skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I happen to believe the US should begin reciprocal economic targeting against the EU if they continue down the path of attacking our tech companies via massive fines as a means to offset their inability to compete. Indeed, this outcome is guaranteed to occur. The US isn't going to just watch as the EU continuously steals billions of dollars from its top companies.

They're so far behind in the EU, the US would have to stop all technological progress for at least a decade to allow them to partially catch up. When Britain exits the EU, the EU GDP per capita will nearly be 50% lower than the US. Realistically they have no means to keep up with the US over time, they simply don't have the financial capability to do it, I almost sympathize with their desperation.

The US is booming, it'll add a trillion dollars to its GDP this year alone. Meanwhile half the EU is a perpetual rolling economic disaster still, a decade after the great recession began. Populists keep gaining more and more traction in EU countries, with Italy looking like it might be the next to leave the EU. It really is hard to blame the EU leadership for trying to find some way to extract value from the US economic dominion, given how weak the EU outlook is.
VPN companies don't care too much about customers that are concerned about privacy - too small a percentage of their customer base. Catering to those trying access geo-blocked content is where the money's at.
How is that a difference maker?

Are you saying that there is a large group of people who have less than $2,000 of 'wealth', but also have Swiss Bank accounts?
To what extent should diversity be the responsibility of companies? I would argue the responsibility is in proportion to added-discrimination, so to speak (kind of like your profit should be in proportion to your added value).

So, as an example, if 90% of your applicants are male and 10% are female, presuming quality is randomly distributed, the default assumption is that the company ends up with 90% male employees and 10% female employees. You might make some adjustments arguing that diversity is better for work environment / productivity / decision-making but that's a post-hoc adjustment.

If that is the case at Google (and I have no way of knowing), then I would argue the burden falls on society for having 90% of applicants be male and 10% of the applicants be female in the first place. That sharp of a gender gap is not the case in Eastern Europe.

The solution is obviously best targeted toward the problem and not the symptom. If you have a fever because of a bacterial pneumonia, antibiotics are much better than Tylenol.
> we need innovation in the US solar panel supply chain.

Completely agree but reducing competition could backfire and create less innovation (due to less incentive to compete / innovate) than more.

> Energy independence is tantamount with security.

This only helps if you are talking non-renewable energy. A country can stop their oil shipments, they have leverage there. They can't typically take away solar panels.

Now one could say that they can take away the supply of new panels and slow US adoption of renewables. But isn't that exactly what the President is doing here? It's like saying I might be shot at some point so I might as well shoot myself in the foot now.
US Hits 'WannaCry Hero' with More Malware Charges
Do you see a niche you could conquer with zig?

For ruby it was rails.
Python profited from data science. Etc.
Okay, a true story, my second disappointing interaction with Atari marketing.

One fine day my boss came to me and said that he had an ask from Atari Marketing (in the Home Computer arm of the company).

The marketing drone came to my office (yes, we had offices in those days). "My idea is to pre-copyright all possible 8x8 bitmaps so that people can't use them without our permission. Can you print them out for me so we can submit them to the copyright office?" He actually meant all possible 8x8 bitmaps containing five colors, with colors chosen from an 7 or 8 bit space (I forget which).

I told him the story of the guy who supposedly invented chess, and was offered a choice of reward by his king. The fellow simply asked, "Just give me one grain of rice for the first square, two grains of rice for the second, four for the third, and so on." Most of you know how this ends, it's grade school math.

I explained to the marketing guy that the printout would probably outweigh the planet, maybe the solar system, maybe the galaxy. He went away, a little disgusted with those pesky engineers. (I don't know if he was the same oxygen waster who wanted me to write a 16K cartridge in just a couple of weeks, but he certainly was in the same department).

So I'm still sticking with three brain cells, despite all the downvotes :-)
I want this to work so much (because this is exactly the "business model" by which I'd like to live.)

I know of another example: the guy who draws and writes the web- (and now print too) comic "Kill Six Billion Demons". I believe he's currently living off of direct fan support (through Patreon too, as it happens) although he has published a physical book collecting the first arc of the story. (I guess that is also fan support..?)
"excellent" isn't the adjective I'd use to describe a loss of $2.5B in investment. The effect is less energy diversity, not more.
From looking at the JavaScript snippet that is provided, it looks like I can get around the validation by simply creating a cookie who's contents is "validated=yes" before the qeys script is loaded.

EDIT: The part of the snippet in question:

window.addEventListener('load', function(a){
document.cookie.indexOf('validated=')<0&&v();
});
I've mostly used it for web (mainly react applications recently), for several companies.

The haxe->js community is growing these past years, but I still think Haxe isn't getting the love it deserves (compared to TypeScript, Flow typing for react, etc.)
and that makes it a good database, right?
Until I can buy a Whirlpool washer from from Maytag or Ford has to sell me a brand new ‘57 Mustang the Justice Department isn’t doing their job. /s

Always interesting to see the arguments people come up with on the internet to justify their position on some other issue.
I've been using Haxe over a decade, and it's really a shame it doesn't get more attention. The language is amazingly productive for game development, although lacking the GUI tools of Unity.
> Nintendo is trash in my book now.

I just purchased a New 2DSXL (for Rhythm Core Alpha 2). I had to return it twice because the first two units I received were dead on arrival. Power lights but no sound and no screens.
Goes into oblivion. How would you send funds to a newly created address if that wasn't the case? The bitcoin network doesnt know which addresses are ready to be used on the network and which aren't since there isn't any setup the address does with the network prior to being operational.
Seems like there's a lot of internal conflict in Google at the moment.
You're conflating % of profit of the market with % of market share.

For example, Apple only has 10-40%[1] of the smartphone market (i.e. market share), but they capture north of 80%[2] of the physical device sale profits. There have even been years where they captured more than 100% of the profits[3]..

The same goes for the app store: iOS owners are often more likely to pay for apps, but Android developers make up this difference by including ads and tracking, which isn't 'consumer spend' but still makes money.

[1] depends on who you ask

[2] https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/04/17/apple-grabs-86-of...

[3] https://www.macrumors.com/2016/11/04/apple-smartphone-profit...
I'm all for solar. I use it myself. But I cannot wrap my head around these prices. They seem far too low. If this reality or is this companies trying to win bids, trying to get their feet into doors?

Solar takes space. It takes far more land than coal-fired plants. But land prices are going up and everyone expects interest rates to go up too. So how can they afford to acquire and maintain the needed land at these prices?
It is weird how there's no criticism or activism against the US government. Edward Snowden and Barrett Brown are Russian psyoperatives, you see, along with Glenn Greenwald and the Intercept and the New York Press Club Awards For Journalism they won, and
This is a multi-vector, multi-architecture attack, and while we know some of the vectors, we don't know them all.

Some were due to vulnerabilities in the router's web admin. Mikrotik routers were compromised in this way. In this case, it was not a default password issue (as their is no default password on Mikrotiks), but an attack that would work regardless of credentials. Anyone running firmware older than March 2018 who was not smart enough to block port 80 on their public interface likely got owned. Mikrotik is not a consumer router, but they are cheap and powerful, and thus attractive to end users, many of whom don't know what they are doing. Thankfully, the Mikrotiks are easily fixable. Upgrade the firmware, and stage 1 gets wiped out.

But most consumer routers, by default, do not expose the web admin in this way, and were compromised by some other vector, and we have yet to get to the bottom of all of them. Many of these routers, due to their architecture, cannot be fixed with a firmware upgrade.
Paper ballots are scanned upon receipt. So you might as well fax your ballot. They keep the paper for a while, sometimes used for manual recounts, under very narrow circumstances.

Because there's no second chance, admins have to adjudicate for voter intent. So they modify the votes in the database.

To protect the database, as part of the backup, the votes are tallied both at end and beginning of shift. That means a running vote count. Law is that votes can only be tabulated when the polls close. So admin's have the fiction of "summary reports" vs "tabulation".

Yes, admins peek at early results.

Another new threat to integrity is signature verification. But that's a whole topic onto itself.

Happily...

The biggest mitigation would be to switch from brittle FPTP to robust approval voting and proportional representation (as appropriate).
The idea I got was that he had opinions on how it should work, but that he wasn't involved in the actual development. He's actually written recently on it:

"Jeff started working on the code in April 2008, recruited two other programmers to join him (Geoff and Jarrod, who are still here), and the three of them heroically launched what became Stack Overflow in September 2008."

I'm guessing he was running Fog Creek Software, as its CEO.
And we ended up with MS being a monopoly, exactly the way the EU says Google is.

So it wouldn’t even prevent this problem as the OP proposes.
Following that logic, it would be impossible to dominate an OS market since an OEM always would be free to write their own.
How does that detract from the point? They are arguing for a sort of "code deletion" and "refactoring" of laws. A far superior way of maintaining a codebase.

Not just "ADD MORE LINES OF CODE", which you make sound is like some concrete reality of how things always get done. It's not. And no one should strive to do things this way.
YouTube's content takedown/appeal process is both Kafkaesque and completely rigged in favor of large businesses. Even/especially when they claim content that they don't own.
I've heard that Gitea (the fork) is more actively developed right now so it might be worth investigating that claim before jumping to gogs.
Those look like their both from the same test card pattern, but not the same image of that test card. The paper grain/noise looks different between the two.
It's interesting because your view of the law is very optimistic, and you assume law is deterministic.

The truth is that fundamentally law is not deterministic. You can't deterministically apply the reasonable person standard, or even the layman standard. How do you handle the expanse of human nature, and it's intricacies and vagaries?

Law can't be perfectly deterministic because life is not deterministic given the constraint of free will. Trying to make an idealized code without human judgement (and yes, that exposes human bias as well) results in the worst kind of law - an autocracy.
You don’t need fiat, you can sell your startup shares for AAA bonds, both denominated in ETH. Treat the bonds like a checking account.

Technically you could buy coffee with a fractional share of a goat or similar. Once a critical mass of securities are tokenized, we enter essentially the “Infinite Currencies” phase of money where there’s no difference between assets and currencies in terms of ease of spending.
I think the US should control it’s own tech companies instead of letting them run wild so the rest of the world has to do it.
Previous discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17251371
Even so, at some point if the language "takes off", a company out there may want to become a full-time sponsor. It's no riskier than a startup - and nicely bootstrapped with very low cost of maintaining it.

Kinda awesome actually he's doing what his passion is.
>more to do with different cultural definitions of "yes" than lying.

I call poe.
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Do you really find this to be just an Indian / non-US thing? From the time I was twenty (twenty years ago) it was pretty apparent that there was a lot more money over on the management side of things. At forty, the number of 20 and 30-somethings all snorting and fighting for promotions makes it pretty clear to me this is not a generational or cultural thing. Everybody wants more money, responsibility, title, power, etc. In a country of a billion people where a tech job represents a path out of poverty, it isn't surprising to me that you'd see the same behaviors.
Okay c'mon, this is such a reductive response. Sometimes you have a string of sleepless nights for reasons unrelated to work. Sometimes you have young infants who are waking up to feed every hour on the hour.

Yeah if possible I will always choose a full, restful night's sleep. But if I can't for some reason, it's nice to know there are ways to mitigate this temporarily.
With good green tea that has lots of it (shaded tea, but doesn't need to be gyokuro, Sencha Momiji is my favorite, cold brewed over night, then strained in a french press), I usually feel a slow but steady rise in wakefulness and around the time where I would start to get jittery (say, like when drinking a few too many cokes), it transitions over to an incredible calm mixed with a feeling of... wideness. Like your FOV is actually expanded by a few degrees, on many levels. Close your eyes and it feels like being at peace in a kind of Zen state. But... with a little buzz, very much an eager, productive peace where things line up and you can approach them.

It's probably different for different people, but I can highly recommend trying to "get some good stuff" to see whether it can do the same for you. I wouldn't want to miss it.
Modern facial recognition systems are actually pretty accurate. The problem is when you use them for screening on a population where only a small fraction of the people fall into the group you are screening for. You can then run into the "False Positive Paradox".

This is more well known in the context of medical testing. Suppose you are screening for a rare disease. You are testing a group of 10 000 people, of which 100 have the disease and 9 900 do not.

Let's say you have a test that is right 99% of the time.

Of the 100 people you test who actually have the disease, your test will catch 99 of them.

Of the 9 900 people you test who do not have it, your test will falsely report that 99 of them have the disease.

The result is you get 198 people reported as having the disease, but only 50% of them actually have the disease. The other 50% are false positives.

If the test were right 90% of the time rather than 99% of the time, the results would be 90 positives who have the disease, and 990 positives who do not. Only 8.3% of the people who test positive actually have the disease!

If you used that 90% test on a population where 5 000 of 10 000 have the disease, things are dramatically different. 90% of the people who test positive actually have the disease.

Same thing with facial recognition. Set up a facial recognition system at a big football game and look for people who have outstanding arrest warrants, and you are in a situation like the medical test for the rare disease. A 90% accurate system might give you 10 times as many false positives as true positives.

Set up a system at a border that has a lot of one-day tourist traffic both ways, and use it to try to match up people coming back at the end of the day with people who left earlier in the day, and it might be more like the 50/50 disease. A 90% accurate test might only have a 10% false positive rate.
From the article:

> the company remains committed to an internal goal to reach
> "market supply" representation of women and minorities by 2020.

The term "market supply" isn't defined in the article, but I assume it's basically what you're talking about (except overall job market, not just applicants). If that's true, then Google is already accounting for that factor but minorities are still underrepresented.
Colorado has land to spare. That quote might even be based on zero-cost land.
Many people are dehydrated and don't know it. First thing in the morning, I drink a bunch of water. Diet soda, tea, juice, coffee doesn't do the trick - it has to be water.
apart from saying that bitcoin isn't a security, no. Just yesterday this infuriatingly vague video came out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YtZJRUak8E

But they refused to actually say if any specific coin was/wasn't a security besides bitcoin.
It’s not about effort. It’s aboit discriminating against people to fill quotas and turning away qualified candidates when they’re not the “correct” gender or race.
I could have cameras, but I legitimately don’t want to provide footage to law enforcement. Am I now acting unethically? And what the difference if I simply don’t have them because I don’t want to spend money on them (or any other reason)?

This is not entirely a rhetorical device. I really don’t want to provide the government with a video feed of my neighborhood.
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Reading this paper, I got a similar sense that all of this was suboptimal when compared to working towards and maintaining a healthy sleep cycle. When maintaining a healthy sleep cycle, there is no drop off in performance throughout the day, right? Or if there is, it's nothing nearly as bad as the drop off shown in even the best dosing strategies shown here, right? This paper makes the assumption that getting enough sleep simply isn't an option, but for many of us, that's not true. We choose to sleep poorly, and all of this is us trying to minimize the consequences of that poor choice.

I don't know a lot about this topic, so feel free to correct me.
So... yet another article full of nothing but anecdotal evidence.

What will it take to actually get a real answer on this?
In either case, you end up with commits that have large diffs and touch many parts of the code base. Most features require multiple commits to implement. As far as I know, Github does not provide a facility to squash into multiple commits.
Hi, I live in europe, and am not familiar with visa gift cards in specific. Would you mind describing exactly how they work, what form you buy them in, and how you use or enable them?

I.e. is the code printed at the time of buying? Or does it have a scratch-off code and packaged in plastic wrap? Is it scanned under a device while selling?

Even if there dont seem to be any unique codes, an IR fluorescent barcode could be used on the card, or its plastic wrap.

Even if there are no unique codes, the cards might come from a rack or pack in sequence, and the cashier instructed to scan a new pack of cards when opening a new pack!
Your suggestion is farcical, both in the suggested method and size metric. Short laws would only lead to a greater degree of interpretation from fallible humans to reach a disposition.
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NTSB releases preliminary report on fatal Tesla crash on Autopilot
It's interesting seeing the tone in comment sections here change with time. Threads on Magic Leap used to have many defenders. Now, not so much.
http://crackmes.one/ is new and updated. It also includes all the old crackmes.de challenges.
Coinbase is acquiring a securities dealer to trade startup tokens
During one series of interviews I asked about their onboarding process. My question was the first time the person had ever heard the word, let alone what it meant. Their product was nice, and I am glad I don't work there.

You are ahead of the game against some at the very least by asking your question.
RCA original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian-head_test_pattern
Why do companies hire all these diversity administration in the first place? It burns epic amounts of money, and sows discontent, when there message and answer to everything is we need more diversity for all leadership and tech positions,(aka quotas of people with subpar skillsets). Instead of merely hiring on skill.
Also, who was the last person getting rich from a programming language?

Programming languages are more of an open-source thing. You can't make much money from them.
If anyone want to setup Gitea easily (but not in a docker container) I made a gist a couple days ago that install it and creates a service for easy management on ubuntu 16+

https://gist.github.com/cbdec05bca7907d70b156662dbd7c811
Turns out paying people low wages is not really miraculous.
Neutrinos oscillate between different flavors. If a sterile neutrino exists then we will see deviations in the distribution of detected neutrino flavors because they will oscillate differently.
Because those costs are externalities that aren't properly factored into the cost of panels anywhere. The same is true for pretty much any product with an environmental impact in either it's creation or transport to market. The few places it does get factored in and regulated are places like fishing where the entire industry nearly crashed because of overfishing. Hopefully the same doesn't have to be true before other environmental externalities like shipping pollution get regulated properly.
I was life-long anti-caffeine, except the occasional soda. Then I started drinking more and more of it as I drank more and more soda.

Eventually, I realized the soda was doing bad things to my system and got off it. I didn't drink coffee or tea, so that mean almost zero caffeine as well.

Lately, I started drinking chai twice per day at work. I've found that I'm a lot more productive and active, both at work and at home, though I do tend to get really sluggish a couple hours before bed.

I don't know drinking so much caffeine permanently altered my metabolism/body chemistry so that I need caffeine, or if it was an inevitable consequence of aging. It's weird to find that I now "need" caffeine just like everyone around me, when I definitely didn't just 10 years ago.
Wow, that actually explains a lot of problems I have with the way my Indian team work. Thanks for the heads up!
Former Microsoft engineer decided to build weed-zapping laser-armed robots