skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently was denied a credit application because I used Linux when I filed out the application. Not only that, but they still ran my credit. They even told me on the phone the reason they denied my application because I was using a suspicious browser (Chromium).

Let's be honest here. Stripe.js may be about fraud prevention, but what that means is that you'll use every method available to gather data about that individual to build an identity. Then in 3 years when someone changes positions, that system will end up getting compromised, sold to the highest bidder, shared with some government agency, or used for nefarious purposes.

This will be tied to all their IP, OS information, transactions, etc. Just like they are using facial recognition at several retail stores. They make you use a chip reader now for credit/debit transactions, but it has no use online. I'd rather see an open-source universal effort towards decentralized currency, voting, identity, etc.
Cyclomatic complexity is a whole-program property. Your functions are just nodes in the control flow graph, where the real complexity appears. One-branch functions are definitely a good hack, though. :)
Makes sense, given Chris Lamb, former Debian Project Leader, is heavily involved. https://reproducible-builds.org/who/
To be fair it seems like it's mostly doing the same still, just with Stanford's material instead :P
Somewhat germane to the ripgrep topic, what's the reasoning behind failing to support simple wildcard searches? I've been playing with rg.exe under Windows for a few minutes now, encouraged by this thread, but have run into a common problem: https://www.grailbox.com/2018/08/restricting-ripgrep-to-cert...

Why don't most grep utilities just do the obvious right thing and support searches on .c* or .h or .txt or whatever? (HN is mangling the text, but you can read the above as "star dot c star," "star dot h," or "star dot txt.")
Why exactly would 'US separatist extremist groups' ( how many of these can you name? ) and secessionist groups be interested in joining the federally run US army? Wouldn't mundane army portrayals just appeal to their sense of dissatisfaction with a society that many already see as far too passive? Or, as you so smugly put it, 'fuel that fire'.
You forgot to mention Cheeto Hitler in your post. There's still time to edit though, so it's okay.
>A fragile global system in which during a pandemic, people are still fed and clothed?

That's our metric for a multi-trillion dollar global economy? That first world countries with the most resources like the US can at least keep it's citizens fed and clothed during a pandemic? No offense, but countries many Americans would consider "third world" can do that too. And this is what's wrong with our current "system". Why are "first world" economies with the most resources struggling with "third world" problems?
Yes. Many customers feel calls with the sales rep are valuable, and would be unsatisfied if a new one didn't offer an introductory call. In my experience, the highest value customers of most SaaS apps want these kinds of calls at least once a quarter.
There's a pretty substantial difference between immigration and conquest. The former in no way requires the latter.
I have followed it since before the purchase.

It appears it took a decade to reach profitability, but even now it piggybacks on the rest of the products infrastructure - standalone, I doubt it could be profitable.
observations; firstly one can assume that google search can do no wrong. second observation is google search is made for noobs. thirdly you broke it because you are not a noob. 4th this will not be fixed because of said non-noob status.
If a company as big as Stripe hasn't already considered this and have to ask their legal team then they are playing dumb.
That’s a load of crap sales folks tell their leaders. Who’s out there measuring that the value created by this strategy exceeds the value sitting on the sidelines because it grinds their gears? Maybe it doesn’t?

I’m sure a lot of people that feel similarly command millions if not billions of budget.
200k is about what I spent on my education and I can't say I've really had any reason to care about my school's reputation past my first job after graduation.
Interesting. It doesn't ruin the pledge for me though. Things change. Bad things can become good, good things can become bad. Symbols of luck and divinity turn into symbols of hate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
It's one thing if you're at risk of being fired, but you've also put the project you contributed to at risk. If those contributions are potentially your (former) employer's and they were not authorized to be shared, the project is going to have to figure out how to remove them; if the employer is particularly litigous, that could get really nasty.
The normal range of each phase is described in https://patient.info/news-and-features/coronavirus-how-quick...

The average is 5-6 days to show any symptoms. That is the figure that you are remembering.

If it is going to turn severe, the average to develop severe shortness of breath from first symptoms is another 7-10 days. Which means that the range from exposure to severe shortness of breath is 12-16 days...or an average of 14 days.

Which is exactly what the person that you were responding to said. So your memory was correct in so far as it went, but you were remembering the wrong fact about COVID-19.
This is how other companies gather fraud signals as well. If you've ever clicked "I am not a robot", it also works on signals like mouse movements. Stripe is following industry best practices.
> Relate... to the employer’s business

This is the catch-all and I've always been curious what the seminal cases are which apply this language. For example, the charter for most corporations these days usually establishes the business for "any lawful activity", so if the scope of an employer's business is defined by the charter, then pretty much any commercially viable FOSS project could potentially be ensnared by an employer. Any IP lawyers here have some pointers to how "employer's business" is supposed to be interpreted and applied?
> This looks as original and language-defining as Rust's borrow checker.

I'm not so sure it's original; many compilers work on ASTs whose nodes are a sequence of non-branching operations terminated by a branch. Though people don't use these internal representations as "programing languages" but afaik they technically are.
I sure hope that on the day China puts boots on US soil, there are enough people left who aren't as much of an intellectual titan as whoever made this picture.
Prolog is fundamentally well established (~40 years old), and you can start using it today in several programming languages. For example:

JavaScript http://tau-prolog.org

Ruby https://github.com/preston/ruby-prolog

Rust https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog

Erlang https://github.com/rvirding/erlog

If your language is missing one, implementing a basic Prolog is fairly simple. Take a look at the Ruby one: it's core is not even 500 lines of code!

There are also great options like SWI Prolog if you want to build your entire app in Prolog. But I imagine it would be much easier to convince a work boss to pull in a library instead :)

Re AI: It's true that Prolog's origins involved AI, but nowadays Prolog is better suited for more general logic programming tasks (there are better tools out there for AI specifically).
Thanks for taking risks to try and make a difference. I hope you are successful! These tests are pretty simple to administer so there really should be an at-home version.
I'm curious what year this was. When I was in college (~2005) we had an entire class based around contributing to Mozilla (both Gecko and other parts - https://wiki.cdot.senecacollege.ca/wiki/DPS909). The very first assignment in that course was compiling Firefox. Which, especially on Windows, was a herculean task at the time. I believe this sort of experience helped to spawn https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozillaBuild and other developer experience projects.

Things are much better these days, but there is still much inherent complexity in a project like Firefox.
whats going on with facebook marketplace vs craigslist then?
I've known more companies start with utility pricing and move to "high touch" sales than companies move the other way. Companies don't want to have that kind of sales process. They usually have to.

Some of the mechanics of that is that if you're doing very large contracts, a lot of the software buyers expect things to be that way. For a lot of businesses, a couple expensive accounts are worth more than all of the small accounts put together. I've seen lots of companies start to disrupt a particular market with utility pricing only to fall back to enterprise sales when they realize that there's a reason everyone else in their industry does that.
Official Star Wars Virtual Backgrounds for Video Conferencing
Forced muting on join, moderators to control who presents. It works fine.
By the time it gets to the lab tech, it's unlikely that the virus would be as viable as it is when exiting the host. This would be especially true if the swab is put into some sort of preservation liquid (I don't know for this test, but often the nasopharyngeal swabs are put in such a fluid). Remember you don't care about the virus, you only care about its genome.

Even if the virus is viable, it's no longer airborne. You'd have to touch the swab and bring it to your face. Most of these labs handle things like HIV, so lab procedures and training guard against this sort of behavior. I wouldn't be surprised if they worked with shields as well.

In short, maybe they should be paid more, but it's not the danger factor that should govern in this particular case.
Testing APIs in Golang using apitest
> “The problem with the Trump campaign,” Assange said at the time, “is it’s actually hard for us to publish much more controversial material than what comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth every second day.”

That seems really reasonable. Beyond the obvious thing that seems not to been mentioned; you can't publish what you don't have.

Separate to that FP note themselves in this very article the concrete support for exactly what Wikileaks claimed. The previously published trove was published later in full, elsewhere to zero interest, including zero interest from FP. Beyond some anti-Assange spin seen here. The author of this piece doesn't have their heart in it though, do they? They want us to know all that so wrote it quite clearly for everyone to see.

But yeah, spin it all to something nefarious because the existence of Wikileaks is kryptonite for corruption so everyone needs to unite against it. /s

Oh and Biden is a racist, misogynist, corrupt, senile idiot. Just like Donald. Congratulations democracy. But make sure you don't notice that because failure to pick a party and see no evil in it means you're a Russian asset. Just ask Hilary.
Yeah, but Apple seems to hold grudges against everyone who leaves, so I’m not too worried about that.

I heard rumors of recruiting guidelines to not accept people back who left Apple to go to Netflix back when it was the new kid on the block. I also only knew 2 people who left and came back in several years there.

Given the rest of my experience there I am not chomping at the bit to return. It’s not a great place to work in server side infrastructure. At least not until some significant cultural shifts occur.
I'll never work for a company that tried to limit my personal time in any way.
This seems complete enough to me: http://www.ntfs.com/fat-32structure.htm
Seems like we have a fellow Chaos Magick practitioner right here. Funny that the creator named the language "Chaos", the module manager "Occultist" and the modules "Spells". Now I can't dislike it even if I found some of the language features quite alien.
Since you're asking for feedback: how about a non-App Store version?
> but I'm angry about it.

Take it to Reddit. I know perfectly well what's going on, and also know better then to discuss it with people who act like that.
> Instead they are compressed with Kris Becker’s implementation of Huffman encoding. Thankfully the source to the compression, and various manipulation tools are included in both C & Fortran.

As someone who often helps a spouse decode various police car/bodycams and random retail surveillance formats for court work, that always comes on DVDs, this makes me so jealous.

Imagine... having the source code to decode the image or video format right on the CD. In a portable C format.

And not having to install Windows XP to support whatever proprietary DRM'ed software that no longer has a support page on the internet, after 2hrs trying to get it working in a Windows 10 VM? Then leaving the whole OS VM installed on your laptop because you couldn't be bothered to do it twice...

I wish the local police hired NASA people to set up their systems.
Right, but surely there is a person at the company that you can bring it up with?

I've been working remotely for nearly a decade now, and the majority of contracts I've signed have been in electronic form, and for each of them there has been back and forth about certain items - IP and copyright in particular always coming up - and we go back and forth until the wording and meaning is something both parties are happy with.

Only once that's happened do I need to sign the electronic form - and that's where the negotiating leverage exists, because I don't need to work for someone if they impose conditions on me that I am not willing to accept.
> Two drops of blood from a pinprick is enough to detect a virus. They’re essentially the same as home pregnancy kits.

Hope we can make COVID tests as abundant as pregnancy tests
"just" is not a fair term. check its detail. we have designed VM, Multicore and Networking stack based on Rust 2018.
Indeed he was! He was also quite outspoken against the treatment of Native Americans (at least, relative to his time) having spent a significant amount of time living among the Cherokee. This won him quite a few enemies, as the "Indian problem" was a pretty significant issue in the nascent Republic of Texas.

He was strongly opposed to Texas secession and gave one of his most famous speeches in opposition to it.

For anyone interested, T. R. Fehrenbach's "Lone Star" is a great history of Texas and of Sam Houston (among many other colorful characters).
In fact not wearing a helmet might be cheaper - a quick death versus a lifetime of care.
Right. So there was a global consensus, promoted by certain folks, that adherence to academics was the secret to national success.

And the Soviets bought in to that propaganda, to their detriment. They spent a fortune and produced the most well-educated and thoughtful population in human history. A couple of their satellite states even achieved genuine 100% literacy. Not 100% rounded but 100% exact.

The campaign thus was a success. It was amazing. Fortunes were spent on the totally unimportant goal of an egalitarian society where everyone is respected and helped.

Being smart isn't how you succeed as top dog in this era.

edit: Downvotes away uneducated ignoranti with no counterpoints! Yee haw!
Here's what a salesperson would say:

Sales is a process. If I (as the salesperson) control the process, then I am more likely to win the deal. On average, my company has shown that doing these 3-5 touchpoints in this order leads to the greatest success, so I want people to follow this order as much as possible, and so does the rest of my team.

I'm glad to meet someone who is very capable of working with new software. They're smart and they pick up on things very quickly. Not many people are like this. If they can evaluate and sign an order form without me doing anything, I call that a big win.

But, given an average prospect, if I let them kick around and then they tell me "Nah this isn't it." do I assume that they actually evaluated the way that maximizes my likelihood of winning (or, put another way, that maximizes their chance of finding something valuable)? If I didn't talk to them, then I'm not sure if they saw X feature or could see the Y value that I typically can tell a story around. So I'd rather work through the gated process. Heck, it's even better for them because they have a higher chance of solving their problem.

Now, if you're really insistent, then I'll notice that and find a way to make the process fit your style. But on average it's better for both you and me if we do it my way.
More "during" than "after". Not sure if mine counts as "top", but most would say it's easily in the top 25 for my discipline. It was plenty hard for me, though, and in hindsight, I think it would have been better to be the brilliant kid in a lower-ranked school than an also-ran in a higher-ranked school (relative to the range of schools that would admit me).

That's just a guess, but I've seen a lot of others suffer from shooting too high.
For the higher level tiers absolutely, for a trial just take my credit card and get out of my way.

I’ll call you when I want to upgrade my plan. You aren’t “selling” me anything. The product sold itself. At that point let’s have a steak dinner and figure out the details.
I can't quite believe my own arithmetic but... that would mean the page is larger than 30 minutes of video streamed using the new codec. Can that possibly be correct?

Calculations here, someone please tell me I'm wrong:

The caption quotes "30kbps", but that has to be a typo - I think they mean 30KBps (240kbps).

58.7MB * 1024 = 60,018KB
60,018KB / 30KB/s = 2000 seconds
2000s / 60 = 33 minutes
The language in Lone Star is a bit dated, but I agree with you, its an absolutely fantastic book.
It’s specifically ST3000DM001 after Thai flooding where precision mechanical factories are located.
Yeah, if Judge Alsup got the case it might get a very different ruling than another judge.
How do you succeed as top dog in this era?
Even my Linux loving, MS doubting self is mostly happy with teams. It's the only video chat I've found that properly handles multiple screens when sharing my screen from Linux. Most apps will only share the entire X "screen" which means it shares all 3 monitors as a single screen but teams allows me to select the actual monitor I want to share.

If they got rid of the excessive whitespace at each side of the chat and used libnotify like civilized folks I'd be super happy.
> Anki is a very big and complex project

But it's not. Just look at the source code for card[1].
It's modern, fully type hinted python3 code, you don't even need to know python to understand big chunk of it.

1 - https://github.com/ankitects/anki/blob/master/pylib/anki/car...
Trump Says He'll Suspend Immigration for 60 Days over Coronavirus Fears
Soviet body builders only used free weights and a pull-up bar. You don’t need anything but that to get big muscles. Similarly, you don’t need anything except a chalk board to teach math and most other subjects.
Suck my fucking ass liberals!
End the lockdown RIGHT NOW!
New Zealand’s Prime Minister May Be the Most Effective Leader on the Planet
> all-in-one email/browser/cal/notes application concept

You mean Emacs? All it needs is a good editor :)
> I found some of the language features quite alien.

You might even say they are arcane.
In a lot of those cases, the company has decided that the lower tiers do not exist, because they lose money, and part of the point of the sales process is to weed them out. (And even if they do have lower tiers, they don't want to hurt their actually profitable higher tiers by providing price anchoring.)
Ahaha. Perfect :)
In a US college in the 80s, the math professors definitely seemed to be in awe of the Russians when it came to this stuff. And though I was in the US, early on I was in an utter hardware wasteland, and I do think that not having much hardware access improved my ability to just sit and think about things with pencil and paper.
I'm sure it's nothing like it used to be but I still end up picking up way more discarded McDonald's cups and beer cans in front of my property than one would think would be the case in this day and age. (A fairly busy 2-lane road though I'm set pretty far back.)
Is this what you want liberals!?

End the unconstitutional, illegal lockdown right now!
There is a world of difference between "asymptomatic people are infectious" and "asymptomatic people are AS infectious".

I saw early estimates based on detailed modeling from Chinese data that asymptomatic people were about half as infectious as symptomatic ones. I have not seen any such estimates for some time though, nor ones based on more recent data samples.

Given the widespread distrust of the Chinese reporting on what happened in January, and the fact that estimates of how infectious this is have approximately doubled from early estimates, I don't trust that early reporting. I would also love to see an estimate of how much more or less people are infectious when they are asymptomatic.

Given that I don't doubt that they can be infectious, research showing that they can be is not answering the question that I have.
I don't think '100%' distributes over commas in this case, especially given the formatting in the original
Generally speaking, it's just how networking/reputation works.

Talent goes somewhere -> successful things happen there -> reputation is spread -> some of that success gets associated with the place -> which attracts more talent there. Like a self-feeding loop.

Happens to pretty much every social organization - neighborhoods even. Just look at top tech companies. They attract a lot of talented tech people just because in the past talented people made those companies very successful. Conversely, if they were failures, not many people would be attracted to go there...

Anyhow, that's not to say networks can decline (as reputation also attracts less talented people). Obviously careers often span longer than sports team dynasties so it might take longer to see shuffles happen in school rankings.
> Downvotes away ignoranti!

Not a mod, but that’s against the HN guidelines and is likely to keep your comment grayed out.

I thought the rest of your comment was interesting, FWIW.
or LibreSSL?
The more I read the Atlantic, the more I realize it's a nihilistic rag. Ok, there are shortcomings, but it seems they only like to trumpet inflammatory remarks-perhaps they think they are counterbalancing our govt.
Primary school in rural Texas. We'd spend an hour a day singing songs mostly about how much God blesses Texas, America, and the Marine Corps, then finish off with The Eyes of Texas song.

In our version, The Eyes ended up in the kitchen watching Dinah. She was about to blow her horn, thus ending the mandate of The Eyes. We would plead for her not to do such a thing, for her sake, for our sake, for goodness sake! The Eyes would know.
Anyone have an update of what has happened since 2016?
A friend of mine built this, and I feel the need to promote it: https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses

There are Rust and C++ bindings, and it performs some truly ridiculous TUI tricks.
KhanAcademy is a non-profit org and is not VC-funded. It is arguably also the most successful company in online education.
I recently stumbled on an article from April 13 that claimed all the hubub about the virus in the media was to make the president look bad. Seriously good leadership in times like these isn't rocket science. And they can't manage that.
There was a change in ls which caused it to quote file names with spaces or special characters instead of (I think?) escaping them. Some people were upset because they considered this a breaking change. I'll just add that ls only does this if it's running interactively so I wouldn't expect it to break scripts.
If you hire a loss prevention officer to protect your store, you're directing them in how they collect information about your customers and how they handle that data.

The closer equivalent would be if I purchased Square point of sale tablets to accept credit card payments in my store, and then Square sent their own loss prevention officers to my store to monitor my customers without telling me about it and kept the data for their own purposes.