skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The nice thing about those kinds of bozos is it helps you filter out other adjacent bozos as well. Anybody who thinks said bozos are on the right track can immediately go into your "yeah, they don't know what they are talking about" bucket.

That being said, I took a picture of the two whiteboards after this dude filled it up with their god-like wisdom. It was truly a marvel of ungrounded architecture.
They are having data about themselves collected without their consent. That is the harm.
Reading between the lines, it seems like they're probably unable to compete with the VC-subsidized prices of the big mobility providers in the US (uber/lyft/lime/bird, etc.). The "infrastructure" comment is a bit weird since they mention mobility competitors again.
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Besides this particular case, I wonder which other FISA applications were manipulated with exaggerated or fabricated evidence? FISA court is known for rubber-stamping applications, they approve at like a 90% rate thousands of requests to spy on citizens.

Process changes are necessary but only criminal charges are gonna deter future abuse. How is the court supposed to know an email or a 302 was doctored? Process change can't fix that.
> And if you are using DNS as parental controls, that's not a great solution as nothing stops someone from getting the IPs out of band

You are assuming a rather narrow use case for "parental controls". For many people it is less about draconian control and more about not wanting someone (whether a child or the individual themselves) from accidentally stumbling on porn or other unwanted content.
Phase 2 of Scaling a Marketplace: Maintaining Quality
I encourage more writing.
Oh, I've fallen into this trap - not the technical debt so much as the getting so focused on building something cool that I ignore the business side of things (small things, such as, does anyone want this thing?). So in the end I wind up with something only I think is cool :)

On the upside, my last failed SaaS product was at least partly responsible in landing me my current job. At the time of my interview I had not yet fully given up on it. I mentioned it (the failing SaaS) because I had learned a few relevant technologies while building it.

One of the engineers interviewing me pulled it up on his laptop and said, "Show it to us." So most of the interview turned into a combination demo/technical discussion of the project. They ended up skipping the whiteboard/coding portion of the interview (which is good because I suck at those), and I ended up with a (very good) job offer. The job itself has turned out pretty good so far, too.

So, I've got that going for me, which is nice.
Streaming Anxiety
Well since I very much enjoy the first half of SICP I like that I can look at problems I have some familiarity with in a language I use day to day.

Anyway, how did you like the Pacino remake of Pippi Longstocking?
Two words: Cambridge Analytica.
Good? That's harder to answer. Not terrible? Java, C, Python, C#, Swift, Go...
Correct me if I am wrong but most of the references on that page are very old
Right, network effects are also moat.
Politics are relative. There are also far more than two neat little dimensions on which to analyze political orientation. The 2 principle component vectors of progressive/conservative beliefs between, say, UK and US are not aligned if one reduces the political spheres to 2 space.

People really need to stop thinking inside of 2 little boxes, RvsD or progressive vs conservative. This reductionist thinking is really bad for society.
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I'm not making any claim about what is "normative" in the sense of being somehow "legal" vs. "not legal" for Constitutions. I'm just curious what the actual application of the Dutch Constitution is.
Pluto is ok, except the quality stinks, and at least on my ISP, stutters on every streaming device in my house.
Literally Douglas Crockford made a second career out of believing this.
Share Now (DriveNow) also leaving UK market.

https://www.drive-now.com/gb/en/now/important-update
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Some of the comments here make it sound like these things are going off all the time, so I looked up the stats [1]. Here are some highlights from the 2018 and 2017 stats. They seem to be fairly typical years.

In 2018, there were 161 Amber Alerts. 112 of those were state-wide and 49 were regional. 155 resulted in a recovery, 28 of which were as a direct result of the Amber Alert.

There were 37 states that had alerts. The most were Texas (23), Ohio (15), and California (11).

2017 had 195 alerts, 154 state-wide, 40 regional, and 1 local. 193 resulted in a recovery, 39 as a direct result of the Amber Alert.

The top 3 states were Texas (26), California (19), and Georgia (14).

[1] https://amberalert.ojp.gov/statistics
I consider myself young, but I've been around long enough to to rely on One True Service Provider for anything.

And "Let's Encrypt" is not an answer to "HTTPS is not free". It's not. We all are going to see our projects outlive Let's Encrypt (or their free tier).

In the end, nothing is secure. A dedicated attacker will find a way, given enough resources. Any security measure is just a deterrent.

My deterrent is that it's not worth MITM'ing my personal website with, like, 10 monthly visitors. (The reader might gasp that I lock my bicycle with a chain that can be snapped in a second, and that a strong enough human can probably bash my home door in).

Anyway. It's almost 2020, and if you are still advocating on moving the entirety of the Web to reliance on Big Centrally Good Guys, I really don't know what else to say to you.
The majority of AMZN's tech employees (ie. average SDE) know they are not elite and often talk about how they consider themselves failures for not being getting into better paying companies.
I can’t speak to better, but the first is unmodified user agent and the second is spoofing mobile Chrome’s.
I only wish this is how we would treat every case for a warrant. But it is not [1].

For us regular folk, this is Franks v. Delaware. To be “material,” a lie or omission has to change the result. So, if the omitted information were added, or the lie deleted, the remainder of the information has to be insufficient to get the warrant. The problem is that the standard (usually probable cause) is so easy to meet that it can be met even with the lie deleted, or omitted information included. So it’s rare for even a blatant lie or deceitful omission to be material, and thus overturn the warrant.

If, on the other hand, you lie to the government...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franks_v._Delaware
This is a foolish argument. 1. Vaping is at the stage where it can be controlled, whereas alcohol is beyond that point. Public health is not best served by a logically coherent approach where every product is treated fairly. 2. Alcohol will not burn your lungs and kill you in a few days at recommended usage levels, whereas vaping random juice apparently will.
It's different if you live in the Beltway, attend the same cocktail parties as the federal judge you're lying to, and have children who attend the same private schools.
I like to use Portfolio Visualizer for that sort of thing:

https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/monte-carlo-simulation
https://xkcd.com/1428/
This situation is different because a SIP protected file attribute is set on the dragged file. There is no UI to manage this behavior and it persists forever, unless SIP is disabled.

As other commentators have noted, it reeks of last-minute-workaround to close what would otherwise be a high priority UI bug for the permissions dialogs.
I find sleep changes really noticeable, so so everyone else. Dreams become very vivid for couple of days to a point of discomfort.

When you smoke i never dream. When you stop body overcompensates.
HN seems to be obsessed with paywalls.
Smoking all day long is more common than some people think. How much are we talking? Used correctly this theoretically shouldn't be a big deal and almost exactly the same as dry bud. You just take one drag instead of needing to smoke a whole bowl.

If they're doing this a couple times during the day, then hitting it harder in the evening, it should be no big deal. Of course, there may be consequences to being stoned constantly, but that's true no matter what. The load on the lungs should be pretty tame; likely better than smoking. There's definitely the potential to become more tolerant though, due to the higher concentration, though.
I have been looking at commercial VPNs for a while, and the problem with them all is that it's impossible to know which ones (if any) are trustworthy.

If you started such a service that could provide ongoing, real assurances as to trustworthiness, I would pay a premium for that. I'm not sure what that would look like, but your list is an excellent start.

I would say, though, that being open source -- while awesome -- doesn't really help in this regard, since you can't realistically prove that the code you're running on your servers is the same code that you're publishing. Signed binaries and reproducible builds don't help with this too much, I think.

But that's no different than any other service that someone else is running, so that's not a serious problem.
Not convinced he learned the lesson. I see nothing about why the product failed just a bunch of blah blah about tech stack choices which are almost 100% irrelevant for a pre PMF product.
My personal review of the year 2019
Man, this is super frustrating. These were great in Seattle - last forever on ReachNow before they were folded in to Car2Go, then Car2Go into ShareNow...

Made living here much easier for when I just needed a quick vehicle rental.
> It's absurd for any company to say they're going to attract passionate programmers, and then expect them to just roll over and give up projects that were started before they even joined at the company.

This is not necessarily "give up". You still own the code that was written before you joined the company. If it is an open source project, your code contributions after you start work will still be open source. They will just be owned by the company, so the resulting code will have some code owned by you, and some code owned by the company. If this is a healthy open source project (such as, say, e2fsprogs), it already has some code owned by Red Hat, some code owned by SuSE, some code by IBM, etc. So the fact that there will be some code written by you, but actually owned by Google, is (everyone repeat after me) No Big Deal.

Now, it's different if your "side project" is under a proprietary license, and you hope to make $$$ some day. In that case, companies like IBM, Google, VA Linux Systems, which have a "all your IP belong to us" will be problematic for you. You can choose not to work for such a company, or you can choose to try to negotiate with the company.

But for a side project which is an open source project, in general there won't be a problem. Now, if said open source project directly competes with a proprietary product sold by that company --- you had better disclose it up front during the hiring negotiations, and have a negotiation about how it should be handled. The fact of the matter is, the company doesn't have a right to your services, and you don't have a right to a job at that company. You negotiate it, just like you negotiate cash salary and equity compensation. And if you can't come to a negotiated outcome that both sides are happy with, neither side is evil; they just couldn't come to an agreement.
According to OP, the plate-spinning employees were 'let go' at the time of the acquisition - presumably a decision by the acquiring company.
Of the 10 links you list (the dbsmusings link appears twice), 5 are used to back up the claim that Arrow was “donated to the Apache Software Foundation[7] in 2016, where it has been maintained and extended since.[7][8][9][10][11]”, which doesn’t really seem like it needs that many sources.

Of the other half, one appears to be some sort of marketing blogspam, one is a paper that briefly mentions that they used Arrow, and two I can't access for various reasons. That leaves one blog post that actually discusses Arrow, and the sentence it's used as a reference for in the draft article isn't about Arrow specifically, but the tradeoffs of in-memory vs on-disk storage.

Yes, these links may be independent of the Arrow project, but I'm not convinced that they add anything of substance to the actual content of the article. Mostly it looks like they were added in an attempt to game the number of references.
apparently your take on childrens TV is wrong! i hope you are sufficiently corrected!
So your thesis is ~100 years ago was some freak historical period when countries were mostly homogeneous (compared to current day. Please don't cite e.g. Czechs and Slovaks living in the same country as diversity comparable to current day), but throughout the rest of history, diversity was much greater.

Do you have sources to back this up? And how did those countries become homogeneous, then?
What would you do in life if money was no object?
Assuming you’ve got enough money to support yourself till the end of your days and then some, how would you spend your life?

I mean after funding all the dreams you might have initially, how would your day to day look like?
How does Turing handle the instances being terminated? Does it just start again from the beginning?
Mainstream for who though? The Overton window for the United states is very different from Canada's even though they're right next to each-other. For a lot of countries, the United States democratic party is fairly far to the right.
China's electric vehicle sales now account for 5% of nationwide vehicle sales
Next you'll tell me that Wall Street companies aren't actually on Wall Street.
It’s more apparent on other things - I probably should have searched for flights or movies or something else more interactive. Firefox-as-itself doesn’t get any nice features like upcoming movie times without going into other websites, while Firefox-pretending-to-be-Chrome does.

Honestly at this point I’d like to give up on the user agent header and have everybody say they’re Chrome all the time.
I boot up true Windows 7 maybe once or twice a year. Maybe another dozen times I will boot up Windows 7 in a VirtualBox to run a particular scanner program.

I have, but never boot, Windows 8 in a tiny partition. I refuse to install Win 10.

Microsoft doesn't have much luck with my Windows usage.
You are correct: most recent one is 1989; all references are ≥30 years old.
I have not seen a piece of tech all year that would have made my life better. I wanted to put it here just so that it's visible. I think I've reached the limit of usefulness in new technology. It's all just gadgets that people play with, as far as I'm concerned. Sure I could set up a wifi repeater on the far end of the house to have better reception on the balcony... But is that necessary? My phone is not even on the wifi. Home automation, smart devices, home solutions to problems we didn't really have (smart oven).. I think it's all just noise. I have a laptop that I work from (14inch 4yo thinkpad), a monitor, a good chair (now that's important!) and a nice ergonomic keyboard. I have all I need to earn a decent living and save for an early retirement or my own business plans.

So yeah, there's that. For me, new tech became a bothersome abstraction.
>However, if they were forced to pay more taxes and therefore paid less to their employees/hired less... would us consumers really win?

Yes because it would reduce the economic power of corporations vs people.

The point of a tax system is only tangentially to provide goods and services. The main point is for it to stop the infinite accumulation of wealth at the hands of fewer and fewer people.

Capital tends to a gini coefficient of 1 when left to its own devices. Without the visible hand of government to stop that from happening the invisible hand of providence [0] reaches in and does it for us.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_bombing
Look at some apps like Clockify, Slack, Trello, Jira, Asana, all have teams, -- I really like the way clockify does workspaces, and then you clients, and projects per client. All organized nicely. This sort of model of teams/projects would probably be quite common in SaaS...think anything tagetting SMB's that need to give access to parts of the app for their employees or contractors, or use it to organize, etc...
John's reviews were at arstechnica:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/04/after-fifteen-years-...
Afaik when I write react , 100% of real(!) dom manipulation is already abstracted away.
So why wouldn’t that work with webAsm?
Hey all! Two of my friends are moving from London to Munich. So I made a small compilation of things that should make the move easier.

Just wanted to share it with you and get some feedback!

The website is open source & open for PRs, see https://github.com/markusdosch/essentialmunich
Yes, I don’t know the regulatory framework that allows it off the top of my head but they’re often called “trailer fees” in Canada. Look in the fund prospectus for disclosures relating “shareholder service fees” and “embedded commissions”. If you work with an advisor ask whether they (the advisor) receive compensation from any of the funds they recommend.
>It's a frustrating situation because intelligence agencies obviously do need to keep secrets

They have abused the power to such an extent I think it reasonable they be stripped of it. It is like taking away a person's rights to own a gun after they commit a violent crime with one. Regardless of what arguments can be made that they need one, their past abuse means the need is now completely ignored.
Yes, you'll spend some 2 days setting all services, testing, setting backups and alerts, testing again. Add another day if you want redundancy.

And then, every 4 to 8 months you'll spend some 2 hours making sure everything is working right and up to date. If you get into another user-base class (like, from 100 to 1000, or from 1000 to 10000), you will spend all those 3 days again.

Compare that with cloud services, where you'll spend a week up-front, and 2 days at random when something changes. But well, that comes with the bonus of a much higher price and a slower development speed.

There is the safety to know that you can move between user-base classes without any cost. You'll just be taken by surprise when it actually happens and you discover that those 3 days are a rounding error compared to what it costs to update your software.
Is that a literary allusion? If not, please quit your day job and make it into one :)
At my previous company, the technical interview was 2 hours long. The candidate was given a choice of about 10 very small, simple projects. Then we sat at a pairing station and paired on the problem. The candidate can use google, their favorite editor, write tests, anything they want. The goal is not to finish the project, but just code with them for 2 hours. It's the best technical assessment I've yet seen in an interview setting.

One caveat is this company really believed in pair programming, and virtually all code was created in pairs. So that's part of why this interview approach worked.
It's a global vs local problem. Globally, there's no question that the general state of things is improving. Of course, this is in general -- there are things that are getting worse globally as well.

However, in some parts of the world (such as, in my opinion, the US), things are going a bit backwards. If you live in such an area, it can be hard to see (and appreciate) the bigger picture.
It is better not to take ownership of someone else's bad decisions. At the very least, make sure that you do not become complicit in something unethical or illegal.
How do you make a note a tonic center? If any of the same seven notes can be a tonic, what makes it a tonic?
The problem is that they would have to prove that Bloomberg wasn't just incompetent, but rather malicious. It's entirely possible (and imo the most likely scenario) that Bloomberg didn't fabricate the story, but were duped.
It addresses changing the site that feeds it. It does not address changing the behavior.
We deploy the pipeline as a kubernetes job, once the build completes and posts logs/artifacts (apk) -- the job is archived and pods are evicted. So yes, starts from the beginning.
AAAh
US Workers Just Lost the Right to Organize on Company Email
Do you know why we don't turn waste plastic into lumber?
The risk is too great? What risk exactly? The risk of becoming a trillion dollar company? Does every iPhone, Galaxy Android device or new laptop have a sticker on them that says "Product may have used child labor at some point in supply chain" in big bold letters? Will these companies triumphantly announce how their product now results in only 1 child death per year instead of 2 at some big keynote product launch event? No. Maybe they'll investigate after being called out and put it in some report that barely any consumers care to read.

If you sampled 100 smartphone users on the street about cobalt procurement practices, would they be surprised by what they hear? If you tracked those 100 people, how many would change their behavior(i.e. give up their smartphone) after hearing about it?
Then the venue is opening itself to legal liability when any of the past drummers decide to sue.
Not sure if even most. Just checked our constitution.
While in most articles it doesn't order or forbid people to do specific things, there are dozens of rules and rights, which apply to .. I guess anyone in scope, many of which seem quite pointless if they only applied to the government.
One office building I worked at required scanning ID badges to access the toilets - supposedly because of an incident in the past with a male employee hanging out in the female toilets.

I never even considered them using the data from us scanning in, but I guess it's possible? You didn't have to scan out so it's not like they would get any information on duration in the bathrooms, just who entered which bathroom, and how many times.
Surely vehicles with ovens already exist. Zume is based in a region that is replete with food trucks. They're simply building a high-tech version specific for deliveries. How is that worth $375 million? And what other cuisines require such low amount of human interaction that the cooking can be automated in such a way- other types of fast food?
Curious if you come across his name while reading the NYT opinion piece on the "Lincoln Project"?
Yeah but <insert jingoistic hopeful statement about the future that completely ignores how dystopian the technology these companies build is increasingly becoming>!!!!1111eleventyomgz

"Just don't buy it hahahaha checkmate" completely ignores the fact that even though I now choose not to do business with Google, I am still many times a day forced to use their Captcha or visit sites that host their ads (which I block, btw).

Saying "we don't need that you just need not to buy it" is exactly the same situation. All we are asking for is a reasonable way to opt out - and actually opt out. These technologies are made viral by design to collect maximally valuable data from their users, and the very idea that someone might want to opt out is totally ignored.

I personally don't own any of these devices and will never allow one in my home. I feel sorry for my kids that they will grow up with all their friends talking about them and not be able to share in it - and I will explain to them why.