skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree, any repeatable action can/should be automated. It hurts to see software engineers clicking login to test it still works.... Every day
Excellent recall--I had almost entirely forgotten about ".NET Passport," one of Microsoft's many premature plays at being an identity provider. This certainly added to confusion at the time about .NET's actual form... something to do with XML, or web services? And an awkward new ORM that will definitely not become well-loathed in near-record time?
What is an "application protocol" in your mind? These are mostly RFC 1135 application layer protocols. I manipulate them with applications directly.

HTTP is a botch that is slowly getting better and is far too heavyweight for most things.
I agree, there's plenty of ways to work around it, and I'd prefer any of them to the syntactic mess we're in now. I'm not the one making the decisions, though. :)
This sounds like FUD.

Why would it be better to connect directly to a site, rather than force them to expend resources to deanonymize my connection?
Auto loans seem to be the next crisis. One link for the argument and one against below:

For: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/more-7-millio...

Against: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-20/subpri...
That pref doesn't matter. If you turn off the visible checkbox in settings, normandy turns off. This is true for many feature flags. You can try it yourself, I tested it - unchecking the box in settings disabled the hotfix in my user studies tab (all of them were marked as complete).
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* Well-versed in modern software development best practices (git, kanban, scrum, etc.)

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* Experience designing mobile UX's and/or collaborating with UX designers.

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* Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve front-end software.
* Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.

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What? Why would that be a factor? It's a kernel. Why would it make a difference if the Windows desktop ran on a different kernel? MS has rolled out several different kernels over the history of Windows, why would it be any different? Just like OP mentioned look at MS switching Edge to the Chromium backend. To the user there's isn't a real difference. It's still Edge.
You need about:config for that flag, but that flag isn't the only way to turn off Normandy.
"Its designed to be integrated into everything."

But it isn't. Try managing AD servers using powershell. You have two options. Either the powershell AD module, which is incomplete and doesn't cover the entirety of Active Directory, or you resort to the native .Net API which is ugly and unintuitive when used from a command line.

"When my db admin uses networker for backup I use Sql Server Powershell Module."

Wut? Don't do this. I've used that module and it's fragile as hell. You have to check the arity of your select statements for it to work correctly. I built a data importation integration using it once and once I got tired of it breaking I just caved and rewrote the tool in C# and never had any more trouble.

But none of that's what I'm talking about when I say that it feels like a second class citizen. If you're on a Unixy machine, every tool implicitly runs from within a shell. That means the shell is always available, even from an application. Not so with Windows. In Windows, the .NET API is your world ( or if you're unlucky, the Win32 API) on Linux, it's the shell.

It's kind of in this sense that Powershell isn't really a shell in the sense that Bash is the primary interface to the operating system whereas Powershell is just an interface layered onto other interfaces. I've done enough sysadmin type work in either environment to feel the difference. Powershell is less a primary interface with the system and more a scripting language. As a scripting language, it's pretty fine, I have no complaints about the design. I'd like to think it's pretty close to what I would have come up with had I been tasked to design a CLI for Windows in the mid 2000s, but it doesn't underly the system as deeply as the Unix shells do.

Edit:

For an great concrete example, compare Cron with the Windows Task Scheduler. With Cron, the command language is whatever your shell happens to be. You have a string which specifies the schedule, followed by some shell command which does your task. The shell command can launch a program, start another script, or you might be able to contain it all in the single line. On Windows, you provide the exact path to the program you want to launch and any arguments. That's it. Powershell isn't available. If you want to launch a PoSH script, you have to reference the PoSH executable and provide your script as an argument. It's relatively ugly.

One nice thing about the Cron approach, is that you can provide input redirection for ad-hoc logging or even output suppression, without having to modify your executable. It's a lot more steps to do the same thing on Windows.
Is this different to the thread earlier today?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19840447
It’s not just “can be made”, but “can be made remotely as inexpensively or as easily”
Yang calls on Amazon to admit job loss from automation
Webtoons have a very interesting business model. Unlike manga, webtoons are usually free and ad supported. I don't even have to sign up to start reading one in most cases. The interesting part is, webtoons are usually released once a week and you can actually pay ~30cents to read the latest episode before it's released next week for free. So if you can't wait another week after a cliff hanger, you can pay to read the next episode and now you're stuck in a vicious cycle of paying every episode to be one episode ahead.
In this blogpost I found a possible reference to it: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060427-21/?p=31...

Saying "shipping a new command shell". Unfortunately the URL gives me a 403.
it's 250k per account so.. no one should have uninsured deposits
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I apologize for offering totally unsolicited commentary, especially if it's unhelpful, but your grandmother's condition sounds similar to what my grandmother suffered from. We thought she had Alzheimers and Parkinsons, but a postmortem analysis by the folks at UC Davis showed that she had dementia with lewy bodies [0], which shares symptoms with both of those diseases but is treated somewhat differently. I mention it only because the treatment for some of her symptoms ended up making things worse and are contraindicated for DLB patients.

I'm sorry for what your family is going through. It took a profound toll on our family, too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_with_Lewy_bodies
Thank you for taking the time to write this reply, all very interesting!
Makepad, 2D CAD Livecoding for Rust
60 kWh is about 200 mi of range in a gen 2 Chevy Volt, while a gallon of gasoline is worth about 40 miles. Just trying to put the efficiency in context using something I'm familiar with.
If you don't mind... I'm eager to hear how this is... fun.

I've personally encountered whales in two situations:

One was someone in an MMORPG trading equipment. Okay, I kind of get the skipping work part, especially if the money doesn't matter.

But then there were the logs I've encountered while doing support for a browser based MMO RTS. Players clicking the same few buttons to get a small fixed amount of resources. Over and over and over again. Only interrupted to recharge the currency. How can that be satisfying? Just the "work" alone seemed demoralizing to me, but then even paying for that?

Have you ever experienced something like this? Is the process of spending enjoyable? Or does the end justify the means, especially for non-random outcomes?
Sure, if you conveniently exclude the environment.
Or

if(cond1) myVar = 1;
else if(cond2 && cond3) myVar = 10;
else if(cond2 && !cond3) myVar = 100;
else myVar = 4;
Check out "Diary of a Very Bad Year" for a longer but equally, ah, education-packed treatment.
UE4 itself can build to Linux, so this move just baffles me. If anything, I thought Epic was going to push harder on Linux.
Quite common in consulting. There's no hard requirement for automated test coverage but typically we have dedicated resources for integration and UAT testing throughout the build phase of a project.

Code reviews are rare too. Often times you'll be the sole developer working on a particular component of a solution.
PowerToys – Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
Allies routinely spy on each other.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/2014/05/16/isr...
Hello ndury!

I'm writting an atricle on this topic, I'll paste the link here after finished.
But someone can write a proxy that exposes Gmail as a JMAP endpoint?
Senior Front-end Software Engineer at Appuntos (Full-time / Onsite / Mexico City)

Minimum Qualifications

* Experience with one or more modern SPA javascript web framework such as backbone, angular, react, vue.js, or similar); with Ionic 2/3/4 and Cordova; as well as with HTML5, CSS3 and Responsive Web Design.
* Solid understanding of document description languages such as JSON and XML.
* Well-versed in modern software development best practices (git, kanban, scrum, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience designing mobile UX's and/or collaborating with UX designers.

About the job

Appuntos is a customer intelligence and marketing platform that helps connect small businesses with their customers through a loyalty app. We are an international, young, dynamic, and fast-paced startup based in the vibrant Roma district of Mexico City. We have a flat organizational structure that allows you to make a big impact on our products since early-on. We have a relaxed atmosphere at work and we offer you a flexible working schedule.

We are looking for a passionate and self-driven software engineer to join our local software development team in Mexico City, and, occasionally, our remote team in Switzerland too. You will be working mostly with Ionic, Android, iOS, Bootstrap, Angular 5, Javascript, and Typescript.

Responsibilities

* Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve front-end software.
* Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.

Your application

We would love to see your work! Please share with us any links you may have where we can see your work.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send us your resume and a short note indicating why you would like to work at Appuntos to: raphael+recruiting@appuntos.com (mailto:raphael@appuntos.com)
Do you think cybersecurity or ai is a better field to dive deeper into as a career/business field? I feel like in some ways ai has already been hyped up but cybersecurity tends to be quite niche in its demands?
Seems to me that Payboo is a credit card with a high interest rate if you pay on time they’ll absorb your taxes Otherwise you’ll pay the difference in interest
But if your 315 MHz devices aren't working, it's probably interference on 315 MHz causing the problem.

And if it took weeks for someone to look up the FCC ID printed on literally every single device affected by this problem, and learn what frequency it operates on, then I think that suggests a deeper problem.
So China ran a network sniffer and captured and reversed some 0day that the NSA lobbed at them? I'd be pretty surprised if this sort of thing didn't happen all the time in cyberwar, considering the NSA has a massive, worldwide sniffing operation and China has the GFW. I feel like this story is omitting some important fact that makes this a bigger deal.
Tilt: Local Kubernetes Development
This unfortunate person was probably in a different risk category than you (not knowing your personal history, and obviously diagnoses over HN are fraught with peril ;). He had fairly classic anginal symptoms, putting him at higher risk due to presumed pre-existing ischaemic heart disease, and most likely his heart simply chose that time to have the attack that killed him. Note I'm stating that cause of death clinically since I don't recall he ended up being autopsied and a heart attack can easily throw you into v-fib.

Sudden cardiac death can come from a massive heart attack, but it can just as easily arise from abnormal heart rhythms of other causes which aren't related to coronary artery disease (and the risk factors for same, such as diabetes, obesity, etc.). Essentially you're looking for conditions that would screw up the normal electrical function of the heart and its internal "wiring." The risk factors for that otherwise include pre-existing anatomical defects (bad valves, congenital abnormalities, abnormally large heart size such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), abnormal blood chemistry or electrolyte levels, history of abnormal cardiac rhythm (things like long QT syndrome, Wolff-Parkinson-White), and certain medications and recreational drugs.

If you fall into those categories, have a personal history of heart disease or are otherwise unsure, a simple EKG will rule in or out quite a number on that list. Similarly, if you have a family history of heart disease, you are probably in a higher risk category as well. While the USPSTF doesn't recommend EKGs in asymptomatic individuals at low risk, falling into one of those groups would probably not be low risk anymore. See https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Page/Document/... for more details.

Hopefully that was somewhat helpful. As always, this wouldn't replace asking your primary care doc about it.
Looking at the request it contains properties like collapseThreads and sort, moving this sort of functionality server side is a regression. This is an API for hosted services, it's disingenuous to compare it to imap.
Lots of medical and lab supplies, such as tubing, tools, and stents. For some applications glass is too fragile, metal can be too reactive. Even "inert" metals like titanium or nickel eventually develop bio-films.

Various plastics' combination of temperature stability at both high and low temps (cryo / autoclave), non-bio-reactivity (body doesn't attack or reject over short spans), and corrosion resistance makes plastics perfect for these situations. Especially wet situations. And since plastics can be fine tuned for application specific needs they can be iterated on quickly with a materials but not manufacturing process change in some cases.

My wife and I had this conversation a couple weeks ago asking this very question which ultimately boils down to: "Are plastics worth it at all ever?" And the answer we found, surprisingly, was yes.

edit: a typo.
My solution has been to switch my ringtone to a silent MP3 file. A good trick, since iOS doesn't let you disable all incoming calls (AFAICT).
Coming from mainly python I must say I'm extremely impressed with .net core.

I think my mac days would be over if Windows had better font rendering and a usable terminal -- even ConEmu leaves a lot to be desired.
Another difference would be that the kind of redistribution Obama favors is compelled for one side of the equation

Sure, and there are plenty of welfare programs that predate Obama. Welfare programs that were, in large part, created by elected officials.
Ok, so Edward Snowden runs off with few terabytes of NSA data. He briefly stops in China, before finally going to Russia. Now NSA hacking tools are used against US and we are supposed to believe that "Chinese did not steal the code but captured it from an N.S.A. attack on their own computers".

Somehow I'm not convinced.
I think it might be closer to an Amazon Marketplace type offering. One product SKU, multiple sellers (including B&H with taxes, likely).
Twitter will now let you add photos, videos, or GIFs to retweets
Let me get this straight:

Potential hires were offered an employment contract with terms that included the settling certain disputes through arbitration. They accepted the offer and signed the contract. Now these people are not only are trying to nullify that clause, they’re adopting an air of moral superiority because they think that clause should never have existed.

Not only does this seem unsympathetic to me, it seems impractical. Why would you go work for a company that seemingly doesn’t share your values only to later take an activist stance to try and change said company?
This is a poor analogy. To quote a sibling comment:

"If you consider what it takes to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of a single application, monolith or micro-service, you need a solution for the following items: deployments, application configuration, high availability, log and metrics aggregation, autoscaling, and load balancing across multiple application instances.

Kubernetes provides an opinionated way of doing all of those things. For example, Kubernetes leverages container images and declarative configs for packaging and deploying applications. For many people this approach is much simpler than what Puppet, Chef, and Ansible bring to the table in terms managing applications."

Using Kubernetes even with a monolith can be pretty nice, if (big if here) Kubernetes behaves.
China is becoming an increasingly big threat to the west and it’s values, only because it’s a communist dictatorship. With the rise of the middle class and the ultra rich in China, I dont know for how long with the communist party stay in power. It seems the government censorship and all the spying does work for controlling the people into believing the government is doing good to them...
Uh actually that’s not true. Sales tax is owed on used goods in most states. Have you ever bought a used car?
Yeah, at least all the current extensions of IMAP will be covered.
See: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Have done so. End up ditching the long sleeves on every single hike because I start overheating.

Every hat which is suitably breathable has laughable sun protection as well, so sunscreen is pretty much my only option.

For day-to-day around-town, yeah, a long-sleeve shirt works. But it's not a one-size-fits-all solve.
What's wrong with it?

It's not free of warts (the verbosity is annoying), but I personally find it much more readable than Bash scripts. The support for script modules also helps a lot if you are managing a lot of scripts.
I think another factor is that HDD that are included in computers are larger by default. So instead of shipping with a 256GB HDD and forcing the customer to buy another one later, it ships with a 2TB HDD.
If it's a VM running the kernel then why not simply run Virtual Box or Hyper-V and be done with it?
This is the biggest reason I'm still using Firefox. Containers have totally changed my workflow, much preferred over Chrome profiles.

I wish they added more colour and icon support, there's open cases for it but they're not prioritised. If only I was a good enough developer..
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How are they able to do that?

Just leaving this here:
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Did you consider that they might only be wasting your time? I haven’t ever felt any frustration at any of the things you named.
Why would you think that? That would mean the first buyer would have to be from an tax-exempt state to begin with. Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, or Oregon.

Also that would potentially create problems with Warranties. Equipment purchased from an unauthorized reseller often comes without a valid warranty.

I'd be more inclined to think that they cooked up some solution so it becomes a Product as a Service - since you don't pay taxes on service in most places.
Riot Games workers walk out to protest forced arbitration
Previous discussion, with the official source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842817
Really curious about Rook. The stakes of running something like that on K8S successfully seem quite a bit higher than stateless apps, and commensurately the rewards as well.
My bet is corporate debt as it has more of a cascade risk systemically.

The thing about the housing crisis was that it dropped asset prices and really pinched consumers. Failures in other areas like auto loans will likely pinch holders of the CDOs but only make it slightly harder to get a car loan. The transaction amounts are relatively low compared to housing.

That said - corporate debt is in the trillions and if your favorite Fortune 500 goes belly up a bunch of jobs go with it. Not to mention the overall equity losses to those holding index funds.

That said... my long term bearishness has not really been super well paid off haha. My hypotheses ain’t worth the bits they’re stored on.
I subjectively noticed that a "stale office building" environment prevents my thinking, while a breeze in the open air is more intellectually stimulating.

Attributed this to the richer environment of nature, but it turns out that there is scientific research that finds a correlation between cognitive ability and airflow: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036013231...

Short answer: yes.
A new way of storing old files on Dropbox
> and now DDG is still a fringe of the market even in our increasingly privacy-conscious, big-tech-company-skeptical times

Is it, though? I mean, yeah, it's no Google or Bing or Yahoo, but it also doesn't have Google or Microsoft or Yahoo money, either.

It's on the brink of breaking 1% in the US [1]; that might seem small, but that'd be a good 33% of ChromeOS users or 10% of macOS users. Not bad, considering.

And really, blaming DuckDuckGo's branding for its poor marketshare is pretty ridiculous given the competition. I mean come on, what kind of a name is "Google"? Or "Bing"? Or "Yahoo"? The ridiculousness of the branding doesn't seem to actually be a problem, since that's actually constant across all of the top four browsers in the US.

[1]: http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/uni...

[2]: http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/united-states-...
The efforts have been spent on cloud services. Office 365 online is rather good, OneDrive finally works, and other things like Teams and DevOps are being well integrated.

For 95% of business users, these online editions have all the capabilities they need without the install headache and are much easier to maintain and update. Office Desktop just had a refresh too but there's basically 0% Linux business users to spend the millions in development costs for a variant.