skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're oversimplifying. You're seeing a single example of a woman standing up here and extrapolating that it was because she was a woman, and assuming that no men were willing to do the same. It's not like she was the only woman to ever come close to his sphere of activity. Also there were plenty of men involved in both the first and second investigations that didn't buy into his schtick, even if his power an influence got him off lite the first time. And his female assistant is reputedly the one who did a whole lot of the dirty work involved in recruiting and grooming his underage victims.

I'm not saying her worldview and background didn't help here. I'm disputing the idea that people of the same gender are unable to do the same. The fact of his multiple investigations points towards plenty of other people likely some female and some hetero normative males played significant parts there. Again, sniffing out sexual predators just isn't the exclusive domain of people with different genders than the predator.
The GDPR is widely-considered to be the state of the art privacy law, and other countries (including states in the US) are drawing inspiration from it.
Humans need water, and civilisation needs a lot of it. 90 % of cities are built in flood plain because until relatively recently (~200 years or something?) it was impossible to have a city outside of flood plain.

Now, we don't need to do it that way, but it still makes things more expensive.
The charitable way to put it is that the stated values of most companies are aspirational, not descriptive.

But it's hard in some cases not to feel lied to when you see the gap. At least in dating when this happens you can get out early. You don't get the same trial period with work arrangements.
> It is objectively, quantitatively true that weather disasters are getting more frequent and more severe.

From the article, storms may be getting slightly more severe - but "more frequent" is incorrect:

> Scientific studies indicate a warming world has slightly stronger hurricanes, but they don’t show an increase in the number storms hitting land, Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach said. He said the real climate change effect causing more damage is storm surge from rising seas, wetter storms dumping more rain and more people living in vulnerable areas.

Now, we all should do what we can to address it - but we all should also examine whether we're picking and choosing only scientific observations that support our feelings/pre-conceived notions while discarding the rest of the data.
> LinkedIn has taken steps to protect the data on its website
from what it perceives as misuse or misappropriation. The
instructions in LinkedIn’s “robots.txt” file—a text file used
by website owners to communicate with search engine
crawlers and other web robots—prohibit access to LinkedIn
servers via automated bots, except that certain entities, like
the Google search engine, have express permission from
LinkedIn for bot access.

Not a big fan of weev, but this sure seems like he got screwed if he was just enumerating public web pages and went to jail for it.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#AT&T_data_breach
I was heavily downvoted for pointing out more or less the same thing. Seems someone wants to maintain the appearance of it being a reputable source.
You are imagining this >3x increase "could be" natural variation... with what probability? Are you sure you're hanging on to something more like a 50% hope rather than a <5% hope here? Until someone does the analysis (which I bet they very much have, if you look for it), you find it somehow more plausible that it's natural variation, rather than the quite-obvious explanation that the rate has in fact increased?
That would be knative.
Due to the size of the relevant column in the fixed-width format files used for ACH, there is a limit of $99,999,999.99 for ACH transactions.
It has not been my experience that Apple services are dominant outside of the Apple ecosystem inhabitants. Google, on the other hand, is everywhere.

As a former Windows Phone user, there were apps that talked to Google Accounts (mail, calendar, contacts) as well as an app written to work with YouTube. I don't remember any others right now. But Google actively blocked those apps while refusing to release their own interface to their services. That made it more painful than it needed to be to continue using Windows Phone. The fact that they were able to say "too bad, we will not work with you, the users will suffer" is exemplary of their dominant position.

Maybe there are iTunes users out there that wanted to access their iTunes accounts on Windows phone, but could not?
Is it this one:

> Die erste Generation schafft Vermögen, die zweite verwaltet Vermögen, die dritte studiert Kunstgeschichte, und die vierte verkommt.

> Bismarck (1815–1898)

EN:

> The first generation creates wealth, the second manages wealth, the third studies art history, and the fourth degenerates.
What it’s like open sourcing software written for the federal government
> 1. Python core dev pretended Python 3 was good and ready by, like, 3.1. It wasn't.

The post you're responding to starts verbatim with `Python 2 to 3 (at least by 3.3 or so)` and your reply is about Python 3.1, released 3 years earlier. The amount of changes was quite big.
This seems like an excellent way to guarantee that all of your users will be bots.
Because Stellar is using that term in a document they're asking me to agree to and it seems likely that their intended meaning is similar to the IRS definition. But I'm not 100% sure that it's meant to exclude (almost) all non-Americans which is why I'm asking.
What are the applications, besides network filtering?
Peter Brown and Walter Scheidel are indeed real historians (Brown of "Late Antiquity" and Scheidel of the Roman Empire). Not everything they're quoted as saying is necessarily that solid, though. For example, if Scheidel is really attributing "the dawn of the university" to the fall of the Western Empire, then he's eliding about seven or eight hundred years. (Fall of Western Empire: 5th Century; dawn of universities: 12th or 13th Century.)
Perl5 is not being EOL'ed in favour of Perl6. When the time does come around for Perl5, I would guess that only a small fraction would migrate to Perl6.
Someone just announced the existence of Blackbeard's buried treasure
Nearly Every State Is Launching an Antitrust Investigation of Google
This 2012 FTC report has some ideas: http://graphics.wsj.com/google-ftc-report/
Fixed link: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
A question comes to my mind on the desires of developers to work on Python projects. Would it be fair to say Rust or Go might have more desirability these days? The WANT question makes me think this is a bit more than simple annoyance but provides an excuse to travel to greener pastures.
Without having listened to the podcast, another way to frame this is using the concept of yes/no questions, who/when/what/why/how questions, and open-ended questions.

Y/N questions are not very revealing and are likely to lead to dead-ends in the conversation.

WWWWH questions reveal a specific bit of information, but can also lead to dead-ends.

Open-ended questions ("Tell me about...", "What do you think of...", etc) will foster good conversations and uncover new threads to pull. In my experience, this is by far the best way to interact with other people, whether they are interviewing you or not.

Coming up with good/relevant questions on the spot is a skill that can be difficult to master, but is extremely valuable.
It's kind of hard to blame the people for Trump when the people didn't choose Trump.

Between the structure of the Senate, House, and the Presidency, plus things like gerrymandering and voter suppression, how much influence does the voter even have?
From my original post...

....and they will let you take unpaid time off....
A version of this that's somehow aware of whether or not I'm at my desk, then puts the machine to sleep anytime anyone else touches a key would be kind of cool.

Maybe some kind of proximity sensor that you could stick to a badge or in your wallet? It would need to still allow you to login and perhaps offer a password to disable in case you forgot your sensor, but seems vaguely plausible?

EDIT: Read more of the usage guide, seems even more plausible now, although I guess it all depends on the reliability of the proximity sensor.
Gee, I dunno, make their products in a country with labor standards and decent wages instead of massive sweatshops
Clojure seems to do pretty well in that regard
Not sure why your recommendation was dead. I've dabbled with MMEX in the past. I vouched for your comment.
It's pretty much what Google does isn't it? There's the irony :)
Millionaire doesn't mean too much these days considering you can take a long road there with fairly conservative investing and a decent income.
Why should the app support printing or copy&pasting into other applications? You aren't supposed to use anything else.

Screenshots can be prevented using DRM. Linux users are hippies anyway so they don't have a job.

People could still photograph the screen or transcribe the data manually. But I'm sure a legislative solution for this problem can be found. After all, you wouldn't download a CSV file.

I hope this proposal won't be read by anyone insane enough not to see anything horribly wrong with it.
This is why
http://www.madeinalabama.com/2018/04/google-kicks-off-constr...
Cynicism is definitely a virtue in a certain light. Trust is good for everyone while being bad for the individual, cynicism is good for the individual while hurting society.

Personally I think both extremes are terrible, but leaning on the side of cynicism seems safer.
Who the hell owns 1 billion dollars in bitcoin?
Quite the opposite. If Satoshi is still alive that entity is worth around $10 billion. Incentives are a powerful thing and the fact that Satoshi hasn’t made a transaction in years is strong evidence those keys are lost.
Well now that I have a place to ask this question...

Could someone explain to me about 51% attacks and if bitcoin is vulnerable to one?

Hypothetically, a government decides to put forward enough resources to perform a 51% attack on bitcoin. Is that possible? If not, why? And is this something to actually worry about, or could something be done to combat it?
f-strings. Enum. Dataclasses. asyncio. Type annotations as code. An explicit separation between bytes and strings. I love each of these and use them regularly. It's not that 2.7 is some abomination I can't stomach, but more that 3.[recent] is all of the things I appreciated about 2.7, plus a million little quality of life and performance enhancements that make it just that much more pleasant to use. I could live without each of those things individually, but would not be willing to give them all up.
I was using Tiller (https://www.tillerhq.com), pulling from US and European banks to a Google sheet, then a command line tool to pull CSV from there. This worked well except for not handling foreign currency (it calls everything $), adding a bit of extra latency/uncertainty on top of the back end (Yodlee), and eventually forgetting to update your sheet unless you manually visit it every so often.

Currently I’m using plaid2qif (https://github.com/ebridges/plaid2qif) to pull CSV from US banks via Plaid’s (https://plaid.com) API. This is more developer friendly and gets the latest data to me faster, but the data is not quite as good as Tiller/Yodlee’s, at least for Wells Fargo bank; Plaid gives more truncated transaction descriptions.

Both of these have the big downside of sharing your bank credentials with others. With Plaid I guess there’s one less party involved. My current alternative is manually visit each bank’s site and download CSV. Ideally I want to get timely data every day (the easiest way to stay on top of the books), so the manual downloading (click, wait, click, relogin after timeout..., wait, wait for paypal’s download, retry when it gets stuck..) gets really tiresome.
To be fair you do a home inspection AFTER buying a house in a lot of states
It's also interesting how people have gone backwards in terms of convention. As far I know, there's no standard convention for JavaScript server layouts (maybe server.js, but I've seen stuff in index.js or main.js). Likewise there's no standard way to plug in servers like Rack. Or a standard ORM in the JS world. I figured conventions would come with maturity but the JS world is getting mature and yet there's not many conventions
50 = 48 states, 1 district and 1 territory

oh but title said territories plural, red alert
Search for 'default' https://docs.python.org/2/howto/unicode.html
What are you talking about, it would be the number one reason why.
Web Forms Reinvented
Adding to your metacomment, "Daytripper" is an excellent name, and a great nod to the Beatles track.
>The value of bitcoin would fall to basically 0

Yes indeed. There are a number of very interesting game-theoretic feedback loops built into bitcoin that enhance security. This is one of them.
This is an interesting/generous giveaway...

I'm not sure what to think about XLM. On the one hand, I am very pessimistic about all altcoins, but on the other, I am impressed with Stripe, Keybase, and the teams behind those products.
What is the suspected antitrust violation?

> Their concerns ran from the way Google processes and ranks search results to the extent to which it protects users’ personal information.

Ranking search results isn't anti-competitive and protecting user information isn't relevant to antitrust. Ranking search results is the service a search engine provides. Google doesn't stop other search engines from competing in the search space.
The original system was genius... basically, the voters pick the person they know in real life (30,000 people) who they trust. Those people make all of the upstream decisions. Sadly various idiots between 1789 and now introduced concepts like direct election of Senators, bound elactors, and — retch — primary elections, all of which will combine in their effect to produce the eventual death blow.
Weird. I'd say the attitude exhibited by De Niro's character Sam in Ronin is more common. They're just tools.

You want it written in C for a 16bit bargain basement ALU? I can do that. You want two implementations, one in Pascal and the other in PHP? Not a problem. You want my advice? No? That's fine too, the advice is expensive and who knows after all these years if it's even worth anything.
>If things were as you seem to imagine them, why are the victims who have come forward not even alleging that?

Why are they not alleging what ?
Interesting, thank you. It seems that the only permitted uses of this are for government-led investigations or to do things related to your car. Any other use without express consent of the individual is expressly prohibited.
Because you were rioting over a fuel price increase and destroyed a city. That's embarrassing. I wouldn't hijacked a thread to compare yourself to HK people fighting the CCP for the right to vote.
Keep in mind that Fitzgerald is quite likely simultaneously criticizing both the aristocracy with their snobbery and the advantages they are born into while also very sardonically ridiculing the idea that taking such an obviously simplistic view of the situation could ever actually be a valid view.
We can respectfully disagree without you attempting to discredit my ability to understand what you're trying to say.

The fact is, regardless of what either of us believe, that this is an ill-formed opinion of yours and it needs more work. Instead of being quick to double down, consider working to refine it by listening to what others have to say.
> I can count maybe 5

How could you possibly know?
What you need as a programmer, besides programming skills
I'm not sure if this is satire. Sounds like it may be, considering your emoji.

Getting asked questions like this, in most cases, is enough for me to end the interview. I don't want people who can cite off memorized answers to random questions. I want driven people who are excited to learn what needs to be learned in order to push the company forward and make work a fun place to be. Confident people can learn to solve difficult problems on the fly, with ease. This is more valuable than being able to recite a textbook answer during an interview.

One of my favorite interviews of all times:

Interviewer: "Hello. I have your resumé in front of me. I am going to ask you a bunch of questions in rapid succession, and I just want yes and no answers. Are you ready?"

Me: "No."

Interviewer: "Excuse me?"

Me: click
I did work with one team that managed to make a compromise around status reports.

If the team could commit to updating their stories at the end of the day, then we could cut 15 minutes out of standup by leaving out what we did and just talking about blockers and what we learned.

There's supposed to be some osmosis around hearing what everyone else is working on. But practically if you split into separate scrums, you're only hearing about what people you're already collaborating with are working on and odds are you already know what they're going to say.

If the team is big enough you can't have a combined standup than most of the value of these conversations is already lost. You have to use the tools to telegraph your actions anyway, so why chat about it every morning? Discuss time savers and time wasters instead.
Chandrayaan 2: Vikram lander isn't broken, it lays tilted on Moon's surface
well, it likely wasn't worth 1 billion when they acquired most of it.
I haven't used this extension in a while but IIRC there was an option to do all the OCRing locally.
Do most farmers actually own the land that they work on? I was under the impression that most farming is done by large companies and that there are not many small independent farmers that exist.
At Astroscreen[0] we're working on analyzing the activity around #Stop5G and related Twitter discussions. We haven't published a full report yet, but I can reveal preliminarily that we found manipulation by a network of bad actors (one random member is [1]) who tried to artificially spread disinformation about the risks of 5G technology.

[0]: https://www.astroscreen.com

[1]: https://twitter.com/WarriorWifeMom
At his next job, Dave tried the custom setup and his boss now thinks he's always writing emails.
Could you blog about/link to that ? It sounds smart.
The original system was awful because wealthy landowners could do whatever they wanted. Appointed senators were awful because it boiled down to who could bribe enough legislators, and the electoral college system basically ensures that rural interests will always dominate the political system in the long-term.
To be fair to the author a lot of folks I know are jumping on K8s and their use case mostly looks like that of the blog author. In those specific case you indeed are joining a cult.

K8s is meant to reduce devops work and complexity. Most businesses do not reach that level of complexity and will never need K8s.
Pablo is still alive!
Well in that case we should go back to monarchy, which worked great and had no downside at all.
JP Morgan, isn't it?

The platform can already run in python 3. It's possible that the team you interviewed with wasn't aware of that.

Like all big companies, personal experience varies with the team and the part of the company you're in.
There is a seperation between spec and implimentation. That quote doesn't at all disagree with me. That's how wasm is meant to be, but doesn't give any detail as to how that's achieved programatically. You can impliment all of that and still have a vulnerable runtime because of how you implimented it. You can also just put in system access as functions, as some runtimes do because they don't care about sandboxing.
I often opt to use SQL instead of the canonical query builder, especially for queries that do not return individual models but aggregate values or the like. You can even mix-and-match to your liking, i. e. writing individual clauses of the query (select/where/join/having/count) in SQL and using the ORM for the others.

That's actually good to know (or perhaps be reassured on). While key-value stores have their place, I've wondered if the rise of NoSQL in web dev was triggered in part by the widespread move a few years beforehand to ORMs, which trained a generation of developers to look at databases through the lens of object relations rather than table relations. I'm (re-)learning Rails with the Pragmatic Studio's Rail 6 course currently, and reminded of why I liked it -- but in the last few years I've also come to renew my appreciation of pure SQL.

(I also suspect that the tradeoff of abstraction layers -- in exchange for having little to no database-specific functionality, we give up any and all specific to the database we're using -- may not be a good one, but that's a different argument.)
Yes. What's your point? Hopefully it's not that since patients are going to be treated by students, we may as well give up and have them treated by sleep-deprived students, or that sanity in one phase of the training process excuses insanity in another. But if you're not trying to make one of those arguments, I don't know how your comment is relevant.
I also did something similar in college but due to similar issues noted pivoted to genre classification with extracted audio features. With that though I was actually able to get a pretty accurate classifier going.
That is how I read it as well. I’d imagine being someone that is cynical and wealthy protects your wealth from forces that would suck less cynical people dry (multilevel marketing, get-rich-from-real-estate seminars, stocks currently riding the wave of the hot rumour of the week).
What you say is probably true, but it raises the question: why always guns? Surely there are other ways to cause death and terror.

I wonder if it's because it fits into a narrative? An isolated incident is more easily dismissed or forgotten.

Getting back to the main topic, climate change has become a narrative, too, not just an isolated phenomena. Hurricanes, even if mostly random, become part of a larger story.

I just finished reading 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and it got me thinking a lot about narratives. Maybe people naturally have a strong desire to be part of a narrative. Perhaps the hero, perhaps a minor character in a big drama; or, if necessary, the villian.
No. That doesn’t exclude other countries - it means you are not illegally living in the US (“non-resident alien”). They are just complying with US sanctions/international law.
Remember when Linux was hard to install and run as desktop ( multiple screens , acpi , sound , winmodems ) ?? We all have had this colleague that gets frustrated and installs windows after 10 minutes , And spends the rest of his life saying that Linux is of fanatics , geeks etc .
Well this post it's literally the same .
I feel like a life void of luxury is... not preferable.
It doesn't become easier to beat the market when you have more than $100 million.

Anyone with a couple $1000 can buy cheap etfs or index funds
Not saying the court made the right call but for that case the big issue for the court was the pages were clearly not intended for the public and the defendant knew it.
what's the advantage of using two laser sensors vs a single IR sensor for the motion detection? (other than the badass Mission Impossible factor)

edit: I'll leave this comment for posterity, but I previously misunderstood the meanings of the Tx and Rx sensors
Rack is cool, but the modern approach seems to be more decoupled web servers. You rarely see multiple business-logic Rack servers in a single process anyway though; Rack servers outside your primary business logic tend to be used more like Express middlewares in Node (which are very conventional at this point).

And the standard entry point for a NodeJS package is "whatever is defined as the main property in your package.json." Do otherwise at your peril.
fetishization of this sort of nonsense is why Perl should never go into production
> * Execute a custom script

rm -rf /*