skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bought a Maytag washer+dryer more than 20 years ago before it was bought out by Whirlpool. Occasional minor fixes, but both still work great. So happy we bought them.

I remember the store we bought them at had this display comparing "maytag parts" vs. "competitors parts" showing that maytags parts were clearly better. Stuff like springs, screws, etcs.

I think that "6. How can we change things..." is avoiding the elephant in the room. This looks systemic. This is exactly why laws were written against monopolies and trusts. I have no idea how DoJ decides to prosecute a trust/monopoly. How does that work?
To Scale: The Solar System Drawn in the Nevada Desert
There is no such thing as a loophole. The law is the law. Isn't every tax deduction really just a loophole? It's every company's fiduciary duty to minimize expenses using any legal means at their disposal. It's idiotic to criticize a company for using the law to their advantage. There is nothing stopping a competitor from doing the exact same thing. The law applies equally to everyone. It isn't Uber's fault taxi companies have structured their businesses the way they have.
The only way you could make that argument is if you feel that ISPs should be able to do this in the first place. I, for one, feel they absolutely should not be able to do this under any circumstances. As such, I do not see it as overreach, or anything that the market should be "solving".
How Can Our CA Roots Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real

https://twitter.com/officialjaden/status/329768040235413504?...
> Is this really a school that only allows people of a certain race?

No.
Drive through the neighborhoods of Chicago, through enclaves of Irish, Polish, German, and Jewish people. You won't miss them: the signage will abruptly change to Polish, or the streets will be full of men in suits wearing their hair in payots. This is a form of diversity, to be sure. But it's not the kind we're concerned about.

The problem here is the word "diversity", which is very easily hijacked to distort discussions. I think we're all pretty much on the same page that the concern being addressed here is the exclusion of specific, prominent ethnicities from SFBA tech culture, not the absolute number of different ethnicities being represented.
Indeed. When you write "$foo/bin", you're looking for a specific operation: get the path "bin" relative to the directory $foo. Ideally this should be expressed in such a way that even if $foo somehow acquires a null or "default" value (which hopefully requires more than just naming an undefined variable, as in bash), you get an error trying to lookup relative to null, rather than the slash silently turning into the root directory.
Its really not. Care to explain why?
An engineering solution to CH4 may be much easier than one for CO2. We can buy some time without even sequestration.
If you're on HN for all of 20 days and this is the level of your contribution to this thread I suggest you take your fart jokes elsewhere. Thank you.
Well, just looking at the Bank of America example, they don't seem to use HSTS in their landing page. How widespread is HSTS? How long is the expiry period typically set for (I would guess a long time?)

Does anyone still use browser bookmarks?

Actually, just thinking about it, it might be even simpler than this. If Bank of America wanted to, couldn't they still host their redirect landing page over SSL with a valid non-Symantec certificate, and then redirect to the ie6.bankofamerica.com page which will continue to use the bad Symantec cert? If switching certs for their web infrastructure was really difficult and they didn't want to do it, they could just build a simple little front-end web server with a valid certificate to redirect people to an IE6 download page or ie6.bankofamerica.com.
This would basically mean the end of taxis and uber. Just mass public transportation and guys running everything by themselves would survive.
Win32 was designed around DPI-independence from day one. That's why things like GetSystemMetrics exist. Unfortunately, the app developers chose not to use them.

GDI was originally designed to run on printers as well as screens, where the DPI values are completely different.

The declarative model of CSS has nothing to do with it. You can specify pixel values in CSS if you like.
This IoT Technology Pretends to Be Something It's Not
There may be attempted manipulation via flagging going on here as well: the story has 450 points over two hours and so should be glued to the top of the HN front page, yet it's only at seventh (and the comment count, at 288, is nowhere near the flamewar detection threshold).
Please don't perpetuate ideological flamewars on HN.
Infection of device on a supply chain isn't? Many people that aren't suspected of anything could end up with a backdoored device.
now we just need somewhere to put all the old people, and young people to care for them, am I the only one not excited about this ?
Bike to / from the commuter rail
Fair enough, in that case it makes sense.

But doesn't non-secured dept result in the same thing?

I mean if I can't pay off the credit for a degree or car or boat, won't they come for my house too?
... Why.
Interview and see what happens. What do you have to lose?
I wrote this in a few lines of TXR Lisp as just an answer to a SO question:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/34377302/1250772

All code is in the answer. Parsing the infix, and generating the "pretty" truth table over all variables.

An easy-to use declarative mechanism is there for defining operators on multiple precedence levels with different arities. (All you do is instantiate an object with new for each supported operator). Operators either have names that denote existing functions in TXR Lisp, or for any that are not existing Boolean functions, you just define the function (like I did for ->).
Yep, the law is the law. Which is why the government is changing the law instead of just complaining loudly.
You mean this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander_II:_The_Quickening
As long as people are aware of the risks and are willing to take the chance, I actually support this.

It doesn't make sense that society doesn't blink an eye when we send our youth off to war to die, but heaven forbid if someone dies in the pursuit of knowledge, everybody goes batshit insane. At least if someone dies taking this stuff, we learn a lot. And if it actually ends up working, it benefits society tremendously.
I'm surprised she has not been shadowbanned yet. Is there an explicit policy on this or is it at mod discretion?
What I would have preferred is that Canada removing the burden off the taxi companies and let them give competition to Uber in innovation space instead of trying to bribe politicians to act as gatekeepers.
This has worked for me too. I have quit caffeine completely (again!) and feel better for it. Definitely helps with the morning energy levels.
Yeah, good luck getting that Qt app running on an iPhone.
This is, IMO, the best way of looking at it. Whether or not Uber's drivers are employees is a completely separate matter and your point stands regardless.

The consumer is paying Uber. Whether Uber uses employees, contractors, clockwork automatons or aliens to provide their service is irrelevant.
agree, my cutoff is midday regardless of when I wakeup
I would expect that they do. I'm not really offended that my traffic is logged by someone and could be traced back to me by someone with the time and resources (law enforcement?).

But assuming that AWS/DO, and their uplink providers (L3, etc) have the goal of selling reliable servers and internet, and aren't building up consumer ad profiles to sell me stuff/sell my data if it looks like one server or IP is maybe a VPN.
Neighborhood Delivery Robot
So Etsy should be charging GST and every other marketplace app out there. Uber is a broker not a transportation company. Other than their self driving experiments, they don't operate a single car.
I was wondering about that myself. I suspect this has to do with the violence of the explosion cutting a path to the outside that is a circle because that's the shape the underlying gas bubble would have had.

Which makes me wonder what this landscape looks like during a thunderstorm with lightning hitting the occasional methane deposit.
Your point is 100% correct, but IMO that link understates Seattle earnings potential. Probably doesn't include equity/cash bonus, which will happen a lot in Seattle and not so much in Vancouver.

Big tech company jobs in Seattle are extremely common, and a big tech company job in Seattle will pay you much more than $126k/year USD when you include stock/cash bonus.

Especially a few years into your career. If you're willing/able to be a dev at a big tech company, $200k-$300k/year is absolutely normal 10 years into your career (often much sooner). If you're great, $300k-$400k is completely possible.
I think this is true to some extent. According to my parents, I've been a night person since I was a young child. I can structure my day and my sleep to get up early, and I can be somewhat productive early in the day, but I never hit my groove until later in the day.
I want to suggest a naive way to reduce the effect of affirmative action.

1) Join forces to donate to educational institutions specifically to increase the number of students they enroll. If there are X spots being reserved for AA, then ask the school to add X additional spots not usable for AA. Donate specifically for them to build additional dorms, classrooms, etc.

For some schools, their endowment is so large, they don't really need the donation, they just need pressure. I think pressuring them to expand should be more likely than pressuring them to end AA.

2) Invest in poor communities. AA stems from the desire to end a cycle of poverty. If we worked to "upgrade" poor communities then the need for AA would greatly decrease. So invest to improve K-12, housing, and businesses in poor communities.

I use the word "invest" because real estate in poor areas is usually under market. I think you can make a really good return if you build high quality housing. Just make sure you are willing to sell/rent to the current residents at below market prices. You should still be able to make a profit from the housing you build that is sold/rented to the middle class looking for better deals in your "upgraded" community.

There doesn't have to be a zero-sum battle between those who benefit from AA and those who don't.
> CSRF tokens expire quickly

Dangerous guess.
Does the safety somehow diminish when you pay for the ride?

If I give you a ride to work, for free --- then give you a ride to work, but you pay me, what is the functional difference requiring more regulation on the second part?

Is your safety affected any different? Aside from the basic protections built in to any business when it comes to collecting money, etc, what extra rules need to be in place.

From a purely pragmatic standpoint, what is different about the experience that requires all the extra crap?

For example, in many cities where they were losing the legal fight, Uber offered free rides... and were legally allowed to do so, because they weren't charging the customer. Explain to me what was different in that scenario that made it any safer for the passengers?
Lots of humans that have absolutely no say or any kind of influence at all will suffer, so no, let's not let it crash. The 'lesson' you are talking about could easily end the species, it's hard to learn 'lessons' when your species ceases to exist.
Bug 563891 – RHEL4 cannot validate GPG signature on VMware RPMs (2010)
the only other thing i'd add is to not open your browser or your email and if possible, leave something straightforward on your to-do list that you know you can do so long as you start typing. once your momentum is up you're away.
I couldn't find a youtube video of it but here's the HBO.com link http://www.hbo.com/vice/episodes/05/57-when-the-earth-melts-...
The firm still collects GST though. It just doesn't need to pay GST to it's contractors. In practice, the firms net finance shouldn't be different regardless of whether they have employees or exempt contractors.

Consumers contract with Uber, and pay Uber. So from what I can see, Uber should be collecting, for itself.
That "solution" fucking sucks. We kinda rely on the sun to grow plants and power life, you know?
You literally described rent seeking activity
Here's another question to ask: "Is everyone really going to open a separate application, unlock the vault every time they want to use it (due to timeout), Ctrl+F for the URL, and then Ctrl+C out the username and password every time they want to visit a site? Also, is everyone going to create a correlated entry every time they make a new account?"

Good security is hard in practice because people are always going to default to the most convenient/simple way to accomplish their goal, and at this point, most of our security measures require someone to expend extra energy. That means it's going to be very hard to get people to do it.

We have decades of experience with this just with regard to one layer of passwords. Adding an extra layer, like a password vault, is not going to make things better.

While it absolutely true that there is more risk involved in using a third-party extension to manage a password vault than not, the actual net effect is likely better security, because if you make things too hard, people are just going to say "Fuck those annoying nerds, we're going to make every password 123456", or whatever the next-simplest answer that the system will permit is.

As for LastPass making mistakes, that's true, but the benefit you get by using a well-known product like LastPass is that Project Zero has hardened it. That's not the case for most other password vault extensions, especially those made as shims for external vaults like KeePass.
No he is talking about the new command line option

cat -t 0400
mmm... I am surrounded by Java guys who worked with SWING (gone and forgotten) JSP and STRUTS (same story). They talk about the beauty of Java 8 and that they are waiting for Java 9.
I wish I could tell them about this article, because out there plenty of people still treat JS as a toy
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I've found that too much JS stuff produce multiple output files for make to be really comfortable --- make's support for multiple output files is very rudimentary and unless you follow the insanely complex and undocumented procedure to the letter, builds fail under obscure and almost impossible-to-debug circumstances.

I've had success with ninja, although the scripts are a bit long-winded.
Weird, thanks for the heads up. It's saved on medium and re-published. But opening in a private window it's still showing as the old version.

Edit:
Looks like it's fully updated now.
To be fair it's less than a year since Make 4.2 was released ;)
First, don't address me or anyone else on HN that way.

Second: this post is playing a sneaky lawyer trick. It acknowledges --- ferociously --- that there's historically been a hierarchy among European ethnicities in the US, then frames "whiteness" exclusively in terms of the early 20th century, when --- as I said --- Jim Crow and the Great Migration forced a measure of solidarity among European ethnicities against encroachment from blacks. Whites surveyed in 1958 don't appear concerned about intermarriage between Anglo- and Irish- Americans? You don't say!
yes, it is involved in the neurological processing of speech production w.r.t to grammar and syntax. that's a separate function from fine control of muscles used to produce speech sounds.
WASM has been designed such that these calls can be made in principle very cheaply. I don't know though how much current engines have been optimised for that use case though.
Nteract: Building on top of Jupyter
WinG didn't come around until 1994 though. If you wanted to ship a game in 1990, you had a choice of using GDI or using MS-DOS.

And the "assembly" argument doesn't make any sense. You can program Windows games in assembly if you want.
>If they want to simplify taxes -- as they claim, the best way to simplify is simply to eliminate.

Because consumption taxes are the most efficient form of taxation. You want a private chauffeur? Pay up.

>Lower fares mean more revenue for drivers and Uber

Huh? Only if the driver is working a lot harder.
I think it's a little subtler than that. I think they believe that money == freedom, and the more money you have, the freer you are. Anything that gets in the way of making money prevents freedom.
EV actually causes a different "secure" UI to display in the browser. Usually it is the name of the corporate entity that the certificate is issued for. If you don't have EV you only get a padlock.
I could hazard a guess, but I doubt the scientists have particularly precise measurements (and if they did they'd be better found in a paper rather than my guessing). Having a number and concentrating on it misses the forest for the trees, it's a big number, but not the most interesting part by far.
The new (2015) UK rules are more generous, but still not the "highest in the EU" (c.f Sweden's 480 paid days). Swedes also don't need to take it at full rate meaning you can e.g make it a 2 year leave with lower pay. That might be possible in the UK too.
Typical Nordic is 12 month maternity + 6month paternity I.e until the child is 18months.
don't hold your breath.
I am probably imagining something different from what you have in mind. An implementation might be a good way to communicate your vision. An implementation might also be a way to test your hypotheses about the utility of the platform.
That being said, it makes little difference for me among the last 4/5 items in the list
They could. Generally when you die it's (your assets) - (your debts)
A PowerShell based tool designed to act like a RAT
Personal attacks are not allowed here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13942559 and marked it off-topic.
Hi! Jose, co-founder of Steer here.

Gusto is an amazing and complete HRMS platform (payroll, benefits, holidays, onboarding, etc). We're more in the Performance Management System space (https://blog.newsteer.com/what-is-a-performance-management-s...)

What Gusto have is an "Employee Happiness survey" feature. Every month you can ONLY ask this one single question: “How happy are you at work this month?” And your employees answers with sad/happy face. It's the same concept than NPS (Net Promoter Score), but for internal happiness.

With Steer we want to go further, and our goal is to help managers become leaders rather than micro-managers.

We help Managers create weekly conversations with their employees, so they can get and give feedback, know instantly where the roadblocks are, give visibility to everyone and congratulate when the job was done great. Everything without being constantly looking over employee's shoulders.

In terms of features, with Steer you can:

- Select the cadence you want (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly).

- You can ask the questions you really want to ask (or choose from our powerful question bank).

- Reply employee's questions and manage all the history from everyone in your team.

- Have beautiful analytics dashboard.

Hope it helps, but feel free to contact me in case you need more information!
Remember that you have consolidation happening too!

Places like Albany, NY were regional banking centers as recently as 30 years ago. In Albany's case, that was an artifact of the city's role as a transportation hub for canals and railroads.

As the role of banking has changed and the market has consolidated from a highly distributed model, its harder and harder to do business outside of large areas. If you're a midsize business, it's hard to get lines of credit simply because nobody wants to travel to talk to you.

Even within large organizations like government and Fortune 50 companies, consolidation drives centralization. Big places used to have regional administrative services (HR, Finance, etc). You could make a career working in some regional field office.

Now, centralized functions mean that you work at HQ, a regional center, or you're a task worker in the provinces.
"He tested it on mice that were just old (the equivalent of 90 in mouse years), those genetically programmed to age very rapidly and those aged by chemotherapy."

Great! Too many results have been previously reported just in genetically modified mice that weren't aging normally in the first place.
Why should I believe the CIA isn't using its "targeted" tools on say, American ISPs or carriers, giving them access to a dragnet level of data through a single "targeted" attack? The CIA is not staffed by reasonable people, and I have 0 reason to trust they operate in good faith or with the best interest of anyone but their own organization in mind. Which they like to demonstrate by being consistently Caught In the Act influencing foreign elections, trafficking drugs, etc. Any tool they have will be abused.
I'm curious why you refer to that as "normalcy". Was that kind of lifestyle really "normal" for the Arab world? Did people outside of major cities live like that? Were the major cities like that for a long period of time? From what I've seen, those Western-looking cities are the anomaly, resulting from either European colonization or from Western-looking rulers seeking to modernize, against the wishes of the general population.
Programs like this promote the very discrimination that they are intended to counteract. People of all other races will see this and argue - correctly - that black students at Howard now have an advantage over them at one of the premier employers in the tech industry. This is wonderful for Howard students, and probably for black CS students looking for employment at Google in general, but not so great for everyone else.

You cannot fix racism by implementing racist programs. You do it by removing race from the hiring equation to the maximum extent possible, and making it known that applicants of all races are welcome and that they will be judged based solely on their skills and qualifications. The kind of program announced today will, and should, backfire on Google.
Taxi drivers (at least in many places,) must use taxi company provided credit card machines and taxi payment processors and then pay the taxi company a fee for that processing. So the taxi company gets the money first and the statement charge is "Yellow Cab" not "Ricky Smith Taxi"
>Uber is essentially just a matcher and payment processor that takes a cut, they don't own vehicles or employ drivers

That's the story their PR spins. Luckily they don't make the laws.

You think this idea of, "He's not my employee, he's a contractor!" as a way to avoid employer obligations is new? That's a laugh, and it's the reason these laws exist.
>Driving someone around shouldn't be so complicated.

Until someone gets driven 60 miles out of town on the way to the airport and left there unless they have a "special" fee...

It's almost as if these regulations were put in place for a reason.
> because we can't have "hobby" businesses causing discomfort to the well connected.

When this sentence is used by the well-connected elite of the best-funded region in the world, somewhere, the world's tiniest orchestra plays a sad tune on the world's tiniest instruments.

Seriously, guys ~~
Yes. In the ride business, speed = money. Bad incentive.
Just as you'd expect if Amazon was a physical bookstore - the store sets the price. Did you think authors were employees of Barnes and Noble?