skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That thing that pays for sick leave in Italy is called State.

We pay taxes and those taxes cover sick leave.
It is an interesting question. In addition to any common law covering contracts, there are also some statutes that specifically cover interactions on a computer, like the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. These laws often refer to "intended use" or "exceeding authorized access". IANAL, but It seems complicated enough that we probably won't really know the answers until a few cases are litigated.
I have a friend that started driving for Lyft, but only while he was seeking other employment.

I don't think this need is being fulfilled by people quitting their jobs to become Lyft drivers, I think it's a primary income for a lot of people who are otherwise jobless.

As a secondary income, I'd agree the hours are important factor.
> I don't think that's something you can blame solely on Facebook.

I don't think "Facebook" is solely blamed. Facebook is used as a canonical example of SV companies.
Is the Mole Hole still around.
The library burned down, iirc. Largely due to societal rot as you suggest--invasions, pestilence, and probably the deaths of the original founders and their vision did not translate to the following generations.
Yep, Pakistan has reportedly agreed to be a part of it in the name of CPEC.
Oh, come on.
Remarketing words is buzz, and we really shouldn't encourage it. This is why we're having that ridiculous title-bubble as well, Senior Site Reliability Engineer. Sure, whatever. /sysadmin, who's been doing sysadmin, devops, backend dev, and sre stuff and sometimes do pretty css flies away/
Thread warning: I'm actively downvoting any argument that tries to address (read: not address) a cryptocurrency's flaws by changing the subject.
Example:

Person A: Cryptocurrency X is insecure isn't it.

Person B: So is { the dollar | driving | flying | the internet | * }.
I'm pretty sure this is somewhat unique to the history of pam_ldap and its stewardship by PADL Software compared to other PAM modules; its dense nature encourages commercial engagement for those who care enough to know how it works or want to use it for their own purposes. They're not motivated to make it easier to understand (i.e., for outsiders to contribute to or maintain).

pam_sss is easier to understand and its functionality expands upon it, but it was a redesign.
Presumably this is getting flagged because of the title, which is a reference to a scene in the show "silicon valley". The article documents a real-world example of what is essentially, a mild form of corporate espionage. It's a risk entrepreneurs should be aware of.
The slow currentTimeMillis()
Yes, but what defines a pyramid scheme is its unsustainability from a mathematical standpoint, not necessarily the fact that original owners and early adopters make money off of new investors. I think the latter property is present in almost all financial markets -- the "smart money" phenomenon.

I agree that the entire cryptocurrency market is in a bit of a bubble, but to write it all off as a pyramid scheme seems a bit of stretch to me.

edit: also, "pyramid scheme" to me is a very loaded term with a specific legal meaning to it as it applies to one single entity, i.e. the person or company operating at the "top" of the pyramid. There isn't really such an entity at the top of the entire cryptocurrency market, so I think it's much more apt to call it an asset or asset class bubble rather than toss around such contentious terms.
Monotonicity is a property of functions that is relative to some ordering relation (e.g., f(x) = x + 42 as a function on natural numbers is monotone with respect to the natural ordering). In this case, that ordering relation is <:, and covariant functions are precisely those function that are monotone with respect to <:; as are contravariant functions the antitone functions with respect to <:.
Nuh huh

It's one thing to infringe on the copyright of a public work

Another, very different thing is to copy something that's not public and might be considered IP or a trade secret
Studies have shown that psychopaths are, on average, more successful as CEOs than non-psychopaths. This certainly seems like a good example of that (his reaction and behavior with the reporter were perfect!).
Serious question, politics aside. How many jobs have been prior filled by teenagers or recent college graduates, that are no longer being filled by those groups for whatever reason? Is every single type of profession required to support a family of 4?

Edit: 5, per the photo on the article
I wonder if they check the usage statistics before getting rid of it? Because surely there are millions of people using it every day. Don't they care about the users?
If it were something utterly intrinsic to Human Nature, there would be no opposition to it.
I remember the day Kite was launched. I took a brief look, realized it would be uploading entire codebases of mine to their servers, and said no.

The fact that they have since slipped their stupid product into popular open source tools (probably because it isn't as well received as they thought it would be) is very similar to how some douchebags buy up popular browser extensions, then inject ads or do more nefarious things with them. Utterly distasteful.
The Pittsburgh market has https://DKPittsburghSports.com too, which just celebrated their 3rd birthday. (Only affiliation is that I'm a happy subscriber)

And someone from the Boston market just partnered with them to start https://www.BostonSportsJournal.com
Universal Orlando is changing the theme park experience, one wearable at a time
+1 for Weapons of Math Destruction.
I'm curious to what the ads looked like? I installed it but can't see them and the article only includes it's own ads for razors not pictures of the ads it's talking about.
rain1 started a page for people interested in bootstrapping or countering Karger's attack. Several of us are putting as many links as we can find to small, human-understandable tools such as compilers. I added some formally-verified or otherwise justifiable ones (eg 25-core CPU ain't gonna be simple).

https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

https://web.archive.org/web/20170724144929/https://bootstrap...

We're focused on content right now over presentation. So, it will look rough. Hope you all enjoy it or learn something from the projects.
By brother collected these as a kid living in Charlevoix and threw a bunch into Lake Champlain, nearly a thousand miles away, in the hopes of trolling some future geologist.

My brother does stuff like that.
Beautiful use of "iff" in a sentence! ("iff" = "if and only if" for those wondering).
Cryptocurrency trading bible
>he was able to provide several meaningful contributions

Don't you think that's severely downplaying his role?

He invented the field of information theory, not just made several contributions. He founded digital circuit design. The entire concept of being able to use electrical circuits to implement boolean logic, and proving you can use those circuits to solve any problem that boolean logic can. He also came up with sampling theory, bringing communications into the digital world (as well as signal processing).

And then sure, he made several (extremely important) contributions to the field of cryptography

> get to be part of some pretty amazing stuff.

He WAS a lot of that pretty amazing stuff.
Even then. Housing prices are obviously related to Silicon Valley companies, but there's much to be said about housing policy as well.
Like I said above, it is a crime. But it's ethical because it's intended to force them to fix their system before someone does something much worse.
Let's not forget the "exploit open source/free labor" component of a key demographic of HN's audience.
In the 21st century reboot, Wile E. Coyote is trying to catch a Tesla...
> Deliberately malicious behavior would land such person in jail as soon as serious accident happens

Edit: In the real world, this is more likely to happen by accident than intent.

No regulations exist yet.

The offender could claim whatever mod he made wasn't intended to cause harm to others. Then you have to prove intent, which can be difficult.
I'm not sure what you mean. AI doesn't involve "encoding unsound reasoning" into anything. That's more akin to how humans think and act, by making decisions based on heuristics learned from a lifetime of experience and societal influences. It would be unethical to encode a "race" factor to be considered in an algorithm, although even if it were included I think it would prove insignificant since race has no direct causation to ability to prepay when you consider all the other factors (e.g. poor white person in same neighborhood would have same default prob). However other factors might, such as the ones you have listed (where they live, credit score, etc)

I am familiar with the book you mentioned.

You still didn't answer my question. If credit score and income are correlated to race in America, should they be ignored from loan applications? What are valid factors to consider?
The point is that any kind of attempt at weakening his grip on power is more likely to come before the congress. Assuming he comes out of the congress with his people in all key positions, he has very little to fear afterwards.

It's very possible he won't lighten up on the control, but it's also very possible that the political cost of people being annoyed at the increased blocks makes it expedient to ease up on it once there's no compelling political reason to keep it this tight.

It may not sound like any authoritarian ever, but adapting the level of oppression to what is politically expedient has been common practice for Chinese authorities for decades.
Etherium should have launched with a language that wasn't a high-school-extra-cirricular-level in terms of construction and consideration.

Solidity doesn't have a problem with formal verification of programs. Check their bug tracker: you can't even trust the runtime to do what it claims to do. On several levels.
Ask HN: Are you a competitor and an achiever or a “just get by” person?
I started with Radicale a few years back (5+?). I found it too brittle, and switched to Baikal - http://baikal-server.com/ . I've been very pleased with Baikal for since the switch (again, 5+)
Build an actual version of this : http://www.chorus-home.org/

Longer video : https://vimeo.com/179904952

Why?

It seems it would a lot of use cases that non profits or any other organisation would have to deal with. I always found it a bit dumb to have to re-invent everything every time you need to spin up something new.
Absolutely.
Paint is by a long shot, Microsoft's best product.
It's easy to build since it's codebase is pretty small
and they haven't changed it much since it was introduced.
So it's rock solid.
IDK why they're fixing what ain't broke.
Yeah, Venmo is US only at the moment
I wonder how much interest they're paying on those "payday loans".
That does nothing for me. I'm running Windows 10 Pro.
Also, do you think a competitor or achiever is a better entrepreneur?
Turning what I think you are saying on its head:

There is a 0.001% chance of something bad happening, so there is no point in the other 99.999% changing their behaviour in order to stop that bad thing happening.

I don't think that follows either. Second guessing human nature to the point where you resign yourself to catastrophe is surely less worthwhile than striving to create a sense of collective responsibility before it is too late?
The thing is I don't trust this explanation for a second especially as it applies to non-paying customers; they could have just as easily trained a generic ML algorithm on a publicly available data set, like I don't know, the public stuff on github.

Moreover, they could have trained their suggestions to actually be useful before throwing this out there as a feature set they thought people would want to use.

Plus then it'd make sense for people to open up their code, as a "local dictionary" of sorts that could be prioritized over generic suggestions. But at least then it would have had demonstrated value.
Also, it is worth considering that debt collection agencies are very good at finding people, and very bad at upholding ethical standards. Going to prison is not the worst case scenario.
I came here to suggest 'On Writing' as well.

Not only a great resource for improving your writing, but also a great resource for all creative processes.
Here's a getting started hack from Ernest Hemingway, since programming can be like writing in that work is more independent for much of it:

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day … you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don’t think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.

Leave something almost complete, at a compile fix state or with less cognitive loading steps to start up the next day with the ball rolling.
Of course you can't paint all the employees guilty and leave it at that, that's not what the Nuremberg defence means. If an employee knowingly acts malicious under orders from their boss, then they are just as accountable.

To be clear I'm not advocating a witch hunt, but saying all employees are innocent because they were following their bosses orders is a Nuremberg defence.
> “He doesn’t have to go around the world,” said Nicole. “He should learn what’s happening in this city.”

The journalists probably wouldn't notice and thus there would be no (noteworthy) PR and thus no reason to do it. But now that there's negative publicity he might just get around to that.
Seems like a refreshing idea. Sports analysis pieces like those on smartfootball.com are some of my favorite articles to read in sports.

ESPN's constant focus on TMZ-like coverage for sports has put a bad taste in my mouth. I don't care about the picture Lebron posted of his breakfast on Instagram. I don't really even care about the breaking news. Finding out about a trade a day later rather than the minute it happens has absolutely zero impact on my life.

I want highlights from the games I couldn't see, I want some analysis from experts or insiders, and that's about it. Keeping it to just a few articles a day I think will be better for sports journalism in the long run. No need to manufacture content to fill the gaps in a 24-hour day.
> They earn too much to qualify for state health care, but not enough to afford the health insurance offered by their employer. They frequently struggle to find enough money for basics like food and clothes for their children. Victor recently borrowed money from his mother to hold a birthday party for one of his daughters, and from a friend to pay for a dentist appointment.

This one might be a little unpopular but it needs to be said. I have an ax to grind / pet peeve here. What we need to do is get rid of means testing for entitlements and government services in general. I want to live in a world where the excelsior scholarship[1] does not ask how much your parents (or you!) make. If we can afford a program to feed the poor, we can afford a program to feed everyone (who meets residency requirements I guess if we are talking state or city level funding).

The real devil is means testing and nobody talks about it because we are essentially using it as a vote bank / scare tactic. "Don't vote for Republicans or they'll starve you and/or let you die without health care." we say.

tl;dr we should get rid of means testing.

[1] https://www.ny.gov/programs/tuition-free-degree-program-exce...
I think you're missing the point that a lot of big tech companies are moving there. Google has 500 employees there and Uber has hundreds as well. I think that using the amount of VC funding a city receives as a measure of how hot its tech is doing is a bit misleading.

Also to compare anywhere against the Bay Area doesn't make sense. The Bay Area is obviously going to beat out everywhere else. It's like someone saying that they built a pretty big wall and then coming in and saying "Yeah but look how big the Great Wall of China is."
The sad part is that California, being the largest state in the US, should be the last one to have this sort of housing problems...
Also abstracting away the local storage device makes a cloud transition a lot easier.
New G3 Instances in AWS: Worth It for Machine Learning?
Is this going to work? Grantland was doing everything right, by the standards of people who demand more substantive sports journalism: they had talented writers, well-researched longform articles, and no clickbait. They still went under. I’m rooting for these guys, but despite what people claim, I don’t know if the market is there.
> And what would be the point of a decal/video screen designed to trick people (Autonomous or not) into rear-ending your van?

There is a "popular" scam in China, where someone pretends to get hit by a car and then demands compensation. This occasionally leads to funny videos where they fall down too early and the car just drives around them; but I guess the scammers still make a profit.

Something similar could be done by luring autonomous cars into a crash and then trying to squeeze them for money.
Funny they think GPS tracking is the problem with this.

The problem is that it's a way to check your identity even if you'd prefer not to voluntarily provide it. I can scan you as you pass our flower pots without your knowledge and, even if, at first, I can't identify you, with time I will.

And by then you won't be able to easily remove the implant.
This is not a carrot: Paraconsistent mathematics (2011)
Time element, datetime attribute:

https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/HTML/Element/time
Where is their $75k/year going? I totally get that the bay is ridiculously expensive, but they're living in his parents' garage. Are his parents charging him that much rent? I'd think someone living in their parents' garage and earning $75k would be doing pretty well in terms of money. (Setting aside the fact that living with your family in a 2-car garage would definitely suck.)
Considering that some fields, computer science in particular have fewer female participants than they did a few decades ago[0] its pretty clear something other than inherent differences in the sexes is at play.

0: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...
> It must have been frustrating for him, as the plugin's
> original developer, to be dragged through this crap.

Completely agree.

Then, this sets a precedent. It reminded me of Google injecting some binary code into Chromium [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9724409]. However, we have a single person here. I can wholeheartedly imagine, that this can cause quite some stress. Also, it could have happened to many, I think...

Edit: I'm happy about the discussion here. At least, this won't happen again, anytime too soon.
Neat site. Linking the related HN discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14484549
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And people like that are why we can't have nice things.

I'm not saying that education / provoking thought will stop everyone doing something (else) monstrously stupid with AI. Just that we should be doing that educating / provoking more than we currently are.
FFS, "Fork this on Github'
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That is a very underrated comment. There is clearly a direct link between psychotic thinking and actions among those who are at the top. The system totally and utterly incentivizes psychotic behavior even just because there are never serious consequences for anything and only rewards. Just take Amazon or Facebook for example; not only are their CEO's becoming insanely wealthy by consolidating the whole economy and becoming what is essentially a tech-talitarian regime that controls our governments at all levels even at this point, but between Amazon sending its tentacles into everything and Zuckerberg saying he wants to and is totally replacing the internet with Facebook we are seeing the emerging of psychopaths that should have been stopped a long time ago.

Here's your chance at "killing Hitler", yet we sit by and cheer Facebook, Google, Amazon, Uber, Tesla, etc destroying and consolidating the economy under what is a de facto emerging totalitarian regim. They're even controlling speech and propagandizing society with control over what you see and when you see it.
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The parent to my original post is an example of exigology.

Paraphrasing:
"My code will be gone next year, so I don't care about code style"
Ok. So do you use tabs or spaces? Do any reasonable editors support tabs of this sort?
Writing a Node.js module in TypeScript
> “I apologize in advance that I can't answer any further questions,” he wrote. “I need to focus on other parts of the business, including continuing to improve the product for our users, and conflict like this is always doubly distracting.”

If you don't have time to deal with controversy, maybe don't take actions that will inevitably lead to it, eh?
..and stop using BOM in UTF8 files...
I use it for a specialized time-series storage / messaging layer. We are receiving stock market data directly, normalizing it into JSON and also PUBLISHing these objects via Redis to consumers (generally connected through a custom WebSocket gateway). We basically turn the whole US stock market into an in-memory sea of JSON, optimized for browser-based visualization.

Redis is great because of its multiple data structures.
Depending on their "kind", these JSON objects are either `APPEND`ed onto Redis Strings (e.g. for time&sales or order history) or `HSET` (e.g. opening/closing trade) or ZSET (e.g. open order book).

Sometimes an object transitions from a SortedSet to a String. We used to handle this with `MULTI` but now we use custom modules to do this with much better performance (e.g. one command to `ZREM`, `APPEND`, `PUBLISH`).

We run these Redis/feed-processor pairs in containers pinned to cores and sharing NUMA nodes using kernel bypass technology (OpenOnload) so they talk over shared-memory queues. This setup can sustain very high throughput (>100k of these multi-ops per second) with low, consistent latency. [If you search HN, you'll see that I've approached 1M insert ops/sec using this kind of setup.]

We have a hybrid between this high-performance ingestion and long-term storage. To reduce memory pressure (and since we don't have 20 TB of memory), we harvest these Redis Strings into object storage (both NAS and S3 endpoints) with Postgres storing the metadata to facilitate querying this.

We also do mundane things like auto-complete, ticker database, caching, etc.

I love this tech! It's extremely easy to hack Redis itself and now with modules you don't even need to do that anymore.
Pity that they don't open source it. I've gone through multiple image editors on Linux, and none of them have the simplicity of Paint. The layout and functionality is incredibly intuitive. You drop someone into Paint, and even if they've never seen it before, they can start doing stuff within a minute or so. You drop the same person into GIMP, and five minutes later they're still trying to figure out how the hell to select a paintbrush.

I understand that every image editor is trying to compete with Photoshop, but sometimes I don't need Photoshop. I just need to paste my clipboard so that I can crop, circle something, or annotate with some text and a crudely drawn arrow. There really is nothing else comparable that can do that as quickly or as easily as Paint.