skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For all the people that defend this crazy practice: What is a government ID going to solve here?

A new account can be created without an ID (obviously...). They never saw mine. They probably never saw my name (right, anyone can figure out my name. And I am not 100% sure that I never paid by CC instead of Paypal or prepaid or whatnot).

What is this ID going to solve? They don't know how I look like. They _might_ no my Real ID™ (remember that joke, from Blizzard as well?) aka name. If my name is common and I provide a government ID, can I steal all the accounts with the same name that .. never showed a government ID in the first place?

That approach seems so deeply flawed that I don't even understand how someone signed it off in the first place. I certainly couldn't defend this idea - it would need a lot of drinks to be creative (aka stupid) enough to come up with reasons why this might Totally Work™.
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This is interesting, but perhaps the author should also post the serial number of the DX-7 unit used. :-)

I can't remember the details, but early serial numbers have a slightly different sound. They also had slightly different MIDI protocols, including something like a heartbeat. I know because I own a more recent unit.
That's got nothing to do with 'signing into an account in Chrome'.

Chrome supports multiple profiles, which may optionally be associated with a Google account. Firefox has the same thing, minus the Google account.
If you were heavily utilizing the nmemonics provided by those vim-like plugins (I was before the upgrade) you may be quite pleased by the fast minimal experience bought by qute-browser which is basically webkit wrapped in python/qt bringing a browser built centrally around vim interaction (as opposed to a plugin)
Republicans don't cut deals with the commons. Their constituents can fit in a moderately sized ball room. Look to who will benefit by these changes and you will find the reason why they are planned.

Incumbents write PAC checks.
I've been a (mostly) C# developer for 10 years, and am terribly disappointed with the way .NET Core is being managed. Something is definitely wrong when promises are made to assign a developer to the issue, full-time, and then no communication happens after that, for months. All they needed to do is test and merge the hard work done by a volunteer!

These problems are eclipsed by the the marginal success of the 95-99% of use cases that are covered by .NET Core.

One of the lesser-known areas that C# and .NET has shined, involves plugin and modular development. AppDomains and secure code regions are a feature of the runtime. For more esoteric use cases, the classic .NET runtime itself is customizable, with replaceable COM interfaces using the C++ hosting API. This is how SQL Server implemented stored procedures that could be written with C#.

The way .NET Core has treated the issue is tantamount to a betrayal of trust. I understand that they are trying to take things in a different direction, but doing so undermines the other features that .NET provides, and does so well with. Not to mention they did promise to work on, and merge the feature, before leaving people hanging with no further updates in communication. A cross-platform .NET Core that doesn't have this kind of feature is not going to do much that Python or Java cannot do. We should be far more worried about .NET Core competing with .NET Framework, than .NET Core competing with Mono.

Is Microsoft trying to provide a good tool, to empower developers to build things that could not be easily built before? Or is the primary goal to be seen as friendly to the Open Source Community, by providing yet another dumbed down, cookie cutter cross-platform SDK that deserves no relevance? Are they intentionally omitting or delaying features that one would use in more advanced scenarios, forcing developers to make a choice to use classic .NET Framework (Windows/Mono)?

It is starting to seem like the same old tricks by Microsoft, just more cleverly hidden.
Nice work. Now all they have to do is work out the bugs with their dev tools and convince thousands of programmers to update their old FF addons and it might be a browser worth using as a primary browser again someday. One step forward, two steps back seems to be Mozilla's motto these last few years.
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Looks like they are on it: https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/MVNCENTRAL-2870
I previously worked in a place with a Bob (who ticks 80% of the boxes there) and it really is super-toxic. He got plenty of "gaslight" because he had special treatment. He didn't need to follow the processes like everyone else. He got cool work. Hence my 'previously worked'.
That is what the team is spending is spending its time on, PPA optimization so that we have a good idea how far we can go. Iterating with as many process corners as possible to get the right compromise.. But we have to be careful, it is a new low power process node. The backend team is a very accomplished team from a leading VLSI design services entity who are helping us out. That team is also doing a 7nm tapeout simultaneously for a commercial customer, so they know how to route a chip ! Take apart a flagship mobile phone and you will see their handiwork. It is not a bunch of students trying their hand at PnR. Our team sticks to the architecture, design, coding and verification since these are our core strengths. We also get our work audited by external entities. Bottom line, we are as professional and process oriented as any commercial outfit.
The document you're quoting is not law. The referendum itself was non-binding.
http://www.businessinsider.com/legal-advice-brexit-can-be-re...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/10/brexit-date...

More nuance: http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/63955?lang=en

In short, the author of Article 50 disagrees.
Are you talking about the UI of the browser itself or websites you're viewing? If it's the latter, it's probably the website being slow.
You can do both! But if you supplement vitamin D you wouldn't need to worry about making it out for your walk every day. IANA nutritionist, but I also believe GP's prescribed dose would be unfeasible to get reliably from the sun, especially at northern latitudes.
I found the line of questioning and discussion by the manager of the employee he "told off" to be profound, yet succinct:

> 1. Was it my intent to make his staff unproductive?

> 2. Do you think you could have told my engineer what you needed to, in a way that left them feeling positive and motivated to fix it?

> Always do that in the future, please.
I'm happy to answer questions to FiFo.cloud if anyone is curious :)
If we can pass a law forbidding US companies from doing business with or in nations like Cuba or Iran, we can certainly do so for countries that fail to enforce their international reporting duties.
Good point about the meetings. With Bob, he's doing this on purpose to assert dominance. If you ask Bob a direct question in this meeting, he'll ignore it on purpose the first time and continue working on his phone/laptop, and make you ask again, and plead for his attention. Making you beg is a way to humiliate you in front of others, and to show that he's more important than the others in the room. And the kicker: everyone in the room knows he's doing this on purpose, but no one speaks up, because he's the rock star engineer that we must tolerate. (Wrong.)
It would probably require either isolationism or a true global government, and neither of those are feasible or desirable. That's undoubtedly why our economies tend to be mixed because basic income in a place like America would require too much sacrifice to sustain in the long term. This is going to become more of a challenging problem as humans become obsolete. Before an actual post-scarcity society, we will need government provided basic income, which is simultaneously a scary thought if we don't solve a bunch of other global problems first.
I think that helps the point that the wrong notation (ie interface, eg Roman numerals for multiplication) can be prohibitive to making sense of and processing data.
A match made in heaven
I don't think so. Why should employees make up such a large percentage of the money invested in the company? When you take a salary cut of 50K, it's like taking that money an investing it right then and there. Why should an employee be investing 50K of their own money into the company every single year? It's bad enough that someone would invest 50K in a single company: one that picked them, not the other way around, with all the information asymmetries that applies, but to add insult to injury: the risk is compounded by the fact that their investing all this money into the very same company they depend on for their paycheck.

VCs are much much better equipped to do investing: both in terms of skill sets, experience and information. Employees should not be forced to become angel investors just because they work at a start up.

VCs will always have enough money to invest in truely excellent opportunities. It just means, they'll need to invest more. And in this low interest rate world, I don't think the world is starving for cash is it?
> For example, what part of repealing the estate tax for inheritances above $5.5 million will help this urban middle class?

The narrative is that the tax bill is meant to help the rich and the rural red state poor at the expense of the urban blue state middle class.
> article 50 was issued after an act of parliament

I think everyone believes the Article 50 declaration was properly done. But proper isn't politics. Parliament can say whatever it wants. If on March 30th, 2019 Britain says it's in the EU, a disagreeing EU member would need to begin enforcing customs, tariffs, et cetera. If nobody, or nobody who matters, does that the rule goes unenforced.

It reminds me of an oversight in the North Dakota Constitution, which did not contain a clause required for accession [1]. (It was later added.) Laws are just codified conventions; the EU has an enforcement problem in that it cannot enforce, only its member states can.

[1] http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/07/14/because-of-constitution-...
I've been using Pinboard for bookmarks since before browsers started offering sync. I can create and search those bookmarks in any browser, and since I use multiple browsers on multile machines, that's handy. My webmail is also accessible from any browser.

Syncing extensions and browsing history is not something I feel I need.
You would never revert A50. It makes no sense whatsoever. If there was a change of government in the UK it would do a new treaty with the EU to recover the position and all parties would sign that off.

The only time you would revert A50 would be if the EU refused re-entry to the club and you were trying to get in anyway.

Corbyn may by a bit of a Marxist, but it is Karl, not Groucho.
Same here, usually the ones being called "brillant jerks" hold 3-letter positions and take engineering success as their own because they had an idea (kinda like Steve Jobs used to do).
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That has too much jargon to be a good summary to a non-gamer IMO. To wit-

"While some games might offer loot boxes for cosmetic options, Battlefront II is using loot crates as their primary form of progression through the multiplayer content, via Star Cards."
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One does not simply "just use Rust".
There was a related "Ask HN: What are your favorite books of all time, and why?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15629762 discussion last week.
Something like what was discussed in this thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14119024
Any way to run on OSX?
I can't help but think that UBI is the modern grain dole[0] and while it sounds like a great idea on the surface and would probably work out great for a number of individuals in the short run... it will also inevitably lead to the use of UBI as an easy political tool for populist leaders to use to come to power, leading to the a further degradation of the republic.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura_Annonae
We might also see the same thing that's happened with minimum wage and student loans. (where basic income no longer covers even the basics)
It saddens me to no extent witnessing a formerly great country falling deep in the abyss of irrelevance, propelled and fueled by a remarkable societal and intellectual isolationism improper in this time and age. Not to mention the implicit bigotry, racism and xenophobia of the whole Brexit deal.

Interesting times indeed. In a sense, social media et al. are fulfilling the place that widespread newspapers first, and later radio, played in the marxist and national socialist revolutions already a century and change ago.

It seems to me more true that ever that societies that forget the History of Europe (that's of course my own take on the old adagio) are condemned to repeat it. What only remains to be determined now is if Brexit is the drama or the farçe.
This (and every other article I've read) fails to address how "universal" basic income would result in something other than a proportionate increase in the cost of living.

I don't want my taxes pissed away into some slumlord's bank account any more than I want them pissed away on APCs for a small town police department.
Good luck with it all
> That works out at around 25% of the population voting for it.

Correct, newborn babies were denied a vote. What percentage of the British population voted to Remain in the EU, out of curiosity?
They had to try. Mobile devices are way more restrictive than the PC ever was. The companies that dominate the OS have unprecedented power and leverage.

If Mozilla's goal is to strengthen the interests of a wide range of users against the narrow interests of two or three oligopolists they have to consider entering the OS game in spite of the immense difficulties.
What is the name for this type of study. I notice the course is called "Medieval Studies", but is it fair to call this branch "economic history" ?
I ask because I want to look up other resources as well.
I think so, I have set up some reminders on my computer to remind me to review certain parts of the book I have trouble with. Like not getting into pointless arguments :)
Is the grandfathering section clear on that? It mentions deferred compensation, which I'm not sure was a comment on options specifically or something else.
So why are you going after these guys that need to take such big pay cuts? I can almost guarantee you that there are plenty of people with a high enough level of talent that are in other areas.
> How am I able to reconcile these two?

It's like reviews on Amazon. You skim the highs and the lows and you read the rest. People who say Apple is killing the open web are at the extreme. Skim what they say just to be familiar with their argument, but be careful not to get sucked in.
Do you have a link to the actual bill?
Hiring a bully is a bad idea unless they have a history to back up their abrasiveness. And even then, it's tricky.
Dark Heaven?
What are the cases where the is untrue? Are they mainstream or niche? It would be a shame to caution people away from GC by default because there exist niche cases where GC performance doesn't match manual management.
I thought it would be an actual GSM stack written in Micropython (like OsmocomBB etc.), but alas, it's only the UI and the real work of GSM is handled in a prebuilt module.

The UI reminds me of Apple's iPhone prototype: https://thenextweb.com/apple/2014/10/05/apple-skankphone-bui...
- You can have many clients that talk to the same backend. This is really nice if you have an api that you can offer to partners.

- You can throw your client app away and build a new one pretty quickly without worries because it's totally decoupled from the backend. This is really nice when you have fickle stakeholders that have no idea what they want.
Or maybe it does check, but the mask puts it in some kind of error recovery mode.
Hi Rahim, thanks a lot for the reference. I did check them out, both the demo video and a few libraries. You are right that the basic premise is the same. And, yes, they allow for a much more customisable flow. Lots to learn from them!
Being a jerk and disagreeing are orthogonal. You can be a jerk while agreeing with someone, and be a not-jerk while disagreeing.

I'm curious, in reference to the post, how you would have no problem working with a "Bob"? Is there really no behaviour there that would bother you in a coworker?
Multiprocessing did nothing for me, since I apparently hadn't configured it to use more than one process. Some extensions I had were keeping it from doing so. Once I got all that sorted out, it flew. If you're still on a slowish FF, make sure you're actually multiprocess.
But about 76% of the population didn't vote to stay. So that is why we're leaving - by a massive majority I hasten to add.

Two can play stupid percentage games.
Firefox needs a serious presence in mobile. If the browser is competitive with Chrome, and also supports webextensions, it stands a fairly good chance, at least boosting up a few percentage points.
> So what's going on here? It's just the propaganda machine claiming the opposite of what is actually happening at the moment. They maybe have good goals but at the moment it's worse than, for example, a year ago.

It sounds like you are hitting some kind of bug. Feel free to file issues about it if it's reproducible; the telemetry should also be automatically reporting the issues you're seeing.

I would like to respectfully suggest that you hitting a bug is not evidence of a "propaganda machine".
I went deeply into trying to use containers as a profile replacement, replacing Chrome with the new Firefox beta for one month, and I can report that it is not the right direction to go in:

- New tabs do not inherit current container

- No way to make Ctrl-T do this by customization (I investigated extensions (can't remap Ctrl-T) and even system-wide Ctrl-T remapping with Karibiner; neither gives you what you want)

- History is shared across containers. So e.g. work URLs mixed up with personal. That's contra to one of the main purposes of Profiles.

- External applications do not open a tab in the current container. So e.g. clicking in a link in work slack will fail because it will not open in a tab which has work cookies / google account etc.

Evidently Containers are not designed as a Profile replacement. I'm not sure what they are for but I don't think it's a need that I have.

As I understand it using the long-standing Firefox profiles feature is the way to go, but personally I switched back to Chrome after a month of the new Firefox Beta because of the convenience of Chrome profiles. I should try Firefox profiles, but I exhausted my experimentation energy on Containers.
In my case, for most my teenage and short adult life I was always left "feeling positive and motivated" except I would always fall back into the same habits. I started to expect the gentleness and kindness. What I needed was a good ass whooping. If I look back at my life in hindsight, I learned the most when I was under the gun -- had to succeed, failure not an option -- not "motivated" and "positively influenced"

Maybe there is a "non-asshole" way to do that, but there needs to be a place for this in society as well. Some people respond to gentleness and nudges, some don't.

The person I think back early in my career when I was an associate and my first tech lead -- yes! he was the biggest asshole I met at that time -- but it would be remiss of me to not admit that I learned and stretched more on his team than I did the rest of my time at that company by a mile.
Booking directly through the airline usually allows for some sort of seat discrimination. But as most flights are booked through various aggregators, the strategy that seems to work is to offer a dirt-cheap basic ticket, and then hope to upsell the customer on premium seating at check-in time.

Only recently have aggregators started disclosing bag charges, which could be significant, especially with low-cost airlines (WOW, Norwegian, AirBerlin) outcompeting everyone else on basic ticket fare and appearing high in the results.
I don't think you could be more intellectually dishonest if you tried

> Young people were excluded from the referendum vote.

same franchise as a general election, and the past AV referendum

> Certain demographics living outside of the UK - who are normally allowed to vote in elections - were excluded from the referendum vote.

same franchise as a general election, and the past AV referendum

> A non-trivial number of ballots for foreign residents were sent out too late to be counted.

too few to have have changed the outcome (Leave had a majority of more than 1.2 million)

> The original Parliamentary Act for the referendum explicitly defined it as advisory.

the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty means it is impossible to have a truly binding referendum: they are all advisory as nothing can bind parliament, even a referendum result

> Most referenda are run on the basis that a super-majority is required for any significant constitutional change.

all past UK referendums have been 50%+1, as was the Scottish independence referendum

you might not like the result, but it was still perfectly legitimate
In what way is that "obvious"?
>Not to mention the implicit bigotry, racism and xenophobia of the whole Brexit deal

explain?
If you're getting options and RSUs, you're going to be upper middle class at least, and thus wealthy by the definitions of most Americans.
RSUs are taxed when vested and released. Vested but not released RSUs are not [yet] taxed.

Most companies issuing RSUs are doing so because there is a public market for them and so the release and vest date is the same.
Awesome! Glad to have helped.
It's also worth noting that these payments are funded by casino revenue for that very small population.

This article would look very different if some members of the tribe were taxed heavily to provide the payments to other members.
>My problem with basic income is that once you start, there will always be a demand to increase it, and enormous political pressure to increase it

How is this a problem? If enough people support an increase in the UBI that politicians feel they have to raise it, isn't that a good thing?
"We need you to set up recurring billing for our new feature X"

"Hmmm... that would be easier if we had a custom OS... I'm going to start on that first. Also, custom version control software would really boost our productivity..."
Am I? I thought I was providing supporting evidence for the adjustment of when "vest" actually occurs.
So will Bob, if Apple is any indication.
People seem to have the laughable idea that somehow only government censorship is bad, or that corporations aren't capable of censorship in the first place because they're private entities. I mean, yes, the world will look like that if you reduce everything to contractual relationships like libertarians seem to do, but personally I hope we could hold corporations accountable for actions like these. Like it or not, we've become extremely reliant on cloud services; Google closing someone's account without the possibility of appeal may not be politically motivated censorship, but it's still arbitrary censorship (even if you did click on the "agree" button on the EULA nobody ever reads).

Why shouldn't we hold corporations to the same standards as governments? If we don't want the government arbitrarily censoring people, why are we OK with corporations doing it?
I'm not against democracy. I'm just saying, by WWI women couldn't vote, most black people couldn't vote (though the legal right was there since the 14th and 15th amendment, white terror and legal disenfranchisement effectively suppressed the black vote) , so you're talking a majority of the population disenfranchised, that's a quite restricted democracy.