skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the retirement pay a lot of public sector employees get is disproportionately generous vs. their pay while working

Perhaps the other way to look at it is "these government workers sacrificed current income throughout their career in exchange for a secure retirement via their pension agreement".
The article indicates that the vaccine provides a minimum of 50% reduction in all variants of HPV.
So the 11,000 CFM that it draws comes through the windows and the sunroof? I'm sure they did the math, but it amazes me they didn't have to remove the windshield to keep it running.
> We can defend pedophilia on Hacker News but such content wouldn't be welcome here.

I'm not sure what relevance this has.

> The article is about Facebook.

Yes, it's specifically about a Facebook survey questions about how users would want Facebook to address adult solicitation of sexual images from post-pubescent minors, which the article incorrectly calls “pedophilia”.

Soliciting such pictures is clearly illegal and widely and, IMO, rightly condemned. It is not, however, pedophilia, or in any way behavior associated with pedophilia. (Sexual attraction to prepubescent children is pedophilia, and is abnormal in and of itself; sexual attraction to post-pubescent children is not in and of itself abnormal, though an adult pursuing such an attraction is, for reasons of capacity for mature consent, viewed—quite correctly, IMO—as generally exploitive and worthy of condemnation in modern society.)
Thanks! What OS/distro did you settle on?
> Countries will compete, and that's good for the world.

Sounds like opinion rather than fact. It’ll just be a race to the bottom of countries cutting corporation tax, etc. Which means less revenue for the governments and therefore less societal services for the residents of those countries.

Society is predicated on the notion that if we all chip in a percentage of our gains from work performed then the really difficult stuff (that corporations won’t and individuals can’t achieve) can be done by a central authority - it minimises risk and provides stability. If external corporations syphon off 100% of that value then society suffers.

Why should countries compete? What’s the point? What benefits does it bring to their residents? Countries are not corporations trying to vie for a place in some Global Index, they’re places with people in who want a certain level of service for the work that they do.

Local tax rates are what they are because the people living in those regions think it’s an acceptable level. What rights does an external corporation have to just ignore their wishes?

You don’t have to be a socialist to understand this concept. We all need governments for the tough stuff.

The current system can’t continue because it’s anti-competitive and anti-society. Those corporations need to pay their fair share toward the societies that they’re profitting from.

I don’t blame them for gaming the rules: the rules must change to stop this from happening.
However, I'm personally of the opinion that the basics of social development are already nearly fully enumerated, and I think we're not going to stumble across something new which would do a better job than the things that we already know about.

Why would you say that? Other than broad outlines, there are not so many constants in ways of life across history and around the world. Or, are you talking about broad outlines?

I also have a personal saying that "shared hardship is the key to utopia" but certainly it would seem that education is equally key.

My take is that Utopia == Neverland. It's like infinity. It's a useful concept, but you'll never have it physically realized within your grasp.
It's getting there but it's still not as concise as Groovy support that's been around for 5 years or more[1]. Having said that, sweet sweet (real) static typing is a huge advantage.

[1] http://vertx.io/docs/vertx-core/groovy/#_the_event_bus_api
But Moviepass’s investors won’t be the ones walking away with anything of value. The big theater chains & Disney were just delivered a product market fit for free. Better than free, because all of the Moviepass money went to them.
Interesting. I was aware of the CLI but didn't know it worked on FreeBSD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_differentiation
Great history lesson for people my age who might not have known this back story (I was born in the 90s).
Bitcoin's real trouble is with transaction time and cost. Those are the troubles that will bring it down way faster than any regulation. Once that's fixed, there is no stopping it since there are countries where Bitcoin is welcome. Example: Japan is one of those countries. The exchange rate between fiat currencies and bitcoin will definitely bounce around but 100 years from now someone will be using Bitcoin to make a transaction.
Sure. I just vote with my feet, like many others.
Jokes on them, I've purchased all of my tickets via an Android Emulator and GPS spoofing. I've got it setup such that I text my home box that it's "movie time" and I get a response as soon as the app says the card is loaded.
Is filtering products to only sold by Amazon not safe anymore?
Tech execs claim 'Silicon Valley is over'
People want cushy gigs. A friend just shut down a 3 generation jewelry store because the kids wanted to get out of retail hours. They ended up getting into commercial banking.
Sure thing. I appreciate it :)
Slight tangent but is it the case that the vast majority of Android apps (like >99%) which ask for superfluous permissions that cannot be denied or revoked, are about to become illegal under GDPR?
The only thing that should surprise anyone is if Moviepass is still in business in 2019.
Not funding. Revenue.

What influence are you talking about? Can you be more specific?
I need to bookmark this for the next time I hear “oh let’s just encode the params as a string” from a coworker.
I'm not surprised, it's not clear that traditional watches have a future at all. Right now they are still a fancy fashion accessory, but it wouldn't shock me to see that change in the next decade or two.

Betting your future livelyhood on an industry like that continuing to exist seems like a risky prospect for little reward, except to the extent that the skills you learn will be transferable to another industry.
The article isn't promoting the absolute return of pensions. They're arguing that whatever system ends up replacing it should have some collective shareholders voice for dealing with the financial industry.
Sure, but you still had to host their advertisements. I would consider it a platform, but I also wouldn't compare it to facebook.
Congrats and thanks for sharing. I will check it out on my commute tomorrow.
Optimization is not dangerous, it's just that coming up with the correct model is hard.
"We all knew the $10 a month plan was not going to be profitably by itself."

So then why is everyone so butthurt about these changes?
I received a MoviePass as a Christmas give. I've learned a few things.

1. I hadn't been to my local theaters in a long time.

2. I was surprised just how convenient it had become now that nobody else is visiting.

3. I am thoroughly enjoying this movie subscription service model combined with the lack of crowds at theaters.
Is the amount of money Mozilla is able to extract from Google a statement about Google’s influence or Mozilla’s?
Yeah, it seems to be another term for disingenuous but much more buzzy and maybe more political?

From the Wikipedia page:

Examples of behavior described as virtue signalling include changing Facebook profile pictures to support a cause, participation in the Ice Bucket Challenge, offering thoughts and prayers after a tragedy, celebrity speeches during award shows, politicians pandering to constituents on ideological issues

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling
Most tech companies outside the big ones plan for the short term. In the short term, mentoring is easily seen as a waste of time. Companies that plan for the next ten years instead of the next seed round or two years are not going to want to do mentoring (among other things).
Wait, so is the patent literally for just transferring wallets with currency in them?
It's in the second paragraph, and the collective shareholders voice isn't really part of the underfunding issue.
IMHO Trevor Baylis is a HN hero for sure - so would have given this +10 if it had been allowed!

We have Kickstarter etc. now. He had none of that, and was a forerunner.

From the article:

>But while the Baygens certainly sold and were used, their biggest impact was probably that they had been made by a First World engineer who cared about the Third World.

>There are now all sorts of inventions aimed at the developing world and it's a relatively common thing for young engineers to dedicate themselves to, but that didn't always used to be the case.

>I think Trevor Baylis deserves considerable credit for having kicked that off and for having served as an inspiration to many other young engineers and inventors.

Also obituary in The Guardian. [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/05/trevor-ba...
So when a company is losing money, it will still pay taxes?
Emphasis on “dense” and “pot” especially, and the culture in SV is more Petri dish than anything else. It is demonstrably all about the money, and then getting the fuck out.
In Java, you can't make runtime decisions based on the generic type of an object. Eg. you can't have a List<?> and check to see if it's a List<Foo> or a List<Bar> -- that information has been erased.

You could look at the head of the list to make that determination, (because the List members still have a concrete type), but that isn't a general purpose solution.

Languages like Scala use manifests to preserve the information but it's a major kludge.
Reminds me of a few arrived-with-20-dollars-in-pocket-but-am-part-of-royal-family very successful high tech folks I know.

Their success was still very very hard won. But being part of royalty doesn't often make it in the most inspiring stories.
I remember that in the very early days of Firefox, some websites would refuse to serve pages to anything that wasn't Internet Explorer. I did not see the point to that and I was not amused.

Firefox didn't have a problem displaying those pages, so I had to install a plugin so that Firefox could pretend to be Internet Explorer so that I could just see the web page.

I'm glad those days are over.
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.8.0/gcc/Preprocessor-Op...
Looks useful, I'll add it to my configs.
Some servers feed different pages depending on whether they think a request is coming from a browser or a bot based on user agent string. Sure it's easy enough for a bot to pretend to be anything, but some servers are still set up to consider the user agent string.
Wasn't the 8% due to the deferment of foreign income tax? And with the US tax reform they will pay it for all those years of accumulated profit (and they are no longer able to defer it).

Eg. Alphabet had a 3B loss last quarter due to taxes.
Say a company sells a product to a end customer for 100+VAT.

A) the company builds the product from scratch => the whole VAT amount collected is transferred to the state

B) the company buys components from a provider for 50+VAT => half of the VAT collected is given to the provider, the other half to the state

How are A) and B) different for the company as far as the VAT is concerned?
The only two words that are beyond what's taught in highschool in those quoted passages are "indemnify" and "pursuant" neither of which is actually too complex to understand from a cursory google search. The sentence structure is straightforward and it's grammatically clear that the parties listed are all part of the clause pertaining to who you agree to indemnify. The bulk of your argument is that it's unfair to expect people to have a basic level of reading comprehension for a transaction that's entirely voluntary on their part. I don't see the great crime against humanity you're trying to establish here.
Why is it strange?
This won't be the last time they try.
I received one as a gift and it's definitely cost me in concessions...
Show HN: Simply Auth – Add users to your Rails app in 5 minutes
Think of all the places where you need to pass in an explicit type to a Java class to workaround the fact that the types are erased (list.toArray() being the canonical example, but reflection uses hit this a lot as well). That's the downside.

The only benefit to the erasure model is it's easier to implement for the runtime.
GP stated that opinion was expressed by one of several Trump voters, which makes it a minority (even fringe) opinion. "The establishment" getting "the message" encompasses more than that. I'm sure you're holding plenty of disdain, but definitely willful ignorance seems to be playing a bigger part in forming your opinions.
Spy stealth is the best
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I wonder if the author of this text is religious at all..
WorkRamp (YC S16) is hiring a software engineer – employee training platform
Good point. Guess he chose someone matched to his risk tolerance.
Can you fix the Android app, it crashes on launch every time on Android 8. I've never used it, ever.
If they ask for your permission to use your pictures and you give it, it shouldn't matter what they're doing. You could've said no and opted to not use their service.
If there's a demand for X amount of product, and it will take Y people to provide the labor to supply that product, then businesses will hire Y people. They're not going to hire more than Y just because they can.

The only time the market will consume more labor because its cheaper is if the amount of labor they already had was already insufficient, in which case if they really needed more people, they would have already hired them.
Rare is the problem that legislation actually solves.

And

People don't want to pay for apps with money, they "just want them". So they pay with their data. The problem here isn't with the transaction, the problem is people are in the dark with what they are actually paying with.

Companies are allowed to do this. Their TOS protects them.
On PBS, Open Source Investigation of the North Korean Missile Program
All of Orwell's writing was about politics. Part of the point of it being farm animals was to convey that as a society we are little better than animals.
The real takeaway is that Cogent over-promises and under-delivers. If you want reliable transit, switch providers.
A quickstart to Earning Cryptocurrency
I find that I often check the movie times using the application from my house or my office. I'm sure it captures that brief window as well.
I'm thinking it can't go much below 0%, but I'm not an economist.
I meant how misinformation and provocation is used to generate confusion and support.

Voices we did not hear until recently should be clear: many niche groups, good or bad, that was unknown to the general public until the advent of the social media.
Justice $erved – Martin Shkreli Has to Give Up His Precious Wu-Tang Album
If you can't possibly justify the cost model of a product, you ARE the product. That's been true since the dawn of Google, and likely before that.
How is this not another silo? A big one called "IPFS"
Bitcoin transactions support multiple inputs and multiple outputs (transactions involving multiple input and multiple output "accounts").

For example, Satoshi Nakamoto would need to use multiple accounts as inputs for any single transaction greater than 50 BTC. Those accounts were created prior to the development of the Hierarchical Deterministic Wallet spec (BIP32) [0]. From reading only the abstract cross-posted here, it sounds like the linked patent filling from 2016 is describing something very similar to the "Per-office balances: m/iH" use case described in BIP32 [1]; which is indeed prior art from 2012 [0].

With Bitcoin HD Wallets, there is no distinction between a private key and an account. With an HD Wallet, there is a private parent key and there are private child keys which are derived from the private parent key. Each private child key is a distinct "account". Multiple Bitcoin wallet softwares support the 2012 BIP32 HD Wallet spec.

[0]
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi...

[1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi...
I wouldn't say "instead". It's very hard to find unbiased reports and reviews of new hardware. Almost everything is advertorial, either based on manufacturer copy, or heavily influenced by bribes. And that's been the case for decades.

But maybe we'll see more of that. Even so, if it appears on more than one site, blocklists could be maintained. Advertorial text in sites could also be detected and blocked.
For myself, I try not to watch trailers for something I want to see in the theatre and don't read reviews until after. AV Club has smart film and tv people but the site is unreadable now. Vox and RogerEbert are good, plus I subscribed to some blogs. I don't necessarily want to get agree with the critics I'm reading -- being challenged in your thinking is part of the game of art, right?

What's worth having, if you actually care enough, are people that you consider smart media interpreters on deck if you need some help navigating how you feel about something after.

As to RT, Metacritic, etc. that seems mainly beneficial for those with little time to actually decide. And if you have kids, you're probably going to end up seeing a fair bit of dross anyway.
Still useful, because of stark differences like “flash works” or “css grid works”.
Apparently these people enjoy GC/JVM languages more than C++.
I recently used the Infatuation, hopefully they can get a better breadth of reviewers and hopefully calibrate to your tastes i.e. pick a few restaurants that are 10 and calibrate to a reviewer from there.

For instance, the Slanted Door review by Max Child...mentions nothing of the history of the place and the head chef Charles Phan, instead commenting on "back in 1995, upscale Asian food in a shiny setting was a new and exciting concept, and these guys jumped on the opportunity" which is borderline offensive. Nor did it mention the fast-food side restaurant with great options. And the juvenile writing style was very off-putting. Disclaimer: I'm Viet and grew up near Little Saigon.

At least in SF I tried and uninstalled The Infatuation because it was dominated by this single reviewer that I disliked. Reviewer calibration would be absolutely killer if they could make it work.
Sad the US doesn't do anything against patents or at least software patents. I don't think patents do any good in respect to the development of mankind.
I shop at Ralphs which is part of the Kroger chain. They have a meal kit system in place but they're doing a really bad job at marketing it. It's there but there's little motivation from the store to sell it. If they could get the same marketing energy that Blue Apron has then it would be a big part of the store's revenue.

But you have a good point, it's a hard sell. I suspect they, Blue Apron, went public since they ran out of funding sources. I wish them luck. It's a hard business but maybe they can work things out.
Surely, THIS TIME, it won't balloon out of control! And who will ever need more than 255 characters of PATH?!

File under: Problems that require a time machine to fix. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110131-00/?p=...
Did people of that time have more respect (fear or faith) for corporations?
Yeah very true. One of the things they did was make us explicitly state in our privacy policy how (and what for) we used data from the TrueDepth APIs. So I guess at least someone would have legal recourse against us in that case.
> I finally realized, after years of using make and then learning pattern rules, that the three autovars listed here are visual mnemonics. $@ looks like a target, a ring with a bullseye. $< is pointing left, so it's the first prereq. $^ is like a horizontal bracket that groups all prereqs.

I've been illuminated, sincerely! Meanwhile, bmake has some more memorable synonyms for them like ".TARGET" and ".ALLSRC".
>what reason do we have to believe that a decentralized monetary system will be more equitable?

For the same reason that democracy is more equitable than a dictatorship or a monarchy
If you have to tell people that you’re intelligent while denigrating them, it says far more about the fragility of your ego, your anger and frustration than anything else. It might be youth, or it might be struggles with socialization, but if you want to communicate with other intelligent people without being picked out as angry and insecure, your approach could use some refining.
I've been watching the process of getting git to build with VS, but it's sounding like mingw-w64 will gain PDB output faster than the VS version will happen. Either way, if I can debug (and profile) git.exe then I'm happy.
https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-internet-flips-elections-and-...

Great piece on the connection between Google and the Democratic party and investigations into search result manipulation
In the days of Netscape, pages would tell IE users to "get a real browser"
I think building and theorizing a new monoculture is exactly the wrong place to start. Not that you are, you say at the end it is beyond one builds a truly healthy world/society.

I think leaning away from emotion and into metrics is the start.

I think Paulo Freire has the right framework to start viewing how this should go, though he would probably say "These are my ideas, make your own." And that's the key, in my opinion -- live by your own imagination, not on the rails that the world lays down (which usually are laid down by elite power players, not the public).

I'd say it's this unfettered freedom to do literally anything, seems to be a huge issue to me. It's displaced our own ability to imagine, and has us just doing things in the literal world, because that's what the rule book says.

One dude's freedom to make a rocket engine car meant someone else machine parts for a paltry wage and will never have the money to assemble a rocket engine in their garage let alone the entire car. That's how it has to be -- or so the story has gone.

But the rocket car guy and voices in the thread seem like that's exactly what we should be aiming for. OK, but do it without needing a huge factory manned by low-wage earners. Suddenly, Americans are less free, and chafe quite a lot at that notion. The world should be theirs, and if that means other workers in other nations have more of a say, well that can't be right. Or so the conversations I've been a party to for years have gone ("America went through a growing up phase. Those countries should too." as if there's anything more than social opinion requiring that it be this way.)

First world freedom for Rocket Car Guy, who mocks the notion that's absurd and should be regulated, meant a wage slave somewhere was the one doting on the actual mining, smelting, etc.

The same lack of introspection is all over this site. "Make more apps, build more datacenters. Cause I have to sign up more users." Get people to be "more digital". Despite that not being a physical law of reality.

It's contemporary vanity: obviously the world is becoming more digital, so we should lean in. Ignoring the reality of what that requires, and that it's rather a bit fascist to assume future folks would want to go that way. So here comes another global monoculture to fail in a generation.