jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Your only citations against unions is the same situation reported by two news agencies about a union that is legally obligated to defend their members?
I agree. Good analysis. I bought an ebike for myself instead of a second car for the family, otherwise there's no way I could realistically travel the needed distances on a daily basis.

The biggest hindrance to me right now is no way to park a bicycle safely. Even carrying bulky bike locks is risky in NY for someone who wanted a nice ebike.
I don't know what your percention of Norway is, but having moved around a bit and currently being based here, I see that Scandinavians have a different relationship with governments and corporations than in many other countries. For a start, it's not primarily seen as an adversarial relationship. It's more of the people, for the people. Not perfect, but Scandinavian societies rely on a high level of trust and it works, for now. There's been an increase in data protection recently, which I think is needed as it's a bit too transparent at times.

The government doesn't know about every purchase you make but there is a lot of data sharing. However there is a lot more consumer protection and less power lies with unaccountable corporations than in many other capitalist countries, where corporations have almost free reign and have powerful influence over society, economy & politic. For example, credit scoring is relatively new here and is a lot less intense than other countries. In places like the UK/USA, credit scoring companies control your financial possibilities. Much less so in Scandinavia.

There is a small number of people for whom a cashless society poses problems, but it's probably less, and a different subset, than you think. Those I know of through association tend to be those who suffer severe mental health issues. Old people have bank accounts, debit cards and mobile phones for digital transactions. As for homeless people, there are less of them in Scandinavia than in other countries. Almost all of them will still have a bank account and a mobile phone and be receiving state funds digitally. (Homelessness is not defined as living on the street, almost all the homeless are in temporary housing.)
Belbin team roles as a way of recognising the oil?

http://www.belbin.com/
The current practice which I have observed is for stock grants which vest over a multi-year schedule.
nothing is lost - it's hard labor, barges floating stones up rivers, A-frame's to lift them...

...there have been COUNTLESS documentaries in the UK showing time and time again surprisingly small teams of people erecting megalithic monuments
> Single-stack container trains with one car per 40 foot container (2 TEU) seem to be the standard for Belt and Road shipments. That covers most of what needs to be shipped.

For someone who lives in the US, this seems not-state-of-the-art. Most long-distance train traffic in the US has shifted to double-stack container trains.

> Not sure what the train length limit is. That's set by the length of sidings.

From what I can tell, Europe tends to prefer far smaller trains than the US does. The typical train length in the US is >100 cars (I want to say 120-ish is the current average, but I don't have firm statistics), but in Europe, it seems to be more like 40 cars.
Yeah. I guess I just don't get why allowing for the possibility of subsidized devices requires a locked down bootloader. If they are going for some sort of razor blades model then they would lose money every time somebody buys one and doesn't use their OS / shop at their App market, but people that do that are undoubtedly a miniscule minority.

On the other hand, I guess because they are a miniscule minority then they aren't going to care about them...

Meh, I don't know. I kind of get the feeling that they locked down the bootloader just because doing that is the "Cool thing to do"(tm) and didn't with the Pro only because it would be unprecedented for x86.
Does linux have a screen locker that is reasonably secure?
In mavericks, I could hit command-space and start typing, and knew that even though the spotlight box hadn't popped up yet, my text was being captured. Now in yosemite, it's more like... hit command-space, start typing "chrome", wind up with a box 1.5 seconds later filled in with "ome". This is only a problem on my i5 mac mini. My macbook pro (same year - late 2012) is just barely fast enough to pop open the window in time to capture my text input. But that just shows that their UI stack is too deep to provide the kind of snappy user interactions they are shooting for.
This sounds like the most plausible.
Not exactly true I've worked for several very large agencies that use encrypted and/or signed email extensively
That's a terribly optimistic view of science, speaking as someone who was also in the same boat. They might not just accept anything, but it'll be much easier if they want to believe you. This goes quintuple for social science.
Just because the internet infrastructure right now can handle some consumers without data caps does not mean that it’s a good idea to permanently embed that as a principle. What happens when we have 4 people per home, all streaming uncompressed 8k VR video streams, and 200 homes in a subdivision?

Sorry, Comcast, make your pipes bigger? Government says so? Sorry, Level3, hip-new-startup is pushing 400PBps, you can’t drop it!

I don’t know what the demands of the internet are going to be in 10 years, and neither does anyone in Washington DC.
Automatically filling those envelopes (setting aside that money) prevents you from accidentally spending that money and getting yourself in a bind when it comes due. It's just a digital version of physical envelopes, which people also use to make sure they don't overspend.

If you look in your spending account and you have $80 left for the month, you're gonna budget around that, buy cheaper meals, hold off on purchases, etc. If you look in a singular account and it's a few thousand (covering your rent, insurance, utilities, etc that'll all get withdrawn on some day), you're a lot more likely to accidentally overspend and overdraft.

If you set your money aside for expected expenses when you get it, it makes it a bit easier to know exactly how much you have left over and can actually spend (or save, or invest, etc) that month.
That’s a bank account bonus not a real interest rate. I made 20% APR in 90 days for churning a PNC account by that logic, does that mean I can in turn make 20% on arbitrary deposits on a regular basis?
Exactly. It's double dipping to charge for the rate of flow and the amount. We don't do that for water.

The only reason the major ISPs want this is because the old content providers are desperate to maintain their positions in the market. They think they can squeeze out competitors by joining forces with the biggest ISPs [1] and implementing zero rating and data caps. That way no one will be able to compete with them. You won't want to pay for your overages on the next Netflix when the current one has a free-pass arrangement with your regional-monopoly broadband ISP.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_NBC_Universal_b...
Alright, just checked it out. Using regular HTML comments for rendering many items is neat and using the hash symbol to display the index is genius. I really like that.

Now I just need to find a project to use this on.
having major new releases every year is clearly impossible for the engineering
teams to keep up with while maintaining quality. Maybe it’s an engineering
problem, but I suspect not — I doubt that any cohesive engineering team
could keep up with these demands and maintain significantly higher
quality.

And yet, OpenBSD springs to mind for not just the timeliness of their releases (every 6 months) but also the quality and features within each release.
I guess that depends on what they were denying. The Wired article is entirely about Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, et. al. facilitating extremism on the right, when certainly the reality is that they are facilitating it wherever they can get engagement, on either side of the political spectrum. I mean since October they basically shut down a lot of content that was very much right-of-center. Alex Jones was deplatformed a long time ago.
Most Bitcoin users struggle with the basic concept of Bitcoin then. While you can "be your own bank", most coins (no reference, just surmising) are in exchanges rather than wallets owned by the end user. So despite the marketing copy, there's a ton of Bitcoin stored in what are essentially "banks".
Every href on this page is an Amazon affiliate link. Even public domain works such as Society of Mind by Minsky are directed to a for profit version. Observing this does not invalidate the judgement of the MIT student who published the list, but the profit motive should be disclosed in my opinion.
Do what they did to move people away from email: Spam them ;)

worst case you manage to sell a few cases of enlargement pills ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
> JSX is nice, but requires transpilation as JSX can’t be used by browsers directly. And as soon as you need a transpilation step you’ve opened yourself up to npm-hell with Babel, Uglify, Rollup/WebPack, etc - at which point people ask themselves why they’re even using JavsScript instead of TypeScript

React is fine with TypeScript, too.

“If you are using React, you might as well also use TypeScript instead of just JS” may be true, but I don’t see how its a problem.
SDL has always been the stack of reference when implementing your own engine, as far as I've seen in game dev. Now that is probably not the case for AAA games like cyberpunk etc, I don't follow as much tech there. But yeah, I've never seen gstreamer used for that. Curious if you can elaborate bout your experience especially wrt. the switch like you were mentioning downthread, I'm super curious.
> Of course, I'd also accept arresting [...], but I don't believe it matters which one is used in the case of violent riots.

It matters a lot when you decide that rioting people can simply be shot. Because it means you've given them up as humans. One of our claims to civilization is that we handle violence sufficiently, not proportionally. And certainly not excessively.
While I don't use nor know anyone on WhatsApp, I have a few friends that use FB Messenger (which I don't have on my phone) for most of their communication.

Sometimes I get an email along the lines of "X sent you a message on FB Messenger". When I do, I'll jump on the computer, chat a bit, and then remind them "I don't use FB on my phone, so if I'm not near a computer reach me @ XXX-XXX-XXXX or name@example.com". Everyone I'm in contact with has at least a phone number or email address.

Now, I'm 35 so not really in the age group that has 10 group chats, each with 10 people, that have all been going on for many years. You might be in a demographic where that happens more often.

Even so, consider this even though it's not exactly what WhatsApp gives you; it might be useful/healthy to reject the FOMO and half-disconnect (still keeping yourself available, but on fewer services).
Wow. This is a full-blown book, not merely a post or a paper. A thorough mathematical survey of network science (probability, graph theory, path analysis, etc.). Downloaded my copy. Although I wouldn't mind paying some money for the printed tome.
Difference between the Secret Service and Capitol PD.
I personally don't get the Putin thing, at all (nor does it seem to be well sourced). Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy, so of course the royal family can effectively use the nation's money as their bank account. But why and how would Putin amass hundreds of billions privately? A few billion is enough to meet any personal needs if he retires, and he currently has extreme political power. What would his holdings look like and how would they be so well hidden? The only way to reach a 10 or 11 figure net worth in the West is to own a lot of a public company.
That's an interesting analysis, thank you, but I'm not sure how much of the problem is due to the deficiency of IRV and how much is due to other idiosyncratic features of the Australian political scene (such as the influence of Murdoch media, or even the policy of mandatory voting).

In any case, fortunately there are better options out there than IRV, even with the requirement that districts don't change size. One popular (and simple) option is Approval Voting, although it is slightly harder to count than plurality (at least by hand, since you need to separate ballots into potentially 2^n piles, for n candidates).

The alternative I'd recommend is Asset Voting, where the ballots, districts, and counting remain the same, but after the count is complete, the losing candidates (from least popular to most) get to reassign their votes to other candidates until one of them has over 50%.
See Jevons paradox. More car traffic is not something that the average city resident wishes for.
What a load of crap. I'm a programmer, and designer. These are just skill sets that anyone with half of a good brain can learn. As usual, having a little talent helps too.
My question wasn't suggesting gold was a good form of money, I was trying to understand why people believe all money requires a "trusted 3rd party".

Anyway, Bitcoin does not require a trusted 3rd party any more so than gold does.
Brings back the memories from high school time, when I was helping my father in his accounting office. I was able to recognize the document being printed just by the sound pattern the printer was making :)
The flip side is that modern cars can accelerate from the 5kph that they exit their driveway at to 50kph with no noticeable noise.

I have almost been run over this way. Look to the left, no cars on the road, look to the right, no cars, look back to the left JESUS CHRIST.

Hopefully automatic pedestrian detection will become standard in the next few years, but in the mean time I need to be able to hear your high speed death-ram when I'm not facing it.

Perfectly happy for it to be something other than simulated engine noise, but I need an audible cue.
> That Amazon had a policy against speaking publicly is not a point in Amazon's favor.

Not to defend Amazon, but on this point, every job I've ever had included a policy that amounted to "do not speak publicly about the business."

Do others think this is unusual?
Maybe, but I feel like you could say the same about ICE cars. In general, throw more money at the car, get a bigger, more powerful engine.

There's probably still room for different approaches. Dodge seems to be known for cheap power - you can get a Challenger with a ton of horsepower for way less than say, a Porsche with equivalent horsepower. The Challenger is still based on the Challenger that was released in 2008 (Dodge gets more for their design money by using designs longer) and won't be appointed with interior materials that feel as nice.

Future Dodge might do the same - "let's make the most powerful electric coupe we can for $40k!" as opposed to something like "let's make a nice, comfortable, safe, well-rounded car for $40k".
>As it currently stands, APIs absolutely fall under copyright laws.

This opinion doesn't say so.

"We shall assume, but purely for argument’s sake, that the entire Sun Java API falls within the definition of that which can be copy-righted. We shall ask instead whether Google’s use of part of that API was a “fair use."
What is happening to EVs now will not stay constrained to the vehicle itself. We're seeing innovations in terms of integrations - with CarPlay/AndroidAuto, Phone-as-key, wifi APs, surveillance, etc. All of these things are new and have little to do with what is beneath the sheet metal and plastic body panels.

There are also interesting innovations that become more possible as more and more vehicles become "smart" and connected - imagine a metro area that is influencing smart vehicles +/- a few kph to smooth traffic, or route vehicular traffic like networking traffic around outages/problems.

The differentiator(s) won't be ways to make tires spin around an axle differently.
> However, the company just left it at that, failing to analyse how cyber criminals infiltrated the network – something that came back to haunt them when the same ransomware gang infected the network with the same ransomware less than two weeks later. The company ended up paying a ransom a second time.

Either they should have fixed the flaw _or_ included a specific clause with their multi-million payment to state "the [insert bad guys company here] will not repeat this bad behaviour"
Yeah, before it expires.
> It will be the ownership. In 3 to 5 years we should see autonomous vehicles that are offered by robot taxi networks.

We already see autonomous vehicles offered by non-robot taxi networks... And... what so?

> Customers will no longer have to worry about maintenance, charging, insurance, parking, cleaning,...

It's called taxi...

> Only very few companies can create/train the self-driving technology, e.g. Tesla, Google,... The outcome will be that we will see a lot less car companies.

There is no dramatic differentiation to current "AI" driving systems what-so-ever, they are all quite dumb, and have to act on the lowest margin of caution, just like all "self-driving" attempts working on the same principle in the last 30 years.
Tangent, but you said something I find really telling, in conjunction with OP's post.

Textualism to its proponents is very much like exploiting a system; figuring out the exact rules it defines and finding workarounds. It may not even be to a person's own goals (hence the individual not feeling biased when thinking this way), but is enjoyable in its own right in finding those loopholes (like the meme of the referee allowing Airbud to play, "there's nothing in the rule book!").

To its critics, it's like blindly implementing the ticket as written, rather than asking questions and making sure the intent is understood and the problem is being solved correctly.

Which explains, in a surprisingly empathetic way, why I am not a textualist, and why some of my family are, when it comes to political discussions.
Given a salted hash is being encrypted, who needs a nonce? The salt's already taken care of that, right?

Also, if you have 4 billion hashes stored, and you rotate the key, and you still have 4 billion hashes stored... What's changed? You would need a key ring or derivative keys I guess but I think this is actually a case where ECB does the job.

But I guess we've now proven the point that even a pepper is non-trivial.
To the guys who gave me -1:
If you cannot visit Google, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and many other websites, you will say "Fxxx GFW!" too.
> ...minor stuff that nobody cared about like red coins...

Wahhhhhhhhh!(?). You needed the red coins to get the star! Who DIDN'T care about the red coins?! I'm not a completionist, but getting the red coins in Mario64 was actually a fun challenge and not some tedious badge task.
Same issue here. Now so off-track that I'll probably just change the content-type and call it a day.
More (or less?) shocking here is the total lack of an official Slack response to this thread. Does not bode well..
Are you for real? Are you telling me that a someone's blog on a business magazine has a larger knowledge of technology than someone who's actively involved in it? If you have a medical condition do you also read health industry section in Wall Street Journal?

By the way, if you did not see it there was an update posted that states that FDB was closed source. It also doesn't matter that some components were open source or not, because without FDB they are useless either way.
I did, expecting something along of the lines of "Damn! What did we just tell you?". That was kind of a disappointment.
Me, I always liked to say, "Write once, run screaming."
How is execution different than 150 years in prison, aside from the chance to be exonerated later? Madoff's life is just about as thoroughly destroyed as Wu's. They will both die in prison.

I dislike capital punishment for several reasons, in particular the greater potential to be applied falsely, but I do not feel that Madoff's sentence is substantially less harsh.
email Innovation Works and see if they're willing to pop out a Canadian clone of them.
Man, I wish I knew someone there. The only reason I want to make a few million dollars is to save the future by fixing this broken system. That and all-you-can-eat-pizza.

Awesome slides, they know how to sell, that's for sure!

Are they actually planning on making money from this somehow? I went through a business plan with some others on an idea just like this and we did figure a way to make money but it was a long shot (not advertising!)
Agreed with Josh. You need to look into the potential ramifications of working on it whilst you're still working where you work.
I really doubt 80-100k is an average salary... maybe an average starting salary outside of the valley. I had such offers for places outside of the valley as an undergrad (before I had graduated).
You run the risk of making it a lot easier to figure out your password for other sites once one of them is known though, right?

Say you create an account at fakecompany.com where they happily and naively save their passwords in plain text in their database. Wouldn't it be easy for that site admin to then figure out your facebook.com, for example, password?
Why do they kill this if it is profitable? Why not just give it to the employees?
Could it be that they are stalling on the Kindle SDK because "Android is the future" or something like that?
I don't think I understand how your point applies here. The FBI agent's admission to having profiled the OP seem to be just that; I'm not sure how it could have been a ruse to get him to admit something. If we believe the story, it constitutes strong evidence that he was being profiled, and we should certainly see it that way and be outraged accordingly.

In terms of courts, I'm not sure what context we're talking about, since there are no courts involved. IANAL, but if the OP were to sue, rules about testimonial hearsay don't apply because it would be a civil case, not a criminal one. Even if it were criminal (if the OP had been arrested and was mounting a defense or the FBI agent was, I guess, arrested?), it's not obvious to me that the agent's statement qualifies, since its purpose has to be to assist the investigation. And finally, the rule that police are allowed to lie to get you to confess (as in your example) is actually separate from whether it's testimonial or not, and simply hinges on whether it's coercive. If I understand it, the testimonial hearsay rule as applied to cops lying is for when the cop says, "Oh, it's no problem; I make bombs at home too" in that it doesn't allow the defense to say, "see that cop makes bombs!" So that's all to say I don't understand what all that has to do with whether the OP was being profiled or not. Possibly I misunderstood something or have my legal facts wrong, though; can you clarify?

Edit to add: but regardless, it shouldn't change how much we're outraged at home, assuming we believe the OP's story, which I certainly do.
Changing the topic, are you? I take it as an implicit admission you were wrong implying there were no positive effects of US policy at all. It is good that you realize now you overreached, hopefully next time you'd use less hyperbole and recognize that you can't just ignore facts you don't like.
It reads to be like the write heard someone say almost all and didn't realize that that has special mathematical meaning:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_all
The racist overtones are also scary.
Genuinely hope you get hellbanned for this. If the HN moderators apply the same standards to you as they do to everyone else you should be.
In a typical loosely typed language, such as php et al., just keep the query and the data separate. E.g.:

$params = array();
$sql = "select * from foobars where 1";
if (isset($_GET['name'])) {
$sql .= " and name = :name"
$params[':name'] = $_GET['name'];
}
$stmt = $db->prepare($sql);
$stmt->execute($params);