skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually think that books which cover software engineering practices, rather than language specific books, have helped me the most. This is due to the fact that the concepts and principles you learn can be applied to many languages.

Two I've enjoyed are:
"The Pragmatic Programmer" by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
"Clean Architecture" by Robert C Martin

That being said, no harm in deep diving individual languages. Secrets of a JavaScript Ninja by John Resig was an excellent introduction to JavaScript!
Amusingly, blackblaze.com redirects to backblaze.com. I assume people have made that mistake before.
Creating fairness for all is sufficiently vague as to justify almost anything. Politicians, or those with power in general, should not be evaluated positively based on their well meaning platitudes, even if they are sincerely held. Creating fairness for all, if implemented poorly, can and has led to mass murder, genocide, etc. I'm not suggesting Warren would lead to that, or implying it, simply saying that wanting to 'do more good' isn't a sufficient defense.
Other than on the committee that designed WebAssembly, you mean?
Do I think her college admissions in 1975 affect her credibility as a senator in 2020? Not particularly, especially compared to her actual track record.

(if we can find a way to forgive and forget Judge Boof's college "hijinks" I think we can find a way to forgive this.)
What Gadgets Are Recommended for a Frequent Traveler? Why?
There is no general law, but there seem to be 22.3m "Rechtsschutzversicherung" signed. I'm not comfortable calling this "few people".
Summary of H.R. 4978, the Online Privacy Act [pdf]
I feel like this is grasping at straws. Facebook’s head of news co-founded a site in 2015 that promotes school choice, something supported by a majority of people and a super majority of people of color: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/school-choice-strong-....

The articles posted on this site were critical of Warren because of Warren’s opposition to school choice, but has also criticized the other Democratic candidates for taking the same position: https://www.the74million.org/article/stewart-the-democratic-....

The attempt to make it seem like the criticism of Warren on this site has anything to do with Facebook is pretty weak. The site was started long before Warren said anything critical about Facebook. The site also has a good faith basis for being critical of Warren in this front. Warren’s opposition to school choice highlights a distressing fissure within the Democratic Party: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/19/08/ednext-poll-democrats...

> African American Democrats support targeted school vouchers, universal vouchers, and charter schools at 70%, 60%, and 55%, respectively. Among Hispanic Democrats, support for the three policies is at 67%, 60%, and 47%. On the other hand, just 40% of non-Hispanic White Democrats support targeted vouchers, 46% support universal vouchers, and 33% support charter schools.

The site is addressing a real debate within the Democratic Party, consistent with its founding principles, not using some contrived pretext to attack Warren for her comments about Facebook.
The Netflix UX is a balancing act between finding things that you know you want to watch and "discovering" new content to watch.

Netflix faces the same challenge that Facebook does with the news feed in that they're trying to combine two functions into the one interface that the users are familiar with.
Crafting Interpreters is a gem. You chose a very good starting point.
Saying that candidate A retains quality X is as good as the tests administored to measure and quantify the presence of said quantity.

In politics, there exists a game with real stakes to LOOK a certain way regardless of the truth.

Therefore, I find that any opinion on political matters made as if it were a matter of fact has a high probability of being either naive or a component of a political campaign to influence public opinion on said candidate.

So I ask this question of you, what are the tests administered to verify you claim of Warren and what is your profession? Are you an expert in policy?
You can also send files this way. I often use Whatsapp Web to send PDFs to my SO. Probably safer than email due to the possible encryption.
Background and full text of the bill: https://eshoo.house.gov/news-stories/press-releases/eshoo-lo...
Does anyone enforce any law?
I'll bite even though I'm a bit uninformed here:

I think it's plausible to be told something about your heritage and not question it, especially if it's something spanning multiple generations where the paperwork validating the claim is either nonexistent or otherwise hard to reach. At varying points I've been told by relatives that I'm part Scottish, and told by others that I'm not, and I don't really have a straightforward way of validating this aside from engaging in some intensive research.

I can reasonably extend the benefit of the doubt to Elizabeth Warren that she didn't know if she was actually some fraction Native American or not until the DNA test.
On Telegram you don’t even need to create a group, you can just use “Saved Messages”.
The fact that Yandex includes the OCR'd text in any image you search from is awesome.
Because nobody has been able to implement a computable implementation of English.
It's an orthogonal issue to ambiguity.

I'm pretty sure controlled attempto English or lojban (zero ambiguity natural languages) have no computable implementations either.
They said on Twitter that launch exceeded their wildest imagination :) I guess this is a good problem to have. Also if you see twitter feed, those issues were fixed pretty quickly so my guess is this was just a unintentional ddos on their servers due to launch. As people dropped off, it released those locks.

Anyone has idea on their tech stack ? Are they using cloud?
Ok, we've removed the exaggerated report of Lynx's death from the title above.
I also thought about this, but I would replace them with empty or collapsed space.
> I suspect they’re not

Why not?
NB / OT: I'm getting NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID for wikipedia.org currently.

Update: Working with Wikipedia on this. They pushed a new set of certs earlier today. There may be issues with some UAs. My old, stale Android (5.0.2) and Chrome (76.0.3809.132) aren't happy with Wikipedia or Globalsign's root test URL:

https://valid.r5.roots.globalsign.com/

(Also an ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID)

I suspect a stale CA list somewhere.
From Fabian Tassano: "Regarding the version of “genius” that is currently in retreat but still occasionally used: many people seem to have a simplistic idea of what it takes to be one. According to one popular model, all that is required is an increase in the magnitude of certain qualities which everyone already possesses in some measure. Make the particular qualities pronounced enough, and you get to genius. But a better way to understand the concept — assuming we’re applying the word to (say) Gauss or Picasso, rather than John Cleese or Wayne Rooney — may be that a genius has a particular capacity, which on a certain level can seem obvious or unremarkable, but which no one else has. A genius, on this understanding, is a person uniquely capable of making a leap ‘off the path’. With hindsight the leap may seem simple or obvious, but at the time no one else was, apparently, capable of making it. A potential leap of this kind is made possible by preceding leaps. Nevertheless its actual occurrence may go on not happening for decades. During that time there may be clear pointers towards it. Yet it is not until a genius comes along that the leap actually happens."
You don't need the government to provide an ID. Have people make their own keypair, then publish what they want. In the beginning it will be nearly worthless, but as others start to trust it it will become more and more trusted, even if nobody knows who is behind it.
simple things, like being able change the order of the columns in the network tab
IML fund – earning returns on stablecoins via margin lending platforms
According to Encyclopaedia Britannica [1] that's false:

> The city came into existence after the discovery of silver there in 1545 and quickly became famous for its wealth. Within three decades its population surpassed 150,000, making it the largest city in the New World. The population declined from a peak of 160,000 about 1650 as silver production waned, and a typhus epidemic in 1719 claimed the lives of some 22,000 residents. By the early 19th century, Potosí had fewer than 20,000 inhabitants, but the subsequent rise of tin mining again spurred growth.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/place/Potosi-Bolivia
Tips Will Be Useful for Rest of Your Programming Career
Can confirm, this has been going on for at least 15 years, so enough people must fall for it. Which is kind of remarkable, given as you say, you tend to receive 3-4 of these demands at once.

They are quite good at looking "official" though, and always have company names that you'd think private companies wouldn't even be permitted to use.

Given how long this has been going on, and given the EU's somewhat notorious legislative machine, it's also quite ridiculous that these scams haven't been outlawed yet.
Oof. I mistakenly shorted Yelp before their earnings release expecting the same results, but they ended up jumping 15%. Not that they've performed well YTD.
Cofounder/CEO of Deel (YC W19) here. We basically used Notion for everything as we got off the ground. Glad to see Notion supporting the YC community!
I know several smart people at google, and I dont want to be critical of individuals. BUT it seems sometimes like google-the-company is of the mentality that they're smart, and with enough data and some ML chops they can solve anything, and frankly I'm not as confident - but I don't find it scary.

The casual data-grabbing that they're doing is most-scary to me, since I would hope that my data would never be accessible to them/others as readily as I now suspect it is.
For sure. Done.

(Btw, that was my idea of how to shorten the title too. When you can make a title better simply by taking a substring, that's the best—it minimizes the surgery. The more titles I edit the more I hate having to make up anything, even a single word, to put in there. And sometimes it's sort of magical what you can come up with if you just do a substring search!)
Disney+ is arguably the largest software release of all time in terms of scale. My estimate is that they will be handling 1-2% of all internet traffic by the end of the week.

I can't think of a launch of this scale that has gone smoothly. Modern console releases, AAA games with online multiplayer, Pokemon Go, healthcare.gov... all cases where organizations literally have billions in cash. It does not matter how much money you have or how great your engineering team is - you can't go scale 0 to 100 on launch day.
It's merely federated, but IRC doesn't get mentioned enough.
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/filing-a-complaint/complaint-proce...

Complaint Requirements

Anyone can file a health information privacy or security complaint. Your complaint must:

Be filed in writing by mail, fax, e-mail, or via the OCR Complaint Portal

Name the covered entity or business associate involved, and describe the acts or omissions, you believed violated the requirements of the Privacy, Security, or Breach
Notification Rules

Be filed within 180 days of when you knew that the act or omission complained of occurred. OCR may extend the 180-day period if you can show "good cause"
Does it bother you when you type in « news.ycombinator.com » and then it tries to make an NNTP connection because of the « news » sub domain?

Gets me every time.

Except this happens to me when I’m running low on my Canadian dataplan and need to ration data because of economic failure limitations, not true physical ones.
> Are any of these p2p YouTube replacements presenting a compelling way to search/discover content in a distributed way?

Ideally we’d see blogs return as the curated content mediators.
Whatever it is, it's simply dumb and totally Disney style.
Just out of curiosity can someone point me to the basis for the claim that diagrams are uploaded to some cloud storage? I've used the tool and had the impression that it was all client side in memory DOM stuff until I downloaded my diagram. I never looked if some of the content gets pushed elsewhere, how would I substantiate these claims?
Your question makes no sense. Any drive can and will fail, and no matter the brand it may fail immediately or it may last years.

The rule is to avoid all of your drive being from the same factory date/batch, even if they're all from the same brand order from different stores or whatever to help make sure in case of a defect they're not all affected.

Also for home NAS ensure you have redundancy (a proper raid level, avoid JBOD and Raid-0), and have backups. Raid is not a backup.
Ah yes, "school choice", a nice rebranding effort for privatizing another industry so Betsy Devos and other aspiring oligarchs can destroy a public good for their profit.
Two things surprised me about this article. First, I thought Yelp had an abysmal reputation. Threatening businesses with a poor review if they didn't buy an ad. Taking money for boosting a businesses rating. Was this all just FUD from its competitors?

And second, I find Amazon's product search to be almost complete crap. I can't count how many times I've moved back to Google to do a product search because I know the product is out there I just can't remember the name, Amazon comes up with nothing and google has it on the first page. Again, is this only me?
Mods - can we do something about the obvious political astroturfing? Every comment critical of GP here is dimming due to vapid down votes and it is discouraging and disappointing to see.
> willing to work for less because you were working on something related to MLB

This part I don't get. The intersection of people who love MLB but are the best talent you're looking for, may not be aligned. If you want great engineers, you shouldn't care whether or not they particularly like MLB. It's a weird hiring funnel. Not all projects demand the best talent, but if Disney Plus wants 60 million subscribers, they should be poaching Netflix, or at least hiring that level of talent.
Efficiency, when talking about mature markets, is rarely about emissions, it is about cost. We could have zero net emissions today by using pure hydrogen or biofuels in existing turbofans with little modification.

It does, however, matter quite a bit for emerging technologies which may be aimed at lowering emissions. Higher efficiency, for example, can overcome a lot of drawbacks that come with new technologies, like power to weight ratios. Electric cars, for example, have nowhere near the amount of energy storage that gas fueled cars do, but they are now getting similar ranges because they convert it to kinetic energy much more efficiently.
> One thing that I noticed is that all these scam letters included a no-postage-required, Business Reply Mail envelope. I guess they make so much money off these scams that they can pay the return postage.

For business reply envelopes (BRE) you only pay postage for the envelopes that are sent back and not the ones that are printed. If you're sending back something, chances are you're sending them an $89 check so it more than covers for postage cost. The envelope cost is marginal.
Breitbart is an explicitly white nationalist publication. There is no comparison with standard news.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/11/12/stephen-mille...

Edit:

Good lord people. SPLC has a cache of emails from Stephen Miller written to various people at Breitbart about reporting their stories with explicit white nationalist ideology. You don't have to like SPLC to believe the leaked emails any more than you had to like Wikileaks to believe the leaked DNC emails.

Here's another source if you don't want to give them clicks: https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-miller-pushed-racist-s...
If you go to their main page (the post link is just an announcement) then you can't miss the big print "What is Illumos" etc. You're failing to look ;P
Same thing is happening for Seattle public libraries starting Jan 1.
Yes, it's a complex issue that evolved over the course of centuries. But it's a remarkable exception that the Mapuche managed to settle a border with the Crown.

I've never said that Chile was any better. I mean, it was in comparison to some periods, the early conquest saw mutilation as collective punishment and impalement as execution of POWs.

What you just said isn't a defense of the Spanish Empire. If anything it is about the capacity to resist of the Mapuche and the power of decentralized self-organization. There just wasn't an emperor-high priest to kidnap and extort the Mapuche into surrendering like with the Aztecs or the Inca.
Ask HN: Who Is Available for Mentoring?
Who’s available for mentoring?

IMHO, posting your intention and not answering anybody while reserving the right to reply to “the right person” is still a positive expected value.

Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21510894 (Developers mentoring other developers: practices I've seen work well) and tjungblut’s reply
Our congressmen are as dumb as toddlers. What else is new? The parent probably should have specified that no person with a brain could be fooled by such articles. That would have ruled out politicians like this congressman.
Yes. A lot of one semester compiler classes spend way too much time on lexing and parsing. Amusingly, their coverage of parsing is limited to LALR. It almost seems as if profs are thinking, if I had to suffer through LALR(1) table generation then you're going to have suffer through it as well.

By comparison, at Berkeley they recreate 61C Machine Structures every few years. Out goes the unimportant, in comes the new.

Lexing and parsing isn't even a vanishingly small part of the job. It's usually someone else's job. Someone who works on LLVM code generation for the XYZ processor is the wrong person to keep the Clang front end up to date with the latest C++ committee's standard iteration.

They should push DFAs and grammars into theory classes. That said, I do like the 2nd edition of the Dragon book, particularly the later chapters.
When there's an obvious breach, hopefully. How would we even know if Google were abusing this data though? Does anyone have access to it besides Google? Are we literally asking Google to regulate itself with this data?

EDIT: I guess I don't understand. Once we give Google the sensitive information, how do we have any way of knowing what they do with it? I'm guessing an audit on all of Google's data is out of the question.
I tried a Reddit search today. I do a few from time to time to gauge subreddit activity.

I know 80 to 90 percent of the results.

Google was useless. It is as if some subreddits, like one of mine, no longer exist.

Duck returned great results. And some new, unexpected results.

This kind of thing, along with hidden result links has forced me off Google search.

For fun, in my own head, they are Noogle now. NO Google.

Search Noogle for Nosults.
TripAdvisor pivoted to booking on their site as the main revenue generator for some years now. But their SEO is still king to drive visits and they have very advances tools in that area.
http://archive.is/OoWW6
Microsoft to Apply California’s Privacy Law to All U.S. Users
Last I checked WebAssembly still didn't have a way of actually freeing memory it has allocated either.
I don't have much of a problem with Netflix content, but it's the price that just doesn't make sense. They charge extra for UHD, and that premium plan costs more than HBO (which is probably still the king of content quality, though with a crappy 1080p stream) and over twice as much as Disney+ and Apple TV+ (which don't charge extra for UHD).
Audio Augmented Reality (AAR) Technologies are Now Coming to Market
Jump Conditional Code Erratum Overview White Paper for Processors
So much bullshit, in the end just to strip a little bit more the user and the developer of any liberty.
The dream of us corp controlled appstore for pc desktops.
Who will control what you can do through the sandbox? Intel, Mozilla, Google...
So one day your soft will have to be signed by them and will refuse to let you adblock ... For your own safety...
Old.reddit.com is fine until you follow someone’s link on reddit and it takes you back to the new reddit. Argh.
I get that idea and it’s not new: one blog said in its subtitle “letting google index my thoughts”. But it’s the equivalent of talking out loud. Sure someone might hear you accidentally and benefit but most of the time it should be kept to ourselves. If something should be said, it should probably be written in a book. That will set at least some bar to prevent the constant stream of noise on the internet. Everyone complains about the quality of content going downhill and the signal to noise ratio being unbalanced but the solution is for all of us to consider that we’re probably generating a lot more noise than signal. So I for one will quit blogging and comment a lot more rarely and if I have something more important to say I’ll write a book. Getting published isn’t infallible of a mark of signal but it’s better than git push.
Right, we'll have to see how it goes. The point of buying Netflix would be acquiring its content delivery apparatus and other technical assets, not its subscriber base.

It's possible Disney will get the kinks sorted out and start rolling a good-enough CDN on their own, making the benefit in acquiring Netflix minimal. It'd also make it much cheaper to acquire if they could wait a few quarters for the damage to start showing up on Netflix's balance sheet. But the longer they wait, the longer they deprive themselves of Netflix's best-in-class content delivery network, which already has near-universal penetration.

It's ultimately a question of whether Disney sees a bigger risk in the expenditures necessary to buy up Netflix or the chance that technical issues will continue to haunt the Disney+ ramp-up, leading to a loss in consumer confidence and subsequent retreat back to third-party streaming platforms.

One thing is certain: Disney+ is an existential threat to Netflix, and Netflix's only hope is that the implementation will continue to flop hard enough that consumers lose the appetite for it immediately.
http://archive.is/5hU9H
GPS live tracking using a couple of ESP8266, LoRa modules, and Balena
> IP laws are important

They're important in the fact that they do immense damage to our economy, with perverse incentives and rent seeking everywhere.

There is little no evidence that IP improves innovation or even benefits creators as whole. There are instances like this all the time showing what a terrible system it is.

Copyright and patents shouldn't exist at all, and especially shouldn't in their current capacity.

http://dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm
I feel the same way. I've been using DuckDuckGo for a few years, and when I started, I was prepending !g to about half my searches. Now I find myself rarely using !g, and telling friends "try DDG" when they can't find results on Google.

Not surprisingly, Google is still better for shopping searches.

edit- DDG bangs for those who were unaware: https://duckduckgo.com/bang
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=junk_the_jun...

This is a time-honored way to piss off junk mailers.