skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because it's cheaper to settle than to be compliant as a result of prosecutors willing to settle for a fraction of what would otherwise be due

That's likely true, although I think the dominant factor is probably the laxity of enforcement. That is, even if the penalties far exceeded the cost of compliance, if your chances of being caught are small enough, the economics (if not the morality) favor noncompliance. There is also the problem that attempting to be compliant can call attention to your noncompliance, thus perversely increasing that chances that you will be penalized.

Anyway, in most civilised world the opposite is true. Non-compliance can be VERY costly.

In my mind what is worse about the current US system is that once one accepts the existence of contradictory regulatory regimes combined with lax selective enforcement, most of leverage that would keep the system sane is lost. If the penalties are severe and regularly enforced, there is a much stronger feedback to make full compliance efficient, or at least possible.

I'd rather have the piece of mind knowing that I'm compliant.

While it may provide peace of mind, realize that there is almost no way to know all the rules, and you are almost definitely noncompliant with regard to some of those you do not know. There are likely agencies that believe they have jurisdiction over you that you've never even heard of.

In my case of running a vegan frozen dessert business in California, while my research had revealed that the California Dairy Board reserved the right to regulate non-dairy frozen desserts (under the theory that a consumer might be confused into thinking that they were a dairy product) I was surprised when the federal Food and Drug Administration found me noncompliant for failing to properly register under the theory that since we had purchased some of our ingredients from another state (cocoa powder) we were engaged in interstate commerce and thus subject to their regulatory burden. While we ended up not paying any fines, and while the agents involved were polite and respectful, there were several painful days wasted on record searches and interviews with all of our key employees.
Remember that you can pretty much bank on:

. When a Republican politician accuses someone else of something, they're doing it themselves.

. When a Republican politician makes a claim on controversial legislation, the opposite of that claim is the truth.

You can claim this is partisan grumbling, or you can pay attention and realize this is far more true than anyone would want to believe.
What about me? https://imgur.com/gallery/Yqgy8
The salient datum is not "being paid" but the contractual obligation.

Fault and negotiating advantage are a deeper issue. I'll note these though I'm not interested in going into it further presently.
Its not a big deal in Hibernate. SQL can be logged. You can intercept everything. And you can use sophisticated monitoring (e.g. New Relic's APM). To me, debugging with an ORM like Hibernate was never more complicated than debugging with the JDBC driver.

Also, ORM implementations often contain multiple layers of abstractions, even co-existing ones (JQL vs. HQL). Personally, I don't like HQL / JQL. But it does a good job for simple tasks. For more complex things, I can write SQL and use just the mapping features of my ORM. I rather use Hibernate to get things done, than writing all the boiler plate with plain JDBC.
I honestly cannot tell if some of these ideas are real or just parodies of silicon valley, "avocado toast" tech culture:
- AI for Communicating with Dogs
- Baby Bidet
- AR Debt Collector
- Buyer’s Remorse Insurance

Are these really the most pressing problems start-ups could be solving right now? What about issues like cost of housing in cities, urban transport, infrastructure in the developing world, fixing 'fake news', new (non-ads) business models for the web, modern banking, helping refugees and displaced persons, more energy efficient air-conditioning, voice-to-voice language translation, collective decision making tools, reducing air pollution...
Just like Clair (https://github.com/coreos/clair), only, for GitHub
> Unconscious bias, which by definition does not include intent, can still be a form of racism.

I think there's little utility to this version of racism outside of discussions about sociology. In particular, there's no real way to show someone is not racist given this definition. So if someone was determined to be unconsciously racist, there's nothing really to do be done about it since there's no way to get a "clean bill of psyche".
Original submittal, 180+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15519190
"consensus" is the new goalpost? SMH
I've said this in the past, but you really have to focus on the more difficult things, if you want to stay competitive in Git hosting. If it is easy to implement and is useful, one of your competitors, is going to copy you.

Right now GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Microsoft, Gogs/Gitea, etc. all have something unique to them, but none of them, have the lock in power, like it was in the past with Perforce, ClearCase and other SCMs.

GitLab and other open source solutions, has turned core Git hosting functionality, into commodity features, that people expect to be good and cheap. So it only makes sense to start focusing on the not so hard things to do, which can't be easily duplicated.
ORM's work great for CRUD. Then there is always that small collection of aggregation and reporting queries that take a few minutes to write in SQL and days to kludge together with an ORM and it's mostly-feature-complete abstraction layer over SQL (SQL is an abstraction layer).
Why does this point to a github repo?
>As the other poster stated, this is a snarky dig at Christian doctrine by someone who has never actually examined Christian teaching within the philosophy of religion.

That's a pretty bold claim from someone who only knows me from a few comments on a website. Just because I can snark about this, doesn't mean I'm unaware of the things you mention. Though since you called be disingenuous, you must have expected that as well.

But on the other hand, my time studying christianity ended a decade ago, and I have no unmet spiritual needs, so I doubt I will be taking another look at them at this time.
I use cobra sometimes, it's not that cobra or mow is too heavy, but I think that the oklog-style command parsing pattern is no more code or boiler-plate than using a library (for many use-cases) and it reduces developer overhead because most people are already familiar with how `flag` works. The whole pattern is really just the normal `flag` library and a switch statement, but it works really nicely because `flag` is really great and has a lot of features.
The presumption is that you, as (say) a local retailer, collected sales tax on what you sold because you have a legal requirement to do so. Doesn't matter if you split it out or not, you effectively collected sales tax one way or the other because state law says you had to. If, in your mind, you didn't collect any sales tax, too bad because you had to. You don't have the option to tell the customer "Hey, we're not going to collect sales tax. Please send it in yourself."

If you weren't required to collect sales tax, it is actually the customer who is on the hook to remit it. Of course, there's often no way to enforce this.

>Edit: I think you are confusing it with income tax. What you are saying happens for salaried income in USA.

Sort of but not really. Employers collect an estimated income tax liability based on your salary and what you've put on your W-4. The individual is still responsible for paying the right taxes and may be subject to penalties and having to make future quarterly tax payments if those withholdings are too low.

ADDED: The difference is the the government (in general) knows your taxable income and it's up to you to make the appropriate payments. In the case of sales tax/use tax, the government (thankfully) doesn't have the detailed and personal information to determine liability at the individual level so they have sellers do the up-front collection as much as possible.
Have them read Chapter 5 of this book. https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...

"Using experts in a variety of fields as test subjects, experimental psychologists
have examined the relationship between the amount of information
available to the experts, the accuracy of judgments they make
based on this information, and the experts’ confidence in the accuracy of
these judgments."

"Key findings from this research are:
•	Once an experienced analyst has the minimum information necessary
to make an informed judgment, obtaining additional information
generally does not improve the accuracy of his or her
estimates. Additional information does, however, lead the analyst
to become more confident in the judgment, to the point of overconfidence.
•	Experienced analysts have an imperfect understanding of what
information they actually use in making judgments. They are
unaware of the extent to which their judgments are determined
by a few dominant factors, rather than by the systematic integration
of all available information. Analysts actually use much less
of the available information than they think they do."
Barrier for entry is lower, but it's also harder to get paid for local news. Local coverage of political activities pretty much sucks except in major cities.
Shkodër and that portion of the Accursed Mountains where gjakmarrja saw a revival in the 1990s, are within that portion of your map that designates an overwhelmingly Catholic area. To the northeast is an area with a larger Muslim population, but within the context of Albanian culture that area (Kukës, Peshkopi) tends to be designated "Northeastern Albania" to set it apart from Northern Albania that is centered around Shkodër.

North and Northeastern Albania were separated by considerable natural barriers until recent times, and while the Ottomans made inroads in the latter and Islam spread, in the former the Ottomans never established a firm grip and the area was a fortress of Roman Catholicism.
Please cite your source(s) that reserves and reserve requirements no longer exist, are no longer linked to money supply, and are no longer Fed policy.

Thank you.
IIRC the trains in NY are not all the same, so even if they did stop at exactly the same spot, then the markings would be off for some trains.

The signalling sounds like it is ancient in the NY system, and they don't seem to have the budget or will to fix it.
Community of German newspaper FOCUS hacked, email addresses leaked
My understanding is that the original idea was to do a partnership / use BNSF rails (for some reasonably "small" fee [I think I heard $30-40 mil]) which were preexisting but then BNSF decided that the rail could only be used during certain time windows when it wouldn't effect their industrial traffic; OR RTD could pay something like $550 million. Not sure if the 23 years is to collect the tax for that cost or what.
Sounds shiny. How would government determine if there’s a solid case? Some kind of formal hearing?
If being easy to type is the criteria, I would suggest vij, vio, vil, vid or via, since that's where your fingers are likely to be after typing vi if you are touch typing.
With a few dozen flips you can achieve a greater likelihood that you're flipping the most biased coin on the planet, and stop the game.
Ops daily
You don't seem to understand how discrimination works - any separation of people according to some criteria is literally discrimination, however, illegal discrimination is one done according to certain protected characteristics (including age) without a legitimate business need (e.g. actors for a particular commercial).

Offering below-market salaries for 80 hour work weeks isn't illegal age discrimination even if this highly correlates with age, those are legitimate criteria that affect work performance, and thus are valid; just as criteria that require workers to be able to lift a certain weight is a legitimate criteria if appropriate to that job role, even if it would disqualify almost all women for applying.

Disqualifying an old man because you think that people of his age won't work 80 hour weeks for a poor wage or can't carry the required goods is prejudice and illegal discrimination. However, disqualifying an old man because you know that this particular man won't work 80 hour weeks for a poor wage and can't carry the required goods is fair game, it's a reasonable evaluation of a potential employee.
If you were familiar with actual literature in philosophy of religion, then why didn’t you cite that instead of a copy/pasta? I think it is quite reasonable to doubt the knowledge of the literature of someone who can’t even cite something.

> I have no unmet spiritual needs

A lot of work in philosophy of religion concerning a particular religion, is done by people who find its particular claims interesting (whether they can be defended or attacked) but who are not in the game for "spiritual" reasons. It’s like saying that linguists would only study languages because they have the need to communicate with its speakers; no, most of them just enjoy studying the language as an abstract.
One can also claim that today’s programming is torture.

Back in the microcomputer days, all you needed to write a program was a desk with a single computer, one or two tools that you knew through and through and a few reference books.

Nowadays, we sometimes spend days or even weeks choosing our tools and libraries of sometimes questionable quality and getting them to work together before we can even start thinking of the problem we want to solve, and even then, we still spend half our days googling, and being lucky if we get semi decent answers.
I don't like ORMs or abstractions like grape-swagger. I like working with the node-postgres client and knex when I need a query builder.

It sounds like if that's the sort of kit you want, then Ruby is for you compared to Clojure/Javascript.

What I do like about Javascript is that it's easy to write ad-hoc types via Typescript for my SQL functions to specify the shape of the data that comes from the database. I would never go back to something like Active Record that tried to make me canonicalize all of my data.

I have to wonder if these are more identity-level ecosystem differences.
No, it's not the same. If unsuccessful at google you will waste a day of your life and and keep your old job. At your place you will waste up to 90 days of your life and lose your old job. Not the same. It's the same to you but it's not the same to the employee.

By interviewing and throwing away potential false negatives you also cut down on the number of people failing probation. You can't have it both ways: not interview and keep the same number of people.
Or the other annoying case: street name will be shown (underneath route information if you're going somewhere) at one level, but then disappears when you zoom in further to make it actually readable.
> Then, there's the Houston bus system ca. mid 2000's, where the bus might leave several minutes early or several minutes late.

Yes, only Houston has this problem, not almost every single bus system in the world.
Oh man, I couldn't even understand what he meant, let alone find the humour in it.
Paying more isn't really a global answer. Sure, I can pay more to grab you from someone else but then that other employer is short staff. Remote work may be answer for connecting lonely employees and employers, but remote work has its difficulties.
There's a similar PHP library called NotORM http://www.notorm.com/
They lacked the explicit constitutional power to enforce the federal will, so they did it in a sneaky, backhanded manner by pulling at the purse strings.

Same BS as making the uniform drinking age of 21 years.

The feds raise taxes in every state to pay for something, then extort those same states to dance to the federal tune in order to get back some of the money taken from their citizens to build roads that would benefit them. If the Feds didn't take that money, the state could have taken it to build their own roads.

It would be great if the federal power could not transfer funds to the states without using apportionment solely by criteria that cannot be gamed politically. Divide-and-conquer is not a tactic that should be countenanced within a federation of supposed equals.

I think Real ID is the latest round of the same way of strong-arming the states, by denying to non-compliant states a benefit that will be enjoyed by compliant states.
Airbnb Growth Story Has a Plot Twist – A Saturation Point
In that case I wonder if Tesla is going to try to stretch the definition of 'semi'
This is pretty much exactly how every HPC OS has been sold since the Cray X-MP. It's like if you buy Isilon - it is a software, hardware and support you buy. No one argues that isn't commercial.
The best part is when I simulate bad network conditions by increasing latency and my autocompletion stops working (timeout 10ms) or becomes unusable.
Chinese company that owns Volvo just bought the most famous flying-car company
What about the Viking settlements in Newfoundland?
Especially since adding pom and/or gradle files would knock out support for a half-dozen languages.
Maybe they should just remove all the religious symbols. In most places in the US you'd see a whole lot of crosses otherwise (lots of churches everywhere).
It's fairly easy to do this in Entity Framework. Obviously if you have a giant query it's going to make some "optimizations" that you don't like but if you have a good understanding of your object model and how your database is architected you can usually create nice SQL.
I had trouble getting a large hard-shell suitcase onto a train in Tokyo once, and didn't quite get it inside before the doors closed on it. They crushed it so strongly that it cracked before I could pull it through. I absolutely wouldn't ever want to get any part of my body caught in there.
I didn't create the mother example but it's the same with the slaver holder. Even with a non-racist intent, supporting and participating in a racist system is still racist - no matter the justification or motivations.

I think you are defining racism so narrowly it only defines people who state "I'm superior to this race" where their actions alone can never be racist unless they say that.

I already replied to the tornado comment but weather can't hold beliefs, it's a non sequitur that doesn't support your argument.
If you look at raw traffic numbers Mashable is far bigger than Techcrunch and far more profitable.

What you are feeling and seeing is that the media is turned into a hyper-partisan machine where any issue discussed is in the context of extremes. It drives emotion, creates and drives viral content, and drives revenue. However, it doesn't produce substantive content one would find meaningful. It doesn't pay.
Spring + Hibernate is a sad example of extremely lame technologies dominating a whole language ecosystem.
Inflation would cause the recipients of UBI who need it most to suffer the most. Unless we increase UBI, which would cause more inflation, and this then becomes positive feedback loop.

As a homeowner with a substantial but fixed-rate mortgage and a well-paying job, I would LOVE to see high inflation.
Suru to be the default icon set for Ubuntu
Yes fortunately copyright is governed by law and we can (with good governance) change them for the better in the future.
Perhaps having them jump ship would be beneficial, ya know, given their horrible performance.
I tend to agree... for me, C++ is a great solution for problems I don't tend to have in my workaday life.
RMS has historically viewed copyright as a bad thing[1], all the way from how it has developed historically to how it is applied uniformly to different kinds of works (practical works like software being copyrighted is of particular concern).

Now, you might say that "the GPL uses copyright, which clearly means that RMS and the FSF are pro-copyright". They're not. Copyleft is a hack of the copyright system[2], specifically designed such that as copyright becomes stronger so does the amount of freedom provided by copyleft. This is explicitly the purpose. If it were not legal to stop users from modifying software, then the GPL would not need to exist (nor could it).

RMS has stated[3] that his views on an ideal copyright system is:

1. Authors retain copyright, not publishers. This matches the original copyright law that was created in England under Queen Mary in The Statute of Anne (1710)[4].

2. The scope of works covered would be reduced. Most importantly, practical works would not be covered under copyright.

3. The length of time that copyright applies to a work would be massively reduced. Works are being created today that children born today will never see in the public domain. The solution is to reduce the length of time that copyright applies to 10 years (or possibly 5, which some authors appear to prefer).

4. The breadth of restrictions would be reduced. Most notably, distribution of a work would no longer require permission from the owner. The argument for this change requires watching his entire lecture, but it comes from a historical argument on how copyright has developed and how modern copyright has broken the trend in that it attacking consumers of a work rather than publishers (which was the original purpose, if you look at the development of copyright law alongside the development of copying technologies like the printing press). Not to mention that lending a book to a friend or selling it are both perfectly acceptable things to do.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.en....
[2]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html
[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eginMQBWII4
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne
I am probably in the minority here, but it seems that the impetus of most of the problems on this list is what would possibly make the most money, written as if that is the measuring stick of the most societally useful startup.

The top 5 problems in my city are more on the level of affordable housing, homelessness, drug use, over-incarceration and mental healthcare. I can't help but feel like we have enough gadgets and data, and there are enough products to buy out there for every single income level. As long as we are only solving small problems and doing arbitrage or rent-taking it feels like making a better society is the last thing on anyone's mind.
If you're capable of picking up new technologies and languages with ease, then why don't you?

For example, learning a new programming language every year for fun is a decent exercise that makes you better with your "current work tool" as well, keeps your tech stack perpetually up to speed, and isn't that hard - the second language takes significant time, the 15th (for 15+ years of professional experience) brings lots of things you've already seen, so you can do something useful on the first day and a reasonable project in the first week.
> The key is that the victim is this time celebrated as to be in the right

Yes, you're absolutely right -- except maybe for the part of "most modern morality"... the Latin dictum "vae victis" was embraced throughout modern times.

That said, having the victim come back from the dead is kind of cheating.
The real problem is that the object side is less abstract than the SQL side.