skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(it's their main item and I guess most people get it),

I suspect this assumption is pretty far off. I'd guess the single burger doesn't even crack the top 10 in sandwich sales for them. Not even close if you exclude sales to kids. At least in the US.

If for arguments sake a more typical lunch was 1/4pounder w/cheese, medium fries, medium (regular coke) you are something like 1100 calories - well into heavy lunch territory.
Nah, don’t care about tech scene since I remote and have a family. It currently costs like 11k/month just to get out of bed in the morning.

Been wanting to live in Europe for a while.
I'm talking about accountability to society. I'm only a customer of Amazon in very limited ways (I own a Kindle that I received as a gift, which I buy a book for once every few months, and I spend about $30/month on AWS of which $29/month is a VM I should really decommission), but that doesn't change the ways they impact my life - their influence on the book market, the literally-everything-else market, the cloud computing market, their purchase of Whole Foods, their presence as an employer in my city, etc. None of those worries are a worry about Amazon making a mistake with my order.

So I'm a lot more worried about Amazon than the IRS - I feel the IRS is in fact accountable to me in a way which Amazon isn't.
> but I'm also glad I deleted my data when they turned into a data marketer.

Thanks, I needed a laugh today.
As someone who spent literal years working at a McDonald's as a teenager, the basic hamburger is perhaps only eclipsed by the Filet of Fish sandwich as one of the least ordered regular lunch menu items. The Big Mac probably outsells all other regular lunch sandwiches 3:1, at least.

Of course it's been almost 20 years since I worked there, but I don't imagine it has changed all that much.
Did you list them as the beneficiary of any retirement accounts or insurance policies, or maybe as an emergency contact somewhere that reports to credit bureaus?
A lot of it seems to come down to voting power. I linked a few articles that dive into it in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19341955
There is much that can be done that isn't easily done because of the way software and hardware evolved together. We think single threaded because our languages express single threads and because our languages express single threads the processors we use have to do outrageous things to reorder instructions trying to extract some meager parallelism across a couple execution units and do all this behind our backs. And, because they do that well enough, we don't bother inventing many new languages for doing that explicitly.

You can't easily express "do these two independent things as you can and, when finished, do this other thing" in C (or Python, or Java) and it's up to brave compiler writers to figure out (sometimes erroneously) what can be done with the independent execution flows.
Be fair. We can bring a lot of pain through cooperation. Cooperating with the orcas seems like a good example.
It's very disappointing. I wrote a fun app for my friends which would find the nearest bar serving picklebacks in New York City on top of Foursquare. These API changes effectively killed it.

This is the same company that regularly hosts hackathons and talks about wanting "to inspire young developers to dream up the next generation of amazing products and services, and provide them with the tools to make them a reality."[1]

How about if you want to do that, don't take your users data and hold it hostage to developers who want to provide them a free service?

[1] https://medium.com/foursquare-direct/foursquare-x-la-hacks-g...
Yep! This is a problem we've addressed by making everyone in the organization an owner. If a link breaks, anyone in the organization can change it, even if the original creator leaves the company. Checkout out our blog to learn more about the history of go links, you may see why the "go" term is so popular.
By sheer company size i think you are undervaluing them.
Anecdotal, but: I used to get the flu shot every year, and like clockwork got the flu every year a few weeks after the shot. About 5 years ago I just stopped getting the shot and... haven't had the flu since, despite spending time with people with the flu.

Other vaccines are great, this is specifically about the annual "flu shot" that's being pushed so hard every fall in ads/media: I'm pretty convinced that it either weakens my immune system too much or is just released too late to be effective.
You might want to look into Rocketrip (https://www.rocketrip.com). Their product is pretty much what you just described - you don't get straight cash, but you can get prepaid visa cards that get close.
In the past two weeks I've been receiving offers for discounted rides from Lyft. First was 30% off for a week, then yesterday I received a code for 50% off this week. It seems they're trying to inflate their ride numbers quickly. I have not received any promotions prior to this, and I've been a member for over a year.
I thought the usual track was Move to SV -> Get rich -> Retire somewhere cheaper. ~1 million is plenty almost anywhere on the planet. Especially if they go the FIRE route.
Maybe parent is a bit optimistic, both in terms of costs and travel time, but the orders of magnitude are approximately correct. Project Orion did come up with theoretical designs that were feasible for human travel (1 g acceleration).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
I have an associates and did a stint with Amazon. That comes with a caveat. I interviewed for a senior software engineer, and got placed as a system engineer. With an understanding that I'd move to software within six months. That never came to pass, and I found it was due to my lack of education. I had been in the field for ~7 years at this point and was a team lead / architect for the past ~2 years.

So yes it can be done just be careful on your expectations. If you're in the Seattle area. There is a crack the coding interview meetup. Probably in other cities. Tailor the resume to their needs. Then knock the algorithm and big o questions out. I spent about a year studying to land the role.
Calc-->Word--> Windows?????? Gotta start somewhere....
Morals are not defensible ethically? That sounds... really bizarre. Could you explain why you think that is true?

Or, could you explain why you think ethics are not based on values and beliefs?
Ask HN: What was Steve Jobs' project management tool?
For those who may have worked with him or know enough, I'm wondering whether he ever used any of the cluttered project management tools that are used today to do Scrum, Agile, Sprints or whatnot.
Results can come a lot sooner and more incrementally than that. For example, there were congressional hearings very recently involving Michael Cohen and merely days later, document requests were issued as a result of the statements he made during he hearing.

So where are the inquiries? Where are the task forces? Where are the subpoenas? Where are the subcommittees? It's been over a year. Are you confident with "changes will come at a later date"? Seems to me like changes will happen never.

http://fortune.com/2018/09/07/equifax-data-breach-one-year-a...
Strange claim, have you ever heard about Ada?
Ask HN: Would you recommend seller financing a car loan?
I am selling my car for around 13 or 14k. I’m only considering private sale, and a potential buyer asked me if I would do seller financing since presumably his credit won’t allow a bank loan.

Has anyone had good or bad experiences doing this? I understand it’s a higher risk considering the buyers low credit score.

If you have had experience doing this, what kind of terms are you glad you put in the contract/what do you wish you put in the contract?
Such an entity cannot exist.
You are off by an order of magnitude. AWS had an operating income of $7.296 Billion USD in the 12 months ending in 2018 [0] and has been growing at about 45% YOY for many years. Extrapolating those numbers gives them about $21.765 billion USD of operating income in the past 7 years.

[0]: https://ir.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-detail...
As anti-vax movement gets weirder–and dumber–Facebook announces crackdown
The way a society organizes by merit is through the selection and ranking of qualities that arise randomly.

So it doesn't make any sense to me to say the world is just rather than unjust, or vice versa. Thus, I reject the dichotomy, as applied to the world. Something specific could be just or unjust, of course.
> I think if you pick a concrete example of this phenomena (say, Java applets vs. WebAssembly) and you ask "so why didn't someone take Java Applets and update them, why do we need WebAssembly?", the answers to why this happens start to become more apparent. It's not so much that Java applets were good and then we decided they were unfashionable, as that Java applets were always kind of ugly and we eventually stopped tolerating them.

I've been asking this exact question on various HN threads with WebAssembly announcements, and the answer is always one of "Applets are insecure" or "Java is insecure".

So I don't really follow your example here... whatever security model you want to have, it seems much more obvious to implement it for Java applets than to implement WebAssembly and then implement your preferred security model for WebAssembly. Why do you think we replaced applets with WebAssembly?

(It's kind of a leading question -- my experience as a browser user suggests that we stopped using applets, spent a while not having them, and then started working on WebAssembly. By that analysis, we never replaced applets with WebAssembly -- we replaced applets with nothing, and then replaced nothing with WebAssembly. That would tend to support the more crotchety answer of "people developed WebAssembly because they just forgot about applets".)
And even then, accidents where all parties are following the rules, e.g. being sober, undistracted by something in the car, giving enough stopping distance to the vehicle you're following, going the appropriate speed for the visual and road conditions, &c aren't the norm. Most accidents happen because somebody was irresponsible, usually blatantly.
Webinar: “Inside the MSRC – Blue Team, Bug Bounties and IR”
No. Uber gets location data FROM Foursquare.

EDIT: That is, the API call doesn't include info about the individual. Foursquare wouldn't know who the individual is for whom the request was made. Except, perhaps, in rare circumstances where they tried correlating them, themselves. Even then, Uber mostly uses it not to understand where a user is but rather the types of locations at a given address.
Not surprised to read this. Glad to see a post outlining why 1st class travel isn't as profitable as it seems, including how even Emirates, which sells the most 1st class seats notes that 1st and business-class constitute ~40% of its turnover - a significant but not majority portion. On a previous discussion, some were skeptical when I'd mentioned how the bulk of total airline sales and profit comes from economy, despite the higher average margin for business/1st class tickets[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18358650
FWIW, fewer businesses are started per capita in those countries and they grow slowly, too.
This seems like a terrible thing to campaign on. There are plenty of other more important issues to deal with. Maybe not everyone, but most people I talk to absolutely love Amazon and the convenience it offers them. Definitely not going to win in the court of public opinion.
> Is it going to get harder soon?

I'm 34, so it might become different when I'm in my forties, but so far it's not getting any harder. Your summary below is spot on.

> I understand how computing systems work generally and the laws of physics impose some hard limitations that sort of massage any solution to look similar enough to any other that it isn't that hard to figure out what is going on. Sure I'll lack some of the deep knowledge that someone who has focused solely on these set of technologies may have but honestly most of the programmers I meet don't have that to begin with.
> Its absolutely essential that those involved in Grand Jury proceedings be kept secret, to protect the defendant to-be

This does not protect a defendant who has had secret accusations against him for almost a decade.

The defendant himself has demanded, for years and years, that the accusations be made public.

There is absolutely no way you can spin this to be "protecting the defendant" when the defendant himself has been wanting the accusations be made public for years.

They do not want the secret accusations and secret crimes. They want the accusations of crimes to be made public, so they can defend themselves.

It is impossible to defend yourself against secret crimes. The best way to defend yourself against politically motivated prosecution is to bring things public and win via politics.

Politically motivated attacks require a political solution. By making everything public, which is what the defendant wants!

> The defendant isn't present yet.

We live in a digital age. Bring it into the daylight, and let the world judge, in the realm of politics.

I am not talking and defending yourself in the court, when you've already been arrested, and are therefore screwed. I am talking about defending yourself in the real world, IE, via politics.

The world politics stage is the only stage that matters, when it comes to fights between nation states.
Oh I'm not at all confident changes will come. If the hearings aren't convincing enough to members of congress then nothing at all will happen. It seems like that was the case with congress as it existed at the time of the hearings. Perhaps things are different now that we are post-election and the makeup is different.

My point is one shouldn't expect immediate effects from a congressional hearing. They are merely the start of a long process that can get derailed at many points along the way.
If I’m not being paid cash for my location data, I’m not going to be excited to help Foursquare collect it, whether it's anonymous or not. Paying me in contextually-relevant advertisements and recommendations (cough exposure) will never be enough.
It's more than that. The article implies that Foursquare is sourcing data from a variety of apps, including apps that are associated with your real world identity and preferences and lifestyle activities, which increases the opportunity for privacy invasions.

For comparison when Apple Maps shares your position information it is a strictly anonymous session ID that is not associated with your Apple ID and is regularly discarded.[1]

[1] https://www.apple.com/privacy/approach-to-privacy/
On the other hand, I'd be tempted by a $300 upfare for business on a transcontinental flight.

Different strokes, different markets.
I disagree, my email yesterday said "50% off your next 10 rides. You have 10 rides remaining. Max savings of $6 per ride. Discount applies to the fare, Prime Time charges, Service fee, tolls, and taxes only."
Is there any point to these campaigns? It's not a vote, right? The idea is that they're supposed to collect diverse arguments and get as many informed perspectives as they can. "Lots of people pushed a button to post this comment" is not going to be a very powerful perspective.
> "We already have full self-driving capability on highways," Musk said during a January earnings call.

Except for obstacles that coincide with whitelisted locations their sensors can't handle. It's only a matter of time before someone dies because of that hack.
"With -fdiagnostics-format=json, the diagnostics are emitted as a big blob of JSON to stderr"
Have you considered using the Facebook Places API? https://developers.facebook.com/docs/places/
VHDL counts.
I'm not sure about AZ laws, but it's starting to seem a lot like even Texas, where I live, has laws that favor the pedestrian more than Arizona does. I may be misinformed, but that is pretty damning if true, considering Texas' population distribution and the necessity of driving. As a permanent pedestrian, though, my day-to-day concern is more on whether or not people actually follow the local driving laws (they don't, a significant amount of the time) rather than the laws themselves.
I totally clicked on the title because I thought the thread was about whiteboard interviews (aka BS for someone)
Ok, this makes sense and is similar to what I am used to from Europe.
Same here. When I was unemployed for a while the only thing that made me unhappy was the fear of running out of money. If I had a guaranteed income of some level that allows me to survive I would not need a job to be happy.
> We have cataloged planets in hundreds of other solar systems. We see ones with only rocky planets. Ones with only gas giants. But we're the only one we know of with both gas giants and rocky planets. The only one where the rocky planets wind up protected from most of dinosaur killer kinds of impacts.

Not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-90
The videos are quite old though, Nov 2017. There's more up-to-date python tutorials out there. I'm always nervous about vesting time into learning from old tutorials because the information could be outdated.
Constructors of global static objects, they are required to be called before main() starts execution, likewise destructors of such objects are supposed to run in inverse order on program termination, including after call to atexit().

This needs to happen regardless how the binary, or dynamic library gets loaded.
ID-Theft as a service with the source being stolen and otherwise illegitimately obtained data

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/10/experian-sold-consumer-d...

>An identity theft service that sold Social Security and drivers license numbers — as well as bank account and credit card data on millions of Americans — purchased much of its data from Experian, one of the three major credit bureaus, according to a lengthy investigation by KrebsOnSecurity.

>An individual who read a story about the operators of a similar ID theft service online having broken into the networks of LexisNexis and other major data brokers wrote to say that he’d gone back and reviewed my previous stories on this topic, and that he’d identified the source of the data being resold by Superget.info. The reader said the abbreviations matched data sets produced by Columbus, Ohio-based USInfoSearch.com.

>Contacted about the reader’s claim, U.S. Info Search CEO Marc Martin said the data sold by the ID theft service was not obtained directly through his company, but rather via Court Ventures, a third-party company with which US Info Search had previously struck an information sharing agreement. Martin said that several years ago US Info Search and CourtVentures each agreed to grant the other company complete access to its stores of information on US consumers.

>Founded in 2001, Court Ventures described itself as a firm that “aggregates, repackages and distributes public record data, obtained from over 1,400 state and county sources.” Cached, historic copies of courtventures.com are available through archive.org.

>In March 2012, Court Ventures was purchased by Costa Mesa, Calif.-based Experian, one of the three major consumer credit bureaus. According to Martin, the proprietors of Superget.info had gained access to Experian’s databases by posing as a U.S.-based private investigator. In reality, Martin said, the individuals apparently responsible for running Superget.info were based in Vietnam.
The top editor promoted comment[1] on the article summed up very well.

The attention problem is well known in engineering.
It is very hard to get a human to concentrate on something
that will turn up good more than 99% of the time,
even when there's serious or fatal consequences of failure.
Trains are the classic example - tracks are amost always clear,
signals are almost always correct which means you have to
devise all sorts of systems to keep the driver alert.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/03/teslas-self-driving-str...
Exa – A Modern Replacement for Ls
Is it appropriate to insult these researchers with terms like "eggheads" and "boffins"?
That's all well and good, but what was the concrete result of the hearing?

Some politicians got an opportunity to issue strong statements that they can later leverage during reelection?
> No. Uber gets location data FROM Foursquare.

This doesn't make sense and contradicts the article. Don't apps have to send coordinates to Foursquare to get location names? Foursquare then holds onto that data and tracks you. Perhaps also matching it to other services with a unified ID.

Update to your edit: The article strongly implies that Foursquare has figured out how to associate location data from multiple services into a single view. Apps that use Foursquare are feeding Foursquare very detailed location data about you, even if they're only using it to look up location names. It means Foursquare is getting all your Uber destinations and all your geotagged social media posts. The article literally describes how they've taken this data and turned you into a "card" that tracks your ID across services:

He taps on one profile, called “Harry,” and a pie chart pops up that details the habits of the real person associated with that advertising ID. “Harry spends a lot of time in Midtown, sometimes goes to parks, and rides the subway,” Crowley says, looking over the data Foursquare has assembled from the person’s use of popular apps and geotagging services.
This is wrong. I'm a professional sound engineer who's done location recording for film for over a decade and has another decade's worth of studio/editing experience.

A vacuum cleaner is loud but not that loud. You don't have to scream over it. 80db will cause hearing loss if you listen to that level sustained over a long time, but it's not remarkably loud. In fact, the chart you link shows everyday examples of noises in that range like phones ringing, chamber music (from acoustic stringed instruments using resonant cavities, a good proxy for human voices), city traffic, and more.

While a 75dB noise floor is definitely a problem for obtaining a clean recording (the kind you hear in a tv show), it's nothing unusual in forensic work. The sound from the servos moving the heads back and forth will consist of aperiodic loud but relatively slow and brief transients. It'll be like trying to listen in to a space while a spastic Autechre track plays on a speaker nearby - hard work but not impossible. A more prosaic example would be trying to follow the words of an unfamiliar song or rap at a live concert.

I'm pretty confident that I could get what you said into your phone while you sat in front of your laptop with a mechanical hard drive, without even hearing any of their source material. I would find this easier than trying to deal with a bad recording made in high wind or in the vicinity of a diesel engine.
That's the high density config that they send on low-yield routes like Hawaii. There are only a few of those in their fleet.
Ugh, the USPTO is getting really nasty here. If you actually read the proposed rules, they amount to saying "if the Supreme Court hasn't specifically ruled that the matter is patent-ineligible, then we should assume it is patent-eligible," which is a very myopic view of how SCOTUS has consistently ruled on patentability in the past decade.

Of course, the real problem here isn't the USPTO, it's the Federal Circuit. The Federal Circuit's decisions are binding precedent unless overruled by the Supreme Court, and the Federal Circuit has pretty consistently followed the test being cited in the guidelines, so USPTO has to follow. This is despite SCOTUS constantly telling the Federal Circuit that they have it utterly wrong on patentability; they just haven't gotten the message yet.