skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, should have put a smiley in there. It was no big deal to Cmd-C, Cmd-V. My faux anger was just an opportunity for word play on your user name. :)
If a bird strike through an airplane engine can cause major damage to an engine, it's not hard to imagine a drone being able to cause damage. I think there's got to be some education about no fly zones near airports. Lots of this seems to be common sense, but anyone with some cash can buy a drone and fly it in improper areas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_strike
Right, that's once you have the car.... but not when you're making the reservation.
A don't know if you're American or not, but at least in the U.S., we have lots of regulations on what kinds of contracts people can enter into. Contract law is a major part of our legal system (and the legal system it was derived from). You're arguing that any regulations on contracts are not moral. This has far wider reaching implications than you realize.

There are all kinds of things that the government -- and voters by extension -- have deemed it illegal to enter into contractually. You cannot enter into an agreement to be murdered. You cannot enter into an agreement that amounts to slavery. You cannot enter into a work agreement that violates safety law.

We could go on and on about this, but if you're arguing against contract law, you are many hundred years too late. Contracts have always been subject to laws and regulations in place.
UBI is supposed to fix the issue of moderate or worse levels of poverty. It's not going to fix mental health issues, addiction issues, and/or family breakdown. However over time it will sort out issues of grinding poverty, which then means that fixes for other social ills will have a better chance of succeeding.
New state of matter detected in a two-dimensional material
It's a buyers market at the moment, you can get some good deals but I still think they're overpriced. Personally looking at Laval (just north of Montreal), where there are 3 metro stations and the train. It's cheaper and I'm betting on properties to increase in value in the coming years.

However should I make more money, I'd definitely stay in Montreal. I think I'd miss walking around shopping for groceries, going to restaurants etc. I hate commuting in cars.
Is it really sane to live 20-50 miles away from where one works

Even though my commute is quite pleasant: a 20-minute drive on quiet country roads then a 30-minute bus trip followed by a 10-minute walk to the office, I think about this quite a lot. Especially during the "drive on country roads" bit.

I live in a rural area and I really like it where I live, for any number of reasons. I have absolutely no desire to move back to the city that I work in, even though when I was living there I had a lot of fun.

Life is better when it's simpler and one way I can make it simpler is by either working remotely (not a possibility with my current employer), or becoming self-employed. Wasting time commuting, no matter how enjoyable the commute, is still wasting time.
Stickers work too, but I'm guessing that in their case they just don't want to deal with applying stickers to a lot of keys and then removing them.
We also had to put some stickers on vending and coffee machines.

We used to be audited every year but after we made a lot of progress they starting coming once every 2-3 years.

I think they started auditing after complaints, we're a manufacturing company in the suburbs with 99% French speaking employees but a lot of the stuff we had was English only. Fun fact, our parent company in Texas was careful and made sure we had French documentation/communication but French speaking office employees didn't seem to care.
Why do companies still want DRM. I can understand that they wanted it when it was new but DRM has been proven to be worthless in terms of adding copyright protection and be a pain in the ass for the end use (I can't watch Netflix on my PC because the VGA adapter does not supper DMR). It is only a matter of hours before a cracked movie lands on torrent sites. So what is the purpose of DRM?
Tesla racing against a Boeing 737
Interesting. How come there isn't a large influx of people moving into the city?
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All these abstractions over CSS seem way to complicated and many way to far from the browser to me.

With Shadow DOM style scoping, CSS custom properties and @apply mixins all coming very soon, most of the problems of composable, reusable styling, and even theming, will have great native solutions.

I'd like to see more focus on reusable polyfills than trying to divert around CSS. Polymer supports all three of those now, but they're pretty tightly integrated so other frameworks can't use them so easily yet.
that sounds like bavaria to me
Two problems there:

1. If it is a myth than poor people need to be educated on it because it is pervasive. Similar to the myth poor people generally have that if you get a ticket it is better to not show up than to show up and tell them you can't pay.

2. I believe it is not a myth but I don't have any proof available. While benefits are phased out as your income increases, I think the phasing out happens quicker than the increase. The chart the other commenter posted looks good but who knows.
Massachusetts AG sues ITT Tech for exploiting computer network students
Yes. I've never followed classes at McGill but Concordia was excellent. I mean, anywhere in the world you could be stuck with a sub-par teacher. The facilities (chemistry) were also great. Nothing to complain about.
Egypt is the #1 example of the American empires malfeasance and incompetence.

Completely abandoned revolution, we continue to financially support the military dictatorship.

Go read Obama's Cairo speech and laugh at what a total crock of shit it is, and how by extension Obama is a bought and paid for clown.

Meanwhile the Western press does what it can to demonize the muslin brotherhood while white washing the current junta.

And why? Because Egypt is the most populous ME country, borders Israel, and has the Suez canal, it is deemed strategically too important by our elite to allow self rule.

Fuck the American empire, responsible for the genocidal killings of millions since 2001
I've heard vague tales of Canadian companies receiving tax incentives to do research, in the form of SR&ED credits. (http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/txcrdt/sred-rsde/menu-eng.html)

Does anyone have any concrete experience with the program?
The Turtlebeach Audiotron relied on accessing Turtlebeach's servers to function. They abandoned the Audiotron, and eventually the server, but did provide a patch so you could still use the Audiotron.

I still use the Audiotron every day. Still haven't found anything better.
I regret not going to McGill.
GDP divided by # of people doesn't accurately reflect quality of life... Especially when a good portion of GDP is derived from resources, and not necessarily spread to the population.

There's plenty of indexes that offer better insight.

http://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.js...

https://www.economist.com/media/pdf/QUALITY_OF_LIFE.pdf

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/11/04/these-countries-h...

Even indexes that do rate the US highly, generally weight income highly. In life expectancy, health, education, and metrics which don't take into account income, the US doesn't do great.
I lean libertarian. I don't think the argument is as much libertarian as it is Austrian Economics. What gets me going is that most GOP/Republican/conservative folks that clamor against the minimum wage are Keynesians. And if they are then they condradict themselves when they tout the importance of a strong economy and GDP yet argue against a minimum wage. If you're Keynesian you believe demand drives the economy and GDP. Well if the majority/working class doesn't have disposable income then they can't buy all the trinkets and toys that companies are producing thus grinding things to a halt. There's only so much demand for yachts. Austrians can, in a less contradictory way, argue against a minimum wage. But everyone can't continue to ignore parts of reality. Yes, there are social implications and to dismiss them is no different than dismissing emotions in arguments and marketing, or politics in offices. They exist and must be included and dealt with when trying to make "rational" and prudent choices.
Good source.

That is of course one valid way to implement it and is essentially BI in calculation.

Still even under miltons NIC, an important difference between NIC and BI is intended purpose. BI proponents want enough to live on with little hardship, NIC implies nothing in that regard and most NIC proponents I imagine would be opposed to that.

I would not be a proponent of BI for that important 'scalar' reason.
Millennials' new retirement number? $1.8M (or more)
Every time I see a new security hardware startup I immediately look for what their products can do without a cloud service.

9/10 the answer is: absolutely nothing. In 2-3 years it'll be in a landfill, not because the hardware is obsolete, but because the firmware made it so. Landfills full of hubris.
whats cobolt?,
do you mean COBOL ?
I'm not sure I follow your reasoning. If your "low skills Americans" were more attractive to employers than low skills workers, they would replace those workers regardless of the wage. Increasing the minimum wage will incentivize employers to hire more effectively (because the cost of a worker goes up), which means that only those workers who are productive enough to be worth being paid the new, higher, minimum wage will be hired. Your "low skills" Americans will still be competing within the same pool of labor that they were before the wage was increased, but now employers will be hiring fewer new employees.

So I guess you're arguing that your "low skills Americans who were on Snap" are a) higher skilled than foreign low skills workers, b) unable to find work that pays what they feel they are worth, which is at least 1.5 x $MIN_WAGE? I also don't follow this; if they can't get hired at 1.5 x $MIN_WAGE now, what will make them hireable at that wage in the future?
Cool concept - I'm really interested to see what I can build with it.

I installed the chrome extension, and saved a request to an endpoint, but it's not showing up in my account under 'My API endpoints'. Is there something special I have to do to get it to show up?

edit: sent an email.
> [A minimum wage] ensure[s] that you and I do not enter into an employment agreement where one side excessively benefits.

I don't see how that is a goal of minimum wage. People can be underpaid at any pay level, and a lot of jobs just aren't worth very much to the employer. A sweatshop paying pennies an hour for extremely unskilled labor could be a fair wage for that work.

Minimum wage serves important functions, but I don't see how they include preserving work value : pay level equity. Free counseling to help inform people of an appropriate wage for their skill level and find an employer who would pay that seems like more of a way to meet that goal.
Thanks. Not sure how I feel about CFB but that did answer one of the two big questions the other page didn't. :)
This gives you an upper bound on your scope, but for safe composable styles you also need a lower bound. Only Shadow DOM really gives you that.

You can simulate it with some significant markup and CSS pre-processing, but it's tricky. Polymer does this with it's templates.
I didn't say it's just. Copyright infringement is copyright infringement. People will do unjustified things when they want to and making something difficult to attain is one of the things that leads to piracy[0].

It's like a river: it will take the path of least resistance. I choose to accept that this is inevitable and try to find solutions to control the river by paving paths for it to take, instead of blaming it for doing what it does.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#Motivat...
Exactly - this was the additional comment I was about to provide. It's to emphasise Spotify was the funding for Q1 in Europe.
I'll admit that I know almost nothing about the ways DRM works, but my gut tells me that JS would be too slow to implement anything too robust. If DRM is anything like crypto, wouldn't it require something relatively CPU-heavy?

That said, I didn't know the cross-platform thing was optional, and I agree that when I buy something, it should be DRM free. If it has to phone-home, then I don't own it, and things like Darkspore prove it can be stolen from me be the company.
There are other programs out there to support the homeless and single parents needing financial aid for their kids.

A high school kid making money regardless of his family's wealth is making money as a supplement to what the parents or guardians should already be receiving from the government or otherwise, assuming they aren't emancipated but that is a very special case. If the parents can't afford to meet the basic needs of their child despite how ever much welfare they receive then why should the state allow for a child to remain in that home?
From https://daringfireball.net/misc/2016/03/the-information-tony... : "Mr. Duffy never got a reply from Mr. Page, but the representative
eventually told Mr. Duffy that Mr. Page had considered the offer but declined"
Employment of high school kids has been plummeting. This line of thinking you are exposing here has not kept up with the times and is more of a red herring.

The teens most likely to work are not in school, and thus they actually need a living wage.

Youth enrolled in high school had an employment rate of 18 percent. This is down from 36 percent in 1995: http://www.childtrends.org/?indicators=youth-employment#stha...

And, again, the youth working while in school are more likely to come from lower socio-economic strata. They may in fact need that money.
Stop playing the robot dating game
This is horrifically naive. The minimum wage exists because there is an inherent power imbalance between employers and employees in today's economy. This distorts the labor market and puts workers and corporations on an unequal footing when it comes to negotiating pay, to the extreme disadvantage of the worker. The minimum wage is an attempt to force a correction to that inequality and unfairness. It is far from perfect, but until other, better systems exist it's one of the best tools available at present.
I think there is? Although we are second to Toronto by numbers.

http://www.statista.com/statistics/443728/canada-immigrants-...
S/MIME and GPG support out of the box, that's amazing!
Yes, but what about when the alcoholic's wife and adorable child show up on the news because they're starving and don't have heat? Or when someone's grandma gets scammed and ends up living on the street?

Most people are not willing to tell them "tough luck." So you're back to having all social programs that try to prevent people from doing stupid, short-sighted things.
Sure, but no-one is ever talking about deliberately over-long latency. There's a sweet spot where packet-switched is fast enough, while cheap because of shared bandwidth and routing flexibility. It costs more to go faster, but it's game over to go slower than humans will accept.

And it's unlikely that the poster was referring to direct (non-packet) connections since these have been rare for a long time.
As GP was saying, employment doesn't help with homelessness or addiction; income and sense of purpose do. Employment does help with unemployment, but that's kind of begging the question.
This is rather stupid. How exactly did you write this post without using an Intel or AMD CPU? (Both American companies) Do you never use any search engines? (Google and Bing(MS) are American, as is DDG, which just reuses results from one of those two.) You don't have an iPhone (this is quite possible, as Samsung/LG/HTC/etc. are not American)? And how are you getting by without using American-made software from Microsoft or some variant of Linux (which is largely contributed to by both Red Hat, an American company) and various other American contributors on the Debian side? Even if you don't spend any actual money directly on some of these things, you're certainly deriving value from them.
I think it's important to make the distinction between "worry about" and "understand". A frontend developer doesn't need to "worry about" CSS because that doesn't impact too much of their decision making about how to build the app. The worry is on the designer, because it's up to them to make a design that fits within the constraints of CSS. But of course the frontend dev needs to understand CSS, or else then they have to worry!
Linux Mint 17.3 delivers better interface plus long-term support
They also have rent controls to a degree. If you are in a rental they can only bump the rent ~5% per anum. Sad for the bankers and rentiers.
In southern states some legislators have been trying to pass "speak English" laws for a long time. These laws seem to never get passed because they're deemed to be discriminatory. In Quebec however, those types of laws are here and being enforced. If you went to San Diego and told the guy with the Mexican food stand that he had to have English menus, you'd get called a racist.

As someone who has lived in Montreal my entire life and is perfectly bilingual, I can tell you I've had many discriminatory experiences while speaking English. Not to mention it's very easy to test these things out when you are able to do certain things in both English vs French to compare experiences. If you speak in English you often get a different, and more negative experience. Given that I speak perfect French, it's very easy for me to simply ignore most of it, but don't kid yourself, it's still there. Just because there's a bad history doesn't excuse the current state of affairs.

I also find, contrary to your experience, that it's those Anglophones who did not grow up here who tend to excuse the discriminatory laws and practices the most.
Read Smith. "A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him."

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_...

An enterprise which cannot pay the full cost of its inputs isn't an economically viable activity. It's a charity benefiting its owner.
A very comprehensive list of CSS-in-JS libraries with code examples is maintained here: https://github.com/MicheleBertoli/css-in-js for folks who are interested.

My personal favorite: https://github.com/rtsao/csjs
I love Laval, used to lived there when I was younger but prices have become too high for me so I went a little more north to Saint-Eustache.
I agree, the birds really need to be educated about no fly zones.
Looks interesting, though I must ask - where exactly is the API? Or are we to hook up directly to the HTML form endpoint?
There is neither a federal passport nor ID card database. All data is saved in the same databases as the usual resident registration.
FCC Proposes Baseline Privacy Protections Against ISP Tracking
It's true that a problem could happen, and I'm glad the risk is being taken seriously, but a lot of these reports (if not the overwhelming majority) feel like pilots' UFO reports from the '60s. There are no photos, there are no radar traces (often over some of the most carefully controlled airspace in the world), there is no any sign that the drone wasn't a bird or something or even existed at all. I'd like to have harder data on how often this is actually happening.
Remind me where Alphabet's money comes from.
This is basically what the BEM (block, element, modifier) convention is.

BTW, CSS modules essentially automate and enforce BEM. Each component's CSS file can have a ".button" class that doesn't conflict with any other ".button" on the page because they're automatically name-mangled (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_mangling). Then in your React code you do something like

import styles from "./supermenu.css"

SuperMenu = ({}) =>
<div className={styles.supermenu}>
<button className={styles.button}>Foo</button>
</div>

Or use something like react-css-modules to make it a little less verbose: https://github.com/gajus/react-css-modules

I'm not totally sold on this approach though. You lose some of the benefits of CSS, like theming.
Paying someone an hourly wage that is below the socially accepted minimum amount is simply not moral. It binds employees to a cycle of poverty where they have neither enough money nor the free time to work for themselves productively. To break this social contract is cruel, whether or not it is legal.

The right-wing philosophy that money-exchanging relationships should not be regulated is ironically destroying the economy, creating an underclass who must produce but cannot consume. New immigrants - who are often educated and productive in their home countries - are forced to enter the underclass rather than using their skills in the capacity most useful to society.

Strengthen the minimum wage. Give everyone a fair chance.
Lob is great. I've used them to mail postcards as well as letters before. They also recently started allowing you to use HTML for the design rather than PDFs.
How 8% of investors lost money last month
> Sorry but no; also nobody generally gives a damn about Poroshenko given his temporary and marginal role in the world politics.

They should. A leader was overthrown and a nation plunged into civil war so he could be installed.

And somehow in 2 years he's managed to be even less-liked than Yanukovych was at his lowest point... http://www.gallup.com/poll/187931/ukrainians-disillusioned-l...
> And what became of Egypt is also really not quite what he intended.

An activist's job is to point out things that are wrong. It is true that often, removing an individual or a group from power does not necessarily result in a better leader, but it is something that leaders fear happening to them.
I use it daily. It's a lovely email client. Close to the Unix ideal of doing one thing, and doing it well.

Integration with other utilities (notmuch, isync) for indexing and sync'ing is very easy, thanks to close adherence to Unix principles, and gets you a very neat setup. Nothing to envy from Gmail.
Pain in the ass for the employees and everybody really. You have to fill reports for weeks about some vague stuff. And then they come to inspect and it's more pain and more time not actually working.

You can get help from third parties, but they take a big chunk of the money and they just make the process a little bit easier.
what happened in Egypt was a revolution, you are attaching additional meaning to the word that it really doesnt hold.
EBook – Essential Principles of Software Selection
The legal terms state "A User owning physical media must use VidAngel’s filtering service to permit the streaming of Filtered Video Content to the User’s device."

Section 5.2 at https://www.vidangel.com/legal/terms

This sure makes it sound like filtering is believed to be required to make the movie legal to stream.

I really struggle to believe VidAngel would build a feature to turn away customers because it is not their market focus. It just doesn't make sense as an engineering investment decision - it is easier and more profitable to allow any number of filters (with 0 being a valid number).
Unity Announces It's Dev Certification Program
> Except modern baseband processors usually don't have direct access to main memory or peripherals - they are usually linked to the rest of the phone via a serial bus.

Do you know where I can read more about that? A good, technical, authoritative resource? In my little bit of research, details are sparse and authoritative technical details even more sparse.