skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does Lenovo put backdoors in if the Chinese government asks?

> "If they want backdoors globally? We don't provide them. If they want a backdoor in China, let's just say that every multinational in China does the same thing.

Even though not a direct answer, close enough. One could only hope to get a similar statement from Apple wrt iCloud so we aren't left with assumptions about lack of privacy.
Many employers already require fitness goals and activities as part of the health insurance plans they offer. If you don't wish to participate, your premiums are much higher.
I mean... the map at least bounds the problem. You can be pretty certain in almost every case that the lanes won't be outside of the mapped roadway.
While the terraforming of mars is still a long way off, a satellite of similar design positioned on earth's L1 could be a viable defense against geomagnetic storms that threaten our power grid.
And firing her for something she did at a previous job that you believe was accidental.
Manual effort for handling discrepancies for each payroll run. You might be surprised but lots of companies' payroll processes are not automated to avoid manual processing at some point in the process.
Why is this strategy “crass greed”?
And the companies that do it like this almost always have a “sell it back to us if you can’t go, and we’ll sell it back on” policy. It’s hard to lose if you’re an honest fan.
The Rust team took the approach of targeting application code on the three primary Tier-1 platforms, macOS, Windows, and GNU/Linux, as the goal for API design and portability of the standard library.

Besides the standard library, it also has the core library, which is a small subset that is appropriate for all environments, even those without allocation or those with different strategies for allocation.

With this goal in mind, many of the decisions make sense. A portable application can't rely on getting errors on out of memory situations. Many people don't write code that handles out of memory, or if they do they don't test it, which can lead to significant bugs. Error handling for out of memory is cumbersome if it is required for every operation which could allocate memory, such as pushing to a Vec.

Additionally, Rust 1.0 didn't have some of the later features to make error propagation simpler, so functions which could return errors were more cumbersome to use.

And finally, fallible allocation can be added after the fact. It is being worked on: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/48043

For now, anyone who wants to use Rust in those situations, but still wants allocation support, needs to implement their own allocator and collections with fallible operations. Once the allocator API and fallible collections support lands, much more of the Rust standard library will be usable in such an environment.
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It's all methods in Ruby. Properties are private. You access them via methods.
I didn't say anything about text notifications being unreliable. Sorry if my wording is confusing.

On your second point, I kept going back and forth on the Watch's usefulness and WatchOS was being frequently updated upon, delivering new features rapidly. I'm over that now, hence my low interest in the subsequent S3 and S4 releases.
It seems that we are way ahead of you: https://boingboing.net/2018/07/24/fitness-tracker-cheating-i...
Audio professional here. Ambisonic recording is great, though it does have limitations because you're baking in spatial information in a way that will limit editing later - it's not a magic bullet for location audio, although it will be a valuable supplement.

If you're interested in getting into this, you can feel good about the Zoom product. They deliver outstanding value for money. I've used them on several feature films, first as backup recorders but later as the primary audio capture platform.
Fathom thought about data and privacy policy too:

https://usefathom.com/data/
But you are assuming the users browse the website in full screen mode/maximised. Whilst true for most mobile devices, this is certainly not given on desktops.
Knowing that driving carelessly is against the law is a pre-requisite for getting a drivers license. It also doesn't require a law degree to understand that driving carelessly is against the law. There is a big difference between that and a situation where you think of some clever accounting trick, take the initiative to check with a lawyer, have the layer tell you that it's fine, and then you end up going to jail anyway.
> actual scalpers, economic parasites that they are

Scalpers/brokers aren't economic parasites, they provide a function to artists and promoters by offloading risk, and they also provide liquidity to fans.

If if it comes down to selling out 50% of a venue immediately and the other 50% over the next 2-3 months, or selling out 100% of a venue in one day, I imagine most promoters and artists would like that money now so they can utilize it. Brokers trade use of money over time for risk. Sometimes they make money, sometimes they lose money because it's overbought, they misjudged the market, or more supply was provided (a date added at that location). For example, see here[1], where resale tickets are under the cost of primary market tickets, $36.50 instead of $39.50, and that's before Ticketmaster/Stubhub takes 5-10% of the sale price from the seller. On Stubhub[2], the same tickets are going for $27.

1: https://concerts1.livenation.com/event/000054C6CF1B8160

2: https://www.stubhub.com/the-damned-tickets-the-damned-new-yo...
ProtonMail also offers a free inbox with a way to pay for additional storage[1]. Would you also think, that by upgrading your ProtonMail storage you are not paying for email service? The only difference is, that Gmail doesn't limit its features for the free users. It's just a different business model.

[1] https://protonmail.com/pricing
JH offers two types of plans, Vitality Go and Vitality Plus. The latter offer these incentives, but apparently (I just spoke with a JH rep) cost $2 more per month.

This changes the math a bit, and makes it clear that the "free" incentives aren't actually free. You're just paying for them in a different way (especially if you don't hit the activity targets). Maybe you come out a little ahead if you hit all the targets, but not as far ahead as you think.
The issue is that this search index contains the plain text.
https://youtu.be/YLaAgatOVSA?t=1m21s
Ticketmaster provides a valuable service for the associated acts:

Reputation shield

If artists started charging fair market prices for their tickets the fans would go ballistic and the artists' reputations would be severely damaged. By ostensibly selling the tickets below, even if normal people never get to buy them at face value, they outsource the reputation damage to Ticketmaster. Since Ticketmaster already has a detestable reputation, they are well-equipped to provide this service with minimal damage to their brand. In exchange, Ticketmaster pays a portion of their revenues to the promoters and their associated acts. It's a win win: artists get more money without damaging their credibility with their fans.
The fact that there is an entire Medium article on how to "get started" essentially guarantees it's a non starter.
I'm sure a partnership with Apple is soon to follow, given the latest Watch's capacity to be certified as a medical device.
Personally, this is starting to look like a pump scheme.

Which is weird...

Because Tilray supposedly has a decent business (just Google "seekingalpha Tilray"). But the price action to date has been (as others have noted) nothing short of insane. The CEO has been on a press tour the past few weeks which culminated in an interview on CNBC, and he's yet to even reference the stock price. Another commenter mentioned the craziest part, "You can't even buy $TLRY call options that are out of the money as of today" - meaning, absolutely 0 people foresaw the price action going this crazy.

Why let it get this out of hand? It's a legit business doing legit business? Why do they need the stock price at these insane levels? The resulting burst of this bubble is only going to hurt the retail investors, and cannabis stocks in general (at least short term). Obviously my first answer is the ol' Jordan Belfort pump and dump, but outside of just pure greed, it seems Tilray hardly needs this to happen.

I also learned via Bloomberg that the Tilray CEO, is a leading partner in the (private equity) firm that owns 75 million shares of unlisted Tilray stock. Which makes me wonder if he's working for Tilray, or for private equity (still).

Something is just very, very fishy about this to me.
The mindset around here is "everyone should design things for my extremely specific use case that 99% of users don't share". Find me stats about the % of users with desktop browser windows narrower than 900px and then we can talk.
Same here. I have a little "blog" where I collect such things (with workaround if any), and then hope google would redirect people there suffering the same issue.
Is that really a question?
Google creates global profiles of everyone for tracking and advertising.

Having a random developer create a shadow profile isn't the same.

The scale is vastly different and can be used to track you from site to site.
From someone who is also in the industry, this is spot on.
this is like saying "google is to big, so let me start being evil!" most stupid thing I ever seen.
I use all three, and I still like GitHub. It works well, and it's incredibly well supported in the wider ecosystem of services - every CI product, bug tracker, comms product and analytics tool you can think of integrates with Github. Plus, for most large-ish projects, the web UI isn't where anyone spends much time so it doesn't really matter.
excuse my ignorance but why can't artists just setup a stripe page and collect money from fans and set up a location and date? why are market makers needed in tickets market that create incentives for scalpers?
Thoroughness? Accuracy? Here's an example. Someone attempting to upgrade their omnibus package installed instance will likely find the following resource:

https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/update/

This page links to the following "upgrade recommendations" resource:

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/policy/maintenance.html#upgrade-r...

This above page states "We encourage everyone to run the latest stable release", we contains an embedded link. And when you follow that link it returns a 404 with a cutesy error page! See for yourself:

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/release/

Further none of those pages explains how to pass in a specific version of the omnibus package to satisfy the upgrade process in the even that the latest version fails because the upgrade version differential is not supported.

It was really frustrating. And this is but one small example of course. But I think this is typical.
There's always one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
I quickly redid the benchmarks:
https://gist.github.com/xvaara/df0b802b86d2aa4f30b88a3fd6b69...
226 IM Used
Love this article. I gave an internal talk recently that was about the sad state of programming right now.

How we used to set a variable in assembly language:

mov [foo], ax

How we do it in React / Redux

// constants.js
export const SET_FOO = 'SET_FOO'

// actions.js
import { SET_FOO } from './constants'

export const setFoo = foo => ({ type: SET_FOO, payload: foo })

// reducer.js
import { SET_FOO } from './constants'

const initialState = { foo: 0 }

const reducer = (state = initialState, action) => {
const { type, payload } = action
switch (type) {
case SET_FOO:
return { ...state, foo: payload }

default:
return state
}

export default reducer

// Component.js
import { connect } from 'react-redux'
import { setFoo } from './actions'

class Component extends React.Component {
handleSetFoo = foo => {
this.props.dispatch(setFoo(foo))
}
}

export default connect()(Component)

I don't understand how people don't see something is horribly wrong.
It appears to be the analytics of the stripe form, ironically.
It's actually one of the security layers for America's nuclear arsenal

https://www.businessinsider.com/hacker-us-nukes-report-2016-...
It's "legitimate"... but anyone concerned about privacy should've already has this turned off (as I have ever since Windows 10 released). This won't happen if you turn off "inking and typing recognition" in the Windows setup screen during initial install (or later via the Settings app).

https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-speech-inking...

The argument could be made that Microsoft should do a better job to secure this file on your PC, but since if you're letting them create this file, they're sending all this data to the cloud anyways...
Or the lack of anyway to monetize your content other than link to a method for accepting donations.
I worked in kitchens all through high school and college. I never minded the industrial food service stuff. I still have 5gal buckets that I use for things. Everything that comes out of them smells like pickles (these buckets are years old). I had a coworker who alleged that her boyfriend could taste whether she was serving on Buffalo chicken day a day later. The pay in tech is so much better that it's not even comparable but I kind of miss working in food service. Knowing how fun it isn't to stand over a grill ruined all the "we cook everything in front of you" type restaurants for me though.
And yet, you have people like the AG of Texas threatening to investigate any business who raised prices by more than 10%. Actually happened; not theoretical.

See the quote from the Texas AG in the article here: https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-attorney-general-warns-price...
Yes, game devs already put in the effort of providing their own UI stack, and port that to every OS.

If most Electron apps were built as "games", i.e. providing their own UI via DirectX/OpenGL/Metal etc., I wonder if they might still be more efficient and less bloated than Electron apps are now.
Quick comments/question from a designer:

I've played around with TakeShape a little bit but have yet to deploy anything, but am interested in using it on projects moving forward. It looks like this is what I've been searching for as a CMS replacement.

I'm coming from years of freelance WordPress projects and from what I can tell, if you've done any theming in WordPress, especially with the Advanced Custom Fields plugin and custom post types, the transition to TakeShape seems pretty doable. I love the drag-and-drop modeling all in one place. Nice that it's visually baked into the CMS and not a separate plugin/screen/etc.

So question: for someone like me who can do some front-end code, but isn't a "back end" developer, how would you suggest I start to play with building templates using TakeShape? What do you think is the best path forward testing a site build/design quickly to make the call over something like WP?

Thanks.
Also thin sliced raw brussels sprouts.
Was that computer connected to the Internet? If not, then no problem.
A large use case for scooters is that you're walking around and you just hop on and ride to your destination. Any helmet you have you bring from home. That means you have to plan your trip, and carry your helmet the whole time.

These two factors, planning ahead, and carrying the item for the entire time you're not home, still exist with a Hovding. Carrying is easier for a hovding, but the use case of spontaneous use is still not satisfied.
> Is there?

Yes.

> If I mistakenly believe the legal scope of self-defense includes using deadly force against threats which are only fuzzily-anticipated in the future, should murdering the roommate a vaguely suspect of harboring ill-intent against me be non-criminal?

There is a big difference between the laws relating to the use of deadly force and accounting laws. Accounting laws are orders of magnitude more complicated and more difficult to understand. So yes, if you come up with some clever accounting trick, and you check with a lawyer, and the lawyer tells you it's OK, then you should not be liable if the lawyer gets it wrong. What else can possibly be reasonably expected of someone?
I suppose it was a random example, but it's unfortunately a very bad one if it's about the USA, like most posts here presuppose.

The infant mortality in the USA certainly did not decline on every recent year[^1].
And the bad news is that this rate is extremely high for a rich country, with a value similar to Serbia, half more than the average rate in Europe[^2].
This last "news" was even reported under the title "Our infant mortality rate is a national embarrassment"[^3].

[^1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db09.pdf

[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_an...

[^3]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/29/our-i...
What is "important" in this context? Resources and About? Do you just hide stuff under "More" from right to left as you run out of space? How many people are actually going to click or hover on "More" to find out what's under there? There's a reason design trends have been shifting toward hamburger menus for smaller layouts - it's the best design choice for usability and lack of confusion once people get used to what the hamburger icon means.
Tax evasion is theft.
There's usually more than one perspective. How else do you identify real fans from people that sign up to get presale codes? Rewarding those that are part of a fan community is pretty easy if you have that info. The fact that you can easily track all that is a little disturbing, though.
Hell is unrestricted tourism.
It is often more dangerous to ride on the sidewalk than on the street. Crosswalks are created with enough visibility for someone crossing the street on foot, but not on a bicycle or scooter: https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/47021/is-it-rea...

The solution is better driving and riding training for both drivers and riders. Much of the riding skills taught in motorcycling classes are meant to increase the likelihood of drivers seeing the rider, and how to take percautions against inattentive drivers.

I doubt there are the resources to provide bicyclists and scooter riders the same training, and most probably don't want to shell out $50-$150 on a riding class. But that's really the only feasible solution.
It was in a product space I liked and they offered me lots and lots of delicious money
Then when it comes time to pay any benefits, the company finds out and denies the claim.
Make it so that tickets can only be resold at face value.

There's an app called Twickets that does something similar to that.

Also I've been to concerts where the person who bought the tickets needs to be there.
And they check your ID matches the name on the tickets.

Both of these work.

Ed Sheeran has explicitly said that reselling of tickets are not allowed:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44195496

Tbh to solve the last minute thing. Venues should provide refunds for tickets. If it's a certain time before the concert.
> Also you are limited to 6 ACH transactions a month to a savings or money market account.

You're limited to 6 withdrawals, you can make as many deposits as you want.
It's because the venues are the ones partnered with these types of companies. Unless the artist themselves own a venue, they usually have to go through the ticketing of whatever that venue itself uses. The artists sadly don't get that much control on that type of thing, esp the average artist that doesn't have the type of "klout" to demand X Y Z happen for them to play that venue.
> "You can't even buy $TLRY call options that are in the money as of today"

Exactly backwards: All of the call options on $TLRY are in the money.
It's the logical continuation of what they were already doing. Nothing has fundamentally changed, the technology has gotten better, and in some cases enabled an elaboration of the Chinese police state. They're merely putting new technology to work as it becomes available.

If you want to watch for change in behavior - increasing or reducing of oppression - in the Chinese system, look at consequences and restrictions (ie applied action derived from their policing systems), rather than things like surveillance broadly. They will always max out surveillence and awareness where they can (the people de facto have no rights, so these things are not viewed as abuses of existing rights), short of becoming a liberal Western-style democracy (which isn't going to happen). The consequences and oppression/restrictions will change depending on the regime's aims, that's where you can best judge the nature of a given government that is in power.

To use a classic surveillence example - the US Government during the Hoover era didn't voluntarily restrict its reach. They were heavily limited by the technology of the day in what they could do. As technological limitations lifted, the expansion of surveillence leapt forward accordingly. Nothing actually changed, Hoover would have been doing what the NSA is doing today, if he had the technology back then.
Was McCarthyism really that long ago?
Too big to fail. Substantially all loans are backed by credit scores from the big 3.
I understand complain about unsafe riding on the street, but those stop signs really really don't have safety importance for bicycles and scooters.

It also seems to me that Americans would be happier if every single sport activity had helmet. It is treated as something between magical make me safe item and moral requirement.
We tried to buy tickets to Some Big Thing earlier in the year, and they’d sold out. They were, however, available on Ticketmaster Resale.

In addition to the bumped cost of the ticket, there was a AU$50 - FIFTY FKN DOLLAR - Ticketmaster fee! They’ve sold it, and now to help a scalper sell it again “officially” they’re putting a $50 fee on!

There’s no way I’m giving those dirty thieves that money. I didn’t, and I wrote to my MP to say that something should be done. It’s a fucking disgrace.
This is not "I didn't know I was breaking the law." This is, "I did my due diligence (i.e. I checked with a lawyer) and had every reason to believe that what I was doing was legal." I think that's a reasonable defense.
This is why this text did not land in the book.
I think it was a terrible decision to have no authentication as default from the MongoDB people, but it was literally one of the first things the documentation made clear. And even without documentation, just setting up the connection should be hint enough that you need to set a password.

The blame lies only on those who set up an unsecured MongoDB in an production environment.
They would probably rather pay this out and have it go away instead of being a widely circulated ESPN article and potentially still losing in a lawsuit.

I think the reason they won't is they don't want to set a precedent for future similar mistakes. If they pay out here they would almost certainly lose future similar disputes in court.
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Yeah but now it's insurance fraud
So, it costs almost as much as buying the scooter itself. Mmmm...
Genuinely idiotic idea - from someone who does martial arts and can't wear fitness trackers during sport.
As someone that used to "backpack" and is now more motivated by multi-day hiking trips instead, you've really piqued my interest with Georgia.

Which website or guide were you using?
Also Adobe XD. I know people give Adobe crap for coming to the party late, but the new tool is quite good with prototyping and web sharing built in, plus they launched freemium model. Framer is great for more advanced prototyping needs w/ animations/transitions/etc, but the XD is pretty good and fast for many needs, and it's Mac + PC.
Kind of interesting, too, that the original article talks about the backdated options being granted to "employees", while from your links, it appears that this was very much a thing for executives only.
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