skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those interested in early explorations of computers, rights, and privacy, there was another large survey article published in a magazine ... sometime in the early 1970s which for the life of me I cannot find now.

It detailed government and business computer use, and was early, closeer to 1970 than 1980 as I recall. Several pages, fairly prescient and well written.

If anyon can reecognize the piece from an admittedly vague description, I'd appreciate a link. I've seen it online, if that helps.
You can find a new job if your noncompete is terminated. The problem is that you might have a 12 month non-compete so you might book a 3 month vacation at the beginning because nobody will hire you 12 months in advance.

You're just left in the lurch if your former employer then terminates the noncompete within a month and stops paying you. The alternative of just sitting home for those 12 months doesn't sound great either.
SpaceX settles with underpaid employees for $4M
Some of my colleagues in Pivotal Labs swear by Spring Cloud Contract[0], but I haven't used it in anger myself. It seems to be what you want -- an independent statement of protocol that's shared between server and client codebases, with code-generation to help each.

[0] https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-contract
Probably should work for neither of them then. Like a workers' strike except on free market level.
"The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading." Can't see it -- blocked in mainland China.
Agreed with the silly use of the name 'poaching'. But how exactly is the state preventing two people voluntarily entering into a contract a good thing?

Its pointless anyway, a first year law student will just rewrite as non-circumvent + no-solicit + NDA agreements.
No because some calls you want to route to /dev/null and there doesn't seem to be any caller ID in Alexa
According to thablackbull's link, gauge changes take place in Khorgos between China and Kazakhstan and at the Belarus-Poland border. Much of the journey is through the former Soviet Union.
The Body Is Not a Computer – Stop Thinking of It as One
"Please turn JavaScript on and reload the page."

Uh, no. Here's an archived copy:

https://archive.fo/BhLZn
It's easy to just dismiss saying "that's not happening with blockchain", a baby can say that too.

But I have no idea what he's talking about when he says "And with­out ex­cep­tion, I ob­served that they were ini­tial­ly load­ed in the back door by geek­s, with­out ask­ing per­mis­sion, be­cause they got shit done and helped peo­ple with their job­s."

Is he saying Bitcoin is not being developed by geeks?

Is he saying Bitcoin is not "helping people get shit done and helping people with their jobs"?

There are valid criticisms, and there are really baseless rants like this. Just because you're "old" doesn't mean you know the future from your past experience. Tons of talented old people (and younger people too) with tons of experience never realized the potential of the Internet when it first came out.

Oh, and when Internet first came out, it never was meant to "get shit done and help people with their jobs", for a long time. It was a fringe culture. If he's as experienced as he claims to be, he should know better.
I think the comment might be inclusive of noncompetes in territories other than California, which are more often than not encorceable.
That is pretty nifty.
Fwiw, my understanding is that in right to work states a noncompete CANNOT prevent you from earning a living in your field. The clauses have to be defined as very specific, time limited and reasonable otherwise they don't hold up under legal scrutiny.

Stuff like, not being able to take current customers to a competing business within a mile for a period of 1 year is considered reasonable.
Emulating the Rust borrow checker with C++ move-only types
Men's Rights Leader Elam Turned Being a Deadbeat Dad into a Moneymaking Movement
XP and 2003 have been end-of-life for years. They both were released 14+ years ago. So you can just change what I said to:

"because a lot of them have ineffective IT departments/mangement and never applied the MS17-010 patch or are running ancient operating systems."

edit: And in fact, Microsoft did release a special XP hotfix for this vulnerability yesterday: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/05/12/customer...
> I don't know if anything similar exists in actual hardware.

Closest thing in actual hardware is a systolic array architecture. Green Array, Parallela and Google's new machine learning processors are examples.
> The main improvement we have made with the Neo architecture is we have hard (exact cycle count) guarantees on all memory movements on and off the chip ...

This is a fascinating idea, but I have a question.

What happens when the next process generation lets you improve cache timings? What about newer, faster DRAM (or whatever) timings?

Do I have to recompile the world in that case, to see any improvement in performance?
Is this a recruiting tool for Square? It looks great, by the way.
Uber Eats is less known in Stockholm and a later entrant.
aren't there accounts for such people, too? In germany/europe you can be homeless and has negative entires in "schufa" and you would still get a bank account (since 2016).

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=h...
>There is apparently no way to do that with the Alexa app.

But certainly it's not impossible for this to be fixed.
I had a previous employer trying to stop me from working directly for a client. Only, I had brought in the client, I was the only one working for that client and that client didn't want anything to do with the rest of my employer.

I felt morally OK with the situation...

Only, my contract did have a noncompete. But then, this is Sweden, and noncompete clauses are almost not enforceable by Swedish law. An employer can't stop an employee to take another position. To be a valid clause, an employer must offer the same payment the new position would have had whilst riding out the non-work period, and no one does that.

A strongly worded letter from my lawyer sorted it. Never heard from them again.
Well, it didn't really stop it. It slowed it for a little bit, and then it was modified and spread again.

I also wonder if now ransomware developers will leave red-herrings in the code where if the wrong domain is registered, it will do something more destructive.

It's like knowing which wire to cut when you're defusing a bomb!
The Dubious Friends of Donald Trump [Dutch documentary]
because the price needs to move faster than that. If your exchange provides price updates every minute, all your traders are going to flee your exchange for a market place that's more liquid.
First hand reports from a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=sniperinmahwah.wordpr...
Seems to be working pretty well for China so far.
Re-Writing BSD shell commands like it's 1994: cat
The US and Russia have been talking on-again off-again since the 1990's about a sea tunnel from Alaska to Siberia.
I'm 28 which is not that old admittedly, although perhaps older than the median startup employee. By the time I was fourteen I stopped answering my home phone because it was just telemarketers and I was fortunate enough to be an early cell phone user ( and mostly communicated with my friends via AIM).

I am not turning towards anyone. I want to choose who can contact me and when, because I like being able to sleep and do things without interruption. The fact that phone numbers can be hidden or falsified when initiating contact with me makes phone calls rather broken and is the main reason I haven't investigated an AdBlockPlus style phone filtering app to preemptively block telemarketers.

It is not selfish to want to live peacefully, it is selfish to demand the right to interrupt me.
This seems a bit irrational. If there was universal health care than Big companies could just pay their employees more in lieu of health care.

The advantage of being at a small company is you have greater growth opportunity. The advantage of being at a big company is greater steady state benefits and salaries.

It's been shown that statistically, it makes more sense to work at a big company from the perspective of expected value. But not a very exciting way to live :)
Tracker is very opinionated and is deliberately trying to not be the be-all and end-all for software projects. It's really closely tuned to how Pivotal works: XP with Lean trimmings in small teams with a product manager, designer and engineers.

The downside is that because it is deliberately limited, now and then you will find that you sorely miss something. Often those missing features are recreated with conventions around tagging or release markers. But tagging conventions are not the same as a first-class feature, for good or ill.

JIRA is massively more featuresome and flexible. These days it's grown into a workflow middleware which comes with a bug tracker as the first application installed. For some organisations that will make more sense.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, but not on Tracker.
> Healthcare is a racket limiting not just healthcare but freedom

The fact that Healthcare is tied to employment is downright shocking to virtually all developed countries.
I would say it's the other way around.

Negotiating international trade agreements with the purpose of limiting the flow of information by means of "IP" is the very definition of protectionism.
Why are climate scientists giving Scott Pruitt a hard time?

Saying what people want to hear does not make you a good researcher. They don't take him seriously for the same reason we don't take young-earth creationist researchers seriously. It's not good research.

Edit: I'm not an economist, and I'm not going to do justice to the criticisms (which aren't hard to find), but fine, here are links:

http://www.robertdkirkby.com/blog/2015/criticisms-of-piketty...

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-03-27/piketty-s...
I see a couple of other responses here, but let me address why fluoride belongs in _drinking water_

Fluoride belongs in drinking water in much the same way iodine belongs in salt---it's an extremely cheap, low-risk, and effective way to improve public health. Read some of the references for more details https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation#Effectivene... but the short version is that fluoride is safe and effective and because it's so widespread in use, even if you only drink bottled water you're probably getting secondary exposure from other food/drink sources. And if you brush your teeth regularly with a fluoride toothpaste, then you've got that delivery mechanism covering you as well. In the end, the public health benefits are there because fluoridation is pervasive and hard to avoid. By similar argument, you probably also don't have an iodine deficiency because of all the iodized salt in use.

This is interesting because people relying on anecdotal evidence is pretty much the same failure mode for why so many people don't recognize the importance of vaccination. Because it's so pervasive in the US (and other places) it's easy to find stories of "I wasn't vaccinated and I didn't get sick" or similar "I didn't X and Y didn't happen" but it's not just the primary exposure, but all the secondary exposure and effects that also play an important role in public health efforts.
The prescience:wordcount ratio in that article is incredible.
If I may ask the OP: how did it come to your attention?
I'm struck by China's ability to attempt large, ambitious projects like this, compared to America's inability to do, well, anything really.

The largest infrastructure project I'm aware of in the USA is California's High Speed Rail (~$60B+), was approved a decade ago and is barely making any progress. The federal government is in complete gridlock. The most ambitious legislation passed in the last decade, the ACA, caused endless partisan warfare. Meanwhile, obvious policy wins like allowing more immigration [1] are not even discussed.

I've been following US politics for the last 2-3 presidents (going back to George W Bush), and it makes me very pessimistic. I don't see how a country can expected to be exceptional, or even above average, with politics that are so dysfunctional.

Perhaps, though, I'd have a different view if I could see things from inside, within China?

[1] http://paulgraham.com/95.html
I read Piketty's book, and some of the critical response. In my semi-educated opinion (I only have a Bachelor's in Economics), the criticisms failed to poke a hole in his main argument: that capitalism as a system is unegalitarian because it allows wealth to grow faster than economic output, resulting in increasing amounts of income inequality over time.

>>But perhaps the greatest rebuke of Piketty to be found among academic economics is not contained in any of these overt or veiled attacks on his scholarship and interpretation, but rather in the deafening silence that greets it, as well as inequality in general, in broad swathes of the field—even to this day.

The reason for this deafening silence is simple: the truth revealed by Piketty is inconvenient, and there are no easy solutions.
Maybe that's true, but your comment isn't adding much to the discussion without explicitly saying why it isn't good research.
Yes, and even if they find all narwhals do it, this might be just one of many uses.
Somewhat off-topic:

For you parents out there...what has been your experience with/advice for teaching your kids a programming language? It's definitely something I want my kids to get comfortable/familiar with early but I get concerned about over-exposing them to too much "screen time" at a young age and the deleterious effects that might have (even ones we don't know about yet).

Don't have kids right now, or any on the way, but that's something on the horizon for me so I've been thinking about it.
Apparently it's about the weight/space ratio which makes is not economical to fly cargo with A380:

"An A380-F would be too fat to fly at a profit: The plane would hit the maximum payload (a constraint of weight) before its maximum cubic space (a constraint of volume). Its design can’t support the maximum payload required to generate a profit.

(...)

The A380-F would be able to carry 60% more volume than the 747, but only 28% more weight. It wouldn’t be fully loaded at typical levels of air cargo density, or at least nothing close to what can be supported by the thrust capacity of the 747."

https://www.flexport.com/blog/airbus-a380-no-cargo-equivalen...
IMO the design of the memory system has a strong influence (or should have a strong influence) on the architecture of a system when performance is a big concern. What the "average" is, is under the control of the program itself; a program written for a generational GC should be written differently to one with a refcount-based GC, and both should be different to one for a simple mark and sweep GC.

Similarly, designing a program with manual allocation for speed means using some kind of zone or arena allocation, probably mixed with some stack-oriented allocation that mirrors the control stack (not necessarily consuming CPU stack space). The design of the memory system needs to be integrated with the architecture of the program and the lifecycle of the values it needs to track.

I don't think there's any simple winner. Different problem spaces require different treatments of memory. For example, stateless servers have little need for long-lived memory; they're well suited to generational GCs, but also to arenas (though GC is easier to keep correct, and usually more fluent in practice, without rewriting too much of the standard library). Mix in in-process caching, and things start getting murkier. Put caching in a different process, keeping it simple, at the cost of some IPC; tradeoffs, etc.
I got RIF'd and they included the paperwork signed at offer time for the non-compete. I didn't sign it thinking they would try to force the non-compete after the employment was terminated by them.
The problem comes from the market disparity: most employees need the job and have limited bargaining power or legal representation while the company has a whole legal team representing their interests. Similarly, the company has a lot more data points on terms and compensation than the prospective worker.

As a simple example, the Jimmy John's sandwich chain had a no-compete for their employees. Do you think the average person making subs is as comfortable walking away from a job as the company is telling them the terms aren't negotiable?

My favorite fix would simply to be requiring full compensation for the entire term. Intel would pay an architect to sit on the beach rather than work for AMD but nobody would think of trying that for the average developer.
In summary: "I don't think the Blockchain will be a winner because there's too much hype, it's not being developed by geeks, and it's not helping people do their existing jobs."

1. There is a lot of hype, sure, but there was around that whole Internet thing too.

2. The idea that geeks aren't working on it is patently absurd, and

3. I'm not sure how OP missed the jobs-to-be-done of financial transactions, proof of identity, proof of ownership, etc. Those are all pretty important jobs in trillion dollar industries.
The left’s misguided obsession with ‘cultural appropriation'
The explanation on that Wikipedia article sounds convincing for me. Brazil has a lot of spiritualism cults and movements that few foreigners hear about and which can seem pretty weird.
But does that make it "net" less egalitarian than other economic systems (in practice), after accounting for all of the other advantages of capitalism?

Kind of like Churchill's quote about how democracy is the worst form of government, except for all of the others that have been tried.
'The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".' —Richard Stallman

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
Because highspeed trading exists solely to extract value from the market communication inefficiencies. That value is sucked up by whales and park in places that do little to serve the market, like empty real estate.
Google gatekeeps information by ranking algorithms, and information payments by advertising.

In bothe these areas, and others, they benefit by network effects, which I'm coming to see as foundational to natural monopoly and rent-seeking.

I simply don't understand what you're trying to say by mentioning the printing press in this context, though you might want to look up its particular disruptive history. Elizabeth Eisenstein is recommended reading.
Wonder how much longer it would have taken to understand the impact if he had just modified the hosts file instead of registering the domain?
> Just because they had the vaccines ready in warehouses or could manufacture more easily doesn't mean that their customers "deserved" them for free before the epidemic hit.

Disagree.
Sorry, but comparing Piketty to Pruitt is laughable. One is a distinguished professor of economics. The other is a businessman and lawyer who apparently knows nothing about science.
> As an example, modern Germany had a long tradition of welfare state combined with no minimum wage

Welfare state as in? Having social benefits and minimum wage is not mutually exclusive.

Furthermore according to Wikipedia [1] the minimum wage in Germany is 8.84 EUR. You might say, "that's Wikipedia, that's no reliable source!" No sweat, go click the link first. For this specific information (minimum wage in Germany) they provide links to an English AND German source.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_count...
the headline more than anything -- pilfered secret spy software stolen by (probably) a rival intelligence agency, released to the public without scrutiny, repurposed by cybercriminals, used to ransom data indiscriminately for decentralized software currency, bringing major institutions to their knees, and defeated by a guy in his bedroom at his parents' house who accidentally found a secret kill switch. it all feels very cyberpunk, and very much like a fictional plot, unfortunate circumstances aside
Maybe one of these?

Computers, Personnel Information, and Citizens Rights: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GOVPUB-C13-4a2389174326d372218...

Privacy and Security Issues in Information Systems: https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2008/P5684...

Computer Matching Programs, a threat to privacy? http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/c...
I've been sued twice over non compete language. The good news is they are reasonably hard to enforce because most judges will ultimately agree that people have a right to change employers. The bad news is it can cost a lot of money to get to the point where the judge says that.
I understood his point to be that the history of successful innovative techs is that they were built in from the ground up by people utilising something because it was better at a job. E.g. linux for servers, the internet (and it's ongoing growth as an app platform), and so on. Blockchains, on the other hand, have become yet another marketer buzzword like Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Local, Social, and so on. Not to say that these things don't solve problems, but they're picked up as an over-hyped buzzword and forced into many many applications that they just don't belong in. Blockchains are helpful in peer-to-peer consensus, that's basically it. They won't work for real-world contracts (no-one is ever going to turn their house or car deed into a cryptographic token, or honour such a token) or a few other cheesy applications they seem to be getting forced into. It's just marketers who don't understand technology selling words they don't understand to other marketers who don't understand technology.
Most of the USA, including Massachusetts (but not California).
Risk has a price. I am taking this kind of risk for several projects. I understand that the customer doesn't like to take the risk, even when they have the budget.

Even so, there are formal ways to show you are solving a problem with certain probability. These kind of projects require extensive testing.
Copenhagen here. I will be there
The whole fear mongering really turned me off to the article. ("This could be used against domestic violence victims" etc)
If you're not aware, one of the authors of Information Rules (great book, BTW, I second the recommendation), Hal Varian, now works for Google as their Chief Economist.
While I agree with this point:

> Good developers understand that they can't do everything, and they know how to leverage tools as prosthetics for their brains.

it can also become a distracting fetish.
Thank you for saying so! It's good to not feel left out. There are plenty of mathematicians and applied mathematicians here, too. We just do not comment on the JS/Rust discussions :)
To be fair, Americans work. Work work work work[1]. Americans love work and elect politicians who love work.

Europeans hate work. Hate hate hate hate[2]. They hate work and elect politicians who also hate work.

That major (cultural? economic? social? political?) difference between American and European attitudes towards work might explain these statistics:

American vs EU unemployment rate: 4.7% vs 8.2%
American vs EU youth unemployment rate: 9.4% vs 17.3%
American vs EU GDP per capita: $56k vs $35k

And so on.

Point being, things are only the way they are because we want them to be that way--and elect politicians who do as well.

That said, I agree with the core premise: corporate-sponsored healthcare is a lousy drag on the economy...

[1] http://www.projecttimeoff.com/news/press-releases/americans-...
[2] https://www.etui.org/Topics/Trade-union-renewal-and-mobilisa...