skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>these are all currently crimes in their own right, so they fall under your first category, rather than your second, so I'm not quite clear what sort of point you're making here.

I was answering the question below:

>Your proposal ignores it - legalizes its distribution, in fact. Why?

If, in response to my answer, you conclude that committing a crime is an action tantamount to sharing, viewing, or possessing information about it, I disagree, and I think your outlook is frighteningly authoritarian. "Action" was a poor word choice. "Actions which entail direct harm", such as raping a child, should be illegal, I should've said. "Actions which entail indirect harm", such as possessing, sharing, or viewing data, should not be, in my opinion.

That doesn't matter if you're ignoring actions' directness and level of harm altogether and arguing that, since a judicial body classifies an action as a crime, it is a crime, and so I should agree that it should be a crime. But, in that case, I also disagree, and I think you're being a poor advocate for orthodoxy.

>ongoing harm to the victims, which, while not unreasonable, I think might be a weaker argument than that distribution in particular may make and expand a market even when not done for money

Here, I think you're doing it more justice. Incidentally, though, I'm the other way around. The "harm to victims" angle is much more salient than the "increasing demand" one, but both are pretty spurious to me, and certainly seem like underwhelming reasons to imprison and permanently cripple the lives of people whose only actions consisted of manipulating bits in storage media to the direct harm of no one.
Thanks for letting me know! I'll try to get a sharper image in there :)
Web is far more usable

The big difference here is that you seem to hate web for what amounts to meaningless ideology, whereas people like me hate email for very practical reasons.
That's what I'm trying to do with http://startupdigger.com

I'm on the run to build something not only attracts people's interest but also runs maybe not completely but mostly on auto-pilot.

IMHO, building a SaaS product takes so much time which is quite hard to give if you're trying to run it as a side project. I've tried it before.

I also was an active AdSense publisher until a few years ago and made a decent money out of it and then sold my websites.

Let's see what will happen with Startup Digger.
Interesting, I'm also curious of the results of this metric in Utah. they seem to mention it a few times but I didn't see the actual examples.
I think since it's a chat with strangers it should be more aimed toward anonymity and not require to login with Facebook.
No, many jobs aren't customer facing yet require you to be in a certain place at a certain time, such as most trades (carpentry and welding), long haul trucking, repairman, and deliveryman.

The only job I can think of that won't get mostly automated away are either jobs that require either/both lots of creative talent (such as a highly skilled engineer, artist, etc) or require an actual onsite presence (contractor, building inspector, pest control.)
_The unhinged man who rage-kills his ex-wife and some of her coworkers with a gun today could ....._

After such a horrendous event, maybe the US society would start asking themselves why there are so many societies with far less lunatics getting around killing. And after answering that question, US politics and society force themselves acting because everyone agrees "never again"?
Travel 'writing' as a literary exercise might be dead, but travel blogging as a professional pursuit is in its heyday thanks to credit cards. Sites like OMAAT[0] or TPG[1] make great revenue off writing about the practical aspects of travel (planes, hotels, etc.) and referring people for credit cards. This is enough to subsidize plenty of "traditional" destination blogging as well.

If you want to do travel writing, learn a little about credit cards first.

[0] http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/
[1] https://thepointsguy.com/
Indeed. The article cites the stigma of being the woman who can't come in to work because her child threw up -- but there's far more stigma attached to being the man who can't come in to work because his child threw up.
To Guardian and its readership: right-wing means evil.
Existing alternative is obviously PowerShell. With 10+ years in production its obvious choice in Windows and it gets better every day on Unix like systems.

All those alternatives that use some mainstream language not designed originally as a shell language (xonsh [python], rash [ruby], this [python], rhino [javascript], whatever) so far didn't hold water - the shell is not an afterthought, it needs upfront design and its own language.
>And that's the problem with contempt-of-court. If you can be held indefinitely without being charged with anything, that's a corruption of the legal process. Someone being held in that manner for long enough will likely do anything to get out of that situation, even confess to a crime that carries a sentence of a defined length, because knowing you'll be out in 10 years (or whatever) might be better than being held indefinitely.

Yeah, as I said in my original post, I agree with this. There needs to be a limit on contempt-of-court.

The flip side, however, is that someone who does something that would carry a large prison sentence would be incentivized to violate orders, spend one year waiting out contempt charges, get charged with obstruction and sentenced to 3-5 years, making a total of 4-6 years jail time. That could be a big win for the criminal if complying with the government's order would allow them to prove a crime that carries a much stiffer sentence.
This thinly veiled advert for Werk doesn't explain how someone working remotely while caring for children will still be outperformed by someone without children working remotely. How is this meant to close "the gender gap"?
Here's gov data on device searches, from the ACLU https://www.aclu.org/government-data-about-searches-internat...
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This actually works even better than you think. My father explained to me once: 'Earning an extra $100, you have to pay half[0] to the government. Saving an extra $100, you get to keep all of it.'

Still, I'm a pretty dull guy, don't spend much, and have most of my savings in order. My goal is mainly to see if there's easy ways to better use the time I currently waste on video games, use my craft to make some money.

[0] I'm in the 47% tax bracket (Canada), so any extra income is hit at that rate, if I'm not dumping it into a tax-deferred account, which I totally would be.
If the submitter were to rename the site, "We The Freelancers", that fail page could say "WTF" instead.
All struggle is class struggle. Intersectional feminism (egalitarianism?) is supposed to address this, but somehow it tends to miss the mark -- at least in the parts of society that I've been exposed to.
Not complete without mentioning the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_view_screen .
Thanks. Back in the time I read it I also tried to look at issues to verify the criticism, but I was not experienced enough to fully understand all the topics involved in the discussions.
Note that this is the UK government
I mean, yes, the thing that ultimately underpins all authority is the ability to exert physical force to see it honored.

I'm not clear on what you're suggesting.
Sure, but higher frequency would speed it up on each core, right? The benefits aren't mutually exclusive.
Telecommunications devices are so strongly regulated and the laws regarding privacy so systemically ignored that it's a wonder we even petition our rhetorical "ownership" of said stuff. Jokes aside, just because an airport is an "effective border" and also a big police station at the same time, that does not mean you waive your rights.
> According to the dictionary, terrorists are people who engage in premeditated violence to achieve political ends.

Eh, good dictionaries usually have more than just a literal section for definitions, something that covers the connotative meaning and it can actually be useful sometimes :P
A Propeller Chip does this easily.
Sure, but the whole point of "Europe on Five Dollars a Day" and "Southeast Asia on a Shoestring" and their ilk was opening up the idea of leisure travel to people who aren't working 51 weeks a year on contract programmers' salaries and feeding their families, and might instead have a few months off after their studies or in between low paid jobs.
> More importantly, travelers are not legally required to unlock their devices, although agents can detain them for significant periods of time if they do not.

What kind of ridiculous technicality is that? Detainment isn't supposed to be a tool to coerce cooperation.
Ask HN: What are the best ways to attract mobile app dev clients?
The theory is that 4th amendment protections are relaxed at the border (but they're not entirely eliminated). [0] That allows them to search your physical property and to request digital access, but it does not override the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination.

However, CBP does not have the right to demand that you give up your passwords as a citizen. They can attempt to coerce you through detention (but if that detainment were prolonged you'd have a solid habeas corpus case).

[0] https://www.eff.org/wp/defending-privacy-us-border-guide-tra...
When people followed the gender roles of "women stay home and raise children; men leave their kids behind and go to work", neither gender had much overlap between employment and child care.

Societal acceptance of men as performing child care lags behind societal acceptance of women as performing paid employment, so it's inevitable that the issues inherent in combining child care and paid employment have hit women first. It's important to raise awareness that this is an issue which affects both genders, but I wouldn't ascribe any malice to the fact that it first gained attention as an issue affecting women.
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Wiper fluid $2.84 / gal [0]

Windex $2.72 / L [1]

That is, Windex is roughly 4x as expensive.

Granted, you could be diluting the Windex, but it's already mostly water, and it doesn't have any freeze-proof guarantees to begin with, which wiper fluid does. I think you folks are doing this odd thing to entertain yourselves...

[0] https://www.walmart.com/ip/Rain-X-20F-2-In-1-All-Season-Wash...

[1] https://www.walmart.com/ip/Windex-Original-Glass-More-Cleane...
I have a friend who cannot fly due to temperament. He's tried everything from hypnotherapy, to beta blockers, to getting near black out drunk. His fear, which he knows is irrational, has only worsened over time.

He would take such a train.

Another thing is that a one hour flight from SF to LA means, 30 minutes to airport, 30 minutes to get through gate, 15 minutes to board, 10 minutes on tarmac, an hour flight, 10-20 minutes for landing/deplaning, 15 minutes to ground transport.

So, two hours seems ballpark.

Trains typically don't have as much security and boarding is simplified. I'm thinking plane and train travel times door-to-door would be comparable.

Finally, train seats are usually much more comfortable than seats on domestic flights.

I think a substantial number of travelers would use the train instead of flying.
Why should one feel entitled to use software legally available for free? Do you feel guilty for using HN without paying YC for it? What a weird concept.

Yes, there's a lack of money in Free Software. Yes, there are consequences from that, like the abandonment of certain projects. That doesn't mean non-paying users are somehow guilty of something, that's a poisonous attitude.
Wow, always wondered about that. Also sounds like one of those harebrained inventions from the early industrial age: "Tired of your windows getting dirty? Just rotate them at high speed and whoosh the dirt goes!"
> Only if you're accused of a crime, right?

Not really. As soon as you know there's an investigation against you, any action to purposely destroy relevant evidence can be used against you, even if there was no formal crime charge yet. For companies, they usually get special letter that instructs them to preserve evidence due to investigation ongoing or lawsuit pending. It is also common in civil cases, where there's no crime to talk about at all.

But on a personal level CBP agent saying "we need information on your phone" can be treated as informing you about necessity to preserve evidence, and they may as well just give you a printed instruction saying you have to preserve it. Once they did that, purposely destroying evidence (which is anything they could consider relevant) is a crime.

Unfortunately, you are not likely to get off on technicality with this - they know the technicalities much better than you. The whole policy of border being "rights-free zone" needs change, not finding a loophole.
CBP can't deny entry to a US citizen.

They could temporarily inconvenience you, or confiscate your belongings (or arrest you if you actually break the law)... but they would not legally be able to detain you indefinitely. A lawyer would have a field day with that.

Since there's nothing actually illegal about refusing to unlock your phone, at worst you'd lose your phone while they attempt to crack it offline.
Usury is One of Those Words. I don't know how a debt instrument needs a distinction like that.

Our culture is such that we cannot make basic distinctions between rents in general and productive work. I suspect we'd have to fix that, then let the existing accounting mechanisms sort it out.
Don't take it across a border.
Europe varies. In the Netherlands you are supposed to carry ID at all times, and you can be fined if you don't supply it when the police ask.
Facebook & Twitter are the popcorntime of journalism, better then netflix.
PHP: First Programming Language to Add Modern Crypto into Its Standard Library
It is pretty common knowledge why they did this. Original plans for the BART had it traveling over the Golden Gate Bridge into Marin County. Due to high winds across the bridge, they wanted a wider gauge to prevent trains from tipping.
"No, many jobs aren't customer facing yet require you to be in a certain place at a certain time, such as most trades (carpentry and welding), long haul trucking, repairman, and deliveryman."

What about those, if you're not interacting with the customer, requires a certain time? A repairman can work any time if hes not dealing with the customer - as long as the job is done on time. The same for all of these.

Most of the things you listed are customer facing... which is why they have timeframes, so you can interact with the customer (or have access, etc).
Probably not. There are a few places which already approach this socialist ideal - hedge funds, some management consulting firms and some law firms.

In this firms, employees control the means of production because employees are the means of production. Such firms tend to be mostly owned by employees themselves.

These firms are not known for being family friendly or having a work life balance. The reason is that these firms are populated by high productivity, high effort individuals. Such people rarely want to work with people less dedicated than themselves, people they rightly think of as underperformers. (I've worked with such people in the past and it's dreadful.)

In your proposed world, high productivity employees would likely self segregate into high productivity firms which would not be particularly family friendly. Lower productivity employees who want to take years off from the workforce and put family first would shift into lower productivity firms.

This means the same inequality would exist. Women would work at the family friendly firms, their husbands would work at the high productivity firms, and the inequality would continue.

(In fact, even in the modern world, inequality of this sort has been the primary driver of inequality growth. https://www.nber.org/papers/w21199 )
And should not include "Still True: ".
Meritocracy only works if you can define merit, which is a (deeply) political decision.
They do if they've been to Iran.

Its a relatively new rule.
Do you have a market segment in mind? What can you do better than your competitors?
Lovely article, in particular the small but deep excursion into AI history and the AI winter after the publication of Minsky/Papert's "Perceptrons" (though it was 70's, not 80's).

Wonder when the current AI summer will come to an end...
US prices in Europe and in the ME wiper fluid tends to be more expensive, but in all cases it's not the actual cost but the perceived cost (gas station/service center pricing rather than bigbox stores ala walmart) and laziness.
There's no excuse for AirBNB permitting listings of multiple dwellings in the localities that prohibit it. In order to produce the Federally-mandated 1099K, they have to take the host's SSN and keep it on file. Even if someone uses multiple accounts, they can simple compare the SSN of an account adding a listing and reject the listing is the SSN already has a different listing on file for the locality in question.
> the process has to restarted - from PERM onwards - at the new job

PERM (labor certification) has to be done all over again at the new job? That really sucks. I thought that if the new job was "substantially similar", you wouldn't need to go through PERM all over again at the new position. Are you sure about this?

Also, is there some good reading material, for an H-1B visa holder, to understand how this whole thing works, the process, etc?
When unemployment drops below a nominal rate, they raise rates. We've had deflation and near-deflation since 2008.

They set a 2% target and miss it more often than not.
No, they explain that LabVIEW and other visual languages are just different ways of representing the code. The idea here, I think, is that there's far greater coupling between the output of the program and the program itself. It's similar to some of Bret Victor's ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII

I'd like to incorporate this coupling idea into my own visual dataflow language (http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/fmj/FMJ.html), but haven't yet decided how to implement it. My approach has been to design the language from the bottom-up, so that simple programs can be simply drawn, and there are higher level programming constructs which simplify more complex code, avoiding the complexity problem (the Deutsch limit) you've seen with LabVIEW.
Yes, this is a popular theory but there's no evidence in the fossil record.
I'd suggest not even taking a phone if you are visiting the US. You can presumably buy a prepaid phone there if you need one during the trip, and connect it to your existing online accounts.
Well, there is https://www.pressreader.com , which has the potential to be Netflix for journalism. Would be great if more publishers worked with them.
But wouldn't train connect city centers? Airports aren't really near anything.
No. If I hire a banker to negotiate the sale of my company I want that specific banker to be available 24/7 to deal with any issues that might come up. Just any banker is not acceptable.

There are many jobs in which people are not interchangeable parts that can easily be substituted for each other. Not coincidentally, these jobs tend to be the highest paying.
Hoping the summer doesn't go above 80 much... Hate that humidity. (Indiana)
I'm fine with 110 in Arizona.
How humid is it there?
Well, the worst probably involves being abducted and tortured, but I'd expect that to be only if you were at least suspected of being a particular known person of interest.

I think the worst likely case if you're just generally noncooperative is being detained for hours/days then sent back and banned from the US for life.
(August 2013, and the only reference to Dr. King's own words on the subject is a broken link. No King quotes relevant to UBI are provided.)
We are just to be courteous and not rude.

You'd be surprised how many people skim through or just read the title of the article, and then participate on the discussion.

But that's orthogonal to them giving valuable comments and insights in the discussion, since, as you'll surely have noticed, the context of the discussion is almost never the article -- it's only used as a starting point, and discussion them jumps to several different tangents.

Like, you know, any actual human discussion that's not finely constrained and regulated by some panel.
Because there are negative externalities to someone constantly renting out their unit for short term stay. In a completely free market, there are no rules to protect the neighbours from these negative externalities.
Just... wow. And people question the need for civil liberties organizations, or in the U.S. strong defenders of the bill of rights.

Donating to the ACLU, EFF and NRA is something most of us should be doing.
There is this stuff called "RainX"[1]. You apply it to your windshield and the rain beads off (hydrophobic). You can see really well even in heavy rain without wipers. (My dad used to use it on the family cars last century, and I still use it today).

It works great, though you have to reapply every few months when it wears off. And you can't apply it in the rain, so you have to remember ahead of time....

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain-X
As I just wrote in other replies, I was probably wrong with regard to search warrants. Therefore my argument that sometimes you already have to act against your best interests falls apart unless someone can point at a better example than a search warrant.

Rights are rights.

But we make up those rights. If there is a right to not to incriminate oneself that applies in all circumstances, then I am of course with you, you should not be forced to decrypt the hard drive.

My point was that I am not sure if such a right applying in all circumstances exists and I thought the search warrant scenario proved that to not be the case but that turned out to be wrong.
Another way to look at XOR - it's an adder (the sum, without the carry)
I'm speechless.

For the sake of this discussion, replace porn with old passport scans and unimportant banking documents, for example.
Wasn't this how the world worked up until a century ago? Anyone could walk or sail into any country, anywhere in the world, without a passport. Apparently the World Wars changed that.
Damnit...I hate to look like I'm defending Trump, but he was also the only Republican to let an open homosexual speak on the convention stage (Thiel).

He's self-serving and contradictory (see Pence), but it's not nearly as open and shut as suggested.

Do you have any specific reasons he's homophobic?
In some jobs, this just isn't practical. I know of a law firm that has the best employment record & situation for women, but is suffering because so many are working part time and/or working from home. It's made the firm less competitive and undesirable for a merger.
I certainly hope that the performance/price is on par with the competition Intel used to get from AMD back in the Duron and Athlon XP days. Ryzen seems to be fairly low power consumption as well which should help with lowering the cooling requirements compared to Intel's CPUs.
Same, I always thought they were signaling devices since they always appeared to be more reflective (probably has something to do with the rotation) than the windshield.
OK, give me a day or two to get it into a releasable shape.
Why not? It doesn't hurt anybody physically anymore, and if it keeps those people of the streets on on their screens, even better. It's not like they're gonna be cured of their tendencies if they don't have access to such material.
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Machine Learning: Predict when people will quit their jobs
Yes, its rather common. What are you selling? Lets see if your product is a good fit.
I've used RedBaron before when building some toy languages.

Thanks for a great project!
Agreed. The reason I became a programmer is because of all the wonderful people who decided it was worth their while to share their code for free. Being able to do the same for others is a privilege.