skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I reject the notion of "fake service dog."

I understand the point about the official, narrow definition of a service dog. Also, I don't dispute that many people claim service dogs that don't meet that definition.

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."

I think that if a human says their dog provides a service, that the discussion stops there. The more you attempt to push back, the more people will explicitly circumvent it.

And really -- is this a major problem?
"In California, the penalty is $1,000 and up to six months in jail"

The number and nature of jailable offenses in the US state and federal legal systems keep baffling the European mind.
ISO9660 is many things.

However, it is not, not even close to, a decent file system. (And that's before we even get into RRIP and Joliet. /shudder)

And IIRC, ISO9660 has issues with being written - the path table needs to be ordered. Yes, you can make it modifiable on the fly, but the pain to do so is just not worth it.
Though the headline does not say so, I presume that this 'toll' is only contributed to by the prolonged sitting; the "binge TV-viewing" presumably is only harmful to "ability to walk" inasmuch as it is correlated with an increased amount of prolonged sitting.

One assumes that binge tv-viewing would take no toll on ability to walk (or even be beneficial to it) if one was walking on a treadmill whilst watching television?
yo damn kids and your composites primes and abelian groups, GET OFF MY LAWN
Most materials scale with T^4. You would need a very weird radiance spectrum to do anything different.

That said, we are talking about something that has a weird radiance spectrum as a selling point, so, expect some deviation from the standard T^4 curve.
Yes. Sitting all day at work is just as bad, though you are probably getting up at certain intervals.
The parent comment alluded to this. They operate in a trust-based network with other banks. So when they add X to an account (e.g. a loan) and that person tries to spend it by transferring it to another account at another bank, the bank is effectively in debt with another bank. This inter-bank loaning system can run on this virtual cash mechanism as long as the person who borrowed X manages to pay it back over time.

You can probably guess this puts banks in a very privileged position. Hence the high requirements for being able to start a bank of your own, and the government regulation intended to control inflation and fraud.
WhatsApp announces free Business app, will charge big enterprises
Please, these things are not mechanical watches, which have been able accompany divers for literally centuries.

Speakers are trivially sealed, as are buttons. They are just a fancy electromagnet, or piezoelectric crystal.

Also both can work through induction potentially keeping them outside a "pressure chamber" and forgoing sealing altogether. Although I just want the steam of my shower not to mess up with my phone, not dive 100 m with it.
> the indexing method mentioned elsewhere in this thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15180649
>I don't think there is any way you can train a random dog to this level on your own.

I pretty much agreed in my comment. People try anyways because they've tried everything else and don't have the money.

>Also the trainers select dogs that exhibit the right temperment at a very young age.

There are lots of breeders now that offer to help you find a dog with the right temperment. I'm not sure how legitimate they are though.
Do they have some local law there that prevents forbidding ESA? The article specifically says, "Emotional support animals (let’s just use that as a catchall for any dog that provides comfort but does not perform a specific task) are specifically excluded by the ADA, and access for them is not provided by that law. Businesses and similar entities are left to define their own policies."
UI/UX is part of design. Being inaccessible is just bad design.
Why is it a problem now when it wasn't before?
What's your plan to continue eliciting and updating the data on your site? And what kind of sampling methodology do you use for choosing engineers to interview?
I've previously suggested here that OSes and OS manufacturers should test and rate apps for tightness, and punish apps that aren't tight by handing them fewer resources - running them noticeably slower.
Are they, really?
The "old" Sun recognized and encouraged the hobbyist community - that if people played with older gear at home, they were more likely to recommend/spec it at work... Solaris and patches/updates, software suites (LDAP server etc) "free unless you want/need a support contract".

"New" Sun after the Oracle acquisition: "Unless you're a business paying us money for support, we don't care, and you get NOTHING."

So, people stopped using and playing with Solaris/SPARC at home, and eventually stopped using it at work too.
And really -- is this a major problem?

If it doesn't bother you the rich people buy the privilege for their dogs to be in grocery stores and restaurants, then not a major problem. But it bugs me as a dog owner that leaves their dog at home.
The data doesn't come from the company, it comes from individual employees who were interviewed.
No, I'm pro fine, as long as it's reasonable and has a max and no minimum so a judge can cut a poor person who just didn't know the law a break. But jail just seems crazy, especially in a place like California where the prisons are bursting at the seams.

> As to public health campaigns and other public concerns: are we any good at those?

There's some pretty good data about education/campaigns and teen pregnancy if you care to google for it. Basically, yes, it works.
I'm in medical school right now, we talked about metabolic disorders and the role of the hypothalamic nuclei in obesity. Wouldn't be that hard for a medical student who remembers what microglia are to extrapolate from there. I also agree that laymen can indeed read these kinds of articles, if comfortable with the content. If not, there's plenty of secondary sources commenting on these new findings.
I don't know how obvious that is a priori. If you asked a subsistence laborer what the effects of sitting all day would have on their health you might get a different answer.
Well, I wasn't speaking to codified law, as referenced in your linked article. However, perhaps I over-simplified a bit in the interest of brevity when I wrote "singular mission".

Still, I think it's commonly understood that for-profit companies are, well, profit-driven. And, that most investors invest with an interest in making money. So, companies are largely oriented in this direction.

Perhaps people like Friedman helped to define what's considered the reasonable expectation here, and it's kind of a self-fulfilling thing.
I'm going to take a guess and saying your parent comment was being sarcastic.
A little. Sitting is the problem, the TV is just the means.

Just remember, you can start trying to change the habit today even if a very litttle bit at a time. The past is done but now is ready and waiting.
Sorry for being unclear. My point to was that the vast majority of "chivalry" is in no way rooted in real physiological differences while trying to also highlight some small exceptions. Chivalry is mostly crap but also that you shouldn't avoid helping them (or anyone) when it makes sense. You shouldn't treat women any differently than anyone else who is in a similar situation (I do jujitsu so I have good grip strength and have helped both male and female friends open pickle jars as a weird example).

EDIT: I guess what I'm trying to get across is that it's not your gender or ethnicity that makes you treat someone a different way, it's who they are as an individual. I think that the idea of "chivalry" runs generally counter to this.
> The popularity of C had absolutely nothing to do with DOS.

You might want to read popular programming magazines from the early 80s, and the attention given to C on DOS. (It was enormous.) At one time, I counted 30 C compilers available for DOS. What other platform came remotely close to that?

> The most popular languages on early PCs were BASIC and Pascal.

BASIC was indeed popular, but generally not for professional programming. Pascal had nowhere near the penetration of C in the early days (1982, 1983, etc.). Microsoft Pascal 1.0 was unusable, the top C compiler was Lattice C.

> The popularity of C is linked to UNIX, from where it was brought to DOS.

Unix was nowhere remotely as popular as DOS.

> The far/near pointers did not play especially well with C view of pointers as integers of some fixed size.

As a DOS C compiler writer, I can attest that near/far mapped very well onto C semantics. The C Standard in 1989 was very careful to not upset that.

> The 32-bit flat memory model made C programming somewhat closer to what it used to be in UNIX.

That was much later. But since you brought it up (!), 32 bit DOS extenders were in wide use on DOS, and were programmed with C. I don't recall Pascal ever existing on them, but perhaps I misremember. C was also popular on the 16 bit DOS extenders, I don't remember Pascal on those, either.
And why aren’t there more dog-friendly restaurants, bars, music venues, and
other businesses? There are nearly 90 million pet dogs in this country.
That’s a huge market, but also a huge problem when us owners act
inappropriately. As animal lovers, creating and supporting dog-friendly
businesses should be our priority. Acting selfishly to the detriment of
others will not create a more dog-friendly future. We want to be able to
take our dogs to more places, more often, but we have to make sure doing so
is appropriate and doesn’t infringe on the rights and well-being of people
who need real service dogs.

I don't understand this remedy. How will making it easier for the average Joe Public to take his ill-behaved pet everywhere make it easier for those with disabilities who require service animals? Won't that just make it more likely that service animals encounter other animals which interfere with their duties?

I think the real answer is to actually have certifications and licenses which effectively differentiate service animals from ordinary pets. Right now, there's pretty much nothing that anyone can do to prove that their "service animal" is actually well-trained enough to be in a public place without causing trouble. So, of course, people are abusing the system in order to get their ill-behaved pets into public areas. The solution to that problem isn't to make every public area open to pets, the solution is to have a clearer way of differentiating well trained service animals from ill-behaved pets.

EDIT: The main fallacy that I see in the article is that it seems to be treating pet ownership as some kind of fundamental right, and sees the "fake service animal" phenomenon as a way that people are exercising this right without working to change the system to make the exercise of this right easier. I don't agree with that worldview at all. Owning a pet is a privilege. If you find yourself in circumstances that are routinely unfriendly to owning a pet, don't own a pet.
I'd wondered this, too. My first (wrong) assumption was that the author was aiming for a different license with the Windows version, but it's GPL.

If I had a guess, aside from "because I wanted to see if I could", it might be because of inherent differences in the way the OSes behave with regard to filesystems[0] would make a re-implementation from spec work better (faster, more reliably or whatever), though the author goes quite a ways to point out that he's used none of the original source, as if to state it's a clean-room implementation and I'd speculate (wildly) that though there are likely more than a few differences in Linux/Windows' APIs, there is almost certainly a lot about how btrfs works that isn't different when implemented on both platforms. These APIs would affect how the code is designed, and attempting to port by converting API calls that are Linux specific and plugging in similar Windows API calls could lead to a less-ideal implementation than if one read the spec and designed it targeting the operating system's API directly[1].

And then there's my original, wrong, assumption: if this individual is the only author, and it appears they might be, it does give him/her the ability to dual-license it later; i.e. offer a commercial license which doesn't have GPL-related requirements or switch it out to a less restrictive Open Source license if the author so chooses.

[0] I'm not an expert or even a n00b in this area. I, almost completely, know nothing about filesystem API differences between Linux and Windows since I don't know either the kernel interfaces for Linux or the Windows APIs related to the filesystem at any level having never written anything targeting that technology, directly.

[1] A former project that I built a long time ago comes to mind where I tasked with porting a tool to change what it used for storing records. The technology I started with had no concept of saving array records to disk, requiring a separate write for each record. Non-ideal, but not terrible because the technology was optimised at doing many small writes. The new target could accept an array of records and write them all in one call. I did a "compatible" re-implementation, replacing calls with their equivalent in the new record store and the performance made the product unusable. It wasn't until I redid all of the record I/O with the target platform in mind that things started working properly.
Did you just compare error logging and backups to toxic pollution?
I concur. I have the keywords "cryptography" in my resume along with "NSA Suite-B Algorithms".

The amount of blockchain and cryptocoin startups that contact me are absolutely insane. They immediately assume that because I have the word crypto somewhere in there that I am working exclusively at cryptocoin startups.
You could also create a licensure program for ESA's. Issue specificly branded vests or collars, require specific training, registration, and certification. This way if you want to use your animal as an ESA, you can, you just need to be able to register and pay the fees. Those fees might dissuade a lot of fakers.
"not very responsive"? I'm responsive. I mutter things like, "Shit, why does it seem that the amount of lag in my computer's response to my inputs get worse and worse as its physical components get faster and faster."
To create an external index for the existing collection, I need to get pointer of the item stored in that existing collection, compute a key, and put both into the HashMap<tKey, tValue*>

So, I need to do both. And also, I need to know when these pointer expire so I can rebuild my index when it happens.
No one thinks its free of any effort. But $10 wrist watches claim 100m waterproof (whatever 100m means in watch land). All I want is my phone's screen not to mess up when if my buddy pushes me into the pool. 2 ft of water for 10 seconds. That's it.
Attempting to quantify the obvious is noble work. Haven't you seen how popular those sorts of articles are around here.
I don't have an ESA so I can't say firsthand, but my understanding is that in California, the Disabled Persons Act has this effect. Intuitively, I think the idea is that when your doctor certifies that you need an ESA, the reason is that you have a disability, so a landlord rejecting it would be illegal discrimination.

Edit: I believe this only applies to housing, not restaurants or other businesses.
I don't think OP was saying that. The pump asks Y/N if you want a receipt before you pump, but prints it after the pumping.

That said, you do specify the amount of gas if you're paying cash here in the US. You go inside, say "here's $20", and the pump will dispense exactly that.
The rest of the questions seem valid though.
No, because most systems facilitate interactions. Do you get to erase transactions from other people's accounts? Messages from other people's inboxes? Posts from other people's comment threads? None of these things are obvious.
Why is this trending?
I used it (1st edition) for self study.just a datapoint.
Hey, article author here, thank you for passing by!

This is correct but misses the point of the article. The idea is to introduce the Actor Model to people unfamiliar with it, using one of the most popular languages out there.
The Sox didn't have many choices - you can't deflate a baseball.
Also in Italy, if you pay cash at the pump you have to specify the exact amount. And woe to you if you over estimated how much you'll need < there's no change.
I spent $200 two years ago to register my dogs to avoid non refundable pet admin fees and pet rent. It's saved me almost $5k in bullshit charges.

When landlords stop gouging, I'll stop finding loopholes.
HN is most definitely not compliant. Are you happy to see it go?
Seems like one of the main problems here is people who are treating dogs (like TFA author) like people or like children replacements.
DXing
There are a lot of examples like this. That timing gear in your linked article is one example. The rear emblem (and trunk key cover) on a 90’s Nissan Altima is another one. They have all fallen off by now. Crappy pot metal?

Either way, it wasn’t intentionally designed to do that. There was no engineer that said, “Hey, let’s juice our parts revenue in 5 years by making this hinge really weak.”

EDIT: Thanks for that article, though. I could see myself getting suckered into a good deal on a Benz. Now I know why the price is so low.
Can't you report them if they never have paper?
Oh, I'm not talking about property taxes, I'm talking about protecting other people from the evils of shadow, or from observing any evidence that they live in a major world city in 2017 and not a quaint Midwestern town in 1950.
I suspect someone is already playing the idea of implementing support for it, but if NTFS is any indication, it'll take a long time before anything stable exists.

There's also less motivation for implementing this filesystem in Linux at this point. It's available only on Server and Windows 10 Workstation (at least for creating -- I believe Win10 is able to read/work with ReFS in any version). It's not feature-complete yet[0], missing some important ones like deduplication. It's quite new, so there isn't a lot of it in the wild, reducing the need to make a compatible implementation for interoperability (probably the #1 reason for making a compatible version; #2 being to have a cool new filesystem with features that don't exist in currently available offerings). And being proprietary, it will almost certainly be a very difficult thing to write -- much like NTFS is/was.

[0] Not a show stopper - NTFS evolved over time, as all filesystems seem to.
Flying taxis are getting closer as Lilium raises a whopping $90M Series B Round
So, this only works if your friend has npm already installed?
>You've got people bringing home $150-350k/yr plus every imaginable perk

So now you've made this assumption.

I get what you're saying, but you also have to understand that there are people willing to give up salary for more free time, and these people are therefore allowed to ask for fewer hours. There's no entitlement here.
It's part of the game, as is beaning batters to fix it. The Baseball Codes is a remarkably good book about it all. I'm not a baseball guy but I think the white sox were caught back in the day with a groundskeeper in the scoreboard with binoculars flashing a light to indicate the pitch.

I'm lead to believe there are more dimensions than just pitch speed, which is a gigantic aid. Most pitchers only have a couple pitches and placement is big too, you can put a fastball inside to back the hitter off and then have a better outside strike zone. Possibly combined with the catcher talking some trash to the hitter. It's an emotional game
You can get Irudium or Globalstar today in 9600 bps of glory with rain and cloud fade issues.
I phrase it "Stop moving, start dying."
Ummmm it's not cheap, but it's easy to implement and the price tag per-unit is way lower than a large steam energy plant. So, very misleading headline, because the cheapest cost per MWh is by far coal or natural gas.
True, but you can cork a bat.
Travel with ARKit, Core Location and ML
Do I need anti-virus software on macOS?
> any stats? I'd say it's the opposite. It would seem to me people want things to work, first and foremost.

It is important to test these kind of assumptions. That's the reason why A/B testing and other analytics tools are used(not to mention communicating with the end user).
It doesn't seem that primitive to me. You already have connections for other utilities. Even in my home, I prefer to run Ethernet rather than deal with Wifi issues to various devices.
> keeping the values in a Box<T>
> for keeping a value in more than one collection would be to use a Rc<T>

Indeed, both methods are simple and elegant ways to approach the problems.

The bad thing with both of them is performance.

Box<T> means when I need to iterate through all values in a collection, I’ll get random memory access for each item. Rc<T> is even worse, not only it’s RAM read latency per item, also ref.counting overhead per item (AFAIK even when reading stuff).
I wonder if the author has considered connecting it to more sophisticated models. Carykh, for example trained a lexical RNN to read transcribed MIDI, specifically training it to learn jazz.
There is a "sort-of" port (you were correct in saying a "similar thing for Windows"). It's Dokany: https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany

Keybase.io and sshfs use it, currently. Personally, I love it. I'm sure you're right about performance limitations, but there are very good use cases for it, like Keybase Filesystem and sshfs, where any latency introduced by the driver subsystem is less likely to be felt due to the latency of working with files over the network.

Interestingly, a set of the insider previews of Windows broke Dokany so badly that launching the driver caused everything to hang (hard -- all but the mouse stopped responding to anything, even CTRL+ALT+DELETE). It's tricky stuff, apparently.
A friend of mine used to work in the newspaper industry, and told me that (in New Zealand, anyway) "pupil" refers to high school or lower, and "student" refers to tertiary education.

Not sure if that applies elsewhere in the world, or even if it's still a thing in New Zealand.
I would be interested to see whether the increase in earnings was also accompanied by a proportional increase in risk. That is, are entrepreneurs also more likely to declare personal bankruptcy than non-entrepreneurs? Every story I've heard of a wildly successful startup has included the founder taking on personal debt to fund the company rather than letting the company die. This, anecdotally, seems to indicate that founders are, in general, less risk averse and thus enjoy greater average returns.
The reason hackers get Sony is because they installed rootkits in everyone of their window's consumers. Then they apologized, released a "fix" that only hid the rootkit.

Besides, it must be fun to keep hacking the same company and seeing that they haven't changed anything in their IT.
Here is the problem - you are a restaurant owner and someone walks in with a dog wearing some sort of blue or red vest with an official looking logo. What do you do? If it is a real service animal, you don't want to grill the poor disabled person for the dogs paperwork, you want to be a good guy, so you do nothing, and bunch of dog owners abuse that goodwill by bringing their dogs places they shouldn't.
Do the Rust embedded developers all hang on an IRC room or something?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15180649
And I'd say that saying "not now" n times gives Windows fair warning that now is not a good time.