skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked in seven different start ups as a Dir of Tech, CTO, software engineer, etc. It's naive to assume that these guys, although amateur as far as job postings go, don't represent 95% of tech starts up. I had no problem putting in 70+ hours a week for years. The moment I became a mother, even before I actually had the baby, this career trajectory seems to have evaporated. The company I worked for at the time, the offers from the start ups I received later on, all have the culture that promotes this form of enslavement, really... and with acquisition, finance rounds, etc that nice looking equity becomes meaningless at payday.. if there is ever one. A new framework is needed to support a diverse workforce... really; and it can start with VCs making calls on where the put the money but most likely, the cultural shift will need to come from the ground up... like every other revolution
Can't you set up keys that are only allowed to do GET/PUT?

I know that tarsnap [1] can work with `list`, `write` and `delete` keys.

[1]: http://www.tarsnap.com/man-tarsnap-keymgmt.1.html
Yes, terminals do support graphics like they do support applications that look at last as good as applications you'd find on DOS (if not better), my point is that the programmers who make those applications do not take advantage of those.
That is exactly what I needed - a digital tax to increase the cost and cut down choice of digital services.

Take that, Google!
I thought recaptcha provided alternate domains/hosts not linked to Google so that you can use it in China. Is that not the case anymore?
>Payed subscriptions to news-websites/magazines are also not advertising free.

I have only seen major US news outlets do this - namely NYT, Bloomberg, WSJ etc.

I have subs to different publications - Ars, Ken, Nautilus - and they definitely are ad-free and a lot of others also claim to be ad-free for subscribers.
What about the bugs that required a patched LLVM?
It is clearly not a real hologram, but I can't find any technical details. The better source I got was this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3KbgGJux4E It looks like a projection on a cylindrical screen, and the description says:

> Circus Roncalli is a German circus founded in 1976. Bluebox successfully installed 11x ZU850 Optoma models and 11x BX-CTA03 lenses to create a truly amazing circus holographic experience.
This is true, it's a hard comparison / wish because it's actually a different motherboard. But if Apple wants something, they can typically figure out how to get it.

Based on my years working in media, there is a much larger market for a well priced mid-range Mac Pro than the "you're only a pro if you can afford it" level workstation.
yeah i put in another comment that this acquisition is a vote of non confidence in Einstein Analytics. You may see it phased out in the next few years.
Google Maps tests a new alert for when your taxi goes off route
So basically Google is abusing it's monopoly as a captcha provider to inconvenience users into enabling enhanced tracking in their browsers under the guise of "security"?
I tend to think that Apple should keep IAPs for actual in-app features but things like ebooks and video subscriptions should be treated like physical goods, where app makers can offer their own payment (and fulfillment). Amazon doesn't pay 30% for items purchased with the Amazon app, but it would if it offered Kindle purchases. This distinction makes no sense, since ebooks aren't app features or game gems or whatever. IAPs for such features make sense, since otherwise every app would just be "free" with pay-to-unlock and Apple getting nothing for running the store.
Big rant, there are few things I hate more than filling out their endless useless CAPTCHA's when browsing websites that have nothing to do with Google.

Google is a hypocritical pile of burning . They use bots right? They scrape websites, they infest everything from my banking website to console emulators with their tracking, and yet we little people are not allowed to scrape or interface with the web programmatically.

I want them to burn so badly, I hope the EU breaks them up. Screw captcha, screw AWP, screw them.
If it's really something critically important or urgent, you can still send an IM and just say some variation of "this is important / time-sensitive". If they don't respond or start typing within a minute or two, then you can try to call.
That’s not a simple solution because the OP is not just calling for the removal of a default search engine, but also calling for "no predefined search engines," so there will be nothing in settings to choose from.
I mean when you think about it, if our sleep schedules were fixed in stone, moving from West coast to East coast would not be practically possible. You’d be doomed to wake up at noon forever more. You might make that work, but try moving a few timezones further and you’ve pretty much doomed yourself to never participate in society.

We know for a fact plenty of people are able to make these transitions. Regular travelers can even do them very quickly.

Ergo it should be possible for most people to shift their sleep by a few hours. I think most people just aren’t inconvenienced enough to actually try

PS: some research suggests that nightowls are actually more creative in the mornings. Larks are more creative in the evenings. So if you have a creative job, you might in fact benefit from working in your off time
Well, you can hand-craft HTML is you want, but there is a huge variety of tools out there designed to give you full control of building and managing blogs and other websites (list sites courtesy of the Netlify folks):
https://www.staticgen.com/
https://headlesscms.org/
Recursively walking a tree is new?
100000 monthly is nothing. That's like 2 visits per minute.

Any random vps should handle 10-100s of visits per second (mostly limited by size of your pages and bandwidth if you use static content).
> there are several technicians around here that install Hackintosh machines for this industry and update them from time to time. Their names are passed by word-of-mouth.

Like I said, it can work, but relying on "word of mouth technicians" isn't very practical. There are also times when, after an update, things just break, and the "technician" may not even be able to fix the issue in a timely fashion, especially issues related to sound or QE/CI. I've done enough digging around and tinkering with kext files and video drivers to know that it can sometimes take days of concerted effort to fix these issues. I'm sure mileage varies depending on one's needs or the particular hardware configuration but you're rolling the dice every time you update.
A site with far more information about it:
https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/usa/sigsaly/index.htm
Yeah: I honestly don't understand how people build websites that can't handle Hacker News levels of traffic... this site just isn't _that_ popular in the grand scheme of things.
Pretty sure the mechanics as detailed in the article are factually wrong. Google does not sell personal data. It collects all the personal data it can and then stockpiles it, where it becomes an asset that the company can use to build products and charge rent (largely from advertisers, but also from consumers). Selling an extremely valuable proprietary asset to competitors would be a really dumb move - the money in today's economy is in owning monopoly assets and charging rent for them.

The actual mechanism behind the behavior the author observed is that the user went to Google, searched for a product, and then visited the product's website. The product's website contains a tracking beacon that associates a unique cookie for the user with the visit. The website's owner can then choose to run ads on Facebook or Twitter that are shown only to people who previously visited the website. This program is well-known among Facebook advertisers (it's apparently quite profitable to them), but Facebook understandably doesn't publicize it much to the general public.

Agree that it'd be cool if the person involved could actually control who and where it went to and was compensated for the use of it, but that'd likely require a fundamental change in how the web works.
This looks suspiciously like slowbanning.
Whiteboard interviews that ask me to develop an algorithm to reverse a string, insert an item into a linked list, or similar nonsense. I've never worked somewhere that this was important to know, and if it was, I would look it up. Bonus "no thanks" points if the interviewer doesn't think something like string.reverse() is a good answer.

This stance is fine if you're a "product-oriented" developer (like the author seems to be, going by his profile). And which is of course a fine thing to be - if that's what's needed in your environment. We all fit on that spectrum somewhere.

In other environments we do in fact need people who consider "algorithms" like string reversal (even in place!) to be quite trivial (in the sense that yes, every engineer on the team should be able to whip out something like that cold). And frankly it would give us the willies to work with someone who couldn't.

That said -- whiteboard tests, per se, are almost invariably gratuitously shitty experiences for all parties involved, even when conducted properly (and much of the time they simply aren't).

And more to the point, unnecessary (or at best, blunt instruments) or sussing out whether someone has the chops you're looking for. I find it's quite easy in fact to tell (usually within 10-15 minutes at the most) whether someone knows their stuff, or is bullshitting, or... simply doesn't care about the finer points. There's no need to "grill" them -- they'll pretty much come right out and tell you.

Case in point - the author of this blog post.
This is a common problem with FF if you have any privacy settings enabled. ReCAPTCHA does deep fingerprinting. If you block that fingerprinting it punishes you.
> For serious applications, you have to build TUIs assuming the worst - that the user has no colors or special keys.

Realistically, what are the chances of this happening nowadays and how worth is it supporting such users?

> That would probably break a lot of scripts.

If an icon would break scripts, so would having colors, but it doesn't since ls knows when it outputs to a terminal or to a pipe and adjusts the output accordingly. But this misses the point, it could be another commands like vls (visual ls) or whatever, the point is the ability to use more than ASCII text.

> I just alias "l" to "ls -l" so I can see the permissions (which has a "d" to indicate directories).

An icon is more distinguishable from a single letter and using the -l view would not take advantage of any horizontal space you have.
https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov
The mechanism used by Ubuntu for such drivers is completely unrelated to GPL violations. It's just there so the non-free software doesn't get installed by default. If there would be any violation without it, there would still be a violation with it.
Try guessing what an icon does over a toolbar of 20-30 objects.
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Jeff Jarvis: "Utter bullshit. Snippets in search are NOT content. Jeesh. They are links TO the publishers. Google does not monetize Google News. When it makes money on news it's by serving ads ON publishers' sites."

https://twitter.com/jeffjarvis/status/1137980486062678017
As long as it doesn't require linking to a proprietary Windows library to interface with the NT api. That would violate at least the GPL 2. Though you could do it yourself, and release your own code as GPL (and the combined work as proprietary), no one else could distribute the full work under the GPL because of the incompatibility.
I don't think it's too hard to get the sqrt(5) to a high enough degree of precision. (Probably could use Newton-Raphson.) On my computer it takes about 0.05 seconds to compute sqrt(5) to one million digits. It takes about 0.01 seconds to multiply two 500,000 digit integers. If you want to computer F_n using Binet's formula I think you need about (log(F_n)/log(10) + 10) digits for sqrt(5).
Even if you don't use emacs for coding Java, etc. it can be still useful, e.g note taking, task management with org mode.
Fanta too. As in Coco-cola Fanta.
Maybe try buying up some unclaimed IPv6 space and test from there?
I am the same way. I have trouble falling asleep (will toss and turn for 45 minutes to 2 hours), so I'm loathe to wake up before I absolutely have to, because once I'm asleep, I want to stay that way. As a result, I just schedule my day so that I work 8 hours, then do everything else. It has its downsides, but its better than everything else I've tried.
I doubt that $2.6B is for an acquihire.
I also travelled to America and was there for 3 weeks, being a night owl means that jet-lag works in your favour initially in this instance, then your natural cycle adjusts around two weeks when your daily routine has stayed the same for all that time and your sleep pattern shifts gradually back to its natural state of being late.

I did work out once that if I traveled East at a certain speed that I could maintain a 9-5 lifestyle with ease. Though costs and logistical reasons meant this was just a fun maths exercise at the time, but worked out I'd cycle the globe around every 9 weeks or so (was a while back so might be recall error).
How do you host it? Do you own the machine, or use a cloud VM?
> with features like a VPN and secure cloud storage.

A VPN: where you don't need it, you can use it. Where you need it, you can't access it. This is true in most cases.

Cloud storage: it can be cheaper only if value is extracted by data mining. As they presumably won't do that, I can't see how it can be cheaper or more user friendly than sharing a self encrypted drive hosted on cheap S3 service. And most S3 Web drives work with any client, while Firefox secure storage is likely to be Firefox-only (single app).

It's going to be hard to pull that off.
I would expect open connections to be the bottleneck (not CPU or mem). Do you just have very low latency and thus relatively few concurrent open connections (yes, I saw the graphs in your link, but it's hard to figure out how many concurrent connections are open at a time)?

EDIT: Downvoters, would really like to know why you're downvoting? Am I being naive in thinking a blog would be bottlenecked on connections?
Very cool to read all the details beyond the one-time-pad records described in Cryptonomicon!
It always amazes me that companies, especially those that know their audience is tech savvy, don't test their sites/shops/systems with common things like ad blockers or privacy plugins. I often run into hidden problems on sites that go away after I allow some third party domain.

I wonder if it's just incompetence at the developer stage or a management decision to annoy users that have ad block etc. Neither really makes sense, I'm a paying customers, they shouldn't take it personally that I don't care for ads, and they are multi-million (or even multi-billion) companies, surely somebody there knows that ad blockers exist.
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As the other commenter noted, this is why you’d give the backup keys the ability to upload data but not delete data.

Combine that w/ S3 Object Versioning and you’ve got a pretty solid approach.
> I want to use as much screen space as possible on actual window contents.

I was like you, until I began to use a max 2-3 open per tag/workspace. The clutter ended.

Tiling is useless under Unix environments where virtual desktops are a norm since ~1989. They may worked great under DOS and pre Windows 3.1 where few things are open, not under a powerful multi virtual-display based environment with several terminals running at once.
I’ve used PowerBI but it feels extremely limiting if you have a coder background. Don’t know a single person who likes the BI tools that exists today and I’ve worked with a lot of BI people. I’m convinced BI people becomes coders solely because of the bad tools that exists today. Intelligent autocompletion, git and strong types? No! But here, have some drag and drop!
They were featured on 60 minutes twice, including last night. The rendering on Microsoft News is off!

You can see the entire video here.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jerry-and-marge-selbee-how-a-re...
I've been working as a professional web developer for 5+ years. In that time I have always used Firefox for development. I have never once felt that Firefox dev tools was missing any tool that I needed.

I'm curious what kind of applications your building that require some sort of specialized tool that Firefox dev tools doesn't provide.

The best thing about Firefox is that if there is a dev tools feature that you need, you can easily submit a feature request in the support forums: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/firefox

Or, if you have the time and energy, you can always build it yourself: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...
isn't ECN specifically a TCP thing? The target traffic for Network Next is all UDP. Nearly all latency-sensitive multiplayer games use UDP-based protocols.
Oh, trust me; those orchards are a cash cow. There's practically no amount of fruit you could have taken which would have caused them material damage. Most of them don't even make most of their money from the fruit; they'll usually have little shops, or processed fruit goods (jams, syrups), or food, or hay rides as well. There's one near me that does the fruit-stuff during the summer, then converts into a haunted farm-type attraction in the fall, and the owner says they make a ton more money in the fall season. The "pick your own fruit" is just to get people in the door, and they usually overcharge like crazy for the bags under the assumption that their customers (A) are gonna take a ton, and (B) will end up buying some other stuff on-site.
At least then they have to get up and do something physical, ie. the cost for them goes up.
if this is true, I'd love to hear the alternate! I use recaptcha and hate that my chinese customers need to do wacky stuff to circumvent it.
I have noticed that Google often signs me off from my multiple Google accounts on FF too :/ While Chrome (which I use only for Hangouts) remains logged in. A bit annoying! :D

Also, good to see that it's a more widespread issue with these captchas too, I somehow thought that I am just bad at solving them :)
While you find this convenient, others may find it imperative.

Somewhat akin to labelling your pet dog a support animal or using a disabled bathroom.
I think you've sort of touched on a separate issue. I'm a night owl but find it far easier to wake up in the mornings if I'm excited for something. Often I wake up earlier on the weekends than on work days because I'm not particularly looking forward to going to work.
Forget Go, Google Helps AI Learn to Book Flights on the Web
To be fair, lots of things on the internet don’t work in the most populous country in the world.
There are no 30 types of cancer. Or 200, or 2. The catalog of cancer types is all marketing to sell a variety of treatments and products. Cancer is damaged cells. The "type" is simply a reference to their location. It doesn't matter where the "cancer" is. It's there because that's where the lymphatic system is backed up from the acidic state of the body. The Modern Medicine cartel has no answers, just more acid hits in the form of chemo, radiation, etc. While the solution is rather simple, and include an intake of organic ripe fruits combined with periods of water and dry fasting and about 15 or so herbs. Also highly effective against tumors is Aronia + Grape juice fasting.
A stalk delivered me a child and in one single transformation, I turned from night owl into Super Lark!!
Worthy of a submission of its own.
Galaxy S4 Black Edition (with leather back), previously Galaxy J7 16, Nextbit Robin, Galaxy S3 LTE and S3. I downgraded as I find notification LED priceless and 5' screen perfect. I'm mostly sitting on HN and Reddit, so it's okay performance-wise (though your Nexus is faster), though I keep my eyes open on new devices.

There are still new S4 batteries manufactured by Samsung for Korean market, got mine in Poland for $25. I'm getting 5h+ SOT.

I'm not a performance-demanding smartphone user, but if I were, I would consider jailbreaking an iPhone. Android & Linux (Purism, Pinephone) keep disappointing me.

EDIT: maybe "disappointing" is not the right word. It's just that for good step, a step backwards seems to be taken somewhere else. Choosing a phone is all about trade-offs now, which is kinda sad. I'm using phone manufactured 6 years ago. Why can't I find any device that is a clearly improved version of it?
As long as your Internet connection has decent upstream speed and latency, this is still a good option. A Raspberry Pi, for cryin' out loud, is roughly equivalent to a Cray 1/X-MP, so the need for huge "server iron" to serve even fairly large sites is a thing of the past except for shared server providers who want thousands of sites per server. If your site is static and you're running off a RAM disk or SSD, then you're as fast as pretty much anything you can buy. That said, S3 or Netlify are really easy and bring CDN and redundancy to the party, and neither can really lock you in if your content generation and DNS is under your control.
Library functions are not part of the formal semantics of programming languages.
when i scope projects for clients if I have to engage with their IT department I add 6-8 weeks of implementation minimum. Anything from getting a CSR signed to SSO integration is always an excruciating experience. Going over the SOW and hitting on that item always results in a slow, exhausted, but accepting sigh from the client.
Then the metro should have paid the teacher more to make those congested commutes worth it.

And, there is definitely a distribution of commute times. Some very long. But your average commute is not two hours one way; the center of the distribution normalizes around some level of bearability, around 50 minutes in the US. Which, with bad congestion, might allow you to go 10 miles. But with no congestion, might allow you to go 60.

The reason I quoted distance is because commute times are relatively stable, the product of travel speed (congestion) times distance. And that's the point; if travel speed is increased, many people will choose to live further away, e.g. for a bigger house.
The resources these technology firms are exploiting in, e.g. Belgium, include user data and network infrastructure - the latter in particular is often very highly publicly subsidised so if a company is seen as benefitting from it disproportionately then it's unsurprising that people think they should be taxed for taking advantage of it.
> we’ll just need clear line of sight from your roof to our towers

I don't know what the real estate market is like in the parts of Phila. they're operating in, but in an area with lots of new construction, this could be an interesting issue when a proposed new structure would block existing customers.
How loot boxes hooked gamers and left regulators spinning
Consumers bear the brunt of the blame for this. I worked at a few AAA game shops when DLC was just starting to be a thing. Consumers drove that by their habits: they demanded add-ons and extras that took enormous effort to develop but didn't want to pay as much as a third or half the original purchase price, so we tinkered with smaller releases at much lower price points and consumers ate it up.

Then as mass development by indies offering free apps took off the "problem" got worse. Consumers now expect apps, including games, to have a tiny purchase price or be free and to pay a-la carte for things they want.