skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those schemes don't usually depend on knowing what each particular citizen bought; the tax is imposed on the product, not on the person, so you'll pay it even if you use a perfectly anonymous currency.

That said, I do agree that governments care about the contents of the purchase; around here, all sales must be invoiced with certified software, and a copy of all invoices issued must be delivered monthly to the IRS by businesses. As the buyer, you can opt to remain anonymous, but they're trying to push people into not doing so.
that's a good idea. I'll try to add something like that to the next release.

In the current version, you can tap the navigate icon on the top-right of the map and the map will rotate to follow your heading. Then you can just point it towards any of your friends. But you're right, a simple compass could be better.
I've had businesses refuse to honour coupons they had sold for money because they weren't getting the return. If I feel resentment from a business because I'm exercising what is essentially a contract, my solution is to not patronize that business again.
there are third party developers working on SQL support, this one for example adds reactive queries for Postgres: https://github.com/numtel/meteor-pg
I spoke with a laptop reseller a few minutes ago and according to him, the 980 will only fit in laptops thicker than 1" - so it will not be available in a slimmer, lighter gaming laptops like the MSI Ghost series.
I don't particularly focus on these questions, but emissions are indeed a factor for me and many other buyers. The reason you don't have to earnestly ask is that there are standards, which we expect companies to adhere to and not cheat.

Because NOx decomposes (with sunlight) into O3, and O3 is a major urban pollutant, the harm is very real.

If news reports are to be believed, there were 30-40x violations of expected emissions.
I'm definitely asking because those are questions to ask every vendor. Don't forget, also, that this space includes things like running your own services using Swift, Ceph, etc. so it's certainly possible to answer definitively those questions for at least some other options.
20 cognitive biases that screw up your decisions
Why would a company want to endorse this? What is the upside for them?
try including this package https://github.com/numtel/meteor-pg
Like most people here, I know nothing about trains. But I do know that Caltrain trains are enormous, monstrous, loud machines that, on every departure and arrival, seem to portend the end of the universe. I grew up in New Jersey, whose train system is a hundred years older than NorCal's, and serves a denser population. And its trains are like the Concorde compared to Caltrain.

For what, exactly, are we giving California 10% of our income?
List of selfie-related injuries and deaths
Argentina consolidates as Latin American satellite leader
Look, this "get in touch with your representative / senator" is not going to do it. Can we start mentioning the sponsors and bad amenders of these bills? Nowhere in this letter does it mention the sponsors of the bill. Yeah, the business may loose a little business, but some other damn corp or group will sponsor this bill.

I know in some districts electing a member of the opposite party (and this being a cross-party issue that can be a crap shoot) is not going to happen, but we can work to primary-out the damn fool. The only way politicians are going to listen is if you take their seat away. If you make them fear you if they even think about introducing legislation then you win.
Yeah, you're right, I did do globs because it felt like it fit better with shell commands. Good catch!
So your objection is to how certain users (notably not the core dev team) utilize "unsafe", now with the language itself. It seems like the easiest way to mitigate this is with better documentation; surely, those other languages' equivalents of "unsafe" could also have been abused similarly, no?
I don't see why is "fair" required; tax money works just as well if the system is unfair.
Isn't it possible that there's another side to this?
Ugh, right? It's still status quo in other markets for sure.
Bcc: Taming Linux 4.3+ Tracing Superpowers
> I would rather see mass-market external GPU enclosures become the norm once/if Thunderbolt 3 becomes mainstream.

Agreed, this would be more AWESOME, but there is a limitation on the width of the bus though. I recall reading this when it first was announced.

> dual-boot a Macbook Pro for work during the day, then come home and plug in an external GPU for gaming

Depending on what you play, with Unreal Engine 4, games can run native. Unreal Tournament runs fine on a OSX and on Linux.
"Mark wanted an amicable departure with Smule, and was more than willing to help his former boss and co-workers after he left."

Rookie mistake Mark. Clean break, and go do your thing.

Good luck but you need to understand where you made your mistake before launching this whole David vs Goliath story.
But it is nothing compared to the reality without taxes, where ANYONE (who can afford more men with guns than you can) can come and shoot you dead right away and take your property, not even giving you a chance to pay taxes (or vote) first.
This is confounding two separate issues: using the system call interface instead of the platform C library, and static vs. dynamic linking. It's an easy thing to confound, because (as the author states) on many platforms, including not only Solaris but also OS X, the only interface to the libc is dynamic linking. But you can certainly dynamically link to libc.so without dynamically linking to anything else, and without using dynamic linking within your own language community. (Rust takes roughly this approach.)

There's one more subtler problem with the "defined to exist on POSIX" thing: strictly speaking, what's defined to exist is a C-language interface. Some interfaces may be defined to use macros, and some platforms may make things work when compiled through the C compiler but not through the dynamic-linker interface. One example that I've run into recently, when binding things in Rust, is the cmsg API, which is primarily defined in terms of macros to walk a heterogeneous array, and has to be reimplemented in Rust (with platform-specific code): https://github.com/carllerche/nix-rust/pull/179. Another example is Android, which before 5.0 (Lollipop) exposed a handful of signal-handling functions as inline functions in a C-language header file, so they were not actually dynamically linkable: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commit/a8dbb92b. In both of these cases I would have loved to just #include the C header, but cross-language, that wasn't an option.

It does seem that cgo has some ability to just #include the C header, as demonstrated here. I'd be curious to know if it's powerful enough to handle these two cases.

(Also, the author is totally right in saying that this doesn't belong inline in random application code. If you find yourself writing code like this, it should end up in an abstraction library so that porters have a single place to look, and any application calling `tcsetattr` gains the portability benefits.)
The Paasify link seems to compare Heroku and Pivotal Web Services by default. Note that the last update to that page was 2 years ago, according to the link.

Disclaimer: I work for Pivotal Labs, PWS is run by another division of the same company.
My first instinct is to congratulate Shred for standing up to the big bully. That was really almost what I posted.

But pick apart Shred's note, and really it's an emotional appeal based on two ideas:

1. That the sole test of stealing ideas is source code that has been copied verbatim.

2. That the only possible secrets of Smule are features implemented in released products.

These are pretty weak legs to stand on. They're actually preposterous.

Lawyers will tell you that it's really hard to prove theft in court without a smoking gun like "stolen source code", and the chances are, if they've stolen ideas in other ways, they will probably get away with it.

Almost certainly, Shred's lawyers are playing a key strategy role in this PR campaign.

So my advice is to be wary of emotional appeals from either side of litigation. We don't know what happened, and we learn less than we think from these notes.

ps. Yes I read the remarks in Business Insider too. I'm not advocating that Smule is the innocent party here. Most likely this is some bullshit pissing contest with 0 innocent parties.
Nice. I pay $100/year for the famiy edition of Office 365, mainly so my wife and I each get 1 gig on OneDrive. I am updating the Office apps to the 2016 version right now.

I like subscription models when it seems like a good deal. Office 365 seems like a good deal to me!
Self-parking cars are better than humans at parking
I also fall into this camp: my ideal job is quite far from realistic or pragmatic, which is why I'm now here, interviewing for a job that I think I would realistically enjoy and profit from.

And the key to this distinction is that I am quite willing to compromise on various aspects of my actual job, so I couldn't tell you, for example, that I like a 75%/25% split on coding to people interaction, because I'm honestly pretty flexible there. I will take any job I like enough where they'd take me, so it's not really about my ideal pragmatic job, it's about what set of qualities are weighted more or less.
Judging by the water colors I'm guessing Paper by FiftyThree.
I'm in the middle of writing an article about startups and attorneys. Normally I write articles for attorneys to read, but this time I'm trying to write for startups. This story falls right into the "hate lawyers" mentality I;m trying to address.

They seem to have not adopted appropriate procedures for exiting an employee. Nor did they have appropriate advice on handling IP issues. This is evidenced by the article's conflation of copyright (the literal code) function (what the code does) and tradesecrets. Whether the code enables the same features is not the issue. It is very possible that he stole and used code in an altogether different product. It is also possible that he stole said code and didn't use in any other product. That can still be a copyright/tradesecret violation.

Having legal advice at hand can prevent these situations in the first place. It doesn't cost much to have a lawyer drop by for an afternoon each month. I do quick IP lectures all the time at small outfits. Making sure new employees and current managers understand what IP actual means can really calm the waters.
Ads can lead to "MISGUIDED Information" , they can actually totally lie , is the website owner going to take responsibility in those cases ? Do website owners go to the extent to make sure that their viewers are not scammed or given any wrong directions by the AD code they have copy pasted to track their users ? Is that not unethical and irresponsible ?
I am completely in agreement with ad blockers , they are forcing people to think of alternate sources of revenue , even small businesses and bloggers .

This Cynide and happiness cartoon summarizes it all :) :)

http://files.explosm.net/comics/Dave/adblocker2.png [BAD LANGUAGE USED]
There is a limitation on the width of the bus though. I recall reading this when it first was announced and it is referenced in the linked article that you reference [1]:
40Gb/s of bandwidth – or about 5GB/s – provided by Thunderbolt 3 is tremendously lower than 15.75GB/s offered by a fully-fledged PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot.

[1] http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov...
Filing frivolous litigation against a YC sartup seems like a fantastic way to become blacklisted virtually everywhere.

Maybe they didn't get the memo.
Let's Encrypt Amendeded TOS for US Govt. Users [pdf]
And if they were better able to collect from tax-evading corporations, maybe they wouldn't need to tax individuals as much.

- Humphrey, this paper says that if we cancel Trident and bring in conscription, we
shall have £1.5 billion for tax cuts, and what do I find?
- What do you find, Prime Minister?
- The Chancellor opposes me. A great chance to be popular with the voters and he
says no. Doesn't that surprise you?
- No.
- Why doesn't it surprise you?
- He's advised by the Treasury and they don't believe in giving money back.
- It's not theirs. It's the taxpayers'.
- That's not the view the Treasury takes. Not once they've got it.
- But if they don't need it?
- Sorry?
- If they don't need it.
- Taxation isn't about what you need.
- What is it about?
- The Treasury doesn't work out what they need to spend and then think how to raise
the money.
- What DOES it do?
- They pitch for as much as they think they can get away with, then think what to
spend it on. If you start giving money back because you don't need it, you're
breaking with centuries of tradition!
I must give Gnome 3 another spin. I fell out of love with Gnome 3 whenever it popped up in Fedora 16? or 17? and switched to KDE 4 which I kinda like. I have a spare Dell Vostro 1720 laptop with a nice 1900x1200 display I can blow away and play with.

My main machine is still Windows 7 (about to be 10) because I spend 50% of my day inside Visual Studio/SQL Server/IIS, and we still use Exchange (therefore Outlook) and Word...etc. Also for the life of me I still cannot get Fortigate's VPN client (essential because I'm a remote worker) to play nice with Linux yet, otherwise I'd probably switch and virtualise my Windows bits. I know the Linux OpenVPN stuff should work with our VPN hardware but I've never worked out which knobs to to dial, maybe a project for the weekend.
I see the initial code of this hack as just a begining. Then someone needs to test it with actual cars, maybe tweak it a bit and then make sure it gets deployed on the selected car models while assuring it works without breaking anything else. Moreover this hack was in place for few years ... On the other hand I'm not from the industry, so maybe it would be actually much easier.
Yes, I completely agree. Thing is, we'd have to go through the full legal process before we could pursue that. Smule filed the lawsuit months before we even had a product or got into YC, they probably thought we wouldn't make it this far, let alone another two years.
"Why are we back here every year, like clockwork?"

Because the people who want this as law are assuming that at some point they'll be able to sneak it past the American public.
Given Smule's apparent lack of interest in investigating whether their allegations have merit, it seems a little hard to imagine that their side of things actually does have merit.
There are no mass market eGPU solutions yet but a handful of DIY solutions (based on ExpresssCard or Thunderbolt 1/2 interface) are available.

The eGPU experts are actually convinced that Intel was blocking the release of several mass market-compatible GPU compatible Thunderbolt cases in the past.
I have no questions but I just want to chime in to say good luck. You're fighting the good fight here and that's awesome.
Did iOS 9 set millions of iPhone clocks to the wrong time?
Makes me wish I had enough karma points to downvote!!
MOOCs and the McDonaldization of Education (2013)
Yes, but the other thing is the short period of awareness does not end with the political destruction of the sponsors of the bill. We defeat the bill but the sponsor walks away unhurt. Why are they not vilified for their anti-constitutional behavior?
Have you consulted your lawyers? Ridiculous question, I know. I ask because of a combination of three things.

1) You wrote: "Jeff Smith and Smule are big and rich, and the US legal system offers little protection against frivolous lawsuits."

2) Going by CA Secretary of State website (and whois database), Shred Video is clearly based in California.

3) California has some pretty strong Anti-SLAPP legislation that would enable you to collect punitive damages when you prevail. I'm pretty sure Anti-SLAPP issues can be brought up in pretrial motions too. Maybe you need to check into the bona fides of your legal team.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...

Standard disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, and this isn't legal advice.
So what do you recommend? I just open-sourced my first library and I chose MIT licence because I feel it was what was recommended by github when they ask you to choose a licence. I really didn't explore my options much.
If it's effectively taken out of circulation, it deflates all other currency.
Yes, the fact that the whistle wasn't blown by VW's competitors -- who you can rest assured knew what was going on -- is pretty ominous.
Thinnest notebook from GTX 980 launch lineup is Aorus X7 DT:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-announces-GeForce-GTX-98...

While it's not yet listed on Aorus site, it's quite likely chassis would be same/similar to its older sibling Aorus X7 Pro:

http://www.aorus.com/Product/Features/X7%20Pro-SYNC

This was 2x GTX 970M SLI model, pretty slim at ~23 mm with 3 kg weight.

I wonder though how well cooling will work with GTX 980. All previous Aorus models kinda struggled with cooling, and that was with less powerful GPUs (albeit SLI).

Out of announced notebooks, the least weird ones are MSI GT72 and Clevo P775DM:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/Notebooks/News/_nc2/G...

Pity they didn't include also 15" sibling of that Clevo chassis (P750DM). That one would be pretty awesome.
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You must be thick... ok here we go again... the nazis had laws against the jews would hiding a jew have been an ethical act even though it was illegal?
To do the small projects profitably you have to eliminate the sales/requirements gathering/etc overhead.

For instance, if you charge $100 an hour for the time of the principal and it takes 3 days of meetings to decide what to do you are down $2400 right off. Never mind handoff, training, etc. Yet you have to get this stuff right.

You need to have a highly disciplined process in terms of project management, programming and try to learn as little as possible extraneous information to getting the job done. (Don't try a new language) However you can't waste time on the process.

The real difficulty is that 1-in-5 of those $3000 projects will metastasize into a $30,000 project that you have to eat the costs for. I worked for a guy who was a brilliant salesperson and he could price 80% of the deals right, but 20% of the deals would go massively over... and that's why I don't work for him anymore.
Clojure: Core.matrix protocols with ND4J
I'd be inclined to agree but it seems like they've talked to YC and it's endorsed by them as well: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/646448913566687232
Sexpression to wasm
I bought a 13 inch MBP a few months ago.

So far, it seems great. Screen is amazing (although dim in bright sunlight), and I haven't had any issues with memory (right now, with 3 web browsers and a text editor open, I am using 5gb out of the 8gb total). The processor is very fast, although the integrated graphics card is slow (whether this matters or not depends on what you are doing... I wouldn't buy this if you want to play complex video games or do a lot of graphics work). The screen is big enough to run two windows side-by-side, a long as they don't have too many toolbars.

The one downside is the OS. Yosemite is extremely buggy. Drops wifi connections, hangs when logging out, etc. El Capitan is being released next week though - hopefully that will be better.

Whether or not you need more RAM and a faster processor really depends on what exactly you want to do with it. For me (text editor, multiple web browsers, terminal, MAMP, all running at the same time) it is fast and large enough.
"As with previous disruptive technology ILWU will need to be compensated for any reduction in jobs. Today, the average member of the union in Oakland makes $147,000 per year in base salary, with benefits equal to another $82,000 per year."

quits programming and becomes a crane operator
I've wondered to myself a few times: perhaps Meteor would be even more popular than it presently is, if it had not been chained to MongoDB from the start. Even a different NoSQL db would probably have been a more popular/respected choice, at this point.

And, though I know this has been said before, it bears repeating: most developers who deal with data on a regular basis are best advised to go ahead and get comfortable with SQL. So far, it is BY FAR the best solution to the great majority of data-storage-and-retrieval use cases. I'm no expert, tis true, but I don't see JSON objects replacing SQL any time soon.

So, yes: as soon as Meteor includes official support for one of the SQL platforms, I'm all over it. It seems very promising, for those of us not locked in a death-rattle of foaming, red-faced JavaScript hatred.
It's worth noting that FarmLogs is (YC S12).
There's quite an easy solution to using a Groupon without compromising your experience: don't disclose that you're using it until you're completely served. I strive to hand it to the server during the final bus, so that they don't have to print the bill twice. If I'm slipped the bill unexpectedly early, I put down the Groupon with my payment to similarly avoid an extra round trip (and I mention that it's there, not let the server discover it at the POS station).

Most, but not all, Groupon deals have fine print prohibiting this by stipulating that the Groupon be disclosed on arrival or while making a reservation. I disregard this because I would much rather give the restaurant the opportunity to not honor the discount (I will pay in full including tip, and use the Groupon properly on a return visit) in exchange for uncompromised service.

I have never had restaurant staff so much as hint any sort of disapproval when I slip them the Groupon late, let alone reject it. Not even close. I think it's because they get it - it makes sense to do this.

(The above applies only to full-menu fixed-discount deals such as "$50 to spend on food and drinks". Obviously I cannot and do not use this method when the deal involves anything along the lines of a prix fixe menu, because in those cases one must be treated differently upon arrival.)

I tip based on the pre-discounted bill and generally the service is great enough (thanks to this technique) to hit the 18-20% mark. If I disclosed the Groupon earlier and received subpar service as a result, I'd give an appropriately low tip.
Yes. And that’s what mozilla has started to do recently.
That's a huge assumption. It's something I also have never heard of until reading this post.

I'm personally bothered by the entire tipping culture in the US. Once used to acknowledge that someone has gone above and beyond, now it is just used by businesses as a means to pay below minimum wage (which is too low already). The fact that it is also percentage based this means a person working at a restaurant with higher prices likely makes more money just because I'm charged more for the food. This doesn't seem fair to those workers who are wait staffing at a more affordable restaurant. I can tip above standard percentages at those restaurants, but this isn't going to translate to the whole.

It is also well known that other discriminatory issues factor in to tips (age, gender, race, attractiveness, etc...)

Bottom line, tipping should be thrown out as an expectation and should have zero impact on wait staff wages. Restaurants should be forced to pay at or above minimum wage and menu prices can be adjusted accordingly. As dependent as today's society is on the food service industry, maybe it is about time they unionize and start striking at the local and/or national levels until some laws are changed to treat them fairly.
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