skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the last point... in general, a lot of sites, in order to let users participate only really care about having a name and email address or phone for contact needs. Most don't really even care about that. Why not let any number of other systems take care of that. For that matter, they also handle validation.

I'd rather let FB/Google/Twitter and now Apple deal with verification details, and let them participate in a site. It also means, on doesn't have to deal with persisting or dealing with passwords (that can be breached) etc.

Of course, I'm still inclined to allow local/passworded accounts and ensure salt+hashing of passphrases, etc. It's just in a lot of ways much easier as a user.

Depending on the site, I'd often prefer Twitter (until my short account ban/lock, which made life more difficult for a few days... FYI, don't rile up the communists too much).
I agree that volatility is a problem but I think it's a symptom of the root cause. I think digital currencies do work now for a few use cases (cross border transfer, for example), but they don't work mainstream because you can't trust them at the core.

It's not a very understandable system, and that's a benefit to certain powerful players in the field, to the detriment of everyone else. Most people now holding bitcoin are speculators or fools. A few people/groups with significant resources have the ability to truly understand what's going on, and unless you are one of those folks you are just along for the ride.

With Tree Notation you could start moving toward a far simpler system with no unnecessary complexity, where it would be much harder to maintain an information advantage over the average user. The chain of transactions itself would be very easy to audit, but long term so would the node code, etc. All cryptocurrencies currently use overly complex languages (mostly BNFs) both for their nodes and their blockchains. I think Tree Notation will eat those (http://longbets.org/793/) and someone(s) who apply it early to the crypto world will win a lot of users.
That's a question for whoever's standing up - how do they measure career success?

Going by the theme of the post, "By making as much money as possible", wouldn't be an unreasonable measure.

If you truly value a moral career, there are surely better ways to find one than to join a company and express your opinions internally, in an almost retroactive manner.
yup, driving must be a full-focus activity because of the non-negligible probability of death (to you or others).

partial self-driving tech like lane-assist and collision avoidance only serve to dull our driving skill and makes us unattentive while driving.
The biggest issue with bittorrent is discovery channels and search.
This is a fundamentally uncharitable take. Protecting pedestrians with technology solely mounted on a car is basically impossible given the regulations on size of vehicle and such. I suppose you could make a vehicle sized squishy balloon tied to a motorcycle within the legal limits, but other than that, if you accept the general shape of a vehicle, the problem is really hard. Automatic braking is becoming regulatorily required in the nearer future and in general the ability of a car to stop quickly in more situations has improved. What else should a car company be doing in your opinion?
That was not the case when I was at Apple- the formula recommended a bonus but IIRC it was officially at managerial discretion. Different orgs were run with different budgets, and while not this extreme I had seen similar things happen while I was there, including getting lower bonuses myself and one coworker quitting after their bonus was significantly lower than promised (or maybe they were denied it entirely, I don't remember exactly). We were told the same thing about organizational budgeting.
Some apps (like Signal) force you to upgrade or they eventually stop working. It's a terrible practice.
you license fanatics are so annoying...
This sounds very similar to Mozilla's BrowserID. Is there any document contrasting the two?
There are 3G+ enabled laptops.

Certainly there are many apples to oranges differences, but I don't think it's fair to discount the "managed" nature of mobile devices as a component of their success.

The uptake in Chromebooks would be semi-supporting as well.
This administration? Is that singular?
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Chaos is opportunity: If you want to learn a lot of things and gain a lot of responsibility quickly, work in an organization or area where the roles and processes are poorly defined. You'll be given responsibility for anything you take on and don't screw up, and you can use that experience to either move up in the organization or move to another organization that's maybe a little less chaotic.
Harold has freedom of movement, just as you and I do. If Harold can afford to live in a neighbourhood where tattoos and piercings guy can’t, who are we to stop him?

The real problem with gentrification is the unearned increase in property values that accrue to owners and not renters. This could be solved with Georgist land value taxes [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
>LINQ (a querying syntax in C# and VB.NET) uses the order FROM ... WHERE ... SELECT

The reason is for that is Intellisense, you cannot show columns for SELECT unless you already know the table(s) you're selecting the columns for.
My database professor in university always used to say "the FROM, not the SELECT, is the most important".
Including the pedestrians in my college town that walk out in the middle of the road nowhere near a crosswalk without looking at anything but their phone while I was doing 5 under. This is in no way unique to drivers or car companies or road designers or Waze or anything else.
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Compared to the 50s and 60s?
The article mentions that in 2013 a "gay propaganda" law [0] was signed by Putin, I wonder if this lawsuit is simply trying to take advantage of the anti-LGBTQ movement that seems to be happening in Russia.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_gay_propaganda_law "for the Purpose of Protecting Children from Information Advocating for a Denial of Traditional Family Values"
What? The US has the ability to repossess land under Eminent Domain, and it can raise taxes to pay for construction labor (a roundabout way of compelling people to labor for the government). That's not the issue here.
I came to this realization by accident shortly after using various ORMs and database mapping tools.

Being able to break down and compose a query in your own defined order while leveraging a library to transform it into a valid query is quite nice for that way of thinking.
This. Seriously, if you're young or new to the domain and is reading and may get yourself justifying things, STOP. This is the best advice you'll ever have.
That’s one of the insights that Everyone Should Have about RDBs and SQL. Relational databases are about, well, relations, in particular the sort of discrete relations that can be represented as a set of tuples. It doesn’t matter where those sets of tuples come from. From the disk? Great. Computed on the fly? That’s fine too. And by manipulating relations you get… new relations! What RDBs and SQL are actually about is composing relations in the way that, say, Haskell is about composing functions. And indeed the theory behind RDBs is called relational algebra.
1. You already gave those downstream vendors your contact information so they can, you know, ship your package to your home and charge your credit card.

2. 99.99% of all users probably want to be emailed tracking information or payment confirmation information. Adding such a checkbox only adds friction to their funnel in order to please an incredibly small minority of people using their site.
Who? I've done so many "can you write a query that gives me all the foo bars where so an so" for managers, cs people, or even data analysts, that it makes my skin crawl. Sometime they know how to load that data into Excel and do their magic there, but with SQL, anything that's more complicated than a simple select from a single table, forget about it.
One of my siblings is extremely good looking, the rest are average in my opinion due to weight issues or some other non genetic thing. My opinion is also biased since I have a particular "type".

But I don't feel attracted to them, I mean, I only really feel attracted to someone based on their personality. And once I learn someone is my sibling, I think I'm influenced to not be attracted to them hahahaha
This fell short, I was looking for something edgy.

For example: It pay$ to change jobs early in ones career. If you stay longer than 2 years out of some missplaced loyalty youll miss out of some quick dollars. Tons of caveats but in general it works. Now caveat it seems to peak around your 5 or 6th switch.

Source: All my mates and I have switched at the cadence and weve averaged a 15% increase in salary
At least where I'm from, cars by default at fault if they hit a pedestrian. I'm not saying they account for the majority, but I do see a lot of very close calls on a regular basis due to pedestrians behaving as if they're alone in the world.
Better, more accurate maps are a good incentive to keep people using their platform. It's an incentive to continue using iOS, as now even better maps are built it! (This is my quick off the top logical explanation.)
So let's just enable this behavior even more, on an even larger scale? What you described happens, but it's not comparable to this. A single man's sperm can now be used to impregnate several women with a much lower barrier (as we can see from the article posted here). This issue has also been reported elsewhere, it's clearly becoming more wide spread, and we don't know what we're getting ourselves into, all because of greed and selfishness.
This is for LA “law enforcement” not sure if that’s LAPD only... though would appear broader.

Wonder if they’ll go after private ALPR systems like in Tiburon/Belvedere.
I had to do something similar once with FRRs (firewall rule requests) as a F50. There is one official way of requesting a FRR. What that way is a matter of some debate. Theoretically you file a JIRA ticket with fqdn, ip/mask, port, protocol info. Anyways cutting a long rant short I eventually had to write a script to generate 100 SRC X 10 DST X 2 ports rules as csv pulled into a spreadsheet.

After a couple days it was assigned to an engineer for implementation and of course the first thing he did was unflatten it.
> American here. Public transportation is seen as inconvenient and for lower class people, so large transit projects like this get no traction.

American here. I do not think your class argument is correct with regards to commuter rail (though it probably is true for bus transit).
How well can you hear the outside world from your car? Should all drivers be required to drive convertibles without stereos so they can hear the sounds of the world around them?
Yay socialists!
potential bet on self-driving cars in the future - you'd want higher fidelity maps for those.

Also, they can get more accurate navigation for pedestrians etc.

Overall, IMHO, this is an investment in user experience.
If you play poker, you know that, for any given hand, you can make the right play but still lose. But you’ll come out net positive by repeatedly making the right play.

You don’t get to play as many hands in your career as you do in a session of poker, so if you’re optimizing for income, generally speaking you should go for a job that gives you the highest guaranteed income rather than work for startups with, say, 1% odds of netting you significantly more than you would get at FAANG, for example.
The interesting thing about the Pig War was that it helped galvanize Canada as a country by bringing Vancouver Island and British Columbia together and then becoming part of Canada.

The division between the Gulf Islands and the San Juan Islands is still pretty strong to this day thanks to the division. I used to live in White Rock, BC and could see Orcas Island from my house, and yet have never been there, despite having been to most of the Gulf Islands. Had the decision gone the other way the archipelago's economy would most likely have been much more entwined with that of Vancouver and Victoria.
Thank you for that perspective, In the case of puretext, we offer more than just an API - an interface to send and receive texts immediately after signup, a contact address book, bulk texting using the interface and we'll be adding more
> “that the letter isn’t genuine, which is rather sad, because the idea of the two men meeting is so wonderful.”

I may be biased, but to me Dickens looks like a bit of a hack publishing serials in newspapers, and Dostoevsky one of those serious writers dropping deep books once in a while.
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It's hard when you're young (no savings, car payment, whatever).. but it gets harder before it gets easier.

This is a time in your life when you're (hopefully) not supporting anyone else, don't have a ton of possessions, don't have a mortgage, can couch-surf, eat ramen, etc.
The joke is on "them" in our current day and age. The overwhelming majority that care about children are far more interested in gun safety than backdoors for the NRA backing party.
Cool, I have $1500 to wire for free. Do you want it?

You just agree I'm now the owner of everything you mentioned. (All your stock options etc). No other obligation on your part. $1500 for free.

What's your email? Oh wait. Turns out you aren't going to agree with what I just proposed as you don't actually value them at $0 hence not interested in trading $0 for $1500. Basically you're full of shit. (Lying.)

If you weren't lying you would take me (or anyone) up on that offer - but obviously it's not true.

For comparison if I happened to have a scratch off ticket I found on the ground that wasn't scratched off yet, I'd be thrilled to instantly trade it for $1500 to anyone, since I value it lower than the time it would take to scratch off. (I personally wouldn't spend 24/7 scratching off and trying to interpret/redeem tickets, even if I had a free supply.)

So you see it is easy to see if you're lying or not.
If I say 15% of cars in San Francisco are Subarus, are you going to say that's impossible to know? Sure it may be true in my dataset, "but that doesn't mean it will generalize to all possible permutations of [traffic] ever." Well, no shit. But that's not the statement being made.

If I wanted to know the accuracy of an important system. I'd do continual audits. Take a (stratified) sample of all things, get ground truth labels for whether they should have been detected, and see what percent were in fact detected. Then I could estimate how much my systems did and didn't catch at any point in time.
A bit off on a tangent, but I love the 90s design aesthetic of this website. Is it purposeful or somehow linked to steampunk?

I can actually see old school web design becoming an art movement in its own right at some point in the future. Imagining what current and future tech companies would look like built on 90s style web technology is pretty fun.
I'm always torn about advice like this, and honestly I think that everybody who holds a strong opinion about it (on either side) holds the wrong opinion about it.

On one hand, the basic intent behind this advice very true. Liquidity is worth something; the reason people are willing to forego 3% returns on T-bills, 7% returns in the stock market, 9% returns on rental income, or 1000+% returns on startups is because they either need the money now or there's a non-negligible chance of the money not actually being there later when you need it. (Note also that those asset classes - and their returns - are in inverse order by liquidity.) Anyone who tells you that your stock-options are surely going to triple when the company IPOs or that this ICO is going to make you a millionaire or that owning real estate is a guaranteed way to build wealth is selling you bullshit. And it's very useful to be able to see through that bullshit and appropriately discount it.

But OTOH, people who say that you should value illiquid assets at zero are also spouting bullshit. That's clearly wrong: there are people who get rich off of stock options, or RSUs, or real estate, or cryptocurrency. And you're also strictly better off at a company that gives you $100K + 500 RSUs than one that gives you $100K. I know folks who didn't bother to negotiate for RSUs when they joined Google because they either didn't know what it was or valued it at zero; those folks now have a net worth several times smaller than the folks who negotiated for more stock. This is a poor-person mistake: believing that only those things that you can ascribe a cash value to right now have value.

Like most things, it's worth breaking out of excluded-middle fallacies and understanding that your optimal strategy lies in making a best-effort estimate of some very fuzzy and uncertain quantities. You'll be wrong, but you'll do better than either those who value those quantities at zero or those who believe the estimates of the folks who sell these assets.
See, the problem is that these slogans work for all sides. People want to group up and go out to "fight for glory" against the hated enemy. That natural instinct is what the commenter I was replying to was feeling. It's what we felt when we joined WWII, and it's also what the Axis citizens felt when they started WWII. It is what the Union soldiers felt and also what the Confederate soldiers felt. It is the same impulse that had cavemen bashing each other's skulls in during the stone age.

If you view this conflict as only an opportunity to go out and "fight for glory" in a foreign country, to have some fun punching out foreigners, without understanding what precisely it is about, you're no better than a mercenary or a caveman with a club.

A basic test to see if you have this understanding is if you know what the other side would say to justify itself. And no, "they hate freedom" is not, and never has been, the right answer.
Lie is a little harsh but absolutely - cron has had notifications built in for as long as I can remember and a Unix box that can't send email is a pretty rare beast and is probably broken.
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A conservative couple won't use a sperm donor. The woman will
literally be carrying another man's child, not her husband's.
Indeed one can think of a table expression as the trivial subquery

SELECT * FROM table

…well, modulo the fact that in a concrete sense that substitution would lead to infinite recursion!
SGML -> Standard Generalized Markup Language

XML -> Extensible Markup Language

HTML -> Hypertext Markup Language
There is also GCC 6.2/6.3 for IA16 targets:

https://blogs.mentor.com/embedded/blog/2017/04/01/announcing...

https://github.com/tkchia/build-ia16

https://slideslive.com/38902413/gcc-ia16-backend
Doesn't the presence of "general abstraction" allow us to write less of the "boring" parts? I thought that's the whole reason for it.

Isn't "correctness" a useful property, even for a web service? I think that being able to eliminate entire categories of bugs is terrific, in any situation.

Sure, it's always nicer to have good libs/tools than to have to write your own (though that distinction is much less important when your language has great abstraction capabilities). Are there any libs/tools you're missing in Haskell? The way your comment is phrased makes it sound like good old fashioned FUD.

I'm not sure what you mean by the last sentence. It seems to still be an active area of research all over the place. Look at Swift/Rust/Go/Java, or Postgres/Mongo/Datomic, or ext4/zfs/btrfs/ntfs. Everybody updates records in very different ways. It's not like all Algol-derived languages have the same data model.
Woohoo :) My parents were instructed not to tell me. When I found out they told me not to tell anyone. I could've told my grandpa that I "wasn't his", but I didn't. He shortly died of an illness thereafter. So I think it wouldn't have been good timing.

I would say that it's important to not make it into a big deal. I think it's cool and I am grateful they spent the money and went through the extra pain of conceiving that way. There's no need for drama and tears :)
That's assuming that your input affects the current situation.

Sure, if you leave the company and go somewhere else, then you're potentially going to find your moral environment. But, there are better ways to find these environments, versus job hopping.

Without leaving, how often will your conflicts affect your situation?

Would like to hear more about the predicted benefits.
Up until now, the US has largely bucked this trend due to our above average immigration rates. The worst hit developed nation? Japan, which happens to have the most restrictive immigration policies. We limit immigration at our own peril.
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> The US has 50% more road deaths than the UK

Wonder if the process of learning to drive in those countries has an effect. I recall hearing that the US system is pretty lax when it comes to what's required to get a license, and that a fair few places basically have you drive around a parking lot/a few blocks rather than any sort of formal test.

On the other hand, while it's not super challenging, the UK one at least has a decent amount of work you need to put in to get a license, with a system involving two tests and examiners actually willing to fail people (even for things that wouldn't really be all that dangerous in practice).
Thank you for your valuable feedback. fixed "Y not try us?". The goal was to attract sales people(interface) as well as devs (API)
...by force. Although I’m sure Edward Snowden feels good ethically, I’m also sure he has material issues that make him regret (that’s the goal of his ennemies, after all).

Similarly, a middle manager who has to downsize houses because he stopped working on weapons for example, it could be even harder for him because he won’t even get famous for it.

I should know, I’ve made one of those choices in another area.
The alternative to being stuck in traffic for hours is flying.

A major problem with train systems in the United States (and this is both short and long haul) is that almost the entire country is sprawl - built around the automobile.

In dense environments (China and the north-east coast of the US (which has Acela), it's great to take a train into the core -- you beat traffic and are near your destination.

In sprawling environments (like most of CA), the benefit of ending up in the core is so much less (possibly even negative). Lower probability you are near your destination. And if you need to drive, now you are in a much worse situation (higher car rental prices due to high land values, you are stuck in traffic trying to leave the urban core, etc.).

In other words, even if you had a train, most individuals still will prefer driving (you have a car with you) or flying (faster than trains) -- killing the ROI on building the train in the first place.
>Specifically Apple-related and North American examples?

That's an oddly narrow goalpost. Apple shares user encryption keys with the Chinese government, for example, giving the Chinese government access to all iCloud pictures, messages, documents, videos, etc.
People join, build up their resume over two years, and then quit to work somewhere better.
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We need less people in places that cannot support having as many people as they already have. Building sprawling exurbs in the southwestern deserts comes to mind. Or some other cases that cannot be acknowledged in polite company.

Most developed nations are below replacement rate, and you don't have to look far in places like the northeast or midwest of the US to see places that are going to seed and reverting back into wilderness.