skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rapid development of ICs was greatly influenced by their military applications, there wouldn't have been anything to make an Apple I or II out of without that.
If the contract doesn't specifically name means of severing the relationship, arbitrarily terminating the contract is being in breach and opens you to litigation.

Even in non at-will jurisdictions you can end an employment relationship whenever you want, you just have to follow the rules established by legislation to do so (notice or in lieu, just cause, etc)
This distinction would not make them contractors in CA. All legal, off hours activity is protected including working for a competitor. Even if you are an Uber employee they cannot fire you for moonlighting for Lyft.
There are some big flaws in window functions I'd love to see fixed. The main one being the very limited ways in which you can refer to the 'current' row in window and filter expressions. The second being... you're almost always better off just doing all this work in code, in a programming language with dependable performance characteristics.
Don't worry. The globe has been in a cooling period for the last 18 years despite a 6x increase in emissions. The only people saying we have a climate crisis on our hands are the political organizations that wish to implement taxes and de-industrialize the west. Plenty of reputable scientists have shown that the CO2 crisis is highly exaggerated if not completely unfounded.

https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/960x0/smart/https%3A%2F%2...
It is interesting because of the amount of money you need for "traditional retirement" in the US.

If I want to live how I live now, I'll probably need to put about $3k aside into retirement each month to retire when I'm around 65!

I find this insane because I'm quite young. The $3k/mo is probably a good number to split between my IRA and brokerage account - but I don't consider my brokerage account to be strictly retirement.

More of "general investing" that I can use, if I need to or decide to, invest in something else in the future... not sure what, but I do not consider it like the IRA in the sense that I will absolutely never touch it (outside rebalancing as I get older).

Anyway... I know of quite a few people who live on 20-30k/yr (with a GOOD backup for emergencies!) sailing the world. Does that not sound fun?!

After you buy the boat!
The NMW is 5.60 for teenagers of normal working wage under 18 there are resections on of the sorts of work teenagers <18 can do as they are all supposed to be at school or in training.

The real NWM is £7.50

Also Harrogate is a posh spa town (like a small town in the Hamptons) so its not typical depressed northern town like say Blackpool or Hull - I suspect the author my have a probrexit agenda.
There is a telescope on the roof that tracks or is supposed to track the sun, though.
The widest fit bike shoes I have been able to find currently are Sidi Dominator 4s. And they are not wide enough. I had an old pair of Lake M-somethingorother that I got from Performance before they closed. They were actually comfortable.
In general the MTB stuff is where its at.
Wendover Productions has an informative video on China's geography & geopolitical concerns that arise from that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiBF6v5UAAE

The TL;DR is that Xinjiang and Tibet both serve important national security purposes.
The lesson is that doctors need to be thorough regardless of how many cases they see. Telling someone they’re not sick or making it up should be grounds to lose their credentials.
I love cats, I have two (both indoor cats, I love Cats but they are furry little killing machines even when well fed) and I still think the plan is reasonable if sad, it's sad for the cats and sad for the indigenous animals that are suffering predation from an invasive very effective predator.
Thanks for all of the helpful suggestions below. Am going to be investigating them. Sorry to OP if I hijacked this at all.
I agree that for most people, that's probably an exhausting list to go through.

I'm a fan of Hardenize. I like using that site to help people understand what needs to be done.

https://www.hardenize.com
Yep, I'm currently going in the opposite direction. I'm now spending less on food and clothing than I've ever spent in my entire life. Rent is about the same as before, but I'm going to find ways of reducing that as well.

For more info about this lifestyle, see this website: http://earlyretirementextreme.com
I agree but what are the extenuating circumstances in this case? Was the person responsible off serving in the Armed Forces so they didn't get the notice?

Nope, actually it sounds like someone forgot to change their address seventeen years ago. How hard is this to take care of? Or hey, even for someone in the HOA to notice they haven't been getting a tax bill for the last 17 years.
Not sure about Chrome, but you can absolutely install a local CA into Firefox.
It’d be better to only include non-HTTPS entries when an HTTPS entry doesn’t also exist:

$ sqlite3 places.sqlite 'select url from moz_places' | python3 -c '
import sys, urllib.parse
v = [urllib.parse.urlparse(l) for l in sys.stdin]
secure = {u.hostname for u in v if u.scheme == "https"}
insecure = {u.hostname for u in v if u.scheme == "http"}
print(len(insecure - secure), len(secure))'

430 1124

Even this will miss places you haven’t visited in a while that have since added security, though.
If you contract a person to paint your building, you're contracting an individual.

Uber, Lyft, et al contract individuals to work for them, not companies.
Given the want for WebRTC, realtime, chat and messaging I would take a long hard look at Elixir/Phoenix. It is perfectly suited to those problem domains.

As a bonus it has a good community and is in my opinion a pleasure to work with. I've released a couple production projects using it and am currently building my third. Ive also found from my own experience and watching a new team pick it up that the learning curve is fairly small.
The system could conceivably learn what a particular user means by "pork" (which cut, how much) and "brown rice" on the first iteration, and then default to that next time if no further specification is given.
This doesn't work beyond a small amount. There is only so much land so you have to build up and living in an apartment is a pretty huge sacrifice if you were previously in a single family home with a yard.

There is a difference between 'fitting people' somewhere and them being happy.

Living in something dense like Tokyo/NYC is not desirable to people who seek cities like Boulder.

The other option is to keep expanding outward with single family home lots, but prices in the desirable close areas still shoot way up and traffic gets miserable (see LA).
https is about two big things in my mind.

The obvious one is that it makes your traffic hard or impossible to sniff.

What's often overlooked is that it also makes your session highly resistant to tampering by 3rd parties. These parties include:

1. Anybody who might have access to your home WIFI network.

2. Your Internet Service Provider. There's been plenty of documented cases where ISPs have injected 'harmless' HTML.

3. Any number of bad actors if you're using any kind of public WIFI.

4. National actors. That's the NSA in the United States, where we have clear evidence that they have been capable of intercepting unsecured connections and injecting unreleased attacks into targeted computers.

This is not tinfoil hat stuff.

The benefit of https is undeniably greater than the cost.

I'm not crazy about how Google throws their weight around in a lot of cases either. But in this case, I think they're doing the right thing.
> lots

Ok, cite some of them.

(I have problem believing that your conclusion is true, but you should cite at least a subset of your sources.)
The key for someone like me is a site with videos for every little part for the exact model of appliance. And troubleshooting information, and possible causes of a symptom ranked by customer experience %.

There have always been DIYers, but I cannot do much of anything with just a service manual or parts list.
No offense, but this can't have come as a surprise. The writing has been on the wall for a very long time. I'm glad that Google is forcing company's hands here, because it is obvious that if they didn't, some would never "find time" to get it done.
> The globe has been in a cooling period for the last 18 years

No, it hasn't.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
Sure. I wouldn't put "create" in scare quotes, though. Money created this way exists just as much as other money. Just like Bitcoin or credits in some online game or Hacker News comments exist.
> Why this simple concept would elude the US government is beyond me.

Money.
If you mean ‘rot away’, then your statement is not true at all. Trees take a long time to rot away. If you meant ‘start to rot’, then yes, you’re right.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+long+does+it+take+a+tree...

Google says minimum 50 years.
Wow. Unless this was some accidental configuration issue, this is inexcusable.
It's a weighting of factors argument, right? It's probably not simple (or these cases would all be finished by now). Counting against the contractor definition: single, longstanding continuous relationship.
True. So is bitcoin/cryptocurrency (assuming they want their next drug delivery, which seems a pretty safe bet).
After gaining those territories, it would be politically impossible to give them up - it could only happen on dynastic collapse! Ya, they also "protect borders", but think of Russia giving up its sparsely populated Far East or America giving up sparsely populated Alaska, it really is a no go.
Yep, I have the same goal. If/when I manage to get to $600k (~12k p/year assuming 2% yield) I'll take 3 months totally off work of any kind, just recuperating, then another 3 months to plan out the rest of my life.
I definitely have what could be (disparagingly?) called Saxon feet. Widest width on their own are definitely not enough. The overhead image of the StealthII looks like the most promising thing I have seen for a while.
No, they are not.
If you want to get into some industries you have to have track record of decades of backwards compatibility. Those two languages don't have that.
If you plot bitcoin price against bitcoin transaction value, you will see very clearly that the same applies to bitcoin.
Can you recommend a "virtual cable" javascript library that is compatible with DRM output? I can't seem to find anything.
Datapoint: Prime Now in Los Angeles has quite a few Whole Foods branded products already (just got some coconut milk this morning!), although it's not part of this launch.

Prime Now is really a fantastic service, but it seems like not many people really know about it; Amazon seems to never promote it on their site.

If Amazon buys IKEA, my life will be complete.
>Some places are banning putting solar back into the grid because there is no use for the electricity at the time it is put back in.

May be in the northern countries. Cue rolling midday blackouts in CA :) US is a pretty Southern country with a lot of AC running midday - exactly when you have the most solar.

I think the issue here is that midday electricity is the most expensive, ie. the most profitable for the utilities, and solar eats right into it.
Although having a great champion is important, I’m not so sure if that person necessarily has to be a physician at the hospital. Dave Chase touches on this briefly here (I don’t necessarily agree with the title of the article): http://hitconsultant.net/2017/03/30/new-walking-dead-digital...

Just as you are working with colonoscopy centers, working with large medical groups that do a lot of their procedures through surgical centers (pain management, basic ortho stuff), would be a good way to start before working into hospital systems.
I too was surprised to find out just how much variety and quality of plywood there is. I always thought it was a relatively cheap, kind of crappy alternative to good lumber. But since I've started following hobby laser cutting, I've been finding out that good plywood really makes a difference if you want good results.
I think you're overestimating how much money will pour into the pockets of renting middle class people. You only need to look to Mountain View and Sunnyvale to see how all people making less than 6 figures have either been pushed into a trailer park, pushed into a roommate situation, or pushed out entirely.

A bunch of rich people showing up does not really help most people.
I'm not seeing the "PR for our own surveillance state". But the fact is that surveillance regimes and racist propaganda and intimidation of othered ethnic, racial, or religious groups usually go hand in hand. Hyping invented criminality of or subversion by particular groups is key to convincing the populace that they are under threat and should give in to extremely intrusive measures.

Each feeds into the other. Political regimes use lies about (often invented) outsider groups to justify their growing power. And then true believers and overzealous apparatchiks begin harassing members of that group, often using those very tools, which leads to a growing perception that yes these people who are receiving international calls are clearly terrorists or terrorist supporters, who need to be surveilled. Etc.
The companies I was referring to are the companies I had worked for in the past, that were saddled with irrecoverable technical debt as a result of “just ship it” with no regard to craftsmanship.
True, we haven't launched THAT many rockets or kinds of rockets: but according to Musk, oligopolies and rent-seeking has been most of the problem keeping us stuck; with everything from sourcing Aluminum to finding a better way than just milling a huge chunk of it, and on and on. No real competition, so little real research or change, and providing that was his motivation to throw his hat into the ring.
I do see where the sentiment against BuzzFeed comes from... As said by another commenter, it's difficult to go from no integrity to having integrity. I would be interested though to know which piece they were nominated for, as I don't follow that side of things very often. I wasn't aware that they did anything differently to their original formula, so I can understand why others aren't either.
They haven't covered rural. I don't think they are even close.

I know people in multiple states who like to shoot rifles (AR-15 style) and shotguns in their yards. One hunts pigs in his backyard. A different one can hunt turkey.

I can't really imagine that in Mountain View or San Francisco or Manhattan.

And yes, those people are tech talent.
I don't think it's the norm because it doesn't sound like most of these things happened in this case.

Also, I've participated as a bidder in one auction where I live in FL. There was no notice posted on the property. I don't know if the other things happened.
> I'm personally more concerned about potential chemical, biological, and nuclear warfare, against which there's really not much that people can do, and which might eventually become as easy to perpetrate as conventional drone attacks (and might even be facilitated by them).

I think most of that concern is misplaced. It will never be easy for non-state actors to conduct nuclear warfare (unless you count inefficient small scale radiological attacks) and while a sufficiently dedicated group can synthesize chemical weapons, it's easier and generally more efficient to just build a big truck bomb (or ten). Biological warfare is more complicated, both because it depends on your definitions (it could be said that every person stupid enough to go to work with the flu is engaging in biological warfare, they're certainly doing more damage than all the world's terrorists put together ever have), but also because that's the one area where rapidly developing technology really could have a huge impact in the near future.
(hence the phrase 'orient a map' — 'orient' just means 'east').

I used to think this too, but I did some research once and it appears the origin of "orient" the verb is unrelated to east-printed maps, and has more to do with building your church so that the altar faces east.
> Why this simple concept would elude the US government is beyond me.

The NIH, the single biggest funder of research in the US, has an open access mandate.
Isn't inflation 3% a year?
I have only ever made internal web apps that don't live on the internet. Where do I begin for an idiot's guide to switching to HTTPS? I want the shortest path to switching nginx over and getting an SSL cert. I think that's all I need to worry about?
I put it in scare quotes because of the important difference. When most people talk about "printing money" or "creating money out of thin air", they are talking about:

1. Create money

2. Spend Money

And this is bad. Very, very, very bad.

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In contrast, the credit cycle is:

1. Create Credit

2. Spend Credit

3. Pay back credit. <--- Most important step!!

Step 3 is incredibly important to making sure it all works out at the end. In essence, "printing money" is scary because it skips step 3. (See Venezuela for details).

So as you can see, "Create Credit" is quite different from the colloquial use of "Create Money". People have every right to be scare of "creating money" or "printing money". Because that's the sort of stuff that destroys economies.

The creation of credit is only a problem if it can't be paid back.
I have an article about copying between dance sources of the same era... since copying wasn't considered a bad thing, it's nice that folks weren't rephrasing to pretend like they weren't:

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/articles/copying.html
My current company specifically chooses to do employment and not contracts for drive related services. The thought model is that an employee would be a better representative for spreading the brand, would have more dedication to customer happiness, and the available supply of drivers would result in consistent ETAs.
I agree, the article did a poor job of elucidating leafy greens role in enhancing memory. Allow me to suggest a more plausible mechanism of action for this effect:

Leafy greens contain more magnesium than other sources due to its presens in the cholorphyll structure. The glycolytic cycle also requires magnesium for enzymes [0], so one might expect the memory enhancement effect to be more likely the result of additional glucose avalibility [1]. Additionally, alcohol consumption can cause a magnesium deficiency by diuretic effect - disrupting the glycolytic cycle and resulting in poor memory retention when deficiency occurs.

Although soluable magnesium supplements work in the same way, I'm currently testing agricultural methods of increasing Mg2+ levels in leafy greens.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2931560
[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976341...
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7836619
Don't they assume a causal relationship? Maybe those groups are bigger because they're smarter (and they get food/other resources more effeciently).
Surely fact-based and conforming to group belief are pretty opposite concepts aren't they? I'm not talking about false facts, but ideas that are outside the fairly clearly delineated (as I found by testing various boundaries and seeing others do so), but arbitrary scope of what's acceptable on HN.
The extenuating circumstance is that it's obvious to anyone that this was a clerical mistake not an inability or unwillingness to pay the bill.

People shouldn't forfeit their property without warning because of clerical mistakes.
Over a hundred companies, including some big ones, disagree with your opinion here: https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/friends.html

"A hundred companies" is both good and bad, of course: that's a drop in the bucket compared to C++. It's also not nothing.
It's also politically useful to have internal enemies who resist the righteous occupation. You can justify all sorts of measures if you frame them as rebels against your rightful claims. This is very standard totalitarian playbook for the past century.

Interesting parallels to the US attacks and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. We go from being liberators (in our minds) to occupiers of ungrateful nations. And we have to stick around so long as people resist, because politically people hate to "lose".
Meanwhile I'm stuck with mysql 5.4 without foreign keys, cuz, you know, performance. (The main db for a billion dollar security company)
"EV1 program at slightly less than $500 million before marketing and sales costs, and over $1 billion in total"

adjust for inflation and that's well over 1 million / car.
Just curious, where do you live where 12k a year is enough for everything? That doesn't even cover rent in the Bay Area.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secu...

This is the easiest tutorial I've found. It's 99% copy/paste with sane defaults.
I don't want to search for it but wasn't there high quality video of a home made drone dropping an IED on a tank commander, instantly killing him?

It's very chilling that this new vector of attack is very much here for everyone to utilize.
I agree that D has a messaging problem. The folks doing Rust have been very effective at promoting the rust language as a very good C/C++ successor for systems programming based on a few key features, but I think D is actually a better overall next step for people from the C/C++ world.
My point exactly. Yet it's still the dominating model these days.
Android P Will Let Carriers Define How LTE Signal Bars Are Shown
"Have you ever gotten a company you worked for to authorize spending for something where you didn't justify it in terms of its benefit to the company?"

Yes, actually, and i was managing enough people that it was a dent (IE xx million a year investment in people alone). That company was, in fact, Google.

"Was it millions of dollars like Google has spent on this HTTPS thing?"

Yes.

"To assume that Google is not doing this for profit would be to assume that they are incompetent or derelict in their professional duties, and that seems unlikely to me in this case."

I'm going to disagree with you based on my experience above :)
> Gold was, once upon a time, THE standard, this is true. But the problem with gold is that its supply bears no relation to the needs of the economy. The supply of gold depends on what can be mined.

Whereas fiat currencies the supply bears only a relation to the needs of the government's spending.

On occasion, of course, this is the same as "the needs of the economy". But that happens too with the gold supply.

Thing is, fiat currencies keep their value, on average, for something like 70 years (discounting inflation, I mean the average time it takes from money getting issued to when it is no longer accepted anywhere, like happened to quite a few currencies in WWII). Gold, even in modern times, has outperformed them on that (though, yes, it certainly does not have 7000 years of acceptance like some claim, but it easily gets into centuries)
The wiki says Winamp was created in 1997. I feel like I used it in 94 or 95.
On Android, since 8.0, users can not override the CAs that applications use anymore.

With SSL everywhere, you can't use a VPN to intercept anymore, as you can't get your own CA into the truststore.

This means ad blocking in apps is now impossible.

Okay, because everyone just downvotes this without reason, here's Google's official Android Dev blog stating exactly the same I just did: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/07/changes-to...
The notion that one can generally shop, let alone shop for groceries, via a voice interface is puzzling.

I'm ok with other family members adding things to a wishlist (called "shopping list" in the Alexa system), although I often have to ask for clarification -- when you said "white chocolate", did you know we already have some? oh, you want another type? which one specifically?