skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say Adobe being a monopoly is the problem, but you don't realize the proprietary format of Adobe allows it to be a monopoly. If flash source code was open, there would be alternative flash implementations.
It depends on whether you are expected to participate in those sales cycle discussions or not.

If your role is to hang out at your desk until someone sells your implementation services, then no, you will probably not get commission on sales. You should demand a fixed salary comparable to if you were a SWE working on the product directly.

If you are expected to participate in the sales cycle in some way (like stitching together a demo), you will probably receive some sort of commission.

This is a pretty fair thing to ask about in an interview or in comp discussions. "Am I expected to be involved in sales efforts, or am I simply deployed after the sale?" Adjust salary/commission demands accordingly.
The Postgres and Illustra Codelines
At the time Flash was used extensively for UI development, and artists were able to pretty easily create animations and author their own screens.

Nowadays the technology has gone to other places and more than ever artists are locked out of the workflow and reliant on programmers to implement even the most trivial of things.
They are not investing, just gambling. And looks like they are going to have fun anyway...
I still have Windows 2000 (air-gapped, naturally) running on an ancient system for some pretty old hardware. I remember being on the Beta list for it when it was "NT 5."
I totally agree with you, we're replacing democracy by "power to the loudest".

> How far can this particular language purication can be taken

I'm not anti-american (damn I have to put this kind of disclaimer), but it will go as far as these american-culture-centered people will think X or Y go against their view.

I think I understand more and more my Chinese friends who don't understand people who are trying to convince them "you're living in a dictatorship that's bad, see democracy is sooo good, why are you not listening to me", and they're just "I don't care, I don't understand why it's so much of an issue to you ?"

and yes for robot, the more I think about it, the more I don't understand why that's not the first word to have been reviewed, because the very idea, popular conception of a robot is the humanoid-metal-thing doing your chores, you can't do closer to the meaning of "slave" they don't want to hear about !
Not sure this would work for the nukes that are constantly moving around on submarines. Would have to know the exact position of the sub to aim the beam.
> if changing any one (protected) attribute (in this case, sex) would lead to a different hiring/firing decision

First, I'm not convinced this rule is actually in accord with the plain language of the statute. Kavanaugh's dissent argues that, for decades, all three branches of the Federal government--Congress, the Executive, and the Supreme Court itself--have taken "discrimination because of sex" and "discrimination because of sexual orientation" to be two separate and legally distinct categories of discrimination. The majority opinion simply ignores all that prior evidence about how the Federal government has interpreted the plain language of the statute.

Second, it's not clear to me that the hypothetical the majority is using here is the correct one. One of the key grounds given by LGBTQ individuals for their right to equal treatment is that those traits are innate. But if, for example, sexual orientation is an innate trait, then changing a man attracted to men into a woman attracted to men is changing more than just that person's sex: it's changing their sexual orientation as well. In other words, the Court's hypothetical is not "changing just one thing, leaving everything else the same", as it claims to be.

On this view, which is a better reflection of the views LGBTQ people are actually advocating, the proper hypothetical for changing just the person's sex, leaving everything else intact, would be to change a man attracted to men into a woman attracted to women. And in that hypothetical, the hiring/firing decision would not change; and by contrast, in corresponding hypothetical where you only changed sexual orientation, not sex (so changing a man attracted to men into a man attracted to women), the hiring/firing decision would change. Which leads to the opposite conclusion from the one the majority makes.
I was spinning this idea long time ago already, but was always afraid to commit to anything, since I have zero knowledge of the market
Meccano is 120+ years old, so no patents to worry about there.
This is a fascinating history of PostgreSQL written by Wei Hong, one of the Michael Stonebraker's students, and an early contributor to PostgreSQL as well as its commercial version, Illustra. Found the link in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23529954.
This is very cool.
I have made also some material for teachers teaching from home https://www.freememorygame.com to build card matching game from your own photos and images. Teachers use it to create games for kids in class.
Flash became popular because of 2 things:

1/ Its IDE which made creating creative and interactive content mixing video/vector graphics sounds and code easier

2/ it's API that provided things that were not possible when browsers had none of these API (video streaming, socket programming...). At some point you could even write 2D shaders or inject C/C++ code with something called Alchemy.

Point 2 is now largely covered by browser web API, although one might argue that the performances might not be always as good as they were in flash, especially when it comes to vector graphics or realtime audio processing. But 3D and webgl are more performant than flash in the browser.

Point 1: well there isn't really an equivalent, and even Adobe Animate isn't really doing exactly what flash did when it comes to authoring content for browsers. So there is still a potential market here. I'd like to see something node based when it comes to coding. Artists love their nodes.

The real problem is obviously running old flash content like games. Some of these games were really good. I remember playing one which was a hotel management simulator and it was really really fun. But it's a bit like a these jar games in the 2000' one cannot run on modern mobile phones anymore. Without an effort to preserve these, they will all be lost.
"...but what the hell is wrong with people that they take their job so seriously that they'd personally harass the people who run a newsletter that's critical of the company they work for?
"

I think this is the level of obsession and craziness that makes people successful. I read quite a few biographies and it seems to me that a lot of famous or super successful people are very willing to do bad stuff if someone gets in their way. they want to win at all cost.
Can you share more on how this applies to Ballard Power? It's a name that just came up on my radar this weekend and I was planning on doing research on them, so thought I'd ask in case you have something specific to share
But, is it discrimination if the employer could care less what the applicant's sex is, and only decided on whether the spouse was female?

Edit: So the company has only employees that are either: not married, or only married to a male. How does this apply?
Wild. I'm like 99% positive I know the couple and the newsletter they targeted, because I used to work for an ecommerce company that also came under fire from said couple semi-frequently.

Of course, like adults, we just rolled our eyes a little bit when it was particularly over-the-top and tried to use our rational heads to determine whether the criticism was warranted or not. Truthfully, I think they kept us in check and I'm glad they exist.

If we had done anything even close to this, we would've been fired immediately. To be even more blunt, I think I would've been fired for interacting with them AT ALL, even just a strongly-worded email.

Just a little wild to see how differently people react to the same exact situation.
You can throw that "both-sides-ism" right out the window, just like the Republicans threw all rules of procedure and decency. It's nothing but false balance at this point.

Yes, Democrats might have occasionally pushed things a bit in previous Congresses, but I know for a fact that you cannot point to anything Democrats have ever done that's as egregious as Republicans actively colluding to a) prevent a sitting President from being allowed to appoint a new Supreme Court Justice to the bench, or b) prevent any legislation the opposing party proposes from being brought to the floor in any way, shape, or form for years, purely for political gain.
Proprietary was all you had back in 2000:s -- And in this case, Adobe is still live and kicking. For a company who made $2.95B on net income last year, pish.

To execute a kill switch of "you are never allowed to run flash again" is far from fair, Adobe is the problem. However I will agree to differ; your work can die at the whim of a corporation.
Yeah, slow spinning disks that needed defrag from time to time. I think we would all be surprised if booted from current cpu, ssd and amount of ram.
So instead we get propriety apps. Good job.
> That is not the case for stock purchases - the stock appreciates in value because the business it represents appreciated in value.

There is absolutely no guarantee that this is the case. It's still a gamble. It's just that by the time something IPO's it's much less likely to fail, but it's still possible. Private shares the same. Hence, my original point, it's just a matter of degree of risk.
I think this is a useful cautionary tale.
Show HN: Laptops in Space – An interactive spatial 3D video chat
Engineering Viruses Is Hard, Let's Make It Easier (2012)
Yep, this is it. Their print daemon is basically a glorified pipe redirect from a web page to the printer. Unfortunately because of the javascript in the middle, it has to be slightly more involved than just running netcat. But not much.
Analysis of Warsaw Public Transport Data in Kibana and Elasticsearch
Cell service outage spike in US
As of right now looks like AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and many others.
Might be great for sending your message through space, but how to capture and read it back again?
Interesting. Thx.
T-Mobile Down Currently
T-Mobile is down currently at various locations across the USA.
If you have an interview or an important call, you may have to find alternate means to communicate.

Edit 1: It's all the major carriers and in some places Google Fiber as well.
Honestly, if I knew this couple and they tried to tell me even half of what had happened I would have thought they were absolutely bonkers. How do you even make that phone call to police? Knowing you’re going to sound like a crazy person. I can’t even imagine the stress they must have felt because there is no chance detectives believed their story right out of the gate.
Getting a loan when you have no cash flow to service it doesn't usually work well
Then maybe you should read the words of a black person on the topic:

> So it’s like, you know what you’re saying is not right. You’re just not trying.

https://madamenoire.com/1167067/working-while-black-my-cowor...
Nothing you said can't also be applied to GraphQL. It takes the same level of work to add pagination to a REST as it does to GraphQL, and you can add any arbitrary constraint you want as you see fit - nothing about GraphQL takes this away from you.
By consolidating equity you can influence the direction of the company and push it to a liquidity event, that’s not worthless. It also has value as a bet on the future occurrence of a liquidity event.
> I think you answer your own objection right there. Conservatives don't conserve anything, it's liberalism with a speed limit. The United States doesn't have any party that is interested in conserving anything cultural or legal, anywhere. Which is great for Democrats (like myself).

It’s a rare moment when people can agree on what’s happening while disagreeing on whether it’s good or bad. This is exactly the criticism conservatives have about the Court.

We have had a “conservative” majority Supreme Court for almost 50 years, and on social issues we have gone at more or less the same pace as Western Europe. (I would like to think that conservatives had a hand in filtering out a bunch of dead ends they liberals otherwise would have led us down.) For example, same-sex marriage:

> In 2001, the Netherlands[b] became the first country to establish same-sex marriage by law.[124] Since then same-sex marriage has also been established by law in Belgium (2003), Spain (2005), Canada (2005), South Africa (2006), Norway (2009), Sweden (2009), Portugal (2010), Iceland (2010), Argentina (2010), Denmark (2012), Brazil (2013), France (2013), Uruguay (2013), New Zealand[c] (2013), Luxembourg (2015), the United States[e] (2015), Ireland (2015), Colombia (2016), Finland (2017), Malta (2017), Germany (2017), Australia (2017), Austria (2019), Taiwan (2019), Ecuador (2019), the United Kingdom[d] (2020), and Costa Rica (2020). In Mexico, same-sex marriage is performed in several states and recognized in all thirty-one states.
I find the car rental process really difficult in Europe. It seems they are just looking to get you and give the most detailed possible inspection of cars. In the USA I have found when I return a car they just really look at it for major damage and that's it. So I avoid renting a car in UK or other European countries, and if I do I don't just sign when they try to show me the iPad pics of known damage. I want to inspect that car as detailed as they do because I know it is coming back the other way when I return.
I would definitely second the suggestion of identifying "deal breakers" as early as possible. It's much easier to highlight a shortcoming and come up with a reasonable solution when a few hours/weeks have been committed vs 100/1000's of hours.

Sales people can greatly mis-state product capabilities so be on the lookout for where they let themselves get carried away with selling a solution. I've even worked with them before and gotten called down for correcting their "misunderstandings" in front of the potential customer.

Sales people live for the sale, you should be living to deliver the final solution to a happy/content client.
My experience as a buyer and seller on eBay has been going downhill the last few years. Reading this story sickens me, and makes me not want to do business on their platform anymore.

I hope they nail the top execs who encouraged the behavior. Even in the unlikely-looking scenario they weren't complicit, they ought to be fired for allowing such an unprofessional culture to fester under their watch.
> because society has to respect individual rights

That hasn't been true since the 1960s when the bulk of our Civil Rights legislation was passed. The prior legal regime already supported individual rights for all people; "Civil Rights" was about putting the health of society ahead of those individual rights. Actual 1st Amendment rights like "Freedom of Association" were severely curtailed by Civil Rights legislation; indeed, that was the entire point.

Now, I probably agree with you about respecting individual rights. I would have liked (as far as I can tell, having not lived through it) the pre-Civil Rights legal regime because I'm a White, straight male. The culture back then was designed to work well for someone like me (and according to all historical evidence, it did).

But that's no longer the culture in the US, and we're coming up on 60 years now since the rules were changed. I'm not sure what you want me to do about it, assuming I even could change things today (or would want to).
I am a bit conflicted, but overall, if the description is fair and the disclaimer is clear, I would allow it. Lotteries ang gambling are legal after all.
The plot is movie material. I bet there's a book deal(s) coming up somewhere.
I have a hard time understanding why network access would be so annoying and difficult. It should be easy for an emulator to implement user-adjustable restrictions on that.
The order to murder these people was given long before the camera lens was observable by those who murdered them.

"They could have had a rocket launcher" is an agitprop straw man intentionally proffered in order to minimise the magnitude of the crime committed. I wonder why it is so important for you, personally, to minimise this criminal act?
> Without secure boot, it is basically impossible to detect the existence of a well written rootkit, since it can control the OS tmand hide itself from any OS API, whether internal or external.

You can detect the existence of a rootkit by booting from known-clean read-only media and then scanning for it. It's even possible to implement "secure boot" this way without any hardware support -- have known-clean read-only boot media that contains your signing keys and then verifies and boots the operating system of your choice.

Implementing this in rushed closed-source system firmware is then purely a misfeature, along with the legitimate concern that it could lead to systems where the device owner can't install their own signing keys. Give people a USB stick with a hardware write protect switch, not signing keys hard-coded in firmware.
ZFS is like Bitcoin: Skyrocketing in popularity for no apparent reasons.

Although I acknowledge that in this case it is WDs fault.
BetterTLS – A Name Constraints test suite for HTTPS clients, created by Netflix
> current proposal might, but generics provide far more value than the try function from the errors proposal. they won't just stop attempting to figure it out.

It doesn't matter how hard anybody tries when a vocal community rejects any attempt at changing Go type system.
> How many kids actually bothered pirating a copy of Flash?

Lots.

Lots and lots and lots.

If you’d spent time back then looking at new submissions to the Newgrounds Flash Portal, you’d have seen how true that was.

I knew a guy who became a professional 3D animator, and Flash was what got him into animation in the first place.

It was bigger than you think. YouTube is not the same.

Video production is a marketable skill, sure, but in my opinion a more boring, less expressive, less creative one.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.3754.pdf
The only reason people use CentOS is so they don't have to pay for RHEL licensing for all their servers. There are so many better options for Linux distros.
OP here, it is a typo. Too late to edit :(. Sorry!
There is no need to try and identify false beliefs because at some point, you'll finally ask 'what is false?' and then you'll reach a satori of sorts - beliefs are not binary (true/false), they're a gradient along the axis of usefulness, if you believe in evolution.
It has a lot of potential. You can often write code in Julia that is really performant by just following a few simple rules. Most notably, keeping type stability. Libraries are now catching up. Some are great, some are unique, others are still missing.

I have generated SIMD code that outperforms C and C++, even after some hand optimizations. As a matter of fact, some people are re-writing a BLAS drop-in replacement in pure Julia, and the performance is not going to be too far off from BLAS [1]. If you work in scientific computing, you can probably appreciate how amazing that is.

The combination of multiple dispatch, a simple type system and an LLVM backend is wonderful. In the long run, Julia will probably grab lots of Python's and R's marketshare because having a single language instead of two languages (Python + Cython/Pythran/... or R + C++) is a huge advantage.

[1] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/we-can-write-an-optimized-...
Cool!

Does it require a custom kernel?
I’ve wanted Scheme / Racket to make a showing in places where R and Python have dominated the data science and numerical computing spaces (for those of us not writing C/C++/Fortran).

But, I think Julia is the closest thing to an honest-to-goodness lisp that has a prayer of mainstream adoption. I quite like Julia and think the community has leveraged the meta programming strengths of the language well enough to convince me to relinquish my love of minimalist lisp syntax.

I do wonder if the biggest risk to Julia isn’t that it’s not extreme / superlative in any dimension. If you want raw performance, Rust seems to be capturing the lion’s share of excitement among “new” languages. If you want meta programming, Julia still feels like a compromise compared to Scheme/Racket/Clojure/Common Lisp. If you want libraries, Python is still king. If you want stats libraries, R is still king. Julia is impressively good at all of those things... but it’s not good enough to be the most compelling of any of them.

Still, it makes me think that it may be time to dive in head first rather than dabble my toes as I've been doing for the past few years. I guess my main barrier at the moment is compiler / deployment story—it still seems hard to build a deployable binary that fits in, say, a Lambda layer as far as I can tell.
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I tweeted at @AskCiti last weekend and their response was underwhelming.

I recommend everyone that uses Citi's virtual CC's to do the same. They need to get off their ass and fix this.
Respectfully, this is the hugest flaw with small c conservative thought, it's hyperfocused on the individual and ignores any larger social context or wellbeing to the detriment of a nation, state, etc
Happy Tree Friends, Weebls' Stuff, z0r.de - the internet would be - will be! - different without Flash.
I find it baffling that this template is inaccessible to users of Office 365 for business.
Is there a point at which the SEC could/might consider the Fed’s activities as market manipulation, or is that outside the scope of the SEC mandate?
Lego's robotics stuff might be patented but their core brick isn't anymore. However the generic replacements like Mega Bloks just don't snap together nearly as well as LEGO. For a toddler making a little garden out of a few blocks it's fine, but you can easily make a vertical Duplo stack that's 3 times taller than the maximum stack you can make with Mega Bloks, and that kind of structural integrity becomes very important in robotics.
What do you recommend? And why?
The world is not black and white.

There is some evil that is done by good guys, and a tribe/community protects them. This is normal human behavior.

Sociopaths are a minority.

Would you protect your child if he/she did a hit&run? Would you report him/her right away?
They'll lose me as a customer if they do. I suspect there are lots of other people in the same boat.
As a Vancouver-side Canadian I must say that the support for tech up here is pretty poor in a large part due to the labour laws being gutted by EA. Providing information on OT policies and OT compensation is one of the first rounds of questions you can expect to receive during hiring.

On the other hand - Canadian business expenses are still quite high, but quite a bit lower than US business expenses. Healthcare and cost of living are huge factors in labour costs.
I believe this is the first paper to describe reference counting:

George E. Collins. A method for overlapping and erasure of lists. Commun. ACM 3, 12 (Dec. 1960), 655–657. https://doi.org/10.1145/367487.367501
TMobile Calling Outage
Show me anything that Wikileaks released that did not, in some way, involve either a) a war crime, b) corruption, or c) spying.

Wikileaks is not a judiciary body. It never had any intention other than to provide an ill-informed public (remember, the Iraq war was predicated on a lie) with enough data to make its own conclusion. Your authoritarian stance that only the government can decide its own secrets is fundamentally corrupt to the idea of a free, open society.