skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

I would be completely unsurprised to find that other than having the data in some poorly secured database it isn't used for anything useful.
When I was in the wireless industry, we did many shady things and had all the lawyers and lobbyists to back us up. We could change any laws that got in our way. My employer was never remotely interested in ethical issues. They were only interested in paying subscribers. I could go on all day with examples if HN were interested.

As a funny side note, we would joke that our best customers were drug dealers. They always paid on time and always in cash. They could not afford to miss any calls.
I don't remember being offered a package or template or anything like that. This was in 1995; I expect things have improved.
The Republican Party’s official position is that business should be as unregulated as possible [1]. So we shouldn’t expect to see any regulatory action under Republican administrations.

Obama focused on blocking mergers among companies with products that they charged consumers for. It looks mainly like the precedent of consumer harm is undefined when the products are free to start with, and no one has gone back to try to patch the hole.

[1] https://gop.com/platform/restoring-the-american-dream/
Source please, and define fluency.

I learned english at 22, german at 25, and mandarin at 28, It took several years of daily studying for each language, but I did it, and I was able to use these languages in professional environments. Plenty of people do it in my experience.
Homonyms exist in every language. The advantages do not outweigh the drawbacks.
When I was a teenager I loved thrash metal. Now I run away from it.

There was a time I liked to travel. Now I prefer spending my holidays at home or my parent's home, relaxing.

Earlier I used to devour fiction. Now I am more into Non-fiction.

I didn't care about politics, now I do.

Life is just like that. Enjoy what you like now.
Cherish the memories of what you used to in the past. And try to not to worry too much about future.

Good luck.
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Creating and maintaining something are entirely different problems. People need to be paid for electricity and internet costs. People need to eat.
And yet people speak Chinese without displaying characters for help in comprehension.
There is a perfectly good and time tested alternative to regulatory agencies:

Promises in the form of legally binding contracts.
Views are the abstraction layer.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/tutorial-views.html
High-tech border wall plan on display at CES
Interesting project! Kudos on shipping.
One of the problems with vim+xxd (and many other hex editors) is that it loads the entire file, so you can't easily use it to look at large files (archives, disk images, etc).

Many moons ago I wrote a very bare bones ncurses hex viewer/editor, after not really being able to find one that fit my needs. I still use it pretty regularly:
https://github.com/quo/hex.py
>'shi4'

but isn't that when you use context around the word to know what the meaning is? The same happens in English...you don't always know without context.

学习中文很有趣！

Xuéxí zhōngwén hěn yǒuqù!

hanzi or pinyin reading either way I know what this is intended to say.
Go on, go on. What are some examples of laws you had changed and what was the result?
Because spoken language usually has more context (as compared to a brief written sign or a headline).
I think she knows her audience and is very savvy in using these terms because as you say they "resonate". So, I think she's making the right business decision to use the terminology. I'm saying personally I'd use different terminology to qualify things to keep/not keep.
I find this to be sad news, divorce is typically devastating for everyone involved.

Finding a life partner is incredibly difficult, someone with shared values that you can trust for life and with your life.
Self regulation works in industries in which there aren't significant barriers to entry.

Unfortunately, Telecommunications is notoriously asset heavy and complex and the historical lack of competition creates behemoths with outsized influence in politics. The FCC then is effectively powerless barring the election of a president who personally cares about the matter.

In sum, self regulation works in free markets. You would switch to a better carrier if there were one, I'm certain.
There are test frameworks for postgres.

https://pgtap.org/
Stories like this vaguely confuse me, typically the driver complains about not being able to find a charger repeatedly.

I bought a Tesla model 3 recently, hooray tax credits.

There is literally a button on the map screen that tells you how to get to the nearest chargers both Tesla and otherwise and if they, for the Tesla chargers, are available. This will then happily navigate you to the charger via GPS.

It seems like for a technology that is pretty frankly an early adopter thing, that using the tools provided rather than expecting it to work like a gas car is expected.
As far as I am aware the marshals are called only in federal cases or cases where state lines are crossed, in all other cases it would be your local sherif department.

We have contract law for a reason any contract can be made illegal regardless if someone has went into it of their own volition or not.

By this definition we can also legalize slavery or indentured servitude, not to mention that I wouldn't call a situation were the choice is either debt or prison having freedom.
Wowwww. Having to drive lyft or die - sounds like hell.
Things like the MPAA rating system seem to work, even though it is against the financial interests of studios.
It sounds like your issue isn't with word processors, it's with you using a different word processor than all your colleagues.
A weakening Chinese economy might cause a lot of property divestment in the US (and not just in the bay) if those owners need cash to get through it... it’s a good question.
Many chemical substances that are not occurring in nature mean that living tissues have had no evolutionary time (many generations) to adapt to them.

Could be beneficial, could be harmful.
There's a huge difference between Apple's built in apps and the third party apps doing who knows what background processing/data mining on phone usage. The effects on performance such as battery life is very noticeable.
I think you can respect the authority of a professional without this type of attack. How do you know the person you're responding to isn't a tenured Professor of Economics somewhere? To respond to an article on the internet, do we all need to present our credentials?

Second, wtf?! At no point does the person you're responding to say they would let a baby starve to death. Period. They respect the idea of trying to deduce an ethical framework from first principles, but then very clearly disagree with the logically deducted conclusions. Whether it's because the framework is based on incomplete or false principles, or there is flawed logic in the process, or whatever, OP clearly does not agree with the framework.

I don't know if you didn't read carefully or what, but you're waaaay off base here.
They've been married 25 years, well before Amazon became the huge success it is today. Saying she got married for a payday is terribly disingenuous.
Linkbait trolling tier for sure. Slams LaTeX for being a markup language, then suggests we use org mode instead (org mode being a markup language which only produces interesting LaTeX output when you embed LaTeX in it). FWIIW I do use org mode as a sort of higher level LaTeX for note taking, mostly because the latex bits get compiled as I type, but when it comes time to turn my thoughts into something more organized, it gets turned into pure LaTeX.

There are a real reasons academics and quasi-academics (aka me) use LaTeX instead of something like libreoffice. Equations are basically impossible without it. I can't write down a complicated relation in LaTeX as fast as I can think of it, but it's a lot closer to that speed than laboriously constructing a relation in the equation editor of any word processor. If you do something like physics, machine learning or topology, trying to write a paper in libreoffice or whatever they call Word now is sort of like trying to write a novel on an iphone. The author never mentions equations. Yeah, it's more difficult for a n00b to construct, say, a letter to the editor in LaTeX than it is in Libreoffice -that's not what it's for! Though of course once you have paid the toll of learning the thing, it's pretty quick and in fact lives up to its promise of not getting in the way of writing the content.

Beyond that, my equations will be accessible for decades and will be completely platform independent. If you have an academic career, this is probably reasonably important.

There's other reasons besides "equations" and "long term stability" (BibTex is probably top third reason) -but those are the big ones.

Edit add: beamer mode is also a good reason to use it once you know it. Take your paper; turn it into a presentation -never leave the same application.
It is likely that this measure is being pushed by China in their bid to expand their global influence. Many such projects are being pursued right now in developed nations; one of them is probably pushing Mandarin as a second language.
The calculus definitely goes through their mind: if you bought a house 20 years ago, worth 1 million in the market, you might be paying less than 5k a year, while their average tax consumption from the city would be 31k.

Unless they make up the difference with a business, working, or consuming enough to offset with sales taxes, they are 26k+ positive.
Nope, that's what views are for.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/tutorial-views.html
Companies in Malta are subject to Maltese supervision, and thanks to the EU the companies can operate in the rest of the EU as well. There's probably some extra rules they need to follow in each country, I don't know the details.

The Maltese economy is full of money laundering, tax evasion [1, 2], mafia [3], and other gray areas [4, 5] anyway. This article is a puff piece in the travel section, so it's hardly the place for mentioning of the Panama papers or journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia that was investigating online gambling and corruption was killed by a car bomb in 2017 [6].

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/gambling_en

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/dodgy-gaming-bu...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40026826

[3] https://www.occrp.org/en/thedaphneproject/how-maltese-online...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/16/tax-evasion...

[5] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-09-11/why-the-e...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia
I think blaming the victim is cruel in the case where the victim is powerless to defend themselves. But in the case where the victim simply failed to defend and fight for themselves I think it's important to criticize them.
>Last year I started my own company and then got acqui-hired into a startup. I realised that talking to customers and solutioning is more fun than wiriting code. How many of you have felt or feel the same way and what are you doing about it?

There's a job title for exactly this - Solutions or Sales Engineer.

I've worked in this role in the past and here's a bit caveat. Due to time pressures your technical skills may (will!) erode and it's very easy to reach the point where you simply become a talking head for a particular vendor's architecture and you hand wave around the hard/technical questions. It's entirely possible to end up in a position where you simply regurgitate the same architecture slide decks over and over.

You have to decide how technical you want to be and how much time you want to spend talking and pick roles accordingly. When a technology is new and probably half-baked (e.g. Hadoop in the early years), you'll be of higher value by having technical skills. When it's mature and has a GUI, being good at selling and demos is more important.

One of the nice things about some (not all) Solution/Sales Engineer roles is that you code enough to enjoy it, but not so much that you find yourself caught up with all the stuff that's needed when you are a full time developer building stuff for production.
My numbers may not be perfectly accurate, but the sentiment is.
Tesla cars at supercharger stations charge to roughly 80% charge in 30 minutes, then take another 30 minutes to finish topping off to 100%. For that reason, they are typically placed at intervals of about half a battery range, so that you don't need a full charge to reach the next station with plenty of charge to spare. Typically, a well planned long road trip will involve rapidly charging the car from 20% to 70%, then driving 100-200 miles until another supercharger, where you repeat the process. In this way, you need to charge for much less time than if you tried to charge from 50% to 100%
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28362704-RFID-sim-cards-goo...

https://patents.google.com/patent/US7784693B2

Neat read, and Godspeed.

Not sure whether your theories on there actually being an infrastructure for doing these sorts of things is correct, but even a 5 minute google search seems to suggest it is well within technical capabilities to do so.

Might do some more searching for ISO's and other Engineering standards related to them. Telephony is highly dependent on uniform technical standard adherence, so it's out there somewhere. I doubt that the RFID is in the plastic containg the card, it's probably in the card itself.

The unusual coincidences should be pretty easy to replicate with a P.O. Box, and could be consistent with holding times for information propagation or authorization.

Definitely seems like something to mess with if you are bored!

You'll be amazed the things you can find out when you start to peel back the layers, but don't be disappointed if it's just a coincidence.
This is highly variable, depending upon geography, experience, ability to sell yourself, and specialty. Take a look at GlassDoor, and also consider Josh Doody's "Fearless Salary Negotiation" book.
There is an unstated premise here that is very important: you care, or don't, about the final appearance of the document.

When people argue that latex gets out of the way, the road being spoken of is the one leading to a beautiful document, so the author is expected to care about the final appearance. LaTeX and Word both come with learning costs, the initial effort in to just bang out some words is clearly higher in LaTeX, but they will look good from the start.

Yes, if you don't much care about the looks of the end result, Word is more expedient, but then so is notepad.
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, world's richest man, and wife MacKenzie divorce
I want to embrace the future. The more phones to get rid of the headphone jack, the more headphone companies will realize they need to make wireless versions.
A lot of people willingly install their bank's app. I don't see why this couldn't just be a case where people who have the app installed get this nice convenience and people who don't (willingly or because they don't have a smart phone) just have to notify their bank, as people have done for many years.
Corollary: Every post with “Facebook” in its title appears on HN.
No it doesn't. Self-regulation is often motivated by 1) collective action problems where coordination benefits every company in a way that individual action wouldn't or 2) to ward off govt regulation by showing the govt that you can behave, as an industry.

Neither of these require anything but self-interest and the profit motive from the involved parties.
If she would have followed the beta-trip planning navigation on-board, then I'm sure she would have made it with ease. I already made that trip a few times and it's simple with a Tesla.
This is blogspam that adds nothing new to Vice's original journalism: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nepxbz/i-gave-a-b...

HN discussion here (still on the front page as of my reply): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18857220

It's frustrating that TechCrunch seems to get a pass on their worthless blogspam when other blogspam posts are removed.
The Nexus One had preinstalled apps that could not be removed, specifically Amazon MP3, Twitter, and Facebook.
>Like with almost every other Directive, the EU has made a huge mistake by not including de minimis exemptions in the regulation.

Proportionality in the GDPR is based on the scale and sensitivity of your data activities. The size of your organisation or your technical capability is irrelevant; if you're not competent to safeguard the data you handle in accordance with the law, the EU doesn't want you to handle it. It's exactly the same principle we'd apply to toxic waste - you're not allowed to dump it in the woods just because you're a small business or a hobbyist.

Some examples of why there is no de minimis exemption:

A small charity accidentally sent a newsletter using "to" rather than "bcc". In doing so, it accidentally revealed the identities of 56 people who are HIV positive. It was fined £250 by the Information Commissioner's Office, because of the small size of the organisation and because the ICO was satisfied with steps taken to prevent further breaches.

https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-bl...

A non-profit trade organisation with a single employee worked to facilitate information sharing between construction companies. That information consisted of files on trade unionists, political activists and advocates for health and safety, constituting an effective blacklist of "known troublemakers". The organisation's files were seized by the Information Commissioner's Office, leading to enforcement notices against 14 construction businesses; settlements under the Data Protection Act totalled over £50m.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consulting_Association
This seems common with a lot of open source. I wonder if some of this could be solved with a fee to communicate. You want to send a message or question or PR? It costs $5 but the maintainer has the option to refund it. It also puts some skin in the game from the community people who want it for free but changed to match their exact use case.

A lot of people just need to vent to someone in that moment and any obstacle would make them give up. Or maybe this is a horrible idea...
I believe this is also true of the many phones branded "Android One" https://www.android.com/one/
I'm not a huge facebook fan but this thing about only being able to disable but not delete the app is misleading about how sinister it is.

All it means is that the app comes installed by being part of the ROM image. It can be disabled which is essentially the same as deleting it, except you don't get the space back (which is fine since it's the rom, you can't use it without reflashing anyway). Once disabled, the Facebook app won't be able to track you or be loaded into memory.

What this deal is really about is the Facebook app coming preinstalled on new Samsung phones. Bloatware: yes. But don't make too big a deal about the "undeletable" thing.
This.
If the co-ops exist, the meta-app is not a difficult app to build.

Geolocation to match you with the local collective and an API to send the booking request to them (unlike Uber they want to work with metasearch companies). Done. Let the collectives handle the certification, pricing and local routing.
(I know someone who founded a business effectively doing meta-search for a ride with local minicab companies via nationwide telephone enquiries, so it's not like the basic idea wasn't possible even with yesterday's technology).

Trouble is, for the most part these cooperatives don't exist. Which makes the meta-app less useful than Uber in most parts of the world. Uber has every incentive to discourage people from using a meta-app as their first port of call for ridesearch, and so even if their TOC were completely unenforceable they'd just find ways of blocking a meta-app from accessing Uber data. Blocking people and drivers who are obviously hacking Uber's service to co-locate each other, not paying for the ride via Uber but both ending up in the destination anyway is even easier. A non-profit meta-app isn't going to win an arms race with a multibillion dollar enterprise whose business depends on being a more reliable way of booking rides. Legal restrictions on reverse engineering their software isn't their moat.

The problem is that Austin is an edge case. Drivers got together and formed it and raised money to build the app and set up a vetting process the city govt approved because they'd lose their livelihood if it didn't exist. RideAustin doesn't exist in most other cities because drivers and passengers aren't really set up for collective action, particularly not against the company sending them rides, the costs of getting the service working aren't trivial and any nascent startup would have the problem that Uber was more recognised (and would likely try to kill their app stone dead by subsidising Uber rides with VC money). If you want more local cooperatives, you need to bring down the software development and vetting costs to run a service like RideAustin, not reverse engineer Uber's iPhone app. Or lobby more local governments to find reasons to bar Uber and Lyft from more city centres. And the market will see more cooperatives happen organically if/when Uber tries to squeeze more profit out of rides...
I can live without Facebook. I can't live without Google.
I read similar things about Mad Max: Fury Road. Basically that they did all the stunts for real, and then edit it with still camera shots, and with a real sense of rhythm. IMO that worked absolutely fantastically, and I hope other films catch on.

https://www.provideocoalition.com/art-cut-margaret-sixel-edi...
I use LaTeX for my resume primarily and to be fair I edit the content as plain vanilla text first and only "typeset" it after that.

I view the two tasks as very different. One of the reasons I dislike Word and other Word Processors is that they crowd my writing views with formatting tools and suggestions.

A plain text editor is far more comfortable for me when I'm writing and Latex allows me to tackle the layout and typesetting work as a separate step.
> supercharger network is continuing to be built out rapidly

I'm pretty sure this has been the case for a while now, years perhaps, and yet the author seemed to have problems none the less.

You say the reporting should be taken "with a grain of salt", but what did they do to make their lives harder than they could have been?

> Or by using superchargers incorrectly such as by trying to fully top off at every charge

I have a petrol car that I fill up completely whenever I am at a petrol station, why should someone not do this for an electric car?

> or choosing shared stations when non-shared ones are open

What does this mean? I read the article but couldn't see anything that to me sounded like it matched this statement, but that's likely just my lack of experience.

I get that you might have more experience than me, or the author, but you've not really explained how this was the authors fault, and how the experience could have been made better.

If I buy a Tesla then try to drive from the North of England to Seville, am I going to have the same issues the author had? What knowledge do you posses that would allow me to do the journey more easily than they did?
Postgraphile is fantastic, in particular the function/row binding stuff that any python programmer would instantly recognize as implicit first argument self binding. We create graphql apis in minutes with it. No rolls, no restarts.
I can sum it up as "it's deliberately hard and teaching it to children has been shown to slow their learning"