skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My pleasure! At the end of the day, whatever works best for your workflow is ideal, of course.
> there are businesses like Sky Zone that provide trampoline play commercially. That kinda bounds the upper level of risk...

In the past few weeks I've seen a couple articles about people breaking their spine doing flips into foam pits. I would avoid that particular activity, at least.

I had a trampoline as a kid. It resulted in a few very painful injuries, but it was a lot of fun. My brother broke his arm rolling off of it (nobody was even jumping). You can't fall off the edge at those businesses because the trampolines are built into raised floor areas. That removes one of the larger dangers from the equation.
I bought recently a 3rd generation lenovo x1 carbon from ebay and I am really happy with all the mobility provided. The battery lasts for more than 6-7 hours, it weighs around 1.2kg and the keyboard is perfect. The 14 inch monitor is more than enough. I switched from a 17 inch Dell and I am not missing it at all.
I bought this for 500 euros including shipping.
Maybe Jet (Walmart) can do that. Only carry certified goods and not carry any off-brand knock off stuff. AMZ is getting really off-putting with all their inventory comingling and their third party vendors making their own brands on a daily basis as if A/B testing live with product.
While I appreciate the simplicity of “tax-inclusive pricing”, I think that “tax is added” vs. “tax is included” pricing is highly important for transparency. Frustrating as it may be for other reasons, I like that a buyer is reminded every time they walk up to checkout how much they are paying the government for the privilege. I think that’s part of the reason why EU VAT rates are so much higher than US sales tax rates. With tax-exclusive pricing, buyers are very aware of the tax.

I also think it sets it up so that sales taxes are actually paid by the intended target - they buyer. When Ireland changed its VAT rate from 21% to 23%, I suspect very few coffee shops changed the price of their latte from €3.00 to €3.06. So it feels like the tax increase can end up being paid by the seller, not the buyer.
Don't forget the paq family, especially because of their tunability. You could probably replace the column representation with a context model that just classifies based on the json value or so, and context mixing, at least in the pre-zpaq days, does the rest there. Also check delta encoding.
If you are able to spare the JSON format the way it is, or at least don't have to provide bit-exact representation, just data-exact ones, you might want to check out if you can make a proper json transform into a binary format suitable for this encoding, possibly checking if you can code a float represented inside a string with a printf-style encoder for the decoding, and then just store this as a datatype "single prevision, standard posix format", or "single prevision, this format, followed by a length-prefixed format string". You should make sure that some context models know where you are right now, e.g., if it's a format string, a content string, a length-prefix, etc. Context Mixing really is amazing.
Thanks for seeing this work through, Mathieu.

> possibly user-space task scheduling

I'm very interested in this aspect. Do you have a sense of whether there's enough in the kernel now to build this, or are there still pieces missing?
People are so shocked by this precisely because it's an extremely abnormal way to do business, which demolishes your chip-on-the-shoulder premise. You're using a rare occurrence (thus the shock), to extrapolate that it applies exactly the same to the majority of Silicon Valley.
Financial education in schools hardly applies to this situation. As the article states, much of this is helping out people that are extremely distracted by their careers and are on the road constantly. Even with the motivation, I bet the time and energy for artists to think about finances would be more than a 5% hit to their career/output etc.

It's the same reason startups are happy to pay fairly high cloud prices so as not to have to deal with staffing network engineers and stuff like the old days.
Acquisitions are pretty much always bad for the acquired company and its employees.
Is this really that out if character for Twitter as an organisation though? They have a history of being rather hostile toward developers and their own APIs. Which is ironic considering the nature of the platform.

I would say we should use this as a sign to migrate away but we've had enough warnings already. I guess Twitter is too big to fail?
Of all the things you could have taken from my comment, you came up with that? You seriously thought I was advocating having a human run laps around the machine with a deli slicer?

Clearly, the observation was, just make the cutting mechanism work like a deli slicer, as opposed to a knife or whatever else the OP had in mind.
Companies don't have guns and prisons. Invading your privacy is a little different than being shot or thrown in jail.
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could've said [first part] for every social networking, video/image sharing startup, yet... they still exist.
Exactly. You want reliable CAPTCHAs? CDN service? Malware detection? Customer support software? Website uptime monitoring? Accounting software? Analytics? Email delivery? Good luck building and running all that yourself.
I took note of the “Mr torvalds or Mr Rogers” example. It was clever and I think the truth underlying it is that for an idea to survive its circumstances, it must be shepherded by certain kinds of personalities.
Going off on a tangent here, but it's interesting how the first thing on that list is "create product".

I would argue that most new companies (at least started by and solely run by technical founders) fail exactly because of that.

Product-oriented people tend to think that the success of a business is due to its product(s), when the reality is businesses succeed due to their ability to sell their products. Hence, the most important thing is actually being able to properly find and target an audience, which should be the first step of starting a business.

The second step of starting a business should be to test marketing channels to make sure the selected audience can be effectively/efficiently reached. Only after this has been properly done should a product be ideated, based on the knowledge acquired about the target audience and the marketing channel(s) that work.

Just my 2 cents to the HN community after having learned this lesson the hard way, failing multiple times and starting several businesses.
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I could have sworn that Credo supports BYOD, but now I see sources saying that it doesn't.

Credo's whole sales pitch is that they're connected to liberal causes, and they donate money to those causes. Of course they're going to take jabs at Trump.

While searching for Credo's BYOD policy, I found this article: http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/epeoplesview.net/2013/12/...

If what that article says is true, I have to withdraw my recommendation of Credo.
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There is no requirement for YouTube creators like Blender to include ads with their videos. They have to opt into displaying ads.
>It is one thing to get grilled by senators, but entirely another for your average user to start believing you’re part of a war-machine

Tides can and do change though. And anyone working on anything that can be weaponized (see also self driving cars) and has heard of Alfred Nobel is just fooling themselves if they think they can control their creations.
As I understand it, the CPSC restriction is on the packaging and marketing of the magnets as toys and entertainment devices. You weren't prohibited from owning small magnets.

Am I misunderstanding? It's been awhile since I read any of the primary source documentation on this stuff.
there's an extreme method of doing 'light text on dark background', like my guide below

http://unexistance.blogspot.com/2014/09/of-firefox-solarize....

in which all background & foreground color are of your choice. been using it for 5 years at least
By making their own brands do you mean for instance how the exact same USB lithium ion battery pack can be listed under 10 different brand names?
Isn't Labour Force Participation Rate a better indicator? Plenty of people opt-out of the job market by going on e.g. disability benefits, getting financial support from family and/or working extra "on the black" (without any trace for tax authorities).
>You expect C code to go beyond the territory of the abstract machine. The authors of the standard, quite clearly, do not.

That is 100% wrong.

>Strictly conforming programs are intended to be maximally portable among conforming
implementations. Conforming programs may depend upon nonportable features of a conforming
implementation.

The whole concept of "undefined behavior" is to cope with the reality that C programs routinely go beyond the bounds of the abstract machine.
Thought this bit was interesting:
"... actors, recording artists, producers, writers, and athletes with personal net worths ranging from $1 million to $50 million..."

I kind of feel bad for the low end of her clients whose net worth is only $1 million. Don't get me wrong, it's a lot of money. But it also doesn't go that far nowadays, especially if you live in SF Bay area (though most of her clients are probably in the LA area; slightly better but not by much). You can't even afford a decent house with cash for that amount of money. I feel bad for the client who has $1m but thinks he/she has a lot of money, and needs to pay a financial adviser (5% even!) to manage it for him/her. In this day and age and in California, if you have $1m, you'd better be working hard still and save up for retirement.
> Finally, it should be mentioned that buildings are owned by private companies and individuals, who generally have a right to do whatever they want to them!

Err, no. A city can and should decide what the "overall look and feel" is. London fails at that spectacularly. Pretty much all cities that are considered beautiful have building guidelines in place that support that. Like: you can build only to the height of neighboring buildings, windows need to line up, specific styles and mandatory balconies to fit into the environment. Think of Amsterdam or Barcelona.

The overall look of a city is part of the quality of life of its citizens. If you leave it to property developers, well, you get something like London.

EDIT: "The school of Life" made a video that explains that pretty well. [1]

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy4QjmKzF1c
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I'm dismayed at the comments here of "if Amazon/Microsoft/Google don't work for ICE, someone else will". That argument doesn't fly. If you stop helping ICE, they will have to get worse software from likely more expensive vendors (less market competition for the contract). Which will make ICE less efficient in its goal to criminalize, separate and deport immigrants.
Yes, there are small outfits who all they do all day long is try to strategize and evolve quickly to beat others out. Basically much of the contract manufacturing stuff. One of the better examples: https://www.inc.com/magazine/201603/burt-helm/pharmapacks-am...
This analysis is incorrect. Google doesn’t require running ads inside videos at all.
I still stand by my earlier suggestion - break away from Alphabet; release videos directly through archive.org & Wikimedia.
How's the legal situation in America regarding breach of contract?

At least in Austria we have a law that exactly tries to prevent such things (§38 et seq. UGB): when you buy a company you enter into all of their existing (non highly personal) contracts and obligations, unless you specifically don't want that, in which case you must tell the other side and give them some time.
What CPSC document are you relying on for that assertion? I just read the 2017 Zen Magnet ALJ decision, and it revolves around the marketed intended use for the products:

The intended use and operation of the Subject Products require the magnets to be
separated and reattached to create and reshape the magnets into a variety of figures, sculptures, structures, jewelry, and art. See, e.g., Exs. R-55 (product guide with examples of structures that can be created with the Subject Products); R-139 (“Never Let Go of Childhood Wonder” demonstration video

Two obvious observations:

- "Childlike wonder"? Really?

- If there's any use for these things that is more dangerous than desk toys, it's jewelry.
I assume that in the real world you grow your own food, generate your own electricity, dig up your own wells for water, and knit your own clothes? Companies have to rely on other companies for critical services, just like we do in the real world.
This discussion reminds me of NASA's CLIPS [1], particularly FuzzyCLIPS. I know that is basically a rule engine/expert system basis at its core, but FuzzyCLIPS was an interesting variant that try to do inference off of CLIPS rules and facts.

I always wondered if rules and facts can be seen as high-order abstractions that represent the low-level data that is encoded into neural nets. Would that mean that a system of symbolic logic, or rules and facts can in fact accomplish the same thing, just in a different, higher order way?

Then when you get into combining fuzzy with known, it's like different organs in the brain combining to serve different functions. When I know a rule and recall it, I believe it to be true and act immediately on it. When I'm not sure, I get fuzzy and try to deduce it. The more data and inputs I have about a given environmental condition, problem, subject, input, fact, etc., the easier it becomes to "reason" using fuzzy links to try to work out the answer. Unless I get information overload or the complexity exceeds one human brain's capability.

I've always felt that techniques are complementary and probably we employ multiple subsystems in our brains together to act like humans.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLIPS
Respectfully: wouldn't really believing that make you kind of an asshole? The number of children I would need to see hospitalized to give up a desk toy is pretty low.

I could be misreading you, but it sounds like you're stipulating that kids are getting hurt, and saying you'd be happier if we could hurt some reasonable amount of kids to get new desk toys. That is a different and more disturbing argument from the one that says that we should be able to have the desk toys and avoid the harm, too.
All of those can be bought and then self hosted except for CDN.
There's a difference between Google turning off a feature and Google cutting off a whole service. This is the kind of thing negotiated with contracts. Lawyers on both sides. If you build your business around another company, you protect yourself. Twitter with surely get sued for this, if for no reason other than failure to provide a service that they promised to customers in writing. Thankfully, your flavor of cynicism generally does not apply in situations like this where many tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars are at stake.
I have had good luck with Apple support treating me like a real person.

For example, I once called them about getting rEFIt and dual boot working on a Mac Mini, and the support guy did his best to figure out how to help me, even though it is definitely not supported and it is a very unusual configuration.

Was I talking to an Apple developer? No, but I'm not asking them to implement a new feature on my behalf, so I don't expect to.

YMMV.
Ever heard of Bootstrap?
> ... explain how the law enforcement is violating any terms and conditions

I’m not saying that they are, just that Amazon are within their right to stipulate that there are certain uses of their technology which they just don’t like, as they see fit.

> Domain fronting is illegal.

First I’ve heard. Where? Why?

> ...NSA... If it is offensive to prime members, they have found the wrong tree to bark up

This story is not about the NSA. The Rekognition controversy arose regarding local police departments, who are very much not tasked with mass surveillance. Amazon used local police departments as example deployments, and for marketing copy as an idealized use-case.

I would personally stop shopping at a local store, if by supporting them I was supporting their objectionable side-business. Consumer boycotts are pretty common, as are changes to corporate policy due to the bad press boycotts generate.
So how did Netflix dethrone Comcast if Goliath always wins?
I can see cases where you want an anti-abuse system to "fail closed".
Which? apparently is a paid service. That I find morally questionable - telling you that some are literally deadly and then asking for money to tell you which ones are.
Is it only me? A github link instead of a kernel.org one?

Maybe it's just an effort to reduce the HN death hug, and every git repo is an identical clone after all, yet I can't help but think that a link to the kernel tree should point to [0].

Github is (and never was) the only source of truth. It (sort of) became because of us.

Replace this with Operaring System, Social Network, default Win 95 browser, any commonly accepted belief.

[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
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Thats what i was thinking.. super sad.
"Bringing in people's names in order to attack them is a breach of this site's civility rule"

I think there is an issue of personal integrity here, even legally.

When I worked for a large F50, our CEO's name had to be on every email we sent out from our German staff - though I'm not sure of the specific German regulation, 'his name is on it' because it's a matter of integrity to the organization.

The founders are generally 'Officers of the Company' - and this implies both a legal/fiduciary and moral obligation in America and most jurisdictions of relevance.

I don't believe that the 'limited personal liability' concept abnegates the responsibilities of the Officers of the Company in this specific regard.

I also don't believe this is a matter of arbitrary doxing if the Officers of the Company are making decisions which are considered foul play in terms of reasonable contractual obligations.

Unless there is an issue of national security or likewise, there's simply no excuse for ending service without reasonable notice.

This is not a political, or socially nuanced discussion such as those involving harassment etc. - this is a matter of commercial civility (and legality).

In American law: "In limited circumstances, such as the sale of the small business to a new owner, the business judgment rule does not apply, and it becomes the burden of CEOs and company directors to demonstrate that their actions were in the company's best interests." [1]

(FYI - the 'business judgement rule' protects Officers from liability.)

I guess I understand we don't want to be doxing folks here ... but I do think it's reasonable that individuals should be held publicly accountable for their commercial actions - for example, someone does an ICO and then - legally - walks away with the cash ... we should rightfully be wary of investing in their next ICO or company for that matter.

The inability for executives to be held accountable for actions of the company is a core problem in present day capitalism, in my opinion.

[1] http://smallbusiness.chron.com/legal-relationship-between-sh...
Elixir has Doccomments, meaning it checks the code in your comments for correctness. You get tests without writing them and your comments won't get stale. Three birds one stone.
I’m working at my first startup. I really hope it’s my last one. Best wishes to those who want to live the dream!
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In N Out uses factory-farmed, garbage-fed, antibiotic-saturated beef from cows who have no room to move and stand in their own shit all day. I can tell the difference between that kind of stuff and a good healthy grass-fed cow by smell alone. Seriously, I wonder if you have ever even had healthy beef.
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Shockingly bad. I wonder if they shitcanned the whole technical team and they turned the lights off on the way out. Not that it’s really much better but at least it wouldn’t make sense.
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Intel CEO resigns after being found to have a relationship with an employee
Internal to a single company is a totally different context than a large internet forum.
Then how did Netflix dethrone Comcast? Goliath doesn't always win. The person who makes the superior product wins. Apple is almost never first to market with an idea anymore because they simply wait and do it better. New companies with better ideas are constantly upsetting the apple cart. For god sakes take a look at the mighty brick and mortar stores like Macy's, JCPenny, and nostrums once thought invincible. Goliath only wins, in the minds of people like you who think they can't be beaten.
It's 40USD to of from the US, and no European bank wants to deal with the arcane way US wire transfers are handled. If you want to deal with that crap you have to pay the premium. It's not that much of a burden, because US rates are much higher than European rates, so you are still winning a lot. Just banks hate it.
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this scenario has literally never happened. I wish I could downvote this stupid comment because it's moronic.
This is the thing that occurred to me. Surely those contracts don't have a clause that says "Smyte can terminate all services with no notice"? If so, surely someone spotted it by now? Or is this normal in service contracts in the US?

I guess the liability is covered by the usual "no liability outside provision of the service" clause - so you can't claim that you were damaged by their lack of service. But I can see a lawyer making a convincing case that the liability should rest with Smyte. IANAL, obviously, but it seems like the sort of thing they love to fight about ;)

gets popcorn this one will be interesting...
Are they going for the C# model of automatic boxing of value types?
Older stuff generally had poorer tolerances and in some cases barely worked. However when it did it was easy to fix and was generally designed with a large margin.

Nowadays we make things with a lot more precision and the mechanics will go a lot longer without needing repair. However if anything goes wrong the whole thing needs replacement as it's not designed for repair.
There are many ways to accomplish this, for example, doing it as an asset purchase instead of acquiring all the stock.

In the former, you can take the assets (including employee contracts) without the liabilities.

There's actually a reasonable quora answer (for once) on this, saving me from writing it up for you :)

https://www.quora.com/What-happens-to-legal-contracts-financ...
I'm not pretending to be judge and jury, just a human being who has opinions when I read or hear about things. Not all situations are as cut and dried as "He was the CEO, she was an underling and there was some rule against it."

Also, I wasn't solely thinking of cases where I am a third party observer.

I'm a woman. I've found myself at times the subject of male interest where there was a power imbalance. Some men are assholes and I have no sympathy for their shit. In other cases, it's more complicated than that.

And I was defending the existence of such rules, so I have no idea why you are criticizing my remark.
> The free market types I know are generally opposed to requiring tax be included because they think it would hide the "true" cost of the tax from consumers.

In this case the "hidden cost" would be clearly printed on the receipt.
Well, I guess every company on AWS is screwed, huh?