skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grammatical aside -- historically, aboriginal is an adjective, aborigine is a noun -- so you could talk about Australian aborigines, or aboriginal Australians.

Agreed on pest status of kangaroos. They are hugely destructive animals, worse than goats especially as the larger kangaroos can clear almost any fence, plus can do you some serious physical harm if they feel threatened.

There's arguably 4-6 species that come under the heading kangaroo. Then you've got the wallabies (anything not big enough to be considered a kangaroo), and the wallaroos (anything not either of the above). Then a few other categories (tree wallabies, say). I feel the taxonomy is unnecessarily confusing.

IIRC, the biggest problem with roos and droughts are that they can stall development of their young, and then re-start it once the drought breaks -- so as a group they're very quick to bounce back in numbers.

I think your take on firearms and Australians' attitude towards same comes across as a bit loaded.

Firearm laws weren't exactly USA-style levels of free-n-easy pre-1996. The same people that would go out shooting kangaroos pre-1996 are the same people that are able to legally obtain guns with relative ease today. Most of the law reform was around semi-automatic, self-loading and pump action style weapons. So, not terribly high-impact in terms of kangaroo culling by farmers.

I feel that the 'dirty' attitude you're referring to is shared by almost every non-USA society (or at least, non-USA western society), especially amongst those that are informed regarding USA style gun laws and consequences of same.

I'm even more dubious about the correlation of political party's attitudes towards firearms and kangaroo culling. I don't know how trustworthy this source [1] is, but it suggests the four main political parties in 2016 were not against the idea of commercial kangaroo culling. Two fringe groups were against it, but all other parties noted there had 'no official policy'. I don't know of any political discourse that would be in jeopardy by either the current administration, or the primary opposition group, by advocating kangaroo culling.

[1] https://www.voiceless.org.au/election2016_positions
As an information security person and someone that cares deeply about preserving my privacy and the privacy of my fellow citizens I see Facebook / Google / Amazon as sort of existential threats. For them to exist we can't maintain our privacy to a high degree. And as long as they maintain a network effect, even if you do delete your Facebook account, they will maintain a shadow profile of you. You will always be a node in their graph now. European privacy laws and the right to be absolutely forgotten are the answer. As a free human being I believe in the right to be completely outside of any corporations software system and record keeping. There is so much work to do on this front, look at what happened to Equifax. We don't really get a choice about some things (credit reporting), but for everything else, I am going to fight it.

I am going to fight your shitty operating system updates that take away my privacy

I am going to fight your massive personal information sucking network

I am going to use alternative shopping services, no matter how easy you make it for me to click once and have stuff I really like appear in a great user experience.

I am going to fight these things because privacy matters and in the long run without privacy as consumers and human beings with inalienable rights we will give away something essential in there.

It isn't hipsterism. It isn't being a luddite. It mass-scale experiment about how much these organizations can concentrate before people really understand.
Or the proprietary kernel patches and binary blob drivers?
I mean, enjoy your FB-free life, but I tweaked my settings a bit, and I only ever get a notification if someone likes my posts/comments, which is all I care about.

If I open the app after not having posted something in a day or two, it's quiet.
You think they lie to the US government every time it asks them to decrypt phones and they can't?
we call kangaroo sausages kangabangers - havent heard of anyone mixing with pork though
It was displayed as being available for a few seconds before it changed to sold...
A strong argument would at least consider the systemic consequences of commissions, rather than just extolling the assumed virtues in a circular argument. What is their impact on product? On support? Engineering morale? On the customer experience itself? Just a myriad of effects not even considered here when commissions are looked at in isolation, the system be damned.

It's probably very true that it's not plausible to do anything but commission-based sales in this market, and competing with other companies offering so much more money for the same job is just not worth the effort. But it's lazy to assume that their isn't a better holistic model, taking into account the whole company system, and not solely myopic sales metrics.

Edit: is Pluralsight a big enough counterexample? Maybe some food for thought from Aaron Skonnard here: https://www.inc.com/aaron-skonnard/why-sales-commissions-don...
"apples from some other states"

How does that work? Is it for worry about pests, or insecticide use? I thought the US Constitution prevents a state from banning products from another state.

I looked in the online California Code at https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes.xhtml but found no mention of "housecoat" or "house coat". I also found nothing relevant for "robe" or "robes". Could you point out the relevant law?

The section on frog jumping races is at http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xh....

It appears to be in place to allow frog-jumping contests while preventing the frog-jumping contest from being used as a way to get other other laws related to the capture and use of frogs.

Quoting http://articles.latimes.com/2003/feb/06/local/me-frogs6 : "After a thorough legal review, the lawyers discovered a provision tucked into the California Fish and Game Code in 1957 that basically exempts "frogs to be used in frog-jumping contests" from general wildlife rules."

Mark Twain's story about Calaveras County may be the reason behind that law.
Interesting. I my knowledge of hypervisors and virtualization is quite superficial. What makes Xen so bloated?

The seL4 kernel has piqued my interest a lot. Though, shamefully, I have to admit the interest isn't backed by many technical reasons. I'm on a vague, pesonal quest to run as minimal a system (both hardware and software) as possible while also keeping things as secure as possible. seL4 hits both those buttons, philosophically.

Thanks for the links. This gives some good places to turn my interest into actual knowledge.
It's probably super easy for the car to stop and open the window for a person to talk ;-)
> the guarantee that data has been committed to somewhere durable when a write() call returns without an error is a semantic aspect of the POSIX write() API

No, that's just flat out wrong.

> POSIX I/O is stateful

This is fundamental to the authorization model. Authorization happens at file open time. It's also what enables the stream abstraction.

The title of the article is really bold. POSIX I/O solves a common problem just fine (it's not perfect, but not for the reasons given in the article, and we don't know how to do it much better). I don't know anything about the domain the author talks about (HPC), but it seems what he needs is basically direct access to the block device. Or writing away through network sockets / using a database.
I'm within the city limits of a large city in the northeastern US, and I've seen deer on lawns. And since they spread deer ticks over wide ranges, and those ticks spread Lyme disease, they're definitely more than just an agricultural pest. We killed or drove away all the wolves, so now the deer proliferate.
Kangaroos are also generally timid, although there are exceptions. I'd had some chilling moments happening across big males and getting stared down. "Ok, bye" <slinks away>
She looks kind of average really. Yes she is wearing makeup. Is that a problem?

Would you like to perhaps list the types of appearance that you deem permissible?
While I can't explain your result (does this give another meaning to metal umlauts? Edit: Phosphorus isn't a metal :/), it looks like canonical SMILES representation for methane is C (not CH4 as one might naïvely expect, as I did):

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/297#section=Canoni...

https://www.avogadr.io/?background=5f0000&foreground=ce3838&...
It is if you plan on eventually teaching the exceptions.

But if 95% of the students aren't going to study long enough to make it to the exceptions, and 95% of the real world are "exceptional" markets than maybe we should rethink how we teach it.
It's also worth noting that for average users, whenever any sort of "option" is given that can potentially open a security whole, there exists some malware out there that tries to get the user to abuse that option in order to infect them. This always happens, and is the reason so many things on Chrome are locked down and very hard to modify.
I agree. But it's merely the consequence of them being a tech giant whose product is not their user's privacy.
Interesting, thanks for bringing this to my attention! In turn, this raises the question of hyper-hyper-computers more powerful than hypercomputers:

https://cs.stackexchange.com/a/4871

It reminds me of what Whitehead and Russell tried to achieve with Principia Mathematica, to try to eradicate paradoxes altogether using hierarchies of sets, until Gödel came along.
Is it actually a special radio, or just features which normally get disabled by e.g. Verizon programming the baseband? I'm assuming that the "special" radios are simply NOT using crippleware and setting some other registers which could be enabled on many more devices...if carriers played ball, which they don't want to for obvious reasons.
As someone who lives in the area, this is a ludicrous statement. Framingham has one of the proportionally-largest immigrant populations of anywhere in the state, and, by extension, New England.

Statistics to the contrary are out-of-date or highly-misleading/inaccurate (counting Brazilians as "non-Hispanic white" and/or, for obvious reasons, undercounting illegal and non-English-speaking immigrants).

Further the non-Hispanic white population is itself ethnically diverse (Italian, Portuguese, Irish etc) with "English/Anglo-Saxons" a small minority.
> How can they not be liable? How is this not negligence?

The elements of negligence are:

1. Duty

2. Breach of Duty

3. Cause in Fact

4. Proximate Cause

5. Damages

You probably haven't suffered legally cognizable damages (yet). If and when you do, they might well be liable.
It apparently costs the global economy around 2 trillion a year due to various causes

http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/20/news/economy/fat-obesity-cos...
Why do sales people get commissions and engineers don't? Because the sales person knows exactly how much money they bring in and can claim "if I didn't make the sale, that money would not be coming in" even though it's not always true it's a good story. An engineers actions are so far removed from revenue that they can't make a claim so directly. Also, if they did want to claim a portion of product revenue they could just as easily be fired and the revenue would still flow. Such is the delay between engineering work and revenue.
There is no “merely” about it when it is a conscious choice to pursue this business model.
Agreed.

> the small business owners I know usually just milk their business into the ground.

You're right... I see it all the time. It's hard to someone to even want to buy enough to make an offer. If they do... I always try to flip the role.

"how much would you offer for a business that supposedly made $95,000 - in an industry that you maybe unfamiliar with?"

That's what a buyer would pay.
If the system by default without users doing anything said common popular websites were insecure, most users would just learn to click through (no matter how many clicks it took) and generally ignore all security warnings. It's crying wolf. You would have actually decreased overall security.

(Or they'd just switch to a different browser without these problems).

I understand the intent of your suggestion, and you're not wrong in an ideal world, but mass-market security needs to take actual human psychology of non-technical users into account too.
Apple is only shifting the authority to itself. They still have the signing keys and control what you can or cannot do with the device you "purchased".
I'm not so sure about that. Slater spent a couple of weeks with the monkeys to get this photo shot. I would suspect that he also then put the camera into a video recording mode or continuous burst plus time reviewing for a workable frame and then likely some Photoshopping.
> But this quake was different: it occurred within the Cocos plate as it warped or bent, not at the boundary with the North American plate, according to the US Geological Survey.

“The type of faulting that occurred here does not usually produce earthquakes of this magnitude,” says Polet. “There have been others in the past 50 years of similar type and location, but none that was even close to this size.” It is still too early to say why the earthquake was so massive, she adds, but “it is sure to inspire much future research”.

Cause isn't too clear but the scenario sure appears unusual. What vector of pressure would cause a tectonic plate to flex or bend like a drum?
Sowell's book is ideological right wing garbage disguised as Econ 101.
Aren't these atomic writes only a reflection of the fact that data is written out as blocks?
Corporate tax is one of the most damaging forms of taxation in terms of the number and size of distortions it creates in an economy and it is very damaging to national competitiveness as well. But being in favor of lower corporate tax does not preclude supporting various other wealth redistribution schemes to help the poor or reduce inequality.

If the EU is more concerned about the specific case of internet giants rather than multinational firms in general, they could tax this in a much more practical way by having state run internet service providers charge these content companies for access to their markets.
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Meanwhile, the rest of the world probably wonders if they should trust American CA's!

I'm not sure a geographically silo'd internet is what we should be going for. i miss the days when the dream of the internet was prefiguring a borderless world.
I have two thoughts there:

1. Surely very high intermarriage rates between different European ethnicities complicate that.

2. In that case, wouldn't the opposite behavior be expected? If the goal were to have as little genetic variation as possible humans would be better off reproducing asexually.
Because lawsuits aren't about proving you are right, it's more about having enough to get the other guy to settle.
Just a heads up to those who aren't familiar with Austrian economics. It has very different ideas about how the world works from standard economics, and is much closer to philosophy than science.

(They don't really use the scientific method or much empirical work. This is why he used the word derive.)
Oh they actually do. The thing is that people already have all the apps what they need, so there is no regular need to download other apps. But when such need arrives though, they head to the appstore.

The reality in developing countries is actually completely opposite. People in those countries love apps and use WiFi etc. to downlod them in coffee shops/schools/offices... so they can keep using the service only by downloading the minimalistic json instead of downloading whole service with UI/GFX etc. each time they need it.

I tried using some of those PWA now online and they do work better than traditional webapps, however they are still slightly laggish and have unfinished feeling when compared to native apps.

PWA is going to be almost certain flop. It's trying to do almost same what React Native has already done but with PWA you have to convince the users to switch from the secure, trusted, well working apps to "inferior and unsure webapps" and from just pressing the app icon back to the old school "open browser, select address bar, enter address, press enter"-hassle. Changing this mentality that people have build for almost 10 years now is probably going to be as easy as to make Trump change his opinion about the wall.
They currently are, by investing in Musk's companies. Am I wrong? (Lebowski)
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> real money

Posit that most of society doesn't understand how money is created and destroyed. "Real money" is a falsehood as far as most human beings see it.

Cashless has many benefits, watching this phenomenon play out it my home country (quite sure we have more cashless then Sverige), why should typical cash businesses like hairdressers get huge tax benefits from being cash only over the business next door?

Its undeniable that some businesses gain huge advantage from avoiding cards.

If you have a problem with taxation then address that with the powers that be rather than supporting those who sidestep the law at the expense of everyone else.
"fat acceptance is deadly" ≠ "obesity has costs to the economy"

Edit to add: 'yjftsjthsd-h points out that this isn't an apples-to-apples comparison. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15224303) In this entire thread a lot of people are unknowingly or willfully talking past each other. That's the tough part about heated issues like this. Actually taking the time to break down and listen to each other to understand where we're coming from first—even if we don't agree with the conclusions on the other side—is fundamental to us having a useful, constructive discussion.
Until they do this, no one can sell recreational marijuana legally in the state. The whole point of this is that they're making the regulations lighter. Is that really what you're against?
What could the lifetime value of a Norton customer be that they went to such incredible lengths to aquire?
Is a facial expression speech? One of the issues with touch ID is that biometrics aren't protected by the 4th, while passwords and the like are. It would be an interesting question whether a court can compel you to make a certain expression.
My econ classes always started by repeating the mantra "Markets aren't perfect and information doesn't move perfectly, but if it did..." And for the rest of the hour we'd pretend that markets are perfect and information flows like free beer.

Too much time is spent being confused about how oligopolies form to consider that these are never identical market players, and the balance of production inequalities between these competitors may itself define the oligopoly.
Interesting, most sausages use pork fat to keep the meats from drying out. If you don't use pork fat what kind of fat do you add to the kangaroo meat to keep it moist in a sausage?

Also, haha I love the phrase "kangabangers". Sounds like an outback criminal gang. "The kangabangers shot and killed two today."
Where do you get the data for this?
You can compile and run your own software on the device. You can jailbreak it to get the same results. You also have access to the entire internet which should allow you to do nearly any kind of development you want to do and use the browser in your phone as a UI the same as any other computer.

The only part of their ecosystem that has major restrictions is the App store. Which kind of makes sense as that's one of the few ways in which someone other than Apple could completely trash their platform and make alot of Apple's customers unhappy.

I'm not saying your "anti-freedom" point is completely invalid, but it's really not a major concern for most tech-savvy people, IMO.
You have to find a way to measure it though. As long as you can't that it doesn't matter if there are a more holistic way to think about it (my guess is that there are but it requires a lot more data pick-up-point)
What? I don't have context for what else has occurred, but it sounds like the lawyer in this case was objecting to the bond that the judge put on his client?
> You cannot escape the data collection systems in our society without going all Henry David Thoreau.

Or living suspiciously like a drug dealer (without money laundering).
I see what you're saying but I'm skeptical. The point of graphs is to show the gist of a lot of numbers. What's more useful, a screen reader spewing dozens of numbers at you for one of those little graphs or a generalization of what our brains are seeing? "an upward trend from 123 to 789."

It's an interesting problem, to be sure.
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"sweat of the brow" is not a consideration in us copyright law.
I’m in O.C. too. We can road trip it.
Being Australian living in Central Australia, we havn't had an issue until this year, 2 of my friends have nearly had their cars totaled by kangaroos. Hunting licenses should be a lot easier to obtain.
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> They can't show up to all of the cases brought against them.

Sure they can. If a suit is filed for $25K, do you really think Equifax cannot do the math of what a default judgment would cost? If all their attorneys are busy, they would hire more. Even if it had to be expensive temporary help, they would hire someone to show up.
"The cashless society – which more accurately should be called the bank-payments society... is a utopia where money cannot leave – or even exist – outside the banking system, but can only be transferred from bank to bank."

-"In praise of cash"

https://aeon.co/essays/if-plastic-replaces-cash-much-that-is...
I like how he inadvertently admits that engineers are compensated less well in part because they mistake their jobs for something fun they'd do anyway.
Thank you so much for all of that advice!!

It turns out that I am negotiating an offer out in SF.

This absolutely confirms your statement about NYC, at least anecdotally. It's totally crazy, but my value is totally in the eye of the beholder XD
It might be an android thing. In iOS you can ask when you need it, and still use the app if you say no. I've gotten the impression that Android asks everything up front at installation time and doesn't install if you say no, but I'm not an android user/dev so I don't know for sure.
I stayed at swedish hotel the other month passing through Stockholm. In the hours I had to pass I had a few beers at the bar, nearly every Swedish person I noticed was paying with some yellow/orange card, didn't see anyone pay with cash. I don't think the minimum fee is such a problem given that's everything seems so expensive in Sweden - water / food / juice (and of course beer...)
Marinated roo steaks are pretty good. The marinade balances out the extreme lean-ness.
Do you though? At an individual level? The only measurement that matters is profit, which is pretty easy to measure.