skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, your team should make addressing this story in public a priority because it has given you a lot of negative attention. There are hundreds of comments spread out between this HNews post, the sysadmin cross-post, and the tifu post. I'd be really curious to know if the entire story was made up altogether or if there was any missing info that was pertinent to what happened and why.
* the vocal majority, at any rate
A master's in _museum studies_? Why? Why in the world would you pay for that? What could the study of that possible produce?
An ethics program consists, at the very least, of:

1) a shared understanding of what is definitely acceptable and what is definitely unacceptable (e.g. accepting a $1000 dinner from a vendor in a location with plenty of $100 or $50 dinner arrangements is unacceptable in many industries). Courses and training will at least define the lines for the industry in question. In finance, for example, ethics training includes issues like soft-dollar arrangements.

2) a set of procedures for inquiring about and responding to ethical quandaries. Many companies in the post Sarbanes-Oxley era have a chief ethics officer and a clear reporting chain specifically to define and standardize company ethics and to ensure that lower-level employees can make informed decisions.
There's often healthy organs and tissue left that can still be used for donation, even in some cases of cancer. Dutch source: https://www.transplantatiestichting.nl/donor-worden/wie-kan-...
Could you switch from UUIDv4s (what I assume you mean by “pure UUIDs”) to UUIDv1s?
You're right that it's way cheaper, but you did forget to account for the opportunity cost of the $17K up front (about $1700 in interest in a simple savings account, but depending on how you invested it, you may have done better).
> deal with the object/relational mapping problem by writing their own framework

Now, instead, everybody deals with the object/ORM mapping problem by writing their own framework.
According to Wikipedia, it is a developing country, which is basically the modern way of saying third world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country#Country_lis...
Three pros and cons of the self-employed lifestyle
Would you say a personal blogger in the US needs an EU representative if they're running a WordPress installation on a shared web host? I've been debating with myself whether I need to move my content somewhere like wordpress.com to avoid that requirement. The personal information I process comes from comments and web server logs, and I'm not sure that counts as occasional.

On the other hand, I look at Article 3, and I'm not sure posting content on a personal blog counts as offering goods and services. Or do blog comments count as a service?
Obamas will be on and off camera in unique Netflix deal
https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html

"And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!

Last updated April 5, 2018"
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Any1 with know how Interested in starting a Pinterest like Website as an E-Commerce affiliate?

My Baby uheartit.com is up for sale on Sedo Any1 could Zuckerberg me. I am interested in being a co-founder. I'm only selling because of private reasons.
Genuine question: have you ever lived or spent time in non-coastal USA? The amount of obesity is shocking. All across the country, you'll find body shapes you did not think were possible.
exactly my experience. I personally find lazy evaluation a neat idea in principle. In practice, it introduces problems I never had in - let's say - java. One primary problem is that errors become delocalized in the code base. In a strictly evaluating language, the stack trace gives me a pretty accurate idea when and where an error is occuring. In lazy languages, it can happen when you don't expect it.

There is some irony in the fact, that a well-received tool for working with haskell code bases (intero) has bugs (space leaks iirc) that just cannot be tracked down properly.
I think the point was more that not all big companies are media, and those are less likely to be called in like this.
Thanks, I'm still working on the way the video is integrated, I haven't been able to sit down and style that portion as well as I'd like.

The Gumroad embed has actually worked really well so far as a clear call to action, the download-to-paid rate is 10%.
Sweden distributes 'be prepared for war' leaflet to all 4.8m homes
That's a pretty extraordinary claim, requiring extraordinary evidence.

There have been enough leaks that the public knows even European governments spy on their own citizens.
Glad I'm not the only one. Now, in the "confirm password" field, I always backspace the last couple of characters and type them in manually, to make sure they match with what was pasted.
The crimp was originally not eaten as the miners would want to avoid eating the toxic metals

Toxic metals..?
... but as Brin observes, these tools are powerful. And the groups that exploit them will tend to become the powerful groups (because information is power).

So given that these tools, even when abused, don't lead to the kind of wanton destruction nuclear weapons do (that trigger our primal survival instincts), the odds of everyone on the planet generally refraining from accessing surveillance technologies when available are low, and those that do so will tend to become more powerful (and therefore spread the cultural meme that "hey, this stuff is okay in moderation").
FTA:

>In the first study to link organ donation to drug abuse, researchers found that organs donated by overdose victims jumped from 59 in the year 2000 to 1,029 by 2016.

>This is almost as many as the 1,356 organs donated as a result of deaths from car crashes, the biggest source of organ donations.

Comparing organ donation from deaths, it's not very small at all.
It's worth noting that Don Syme also brought type erasure to the .NET platform via type providers, because provided types can be erased (and typically are, I believe). But, F# also lets the author of the type provider decide which class will be used to represent the erased type. So, unlike the JVM, and F# programmer can erase to something other than System.Object.
Totally anecdotal, but my grandpa is 90, and he made it a point to learn how to use facebook and youtube. (I saw him on Facebook the other day when I visited him.)

He wanted to be able to follow family and see everyone's pictures and whatnot.

He was always into learning tech and liked gadgets though. I remember in the early 90s he had a car phone. I thought it was the coolest thing ever, and he was the only person I knew with one.
Super Battle Arcade – a 2 player showdown featuring 6 classic game recreations
> switch off ad blockers again.

We remember the internet before targeted ads came. 100 flashy and gif banners on the page. Websites still need to make money, they'll just increase the ad spots if the ads are not profitable enough.
It's a terrible design in terms of ergonomics and user experience but it's frankly genius in terms of development timeline efficiency and cost control. Tesla was able to condense hundreds of indididual parts that come from a supply chain involving a dozen plus companies into a single component.

Radios, HVAC controls, gauges, and the fancy dashboards which contain them are among the most expensive parts to develop in terms of both time and money. The amount of time Tesla saved in PPAPs (Production Part Approval Process) alone might be as much as a year and when working with a timeline as aggressive as those demanded by Musk, anything that reduces development time is more valuable than gold.

It's a genius way to reduce the time needed to bring a car to market, the final bill of materials, and the complexity of assembly and installation of such a key component as a dashboard. It's a terrible idea in terms of driver experience but those are the kinds of compromised that must be made to bring something like a Model 3 to market at the promised $35,000 price point.
I am a lifelong suburbanite and the suburbs have lots more obese people than the cities. But let's say I'd be shocked if I visited San Antonio. I'm not seeing how that's a refutation of what I said.
Thank you very much for the publicity, I greatly appreciate it!

This book has been discussed on HN about one year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14045987

Since then, I have added the following new chapters:

Prolog Business Cases:
https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/business

Sorting and Searching:
https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/sorting

Cryptography with Prolog:
https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/cryptography

Engineering Aspects:
https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/engineering

Artificial Intelligence with Prolog:
https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/ai

I have also made many improvements and additions to the other chapters.

Also, I have made almost everything available in a public git repository so that you can track the book's progress and view it offline:

https://github.com/triska/the-power-of-prolog

It is my sincere hope that you find this material useful, and I welcome all suggestions and comments.

Also, thank you very much to all readers for the extremely constructive feedback that I have received in the past year. Your comments have made this work especially worthwhile.

Enjoy!
From real to reel: Netflix ropes in the Obamas to produce shows
I always found it funny, the idea that age or agism should in any way stop you from achieving cool shit in business. Entrepreneurship is a jungle. Your customers, largely speaking, doesn't know your age or gender or whether or not you went to an ivy league school or anything else. Some career directions certainly do depend on that stuff, but that's mostly because they depend on other people for advancement. But building products is only a competition against forces that pull down quality, not a game of gatekeeper-signaling. If you want to succeed in business, you can either let that stuff affect you, or you can just build something that people buy and prove everyone who says there are fundamental barriers wrong.
U.K. Vs. U.S.: How Much of Your Personal Data Can You Get?
> One challenge is that everyone's reading is different.

Really? I haven't heard of people who have vastly different opinions in what specific pieces of GDPR means. Do you have any links?

> For example in this article it is assumed that everyone needs a data protection officer

What? Where is that assumed? The first thing it talks about are the reasons you may need one and nothing about assuming everyone needs one.
> Because the obese likely are net contributors

While you did plenty to explain the economics of obesity in our health care system, you did not do enough to tie the economics of obesity back to morality. Sure obesity is probably a net contributor, but is that important when deciding what is moral? My gut says no, but I haven't formed an educated opinion on the matter.
Also, what if a person engaging in illegal activity wants their data removed? Can they just have their financial transaction history erased and subsequently unavailable to the authorities? GDPR almost seems designed to allow for destruction of evidence and coverups.
My Tech Wishlist
there are two levels of ethics: personal ethics (what do you personally find acceptable) and professional ethics (what does the industry find unacceptable). The former varies wildly from individual to individual. The problem is that the industry has no standard professional ethics, hence no IT workers would have been trained in ethics. Other engineering fields have actual ethics training and some of them integrate that into licensure.
You posted a link from 2 years ago. Current outage is at https://status.slack.com/2018-05/42acc9f7860c0416
sqlalchemy is hands-down the best ORM I've ever seen. It only gives you exactly as much magic as you want (imho an annoying problem with anything related to Django) and instead of generating SQL more or less directly it operates on an SQL DSL, which can be extended at just the right points to use pretty much any DB feature, including those sqlalchemy does not know or understand.

I don't know Linq personally but I know people liking it very much -- your comparison is probably accurate.
Tesla needs to sell more expensive Model 3 so the company doesn’t die, Musk says
There is probable correlation between home distance from highways and rates of childhood asthma (though my mental guess is that may be confounded by mostly poorer people living close to the highway or having a high traffic road built next to them). I just picked one article for reference. Of course both methods could be responsible in some way.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/traffic-pollution...
I'm a SpaceX fanboy but let's not get too enthusiastic. Arianne has had no vehicle loss since their first flights and is considered reliable enough to launch the James Webb. Nobody in their right mind would put that on a Falcon 9 even if they paid them.
Sure, but it was the first one that I found about the subject.
I paid more than that when I was a teenager because insurance companies assumed I'd be street racing like all teenage boys apparently. It took less than a year to spend more on the insurance than I did on the car. Of course the cost of your own car barely counts in insurance rates, which are dominated by healthcare costs for the people you hit but don't quite kill.

Annoyingly I never made a claim so all of that money was wasted in the end.
That’s exactly what I do.
I’ve been using Bannister’s emulators and Audio Overload since my childhood!

Though nowadays I prefer playing the SPC files in a player called Vox:
https://vox.rocks

And in my phone I have a collection of maybe weeks worth of music in a few MBs
There are companies in the PR business that does that. Email addresses to journalists and and other people marketers want to read their press releases.

Some even claim to be GDPR compliant. It will be very interesting to see how that turns out. Personally I wouldn't mind if the whole business segment was burnt down by the regulators.
That was more a PR move than a real security measure.

Signing updates and checking signatures is established technology to certify that updates come from the right place and are not tampered with.

That and the updates are likely >10 GB, so you wouldn't want to download them over mobile data anyway.
I was referring to runtime performance. Our build process will probably be slower than vue because we're using typescript, but we do have plans to speed it up. I've been using it for a large app and barely notice rebuilds, so I think we're almost there.
> Try building a password manager that doesn’t sync and let me know how sales go. :)

Well... 1Password arguably doesn't sync (until the cloud stuff). It stores files on disk, dropbox syncs it behind the scenes. Given my backup size vs how often I change it: I honestly wouldn't care if it were one blob that were uploaded / downloaded at once for every change, rather than all the small pieces it does now (I assume this is to speed up sync (by a ton)? It's also a major source of sync conflicts that lose data, since dropbox will store both copies on conflict (minus bugs), so it's a horse apiece).

So it works pretty well, apparently. See also KeePass* and many other local-only password managers which people sync via scripts / dropbox / etc. They're doing fine, though 1P is dramatically better than the competition and I'm plenty happy paying for it.
> the Supreme Court did its job to give effect to a more specific Act of Congress (the FAA) over the more general policy in a different statute (the NLRA).

Disagree with your ipse dixit labeling. The FAA is broad and general, at least according to SCOTUS precedent, covering all contracts between all parties, covering all types of conduct in all industries, as long as "commerce" is involved. In contrast, NLRA § 7 was targeted to one specific category of contractual parties, namely employees and employers, and protected employees' right to engage in one specific type of conduct, namely concerted activity in two specific areas, namely (1) wages and (2) the terms and conditions of employment.

Moreover, as Ginsburg's dissent correctly pointed out, as the later-enacted statute, § 7 implicitly overruled anything to the contrary in prior legislation — because it's risible to think that Congress, in enacting a court-enforceable right to concerted action by employees, intended to allow the very target of employees' concerted action, namely the employer, to unilaterally strip away that right as a practical matter, whether by insisting on a no-class-action arbitration provision or by any other means.

I'm reminded of a conversation I had many years ago as a law student: Knowing little (then) about litigation, I innocently asked a litigation partner: "A nonsuit [a unilateral dismissal of a case in Texas state court] can only be filed by the plaintiff, right, and not by the defendant?" He laughed and said "Right; otherwise I'd be hurrying back to my office and dictating a whole lot of defendants' nonsuits." But now under this SCOTUS decision, employers get to do essentially much the same as a defendant unilaterally dismissing a plaintiff's case, without so much as a by-your-leave to a court or anyone else.
My statement (as can be seen from its GP post) uses convenience to mean ease of use, not in the titles available sense that you (and the two following posts) do.
Article 27(1): "Where Article 3(2) applies, the controller or the processor shall designate in writing a representative in the Union."

Article 3(2) is the one that says GDRP applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects in the Union by controllers or processors not in the Union if the processing activities are related to the offering of goods or services in the Union.
It's important to remember that not all companies are equal, transparency can work, aligned incentives can work, etc.

It's important to remember the US is a propaganda hellhole - (especially?even?) what you read here on Hackernews is highly unlikely to be honest.
My mother got a organ donation from a not-very-close family friend whose daughter OD'ed. It was a very odd time for our family because we were excited for my mother and her health but sad for the family who lost a child.
BTW, Python can do that [1], it's just not very recommended because the ast is not stable between versions (and maybe even implementations? not sure about that)

[1] https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/ast.html
The downside of using ORM this way is that it doesn't really solve the interesting cases, or more subtle differences in behaviour.

By "interesting cases" I mean applications that leverage the more unique features in different database systems (like the full-text search implementations, that tend to be very database specific). By subtle differences I mean e.g. specific issues like Oracle handling NULL vs. empty string unlike other databases, or more serious differences related e.g. to locking (so an application that works fine on one database fails spectacularly on another one).

Obviously, if you treat the advanced database system as a dumb data store, this may work. But it kinda tends to reduce any database to the worst non-existent database, missing any of the nice features. Because all the advanced stuff is "forbidden" for portability reasons. I've seen so many cases of performance issues where the right solutions were rejected because it would impact portabiliy ...
Former Uber Engineer’s Lawsuit Claims Sexual Harassment
Fair warning: doesn't work at all with JS disabled or disabled for cross-origin (which is somewhat sad, especially for tech documentation).
Maybe today's the day we discover Slack has been breached and everyone's messages have been leaked.

I wonder what the world would do?
It's important to remember that while the NSA is now a household name, it hasn't always been that name. I think until 1975 the existence of the agency was still secret, and even after that it was mostly shrouded in secrecy until the 90s or so.

The joke used to be that NSA stood for "No Such Agency".
Ask HN: Cheapest way to gain knowledge/education?
Background: I am 21, based in the US. I will try to keep this as concise as possible.

I went to college (mechanical engineering) straight out of highschool. I got few scholarships, and dropped out due to multiple factors (failed calculus, stress, not really wanting to go in the first place, lingering depression). In hindsight, I wasn’t emotionally ready, and also made the mistake to going to an out-of-state school (higher tuition). Afterwards, I floated around, moving to a maker space, doing product design work until it dried up, and eventually working in a lab doing medical devices and neural implant research.

In my years since I left school, I realize I need to build a foundation of knowledge if I want to get better. However, I am disgusted at the cost of a college education here in the US. Ideally, I want to find a way to build that kowledge without taking on loans.

My goal:

I’m not entirely sure. I like reading research papers and learning about the latest science. I’m not sure if I want to focus on a purely technical track, or a project-management-type one. I like soft robotics and as of recent bioengineering

My options:

Apply for opportunities like the Theil Fellowship
Move back home and plow through community college (save money on rent, etc.)
Move back home and go to an in-state school.
Continue my path of doing jobs/internships until my background knowledge slowly builds up.

My questions:

1. How can I obtain knowledge, degree or no degree, for less than 40k? By knowledge I mean competency in subjects required for engineering (math, basic chemsitry, physics).
2. What other scholarships/fellowships/opportunities do you recommend I look into? I tried applying to the Dyson Institute, but didn’t get in.
3. Should I jump back into university now, or continue exploring until I’m absolutely certain of the track I want to pursue?
Arbitration trumps ALL your rights. When arbitration is mentioned, it superceeds all your rights.

The conservatives love it because it means their greed rules over all other laws. It is federal which means it superceeds states. As long as they are in enough power, you are ruled by their greed.
The Power Mac G4 Line
Organ transplant recipients are already at vastly increased risks for dying of cancer. If the only other option is death then sure take risks, but it's not a good idea.

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/856854
The Curious Programmer’s LightSpeed Guide to Building Applications on Ethereum
Mines are really dirty, and modern sanitation doesn't exist in them.

Having recently gone on a tour of coal mines in eastern Canada, the way it worked was that a miner would put a pasty in their clothes (to keep you and then it warm), take it out and eat it (without washing your hands) when lunchtime came, then threw the crimp end that was covered in dirt/muck to the mine rats.
It also depends what your goal is.

Typical ABS systems typically perform far worse on gravel or sand than non-abs systems for example. It turns out on gravel locking the wheels is usually a better solution because then you start to plough deep into the gravel.

No ABS system could determine that beforehand, since it isn't to know if the gravel is deep (allowing ploughing deep into it) or shallow (where staying on the boundary of static/dynamic friction works better).
Pinning does not solve this. You still need a solver to generate new pin versions or update the pinned versions. Or do you manually pin/update each of the dependencies (including transitive ones)?