skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still falls into the same category of being given a state granted monopoly.

At the point that a corporation has an independent military then we might see something interesting. I'd argue they would get obliterated fairly quickly but it would be an interesting effort.
There is a general consensus that the world produces too much steel, with a large part of that being Chinese overproduction. I don't have the actual statistics in front of me, but the amount of new steel production that were brought online in China in the past 5 years is on the order of the entire world surplus of steel production.

Which is why it's so confusing that Trump didn't just slap anti-dumping duties on China, which quite frankly everyone agrees with. The best guess is that Trump thought that he could use the steel tariffs as an easy way to wring concessions out of trade partners... and declaring the tariffs a matter of national security is the one way he can do that without having to get Congress's approval (as even many Republicans in Congress are horrified by this).
Yes, it's just GPL
I would say this is triple taxation. Looking at how "double taxation" is used to refer to taxing at both corporate and individual level of public company profits, this is an additional burden on top of a two level system. Imagine getting taxed on the amount of taxes paid by a company you own shares of. State and federal levels are "double" in the first place.

Triple is a little hyperbolic, as you could probably best describe it with a number between 2 and 3 depending on the tax rate.
> One can imagine that such an approval dialog is not actually required in a technical sense, and _theoretically_ a screen share could be remotely started without any such dialog/notification.

Well I mean, they wrote the OS so they can theoretically have it do whatever they want. But there's an extremely high probability that the way the OS is written, they cannot remotely trigger screen sharing without the user confirming it first.
https://5things.xyz
Same experience for me visiting LA and Washington D.C. (I live in Melbourne, Australia). Very depressing. I hope things will turn around for the US.
A UW student found success, and answers about her father’s addiction
No, it's really not. I mean sure there is some of that, but you're wrong if you think that's all people use Snapchat for. People share things on Snapchat to their close group of friends which means you're willing to say things you wouldn't say in public about people, say things you wouldn't want your mom to hear, pass secrets around, or just talk in a more "anonymous" way. It's the difference between somebody taking 45 minutes to pose for and edit their next Instagram post vs. sending 45 snaps in a minute without even looking at the picture you take. It's almost like Casey Neistat's Beme--Snapchat encourages you not to care about what you send because it will be gone in 3-10 seconds.
I'm pretty familiar with Murray but you seem to be taking some of his claims and making them a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Aim higher.
I've ran into similar frustration getting an exe certificate.

In one example, the provider needed to check I was a legitimate business, by seeing if I was in the phone book -- so I just registered online, called them back, they saw it and granted me the certificate, then I unregistered.

Waste of time.
It took me about 3 months, but if I'm being honest -- once I got off my rump and actually gathered all of the nonsense together to get my application processed, the whole thing took about a week.

The trickiest part was explaining to the 60-year-old bank teller why I needed all of these documents notarized and what they were for. I guess that's the one protection against forgery in this case -- notaries breaking the rules are dealt with pretty harshly where I live. They called me several times and her twice, but once that was done, I got an e-mail and everything was taken care of.
The Catholic church is basically a corporation, where the cardinals (the board) elect a non-hereditary emperor (the CEO). Theories of the firm have modeled ideas about corporate governance on the success of this structure. In the past this catholic firm raised armies, held large areas of Italy as the papal states and still today are considered to be a sovereign entity.
I wouldn't be surprised if TripleByte has already triangulated data with HN or other YC companies to get additional profile information on applicants.

The unpredictability of what will show up on the tests, and the unknown future of my 'grade', is a major turn-off. I'd prefer to see a certification process, where you can study for the test, then take the test, and pay to retake it if you want to improve your score. If the technical knowledge in the tests is that important for their clients, then sharing that openly will increase the pool of successful candidates over the long term.
I work at Cloudflare, this is correct.

1.1.1.1 runs on our existing hardware deployed around the world, it costs us very little. When you use it it improves performance for the 8 million or so sites we sit in front of, that's our actual business.
Uganda imposes WhatsApp and Facebook tax 'to stop gossip'
Good to be aware of, but¹ Messages in iCloud is off by default².

¹At least for existing users.

²And almost certainly requires opt-in for new users as well.
A frieND of the family recently had a baby and the first thing my mom said to them after getting them a onezi was "I only ask that you post a picture of her in it on Facebook." 90% of the pictures of me on Facebook were posted by my mom. Mom's will keep it around
This will be akin to the participation certificateband consolation prizw that are being handed out to every kid who participates in a race so that he doesn't feel bad. And my take will be firmly against this sort of infantilism.
Interesting.

When I think of a pivot I just sort of assume there is some core competency there that could be used in another way.

Someone wants to start a hip blogging site, that doesn't work, well some other web service.... after all they've got people who kinda know that, and it's not that far off..

Just going from "we're gonna mine a bunch of coins" to, I just can't imagine how much capability you have to do anything else.

Granted you don't have to pivot to something close, but man your odds of success have to drop pretty quick the farther you get from what you were built for. Even big successful companies fail at trying new things all the time, because nobody there gets it. Cisco's hilarious dip into consumer tech for a while with flip video, their hyper expensive video conferencing stuff is my favorite example.
Your assumptions are probably wrong. Most likely Telegram does know why they're being blocked, they just aren't saying because they want people to assume malfeasance on Apple's part and they're hoping bad PR will convince Apple to approve whatever it is that they're currently rejecting.
still as true today as it was back then. Although perhaps the leaders are worse today (e.g. the NBN fiasco)
Is it reasonable to believe Pigeon could only add value if the time delay between a new delay-causing issue and some verifiable / consensus info getting posted by users is faster than similar updates by an official source like MTA?

(I am assuming that other information from Pigeon users would matter far less than info material to delays or service disruption. Knowing if there’s an annoying street performer on a platform, the example in the article, might have secondary value, but seems far less important. I could be wrong though.)
Bah. Tell that to the amazing 40mm on my Minolta 7S! :)
They're both ad-supported, so ARPU if you care about that, or average time spent on site or even just number page views.

It's like trying to compare Cold Stone Creamery to Din Tai Fung Dim sum restaurant. They sell to completely different markets but ultimately they're both food places, so there are tons of axes to compare them on if one considers the question for a bit.
It would be great if the continuing education most of us actually enjoy doing were a valuable thing to do. As it is, if you want to switch jobs, it's much more valuable to study old things that help with whiteboard interviews than to spend time learning new things.
Sourceforge went the way it did not only because it was always a hornet's nest of ads and viruses, but they allowed bloatware and viruses to be bundled with project downloads. I don't see GitHub ever behaving in that way, though if they did there'd be a mass exodus for sure.
People shouldn't have kids if they're not ready. If a guy has a kid with a woman and then they get divorced in 5 years. That kid will turn out worse.

Also, if everybody has kids early, the population of the world is going to rise above the carrying capacity of the planet. Which will cause future famines, wars, etc.

Finally, maybe other people derive meaning from other things. What life experiences would you have had if you didn't have a kid at 24? From 24-35 you could've experienced a music scene more deeply, traveled the world and become fluent in languages, worked on a Phd in a field. But you chose a kid, which is great! But other people chose otherwise. I agree that having a kid is a MUST-DO in life. But maybe later is better.
Google and twitter does that by default. If you try to click on any link from their search / tweet feed, it will be blocked if they flag it as phishing.

There are multiple phishing blacklists that any provider can leverage.
Even if politics significantly affect you, I don't see why you can't get along with someone who's beliefs could negatively affect you, as long as they don't hold those beliefs with the goal of hurting you personally. Everyone has reasons for their political beliefs, I think those reasons are more important than the beliefs themselves - if someone is anti-immigration because they are worried about national security, I think that is a fine opinion and I could get along with that person. If they have that opinion because they dislike mexicans, I would probably not like them so much.
The scrolljacking is horrible. Without unblocking cloudflare JS I can't even scroll. This is 100 times more horrible than the usual scroll highjacking. That should be forbidden.
It's a requirement, but there's some discretion as to how and when source is released. Companies can drag their heels and draw out the process. It's good to see that this is moving in the right direction.

(BMW is another big company which, afaik, has done even better with their compliance efforts: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/30/bmw_complies_with_g...)
San Francisco has underground/culverted creeks:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arroyo_Dolores
Amazon does not allow you to install anything from other sources without hacking the device.
https://twitter.com/jvmancuso/status/1002387357776207872
Ask HN: Forced repayment of wages. Just common startup stuff?
Not interested in making this personal, so going to just state facts instead of sharing an interesting story.

For 3 months, I worked for free on coding a project for a social scientist academic. I got asked to work "full-time" by the academic. No papers were signed other than an NDA (the company's changed product and names twice since then). I would get a below minimum wage monthly personal check from the academic and told I would not need to pay any taxes on it.

One year later, the company gets VC funding from a tech investor who had been giving the academic money to start a company.

Fast forward 8 months, even though I was not a cofounder, I am told "we" (academic and I) need to pay back the loan and I need to sign an agreement that I will repay that loan from the company to me (in even more than the amount I had been paid in the previous year). I would have to pay interest on it each year for the next 4 years and then the full amount. Academic tells me that I will get paid the interest amount by the company in the form of a bonus. Also, the loan would be canceled, but they weren't allowed to put that in writing. I ask a senior manager what this is all about, and they say it's just common startup stuff.

I left the company (not because of this, but related). Unfortunately, they are still expecting me to pay, and also say they have no way to pay me anymore since I am not on payroll.

I obviously don't want to pay back wages I was paid. I also just want to be done with this situation asap and would appreciate any advice that moved me closer to not having anything to do with this company. I also don't want to spend money on a lawyer just to not have to pay back my wages.

Please let me know what you think I should do.
What "factual errors"? On what basis is the site "of similarly poor journalistic quality"? Why do you attack the author instead of arguing facts?
So we go back to re-centralizing for privacy? I love Cloudflare, but... if that's really the answer to this... sigh.
Is it just me, or is the phrase "starting to release open source software" a bit confusing? If it's not released, how is it open source?
What's the Best City for Software Engineers?
My situation is not too dissimilar - 52 yrs old, divorced, w/ a 12 yr old boy. The first few years ARE difficult, but the older they get both the easier and more fun it becomes. They're increasingly self-sufficient which means your focus can shift from the mundane (diapers, etc) to educating them about life. My kid was unplanned, which was especially challenging in that I never had a particular desire to be a parent. So far it's been rewarding. I have his mom to thank for at least half of that.
He gives a poor and what i believe to be a dishonest reason that im not inclined to examine his courses anymore.
I love this comment, both pre- and post-edit. It's definitely a tough problem, wariness is warranted, and there are worse models out there, but the problems are also real and worth discussing.
the youth want to follow a band or an actor not a toothbrush company

Exactly. The following is emblematic of what makes YouTube great, which is precisely what YouTube the company and its corporate advertiser don't understand. In fact, it's what they try to kill, and what ideologue shills like Vox and Vice wish they were.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj7Aa866ERY

tl;dw: Actual people being themselves having actual human reactions.
I see Facebook and YouTube as completely different and I think a lot of people would agree. For most people YouTube is all about consuming. Sure some people make videos, but most go nowhere. Most people are just using it to fill their day, or for background noise while they do other stuff, just like people have been doing with TV for years.(why do you think YouTube made autoplay a thing). Facebook is more about connecting with people and expressing yourself than it is about consuming things.
What he was talking about was the impact of the specific rules that the market operators imposed so I'm a little confused how the market having rules invalidates the comparison.
Backpropagation: explained in one diagram
The average Windows user is not a gamer though, and if they are, they probably buy games from Steam, not itch.io
If you can't find a service that provides what you are referring to, build something new. Create a 4chan for programming or something terrible and work really hard on it til you are proud of it.
Interesting, I just read up on that. Thanks for the info. My code signing certificate was issued before the cutoff, which appears to have been February 1, 2017. I guess I'm in for some fun when I need to renew.
Undefined behavior is almost inevitable if optimum performance is desired.

A function which _appears_ to need bounds-checking (for instance a function which takes int *x and immediately returns x[0]) might _in-fact_ only ever be called after bounds-checking has already been performed. Adding bounds-checking into said function would waste time.

The compiler can't determine whether or not the function will or will not be called dangerously, that would require solving the halting problem.

To reconcile our security demands with our performance demands, we must develop a language which has UB, but whose compiler only accepts programs accompanied by formal proofs that those programs are safe.
I don't mind the standardized exams part, but the part I really like is the apprenticeship. Elsewhere in this thread I suggested that maybe we could pick that part up without going all in on the schooling side.
It may not involve hedge funds per se, but you made me think of the saga of Diamond Foods. It was founded as a co-op in 1912, became a public company in 2005, and rapidly pursued growth at any cost, until an accounting scandal brought them back to earth in 2012.

It's a depressing story about how doing something well year after year isn't good enough, so someone is found to strap rocket engines on and shoot for the moon, in an effort to please investors, and it turns out to be a fraud (litigation over which is still ongoing). The end result was a merger into Snyders-Lance.

This resonates with me, because Diamond brand shelled walnuts are what I always used for baking, but when they were pursuing growth they were expanding into snacks, and I presume their current owner is primarily concerned with that market.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Foods
Failed. Lose an intellectual point for leaving out the vital context.
I'm not sure how to interpret the idea that iMessage is doing it right but Google was wrong to shift from talk to hangouts. Hangouts is basically iMessage but you can actually reach the other half of the population that doesn't use Apple.
Let those places grow feral again. We don't need to take up the entire damn planet as a species. Or at least the entire "fertile" bits of it.

I could not be more diametrically opposed to your position. It's clear to me we have far too many people as it is, and the only way out is through population decline. Anything else is ridiculous line noise to argue about. Once you solve the CO2 climate change problem you have about 10 other just-as-bad crises right behind it if population growth continues.

Sure, as you say there could be some more black swan events in science/technology that technically lets us expand in the short term much like modern agriculture has. I don't see that as a positive as it simply delays the inevitable and makes it even more impossible to recover from.
Ask HN: Good resources for learning business concepts?
hi all

i recently realized that I have a huge desire to go to school and start pursuing an MBA soon when I can get financial aid and such worked out, but in the meantime, I was wondering if anyone had any good resources for videos to watch or blogs to read, etc, for me to get familiar with concepts and ideas within that sphere. I'm currently watching an MIT OCW playlist on writing business plans and such but I would also be quite interested in more just general business administration content, entrepreneurship, etc. basically anything you can think of that might be relevant to business, and that you think might benefit me, I would highly appreciate you sharing :)

thanks in advance <3
Note that transactional costs on PCIe are much higher than they are for memory, and you are going through a disk driver (if you're and SSD, you can avoid that using the NVME architecture extensions) There is no driver needed for non-volatile storage on the memory bus. You just access it like memory.

I would not be surprised if early users of these devices were seeing 10GBs+ of data throughput.
FWIW, r/TheRedPill definitely still exists.
This is one of the principal reasons the EFF opposes the Right to be Forgotten. It's more often used for censorship or crimes than anything else.
Why should github be the first choice and subject to exhaustion? Are there not compelling reasons to got with gitlab?
I’d like it more if it were half the height. And that’s not hard to achieve, by removing the width capping, putting the heading and paragraph inline, removing the logo image and reducing unnecessarily large margins; I got it from what I think was 193px to what I think was 86px, yielding a result that I found much more pleasant.
>> subtly permute "react" or "Golang" to mean a lot of skills in a utility cluster

This, and the tendency for shops to evaluate candidates' skillset against the shops' most mission critical parts and processes which for whatever reason have not been operationally hardened and locked down.
Do Androids Dream of UI Testing?
It's the other way around -- Qt wasn't GPL until 2005, GNOME started in 1997 in response to the non-free license.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME#History
I've actually found some of his critiques insightful. I mean, yea he's loud and says a lot of crazy shit, but overall he is challenging people, getting them to think about unpopular opinions.
The validity of your last sentence depends on what hedge funds are, I think. My understanding is that these days the defining characteristic of hedge funds, as opposed to mutual funds, is the lack of regulation. In that case, I suggest things could be different without hedge funds, or with a different set of regulations for them.
Crystal clear :-) - there needs to be more simplification of common tech concepts like this for non-techies like me. Thank you!

Looking forward to the rest of your series. How often do you post stuff?
Towards the end of the article, Amazon says: "Amazon has 43 percent fewer injuries on average than other companies conducting transportation and warehousing activities in the UK". The authors of the article don't seem to dispute this claim, so it seems its more that transportation/warehousing work is somewhat dangerous, not that Amazon is particularly bad.
In fact, Firefox currently can't build with the latest Visual Studio 2017 release due to internal compiler errors.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458247
Wisconsin Association of Meat Processors
Doesn't this already violate a bunch of laws? (undisclosed advertising, wire fraud or something like it, etc) Just enforce them. Can't do much about overseas people but you can penalize the businesses that purchase fraudulent marketing. E.g. if doctors started getting medical licenses permanently revoked for buying fake "testimonials" I imagine it would end fairly quickly.
What often happens with standards, is that politics rears its ugly head and they become technically compromised. Some of them become absolutely toothless! C++ is sufficiently complicated, to the point where the abstractions will leak and devils will creep in with the few details of the myriads that sneak past, despite the best efforts of standard writers. Smalltalk is small enough to be succinctly describable, but politics saddled it with a completely toothless standard that basically allowed anything.

What's needed are clear, succinct, moderately opinionated standards on clear, succinct, minimalist technologies.
See maybe this is why I never understood the supposed all-important-ness of Events. I still just hang out with friends or family or by myself rather than going to "events".
Will an MBA help you get ahead in Tech? A decision-making framework
EU Parliament Members Play Hardball on Terrible Copyright Policies
Smalltalk had multiple competing implementations.
Bypass paywall: http://archive.is/KYlyE
Intel dodges every question at Apache Pass/Xpoint launch
> Nothing you've said implies Disney violated any laws, however much I disagree with their actions.

This is a problem with the US' letter of the law legal system. We make excuses and justify actions because they aren't explicitly listed as illegal, even though we all know they're in bad faith.