skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are a number of times I've been the most senior person ever hired without a degree, one Fortune 100 even changed their rules specifically so that they could hire me without a degree.

Aren't these points against your argument? That they had to change the policy to hire someone without a degree implies that it is very uncommon for someone without a degree to get into these upper-level positions to the point that they had never run afoul of this policy before now, or at least that they preferred to keep the policy rather than hire someone without a degree?
You can always donate directly to the artists.

I believe in situational ethics. If someone steals, and you can avoid paying them, why pay someone who would steal from you?

Let's not pretend that using lobbyists to buy politicians to curtail freedom is less than stealing. It's actively participating in the undermining of democracy.

Rent seeking institutions should be taken down via any peaceful means available.
It's rather uselessly pedantic to claim that a single page placeholder qualifies as a simple text-based web site for the purposes of a discussion like this.
Yes. It gets really frustrating at times when Google is ignoring quotes or other operators and keeps feeding me what it thinks I'm looking for. I try to use variety of different search engines depending on the topic. I use yandex quite a lot.
I had a calculus teacher in 11th grade who followed the same principle. Best math teacher I've ever had. Didn't give us 100%, but the calculator programs were worth extra credit.
EA claims it's randomized purchases aren’t “loot boxes” but “surprise mechanics”
Sir, you just got yourself a ConferenceBadge customer for https://2019.cascadiajs.com
This is a false analogy. Deaths from car accidents are unavoidable because driving a car is a societal requirement for many careers or needs. In the cases where those deaths were avoidable such as due to drunk driving, we rightfully penalize and criminalize people that put others at an unnecessary risk.

Deaths from people refusing to vaccinate are an entirely avoidable issue. They choose not to vaccinate and in turn threaten the lives of those around them with gross negligence, especially those that are medically unable to be vaccinated. Which is exactly what being anti-vaxx means: it means being in favor of negligence that can and does result in many avoidable deaths of people without other choice.
Taxes and contracts can a big impact on the people they affect, though. A typo on a bank note has no direct effect on any users. It's an aesthetic problem, not a functional one.
It would help if the U.S. had a leg to stand on; the official numbers point to us having higher incarceration per capita; and both the public perception and medical statistics point to rape being expected in prison.
Copyright doesn't mean CC-BY. Attribution doesn't magically give you a redistribution license (copyrighted, btw, not copywritten). If UMG wanted to grant you a license, they would. But they don't.

Yada yada, yes copyright should have sane term limits, and yes maybe copyright is a weird idea to begin with, but that's not the issue here.
the design of this site is unreadable. skeuomorphism is a bad design pattern (blotchy paper, really?) & is distracting from the content.

good thing firefox has a reader view. but really, this sort of design should be gone by now.
They probably are but a) lack the data they need and b) realize that breaking the law is not a 'and you get to keep your government job' career move.
Got a message, 'you have been banned from this site'
Microsoft recently released a probabilistic programming library for .NET named Infer.NET [1]

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/infer
I just bought a used dual socket (E5 V2) server to play with KVM and to try do just this... I suspect, performance is probably pretty righteous even in the VM, and old xeon's like the 2667 V2 are dirt cheap these days. MacOS doesn't need much VRAM and old AMD cards are pretty cheap (GPU passthrough is easier with AMD cards [1]).

I'm really looking forward to running this later.

[1] I could be wrong on this, but from my previous research into gpu passthrough made it seem as though NVidias consumer cards aren't generally allowed to do it because they're driver locked.
Came here to post this. The important thing Dick glossed over was that when your process was PCLSRed you were guaranteed what state your program would be in. A guarantee made by ITS before a line of Unix was ever written.
What it means to be human
How many of those paid subscriptions are the result of people stuck in the middle of editing projects that they suddenly could not finish because of the watermarks?
Imagine what will happen if the car owner's Facebook account is compromised
It's a fine sentiment. The american government needs to balance the need to protect chinese citizens (and other ones under influence from China) vs. the economic needs of americans, who are the government's primary responsibility.

The problem is that american citizens and businesses are heavily dependent on one specific source of imports -China- with little to no alternatives on certain goods [1]. It's a good long term aim to diversity the imports, but it needs to be done gradually, allowing sufficient time for american economy to adjust. Attempting to do that in one fell swoop would cause a lot of disruption and economic hardships to american citizenry.

Once the key imports are diversified, US will have much more room to put pressure on China, to curb their humanitarian abuses.

[1] China also holds a significant share of US bonds
I accidentally submitted without a link and reposted it :/ my apologies
Wow, this seemed to work very well for all the words I typed in. I would love to try something like this for German, as it can be hard to pronounce those massive compound words they have.

The one criticism that I have is that many of these videos are from ted talks or speeches by politicians. During speeches people will inflect words differently than in everyday conversation, especially politicians. I got one Theresa May speech and the rest were Americans.
A swarm of 1k earthquakes hit Southern California – how nervous should we be?
Came here to mention about this movie. I watched this movie last year and couldn't stop thinking about it for days after watching it...
agree completely. even artists with UMG get 10-15% of streaming, etc royalties. piracy is the least of their problems
again - that has almost nothing to do with what i asked.

bls: https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2018/pdf/home....

> Although workers under age 25 represented only about one-fifth of
hourly paid workers, they made up just under half of those paid the federal minimum wage or less.

that means just over 50% of minimum wage earners are older than 25 (well outside the typical age where you're still living with your parents or just entering the workforce)

>It is, by definition, an edge case.

it is de-facto not an edge case.
Chatbots are CLIs. (1)

(1) https://yagudaev.com/posts/chatbots-are-just-command-line-in...
So essentially Java checked exceptions but which also applies to descendants of RuntimeException?
So, you're paranoid that your private photos are going to be saved and or used by these companies?

... after a few minutes googling I found a few contenders...

However, nothing is going to be as easy as the google or microsoft ready to go products.

https://blog.cloudsight.ai/

https://imagga.com/solutions/auto-tagging.html

https://www.ibm.com/watson/services/visual-recognition/dev-r...

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rekognition/latest/dg/what-is.ht...
>and starts using clients that can do ever-zanier things with the UI.

From where I was sitting it seemed more like "brands demand 'consistent brand image', which they confuse with pixel perfect design because they don't really grok the new paradigm, and so any semblance of semantic web and accessibility dies".

And we've just now 15 or more years on clawed our way back to some semantics, and responsive design, and a legal framework that forces brands to accommodate those using different UA for accessibility reasons.
>In a competitive market with low transaction costs of changing jobs

Ignoring reality makes it easy to solve all sorts of problem. It simply isn't the case that, for most people, changing jobs is a low cost transaction once you take into account the costs (all of them not just monetary) of changing jobs.

If minimum wage had simply kept pace with inflation it would be > 20 dollars per hour today.

Edit - the 20 dollar amount may not be correct. I need to verify where I got it from so please research it yourself.
Edit: Not Great Britain, but Venezuela: "those who are banked currently face extreme levels of inflation, meaning the worth of their bolivars, sitting in national vaults, diminish in value every day. No doubt, having access to a stable global currency could help encourage savings and accumulate wealth."
Digital Minimalism
Finally, a way to learn how to pronounce such important conversational phrases as "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" and "Google flat Earth."
Honest question, what part of Rust is more complex than C++, smart pointers and all? Because it's not evident.
Canada has 10 native species of Maple, not all have 5 nodes. The Vine Maple can have 7 to 9, for example.

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/maple
Props by YouNow crypto project announces public SEC filing
Madonna and Springsteen – born to run a new business model?
I don't want to be a jerk to kids in their early 20s who are bootstrapping their startup idea, but reading this account would actually confirm for me why this team wasn't ready to be accepted into YC or a similar program.

A big part of the onus of the original product, at least, as it was launched, was that it was "watermark free" and the way it was "sold" to end-users was that it was a free service. Now, I can understand the initial rationale here -- you want to get users, you start with free, and assume you'll pivot to paid options/add-ons at some point or get sponsorship or other revenue streams, or pretend it's still 2009 and that startups with no revenue can obtain ridiculous valuations and then be acquired by Yahoo or whatever.

The problem is, it's no longer 2009 and investing strategies have changed. Revenue has replaced users as the important growth metric for lots of investors. (There are exceptions, I'm aware, but this is a general trend we've seen over the last few years. Don't worry founders, the pendulum is bound to go back in the other direction in another few years.)

Now, I don't know what the team's original business plan was for this service, but based on the YC letter, it appears that they said "we'll start charging eventually" and that led to the question about why you aren't already trying that now, when you have 35,000 MAU. A fair question -- and one that really represents more of a question about business plan rather than lack of MRR.

But the team read this as "if we can show MRR, we can prove we're ready" -- except that wasn't and isn't the problem here. Yes, it's impressive that the team was able to hack together a payment gateway and offer a pro product in a weekend and obtain $500 in revenue (should be noted that this isn't recurring and it won't be clear what the actual recurring revenue is for several months), but the fact that it was done so haphazardly, and honestly, for what looks like the wrong reasons (it wasn't about "this is best for the business" it was about "this will get us into YC"), is the biggest red flag.

If you want to change a fundamental part of your product (no watermarks) and make it a pro feature to entice users to pay, you're welcome to do that. It may or may not work for existing users, and it's possible there are better ways to extract revenue/add value. The truth is though, this was an idea done at the last minute to try to secure placement in an accelerator, it doesn't appear to be born out of actual business rationale for the product.
Component frameworks can choose to have deep support for the ARIA accessibility tags e.g. Dojo had it in 2007 - https://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.10/dijit/a11y/stat...

Using a framework that is designed for accessibility should be better than using plain HTML that is not designed for a11y.
One big thing that's changed since you graduated is that the program is going to Python as its language of choice starting this fall. C will only be taught in one or two classes. IMO this is a mistake but one rationale coming down from the director is that a lot of programs are shifting this way and that it'll be a softer intro to CS for the newbies so there will be less washing out.

I graduated from the OSU Post Bacc program last week.
I avoid systems like Cognito for that reason! SQS I've found to be ok when used as a backend for an abstraction. E.g. Laravel has a generic queue library that can be backed by file or redis or sql, ans using redis locally with SQS in production worked quite well with this.
I think a reasonable middle road, since most people won't notice or care about the difference, is to support something lossless like flac but not make it the default.

The people who really care could turn it on (perhaps at the account level), and they'd be happy, and YouTube still saves on bandwidth costs.
That's obvious. I assume YT got lossless records from labels for their Music offering.
Probably somebody at the US mint would be embarrassed and it would be out of the news cycle in a week.

It isn't like they misspelled the name of their country - they misspelled a word that is in size 1 font as a security feature.
How is that not discrimination?
I’m putting everything on credit cards. Amex for £ transactions, 0% FX MasterCard for foreign transactions. Another airline reward card when the merchant doesn’t take Amex.

I only ever use debit to pay off the balances of credit cards and to withdraw cash.
These tariffs are such a terrible idea. Not only does it hurt US manufacturing which has to pay for more expensive steel, lowering the competitiveness of US goods (and thus steel demand!) It also isn't guaranteed to help US steel manufacturing because the tariffs are only targeting China.

We could easily be in a situation where we're paying more for Japanese steel (for example) with not much benefit to US steel workers.
this is the total cost of the entire program just for clarification, not the cost of a term or a year. It was ambiguous for me since American Universities always do by term or annual cost.
I've heard the opposite quite often. With a UBI you can eliminate minimum wage. Employers would be encouraged to offer fair wages: nobody is going to work for peanuts because they won't starve without the job.
0.0006% of GDP

So. pretty trivial stuff.

You're making it sound like the US has been this free-trade vanguard

check : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tariff_ra...

U.S. is 161 out of 180 (180=lowest). So we are the leader of the free trade vanguard as far as large countries go.

I apologize "for making it sound like". That was not my intention. Perhaps you were eager to read that into it.
How do BitTorrent magnet links work?
I cant even find coffee in the 2019 pic... I’d almost imagine every French home had an espresso machine.
Sorry about that. I have deleted the comment or will as soon as I click submit on this message.

Evidently I can't do that or at least I don't see a delete link on this message. It won't happen again.
With static typing: https://www.npmjs.com/package/minimal-result
I feel like TypeScript would make this easy?

You can define your functions as returning Error or some other type:

function something(...):Error|<something else> {
...
}

Also, define `isError(...)`, like so:

function isError(value: Error | any): pet is Error {
return Object.hasPrototype( value, Error )
}

You'd still have the if clauses, but maybe that's not so bad:

function doStuff():Error|Result {
let value = functionReturningValueOrError()
if (value is Error) { return value }

let value = otherFunctionReturningValueOrError()
if (value is Error) { return value }

...
}
That's a very small subset of the total labor pool to focus on with which you deliver a point that is, at best, muddy.
The Turkish TF-X stealth fighter – a good idea?
Facebook is the entity creating this work, and is the root of the problem (by contracting a 3rd party to perform work that they very well understand the consequences of). The article is suggesting that Facebook should be held accountable for the detriment (trauma) that their work is causing. I think the article even argues that the contractors aren't equipped to deal with a problem of this magnitude/seriousness. Facebook is in the best position to rectify their moral accounts, but we all know that's not going to happen because they are evil and so forth.
SPAs as opposed to mostly-static web pages. I think all "rich clients" are implicitly included, although the "refresh" story does change for native ones.
Probably very little, and a fraction that goes down over time. The cost of making new construction ADA-compliant is very small [0]. Retrofits are more expensive, but there are thresholds to try to reduce the pain. As we move to more and more post-ADA construction, the overall share of construction costs becomes fairly trivial.

[0] https://adata.org/publication/ADA-faq-booklet ("under 1%")

As to your student loan, again, probably very little. Let's say it cost a few hundred k spread over a few years -- at CMU, at least, adding 100k spread over 10k students is a molecule in the bucket.
Software Engineering Daily had a recent discussion with the founder of render.com, Anurag Goel, and I learned that it provides static sites for free, and services starting at $5 so it's what I'm reviewing now. Render appears to be using K8s and Docker containers to create instances from Github repos. Anurag gave a reasonable explanation of why he thinks render.com is superior to Heroku at 29:15:5 in the transcript. https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2019...
Three-quarters of tech workers willing to relocate for a new job
How many people did it take to colonize Australia?
CF isn't that bad... if you use one of the many abstraction tools like the CDK or SAM.

It's ugly. It has a TON of powerful functionality that the documentation dives into way too early for most people. It has some weird behavior, especially when you get into networking or stateful resources. It's not perfect. But it gets the job done.
There is a public policy angle of debate, and a moral debate. There is no morality in absolute obedience: you can invent a process to do anything at all for any reason whatsoever. If we debate what a process should be to satisfy some morality, we need to debate on that ground first, and then the policy that enacts that morality as consistently as possible.

If the morality you advocate is that vaccines should be administered against the will of the patients, then the policy I suggest you advocate for might be to have Vaccination squads that break into people's homes in the middle of the night and inject people with vaccines. It's better than demanding doctors to do it that as their Hippocratic oath bounds them not to do it and will fight you tooth and nail because of it. You could get to them as well by making it illegal for them to practice medicine unless they forcefully vaccinate all the patients as soon as they see them - without any medical reasoning that could be used as a lever for civil disobedience. But non-medical staff is the way to go, as brute and unapologetic as possible.

The morality I advocate for is for vaccines to be administered at will, and for the anti-vaxers to be first persuaded, and then held reasonably accountable by their personal choice. If some anti-anti-vaxxer find themselves trapped in a dangerous situation because they are surrounded by anti-vaxxers, then they should get vaccines themselves and physically force it down on people, risking their own lives in the process (to get, in exchange, better life themselves). I would not advocate against those people, but neither for the anti-vaxxer that violently defends himself. I assure you that if these were the options for anti-anti-vaxxers, you would achieve much more peace and calm than with a system that gratifies their perverse pleasure of violence without risk or danger.
Google Play Music is awesome, but beware that they'll do weird merging and drop/replace albums associated with the music you upload, especially if the title is fairly generic, or is semi-niche.

Great option, however.
Thanks, I was looking for someone who broke down the actual difference.

So much emotion in most of the comments. Love it, hate it... but not much info.
Building onto the other reply to your comment, I think you'd be surprised just how much accessibility regulation already exists that's just invisible to you. You also use highly accessible websites every day, you just don't notice.

You might also not be aware of how differently these regulations are applied depending on the type of product or service being offered and the nature of its provider. If you're hawking a web-app for designing charts, you will probably not be asked to stop supporting rainbow color-scales. Now, if you're an educational institution whose admissions tab is unnavigable to visually-impaired people...
My concern around the minimum wage is around employment. A high minimum wage guarantees that you will either be paid well or paid nothing. If the point of the policy is that everyone should receive a living wage, then half the guarantee is missing.

Whether a job guarantee would be good idea, I don't know. But a good policy needs to be comprehensive. It shouldn't let people slip through the cracks.
Ok, you do not need to keep the signature at the same document you are signing.

But you'll have to canonicalize your XML anyway. There are plenty of security issues with signing non-canonical XML.