skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just opening a website in a browser from vim, meh.

Let me know when vim can do this without a browser and when it pays with Bitcoin.
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> Uber has a team dedicated to collecting trade secrets from competing companies. Allegedly, the people involved use disappearing-message apps, anonymous servers, and secret computers and phones to communicate without leaving a trail.

If true, then this is absolutely unreal.

Add it to the growing list of dodgy Uber tactics:

Ride-hailing company (Uber) hit by revelations it used custom-built tool to deceive law enforcement, while latest departure of senior staffer deepens troubles
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/03/uber-secr...

Uber employees have ordered and canceled more than 5,000 rides from rival Lyft since last October, according to new data provided by Lyft.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/uber-fake-ride-re...

CNNMoney spoke to three Uber drivers who said they received a text message that said they were "forbidden" from driving with another company.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/04/technology/uber-lyft/?iid=EL

Uber admitted on Tuesday that it underpaid its New York City-based drivers by millions of dollars over the past two and a half years
https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/23/15681422/uber-underpaid-n...

Uber will stop its controversial practice of tracking users for up to five minutes after a trip has ended, as it attempts to turn around its mired public image.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/29/uber-u-tu...

Uber’s Hell program used fake passenger accounts to track the location and status of Lyft drivers.
http://www.newsweek.com/uber-used-hell-program-track-lyft-dr...
The feds adopted a Trade Secrets Act in 2016. [0] But many states have had versions of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, starting in 1979.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defend_Trade_Secrets_Act

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Trade_Secrets_Act
R&D is a cost center, not a profit center and as you pointed out, you need to sell your products at a higher price to recover that cost. If the value was created on R&D, it would mean that you could manufacture just about anything and it would create profit magically, which is obviously wrong as countless companies fail to monetize products. The value is created at the time you sell the product itself, by demand of consumers.
Yes, but where does the blockchain exist?
> Still, it wasn’t hard for me to find holes in Apple’s protections.

> The MeasureKit app’s maker told me he wasn’t sensing much extra scrutiny from Apple for accessing face data.

> “There were no additional terms or contracts. The app review process is quite regular as well—or at least it appears to be, on our end,” Khanov said. When I noticed his app didn’t have a privacy policy, Khanov said Apple didn’t require it because he wasn’t taking face data off the phone.

I don't see how that's a major "hole" in protections. It's an API the app is using, and Apple reviewed the code and didn't see the data going off device — how is this malicious?
I can't understand your comment.
Regardless of military expenses a lot of countries with universal healthcare spend less per capita than US where is not universal.
Can you please explain me how military expenses affect the amount of money spent in healthcare?
This is ridiculous. Does anyone have any insight into how these security breaches keep happening? Is it rampant carelessness on the part of the companies, some new technology that's opening a significant number of new exploits, or is it an escalation on the efforts/persistence of hackers?
One of the chief points in this article was that "diversity" is often an excuse to hire/admit people who will bring in a lot of money, connections, and prestige but aren't necessarily the most meritorious candidate.

Malia Obama is Diverse. John Dorsey from the wrong side of Chicago is just an Urban Youth.
This misuse of ‘professionalism’ to refer to the faux Victorian mannerliness fashionable amongst lesser suits is just one more troubling aspect of loss of conceptual resources inculcated by corporate culture.
It’s not about sanity. Desire for reproduction is a biological imperative.
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Would you please not take HN threads into national flamewars? The parent comment may not have been substantive but this direction is even worse.
My guess here is that still being in Python 2 makes this more difficult.

If you're in Python 2 the bytes/str story is still mixed up, so API solidification happening in Django iteratively (in preparation for Django 2.0) will likely break a good amount of your code.

Inversely, we moved over to Py3 in the 1.7 days so we were spared some pain on that end.
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If you look at the statement "The top X% of the population hold Y% of the wealth and pay Z% of the taxes," it turns out that Z > Y for most values of X.
Why would we need non-human baby factories?
Why is it funny that these activists focus on foreign companies selling in France but not paying taxes on those sales?

Seems perfectly understandable to me why foreign firms behaving like Apple would be the target.
That's my suspicion as well. We'll hit 10 billion people pretty soon, which is my basis for claiming it's almost guaranteed we'll see male births at that type of numerical rate in several decades (100k per year or more globally). When you're talking about such a vast number of people, it doesn't take much to reach ~100k for any given thing.

You'll have men that were born as men, who want to be men / identify as men. I'd expect that to be a smaller share of the male birth number. Then you'll have men that were born as men, who want to be women / identify as women. That will likely represent the far larger share of the male birth number.
So the very niche market. I guess my point is, still bitcoin is mostly speculation - the stuff you talk about wouldn't add up to billions of dollars of marketcap, for example.
> I really respect this kind of activism.

I'd respect activism advocating for simplified, hard to game tax codes more.

I don't think it's really sustainable for the public to get interminably worked up, protesting company after company in order to keep everyone honest.

In general, the best solution to corruption is simpler, more transparent systems. Corruption thrives in complexity and arcana. Deals happen in back rooms for a reason.
Not usefully; it's a whole OS plus applications plus hardware deal. A summary won't help.
State is typically multidimensional, so being "in" some state implies a whole lot of context (a whole lot of variables), and most real-world situations are so loaded with context that the only unambiguous way of determining which real-world variables are represented within your program is reading the code (or inversely, any unambiguous definition of which real-world variables are relevant to your program may as well be code). This limits the value of statecharts IMO. I think a more useful solution is something that describes how each level of state is derived from the previous level.
Really ? This kind of activism is completely pointless and ignorant.

Apple is paying the taxes it is legally responsible to pay. End of story. If you want them to pay more tax then you should be protesting against Macron and the rest of the French government and get the laws changed. Multinational tax avoidance can ONLY be fixed through international cooperation of governments.
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Right, the existing reporting law doesn’t pertain to assets stored decentralized “institutions” only foreign ones. Presumably that is why they are talking about changing the law.
Because some people like being senator for its own sake.
R&D is not a cost center, it is widely regarded as a profit center in a tech company. By your definition, Microsoft (assuming they aren’t selling hardware) should be paying all of its profits to where its software is sold vs. where it is produced, because it’s entire operation is just a cost center!

Like it or not, taxation internationally is currently based on where value is produced which is why...

> Under the current international tax system, profits are taxed based on where the value is created. The taxes Apple pays to countries around the world are based on that principle. The vast majority of the value in our products is indisputably created in the United States — where we do our design, development, engineering work and much more — so the majority of our taxes are owed to the US.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/11/the-facts-about-apple...

The value is not created at time of sale! Well, some value is created by virtue of the sale itself that go into retail profits, but the store has to pay its suppliers the price they charge regardless of the supplier’s markup. Imagine it’s a department store (Nordstrom’s or whatever) selling LV bags, LV is not charging the department stores just production cost. France in turn is taxing LV on the design value added in France, that tax money isn’t going to China or the USA where the bag is sold. France would be pissed otherwise.

If France wants to tax America’s R&D, then they can change their laws, but the USA isn’t going to be very happy about that, obviously.
> As the generations that grew up with Occupy start to get in positions of command, hopefully they will try to find ways to conciliate the search for private profit with the fairness of higher taxation.

You say that like "the generations" uniformly "grew up with Occupy". Lots grew up with other kinds of populism. Many grew up with online FPSs. I'll bet on a lot of diversity of perspective in lizardpeople^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Millennials over any sweeping prediction about Millenial culture and politics.
Linkified version: https://github.com/xxhomey19/github-uploader.

So I think this is pretty cool, because I do this same thing all the time to upload images in a pinch, especially for images/files to be used within a readme.

Instead of using a fake account, hardcoding the password, and using a headless browser to do your bidding—why not just use the API endpoint GitHub is actually using to upload the files? Then you could let users use their own GitHub tokens.
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> Why do you assume no one is?

Because they're picketing Apple and not the National Assembly?
> I'm not so sure about this as I'd question that it's possible for a single government to close loopholes on its own.

That's the argument against signing global warming treaties, isn't it?
Also, rhel 7 is years old now and they almost certainly won't change something that big until rhel 8.
“Rinker sold Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site to Chronicle for a $4,000 advance. The title has been on the New York Times list for three years, with more than 850,000 copies in print and rights sold into 23 territories.”

Seems like a lot of the writers got hosed
People can protest all they like. It's just not going to achieve a single thing. Macron isn't directly targeted so where is the political pressure for him to change anything in France ?

It's exactly like Occupy Wall Street where people protested and camped outside the likes of JP Morgan. And what was the outcome of all of that ? Nothing.
I am curious its implications on capital gains. If you retire in a place with 0 capital gains, then would your home country tax you? I do not know the answer.
Same. I’ve done 10 or so apps in objc/swift and now 4 in RN and even though I know native like the back of my hand I much prefer RN.

Jsx and the rendering model of react is 10x better than constraints in code or storyboards.

Getting android nearly for free is just a cherry on top.
$9 billion in taxes. You can't please everybody.
> Feminism is all about empowering women to be able to do what they want, which includes having a baby using an artificial womb.

The types of feminists that you'll see negative responses from, are those that use feminism as a platform for controlling others. For example, the kinds of feminists (some people would call them fake feminists) that get upset when a woman chooses to shave her armpits, or likes to wear lipstick or heels, etc. etc. Those types always look for opportunities - no matter how absurd - to proclaim something is the latest attempt to enslave women to their biology, and so on and so forth.
Rust actually does have exceptions. Rust unwinding is implemented using LLVM/Dwarf exceptions, and can be caught using std::panic::catch_unwind:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/panic/fn.catch_unwind.html

Idiomatic Rust doesn't use them for error handling, and they can be disabled entirely with a command-line option, but the implementation still has to deal with all of the issues that come with having exceptions.
> That's condescendent

Really? In the wake of the GFC, which bills would _you_ have voted for and why?

> and openly anti-democratic

No, it's realistic. Lawmakers needs to make decisions on a _huge_ variety of issues and people with full time jobs simply _cannot_ become familiar enough with all these issues to make an educated decision about which option is in their best interests.

Unless you're suggesting people stop working, I don't think there's anything we can do.

> to me it seems there are too many laws anyway, so let's make it easier

How? The only way I can see is to make the language required to write them less precise, which opens them for more interpretation by the judicial branch. Are you okay with putting more of the country in the hands of the courts?

> No prejudice? no law. Less freedom for the People? no law.

Guarantees like this are the purpose of the constitution. I don't think "Less freedom for the People" is viable anyhow as laws inherently reduce freedom.

> if representative democracies were working on those issues

There are representative democracies that don't have the issues we see in others. Representative democracy isn't the problem. Things like electoral systems and corruption are the bigger problems.

> America once was a flaming wreck... then a great country emerged.

Not coincidentally, the "great country" (as a non-American living in America, I find this hilarious) was a representative democracy.
People have been trying that, for at least a few decades.

Do facts like almost every American wants a more fair system change it? No, because the governing structure has itself been corrupted after decades of abuse.

Therefore, it seems the most effective means of causing change -- given that what you suggest has failed for decades -- would be to cause direct financial harm to those who are actively corrupting the system for their benefit, as that changes the calculus for them and incentivizes stopping.

This is a downright civil way to do that when society breaks down -- the poor used to just stab people over bad tax law.
So do you voluntarily pay more taxes than you are legally obligated to? Purposely fail to take deductions etc? Hopefully you’re walking the walk since you’re saying things like this.
This comment is written on iOS 10. I just wish there was a way to turn off the upgrade nag screen. Nothing better than asking for your passkey in a modal while you're trying to get shit done.
1) Anyone who thinks this will affect Apple's bottom line is delusional. The negative effects of the publicity pales in comparison to the tax benefits.

2) Protesting your local politicians always works provided you have enough people. You're just not doing a good enough job convincing your fellow citizens. That's how you really effect change.
The actual answer is probably going to surprise you ...

The reason that the vast majority of rsync.net is not covered by https is because I personally have not yet decided how I feel, philosophically, about the notion of https-only websites.

As silly as it may sound to you, I very much like the fact that you can read rsync.net HOWTO pages with netcat. Or telnet'ing to port 80. Or grab them with old versions of 'fetch'.

I used to do all kinds of interesting and time-saving tasks on the pre-https internet with simple, static UNIX tools. As you can imagine, almost all of those workflows are now either broken or require a big huge pile of python libraries.

So in summary, I am sorry to deprive you of your righteous indignation. You can see from our properly implemented order form that we understand https just fine, thank you.

The real answer is that https-everywhere sounds like it's probably a good idea ... but also sounds like you should maybe get off of my lawn ... but I'm not sure yet.
25 sloc which simply launches your web browser and navigates to dominos.com. This is incredibly unworthy of fp hackernews.
Array Programming languages like APL & J are super cool to me and I wish they had more of a following.

J has "tacit programming" where you basically can write hyper general and terse programs with it still being readable. I just wish performance was more in line with Java.
> It’s much more difficult to argue that employing legal methods to reduce your tax burden is immoral.

I mostly don't care, but for the sake of argument, setting up shell corporations and then saying they made this purchase or that deal for tax reasons isn't exactly being honest.

It reminds me of the "characters" Bunbury and Ernest from Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest":

"""

You have invented a very useful younger brother called Ernest, in order that you may be able to come up to town as often as you like. I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose. Bunbury is perfectly invaluable. If it wasn't for Bunbury's extraordinary bad health, for instance, I wouldn't be able to dine with you at Willis's to-night, for I have been really engaged to Aunt Augusta for more than a week.

"""
Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15012225
Without the actual data, or even the report that was generated based on it, there is not much that can be concluded. It seems that this leak was specific to the Business school so it's a stretch to generalize to the whole University.

Given the categories, I'd sooner attribute this to unconscious bias rather than a secret plot to bias towards female and/or international students though.
Pregnancy already has many associated risks. This may increase the odds substantially.

Plus, pregnancy while taking a lot of immunosuppresant drugs doesn't sound like a really good idea.
Now that title confused me, if you’re not the USA - FYI: they’re not talking about the ‘Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman’ as I thought.
What effect do immunosuppressors have on the fetus?
Ask HN: Any good resources for learning back-end tech as a front-end engineer?
I've been a developer for a while, but many of the little details of what's happening behind the API remain a mystery to me. Does anyone have any favorite resources specifically aimed at helping engineers with front-end experience gain a deeper understanding of what's happening on the other side of the stack? I'm particularly interested what's going on closer to the hardware and the more arcane aspects of network infrastructure.
If you have no money, no status, no social support to ask for help, then being on the street is not a choice. I took the "Men have more freedom of choice than women" as to mean there was a choice, especially with the "men are more empowered" part. It sounded like blaming men for choosing to be poor as if their gender would somehow give them a choice to not be at the bottom. If that’s not your intention then it wasn't. I personally support the view that social safety nets should exist to prevent homelessness, largely because I believe that in the general case homelessness is not an active choice but rather a situation caused by circumstances.

Social support network is commonly used in medical research. The gender difference are seen in all levels of society, from rich to poor, and as such is not the same as the point you bring that friends or family are more likely to help a woman in need. Data on the size of social network (number of friends, contact with family and children, friend of a friend distance) is different for women and men. If all that was different was the rate that family and friend would offer help, then those numbers should be identical. According to some research, the difference in life expectancy between men and women are partially caused by the difference of social support during the elderly years. The cause of that in turn is generally blamed on gender roles and social expectations, where men are expected to prioritize work over building family and social ties and women expected to do the opposite.
If you're in the PNW area, I recommend checking out the Museum of Glass in Tacoma. Not only are there beautiful works there, but they also have a live demonstration stage where you can watch high school students blowing glass as part of an art program they're enrolled in.
Well back in our day we had to FAX our orders in!

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Well, I do.

So we're at an impasse.

See, my deal is, you want to make this whole system more complicated at several steps, and for what benefit? To solve what problem?

I'd rather keep the system as simple as possible--cheaper, easier, less can go wrong that way, and more people get to vote and participate in governance.
That wind farm could have eventually provided enough power for a million people. As much as the specific loss of renewable energy is detrimental in this case, the loss of another powerful demonstration in the US of offshore wind farm potential is probably just as great.
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I don’t think that will matter for a day or two. Honestly, if it became a long-term problem, people would just order online and have their stuff delivered anyway. One way or another, iPhones will still be selling in France.
Actually most printers can make it all the way up to 10. The one I've got at home heats at 11; one hotter.
A pgp wot or the wot that you refer to can be subverted. In the scenario of everyone's identification, the WOT covers everyone in the population not a small WOT inside a relatively much larger population.
This really should have ended with a Jesse Pinkman-esque "Bitch".
Hey! I made this in ~2012 (2011?) or so, and it's still one of my greatest accomplishments. Glad people still use and like it. :-)
I don't think you do writing to become wealthy, and I also think they get royalties.
Presumably that's a colloquialism not widely understood? That meaning really didn't occur to me until I read your comment.
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If you wish you verify why is this, consider the following.

Forget about String.prototype.trim at the moment. Consider this function:

const f = function() { console.log('receiver is', this, '. arguments are', arguments) }

This function prints the receiver (aka "this"), and arguments.

If you use it in the following way:

['a', 'b', 'c'].map(Function.prototype.call, f)

The output is

receiver is [String: 'a'] . arguments are { '0': 0, '1': [ 'a', 'b', 'c' ] }
receiver is [String: 'b'] . arguments are { '0': 1, '1': [ 'a', 'b', 'c' ] }
receiver is [String: 'c'] . arguments are { '0': 2, '1': [ 'a', 'b', 'c' ] }

Meaning, that the receiver (aka "this") of the function will be the array element, and the arguments will be the array index and the array itself.
The initial comparison was between someone with little training in a discipline and someone educated in a discipline. Of course every graduate needs plenty of mentorship at their first or first few jobs. That's not the same as training someone with no exposure to a discipline.

As far as bootcamp graduates go, I would be careful about assuming that's their only exposure. I'll take someone who has been obsessed with coding since they were a kid over a uni graduate who is just in it for the money, went to class, and only wrote code to pass the classes.