skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love Costco. They pay good wages (with benefits), have good quality products, and great prices. They have a kick ass return policy. And they stick it to patent trolls. Fuck yeah, Costco. Keep it up.
It's a good format for a printed article. Not so great on a screen.
Correct me if I'm wrong (the article is now behind a paywall for me), but the skypicker was fast-track approved under a Bloomberg program, then unapproved under a new administration, perhaps because it hadn't been tested properly and was miscategorized.

Given that it is a boom crane, normally mounted on a truck, with a custom mounting and lifting system (the kind of thing that has peeled off of buildings before), I'm not seeing the big deal.

http://www.jomacltd.com/mobile_cranes/telescoping_boom/
On the other hand, some really fucking rotten ideas go into the dirt when people die, too. And somewhat related to that idea, but more specific, there is a lot of truth behind the saying that science advances one funeral at a time.
How profitable is Litecoin mining? I'm curious how much $$$ these kids blew up their future for.
Pics/article on the inflatable rat: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/giant-inflatable-un...
We’re suing the US government to be free to do our research
The `volatile_var = local_var = X` seems safe - even if you break it into two assignments it only uses the local var afterward, so SecureRandom should be fully initialized in that thread. And though SecureRandom is non-final, it does look safe to use with double-initialization - it self-seeds if not explicitly seeded (it's not in this case), so even double-init shouldn't repeat a value (which is as strong of a statement as SecureRandom allows here - no idea if it makes that claim!).

So I'd think it only matters if `volatile` doesn't guarantee that non-final object fields are fully initialized... and I can't find anything that explicitly states one way or another, so I'm not sure. If it doesn't make that guarantee, then yeah - this could publish a partly-initialized SecureRandom without a generator, which would probably crash. But the contents of https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-17.htm... imply to me that write-then-read is equivalent to a synchronized block or any other monitor sequence (and in the method they only use the local var, so it doesn't matter for the creator-thread), so I suspect it's fine. Just can't claim any further.

@exabrial: care to elaborate? What's unsafe / have you seen crashes due to uninitialized SecureRandom?
Many credit cards these days don't work like they used to. You the consumer are no longer automatically right
I haven't been there in a long time. The founder struggled to convince people to deploy them as the upfront cost with robotics and tech was many times a regular, convenience store. Basically what it is. The majority of store owners would rather pay less money to exploit people with dead end jobs and deal with the shrink from theft. Definitely not a growth business but he's been opening more and more over time.

It was an old interface that wasn't as good as modern self-checkouts at grocery stores. Predated them, though, automating the whole process. You drive up to a fuel pump looking thing, tell it what you want, pay it, the equipment gets the right stuff, and it brings it to you somehow. The only people necessary are those that stock it. Probably just one or two doing a full shift on busy days with a part time one on slower ones. Pretty amazing given big companies were bragging about rolling out self-checkouts that just automated a register when he had people automated a whole store many years before.

Note: Guy's name is Michael Rivalto. He's a VC that my brothers told me. Family friend that used to occasionally take them to school in his supercars. Lasting impression there haha.
Non-Paywalled direct link - https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Fa...
Which part are you commenting on? Is it the use of the word "legitimate"?

Because suing someone for patent infringement is a "legitimate" course of action, i.e. it's a lawful thing to do.
In fact (AFAIK IANAL etc etc) it's the only way to ascertain whether a patent is being infringed or not without working with the opposition directly and sharing trade secrets outside the context of a court room with proper protections, something I doubt anyone would be particularly happy about.

If it's the "don't really begrudge the approach" part. I don't know that any of us really have the knowledge from within the golfing industry to know what different companies think of the practice.
What causes "new" lead (whatever that means) to be more radioactive?

I mean, there's nothing really creating lead naturally in the environment, so isn't all lead pretty much the same age?
I was half expecting to read an article about counterfeit golf balls, or a factory side selling its customers product. Not even close, this is interesting.
Wow. I could have written this. We had a Commodore instead of a TRS-80...

I still have the Tom Swifts in my office.
(Not sure that's the case here, but) when it all boils down to a he-said, she-said argument, the only thing you have at your disposal in decision-making is your perception of the character of the two parties. So yes, whichever side you like better.
> a bit like if you couldn't pass a 3D sphere through a circle-shaped hole of same radius.

So a funny thing happened. When my eyes first skimmed over that part, I spotted the word "donut". When I read it a second later, it wasn't there.

Something in my brain literally substituted "donut" for "circle-shaped hole" to the extent that it appeared in my vision, for a single processing cycle.
What happens if your small business sues Google? Right or wrong, you are betting the business on that case. If you lose, Google's legal costs will consume your entire business.

That said, it's hard for your small business to sue Google anyway.
Perhaps more important is the ability to drag-and-drop a rendered equation from Keynote back to LaTeXiT and still be able to edit it. Pleasantly surprised when I discovered this feature.
A troubling idea about climate change found new evidence in its favor
Android Dagger Tutorial – Components
The problem is that all those things cost money, and the "bold, crafty innovator", after putting $1M of his own money into it, can't afford to pay for all that. The city, and the union, have very deep pockets, and have no incentive to do the right thing and pay for it.

Sometimes Goliath stomps David, and we all lose.
Amy Wagers, a researcher at Harvard, told me, “Part of the meaning of life is that we die.”

I wouldn't want to live forever if I had to keep hearing this.
words to the wise: don't invite lawsuits.
Those aren't the issues discussed in the article, other than in the broadest sense.
I can imagine a hearing aid installed by injecting the electrodes right into the nerves, and then passing the audio signal electronically.

I wonder if this is going to help e.g. paralyzed patients to re-wire (some of) their muscles. Will likely help to wire up prosthetic limbs.
How Intellectual Property Frustrates Access to Knowledge in a Networked World [pdf]
You can actually see what DARPA wants to do by looking at their business solicitations. The US government makes a giant wishlist available as a website for businesses to browse and submit proposals for. The last few years, the big ticket item for most organizations is some kind of artificial intelligence that can intelligently process mountains of data. DARPA wants one, too. But they're also into some kinkier stuff.
> you have ever been on a job site, there are arcane rules that pad their pockets. Want to plug in a computer in a finished room? Sorry you are going to need an electrician for that. If you do it anyway they will bill you for the electrician coming over anyway.

If you've ever worked in construction you'd know these "arcane" rules are there because someone died before they existed. Construction is one of the most dangerous professions around. Unions are the only thing standing between companies trying to cut costs and shorten builders life expediencies.
sounds like a plot of a movie. brother vs brother in front of their father.
This problem has been solved through the use of style sheets. Just define a single paragraph style and apply it everywhere. Unfortunately most people didn't seem to know this feature.
One reason to be so nonchalant would be that the guy did in fact copy someone's patents wholesale, and was just waiting for the day someone would notice. If you know the lawsuit is unwinnable and not frivolous, no point complaining about it.
Not sure about the naming... Would Spanish speakers call it La Migra? Might discourage usage from that populace.
I think you missed the part where they implied these lawsuits are often completely without merit. It's abuse of the parent system to stifle competition, and we're supposed to believe business owners just shrug it off after they're bullied into bankruptcy?

> “We weren’t infringing. But we couldn’t afford to fight the case,” he says. Instead, his company settled the 2015 claims with Acushnet by agreeing to get out of the golf-ball business altogether
Well that took quite a number of "New Tor circuit for this site"! (You'll see what I mean.)

Canada works.
Well, first they will need to learn how to deal with diversity that the startup world requires.
I've been a heavy forum connoisseur for a very long time, I'm talking about interactive and application-level possibilities, not "fast because fast backend language". That forum looks like any other forum.
I know, I was just replying to the parent's comment and highlighting that suing (AFAIK) is the only way to enforce patent rights. Apart from maybe threatening to sue, but same-difference there really.
i imagine any such store has a ridiculous amount of surveillance with probably a membership model like costco with scanning so they know who you are when you enter the store. more than do-able these days.

i honestly don't want amazon to continue to get bigger it's already big enough as far as i am concerned, but that's not how big business works. consolidation is the way and the government does little to discourage it and allow smaller players and more diversity.
dude just go to dailies
I'm all for legalizing it. Having grown up with people around me who smoked, it always seemed reasonable to legalize use and have production and distribution heavily regulated and taxed (as tobacco).

What I find a bit ironic is that in the face of prop 65, CA doesn't make much of MJ use.
Itching Powder Prank on Fiance X2 (Gone Wrong and Backfires) – Mariah Dominic
Atmospheric nuclear detonations have contaminated all un-so-shielded metals: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
> these regulations can be costly and/or stifling for a future benefit that may never come.

You could say the same thing about much of the building code.

A lot of code is there to ensure that the floor doesn't collapse if you fill the tub up with water, have a room full of people jumping up and down, or buy a piano. There's more on ensuring the roof doesn't collapse if there's lot of snow on it, and making sure the house is solid enough to safely sustain reasonably high winds or an earthquake.

If there are no earthquakes, wind or snow storms, you never buy a piano or have a party and only ever use the shower, is the effort put in satisfying these codes wasted?
You could have invented Parser Combinators
Would this actually work?
That might be good for programmers, but is it good for society?
It's even funnier, not only do they go through each patent and say they don't infringe because of X, they also say that each patent is invalid because of Y. And then they ask for money for their lawyers. :-D
Yes, and the State and society is fine with that judging by the fact that we understand the severe consequences of tobacco, alcohol, and opiates and they remain legal. For example, we know that in 2015 over 10,000 fatalities occurred on the roads due to alcohol and, once again, we are fine with the human tragedy and increased healthcare costs.
If you read the legend, you would see that jQuery is color-coded under the "possibilities" category. This seems reasonable. There is a ton of work out there that requires familiarity with jQuery but it's not foundational or the only way to make a front-end by any means.
The context here includes the parent comment to the one setting out the scenario, and the reaction of sending a message copied to the boss's boss complaining about it.

They make it clear that it was sent to a woman, and that the scenario at the very least was interpreted by the recipient as inappropriate.

Yes, there are scenarios where it could be acceptable, but consider that they are (much) narrower than you might think:

* Men can be sexually harassed too.

* Sexual harassment is not the only problem with an e-mail like that. It may also create drinking pressure, or a feeling that you are forced to socialise with your boss. Of course that is context-dependent too, but for my part, as a man who doesn't enjoy drinking and doesn't want to spend my Saturdays with the boss, I'd fell put under inappropriate pressure by an e-mail like that as well, because I'd be concerned that a rejection could impact work.

A lot of behaviour like that is fine when it is not between subordinates, and can be fine with subordinates too if it is someone you know very well.

But even then you need to consider that e.g. it may negatively affect team dynamics or may be unintentionally discriminatory or become seen as discriminatory purely by e.g. including only those the manager knows well too.
Government and the big financiers have to figure out how to get high school students to take on massive debts. Then the inescapable trap will be set for lifetime indentured servitude.
> DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE!!! Furthermore, I have ZERO experience as a trader (a lot of this knowledge comes from a one-semester course on stock trading I took at Salt Lake Community College)!

This disclaimer is a good idea, but I'd have gone as far as saying that getting into HFT as a hobbyist programmer is going to be throwing your money into a giant hole.
He is correct in the sense that computer scientists should be able to understand that. I'm one, or at least my diploma says that, even though I'm as far away from the academia nowadays as it gets.

So, I watched the lecture on youtube. Speaking as someone who was glossing over the mathematical notation and essentially deferring to the speaker for correctness, I could not do it from the time he called it into attention to the time he asked for hands up. I wouldn't have put my hand up, had I been at the audience then.

Had he asked "are you able to understand this notation", then I'd put my hands up. Scanning to see if anything unfamiliar is there takes hardly any time at all. Actually reading and being confident that you understand what it means and all the implications takes time, for someone who doesn't do that on a daily basis.

Using a very silly example: e = mc^2. Can you read it? Certainly. Do you understand it?
This is very unusual for any investor, especially angels. It is not, unfortunately, unusual for 'close' investors (friends, family members, etc.).

It sounds like your relative is considering investing money they can't afford to lose. This is going to be bad for both of you. Real angels make multiple investments and know that some will fail. They try to adjust for risk by doing better deals, not by micromanaging the founders they work with.

In my opinion, their behavior sounds like a huge red flag, and I wouldn't take the deal. You are not being unreasonable.
>Require that pharmaceutical companies do not charge Americans any more for their drugs than what they charge any developed country

If i recall correctly, that has been part of Trumps platform for several months before the election.

Or rather, allowing American customers to buy drugs overseas was part of his platform. And i remember that idea went before a congressional vote recently, with both republicans and democrats voting it down.

On mobile, so sorry i cant provide links.
There's a difference between you wanting to die personally and death being good for society as a whole. Death keeps old things from taking up the resources that new things need to live. When our cells don't die, that's called cancer. It's great for the cells involved -- until it kills the person they're a part of.
How to Succeed as a Young Woman Executive
Sounds about right. I'm an old Rollins fan from his punk hardcore days in D.C. Some context would be helpful to this article I think. Talking of Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi) and such, it's important to note that the scene was very much about positive influence alongside self-empowerment and promotion. Bands in the scene were entrepreneurial both in their songs and their existence.

Henry Rollins has a spoken word presence that is not to be missed, in my opinion. He gets up on stage with a microphone, takes a fairly aggressive and active physical stance, and just goes... for hours. When I saw him for his first stop on one of his tours, there was a bottle of water near the base of the mic stand that remained untouched for the entirety of the show.

While it may seem a bit jarring to read him going on, at length, it's sort of what he does these days.

"Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit."

The guy lives a very interesting lifestyle and a great deal of what he practices and preaches is highly applicable to the entrepreneurial spirit and existence. Pretty stoked to see him on Hacker News.
Unfortunately young people also sign up for many unfortunate causes because they have no historical perspective, nor do they understand how subtle and not black-and-white real life can be. Young people aren't a panacea and there absolutely is such a thing as a wise but also modern older leader.
Filing motions is not their main business. Their main business is putting down competitors. In fact the only reason it works is that they have enough revenue that they can retain lawyers (expensive) to do these things without affecting their bottom line much. Lawyers aren't cheap for Acushnet either, they just have the cash to throw around.

Adding fees just hurts small players more. This sounds like a "solution" that makes the problem worse.
> a player who was an absolute shite programmer could just throw their bank account at the problem

There aren't (yet) any public codebases which have a handle on endgame combat. It's still more or less competitive after 2 months of play.
Climate change: ‘human fingerprint’ found on global extreme weather
Published evidence goes back to the eighties, but made virtually no difference - until Snowden blew the lid off. Respect to all the others, yup, but Snowden broke the issue wide open.
It shouldn't be based on actual costs but on an averaged estimation; and it shouldn't be automatic but left at the discretion of the court, specifically to punish frivolous litigation.
Many cities need his cranes. Why not relocating the business?
80% of half a million is close enough, perhaps.

But, if not, the sentence still works with "give them their $400k a year".
The Octalyzer has separate threads for cpu, sound, memory, networking, graphics and the main opengl loop. We use vertical blanking and sound timing to keep it all in sync.
I think someone complained to Quartz that their articles were biased, so the writer here decided to represent both angles. ("they're just doing business" vs "they're bullying any competition") In my opinion, one of the most difficult lessons the internet age will have to learn is that the truth isn't always in the middle, and that both sides are not exactly the same.
What you quoted is a textbook example of "word salad," a symptom of schizophrenia. Look at it, it's not even close to coherent. Racist delusions are not exactly unheard of in paranoid schizophrenia. Unless we have information about what Terry was like before he developed schizophrenia, it's impossible to tell if this apparent racism is him or the disease. Honestly, I'm inclined to think it's the disease. I've seen him write coherent things and I've seen him write incoherent things, but I haven't seen any instance of him talking coherently in a racist manner.
I think quantum computing may want a word with you.
We will check it out thanks!
Real Clock Tutorial: Atomic Clocks
There are 3 more or less competitive open source bots/frameworks: BonzAI, tooAngel, and OCS.

With these you can get started grinding and within 30 days if you invest your own time into code you'll more or less have access to endgame strategies (if someone with 6 months on you doens't wipe out yout).
Have you talked to your customers to understand what they need now and why they are churning?
Go with the herd, don't go nuts look for cliffs upcoming. That could work. Or not.
It's flapple bird:)
That's nothing. Try setting up a booth at a union staffed convention center. You can pay for electricity, but there is a separate fee for "plugging in" your device. It must be done by a licensed union electrician.

No, I don't mean some special equipment with some wiring involved.

I mean if you plug in your phone charger with a union electrician, he will still come out, unplug, replug it in, then charge you $65. Gotta round up to the nearest hour of course.
Everyone entering the store has to be scanned in. A parent could bring a child in, but they are scanned in on the parent's account. Similar to how at some offices, visitors are scanned in using the employee's badge. At least, that is my understanding of how it works.
See ya.
I have heard it is similar to archery. I have never played. I was an archer though.

But I dislike most sports that seem contrived (archery is a real skill that became a sport because the skill is not needed, golf is just a made up game as far as I can tell).
Show HN: Making sense of your job applications
Seriously unless you're budget constrained, so much better. Cost twice as much as 2-week lenses, but you get to crack open a sterile pair each morning. Toss em at night.
I have a hybrid approach. After having an unsatisfactory conversation or reading a comment I cannot agree at all, I quit but nevertheless look at that user's comment history to see why this happened. Occasionally, I realize who was wrong was I, or that user had a good reason to say so in spite of other arguments. I try to use the history only to learn more, so I ensure that I'm no longer a part of the discussion (that has failed anyway).
Some strident Singularitarians joined the comment thread.
If you're a newcomer to web development, don't be intimidated by this stuff. Much of it is unnecessary at any reasonable scale. The best piece of advice is to have a small project you're genuinely interested in, and don't ever be embarrassed because what you make is too simple or too plain-looking.

Your brain can only handle a fixed amount of complexity, so fight it at every step, especially when you're just starting out.
How could it possibly not? Smoking anything deposits an array of ash and tar products into your body, and I have yet to observe a studied combustion byproduct that doesn't cause cancer. Also, smoking anything increases risk of infection, which in turn will cause immune stress and necessarily an increase in cancer risk.

Personally I think the damage done to individual people when aggregated in sum is below the noise when compared with pollution from industrial sources, environmental pollution from consumer products, known-cancerous foods such as bacon, hamburgers, and beer, etc. So it's no reason to outlaw marijuana. But people who partake should not be fooling themselves into thinking it's healthy.
This article is fact free. At peak times, on a daily basis, the store handles a far higher volume than this.

There is, of course, a constant drive to push accuracy up, that's the Amazon way.

The delay is for other reasons - even with a throwaway I'm not going to say what