skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm the one to say, well, if this happens, the ramifications are huge.
GNU TeXmacs v1.99.11 is released
Another option is to only use animations for intros and tutorials but keep them mostly out of the UI except for quick or informative animations.
Where I am, I usually drop off packages at a physical Amazon Location and I have an email about monies refunded to me before I get home.
> Theranos. How many people with advanced degrees worked there without ever catching on to how screwed they were?

Tons of people inside Thernos asked questions and then eventually left when they realized there was no answer. Especially the smart guys at the top who knew the most.

The book said the securty guy described an almost constant flow of people turning in their badges/fobs from getting fired by the Balwani guy. The team was constantly losing talent and replacing them... but they always had enough money, reputable backers, and positive PR to fool the rest and attract more.

Any lively business community with plenty of easy money floating around will attract a scammy subset. That's a human problem, not one unique to startups. Finance has plenty too, as does fracking, just like biotech did with Theranos. And it's a problem largely accounted for by established VCs as it's always a risk.
Ironic to see a child genital mutilation culture condescend to a child sacrificing one.
I suffer from depression as well, but I don’t think dash buttons would do nearly enough to help me (not being able to do basic tasks is a symptom, and no amount of automation will make the depression go away). And at least for me, getting out of the house helps. It forces me to shower and put on pants, otherwise I run out of toilet paper and detergent.
I've seen backends that were that horrible. Updates were often done via regex's.
BBSes were great, and we got another burst of this kind of artistic and creative culture during the early days of the web. I hope it happens again somehow.

(ex-CiA coder :))
Thanks for the note. I agree that incentives are difficult. However, I believe the incentives are better in this industry than almost any other one.

Programmers switch jobs frequently, and the startup world especially is still a small place. Word gets around about your company culture, the way you hire, the way you fire, what you pay, etc.

Programmers have hiring power. Especially senior ones with a lot of demonstrated experience. That doesn't mean you deserve to /be hired/, that's not what I was trying to say. It does mean you will /get hired somewhere/, so if you are not under immediate financial pressure you can afford to both be more selective and push back against crappy hiring practices more than other professionals/industries.

--

Re: the emails, I can't prove causation, I only know that the moment someone decided to point towards a /person/ that it went from comments /here/, to bizarre anonymous emails attacking me for being an overly-sensitive whiner that probably can't code and that's why I didn't get hired. Which is fine, we all know the internet is a shitty place these days, but it just seems like such a /strange/ reaction to me.

Agree or disagree with the idea that employers should offer prospective employees money for take-homes, or more feedback, or even whether you should tell a jerk to go shove it.

But what is the emotional urge to somehow align current hiring practices in the tech industry with some kind-of, let's be honest, masculinity and toughness and if someone critiques them, they must be #1) a bad programmer, #2) a wimp, and #3) dumb.

I truly don't understand, but honestly, I don't want to put that much effort into it. These days it's easier to block than to empathize, on all sides, and that's a little sad.
> People blame it on the insurance companies and the hospitals, but my theory is it’s the providers.

Perhaps a nit pick, but: Sure it's the providers, but it's a dozen other things too. A problem this enormous doesn't have just one villain!
You can also use Closure::bind / Closure::bindTo - see https://www.php.net/manual/en/closure.bind.php

<?php
trait MetaTrait
{

private $methods = array();

public function addMethod($methodName, $methodCallable)
{
if (!is_callable($methodCallable)) {
throw new InvalidArgumentException('Second param must be callable');
}
$this->methods[$methodName] = Closure::bind($methodCallable, $this, get_class());
}

public function __call($methodName, array $args)
{
if (isset($this->methods[$methodName])) {
return call_user_func_array($this->methods[$methodName], $args);
}

throw RunTimeException('There is no method with the given name to call');
}

}
?>

test.php
<?php
require 'MetaTrait.php';

class HackThursday {
use MetaTrait;

private $dayOfWeek = 'Thursday';

}

$test = new HackThursday();
$test->addMethod('when', function () {
return $this->dayOfWeek;
});

echo $test->when();
Node.js(If needed) + jQuery + Theme + Firebase & Heroku deploys
I want the user to be in full control and not the web site provider.
Maybe you already are, but if that's how you feel... organize! People must speak to each other about their problems in person, debate what is to be done, and work towards implementing it. That's politics away from the spectacle of television and social media.
> Correctly identifying the problem is a critical step in product development.

You make it sound like, otherwise, your product is a failure, while Jira is and incredible success.
> La Crépissage is the one day of the year that women are allowed to enter the mosque...

Is this practice generally considered normative in the Muslim community?

For 5 years, I lived within walking distance of the largest mosque in my city and it never once struck me that this was a thing.
StarCraft 2: Lowko vs. AlphaStar
Maybe you just picked the wrong companies.

30 years of experience in C? Would you mind dropping a resume to my username AT google dot com to give me a chance to get referral bonus? :D
Unfortunately, any issue where there are different groups that want different things is a political issue. Newbies to politics often feel that there are some things that transcend politics but there's a kind of dual answer to that.

The things that transcend politics are your values - the things that you will fight for and the tender feelings you ascribe to the state of the world. However, when you want to make them reality, you must find alliances and ways to pressure opposing groups to make them materialize in the real world.
I assume 28 is a reference to CCPA, which doesn't take effect until Jan 1 2020 (and won't apply to safe harbor content I'm sure)
Based on the people I’ve seen doing it, they actually make quite a bit of money. You’ll find a few bad apples in the world, sure, but most of the time you’re not going to get people like this guy doing return scams at a scare large enough to impact the sheer size of Amazon’s operations.
> Would we?

By all current evidence, we'd blame Capital One, so I guess this is consistent?
I have a prescription that was $35 with Anthem and $17 with Blue Shield. With cash: $12.
Atmospheric scattering seems like a big problem, but not location or targeting.

People find satellites by doing long exposures (ideally in the infrared) and then looking for movement that doesn't match the rotation of the earth - indeed, I think it's quasi-automated by now. It's rather astonishing what you can pick up with modern glass - there's videos on YouTube of the space station shot from the ground, and while it just looks like a little squiggly letter H, it's the freaking space station, in space, being imaged on relatively affordable prosumer technology.

I know nothing about the power side of lasers and imagine you'd need a decent size truck to hold one capable of setting something on fire at distance and its power supply, but it doesn't seem beyond the bounds of feasibility.

Of course, it would be 'easier' to hijack the balloon's guidance system but I assume that about 5 minutes after you started broadcasting on restricted radio frequencies people would be looking for you.
Similar experience with a sawhorse. It was clearly a used item when I opened it. I got a replacement no problem, how is it more cost effective to pay shipping twice than to pay someone to check it once?
Because this is the dream time.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/09/this-is-the-dream-time...
I feel that you have some sort of veil of depressive desperation clouding your mind right now. This will follow you no matter where you go.

I suggest for you to define what you really like/want/feel inspired about and take immediate (possible little) action steps toward it.
Action is a key.
Theoretizing about why/why not/what is/what if - is going to keep you in a swamp with no progress.

I been there.

Take action steps toward something you love right now without waiting for perfect conditions.
Malarky. By the same measure the US can't manufacture anything at all anymore because it can't source all the parts of any single supply chain from solely inside the US.

China has-- currently, not theoretically-- in country fab just a few years behind, and has been actively building plants at 10nm. We know they've already bought equipment for 7nm. So the idea that somehow the supply chain is holding them back is just wrong.

Not only that, but U.S. equipment doesn't lead here and hasn't for quite some time. Taiwanese equipment does. Are you really arguing that China does not and will not have access to Taiwanese Fab equipment? Because if so, you should know that TSMC is already moving fab to China.
So are you saying, just to clarify, that a doctor making $350,000 a year ... is a problem?
A lot of antivirus apps on this list.
Surveillance isn't a political issue

How could it not be
Here's the AAP recommendation on fever: https://www.healthychildren.org/English/health-issues/condit...

A 103°F fever (again, on its own) in your kid as a parent is scary, yes—I’ve been through it with two kids under four in the past week. It's not an emergency, though, and the ER isn't the right place to deal with it. Not only isn't it cost effective, but because the ER mandate is emergency stabilization which a kid in that condition doesn't need it's not plain effective (not even in most of the cases with that degree of fever where medical attention is called for: not only do you pay far more than you will for a primary care visit, you don't get the diagnostic attention you'd get from a proxy care visit.)
I remember SICP has a whole chapter where you build and play with an abstract syntax evaluator. One of the exercises even asks the reader to implement lisp macros. I'm currently porting it to java as a joke for my comp/sci professor.
non-amp link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2019/03/01/some-a...
E3 Website Contained Public Spreadsheet of over 2k Attendees’ Personal Info
Isn't this just a reformation of the idea there's only two business models?

Either you mine for gold yourself or you sell shovels to others who want to mine for gold.
One thing I've noticed is as I grow older I start to choose older and more mature stable technologies. Is that a normal progression of for developers?
Google Keep

Love this little piece of shit
The Big Diabetes Lie
No, most mosques admit both sexes all the year, although some segregate. Segregation during prayers has no real Islamic basis, unlike segregation in social life, which is covered in Quran in detail.
He just had the wrong scam.
Buy high grade dirt, return low grade dirt.
Buy high purity reagents, ...
Sadly unreadable on mobile.
Reminder that the start of the marketing video for Autopilot says "The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car drives itself." [0]

[0] https://www.tesla.com/autopilot
The people that process the returns make next to nothing and run off a script of yes/no and anything weird gets escalated.

A Q/A person to validate a range of products for authenticity (or at least more so than now) likely costs more per hour.

They have their supply chain so efficient, it's likely very cheap for them to move physical items across the globe.
Would that end up also being single payer?
I believe Google has already added this sort of client-side backdoor in the form of Assistant being able to look inside chat messages or what you have on the screen. I believe the API was enabled by default at least for a version or two of Android back. Developers had to opt out of it.
And not even personal. I share it myself. :)
What's the current preferred alternative to Jira?
For a while my commute was 1.5 hours each way. I found it intolerable and moved, but I have coworkers who commute as long or longer. London is starting to sound good.
I wouldn't be shocked if we have a mass kompromat attack trying to coerce people into doing something based on some porn site analytics data. Paired with god knows what Cambridge Analytica had at their disposal, it probably wouldn't be too difficult.
Ask HN: What are the downsides for working for Huawei in the current situation?
I'm wondering whether working for Huawei/other chinese firms (outside of China) would be bad if someday I want to work for a US company either in US or outside of US. Please share your thoughts on how it will affect my career.
JIRA is for people who like to do more planning of work than actual real work. See also: meeting moths.

It’s commonly used by technical managers who have no skills to contribute but need to justify themselves as important so they will spend countless hours setting up complex workflows, tweaking forms and starring at pointless “burndown” charts describing work they have absolutely no clue about.

JIRA also generates an enormous amount of automated email which is further exploited by these folks to advertise to others in the company that they are doing work.

When you interview some place, pay attention if they have a culture ruled by JIRA. If they do, and you like to get real work done, do not work there. It may be possible some use JIRA as a tool but the risk is far too high to take.
I thought that was what the creation of Alphabet was meant to solve.
This the kind of thing you could probably get away with once or twice... I don't know why he thought he could get away with it for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Perhaps they are linked. Perhaps at a certain time there was a need for it; the utility became apparent.

I could imagine a collapse in the food supply necessitating either sacrifice, or cannibalism.

It may have become fashionable to do for various religious and ritualistic reasons, even during good times.
If you don't trust home assistant vendors to not randomly send non-queries to the cloud, I'm not sure why you'd trust phone vendors to not have the microphone on when you haven't given it permission.
For me returns and refunds consistently take over a week to register after the carrier tracking number shows delivery to Amazon returns center (Amazon provides no prepaid return labels for Finland).

I don't really mind, though.
Brex is identical to what Stripe is offering, but Brex's cards offer credit. From what I can see and correct me if I'm wrong, Stripe doesn't offer credit lines
Double-tap-to-zoom is standard web behavior. I (and I think most people who are familiar with touch behavior) would be surprised if it wasn't there. Hold-to-select is the more standard method of text selection.
With umbrellas and parasols. Everyone should walk around with an umbrella to make the surveillance useless. Parasols on your balcony or in your garden.
Finland for sure

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21537988

I've certainly let our child have a nap on the balcony, wrapped up in warm clothing, in temperatures between -5°C and -15°C.
See also https://www.hanselman.com/blog/DarkMatterDevelopersTheUnseen....

EDIT: original comment sounded like I was implying plagiarism, which was not my intent.
Company I worked at did have bulk loads/unloads every so often. This didn't need to be fixed for outgoing emails, or at least wasn't a priority. If you unsubscribed, you'd get taken on/off the generic newsletter-style mailings immediately. Things which were less common (e.g. surveys) could take a while. That wasn't an issue.

If someone who joined today didn't receive something from the survey mailer, that was a-okay. For unsubscribes, people didn't complain. I suspect that was because (1) Our customers trusted us. (2) Most customers received no more emails. The number of people who got a second email from some auxiliary system was very small.

But we couldn't guarantee immediate, full unsubscribes.

Regarding competency, security, and privacy, those are rare resources in the tech industry. Most companies couldn't care less about security of user data or privacy. Most also can't achieve competence.
It's also great at hiding bugs where you mistyped the variable name passed to isset(). ;)
Are there really people out there who believe that these things are "green"? It was well known before that the life expectancy those scooters is measured in months. It is also well known that electric vehicles with lithium batteries are "green" only if you use them for a very long time. IIRC for electric cars that would be something like four years of daily use -- mostly due to the pollution caused by the fabrication of the batteries. But of course, it isn't your city that gets polluted but some distant area where these things a built.

If you want to be green, use a bike or some non-motorized scooter.
The effectiveness of sci fi is the extent to which it exemplifies problems in the real world!
Well individuals have less negotiating leverage than groups, so that could account for the price difference.
It's true. Obviously I could do it if I could look it up or if I could look it up, but not on command.
Cerro Rico is a crazy place, geologically speaking. Apparently around 800 million ounces of silver (22,695 metric tons) were produced between 1545 and 1823 [1], and even after about half a millennium of mining it still has another 1.7 billion ounces in estimated silver reserves [2].

It's a swiss cheese of tunnels by now, so much so that the summit is subsiding at a rate of a few cm/yr [2] due to the gradual collapse of the mountain.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.2

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerro_Rico
A missing cover sounds like it would be visible without opening the product packaging (which would be the cover itself, no?), i.e. they can easily notice the omission by comparing the returned item against a reference image.

In the OP case the product packaging was filled with dirt, which is not as easily discoverable without opening product packaging.
Not sure if you've ever been to China, but suffice to say that IP law is really not a major issue there. Reverse engineering ICs is very common, and basically the only thing really stopping that from happening for top end ICs is that RE time eats into profits.
But what's "productive?". Farming? Manufacturing? What if the farmed food is unhealthy? If the manufactured good is wasteful?
Geetting into these threads is always depressingbsimce they're filled with people with 0npassion for programming but dragging on, hating their work
nukes is the best.
WWLLN – The World Wide Lightning Location Network
I was hoping I could contribute financially, which could help fund any software or hosting costs they have, but it doesn't look like they're accepting donations (which is also fine, and completely their prerogative).

But! If someone from SE is reading this and it turns out that you just don't have a way to donate because it doesn't seem like people will donate, definitely put a paypal button or something out there. :)
My first thought was "I wonder if it's caused by a release of DMT?" [1] [2]. Interesting research ahead for sure.

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0142...

[2] https://beckleyfoundation.org/2017/07/05/do-our-brains-produ...
I guess I should google these things
Serfs had all the human rights except for the right to travel. Slaves had NONE.
Hardcore trip down memory lane. Went to high school with lord jazz (ACiD) and all my bbs ansi was done by him. Had loads of fun back in those days running my board. Tons of cool user meetups. Love seeing videos and art expos that display this work.
They should probably just rename the whole company Instagram instead.
Depends on the rate of the fraud. If, for example, 2 out of 10,000 returns are fraudulent, probably it costs lesser to process 2 replacements than check 10,000 items.
I don't think we can realistically put the genie back in the bottle :/
Location: Russia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C#, .Net, Flutter

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ps87f7r6z0aesve/Mikhail%20Gubanov%...

Email: lsreg@outlook.com
"I'm old enough to remember something that happened in very recent history"... lol
I think you misunderstand what open source is.

They are paid for by future development and / or increased adoption.

Take the most popular open source editor (vscode). Do you think microsoft is getting value from this open source product? Why didn't they charge a yearly licease fee instead of open sourcing it? They were probably more interested in increased adoption...
Ask HN: What to know about Job markets in 2019?
Hello Gents & Ladies,

It seems our company is closing soon and I will be back in the Job market after 10 years.

Last time when I was in the market, Monster.com seemed to be the thing.

What is in now a days ? My plan is to hunt through Glassdoor and Linkedin. Short list the companies and reach out to recruiters.
Google Starts Selling Its Titan Security Key in Canada, Japan, the UK and France
S. Koreans shun Japanese beer, travel, cars as dispute grows
Most of the concerns are potentially lessened as they mature.

The vandalism they refer to will certainly be reduced as people come to accept them. There can be charging stations around the city where riders can plug them into to get a discount or credits, reducing the need to collect them with a truck and drive them around. I imagine there are ways to mitigate people abusing them, such as making them easier to replace damaged parts or making them better able to detect when users are throwing them around and such.
OK. But small balloons at 15-20 km? That don't reflect much light? Seems iffy to me. But maybe so.

I wasn't thinking of massive physical damage. Just nuking the FPAs.

Or perhaps small rockets. But guidance systems are hugely illegal to develop. Chaff might work to mask movements temporarily. Or wildfires, I suppose. Not that anyone sane would do that.
Think about this at times. How many people I even met at meetups or even knew early early days of Defcon. The underground bbs scene and then the underground irc channels. Oh well.
High velocity, heavy caliber hunting right with accentuated rifling, attached to a heavy servo gimble or robotic arm, telescopic lens, laser range finder. Should be able to shoot these down all day long.
I am not sure how old you are but it could be that when you were young, there were no mature and stable technologies to choose from to begin with :D
Coincidentally, Google makes a house alarm! I wonder if that’s what they mean by the tagline “tough on bad guys”. :-)

https://store.google.com/us/product/nest_secure_alarm_system
What a rebound. What happened to revive this city?
That's yesterday's business model. The future is shovelless. You specify where to dig, and a team of experts will dig for you; you pay only for the dirt removed.
This sounds really similar to some of the work coming out of Vectorized on Redpanda [0]. They're building a Kafka API compatible system in C++ that's apparently achieving significant performance gains (throughput, tail latency) while maintaining operational simplicity.

[0]: https://vectorized.io/redpanda
Note that you still have the same number of fault domains if you read the actual proposal.

It does not simplify the system. It is simply replacing the ZK ensemble w/ its own raft impl.

Same number of JVMs, same operational complexity.