skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah. As a sweet freak, for me "enjoying myself" is a cup of frozen yogurt at the end of a day full of chicken breasts, not a plate of nachos or a whole pizza.
You are completely discounting the subjective experience of driving different cars. Some cars are just flat-out much more enjoyable to drive. When people are spending significant portions of their lives driving, getting more enjoyment or comfort out of that time matters to people.

It's completely rational to want to enjoy your time driving a vehicle if you spend a lot of time in the car. Driving a chevy cobalt is just awful compared to driving a higher quality vehicle.

You're also far more likely to be able to avoid an accident when you have better handling and more powerful brakes. Even horsepower/torque can be a safety feature for certain accident avoidance situations.
BMW's recent models are mostly a joke in dynamics. See almost any review of many of their new models for further explanation. This unfortunately isn't 2010 anymore.

Mercedes hasn't been kenown for driving dynamics, but perhaps their solidity is great. Porsche is absolutely renowned for the driving experience they provide.

There are plenty that can match these in every class. If you only consider brands based on an overall perception, then sure, maybe not.

The Cadillac ATS and Alfa Romeo Giulia are almost universally regarded as dynamically superior to their 3-series equivalents, for a common example.
Marriott's incident page [1] links to a Q&A page [2]. Apparently the forthcoming sorry-we-lost-your-data notifications will come from "starwoodhotels@email-marriott.com".

"Let's immediately set up a separate domain name that looks like ours" remains one of the weirdest antipatterns in incident response.

[1] http://news.marriott.com/2018/11/marriott-announces-starwood...

[2] https://info.starwoodhotels.com/
Bodybuilders eat plenty of carbs.
? you mean, it's a consequence of being fat
Fractional reserve is not about transactions, but about backing for the underlying assets these transactions are "moving".

LN/payment channels are payment methods (think checks or credit cards), while traditional "cryptocurrencies" are systems or records or ledgers (think banks).

The assets are fiat cash and cash-equivalents (electricity, hashing power) inflows. I.e. when somebody mines or buys Bitcoin - money flows into the system, when somebody sells Bitcoin - money flows out of the system. So most cryptoassets today are fractional reserve.
“It’s a necessary evil”

Company motto: “Don’t be evil”

Do you notice the hypocrisy here?
I think that includes shipping, but not time spent or travel expenses.
VCs have distorted the market for programmer salaries to the point that they are artificially 2x-3x what they should be in the absence of VC funding. When that bubble bursts, programming is going to return to its historic means, especially when most businesses start calculating the actual costs and benefits of the software they use/need. Until then, enjoy the party while it lasts.
Any article on why US manufactures of vehicles focus on trucks instead of cars and does not mention the chicken tax [1] has not really done their homework. In 1965 a 25% tax was put on imported trucks due to a trade fight with Europe on chicken imports. This 25% tax is still in effect today. SUVs were also put in the truck category for some time and it is not clear which truck like vehicles will be taxed. This is why almost all trucks and SUVs made by non-US companies are manufactured in the US.

Profit margins on US made trucks have been much larger than autos for a long time(mostly due to this tax) and I imagine that all the marketing of the US auto companies over 40 years to get people to buy them instead of sedans has had quite an effect. Once a large number of people are driving tall trucks and SUVs, driving a car is much less comfortable, as you can't see past the truck in front of you from a low sedan.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
The world is much better; the world is awful; the world can be much better
> I agree that UTF-8 is the better default

Better default for what? I agree UTF-8 is better default for HTML sent over network. For different context, the better default can be different.

> side from it being the default on Windows

Also default in Java (including Android userland), C#, iOS & OSX, python 3 (unless compiled with UTF32 support but the default is UTF16), Symbian, OpenOffice, QT, most XML parsers (e.g. Xerces), and many other languages, libraries and frameworks. Even JavaScript uses UTF16 strings.
From the article:

> These bees retrieved their spatial memories entirely out of context, at a time when there was no possibility of foraging and so no immediate need for communication. The function is unclear. They might have ‘just thought’ about these locations spontaneously during the night. Or perhaps the communication is a strategy for consolidating their spatial memory. Scientists have since found that a bee’s memories of the previous day are strengthened when they are exposed to elements of these memories while in deep sleep. Perhaps bees not only think and ‘talk’, but dream?

> The key implication of Lindauer’s discovery is that bees are capable of ‘offline thinking’ about spatial locations, and of linking these locations to a time of day, in the absence of an external trigger. That’s not what should happen if bees’ memories are merely prompted by environmental stimuli, combined with internal triggers such as hunger. Bees, then, appear to have at least one of the principal hallmarks of consciousness: representations of time and space.

That sounds like evidence that bees may be capable of "reason[ing] abstractly".

What can humans accomplish using solely "intelligence" that other animals can't?

All of the unique behaviors I see in humans involve use of fire-derived technology.
This is the first time I've heard of Spectrum, anyone mind summarizing the key features/differentiation? It looks similar to Slack or Discord, with a focus on discoverable open communities as opposed to private organizations, and threaded conversations being a key feature?
yes. he details all of that towards the end of the video.

what he did was visit 17 Walmart's in 22 hours and drove 700 miles.

he paid $19.82 for each game and shipping averaged $9 per.
Ask HN: Would you ever choose support over a dev role?
I'm looking at the open positions at Help Scout. They are hiring for Customer Champion and an iOS Software Engineer. Both are fully remote.

Here is an excerpt from the support role description:

"You’ll become a expert in all areas of the product. You’ll troubleshoot potential bugs, document feature requests and collaborate with the rest of the team to help elevate the voice of the customer at Help Scout. We won’t overburden you with quotas, empty policies, or unnecessary procedures. Doing what’s in the best interest of the customer is at the heart of what we do. We’ll give you plenty of support to simply do what’s right, no questions asked... We’re offering between $70,000-$81,000 USD per year for this role, depending on your prior experience."

Excerpts from the mobile developer description:

"Your work is focused on the app, SDK and mobile API implementation and technical design details. You’ll also get everything you need from your team’s designer concerning iOS-specific visual design and interactions. You’ll work with customers and QA engineers to ensure releases meet customer demands and our high-quality bar...

Our engineering teams work in two-week iterations, communicates mostly via Slack and are committed to remote, agile development...

... Your team performs engineering support when a question stymies our in-house customers team or comes directly to you via developer support requests on GitHub...

[from a linked post on their agile practice]
[we] optimize nearly everything for asynchronous communication — daily standups, code reviews, feature demos, project updates and so on. I try to over-communicate in writing so there’s always a record, and I insist on weekly or bi-weekly one-on-ones..."

Am I alone in thinking that unless the dev role pays 160k it would be preferable to make 75k and do development projects on the side? What happens when no one wants the dev jobs?
Perhaps more relevant than this click-baity editorialization, the Rust 2018 Survey itself and HN thread from a few days ago:

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/11/27/Rust-survey-2018.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18544213
Google really pushes their employees to patent everything they can. During the brief time I worked there, we had multiple "patent brainstorm" meetings where we'd sit in a room and try to come up with things we could patent based on what we were working on. On top of that, they pay you a decent sum of money (low thousands, forget the exact number) for filing patents. I knew one guy who worked with various teams to file dozens of patents a year and almost doubled his salary.

That said, none of the people I knew at Google would blatantly steal other people's ideas. This sounds like a very unethical cluster of employees.
There is plenty of software that adheres to these constraints. Most adware doesn't want to actively damage the system and doesn't worm too far in. In the past, adware would simply drop it's toolbar payload into the Mozilla and Chrome addon directories, which would after confirming it with the user, activate. Same thing with homepage and search engine settings (which still get modified).

I think it's a bit unfair to quote Orwell when the overall goal is to prevent the user from hurting themselves, not brainwashing them into thinking they don't need unsigned addons. If they need those there is the developer edition, which is officially supported by mozilla and allows installing any addon you like.

The default installs that most users will see simply have a different default setting. If you don't like that you can choose another edition or compile Firefox yourself.
Heh, r/flipping hates it when people talk about retail arbitrage opportunities like this. "You're giving away our secrets!"
Whenever my wife's Beetle breaks in any way, the repair cost is easily 5-10x what a comparable repair is for my Accord. She's had to do repairs on her car three times since she got it. I've had to do repairs on mine... zero. The cars have been in our possession for about the same time and are almost the same age.

I daresay that the TCO on Volkswagens is higher than "very low."
German cars are odd like that. I know 3 really tall guys; one is 6'8" and the other two are 6'10". They all drive German cars because they FIT. For some reason an A4 and a Golf fit the 6'10" guys just fine; one of whom would look out the REAR side window driving an Infiniti Q45 ("full size" luxury sedan).

There's just something about German car design that is sizing magic. I could even fit behind my 6'10" friend driving his A4, which for all intents and purposes (in the US, at least) is an entry-level/compact luxury car.
Things like name, phone number, and address are not secret. They are published in the phone book.
Card information is literally cash money. It's volatile and subject to being rendered defunct, but it still has a lot of value if you can buy a bunch of prepaid gift cards with them before it's deactivated.
> You would have to trade constantly.

Really, you don't. If you want to track a market cap weighted index, you only need to trade when the index composition changes, which isn't that often.

But also, that's not exactly something that couldn't be automated, is it? That could be a service offered by banks: automatically keeping your portfolio matched to a particular index.

The point isn't that you should be doing the work of a fund yourself, the point is that you should directly own the stocks. For one because that means you have the voting rights, but also because that would make you less dependent on any particular company. If you are invested in some company's S&P500 ETF, the only way to switch to a different company managing your S&P500 investment is by selling the old one and buying the new one, which causes transaction costs and can have massive tax consequences. If it was just your bank managing the stocks held by you, you could just transfer them to a different bank and have them take over the management.

(And also, it would allow minimally "active" investing even within a passive framework: If your bank is managing your portfolio for you, it would be much easier to, say, exclude a particular stock. It would technically be trivial to implement "S&P500, but without Facebook", say.)

> Moreover, most people probably don’t have the capital. You can’t buy a fraction of a stock, and since the S&P is market cap weighted you would need a lot of stock in order to do anything like the S&P 500

That is one of those things that I meant by "practical problems". If you think about it, that isn't really a fundamental problem. There is no fundamental reason why stock ownership has to be organized as "shares" that represent a fixed, relatively large, share of the company. We could in principle move to a model where you can hold more or less arbitrarily small pieces of a company, including arbitrarily small pieces of voting rights. Why shouldn't it be possible to just buy 0.00000000687 pieces of Berkshire Hathaway A for a cent or so, to have legal ownership of that piece, and to have the voting rights for that piece? None of that is exactly difficult to do with computers.

There were practical reasons why doing things the way we do them made sense, back when shares were physical pieces of paper that you moved around physically. But it really doesn't make a whole lot of sense anymore given our current technology.
Tor is great, but it's always been a bit slow. Now that cryptocurrency is a thing, I often wonder if that problem could be solved by incentivizing the running of relays and exit nodes through microtransactions without compromising privacy. Would be great if we could make Tor fast enough that it could actually be used as a substitute for commercial VPNs.
Introduction to modern RWD
Is legislation NP-complete?
I didn't downvote you, but I bet I could [pick them out]. They just value different things compared to american counterparts, especially in older models.

I (regrettably used to) own a 2002 BMW M3 -- relatively cheap to buy, and compared to anything else in its year or price category was unequivocally better as a "driver's car". But, many people don't really care about a driver's car -- they index higher on other things like electronics, safety, styling, etc. That's fine, it's only preference, but for raw performance nothing similar could compare.

My experience is that a lot of people equate "expensive car" or "german car" with "nice car", and for them "nice car" means something specific other than raw performance numbers, like comfort, safety, features, or Consumer Reports ranking. For enthusiasts, it means something totally different, and those qualities are indexed on by BMW/Merc/Audi (and some rare American and Japanese exceptions to be fair).
It's all the code areas in the documentation, like the npm commands here: http://tabulator.info/docs/4.1/quickstart

If that helps, console says it failed to load the following (but gave no reason):

>https://cdn.rawgit.com/google/code-prettify/master/loader/ru...

>https://cdn.rawgit.com/google/code-prettify/master/loader/la...

Maybe it's some cross-site loading being blocked, I dunno.
> when the whole point of the democratic state is to create a monopoly on violence.

The definition of a state, democratic or otherwise, is the monopoly of violence. Doesn't matter if it's absolutist monarchy, Scandinavian-style Social Democracy, or Al-Shabab-style Somali tribal rule -- if you have the ability to compel action then you can create a state.

ISIS was issuing passports, IDs, and currency, for example. You don't have to play by their rules... but then again they don't have to keep .45 rounds from going into the back of your head.

Monopoly of Force is entirely separate from issues of authority or legitimacy; everyone can hate your illegitimate rule but if they can't do shit about it then you still win. You hate the Tsar for having too much authority, but he's got secret police and an army so you stfu and keep your head down.

Meanwhile, US citizens hate Trump but concede he won a legitimate election and, in spite of having like 40% of the world's guns, don't revolt in the street.

> What fiction fails to teach you is that being good at violence is a lot of work! To be good at it you need to take krav or bjj or mma classes at least 3 times a week and go to the gun range at least once a week.

I disagree with all of those minimums. Even in the Marines I didn't go to the range once a week, and I was a 'POG' supporting an infantry unit. We only PT'd 3 times a week, though some of us did more.

> I personally think society would gain vast benefits from making dueling legal again. Sadly the lawyers would never allow it because they would lose half their business!

History would disagree, and dueling was plainly outlawed for a reason.

The appeal-ad-lawyeram is also not an argument; there were plenty of rich lawyers when dueling was a thing (several US Founding Fathers come to mind), and the legal business is currently incredibly competitive in terms of jobs right now -- without dueling.
Apparently this has nothing to do with the cable company ...?
Her decision. She's been reading stuff on the Internet that says ADHD might be fake and over medicated. :-) Her main real issue is the appetite suppression, which she hates.

Her mom and I can see the difference on/off, it isn't subtle. We aren't pushing. I'm committed to her success, but meds are just one tool. I expect she'll go back on them at some point, once she's exhausted her youthful political correctness.
It’s a mix of gitter and discourse.
I moved to VW from hondas and toyotas. Overall i love the car but i would say that maintenance is much much more expensive than japanese cars. German auto mechanics and VW parts are just so much more expensive than japanese. I have no dealership in my city so I have to see independent mechanics. It's insane how expensive they are!
Yes, they have to be indirect, that’s the point.

If it’s purely cloud based then you’re communicating with the hosts cloud services which can be wrapped in a standard cert and tls connection.

In this case they were installing a local server - so you wouldn’t get https issues unless you were also spoofing a domain. In which case it’s correct for you to get warnings (imagine if they inserted your-bank.com -> their localhost server.

If you have an app or installer, which they clearly did, then you have other options:

* directly insert a leaf certificate (not a root cert) into the platform key store

* don’t try to hide that you’re running a local host server.

* use an app (this is an option)

If I were doing this and couldn’t use Bluetooth, visuals, or sound to make the side channel, I would have the setup program install a leaf certificate derived from something the user can copy from the hardware - serial number or whatever. Or you can have the cloud host provision a leaf cert itself.
I'm sorry, don't see the connection you are trying to make.

In the context of her story, gender is not relevant; she apparently didn't think so either, since the only way I could tell from the article was her hands shown in the last picture.
jkulubya's comment is largely correct. And you most likely do understand what an index fund is. It's just that most people don't realize there are two sides to the product - the theoretical and the real. The index is a theoretical product (intellectual property). The fund is the real-world implementation. A fund manager takes a look at one of our S&P products and says "I want to make a fund off this" and S&P contracts a license with them to allow it since S&P owns the IP on that index - it is S&P's design and methodology.

An easy way to think of this is the retail example where you pay an investment advisor. You pay them to manage your money but they place all the trades through some broker. S&P is the investment advisor and the fund manager is the broker.
A couple reasons I'm aware of:

- Han unification. Chinese and Japanese characters that have the same etymology but are written differently are sometimes assigned to the same codepoint, and it's up to the font to distinguish. And application designers... tend not to detect the language and change the font accordingly. This leads to Japanese text being rendered in a Chinese font.

- Some Han de-unification has happened in Unicode now. Great. Which version should fonts and encodings support?

- Nobody actually knows the complete de facto mapping between Shift-JIS and Unicode. Yes, there are standards and ICU and Python modules and stuff; they're incomplete. This leads to data loss surrounding rare characters.

(Tell me you've got such a mapping and I'll give you some strings I found in the wild to decode with it.)
The Simple Joy of “No Phones Allowed”
​h1eǵhs can't be related to h2eǵ-, since the laryngeals and plosive phonations are different. The plosive phonation distinction isn't as relevant here as the laryngeals - for one thing, the reconstruction ​h1eǵhs isn't certain, even by the Greek evidence - but the numbered laryngeals were entirely different consonants, which only form a class insofar as they all disappear in non-Anatolian IE. (Well, probably. Word-initial h1 may have been preserved in some cases in Albanian, and word-initial h2 may have been preserved in some cases in Iranian. ​HC- -CHC- can be reconstructed by the Greek and Armenian triple reflex (e.g. *​h2ster on the evidence of Greek ἀστήρ and Armenian astł), but laryngeal loss probably occurred in the late IE period, after the beginning of the development of dialectal innovations like that and, if you buy it, Cowgill's Law in Germanic.)

If it helps, you can use Kortlandt's values for the laryngeals: ​ʔeǵhs, χeǵ.

The -ter suffix in "inter" and "exter" (of which "extra" is an ablative form) could be from the comparative suffix -teros. Wiktionary thinks this is true of "exter" but not "inter", I guess because cognates of "inter" are more widespread (although it could be a loan in Albanian, but probably not Indo-Iranian) - so it could've spread from there to "exter" by analogy, or influenced the comparative form.

(Is there a good way to escape asterisks on HN?)
Even without that specific law, it should fall under fraud.
One of my first dev jobs years ago was at a non-technical company that had outsourced some previous development work, and the resulting HTML templates had all classes and styles in Spanish. The first "encabezamiento" class name (Spanish for "header") threw me for a loop, but luckily the patterns were similar enough!
Where is the connection you're making between carbs being unnecessary and bodybuilders coming from?
It's great that they teach the idea that Diabetes (type 2) is preventable and even treatable with responsible eating habits. Too many people believe it's just something your doctor is supposed to treat with a pill.

Food companies often push the idea that all you need to do is exercise more. Whilst exercise might be a great thing: it alone can't fix the problem. You still need to learn how to eat.
The only thing that's annoying is that with GDPR I have to do 3 clicks on every website. What I want is an addon where I can mute / suppress the cookie overlay.

Though I guess with this setup I can do "accept cookies" knowing that they will shortly be deleted.
Completely agreed. Unfortunately when you have to see the same mechanics who also work on Porsche, Mercedes, Audi, and BMW, you get reamed on the repairs. parts are expensive too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_navy
The Ancient Egyptians had both had a navy and an empire.
In one moment you're saying "Thats what Fargate is" as if Fargate == Running Serverless Containers.

On the other you're saying "you can make fargate spin up a container for an event, but it would be too slow for any useful event driven computing", which is the truth, but it contradicts your initial comment.