skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>... all of which are targeting US companies.

Clearly not true, but exquisite in the context of the FB factory dodging tax via the Irish loopholes, and now moving away from Ireland as a base.
Website terms and conditions could ask for a pint of blood from their firstborn and people would still click okay. No one reads these things. The GDPR is just going to end up being a more annoying version of the cookie law.
Extensive discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16871300
What does “Mixed Income” mean for our towns?
Suppose I want to run algorithms on large arrays of 2D points while maximizing readability. I want to store the x and y coordinates using Python integers so I don't have to worry about overflow errors, but I expect that most of the time the numbers will be small and this is "just in case".

I claim that in this case, __slots__ is exactly the right thing to worry about.
We need a domestic version of GDPR with penalties just as severe. GDPR is a much-needed godsend for privacy.
Crowdsourced video/audio shortener service needed
> Privacy rights are well protected as it is

Yes, the US regulations protecting our privacy rights are well-known, which is why the current Cambridge Analytica scandal couldn't happen, and triggered all sorts of... what's that? In fact, we have no privacy protections whatsoever? Oh.
Both of those statements can be true. They can have a higher injury rate _and_ be misclassifying injuries to hide the fact that it's even higher than what is known.

Regardless though, employees fight for unions in the US only when it's become really bad. There's such a baseline hatred of unions that you can't casually get one going here just by saying you might be able to get more money. Tesla might not have the capital to impeove things directly but they could at least hand out more equity to the employees so that their incentives aligned.
As mentioned Wes Bos has great in-depth courses on front-end stuff, also Tyler McGinnis. Frontendmasters.com is far and away the best site for front-end tutorials out there.
To my eye Internet services look like interstate commerce and therefore would be the jurisdiction of the federal government. I'd appreciate it if someone with a little expertise could explain how the law works in this regard.
Apologies. Here is a link: https://www.cmgl.ca/
Extensive discussion of the original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16871300
Hence the suggestion to vacation before making a move...
Same in Philadelphia
glutinous

Gluttonous, I think you mean. Gluten not required.
Free Email Address Validation API
Especially since at the bottom of that part for the coin it lists the weight as 15 grams. That's not 1 oz of gold. To boot, gold is one of those things that doesn't really darken, it tends to stay the same color at any angle, and seeing shadows makes me think that this is in fact a zinc-plated coin, as you can get close to a gold tint with zinc electroplating on copper. That would be more reasonable given the weight, assuming all other dimensions are correct.
Fedex deliveries blocking the road for a short time are generally considered preferable to removing a whack of on-street parking from every block in order to have an excess of loading zones, or not being able to have deliveries at all.

sidewalk signs for bars are regulated, at least in my city. They have to leave (IIRC) 6' of clearance on the sidewalk so they don't obstruct pedestrian traffic. Whether those rules are being followed is perhaps another issue, but I haven't generally found them to be a nuisance.

Getaround rentals are private cars that you rent from the owner. If the city requires a fee to be paid for overnight on-street parking, that fee will be paid by the owner. If the street is meter parking, that fee will be paid by whoever is using the car.

food carts typically pay the city a fee in exchange for use of public space.

mailboxes are either owned by the government or installed on private property.

ATMs are installed on private property.

parking meters are government property.

Scoot scooters (don't know what those are)

taxi lines are a government designated thing. Note that most cities that have them also make money from taxi licensing.

Lyft/Ubers are a minor menace, I agree with you on that one.

Redbox DVD rentals are installed on private property.

annoying Greenpeace petition people are required to get permits, at least in my city.

construction also requires permits.

billboards are installed on private property.

Long story short, I think you're being hyperbolic here.
It's hard to imagine the EU government being "in trouble" if Google, Facebook, etc, all stopped operating in Europe. The impact to the companies would be far, far greater than any impact on the government.
Invented or discovered?
It just means your AI is not intelligent enough. The hardware is sufficient, as proven by billions of humans.
Reminds me a lot of the attrs module.
First paying for an extra year ... and then walking out on it, like Elon did, requires more than "not coming from poor" in my experience.

Now, granted, I'm not sure about that. I did not come from rich parents, and if I had walked out on any of my university years there was no way in hell I would see another dollar from parents for a long time.
Well sure, but you'll have 80% of wages confiscated for up to 5 years. And you'll be unable to get another mortgage for longer than that, and paying more when you do.
How are you capable of saying that privacy rights are well protected with a straight face. There are breaches every week in US companies and no on goes to jail, and no company fixes their shit because there's no reason for them to.

The only way I could see someone believeing that it's well protected is due to making money off of violating that privacy
Part of the problem is deciding what the +1 should be attached to. Some people comment +1 just because they want to see a PR merged. Some +1s are intended to be associated with a specific comment.
Behind Singapore’s meteoric rise as a top blockchain hub
> We have brains (at least, I like to think most of us do) which are capable of many, many times the amount of processing power which currently exists in AP2 and AP2.5 cars.

I think it's just a matter of writing the correct software. Our brain seems really underpowered to me. And considering what even insects can do with highly limited brainpower, I think the hardware is good enough. All the gains need to come from software now.
Would 802.11n be better than 802.11ac with a lot of constraints on the networking bandwidth?
Stripe's false positive problem has been awful for my business. Hoping it gets better.
Are you serious? Do you really think nations don't have any right to tax economic activity happening in their borders because one of the entities involved has one of their numerous sub companies headquartered in another country?
> I see some bindings; is there something that makes QT less appropriate than GTK

Qt has a long history of bindings coming and going to the point where I wouldn't trust any of them to last unless they come from the qt team themselves. Couple this with c++ making binary compatibility much harder (https://community.kde.org/Policies/Binary_Compatibility_Issu...) and you've got a recipe for frustration.
> Ergo is a really big deal at Apple.

Apparentlhy not, if you've ever used their new keyboards and touch bars on the premium laptops, or their awful, awful magic mouse.
> Now, may Google try to put pressure on Mozilla? Sure.

There is an implicit pressure when the existence of the company depends on one entity.

> Would Mozilla obey? Possibly...?

Would they rather put 100s of people out of a job? Close down shop? Because 97% reduction in revenue can cause that.
Shitty website UI that is commercially motivated, e.g. Email harvesting popups, flickering ads and auto-playing videos, etc. Don't go away by themselves. They usually need to be blocked.
I mean Django community is a community of web developers.

It's expected of them to have a better looking website.

Please remember that this is all volunteers. I'm pretty much sure Postgres community would love if you help them on this.
Can you explain what you mean by “great moral seriousness” and “great arithmetician” in this context? What do you think the purpose of teaching elementary mathematics is?
> Wiener said he negotiated amendments with the committee that kept "all key provisions of the bill intact."

Anybody know how close to the truth this is? It sounds a bit less likely than I would hope.
Seconded...I swear to God "that's a symptom of bad design" and its ilk are the most hackneyed type of response to a situation that has the bonus of making you seem "above it all". It absolves you of even having to bother to look into the situation to see if maybe there is nuance that you can't just throw platitudes at.
oh, you meant to say that a cluster of high end commodity x86 boxes with postgresql and a bunch of HA stuff you've got to set up yourself could beat it.

spectacular, that sounds great, i'm convinced.
This also had me shaking my head. Siri can’t even play Spotify. Oof.
Maybe it's optimizing for the wrong thing. Maybe the goal of targeted advertising is to find the people who were about to buy something anyways, shove an ad for it in front of them just in time, and take a cut[1]:

> Our results indicate that more sophisticated targeting algorithms might not gain, and might even harm, the advertiser as those seeing the ad would convert in the absence of advertising.

There are a bunch of ad-tech people on this site; maybe some of them could chime in and share how many more sales they make using total surveillance versus basic keyword-in-page.

[1] https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=7020000840130690...
I don't know what a "factory dodging tax" is but the new tax code removes the need for profit shifting so FB wouldn't take a tax hit and I guess you won't relish that as much.

And on that note what's with all the commies here?!
The wrong one
Unless they are willing to go to war they can't do shit to people outside their jurisdiction by definition, if they had power over that place it would be part of their jurisdiction.

What they can do however is turn off access to any resources being acquired in the EU. As the EU is the largest economic bloc in the world atm, and with the massive connectedness of the modern global economy, there's no way for a major internatial to flaunt the EUs laws without losing money unless the EU decides to allow it
I've always wanted a programming UI similar to RapGenius's UI. With annotations and docs being opened in a form panel.
Hertz and Avis don't park their fleet in public spaces because it would be bad for business. You want to rent a car? Gotta walk four blocks to pick it up.
Southwest Airlines Flt#1380 17 April 2018 Update
One Artist Has a Monopoly on the World’s Blackest Black Pigment
23. First programming experience was with a C++ book my dad gave me when I was 10. Didn't learn too much from that. When I was around 12 in school we used Logo (MicroWorlds) in technology class. I had a lot of fun with that. I finally fully got into programming with C# when Microsoft XNA came out, was around 14 at the time.
The C2 is unfortunately difficult to find much documentation on. Things like kernel configuration etc for mainline releases are sorely lacking

I'm going to try building the latest 4.17 RC later today to see if I can't get it to boot. But I didn't get very far a few months ago
Facebook was already on a decline as it was becoming the social media platform for senior citizens.

I do wonder how this will affect Instagram, which is where most of my peers and friends are.
That would be a massive dystopia if companies had more power than an entire continents democratic governments. Might as well just make way for the megacorps and corporate citizenship at that point
EvilAP_Defender: An Application for Discovering Evil Access Points
> this law is about limiting and controlling what american companies can do on their platforms

The law also applies to European companies.
You can have plenty of status without money. The headmaster at his martial arts studio has more status than a white belt, even if the white belt is loaded. Status is of course situational, ever-changing, and tremendous fun to watch.

In Impro, Keith Johnstone talks about status being the most important thing actors add to make their scenes instantly "life-like". Status is everywhere in our lives yet most of us ignore it--we know it happens but we don't like to think about it. It's only when you try to recreate life on the stage that you realize, oh shoot, people are all about status.
How deep learning is about to transform biomedical science
Next this guy is going to say countries building armies to protect themselves is anti american because it doesn't let US companies take all their natural resources.
I love Stripe and am an early and long time customer.

Everything about them is beautiful, simplified and easy - except Radar.

For all the blogs and good intentions of the team, Radar to me means an email 3 days after I've processed and shipped an order telling me it may be fraudulent, followed a month later by a reminder "I'm sorry, you lost your credit dispute for $X" email, followed by a $15 charge by Stripe for no error or bad faith on the part of my company.

When Radar isn't busy sending me reminders that we're having money stolen from us, they are hard at work denying legit charges and sending customers down a Kafka-esque rabbit hole, hell bent on seeing exactly how much friction can be introduced into our website's buying process by a single third party service.

Stripe didn't create the fraud and they are taking on a difficult and emotional part of their business, which is commendable, but it must be said:

1. The false positive rate of Radar is so bad that it renders the product worse than useless - worse because it initially provides a false hope.

2. You can't disable some parts of Radar. Better to throw the whole thing into the sea and use a plugin then be forced into some parts of this.

I know there are good people trying hard to build this product well. Some of the people on it serviced our account in the early days. They had a vision of a better way and they made it real. My hats off to them. Now, people I respect, I have hard words and a hard truth to impart to you:

You are not delivering the value you claim to provide. Do not continue iterating. Discontinue the product. Allow others who focus on this to do it well. You are great at what you do but you are frustratingly, annoyingly, arrogantly bad at this. It pisses us all off to be forced to use it and to be told again and again how great it is going to be or how fixed it is this time. I don't want to engage with Stripe on Radar or "learn more about it", I don't want to be interviewed by you so you can better understand the voice of customer, there is no email or back channel thing you can send to make this better. The beauty of Stripe is that it "just works" but Radar does not just work - and it never will.
We should protect our companies or at the very least not harm them.
Relevant Quote:

> “There are two ways to make the world a better place. You can decrease the suck, and you can increase the awesome… And I do not want to live in a world where we only focus on suck and never think about awesome.” - Hank Green
I find it very hard to communicate about how hard things are going to be (heh). Whether a task is hard depends a lot on the ability of the person doing it. In addition, "hard" can have multiple dimensions: the sheer number of hours, the monotony, or the lack of purpose.
The capacity is not changing 'rapidly', instead the whole VDO device is thin provisioned. Let's assume a 1TB harddisk, then when creating a VDO device ontop, you can have that directly appear as 3TB, so 'thin provisioned'.

The filesystem ontop always sees 3TB, unless you explicitly modify the VDO device. Of course, you have to monitor the VDO status tightly: if you happen to store data on the filesystem which is absolutely unique, has no zeros and is uncompressable, then dedup/compression can not do anything. The VDO device can only consume up to ~1TB of such data. Your monitoring should detect the low space on the VDO backend before, and you should then either stop writing or extend the backend device.
Reading a sentence or 2 about the abstract concept of exposing yourself to arguably unknown agents is hilariously so specific in terms of the breadth of information you're agreeing to divulge... its not appreciated? Maybe my tinfoil hat truly fits perfectly but if you read the grant dialogue, its extremely clear insofar as "sign in with FB to take this super rad personality quiz! and all we need is everything" really meant it? Im jaded i guess
Amazon, as an organization, cares more about thoughtful, evidence-based argument than any company I've ever worked for and, I suspect, any company I will ever work for. Having left Amazon (twice!), this is the thing I miss the most.
A bike is standing straight, completely still, with the front wheels completely straight. According to you, if I lean this stationary bike, to left, you are saying the front wheel will turn to right, right?
> the penalty for commoners wearing it was death

Is that right? I seem to think it was a myth and there was never such a law (at least enforced).
The only competition to the C64 was the Atari 8 bit series in the USA and Sinclar Spectrum in the UK.

If Commodore got the C65 to work it would have cost less to make than the C64.

So now there is a remake called the Mega65

http://mega65.org
Interesting to think about. Would probably make a good interview question just to see how people try to solve it.
Being dependent on the whim of a wealthy individual is saddening.
Do you have a source on that? All sources I can find show Australia providing about 5 times the aid as NZ. About what you'd expect given respective populations.

MFAT doesn't appear to support your claims. https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/countries-and-regions/pacific/#T...
Idk, the examples are really the best part of the documentation to me personally, but they are all the way at the bottom of the page. The description and options sections just remind me of man pages. I would prefer more of a readthedocs style.
It is Firefox. I didn't know it did that until just now. Normally I use Chrome.
> If base == 0, the base is implied by the string’s prefix: base 16 for "0x", base 8 for "0", and base 10 otherwise. For bases 1, below 0 or above 36 an error is returned.

A better solution is to always provide the base (e.g. 10) rather than using 0 if you don't want special interpretation of '0x' and '0' prefixes. That should be in Hugo. The problem is not with the golang library which was well documented and always worked as such. By placing any blame on the golang library, there's less incentive to fix Hugo.
This advice is good only for certain kinds of people. It's not for me.
Reading some blog posts and such about ZFS compression, I got the impression that simpler algorithms such as LZ4 and LZO are typically preferred for transparent storage compression. Presumably a balance must be struck between the benefits of writing less data and the cost of taking CPU time away from other code.
Robot Conquers One of the Hardest Human Tasks: Assembling Ikea Furniture
Logged in just to say that anything Tyler McGinnis does is more than worth it. His React Fundamentals course (free at the time) was so much clearer than any other online training courses as his presentation style makes things click immediately. Learning from him saved me so much time in comprehending React.

https://tylermcginnis.com

Also of note in the React Universe is Cory House. His teaching style is good, but he cracks too many bad jokes for my taste.

https://www.pluralsight.com/authors/cory-house
Congrats!!! That's amazing!
The app does! Or at least, instead starting off with a `drawRectangle` function that takes a full set of x-y coordinates and 3 numbers for RGB for fill color, it starts off with "drawBox(red)" (remember, this is an introduction to programming) and builds from there.

Check out the user video someone else linked on this page!
As the article notes, encryption does make a huge difference here. For global web use we've reached something like 70% of sessions

https://letsencrypt.org/stats/#percent-pageloads

However, that doesn't cover 70% of bytes. For example, software updates are often downloaded over HTTP (hopefully with digital signatures!). Debian and Debian-derived distributions distribute most of their package updates over HTTP, authenticated with PGP signatures.

Most of those packages are nonetheless compressed, which increases the variety in bit sequences, but then most of the downloads are of identical compressed files, which decreases the variety.

On the other hand, video streaming is often encrypted now, but still sometimes not encrypted. But even when it's not encrypted for confidentiality or authenticity, it's often encrypted in order to impose DRM restrictions. In any case, it's usually also heavily compressed, which again increases the variety of bit sequences transmitted even for unencrypted video.

To give a rough guess, I think the combination of encryption and compression means that the author is roughly correct with regard to information being transmitted today. Even when different people watch the same video on YouTube, YouTube is separately encrypting each stream, and nonrandom packet headers outside of the TLS sessions (and other mostly nonrandom associated traffic like DNS queries and replies) represent a very small fraction of this traffic.

It might be interesting to try to repeat the calculation if we made different assumptions so that compression was in wide use (hence the underlying messages are nearly random) but encryption wasn't (hence very large numbers of messages are byte-for-byte identical to each other). Can anybody give a rough approach to estimating the impact of that assumption?
In my view, you weren't referring to Postgres. Rather, the cognitive dissonance brought on by the shortcomings of the redesign are making some supporters extra-sensitive to criticism.
No country really needs to switch — it's a matter of comparing costs versus benefits. There is some evidence that left hand traffic is safer despite being less common.

I don't think the world will ever be all one direction: the cost of changing the larger countries (China, India, Japan, the US) over would prohibit a mass change either way.
He pretty much confirmed the parent's point.

>I always have a feeling that their pricing model is to guess my profits and then guess how much they can take and still gain my business.

"Enterprise-y" pricing is codeword for "smooth-talk non-technical managers at huge corporations and bilk them for as much as they're conceivably willing to pay". That's how the enterprise sales model works, and it can be very effective.

It's not always a bad thing, but it does seem irritating that their only pricing option is enterprise pricing.
Is stuff like "your workers shouldn't collapse of exhaustion because you don't want to air condition your warehouses" something so difficult to achieve at scale? Is it even a particularly high standard?

Maybe before talking about high standards, we should start with low standards.
Worked with plain old VMs + systemd + Consul + Ansible in a four datacenter setup with 200+ VMs 30+ services with no issues.
HTTPS by Default with Let's Encrypt
A polymer made from waste cooking oil and sulphur can clean up crude oil spills
The story of ispc
It's a contentious subject.

I would think less about the cost of filing and more about how much you're willing to spend to defend it if needed. For smaller companies, it's hard to stand a chance. If you have VC funding, IP is attractive.
Part of the problem is how often they change the privacy model, from what I gather. So the API and/or any integrations would have to support those recurring changes.

Not a frequent user of FB, though I still have a profile.