skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on the launch of Coursedog!

I work in HE in Australia and a number of unis have switched from manual/xls to Akari [0]

A comparison page on your website with CourseDog vs X would be welcome – just so it’s easy to see what you provide vs the market

A scheduling tool that works with academic workload models (not sure if this is Australia specific thing) that optimises[1] academic and resource/room allocation would be very welcome

* No. 1 complaint from students is class scheduling!

[0] http://www.akarisoftware.com/index.cfm/page/solutions

[1] with multiple optimisation models

- students want more classes at student friendly times that allow work+study
- universities want less classes
- academics want classes in work friendly hours etc...
Is it an illusion? Control of whether or not you are alive sounds very much like real control to me
Western officials say Chinese agents contact foreign citizens using LinkedIn
The Strange Pain Hidden in Their Fantasy
*to fly
An ever widening wealth gap would disagree with you there. I'm not a doom and gloom tear down the system guy by any means, but wages have not risen alongside the wealth of the rich in this country lately.

>Not sure what your point is beyond a humanities professor ignorantly preaching saying "profit bad"

Not sure why you felt the need to throw that in. Your argument (what little there is) is essentially trickle down economics, which is BS.
This doesn’t make sense.

It’s like saying: I’m out on a hike, and I think I see a mountain lion. But most human-cat encounters are with housecats, so I can safely assume this is probably a housecat.

No. You need to look at specifics and find a classifier regime which is appropriate for the information available to you.

Absent all other information, the logical thing is not to say “I’m probably not doing anything worthwhile” the logical thing is to say “I don’t know how worthwhile this is”.
He meant that you can't run OS X inside a VM.
One or two orders of magnitude? Isn't that ten-times or a hundred-times more expensive? What product could possibly be marked up by 100x?
Gmail is 15 years old.

Maps is ~15 years old (and was the combination of several acquisitions in the maps space: Keyhole, Where2, Zipdash, etc.)

Chrome is 11 years old + extremely successful, but my point still stands.
I certainly prefer using (efficient) webapps over actual apps.
Fortunately the ACLU has you covered:

https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-fact-sheet-alternatives-immi...
Primarily because it would make it more difficult to detect and debug out-of-bounds reads, so at the very least it's not something you'd want to do by default, even at high optimization levels.

Possibly it might also be an awkward, complex, or dangerous (as in risk of unintended consequences) optimization to selectively violate the memory model that way. But I'm not familiar with the internals of optimizing compilers, so that's just conjecture.
>Others prop up their budgets using traffic cameras, parking citations or code enforcement violations.

I saw my town make over $1,200 within a split second the other night.

I was stopped waiting at a red light, as cars were passing in front of me.

The light turned yellow, then red, then not even what seemed like a nanosecond after it might have turned red... 3 cars entered the intersection and the light flashed 3 times.

$400, $800, $1,200... all within less than a second, for an infraction so minor that even a police cruiser sitting in my exact same position would have probably sloughed off as being "close enough".

Not to mention, these cameras probably cost orders of magnitude less than a human police officer and a dedicated cruiser.

All I am getting at is, from a business standpoint, it's obvious why these are so popular with poor municipalities.

Once again, the rich get richer, and the poor get kicked on their way home from their 3rd job with a $400 fine for being a nanosecond later than an ambiguously timed light decided they should have been.

This is not going to change unless federal legislation forces it to.
Office 2019 can be installed on LTSC.
I no longer live in Helsinki, but I am curious how quick the local homeless and the Balkan Roma migrants have been to settle into Oodi as a free, warm place to hang out at during the day. Starting from around 2010 there started to be examples of “defensive architecture” in the Helsinki city center to discourage those two demographics from hanging around, e.g. removing the once ample seating at the entrance to the Kirjasto 10 library that Oodi supersedes. Such architectural changes had a small but nevertheless rather unsavory impact on the center.
Probably because zoning isn’t the reason for high prices in most cities
We didn’t sign up because we’d just launched another system, but I really really liked it in the demo. We’ve ended up building homegrown GSuite + Google Script + Zapier automation tooling to approximate some of the workflows, because GSuite is such a natural place to do so many of the recruiting and interviewing tasks. I’m genuinely surprised to see this go away.
[Hi from Argentina!] I was going to propose to use ARG$ pesos but

> At 24 [1886?], he moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he worked as an importer and manufacturer and did well for himself.

The people with enough money can invest it in land, a hotel, an apartment or other asset. Poor people that can only save US$100 per month are doomed if they can't change the monopoly money for real money.
Bridging Urban/Rural Divide Key to Deciding 2020 Election
I'd love this, a private server that ran apps (running on my box at home or maybe on an AWS instance) I can access via a web browser: no more senseless version upgrades with all the UI changes to boot, dropped file formats, license key nightmares, and of course ended products.
And with the App Store, the user has a chance to get an idea of what the app in question does and can make judgment calls as to quality, trustworthiness, etc before any code is executed.
Glad to hear! I'm the Founder and CTO of Lever. Anything I can do to help?
It depends on the display technology. OLED screens need less power to show black than white. Backlight LCD screen need more power to show black.
No.

We have here in Australia a perfect example of why this is an awful idea.

Our social security department equivalent is issuing "robo-debts" to people who've previously received various forms of social security payments, based of flawed algorithms using data of insufficient resolution to actually determine what somebody owed (or did not owe). They were matching tax office records of annual income, and foolishly assuming that figure could be accurately just divided by 26 to get an accurate fortnightly figure - then claiming people who'd been paid social security which would have been incorrect based on that flawed average owed the money back. And forcing the recipient to proved that debt was incorrect. Even when the recipients had provided fortnightly earnings reports already. And with the obvious-to-just-about-anyone reality that people on welfare do not in general have regular and secure salaries over the timeframe of years. If you are out of work for 3 months and claiming welfare, then stop claiming it when you get a job again - it's insane to send you a debt notice for the 3 months worth of welfare you claimed and were perfectly entitled to, just because the other 9 month of the year you were gainfully employed.

But here we are.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/apr/06/centr...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-27/centrelink-seizes-tax...

To me, this is exactly what I expect to happen when government "scales or becomes more efficient like any business". You get MBAs running projects like this, you get consultants bidding on the work, you get underpaid and over burdened developers writing code with poorly written requirements just deciding "I don't have a list of fortnightly income figures. Fuck it, I'll just divide this yearly figure by 26 and close this ticket."

This is the awful reality of the sort of perverse incentives that result from trying to run welafare or taxation "like any business". We (as society) need to be better than this.
Hey, everyone likes a good chez burger.
A cookie could store the session id from a load balancer or app server, designed to beneficially route your return traffic back to the same warm appserver to reduce disk load times or whatnot. Blocking that cookie has no observable benefit/drawback to you, but possibly impacts the backend in a negative manner by triggering a fresh session on every visit/hit.
HN: How dare the rule of law get in the way of making money!!!
Infrastructure as Code Should Not Have a Single Point of Failure
There's some doubt. He did electroplating as a hobby for which he used potassium cyanide. He could have inhaled hydrogen cyanide fumes, or not washed his hands well enough before eating the apple. So it might have been accidental death.
Sites don't offer RSS because

- they are developed by hipsters who were in elementary school when RSS was in its heyday and don't know what it is.

- sites operators want to human users to interact with their site specifically, and not be able to skim the highlights through a remote interface. They want users to view all of the content (including advertizing) in its fully rendered form, and not some clipped version that has been commoditized and aggregated.

Basically RSS is a form of voluntary self-scraping. Through a modern perspective, RSS looks like "robots will scrape the site anyway, so why not do it yourself and offer the scrape as XML". Webmasters today deal with issues such as, for instance, Google clipping their content and incorporating it into search results, so that users do not "click through" to the site. When you offer RSS, you're basically doing sort of the same thing to yourself.

But, of course, RSS is great for end-users, just like a Google result that has the condensed info right there.
Non-machinable letters with the automation discount cost $0.65. Protective mailers add $0.30. No tracking though. I import by FedEx and ocean freight. This change won't affect me directly but the tariffs are killing me.
Falcon 9 is known to have a radar altimeter; it's quite likely the Starhopper does too.
Crime Is a Process
So just be clear, are you trying to find a way back to the states? Or are you hoping to stay in Colombia if you can find a way to afford it on your own?
None of that is as effortless as looking up at the comment on the previous line.
My experience on the "over-qualified" bit has been the opposite. More senior roles are more flexible about hours, get more leeway to define their job description, choose sane projects, and aren't treated as badly by middle managers and over-zealous PMs.

Also, more money also reduces stress in other areas. It's fairly easy to spend money to reduce stress in your life, if you have it; on the contrary, money being tight is a major source of stress for most people, even if they don't realize it.

If someone find their current job too stressful, it's probably the company and the specific people you work with, not the level of the technical work. If so, finding a similar or slightly higher level job at another company with a better culture is probably the right move. (If I'm wrong and it really is the technical side of things that are stressing you out, then obviously this doesn't apply!)
I am pretty cynical when it comes to the attitudes people seem to have about children (I don't have kids so it's possible I don't know what I'm talking about). You and many others use the same language to talk about attempting to publish a book or starting a company that you use for having children: words like "project". In general I don't agree with this conception of children since failure in that endeavor often has disastrous consequence for a person that wouldn't otherwise exist.

It's not merely a personal risk in the sense that somebody else will bear the costs of failure. I tend to think people should generally feel more anxious about the incomprehensibly huge responsibility of making a person, not less.
Really cool. Not complaining, but I'd like to see someone create a pretty standard Hugo template for these types of repos, with fuse.js implemented. What this allows if for client-side searching and individual pages explaining what some of these are and do, with screenshots or embedded YouTube videos. It also integrates nicely into GitLab Pages.
No one else has done the research I’m doing. My goal isn’t to get rich, it’s to solve the problems my community is having.

If someone else wanted to solve those problems using my work, I would be very glad and would do something else with my time.
What Is Education For? (2016)
I've found that lifting is much better for weight loss than running/biking. I've gained weight while running 30-40 miles/week and typically lose weight while lifting (if I pay attention to my calories.) A lot of people say the same.

If you're focused on BF%, lifting is even more appealing since you'll be building muscle/reducing bf% even at a constant weight.
They became successful in the bull market. Markets and debt cycles don't act like sine waves. They build up to a peak, and then they fall dramatically, then they build up again, and they fall.
Honestly if you're a power user, powershell is where the control is these days.
Last year, I submitted a patch to Mozilla Firefox which fixed some major issues with the "Copy as cURL" functionality: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1452442 (namely, that it would stop working in a number of common cases, e.g. after opening the Response tab, or while the request was in-flight). That particular experience taught me a great deal about Firefox and cURL options, plus I had the opportunity to fix a tool I use very frequently.

cURL really is an excellent tool for web debugging. Using something like "Copy as cURL" makes it possible to generate a request which is textually identical to a request made by a real browser, which is really important when debugging subtle weirdness in a browser (or, exploring a web server for bugs!). It's easy to script and comes with a decent progress UI. It's also practically omnipresent and slightly more common than wget - I often need to use foreign systems where I have to make do with the least-common denominator tools, so learning the ins and outs of cURL have been quite handy for me.
How do you sell an RSS feed addition to a profit-only minded manager?

How can they make money by paying me to do something that allows their customers to read their articles without advertisements spliced all throughout them as they demand?
“We must do something, X is something, therefore we must do X” is a logical fallacy. Doing nothing is better than doing something costly and ineffective (or worse).
As mentioned elsewhere, please see the ACLU’s suggested alternatives to the current United States administration’s detention policies [0].

Also consider that the following conditions are obviously inhumane: separating children from their parents, administering drugs to children without consent or medical information, withholding supplies necessary for basic hygiene equipment (e.g. toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, etc.), and dangerously overcrowding people in these facilities.

The above is certainly not comprehensive, but it should be thorough _enough_ to convince anyone that what we (the United States) are doing is wrong, and that we (technical labor) should not support it if at all possible.

https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-fact-sheet-alternatives-immi...
It's not obvious to me why you wouldn't be content with that.

Living on the beach with the people you love sounds pretty fantastic to me.

What's the end goal? Amass more wealth? Build a legacy?
Plus Chrome is not really a product as, to my knowledge, it generates zero income.
I figure it was just two bros figuring out how to funnel a tens of millions dollars into Levandoski’s pocket.
You are confusing an inverted yield curve with negative interest rates.
Librem 5 (https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/) is doing just that, a standard linux phone running standard linux apps with upstream drivers.

Most of the software effort going into librem 5 could be directly applicable to this. The barrier will be any proprietary drivers in the fairphone, but there is a lot of opportunity for their efforts to be very complimentary.
Am I doing correct math that they spent about $1200 per new subscription? $324m sales & marketing / (511k - 246k) new members in 2019 = ~$1222.

$915000000 revenue / 1800 full-time employees = ~$500k revenue per employee, though.
Software Tracing with Go
Wouldn't civilization move further towards colder climates before the end? Is the feedback loop to get hotter or colder?
Hit a bit close to home?
That's exactly why bubbles form and lead to economic cycles: people get too confident and overextend themselves.

In this particular cycle, more companies seem to be using this profitable business model: charge huge margins for your product and sell it on credit. Bikes, SUVs, higher education (phones, too, but that's not new). When the economy hits a blip -- say, due to a trade war -- people start losing their jobs, default on the loans, and things spiral down.

(To be clear, I'm not saying it will happen soon. It might, and probably will take years and be a mild pop.)
100% yes.

If it's not ad sales or search - I don't trust Google enough to base long term projects on it. _Maybe_ add gmail to that, perhaps. Possibly Suite (since at least they charge for it). For me at least, Google Cloud is still not quite emerged from "interesting, but not sure it'll be around long term yet" status. I'll use it as part of a multicloud architecture, or for prototypes/short-term projects. But I haven't yet been able to convince myself to recommend jumping both feet into a GoogleCloud-specific project architecture - in the same way I happily recommend/design/deploy AWS-specific projects all the time.
You could definitely mix and match different commands in this mini-CTF tutorial, to give it a bit more flavour. Maybe consider a war-game style game, where each level needs to be completed to get the password for the next one (or, similar online puzzle series where each puzzle's solution links to the next one, etc.). Such highly-linear puzzles have proven (for me at least) to be great learning tools simply because users are forced to focus on one learning objective at a time.

Maybe a kind of "digital archaeology" story, in which you have to coax data off of an old server in various ways and analyze old git repos? Does sound kind of fun...
I'm the founder and CTO of Lever (https://www.lever.co), a similar product and part of YC S12. I recommend you check us out!

I was also a PM at Google from 2007-2011. A big part of why I left and founded Lever is that I'm super passionate about enterprise software, and vertical enterprise software (even in huge markets) isn't aligned well with Google's core business.
Be careful If you are going to try fasting. If you read carefully, fasting increases PUFAs on the serum and if you have plenty of PUFAs in your body, it could kill your thyroid and metabolism.

Before trying fasting be sure to have at least a month of healthy eating and try sipping unsweetened lemon juice while you fast.
You can see from the screenshot in the linked bug report that the data won't be shared whatsoever if those boxes aren't checked.
Lessons from Working with Teams Who Speak English as a Second Language
Those "odd comparisons" are the exact thing that make companies like Peloton successful. Another word for that is "disruption"; when you're comparing two markets that don't make sense to compare, and yet here we are with an S-1.

Peloton is a cheap gym and an expensive Netflix, by reasonable comparisons. Damn is that a great business model.
You cannot disable or control the phoning home. It’s pervasive. MS is obsessed with using telemetry to track everything you do, and they don’t believe users should have a choice.
How to Notarize a Sparkle App
One of the things Google gets right. They know that data breaches, where someone does get the valuable ad profiles or data of Google users (while usually advertisers just get to target based off the data), are one of the few things that will actually cause the masses to think about their privacy settings and why they're giving Google their life story at all.
Key take-aways

1. Written comprehension is normally higher than spoken, at the cost of losing the emotional context for a sentence.

2. Provide a written version of key remarks and insights as this will boost team members' comprehension and minimize misunderstandings. Prepare and send written material in advance of a meeting, phone call, or online meeting.

3. Have someone take notes--rotating the role as appropriate during the meeting--in a shared chat or real-time shared edit document (e.g. EtherPad, GoogleDoc). This just-in-time subtitles approach leverages written comprehension.

4. Communication is not what is said or written but what is understood. Ask someone for what actions they will take next or ask them to put a concept into their own words so that you can calibrate their level of comprehension.
You don't sell "RSS" or any other tech speak. You sell a proven syndication technology that effectively pushes notifications to the user that there's more content on your server for them to come look at. And unlike Google News or similar syndication mechanisms, your company gets to choose what and how much content to include in the blurb/hook.
I find it intriguing the indignities one has to submit themselves to in order to enter the land of the free.

What’s it like going into China?
It all depends on if you have anything worth cracking. Sure, if your average hn reader encrypts a password db with a dirty four word phrase, that reader will be fine because no one is willing to rub two pennies together to crack that.

On the other hand if you're protecting secrets actually worth something...
https://everydayastronaut.com/raptor-engine/ is a great overview of why Raptor is such an interesting development.
For clueless people like me who have no idea what this thing is; apparently it's going to be part of SpaceX's next big rocket.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_(rocket_and_spacecraf...
There are actually bacteria living in rocks thousands of feet below the surface.
There is but it's powered by Whatsapp Web.

Essentially, you scan a barcode which means notifications are received via Matrix but only so long as your device is on.

If you have a physical server, you might want to opt for a cheap device that can sit next to your server, essentially meaning you're online 24/7

If you use a VPS, notifications will still be forwarded but only work while your phone is powered on. It's not a true replacement for Whatsapp as you still need it running on a device somewhere.
That is a good question, I found a video where someone is using a Swift trainer and at the 2:52 mark they are out of the seat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-3-6KDu1fY
What constitutes child abuse varies from state to state, I don’t see why it wouldn’t vary from planet to planet.
What triggered this investigation? I agree that it does look like a phase-change. But did you throw out any graphs that didn't have a phase-change appearance?

I'm genuinely curious. Seems like there are different arguments below-the-surface in this thread.
Yep. If WeWork is pushing free WiFi and framing themselves as a "psuedo-tech company", they should also be heavily advocating VPN usage their "members". Not doing so means they are probably eavesdropping.