skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>postal order

>a bank

>stand in line at a post office

>car insurance quotes

>booking flights/hotels

>tax return

These conveniences you cite of the modern internet all feel like they help the other side of the relationship even more than they help you. Imagine how much the airlines, banks, tax collectors, and insurance companies love the modern internet, making it all the more convenient for you to interact with their products and services! And at such scale!

My point here is that, on the intellectual front, the old internet was a lot more transformative for humankind than the state of today's "cable television as a service" internet we endure today.
I don't care. Celebrity is dumb and worrying about approval from other people is weak. Stand on your own two feet, and MYOB.
What is an ad? Can the beer cans say "Coors"? Can airplanes fly by with ads trailing? Can people's clothing display brands? Can the players' shoes have the Nike swoosh? Can pop-up shops sell their goods at the store or give out samples? Can a company buy tickets just to plant attendees who will loudly wear their brands? These are all forms of marketing. If they are permissible, then how do you enforce it? No billboards over a certain size? No audio or video ads?
Some of us see work as the meaning of life. Traveling and doing things just for the experience alone seems kind of meaningless. Great for vacation, but not great for long term goals. Perhaps if you're at a dead end job, then work might feel meaningless, I agree.
MS uses "deprecated" as a marketing term, but their backwards-compatibility commitment normally do not allow them to actually break things this way.
Using HostBinding and HostListener in Custom Angular Directives
Interesting.. this my be a good addition to our new UX platform https://VisualSitemaps.com

thanks for making this.
> I think the idea that someone can get straight C's in highschool and get $50k a year to study art in college is not a good use of my tax dollars.

What if that person ends up being successful in that field ? Should we only have the kids of the rich do arts ? That seems to be what's going on in the US and you see the devastating cultural result.

> Additionally, I think students should have SOME Skin in the Game

You have skin in the game, because you need to feed yourself. The government paid for my studies, that doesn't mean I wasn't thinking "how will I have a roof over my head" afterwards.

> Stanford's dorms can cost $2.5k per month for a swanky broom closet. I'm not sure it makes sense to pay for that

Trust me, if they're focused on reducing costs, they won't cost 2.5k a month. French public (individual) dorms cost like 120e a month.
I have a budget system where all recurring income and expenses are averaged out into a daily number that accumulates over time, less any incidental expenses.

The part of the spreadsheet that I use to calculate the daily net income has every subscription listed on it.

I budget conservatively so in the sheet I "pay" the full rate from the beginning even if I actually have the introductory rate.

...I don't actually have many subscriptions, so there hasn't been anything I've unsubscribed from as a result of this.
> ...while baking in support for concurrent requests...

Timeout does not help here - if the api is for concurrent requests, it's bad that caller cannot do anything before `(the slowest request finished || timeout exceeded)`.
"I should clarify and say code can be declarative with the correct language support. I agree that it's probably not well suited to C# in its current state."

Ok, but which language do you think would work? Lisp? I like the things you can do with macros and s-expressions as much as the next guy, but you're still left with the question of what should people using C# (which has neither of those things) use to make GUIs.

"1. Triggers, DataTriggers, EventTriggers, MultiTriggers, etc. Here we're dealing with the fact that XML is not a programming language and lacks basic control structures, so we've gone ahead and defined our own mini-programming language just so conditional values can be expressed in XML. Why?"

Correct, all the different sorts of trigger are verbose. But, to answer your question as to 'why?' the reason is because we need a deterministic way to express conditional formatting. If we attempted to accomplish the same tasks with hooks we'd have the problem of intermixing imperative, state-full, code with logic that is supposed to be more deterministic. I've written code like that for WinForms like that and it's ugly and hard to debug.

If you were to try to implement triggers with code behind C#, it would still be very verbose because you wouldn't be writing actual C# logic. You'd be doing something like declaring an object with trigger conditions and results and it would be at least as verbose as the XAML triggers, that is, if you wanted to accomplish the same thing with the same guarantees as with XAML triggers. The problem here isn't really the XML, but the fact that there isn't really an available language that solves the relevant problem. It's not like you could use an `if` statement.

"Ever make a typo in a binding?"

I have. I've also made typos when writing viewmodel objects that implement the `INotifyPropertyChanged` interface to similar effect.
The way you're just completely proving his point is amazing.
Aka "Consciousness Explained Away"

Consciousness is still an extant and very unexplained phenomenon.
Just to clarify, by Aus are you referring to Austria and not Australia? In Australia the road culture is so bad that they make dramatic TV shows about it and relative Youtube channels sharing dash cam footage of bad drivers are actually source of entertainment to many.
> They couldn't see apps taking hold and actually actively blocked it.

Didnt Steve Jobs block the idea of having native third party apps on the first Iphone as well.
It would be great if we had a SQLite interface for Excel.

That would get us halfway there, and make it easy for companies to use (getting off of excel is a different proposition altogether).
Classroom factoids gonna factoid.
ok so, tinfoil hat - absolutely, how sure are we that the body was actually his?
I once worked with a piece of 3rd party financial software, that I won't name.

We used their reporting functionality to extract data to import to our firms systems. Access was their intermediary data store. SQL Server -> Access -> CSV.

I had to support this, so I was one of only 2 people at the firm that was allowed to have Access installed.

Not necessarily Access's fault, but these reports failed routinely. Ended up with a Python script wrapping the whole process and retrying so I didn't get called at night. probably not Access's fault, but still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Access is regarded as a toy, even more so than MySQL.
If that makes F77 not Turing-complete, nor is C. There is a finite amount of memory you can allocate in C, since a pointer must have finite size, implying there is a finite number of things it can point to.
Just like... IBM?
>it is still reprehensible to me that people accustomed to living in a free society advocate for this kind wide-scale silencing of views they disagree with.

I absolutely agree with you.
No, it isn’t. Way more countries than you have listed are easily capable of this.
As a developer who is forced to use a service now interface for interacting with any other part of my organisation it's fucking awful in terms of user interface and friction. Unsure if that is because of our workplace setup or if it's intrinsic to the platform.
maybe because voice has a very low frequency range so its easier to separate from the high frequency noises.
I think you are completely misreading this, given that the context is people quitting their jobs over perceived threats to journalistic integrity.

There are other compromises that can be made such as pay, working conditions, working on dross stories to make up for the expense of the really good ones, etc.
I think they mean searching using a search engine but appending reddit to the query.

For example if I search “best vpn” I’ll get loads of VPN review blog spam who are just pushing the provider with the highest affiliate commission.

If I search “best vpn reddit” I should get discussion from real people about services they have used.
Readability isn't just the inverse of code golf, but that's how it's often talked about. We want a clear picture in a few well chosen words, but writing padded with low effort filler is not clear, it's a drag. Whatever the answer is, it's not "shortest code possible" but it's also not "longest code possible". Given that, it seems quite plausible that the answer is "whatever you have learned to read is readable, and what you haven't, isn't".

We have ideas of a "grade 6 reading level", do we have such a scale for code? If not, why not?
Never use them.

Truthfully I believe it's strength training that actually helps keep them up. Could be wrong.
I don’t think those Citroen’s would really be well classified as fast backs. Eg: classic mustang[0], vs mustang fastback[1], where the roof sweeps to the rear window.

The first thing I thought of w this car though is kammback[2] design.

[0] https://img.pistonheads.com/LargeSize/ford/mustang/ford-must...

[1] https://cdn.barrett-jackson.com/staging/carlist/items/Fullsi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kammback?wprov=sfti1
Really nice visualisation!
This is extremely great news. Ebola is such a devastating illness.
What a great combination. I didn't know it existed! I discovered Purdy through Downie years ago, but didn't know about this. I'm still in such grief over Downie dying just over two years ago, which is strange for a man that I did not know and only met briefly once. I have been a Hip fan since I became conscious of music and culture and it just grew into something I could no longer contain. Thank you for sharing.
I've brought up Notes in the past. My encounter was with a synthetic DNA company that was spread all over the planet; two US states, two European countries and Japan. Notes delivered reliable, distributed databases to all of these sites using marginal hardware, intermittent network connections and without much maintenance.
Acquiring Books for the Greatest Libraries in the World (2018)
> a large portion of these students is the "privileged poor"

Yes I know that is my whole point. A large portion? What does that mean? The number of destitute minority kids going to top elite preparatory schools is an incredibly tiny number, vastly less than a tenth of a percent of students overall, and completely statistically insignificant. Very very few students in the US go to elite prep schools and only a tiny number of those are poor or minority. Claiming that's "a large portion" doesn't seem to be supported by data and is just a gross exaggeration focusing on irrelevant fictions and thus is very unhelpful, counterproductive and disingenuous. Such fictions harm people.

On a tangental topic, I do agree that destitute minority kids going to top elite preparatory schools gives them an advantage and that the quality of education at such schools is vastly superior to that of public schools in general. Why is this so given that private school teachers on average are paid less than public school teachers. How is it that public school teachers consistently fail to achieve good results, particularly with disadvantaged and minority students who are massively disadvantaged by public schools but achieve parity with rich white advantaged students both in elite private school and homeschool settings, including homeschool settings with low spending and unqualified parent teachers.
> The guy has no clue whatsoever when it comes to political matters.

I find it unlikely he is clueless and very likely that he has incentives that we do not see.
Rolling Coal
The C language specification doesn't require a pointer to have finite size. Just because every C implementation has a limit, it doesn't mean the language itself does.
Foreigners aren't a "race", what are you saying. The proper definition of foreigner in this context is: never paid any taxes and most likely will not later. If foreigners in China, Chile or Uganda start paying french taxes, I'll follow you.

On raising in the Shanghai index, it's bullshit only if you don't want to compete. Sure the metrics can be discussed but the impact of the low rank is very much here: top researchers abroad won't even hear about french labs and won't feel it will further their career compared to a serious university in the middle of Japan who invested to fit the metric.

Another thing that I always feel when I hear those grumpy french rambles is that it's absolute, as if time didnt change things and situations were eternal. What's wrong with adapting and trying and reverting if it doesnt work then try something else ? Doing nothing or whining at every attempt to solve a problem will just lead to...nothing.
Interesting... why?
Ask HN: What to do if you're not great at your job
Has anyone else found they struggle to develop their skills as quickly as their co-workers?

If so how have you dealt with this?

It's depressing to think I'm not as useful to my work place as they need me to be. I don't need to be the best just as compitent as I should be at my level of experience.
I wouldn't rag on it or Access too much because it serves/d a purpose: app and data design for less technical users who are busy doing a million other things. I supported several dozen FMP apps at Stanford Student Housing (R&DE) as it was easy for analysts to make something quickly and worked at the scale needed. Later, they used proper databases, reporting, and app-ish tools. FMP ran on a half dozen early Xserves which used goofy, consumer-grade parts inconsistently while looking Apple over-designed.
They were destroyed for publishing revenge porn[1].

Whoever at that organization gave the greenlight on publishing and publicizing sexually explicit videos without the express consent of the people appearing in them are lucky to not be in prison.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_porn
90+% of the good use cases for filemaker are at places with no DBA's, it's meant to be a database tool for non-technical people and small businesses. If you had DBA's they'd just want to lock it down and eliminate the remaining 10% anyway.
People in your example are not “neutral” in the first place.
With 2 friends, we have built a "pokemon-go" like platform, called https://geogaming.io, to create fully customisable scavenger hunts.

We sell it mainly in B2B to companies who sell team building events and that need a touch of digital... We have other customer segments coming (zoos, theme parks, tourism offices...)

We also use the platform for individuals,like for birthdays (http://birthdays.geogaming.io) or hens/bucks parties etc.

This platform brings us ~15k a month but it's growing very very fast.

Our architecture is based on AWS lambdas so our infrastructure costs are very limited and the product is highly scalable (games have been played with thousands of players)...

We are based in Sydney.
Extremely unlikely. Viruses would lose the gene if it's non-essential, before it got to your target. They're designed to make lots of mistakes in replication to diversify quickly, and without selective pressure, will not retain high fidelity genetic material. Sure, you could mutate the polymerase, but then you have a replication problem as well. How is this virus spread? Particularly without inducing a cough. There's no guarantee of exposure.

Bacteria have more genetic stability but are even harder to spread because most people are already colonized and disruption of that homeostasis is often difficult, and symptomatic.

None of that even addresses how you'd engineer something to be benign to everyone but one person.
There was some news regarding the use of malariotherapy for Ebola, indicating some promise, from couple of years ago. Did not hear any more about it since then.
They should hold PG&E liable for that!
Genesis Capital Crypto Lending Firm Reports $870M in New Originations in Q3
How to Be Patient in an Impatient World
The problem is that many jails are designed with lots of corridors and halls basically identical.

I assume that recording that nothing happened could be as easy as put a number over a different door, (or pick the equivalent door in a different floor), record for a while, stop, remove the number tag, and swap the records.
I don't know about special consideration, but statistically legitimate depends on absolute numbers and not relative. 0.02% of American students would certainly be enough to conduct a statistical analysis on.
Well that is a similar line of reasoning that has been applied to ISPs that deliver internet itself, and I think music publishers took that line when suing ISPs for facilitating piracy. I think all forums and UGC platforms deal with this in their own way. (like Reddit, they mostly let each subreddit have their own mods that decide what content and topics they want to allow.) In Twitter's case, I am skeptical of the end game with their current approach, where the loudest in the room tends to stand out.
Unpopular opinion: These keys are about selling the idea that physical-based security is somehow magically better.

If you have good password hygene (read: a decent password manager) then I'll need to breach your host to obtain it - if you use a security key, I'll have to breach your host and hijack your session which is slightly more convenient but chances are you're royally screwed once you're breached anyway.

Sure there's some edge cases where this might work (one-way keyloggers, etc) but these aren't realistic threats for a large majority of people.

Somehow a sales team have taken a bullet hole, and attempted to use a square peg to band-aid it.

Stop buying stupid products and just use a damn password manager.
Good for you - time to start the incinerators back up, eh?
How do others do publish-subscribe architecture on Linux? There's no multicast IPC primitives, and nothing like the Mac's lovely notify(3).

One disgusting technique is to use a file descriptor's "ready" state as a signal. Wait until the fd is readable, then check the shared memory for new data. Surely there's better.
Did the Christians try to convince the agnostic about something? If not, nothing changes before or after they leave.

Anyway, the OP was about political ads that can affect how people vote, a decision to vote or not affects the community. Being agnostic about something (aliens) does not necessarily have the same gravity of effect as believing in a political ad.
You should submit it to SaaSHub https://www.saashub.com and ProductHunt to improve your exposure.
I agree, it's really not related to work at all. To me, this sounds more like propaganda that falls under the elitest premise that "...people need to be assigned work tasks to be productive members of society."

Perhaps this study gives some merit to this premise, at least for cognitive use, if there's really any relationship at all and it's not purely genetic/age related (past data conflicts with some of these findings).

I find myself far more intellectually stimulated doing activities outside work than during work because people don't want to pay me enough for the things I find alluring, so I often compromise and do some bit of what people will pay me to do.
Can you please link to the list of Empirically Correct Viewpoints™ so that I can identify and purge myself of thoughtcrimes?
totally agree with you. if i love my job then no reason to retire.
There are some decent arguments that the Moon should be considered to be a planet, which would make the Earth/Moon two planets sharing an orbit rather than a planet and its satellite.

The Moon, if ever recognized as a planet, will of course be the closest one.

Here are some of the ways the Moon is more like a planet than a satellite [1].

I also remember an essay by Isaac Asimov that brought up another one. For all the other satellites in the solar system, if you compute the ratio of gravitation force on them from the planet they orbit to the gravitation force from the Sun on them, that ratio is greater than one.

For the Moon, it is less than one! The Sun exerts more force on the Moon than the Earth does.

Related to this, if you look at the path traced out by all the other satellites in the solar system as their planet makes one orbit around the Sun, that path is sometimes concave and sometimes convex, as the satellite circles the planet. The planet takes a convex path around the Sun, and the satellite makes a little circle around it.

An observer on the Sun would see the planet moving always moving forward, and see the satellite sometimes moving forward and sometimes moving backward.

For the Moon, that path is convex. It's basically a rounded dodecagon, as is the path of Earth. They are out of phase with each other, so that when one is near a vertex of the rounded dodecagon, the other is in the middle of a side, and so can slip past the other.

An observer on the Sun would see the Earth and Moon both always moving in the same direction, with them speeding up and slowing down, so that about 12 times in a year they trade the lead, and the overtaking one always passing on the same side.

[1] https://blogs.nasa.gov/Watch_the_Skies/2009/07/10/post_12472...
I agree - but it is arguable that a significant majority of poetry by canonical poets is settled in acclaim. Obscurities by them generally (but not always), are obscure for a reason.

This will not at all be the case with new and contemporary poetry for the simple reason that these things take time to settle.

Classic poetry has had enough exposure; contemporary needs support and nurturing. Some of it will fall by the wayside, some of it will become the canon of the future.

Let's help it get there.
Operation Glowing Symphony – Darknet Diaries
Build Core ML 3 Models that are updatable on device
But who's going to ban marketers harvesting immense numbers of twitter accounts for marketing? Doesn't sound like they are at all opposed to those things that will make them look popular, since on paper it will increase their numbers.
Spotify on Android turns 1x2 into 1×2 in the password field. I don't recall what the two digits were, and I didn't try any other two.
Deep packet. That's how they got HTTP proxies too.
SSH key storage needs more info I think. I am using SSH enough that this '...can also do SSH...' would want to be the main topic.

advanced modes disabling API keys means a lot of the older third party integrations which depend on a simple API token are SOL. this worries me, lockin risks.
Seriously, people who think this isn't a cover-up have to think about the other alternative. Lets say you own, even $100 million dollars. A small sum for the wealthy class. Even if you spent a fraction of that money on a hit and cover up, it would be nothing. A few million dollars would be a gamechanger for an ordinary man. I would bet ordering a hit is surprisingly easy and cheap (especially for an uber-wealthy man who routinely pays for child prostitution), and a far likelier outcome than everything you listed happening in tandem. Keep in mind people like these are also usually psychopaths with a complete lack of empathy and it wouldn't trigger anything in them to take any of these actions. There really is nothing stopping them from going back to the store and buying a get out of jail card because they got a little scared.
The Cloudflare-Chrome TLS Post-Quantum Experiment
haha, it's satire, but it's brilliant
Except that if you retire early you can still "work". It's just that you can work on whatever you want, not just on what someone will pay you for.
just use hyperapp then.