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Right. Freedom to roam in the US is all but lost. A century ago the notion of private land was how you describe. Today, you might have a property owner calling the police or pointing a gun at you.
To Power A.I., Startup Creates a Giant Computer Chip
The title should say "US Wireless Carrier Throttling of Online Video Is Pervasive: Study"

The article doesn't suggest that this problem exists outside the US. Perhaps it does.
Welp...we have these trash leftist teachers...teaching children that this is a "terrible place" and socialism is better...I truly blame all of this on schools....and it needs to change...Awesome a teacher has a leftist ideology...YOUR own personal opinions should stay far away from children especially when they are trash...Saddest part is kid's don't even get taught History correctly anymore. which is MINDBLOWING
Text Classification on iOS Using Create ML
The List of Methods to Verify Google My Business
I’m reminded of a comment I read a few days ago from someone that has their own small isp that said bandwidth was basically an inconsequential cost for them. Throttling like this is penny pinching of the highest order. How do we get the benefits of competition if every company is doing it?
Just to be clear, he said that to whoever was putting him to bed each night. I worked in the Pepperberg lab as an undergrad back in the day, and he said that to me a hundred times too.
i grew up in a village, bicycle is the only transportation tool, all kids can play free outdoors, the only danger is deep water, once a while one or two kids got drown somewhere in summer.

other than that, it's worry-free for parents, everyone knows everyone, there is no abduction, no gun violence, etc. it's just kids outside to enjoy and explore the true nature.

I consider the traffic, the cars on the street in particular, is the No.1 obstacles for kids playing outside in US. My kids' childhood freedom is taken away by cars in the neighborhood 95% of the time, the rest is still concerning, but not a big deal.

It's actually a quiet neighborhood but still, hit by a car on the street for young kids is too concerning, so we have kids at home most of the time, where they started killing time with TV, computer, social network, until their childhood is long gone.
Article is a load of cobblers. The mods tend to be no different then milquetoast centrists because most of them work in the corporate world.

HN is very america centric and anything that goes against "the american narrative" that america is great, the free market is great, usually gets downvoted pretty hard. To suggest HN is a dispassionate place is quite the bit of nonsense. HN has it's mod and user hivemind because it pretends to be rational when it isn't.

Take the topic of software ownership and the mass invasion of privacy, or the theft of game software over the last 20 years by corporate america. The rise of steam, server locked software and invasive privacy invading games and apps which are specifically coded against users controlling them.

Or the fact that the public domain has been destroyed and america has been a place of total corporate lawlessnes for the last two centuries, if one is going to go by scientific evidence, the rule of law does not exist in capitalist societies. You have one class that's completely above the law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/...
It's always terrible. If nothing else, am I in "Britain", "England", "Great Britain", "United Kingdom", "The United Kingdom" or some obscure different variant, sometimes the entry is at the top of the list, sometimes sorted, sometimes random. Every list seems somehow different.
Well, currently (more or less) the devaluation just offsets the new tariffs that have been imposed. So in real terms there wouldn’t be a huge change.

Absent the tariffs it would depend on the specific supply and demand for the good. I suspect both the manufacturer and the customer would split the value in some way.

Interestingly, the growth to the economy arises through how the devaluation impacts the savings and consumption rate for the countries in question. Weakening the yuan depresses Chinese household consumption and subsidies foreign household consumption. It is this change in national savings and consumption that drives the trade balance.
In Scrum, you don’t write code based off User Stories. The scrum team agrees to a set of Stories for the sprint, and then the scrum team breaks those stories into a set of Tasks which are the actual work that must be done. The User Stories are just something the product owner uses to show stakeholders that the project was successful.
I really liked the article. I think the idea is fundamental. It sheds light on the value of things like trying to retain staff and allowing them to become experts on a piece of code. It explains why Brook's Law ("adding human resources to a late software project makes it later") is true.
In Firefox you can override this and re-enable pasting by toggling dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to 'False' (in about:config).

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Preferences...
A comment is an invitation for refactoring (2015)
ML Dictionary: your daily dose of ML terms
The backstop extending to the UK was something Theresa May came up with as a compromise to reduce the problems with the Good Friday Agreement and hopefully make it more acceptable to the DUP than what the EU came up with originally. Which is why, as I said, we could've avoided it but only at the cost of making that other problem worse. It also ended Theresa May's career and lead to the most spectacular rejection of a key government bill by Parliament in its entire history.

Also, most of the international agreements the UK has signed up to are unilaterally revokable - unlike the backstop - for pretty much that reason. There's a few exceptions, but the ones I've seen Brexit opponents cite are things like war crimes restrictions, not giving up control over most of out domestic laws.

Americans should also bear in mind that the rule against parliaments binding their successors is the only protection against (say) a party voting to transfer law-making power to a body they think will be more pro-business than the opposition. There's no requirement for a supermajority or a referendum, as would be required to amend your country's constitution. (In fact we don't even have a codified constitution that can be amended!) Our joining the EU scraped through the House of Commons with a 50.7% majority basically on the whim of one party.
Do you honestly believe the rich tip more if their wealth moves from 100 to 125 million?
In early stage startup, CEO usually is company's product person
>So I can see how women who are looking for fathers would prefer dog people.

Unless you mean they have daddy issues and are looking for a partner that's just like their dad, no. In my experience of dating in a big city, every 30+ white American woman who has no kids, and doesn't even want kids, still goes on and on in her dating profile about how "obsessed" with dogs she is. These women only want men with dogs. It's not because they're looking for someone to be a father to her kids, it's just because that's the fad she's jumped on and decided to center her whole life around, and any man who isn't into that same fad isn't going to interest her.

It's just like women who are all into veganism, or social justice, or Trumpism, or some particular religon, or keto/paleo diets, or whatever. Americans these days all have to have some cause to rally around, and they don't want to date someone who isn't into that same cause, or can't be easily converted to adopt their cause.
A deep dive into smart contracts
No, I was saying it should be like iTunes was for music where you could buy a song without having to buy the CD, contrary to the trends of the time. Obviously that doesn't line up as well for visual series episodes, but I was focusing on the "avoid the unwanted trends the producers are trying to use to force a higher price" aspect.
Alternative take: More people are able to start their own small businesses providing services because of increased total wealth. The wealth not only provides clients, but also provides increased access to capital to start said businesses.
We create "blueprints" that have system design and goals on new projects and how they fit into the ecosystem. We are supposed to update them after they go into production as things change, but seldom do. Still, going back and reviewing a design document helps.
Cybersecurity conference attendees possibly exposed to IRL virus
As my kids started playing youth soccer, it stunned me the difference between their experience and mine. It used to be we would get dropped off at the field an hour early, run around everywhere, eventually play the game, then run around again until we were dragged away. Now, it is show up in time for the warmup, game, leave.

This has proven to be the common pattern. Everything is event driven -- kids go to practice, they leave. They go to a friend's house at a certain time, then leave. Play dates are scheduled. There is no just meet outside.

We've even ruined adulthood. My parents and their friends would drop in on each other without calling ahead first. I was shocked to discover this wasn't normal when I grew up. Who puts the unprepared house ahead of seeing a friend?
You fool, you mentioned sports! The one example guaranteed to make the Hacker News crowd rush in and defend the child watching Youtube!

Try this simple modification to get them on your side of the argument:

> I remember being at a TED Talk where a kid was immersed in his device the entire night, despite being in a $148 seat to (IMHO) the most attention-maintaining of all events. Having never been taken to a major thought leader event for my entire childhood, seeing this saddened me.
As far as financial accounting obligations go, shareholders should certainly share in the extra $200K. Profits are part of owner’s equity.

So the simple question is, if an employee does not own any part of the company, are they entitled to a share of the extra profits?

If the employees want to be entitled to a share of the extra profits then one obvious solution is that they need to become shareholders. Normally a share of owner’s equity is given in exchange for money. Instead of buying those shares with money, that’s what startup employees are doing when they take a lower cash pay in exchange for shares in a company that is unable to pay them full price.

I see your argument, but we’re describing a situation where a full-priced if not handsomely paid employee takes zero risk with a steady “what they want in cold hard cash” salary and then when the company does extra well they are entitled to a share of the upside.

I can recognize that giving employees a share of profits may very well be what businesses need to do in 2019 to recruit and retain the best talent. But their salary is what was agreed upon for the work to be done. So let’s call it for what it is — it’s something nice to do. It may even be a talent-recruiting and talent-retention tool that gives your business a competitive edge. But it’s not a financial obligation.
Is there no 2FA? Why is there a password field at all on an online banking page?
I did generalize above, but when I said "simple website" I really meant the usual simple website one the web, not firmware/embedded stuff. I kinda said that because I already wrote one in C including a basic CGI library, as well as a mid-sized one with Rails, and the difference clearly falls into "C doesn't try to be good at website creation, but you can obviously do it" (and in some occasions you just have to). I'd also add that Roller Coaster Tycoon was written in Assembly, but it's not a language that is particularly good for game dev in general (but still a completely general purpose programming language).

Micropython is not really python (which by definition is defined by PEP and CPython implementation), it's a language largely similar to python 3 since you can't just pick a python program or library and run on it at all times, but it's not really a relevant discussion (and it's nice to have multiple variants of a language you like that are good for multiple purposes, which solves the bloat problem as long as you use only one of them at a time).

Regardless, I hope Julia gets to the point that you can target as many places as some of those languages even if it's not nearly the best in each domain (like WASM, embedded, OS stuff, shared libraries).
Toxic Comments: The Challenges of Building a Kid-Safe Video Platform
C is chosen because how little language there is. Attempts to improve it end up adding to it, kind of defeating why it is useful in the first place.

I find D's better-C dialect to be a definite improvement across the board, but there is a lot of institutional inertia behind C.
The idea is that the cheaper effective prices encourages foreign buyers to buy more, generating more economic activity. Of course it also makes imports more expensive but if the country is a net exporter, the net effect is positive for them.
Pomodoro worked great for me until I just stopped wanting to do my job.
Accelerate Deep Learning Inference on Raspberry Pi's Built-In GPU (2019 Ver.)
AirDrop 1 never worked for me, ever. With any combination of iOS or MacOS devices.

AirDrop 2 is still so finicky I just much rather put stuff on a USB key.
I disagree that this incentive differs for Windows Defender vs other AVs.

All AV software has the desire to not negatively impact performance because if it's horribly slow people will uninstall it / quit paying for it.

The parent comment is pointing out that companies which primarily produce AV products benefit from the continued existence and fear of malware (to a degree at least). This is different for MS, as the eradication of Windows viruses will help Windows, which should be large enough a benefit to override any perverse incentives Windows Defender would otherwise have.

I know what you're trying to say is "also, Windows Defender isn't as slow", which happens to be true, but I think that's simply an emergent effect of other factors, such as AV companies feeling the need to "do more" to add value (whereas Windows Defender is funded by MS, so it has less incentive to "stand out").
Brookhaven is just north of Atlanta and when I lived there they implemented license plate cameras. They would scan for stolen cars and alert police. The police recovered more cars in the first month than the prior year combined.

The companies are now selling to private communities. [1]

[1]https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ajc.com/news/local/meet-the...
I was skeptical of unions. Then I joined one
Technically, you could deliver revocations via a carrier pigeon, but of course it opens a joke hole of an attack. Unless it's a short distance for the pigeons.

As does automatic unvetted certificate signing (because non-repudiation), or automatic instant revocation process. (Denial of service or downgrade)

Pick your poison.
It was a very enterprisey Java codebase from the bad old days of J2EE - it had somewhere over 30 layers of abstractions between the code in a JSP and a web service call.

[NB 30 isn't an exaggeration - I think the vast team who wrote it were paid by the abstraction or something].
Microsoft Cortana: First Casualty of the Digital Assistant Wars?
One less productive thing I can think about is reading a comment about how unproductive reading thoughts about productivity is :)
Thanks for the recommendation. I am part way through Exhalation, and I just bought “Story of Your Life and Others”. I really liked the movie Arrival - it is one of the few movies that I have purchased so I can watch it whenever I want.

We really do live in a world with so much great entertainment in the forms of literary art and movies.
Do you mean logging in with a one-time code instead of a password? It might be more secure than a password, but it's still only one "factor".
for wired internet I suspect this is right in some places -- I read a thing about fiber providers slicing up cities by block or zip code

but for wireless most providers have dense coverage maps. I use ting which operates on sprint or t-mobile I think so there's even more variety if you include resellers.
Know Who Would Benefit from Your App and Why
Upstream vs capacity. If there's a bunch of phones on a tower, bandwidth on that tower isn't inconsequential.
> And while you can't write in assembly in Julia

Julia allows inline LLVM IR, so this is technically possible, if a little awkward:

https://julialang.org/blog/2017/03/piday#π-via-inline-assemb...
> but don't go ragging on the language in 2019 for problems with PHP written in 2004.

Reputations can be unfair. But there are many characteristics that many developers still find unsavory about PHP, a lot of them fundamental to the language.

It's a bit silly to put a time cap on those characteristics that just aren't going to change. It's really silly to assume people are going to change their tune on a tech stack many actively choose to avoid and have no way of caring or seeing what's changed within the last 3 or so years.
You sure about that? As far as I know the European Parliament never actually ratified the deal. They'd cannily scheduled their vote after the UK parliament's vote and last I'd heard they hadn't bothered going ahead with the vote after the UK rejected it, though that may have changed. It's possible that the EU parliament would've rejected it. Perhaps unlikely, as we saw with the copyright directive it's pretty hard to convince them to ever block something, but it's certainly possible - especially when it involves something that's so different from what the EU normally does.
You switched the percent rates, it should be: approaching woman w/o dog" (9.2%) to "with dog" (28.3%)
Bitcoin doesn't track who made the transaction, it tracks which computer made the transaction. This is an important distinction because the banking system is fully setup to track who makes transactions, they don't care which computer makes them.

Now law enforcement need to do the job of the banking system: figure out who made the transaction.
Recruiters spend 60% of their time looking at your profile picture.
Wouldn't the plants/fruit/veggies suck up pollutants ? I'm not sure I'd eat anything that grew in contact with Paris air. Last time I went there my throat and nose itched from the pollution, it never happened to me before, not even in LA.
I don't actually know - I haven't used it myself. I've read a few comments in various places suggesting that GCP support is as nonexistent as the support for other Google services. I think somebody said they were hosting their whole company's data and services on GCP, and their entire company's account was killed because supposedly some malicious activity was detected. No details of what the activity was or why it was thought to be malicious, just poof, all of your servers and data gone, and nobody you can talk to about it.

It's possible that was misleading or they've improved since then, I don't know. Your claim that they do have quality support for corporate accounts is an interesting point on the other side though.
Sorry, that's junk peddled by people who have no idea how often disks become "unhealthy" in the most spectacular way.
Bitrot is real. Disks returning funky data is real. Sqlite does not even have online remote backup that would allow one to easily fix/tweak a portion of a database. When you start storing a few TB of data in every blob you are going to learn some very painful lessons that grey beards learned thirty years ago, except that you will learn them at a real misery producing scale.

Is it an efficient way of querying structured data that can easily be blown away/recreated? Absolutely. Storing bytestreams that should not change in SQLite? That's insanity. Edgy and hipster-esque insanity but insanity none the less.
A “null” license plate landed someone in ticket hell
Did you read the article? The author dedicated a whole section to this and introduced their own term “hostless”.
That correlation is hilarious.
China’s state media compared Hong Kong’s protests to the Holocaust
It should be easy to train the dogs in an environment where the trainer does not know the intended result and must investigate each claim from the dog. All the dog training vids I've seen have the trainer themselves knowing exactly what lies in the course.
I understand what you're saying, but this anecdote just confirms to me that Amazon's UI has the correct focus.

As long as you can very quickly and easily buy on Amazon because it's cheaper and perhaps other reasons like the delivery story, returns story, customer services story etc are all better, then the UI in service of the UX is doing its job really well.

They're not (necessarily) optimising for you searching for products or finding more detail about products, they're optimising for you buying the products. They very likely care zero if you did the former elsewhere, because why would it affect them if you did or not, you still bought with them.
Have you had first experience with H1-B employees?

There definitely is inertia on moving companies for higher wage. However in my experience the public posting of title and salary has lifted net wages as it provides transparency on wages that otherwise would be kept hidden from employees.
Immigrants are what built the US recently (after the real Americans... the native ones). Why close the gates now? Please don't use them (or us; though I'm not in the US) as scapegoats; this is not just.

No one should have a privilege to employment. You and your potential employer shall have the right to associate freely.

They should be seen just as regular competitors [with really hard barriers of entry]. If anything, blame the state agencies for making their lives worse and yours more unpredictable because by the blink of an eye, they can make the market go one direction or another, unjustly.

We should end these artificial barriers. Not blame the victims (that includes not only the immigrants but also locals who can't figure out the real market forces both to plan their careers and to make hiring decisions).
As a long time parrot owner, sadly I must agree with you. I devote about two hours a day to my parrot, and even at that he wants even more attention. Volunteering at a parrot rescue organization is probably the better alternative to owning a parrot.
This one seems almost sensible to me. They probably have some ridiculous 1960s-era mainframe on the backend and it’s cheaper to keep it running than to redo it all.
Research shows how much value consumers assign to various apps
Why can't they write a law that applies to all computers by default?

They obviously can, but according to the judge, they didn't. The judge basically wants them to go back and clarify what they mean when they wrote "computer".
> A higher number of cameras just barely correlates with a higher safety index and lower crime index.

That makes an impressive case for cameras. I would have expected a negative correlation. People put up more cameras where there are more crimes.
How we built a tool for validating big data workflows
That doesn’t explain rising demand for the services these businesses provide.
Exploring Properties of Icosoku by Constraint Satisfaction Approach
One of the limits is that you can't choose where your downloads go. Also, there are now ads on the unpaid version, which I think weren't there before.

I grew to dislike the app after running into the limits/ads.
It does work, but it feels cheap and unpolished. There's no way I'd ever buy one of the pricing plans. I just don't feel like I would be getting my money's worth, especially when I could just go through a more involved solution.