skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I was a large business with deep pockets, I'd be wary of signing up to use independent contractors to ferry employees around and get embroiled in the employee misclassification debate.

Uber has said it is just a platform enabling the transaction between an independent driver and customer. That puts the entire burden of employee classification on the company. If HR sets the travel policy on the app, they would be authorizing it.
The end of local authority libraries
The US government also put out a set of accessibility guidelines: https://www.ada.gov/pcatoolkit/chap5toolkit.htm

I've had a couple US clients specifically request "ADA compliance".
soon we will see graphql endpoints
Yep. The other thing is that generally any sort of screw up (apart from server down time) by a company will cause extreme distrust from partners to the point of failure of your business. It's extremely tricky.
> they're the only noncommercial places other than city squares where people meet across genders and ages

Church?
I don't see myself ever quitting... I only go to work for the coffee.
Except in Bitcoin you are sold a product, unlike a Pyramid scheme
curve25519-dalek is 3X faster than the equivalent Go code (i.e. in the stdlib, authored by agl).

This is for a few reasons:

Rust has support for 128-bit integers (i.e. u128) which allows for faster arithmetic when operating on what are effectively multi-u128 bignums in an elliptic curve library.

LLVM is generally more sophisticated about optimizations. It wasn't until recently that go had an SSA-based compiler, so its optimizer isn't nearly as sophisticated as LLVM's, which has been developed for many years now.
Libraries in Canada have the same stipulations, but are actually funded and are open all the time. Our downtown library is open 9am-9pm every day of the year.
Yes.
I'm sprawling on a bench now after hours of coding, I should be on my way home.
The top of my head feels like pepper was poured on it. I can't really endure a conversation at the moment.
I believe it's a combination of sleep deprivation and hours of intense mental exercise.
Listening to music helps
> [The Rolling Stones] actually streamed a concert on the platform in November of that year, using an online provider named MBone for some reason..

The MBone was not a "provider", it was an IP multicast network. This was the only way to efficiently stream video content to thousands of simultaneous clients before the advent of CDNs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbone
I'm a bit confused by this effort. Isn't the idea that it isn't really next year or the next decade that we are worried about, but instead it is the long term impact of increasing CO2 on the environment that is the real problem.

CO2 added to the atmosphere from underground sources increases the net CO2 (for centuries); trees just move it temporarily from the atmosphere to the tree and then from the tree back to the atmosphere once the tree dies (through the process of decay or burning). Of course, using the timber for construction or paper or whatever keeps the CO2 from returning to the atmosphere longer, but eventually it ends up back in the atmosphere. At steady state the trees are dying and rotting at the same rate the the forest is growing.

Naturally, its a good thing that while the forest is growing it slows the overall rate of increase in CO2; perhaps having some number of decades of a tiny bit of our CO2 absorbed is a useful stopgap on the way to a world where we stop burning hydrocarbons pulled from under the earth. However, this isn't in any way a solution for the long term.

It seems unlikely that the world will utilize less energy in the future so the solution would seem to involve right away (1) moving from coal to natural gas (cuts CO2 generation in half for the same energy output) and as soon as possible (2) moving from all hydrocarbons to nuclear, solar, and wind.
Counterpoint: My friends all went through mechanical engineering WITHOUT reading textbooks - that was the secret to their success.

No one is going to touch the textbooks in a library.
Me too. Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl99t4S3ChM
The Bone Clocks, by David Mitchell. An amazing writer. The best mix of beautifully detailed characters and ambitious scope that I've read.
Or in school lunches. How about nice healthy food? Lunch should be a class where you learn how to eat.
This is a kind of confusing use of the word “reckon”, which is typically a verb and means to calculate or come to a conclusion after making a calculation. (Etymology is from the word in old germanic languages for “count”.)

You’re using it as a noun to mean something more like “guess” or “personal opinion”. I guess stemming from informal uses like “I reckon I could ...” (used without any calculation in sight, often with an exaggerated or bragging rest of the sentence).
Traffic and housing in Seattle are problems only the government can solve, as they're the ones that created the laws and incentives that cause the problems. No use dumping money into a pit.
My friend said that pressure cooking popcorn kernels as an incubation medium allowed fast mycillial colonization. He could shake the jars every couple days to speed up the process. He also claimed pasteurized hay made an excellent growth substrate.
> A library is free

Those who aren't responsible for paying taxes always seem to think this
Why does here have to be a master librarian on duty? Do you mean it's in the negotiated contract, or are there legitimate reasons?
My wife doesn't have much in the way of skills, and I fully acknowledge that childcare would consume most / all of her income if she was working (that was in my post originally but I had to cut it down to get under the 2K character limit).

The weather does sound really nice, and we own our two Priuses outright. It's sounding really unaffordable though.
I haven't read it but Grokking Algorithms is well reviewed.

https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-algorithms
I haven't looked into the details for a very long time. But whether there's research/thesis at least used to be a big variant among MS/ME programs and there wasn't an obvious pattern based on the "prestige" of the school. One will be one year of mostly classroom learning. Another will be a couple years about half of which is primarily focused on research and writing a thesis.
For entry level, 100k is rather good.
Reminds me of BlockCypher- they pitch themselves as the "AWS" of blockchains [0], and released an Ethereum API not too long ago [1].

This looks interesting, but we're talking about money here. If you're looking for something similar to this consider a solid infrastructure provider first. We built an app on Coinbase's shoddy early API, only to have it go down in the middle of a YC interview -_-

[0] https://www.blockcypher.com
[1] https://www.blockcypher.com/dev/ethereum/#contract-api
> Old investors get paid exclusively by new investors

They absolutely do not, no dividends are paid in Bitcoin by any entity.

Bitcoin's value may rise based on many factors, of which new buyers are only one (not the "exclusive" factor as you claim).
I’m sure thousands of people have ideas of how Bezos should spend his.

Bezos should spend (or not spend) in ways and things he values, to maximize what he gets out of what he’s earned.

(P.S. libraries compete with his book selling business! Why wouldn’t he rather sell a ‘library pass’ on a kindle for a monthly subscription?)
The Church has billions in assets... it's commercial.
Hence me saying, fork it and change whatever you don't like.
> It's (a EULA's) main purpose is for communicating expectations, which I'm arguing is relevant even if it's not binding. If the EULA says "we can refuse service to you", and then service is refused, then it's not a surprise.

Also not a surprise when a judge orders you to restore access because your agreement is invalid.

> The site can say "we posted the rules, this person broke the rules" and the person may not have any legal support in favor of getting the service after they broke the site's arbitrary rules.

Absolutely. Sites are largely free to enforce rules arbitrarily, by modifying their HTTP responses.

However, you are not free to exclude individuals whilst including their competitors.

Google has been under the hammer for that recently, though that is the EUs anti-trust laws. [0][1][2]. Of particular interest to this case, you might find this quote telling:

> we believe that Google's behaviour denies consumers a wider choice of mobile apps and services and stands in the way of innovation by other players, in breach of EU antitrust rules.

LinkedIn are accused of standing in the way of innovation by other players, in this case, hiQ, whilst simultaneously allowing other players to innovate, such as Google. One can copy the data, the other can't.

> It's (a EULA's) main purpose is for communicating expectations, which I'm arguing is relevant even if it's not binding.

I can expect the rain to move upwards, but that's irrelevant to how gravity actually acts. Unrealistic or false expectations are not taken into account with the rule of law.

A police officer might let you off with a warning for speeding, if you hadn't noticed the speed change. However, if it went to court, your false expectation of a different speed is not a mitigating factor.

If LinkedIn was wrong to prevent access in this case, their liability will not be reduced, if precedent is followed. They will still be responsible for the actions they took, in full, as Intel [3], Microsoft [4], Google and Apple [5] before them have been.

If however, LinkedIn are seen by the court as acting correctly, hiQ may be asked to pay legal costs, or counter-sued for damages.

If the EULA is non-binding, then it may as well not exist, because it has no legal relevancy.

[0] http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-1784_en.htm

[1] http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-2532_en.htm

[2] http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-1492_en.htm

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v....

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Apple_Inc.
Facebook and Instagram get redesigns for readability
>after Uber let $1k get stolen from my bank account

I... really fail to see how this happened.
Being closed on Sunday is a bummer.
Doesnt apply to me. Been with Amazon since 2005, prime 2 years now, bought a table that turned out to be scratched, open az claim, amazon said work with seller, seller was playing games for 2 months, no refund no return label for havy item that he promised is free to return, I went to bank and disputed the whole thing. Amazon didnt even blink, but it shows u your profile of a perfect amazon client might also ended up in dispute hitting their CB ratio.

Also as of this year Costco lost me as a client since they dont accept Amex anymore. To me that was enough.
> You will just have to program everything on IO

Sort of, but I think this misleads a little bit.

You will have to program your manipulation of the array in IO, and thus anything using the actions manipulating the array. Intermediate computations could be outside IO.

And of course there's also ST.
In a way -- almost all of the Northeastern U.S., from Pennsylvania to central Maine, had been cleared, for agriculture or logging or both, by around 1900. Much of the area is forested again, through no particularly concerted program that I know of. This is why you'll often encounter stone walls in the middle of the woods -- they were put up at the edge of farm plots and pastures. Once it was no longer economical to log the region on a large scale, logging slowed. Improved transportation and the settling of the Great Plains made it comparatively much less profitable to farm the inferior soils of the Northeast. Furthermore, especially in Pennsylvania, resource extraction turned to oil instead of lumber in the early 20th century. The combination of these factors meant that people stopped cutting trees faster than they grew back, except in densely populated areas.
I always kinda liked this one of a motorcycle engine with one end cut off. You can see how the valves work, and how they are designed to rotate under load, to even out the valve seat wear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8hqoE1_7bA
As a writer I enjoy very much says, you're not a sociopath, just a garden-variety narcissist.
I'll add one more thing. Very few of the jobs on Craigslist are "sexy." Ignore the sexy jobs. Once you get your foot in the door, your options expand enormously. The adage "no one cares about your grades after your first job" holds fairly well, especially in this industry. I got that first Craigslist job in the summer of 2013, and was only there for five months (it was a horrible, toxic work environment). I now make more than 5x what I made at that first job. Whatever first job you take doesn't have to define the rest of your career.
I've not done a quantitative analysis, but it seems to have been more frequently ruled as some sort of asset or commodity https://www.google.com/search?q=bitcoin+ruled

Exchange rate, also known as 'cost,' is a form of value.
How about pay some taxes.
What I usually do with a hand drill is to pull back and crank normally; the bit comes out easily, pulling back keeps it from going deeper, and it also removes the swarf in the hole cleanly.

Come to think of it - I do this with electric drills, too (and you pretty much have to with a drill press). So now I wonder:

Why is everybody switching their drill in reverse to back out the bit - this shouldn't be necessary!

The only time I've used reverse in an electric drill was when I was using it to drive (remove) screws (variable speed drill of course). I think for certain materials you have to run a standard bit in reverse to drill them properly (for some reason, I'm thinking glass, or ceramic tiles?)...
We already have libraries, if you are going to presume to tell someone how to spend their money, at least pitch something we don't already have.
what do you mean, if guys did it in 1969, why is now so hard? or you are saying that it was fake almost 50 years ago?
I would be curious to know what alternative folks recommend for people in this situation.

That is, people working full-time as mid- to senior-level professional software developers, who have no formal CS training at all and would like to rectify that with a formal course of some sort.

I recognize that going straight to graduate school probably isn't the best plan, and I'm not particularly interested in endless months of self-study (or more accurately, I admit it probably won't happen without more structure).
This is exactly why this warrant is unreasonable.
I refuse to be squelched because some Neo Nazi could use my words against me. In fact, I wish them good luck with that, I sincerely doubt you could do that and get away with it without some pretty extreme mental contortions.

The instances you quote have nothing whatsoever to do with debating this in a facts and reason based way on an internet forum.

If people are concerned with their kids getting wounded when attending mass rallies of whatever plumage then it is time to spread the word that whenever you assemble a mob, whether it is the 'good guys' or the 'bad guys' does not matter, the mob is its own enemy when panicked and when two mobs encounter each other violence is the predictable outcome.

That idiots then use this to incite further violence is an obvious conclusion without much weight in practice.

Each side will do what they can to victimize themselves and lay blame with their opposition, it has been so since the first man picked up a stick to wage war on his neighbors.
Yep, the most severe outcome of a similar hacking of Macron's campaign in France was an extreme amount of boredom the leaks induced.
"We turned one a one sized fit all bacon program into 36 bacon programs,” said Van Horn

Newsworthy
cough cough

>Darrell used to work for Apple in the PR department, but he does not currently hold any Apple stock.
We should solve general AI first, because then those other problems would be solved within two months.
I'm under a tight/looming development deadline during the day and remodeling the lower level of my house at night. I find after prolonged mental strain during the day, I find it hard to do basic math with fractions to do simple cuts of wood (5-3/8 minus 2-1/4)...uhhh...
Can't see the article with NoScript. :-)
I have been doing blender scripting for work for the past few days only. You can pick it up pretty quick because it has a nice feature: there is a scripting screen/mode and as you do the manual mouse/keyboard steps with the normal UI there is a little window that prints out the equivalent python. So when you want to do a script for task X you just do it once manually and cut and past the commands into your script. Then you have to bang it into shape. I have been really impressed with blender.
>It's as if you read the article and completely ignored all the points the author made [...] Think of the library as the efficient distribution center of Common Good.

One can agree with all the positives mentioned in the article and your points as well but still question if there is an _even better_ investment than libraries that will result in the most good.

Even Jeff Bezos' wealth is finite so spending it is a zero-sum game. Donating to public libraries means money not donated to researchers needing $1m to find cures/antibiotics that would benefit all of humanity more than upgrading libraries. (Or whatever other recipient you can imagine that could have a greater multiplier effect of that money than libraries.)

Maybe libraries are the best use of his donation money. Maybe not.
Kindle is very well integrated with library services already.

Also, they do sell a month-to-month "kindle unlimited" service. It kind of sucks though (last I used it, anyway).
Mixed example. Only a small fraction of Geocities pages / content have been preserved. Most of it is lost permanently.
Or maybe donate some of it to the poor? Like Bill Gates?
Very cool, well-shot video. As others have said, I was more interested in a detailed explanation of the inner-workings. After finishing the video and exploring others, I found my way to the video course preorder page. $20 paid! Great concept, best of luck. Plan to start watching this weekend.
Here's a better idea...and one that will ultimately benefit libraries as well: start buying out all the evil academic publishers, overhaul their technology, get rid of copyright assignment, and offer free access to anyone.

Then do the same with legal records, although that is more of a legal problem than a money problem.
>Suppose you already have a solution in-hand for determining what the "best world" is, and everyone agrees on this definition of what is "right" and "good".

It doesn't matter whether people agree with it. It matters whether it's actually correct, and actually refers to real things.

>Outside of religious and spiritual folks, I think most people agree that morality is socially constructed.

Then stop talking about morality already. There's no point in spending massive sums of effort, money, and even military manpower on made-up constructions if you know damn well they're made up.

(Mind, I don't think morality is made up: I'm a moral realist. Of course, religious folks aren't moral realists, they're usually just plain confused about what counts as "real", as are you, since you appear to think "real morality" means "morality enforced by a giant authority figure in the sky".)
Maybe to reduce startup effort. For people putting together PoCs, security configuration fiddling is going to be a barrier to their using some software.
The alternative is "asks you lots of questions at install, and/or makes you generate keys or something like that", which makes people say it's too complicated to set up.

Most people want the simple insecure one for their lab to see if it will work for them before they deploy the locked down version on the internet. Of course the part where they make sure to secure the production one is where people forget.

This isn't crazy. If someone asks me to do some benchmarks on an app to see if it would fit our problem, the last thing I want is to spend a week working up a federation of keyservers and a fake domain and everything else that the deployed product will require. If the product doesn't fit our need that's just wasted time.
Odeon have an equivalent card for about the same cost if there's one of those any closer to you. http://mobi.odeon.co.uk/limitless
"It was possible to get on a text-based version of the internet for free in many areas, using only a modem and a phone line. An entire section of Free $tuff From the Internet offers up a lengthy list of free-nets, grassroots phone systems that essentially allowed for free access to text-based online resources."

Makes me want to try to read a Markdown-only Internet browser, which treats native Markdown documents as the only kind of Web page.
I must say the swiss-prot links from then still work. You are redirected to the uniprot.org website but the links work.
"Shitty pop reference headlines for 100, please"
As an SF resident of ~5 years, I agree with this.

$130k - $150k isn't really big money around here. You'll be able to live, but I suspect that you'll start to feel pretty quickly that your quality of life has been overall compromised since leaving Ohio. Real estate is the biggest expense — a $3k apartment won't even be a nice one, but you'll feel it everywhere — expensive meals, goods, lots of taxes, etc.

Long term prospects for property aren't great either. Property prices have been trending for a while in only one direction (straight up) and properties that would be considered very modestly nice in other cities are easy $1M+ in and around SF. Real estate agents play bidding games so everything goes for well above listing prices. NIMBY practices and regressive taxation laws (Prop 13) guarantee this isn't going to be fixed anytime soon.

As someone with a daughter, it's also worth considering that the public schooling system is in a pretty bad state. It seems that almost everyone will either use private if they can afford it, or move out to Marin or the South Bay so that their kids can go to a functional school. Don't take my word for it though, I have lots of anecdotes, but have never needed to seriously look into it, so do your own research.

Another big factor to consider is just the city itself, and how nice it is to be here. A combination of huge wealth disparity, unaffordable real estate/rent, poor treatment for the mentally ill, and moderate weather means that the number of deranged people that you'll meet on the streets and public transportation is way above average. Property crime is essentially rampant at this point (mostly in the form of smashed car windows and bike theft), and the police force is quite ineffective, so I don't expect that to go anywhere but up. If you're a reasonably sized guy it's all mostly tolerable (in that you don't really fear for your well being), but I'm not sure it's an environment that I'd want to raise children in. As far as I can tell, a lot of other industry workers just seem to take Uber/Lyft everywhere to avoid it.

All that said — SF is a fun city, and the nature around it is beautiful. It's one of the very few walkable/bikable cities in North America, which is great. As a tech person, it's also neat to be right in the thick of things.
Really? That sounds a little paranoid. I always just tell the truth on the interview and application. "You asked for 5+ years experience, but I only have 6 months. I'm willing to learn if you are willing to train me".
Lower the barrier of entry for use.

I don't necessarily agree with it, but having to screw around with authentication/certs/ssl when just playing/trying out a product is annoying.

Not everyone has the patience to deal with this.
cancer ?
Hello fellow dvorakist!
Clever test setup
From the Wikipedia link...

>Pyramid schemes however "may purport to sell a product, but they often simply use the product to hide their pyramid structure".