skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The dictionary definition of "agent" is "a person who acts on behalf of another person or group." Industry terms of art notwithstanding, anyone acting on the CIA's behalf is technically an "agent", in the same way that an employee is an agent of their employer. Similarly, it also means that LEO are agents of their force, if not the government.
Paradox: 'There's room for improvement in how we present our DLC'
Why would I trust some other party to manage my identity?
AFSCME is not a public entity. NEA is not a public entity. These unions do not in any way limit speech.
Reminds me of the Illuminati Card Game.
Oculus Research just rebranded itself as FB Reality Lab. And the Oculus Go stand-alone headset looks like a winner with 100K sales already, 2M+ estimated by years end.

Distributing VR / AR content seems the next big challenge to me. VRChat can handle on order of 10 per room. But we are talking serious grid compute / bandwidth beyond that. Especially for "multiplayer" narrative 360 video ;)
America’s New Stealth Bomber Has a Stealthy Price Tag
You can't legislate murder away, but that doesn't mean we should throw our hands up in the air, sigh, and let predators run loose among us (After all, killing is in their nature!)

We need to make tenant abuse as ruinous to the landlord as it is to their tenants.
They don't have to bother with that, they just don't renew your lease or use the court to evict you and the apartment automatically becomes unregulated.

I've seen this happen in building after building going on 20 years now. Usually they just wait for a few tenants to hit around 2500/mo and then stop renewing leases and let the vacancy rate pull the rents over the threshold for them. It's really easy.

(Note: they also lowered the tenant's personal income threshold in 2015 to ~200k/yr for two consecutive years)
OK, so you are not a conservative. The essence of the question remains. Perhaps answering it would be helpful instead of the response you gave.
> We all benefit more than we ever can repay. So yes, optimally the costs should be distributed in a very systematic, fair way. But at the same time my general response is: stop whining when asked to pull your weight a little.

That's not really how this works. You don't arbitrarily force property owners to bear the full cost of supporting these people. If society deems them worthy of support, then society should support them. If we collectively think these people shouldn't be forced from their homes, then great. Let's pay the delta between what we think their rent ought to be and what the market price for that rent is. Let's all pay it together. Randomly and capriciously forcing whoever happens to own that property at the time to foot the bill is short sighted and silly.
By "British currency" do you mean the the Australian Pound (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_pound)?

That's not a British currency. The hint is in the name.
Lower taxes is always a good sell, though, as is reducing handouts and eliminating corporate give-aways.
It is almost universally the case that the people and making decisions about open office plans themselves have offices.
It appears to be hosted at https://bughunter.withgoogle.com/rank/hof

(From following this error: "Refused to display 'https://bughunter.withgoogle.com/0x0A?embed=1' in a frame because it set 'X-Frame-Options' to 'deny'.")
Of course my statement is a statement of a subjective perception (I don't conduct empirical studies on this), also you'll find criticism and discussions about stuff in the Haskell community (which is fairly large).

However, my impression in other language communities, even in those, that are tightly-knit and feature a certain "cult of pride" (such as Python) I think flaws and shortcomings are discussed much more openly.

Part of the problem is, that (some) Haskellers are pretty quick to insinuate that the person complaining or asking "provocative" questions does not understand and should educate themself more.

I remember being rudely shut down when suggesting that Haskell docs could benefit a lot from a few introductory examples here and there (because the type signatures tell it all, you know!)

It doesn't help that some Haskell enthusiast seem to be allergic against mentioning of certain words by the uninitiated. I think Matthew Rocklin (cool guy, admirable programmer, definitely with a mathematical education) once blogged and mentioned the word monad as an example for code with unnecessary abstraction/complexity IIRC. I read some nasty twitter remarks from people who were not capable of extracting the context and the intent from the surrounding text.

I think the cabal/stack schism has brought at least some change into the community and I see improvements. Until there are some massive improvements, I respectfully decline to actively participate in that community and restrict myself to occasionally consume Haskell material to educate myself.
The author of this book, John Carreyou, was apparently public enemy number 1 at Theranos. Theranos both dedicated time at an all hands to chant "f--- you Carreyou" and developed a space invaders like game where players could shoot pictures of his head.[0] It does put some of the more... unflattering descriptions of Balwani in the article in context. For someone who was so viciously attacked and ultimately vindicated on his bearish view of the Theranos it's understandable.

[0]http://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-employees-made-space...
Can I get a source on that? Asking honestly, i'm curious about how that might work.
I’m not having anything two ways. Here are two statements which are not contradictory.

1. Unions are not government funded.
2. Those who benefit from collective bargaining ought to help pay for it.
Rust does come with a different bag of complexity. I'm thrilled to see competition with C++ in this space finally and super excited about Rust, but let's not pretend Rust is easy, either. It has a notoriously monsterous learning curve (which is why there's a major focus to fix that curve: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-roadmap/issues/17 )

And in this particular context Rust also still forces you to figure out how to pass parameters and manage memory. It "just" helps you with when to call free, which std::unique_ptr also helps you with. Rust makes it a compile error to have a bug, which is awesome, but the "you have to figure out memory allocation & layout" complexity is still mostly there.
One of the coolest things I've seen is to use Prolog with CLP(FD) to solve the 7-11 problem. The problem basically says the sum of the prices of four items is $7.11, and the product is $7.11 too (no rounding); find the prices of these four items.

This can be solved in two lines of code that gives the (unique) solution in a second. Not even my expensive Mathematica can do this!

?- use_module(library(clpfd)).
true.

?- Vs = [A,B,C,D], Vs ins 1..711, A * B * C * D #= 711000000, A + B + C + D #= 711, A #>= B, B #>= C, C #>= D, labeling([ff, down], Vs).
Vs = [316, 150, 125, 120],
A = 316,
B = 150,
C = 125,
D = 120 ;
false.

Another great thing Prolog is good at is type inference. After all, type inference, in its simplest form, is just syntax-directed constraint generation and then using unification to solve constraints—exactly what Prolog gives you by default. You can write a type inference engine for simply typed lambda calculus in Prolog in 10 minutes. Google used to have a project to do type inference for Python written in Prolog, although they've since [switched away](https://github.com/google/pytype).
At least for Barcelona the theft is incredibly organised, and with the assumption that a passing tourist will just pay to replace their phone or use their insurance, the theft itself might be far more lucrative than whatever honest buck is available.

It is generally only the tourists that are targeted, to the point where some people will tell you to yell at the assailant in Spanish to guilt them into giving your stuff back to show you're not one of the people they should be stealing from.

To show how bizarre this can be, on a purely anecdotal level, I was jumped in Barcelona more than once, and even with the opportunity to take my wallet and cash they ignored it and went only for the phone. Physical violence is avoided, more often than not.

Barcelona in particular has had an anti-tourism mentality for quite some time (and not without good reason) so a lot of this petty crime appears to exist as a result of that. This is just from experience of living there a few years, though.

Surveillance and police presence won't really solve this because of how sneaky the theft can be (e.g. knifing your pocket or rucksack while you sleep on the metro and sliding your phone out), the best deterrent is your own awareness. Good luck with that if you're out there to party.

Of course, the same can be said for any country enjoying its influx of wealthy tourists. Barcelona isn't unique in this.
> They don't have to bother with that, they just don't renew your lease

They are required to renew the leases of stabilized tenants.

> or use the court to evict you and the apartment automatically becomes unregulated.

Nope, the apartment is still regulated even if they re-rent it. They have to go through the deregulation process through the courts if they want to take it off rent regulations.
Easier links to the magazine's pages:

Game Description: https://archive.org/stream/HomeComputerMagazine_Vol4_05/Home...

Program Listing: https://archive.org/stream/HomeComputerMagazine_Vol4_05/Home...
LG révèle son LG Q7, Q7+ et un Q7 alpha de 5.5 pouces
Tesla's newest car doing badly at a test does not invalidate the test, which has been standard for many years.

The ability to stop quickly at highway speeds is, in fact, something worth testing, and 60-0 stopping time is a great thing to test.
If it helps, Evicted recently won the Pulitzer prize for non-fiction. Great book.
What right do owners of buildings have to dictate that long term renters move out or pay higher prices? The answer to this question, and to yours, is that rights are defined by laws, and laws are defined by the community.

Yes, rent control exacerbates an already existing problem, but it doesn't create it. The same landlords who profit from the high prices of housing in our urban cores actively oppose new development because of that same reason.

We can't solve this problem by banning rent control. The only way to solve a capacity problem: adjust supply or demand. I don't see demand changing anytime soon.
So you missed the Intecept's piece from the day before this one, going into detail about how the man suspected of "spying" on Trump definitely spied on Carter for Bush?
the collectively bargained agreement with an employer affects everyone under the scope of that agreement. This includes people who are not members of the union. The contract is for everyone within a bargaining unit. For instance, at my college every instructor's working conditions are set forth in the master contract. This includes those not in the union. The union can’t make a contract only for those instructors who are part of the union.

The free rider problem occurs once so called right to work gets enacted. There is no free rider no because everyone pays fair share (in states that don’t have right to work laws).
> like Mitchell-Lama

There are only 45000 of these left in the city. 30,000 of these are co-ops. If you discount the co-ops that leaves you with just above half of the inventory of rent-controlled units.

My single-mother sat on the waiting list for over 20 years before giving up and we were really poor.
Figure out what percentage of the company you own. Saying you have something like 50,000 options is meaningless unless you know what others own. 50,000 options could be .001% of the company or it could be 10%. You have no idea.

They'll probably hate you if you ask to see the CAP table, but that's the info you want. Don't be shocked if your options end up being less than 1% of the company even if you were one of the first 10 employees.

Personally, I was part of a 15 person angel-funded startup that sold to a private company for 30mm at the direction of a VC firm. They bought out all of my options at full value.

I had less than 1% equity. I didn't get much money but got about enough to make my salary what it would have been if I'd been working for a bigger company. That's it, but it was about what I expected and seemed fair given how my salary/options were presented to me when I was hired.

Once sold, the new company will either fire you pretty quickly (within 6 months), or will create some silly incentive plan to try to get you to stay. I stayed on with about a 20% salary increase, which brought my salary up to the market rate for a big company. I was happy with this agreement.

Be prepared for a lot of office politics and difficulty integrating with the acquiring company. This will be the hardest part. It's substantially more complicated than the financial part of the sale.
I’ve installed this lighting through the ground floor of my house. It’s not continuously variable but has three different white point LED strip lighting systems that are transitioned from one to the other based on the color temperature reading from outside.
Do you have any specific recommendations of books? Thanks!
what makes you feel that way?
High cost of rent in NYC (where I live) but also SF, LA, Boston, DC, London is because of rent-seeking -- in this case zoning density restrictions which makes land scarce. Rent-seeking in this case is using politics to shift wealth toward special interests such as wealthy landlords, Donald Trump as a Prime example. Ironically, it is a Democratic City council in NYC which helped DT become so wealthy.

Japan fixed the problem with federal housing policy that doesn't allow local jurisdictions to create rent-seeking zoning density restrictions.

See Harvard Economist Edward Glaeser:
Build Big, Bill
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/build-big-bill-article-1....
I'll have to find it again but the MCI increase rate is capped at 6%/yr for stabilized tenants for this very reason.

My landlord has hit between 4.8% and 6% every year without exception since 1991...for what? Besides the lobby I can't tell.
That is great advice. Where you are talking about just allowing multiple attributes for a product catalogue you can also do 'EAV light' and have a 'user-defined-attribute' table that goes

Sku, attribute_id, value

and another table with a simple list of attributes. I have seen this in production (not in Magento) for a product catalogue and performance was satisfactory, queries were fairly simple and maintenance was easy. I think I prefer your JSON solution but this keeps very much in line with standard relational thinking.
The site is unusable on my mobile device, (chrome on OnePlus 5t, unclosable popup appears immediately)
Aside, I really think displaying a picture of the "villain" so obviously doctored to make them look cartoon-villainish weakens any factual reporting that follows (which I'm sure it does, the case against Theranos being so clear cut by now)
This makes me think of the stories from a few years ago, about how Ethiopia was engaging in extensive telecommunications surveillance and control.

It makes me wonder about corresponding relationships between the parent's description and this, if any. (Not that I haven't already been wondering; it reminds me of this.)
I really wish the approach to making university education more affordable was by subsidizing the universities more instead of subsidizing loans. I don't know if hand-outs to banks was the only way that the left could get enough support from the right to get any legislation passed or what, but it's terrible both for those who do take out loans and those who just cough up more of their own or their family's money.
Why I use a monorepo and CircleCI
Out of curiosity, are you familiar with Workarea? Seems to fit pretty squarely in the 'better alternative' category,at least for medium-sized and up companies.
Git – Giving one step back to then give two in front (part 2)
Where can I buy such systems?
There are a lot of threads here comparing learning a "foreign" language with learning a computer "language".

C is C and English is odd.
So that's how Elizabeth Holmes raised all that money. She found the Infinity Stones!
Well, it is excerpted from a book titled "Bad Blood", which arguably is a signal of where the author stands on the matter.
Excellent, thank you so much for sharing.
Building a Simple Self-Driving Car Simulator
Also, see the Coppersmith method:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppersmith_method
Thanks for the tip-off on statuses. I have a project lined up where this is going to be a gotcha.
> They are required to renew the leases of stabilized tenants.

Most public benefit programs in NYC require you keep on-file a current lease agreement. Withholding a paper lease is a deliberate tactic to make people choose between keeping their apartment and keeping their benefits.

I mean, we can keep doing this back and forth about where we agree on how things should work and I'll agree with you, but then I can tell you about how my family or I have been going to court with our landlord at least every other year since the late 80s.

I am a rent controlled tenant in a 95% rent stabilized building and the landlord does incredibly shady shit to try and get myself and others out. In fact we're going through the regular "didn't pay rent" routine right now that will bring me to court again probably this August or September -- the bank checks that I send certified mail every month are being refused delivery by the management company again.
This is indeed all really interesting but it looks like you've posted a video from a blog post about this and then dumped the blog post in a bunch of HN thread comments instead of an actual blog post.
It actually turns out to be not that simple to approach organized crime for an one-off transaction. If that would be simple for you, then it would be exceedingly easy for LEO to get to these players as well.
I agree that the characterization of which is more specific is the hairiest part. To me, the main issue is that the NLRA Section 7 does not address contracts specifically. One can imagine lots of things that have an incidental effect on exercising the right to bargain collectively; I don't think the NRLA can be read as preempting all of those things.
> As Khannah flashed it on a screen with a projector, the five members of his team stole furtive glances at one another, nervous that Balwani might become wise to the prank. But he didn’t bat an eye and the meeting proceeded without incident. After he left the room, they burst out laughing.

Not proud of it, but I admit that a younger, less grownup version of me once played a similar “what can we get the non-technical senior exec to believe/repeat” game. I guess when you encounter an obvious phony who is likely making 10-100x what you are, you can rationalize these kinds of immature activities to yourself :)
Gunshot-wound dynamics model for JFK assassination
> The FAA rubber-stamped those measures Friday.

Not sure what this line is supposed to mean. Is he referring to them approving them without knowing what they are?

I'm glad for the FAA's rules. U.S. air travel is extremely safe despite constant efforts on the part of airlines to reduce costs for themselves without enough concern for safety. I don't think we can trust any transportation company to value the lives of its passengers at an appropriately high level so they need to be forced with regulation.
I bet that almost everyone has already copied a friend's drive full of (pirated, old, crappy divx) movies. And doesn't check the copyright for music/pictures they include in material they produce and share (blog, social media, report, art). Academics (even ones not caring about copyright) usually put a lot of their papers on their website even if they handed exclusive rights to some publisher. A lot of amateurs using digital media software use pirate versions they got from some friend on a thumbdrive (photoshop, fl studio, final cut etc). A lot of copyright violations are actually done by people not particularly caring about information sharing just by visiting shady websites (mega and co) or irl friend-of-a-friend propagation. Showing a personal dvd or book scans in a classroom is also a violation. Depending on the terms of service, sharing media subscriptions (newspaper, streaming, tv network) between housholds might be prohibited. Copying cds/dvds from your local library or friends. Reading manga scans. Playing covers at some gig without paying the fees... There's quite a lot of them really! Imho that's showing just how stupid copyright (and patenting) is.
You think it's not reasonable to think it was a real person acting maliciously? Would you like to explain further?
> And then the tool does not even have a proper feature to enable you fixing it on your side (e.g., by pinning a whole dependency tree).

vgo allows you to pin your transitive dependencies to the exact versions of your choice, as long as non of them require a dependency with a higher version than you prefer. (But then, do other dependency managers let you disregard version constraints of your dependencies?)
Valerie Landau recommends this web site about Douglass Engelbart's life and work, with chapters from her book:

The Engelbart Hypothesis: Dialogs with Douglas Engelbart

https://engelbartbookdialogues.wordpress.com/

Valerie Landau and Eileen Clegg spent years in dialog with Douglas Engelbart and wrote a book distilling those dialogs. It is available as on ebook on Amazon

In addition, the book chapters are on this blog.

Today, we invite you to share your thoughts and memories of Douglas Engelbart who passed away last night.

Add your stories to the Remembrances: Doug Engelbart page

----

The Engelbart Hypothesis: Dialogs with Douglas Engelbart

https://www.amazon.com/The-Engelbart-Hypothesis-Dialogs-eboo...

Centuries of silo thinking and win-or-die ideological and economic competition have finally generated a global crisis. Now either we collaborate on a global scale to solve the new global problems, or we won't survive. The technology is available to do so. Billions of intelligences are waiting to participate. How do we bring the two together? We are at a decision crossroads. And as this book vividly demonstrates, Doug Engelbart as been there all along, waiting for us with the answer.

Emmy-Award Winning Historian James Burke --Email to the authors
> It has a notoriously monsterous learning curve

That learning curve exists in C++ too, it's just hidden under the iceberg of 'interesting' runtime behavior. There's nothing like trying to printf a data race only to have the print call insert a fence and make your data race disappear.

> And in this particular context Rust also still forces you to figure out how to pass parameters and manage memory.

This is a lot simpler in Rust. Everything is value type by default, Box<T> for heap allocations, which even then are managed mostly for you via RAII(yeah I know there's std::unique_ptr but you still also have new, delete, new[], delete[], etc). Parameter types are value, mut ref or const ref. Move semantics are implicit if you have a value type. You don't have const/volatile/etc function qualifiers.

implicit type conversion(esp constructors) can be a total bastard and trip you up in nasty ways. Even more annoying if you're trying to bit-pack or do clever math.

Rust got to learn from a lot of C++'s mistakes and is to me a better language for it.
Granted that current Soyuz is the most reliable human-carrying spacecraft today (not that there's much competition). And granted that the Shuttle was deeply weird and a bad idea.

But Wikipedia tells me that the next Soyuz to go up will be #142, counting from Gagarin. In the hypothetical world where (say) the Mir crisis had been fatal, Soyuz would have a lifetime success rate almost exactly the same as the Shuttle's.

Even if the new ones are much better, we don't have the statistical power to say. Gimme the kitbuilt Piper any day.