skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but if you are desperate to get your phone back, the rush of excitement when finally seeing the message could very well make you gloss over this.
A tram/streetcar needs a dedicated lane to be impervious to slowdowns. If dedicated lanes are on the table you could just use any old bus.

The idea is to ride on existing (or slightly modified) roadway without taking lanes away from cars.
Thank you for your post.
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but you're not the one giving them that data - your friends/others are. Not sure how that can be avoided in any social networking type of application. Those applications are pretty much 'public' space in today's world. People who really need to keep their real identities private today (ie some law enforcement personnel) are in a tough place these days.
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Also, let's say the accident rate was slightly better than that of an average human's.

Among people, there are some good drivers and some poor drivers. The average driving ability --- including fast reflexes for dealing with accident situations, for example --- is somewhere in between.

Is it fair to possibly force self driving cars on the good drivers?

(they probably shouldn't jump on the self-driving car bandwagon early anyway, but just a thought.)
As an ex-Gusto employee, let me provide another side.

Gusto also has a company bylaw where they can veto any employee sale. Not Right of First Refusal, but can flat out veto an employee selling stock to buy a home, pay off student loans, start a company, etc.

This isn't covered at the time of hiring, nor present in the option agreement provided to employees.

As an early ZenPayroll (now Gusto) employee and a leader of the culture up to 70 employees, I'm honestly embarrassed by the company's stance here. It's hypocritical (in my opinion) to the values talked about by the company.

Employees should benefit from the success of the company they worked hard to build. As a current founder, believe me I understand why founders get a much larger share. But at least be transparent.

You can read about our approach to equity, and everything else, here: https://octopoedi.gitbooks.io/employee-handbook/content/
Assuming people don't have their groceries delivered as well. ;)
Which is helpful iff they ever get around to documenting the error codes. I've had the unfortunate experience of dealing with a number of APIs that have that kind of an error code scheme, except the doc was autogenerated minimal shit, and there's apparently about a dozen people in the world that work on this stuff, so the google-fu doesn't turn up much.
Best thing to do is diversify, moving on every few years.
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I'm partners with @boxcardavin (OP) and this is pretty much us exactly. Thanks for a great response!
> The price list at the bottom [1] isn't fair, a company like Apple usually pays more for it's components for "higher" quality (usually a probabilistic reduction in failure rate).

99% of the time the difference between "quality"/automotive/aerospace parts and regular parts is literally just extra quality control steps at the input, intermediary, and output stages. The parts that don't pass Apple's muster are sold to other manufacturers so often times vendors will break even on supplying Apple just to keep their baseline business afloat while they make money on the parts that Apple won't use but others will. Based on my conversations with Apple engineers, they are especially brutal at the negotiating table because they know that they can single handedly take up all of the vendors capacity while getting at-cost parts and allowing them to profit via side channels (parts that they would otherwise discard). That may sound unfair but as long as you can keep up with Apple's standards, that means your business is set for life and you can make all the money you want with other clients who need those same parts but aren't as discerning. That's why you can't buy many of the higher graded parts: they're the same parts but Apple has first pick because Apple will always be a bigger client than you with far more negotiating power.

Chances are you could drop this price list by 25-50%, even for the custom parts, and you'd be closer to what Apple pays.
Giving free access for public processes is a very nice idea.
> For some reason, the West has let China get away with extremely protectionist trade policies the likes of which no one else in the world would dare even attempt

The reason might be deindustrialization of the west coupled by an exploding globsl consumer goods market and large (and growing) home market. China effectively made itself the factory of the west, and a highly desirable market as well.

The TPP is an attempt to deal with China because the west can't directly confront China with a tit-for-tat strategy for practical purposes: Western countries would need to rebuild and retool consume-goods factories at a high cost that the profit-maximizing corps don't want to shoulder
Not a project but we're building product that does that and more https://www.cloudhawk.io
If not Blackberry, then:

1. Novell Networks.

2. SAP.

3. Peoplesoft.

4. COBOL.

5. Y2K.

6. Perl.

7. Visual Basic.

8. CORBA.

9. XML.

10. Freeway Engineering (if you were in California in the 1970s).

11. Nuclear Engineering (if you were anywhere on Earth after 28 March 1979).

There's an old saying, "Jack of all trades, master of none." Less well-known is the rejoinder: "though ofttimes better than master of one".

The point being that finding yourself with a single competency can be narrowing. Multiple points of expertise give you leverage and pivot capability. The balance is in sorting where and how to develop expertise.
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Yes the level is an integral, but the growth rate is a derivative. The growth rate measured in the atmosphere does not match the negative growth rate the political process is claiming.

Ultimately what matters is the absolute level of GHG and there is no sign this is going down anytime in the foreseeable future unless we make some major and very drastic changes.
I think what you're describing is phase shift (typically seen with inductive loads), where the current sine is the right form, but lags behind the voltage sine.

The (fifth) footnote in the article has "The difficulty comes from the nonlinear diode bridge, which charges the input capacitor only at peaks of the AC signal." And "If you're familiar with power factors due to phase shift, this is totally different. The problem is the non-sinusoidal current, not a phase shift."

So the demand looks like inrush current - but inrush at every single cycle. This produces a non-constant load, where the current draw instead graphs more like an ECG and less like a sine wave. If you overlay this ECG-style graph over a perfect sine, you see that to average the same draw, the spike has to peak much higher than the sine - because it's drawing nothing for the rest of the cycle.

The net result is basically the same (which is why both problems come under 'power factor') - you're drawing current in a very inefficient manner - but that's why I'm describing 'drawing more than the claimed wattage', because at the peak of each cycle, you do.
> niche, like 3D movies

I don't know where you live, but in the Netherlands at least they still advertise with a movie being in 3d and you pay a surcharge for viewing the 3d version, on top of the glasses (one time purchase).

I wouldn't mind so much, preferring 2d anyway, but often the 2d version is not even available...
Does anyone know if this section of Missouri law has ever been challenged under the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition against involuntary servitude? It naively seems unlikely to me to survive. Or are there other precedents for forcing people to fill government roles?
I'm no expert so may be corrected, but I assume just an inverter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_inverter
Can you articulate why experience is valuable in embedded systems and why it is not valuable in web applications?
Jury duty?
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The base of lost cell phone users has a very very long tail.
By what I remember, that actually happened but it was quickly determined that there was nothing to the report and it was dropped. There was a disgruntled neighbour involved.

Added: Here is the story from just after the incident:

* http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-mom-cfs-back...
It's likely a condition of being called to the bar in Missouri that you agree to be assigned cases by the public defender's office, subject to judicial review or some other escape clause.
I did that. Got a job at 26 in Western Michigan making $50K per year and bought a house a year later for $150K. Beautiful house.

Of course there are drawbacks to living in such an area as well.
It should be presented transparently, but that's a pretty standard term and there's a good reason for it. Those so-called secondary sales put more owners onto the cap table which can cause accounting and investor-relations headaches for small companies. Things like information rights, control issues, regulatory responsibilities. At a pre-IPO stage, it can be good for the company (including option-holders) to control who they invite in to own it.

Basically Facebook and a few others tried allowing secondary sales, had problems, and since then the industry has retreated from that idea.
Why the change in title? The previous one was better for showing how this is an interesting, novel event without being (IMO) too terribly click-baity.
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The article states that, at its highest, the annual expenditure was about 420M, so this is nearly a 25% cut in spending. Florida also ranks 49th in spending for mental health services [1], spending less than 1/3 annually per person than the average state. They also have the third highest percentage of mentally ill and uninsured people in the country.

To put this in perspective, Florida spent over $2.2B on its corrections system in 2014 [2].

[1] http://www.fpi.institute/floridas-provision-of-mental-health...

[2] http://reason.org/files/florida_prison_reform.pdf
MySQL does need so much improvements

https://dom.as/2016/08/03/mysql-does-not-need-sql/
From article comments:
"If your phone is locked, how did they get your iCloud email address? "
"As said, I’m guessing they googled my name (available via the Medical ID functionality) and found an email address for me."

How does phishing like this scale? I would think the vast majority of the time the thief is going to have no idea what the email or phone number of the victim is. Seems like a pretty elaborate scam for something that relies on stealing phones where Medical ID is enabled.

Is there some other way that the thief would be able to easily contact the victim by email or text?

Even with Medical ID enabled, that only shows name, DOB, medications.. I would think for most people that still isn't going to be enough info to get an email and phone number from by googling.

Not saying it isn't possible, I just think that it seems odd that the difficulty of making the scam work seems out of balance with the polish of it.
Ask HN: Any experience with defiant children?
My oldest son is now 6 years old and grows more defiant by the day. He frequently tries to physically hurt me, his mom, and his younger sisters (ages 1 and 3).

We've tried the whole "natural consequences" thing and he doesn't care. He just uses it as an excuse to get angrier and call you names.

Timeouts don't work either. It's gotten to the point that we cannot get him to settle down without physically restraining him. I literally tied him to his bedpost this weekend so he would stop slamming doors and breaking stuff in his room while he was supposed to be on timeout.

Since the HN crowd comes from such a diverse background, I was hoping someone out there has experience with this kind of behavior and can offer some advice. None of the methods we know of are working and he is quickly wearing our family down to the bone. I'm not sure how much more my wife can take.
It is all cognitive dissonance though, if you lost EVERYTHING (your phone) then any glimmer of hope would be pretty good and you would be typing that password in without checking - speed would matter more in this situation. Also, how literate are most mobile phone users? If your English is txt spk IN BLOCK SHOUTO CAPS then you are not really going to be reading URLs.

Excellent bit of social engineering by the scammers, shame they cause so much harm.
I live in Norway and am covered by the state insurance. I lived my first 30+ years in the states. I have a family doctor that I can change twice a year: Some doctors are busy and can't get you in for minor stuff the same day, but I had that in the states as well. Folks here can go to a private doctor if they choose, and they pay a bit more - but that isn't common.

The wait times are sometimes an issue that needs improvement, but overall the quality of care one has access to is greatly improved. I'll no longer have to be faced with putting off surgery because I can't afford the co-payment, nor afraid of being injured and not affording physical therapy. And this is with insurance.

Here there are ways to get things quicker if the situation is urgent, but there it really was dependent on money. The yearly payments top out at an amount that is less than the deductible I had in the states... and my insurance wasn't bad there. I'll take the universal care and wait times any day.
Implantation of genetically modified human embryo by 2020?
Love nugget.one for gaining insights into industries I know nothing about. Just did the free trial, but not paying.

Another one is opportunityoverload.com.
Not as focused as nugget, but similar. More broad/industry-wide insights.
I live in Maine, I bet it's Hannaford that you did this with. I use it all the time, in fact I almost never actually into the store anymore if I can avoid it. Not sure I could live with out it any more! :)
I've owned couple of Macbook and Macbook pros since 2009 and never had any issue with the fraying, but I've seen one case of fraying from a friend's Macbook Pro just few months ago. I didn't think she'd abused her adapter in anyway. On a side note, I had every single original iPhone charging cable fray after less than couple of years of use (including 30pin and lightning cables from iPhone 3, 3G, iPhone 4, and my current iPhone 6). It is very annoying.

A good way to fix is to use Suguru (https://sugru.com/how-to/fix-a-broken-cable), which seems to be made to fix things like this, and stronger than heat-shrink tubing.
He didn't say it wasn't valuable. He said it might not be more valuable than 5 years' experience, presumably because technologies change so quickly in web programming. I don't agree with that, but he certainly wasn't being ageist.
And we all know Uber cannot afford a couple of hours of professional PostgreSQL consulting.
>The US had extremely high standards for human rights, just much lower standards for slaves

Were slaves not human back then? GP is right: the human rights standard was appalling, and this is before considering the Trail of Tears and other small-pox-related incidents
There isn't a single mass market microprocessor (whether it is AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, etc.) that is manufactured to be sold as a single SKU (product line like an i7-6950X). That would be economically impossible because they are complex pieces of technology where a single tiny scratch or missed dopant, errors that number in the thousands or more per wafer, can ruin a major piece of functionality. Microprocessors are designed with special "fuses" so that when there is an error, the failed part of the chip is disabled and the part is downgraded (for example, from an i7 product to an i5 product). They also go through burn in tests to test the stability of the part at various voltages and temperatures and that's how they separate automotive from regular parts (or chips meant to be sold as overclocked 2400 MHz DDR3 from regular 1600 MHz ones is another example).

You are right that is deliberately done but wrong about how often. This is literally how modern mass manufacturing of complex silicon parts works and the only companies that don't do this make extremely specialized and expensive processors like IBM does for mainframes, supercomputing, and RAD hardened applications. Those chips can be several times bigger than your tiny ARM or Intel microprocessor for the same reason.
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Sorry for the slow reply.

As I understand it, Solar-Lezama's approach is based on CEGIS (counter-example guided inductive synthesis), using a model checker or similar tool to generate counter examples from a specification. Barliman currently doesn't use anything like CEGIS, although I hope to add something similar in the near futures, perhaps using optional properties (as in Quickcheck) or contacts as partial specifications.

The sketching approach seems to require more structure than does Barliman in terms of what the programmer must specify, to make synthesis more efficient. The versions of Sketch that I've seen don't have anything like an interactive editor--the interactivity is really the key part Barliman is meant to explore.

Solar-Lezama's group is doing lots of interesting work in addition to Sketch:

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cap/

I'm looking forward to trying to incorporate their techniques into Barliman!
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my guess is that the IT department for the whole organization for x years totals $12B. Some IT manager probably mentioned to someone near the c-suite that they were working on some cool internet commerce stuff. And then after the story has been passed on and on it gets reduced down to "$12B spent on labs"
I don't think this will get you any sympathy. If anything, you are going to be shot down for the 'slavery' bit. It is not slavery in the sense that you can quit and go back home. Doesn't matter if you are living in the country for years and don't even identify with your place of origin anymore.

Also, many won't care that you are "earning good money". In fact, that gets you the opposite reaction: you are "stealing" jobs from them and making a killing as a result. You'll get more sympathy by saying that you pay your taxes just like everyone else.

> have a good pay instead of working as a low pay worker

This is also a thorny issue. You see, one of the main complaints regarding immigration is that people will come from abroad and still american's jobs.

It is true though that a company can do whatever they want with such a big carrot (which doubles as a stick). Including reducing salaries in at will states.

> There is a process in place, minimum education criteria before anybody can be hired on h1B visa. So I can say confidently that 90% H1B candidates comes with good education, higher skills.

There is. The problem is that a handful of companies keep throwing candidates at the US until some stick. Mainly from India. And that is a problem. The employees are the ones that get the short end of the stick every time, the companies bringing massive amounts of workers to throw around at "client sites" are almost never held accountable.

I'm in a similar situation myself (different visa). I would strongly support a law that drastically reduced the number of available visas, in exchange for giving the ones that are actually approved some leeway. Even if that means that my own would get dropped.

In other words, operate just like many countries already do: once you get a work permit/authorization/what have you, you are already deemed valuable to the country. Meaning you can change jobs (under a few restrictions). Or maybe have a hobby on the site earning you some money. Why not? Add a clause saying that you cannot have a criminal record or you get thrown out, for all I care.

You know what would be better? The ability for people legally employed to self-sponsor their green cards. Let people make the case for themselves, without having to resort on the good will of the employer. In many cases, they will only start the green card process when your visa is close to expiring and cannot be renewed anymore.
You should insist on a chance to speak to your potential colleagues without anyone listening over your shoulder.
Social at Google
I'd like to have another crack at doing Social for Google. It's really sad to see Google+ languish and I'd love to try something in a very different direction.

Does anybody know if there are any reseach programs or labs or something I could apply to at Google for some money to prepare prototypes, ideas, tests?
Not sure why you are downvoted, this is pretty much spot on. The artificially low renminbi has been driving Chinese exports since the 90s and will probably continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Meanwhile the Chinese people got rapid industrialization at the cost of by and large living in polluted filth and crowded cities, and their per-capita GDP, which is a fairly good measure of the wealth of the median citizen, is still middling-to-terrible despite their high overall GDP.

This has been a great deal for the western citizen, who have been exchanging tons of currency for cheap goods(thanks to the low exchange rate), especially US citizens who have had their government's borrowing costs financed by the very money sent over there to buy things with. Not so great of a deal for the average Chinese, in comparison to what they might have had as a more westernized country.

Edit: Let's not even talk about the demographic collapse happening as a result of the one child policy. It will make any demographic problems in the west look like child's play.