skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me guess: more data gathering features?
Do Freelancers Get Paid Late? It Depends If You’re a Woman or Man
The taxes you're referring to, I presumed, are things like DMV fees. Those are used for things like roads (construction, repair, salting, plowing, etc), bridges, highway patrols, etc. They aren't market rate because they don't actually cover their stated purpose, thus are subsidized from other taxes. Additionally, they don't price in externalities like noise, pollution, emergency services due to accidents, death and injury to persons, etc.

The scooters are indeed left on sidewalks. Luckily the 20 pound scooters aren't actually killing or maiming people, spouting out toxins into the air, ripping up the asphalt, blaring "honk" noises at all hours of the day, etc. Not much of a public nuisance all things considered :)
While that may be true for some, I think you overestimate the amount of conscious thought that goes into human behavior. Even when people have explanations for why they do something, if it's not something truly technical that only abstract conscious thought processes can produce, and if there is any emotional component, those explanations have been shown to come after the decision. The brain creates explanations for whatever it already did, and those explanations are not connected to the actual reasoning. The reason for that is the brain is itself unaware of how it arrived at the result of automatic decisions. It would have to have an additional layer monitoring its connections that would have to be larger than those connections (axons and their neurons). Monitoring is costly. Much easier to create an explanation out of thin air, using your assumptions about yourself... Consciousness is a layer on top, there is no direct control of the brain's processes. You are as surprised by your own decisions as much as the person next to you :-) (unless it's something mundane with no surprise factor for anyone)
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I think "natural" was meant in the sense "it naturally follows" or "it's natural to assume", where it's meant to imply a natural path given your preexisting knowledge and conditions, not natural as in "this comes about in nature".

With that in mind, 360 is a fairly natural way to segment a circle for modern Humans.
Please do not violate the Prime Directive. Thanks.
Yeah OK, so JSON RPC avoids this particular problem by simply not supporting GET. But that is kind of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, since GET is quite conventient when used appropriately.
There's a vegetable named "salsify", very yummy. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=salsify+vegetable&t=ffab&ia=recipe...
The year I learned to quit
The iPhone is not that expensive so as to confer luxury status, at least not for the upper quintiles. If it was, then you wouldn't see it used so normally, that would defeat the goal of exclusivity.

The difference is people with disposable income are choosing to go with Apple, hence they have a better user experience comparable to other high end phones on the market, with the main differentiating factor being one is iOS and one is Android.
The problem is much larger than just "significant works".

The Missing 20th Century: How Copyright Protection Makes Books Vanish (2012), https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/the-m... (one of those rare articles where it makes sense to turn your ad blocker off)
Against Facebook
I don't know why, but this is pretty soothing to listen to while working
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'I broke the Pentagon’s secure messaging system – and won an award for it'
> Friends car? Stereo in the summer vacation house?

I regret finally "jumping ship" and getting an Iphone 8 plus soley because of this. I am experiencing the exact same thing with the f___king stupid MBP and needing to carry a dongle on me at all times in order to present. It's absolutely infuriating.

After holding off for so long (Iphone 8 plus was my first iphone), and having androids since Samsung Galaxy S3, my recent phone was a Note and I really don't get what I was missing out on. I really miss my swype keyboard, the apple keyboard is an absolute pain, and it's "AI" autocorrect is worthless. Siri is worthless. Facetime was the only appeal and even that has been minimized now.

With the direction they went with the IPhone X screen real estate, this will without a doubt be my first and last IPhone I ever buy.
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Designed the award-winning branding for io.js, which eventually merged back into Node.js from which it was forked — https://behance.net/gallery/23269525/IOJS-logo-concept

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How Apps Take Your Data and Sell It Without You Even Realizing
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People who do science aren't some weird platonic ideal of scientists who are only motivated by science. They have spouses, kids they want to send to college, friends, social reputations, and a mortgage. I don't know any scientist who is willing to live in a crappy house (which is highly likely with only UBI) and crappy salary so that they can do science 100% of the time.
Apple Announces Earnings Today Amid Plenty of Anxiety Over iPhone X Sales
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I really want Dumbo so I can make music with it
But if your expecting me to provide kit to your required spec that increases my day rate :-) though that does help with fending off the tax man.

You confusing say a brickie, sparks or a chippie who can use the same tools from job to job - with an it job where you might have to buy new software / hardware.
Coastlines are close to infinite in length (they grow inversely to the length of the measure used; idealised mathematical 'coastlines' are fractal and infinite), we can limit them by limiting the resolution.
The github organization has 10+ active members with full write access to all projects/repos.
The only missing permission for the organization is to change/add new team members.
We asked to get permissions to change teams for one of the senior contributors who are part of the organization since 5+ years.
They just say the machine's broken!

You might say 'you don't have to pay if it's broken' or 'you can report them' but I don't want to have an argument with an aggressive cab driver! I just want to pay by card in the first place, which Uber lets me do 100% of the time without hassle.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that changes as soon as you have one paying customer located in the EU (even if you were not specifically targeting the EU).

I would guess most people selling something on the internet have at least some small percentage of customers in the EU.
Is there a list of punning competitions? I'd like to find one in the Bay Area.

The Punderdome is monthly in Brooklyn, NY. Tonight (May 1) at 7pm.

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6 myths about ethical open source licenses
> most hosting companies use the term bandwidth to describe their data rates. So it makes more sense to discuss it using their nomenclature.

a) if you said to any hosting company, "I need X GB/TB of data transfer allowance" they would know what you mean.

b) given that you're talking about a video hosting site, where data transfer speed is likely a large contender in performance, I'd be surprised if you don't factor actual available bandwidth into the decision making process.

So how do you have a technical discussion about the cost of your IP connectivity, when you're using the same term for the speed and the amount of data?

> try being a little less condescending

You asked about a technical aspect of hosting a web site, using one very specific technical term, to refer to another, related but different aspect of the matter.

In response, I asked you to learn the difference between what you wrote, and what you likely meant, explained what each means, and gave an analogy using plumbing references.

I have zero idea who you are, or what your background is. If you are primarily involved in the business or even the finance side of a company, it's likely you wouldn't know that 'bandwidth' means speed not an amount of data.

> Your approach to "educating" makes anyone who didn't know what you are trying to explain feel incompetent.

Given that you claim to know the term is incorrect, and still use it incorrectly, I accept no responsibility if you feel incompetent.

> The tech industry is difficult enough to navigate.

And deliberately using technical terms incorrectly is the way to fix that, is it?
I assume their software is quite capable of automatically creating such a list to include in robots.txt, automatically generated.
Their network seems to literally be on fire
I don't know for sure, we have old reels aplenty yet we are still moved by scratchy barely audible voice recordings.
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Amperity is hiring engineers across all levels.

Interesting problems:

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To your first point, as a big Apple user of 2+ decades, I enjoy technology and tinkering, but I want control over when and how the need to tinker pops up. I don’t necessarily want to tinker with my phone or with my computer at all times, particularly when I’ve come home from programming for 8 hours. When I need my tinker fix there’s always personal programming projects and Linux distros and keyboard building projects and such that I can turn to on my own time, not whenever my phone or laptop decides it wants to be difficult.

Also as an anecdote, it was Macs that got me deeper into OS internals and programming as a kid — first on Classic MacOS through hacking apps, games, and the OS itself via ResEdit as well as programming silly toy apps with REALBasic. Later on, it was early release of Mac OS X (I jumped on board at 10.0.4) with the huge new world brought by a real *NIX terminal and the powerful development environment provided by Objective-C+Cocoa and Project Builder+Interface Builder (Xcode precursors). These were major factors in my journey to becoming a software engineer as an adult.
I read my Kindle every night. I like to read lying on my side, and preferably without holding the kindle at all. Usually I prop it up on an extra pillow in front of my face or something.

The problem is this makes page turning hard. I would love a small bluetooth page turning device that I can hold in my hand and press to turn the page. Anyone seen something like this or maybe even reverse engineered the kindle to make it possible?

EDIT: Looks like someone managed to do it with a jailbroken kindle and a presentation remote! http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2016/09/30/remote-control-h...
"Idempotent" is one of those overloaded terms...
So .... github, sourceforce, bitbucket. When someone asks to delete their data do all their commits have to be deleted or edited to remove their name from the commit logs? How about changelog if the project has one? Comments from source? I'm guessing you'll say "no, because they agreed to open source their data" but how is that any different from agreeing to so-and-so's terms of service?

In the same manor what happens to wikis and wikipedia when a user wants to delete their data?

If the data was copied by another user does that data become their's to keep or does that need to be deleted too? Example: Jill sends Karen Jill's address via Facebook. Jill want's all of Jill's data deleted from Facebook. Does Jill's address she sent to Karen have to be deleted? Pictures? Pre-internet that data would be on a piece of paper in Karen's possession. Now it's less clear as it's really in Facebook's possession and Karen just has access to the data on Facebook's servers. As Karen I'd be upset if what I considered my data (my copy of Karen's address) to be deleted but is that clear in the GDPR?
MIT's “Digital Currency Initiative” New Website
I'm sure investors probably pay attention to that already. That would be an interesting thing to game, actually.
One of the first things I do with any article that I've enjoyed is download an HTML copy and create a PDF. Too many times I've bookmarked something only to come back a year later and it's gone.
Ask HN: How to motivate employees?
I have an employee who is smart, experienced, but will often find excuses to avoid work. I added more details below. Does anyone have advice on how to proceed?

This employee works on our top client. They have on associate reporting to them. I frequently see the associate work longer hours and more consistently. I am not sure if all the work is trickling down to the associate. I am not into micro managing. I get the sense they do work as a team, based on broader conversations with both of them.

As a manager, I want to help my employees grow and take on new challenges. This employee consistently asks for a promotion due to tenure and working on a top account. However, compared to their peers, they are behind. I see room for growth on technical acumen, client skills, organizational leadership, and solution design. It is tricky, I also don't want to tell someone they need to "work harder." If their client is happy and the team is happy, should I not push? Am I imposing my own values onto someone else?

Apologies if I am not consistent. I have a hard time framing this issue in my head.

Thanks!
I would agree, even in the case of a documented death, the heirs/estate would be the one to decide a transfer of ownership and to whom.

The lesson is again why it it so important for any organization or project to have a continuity plan and not to have any one person as a gatekeeper.
What if the blog post contains personal data?
Archive.is link, as the page loaded incredibly slow for me: http://archive.is/E9s70
CoinMarketCap releases its first mobile app for tracking cryptocurrency prices
There's something peculiar about games. Broken down to their most fundamental games are just an unnecessary series of obstacles. Presentation of information is another component of games that can change things in ways that I think cannot really be assessed in a vacuum.

So for instance consider crafting in Diablo 2 vs Diablo 3. In Diablo 2 crafting was ostensibly horrible. There was no clear way displayed of how to do it, or what the result might be, and actually putting things in your cube was tedious at best. Diablo 3 refined this. And suddenly all relevant information was immediately displayed, items would be automatically taken from your inventory and the entire system was substantially cleaned up.

In a vacuum it's obvious which would be preferable. But somehow in game, the clean crafting system felt boring and tedious whereas the 'dated' crafting system, which really did feel like an anachronism, somehow managed to avoid this in ways that are really difficult to pin down. Those unnecessary obstacles often defy description yet are really what create the 'feel' of a game.

Gameplay and presentation are both intrinsically tied together and I think trying to formulate a cookie cutter definition of good versus bad is something that's unlikely to be productive.
This can be made to compile by using iterators: https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=33d86898c4d16bf9bc9023a9c9a...

Rust also offers some other methods to allow multiple mutable references to containers: .split_mut() comes to mind – that splits a mutable slice into two mutable slices that don't overlap. In the future I'd like to see in the stdlib "container adapters" that take in a normal container and provide an interface to it that allows taking multiple mutable references while ensuring the soundness using dynamic checks (it can keep an array of the pointers or indexes that are borrowed out, and check against that). I created such an interface as an experiment last year: https://github.com/golddranks/multi_mut