skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the chapter and section that would be amended:

https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Cha...

The first 2 subsections are broad and vague, relying on (I presume) some "reasonable person" standard to evaluate them. This proposed section seems oddly specific. It only seeks to add "bitch" as a specific violation of (a) or (b).

Not sure why "whore", "cunt", or other vulgarities aren't also enumerated.

Also, I gotta be missing some backstory here. Did Daniel J. Hunt get his feelings hurt one day outside the capital building?

EDIT: I was missing something. See sibling comment on Massachusetts' Right to Free Petition. My apologies to Mr. Hunt for assuming he was the impetus for this.
I was slightly irritated by the same - what's the logic behind such branding? Imagine "Orange Mobile" using purple as their primary brand color...
A world where algorithms trash your CV if it doesn't have the phrase "B.A." or "B.S,", and where the cost of that keyword is an irrevocable tithe on 10% of your human output.

My lord, people, this might be a bad idea.
It's really difficult to recover once all the good ones have left. How do you attract good devs after that? If they interview onsite, they will see the warning signs if they have any experience. I've wondered this a lot because at my last company, management pretty much drove off anyone competent. Not just developers, but across departments.
since the author internalized the AWS marketing message.
All the more reason, then, to have a line-/paragraph-breaking glyph!
> Blockchains are irrevocable and unalterable

But so are events in the real world. When you think about "reversing or changing a transaction" what you really mean is creating a new transaction that brings an equivalent amount back to the person that paid it.

This is done in the real world by knowing the identity of the receiver person or entity and threatening them with consequences if the money is not returned. It seems to me more a problem of being able to identify the parties in a transaction rather than of mutability of the ledger.
I have an opinion (backed by a consensus of scientific practitioners) on the burning of fossil fuels (because of rampant climate change) in products because someone feels they need it versus a legitimate need. There's no point in arguing about an entitlement complex of a subset of the population ("right to own a pickup truck"), just gotta drive progress forward so people make better choices (behavioral economics) or don't get to make the choice at all (regulation).

If climate change is less important than someone's "right" to own a "garage queen" (if the vehicle is never going to see service other than asphalt and rarely have a load in the bed or on the hitch), that's not an argument I'm interested in expending cycles on, as these political beliefs can border on religious fervor.
Happy to see nand2tetris on there, one of the most interesting projects I've done in a long time!
communities that formerly bought locally produced goods

How long has it been since these communities actually did that? Small towns can't really support the diversity of industry it takes to buy more local goods than shipped-in goods in a modern-day lifestyle.
This is cool research, but I hope people aren't viewing this as a real-world worry. By the time someone is breaking into my house to set up hundreds of dollars worth of laser equipment, I probably have bigger problems.
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Congrats on the launch, Chronosphere is joining a fast-growing club of monitoring (and related) spinoffs from large Bay Area tech companies:

Uber -> Chronosphere
Google -> Lightstep
Facebook -> Honeycomb
Twitter -> Buoyant (and Zipkin, OSS)
Particularly as this isn't exclusive to smart assistants. They found the same could be used against phones and tablets (as slightly higher power due to the lower sensitivity of the microphones).
Well it probably needs some adjustments.

So maybe it should be automatic that when a huge company sues a small company and loses, the small company gets all its legal fees paid plus a big payout for their time being wasted.

And maybe it should be different if small companies sue huge ones (e.g., patent trolls), or if small companies sue each other.
Maybe loser pays if they’re the plaintiff.
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Right there on the pinebook order page:

> Small numbers (1-3) of stuck or dead pixels are a characteristic of LCD screens. These are normal and should not be considered a defect.

And:

> [...] make no profit from selling these units. If you think that a minor dissatisfaction, such as a dead pixel, will prompt you to file a PayPal dispute then please do not purchase the Pinebook. Thank you.
FLWM has even lower mem usage (the usability suffers though)
Checking my immediate surroundings, it's also like that (separate lines) on the HP keyboard (KU-0316) I'm using. In other words, it's pretty standard. (Amazon has a pic: https://www.amazon.com/Genuine-HP-Hewlett-Packard-KU-0316-Ke... )

But on the Macbook keyboard (US layout, circa 2015 if it matters) it's a solid line.
Bowie Bonds for all:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_bond
If I understand that correctly, the survey includes all kinds of trips, including short daily drives grocery shopping and commutes.
I think typical business trips in Germany are significantly above that average, but I might be wrong.

edit: Anecdotal: My father-in-law is a typical German field staff. Average daily driving distance is ~60 miles. And he certainly would not charge the car at home over night, from his private electricity bill. I doubt many people would.
Exactly, it’s the same as worrying that whey powder is spiked with steroids.
That's crazy. China loves to replace parts with "equivalent materials." My employer has been spending the last 3 months resolving Chinese QC issues with metal fabrication such as ignoring critical tolerances or broken welds. Considering how devastating it would be for a carabiner or ice axe to fail in the field it would be hard for me to trust outsourced manufacturing.
People with enough internet smarts to have an ad blocker aren't the target demographic for the ol' "your computer are hackered u are ded without u give us muney" JS dialog.
I believe MA legislators are required or at least encouraged by tradition to file Acts given directly to them by constituents. This is what is happening here. I don't think anyone in the state house has any interest in enacting this.
Green and Yellow, on tractors, is quite a bit more narrow than Magenta, in any industry.
A piece of jewel. Reminds me of chalk board talks of Gilbert Strang and Robert Gallager (also on youtube, mit video lectures) that celebrates this gift for teaching us something.
And you're right with not maxing out the range daily - it's bad for the battery. Something like 30/40% to 70/80% SoC range is the best
Six months in jail!
Sounds like a fun math excercise:

For any trademark of color T(represented as a vector in RGB colorspace), the chance that a brand using color C can be successfully sued is equal to 1-k*||T-C||, where k is lesser than 1 divided by the maximum distance between any two points in RGB colorspace. Find the minimum number of trademarks needed so that for any color the chance of successfully suing is greater than or equal to P.
I have hope for modules because they can improve build times. Not exactly sure they would improve build time but if it's true, it would be a massive improvement.
No opinion about the specifics of this case but brands often do have very strong color associations (think McD) so it is not surprising that they can trade mark colors under certain cases
Incase you're ordering the PinePhone & looking forward to jump on Linux development; check out Ubuntu Touch by UBPorts[1].

UBPorts community have done a commendable job in continuing Ubuntu Touch development after canonical left it. Even Nexus 4 receives regular updates, albeit old kernel due to libHybris

Ubuntu Touch is the most accessible Linux phone now because of their support to older available devices. Unfortunately, they don't get enough attention as Purism or PostmarketOS gets.

Hopefully, PinePhone should change it.

[1]:https://forums.ubports.com/topic/2403/pinephone
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> REI is one of my favorite stores in the world. It's hard for me to come up with a reason not to like them.

That's easy. Pretty much every single non-REI branded item that they sell in the store is insanely marked up compared to what it can be bought in the brand's store.
> You sound surprised that it is possible to trademark a color.

Is it only goodwill that is keeping Crayola from suing everyone? No one ought to have the right to prevent others from using a color of all things.

It’s like kindergarten all over again... “That’s my crayon! You give it back!”
I see your point, but I think there are plenty of examples of people losing their Bitcoins through analogous nefarious activities (e.g. MtGox). For an expert in cybersecurity perhaps Bitcoin is safer, but for the average non-technical person (in the U.S.) it is probably _more_ likely to get your money taken by a thief than if you had it in fiat currency in a bank, though of course either one is possible.

Again, this could vary depending upon your nation's government and crime situation.
I know of at least one person who would routinely buy stuff and return it after a season of use to get a refund. That guy was a real asshole though. But still, people like him ruined it for the rest of us.
That isn't possible. Rural areas exist to serve farms which need a lot of land and only a few people per unit of land. The farmers in the area need mechanics, teachers for their kids, and all the other things you expect in a town including groceries. All of the above of course depend on each other for the same types of things, but there are not a lot of people in total.

Of course there are also people in rural areas who really would be better off if they could move in most ways. However one way they would be worse off is the need to find new friends.
No, though it has been a while, and your question may prompt me to take a look around the landscape. Not that I have had a problem with pandasql, it does work nicely.

This is one of those technologies that I was hoping would make its way into the framework, kind of how connection pooling for databases was once an external module but is now often built into the various web frameworks. DataFrames with common columns are such a natural match to relational tables that it seems that a way to call SQL would be (ok, in my opinion, should be) part of pandas (I think that this is the case for R data frames).

I also just really enjoy writing SQL. To some extent, this is a personal preference - some people just mentally line up with certain ways of thinking. There are things that are clearly better to do in python, things that are clearly better to do in SQL, and then a grey area. I personally lean much farther to the SQL side of that grey area, but there's certainly nothing incorrect about going the other direction.
Indeed. Things change. Backward compatibility is difficult, and doing it with the minimum possible headaches involves many trade-offs. A lot of things will look "stupid" in hindsight.
> To be honest I don’t feel bad for some of these people in the article. They are opposed to the word co-op. I am assuming it’s too liberal for them.

You might want to talk to some farmers in these small towns, because co-ops aren't what they used to be and farmers often don't have a kind word anymore for the local co-op.

As the food economy consolidates around large producers and the small farms that built the co-ops are going broke, co-ops are complicit in switching their support to the corporate producers and not sticking up for the little guys who built them, sometimes actively kicking them out to make room for larger contracts with the bigger producers.

Historically, co-ops were ran by and populated by workers who were ex-farmers or who had other close ties to farming. Nowadays they're managed by suits, and the workers have no ties to agriculture and could care less about inefficient practices burning through struggling farmers' capital. Ask a farmer who is working 18-hour days and can barely pay his bills how he feels about his local co-op showing up with 3 trucks to spread fertilizer and 2 of the trucks sit with engines idling for hours while the guys inside play slither.io.

Anyway the ignorant sweeping dismissals towards white* rural America I see so often from urban bugmen really disturb me. You think you have your finger on the pulse of "the country" because you have a vacation home there you visit once a year or you have some distant family members that live there (which you apparently secretly disdain?). Your brain is so infected with ideology rooted in urban leisure-time that you project that onto people who don't even have a grocery store and think it's perfectly logical they'd continue driving hours out of the way for supplies rather than patronize something with a "cursed word" in the name. You're living in la-la land if you think the majority of these people have the time to mentally masturbate to politics to your extent, much less burn time and money for some kind of political statement.

* Because you never ever see this kind of callousness directed towards poor minority communities, only whites deserve to suffer.
I think I'd return them. I hope enough of their actual customers do so for that product manager to need to find a new job.
If any of those were actually distinctively associated with a particular brand, I could see an argument being made for it. I think the key to how reasonable it is to trademark it depends on how widely it's enforced, both in terms of industry and in terms of how much of the color is involved.

In this instance, a magenta banner is associated with a company that offers insurance products - and another company is offering insurance products and using a magenta banner in their branding. I think it's actually a fair question whether that crosses a line.
According to llbean:

"Increasingly, a small, but growing number of customers has been interpreting our guarantee well beyond its original intent. Some view it as a lifetime product replacement program, expecting refunds for heavily worn products used over many years. Others seek refunds for products that have been purchased through third parties, such as at yard sales."

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/09/584493046...
Contracts are a matter of contract law, but your relationship with the revenue agency is not bound by that contract.

I am not a lawyer but I do have some experience in this. So, as I understand it if one or both country's agencies decide it is actually an employer/employment relationship they may decide withholding was done/not done in the wrong place, or invalid tax credits etc. were claimed and may assess penalties for that on top of wanting the amounts back. It can also complicate things like VAT collection, etc.
This behavior causes another problem as well. I am unable to interact with my password manager plugin when a basic auth dialog is active. I need to remember to manually look up the password and have it in the clipboard before navigating to a site that uses basic auth or else open an additional Firefox window.
If they were built by thoughtful engineers with a huge nerd-on for historical methods and not much care for the budget, then yes it's very likely.

If it were built by the same rote as every other probe with short term life and cost as a high priority, probably not.
The thing is, your game manuals approach fancy magazines in the complexity of the layout—that's where PDF is justifiable. Though I'm pretty sure atmospheric look can be created with HTML without much difficulty, as countless entertainment sites prove.

Meanwhile, I'm browsing the web all day every day and yet to see what is there to fail in a simple text-and-images, black on white layout that most academical and technical papers need. Complex formulas and legend positioning is solved with images for now—and I'd guess that with some industry effort MathML and SVG could replace them. Discrepancy in the support of HTML formatting features is solved with standardization of the current state-of-the-art for some ‘paper viewing software,’ just as PDF is standardized. And regular browsers could switch on the ‘paper reader’ mode for the format.

IMO it's inevitable that fixed sizes for layout will go away, for the simple reason that it's not how screens work. The sooner it happens in tech writing, the happier the rest of my life will be.

Also I just remembered that one studio specifically makes online ‘books’ to control the layout on the screen: https://bureau.rocks/books/ (though the use of the scroll-activation is questionable to me). Of course, they likely had to expend considerably more effort than is needed for either regular pages or PDFs. Alas, their explanation of the reasoning is not in English—basically, they don't like how formats like Epub are displayed but don't even consider PDF: https://bureau.ru/books/manifesto/
They triggered the device from across the street.
This doesn't seem helpful. For those who want to offend, it's easy to substitute a different word.

I'd like to hear more from people who initiated this, what were their motives and goals.
If you'd actually read the paper, you can see that they were able to inject commands through double pane glass from 75 meters away.
The faults that people are attributing to blockchain are also applicable to cash, if you go the market and buy some magic beans from dodgy Dave with cash you won't be getting your money back. If you buy something from a reputable supplier with cash/blockchain then you would probably get a refund if you had some form of receipt.
Kenny Kerr (C++/WinRT main author) starts looking into Rust UWP support
Consider a point on the edge of a rotating circle which is rotating counter-clockwise at a constant frequency. If you plot the point over time in three-dimensional space (starting from 0rad), you get a spiral or helix (like one half of a double-helix DNA strand).

If you view the spiral from the side, you see a sine wave.

If you view the spiral from the top, you see a cosine wave.

If you look down the barrel of the signal, you will see an infinitely bright circle with a radius equal to the amplitude of the signal. The brightness of the circle relates to the energy in the signal, since by looking down the barrel, we have collapsed time and relinquished all phase information.

Pure sinusoids are infinite, so real-world signals will be windowed (note: windowing always introduces artifacts).

Now, what happens if the signal is a composition of rotating circles all spinning at different frequencies and directions? Well, you'll see a bit of a blurry distribution of where the wavefront spends its time. If you think about this a bit, you can ask yourself what you have to do to "see" the frequency components of the signal :).

I have to go now, but will try to post more later.
One of the things I learned in my behavioral finance class during grad school was that there are people who would invest into ponzi schemes knowing it was a scam. They are betting the returns on getting out before the scam collapses and they lose everything.
This looks really good.

It sounds like you won't have to configure tools like ngrok anymore to accept webhooks on a local connection. That's a huge win because with the free version of ngrok your subdomain would change a lot which means having to goto the Stripe dashboard to update it there. It was pretty tedious.
It will be interesting to see if Robinhood will go after (i.e., pursue claims in court) teenagers who get carried away and rack up $50k+ deficits from this. The article links to a Youtube video of a young person watching their account (which they used this bug to accumulate a $50k+ position in Apple puts right before they beat earnings recently) evaporate in front of their eyes, going deep into negative territory. Even though Robinhood has a good legal claim here, it would be very bad PR for people to start thinking that they can lose a lot more than they put into their accounts. Bad enough that you can lose all of that in the blink of an eye with margin trading, but it should be impossible to mortgage your whole future that way!
I really liked their take on the countermeasures: "It is possible to reduce the amount of light reaching the microphone’s diaphragm using a barrier that physically blocks straight light beams [...] However, we note that such physical barriers are only effective to a certain point, as an attacker can always increase the laser power in an attempt to compensate for the cover-induced attenuation. Finally, in case such compensation is not possible, the attacker can always use the laser to burn through barriers, creating his own light path."

Sure, you can try to defend by putting a lid on the microphone. But we already have a laser here, we'll just burn through that.
Arguably those are the only ones we should care about -- they're getting our state tax funds.

Private Uni's are, well, private. They can charge what they want, and if the average Pell Grant or other DoE loans aren't enough that's not the Uni's problem.
> It’s theft like taxation is theft: it’s not.

Taxation is also theft.

> If you don’t believe the value of existing money should go up then you agree the money supply must expand to match economic growth and population growth.

The unit of exchange (money/currency) should remain relatively constant. That's the point. Maybe it will go up some, maybe it will go down some, but having it manipulated for the profit of large banks is theft.

It's a complete perversion of free market banking and benefits the few over the many.

> 100% avoidable through investment

Not true, unless you're talking about investing in financial instruments. Investing in almost anything else subjects you to property taxes almost everywhere.
Businesses without network effects or barriers to entry are fine, but they can't afford to burn billions in investor cash every quarter the way that Uber does. They are never going to have the out-sized profits to justify those initial losses.
> The consensus model of blockchain would at least require Mastercard, Andreessen Horowitz and other validator nodes to be in agreement about stealing / being entitled to the money, which seems less likely.

Right, I think you, I, and Libra's developers are in agreement about this being a significant risk and one that using a blockchain effectively mitigates, in precisely the way you say, but Diehl and Green aren't.
Can't such stores get together and create a co-op with a set of stores in the same county/state or even country in order to get reliable supplies and better rates?