skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, to be even more pedantic, there is a rule for leaving out the final s. You leave it out in possessives built from names of famous historical personalities and mythical creatures: Socrates' dialogues, Zeus' wife, Pegasus' wings, Jesus' teachings. In every other case you have to add the s: Bayes's Theorem, Jones's wife.

At least that's how I've learned it as a non-native speaker.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/25/560045944...

https://futurism.com/tesla-announced-six-new-projects-restor...

> A lack of energy resources can have dire health implications, so Tesla will first deploy battery systems at the most critical locations. These include a sewer treatment plant, the Arcadia water pumping station, the Ciudad Dorada elderly community, the Susan Centeno hospital, and the Boys and Girls Club of Vieques.

Doesn't sound like empty promises.
Note it changed hands last year and is replicated at archive.org and soundcloud

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Music_Archive

https://archive.org/details/freemusicarchive
https://soundcloud.com/freemusicarchive
Yep. It’s tied to U.S. housing subsidies. Basically the Federal Government wants people to own their own home so they subsidize home loans. But to help prevent people from using the subsidies for 2 houses or rental properties they require you to move in within a limited timeframe.
> leading to an expensive breach in the contract with the home seller."

Did you waive your financing contingency?
"Shortly before that, American authorities took down a news website, known as DeepDotWeb, that lived on the traditional web, providing reviews and links to dark net sites. The absence of the site is likely to make it harder for newcomers to find their way to dark web markets."

So, it is illegal to advertise dark web markets? DeepDotWeb must have done something else to get taken down?
Have you started the project yet, or just in the ideas phase?
When I was a kid my mom took me to a doctor, they had her sign a HIPAA release for herself which I thought was kinda funny.

It makes sense why (default to release to nobody but the patient), but I just thought it was funny that although she has the authority to add herself or anyone else that she wasn't on the list by default.
> Mostly the story seems to be "giant multinational company is slow to react to disruptive technologies", which is a story you will hear every year for all time. It is inevitable. No company wants to fund the R&D projects that will kill a cash cow. This is why disruptive tech almost always comes from small startups or scrappy underdogs.

This is true for non-technical management, but if you look at Alphabet / Facebook / Amazon / Tesla / NVIDIA, the leaders try really hard to change the product and/or create new cash cows that are comparable in size with their previous ones.

The reason that I wouldn't invest in a company with a CEO without technical knowledge is that they have no means to reinvent their company fast enough.
Yes, the terms of the loan were for a primary residence thus they expected me to actually live there. If I recall it also stipulated it had to be my primary residence for some amount of time.

Basically, they wanted to make sure I wasn't getting the mortgage to buy a commercial property since that would have had different terms associated with it.
Three new FOSS umbrella organizations in Europe (2017)
The attitude they aren’t servants to the public is part of the problem
you can steal money using internet while you’re not in the same country. This case is no different
It's crazy to me that a marketplace like this can be trading at 10x revenue w/ -50% net margins when a company like Blue Apron is trading at 0.2x revenue when they're turning the corner to profitability.
Things We Learned Creating a Million Dollar Hyperdeflationary Currency
A Current Dilemma: Reusable vs. Disposable
The amount of time you hear "I dont use anything I learnt in college, its all about experience on the job!" definitely screams "we need to encourage apprenticeship-type learning over college".
It may be as you said, it just isn't reflected in the article you linked to. That's all I said.

I would also be careful because there seems to be a lot of finger pointing and many people being eager to blame other people to distract from their own failings. I wouldn't believe anything that is written about it at face value.

Also you changed the goal post, now you compare to the 1980s, not all the time of the Soviet union. That's veering into "no true Scottsman" territory.

I'm sure there were many people in the 80ies who lived a dystopian nightmare in Russia, too. We just don't hear about them, because they were locked away and eventually died.
I built a repo like this but for require (commonjs), where package dependencies was sent along the first request using http2. Only problem was that browsers didnt cache the preloaded files and re-requestsed them. Hopefully browsers will fix this or latency will be a huge problem with several layers deep dependencies.
This bothers me as well. I've seen an employment contract that stated any hand-written addenda were invalid, so the idea of crossing out a clause or correcting it is at least partially defeated. Some other things I've tried:

- Instead of signing, I write (quickly, to appear like I'm signing, but legibly enough that no one can later claim I wrote anything else) "unable to comply", "documentation not received", or something like that. I haven't tried this in situations where I knew someone would check, but when I have tried it no one has noticed. If they ever attempt to use it against me I imagine it won't get very far. As a side-note, I also write "Fake Name" when asked to sign credit card receipts and in 13+ years not one person ever noticed, which is how I know that it's useless for fraud prevention.

- If I am asked to sign a very large complicated form, especially when it's something that should have been sent to me in advance (which I usually request), I will stand there and read it, making notes as I go through to help myself understand it. When they rush me, I then give them the lecture about how it either doesn't matter and I shouldn't have to sign it to proceed, or it does matter and they shouldn't ask me to sign it without reading it. They are welcome to get my money at a later date, or wait for me to read it. On one occasion I had to sign a massive agreement to buy a TV. I stood there reading it until a manager came over and, wanting to make the sale and let his rep get back to work, signed a copy of the agreement stating that the store would honor the warranty even though I hadn't signed.
English is fluid like the tides are fluid. The chance that somebody can dictate the direction of that tide is very slim.
Theres an observer effect type thing going on either way. If they invest in certain behaviors, companies will start behaving that way to get investments.

At the end of the day, the investors have agendas (the large stakeholders agenda is generally global stability aka lack of disruptive change) and they invest in ways to achieve said goal. GE fit that model AND their collapse is a great illustration of why attempts at safe passive investing eventually lead to stagnant and obsolete investments.
> Hell it was Mozilla and not Google that gave us WebAssembly through asm.js

And that shows why Chrome is not IE... Chrome jumped in and supported WebAssembly even though they already had a mature equivalent (pNaCl) which they have now deprecated.

I just don't understand why there is so much hate for Chrome out there. Sure, we don't always get our way.

To me the Chrome team seems to listen to developers and users, and to put the effort in to follow standards, and to keep improving Chrome in ways that I care about as a developer.

IE6 did none of that.
>which is effectively the same as not having a firewall for incoming connections

Not the same. Intranet-only services are still protected.
Journalists wouldn't waste so much ink - just use 'claims' for one, and 'admits' for the other.
It’s Time for Sweden to Admit Explosions Are a National Emergency
Race is the new hitler. What is the Godwin law for racism in a thread ?
Why? Why is math designed such that 2+2=4? It isn't, 2+2= is a ruleset with 4 as the only possible answer. So the space of what will work for the future is finite potentially and is predestined. Given the predestination and exactness of it, I consider it a 'design', but maybe that isn't the best word as it implies supernatural intent. I used it because I do intend an implication of supernatural intent, but sort of the other way around - the design simply is, its just logic, but that logic could be considered to be its own intent. There was no supernatural thing that decided the design, instead the design results in supernatural consequences (everything yknow, existing)

Why is the design so exact, why is there only one? Well, with 2+2=4, + and = and digits are part of a system we already both know and have mentally setup, we've already put design to make it that way. So shouldn't 'someone' have to decide what the first logic is? Well, no, because binary logic is self-evident. I have a hunch that there is a single everything algorithm which is the way that something must always emerge from nothing, but as far as I can tell, any cellular automata that expands infinitely (as opposed to fizzling out) starts exhausting various binary systems and renders out the 'design' of that. A very easy to recognize early emerging and very common design is the Sierpinski triangle. Note that back when Steven Wolfram was first researching into that, he didn't do anything to purposefully design Sierpinski triangles in, they were just there, part of the predestined design.

And yes theres nothing that says we have to live according to nature. Theres nothing saying we have to survive at all. Personally I like living though, and paying attention to other systems in nature and trying to learn lessons, seems to be helpful for making living even better.
Interesting. How do you handle things like password resets,etc?
Soo I've never had fish prepared this way. Where's the best place to buy it in/near SF, or to order from?
There is no such thing as unlimited vacation time. If you want to know how much vacation time you have, ask your HR manager at your “unlimited vacation” org how much vacation they’re required to pay out by law if you separate from the org.

This is false; you're misunderstanding the concept of accrued vacation. If you work for a company with accrued vacation (aka accrued PTO), you must be paid for it when you leave...for any reason including involuntary termination. But at a company with unlimited vacation, you don't accrue vacation days, so they don't need to pay you anything for vacation when you leave. Companies do this because they don't have to treated accrued vacation as a liability in their financial statements, so their financials look better.

The flip-side is also that they can't cap your vacation time, and indeed capping your vacation time could trigger a DoL investigation. Additionally, in some states like Illinois, the company must make vacation payouts equal to the amount of vacation the employee could have taken. (No guidance on this but lower level rulings suggest that it's at least the "capped" amount.)

There's also FMLA issues with unlimited leave most startups don't realize. (If you have unlimited vacation, you must pay out 12 weeks under the FMLA. If you offer paternity/maternity leave and accrued vacation, you only have to pay out pursuant to your leave policy.)
What it takes to be a $200k-a-year nanny
VB.NET was 99% compatible with the good parts of VB6. The problem was and remains that every project ever actually written in VB6 was written with at least some of the worst parts of VB6 in use. That list of "breaks" is a lovely list of some of the horrors that probably shouldn't have existed in VB to begin with.
Anyone know if we can get this in the U.S.?
For puzzle games, discovering the answer is much more satisfying than finding it in my opinion.
I don't understand how signing on a pad that is detached from the form is enforceable. They captured an image of your signature and tell you what it is you're signing. They then take that image and attach it to the document. How is that any stronger proof than a claim of an oral contract?
All the stories in this thread about people having to sign stuff without reading it. I guess this just makes them all unenforceable in reality if anyone actually challenged them.

Perhaps this is why anything actually serious I've ever signed requires witnesses.
I don't really think it's that debatable because the issue of minimum wage is a smokescreen. It hides the fact that the minimum wage simply isn't livable for a large amount of the population.

If you raise the minimum wage and it results in unemployment, then that's a clear indication that the only reason the jobs existed was to exploit workers that couldn't meaningfully survive off that wage. Which means we need some sort of other societal solution to solve the problem of jobs being rendered redundant.

Ultimate the intent of working for a living is that you work _for_ a living. If that doesn't work out, then the system is broken.
https://ninja-build.org/
That's what I figured. Not all of us are American sycophants, so yes, more than the word and reputation of the American military is needed.
Agreed that VB.NET is essentially C# in VB6ish syntax to largely accommadate legacy Windows developers
None of the UK ships had Phalanx at that point in time, so it can't have been that.
I have to agree with you here, I find no exploitation in committing to open source projects. I believe nobody does that for money and the expectations are clear in that regard to begin with.

That said, of course I'd like to see good open source maintainers enjoy a comfortable life.

However, the author appears to live in Finland. Accepting donations is illegal in Finland, so that income model would not work there anyway.
Artificial intelligence is cracking long-standing puzzles in art history
First Gaming Browser
That's surprising to me, because I usually see HIPAA taken very seriously. (I think the problems are more likely to be that personnel don't understand information technology and how fragile and untrustworthy our own "tech" field's work is today, not that they don't take HIPAA seriously.)

Related: On check-in for a doctor appointment, I was given a routine consent form to opt-in to some kind of sharing of info (for research purposes, or something like that). I instead checked the checkbox on the form that explicitly did not consent. The person at the front desk didn't seem to quite know what to do with the form when I didn't check the checkbox that was expected, but they accepted the form after a confused pause, and hopefully it was processed correctly.
Assange's story has been discussed on HN for many years. Obviously there's intellectual interest in it, but also many sensational articles. This one was downweighted by moderators and flagged by users.

When there's a major ongoing story, we generally penalize articles that don't add significant new information. Otherwise there are too many follow-up and copycat submissions.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
> If the company actually cares about keeping you and they have any sort of leeway as to changing the policy, they will listen to why you can't agree to it.

I agree in spirit, but I suspect this would almost never happen: companies who care and track employee signatures on a bunch of HR policies tend to be large and inflexible (smaller companies would often make some blanket blurb "thou must read and comply to policies that you can find <here>" and move on -- they have technologies to develop).
I'm a computer scientist, not a mathematician (but I've taken around 25 college math courses spread over many years). Nevertheless, I do have a couple of suggestions and observations that I will address to the author that I hope is seeing this.

First, it would be a very sophisticated high school student to tackle topology and some of the other areas of abstract mathematics. I really like the topics you've picked for your book, but they do seem to require quite a bit of mathematical sophistication (e.g. Topology).

Secondly, I feel that there are a few important fields that you might consider adding to your napkin: Combinatorics, Statistics, Differential Equations, and Logic.

The usefulness and the importance of understanding statistics is pretty obvious in today's data dominated world. Statistics seems to fall outside of Mathematics at some (most?) universities, but I keep my statistics books right next to my math books.

Combinatorics is full of interesting results some esoteric (the friendship theorem) and some practical (stars and bars). The proof techniques of combinatorics are also worth studying for their own sakes (like the probabilistic method).

I've always felt a love hate relationship with Differential Equations. Theoretically, they are disappointing ("oh hey, let's try this, surprise its the solution!") but practically they are needed everywhere.

One of the best math experiences that I had in high school was a logic course that I took one summer with two other students. What fun and it always served me well in course 18.
Ok, I can understand your argument, which if I restate it is this; "There are free software projects that are explicitly set up to support the developers, so the burden is on the developer to set up such a system, not on the users to find a way to support the developers." Would you agree with that restatement? Did I understand you correctly?

Where I am is in an interesting subsection of the entire solution space of "free software". Consider your statement:

> Can you be doing whatever you feel like, have no obligations to anyone, and expect to have a decent living?

On the surface, the answer to that question is no. Because of the expectations aspect. But phrase it a bit differently and we get to where I am;

"Can you be doing whatever you feel like, and one or more companies are making millions in revenue based on products made possible by what you are working on, and expect to have a decent living?"
I'm not trying to weaken your criticism or make you upset, I'm trying to broaden your view. I'm probably -politically- much more aligned with you than it may seem throughout these posts. That being said as understandable as it may seem I suggest we refrain from unnecessary name-calling.

My point [with the high tree saying which also has an apparently has an English version [1]] is that the leader of the US of A is also a leader of the G7/G8 and G20. Plus, the US is the one of the strongest forces in the world. If not the strongest, military speaking, economically speaking as well (AFAIK). Its also a democratic country where people are free to criticize the sitting president. Such factors matter. They count for every US president. The factors (controversy) regarding Trump's personality amplify these factors even more.

Your points about nationalism/patriotism/fascism might also be true (or not). I have no clearly formed opinion on that in combination with this subject. Either way, it'd also be on top of the factors I already described. You could also be patriotic and be against Trump, though, just like you could say what Edward Snowden did was an act of patriotism.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hoge_bomen_vangen_veel_wind
"warring criminal gangs"? In Sweden? I thought that Nordic countries were supposed to be a positive example for the rest of us.
It’s likely an owner-occupied mortgage rate. Mortgage rates are lower for properties you live in vs ones you want to rent out (seen as higher risk).
Fiverr is effectively a spam factory. I would be curious to see the breakdown of its most popular offerings. How many of them are legitimately creative tasks, and how many are "I will post your link to fifty web 2.0 sites?" More importantly, how much revenue can Fiverr attribute to these "gigs" that are borderline legal? Their F-1 filing does not mention it as a risk factor. [0]

This website has its roots in the gray-hat side of the SEO and affiliate marketing industries. It's shocking to see it valued at $700M. Surely we are in a bubble?

[0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1762301/000104746919...
How do you show that they didn't tell you?
Wait, how do you know it won't contribute economic value?

Maybe it doesn't do so today, but it may very well do so tomorrow. New projects need investment. When somebody spends their time on pursuing an endeavour that they think will have economical impact, then I don't see any issue with supporting them by at least not letting them sleep on the street and suffer from not having access to proper health care.

There seem to be plenty of open-source projects that are used by many people, but aren't rewarded in a way proportional to that. So one could also argue the other way around: Why should society allow for companies making money off people who then are supposed to get financial support from all of us?
It’s the elephant in the room
The tech survived, the brand didn't. I wonder sometimes if the Windows Mobile team was correct and UWP should have just kept the Silverlight brand name even as the underlying tech shifted so much, because the outer XAML shell is still so similar at the end of the day.
WeWork Launches Chain of Bespoke Brothels
Valacyclovir

http://www.virology.ws/2018/11/08/herpes-simplex-virus-and-a...
Yes, exactly, that's what I had kinda meant that a lot of jobs require more apprenticeship type training, than a formal college.

Apprenticeships might also lead to career mobility. Try a job/training, if you don't like it, try something else. In a 4-year college you end up making a commitment where sunk-cost fallacy kinda prevents you from just moving on to something else if things don't work out.
Nice “allow” button at the close-button for the cookie tracking popup.
Some products wouldn't exist without open source. There are many sides to this coin.
You can DM people on TikTok just like most other social networking apps.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/12/beware-the-man-of-one-...

Doubly applicable in this case, as it talks about the perils of a single study _and_ discusses this in the context of minimum wage research.
He has been doing this schtick for years: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=hanauer&sort=byDate&dateRange=...
We did everything to avoid using CAPTCHA because spammers on our platform could defeat CAPTCHA anyway. Oftentimes, they're real, actual humans.

Hidden inputs, honeypots, etc. None of them worked long-term.

Our solution: focus on the content.

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I saw this nonsense start 20 years ago. Using "cool" jargon in the job descriptions and having automated keyword matching. HR was scored on how well the resumes matched the job description, HR needed to score above 75% so they set the matching bar at 80%, <BOOM> problem solved HR was scoring off the charts. It didn't matter that HR wasn't delivering any resumes to hiring managers, but that wasn't their fault, the wrong people were applying, according to HR.

Now finding a job is like playing a video game but every company has the same game, except the rules are different for each company, and they aren't published. I'm so glad I'm near the end of my career, and I'm senior enough that my jobs are all handled by recruiters, so I have an expert at playing the game working on my behalf.
Weren’t they originally an OS/2 shop?
I had a similar feeling. ES modules really are a refreshing experience.