skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not seeing any decline in enthusiasm for iOS development, but maybe that's just me.

In any case, you can develop fully featured projects for iPad on the web too, you don't even need a Mac for that, let alone an iPad.
Every single major cloud service provider will shut you down without notice if they detect obvious fraud.
> These people have far less leverage over tenants than they do over property owners so they seek to ban tenants

What leverage do they have over a property owner?
Disagree on Stack Exchange, I'm afraid. It's a vampire that has pushed the costs of its service down on unpaid contributors (esp members of open-source communities) and privatized the benefits. Similar to Medium, that's time & energy that those programmers could've spent enhancing the knowledge archives of their own open-source communities.
What rights are those exactly?
But the article does enumerate flaws wit the cellphone-violent crime hypothesis:

The University of Leeds criminologist Graham Farrell, who is closely associated with the hypothesis that better security technology is the primary cause of the crime decline, also took issue with some of the paper’s data analysis. “At first glance, it seems to be that antenna [density] increased mostly after homicide already declined,” he wrote to me in an email.

The data that the economists presented don’t match the chronology of the decline of homicides, especially considering that their proxy variable—how many antennas were up—would almost certainly precede cellphone usage by some period of time. The timing, he said, is “not even close.”

Correlation doesn't imply causation, but no one said it did.
> Krikalev holds the record of most time dilation experienced by a human
As usual then it seems they are trying to solve the wrong problem. By "as usual" I mean it's like a lot of problems in society, we try to fix the symptoms instead of the illness.
>> People used to say the same thing about washing hands -- "little organisms on my hand are making me sick? I don't buy it."

If you're talking about the time before there was strong evidence for pathogenic bacteria- then that would have been the only rational and justified behaviour.

Why should anyone believe something that sounds implausible given current knowledge, before strong evidence is presented to support it?
I'm perfectly okay with him sitting on the sidelines if the alternative is him paying people to spread fake news.
The Dissatisfaction of Being Sexually Rejected by a Partner Lasts Longer Than P
> They can't really consent, because no-one truly understands what it is that they are agreeing to.

That is a supposition of yours. I'm pretty confident that I understand what i'm agreeing to. And I agree to it.
I can't speak for the author, but having used RLS for authentication I would not recommend it. It complicates nearly every EXPLAIN plain, and it can cause performance headaches in even the simplest of queries.

We had to mark many internal functions as LEAKPROOF in order to get them to perform. It was not possible to move our database into RDS, so in the end we had to abandon the RLS authentication layer.
You're missing that they don't want to because it's a pain to setup, requires an extra layer of paperwork, and costs more at tax time (minimum $800 franchise tax). But as far as I can tell that would solve this problem.
How do you verify your off-site backups? Do you periodically download the entire backup set and bit compare to the originals? That sounds like a lot of bandwidth usage, not to mention costs.
... We've really reinvented the JVM. Not sure that's bad; hope we can do better this time.
US Citizens have rights everywhere in the world, and everyone has rights when on US soil. People who are neither US citizens not in US soil have no rights under the constitution.
"One of these ones is writing." - I couldn't help but laugh at this. Would have been a little more concise to drop the "ones."
I am of the impression that people rent cloud services because they can expense the cost to someone else or because of an inability to plan long term or a need of low latency.
I realize I should probably work on this instead of posting to HN, but I see a nice potential startup idea here: A matchmaking service where small groups of freelancers can form their own companies. Instead of being independent contractors, they are employed by their own 3 or 4 member LLC or S-Corp that this service would help set up.
broken in firefox and chrome on windows
I'm not sure I can help you. My point is that you seem to be trying to make a political statement based on a single variable in an extremely complex system that is multivariate. As I demonstrated, it's trivially easy for everyone in the system to make more money but for the median household income and/or median wage to go down. But all of my numbers are completely fake. I don't know what the real numbers are or their impacts. And those are just the kinds of things I thought of off the top of my head. I can neither prove or disprove the thing you seem to be alluding to. I'm inclined to agree with what I'm assuming is your intent, but the data available doesn't actually tell that story. Nor does it disprove that story.
Hyundai Motor Introduces Electric Double-Decker Bus
Interesting idea. Logical encoding would give you the updated row, but how would you check it against each query to see if the query needed to be rerun? Sounds tricky.
I got a set for $100-200 specifically requesting the oldest ones they had. They tend to last decades with repairs being cheap. Unlike modern ones. About a year later I got some specifics in this article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13909365

Then the detergent and stuff at Costco so it's cheap. From there, you might also consider your time going to, waiting in, and leaving the laundromat. With your own machines, that pretty much reduces to minutes of walking around in the house. During the wait time, you just do whatever you'd normally do in the house. Saves a trip out.
DOJ reportedly preparing antitrust probe of Google
On one hand, I appreciate the spirit of this ruling. It's meant to prevent companies from outsourcing their core business to "freelancers" who are really people who do all the work of normal employees, minus healthcare, retirement, job stability, etc. and force the state to cover these things in part. On the other hand, it's getting increasingly difficult to tell who is freelancing because they prefer that setup and are secure with it vs. who is freelancing because the market for stable, good jobs cratered in their industry.
What's the point of using tls on localhost?
Live Tableau dashboard on wikimedia event stream
The constitution doesn’t guarantee that you’ll be secure in those things “under all circumstances.” It says you shall be secure in those things “against unreasonable searches and seizures.” Searches at the border have always been considered reasonable.
When is ETA of JVM value type again? WebAssembly already got it.
In my experience developers tend to underemphasize improving their writing or communication skills (related but separate skills) as a part of their professional development. I seldom see managers suggest and send their reports to workshops or classes for professional writing. I have seen it, but only twice ever, and only an executive doing it for an upper level manager.

In reality, I think this should be an almost universal type of job training for developers.
You could also DIY with a VPS and an email project like iRedMail, Soverign, or others. I used iRedMail for a few years and it was pretty easy. As a potential benefit, if you want to pick up more DNS record + email knowledge and have a go at maintaining a linux box it's not a bad project. It's ~$2/month depending on what you use.
why downvotes? this is exactly how government-run economy works. i experienced it in USSR. if people think that by naming it MMT and dressing it in pseudo-theoretical jargon will somehow make it work - good luck with that. it is fascinating to watch how bastion of freedom is falling for this shit.
This is a good take, I like it, the US has deployed tons of spy satellites, and if they think the sail/shield+Mirrors will deploy well because they have used it in spy satellites before then I'll believe it
I get better reliability (say, restoring after power shutdown), portability (can copy files via external drives and/or network), discoverability (songs show up in regular search), interoperability (hypothetically, I'd be able to drag a song file into my browser to share it, accompanies by full metadata), and finally simplicity of the software (no need to reinvent the filesystem).
Ask HN: Looking for books on computer science and software for young people.
I'm looking for books that will be useful in explaining computer science and related concepts to younger people (middle school and high school age). Can anyone recommend one? Either full on textbooks or more casual books.
The sweet spot you describe sounds like Quobyte to me.
Google Struggles to Justify Why It's Restricting Ad Blockers in Chrome
If true, this will be a landmark case and should scare FB and Amazon as well. Personally, I think this is a good thing and it's past time for the government to at least set some boundaries, but there's no telling how it will play out with the current administration and amount of lobbying dollars flying around.
So pretty much where the US is headed then?

(I’ve met a technical support person with a master’s degree in CS)
Audible.com sneaky and suspicious billing tactics
I was half-amused, half-horrified at the remote possibility that vaccines might alter the gut microbiota and actually cause autism. I couldn't bear hearing "I told you so" from my antivaxxer friend.
Providing extra bandwidth isn't necessarily a discount though, especially if you structure your offerings in a way that it's impossible to purchase the extra bandwidth.

It's against the spirit of the law of course, but maybe not the letter.
Most countries need tourist visas to enter at all. Any chinese person that comes to the US for the first time needs to get one.
Those last 10 years.

75 million people visit the US every year.

The magnitude looks believable.
I guess what I'm missing is just system-standard metadata format, like the one BeFS featured back in the day.
StarTram
"If a company signs an agreement with an Independent Contractor S corporation to perform contract work, the link between the company and the individual worker is broken.

"By default, the way the Independent Contractor S corporation operates, there is no link between the company and the worker. The Independent Contractor S corporation is the employer of the worker. Even if that is an S corporation of one person. As the Independent Contractor S corporation employs the worker, it sets up its payroll which will deal with things like overtime compensation, itemized wage statements, compensation for business expenses, meal breaks and so on.

"Again, it is the responsibility of the S corporation that hires the worker to make certain it complies with all applicable wage and hour laws. Labor code violations go out the window because each the Independent Contractor S corporation has its own employee(s). The S corporation has its own payroll from which the worker is paid. The S corporation has its own Worker’s Compensation Insurance Policy.

"Clearly, there are some costs associated with contractors converting to S corporations. However, there is also a range of benefits. The savvy business owner currently working directly with 1099 contractors who looks at the A.B.C. test and realizes they are in violation, might incentivize their contractors to convert by sharing in the fees associated with forming an Independent Contractor S corporation.

"While some contractors might be set up as LLCs, the majority of contractors start out as sole proprietorships. Simply converting LLCs taxed as proprietorships or partnerships to corporate taxation removes the barriers to employment for the contractor and removes the risk to the hiring company."

https://www.incorporationattorney.com/new-independent-contra...
Yep. And each one of them can then sign up with a PEO like JustWorks to get Fortune 500 class healthcare and other benefits.
Amazon Shopping for Office Space in Manhattan, Proving HQ2 Haters Right
You Can Make Money on Facebook
Huh, I used accutane for years for acne (no acne now) and my doctor never mentioned this to me. The only thing they mentioned is I shouldn't take vitamin A supplements with it.
Facebook reportedly argues there's no 'expectation of privacy' on social media
I am struggling to justify continuing to use Chrome.
Slavery should, of course, not be legal. This applies in all directions.
NB: That site fails to provide the visa request form for me, even with JS enabled.

Direct link?
“Quite readable” is a stretch... I know of no other language that needs a hoogle equivalent.

That being said, my experience with Haskell is limited to working on some meta-meta-programming research in college, where every file used at minimum 3 different GHC extensions. So I may be biased.
Lockport is not the county seat of Niagara County. It's a dilapidated, failing school district that's experiencing a huge amount of wealth flight as it's situated ~10 mins from two quite prominent school districts.
No gc.
believing in "something out of nothing" - yes, this is a cult.
> NY schools already have a security guard on duty that watches everyone coming and going through the front door.

Nope.
Relevant tweet from a Yelp SVP, who propagated many allegations of anticompetitive behavior in Google Search:

> :)

https://twitter.com/lutherlowe/status/1134621790720995328
9/11 Pentagon Crime Scene
I was in law enforcement, and the most basic rule of any crime scene is to leave it alone. There is no way that anyone should have been allowed to tamper with a crime scene and pick up debris or move anything, and yet Donald Rumsfeld was on the scene picking up cruise missile parts, moving stuff around like an idiot. And of course all of the 9/11 crime scenes were cleaned up and covered up by the government immediately- ridiculous.
'The Dream never dies, just the dreamer'...
Allen was that rarest of all Unicorn fathers - no need for commercial justification - to a point. It was very saddening to see him pass.
There may be a substantial tax hit? so his sister has to bring the dream to earth as well as make something carry on. Do a good job Jody, we all support you.
I like to think of it more that Javascript/WebASM will finally accomplish what Java spent decades trying to do: be the completely ubiquitous hardware-independent code platform.

Javascript has truly become the "Write Once, Run Anywhere" language.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death... (2014)
Most places have ridiculous zoning regulations.

It's only so painful in California because there aren't many convenient places left for greenfield development.
I probably should have bit my tongue, but it seems like one can't read a single comment thread these days without tangents about veganism or the wonders of a plant-based diet turning up like dandelions after a summer rain. Evangelism gets my back up.
I’ve long thought the distinction was dumb.

Everyone should just be treated as a freelancer. Id rather pay for my own health care thank you very much.

There’s practically no advantage to having health care, retirement, etc dictated by your employer and plenty of downsides.
> Maybe they are from people who have no followers?

HN is populated by software developers, engineers, and other STEM folks constructing the technological infrastructure that runs the world. We have neither the time nor the desire for followers.
Also, check out Blockstream's Simplicity smart contract programming language.

https://blockstream.com/2018/11/28/en-simplicity-github/

https://github.com/ElementsProject/simplicity
> they should contact law enforcement

And do what in the mean time? The legal system acts slowly. In the age of social media outrage, would you allow the headline "Digital Ocean knew they were serving criminals, and they didn't stop them" if you were CEO?

It's easy to be outraged when these systems and procedures are used against the innocent. That does not mean we should stop using rational thought. If someone is using DO to cause harm, then DO should (be allowed to) stop the harmful actions.
That's the sort of response you get from Twitter or Facebook, where you are not paying for the service.
...so if Congress had not taken that 2018 vote this Maine legislation would not be necessary. Just like I said.
There was a BBC story on this recently - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47952076 - I believe NHS policy, for what it is worth, is to use as a last resort as the side effects can be severe.
Are you going to implement WASI ?
Day. Of course some bugs would be: “this entire feature is done wrong and doesn’t work”.
I dont have a Twitter but maybe I'll get one. It seems like a cheat code to getting real support in 2019.
"What do we do when the L2 point is filled with broken robots?"

Could that happen?
I work with a team that spans native speaker to barely able to form English sentences, and communicating clearly in a mixed audience like that is really a completely separate skill from native language use.

For the ones with minimal English it's often clearer to use phrasing that a native speaker would say is obviously wrong, but matches their native language patterns. Or use simpler but not-quite-appropriate words.

And for the native speakers, the awareness (or self-regulation) to eliminate idioms and less common vocabulary is nigh-impossible for some people.
So given that this law and others like it are necessary, does this imply that court verdicts and silence have neutered the right to privacy?

Actually I wonder, have there been any major decisions since Roe v Wade that have affirmed a right to privacy?
Those tweets from David Perell are amazing. Thanks for sharing!
I've actually been thinking about doing something similar in India. How has it been going for you?
I think it's important to separate the skills out. Communication, social, and writing skills are three different things, and it's quite possible to learn all three without a literature class. You can thank the middle school and high school curricula for the unfortunate association.

Once you're in college, you can get the writing without the symbolism by taking writing classes, especially creative writing ones. But I amost never saw engineers do it, often out of a "what am I going to do with it? Write short stories for my documentation?" reaction. Their loss.

After college, there are plenty of books and classes you can take, but like programming it often comes down to practicing and getting feedback. There are websites and your local area likely has writer circles. You can get into short story writing and you'll get good feedback from others. Unlike programming, writing is an inherently social activity. In order for your writing to work, it must pass through the lens of another human.
Why remove users’ agency?

In computing, a user agent is software (a software agent) that is acting on behalf of a user. One common use of the term refers to a web browser that "retrieves, renders and facilitates end user interaction with Web content".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent
>it doesn't seem like Purism is going outside the standard faire here.

This isn't true. Most online communities at least ban outright bigotry and the Librem CoC does not. Banning harassment isn't the same thing.
Another uncontrolled N=18 study? Spare me.
At least have a plan (which you test out once) of how you will migrate to another provider in case your current one screws you like this? All you will need to do continuously then is dump a backup copy of that data into they providers storage..
A starter list:

https://www.eff.org/issues/know-your-rights

https://www.eff.org/issues/border-searches
It's quite clear to hopefully everyone that a matrix of bits can represent a DAG. That's called an adjacency matrix.

What's not obvious is what we're associating with what in the NYC taxi ride data set.

A bitmap can also represent a set: the bit positions denote enumerated element symbols, and the value indicates whether that element is present.

So we rearrange the NYC taxi ride data into a data structure based on graphs and sets, and make large bitmaps?
I agree, there's literally nothing more Nazi-like then not wanting to interact with neo-Nazis
> This also removes the OS from the equation for most compute tasks.

What does this mean, removing the OS from the equation?
>There’s practically no advantage to having health care

Only if you're young and healthy and have no pre-existing conditions. Otherwise, enjoy the fun of paying massive premiums for shitty care because you no longer have the group rate from your employer.
AWS support is fixed contract. There is basic, business and enterprise. What do you mean by “you pay when you need it”?
Drinking water out of lead pipe was considered normal for a while too... and the similarity of this situation is that drinking out of garden hose normally means you're getting water that's only spent seconds flowing through it, instead of water that's been sitting in and absorbing contaminants for a while.
http://archive.is/PHSfY
Given that there is no fencing/stonith mechanism, I’m curious how this avoids possible split brain scenarios. Let’s say you have one primary and two standby in sync replication, as recommended. The primary experiences a network partition from the other two. Is one of the standbys auto-promoted, or not? If so, there is now the possibility of two running primaries and a divergent timeline. If not, then you don’t have auto-failover. What am I missing?

Edit: After looking at the architecture page, it seems that the monitor would ask the failed node kill itself? That is polite but wouldn’t work if monitor is partitioned with the standby nodes. Does this expect the primary will self-suicide if it cannot connect to the monitor? Such an approach could be problematic if the keeper process is hung but pg itself is still running. Would love clarification.