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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:33PM (#25692168)
If you read the post it's pretty clear that a random person saying either of those won't get them banned. Twitter talks a lot about the context around them, how other people are interpreting them, and how past actions of Trump are influencing their decision.
The report you linked to has been disputed by a lot of respected people: professors, the Michigan State Department, non-profits on fair elections, the former acting director of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s Voting System Testing and Certification Program[0], and even Krebs, Trump's former chief of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency[1]. The last affidavit written by the author of that report was also disproven and had entirely wrong numbers[2].

[0] https://www.factcheck.org/2020/12/audit-in-michigan-county-r... [1] https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/12/... [2] https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-michigan-voter-...

I'm pretty sure it isn't JIRA. It's their own JIRA alternative called YouTrack - https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/
Re:Mindfulness may have been over-hyped on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @05:53PM (#17025562)
There's something similar to what you describe called the Hype Cycle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
Re:Ask HN: Is Hacker News GDPR Compliant? on Friday April 13, 2018 @06:43PM (#16834544)
I don't think that's correct. My understanding was that GDPR applies to organizations that are used by EU citizens or residents. See:

> Under the GDPR, organizations may be in scope if (i) the organization is established in the EU, or (ii) the organization is not established in the EU but the data processing activities are with regard to EU individuals and relate to the offering of goods and services to them or the monitoring of their behavior.

- https://stripe.com/guides/general-data-protection-regulation...

Re:Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView on Monday October 30, 2017 @03:32PM (#15588146)
Looks awesome! I saw you said it was written in Go and I've been looking for a good Go GUI library. Which one are you using?
I think the "102 job openings posted" refers to their being 102 roles listed on their jobs page. Each of those roles could be looking for more than 1 person to hire. For example, they probably want to hire more than just 1 "Senior Software Engineer" [0]

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/jobs/listing/735139

Re:How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @01:01PM (#15029101)
I don't know if this is what the author used but I use Monodraw[0] to make diagrams like this.

[0] https://monodraw.helftone.com/

Dr. McKee, the study's author, acknowledged that and addressed it:

> But 110 positives remain significant scientific evidence of an N.F.L. player’s risk of developing C.T.E., which can be diagnosed only after death. About 1,300 former players have died since the B.U. group began examining brains. So even if every one of the other 1,200 players had tested negative — which even the heartiest skeptics would agree could not possibly be the case — the minimum C.T.E. prevalence would be close to 9 percent, vastly higher than in the general population.

Re:Running 10M PostgreSQL Indexes in Production on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @01:58AM (#14543071)
Great article! Thanks for taking the time to write it up.

What sort of performance impact do these indexes have on writes? I'm guessing PostgreSQL has to look at evaluate each index predicate for the inserted data to see if the index needs to have an entry added.

This is a Chrome extension I made because I feel most productive when my hands don't have to leave the keyboard. It's inspired heavily by https://shortcatapp.com/ which unfortunately doesn't work with Chrome. Hopefully you find it as useful as I do! If you encounter any issues or have any suggestions please feel free to reach out to me.
Re:RethinkDB Relicensed under Apache 2.0 on Monday February 06, 2017 @11:45AM (#13581220)
> For example, imagine Digital Ocean using MongoDB to store server configurations. AGPL would force them to open-source their whole infrastructure. All of it. Or pay to get a different license.

I don't think that's correct. From MongoDB the company[0]:

> Note however that it is NOT required that applications using mongo be published. The copyleft applies only to the mongod and mongos database programs. This is why Mongo DB drivers are all licensed under an Apache license. You application, even though it talks to the database, is a separate program and “work”.

[0] https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/the-agpl

Re:All the best advice we could find on how to get a job on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @04:19PM (#11865322)
In the US, unpaid internships are only legal when they pass a six-part test. Generally, if the intern is doing stuff that benefits the company the internship must be paid. http://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/employment-law-and-human-re... lists the six-part test
Re:Chrome removes Backspace to go back on Thursday May 19, 2016 @06:07PM (#11734249)
I built an extension that replaces the backspace feature and is open source (so you can install it yourself and check the code).

Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/back-to-backspace/...

Source: https://github.com/j-delaney/back-to-backspace

Re:Chrome removes Backspace to go back on Thursday May 19, 2016 @05:44PM (#11734115)
I wrote a quick Chrome extension to fix this for those interested.

Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/back-to-backspace/...

Source: https://github.com/j-delaney/back-to-backspace