skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are also some other things I find people have trouble understanding.

First thing that one needs to understand: you always leak data. It's a feature of reality itself. At the very least, every second of your life, the record of where you are and what you do radiates away from you at the speed of light. Of course interacting with matter, you leave stronger traces everywhere. Mechanical, thermal, accoustic. Most of the data isn't easily accessible in any meaningful way, but it doesn't change the fact it's always there.

Two: progress of technology increases our ability to access this data. There's no way to ensure that data is denied to all people other than stopping the development of new technologies. There's no meaningful way of preventing anyone from accessing the data that's available today other than rolling back the Industrial Revolution and going back to living in caves. Science and technology lets us see the physical world in more details, faster and cheaper, and it also lets us correlate information faster and cheaper. There's no way around that.

So that's about "metadata". As for "personally identifiable information", I may avoid giving some of it to random strangers, but I do assume that PII is public information. Because, again, there's no meaningful way to contain their spread. So pretending to yourself that any PII is private would be stupid.
But.. it, IS a business. No profit = FAIL. At some point the funding they are getting, from investors and stock owners is going to dry up like the Serengeti when they realize they won't make money.

It's fine to invest and take losses if you're a new start up. Amazon is neither new nor a startup. At some point they need to start making money. Otherwise they are just a bucket for fools to throw their money in.

It's shocking they still don't make money. "We will make it up in volume!". Talk about a tech bubble.
There are plenty of people with degrees working in those warehouses because it's the only thing they can get due to their circumstances and it pays a little better than retail. (I know this because I was one of them until a few weeks ago.)
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> And much of Amazon jobs involve retrieving lightweight items from shelves to put in a bin.

Haven't they transitioned all their warehouses to the model where the person stays stationary, and robots bring product to the person? Or is that only in selected warehouses?

That's not to say standing in one position is any better or less stressful (might even be more so, if you've ever seen videos of the robots in action on the floor).
Sounds like the companies you mentioned used protectionism as a crutch rather than an opportunity to catch up. I can see where that would be frustrating.
This. I am endlessly frustrated with display manufacturers think that I want to do all sorts of "smart" stuff with my display. No. I want it to display a nice image for the stuff I want to plug into it, that's it!

Setup a new TV for a family member recently and the instructions basically wanted me to Bluetooth pair my phone to the TV so I could set it up. I was like you have to be $&@!ing kidding me. Power, volume, input select. Just give me 4 buttons and that's it and I'm happy.
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Well here, talk to me. I protest the travel ban. I think it is racist. Not middle America, but the president and his strategist.

I think a lot of other people who are for the ban aren't racist, just misinformed. A lot seem to think Muslim immigrant|refugee == terrorist.

One person told me "I'm for the ban because I don't want them to come and kill me and my family in our sleep."

I blame this perception on the people who seek to profit by the general hysteria, not those manipulated by it. I am sad for the victims of it.
> the prompt to denounce people who you believe are using a fake name

They actually do this? That's pretty scary
There could be bioavailablility issues with raw oysters. I have zero idea of whether or not that is true, but it's certainly possible.

It could also just be a general policy to not endorse eating raw shellfish.
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We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13560351.
I personally call Google 'God of the Internet', although AWS would be a pretty good competitor for that title.
That won't get better until koa 2.x drops the @next flag (when async/await lands in node).

But I've never run into an issue that was "insanely difficult".
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I've been watching the LA tech scene for the past couple of months and am curious - how many here work in LA? What's the pay scale in Los Angeles like? Is it worth moving out there to look for work as a Software Engineer?
A snap is a squashfs of a directory with a metadata file in ./meta/snap.yaml

We can also provide binary delta downloads of snaps.
Not only that, but then you have the panel lottery. Same TV model ends up using different panels. One version is amazing and the other version is crap, and it is is hard to know which until you get the TV out of the box.
> I get to see their children grow up, new jobs, comfort them when they lose a parent..

Do you though? I mean do you really get to see all those things? Having been through the loss of a parent and the arrival a new baby in the past couple of years I can tell you from this end of things there is no value in any online "presence" of friends and family.

The people who come to meet our new baby, who brought food, and who attended the funeral are the ones that actually impacted our lives and improved us and themselves. A DM or post in Instagram meant nothing - it feels more like the person is signaling human emotions than engaging in them.
> "You didn't protest sufficiently about Obama, so you should approve of Trump's policies" is just a non sequitur.

The argument is that the current reaction doesn't make sense given recent history. So the current "debate" is instead a placeholder for a culture war, disappointment with the election results, or something.

That is, the non sequitur is the new levels of disgust. The non sequitur is resolved if you add some subtext that make Obama deserve a (perhaps begrudging) pass and Trump a fail.

> That argument works, but it's not actionable...

Sure it's actionable. Politicians apologize for letting Obama get a pass. Some writers rip Obama a new one in ex post facto editorials. Propose laws to make sure president's can't bomb countries without Congressional approval. Propose laws giving Congress more oversight into the visa process, etc. Shoot, propose Constitutional Amendments if the rights of foreign nationals aren't clear enough.

> The only good, useful argument to be made with this is that we should be more critical and more willing to make ourselves heard in the future

Honestly, being heard isn't the problem. Trump supporters know what others think. Corporate America literally has TV specials, policies, and training courses about this stuff. The people with different concerns are just on different wavelengths, so there's no conversation, just a big struggle over the reigns of power.

We need to actually understand others' arguments (so we can in turn be better understood) instead of wondering if we need to do a better job of making themselves heard.
I am not saying they can all be doctors or other very high aptitude roles but I have no doubt they can learn new skills that will enable them to do more productive things with their minds than warehouse work for example.

I don't have an answer to be honest though and I am not sure [m]any people do right now. It is a difficult problem but one we need to discuss and work on a solution for. I don't feel a universal basic income is the answer like some have suggested. Not that I am against UBI as part of a bigger solution but it is my personal opinion that a mind wasted is a tragic thing.
"populism" without a modifier is quite often used in the specific sense in which others use the more specific "authoritarian populism"; that is, demagoguery which features use of populist rhetoric to build support for authoritarianism.

This can be a source of much confusion because it is often unclear from a single encounter whether someone criticizing "populism" is an elitist opposed to politics genuinely directed at the interests of the masses, or simply warning of authoritarian demagoguery.
That's an astonishingly large number of employees.

For reference, the third largest publisher of video games clocks in at 11,000 employees globally.
My contrarian opinion: Walmart is going to create some hard times for Amazon.

Walmart ackuired jet.com just 4 months ago. Jet.com, a startup, has managed to create a logistics network being able to do 1-day delivery to 50% of the population(or at least they claimed so), reached $1B in sales rapidly. Walmart has recently started to offer free 2-day delivery($35 minimum), which means that now, even for Prime memebers. shopping comparison is a reasonable option.

Furthermore, Walmart has curbside pickup for groceries, a very convinient service to get your groceries on the way from work, is seeing a lot of sucsess according to Walmart, with availibility in 500 stores, and planning to be in 600 more soon.

And Walmart definetly has got a huge logistics chain, maybe less in areas where Amazon is strong at, but they're probably better at the china/usa logistics part, that's why Amazon is doing some of those moves.

And Walmart does have enough capital to compete.

And once this impacts Amazon, will Amazon be able to keep it's very high stock price ? and how will this affect talent and growth ?

In short: finally , we're in for some very interesting times.
"Subsistence farming" is not an accurate description of the European world before the industrial revolution. Farmers worked cash crops like wool, made plans years in advance, and there were substantial markets. See for example Christopher Dyer, "Making a Living in the Middle Ages" (2009) [1]:

> "In managing the earth, vegetation and animals, the first priority of medieval men and women was to produce food, but they also expected to receive the benefits of their work in the foreseeable future, so the practised (to use the modern term) 'sustainable' agriculture. They planned for the same land to yield crops regularly, and the appreciated that well-managed resources renewed themselves. They anticipated the changeability of the seasons and the harvests, and hoped that their farming methods would allow them to survive in a year of unusual weather, for example by planting a variety of crops. At no time or place within our period can they be described as 'subsistence farmers' [emphasis added], in the sense that they ate only food that they had grown, or that they produced solely for their own consumption needs. They always expected that their land would yield a surplus, whether for the benefit of the state, the church or their lords, or for exchange for goods and services which they could not obtain from their own land.

Now, I'm not going to pretend that the industrial revolution was obviously bad for most people, but to say it was obviously good is wrong too. It's a complex thing, and it's not clear whether people are happier or even healthier in an industrial economy than an agrarian one.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=82zXFn-EDisC
It may sound conspiratorial but Trump did say this about Amazon: "Believe me, if I become president, oh do they have problems, they are going to have such problems" [1]
We'll see.
[1]:https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/18/amazon-je...
> From what I was told, there's a huge push to get this stuff out the door as soon as they think the market will accept it.

Looks like a) he's not extrapolating anything, and b) the AC knew those huuuuge barriers existed when he wrote his post.
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There has been tons of precedent, on both sides: http://www.zdnet.com/article/florida-court-says-password-dis...

This is the only sane interpretation, though, as people have more and more encrypted devices, it's unreasonable to punish someone for not remembering a password.
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Cheap good are also usually of inferior quality. Look at the stuff we made in the 50s, 60s and 70s. A lot of it is still usable today if properly taken care of. The cheap stuff we buy today is mostly disposable.

The prices would be higher but the need to replace would be lower.

Unfortunately we're in a downward spiral. Making cheaper products overseas lowers wages. People with lower wages are forced to buy cheap, non-durable products.
FF tracking protection helps.

Disabling JS from iffy marketing companies mostly solves the problem. (From a legal standpoint, not a security standpoint). It's illegal under wiretapping rules to share communication with a third party. (but if the user's browser hits a third-party data collection endpoint, that's somehow okay. See 'in re doubleclick'). Firefox tracking protection uses the disconnect.me list https://disconnect.me/trackerprotection/blocked to get rid of all of these it can.

If the adversary isn't a marketing firm that has to comply with the law, ignore the above. Then you're looking at browser flaws (canvas fingerprinting) and session inference (using client IP, URL, browser-agent, & timestamps to reconstruct identity from behavior).
I know this is touched no in The Godfather II, when the Senator's talking to Michael. Where is whiteness a theme in the first movie?
Wild guess on my part, but I suppose it could be possible that cooking the oyster makes more of its copper available for absorption. No idea if that's true, just making up a theory to support the conclusion.
>As for the direction of the movement, think of it as pushing a globe and not moving a camera.

It's not the style of navigation that feels weird. It feels like they're doing the usual arcball but with some weird multiplier attached to rotations so it doesn't feel 1:1 but something like 1:4.

It's really obvious if you zoom out enough to see the entire globe and grab one horizon then drag it 180 degrees to the other. The globe rotates almost twice in that span instead of ~1/2 rotation.

Edit: or at least it does on my PC and phone.
Except that we are seeing far less of a reaction to Bob Iger or Jack Welch being involved with the exact same thing. What portion of people #DeletingUber are switching away from Pepsi products? Has the media failed to cover substantial new protest of JP Morgan?
Google will discontinue Google Now Launcher in the coming weeks
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Call me when a circuit court makes a decision, at the least. SCOTUS will almost certainly decide on "forgetting your password is not a crime".
Also they will understand how this work is scientific and not psuedoscientic falsehoods.
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Hi All,
I am an attorney assisting with the volunteer effort surrounding the executive order on immigration. As you have heard in the news, this has caused a lot of panic, fear, and hardship for a lot of people.

One of the problems we as lawyers are facing is that we cannot accurately/easily track flights with immigrants on them that may be detained and/or require attorney assistance to enter or re-enter the country.We are also wanting to communicate important information as changes develop so that we can assist travelers.

To help solve this problem, we are looking for someone or a team of people to assist us in building a website/app that will allow us to assist people. We have come up with a base of about 10 requirements which I will be glad to discuss with anyone interested.

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Your example runs 'openstack' in a container. The snap runs 'openstack' without a container. The question really is what does the container do for you to justify adding it to the stack?
The movie is full of satire of jingoism. This puts it in contrast with the book which is more earnest in its elevation of service.
To be fair, every time we have a thread on HN about how Google or Facebook do version control, there are people who leap at the chance to say they're doing it wrong.
Tuco? Blondie? or Angel Eyes?
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As far as I understand, that's more a grudge about the Post's critical coverage of Trump than a populist objection to the business model.
You have to live in the future to invent for the future. These are probably being used by product manager to see the deficiencies for the next feature upgrades to make it perfect.
There's no need to "Switch back" unless... oh my, your wife closes all her browser windows sometimes?!
Copying an API is just reciting a bunch of facts. Individual details which aren't protected, stripped from the protected context of the work as a whole.

If you're saying that the API reference itself can be copyrighted, yes, I agree. My typesetting of it, my method ordering, etc. All protectable. But not the facts on which it's based.

> If you wrote out a prose description of [...]

Of course that would be fine, but you don't have to go that far.

And I could take your prose description and strip the prose from it and turn it back into an API description. In that scenario, whose copyright do you think is being violated? The original work which I've never seen, or yours?
Next time just say "this person is spamming a site that he/she owns" instead of the cryptic statements you made. Clarity is important.
Can anyone here provide a summary of the relevant law? It's surprising to me the President would have the power to instantaneously and unilaterally revoke any visa he chooses without consulting Congress.
It's not humor. Secret agents are a real problem.
How does this apply if I'm using f.lux?
For the same reason ISPs and telcos have traditionally included "value-adds" on their Internet connectivity, like email accounts, portals, news, business websites, etc, etc, etc, because they don't want to become commodity "dumb pipes".

The phone manufacturers need to create and push non-standard (and often broken) app launchers and branded skins in order to differentiate, otherwise they'd just be another Android phone maker, rather than, say, the manufacturer of the Samsung phone.
I don't think criticizing FreeBSD's "age" is exactly reasonable in this context, seeing as how Linux is two years older (and GNU even older than that).
jet.com reached their 1B revenue target by losing money on every transaction: rather than have inventory, they relist competitor's inventory at lower prices. Which is why your jet.com purchase may bear the name of some Other online retailer when it arrives. Presumably Wal-Mart will correct both the inventory and the prices in the near future. And when the subsidies dissapear, so will the competition.

Besides which, isn't Amazon a cloud tech company with a vestigial retailing arm?
You're in a minority, though - that's the problem. Stuff like TVs have huge benefits to manufacturing at scale.

Counter-intuitive though it might seem, it'll be cheaper per-unit to produce a TV with smart TV crap with a market of one million than it will be to make a basic TV with a market of ten thousand.
LG is just a bad company. Most of their products are faulty in some way. I had issues with their monitors and phones. I stopped buying anything LG since then.
Don’t confuse “I don’t like it” with “That’s a bad product and it’ll fail”
If this is true, I sure hope to god developers will have some performant build machine edition. It would make CI even more painful for iOS dev.
I don't know how the argument that this will cause Muslims to "become radicalized" helps Muslims, at all. If there really are people who can be turned into killers with a little bit of propaganda, then scrutinizing immigrants from those countries seems prudent.
In two minds: governments' quantum leap into the future
What assumption laden, lazy use of words. You throw them around as smears and pretend they have specific meaning rather than the emotive symbols they are.

Nigel Farage who convinced a majority of Brits to exit the EU is generally regarded as being altright. Do we therefore conclude that this British majority went along with someone who supports a 'rewarming of Nazism'. This is vile garbage.

Identifying targets precisely and offering arguments is preferable to sloppy innuendo.
LG has been plagued with quality control issues. Their Android phones are known to suffer from boot loop problems.
this study seems to contradict people being more forgetful when not getting enough sleep
You could break out of the isolation by using kernel vulnerabilities, e.g., in syscalls.
Indeed, I made some changes to a freelance contract once, and the business owner was extremely understanding.

It ended up being the best freelance experience I've had and I would recommend working for them with no hesitation.

OTOH, I've signed "take it or leave it" contracts, and it ended up being a soul-sucking corporate drone kind of affair.
This is great, but as someone mentioned, would have been good to see these numbers against retail job losses. Macy's announced 10,000 layoffs in January. American Apparel is shutting down their business, Limited is bankrupt, Gap was struggling, Sears is closing shop. It is very very hard for brick and mortar retail right now (disclaimer: I shop at Amazon all the time). This along with automation driven by SV companies is a massive jobs transfer from rest of the country to the West Coast.
I'd love to see a worthy competition to Intel.
> "As for the denial of wiping, the Court’s independent expert found 92 percent of Carmack’s hard drive was wiped—all data was permanently destroyed, right after Carmack got notice of the lawsuit, and that his affidavit denying the wiping was false. Those are the hard facts."

Lines like this are why the expert reports from the lawsuit should be public. Carmack would naturally have very unusual computer use patterns.

It's easy to picture him creating an editing tool that accidentally used up almost all available swap space. Or filling up almost all of his drive space with generated textures and immediately deleting them.

That would look like use of obfuscation tools to a mediore expert.
Listen to the sound of Monero (anonymous cryptocurrency) transactions and blocks
Vendors are prohibited by contract from using purchase information tied to your credit card. That's why they have store-specific loyalty cards.
By all means! At the same time, there may be something to be said for writing well. I was reminded of this thread:

Rare is the leader who can actually write well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=429298

and especially part of a comment by Alex3917[1], quoting 37signals's Getting Real[2]:

"If you are trying to decide between a few people to fill a position, always hire the better writer. It doesn't matter if that person is a designer, programmer, marketer, salesperson, or whatever, the writing skills will pay off. Effective, concise writing and editing leads to effective, concise code, design, emails, instant messages, and more."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=429352

[2] http://gettingreal.37signals.com