skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but a living hourly wage requirement that applies universally without exceptions prevents someone with a full-time job that pays a living wage (or perhaps much more than that) from doing side jobs that have a price which would provide mutual benefit to both them and the person paying for them, but only do so at a wage below what would, on its own, be a living wage.

This is a real issue (and it applies to regular old minimum wages even they aren't living wages); its among the arguments for why Basic Income would be a better minimum-quality-of-life support than minimum wage guarantees for the working plus welfare for the nonworking, since it doesn't stop any mutually-beneficial work from being done merely because the market clearing price is below an artificial threshold.

OTOH, even people who recognize that the restriction on some work that it implies is a problem think its a cost worth paying for a living wage guarantee given that its harder to get support for (and, arguably, beyond the level of the economy now to support) a Basic Income at a sufficient level in the near term.
If you read the post, he argues that we have boatloads of legislation about vehicle and road safety. Cars were once the cool new technology. And he implies that this legislation has actually resulted in safer cars.
Even if someone did ask me, I'd tell them that one of the reasons I use Uber is to not have to carry any cash.
This feels an awful lot like a scam; Apple is explicitly told by the Irish government (the presumable authority on Irish taxes) that what they're doing is fine, then over a decade later the EU steps in and says "you can't do that. pay more taxes retroactively (to us)".

This stinks of ex post facto lawmaking in order to get money from a corporation, and it seems there are a few of us who object to that. I'm all for changing the laws in the present, but I consider ex post facto laws a far worse solution than the disease.
Servers are actually never paid that wage. If a server's tips do not elevate them above the standard minimum wage, the restaurant is required to compensate them at the standard minimum wage. This was at least the law when I worked in the service industry.
Most people already eat much more than they need, might as well make use of those calories.

Of course there should be a "floor", we don't want to grow into blobs of slithering muscles and veins, just well-built.
A few days later I got a 2-minute rejection call, in which the recruiter said simply that the Skype interviewer did not feel that my technical skills were good enough.

So they're being fair and giving it to the candidate straight. Which is actually quite laudable (considering how many companies never go anywhere close to providing meaningful feedback after interviews).

The Skype interview was all talk and involved no coding whatsoever--how can the interviewer gauge my technical skills with such an interview?

Actually you can gauge quite a lot about someone without delving into code at all. In fact, minute-for-minute it's often vastly more effective. So for these purposes, that was probably an excellent question to ask.

I had 5 other evaluative interviews that were ALL stated to have been "very positive," after multiple rounds.

OTOH this (along all the other back-and-forth) is pretty clear indication that the recruiters were lying to you at that particular stage. Obviously the feedback wasn't "very positive", more likely it was "mixed" -- but the recruiters, being recruiters, felt they had to lie to you to keep you in the funnel. Otherwise they wouldn't, you know, make their numbers.

Their reputation for having tough interview problems is totally overrated at this point.

Sounds like they've wisened up, and realized that asking gratuitously "tough" (read: hit-or-miss) technical questions just isn't very useful as a filtering technique.
Or AGPL. This is a fair point, and I make all of the code I write GPL. Unfortunately, there is only one containerisation project that is under the GPL and only the core of it is under the GPL (LXC is [L]GPL but LXD is not). It's quite worrying that so few Golang projects (because for some reason every containerisation project is written in Golang seemingly in anger) are under the GPL.
In Europe, there are no 'Federal' taxes i.e. at the European level. All taxes are to the 'State'. So it doesn't matter if my analogy is a little bit off.
Agreed. It's interesting to compare with Facebook's web layout. The timeline column isn't much wider, but Facebook fills the extra space with information. (Menu, Trending stories and ads etc, friends' activities.)

I'm generally in favor of a wider column because then the in-line images are bigger. And in either case, I don't see why the column width shouldn't be adjustable.

Of course, since I stopped using G+ years ago, I have no reason to care....
If anyone from Google+ is reading this:

Please allow me to remove shit from my 'recommendations'.

In between Android developer things which I like, I'm getting weird-ass pro-Trump BS that looks like Stormfront. I guess this stuff is all that's left on G+, but still. Not interested.
Apart from the character at the center, this has to be one of the most interesting court cases in recent times, most definitely the most interesting in New Zealand. Just a few of the things that have happened:

* military style raid in New Zealand ( that turned out to be illegal )

* Illegal spying ( and then winning the right to sue the NZ five eyes spy agency )

* copyright infringement is generally not extraditable so extra charges to make the offence extraditable, e.g. conspiracy

* attempts to stop legal defence through seizure of assets, some of which were eventually were won back

Wikipedia article about the case for more info & references : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload_legal_case
Also ceph (& swift) are known to scale well in prod. clusters with over 30+ PB of data (at least looking at CERN's cluster) and the latest version of RGW does support geographic redundancy for S3 like apis
I would like that too! I don't think there have been any features added since the last one with Babel 6 release.

Yeah there's multiple JavaScript parsers: esprima, acorn, shift, babylon (uglify has their own parser I think).

There was an effort to standardize as well in https://github.com/estree/estree.

EDIT:

However, in Babel 6 there were a few (nice) incompatible changes to the AST which was unfortunate for interop and other tools (https://github.com/babel/babel-eslint had to make a lot of changes).

I don't want to speak for him, but I think a lot of the decisions to fork (parser, etc) at the time were most likely made like mentioned above to move faster. And at the time, Sebastian was basically the only one working on it. Maybe more context from his post: https://medium.com/@sebmck/2015-in-review-51ac7035e272#.qcyz...
It's different because it's carpooling, which is typically covered by most insurance policies.

https://www.waze.com/carpool

>Auto insurance policies in many states including California typically allow not for profit, share-the-expense carpooling. Waze Carpool is designed to help riders and drivers share the cost of carpooling on a given ride. It is not designed to allow a driver to make a profit or to earn a salary. Payments to the driver, by the rider, will always be less or equal to the cost of the particular drive, taking account of such factors as gas and vehicle depreciation.
No, I don't think that idea, holding it or conveying it, has commensurate ability to change perspectives or raise consciousness. Not comparable to drugs/art/meditation. Not at all.
and then fill the bees with epoxy
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This is an expansion of the service area and availability.
Yes I have. But none of them would have wanted innocent animals tortured to prolong their lives.
So what would you propose as an alternative? Trucks beep when they reverse because people were literally run over by trucks. Smoke detectors beep when backup batteries are low because people died in fires.

I can sympathize with people who hate those noises, but I think the only practical solutions are for them to wear earplugs or move somewhere with lower population density.
Ah, but even then didn't you have a football player accepted as a Rhodes Scholar a few years back?

... Yes, I recall correctly. Myron Rolle. Played two years in the NFL then returned to FSU medical school.
There is a model zoo here: http://www.paddlepaddle.org/doc/demo/#model-zoo
Just rate the guy extra well. Tip him with publicity so he gets more business.
I'm actually planning on renting a VPS soon to use as a personal VPN, dedicated IP, hopefully dedicated bandwidth etc.

I don't have even the smallest idea how to configure one or what software I actually need, BUT, my greatest fear is that I'll end up with a pretty "broken internet" since I won't be using a residential IP anymore.

Cloudflare will just think that I broke into some random wordpress site and started using the server to ddos (who? with 1-2 requests/minute?).

It doesn't look that they implement any kind of serious IP reputation algorithm. I have a static residential address since I remember signing the contract, almost a decade ago, pretty paranoid about security with a clean PC and I never seem to stop getting captchas.

Is PIA a paid only service? I doubt any "hackers" will be using it to break cloudflare sites. On the contrary, I'd argue its users are actually more civilized than the residential folks.
Modifying Nim to perform a check before each dereference would be trivial. The reason this isn't done yet is because in practice unchecked dereferences do not cause random memory corruption, I have been using Nim for a while now and have never seen an instance where this was a problem.
I agree, but I think we're in the minority. FB have kept this simple and it is where it is. Then again, it's not like Google have anything to lose at this point so it just might be the difference that brings people to it...
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Everybody has his on price....
> open source meant people just working on stuff for fun and trying to provide free as in speech alternatives to pay crap?

You're mixing quite a few things. "Open source" never meant that, and was always geared towards corporations. Free software does mean providing "free as in speech" alternatives to things, but it never meant stopping people from charging users (you having to "pay crap").
Thanks much for the update. I extremely am glad to hear things are going well. It got really dicey there from around 2002 onward. But from 1985 ( or before, really ) to then, Dallas was poppin'.

We almost have to have different versions of what is meant by "telecoms" because it's all changed radically.

The optical business is pretty bleak. It's the last vestige of the more old-school telecoms left. You also see Cisco pivoting these days.
I've been seeing incredibly compressible output from Typescript, if that helps any. If what you mean by 'bundle' are these 'webpack' things that include css and images, and all that. Smaller bundle to me would be not to use one at all.

It doesn't seem like webpack's chief concern is file size or simplicity. So if yours is, just don't use it.
That doesn't appear to replace variable names with shorter versions, or remove dead code, which Uglify and other minifiers do.
So basically this article makes a Kant-ian argument that we need rules to actually get freedom. I think that there's nothing wrong with that argument, but the whole story to make open source about freedom is not the right way at all. I think if you release source code for other people to use is more akin to a present you make for the whole society of the world, which may be able to advance itself with it. Presents shouldn't be bound to conditions. We certainly need rules for our societies, but they need to be part of the law, not part of some conditions of presents. That's why I release the stuff I write under public domain/CC0.
There's no support for that service. Makes sense to ward people off who might need support at the headline.
Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster Discovered
That was curiously both creepy and enlightening (so to speak ;-).
No they aren't. Read the law. A server's hourly wages with tips will always be at least the federal minimum wage.
Right. You still need a mini-airport, a marked, hard surfaced area clear of obstacles and potholes. This "flying car" needs 200m of runway for landing. It can't hover, but it does have a slow landing speed.

There's a "SuperSTOL" aircraft that can operate from even less runway. It's a fixed-wing craft for bush pilots.[1] Much bigger wheels and tough landing gear, for hard landings on bad ground.

[1] https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2014/march/pilo...
You're saying all that as if, right before Drummond stepping back, Uber hadn't announced that they'd start doing self-driving cars, pretty much forcing him to step down out of conflict of interest.
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Do you practice that when you drive? If you saw people in front of your car and the only way to not hit them was to put yourself in more harm, would you drive right over them?
The software I work on is targeted towards customers who generally have really spotty internet connections (eg: they all are in the less forgiving parts of the ocean or middle of nowhere if on land). This pretty much mandates using software like this to build out your app as you can't rely on internet connectivity.

There pretty much isn't anything you can do to improve their internet connections as cables to remote places are always getting dug up with week+ times to repair so you need something that can run locally for long periods. Ships have a different problem with very slow speeds that effectively means you can only transmit the absolute minimum off the ship when its out as sea (when they are at port they typically have normal internet connections to bulk dump data off on).
India. A hell lot of Indians (29K last year) come to USA for their Masters degree. These kids borrow loans from Indian banks at 10% to 12% APR do their M.S. and then pay that loan back quickly.

Even though MS is significantly less risky you need to factor in the huge gap between value of that in money in USA v/s India.

Market signals works pretty strong here. Stanford can charge you whatever they want while the F1 visa factory college charge a modest 10K for a 2 year M.S.
Don't forget:

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You can choose alcohol or some other beverage.
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Security standards should be better but software is not like roads or cars. And thank the stars for that. Filling up books full of laws just freezes systems or makes it so you need to be a large company to participate.

If anything, roads and cars should be more like software. Which is not to say no laws. But the laws should not be so many volumes as to be unapproachable and prescriptive and there should be automated systems for testing and validation.
This is certainly doable for software.
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Except of course, that the business model of free software is generally support-license based. Yes, someone can take your software and provide support instead of you but they usually are not as experienced as you with what you created. If they are, you should hire them.

Companies make money charging for free software all the time, and I really wish we would stop having to go through this discussion every time that free software shows up as a point. Companies have been making money from free software for more than 20-30 years at this point, and none of it required taking away the freedom of their end-users.
Most people don't realize how big our research programs are.

http://www.fsu.edu/highlights/rankings.html has some interesting tidbits on our rankings.
Ask HN: I want to write a niche (e)book, but don't know where to start
Hello,

I recently read a thread on here about passive income. One suggestion was to write an ebook on a niche topic. I have experience on a niche topic and would welcome the challenge of condensing the knowledge into an ebook.

Simply put the book would be a practical guide on writing software around the topic. With chapters on background info, fundamentals etc and a bunch of sample code for a variety of languages.

The problem is I don't know where to start. Am I going for a simple ebook that I will host, market and sell myself, like Mark Murphy does with Commonsware for Android development, do I use a publisher like PragProg or go for a traditional publisher?

Apart from researching the content and writing yourself, what other tasks/costs should I be aware of that typically aren't fulfilled by the author. e.g. graphics/cover design.

Many thanks
Waze does not use the same data as Google Maps.

Google Maps always gives perfectly-accurate directions to where I live. Waze does not give accurate directions to where I live. It goes out of its way to force drivers to enter a gated community that's adjacent to my complex. What's even worse is that the entrance to my complex and the entrance to that gated community are on separate arterials [0], and if you try to enter my complex through the main entrance, Waze will instruct you to make a U-turn out of my complex and go into the gated community. Google Maps does not do that.

As such, I text every driver picking me up at my place to tell them to use Google and only Google and to not use Waze (and I tell the name of the street they need to enter my complex from). I watch them on the map, and if I see that they have disregarded my message and do things that only Waze would instruct them to do (like pass by the entrance to my complex, and/or turn onto the arterial the gated community is on), I cancel the ride and call another.

[0] Here's a map, just to show you how terrible Waze is:

ROAD A |
---|---------------------------
| ...G......... |
R | . GATED . | R
O | . COMMUNITY . | O
A | . .................| A
D | . . MY .| D
| . G COMPLEX .|
D | ..... =| B
| . .|
| ..||.............|
---|---------------------------
ROAD C |

Without fail, no matter what direction you are coming from, Waze will insist you turn onto Road A and go through the gated community. Google actually knows that the main entrance to my complex is on Road A (and sometimes, on rare occasion, it'll pick up the side entrance on Road C, but I don't count on it) So if I see a Lyft or Uber driver, after I text them telling them both not to use Waze and to only enter my complex from Road B, a) pass by the entrance on Road B when driving northbound on Road B, b) turn right on Road A when driving southbound on Road B, c) fail to turn left on Road B when driving westbound on Road A, or d) turn left on Road D when driving eastbound on Road C, I just cancel on them and request another driver.
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That is not true at all. Read the law. In a situation where a server's tips do not boost their hourly wage to the federal minimum wage, the employer is obligated to compensate them up to that level. So in a situation where, say, a server was never tipped, the employer would have to pay them $7.25 an hour just like any other food service worker who makes minimum wage.
> Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., began a pilot program around...

So, basic question, What is the difference between Alphabet and Google again? It seems like everything is still being branded as Google. I know it's slightly off topic, but I am honestly confused as to when something is not Google.
Speaking of the Red River Gorge, it's a major shame that there isn't more tech work in central Kentucky than there is today, as that would certainly incentivize some of us to want to live there again.
Right to be forgotten?
It's not possible to determine the spirit of the tax law an objective way: the tax law is actually an accretion of a bunch of laws and amendments, passed decades apart by different people with different intentions, who were influenced by the politics of their time, lobbyists, the state of the economy, the upcoming presidential election, etc.

For example, some parts of tax law were passed by politicians who wanted to help corporations avoid paying taxes, and other parts were passed by politicians who wanted corporations to stop avoiding taxes. Both of these contradictory intentions are embodied in our current tax law. The spirit of the law is confused at best.
As I explained, those are only "breaking changes" in the sense that some code might break in practice, not that we changed the language definition.

GCC did not provide a switch to get the old copy constructor behavior back when they made it stricter and broke my code.
Whether I like CIA or not, In-Q-Tel is one of their best achievements. The VC model in private sector had long been making better tech more cheaply and with faster improvements. There was also lots of overlap between enterprise and CIA needs. Funding dual-use tech through private sector is already win/win at this point. That revenue from sales to private sector could reduce taxpayer burden on any given tech is another win. Even if there was corruption, it's still better than most US Govt actions because they produced useful stuff that actually benefited Americans in some way.
> because it ain't charging money.

Free software refers to freedom, not price[1]. Companies have been making money selling free software for more than 20-30 years at this point (even free software that is developed in the open).

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
I have a desktop and a laptop that I use regularly, plus a work laptop. And I teach in a classroom that has a PC in it, so I regularly access Dropbox from 4 separate machines, not counting mobile devices.
Only a very bad person would put the crappy performance of Google products in non-Google browsers down to anything nefarious. Really, they just don't care ;-)
The professors still choose the textbook. They dictate what the student needs to buy (or rent or acquire through other means). That part of the equation hasn't changed in decades, as far as I am aware. But they're entirely disconnected from the financial burden that they place on their students. There are certainly some teachers who will care more about the financial cost than the "ease of use" (for lack of a better phrase). But often if you can offer an easier package, meaning pre-made content for use in lectures, etc. then they'll pick the more expensive book if it makes their life easier. So I could offer a simple book that retails for $50, but the prof will choose the one that costs 3x that if they don't have to make their own tests and handouts.

Regarding your question about what happens if a prof doesn't like a chapter, we're starting to see decent growth in customized books. So for instance, for one class they might only want 3 chapters from one book and 4 from another. This is similar to course packs that have been around forever, but created by the publisher. Publishers love it because it means the "book" is custom for the course and you can't easily just buy/rent a used version. These are often sold much cheaper because the publisher is guaranteed 100% sell-through for a course.
Competition is great. The more minifiers the better.

At a usability level, babili has a 33M install footprint and must be installed locally in the directory in which you intend to use it.

uglify-js can be installed globally and has a 1.9M install size.

And I've never understood how to configure babel's preset and plugin files. Why is it necessary for a minifier to do this? Surely this can be greatly simplified.
Freenode is a heavily logged and censored network btw. I recently came to find a "bug" in the backend which activates a ghosted bot that lurks chans (secretly) and is activated to terminate and clear channels.
not having to pay california income tax is also a total plus
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