skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instagram's terms of use have essentially the same clause:

> We do not claim ownership of your content that you post on or through the Service. Instead, when you share, post, or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights (like photos or videos) on or in connection with our Service, you hereby grant to us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content (consistent with your privacy and application settings).[1]

[1]: https://help.instagram.com/581066165581870
Sort of hard to avoid google when they control 90% ads traffic.
I used H&R Block this time around (I just picked a competitor, no real reason for specifically choosing H&R), because I ran into the same thing. The student loan interest deduction was free through them.

Most competitors were offering it for free, still, so I'd just say dump TurboTax like I did. I'll never go back.

There were quite a few competitors I considered. H&R even allows import of TurboTax files which saved a bunch of time.
Personally I would like a general rule of no more than 10% split between admin and fundraising, with 5% being considered the normal. 10% makes a nice Schilling fence.

Ideally I won't allow any budget for advertising, because that will just move money from one charity to another.

Alternatively I would only donate to the top of Give Well.
That's convincing :-) Thanks!
My wife attempts to use this method, but usually gets distracted at peak-messiness and things just end up worse off than they started.
What is particularly wrong with the plaintiff's in this case which proves them to be unworthy of your sympathy?
Yeah no CA certs as this is a personal phone, and I just checked from my Fedora box and it said MITM unlikely so guessing it’s just iOS being weird.
Simple Node.js REST DB for building MVP's/Experiments/Prototypes
I've told myself just that recently after trying a couple of recent Wondery podcasts... Too much produced, too much narrated, denaturing the initial idea and value of podcasts by over-complexifying everything and by emphasizing form over content.
Yes we should have fed people instead of doing all those things.
But at least you can go to old.reddit.com for a sane view.
I use Feedly to curate blogs and websites. Some content come through email newsletters, then there are Twitter lists and Facebook groups to follow.
Twitter has built its data model around the tenet that tweet text is immutable. Edit is not going to happen.

https://www.quora.com/When-will-Twitter-offer-the-option-of-...
> (though I miss Windows 2000)

Same here. Windows 2000 was - in my opinion - Windows at its peak. Everything after it has been disappointment incarnate; the ever-expanding weight of further Windows versions on CPU/RAM/disk usage did not (and still does not) adequately justify the new features.

ReactOS is probably the closest thing we have to that ideal Windows experience now. Still holding out hope that it'll reach version 1.0 and truly be a proper drop-in Windows replacement.
You're not a huge fan of mass immigration if you're not a huge fan of mediocre immigrants.

I'm not just saying this to be facetious. There's a huge pressure on members of any marginalized group (women, immigrants, LGBTQ) to either be extraordinary or not matter at all. You have to make space for the people that aren't extraordinary.

I'm speaking as someone from a marginalized group. I've dealt with this pressure myself.
I'm curious to see if or how long that will hold true. We already have been seeing outcry over light pollution caused by SpaceX massive satellite formation.
I haven't in general had issues with email unsubscribing, worst case I will have to log in.

I have had to write an angry email to a paper because they though they could get away with only doing phone unsubcribing (when they did signups just fine online).
Vicarious has text recognition technology that is invariant to, i.e., letter spacing, but they haven't released it due to fear of CAPTCHA fraud. See, i.e., [here](https://i.imgur.com/lN4AzmE.png).

I wonder if they could modify it to release a near 100% accurate OCR service?
I must have some deep-rooted, maybe repressed, anger towards maths.

I can program just fine, write functions left and right, receive data, do something with it, return a result...

But in maths? Oh dear god no I couldn't write a math function on a piece of paper to save my life.

Someone recently pointed out the parallels and while I couldn't deny it, as it was plain as day... I never once considered it during all these years.

Kinda scary.
I use Grindr to find like minded people, not necessarily for sex. it works great. I’ve found some of my best friends on Grindr. Recently they are even improving the app for “us” that aren’t into quick sex dates. I love where they seem are heading to.
'Florida tops the charts' of states climate change will heat up
Tesseract[0] is the classic example. There's a bunch of advice for improving your accuracy with it, like making your images larger (literally just scale it up x2 or x4).

It would be interesting to the benchmark from the article repeated with different scaling options (or other preprocessing, depending on platform).

[0]: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
I’m still holding out for Fuchsia, which is partially built in Go and Rust:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia
I'd really just like to see some sort of minimum pay that is relatively high so that is these are roles that are something the company feels strong enough to shell out the money.

$120k? Something like that?
TL;DR: The student was denied an H1B for a QA Tester role, which requires a BS in a computer-related field. The argument was that this qualifies as a specialty occupation. The judge rightfully told her to pound sand.

@privateSFacct has a good point - there are plenty of international students that get their masters degree here in America and they should definitely be getting better treatment. I really don't think that there are any actual jobs that require nothing more than a BS degree and can be honestly considered for an H1B unless we dilute the definition to mean anything that any occupation that requires a a 4 year degree (but at that rate, isn't everything a specialty occupation?).

But there is probably a more systematic problem here - it doesn't seem that Americans want to get masters/phd degrees as much as international students do. In 2015: over half of the engineering masters degrees from US universities were earned by international students [1]. Same issue with PhD degrees [2]. Funny thing is, the average American student scores higher than students from other highly regarded countries, so it isn't some sort of skill gap[3]. Anecdotally, I know many people who refuse to get a MS because they feel that they will end up doing the same job for possibly slightly more pay. A lot of posts on programming subreddits also echo this sentiment (though there definitely isn't a consensus) - the opportunity cost for delaying your entry to the workforce by a couple years to get a masters often does not outweigh the salary and experience you would have otherwise earned in those 2 years [4][5][6]. I'm sure one can find posts where sentiment is generally one way or the other, I just liked the first 3 I found.

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/10/11/foreign...

[2] https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/8/189841-understanding-t...

[3] https://www.pnas.org/content/116/14/6732

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/comments/8vse...

[5] https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/7ade5r/h...

[6] https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/7yrvwe/w...
It's to prevent a bait-and-switch on behalf of the employee and situations where a person is "employed" by a company only so they can immigrate and then do something else, on behalf of the employer.

We can easily let people switch job titles and employers while addressing potential loopholes though.
I wanted to try it before, but the clock synchronicity thing scares me too much to dare. How do you even keep them in line? What happens if I'm monitoring and see an elevated clock-skew? Can I even do anything or do things just start to fail mysteriously?

I think CockroachDB will be amazing when cloud providers start offering APIs for High-Resolution Clocks as a service, of even better, if I got to opt-in to the system clock being synced to highres, much like in GCP you can upgrade your instance's network to premium tier on the fly.
> Any decent motor these days is a brushless DC motor

Most applications are perfectly fine with asynchronous motors which don't require extra power electronics. The increase in efficiency from IE3 asynchronouos to IE4 synchronous/SRM/hybrid is pretty small and costs a bunch.
A vote for the Thinkpad P51. For those that get headaches from laptops and other displays, I found this one that you can spec up and does not use pulse width modulation.
It can be more efficient to burn gas at the generation plant because electrical heating can be 3-500% efficent by using the energy to move, rather than create heat.

A similar argument applies to electric cars. Electric motors are so much more efficient that they still beat the alternative after being transmitted and stored in a battery even if the original source is burning gasoline to generate electricity.

That's before getting into carbon and pollution.
Microsoft FY19 Q4 Earnings
If I want my content based on others' opinion, I go to Reddit.

What's the point to follow accounts if you're not guaranteed to see their content, and not in the prefer they intended to?
They're super -SUPER- good on aeroplanes. It makes flying not nearly as draining.
Supporting test credit cards in production with no fraud or risk assessment.

Do you want fraud? This is how you get fraud.
I never saw anyone do this. May I ask what the point is? If it's just going to be in your local version and you later have to do (a very small amount of) work to get it back into one commit, why bother committing random stuff intermediately at all?
All the ways student debt exacerbates racial inequality
> Grace and Ada didn't use version control so they wouldn't be able to make the list anyway.

Yeah, this analysis is inevitably going to overrepresent white males today, because it's based on a subset of "programming" (i.e. opensource projects using git) that we already know as overwhelmingly skewed towards that particular demographic.
It's not, it's a propaganda op from the "alt-right". In practice anti-fascist organizing is a loose coalition involving many people, most of whom are dedicated to non-violence.

Groups like the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer are the ones who show up fully armed and try to send people to the hospital or the morgue. The fact that at this time they find willing allies to spread their message in mainstream media should worry you if you like the US to not have door to door death squads murdering union organizers, artists and other dissidents.
> They should SHUT DOWN these other players who clog up the process.

Or we could focus on making the process uncloggable and work towards the free movement of labor which could add $78T to the global GDP.

https://www.economist.com/the-world-if/2017/07/13/a-world-of...
that beer is less healthy
than lots of sugar likely
fails to surprise

ftfy (double negative)
Weekly is pretty frequent. I aim for about every 2 weeks and am happy with 3. I find that, by finding interesting guests who can improvise and speak off the cuff, doing some prep, and keeping things to about 20 minutes it's doable. Then, it's also sort of part of my day job so spending an hour or so per week on it isn't a big deal.
Excerpt:

"I wasn’t just the most important cog in the machine – I was the machine. Nothing went forward unless I was doing it. And that’s not scalable at all."

10x'er vs. Scalability of 10x'er (when/where/how 10x scales, when/where/how 10x does NOT scale, etc.)...

An interesting subject for future business thought leaders, is it not?
The article says "At least 36 people were injured, 10 of them seriously." but doesn't mention deaths anywhere. I really hope the title is wrong and this is just some kind of horrible mistake. That's so many good people to have died for one selfish asshole. Can anyone confirm/deny ?
I would recommend to consider tuxedo laptops, especially the 14" which is robust enough, reasonably priced and fanless.
And all their machines come preinstalled with Linux.

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Note...
Probably an outdated implementation of our rules, regarding Firefox on your machine. Feel free to file an issue; also we will be switching to Cloudflare's mitmengine (based on the same research paper, but they have way more resources to keep it maintained at scale, thus making it more accurate) in Caddy 2 in a matter of months.
The 'root cause' problem in the 1st case is the leverage the employee has over the person. The workers are just trying to better their lot in life, like many of our own ancestors who came to the US. I don't hold any illusions that whoever it was that came over from Ireland in my family was some kind of exceptional talent. Probably just an ordinary person willing to take some risks and work hard.
I imagine it's to deter a certain kind of exploit. Hiring Quantum Rocket Surgeons and a week later they're Surface Hygiene Associates being paid much much less. Or vice-versa.
What other solutions are you evaluating?
Sort of?

We don't use electric vehicles for heat, so they are sort of fuel agnostic when it comes to where the electricity is coming from; we burn fossil fuels to make heat or electricity.

The future proofing argument makes some sense for California. Coming from the Northeast heat is a lot more important, I'll do a new HE Gas Boiler for 12k in a single family this year, converting from oil...save me probably 2k a year. If that were electric heat I'd be paying 400% more every year which would be insane.

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/household-heating-costs#co...
Everything is relative in the context, so your global stats aren't especially helpful. 34k USD a year can lend you either an extremely comfy king-like life in Thailand or poverty level existence in San Francisco. Saying to someone from the latter situation that they are in ~0.88% richest people on the planet is neither helpful nor relevant.
It also said "Likely MITM" for me (Firefox on CentOS 7), but the SHA256 certificate fingerprint in the browser matches the one seen by Qualys (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=mitm.watch), so at least in my case it seems to be a false positive.
What? How can you switch back to the old style?
>> "Among a crowd that includes a lot of furries, actually!"

That's practically implied on a tech industry forum! But I think I see your point.
That may be a good enough explanation for why one individual is fat. It doesn't explain why whole societies are becoming heavier. Something must have changed other than our species as a whole just becoming lazier for no particular reason.
That's right. I'm sorry I didn't post the correct name in the first place; I don't have https://github.com/kragen/xcompose set up on my hand computer (because it doesn't run X).
It is double the calories, but that’s an extra 80 per fruit.

If you’re counting every calorie, it’s a problem. If you’re dirt poor and need to save where you can because you’re trying to avoid cheap grains, go for the banana.
I think the idea is that the H1B isnt a general 'work visa', it is given because there is a position at a company for a worker with a specific skillset. So it makes sense in that framework. I'm not arguing that this is the right way, just what the reason probably is.
Honestly, with that kind of salary - it feels like you could save up enough to get to an EB-5 investors category, which have far shorter waiting times, correct?

Or am I mistaken?
They may try it--they have the expertise, and the infrastructure--but I think they will try to separate the brands, and I doubt they will be able to do better than vimeo.
Well, I think (and many of my fellow engineers as well), that we were making good progress in UI design and abstractions until AJAX and the modern web came about. I've said this before and I will say it again: the web has brought modern software development practices back in time by at least 20 years. Everything had to be reinvented: usability, interaction patterns, accessibility, quality control, component-based GUI design, supportability and so much more.

And in many ways we have gone backwards. Interaction patterns vary wildly from site to site. Most don't have undo/redo functionality. A failure of one component often means a failure of the whole. Accessibility on the web is terribly poor for the vision impaired. Interaction response time has gone up, not down even though our machines have many orders of magnitude more power than the 90's. Most websites cannot be properly maintained due to lack of coding standards and abidance of best-practices.

Ok, just an old fart rant. Don't get me wrong: I think we have made leaps of progress when it comes to distributed computing, machine learning and mobile application development. The web, however, has turned into a huge dumpster fire.
$120k qualifies for low income benefits in San Francisco, so yeah that's not going to matter.
Bismarck also had the good sense to realize that if Germany expanded too much too fast, it would prompt the rest of Europe to join together in order to cut it down to size, the same way as had been done to Napoléon's France. The logic of Europe's multipolar balance of power would not allow any one state to grow too dominant, at least not without it having to first win a hell of a fight.

Two world wars would later be fought because Bismarck's successors did not understand this fact as well as he had.
I cannot even see it :-/
Ever used a quicksave feature in a video game right before doing something destructive/risky/experimental?
Interesting how differently this is unfolding compared to the Keystone XL pipeline.
The vast majority of heaters in Berkeley are wall-mounted top vent gravity heaters. They do not need power to operate.

Central HVAC is uncommon due to the mild climate.
Although I'm familiar with this concept since the implementation of ITF (integrated clock-face timetables) in Central Europe, I found the second half of this article (as of this revision [1]) hard to read. After finishing it, I felt like I understood less about clock-face scheduling than I did before.

Nonetheless, I know that the key desirable features are (1) to ensure that hub-like nodes have services from all directions arrive and leave at the same time, so that connecting passengers don't need to wait for long, and (2) that a future arrival/departure time at a major node is somewhat predictable without consulting the full timetable.

For trains, it's also a nice feature that trains of opposite directions will meet somewhere predictable, so track improvements like double-tracking can be targeted at places where crossings are likely to occur, which can cost less than double-tracking the entire line.

Integrated clock-face timetables work best when rigid, but it requires the spacetime of transport geography to fit into a regular pattern. But this can mean that some improvements that would result in faster service on portions of the network would put the the network out of sync. Because of this complication, such incremental improvements may not happen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Symmetry_minute&o...
That's exactly what will happen if they all-out blacklist. The best near-term option may be a compromise: a special indicator in the browser UI that the connection has been set up in such a way that some organization may be monitoring.
which most webservices have flagged as dodgy IPs. surprised instagram don;t
Are the works that are remembered necessarily best at defining the age in which they were created?
AVL Tree in Java
Did the US Invent Lyme Disease in the 1960s? The House Aims to Find Out
The Remix Race: Why It Pays to Release Songs More Than Once
Ask HN: What rules do you set for your kids screentime?
Hi HN Parents

There's something of a taboo these days about kids getting too much screentime. A taboo I don't remember existing as strongly when I was a kid (80s/90s). Given this taboo, my wife and I instituted time-based restriction on device usage. The end result: access to an iPad or iPhone is the source of a lot of consternation and conflict in our family. It's the primary punishment and reward. Of course, meanwhile, we parents use our laptops all day for work, look at our phones, text, read the news, a gazillion other things our parents would have done through analog methods.

What I observe is these days so much that would have been done without a screen needs to be done with a screen (phone calls, looking something up in an encyclopedia, research, a lot of book reading, reading the news). Also screens allow us to do a lot of things our generation couldn't do that are really positive for kids (text friends in another country, facetime with grandparents, etc). Not to mention limits on their abilities to hack on code. All of which seem to be conflated with watching the 20th meaningless minecraft youtube video.

I'd be curious what the HN community feels about kids + screentime?

- Do you limit screentime writ large with an overall limit?

- Do you set limits on the kind of screentime they get?

- What protocol do you follow (X hrs per day, have to ask first, but are limitted?)

- What do you do if they truly want to do something educational/positive with screentime but have hit their limits?
I write the Chrome DevTools docs. "Empathy" is a buzzword in technical writing. Recently I wrote a post [1] imploring technical writers to start recording themselves as they use documentation. I want to ask you all to consider doing the same and sending me the footage. My main argument is that the best way to actually develop empathy is to watch lots and lots of people actually use documentation to get stuff done. I've already learned a lot just by watching the videos [2] of me build an Angular app.

[1] https://kayce.basqu.es/blog/empathy

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6UItmiYqJhMr_uYG2DkV...
> I don't know how this is legal even.

Legality is secondary when you are punching up in a 3rd world country. (I am from India)
Would this detect MITM if you installed a root cert from ex: school, employer, etc?
Not directly related.

But you can definitely find some case studies from here - https://www.cockroachlabs.com/community/tech-talks/
Why would that be a feature not a bug? The Amazons, Googles, and Goldman Sachs of the US aren't the only companies that need talent.
> I'd feel better assuming that question's answer is simply unknown until a few different people have performed a few different field experiments.

there is whole industry of such people, and they vote by investing dollars into specific type of advertisement, which is reflected in Facebook and Google revenues growth.

> likely to Google

This is another channel of how dots can be connected.
I find their profit strategies to be abhorrent with their nag screens, bait & switches, dark patterns, purposely confusing "free" wording, no-indexing of the real freefile page, and so forth. I think that is clearly unethical business behavior.

But you're saying one can only get upset at a company if they do something illegal, not if one considers what that company is doing unethical, regardless of legality?

Legal does not equal ethical.
Thank you for saying this, David. I wanted to say it but I had already lost patience with the discussion. BTW, speaking of the source-code archival problem and also your work on the Karger–Thompson attack, have you been following the work on Mescc?
I mean Twitch succeeded so that's a counterpoint. Vimeo is still going.. If I were to start a video company today, I'd go mobile first.
Slack resets thousands of user passwords four years after hack
Seems to affect Astana mobile users for now