skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: If you run a startup or small biz, do you use a bookkeeping service?
Are you locking up all of the other pharma CEOs who do it? That’s the difference between justice and outrage porn.

I’m not saying he did nothing wrong (some jail time and monetary penalty was in order, but not the severity that was issued). I take issue that he was sacrificed for the public because of his brash showmanship, and the broken system marches on with little complaint. Epi Pen and insulin manufacturer execs still walk free, and they did far worse.
I will be honest. I want an tool for this that I can then send via Amazon sms directly. The same prop is just the composer/markdown aspect and I do not want to pay on a per email basis for it.
Why the fuck is medical news from 1993 being posted on Hacker News?
I predict this title will not age well. The progress is accelerating. Material science is getting revolutionized by cheap computation and large-scale simulations.
Capitalism itself isn't the problem it's our refusal to change market forces to force companies and individuals to pay for the disposal of the stuff when we no longer have a use for it. This could easily be done if we had the political will power. all the solutions to this exist currently we just aren't taking advantage of them.
> When he received a LinkedIn message from a Chinese headhunter.

At the beginning I wondered how can the Chinese know who to contact.. On LinkedIn! Then a glimpse at the OPM data breach made my realise that the system might not be useless, but certainly dated and suitable to a very different threat model.

It's not easy to update your operating procedures to an information asymmetry at your disadvantage, after decades of advantage in info gathering.

Realising that, the top comment starts to make a lot more sense, even if at first sight it's potentially unrelated to the topic: they need to be much more careful about all sorts of things.
I sometimes feel like Government should mandate that subscription expenses be reported and advertised in strictly annual costs.

I've meet too many people who feel like paying $100 for a service annually is too much, but $10 a month is acceptable. These subscription fees add up, often without users ever realizing.
Q. Hey, guy, you're not a... terrorist, are ya?

A. Why, no! Of course not! I would never!

Right this way, sir!
While I agree that's the new brand message, I don't think that necessarily means that Apple's TV content is only going to be family oriented. Some of the clips they showed in the video don't look like it would be appropriate for kids.

They were negotiating to get a violent TV show according to CNBC [1]. And Apple's iTunes store has already sold movies and TV shows that were for mature audiences, so I doubt they're going to place any restrictions on what kind of content they're going to buy.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/06/apple-pursuing-violent-israe...
Does anyone have something like this for ARM?
In general, I understand and support the idea that, should your startup not go well, you fail, wrap things up, and move on. It's too big of a risk to stake your entire life on one venture, and my understanding is that VC firms, angels, and the like all understand that this can happen when they invest in a startup.

That risk is not something that is understood by most end users, where in this case "end users" includes landlords and other people "on the ground". Those people made an agreement with the startup in good faith, and I contend that faith has been violated, to the potential financial ruination of (at least) a subset of the tenants, and possibly (depending on their financial position) a fair subset of the landlords.

(It's worth noting the Reddit post was made about a day ago. In my rental agreement, for example, I would now be in violation for failing to pay rent to the landlord. I expect many of the tenants are now in that same position.)

I contend that you should not be allowing things like this to be precipitated.

Yes, I'm looking at you, YC. Yes, I'm looking at you, A16Z. And all of the other VC organizations, _and their alumni networks_. With this case serving as an example, I think you have a self-policing problem.

You might say something along the lines of "Oh, it [the startup] wasn't affiliated with any of us", or "Oh, that 'VC' isn't an actual VC", or "Oh, we didn't know them". In an instance like this, I don't think that matters. What matters is two things:

1. If not illegal, I contend that the actions of the startup (and maybe the VC) were at least highly immoral.

2. From the landlord's perspective, they see this as a startup and a VC. Maybe that's not what they actually were, but that doesn't matter. For this point, it doesn't matter what the reality was, it matters what the perception _is_.

I suggest two actions:

1. You (the same collective 'you' as above) should immediately reach out to the poster, to learn both about their tenants and to get in contact with the representative that the landlord was working with. You should then use that contact to identify other landlords where this has happened. Make the tenants whole through at least April, if not April and May.

2. Create a framework to prevent things like this from happening. I admit that I'm being _way_ to vague here, but that is because I do not have enough expertise in what you do, to make a concrete suggestion. Instead, I am calling out the problem, so that you can use your knowledge and experience to formulate a solution. For example, many of you have talked about—or otherwise targeted—basic income. Why not tackle this first.
Potassium nitrate and sugar has been a very well known mixture for - what? Hundreds of years at least.

We need a culture of rational and critical thought, not one that sequesters away knowledge.
Where / how do you upgrade?
De Niro characer in Heat:

> "We want to hurt no one. We're here for the bank's money, not your money. Your money is insured by the federal government, you're not gonna lose a dime. Think of your families, don't risk your life. Don't try and be a hero."

Is that tone deaf, or might it work? I bet it would work. When the financial harm is spread out thin, people take it less personally. That's why people regularly fight back against muggers, but we very rarely see anybody take vigilante action against hospitals, the pharma industry or insurance companies when hospitals charge $10+ for a single aspirin pill and insurance companies spread that harm thin.
Probably General Rule 10 and Posting Rule 3 from https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/wiki/index#wiki_general...

Edit: To clarify, I’m talking about naming them in the Reddit post. There’s already another set of comments here trying to figure out who they are.
"Rocket candy" is very widely known already, and HN is probably the last place terrorists will look. And terrorists won't use rocket candy. Hey, did you know you can react nitric acid with glycerin to get nitroglycerin?
> Today if I was settings this up from scratch, I would stick with just AppVeyor, as it can now do both Linux and Windows testing and the future of TravisCI is murky, after it was acquired by private equity firm and reportedly fired the original dev team.

I would rather go with CirrusCI which has windows, macos, linux and freebsd support, is much faster and is easier to work with.
appveyor being the slowest, and travis having the worst features.
Ah, yes, a sound we are all of course much more familiar with.
This is plastic in the ocean for earth's orbit. We'll never be able to remove the debris. It's only a small amount now, but give it a few hundred years...
Except your casual layperson's relation of the tale introduces obvious gaps of context. To the point that it's dubious you even know what you're talking about.

You're words are vague, and therefore useless. Although subsequent commenters have clarified specifics, that still doesn't absolve your own little anecdote.

Granted that taking an Asprin qualifies as consuming drugs, one can safely draw the conclusion you are Lying on The Internet.
It's not relevant whether the source you presented for your claim that the media got the Boston right-wing rally wrong is himself (a conclusion I've drawn from sources and reporting and, to be clear, a statement of pure opinion and not of fact, and I will remind you: opinion about a very public figure) habitually dishonest?
Article 3 of the GDPR defines territorial scope:

> This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the processing activities are related to:

> (a) the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union; or

> (b) the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union.

As I understand it, because 23andMe also provides its service within the EU, the GDPR applies.

If they solely offered their service in the US, it's more tricky. Just being in the EU does not _necessarily_ mean the GDPR applies. Consider the following two examples[1]:

> A U.S. citizen is travelling through Europe during his holidays. While in Europe, he downloads and uses a news app that is offered by a U.S. company. The app is exclusively directed at the U.S. market. The collection of the U.S. tourist's personal data via the app by the U.S. company is not subject to the GDPR.

BUT:

> An app developer established in Canada with no establishment in the Union monitors the behaviour of data subject in the Union and is therefore subject to the GDPR, as per Article 3(2)b. The developer uses a processor established in the US for the app optimisation and maintenance purposes.

> In relation to this processing, the Canadian controller has the duty to only use appropriate processors and to ensure that its obligations under the GDPR are reflected in the contract or legal act governing the relation with its processor in the US, pursuant to Article 28.

[1] https://edpb.europa.eu/sites/edpb/files/consultation/edpb_gu...
The best “productivity hack” is to instantly forgive yourself when you mess up
Watch out for hype that golang authors and supporters claim without properly backing it up, there's quite a bit of it.

There are other languages that have better support for composition, while still maintaining support for inheritance (e.g. Kotlin). Inheritance has its uses, as evident by the fact that Rust is considering adding support for inheritance (e.g. writing GUIs).
All power ends up as heat. If a device consumes 400W of power it is going to put out 400W of heat in some form or other. Fix the design flaw so it puts out less heat and it will consume less power and no longer be a 400W device.
Portable VR headsets one application of a powerful GPU in a small form factor.
Directo/TV barcelona vs. atlético madrid en vivo online vía DirecTV
https://qiita.com/Djraj/items/6a9fdc37ecc41bcbc60b

https://qiita.com/Djraj/items/18c1be6d1fb40cf51da5

https://qiita.com/Djraj/items/bc07ad950f31a5fe0f32

https://qiita.com/Djraj/items/7b949ab7805f240cb2ba

https://qiita.com/Djraj/items/e6bc72351f3219403d28

https://qiita.com/Djraj/items/1e4d130be73bb7118856

https://qiita.com/Djraj/items/f54c03c211f185a8a283

https://qiita.com/Djraj/items/42e2853b0cc5fb44ca48
konfig – reference Kubernetes configmaps and secrets stored in GKE clusters
From what i have understood, Ginseng sets sensitive memory regions to only be accessed by the TEE then unmap these regions from the kernel memory space. If your kernel module try to read/write/map these regions, a memory violation exception is raised and then handled by the TEE.
Nice, but how well does it deal with corner cases, e.g. listings that run over multiple pages, or lines that are too long?
The biggest problem with this study is they did not find what they hoped to find, or at least what would have been most interesting. They broke their subjects up into 4 groups based on early and late socioeconomic status, High/High, Low/Low, High/Low, Low/High. They only found differences between High/High and Low/Low. If there were some big differences differences between DNAm resulting from early poverty, I would expect the Low/High to have had significant differences. In other words they did not prove or disprove the click-bait title "Poverty leaves a mark on our genes".

Of course the lack of "significant" differences could be a power (sample size) issue as the number of upwardly (or downwardly) mobile people was half of what the maintainers in either class was.

I agree this is a clickbait article, but I do not think the research (in the paper) is bad. Hopefully this paper will be the basis of a higher powered grant to follow up on their findings.
> If "1 + 9 = 10" is true

But the point is that it isn't true. It is consistent with and implied by the Peano axioms, that's it. If you make the completely arbitrary assumption (as far as pure mathematics is concerned) that the Peano axioms are true (that is to say, you consider them to be axioms), then it follows that "1 + 9 = 10" is also true. If you reject the Peano axioms, then it's not true anymore. That is, until you accept some alternate axioms that also imply "1 + 9 = 10". Or you simply make "1 + 9 = 10" an axiom, then it's true simply because it's an axiom. The fact that the truth of that statement is completely dependent on your arbitrary choice of axioms should tell you that it's not a statement about reality.

> I'd agree that it's not a claim about PHYSICAL reality though.

So, can you demonstrate that there is a non-physical reality?

> Because not all religious claims are claims about physical reality, some are about moral reality

What is moral reality and how do you demonstrate that it exists (and is distinct from physical reality)?

> Just like "1 apple + 9 apples = 10 apples" is not a claim about physical reality, but is an application of mathematics to physical reality

Uh ... what? Did I maybe just not express myself clearly? Let me rephrase: When you have one apple in a basket, and you put another 9 apples into the same basket, you will have 10 apples in that basket. That is a statement about (physical) reality, wouldn't you agree? That's what I meant.

> "You must not steal" is not a claim about physical reality, but is an application of morals to persons in physical reality.

It's simply not a claim at all, and therefore it's just yet another category error? "Electrons must have a mass of 5 tons" is also not a claim about physical reality, because it's also not a claim. "Electrons do have a mass of 5 tons" is a claim, and it's also a claim about reality, and it's testable. And equally "having and enforcing a social norm of not stealing provides such and such benefits for human societies" is a claim, and it's also a claim about reality, and it's also testable.

The problem with your example is not that it's somehow about morals, the problem is that you simply didn't make a claim, but a command. And that is not because it is impossible to make claims about morals, but because you intentionally avoided making a claim.

> Moral claims are not testable by science. It would be a categorical error to try to discover the color, smell, taste, feel, or affect of morality.

So, you think it is a category error to try and discover the effects of moral norms, because it is impossible to observe the effects of moral norms, because moral norms don't affect (physical) reality?

> If you can perform direct or indirect physical observation to verify a religious claim, then it is a claim that science can deal with.

What would be an example of a religious claim that is "not scientific", other than claims about an afterlife?
Mobile hackers week 14 – top mobile developer news once a week
I worked at a company that has a flagship product that is a web-based spreadsheet.

The company uses huge spreadsheets to manage their network infrastructure.

These spreadsheets are so large that their own flagship web-based spreadsheet cannot handle them, so there's a whole section of the company running Excel on Windows workstations to manage them.

I worked on a replacement project for that.

It was also a web-based spreadsheet.

It was about three years old when I joined the project and I worked on it for two more years (before quitting.)

Punchline: It also could not handle the large spreadsheets.

(Sad truth: tens of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of dev-hours wasted with zero payoff. PMs getting promoted up and out and leaving the project behind resulted in a classic "Lava Flow"[1] mess. You could actually see the layers in the code and VCS.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_flow_(programming)
And even if you havent had time or knowledge to setup fair queuing, this attack was very light, and an awk logparsing script that append ips to a firewall would have been more then sufficient.

Certainly no need for cloudflare
Unfortunately, many people have been memed into believing Shkreli is a Good Guy™ and that he did nothing wrong.
Are you really this angry at him over illegal accounting/investing? Or are you using that as an excuse because you're actually angry at him over what he did with daraprim? I think many people defend him because they suspect people claiming to be mad about the former are actually mad about the later.

Edit:

> "So people are defending him on #1 because they think other people are too mad about #2? "

Yes that's my belief.

Imagine Mel Gibson was caught bringing weed into an authoritarian SEA country, and was sentenced to caning. Now imagine there were people celebrating that sentencing, because Mel Gibson is a racist. In this hypothetical, is he a drug smuggling racist? Yes. I wager you'd see people defend him though, and accuse people celebrating his caning as being biased by his racism.
Through which we have to send all our launches. The debris field is growing and this and other tests are contributing to it. The debris isn’t likely to be homogeneous over this volume either.

Our launch sites are tiny spaces designed to reduce launch cost by getting a boost from the earths rotation or to select particular orbits. That these narrow corridors may be polluted with debris from satellites launched into very similar orbits is frightening in the extreme.
Thawing permafrost is triggering thousands of landslides across the Arctic
I don't think Australia has much metallurgical coal. Steel making is dirty, though Australia has plenty of places to make steel where it wouldn't cause a serious local air quality problem.
At least in California, no. My experience has always been the landlord makes up any excuse at all to keep the deposit and you fight them tooth and nail. California does have a fair number of renter protection laws, but the companies rarely observe them.
I absolutely love these tools. Being in digital forensics, these tools feel like such a nice gift to our DFIR community. By the off chance Nir is reading this: thank you so much for all your effort en dedication!
A large property management company should have their own lawyers, potentially in-house. This whole post sounds like they're trying to drum up support, not actually ask for legal advice.
A top level settings item called “Passwords and Accounts” is obscure?
> But once you do, you find that other subfields of CS are more interesting and useful.

I feel like the exploitative nature and below-industry living-working standards are what pushes people away from the field in the first place.

The video gaming industry makes in the same order of magnitude in revenue as the global movie market.
It certainly isn't a small industry.
Not all problems are well defined. Generally the more business impact you have, the more undefined your work is.
Googling "fluoride battery" brings up a bunch of articles claiming up to 10X better energy density than lithium. Until recently fluoride batteries had to be kept at high temperature but a recent development by Honda/NASA/Caltech changed that [1] [2]. However, "the team still has to figure out how to stabilize the anodes and cathodes, which tend to dissolve completely into the electrolyte. They're making some headway though, and further testing is currently underway."

In any case, I'm not really making any particular claims about battery tech, just saying I see a flaw in the article's argument that lithium is unassailable. I agree that airplanes are a likely early application of radically better batteries.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/07/fluoride-battery-breakth...

[2] https://www.batterypoweronline.com/news/what-the-fluoride-io...
> we have to think about it, but we do

"we" don't have to do anything. what are you talking about?
Yup. Happened with SlimFTPd all the time around 2006 or so. Good tools that are easy to work with and very small get picked up by malicious actors very easily.
Yes people who are depressed can think like this and such illogical thoughts may sound true when you're feeling down compounding the sadness.

This exercise helps you rip apart each such illogical thought and shows you how irrational and illogical you're mind is being thereby undoing the illogical connections the mind is making
I use https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm

it's great. It has tags to only pull up specific dotfiles (say for emacs, .config etc), and supports configurations for multiple hosts and multiple source folders.
There is a bunch of freelance/contract companies who screenshot your screen and webcam every couple of minutes and record mouse/keboard activity constantly, then after every week they validate the number of hours you spinned and that makes your paycheck.

Maybe this is ok for some line work but not for more complex problems wher you need to discus or brainstorm things.
My friend who is dev/architect quit such job after year with severe burnout. Hourly compensation was very good though.
It's all there, waiting at the tips of your fingers, just try it out?
That's like saying refugees in the US should be grateful they were detained without recourse, rather than detained and beaten.
> go codebases are not shorter (by much) than java's.

They're usually longer. See: no generics, error handling, among other things.
Why is that the wrong path? I think these are valid questions. Please, I’m curious to hear your thoughts.
If you're excited to actually do some problems by the end of the video, we just released our diff. eq. problem solving course: https://brilliant.org/courses/differential-equations/
Sure the current ~250Wh/Kg LiIon battery tech gets many jobs done that could not be done with earlier battery technologies.

That is not the same thing as saying that further improving the technology would accomplish nothing (as seems to be implied).

Gasoline is about 10X that at 2500Wh/Kg (albeit also requires carrying around fuel storage tank(s) & a combustion engine, which is only ~40% efficient on a good day).

Getting battery technology up to nearly those energy densities would completely revolutionize everything.

Current phones would have 1-2 weeks of battery life, or you could power a pocket workstation (if you could cool it). Ordinary multirotor drones would fly for hours instead of 15-30min. Electric airplanes would be quieter and more efficient.... the possibilities are nearly endless.
When I finally get tired of being nagged to install the app and concede, I find the app is exactly like the mobile website, except all my normal browser functions like select/copy, copy image link, find are all non-intuitive or don't exist. Its just so pointless and stupid. Are these guys doing any UX testing?
Your money is insured by the federal government

And where does the federal government get their money? It's stealing from taxpayers.