skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you will want to seek the advice of a lawyer before you start

However, let's not make a mountain out of a molehill. The lawyer may be good with the use of the sledgehammer of the laws but they will probably not be good with helping you navigate the "inter personal" ends specific to your situation.

Btw, I have worked contracts larger than 25K without a lawyer and using the client's "master contract". I always review carefully clauses that concern me the most: ownership of IP, payment schedule, breach of contract, termination of contract, damages.

For my own consulting business, we have had disagreement at times (IP, amount upward 100K) but all were sorted out just fine without lawyers involved.

And when I represented Fortune 10/100 company, I have resolved 6-7 digits issues without lawyers just fine. However, when you represent Fortune 10/100 companies, things tend to be easier :)

In your case, try to work "inter personally" to get your 25K or even see if those 25K can translate into "credit/equity" that may give you a "slice" of the liquidation, if any. Talk to a lawyer about this one.
You turn them into machines, manufactured overseas and sold to Walmart and McDonalds.
What do you mean by "the tax money receiving sector of the economy"?
1. Internal identity: Being told that a Jewish male must be circumcised, realizing you're not, and experiencing alienation. This can hit adolescents quite hard.

2. Marriage: Barring a specific medical reason to not be circumcised, many Jewish women would take issue with an uncircumcised husband.

3. Locker rooms.

But really #1 is the most immediately pressing.
The classic lowest common denominator manager: "I may not understand what you do, I may not be able to judge your performance, but I can damn well tell if your butt is in your seat by 8 am."
They could just MITM all connections and say 'for compatibility reasons, please install this root certificate'.

With a fee, this requirement could then be waived.

Dystopian but technically possible.
point to similar errors being made routinely by Nacl or libsodium implementations, and I'll give you a pass here
I find it disturbing that they applied, taking a slot from another speaker, then made another fuss about withdrawing. And this is after they already spoke out with an open letter last year.
Yes, in this case the condition applies:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
any examples of previous winners/submissions?
1. Depends on the number of trucks... typically 10 - 14 per station.

2. The oncoming crew waits until everyone for that shift is at the station, he/she notifies the Incident Commander who will arrange for pickup and change over. These are typically large defensive fires that just take a lot of water and time... not super taxing physically until it's over.

3. We call additional resources from surrounding stations. Our dispatch system is actually really good, coupled with super professional dispatchers.

4. We do have flexibility. I posted the ideal day... at busy stations you generally don't eat much and don't sleep at all. If you are running 20 calls a shift and each one takes 30 minutes minimum... well, your day is long.

5. Yeah, we try to improve all the time. However, change can introduce cataclysmic push back from "seasoned" fire/ems guys and gals. Ideas are constantly evaluated and judged. You need to have thick skin if you put forth a new idea... it is somewhat of a game to give each other a very hard time.
I was referring to 'privacy' in the sense of knowing who you are, who you're communicating with, and what traffic you're sending. An ISP must know some of those things before they can impose any of the Very Scary scenarios invoked in the article.
China free-rode off of that investment by adopting Western technology with no virtually no R&D, greatly benefiting.
Politicians both across Europe and USA are often making exactly the same point and drawing exactly the opposite conclusions from it,
but the details don't always paint the same picture.

In the USA they say we have capitalism and free markets and that is great, in Europe they have 'socialism' and that is bad.
Or the Democrats sometimes make the point that something is better in Europe because it's run by the state and therefore not subject to corporate greed etc.

In Europe they same the same thing but inverted. In the states they have ruthless capitalism, they're all greedy, working long hours,
shooting each other in the streets, homeless people everywhere. Europe is better because there's more regulation, more services ran by government monopolies, more fair, more "social".

But reality is never so black and white. The US is far from free-market competition in many markets and niches, although it's aggressively marketed as such all the time. And policies in Europe are often far from the "social" "we care for people not profits", and in fact empower small interest groups close to leading parties to profit in state monopolies and other types of dodgy weird stuff under the pretence that it's good and fair for the people.

When you look closely often Europe and America have similar problems, they're just marketed in a vastly different way.
Is there a way to distinguish permission to use the microphone in the foreground vs in the background? AFAIK on Android, no such distinction is made. Many apps have legitimate reasons for using the microphone while in the foreground, but very few in the background.

If there were a simple way to allow foreground use but deny background use of the microphone, a lot of offending apps would be neutered, but I'm not holding my breath for Google to change this, just like I'm not holding my breath for them to allow apps to be silently denied permission by being supplied with fake data (e.g. empty image for camera) so that they cannot refuse to run if denied permission.
Legally, is there a minimum requirement for what it takes for data to be considered "anonymized"? Just because the customers' billing info isn't included doesn't mean you can't figure out who is responsible for traffic.
What does google gain from ditching linux?
Good use of eye tracking could also allow for foveated rendering, drawing the out-of-focus areas with lower resolution and leaving more time to render the areas of interest.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14286716 and marked it off-topic.
I'm in a dev-ops/developer/architect role at SAP cloud infrastructure.

[09:00] Alarm goes off. I'm totally not a morning person, but because the alarm is so late, I usually convince myself to get up immediately.

[09:40] I leave my apartment and read a newspaper on the tram.

[10:00] Upon arriving at work, I fire up my PC, but let it sit while I visit colleagues and chat with them about our progress and impediments. Sort of like a standup, but much more personal because of the 1-on-1 setup.

[10:30] Catching up with mail and Slack. That's where most of the team is since we're scattered across at least five locations.

Then there is not much structure. I just do what's on my plate, or help others when they're stuck.

We don't have a daily standup, but we do have a weekly all-hands that's mostly used for syncing up with our manager. We report on the important tickets, and he reports about new requirements coming in from other teams.

We also have about a dozen weekly "work stream" meetings where those who deal with a certain topic meet to discuss technical issues regarding that topic. Since we do OpenStack, most of the workstreams are named after OS services, e.g. "Neutron" or "Swift", but there's also cross-topics like "Documentation". Everyone decides by themselves which work streams are relevant for them.

[16:00] is about when I leave. My day is rather short because my contract is for 70% part-time, but I might consider going for full-time again in the future.

[16:30] Upon arriving home, I immediately set a timer for 30 minutes and sit down for my daily meditation. (That's a new routine. I'm in the fifth week right now.)

Then it's dinner and free time.
Fun facts germany has voted a law to ban all internal combustion engine cars starting in 2030[1], EU is working on a plan to ban all fossil fuel based cars by 2050[2], France has progressively started its own ban initiative in 2016[3], German sales of diesel cars have dropped 19%[4].

These paint a different picture than "getting away with it".

[1]: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/237320-germany-votes-to-...

and http://www.popsci.com/germany-signals-intent-to-ban-internal...

[2]: http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/28/report-eu-working-to-ban-...

[3]: http://auto.ndtv.com/news/france-to-ban-diesel-cars-from-nex...

[4]: http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/news/92203288/German-diesel-...
Freedom from harm trumps freedom of religion.

This law is not incompatible with freedom of religion.
Not exactly a beach. There are a couple of nice parks on the water with facilities.
That's a theological critique, mine was sociological one from an outside observer. Still, the theological arguments don't work under a secular government which takes pride in separating the state from religion.
You can buy a plate of steel that can be used as a "baking stone" which will hold in and transfer heat to the pizza exceptionally well.

If you go down to your local metal supply store you can have them cut one of these plates for you that is thicker (thicker is better) and cheaper than you can buy at any cooking store.
Deflating the cost of access to rights of way would be a huge start.
If a religion required nose piercing at 8 days that would be a mutilation, with some risks of additional harm, and no medical benefit (at the time it's done), and so it would be banned.
Xtraceroute is ancient (1998)
InvoicePrinter 1.0.0.rc1: super simple PDF invoicing in Ruby
This is a great collection!
There are a lot of replies adding other examples. I am gonna add Controller Mate, which I use daily.
The reason these images are frowned upon/banned have nothing to do with people having bad moderation skills... It generally is a slippery slope argument to child porn.

I think most people understand why photos of children are criminal. But is a nude drawing of Bart Simpson the same level of crime? Depending on your country (and in the US, your state) the answer may surprise you.
As a full-time remote person (at IBM, ironically), I personally hate using the phone - however, video/voice call via Slack or similar is totally fine. As far as I'm concerned, a decent headset is the #2 requirement after a good internet connection when it comes to working remotely effectively.
> I also don't know how an ISP would get your actual internet history if the website uses HTTPS.

Until the world switches to DNSCrypt, DNS-over-HTTPS, or DNS-over-TLS and while most Internet users are using ISP provided DNS resolvers, recent research shows it is possible to narrow down what pages the user browsed based on their DNS queries.

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/21/dns_records_more_re...
Then let's assume it's just highly inelastic. If raising the minimum wage causes a small decrease in employment, but the raise is high enough that there is still an increase in the total wages for all workers in the economy, that puts more money in the hands of consumers, which potentially results in companies needing to hire more workers to meet the demand resulting in a overall increase in employment.
We've been using klauspost's Golang reedsolomon package in our distributed storage package. It runs approximately as fast (~1GB) because the hot paths are written in asm: https://github.com/klauspost/reedsolomon

Erasure codes are pretty magical.
That is probably the best argument against it, but I still think it is a weak argument.

Countries with populations that live longer tend to have fewer children and care for them better. Look at Europe and even he United States, the average amount of children per pair of parents is 1.5 to 2.5 depending on where you look. If you pick poorer places that have way more kids.

I think its clear the mechanism at work here is wealth and not age directly. Richer countries make richer people and richer people live longer. Then something happens and they have fewer kids.

For many social and health issues it seems possible to go the either way. Some place increase wealth to get health, others increase health and get wealth. If someone poor today could be made to live until they chose to die, would the knowledge they accumulate in their unnaturally long life lead to increased wealth in their community? I think it would and I think it would lead to the same long term reduction having too many kids.
Ask HN: Should large networks/companies be democratic?
As companies and/or networks become as large as countries should they allow users to vote?
In my window manager I make heavy use of "focus-follows-mouse" behavior, but what I really want most of the time is "focus-follows-eye". Especially in multi-monitor situations, I could see this being really invisibly helpful.
I have yet to see any proof of this whole 'sell your internet history' complaint

What the bill stripping Broadband Privacy rules does is make it nearly impossible for the law to set a precedent for what should be considered illegal to sell when it comes to users' data. What may have happened if broadband privacy rules were enacted as intended here[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/28/technology/fcc-tightens-p...]

... someday somebody who didn't "opt out" would have discovered their [medical, financial, insert whatever] data had been sold to their detriment. Lawsuit. Legal scrutiny. Precedent == Baseline for what is acceptable and what is not for people who don't opt out.

Now, with no consumer privacy rights by default on broadband, and no neutral delivery system (net neutrality), and with provisions the GOP inserted into the Broadband Privacy rollback explicitly to make it harder to sue entities who sell your data, the default situation is already stacked badly against the average person.
hitler thought the jews were terrible.
just hook up traceroute plus ipinfo.io with MapSCII
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14254165
I decided about two years ago try to make a lot of pizza and see how good I could get. I live in a small apartment with a gas oven. When I started, I would make them on a regular baking pan with the oven set to 400°. They were terrible, but it was fun. At some point, my wife jammed a rectangular grilling stone (from Amazon) into our broiler. That made more of a difference than anything. If your broiler is in the main compartment of your oven, then it's a lot easier: get a stone and put it on the highest rack.

The next big leap forward was reading Jeff Varasano and learning the basics of hydration. Turns out I was in the 45-50% range. I just needed to get that into the 62% or 65% range or whatever he says. It's counterintuitive because it's so hard to knead at that hydration, but it cooks beautifully.

I've started doing a long, cold rise like he recommends. I don't know how much difference it makes. I can't really taste a difference. But I do appreciate the goal of avoiding big bubbles.

I'd love to play with different yeasts next, but I keep killing my starters. Jeff has some good thoughts on starters. I like his recommendation to buy a known starter rather than relying on whatever is in your environment. I like the focus on predictability and reproducibility. But I think most people do wild yeast with good results. I think the Tartine book is also a good resource for the starter (and for a lot of things).
Water is a terrible analogy. There is no marginal cost per bit for consumer internet access. The only scarce resource is peak utilization.

The only reality-based and fair network management that residential ISPs can employ is rate-limiting during peak time. The stereotypical customer who only uses their connection to stream Netflix/YouTube during prime time is actually more costly than a heavy P2P user who transfers TBs of data in the off-hours overnight and in the early morning.
What you neglect to mention is that Europe and the US had high import taxes to protect their industries from eachother.

Somehow the US still managed to become a superpower. China will be fine if it can transition to a better system of government. Globalization doesn't seem necessary for a country with a huge domestic market.

Demanding better working conditions for Foxconn employees is called having a conscience not hypocrisy.
Sounds good, but isn't this a fork of Wikipedia?
Sounds great, but you might be overselling it considering adults who have undergone circumcision for non-health reasons largely don't report loss of sexual pleasure (some do, some report greater pleasure). And there's also the fact if you're circ'd as a baby the brain has decades to adapt, and that's where the pleasure actually is in the first place.
The Difference Between Waffles and Pancakes
> Why should every country have the same solution to healthcare?

Single-payer systems have a variety of implementations - Australia has a vibrant private insurance industry alongside their public system, whereas Canada forbids it.

It's quite clear that the US healthcare variant simply isn't working and isn't sustainable. I pay more for my family's health insurance ($2,000/month) than I pay for my mortgage, and it goes up 10-20% every year (both pre-ACA and post-ACA).

We're well past the point of saying "well, that experiment didn't work, what's everyone else doing that works?"
I'm a remote software engineer on a different timezone than my co-workers. So mine is a bit different.

[~08:30] Wake up
[08:50] Make coffee and make some breakfast
[09:00] Most days of the week do Spanish lesson. (I am living in a country in Latin America)
[10:30] Take a shower and get ready for work.
[11:00] check email, browse the internet, plan my day, etc.
[11:30] join the morning standup and then chat with co-workers
[14:00] break for lunch and hang out for an hour
[15:00] work for the rest of the day
[21:00] work on side project for a few hours
Yeah, you have to feel bad for those countries where the average person can't afford to keep the lights on on. Not pretty at all.
a lot of time companies use user surveys to guide what to do anyway.
Didn't you mean "unblockable" instead?
> If you could only access the internet through Facebook, you would have a point.

Effectively, many people do. They open their web browsers, and search for "facebook", and click the first link. Don't even get me started about Google!

My point is that regulating the network and regulating the endpoints are one and the same. It's bad enough when the endpoints do it under the guise of "fake news", it's worse when the government gets involved under the guise of "free speech".

The current political party will not significantly affect the organizations behavior, either. Get back to me when the FCC ceases investigating Obscenity, Indecency & Profanity, or regulating the RF space.
Right, that's a bit hypocritical.

It's tricky at first, but it's not so hard to avoid that taboo glyph with a bit of practicing.
More like "Don't use SQL, if a thing adjacent to SQL exists that is better suited to a particular use case, doesn't have a history of poor implementations, and is harder for implementers and end users to screw up."

In this case:

- crypto_auth, or HMAC-SHA256 by itself, for authentication

- crypto_secretbox for symmetric encryption

- crypto_box or TLS for public key encryption
WolframAlpha?
> And yet, when you change the name of the company, the argument somehow doesn't apply.

This is a ridiculous argument -- you're not "changing the name of the company" you're changing the entire business that they're in. You're just arguing that Apples and Oranges are the same except they have different names.

> I'd make the argument that Facebook has just a powerful monopoly on social networking as ISPs have on service.

That might well be a problem, but that's a different problem involving different companies, different services, and different issues. Conflating them doesn't add anything to this discussion.
> the black and white artistic FB clone by hipster cycle manufacturer

Ello?
I work remotely as DBA, the company doesn't even have an office in my State, i've met my boss face-to-face one time last year when they flew me out for a meeting. We have folks in a few Asian countries, as well as all over Europe and the US, and it works great. I can have a call at 5am with the guys in London and Asia some days, and adjust my schedule as needed.

It just works, but then again, I'm not creative, nor coding, or really collaboratively building anything that needs to brainstorm or deeply integrate with others, I'm architecting and operating.
I agree with this assessment. We decided to do "kubernetes the 'sorta' hard way" by leveraging the Saltbase installer with some level of customization and full control via terraform of how our infrastructure was being allocated. I think its valuable to learn what the tool is doing if you have to maintain it. When something breaks, an upgrade has issues, or you need to better understand the system to make a decision, I feel that you gain a lot in setting up a system yourself. I think you'll be more likely to know precisely where to look to debug things. You also get closer to the tool which makes it easier to contribute back into the community. You also get the benefit of making your own infrastructure decisions. Yes k8s can provision ELBs and EBS volumes (and their equivalents in Google Cloud, Azure, etc) as well as autoscale nodes via a cluster addon, but the big moving pieces, such as instances, VPCs, Networking, etc, remain well-defined in Terraform or some other infra-as-code. That means that you can decide how to deploy that etcd cluster, how it gets backed up, whether or not its encrypted at rest, etc. Generally speaking, we just value the level of control and insight that we get out of controlling the stack definition ourselves. To some extent that may be antithetical to the purpose of k8s, since the goal of the project overall seems to be simplification and centralization of best practices of deployment.

With all that being said, kops is an incredible tool (as are others) and we used it to learn about the system and test some of the functionality for ourselves. Can't recommend it enough.
Those are good points. I respect that some people have religious beliefs and affiliations.

Rights generally begin as a very individual thing... the right to vote, the right to free speech, etc. So the right not to have one's body mutilated without consent is pretty individual the way I look at it. It's hard (for me) to separate granting the right to mutilate a body that is not yours from the notion of the person being mutilated somehow being "chattle" of the person doing the mutilation.

But I'm not arguing that the same set of laws should apply to all groups and all cultures, but for an area where rights and protections are very minimal (such as infants) there is a lot of room for improvement.

My guess is that if circumcision were banned religious communities would not be harmed because the symbolism of circumcision would adapt to be more figurative in the same way that many other traditions are now done in a "lite" way that lacks strict historical accuracy but still holds great ceremonial significance.

But don't take my remarks as disrespectful of religion or of Judaism. I think that trying to figure out how to accomplish (broadly speaking) moral progress is very difficult, and I'd much rather improve the rights of prisoners than see circumcision ended, even though in principle I hold the view that circumcision should only occur when the person whose penis is being circumcised can consent. In the US there are much lower hanging fruit for humanitarian improvement. Not sure about Norway.
A Python Library for the IBM Quantum Experience API