anything to suggest this was the case. Do you have a source that you can suggest for this?
According to Aristotle the Carthagineans had a secret island they treated as a military secret. It fits a description of the Americas:

> "In the sea outside the Pillars of Hercules they say that an island was discovered by the Carthaginians, desolate, having wood of every kind, and navigable rivers, and admirable for its fruits besides, but distant several days' voyage from them. But when the Carthaginians often came to this island because of its fertility, and some even dwelt there, the magistrates of the Carthaginians gave notice that they would punish with death those who should sail to it, and destroyed all the inhabitants. lest they should spread the report about it, or a large number might gather together to the island in their time, get possession of the authority, and destroy the prosperity of the Carthaginians."

http://www.archive.org/stream/demirabilibusaus00arisrich#pag...
Link to original post: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/six-figure-paycheck-data-sc... (Edit: URL fixed)

The real question is that $125k as a Senior Data Analyst in NYC seems low.

> I have this creative side, which comes in handy when thinking through challenging problems, but there is only so much creativity that I can use when in data analysis.

This I disagree with; in data analysis/science, there's more than way to highlight/analyze a problem, and more than one way to solve it. In my experience, the best solutions are often the craziest.
Did you look under Settings > Collaborators?
As don't mind this type of articles informative and thorough, the excess use of "Windows Defender ATP" makes me think they are trying to put suggestion in the readers mind. Can we count how many times "Windows Defender ATP" is used?
the idea behind voat is good but the execution is average. When there's no cencorship it opens the door for low-quality content to thrive
Are you sure there are no economies of scale?

Everyone I know uses Uber exclusively for taxis now and it's partly because whenever they travel Uber works great, but using local taxis is a pain. The "taxis are local" argument is right some of the time but many people use taxis primarily when travelling, and that's a market that really only Uber and Lyft can automate with any degree of success. I don't want 50 half-baked taxi apps on my phone.
I remember vocab lessons in school. Near as I can tell from what my sister, who is raising a school-age son, tells me, they don't teach that anymore. The TDD (Test-Driven Didactics) implemented by No Child Left Behind leaves no room for vocabulary lessons in the curriculum; instead, pupils are expected to infer the meaning of unknown words from context. Even the Scientologists have it better: LRH's study tech at least asks you to look up the word on your own.

Anyway, the vocabulary lessons I had came from textbooks, some of which wrote entire short essays on each word, The one for "brogue" (meaning an Irish accent), for instance, goes into its etymology and notes a comparison with a kimd of shoe of the same name. The shoe, it turns out, has a different etymology and the two twrms are not related. The essay concludes: "The idea that the Irish accent fits the tongue as comfortably as a friendly old shoe fits the foot is probably pure Irish fantasy."
I’m more than a little surprised nobody has chimed in advocating Openfire, which is Apache 2.0, standards based (XMPP et. al.), extensible, and also has some pretty nice browser clients out there (e.g. conversejs).
Most of the privacy-violating industry works the same way, they're just better at keeping it out of the news. The NSA, the FBI, all 3 major credit-reporting bureaus, any security company with CCTVs, Google, ad-trackers, 23andMe, anyone who buys or sells your mailing address - they all keep data about you whether or not you have chosen to allow them or have any business relationship with you at all.
You need to catch up on the latest scandals involving Facebooks business practices, including phishing attacks.

They trick users to give them their email password, then use that password to login and steal all your contacts.

That one that should probably be criminally charged.
Except that FB makes shadow profiles for people who merely browse to pages with a “like” button on them - or other tracking services. They’re forcing themselves upon everyone.
I'm not trying to be elitist, but if someone won't put a little effort into joining a conversation how will they ask questions or report issues?
In the open-plan office, wireless headphones are the new cubicles
The first two hits for that number is this thread now...
They don’t sell ScreenTime or the parental control apps. They aren’t generating revenue from it. They do, however, make money from other people selling apps from the App Store. Also, if you have an iPhone, you already bought the phone, so what’s the incentive for banning outside screen time apps? How does Apple win? They win because their device and the apps on it are more secure. Calling that anti-competitive makes no sense unless Apple was selling competing ScreenTime apps. Not letting users unknowingly compromise their own privacy isn’t anti-competitive.

And in the case of Google, it would be different because Google’s business model is all about “targeting” you. Apple’s model is simply to sell you stuff.
^ this is your brain on NYT
They're starting from a false premise. The idea isn't to 'punish' Facebook, the people fining them really couldn't care less.

What they want is to line their own pockets, they do that by fining them in a way the stupid uneducated public supports.

The real way to 'punish' Facebook would be to hold Zuck directly accountable. i.e he personally faces jail time unless he does x,y and z etc.
That's what the industry is moving towards. Fewer but higher powered ECUs running either with a SOC that provides isolation of the cores in hardware or a hypervisor to enable running safety critical applications in isolation.
Hey HN, this is our campaign to write free and open source software for HiSeq 2000 and 2500 DNA sequencers. These are, now obsolete for DNA sequencing, machines that can be used for a large variety of scientific tasks.

We just have a few days left to reach our funding goal.

Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18896318
Not to defend FB, but many trackers by companies work this way. They build an anonymous profile based on device fingerprint and then merge it if you sign in as a user.
I don't see how that negates what the parent said. Something better is coming, so what was already done isn't bad?
In 2017 I worked for a company that often took payment in ETH and held a lot of it long-term. They had a bookkeeper and two lawyers on payroll, and about fifty other employees.
It looks like “insolvency” is ambiguous, and we should differentiate between cash flow vs balance sheet insolvency.
> If C doesn't corroborate then perhaps A is the bad actor, spreading false rumours.

The problem: you always suspect B of being a bad actor and maybe A. How long is enough for C to have completed his non-corroboration period?

Gossip destroys relationships with suspicion at every turn.

ETA: please don't take this as an endorsement of gossip being a criminal offense in the Philippines.
Wikipedia says that the natural abundance of Xenon-124 is 0.095% = 1/1000. Adding that correction I get a few decays per day that is more similar to the data reported in other commit that is 126 events in 177 days.

Edit: I think I'm missing a ln_e(2) in the calculation, but it's only a 30% more or 30% less. It's not a huge change in the result.
>Should Smsrt TV makers be forced to allow any third party app? What about console makers? Should Nintendo be forced to allow adult oriented games on their platform?

I think the argument is Apple has a little more market dominance (both smart phone hardware and OS) than a single smart tv maker or even Nintendo in the console market.

Keeping the market dominance point in mind, Apple isn’t just deciding what is and isn’t allowed...you had a number of developers with successful apps not just have to contend with a copy cat app created by Apple but because of their control over the marketplace Apple killed their developers apps and took the entire market (rightly or wrongly).

So yeah if you change your facts and the smart tv or Nintendo allowed apps/adult games, saw developers create a market and then the hardware maker launched their own software competitors and disallowed the initial apps/games...there would be blowback.
Why is that amazing? How would you expect it to work?
Ask HN: Best way to finish degree in Bay Area
Dropped out of a biology-related degree some years ago. Taught myself to code and have been working professionally ever since. I’m not conspicuous about it as people don’t ask and I don’t feel comfortable asking my network about this since a lot of them don’t know I didn’t finish college.

I’m getting more interested in graduate computer science studies and think it would be a great learning experience doing a CS undergrad and eventually masters. I’m trying think about the best way to finish up. For engineers that have been in my shoes and decided to go back to finish their degree, how did you go about it? Was it worth it? And if you are in the Bay Area what great value schools are good for adult students trying to finish their degree?

Any insights would be much appreciated.
Google has vast resources and could easily get this stuff right, but chooses not to. Their protests about not having the capacity can get pretty comical. Note also that the claim about "working on the things that have the most impact" is tautological.
Nope, investigations just take really long and courts are slow.

That's why for FB the downfall is not yet really visible - might take another 12 months.
I forked an ubuntu image and then used it as a base for all my projects. It doesn't come for free though, you will need to periodically run security updates and then rebuild all images that depend on it.
Why not tweak the tool to modify the links into outline links?
Images are not comparable to WASM and especially not to JS. This is described in "Making WebAssembly even faster: Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compile", but the TL;DR is that network is less so the bottleneck than parsing and execution these days.

Further the notion that 168kb is nothing is a bit sad when you consider emerging markets and other low bandwith/CPU scenarios. One of my hopes with WASM is that it can achieve both smaller bundles and better parse/execute performance. To my understanding one of the big blockers for this right now is the lack of a DOM API for WASM.
Putin mulls easing Russian passport rules for whole Ukraine
>netsplits, nick collisions

It really sounds more like you used IRC daily decades ago.
Docker Hub Compromised, Users Urged to Reset Passwords, Tokens
And then only after implementing this set of policies do you realize none of these board or executive teams are located within your borders anymore.
Is essentially a gun control debate. Windows (the gun,) is benign on its own and millions of people can safely use it. However, in the wrong hands, it can enable dangerous behaviors and undesirable outcomes. MacOS simply has much stronger trigger locks.
Don't Buy a Chameleon Cage Before Watching This
Watch “The Real Reason the South Seceded by Donald Livingston” on YouTube
Apologies, not entirely clear that the post is taken from somewhere/ how to get to the original post. Don't think I can update the URL the submission points to :|
Thats individual logical logging.

Making persistent server-logs and putting them on the web, makes them Google-creepy by default.
Still, installing those open source tools in the Go Slack and collaborating with Kubernetes over them seems better that just live with whatever Slack offers today.
The latest edition covers non-American English too, so it's now "Garner's Modern English Usage". I first learned of this book from David Foster Wallace's review of the first edition in Harper's Magazine:

https://www.webcitation.org/6FU8Zx2N0?url=http://instruct.we...

I agree it is excellent, and Wallace's review is also worth reading.
37. That maybe seems a bit heavy.

Edit: 38 with the image link at the bottom.
But how about Matrix, Rocket.Chat, Mattermost, IRC, and other open source chat servers?
The Dictionary [1] program included with MATE also defaults to giving definitions from Webster's 1913.

This is because it is using dict.org [2], which serves _The Collaborative International Dictionary of English_ v.0.48 (GCIDE) as it's default dictionary [3].

[1] https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-utils/tree/master/mate-...

[2] http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict

[3] http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict3&Database=gcide

edit: Newline formatting.