skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's closer to them saying, "Yes, sure...I'm happy to take money for sex...wait right here for a while", and then hiding.

Which could be obstruction.

If the app told them they were banned, it would be closer to your analogy. But, it shows fake cars circling about that never pick you up. It's actively deceiving law enforcement
But if you make your peace with your own mortality at a relatively young age, it doesn't go over well to be too share-y about that with other people who haven't yet done the same. It doesn't convince them you are wise. It just apparently makes you scary as all hell. Or something.
Binding the journalist to write an article about their "positive experience with JetSmarter" seems to be the point of the contract, though. That's clearly trying to exert editorial control. Hardly a minor detail.
> rather than anyone reasonably described as poorer.

This doesn't make sense. They are poorer than the wealthy.

There is still no justification why increasing supply leads to increased costs.
hahaha

Man, I knew there were gonna be some libertarians on this thread.
You should see if you can work out something to help the folks at http://www.informationwanted.org/ if they don't already have OCR and human extraction going on.
Implicit interfaces in TypeScript
> The manager wasn't telling male workers to wear long sleeved shirts, so that's the most obvious one

You don't know that.

In general if dress codes are sexist, they're sexist against men. Women have a much broader repertoire of appropriate clothing (skirt or pants, blouse or shirt, tie or no tie) than men (pants, shirt and tie, suit optional).
Amazon in Seattle is the most extreme example of a tech company dominating its hometown that I know of. Block after block of Amazon buildings, right in the heart of the city. I personally think it's alright, but I expect locals that know what got pushed out are less sanguine about it.
Well you're wrong. And you even downvoted me. My point still stands over your wrong assumptions.
What else is that a response to? Macros have had this planned since before 1.0, with the current system specifically designed as a temporary workaround until it that happens.
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> as the rich move in, the poor will be displaced

I don't see where you're getting this from, if you're creating new housing units. When rich people move into housing units that previously didn't exist, who's getting displaced exactly? We're not talking about remodeling existing units, we're talking about new supply.
I suspect (and I read this somewhere) that all the huge investment in infrastructure (dams, trains, highways) has not paid off.

And now they're stuck with the debt associated plus the ongoing cost of maintenance.
Say the annual income of the person renting a place goes from $300,000 to $280,000. The one with lower income isn't in any way poor.
First, to claim that there's a taboo on discussing these issues is ridiculous on its face when it's discussed pretty much every day in every newspaper. You just don't like when people disagree with you that crime is linked to immigration. That link is far from proven. In fact, in the US it's pretty clear that crime does not increase when refugees arrive; if anything it goes down: http://www.citylab.com/crime/2017/02/refugee-resettlement-v-...

I'm not aware of any similar research in Sweden, which is a pity.

I watched Tim Pool's reporting on how media "skews crine statistics" and thought it was pretty good. I would just add that while it's true that some types of crime have increased in the last year or two, we'll have to wait a few more years to know if that's a trend or a natural fluctuation.

Homework assignment for tomorrow: what was the effect on violent crime rates in Sweden of the mass arrival of predominantly muslim refugees from the Balkans in the 1990s?
Worse is Worse negates the aspects that purity in the vacuum is very pure and very useless. There is (extreme) value in network effects, and network effects also exists in technology, not only in social networks... (and well, in technical fields, both are related). Also it's extremely easy to keep only good memories of extinct systems, and remain focused on past defaults, that for the most part have been largely corrected or at least compensated by dozen of years of refinement on still alive systems.

I don't negate that there are some technical choices that are better than others in some context, or even in some cases in every aspects. But e.g. the PC loser-ing problem has in practice hardly caused much problems (and is even in some cases a superior approach even for the userspace), and judging systems by that kind of details can easily be compared to an hypothetical crazy mechanical engineer not buying a car because of an obscur mechanical technical detail in the engine, that has been made to work perfectly well by taking into account its peculiarities, but that he dislike by principle and in an absolute way.

I'm also very aware of the enormously costly impact of some de facto industry choices. For ex: the C language and its derivative are shit and have arguably costed an absurd amount to the human kind -- compared to a technological-fiction world where safer languages would have been used. Does that mean that this is a case of "Worse is better"? Maybe, but then what would it mean? We have processors with MMU, we even have IOMMU that are becoming more and more common. Given some existing software stacks this does not need to be an intrinsically requirement -- but IMO this is vastly better. Can Worse sometimes win, and then Better also win on other subjects? What should we deduce from that then? What insight can we extract? If none, this whole categorization would be meaningless.

So in some cases, "Worse" is actually just better, the "worse" in question only being in the eyes of the opponent. Or you need to be extremely precise about the criterion you are using.

But I prefer to stick to consider all the advantages and drawbacks of what I'm talking about, the situation I want to apply it to, and avoid binary categorizations when they have no predictive value.
Germany has supported Israel for decades. That's not controversial.
Appreciate it! So far I've been only able to put minimal time into this, definitely trying to ramp up. I agree I need way, way more
information about what the service is, why it's any good, etc.

Roger on the module, plans there as well - hope you'll check it out again soon.

Thanks again for your advice, much appreciated.
I've read all the links. Thanks.

Having a larger pool to hire from is appealing (from MetaFilter),

'I hire people, and I'm interested in any avenue I can take to improve the quality of my applicants. I have no social justice reason to do this - I have an interest in making my applicant pool broader (in order to make hiring easier) and more qualified (in order to have more awesome employees). Currently, one way I have to do that is to make my applicant pool more diverse.'

The above quote doesn't indicate hiring for diversity per se. It's a byproduct of not excluding people.

Oh, and I didn't realise Farsi was gender neutral. I know someone who speaks Farsi. I'll have to ask them about it.
Some companies offer HSA match for individuals who get HDHP+HSA. The insurance costs for these plans are much cheaper compared to low deductible plans.

So if you are a healthy person with predictable medical expenses and if your employer is contributing to your HSA and tax you save by contributing to your HSA, the HDHP+HSA might be cheaper compared to a traditional insurance.
That's not clear to me; unusual cases in Java are even used in some of their co/contravariance examples, and an example of how they can be encoded here are given (notably, without requiring existentials or bounded quantification). In particular, I'm not sure what about type-based dispatch in Java couldn't be replaced here by their "sum-of-products" notation (which allows you to directly reference fields if they are shared by every variant) combined with making { x : A } and { y : B } subtypes of { x : A | y : B }. I wouldn't be surprised if you can replicate a significant percentage of Java with nothing more than the machinery of this paper.
If you are not doing Rails work, do people find Linux that much more productive these days than windows?

I generally buy Thinkpads because of the keyboard and cost (upgrade myself), and used to use Ubuntu probably 85% of the time. Overtime I have found myself doing more and more in Windows, because of both drivers and battery life.

For sys admin in makes sense, but for general dev work, I tend to find everything works just fine on windows, plus it makes day to day usage easier.
> 1TB ... is a lot of data

"You have a terabyte of data? For $30,000 you can put that in main memory. If your dataset fits in main memory, it's not big data." Source: Michael Stonebraker, January 2015.
Unbelievably good writing
I tend to think the SecureBoot isn't really a grand conspiracy. You can't realistically expect end users to be in charge of keys. So MS does what's best for itself. The problem is with poor implementations by vendors that don't support self signing, and in some cases don't even support disabling secure boot.
I'll add to the other comments about the context in which they made this music, to give you a sense of where they were coming from. I read someplace, maybe even liner notes for one the Velvet Underground records, that they would fine any band member that played a blues lick.

In a sense, as I understand it, they were trying to reinvent rock'n'roll through radical simplification. The Unix way. 3 chords and the truth. If you listen to their music, you can hear them doing it - no blues, no cliche, Lou's radically simple singing, but still building amazing music.

> the stuff I've heard on the radio (esp "Walk on the Wild Side") strikes me as pretentious

It might seem pretentious, but it was very real to them. The characters in Walk on the Wild Side were real people they knew (look it up online) - far more 'wild' than my life, but really it's about empathy. The images created by those short, one-verse character sketches are amazingly rich, the clear-eyed description of the darkness in their lives, and the empathy for what many (especially then) considered the trash of society is still almost heart-breaking to me.

> I always thought "warewolves of london" was Lou Reed.

No offense, but you're not grasping Lou Reed if you confused them. It's not just the voice, but what Lou had to say. Here are some more Lou Reed songs to try:

* Sweet Jane (live in Italy) [listen to how incredibly simple the music is, but so effective]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ5kab3Mr4M

* Halloween Parade [Look up the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade if you aren't familiar with it, and remember this was written as the AIDS epidemic was beginning and (IIRC) still the institutions weren't acting, just watching gay people die. The whole New York album is amazing.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb_r-IwB8t8

* Heroin (live in Italy) [Listen loud with headphones. I don't need to try the drug now.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0odhuRxnYBU

* Doing the Things That We Want To [a bit dated in sound, but again very real. He's talking about the inspiration of other artists: Sam Sheppard's Fool for Love, Martin Scorsese's New York movies and Travis Bickle, etc.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SGeNsQttYE

* The first few songs of the 1969 live record

Most of all, he has what I want most from an artist: Something to say.
Wait what? It is insanely complex to make a performant web app compared to a performant C app (let's say we're using a traditional UI toolkit as a comparison).

You need to understand the DOM (and how various CSS declations contribute to rendering complexities), the rendering model, reflows, work around them, pre-fetch tricks, etc etc. Not saying anything like this impossible, but I'm pretty sure the claim that "oh all web devs can do this" is invalid. Basically; the performance issue with declarative UIs is that it's really easy to declare something very complex by mistake.
The point, which you seem to be missing, is drawn somewhere on the arbitrary line between "true" Japanese culture, and foreign culture. Buddhism isn't Chinese, but it reached Japan by way of China and Korea.

So, yes, it's a Japanese Buddhist/Shinto temple. But the religion isn't originally Japanese, and neither is the architecture. The only thing native there is the Shinto.

No one considers modern Japan to not be Japanese, despite it being, in some sense, an American reboot of a Prussian remix of Imperial China. If you want to say Japanese culture predates the US by "thousands of years," fine - except you would need to ignore the thousands of years of European culture that America is based on to do so.

And also ignore the fact that, yes, modern Japanese culture is very much a product of the postwar period, making it both older than, and newer than, the US. And the aspects which are newer are likely the more relevant to Japanese people.
Want complete software freedom? How about the MIPS chips the Russian military uses[1]? Those don't have an NSA back door. Sucks you can't really buy them as they are only made for use in Russian military and government applications.

"Last year, the Russian government announced that it doesn't want to rely on Intel and AMD chips from the U.S. anymore and will focus more on using homegrown chips from Russia."

[1] http://www.tomshardware.com/news/baikal-t1-mips-cpu-omnishie...
This isn't like driving without understanding engines. This is about paying a chauffeur to drive you everywhere without realizing that you could always just drive yourself there.

EDIT: Or better, having your buddy drive you in your car everywhere without realizing you could drive yourself.
I suspect the marketing department got too much say in this part of what they are offering. The drivers seem to be ok otherwise (I use a Naga Hex mouse and a Nostromo one hand keyboard).
Laws are in place to benefit those in power not "all of society," as anyone who does not benefit from them can attest to. And I agree, corporations cannot be allowed to change the laws to suit them.
minor footnote: serpentine is interesting as the state rock and a host for gold, and also as a host for chrysotile asbestos. there was some discussion five or ten years back about changing California's state rock to something else because of that.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/us/14rock.html
The old joke: we could boost average living standards and educational accomplishment in two countries at the same time by giving Texas back to Mexico.
I wish SaaS companies (not just Cloud Middleman) would learn that developers will not adopt their products if they don't have source access.

This product could have easily been FOSS with it's pricing model based exclusively on support/hosting.
What programming languages have been developed in this manner? What were the results?
I take your point, but the nitpicker in me (some might say there's nothing else in there) wants to point out that an array of floats is highly unlikely to be valid UTF-8.

If your language of choice has a good fixed-point decimal library, or you can switch to one that does, then I agree that would definitely be the superior solution.
NASA makes 2017-2018 software catalog freely available to public
James Bottomley navigated the bureaucracy and lived to tell about it: https://blog.hansenpartnership.com/adventures-in-microsoft-u...
You can have live / work communities without shoehorning a $35 billion company and its 2,000 employees into a bunch of retail storefronts originally built as single-family dwellings in the 1920's.

There's plenty of large commercial space nearby in downtown Santa Monica, Culver City and Plays Vista. None of those are the distant industrial parks you allude to. Based on your comment I'm reasonably certain you have zero familiarity with this area.
But that still doesn't track with whom you spent that cash.
Decades after a Cold War experiment, a scientist lives with secrets (2012)
Traits are closer to interfaces than abstract classes, iirc abstract classes can have fields.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this. Seems like a waste of an article.
The whole "if you support Europe in any respect, you must be a white supremacist" meme is one of the most inane things I've heard in a long time. Europe isn't all white, and hundreds of millions of white people aren't in Europe. You've made a lazy attack that doesn't actually address what I said.
Riiiiight
Sure. I try to make a judgement call on the nature of the complaint and the person complaining too. Some people have unreasonable expectations from a company or product.

But in this case, we're on HN, and the person is describing both firmware issues and customer service issues and they're being specific enough that their complaint has credibility. In the same way that people vote with their money on issues that are important to them, like sustainability or social matters, I entirely avoid companies with nonexistent customer service. Dell doesn't have a perfect track record, I've had some infuriating experiences with them, but at least they pay people to answer the phone and with some effort you can usually get an issue resolved.

If I find out ahead of time that a particular company doesn't provide any customer service whatsoever, or the only way to contact them is on Twitter or to write a scathing blog post and submit everywhere, I will try not to do any business with them.

I also have a 1/10 rule, which I tried to adhere to while running my own business: for every one customer complaint you hear about, there are at least 9 other dissatisfied customers that didn't make their complaints known.
That example is supposed to inspire us to respect the law more? You need more practice at this rhetoric thing...
After hiring hundreds of coders, I've learnt that motivation is 10x better than skills. A motivated coder will learn anything to succeed. So today I don't give a damn about interviews. Either you have a side project I like, or I try you out for two weeks and see how it goes. That's it.
if they are doing that to people they don't want to ride, doesn't it make sense they are doing this with riders?
The Best in the World
> Claiming that European politicians give a shit (his words) about their citizens is not 'criticizing' anything. It's just hate speech against politicians

This is probably the strongest invocation of Poe's law I've seen in the last few years.
I like the prototude prelude replacement for its lack of partial functions and toS function to do string conversions
Again, civil disobedience accepts the legal consequences of its actions and is part of a vocal, public effort to change the laws the person or group deems unjust. The entire premise is to create better laws for everyone to abide by.

Uber uses deception to shield itself from the consequences of its criminal actions and consolidate wealth for itself. I'm assuming you're not trolling, so think long and hard about your own understanding of society the next time you want to compare MLK to an anarcho-capitalist megacorp.
Python. It was lauded for usability and became a 30 year success: http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/02/early-language-de...
> There's a system set up to determine what rules are necessary

See "regulatory capture", and all the other ways that system can be broken or exploited. Also see the long history of how regulations written for yesterday's technologies work badly on today's and completely prevent tomorrow's from being created.

I'm extremely skeptical that this particular issue could have been effectively fixed another way, because I've seen what the proposed "solutions" looked like that "played by the rules".

> Your standard seems to be that a service should be legal if two or more people agree on a contract("providing a service people want and thus want to pay for").

No, that's not the completely general standard I'd advocate, though that would still come a lot closer to reasonable. A general standard would also internalize any externalities (and any parties affected by them) before evaluating that metric. (Though keep in mind that "reduces the demand for a competing service" is not an externality.) Overall, though, a world in which individual consent always wins would be better.

(We'd be better off still with a world where one of the providers of those services wasn't also, unrelatedly, engaged in various unethical behaviors such as discrimination.)

In any case, I'm not interested in turning this into a general evaluation of structures and approaches to regulation and government, not least of which because that would retread well-trodden conversational territory with little new to cover.

I think it's worth focusing on the specific case of "is the world better or worse off" here, and then asking how, if you see the specific path taken as a problem, the same goal could have been achieved in another way.

> to allow people to survive without doing an incredible amount of research into everything they consume

You shouldn't have to do 100% of the research yourself, but I think you should have a choice of who you delegate that responsibility and trust to.
Maybe it's just the frustration of config/settings/preferences being in different locations for every freaking application on windows. It's definitely not consistent...

File -> Settings
File -> Preferences
Edit -> Settings
Edit -> Options
Edit -> Preferences
Tools -> Settings
Tools -> Options

Anything but consistent. In mac it's `[AppName] -> Preferences` always. And maybe you're right about each window having its' own menu bar.. all the same, I wouldn't call it consistent, as it really isn't.
There are only two cases where that's been a thing. Macros, and nonlexical lifetimes.

The major rewrite for macros has already brought fruit with Macros 1.1, solving some of the more pressing issues.

The other one, nonlexical lifetimes, needed a complete overhaul of compiler internals. The main part of that work happened with MIR, but there's still work to be done. It's ongoing. This was work that was going to take a long time, and it did.
Apple iTunes Terms and Conditions is now a comic book
> The answer is always: unbounded.

But after initial perturbations die out, the growth rate will likely look something like O(log n) or less.
Stating that Germany only exists for the sake of Israel is controversial, however. (At least, I hope it is! I hope most Germans have enough self-interest to dislike the idea of being a vassal state.)
I'm a gusher myself, and I'm super picky. I looked for backlight bleed, dead pixels, scratches, unlevel feet.

If you're worried about buying a lemon, they sell them at the Microsoft store. In stock. You can buy and return all in the same place.
CASI instructor turned AR/VR developer here and I'll second this - balance is only a part of the equation. The model used to train instructors includes in brief;

- Flexion / extension of the legs
- Forward / aft pressure
- Subtle steering movement with the knees
- Fine control over the angles formed by both knees and ankles

All of the above vary depending what point of a given turn you're currently in and need to be coordinated in a fairly intricate fashion to get perfect pencil lines and turn "properly". I'll leave properly in quotes there because YMMV and you don't need these techniques to snowboard; having spent 3 months full time learning and using them I can say they make a big difference to how far you can push yourself though.

A significant proportion of the sensation also comes from the inertia that you carry whilst on an edge, the resistance from which would be near impossible to convey without doing it for real.
Agreed, and also the article states that multiple current and former employees reported this information.
Which laws were important?