skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US contracts usually don't explicitly list policies like this. From my perspective, this means they can't hold you to anything, although the average person seems to think it means the company can do whatever they want. Either way, I'm pretty clear about my relationship with my employer - if you start asking me to do things, and I don't want to do them, I won't. They can decide if they want to live with that arrangement or not.

Some of us outside CA do sign non-compete agreements, though, which is another matter entirely.
They really should have had the Duo logo on the left side of the side-by-side comparison gif; it gives off a really poor first impression on the right.
Same, when I heard that before I always assumed it had something to do with their gun advocacy.
I knew about Echelon in 1998, but nobody I talked to would believe a word of it. (Or rather, I "knew" what other people ranted about on web pages with badly scanned photos of satellite dishes. But still.)
My respect in this Time
Any founders interested in doing group sessions?
Hello,

I started organizing group sessions because I found them valuable whilst I was enrolled in Startup School. It's a great opportunity to show off what you're working on, get customer feedback and feedback on your pitches and ideas, and gain new insights.

Our very first session took place last Sunday and it was a SMASHING success. There were some ...interesting ideas discussed (Uber for car dealerships ) and my laptop completely dropped connection halfway through. Our first one was last Sunday and the next one is Friday April 24th.

If you're interested, you can sign up here: https://forms.gle/8Q1zDZ7aciuAn5ct5
As others have pointed out, the source code isn't endangering the user(s).

Nonetheless, I agree with you. The writer appears emotionally swayed and flattered by the request, like a protagonist in a WWII-era young-adult novel ("Your country needs you!"), and is eager to satisfy the ask immediately without the slightest bit of skepticism or diligence. That's not the kind of temperament one would want an encryption software dev to have.
Or some good guys to use that version...
Hi,

are there plans to add an option for individuals/academics like myself who would like to learn about design and UX and possibly doing our own studies based on your data?

Cheers,
Igor
Epic Games Gives in and Finally Puts Fortnite on the Google Play Store
What difference would it make whether the change had been called 3.8 or 4.0?
Is this why my Synology 4 bay, had had 8 WD reds in the last 4 years? I don't even use it much. It's just always powered on. Drives me insane that I have to pay 200gbp a year just to replace drives that supposed to last years.
Bonne idée! Il y a au moins 200 millions de francophones de par le monde...
FWIW, if you find nicotine (or caffeine as suggested in nearby comments) helps you cognitively, that's a potential sign that you have a dopamine deficiency (i.e. ADHD).
Actually it's been autumn here for 2 months.
TIL google has a shopping service

TIL Google still has a shopping service.

I used it once. I ordered something very basic from a local department store. Since it was a very common item, I expected it to be shipped from the department store down the street and I'd have it in a few days.

Instead, it was shipped from a city over a thousand miles away and took almost two weeks to arrive.

I went back to Amazon and never looked back.
Is China Preparing for War?
still laughing :-).
Always thought the name choice was a bit weird. With a name like Duo, are they forever restricted to two-party calls? (Ha) It seems like the other video chat services (eg WhatsApp, Instagram) are incorporating multi user support.

The "knock" feature is kinda novel and weird (in a good way). When you call someone, they can see your video feed before they answer the call.
Do you know if there's any kind of whitepaper describing Duo's security model? When I search for information I'm finding a lot of stuff about Cisco's Duo product, but not a lot about Google's.

Specifically, where do the private keys reside?
It would kill a lot more people if the roads were a consequence-free free-for-all with no speed limits, highway enforcement, safety or licensing requirements.
Yep. Given this response, I have no desire to buy any Western Digital product—of any type, for any purpose—ever again. They knowingly sold a drive that would obviously be inadequate for its advertised use-case. Who knows what other false advertising they might also be doing.
I have that habit, too, and since switching to Duck, there have been a number of times that I've missed the result I was looking for because Google trained me to ignore the first result.
Perhaps the parent is too critical of the rule makers, but you are far too forgiving.

Laws in the US happen like this: someone has trouble parking one day and decides that the solution is to make more parking a legal requirement, giving little or no thought to the second or third order effects of those laws.

I'm not a big fan of philosopher Michael Huemer, but he makes an interesting metaphor regarding laws. He compares society with the human body and laws with medicine. For a long time medicine wasn't based on empirical evidence, but on logic and "common sense." Most medical advice from before the scientific method was more harmful than helpful. The human body is such a complex and delicate system that almost all interventions are more harmful than helpful. Even in the presence of a medical issue, unless there is evidence that a given medical intervention is more helpful than harmful, no medical intervention is probably better than an unproven one.

Just because a societal ill exists, doesn't mean that the first legal remedy that pops into someone's head is a good idea. Even if that idea solves the problem (a big if), will its second and third order effects cause more damage than the original problem?

American political discourse is dominated by a desire to "take action." But unless lawmakers are willing to start consulting economists and domain experts, no action at all is probably better.

You seem to think that endless sets rules is a necessary evil, but my intuition is the opposite: for every US law that makes for a better society, there are ten which are holding us back.
We were experiencing issues with Netlify at 6:15am PST.
hairy internet troll here.

What’s most interesting to me is that even an immortal software founder such as PC can find themselves in situations where their company has deeply rationalized actions that, to both the general and technically sophisticated public, appear to very plainly egregiously violate basic user privacy rights.

Venture Capital is a helluva drug.
In Washington State the signs say "Litter and it will hurt" and show the fine for littering. The phrase has always seemed a bit awkward to me.
Awesome! I loved! It is exactly what I was looking for in this quarantine period!
Let's Chat About How Weird This Research Boat Is
Google will kill the name and incorporate it into Meet once they add multiuser support....
But you're right! ;)

Here's the story about the fight to make NeWS free, and what finally happened (which sucked).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22457490

Notice how NeWS and NFS are spelled almost the same (except for that pesky little "e") -- that was on purpose to draw a parallel between NFS and NeWS (whose original name was SunDew, which I always thought they should have stuck with). Unfortunately that got a lot of bad attention and drew a lot of fire from other companies like DEC who didn't want to see Sun pull another NFS.

Here's "The NeWS Book"! It was written during the transition from NeWS 1.1 to X11/NeWS, so it has a chapter about porting NeWS to other platforms (like the Parallax live video graphics card, and SGI's 4Sight, the port of NeWS to the SGI Iris, as well as the port of NeWS to OS/2. It also has a forward-looking chapter on X11/NeWS architecture (X11/NeWS Design Overview).

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/sun/NeWS/The_NeWS_Boo...
>This behavior is explained by the fact that these departments within Google are looking at their “rivals” for inspiration, rather than the fundamental problems Google is rewarded for solving (Search, targeted advertising, IT infrastructure).

In Steve Yegge's post on why he left google: "You can look at Google’s entire portfolio of launches over the past decade, and trace nearly all of them to copying a competitor: Google+ (Facebook), Google Cloud (AWS), Google Home (Amazon Echo), Allo (WhatsApp), Android Instant Apps (Facebook, WeChat), Google Assistant (Apple/Siri), and on and on and on. They are stuck in me-too mode and have been for years. They simply don’t have innovation in their DNA any more. And it’s because their eyes are fixed on their competitors, not their customers."

https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/why-i-left-google-to-join-gr...

>Nobody will remember it, but in eBay’s early days of success, Amazon spent a nontrivial amount of engineering effort into building an auction style marketplace. They actually built something that was better than eBay’s model by many accounts. Nobody cared and it was shut down, because Amazon is not where people go to sell things at auction. Just like google search is not where people go to do their shopping.

For more info on "Mr Tooth" and Amazon's quest to compete with eBay, see another Steve Yegge post here: https://medium.com/s/story/jeff-bezos-jack-ma-and-the-quest-...

"So, Life Lesson #2 (and this one is pretty goddamn important) is: Don’t try to beat a network by making a clone with improvements. It ain’t gonna work. There is too much gravitational inertia in the original network; nobody is incentivized to leave it."
Daggy – Data Aggregation Utility. Added to Qt Marketplace
I see you published some code on GitHub that appears to relate either to this study or another one you published recently.

Can you clarify whether you're using the methodology from that code for limiting your sample?

https://github.com/whoisnnamdi/highest-paid-software-develop...

e.g. only those reporting a salary between $10K and $250K?
I only have WebEx extension installed. I am on Win10 using Firefox 75 64bit.
I don't think there's any exact numbers. You can search for changesets that have Strava listed as a source [1], but that doesn't mean the Strava data was actually used.

[1] https://osmcha.org/?filters={"source"%3A[{"label"%3A"strava"...}
Better not use any software by Microsoft then. Also definitely none of that scary open source stuff by people who’ll just hand over the code to anyone who asks.
Duo is not built in. However, I installed it and last week I discovered that it automatically integrated with my phone calling app. Now that I call people I can choose video call and it uses Duo for that. (But only if the other person has Duo too)
I definitely wouldn't want old comments merged in, even at the bottom—it would get confusing! A story about pandemics, for instance, might have a very different meaning in 2019 vs 2020, and comments should be clearly split to reflect that.
I hope you can get browser syncing implemented soon, without it I don't really have control of how (un)productive I've been.
They're now all branded WD.
Pretty much exactly my thoughts. This is the diesel "cheat device" of magnetic disk recording.

This kind of behavior really annoys me and I hope the market brutally punishes them for it, but I'm not holding my breath.
I'm still here. The process now is "don't ask, just read the policy and follow it in however you interpret it, but we'll sue you later if we disagree with your interpretation".
And then there's my old manager who found a negative correlation between a programmer's ability and them holding a PhD in CS. FWIW, he had a MS in Software Engineering himself and he said that the correlation only seemed to hold for CS PhD's, not PhD's in other sciences. My department had a number of PhD's, but only one in CS and that one was hired a few years after that manager left.

Correlation isn't causation and all that, but it does bias you a certain way.
I’ve had the pleasure of working in some organisations that had mountains of legacy applications that didn’t always have any source code. When I’ve had to fix bugs that involved those apps, reverse engineering them was always tedious and time consuming, and having the original engineers on hand to answer questions always sped things up. Regardless of the NSAs technical capabilities, it seems all he helped them do was something they could have done without his help, only faster.
Is there a good website listing all the sites that don't use HTTPS or use really old TLS versions? I'm not seeing one.

As an example, the NVIDIA driver download pages switch to http:// for the actual downloads although the rest of the site is HTTPS...

It's interesting to see which companies have difficulty keeping up.
Tom Staton: Building an Electric Bike
Love how nobody checks what Zoom actually does in terms of audio.

First, the do a lot around synchronizing video and audio. On bad connections they slow and speed up video and audio to keep the appearance of coherence. Really, really hard stuff that other video conf systems fail at.

Also, they have audio settings to filter background noise. Basic settings around the mic, but the Advanced settings about noise cancellation ("Original Audio").

If you book online classes for music teachers, you'll see why they prefer Zoom and which settings they recommend.
I don’t understand the “revamp” or “sci-fi” terms here.

Does “revamp” mean they do demo day via zoom now?

Does “sci-fi accelerator” just refer to their pre-pandemic willingness to fund blockchain and AR/VR?
Being stuck at home and working 100% through Teams, I have to say, if Google wants to have a long-term strategy here, being more like teams and less like Apple or Facebook would be better.

Chat + Forums + Fileshare + Video chat + Voice chat + OneDrive integration + Sharepoint integration + Kanban + goodness knows what else

Before the lock-down we all turned our nose up at it as "yet another lame chat app", now it's dominating everything, and it works on MacOS, Windows, iPhone, and Android -- so there's no excuse for anybody to not have it on their phone as well.

There's nothing else that's even close for us and just on my team we have about 60 people on it, and across the company over a thousand. It's almost 100% replaced all the other things that do the things in the list above with the exception of Jira and a few holdouts still using Webex (so there's a dial-in for people outside our org who don't have teams, but we've even been using for meetings across different organizations that have teams and it works perfectly fine).

Duo, Meet, Hangouts all seem really spare and kind of old fashioned now.
I will never purchase another Western Digital product unless they make a MAJOR about-face on this. Western Digital owns SanDisk, so that goes for them too.
I am quite sure SOME people are scared, but I wish they'd try anyway...at least have the discussion of options. In my experience in life most people just don't care, are in it to win it, and others are just pieces on the board.

Yes there are many people as bad or sadly even worse off than me. That doesn't lift or make me feel any better...it makes me feel bad for them and hate the system even more. I also don't have the energy or health to be much of a supporter when I need to be supported. Drowning guy isn't the person to advocate for water safety...he is trying not to go totally under. I do give what I can of myself to a couple close people and it's already too much for me. I am not scared to help...I don't have any resources to help and am sinking myself.
Is patio11 a certified expert? Should he be considered my better? Your better? Should we consider him the better of the actual certified experts in infectious diseases?

If not, then shouldn’t you shut up and listen to those people, who are certified as your betters when it comes to their subject matter? Even the ones who you called out as being wrong in your initial post?

I think maybe you should kick up the leg rest on your La-Z-Boy and relax into your armchair rather than attacking other posters. Unless you’re a certified expert and not just an armchair expert.
Have any thoughts on what that might look like?
Thank you for the suggestion (and I see all the other praise for this in the sub-comments). I will definitely give this a read as soon as I have time available.
In a similar vein: In Norwegian since the fifties, we have used the word Texas to mean something crazy. Normally it's used as "helt texas" (completely texas), and describes a situation out of control.

Edit: a source/explanation https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34622478
Gun to my head, would I still do the right thing?

Of course I'll say yes, and I hope it's true. Thankfully, I probably won't ever have to find out. But if it does come to that, and I choose wrong, I know I won't write a blog post about it.
> how exactly do you go about getting that part of you contract removed

They told you that already "if you don't like this then why are you still working here".

The way to get this limitation removed is to hand in your resignation. Preferably after finding another job.

Make sure that before you sign a contract at the new place, that you strike out anything in the contract that requires you to hand over IP of things developed outside of company time and outside of company resources.
> Froogle (est 2002) and has continued to exist as one incarnate or the other

Indeed, this article is about Froogle (now Google Shopping search) moving back from the change Google made in 2012 to become a paid advertising platform rather than a open-index search engine.

Before they made that change and simultaneously rebranded from Google Product Search to Google Shopping you could make a search there and be fairly sure of finding lots of websites selling what you wanted, and you could compare prices between them easily. But Google didn't get a cut, so now if you repeated the same search, if you get relevant results at all you'll only get the bottom of the barrel shops with inflated prices.

Google certainly has tried to attack Amazon, but the only way they're trying to reduce that duopoly is to insert themselves as a monopoly player! By heavily promoting their advertising platform and pushing deep integrations between merchants and their platform they're forcing out smaller independent shops and marketplaces.

Trying to recreate Amazon, just better, is doomed to failure. The alternative of iterating on their at-the-time working product and extending the usability and visibility of alternative options would have been far better. Amazon's ridiculous 20% fees would get found out soon enough if consumers could actually see a viable alternative.

All that considiered, a better replacement for Paypal integrated with Google and other services is something missing from the world and it's a shame their lack of commitment meant Google Pay hasn't taken off in most places.
What's the point of footnote formatting, when your footnote immediately follows anyways?
My god, this is amazing. They marketed their anti-litter campaign as a state-pride manly-man issue to great success. I love it. Very intelligent hack.

This is also a very interesting story about the importance of diversity on a team. While TXDOT wanted to go with "Please Keep Texas Beautiful", this guy knew the kind of guy he had to convince wouldn't listen to that stuff. Brilliant.

There's another one (less successful though still successful) which I remember just because it's so catchy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_It_or_Ticket . When I had family visiting from elsewhere you could just say "Click It or Ticket" and they'd get it. Sure the real reason I want them to wear the seatbelt isn't because of the ticket, but the slogan combined with the fact that I can outsource the argument to the state is great.
In my opinion, the Office 365 trend still stems from Microsoft's desktop monopoly and everyone being trained/taught on Microsoft Office

I agree that was true at one time, but I don't think it's strongly the case anymore.

Users, leaders, and IT departments seem much more open to non-Mircosoft products than they have been in many decades. But for office work, few are able to match what Microsoft offers.

I'm hardly a Microsoft fanboy, and wouldn't use it if my company didn't insist on it. But I can see the merit in going with Office365 for the masses. There isn't really a strong competitor.
It literally says $125 in the opening paragraph of the article I linked. Do you have updated information?
Preschool Obesity Associated with Increased Risk of Childhood Fracture
THC-oils are dangerous? Source?
Compatibility with other libraries and testing effort. You end up back porting everything.

Ubuntu backports the fixes them instead (i.e. Ubuntu's 1.0.2 will be patch with CVE fixes going forward instead of backporting 1.1 wholesale).
Aint any amateur porn public domain though?
Have Pure Headless CMSs Lost Their Way?
The Impact of the Upper Middle Class on Regulation
>I believe many developers integrate with Stripe expecting that their JS library executes and shares data only on the pages where Stripe UI elements appear on the page. The fact that JS library runs on every page and sends data back to Stripe, even before the app calls the API, is unexpected.

It's not unexpected when they tell you to include it on every page:

As was in their docs ages ago and still now: https://stripe.com/docs/js

>Including Stripe.js
>Include the Stripe.js script on each page of your site—it should always be loaded directly from https://js.stripe.com, rather than included in a bundle or hosted yourself.

>To best leverage Stripe’s advanced fraud functionality, include this script on every page, not just the checkout page. This allows Stripe to detect anomalous behavior that may be indicative of fraud as customers browse your website.

... they are asking you to enable them to track your user's interaction with your entire website.
Yes, the lab itself. https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=19381748
> 2. One can handle errors in initialization without exceptions and half-initialized objects: Make your constructor private and expose a static member function that returns an optional<T> (where T is the given class).

This comment criticizes an article written in 2012 about a project developed starting in 2007 for not using a technique that debuted in the 2017 edition of ISO C++. For projects that could force all consumers to use C++11 or later, it'd be straightforward to add your own.

The idea of doing so in a cross-compiler way when you need to support the original ISO standard or C++0x in the late 2000s sounds very problematic.
Toshiba's still around
Why AV1 Encoding Is Not Ready for Real-Time Streaming
From wikipedia- anecdotal evidence is evidence collected in a casual or informal manner and relying heavily or entirely on personal testimony. The third paragraph presents as if you are trying to dispute the statistical evidence that has been accumulated with anecdotal or personal testimony.
AsyncAPI: Free online video conference event tomorrow (April 22nd)
> Have you tried running it under SheepShaver?

I've not. When I get back to it, that'll be on the list of things to try.
Yes. Peter Thiel has NZ citizenship and so may arrive into NZ at will. But he may not be able to leave as NZ has some of the strictest C-19 lockdown rules in the world.

It would be ironic if dickheads came to NZ to escape and get imprisoned due the lockdown rules.
I know it's a joke but: Mugs have a tendency to be put in microwaves, making them a dangerous place for electronics.

If you find yourself receiving a questionable mug, time for a glass of warm milk.
> Back in February, the kernel community discussed the removal of a couple of functions that could be used by loadable modules to gain access to symbols (functions and data structures) that were not meant to be available to them.

Is there still API to access this, knowing that it's meant to unavailable for general use and could break at any time?