skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It took a couple of minutes with Google and the phrase "binding arbitration in $X" for $X in {Canada, Japan, France} to determine that this is not accurate.

Are you sure you aren't mixing up binding arbitration with something else?

Edit: it sounded like you were talking about arbitration in a more general context than just employment contracts. If you are just talking about employment contracts than you are probably right (except possible for Canada, where there seems to be case law going both ways, so it seems to depend on the particulars of what is in dispute and how the contract is written).
The price of a security is, formally speaking, a (weighted) sum of many disparate data points related to the security. The more data is available about the security, the more efficiently it's priced. Individuals do not need to explicitly share information about any given security to each other for it to spread through the market, because there exists a feedback cycle between any security and the publicly available data related to it. The price is literally a function of that information.

In other words, every time a security is traded, its price is updated with a very small amount of new information. It's not important that any single individual has all the information, it's important that the market has all the information. That is the essential function of the market - price discovery. No single investor (or even a team) could hope to accurately encapsulate everything there is to know about a given security. The market "prices" new information into a security, which is precisely what it means for data to be diffused.

Stated another way, novel information about a security represents a potential price inefficiency. But that price inefficiency is essentially lost once the data has become public.
Not sure why you were downvoted. As far as I know you are correct, at least for Europe, in the area of workers' rights.
Does anyone else think that the IBM commercial where they talk about tracking a tomato with a blockchain is laughable? Or is it just me?
"Artist’s depiction of a spear-wielding human gazing up at Scholz’s Star — a scene that probably never happened, given the red dwarf’s low luminosity."
5 Minutes with Jennifer Jacquet – Center for Data Science – Medium
Matt Levine on Bitcoin Structured Notes (Buy Bitcoins Without Downside)
Elsewhere here is "Buy Bitcoins Without Risk of Losing Money: A Guide to Responsible Investing." I know, I laughed too, but it's actually a straightforward and well-known strategy, which is, if you have $10,000 to invest for five years, you spend some of it buying a risk-free security (classically, a Treasury Strip) that matures at $10,000 in five years, and then -- because that Strip costs something like $8,750 today -- you spend the rest buying the risky thing that you really want to buy. (Or, more classically, at-the-money call options on the risky thing.) If you don't think too hard about it -- about time value of money or opportunity cost or liquidity risk or the actual slope of the payoff graph -- then this sort of looks like getting the upside of Bitcoin without the risk of losing money. I am not saying it's a good idea -- this is not investment advice -- but I am saying that it's a good pitch.

Rest here:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-22/when-margin-loans-go-wrong
Yeah, I assumed that some large investors (e.g. hedge funds) would have someone skilled in accounting shenanigans and would make big bets to move the market to reflect the information that was publicly available.
It would be great if many of the games worked like that. Sadly, in my experience, you can report/block someone and then immediately be matched with them again. This is especially true in games like Heroes of the Storm which have smaller player bases.

Being able to block someone and not be matched with them again is also a great mechanism to dodge better players. If you have a hard time beating a particular player? Block/report them, avoid being matched with them, and have an easier time winning.
There seems to have been some good work being done on the GC.

* Project lead(?) claiming 1ms pause times: https://www.reddit.com/r/ocaml/comments/7yqa92/comment/dujyj...

* General status update: https://www.reddit.com/r/ocaml/comments/7yqa92/comment/dujgx...
How computers can help us be more creative – Future Makers – Medium
As we say around these parts, "perfect is the enemy of good".

I've used Facebook a fair bit over the past decade and only deactivated it two months ago, after Zuckerberg signalled his intentions for 2018. I see a deactivated account as being a precursor to finding a way to test, properly obfuscate and then really delete.

So compared to doing nothing, I am in the process of deleting as much as possible. I don't want to participate with events, groups or with people who might be encouraged by me staying (this assumes that they care, of which some do; so it is my responsibility to help pull them away).

Read this: http://www.salimvirani.com/facebook/
Until they grow to become facebook size.
Surely the root is people's relationship with their online data, and the vast majority of the population being uninformed and uninterested in data security and privacy.

There was a recent post about how the internet was better before everyone was on it. I'm not sure I agreen, but the average ability of any internet user to think critically has certainly tanked since the advent of the smartphone.
The group I work with at my current gig just hired two older devs to work with us. One guy came from Lockheed Martin, the other spent most of his career in finance at various banks and investment companies. Both have ungodly amounts of experience with .Net, Java and Javascript.

Just being able to have them around has given our team an ocean of knowledge to draw from. I know I'm a better developer just from asking for help and bouncing stuff off of them. You can't put a price on stuff like this.
The "Efficiency" metric is very useful and I really like the web interface. This is a great tool!
Why?

The management of an online community is just a pocket sized version of a full blown government. There's no reason to not make a comparison due to lolbertarian rationales.
Forget Technical Debt – Build Technical Wealth
I have AdNauseum installed. I can't tell you whether it actually throws them off or not, but I agree with the post above - "this pleases me".

The best thing I've found for social media ads is to manually click on ads that are way off-base and reply to the posts. Now I have lots of ads for pedialyte and vinyl releases of video game soundtracks - which I have no use for.
I generally do report it and the bugs are generally addressed in followup releases of Firefox.

My remarks were not strikes against Firefox's performance, it's stellar, just that since Quantum it has become a resource hog to achieve that high performance.
I highly doubt that camera is part of the perception pipeline.
> I expect the fact that the OFA app was pulling friend data would be surprising to at least the friends. Which Facebook turned that feature off years ago.

They did? I still see a "Apps others use" under the settings where I have to manually uncheck letting others share my information:

https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications
I recently watched a debate with Dave Ausprey [1] where he said something like "we're animals so we need to eat animals". I wonder what he thinks cows eat.

Edit: So I'm curious why I'd be downvoted for this. This guy is truly hand-wavy crazy.

[1] https://youtu.be/o5N-qPEnThs
If its a self updating address book, then LinkedIn would essentially serve your purposes, but one could argue that LinkedIn has the same problems that Facebook does.
I disagree with you, though I am not sure where that puts me.
Managing Technical Debt
Because 99% of the population use Google so they make their browser do what the customer expects. Not everything is a conspiracy.
No where! You go back to a normal life where you just live it instead of reading about other people living theirs.
Living together requires some kind of mutually acceptable standards of behaviour. It cannot be everyone doing whatever they want at the expense of others' happiness.
> IBM makes mainframes that sit in someone's bank and last decades. They make tools that you buy and install and run your entire business with.

You're kinda right but the tech world is changing. My experience

1) First job had an expensive IBM powerpc based AIX box. We now have cheap x86 with free Linux.
2) 10 years ago my project had an expensive DB2 database. Current job has a lot of files and open source noSQL applications. (some Oracle is still around but we hate it)
3) My current job is first to use cloud hosts. No need for mainframes any more.
4) I used to have IBM HDD, but they no longer make anything like that
The registry is a non-starter. A significant fraction of gun owners will see registration as a precursor to confiscation. A smaller fraction fear that the registry will either be public from the start or significantly breached within a short time frame, such that gun owners will be selectively targeted for harassment or burglaries.

Given what New York has done recently, I presume that a lot of gun owners will also simply refuse to comply with any registration orders. And, as usual, the black market guns will remain nigh-untraceable, especially among those who are barred by law from owning them.

The best you could do is a database of last-known locations, maintained entirely without cooperation by owners, that will probably consist mainly of business locations of licensed firearm dealers and crime scenes.
A small correction to the Georgian language: it belongs to the south Caucasian/Kartvelian(not Georgian) language family.
What's interesting here is that Kartvelian does literally mean Georgian in translation, but since it is a term it should not be translated.
You surely are in your right to get your data, I guess there has been a misunderstanding, he was mentioning data about your contact.

European GDPR is making this data export a consumer right (it comes applicable in may). Though I haven't heard about any service enabling data loading from a Facebook export (nor a Facebook export tool).
I was going to agree that forcing was a less than ideal word choice, hence my edit, but it occurs to me that we've invested time and money into these games, only to have rules potentially changed on the whim of developers. They're not exactly going to issue refunds to suddenly unhappy players.

Moreover, when these developers have access to the minds of hundreds of millions of people, including children, there is a degree of cultural forcing involved. These developers' ideas of right and wrong are potentially influencing society, and this is something that non gamers have little control over.

At the very least, journalists have a responsibility to recognize that toxicity is not universal. One could argue that there is potential for priming young people toward obscenity laws and nanny statism, when they are conditioned to look toward authority for resolution of all problems.

Farfetched, perhaps, but I personally believe that people need to learn to deal with such problems on their own, because external solutions are not always available or enforceable. This could easily have unforseen consequences.
yes.

I had a coworker who was against moving to python3(and kept on writing python2 code for a while) because you need to use brackets with python3 print statement.
The article talks about that
Go outside!
Uber has no damn business testing self driving cars
Uhm, are you sure? https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/events/labor_law...

"In France, as a general rule, arbitration concerning individual employment contracts is
prohibited. This holds true even in cases where the parties have included an arbitration
agreement and a valid choice of law clause designating that foreign law applies to the
entirety of the employment contract. Such a strict interpretation is seen as a public policy measure intended to protect employees who are considered to be in a necessarily weaker bargaining position compared to their employers. By giving Labor Courts the unique competency to adjudicate such matters, France
can effectively safeguard its workforce.

Similar interests motivate protective regulatory schemes in most European Union (EU)
nations where, as we will discuss, the prevalence of arbitration in labor and employment
disputes remains limited and political weariness towards the practice pervades. "
That is the most obvious solution, and completely wrong.

If you give people the ability to block others from being matchmade with them, they will use it to keep themselves from being matched with players who play poorly, but aren't at all toxic. At higher skill ranks, where the player pool is small and there is a high chance of being matched with the same players repeatedly, it has huge opportunity for abuse.

It is a good demonstration of why it is a hard problem, because you can't just implement the most naively obvious solution: you have to design against the abuse-case.
There are book scanning machines on Amazon of varying price and complexity, some advertising coming with OCR capability of their own.
YouTube, a Google subsidiary, very much relies on content and has been saved many times by both Section 230 (against defamation claims) and the DMCA's safe harbor provisions (against copyright infringement contributory liability claims).

Note: while I worked for Google in the past, I had no involvement with anything I mention in this comment and am not speaking for them here.
OneSignal is looking for a Front end Developer
The problem with Facebook
It's complete crap. The saddest part is that they do have some amazing technical minds behind the scenes. They give their stage to sleazy marketing and salespeople who have no idea what they're talking about way too often.
I'm not sure why this post is downvoted. Analemma's right. Civilized countries don't routinely redefine civil rights as the US does. Binding arbitration is no substitute for the lack of law enforcement. This is a simple violation of statute, not contract. No arbitration should be needed.

For example, Germany actually asserts a civil right requiring that every employee have access to at least 4 hours of daylight every day. In the US, no such law would be respected or enforced, given the latitude granted corporate misbehavior.

Even if an explicit amendment to that effect were asserted in our Constitution, still our courts would gladly entertain the redefinition of every part of that statute, from "employee" to "daylight" to "4 hours".

This widespread institutional tolerance of legalistic weaseling by haves to overwhelm civil rights of the have-nots is quite uncivilized, there's no better word for it.

In this case, IBM's malefactions toward elders is a perfect illustration of civil abuse. For this and the sundry other ways the company has victimized its staff and customers for decades, IBM richly deserves no less than a death sentence.
Oh these poor professional IBMers, making IBM salaries for all these years.

These aren't the poor and downtrodden we're talking about here. Is it really too much to ask someone with a professional livelihood to build a professional safety net with it if they want safety?

I rather like labor market liquidity, thank you very much. I wish there were more of it.
A person leaving a company after filing a harassment complaint strikes me as very likely. I personally know people who have very precisely that. It's a very common scenario in large companies.

Having personally dealt with some of those companies and situations, I can tell you quite simply that people are definitely aware that there are other potential solutions. Such approaches are seen as not adequate for purpose. The reasons for this judgment are not merely arbitrary or capricious. They are broadly quite sound and reasonable, and I touched on them above in an effort to give you an opportunity to grow in your understanding of those you disagree with.

And yes, as you say, companies are far more interested in limiting liability than they are in employee privacy on company-controlled systems. It's not, as some might suggest, that employee privacy is not valued. It's a question of priorities, and companies tend to place being able to defend themselves and control their risks adequately over an employee's right to leverage their privacy and incur liability for the company.

Though I understand why some might prefer to dismiss the above and think of it as just another example of big, stupid, corporate laziness and refusing to consider alternatives.
Also a game where voice chat is required and muting someone means you'll have no information from that person.
I use email and text message to keep in touch now. Or Telegram (funny how that has double meaning).
> The solution is to block the person you don't like

No. This doesn't work in Overwatch. Because Blizzard removed this ability.

Right when Overwatch came out, you could select a player's profile and essentially tell Blizzard's algorithm that you didn't want to play with this person anymore (Avoid Player).

But Blizzard decided to remove it because they found out a very good Widowmaker (a sniper character) was being excluded by a ton of people so they decided to just remove the feature altogether so that scenario doesn't happen.

However, at the time the Widowmaker character was overpowered where Widowmaker should have just gotten a nerf to her abilities (she went through a nerf and a buff since then) but instead, nope, now you can't stop playing with toxic players until they've been banned by Blizzard.

Now blocking players just means, I don't want to read messages from them. It doesn't prevent players from throwing matches, which is the biggest issue since you can't "block" bad play
$88000/year for kids' schooling?!?! Couldn't enroll them in public school?
And they probably saved millions in wages while they were at it.

Coming out of college as a mature student I saw so many of my younger classmates absolutely throwing themselves at the worst offers the local job pool presented.

I kept telling them just don't accept, wait for a better offer, look elsewhere. The problem is, at least in the market I'm in, there seems to be a practice of wage fixing. It's the same bad offer everywhere. I talked to a few recruiters at those companies, asked some pointed questions about compensation that more experienced employees tend to ask, and watched them just shut down. It was less about the "millennial advantage" and more about the benefits of naivety on their bottom line.

I get that having more work/life experience in general qualifies me for a slightly higher starting wage, but I held out and refused any offers from low ball employers and started $10k higher than most of my colleagues who graduated at the same time.

It's horrible that this older demographic is being discriminated against and forced out of their jobs, but this isn't only about age discrimination. The goal isn't to acquire "digitally native" employees (not entirely). The goal is to save money on wages and lower the wage expectations of an entire generation of people.

...unless I'm wrong and everyone who replaced someone who was forced out is doing great and all those boomers were just becoming stagnant dead weight and deserved what they got.
I'm trying to enable Cloud Armor to play around with it, but it just looks like a firewall. I don't see a simple way to just "turn it on" - it looks like you have to create an IP address-based policy. It's unclear to me whether there is any kind of adaptive DDOS protection.
Oddly close to the time recursive language is supposed to have emerged, a la https://bit.ly/2G2CvjQ
Yes, yes I did! Thanks, that makes a lot more sense!
Then people who had a bad game get reported and banned.
Call a good friend for a coffee face to face.

I quit Facebook months ago, and guess what, no one cared. I keep contact with REAL friends far away via email or Whatsapp. For local friends I use Whatsapp and meet in person. There is no NEED for a true Facebook replacement.

But to be honest, I created a new account, with a fake name and won't add anyone to it. The goal is to track some events and key communities I like to interact with. But I've added no personal data to this account and only log on to it on a less used web browser and don't use it in my mobile. I also use the following add-ons to prevent any Facebook tracking: uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and uMatrix. Probably overkilling it.
I might be missing something, but that tex mex eatery has food that actually looks worse than the Mexican places up here in the mid west.
If people were able to keep their racial hatred and sexual slurs out of gaming, then it might be able to avoid politics.
While I am not a fan of Facebook myself for the all reasons recently talked about and the addicting nature of it, yes the self updating address book part is nice. Here's what I did: I got a Chrome extention[1] that unfollows all my friends. I've also unliked every Facebook Page that I used to like. This means my feed is now totally empty. When I login from anywhere there is nothing in my feed. Also I rarely ever get notifications, except when someone adds me as a friend. This way the feed is gone, there's nothing to be addicted to (feed was my main addiction), its very hard to get back because it involves re-following 100s of people which my lazy mind won't do and Facebook doesn't make any money off me (no feed, no ads). So I still get to use it as a address book.
Upvote.

Joe Celko has a few books w.r.t to
SQL and some of them are more than just SQL for beginners (covers tree/hierarchy data, thinking in sets, etc)
There are tons of examples of this in Japanese food. A friend who spent most of a year in Japan said that they love sauerkraut over there because it has the sour, fermented taste that's emblematic of some of their fine cuisine. Corn (native to North America) is a common topper for ramen. Many Japanese broths and sauces now integrate peanuts (also native to North America).
Do that many people look at yelp? The most anyone I know sees are the reviews that pop up on Google Maps, and I've never noticed those reviews to be unfair about small wait times or the like.
I was forced to take that class my first time through college. Somewhat predictably, I was one of only two or three students under 40 in that class. Also somewhat predictably, none of the under-40 students had any trouble or needed any help.

I figured there would be more than two or three, since they forced us to take it, but there were not.
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