skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had some pills, supposedly E tabs, which gave me a quick up. Nice, but they weren't pure MDMA though it took me a fair while to realise that.

I suspect, without evidence, that they had methamphetamine mixed in (they started working in as little as 10 minutes). That benefits the dealer as they clearly "work" so no complaints from the buyers, and in a strange way may benefit the user as they won't start popping more because they think they have a dud, and real MDMA takes maybe 25 to 45 minutes to start, and the effects cam be subtle and overlooked particularly if you are new to them.

It's a strange argument, and please note I use the word 'benefit' here in a very odd way - meth is neurotoxic, so it's really not the right word. And mixing random stuff in, also bad.

Also, I once was given an E which was huge, I broke it into quarters and that may have saved me a trip to hospital or the morgue. It was vastly too strong. Also had some other tabs which I suspect were pure meth (I'm guessing but they are the only thing that I could find described that started working so fast, and caused bruxism) which I thankfully broke in half. They were overwhelmingly strong.

So the advice to break up tabs and take the pieces slowly (and don't assume pill A has the same composition or strength as pill B apparently from the same batch) is very well founded. It has definitely saved me hospital trips and wasting NHS money. You have an entire night, don't rush!
Because they aren't a "friend", but more somebody I hang out with.
Zoomings been in beta for ages. In the latest fw samples on synth tracks can be <=6 seconds and wav also.
Siemens PLC Projects

Imagine a Controll Software - not written in StateDiagrams, but in either a sort of assembler, a drag&drop connection language or similar. Imagine parallel execution without correct communication handling (usually no semaphores etc.).
Imagine massive mountains of copy pasted code (although not fail of the plattform, it encourages creating classes- called fb).
Imagine some in-over-his-depths guy in panic adding and adding to this mountain of garbage, until the project gets critical and you are called.

Then you get to rewrite the mess ("Its almost done") while a men-choir of suits stands behind you, breathing in your neck till the fungi grow ("You are aware this factory has x-parts in storage and will stand still if you dont provide fix in time of x per hours").

In theory this is all super easy, its just, the coding culture is still in the late 80s. Thus its hell.
If you ignore taxes, you go to jail.
Yet most musicians are not consciously aware of theory while they make music. So you don’t really apply music theory, many great artists don’t actually know the theory much at all.
Yeah, the flip side to this argument is pretty heinous: American war criminals can be prosecuted any time, any place they show up outside of Americas' borders.

Except, they can't, because the USA will protect them, even threatening to INVADE any country which attempts to reign their war criminals in.

Duplicity is the order of the day.
Great... now Apple will buy them, steal their designers and engineers, and run the place into the ground
I have no idea how it is with the openness of paperwork/tax filings in the US, but if you are very interested I'm sure you could investigate the veracity of these claims. I agree with you in principle that it is a high number, but I do not think it is unthinkable. Especially if there have been "too few" firings over the years and a company has accumulated a relatively large amount of supporting staff.
Hey Google, What Do Your Security Patches Tell Us?
>Do you think Samsung and LG would be more likely to develop not to mention support an Android competitor?

Samsung tried this with Tizen, IIRC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizen
Precisely. I have always been at odds with my wife's enthusiasm for visiting places (travelling in the modern context) where hotels, tour-packages and worn-out guides define your experience. Unfortunately I can't suggest an alternative to her besides the lemmings path. (The top post on this thread is 100% my sentiment about holiday travelling. Hell is indeed "others".)

And by second highest, you mean K2? Agreed. But really these projects are out of my physical, mental and financial reaches currently.
China has disallowed their citizens from using Google, Netflix, Instagram, but everyone's up in arms over Trump stopping the US from doing business with Huawei. I really don't understand this.

https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/the-complete-list-of-blocked-...
True. And it's important not to over-estimate the value of this vote. France had been condemned by the UN for the return of the island of Mayotte to Comoros, New Caledonia is another example.
And let's not talk about Palestine and Israel...
UN votes have, in the best case, a symbolical value

[1] https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/165500
Well, Réunion was not "annexed" either, it was settled by France while it was unpopulated and most people descend from settlers from France (to various degrees, as the population is very mixed). Its situation is probably comparable to the Azores.

There has literally never been any sizable independence sentiment and it's unlikely to appear in the foreseeable future.
There is a lot of misinformation about the situation here, mainly because of the misleading title. The game created by the Chinese company is not a clone of the game created by Playsaurus.

Here is the game created by Playsaurus: http://www.clickerheroes2.com

Here is the game created by the Chinese company: http://m.7k7k.com/android/11525.html

The games look nothing alike. The dispute is about the title of the game "Clicker Heroes", specifically the Chinese translation of this title "点击英雄". A Chinese company created a game with this (rather generic) name and filed a trademark for the name.

The company was granted the trademark because they were first to file for the trademark and China trademark law works on a first-to-file basis. The same law applies in many countries (including countries in the EU). Playsaurus made a mistake not filing for the trademark in China before and was punished for that mistake.

The actual controversy here has nothing to do with Chinese law or the Chinese company. The controversy is that Apple took down the game in all regions despite them only violating the trademark in China.
It is relevant for trademarks as well. In the US, it's a first to use with regards to trademarks, but China has a first to file trademark system.
this is just a typical application development story
Ask HN: What technologies should I focus on to enhance my carreer?
I'd like your opinion about what technologies to focus on to get the best of today's job market.

I'm currently a front-end web developer in France.

I have an experience of 3 years of web-based front-end dev. Before that, I was developping GUIs with Qt and C++ during 3 years.

My main skills are writing code, designing software architectures and as I'm in a small company I do a little UX work as well.

I have some back-end notions. I could focus on that an improve it considerably with a little time and effort, but that's not what I like the most today.

I'm considering changing jobs soon. My number one concern today is money (as i'm currently looking to pay my mortgage and eat something else than bread and pasta).
I reckon it will shift toward getting a project with a little more meaning and technical challenges in the next 2 or 3 years, when the money problem is solved.

What field/technologies could be a good time investment ?
The article holds up Netflix as a shining example of movie recommendation engines but Netflix has only 3000 to 5000 distinct movie titles (depending on your country). You cannot get interesting or surprising movie recommendations from such a small search space. Imagine the extreme case where Netflix had 1 single movie, say "Twilight". They'd always recommend "Twilight" even if Donald Knuth wrote their recommendation engine.

You need something like IMDb's catalog of 500,000 movie titles to do something interesting.
I believe there is something called the legal system?
Which companies or people can use to challenge government decisions, if they don't like them. And they can at least openly express their concerns.

But I do not see that hapoening, so something (or quite a lot) is going on behind the scene.
> Wow, it’s quite expensive, especially in comparison with recent gen of affordable synths.

Are you comparing the OP-Z to a Korg Volca?
EE (owned by BT) launched its 5G lineup in London this week.

They dropped Huawei but had a OnePlus instead.

More Chinese brands pop up every time you try to cut one off ;)
I believe the primary difference between starlink and other satellite internet is that it will be lower down.
Digital Currency Will Change the World
I can say, as a seasoned web apps outsourcing contractor, there are two sides of the medal.

The bright side: clients usually come to me with just an idea, plan or sketches, almost all of my projects were built from the ground up, I totally technically owned them. This is a delight for any coder (and I code a lot, not just manage the team).

The dark side: many startups and green business ventures fail, and the failure rate is around 80%, even larger in the longer run. And I do the apps from the ground up, nurture them.. but sometimes I feel myself a gravedigger.. out of any 10 projects maybe 2 or three are still there after a couple of years.
This is addressed as "abusing the protocol"
> A made-in-Europe non-Google-led OS might gain more ground among risk averse governments and enterprises — as a sensible hedge against Trump-fueled global uncertainty.

> “Sailfish OS, as a non-American, open-source based, secure mobile OS platform, is naturally an interesting option for different players — currently the interest is stronger among corporate and governmental customers and partners, as our product offering is clearly focused on this segment,” says Jolla co-founder and CEO Sami Pienimäki .

> “Overall, there definitely has been increased interest towards Sailfish OS as a mobile OS platform in different parts of the world, partly triggered by the on-going political activity in many locations. We have also had clearly more discussions with e.g. Chinese device manufacturers, and Jolla has also recently started new corporate and governmental customer projects in Europe.”

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/20/trumps-huawei-ban-also-cau...
Brock Motum, hopefully.
I find it a bit concerning that an article of this (low) caliber was found worthy of publication by the NYT. It's basically parroting a handful of talking points heard a thousand times before, it does not really address any of the arguments in favor of protecting privacy.
Both are true. Google cut off Huawei because the US government told them to.
Depends on how far you want to go, the real advantages come if they have satellite to satellite laser links (which I believe are not on this first batch), that could significantly cut down latency between say New York and Sydney.
A possible solution would be the [australian] government trademarking their traditional product names or a similar variant, and then acting as umbrella for thousands of australian small companies. Granting a free use of the term and defense against predatory practices. A sort of shared trademark.

Maybe should be named uggstralian boots from now on.
https://github.com/hyphz/opzdoc/wiki/MIDI-Protocol
>where they almost use the momentum of the rocket to "fling"

this is compulsory anyway due to physics.
But then you are assuming that people will seed for an considerable time (more that a few minutes) after watching the stream. If as many people do they do not seed then the last block will forever only have one seeder. (which would at least be the case for the last scene of the last episode of the last season, a point where you might not like buffering)
Would we see a trial for the crimes he revealed? If not, I disagree profoundly.
It wasn't abandoned, it didn't see any maintenance for 18 months.

I don't get paid for doing this work. Red Hat does. They get paid for offering it to customers that apparently demands that it ships with RHEL8. They have been shipping it with RHEL since RHEL3.

They haven't contributed to it ever in that timespan.

They could have paid me for maintaining it, they could have offered to maintain it for me. (Because it is a lot of work to accept and verify pull requests). I am a freelancer, I have to work for a living I don't have a lot of free time.

Instead, they ripped out the plugin backend, added the PCP backend and now you can't use it as a drop-in tool that can't run PCP. Your synology NAS, WRT router or JeOS platform. Because Red Hat does not care about anything other than RHEL. They are business-oriented. And that's fine.

Is the Open Source ecosystem better off ? I sincerely doubt it. It's being replaced by paid-for engineers with business interests. In the long term it is killing the community.
Windows is meant for desktop use by managers, Solaris was never realistically meant for that sort of use-case.

So it's a bit more like replacing the BMW company car some VP at Caterpillar drives around with one of the 400 ton trucks Caterpillar itself makes. Yes it also has wheels, yes it's also a vehicle, but no, you can't really use it as a company car.
I know this is quite niche, but as a keen amateur sailor I'm pretty excited about this.
The play store is unavailable within China anyway, so alternatives certainly exist.
We are at South River Ontario Canada.

At present we are three owners each building own house, we have 5 different people interested right now joining us to build their homes and our planning is no more than either 50 quarter acre or half acre lots which will let us leave about 15 acres untouched.

The real short term is just Wifi, with ethernet cables for the further homes. Once we get more people, we will look into fiber for everybody.
Happy iTerm user as well. The only thing I don't like is the increased and visible latency compared to Terminal.app when creating new tabs or windows.
Yet here we are, talking to each other over the state-sponsored internet.
Because it won't work in high-density urban areas.
Their satellites are in Geostationary orbit (about 22,236 miles away). This constellation is at 400 miles.

22,236 in Lightseconds: 0.11936716 (one way)
400 in Ls: 0.0021472775.

(assuming directly overhead)

~250ms round trip for GEO vs 4.2ms for LEO
Terminator 6 – Dark Fate
I don't understand the outrage. just because it's China? the same thing can happen in any country, especially in the US. some random company can trademark your game name. you don't like it? fight it in court? don't have money for court? too bad. nothing new here.
and if now your game infringes an american trademark you can be 100% sure apple will pull the game worldwide.
Yeah, and this makes sense, but there are multiple problems with COBOL on mainframes – the COBOL, and the mainframes.

COBOL and mainframes have quite a different programming and system administration model to what we expect with servers. Lots of concepts are quite different, built up from a world of mainframes and terminals, tapes, batch processing, etc. Concepts like users, operating systems, files, networking, parallelism, programs, databases, are all quite different, and all of these differences cause companies problems in training users, and creating nice new software that works in ways people expect now.

Creating a, for example, JavaScript to COBOL compiler is probably not fully possible. You may be able to transliterate it, but you would essentially be writing a COBOL program in JavaScript syntax – not using Node libraries and writing React components. This reduces many of the benefits.

The alternate approach is that you take your COBOL and compile it to work in the JVM. You get a JAR out that you can run on your regular servers that are already running your other JVM software. There is probably a significant runtime built into that by the compiler that translates some mainframe concepts into modern concepts, but that's fine because you haven't had to rework your COBOL. Then, you can progressively pull out modules, rewrite in Java, and reference those from the old COBOL code. You don't need lots of training in mainframe concepts, you don't need to spend millions of dollars a year on your mainframe, and you can write new code in Java.

The US Department of Defence have taken this approach one step further, and are actually writing a compiler from COBOL to Java. It's not fully automated, but with not too many developer-hours, they can turn significant chunks of COBOL into reasonably good quality Java, over the course of several stages.

Your idea is a good one, and worth experimenting with maybe, but I think the best approach for the migration away from COBOL for large businesses (and only large businesses use it) is the other way around.
> are not actually strict duplicates at all

Yes, that's probably why the article's title is "Near-duplicate features of C++".

> references cannot be null

From the discussion and examples, that seems to be a restriction on the programmer, not a feature of the feature.
I think most of the impediments are intentionally created to hinder projects so that nothing looks to easy or successful. This may help explain why some PMs or product owners inflate the product features when internally advertising the effort, that way if other people throw up roadblocks they are less likely to impact a core feature.
More like making him use Windows Millenium.
Chinese brands also have about 50% of the market in Thailand, followed by Samsung and then Apple. Not as big as India, but annual sales of around 20 million units is still a decent chunk of change.
> I have never seen descriptive video services in any streaming service

netflix has them
Theresa May resigns: The woman famous for her resilience could endure no more
Huawei could make their own Play Services, API-compatible with Google, then all apps would work the same. Maybe that's what they actually do now.
Full disclaimer: I am Mauritian and work in the UK. I am happy about the regognition in the UN and the ICJ’s decision even that it is quite late and a lot of Chagosians already suffered a lot. I would say the Mauritian Gov is interested in the fishing rights provided by the islands which is critical for us. I would like to see .io domain be given back to a Chagosian association and let them use the income from it. It could be used to develop transport to the island and resume coconut farming, fishing, tourism...
I would like to see more pressure being applied to UK, because to be honest i don’t see them doing anything and just do like they always did so far, ignore ans delay any actions to be done there.
Ps: the Gigaom acticle about it is great to understand the situation.
Pss: the US has no need for a base there, their base in Bahrain and Qatar are much closer to their illegitimate war interests.
To be clear, although it was already known by fishermen, this archipelago was not occupied by locals and was first settled by the European countries that deemed it a worthy endeavour (although mostly using slaves of course).

European colonisation isn't rosy, but there is a lot of misinformation out there and things happened widely differently in different places. It's really far from being a simple "subjugate the locals and appropriate their lands" story everywhere.
Amazon Web Services Made Simple
Enterprise or not, people like novelties, want to experience other places, wonders of the world, etc.

And of course since we specialize, it's not surprising that this too became something that produces a surplus.

It's up to society and culture as a whole to protect and preserve said wonders. (From park rangers to laws and entrance limits and lotteries.)
> Also google, are they so bowed down to the government,

What choice do they have ? Comply with law or be heavily fined, shut down, executives jailed for compromising nation security.
A user has to:

(a) be aware of the existence of said switch for every app they use

(b) be aware of the ramifications of that setting/feature (something I fear even many devs don't fully grok).

(c) Most importantly, can only opt-out after the fact: Google analytics runs before you have any opportunity to access the settings panel.
The judicial system is for challenging the interpretation of the law.

Changing the law is a different process.
Replacing JavaScript: How eBay made a web app 50x faster
TE products (particularly the OP1) are used by artists like Radiohead, Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, Nine Inch Nails, CHVRCHES, Animal Collective, MGMT.
Here's a granular discussion of another instance of Google exerting control over Android, from a decade ago (2010):

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ma-court-of-appeals/1683074.html
If you're referencing the Romeikes, they were ultimately denied political asylum, but have, as far as I know, not been deported.
It’s an extremely common phrase in science and engineering that has been in use since before Elon was born.
> So... the median worker is making something closer to minimum wage than before?

I believe they're expressing that wages are increasing and the inequality in the lower half is decreasing. As is spelled out in the line previous, increasing minimum wage are but one factor.

As for your other questions, there are a couple of points. First, the notion of "benefits" doesn't translate easily across national borders. What employer-dericed benefits are common, their costs, and so on can all vary wildly. This makes comparisons very difficult.

Your second question, about education, is an excellent one! It sounds like a great subject to do follow-up work on. I confess I have no idea how to go about calculating such a thing data from N different countries, but I'm sure someone has a good way of figuring this out.
If the game wasn't cloned (that is, copied 1 for 1), then title isn't misleading, it's actually a complete lie.

Half of the comments here are talking about IP theft, when it just becomes a trademark dispute.
> Getting that camera app on one of the less known platforms and enabling Huawei phones for them would still make them appealing to a large number of customers in eg. Europe.

Except that camera itself is not a killer-app.
The major use-case of a mobile camera BY FAR is not just to capture content, but to share the content on social media, also in Europe.
So whatever less-known platform the camera-app would be moved to, that platform would still also have to provide a good user-experience for Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, etc.
So in the end, that less-known platform would need a SocialMedia app-ecosystem comparable to Android just to match the Android-experience for Camera...
> If there is a major difference between the skills needed for an interview and the actual job...

The problem is that the exact skills required for a job cannot be measured within the timespan of an interview, so instead closely related skills are measured. Until somebody solves this problem interview preparation makes a lot of sense.
I'd love to hear how you'd do SSAI
on top of a file based workflow.

Given that this is a discussion of Netflix and Bittorrent, and the popularity of ad blockers among HN readers, I think the answer to "How would you do server-side ad insertion" is "I would accept losing that feature"
You can't have an allowance with inflation.
And if you are really paranoid you would need to audit the code of the compiler in every intermediate step.
Hopefully we will see results way before we start breaking RSA. It looks like people are targeting applications in quantum chemistry [1]. Also, Dyakonov's criticisms are toothless, see comments here [2].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00862

[2] https://scirate.com/arxiv/1903.10760