skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hadn’t heard about that UK insurer.

I wonder if it’s mainly another way of getting access to telemetry data? Insurers definitely do give you a discount if you install a recording device. I assume that lets them filter out some bogus insurance claims. (Or maybe people just drive better when they know the insurance company is watching!)
The Insanity of Driving
A nice thing about references (to classes) is that you can use the dot and not the silly arrow which I don't know why exists in the first place.
I wrote a new Java IDE for education called SnapCode: http://reportmill.com/snap . I've spent several years on it - and it's hard to move on. There should probably be a support group for this. :-)
In my corner of Shanghai there are also designated parking spots that can only be reached by driving onto the sidewalk first. There is usually enough space for a car to drive past parked cars and pedestrians at the same time (those sidewalks are wide), but you still need to pay a bit of attention to avoid getting honked at.
This is mostly for personal tinkering - typically Django and some APIs, or data stuff.

I’m a product guy by trade. Currently, focusing on data-related products and functionality, but have done SaaS, telco, etc.

For work I recently had to write some QA tools to extract data from BigQuery and verify that the payload is correct. Vim and google’s bq cli made it a lot easier than I expected.
I'll have to take a look at what I could do with it if I went through that hassle. Having a physical keyboard makes it pretty generally useful with Linux software in general, I'd presume.
It didn’t before? I remember crossing the border from Canada to the US after 9/11 but before you had to have a passport (a driver’s license and birth certificate were sufficient) and I was asked a series of questions. The questions included a lot of family stuff, like “where does your father work?” but they also included “what is your girlfriend’s birthday,” which I found odd because I was dating a lot and didn’t have a steady girlfriend at the time. I’m not bragging here, but it took me three name/birthday combinations to guess the one the border agent had on his terminal screen.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17275414
I could either choose to load the mouse and MS Windows. Or I could choose to load the modem and soundcard and stick to running DOS. And now you know why I never felt like using Windows was necessary for me.

Incidentally, in my circle of friends on the BBSes I used to dial, programming was one of the things the cool kids knew. So I taught myself C using nothing but the K&R book. As a loner and an outsider, I didn't have any other resources available. The result of this -- cutting my teeth on C pointers with nothing but that book for help -- is that when people in job interviews ask me about the most difficult technical thing I've ever worked on, I don't even hesitate to tell them about those years learning that stuff about C. What a fun and extremely intellectually challenging time!
5 Best Websites for learning programming
But in C and C++ a pointer is a value.
Five Key Points from the Financial Regulation Relief Law
The whole idea that racism / ethnicism is bad is a very Western stance. In the rest of the world, discrimination based on race and country of origin is pretty normal.
I've got my thumb out but it's not working. >.>
>I'm sure I can prove ESP and I'm not a telepath. Seriously, it is so common, that the big question is why I was blind to it. In simple experiments, with hardly any effort, I see ESP confirmed, daily. That is: mind to mind contact without relying on sound, vision, or a chemical channel.

Can you write more about this here? What were your simple experiments, and why haven't people looking for it found it out already, if they are simple?
Usually the offensive technology wins.

Defensive technology is expensive and loses utility in times of peace.
how about the human cost of everything we buy then? Most of it is made in China anyway. Why single out Amazon and Bezos?
You know what I would like to see?

Tariffs on countries with sub-standard working conditions and environmental practices.
Introducing OverbiteNX: if WebExtensions can't do it, we will
If you have a highskilled visa with 80 points, it is 1 year (however, it takes 10 months after application to get it).

High-skilled visas are not connected to an employer and there is no lottery system.beats the hell out of US policies...
So they could starve with no employment in a field, right? Or die working in a farm with no any kind of mechanisation?
Tell them to become a data cleaning monster - This is a great way to get in at a lower level and get an interview. Bigger teams would appreciate help in that way.
At my old job we frequently referred to humans having come from the "B Ark."
Scale. They do it at a larger scale.
IIRC Apple had a svg layout system that used integer programming for optimizing layout.

At least, the dot graph layout language uses integer programming to lay out it's graphs.
SpaceX option package for new Tesla Roadster will include small rocket thrusters
Thats basically a tariff against developing countries you are asking for. How do you think the West got rich in the first place? With 30 hours work weeks?
Free private teams were the reason I first used gitlab also, but I found that I liked their CI system too.
Because they are popular?

Shaming the wealthiest (known) man in the world for the business practices that helped make him that way is quite fair. The same things have been written about Apple.

... and nobody cares about an /r/Entrepreneurs guy drop-shipping some widget from China.
In regards to both the headline (syphilis) and chlamydia it seems to be limited to male-male hookup apps while it stayed the same largely for heterosexual and female-female hookups. Even though one would assume all parties had equally greater access to random hookups thanks to apps. Im genuinely curious why that is. Tinder has most certainly made anonymous hookups more socially acceptable for straight people. Or is this just one of those cultural trends which impact gay culture first, before it reaches mainstream culture, as happens (stereotypically) with fashion, music, and other trends?
>how is making batteries, electric cars, or reusing rockets radical?

No one ever made a reusable satellite-launching rocket before that landed on its tail and was cheaper than a disposable rocket. And Musk came up with the basic plan for how to do it.

Nobody made an electric car before that ran off of lithium ion batteries, and no one made an electric luxury car. And Musk made up the basic plan for doing it.

Or perhaps you already knew all this and are in a tight spot because you shorted a whole lot of Tesla stock.
If multiple companies give you a quote.. Who wouldn't take the best offer?

Also.. If the job if so bad.. then do something else
Author here. Thanks for the links. I will keep them in mind when I end up making my decision.
The railroads didn't build themselves
Alternately, we could incentivize better working conditions and environmental practices by negotiating them in to trade deals.
So what do we do about this? Should I cancel my Prime membership and never order from Amazon again?
An Amiga 500 was around $600. (edit: $700) A Sun 3 color workstation could easily be $20,000 or more.[1] In today's money that Sun would be more like $40,000.

Also, I don't believe you're correct about the memory being non-upgradable. A cursory Googling suggests at least 8MB could be added, maybe more.

[1]http://textfiles.com/bitsavers/pdf/sun/Sun_Price_List_Dec88....
Because that certainly worked for the past 2,000 years. Must be why nobody ever had syphilis when extramarital sex actually was illegal. Oh wait.
In the U.S., people drive 3.22 trillion miles per year. At about 40,000 deaths per year, that's one death per 80 million miles driven.
Sorry, to clarify: I don't mean to dispute the article. But I think the article is focusing on a specific government trainee program that's been spun up to bring constructions workers for the Olympics.

I just think you were mistaken about the "every other [non-IT] career" part. There is plenty of immigration outside of the discussed trainee program and outside IT, so I just wanted to highlight that. Because otherwise it sounds like Japan has some kind of totally crazy locked down immigration system, but that is really not the case.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Never set foot in Japan myself but your overall view falls in line with those of almost every foreigner in Japan I've ever followed. Something I find that's less discussed, probably because I only frequent English speaking sites, is specifically other Asians in Japan and I'm wondering if someone here can shed some light on that. The impression I have from reading random accounts is Koreans and Chinese (perhaps all of Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong?) are expected to conduct themselves like any other Japanese and fully integrate, whereas Caucasian gaijin (or any Westernized people as your wife's anecdote seems to imply) are comparatively given more leeway (expected to do things their own way, but as a corollary never thought of as fully Japanese)?

The model I have in my head is that the average Japanese who doesn't know your deal will put you in one of two categories:

A) You are a temporary visitor. A tourist on vacation or business trip.

B) You are a full fledged member of Japanese society.

So the more "foreign" you seem, the more likely you are to be considered "A". I'm particularly interested in Southeast Asians: are they expected to be more Japanese/Asian or "other"? I guess the temporal nature of their visas helps cement them as the latter.
You should contact Jeffrey Mishlove or anyone who works in the field of Parapsychology.
An ethical person.
Ask HN: How do you parse clauses from a legal document
Looking for suggestions to parse a variety of legal documents into its separate clauses?

My impression is a solution should exist because it is possible with images (e.g bounding box detection). But NLP seems to work a bit differently.
FWIW, here is the simple counter argument:

Alice & Bob form a partnership to invest some money. Between the two of them they invest $100. After 5 years they sell their investment for $200. As far as the government is concerned, that's a long term gain of $100 and should be taxed as such. How Alice & Bob decide to split the gains is between them and not a tax question.

I don't necessarily buy this argument, but it's a valid way to look at things.
Don’t use any named, taxonomic workflow process at all. Not Agile, not Scrum, not Kanban, not Waterfall, not RUP, nothing.

Instead, organically mix and match and customize any bits or pieces of any of them, along with ad hoc, situation-specific workflows, as needed — as determined by the specific situation, deadline, requirements, personnel and preferences involved.

If you’ll benefit from spending time on exact software estimates or a retro meeting, do it. Two months later if people need to take a month for a more complex prototype, rendering 2-week increments silly and wasteful in terms of overhead, then change how you work and skip those parts for a while.

When process is fixed by any prescriptive method that at the heart attempts to track progress and dictate one specific cadence or manner of working and communicating about progress, it devolves to something like fractal measurements of the coast of Britain.

You think your measurements are getting more and more precise, and you can come up with whatever surface area of progress to make it look like you are measuring more and more. But no matter what, it becomes about the prescribed system, and stops being about common sense, fluid, adaptable, day-by-day adjustable workflow tailored to what trusted workers are telling you they need.

Creative mental labor is just not amenable to Taylorism. It just doesn’t work. Doesn’t matter which Fancy Name you give it. You have to give up the idea of any fixed, prescriptive method, and just use constantly-updateable local conventions.

(Of course this assumes you are interested in productivity. Often the bureaucratic adoption of things like Agile is about creating middle management surface area for political power struggles and/or corporate surveillance. Companies agree to pay the cost of productivity lost to the workflow drag in exchange for creating Dutch books of story points or to be able to roll up what are effectively contextless time sheets to executives who believe it equates to some type of accountability. I don’t have much advice in these cases; only interested when the assumption is to optimize productivity.)
I'm using socketmaster[1] to do the graceful update or just normal service reload. It is basically another process to facilitate socket exchange between 2 process. Just make sure that the service able to shutdown gracefully.

However this approach need the binary to be started from socketmaster (as child process). I'm not sure what is the real cons tho, except the fact that it alter SIGHUP behavior - which is fine in this case imo.

[1] https://github.com/zimbatm/socketmaster
We could have robots do the work. Would that make everyone feel better?
I agree with ekianjo in this sentiment, although we can pass some of our lessons to developing nations, preventing tragedies like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.

Development doesn't happen immediately, but it can happen fairly rapidly (50 years for Korea vs 200+ for the US).
I wonder if there's market for ethical electronics. Basically buy the same electronics and sell them at higher price and give the money to the people working at said factories. If there was legit proof that the money is going where it should, I would totally pay like 15-20% extra.
https://www.facebook.com/Maher/videos/10155744641847297/
At least for labor supply they have a huge untapped resource - women.
I wonder at one point Bezos will start giving back. Will he became a Bill Gates or be more like Larry Ellison? At the moment it seems more the later...
we had some labor standards included in the TPP but obviously it was worth less than dirt when it came to public appeal
>How do you think the West got rich in the first place?

By increasing productivity through industrialization and technology advancements, and by doing those things before the rest of the world. (and by having economic systems that accomplished this faster/more effectively than others, possibly also as the result of plagues that decimated the population a few times)
>How do you think the West got rich in the first place? 30 hour work weeks?

By profiting on other people’s labor time; not their own.

But it also just happens that, in the US, 30 hours is just the right amount to forgo providing benefits and job security, so your proposal was not that far off.
"It's a little insurance policy...You're our product. And we can't very well have our products turning against us, can we?"
Huh, most of these I can understand with my layman's understanding of the sensors involved, but why would it miss the pedestrians who are on a metal manhole cover?
> I'm not sure why Ocko is bringing women & PoC into the debate

It's this generation's "think of the children!" Just like Prop 13 was passed via "think of grandma losing her house!"
People without savings, or who have dependents, might not have the ability to leave their jobs for the time that would be needed to retrain in alternative work. Or for that matter, bargain for better conditions.

Richer people with savings or parental support will always be able to quit & search for better work; and no doubt that’s where this arrogant ‘go and search for another job then’ sentiment comes from.

Note that China doesn’t have effective social security, so retraining isn’t an option.
I don’t see what’s in this for Reddit. They can’t possibly get sued for not doing this.
Analog computers are even more interesting and I predict them to make a comeback.
Phoenix could easily be 100x easier than a snowy winter environment.

It is one thing to have broad streets, well marked, with multiple levels of marking, e.g., stripes, plus curbs, plus medians/sidewalks, plus trees/shrubbery. All of these well-designed and well-built modern road features cooperate to make a consistently recognizable environment. And the lack of serious weather is a big deal too.

Contrast that to a city like Detroit or Boston, where the streets are anything from modern to ancient, literally paved over the cow-paths, constantly changing with construction, lucky if the lane markings are still visible, pedestrians in all kinds of odd situations (legal and illegal) -- orders of magnitude more difficult to sort the environment. Now add snow in quantities enough to make it often difficult as an experienced human driver to figure out where you are in the lanes, and then snowbanks in odd places after it is cleared'.

Sure, it's still 4 wheels, power plant, steering wheel, roads, but two quite different games.

Going for a walk in Central Park at lunch and hiking up Denali in Alaska are also ostensibly similar activities, but in actual reality, are very different games.
It would involve removing planned obsolescence. An ethical cellphone would be one where every part is user serviceable and standardized. The Fairphone is having trouble even keeping manufactures producing stock for their older phones. There is so much value in keeping people replacing their devices every two years that I doubt we'll see PC/ATX style standardization in mobile hardware.
IDG Capital backs new blocklattice technology DEXON
LOL. Suddenly a VC cares a lot about minorities.
The USA isn't really a hotbed of mosquito infestation. Very little of the contiguous US is in a tropical climate zone.
Good one.

In case nobody gets the joke: the economic system was the plague.
> I don't necessarily buy this argument

Why should risking time and risking money get taxed at different rates? I guess I don't understand the argument for why LPs should pay less taxes than GPs. Especially since entrepreneurs get to pay longterm capital gains on their stock, and the risk profile of being a founder is basically identical to the risk profile of being a GP.
Couldn't these projects also be paths to mass destruction? When a group has the ability to safely hide underground or in space for extended periods, what stops them from leveraging their position and exerting force on the rest of us?
> Most earn between 2,000 and 3,000 yuan, with permanent staff earning between 2,000 and 2,500 yuan. In 2017, the average wage for a worker in Hengyang was 4,647 yuan a month.

Math... my brain... what is happening...
I stopped shopping at Wal-Mart in 2009 and I stopped shopping at Amazon when I returned to the US a few years ago.

But I realize these are symbolic. You can't affect a company by purchasing decisions. I still shop at Whole Foods even after the buyout.

The idea you can vote with your dollars is bullshit and ignores the power these companies have with their advertising.
Subsistence farming isn't so bad of a life, compared to 60 hour factory weeks. Lots of western elites see something like that as a luxurious retirement.

I personally don't want to participate in a slave economy.
Would you pay 200% extra? I imagine the markup for “ethical” tech is more or less closer to that than to a slightly higher shipping cost (15% or so), based on prior hardware-related projects I’ve been involved with
No it wasn't. Don't be foolish.
I would, in general, recommend cancelling Prime. You can get better deals often elsewhere, so you might as well remove the default-to-Amazon behavior Prime gives you. You can still order on Amazon with free shipping for orders over $25 anyways. And Walmart will do free two-day shipping for orders over $25, making Prime mostly useless. Add some ship to store options for Target and Best Buy... There's nice non-Prime options out there.
Infections would fall by the amount caused by extramarital sex, multiplied by the probability that people are actually deterred by illegality, plus network effects. That won't completely eradicate syphilis, but still lower the numbers.
Bezos has spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to advance humanity... See blue origin and organizations like Mary's Place
NBA analytics and RDF graphs: Game, data, and metadata evolution, Occam's razor
Carried interest is effectively the General Partners share of the dividend. Dividends are taxed at a lower rate than ordinary income, so this is as well. This is true whether you’re poor and own one share of a dividend paying stock, or you’re Ray Dalio.

Here a pretty good breakdown of how it works and why it makes sense [0].

To be clear, I’m not saying you have to like it, but the rich have been getting richer since the beginning of time. I don’t expect that will ever change. It’s as true with humans as with animals like lions (albeit the measures are different, as lions have no care about dollars).

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2014/03/04/cnbc-explains-carried-intere...
Pulling out the hacker part:

40 points for > 10 million yen salary ($91,000)

10 for a bachelors
20 for a masters
30 for a phd

20 for 10 years experience
15 for 7 years experience
10 for 5 years experience
5 for 3 years experience

age
15 for <29
10 for 30-34
5 for 35-39

15 for a patent
15 for 3 academic papers
15 for 3 academic grant

And bonuses for language proficiency, working for small-medium companies that spend on R and D (startups?) and holding a foreign qualification.

With the right salary ($91K/year):

24 year old, with bachelors, and 3 years work experience? you are in.

40 year old, with bachelors, and 10 years work experience? you are in.

Remarkably open. Far more so than the US.
All for labor standards here, but I think you doing a disservice to dirt, something many Native Americans understand as one of the only things they have left.
> one set of rules for the rich and another for everyone else

The rich (LPs) aren't the ones getting carry, it's the GPs who get carry.
This isn’t a problem with Amazon so much as it is a problem with the system Amazon operates in.
Vintage and obsolete Apple products
I’ve lived through something like this in the past. What do you think happens to the country imposing the tariffs?
Compare this to India, where you could be a daily wager working 14-16 hours days, no weekends, no benefits, on something that might be back-breaking, hazardous, and pays just enough to get by. Your employer could abuse you, dock your pay, and would barely spend anything to make your job safe. Work might include cleaning swears without any safety gear, labouring under a sweltering 45C weather, or working in hazardous factories.

I am not espousing the inhuman treatment of these workers. However, for many people in India and around the world, this would be an order of magnitude improvement of their lives. I think China is on the right track. The working conditions would get better as the economy grows. The injustice might seem appalling, but have you wondered what the alternative is?
"Sudden braking at high speed can startle the driver"

Yeah, my Model S did this once on the Interstate, for no reason that I could tell. I nearly had to engage a dry cleaner.
What were the complaints?
Yes, your first sentence is an especially pithy way to boil down what I wrote.

When I said that "I don't necessarily buy this argument", I didn't mean that I necessarily disagreed with it either. TBH, I remain uncertain.

It's interesting that you compare founders/GPs/LPs without bringing up employees. They also risk their time and, in a majority of cases, will not receive preferential tax treatment.
Is that not exactly what a tariff based on those metrics is?

Making bad working conditions and lax environmental standards expenses instead of profit centers.
Blue Origin is not philanthropy.
Isn't that basically the same thing?
Not really commenting on the GP post, but your comment isn't correct. Malaria used to be very common in the Southeastern US. During the Civil War thousands died from malaria. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Malaria_Eradication...