skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
California thinks EVERYTHING is cancer causing. I took my kids to Disneyland last year and right after the security screen there was a Prop 65 sign saying (roughly) that "Disneyland contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer". How is that helpful at all?
"The settlement requires the potato chip producers to reduce acrylamide to 275 parts per billion in three years, a low enough level to avoid a Prop. 65 warning label. That amounts to a 20 percent reduction for Frito-Lay and an 87 percent reduction for Kettle Chips, Brown's office said. Little or no reduction will be needed for most Cape Cod chips, but one product, Cape Cod Robust Russets, will require a warning label, the attorney general said."

from http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Lawsuit-over-potato-ch...

The acrylamide level of the potato increases as it browns. It appears the acrylamide level of these particular chips is therefore unavoidable.
When I posted it I couldn't find another news source that already had the details. You can usually circumvent the FT paywall for a number of articles.
That is not a case of hypocrisy being the right thing, but rather the doctor doing the right thing in spite of the hypocrisy, not due to it.
Sorry, Linus is from Finland, not Sweden. Unfortunately it's too late to edit post now.
IBM is telling Congress not to fear the rise of an AI ‘overlord’
This was a hilarious read (as well as informative). Fantastic work, fantastic writing!
Show HN: Purrli, an online cat purr generator
> with WannaCry it was alleged a nation state was likely responsible for spreading the malware: North Korea

Is there any evidence for this? Looks like another fake rumor.
Apparently you're right, but I did hit a nerve and prompted some interesting discussion, and got by far the highest point-count for any HN comment I've made. Count me cynical, but my first and kind of unintentional foray into fake-news-land worked out well.
View raises $200M for their electrochromic smart glass
Worse than radio? That's not what I have experienced.

I'm using a 1,5€ BK8000L module (http://www.electrodragon.com/w/BK8000L) that I soldered to my old stock autoradio, replacing the tape audio circuit, and the quality is much better than FM.
Carpentry is far different than programming. But even so, and equivalent question I would ask a carpenter I wanted to hire would be, "How much hardwood flooring would I need to cover the rooms in my house?" If they answer, "I dunno" and then stare at me blankly, I'm certainly not going to hire them.

Apparently some people take whatever warm body shows up.
Rollback Code Deployments Atomically with Nanobox
c.f. https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/06/27/ranso...

discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14645452
My numbers were about the same when I was interviewing for JavaScript developers years ago at Travelocity. The only 1 skill I absolutely could not bend on was the ability to walk the DOM. Only 4 out of the 22 people I interviewed could do this and only two of them could do it well.

Strangely enough I warned candidates days before the interview of what I was looking for and still almost nobody bothered to brush up on the couple of basic methods needed to do this 1 task.
The focal length of a spherical mirror is R/2.
The focus is not perfectly sharp, but gets sharper if the mirror shape approaches a parabola.
Finally, for a symmetrical bowl, the effect is greatest at high noon, since off-axis rays are not focused to as intense a spot as rays parallel to the bowl axis.
It's because most products in the US are sold in multiple states, including California, and the logistics of ensuring your "known to cause cancer in California" warnings are only printed on the "California version" of those products just isn't worth the effort. Better to just have one version of your product that can be sold in any state.
> Enjoy your non-neutral internet in the US

This isn't really a thing you realize, right? But what is a thing is many European countries wanting to gut encryption. Enjoy your non-secure communications.

> "your extortionate roaming fees when you walk closer to Canada"

What does that even mean? Many carrier plans now include roaming throughout Canada and Mexico by default. That covers over twice the land mass of Europe.
Yeah, I'll buy that.

Not so much tech per se (although I also like your point about apps for music practice and other things) but the social changes and prosperity that are partly driven by tech.
Closely enough related to number of basic operations though I'd say. I'll agree with you if it really just is a multiple choice question without context, but the initial poster did not present it that way, but said that explanation/discussion matters. And then your objections are a good starting point for that.
Applying this line of reasoning, do you disagree with the EU ruling about browser choice that Microsoft had to comply with?
How should one learn real-time/embedded programming? Do you have any recommended readings or online resources?
It's really not hard to understand, and if you're a CTO you should probably be aware of how this works. It's an abuse when a company uses their dominance in one area (like search) to undermine their competitors in a different market (like product comparison and shopping).

That's the case here, and it was the case when Microsoft got in trouble for bundling IE with Windows.

I'm actually glad to see this ruling. It's nice to know there's at least one place in the world where the government still cares a little bit about not letting giant corporations take advantage of their citizens.
In the same context, The debate between Malcolm Gladwell and Matt Riddley is an interesting one http://www.munkdebates.com/debates/progress
I think that it's more or less if not an explicit goal then at least an accepted reality of unions worldwide that businesses should pay reasonable wages or not be in business at all.

As you point out, this has a number of consequences, all of which are acceptable from the perspective of unions:

- Low wage unqualified jobs, beneath some lowest threshold of skill simply cannot exist. This level varies between markets, but e.g there are no shoe polishers or elevator attendants in Scandinavia.

- The natural rate of unemployment is higher than it otherwise would be. Basically instead of having 10% doing low paying jobs, you have 10% on generous unemployment benefits.

So essentially - and in accordance to all economic theory I know - having high wages and few unqualified jobs is certainly possible IF you

- spend lots of tax money on having an educated workforce

- have generous unemployment benefits

- Accept that society basically provides for anyone that doesn't provide value enough - either by training or just supporting them financially. Labor collectives prefer the state to pay these people instead of them driving wages down (because as you point out they don't provide that value)

Basically the scheme is possible if you tax the top N% of earners so much that you can let the bottom M% not have to work crap jobs.

Whether this is an appetizing solution depends on your political preferences of course, I'd say it's a pretty progressive version of social democracy, and it's found for example in the Nordic countries.
Cyber attack hits oil giant and banks in Russia and Ukraine
Purportedly there are non-obvious sunglasses/frames that attempt to make it more difficult for such scanners to operate. The success rate of these devices ranges from "not at all" to "seems to work".
McDonalds in California all have a prominent Prop 65 warning about acrylamide near checkout. Example: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T_-QObaB0sY/Tts3XPghilI/AAAAAAAAEL...

I haven't seen this in other venues that serve fried potato. I wonder if McDonalds was sued at some point.
Ah, "the words are what I mean them to be". Can't argue anymore then.
A Linux Laptop with Security at Its Core
People do stop driving though... What is too much for some is not too much for others.
Why are you using Google then? Use a Service you can trust or you believe has your best interests at heart.
Once again hats off, and thanks, to Project Zero.
Same story from a website that allows you to read content even with adblock : https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/27/15879480/petrwrap-virus-u...
If everything has a warning on it, what's the point?
Many firms hit by global cyber-attacks
Yeah, and I can win against Usain Bolt if I just shoot him first.
It's as helpful as the cookie notifications on all the European websites.
> The Prop 65 warnings are basically invisible to Californians because they are literally posted everywhere food is sold.

I just don't know what to do with the information on those signs. They are posted outside my apartment, at my work's garage, at Fry's... if I actively heeded the sign's warnings I would have to leave California I guess.
Ill see if I can find the episode, but did you know that the Stuxnet idea was first televised on an episode of Wonder Woman from the 70s? (Pre-dates hackers)

Here it is... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0750242/

An guess what the computer is called: I.R.A.C.
That is the opinion that struck down poll taxes.

You have a right to vote, so levying a tax upon the act of voting is not permissible. Obviously, if it is a right, it means that even someone with zero money should be able to do it, and you can't pay a tax if you have zero money. The tax prevents poor people from fully exercising their rights.

As such, taxes that appear to be on the exercise of a right are usually worded such that they are actually excises on a legal privilege that is suspiciously similar, or upon an accessory privilege, without which the exercise of the right is largely pointless.

You can build as many steel mills as you want on your own property. But doing so is pointless if you cannot transport the steel over public roads or sell it to customers in the public marketplace, unless you have a great need for vast quantities of steel on your own property. There are quite a lot of foil-hat-wearers out there that try to tease out the line of separation between taxable privileges and untaxable rights, but the reality is that none of their opinions hold any sway unless they have millions of dollars to spend on lawyers and lobbyists, or millions of supporters to march on the capital. As such, a lot of "Sovereign Citizen" propaganda revolves around the insane idea that a state with near unlimited power may be compelled to obey its own laws, even when doing so would be contrary to its own interests.

This is the same phenomenon that results in your tabletop RPG's resident rules lawyer getting their characters killed off. For any obscure rule they can argue to their own advantage, the GM can always just roll behind a screen and say, "Oh dear, the goblin scored a critical hit. What an unlucky occurrence. Your character dies. Again."

For instance, the Supreme Court has also ruled that it is permissible to prevent someone from growing a crop on their own property, never to be exported off of that property, because that satisfies some demand that would otherwise impact prices in interstate commerce. Essentially, the state said it can prevent you from growing corn in your garden, because that means you won't buy as much corn--which could be imported from another state--at the grocery store. In order for that ruling to be consistent with the poll tax opinion, the US cannot recognize that engaging in commerce and providing for your own livelihood is a natural right. Because that would mean it couldn't be taxed, and the government needs those taxes more than you need to buy your own food and shelter.

Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that many of the things you may call "legal right" are probably just legal privileges, and that if something is taxed, the government does not recognize that you have a right to have it or do it. This is disturbing to some people, because it provides a practical test to unequivocally show that they have far fewer rights recognized by law than they believe themselves to have.
> In the State of California, alcoholic beverages are also carcinogens requiring warnings.

Well, alcohol is a carcinogen. Why not label it as such?
I've never seen a glass sphere this large - it's almost surreal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%E2%80%93Stokes_record...

I keep looking at it, my brain confused why I can't see through what is clearly a transparent object. It doesn't feel like I'm looking through it, though inverted; it feels like I'm seeing a weird depiction of the nature scene around me plastered on its surface.
not sure why you're being downvoted, it's a very valid question in the digital age.
WPP, world's biggest ad agency hit by new ransomware cyber attack
Hmm, I dunno... it relieves some of the financial pressure of having empty seats, by extracting some value from them. Therefore there will be less incentive for the airline to maximize seat utilization (through overbooking, for example, which saves money but costs reputation for the airline every time someone gets booted). Therefore we can expect seat utilization to go down.
Show HN: StackImpact – Python Production Profiler: CPU, Memory, Exceptions
That's not what I get at all: https://i.imgur.com/nKpAYKX.png

Regardless of what you're seeing though, ads are a necessary part of Google Search; it's how they make their money. IMO it's a little strange to be complaining that Google is showing you ads in your search results.
And now we have Kotlin, which is in fact better.
Aha! Thanks for explaining.
Paper votes are difficult to manipulate on a massive scale.

You can stuff some ballot boxes and turn a polling station. But to do the same across the country to rig the election? At this point your country probably has worse problems and they won't even bother counting votes, but announce wholly fabricated numbers.

With electronic voting, it becomes trivially easy for a single hacker to falsify the entire election in one fell swoop.
So does this one.
And you are one of the types of person the question is meant to weed out - people so threatened by a simple question they get defensive and hostile.

And thanks for calling me dumb!
Apple has more resources to build a 32-bit emulator, compared to the resources of a developer who released a small but useful app 8 years ago but now needs it to be 64 bit.
> 30 year old programmer with a 2 year old child at home ... nix him on the "merits" of ageism

A choice, conscious or not, to dedicate time to raising a child at the opportunity cost of myriad other ways to spend time is not related to ageism at all.
> In the State of California, alcoholic beverages are also carcinogens requiring warnings.

You make that sound like a dumb move, but alcohol is linked to several cancer, and people who drink alcohol need to know that drinking is raising their risk of several different types of cancer.

Whether prop 65 is the right way to do that is another matter.
TL;DR The courts actually require states to intentionally create districts that have a majority population of minorities.

It's a difficult thing to manage. As a result of a Supreme Court ruling in regards to civil rights the states are not allowed to spread minority votes across district lines since it was determined that that doesn't give them a strong enough voice and doesn't allow them a united voice as well as the advancement of minority politicians in Congress.

States largely complied. But, as time has gone on people often believe that giving minorities their own districts actually hurts their political power because states put them all in their district, they get one politician and then the rest of the districts aren't a melting pot. So now there is a push to try to prevent states from districting based on racial lines, but the Supreme Court has already required them to do this. So it's a very fine balancing act the states have to go through, and in many cases they exploit the Supreme Court requirements/ruling to their political advantage.

And if you removed the racial districting you might actually lose minority representation in Congress in terms of number of minority Congressmen, which people don't want. So gerrymandering is this strange mix of affirmative action for Congress and political gamesmanship to protect a party's numbers in Congress.
Thanks man, this is something github really doesn't do well. Your contribution may help a lot of projects :)
Random-sample verified paper balloting is probably the hardest to hack system there is, and is super simple which matters in an election -- not only must the election be secure but everyone needs to trust that it is.
> I don't understand why seeing an ad is so bad.

Ads are an insidious and highly effective form of psychological warfare. They play on human fears, insecurities, neuroses and instinctual weaknesses in order to part people from their hard-earned time and resources.

You might say the ads just bring their attention to needs they didn't know they had. I would say the opposite, that they create needs where there none existed to begin with.
Real estate is local. The Toronto and Vancouver markets are on the verge of/already rolling over.

The US market has a few hot spots, but nothing like what Canada is dealing with.
Seattle’s minimum-wage increase made the most vulnerable workers poorer
> I feel like someone can build a better mousetrap and be better than Google

Where are the someones then? Look through Show HN and you'll see all sorts of cool projects and upstart companies. How many of them are search? We've got a huge flood of companies trying to take down the taxi industry, where's the flood to take out Google? It doesn't exist because everyone knows they can't win.

Here's the Show HN for search: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=show%20search&sort=byPopularit...

Do you see any of these dethroning google? Almost none even bother to compete in general search, just in small specific areas.
I thought this was going to be about the queen herself :(
Good point. It's naming that often breaks in NAT. And it's naming that is almost always what breaks Kerb. Cheers.
Not-paywalled version: http://www.cetusnews.com/views/Bkej9jiRXb?title=Who-Pays-on-...
Oh, my bad, there was two links on HN homepage, that was the Forbes one which was blocking me. Any admin can delete my comment, please?
Pandora CEO Westergren to Step Down
I live in a heavily native populated area in Canada, the anecdotes I hear from them is it is far better to be an American Native than a Canadian one because of the Indian Act which doesn't grant them title to their lands, so they legally can't own a house on a reserve and use it for collateral to obtain loans or pass it to another generation as a way of transferring wealth. Americans also have much more freedom to do what they want on their own land such as building casinos or whatever they want, here it requires navigating the ancient Indian Act.
E se não soubessem que estás a usar aparelho?
Don't use a weakly typed language use instead my dynamically typed language!
> According to a tweet from anti-virus company Avira, [these attacks] were taking advantage of the EternalBlue exploit previously leaked by the group known as The Shadow Brokers

So it's using the same exploit as WannaCry? I'm very inexperienced when it comes to transfer protocols and windows vulns and all this kind of stuff, so maybe I'm missing something, but how could this be allowed to happen again? Some big firms have been hit!

However a quick glance on other news sources and twitter, Vice is doing a clickbait with the title, since it's not really a high number of firms that have been hit, but more that the few that have are geographically sparse.
Most of the apps on my phone are based around the video games I am currently playing, and mobile games I use to waste time(reading literature?lol). As well as the normal social networking apps (snapchat and FB), 9Gag.
> It's also a problem when those same companies want to bitch and whine about a "talent shortage" or a lack of diverse candidates

so much this. Why do companies get to receive all sorts of incentives to hire when candidates they reject walk into other great tech firms, make bank, and generate boatloads of value?

Maybe some should just pay more, too. There are plenty of firms just being too cheap to hire great talent, including some large, well-known ones.
EU Cookie law was mostly to deter the use of tracking tools (and actually allows them for login etc) but people ignored it and just slapped banners on.
There's no need to play semantic games. Let's say I'm looking for a Seagate 10 TB harddrive. The Google Shopping results would look something like this: https://www.google.com/shopping/product/3954751729784172026?...

That example "connects me, the user, to the advertisers".

Seriously, without playing the game of "words are anything I want them to mean just to win an argument"... what would _you_ call the mechanism of those Google Shopping results? <Genuinely confused here.>
Interesting, someone clarified below that it is indeed final round. I would take it to mean 'the final interview', singular, as written. Seems misleading.
Touche. As one other commenter pointed out, it's naming that can be difficult with NAT and that can break Kerberos. Good point.
crawling the web is only easy if all you ever do is following hrefs... we're in the world of single-page turing-complete web apps and you're underestimating the amount of pure compute, ingress and egress bandwidth necessary to keep the index up to date. there's a reason google has designed and built their data centers, their server chassis and even power supply.
Version of “WannaCry” reaches Ukraine
this is gold and so inspiring.
Decades of social science has not controlled for the heritability of cognitive ability. In light of the twin studies which proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt, most of it is worthless.
there are claims that it came from the Lazarus group...
I disable country redirection by visiting http://google.com/ncr (once -- it sets a cookie, so beware[1]), but now I'm in the same boat as the gp -- I never get search results tailored for my location. Still better than the alternative.

[1] I've been doing this since forever. The earliest reference I could find for the feature is from 2004. Incredible: http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/769/google_goto_generic_engli...
You can build another shitty clone to Google search cheaply. Elasticsearch plus some bots crawling fed off a queue can give you an approximation of Google that is useful to a lot of people (albeit not cheap to keep running). I cannot build even a shitty fascimile of an electrical grid cheaply because I need permits for digging, to deal with existing infrastructure, and I need serious capital (an order of magnitude more, at least) to build and maintain some sort of generation capability.
Carter and Bush both lost because the economy was in a recession during their final years. Bush might have won if the economy had pulled out quicker. LBJ did not run for reelection.

If the economy is doing well, it is quite possible for Trump to be reelected.
This has been reported and going on for a while.

* MIT Technology review has a story on this [1]

* Police robots in China scan all the faces they come across to identify fugitives [2]

* JD (i.e., the competitor of Alibaba which is somewhat analogous to Amazon here) You can pay for deliveries using facial recognition [3]

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603494/10-breakthrough-te...

[2] http://gbtimes.com/china/police-robot-makes-china-debut

[3] https://qz.com/1009155/chinas-second-largest-ecommerce-compa...
I don't put out fires under the watchful eye of a would be colleague or employer.
I switched from using RoundUp to a vinegar/salt/dish soap solution this summer and can't believe how well it works.

It seems to be just as effective as RoundUp.