skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless that truck driver is a resident of the state in question, no, they can't. Handguns can't be purchased unless you are a legal resident of the state. This applies to every state in the US.
I bought some of these this weekend. The big perk? You don't need to use them as IoT devices at all. Hold one button to pair with a remote and you are done.

Unlike say the very expensive power mattress base (bad Ergotron) I bought which has sleep tracking that will only work if I reveal all my health data on my phone to their app. This includes data not collected by the mattress. It also requires you give your wifi password. They explicitly tell you they are going to sync it all to their cloud.

They basically demand the keys to the kingdom when all they should need is some basic bluetooth syncing to my phone. Obviously I did not move forward with the sleep tracking functionality.
Yes, the article fails to expand on the title's point which I've observed for a long time.

I used to be a hardcore Sony fanboy (still have the original AIBO). Great innovative stuff, pushing limits with abandon, bringing the sci-fi future to life. Except...they always got it a little wrong, in the "uncanny valley" way. Everything was built to specs - barely. Key ports were implemented cheaply. Compatibility was often trumped by proprietary - the latter being better, but in the "Beta vs VHS" losing way. Device driver software was...lacking. Once the device was sold, there was a sense of abandonment - great product, but you're on your own now. Crapware was common (software was delivered with the device just to get the hardware sold). UI/UX was more focused on "cool" than "useable". Overall, the focus was on bringing futuristic to life, failing to make it really usable; as a result, "cool" slides sideways into "weird" - it's neat, but ultimately infeasible.

Examples of Sony weird? MagicGate memory sticks everywhere, whether a device needed it or not (like a pen), incompatible with dominating standards (SD, MicroSD, etc). Innovative remote controls of a type used by nobody else for a reason. Pocketbook-sized notebooks with "retina" displays (before Apple got to "retina" and "Air") so small as unreadable. HDTVs with gorgeous styling suitable only for hyper-minimalism homes. Disc players loaded with demo software that made a Wii look good (trailers for "Salt" at 320x200 resolution, on a 1920x1080p display? really?). UI that looked great yet required steps that would make Jonny Ive choke. Elegant e-readers that were incompatible with pretty much any book formats.

This new tablet looks great, sure - it's big, flat, minimalistic, and has great specs. From experience, I'd hesitate to buy one because I expect it will run slow in odd conditions, have questionable real-world battery life, use proprietary chargers, suffer odd document compatibility issues, have a general sense of post-sale customer abandonment, and some specs will be met only in the most strict & strained sense. Out of the box I'd love it, then slowly develop a sense of irritation by something proving subtly but pervasively unusable. It looks cool on its own, but will predictably look out-of-place amid other serious competition, leading the way in a direction that the industry ultimately won't go. I'm not saying this particular device is defective in such ways, but having been disappointed by numerous products (despite valiant attempts to live & defend them), I expect I'd start using it with a sense of "this is awesome" soon morphing into a nagging sense of "...but something's wrong here" and ultimately buying something comparable that hits the market not long after.
Zim with some encrypted file sync is a great tool.
>Even from that perspective the US still doesn't use chemical weapons on people.

No, just atomic bombs, agent orange, napalms, drones, depleted uranium, and diseases...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_experiment
Some of that is needed, though. If you're going to just shut one or two people in a room for 9 months, then you probably don't need it. But today usually you're going to have bigger teams, and the business is going to need more visibility into the project, while also giving developers a degree of autonomy and ownership of it.

When the business is willing to let it work, Agile can be kinda nice. But if the business doesn't buy in, if they keep interrupting, changing priorities and tasks mid-sprint, then it's just going to make everyone miserable.
Steam already had a history of problematic mod behavior--people posting copyrighted material, stolen mods, etc. Allowing for mod sales made it from a nuisance to actual IP theft/stolen revenue.

I suspect the exact same for this minecraft store, unless MS actually starts whooping ass for IP theft.

edit: oh yeah, the steam revenue sharing model was a hilarious joke, IIRC.
Both are OK.
Pen and Paper
Do some google research:

https://www.charnwood.gov.uk/files/documents/graffiti_the_fa...

Graffiti is also an expression of youth culture, something on which the US has great influence. And UK lawmakers, looking for similar results, are adopting the US approach to such crimes.
I write markdown files with emacs.

These notes are stored at `~/notes` which I symlink to `~/Dropbox/notes`.
so you went and had personal conversations about life and work ethic with the 45 million Americans that live below the poverty line?
It is! And our current Librarian, Carla Hayden, is really incredible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librarian_of_Congress

If I may go into fanboy mode for a moment, I'd like to say that in my opinion the Library itself is one of the crown jewels of the federal government. It is also definitely worth a visit if you're ever in DC. They give free tours of the Jefferson building, and besides the beautiful architecture of the building itself, there are some very interesting exhibits on display. There's a surprising amount to see, and the staff are great- very knowledgable and friendly.

Besides its main missions of supporting congressional research and acting as the central repository library, the LoC also does a ton of great research on media preservation and archival practices... I got to tour one of their labs once- in one room I talked with an expert in the chemistry of inks used in the 18th and 19th centuries, and in the next room heard from other people who specialized in CD and audiotape manufacturing, who could talk about how specific manufacturing plants in Japan changed processes from year to year and how that affected the archival lifetime of their products. Just amazing stuff, and that wasn't even scratching the surface.
Dropbox Paper. Mainly because of non distracting UI and markdown support. Also copy paste keeps the format intact. That comes in handy to copy/paste code in notes.
The author doesn't say to re-lock the bootloader or restore the stock recovery. Having a indefinitely unlocked bootloader and an unsafe recovery is a huge security risk.

After installing LineageOS you should restore the stock recovery then lock the bootloader. It will do a factory reset. If you want to update down the road or flash another ZIP, run the flash_image binary as root with the proper parameters to install a temporary recovery, install any update or ZIP, then use the flash_image binary again to install the stock recovery.
> They've dropped their original PaaS

Just to clarify, we never dropped the original PaaS. Deis (now named Workflow) is still in active development, uses Kubernetes as the underlying scheduler and has monthly releases. We actually just released v2.13.0 5 days ago. :) https://github.com/deis/workflow
The Gig Economy represents the decline of the American Middle Class, as people who would have been able to find white-collar work or stable and well-paying blue-collar work 15-20 years ago now have to enter the service economy and perform low-level jobs, many of which require little or no specialized skills.

For some reason we celebrate this trend as a society and laud its positives (e.g. being able to determine one's own work schedule), but in a decade or two the problems will become obvious and hard to ignore, as many gig workers find themselves too old to work but with no retirement savings, for example.
I've often wondered why someone who believes the earth is flat can't explain why one couldn't see London from NYC. Presumably we could build a strong enough optical telescope to look at the city.

Or is it claimed that there's "too much debris in the air" to prevent this?
A bonus that is designed to reward individual performance/behavior is the ideal place to cut when individual performance/behavior suffers.
What is the regulatory regime about these virtual currencies?

Are you considered a money transmitter in the USA?

What about other countries?

I would like to introduce a decentralized currency that lets every community install their own copy of an "open source social platform" (imagine Wordpress but for social apps instead of blog plugins) and then instead of paying with a credit card or bitcoin, the community would have its own currency.

For emergencies and other things, the currency would enable the community to function even when cut off from a federal money (EU, US) and perhaps even invest in its own projects by having an elastic money supply for local projects. That would make communities more resilient, which in my opinion would have stemmed the decline of jobs in Detroit, PIIGS countries etc. who cannot have their own monetary policy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_value_transfer_syst...
Well, it's pretty simple. If you want into Apple's ecosystem, you follow their rules. They've hardware-locked many other external things (dongles, charging cables, etc).

Cynics will say it's a money grab, proponents will say it greatly reduces or eliminates the risk of buying something that will not work right. Apple sells itself on the ability of their things working right out of the box.
I'm really not sure what your point is. Whether or not saving to buy vs buying on credit is the smarter option has very little to do with whether you're in the top income quintile or the bottom.
The 12" iPad Pro is a bit more expensive, but has much broader software support, including ePub, drawing & file synchronization services. Optional keyboard & stylus. Will hopefully be getting smaller with new version that reduces bezel size. As a bonus, good speakers and retina screen.

E-ink has the advantage of being easier on the eyes, but iOS has improved in this area with night mode (blue light reduction). You can also invert the screen for white text on black background.

EDIT:

As a user of the Sony DPTS1, one good thing is that it supports WebDAV for private synchronization of files, along with a removable microSD card. But if you're already carrying around an iPad Pro of the same screen size, it's hard to justify also carrying the DPTS1. With SanDisk's iXPand USB drive, iOS apps can now support removable storage.

Sony should consider adding an app that makes their e-ink screen a second display for iOS, Android, Windows & MacOS. That way you can use the broad software portfolio of iOS & Android with the low-power large display of the Sony Device. You could connect the Sony to your phone via bluetooth and the e-reader device would only need power when doing a screen refresh / page turn. Duet Display does this today for iPad, https://www.duetdisplay.com/
let them eat cake

(delivered by grubhub)
United Airlines Made a Huge Mistake
I am admittedly naive on these matters, but I always thought that VAT is more efficient than a sales tax from the vendor's perspective and transparent to the consumer (an item costs $1.25 and you pay $1.25).
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Day One for general notes, 2Do for notes on tasks.

(I use Mac and iOS.)
Open-ocean fish farming will have a dramatic impact on food production, once we get some technical challenges out of the way (storms mostly).

The biggest problem is that its inefficient to feed meat animals grain. Instead we should be farming lots of insects for human and animal food!

Lab grown meat is a nice idea, but I don't see how it can scale.
I really do like to bash on the gig economy, and while I don't expect much from the editorial section... The article uses insufficient data to make any strong arguments, Two anecdotes and the actions of one minor company.
Is the refresh rate on e-paper screens good enough for drawing on yet? I was under the distinct impression that they still have a long enough refresh rate to make the delay... distracting.
It's interesting that everyone seems to do something different. I wonder why this not a solved issue yet which one best and obvious way.
iA Writer has been invaluable for me in capturing notes at work or on-the-go.
Great article. The context you provided is helpful.
If it's mandatory, then it's not a bonus. It's just salary.
It seems several of them are now failing. Like you say, it's basically a miscalculation of unit economics over time, but being able to reduce staffing costs by 20% or more certainly gave them more runway.

Hard to say if the others have fixed their economics (eg, Instacart) or are simply better at fundraising.

Here's a list from 2015 [1] showing some of these companies that are trying to switch to W-2.

Munchery Stiffs Early Backers and Cuts Staff in a Bid for Survival [2]

Luxe Valet shuts the door on two more markets [3]

[1] http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2015/07/30/collaborative-...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-29/munchery-...

[3] https://www.axios.com/luxe-valet-2219230863.html
I use DIA, which is unusual since it's a diagramming program. I love it though I've been using it for 10 years to take notes and manage dev and spec out projects.
While there is something to be said for seeing things in a positive light, and accepting that which you cannot change -- the fact remains: these people vote!

They are a clear threat to rational policy making.

Also, their children are often victims of their irrationality, sometimes dying horrible and needless deaths for the sake of their parent's beliefs.
notepad.exe
Several of the points are effectively asking "Do you know that your software work right now?". Without CI and automated tests your knowledge of whether your software works is inherently limited in scope to what you can manually test in a reasonable amount of time and is out-of-date as soon as someone adds a new commit to master.
What's weird to me is the addictive qualities of "gig economy" jobs. I have friends who had real jobs and could have them again, but continue to drive full time for uber/lyft/postmates/whatever because they insist it's better. They're working 80+ hour weeks and still never have money for anything, but that's okay because they don't have time to go out either. Being able to set which hours you work is meaningless if all you can do with your time off is sleep.
My great grandmother worked in a Manhattan button factory at age 8. It made her mean.

It's more than just overtime and minimum wage.
Too much risk of them killing it with little warning.
OneNote, iOS, Mac and Win10
It's not you, it's your low dopamine level that speaks for you. Funny that just a tiny amount of chemical make you a different person. Here's what you can do right now to increase it:

1. Go for sleep, at least for 10 hours.

2. Go for a long walk (all day long), preferrably where you never been before.

3. Stop drinking coffee and other caffeine-based drinks.

4. Stop drinking alcohol and smoke

5. Listen to your favorite music, read a book or do whatever you like.

6. Spend time with your friends and family.

Do this for at least a week and you will feel better for sure. BUT! If it does not help you need to visit psychotherapist as soon as possible - this condition is DANGEROUS!
Tried bear a bit, the lack of syncing do other things than apple cloud is an issue, as well as the lack of web/android clients.
Not talking deep frying either, I don't deep fry nuggets. Dark meat gives it a bad, inconsistent texture and taste and a generally greasy feeling in your mouth even when eaten on its own. If you like that, you go right ahead, but I'll stick to the white meat - it makes sense that it's priced more to me since it may not be more flavourful, but it's more versatile and more pallatable. No marketing needed - it's just better.
> How is it for taking notes?

I've been pretty happy with it so far. The included stylus is pretty responsive.

> How smooth is the experience with PDFs?

Scrolling a PDF is a little weird on the e-ink screen - the refresh rate is kind of low, so it looks a bit like the old Windows Freecell victory animation while scrolling is happening. Switching between pages is smooth.

> Is it any good for annotating on top of PDFs?

Haven't tried it yet

> What file types does it support?

So far I've opened up PDFs, EPUBs and MOBIs. I believe there's more in it's app store, but I haven't needed to explore that yet.

> What is it's battery life like?

I charged it up when I got it at the beginning of March, and it's still at around 50%, with the Wifi enabled.
Even worse ;)
The pricing structure for one? The publisher, Bethesda in that case wanted 40%, Valve taking 30% leaving the author of the mod 30%. I was up in arms because that split should be the opposite way around.
I'm surprised they mentioned the $30,000 number multiple times in the article. How much someone makes without the context of how many hours they drive is meaningless.
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Not spherical, rather spheroid. Oblate spheroid.
>Nobody said the transition would be easy

Actually many said it -- Uber for one.
Beauty and Terror (Lawrence Krauss and Sam Harris on Science and Politics)
I've often wondered the same, but presumably the numbers don't work out.

Part of the problem might be if some big gains come from apparent losers that somehow manage to pull a rabbit out of a hat.
Visual VM wont be included with Oracle JDK 9
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Meet the new economy, just like the old economy.
That's excellent.

To add to that, ring signatures and zksnarks are coming to the next major Ethereum release, implemented as smart contracts.
I suspect reality is a messy mix of science and magic/customs, and perhaps one way in which AI can help us is to figure out - within limits -
where and when to take the shortcuts (magic/customs) and when/where not to.

But of course, there are bound to be all sorts of weird unintended consequences when we let what is essentially an alien life-form come up with these things.

I think the gorilla/black people issue is a perfect example of this. An 'AI' might group gorillas and black people together because its 'magic' made it do so. On the one hand it might seem like a rather unfortunate 'mistake', but it's also not difficult to understand why this would happen. I've had more than one experience with white children causing embarrassment by comparing black people to gorillas/monkeys.

I'm not going anywhere in particular with this other than that 1) I don't think science and magic/customs are quite as easily disentangled in daily life, and 2) I have high hopes for the role of AI in all aspects of human development, but I expect it to cause all kind of issues that, in hindsight, we might write about in the same way we write about culture clashes or hypothetical alien visitations. Until we create AI that simulates or experiences actual human lifespans, they'll be basically aliens to us in all kinds of ways, small and big.
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It would be prudent for the policy-inclined among us to work with the state houses to develop a third category besides contractor or employee. As Homejoy's founder correctly pointed out, a gig worker coordinated by a central company falls in the cracks.

It's incredibly important to get law to properly regulate this space in a sane way that levels the playing field and guarantees worker protections.
I do similarly: Vim & reStructured Text.
XML for configs is fine, as long as you treat it as a binary format. Which means having tools to help manage those configs. Too many people use XML for configs and then call it done, which makes for a terrible experience.

XML with config helpers and the ability to open it in an editor and see what is going on and tweak it is a great experience. XML with the expectation that an editor will be used to configure it is a terrible experience.

The above also applies if you replace "XML" with "JSON". :-)
GoodNotes on iPad Pro 12.9 inch with Apple Pencil
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The article doesn't talk much about the currency's ability to liquidate back into local money, but you can be sure there will be exchange houses (legal or not) that pop up.

I'm waiting to see who makes the first slot machine out of redstone.
same here. I keep notes in two-three different files (work, personal, misc) and add todos there. those files are part of the agenda, so I can quickly summarize everything in one place. I also use tags to group tasks.
A Man Was Dragged Off a United Plane After the Airline Overbooked the Flight
Have you asked them over other intangibles that may be driving them to choose 80 hours of lower pay over 40? Some may find the corporate environment so emotionally taxing that the alternative is still a better solution.
What’s still wrong with the Linux ecosystem?
Alternate title: Microsoft to add more in-app purchases to Minecraft.
Erm, no, people that believe things like vaccines or climate change are conspiracies do actual, measurable harm.

Humans are irrational, indeed. That doesn't mean that some of the far-out crazy isn't directly or indirectly harmful.
Algorithm-Driven Design: How AI Is Changing Design
Wells Fargo Claws Back $75M More from 2 Executives Over Fake Accounts
I find it funny that the news media treats working for yourself as a new relatively phenomena fueled by a few companies when Daniel Pink (and others) were thoroughly documenting the shift from salaried to self-employed as far back as 2002.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/165415.Free_Agent_Nation

All the current crop of companies did is reduce the transaction costs low enough to democratize working for yourself just about anything can participate. Once anyone can participate, it's a natural outcome that earnings in these markets will deflate and stabilize around the price that the least skilled/educated are willing to work for.

The biggest irony is that without these companies, a lot of the people doing this kind of would probably be unemployed or underemployed. There was a LOT of latent demand that went unsatisfied.

Transportation network companies haven't just taken away some of the demand from existing options like taxies and livery companies, but have increased the size of the market by at least one other of magnitude in terms of rides and miles driven. AirBnB enabled people to capitalize on under-utilized real estate assets that they own or rent with a little administrative overhead as the only labor input.

The real failure isn't the gig economy, but government economic policy that drives some aspects of living costs higher while real income drops. The biggest culprit here are housing costs. Deflation in real income isn't a problem if there is a corresponding deflation in cost of living expenses as well.
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They're not yet thinking outside the box and I think if they did we would be in a better place.

You simply don't need to measure the give and take. The act of measuring that and putting value to it is the cause of all trouble and gain.

If you don't want the gain or the trouble, you might find it easier to participate in an experiment where life is about the act of giving and receiving, not about it's material value.

There are theories out there and ways have been suggested aplenty. There is nothing detering any of us from giving up on currency once we have the collective means of survival.

Till then let's aaa and wooo at the advances of modern science. A virtual world with its own currency? What you say??! Get out of here. LOL.

Funny, sorry.