skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well usually ReCAPCHA is usually used on sign in pages. You can rate limit login attempts, exponentially increasing rate limit (or just locking out) IPs that exceed allowed login attempts and analyze your logs to ban abusive IPs.

Yeah, that's harder than ReCAPTCHA, but I think a lot of these big companies can afford to do these pretty basic steps.

If you just want to throw some comments on your free blog and not have to moderate the comments (and honestly, how many comments does your blog get that you can't read them?) then sure, throw ReCAPTCHA on there. But there are plenty of big companies that use ReCAPTCHA.
It's probably just docker and lots of shell scripts to create/configure/delete containers automatically. Well, that's what I'd make if I were trying to recreate heroku. Their system may well be more complex.
...buying theater tickets or books also increases the GDP?
Avis: A Rental Car Giant's Tech Reinvention
I agree with you that the review seems to have misunderstood the author on this point. I wrote a comment on the blog to explain more. I think the review mixes up the words abstraction and specification, especially once I dug a little bit into the correspondence on the draft he posted for the book author's feedback.
I emailed slack about a year ago suggesting that they were totally missing the boat on slack as a social network. I am in 4 slacks and only one of them is professional. They were not interested.
I don't see why KitSplit wouldn't just cover this out-of-pocket. If it really only happens 0.02% of the time, the cost of reimbursing the lender can't possibly be higher than amount of good-will lost by not doing so.
Also, the author's choice of title is deceptive. He did not have it 'legally' lost in any way. Crime -- fraud or theft -- most certainly happened, which is why the police became involved. (Note - the author twice mentions the involvement of the NYPD and once claims that the police refused to participate because it wasn't a criminal matter. Perhaps he meant to say 'formerly of the NYPD' and 'from the PI', but it's at best unclear. I suspect the police refused to get involved with his civil dispute with the insurance company; the author is certainly not careful to distinguish between the various legal elements.)

His insurance through KitSplit has a legally-sound clause allowing them to deny coverage for 'voluntary parting' (a term which explicitly includes criminal fraud). But that doesn't make the thief's actions legal.

Again IL-specific, but almost certainly generalizes: "theft" as far as the criminal code is concerned --- which is different than what an insurance contract means by the term --- happens whenever a person "knowingly obtains or exerts unauthorized control over property and intends" (through several possible mechanisms) "to deprive the owner permanently of the use of that property." [0] Definitely includes what happened here, definitely illegal on the thief's part.

0: http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs4.asp?ActID=1876&Ch... at "Sec. 16-1. Theft."
Though I can't find the exact context at the moment, I believe that was from his divorce. Most of the world seems to think it is your spouse's concern whom else you get involved with, both for health reasons and financial ones.
Ask HN: What's the most fun tradition at your startup?
Ex, an event, perk, daily/weekly routine that adds most to an enjoyable culture overall
As a first approximation, I'd guess the 176 countries or other entities [1] that are parties to the Berne Convention.

Parties can have exceptions and limitations to the rights from Berne, so it is not necessarily illegal in all of them, but I'd expect it is in a large fraction of them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention#/media/File:B...
I'm a bit confused. At least in the us, my stock awards are taxed as income, not by my employer, but by me (well in the us there's also payroll tax but still). Why would you tax Amazon more if they pay their employees? The employees are already paying income tax, aren't they?
So you do reboot.

...your Linux VM.

which means that you can't run windows and your Linux desktop at the same time.

It's an improvement, but still a dealbreaker for me personally.
Sorry but you must see how that's obviously jumping to conclusions. Just because you haven't had issues with Signal doesn't mean it's reliable.

I have been using it for 3 years and struggle to recommend it to people because I constantly have reliability issues, including messages delayed for hours, bugs where contacts get in an unusable state and other little weird things.

Whatsapp doesn't have these issues, so even if it's due to not being online 100% of the time, Signal should deal with it.
That's because it's not true. KitSplit blocked the their from thief website according to their response.
Is caselaw data an artifact originating from the public dollars which funded the whole show to begin with?

Why isn't this data available for free to any American Citizen who pays taxes? In the form of a torrent, the distribution cost is negligible. A reasonable duplication fee seemed reasonable back when replicating vast amounts of information involved massive amounts of paper and toner. But today.. I don't understand.

I'm curious enough to have asked this same question on Quora [0].

YMMV.

[0] https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-can-LexisNexis-own-the-...
Without cover traffic, its not clear to me that this would prevent a correlation attack from an adversary with resources.
This sounds like the "limp versus die" design decision: http://wiki.c2.com/?LimpVersusDie

The "right" answer depends on the domain. For a web startup, you may want to live with occasional errors being ignored in order to get your product up quickly and grow market share. Early Amazon.com used to fudge up my orders, but such didn't end the company.

But a bank probably doesn't want the software to "guess" if there is a potential numerical problem. It would rather have the batch process "crash". Otherwise, it could generate thousands of bad transactions and get sued to Pluto.

People used to debate this with MySql's default "truncation" setting. MySql was popular with start-ups because you could get it up and change the tables quickly without dealing with persnickity details, living with stuff occasionally falling thru the cracks.
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There are extensions for all major browsers which will automatically redirect amazon links to the smile version.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-smile/
Thank you for your advice.

We're already doing that. Not gonna lie, we love meat, but understand it isn't the best choice for the planet, so far we've reduced our meat consumption about 50%.
This is your observation about elites, or your theory? Saying that you've regularly observed elites keeping blackmail on each other in their pockets seems...deserving of elaboration.
And likely there are many counterexamples proving that people do get fired for choosing IBM but companies and governments typically do not go out of their way to advertise their failures.
No one in the history of US law has ever been fined for manually sending out pitch emails. I think he's okay.
Do you have any good suggestions for "the classics"? I've read "Siddhartha", "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind", and I'm just about done with "Mindfulness in Plain English".

I'm pretty new to the whole idea of meditation, and I'm still a bit skeptical about it, but I'm willing to go all in for a few weeks to see how it goes.

I feel like reading will help me keep going. I've heard it's good, but I'm really not sure what the goal is, so perhaps further reading will help me "stay on the course" or whatever.
Spatial: A High Level Programming Language for FPGAs
This feels really small. That’s probably minutes worth of revenue flowing through them. I’m glad it’s 100MM and not 0 (kudos to amazon for doing this at all), but it doesn’t seem like a huge milestone given how long the program has lasted. I would have expected it to hit 1B by now.
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It really isn't whataboutism, though, and "charity good" is a weak-tea defense. Taxes are how societies have decided addressing social good should primarily be done. You don't get credit for doing a little bit to offset the lot of damage you do. It's just not how it works.
>I honestly don't feel any sympathy for the guy.

Really? Not even a little?

Guy generously loans out his expensive gear and gets it stolen, but you don't feel even a little sorry that was the outcome? Rather, you think it was his fault because he somehow should have known better?

I continue to be in awe of HN readers.
The critical faults with D that prevented it from displacing C* were that it relied on a GC by default and that it wasn't open source. Things might have played out much differently had they addressed these issues early on.

* aside from inertia, but older languages also had inertia once.
Nothing will get better unless they delete instagram too.
He’s presumably talking about WhatsApp
Wow, that is fantastic! It's amazing what small amounts can do at scale. I already shop through AmazonSmile and this motivates me to continue doing so.

Congrats to Amazon, its shoppers, and the employees who pushed for and built this feature.
So, what you say about exhaustion is a correct explanation of the doctrine.

However, unless my searching capabilities are failing (sorry, it's 170 pages), they nowhere claim that intel is paying qualcomm.

Instead, the only viable claim for exhaustion they really make is around exhaustion of patents in qualcomm chipsets bought by apple.

That is probably right.
But not a significant amount of this money (if any, i didn't look what qualcomm claimed hard enough. I wouldn't put it past them but it would be stupid of them)

The majority of money is precisely about modems they buy from intel.

If intel was paying qualcomm, it would definitely appear in the response as an exhaustion argument
I can't find it.

This is probably why bloomberg doesn't cite it - the exhaustion issues they do cite are a complete sideshow.
And then if you look at Reddit[1], or PetaPixel's comments, you'll see people finding his profile well after that point.

He's also active on multiple social media sites - his parents are even commenting on some of his Facebook photos about how proud they are of his talents...

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/9sewqu/this_do...

And this, about an hour ago: http://disq.us/p/1wyb1h3
This is exactly why I stopped following the crypto news.

I got interested a lot about BTC at the beginning, but then after reading reports about electricity consumption decided to not be part of that.

I think the downside doesn't come from the blockchain technology as-is, but the mining part of cryptocurrency.
The really scary thing about Google Cloud to me is that Google has a very long history of axing projects. I'm just trying to imagine what it would be like to be totally tied into GC and to receive an email along the lines of 'Dear customer, to serve you better we have decided to retire GC by the end of this year, as per your contract you have three months to move'.
Great idea - just signed up. I'd make it more clear up front that the signup questions are short and simple. I was pleasantly surprised that it didn't drag on.
Does anyone know why Smalltalk never made the leap to actors?
>That's all there is to it.

You can't force everyone else to ignore a glaringly obvious problem because it runs counter to a feel-good narrative. There's a lot more that's going on here, don't try to stifle the conversation.
Singapore is an interesting case study how a well-run government that restricts a lot of freedoms can work remarkably well. I wonder if this model is sustainable long term.
I didn't know about their 50% renewables, but I do host everything (and the company I work for as well) in AWS.

Thanks.
Long time lingerer here.

My co-founder and I are building a groups and events system (like Meetup) that has a friends list and things like instant messaging. Our business model at the moment is freemium with ads and a limited organizer experience (you can create small groups/events) or we are offering a small subscription ~$5/mo. The subscription model removes the ads, unlocks all organizer features, and removes all limits on organizing groups/events such as being able to create a hierarchical organization with the tooling to manage it.

We are currently in YC Startup School as Geddy at geddy.io and we plan to launch soon.
Good on them - it is always great to see employees doing the brave and right thing.
Fantastic idea. I've been doing this for various musicians & stage actors (free) for a few years and it's been very rewarding.
And certainly, as many people have pointed out, "neglect" to return your rental car to Hertz and watch how quickly a warrant is issued for your arrest for GTA - it's certainly not considered "not a criminal matter".
Bloomberg reporters have a incentives model¹ which encourages incorrect stories. This isn't the only example; they still haven't retracted the supermicro hardware hack story even though there is no evidence and it's denied by all the parties.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-reporters-compensa...
I take it you've never had to keep a crappy underpaid and overworked job in your life just to make ends meet?
I would feel sympathy for the guy you describe!

However, that's not the author of this article:

1) Not 'generously'. He was entirely profit-driven. In the article he describes his motivation as "I could possibly corner the film camera rental market" and his initial experience as "the side business was going great — I made over $1,200".

2) Not nebulously 'somehow'. He did know better, which is why he explicitly sought further information from the company. Then, he voluntarily threw away that information after it was in his posession, and only afterward chose to risk $4500 to gain $95.

No, I don't feel even a little bit sorry for him.
plotly (Python and R) and ggplot (R) can do SVG. Its increadibly useful for generating rescaleable web views.
The spec has already been released.
Well, if I had observed all of it, I would be implicated, wouldn't I?

Most of the material comes second-hand. It's not hard to open up a biography of a powerful figure and dissect it.
There are psychos on all platforms. The double standard is horrible.

Basically, if you leave the reservation / aren’t in the old boys club, you’re toast. (Provided you become popular enough to get noticed)
Are there any cons at all to purchasing through smile vs regular Amazon?
Nothing extraordinary about it. I don't know whether Facebook was deliberately designed to make people unhappy, but it does:

https://www.upmc.com/media/news/lin-primack-sm-depression

"Social Media Use Associated With Depression Among U.S. Young Adults"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3477910/

"There is increasing evidence that the Internet and social media can influence suicide-related behavior. "
As about a dozen people in this thread have already patiently explained, Google investigated the accusations and found them credible. If you have evidence to the contrary, which Google didn’t have at the time of its investigation, kindly present it.
Haven't seen Michael on here for a while. Good stuff.
This is batshit insane.

There’s exactly one thing a middleman company like this is supposed to be useful for, which is facilitating the transaction and standing behind it.

I have no idea why anyone is defending this company, their policy is obviously unethical unless they have very visible clear disclaimers equal in weight to their other communications saying they aren’t responsible for the renter stealing from you. In which case it’s just a dumb business model.
Thanks! Do you think it's safe to run production databases on docker containers? I think I've read elsewhere that is not, but as I said I'm a total beginner on DevOps stuff.
CDMA parents have probably all expired since it's over 20 years old.
It stores encrypted messages server side until all of your devices have downloaded it or some time period has passed (not sure how long, based on my limited observations, maybe around a month?).

About having to click on images to download them: it should automatically download pictures unless you don't have the sender in your contacts. Auto downloading on cellualr networks might be disabled by default though.
Nope, the prices are the same on both sites.
this is a very weird take. I've been on Reddit for 6+ years and if anything it's gotten way way more diverse than just "gaming".
If they are owed any royalties, they will continue accruing until judgement. It wouldn’t make any sense to get an injunction.
OFDM was invented at Bell Labs in the early 1960s.

Anyway, one of their most litigated patents is as follows.

>In a data communication system capable of
variable rate transmission, high rate packet data trans-
mission improves utilization of the forward link and de-
creases the transmission delay. Data transmission on
the forward link is time multiplexed and the base station
transmits at the highest data rate supported by the for-
ward link at each time slot to one mobile station. The
data rate is determined by the largest C/I measurement
of the forward link signals as measured at the mobile
station. Upon determination of a data packet received
in error, the mobile station transmits a NACK message
back to the base station. The NACK message results in
retransmission of the data packet received in error. The
data packets can be transmitted out of sequence by the
use of sequence number to identify each data unit within
the data packets.

That's the entire thing. No math, no "show your work". Just that paragraph.
I don't think r/the_donald is quarantined.

There was some issue with sticky threads not rising as much to the r/all that impacted r/the_donald, but otherwise, I can still see posts from that sub on the front page though I do have to scroll quite a bit.
Too bad I can't remove Facebook from my Galaxy S7 edge originally; had to root to remove some ads. Who the fuck decided it would be a good idea to prevent the removal of bloatware on this shit? It's like a worse version of the Superfish adware.
What's a solid language choice for targetting wasm if I want to kick the tires? Go?
What is your qualification for "protecting" privacy? Clearly Signal has improved privacy compared to other messaging platforms as has been proven by subpoenas by law enforcement. That, in my mind, qualifies as privacy protection over many other messaging solutions that have not been proven or failed in that arena.

Claiming Signal doesn't protect privacy because: phone numbers is an opinion given you haven't qualified your argument.

Finally their goal is not predicated on what you claim just because you claim it. You're effectively creating a false argument so you can justify your position.
You should have sympathy for the guy. Maybe he didn't do everything right to protect himself but he entered that transaction in good faith and was screwed over by the company and by the renter.

I think it's a bad tendency to blame victims because they weren't savvy enough. KitSplit seem to be just a bunch of a..holes who don't take responsibility for their business.
Appears to be replacing "mixin magic" with "useState" and "useEffect" bullshit. What is this? It does not seem to be any sort of improvement on the existing structure; sneaky side-effects and requiring a linter is the wrong direction IMHO.
> additional steps would make me very slow too

Your real choices are: "fast and buggy" vs "slow and correct".

What is your preference?

> I offered to walk the reviewer through my code

Walking reviewer through your code is a good exercise. Code review of complex change should be done in interactive session (code reviewer + coder). There is so much to learn for both sides in such session.

https://dennisgorelik.dreamwidth.org/161605.html
Quick notes... The threads feature is in proposed status vs others that are in implementation status [0], but I assume this has been implemented before things like multi-value. I wonder why threads first, I assume just for experimentation. It should be noted that threads are essentially atomic memory accesses and wait/notify, nothing for starting a worker inside of WASM or anything, that is still in JS land. The test cases don't appear to include wait/wake nor does the test case interpreter that I saw [1]. Also, "Report issues" in the blog post links to https://TBD.

0 - https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals
1 - https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads
Executive employment contracts are a whole other universe away from what the rank and file gets. How do people not know this?

Google for "golden parachute" and "termination clause", e.g. https://www.thebalancecareers.com/golden-parachute-2276017. Yes, when you're valuable enough, you can actually require as part of your employment agreement that your employer pay you massive amounts of money for being terminated, even if it's for cause. Had they tried not to pay out the golden parachute, it would have been an open and shut case ending in a loss for them. (And, believe me, they wouldn't have been even remotely tempted to try because every executive there also has their own personal golden parachute.)
Qualcomm is such an annoying company to work with. They are rapidly turning into rent-seeking trolls (I've heard co-workers joke that Qualcomm is a law firm with a few engineers)
No, it's due to performance. C++ oop is somewhat close to the idea (purists don't say that it's not) without sacrificing too much perf. Objective-C spends like half of CPU time in objc_msgSend. And that's ignoring the cost of "far" jumps.
Some people don't have the ability to not be concerned with politics.
That link is broken, but archive.org has it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100713132640/http://publicatio...
I've read his book cover to cover and have enjoyed and learnt from a number of the concepts he discusses.

That being said, after recently reading "Out of the tarpit" and being a long time Rich Hickey fan, I completely agree that the model of complexity presented by the book feels simplistic.

I can't quite put my finger on why though. Maybe cause complexity in software has a lot more to do with understanding the problem domain rather than just the structure of the code. IMO it was worth the read, but I was slightly disappointed and it was without a doubt not a be all end all reference. (And it would be unfair to expect it to be.)
If the creators are listening in - do you have any plans to include the text of the court docs as well?
It's really not "now", it's just that the tables have turned. For the previous two terms, the other party was in power, and the out-of-power people could only whinge about it. And that's the same thing that's happening now.
Porn has always been the earliest adopters of technology. While porn actors may be individually replaced by deep agents, actual porn sales will do fine, especially since extremely targeted pornography will be in everyone's budget.

A market for verifiable human pornography will exist alongside the new porn.

Also, have we already dubbed virtual ML pornography "deep throat"?
Not for you, but if you click on any affiliate links, I believe they’re reset on Amazon smile so the site/whatever won’t get their slice.
Hi! I'm a developer on this project. Happy to answer questions for the next hour or so, and I'll check back tomorrow as well.

This is a first public release and the Harvard Library Innovation Lab is a small team, so please look at the site as just the beginning! In particular we're starting by targeting developers with an API and bulk data downloads. More user friendly features like a front-end browser, PDF scans, ngram browser, etc. are on the roadmap, but we're hoping other developers will step in and build some great tools as well.