skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Web browsers have an "implied license": https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Field_v._Google,_Inc. and (I believe, but don't quote me on this) the law was amended shortly after this case to clarify the permissions/limit liability of web browsers & ISPs.

A third-party application doesn't have the same permissions/protections. Copyright law doesn't always require the author's permission though. If you don't have permission you can still display the content if you have a legal justification. The Fair Use Doctrine is the set of factors to determine whether or not publication without permission is justified.

The transformative nature of the publication is only one factor, although it's the most important. Another factor working in OP's favor is that the use is non-commercial. He says in his blog post that he maintains the site on his own in his spare time, doesn't charge users to download the app, and from what I can tell, doesn't have any ads.

I really think OP could make some small changes and get it approved by the app store.
I think only a fringe call that a scandal since it doesn't involve outright deception. It all depends on whether you think someone should save people from themselves.

Sugar has probably killed more than millions, which has definitely been driven by corporate profits and gaming the system (substituting sugar for fat). But again, Coke Cola and Mars (and yes, Nestle) haven't been consider a scandal yet.
Google's version is half the size of Facebook's! I love that some engineer went to the trouble of saving four bytes.
Princeton lightwave is also reportedly doing scanning flash even with 1550nm GmAPDs. Note that spads in InGaAs have much higher dark count rates (i think due to poorer crystal growth technology?)
My thoughts exactly.

I've mostly worked in small companies with tiny engineering teams but I've had a go at some larger companies as well. Personally I thrive in the small companies and wither in the large ones. In the small companies I tend to spend a large part of my day writing code (which I love), meetings are rare and typically to the point. In the big companies I've found it hard to find stuff to do and the meetings are many and repetitive. It seems to me that the bigger companies hire for redundancy. In the largest company I worked for (~3k ppl) I typically received >100 emails/day + dozens of slack channels. In my current job we're 8 ppl and I rarely get more than 1 email/week :)!
So this is mostly about Gitlab EE/Github Enterprise in an enterprise setting:

1. Control of your data. You get to keep your code on your servers and don't have to worry about Github themselves being breached.

2. PR workflows to enforce code reviews. Also a central place to view them. Also it links to JIRA so you can go from a ticket to a code review.

3. Finding internal clients (more useful for big companies were you might not know all of them). "Hey, there's a security bug in InternalLib 3.5 and we need everyone to update to 3.6. Who's using it?". Hey, who owns/uses "m-asd-indexer.dc1.mycompany.com".

4. Familiarity. Most devs these days are at least aware of how open source github workflows work, as opposed to email + patches or other approaches.

5. Global search. "Oh, hey, InternalProcessor 4.6 is doing something odd when we call internalDooDad.foo(bar) . Let's go search for that and figure out if we can understand the behaviour". "Hey, we've standardised on service X for access control, how have other projects integrated it?"
>Now, we need all kinds of tricks, add-ons and blocks to just read five-minute posts during our commute.

Is this only a thing for phones? I never use my phone for web browsing, but I use my web browser. All I have on that is uBlock Origin and I have always found Medium pages completely clean and pleasant to look at with no clutter or ads.
The Triangle has a number of good schools: Duke and UNC are both in the top 25 CS programs in the US. I've worked with some NCSU CS grads in the past and they've also been great.
I am not sure if I agree with you on wage distributions.

Sure, Google and FB pay more and so do top investment banks / hedge funds in math/stat/algo positions . However, those simply are not the bulk of fintech employees.

The majority of fintech SDEs at GS,Morgan,etc. are working on software engineering and maintenance work. These roles pay closer to the $100k number than Amazon's quoted $150k. At least for new hires.
I don't think construction costs are a multiplier of payroll taxes as far as the city government is concerned, and the folks at Amazon making big money would be employed regardless. Yes, some people will move into NYC for these jobs, but many of them will just move from another NYC firm to Amazon, maybe for a small raise. It's very conceivable that the folks moving within NYC will have a payroll tax increase of less than $6k.
It looks like I wasn't clear - I'm suggesting an in-browser app independent of iOS and the app store.
Your book sounds interesting! How to keep a track of your project?
Duke and UNC are tiny CS programs. I went to NC State, and it's definitely not in the same tier for undergrad.
No, why would you? It would probably be seen as somewhat rude but harmless at worst, similar to e.g. making fun of Rick and Morty fans or making fun of people who dress like it’s still 1969.
the best answer is the town should just have a vote, "we're going to offer between x and y incentives. yes/no?". That's the easiest and most appropriate way to handle it, let the town decide they're the ones paying the taxes anyway. If the people want to go for it then fine.
No blog post yet, but the functionality is there
Calling formatted lists with headers and clipart a chart is quite a stretch.
Target hacked
Pirating Windows is not realistic for most people? From my experience, paying for Windows is what is not realistic for most people.
My favorite dragon-related thing I saw this year was by far Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (https://myanimelist.net/anime/33206/Kobayashi-san_Chi_no_Mai... -- I prefer the JP dub)

> ... with a notorious preference for aristocratic or royal virgins.

#NotAllDragons are those lolicons...
Be safe and happy trails.
What we're talking about is the time spent putting together a report and emailing it to Amazon in this case. I'm not talking about jurisdiction shopping (which is gross whether it's corporate domiciles in DE, lawsuits in east TX, or if you want to make the case that's what HQ 2's process amounted to).

What was asked, and what I answered, was how to account for the time of municipalities that answered the RFP. Since they do not have to actually offer any of the proposed subsidies since they lost, then I think it's fair to assign no value to the cost. If you disagree, please feel free to tell me what price they paid instead of downvoting.
Allowing it starts a race to the bottom. Playing city off city to bypass planning, get subsidies, preferential infrastructure. And that's assuming we know where all the money's going. That's the thing with local government; it's a warren of people you've never heard of waiting to be inappropriately influenced.

In the end it's only a multinational and a very local economy getting a boost. The public purse as a whole takes a very serious hit.

Remember that Amazon needs to build this stuff somewhere. They don't need a subsidy to achieve this.

That is not to say that all subsidies all awful, they just need to be managed at the level where the people getting the benefit are the same as those paying the price.
> Additionally the window to compute the total net benefit is not bound to 10 years but for many decades, as long as Amazon is there. For instance over a 24 year window (how long they've been in Seattle) the required net additional tax revenue to break even would only be ~$2500 per year.

What discount rate are you using? My quick calculation is already pretty generous to Amazon, since they already get 10 years to generate the 25k jobs. Presumably, some portion of the $1.525 billion is available immediately for campus improvements etc. It's not worthwhile to project 24 years out, especially when considering the time value of money.

> And it's not just salaries that would generate this revenue, it's also property taxes and taxes on services providing for the HQ and employees.

Yes, I mentioned that increased consumption is likely taxable. The question again is whether this consumption would've happened anyway, by other companies, or by Amazon's future employees working at other companies.

> Increased rents and property prices are actually good for local government tax revenue.

Would you be in favor of widespread gentrification? It's not hard in an accounting sense to "optimize" the local tax revenue generated in New York. Just make it a city where cost of living is so high that only the wealthiest can afford to live there. In a city where affordable housing is already in very short supply, and homelessness is still a major problem, I'm not sure how "good" it is for the city to have to spend more on rent assistance.

The "effective property tax rate" in New York is ~0.8% (https://smartasset.com/taxes/new-york-property-tax-calculato...). To generate an additional $1k in property tax, the price of a property would have to increase $125k. Maybe good for the city, certainly not good for the middle-class and poor New Yorkers who have to contend with higher rents and cost of living.

EDIT: Not to mention that it's hard to see how increased rents lead to more revenue for the city. The state may be able to bring in more corporate tax income, but a more valuable property means that property owners can also claim more in depreciation etc.
> This is good for tech in the east coast. Fin-tech firms WILL HAVE TO compete against Amazon for (supposed) west coast wages, and could help build a much stronger tech industry than NYC has atm.

Amazon will represent a tiny portion of NYC's tech industry. Just a drop in the bucket. It won't move the dial much. Also fin-tech firms already compete with tech companies and they pay very well ( better than amazon ).

> Cornell tech much be so happy with their choice to open office on Roosevelt island. I can see them being the biggest winners out of this whole set of events. NYU is probably also happy, having acquired NYU poly a few years ago.

Neither cornell nor NYU needs amazon. It won't make a difference. The biggest winner will be amazon as they gain more political influence. That's what this move is about after all. Political influence in the two most important political centers of the US and the world.
When I interviewed at FAANG (Google, FB and Netflix specifically) I had the chance to talk to several managers as part of the process and most of them were highly technical (they were still involved with technical stuff, and/or had significant contributions in open source projects).
Not OP, but right now that age group is hampered with student loans up to their neck so to speak. They literally can not afford a kid. And yes, while there are a plethora of birth control methods available for free, nothing is 100%. I would imagine that the looming possibility of a kid, regardless of BC, is enough to keep younger people from having sex.
So, let them have their qur'ans, let them hate the infidels and strive for an islamic state?
So that’s why the Labour and the left wing media in the U.K. attacks anyone who calls them socialists and mocks them as perpetuating the red scare?

So either the Labour isn’t for socialists or they are hiding it to be palletable to their wide voting base.

The average Labour voter wants Denmark not Venezuela they want a better social democracy not breadlines and shooting people in the street.
What a lazy article...
It depends on the device. My company produces pacemakers and neuromodulation devices. I wouldn't want to hack the pacemaker but if I had a neuromodulation device I would totally hack it.
How exactly does one go about buying a router that is not going to turn evil? Is there some company with open source software and easy setup, or some other easy solution?
If you want good Swift code you should separate decisions from actions
I'm a bit confused and would love to hear you elaborate on your last paragraph.
People wonder why people look down on remote work, when someone is 'remote working' by being a primary caregiver to a baby.....
Ask HN: My company installed chef on all of our machines, should I be worried?
It happened by our OPS team, they installed chef via usb sticks and custom bash script. They are saying it's for automating the config for our VPN and the like.
I am still concerned about this, although they cleared it up it's not for surveillance. They stated in a later message that they can install surveillance software for sure, but should I be worried about the whole gig or just take it easy?
Microsoft November 2018 Patch Tuesday Fixes 12 Critical Vulnerabilities
Fair argument, but somehow I doubt you know too much about real-world finance. Not a lot of reason to be found there.

Frankly, I think the problem here is "too new" or "too many variables". I doubt any of these managers understand Black-Scholes, yet they would sign off on using it because it's established, even though applying it also lost lots of people lots of money.

"It outperformed" seems to me to be reason enough, in fact not using it something that outperforms could be construed as "mismanagement" just as well.
I wish Microsoft would modernize Windows to be a fully (or mostly) POSIX-compliant architecture like (almost?) every other OS in existence. It's a unicorn in that regard, and unicorns should stay extinct. ;-)
I find it useful for:

* Discoverability, in case you work in a company with thousands of repos

* Having discussions with multiple participants over a merge request

* Sometimes for communication its easier to provide a url pointing a given file/line, where someone can click and immediately see what you're talking about
"Point being, the life of a professional athlete in the making is (mostly) not glamorous or exciting, but rather a very narrow existence comprised of pure persistence and dedication to a small set of very specific movements and activities, repeated over and over."

Same as most professionals. But more reward. More risk. More need for innate qualities.

"...like to watch, even though we have no inclination to walk that road ourselves. In other words, they do it for us, sacrifice themselves for our redemption."

They "sacrifice" for fame and a comfortable lifestyle, just like everyone else.
It shouldn't be illegal to demonstrate that you are dumber than Jeff Bezos.

Really, this is what it comes down to...Bezos outplayed the cities. He'll never get a deal like this again, but since he only wants to make a splash like this once, there's no incentive for him to appear as a fair bargainer.
Hayek proposed a new amendment that would state, “Congress shall make no law authorizing government to take any discriminatory measures of coercion.” [1] Which would help end this sort of structural corruption.

Corporate welfare is one of the plainest examples of the state using its power to transfer wealth from the general population to the ablest and wealthiest among us. It’s immoral at a fundamental level, and as stated in TFA, corrupting the economy and society in this manner is a bipartisan practice.

[1] http://alex.kozinski.com/articles/Three_Amendments.pdf”
The vast majority of Windows is the home version that comes preinstalled on your $400 laptop
I think he's referring to the scale of left-right in Europe and South America. Meaning the "center" in Europe and South America has usually been more to the left of the "center" in the United States. So a Bay Area minimal-regulation, minimal-government libertarian would be far-right relative to the average right-wing "liberal" in Europe/SoAmerica, who might be ok with more market regulation and a safety net for the poor.
I can't speak for other governments, but the US feds use contractors for most facilities work, not direct employees.
Gmails team should use low end computers to test new interfaces like the new one which is super slow even on my i3 with 8Gb of ram.
Well, this is pretty great analysis, thank you. My only suggestion is to put your last paragraph, the summary, right at the top so people are more likely to stop being afraid of this stuff. (:
> Do you mean that you're able to compete because your location(hence, your salary) makes you a better value than someone who lives in an expensive region?

Exactly.
Lack of a good financial alternative to Quicken keeps my dad off of Linux, but the chasm between Linux desktops and Mac is huge (I wish it weren't so, as I'm very fond of the idea of a high-quality Linux desktop experience). It's not just the availability of apps, but the general quality of the offerings and overall user experience. A lot of this comes down to the fact that GTK and Qt are absolutely terrible compared to native Mac toolkits.

Another huge problem for Linux desktops is the lack of support for high-quality hardware--for example, I haven't found any Linux laptops with trackpads that are in the same ballpark as Macs' (and installing Linux on Macs and configuring/calibrating it to behave sanely is a huge pain).
Less so. If you want to play in MLB (and you do, because that's where any of the money is) then you have to move to where there's an MLB stadium - the team isn't going to move to you.

Whereas, there are many more software companies that pay roughly the same wages all of the world, and companies offer remote work, which will reduce the differentiation - but not eliminate it.
Thanks. And I agree with Bokeh being overkill for this. My original intention was to make it fully interactive but I hit some snags on keeping the interactivity through Pelican SSG so I just kept 'em static.
I didn't speak my mind immediately, for reasons mentioned above. These days I am slightly more vocal since I have less to lose, but I think the biggest damage has been done, the culture significantly shifted for the worse and it's a direct result of a "let's bring in adult supervision" decision.

Thanks for your other point, but this is the last startup I work at for a while, next one is going to be a big and stable company (hopefully a FAANG), with perhaps more politics but 1) more talent on average 2) more predictable financial outcome (being stuck in "maybe golden" handcuffs not knowing if it will all be worthless in the end really sucks).
Thank you very much for replying. I will take a look at the docs & github repo more closely and provide suggestions.
I mean I see your point but it works both ways, should German pensioners pay for the mistakes of bankers and successive Greek governments... really I’m a bit playing devils advocate I don’t think the Greek people should be paying either.
We have thought about this in my company a lot but it seems there is no money in hacking devices and it usually doesn't scale well. Some person may try to inflict damage on people just for the heck of it but that will probably be isolated cases. It's potentially much more profitable to hack patient databases but even there there are probably better targets in other industries.
My '97 Mazda, '02 BMW, and '15 Ford all disengage cruise when you clutch. What do you have that doesn't, and are you sure its clutch safety switch is actually working?
The paid for hosted version is AFAICT difficult to run reliably as well - especially the CI runners.

GitLab prioritize breadth over depth - i.e. new features over bug fixes.

As far as I can tell, their regression testing is sub-optimal. Expanding a diff on a code review was broken in two releases.
What's wrong with changing a few things at a time? Why should this project attempt to solve every problem at once? I can't imagine that resulting in a usable system, at least not in the next decade.
Unless the positions they leftto go to Amazon are made redundant, those will be refilled, also. You just take salary x jobs and apply tax regulations. That's the overall tax receipt effect. There are 25k additional jobs that are likely over 6 figures in salary.

The construction jobs come from building out the space and necessary infrastructure upgrades are paid positions that often are contract. They aren't permanent but they count for additional tax revenue. As is the revenue of the jobs created by the spending from the additional HQ2 positions (25k jobs requires X new lunch locations, Y new fitness trainers, etc). That is the halo effect.
humans also fail for all sorts of reasons that are unpredictable. if, for example, Waymo, demonstrates properly calculated lower accident rates with their cars than with humans, then at some point you have to agree with what the data says. We aren't there yet, but that doesn't mean we can't get there
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The language really should have a true immutable type (without freezing, etc.) and deep copy method built in, with as many caveats and parameters as needed. Coroutines would be awesome as well. (Yes, I'm thinking, "How could JavaScript be more like Go or Erlang?")

And then it needs to stop adding new features for at least a couple years so the world can catch up.
Also: I think it would be useful if you were to take this analysis and add it to the relevant wikpedia page that you cited: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_triangle_of_the_face It does say "While the disorder has become extremely uncommon with the development of antibiotics, it still carries a very small chance to develop a high risk of death..." but I don't think that does justice to the minuscule risk involved.
I doubt that - GitHub makes most of it's money from SaaS market I'd have thought.
While the attack is using things for a different purpose, using JSON to provide data to a website is totally legit.

I don't see how people could have prevented this without the knowledge of such an attack
"That said, I wouldn't understand the rationale behind someone who knowingly hacks a medical system for malicious intent. What honor is there in turning off someone's pacemaker? That just seems like murder but with a technological twist.

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Somebody may do this but with current devices it would be difficult to do this on large scale. Usually you need some level of proximity.
You could turn on noprocrast with a huge minaway and a small maxvisit to accomplish approximately the same thing.
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In my estimation, existing models are just oracles with less variables.

> One of many factors there was the way rating agencies gave very generous ratings to mortgage securities.

Garbage in, garbage out.
Italian engineering is truly incredible, producing some of the most cutting edge advances the world has seen... until they catch fire.
Navigating Our Thoughts: Fundamental Principles of Thinking
Experimentally, we have found that there are two choices for who runs a country:

1) Politicians who are greedy, self-centred and ruthless.

2) Politicians who are liars, greedy, self-centred and ruthless.

The big issue with "I like communism" (for socialism the argument changes) is that any time anyone tries it they try to appoint champions of the people to their ruling class and discover they have actually got liars and monsters. This doesn't happen because they got unlucky - this is because there are no champions of the people at that level of power. There are only people with incentives, and communism really screws up the incentive structure.

The best incentive structure, by far, is free markets and democracy, even if the people who rise to the top are all scum. Somehow, "by luck" (bah, people don't get incentives) it all works really well.
A gun may be easier for this purpose.