skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, but read to the end of the essay:

"So be it with Gnon. Our job is to placate him insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and invasion. And that only for a short time, until we come into our full power."

To give everything of yourself over to Gnon/Moloch is to deny Elua, who Scott names the god of art, science, philosophy, love, niceness, community, civilization. One might add to that: the god of play, of gardening – of reading.
Question about software development contracts and partial Intellectual Property
Hi there, we're looking to put together a software development contract that allows us to maintain partial intellectual property rights. A few years ago, someone on this site mentioned that they had a way of saying "Work products not part of client's secret sauce belong to me The rest belongs to the client (I will add "after full payment" per patio11) Client has a perpetual non-exclusive license to use the part that is mine". Does anyone have some better wording for that? I've already found some generic contracts that will mostly work, but they all seem to grant the entirety of the IP to either the client or the developer.
I would have gone for the humanities in your scenario. What do you think, I'm stupid and go for breadless jobs? I love doing good work and what that good work is doesn't matter that much. If gardening paid as well I'd be gardening.
May be this book isn't ideal, but it explain the most important and complicated things in haskell such as Functors, Monads, Applicatives, etc.
I think you could do better selling it homeopathic. 1x10^-12 is way more expensive!
Wasps are pretty important from the wasp's point of view.
I think the biggest issue that's being brought to light here is how "unlimited" plans are pretty much never "unlimited".

Despite the fine print, how is this not false advertising? Can I name a product anything I want and bury whatever conditions in the fine print?
Looks like some pretty good comments in there. I'll offer my comment even though I'm not exactly a success either at this point. The most important thing I think you should do is to learn why this enterprise isn't working out and try to document it to examine it at a later time. Failure is the not an option, it is the default option actually. So it takes a special angle to make things work long enough to be worth while. Tear everything down in your head, look at it from beginning to end. Where was the problem? Craig's comment might be the biggest issue and that is that the original concept of the business may be the problem.

If that is the case, then 4 months is not going to be enough time for you to "pivot" to something different, or something completely different.

But you could shut down and lay off all your employees. If you are a developer, you could manage the website or whatever and make some beer money. I would not take on debt the risk is way to great for the reward.

What you need is time. If you have no employees, that time can be vastly extended. Slash your expenses. Be honest with yourself; can you even maintain your business with existing sales (if any) by your self. If not, might be a good time to get out and shut everything down.

And next time start with the idea of crushing expenses. Teach yourself to write software if you don't already. You need to create something that provides value. The GDPR thing at least as you approached it didn't have enough value. Either that or sales and marketing couldn't make it go. Some ideas just don't have merit and have to be abandoned. Edit: should mention that I've abandoned several ideas. Though I did get lucky with some of them for a while.
The power of conditioning! What exactly is the justification for having fine print at all?

I mean, if it is important enough to not be omitted...
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Okay I've actually flown helicopters, and it's not that hard. Harder than fixed-wing, but much easier than standing on a basketball.
> Whoever signed off on throttling them

This was likely the work of an automated system following a set of pre-programmed business logic. However, one would think that this could easily be undone with human intervention and a click of a button
re 1) - You make this sound like there was instructions posted on the page when you clicked "advertise" saying this, or advertisers were notified via email how to do this or something. Is this the case?

I run some online chat rooms, and the chats auto block some bad words by default and others words I added to the censor filter, I would hate to think someone would one day post that I tell spammers how to send spam by blocking one word and not blocking shorturlDotcom/M$a$k$eMoney$from$Home

The game of block this, spammers find work around, share with other spammers, add those to the block list, repeat; is not intending to teach scammers how to scam better.

re 2) from what I read long ago, for years BP did send notices to law enforcement when they felt that there were under age pictures used, is this not true or did this practice stop?

I have also read that just by being the main watering hole for this kind of thing, many agencies used it to look for abuse and trafficking victims, with some jurisdictions letting the self promoting adults go. I've also read where some cops were setting up fake ads to catch people looking for sex,

So it has always appeared to me that BP was helping law enforcement in several ways all over the country.

I understand some people think the best way to help is to shut down naughty ads completely, I myself think that is short sighted. I guess some people think things they did helped the dark side (in any way) / gave any comfort to the enemy and therefor they should be destroyed.

You say "what actually happened..." Is there an article somewhere saying that LE got a warrant looking for this phrase you mention? Sounds outrageous to me.
Those people are spiteful twats.
Jury Finds Paul Manafort Guilty in Federal Tax and Bank Fraud Trial
You said I get to choose exactly what type of work I want to do. That’s like saying I can choose to be executed by the gas chamber or lethal injection. The consequences of not working, as someone who is not independently wealthy are so extreme as to make that not a valid choice.

You are still begging the question. Do I get to choose not to work, or not? “Just go off and die,” on the streets or in the wilderness is not a valid choice.
For our most recent house purchase, the title company was invaluable -- not for a claim, but for the wealth of information they produced when they did the search. We found out about easements paperwork that we had no idea existed (even from the perspective of the property information system in our area).

I actually called the title insurance company at one point to ask what the heck something was, and was connected to an experienced person who was very happy to fully explain what they'd found.

My guess is that because the history of our house was pretty complicated, the title searcher was relieved to have something out of the ordinary to work on.

The upshot? That title search is really important, particularly if you're buying a property that predates electronic property systems.
No Cats, No Sleepovers: Boomers Become Housemates
So, it's not "misleading clickbait," as long as you're almost an expert in the topic, and you research all of the links?

OR. Maybe the word "fictional" shouldn't have been used?
There seems to be a huge break in the "it's unreasonable to do x therefore" in this argument, and many in American society.

If the prisoners who didn't work were next to starving, and sleeping on the ground, you would sure have someone come in asserting that they are "forced" to work. Because they are OSTENSIBLY being forced to work by the choices they are offered.

This type of pedantry goes beyond semantics and into deeper meaning that is very hard to communicate.
> You don't have to be anti-sex to be anti the kidnapping and raping of children. Most of my pro-sex sex-positive friends find that a pretty clear line.

There are a lot of people who are intentionally conflating consensual sex work with sex trafficking and rape. (From your other posts, you appear to be one of those people, claiming that the "vast majority of women" doing sex work are doing so out of coercion or are being trafficked).
https://www.newsweek.com/backpagecom-made-500-million-prosti...

Are you guys really suggesting that open child prostitution is so prevalent in the US that it could possibly make up more than a fraction of a ‰ of backpages business? That sounds completely asinine to me.

These guys were literally drowning in money from normal escort ads, why on earth would they want underage escort ads?
"Hawaii gets two-thirds of its electricity from oil, the only state where it is the leading energy source." (emphasis mine)

Man, you'd think it would almost be state law that you have some panels on your roof in Hawaii. Too lazy to look it up and do math, but if it's economically feasible to use solar in Seattle, it's gotta be for damned sure a quick ROI in sunny Hawaii.
I'm not defending the position but it is, for example, officially the position of the state of Florida.
They're likely not. Not only would they need to have a different question for each candidate, which kind of nullifies that being able to be used as a neutral judgement, but the code produced likely won't pass whatever internal code and style guides are used in the team and would need to be refactored to actually be used.
I think you're being a bit too sensitive. I agree with you - building a whole new production line, and Tesla's share holders understand that too. This is just more information for those shareholders. It's important that there's accurate information about Tesla's manufacturing process for the market to correctly value the stock. It's no more objectionable for short sellers to emphasise bad news to drive the stock down than it is for Tesla to emphasise good news to drive it up.
This is exactly it. But to add my 2c: one thing really missing from these countries that we take for granted is a sense of community outside the immediate family. i.e. the spirit of nationalism is missing, which means that members work and and responsible only for their immediate families.

Which is for good reason: most folks don't interact with the State, they only really get help from family and occasionally friends.

So when in power who do you think they will tend to favor? When the family calls in a favor, you give. Or you do favors for your family and call in a favor later when you really need it.
I think this is one of the core problems of the internet economy at large. We've build a huge ecosystem of services basically on the conditions:

1) Users think they are free

2) They are not actually free

The result is of course stuff like this.
On the Origin of STEVE: Particle Precipitation or Ionospheric Skyglow?
It seems to me like the government could put Verizon on the "unlimited" wildfire protection plan. Which is to say that their office buildings with human employees in them get protected along with their regular taxes, but each backhaul fiber that doesn't get cut through while creating firebreaks, and each mobile comms tower that doesn't get all of its antennas burnt off, costs them extra.

Or they can have unlimited capital assets deployed in the field protected, but after the first few million dollars worth are saved, the fire response gets throttled back so that the firefighters move more slowly than the fire.

The kicker is that Verizon would just smile and put a "California wildfire protection fee cost recovery" line item on everybody's bill. Ernestine is the worst. Verizon won't play nice with anyone until Ma Bell gets broken up yet again.
Armchair grandstanding.

If an EMT asks a bystander for help and he refuses, he did not commit a crime.
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The ancients were not paid by the word but didn't think much of a couple pages of genealogies.
This category of issue is surfacing more and more in marketing of a variety of products and services. Advertisers are using terms that traditionally meant one thing and then redefining them via fine print legalese. Further, they're also advertising one price with an actual total significantly higher (e.g., hotels charging a "resort fee" on top of the regular room rate).
First hire to first fire
Thanks, will give it a shot. I got stuck with the implementation of State monads while reading LYAH probably due to the older code samples (State vs StateT). The explainations were however quite easy to grasp and I believe I assimilated some good general coding practices while reading through.
You are adding speculation about claims no one is making.

We know Backpage applied energy towards changing a Backpage operated system that had the first-order effect of facilitating child sex trafficking. The speculation is about Backpage's intent, and for the intents of this discussion, that gets determined in court.
Why is this being downvoted? Jon Oliver did a bit a while back on private prisons. The investigation uncovered an investor sales pitch which bragged of "high recidivism rates"
Not sure why you're getting down voted. Perhaps because people find the tone too snarky. You're right though. It's a mistake I see all the time here (and it secretly bugs me haha). Disclaimer in this case would mean: "I say this, but beware I'm not involved in this so I'm probably wrong". Which is exactly the opposite of what's intended here.
I sorta disagree; if Verizon is dishonest and that catches someone off guard, it's not the fault of that party, it's Verizon's fault. Anything else is just victim blaming.
I'm not 'vageli, but my definitions are that "labor" is a primarily economic form of activity, while "chores" aren't.

Both of them involve "work", but the objectives — the reasons the people doing the work are doing it — aren't the same.
If we chase this line of logic we will find that we are all slaves to something or another.

It's about whether or not we want society to force certain types of slavery. We've barred "defacto" slavery, but what about these myriad other forms?

Dragging old concepts out of their graves by repurposing words we thought we already knew the definitions is one way that progressives are trying to re-try, or appeal, certain concepts.

This one being modern imprisonment. I don't think the term slavery should alarm anyone in this instance, but it will, which is how we get progress in 2018.
Best project management software for a system migration?
We are migrating a very old computer system that runs virtualized on top of AIX to being virtualized on top of CentOS Linux. The details aren't that important, but there are a bunch of things that could potentially break as the result of software updates and other issues that will be different between the two systems.

This is a system that has been developed over 40 years, and there is a huge amount of tribal knowledge. I think management isn't even aware of all the processes that are run on it.

We need a system for people to log their daily computer processes and then sign off that they are working on the new system once migrated. Approximately 100 employees using the system in different capacities.

Thoughts on the best way to handle this?
https://electrek.co/2017/07/18/tesla-model-3-vin-decoder/

EDIT: whoops, missed the context. The above just tells you the model year. But you were replying to someone that implied it could be done down to the day. It can be done down to the month, but in my experience down to the day is rare, if non-existent (none of my vehicle VINs have that resolution).
One newer fee structure to emerge on the endowment side is the 1-or-30 structure, which tries to incentivize managers when they outperform, but also allows managers to keep the lights in an underperforming period.

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1505qmcspbw8p...

On the retail side, I'm sure using incentive fees is compelling to some potential clients. However, from a compliance perspective, offering a performance-based fee is thought to be operationally difficult. Incentive fee structures with high watermarks or hurdles are not trivial to calculate or grasp. As recently as the 80's, I believe incentive fee structures were outright illegal to offer to non-qualified investors. This is why fees typically are a percentage of assets.
There's so much that it destabilized the grid and the power company got mad.

There's a policy initiative about it:

http://www.hawaiicleanenergyinitiative.org/

I guess it can be sort of slow moving (2045) and still more ambitious than other states.
But they are only required once.
Paying prisoners absurdly low wages teaches them that honest labor doesn't pay. Isn't this exactly the opposite of what we want them to learn?

I readily that my emotional side wants to prison to be as punitive as possible. But my rational side just wants to live in a society with less crime. And teaching prisoners that honest labor pays is an important lesson in getting them to behave themselves when they get out.
These ads were lying.
I get what you are saying, but the Dada movement doesn't contradict what I said, it emphasizes that there was a time when doing what was considered anti-art was itself a message. It was a strong world wide protest among aritsts against World War I, as well as the heavily traditional train of thought around art during that era. It's still a controversial topic even today!
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The Haskell wikibook[1] is a better free resource.

[1]: https://wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell
The part you quoted doesn't seem to contradict the other posters claim at all.
There is a lot to it.

You can start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Code#The_ten_points_...

Specially point number 1. Also read on the history of Nuremberg Code and why it was triggered after WW2.

Also you could read this explanation by a professor of law at U of Maryland http://laboratorium.net/archive/2014/06/28/as_flies_to_wanto... which talks about Facebook research which is similar to this one.

In general: you are tricking the end user, this is not a simple A/B test this is more of here is a company that does not exist providing nothing but let's see how you react to it. Today is fake pizza, tomorrow is a fake HIV med that cures it in one day (you click on it, there is a strong inference that you have it), etc the possibility is endless. Who is deciding this? That's why I mention ethic panels or regulation or whatever way of putting limits on it.

The only good thing here is now we know that we are test subjects when using Youtube/Google.
It's the same effect. If you cut labor costs by a factor of ten (or more), you can undercut the competition easily and pocket the difference. Hence, anti-competitive.
Did you have to whiteboard code/algorithm during the phone/person interview?
I like software engineering and have always had a personal interest in it. In fact, I'd say that I'm more passionate about it than 90% of the programmers I've worked with and spoken to.

Having said that, software engineering as a profession is shitty in some respects. I don't think I would do it if it paid as little as the humanities. I'd continue doing it on my own time, but the drudgery of dealing with other people's bad code, corporate practices, clueless bosses, clients who undervalue and lowball you, etc. wouldn't be worth dealing with.

It's not so much that I wouldn't be able to make a living, because I think I'd be content living on relatively little(as I am currently experiencing), but life is just too short to deal with professional software engineering when I'd get so little out of it.

Alternatively, I'd just go into woodworking. Income becomes relative to the quality of work produced (I've never worked anywhere that actually cared about or rewarded quality code) and I could say or do whatever I want without someone else reaping most of the benefits and judging my actions by outdated 1950s office standards.
These are good points for finding your first engineer, but here is a tip for helping close your dream hire: offer more equity.

Your first eng hire will shoulder nearly all of the technical burden soon after as the founders transition into more of the non-technical roles (sales, outreach, recruiting, fundraising, business strategy). The amount of blood, sweat, and tears poured in by the first eng hire is somewhat less than a founder, yes, but not the 30-50x typical equity ratio we see today.
The alternative is sitting inside all day. Having something to do at least lets you get out and make your day more interesting.
More runtimes coming out soon. Stay tuned :-)
> Instead Apple focused, got its shit together, and did something important.

Don't forget that Apple would never have got there without making a deal with Microsoft for cash in exchange
for support for MS Office on Mac for 5 years. Also Microsoft got a bargain, since for $150M they were able to point to a competitor in the face of accusations of being a monopoly.

https://www.wired.com/2009/08/dayintech-0806/

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/29/steve-jobs-and-bill-gates-wh...

Hard to think now that Apple came so close to complete and utter failure that $150M was enough to get them back on track. By launching new Macs they were able to generate enough cash to eventually get them into the iPod, iPhone etc. which turned their fortunes around completely.
I was; my comment was about the purported lack of repercussions for disobediance.

Also, you were responding to:

> a teenager mowing the lawn for their parents

which was about their (owner's) own lawn.
Yeah, interestingly enough, one "richest man in history" was the guy who ran a fire service and "extorted" fire victims for money at the last second when they had an actual fire; it would almost look like turnabout if the FD did that to Verizon here. "Oh, yeah, see, you weren't on the full-service fire plan; that's extra. See, our charter says we can withhold service if we judge there to be too much risk in fighting the fire, and gosh darnit, it sure seems risky today..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus#Rise_t...
I was bummed to learn that the electricity on some islands (like Providencia) is provided by a diesel generator that runs 24/7. This in a climate that is sunny and windy pretty much all year.
When you go to the page, you see three options: https://www.verizonwireless.com/plans/unlimited

"Unlimited 4G LTE Data" for $40

"Unlimited 4G LTE Data (22 GB)" for $50

"Unlimited 4G LTE Data (75 GB)" for $60

There is a little (i) symbol next to each one, with a mouse over box that explains the throttling. The throttling is also explained if you click the link "important plan info."

The first option could be clearer with a parenthetical, but with the three right next to each other alongside the prices it's pretty clear what you're buying.
Hypothesis: the development of batteries, wind turbines, and solar panels, combine to make it less necessary to live near to large population centers. There was a time when the mill needed to be near a source of running or falling water, and then later fossil fuels made that unnecessary, and industrial production moved to different places. Batteries + wind/solar might have a similar impact, making islands (and other remote places) have less of a disadvantage then before.

Just a thought I had, which I have given about 90 seconds' consideration to. Might be wrong.
Remember the recent gay marriage ruling? They re-interpreted centuries of tradition.
Sure. Admittedly, I don't really know how to "ask for victim vigilance in hostile environment" without appearing to blame them. The hostile environment is to blame, clearly.
Whose life has been endangered by this? Art heists are many things, but they rarely seem to be very dangerous except in movies