skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't blame unions if management won't grant them any board access. Nor can you see the future to know that this not-yet-established union will act the same as those you are vilifying. Perhaps if management didn't treat them as the enemy before they are even founded, it could build a more cooperative relationship. And you have yet to prove it was unions that caused the fall of $US_INDUSTRY - suppose it was management instead? The worker compensation in Germany didn't harm those companies - yet the US workers receiving half that are to blame?

And is there any scenario in which US companies wouldn't blame unions? As long as labor costs are above zero, any failure can somehow be pinned on unions, while management and shareholders avoid getting called 'leeches'.
All those comments to the tune of "those bums are bums because they are addicted" ... they make me so sad.

Can anyone not see it's the other way around? Really?
I think it really depends on what kind of development you are doing. I worked at an IC company, and among other things we developed (and tested) USB drivers for our devices. We installed them on literally hundreds of windows machines for testing before they were signed/ whql approved. This happen all the time. So really no way do our jobs without admin passwords. We did have the machine on isolated networks, but even on the regular networks many of the team member frequently would need to hand install drivers. This is just one of many examples. If you do anything even remotely hardware related, it can really be a totally different problem. We had IT installed USB filter drivers (we were not told about for security reasons) that actually broke a lot of testing in our labs and it took us months to figure out.
Put it this way: if all our engineering design documents and presentations leaked, our competitors would get less value from their contents than they would have to spend on the reading.
I see no reason to use Google photos. Having a cloud back up is nice, but I'm the kind of person who wants to locally encrypt anything personal backed up to a server outside of my control. I assume Google trawls through every photo you upload using facial recognition to ID everyone in them, identifying what products are in the photos, making guesses about your economic status and habits etc. No need to hand over the intimate moments of my life, my friends, and my family to help google build a better dossier.
Then I hit another 'no-admin' roadblock, that requires a day or weeks of hostile IT bureaucracy and the IT department has just wasted another +$3000 of employee time. This behavior might drive them to quit, leading to a premature +$30k recruiting and on ramping cost to replace them.

Now iterate that over 1000s of other instances and you see the financial reason why devs need admin.
Ah, thank you. William James keeps chasing me.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart!
The claim isn't that you can "just stop being homeless."

> Nobody "chooses" homelessness, but like anything else, becoming / staying homeless often is the result of numerous choices, some of which are easier than others for various reasons. When you artificially remove bad consequences from some of those choices, it is not surprising that those choices are made more often.

Consuming soda is just one way people can become obese. The problem is obesity. If you are an obese person, you may not really be able to "just stop" being obese, but if policy leads to people choosing healthier beverages, it helps fight obesity.

...and the opposite is true, too. It would not be difficult to imagine what might happen if we subsidized soda until it was free, for example. Except we probably wouldn't have advocates claiming that because nobody wants to be obese, the incentives can't possibly be affecting the increase in soda consumption.
Trying to understand Steve Jobs is an effort in futility I know, but I've never understood what he was thinking around this time. He refused to accept responsibility for his daughter when she was born in 1978, and even 5 years later, he was still questioning the accuracy of DNA paternity tests in Time Magazine and despite being a multi-millionaire, only grudgingly paying $500 a month for child support. But then he goes and names this computer after her, yet claims for years it wasn't named for her. Sure, he was pretty young (28) but that's hardly an excuse. Jobs wasn't just a pathological narcissist, he was just plain weird.
Mexico’s National Guard to be used to reduce immigration after US negotiations
Exactly, thats my problem especially after i stopped smoking.

No carbs works really well for me and makes me loose weight.
So you have friends that are not geeks who know about the GPL and care? This is the opposite of the “No True Scotsman”. Anyone who knows about and cares about the GPL is s geek.
And now the threat model is at best "literally Dropbox"; at worst, "a Dropbox except built by a random startup or fly-by-night contractors".
Number 2 pCloud way is to add sync folders, you do that from the Sync tab in the preferences dialog. Sadly the command line client doesn't let you add the sync folders. An alternative for the GUI is to edit the sqlite configuration file.

In my experience pCloud works fine for me having the Documents, Music and Pictures folders synced, and having many other folders as cloud only.
Alphabet stake in 2019 IPO class jumps to $5B with CrowdStrike
As a long-time Seattle resident, I feel perfectly safe on 3rd and Pine. Not everyone is as uncomfortable with folks living on the street as you - time to get out and listen to others' opinions rather than assuming bad faith.

Your sole citation is a single shooting from three years ago.
"If you don’t know how to build relationships"

People have widely varying approaches to relationships. I think it's beyond doubt that almost everyone who fails an interview at your (or any) company goes on to be employable somewhere else. So, it is valid to say they didn't know how to build a relationship with you, but then, you didn't know how to build a relationship with them. There is no correct answer to "which person is to blame for that", because each of them had the option to decide they don't want a relationship and therefore neither one controlled the outcome.

"I want someone who questions the effectiveness of broken practices, but you do that after you get the job"

If the broken practice is part of the interview, and a person has enough experience with interviewing at different places to know it's not the way everybody else does things, then they may have no reason to put up with it.

A danger in general of a single universal ("one true") standard, no matter how much sense it makes, is that you risk the people who have experienced different ways of doing things rejecting you for your chauvinism, without informing you that's what they are doing.
The Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Senior Marketing Analyst
If you put your page on the web it is going to get cached. The http depends on this. You are not giving up control of your traffic. You never had it in the first place.
Would the Yemeni rather fight Saudis armed with American weapons, or Saudis armed with Russian weapons?
The "Ghost in the Shell" universe, maybe? People are able to replace parts of their bodies with prosthetics, including organs. It's not free though, and society and world there aren't changed much compared to now.

I still find GITS to be one of the more slightly pessimistic but overall realistic predictions of the future. A lot better technology but same problems as we have now.
That's true, somewhat. If you read the history of the SR1 takedown, you see that the FBI interviewed buyers whose packages had been intercepted by Customs. And from what I've seen, there's no indication that any of them were prosecuted.

But on the other hand, someone did have heroin sent to Brian Krebs, and planned to trigger a SWAT upon delivery.[0] It was just luck that he found out about it in advance, and filed a police report. For less clueful victims, it's still arguably a substantial risk.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/10/hacker-who-sent-me-heroi...
Show HN: FlowNote – Another Markdown Note App
Hello! For the past six months I've been developing a simple note app to aid my workflow. Recently, I've spent a lot of time at work doing architecture work and a lot of that time has been researching new technologies and unfortunately this hasn't left me a lot of time write code. This application has served the purpose of allowing me to continue to write some code on the side and build out a simple and powerful tool to share the research I've been working on with my team.

There really isn't anything special about the application when it comes to notes apps, it uses a pretty generic flavor of markdown for writing and formatting your notes, it allows you to make any of your notes public and provide people with a share link to read your content, it also encrypts the data at a column level to add an extra layer of security, it has a feature to add a little more structure to your notes by having multiple input boxes on a single note, and its also surprisingly fast!

The app is currently free to use (very much in beta) and is still lacking some features but I wanted to get it out there and get some feedback from the community. Let me know what you think! Thanks!
Considering NeXTSTEP is long gone, why does it matter if the name conflicts? The name has no bearing on this discussion.
Exposure to several different ones is ideal. Since most web UI frameworks are attempting to offer application functionality it is important to know at least one non-browser based (native) framework such as .NET, Swing, or Qt, even Motif would be good for an aspiring front-end dev.
While I love the content, language and pacing, I think he should get a narrator. That whole Elmer Fudd thing is kind of off putting. I'm not trying to slight him in any way. I'm just a realist.
So... does anyone have access to the CERN postal and is willing to post non-confidential info on the software alternatives?
Otherwise I'll try to get access to the project and post it here.
Sure. But they would use your name.
Because GP is suggesting that they created -$22M of value. So walking away with 0 means that they're collecting much more value than they created.
Those are all anecdotes.

The City of Seattle publishes actual geolocated statistics. Feel free to rummage around those and make a real case.
I just knew that RAM DIMMs usually have a 24 or 93 series chip on them, and figured that could be re-programmed (or replaced with a reprogrammable version if the existing chip is non-compliant).
BOOM! Allow me to upvote quickly because it will be flagged to oblivion. Well done, by new friend.
An Inkstone editor here. It's almost always a good idea to follow the money, but I'd argue that there's no better way to determine our impartiality by examining our work. Alibaba owns Inkstone but we've received absolutely no editorial direction from them and/or from any of their executives, including Jack Ma. This editorial independence matters to readers and matters to those of us who work here.

Also, I'm not sure people are getting the right idea about what being a CCP member means in China these days. I find this NYT (my former employer) article informative: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/business/jack-ma-communis...
What if they just record you taking the package, follow you home, get a warrant based on probable cause, and search your house and find the package?
That depends on what jurisdiction you're in.
Ha - first thought come that came to my mind. I wonder if SF city council will appreciate this move. If this was a purely "permit" driven acquisition, I'm surprised Bird won the bidding price vs the larger scooter companies. If this was for the technology (including the lock), then I'd be curious if this really adds value to Bird (as a comment below explains it very well, scooters can be profitable within 2 weeks so a % of theft is acceptable)
Their costs are higher than just the scooters. Not intimately familiar with either business, but I'd expect the scooters themselves to be on of the smaller costs. The infrastructure to charge them I'd expect to be one of the bigger ones, at least early on. Maybe on an on-going basis if that requires people to go retrieve scooters, etc. And I'd want a proprietary lock long before theft had actually eliminated my entire margin.
Scooter Startup Bird Buys Struggling Competitor Scoot
WRT renaming, I find that refactoring code is often such an oversight from language designers. I consider C# to be an elegant language in this way. Public fields and properties look the same in C# so you can effortlessly refactor between them, for example. I wish more languages thought about this stuff.
Price comparison tool as a side project
Businesses that were still acting like HK was not destined to become indistinguishable from China have only themselves to blame - especially since China stated that it no longer considered a treaty it signed with the British to be relevant (the irony of the non-british party reneging on a treaty signed with the British is not lost on me).

Mostly I feel sorry for the actual citizens of HK :-(
Yes and no. They wouldn't have gotten any of the $25m but they would have negotiated a comp package from Bird well above what they'd have gotten for being hired.
I did the exact same thing. Used Scoot for years in SF and just bought a Sprint 150. It's nice being able to go up hills full speed now.
Furthermore, in many OS those unique numbers are not protected from applications. For example, in Linux any application can read any hardware identifiers without any specific permissions. For comparison, in Android an application needs to have a permission to read phone or IMEI number.
Yes, there are journalism classes and schools. There is nothing specific toward programmers for this.
You can't get past "docker run" without admin rights. No, the challenge is access to production data without auditing.
My parent’s Mac II cost over $6000 at the time we got it. Compared to the IBM PCs at the time, the 640x480 hires display was stunningly gorgeous!
Much history rewriting here. The author is wrong about mobile use cases not being thought about when IPng was being worked on. I remember hearing talks about how to interoperate across wireless lans and WANs, seamlessly, at the same IETF meeting events. Wireless LANs existed back then and so did Wireless WAN services. They were just slower and more expensive than today's and of course not widely used. The first wireless WAN I used with TCP/IP on a laptop was in 1994 FWIW. 8kbits/s.
This is the service:

https://f1tv.formula1.com/en/

It's not available in every country and it's been comically bad so far. Most races the streaming just fails and when it's not failing it routinely drops down to an incredibly low resolution for a few seconds. The replays usually work once the race is over though.
I liked a similar aspect of Ruby: attributes and 0-args methods had the same syntax, so you could easily refactor a static field into a method that returns a dynamically calculated value. Overall I don't like that feature, but that was a very handy aspect of it.
> Which in turn makes it easier to over analyse and identify user data, exactly what GDPR was meant to avoid.

GDPR "cares" about identifying user data - how else are you going to protect it and control access to it?

As for over analysing it (whatever that means), it really doesn't care too much about that as long as you have explicit meaningful informed permission from the user to do so, protect it properly, and let them control what happens to it (both during and afterwards).
> Transparent? Human-time-focused? maintainable? Those properties aren't true of the present, nor have they been true for any large swath of human history that I'm aware of.

Of course, neither are jet packs, autonomous vehicles, and AI assistants.

We're trying to bring those technologies into existence. But that may not be enough to make for a brighter future. We may also have to bring institutions organized around better values into existence.
You are free to risk your own mental health and safety [1]. Otherwise, you have no place calling anyone a coward. I tried. Zero progress. This is not safe or easy work and it's already tiring enough surviving in a place like this while trying to find a way out.

[1] https://www.advocate.com/crime/2019/6/08/police-investigatin...
>Sound [...] a single, subtle element of the human experience

A desirable feature of sci-fi futures such as Hitchhikers or Star Trek is that computers and handheld devices respond instantaneously and with a perfectly synchronised accompaniment of bings/beeps/chirps.
I'm thinking yeah, it's a nod to the hypoxia induced through immersion in volcanic fumes from thermal venting in a pagan religion oriented stone enclosure.
to be fair not every developer likes it either. Not to start the traditional flamewar but I've always been a much bigger fan of emacs than of vim precisely because it gives me a powerful, integrated environment rather than a set of distinct tools.

You could also compare wechat to traditional isolated apps, and in my opinion well integrated platforms trump collections of tools almost always.
I really don’t like the $20/year price increase. I am used to costs for infrastructure decreasing.

I pay for Dropbox, SpiderOak, Google Drive, iCloud, and OneDrive. Now that I have mostly retired, I question needing so much redundancy. I feel like I have to purchase OneDrive because it is so inexpensive for the whole family and also getting Office apps thrown into the deal.

I like supporting SpiderOak even though I use it very lightly. I like supporting privacy oriented companies so I am sticking with them. Also, iCloud is very convenient and inexpensive - another keeper.

DropBox should offer more plans. Few people need two terabytes of data and it gives them an excuse to charge more.
For the same reason your Ethernet card and wifi chip have MAC addresses, except the cell network is a single giant address space spanning literally the entire planet. Even better, it's paid-access you wouldn't gain anything by periodically randomizing it unless you also anonymized payment. On top of all that, it's all the way down at the hardware level, and I bet that cell network equipment is sensitive enough to tell what model of phone you're using by looking at the features its silicon supports and then deanonymize you based on deviations from that model introduced by your phone case and which pocket you carry it in and how you hold it.
Uber planning ‘skyports’ for flying taxi service in LA by 2023
So on chrome you will have the option of getting to the real url, on firefox and other browsers you can use plugins.
We actually find NAT to be a pretty big problem still. Even using NAT-PMP, upnp, and hole punching, we still see a roughly 70% (sometimes much higher) undialable rate. Especially for people running ipfs in China (though high failure rates are also observed in other countries).

We're pushing hard on getting libp2p relays up and running to help get through this. The idea is that we can use a relay to make the initial connection, then ask the remote peer to try dialing back (assuming that both peers involved arent undialable).
2019, UI showcase of a multi billion $ company is still done using multi mega-bytes GIF files. What was video compression technologies about already?
Plus he lied to her about it when she asked him years later. It’s in her fairly recently published memoir.
6000 troops on the ground locally, with support from the largest standing army in the world nearby.
Not OP, but in my experience, it's harder to know how to get from System.out.println("hello world") to GET / in a browser showing "<b>hello world</b>", without adopting some intensely documented framework and infrastructure, along with obscure XML configuration files. I liked that aspect of Clojure, but I wouldn't have a clue how to achieve the same thing in pure Java.
I understand. I have taken to reading his column almost exclusively via RSS. But it is worth noting that he works for the Mail on Sunday, which sounds similar but is editorially independent of the Daily Mail. They now share a website.

I believe he left the Daily Express having become dissatisfied with the paper, though I am entirely unsure of that.
Does anyone honestly upgrade CPUs? I’ve built machines with upgradability in mind for decades but I can’t say I’ve ever actually done it. Every time I want to upgrade, inevitably enough time has passed that there’s a new socket out and I have to replace the motherboard anyway.
That could be solved with a camera pointed at the pirated video feed and then... oh wait...
The culture was different in 90s. I remember that Windows used to ask a permission to connect to Internet to search for drivers. Today they just collect whatever telemetry they want without giving an option to disable it. I guess the reason for change is that their customers were mostly power corporate users then and now it is mostly ordinary people.
In my social circle the idea that we're already living in a cyberpunk dystopia is becoming increasingly popular.
They aren't selling any AR devices. Doesnt mean they aren't developing and testing them internally.
I'm still waiting for Dropbox to support placeholder files for personal accounts.

I feel like there is more functionality to their (now old) core proposition that they could be working on instead of trying to be a better Google Drive for Google products.
> The ANSI style function declaration was maybe the only innovation that came after that that significantly improved the language.

"const" as well (back ported from C++ ?). And being able to declare variables anywhere (instead of just at the beginning of a block)
We attempt to address this by making IT's annual bonus tied in part to our dev's project completion. It's not perfect, but the heart is in the right place. A big problem with this is that when we're dealing with limited manpower, we'd rather throw it at the easy issues than the hard ones, and ultimately get more things done.
They city of SF has said Bird can't layoff any Scoot employees if they want to take over Scoot's permit.

>Among the conditions SFMTA asked of Bird is one Scoot employees may be >celebrating: Reiskin told Bird it must maintain the “same or greater number of >employees that Scoot has employed during the pilot” to also operate at the “same >or higher” compensation, including benefits, and to maintain Scoot’s commitment >to labor harmony in San Francisco.

https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-city/formerly-ousted-e-scoote...

Not sure how enforceable this is.
It's not always clear how to do that. Sure, in theory it's possible to manually download JARs, configure your classpath, and run javac. In practice, the wisdom seems to be to replace the old ecosystem with a new ecosystem like Maven -> Gradle or Spring -> Spring Boot.

In comparison, the entire standard build process for a Go program is:

$ export GOPATH="/path/to/repo" && go get && go build && ./main

No config files with some DSL to learn or handwritten XML, no weird class loader behavior to track down, no tuning memory limits or any of that stuff that is just par for the course in Java.
Picked at random because you could have trivially googled this yourself:

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/landlord-data-mining-tenant-a...

https://www.businessinsider.com/empoyers-ask-for-facebook-pa...
Yes! I hope this lights a fire under Apple's butt.
I love C, but it's biggest mistake is clearly the unstoppable decay of arrays to pointers:

https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/b44.html

A mistake that C++ missed an opportunity to fix.
> it's unable to reliably verify that some peer is actually storing data, without a local copy to verify against.

Filecoin can actually do this. I'm planning on doing a blog post about how this works soon (in all that copius free time), but a good summary is here: https://github.com/filecoin-project/specs/issues/155