skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was proposing a short fictional piece based on this premise -- not sure if you meant to respond to that specifically. In any case, it's speculative fiction: we put the story in a not-too-distant dystopian future where the laws and norms have changed just enough to make this plausible. I think it's more fun too if the protagonist actually doesn't have anything to hide, and is not suspected of any criminal activity before, during, or after his attempted border crossing.
With this point you are entering some sharp edged territory.

Let's say you have a team that is majority women, and you have 2 candidates for promotion: a man and a woman. The EEO law says sex should not be a criteria for promotion.

However if you promote the women based on sex (e.g: following your idea that women work better with women mentors) this could be considered an EEO violation (sex discrimination).

So if you want to abide by the law, you need a promotion criteria that's better than "women work better with women".
They write the same shit every year, every generation.

People said the same thing about newspapers. The same thing about radio. The same thing about rock 'n roll. The same thing about rap/hip-hop. The same thing about TV ( IDIOT BOX ). They said the same thing about myspace 10 years ago. They said the same thing about porn.

I'm sure in 10 years, they'll say the same thing about VR because people need to sell ads and justify their paychecks.
> For non-insulin-using diabetics (aka. most type 2s) medical plans typically cover less than one test per day

My T2 father's plan covers 4 a day. He has a pretty lousy insurance plan, too. He hates having to prick his finger four times a day, so he often skips. He also hates all things Apple, but he still asked me what I knew about it.

If the next iPhone allows him to stop pricking his fingers four times a day, he'll buy one the day its released. I doubt he'd be the only one.
Super-Intelligent Humans Are Coming (2014)
Any recommendations for a "burner android" phone?
> Most people think that nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki was what made Japan surrender unconditionally, not the loss of Manchuria.

Most people have never even heard of the battle of Manchuria. Japan were already putting out feelers for a peace before either, they new they couldn't win by then. They'd already had cities destroyed by conventional weapons, the nukes weren't that big a deal.

> I'm sorry, that is simply not correct. The Lend-Lease pipeline was in full operation by early 1942, well before the tide turned at the Battle of Stalingrad in early 1943. In fact, the Germans moved on Stalingrad specifically to disrupt the Persian Corridor portion of the Lend Lease operation.

First of all, much of the early contribution was british and Canadian rather than American (http://www.historynet.com/did-russia-really-go-it-alone-how-...).

Lend lease was under way but no where near the total contributions (https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/BigL/BigL-5.html), chart 6 has a yearly breakdown. The biggest effect was that it allowed the USSR to counter attack after Stalingrad because they didn't have to throw everything into defending the city.
Kudos to the court clerks who are making the public data available. So refreshing.

On the other hand, in Massachusetts, progressive in so many ways, the clerks treat court databases as proprietary and unavailable to be copied. And the data on the criminal side, practically under lock and key. It's a big impediment even to getting started examining the nuts and bolts of the justice system as this project has done.
After being an early supporter I did a complete 180 on them. If all the various allegations against them (basically: lying to everyone about everything) are true then I think the firm should be shut down and its assets sold off. A person who did what Uber is accused of doing would go to prison for a Long Time. Uber has become the Bernie Madoff of SV imho.
“Often, science is messy and things don’t turn out neatly,” Dasgupta says. But in this study, “it was very gratifying how clean the results were.”

This is an unfortunate choice of words in the age of p-hacking and publication bias.
People who needs lots of RAM usually willing to pay extra for i7 and other expensive parts, and hardware manufacturers know and exploit that.

Fortunately, there’re some ultrabooks on the market with user-upgradeable RAM. This article says Intel CPUs supports 16GB DDR3L modules since Broadwell, i.e. you should be able to install 32GB yourself:
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/16-gb-so-dimm-ram-module...
It depends on what you mean by the term, as there are different senses of "taxi service". In many cases, the law has long differentiated (for non-flaky reasons) between taxi services and limo services[1]. A taxi service is allowed to pick up street hails (i.e. arranged on the spot, by line-of-sight), while a limo service had to be booked and paid for through a third party.

In a way, that makes regulatory sense -- there are many issues that arise with taxis (in this sense) that don't with limos -- unnamed randos getting into a stranger's car, large amounts of cash floating around, clogging up pickup points, fighting for fares, dubious upcharges. In that sense, Uber has functioned more as a limo service than a taxi service (except for this historic association between limo services and expensive cars).

OTOH, I agree that it's ridiculous for them to claim it's "not a taxi service" in the sense of "just a technology company, bro!". It's certainly a ride service of some kind, for which safety/insurance regs are applicable and reasonable (or at least, not outrageous).

(Ditto for the claim of "we just match people up!" -- they obviously are functioning more as a service provider with tight control of the product than some kind of marketplace or matchmaker.)

[1] Despite it's name, that doesn't necessarily mean "stretch limo"; it could be a sedan.
Your second paragraph contradicts the first.
Previously at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9040266.
Microsoft also has an amazing list of discontinued products, services and hardware. Be sure to factor that into account when making your purchasing decision - especially when you're paying $9000 just for the entry level Surface Hub.

And you can now add Wunderlist to that long list.
And a step further: a 100k project had commissions, meetings, expenses all associated with a 100k project. If people are cheating enough to waste 100k on useless crap expect them to cheat some of that for themselves. That means hotel rooms, airline tickets, meals, etc and all, and any commission the sales guy shares with you for making it happen. And it does happen...
Also anecdotally, from Silicon Valley - Vallco in Cupertino and Target/Macy's in Sunnyvale are dying, Stanford Shopping Center is kinda humming along ... but Santana Row in San Jose and San Antonio Center in Mountain View are thriving. Both of the latter are in (historically) poorer areas than the former, so you would expect them to do significantly worse.

I suspect that it's a combination of outdated brands and car-centricness that does malls in. People don't want to drive to go shopping anymore, when they can just get stuff online and have someone else drive it to them. But malls that are built new mixed-use developments, or ones that go up near walkable downtowns, tend to do fairly well. The local residents provide a critical mass of foot traffic, which makes the area seem like a "scene" where it's cool to hang out, which draws out car traffic from the surrounding area.
> It looks like developers in Ukraine, Turkey and Indonesia are getting stuck in Vim quite a bit: it makes up a larger portion of their Vim questions than in any other country. In contrast, in China, Korea and Japan the fraction going to this question is one-tenth as much. That might indicate that when developers in these countries enter Vim, they usually meant to do so, and they know how to get out of it.

I'd say no. I work in Japan and here everybody uses a Japanese equivalent of StackOverflow. This conclusion is so wrong.
I'm surprised you're able to go 6-12 months without spilling something on your jeans.
Don't worry, they're probably not. Denisovan admixture is minimal, and the more substantial admixture with Neanderthal genes appear to be evolutionarily selected against, and the genetic correlations people have computed so far have generally been bad ones. I haven't seen a specific education-IQ/Neanderthal correlation reported yet, but no one has reported noting the education-IQ PGSes as being oddly enriched in Neanderthal variants, and the Neanderthal genetic correlation papers haven't said anything about education-IQ despite the PGSes being publicly available & on LD Hub etc, so arguing from silence, I think there's probably either no correlation or it's negative.

There's an interesting debate about why this is the case: were Neanderthals sufficiently distant from humans that their genetic variants tend to be incompatible, or was it because the smaller Neanderthal population made it harder to purge bad mutations so more of their variants were simply bad in general, or something else entirely?
It's because such comments break the HN guidelines by treading into classic flamewar territory with nothing genuinely new to say. This ruins threads and degrades the site. A few people get all excited (perhaps 0.1% because they've never seen this before and 99.9% who just love repeating it) while the rest of us keel over from tedium. Since HN's mandate is to gratify intellectual curiosity, that violates it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Small groups who can identify and contact each other can strike without a union. Uber drivers can't because Uber is the only party who can identify all of them.

Furthermore, scabs might sign up without even knowing they're scabs, or drivers might refuse to strike.

There would have to be some legal/organizational mechanism to force all current drivers to strike.
@mods: Please fix the link, which is to the comments and not to the article (and the comments are currently abominable).
> Medium still isn't winning any security points here.

Sure they are. Removing a credential—in this case, passwords—is strictly more secure. It's the same rationale as to why 2FA with just a TOTP app is more secure than TOTP app + SMS backup. And the emailed links are analogous to password reset links so there's no erosion of security there, provided they're properly secured (one time use, time bounded, etc.).

Also, realistically, if they used passwords, many of their users would probably re-use the same email,password pair at other sites. If any of those other sites use bad password hashing hygiene AND get hacked, then the users' account security is busted.
Ah yes, I could definitely see it coming more into play with streetwear.

I could elaborate on some of the racial dimensions of the "hipster", though, if you'd like.
It's not a topic I know much about, so yes, I'd definitely love to hear your thoughts on the matter.
You're talking like the taxi monopoly was a global monolith when in fact it was a local uncoordinated model that jurisdictions just copied from each other. IOW there was a taxi monopoly in most cities, but they're not all part of one big TaxiCorp.
The claim that an engineer would run this study better is baseless. Most CS faculty I know do not have the experience necessary to plan and run a well thought out randomized controlled experiment with human subjects. There is definitely some good work done by CS professors on CS education but in general a Psych faculty member will be better equipped to run a study such as the one cited.
Exactly. People are already forced to log into social media accounts and such. So it appears anything you're able to access online is considered fair game.
Serial and parallel devices died off pretty quickly though the ports lived on for various reasons. PS/2 keyboard and mice endured a good while longer.

I've only seen the joystick port appear on sound cards, which themselves are pretty much dead, and the AT connector was all but extinct by the mid 1990s.

New motherboards seem to fall into two camps: Legacy ports of all flavours, or ridiculous numbers of USB 3.0 ports. I saw one recently with 12 USB3.0 connectors on the back.
Did we? Care to cite a source? I'd be very surprised if anyone can fake IOCs and signatures well enough to fool an analyst.
It was a yellow cab, but you make a good point - we were going to the Bronx, a bit east of the Zoo, which is probably not a very typical destination.
This is the most obvious, simple and effective tip. Take transit, carpool, ride a bicycle, or walk if you can.
Doesn’t work for a game developer, or a game asset artist.

For videogames, both latency, bandwidth, and software support ain’t quite there yet.
For every other metric around, delivery time, replacement effort, ability to compare and to try, there's just no replacement.

For me, very often the delivery time is less important than time spent shopping. If you want/need something, but not immediately, it is much less effort to click "Buy" on Amazon, and get the item in 2 days, than to spend an hour on driving to the store, walking around to find whatever item you want, waiting in line to make a purchase, and then driving back.
I used to wear jeans 100% of the time. Then I had kids and as they grew up they hated jeans, said they were uncomfortable, that their school uniforms (cotton) pants were more comfortable. After having trouble finding good jeans I decided to give pants a try and haven't looked back. They are so much more comfortable than jeans and wear better than the jeans I was getting, plus they look nicer in a professional environment. I just got rid of my last pair of jeans a few months ago and don't plan on buying them again.
Should this be the case in all professions and areas of academia. Geology perhaps? Gender studies? Carpentry, flight attendant, congressman and senators? Genuinely curious your thoughts are.
The day when I don't have to squint to tell the difference between the various flavours of Micro/Mini USB cannot come too soon.
Not really. You can't use just any soil for construction, it has to be a sandy/grainy variety.
I seem to be in the minority here (perhaps I'm the only one) but this piece struck me as a long humblebrag. "Golly gee, I'm developing this programming language and ..."
> The notion of not knowing why recording sound could
> be useful to me is hard to grasp

Because that clearly isn't the whole story.

Culture hasn't change as much as you seem to think in the past 150 years. Heck, some institutions, like the Catholic Church, have been trucking along since the Roman Era!
I think you're misunderstanding the point of the question. BFS is guaranteed to find you a shortest path in terms of "# of hops" in an unweighted graph. DFS is not.
Do you mean USB-C was two years ago? I think that's the only reading that makes your comment make sense.
Yeah. When you remove all the confusion, the problem is usually pretty obvious.
This was the problem for round 2 of the C International Conciseness Contest in early 1993. Submitted programs were to take on stdin a file consisting of one or more problem instances, where each instance consisted of three lines, and solve those there were solvable, and report as unsolvable those that were not.

The first line of each instance gave the number of numbers you had to work with, the second line gave those numbers separated by space, and the third line gave the target number.

Conciseness was measured by the number of tokens in the source code. Here is a copy of the problem specification: http://computer-programming-forum.com/47-c-language/3e0a04a3...

Here was the token counter used for that round: https://pastebin.com/bdaEedD7

Here is the first runner up and the winner: https://pastebin.com/JcamKieX

The runner up is 336 tokens. The winner is 335 tokens.

The best I was able to do was 460 tokens. (Well, the best without exploiting limitations of the token counter, but I was on dial up and so did not have the time to upload a 4 GB source file...)
You had me until the bit about disappearing photos - that's not an innovation, anybody who has wanted to has always been able to make photos disappear after sending. It's a bit of a false equivalence to mention a twist on sending someone a photo in the same sentence as you mention such great research efforts as number theory and bacterial immunology.
I am a woman and I can essentially agree with this, at least in theory, assuming that you consider the possibility of changing the standard to one that is reasonable if it comes to light that the standard unfairly favors one demographic over others for reasons unrelated to actual job performance (by which I really mean "needs of the job").

Current job metrics have a tendency to assume that a privileged man with a stay-at-home wife is doing the job. The assumption is that she will take care of things like grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, etc and he will only take time off in a dire emergency, not for any kind of routine maintenance of his health or life.

Women fall behind in part because we typically lack our own wife taking care of the women's work for us. But job standards don't change to accommodate the fact that the work force is no longer dominated by married men with full time wives taking care of the home fires. This causes everyone to suffer, not just women with jobs, but it tends to disproportionately hurt women. There is enormous precedent and social pressure such that women tend to still do the lion's share of the housework, etc, even if they also work full time.

So "treat everyone the same" can work, but only if we start reassessing job expectations that are rooted in an assumption that "Well, you have a wife at home taking care of certain things, so you don't need time and energy for those things."
Absolutely. I don't mean to imply that one's individual morality is in any way subject to popular opinion. I'm talking mainly about popular opinion in this context, because that sets boundaries of what can be done politically (and remain stable long term). But, of course, there's still the moral imperative to influence that opinion in the direction that you consider more right and proper.
I use a homegrown browser extension I call "Anti-HN B.S." -- which ostensibly stands for "behavior shaping" -- which completely removes my point score and all comment greying from all posts. This has helped me to express opinions here which I know are controversial and suspect will be downvoted. I also find that I am much more thoughtful when approaching comments generally when there is no downvote association.
You could, and I often do. But the laws you should break in the interests of humanity are ones that permit things like slavery or other mistreatment of people.

If you're engaged in commerce, don't conflate your commercial interests with those of humanity at large. It's possible that you're serving both at once, but not probable, and when you are in it for the money your objective assessment of such things is severely compromised.
Does customs anywhere else the world care more? Explain your refusal to allow a search to a Chinese, Korean or UK customs official.
One other way: change your password to a temporary one, give it to a trusted friend who changes it. You don't know the password, you can tell the truth to the border agent.

Once you're out of their hands, ask for it back and change it again.

Even if the friend is in the US, they cannot compell her/him to release it easily, US laws apply.

There must be a way to also encrypt the new temporary password with 2 keys so that the trusted friend cannot access your encryped content without your own key.
Ah classic dang! Abusing your mod powers to punish and down talk anyone who questions your narrative. The comment in question is absolutely on topic and relevant. You just don't like it so claim it's against "site policy". It's ridiculous that you don't allow debate on these topics.

And yes, I know I'm perma-banned for not being feminist enough for you. I just wanted to point out your systematic pushing of a political agenda to those who dare browse with show dead.
I've always thought why is more important than why not.
Example:
"I'm going to hit myself in the dick with a hammer."
The article says you can choose which vaults to have available in Travel Mode. So you could just leave some vaults you don't care about in there.
Hmm, it might have just been because "things like C-x C-c and stuff" sounds kind of dumb, not because it refers to quitting Emacs.
Like imagine:

B. Kernighan: have you ever used Unix?

Student: No.

You: Hey, how about we start a Unix tutorial here; we can learn all about dollar-sign-1, and stuff.

B. Kernighan: * roll eyes *

:)
This interesting passage from Wikipedia:

In Marxist economics and preceding theories, the problem of primitive accumulation (also called previous accumulation, original accumulation) of capital concerns the origin of capital, and therefore of how class distinctions between possessors and non-possessors came to be.

Adam Smith's account of primitive-original accumulation depicted a peaceful process, in which some workers laboured more diligently than others and gradually built up wealth, eventually leaving the less diligent workers to accept living wages for their labour . Karl Marx rejected this explanation as "childishness," instead stating that, in the words of David Harvey, primitive accumulation "entailed taking land, say, enclosing it, and expelling a resident population to create a landless proletariat, and then releasing the land into the privatised mainstream of capital accumulation". This would be accomplished through violence, war, enslavement, and colonialism.

I don't endorse this theory but I thought it was relevant.
I am pretty sure that the view camera in the picture on their home page is no more a USB 2.0 device rather than USB-C, XD
Dark matter is the new ether, perhaps, waiting for its Einstein?
How much does it usually cost to launder money? Apple's 30% cut seems pretty steep.
There's no naming and shaming in "Yes, at Google". From the article: "Usually, the people in the complaints are not named."
The $100B is from "new revenue" needed to fund the system. Presumably, the other $300B comes from existing revenue and "savings". But, as they point out, this "new revenue" can/would be swapped for existing healthcare premium payments, which are on average actually much higher than $208/month.
Show HN: Nsynjs – JS engine with stoppable threads and without callback hell
You version also needs a caveat.

It's more like: "You can fool enough of the people for enough of the time to complete your evil scheme".
This reminds me of a tool Jeff Roberts wrote at RAD Game Tools which would repackage libraries so they were loadable on Linux. At the time the motivation was that MSVC was generating much better code than GCC for Bink, so he'd compile on Windows with MSVC and cross-link to Linux with his custom tool.
You probably don't have WebGL enabled, probably because of some annoying hardware incompatibility. This site seems to use MapboxGL, which doesn't fall back to Mapbox Classic.
Yes - using WINE as a library is one way of porting to Linux.
Jesus the salaries are so low.

> Doing a Numbeo cost of living conversion suggests at least the base salary is roughly comparable to what you'd be making in the US.

Where in the US? Maybe in the boondocks, but those salaries are shit compared to major city salaries in the US. I made more than that working as an intern before graduating nearly 10 years ago during great recession.
Yes, I see it too. On the other hand, the Saudi-Softbank deal is viewed as a way to diversify and not to launder money.
Nobody talks about the gender divide in psychology, for instance, and I suspect that's because nobody perceives psychology as being where the money and power is.
He can tell them whatever he wants. Doesn't mean they will care.