skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lawyers and investors provide pathways to the market that allow engineers to build things that have actual value. The idea that engineers like you and I hold all of the tools and training to "create wealth" is too dismissive of those professions.
Plant milkweed and other plants they like, and you will see bees. I won't say that I've seen dozens at once in our front yard (in Washington, DC), but certainly a half dozen. And they visit our birdbath for water.
You'd be a rare bird.

Most employees don't even bother to not pirate software, look at porn or whatever on their work laptops. Its somewhat hilarious.
If the sphere-cow is big enough, the surface will be practically flat...
No, but it's also in the space of functional programming language research.
If you're interested in an open-source project, I've been using Elm in https://github.com/icidasset/diffuse for 2 and half years now.
Did you contact Amazon or the seller, and what was the outcome? You received a defective item and your out of pocket costs should be nothing. You should dispute the return costs with both Amazon and the seller, and the seller may tell you to dispose of the damaged item and refund you the purchase price.

You are better off finding a local framing shop to custom make something for you. They don't charge too much unless you opt for fancy frame material and matting.
> What people should be looking for is Enterprise:

Does it take more effort to de-crappify non-LTSC Enterprise? Things like games, Store, Cortana, etc.

Perhaps people are going with Enterprise LTSC because 'regular' Enterprise is still filled with too much garbage. Perhaps that should be telling Microsoft something.
To Be Old and Wise, Perhaps One Must Once Be Young and Stupid
Sorry, no, not an MS employee. I use MBP at home and would use it at work if I had the choice. But, the Win10 engineers did a nice job in making the os usable. I haven't once had a BSoD that wiped out my setup while testing software. I can go weeks without rebooting and don't experience a slowdown.
Any thoughts about this article in Wired? https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery...
You can do this to enhance or change the magnetic field of the magnet. Core rope memory and such use this principle to read, write and refresh the contents of the cores. They send a pulse down one of the lines, read line sends one voltage, write line sends a higher one designed to flip the polarity if necessary, and then sense the reflected pulse on the third wire, called the sense wire.
Check out Shopify's marketplace for selling online businesses [0]. I limited the search to dropshipping. Dozen's of businesses with five figure monthly revenue and a few with more than that. Revenue data comes directly from Shopify and can't be edited by the seller. These are just the businesses for sale. I would call this more than a handful.

Look, Shopify is a great product and long-term I only see it growing. That being said, I would think the loss of Chinese dropshipping would hurt it's short term outlook.

[0]https://exchangemarketplace.com/shops?businessTypes=21&page=...
Ask HN: What does your ideal “read it later” service look like?
This is a little hobby project of mine I've had for a while that I built for myself. It's nothing special but I dogfood it and enjoy working on it when I can. If the sky was the limit, what would you love to see in a service like this?
Interesting read. Loved the examples.
> Why someone would risk jail time doing something so clearly wrong (taking material trade secrets from an employer) for even more money

In particular 'for even more money'.

You are assuming that the motivating factor was money. People do all sorts of things when no money or financial gain is involved at all. Sometimes just to enjoy the pleasure of being aberrant. Take hacking as one example.
But his former employer is no different as Google blatantly steals IP themselves and gets caught in the process! See this popular HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929

You want to see him strung up for ripping off a company whose does the same thing and he probably witnessed and was taught to do it there(directly or indirectly).
The history of the US labor movement is not a history of American workers struggling hand in hand with the government against large employers like Peabody, GM, and Pullman. Rather, it is a history of American workers struggling against large employers who were backed by the government: police, imprisonment, and in some cases even military actions were used against strikers. The Post Office helped out Pullman by putting a mail parcel on each Pullman car so that striking would become a federal crime.

American workers gained workplace protections through unions and the threat of a communist revolution, which forced the government to relinquish the use of its coercive powers against strikers. Only later did (limited) workplace protections become law.

When I lived in the US, I thought like you do. Now I've seen the other side of the coin.
There have been some complaints about the building, because there’s not that many books.

But the law that governs public libraries actually gives libraries quite wide mission.

Quick automatic translation from the finnish version. Not perfect, but you get the point.

”The purpose of this Act is to promote:

1) equal opportunities for education and culture for the population;

2) access to and use of information;

3) reading culture and diverse literacy;

4) opportunities for lifelong learning and skills development;

5) active citizenship, democracy and freedom of expression.”

https://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/2016/20161492
When a company's existence hinges on IP ownership, works are blocked from creation - almost by definition. Literally what IP law does, is prevent creation from outside of monopolies.
For some context as to why this is significant, listen to this great Planet Money podcast about international shipping rates.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/epis...
Hmm... If Anthony ends up taking a plea deal I wonder if there might be some details about Uber that might come up. I could totally see Anthony selling out Travis at least
What's the use-case for a triple store vs a graph DB? Social networks?
The analogy is getting strained at this point. Not being able to build new SRO housing doesn't mean we have to knockdown all the SROs and replace them with high rise luxury condos. That might even increase housing density if a 5 story building is replaced by a 15 story building. That doesn't mean the people displaced by the new construction will benefit in any way.
it's an openly debated topic, ranging from a simple accident to bullying by the state and other conspiracy theories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Death
They are likely to claw back all of that money, if it's determined to be illegitimate as part of this case.
Would it be wrong to claim that sales, investors, and lawyers now generate more value than engineers? The market seems to reflect this in salary allocation
I think you're mixing two different aspects of the Tor project.

On the server side, onion services (running a tor daemon that reverse-proxies request to your HTTP/mail server) provide end-to-end encryption and secure name resolution (transport security).

On the client side, the Tor Browser is a custom Firefox edition that aims to make user fingerprinting impossible among Tor Browser users. From a server's perspective, they are all the same; they also come from the same IP address (the Tor exit nodes) when the service is not an onion.

Enabling an onion service does not prevent 3rd party tracking although it raises the bar. Third-party scripts/cookies can still do plenty of tracking. That's why those (as well as web fonts and SVG) are disabled in Tor Browser's Safer security settings, and javascript is completely disabled in the Safest mode.

So fingerprinting protection really is taken care of on the client side. Neither onion routing nor onion services will help you evade tracking if you use a classic browser.
Friends don't let friends buy behringer gear.

Reasons to avoid

- poor build quality

- lawsuit-happy (suing forum posters, forums)

- flagrant low-quality ripoffs of other brands gear

- buys up good brands and makes them cheap
I'd be curious to see the math, at least for the West coast and more generally to US coastal areas. Insofar as I'm aware, sending cargo by sea is very cheap compared to sending it using airplanes and long distance trucks.
So if I understand it correctly, the tl;dr is that we don't like "counting" items in our peripheral vision, so we approximate by mentally tallying how many "snapshots" it takes to see all the items in question?
Housing development is winding down in many places.

> From 2010 to 2015, San Mateo County added 72,800 jobs but only 3,844 homes: that's 19 jobs for every home

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/7/24/approaching-pe...

That's low enough that, as far as the market is concerned, it's effectively stopped.
> If you can send any signed message

Reading the code, it does indeed allow any signed message: https://github.com/tdjsnelling/dat-keyserver/blob/12fa3e8389...
Having tried to work with Sigfox & Lora, I can only concur

They are great, but some use cases quickly hit their limits
Part of the concern was that they were claiming, by putting them into a single "adversity score," that they could somehow claim to measure a student's adversity with absolutely zero opportunity for the student to present evidence to challenge the broad social inferences College Board planned to make from low-resolution school and neighborhood level data.

I definitely don't like them making these kind of files on students and I think they should be required to get informed consent from the students--the data subjects--to do so, especially since students are the customers and pay for the tests. However, I do think there is some real improvement in acknowledging that this is a limited metric and no longer claiming that it somehow represents a comprehensive score.
Maybe it's not the schooling. I went through a similar experience, because I started programming when I was 7 years old. By the time I had learned enough to want to try to make a game, I had taught myself Turbo Pascal, but I still wasn't of an age to learn trigonometry in school.
Oh, and then it will still open Edge from Cortana queries and other places.
It looks good as well, with a good theme. The default one just isn't very visually appealing.
> They just revised it a bit and gave it a new name.

Asians are a minority but out-score whites. So, if you were responsible for assigning an adversity score:

1. Would you say that Asians should get a lower score (since they tend to do better) or a higher score (since they're a minority)?

2. How much of an income difference between an Asian student's family and a white student's family to result in the same score?

If you choose to penalize Asian individuals for their racial group doing better on average, how could you justify this to Asians who feel discriminated against? What would you say when they point out that you're penalizing them compared to white people despite being historically discriminated against?

If you choose to penalize white individuals despite their racial group doing poorer on average, how could you justify this to whites who feel discriminated against? What would you say when they point out that your system increases, rather than decreases, racial gaps in colleges?

To be clear, I agree with you -- this revised system has many of the same problems as the original proposal. But, now some of these tough questions aren't on their shoulders.
This was long expected. Waymo’s suit against Uber was civil, and they settled in the middle of the trial. The judge in that case referred the matter to the US Attorney’s Office given the facts at hand.
I user name gives it away. Obviously no one agrees here.
> Opting them out is much lesser transgression onto their will.

So, that makes it okay? They've been abused before, so what what's the big deal if we do it too? That's a troubling perspective to me. Two wrongs don't necessarily make a right.

I think this is very straightforward. You, as a third party, have no place making decisions for me without my consent in this case. If I have a relationship with Visa or MasterCard, please stay out of it. The appropriate way for this to change is for a) me or someone I've authorized to request it, b) the company in question deciding not to do it anymore, or c) a legislative body with jurisdiction mandating a change through law or regulation.

If you have access to my credit card number and I haven't given it to you, the only appropriate things you should do with it are to notify me, the company providing it, or the authorities that it's been exposed and should probably be changed. If I have given it to you to authorize a payment, you are authorized to use it for that payment (and possibly later payments that I agree to), not to keep it to use as you see fit later on without my consent.

If you have my card because I've given it to you and you show me a dialog letting me know you can opt me out and give me the choice, that's acceptable. But I view any action taken on my behalf without my consent with regard to this as a violation of my trust, privacy, and personal information. We are in a very scary place if we as random third partied think we're allowed to make decisions for people just because we think it's better for them.
> So this movement toward resolving such conflicts in the courts, instead of by companies competing to out-innovate one another, is very troubling.

A lot of the things you cite were actually fought out in the courts. Motorola sued MOS Technology [1]. AMD and Intel have been in constant legal battles since their inception. The complicated question of Unix ownership started the famous SCO-Linux litigation. This isn't anything new.

And Anthony Levandowski is one of the least sympathetic figures in the industry; virtually no story about people who worked for him has been a positive one. I have sympathy for ordinary senior engineers getting strangled by non-compete agreements. Not for Levandowski.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502#Motorola_l...
That's awesome to hear, thanks for helping share it :).
Heh, dealing with the intersection of money and people is hard.

Lets just use the death penalty for everything. Less money involved then.

Oh damn, the people making injection drugs will lobby too... I just can't win.
Not to pry, but how can you do that?

The cheapest way I can find to send any package to an address even across the street is $2.66.

Do you just stick a stamp on it and mail it like a letter?

Will you still be able to get your ESP's cheap enough after the shipping change?
I recently returned a 13 inch laptop to Amazon from Hong Kong after they sent 2 and it was around USD120 (reimbursed by Amazon).

HK Post wants about H$350 to get a 3kg parcel from HK to France. That works out to about $45.

$370 did sound particularly egregious, but I just checked UPS' online quote site[1] and got a quote of $311-394 for a 5 pound, A1 sized package from California to Paris.

I'm not quite sure what A1 sized is (ISO A1 paper? Amazon A1?) but at 5 lbs USPS quotes between $60 and $130 to go from San Francisco to Paris. For international shipping from the US, the private companies will almost always be significantly more expensive and potentially leave you on the hook for expensive customs brokerage fees.
Caesar ciphers mostly shifted by 1 or 3. Their alphabet had only 23 letters (no J, U, or W) so ROT-13 wouldn't had the cool property of being its own inverse.
At that point, why not go straight to monads?

https://github.com/fluture-js/Fluture/tree/11.x
No, I don't need to. And I have heard about keyloggers, forced usb encryption and even burnt out USB ports.
Yarn is generally regarded as not necessary anymore:
https://medium.com/@vincentnewkirk/npm-vs-yarn-2019-e88757b1...

While hooks are generally regarded as faster, classes are actually much closer than previously though. But they still get beat out in the benchmarks:
https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/this-benchmark-is-indeed-fla...

Firebase was bought by Google, which while there hasn't been anything in the news regarding Firebase, Google still collects and shares data.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_concerns_regarding_Goo...
Solving Polyomino and Polycube Puzzles
How is the Harvard Asian discrimination lawsuit going lately? I haven't heard anything in a while.
Less than an hour, in walking distance of Bletchley station, to boot.

Go on a weekday morning and you’ll be there in 40m.
Yes it does, although AFAIK noone in Europe is quitting the postal union yet.

However here in Norway VAT is being introduced on all packages now, which is going to cut Aliexpress down quite a bit. Previously it was duty free below €35 combined value & postage.
> Levandowski was paid a bonus of $120 million while at Google, which is more money than any reasonable person will need for several lifetimes.

There is not and there should not be any hard cap on what is 'reasonable' in a lifetime. Maybe someone wants to make money so they can get their name on a wing of a hospital or fund their alma matter. Forget the 'good cause means it's ok' angle as well. Maybe you are ok living a particular way but that doesn't mean others are or that you are reasonable and they are not.

Also plenty of good comes out of the world (as well as bad) because of people's pursuit of money, fame etc. If everyone was just content with very little many things we enjoy today would not exist. And maybe that wouldn't matter to you (not you but 'you') but just the same I don't like sports but I recognize others do and find enjoyment in their lives (or video games).
Perhaps he's innocent?
What decisions would you be making that are impacted by that information?
Wow, that takes me back down the nostalgia lane! Denthor's tutorials, PCGPE, Ralf Brown's Interrupt List...
Human context switching.

I'm being cheeky; I mean closing down and bringing up all relevant applications, their state (open windows, tabs, files...) and so on for working on a given task or project.

Sort of like a workspace manager for the OS.
Releasing an open beta this fall.

There's a short, low-res demo that kinda illustrates the basic concept on https://cleave.app
I dunno, I think it's pretty easy to judge the value of not easily testable wacky conjectures. I don't think much of Penrose's idea that brains are quantum gravitic computers either, and that is vastly more close to being testable, and Penrose's achievements and track record in actual science are also vastly more impressive.

Putting that aside; computer guys seem to think "computability" is important in physics. I don't. The strong Church Turing thesis is an ideological idea, not a physical one. In fact, it is an ideological idea with very little evidence in its favor either in computer science or in the world of matter.
I find it crazy when any company doesn't fully adopt the hackers and aftermarket people. Like the guy said they need to have a certification process and official pipelines to support 3rd party vendors.

This would significantly increase the UX of owning the car which would offset any risks of backlash from bad work. A car waiting 1.5yrs for a small component is a way worse outcome IMO.
I wonder if wine experiences the same price volatility as stocks. I can speculate reasons why they wouldn't and would thus still provide better risk-adjusted returns but I really don't know.
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Why is it excessive if it's done efficiently? Especially more efficiently than local!

http://freakonomics.com/2011/11/14/the-inefficiency-of-local...
That is something glaringly obvious that I should have considered, thanks for pointing it out. I'll make the change to require a specific message.
More immigration-friendly and better marketing.
Home Cloud is just a ridiculous phrase. Cloud should mean raided hard drives inside clustered servers, with failover switches and routers, possibly even geo-redundancy. A single point of failure in almost every regard, even accessible remotely, is the antithesis of abstracting away failure points. Cloud should not be restricted to abstracting away hardware and only surfacing a provisioning layer, it needs to include invisible redundancies.
It's not that I think I'm specifically different, I think that everyone "thinks" differently, and I incorrectly assumed everyone thinks like that.
I'm not fluent in modern JS, but I think the level of callbacks nesting makes it hard to see what else/catch belong to what if/then, especially: https://github.com/tdjsnelling/dat-keyserver/blob/12fa3e8389...

You could try splitting this big function into smaller functions to reduce the length of the code largest callbacks.

It also makes commits harder to read. eg. for https://github.com/tdjsnelling/dat-keyserver/commit/12fa3e83... a reader can't see easily what changed in the function, as every line's indentation was changed. (And the commit message does not explain what the bug was)
I have an NVIDIA GTX960.

When playing CS:GO (a relatively old game) I have stuttering, drastic FPS drops and more :(
> It would make everyone more comfortable if OpenSSH let us see the how close we were to hitting MaxStartups at any point, rather than having to go in blind and only find out we were close when the limit is breached and connections are dropped.

If they are not afraid to dive into source, it should be fairly easy to add some logging when the value reaches 75% for example. Of course one needs to be careful not to break anything else (issuing thousands of warning logs at the same time that the system is at peak load is probably not a good idea), but it shouldn't be that difficult. Also, I assume this would be something that OpenSSH would be happy to get a PR (or MR, coming from GitLab? ;) ) for.

Nice writeup. What I miss is how they added monitoring for these kinds of errors, so it doesn't escalate to 1.5% of all connections again. But other than that, good job!
Yarn is generally regarded as not necessary anymore: https://medium.com/@vincentnewkirk/npm-vs-yarn-2019-e88757b1...
Personal Opinions:

1)The fact that humans will continue to reproduce and multiply at an ever increasing rate.

2)The need to help the poorest countries/people will always be present.

3)The need for clean water I feel is not going to remain constant, but grow over time as we need water for more people.

4)I think in the next 10 years we still will have the group of 'older' non tech users who are oblivious to tracking/privacy and could use simple to use privacy solutions. Maybe by the time users who grew up with smart phones are 65+ then we don't have to worry as much about the technological illiterate, there will always be a difference is skill/knowledge but I feel the gap will shrink over time.

I'm sure I could think of more but I just came up with these off the top of my head. I do like the question, which is good practice to ask the questions that are the opposite of what everyone is always asking.
Or certain others were much too friendly with China?
I get the idea that with so many admissions we need some way to "standardize" admissions, but the way we do it is pretty archaic, and definitely doesn't work for a host of different students. Has anyone seen any interesting concepts or ideas around dropping standardized testing in general for something else?
Where/How to get an SBA loan? (I am in NYC)
I got a new job with a 3-year old company.

We're expanding operations and we're looking for a $3-4MM SBA loan. Yes I know that the 2 principals will have to sign a personal guarantee.

The problem is that in the past nobody had bothered to establish a relationship with our BIG Bank (checking account only so far), and I am calling left and right but body is actually returning my calls, not at my bank nor at any of the other 4 banks that I contacted.

It's frustrating.

So, what is the formula for "Getting an SBA loan 101"?
Western & Northern, for sure.