skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a textbook example of where a non-compete can be enforced. The whole point of non-competes is to prevent a manager from leaving one business to start up a competitor. And yes, that includes soliciting employees, clients, etc...

He'd be fine if he was just an employee going from one company to another, but a manager taking a bunch of employees to start up a competitor is definitely a situation where a non-compete is enforceable.
I clicked on specific amounts, but nothing happens . . . is the website actually working ?
In the US you would normally need 2 or more parking spaces for each dwelling, depending on size, number of bedrooms, etc. and if you build semi-detached you quickly run out of palatable options for where to put the cars.

An insane amount of US urban design is caused by the desire to give people free storage of private cars on public land everywhere all the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lvUByM-fZk&t=346s
Here's the post on the sharper eyes surveillance program dirtyid submitted 3 months ago, for anyone interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20930424

PS: I think your comments would be received slightly better if you wrote with less of an angry tone.
The real question is, how much will a replacement special cloth cost? I'm guessing $49.99
Yeah but what the hell is a Kong worth at the moment of sale?

Unless the price is listed in this particular crypto people will have to do a live conversion to even know what this space cash is even worth.

Also, very funny (and accurate) about the $2
I'm not sure why people seem to think this is related to Catalina. This popup has appeared nearly every day for years. I'm pretty sure it shows up for any minor system updates, not just major version upgrades.
fwiw not all cultures look at bicycle helmets the same: https://www.treehugger.com/bikes/why-dutch-dont-wear-helmets...
It often has a positive expected value. Maybe you could elaborate on the St Petersburg Paradox?
All the filters and adjustments are
implemented in webgl. Some of the local brushes do per pixel adjustments on the 2d canvas.
> it's better to have an arbitrary curve, like the TrackPoint uses, that can be optimized for the particular user

Maybe you could even learn the curve by counting pointing error (measure the overshoot before clicking), and maybe make it two dimensional (i.e. the sensitivity and acceleration are different based on the direction).

I use a program called BrightML to do automatic screen brightness control. It's innovative in that it accounts not only for time of day, location, and ALS if you have it; but also considers which application is focused when you set the brightness. If there is an application which you always turn down the brightness for when it's focused, it'll turn it down in anticipation.

A similar thing could probably be done for the TrackPoint acceleration.
I would accept that threat!

There’s nothing good in a FTA with China for a small government. They’ll get eaten alive, economically speaking.
Context for those who don't know what going on:

Pixlr was (well, still is) a flash-based webapp that allows you to edit images in your browsers, and apparently had ~60 Million users back in 2012. It was sold to Autodesk, they didn't do much with it. Then Autodesk sold it to new owners, who invited the original founder to come and work on it, and as a result, this canvas/WebGL version was launched.
You don't get kernel features anymore, and have to re-implement the ones you need yourself.
It sounds like commercial bribery, which is illegal in most states. Sometimes the federal mail and wire fraud statues are also used to prosecute such things.
Well, as an investor it’s arguably important. I care about how profitable my chunk of the company is, not how profitable the entire thing is.
Just personalize the currency to your bank teller. Would Mark reject a deposit in SuperMarks?
Makes me love Chef's habitat so I can build modern packages from source and cache binary artifacts. Then, roll docker images that always have the latest tools anywhere that has Linux ... and patched, hardened, decrufted, and sooner than vendors.

I really hack up habitat plans with a common include script to screen scrape source websites to get the latest version and check GPG signatures rather than depending on embedded hashes.
You can't waive your rights, but in most jurisdictions managers have less rights than employees (which is made up by the fact they generally have more freedom and better compensation). So if he ran a division of Apple, he'd definitely be classed as a manager and a non-compete would likely be enforceable.
> While it would be kinda neat -- as an experiment -- to see how a city would develop without zoning, Houston sure as heck isn't that example.

Take a look at the core neighborhoods of pretty much any major city on the east coast. They were built out pretty extensively before zoning existed.

I still struggle to see what was so bad about it. The few things that might have been bad would probably be better addressed with nuisance law instead of the endlessly prescriptive micromanagement that zoning brings.
@mods: Perhaps rename the submission to "Pixlr founder returns after 8 years to rewrite web-based photo editor interface in canvas/WebGL" to avoid confusion.
We're not interested in doing business with drug cartels.

What is a lovely property of Kong is the only digital breadcrumb is leaves is when notes are loaded at creation and unloaded at de-circulation. Every person to person transaction of the instrument leaves no digital record or footprint. Usability is superior for new users - everyone understands how cash works.
It should be just like normal, non-blockchain backed currency, should it not?
Did you know Mussolini helped pioneer one of the first effective biofuels? He was a horrible fascist but the trains ran on thyme.
We use OpenLayers extensively in my company (https://www.podaris.com), and we push it really, really hard. It's the basis for a parametric CAD system, a bunch of GIS tools, and most recently, transport micro-simulation. It had a steep learning curve, but has held up remarkably well over the years, with remarkably few instances where it's been the bottleneck.

Definitely recommended!
Someone may be able to correct me on this, or fill in the details, but part of China's larger Belt and Road Initiative, which is presented as investments into smaller countries, is to ensure non-aligned countries (in a manner of speaking) are beholden to China.

China builds you a new airport, and suddenly you are indebted to them for decades.

As for the Faroese Islands, and in particular Greenland, they don't care so much about their economies. What they care about is their proximity to the Arctic ocean, and its potential riches. Having a foot in the door, would be a huge boon for China. Indeed, the notion of China building oil rigs and mines in Greenland has been a subject debated a lot in Denmark.

Pressuring the Faroese may be a good way to make Greenland follow suit. But there I am merely speculating. Besides, the Faroese are the ones making overtures to China, so China can counter with demands like this at no expense to themselves.
A small part of me was hoping this would contain 16x physical through-hole Z80 chips. Alas, 'tis FPGA.
Is it know what kind of data was shared?
Challenges of Blockchain Tech and Crypto – By Laura Marissa Cullell
That's a great idea, especially since the ideal profile would differ between different apps (or different parts of the same app, like drawing area -vs- toolbar -vs- text editor).

Ted wrote some amazing stuff about adaptive curves and other cool ideas he tried, at the end of his whirlwind exposition to Bill Buxton:

https://www.microsoft.com/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=60

>The ones that got away are more poignant. I designed adaptive algorithms we were exploring- we were able to raise the tracking plateau by 50% for some people, and if we had had the go ahead we could have made that stable and increased performance tremendously. It seems some people used tendon flex to improve pointing- we found this looked like overshoot and we had trouble making the adaptive algorithms stable in the time box we gave it. We made a special application that was a game people played to improve their pointing –as their game play improved the transfer function improved too! We made a surgical tool that used a Trackpoint to allow tremor-free use of a camera from a laparoscope. We made a selector for the FAA to do ground traffic control that saved a multihundred million dollar contract for IBM with the government. I would have loved the product to change cursor movement approach for form filling, text editing and graphical applications; again that could probably double performance. Yes, I s till want to do it NOW. We built a gesture language into the Trackpoint that can be accessed in the firmware; the only aspect the driver exposes is Press to Magnify or Press to Select. We created probably two dozen haptic feedback Trackpoint designs. They improved novice performance and were loved by the special needs community. I did a preliminary study that showed how novices selected faster with it; the product group saw no need to spend the money for that. We made a science experimental test bed to teach physics that never shipped; we made many versions of multi-Trackpoint keyboards that never shipped. We made many other things too- a versatile pointing device for the table called Russian tea mouse allowed for full hand, thumb, finger, or in-the-palm use. We made pen like stalks that allowed selection without taking hands off the keyboard. We made devices that used one set of sensors to run two input devices. We made an electormechanical design used by one special user. We found that brushing th e top instead of pressing it could give amazing dynamic range, at the expense of having to cycle the finger for long selections. The joystick for this had no deadband, it had an exquisite sensitivity and control … we never made an inkeyboard device that shipped with this alternative set of algorithms and scenario. I designed better grippy top ideas that never made it; also better sensitivity solutions that never made it too. And I hate to say it but there are many other improvements that I made or would like to make that I could elaborate further on but will stop here…..
I mean they are not "not technically" legal tender, they are not legal tender and that is why you have problems with them being accepted (because they don't have to be!)
Online validation dissolves you’re anonymity value proposition instantly.

Bank notes are recognized as a financial instrument by the government, and have the accompanying legal repercussions to counterfeiting. I expect no such strictness being applied to a private digital token, what exactly de-incentivized someone from going crazy counterfeiting notes? Especially considering their transactions would be anonymous too?
Ideally? No. Inevitably? Probably.

An operating system is software. Most software eventually stops being updated.

Microsoft has historically done a pretty reasonable job at delivering security patches to old versions of Windows but that eventually ends.

Apple tends to EOL their OS updates relatively sooner but they will still sign security patches for older versions at times.

Your dad's computer may continue to be technically operable but will inevitably become functionally obsolete.

It's unfortunate but it happens.

Automobiles that required leaded gas to run right might be a good analog here: you could/can keep them running, but at what cost. Leaded gas was a known health danger so the benefits in that regard were clear, but also look at the advances that have been made in internal combustion engines since leaded gasoline was phased out.

Likewise, an old computer (namely one that is connected to the internet) becomes a risk and Microsoft does not have the impetus to continue supporting it.

And this is the point when the suggestion to install a friendly version of Linux is made. But frankly I'm not sure I'd even go to that trouble before reviewing what your dad's needs actually are and considering other devices that may actually be a better solution for the time and money.
I don't get it. Is it some sort of concept art? What's the point?

Sure, it can be used as money (assuming what authors say is correct). Virtually any physical items that are hard to fake can be used as money, as long as people believe it's worth something. And if we are okay with complicated and rather expensive manufacturing process (since Kong isn't something you find in the forest), it really is a non-problem to create a new "government-independent currency", print it and sell it. Nobody really gives a fuck about that, because money is worthless unless you can spend it. And as long as Costco doesn't accept Kong (or any other made-up currency), it would be hard for you to spend
it on anything other than unique hand-crafted chairs or cocaine. And it would be hard for them to start accepting Kong notes, while being a government-compliant entity that pays taxes, as every physical bill they get must be accounted for and put into a cashier machine.

And, by the way, since every Kong bill is unique, it isn't any more anonymous than dollar bills: i.e. pretty much anonymous as long as they change hands without touching real cashier machines or ATMs, which, as it happens, is not so long, because people don't generally exchange unique hand-crafted chairs for cocaine, they buy/sell it, then go to Costco to get some more conventional goods or services.
Your Victorian Doctor Is Trying to Kill You
But what could we be doing to stop this from happening?

Could it be that we need more granular binning of people between part time to full time work, with increasingly increased full time rights?
Facebook under fire as political ads vanish from archive
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This happens literally all the time, everywhere. Those employees are independent individuals who are capable of deciding whether they want to go or stay.
Why should that be enforceable by a non-compete?
Article is paywalled, so here are the key bits:

Tens of thousands of political ads have gone missing from Facebook’s public archive less than 48 hours before the British general election, raising fresh questions over measures introduced to address transparency concerns in online political advertising...

...On December 5, Facebook’s ad library, which includes adverts shown on its photo messaging subsidiary Instagram, showed a total of just under 180,000 classified as political in Britain since October 2018. But on Tuesday, that number had suddenly dropped by a third, to fewer than 120,000 ads.

Facebook declined to say what had caused the issue, or whether the ad data were irretrievably lost or could be recovered. But a company spokesperson said: “We’re aware that people are having trouble accessing the ads in the ads library, and we’re working to fix the issue as soon as possible.”...

...The data lost by Facebook did not appear to be limited to any particular party or subset — ads were missing from all the main parties’ pages.
One of the best things about Bitcoin is that it’s not physical.

If you want a physical currency that can’t be printed, use gold bullion.
Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought. I believe it is an excellent book written in a format that is accessible by almost anyone interested in economics. If you think that a random walk down the wall Street is a classic, then you should read this, since it suggests a model that expand on the Efficient Market Hypothesis.
While I get what you're saying, I do find it a bit silly to say "Bravo doesn't generate any code at all", when it plainly does - the app developer (or whatever you want to call them) just doesn't get to see it, since all they get is the binaries built from the code.
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I'm a math professor, asked to serve as an advisor frequently. I typically advise math majors -- and I do a fairly good job of it. Although I tend to have difficulty with the administrative side of things, especially since our degree requirements are a moving target.

That said, our faculty used to advise incoming students as well. From what I understand, our undergraduate director (tenured faculty) would do all the advisement personally, during the summer, himself. One summer he was out of town a lot and asked me to fill in for him for a day.

I was not very happy to be asked to show up during the summer. For one thing, typically faculty are paid only during the academic year, unless it's from grants (although I happened to be getting summer salary that year).

But also, the advisees were mostly freshman who weren't ready to take math-major courses yet. They wanted general advice on how to navigate the system, which gen-ed requirements to get out of the way, whether to take "University 101", and the like. Although I did my best, I felt quite out of my element.
In the Gimli glider case the aircraft wasn't legally allowed to take off. The pilots also deferred the decision on whether to take off to the maintenance crew who are not the ones authorized to make that decision. The pilots were initially demoted because of that but were restored due to public pressure.

There was mitigating circumstances though, the procedures were frequently being revised (the 767 was brand new) and previously it had been permissible to take off without a fuel indicator.

None of this takes away from the huge achievement of their landing. Simulator runs show the landing was near impossible. Had Captain Pearson not been an experienced glider pilot its likely they would have ditched in the river, and the historical survivability of water landings are not good.
They are very common and useful for emulators.

They are indeed trouble for super-portable interfaces. They also tempt some people into trouble with hardware drivers, but then that would already be trouble anyway due to instruction reordering in CPU or memory operation reordering beyond the CPU. (volatile is neither sufficient nor necessary)

In a normal emulator, none of that is a problem. Reasonable uses of bitfields are compatible between the x86_64 ELF ABI (Linux, etc.) and the Windows ABI. What you gain is C code that is simultaneously concise and readable.

For example, a CPU instruction can be represented in a header file by a union of anonymous structs, each of which contains a padding bitfield and a bitfield for part of the instruction. Access in the C file is then just as easy as for normal struct members. It works for non-CPU hardware too, like DMA descriptors and motherboard registers.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

The app can bundle the message telemetry with the rest of the encrypted app telemetry when it phones home and even the best security researchers would not detect it. It can also process it locally for profiling and other advertising means.
Actually that probably deserves a less flippant answer, so let me offer one.

To be honest the most interesting differentiators are not really visible in this MVP release, but there are some, even now.

At a practical level:

* FATpick lets you import and play any song you can get your hands on (as well as those shared by other users). You can import any GuitarPro-format scores directly (or at least any .gp3/4/5 files) and if you're motivated enough you can easily convert anything else to the GuitarPro format using free software like TuxGuitar.

* FATpick is also totally free right now. There are no time limits or features hidden behind a paywall. To be clear it won't always be free, but it will remain free for at least several months (as we refine the product) and we'll work out a special offer for early-adopters as we get closer to defining the actual subscription model.

At a philosophical level:

* Most of the competitors in this space - possibly all of the "big" ones - focus on trying to "teach" guitar and so invest heavily in instructional videos and in content selected for pedagogical reasons.

* FATpick takes a different approach. We assume you've heard of JustinGuitar and focus instead on being the best platform for viewing tabs and learning to play songs, to the extent that even someone that is brand new to guitar can be playing songs they know in just a few minutes -- maybe slowly or poorly or relatively simple ones -- but literally going from "Where do I put my fingers?" and "Is this where the guitar strap should go?" to "Cool, now I can play Seven Nation Army along with the recording as if I'm in the band" in a just a few minutes. More experienced players are able to sight-read new stuff, even on the first play thru, making it easy to learn new songs. And all with objective feedback on your performance and the ability to track your progress over time. We aren't trying to teach you guitar -- you should be looking at multiple sources for that anyway -- but we are trying to be an indispensable tool on your belt, helping make your practice sessions more fun, more engaging and more effective.

But again I think the most interesting and unique stuff is still on the roadmap. A big part of what I'm trying to do now is field-test the technology. This version was more or less scoped specifically to be useful and compelling enough to support that but the really good stuff is still in the pipeline.
I don't believe this will ever gain traction without a government to back you but I've got to say, the design of these notes is amazing.
Have you considered how this will fare in the current regulatory environment? European countries banned Libra because they didn't want it to compete with the Euro and the U.S. showed hostility to pre-crypto complementary currencies.

Have you considered licensing the tech to governments to make counterfeit-proof bills?
We're willing to play the cat and mouse game indefinitely, if that's what it takes. Widely deployed trackers are limited in how fast they can try new tricks. And in practice, we know that ITP is working pretty well to block cross-site tracking: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/12/09/the-information...
You don't know that such a command doesn't exist for the Intel vulnerabilities, but hasn't been released to the wild or public.
I genuine can't tell if this is satire or not. This is like one of these web-framework to desktop and back again pieces of software

Why should anyone buy a crypto currency you can barely use anywhere in physical form if I can just use regular cash?
You seem to talk about Menger's view of marginalism, but Menger isn't really part of the classical branch I am talking about: he founded the Autrian School and was pretty skeptical about the neoclassic school at its time.
Pretty sure Matt Levine knows more than you about liquidation preferences.
It is corruption if the Faroese politicians rig the process to favor a particular company as part of a quid-pro-quo.

It would've been less problematic if there had been plans to exclude Huawei altogether and the Chinese embassador communicated that a trade agreement would require Chinese companies to be treated no different than domestic companies. But requiring Huawei to be chosen even if they wouldn't be considered the most suitable candidate otherwise goes too far in my opinion.
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Our business!"
One Billion Expiring Swiss Francs (2017)
Mega-bus still seems to be pretty cheap. Maybe it's higher during high-demand periods but it seems to be less than $20 or so.
Fellow WPI grad, in 2012 I paid 275/person/month for an admittedly crappy apartment that I shared with 4 people, and later on 475/person/month for a room in a nicely renovated 3 story house right next to campus shared with 5-6 people. This one didn't have that many remnants except for an ironing board in the kitchen that plopped out of a wall closet, and a button next to the stairs indoors that said, ominously, "Sedgwick". It seemingly did nothing. We never figured out who or what Sedgwick was. We made sure to press it every so often, to "feed the Sedgwick" :-)