skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And then you have a company that wants to keep salaries secret, so they don't have to keep hiring a new person to maintain their internal CRUD app every every 6 months.
I didn't realise the BJP IT cell monitors hacker news! If I was Amit Shah, I'd give you raise. But I have a moral compass, so I could never be an Amit Shah. Whew!

You have to consider CAA+NRC (National register for citizens). You have to consider both. We are the only country that is saying that your residency is under suspicion unless proven otherwise. Let that sink in for just a moment.

CAA/NRC affects the poorest people -- think of the tens of millions of migrant land labourers or unlettered widows and unmarried women for a start -- who do not have documents. There are 1.9 million in Assam alone who find themselves unable to prove they belong. Embarassingly for this unembarassable govt, a large majority of the excluded are Hindus (!). If they cannot submit proof of residence, they will be put in detention camps. The non-Muslims (mostly Hindus) will be reabsorbed; I don't know how. How will they identify the muslim? The males could pull down their pants, I presume. Sigh.

So the Muslims -- that comprise a huge fraction of the remaining mass -- will either be detained or deported, regardless of whether they have lived here all their lives or not. The family of an ex-President of India couldn't find their names on the acceptable list. We can't even keep electoral rolls stable; every time there's an election, someone or the other from my family is missing from the list.

But they can't be deported, because no country will take them. The best we can hope is that there will be reverse migration since Bangladesh has dramatically improved its health stats and sanitation.

The upshot is that we are going to be enslaving large numbers of Muslims in detention centres. The people building these centres will likely be the first 'clients'. You can put up all the links you want about persecution of Hindus and I agree that they should be given a fair hearing. But your defence is classic whataboutery. "They did it to us". BJP has become militantly anti-muslim. This is not the only example.

> If you change the context by replacing "India" with "USA", act will transform into giving shelter to persecuted people in Latin America.

BULLSHIT. CAA is like giving shelter to "non-latinos". Rohingya muslims in Mynamar, Ahmadiyas from Pak, Saudi teen girls escaping their families hold on them, atheists in Iran, they have all been banned from consideration. Don't speak of tolerance.

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What interests me is what happens if my name is not on the NRC? What are they going to be able to do? Are they going to ask me for my newly minted internal passport every time I admit my kid to school, or go to the hospital or shop or open an account? Is this going to be the new Aadhar card?

They never thought this through at all, did they?
Social media is a straight jacket. You can say anything you want but no one cares what someone in a straight jacket has to say because you can't actually do anything.
These people need to be made to watch Pet Semetary until they figure out why their prayers are better off unanswered.
This looks like rr or GDB reverse debugging but for Java.
A lot has changed in the 7 years since that was written.

Polling isn't a huge issue to begin with, and is mitigated with LISTEN/NOTIFY (on certain DBs). Inserts with indexes are not a performance problem at the scale of most applications. A separate messaging service won't prevent you from building a "hugely coupled monster".

Personally, I almost always start with the database as a queue. The operational overhead of running, updating, and monitoring another entire service is non trivial. If the messaging rate exceeds the database's capabilities in the future, I'll migrate then.
What’s next for Facebook’s Libra? It may have little to do with the coin
Why Lethal Weapon Is a Better Christmas Movie Than Die Hard (2017)
I thought this was going to be NY 301 - Cold Spring to Carmel.

A route that is annoyingly popular with motorcycles in the summer for it's high speed limit (55 MPH) and dozens of turns.

Its also quite breath taking in winter when the lakes all freeze over. There are loads of hiking trails, and I found the other day while driving to work something I never noticed before... a cave entrance [1].

1: https://goo.gl/maps/qFEQv9Fms5j83gYJ6
You are right. I am quite sure they will add support for PG as well but at the moment proxies are only for MySQL.
ELI5 Keyless Trading
Hopefully never. Nazi Germany was a democracy. They cancelled the elections during the war - but then, so did the British.

I think it's good to be aware of how sick a democracy can get. Anti-Semitism was very popular in Germany. Islamophobia is very popular in India. You can't just blame it on a few evil strongmen. Sometimes, it's the culture that's at fault.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21833718
The core reason futures exist is to allow you to maintain more stable pricing of the products you sell, in the face of price instability in the products you buy. Let’s say you’re Pizza Hut and you want to run a Super Bowl ad advertising $5 pizzas for a month. But then a tomato sauce recipe goes viral in China and the price of tomatoes goes up 2x. Now your promotion might be costing you a lot more than you had planned.

With futures you can buy the tomatoes today, to be delivered later, the farmer can get his money now and you van lock in your price now, insulated against increases in prices (with the farmer insulated against decreases).
Food waste is my criticism as well. Two tablespoons of black beans? Two sticks of celery? And then do what with the rest?
I wonder how they are able to trace and capture variable and stack state at a rate of 20M invocations — per second!?

How is this possible on the JVM?

(I’m aware of the instrumentation API that profilers use but I thought they had to do sampling to limit interference with program performance and they are not capturing all the data req’d for debugging either.)

Anyone know?
> The reason for that, the researchers found, is that in these mice [with certain genes missing and whose mother didn't have inflammation while pregnant], inflammation did not stimulate IL-17a production.

What I wonder if baseline mice produce IL-17a in response to inflammation?

My guess would be no. I would also wonder if some low to moderate infection in mothers can spare the offspring from autism, but still prime IL production?
Yeah. It'd be a really bad time for them to misplace a parachute pin again.

https://spacenews.com/missing-pin-blamed-for-boeing-pad-abor...
I can’t speak for the parent poster, but, yes, back in the Myspace days, end users would do really tasteless CSS like Comic Sans or an italic font everywhere. Back then, I told my browser “I don’t care what font they tell you to use, just render it with Verdana”.

These days, people either use their social network’s unchangeable CSS, or they use a Wordpress theme with an attractive and perfectly readable font. Even Merriweather, which I personally don’t care for, is easy enough to read.

The only time I have seen a page use obnoxious fonts in the 2010s is when the LibreSSL webpage used Comic Sans as a joke to highlight that the project could use more money:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140422115234/http://www.libres...

Edit It may be a case that the parent poster likes using a delta hinted font, either Verdana or Georgia, on a low resolution monitor, and doesn’t like the blurry look of an anti-aliased font on a 75dpi screen.
Precisely.
When you can manufacture dirt cheap, steal the innovation of others, then work your white collar to the bone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system). It is not surprising they can afford to undercut competitors and dump goods onto the market.
I don't think it's that crazy actually. In some far future scenario one could see Boeing going into bankruptcy protection (a lot would need to happen to get to that point), after which the healthy parts like the defense related divisions could be spun off into a new company.

I don't think it's likely, but it doesn't seem impossible.
That the government wasn't comfortable doing that with the banks in 2008 makes me skeptical they'd permit it to happen with Boeing.
This is the exact experience I have as an iPhone user using Android. Perhaps a difference in requirements and expectations.
Yeah. In the dialup days, layer 1 and 2 of a home internet connection was a long-running phone call between your own modem and a modem of an ISP. You payed via your phone bill, for the duration of the call.
Do you think that future world where nobody knows anything will be better than the current world?
Podcasts. Turns my commute from something I hate that stresses me out, into something I look forward to that puts me in the right mood.
Do you say “Merry Christmas”, “Happy Holidays”, or just “Happy New Year”? Is there a “safe” greeting this time of year?
I would hope that Apple is not depending on the review process to keep the platform secure instead of depending on the security of the operating system.

If Apple does find that the app breaches its security process during a review, they should treat it as any other security vulnerability and fix the problem.
Charityware – Doing Good with Proceeds from Software Purchases
They say when having fever, the mice communicate with peers better. When children are under the weather, they don't seem to communicate better.
What would give you that impression?
Author here -- would be happy to answer questions and discuss.
Nice, I learned about a couple new things. I take it these can all be implemented with the lock/semaphore primitives?
How else would you use peanut butter? Cookies? Chocolates?
If it’s official, shouldn’t this point to apple.com?
If someone else would be interested in writing a great resume, these tips helped me: https://nategibson.net/how-to-write-a-great-cv-a-checklist-f...
It's a pity that they don't tell users that they have interacted with a spam account. Would it be helpful for you to know that you inadvertently shared propaganda?
The Decade in Fame
The terminals are popular, but having worked with some of the staff at Bloomberg to get MIFID related changes implemented, they didn't impress me at all.
However, it also means that binary incompatible changes to the standard library will have to wait until later in the Scala 3.x series

I doubt anyone was looking forward to their code breaking.
> The researchers began by studying mice that exhibited behavioral symptoms due to exposure to inflammation during gestation. They injected these mice with a bacterial component called LPS, which induces a fever response, and found that the animals’ social interactions were temporarily restored to normal.

So if you get your kid sick enough you can temporarily pretend they aren't autistic, and really put to the test the idea that anti-vaxxers think autism is worse than being deathly ill?
The Guardian released far more than what was illegal. Again, if Snowden went to the newspaper with just the one illegal US program that he uncovered, he would have been OK. Instead, he immediately leaked to China a list of compromised Chinese systems, among thousands of other documents he leaked through Greenwald that didn't contain anything illegal.
A software engineering position at Uber in SF seems to be something of value to most people on HN. I know someone who quit that position to focus on her Instagram career. She was not a mode or anything, one day she just announced she's turned vegan and voila, she was an influencer. Now she owns a house in West Hollywood. All within 8-10 months.
The page needs an editor, stat. The grammar is _not good_. I'd be happy to do it to be fair, doesn't seem that big a job.
Here's the official page: https://developer.apple.com/security-bounty/
There is no "kernel of an argument" there either. Your quote is very obviously talking about history, not about state secrets.
To save anyone a few clicks/taps:

https://developer.apple.com/security-bounty/
More options are better than just NASA. SpaceX, Boeing, Blue Origin maybe in the future.

It'll be good for space travel and the space economy.
Seeing it listed like that, it's easy to spot where it appears in Boeing's current financial statements (https://investors.boeing.com/investors/financial-reports/def...). From 2019Q3-10Q, the 787 'inventory' asset includes about $20b in deferred production expensing (plus $2.2b in tooling), and the 737MAX inventory contains $1.5b in deferred production and $0.5b in tooling.

Combined, that represents a significant fraction of Boeing's $132b in total (gross) assets.
The actual archive is here: https://transparency.twitter.com/en/information-operations.h... and the data added today was about 5,929 accounts from/by? Saudi Arabia and 1.3Tb of media they uploaded
Vertex: A New Game
Could you please write these concerns to my email alex [at] fellowage [dot] io?

I’ve used best industry practices for such web apps, and I’m curious what do you think these concerns are!
The downside is, since it’s a browser extension, it has access to anything you have access to.
HN is the last one that I haven't dropped, but that's because this site doesn't seem to have a "delete account" option. It's like the Hotel California. You can logout, but you can never leave.

The only way out is to get banned.
I absolutely love this game and I seriously always enjoy a good break down of game design (especially of awesome games like Enter the Gungeon). Some of the best design happens in the background and when combined with engaging game play, makes the whole process seamless.
It is exactly as exciting as anyone would find a ChatOps Slack channel. Maybe less so.
Certainly - there's no reason that system would've been pressurized while in orbit. That won't have prevented NASA from getting mental images of the ISS blowing up, though, and it would still have been a concern for crewed launches where the abort system would have been pressurized; it's good they redesigned to prevent the possibility at all.
If vaccination of the child could prevent some baseline level of IL-17a from developing (in offsprings who already suffered the brain degradation in the womb), it could be interesting.

They should look for children who had the risk factor (infected mother) but didn't turn autistic to see if they have the levels elevated. Long shot.
LinkedIn is used only to verify your information (current job title, company name and location).

Then the password requirements are strong because it is used for encryption of your critical private data in the system. The same reason is why you need to login with your account ID (email) and password.
The film “Ingrid Goes West” captures the inverse, dark reality of this phenomenon very well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_Goes_West
The issue seems to be the webp format. I was also not seeing images on an old firefox version. You should use a picture element, so that you can provide working fallbacks.
No one cares what you say eh?
Try posting something controversial and see how that works out for you.
I'm not a fan of the title, which is rather clickbaity. The author addresses that in the article near the bottom.

> To be fair, I have absolutely no clue what the $86M figure includes — nor can I speak to the accuracy of my open source tool with no localized training vs. the pilot BlueNet system.

While I have no doubt that the author's solution is a cleaner approach more suited to real government than the cronyism probably involved in that 86M figure, sensationalizing the difference doesn't help FOSS government advocates. 57 lines of code also doesn't include the libraries involved, so I feel like this is just meant to grab attention. It's pretty rad, but the way it's presented doesn't lend itself to credibility and adoption.
Failures in new spacecraft are pretty much expected and already priced in by investors.
android debugging to start in late 2018...

is there any progress on this project (bugjail in general I mean, not android)
That’s interesting, I’ve never done the math myself but I’ve seen it mentioned in many places that those are the two most densely populated countries in the world. Maybe they are only looking at the density in urban areas and excluding agricultural areas?
Hedging is extremely odd in that while it is thought of as a way to lock in 'certainty' on the price of something, it really is just another way of gambling on a price.

In the case of airlines, they are effectively 'short' oil, in that they profit if the price of oil falls, and lose if the price rises. So the usual story is that it makes sense to hedge their oil costs. They can do this in three main ways:

1) Buy oil forward. They get to lock in the price of oil at a future time. If oil prices rise, they win. But if oil prices fall, they lose out, since competitors can now buy oil more cheaply.

2) Buy a call option on oil. They get the right to buy oil at a fixed price at a future time. If oil prices rise, they can exercise the option, and win. If oil prices fall, they can just take the cheaper price => another win. But the option itself has a cost, so if oil prices don't change much, they lose out since they had to eat the cost of buying the option.

3) Sell a put option on oil. This is the airline being paid by someone for the option to sell them oil at a fixed price at a future time. In this case, the airline wins if oil prices don't move too much in any direction (since they get paid for the put option). If oil falls in price, they will have to buy it at the higher price => they lose. If the oil price rises, they also lose since the costs have risen.

Yet, in all cases, after hedging, the airline will still either win or lose depending upon the change in oil price. No certainty has been gained.

The choice whether to hedge or not is really down to game theory. What matters is not just whether/how your airline hedges, but what your competitors do.
Give enough money and they will mark US as Zimbabwe. It is a corporation that exists to make money for shareholders, duh.

What are you worrying in particular anyways? Do you really think that Apple installing the mandated apps or refusing to do so is going to sway Russian lawmakers. I do not think they give a hoot. Neither Apple marking Crimea as Russian will affect what Merkel, Macron, US senate will do about Russia. On that scale of things the Apple is big nothing.
Do you want to allow “Приложение бэкдор ФСБ” to access your location?
Fake and dangerous kids products are turning up for sale on Amazon
Good question. I think of it as being equivalent to marking an email “high priority”. In my experience brokers would sometimes use it to call attention to a time-sensitive issue, eg confirming details for a trade settling today. Always thought it was annoying and if they had something really urgent they should just pick up the phone, but that’s just me.
The entire site is paywalled, but they unlock some articles specifically for HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21839936
Yes, the demo doesn’t have a separate domain setup. Is there a particular issue you see with this? Please tell me if so!
I wouldn't say just post 1970s, but this is why we have a political system based on two sides locked in contention instead of a monarchy or a single ruling party.

The only point I would attack is "the rich get richer, the poor get poorer". The lowest poverty rate in the US was 1989, but it's still tremendously low. Likewise, the lifestyle between your favorite rich celebrity and a middle class family is not as dramatic as it was in like 1850.
My question is this.

In one scenario the world doesn't change, only my perception of it which then means I am/ I feel alienated.

But in the other scenario, my perception of the world is clear, its just the world has changed which has then shaped my perception of it. This means that the world became worse place.

Both scenarios result in an increased alienation index.

And there are an infinite number of in-between scenarios.

How do we know for sure which scenario we are in?
Just imagine if those iBoot exploits were all reported for cash to Apple. Essentially we get less freedom from our devices to do whatever with them.

Apple's bug bounty announcement is just a response to tighten up their walled garden. You'd think that macOS will be as limited as a desktop `OS like iOS and iPadOS is.

I admired the pirate vs navy culture Apple had in the past, but now they are neither and now become an IBM reincarnation. Just like old times...
25.173.a requires the aircraft to meet this section at speeds as low as the minimum speed for steady unstalled flight.

25.173.c requires the stick force curve to have a stable and minimum slope of 1 lbf/6 knots.

At high angles of attack (low speeds), the stick force reduces slightly as compared to lower angles of attack (higher speeds). This requires a negative slope at a point on the stick force curve, violating both the minimum slope and the stable slope requirement of 25.173. (indirect source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-boeings-737-max-failed-1155... ). They couch it as "pushes the nose up" (though the image cited is dual sourced to Boeing and a WSJ graphics author, so I'll wager that "pushes the nose up" is WSJ content rather than Boeing content).
Medium blog post from 2017, could we add the year to the title please?
yeah I watched that when it came out in 2017, I thought in the end the influencer was depicted as a good person who's earned her status, no?
I guess you could do something like (couldn’t get Xcode’s clang to compile this, so it probably is buggy)

static unsigned int __deferDepth = 0;

#define RETURN return
#define return ((__deferDepth == 0) ? RETURN : break do_return)

#define DEFER(EXPR) \
__label__ do_return; \
for(int _tmp = 1; _tmp; _tmp = (do { \
__deferDepth += 1; \
EXPR; \
__deferDepth -= 1; \
break; \
do_return: \
RETURN; \
}while(0);))

Nested DEFERs could get hairy, though (do you need a stack of __returnNotBreak values?), and there probably are issues if EXPR contains some nested loops with break or return.

Regardless, this isn’t C. Statement expressions (and __label_) are a gcc* extension, and if you’re willing to go there, __attribute__((cleanup)) seems the wiser route.
Dear downvoters, please also let us know what you think about it.
Having worked for a traffic enforcement company. It is actually more than what meets the eye. ANPR and hardware is probably 5% of the actual infrastructure. Rest of it is generally a pipeline that most of time has to be retrofitted with their existing infrastructure. Lot of the cost into project management and aligning the spec understanding. So when someone says a project is worth $86 million it is not just the hardware and anpr but the whole pipeline integrated with various complicated government workflows, assuring SLO and various other guarantees
> Remember the leak as a whole was essentially that the US ( and it's allies ) were hoovering everything up it could - phone and data, via any means necessary - often illegal means, just in case it was useful, with no respect for either national or international law.

No international law covers state data collection, and none of the leaks said the US hoovered up everything it could. The only illegal US program in the leaks was phone metadata collection. It seems you are remembering documents that don't exist.

> so you are saying about 9-10 docs contained illegal stuff?

I said fewer.
"I want bunny I want it bunny! I WANT IIIIIIT!" [gets bunny, immediately hurls it across room] "I don't like it I don't want it! I don't like bunny waaaah!" [3 seconds pass] "I want bunny!"

My daughter, every time she has a cold, which since daycare is almost always.
I agree that a lot of projects are too expensive but this is a little silly. There is more to a public project besides nailing together a few lines of code. You need documentation, maintenance, user training and lot of other stuff. The actual tech is usually the easy part.