skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not even the options the software has given. It's the options you have awareness and recall of being given.

It's very valuable feedback to hear, "wait, it does that?" Yeah, we spend a quarter million dollars on a feature that our users don't even know exists.
What does disabling the app actually mean in this context? I don’t think it’s unreasonable if Apple is preventing them from using Apple owned toolchains / software / any signing that Apple provides.

Can they, in theory, opt out of the Apple ecosystem entirely, root the phone and develop their own software outside of Apple entirely?
Not super related to the article, but I had to get this off my chest. Suppose you use VSCode on Windows to write a Flutter app targeting the Surface Duo. In that case, you would be using a Microsoft editor running a Google SDK on a Microsoft operating system, targeting a Microsoft distribution of a Google operating system. We've not only come full circle, we've gone in loops.
Class tension has been a fact of life since the dawn of civilization. But in healthy societies, different classes are able to work together to bring about positive change. There's no reason in principle why small business owners, engineers, reporters, professors, priests, police, soldiers, teachers, and even oligarchs, shouldn't want to work together for the betterment of all. The real question, to which I didn't find an answer in the article, is why in our current society these class tensions have become so much more vicious.
All the advice, mentors, manuals, classes, meetups and lunches in the world can't replace doing. If a manual can help guide people who don't know where to begin, more power to them. Near the beginning or whenever moving, zillions of random tasks will be the most frequent critical path roadblocks. If there were a collection of best practices, best vendors and ways to save money smartly, that would be almost universally useful.
Reg: Helpdesk Software Market
Hi all

How is IT Helpdesk software market in india. Really current market product is meeting the customer requirment ?

Regard
Vijay
You got me :(. It doesn’t seem to be catching on just yet here. Going to add more features and then consider reposting after some time.
Is the data sourced from or published to OpenStreetMap? I note OSM does have ways to add individual trees:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tree
I learnt the following test for leap year early in my software engineering career from the book "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan & Ritchie (see section 2.5 Arithmetic Operators):

(year % 4 == 0 && year % 100 != 0) || year % 400 == 0

The following test also works:

year % 4 == 0 && (year % 100 != 0 || year % 400 == 0)
First US death due to novel coronavirus
It takes years to set up industries. This is not a video game other countries cant start producing in the next few months it will take time. And how willing would someone be in investing billions today that might be useful in 1-2 years but at the same time be aware that once china is full production they might not be able to compete for price/quality. Even the machines to manufacture stuff are mostly produced in china
Also, technically, Aaron didn't cofound Reddit. He founded Infogami which was later merged into Reddit.
Windows 10 telemetry is pretty scary. I used to do the Windows Insider program, but noticed that they want to collect every website you visit, which seemed a little much to me. Now every week or so Windows complains that I'm not getting insider builds anymore and asks me to reenable the telemetry. The hilarious thing is that I still am getting those builds; when my computer "blue screens" it's green and claims to be a prerelease build. Makes me wonder if they really turned off telemetry.
I had that quote on the tip of my tongue, but couldn't fully remember it.

I have the books, and original radio broadcasts, and I love the movie with Martin Freeman and Mos Def, but my all time fav is the TV series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_th...
To learn android development, I've used Google codelabs and I like them.

Here is a list of android codelabs
https://codelabs.developers.google.com/?cat=Android

You can start with android fundamentals which will give you the necessary knowledge in building a shopping list app.

https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/android-trai...

For shopping list app, you probably need a database, so you could try this code lab

https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/android-room... (Link for Java, they've a Kotlin version as well)

If you are looking for cross platform development, you may want to try out flutter.
https://flutter.dev/

There is a tutorial on using flutter on HN frontpage, I haven't tried it though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22454115
In Qoom nothing has been done. The Iraniam government refuses to take even the most basic control measures.
I have no idea how to vet Amazon reviews. Thousands of reviews, very critical negatives about the inaccuracy of the device.

I'm tempted (same maker has one for $11) but I don't know how I'd verify the accuracy
Where are all the Fancy Graphics?
When React Native started there was Appcelerator Titanium, Xamarin, and others such as Qt and Rubymotion (Ionic was popular too but it’s considered webview).

We may be in Peak React right now as adoption is at an all time high vs Angular and Vue. But tools such as Svelte and Flutter are the next thing that has a chance to be competitive.

Flutter reminds me of Vue, loved by Developers but low adoption (compared to React or Angular). At least Flutter is backed by a giant. Hopefully the adoption rate keeps increasing.
Haven’t used it myself, but a dev I really respect loves it. With better handling of null in v. 8, C# is legitimately one of he best mainstream languages.
Amazon sells reckognition which competes with clearview
Ok, so isn't it reasonable to acknowledge that society may bear real costs if towing capacities are arbitrarily reduced in US jurisdiction? People are discouraged and lose the benefit of towing which has economic value. People learn one more reason to doubt what they are officially told. Some people waste resources on bigger vehicles than they need. On the flip side, maybe fewer people have accidents from incorrect loading, going too fast, etc. But we can at least speculate that restrictive policies have consequences, which might be worse than other, less restrictive policies.
As a JS engineer with experience using react I can say that Flutter/Dart is so much easier from a development perspective then react-native. I've done a little bit of swift development as well and the ease/speed of development is comparable.

Maybe react-native is easier if you don't know react but for me it seems to keep only the worst parts of react and forcing you into using a lot of components for ui that I found to be poorly documented.
No. The FBI issues Section 702 data requests for individual users to the companies, whose lawyers manually review the requests and may dispute them before a FISC judge. Only after the company approves the request do they start sending data to the FBI's DITU. PRISM consumes the data from DITU's servers.

The system that sends new communications with the monitored individual to the FBI is definitely automated, but configuring an account to be surveilled is a manual process controlled by the company, not the FBI, and certainly not the NSA. The reason you cannot provide documents that say otherwise is that they don't exist. The reason those documents don't exist is that the program that you've described is a conspiracy theory fiction.

https://www.cnet.com/news/no-evidence-of-nsas-direct-access-...
That is NOT what I wanted to say. I wanted to say that sometimes, lack of explicit discolosure can be (IMO) excused if the interest is not intentionally obfuscated and disclosure was done at some point in the past.

That means that, in my point of view, Deimorz raised a good, but biased point while failing to fully discose the contest within his comment, and notatoad brought extra missing context. Both, good things. But I would refrain from painting Deimorz as intentionally misleading, considering this, at most, unintentionally misleading.
You want to store both local time (and timezone and/or some proxy for location if possible) and Unix / UTC / integer time. The latter is what your application relies on 99% of the time, but if, say, a given country gets rid of daylights savings time (as Brazil did last year), having the local time is helpful for recomputing your Unix time.
Sending a User-Agent header unsolicited seems like user error, not bad intent on the part of the site owner.

I do the opposite, my webserver sends back some information unsolicited about my production environment that you can track if you want.
Leap Years and Other Cyclical Oddities
He didn't technically found it, but did a significant amount of work porting their 1.0 lisp code into python... Also he had an equal share of their parent company, I believe.
Can somebody tell me why I was downvoted? This was a serious question.

I read about multiple people in the US who are not sure if they had coronavirus or not, but didn't go testing. Also it seems like flu is supposed until proven proven that a person has coronavirus.
Office telemetry is worse. There are many cases where your data goes up to Microsoft.
Yeah super weird why people have such visceral reactions to this. It’s beyond my post grade. Likely something to do with tribalism and do sports teams with intel being one team and amd being another
Eh... I Doubt the media would be less relevant. Twitter is fascinating because it’s your personal press release.
Not with the standard library. (The "timedelta" class only expresses in units up to days, as it is ambiguous how long a month is.

There's a nice package called "python-dateutil" that includes a "relativedelta" class; adding a month to March 31 results in April 30:

In [7]: datetime.datetime(2020, 3, 31) + dateutil.relativedelta.relativedelta(months=1)
Out[7]: datetime.datetime(2020, 4, 30, 0, 0)

Adding a year to a leap day:

In [8]: datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 29) + dateutil.relativedelta.relativedelta(years=1)
Out[8]: datetime.datetime(2021, 2, 28, 0, 0)

The exact duration that relativedelta adds depends on what you add it to. (Hence the name.) But the results tend to match up with human expectations.
YouTube: All videos focused on Coronavirus will be demonetized
A lot of apps are still developed iOS-first, which is a problem for Android. Encouraging cross-platform development over iOS-first is a win for the Android platform, not so much for Apple.
I wish there was a simple one-button toggle to turn it off completely, but there's not.
I've worked on Dart and Flutter last year on a startupish project. I can say flutter is amazing. It got good ideas from react architecture (eg: managing state and declarative UI) and add many good things like very rich and well designed API. writing UI in language and without other markup language like XML is amazing. You also save a lot of cost to developing in parallel for multiple platform's.
Dart is also a pleasant language, here are some pros and cons about language.

pros:

1- Everything is object. (no more inconsistencies like Java primitives, null and generics)

2- It has very well designed generics and you can access generic type in run time.

3- Good Type inference.

4- Has powerful facilities for asynchronous programming.(eg: async await, coroutines ,...)

5- Not overall bad or complex type system. Compare to Golang or java dart's type system is vastly superior.

some cons:

1- Everything can be null (null is also object).

2- Lack of Union and algebraic data types.

3- Lack of python's like tuple.(eg: (1,'string'))

4- I personally dislike C-style type definition and mandatory semicolon (eg: int foo=23; rather than foo : int=23 )
Nice! Part of freeCodeCamp projects I assume?

I started to learn to code with freeCodeCamp and I see that today it is even better. It worked pretty well for me. I wish you all the luck and don't get too discouraged when you get stuck. It is normal and eventually you will figure it out.

Take the time to make the page better following feedback here (make it look good on mobile, fix typos, factual error on content). It will be worth the learning for your future.

Great choice for the tribute too!
Can't similar things be said for node.js and other tech? Electron apps perhaps? What problems did these technologies solve?

Mostly I agree with you, but coming from desktop development, I also sometimes feel like javascript and the web in general is a mess, and prefer things in a familiar format. As so I don't find things like "DArt" or "Flutter" as surprising...
I read the article. It pretty clearly states, many times, that 70k is the minimum wage, and says nothing about equal wages.
Indian College Life: Opportunity-or-Burden?
Bill Gates waits in line at odd hours for burgers in Seattle (2019)
Already mentioned it above, but practice to the point of making it look good on mobile. It will be a worthy learning experience.
For the lazy https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2009/jan/01/zune...
> It has enough developer momentum behind it and it’s unlike react native a bolt on solution to somehow make it work.

I see React as a web-first framework, and RN as a fast path for porting to mobile. I've heard that flutter has early stage web support, but that it's all based on canvas, which is enough to dissuade me for using it for a web-first app. I'd be curious to know your perspective on this.
Vehemently disagree. A $700 phone should not be thrown out or need a paid repair when a battery, hopefully cheaper than the vendor's battery can be used to replace. You don't need an ugly hatch, you just need a removable back.
Japanese and English merged to create a new language
You know, if a topic doesn't interest you, you can just skip reading it - both the article and the comments. Each headline is really small; you can just skip right by the ones that don't interest you.

But sometimes the headlines mislead. This one may have mislead, to some degree. You had a pretty good idea that it wasn't going to be about programming languages, though. You came here anyway. So your objection seems to be not the topic, but the slant on the topic. Well, HN isn't really cohesive on socioeconomic topics. You'll find everything from Marxism to libertarianism. If you're going to click on an article on socioeconomic topics here, don't be surprised if it doesn't align with your preferred perspective (no matter what your preferred perspective is).
My obit for Freeman Dyson has gotten more push back
Solar-Electric Drone Calculations
pg says he was a co-founder of reddit.
This is as poor a "victory" as the others suggested in this thread. "We won because you spent so much money on bombs and missiles exploding on us, and soldiers occupying us" is a line I'd expect from Zap Brannigan and not anyone residing in reality. They didn't inflict anywhere near that dollar amount in damages, instead it was paid to American soldiers and contractors.

The simple fact is that the US occupied their country for years. Bombed and killed with complete impunity, and then decided to withdrawal. It's absurd to call that a victory for the Taliban or Afghanistan. Their claim to victory is that they aren't entirely dead at the time we wanted to withdraw and the reason for that is that we knew it would be immoral to use the force required to completely kill them, not any strategy or cunning from them.

It's bad rhetorically and morally to pretend like this is an American loss because that implicitly says that in order to "win" we'd need to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. We shouldn't have been there anywhere near as long as we were, we shouldn't have done anywhere near as much as we did, and it's great news that we're withdrawing. Calling it a loss, or a Taliban victory, isn't just immoral because it implicitly argues for perpetuation of the war, it's also completely delusional.
Will someone please explain why stocking up on water is consistently being advised?

Do these people think coronavirus is going to cause enough unrest to destabilize civic services and affect our municipal water supplies?

Or do these people just parrot this stuff without critical review?
> The plaintiffs in Clapper v Amnesty would have standing if the program worked as you described.

No, because the way the system works is that information makes it's way to the NSA on the presence of certain search terms and is prefiltered before it ends up in their hands. The ruling by the supreme court in the case of PRISM is that amnesty international can't prove that they were among the search terms ever searched for, so they can't prove that they standing. Only if there was a leak of the actual keys slated for collection (or if the NSA agreed to release that, which would never happen), then they could relitigate.

This is in contrast to the bulk call data, where, because the NSA was collecting from everyone who made calls, standing could be confirmed.

> How did one illegal program turn into multiple "illegal programs"?

I'm bundling it up with the other programs Snowden leaked.
I don't think you understand what you think you understand. For one thing, if you look around, managers do not all have MBAs. The manager I had for the longest was a previous analyst who didn't even have a college degree.

The difference between classes or tribes is their value system. The more you rationalize why your tribe is superior, the less chance you will ever be able to switch to another. So ask yourself if you really want to feel superior, or to prove yourself?
Stock Simulator for learning stock markets
Most big chain drugstores sell a house brand pulse oximeter
Exactly. You can't have it both ways: make it easy to remember the user/pass and also make it easy to login remotely.
Yes it's the first project of the responsive web design part.

> I started to learn to code with freeCodeCamp and I see today that it is even better.

I actually knew how to program before starting fCC, but never really tried web development. fCC has been great so far!
I run a non-tech eCommerce site in North America that does $6-8m a year and I tested two 90 day periods year over year and found 12.4% of transactions didn’t show up in Google Analytics. I haven’t segmented them by geo yet but about 75% of my sales are in North America. There was only a 0.1% difference year over year.
Fascinating Fascism – Susan Sontag on Leni Riefenstahl (1975)
Complexity catastrophes must be suffered because paper mediated processes are impractical?
Literally means figuratively. But really vehemently figuratively. That is all.
I've never understood why zswap decompresses the pages before writing them out to disk. Disk IO is the slowest part of the whole chain, you've already paid to compress the data, why on earth would you throw that away AND use up more disk IO?
> I would refrain from painting Deimorz as intentionally misleading

I don't think that's what happened here; in the same way that you saw Deimorz's comment as not malicious, I didn't see the response mentioning their connection to the issue as malicious either. You mention that the "disclosure was done sometime in the past", but I had never heard of them or the site they founded, so I found the comment replying with context to be informative.
In the vein of assuming good faith - please don't assume my comment was in bad faith. It wasn't meant as a criticism or a dismissal of his comment, just relevant context. A disclosure isn't just a disclosure of a potential bias, it's also a disclosure of relevant knowledge and experience.

I knew some context that i thought was relevant, so I added it. I wasn't trying to pick a fight.
That new Yaru theme looks great. The focus on UX and design has absolutely paid off.

I remember a few years ago when Allan Day joined and the community got stroppy saying he was going to turn it into a mobile touch OS, it was absolutely the right thing to hire him and double down on understanding the why of the UX and not just painting a pig.

Really great to see Gnome 3 and Ubuntu looking so good
"Early estimates place it far higher than 0.7%" seems both incorrect and a bit alarmist.

From what I've read (see below), the current consensus is that China is under-reporting total infected, possibly by an order of magnitude. China also made several missteps in their initial and ongoing response that is likely increasing their mortality rate, especially in Wuhan and surrounding Hubei. Worldwide, there certainly are and will be people who are infected but are asymptomatic, and don't even know (and of course aren't being counted at all).

I would expect that the mortality rate outside China is -- and will stay -- sub-1%, unless it mutates and becomes more deadly, or if health services eventually become overwhelmed due to quick spread. Analysis of primary data seems to indicate that even non-Hubei China has a mortality rate around 0.7%; Hubei's mortality rate is skewing the total upward by a lot. Rest-of-world looks to be around 0.6% so far.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/19/health/coronavirus-china-sars...

https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m606

https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19 (primary data, which links to some analysis and visualizations)
Uighur slave labor reported at factories that supply Nike, Apple, and Dell
In 2014, the CEO Yishan Wong and lead investor Sam Altman said they were promising equity to some users of Reddit

https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/30/6874353/reddit-50-million...

Any update on this?
As for nulls, non-nullability is currently in the works: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/master/accepted/f...
https://www.ddir.com

and

https://burgermaster.biz

Personally, I'm not on-board with meat ag because of climate change, pandemic risks and antibiotic resistance that present 3 very real existential threats, but most people can't help themselves. That's why I predict nothing will be done until the modern world goes the way of the Hisatsinom. Enjoy that burger!
People who have been in the job for a while aren’t always the best people to explain something.

What I’ve often done is asked new hires to document what they discover. New people are easier to mould to a new behaviour and often have the questions you need to know. When documenting becomes the habit, more people do it. Current 500-person company is very good at documenting many aspects, because we’ve done it since year 1.
Implementing Raft (In Go) – Part 0/3
Don't forget the first sentence, too :)
Please keep in mind E911 "pinging" is being abused and even being sold as a service. There have been malware that turn off the screen when you hit power and simulate a shutdown/startup routine. So long as the battery is plugged in a mobile phone, regardless of the OS, is a device that can be used to listen in on conversations,record video,location data and much more from gyroscope,accelerometer,wifi and more.

Please don't say to yourself that you would never care. If you don't care for others who have a legitimate need to fear for this then don't you complain a word when they come for you and you are forcibly put in a situation where either the authorities or someone with money is using your phones against you.

I hope all countries that call themselves free pass legislature to force user accesible battery removal or hardware kill switches.
...and that.
Can you give an example of a PRISM request being appealed?

Also, that article is entirely around a quote from Clapper's office that the NSA "does not unilaterally obtain information from the servers of U.S. electronic communication service providers", which we found out literally weeks after that article was openly a lie, at least because of the MUSCULAR program. Like Clapper has openly perjured himself on the specifics of some of these programs.

More recent article about Clapper's perjury on these matters: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/01/19/james-clap...
No one is gonna go after couple of misdemeanours in a third world country.