skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It matters because a member of government can be extorted with recordings of their not-necessarily-illegal activities - like cheating on a spouse.

I can't think of a more concise argument than this.
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I've had more near misses in my car caused by distractions from other people physically inside the car than when I'm physically alone - that includes all forms of social interaction via a mobile device. To count the accidents I've been involved in or had near misses, virtually all of them have been caused by someone in my vehicle causing me take my eyes off the road at just the wrong moment - because instinct can cause you to react badly at just the wrong time and boom! However, a cell phone ringing or an email/text coming in has never caused me to think "Holy shit, I must check who that is right now this second, forget that the guy 25 feet in front of me just hit his brakes hard. I'll figure that out in a minute!"

Of course, I do realize that there are accidents caused by texting/emailing and driving at the same time, and as such, I do think it should be banned everywhere. When you're driving, your one and only concern should be what's going on around your vehicle.

Should we ban talking to your passengers in your car too? Perhaps. While we're at it, could we also ban our kids from fighting in the back seat and bothering us with "Daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy! Can I have a cookie?" Would such a ban be realistic? No, of course it wouldn't. If you could, would it significantly reduce the number of accidents on our roads? If my own experience is anything to go by, it most certainly would.

All we can do is assess crash statistics, ban those activities that can reasonably be banned where it would reduce in a reduction in those statistics.

Is it reasonable to ban the use of cell phones and all forms of mobile communication while driving? Absolutely. We used to drive all the time without phones in the car. We used to leave our houses without the ability to communicate at all until we got back to a land line. I think in extenuating circumstances, it can be overlooked, but if the statistics show that mobile device usage behind the wheel of a car results in accidents, we can easily go back to not using them when we're behind the wheel of the car. Will we? I'd say it's unlikely given the number of drivers I passed this morning, still holding their cell phones to their ears - despite this behaviour being banned in this province since 2010, with fines as heavy as $1,000 and 3 demerit points.

It's easy to say "You know what the most distracting thing is...?" but honestly, you can't remove all distracting things. All you can do is remove as many of them as you can reasonably remove and do your best to mitigate the risk of the remainder.

I do think that having my nav and my speedometer on the HUD would be far better though.
In the 1980s they did source escrow on paper. This meant printing out several boxes of fanfold paper for a medium sized project and shipping them to the escrow company. Imagine typing all that back in...
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Reactjs is very interesting as well. The thing that looks weird there is the HTML inside the JavaScript code.
I don't think anyone is complaining about being charged reasonable rates for converting data to the requested format.

But I really don't think "run a query and export the result" requires the skills and expenses you describe. It wouldn't be in a database in the first place if the government didn't at least occasionally have to run their own queries against it.
I am indeed incredibly lucky to be able to make this choice.
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I would say you've summed up one of the biggest and most important issues of our time.

The internet is international. Governments aren't. What now?!

My own gut feeling is that we should try and head in the same direction as the email system. The internet largely conquered spam without needing government intervention or international treaties through automatic reputation systems, blacklisting of email abusers and so on. It's basically a giant group consensus system in which spam is defined as "whatever our users think spam is" instead of an explicit law. It works! Similar techniques could be applied to other systems like Tor, if only the developers cared (they don't).
You are not alone. I am in a similar situation. Best advice for learning new platforms is to come up with something you want to build and then learn the new framework by implementing the idea using the desired framework.

My plan to get out of my rut is to build my own self-sustaining startup that I am more passionate about.
Agreed. It's very frustrating when a company just spews fluff about how great they are without taking into account your needs.

Do you have an example of a good sales email that you liked?
Look at how much code Jackson uses for their core serialization: https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-core . This is a (the?) .NET library for the same: https://github.com/JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json/tree/master/Src/N...

That's a lot of code, don't you think? Quite a bit of work to write it. Quite a bit of edge cases to cover. It's fine to include this in your compiled distributed server or client application. But it's quite a problem if it needs to be loaded in the browser. You could argue that a simpler, less complete implementation is in order. But what language developer would want to include an API that is known to be incomplete and therefore fragile? This seems to be a job for an external library.

I'm still trying to find another statically typed class based compile-to-JS language that does deserialization like proposed, but I still can't seem to find it. Could it be unwillingness like you suggested? Seems unlikely to me as it does seem quite useful for some quick and dirty applications at the very least. Or maybe could it be that satisfactory implementations could not be made?
not only are there more phones on the road. they're almost all touch screen (no tactile response = more likely to look at it to use it) and they're almost all smart phones, so morons like the one in the video can "compose tweets" while driving.
There have even been trajectory optimization competitions.
http://sophia.estec.esa.int/gtoc_portal/

Also, there was a crowd-sourcing space game with a nifty javascript interface for trajectory design where they looked at how people came up with good trajectories.
http://sophia.estec.esa.int/thespacegame/game/

It's a fascinating field!
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I might but I'm afraid that if the buttons are smaller, it gets harder to press them on mobile. I'm gonna experiment with a bit though.

I agree that the headline could be bigger, will fix that.

The option to enable images is definitely a good idea.

Thanks again for your input!
It's certainly true that using NoScript prevents most browser exploits (though not all), and that if you're strongly concerned about privacy, you should use it. And make sure not to disable it for any trusted darknet sites, since as this article reminds, they have a habit of being compromised... I'm not trying to be sarcastic - this is totally reasonable for many use cases.

But the default browser bundle leaves JavaScript enabled by default for good reasons[1], and if you want higher security with JavaScript enabled and/or against non-JS exploits, Chrome's process sandbox is a big deal, and will probably keep it significantly more secure than Firefox for a good amount of time.
I don't think anyone is saying aggregators should not show up.

Do a search for a local hotel. I just did one. I counted 3 aggregator ads above organic results. 6 aggregator ads on the side, 2 other hotel ads on the side.

Organic listing #1 is the hotel, that is good. 7 other results are aggregators. 1 is the hotel parent company, 1 is an unrelated hotel.

What happens if you are a niche travel site, or a local blog? Your not going to rank. Your business model is now more or less dead.
I know many civil servants. The ones with access to run queries on a database know how to export to Excel. If anything, there's an over reliance on Excel.
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Third party live streaming of events doesn't really exist. Most major live events (e.g. sports) are streamed using the right holder's own systems. Video games is one category where this isn't the case. Twitch has partnerships to stream many of the major esports tournaments.
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Why is Ripple's controversy relevant to Stellar? As I understand it (and I may be wrong, I was not aware of Ripple until Stellar), the big issue was that the founders of Ripple Labs allocated 20% of all XPR to themselves.

Stellar, on the other hand, is only holding 5% of STR in reserve, which is used to fund the nonprofit, and already sold off 2% of that to Stripe (who in turn is going to be auctioning off 50% of that). Ripple's approach looked like a pre-mined altcoin thing, but Stellar has a significantly smaller reserve that's very publicly being used to fund the operations of a nonprofit, rather than being used to enrich 3 individuals.

Basically the only odd thing here is that using STR as a source of funding means that they care about the market value of STR, whereas most uses of Stellar don't care at all about the market value of STR but only use it as a medium of exchange. That said, all the Stellar Foundation really wants is for STR to remain relatively stable (which it should), whereas with Ripple's approach there's a genuine conflict of interest as the founders would get personally rich if they could boost the value of XRP (conflict of interest because it's in the network's best interest for XRP to remain stable, just as STR is expected to remain largely stable).
My senior project in college was very similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axDyhF1N7hY

Navdy's interface looks quite a bit nicer though, for sure.
This is one of these HN discussion moments when you, our American friends, just have imagine all of Europe sitting with an open mouth, enjoying the radical feeling of labour law disaster tourism.
To me that X is the amount needed to just survive, maybe a little more. Right now I'm working far more that I'd like, that is, making far more money than I need, since I'm far from being a big spender but I love having time for studying or for long walks at the beach (my most expensive vice is in fact studying, which is far cheaper in my country than in the US). It sucks that in practice there's no way to work less than 40 hours a week, and less than 11 months a year, save for being unemployed (for quite a few reasons, becoming a freelance would not improve that for me).

Right now, with my savings, I could expend 2 or 3 years without working, but there is an implicit blackmail (companies don't hire you if you have been unemployed for too long) that prevents me from taking a long sabbatical.

However, like you, I still recognize that I'm lucky. Some people don't have the option of having even a month without a job.
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Stellar is like a burrito.
Maybe this is a good thing but I wouldn't have an email address with accented characters (and my name contains two of them). It would be quite awkward if I gave someone my address and he/she couldn't simply type it with his/her default keyboard configuration.
Exempt and non-exempt are terms that only apply to employees. Contractors would generally be expected work work hourly (like non-exempt) or on a project basis (like exempt) depending on their negotiated contract. But in general I don't think that this kind of employment law applies to contractors.
I tried downloading this and running it but they both had issues. Any way I can get on an email listing for when it is officially launched?
Even then there's the issue of various browser and OS fingerprinting attacks which the current Tor Browser goes to significant effort to prevent. Tor actually supports a VPN-like mode, at least on Linux, but it can only protect against some classes of attack.
That's such a beautiful poem of an idea. It all comes crashing down once it hits reality at a mere one mile per hour.

If you happen to be a tech writer, you are not exempt from overtime pay in California. Why is that, you ask? Are tech writers not minting money using a bit of time in front of a computer? Is there not a sellers market for tech writers?

But of course these are all the wrong questions to ask. It is because tech writers thought they deserved overtime pay, lobbied for it, and were granted their wishes. Scroll down for how that happened.

Scroll a bit further and you might realize that the original exemption was put in place by a long dead Republican senator from Idaho in 1990. I'm not convinced he had those deep insights into the market of computer professionals.
The web is currently broken for not supporting stuff like that. I imagine over half of the world population can't write their name in ASCII only characters, that's pretty inexcusable. Internationalization is here to stay, it's our job as software engineers to support it everywhere.
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Maybe find an open source project that piques your interest, dig into the source code and start helping them fix bugs and add enhancements. If you work 8 hours a day, you have about 20 hours a week of free time, so go for it.

Log onto github.com and click the "explore" link at the top, to get some ideas.

Beyond that, realize that most people don't have ideal jobs. It can take years of hard work to get to the point where you can pick your job, or even better, make your own job.

Everyone's had soul crushing jobs before; just grit your teeth and get through this, whilst looking around constantly for the next opportunity.

As a friend once said, opportunities don't usually knock on your door. They lie there quietly, waiting for you to go out and find them. Best of luck!
It's a joke; Russian doesn't have articles like English does. The omission of the article in the sentence that the OP pointed out makes it sound like it could have been spoken by a Russian character out of a Hollywood movie.
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Thanks Yosh - really nice of you. I'm sorry it didn't work out differently.
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I can imagine something even more obtuse: have the pdfs contain bitmap renderings of the pages, so you would need not to parse them, but OCR them...

Unfortunately, this is not my wild imagination, but this happened in this reality. Sad, I know.
Their 2nd big picture on the site shows it (with some artistic license): https://www.navdy.com/assets/bg_2-6d1e2edf72162edc92d6955512...

Another one here: https://www.navdy.com/assets/directions-491e1e1af7ef47c676ab...
reminds me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ
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From the press release:

"Max Schireson, the company’s current CEO, will become Vice Chairman and remain with the company full time after transitioning the CEO role."

He's not leaving, just taking a different (less time-intensive) role.
Node.js seems to be fading away. Perhaps something like Golang would be a better alternative?
You nailed it. This is exactly the sort of crap I had to deal with when I was doing public sector contract work.

If you consider perhaps maybe 3-5% of staff are responsible and competent as well and they are bashed down the ladder by the incompetents as they are seen as a threat then you will see how this sort of stuff persists. The incompetents also persist through incestuous promotions (check on your council register how many people in the same family work in the same chain of command) and arse licking.

Most of these departments need the chain pulling like a toilet.

I've never encountered anything quite like it in the private sector apart from one large defence contractor who employed most of the surrounding area for ten miles.
Since you asked: That feels like Klout meets blockchain meets Silicon Valley filter bubble. I'm not the world's biggest fan of any of these three things in isolation. Combining them does not obviously make the combination more useful than the sum of the parts.
I'm curious about your story. Did the employee not complain to management prior to involving DOL? If the employee did, what happened that the employee's complaint was not accurately assessed and resolved? And if the employee did not, do you have an idea of why?

I mean these as honest questions. The law is complicated, and it's easy to accidentally run afoul of some provision somewhere while acting in good faith. Outside of retribution, it's preferable to resolve these situations amicably. It's faster for the employee and less risky for the business. So when I hear these kinds of stories, I like to identify where the breakdown happened. Was it a bad hire? A broken reporting process? A failure of the lawyers to assess the claim?
So I did a quick search for actual statistics here at CPSC website where they collect data on this sort of thing[1]. Here are the results:

http://imgur.com/a/E35py

Essentially, for 2013, there were 559 injuries sampled from pens and pencils among people aged 1 month to 15 years old. There were 297 from scissors - although I might have missed a few classification product codes for scissors, there were quite a few. There were 219 sampled injuries from building sets, of which magnetic balls are included.

However, these are the sample counts. The Historical Estimate I believe is the total injuries over the time period selected. Building sets is by far the least, 2500 less than scissors and almost 10000 less than pens and pencils.

I then read through those cases. In the 219 cases, magnet is mentioned 13 times. Swallow is mentioned 58 times, but I assume this includes other building sets such as Legos, Knex etc.

13/219*6800 = 403 magnetic swallowing injuries over 2013.

This [2] report from the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition mentions 480 magnet ingestions over the past 10 years, roughly 204 occurring over 2013.

There is an argument to be made over severity of injury I believe, but via the numbers, these balls are not as dangerous as scissors or pencils and pens. I frankly find this attempt at a ban ridiculous. What if a child swallows staples? Thumbtacks? These all are things that can be left on a desk that would cause significant injury.

Please correct me if I’m wrong with my interpretation of the data.

[1] http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Research--Statistics/NEISS-Injury-Dat...

[2] http://www.consumerreports.org/content/dam/cro/news_articles...
>If they need liquidity for the network to operate, they should allow people to provide funds for liquidity or operate as middlemen.

Being a market maker (providing liquidity and being able to transact between currencies) is a feature of Ripple; I'm assuming it's part of Stellar as well.
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I already am addicted.

The nice thing about a series like the Dresden files is that each book in the series feels like it could be finished in the very next book. Jim Butcher does a good job of moving things along without biting off more than he can chew.
My 2010 Prius has little monochrome HUD showing speed, navigation info, and power consumption (configurable). Although less fancy than Navdy, it's really useful because you will always see the road in background. Should become a standard in every car.
Your argument would be a lot more useful and falsifiable if you put it in cost-benefit terms. I'm not so convinced that having a few billion people use ASCII approximations is "inexcusable", but at least if you said "the worldwide benefits are worth the implementation costs" that could be wrong or right.
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C# 5.0 is like Java 10.0 (when/if it gets released).
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The main problem is exhaustion. The queer thing about jobs out here is that in name "flexible timings" there is complete lack of schedule. Everyone comes around 11AM and stay till 7-7:30. I reach home by 8 and I am completely spent. Weekends are better but I don't feel I am progressing enough to have a good job.
What are the security implications?

Does anyone know how canonicalization is handled? Does every mail program need to know how to precompose/decompose etc? How do you protect against impersonation using look-alike letters?

This is, as far as I know, not yet a solved problem even at the domain name level[0], and it's likely to open a whole new can of worms at the account level.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
Holding credit on the stellar network requires trust. You need to trust the issuer of the credit to be willing to redeem real-world value for the credit.

Given the requirement for trust already built in to Stellar, the consensus protocol seems like a natural extension of that. Just as you need to trust the issuer of credit, you also need to trust your stellar provider to have chosen peers that will not collude.

In a sense, this is actually kind of like Tor. When you establish a circuit through the Tor network, you're trusting that all the relays on the circuit are not colluding together. If they are colluding then you've lost all your privacy.

Ultimately, if Stellar takes off, I think it makes sense for real-world institutions like banks to start running stellard. If I hold an account at a bank, I'll use their stellard, and exchange credit issued by them. I've already trusted the bank to hold all my money, so I'm not really taking on any new risk by also trusting them to run stellard.
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I wonder to what degree navigation is a fundamentally different case.

A given driver on a given trip is well-shown to be more attentive to traffic and less disruptive if you deny them distractions. (conversation, radio, food, etc)

But it seems plausible that a lost driver is a special case and may be less attentive and more disruptive to traffic if you deny them a navigational aid.

Anecdotally that feels true, though I don't know if it's been studied specifically.
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Advocating against certain tools absolutely makes sense. A well marketed but fundamentally flawed piece of foundational infrastructure is incredibly dangerous. Whether or not someone uses Bitcoin is not merely a decision that affects the implementer. If Patrick believes that's what Bitcoin is then it makes sense for him to be strongly advocating against it.
I called out a very close friend for endorsing me for something that I definitely hadn't listed. He said LinkedIn suggested it and he assumed I must be proficient if I had listed it.
I feel for you, I really do. I've also had a string of "crap" jobs where I felt I was not doing anything of value.

Remember, you should always be looking. If you have time, do some small bit of pro-bono work for someone, perhaps a non-profit. Add them to your CV. Solve an interesing problem for them.

Look at companies you admire in your area, see what interests you, and come up with a way to solve a problem they are working on. Present this to a manager over lunch. Tell them you fancy working for them and you can bring some skills to the table.

Like Yoda said, there is no try, there is do or do not.

FYI, I switched over to working for non-profits, and while the money isn't as much, the jobs are more interesting to me and I have generally much more latitude to implement what I think will work (for me, always OSS/Libre). It's a good feeling to know you are making a difference.
Side note: I'm always annoyed that Siri insists I read a preview of what it thinks I want a text message to say. Otherwise texting could be completely voice based.

Why can't it read the message back to me? That would give me a rough idea of whether Siri got it right?