skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've said before that it's simpler, a dilemma:

"Multinationals or democracy, choose one."

Interestingly, China chooses "neither"; you can't act as a multinational in China, you have to have a Chinese partner company, and they have an in-house govt representative/supervisor.
Why are you blaming Trump when you yourself admit that this has been going on since the 1800s?
> I think the real answer is to actually have certifications and licenses which effectively differentiate service animals from ordinary pets.

If you're blind and you need a seeing eye dog, an untrained dog is useless to you. You actually care if the dog is properly trained.

But for people who don't care about real training and just want the certification, University of Phoenix for Dogs will appear and let anyone get their family pet certified for a nominal fee.

Imposing some kind of $5000/year certification fee or equivalent arduous bureaucracy would weed out people who don't really need the animal, but it also means you would be imposing a costly burden on everyone with a legitimate disability.
They don't ask the question. They only ask where the lived when they became homeless. IMO, they intentionally don't ask because the answer isn't helpful to increasing sympathy for the homeless.
I genuinely believe that the government should have long since stepped in and closed them for anti-competitive behavior, back when this all started. The way things are currently though, there's no onus on the company to be a good actor, when bad acting gets them higher market share and thus higher revenue. Hence, they're not "supposed" to do anything. But I also believe that Google, as a company, should be allowed to develop a search engine, and that's it, everything, end of story, finito, no additions substitutions or refunds. That search engine might be a damn good search engine and have an absolutely mind-boggling database, but that's all. Maybe also the focused searches like Images, Shopping, and Video. When you get to Maps, Mail, and Voice, those should be separate entities owned by people not involved in Google, not invested in Google, and who do not have a managing stake in Google whatsoever.
Most random guys with vBulletins probably aren’t compliant with some internet law or another anyway. Quite simply, there is no reason for the EU to care.
I don't think it is the purpose, just an unintended consequence. I agree there is a 100% valid reason for not wanting pets in a rental.
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I was always under the assumption that with Radar images that it didn't rely on a light source as technically the radar is the source. So that the impression that there is a light an dark side was based purely on the motion towards and away from the receiver.

But, you have pointed out something interesting and that would appear to indicate other wise. The clear rotation independent of source already shows that I am wrong on that.

Apparently I don't understand this very well.
I think "children" are the only legitimate reason for marriage.

If you just want someone to stay with you, that's just a strong form of friendship, and there's no reason to want only "one" such person.
Landlords have no way of knowing which dog is going to be the one that costs them thousands of dollars in damage and/or headaches, so they have to charge extra for all of them, same way insurance underwriting works.

You opted in to that price class, and that luxury of having a pet. When you lie that your dogs are service animals, you make life harder for people whose survival depends on it.
Hey, yes, this is in the pipeline and have been requested by other users as well. Also, for clarity can you elaborate on what you have in mind for whitelisting feature?
true story: guy goes to a restaurant (in California), sits at the counter, notices that another customer has their dog sitting on that same counter.

guy tells the waiter that he would never come there again if the restaurant continued to let customers sit their dogs on top of the counter where people eat. (guy has a compromised immune system and wants to avoid the bacteria present in dog feces).

waiter tells the guy "that would be fine. never come back."

i guess that's just the way it works these days. makes me wonder about restaurant tables, chairs and counters now.
Unless you did it very secretly and slowly you'd might crash the market though.
Hey Mark, this is in beta phase and we're going to launch next week. You can subscribe and we'll send you an email with the download link when we launch. Makes sens?
Dogs are fantastic for addressing childhood anxiety, and although they are expensive, they are much cheaper than a therapist. [1]

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284277087_Pet_Dogs_...
But that's sort of the point -- if it's redundant with fraud then why does it need a separate law?
Thanks Mark. Feel free ping me (reachrooster@gmail.com) for any feedback and to share this across too :)
>But that feels like the debate about Illegal Immigrants. One side says "what part of illegal don't you understand" and the other responds with "hey, these are good humans."

Is there any country other than the USA where pretending immigration laws don't exist is a mainstream political viewpoint? Serious question here.
asking for papers is illegal.
The way I've heard that phrased is that the three most important words in a marriage are not, "I love you" but "Maybe you're right."
> This study is evidence that if your aim is to make more money, switching from salaried work to running an incorporated business is typically rewarded with a significant boost in earnings.

What about survivorship bias? I.e. most entrepreneurs fail, so you get a skewed sample when looking at existing entrepreneurs.

Also while it might be easier to just analyze two categories (incorporated vs. not), really one should break down entrepreneurial ventures into at least three categories:

- self-employed / contractor (from baby sitter to software consultant)

- small business (e.g. restaurant)

- startup (seeking to become large company)
You guessed right.

I figured that aging of the tech vs package size would be an issue, including the growing size of the OS... but do you think this is a problem even in long-life applications? I mean, surely AAC and MP3 files haven't bloated so significantly in the past 5 - 10 years.

I haven't worked much yet in Swift and wasn't aware of those differences vs Objective-C, though. That's interesting.
Very nice article, thank you for sharing.
One of the things that this visitor to CA found disturbing was how so many signs have the code number of the law listed on it. Made the visit feel more police-state-ey. Even the little cart that carries tourists up the hill at Alcatraz had a "do not board moving vehicle" sign on it with a legal reference.

CA has a really weird relationship with government.
I think SpaceX proposed system will be in LEO ~1100km above the earth. At this distance, satellite internet should be faster due to having a straight line, and the fact that EM in a vacuum is faster than fiber.
This isn't a thing elsewhere?
I find hard to believe that without your special cover, the heat would travel 10-100km up to atmosphere and then reflect right back onto the radiator.

What I am missing?
It leads to folks with real service dogs being doubted and mistreated. Similar to how the rise of gluten free fad diets made life harder for some celiac sufferers.
> math is thought to be 'scary' and 'hard'

> Plenty of video games are known to be scary and hard

Those statements seem related because of the ambiguous definition of "scary". In relation to math, "scary" causes anxiety, whereas in relation to video games, "scary" causes excitement.

As soon as you grasp the different meanings, you can clearly see that even though both statements are about the same word they are still orthogonal.
1980's more like, this time 'round. Trump's just the last to pile on, I agree.
papers, please
I've heard that some owner's policies raise liability premiums if tenants have dogs (especially certain breeds). Presumably due to risk of someone suing tenant + owner ("deep pockets") after a bite.
> The documentation on that could be better, but it's an open source project; feel free to contribute some cycles

I have my own work to do, hopefully some of it not for free.

> Importing MP3 means dealing with patents.

No it doesn't. The MP3 patents have expired. http://www.audioblog.iis.fraunhofer.com/mp3-software-patents...

> This keeps the framework lightweight

This is neither lightweight nor a framework.
Is it just me or is page conflating SCO OpenServer and UnixWare as being the same product a bit? Yes, SCO bought UnixWare from Novell (a now infamous purchase), but that doesn't mean the products share a close lineage, or actually merged, as a result.

It's been so long since I've touched OpenServer (say, ~20 years) that I can't remember if the technical bits of the page are actually OpenServer or UnixWare (I'd say OpenServer). OpenServer had Xenix as a predecessor and, though I didn't work with UnixWare at all, what little I did play with it made clear there were some substantial differences.

All of this is all but historical trivia now, but I'm sure there are at least some OpenServer installs running out there... somewhere....
These are some extreme cases you've started talking.
> and the occasional stigma

Doesn't the US constitution's first amendment enshrine a citizen's right to care less about social stigmas? As in, people can't be penalised (by the government) just for bucking the social norm?
How about "an actual workplace where people act as professionals, not another social club where everyone's desperately trying to look like a cute teddy bear"?
I beg to differ. I've been far more addicted to a good page turner book than I've ever been addicted to a TV show. And when I finally put the book down 10hrs later I can barely focus on anything further away than 20-30cm. With TV I can also do other things not give it my full attention by checking email or browsing the web but I can't do that with a book
Also http://ventusky.com/ , which was the first service like this that I have seen, and was at the top of HN once.
Imagine heating and spinning it into a thin foil disk, and then curving it into a slight parabola by gently accelerating the center point away from the sun. Solar-cooker death-ray for anyone who disputes your claim!
I really noticed this only when I stayed at a Yoga Ashram for a month. After two weeks of eating only rice, lentils and vegetables all the little aches I was used to have were gone. I had had no idea how good I could actually feel.
OpenBSD takes a fairly minimalist approach, which is vaguely described here: http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=... They basically replace the unsafe functions with things that are easier to use. Their idea is that it isn't the format of the C-string that causes security issues (null-terminated string), it's the poorly defined functions (with weird corner cases that are hard to get right). It's worked well for their use cases.

DJB did something similar in qmail, I don't recall the details but you can look at the source code as easily as I can, and it eliminated security problems.

When I'm working in Java, I find that most of my string parsing uses the split() function. This is a pain in C, because even if you had a split() function you'd need to deal with memory allocations. Most of these are solved with a memory pool. In my own library, I also added runtime, grammar-based parsing functionality. So to parse a CSV line you might do something like this:

char *g = " S -> WORD | WORD , S;"
"WORD -> [^,]";
results = parsegram(g, inputString);

Grammar parsing + memory pools makes string parsing in C easier than in Java. The biggest difficulty with this kind of library is to do it right, you need to be something of a unicode expert, and that's tough.
Former Uber engineer here.

I don't think you would find an incredible amount of use from an open-sourced Michelangelo. The biggest advantage that Michelangelo has for Uber is that it is easy to integrate into all of Uber's other tools.

Depending on what your machine learning needs are, you could get pretty far with just Spark + MLLib, and wouldn't need any of the customization that Michelangelo has on top.
As a kiwi. A pupil is just another name for student.

Definition: a person who is taught by another, especially a schoolchild or student in relation to a teacher.

It's just that in primary school you have a single teacher all year so the teacher refers to you as their pupil.

While in high school you have many teachers so you're one of their students.

But it's often interchanged.
> Those fees might dissuade a lot of fakers.

Fakers, and low income people with a genuine need.
Do you seriously think there's any moral correspondence whatsoever between trying to make a living in the US against its will, and owning/importing slaves?
Well, if the illumination was from the radio telescope, then the moon would be hidden behind the parent asteroid when it is eclipsed. We would not see it go dark, it would just be obscured.
And Chromium as an open-source project is known to contain trackers. Well, known by some people at least. Here's a fork trying to fix that: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

As for other modern open-source browsers, http://otter-browser.org/ is still in relatively early development AFAIK, but sort of like Vivaldi, it's trying to recreate Opera 12.
> Is the hope to avoid paying the cost of an extra pointer dereference when we're using the first map? Or does independently allocating each object hurt cache locality or something like that?

Both.

In practice, I probably wouldn’t use a hashmap for the first container that actually owns these items. When I do expect gigabytes of data, in C++ I use something like vector<vector<tValue>>, where the inner vectors are of the same fixed size (except for the last one), e.g. 2-16MB RAM / each. If I need to erase elements, I include a free list such as this one: https://github.com/Const-me/CollectionMicrobench/blob/master...

But the exact container is not that important here. If you don’t have that many values, it can as well be a standard vector.

The point is, C++ allows composing these containers making higher-level ones, such as this indexed array example, using pointers to link individual items across them. This feature allows building sophisticated and efficient data structures that are still possible to reason about.
Great post - thanks for the reply. Definitely will be looking into this more.
I lost the source code for programs I released as GPL. What to do?
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Secret Hitler, a board game charting fascism's rise, has become a hit
Former Uber engineer here.

I don't think Uber is anything like IBM Watson, mostly because Uber uses machine learning to solve business problems for its own products--not for other companies' products.

Most large companies that use machine learning in production will have something similar to Uber's Michelangelo. For example, Facebook has FBLearner Flow[1]. Catherine Dong recently wrote a TechCrunch article describing this broader industry trend[2].

[1]: https://code.facebook.com/posts/1072626246134461/introducing...

[2]: https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/08/the-evolution-of-machine-l...
Object size possibly.
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Lot of gems there, however:

" A subtle link for negative secondary actions often works better than a big bold button"

Careful with that one. "Better" and "negative" are in the eye of the beholder. Take it too far and you're into dark patterns or at least a confusing UI.
There's a storage vendor (hilariously for thread context) that took this to heart. They don't have a power button, just a switch. You turn it off.

I think it was Tintri?
Note: it's not a prison sentence, it's a county jail sentence. This is in response to your later comment about this overcrowding California's prison system. Not that this is the kind of law for which we'd expect judges to be harsh on:

From the state penal code, 365.7, having a fake service animal is seen as fraudulent behavior:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

> (a) Any person who knowingly and fraudulently represents himself or herself, through verbal or written notice, to be the owner or trainer of any canine licensed as, to be qualified as, or identified as, a guide, signal, or service dog, as defined in subdivisions (d), (e), and (f) of Section 365.5 and paragraph (6) of subdivision (b) of Section 54.1 of the Civil Code, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment.

Consider how difficult it is to enforce this law. Business owners are not allowed to ask for proof of a disability or for papers. Given the massive fines they face for discriminating against the disabled -- $50,000 for the first offense, under the federal law (California's penalties may be even harsher -- what do you think most business owners are going to do when dealing with a questionable service animal? It's not even that they have much of a choice to do anything except ask a couple of broad questions, the answers of which do not require proof from the animal owner.

Most reasonable business owners are going to let the animal in because the business owner is more worried about a lawsuit that could destroy their business than the net overall harm done to society's treatment of disabled people. Without the possibility of jail, and given the high possibility of getting away with a fake service animal, it might be hard to dissuade people from breaking the law.
For the unfamiliar:

SN = supernova

WD = white-dwarf (a stellar remnant)
I think it would be a great idea for cost, but is not comparable to a properly-trained animal in most scenarios. My mother is blind and also has a cochlear implant (basically is just shy of being deaf) and has had a service dog for the last 7 years. The dog was in training for 18 months specifically to aid blind and deaf (combo) people, then my mother had to fly out East from Minnesota for 6 weeks just to train with it without the distractions of home. Her program was solid and both of the owner and dog know their roles very well. It would be extremely tough and cost prohibitive to do this without a track record and support structure behind the whole process.
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Can you imagine a day worked healthcare is now as simple as a weather app, or call log? Litra Healthcare is revolutionizing the healthcare industry with the consumer as the driving force. Imagine a world where poor service or a dificult nurse or doctor actually made a difference on their amount of clients and appointments, putting the control back into the hands if the patient. Now if we could only figure out how to bypass big pharm.....
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A "somewhat modified version of Pascal or Algol" would be just C with a different syntax.

C is remarkable for what it doesn't have. It sits at a nice local optimum point that a portable assembler must occupy.
Larger dogs can chew on moulding, etc. (My large one did) Cats can leave random stains (mine has). Dogs may be apt to urinate indoors, especially smaller breeds (like my dachshund has). Perhaps $5000 is excessive, but I think the $1500 I've paid for my pet deposits was quite fair.
This author should have investigated (and mentioned) basic privacy issues first.

I immediately deleted Coffee Meets Bagel once they started requiring Facebook authentication earlier this year.
It’s a pattern. It’s not supposed to be Redux/whatever library. It’s a pattern of writing code (like MVC, or Pub/Sub, etc)

The Actor model strongly influenced protypical classes like Smalltalk and therefore also JS.

It’s a 45 year old software design pattern so really it’s better to ask: how does Redux differ from the Actor pattern?
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Work with people you respect.
Ugh. Pet laws are so terrible. They're made out of laziness and a weird inability to confront the actual problem. I have a pretty damn good dog. Lots of people have shit dogs. Rather than actually address bad behavior, we decide to tell everyone with a dog "no dogs here". "Some people with dogs are inconsiderate, and we don't want to deal with that, so all people cannot bring their dogs". In particular airlines have constructed a ruleset which (incorrectly) assumes small dogs can be only so inconvenient/irritating to other passengers and that larger dogs will be ok in the cargo space.

I have an ESA certificate to fly with my ~40lb Wheaten. Once, on a three hour flight, I took my seat well before the woman next to me. When we landed and my pup got out from her curled-up, fuck-this-engine-noise position under the seat, the woman jumped, laughed, and said "I THOUGHT YOU HAD A FUR BAG!". That is to say - while she isn't a perfect dog, she's pretty chill and well-behaved.

I got the certificate online, and without lying. That said, the quiz amounts to a longwinded version of "Do you get anxious? Does it get worse when traveling? Does your dog make you feel better?" To which I think most humans who have dogs would say "Triple yes."

I've looked at each argument that what I'm doing is immoral, and found a rationale suggestion otherwise.

"People are allergic!"
For $100 a tiny shedding dog can ride in a very-not-dander-proof container. My dog is non-shedding.

"They can be noisy!"
So can your toddler. So can above tiny dog. Mine isn't.

"It's like parking in a handicap spot!"
No silly, my dog takes up my foot space, no one else's

"The airline is losing money!"
My dog & I weigh less combined than plenty of people who pay the same fare. I've also offered to buy a seat for my dog and leave her in a large crate on the seat. No takers.

"The guy next to you doesn't want a dog around!"
See answer 1. Also, 90% of people are happy to be distracted from the horror of flying. Anyone who isn't can easily trade seats, since more than 50% of people are happy to sit by the pup.

All in, my choices are:

- don't have a dog
- have a smaller dog
- risk my dog dying under the plane / guarantee she's terrified
- don't travel
- get an ESA certificate