skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is fear that some significant portion of the recent increase in redemption rate may be due to fraud. Oregon recently increased the redemption from 5 cents to 10 cents, but the neighboring state of Washington still does not have a deposit. This creates an incentive for people to scavenge bottles in Washington and return them across the border in Oregon.

Here's a recent article about the problem: "Oregon senator to introduce bill to thwart return of bottles, cans bought in Washington: She says grocery stores ‘drowning’ in out-of-state containers"

https://www.columbian.com/news/2018/dec/04/oregon-senator-to...

Has anyone seen more exact numbers that would either support or refute this?
Accessibility is justified by equal access or anti-discrimination, which isn't the same as convenience. As an accessibility advocate I find that equivalence either insulting or grossly misinformed. This conversation isn't about equal access. Trying to warp it into such is insulting.
It sounds like the GDPR is more or less unrelated and those fines are not forthcoming.

If deliveroo's own analysis is correct (and that is admittedly an 'if', but if you come out and say 'we hash our passwords, and you can quote me', let's assume they aren't complete morons in thinking that nobody on their staff would ever leak it if they didn't), then the problem is not that there has been a security breach over at deliveroo. The problem is merely that

[1] Their handling of a breach of account info that they weren't the cause of is very bad, both not investigating / blocking the recipients of the food orders (clearly 'whitewashing' fronts), or even trying to take it seriously,

and

[2] doing a bad job at enabling (or even motivating) their users to have good account security. Anywhere from scanning such credentials lists out in the wild and autoblocking any user/pass combo that is also a valid deliveroo login, to offering TOTP.

Both are, to be clear, very bad. Deliveroo deserves all the scorn they are getting. But neither of these issues is something you can be fined for, at least, not via GDPR.
I remember seeing a piano from the early XX century that had a fourth string, however it was sympathetic (never struck) and there was no fine control of how many strings were being struck.

EDIT: found it! https://www.pianostreet.com/blog/piano-news/bluthner-and-the...
Flux is almost a subset of Javascript. There are only two exceptions. Our pipe forward syntax, which I've seen proposed for Javascript, but who knows if that's going to happen. And the other is our named parameters with optional defaults. You can get close to this in JS by passing an object literal combined with destructuring.

However, there are other things we'll probably be adding to the language over time. Also, if you're only allowing a subset of JS, is it actually JS anymore? I'd imagine that some JS programmers could get frustrated when things they think should work (because they're valid JS) don't because they're not in the subset.

But say we went with that. Then we'd need to adopt an existing JS engine (most likely written in C++) and then modify it based on our needs. And then integrate that into our broader Go codebase. All of that seems a bit less than ideal.

Ultimately, I really do feel that if you're someone that knows Javascript, you can learn the elements of the Flux language in less than an hour. The bigger learning curve is the library of functions and the API, which would exist regardless of what language we chose.

I think the proof will come over time based on what kinds of things we enable in the language and the platform. In the near term I expect a large number of totally reasonable people to question the choice of a new language. After all, that's probably the rational response. But as we improve it, add to it, refine it, and improve the developer and user experience, I expect to win more converts. Developers pick up new tools because they enable them to get their jobs done faster. Ease of use, speed of development, and productivity are our guiding lights.
Liberalism is a right-wing ideology...
Googling the text of an error often finds lots of unrelated results. So no, the docs might not be the top hit.
People return bottles and cans in Michigan, though, because of the 10 cent deposit and the fact you can return them directly to any store that sells the product. Not having to go to a recycling center is huge. They are generally picked up and, presumably, recycled, by the bottler.
Yup. Thanks to TLP I have 9 hours and 35 minutes left at the moment (88% battery) with 70% screen brightness, bluetooth and wifi enabled, several local dev servers running light workloads, and Firefox, Slack, Libreoffice and various other smaller apps open.
Thermal bags, transport-aware packing, and the service costs a couple of quid, not the ten dollars you suggest.

You're not going to get a gourmet steak hot from the grill with precisely placed edible flowers laid delicately in it. But a bag of fries and a carton of fried chicken does not require eggs-in-space-shuttle level cushioning
I got so lucky when I did an internal transfer to CS at UT Austin. I was an economics major and wanted to give CS a try. At the time (~2013) all I had to have was a 2.5 gpa and sign a transfer document.

The next year the department exploded and kids with 4.0s and previous internships were getting denied. This was also the first year with the new Dell-Gates Computer Science building. I didn't have a class in that building until my Senior year!
As a kid, I earned a considerable amount of money (sometimes $5+ per day) riding my bike around and collecting cans and bottles during the summer. Those bought me a lot of MTG cards and layaway payments on the latest SNES game. Now I just set them alongside the recycling bin for the homeless as well. I feel like the neighborhood kids are really missing out on a lucrative opportunity.
Just moved to Yarn this weekend strictly because npm link (used to link to a local version of a package) doesn't work the way I want it to.

Everytime I install a new package my previous `npm link` references break in the node_modules folder. `yarn link` keeps these reference. Just as I expect.
The problem with the binary sense is that people misunderstand risk. For example, the blackout in 2003 was partially caused by the windows worm earlier in the day. Even though the computers that were used to control the power grid weren't running windows, the computers that monitored them were. So a routine alarm system bug ended up cascading into a power outage that lasted over a week in some places, including my home at the time. This was classified for a while.

The people that programmed Windows before 2003 probably didn't consider their jobs with the full national security implications.

Then you take something simple, like Linux on a simple IoT device. Say a smart electrical socket. Many of these devices went without updates for years. Doesn't seem all that bad, right? Just turn off a socket or turn it on? How bad could it be?

At some point someone noticed that they were getting targeted and and said: "But why?" The reason is simple. You turn off 100k smart sockets all at once and the change in energy load can blow out certain parts of the grid.

The point isn't that someone will get the key. The point is that we know the network is hostile. We know people lose signing keys. We know people are lazy with updates. From an economics perspective why is non-HTTPS justified? Right? A gig of data downloaded over HTTPS with modern ciphers costs about a penny for most connections in the developed world.

To me, it's worth the cost.
This reminds me of an old Ogilvy quote on advertising, it goes something like this:

"You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine."
Or avoid conceiving!!!!
You could have probably auctioned off your bag to the crowd there for close to true value.
You realize that these are elected officials meeting in Davos right? As in, as literally as can be, "the people".
Don't Skip Tests (Even in a Crisis.)
Banks cant will money into existance. If you withdrew your money the bank has to pay you from other funds. During the great depression banks collapsed this way, the only thing stopping that today is banks have enough funding to buffer people withdrawing from their accounts.
I'm not debating whether math exists or governs our reality. My question was can other species understand math concepts? Or is this a unique sapien genetic mutation.

AFAIK, plants don't communicate or use math concepts (even if they grow using them).
The algos you're talking about (BSc in CS) are trivial. I went to a research-focused college for CS and at Bachelors the algorithms you learn are not very complicated, they're only made hard by the students themselves not actually doing any work OR terrible teaching. In fact, I'm fairly sure I could my 70 year old dad the various tree based algorithms, Dijkstras, A* search etc, and he doesn't even know how to program. The intuition behind these things isn't hard to grasp.

In fact, I think I could take any random person off the street, and provided they're motivated, teach them algorithms and data structures to BSc level within 3 months. It's not rocket science and any engineer who makes it out to be like "way hard" is just being a bit insecure over their knowledge.
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Maybe not every anonymous account on HN corresponds to a real individual?
We want the lockfile to be easy to review by humans. In our experience, JSON doesn't quite fit the bill once you reach a critical mass of data.

Our lockfile format worked fine for the past three years (bar the unfortunate YAML incompatibilities that we're about to fix). Don't fix what isn't broken :)
Does anyone have an answer to this question?
I think you misunderstand how the European numbering works. Think of it like Europeans count the separations between levels. There is no 0th separation, the first separation is the ceiling above the ground level. Saying that the ground level is the "first element" is begging the question - this is just not what Europeans count. (Well some do, but then they count similar to Americans, there is still no 0th floor ether way).

It is true that some elevators label the ground level 0, but this is usually when there are also negative levels (cellars).
RPi Camera v2 uses DRM to prevent clones (2016)
Scientists find a cellular process that stops cancer before it starts
Same for me - it was fine when looking for touristy stuff, restaurants opening hours and things like that.
How many CS PhDs are getting $1m-$4m starting salaries? If any, are they just from Stanford/Berkeley/MIT/CMU or are all the PhDs across all US universities getting these salaries? What about the tens of thousands of CS/Physics/Math PhDs who have graduated over the past two decades, are they also getting these salaries? I find it hard to imagine that a highly reputable school like Cornell would have a difficult time finding faculty. Most my PhD friends gave up looking for tenure track positions and begrudgingly accepted finance/FAANG jobs distraught from the drought in academia.

It is poor reporting to chose the most extreme possible anecdote (one person $1m-$4m salary) and then use that as an example of what is going on. The real story is...universities messed up badly structuring decent pathways for teaching positions and are trying to blame a hot market. There is also the ongoing story of poor measurement schemes (measure how good a teacher is by how good their research is) and the story of uncertainty (let highly accomplished academics rot in limbo-hell for a decade and use a tenure carrot to control them.)

BTW, the quote was from Cornell University's dean. I did my CS undergrad from Cornell. 90% of CS lectures were in a large hall where ~60% of the seats were empty, and this was in an upyear (1998-2001.) There was no shortage of space in the lecture halls. The teaching was mostly done by MS and PhD students, of which there were plenty -- the supply of recitation sections is quite elastic since there is no long-term commitment on either side.
Neither is a mac.
Yup, honestly if I didn't have the structure of university I don't think I would have made it as a self-learned dev. Don't get me wrong I enjoy programming, however I very much needed the formal education process.
Oh, gotcha! Missed that comment.
Full membership rights, with zero membership duties, it seems; and the right to reenter and reexit any damn number of times. Anything less is "punishing the UK". HMG seems to be under the impression that the whole thing is some kind of cat door.
One of the benefits to TypeScript is that the codebase wouldn't need to be rewritten.

A declaration file(s) could be included. There they could just declare types for all classes, methods, constants, etc. Similar to C header files.

(This is how the DefinitelyTyped repository handles typings for untyped source repositories: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped)

Ex:

JavaScript: app.js

function app(arg1, arg2, arg3) {
// does something
return {
key1: someStringValue,
key2: someNumberValue,
};
}

TypeScript: app.d.ts

declare type AppReturnValue = { key1: string, key2: number };
declare function app(arg1: string, arg2: string[], arg3: boolean): AppReturnValue;
$22k on an instrument is not an eye-raising amount of money for a "serious" musician. I'm a (not very serious) guitarist and I have a couple k into my '74 Martin D18. You can _easily_ spend $10-20k or more on a high end handmade guitar or vintage Martin, Gibson, Taylor etc. Some high end concert grand pianos sell for over $100k as far as I know.
Too bad it's not package.yaml or package.js so that we can include comments and document our dependencies....
see also: is everything a computer? (putnam's idea):

https://philosophynow.org/issues/124/Is_Everything_A_Compute...
Being pro-labour is one of the cornerstones of being leftist. I think you are using the word liberal differently than the antonym of conservative - which I am implying to be "right-wing". Maybe "social liberalism" is a good term for what you seem to be saying.
> Mueller said was false.

I keep seeing people say this but all I've seen is Peter Carr say the Buzzfeed story was "inaccurate". Do you have a source or citation for Mueller saying it was false? Thanks!

edit: (assuming we're talking about the Cohen Congress story)
The free advertising infuriated me bitterly. I remember when Hillary Clinton had scheduled a major policy speech. So I took my lunch in a cafe to watch it on CNN. When I got there, the speech wasn't broadcasting and instead I got to see 30 minutes of an empty podium because Trump had announced a last-minute speech himself with reporters breathlessly speculating on what he might say whenever he took the stage.

It's not liberal or conservative bias for CNN, it's sensationalism bias.
A lot of places in the UK especially low cost places wont accept amex because of the charges.

I saw my mangers amex get declined when they tried to pay for a team meal (15 people) a few years ago
> The reason there were so many bison in the US when the settlers arrived is that the native Americans had already hunted the rest of the megafauna to extinction.

do you have a good source that details the evidence of this? and what megafauna were killed off?

i tried searching and from what i found, it isn't anywhere as close to clear cut as you state it. i even saw an article debunking the "overkill hypothesis" which claimed some scientists did some dating studies and showed that in a region of north america the large animals died off before native americans arrived. of course that could be false, but it just doesn't seem so clear as you state it.
I do some hobbyist photography, and I have kept myself to photographing nature and architecture because I have never been very good at posing / the psychology aspect as you describe it. Recently I have become more interested in doing more people photos, but I'm not sure how to go about learning it. Other than practice, are there any resources you might be able to suggest?
> it turns out that it's not actually sharing any data except with academics.

That wouldn't make me feel better. Remember Cambridge Analytica [0]?

[0] https://www.politico.eu/article/cambridge-analytica-academic...
If by lawyer you mean partner and by doctor you mean a practicing surgeon, both of those are pretty far into their careers. It's not very fair to compare them with an entry level engineering job.
> The codebase will be ported from Flow to TypeScript. To understand the rational please continue reading, but a quick summary is that we hope this will help our community ramp up on Yarn, and will help you build awesome new features on top of it.

Another major project moving from flow to typescript
we didn't move back since we use lerna with yarn workspaces. few more reasons are offline package cache and pnp

edit: also just read the v2 roadmap that is on the top of HN now - lots of great new features coming up which only reinforces our decision to stick with yarn
You are technically right yet still downvoted. These days these words have so many different definitions for different people that they've become nearly meaningless.
Happy to report it's working again today. It's not Google but once I got over that, I found the cn.bing.com service is still really useful here in China for things like returning technical queries in English from sites like StackOverflow. I really hope they don't get China banned.
Oh man I actually really enjoy these audio demos as music. Anyone have good suggestions on more music like them? Piano music but in non-classical style with a touch of electronic editing thrown in.
Reading your comment, I'm having a hard time parsing it. I think you're saying that she had some sort of plausible deniability. That's not correct; it's clear she was deeply culpable with direct knowledge of large amounts of fraudulent activity.
serious question, if you are starting a new project today why would you choose to use npm over yarn?
> What we really need is sound data, and the studies that have been done show that people actually end up controlling their weight at least as well, and usually better, on moderate-fat diets compared to low-fat, high-carbohydrate diets.

In my experience, and what I've read, relatively higher fat food satiates better. If you're relatively less hungry, you have a better chance to resist overeating and boredom eating.
Pretty simple.

When you are severely hungover and your fridge is empty, food delivery is godsend, even if it is fastfood (and proper food is just priceless).

Recent McD commercial in NZ even focused on this particular case -- zombie-like people who celebrated NY 2019 all night long are getting some food delivered to their door. Dont have link right now but you can google.
npm has eroded so much of my trust that I am hesitant to switch back to it any time soon.
I've tried npm out every few months (since npm 3), and have consistently run into infuriating bugs or unexpected behaviors.

Much of it has been fixed over time, but the frequency and duration of these issues is concerning—and, I think, points to architectural deficiencies being the root of the problem. (And the project is so massive that it's understandably a really challenging thing to manage and triage)

For example:

* npm 5.0.0—5.7.0 didn't play nice with git-based dependencies (https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/17379)

* npm 5.0.0—5.4.1 edits package-lock.json unexpectedly (https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/17979)

* npm 5.0.0—5.4.? doesn't honor incompatible version differences in package.json compared to package-lock.json (https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/16866)

* Take a look at the issues labeled as [big-bug], and how long they've languished (mostly from the v3 era): https://github.com/npm/npm/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sor....

* and a bunch of others I can't remember off the top of my head; especially nondeterministic behavior in the v2 and v3 era.
I've found it the case if you do more then one "advanced" searches using these operators, your flagged as "unusual activity" and have to do captcha to prove you not a bot.
See this strikes me as very representative of the whole misunderstanding surrounding his policies (whether intentional or not). You seem to conflate his intention of reducing the influx of immigrants with some kind of intrinsic xenophopbia that's often cited by the media to trigger an emotional response.
I'm a legal immigrant myself, and yet I share his stringent viewpoint -- given all the effort, multiple tests and exams, interviews, references etc. I had to go through to earn my visa, I more than support a merit based system instead of conveniently ascribing (hell, projecting?) "disdain" to his administration. Mind you I support the same policies for my home country as well, which suffers from the same issues.
The "steganography" is simply to get around ad company filters, and the end result is the classic "You need to install Flash" nonsense soliciting the user to install a DMG.
Legitimate stories can be abused by retweet misinformation as well. A blogger or tweet posts "NYT says" with an out-of-context quote from the article. This gets repeated until someone points out "Actually that's not true." All the people who saw the retweet think that newspaper was caught spreading false information. But because they never read the actual article, only the selectively edited version of it, they don't notice that the New York Times was reporting it in a balanced and responsible way.
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> Arguing in court

Lobbying is not limited to specific venues if that's what you mean. It's "attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of officials in their daily life, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies". Isn't the NLRB exactly such an agency, given its power to undo a precedent?

Whether you do it by "urging" them in a justice court or "influencing" them on a tennis court it's still the same even when arguing semantics.

Arguing in court that this specific case doesn't fall under the regulation is just arguing in court. Arguing to undo the regulation is literally lobbying. They are asking people with the power to regulate to undo regulation. Read this as you wish.

Unless the Bloomberg article is misleading in the way it words the story then I believe my comment is pretty accurate.
Looking at the API description (very detailed BTW) https://developers.docusign.com/esign-rest-api/guides/authen... , it does look like they used a wrong flow for the use-case, and then invented some shortcuts to make it work (which understandably did not work out well).

It does look like onboarding failure, but there is so much you can do to steer the customers towards the right path. I am not completely convinced that this was Docusign's fault.
You seem to be arguing that the employee actions described in the article didn’t already happen.

Trivialities like favorite technologies can be put aside when it comes to questions of values and fairness.
Sonicare is fine. Just get the cheapest model. You don't need any of the gimmicky features of the other models.
.Guitars are in equal temperament due to the placement of their frets -- to do otherwise would require frets that bend between strings.

Interestingly enough, such a thing does exist.

http://www.truetemperament.com/
This. And due to the high demand of our skills, we're able to effectively negotiate salaries and comp in a way that at least lets us think we're doing better than average (see: salary transparency, or lack thereof).

Plus, we're not a group generally known to like more layers of bureaucracy.
Github has more integrations as market leader. For example there's a few companies who do automatic dependency management with creating pull request (e.g. https://greenkeeper.io/) and they only support github.
You are NOT powerless. Mute the TV, close the Facebook or YouTube video. At minimum, turn away. Learn to ignore the ad areas, or use an ad blocker. Resist.
Da. I'm just uploaded brain scans of the California Spiny-Tailed lobster. I honestly struggling with the idea of being an individual myself.