skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, this is not a poor hardware design decision. It makes sense for certain systems to have a power buttons, other systems don't generally use one (e.g. routers). Power down strategy is left as an implementation for the user. Read-only systems have many advantages and I wouldn't consider them a "hack".
tell him 'bout mailinator
I agree completely about the attitude, but would blame a different group of people. To put it in terms as blunt as yours: when people are told lies from morning till night, and kept in cages for eighteen years until they're too broken to tell the difference between lies and truth, the real culprits for the disastrous results are not the victims of these policies.
They also provide regular database dumps so it should be easy to match up the files to their content.
Doesn't the SSN already encode the general area where it was issued (usually place of birth?)

https://www.ssn-check.org/decode/
I want to say Duolingo does something very similar to what you describe.
That’s clearly a straw man argument.

A) The federal government doesn’t ban gambling.

B) As far as I’m aware there isn’t a single place in this country where gambling is/isn’t allowed for those with specific net worths.
To fairly evaluate the value of these things, the company would need to provide you with additional data. E.g. if this were a public company you'd want to know the total number of these units, and how profit would be split between these units and other things (dividends, reinvesting profit in the business, options for senior executives, etc).

You'd also want to look over the financials of the company from a few annual reports to get a feel for if this company was likely to even have any profit.

Since this is a young startup and they are not willing to disclose information that would let you estimate fair value of these units, regard them as having zero value.

Make sure you get paid in enough cash + bonuses with contractually agreed conditions (Non discretionary) + benefits for the total comp to be competitive with other options available to you.

you could suggest in negotiations that the profit sharing units allocated to you vest over a number of years so they could serve as a tool for retaining your services and aligning your interests with the business in the long term, but not as a factor in evaluating your compensation package.

(you don't have to point out it will be an ineffective tool if there is no profit/the units are constructed to be otherwise worthless)
A free email service.
"from a static binary to a monolithic JVM app"
When the mitochondria are fermenting sugar instead of burning it, the cells don't have enough ATP to fully repair themselves.
Been thinking about that, might as well be zero
No, I think that the socratic method can be much more intensely infuriating because it's clear that the teacher is withholding the answer from you. (FWIW, I use the socratic method a lot... so I'm definitely familiar with students getting mad at me.)
Well, as actasabuffoon pointed out in a parallel post, there is an argument to be made that this wouldn't work very well in the modern setting. But yes, if we're going to change it, we need to amend the Constitution.

For example, the amendment could say that "militia" means the National Guard, and that is in fact supposed to be a significant fighting force, with military-grade weapons and people trained and ready to use them. And for personal use, people can have weapons sufficient for self-defense but not for mass murder.

But for that to happen, we've got to persuade 3/4 of the state that that's the correct answer. That's a pretty tall hill to climb...
The Tea Party was itself a Koch funded operation, and has not, in fact, destroyed the Republican Party’s corporate crony capitalist agenda (which has been highly visible under Trump, even when Bannon was near the center of power) though that movement and related develooments create liud, highly visible distractions behind which Republicans continue to advance that agenda.

> agenda, but by that time Citizen’s United has passed and perhaps half of the corporate shills or so fled to the Democratic Party, which is now also captured.

The height of pro-corporate domination of the Democratic Party was before Citizens United; the neoliberal wing of the party, while still dominant, has been losing ground for some time.

You seem to echo a lot of the propaganda that Bannon likes to put out, but you shouldn't mistake it for fact.
It's the new COBOL.
Yahoo 2013 data breach hit 'all three billion accounts'
Twitter users appear to track Navy ships using newly activated beacons
Because it's a term that means nothing but makes for good marketing.
Singapore's medical community scares me a little bit. Despite having implanted metal in my body, an orthopedic surgeon wanted to give me an MRI anyway. It's completely absurd, I got a second opinion and fortunately found a doctor who agreed that would be extremely dangerous. It's true that the first doctor did not cost that much; it's also true I got what I paid for.
I think it has very real real-world usecase. The question is if it is good solution.
I'd have to dig around to find it - but Snuff and chewing tobacco manufacturers actually changed their manufacturing process to being their product nitrosamine levels within the standard europe uses for snus production.
A UUID would be just as bad at the end of the day and be more of a pain in the butt. There's nothing necessarily wrong with having a short-ish identifier, like what we already have on state-issued ID's for referencing a certain individual - but ideally we should move on from this number being a password to being equivalent to a actual identifier. Smart cards are ubiquitous these days (you probably have one in your wallet, assuming you have a debit or credit card on you) - that identifier should be associated a public key and your ID card holds the private key, if your card is stolen the key is revoked and a new one issued.
Hopefully the drone programs under president Obama disabused them of that particularly odious and arrogant fallacy.
From your URL

> Lung cancer mainly occurs in older people. About 2 out of 3 people diagnosed with lung cancer are 65 or older, while less than 2% are younger than 45. The average age at the time of diagnosis is about 70.

[honest question] Could this have any impact on the perceived priority of studying lung cancer? (i.e., you're already near EOL when diagnosed with it?)
If I'm of sound mind and choose to die, then who are you to stop me in the name of "preserving life"? Life has value, but so do personal rights. Every human has the right to life. I don't see any reason that they shouldn't also have the right to decide when to give that right up.

> So, if you want to institutionalize murdering inconvenient people, go ahead and make your case.

That's the exact opposite of what is being discussed here: Murder is a disgusting violation of personal rights.
This is great! While the headline uses the absolute dollar amount to attract eyes and look big, I am more impressed by the list of results in the article. Previous awards from Mozilla have led directly to improvements in Tor, Python documentation, Kea DHCP, and security audits of NTP services.

As someone who donates a small amount to Mozilla monthly, this makes me feel good about my choice.
Oh alright go on then ;)
Incidentally, almost half of Singapore's population are foreigners. And if you are not a citizen, you do not get proper health insurance there that covers things like pre-existing conditions. This is in stark contrast to many other nations in the world where legal residents, whether citizens or not, get the same care and treatment.
Quite a lot of lobbying to prevent anti-smoking laws all over the world is done by the American tobacco industry (Marlboro is a particular offender). To be clear, some EU countries (Germany especially) have had a bad track record with smoking legislation as well as EU lobbying. But usually they are lobbying for the goal of protecting an EU directive from being passed that affects their own country (which is effectively just standard lobbying).

But I don't recall stories about Reemtsma trying to interfere in Australia's laws about anti-smoking. Marlboro did (they failed spectacularly, but that's a separate topic).
On the other hand his displeasure with the discovery process as handled by Uber is not what you want to hear from a judge, if you’re Uber.
I was interested by this story, so I did some more googling, but as far as I can tell there are only two sources of information about the Cagots on the internet. One is a widely copy-pasted article by the author Tom Knox promoting his book about despised peoples, and the other is the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britan...). Might be worth following up on the books cited in the Britannica article.
Is this belief based on any knowledge of similarities of the alleged infringing product? Judge Alsup seem to disagree with you since the end product that Waymo sued Uber over seem very different:

"Waymo alleged that Uber had stolen its trade secrets and had been violating four patents. Waymo had people signing, under oath, statements about how they could tell the patents had been violated. It's now turned out that the patent claims have completely vanished. They've been dropped. The expert you had was way out of bounds. There was no patent infringement. I think when Waymo got into this case, it thought it was going to go into the files and find an exact duplicate of the Waymo files. As it turns out, the product is dissimilar in a lot of ways. It may even be a vast improvement over what was going on Waymo. So they've come up short there."
No,my point is that as a small country especially like Singapore, it is easier/more-flexible to optimize healthcare etc comparing to US, it is not as diversified as US population and thus much simpler to manage/plan/organize/control etc. While it definitely is a good example, many scheme there might not work at a large scale.
Isn't it redundant? I understand Japan's system is somewhere in-between Switzerland and Singapore's.
If one company sells anything to another company, that sale is taxed as income like any other sale. So yes, if Yahoo sold 3B records, that would be taxed, and the recipient company can choose to book that purchase as an asset on their balance sheet and will likely expense the purchase. Hell they could even choose to depreciate the value too for as long as they follow GAAP.

OP mentioned his data alone, which isn't worth squat unless the transaction says otherwise. Meaning, if OP sold his data to a company for a taxable amount, he would be taxed on that income.
Most surprising is peolpe placed so much faith in the figure of enigmatic Satoshi Nakamoto
Also, what if somebody links to an enormous, hundred-megabyte sized image?
Every business will then continue to just use social security numbers since everyone is guaranteed to have one. Half measures won't work, that's how we got here in the first place.
> In a moment of true dystopian chaos, the official Equifax Twitter account repeatedly tweeted a phishing link, mistaking it for the breach response page.

It wasn't a phishing site, Wired. It was a site designed to point out that their approach is susceptible to phishing. Entering data in the form gave you a scolding.

> The Equifax Breach Exposes America's Identity Crisis
When asked by multiple lawmakers why Equifax set up this separate site, Smith said that the company's main domain was not architected to process the enormous traffic the company knew would come its way after the announcement. In all, Smith said the independent breach response site has had 400 million consumer visits, which would have crumpled the main site.

They could have done a subdomain and pointed it at the site.
Sure, and they'll hold their value even in this scenario. But (other than the hedge funds) I suspect many people investing in these ICOs aren't big investors in those, and even among those that are, I doubt they'd like to see their checking account become worthless.
I don't tend to think of hard realtime as "systems programming". It's related in that a lot of the good languages for one are good for the other, but they don't seem like the same fundamental problem space - note that almost no OS kernels and even fewer base userspace layers (libc or equivalent, coreutils or equivalent, etc.) are hard realtime.
It’s Only Cannibalism If We’re Equals
On one hand, it is worrying, but on the other...

There is also a labeling issue. A Facebook user looking for news about the Las Vegas shooting on Monday morning, or a Google user searching for information about the wrongfully accused shooter, would have found posts from 4Chan and Sputnik alongside articles by established news organizations like CNN and NBC News, with no obvious cues to indicate which ones came from reliable sources.

...it’s 4Chan... is that not a clue? Where is the line betweeen attempts to deceive, and just dealing with the human LCD?
Most of the world does this, here in NZ the government bulk buys most of our medication through an entity known as Pharmac. They often buy off brand medication from India for instance instead of the branded equivalents.

One of the best things about the US removing itself from the TPPA is the fact that one of their conditions of entry was the fact that Pharmac would have had to buy branded pharmaceuticals from US companies rather than the Generics that we usually get which would have increased the cost that the country pays for pharmaceuticals massively.
IRS awards multimillion-dollar fraud-prevention contract to Equifax
I'm not sure. It would create holes in the code, and it tends not to be a good thing for the cache. I also don't know how branch prediction will react with that.
I suppose it should be tried and tested.
Test accounts.
I live in Western Washington and Swedish Medical operates a number of hospitals in the area and they are very, very nice and plush on the inside. Their Issaquah hospital has carved stone entrances to the operating theatres - it's crazy: https://www.daycpm.com/swedish-issaquah-medical-campus/ https://www.alights.com/swedish-issaquah-medical-center-0

Google Image Search for "Swedish Seattle birthing" and the childbirth suites resemble 5-star hotel rooms, complete with in-room hot spa.
Regular sauna use could slash men's hypertension risk
Yes, and the country they were fighting against labeled them "Rebels" and tried to kill them.

The point I'm trying to make is that there is no way US Law would explicitly allow a means to destroy the USA (via the second amendment or otherwise).
I in agreement with jsonderulio, but think of it this way. Just because you may end up doing a lot of "Big Thinking Generalist" work, it may be a difficult sell to go in thinking that title would exist.

Are you a good fit as CPO, CTO, etc and then the your capabilities as "Big Idea Guy" can be leveraged from those positions.

Think about it another way, how many company CEOs or Boards have ever thought "What we need is an Big Idea Guy".
I paid a home inspector $150 for a professionally administered radon test so I could be confident in the results. I wouldn't trust something so important to Amazon as they have a lot of counterfeits. Also, if you sell your home you want to show the results to prospective buyers.
Can you get metal implants which are safe for MRIs?
They've already achieved their goal of completely shutting down Ubers program.
Using websocket looks like overengineering because HTTP/2.0 allows to use a single connection for multiple parallel requests.

Using React to build a simple (student level) site like HN is overengineering too in my opinion. If you don't want to reload the page when navigating you can just reload HTML content with jQuery or fetch() without using client side rendering, without draining device battery and without loading 1 Mb of Javascript that will take much more space in RAM.

SPA approach should be used for interactive applications able to work in offline mode, able to provide rich experience on mobile devices etc.
We've had this same conversation since the start of the industrial revolution. Each time, people have insisted that this time it was different and sure to be the end of civilization. Famously, we called them Luddites.

As for predicting what jobs will be made available, that's a fool's errand. Nobody would have been able to accurately predict the many jobs we regularly do today. At one point, the expectation for the total number of programmers needed, across the globe, wasn't more than a few dozen. Yet, loom where we are today.

Back when I was young, in the 1960s, a common horror and science fiction trope was computers putting everyone out of work. The trope included such gems as the big brain eliminating entire office staffs and those people being unable to get work elsewhere.

The trope was so common that the first programmable computer I touched was called a calculator because HP didn't want the term computer to scare people away. This was the early 1970s.

Yet, with each stage of automation, we've improved our overall average lives and been able to make use of the excess labor for new and innovative tasks. I see no evidence, other than hysterics, that this is going to be any different.

If you want to keep people employed for no reason other than as an excuse to exchange money for labor, maybe you could just have them dig ditches? Holding back progress for the sake of keeping people employed is counterproductive. Automating tasks, making tasks simpler, is the point of technology and is what has afforded you to live the luxurious life you live when compared to the lives of people just a generation ago.

I'm not sure where the neo-Luddite trend has been coming from, but it has been strong for the past few years. If you want a suggestion, it is to embrace it and be at the forefront of it. It's not something you can prevent, legally or ethically.

Where, exactly, would you draw the lines? No more cars, because it puts furriers out of business? No more computers, because it puts human computers out of business? No more email, because it puts curriers out of business?

You live in a society created by the fruits of technology. You're happy to post your comment on HN instead of using the postal service or private currier.
They tick the right boxes.
Anything that's not affected by magnets, I suppose. Titanium should do it.
Lots of programmers haven't, though.

I get addresses rejected as invalid when signing up for some service at least once a month.
ongoing.org

Tim's been doing this -- and/or his own thing -- for years.

Some technical. Some photography. Some about "the kid" -- or more so, thoughts "the kid" raises.

Write about what interests you. Be careful to say something others will be interested in, and do so with some thought -- if you're interested in "growing" an audience.

Be authentic.
Dropbox's quest to win your heart, and Wall Street's too
Yes, positive. They were test accounts, but still in the production namespace.
USB PTZ Cameras, Australia
> Many libraries have free online access to very large journal collections and are open to the public

Which libraries? I spent a little time looking for that service, and none provided it. IME: Public libraries don't have access to JSTOR or any decent substitute (if there is one). Academic libraries charge several hundred dollars per year for guest membership and provide guests with limited services; none provide offsite access to JSTOR or other journal collections - due to the consistency of this policy, I guessed that it was a contractual restriction imposed by JSTOR.
Response:
HTTP/1.1 418 I'm a teapot
Equifax ex-CEO blames breach on one person and a bad scanner
(Some quick context for those not aware of the initial incident: In May we fixed two bugs in our pricing pipeline that caused some users to see price increases.

Bug 1: we under-reported bandwidth (in particular SSL overhead)

Bug 2: we were not enforcing quotas for all accounts.

For most users, the fixes had little-to-no impact. For a few users who were using the Realtime Database with large volumes of small reads and writes, the impact was large. You could mitigate this impact by updating your client code, but unfortunately a user who had shipped code to their IoT devices couldn’t. This user was also simultaneously forced to upgrade to the Blaze pay-as-you-go plan due to quota enforcement on our $25/mo Flame plan. These combined resulted into a large billing increase for this user. We weren’t quick enough to provide this user with credits due to poor internal communication).

To address these we have (1) worked to make billing more transparent on Realtime Database and (2) are working on improving support.

1a. We rewrote our documentation to add more detail on billing mechanics and how to optimize bandwidth (https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/usage/billing).

1b. We rewrote the documentation for our profiler tool which was confusing to many developers (https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/usage/profile).

1c. We now have better alerting for if/when we find errors in our codebase that can impact their bill (up or down).

1d. We will soon be releasing (spoiler alert) a new monitoring API to let developers directly analyze their database billing and performance data.

2a. We raised the quota on free technical questions from 5 => 10. Questions on accounts/billing/bug reports are still unlimited

2b. We worked to increase Support CSAT. It is up by 15% since the billing issue in May.

Finally, the new database we’re launching today, Cloud Firestore, has daily budgets. You can use these to set exactly how much you’re willing to spend per day (more here: https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/usage#limits) We’ve also got extensive pricing docs: https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/pricing

I hope this answers your question!
"You need to enable JavaScript to run this app."
No thanks, there're exactly zero reasons to have webpage like this JS only.
I was just dropping in with a success story (which is important for anyone trying to quit because it's 1 more data point to reference).

The reason most people fail to quit isn't because they are weak, or anything like that. It's simply because they don't want to really quit.

I know of 6 people (including myself) who quit cold turkey after many years. The only thing we had in common was we were serious about quitting. One other person I knew who quit used the patch, but she was separate from the 6.
Otto was about providing high levels of abstraction but it couldn't deliver, just as much as Terraform.

Terraform also started as a happy path abstraction, then the nitty gritty reality kicked in and suddenly you are no longer abstracted from the platform but forced to code on another platform for another platform. I'm even surprised it took off this much.
This is how it always goes down.

- F*ck your customers over by gross negligence and sheer greed (or stupidity, or both)

- Get caught with your pants down

- Dump your stocks and cash out

- Apologize when customers and media express outrage

- Go to Congressional hearing and repeat the magic words "I do not recall" for every question

- Find 1 low-level scapegoat employee

- Fire that employee and declare that the company is now 'clean'

- Avoid any jail time for wrong doing by paying a fine

- Collect your 'Golden Parachute' = MILLIONS and slide into a new CEO Job.

- Rinse and repeat.

White collar crime pays. Big time.

And almost no-one ever goes to Jail -- unless they have the bad-fortune of being prosecuted by A.G. Preet Bharara (record of 79-0 conviction obtained), which is also not relevant since Trump fired him soon after taking the White House Office.

Related: Here's Preet Bharara's Amazing 79-0 Insider Trading Conviction Score Card - http://www.businessinsider.com/bharara-insider-trading-convi...