skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds to me like you added a lot of detail around a core message of "yes, you may be violating your bank's ToS by using our service, please verify this by reading through page upon page of legalese in your spare time."

Well... no thanks. I (and likely many others) would only consider using such a service if I had a guarantee, both from you and my bank, up front.

from your ToS:

>"We are not liable for any loss or damage that may result from your use of our services. This includes any direct, indirect, or consequential losses; any loss or damage caused by tort, including negligence, breach of contract or otherwise."

Oh geez.
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I remember in an accounting class long ago discussing Walmart's relationships with their vendors. They would defer payment to vendors as long as possible while earning the cash from selling in their stores. So effectively they would have an interest-free loan on their balance sheet...

What you're describing obviously sounds different - but somewhat an extension of holding off payment for as long as possible, to the point were it becomes onerous to the vendors.

edit: for clarity, typos
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Dailymotion is trying to clean up its act with major redesign
I would imagine there will still be a sizable number of jobs outside of Voestalpine group from contractors/companies maintaining machinery and transport companies.
Will be interesting the long term impacts as well on the local communities in a country like Austria.
So then define exactly what's good and bad, and let me know why.

I get that inequality has gotten worse, but has it put us in a unstable situation? Has society collapsed? Are the roads destroyed? Is average lifespan now 0?

We have more billionaires, but we also have 22 million more people with health care due to Obamacare now.

What metrics are you using, and why are those metrics more important than other metrics people might use.

Until you can clearly define that, we might as well say the anti-globalists are trying to turn everyone into ordinary chunks of common matter.
> Uber practices as a company are toxic for its employees and some of the toxicity leak to society.

Why are Uber employees not leaving and joining Lyft for the lower pay ? How does Uber failing benefits Uber employees ?

Lyft is not even close second to Uber in terms of total rides in USA.
They'd likely be opening themselves up to huge liability if they did that though.
What would be pretty cool is a DAO that takes in money and models, auto invests, and pays out to investors and data scientists. I don't really know enough about Ethereum to see if that is possible to encode into a smart contract.
And even the spam isn't a very good argument. You could easily set your email account to block everything that isn't from a specific domain. You can even do this in Gmail.
Maybe better titled "Type-checked explicit state" ..."?
I was mostly trying to point out how ridiculous camelite's argument sounded. I thought maybe we should instead have a serious conversation about the events leading up to Uber's current troubles, and how they reflect on our society and our own individual mindsets. But apparently this isn't the place for that.

Anyway, yeah, of course everyone has different circumstances. I didn't mean literally no men, just as the grandparent comment didn't mean literally believe all women. I was speaking generally in order to be comprehendible to a guy speaking generally and hypothetically.
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Wow what a crazy story. The twist half way through after the first court case was cool.

Trying not to spoil anything for someone who hasn't read or finished reading the article.

But first it sucks how much time was spent by everyone in the story especially the victim. It also sucks that if you have to go to court again because something comes up that shows the defense, Uber, in this case, did something clearly wrong that wasn't known the first time, you seemingly can't increase the amount you're suing for. So all the expenses of going back to court again, etc, come out of your pocket. That's lame.

But at least you won in the end^. I'll be weary of Uber from now on and my belongings. I can't completly stop using Uber because of friends who don't care. Finally, who knows how other companies would handle this. Probably better, but, I don't know.

^ not a spoiler like a commentor noted because the title and URL both say he won
Good points!

The example is arbitrary. In a real world use case, Ohayo, with a very large and complex program, my ES6 code base is reduced by a factor of 10x.

My tests, in an ETN, are super simple to run, run concurrently, and are about 400 lines of code. They are equivalent to about 4k lines of very good ES6.

The tests cover about 70% of all branches in the app (that test coverage number isn't near 100% because lots of files are still experimental and I haven't segmented those out yet in Istanbul). Being able to write great test coverage concisely has been one of my favorite uses for ETNs so far.
Since when does "open-source" mean "community-friendly"? Why insist on using words that don't say what you want them to mean, when you can use ones that do?
OP is saying that government allow a certain amount of pollution.
A government could decide to forbid pollution altogether (whatever that means) and still maintain a capitalistic economic system.

We have generally forbidden dumping barrels of spent oil in rivers, for example.

Likewise, a non-capitalistic system can forbid or not pollution.
> It would also be nice to have a way to infer--without actually running the app--the supervision tree from the source and then graph it.

That'd be effectively impossible for the general case, since it's trivial to supervise/launch processes whose primary module isn't known at compile time.

I definitely agree that understanding the supervision structure is both valuable and non-trivial.
By culture I meant how they think internally about growth vs profitability. Uber under Kalanick feels like they wanted to dominate every market or die trying and Kalanick didn't strike me as the sort of person who would be happy running fairly successful company making modest profits. Lyft however seems like they'd be content with being number 2 as long as they're profitable. This is of course pure conjecture on my part.

Has Lyft said it is profitable anywhere or even break even?

The CEO said in a recent Forbes interview that their losses are currently coming in "under budget" and that they have a definite path to profitability. Make of that what you will.
Unless you hand out your credentials to an unauthorized third party, relieving the bank of any liability.
yodlee, mint, quicken, come on. I've had bank transaction information for last 20 years
Hi -- making up coherent stories is not a good way to find out what is going on. In this case, there is a lot of background information that could help to create a more supported opinion. (Humans can't help having opinions but we should put the unsupported ones in limbo at the very least.)
With each passing year I believe more and more that debts must be taxed
A near zero interest rates all around the world makes people to take loans to buy bubble things (real estate, tulips, tech company shares, commodity options, etc) rather than geniunely earn money

So bad
> stuff like treating women like shit was NECESSARY to provide a good "taxi" service?

No, but its possible they were two facets of the same quality.
While the aggressive, see-what-we-can-get-away-with attitude is useful (and probably necessary) in fighting the entrenched local monopolists who have local government protecting their vested interests, it turns out to be a serious liability with respect to workplace norms and stealing of trade secrets.
Shouldn't that be "Unicode \u0031\u0030\u002E\u0030" ?
Ah yes, an egoistic billionaire holding his employees to a standard he doesn't live up to himself. Love it.
We should not be employing people in jobs that can be automated. We should try and automate everything. We should develop technologies, processes, and abilities so that everyone can learn new things. The people that want to learn will be incredibly leveraged and provide a ton of value to society. Those who don't want to learn should be given enough for basic subsistence. A stipend which covers food, shelter, clothing, catastrophic healthcare, reasonable water access, and unlimited data. I would also push that all humans can be close to nature in some way, be it a park or otherwise. We have the technology to do this. Instead we have protectionism and fear.
I believe it already has stiff competition...
ok, so... I'll take BoA seriously, and not these guys.
Do SpaceX's grid fins operate on similar principles?

https://i.stack.imgur.com/rnHbB.jpg

(edit: and these: http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/weapons/q0261.shtml )
In the jsonETN I whipped up, the first word indicates the node type. n is number, s is string. Seemed good enough. Probably could be a better ETN for JSON if someone wants to give it a whirl. (For reference; https://github.com/breck7/jsonetn)
This looks pretty good, but I really wish you had support for Korean.
Probably a huge over-statement on my part.

4,310 schools had a college credit CS course as of 2015 (cf 14,183 for calculus.) My anecdotal experience is that this number is increasing pretty rapidly. All the high schools in my area have a cs course.
Yes. The bacteria dies easier. But, the 12d process, and the f-values are formulated regarding the death of the spores.
Marketing.

Google was unable to properly explain to people what wave did and why they should use it, then killed it after 2 years citing adoption numbers.
At what point do we reward human accomplishment

At the point where you start finding lots of nice houses and comfortable-looking cars. Lot so fo people already enjoy substantial rewards for accomplishment. That's great. The problem is that sometimes all the benefits are ascribed to accomplishment and luck is completely discounted.

Look, you've played Monopoly, right? You take a bunch of players of about equal skill level, put them into a game, and who is doing well after 10 rounds of the board is a matter of both skill and luck. Eventually one player will end up with all the money and the others will go bankrupt, because that's the outcome the game is structured to produce.

Now, Monopoly is just a game and so players could in a tournament play multiple games to minimize the luck factor and figure out which players have the greatest skill. But in the real world you don't get to try out a different life strategy every year and then reset on January 1 for a fresh round. If you start out with poor luck, then your disadvantages can accumulate just as your advantages can.

Further, people don't all start out with the same beginning conditions as they do in a game of Monopoly. Nobody wants to come in and join a game of Monopoly already in progress because many of the strategic options have already become unavailable. Likewise it would be a less fun game to play if initial cash allocations were random and some players started out with much more or less than others.
... my bi-monthly reminder not to say anything tounge-in-cheek on HN, lest people trip overthemselves to remind you how you said something tounge-in-cheek and downvote you
Interestingly, there's a pretty universal consensus among tax lawyers that not charging for employee lunches is problematic. Free, regular lunches are another form of compensation and, as such, should be listed on an employee's W-2 as additional taxable income.[1]

In general, anything of value that an employer gives you as compensation is taxable income to you unless an exclusion applies. There is an exclusion in section 119 of the tax code[2] for meals provided by an employer "for the convenience of the employee."

This has was intended to cover things like the cafeteria on an oil rig where alternatives are truly limited.

There was some talk of the IRS publishing regulations that would clarify this, but I don't think that's happened.

[1] e.g. http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/04/wsj-.html

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/119
Strange headline.
Jobs was being compensated for meals.
As mentioned in the story, yes he had a $1/yr salary (and of course money in the bank) but even entry-level employees at many corporations are compensated for meals.
Ow. The memories.

Back in 2004 I was writing a piece of networking code that had to do handshakes with parameters that were not exposed in OpenSSL API. After many days of code diving and mailing list digging, I came across an old thread.

Some kind soul had written up the man pages for the family of low-level functions I needed to use. He sent the doc update as a patch to the mailing list, and the response from the devs has seared itself to my memory: "NAK. If you use these functions, you need to understand all the code around them anyway."

That day I learned everything I needed to know about OpenSSL and its development.
If I'm not mistaken, Rust is being sold as a better C, not C++. Go is being marketed as a higher level language than C and Rust focused on developing network-aware concurrent applications to fill specific server needs. I may be wrong, but I'm not really sure that they target C++ or aim to replace it, unlike D.

Perhaps that's the reason why both Rust and Go managed to gain so much traction and goodwill, because they actually offer entirely different takes on programming. D, on the other hand, tried to fix problems that existed only due to the lack of work developing C++ beyond the 98 standard. Once the C++11 standardization process took off, D was pushed away into irrelevance.
I do like the 3 letter word better than my 1 letter word. Nice job!
Misleading title. Robbery is theft by force or threat of force. Although the author says he was "robbed", he alleges theft by driving off with his bag, no violence involved.
Ah yes, a pithy phrase from Wikipedia that isn't backed-up at all by the sources. /golfclap

Here, read through all these, and then get back to me if you think you're still correct.

Perhaps this explanation will make it clearer?

http://www.nzifst.org.nz/unitoperations/httrapps2.htm

Something more scientific?

https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/GuidanceRegulation/UCM252...

http://aem.asm.org/content/early/2016/07/25/AEM.01737-16.ful...

https://www.food.gov.uk/sites/default/files/mnt/drupal_data/...

http://aem.asm.org/content/34/1/23.long

https://www.mpi.govt.nz/document-vault/11042

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC91518/

http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile115866.pdf

http://nfscfaculty.tamu.edu/talcott/courses/FSTC311/Textbook...

http://spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/mfr452/mfr4521.pdf

http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/ai407e/AI407E22.htm

A Nice explanation of thermal processing food for canning:

https://www.intechopen.com/download/pdf/40352

Textbooks?

Principles of Microbiological Troubleshooting in the Industrial Food Processing Environment
See chapter 2.7

Compendium of the Microbiological Spoilage of Foods and Beverages
Pages 20-24, 187-188, 210
I really hope so. The web will be an unusable mess to me if fonts change size on scroll like in their demo page.
That's also in the title, so isn't a spoiler.
It's a widely believed theory, formulated (and verified) independently many times through history.
I'm also European. Which group has it worst in your country, and why?
Me, too :(

It's next on the agenda.
Special education students are more expensive to educate than bright students.

You give a gifted student a $100 book and let them get after it.

You give a troubled behavior student with multiple LDs a full-time ed tech at $30k per year salary minimum, or whatever else is required, by federal law, to fulfill their IEPs.
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/robbing

to remove valuables without right from (a place)

Does not need to be violent to be a robbery
> Furthermore, it is the view of some senior bank people that I speak to that PSD2 will make such clauses in banking terms illegal.

I'm not sure that's the case; I thought the FCA were pretty clear one intent of PSD2 is to stop the need for screen scraping.[1]

Have you had any dialogue with OpenBanking UK etc. about their strategy on API driven interactions?

1. https://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2017/february/screen-scr...
I should think that common sense would answer this question. You square it like this:

Let's say a person in your company tells you their boss is sexually harrassing them. You're on reasonably good terms with both the accuser and the accused.

Some responses you might make in this case:

- Deflect. Pretend you didn't hear it. Or, if pressed: "This isn't something I know anything about. You'd better take that up with them. Or maybe you could talk to HR?"

- Express skepticism: "Well, I don't know if you're lying or not. Sounds like a he-said she-said situation. Sorry."

- Express emotional support: "That sounds terrible! I'm sorry you're going through this, and I appreciate that it must be very hard for you to talk about this. How can I help?"

- Provide logistical support: "Let's get to the bottom of this."

- Express complete solidarity: "That bastard! We're going to nail them right to the wall for this. Right. To. The. Wall."

- Express complete solidarity for the accused: "How could you say this about them? They're a good person! They would never intentionally harass you. It must be a misunderstanding!"

Now: which responses might fall under the sentiment of "please believe women"? Which wouldn't? Which responses violate your ethical norms?

Seems to me, if you're purely caught up in the legalism of the situation, I'm guessing your response is going to be "skepticism," whether you want it to be or not.
Maybe blinded, drowned in liquor, and eaten whole: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortolan_bunting#Gastronomy
Like my brethren say it's probably a good idea to use a "secure" memset that won't have an accident ^W ^W ^W be optimized out.
> Rather than respond to the anecdotes, I'll point out that I was rebutting the original claim: that Uber was cheaper because it (unlike medallion cabs) does not have to pay for licensing fees.

It is not about licensing fees, it is about that because of the medallions, taxi drivers had to pay $125 / 12 hours for the lease. Before Uber/Lyft those medallions which were restricted to 13,000 for a city of 8.5 million (as well as many visiting tourists, business people, and in a city where many don't own cars), the price of a medallion was $1.2 million. After Uber/Lyft the price decreased to $700,000 and many Yellow Cabs are idle. Prices are lower, service is far better.
Precisely why I'm for it. I'm not in favor of replacing national with corporate sovereignty, though, or rather I'm in favor of putting limits on concentrations of sovereignty. Nationalism is a Bad Thing in my view.
It really depends on how you define "meaning". Is there meaning to treating a dog with love and respect even though it has no eternal future? How about the kindnesses we do for others - even though they may not notice and they certainly won't recognize us for doing them?

I think we make our own meaning in our every actions - regardless of whether or not those effects last for an eternity... which even with belief in a creator of the universe, there's no reason to believe that physics doesn't rule the universe and that it's not headed for heat death.

One way that I like to think of my permanence in the universe is that there's no reason to believe that every thing we do isn't recorded in time. Sure, our consciousness seems to exist only in the present - but perhaps the existence of our lives isn't totally lost in some form. Perhaps this moment of my typing these thoughts will exist as long as our universe does. Could they be accessed at least in read-only form one day by a future civilization? Maybe.
I think you're implying that deaf drivers are fundamentally less safe than hearing drivers.

Studies have been highly mixed:
http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/topics/deaf-drivers.htm

I would be comfortable saying that the advantages a deaf, many eyed, always alert self driving system would far outweigh the safety of a hearing, two eyed and sometimes alert human driver.
I used to be down with trying to restore things to pre-Caucasians-in-North-America conditions wherever possible. Now upon seeing that that would take constant and intensive human intervention, and probably still not succeed, I tend to look more toward post-human conditions as the measuring stick.

If all humans suddenly disappeared or stopped intervening, what would the landscape look like or turn into? Conditions would prevail that were affected by everything humans have done to date, but unaffected by any future human action. So for example, blackberry vines, kudzu, ivy, starlings, rats, and such, would take over, at least in some places, at least for a while. Is that bad? If humans disappeared, who would be around to find it bad or good?

Rather than fight it, I have redefined my ideas of "native" and "natural" to match these conditions. Because that's what "nature" is, right? That which happens without human intervention? Except of course tons of intervention has already happened and can't be changed, so the idea is to think about what would happen if the intervention stopped. Keeping endangered species alive or fighting invasives might be termed unsustainable and artificial under that view. I dunno, interesting thought experiment. To me anyway! LOL
Well, those numbers, if I remember correctly, refer to insert rate in the face of some extreme amounts of contention - tons of overlapping reads and writes (that's how the test was trying to trigger consistency violations). And moreover, they were measured while the Jepsen test framework was messing with the cluster. Contention is a problem for every database, and particularly so for CRDB. In the absence of contention, we routinely see thousands of queries per second per node.

Since the time of that analyses, we have done a significant amount of work for speeding up these high-contention scenarios, with quite dramatic differences in some cases we looked at. We pretty much changed our transaction execution model from a more "optimistic" one where transactions can abort each other and induce thrashing, to something resembling more the traditional row locks. So, hopefully, even for these atypical uses cases we should generally perform much better.
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Sadly, this will only incentivize government to loosen credit standards and increase debt.