skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you're wrong, but I want to mention another possibility.

It might just a CYA move on the part of an individual actor in middle management. The manager doesn't want to risk getting penalized for handing out "random perks", but also doesn't want to get in trouble for ignoring a "medically necessary" request.

Put another way: That seemingly arbitrary behavior might make more sense if you assume that it's intended to protect an individual, rather than to protect the corporation.
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Anyone joined and then left an SDC company because they thought the product was too far away?
Because, I guess, it's courteous to the people who already commented on the original, so they don't look like they were talking nonsense.
Can I please NOT have to play against other people?

Why does my super cool laser ball marble madness character move like a beach ball in a bath tub?

I can't even figure out what to do, or why I should care about laser balls and triangle ghosts, and they're just killing me before I figure out how cool my lasers are.
Show HN: I wrote a Bash library
Shelon: https://github.com/housni/sheldon

It's not a framework, it's a library. It attempts to mimic function names in Python. Most functions work in Bash 4.3+ but there are those that work on older versions. The 'help' target in Makefile is on crack! Check the issues in that repo for upcoming features. Useful for DevOps Engineers or anyone who has to write Bash scripts.
Absolutely.

And an additional layer, if the victim has the time/resources to countersue, and can manage to prove malice or negligence behind the takedown, the punitive fine should be absolutely massive.
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." - Ian Malcolm
who is us? academic computer scientists?
Despite Travel Ban, US Saw Most International Visitors Ever
Directional antennas still obey the inverse square law, because the beam still diverges as it travels. So the amount of energy that you spend sending the signal gets spread over a larger and larger area, meaning that at any given point in that beam, the signal is weaker and weaker, until it gets lost in the noise.

And even lasers diverge. An ideal laser has some minimal divergence that is inherent and cannot be overcome (if I understand correctly, it's because diffraction is non-zero even in vacuum). A true Bessel beam doesn't diverge - but it does not have a boundary, and hence requires infinite energy.
> You wouldn't build apps with this.

Why not? The environment is feature rich, runtime performance is fantastic, developer productivity is exceptional, and integration is compelling because it runs in the JVM. Yes, the JVM. So even if Lucee doesn't do what you need, you can natively call upon countless Java features like javax.script or javax.crypto, or third-party Java libs like JSoup or Lucene with just a couple extra lines of code.

And yes, like any language, it doesn't stop you from writing incompetent and stupid shit. The one big knock against the ColdFusion-inherited language is that the templating syntax is often overused for writing code, when it also has a great C/Java/JS-style scripting syntax.
You have to compare it to other widely deployed driver assistance, not to the absence of Autopilot.
It doesn't even have to be that huge if it's further away from the star.
Perhaps the only advantage of being paralyzed is that these a surgically implanted direct brain interface is ethical. It's an invasive and risky surgery, but with rewards if the individual can then operate a prosthetic hand.
Artificial intelligence is about to revolutionise warfare. Be afraid
There’s one of these in Portsmouth, NH: Gilley’s.
> Btw, Constitution is a law too. Should it have an expiry date too?

What happens if it's allowed to expire? Does the government just disband, and the country allowed to turn into Somalia while all the existing powerful organizations try to form their own government?
Yup. And I'm given hell for getting healthier because that's Verboten and crazy-talk.

No clue how one gets past that nonsense.
I'd speculate that the simplest root cause might be an system overpressure. Any hookup to a valve that couldn't contain a pressure of some level could be susceptible to leaking gas onto an ignition source which could then start a fire.
Sadly, the US does similar things. The current administration is particularly evil, yet why didn't Google employees resign en masse when Snowden came forward with the revelations?
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I use HAProxy through PF-Sense to route external traffic to my internal network over SSL behind the firewall. It's been painless and great.
>they minimized their tax footprint while having truckloads of externalities that cost society billions.

This is what gets me. It's what they say: "privatised profits, socialised losses".
The book "Lisp In Small Pieces" takes you threw the journey of creating a few compilers of increasing difficulty, from a simple language's interpreter using a complex language to a complex language's compiler using a simple language.

By using Lisp-y language you can ignore the tedious and uninteresting task of parsing for the real meat of compiling and (some) optimizing.
Clickable link: https://github.com/housni/sheldon
I think roach coaches were are a thing in “working clasd districs” where all you could afford is a cheap pop and prepackaged meals (burgers, knishes, burritoes, pizza, etc.).

Food Trucks are glorified roach coached which charge a premium and serve mostly office workers who have more discretionary spending and sometimes more demanding palates. Admittedly, things are going “upscale”,
https://pybowler.io/docs/basics-setup mentions a facebook/bowler github repository, but no such repository exists (or it is private). Where does the source code live?

Edit: Found it — it's currently at https://github.com/facebookincubator/bowler instead.
Knowledge doesn't need to have a practical purpose to be satisfying.
You're commenting too fast. Slow down. Thanks.
Babel plugin that speeds up lodash/get by up to 12,000%
Under that logic paying people making a billion per year would encourage more billionaires. Clearly that wouldn't help create any more of them.

While incentives are powerful they still require an actual mechanism to work.

As for buying votes that assumes so many facts not in evidence it isn't funny in addition to being flat out prejudicial - when the budget is spent on something I support it is deserved when it is on others it is bribery. Actual vote buying was solved centuries ago with the secret ballot.
Problem is, if they're at our level, their signals aren't going to be detectable.
There's a more detailed explanation of the proposed API at:

https://github.com/chrishtr/display-locking/blob/master/expl...
Show HN: FIDO2 USB+NFC token optimized for security, extensibility, and style
I haven't had to use it before, but another tool in that space is "undebt" from Yelp:

https://github.com/Yelp/undebt
Reminds me of the game Magicka (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magicka)
Both as a noun ("causes jank") and as a verb ("the page janks")!
Good catch, I'll get that fixed! [edit: fixed now!]
May you live in interesting times

May you find what you are looking for

May you come to the attention of somebody important

AKA the three curses.
Chinese government is unelected and does bad things, that is true. The current US administration is also bad — separating families seeking asylum, being the only country in the world to leave the Paris climate agreement etc.
Ah, that's fair enough, I should really add a training mode. That is good feedback! Thanks for trying!
Was it the act of nationalizing the sectors that made them unproductive or the refusal of the US to trade with said sectors post-nationalization?

We have a long, colorful history of punishing latin american nations for embracing redistributive social policies and decolonisation.

Never forget: https://www.democracynow.org/2013/9/10/40_years_after_chiles...
When I have a conversation, I like it to be back-and-forth: I say something, they react, I react to that, and so on, with reactions being things like asking a question, making an evaluation, saying I have had something similar happen to me, making a funny comment, and so on, so we go further and maybe deeper, a process I find rewarding.

The more people, the less often I get to react, and so it gets less enjoyable. On the other hand, with some groups we are on the same wavelength enough that a third person's reactions to the second person are enjoyable to me, too, so I am happy to just listen to their back-and-forth, at least for a while. Ditto if it is a subject being discussed that is really interesting.
:( sorry, I guess it's still quite demanding, too demanding, despite being a browser game
1. The industry changes so much I can't really tell if/when my skills will be truly dated (I work in front-end web/UI)

2. Sales/marketing. I'm a consultant and I just want to code and have work, but all of this stuff is just such a constant drag on my time.
My first "real job" (31, had two, fired from both) was in a small web dev shop of about 15 people. One morning I walk into the office and there was a giant wet puddle on the carpet in the middle of the open office. The roof had leaked in the office building and gone through a few floors. The air was damp and all the windows covered in condensation. Clearly a safety and health issue.

I lived about a 10min walk away, so figured I'd just work at home and announced that's what I'd be doing.

Everyone wanted to work elsewhere or from home. However the boss decided that he'd cram everyone into the boardroom for the day.

I was the only one who stood my ground and told the boss I was going home despite his bullshit about not being a "team player". Wage slavery is a dangerous mindset.
Looks amazing inside, I’m sure many has tried to replicate such decor
> Emacs/lisp users always make posts like: "look at this great [thing] to completely simplify [thing]" while simultaneously posting 82 steps to get it all working and automated :)

LOL. As a dyed-in-the-wool Emacs user for 20 years, I have to admit that this is true. On the other hand, it makes me happy that the flagship software project of Free software is still alive and kicking. Moreover, people have been making these comments about Emacs ever since the early 1980's.

These days, my .emacs is very minimal and on any new machine my standard setup can be manually recreated in five minutes, mostly using Customize.

There is no need for any complicated thing that has to be automatically downloaded and updated in-place from a source control management repository. This is especially important when, for example, you are working in a heavily fortified corporate network, where access to the outside Internet needs to go through strange proxies if it is allowed at all. And in these cases it's usually a stressful environment to begin with, so when your boss -- who doesn't know anything about programming and just wants to see results quickly, dammit -- asks you what you've been doing all day, you don't want to have to explain that you spent all your time figuring out how to get Emacs to work over the corporate proxy.
SpaceX has signed the world’s first private passenger to fly around the Moon
It's surely overpressure, beyond what the regulators at each house can hold back. The question is why, and whether such a thing could be caused by hacking a SCADA system.

A gas explosion (claimed to be among the biggest non-nuclear explosions) was caused by the CIA hacking a soviet pipeline:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/...
It’s a tradeoff. I’m kind of bummed that the West doesn’t have the kind of small street food cart culture that is common in Asia. I’ve eaten at dozens of them and never gotten sick.
Bezos ought to start by paying each and every one of his employees enough so that they don't qualify for public assistance, and are able to support themselves in the respective community where they work.
I really enjoyed this. Bookmarked! Would be great to get some sound effects, currently all the actions don't feel that heavy.
A while back company I worked at was aquired and many months after the acquisition someone from the new corporate office showed up and got a tour.

She repeatedly used the phrase "You let them have / do that?"

The response was to things she saw at people's cubes like:

* A mini fridge.
* A blanket.
* Some food at someone's desk.
* A fan.

And some random stuff.

It didn't occur to anyone at that point that anyone had to "let" someone have those things at their desk.

Eventually an email went out banning such things, no reason was given.

An annoyed co-worker asked why via email and they were told food at their desk was "unnecessary" because there is a cafeteria.

The only cafeteria was on the other side of the country at the new HQ in San Jose....they didn't respond to follow up emails.

It always struck me that this person who visited's entire role was to enforce some arbitrary rules like they were our parents or something.

The rules were complied with for about a month and as soon as visits stopped, everyone at our location just ignored them. Somehow nothing bad happened just as nothing ever had before.

When visiting the HQ later I did eat something (breakfast bar) at my temporary desk. My coworkers in San Jose we're quite shocked, I was amused by their reaction. We all survived. Although security eventually caught me (came running even) for not wearing my ID "visible enough" ;)
Update, I figured out the beach ball problem: Firefox on a Mac.

I switched over to Chrome, and even Safari, and it was better, so it seems like Webkit/Blink/V8 is the best browser scoped runtime, for some reason.
How about not using any of that and instead using one of the hundred static site generators on GitHub and github.io hosting?
> that is how to specify the meaning of your language and its constructs

You pose the question but don't seem to answer it - this area is called semantics, and there are several approaches and notations you can use. Types and Programming Languages by Pierce is the most common starting point.
Like it or not these things are done at the will of the people of the country; they could vote to change it, or vote in people who would change it but they won't. It's horrible and unacceptable to you, and to me, but not to your (technically, our, but I can't vote in the UK due to residency requirements) fellow countrymen.

Humans fear devastating but statistically unlikely things disproportionately to their chance of happening, and will do basically anything to avoid them. Terrorism is such an example, and surveillance is a consequence.

Thing is, if the people of the UK decide it's an unacceptable tradeoff they will vote to change it, and it will change. Just look at, lord have mercy, Brexit. It's in everyone's hands. That's not true of a billionaire's discretionary fund.
I haven’t noticed lag in Safari or apps in general on my iPod Touch from 2015
The majority of the debt was synthetics on the underlying, not the original debt.
if your default address is in ireland, then you don't need to get to checkout to know that the product can't be delivered to you

I always see in the product page an info saying "THIS SELLER DOES NOT DELIVER TO IRELAND"
If it helps, you can create a party and then click "Make Private" and then you won't have to play with other people (you'll just be in a party of 1). I should really make that workflow easier though, I wouldn't expect a new player to figure that out.
Thank you, appreciated.
Yes, I enjoy it too. I did spend a lot of time doing this when I was a student and during my bachelor years.
As someone from the US, no. Free speech is much more important to me than people not having to see offensive things.
Could easily be intended not for visual surveillance but for gathering electromagnetic signals, where an inflatable dome would not be a problem.
Sorry, I meant the PGP keys, not the signatures.
Ma Ying Jeou and the KMT have some persuasive arguments; there was an interview on YouTube where he eloquently explained why these claims exist; the mainland Chinese Communist party came to power without being elected by the people. Also, when Japan signed its surrender papers giving up its claims to annexed territories, the sovereignty reverted to the KMT government.
rent-seeking is too seductive to the capitalist
Yup, I had to dig to find it. The "party" link didn't seem like the option I was looking for, until I saw the "private" option.

Also, I created a private party link, and figured out how to add an AI bot, after learning the controls.

The AI bot was still too strong, and beat me every time, so I need dumber bots, to have more fun up front. I sent the link to myself, and opened it up in multiple private windows, to learn the rules, against dummy sessions I created by invite.

But either way, maybe add a default practice button, that puts people in a private game, against a really weak AI, and you have your trainer option for new users.

I think a big, obvious training button sounds like a good idea. Especially for users that get killed in a competitive game with other people.
As much as I wish it would pass - and know it won't - Sanders' plan of charging back to employers the cost of social assistance incurred by employees who are paid below the cost of living is a clean and elegant solution to this.
Here are ~32 ways in which I think US policy could be better
(I'm not the author. Author is Paul Christiano)
>I hated working in an open office and tried to leverage my post-dental-surgery fragility into a private office or the right to work from home.

Sounds like the employee in question was trying to get special accommodations they didn't really need and their employer was wise to their bullshit games. OP is the kind of person who makes these ridiculous authoritarian gatekeeper rules necessary.
I'm not so certain.

About a month ago, on a fully-updated Firefox, one of those (I forget if Hangouts or Meet) refused to start for me, saying Firefox was not supported.

Even now, every time I'm in a Hangout, it'll work on Firefox, then after exiting it redirects to a page that says Firefox isn't supported.

It's like the user-agent check was switched with something less reliable.
You don't think that negotiation and outright bribery (oh I'm sorry in the civilized West we call it lobbying) don't drive either the laws or the uneven enforcement of them?

Amazon is so big that they can jurisdiction shop or even just shop for legislators/civil servants to help fashion the regulatory environment they prefer.
I don't think it's really worth considering as a realistic reason for societies choosing suboptimal technologies, but maybe some sort of Skynet scenario is possible, or something more like Frank Herbert's Butlerian Jihad[1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad
Japan proposes legalising commercial whaling
I've been here before. As soon as the minders go away, there is no one in authority who gives enough of a dam to do anything about tit.
I've never heard of that game but Magicka looks awesome! Thanks for sharing it with me!
Unike formal languages, human language doesn't evolve via RFCs or ItIs.

(OK, formal languages don't, really, either. But they do tend to stick stakes in the ground via those mechanisms, for which most human languages don't have any analogous concept.)
Woohoo! Yeah sadly being a solo developer I could only do what I knew how to do, don't yet know how to do sound effects, but I think that would be worth looking into! Thanks for playing!
Bribery is already illegal so what's your point with that?

Everything you're saying falls under "change and improve your government" if you want to see something different. If they fail to act in the public interest then vote in someone else, or run for office and show them how it's done.

It's not easy, but it's not impossible. And it's far more realistic than posting some comments and wondering why companies don't magically just donate their money away.
Well, I am a supporter of Federalism, but I think national level concerns do need to be managed at the national level. To me, basic identification of citizens and holding elections is a national concern.

By the way, I understand the fear that many on the left have for ID cards. I think it's out of date and overblown, but I get it. However, having elections be managed locally does far more to disenfranchise people. Imagine how much more enfranchised people would be with natiowide short term registration (same day if possible, otherwise say 24-48 hours notice), nationwide free ID, and the same standards for availability and access to poll booths. No more shuttering polls in minority areas, no more unwieldy registration requirements. It seems to me that such an overall package of election reforms should appeal to everyone concerned with the poor voting, and they should be able to concede the ID card issue. It's just a strange thing to fixate on, when the real obstacles to voting are not the ID, and when almost everyone else is able to handle having IDs just fine, and in fact IDs are required for the most trivial things nowadays.

I do think, there are privacy and civil liberty issues that need to be addressed, but as you point out, this stuff is happening now anyway, and I'd be much more comfortable with a standardized national ID and registration system that was democratically controlled than by what is happening now and the resulting chaos of our elections. I am not going to even bring up Florida and the hanging chad debacle.
Agreed and same goes for Walmart
> I don't think I want to live with a legal system that claims that my performance (as a human player) of someone else's sheet music is somehow bound by copyright.

It's going to be hard to find a place where you'd want to live then. I agree that this is a thing that should not exist but it does and the practice is very wide-spread. For an encore: There was a case (I really wished I could find a reference) iirc where a band had sold the rights to a piece and they were then required to pay royalties on a performance of their own creation.
LOL, kill thousands of its own citizens in protests? The Chinese government never did that (even the famous tank man was unharmed and was not arrested), the truth is, many soldiers got killed because they were not allowed to fire at citizens.
Even the Chinese government did kill its own citizen they learnt from the US (1932 Bonus Army, 1970 Kent state massacre, Jesus that was only 48 years ago, not mentioning almost every day someone is being shot by the police somewhere in the US. The funny thing is one shot won't even make it to the newspaper now.)

In a word, you have been brainwashed by your media. I know it's hard to wake up someone who pretends to be asleep, but it's good for you.
There is a flawed assumption -that the jobs were created by it in the first place. Jobs exist from demand and the best way to do them. While labor cost influences the approach the demand creates the job. Essentially it is revenue spent on what would have been done anyway to help get the already well off for no lasting benefit. Worse it incentives lower paid jobs by passing off some of their payroll.

If jobs are being made solely through and for subsidies they are better off doing it directly usually.

If they automate more things from the rules change? Mission accomplished - we have more productive work, more private investment in research and development, and technology marches forward and people can do more productive things with their time.
Niantic rolls out suggestion system for new Pokémon Go locations
I would love to ask you a couple of questions.

Do you have an email or social media profile where I could reach you?