skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, their FAQ says

« If this happened in 2011, why is the claim only being brought now?

In 2015, three individuals brought a claim against Google claiming their privacy rights had been breached by Google using the Safari Workaround. That case, Vidal Hall v Google, settled on confidential terms, but the Court found that the claim raised serious issues which merited a full trial. That case opened the door to holding Google to account by bringing an action on behalf of the millions of iPhone users affected by Google’s actions and claim the compensation they may be owed.
»

The current case seems to have been filed in November 2017.
Adaptive cruise and lane assist weren't available in "cheap" cars in 2014. You'd have to look at something like a 2014 BMW 5 series, which would run you about $20K.
Disclaimer : I'm working on a C++ project and as you will understand I do NOT enjoy it.

Every new C++ article about the latest "improvements" to the language tends to confirm my belief that C++ developers are masochists.
They don't seem to be interested in actually improving the language and making in better and easier at creating useful software. They even seem to laugh at the word "easy". The entire ecosystem feels like a infinite pile of new features fixing old ones, bringing new flaws in the process. Sometimes I feel like this is the case for every language, but C++ is the worst.

template <class T>
std::string serialize(const T& obj)
if constexpr (has_serialize(obj)) { // Now we can place constexpr on the 'if' directly.
return obj.serialize(); // This branch will be discarded and therefore not compiled if obj is an int.
} else {
return std::to_string(obj);branch
}
}

I don't want a language with magic. Magic is hell for software. Show me simplicity and elegance. Show me boring but powerful. Show me how I don't have to choose between value, reference, raw pointer, unique_ptr, shared_ptr, etc, to pass a damn parameter to your function. Show me boring but powerful stuff.
None of the articles you link mention the 1st amendment, which makes sense because it has no application inside the EU.
We too lost a daughter to cancer, Nueroblastoma. I’ve always wondered if, even though there’s a genetic component, if there wasn’t an infection or other component we could have done something about. So many regrets. It has a 5% survival rate but we still wonder if we could have done something differently.
It would be helpful if you'd make a substantive argument instead of just assuming that your position is obviously the correct one.

If you're just interested in being snarky, there are other communities that value that sort of thing more.
There are of course the examples of chubby vs skinny preferences between cultures.

But it's not just women. I'm also trying to remember- once skimmed a bit about a late-1800's/early-1900's European king of Austria/Czech/Hungary/(can't remember), who was supposedly considered a model of manliness, strength & attractiveness at his time. Significantly, you can see in bare-chested photos he did not have the massive decorative pectorals and biceps currently considered attractive. (Anyone remember whom this was?)
Teddybears "Rocket Scientist"

Henry Mancini
Partitioning and parallel query go great together!

For applicable workloads, it means you get nearly perfect scaling up to the number of partitions you have.

PG11 will be huge.
Which is why you never post anything sensitive in Slack. (at least not in plain text)
Magic the gathering, and capitalism?
Just in case anyone missed it, tintin is a quintessential European comic character and its adventures with his dog milou and his friend captain haddock. See : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin
I don't think it is particularly British. It's just so commonplace here that i assumed it was - in much the same way as i imagine the Irish feel about potatoes, and the Italians about pasta!
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2533563/it-project-man...

> In 1993, FoxMeyer Drugs was the fourth largest distributor of pharmaceuticals in the U.S., worth $5 billion. In an attempt to increase efficiency, FoxMeyer purchased an SAP system and a warehouse automation system and hired Andersen Consulting to integrate and implement the two in what was supposed to be a $35 million project. By 1996, the company was bankrupt; it was eventually sold to a competitor for a mere $80 million.

> In 1998, two years after filing for bankruptcy, FoxMeyer sued Andersen and SAP for $500 million each, claiming it had paid twice the estimate to get the system in a quarter of the intended sites. The suits were settled and/or dismissed in 2004.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2533563/it-project-man...

> Installed in 2003, the system promptly ran into what were then described as "horrendous" barcode-reading errors. Regardless, in 2005 the company claimed the system was operating as intended. Two years later, the entire project was scrapped, and Sainsbury's wrote off £150 million in IT costs. (That's $265,335,000 calculated by today's exchange rate, enough to buy a lot of groceries.)

Target's failed expansion to Canada makes for a fun read, too: http://www.canadianbusiness.com/the-last-days-of-target-cana...
> Do you have any links?

check reddit.com/r/gdpr. Every other question has been answered with both a yes and a no.
I'd expect that's only true for a particularly risk-averse investor.

If there's a metaphorical body buried in almost every company, then that's just risk, and knowing what it is would actually be better for an investor than not knowing.

Why would it be a dealbreaker?
I don't think it makes any sense to talk about obesity as "moral" or "immoral."
Third Israeli Partner Leaves Eric Schmidt’s Venture Fund Innovation Endeavors
So, what would you recommend to improve the situation?
OK, an example is trying to use threshold~ to sculpt a wave. You can't, because threshold~ is supposed to be a "control" object and runs at control rate.

https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/7906/control-as-signal-...
The question said gracefully. Norvig, being intellectually honest and knowing the comparison to Lisp, answered simply no.
State of the Union – RISC-V
There is no blame in doing the best that you could have known how to.

If it helps, you are far from alone. My sister lost her son to SIDS - just months before the American Academy of Pediatrics reversed their recommendation from putting babies to sleep on their stomachs to their backs. In one book I read a doctor described how his decision to go to medical school was shaped by holding a dying child he could do nothing for - and he learned the treatment in medical school and had had the materials on hand. I read a heartbreaking interview once with a doctor whose brother died of an infection not long before antibiotics came on the scene which would have made it trivial to treat. I've seen reference to similar accounts from Civil War surgeons who only realized how many their lack of cleanliness killed after Joseph Lister published in 1867.

These examples could easily be multiplied a hundred-fold.

We do the best we can. Learning improves our future. Nothing can change our past.

I am sorry for your loss.
Cornwall's mining industry was mostly tin, but some other metals too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_Cornwall_and_Devon

> Historically, tin and copper as well as a few other metals (e.g., arsenic, silver, and zinc) have been mined in Cornwall and Devon.

There's nowhere to wash your hands down a mine.
Is organ donation in the Netherlands also opt-in?
Simulation and Nature in Design
Show HN: Brutus – Brute Force Your iOS Restrictions Password
Very, very interesting deep dive. I reminds me of the nand2tetris.org course, which does something very similar (albeit for a toy hardware/OS/language): explain what the heck is going on between a print command and something being written to the screen.

In nand2tetris, they work from a hardware simulation that represents memory where a block of that memory determines what the pixels on the screen are set to. Then you write code that can turn the pixels on or off, then a character OS library that converts binary ascii values into a combination of pixel settings that display a character.

Then you implement your OS's program loop (the "OS" is based around a one-shot "here a bunch of functions, run from an entry point" that you have to specify each time you turn it on) which has a specified entrypoint from which the rest is called.

Obviously, modern systems are a lot faster, but it was a great illustration of what has to happen in between, which this article is doing for real OSes.
Matt:

> This is a slightly tangential issue to pinning. With MVS and vgo you cannot set a maximum version. When the resolver walks the tree it doesn't know when a version is too new and could break things. Even if it pins it could pin an incompatible version.

This just isn't true. The number you put in the go.mod file can't encode the max version: true. But it won't change underneath you so when you run "vgo list -m" and determine the solved version, it won't change from that.
Given the nature of the breakage (tripping over a non-w3c standard heuristic in one browser with no obvious and visible error resulting), I'd assume no engineer knew the code could trigger problematic behavior for some users until I see evidence of intent to the contrary.
I have never ever seen a filter corrode on something that wasn't literally sitting in a field for 20 years. Oil plugs basically never corrode either, if they fail it is almost always due to some mouth breather at the quicky lube using the air wrench on it and putting in one too many ugga duggas or somehow cross threading it.

IMHO 6 months is much too short of a minimum interval for modern oil. 12 months is a much more reasonable interval.
Previously posted 8 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17061287

Also, the title of the linked article is "Are We Born To Work And Die? A Soul-Crushed Employee Looks For A Way Out"
Compensation?

Probably not. But how about a fine? Something in the 5 - 10 Billion € range?

That may help to cool a few hot heads who think pulling off shit like that is a good idea.
The other browsers have such low market share that it just doesn't make economic sense to bother with that. I don't like this state of affairs, but that's currently the way it is!

Also, one (small? large?) reason Firefox has lost so much market share is that Mozilla just isn't being practical. For example, here's an obvious feature they should be implementing, but refuse to do because of their whole stance on hiding behind web standards:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47866708/css-is-there-an...
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37493597/overlay-scrollb...

This works just fine in Chrome, Safari and Edge. The bottom line? No way to justify spending even more time trying to support a browser that almost none of my users actually use...

Again, I'm not trying to be a stick in the mud against a multi-browser world here. But we don't live in a world of infinite resources, and some things just don't make the cut sometimes.
I found this oddly inspiring and zen. Made me want to break out and try something new
Yeah, it’s certainly an odd statement in a business where the entire industry is primarily government funded.
I had the same reaction, although to be fair I think he's still saving money if you only figure the costs of the Jeep.

> Incidentals on the vehicles cost $3,450 per year: $1,000 maintenance, $500 insurance, $1,500 gas (just above the national average of $1,400), $300 car washes (so shiny), $150 registration, and $0 parking.

Let's say 50% of the maintenance and the insurance was the Jeep (probably not, since the BMW should be more expensive to insure), and 100% of the gas costs would go to a single car (balances out the other way, since the BMW probably had better milage). 50% of registration. Stop getting your car washed. Total:

$2,325/yearly for just the Jeep. So on average he's still saving a little bit of money on the Uber. On the other hand, if you just compare the last three years he'd be better off with just the Jeep. The average is very skewed by 2011 and 2012, when he didn't Uber much.

He doesn't assign any cost to wait time; I'd be interested to find out how much time he's spent waiting for his Ubers to show up. I bet Uber doesn't give you that information on your account but I don't have an Uber account to check.

Interesting analysis effort anyhow! I'm critiquing but I like the general idea and I'm glad he published this.
I'd rather think it is the opposite - that generally people will pay for fixing defects unless it can be proven that it was sold in an intentionally misleading way.

"Oops, did that airport take three times the money compared to expectations to build? Time to pony up more or end up with a half built airport".
I wonder how much attitude is controlled by brain elasticity? Seriously, most non molecular biological explanations with regards to brain function are just tautologies. Your brain doesn't work because you don't try hard enough. You can't try hard enough because your brain doesn't work. This is the subject matter of thousands of clickbait articles.
There was a study recently that (in a mouse model) linked residual soap from baby wipes to food allergy development. https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2018/april/food-allerg...
> The religion does not allow for conversion to the faith. If a Mandaean man or woman marries someone who is not part of the religion, the couple’s children are not considered to be Mandaeans.

That’s interesting. Seems like the religion is “doomed” to forever remain that of a small and shrinking minority.
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CEO of Business says that Company must sell more product and increase revenue in comparison to costs in order to survive. Film at 11.
Ebola outbreak: Experimental vaccinations begin in DR Congo
I’m totally fine with delegating authentication, but only to some entity I trust. (Hint: that’s not going to be Facebook or any other big company) If you are going to require me to have a Facebook account in order to be your customer, then I’m not going to be your customer.

Or, better yet, let me delegate to my own service. That was one of the great promises of OpenID: you can run your own identity provider and delegate authentication to that. Too few sites support OpenID as a relying party.
The last line of your post isn't clear.

Since F=MA, A=F/M. Assuming the braking force (F) is μ (coefficient of friction) * Mass * Gravity, thats F=μMG.

Combining those equations you get:

A = μMG / M

And the M's cancel, giving:

A = μG

Therefore the braking distance due to road friction alone (and ignoring aerodynamic downforce effects) is independent of the mass of the vehicle.
And here I was, on HN last week, getting downvoted to oblivion for mentioning that each Google embedded service is a cog in a much more nefarious machine.

It's getting like reddit around here, where the most controversial comments about SV misdoings are usually the most objective.
The fit is probably worth more than 1700$ right now. You could also have invested the savings to make even more money.

Still, the goal is a ballpark not an exact number and that's plenty to say Uber would have been a poor fit.
Guide to designing and coding modular email templates for marketing campaigns
Sculpted Eyes (2008)
Ask HN: Is instagram.com broken or is it just me?
I see this: (index):215 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'call' of undefined
at t ((index):215)
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What does "empowering common folk" look like?

How does one even build a workable definition of "common" without aggregating data somewhere to build averages?
The picture in the article says that the following is needed.

1. A mutation.

2. A clean childhood that does not build your immune system.

3. A follow-up mutation that can be caused by infection.

So the clean childhood and infection as part of the picture are not contradictory to each other.
It is ROLRA, the Rule Of Law Preemption Act. Once the FAA is invoked, all other laws fall by the wayside. You have no rights, as they are waived. The arbiter is not required to follow any other laws.[1] Manifest disregard for the law is insufficient to halt or reverse arbitration. You are no longer under the rule of law, but under corporate rule.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_Street_Associates,_L.L.C.....
Well every two weeks or so I get unsolicited mails offering to sell me very large databases of contact information. My standard is to just completely ignore these, but when I got nagged for the third time recently I sent them a (very intrusive but still legally entirely legitimate) subject access request to find out what they have on me, who they got it from and who they have sold it to as it was entirely without consent.
Ok, I've found my easymotion replacement: I love vim-sneak! And it's justinmk, so you know it's gonna be solid. Thanks, just when I think I know the plugin landscape, someone reminds me of something new.
Not the OP, but I have also interviewed and hired ex-Theranos engineers. I don't think it damaged their career prospects. So long as they can talk about the normal things you talk about at an interview they'll be fine.

I feel like most people recognize that given the huge number of employees, most working there are genuinely good, competent people who got caught up in a bad situation. No reason to hold that against them.
Interesting take, I never thought of that
Ditto here, however unlike some other commenters, we're an ad agency.

They work for our satellite offices in Denver (one designer) and London (two account people).
Proposal: a backup chat system for running buildbots and other Slack integrations in the event that Slack goes down?
Why? Are there any laws that are certain? If we held that all laws be 100% certain wouldn't we only allow convictions if they included confessions?
Well this sucks. Realizing how much our remote teams lives and breathes by Slack these days. We've reverted to TeamSpeak which is what we use for voice meetings. This is having the positive effect of us coming up with a default course of action when slack goes down e.g. all meet on internal IRC.
It was basically the big thing in practice. Expert Smalltalkers basically coded in the debugger. It was easy to change the method for the current context's code, unwind the stack, and try again. That, combined with a coding culture that emphasized simplicity.
Great points. It's confusing when people say "selling user data" to refer to 3rd party advertising.
There’s a 78 year old man enrolled in Computer Information Systems at Clemson right now. Great story and amazing life too.

https://newsstand.clemson.edu/78-year-old-sophomore-everythi...
How does javascript async/await solve form handling (presumably pure html) and basic PHP?
"Slack is down" is the new "gmail is down"
Roaming #Mantis gang evolves and broadens its operations
Ask HN: What companies use User data for good?
With the big events with data breaches from companies such as Facebook / Cambridge Analytica as well as Equifax coming to light, what is the value from a user perspective of the companies harvesting data and are there any companies that can claim the data is being used for good?
I already commented on the previous post feeling the author has no idea what he is talking about but this nails it:

> What’s important with any law is - besides the letter of the law - what the spirit of the law is, the laws intent.

This very conveniently forget the GDPR will not be interpreted by a single authority in Brussels but rather by the relevant authority in every single EU country. Whatever the lawmakers intended, who gives a hoot? I can pretty much guarantee the Hungarian NAIH will see this as a fantastic cash grab opportunity. (I am a dual Canadian-Hungarian citizen, I know my birth country all too well.)

Despite all this "pah-pah, it'll all be fine" there is not even a guidance much less any law describing who shall be fined for how much. Spirit of the law protecting you from Hungarian bureaucracy , good luck Chuck. The courts will eventually curb this madness and set some best practices but meanwhile those who got fined excessively will stay bankrupt. Don't be the patsy. At this time, unless you are a big enough company to have a sizable legal department do not do business with the EU. This is not hysteria, this is just good business sense.
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Isn't the FDA banning certain anti-bacterial soaps? See https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/u... and https://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm378393.h...

Hopefully this is still in the works. I like Dial's anti-bacterial foaming soap, but only because it has the best foaming action. All the alternatives at the local stores suck in comparison. I'm too lazy to make my own. It'd be nice if they sold it with the triclosan, but perhaps they'll just put some other non-regulated antibacterial...

... looking at the Amazon images it looks like they did simply switch to a new active antibacterial ingredient. sigh :(

UPDATE: New actual active ingredient: Benzalkonium Chloride. See https://www.dialsoap.com/Products/Hand-Soap/Spring-Water-Foa...
I was expecting this to be about the empanada (although in hindsight that would be an odd title for an article about empanadas). It says here that the key difference is that an empanada's filling is cooked before being wrapped, whereas a paste's is not:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paste_(pasty)#Differences_with...

And the pastry is different, but i suspect the pastry of both varies so much that wouldn't hold up empirically.
Most vehicles detect a sharp press to the brakes, and add extra assistive braking force. Thats from the observation that most humans do not apply enough braking force in an accident (potentially because they have never applied that much force before, and don't know how much is 'enough').

It's possible that the tesla software either isn't applying the extra assistive force, either due to incorrect tuning or a bug.
Don't forget to include the time waiting for Uber to show up. That's the real cost of taking a cab IMO.
Are you using Optional.orElse wrong?
France open-sources its algorithms for higher education pupil assignment
You make such strong statements with great certainty. Are you going to be paying people's fines when they rely on your advice?
Coming from the chess world, I suspect your hypothesis is correct. I've taught adults and children and all else being equal adults learn and improve vastly faster than children.

But the all else being equal part is the catch. Adults often don't put as much effort into the work as children and a big problem is preconceptions that people have difficulty letting go of.

I also consider myself some slight degree of proof of the hypothesis. I didn't even learn how the pieces moved until I was 17, which is ancient in the chess world, and didn't take it seriously until I was in my 20s. And now I have enough grandmaster scalps to create a.. err.. something that uses lots of scalps!
Comcast boosted in battle for Sky
LOL. The GP's first sentence really does read like a jeopardy clue.
'futile' is a false wall.. maybe common rational talk has been polarized by entrenched interests in a technology .. BUT single column and/or schema-less has shown its raw power, without a doubt
ActiveRecord is really good, but Sequel[1] is much more flexible. I think it starts from a better base, where as ActiveRecord wraps and mostly hides arel.

That said, they're both enormously productive.

1: https://github.com/jeremyevans/sequel
Yes, several times. Sometimes opportunities feel like liabilities.