skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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A completely eco-friendly luxury sweatshirt made from premium cotton for a perfectly comfortable fit. It's life-proof & built to last

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dropel/stain-liquid-and-odor-resistant-sweatshirts-by-dropel
Sense of presence is a real added value of VR, I've been experimenting with virtual presence since 1995 making Unreal level with Wicked3D glasses and a huge monitor, later a z800 and OpenSim. Nowadays I watch Star Trek with a friend in Bigscreen, sitting next to each other, catching up - Bigscreen also works for pair programming.

A friend of mine lived in Boulder for a long time so I asked her to take me on a tour through the area's where she lived (Wander), basically you morph through a series of 360 photos like in streetview and you don't have full body tracking, but "you are there with someone, 'cycling' around". It beats narrating pictures.

I made a VR app so I can practice my vajra dance, a spiritual practice, on a huge mandala and meditate and doing tai-chi on a mountain top. I work solo or together with a cooperative game contained in Tabletop Simulator (Robinson Crusoe, Spirit Island, Codenames Duet), manipulating the various tiles with my Oculus Touch controllers. Experimenting with memory palaces in relation to internal psychological concepts and states as well as tuning into a virtual dance floor while DJ-ing are next on my 'play' list.
It sounds like a powerful weapon to me.
Yes, there is sometimes an internal logic in the sense that it’s possible to find reasons for why language evolved in one way or another. (Historical linguistics is a field!) But that doesn’t have to follow any criteria that we might care about, like consistency or expressiveness.

To stretch your biology analogy even further: sort of like how humans have an appendix.

I wouldn’t try to read anything into culture based on the specific set of pronouns any language has. Turkish and (spoken) Chinese have never distinguished between “she” and “he” and it’s not because knowing someone’s sex is less important in their cultures than it is in Indo-European ones; it’s just random chance.
Tbf, you can produce very similar output to .swf with the likes of WebGL, Canvas, SVGs, or a combination of those technologies. But the authoring tools fostered a community of developers who didn't see themselves as programmers at all.

They saw themselves as artists. And users benefited a great deal from that.

In fact, some aspects of the IDE were so good, that some 'developers' didn't even care to use it to develop programs. They produced cartoons instead. I think Craig McCracken's Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends was the most successful work of this kind.

In the place of that creativity now, we have cleaner code, to be sure, but we now also have an awfully boring technology war, and a load of unnecessarily complicated UI code.

I might miss Flash a whole lot less, if someone created a HTML5 authoring tool with the same toolkit the Flash IDE once had.
Political Elections Under Fire? Analysis and Detection of Propaganda on Twitter
It's much more subtle than that. A child isn't raised by his/her parents alone. If you have daughters, your family and friends (and their friends) will by default mostly buy them stereotypical girls toys
This looks great!

I wish it came with a little blurb on /data-brokers as to what a Company does or how they typically use data.

I know I probably 'want' e.g. Experian to have my data but I'd remove any company that is purely ads based for example.
Cars more affordable now than 60 years ago despite being 32 times as expensive
what's the difference? "page fetch" is not really something that can be googled on the web.
Disappointed that securing ES wasn't listed at all
You can configure a different default email client. Here are instructions for OSX: http://osxdaily.com/2014/05/06/change-default-mail-app-mac/
the rise of this submission to the front page and the swift sinking back under the waves, along with the vote war on comments here is interesting. this place isn't nearly so left-leaning as i'd assumed.
Not well, but asciinema does it wonderfully.

e.g.: https://asciinema.org/a/188770
Scaling Agile to Create “Frictionless IT”
Services like this are disgraceful. You encourage users to GDPR from services via your system, a third party, which then sends the request on. GDPR and data protection require that companies protect user data and so these requests cannot just be processed without verifying the user is who they say they are. Companies cannot communicate with you as you are a third party and so you're just creating an unnecessary step in the chain and fostering the belief in users that using your service is all they have to do. The number of people who have given me abuse as a site administrator because upon receiving an email from you or your competitors, I've had to verify identity, is beyond a joke now!
> Morally, it should be vaporized because the value comes directly from their political action causing other people to be excluded, not from anything productive or even from successful speculating.

Slippery slope. I don't necessarily disagree, but it's a dangerous path, ripe for abuse.
I've sent one request as a test, if it works I'll do it systematically for all data brokers listed here https://yourdigitalrights.org/data-brokers

Since the devs are around this thread: it would be nice to have an option to send requests in bulk.
I think "influencer" gives more context and is less "implied" sexist, in addition to being in the original title.
I would say hiring is dead for a different reason: permanent employment is becoming a meaningless deal in many places. Especially in the US, you can be out on the street in 15 minutes with little or no protection against that. It's a very one sided deal where you shovel shit in exchange for a lower income. So, people treat their employers as customers and have less reservations about firing their customer. The average tenure at several of the big SFO monopolists (lets just call that out) has allegedly (I lack a good source) dropped below a year. That's what happens in a scarce market.

When starting a startup, employment is also meaningless because if you are in grow fast/fail fast mode, long term employment is not a thing. Your company could end up being acquired, killed, or simply be fizzling out.

A lot of companies are now relying on recruiters and agencies to supply them with what is non essential staff where the person disappearing is less of an issue. This kind of recruiting works great for no-tech startups (any kind of saas or marketplace type company). Lots of buzzwords, but mostly hiring full stack. That kind of company. All they need is generic skills. Hiring is still a problem for actual tech startups that need access to the best and brightest in their fields. You're not going to find those people through some shitty recruiter or head hunter. They are not likely to be actively looking at all, ever. You need to court them and sell them the notion of working for you. Acquihires are a thing for bigger companies but they often backfire when people simply sit out their 2-3 years while they are considering their next startup.
It is odd that your comment was “ideological battle” but not the original article. I guess the original was sufficiently jargon-laden.
It seems mostly to be socdems and right-libertarians, depending on what thread you're on.
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Where have you worked? There's been a direct path from engineer to manager at every company I've worked at. I've mostly worked at Silicon Valley companies, some were venture-backed and some were simply aspiring to be such.

In some companies, that was a promotion (with a pay increase), in others, it was a lateral transition (and of course, at some it was a promotion but the company pretended it was a lateral transition).

Ironically, I did get an MBA but after graduating I was coding before transitioning into management, and I'm not sure the MBA degree had much to do with that transition.

Dual-ladder type systems for technical people are pretty common in the software industry, and, when applied correctly, one of the things I love most about it. I wrote about that: https://hackernoon.com/why-all-engineers-must-understand-man...
Apple Concerned Ex-Employees Accused of Theft of TradeSecrets Will Flee to China
Ask HN: Stick to what you’re good at vs. learn to do it yourself?
Is it binary? Is it not? Where is the golden inbetween? I would love to know people’s thoughts and experiences, particularly in this personally venturing through new domains. Eg a programmer learning design or vise versa.
Never really recovered, did you see the recent article on the coverup over fiesta and focus transmissions at ford. Shit like this is why I don’t buy “American” (Mexican) cars
This is effectively true, baseline it is indistinguishable from a "real" person, questioning the security model of openness and potential for mass social engineering. There is a reason why the hurdle of overcoming scaling the creation of a "real" phone number is difficult.
Yes, dealing with tax offices, insurances or similar always takes the longest for us. We can reimburse customers with a few clicks, it takes banks and credit card companies 5-10 days until the customer has the money on their account. Rarely we have to wait for a new server to get installed (physically put into a rack) 2-3 days.
“I Screwed Up – Don't Fall for This Facebook Scam ”
It seems to me this is another case of government interference causing vast increases in cost, especially the caretaker to child ratio: 1:3 = $15,000 1:5 = $5,000. And what does the author advocate? More government meddling! Higher standards! Good intention policies with bad economic outcomes / unintended consequences needs to stop. Yes we know if every child had 1:1 care from someone with a Ivy league child psych degree we would all be better off. Unfortunately that's not the society we can afford even in the affluent west. Save it for the elite who have the cash to burn. Don't force lower income folk into your preferred world view. You cripple them economically and then cry for more intervention because you crippled them. Sure, its one thing to enforce safety standards, its another thing entirely to enforce that every 3 children has a surrogate "parent" of the highest standard. Imagine if they imposed this ratio on grade school education. And no I'm not saying 1:100 is fine. Obviously not. But I knew people who watched 1:10 kids growing up in their own home, a mix of low income and middle class. While not ideal they all lived normal lives and everything turned out just fine for those children in the end.
Exactly! As a site administrator I've received much abuse from users who have used a "service" such as this. Upon doing my job and legally verifying they own the data, I've frequently been subjected to a torrent of abuse and legal threats - companies such as this foster a belief that you can just enter your details, press go and that's he end of the matter.
White House Veterans Helped Gulf Monarchy Build Secret Surveillance Unit
[Just to be 100% clear, I'm not Skallagrim. I'm just a viewer of his channel.]
The "left-wing" media? Who is that exactly?
You have to send the request from an email and if you send it from an unrecognized one they'll probably ignore it, have grounds to do so or will ask you for more information in a follow-up email.
I'm not referring to GCam clone. I'm asking can't someone build this commercially? Like an app company that does computational photography apps for each kind of camera sensor?
What would be far more helpful is to just turn off screens that the person hasn't interacted with. I've been on too many late night flights where the screens for empty seats, or for people who are staring at their iPad have made it really hard to sleep(eye masks are uncomfortable for me). I've even seen people actively trying to sleep with the full brightness screen right in front of them because it's not obvious at all how to turn them off(usually you have to find the brightness menu and press the down button a dozen times).
Alternatively, you could use Bazel[1], and automatically generate most of your build rules with Gazelle[2].

This would allow you to extend your build system beyond what's available via "go build", while avoiding the well-known pitfalls of Makefiles (config complexity, reproducibility, etc.)

[1] https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go

[2] https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-gazelle
"there were other times when my PR was outright rejected as it did not meet the required standards"

Are these standards published? If not then how are you expected to meet "required standards" that are not published? If so then why are you not reviewing your code yourself prior to the PR? Is training and/or mentorship provided for you to come up to speed with the required standards? Something seems off about this situation.
Facebook Tells Barr It Won’t Open Up Encrypted Messages
> Humans create audience segments

Eventually there will be machine learning models involved (maybe there are already? I don't know ads.) Those models might move closer to "perfect targeting" where advertisers could compete less over certain users.

And no matter the incentives of the data providers, "increase customer value" is probably always a Nash equilibrium. If better targeting leads to less revenue, eventually you'll probably do it anyway.
The Pixel 4 also has a custom chip just for image processing which other phones do not, so you can't just port the code over to other phones.
Understanding Software Licenses
Ask HN: What's something you were told that changed how you think/see the world
It depends on the organization but I see it a lot in consultancies; as consultants build client-facing skills alongside their technical knowledge they often move into leadership roles.

In the corporate world, I've seen both. However, the better managers that I've worked for have had recent engineering experience or at least can follow a technical discussion.
Are Lodash and Underscore still relevant in 2019?
Laura Kuenssberg is effectively the conservative party's minister of propaganda and media advisor to Johnson at this point. The very article you have linked to includes this sentence:

> The story, and the prime minister's weird and wooden response to it, provided the perfect chance for Labour to punch at one of the Conservatives' vulnerabilities

...designed purely to game search for the word "punch" after she publicly, falsely accused protestors of punching an advisor to Matt Hancock because senior Tories told her to. And even when provided with video evidence that this never happened, she wrote "doesn’t look like punch thrown" [1] rather than the true, factual sentence "no punch was thrown".

[1] https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1204091610843226112
Did you even go to the site? It just creates a form email that you send with your own email program.
Those are just Socialism scouts, paving the way for the day when everyone forcibly shares everything.
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No, we won’t. (Even if singular “they” becomes ubiquitous, which is by no means guaranteed).

You was once exclusively plural. It is now usually singular, but we still use plural verb forms with it (“you are”, etc.). Conversely with on in French, which was once exclusively singular but now means “we” in colloquial speech yet still takes singular verb forms (“on est français” = “we are French”. “il est français” = “he is French”.)
Finally, we are retiring the "he" and "she" pronouns, words that arose over centuries within male-dominated cultural, literary, academic and religious landscapes helping to imbue physical sex with brutal economic purpose. We're ready to all be "they" because the primary identities of today are humans (neighbors, workers, believers) and we're ready to retire gender roles and move on to treat sexual dimorphism as something only a peg more significant to someone's sense of self than handedness!

...right? That must be in the article somewhere, I might have skipped over a few sentences.
Exactly. While it's entirely possible and likely that some nature is involved, far too often that's taken as an excuse to actively exclude or discourage women in certain jobs, and that does make it patriarchal action holding women back. IF we can get rid of that and allow people to freely choose without getting judged by their gender (or ethnicity for that matter) on the way, and then it turns out people have different preferences, and that's totally fine. But we're not there yet.
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How reading has changed in the 2010s
You can completely disable Siri or whatever your device's equivalent is. The entire purpose of Alexa is to be listening all the time. They're not equivalent.
What Your Email Signature Says About You
Careful, you'll get labeled and ridiculed, or worse.
Again, market cap _is_ price per share multiplied by shares outstanding.

In practice, the amount of cash a company has has nothing to do with its market capitalization. There are companies with low cash, major debt, and sky high valuations. Stocks are supposed to be valued by discounted cash flows, but that doesn’t mean they are, by any means. The future values of companies are highly subjective.

Technically, cash doesn’t factor into future cash flows so much as it does book or liquidation value.

> This is why people are skeptical of most things crypto... it really seems like there's hardly anyone in the community who understand fundamental financial concepts.

I would argue one reason people are skeptical (annoyed is probably a better word) of crypto because it is full of folks who purport to know fundamental and even advanced financial concepts who are actually deluding themselves.
The very idea of O(n*(n!)^n) is going to give me nightmares.
I’d think the Uber version would be your neighbor coming around to do your laundry.
It's sad that you didn't even bother to try the service, or read the instructions, before posting this comment. All the service does in generate an email which opens up in your local email client. You then send the email on your own. If the company needs any further information they can (and legally have to) reply to your email. We are not a side to this exchange.
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I think the story implies that the attacker didn't survive, since it doesn't say anything about him being sentenced.

It was the attacker's cousin (who enlisted him to to perform the attack) that was sentenced.

Edit: a comment below mentions that the attacker indeed survived and was sentenced to 20 years: https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/public-safety/cedar-...

It's weird that the Department of Justice's article doesn't mention that...
So the pixel 4 gcam port already works pretty ok on many phones.

The image processing speeds up the processing - I admit to it. But we have the 855 flagships which are probably a few seconds behind. This is ok with us.

I'm asking if anyone can hit the quality even given 5x more processing time .
Democrats unveil two articles of impeachment against Trump
There are already cameras in some seatback systems although airlines have denied using them.

https://www.flyertalk.com/articles/seatback-cameras-designed...
Show HN: AnyDateTime tray app that provides everything you need about date-time
So a union's purpose is to stop any human progress because it might temporarily inconvenience a subset of the population?

I am told a switch to green energy is necessary to save the climate. Shipping containers enabled affordable products to be sold globally which has improved the standard of living for many. Should we ban modern modes of transport so all the horse drawn carriage factory employees can get their jobs back?
I’ve seen the exact opposite in some companies. Great technical people who have no business managing, suddenly becoming a manager. It goes like this: Person X is much better performing than the average bear. Company wants to reward Person X, but he or she is already at the max level for a technical individual contributor: “Senior Software Engineer” which is one level above entry level “Software Engineer”. Since the company has no career growth for techies past Senior Software Engineer, they say “OK We are going to reward you for doing such a good job: you are now knighted as a manager.” They bob the sword up and down. “Now go off and do this entirely different thing than you’ve been doing!” Unsurprisingly, a lot of these new managers aren’t really great at managing.

I’ve had sw team managers open up to me and admit they didn’t want to be managing at all and hate it but that’s the only way to advance in your career so they do it. I’ve also seen mediocre engineers who have great personal and presentation skills (or potential) languish as “3rd engineer from the left” because they weren’t Wizard enough to be promoted to management. There’s a huge skill/function mismatch.
Researchers report breakthrough in 'distributed deep learning'
Space-Based Solar Power
I haven't looked in Chicago since 2004, and I'm unlikely to try again until 2024. There's more to moving than just the job.

Your post came across as vaguely insulting. A company that maxes out under my minimum isn't looking for someone with a higher level of skill--or even a median level of skill. A lot of these companies ask for the Moon, and want to pay for river rocks, then don't list salary range in their advertisements. If I can't weed them out quickly, they will waste more of my time than I care to give up.

It's not about securing an offer, it's about finding a company that isn't both tight-fisted and greedy. Now that I have left already, why would I expend the extra effort to find a Midwestern-based job that pays well, when other regions are falling over themselves to make even new graduates rich?

Midwestern companies can only attract local talent, and that talent is fleeing to cities that don't pay peanuts. I would move back, if companies there could raise the average pay of their tech employees, and maybe also get a bit more sun during the winter.
And when you distribute the project, how do you „document” all possible build / packaging / release / test options. Shell script? Readme?

I look at things like Jaeger and all I see is a Makefile with all possible operations for that project neatly placed in a single portable, actionable format. If I have no make, sure, I’ll copy paste the command and run manually. But why would I?

edit: spelling
Please let me know if I’m mistaken but it seems that, disappointingly, there is no measure of the quality of players, especially considering that the game referenced is a fan-made clone of the physical game. There’s no ladder, MMR, ELO, ec.

So, of course someone who’s played the game 100,000 or even 10 times is likely to beat someone who’s only just played maybe a handful of games. That’s not a bold - or arguably fair-claim to have beaten a majority of players if those players are all brand new —or a minority of those are veterans— which I suspect is likely given the nature of web based games.
Or have any friends that want to buy one. I have one friend who's pretty in to home automation. Fortunately he doesn't host get togethers very often, but I've seriously considered declining invitations before because I don't want to be in a house with all that crap in it.
Student Loans a Lot Like the Subprime Mortgage Debacle, Watchdog Says
It wasn't "always they." It's perhaps been more common in informal speech than formal writing until recently. But traditional usage would have been to use he if gender was unknown (unless it were assumed it was a woman for some reason).
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If they followed your rationale, they would need to translate the contents to around 130 languages.
Who cares, really? I use Makefiles for everything from eliminating 8284738 random bash scripts to orchestrating global infrastructure deployments with Terraform in a docker container.

None of my above fits your “correct” view of make. But it works fine and has for years.
> "we refuse to work on technology that will objectively make you (the layman's) life worse".

I could get behind this reason for unionizing.