skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i think you are onto something, but i don't think the market cares that much about privacy, dark patterns etc

also see how software has stabilised over the years, both as a product and as a marketplace. there are now clearly defined best in class software that will take years to be disrupted.

but one of the major aspects against computer software has come from mobile. lots of development time has gone to browsers and mobile than desktop.
Also, she's lying about "throwing open the doors". That was never the intention of proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act. We've had years of hateful campaigning, with the most prominent support coming from JKR but also from the right wing UK press, spreading misinformation.

http://qna.files.parliament.uk/ws-attachments/1236318/origin...

> The Equality Act allows service providers to offer separate or differing services to men and women, or services to one sex only. For example, a domestic violence refuge may offer its services only to women. The Act also allows service providers to exclude a person with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment from a single-sex or separate-sex service, provided that doing so is a proportionate means of meeting a legitimate aim –in other words, where the service provider can demonstrate that there is a very strong reason for doing so. This can only be decided on a case-by-case basis, considering the needs of both the individual trans person and other service users.

> When launching the consultation, the Government said that it did not intend to amend the Equality Act. The consultation document stated that service providers would still be able to exclude trans people from single-or separate-sex services in certain circumstances, and that this could also apply to someone who had changed their legal gender and was in possession of a GRC. The Government’s view at the outset of the consultation, therefore,was that the operation of the single-sex exception would not be affected by changes to the GRA
Yes. A key idea of Agile (maybe Scrum specifically) thinking is that you release and retrospect/rethink often, instead of long-term working on unlaunched projects from an ancient plan. I guess if you skip the rethink part than you aren't doing sprints property.

An insight of Agile is that your have to pick either a feature based release schedule or a time based release schedule, not both, which is impossible and that time-based is better.
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Atwood is not anti-trans and has criticised JKR for her bigoted beliefs.
Awesome project. Don’t think it even has a good alternative available?
Note for anyone else checking: The links are weirdly hidden. Every paragraph ends with "Find [possessive] updates here", with "here" being a non-underlined or otherwise highlighted link.

It happens because their CMS has some really weird html output:

<em>text <a><em>linktext</em></a><em>.</em>

I only post this because at first I thought the list was only linking to twitter.
Seems you selectively read only parts of my comment. It's about dignity and self-respect. While many people are gladly giving those away, I'm not. As I said, I've been called every stereotype known to mankind related to eastern Europeans. Do I care? No. The same way I didn't care when I was traveling through the UK in 2014 just as Nigel Farage was preaching how 150 million Bulgarians and Romanians were about to flood the UK and take everyone's jobs, rob everyone's house, kill every baby and rape everyone and their dog. Those were the headlines of every news report and the face of every newspaper stand. Again - did I care? "Cool story bro". Did any of that cause any harm to me or those around me? Not in the slightest. If anything I learned to joke about it myself.

The main issue is that when these things become the primary concern of a company, those that climb the ladder are not climbing it necessarily for their contribution but for their "attitude" or as I prefer to call it, ass-licking abilities. Because many people aren't buying into any of that but are willing to exploit this niche. Here's another example: I know a guy with a 5 figure monthly salary who has spoken at several seminars with multiple videos online, promoting the LGBTQ community. Great, right? Behind closed doors his reaction to all of those efforts was "what a bunch of faggots". As a developer he is absolutely terrible. He'd never be able to tell you the difference between float and double. Guess how he worked his way to the position he's in... Sadly all the translations I could find were terrible but here's the least bad one [1]. It's worth a read and you will see the analogy and the problem.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/satire/comments/1khe87/tale_of_the_...
That is pretty awesome and a good example where storing data in the cloud actually makes sense. Easy to share and publish at the same time and large data processing capabilities are right around the corner.

Chile has still some good "dark sites", although economic growth in northern regions introduced some light pollution already.
And have it be picked up by the nearest GoogleAlexaPod?
And what was he supposed to say? Here comes some arrogant jerk, without any history in the project and announces that "Calibre needs to convert to Python 3" without offering any help or solution. Considering how big project Calibre is, Kovid's response was quite logical, it was easier to maintain Python 2 version. Later with actual contributors to the cause of migrating Calibre to Python 3 it became feasible.
My favourite TZ bug was where thanks to a timezone bug some (but not all) events were showing up a day early after our etl. It turned out that a combination of several seemingly logical steps we had managed to end up in an insane place. If you just want the tldr, dates are not times, don't store dates as times or you can be bitten by timezone bugs. Also dates don't have a timezone, don't store them as something that has a timezone or you can make mistakes.

So:

1)We decided to store all timestamps as UTC. A bunch of analysis we were doing was temporal so it was really important to be able to compare timestamps coming from different source systems (with different native timestamps) accurately.

2)Some events were things occurring on specific dates rather than at a particular time. No problem, dates don't have a timezone. We can't possibly be bitten by a timezone bug on dates.

3)One of our serialization formats didn't have a date type so we decided to store dates as times with a timestamp of midnight (This is ancient Pig-era hadoop so you're probably talking an earlyish avro format but I can't remember). You can always just chop the time off to turn them back to a date and nothing can possibly go wrong.

4)One of the event source systems used Europe/London timezone (ie daylight savings in the summer, GMT in the winter) as the system tz rather than UTC. No big deal right, we're doing consistent UTC conversion so this couldn't possibly hurt anything.

Bingo! Some of the date based events appeared one day earlier than they should. Do you see why?

This was an absolute bastard to debug because it was in the middle of a somewhat flakey data pipeline taht used to take >9hrs to run but basically what was happening is during daylight savings months these events were being converted from 00:00 1 Aug BST (say) to 23:00 31 July UTC, so when serialised once you chopped off the time the event would end up one day early. It wasn't all dates because not all days are during daylight savings and events that had an actual time (not a date that had been turned into a time) were of course fine. Also date events that were recorded on a system that used UTC as its system timezone were also fine.
JKR write under the pen name Robert Galbraith.

Is it just a coincidence that the pen name she picked was the name of a gay conversion therapist?

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Galbraith_Heath
Is it? A week ago I've downloaded a gcc4.7(?) ARM toolchain, unpacked it, set CROSS_COMPILE and build some software for mine ARM board. It was quite easy.
What if one day your head is in a different space? You have to call out sick until you are ready for one specific task?
The "standard licenses" you're talking about weren't standard until people actually started using them.

People can't start using licenses if you don't first write them.
I have an educational MSDNAA (or Dreamspark, or whatever it is called this month) key I can send you, if that's legal enough for you.
Looks and works great - it's simple to use and very intuitive. Very useful for badly recorded lectures, to filter out the crowd.

I hope you can add a bit of polish to integrate better into OS. On XFCE the program has a nice-looking icon showing in Notification Area (system tray), but in Window Buttons (taskbar) it has a generic icon. It cannot be minimized or hidden, it can only be closed.
Please understand how big codebase is. Porting pyqt stuff is not easy. If you see comments in bug, author and others already started to work on port, but they knew it will take time and they were sure of easyness of maintaining old version. It is always easy to whine than UNDERSTANDING and DOING actual work. As you're already developer, you must know that if it is that easy, author had it ported already

Plus as port itself doesn't affect any user experience, it was not emergency situation. It is just that 'we are working FREELY with our own pace, so it will take time. Actual contribution is really appriciated than complains'

There is another similar program I miss is, leafpad. It is dropped by distros as not yet ported.
Why do you need to see a doctor for a repeat prescription is the question here, why cannot you logon to the doctors website and just request a repeat.
Maybe an unique historical opportunity for a tool "good enough" to do the job, seizing the widespread adoption possibility, and letting no room in this ecological niche.

That is, yes, there is room for stable languages, but it’s already fully occupied. So only languages targeting market with a mindset open to "better moving continuously anywhere than risking sclerosis" can flourish.

Now, that might be a bit caricatural of course.
We had just one of the huts left in my UK school - until IIRC the roof blew away?!

I don't remember the distinct reverb, my overriding memory is of being far too hot in summer and far too cold in winter.
Ask HN: Why are the stock valuations so detached from reality?
As the title says, why do you think the stock market is (or is hovering) around the all time high levels when the underlying economic indicators are clearly showing the future isn't that bright after all?

I know some will say "it's a bubble", that's fine but why is the bubble growing and what do you think is different from the dot com bubble for example.
what a great response to a dumb statement
That's pretty common within the WordPress community, yeah, and it doesn't have to be ugly if the coders knew what they were doing. A lot of it is a mess, though.
Hydrogen-powered commercial aircraft takes to the skies above Bedfordshire
I don't blame the program, I blame myself for installing a management software when all I wanted was an ebook viewer (and definitely NOT a management software of any kind).
C got C89, C90, C99, C11, C17, and is on its way to get C2X.
Same stack here, plus Decentraleyes, and it's working fine.
Like a lot of similar software. GraalVM has a free and open source community edition. And an enterprise version that comes with increased performance and security. The enterprise version is free for evaluation and development. And for production costs around 100-200 USD year/processor. This includes 24/7 support.

Community edition runs any program that runs on GraalVM Enterprise.
Your argument seems to be:

"I can say what I like, and when the people I'm insulting turn round and argue back they're fragile.

But me, I'm not in anyway fragile when I'm trying to shut them down for criticising me."
I always thought Jager tasted like Benylin - so that would make sense...
*failed to win the election, unelected to government
Promo code?!
Surprisingly, "concatenative builds" where you chuck all the files in a single file and compile that, tend to be a lot faster.

distcc/ccache also works. Years ago we had a rack full of machines devoted to this. Requires a little tuning but lets you do -j 50. Of course, that was in the days of dual-core machines and these days you can buy a lot of cores. Bottleneck is probably writing intermediate files to disk and flushing them.

Untangling the inter-dependencies that cause all the rebuilding is very hard and often forces design changes you don't want, such as use of the "pimpl" idiom.
I think it would be ok, but part of the question is what you mean by "popular".

WhatsApp famously runs on Erlang, as do large chunks of our telecomms infrastructure. It has an enormous number of users. What it doesn't have is an enormous number of developers. One of the good things about the Erlang (and Elixir) ecosystem is that there are a relatively small number of people implementing the bits you care about, and they all seem to be extremely competent engineers. The pieces are designed well, they are reliable and they fit together. They also have good abstractions so if you use good pieces then you get good results (e.g. with Phoenix you'd have a hard time creating a XSRF or SQL injection problem).

PHP has a bit of a perfect storm of problems - it is so accessible that anyone can and did use it. This meant a lot of people implemented things using it, with varying levels of competence. This means a lot of problematic implementation of a lot of pieces, built on a language and framework that didn't really try to prevent security problems and so didn't really have the tools to do so. In contrast to Erlang/Elixir above, you can take a set of tools in PHP and easily implement a very insecure website.
Here's the original source: https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/77879263

And the archive when it gets pruned: https://archive.is/eg9nw
Putin's pet will cover up his connection by disappearing him, and the best thing: America gets the blame.
If you're going to stop using stuff because a key person on the project is a bit of a dick, I assume you don't use anything via Linus or Apple-era Steve Jobs.
True, if something like that is in the vicinity, not good. But with a cable like suggested, you you make it harder. I am thinking in the workplace.
Edit: Also, communication could be encrypted. The receiver could show a QR code with a one time key, which your phone recognizes and encrypts with.
Neue Haas Grotesk (2011)
I‘m using calibre with calibre-web [1] to browse my 80000+ pdfs and couldn‘t be happier with the workflow. Only downside: import of these pdfs took almost a whole day.

[1] https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
v2 includes neural implants so you cant knock it off?
C has had plenty of updates, see my reply.
Run Android Emulator on CircleCI
I know as much as anyone else who has actually read the Royal Charter. (-:

The Charter covers "UK Public Services" and the "World Service", as does the Agreement with the Minister of the Crown. The World Service is a specific thing, which you can read about for yourself.

* So public service broadcasting to other countries isn't within the terms of the Charter.

* Commercial activities are prohibited to the BBC itself. They are limited to commercial subsidiaries.

The upshot of this is that services that you get outwith the U.K. are not from the BBC. They are from commercial subsidiary companies, such as BBC Studios for example, or from joint venture companies. BBC Studios is what broadcasts BBC content such as BBC America outwith the United Kingdom. Similarly, the WWW site that is served up to computers outwith the United Kingdom isn't provided by the BBC. It is provided by BBC Global News Ltd, another commercial subsidiary. It's quite different to the WWW site that is seen within the U.K..

The commercial subsidiaries aren't funded by the Licence Fee, and the BBC itself is not permitted to make a profit from its dealings with them, which must be "at arm's length" (to quote the Agreement).

* https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/governance/charter
The lack of meeting rooms is because they want to save money on real estate and rationalize it as meetings are supposed to happen in the bullpen where everyone can hear and contribute. If they wanted people to shut up and code they'd have personal offices or cubicles
A friend spotted this a few years ago, F50 company offshore office (incorrectly regarded as a cost centre). He was immediately writing his CV. Three months later 2000 of 8000 employees were cut.
What are you on, you lunatic? Free WIFI free WIFI /s

That is sarcastic but definitely not a straw-man. I had those conversations and its quite sad to see how shortsighted people get when you attach free to something.

People are going mad over wearing mask since its a tool of control. But expose a mass surveillance system and noone bat an eye. Implement free grid wifi that will be able to track you across city and you are the next jesus.

They will probably try to fingerprint you even if you are not connected.
> Providing different services on different channels was partly the point.

No, BBC one's remit is not to just show fluffy nonsense

It's remit is in fact:

> BBC One’s remit is to be the BBC’s most popular mixed-genre television service
across the UK, offering a wide range of high quality programmes. It should be the
BBC’s primary outlet for major UK and international events and it should reflect the
whole of the UK in its output. A very high proportion of its programmes should be
original productions.
I imagine it all went down in a manner very similar to the sense/net hack from neuromancer.
He definitely has a grudge against bellingcat. He had a big spat over the identities of the Skripal poisoners, but ended up looking like he was just making it up.

The nicest way I can think of Murray politically is as one of these people who is not supportive of the west's enemies but sufficiently anti-western to end up aligning with them. Calling Bellingcat warmongerers is an example of this.
What? The UComics site?

It’s not my fave site. They play some games to try to force visitors to click, and their ad network gets hijacked by malware on a regular basis, but it’s usually working for me.

Here are a couple of direct links to the images (CDNs, so not sure how long they'll last):

[0] https://assets.amuniversal.com/a8cecaf0b7e00138179b005056a95...

[1] https://assets.amuniversal.com/1c1d4bf0b2c101365ec0005056a95...
" The ultimate goal of a cryptocurrency is the separation of money and state "

It was my understanding that crypto's ultimate value was in the block chain, which is a secure, decentralized record of all transactions that can not be altered by any one entity, be that the state or other fraudulent actors.

The anonymous aspects of crypto might be appealing to some libritarian minded people but I'm not sure that is what makes it ultimatly valuable to the general masses. Believe it or not many people are OK with the government watching and tracking their assests, even in the USA. Just look at the current popularity of socialism.
I had 3 accounts and made about 5k USD of the airdrop. No reason 500k couldn't have happened if someone was providing liquidity to the protocol.
Show HN: Community-Driven Catalog of Knowledge
This will save me a lot of time. I'm always hopping between branches on the single repo we use to stay in the free-tier. I couldn't find this in the Git documentation, but it works great!
Kids between 2 and 11 years old spend an average of 5/6 hours per day in front of a screen. And kids between 2 and 3 see an average of 25,600 ads a year. This article is not about parenting, it's about regulating the software industry.
I don't know about your first argument. Dollar is tied to US and you wouldn't mind to take it don't you? It is a currency, and it is backed up by a government. Of course, the Chinese currency is not dollar. You should see it as paypal, rather than something like bitcoin.
> I’m continuing to work on X

Means there is a blocker and the person is stuck or meandering and can't or won't explain it. Major yellow flag.
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My reading was they hand made a solution, called it optimal (no proof) and then were disappointed when the ANN didn't converge to their weights...
NTPC to Set Up Energy Intensive Industries in Its Premises Across Three States
i changed my windows 10 color scheme to bright red so I always feel like I'm in danger.
My mother feeds the local magpies, who turn up every morning for their free feed. One can argue about whether this is environmentally sound, but my mother lives alone and she enjoys the connection. She has them literally eating out of her hand.

This week she sent me a photo of a young juvenile magpie which had arrived for the first time, clearly brought along by the parents to learn the ropes.
I consider XP to be the first instance of Microsoft tightening the screws, as it was the first version to require activation, with the potential for hardware upgrades to require reactivation. Even then, I thought that it would ultimately lead to locked-down bootloaders and other such tomfoolery, and we're now most of the way there, or, indeed, already there for mobile.
I wonder if the Star Wars clip in the blog post is licensed :)
To give the full quote:

> The unelected Labour opposition proposed activist shills took control of the editorial policy of not just the BBC but also print media.
Obligatory Clojure plug :)

Most, if not all, code from 5 years ago runs with no changes whatsoever.

The stewards of Clojure heavily advocate and practice “stable” development where backwards compatibility is a requirement. Combined with the famous JVM compatibility means that the whole enterprise is a very stable foundation for building stuff.
If they didn't enter the prison report into evidence then surely they've just shot themselves in the foot?
Music sounds worse today even for people with perfect hearing.. :)
'Users want search, first without having to put too much thought into modeling what they're looking for'

But Ads ?

And to the next one phrasing: 'light semantics...'

But google want it (company-patented) exclusive for themself ?

left me confused... (-;
Great job. I hope to hearabout it again.
you ever download a loaf of bread?
Are you saying that Labour controls print media and the BBC in the UK?
Sigsaly
She's security adjacent, experience working on product in cybersecurity startups and talking at conferences. I get the vibe she cares more about money than security.
> I'm getting old

And wiser.

Youth is wasted on the young. Unfortunately for the field of software development that means endless gyrations of over engineering and technobabel.
> Who else has an install base like Amazon in their Alexas and Rings?

a company like Arris that sells DOCSIS3/3.1 cablemodems and GPON end user CPEs to big ISPs like Shaw, Comcast, Charter, Wave/RCN, etc. The main problem with that concept is that if a manufacturer of residential CPEs such as Arris made a unilateral decision to incorporate the tech into their cablemodems and other devices, their $BIGISP customers might not be pleased about it and would buy elsewhere.
> Both TV and Radio output quality has been absolutely eviscerated in the last 10 or so years

Who was in power all that time?
An Android transformation library providing a variety of image transformations
Let a thousa.d flowers bloom