skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$5K is large for a US company IMHO, but I don't work in CA. It's still a tiny incentive and peanuts compared to how much the lawyer and the PTO get paid for your patent. You know why they pay you? Two reasons. One is as an incentive - people get all excited about little 1K bonuses. The other is that they are effectively "buying" your idea. That whole bit about the assignee? Yeah, no. In the US, the inventor is legally the "owner" of the patent (IANAL so wording...). They have to give you something in return for it. The monetary award and the associated documentation is to prove you made a fair exchange.

My understanding (again IANAL) is that even if you sign documents with your company agreeing that they own all your innovation while employed, you are still legally the assignee for your patents. If you run off and patent something while employed and don't sign over a patent they want, you will be in breach of whatever contract/document you signed, but until any conflict is resolved it's not their patent until you assign it to them.

Accepting the "patent bonus" is a way of having you confirm the transfer of your IP to them. It legally finalizes the deal you made when you hired in and signed that bullshit IP document. From their side it's a tiny price to pay for that.

I'm sure a real lawyer can iron out the details I didn't get right in the above.
>I won't claim it is fun to move,

The logistics of moving aren't the issue. It's the social disruption of uprooting yourself, having to make decisions about what your spouse will do about their job, having to transfer your kids to a new school when they're still learning how to socialize and form bonds with people, leaving your friends and community behind, etc.
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> Why I care about ASCII here? Because programming language source code is still written in that, and it's also those symbols that appear on standard US keyboard layout.

None of the programming languages I've used in the last ten years, save perhaps brainfuck, used ASCII. It was all unicode, either through explicit configuration atop the source code file, or e.g. UTF-8 by default.
I've been working on a course recently [1] on Building an App from Scratch Using Ruby on Rails (not revolutionary I know, but needed to start somewhere).

Building a truly great course is pretty difficult.

[1] https://www.nimblehq.com
I think the visual and audio effects are implemented by reusing the test programs. Just like late 80s home computers and today's microcontrollers, a basic visual and audio demo was pretty common on large computers back to those days. But yeah, it still may have taken days or at least hours.
As for prices rising - increased demand in a flexible commodity do not result in prices rising, but falling. Economies of scale, right? So many of the things that folks spend UBI money on, will get cheaper.
Index fund investors are classified as "passive investors," while others are "active investors."

The main investment risk to index funds growing is that, if everybody is a passive investor, then the passive investors are worse off as there are very few active investors who actually try and value companies appropriately.

On the other hand, if the market is littered with active investors, then the market is likely more efficient and 'correct', and so you're (probably) better off as a passive investor.
Marriott says 500M Starwood guest records stolen in massive data breach
From what I’ve read of Jordan Peterson, he seems like a reasonable guy on many topics, but I don’t agree with Darwinian Truth. The only truth is what I experience. Everything outside of that is a game of language, including Jordan Peterson’s and Harris’s arguments.

I don’t see how invoking Jordan Peterson’s ‘Darwinian Truth’ gives any weight to the claim that all the universe is love. I would agree that you could indeed hold it to be an axiom.

You might believe that it is beneficial for humans to hold this axiom to be true and act accordingly, but this is still your subjective opinion. It supposes that humans are a worthy universal end, and the axiom remains an axiom.

I don’t know what you mean by unbroken maternal lineage. My maternal experience was very much broken. From what my mother has told me, so was hers.

What is the extension of deep inner child maternal love to encompass the test of humanity? Is it not just another way of saying that you just wish that everything were hunky dory? Things don’t seem to work that way in Darwin’s world.

I don’t want to disregard the idea of unconditional love for family and beyond. Many people can afford it. However, many people can’t, and it isn’t a truth that we must strive towards either.

There is a multitude of subjective value systems which man has chosen to live by, ostensibly, collectively and in private. Some have chosen to build empires, never having children. Some have chosen to build loving families. In neither case is it guaranteed that a majority will wake up smiling and feeling happy every day. That’s fine too.
Do you mean skeptic? Hypochondriacs often like to see doctors.
Amazon just launched their Time Series DB. It is probably worth a look.
don't worry, that is not true! you absolutely can load local unsigned extensions! that's how they are developed ;(
I only ever took one course in university on linear algebra and numerical methods, and I'm an electronic engineering student. But my hobbies (mathematical classical and Marxian economics) necessitate a deep understanding of matrices, sets and vector algebra. I hope this will help me!
Faculty at my CS school had a term "CCCC" that was used to describe some students who would not meet your CRUD app criteria:

Can't Count, Can't Code
Really amazing how Monzo is informing it's customers who might be affected: https://monzo.com/blog/2018/11/30/marriott-data-breach/
* routine buffer tweak is soho speak.
* defaults don't work esp in mixed nfs 3/4 on linux across mixed 1/10 gb segment subnet boundaries. Try and get back to me. You will DOS your file service.
* krb5p standard? First I've heard of it. FreeBSD won't do krb5p at nfs4 vanilla via linux nfs server.
* Would never do it again. gluster is a shit storm of problems but nice when it works.
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Is there anything legally preventing these funds from having some kind of system where you have fractional voting rights proportional to your number of shares in the mutual fund vs. the weight of the company in the index it represent?
e.g.
You have 100 shares of a mutual fund that has 1% of its holdings in some company- thus you have 1 vote for that company's shareholder ballot, or whatever the fractional representation based on market cap would come out to.
I'm not sure if a single holder of funds can cast "partial votes" in each direction though.
Either way, it seems like a problem that could be fixed through technology.
For those interested in a feature comparison I did one here:

https://kubedex.com/kubernetes-network-plugins/
The Best Self Journal is a great tool for setting and achieving goals. Check it here: https://bestself.co/
How did you find clickhouse vs drill/dremio? Have you tried maybe both and compared them?
hmm, they say they reported it to the regulatory authorities at the time of the incident. So i guess they are safe on that one.
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For people whose credit cards don’t hold them liable for fraudulent charges (everyone I know of in the US), I feel like it’s a waste of time. Check your statements monthly and/or setup push notifications and if your account # is compromised, call the bank, dispute the charges and have them mail you a new card.
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I mean core language keywords and operators, not strings or custom variable names. The core set is limited set for good reason, but a few more symbols could have helped, e.g. degree symbol is very common and could have been used for angles.

Did you know in C++ you can have a variables named as emoji? It compiles with clang++ with -std=c++11 :)

APL is a famous non-ASCII based programming language using arrows and such, but very difficult to type on a modern computer of course. Other than esoteric languages, I don't know any modern programming languages using non-ASCII symbols in core keywords and operators.
These arent separate, situations do not exist in a bubble.

These are Apple taking aggressive measures toward developers. Squeezing them and potentially blocking them from perfectly legitimate apps.
Thank you, this looks like just the kind of thing I've been looking for!
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React Table[0] is a nice possible alternative.

https://react-table.js.org/
I find the “Haunting of the Hill House” to be really, really good. Not perfect by any means, but definitely above average. I’ve also heard good things about “Casa del papel” and about some of their documentaries. I personally think they’re the best thing that has happened to us movie-buffs in the last 15-20 years, since HBO first started to broadcast shows like “Oz” and “The Sopranos”.

Though I’m pretty sure they do have their blank spots, too, just wanted to say that there’s also quality in their offer.
It mentions mixmaster and mixminion, but those projects seem to have died. I feel like they are needed more than ever.
Control characters are still extremely common in embedded codes such as DataMatrix or QR Code.

https://www.gs1.org/standards/barcodes

I would extrapolate that RFID uses similar encoding, but I have no experience there.
My take on it is as long as there are instruments to abuse there will be unethical people to do so. Patent law and drug prohibition are equivalent, to me, in this way. They create unnatural economic sectors where unethical behavior is favored.
Not entirely on topic, but Marriott seems to be dealing with some internal phone abuse issues as well - calls going directly to hotel rooms (bypassing the front desk) and asking for card details to fix broken incidentals records. I got a call like this yesterday and found out that it's enough of an issue that they've printed out signs in the lobby warning guests to not hand out information.
They don't do any of that. Waitpeople aren't magical happiness-producers, they're just pleasant and make sure your glass is refilled and ask if you need anything. Which would just be my Australian experience talking if it hadn't been exactly the same when I was in the U.S. Waitstaff aren't magical concierges of euphoria, they're just nice and bring you more coffee.

As you say, the real difference is whether the waitperson is an employee of the restaurant who is paid by them to look after you, or whether they're an independent contractor who resells the kitchen to you at the table as a service. The service produced is generally the same, IME, but in the U.S. model you have to negotiate with two different contractors while each is trying to push the costs onto the other. Ugh.
I'm sure it's not easy. Even if you're writing from scratch. Imagine you're making a new travel site. You add the any size name field. But, you have to send that name to airlines, hotels, car rentals, credit card companies, all of which will have different limits.
Oh God I was introduced to this parsing attachment names from raw SMTP emails. You think it's all fine until suddenly you come across a UTF-7-encoded UTF-8 filename...
Here are details of the patents filed:
https://patents.justia.com/inventor/ali-javan-javidan
> can it price equity risk accurately?

When was the last time they did that anyway? Or tried? For a while, Wall Street has been more interested in predictability or volatility than in actual risk. They flat-out don't care whether an investment will tank, so long as they can predict (or sometimes even control) the timing. Or use some minute technological advantage to reap the rewards before someone else does. The very nature of hedge funds is to be good at measuring potential arbitrage rewards, not actual risk. Copycat behavior only exacerbates a problem that already existed.
this. from experience, the group at AMO does a good job even tho it's unpraised and when working well it's basically transparent. so i don't think they deserve all this heat (unless attempts to correct the mistake reveal some actual conspiracy ;)
Is it time for us to simply accept that it's inevitable that, at some point, everything will be hacked, and hacked often?

Should we be focusing our efforts more on how to make "identity theft" (i.e. fraud) more difficult, even when someone knows all your data?

Something more tied to your physical self, whether 2FA or something else?
>For example at 90% humidity the temperature limit is 35℃.

This seems weird.
A lot of tropical places are both hotter and more humid than this limit, and people seem to have adapted.
In addition to that, using <table> gives you out-of-the-box Excel file export because .xlsx files (which are basically zipped XML files) support HTML tables.
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But different companies use different forms of visitor NDA — and lawyers purely love to load up contract forms with "protective" language to show how knowledgeable they are. This can be dangerous to counterparties; Stanford, in effect, lost part-ownership of a patent for HIV diagnostic testing because a Stanford investigator signed a visitor NDA that included IP-assignment language [0]. The case went all the way to the (U.S.) Supreme Court (about a tangential statutory issue).

The lesson: Always RTFA before signing it (where the A stands for the agreement), because sadly there's no such thing as an accepted, named standard.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University_v._Roche_M...
Sure, as long as there are some individuals or firms who are not invested into index funds. Theoretically they might even prefer this situation, since if they can accurately price equity risk they will make more money if everyone else is wrong.
What a scumbag (Jill MacKay, not Jie Qi).
I was simply commenting in reply to the statement, "Any time I see this kind of esoteric research..."

My education in mathematics goes to calculus, and I am aware of the complexities of higher orders of mathematics such as what is used in physics, but I never had considered the field to be "esoteric".
There's definitely a race to the bottom going on with the free Fidelity funds and Vanguard reducing the dollar minimum by 70% for a lot of admiral shares.
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"Neo's Noodle Soup"

In a large pot over medium heat, melt butter. Cook onion and celery in butter until just tender, 5 minutes.

Pour in chicken and vegetable broths and stir in chicken, noodles, carrots, basil, oregano, salt and pepper.

Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes before serving.

There is no spoon.
Let me rephrase: the waiters are the customer facing employees of a restaurant. They are no more working for the customer than a till worker in a shop is, or a help-desk employee is. Therefore, the onus is on the restaurant to provide compensation for their time, not on the customer.
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My name is too long to fit on the Australian customs forms when I return from holiday. I just omit my middle names. I've yet to be refused entry.
Actually, all examples of consciousness can be explained as if we're all automatons. There's nothing we do which isn't produced (so far as we know) by physical (and therefore mechanistic) functions of the brain and body.

"Consciousness" is something that we experience, but it's not required to explain anything at all that's observed.
Start with writing the best blog post or medium article in the world on the thing you are most passionate about (and hopefully have skill in).

Ask for comments, feedback or if anyone cares at the end.

Then promote the shit out of that one piece of content.

Then listen.

If all you get is crickets, then you know there isn't much there.

The hope though is lots of conversations startup from that one awesome piece of content.

Best of luck!

--harris
This doesn't deserve to be downvoted. The quickest way to combat fingerprinting is to hide in the crowd, which has value without requiring buy-in from other users; randomization as fingerprint deterrence only works once you have a critical mass of people using it.
I guess this is a perfect illustration of the difference in perception, because I wrote that thinking "the waiter works for the establishment (for pittance) and you tip (bribe) them for better service (nicer treatment).
If you enable privacy.resistFingerprinting recaptcha becomes much harder and it always asks for multiple captchas.
Device fingerprinting (and cache attacks) could still connect the different profiles unless you change more parameters than just headers. Or disable javascript for some or all the profiles.
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, because I find it odd to hear this from Bogle himself. Vanguard doesn't own or control the equities in their index funds. You do. Vanguard is structured so that you can own your piece of the index fund pie. And while there are large holders of index funds such as Vanguard's Total Stock Market fund, I don't think there are any majority holders. For 51% of equities to be channeled through Vanguard but owned by stockholders does not seem to be a risk.

If I'm wrong, can you explain what I'm wrong about?
They could even just hold their own internal vote immediately before the actual vote and net out the results. Then vote this result in the actual vote. I don't think there is a rule that if you vote, you must vote with every share.

Also gets rid of any issues of fractional voting; they can track fractional votes in the internal vote, and then just round the result in the actual vote.

The biggest problem is that generally index funds try to take a pretty passive approach to management decisions (although they do vote in some circumstances). If the index funds allow their investors to vote on everything, to some extent they stop being an index fund that passively tracks the market.
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> Of course I really hope the Marriott weren't storing CVV in a reversibly encrypted format.

You're not allowed to store the CV2 in any form that could be recovered (i.e. plain text or reversibly encrypted) or brute forced (i.e. hashed/salted). PCI rules say you simply aren't allowed to store the CV2 after the call for an authorisation, as it's no longer required. If they were storing the CV2 then they're in trouble.
What are the biggest data breaches/hacks ever and how were they accomplished?
With the Marriott data breach announcement today I am curious what the biggest data breaches/hacks in history are and how they were accomplished.
It is an automatic train supervision system for a metro line. It tracks and displays the position of trains and automatically routes them depending on schedule, delays and incidents. It also offer control and commands of the traction power and the devices in station such as elevators, gates, doors, passenger information display, etc. It also logs all commands and events on the system. It’s the « command center « of a railway if you prefer. So it must never stops.
Oh, right! I've heard of Sonos, but I didn't know you could sync up multiple Google Home speakers. Yeah I guess that's probably the main reason for having those patents.
are there competitors to AWS that want to stay in just of cloud hosting?
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I think any professional that takes on liabilities should have this view.
Confidence fools many people.
It’s an unfortunate phrase (but tongue in cheek) and it’s worth reading beyond that. Author writes in a very conversational style but full of anecdotes and insights. Id say it’s worth reading. Overall gives an impression of what one might expect there as a visitor as well as projecting if one lived there.
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I think so. The cashier checked .com with her phone to verify my claim. I can see them not changing signage to reflect constantly changing online prices, but I'd expect them to ring up the same OR have some sort of * next to the price in their POS indicating it's on promotion online.

A lot of people avoid conflict, so it's just easier to buy online than ask for price matching in store.
document -> documentary?
HN mods: title is incorrect and misleading, should at least read "Bypass Paywalls add-on removed from Firefox add-ons store". The use of "Mozilla" in the title has caused a lot of confusion in this thread from people who haven't clicked through the link.
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They don't exist in a bubble, correct, they are however separate, but again, this is not what this is about.

It still means you can separate the good ideas that apple has from the bad ideas. Not everything Apple does is inherently bad or evil because they do some evil or bad things, no?

And this is simply extracting the good part of apple's store policy; patrolling and checking apps so that users can trust what is in the store.
How generous of them!
OK, I am skeptical of this too, but it's a thing.

10 minutes before the announcement that OP is about here, one of our architects copied this line from an AWS slide deck:

> AWS Lambda supports code written in Node.js (JavaScript), Python, Java (Java 8 compatible), and C# (.NET Core) and Go.

... and intimated that, if your language is not on this list, you're not part of the dominant side of the industry.

As if to say, to the large cohort of Ruby developers we have on staff, "You guys are basically irrelevant because Amazon doesn't care if you can work on the pride and joy of their platform or not."

Every other week I've got a different person telling me that Ruby is a quirky niche language and I should get with the times and become a full-stack JavaScript developer instead.

I get it, there's growth in other languages, but if I have years of experience that means I should throw it away?

Sometimes these conversations get really personal, too. Almost like we're choosing a football team, you'd think it was politics or religion that we're debating...
You made some good points, if you refresh your page now it should better reflect the desktop experience. Thanks for the useful feedback
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A risk is one of the options, which is a breakup of existing funds: "Force giant index funds to spin off their assets into a number of separate entities, each independently managed. Such a drastic step would—and should—face near-insurmountable obstacles, for it would create havoc for index investors and managers alike."
Cute metaphor. But waitpeople can't actually set their price. They don't say "You want more coffee? How will that affect my tip?"

In a tip economy they are what they are - poor supplicants begging for your scraps. They have no power over the kitchen nor much over you, since they get their feedback after they've made their 'pitch' not before.
>Even though this is 2018, occasionally someone will try to claim in conversation with me that UTF-16 is better than UTF-8.

I'm curious, what are their arguments? UTF-16 is pretty objectively bad at everything, it's not compatible with ascii and C-strings like UTF-8 and it's not a decent constant-width encoding for codepoints like UTF-32 (and even that is not necessarily useful anyway since you often care more about characters than codepoints). AFAIK the only advantage of UTF-16 is that it's a little more efficient when encoding text written in certain scripts.
This only works if you own the codebase. If a library maintainer changes the signature from X to maybe then it breaks all of the users of the libraries code.

The problem with breaking changes is that the person who breaks things doesnt feel the pain.