skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they actually do this:

"Nussbaum says Blue Heron employees will not misrepresent themselves or lie for a client. “And we will not knowingly violate any rules, regulations, or laws. We will keep our client's confidence very strictly. We will never disclose the name of our client or provide any identifying information that would allow somebody else to identify our clients. We will not say we are working for X if we're working for Y. We would just decline to answer a question or say we're not at liberty to say,” he explains."

Then I think it's actually a noble profession.

'Truth Hackers'.

There's a big podcast on FT about these guys - they are the one's the dig out all of the corrupt dictators illegal holdings around the world (i.e. Argentina wants to default on it's loans, when a ton of money was stolen by politicos and hidden in offshore accounts, so the hedge fund managers holding the bonds want to 'find the money') and arguably that's a 'social good'.

But do they stick to that moral impetus ? That's the question ...
In that case what if I use the zip code for getting a better salary and then just move a cheaper location?
> So you're saying, they're lying. Which might be true. But you'd need to prove that.

I've read repeatedly on HN over the past couple of months (re: Boeing and Facebook) that these corporations are required to lie about the naughty things they do. The shareholders' interest must be protected at all cost.
One guess is that capacitive would be problematic if the driver is wearing gloves.
Ah thank you. I had only ever heard that it was a beta feature, something they planned to implement in the future.
No, that's just people talking at each other. Conversation is when they listen to each other too.
Microsoft’s car system through at least 2018 can’t handle more than a few thousand tracks. It used to crash and reboot but they “fixed” it by popping up a modal dialog requiring you to dismiss it to use anything on the entertainment system and playing a warning message — every single time you plug in a phone, even if you’re just using Bluetooth audio!
Let's not forget that the SCOTUS has ruled Twitter is an official communications platform of the White House. Therefore Trump is not able to block people. It's a weird legal ruling, and it's hard to imagine this doesn't have implications for the rest of us. Can Twitter block you from participating in official White House communications?
This ruling is actually a larger problem than Amazon. It effects businesses of all kinds, even those that do not touch online marketplaces like Amazon.

My company has an online presence, selling and shipping out of one state, on our own custom-developed online platform. We also have a very large "offline" business selling in-store visual merchandising material to major retail chains. But it's all produced in and shipped from one state. We also have a small New York sales office.

In the past, we have only had to collect sales tax for three states. Our home state, New York, and California. California is interesting. They decided that since we travel there a lot, and do a significant amount of business there, we have a business nexus there. The key was really the amount of travel we do there, even though we have no CA office.

But now, with the Wayfair ruling, the bar has been substantially lowered. An economic nexus is now sufficient to require us to collect sales tax. We decided to get ahead of the freight train heading our way. Rather than waiting for the states to come knocking on our door, we ran the numbers and determined that we now need to file in about 75% of the states. This is a huge burden. Even calculating the tax is a nightmare, not to mention filing.

Thankfully, I was already leading a project to integrate a 3rd-party tax calculation service into our ERP, so the calculation side of things is covered. Filing is another matter. For that we engaged our accounting firm, who offers filing as a service. It isn't cheap, but it's cheaper than hiring the additional staff it would have taken to keep up with this.

I expect that these types of calculation and filing services are going to be doing a lot of additional business very soon.
But only the variety of flavors the platform decides you should get to choose from. See the problem?
Jakarta Is Sinking, Indonesia Has to Find a New Capital
Traveling extensively the past year I have noticed the following which are probably all coming into our lives soon. (a) In many countries border entry is accompanied by a fingerprint scan which will be either a left and right index finger scan or a scan of the whole left hand. The scans are done at inbound border crossings in conjunction with the passport check. (b) In many countries both border exit and entry are paired with the taking of a photograph. In some places it appears the exit photograph is validated automatically by software. (c) In some cities, the subways have security checks at entry and in those places photographs are taken, non obviously, by the security equipment. I am not sure how effective these systems are at tracking. I guessing ideally governments would like to pair these photos with a passive probe of something carried on the body like a phone or official id, something that could link the photo to an already verified identity. (d) On country entry, purchases like SIM cards for local telephone service or public transportation pass cards can only be acquired if one presents an official id. Manual computer entry usually links the card to the presented id.

And here is a prediction, getting a record of faces and fingerprints, and tracking movement is on the agenda right now. In the future there will be a equally focused agenda to acquire records of peoples DNA. In countries where there is nationalized health service, it will eventually be required. Aquisition will begin when the cost of storing, acquiring, and searching that DNA information becomes cheap enough.
Das ist die ganze Eleganz dem Wittgenstein, wer bin ich kein.
Interesting. There's a large homeless population in my town, and I've always wondered how difficult it would be for them to get emergency medical care.
You can have it both ways. Positions can be motivated either by process out outcome. A process position is "businesses should/should not be able to deny service to people based on <whatever dispute>". An outcome position is "We should protect gay couples and not white supremacists". You might not agree with the particular position, you might prefer developing supposedly content-neutral process positions, but many people think that the design of rules and systems is merely a means to getting to what they view as correct ends.

Your position is a bit like saying "Some people claim they're OK with the US/UK having nuclear weapons, but not North Korea. Can't have it both ways." or "Some people want charities to be tax exempt but not businesses. Can't have it both ways." or "Some people want gun control for civilians but not for the military. Can't have it both ways." Yes, many policies apply differently to different people for different reasons! That's a good thing.
I honestly feel this is a bit of a disingenuous thing to ask, considering the article in question actually discusses the kind of emotional harm that this kind of behavior has caused to a large number of people.
Oh, the irony. I presume you are referring to those mountaintops which still exist.
I expect it was through pantomime, common gestures, and facial and body expressions.
I did a lot of research when I went EV shopping. So many considerations!

For high speed DC Charging for trips, Tesla definitely got this right the first time; and still has the advantage for now. They’ve been the best for long road trips. That advantage is narrowing.

CCS or Chademo (the high speed charging standards everyone else use) equipment are catching up fast, being deployed in a similar fashion along interstates by Volkswagen; through their “electrify America” subsidiary.

And EVgo and Chargepoint have been extremely focused on Whole Foods, Walmart, Local Shopping malls, parking garages, etc.

I live in San Francisco and mostly drive my car in the Bay Area, with a few long trips here and there. I wanted to make sure that all my use cases were covered. I did a lot of homework.

I noticed that in San Francisco proper, not a single supercharger for Tesla has been opened yet - the nearest one is in Daly City. Anything available in SF currently is slower “destination charging.”

Seems that if one has the convenience of garage charging at home or charging at work, get a Tesla M3. One won’t need an abundance of superchargers available to them unless on road trips. Local coverage will be less important.

If one will be proudly parking their new Tesla M3 mostly on the street, can’t charge at work, and Will have to rely solely on public infrastructure, making sure there is a supercharger nearby that can fit into one’s routine is crucial.

In San Francisco, M3 owners will have to get used to shopping at Serramonte Center in Daly City until the San Francisco supercharger opens. The queue can be a pretty long from what my friend tells me, but they do have a nice Target.

One can charge a Tesla M3 at any low speed AC level 2 charger with the Tesla supplied J1772A adapter - adds about 11 to 30 miles of range every hour. These are pretty ubiquitous at this point.

In a pinch I am comforted by the ease of DC Fast charging everywhere; CCS on my Bolt EV gives me that. Since I know I can charge In all corners of SF and the Bay Area at high-speed, anxiety is nonexistent.

I maybe go on long trips (Los Angeles, etc.) only every six months or so with my Bolt EV. That’s been a pretty easy experience so far. Lots of ccs/chademo charging on 101 and 99. The 5 is getting up to speed as well. More importantly the daily convenience factor locally is key for me.

If one buys a Tesla model S or X, this problem can be alleviated with a $450 ChaDemo adapter; and can charge pretty much anywhere - Tesla Supercharger or not. This is probably ideal. Note this adapter is not compatible with the m3.

I would love a Model S if I could justify it. I would consider a long range model 3 when it DC fast charge on non Tesla hardware in the US. (European M3 have this connection instead of the supercharger connection.)

99% of the time I get by with overnight charging at home. Doing my “Buying an electric vehicle” homework suggested I take a look at my local Charging infrastructure by downloading the PlugShare app. Knowing what’s available where I usually go really made it easy to integrate EVs into my routine.
Freedom of speech != Freedom of reach
Play+and+Test+Your+First+Serverless+Azure+Function
can anyone else share some A/B stats?
My guess is yes.

Gitlab's Series D was $100 million dollars for a valuation of $1 billion; settled several months (Sept '18 [0]) after Microsoft announced their plan to purchase Github (June '18 [1]) and in the month before the Microsoft-Github transaction was settled (Oct '18 [2]).

If the pitch deck to investors didn't mention Microsoft buying Github, I would be surprised.

Of interest, looking at their pricing page[3], Gitlab lists CI minutes as the top differentiating item for each level. I wonder if that's a signal of how the market has responded to segmentation ... or if it's as simple as "it looks better".

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal. We compete at the fringes and I expect there will be more as Gitlab expands its product boundaries.

[0] https://about.gitlab.com/2018/09/19/announcing-100m-series-d...

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/4/17422788/microsoft-github-...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/26/17954714/microsoft-githu...

[3] https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/
Do you have any information about US bonds being seized like this? I don't understand how it could happen.
How easy is it to mail an SD card internationally to the USA?
All are top 10 in engineering: https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering...

This jives with engineering industries, where USC is a consistent producer of aerospace/mechanical and tech talent. USC is considered a top school in many other research fields as well.

I think it's more likely that you actually know very little about academics at these institutions.

Disclaimer: I work at UPenn (doing research!) and went to USC.
The good news is that if they are profitably factoring that information into their premiums, they also probably have a pretty good idea of what sort of driver you are.
...and also in the Amazon, I see.
I wasn't referring to drone strikes in particular. I pulled the numbers from from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_in_the_war...
and might have misread the 30k wounded as additional deaths. So "most" could be wrong, but the numbers have a way of reflecting the best possible outcome for us.

I'll try to be more precise in future rants.

As for drone strikes:
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/11/14/...
Uber now lets you buy transit tickets in Denver
Considering Brendan Burns works for Microsoft now...I have doubts that the differences are that staggering at this point. That being said, I generally avoid containers because they are overkill for most workloads, imo, so I can't speak from much experience on the topic.
> In our three-hour lesson that morning, he taught me a full semester of Berklee’s harmony courses.

I don't know anything about music theory, but if a course can be completed in three hours, it's a soft course.
Attacking another user like that will get you banned here. No matter how you feel about privacy or Google or anything, please follow the site guidelines, and please don't post here if you can't treat your fellow community members with respect.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This might not be exactly answering your question, but you can buy 4 week treasury bills. Even if you can't sell bonds, having money tied up for 4 weeks might not be a big problem.
That’s not true. I was there in MS when the office teams had a great iOS app and they wanted to ship but Ballmer blocked it.

When Nadella became CEO, they shipped it and it was a big deal. Nadellas chant was “Mobile+Cloud”. He came from Cloud & Enterprise. What he praised and asked everyone to focus on was very different from what Ballmer used to say.
Forty years or so ago, we decided that many of the people in total mental institutions would have better lives outside of those institutions---there was no need for them to be effectively incarcerated.

So we closed the institutions.

For the last forty years or so, we have had a growing problem of those with severe mental illnesses becoming homeless. Progress?
I thought sure this was a stock deal (ie, a handshake basically). I didn't realize Pluralsight had $170 million in cash on hand. I guess that's why they give out such high quality fidget spinners as swag at PyCon.
EPCOT and Celebration, Florida

On a smaller scale, neighborhoods with neighborhood associations can enact restrictions that go beyond the laws of the localities that they reside within.
If I wanted to take the bus to work, my commute of 15 minutes would become 20 minutes of walking to the nearest bus stop, and 2h13m of riding on a bus. I live in an suburban area but because there's a state line, the bus line goes to the city center and then back out. We used to live in the city, but we moved when a drug deal gone bad across the street resulted in someone shooting his gun into the air while my daughter was playing in our front garden. Luckily she wasn't hurt, but our options for safe, affordable living conditions are limited to areas traversable by car in the US Midwest.
I finally understand what has inspired The Mosquito Coast movie.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito_Coast
I agree with your points, and teams should be freed to compete without having to prop up Windows, but that doesn't mean that Microsoft shouldn't have a presence in mobile. Specifically, I think they should build a pocket PC: https://medium.com/@karti/microsoft-should-launch-a-pocket-p... Not a smartphone, not the old Windows Phone 8, not an iOS or Android clone, but a Pocket PC, as the link describes. It's important, because using a Google or Apple platform drives you to using Google or Apple apps.
Hm something got lost there. Intended to write their garment design and known sizing guide as constraints.

Basically start by changing colors around.

Until 3D printed textiles get there anyway.
People's free time is just that. Their free time. It's perfectly OK to do anything you want with that time, and no one has the right to tell you otherwise.

With that said, I think it's a lot healthier to have other hobbies outside of coding. It certainly helps with creativity and generally not becoming a robot. Not to say coding as a hobby in addition to your profession is unhealthy, but only coding in and outside of work could be.
Yes, because God forbid an author cares enough to make sure as many readers as possible have at least some basic education on a subject.

Most individuals will each have (at best) an elementary-school-level understanding of most topics. That's the nature of humans having finite time to learn about things. Shaming people for actually trying to help with that is exactly why so many people lack the educational background to know that man-made climate change is actually a real thing.
It's paper that represents promises.

The promise is to pay someone back, but sometimes we can't keep some promises because because we can't predict everything...

Money is a human fiction. It didn't spring up out of the big bang. WE can decide how it gets used.

And conservatives are cheap, they act like it's their money, but their money depends on a lot of underpaid labour in a system tilted to favour them.

A bunch of sore winners, the world is increasingly conservative despoiled and authoritarian.

They are winning and they still complain.
Didn't realize who I was replying to. Oops. If you're confident that the code is going to stay x86 only then sure. Personally I've found my code has an annoying habit of growing legs and moving to other projects, often without my knowledge until much later. Of course when this happens the person doing it usually has little regard for any assumptions I made when writing the original code.
It’s just not Azure. Microsoft has a cultural problem of treating designers as second class citizens. Only some teams get the value of good design and UX.
In someway these social networks amplify voices by their sharing and recommending and suggesting based on what users do, a normal city square doesn't amplify your voice.

So this is different from walking past a demonstration or assembly in the city, it is more of an Inception movie-like warping of the entire city to bring everyone closer to these peoples voices.
Yeah I've been reading about wireless hacking for luxury cars and I'm amazed they let things like new BMW and Lexus vehicles on the road.
Add electrify America too. Pricey, but still cheaper than gas. Competition is good though!
Party on, dudes.
"i'll draw it in later after you have built it".
In most states, filing periods are based upon transactional volume. Sometimes that's defined as the transaction count. Sometimes that's the tax base itself. But with lower volumes, you can often do quarterly or annual filings, depending.
that was ages ago. he has apologised for questioning sandy hook and talked about it many times, including the recent joe rogan talk. can people not make mistakes? once we're wrong, are we always wrong?
Thank you for getting back to me! It is definitely caused by directories; I didn't see anything about that in the 1mb documentation (or skimmed and missed it), so I figured I just had settings wrong. Thank you!
Would you please stop dragging down the quality of this site by posting uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments? If you don't believe something, fine—the rest of us don't necessarily need to hear about that, but ok, one comment was fine. This one, though, is both rude and dumb. Posts like this will get you banned from HN, so please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They already do this based on names. A former coworker shared his name with his grandfather, and both of them matched the name of a man on the terror watchlist. Naturally, the man was much younger than both of them and of a different nationality, but that didn't stop his grandfather (~50 years older!) from getting stopped and questioned every time he flew.
If you watched the video, you'd realize this has nothing to do with any sort of protest.

He originally decided to be silent for a day simply for being tired of arguing and wanted to rest - and then realized he began listening more as a result.
Uh, do you want to be doing low-level magic for a living? You appear to be capable of it. Here, my "Who is hiring?" comment from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797601
Yet another reason to invest in Index Funds.
RIP in peace Peter.
From TSA press release April 4, 2019 (https://www.tsa.gov/news/releases/2019/04/04/tsa-reminds-tra...): "Travelers will begin seeing new signs at airports nationwide in the coming weeks to remind people that REAL ID-compliant licenses or other acceptable forms of ID, such as a valid passport, federal government PIV card or U.S. military ID, will be mandatory for air travel beginning on October 1, 2020. Critically important, on October 1, 2020, individuals who are unable to verify their identity will not be permitted to enter the TSA checkpoint and will not be allowed to fly."
I tried GitPrime and thought it was extremely well done. If you ignore the obvious use case of management using it for bean-counting, if you work with 10, 25, 50+ developers it really reveals some enlightening patterns.

It is fairly expensive, however. Starts at around $10k/year which can make it a tough budgetary sell.

I wonder if they'll price it in with Pluralsight as a package or keep it independant.
> archaic technology

Just like HTTP.

> having their own 'standards'

What are you trying to send? HTML spam? Text mails work everywhere, the only annoyance you get is top/bottom quoting.

> huge spam / reputation issue

That's usually a problem admins deal with, not the users.
Well, FOSTA/SESTA has already started to dismantle it...
No, it’s to drive public money to the charlatans selling the tests, without any regard for perceived or actual threat to public safety.

This is going to cause harm, it will not accomplish its purpose, and the charlatans will be laughing all the way to the bank.
I have no inside info, but my guess is that GitPrime's product could help Pluralsight quantify its ROI. E.g. "developers that complete these three courses write 17% more code and have 8% fewer bugs. Can you really afford not to buy Pluralsight licenses for all of your developers??"