skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that money is being redistributed from the middle class to the wealthy by mechanisms of our financial system.

High taxes on labor both reduce wages and cut spending power of working Americans. Then, the money that is removed from the economy by income taxes is then re-created by the federal reserve system and lent out to banks at extremely low interest rates. This money is then lent as consumer credit which redirects wealth to those who own capital in the form of interest.

Essentially Americans are forced to borrow their own money to survive until they can no longer borrow and go bankrupt. The solution is easily executed and within the power of congress or even the president. Reduce taxes to create a deficit then offset it with higher interest rates on corporate credit. Then nationalize the dividends paid out by the Fed to other banks to offset the deficit even more and start charging banks for services they receive through the Fed.

Right now we essentially have a giant welfare system for banks in America that is slowly turning non-capital owning Americans into paupers through constant inflation and wage stagnation.
I just look at my Romanian friends. Basically they have 10x more internet speed at 10x less price, just so, despite living in a much poorer country. The reason: It's basically wild west and the state hasn't yet regulated ISPs to death. This is just one of many examples where you see such patterns. Just because my comments fit a narrative doesn't mean I cannot back them up, or they serve special interests of mine.
There exist articles describing hospital systems who have been victims of ransomware attacks. There are suggestions that some companies have paid the fee to decrypt the data. Also I believe the fee has been higher than what the average end-user experiences.
I prefer to be censored by dang, is he available?
edit: I've also not broken any guidelines, you're just upset that I'm right. I understand.
Microsoft Surface sales fall by 26 percent
Use something like https://github.com/lbovet/typson to generate a JSON schema for your interfaces, then use a JSON schema validator before casting the API response to your interface.

I haven't touched TS since ~1.3, but this was all working well back then at least.
These days I buy almost everything, except clothes and groceries, from online retailers. To get my business, an "outdoor mall" would have to provide a really compelling benefit.

Perhaps you'll be pleasantly surprised by how quickly the developers of "outside malls" have to get their act together, in order to survive.
Another really great New Yorker on the topic of Magic is this profile of Ricky Jay:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/04/05/secrets-of-the-...
this looks very interesting and I like the screenshots but I wonder this is more for general use and not towards development use.
I don't think that your outside of work project is supposed to take proprietary knowledge to create a competitor, that seems like a pretty reasonable limit.
"Dogling" or "doglet". Doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
That is, in fact, freedom.
This problem of people asking bad questions has been around a long time. A really long time.

Here's a resource to deal with it:

https://www.mikeash.com/getting_answers.html

Here's another, somewhat harsher version that preceded that:

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

These were discussed on the C2 wiki a long time ago:

http://wiki.c2.com/?HowToAskQuestionsTheSmartWay

But the issues remain - people are sometimes lazy, sometimes asses, sometimes jerks, and often suffer from learned helplessness.[0] In each case, answering their question is not always the right thing to do.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
Good question -- If you create a single SDK project, you can use any of the SDKs. Use the C# SDK on the backend and JS SDK to track client-side events. Feel free to reach out with more questions.
The realities of machine learning systems
They promote the use of 20% time to do projects that will be owned by Google. It's essentially giving you freedom to work on what you want, with the understanding that Google will reap the economic rewards (if any) from what you do.

Google's not very tolerant of moonlighting. If you want to work on stuff and own it, quit.
It's a very stylish diminutive.
The one question that I have is how do we stop this? Do I go somewhere to vote? Do I send a letter? Do I go to petition.org or something? Can I only donate to the EFF and that's it?

What do I need to do to have a concrete affect on the outcome of this instead of just commenting here or in some other thread?
I do not believe censorship happens in an intentional, systematic way.

You probably shouldn't use the loaded and much-abused word 'censorship' for that sort of thing. Neither curation/moderation nor unintentional bias are 'censorship'.
For those fascinated with these kinds of personalities, there's another brazilian who was famous for, aside doing all kinds of scams throughout his life:

- Acting as son of Gol's owner, one of the major airlines in Brazil, convincing even a famous celebrity interviewer. This makes him able to have a luxury lifestyle by being offered all kinds of favours and party invitations by famous people around him.

- Acting as one of PCC's (criminal faction) leaders and leading a rebellion where he was incarcerated.

- Acting as guitarist of a famous brazilian band.

There's a book and even a movie [0] about his story.

[0]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1997594/

Edit: An interesting anecdote:

When the writer interested in publishing the book about his story went to the prison and asked how he lied to people, he said "only after we sign the contract".

Then after the writer came back days later he said he was not interested anymore as another publisher came by. The writer then told him he would take 50% of the earnings.

After signing the contract she asked again, to which he said "well, you just had a practical lesson".
I wouldn't say taboo, it's just a "kids these days" type of story. Someone taking time to analyze something internet culture is doing just for laughs.

It's like critical analysis of an inside joke.
For all Ricky Jay fans, this (very old) profile in the New Yorker is excellent:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/04/05/secrets-of-the-...
What legislation? Which pro Net Neutrality legislation was introduced, and used the same language?
It would be difficult because every few minor revisions they update their DRM which forces you to resave the entire project to a new location.
I follow a number of the podcasts, blogs and outlets that you've listed and have a different impression entirely.

So I don't really know how to resolve that for you.
Read as: Restoring Internet [Providers'] Freedom [from oversight].

Hypocrites.
I am trying Fedora on a VM. It looks similar to Ubuntu. Trying to get use to the package manager. What are a few things you like about Fedora after moving from Ubuntu.
Power companies do charge different rates depending on what electronics are used.

Energy utility rate structures are both complex and unique to the individual company, but at a high level different classes of consumer pay different rate plans, such as residential vs. commercial/industrial vs. agricultural, and which is ultimately determined by the type of and quantity of certain electronic devices installed on premise as is normal for that class.

With that said, as a residential consumer there is little chance that you could ever legally or physically install one of the devices at your home that would necessitate being charged a CI or agricultural rate.

And interestingly enough those rates are all regulated by very heavy weight local/state and federal regulatory commissions.
They were "fleecing" intelligence agencies from a very early stage. Here is old mailing list communication where Assange says as much (besides admitting they pull a lot of leaks when mob and intelligence agencies extract over Tor).

Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 07:21:34 -0800
To:
From: John Young
The CIA would be the most likely $5M funder. Soros is suspected
of being a conduit for black money to dissident groups racketeering
for such payola.
Now it may be that that is the intention of WL because its behavior
so far fits the pattern.
If fleecing the CIA is the purpose, I urge setting a much higher
funding goal, in the $100M range and up. The US intel agencies
are awash in funds they cannot spend fast enough to keep the
Congressional spigot wide open. Academics, dissidents, companies,
spy contractors, other nation’s spy agencies, whole countries, are
falling over themselves to tap into this bountiful flood. But competition
is fierce, and accusations of deception are raging even as the
fleecers work in concert.
Chinese dissidents — a brand name among many — are already
reaping huge benefits from covert funding from the US and from
the PRC, along with others in the former Soviets, in Africa and
South America, inside the US, UK and Europe, in the Middle East
and the Koreas, who know how to double-cross ditzy-rich Dads
and Moms.
In solidarity to fuck em all.

To: John Young <jya[a t]pipeline.com>
From: Wikileaks <wikileaks[a t]wikileaks.org>
Subject: martha stuart pgp
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 12:20:25 -0500
—–BEGIN PGP MESSAGE—–
Version: None
J. We are going to fuck them all. Chinese mostly, but not entirely a feint. Invention
abounds. Lies, twists and distorts everywhere needed for protection. Hackers monitor
chinese and other intel as they burrow into their targets, when they pull, so do we.
Inxhaustible supply of material. Near 100,000 documents/emails a day. We’re going to
crack the world open and let it flower into something new. If fleecing the CIA will
assist us, then fleece we will. We have pullbacks from NED, CFR, Freedomhouse and
other CIA teats. We have all of pre 2005 afghanistan. Almost all of india fed. Half
a dozen foreign ministries. Dozens of political parties and consulates, worldbank,
apec, UN sections, trade groups, tibet and fulan dafa associations and… russian
phishing mafia who pull data everywhere. We’re drowing. We don’t even know a tenth
of what we have or who it belongs to. We stopped storing it at 1Tb.
Giant sops for drivers, while the daily commute out of Penn Station is starting to resemble a third world country.

Car culture needs to die in a nuclear fire.
I think you are referring to Jay Sankey's appearance on the show. He has a YouTube channel where he teaches magic in a manner that I think any engineer would respect. I first discovered him watching the video where he discusses his appearance on the P&T show [0].

I have been watching a lot of his videos since then. I doubt I'll ever learn to do any of his tricks 100% but I find his commentary on the social aspect of magic very interesting.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSIijZf2GiQ
A judge will have to sign off on it but then you'd be able to compel the other party to provide such details. That's not an outrageous request, especially not when 'who benefits' is an important question to answer in cases like these.
What was your main reason from moving from Fedora to Debian. Is it the package manager or any other reason?
Uber’s Anthony Levandowski out as Advanced Technologies lead amid legal fight
This is the most American headline I've ever seen, so I'm shocked the data isn't about Americans.
You see the benefits of regulation but not the costs. Eg, in a weestern country, most restaurants are hygienic with properly maintained premises - which seems great.

Until you compare to Asian countries where you can visit nice restaurants if you're so inclined, but you also have abundant choice of street food and little diners, which aren't super clean but are cheap and tasty. This also changes the economy - it doesn't take hundreds of thousands of dollars to open a restaurant and obtain the proper licensing, which means that new locations can spring up for cheap. Which means there's an extra source of jobs for people at the bottom of the economy, and so on.

Multiply that by every regulated industry and you start to see the real downsides to gov't control of private enterprise. This has been abundantly studied, contrary to your post. As well as ample evidence, there's also the fundamental principle - govt is not a productive enterprise and so nothing it does can help businesses produce things of value. All it can (and should) do is define laws to protect everyone - this covers things like fraud, but not decreeing what products can and cannot be sold.
Put down your pitchfork, buddy.

of course 20% time is owned by Google. Otherwise it would simply be a 32h work week.

Gmail isn't owned by the people who made it in their 20% time. Obviously.
You can do this with Splice: https://splice.com/
ISPs, like all corporations, always have the best interests of their customers as heart. In the unlikely event that an ISP abuses their position another ISP startup will immediately spring up and start a brand new network.
20% time is to work on side projects at Google. You aren't allowed to found other companies.
> Why would Russia (or other anti-US entities) need to create such a climate

Because they're following Soviet playbooks. And if they'll create enough FUD they will be able to freely annex neighbouring countries.
> Google's not very tolerant of moonlighting. If you want to work on stuff and own it, quit.

That goes for quite a few employers, especially if what you are doing is (1) competing with their products and (2) potentially successful or (3) both.
This document is so incredibly professionally framed and laced with layers upon layers of spindoktering that I can't help to conclude that the FCC is intentionally violating the congressional statutes forming their mandate. Perhaps the EFF or similar should drag them in front of a judge.
> and sell it to schlubby dads too indebted to buy a midlife crisis car and too unattractive to have an affair.

Whilst that was amusing in a bitchy kind of way, it rather meant I stopped listening to anything said after that point.

We're not dealing with a someone capable of great insight - or at least we're not dealing with someone who values insight over snark.

EDIT - I read it to the end and I'm slightly more forgiving. I came to understand the intent a bit more. I initially came to it expecting something less literary/stand up comedy and took it in the wrong context.
The only socially acceptable explanations for outsized success are incredible talent and incredible luck. And since here in the meritocracy we all know that luck plays no role, well...

"The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out." -- Honoré de Balzac, 1834 (http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/09/fortune-crime)
You really think you should put the entire welfare and existence of the European continent in the favor of some hired Blackwater mercenaries? Are you f'in serious?
> In my hometown, over 50% of single-family houses are owned by major corporations.

I'm curious as to what town this is, and how many are bank-owned properties that haven't been unloaded yet. This sounds like an unusual situation, considering the places I have lived.
> I'm kind of stunned at the amount of side-hustling that Levandowski seems to have been doing while at Google.

Well, Uber is running TV ads urging people to "get your side hustle on" [1], so at least he ended up at the right place.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKqnkoCfQGU
"Tech-socialists", huh? Do we get t-shirts?
I don't think the hands have anything to do with it:

https://sabotagetimes.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cw_640/M...
I disagree that I am "giving up the will to question and criticize".

On the contrary I criticize the fevered speculations in the media based upon unverifiable sources reputedly in secret agencies over which most elected lawmakers have little or no control and oversight, let alone civilians peeking at the shadows on the window blinds.

It's a disgusting situtation of asymmetrical information which ought to cause outrage, indignation and fear in anyone that considers themselves free and sovereign.

Steepling learnedly on HN, or in "security blogs" may stroke the egos or pump the reputations of the aediles gazing upon the entrails of our democracy, but it does little to expose what only a fully legally empowered commission akin to the Church commision could determine.

The only thing we know for sure thanks to Snowden and Wikileaks is that there are large numbers of dominant authoritarians spying on us and and an even large number passive authoritarians settling comfortably into their dungeon.

Meanwhile: THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!!!!
Thanks for the ELI5! :-)
This looks interesting. I now people are really letting Amazon into their lives.
The claim made in the quotation is also simply inaccurate. As footnote 153 in the NPRM notes, the FTC was already stripped of jurisdiction over ISP privacy practices, regardless of the classification of broadband. (The FTC Act includes an exemption for common carriers based upon their status. Most ISPs are common carriers based upon their other businesses (telephone) and thus exempt.)
The perverse part of this is that they're not just shaking you down, they're shaking down the services that you're using. Burning the candle at both ends.
Unfortunately ASC X12 is very good at keeping their docs hidden. I'm fortunate to be able to have the docs provided by work but when I didn't I would just search for the file type and spec (e.g "837 Spec") and would go off the companion guides. Companion guides from various companies are not a reliable to create a product though as they can deviate from the standard

EDIT: One place I forgot to look is Microsoft's BizTalk HIPAA information[0]. It has information about the various segments and how they are laid out.

[0] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc982631(v=bts.10)....
Meant as sarcasm. I do not favor these changes, just to be clear.
Some people are just driven that way. They don't watch much TV or play video games. They just eat, sleep and breath their designs.
try ripgrep, it'll blow your socks off.
I don't see how it could. Only a handful of people on any one flight are ever bumped, on average. The bumped are normally put on other flights. The only 'win' is where someone doesn't show and also doesn't fly or get a refund. I cannot see how it is more than 1 or 2% of revenue.

That said, perhaps I am dead wrong and overbooking is being used for darker purposes. Perhaps they are deliberately overselling flights at peak times knowing that they will push bumped customers to later less-full flights. If that is being done knowingly, that's a bait-and-switch operation that might be worth more than a couple percent.
Passenger dragged off United Airlines plane wins settlement
Clearly he is a brilliant man. Too bad that he got so greedy. This is doubly sad when he was already a legitimate multimillionaire from his job at Google.
Yes, but the actual question is: How could you lower demand or raise supply?
The weird part is that getting fired can still suck, very deeply, even if it's from a job you truly hated and were going to quit anyway.
either skyhook, like the other reply mentioned. or you find you nearest airport and get parachuted home.

the airline then pick the landing equipment back up via skyhook or drives to pick it up.
That article is a very enjoyable read.
I've never been married but the other data surprised me too. Both men and women experience increased happiness after a divorce or their significant other died.
I agree 100%. The Rust syntax is so different from C, C++, Go and Java that it's very difficult for me to use. I love the idea of Rust, but I wish the syntax was more similar to traditional languages. If it were, I think it would be a very easy transition for many of us.
Related: GCDS error messages

https://support.google.com/a/answer/3011361?hl=en
I agree with you on one hand that a browser shouldn't mess with the layout, but it could provide an alternative layout of the content (kind of like the reader mode does) in the click of a button, and I'll be more than happy to use it (the same way I got used to reading articles in a single, clean layout.

But, how do you think that a browser could theoretically penalize a website?
Uber's head of self-driving cars is stepping aside amid Waymo lawsuit
Yes, exactly. And now I am simply flooded with so many choices in ISPs that I hardly know which one to try next.
I'm pretty sure there's lots of dust that can be sintered too.
It's written into most peoples' contracts (in a way that isn't always obvious) but if you spend time at home working on stuff that's unrelated and then leave and found a company, if your employer tries to convince a judge they own your "on your own time, unrelated work," good luck with them not looking like shitheads.
I've flown very often with Southwest, and have rarely seen a completely full plane. The fullest I've seen still has one or two middle seats free at the very back of the plane.
Al Franklin apparently just came out against this pretty loudly. So yes, I'd say the same steps as before, donate to politicans that come out against this, write letters / emails to your senators / representatives, and lodge a comment with the FCC. We saw under wheeler that while they can ignore that type of community activism, it absolutely has effects.
Has no seen the intro to a vampire movie?
As a DAW created by a single person, I must say great job. But one thing that stuck out for me most was the merging of instruments into a single visual track. As a person that designs simple DAW interfaces for a living [1], I highly recommend against that, and instead move to a more traditional instrument/track separated model.

Some back story: when we released the first version of Medly, we actually had notes on top of each other, merging the tracks into one. This turns out to be bad for both visuals (as it overcomplicates things) and for interactions. We ditched it for a more traditional format, but added a feature that let you view notes from other tracks when editing. Never regretted that decision since.

[1] http://medlylabs.com
I recommend the book very much. However it doesn't have a chapter the single-threaded concurrency handling (with eventloops, and futures/promises and sometimes even plain callbacks), which is currently en-vogue in lots of languages (JS, python asyncio, boost asio, etc). So this is something one should look up elsewhere.
Most primitive system I ever programmed on had a hexadecimal number pad and an LED display. You punched in an address, hit "addr", and it showed the current value at that address. There were also "next" and "prev" buttons.

You could then enter a new value on the hex pad and hit "enter".

Once you were satisfied, you'd point the reset vector to your program, and hit "reset" to start the chip going.
The article isn't wrong. I count 15 words that are CS specific jargon in the Hello World statement. Couple this with some big lecture and mediocre professor who explains poorly, it's pretty painful intro experience.
What you can do now to stop a political process that ended last November is: nothing. It's in the past.

What you can do now to impact political processes in the near future (no policy is immutable, after all) is to work in your community to build consensus around policies you believe in, so that those policies are reflected in future decisions.

I don't know when, but at some point we as a country of citizens got really bad at understanding this, it seems like!
Indeed. If you believe HIPAA has ensured everything is encrypted you've been suckered by the potemkin village that is EHR compliance pencil whipping. The work is farmed out to all sorts of fly-by-night shops that are expert at passing the audits and filling out the applications that make the grant money flow and get the necessary boxes ticked with the feds.