skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone#Secret_tracking

(it's from 2011-2015, but still...)
A few years ago I might have thought this impossible. There's a lot of competition on just about all of their services nowadays though. I think the only real thing stopping me from jumping ship is just the convenience of using the same login on all and having them cross compatible.
FTP, but no HTTP(S)? I have a hard time believing that.
He did answer your question.

"But if you do file the case and win $1000, we'll recover alongside you"
But if I put a gun to your head and tell you to get off "my" land that is voluntary?

Property rights don't exist without some form of regulation.
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Needs an example and some diagrams, otherwise, it's just words.

"Don't start without requirements"

Depends on if you even know what the requirements are, some projects are just an idea.
You ask some good questions, but the basic problem is that you're thinking of a visa as being similar to a transferable property interest. It isn't, and the administrative, temporal, and fiscal costs of adjusting immigration status are pretty high for an individual.
>>Don't we have evidence that employers are already abusing their market power to extract rents? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L.... for an example close to home)

Very few firms can engage in such behavior. A pact like this can only be maintained by a small number of very large firms, and only the firms party to the pact will abide by it, leaving the entire rest of the employer market in a competitive state.

Even had the antitrust action not stopped this behavior, it's questionable how much of an impact this behavior had in restraining wage growth in Silicon Valley's tech sector, and how long the pact would have lasted given its informal nature, and the temptation to cheat due to the intense completion between those party to it.

If wages being below the natural, market rate, due to collusion between large firms is your concern, then the right solution is antitrust action. Unionisation in the current legal environment (where unions can affectively hold their firm hostage, and thus reduce labour market freedom) creates numerous unintended consequences that adversely affect industries.

>>In fact, corporate profits are record-high, and wages have been stagnant for decades, suggesting very strongly that the "unnatural" market power

Corporate earning growth is at historically low rates. Wages have stagnated because economic output growth has stagnated. See this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15244901
I've never posted about whitespace sensitivity before today, so maybe I don't fit in the group you're pointing at, but I don't like Python's whitespace sensitivity either.

Not because I want to write everything on one line, but because it's an extra step when trying to understand what code does.

For instance, a piece of code is misbehaving, not being called as part of the block it visually appears part of. In a bracket/paren language I can highlight one bracket and my editor shows which one matches. In Python I have to figure out what the indentation is built from, spaces or tabs, and make sure there's no ambiguity there.

We have developers here that are claiming they wrote things in Python for their PHD, and yet when I look at their code in any language there are tabs and spaces mixed in the same line, with inconsistent indentation. Multiple people have tried to express the issue or teach ways to deal with it, to no avail.

The fact of the matter is that whitespace is by definition invisible, and that makes it hard for people to grasp its importance. Basing control flow on invisible characters is asking for trouble.

To quote PEP 20:

> Explicit is better than implicit.

Brackets are explicit, whitespace is implicit. You only can see whitespace by the gaps between visible characters, and then you have to guess. Is it an actual U+0020 like you see 99% of the time? Is it an nbsp? It it a tab that happens to stop after the width of a space? You don't know until you encounter an error or turn on whitespace rendering.

Was it copied and pasted from www.python-help-7575.com, which uses a platform that favors punctuation spaces? Was it copied from a site that didn't wrap their code in <code> or <pre>? (I see this all the time in comment systems on programming blogs) Should we claim that copying and pasting code in a beginner targeted language is something you do at your own risk?
> This author starts with the implicit premise that change is bad and all conclusions are the result of that.

How did you come to that conclusion? The theme of what I was saying is that projects to be given direction from the stakeholders. I never said anything to suggest that the direction couldn't change.
I'm not even talking about end-user applications. You have different needs as a developer. I need libraries and compilation chains to be up to date.
OK, on the site under the reg info it says to "Verify" you were part of the breach by using Equifax's verification site. Hasn't it already been established that this site is giving (at best) inconsistent results? So if their of-dubious-use tool says I wasn't impacted I have no recourse?

Also, the amounts available in small claims court seems like peanuts compared to my data being "out there" permanently. This is just a general observation--I'm not impugning Legalist with this statement at all. I guess it may seem like small potatoes weighed against the risks, it's not like everyone impacted by this could get appropriate remuneration for the potential lifelong BS caused by this.
Its very high consumption tax. Effective, implementable but harder to get public support for. Cost of living (CoL) would rise. High corporate tax means high CoL. Every percentage increase will make it worse than last percentage. Wages would have to rise significantly. This will discourage business from moving to high-tax countries. People will likely move to low-tax countries.

I can't see how it would be a net negative for those countries that would get a nonzero corporate tax from megacorps that today contribute around zero. Even with price increases, the net effect seems like it would be positive

Because countries are not getting new money. Old money is just cycling between govt and people.
Do you know the difference between even and odd isotopes?
> Basically if you're an adult who lives in the US, you are affected.

How do you prove this in court?

"Your honor, I gave a Dark Web hacker some bitcoin and they said I was definitely affected."
In Germany, this is less. Suppose you are insured through the public system (Krankenkasse) and you have a salary high enough to pay the maximum rate, you pay 365.40€/month (your employer pay about the same amount). If you are self employed, you pay 656.85€ (employer and employee part).

This covers you, your kids and your partner if he/she is not working. If your partner is working, he/she pays like you.

So, imagine you are a family of four, both self employed, the maximum you pay is 656.85€ x 12 x 2 = 15764€/year. This covers 100% of the kids medications, 70 to 100% of the adult medications, 100% of the visit to the doctor and stay in a hospital. You do not have to pay and get reimbursed, you just provide your insurance card and the doctor/hospital will automatically charge your insurance (Krankenkasse).

The system is working a bit differently if you opt-in for a private insurance.

Edit: I cannot reply to the question about the maximum, so, answering as an edit. Yes you have a maximum and the values I gave are at this maximum.
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I've really been enjoying Black Powder
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Let's get 50 people to all start writing a complex payroll system, or critical embedded medical device software, on the basis of their "personal itch" or "epiphany".

When a project or task is individual or trivial, then who cares. When not, a "hack it 'till it (hopefully) works" approach doesn't cut it.

Edit: grammar
Which is exactly why we have to make it easier for people to form and join unions everywhere.
According to google, 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube... every minute.

There's just no way to have humans moderate that. And if we assume they'd only decide on films where the ban was appealed, I'd bet it's still too much to do.

Weirdly, the creator of the film in question said they wouldn't appeal the ruling.
> The fact that we still handle dependencies in 2017 by literally copy-pasting files into each other with #include macros is obscene.

Historically, C++ used includes so that it could be compatible with C. In the future, modules can be used which avoid many of the problems with includes [0].

[0] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/n468...
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Every few months? It seems weird, but HTTP and FTP are approximately the same age: 20-something.
Ask HN: Going back to command-line e-mail on OS X?
I used to love command-line e-mail. Currently my frustration with GUI clients are to many to complain about! I'm moving to a MacBook while I do extensive travel and I want to limit the GUI stuff I have running all of the time.

I know `mutt` is good. I know I can install it via `brew`. What I'm looking for is a current guide to setting up an MTA, having it bring down all mail via POP and then having `mutt` use this.
It seems most resources I find are many years old and needing to apply patch after patch. We are all familiar with the `sidebar` patch.

Is it enough to do:

brew install fetchmail procmail mutt

Then setup each one piece by piece?

Edit: why `brew`? I tend to use it for a lot of packages. It is easy to upgrade and if I get a new machine or need to wipe and reload I can script a lot to get my machine back to the state I want it in.

Edit 2: Also, I am going to try and figure out how to use a YubiKey so I don't have to hardcode any passwords in config files. I'll write this up for everyone's benefit.
Yep, but how about colonizing Antarctica first? It's way easier.
> Unions - the folks who brought you the weekend. (That's a button and bumper sticker.

"Unions - the folks who bought you immigration quotas" would be equally accurate, but I guess they don't want to remind people of that.
They're just screen capped from the actual tables in the paper PDF.
What happened to "fuckedCompany" -- or some running roster of the VCs/CEOs/Execs embroiled in all these scandals.

I am surprised that nobody has put together a list of all these things...
Exactly this. I don't know where people get the idea that government would do this any better. I think the best regulators could do is make SSNs obsolete. A solution where knowing every possible private data point about a person is useless when attempting to steal someone's identity.
This can be another service! You pay me some bitcoin to commit ID theft. I do it, create havok all up in your business. Voila! Damage done, now go and sue.

Money to be made all around on this deal.

Seriously, though, IANAL but I think you're right, I've read a couple other statements to that effect, that you'd have a hard time suing for the _potential_ for trouble. And would a judge require you to _prove_ an ID Theft was the result of the Equifax breach or just one of the other, smaller breaches?
> Remember "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame"?

I hate linking to that site but this will always be golden: Apple's New Thing (a post from 2001) [1]

[1] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apples-new-thing-ipod.5...
I'm getting the same problem
Yep, everyone I knew growing up and my everyone in my extended family doesn't like unions, especially those who were forced to join unions.
Regardless if it's FAKO or FICO score that you are looking at, they are calculated on the same credit history in your credit report (as far as I know). So, even if the scores are calculated in different ways it's reasonable to expect a high VantageScore 3.0 score will also show as a high FICO score too, even if the numbers aren't exact.

Does anyone know the specific differences in how these two scores are calculated?
I haven't heard one decent argument for leaving the UK.
Soviet space shuttle Buran landed automatically from space in 1988 using Soviet-made hardware and software. So I very much doubt that using recent computer chips were essential to land the rocket.
Any options for previous US residents who are now out of the country?

BTW, what are you giving up when you sue Equifax and win? Does winning absolve Equifax of any liability or need to help you in case of future identity theft?
I am a Equifax data leak victim.

How do I know Legalist is dependable and trustworthy so that my personal information is NOT going to be leaked by Legalist again in the future for the second time?

And small claim court filling fee is only less than $100 (in my state it's $35, appeal is $250 refundable). And maximum claim amount in small claim court in my state is $3000.

Is it worthy for me to trust another 3rd party with my sensitive information to get at most 3k (in reality it will be much less and there is also the fee from Legalist).

I personally don't think this is a useful service AT ALL.
Got the same. It appears to be the redirect after a successful submission.
Like I said, you can make a historical argument. Though tariffs were usually based on the value of the goods, so my argument applies there, and land sales (as far as I'm aware) were done by auction, so do not represent net demand for dollars. Not to mention that for most of the 19th century we had some form of hybrid metal backing for the currency.

But in modern times, ~90% of government revenue [1] is from taxes that are relative to income, and thus create no net demand for USD. I don't know when this became the case (at least the 60s), but I suspect for a very long time. The federal government, as far as I'm aware, has no property taxes; those are at the local or municipal level. And there, they are based on the assessed value of the property, so if dollars are expensive, then the taxes are lower, and if dollars are cheap, then the taxes are higher. Because the liquidity is required, you could argue that there's some marginal effect, but given that equity is easily converted to debt at scale, I'm dubious that that would ever be a factor.

In my opinion, fiat money is the closest that we've been able to come to "good" money in a sense -- easily transactable, scarce, fungible, hard to counterfeit, easy to validate. The value derives from these characteristics. The "scarce" aspect is the one that bothers me the most, because it doesn't have the same guarantees about scarcity as something like gold (although it excels at the other points). The notion that money is "backed" by anything is and always has been a red herring in my mind; in almost every case, disconnects between the thing that explicitly "backed" a currency and the currency itself have had little to no medium-term effect on the value of the currency, because the currency typically "inherits" the scarcity aspects of its backing. To what extent cryptocurrencies can succeed is still up in the air, but I remain very optimistic.

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/about/products/budget-economic-data
Were there a publicly-traded company that manufactures small violins (preferably the one that makes "world's smallest"), I'd go long on their stock right now.

I mean, who do they expect to persuade with this? Is there anyone not tied to the adtech industry shouting, "Damn you, Apple, and your assault on open web standards!" 'cuz me, I'm thinking, "without even reading the article, if the ad industry is upset about it, it must be good."
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So the short version is that the C++ committee accepts a partial feature set despite key features not being ready in time?

Perhaps they expect Boost to work round it until the next standard is released...
The whole point of a hypercomputer is not being a Turing Machine. So yes, it can calculate things that are TM-uncomputable.

You can't use it to build a self-contradicting Turing Machine, because a hypercomputer cannot be emulated by a Turing Machine.

There is no "the" halting problem. Each class of machines has its own halting problem. The halting problem for turing machines is very hard. The halting problem for non-cyclic finite state automatons is very easy. A hypercomputer that can solve all halting problems is self-contradictory. A hypercomputer that can solve turing-or-weaker halting problems is not self-contradictory.
This is great news.

I love app engine but one of the biggest issues I've had with it is the fact that memcached and search are not available for anything but app engine standard - python (2.7).

Providing access to both via app engine flexible would be god sent!
Well, and how many are conscious of the fact Nestle owns Nespresso? You're basically drinking mediocre folgers in a pod and paying the premium. No amount of branding will divert from the fact that local, organic alternatives can be had for less.
clearly the answer is to start holding men down so that woman can be equal
Half the way into the article, I felt like crying. Is it just me or is the standards committee actively trying to reduce the number of existing C++ programmers. I think we are better off with boost than learning this new stuff. I hope the people in standards committee will lose their C#/Java/<insert cool language> envy and be more selective in what they want to add to standards.
If you actually look at the routes [1] (as linked by another user [2]) the Glasgow-Liverpool makes some of the most sense. The UK has long term problems with its north-south divide, putting a hyperloop into London and the south will be crazy expensive and meet tons of opposition. Linking the northern cities will be brilliant infrastructure and form a solid backbone for future economic development. Eventual extension to London is also possible with less opposition.

We need to unite Britain, and a northern hyperloop could go a long way to doing that.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/09/hyperloop-one-colorado-...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15250816
>Every gain labor has ever made has been taken.

what about the part where a single person can now add enough utility to the world and capture the entirety of sales and ownership of it without needing to own anything?

1. Isn't that a gain?

2. Who has taken it?

Or doesn't it count as "labor" anymore if you work for yourself? Isn't owning your own work in full, the ultimate triumph of the proletariat?

Piketty has nothing to say on this subject but I'm curious if after "two decades of reading about labor history" and given your participation here on HN (a forum of YCombinator, which enables anyone to become an entrepreneur) you have anything to say about whether this is a genuine gain. I also see you're C-level at upsolve.org - which helps low-income Americans.

Isn't the fact that in my estimation at least 80% of those Americans could theoretically learn to code within 6 months (for the remaining 20% it may be too difficult) and with minimal (or no) financial backing capture some part of some output on the Internet, a source of victory for labor?

If any of those "low-income Americans" build a web startup without funding (through perseverance and learning) then are they now 'evil', and taking from someone else? Who are they taking from in that case?

I am sure you agree that wealth is not a zero-sum gain, and I am sure you see it is difficult to apply theories of exploitation of the working class, to one-person startups.

What do you think about the movement toward a knowledge economy, and a lowering of the barriers to creating value and startups?

I am particularly interested in this because I did not receive satisfying answers from experts in this field. Thanks for any thoughts. (Genuinely interested.)
But that would be on your for misusing the length method. All the built-in and popular libraries would still define length properly.
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https://webkit.org/blog/7675/intelligent-tracking-prevention... has the details.
Wondering if async attribute is actually a thing in 2017. Last time I observed chrome dev tools it seems that async is default behaviour at least for Chrome.
Migra: like diff for PostgreSQL schemas; migrations made almost painless
German public health insurances are often "Körperschaften des öffentlichen Rechts".

While this means that they're "entities under public law", they're typically running on their own, as a type of non-profit company, with board of directors, annual reports, ...

Probably the closest US organization type would be a non-profit under 501(c)4.
Your comment is a little bit snarky. But I have to admit that stuff does put me off
You already broke the property rules if you went on my land without my permission. If I agree to let you on my land and then put a gun to your head, that is against the rules.

> Property rights don't exist without some form of regulation.

If by regulation you mean any law whatsoever, certainly. That's not what people usually mean by unregulated market. When people say "unregulated car market" they don't mean a market in which I can steal your car. They could mean a market in which you can sell me a car without safety belts.

Another example is the minimum wage. Let's say that I want to offer to work for you for $5 an hour and you want to accept this offer. This is a transaction that we would both voluntarily engage in, but it is not allowed by the minimum wage law.

If we include stealing and unrestricted use of guns in the meaning of "unregulated market", then the word becomes all but useless. We have other words to describe those situations.
>Admitting mistakes should be normal behavior for everyone

Agreed. But it isn't, and applauding it is a way to provide moral incentive to those who might otherwise stay quiet.
I generally use Notepad++. Python lets you get away with it, for the most part. Other languages would be a pain in the butt to write whole programs in it.
This looks like an awesome concept. I'm going to fill a profile in the next few days, as I was just updating my resume. Hopefully I can have success as one of the site's early members.
Sure, but my point was that justin probably doesn't want to antagonize a news outlet that's giving his project effectively free publicity.
So, "ambulance chasing" meets "webscale"?
Japan Automobile Workers' Unions has a current membership of about 762,000.

So, no the problem with US manufacturing is mostly a question of MBA's not factory workers. The core issue is companies are not run based on Labor or Capital but a middle layer focused into very short term thinking.

EX: Pensions look great for management as they can jump ship long before the bill is due.
It’s not about agents looking at your phone; it’s about the slow erosion of our rights among other things
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Spice-Up – A native Linux app to create beautiful presentations just hit v1.0
A real shame that Forth wasn't included in the tested languages. Chuck Moore has been an advocate for more energy efficient computation for a while now.
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Oh man, that's a bummer. I think one of the great joys in constructing your own compiler or interpreter is making your own lexer and parser. Doesn't using a pre-made lexer/parser kind of defeat the purpose of making your own compiler/interpreter?
What you call rent seeking another person might regard as sensibly avoiding the externalities caused by low wages. An unfettered market merely pushes the costs elsewhere and we all pick up the pieces.

Your argument surely requires a mythical perfect market without externalities?
As a current Googler, I'm not seeing, or giving any preferential treatment during hiring or promotions.

The recruitment pipeline does seek out women, but they are expected to pass the same hiring bar that everyone else does.