skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Being" a fast food worker, a janitor or "office drone" is not socially nor financially rewarded to a measure commensurate with the toll exerted on the soul or body of the human _occupying the function_.

Also, you're not your job, you're employed, however tenuously by the fast food industry.

As I said in another comment, "being" a fast food worker is not "feeding people". Working in a soup kitchen is feeding people.

The janitorial function is a necessity in any specialized society which doesn't reward you for cleaning after yourself.

And you really have never heard of someone in an office job that is soul sucking? Like say people organizing layoffs, or accepting/denying coverage at HMO, or call center employees trying to ensare retiree into getting extra fees for services they never use etc...

Don't you think society would be better served if these kind of jobs could not find warm bodies because there was more morally satisfying and equally (or better) financially rewarding proposition around?
Yeah, I have so much incentive to straight up lie. The average for the link you have is $108/night. That's above several hotels in my search. Also, most of these AirBnB listings only allow 1 person. Every hotel room will support 2 people and most will allow 4 (if you can get 2 beds).

Take that for what its worth. If I'm objectively wrong or a liar to you, cool.
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Porting is it's own thing - you must seperate implementation dependent things and ... "business rules" fairly strictly if you are to keep it portable. I'd also strongly suggest a really comprehensive test suite that beats the snot out of the implementation dependent portions.

Somebody mentioned "scripting languages" - use the ability of scripting languages to construct combinators to write your tests. They migth even emit 'C' code.
Have one of these and love it. Game creating community is big and only getting bigger. Its very small but its fun watching what people create within its limitations. Recently had a friend order one with a free shipping coupon NOVEMBER2016.
Wow that really brings back some memories. I feel like I am at high-school again in the 90s.
"Venerable" implies some worthiness.

ESP8266 is a hacker friendly wifi gadget, for $2, but otherwise garbage.

You get what you pay for.

Also it's wifi only, not bluetooth.
My 4 year old loves assembling these somewhat randomly (usually while I'm playing with them.) For her, the most interesting behaviors are when she seriously stresses a circuit by adding jitter - like forcing a servo to a new position. She'll sit there and I can tell she's trying to figure out why what she's doing has an effect on an unrelated part of the system.
No, "privatization" does not inherently imply a for-profit model.

You'll see plenty of people complaining about the "privatization" of public schools when they're replaced by (non-profit) charter schools.

Also, the strict dichotomy of non-profit vs. for-profit isn't always enlightening. Particularly in the education sector, you'll find there are investors who are not exclusively looking for the highest possible return.

In this specific case, I am 100% positive that Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are not investing in BIA to maximize their profit. They both have access to far more lucrative investment options.
The IT industry's lack of attention to security (including confidentiality and system integrity) has enabled mass surveillance, by both businesses and government, and that problem now combines with the political situation to create a serious risk to people's rights.

Google has a very serious responsibility to implement effective security for Android, and it needs to be done urgently. They've known about it for years and put it off. The EFF has some basic specs here:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/11/tech-companies-fix-the...
Ask HN: Any student bug bounty hunters?
Have any students been rewarded for bug bounties/does security research as a hobby? I'm working on a journalism project on student bug bounty hunters and would love to ask a couple of questions.

Please comment/email me if you'd be willing to help! I'd really appreciate it.

I also have personal experience doing this kind of stuff (I've found/been rewarded for bugs in Facebook/Google/Firefox/Apple) so happy to talk about my own experiences with anyone I'd be interviewing!
The parent means, this company can't just sell "a Gameboy plus a flash cart" as their own commercial product. Which is why they created a custom product instead.

You, as an end user, certainly can "just" use a gameboy + a flash cart, or an iOS or Android device, or even (and I would suggest this) code games using an old console emulator as your runtime and don't worry so much about hardware. (Emulators for those same consoles also exist for iOS/Android, after all.)

But this company has other priorities, and so made this.
Most of us trust that toys for kids will be essentially harmless.

Speak for yourself - you don't speak for everyone else and I see no reason to use your standard as the default.

I have no such trust because I have always looked at safety warnings and taken them at face value. I always loved playing with Lego, but I was also aware that Lego bricks have sharp edges and are a choking hazard for small children. I knew this when I was a kid too.

Finally, I see no reason for you to lump these magnets in with all other 'toys for kids'. The buckyball magnets came with a very clear warning that they were for people 13 and over, and that you could get injured or even die by swallowing the magnets. When an item comes with a clear and unambiguous written warning of specific dangers and your idea of 'living in a trusting society' is to ignore such explicit warnings then yes it does make you guilty of something - negligence.

It's simply not fair to demand that other people accept liability for your actions when you are literally refusing to read clearly written warnings

This is such a subtle risk, its arguable that a printed warning on a paper container is insufficient. What happens when the packaging is discarded? Another kid enters the house? Your kid gives the toy away?

It's not subtle at all, it's easy to observe the risk from playing with the magnets for a couple of minutes and seeing how powerful they are. When the physical forces involved are self-evident then at some point you have take responsibility for paying attention to what your own senses are telling you. You're literally complaining that this is somehow too hard to think about it for ordinary people, and if you think that then you should be up in arms about the accessibility of gas stations, things make out of glass, and all sorts of other 'subtle' hazards that people navigate on a daily basis.

What happens when the packaging is discarded? The person doing the discarding takes responsibility for leaving the magnets in a safe place where they can not be got at by unsupervised children. I have clusters of neodymium magnets in several places around my house, out of the packaging. I know where they are, I know that I may need to move them if my friends who have kids come to visit (just like I need to move some other things I don't want them getting into), and I know that if I show them off or anyone expresses an interest in them that I have an obligation to point out that they are powerful and dangerous. And just in case, my home insurance policy covers me against financial liability if someone does suffer an injury while visiting my home.

Stop telling me it's a 'subtle risk.' That's complete BS when I can see and feel for myself that the things are really powerful. A subtle risk would be a lump of attractive-looking material whose radioactive nature isn't apparent without some kind of special measuring apparatus. I cannot understand why you are arguing that people should literally disregard the evidence of their senses rather than accept even a modicum of legal liability.
UB and IB ( implementation-defined ) have not been a problem for me for a couple decades now. No advocacy here - I started using C because it was about all there was - but it's just a learning curve.

There was no direct cost to me because I was getting paid to learn this stuff on the job.
Even physicists are 'afraid' of mathematics
Probably a local reseller.
Kind of related. I've stumbled upon someone making an old school demo of sorts in asm on amiga on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p83QUZ1-P10&list=PLc3ltHgmii...
> And our current status quo of rampant and reckless monetarism is what causes such severe crashes and volatility.

Insofar as there is an overreliance on monetary policy, that's because Congress has been uninterested in fiscal intervention to.address problems, which is the real source of severe economic problems (some short-term market volatility may be tied specifically to monetary policy, but that's far less important.)

Eliminating the independent central bank (the Federal Reserve) -- thus making both fiscal and monetary policy dependent on Congress getting its actually together -- makes this problem worse, not better.

> It's also far less preposterous when you read the next sentence where he advocates banks have a 20% capital reserve requirement.

Increasing reserve requirements will probably reduce the incidencenter of failure slightly, at the expense of being a giant break on the economy. But it doesn't make eliminating the FDIC far less preposterous.
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You may be right about Ender's Game. I'm not sure what was exactly wrong with it; I just found it flat and fairly uninteresting while the original novella is one of the best.

Of course, it's tough in SF where there's always a loud contingent (of what is your most natural constituency) over pretty much any deviations from a beloved book. Yet, there are aspects to novels that don't translate well into film and, in most cases, films need to simplify--dropping characters and streamlining plots.
You're comparing the average to the minimum. That's deceptive and unfair.

The average hotel room in SF costs hundreds of dollars a night. [0] So the average hotel is much more expensive than the average AirBnB.

Likewise, I showed countless examples of AirBnBs which have a lower price than the cheapest hotel you could find.

If both the average and the minimum for AirBnB is much lower than for hotels, we can safely conclude that AirBnB is substantially cheaper.

As a frequent traveler, I know that to be a fact. I would love if hotels were cheaper than AirBnB (I prefer them), but it's objectively not true.

[0] http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/morning_call/2015/07...
There's no way to solve that problem without just forbidding unsafe code entirely. Unsafe code can have bugs; that's why you should keep it to the minimum and keep it well-known and audited.

In this case, the byteorder crate would have been more appropriate than handrolling unsafe code.
I wish there was more info on this. They leave out many details.
Posts about him fighting on tirelessly. I look to them like the NewEgg of Patent trolls. He stood up and fought back a group that seldom has cases turn on them.

Good for him!
Link unrelated to title.
John Carmack?
Whenever I ask customer-support about it, they always just refund me, and let me keep the item. It's only been items that are <$100, so YMMV. I've personally always thought that they were just making it up in volume from people who don't verify.
You are thinking too much about how you can make a bit more one a sale when all you should care about is getting one more sale.

Look at google adwords. Most companies show an ads for there company name when they are the number one organic search. It is worth it to block anyone else from buying an ad over you and not worth the trouble to add negative keywords for all the ones you rank well with organically.
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The Future of Organized Labor Could Be This Artificially Intelligent Bot
If I wrote a blog post every time something's wrong with a shipment...
We have a winner. Kill your ego. It's the only way.
The wsj article mentions that citizens can check their scores with a visit to a government office - obviously that isn't too convenient. I wonder if the impact on your behavior would be stronger if you don't know your score (and/or it's comparatively difficult to find out, as it is now) or if you had a realtime counter on your phone...
YC admins: The "S" in Sixa is linking to Doblet.
I don't really approve of this view. CS students are going to be programming in current-gen languages like Java, Python, C/C++ and JS in industry anyway (C is perhaps last-gen...). I think academia should lie a couple steps ahead and introduce students to stuff that will help them advance the industry. Next-gen and maybe experimental/academic languages and tools. Teaching students current industry languages/tools is good for the individual student but bad for the industry as a whole because it causes stagnation. Universities are big enough that they ought to be able to rise above this tragedy of the commons and do something for the greater good rather than think narrowly of the individual student.
> I almost feel like Datomic solves what blockchain does (immutability) really well without the drama.

Well said. Unless you need to solve the Byzantine general problem there are better ways to database audit trails than Blockchain. e.g. Datomic or time travel queries.
MSVC provides that feedback. See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj658585.aspx - the compiler option you want is /Qvec-report:2 which "Outputs an informational message for loops that are vectorized and for loops that are not vectorized, together with a reason code."
I think we can all agree that comparing a Prius is not the same as comparing a non hybrid car, not to mention 650 is rather large compared to the bikes I'm suggesting but still cool to hear that out of the Prius. Just out of curiosity, how much fuel are we talking here for the Kawasaki?
In theory you could can alter your diet and exercise regimen (not easy but doable). Good luck getting a pension fund or a mortgage not affected by the stock markets these guys blew up.
That's why we are pivoting into the exciting unregulated area of medical document management with: The Thernos Wellness Document Platform!

Keeping only the "best" 50 engineers of course.

that's what complete voting control means!
C has a perfectly useable (null-terminated) string type, and there is no good reason to ever have a buffer overrun in C.

I understand that this is... obscure for some reason and I'm not saying it never happens, but let's be realistic....
I would question someone's actual motives if they demolished a house so they could build a new one in name of sustainability. How much time would it take to recuperate that full rebuild vs. just retrofitting the already existing house?
I get why you might want to make this, but isn't it just a one-liner?

> echo "data:$(file -b --mime-type somefile);base64,$(base64 somefile)"
Right, so you just don't get it.
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> It is good when the manufacturer of a product you pay for has interests in line with your own.

You realize that you traded Google no longer tracking your every step and key press with Apple tracking your every step and key press, right?

And because iOS is closed source, you know even less about what is being tracked than you did with Android.

I'm not judging, I don't really care either way, but your position doesn't seem very rational.
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Hackers Breached San Francisco’s Transit System and Demanded a Ransom
The title is totally misleading. This is more of the fact that I can gather what the author intends with the equation by words than with the mathematical symbols. Even better are graphs. Who would want to read your paper if it was just straight up a proof? Can't really scan that for the quick points to see if you want to investigate further.
I don't recall specifically about MSC but Turbo C had the same....

We considered having all the assembler in separate files better practice...
On specific, incredibly well maintained highways. I think they also have an age limit for the cars that can use them? I'm less clear on that one, that may have been lost in translation speaking to my Dutch friend.
This is interesting, but combines about five ideas. Expanding any one of those would be useful. The notion of a "transformative interface" seems to combine two concepts - "Wow factor" and "representation that yields insight". Those are different. The latter is more useful (but the former is more profitable.) Feynman diagrams come to mind.

Sussman's talk on how to think about circuits is here.[1] Here are the slides.[2] The video shows Sussman's talking head and him pointing at an off-screen display of the slides, which is not too helpful.

[1] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-...
[2] http://web.mit.edu/xtalks/Sussman-xTalk-3-2-16.pdf
Probably not.

C doesn't exist in a vacuum: it has to run on something. And the standard library doesn't get you very far.

You'd need to know at least one OS API as well: POSIX is probably best, maybe Win32, an embedded OS/executive might work also, or perhaps even a bare-metal CPU or two.

C + POSIX covers a lot of the Open Source world, and increasingly more of the embedded market. C + VxWorks is possibly the next best combo.
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Thanks, sorry I didn't remember you or check about:credits.

Now the part you didn't answer: did you lay good odds at the time?

Not putting you down at all if you did not. If you had, my hat would be off to you -- and you should try predicting other stuff, and betting large if you are accurate!

Again, the notion of Mozilla succeeding in any restart-the-browser gambit was considered long odds by all pundits and almost everyone involved in Mozilla at the time. Phoenix (née mozilla/browser) was a pirate ship in 2002.
I find that hard to believe without a photograph, and even if it were true the intense nature of the magnetic force is self-evident. Common sense mitigates against giving any small non-food objects to a 2-year old.

I never claimed to be a perfect parent (nice attempt at misdirection there). But I don't try to hold other people responsible for the decisions I make. When people with kids visit me or leave their kids in my care then their safety is my primary responsibility and I'm willing to accept that.
Well, the haters could always reimplement the whole infrastructure in their language of choice, wouldn't they?

It's been done at least once before for ideological reasons (and in C none-the-less) by the FSF. It should be even easier to give it a go in modern languages. I bet you can even get funding if you can write a compelling case that the wheel is actually broken!!!
I'd much rather see that as a state machine.
FYI, "apologist" is often not used to literally mean "one who apologises", but rather "one who defends"[1], with a negative connotation (at least in my experience).

I would guess the "C apologism" in the original comment is referring to defenses of C that pretend C is safe "in practice" (or "for people who know what they're doing") or minimise/ignore the strong correlation between the use of C and serious problems/vulnerabilities.

[1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apologist
>Erector / Meccano

I was going to say Capsela is great too, but did some quick searching and found it's been sold and discontinued :(
I've noticed that I tend to avoid the period/full stop when writing instant messages like that. Like, exclamation marks and question marks go just fine, but a period will make it sound very weird in my head when it's in an IM conversation, for some reason. I will even start a new sentence on a new line without a period after the last sentence if I need to write multiple sentences in one message (which doesn't happen that often though).

I don't know why.
I agree, in the context of US schools, privatization may imply a non-profit. However in this case, BIA is explicitly described as for-profit.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/06/...

In this specific case, I am 100% positive that Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are not investing in BIA to maximize their profit. They both have access to far more lucrative investment options.

I don't think this follows. You can't put all of your money into the most lucrative investment option. You have to diversify. For example people often invest in fine art, not because they're trying to make the world a better place by encouraging art, but as a hedge against other investments.

In this case there are assertions that BIA has a strategy of providing less individual attention to students in order to minimize costs, while taking money from the World Bank which could have gone to free public education otherwise. Sounds like Gates and Zuckerberg aren't in this to lose money.
that's pretty much the whole point. and has been since the first kickstarter project i backed in, let's see... december 2011.
Or: git blame | grep exployees.txt

(pardon my lack of grep/git command line knowledge!)
Is Xi's behavior any different than the nationalist, populist, authoritarian trends elsewhere, just applied to a different context?

Based on what I've read, the South China Sea policies make sense from a certain point of view, that China is the dominant power in the region who can dictate to others without negotiation, and eventually their neighbors must accept that. (That was China's position until the Opium Wars in the mid-19th century demonstrated that China lacked the military power to dictate to or even resist Western nations.) If that is China's long-term plan, then it's the right approach to dictate the status of the South China Sea and view resistance as short-term and ultimately futile. Negotiating would undermine China's standing.

It's a backward point of view: The world and China do much better when we manage conflict via democratic institutions based on rights than by might-makes-right. Who longs for the days of great power wars?
often though, representations that yield insight have some wow factor to them, especially if the world hasn't seen it before.

Between Nielsen and Bret Vector, I'm kinda jealous about what my future kids can learn with much more ease.
I don't think retargeting is particularly creepy.

What is creepy is that when my in-laws were visiting for the first time I had a American Express ad with Tina Fey congratulating me on meeting my in laws for the first time.

the ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEX5e-_YxxA
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If you had bad credit and a large amount of debt no bank or federal positions that deal with finances or money would be open for you.
Further, I think this is true of all advertising to some degree. I doubt the first print ad or billboard you buy has positive ROI.
Yeah, but its a pain in the butt to iterate when doing that, especially when you just want to dump off clipboard, or drag & drop.

Also wanted an excuse to play with a few browser features :P.
I think adapting the original Ender's Game novella rather than the novel would have made a lot of sense and would have made for a much tighter movie. I think there's just too much stuff in the full novel and trying to cram it all into the film made it impossible to pace things well.

I've long been of the opinion that novella-length stories are the best match for movie length (2-ish hours) adaptations and that novels usually just have too much stuff for a faithful adaptation. The Ender's Game movie just happens to be a really good recent example.
> A for-profit school has an obligation to its shareholders to maximize profits.

No, it doesn't. A for-profit corporation has an obligation to serve it's shareholders interests faithfully, but that is not, generally, a narrow obligation to profit maximization.
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throw a "not" in the 1 sentence of last paragraph if you can still edit. correct meaning is still obvious with omission.