skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The more progressive places in the US usually have a laundry list of surcharges like that they've built up over the years (the less progressive places simply haven't built up these kinds of practices over the years).

A $50 5-over ticket comes with a $100 surcharge that goes to the anti-DUI education fund, $100 toward the brain injury fund, $100 toward the reckless drivers victims fund, etc etc. All these fines get directed at various nonprofits that do things like run the mandatory classes people have to to take after getting a DUI or your 3rd speeding ticket or whatever. Of course those classes cost hundreds of dollars to attend. I don't think anyone is quite sure where the money goes. Of course this is all done with good intentions but the practical effect is that it just increases the fraction of the population who's one traffic offense away from sliding into poverty.

Awhile ago there was an article posted here about the breakdown of fines for a simple speeding ticket in CA and it was pretty disgusting the amount of fines that one has to pay in addition to the ticket itself and it all goes toward stuff that should probably be funded via the general budget or not at all. Maybe someone can find the article.
Imagine you were searching for 'american basketball player' and the selected individuals were predominately white. And on top of this you had guys like let's say Mike Dunleavy Jr. placed ahead of Michael Jordan for no apparent reason. Do you think this would be appropriate?
> Chronic Lyme disease sufferers get the same response all the time

I think that varies from country to country.
In enterprise, I would never ever trust npm/yarn and all those projects downloading unknown libraries.
In enterprise I believe the less you use JavaScript the better it is. Maybe you might want to use only jQuery but you should maybe stay on Vanilla JS.
Arctic sea ice at minimum Sept 23 2018
bunq looks amazing, and have all the features I would love in a bank, but 8€/month doesn't seems right. Going from 0€/year to 96€/year for APIs & notifications is not worthy.

If they ever get a free or cheaper plan (like €1/month for 1 card and 1 iban) I'd jump on it without thinking twice.
Hence the speaker and LEDs.
Truck drivers and other industries with volatile connectivity is where satellite radio shines.
Only until they have to refactor an older codebase of some size...
That sounds great in theory. But how could we actually put it into practice? Who will build and maintain that personal health record system and where will the funding come from? Patients are generally unwilling to pay. Google, Microsoft, and Apple have tried to build PHRs to some extent but functionality and adoption have been limited. No one really trusts the government to maintain a big centralized repository of patient data. But decentralized systems are highly complex and prone to breakage. No one has really found a solution yet.

Health information exchanges and payers (insurers) have been doing great work lately to facilitate authorized providers sharing data with each other using standard formats such as the formats published by HL7. So that does at least prevent the need for duplicate lab tests and reduce the risk of medication errors.
Ask HN: Introductory books on Nanotechnology?
I am interested in learning more about nanotechnology. Looking for an introductory book that doesn't shy away from the technical details. Something in the vein of the 'Very Short Introduction' series would be a good start for me. Thanks!
I’ve been developing with compiled languages since the early 90s and even with a computer of that era, compiling within a decent IDE hasn’t slowed me down.
“Computer of the Tides” Chapter 1 (Draft Preview) [pdf]
Why? How can you ask? Why are YOU going to do it?”

“The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.Please answer my question, to the best of your ability.”

Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbhom
That's definitely changing as more and more cars are shipping with Android/Apple Auto. Even if it is slightly more effort to pair your phone once, for most people once paired they don't have to fiddle with it again beyond launching an App.

For more power users it's trivial to setup a Tasker/Llama/Automate rule to launch your preferred music app when paired to a particular Bluetooth device.
The same wage that's a slap in the face to an American can be quite lucrative to someone in a lesser developed nation. Hits for pennies are a god send to those folks.
> My latest line of thinking is that I need a way to show the user interface, and then the data flow and logic all the way back through the system (usually a back-end DB or a customer legacy system).

Yes, this. It's what I've wanted as a software engineer and as a product manager. A unified overview.

I find the project materials become siloed, and cross-referencing is time-consuming, error prone, and not done enough. There is often a written spec, and a separate set of wireframes, with clickable areas to show interactions. Those two need to be merged together. Then a bunch of JIRA tickets, again separate. These need to be associated with the wireframes and the spec.

I have yet to find any system that makes this work.
Yes, absolutely. Whatever they attempted to do, the petroleum industry didn't do a good job suppressing research on climate change. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was ratified in 1992. Being a child of the 1990s, I grew up learning about anthropogenic climate. Yet, the 1990s were the era of cheap gas and SUVs. Indeed, SUV sales were completely unphased by all the additional information coming out on climate change in the 1990s and 2000s, dipping down temporarily only in response to the Great Recession, then quickly picking back up. People are completely unwilling to alter their lifestyles to reduce CO2 emissions, except in token ways. (Perhaps that's rational, because reducing carbon emissions isn't going to do squat to avert climate change in light of the rapid industrialization of the developing world.)

We can treat the petroleum industry as scapegoats, but at the end of the day we'd be trying to divert responsibility for their selling a product that we desperately wanted.
Sirius also has almost all major sports and a decent amount of non-music content. I like having it built into my car vs needing to deal with bluetooth, lag, and the various interruptions that my mobile likes to make.
Yes, Boston Public Schools has the second highest transportation budget per student in the country as a result. If I remember correctly it is ~25$/student/day. But one could argue this is the price to pay for increased diversity.
There was a small village (300-500 people) surrounded by my home town growing up.

They had a part-time mayor/police officer. When he wasn't running the town, he was bringing in revenue by sitting in his car outside the courthouse waiting for a "speeder" to "blow through" his 15 mph zone and pay him the $75 ticket.

Since I didn't live there, I'm not sure if calling 9-1-1 called this cop/mayor directly, or if it went to my town's dispatch.
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I think it depends on your use case. If you're using it to unify several disparate mappings then it might make more sense for changes to affect the originating mapping. OTOH if you're using it to provide several levels of defaults (e.g. global config -> user config -> envars -> runtime config) then it makes more sense for changes to affect only the topmost mapping. This is also how union filesystems work.

FWIW I find the current behavior preferable. In fact in all cases I use ChainMap the first mapping is always an empty dictionary, because I specifically don't want to mutate the others.
Wide creativity vs. narrow creativity
> They do you use a `libc` they use `musl-libc` [1] as apposed to `gnu-libc` (gblic) [2]

No. Historically they don't use a libc at all if you don't use the DNS subsystem. The latest version (1.11) finally started using libSystem on OSX (where performing raw syscalls has never ever been supported, and Go broke several time because they refused to acknowledge that).
Howard Stern makes a risk-free $80M/year for 4 hours of radio 3 days a week. Maybe he could make that much making podcasts, but why risk it ? He's at the tail-end of his career anyway.

Do you know a lot of "smart" people who would trade a guaranteed $80M/year for possibly more doing podcasts ?
There's going to be a Sputnik moment in the next decade or two where The West wakes up to how far it's fallen behind in this area.
And there is the reminder that I'm reading hacker news.

From an economics standpoint the ideal labor force is slavery.

From an economics standpoint there is no point to the elderly they should be killed off once they are no longer viable laborers. Children are only useful if they show potential slave labor ability, and otherwise should be killed in adolescence if there are obvious shortcomings.

From an economics standpoint murder, war, and violence are viable tools in competition, as illustrated by cartel turf wars.

So it's OBVIOUS to me I should be allowed to kill you and your kid take your school start time slot if I am economically incentivized to do so / it's convenient aka economic to me and it is up to you to invest in the deterrent to prevent such things.

Oh, you're not in favor of such things? I guess you are in favor of regulation, humanity, and other factors in things besides raw "economics".
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hmm, well yes and no.

> If you’re in basic browsing mode, your data is still stored locally. The problem is that you no longer get to decide which mode you’re in.

But yes you do! Don't use gmail and you will remain in basic mode.

I get the author's point, but he seems to want to have his cake and eat it too. If you're using gmail, Google already owns a very very significant part of your personal data, enough that you should be worried about it. If you don't trust Google to treat your cookies and other web-data with proper controls, then you shouldn't trust Google to manage your email either.

So from a principled perspective, yeah it's a step backwards for sure. But from a practical perspective, it isn't nearly as substantial.

I for one did find this new misfeature useful -- because Chrome signin and sync are buggy as hell. I get logged out all the time for no apparent reason. Loading gmail (usually without a new signin) re-signs me into Chrome now.

I am not going to switch browsers based on this slide in user privacy from Google. They already suck wrt user privacy and this isn't that significant for me (as a gmail user). Chrome is still much better than FF for me. And come on, FF has had its own privacy flubs as well. didn't they force pocket on everyone? If you switch browsers everytime one of the vendors makes a misstep, there are going to be no more browsers to choose from, save elinks.

Still, here's hoping someone writes an extension or figures out how to block sign-in at a network level.
Stern is smart :) He obviously could do that but can't be bothered. He's not starving to death. So unless he's going to leverage his brand to build others and broaden his (a la Oprah) by having a family of stations under his control then it's probably not worth it to him. How can he not go to bed thinking, "I'm one of the luckiest schmucks in the world"?
I agree that it's over the top (mostly thinking CNN here) only due to the fact that it seems to be all they ever report on anymore. Some are overblown, it's true, but enough legitimate issues come up daily to fill the news cycle with headlines like "you won't believe what Trump did next!"
Survey: How often do you say “You changed my life.”?
An interview is more about how you present yourself than about your actual skills, so make sure that you create a good impression first before telling them. In my interviews I usually ask about a record towards the end of the interview so that I'm not biased, but if it comes up earlier, be truthful about it.
In Praise of Mediocre Kids
Print takes fewer people and less money to produce than a cartoon
Or is it a matter of time until a high-enough ranking cadre gets his medical records leaked and the Chinese government enacts their own form of HIPAA.
> For example when the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal broke loose, that was the perfect opportunity for them to go out against private surveillance, guns blazing.

This is a very American thing which I can imagine our European counterparts not like, that is govt (USG) is treated as an enemy because it is the most powerful entity in the world. For Europeans, it would Govt AND these mega corporations (because the European govts do not have as much power as the US govt).

This is why in the US, corporations are ignored because they are insignificant on the US soil. And this isn't even a new thing, this opposition of the govt is as old as the founding of the nation.

This is why ACLU will not speak out against censorship of right wing media on Facebook and other companies. Keep in mind ACLU would not have any problem defending the latter against the govt, so it isn't about what the latter represents. It's simply, ACLU is a first amendment right based organization and their focus is preventing govt encroaching on our civil liberties (which is defined by what govt can't do, and not what a person is allowed to do in any circumstances).

Similarly NRA wouldn't care if you got kicked out of a movie theater for being concealed carry, but if a local city tries to ban guns in movie theaters, then NRA would step in.
> I think the difference is that companies exploit an entire regulatory system which is harder to update and takes longer. Airbnb, Uber, Mechanical Turk, are all examples of exploiting a regulatory system by creating a product and then quickly scaling it up to mass adoption before the practices introduced can be outlawed.

> Once something has been massively adopted it's difficult to stop completely.

> ...

> However, I do think that democracy needs to find a way to keep up with the forces taking advantage of its inherent systematic boundaries, such as being slow to react. I'm not sure what needs to change but I think when you have many US citizens participating in completely unregulated labor markets there is a problem that needs to be solved.

I think the solution is that it be made very clear to the companies pushing the regulatory boundaries (and their fans) that they should be prepared to have their business models destroyed when the regulatory environment catches up.

Call it "Creative Destruction 2.0."
Update: released with latest Chromium version
People don't want control so much as those answers you yourself didn't get.

Nothing is more infuriating than not being told why you're being punished, why someone got accepted into a school when you didn't, or why a judge won't consider your appeal.

We can even handle injust answers-- "his parents are alumni that donate a lot of money." That sucks, but it's the answer.

But we can't handle not knowing. Denying people the ability to reason is one of the cruelest things you can do to them. The Amish figured this out centuries ago.
A crash course in compilers (2018)
Trial by Fire: Critics Demand That a Huge Sepsis Study Be Stopped
"...this bug dates back nearly a decade now."

A good trick, considering Windows 10 went RTM in 2015!
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A good team that ships product is still extremely valuable, even if it had no product-market fit. If you can aquihire them and put them to work on new ideas, it's still much less risk vs. having to bootstrap a team from scratch.
Lamport would argue that if you're debating typed vs. untyped PLs, you're already missing the point, as all programming languages are necessarily[1] at a level that's too low for system/algorithmic thinking, and if you're working in a language appropriate to thinking about algorithms/systems, then the considerations surrounding typing are quite different from those pertaining to PLs (TLA+ happens to be untyped, but it's not a PL by any means).

[1]: Due to the requirement that they be efficiently compiled/interpreted.
With C# you can mix dynamic and static to some degree. In some cases like parsing JSON dynamic code can be much shorter. But for maintainability the dynamic code parts should be kept localized and to a minimum/
If the software allows for modeling that kind of thing.

There's two ways you could model a piece's orientation in the code: Either relative to its initial state, or relative to some external/objective reference point. The latter would allow you to say, "The initial state looks like the traditional solved state except that this one piece is flipped." Otherwise, though, it wouldn't really be useful, and I'm pretty sure that it would make both the math and the programming more complicated, so I'd assume (or at least hope) that that's not how it's being done.
I just went to Astro's site to see what they do and why this makes a difference for me... but all I can see is their acquisition announcement and I am not any closer to understanding what it is they do for Email :/
Boston has a pretty good public transit system--at least until it snows when things tend to go to hell. It has its share of problems in general but it's not bad overall.
I'm interested in seeing some examples of their use in consumer electronics. I think this article would be a lot more compelling if it had a section on "You've already bought one if you have a (hypothetically) Roomba vaccum/ Tesla Model S/ Thinkpad laptop/ Ubiquiti router." I'm pretty sure most of those don't have FPGAs, but would be curious to see a list of things which do. I am by no means a representative consumer, but I know there's an FPGA in my:

- Rigol oscilloscope

- National Instruments DAQ equipment

- Mecco laser cutter

- DJI drone

Any others where I might not have taken it apart and seen the big QFP with "Xilinx" or "Altera" on the circuit board would be interesting!
The US government doesn't need a warrant for emails older than 180 days that are still on the server.

Emails older than that are considered abandoned[0] and treated the same as an abandoned storage unit, due to an old law from the time when email was regularly downloaded and purged from the server by local email clients.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/when-can-the-government-read...
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Ask HN: Where to host a paid local tunnel service?
If I want to make a paid service using a fork of https://github.com/localtunnel/server what kind of hosting service(e.g. Heroku, firebase etc) can I use? Ideally where I can generate a lot number of subdomains programmatically. Thanks
The process went too fast to be entirely transparent. Boston tried to communicate as much as they could, and anything can be requested (Freedom of Information Law). We also have a paper that should not be too far from publication that details every detail of the thing.

I would argue that although it could have been more transparent, it is way more transparent than the status quo, where each individual school can try to pressure the district to get the time that they want, without considering the "big picture" and the impact on other schools/neighborhood/budget.

All decisions were made after a lot of group conversations with parents/staff/principals... But I am sure some things could have been better, in the end we were just the grad students trying to help :)
For me, this is a knock against basically anything Slack related. Slack 100% has the power to ensure that Astro is around long enough for all parties to make a proper transition to appropriate solutions.

I get they want to keep Astro's clients around, but it's a big FU to companies that rely on Astro to have two weeks notice about changes potentially affecting their entire users base.
I've had Sirius for

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bugs me is that

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drive under a tree or overpass. Seriously, having

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really bugs me.
> I take predictions like this about as seriously as the narrative that global warming is a hoax.

Totally reasonable, and rare to see people not jumping up and down with literal "The sky is falling! Implement this tax plan now!".
Nope, just two pairs of bell tones on the same frequency.

Simple FEC just works pretty well with parity bits, just needs to be supported on all encoder/decoders.
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I'd say that he's known as one of the fathers of distributed systems, and for winning a Turing award, more than for writing LaTeX. Also, it's not LaTeX that's Turing complete, but rather TeX. LaTeX is basically a bunch of TeX macros.

Also, the rest of your comment doesn't make any sense, either.
A link normalizing addon would be cool, add some safe rel tags and a setting to prefer new tab/same tab
Very true. I just think it hurts innovation. In today's environment IBM may just have bought Apple and Microsoft and closed them down.
TL;DR; It's not trivial to add a native binary (from Python package) to a Lambda function.
Thanks! I am actually very excited about this thread, our main hope is for this project to start a conversation !
TLA+ vs. Functional Languages. I once tried to understand how TLA+ could be useful if your implementation language was primarily functional (i.e., Haskell). I wrote to Leslie Lamport on his mailing list and he actually responded with what I think was a very informative dialogue: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/tlaplus/George$20...

I hope TLA+ gains more popularity. It's an interesting technology.
> Lack of ability for companies to advertise to you seems like a distinct concern

It's not about "lack of ability to advertise", it's about someone being able to heavily manipulate the perceived availability of competition (which is much more important than the real availability of competition). And that someone is the same someone that helps the companies manipulate the price (hint: it's Google).
You may want to check out some of the neighborhoods involved before you make such a statement.
You can set up those in Gmail directly.
Which programmers?!

With the exception of JavaScript, I only use dynamic languages for throw away scripts.

I had lots of fun with Lisp and Smalltalk, but can't imagine using them with the team sizes I usually work with.
Pandora spent much more effort attempting to get me to sign-up (and re-sign-up) than they ever did trying to retain me.

The customer service experience was harrowing, featured slow response times, an indifferent attitude to my issues and a wholly inadequate resolution leading me to quit the service.

Every so often I would see news coverage about them struggling and all I could think was, "guess things on the customer service side haven't changed."
It'll be interesting to see what happens when autonomous cars that stick to the speed limit become the majority of traffic.
> Thats nothing compared to the work in China right now. In ten or 20 years, the west could be permanently behind.

That's a completely acceptable trade off to me. China and the west have different perspectives on how users privacy should be handled.
I don't think it's coincidental that this controversy arose at the same time Google is pushing their new "Signals" product in Google Analytics, which leverages customer sign-in data?

(Just noticed this today.)

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7532985?hl=en&ut...
My favorite manager was a commander when I was in the military. He was easily the best leader I've ever worked for, hands down.

The man was sharp as hell - he always seemed a step ahead of everyone around him. He'd sit us down and explain his strategies in relatively good detail so we knew what was going on and why we were doing things in a certain way. He welcomed criticism and was generous with the compliments. He ensured everyone got to leave when the day was done, and wasn't afraid to say "No, that's stupid. I'll take the heat until this is fixed." Zero micromanagement, tons of trust, and he was nice, too.

If managers on average were half as loyal to their workers as he is, the world would be a much better place.