skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One important point not mentioned in the discussion of this has been the accumulation of vast parcels of land by venture capitalists during the last housing crisis. There are people sitting on huge amounts of land that they acquired at knock-down prices during the government fire-sale. Media coverage has focused on the outright corruption alleged to have occurred in some cases (google NAMA and scandal) but even in the "legal" transfer of land the Irish taxpayers have effectively subsidized the purchase of these landbanks by private investors.

It is probably time for compulsory purchase orders at prices fair to the taxpayers. Hopefully this will scare off other predators as Ireland becomes known as a bad place to do dirty business in.

((I am dreaming... that will never happen... the Irish public by-and-large are neoliberal true believers... these are the fruits of their dearly held ideology))
It seems that there is already a similar link available.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18533592&utm_term=comme...
As a software developer you tend to get very rapid feedback on whether your code is working compared to, say, engineers or scientists. Often you can test a change in code and see if it works almost instantly. Some languages force minute long compile cycles but even that is pretty fast compared to the months a scientist might have to work to test a guess. There might be more ceremony at the workplace but when you were learning to code you probably had immediate feedback.
> in 1999, even though the internet had been out a while and there had been lots of talk about e-commerce no one had really solved the problem particularly well in terms of providing a platform to the average Joe

I'm not sure why you focused on e-commerce as a use case, as well as the average Joe as the user. The article in question talks about them trying to find ANY industry use case. The Internet was useful pretty much from day 1. In the early 70s it already enabled digital file transfers and email communication. The use cases were easy to find...
Related, NIST's answer to do you need a block chain.

https://imgur.com/a/RlUj9Ed?third_party=1
Also forgot step 1a, which is get your subtitle right. The title at least is mildly interesting.
I don't see you disagreeing that the hypothetical voting shares via proxy is essentially more "passive" than the decision making they're doing now. I believe what you're saying is that they simply shouldn't vote at all.

I guess that's basically the most "passive" option, but it would have some weird results. I believe - and I'm well informed but not an expert when it comes to this - we'd find that at a lot of companies, if you take away the large institutional investors, the portion that remains includes a large number of activist shareholders of various stripes. Those activists would necessarily be strengthened in some ways by the majority of shareholders sitting out every vote.

There's an utterly pretentious Rush lyric that comes to mind, about choosing not to decide still being a choice, or something.

edit: I see that Bogle kind of hit the same point:
Limit the voting power of corporate shares held by index managers. But such a step would, in substance, transfer voting rights from corporate stock owners, who care about the long-term, to corporate stock renters, who do not... an absurd outcome.
That doesn’t have SFTP though, right?
Yes, thank you. I've updated my response with some examples of where I think that very thing is happening.
It's taking "opportunity cost" too literally.
Setting aside the questionable question of the CEO's motivations (they would happen in a young person as well, who would probably be in another company by then), the design of corporate governance is supposed to stop CEOs from making exactly that kind of terrible, self-interested decision. There is a board for a reason.
Presumably, there are interesting skills and experiences obtained from this project which can be applied to future projects or leveraged for a better / higher-paid day job. If the time investment is being valued at $60/hr, it's only fair to perform a valuation on the incremental training as well. This seems like a case where the numbers are easily skewed in either direction to fit a desired narrative.

Still, I acknowledge that it's very hard to spend a year of your life on something and only end up with $700 in-pocket.
Wow! Talk about not providing context for that quote!

The State's argument was voting hours were inconsistent across the state. The districts that offered additional voting opportunities, that other districts did not have, were predominantly African American and would vote Democratic.

So their answer was to ban Sunday voting so that every district had the same window of opportunity to vote.

One could argue that their solution wasn't the optimal one, but they were aiming to level the playing field.
The militarism I was referencing isn't defined so much in violence, but in values, organisational structure (, and fashion).

It's arguably worse for the trappings of the military (rigid hierarchy, loyalty as the core value, etc) to be used in the context of functions that are civilian by nature, such as science and diplomacy. The essence of life as it's portrayed is that of a benevolent military dictatorship.

I know Star Trek has some storylines grappling with some of these issues. But any allusions to civilian life I remember seem rather tacked-on. Politicians were usually frightened & helpless, in need of rescue. They did get to wear nicer clothes, though.

(this is almost exclusively based on TNG–I did not watch enough of the other incarnations to comment on those)
Because it is the last game. In any other game you need to pace your players to ensure that they are rested enough by the next game to play well, but in this game you can throw that all away as they will be rested. In the final minutes having a player do something that will break their leg might win and there is no downside to future games (there are of course ethical concerns).
You can can do this but for large data sets it would take ages and doesnt over come the main issue.

Lets say we are working with 10,000 rows

Yes loading that many elements into the DOM is slow and your approach would stop it blocking, however what it dosnt do is stop the sheer number of elements from overloading the DOM.

Most browsers simply cant handle that many elements in the DOM, if you try and scroll a div containing that may elements at best it will be sluggish and at worst it will simply crash the browser. on devices without much memory it is very likely that the whole DOM will freeze up and make the site unusable.

By adding and deleting the elements as they become visible/hidden it keeps the number of elements in the DOM to a minimum, while improving load time and adding only a bit of extra processing to the scroll event, which modern browsers can handle with ease. giving all round the best solution
No, it's the same product with enormous care for user transition. Right now I sit in a Skype chatroom continuously running since 2007.
They probably could benefit from some finance. Or at least factoring.
Currently making $17/hr pre-tax and it is liveable in my suburban area. With overtime which is generously available at 1.5x pay, I could afford to raise a family even, and this job feels much more stable than other tech industry jobs I've had in the past.

I currently work for Star Gas, which is a northeastern USA based company that delivers heating oil to over 600,000 customers with revenue of about 1B per year (but razor thin profit margins of about 55m per year).
This is important. I was considering a ketamine study but based on the results of naltrexone + ketamine I'm much more cautious and will wait for further studies.
Not really surprising, to be honest.

I'm really tired of the overused "blockchains are really slow databases" phrase. They're not, and if you're using one as that, you're doing it wrong almost 90% of the time.

Here's a great question to ask yourself if you need a blockchain:
Do I need game theoretical enforced security?

There are many networks and protocols that can be improved with such security mechanisms. There are more that can't be improved. Just in another thread, someone asked the question if Tor could be improved with it. There's plenty to experiment with here and figure out what makes a blockchain application great.

The entire idea is that you can incentivize good behavior and disincentivize or punish bad behavior. Consensus comes into play here when deciding, "Was this operation done correctly? If so, do this. If not, do that." This has the ability of enforcing correct operation in decentralized networks. My associates and I have taken to calling these "Decentralized Incentive Networks". Yes, there are many problems that have yet to be solved, but people are working on them. I'm really interested in seeing solutions to the oracle-problem, but I'm unsure if it will ever be solvable.

Even then, a lot of these applications won't be fit for enterprise (or even small business) use. Many of these applications will benefit (and survive) from community adoption and rely on being open source.

Hopefully, when the hype is gone, we will have made some really great technological advancements to peer-to-peer and distributed applications. This is where I think blockchain apps will find their niche.
I count 12 references listed on the front page of the patent, that's not overwhelming. The examiner did not consider the two additional references submitted in the 03/28/2016 IDS because they were submitted the day before the patent was published - long after the Examiner's job was completed and with probably too little time to put a printer rush in (to prevent the patent from being issued). Because of the precarious timing, the Examiner did their job correctly, and the filing attorney technically did their job too by submitting the IDS. It's up to a reexamination or contentious proceeding to resolve the patentability issue now. Due to the odd timing, it may be something that the Director (of the USPTO) could sua sponte order a reexam on, which they have the power to do, should they be so inclined.
They _just_ rebranded from Project Fi to Google Fi, and featured it on the google.com home page, so it seems safe for now.
The Simpson's cartoon did it first, and they didn't paraphrase[1].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=simpsons+fox+news+helicopter...
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So doomsday for part of the world or doomsday for the human race? The parent's claim was we have ten years or we face doomsday without qualifications.

As for migrating to cooler climates , what is the time scale? A century? 50 years? 20 years? What about technological solutions that come into existence during that time frame? Are we going to discount them?

Doomsday implies the human race can't adapt.
But it doesn't do SMS on the desktop.
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For some people, their phone is their everything, not just a phone, but their computer, they use it for email, net browsing, watching movies on youtube, listening to music. They don't have desktop, nor laptop or cable.
Well, with C# and Linq with Mongo (you did day “other NoSQL” data stores) you can mock out the provider and test your Linq queries by substituting the IMongoQueryable<T> with a List<T>. ElasticLinq is a thing but I’ve heard mixed things about it.
This. Non-embedded software folks are far too quick to assume everything is consumer-grade crap.

Is there military crap? Sure. But part of the reason for double-price contracts is hardening and properly securing software.

Folks don't just sit at the Naval War College twiddling their fingers.
I love this level on Mirrors Edge
They set out on a 4 year journey to improve their ETL, but didn't take 1 second to change a conservative global config default.
Can barely take the rest of the article seriously after a blunder like that
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I wonder what they would say if they were posting on HN. Here, people who lack money are usually the 'other' about whom we talk, often in stereotypes. But these are a large number of individuals, each with their own widely varying needs and situations; the only way to learn about someone is to ask. Certainly, to understand me, I would not want anyone to rely on what my neighbors say.

The parent comment presumes knowing about these people, what they need, what they should do, and that it's your business to change them. That's a lot of judgment and on very little information.

I also am not a fan of the idea that people in poverty should spend no money on pleasures, that they must live as aesthetes their whole lives - almost as a sort of penance or to prove their dedication. These are people's lives; I hope they enjoy them and I'm certainly not the one to judge them for it.
Well, in airbnb's opinion, they violated the TOS. I never said that it was proven.
Well put. Block chain certainly has applications but they're almost entirely a design choice.

The reality of block chains is that they'll always be complicated enough that there will always be a man in the middle. Mt. Gox demonstrated that block chains will always be exploitable because the man in the middle is easily compromised. And anything that's worth going to the trouble of protecting with block chain is worth compromising.
It's a joke based on the perception of crackpotishhness I got from OP's advice.
Thank you for adding this context. Some people appear to be dead set on spreading misinformation on issues like this.
The Manhunter games were probably the weirdest ones from Sierra that no one really remembers...
Oh, I didn't know that fact. My mind has changed now. Going to a college to be taught by various professors is similar to food, water, and shelter. I'm convinced.
I only see Java source code here. Is ObjectBox Java the same database code as ObjectBox Go?

EDIT: I see the 'objectbox-go' repo has a separate set of perf tests, but only for ObjectBox Go -- not either of the unnamed "NoSQL" competitors, nor for SQLite.
I don't think they're excluding hatchbacks/wagons/fastbacks from "sedans" in this article. They really just mean not-trucks/SUVs.
Currently Hi-Rez Studios at least has the rights to distribute the full series, since they legally have the ISOs available to download as a promotion for Tribes: Ascend. https://www.tribesuniverse.com
This isn't an area I'm experienced with, but there seems to be some rather obvious problems and I suspect there are far more than I'm considering in this brief thought exercise.

The price of the illegally imported equivalents will be substantially lower than those legally imported by the manufacturer.

This will have the effect of driving down the FMV of the vehicle in the region.

But if the manufacturer can't afford to match that FMV because of legal trade and transport overheads, the effect will be reduced sales of the vehicle in the region overall, because the illegal channels obviously can't operate on a large enough scale to 100% replace the legal channel from the manufacturer's perspective.

The illegal channel doesn't have to (and won't) operate at legal-replacement scales to impact the region's perception of the vehicle's FMV.

Also consider what effect it may have on potential buyers interested in buying legally, but exposed to news of the imported brand being so overpriced and so desirable that there's a substantial illicit market emerging to fulfill that demand. The honest consumer might be completely turned off by this, thinking their new car may be a theft target because it's this desirable import brand people are committing risky trade crimes just to sell as new in the country.

The situation seems likely to harm the overall sales volume for the region.
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> he's the only Uber driver for whom I've given a 1 star rating

Why would you give that interaction any stars at all?
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Same stuff basically minus the cannabis. Honest question: did you check your hormone levels? Especially the testosterone and thyroid? I was browsing youtube couple of months ago when I came across this podcast [1] and everything that this guy talked about seemed like it was everything that I'm experiencing.

I went ahead and checked my hormones. Sure enough I'm low on testosterone with a measure of 3.2 where the lower limit is 9.6 with the upper of 23 so I'm just 30%~ of the lower limit. It may be a long shot but the chemistry checks out and I will give it a try.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wlvoWASBD4&t=395s

P.S. Just read your bio so testosterone might be out of the question, still...check your hormones :)
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In my experience, poorly - the number of default passwords, copied-because-i-don't-know-what-it-does configurations, weird setups, lack of backups, backups to a local disk, backups to a mounted locally disk, etc. I've seen is shocking.

The fact that anything works has gotten way weirder to me as I've gotten older - I've seen a bunch of codebases and persistence setups, and it all seems so fragile.
Anyone know the odds of the floppies still working? I'm guessing some will and some won't. They must be nearing or past expiration date...
Introducing Unity’s Guiding Principles for Ethical AI
Recent state legislation in California has legalized backyard cottages in many places they used to be illegal, including some places where the housing crisis is worst. I know a homeowner who is making use of that new law to build a backyard unit. This is a long, difficult, and expensive process. Hiring an architect, finding a contractor to build it, etc. There are not nearly enough construction workers locally, they can’t afford to live here.

Prefab backyard homes could be part of the solution - and at scale could make a big difference.
Game Engine Maker Unity Publishes Six 'Guiding Principles for Ethical AI'
I had the same thing happen: They co7uldn't take me from contract to permanent at the pay rate I was getting contract, but they could hire TWO younger men to replace me (both of whom left after six months of 10 hour days, 6 days a week at lowball salary.)
I want to unpack a few assumptions before responding.

1) There are 150 million vehicles which can be remotely controlled via the vehicle manufacturer's software, which has generally mediocre application security.

2) The software in question is vulnerable to SQL injection, allowing up to 150 million vehicles to be remotely commandeered by a small group of attackers.

3) No hostages are taken and no owners of cars are deliberately harmed, because this is an application security scenario and not a kidnapping scenario (which is orthogonal).

The scenario you've posed is oddly florid...thinking through it, no, I don't think the robbery of 150 million vehicles is as serious as a bridge collapse with 50 (presumably occupied) vehicles on it.

Speaking more directly to the point - I think this is a really poor comparison. Logistically speaking it's hard to take seriously the idea that 150 million cars would actually be stolen because of any single SQL injection vulnerability. SQL injection is really bad, but it doesn't directly result in injury or loss of life. It's also hard to conceive of a situation in which SQL injection has the potential to cause systemic collapse like you're describing...maybe SQL injection to a database containing credentials that have write access to a server which can launch ICBMs?

In the modal case, I think it's okay to admit that application security is not as serious a concern as architectural stability. But this entire discussion is pretty much a sideshow; we can just all agree that security needs to be taken seriously and that some bureaucratic scar tissue is okay to make that happen.
Why is everything I read from Microsoft something I have to translate into what actually is reality. It's exhausting.
What new consumer software products have come out in the last year from google?
Easy: take the original comment literally and make the interface like Tree Style Tabs [0].

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
It's zero in the number of significant figures used by the test equipment.
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You might want to look at daedtech.com, it's the blog of a software consultant who has a lot to say on the topic of starting your own consulting business.
From a global perspective (rather than US- or China-specific), what exactly is the cost of IP theft? Obviously, the reduced incentives to do R&D (if you cannot monetize it as well, you'll invest less). That by itself could be pretty devastating.

On the other hand, what are the advantages of IP theft? One that I can see is that it creates more competition. I don't know if it helps much in the long run though: if the competitors are just copying the leader, it's probably not adding any value.

Any other pros and cons?
VR goggles are dead.[1] At least for this generation.

[1] https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/proof-vr-sales-numbe...
Waiting for the revolution in physics (2010)
How perfect: he used Elephant Memory Systems floppy disks -- they never forget!

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/s-l16...

I loved my Elephant t-shirt!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/603919849/vintage-80s-1981-elep...
Americans being larger physically and more likely to be overweight probably also has a pretty large effect.
social cost = effects on family, close friends and relatives, and occasionally society in general.
What crime might that be?
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First, what's the legal status of this code?

Second, should we do an immediate crowd funding campaign to purchase this, and make the contents available to everyone?
Check out the reviews of the game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/528930/Fruit_for_the_Vill...

There are three reviews and they are all negative. Maybe the only reason he didn't make money is it's just not a good game.
Unsurprisingly, consumers and enterprise want, and use, different products, and in different ways.
Too bad the premise for this post is completely uncited:

> the rig was positioned as if the coordinates were in the Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system when, in actuality, they were in transverse Mercator projection[citation needed]