skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Borrowing a CD and ripping it is definitely copyright infringement in the US. I don't know if there's case law as to whether or not ripping your own CDs is legal, but apparently even the RIAA says it "won’t usually raise concerns" [1]

1: https://www.riaa.com/resources-learning/about-piracy/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKsSvR5u-qk
I've had the pleasure of working in an org led by Mary Ferguson (she's on the byline of these posts) at a previous employer. She's an excellent, honest, and caring leader who knows how to deal with people and improve the many interpersonal structures & systems. Bravo to her for continuing to kick ass in her current role.
I don't think it's possible to achieve Deep Work reliably unless you have full control over your work environment and schedule and can shut off distractions without getting reprimanded or suffering from FOMO.

This is a non-negotiable term for me when I interview.

Another thing I noticed about myself: I have "moods". Sometimes I feel like dicking around (like right now!), and in those situations I don't even try to get into Deep Work because it takes a lot of energy to do so. But a few hours later my mood will shift, and when that happens I need to be able to catch that window of opportunity and get myself in the zone quickly. From there, it's off to the races.

I've found that most work arrangements can't accommodate this type of arbitrary work habit. Which is why I'm currently employed at a very small firm where everyone is remote, and I have a super awesome manager who trusts everyone fully.
There was a breakdown somewhere where he compared different printers. There were cheaper options but the print quality had issues. This is the reality if you want to print a full color book.
Sorry to hear about your poor educational experience.
>If you even show up, they could claim you said anything, do anything they want based on that made up testimony.

I’d be interested in reading your proof of this, because I’m fairly certain you just made this up.
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> As part of our security procedures to protect sensitive customer data, we maintain separate infrastructure and networks for clients of our Teams, Business, and Enterprise products and we have found no evidence that those systems or customer data were accessed.

I sure wish more companies did this. Such peace of mind.
These are some pretty great books. There isn't much that isn't covered on his blog, but that sets the bar very high. If you have any interest in software archaeology and particularly early PC hardware architecture, get them. They look damned good on the shelf too.
The only failed public policy is the one that creates such a jaw-dropping amount of homelessness in a country with 11 million millionaires.

And that failed public policy isn't prop 13. It's a policy of expecting cities to deal with their homeless problems.
Snarky, but poignant. However, note that there are many government funded programs to help people quit smoking if they want. The government doesn't ban smoking, but it does tax it to encourage healthier behavior. There is no such funding to help people get rid of social media, and there are no such taxes to push people towards other options.
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True, Compaq started to go down-market and that did dent their reputation.

HP had already been racing to the bottom for years, though.
Actually that aisle is well known to me. It feels like a hidden gem. I plan my visits to Lidl after following their offers on this aisle :-)
Agree with all points made. I inch closer to just doing it. Especially as I'm getting older - 10 years ago i had 'figure it out' runway. Feels less so now.

Last issue is anxious of sitting in session after session trying to a)settle on a particular person b)tracking/having any sense of real progress.

*mainly it's all creative avoidance out of fear, I guess..
Good point re strangers on the internet. I hardly bring this up anywhere, especially not online - not sure what happened this am.
>Rights be damned.

That's not an American sentiment. Singapore may do things differently, but I'd prefer not to live in a broken democracy.
> The Magic Link’s slogan — “It Clears Your Desk, It Clears Your Mind” — perfectly encapsulates the irony of hindsight.

Reminds me of that quote from Fredrick Pohl: "A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam."

I wonder what aspirational thing we hold dear today will in retrospect become something more the opposite in the future. Renewable energy? Universal basic income? Universal healthcare? Self-driving cars? Electric vehicles?
Really that many vans? 10 miles?

I thought it’s anecdotal
Please try to describe the actual attack you're talking about. What do you have, what do you want, how do you get it.
I would be having a close look at whoever checked in that bug.
>I don't find Aldi all that special.

I heavily disagree. They have a selection of German chocolate that I have trouble finding anywhere. From Ritter Sport squares to that white chocolate 'n' coffee bars, they absolutely shine there.
This is a good list. I'd change "talent/skills" to "skills/aspirations", because we believe too much in talent (whether for being discouraged when all it really needs is work, or for misplaced belief in our own innate merit).
I'm in the US. People catch on pretty quick if it will save them money. Which it does. Our Aldi is pretty much always busy.
The US is the epitome of bullshit, bureaucratic jobs. Medical billing, for example, is someone taking the list of procedures a medical office performs and plugs that into a computer so that the "codes" the office uses can match the "codes" the healthcare provider uses.

I know what you're thinking, that describes a LUT (lookup table). Yes, you would be correct, a LUT is an actual profession in the USA.
"can't" is a very strong statement.
> Picture the scene: you’re walking through your neighbourhood and see a patch of grass. Grass is lovely and all, but you see this patch every day. It’s getting a little dull and is practically begging for a talented builder to brighten it up. So you take out your phone and craft a beautiful Minecraft build on a nearby picnic table. Then you place your colourful new Minecraft creation on the real-life grass.

So now we're gamifying gentrification and incentivizing the idea of covering the earth with human constructions? (It's certainly arguable, but at least Pokemon Go encourages physical activity and social interaction.)

Yes, I know I'm being reactionary but this just feels wrong, not to mention a misguided application of the Minecraft concept. Is this is the best they could do? Is this really all we can expect of AR at this stage?
People tend to focus on San Francisco because the homeless sleeping on sidewalks are so visible, but it seems like the situation in San Jose is getting worse at an accelerating rate. The problem just isn't as visible there because the city is less dense and more spread out. Take a ride along the Guadalupe River Trail, Los Gatos Creek Trail, and the Coyote Creek Trail, and look carefully under the bushes: you'll be shocked at the number of homeless encampments. I don't have population numbers but subjectively it's noticeably worse than it was 5 years ago.

It's a terrible situation for people, but at the same time after helping out with a few river cleanup efforts my sympathy is wearing thin (I do continue donating to several local charities serving the homeless population). Even when there are public garbage cans within walking distance many of the homeless population have been throwing their garbage on the ecologically sensitive river banks — including drug paraphernalia and other hazardous waste. Our rivers are turning into landfills and the city crews can't keep up.

I was in Reno a few weeks ago and the banks of the Truckee River are one solid homeless encampment for several miles. They've completely taken over several public parks. Locals complained that they no longer felt safe going there.
i keep a quarter in my car specifically for aldi
Not to mention superior sound quality! I've been listening to classical music on Spotify and it sounds awful to my ears using headphones, even with so called HD audio enabled.
You can pretty much find pubmed links to prove the world rests on a series of turtles.

Worry when some of these "studies" (scare quotes intentional) are actually replicated.
Stealth game written in Go with WASM, Tk, termbox-go and tcell back ends
I wonder how Lidl's doing in Finland, which traditionally has had just 2 major chains really and not a whole lot of price pressure. No Aldi though.
One major advantage SO has stems from its userbase: we are much less likely to panic than the typical user of a system not focused on software development.
InkPad, hands down. Have used since release several years ago. Maintenance adopted by a husband-wife team that use it. And the original developer added a minor feature just for me :)
More targets to defend, more chances to slip up. It’s a mixed bag.
The leaks were not a protected communication about prosecutorial misconduct. Talk of reprisal is inapposite.

The leaks were a violation of a protective order, concerning which the judge specifically told the prosecution that the government had "all the power to investigate."

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/02/13/military...

An IP address is not privileged information. I do not see any ethical violation here, and literally nobody except wgj has even attempted to square this discussion with the ethics rules.

If the Defense team doesn't want to be investigated for violating a court order, they should stop violating court orders.
This is cool, but this is a Mozilla proposal. Cloudflare is just one of several backers.
I get a page not found error for the download link: https://efficiencyiseverything.com/Efficiency-Is-Everything-...
Viral gibberish can still influence subconsciously. But I think FB gets more blame than they should out of all this, and agree the collective is trying to pin the blame for complex social trends on a singular actor. Domestically, the fault is on FB, internationally on Russia, clean and tidy right? Makes it seem like regulation will solve the perceived issues next time around, while the bulk of the real issues are overlooked or ignored. I like Martin Gurri's take on this right now.
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Living in rural southern Appalachia and occasionally getting stuck behind the school bus dropping off the [white] kids who live in the trailer park that butts up to my property, I absolutely beg to differ. There are more white people living in poverty than all other races combined, it's just not sexy or cool to advocate for them. There have also been studies that show Appalachians are often discriminated against in the college admissions process because of where they're from.

I'm all for this. There is untapped genius in trailer parks and backwoods hollers and at the end of long and winding gravel driveways, just as there is in inner city black neighborhoods and the far more invisible rural black communities in the Deep South. All are absolutely deserving of a little extra help in breaking the cycle of systemic poverty, be it urban poverty or rural poverty.
Props to Aldi then, they are definitely disrupting supermarkets.
Completely so. I don't want to act like I know better–I don't. But the lessons of this post do line up with the lessons in the essay.
Blokchain explained to managers in one slide [pdf]
Yes, I don't know if that's a German thing somehow exported with it, but here in Germany ALDI was always one of the places that was somehow classless, where you could meet anyone from the chancellor to bank executives to someone scraping by, everybody likes cheap and quick shopping I guess.
It is funny how a person's geography can shape what the view of a normal life is. I read that thinking, "In-car delivery? What the hell?" But the comment indicates matter of factly that rich people will find the lack of this to be like shopping at Salvation Army.
I'm a huge Aldi loyalist now. Alongside the low prices and decent quality food, a major bonus is that I can do an entire weekly shop in about 20 minutes.
It is the case.
Wow! Note to self: maybe having a slack bot or something that yells really loudly whenever someone gains or loses admin privileges would be a good idea.
Actually, in my experience that number is low.

- Facebook Advertiser with $500k in annual spend (mice nuts actually)
From PBS Frontline's "United States Of Secrets" (part 2)[1]:

LIZ FIGUEROA, (D) State Senator, CA, 1998-06: We walk into this room, and it’s myself
and two of my staff— my chief of staff and one of my attorneys. And across from us
was Larry, Sergey, and their attorney.

All of a sudden, Sergey started talking to me. He said, “Senator, how would you feel
if a robot went into your home and read your diary and read your financial records,
read your love letters, read everything, but before leaving the house, it imploded?”
And he said, “That’s not violating privacy.”

I immediately said, “Of course it is. Yes, it is.” And he said, “No, it isn’t.
Nothing’s kept. Nobody knows about it.” I said, “That robot has read everything.
Does that robot know if I’m sad or if I’m feeling fear, or what’s happening?”
And he looked at me and he said, “Oh, no. That robot knows a lot more than that.”

If the robot really imploded without any benefit to Google, why were they paying to manufacture use it?

If Google truly doesn't use the purchasing data to sell ads, why did they pay their expensive engineers to develop the tools to extract the data from email receipts?

[1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/united-states-of-sec...
Expensive cars in the Aldi’s parking most likely means a fat car loan, not an indication of wealth.
I agree that OpenAPI is how I would prefer to see an API documented and defined (especially since there are tools to allow you to use a good spec to automatically generate your client routines), but I think many these RFCs are a bit different, in that they may define how records should show relations to each other, or how to use Oath, etc, which is something OpenAPI documents, but not something it prescribes.

Where OpenAPI defined how to implement a client or server interface for an API, these RFCs seem to define some best practices for how you would do so. That is, if OpenAPI is analogous to a dump of a database schema, these RFCs are more analogous to a set of best practices on database naming, data types to use, which levels of normalization are best for which types of data, etc.
your online presence paints you as crazy, especially your twitter. your personal website would make me avoid hiring you for sure too. take all that crap down and send some resumes out in a different part of the country. there's no sense killing yourself to make it in the bay area.
That and consistent placement that isn't constantly rearranging the whole store or order on shelves based on which brands they want to push hardest this week. Nor having 244 brands of everything competing for attention. You can load the things you do want so much faster. We mostly know exactly where stuff is going to be - as it's always been there.

Sure it breaks sometimes when they add new items, or switch in the Xmas range, but compared to the majors - very rarely.
From the engineer:

"The current statement of the problem is that you have n participants, with 6 slots (1 loaded) in their revolver, each firing to the person on the right."
Mostly because it's impossible to autoformat code well. You can only just barely get to "good enough".
Reconsider the current system and change the laws, obviously. The Consumer Welfare Standard fails to capture forms of market power and forms of dominance that should be relevant to antitrust and do raise competition concerns.

What happens when Amazon hypothetically reaches state level income but doesn't break any laws? How much is enough soft power? How much is enough power for one corporation, monopoly or not?

It's interesting that I got so much push back for this discussion, seems fairly obvious this can end badly for the average person.
Yeah I think the problem with viability is also, some 'homeless' in SF are actually housed, they're just poor n scruffy.

Last three years though I'm seeing people that are homeless and not scruffy. Friend of a friend was living in a panel truck with her 6 year old daughter for a year.

My solution is fairly simple, force the tech companies to direct their firehose of free cash somewhere else like Detroit or Albuquerque.
Always loved your site, and my DataRover thanks you too. I have a couple 840s and one of the original Sonys. There was nothing quite like these devices, and they were way ahead of their time.

I have one of the CodeWarrior dev kits with the Mac emulator around here somewhere too.
> I'd much rather have laws that go fishing than robots that enforce the law to the letter 100% of the time.

This is how corruption, and racial profiling, and all manner of terrible things start.

You definitely DO want the laws enforced 100% without exception. It must be applied to those who write the law as equally as it does to everybody else. This is how laws get fixed.
I think it's a mistake for the EFF to get involved in the politics of enforcement of immigration law.

I support EFF's main mission. But I don't necessarily agree with their positions on these ancillary issues. I'm less likely now to support the EFF financially and otherwise.
Cities don’t have border gates. As the article states, the number of homeless people is increasing at a higher rate than other population growth factor. SF is taking on the burden of a full state and some of the country.
Exactly! While I don't think that Facebook has any utility that stands out or is exclusive to it--as the parent comment asserts, this was my very first thought when I read the headline. It seems to me that they are up in arms now that FB's reputation has decreased substantially and their true motives aren't as flagrant.
Prosecutor != Detective

"All the power to investigate" != Blanket Warrant for what ever type of search or surveillance you like.

Enjoy your Friday evening. Clearly you have found a niche in the military and government that rewards intractableness to the point of appearing obtuse to everyone else.

You will not find this beneficial when interacting with people in the real world.
>Shop clerks aren't there to be your servants. They are your equals.

I love that attitude. I've always felt a bit weird in very high end establishments where the staff are overly deferential.

> Foreigners often complain of the awful service they get here

In addition to your point, I think this also has something to do with people from Nordic countries being a less likely to smile at strangers than people from smiling cultures.
Which, at the end of the day, was the original value prop of EC2. Capacity planning is a challenging problem, no matter the industry.
Maybe, but it’s disturbingly easy for the latter to become the former.
The weather in the Bay Area in general is pretty pleasant, but San Francisco in particular seems to be a bit of a local minimum, with the foggy and frequently quite cold weather even in summer.
As we used to remind our guests before taking them to SF: "There's a reason why there are so many tourists wearing San Francisco branded fleece jackets".
Don't forget gofmt.
My guess is you agree that is has to be solved at the national level? The federal government has spent over $20 trillion to fight the war on poverty since 1965. You really thinking throwing more money at the problem will solve homelessness?
I wanted to order, by delivery to Canada is brutal. More expensive than the book.
I've found a niche that values rational thought.

Enjoy your ad hominems - because, in the "real world," it doesn't matter how much you insult someone... it still won't make you right.
Unwind: A privilege-separated DNS recursive nameserver for every laptop [pdf]
I suspect whale users on Facebook are worth way more than $158 lifetime.
That video describes the process used before NGS was around. These days, using anything with plasmids would be pretty unusual.

There are several next generation sequencing technologies:

1) short read - Illumina - dominates most next-generation sequencing
2) long read - nanopore or pacbio.

These have very different analysis methods, have measurement errors that are very different, and even have different file formats, etc.

Short read is far more common, so you're probably in the "Data Analysis" of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCd6B5HRaZ8

But you need to know about the adapters and indices (how multiple samples can be sequenced at the same time).

But as another commenter mentions, knowing some particulars about the project would really help know what sort of tutorial would be appropriate. You'll need to also know about the biology of the application, in addition to understanding the sequencing technology.
That's wonderful to hear! Websockets have definitely been a pain point for me trying to use FF dev tools in the past.
Are comments like that allowed on HN? I thought the process was to downvote, flag, and remove. Watch what happens to this comment.
One of the evolutionary theses about why our brains are at the size they are, and no larger / smaller is that we’ve hit the hard limit on what can exit a female body without killing either the parent or the baby. This paper adds a lot of credence to that theory.
Reading more of the opinions here makes it fairly clear that the people holding said opinions don’t really have any understanding about the reason Manning is being held in contempt, or any real understanding of the American legal system. Most seem to have typed “why grand juries are bad” into google and are repeating nuanced positions in ways that don’t really fit.
SF is willingly taking on that burden. All of SF's policies have only made homelessness worse, not better.
Pothole Vigilantes hand out over two tons of asphalt to citizens of Oakland
Looks to be different. FreightHub is a forwarder, this looks to be a trucking brokerage. For most trucking within the United States, the company you contract with to move your stuff doesn't actually own the trucks. You're dealing with a broker who matches your order to a trucker on the backend. The truckers are independent owner/operators or employees of large truck lines like JB Hunt, etc.

The better comparison would be to Uber Freight and Convoy, who seem to be operating on the brokerage model.
I find it hilarious that you think these stores are a parody but not the strip malls and payday loan shops everywhere else.
Vectornator is free and pretty good
Earliest evidence of the cooking and eating of starch
Blocking someone on the internet is not tantamount to capital punishment. Get help.
I do wonder what those terms look like (Right of First Refusal?).
The example would be even better if it used the built in functions to correctly escape and cast input types.

CREATE FUNCTION public.realplusplus(integer) RETURNS integer LANGUAGE sql SECURITY DEFINER SET search_path = pg_catalog AS 'RETURN EXECUTE format(''SELECT %L + 1'', $1)';

However the search path limitation is still required due to the ability to over-ride basic operators; something that I consider an anti-feature from a security standpoint since it does not LOOK to the casual observer that an overridable function exists.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/functions-string.html#FU...
You're adding nothing to the discussion with unsubstantiated claims.

A "hurr durr" would have sufficed.
Krogers pulled me back a little with scan bag go. Scan your stuff while you shop, pay at self checkout, walk out. It's so much faster than even Aldi.
You say that, but the second highest comment on the HN thread for the initial update was less than gracious:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19936315
Out of ~80M hourly wage workers, only ~500k of them are paid minimum wage. Given the size of the workforce and the fact that starter jobs do exist, that's not 'so many' at all..

[1] https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2017/home.htm