skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is quite common. Public benefits are a strange thing and have really odd loopholes at times.

For example: I had a friend that lived with her boyfriend and they had a child. The state wanted to take child support from his check to give to her for the child even though they lived at the same address.

I worked with a woman that kept below a certain amount of hours per week while working. This was simply because working any more meant that her benefits were cut so much she couldn't survive. The cut was more than the money she earned from working.

I'm guessing I've known a few people that weren't married for similar reasons as well, I just cannot think of a concrete example.
It doesn't work that way for knowledge workers and creative types.

It actually works quite well for Hollywood, and for scientists and researchers...even though these industries are heavily talent-based.

Unions negotiate based on the needs of their members. Some unions, like the Hollywood unions, negotiate job protections, benefits, and salary minimums. Members are free to negotiate better deals.
It's obviously not that simple. I don't like it either, but the supreme Court disagrees with your interpretation.
If I recall correctly it was food prep, which covers any retail shop, like Walmart, that also serves food. That happens to cover the vast majority of all minimum wage work. As companies are growing larger and larger, and entering more and more industries, those uncurtailed non competes _are_ going to effectively be a complete stop on working at other firms.

It's not stupid. We are watching this happen. If you think companies should be free from any of this regulation or even discussion about their practices then you are free to go to Somalia and live in a regulation free utopia
I think there should be more digital art like this. By that I don’t mean something but done with a computer, rather something that truly articulates some genuine, sincere frontier of this digital landscape.
Neat! I’ve wanted something like this to use at Sourcegraph. We would like to be able to say “Alice and Bob, you two should chat about XYZ for 15 min sometime in the next week” and have some piece of software aggregate and schedule all those things. How much of that can Meetter do?
By this and other accounts, millennials appear to be a reaction to the excesses of the baby boomers. For example, millennials are more prudish than their parents,[1] more likely to identify as conservative than their parents were at the same age.[2]

[1] http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-millennials-...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/07/health/millennials-conservati...
The GOP lawmakers aren't interested in public trust, but in gaining leverage

This isn't a GOP or DNC thing. All of Congress is peeved as Google's apparent contempt for how the nation works: https://www.cnet.com/news/google-is-a-no-show-at-the-washing...

IME, the lawmakers agreed to go "private" with the meeting in order to get Google to even talk to them.
Sounds like what Telegram Passport is trying to do.

https://telegram.org/blog/passport
If the server allows it, sure.
Did the CEO Martin Winterkorn? Looks like he got away though.
I've started using kbfs for personal notes and encrypted git for financial planning code.

We're also trying Keybase out as a family chat channel. I really like the CLI interface and the integration with kbfs, and of course the e2e encryption. We're probably going to stick with Slack for now, though, mainly because it runs on Chromebooks.
Yes. For those who want a good read on history, check this out "Divided We Stand". (author is an establishment, mainstream historian of Congress.) https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/50/divided-we-stand/
I think addiction is: you can't moderate usage even when you want to, and can't stay stopped even when you want to.
I think your biases are showing.

I don't really buy the postmodernist argument, and more or less agree with Empiricism.

However, I don't think you can dismiss the postmodernist argument. I cannot prove that Empiricism is correct.

> Empiricism solved this issue. You will very quickly learn if your assumptions are wrong by testing them in reality. This is what is meant by "feels over reals" and the opposite. Your assumptions, beliefs, or axioms - no matter how fondly held - will be crushed under the infinite weight of reality.

This is simply begging the question -- whether reality is real. That's not a question you can just skip over if you're claiming to be rigorous in your analysis.
I've been using Mapbox for maps and their geocoding api.
Position element at the bottom of the screen using Flexbox in React Native
It maybe smarter to:

- lease a car - especially that car that has low depreciation. The lower depreciation - the cheaper the lease. Sometimes it maybe cheaper to lease more expensive car because it has low depreciation.

- Buy used, in-demand car with very low mileage and 1.5-2 yrs of remainder of warranty.
its absolute insanity, and there is a huge competitive advantage by not doing that, and hiring smart people somewhere unpopular who don't want to live in the Bay Area or Austin and are looking for neat jobs to nab.
Just downvoted? Not provided strange arguments like "Right to free speech is not right free reach" or Google/FB/Apple/Twitter are private companies and do not owe anything to whom they don't like?
> Does the gravitational field always go primarily through one slit or the other? And does the act of observing (or not observing) change the gravitational field? And if so, how?

The Copenhagen interpretation is really throwing a wrench into our understanding of physics.
If you want VB/Delphi-style app builder for Python, can I interest you in Anvil (https://anvil.works)? It targets the web, but you write all the code (even client-side) in Python. We've had multiple customers describe it as a worthy heir to Delphi :)
Not as high fidelity as a photo, but the Sanborn fire insurance maps are a great record of many US cities and towns, and how they changed throughout the late 19th and early/mid 20th century.
It's not all doom and gloom. Major American cities are also being invaded by a litany of battery powered vehicles, especially through ebike and electric scooter rental services. Some places, like here in Denver, seem to be embracing this with open arms and it could eventually help with both congestion and pollution.

Inexpensive power-dense batteries will unlock a real revolution, not just in car-like transportation, but transportation you can pick up and carry with you, or stow under your desk at work.

Electric skateboards, electric kick scooters, electric mopeds, electric giant wheels you straddle like a snowboard (OneWheel), electric unicycles, electric rollerskates... these are just a few of the device categories exploding in popularity.

I think the battery transport revolution is already upon us, it's just harder to see because it's much smaller than we expected.
I have many email addresses, so this service is useless to me. However, it seems like Firefox could integrate this into the browser itself to check all email/password combinations protected by its master password.

Slightly related, why the doesn’t Firefox offer to generate strong passwords like Safari does?
Civil law jurisdictions work around this by making all enacted rights inalienable. This results in problems like compulsory royalty schemes, though.
Canada's tech talent gap increasing value of bootcamps
Ask HN: When should you migrate to a 'top tier' registrar, and who are they?
This recent news about Zoho had a lot of people talking about moving to Mattermark or their competitors in the high end domain registration space.

When do you think about moving your registration over, and other than Mattermark who are the players in that space?
PyQt5 is really great. I wish I could convince some of my co-workers at SNC to use it instead of random solutions ranging from a full-blown WPF app, hand-rolled win32, heavily customized imgui, vt100 over telnet (apologies on behalf of *), to... 5000 lines of AutoIT for a simple gui... smh. I mean we already use python for some build steps. They seem to not be able to get over the python stigma, which I don't think needs to exist, or the pythonic paradigm "breaks their brains."
I guess I'm not the only one who thought the next step for home furnishings was giving them the ability to break down at the worst possible time.
Beds take up a lot of floor area, but lifting them off the floor with expensive machinery you must install in your ceiling is hardly a compelling solution.

It's the prevalence of innerspring mattresses that's responsible for contemporary bedding being unwieldy. An innerspring mattress is constructed to predetermined form factor, and is resistant to folding or rolling or other mechanical ways of conserving space. Getting it out of the way means manipulating the entire unit as one, which absent a pulley system installed in your ceiling typically means rotating it onto a weak edge, where it can barely remain upright; this can be rectified by a platform that holds that the mattress in place while it is pivoted upright into a recess in the wall, in an established, if outdated design.

If you forego monolithic innerspring mattresses, you have vastly more options in moving bedding when it's not needed.
I'm not pushing for equality of reward, but rather equality of opportunity. So not that your writing should be valued the same as Stephen King's, but that if you want to write, you should have access to quality education and publishing resources.

I'm not one to deny true market values, but we can level the playing field a bit. And when I say that, I don't mean taking others down a notch to make things even, I mean raising up the floor so that everyone is at least at a reasonable baseline level where they can make there fair effort to get further. (I guess "leveling the playing field" is a bad analogy, since it sounds like trimming down the peaks. I wonder if there's a better one that implies raising up the bottom?)

And I agree that banning soda doesn't make sense, but I could see an argument for taxing it, the same way we do with alcohol. A lot of products have external costs that aren't factored in and are instead borne by the public. Increased sugar consumption results in greater costs to public health. Regardless of who's fault it is, it affects all of us. Taxing it would be a roughly fairer way of distributing the burden. It's definitely not a perfect solution, but would probably give better results than what we have now, if looking at the big picture.
I do think personal freedom of choice is extremely important, and we shouldn't have the government exert too much influence on those choices. But I think there is a healthy balance to strike where we can shape better outcomes for society as a whole, while keeping things fair at an individual level. A small tax would only be a disincentive, a suggestion, not a prohibition.
Google search results and news absolutely have a bias. These services aren't made in a vacuum. They are made and tuned by people with biases. Technology doesn't have some special ability to sort out ground truth from human bias. It just reflects our biases.

As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, the question shouldn't be whether google is biased or not, but whether the government should be getting involved at all.
Device drivers and firmware often contain workarounds for bugs in other products.

Here[0] is an example from Windows Vista.

[0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060330-31/?p=...
Nice propaganda, "By force" would be hitting your employer like a pinata until money came out.

A union exists to make the exercise of the employees rights more meaningful by doing so collectively. If you acknowledge that an individual employee has a right to ask for more money or changes to how the business is run and decline to come to work its difficult to understand how all employees don't have the same rights collectively.

Incidentally this is an instance of the free market. Labor is a market. They are selling YOU their time and collaborating to get a better deal.
Government represents the people, and the people have a right to have their concerns about bias voiced by their elected representatives. Obviously those representatives are still bound by the constitution with regards to legislative actions they can take.
Maybe for something small? But also an “engineer at work” might stand up for not doing the lazy thing on principle.
I doubt that is it.

Two poor people can be really hurt by the way marriage is set up. Benefits get weird. The income might put them over the threshold for receiving benefits. And if the marriage goes badly - for example, if a spouse winds up being abusive, develops a drinking problem, and things of that sort - the poor person is stuck in the marriage simply for not being able to afford a divorce.

It isn't just that, but marriage costs time and money. It varies by state and county - and the services the courthouse offers varies as well. If you cannot afford the initial fees, the entire institution is off-limits.
> "It's not the technology that matters,
> it's the strategy"

Gross. That's the kind of meaningless ass-covering thing consultants like to say. It's a great claim because nobody can falsify it: "See, you don't get it! The increased clock-speed was part of their over-all strategy!"
>I've lived in Paris, Berlin, NYC and California. I'll never understand how European founders can keep saying that 40k euro salaries for engineers is a benefit while they watch so many great engineers leave to American companies.

This. I have tasted the fruit and I'm never going back. The social benefits feel largely like gimmicks compared to the standard of living + social recognition you get working as an engineer in the US or even Canada.
Somehow you've been corralled into thinking that extremely large corporations are different than government entities. Both pose the same threats to society, and in some cases where corporations control the flow of information, they can hold huge amounts of power.
> how does this impact user privacy for those that care?

Can you answer this for me?

Given the scenario - when you clear cookies all cookies are cleared but new cookies for google services are set again, what is the privacy concern for end users?
If every other tech CEO can show up, he can.

"I have other things going on" is not an excuse to blow off a DC committee meeting. Unless it's a life-threatening condition, you go.

And, no, your lawyer isn't the same thing. They want the head man to answer.

You can be thrown in jail for contempt of Congress.

Does anyone know if any CEO in the history of the nation has ever not shown up at one of these things?
I found two Go bindings for Qt:

https://github.com/kitech/qt.go

https://github.com/therecipe/qt

Both seem to be in active development. Does anybody have experience with either?
Unlimited! Except for passwordless credentials, which do consume storage space aboard the device. But second factor (U2F style) credentials are stored encrypted on the server, so there's unlimited "space" for them.
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Being able to see trending songs regardless of the platform is definitely a benefit for Apple, but I would also say that another possibility is that Spotify itself cuts off the integration now that Shazam is owned by their competitor.
My, that’s a very narrow out following the exposure of your baseless argument.
Yes I met him at a bitcoin event for 20 seconds, so I only know his name before talking to another person.
I'm in the same situation, I just have a lot lower budget and still haven't bought a car yet. Have you checked out used cars? It looks like most of the depreciation comes within the first few years. And if you are moving within a couple years I don't think mileage should be a concern if it's a reliable car with decent mileage. Finding a car with the options you want might be an issue though.

I was considering a Lexus CT200h, I really liked the car and prices were decent. The only issue was that I could basically only find base model, and I really want adaptive cruise control. So I don't think I'll get one.

You could also look into leasing. You might be able to find a great deal, https://forum.leasehackr.com/ has a ton of info. And there are some sites that let people advertise leases they want to get out of. Some have really low monthly payments. But that would make me a little nervous. I'd worry a little bit about additional expenses when turning the car in.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18066897 and marked it off-topic.
> If your application doesn't do bytecode generation or instrumentation at runtime

I believe it also has trouble with reflection involving class names that aren't effectively constant at compile-time. So with that and the other limitations, there's a whole lot you can't do. Hopefully they can resolve that.
It's Denmark, not the Netherlands we are talking about. Your intuition seems correct [1]. The 1% capital requirement in the Reuters article must be an add-on requirement and is to low to be the stand-alone requirement. Fitch put Danske at 4.2% Basel III 'fully loaded' last summer. The wiki points out how diverse the calculations can turn out so that it's pretty much pears and apples comparing these internationally.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_requirement
I have used Keybase since it first showed up on HN for Comms and Git. Technically I have done the proofs for identity, but no one cares about that.

The Git usage was really nice. It's fast and secure. While I didn't use it for most projects (because I want them on github/gitlab for various reasons), it was very useful for backing up machine specific configs and history (using a script and mackup). Knowing that it was well encrypted made me not worry about what was being backed up, if there were credentials, etc.

As for comms, I used the 1:1 chat with a friend for quite a while. While it worked, it's slow. Sending messages is a little slow, sending images is VERY slow. Anytime the app is closed (like constantly on the phone), re-open times were slow (for decryption). Eventually I gave it up and moved those few chats over to Telegram (Because it's secure enough for most conversations).
I’m a millennial so I’m sympathetic but this is something I’ve heard a lot about anecdotally without a lot of data behind it. Here are two more anecdotes:

My dad graduated in 1976 in the middle of stagflation and had a 12% apr on his first house in the mid 80s.

His dad graduated into the recession that stretched between ww2 and Korea.

I think we’re too quick to look at generations that have accumulated wealth and accuse them of having always had it easy.
Define hallucinogen.
It's almost as if evidence continues to mount that addiction is a health issue and should be treated as such, rather than as a matter of criminality.

For anyone interested in further reading on the topic I highly recommend information available from the Institute For Addiction Study (https://www.theinstituteforaddictionstudy.org/).
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/603/
A former Telltale employee files a class-action suit against the studio
I think this is a rather unfair distortion of AA. I know many who have been tremendously helped by the program. It does work for many. It's explicitly unreligious -- they have a notion of a higher power, but make the conscious effort to allow each member to have their own definition of this higher power. It's not a religious process in the sense most would think of it. I also don't think it's fair to mention any one particular person's success or lack thereof with AA when making sweeping generalizations about the program (including the founder, which I don't know if what you say is actually correct or not -- it just doesn't matter).

The other important thing that AA does, which is quite critical, is get individuals with problems frequent, implicit counseling from others who have been through the same thing. This is very hard to get in modern life in most other ways. It's possible, but AA makes it the default process. You can throw away all the other stuff about AA and dismiss it, and you are still left with the fact social therapy in any form is very effective, and AA promotes that.
If you're wondering about the license changes and whether Java is still free or not, you should have a look at "Java Is Still Free"[1].

[1] https://itnext.io/java-is-still-free-c02aef8c9e04.
Didn’t they literally strike that word out from their motto overnight. I believe I recall them removing it from the handbook but I’m not sure.
I really have to wonder why this wasn't accounted for in the ACA. Like what business isn't going to decide if the administrative overhead of having more employees is less than the cost of providing healthcare and act accordingly? Would it have been that hard to require health insurance contributions in proportion to the employee's percentage FTE? Then it would actually be cheaper for businesses to hire full-time and someone working 40hr/wk at multiple jobs gets the same benefit as a salaried employee.
Wedding receptions have become an aspirational good. Like all other aspirational goods, people will climb as far up the ladder as they can manage.
> Google could in principle make its results insanely left-leaning and the first amendment should protect them.

Well, freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences. While the Government cannot police google's speech, it can certainly break it up with anti-monopoly laws.
Ah. That makes me glad I put that bit in at the beginning! Thanks for being conscientious about the guidelines and thanks for replying so nicely.

I will mark this subthread offtopic and collapse it, and delete my other comment about the title.
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There is definitely a credible risk of consumer confusion here - when a consumer faces a need to cheat a test it is unclear which Volkswagen the consumer would have to use. I think the original auto Volkswagen has a strong case here (note - IANAL, just another confused consumer).
Great suggestion! We never thought about such a use case so as of now by default you will be also added to that meeting, but we can easily tweak it.

So Meetter can do alomost everything you described. I will let you know when we have tweaked it.
You are moving the goalposts now its not all unions just government workers. Forcing them to work against their will would violate their rights. The government can negotiate for their labor or do without it. In the long run they could hire new workers to the the same job nobody is holding anyone hostage.
Our team uses it to share sensitive docs (logs, user details, api keys etc.) and occasionally as a secure chat channel (i.e. if we want to communicate off work Slack).

I have a copy of some important docs (taxes, etc.) in my private KBFS.
> Google could in principle make its results insanely left-leaning and the first amendment should protect them. Are we going to let the government choose which results get suppressed to suit its own needs?

That's the part that confuses me. Why not embrace the bias. Those who think that Google is biased are not going to be convinced by the a PR statement saying "we are impartial, etc". They've already made up their mind.

It's like with the leaked video we discussed recently. Was anyone surprised by the reaction? Not me, it was exactly what I expected. But their PR response to the leak is what bothered me:

> Nothing was said at that meeting, or any other meeting, to suggest that any political bias ever influences the way we build or operate our products.

Why not just be brave and come out and say "we support these values and not those values, we are not a neutral platform, please move on to another service if you don't agree".