skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the legalize issue is a bit exaggerated. Yes, many (too many) sites and companies have a lot of legalize in their terms...but there are also many that do not. Nevertheless, as far as I've seen people aren't any more likely to read the latter, or any more likely to understand them if they do read them.

I think there are two main factors that make people not read these things.

First, as Joel Spolsky noted in his writings on UI design, "In fact, users can’t read anything, and if they could, they wouldn’t want to" [1]. He does not mean, of course, that users literally cannot read. They just act like, at least when you are trying to get them to read something that they didn't actually ask to read.

Second, terms and conditions tend to be long, and because they want to be precise tend toward more complicated language and structure. That's going to lose a lot of people.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/26/designing-for-peop...
Monzo is doing pretty much what you describe and are a real bank (in the UK for now, I believe they have plans to launch in the US soon) - they don't have cards per subaccount, but they are api first, which is nice.

I agree it's a sector ripe for rebirth - it's an interesting time to be alive - we're living through a revolution comparable in scope to the industrial revolution, and industries like banking, which are primarily about storing and moving information, will be radically altered. Banking is one of the last to be touched.
It's enough to replicate one of the 'AI' projects to see the vaporware yourself. You don't need to go above the university project level. Even a hobby level project will be enough to convince you of the absurdity of current claims of AI
Generating electricity would involve moving the heat through the device, which is counter-productive - it would move the heat back inside.
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I don't live in the third world, and I don't think any new messaging service should focus on that limited use case. I'm pretty sure Google focused on India with Allo, but what's the point of focusing on one market when you're a global internet giant? I mainly use Hangouts for messaging, because I use the "desktop client" (Chrome extension) more than the mobile app.

It would be possible to let people use both phone number and e-mail, that way I can log in on computers or my phone with a temporary SIM card while I'm traveling, and people in the developing world doesn't need to get an e-mail account.
Related but the IMEI blacklist is the definition of collusion. It's done serious damage to the used phone market.

Even if an IMEI comes back clean, there's nothing stopping former owner from reporting it as stolen later on and causing the phone to become worthless across all providers in the US.

I'm not pro-theft, but there's no way to be 100% sure a device is going to work and not flag when purchasing used anymore. Apple's method of doing icloud lock was a far more elegant solution to the theft problem.
On my first day at my new job out of college, IBM told me the location I requested for in my offer letter could only be temporary as I was on "loan" in a budgetary sense. Now 6 months in, I must transition to a new role (which will not be in my current location). I have other offers in this area, but the agreement I had to sign to repay my bonus (which has been used to pay off student loans) if I voluntarily leave before a year of service is likely not something myself or a startup can make happen at this point. I feel trapped and it's not great.
Maps allowed in China are intentionally inaccurate for national security purposes, so they are often a few hundred feet off. Accordingly, Didi is not very usable for people who can’t Chinese.
Nailed it. How many Onion articles have you seen end with a quip of the form "at press time". The articles have a flavour all of their own, which is certainly quite distinct from the deeper satirical mood.
Wendover Productions has a good video that explains this and many other reasons why trains suck in the US

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbEfzuCLoAQ

Spoiler: freight companies own most of the track
Third thought: I'm glad my parents didn't devote too much time to my homework.

I was the no-effort-good-grades type. Maybe if I dedicated myself more I would've left my country and got a prestigious degree. Who cares. I'm glad I was taught independence and responsibility by my parents instead of them trying to control me.
Actually, after looking at it again, I believe your code is at risk of deadlocking. If the program under test produces enough output to fill the stdout or stderr pipe buffer, the next write will block until your program reads some data out of it.

That can only happen once you've finished writing everything to the stdin pipe, which may be full because the program under test has stopped reading from it (due to blocking on its write call).

To avoid this, you need to process all three file descriptors in one loop using something like select() or poll() to work with whichever descriptor can make progress. Or, let a completely separate process (like the shell) handle the downstream file descriptors for you.
Did Robert E. Lee Commit Treason?
???? nobody and nothing has made fb or google move about this like GDPR. Local laws are made to be broken. If a court in Hamburg tells fb to do something then they can easily play it along.

GDPR enforces fines of 4% of their global revenue so that's the only reason for them to respect it.
Yup, inquiring minds want to know.
Inexperienced candidates are winning primaries
> Murphy’s online search for “an ugly Americanism” turned up 7,780 hits; “a lovely Americanism”, 227.

I've always hated seeing non-technical people attempt to use this as a measurement of anything. It demonstrates a misunderstanding of how search engines and the internet in general works, not to mention how human search behaviour and popular works (such as an article, book, or film title) can massively skew results.

Not to mention the sample size was in the hundreds...
there is no absolute "present" for the universe as a whole.

And if God played chess, what would be his next move? We entertain the absolute/omniscient perspective to discover answers in our simplest of games, where truth appears relative because our access to information is finite.

I'm always a fan of applying that strategy to the bigger games. Physicists might benefit if they did the same, but I understand we are at the point where philosophical assumptions form the basis for many axioms.
For sure. I never said all interview questions have to be 'familiar'. I'm not the same guy you were talking to earlier.
Standard form contracts have long been given greater scrutiny by the legal system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_form_contract
How is dynamic typing easier? It makes it way easier to introduce bugs- Recently I was working on a timer (for speedsolving Rubik's cubes) and I had accidentally had tried to format an already formatted time for user display, so all that was shown was `undefined` for times over a minute. It was hard to uncover, because the calls were in seperate parts of the codebase, and I wasn't able to make the field/formatter only allow numbers because of the nature of Javascript.
Rural industries make urban life possible. If some people didn't live in the country you wouldn't be able to live in the city.
Yep. My guess is Apple and T-Mobile.
> The really amusing thing to me (an OpenBSD user) was the omission of any discussion of the origin of BPF, or even spelling out the acronym (it's the Berkeley Packet Filter).

I had noticed that. Does it mean it's BSD-licensed?
If so, can it be easily integrated with the Linux kernel?
I hope they cast Al Pacino in a good role when they make this period piece in a couple of decades.

He's got pretty good experience from his previous role as Michael Corleone. Corleone goes to Cuba just before the Castro Regime takes over, and meets with the heads of United fruit company, At&t, and other companies that were too big too fail in 1959. In his characteristic savvy, he sees the entire trip for what it is, and predicts his own assassination, figures out who's been the mole in his family, and attempts his own capitalist venture, if you will.

It's a good thing we snuffed out all that organized crime.

https://youtu.be/OM9sIbddq24
Well, yeah... sure, in high school the material is so easy and the pace is so slow that someone reasonably "smart" can do very well without doing homework.

Just because that's the case it doesn't follow that "homework doesn't improve grades."
I've spent years working for 2 of the biggest tech companies on the planet. Tons of cool stuff going on.

I don't get to work on it. I'm tired of that.
Took the Amtrak from San Diego to Anaheim last year business class. It smelled like a sewer. Wifi was unusable. Is that normal?
Well, implementing all of HTML and CSS and the DOM in something light-weight might be difficult.
A few things:

- XS7 can run in as little as 32K RAM :)

- Espruino follows the ES5 standard (released in 2009), whereas XS7 follows the ECMAScript 2017 standard.

- The Espruino debugger is more like gdb, the XS7 debugger has a GUI.

We have a couple of posts on our website with more information about XS7: http://blog.moddable.tech/blog/moddable-tech-presentation-to...
http://www.moddable.com/XS7-TC-39
Good question, and I can't speak on their behalf.

All I can say is it didn't drive them to divorce, and they're still together to this day.

I like to believe living in a home surrounded by the fruits of those past projects has played a positive part in their staying together, especially long after the kids left the nest. But that's nothing more than romantic speculation on my part.
yes. how would you enforce that? fb can keep your data in a server in hawaii that nobody knows about.
Yes I'm very confused but since you can't explain I won't worry about it.
Look, I'm just listing the properties ascribed to time that sets it apart from distance, not taking a position as to their correctness or how accurate the similes are. If you are ready to accept the timeless unchanging universe that's fine by me, just acknowledge that is what you argue for.
Or, to stick with the analogy more closely; what is interest? It's the cost of servicing a debt. Technical debt has a low cost to the extent that it Just Works. If it has to be constantly propped up, then it's high interest.
Kool. Then you are much better off than I assumed. Find a mentor or career coach to help you get to where you want to be.
SMS is already available on Win10 desktop, but it's confusing to setup (I think it involves tying your SMS messages to Skype on Win10 mobile, at which point you can see and reply to SMS via Cortana on your desktop)
Yeah quite a lot of people don't understand the power of holding or just "financial services" companies in todays economy. They are quiet giants in most respects. For example, in the "147-corporations who rule the world paper"[1] I noticed number 13 was Franklin Resources Inc. Never heard of them, but apparently as a holding company they are one of the most powerful in the world... with many more like them.

[1]https://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.5728v2.pdf
Downstream of you handwriting a check is a hundred million dollar quagmire of process and tech to deal with the aftermath of your dead tree scribbles.

Just let them mail it... Simple!
Would more GPS receivers help to build a better consensus? If you’re in an Uber, there are at least two smartphones, often more. The devices could collaborate over a local ad-hoc network, or via the Uber backend, to build a better estimate.
Like, they think computers are just invincible problem solvers, or can't even really comprehend the question? I can't grok what it means to not believe in NP completeness.
Track work, waiting on local traffic (especially commuter), train police pulling someone off the train, etc.

You can tell the people who've never taken the train before when they start asking why it's stopped.

I say this out of love, to set expectations. Cross country, if you want to get somewhere ASAFP take a plane. If you want to enjoy a leisurely week+, drive. If you're willing to spend a few days for the scenery of a road trip without having to do the logistics, take the train.
Wasn't this the part of the point of Glass-Steagall? (I don't know much about it, so asking sincerely.)
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I remember first hearing the word "bumbershoot" in an episode of Frasier, used as an example of a ridiculous Britishism, and being very confused, as I'd never encountered it, despite living in Britain all my life. After some research revealed it was actually American slang that had become incorrectly thought to be British, I felt oddly offended.

To be honest though, as the British and American entertainment worlds have merged over the past couple of decades, I've found myself using more and more Americanisms, and I've kind of made my peace with that. The English used in TV and film represents the language in its most modern form, and, increasingly, opposing "Americanism" also means opposing the progress of culture, and the influence of minorities and immigrant groups, and I don't want to be that kind of stuck-in-the-mud, so I'm trying to just relax and accept linguistic progress in whatever form it takes.
I highly doubt "Our industry's hiring practices are absolutely obnoxious" refers to tests of basic competence.
I opened an account with a local credit union after years of using Wells Fargo and the difference in service was stark.
My home-made code will probably just do the specific thing I need it to do, and not all of the other things the library has been generically designed for.
Wow, you mean "the undeniable value we provide, our awesome service and uncompromising commitment to the customer" aren't enough to keep customers around?
Stochastic processes and control theory, as in Çinlar or Bertsekas, will definitely contribute towards strong AI, if we ever achieve that.

But don't you think we also need more powerful, but less mathematically tractable, formalisms like probabilistic programs [1]?

[1] https://probmods.org/
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I mean, you could rewrite the same contract in plain english ("heads we win, tails you lose") and it wouldn't make it any less exploitative. The legalese is not the real issue there.
Link to the product spec: https://www.simplynuc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/SimplyN...

This thing sounds amazing at $999. I just wish I had any need to upgrade.
The ITU has been around since 1865. Hence the FCC's involvement.
It’s collusion in the sense that agreeing to use an industry standard is collusion (which is to say, it isn’t collusion).
This would be a selling point for me!
Lynne Murphy was recently a guest on the Allusionist podcast.

https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/across-the-pond
Non-AMP link: https://www.wired.com/2017/04/elusive-math-proof-found-almos...
Umm, the purpose of government is not to make money, it is to serve the public. While you can make arguments whether or not trains are where we should put public money, but you can't use the argument that 'it loses money'.
Too Many, Too Few Rare Earths
1) doesn't sell standard sizes (already tried that one last year); also, relatively fancy and expensive woods compared to the cheap pine I was hoping to find

2) won't cut to custom size; mostly already-finished

3) ditto

4) discussion... mostly about buying in larger quantities, presumably from people who have full garage/basement/backyard carpentry facilities in which to cut it to size, etc.
Any benchmarks available? Would love to know how it compares to Duktape (http://duktape.org/).
I meant in the context of the GUI, then all data would be exchanged through the native bindings.
>Every time they write a loan they are forced to provide the customer with a 200-page "book" of all the compliance and regulation surrounding that loan.

This must vary by state; I recently took out a small loan from my local bank in Pennsylvania and the information I went home with came out to about 15 pages.

>When you're dealing with huge amounts of yellow tape and you have millions of customers

I thought the conventional wisdom was that onerous regulation actually favored huge businesses with "millions of customers" -- for example, the effort of having to "print that, audit it, have lawyers look it over, maintain it" is a fixed cost so the cost per customer is smaller for larger banks.
>So you've archived two or more copies of each file?

If youre not keeping more than 1 copy of important files what are you even doing?
> The primary technologies include: Millimeter wave bands (26, 28, 38, and 60 GHz) offer performance as high as 20 gigabits per second ... "Low-band 5G" and "Mid-band 5G" use frequencies from 600 MHz to 6 GHz, especially 3.5-4.2 GHz. [0]

See also "5G NR frequency bands" [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G_NR_frequency_bands
Double standard? FBI agent who leaked under Comey, McCabe going to prison
Yeah, that would be interesting. Right now the Moddable SDK comes with the Piu application framework, which has cascading styles, inspired by CSS. You can read all about that here: https://github.com/Moddable-OpenSource/moddable/blob/public/...
I helped a friend tear down an old house so he could build a new one himself. He had the odd person lending a hand at times but it was a one man job for the most part. He had no prior experience, read some books and watched YouTube videos. He would get compliments from building inspectors on his work. The house turned out wonderful.
I suspect the OP cheated by only training on 1 epoch; otherwise, the overfit would become obvious as the validation accuracy craters.
You don't even get to choose your mortgage company.

A few years ago a friend of mine bought a house and actually turned down a house who's sellers had a bank of America mortgage as he had bad experiences in the past. He went out of his way to choose not to deal with them, but to his suprise 30 days after he closed he got a letter in the mail telling him that his mortgage was sold to Bank of America!

And not suprisingly he had the same issues.
Capture 3D videos of living cells inside organisms
No need for multiple cards. While we are thinking of ideal scenarios, might as well go with mobile payments.
I have so many problems of my own that I have no time or interest to fix theirs. If they are blind to their problems they deserve what they get.
We've updated the link from https://www-wired-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.wired.com/2..., which points to this original source.
The data subject also has the right to know what the basis of the automated decision was, too.
Burr conspiracy
Les nouveaux aliénés du téléphone mobile – L'information du mobile
Because there's only so much wireless spectrum and at some point you saturate the link. Plus interference from other carriers reduces the capacity of the link.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's also not obvious to me that wireless is better in dense areas, especially since the main cost in wired internet is laying the cable in the first place, which is easier to do cost effectively when you have an urban market to offer service to.
> I don't want to be that kind of stuck-in-the-mud, so I'm trying to just relax and accept linguistic progress in whatever form it takes.

Does this mean you will be dropping the 'u' from colour?
Genuine question.. why doesnt everyone just go and create a credit union account.
Optimizing JavaScript is hard.

v8 for instance, has the interpreter (ignition), and optimizing compiler (turbofan), that have a lot of undocumented behavior that people just to try to probe via microbenchmarks.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_caching

- https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

If you want to understand what is going on the only way is to read v8's source code or running a profiler.

For example, did you know that touching the prototype of a RegExp object makes it slow? You had no way of knowing that.
Palantir has figured out how to make money by using algorithms to ascribe guilt
How to hack Facebook
The first image on the very first Macintosh (2004)
Meet Daisy, Apple's newest disassembly robot
It's not "leading us to believe" that it's important. It REFLECTS that most people disagree with you and already think it's quite important.
> increase all our freedom

Not "all our" but of certain group.

"your freedom ends where my freedom begins"
In Historic Move, Harvard Teaching and Research Assistants Vote to Unionize
I grew up with that (workbench 1.3) and loved it. Clearly understandable icons and a colour scheme that (to me) seemed pleasant. Loved it back then and I still like it to this day.
This is a good write up but the actual implementation is... questionable.

I put in my actual street address when booking an Uber and the app keeps “helpfully” putting the blue dot on the other side of the street.

Then the driver needs to cut across 4 lanes of traffic to get to me.

I report it to Uber, it gets fixed for a couple of weeks then breaks again.
> So because some licenses don't have ongoing re-certification requirements, that means all license are bad?

That is not at all what I said. I was addressing how licensure does very little to prove competence for the three trades specified in the post.

> Couldn't it just be that a "programming license" has regular testing and re-certification?

How many licenses require recertification? Why do you think a programming one would? Continuing education requirements do not count for this, as they are mere completion measures.

> Because a license/certification test is the exact definition of "skills/competency assessment".

Yes, and this test needs to be passed once. The longer ago it was, the less it says about the person now.
Of course penalties for non-compliance have gone up. But collecting biometric data without explicit and informed opt-in, is already against the laws of many EU member states, and has been for nearly a decade. Facebook is walking on thin ice.

It seems they ask for permission, so the title that users are auto-enrolled may be misleading. But if they do auto-enroll: It is against the privacy laws already, no need to wait for GDPR.

About respecting local laws, I find this a difficult issue. What to do with draconian local laws that forbid ridiculing a president? But if it has to be a yes-no: I'd say, yes, obey local laws when you serve users there. Remove comments from Turkish IPs that slander their president, but keep comments from German IPs that ridicule Turkey's leader.
I love Malte's take on what makes a senior engineer with regards to API design:

> The way I would talk about myself as a senior engineer is that I’d say “I know how I would solve the problem” and because I know how I would solve it I could also teach someone else to do it. And my theory is that the next level is that I can say about myself “I know how others would solve the problem”. Let’s make that a bit more concrete. You make that sentence: “I can anticipate how the API choices that I’m making, or the abstractions that I’m introducing into a project, how they impact how other people would solve a problem.”
They seem efficient and ingenious. It's clear that they're optimizing for their incentives. They're incentivized to pass the test, so they come up with these brilliant schemes for cheating. I can't even get three friends to agree on a place to have lunch, how much organization, skill, and leadership does it take to cook up a class-wide cheating scheme? How valuable would that skill be in the workplace?