skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, add "Having reviewed them, I do not appear to have violated any of these terms and believe this to be a false-positive" to the wording they request, and send a follow-up to customer service.

Present in court, if necessary.
Are Russia + South Pacific + Africa all lumped together, or is my colourblindness acting up on me again?
Here is where I first saw this image: https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/8gyou7/really_give...
Only in broadcast because the FCC licenses the spectrum to them and the supreme court has found that part of the first amendment is that the government has an interest in fostering political discourse.

Applying the equal opportunity rules to advertising networks in general would be the legal battle of a lifetime. Applying them for commercial ads is never going to happen.
There's some assumption here that there's a reason for the account blocking, and if only a human could be reached, it could be explained in detail. But that may not be true. ML systems usually don't explain themselves by default; it's possible there's simply no further information available for a support agent to give.

This is a fun talk about post-hoc explanations from ML systems. It's possible, but it takes real work: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2017/just-so-stories-for-ai-e...
I think of this as one last gasp for Flipkart. After Amazon entered the Indian market and provided not only lower prices in many cases but also quick delivery and decent enough customer care. Whenever I compared Flipkart, Amazon and Paytm on price for certain products in the last few years, I've found Paytm to be the cheapest (after cash back), followed by Amazon and lastly by Flipkart. Amazon has caught up a bit on pricing while Paytm has realized that offering a lot of discounts and making losses is not that good of a business model.

India is a highly price sensitive market with almost no loyalty when it comes to online purchases where price comparison is quick(er) to do.

Amazon has a lot of money to tire out its competitors to death. While I don't like Amazon for a few different reasons, the writing was on the wall for quite sometime as far as Flipkart was concerned.

I'd guess many people would be leaving Flipkart in the next one year and either working for the competition or start a new company to compete with it.
How copyright law hides work like Zora Neale Hurston’s new book from the public
Why don’t we see aliens? This Oxford prof suspects they’re 'sleeping'. Heres why
I don’t need to be granted a right to call someone despicable, but thanks for high-roading me so effectively, while avoiding adding any substance of your own. Rees-Mogg would be proud I’m sure.
Release date: November 2016
Sounds more like Google is turning it into an actual business. I assumed that MapBox was making some money, given that it relies on OSM and can cut corners, but it isn't.
> It asks them to comply with the rules and remove any existing publication that is offending the rules.

Sure, and given that they haven't violated the rules, they can honestly say they're complying with them, and have removed any violating publications (of which there were zero).

Send a follow-up to a human afterwards, rather than trying to debate a bot.
Particle for Good – providing benefits to socially conscious IoT builders
Google having ads increase the cost of visibility if the main way they convert is on searches for a relevant query where Google has good organic results; whether that's the main way bail bonds ads converts is expressly a point of uncertainty in my upthread post (it's part of the “if” clause); that Google has quality organic results for the industry on the most obvious search query seems to be the case from a bit of experimentation.
Applied Blockchain Event in Balboa Park San Diego on May 30
Unsecured bonds seem promising. "Show up to court or else you'll owe $10,000." Partially secured bonds also seem not so bad (pay refundable 10% of the bail to the court, rest becomes a debt if you don't show up). Some recent studies have indicated that these might be just as effective as regular bail. DC's PSA ( https://www.psa.gov/ ) has shown that this sort of thing can work fine for regular, minor cases.

You could go completely cashless and say that most small offenses are just released on their own recognizance and everybody who IS a flight risk gets an ankle bracelet.
The US is the only country I can think of that has a bail industry to 'rent' deposits to the accused. In Canada if you accused of a crime, you may be required to secure a surety or post a deposit but the whole idea of forcing the accused to secure hundreds of thousands of dollars for bail is unheard of. Obviously there are differences in Canadian vs US criminal proceedings, but I wouldn't assume that the bail system is integral to the US justice system. Many other countries do just fine without it.
Well I don't sit down to a meal of chocolate pound cake either.
I suggested something similar while working at an AWS competitor - automated RBL searching. A huge number of our public IPs were used by spammers or phishers on the free tier. They would use a public IP until it was blocked, then release that and get another from the pool.

As a cloud host, it's embarrassing to have to explain to your customers that their shiny new IP is on an RBL because it was last used to steal passwords.
You're right! The system should allow defendants to offer up something of immense sentimental value as bail security instead of cash they don't have -- like a wedding ring or family heirloom or their child's favorite stuffed toy. That would relieve the financial burden that the bail system imposes on the poor.

Oh wait, the Copenhagen Ethicists[1] would clutch the pearls at the mere discussion of that, too.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10367855
That makes it sound like a software "feature" that gets added to the docs because it turns out to be useful in an unexpected way.
Sukoon Active and Breaking into Product Management
This is a shame, I hadn't looked too deeply into the content but everything looks high quality.
For an argument against using JSON-LD, see https://hsivonen.fi/no-json-ns/
Indeed. We will be switching away from google to an internal tile server for reasons I won't go into detail for now. Our account manager told us that the pricing of the new Google maps will change with their newly announced platform changes and our current usage would cost us now even less than before. When we asked for an offer from mapbox about a year ago, it was already much more expensive than google. I assume it's going to be even harder for them now to win against google now.
Then you should read older post by Elcomsoft (1), about Apple consciously degrading several layers of security in iOS11 (compared to iOS10) essentially to a PIN-code. Currently if you know PIN and have iPhone you can extract everything out of it, out of backups and out of iCloud.

(1) https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2017/11/ios-11-horror-story-the-r...
This takes extraordinary discipline on the part of the in-office team. Fortunately, everything that's good for a remote-first culture is also just good for communication in general. A culture of documenting everything, living in public, and over-communicating is good for any company; and burning those habits into teammates levels them up for life.
Firstly, I'm talking about big ticket economic injustice here. I'm not interested in small detail differences, and I'm definitely not talking about relationships (and honestly I find it kind distasteful to talk about them in such a commodified way).

My argument is not equality of outcome is better, but that the dichotomy is not that coherent. If people truly have equal opportunity to choose good outcomes they will do so.

If they do not, they are either being influenced by society towards bad outcomes, in which case we should consider changing society, or they are influenced by innate aspects of themselves towards bad outcomes, in which case our society is structured in a way that privileges certain innate traits.

>That doesn't feel too meritocratic...

Well honestly, I'm not as sold on the idea of "meritocracy" as most people here. I think the idea that some people "deserve" worse lives than others is pretty distasteful.

When people say different outcomes are necessary to motivate people and produce better outcomes overall, I can at least understand that argument. I don't personally agree: I think in reality most people are far more motivated by a sense of purpose and achievement than material wealth (beyond essentials). But the argument does at least have the goal of producing the best outcomes.

But when people start to elevate this inequality to morality, and say that "inequality is good" and that some people "deserve" worse lives because they have less "merit", I think that framing discards the goal of achieving the best outcomes, and I find that misguided and self-serving at best, and evil at worst.
Hmmm I evaluated a lot of those (mainly OSM-based) geocoders recently. Unfortunately the quality of results is orders of magnitude worse than Google. The only ones that even came close were Mapbox, Mapquest and Here.
What's wrong with whistleblowing? It's pretty concerning that your example of something that isn't worth blowing a whistle about is basically rape.
I read it the other way around, with RMS being the one offended and trying to correct everyone: the people maintaining glibc agreed to change part of the documentation because it wasn't serving a useful purpose, either as technical material, core philosophical material, or as material reinforcing one of those two (which can include a carefully-crafted joke, don't get me wrong). RMS got offended and tried to force them to keep it.
What do you think of the way things like ZCash and Monero solve that problem? They use hashing algorithms that are more or less immune to ASICS. This is especially true in the case of Monero which just tweaked their PoW algo in order to set monero ASICS back. Stopping ASICs promotes the average person mining on their gaming rig or things like that.

Also
"A small handful of men ultimately control the Bitcoin network because they have authority over 50%+ of the hash power"

I think that's a bit hyperbolic. A small handful of men control where the hashing power currently is. However, that can change very quickly. If you don't like what a pool is trying to use your hashing power for, leave that pool.
This is the best answer.

It is really hard for established companies, full of many different humans with their habits, to shift from shouting across the room to some sort of distributed, async, communication.
Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel or video?
Any video or channel
I would imagine that "disable USB port" doesn't mean it completely disables the power lanes, only stops responding on the data lanes. So when you come back from your 8 day trip you charge your phone, log in, and theoretically ios would re-enable the USB port once successfully logged in.
Trust building/erosion and buyin/retention.
Interactive Mario Kart with Only CSS
That can't be the right definition of rent seeking. Consider the decision of what price to sell an iPhone at. Selling it at $600 versus $500 does not create additional wealth, but does result in economic gain for Apple. But by your reasoning, setting the price at anything above cost is "rent seeking."

Wikipedia has a more specific definition of rent seeking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking.

> Rent-seeking is an attempt to obtain economic rent (i.e., the portion of income paid to a factor of production in excess of what is needed to keep it employed in its current use) by manipulating the social or political environment in which economic activities occur, rather than by creating new wealth.

With regards to pay-day lending, what is "higher than necessary?" Payday lending is an incredibly competitive market--not only is there a payday lender on every corner in poor neighborhoods, but such loans are easily available online, and there is competition from pawn shops, etc. Interest rates for payday loans almost certainly reflect a competitive market price accounting for the risk of default.
I'm working on language ressources and graphs and in my opinion, RDF is so flawed you shouldn't even bother with it. I will address the topic during a conference in June (email me -- info in my profile -- for follow up or to get my articles if you're interested by the topic). JSON-LD is trying to make RDF sexier (more exactly said, RDF try to pimp itself by using JSON-LD) but as it is just RDF with a new serialization syntax, it share every of its issues.

Main issues are:

- a literal node (strings which carry the useful information for an human) cannot be the source of an edge, so you end up creating "resources" nodes and pushing content as leaf of the graph. Access to its is thus done with a lot of indirections.

- no annotations, which mean you cannot represent simple graph construct such as a weighted edge.

- blank nodes, needed to join more than two piece of data which, are anonymous so they are difficult to reuse. That's sad because a graph is supposed to make data link each other. Coupled with issue 1, it mean most linguistic resources graphs are actually closer to trees than real graphs.

- reliance on the web infrastructure (IRI, DNS, web servers, ...) which is a big dependency with a lot of gotchas and not fitted for every uses cases (self contained data for example)

- performances is abyssal. I tried one of the dictionary build on RDF, and some query took up to 40 seconds (!) to return no result. Even bloated web dictionaries perform under 2 seconds.

Also, the second sentence of the article is totally false. I read the history of JSON-LD by one of its main author [1], and it does not originated in the RDF community. It originated elsewhere, and then there was RDF people included in the loop.

[1] http://manu.sporny.org/2014/json-ld-origins-2/
iPhone 7 doesn't have wireless charging.
If you keep stripping Phillips head screws, and they aren't Pozidriv (or JIS)[0], it could be that you should buy better screwdrivers. Well made screw drivers engage the head much more postively than poorly made ones. Unfortunately, virtually everything available in the muggle tool aisle is poorly made. This includes Kobalt, Husky, and Craftsman. I've owned screwdrivers made by all 3, and none of them can hold a candle to a truly good screwdriver.

If you want good screw drivers, Klein makes excellent ones. Klein's target market is electricians, and you can sometimes find them in the electrical aisle in muggle stores. Alternately, an electrical supply house (i.e. a wizard store) will probably stock them (or something equally good). Expect to pay $10 USD per screwdriver. It's worth it.

The other option I can personally vouch for is the Snap-On. Their market is principally mechanics. I haven't bought any, only used a friends, so I can't comment on how to buy them (online or find a truck, I'd imagine), or what to expect to pay.

TL;DR: Shop where the pros shop if you want good tools. For most pros, the most expensive part of a job is their time, so it's worth not having tools that take up a lot of it because they aren't good.

Quick and mostly accurate test for is a store a wizard store or a muggle store: Are they open on weekends? If so, odds are it's a muggle store.

[0] JIS is also superficially similar to Pozidriv and Phillips, and also mutually incompatible. Honda apparently uses them. I found out when I mentioned I destroyed a P2 impact bit on a stuck screw (from America's leading purveyor of single-use tools, admittedly) on a Honda form. I was educated.

ETA: Not a pro in the domain of electricity or mechanics, but as a woodworker, it's important to have good screwdrivers to avoid stripping brass screws, which are much softer than steel.
i do not work for zoom, but lately our company switched to zoom after using webex, skype, skype for business, polycom, cisco. hands down zoom has been the best solution for video conferencing, works really well.
Well, now we're changing the definition of justice based on your income. If I have 0 income and 0 assets, may I do anything I please? Should Warren Buffett pay millions for jaywalking?

It's probably a good idea for the penalties to be the same in society regardless of wealth.
I disagree. Calling bullshit "bullshit" isn't uncivil. Cf. Paul Graham's own essay on bullshit: http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html . Or his 2014 tweet on political correctness: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/512776361824354304 .

The objection that I'm being uncivil is DH2, "responding to tone". Yes, my tone is dismissive, specifically because the advice being given ought to be dismissed.

If HN has become a place where unscientific, unsound folk medicine cannot be called "bullshit" then I'll happily take my leave.
An ancient trap awaits China and US
What about legalized consensual sex work?Problem solved?
Quick thoughts:

- I don't understand the value proposition relative to other cloud storage providers

- Hire someone to do your UX (could start with just landing page layout, icons, and color theme)

- Selling to developers is a challenge (http://www.defmacro.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html)

- Your pricing sets you up to compete on Gb/$/month which sounds like a hard battle for any startup to win

- Keep going!
>I've had Phillips over-torque and eat threads. I've had them strip to a raw steel crater long before the head even meets the surface it's being screwed into.

>Who knows how many newton-meters a Phillips head takes before it cams? Does anybody? Probably a huge range.

Yep, that's the problem with them. Maybe they made sense decades ago when assembling aluminum aircraft and they didn't have widely-available torque-limiting screwdrivers. But now they're ridiculously obsolete, and the only reason we still use them is because of sheer inertia (i.e., everyone has a Phillips-head screwdriver handy, but lots of people do not have a set of Torx drivers at hand; also, the inertia makes them cheap). They should have been retired ages ago. If I were dictator, I'd simply ban them (not allowed in new designs, no new Phillips screws allowed to be sold, but drivers of course are fine for removing old ones to replace with better fasteners). There is simply no good reason to use Phillips now.
If they're left on, they should be fine - it's when the device is locked and idle for 7 days that the port is shut down. Also, I'm not familiar with any Kiosk type implementations that use lightning for data xfer except POS devices, and thos would obviously be unlocked whenever they are in use - so again, no issue.
But they're still disabled at a software level.
It makes me wish HN had a "super-upvote," or something like Reddit gold that flags a post as being more significant or notable than would be expected.
> It's not clear to me from the coverage whether the Kochs support Google's idea specifically

Perhaps, but your argument about their interest in the present issue only made sense if they were overt critics, when the only reason they are in the discussion isn't criticism of the policy but Google crediting Koch when announcing the policy.
A well-constructed joke can make documentation more useful. I can't think of an example off the top of my head, but there've been plenty of times that something made me laugh and go "NOW I get it!" to the technical material.

This isn't a well-constructed joke in that sense - it's likely to cause confusion, not increased understanding.
It could easily be said that one cannot write quality software if they don't understand how compilers work, how to write assembly language, how processors are fabbed, etc.

How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go?

It's not a matter of "not understanding" how it works, it's a matter of focusing on your core competency and even if you know how to do something, it's about where you can add value and where is it best to outsource.

AWS has a dozens of services across dozens of areas across the globe to handle infrastructure. Why waste time doing the "undifferentiated heavy lifting" that you can't do as well? No matter how good you think you are, you can't efficiently setup infrastructure as fast and as reliable as AWS.

How quickly could you setup duplicate data centers on opposite sides of the continent for disaster recovery and/or to reduce latency? I can do it by running a CloudFormation template.
Another common failure mode is to use a driver that is too small. For a lot of people you need to look at the head, then pick the driver 1 size larger than you think you need for the screw. It's deceptive.

You will be surprised how much less prone to stripping it is once you have the correct size driver.
Isn't that a damning indictment of Google's whole business model--that paid advertisements decrease competition in entire industries where organic search results would otherwise provide information discovery closer to optimal?
I appreciate your feedback! :) It's difficult to convey mental state over a single line of text, giving rise to various interpretations that weren't in the intent. Imagine I am your best friend and I say the same in a playful fashion - would that be more acceptable?
Amazon once froze my seller account for something stupid and it was impossible to contact a human or get it resolved automatically.

They got humans involved and fixed it pretty quickly once I explained why I was canceling my AWS account.
Can a device still be wiped when this happens? I'm wondering how to recycle or recover locked devices if the USB port is disabled...
How does 2 normally work? Apart from invoicing as a contractor, can the company actually hire someone located in another country?
Maybe, but what if it's your bank account? Locking you out of your funds can effectively mean the end of your life in short order.
I think that may be something Google appends to its search results for some links?

I googled my own domain (site:flurdy.com) and it appends "- flurdy" to some of my static pages. But not for all, especially not for subdomain apps. So I am not 100% sure.
Ask HN: How do you deal with too many Slack channels?
GCP as well as Digital Ocean definitely allow for configuring PTR records. AWS does too, I think. At least with GCP, you have to demonstrate ownership of the domain.