skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The DMCA was passed in 1998, how is a company established in 2005 responsible for the law being draconian? Not even Napster was around in time to influence the DMCA.
Why couldn’t Instagram build a feature that lets you build boards of pinned posts from other users?
Jon Ronson’s book “So you’ve been Internet shamed.”
Use of Facebook targeting on job ads could violate Canadian human rights law
Sorry - should say use the valuation of the drug to determine patient access to it in the US. AKA, ICER could determine that drug 1 is massively un-cost-effective in comparison to drug 2, but you cannot restrict access to drug 1 due to this information.
Most other countries tie drug price somewhat to health gain delivered by said drug.
I don't work at Google so I'm probably way off base, but if I was designing it I wouldn't bother telling the difference between the two types of queries.

I'd break up the indices into digestible chunks, perhaps chronologically by year/month crawled, and then run all queries simultaneously (in parallel) against all those index chunks and combine the results at the end. Infinitely scalable and can be tweaked to ensure specific response times.

And there'd definitely be no need to set some arbitrary date cut-off; just add a few more virtual machines. I'd bet that's what Google was doing, and then scaled back those machines to save money and boost profits.
If your business cannot figure out its finances well enough to provide a month notice to employees being laid off, you've got some serious incompetency issues.

The US is possibly the only developed nation in the world that believes in "at will" employment, and yet all of those other developed countries (including pretty much the entire G8+) have thriving business market, lots of businesses able to start up, take a shot, go bust, and/or thrive.
A agree with you somewhat, and yet I read it.
some takeaways for me, even though not groundbreaking but rather reinforcements of

> your perfect job may very well not be

> change is scary, but in the end it'll work out (hopefully)

> don't get too comfortable - hope for the best, expect the worst.
as the owner of a vacation rental

1) being able to change door codes remotely and unlock the door remotely can save a lot of trips to the rental

2) being able to control the thermostat after people leave and have set the temp to 65 degrees is also really useful.

3) The only cameras I would use are outside the home so I can monitor it when it is vacant. I have the same policy in my own home
It's useful for home remodels. Even the advertising isn't too bothersome since you're looking to buy something.
The reason is simple: apparently they are not making money on old content searches.
Make it opt-in. Instead of requiring every search to be finished in less than 0.5 seconds, allow users to tick a box that says "Take your time" and pull indices from slow storage in that case. If I know I want something niche, I am willing to wait the extra few seconds or even a minute.
Not really. It's not the same ideology. It's the same tool.
I've read all of them, but I don't know if her portrayal in thebooks is fair, though; it seemed rather negative, from my memories. But all the books are cool, even if a little (a lot?) formulaic.
I think that happens to a large number of people who have lost a job and found something else. Specifically, if you are laid off, and assuming the entire company / division didn't fold (i.e., they cut 15% from all departments), then chances are that you and the company weren't a good fit for each other. And it is during the job search process that you start to re-evaluate your skill set, what you can do, and what you want to do. Often that will then lead to a better opportunity in which you have improved (if from nothing else than a change of scenery).
I don't think the articles premise is that Google axed all content older then 5 years or so. But that it gradually discards old unique content.

Which goes against the original mission of Google to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible".

A "bug" could be an option, but I don't expect that to be the reason. It's too easy to find examples of forgotten content. And I don't think a bug of that magnitude in Googles core business would go unnoticed.
Why Design Thinking Is the Future of Management
I love AirBnBs for personal travel and sometimes for business travel. Renting a house for a week with colleagues all working on a project gives a very different vibe (and is much more productive) than a series of hotel rooms where the only option to hang out (whether to work or to BS) is at a bar, the lobby, or in someone's room.

I'll take a living room, kitchen, and then a series of private bedrooms down the hall over that any day.

For personal travel, we've stayed in awesome city loft apartments, little cottage houses, and even a (no-kidding) tree house in Costa Rica. I like living a little closer to "local normal" rather than having a sterilized, sanitized, pre-packaged hotel room experience.

My good experiences outweigh bad at least 9:1 on AirBnB.
I actually wonder how well-known the little theorem is outside of math departments. Or Wilson's theorem, product of all nonzero elements mod p is negative one iff p is prime.
> GPS used ten bits for datetime.

Nit: GPS uses 29 bits for "datetime".

10 bits for the week since the epoch, and 19 bits to count the number of 1.5s intervals that have passed since the start of the week. Yes, 1.5s intervals.

See Section 2.3.5:

* https://www.gps.gov/technical/ps/1995-SPS-signal-specificati...
The problem is what justification and whose justification? Under what standard? Additionally, what employee is ever going to feel like their firing is justified?

"Oh shit, well yeah, I guess I would have fired me too."

A mature response for sure, but a highly unlikely one.
Hotels are overall probably more bugged than Airbnb's. The more expensive your room, the more likely it's going to be bugged. Especially in the capitals.
Thank you! Overall it has been a positive experience :) This is my first time dealing with 'the public' and I'm likely overdue for the lesson that one can never (and shouldn't) make everybody happy.
It's not possible a single insurer to go bankrupt due to a single expensive customer. State insurance commissioners wouldn't allow such a financially fragile insurance company to sell policies in the first place.
I agree “fetch” is good enough in many cases. It doesn’t have all the conviences many clients do, but sometimes those can be added with a simple wrapper function tailored to your use case.
> no one seems willing to suggest that men need to change the way they view sex, relationships and themselves

I'm not sure that's so true. Plenty of people are talking about that. It's hard for them to get a fair hearing and a good-faith discussion, given the modern state of affairs, in which the most extreme voices are given all the attention.
Thanks, I'll definitely look into this. I take anti-histamines and aspirin to regulate some of my symptom outbreaks as per a recommendation from my GP, so the fact that it's mentioned as a treatment certainly perks my interest.
I do light graphics work too. Making blog post images and Youtube thumbnails mostly.

I started using Gimp a few months ago after 10+ years of using Photoshop. My biggest complaint is the quality of scaling an image down. It's really really bad compared to Photoshop (even if you play with the low level details of picking the scale strategy). It always seems to come out blurry or fuzzy, to the point where I stopped using Gimp for that. Is there a better way to scale images?

Also, I just wanted to throw in a comment of, if you're switching to Gimp, don't immediately discount it for not having features you're used to with Photoshop.

For example, with Photoshop, if you copy an image to your clipboard outside of Photoshop, then you when you create a new image in Photoshop, the dimensions of the canvas will be set to the image in the clipboard. This way it's super easy to make a new image, paste the image from your clipboard and now you have a properly sized image.

Gimp has this feature but it's not implemented in a way that's the same as Photoshop. Instead, with Gimp you can just press CTRL + Shift + V to paste the image from the clipboard into a new image and it's all set up and good to go. The menu item is "paste as... new image".
At the end of the day, that's what the calculus comes down to. Many of these gene therapies are for rare diseases, but creating them is still extremely expensive. At some point, the cost of dedicating those societal resources to saving those lives is too high.

That's a hard thing to admit, so people look for a way around it. But at the end of the day somebody has to pay. If you tell the drug companies that the products are too expensive, and ask them to accept lower returns than comparable high-tech, high-risk, talent and capital-intensive industries, you're asking those companies and their shareholders to pay. (Or you're asking them to cross-subsidize those treatments with money from treatments that have a much larger number of patients.) People love that idea because it makes it seem like you're getting cheaper treatments for "free" but all you're doing is hiding the costs. There is a cost, it's now just hidden and unaccounted for. If you told Apple they could only charge $250 for an iPhone, what do you think would happen?

Let the drug companies charge what they want to charge, and let government-funded healthcare programs decide what they're willing to pay to save a particular life. That's the most transparent and ethical thing to do.
> I feel sorry for him. I’m not sure he’s ever been in this position before, and I think I’m the first person today he has to give this news to. He looks a bit overwhelmed, grey-faced, perhaps a bit nervous. He is speaking slowly and carefully. It’s got to be tough to be the one who has to deliver this news to people. It must really suck for him to tell somebody they’re suddenly unemployed.

Long ago, I was let go, with others, by the VP of a company I worked for as the company was faltering. He was a nice guy and I wasn't aware how much it had affected him to do this. I stopped by to visit, some months later, and found out he was in a mental health facility and had to be restrained from trying to climb out a window to get out. Worse--there was no window.

When I started my business, I found it difficult to let people go who were just not capable of doing the job. Those with attitude problems and "cancers" within the company were easier but not really easy. As time passed, I was able to steel myself up against these things. I wouldn't tell them they were fired but, instead, being "let go" cause they couldn't get the job.

I admit to having some pleasure in cutting out the cancererous ones, though.
I read a book about the Revolutionary War called "Washington's Crossing" by David Hackett Fischer. The wrap-around cover of the book is, appropriately, the iconic painting "Washington Crossing the Delaware" by Emanuel Leutze (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Crossing_the_Delawa...).

I learned that the actual painting was nearby in NYC at The Met. When a friend visited, I wanted one of my goals was to go to The Met and see the painting. I entered the American Wing close enough to closing time that I worried I may not find the painting in time. I started wandering, turned a corner, and sat dumfounded starting at the very thing I was looking for, sitting 21 feet in width at the end of the hall.
You can save posts on Instagram, so you're technically allowed a single "board". I could see this feature being expanded in the future, though.
> OTOH, with the current setup a receiver will know the correct date as long as it is turned on at least once every 1024 weeks, since it can detect the rollover

Actually, probably every 512 weeks, as it needs to know (or assume) with side of the +/- it is on:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_number_arithmetic

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_windowing

* https://docs.ntpsec.org/latest/rollover.html#ntp_pivots
> If you're not after a relationship but to get laid, then that might be a good strategy.

Why not replace your headshot with a dick pic, in that case?
Ha! This brings back memories - trying to figure out exactly what HL7 FHIR resource your data belongs to, and how the relationships are setup can take a long time.
I use this package... which mirrors the whatwg fetch API and has support for promises baked in:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/isomorphic-fetch
Rent control is government setting the price on a good. I've always thought that price is metadata about a good or a service. Changing the price doesn't change that reality - it just hides it.

If the rent is too high why not just give people money and let them spend it on rent? That's probably idiotic but it makes more sense to me then telling the people renting out units that they have to charge a certain amount. At least in this case you still have a price signal - though if you toss money like it's nothing at a problem you tend to get inflation especially if you give people money and tell them they have to spend it on a single good.

A better fix is to increase the supply of housing and to the extent it's possible lower the fixed costs for building. If there's more of it the price will go down. I understand the argument that says "If we let them build more they'll only build for rich people" Sure. My answer to that is let them build more. It will take time but eventually the supply of units for non rich people will increase and when it does the price will go down.

That's all easy to say but I doubt any of that will happen.
Common in some older books, and modern books in certain fields. Some (philosophy is where I've see this quite a bit) will instead put from a paragraph up to a couple pages describing the topics a chapter/"book" covers at the beginning of the chapter, which allows for a little more space than cramming it into a TOC. Helps with "OK I know that was in here somewhere but which chapter was it..."
From what I know about wood finishers/lacquerers, their requirements seem anything but prosaic, there's a whole science behind it - especially for those in business of refurbishing old/antique furniture.
The author is implying capitalism causes homelessness. In San Francisco
That's exactly what it is, and Google's also incentivizing many low-quality sites to engage disproportionately in SEO to boost their Google Adsense earnings too.
Assuming lazy loading remains a flag. Chrome just removed the flag to disable hyperlink auditing and that one was even blatantly about privacy.
Advance boosts efficiency of flash storage in data centers
bent seems too "bare-bones" for my daily usage. If you like that good for you, but I have been using axios[0] which is more heavy weight.

https://github.com/axios/axios
Only if they really offer humans that do enterprise speak.
they sit about 2' to 3' from me, just like a normal monitor.

it's only about 2' of vertical space, but 8' of horizontal, so I have them laid out in a semi-circle.

I have 39" seiki TV's, all about 4 years old now. As one of the other posters mentioned, it actually seems rare to find any 4K TV that small any more. But a brief search on amazon shows you can still get stuff in that price range, but Seiki seems to be gone :(
errors bubble in async contexts still, so this example will still catch errors correctly:

async function foo () {
throw new Error ('test')
}

async function bar () {
return foo()
}

async function baz () {
try {
await bar()
} catch (err) {
console.error(err.message)
}
}

That's not the case in callback-based systems where it's more of a golang style "handle it right then, or it gets ignored forever" kind of thing.

But also unhandled promise rejection handlers are seeing much more widespread usage now to catch "unhandled promise rejections", which make it a bit easier to handle errors in async contexts, but i'll be the first to agree that there is still a lot that sucks about handling errors in async contexts in javascript...

> It also makes it harder to do more advanced designs like rate limiting, loading bars, etc.

It does, but you can also handle a lot of these by mixing promises and async/await (since a/a is basically a nicer syntax for Promises). And callbacks still exist for the cases that really need them (like you said, loading callbacks are still a hell of a lot easier to use than janky promise-based solutions in most cases in my opinion! Mostly because a promise is one-and-done, but callbacks can be re-called multiple times).

But the point is that if you stick to ONLY callbacks, EVERYTHING has to handle wrapping it. Whereas if you move on to using the new features where they make sense (the "easy path" can use async/await or async iterator streams), then only people who need those extra complicated features have to wrap and work with those more complicated setups.
Emirates: The Media Company That Happens to Fly Jets Too
Lack of competition...

I'm trying to revamp things on the Evernote side but in a different way.

https://getpolarized.io/

We're making good progress and have a GREAT hacker user base but working to take it to the masses.

The next goal is to launch it on product hunt in 1-2 weeks.

We're also adding sharing and improving our web and mobile apps which is super important to getting adoption.

It's also Open Source and we're going to raise money soon with a 'kickstarter' style campaign to ask the community to fund continued development.

I want to build a platform that respect user rights and isn't trying to lock up the users data in a proprietary platform.

The reason it's called "Polar" is that it's designed to 'freeze' your knowledge in a safe place.

Safe being that it's Open Source and based on web standards.

I'm going to have it based on a .org style non-profit sort of like Wikimedia / Wordpress.org but also a for-profit company which has commitments to the non-profit which funds it in perpetuity.
Comparing a potentially high margin product in a highly regulated sector to an unpopular social network isn't much of a comparison.
Depending on the jurisdiction taking screenshots might be a crime in itself. And I doubt that this would make a good news item, it's not like the newspapers can reprint the material in question or the url, so it's unlikely that anyone who likes Facebook would find the article convincing.

A criminal conviction of a Facebook employee would make a good story, but that is much harder.
I think you just described all of John Updike’s novels.
Maybe it seemed normal to you as you’ve gone through it but what about the person that hasn’t? They are probably experiencing the same fears and self doubt that the author was.
I’m not sure what you mean by zero content. What were you looking for? The name of the company? That it failed 2 years down the road after they didn’t develop a product as this developer was laid off?
There is an [official] additional package "request-promise" that adds Promise support. I don't dabble in Node much, but is this a bad thing? Although on the other hand, most other libraries support promises out of the box (e.g. using the "pass no callback to get a Promise back" pattern).
Looks like millionshort is already dead? Last and only blog post is over a year old. copyright is still 2018. Sad, it looked promising.
Which country? If your company goes bust the hard way you can.

There are cases of Supposedly worker friendly European companies deliberately making UK subsidiaries bankrupt to avoid statutory redundancy payments and consultation.

Of course the Uk taxpayers picked up the tab for that one its not just FANG's that avoid tax :-)
> discussions around this often get over-run with misogyny and bitterness

If the adaptation required is to become part of the 20% of men that 70% of women pursue, bitterness from the 80% of less-desirable men is inevitable since they can't compete, which inhibits their ability to obtain a mate and have a good life.

Sure, a mate isn't _technically_ required to live a good life, but in our intensely individualistic society where the number of friends men have is dropping precipitously, relationships form a core of socialization for many men.
Are you indirectly asking whether planets can be dark matter candidates? If so, those are called MACHOs (massive compact halo objects). They have been studied via the gravitational microlensing effect. The presence of MACHOs can't account for most dark matter.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0001272.pdf

https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/9904401.pdf

When you see figures like "1E-7 to 1E-2 M⊙ mass range" (from the above paper's introduction), note that a Jupiter mass is about 1E-3 M⊙---one thousandth or 0.1% the mass of the Sun. Earth is 3E-6 M⊙, the Moon is 3.7E-8 M⊙, and Pluto is 6.6E-9 M⊙; or 0.00037%, 0.000004%, and 0.00000066% the mass of the Sun respectively. Compared to stars, planets comprise a tiny fraction of the mass of a galaxy.

TL;DR - No, that's not how gravity works, but you can still ignore the planets in between because they're tiny.
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G+ is a going concern for enterprise, they only shut down the consumer version.
Do you need a full genome? If a person has symptoms the doctor doesn't need a full genome sequence, just enough to verify that it is the/a sequence the treatment can fix. The cheaper the better, accuracy is important but but quantity outside the sequence in question is not useful.
As I replied to tlrobinson above, is this a problem when there is an an official package that bolts on a promise support?
I've been using it for 2-3 years now on a Chromebook I converted to dual-boot with one of the options being Linux Mint on a USB. I don't use it every day but I do use it probably one a week for something vital. So I want to second the Thank You to the Mint developers!
Most pickups reach payload capacity before the tow rating itself is reached. Payload includes everything -- driver, passengers, cargo, anywhere in the truck.

To an extent, putting the batteries in the trailer does make a little more sense since it won't count 1 for 1 against payload (typically about 10-15% of the trailer weight will be on the tongue, for safety).

For some reason I actually got downvoted for saying it in my original comment, but cost is a big consideration for now and why I think we're a ways off yet from full size EV pickups. Takes a big battery pack to tow an open parachute (what it feels like towing a high frontal area trailer ;-)) 300 miles a day. And then it has to be recharged, which can be a problem given that most people take RVs places that don't have great infrastructure.
Why should you be uncomfortable? Even by your own definition, it is something that is often done but seldom discussed, and there is a change (Boston tech are targeted), so it is news.

And, this IS different than ordinary "spy-vs-spy". That normally applies to keeping track of national adversaries' military strength & asset positioning, political maneuvering, treaty talks, etc.

This, in contrast, is straight up industrial espionage for profit and/or military advantage, done by a nation state (vs just a competing company.

While it may have occurred some in the past, PRC is taking it to a never-before-seen massive scale.

It is part of the pervasive culture of IP theft in Chinese society and govt that runs form the smallest business right to the top of the govt.

It is a serious threat to all western democracies, indeed all other nations, and should be taken seriously.

What should make you uncomfortable is this fire, not the messenger who reports the fire.
Its the best "SmartTV" platform by far. The competition doesn't offer up much of a fight though.