skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electronic access, phyiscal access...it sounds more like it was a "routine" disposal of sensitive information 10 months after the election.

United States national ballot records must be kept for 22 months, and then they are likewise disposed. Florida kept (keeps?) its ballots especially long after the 2000 recount.
nice. great clear thorough code snippets on homepage. i should try it. why "tamber"?
They move those shelves and aisles around and every wal-mart I've seen has 50 ft ceilings.
Do they scan your ID? If not, I'm surprised someone hasn't come knocking about this...
As cheap as cameras are these days, it would almost seem more cost effective and reliable to just put a camera every few feet on the opposite shelf.
Thanks for the example!

To be completely clear, this is what I meant:

Suppose this is the function we want to document (using examples modified documentation tests:

fn foo {
let x = 5;
let y = 6;
println!("{}", x + y);
}

Suppose we have a documentation requirement/heuristic of requiring the comment to have all the variables that are declared in the body of any given function. Then a comment like this would pass because whatever compilation step /processor sees that `x` and `y` both appear in the comment.

// Prints x + y

This would fail because `x` is not found:

// Prints z + y

This would pass but is not useful/misleading/wrong.

// y - x FTW!!!

This example is trivial and only uses the one simple heuristic such that it is both onerous and useless, but it would force the writer of the code to also write comments in accordance with said heuristic. In this particular case, if someone modifies the variable name, adds a new variable, or removes and existing once, then the compiler would force that individual to make a necessary change to that particular comment such that the comment cannot become stale (but the heuristic is bad, so it could still be useless :) ).
I can't comment on the worldwide situation, but it's pretty clearly the main AU + NZ driver and it's one that's very easy to address; removing the tax perks would be fairer even if it had no effect on prices at all anyway, so it's a win win scenario.

The only difficulty (and it's a biggie) is that actually doing something meaningful on housing affordability requires knocking down prices and that's political suicide, so nobody is willing to do it.
If I'm thinking about calling someone I'll check their IM status, not look at the clock.

If I'm going to a store I don't visit often I'll have to look up their opening hours on a map anyway. Whether that says it's 08-20 or 16-04 couldn't matter less.

And that's before getting into the even more ridiculous stuff:

> First of all, we need to straighten out some terminology. The terms "a.m." and "p.m." (ante meridiem and post meridiem) are strongly deprecated now, because they refer to the position of the Sun, not of the clock.

So use 24-hour time? Somehow the rest of the world manages just fine.

> So, you have to say "solar noon" to refer to the instant when the Sun is at its zenith, and "twelve hundred hours" to refer to the instant when the clock reads 12:00. Similarly "solar midnight" and "zero hundred hours". And you have to use the twenty-four hour clock, it's the only way to be unambiguous.

12:00 is just an arbitrary time anyway, and even now it might not have much to do with noon anyway, depending on where you live. Hell, look have a look at the arctic circle, where noon (or day/night) doesn't have much of a meaning anyway.

> Even in the best case scenario, it is impossible to retroactively scrap time zones. The past will always exist, and the people who lived there will never adopt your new standard. Nor can all of past history be renumbered. The history of timekeeping will remain exactly as complicated as it always has been, and the zoneinfo database can never be abandoned.

Do you also refuse to use epoch timestamps, because they can't represent dates before 1970? Sure, you'd need to handle zones for historical data, but that'd get progressively less relevant the further away from cutoff you get.
False. You don't need to pay to read the laws, but you do need to pay if you want to read a private groups annotations to the laws, which include things like judicial rulings. The annotations are a value add and not required to understand or practice law in GA. You can also access the judicial rulings and all other sources which the annotations are derived from for free, but you would need to put the work in yourself to compile that data.
Emacs does some things better and some things worse. There is no Silver Bullet or free lunch. Language support is one of the things it does better than your favorite IDE. If you want to write code in Graphviz's Dot and Standard ML and Erlang and Clojure and C and Python with a consistent user interface, Emacs is a viable option.

Many IDE's also provide Emacs-like keybindings as does Bash by default. The ability to maintain a consistent user interface may or may not be worth the Emacs learning curve. Org-mode is another thing that may or may not be worth the curve.

Good luck.
Same thing here. I use 24 hour system anywhere I can. Converting it isn't an effort for me. But I wish everyone around would use it.
Our Co. has been using this for a few months now and it’s seriously awesome - has saved our devs about 100 hours of work...paid for itself 10X over and seeing a bump in user time in product
Got my popcorn ready for 2.15PM AEDT.
That's wonderful. Thank you for sharing that.
That's not even the top problem with electronic voting in my book. Counting is.

If there's one central machine crunching all the raw data, you can bet your ass that every APT out there is going to be looking at the possibility of completely changing the outcome of the elections.

The way this problem is tackled with ballots is rather simple: way too many people to bribe to change the outcome.
> The server’s data was destroyed July 7 by technicians at the Center for Elections Systems at Kennesaw State University

I'm willing to bet that there was a whispered conversation between somebody in authority to a subordinate, promising to protect them if they'll take care of it.

Let this be a warning to everybody: you need to cover your butts. The pressure can be really great in situations like this, but if anything hits the fan you better believe the manager will toss you under a boss.
What are some concrete activities that would constitute blighting of the land value?
The 20 minute wait was excused by your willingness to accept the offer of automation.

I visited a Walmart last week and notice they had converted 1/3 of the normal checkout aisles to self-checkout stations. They left the conveyor belts in and I noticed how people still used the conveyor belts the same way whether there was a line or not, unloading each item onto it before scanning them all.
To be fair, it was likely doomed whichever way Winnie went, because both outcomes would have still had Winnie in there.
Exactly: Popular speech requires no protection; the principle of free expression (and free speech laws) protect unpopular and hated speech.
I may be being naive, but how is that different than including Google Maps JS lib on your page? I assume that component is just a wrapper around the GMaps JS lib?
Is "not real communism" still the go-to counterpoint? Can we excuse the failures of Nazism and fascism by saying they weren't real fascism? I don't think so. Judge political ideologies by their results, not their lofty intentions.
When they want to discredit BLM, pundits (e.g. Hannity) just show the video from a few years ago where there are black people chanting, "pigs in a blanket, fry'em like bacon" while marching. They play it over and over again and claim these people are all violent. Yes, it's illogical, no, they won't stop.
I must be lazier. I use `gitst` for `git status`. That is 1/6 shorter and IMO not harder to remember.
Questions..

Is this a white-label service, in that any URLs used within product can point to our own domains?

Regarding product lock-in:

1) Are future pricing changes tied to specific already-released versions of products?

Example: Customer installs version 1.5 of software. Licenses are validated every week or two. Service pricing changes, vendor comes up with some other solution but it takes 3-6 months for customers to move from 1.5 to the new 1.6 version of product without Keygen in it. Does the software vendor then have a choice between breaking license checks for existing installed customers or paying the arbitrary rate increase until they can get all customers updated?

2) Assuming vendor can whitelabel and provide their own URLs (maintaining control of them), if a transition off of Keygen is necessary, would you have any issue with your former customers (vendors) using an API mock that provides identical response to avoid breaking their own existing customer installs?

Example: whitelabel license check API goes to vendor website, who passes through to Keygen and returns response back to software. Vendor stops using Keygen, replaces the pass-through to provide an API mock. Existing software license checks continue to validate without requiring a software update to prevent the license check from failing.
I'm happy to discuss this further -- my life-passion-project is to see decentralization through -- but fear I've overstepped my bounds in this thread and am taking away focus from the project at hand, which I am a supporter of.
Canada closed down a foreign-worker program. Now I see help-wanted signs in all these stores and some stores are closing down or scaling back service. I don't think Canadians were clamouring to work at a Tim-Horton's, ski hill or farm.
I believe that b) is the key issue here. They need the cheap labor so it needs to appear that the PhD will get you somewhere. In the end only industry is benefiting from being able to hire highly trained people without have to pay anything to train them.
I haven't seen any sympathy for Antifa on HN.
Damn, wrong thread and I can't figure out how to delete from my app :P
Incoming Euro privacy rules torpedo domain registration system
Is this suggesting that this would rely on browser implementation?

... Is this serious?

What motivation do browser-creators have to implement this? Google wants the javascript widget so they can properly track everything, among other reasons. Who would back this? Who would develop this?

This isn't like playing a media file, this is a highly interactive piece of content, with a metric shitload of complexity behind it. I don't think the author really understands the scope of what he is asking.

Although if you feel I'm mistaken, please enlighten me.
It's easy to jump on the bandwagon and blame foreign investors. But aren't locals voting as fast and as hard as they possibly can to prevent development of the new housing we need? And aren't locals making tons on real estate speculation, too, or are you saying there's some great secret that only the Chinese know here?
use https://ngc.nvidia.com/signup/register
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For the USSR, what is the counterfactual? In retrospect, economic growth in the USSR was not particularly impressive compared to other poor, industrializing economics (which historically have often performed very well due to catch-up effects).[1][2]

Yes, China has experienced dramatic GDP growth over the past 40 years. By coincidence, 39 years ago, Deng Xiaoping began reforming much of the Chinese economy based on market principles.[3] Not necessarily a glowing recommendation for top-down, centrally controlled economies, especially considering the preceding few decades, which featured more central planning as well as economic stagnation and famine death tolls in the tens of millions.

[1] https://artir.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/all19301.png

[2] http://voxeu.org/article/stalin-and-soviet-industrialisation

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_economic_reform
Exactly, I quit after a Science and Nature paper, just didn't want to do a 2nd postdoc and prioritize a tenure-track job over everything else in life.
How would you know where to add them if you can't see where they are and what is around them?

That's a big crux of the article, the browser shouldn't have/get to know where you are.
You seem to think that electronic price labels is a new unproven technology, while it is actually extremely common and well tested. After the initial introduction period, where errors can occur, it's pretty much guaranteed to work as flawless as it does everywhere else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_shelf_label
scobles refutation of quins allegation is a motte and bailey argument. quinn has accused him of grabbing her breast but instead of addressing this allegation he instead has redirected the argument to him making out with the other woman.
Here's some threads I can find about it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6wn655/remember...

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6wp8p6/what_a_l...

Upvoted quotes: "What a fucking idiot.", "What an Imbecile.", "Did he just commit self-harm just to get attention? What a retard.", "That's pathetic. Disavowed.", "On the bright side, someone stabbed him."

If you think that is what T_D is about, you obviously haven't spent much time there.
Walmart's online business is booming and its offline retail business is still four times the size of Amazon's retail business. Walmart's online retail business is about 30% the size of Amazon's and growing twice as fast. Walmart apparently isn't going quietly.

"The discount chain reported on Thursday that U.S. online sales rose a staggering 63% in the first fiscal quarter of the year, following last year’s overhaul of its online marketplace"

http://fortune.com/2017/05/18/walmart-online/

"Wal-Mart’s e-commerce sales grew an impressive 60% y-o-y in Q2."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2017/08/18/e-...
Docker for Linux != Vagrant/Virtual Box

Docker for MacOSX (Unix for idiots) == Vagrant/Virtual Box
Are there any statistics that compare this to some similar existing software?
This Russian Collusion hysteria is going too far. Yes, Russia has experimented with daylight savings under Medvedev, but Massachusetts shouldn’t overreact and leave the Eastern Time Zone altogether!
Maybe not 100% but what fraction of PhDs are professors, maybe 3-5% at most, what about fraction of MDs working as medical doctors, I'm guessing its much much higher (with higher wages) since they limit enrollment in school and residencies (they don't rely on cheap grad student/post-doc labor).
I rarely get useful assistance in large chain stores. Asking "where is the pesto?" usually gets an answer like "I dunno, somewhere in aisle 7 maybe" with an indifferent shrug. I'd happily make three attempts at using a clunky voice interface if I got the answer "Aisle 7, bay 11, shelves 3 and 4. We have 18 different kinds of pesto currently in stock. Would you like me to take you there?"

It almost seems too obvious to say, but computers have different strengths and weaknesses to humans.

There are also social factors involved that may be advantageous to machines. Self-checkout machines offer an objectively worse experience most of the time, but a lot of shoppers prefer them. Some customers don't want to interact with a human cashier. Some will be buying embarrassing items and prefer the apparent anonymity of self-checkout. There's also a subtlety in how the self-checkout machines are arranged - because there's usually a common queue for several machines, customers don't feel pressured to finish their transaction quickly.

Shoppers may prefer being assisted by a robot for a variety of reasons, even if the robot isn't quite as good as the average human worker.
Sure, but that doesn't help you get closer to a fully automated customer service bot. Probably this is just an initial step, the simplest thing that can still be useful, while gathering data and building expertise in the development team.
The OWASP Top is killing me, and killing you
That's literally what your parent commenter is getting at...
Is there an easy way to generate a TOC from an existing Markdown file?
Strictly speaking, most people wouldn’t even understand your first sentence.
47 points, 122 comments.

flagged.

Yup, sounds like HN.
"If you want to understand the severity of the situation, I suggest just literally googling "homelessness housing crisis bay area" and read all the both qualitative and quantitive reporting done on the issue."

As a resident of the bay area I assure you that I read about this topic every single day - and consume a wide range of reporting and editorial.[1]

"... the rent went up 100% in one year. Needless to say, they are facing a housing crisis where they will be homeless."

That's not obvious at all. Certainly that's a very difficult situation and I suppose it is technically true that they will indeed be homeless as they physically move their bodies to their new home ... but there is nothing at all new or noteworthy about people making rational economic decisions about what they can and cannot afford - and voting with their feet for new locales.

The only thing that's new (and this is something I encounter more and more frequently, especially in the bay area) is the idea that not only is housing a basic human right but housing in an arbitrary location without any consideration of ones actual economic status is a basic human right. This is, I am afraid, absurd.

I am open-minded about the notion of housing as a human right. I completely reject the notion of housing wherever one most prefers[2] as a basic human right (or any kind of right whatsoever).

[1] 48 Hills, for example.

[2] Where you grew up, where you raised your kids, where the cool restaurants are, where the artists are at ... etc.
> There cannot be a Bell Labs ... [today]

Google's R+D arms are arguably in the same broad category as Bell Labs was when it started out. We just need to wait 50 years to see if we will view them the same way in hindsight.
Good luck getting the IRS to accept that "good" accounting choice. In fact the reported statements can be different from those used to calculate the actual taxes paid. But even if the SEC is more flexible, there are still limits on what can be done. They are still reporting capex much higher than net income, if they expensed everything off they would be reporting billions in losses every quarter.
A huge amount of user-facing software is glacially slow, and not for any particular reason other than indifference.

https://youtu.be/k56wra39lwA
It is infinitely frustrating that because of this - that developers only ever build at worst medium end housing - that you either end up with roommates and no privacy or way more square footage than you need on your own.
> What? No, what's that about?

From TFA:

"Update 2015-04-18 -- I suppose I should finally clear this up: The autocorrect functionality I originally described here was a feature of the first Linux systems I ever used, so I assumed it was how every Linux system worked by default. Since then I've come to understand that it's a completely optional extra doodad."
There are Transferable objects (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Transferabl...) so you at least don't have to serialize the data between workers.
I think a similar thing would have happened in the US during the Great Recession of 2007, however, the US government was willing to back all of the banks who were holding underwater mortgages. Had the government not done this, the banks would have been forced to unload property at fire-sale prices.

10 years later in major metropolitan areas, property prices are even higher than they were in 2007. Most likely the Federal government would pursue another bailout during a housing "collapse".
yeah but 10% is huge when you consider that's all inflow, not people selling one house to purchase another, not to mention historically low vacancy rates in both cities.
Anecdote time!

I bought a water softener at HomeDepot about three weeks ago. Initially went to my local Lowes where I had checked if one was in stock and at the store. Yes and Yes. Get to Lowes and there is no water softener, as the website indicated. Lowe's employee checked the back as well, wasn't there.

There are many problems with humans doing this "inventory business" at $10 an hour or so. The professional counts that happen once or so a year by outside agencies wouldn't be necessary otherwise.

To be fair, I've had issues at Home Depot as well... lots of; "The computer says there are 2 in stock... I have no idea where they are."
Not always possible to leave for home earlier (with meetings and such)
What I find most disturbing is the viewpoint underlying this article, an emerging faith in AI and a magical ability to divine things about the world, with no discussion of its strengths and limitations, its false positives, false negatives, true positives, etc.

It's starting to approach that point in the adoption curve where skepticism fades and people think of it as the solution for (or threat to) everything, rather than as a tool that is good at some things and not at others and that has characteristics like accuracy. With AI and the widespread blind acceptance of our surveillance society, that could be a dangerous point of view for the public to embrace.
The object approached our solar system from almost directly "above" the ecliptic, the approximate plane in space where the planets and most asteroids orbit the Sun, so it did not have any close encounters with the eight major planets during its plunge toward the Sun. On Sept. 2, the small body crossed under the ecliptic plane just inside of Mercury's orbit and then made its closest approach to the Sun on Sept. 9. Pulled by the Sun's gravity, the object made a hairpin turn under our solar system, passing under Earth's orbit on Oct. 14 at a distance of about 15 million miles (24 million kilometers) -- about 60 times the distance to the Moon. It has now shot back up above the plane of the planets and, travelling at 27 miles per second (44 kilometers per second) with respect to the Sun, the object is speeding toward the constellation Pegasus.

Sooooo cool! I wonder if the system of origin will eventually be determined?
What's your definition of a Nazi? It's difficult to talk about a word that has a fuzzy meaning.

To some elements of the the modern left (i.e. Antifa), it seems like anybody who does not agree with certain ideologies, such as "Equality" (in the Identity Politics sense; again "Equality" has a fuzzy meaning), is equated with being a Nazi.

To paraphrase what I wrote above, the White Nationalist (aka "the Nazis") movement only gains followers due to the prevalence of Identity Politics being used to affect policy benefiting certain minority groups. White Nationalism is Identity Politics for White People; seeking to use politics to benefit White People and/or creating a white ethno-state. Are you seeing the connection?

Is this any different from groups such as La Raza, the Black Panthers, or any other ethno-state group? If so, how?
It was Dallas, not Houston.

>Most of the politically-incited violence of the past few years has been left-wing.

Is this claim based on data or anecdotes?
This great. I’ve got an Alexa app I built (https://www.daycarrier.com / https://www.amazon.com/robbinspaul-Day-Carrier/dp/B01M993V1H) that tracks this stuff via Alexa that’s I’d love to try and integrate with this!
Interestingly, in the rest of the world people have been using both systems interchangeably for many years without giving any thought to it (after kindergarten anyway).
"Further many residential properties are owned by LLCs and other corporations that allow them to lock in low taxes by never selling the actual property ..."

I think you are talking about prop 13 and the ability of corporate entities to benefit from the provisions of prop 13 which I agree, is completely insane.

But prop 13 is limited to California and I know of no other states that have anything comparable.
Most of Arizona doesn’t participate in DST [1].

[1] “Daylight Savings Time explained”, CGP Gray. https://youtu.be/84aWtseb2-4. Skip to the 5 minute mark for Arizona.