skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Mel Gibson is standing in the road shooting at gas thieves I think we'll all be doing something other than typing comments on HN. I live in an area where you could conceivably forage/hunt for all your food but it would be a pretty harsh life.
> you can be tried for the same crime as a federal crime and a state crime if it is criminal in both jurisdictions

A federal crime and a state crime, even if based on the same act, are different crimes. (Usually, even if they have similar popular names, with substantially different definitions.)

> (although not as a federal crime and a Puerto Rico crime).

Puerto Rico is a federal territory, therefore that would be a "federal crime" and a "federal crime".

While Puerto Rico may have local government that looks a lot like a state in its relation to the federal government (and which is treated as a state under a lot of federal statutes), Constitutionally it is not a separate sovereignty like a State, but simply an appendage of the Federal government.
We are not talking about free surface parking lots. We are talking about assigned parking in a parking garage for any new high density construction. It isn't free, it's paid by the builder and included in the sale/rental of the units. And you can build it below your building so it doesn't take up any additional surface space.
You can set up a solo 401K with a sole proprietorship. All you have to show is that you have self employment income showing up on a Schedule C (for a sole proprietorship) or a K1 (for a partnership/LLC/S-Corp).
Companies working on flying drones, cars, and jets
> Bill Gates is actively trying to segregate schools by forcing public school systems to adopt magnet and charter schools. Statistically, in the overwhelming majority of cases, the creation of magnet and charter schools results in increased segregation. Sacrilege, I know.

I think that topic is complex enough that a simple correlation based on what maybe proposed is not easily provably, much less a causation. Unless you are making an argument that he's both aware of race problems this might cause and doesn't care (as in, has no plans to mitigate or reverse it in any way), I'm not sure how this speaks towards his feeling on race equality, and therefore I'm not sure how it's relevant.

> Unless you find reason to argue with this statement I'm not sure what your problem is with my refusal to accept the pigeon-holing of the South as the US' paragon of racism.

Since you've graciously given me an opening to express what I think is wrong with that statement, I'll do so, rather than ignore it in favor of a non-sequitur. Everywhere in the US is filled with racist policies, regardless of region. Some places more so than others, either currently or in the past. That makes them useful as examples. Just as Everywhere in the world is filled with racist policies, regardless of country. Some places more so than others. That doesn't mean we can't draw meaningful comparisons based on how they compare relatively.

Unless you are ready to address why it's unfair to reference past southern racism, which I've gone to pains to point out I think was the point and you haven't refuted in any way, I don't see any reason to continue. I get it, your're upset at how the South gets singled out. That doesn't really make it unfair. It's possible and understandable for both to be true.
Nope, I have no idea why someone reposted this.
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> ie: if your company does something "bad"

In most jurisdictions, if you have control of a company (e.g. as the majority shareholder and director), and the company does something "bad" to the extent that it's illegal, the liability protection can be waived. Selling a self-driving car, in the knowledge that its behaviour is inadequate and would cause harm, may well result in loss of liability protection.

In short, insolvency is generally protected, but "bad things" often have less protection.
And then there is Denuvo which makes it impossible to play really offline and on Linux.
What's funny is that there's a generic alternative to Epi-Pens called Adrenaclick that works just as well, but that the politicians at the FDA and other agencies have put roadblocks in front of. I have no problem with Mylan raising their prices. If they were the only option, then I think the government would have a case for exercising control on price. But this is just politicians screwing up and trying to blame Mylan.
There is also a study that says complex organic molecules have been discovered on the comet.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...
They say later on in that document that you're not paying for tax advice and won't get any:
"That said, we’re not providing tax and legal advice. Stripe Atlas users have access to a legal guide prepared by Orrick, a tax guide prepared by PwC, and a free consultation call with an expert from PwC. PwC and Orrick will not provide tailored tax advice unless you engage them to represent you directly as a client.

If you have your own legal counsel or tax advisors, we also recommend speaking to them as you decide whether and how to set up your business with Atlas."
https://stripe.com/atlas/faq#taxamplegal
> you don't see high interest rates because the banks are undermining the currency by buying their own debt (lowering their interest rates).

True - or at least, it was true. Currently the Fed is not buying additional debt. The amount that they hold might distort the market, but at least they aren't adding any additional distortion to it.

> not sure what the rest of your post is addressing. i'm familiar with deflation.

It's addressing the term "debase". If a trillion dollars evaporated, creating a new trillion dollars isn't debasing the currency, it's restoring the status quo ante.
I keep seeing discussions about high-value neighborhoods full of empty homes. The homes are purchased purely as a way to hold value.

Vancouver and London are examples that I've heard of.

Sounds like a big clue to me!
You can have an LLC that's just taxed as an S-corp. For IRS purposes you're an LLC but for bureaucratic state level bullshit purposes you're an LLC.
I didn't get into Overwatch. I'm kind of a jerk, and I don't have a mic so asymetric multiplayer doesn't work super well for me. I'm holding out for Quake: Champions to scratch that itch, but it'll probably be window-only anyways (curse you Carmack, Bethesda, Zenimax, and anybody else who is against gaming on Linux (but I'll only curse Carmack softly: he's done to much to attract that much ire from me)). For now, Xonotic and Quake do very well for that.

I want to be playing DOOM, but I haven't been able to yet: maybe when I get a PS4, or when I go to college, and don't have my mother breathing down my neck about playing M-Rated games.
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Agreed. What a lot of people here in HN don't seem to realize is that the reason why Software Is Eating the World is because software can be really really bad, and still be better than not-software. When presented with "a pile of enterprise Java garbage code produced by crap devs that just barely works", your software customer's BATNA is "pencil and paper". That's a low bar.
Attachment support was added just today, see the related blog post: https://mailtrain.wordpress.com/2016/09/09/attachment-suppor...

I don't really get what you mean by the CC recipients. Could you create a new issue in the Mailtrain issue tracker in Github and describe what you would like to have https://github.com/andris9/mailtrain/issues
Well technically...
Which leads to the question, how is Dell's business model different from anyone else's?

Their whole reason for existence was to cut out VARs and sell direct to the customer.
Many large companies use Perforce. Its UI is great. It's very easy to learn, so the cost of teaching new employees is low. It's hard to screw up, and when you do screw up, it doesn't require an expert to come in and fix things with obscure commands.
Ask HN: Real-time Altitude API useful?
Hey all,

Want your feedback!

We have a way to provide the real-time vertical altitude of a device, accurate to 5 feet, queried through an API. Seems to us that it’d be helpful for drone coordination to continuously adjust AGL and avoid collision. Also so that you'd be able to know a smartphone user's vertical position and take action accordingly.

Would this be something interesting to you as developers and drone enthusiasts?

If you're curious, here's how it would work

To calibrate:

- Use API to locate the nearest verified calibration location

- Provide the raw barometric reading of your pressure sensor at that location

- Receive a corrected barometric pressure

- Save the offset and apply it to all future readings for your device

At any time after calibration:

- Provide your device's pressure sensor's latitude, longitude and corrected barometric reading

- Receive absolute altitude and accuracy estimate

The API doesn't rely on the barometric formula. It is supported by a network of strategically located reference sensors which would automatically compensate for weather.
> Yes, this is a throwaway. Yes, I think it's a problem that I feel I need to use one.

I agree that that feeling is a problem.

I don't agree with your unstated but clear implication that its a problem with the community, though.
Emissions standards are too lenient? They are too strict if anything. They are as strict as they are mainly because the manufacturers want them that way. It's the best way to keep smaller competitors out of the market and it looks like you're being a good guy to the consumer and environment in the process.
I'm personally LOVING Phabricator as a JIRA alternative. It provides me with all the things I need from JIRA but doesn't pack in as much cruft.

I run a small company so I don't need the more enterprise features of the Atlassian tools, but damn it's a great alternative.
The more interesting thing is what happens when programs themselves start these companies, but I doubt people here are that far-thinking.
I'm all for getting my news fast and clean, but this is ridiculous. At least provide a source.
For some reason, this reminds me of when GM & co bought all the streetcar companies, only to kill off streetcars in favor of busses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
Ok. Fixed this by two things:

- using branch r0.10, as suggested by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12464835
- making sure to install the new r0.10 wheel, which has a different name than the r0 wheel built by master :-D
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Do you think he would vote for that? Or, like similar systems in the last century, would some, let's say state encouragement, be required?
Dropbox trying to find ways to push the platform is a good thing not a bad thing.

If anything Apple have put so many restrictions on OSX and isn't pushing for much innovation on their side to allow people to build ever more powerful apps.

I understand general security concerns but I don't understand the critique of a company like Dropbox. They are doing the user er service not a disservice by finding a balance between pushing the platform forward while still taking your security concerns into account.

I would personally be more concerned with the fact that Apple haven't done anything fundamental for the osx platform in quite a while which is the exact opposite of what they have done for iOS.
They could start by rejecting the default assumption that nudity should be considered sexual by default. And maybe the default assumption that sexuality is bad

I agree with the suggestion, but can't help but laugh at how impractical it is. The people who would make the change are bay area progressives working in tech. And that means saying all the "right" things about sex positivity but stopping short of actually becoming sex positive.
Bravo! That is brilliant!

The Earth has children on it <gasp!>
Ford is getting into buses and bike-sharing
> super-evil gang

> giving money to his family or whatever

I don't think you understand super evil.

Really though, the piles of bodies would probably get you caught at that point.

Insulating yourself like that is how leaders protect themselves. Cops go after the lower level people instead and people roll over under the threat of 20-30 years in prison. Plus RICO and related stuff.
I'm not down-voting you but I never felt the need to sign up for StarFighter ... And that's despite the fact that I was one of those who originally met Patrick in the BoS forums. I'm still wondering what happened to SumoRunner ;)
> snuff shock

Snuff normally refers to dead people. She's not dead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc

She uses the picture in her work around child victims of war: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8678478.stm

> However, the realisation came to her she did not have to remain an unwilling victim. The photo was, in fact, a powerful gift that she could use to help promote peace.

> "I realised that now that I have freedom and am in a free country, I can take control of that picture," she says.
Headline is not accurate.

A subsidiary of Foxconn invested $120,000,000 total.

Reference for that is the actual "story" linked to.
I was briefly sad to see that Starfighter was done, but then I realized that despite reading the rules and bookmarking it, I had never actually played the thing.

Very cool idea, but realistically I can only spend so much time on dev stuff and it wasn't going to beat out my other priorities.
Have you checked the version of the Dropbox client you're running? The auto-updater broke and silently failed many months ago (n=5 Macs) and I found a number of problems like that one had already been fixed but effectively never shipped.

(Support was prompt but basically “let us know if it happens again”)
I found a new social app
Sure. But you have to go on a case-by-case basis. Again, me as an introvert, I do fine in team projects, or alone. I do fine in open floor plans, or with my own office. For teams, I tend to interact with smaller-than-the-whole units, so one or two people, a tester, a couple of co-developers, not the whole. That does still grate on me, but less from my introversion than the fact that not much gets accomplished when you throw 15 people in a room for most of our meetings. But other people have different skillsets, or more extreme introversion, or lower tolerances.

But that's just me. I've got a friend working down the street. He's so much happier being in an office with 3 other people who never talk to each other. He'd hate the environment I'm in and the team sizes I work with. To the best of my knowledge, and by his behavior (compared to my experience with my own issues and working with/helping others), he doesn't seem to have any social anxiety (or nothing beyond some fairly common level that many engineers seem to have).

My father is even more introverted than him, but he successfully ran organizations (military) of thousands of people. He got his alone time, really small group time was more to his liking, on the weekends and after-hours. He tolerated it for 8-12 hours a day, then came home and set work aside. Again, introversion isn't a disorder. It becomes a disorder, and likely some sort of anxiety disorder, when it impacts your ability to do what you want to do.

Ultimately, there's also only so much a company can do though. Introversion isn't a disorder (anxiety is), so there's no obligation to accommodate people, legally. Which is another reason to address things by what they actually are.

When I was last depressed, addressing it as depression meant that I worked with my supervisor to reduce my workload, reduce my stress (my depression is a consequence of anxiety, combination of personal and professional stressors triggered it last time), while I got through it. Then we ramped it back up once I got passed a couple hurdles.

Another thing to note, things that annoy productive introverts also annoy productive extroverts. A loud office filled with nonsense like five people playing music on their speakers, and conversations about WoW. That annoys almost everyone that just wants to get shit done.
Automakers are tech companies who just decided to put their money into researching how many cupholders you can add to a vehicle. It's like Yahoo!, focusing on content and branding and what not, instead of building technology that people want to use.
I think this is super unfair. Connecting people with jobs isn't "selling them". I rip on recruiters a lot--probably more than most people--but a good recruiter, and I know a few of them (hat tip to Bivium here in Boston, among others), is looking for a win-win arrangement because they know they'll be working with you again down the line. Starfighter seemed like an attempt to be a good recruiter at scale. It didn't work out, and that's a bummer, but that's pretty far afield from your allegations.

And you didn't need to use a throwaway. Put your name on something if you're going to be casting shade on people. I do (here, regularly), you can too.
You don't think there should be laws over obscenity, terrorism or monopoly ownership, then?

The reason I'm asking is that if a Facebook user decided to send out full instructions about how make a pneumonia virus with home dna equipment, for example, how would you feel about that?

Let's say they were in another country where they law couldn't or wouldn't stop them? Is it ok for Facebook to keep distributing the information in its walled garden?
A picture of a naked child was removed from FB because of the law. No story there.

Are we going to allow child porn on FB because it is artistic ?
Slightly off-topic, but the overlapping text on mobile is making my eyes bleed.
How to Become a C.E.O.? The Quickest Path Is a Winding One
If you're going to lose them, 3 pairs of AirPods is about the same price as one pair of incredible custom-molded IEMs. They'll also come with a cord, so you won't lose them. (and they won't sound terrible)

I'm confused why more highly-paid engineers working in terrible loud open-offices don't have these.
I just reread Accelerando and had forgotten how good it was.
I use Mesos and K8s heavily as well as contribute back to the projects, and while I do agree this is leaning towards being fan-fare there is a bit of truth to this.

Community is a big deal, people tend to underestimate this; Putting aside newer companies, when a larger enterprise ventures out to open source they do take community as a major factor as you have to consider the tool you build will have to last 5 years, maybe 10, maybe more.

To delve further into the Docker side of things, I personally wish that the company would focus on its core business instead of stretching itself with extra things. I get the need to improve the UX, which they do very well considering how far we have come from LXC.

I feel Mesosphere starting to go down the feature creep route as well, but I wish them all the best as I loved Mesos since the beginning all those years ago.
"Do you care" seems easily demonstrated by what you thought you ordered.

If I don't care what kind of fish I am getting, I order fish and chips, or fish tacos.

If I care what kind of fish, I order tuna or eel or salmon or trout...
Huh?

What does a troll have to do with anything? If I am wrong just point to what I am saying that is wrong.
In multiple companies, I was repeatedly cited and complimented for solving problems and carrying workloads that others couldn't.

I also was no wallflower, networking -- on my own initiative and maintenance -- with people throughout these large organizations spanning multiple countries.

In those same workplaces, I was met with a bureacratic, political, and not infrequently personal wall of rejection when I requested a quieter workplace.

I was raised to "pay my dues." My advice to the current generation: There's no such thing, particularly with respect to introversion and/or environmental differences. If they are not already respecting you, get out.

Take it from Mr. Burnout, here.

P.S. The current "introvert" business press is just the latest round of "mind the gap" cargo cult management. If organizations were really on board with understanding and practicing some of what's being written -- well, too late for me, but at least "hurrah" for future generations.

But... I severely doubt it. Same old bullies, new clothes. (And who is going to be the first to get those performance enhancing offices, do you thing?)

So, I repeat myself: If they are not already doing it, and you identify with the described population, GET OUT!
I don't think it's a coincidence that these fake food articles—truffle oil, olive oil, seafood—are springing up after Larry Olmsted recently published Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating and What You Can Do about It.

Olmsted exposes rampant fraudulent labeling and deceptive practices in the food industry, including Parmesan cheese, olive oil, truffle oil, seafood (salmon, snapper, white tuna, shrimp), Kobe beef, and more.

I'm about halfway through the book, and it's shocking. It's definitely changed how I shop for certain food and what I order in restaurants.
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>We never see or store your admin password. The dialog box you see is a native OS X API (i.e. made by Apple).

If that's the case, How is it that the accessibility preferences are changed without root authorization?
Nice attempt at applying your Econ 101 knowledge, but a balance sheet where the "assets" are made up of meaningless fiat created by debt instruments does not work like that.
It doesn't sound like Sr leadership role that can influence strategy, so it's basically a "job".

He'll come back to the dark side soon enough and build a sustainable business model (with the benefit of experience at Stripe, of course) :-)
Variance in state law, plus our always-painful bureaucratic overhead. Many states will let you set up for $50-$100, but I don't think anywhere in the US is as cheap as twelve pounds.
The article is bullshit. It doesn't really list these jobs, it's full of generalizations.
Could this be a consequence of the built in FS APIs coming up short, as Ben put it, and forcing DropBox to do things in less efficient ways to work around the limitations?
Redemption and rehabilitation must be the aim of universal law, not vengeance.
IPFS dev here -- judging from a quick look, Scout uses NAT-PMP and UPnP for NAT traversal, so it basically has the same occasional NAT issues as everybody else in the P2P space. By the way, sometimes NAT issues are the fault of routers handed out by ISPs. The quality of these is often less than ideal.

(A pretty cool approach to circumventing NAT issues is a proper routed overlay network, which we plan to implement in libp2p soon: https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/143)
The problem is banks are soaking up productivity by issuing money ahead of wealth creation. This sees them appropriate gains. It also has a distortion effect because people doing work who are clever see that there is no point working to create wealth as the real gains are to be made in appropriating wealth. Here you get eventually stagnation as all your physics PhDs are working for investment banks trying to arbitrage fiat tokens from .... PhDs in other investment banks.

Growth can and will return when the rentiers are lanced with land value tax, as the primary vector for money creation by banks is lending against land. When this ends growth returns.
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Which law?

Depending on the legal system involved, "child porn" and "artistic" are mutually exclusive.
It didn't even ask for permission the first time.
From the article:

> However, the agents must discontinue monitoring the wiretap once they know or reasonably should know that the phone calls only involved speakers outside the target conspiracy.
I'm glad criminal charges are being filed here. But, I do have to wonder why none for GM (ignition switch cover-up) or Takata (deadly airbags).
5' tall proportional giraffe "ponies" would actually probably be a bigger hit than the full sized ones at zoos.