skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every McD's I've seen in the last decade has forced the customer to pour her own drink? The one closest to me right now just leaves stacks of cups next to the touchscreens, presumably relying on a combination of the honor system and hidden cameras to catch soda thieves.

It's funny to think back to when I was a kid and Burger King was the first to innovate pouring one's own drink. They discovered they could save more by firing the drink-pourer than they spent by allowing customers to refill their cup. As kids, we just enjoyed the opportunity to mix up some suicides...
The Unabridged Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
"A platitude is a trite, meaningless, or prosaic statement, often used as a thought-terminating cliché, aimed at quelling social, emotional, or cognitive unease" – Wikipedia
Looks like it's on google play right now, and I have it installed and don't remember sideloading.
High-Tech Homeless Wearing QR Codes for Cashless Panhandling
Just googling:

Brazil: Social services cuts ahead of 2016 Rio Olympics - Amnesty International:

https://www.amnesty.org.au/brazil-social-services-cut-olympi...

Brazil’s Government Cuts Social Programs to Subsidize Fuel:

http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-business/brazils-g...

Brazil Cuts 5 Million People from Its Popular Social Program Bolsa Família

http://brazzil.com/brazil-cuts-5-million-people-from-its-pop...

http://brazzil.com/brazil-cuts-5-million-people-from-its-pop...

The article mentioned police killings already being part of the problem. It's common to claim one solve the murder problem by unleashing the police but it is generally documented that police enmeshed in the drug trade and allowing more ex-judicial police murders will just make cops that commonly used enforcers for various drug gangs (a pattern also seen in Mexico where the army was then "leashed" to fight local cops and drug lords, and with no actual reigning in of corruption, you can expect army segments fighting each).
Android is only a walled garden to OEMs that want to make both Google sanctioned Android phones and phones based on Android forks....
This part of the FAQ right here:

Q: Who is behind Ultralight?
A: Hi, I'm Adam Simmons...

YES that is what I am talking about! I hate it when people try to hide behind a company name. When they try to make it out like they're some big "proper" business. Just tell me who you are, and I'll trust you much more. Just like this. Thank you very much Adam!
Are you saying that Penn State is an average university that happens to be public, or that among public universities it is average?
Not true. Old and popular cars with healthy demand for parts, like 90s Civics, are the most frequently stolen. (The model years just before electronic immobilizers are most at risk).
"Touche." - Me.
1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Eric Cline, PhD)
How do you come to that conclusion?

What percentage would not be extortion to you?

Why that percentage? What are the costs for all the services these storefronts provide?
At one point during the US military involvement in Afghanistan you were more likely to get murdered in Chicago than get killed in active combat.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/09/08/homici...
MEME: Your relationship with Google is one sided
I find this a bit silly.

80/20 is more like "Somewhere between 60/40 and 100/0"

I had a boss ask me not to take a second university class, this was smart for everyone involved.

There are busy times and work and boring times at work, to push that it unrealistic to manage a structured life outside of work is silly.

Ive worked with professors that let me take 2 weeks off for Work Travel.

I've had to cut out of work because I had a class. I came in early the next day and prepared for my meeting, things were fine.

I'm a big fan of moderation, and this article claims an extreme situation that is temporary and often unlikely.
I don't think it is unique if you are using two degrees of separation.

A) A friend's sister who got addicted to crack and was murdered by a guy her bf pissed off. He was caught.

B) One of my previous bosses had a cousin murdered in a domestic terrorist attack.
Correct, and grass is green, water is wet, etc. Is there a point here? I never made the claim that they're "losing" money, so why are you citing it here?

I made the question that, if Google were to make a pricing change to support Epic, would it gain them money? Or lose money due to other companies also giving less (since hypothetically that's what Epic wants, less cut taken by Google).
Try selling a game at retail where the whole seller and the reseller get a cut.....
How about "plurality coin"?
Dual affiliation meaning industry/academic split is unambiguous here since that's the word Facebook AI Research choose to use [1][2] and the authors are explicitly responding to Facebook's model.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-yann-lecun-dual-aff...
[2]: https://www.facebook.com/schrep/posts/10156638732909443
> My Facebook or other data obtained through web tracking is definitely more valuable than my boring bank balance.

That data is valuable to Facebook. Your bank balance is valuable to you. That's why you don't send all your money to Facebook, just your data.

> I do not [...]

You do. You wanted a bank data export: it's the 3 years from the website or go to the bank and ask the guy at the counter for more if it still exists.
Data retention periods are mandated by law. Some data is kept 2 years, most data for 5-7, and some for even more. There's also a mandated period in which the data must be readily accessible. After that it's archived and put in cold storage, or deleted. This is why the website doesn't give it to you and why an API won't magically provide it. That website is also using an API to give you the data. Just not an API you can access.

Don't worry, you will get API access to your account when the bank is ready with it. It's not something you want to rush, especially when you have millions of customers. But if you think just anyone can get bulk access to the API and provide financial services you've got another thing coming.

You have poor knowledge of this topic. And that's OK, that's how most people are. But that's exactly why regulation is put in place. So others don't take advantage of this - your bank or a 3rd party.
He cannot because it is not true. Even the leftists (the true-blue ones) admit that left leaning governments have dropped the ball big time regarding security.

As other comments already clarified, 90% of the problem is drug-related, the correct fix would be the decriminalization of them.
You can use Google's parent control app (Family Link) to disable sideloading on your kid's phones.
What Google really should have done was allowed FortNite onto the play store at a reduced cut, as a one-off discount that only applies to this title and nobody else. Some percentage of 50M is better than 0%.
That's explicitly not what PG pointed out:

Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms.
Saving Money with Spot ECS Clusters on AWS
I have found setting a routine and scheduled time to do it helps. Put it in your calendar and treat it as you would work.

However, if you are finding this to be a consistent and long term issue please see a councilor. They can help and diagnose far better than you will find here. If you find that gets put off as well, ask a friend or family member to help you make and keep the initial appointments. You may be surprised by the number of people that are willing to help free of judgement if you will let them.
If you're rich enough to spend $1000 on mobile games, you probably don't care about a 30% saving.
Overstock CEO: Bitcoin “a form sound of money”
Let ye who hasn't exploited a web browser for commercial gain cast the first stone.
Because consoles are proprietary closed source boxen and android isn't?
Companies pay taxes on profits, not on revenue. Google takes 30% cut of the revenue. That's quite a difference.
Article says two masters which implicitly assumes industry would be some new master pulling professors in some new direction. But right now professors have multiple masters. Undergrads, grads, administrations, grants/funding, etc. The idea that the previous master was "curiosity driven research" and now it will be "shareholders" is an exaggeration. I could cynically say the previous master was "least publishable unit."

It seems more likely to me this article assumes zero sum competition where there are actually positive sum gains to be had. It's good Facebook wants to pay for PhDs to do real market driven work instead of these people starving as adjuncts somewhere.
Hypothetically, to Google getting Epic's business. Is lost customers not a problem in your eyes?

People are sitting here being pedantic about "lost" revenue, even though I said nothing about that. My point however, is that assuming Google would want Epic's business (which seems reasonable), would they gain or lose money by changing their pricing structure to fit something Epic would put up with.

Ie, if they reduced Google's take from 30% to 15% (fake numbers), would they gain or lose money? It's a hypothetical question, one which I guess I should edit since clearly everyone is arguing about random shit lol.
Such incredibly simple steps.

Who thought it was a good idea to "disrupt" voting by going electronic?
There is a market for electric conversions, but the retrofit cost puts in out of reach for the consumer market.
WooCommerce Omnichannel
On the topic of code reading, can anyone endorse any tools specific to reading a code base, rather than development?

I've been using vim and cscope forever, but I'm wondering if there's anything new and interesting out there.

...or even screencast recommendations of folks that are particularly proficient at this.
Fixing a Typo the Open Source Way (3 Min Video)
Which cryptographic attack deserves to win the 2018 Pwnie?
You never know when you are going to be targeted, so you live in this constant fear. Ask anyone who lives in Brazil what they do if they see two guys in a motorcycle coming their way.

I've been robbed at gun point; I've woken up with someone inside my bedroom stealing my laptop; I've been followed home; The bus from the public transport system I used to take
was stopped by criminals and set on fire; and so on.

It used to affect only the life of those living in the metropolitan areas, but now it is spreading.

The main reason why I moved to the US was because I was living in such a state that I was always tense. When I was robbed at gun point I almost got shot because the guy thought I was too calm and suspected I was a cop.

Living in the US I realized how much that was affecting my daily life and how life without worrying feels like.

That's how it affects your life.
It might prove easiest to start a new LLC on the down-low (out of state might be a nice touch) and then tell your cofounder you've just gotten an offer to acquire the IP (and acquihire you) but not the rest of the company (which you've yet to formalize as an actual company, but still.. it has problems).

That way, you can safely get a feel for how quietly they'll ride off into the sunset. Three months full-time is not nothing, and if I was in that boat, I'd expect to see something for my trouble. At this point, they can rant and scream and you can tell them oh, ok, I'll tell them no, and this way they have nothing to hold against you (other than maybe more faith in the company you're trying to push them out of).

If you appear to be stuck at that point, then make arrangements to where you're going to set up your current company as a licensing firm, where your cofounder gets X percent ownership, and arrange an opaque deal with your new LLC to pay a contingent licensing fee for the IP, maybe 10% of whatever it generates the new LLC after expenses, or whatever. Kick a few nickels through the arrangement to your cofounder and break the news after 3 years that the new entity isn't using the licensed IP anymore (which it probably isn't).

After 3 years, nobody got screwed, nobody felt like they got screwed, and you keep what you make.

Everyone tells you to hire a lawyer but the fact is, lawyers work for who pays them, which means you'll need one, and your new entity will need a separate one. They're incentivized to bill as many hours as possible (which would make things take as long as possible). As long as you do things legally, and do things intelligently, you should be able to do this without a lawyer (though getting free legal advice from a lawyer, which is actually something that exists, is something I would still recommend).
Although IMHO that particular terminology leads to poisonous thinking in Economics. People start obsessing about missed opportunities because they are a loss, like that guy stole your opportunity away because he got there first.
I understand the perspective of most of the comments here. Yes, google is not really loosing 50 million bucks. But, isnt a major fraction of what would be spend on fortnite is a lost income which otherwise would have been spent on playstore? And this lost income would be significant since fortnite is massively successful?
Public perception has been poisoned with regard to nuclear fission. Changing public perception is expensive.
That's an awfully broad claim considering that there are hundreds or thousands of branches of Christianity and many of them differ on what they believe to be necessary for salvation.
You don't need college to learn the humanities. A library is free and most schools post class curricula online.

I went to a very expensive private liberal arts school and they preached endlessly about the institution's power to create good citizens, engage in debate etc but to be honest the classes themselves were lackluster. It was the conversations after class on the lawn or over coffee or outside the library that really mattered and are the insights I remember after all these years.
Then I ask you: as a non-cryptographer who knows enough to understand RSA, how should I verify cryptographic claims? People i find trustworthy claim signal is good, which is further confirmed by studies and third party suits. I know this is an appeal to authority, but nobody can personally verify every claim made to them. I believe I have done due diligence.
On Debian-based systems including Ubuntu, they offer an initrd based Dropbear (lightweight SSH server) which can be used to connect and authenticate. Involved a bit of custom scripting last I checked though, but a possible solution if that's a requirement for you.
The same kind of guys who scrapped William Binneys working multimillion dollar thinthread project for a multibillion dollar project that didn't work...

Eg, the oligarchs and good Ole boys
Canny: Customer Feedback Management Tool
Actually I think this is really important. I don't have any science to back this up but I feel like the human body actually changes its tradeoff between efficiency and instantaneous performance based on some so-far-undescribed factor.
A modern CSS framework – versatile, well documented
How some business Macs could get hacked right out of the box
>the fact that phone OSes get a cut

That's how a platform business _works_ though.

I mean we could discuss reasonable limits or something or how a platform effects competition once it's entrenched, but you're basically just saying "The concept of a platform business is an insane racket."

Do you think building a global software distribution platform is easy? Let alone the value of compounding network effects.
Not any more, at least not unless Google want to keep racking up multi-billion dollar fines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17556497
There was nothing “open” about Google not allowing manufacturers to ship phones using Android forks if they also ship Google certified Android phones.

On the scale of 1-10 openness, that’s a -100
> Plus, a client asking for something like this - that's a huge red flag that the person asking is going to be very demanding, very clueless, or both.

That client is warning you upfront of an unusual requirement, without you having to digg around, and before you even quote a price. Do you think this one is entitled?
Samsung, Motorola, Amazon, etc. have tried. The trick is to convince all the developers to publish on your app store, so the users will use your app store. They're not going to bother if the phones also have the Google Play Store. The phone manufacturers need to include the Play Store or users won't buy the phones. There is a large first mover advantage.
What's crazy to me is that the 30% fee is standardized across every app in the exact same way.

As an Indi game developer, the 30% fee is totally worth the trade for help in discovery. The play store has received about $1000, for their distribution service with my game.

But a game like Fortnite receives almost the identical service from Google and is charged 50 million? Sure some costs scale, like bandwith.... so its not exactly apples to apples, but WAY to close in my opinion.

Would Fortnite be on the Play Store if Google charged 5%, or even 10%. The real issue is the unreasonableness in this pricing structure.
more like introduction to getting a job at Jane Street
I just want to make sure we're talking about the same thing.

'Making drugs legal' is frequently miss-understood. Treating addiction as a public health problem by decriminalising addicts and personal posession while keeping the trade in drugs firmly illegal, as in Portugal and now Norway, looks like the way to go.

The recent changes to the law in Norway are widely reported as 'decriminalising drugs'. That is highly misleading. They have decriminalised drug use and personal possession, but the drugs trade itself is still criminal.
You're welcome to email me randhunt@amazon.com
https://thenextweb.com/gaming/2018/08/07/fallout-76-and-fort...

It is really impressive that these companies have been able to justify a 30% cut for running a hosting service with stripped down search engine and payment processor. It's like they say in real estate: Location Location Location.
Predicting Outcomes of China's One Child Policy
I've always preferred iceberg lettuce. It's the fastest to chop into a salad, the outer layer protects the inner layers. It has a better leaf to husk ratio than romaine and the green coloring is more pleasing on the table than any red lettuce varieties imho.
So a lot of places is “1”?
That doesn't follow. If group A enjoys a right and group B does not, and that right is extended to group B, Group A no longer enjoys the same advantage over Group B but hasn't suffered any limitation of rights. To use the supplied example, if you're a male driver in Saudi Arabia your driving privileges are unimpaired by the novel legality of female drivers.
Re/act: E-scooter, hearables, digital wallets – tech news blog series
> with most memory being allocated by the JavaScriptCore VM

If I'm writing a green-field HTML5 app, and I don't derive any benefit from Javascript, is the interface between Ultralight and JavaScriptCore clean enough to just rip out the JS support altogether, replacing it with something simpler?

I'm picturing:

1. I embed Ultralight into a process that exposes a simple script-loading API, ala the one in JSCore;

2. I write HTML with no <script> elements, just elements with onclick/ontouch/etc. handler attrs, where these handlers just contain a UUID;

3. Ultralight passes the "script code" (i.e. the UUID) to my trivial script-loading API, which simply looks up a native handler based on the provided UUID, and returns its function pointer;

4. Ultralight holds onto that function pointer and treats it just like a regular thunkable Javascript handler function pointer.

In other words, all the "dynamism" of the HTML would be handled by native, static code in my compiled binary, with the only thing being set up at runtime being the binding of DOM elements to those known-at-compile-time native handlers. The QML/XAML/NIB approach.
will now become "cool"

If it does and becomes the «new normal» then that could cost Google alot more...
I find the idea odd. if you want to contribute to academic research create a grant(s) with your budget.
The lower house has 513 members and 54 women. The senate has 81 members and 13 women. Only 12% of mayors are women. Dilma was the first and only female president.
Seems more like 80% industry 20% spy to me.
This sounds more psychotic than hypocritical to me. "I'll win in a fight", is this a normal way of thinking? I'm a US citizen and I can honestly say this thought has never crossed my mind while driving. My thought when passing a cyclist is to make sure I'm giving them enough room and hope I'm not doing anything to make them fearful. I thought most people were this way, and it seems obvious to me that it's the right way to act. How prevalent is this other, "I'll win in a fight" attitude?
> No, it's the same writing that frames piracy as "costing" money to the developers.

I hope you're not referring to me. I never once said anything about Google losing money. I merely asked the question, would they gain or lose given a scenario.

I didn't state anything.
“God Mode” exploit found in old x86 chips
The OCaml Platform
IBD gets casual weekends
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I think the head count is not as imporant as the number of affected countries and the attractivesness of doing business with the people in those countries. Another factor might be the difficulty of learning the language, as English is considered one of the easier lagnuages.
Should've gone through with it but shared the result with the data-entry people instead of the boss!
What If Banks Were Publicly Owned? In LA, This May Soon Be a Reality
This potentially impacts a ton of infrastructure machines that will be very difficult to patch.