skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
|who in the USAF would be willing to fly it?

Warrant Officers. The Army had a program during OEF/OIF where enlisted servicemembers could take a test and qualify for flight school to become helicopter pilots as a warrant officer. I found this tremendously attractive as an enlisted service-member and would have gone that route if I hadn't planned to leave and go to college instead.
Her grandson was operating the car, and the car did not have cup holders.

The car was not in motion at the time, her son pulled over so she could add cream and sugar.

McDonalds claimed to serve coffee too hot for human consumption because they thought most of their customers were commuters who weren't going to consume the coffee until they got to their destination.

The jury found Stella 20% at fault.

I think its important to note, back then McDonald's coffee cups were much more fragile then they are now. Specifically, this is the exact cup - http://www.idonotwanttobeyourlawyer.com/wp-content/uploads/2... Now they look like this - https://i0.wp.com/vifreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11... I think that's really one of the biggest safety improvements since the case.

Personally, I really hate it when I get hot coffee, I don't want to burn my tongue off and I don't want to wait 20 minutes.
How to Fix US Healthcare #Incentives
The lack of navigation within the AMP site is the reason I avoid clicking an AMP link if at all possible
Yeah, and it's great theatre! It's ultimately meaningless, but it does reinforce the story that Trump and the Republicans are trying to tell.

I live in Canada, and the politician who negotiated on behalf of my country is in the neighbouring city. At some point I hope to have a chance to ask him face-to-face how he justified negotiating that deal in secret.
Units =/= bedrooms. People are replacing units with 3-4 bedrooms with 2-bedroom units that have larger rooms.
Show HN: React Reveal Text – A library for animating the revealing of text
AMP is about lock-in. I'll just leave this here: http://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/08/choose-firefox-now-or-la...
Whoops, you're right. I was thinking about the end of Galapagos. It's been a long time since I read those books.
If we granted that such a precisely calculated fine might discourage people who do a precise calculation of expected profit, and who know the odds that they'll be caught...

Is this something we can really calculate so closely? What if it turns out the banks are better at such calculations than the government, and crime is profitable?
> there's a lot of evidence that the laws of physics are the same as far away as we can see

This could be a relativistic effect, just like the speed of light appears the same irrespective of frame of reference.
5 Highly Promising Terminal Emulators
I would say that this should be taught in driver education courses, but seeing as Maryland has removed even parallel parking from their test I have very little hope left.
I've been to parties in open plan houses and I've been to parties in many-small-rooms houses and I'm not convinced one is better than the other.

In any case I'm not going to prioritise the odd occasion I have parties over the more frequent occasions that I want to read a book, the wife wants to watch TV, one kid wants to run around in circles, another wants to practice the trumpet and the third just wants to hit a saucepan with a spoon. If you have multiple family members it's nice that they can get away from each other.
@apixline Thanks a lot again, the issue is fixed (along with the buttons in the top-left corner not working on windows).
Thanks for posting! I made this :)
The 2012 post travelled forwards in time at normal speed to reach 2017.
AMP has been a blatant power-play from square-one. It's nice to see it being called out on a site as prominent as Miessler's.
IMHO, the quoted statement doesn't necessarily preclude CDNs. I think you're reading too much into the phrasing, which like you suggested, is a laypersons view of the internet. To me, it is instantly obvious what the author meant. The question is who controls the platform. For e.g. Are you in control if Google chooses to datamine your readers, or if in the future Google is free to show "suggested" content which is not your own, etc, etc.
It's an economic uphill battle to be sure. I hope people keep brainstorming alternative business models.
Working without a calling, especially in an unskilled job, is horrifying. It's main use is to convince yourself that you never want to be in that position again and motivate studying or a career change.
Well, that is not true. The author clearly stated that the problem with AMP is that it creates an artificial silo where all content is being distributed (i.e., in the hands of) Google. But I agree that more arguments (especially also listing the advantages of AMP) would have given the post more credibility.
Here's a question - to you and anyone else who cares to respond:

I like to treat my github in a certain manner, and maybe I should change that.

Currently, what I have on my github is some repos that are all mine - but I also have a bunch more repos that are forks of other repos. I do this (fork other repos) because I like the repo, and some of them might be really old (that is, they haven't been changes in months or years - low commit frequency or such). So - a fork for me is kinda like "save it for later", in case the original repo goes away. Plus, IIRC, if the original repo does get updated, I'll be notified and I can pull down the changes into my repo (my only other option would be to download a zip of the master branch - but then if it did change, I wouldn't know).

Should I not do this? I mean, those forked repos are clearly labeled as forks from the original repo, and I have made it clear in the past that "only these repos are mine exclusively" - but should I not do this? Should I instead have a separate github just for those kinds of forks, and keep my personal repo for only my own stuff?

I'm just wondering how confusing this really is for prospective employers or others - I don't want them thinking that repos x/y/z are mine when they aren't, and miss the repos that actually are mine. It's too bad that there isn't an option to segregate this better on github, and only show your repos by default. Maybe I need to review my settings...
Fastlane is joining Google
Yes, I think it's fundamentally impossible to effectively prevent or prosecute certain types of crime without scanning financial metadata, such as funding of terrorist groups or cross-border fraud.

The model of 'wait until someone complains, then get a warrant, then use that data to prosecute' simply doesn't work in practice, and the article notes exactly why. For criminal networks, by the time the judicial gears have started running, the criminals are long gone with their ill-gotten profits. For terrorist enterprises, it's easy and cheap to create puppet companies or non-profits to take donations, and prosecuting terrorists after they've used the money to commit violence is not acceptable to society.

> Should the bank also check that the product you are trying to sell is compliant with the latest health & safety regulations and that you didn't violate environmental protection laws?

No, because you can effectively punish companies that violate health and safety regulations after the financial transaction takes place. For scammers, that's not true.

You might think that having these crimes is simply the price of liberty, but I think many people would disagree. I don't think the rhetorical strategy of denying there is a problem, and claiming that policing strategies from 30 years ago will fix all the problems, is a reasonable one.

> Was it impossible to do their work before the internet when law enforcement had to get a warrant to open mail and tap phone lines?

Yes, because now criminals aren't communicating with mail and phone lines, they're using the internet, which is a completely different beast. You can't run a business like you did 30 years ago and succeed. You can't make a movie like you did 30 years ago and expect to succeed. What makes you so confident and sure that wiretap laws from 30 years ago can be perfectly and successfully applied to the internet today?
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You could also throw a multiverse-situation on top, where activating the receiver (which instantaneously captures a pending traveler) is actually what causes a branching.

Then it'd introduce a certain game-theory to it all: If you send something back in time, you're essentially losing it (or them) to a parallel universe, and turning on your receiver means accepting a gift from some possible future.

So some people will travel in time for their personal benefit (greeted as a celebrity with valuable skills and knowledge) and others will consider how to transmit all of their radioactive waste to another version of themselves...
What about the fact that we no longer need kitchens because we've got Uber Eats?

Food delivery has existed for a long time, and going out to eat has existed even longer, but I still want a kitchen.
Ajit Pai was designated as the 34th Chairman of the FCC
Not sure how you've made the jump from "office based staff know all priorities and remote staff don't". That's a completely different issue.
Google voice could have replaced twilio if they just got an api up. Years later, still no api.
I spent some time learning the high level concepts first—which I found to be a very useful initial orientation—but recently I've wanted to solidify my foundations and learn the math properly.

I've found the math primer (two sections: "Linear Algebra" and "Probability and Information Theory") in this free book to be excellent so far: http://www.deeplearningbook.org/ It's a little under 50 pages for both sections.

I've seen the basics of linear algebra covered in many different places, and I think this is the most insightful yet concise intro I've come across. I haven't started the probability section yet, so I can't comment on it.
What happens after I nominate a website? I'm not sure what the follow-up is. Does it go on a list? Generate a leaderboard? Send leads to this Matthias guy?
I lolled - the Seattle NIMBY defending against hordes of bay area refugees. :)
A company lying to further it's goals, well I never!
It is just an automated test of a piece of code, normally of a function. Personally I prefer to write automated systems test. i.e. Tests that test the entire system. For example: A test that plays every single level of your game.
it remains to be seen [...] whether killing free trade will be a net benefit

Sure, if you hate reading history books. The thing is, we actually have quite a lot of evidence about matters of international trade already which one side in this debate consistently ignores in favor of hypotheticals.
UpKeep (YC W17) is an app to speed up the maintenance work order process
Uber doesn't disclose their exact process, of course, but it appears to be mostly stack ranking. Firing the bottom 10% or whatever ends up meaning around a 4.6 in most markets, but median driver ratings vary by market. The stack rank isn't immediate either, and may have factors such as number of trips driven. But that's basically what's going on. (I don't know specifically how this applies to UberPool ratings)
In my experience small companies, which can't afford to carry dead weight, are pretty intolerant of these kinds of people. But at a large company someone who does this well will be there as long as he wants. I work with one who's been at our company for at least fifteen years.

My favorite trick is the Strategic Vacation. Somehow he always has a long vacation planned months in advance that allows him to dump whatever he's been tasked with onto someone else (like me, for instance).

"It's basically done, but I haven't added Y or Z yet" is always the prelude to receiving something he's been "working on" for three months and actually put in, charitably, two or three days of actual work.

But he's a good looking, personable kind of guy. Everybody likes him, particularly the managers, as a person. So while nobody wants him on their team he's managed to avoid getting a reputation that would keep him from moving to other teams.
> My question is why wasn't their QA process catching this in the factory? Especially after the first recall

There were 2 battery suppliers, the initial recall was done because batteries from the first supplier (a Samsung subsidiary) had structural/design defects.

To make up for this lost capacity, they ramped up production at the second supplier without much of a heads-up. Unfortunately the Quality Control was not adequate for the higher volumes, resulting in well-designed but sloppily made batteries that were also prone to explode. The problem in the second case was not a structural one, but in the manufacturing process.
What about things installed via pip that are not part of the package manager, is that not the same thing as with pyenv? You could use debian's tooling or fpm to turn pip->dpkg but you still have the same problem of maintenance (which tbh isn't that big of a deal if you're developing, it's not a production env)

Also, I don't personally see what's wrong with having a compiler on production systems. Granted, if you don't need it and want to reduce bloat but treating it as a security hole is misguided imho. If the actor can't run gcc, then the could still upload their pre-compiled version, otherwise how would they get the source on to compile in the first place. Just seems a pointless measure
"Reuters seemed to suggest that nearly one out of every thousand transactions was fraudulent, reporting that Western Union 'said consumer fraud accounts for less than one-tenth of 1 percent of consumer-to-consumer transactions.'"

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/01/23/0658205/western-unio...
I've been using Google Voice since before it was Google Voice (it was called GrandCentral before Google acquired it). I've been fearing that Google was going to silently kill it constantly because of the lack of attention. Guess this means it's going to stick around for a while longer.
Note that both things can be true: that Aetna lost money in the individual marketplace (which would square with the experiences of other insurers in guaranteed-issue markets) and that their tolerance for loss was sharply influenced by support for their proposed merger.
This is my point. We all want food in our bellies, a roof over our heads and a safe place for our kids to play. The metaphysical world plays no role in that. Thus, it isn't all that important in the grand scheme of things.

Carl Sagan was able to explain how I feel better than I ever could when he commented on this image:

http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/56c03accdd08950d408...

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves."
iirc "database" means an organized collection of data. persistence is just a nice feature.
Well, TinyBASIC was available as both an interpreter, but more often, as a compiler.

Though it was a primitive compiler compared to today, due to the size of the language, it easily fit within 2-3kb, which on your 8kb system, would leave 5kb or more for program memory.

In fact, some TinyBASIC systems had a virtual machine and JIT compiler in 120 instructions, or around 2kb, as early as 1964.

Though BASIC is slower than Forth, or was in those days, the main benefit is instant availability. BASIC syntax was the jumping on point for more than a few programmers, myself included, because of it's simplicity.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13465450
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YES! Thank you. I found another article on Bloomberg, but it was not this one. However, it doesn't seem to be support my memory of "marrying up".
They penalize slow sites, its very different.
Thank you! But not the thing. I don't want to use software to make something beautiful, or make software that is used to make beautiful things; I want to make beautiful code. Does that make sense?

(Unless you think the codebases of these projects are themselves beautiful? Then they might be a The Thing)
to explain the Fermi paradox, you must explain why all civilizations collapse before colonizing the galaxy.

If all civilizations involve exponentially increasing technological and cultural change and billions of competing self-interested sentient interests, then I'd expect nearly all of them to collapse. Civilizations, as our civilization understands the notion, are formulated in such a way as to be inherently unstable. If there's anything that persists on long enough timescales to settle a galaxy, a civilization is the last thing I'd expect it to be.

is every alien race going to make that error?

I'd expect almost all civilizations to be prone to such an error. Perhaps the only forms of sentience which are stable over millions of years are hive minds and these can never leave their home systems because the speed of light would cause them to divide and either 1) attack their closest rival, or if such hive minds were prone to be civil with each other: 2) proceed to form a society and civilization, after which they would then fall prey to all the problems of civilization.
In Santa Barbara, CA, where I live, each home must have two covered parking spaces, and the city will investigate and require you to empty out your garage if it is too full to hold cars and you don't have a carport or other covered parking.

Section 28.90.100.G.1
https://www.santabarbaraca.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.as...
I love AMP because I can easily tell which sites will actually load fast and give me the info I wanted directly from the search results page.

Publishers are still able to track pageviews and serve ads, so I don't get what the hullaballoo is all about here.

There's nothing in the AMP spec that stops links from working.

I just searched for "Is Google AMP a good thing" on my mobile, and got the OP's post as the first result (probably personalized?). Had to go to the fourth result for something with AMP, from CIO.com. The page loaded instantly, was able to scroll without things jumping around, and the header link to the CIO.com homepage worked as expected. They were still able to serve ads and count my pageview too, even if I never directly contacted their server.

I just don't get what the big deal is.
But doesn't AMP force ads to be async?
One standard deviation is not enough to declare that one strategy is better than another.
No, I never did a degree and I am in this industry deep for many years, and I love it. Leave it alone - just hire better, I am sure recruiters can improve on it.
This will do one of three things:

1. increase Uber's already sizable losses, causing the business to fail

2. increase the cost of a fare, leading to fewer rides and forcing drivers to find other employment

3. increase the cost of a fare, but have little impact on rider numbers because fares were already too low, making everyone happy

If it's option 3, then that's great. But if that's the case, why did Uber originally lower fares?

EDIT: should probably add that I support a UBI to solve this. I'm not suggesting that sleeping in your car after a 14 hour shift is good, or right.
The system my partner & I set up:

- no exercise on a designated days? Donate $100 to Australia's One Nation party (Australia's Trump-esque ratbags).

- don't meet weekly work goals? I give away a watch; she gives away a pair of shoes.
Money is being returned to the people who were conned into sending it over Western Union. (They're setting up a fund.) My guess is it's people with less education who actually truly needed the money.

I'm putting my cynicism aside, because that really does sound like a good thing.
I wish they provided the opposite. They are constantly deactivating my card or changing my card number when I've never had a single actual fraudulent transaction on my account. In the event that my card is stolen, I'm not liable, they are. By deactivating my card they're not protecting me, they're protecting themselves, by inconveniencing me.
Am I misreading this, or are they forgoing profit purely out of spite? Or I guess the idea is they could make more profit in the long run if they generate enough bad publicity for the ACA. These quotes almost seem too on the nose to be real:

> “I just can’t make sense out of the Florida dec[ision],” the executive, Christopher Ciano, wrote to Jonathan Mayhew, the head of Aetna’s national exchange business. “Based on the latest run rate data . . . we are making money from the on-exchange business. Was Florida’s performance ever debated?” Mayhew told him to discuss the matter by phone, not email, “to avoid leaving a paper trail,” [the judge] found.
It does build a dependency graph...But I'm not sure what you mean by 'best' path to upgrade.
Planned Parenthood is being eradicated in this country.
I should generalize more: A goal to hit a certain weight is a bad goal because your weight will typically bounce back. But a goal to reach a certain weight and then stay below it forever is more System than Goal. You want to always be on track towards your ideal weight, which may mean staying flat if you're already there.
TaxGrader – Insights from your tax return
Hello Everyone,
I've just released my first public web site TaxGrader - https://www.taxgrader.com - a site that allows you to enter tax information (from your 1040) and compare it against a variety of benchmarks. I built this tool to help me uncover under utilized aspects in my tax return without spending too much $$$ on a CPA.

This is strictly for US Individual Tax Returns (1040) -sorry ROTW!.

My aim submitting it here on Hacker News is to receive honest feedback. Design , usability, performance, accuracy, monetization (keep it free or charge) etc.. Nothing is off limit. If the tool is able to identify savings for you , I would consider that a positive step for the effort I have put in.

Happy Saving!!
Somewhat Helsinki-specific, but the onboarding for the Wolt app is a beautiful one:

https://itunes.apple.com/fi/app/wolt/id943905271
This helped me, too, when I was suffering from insomnia. 700 to 1,000 words was the "sleep like a baby" target range for me. Also, the sooner I could bring myself to write about the really difficult topics, the better.
It's closer to stack ranking than a strict cutoff.
You need a dedicated person to take meeting minutes, ideally someone who isn't otherwise part of the meeting because humans are bad at multitasking. I especially find it hard to take notes and focus on the meeting (nevermind actually contributing).