skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> allows an individual to own almost an entire Hawaiian island

I have collected some context about the largest private landowner on each of the Hawaiian islands, which I believe people may find interesting. They are sorted in (decreasing) order by size of the island.

Kamehameha Schools owns ~12% of the ~10,000 square kilometers of (the big island of) Hawai`i.

Alexander & Baldwin owns ~20% of the ~1,900 square kilometers of Maui.

Kamehameha Schools (same as above) owns ~12% of the ~1,500 square kilometers of O`ahu.

The Robinson family owns ~15% of the ~1,400 square kilometers of Kaua`i. (This is probably the island intended by my parent comment, as Mark Zuckerberg owns ~3 square kilometers there, or 1/500th of the island.)

Molokai Ranch owns ~35% of the ~700 square kilometers of Moloka`i. It is currently for sale for $260 million: http://www.businessinsider.com/hawaiian-island-for-sale-molo...

Larry Ellison owns ~97% of the ~360 square kilometers of Lana`i (under the name "Pulama Lanai").

The Robinson family (same as above) owns ~99% of the 180 square kilometers of Ni`ihau.

There are no private landowners on the ~115 square kilometers of the smallest of the eight traditional Hawaiian islands, Kaho`olawe.
Who let the libertarians out?
I have a US perspective so I'm interested in why this ruling was made. If the driver doesn't want to drive on a given day, there's no one he has to call. There's no approval of the time off. He just won't get paid because he isn't doing work.

In the US, one central tenant of being an employee vs a contractor is that your employer has power over your schedule, working location, and your work methods, which I see none of in Uber (which I did drive for back in 2016.) Uber drivers are allowed to drive for other groups and have other jobs.

So what basis was this decision made, if not "they are complaining and the right thing to do is something, plus Uber=bad?"
The flip side of this is that if Uber considers drivers as employees they could also prevent them from driving for their rivals.

I think the shift toward the "gig economy" is going to see the creation of a third classification of worker that sits between employee and contractor, likely with the negatives of both. The financial services sector has a version of this by employing large numbers of contractors indirectly through body shops. I wouldn't be surprised if we go that route here too with Uber/Lyft owning the platform yet deferring employment costs to a separate company. Their providers would be businesses, not people, and to sign up to be a driver one would apply at one of those businesses.
Why is this downvoted? Is there significant evidence to suggest wikilieaks was in fact not compromised?
Exactly, I am so happy that there still a good amount of "reason" within the EU block to oppose this sort of pseudo capitalism. Which in essence is just exploitation in that it feeds a tiny amount of shareholders while letting the Gov/populace pay the bill in terms of infrastructure.

Same reason tax evasion by corporations should be ended since it not only devalues society but actively feeds on it while undermining the positive potential that a managed free market actually allows ALL players, not just the few that have gotten too big to fail.
OP, check out the Fabled Lands gamebook series (there's a fan-made Java app which has the six books currently published of the planned 12-book series, which also nicely handles all the bookkeeping). It doesn't solve your "interesting combat" problem, but it is the only case I know of where traditional IF (paper books, no less!) has done a truly open world RPG.

You can for instance become a sailing merchant just by buying a boat and trading at the various ports. Or you can pursue various quests. I ended up being a street ruffian because I found a loop that involved me getting jumped in an alley and beating my attackers which was surprisingly lucrative and repeatable.

There are also some quests which actually change the state of the world (this is done in a book by having you write a word on your character sheet and then directing you to different sections depending on the words you have on your sheet).
Market Makers.

These are the guys that "make the market". It's their job to buy and sell the shares they manage (are market makers for).

This is why you can open an order for stock X and always get filled -- it's at the price _they_ set.

This means you don't have to wait (for days/weeks?!) for a buyer/seller for that block of shares you want to sell/buy -- you buy/sell them to a market maker and they take it from there.

These guys run a "book" of orders and it's based on this that they offer prices, their goal is to have a balanced book and not be overtly long or short a particular stock, but they do for certain periods of time (think during the day's open trading session).

In practice you'll discover that MMs have ultimate power is guiding a stock's price, they can hold buys and sells until it's optimal for them.

Essentially, you're not competing against other buyers/sellers in a free open market, but against MMs who hold all the cards.
Read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15353142 for starters.
Apple uses a minimal ME firmware, but it's still there.
Threadless: From Community to Marketplace
Ask HN: Stories of software projects helping non-S/W companies' bottom line?
We all have stories of failed software projects at non-software companies, often due to those companies thinking software is easier to build than it actually is, then either not staffing the team properly, not giving them enough time, requesting half-baked ideas, or just generally mismanaging the project.

Does anyone have any success stories of software projects at non-software companies?

Were you hired to write software at a company where the primary product is not software, then did your work measurably improve the financial well-being of the company?

How did you do it? Is the project still being used in production? What did you learn along the way? How did the rest of the company react to your work?
Stock market education, stock market tips and stock market signals... Scammers are making millions out of well educated people... A lot of investigations into the dark world:

https://www.tradingschools.org/
I'll give a try. Someone else can correct me later. These guys have used a JTAG f debugging dongle to access the Intel management engine. They can now read every bit of code. Which means that secrets stored within the code including keys and bugs are available to them and anyone who can replicate their work. Since the management engine is in nearly all of Intel chips, we're screwed.

AMD have something similar so no help there.
Have a look at https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/01/intel_amt_me_vulner... - it seems the Active Management Technology platform firmware module isn't deployed at all on Macs
Make panel position configurable (Visual Studio Code)
Observing the A11's Heterogenous Cores
Quick question: how about exercise and prevention? Not saying the exoskeleton could be replaced by exercise, but simple scapular and general mobility exercises will do wonders to prevent this type of injury/fatigue/pain.

Example video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgxr6xAB5ZM
On an unrelated note, did anyone hear about any answer from Intel to Prof. Tanenbaum's open letter? It's high time they pulled their heads out of the sand and started explaining the whole issue.
This is a funny variation on "Explain to me like I'm five years old".
It would be hilarious if the reason for the Kaspersky ban is because NSA can't tell whether it's Russia or the CIA behind the hacks.
Not in the sense meant here.

Litecoin is a fork of the Bitcoin core codebase, but its blockchain is not rooted in the Bitcoin blockchain (i.e. Bitcoin owners did not automatically inherit Litecoin at the time of that fork).
Well, the "in the eye of ... with no proper evaluation" argument can be had for a lot of other aspects of software development and product management, doesn't it?
Wikileaks sort of lost all credibility the moment they decided to become a tool for Putin and Co
The iPhone X UX is a nightmare
At this point I can't help but let my imagination loose. I assume it would be rather academic discussion, but anyway... Would that be possible, at current state of technology, to replace entire factory plant with robots? If so why no one is doing it? If not, what are we missing? What could be the implication of such work force shift?
This is too important a topic to treat with such glibness. If I'm wrong please prove me wrong, with some economic theory or data.
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I still don't get it. This is clarified in the very first sentence of TFA. Why do you think it needs to be stuffed into the title?
If they do it well (I mean like Mint developers, not like Gnome developers), they could get free dedicated beta testers of their products who would hopefully help them to find and fix the bugs in the new releases of macOS.
That's very interesting, thanks for sharing your experience.

Re: youtube clips. I don't do that, but when I call a customer service to complain and ask for a change that I know will not be well received (e.g. cancel cable) I always start the conversation by saying that I am recording the conversation on my side. And to "confirm" what you wrote, it's not unusual that after exposing my problem/demand I'm put on hold for 5/10 minutes while the employee is fetching the "domain expert to help with my problem".
Promises? Cancellation? The whole point of a Promise is that it must resolve to something eventually.
I believe that politics is a cancer. It demands attention, refuses to relinquish control of conversations it becomes a part of, and only very rarely does it contribute anything beyond a lot of yelling back and forth. Once you have brought up Politics, you can rest assured that friends will become enemies, and the conversation will never turn back to the topic at hand.

I understand the urge to bring politics in; the world around us seems to be falling apart because of political schemes. I simply do not care. If you really want to throw fits about capitalism and communism, or throw up a pithy quip about Trump et al., do so in a separate thread, possibly an Ask HN ("Who's your favorite liar?"). I'm going to go enjoy the fact that someone's working on mass-producing a powered exoskeleton.
This is called the Perfect solution fallacy.

For most users the choise is not between a 50% proprietary product that uses an MIT library and a FOSS product that is 0% proprietary. The choice is between a 50% proprietary product and a 100% proprietary product and you are trying to take away their choice of the 50% proprietary product.

Complete eradication of proprietary software is not the expected outcome of MIT licensed libraries. The goal is reduction.
You must have exceptionally good eyesight. For someone with 20/20 vision, 5k is the limit of resolvability for a 90 degree angle of view. A typical cinema configuration gives an angle of view of between 45 and 60 degrees in most seats.

Going beyond 4k in digital cinema projection will have some benefits, but they won't be perceivable by the majority of people in the majority of seats. In the extreme case, someone with perfect eyesight sat on the front row can see up to about 11k.

A far bigger issue is the deprofessionalisation of projection. The overwhelming majority of cinemas no longer have a fully trained projectionist. As a result, serious errors in projection are commonplace. There's a huge amount that can go wrong between the DCP and the screen; without a trained person in the projection booth, it's left to the patrons to notice if a film is being projected out of focus, in the wrong aspect ratio or at the wrong brightness.
I hope some better OCR comes along. I use Nuance and either I have confused it with my training file or it makes some very dumb decisions. It seems like is should scan something that it sees as "wi1l" or "s0mething" and realize that it isn't very likely that someone would put a number in the middle of a word or put random superscript in the middle of a word.
It's even better when it has one of those really old-school 3 or 4 digit only counters.
Given the likes of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15353027 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15269832 , it is not beyond the bounds of possibility.
I second the recommendation. Wirth's compiler book is a wonderful, concise and very readable introduction.
I think, roughly, the government can't really stop you encrypting stuff but it's fairly easy for them and a bunch of advertisers to track what you are up to online.
I completely agree. However, when we talk about power users who love their system and depend on it to work - and macOS is often used for development work - it's just feels natural that you at least try to fix the problem yourself, and if the fix works well, it's also natural you send it upstream.
What is it going to take to let people offer to work for whatever wage they want? A ride sharing dApp on a blockchain? Or is the British government going to ban peer-to-peer networks too?

>>When are we going to let companies pay their employees Slave wages, you mean.

So it's okay if they offer to work for a "slave wage" as a self-employed small business owner, but if they work through a third party, then it's not okay? How it taking away an option in their interest? You're reducing the avenues through which they can sell their labour, which cannot possibly be to their advantage.

>>It's not going to happen - we tried that before, and it didn't work. Remember the industrial revolution? Real good working conditions and pay in those factories, eh?

It worked incredibly well. Wages grew rapidly throughout the industrial revolution. What do you expect would have happened if a $15/hr minimum wage were instituted in 1875, when per capita GDP was $1,000?

>>The universal basic income.

It doesn't make sense that people should be denied the freedom to offer to work for whatever wage they want until universal welfare is implemented.
The whole Darwin FLOSS distro thing died a long time ago.
This is pretty straightforward es6. The difference between =>{} and just => is confusing at first. One is a function body and the other is an implied return statement.
Intel CPUs have an embedded supervisory CPU called the Management Engine. It can read all of memory, control power states on the main CPU, and generally has super-root privileges on everything. You, an end-user, aren't allowed to program it. The current MEs run a form of Minix. They represent an incredible security and privacy risk, because we don't know what code they run and it is widely believed that the NSA or other intelligence agencies have backdoor access. Remote backdoor access, even: the ME can talk to the network.

A JTAG is a standard minimal serial port used for debugging purposes. You'll find them on nearly all embedded devices - routers, phones, TVs, refrigerator controllers... usually appearing as a set of two or three contact points. Sometimes they connect directly to a debugger.

In this case, it appears that at least some Intel CPUs have a JTAG on the ME that can be routed through the on-CPU USB handler, and thus physical access to the right USB ports can be used to access the ME.
YouTube restricts 'creepy' videos aimed at children
>Uber is struggling to achieve proper profitability

oh no, what a travesty.
The HN comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12191456) don't inspire much confidence regarding the error rate.
I understand the situations you are describing and I still have the impression that the main problem behind this is inadequate leadership (and probably at several layers...).

There are more than enough Real Programmers or lacking soft eng who are not experienced or knowledgeable enough to know when to use C/python/go/sql/etc but again for me the problem is either whover hired them and whoever is managing them.

I also more than agree with the last sentence.
Your code failed to compile but this one[1] succeeds. Side effect of your way is that it now makes the project requiring C++14 but i can live with that.

[1] https://github.com/mhogomchungu/tasks/blob/4210a8fad57958fad...
>>The sharing economy always was about exploiting workers (and externalizing costs), and this has created an additional cost for society.

That assumes better jobs would exist if these didn't. This is the Nirvana fallacy.
Show HN: Open Data Visualization Markup Language
> The sharing economy always was about exploiting workers

Define "exploit". Depending on the definition, you could argue that all economy is about exploiting workers.
I live in a rural area (only 2 neighbors within a mile), and have a 50/5 Mb internet plan through a fixed wireless provider. The tower is about 5 miles away and is uplinked to another tower at least 20 miles away. This, along with Verizon LTE as a backup, allows me to consistently work from home.

Last year the best I could get was 15/5, and a few years ago 10/3. So it’s definitely changing for the better.

Warnings for those thinking about fixed wireless: they tend to turn off tower equipment to prevent damage during storms, your connection can be over saturated at peak times, you may have to pay overages (on non-business Plans, but significantly cheaper that overages by cellular providers), and line of sight and distance from the tower can prevent service.
Rules on whether you are employed or self-employed are a bit grey in the UK and open to interpretation.

https://www.gov.uk/employment-status/selfemployed-contractor
Correct me if I'm wrong, but these patterns don't seem very much like a Redux way to do things. A lot of things feel somewhat implicit too. For example, I stopped just spreading my state into the child component, opting to be explicit nearing verbose instead.
Trying to imagine time flies, here. Generally, I hate flies. I imagine that time flies bite something. But what?
The North Korean Threat: War, Deterrence and Diplomacy
The problem is differentiation from background.

A release from NK or Russia, by the time it hits your Geiger counter, will likely be so low that it will be lost in the noise of background radiation. And local sources (such as radon gas) would mask anything but significant nearby events.

The reason why France identified the release is because their detectors can determine different radioisotopes.

It's a little like the difference between a photovoltaic cell and a camera. Your Geiger counter can tell when the "light's on" (presence of radiation) but it takes a different instrument to determine that it's Ruthenium 106.
> You can't legislate [...] the value of pi

Amusingly someone (inadvertently) tried: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
It's at least somewhat unclear whether relicensing can happen anyway even in the absence of a CLA. This question came up a bit at the time of GPLv3 introduction when there was some question whether Linux could relicense even if Linus wanted to--which he didn't. Lawyers like Eben Moglen argued that there were legal theories under which it might be possible. [1]

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/linux-to-gplv3-a-practical-matter-...
Why We Ditched Slack for Basecamp 3
You make assessments with no basis and you want others to answer to you with economic theory and data?

EDIT: Parent comments have been heavily edited.
Yeah, this is just TLA overload.
> For them, it’s a lot of hassle and disappointment. Imagine investing five years with someone and then they break up with you. It’s just easier to schedule two hours per week to interact with an ideal boyfriend.

I fail to fully relate to this sentiment. I get that a failed relationship that you've invested huge amounts of time in is heart breaking. It seems logical (albeit unhealthy) to thus stop chasing real relationships. What I then don't understand: Why is having a fake relationship preferable to one that might go south?

Either the "real" relationship turns out to be "fake". In that case the one that is "fake" from the beginning is no better. That is, the upshot is no true soulmate in both cases. Or, the "real" relationship turns out to be great. In that case the acceptance of uncertainty will pay dividends.

To me it seems that these people don't actually want a real relationship because no real relationship can come with the limited amount of attributes they desire. It's like they're complaining about an awesome Italien Pizza because it doesn't match a frozen one.
Why are you asking anyone to prove a negative?

There is no evidence that WikiLeaks has anything to do with Russia. None whatsoever. Whenever I've asked people why they think this, they give two reasons:

1 - WikiLeaks hasn't published leaks about the Russian government.

2 - Assange did some TV interviews on RT years ago.

These are both laughable. Assange himself gave the obvious explanation for (1) - they haven't done that because they didn't receive any. And it's equally obvious why not: WikiLeaks arose to handle leaks of material that the western press were refusing to publish for unsatisfying reasons, like the Iraq war stuff. But the western press would salivate at the opportunity to publish damaging leaks about the Russian government, assuming the original holder wanted the info to appear in the west and not in, say, Russian. So why would anyone with such material care about Wikileaks? There is no reason for them to do so.

Regardless, attempting to divine intent from things that have not happened is hardly a good standard of evidence to use when making serious accusations.

As for the TV interviews, well, RT is a large scale news channel that has interviewed tons of different people over the years. Appearing on a TV channel is hardly evidence of working for the related national government. Otherwise everyone who appears on the BBC works for the British government, anyone who appears on Al Jazeera is in the pocket of Qatar and so on.
Julian Assange continues to be a beacon of freedom, accountability and hope to those who believe in a future not run by the military industrial complex. Evidence enough for me.
Fast and Furious: Payback (trailer)
Mixed-mode execution (interpreter+JIT when justified) isn't the only way to go.

.Net doesn't work that way, for instance. Unlike Java's HotSpot, .Net never interprets CIL instructions. They're always compiled down to native code for execution.

At least, that was true in 2009, according to Jon Skeet - https://stackoverflow.com/a/1255832/2307853
Doesn't help if you don't know what ME is (I didn't). But a sibling comment explained it well.
I tend to think that encryption should not be regulated, but I don't agree with your analysis either; it's too dismissive of a much more nuanced reality.

You can very easily make it so all consumer devices ship with software that only uses encryption that the government has escrowed keys for. You can require app stores to have the same requirement. The government requires all sorts of things of people who manufacture products. Of course, they can't regulate the 3d printer or CNC mill in your garage, but that doesn't make regulating mass-produced products a futile effort.

Yes, some people will get around it. They will use open-source software that they download and install themselves on devices that allow sideloading apps. But no one in the government expects perfection out of this. They expect that most criminals, most terrorists even, are not so sophisticated, not so careful, that they will avoid being ensnared.

Remember that the situation they are trying to avoid is one where EVERYONE'S texts and phone calls are by-default hopelessly inaccessible to the government, even with a warrant (or in the case of foreign targets, even with the most sophisticated HUMINT and SIGINT).
This is amongst the silliest things I have ever read.

> I simply do not care.

Right, so you live in the kind of comfort and privilege that allows you to detach from society and the political process. Acknowledge that the vast majority of people don't have the same privilege.