skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say that it depends of the sector. The 'laissez-faire' policy works very well in some markets and fails badly in some others.

A good example of a market which works well almost without intervention could be the coffee market, since it's really difficult to have a monopoly on any side (farming, distribution, selling) and the incentive is aligned with the customer's best interest (selling coffee to get more money). A lot of physical consumer goods are in this category.

In between, you have markets with a high cost infrastructure but where the main goal is to be a public good. These market need constant input because their interest is not entirely aligned with the consumer. ISPs can be a good example of this, if you don't put laws to correct the default behaviour, it will never work well. But with good laws, it's fixable.

At the opposite end I suspect there is markets where the private system will never work, whatever laws you put in place. Education, Health related industries, Prison and Justice system would fall in this category. There will be no law strong enough to change their incentive so it's aligned with the public.
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"I don't think Seti or astronomers have ever tried to analyze noise for some alien codec that might be transmitting."

They can't. "It looks like noise" isn't a metaphor, it's a mathematical truth... it is indistinguishable from noise.

This is, IMHO, another one of those cases where people like to do a bit of social signaling with their fashionable misanthropism, but we actually know quite a bit about this problem. The optimal solution for using the electromagnetic spectrum for signaling, even with our current level of technology, is to use it in such a way that it looks like noise due to compression and due to not using any more power than necessary, in any direction other than the necessary one. Of course aliens do not sit there using four or five (if not six) orders of magnitude more power than necessary by broadcasting in all directions instead of using a directional beam, and of course they do not sit there and transmit in an uncompressed format that is an obvious signal, so of course we don't see their transmissions. It would be bizarre if it were otherwise. We have no reason to believe that aliens, who live in the same universe as us and are subject to the same engineering constraints as us, would be particularly prone to missing this incredibly obvious optimization.

(Math may be the one true cross-universe universal, but within this universe engineering is pretty universal too.)
Many of them aren't as 'smart' as they pretend to be, and can easily be MitM'ed. No subscription fees, local data storage. Depends on the functionality of whatever server it is connecting to, of course. I did this with a body scale - the online component is only storage.

Then again, most of this 'connected' crap is good as a hobby only. I like playing with it, but the actual added value is very low.
It's not lying if you're careful how you respond to their question on salary. I always respond with my compensation is $X, where X is my previous year's salary, bonus, and cash value of PTO and other benefits.
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This can be done with a software watchdog: http://linux.die.net/man/8/watchdog
Thanks for the ideas! I'll consider them.
'Totally honest' about lying and what was done to achieve a higher salary.
I agree; it sucks for the reason you say.

"Moore's Law" is probably part of the reason we're okay with this: by the time RAM/CPU/mobo start failing, a laptop is 5 (or 6 or 7 or 10) years old and the laptop's a dinosaur anyway. Heck, by that point a lot of us are probably hoping our laptops fail so we have an excuse to get a new one.

I wonder if we'll stop being okay with this eventually, now that desktop/laptop CPUs aren't getting faster at the rate they used to. My 2011 Macbook Pro is still plenty fast enough for me. It would be nice if it lasted a long time.
That's nice - I've recently made a small project to wrap Github's Gists around an open API[1] for the same use case - a small open database easily browseable -, but your project seems much more interesting - spreadsheets are a very interesting way to solve this. Good job.

[1] https://github.com/arcanis/gist-proxy-server
This is typically the way it's done in Node.js's Express library: http://expressjs.com/api.html#req
This was probably a bad comparison to make because they actually do try to micromanage NASA but I do agree with you that for the most part they would not be very involved.

The SLS program is jokingly called the Senate Launch System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System
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Yep, Firefox works fine. Vivaldi 1.0.219.50 also crashes the tab on hover.
That is a very real statement, which I personally experienced, BTW. I had a health issue and my default option was to address to a private clinic which had good image and publicity. Their attention to clients was irreproachable, ("clients" instead of "patients" is intentional inhere,) but they were elusive when I asked them for estimates on time of treatment and money. This marked some red flags for me and I was in response elusive about my decision to start the treatment right away. I started to dig a little bit on patient's experience with the said clinic and found not-so-encouraging feedback (mixed with a lot of downplay and apologism). I then turned to public health care service. It was frustrating (as expected) but they weren't trying to lure me in some kind of "relationship" and were straight to the chase. Public health should not be left to business.
Mankind has been at war for most of its existence. Only after WW2 and the development of nuclear weapons has war become much too risky due to MAD and has made diplomacy a much more viable option....for the more powerful nations. Meanwhile, we still have civil war in Syria, unrest in Africa etc.

Once we colonize other worlds and space travel becomes more feasible, earth will become less valuable: the powers that be can relocate to another planet and just fight their proxy wars on earth.
Performances. The engine's efficiency is much lower under restricted emissions conditions.

Quoting from https://np.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/3lhhjk/have_you...

> They were caught cheating on NOx emissions primarily although all emissions are in a way connected.

> NOx is created when temperatures and pressures are very high during combustion. Sadly NOx emission is generally higher when your combustion is nice and hot and rapid, which gives higher efficiency (closer to the ideal thermodynamic cycle).

> […] [A lying] car will produce a lot more NOx in normal driving, and have better fuel economy.

> […] If VW correct this via recall the car will be required to run on the "clean" calibration all the time. This will mean poorer fuel economy, I would be speculating to say by how much but VW wouldnt have bothered cheating if it wasnt a significant gain. It may even have implications on durability if certain parameters (like exhaust gas temps, turbocharger RPMs or oil life) are affected as they often are.
APA (the one from the linked article) - American Psychological Association - no hippocratic oath - www.apa.org

APA - American Psychiatric Association - hippocratic oath - www.psychiatry.org

According to [1] it was the first of these that it was the psychological association that did this. So a Hippocratic oath violation would not seem to a valid criticism of these guys.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/us/report-says-american-ps...
':' is not that uncommon.
E.g.: http://mojolicio.us/perldoc/Mojolicious/Guides/Routing#Stand...
But he was lying. That's different. What you're making is irrelevant, and if it is for them (i.e. the company you're interviewing at is making an actual problem of not knowing), then you don't want to work there. What you're looking to make is much more relevant.
There have been zero reports, that I'm aware of, that any of these cars would have failed the emissions test without the "defeat device". Still waiting to hear.

Edit: Easy guys, in Canada there is no known impact yet as it is being investigated. I forgot I was on the internet where everyone keeps their pitchforks in their back pocket. http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/volkswagen-emissions-rigging...

We do ACTUAL emissions tests in Canada (Ontario at least) - it sounds like USA is different in how it works (probably differs by state?), but we have machines to actually grade pollution. The 2009 model VWs will be emissiosn tested this year as they are 7 years old, so why this hasn't been news yet in Canada is very interesting, which is why I say I'm waiting to hear how all of these cars fair in upcoming tests. http://www.ontario.ca/page/drive-clean

Edit 2: I'm wrong, we don't do tailpipe emissions test on cars newer than 1998! So the defeat device is the exact reason why I hadn't heard about any vehicles actually failing emissions testing here.
Well Toyota got fined 1.2 billion for something that turned out to be user error if that. As in, they were penalized for not cooperating fast enough for the government. I do think GM got off way too lightly. The VW issue here in no way compares, trying to claim that air pollution from these cars might have caused deaths is absurd when looking at what GM did and continue to do so after their rescue.

that being said, having owned both a 2010 TDI Golf and 2013 TDI Beetle that I enjoyed for the duration and returned very good mileage numbers I still want VW to be fined a substantial amount and forced to keep a stop sale until they can prove the code is no longer in a car waiting delivery to a dealer.
Remember in the 90s when everyone said virtual reality and smart TVs were the next wave of high tech? And how all the big companies started putting money into R&D for said technologies? Remember how it never materialized? (Well, it's being realized now, 2 decades late.)

The "internet of things" is the same shit. Something people like to mention at TED conferences. But do we want it? Is the market ready for it? No one's asking that. If you ask me, we're not ready. At the moment, the tech is too expensive and too useless. A few things will win out with affluent customers (thermostats, audio systems). But putting chips in everything we own is a far off dream.
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Latex is a very bad format and dead end for interchanging to other formats.

Also like Pandoc and Markdown... if somebody is interested for a workflow to write a scientific paper with it check this project out: https://github.com/tompollard/phd_thesis_markdown
you do realize this is a win 9x era screenshot?
Give me a break. "Link" should be a huge warning flag that weasel words, non sequiturs, and good 'ol conflations of causation/correlation are ahead.
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You have done a lot, so congrats. Now you should refocus to make your dream really happen imho: have a look at countries near home (Argentina, Canada?) and try to climb the ladder from a friendlier environment instead of risking wreckage in a pond that basically does not need (saturated with techies) and does not want (severe visa issues) you yet. Good luck!
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At what point does the resolution become good enough for serif fonts I wonder? Unfortunately 1366 x 768 is still quite the norm (118 ppi on a 13.3" screen).
Does it? I don't know. Obviously results will vary. I think the standout example of the brain's wiring no longer being optimal for modern life is of people's physiological responses to anxiety. Elevated heartrate and adrenaline release are all great when you're being chased by a predator, but extremely unhelpful when you're taking a standardized test that will determine how much tuition you pay later on, or delivering a presentation to a prospective employer.
And what about sites that show content when the referrer is Google but show paywall otherwise?

Google explicitly allows this. https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543?hl=en
South American here did something similar and I can say one thing: the American dream is dead... at least for immigrants.

With unintelligent politicians and immigration policies, it's REALLY hard to start your own company. Even if you raise 1M+ still is REALLY hard to get/transfer your H1-B visa. It doesn't matter if you're the CEO. I know it seems ridiculously stupid, and it is.

In addition, things will NOT get better. People like Trump and other 'fake right-wing socialists' will continue to maintain an idiotic immigration policy and there won't 'be a way'. South Americans(even if legal) feel disdain and hatred in the disguised eyes of niceness.

I would EXTREMELY suggest you to consider certain EU countries with a more reasonable immigration policy. My experiences have been great and never did anyone looked down on me because I'm hispanic or that I speak Spanish(duh).
Call this confirmation bias or anecdotal evidence. I can relate to this study.

I only play a few video games. The most recent that I play is "ShadowGun - DeadZone" on my iPad. Its a MM first persons shooter centered around networked games of CTF or DeathMatch options. I love it. It helps me unwind and keeps me alert. Its damn fun.

However I can't play it when my kids are around. Kids are kids. However my tolerance for normal kid stuff (mistakes, arguments, things dropped, repetition of noises) drops significant after playing. I'm more short tempered. I'm more combative when I should be conciliatory. I've noticed it and I don't like myself afterwards. Its not helping me to be a good father.

I'm not singling out the game. Its me, so I've elected to delete it. I can re-install after bedtime or when I travel or never.
See the reply by Intermernet elsewhere in this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10251397
Yeah, a lot of the money comes in by simply saying to many people "I'm worth that money". And the key ingredients to bargaining are having another offer (= being able to walk) and knowing the market a little (=talking to other companies, reading texts like this one), and the third is to talk to your manager. The worst thing that can happen is that he says no. But even then you are better set up for the same talk the next time. Saying no a few times is also hard for the manager.
It only requires a bootstrapping application. Enough chips get made for that niche, the chips get cheaper. That opens up other applications. And so on. It's a 'natural process' of economics, with a time-constant related to marketing and chip manufacturing cycles. Used to be 20 years, but its getting shorter all the time.
The pre-GPS bombing accuracy during daytime isn't any better if it is a cloudy day, which happens more often in Europe than the western US where the USAAF had trained.
Is there full support for math mode? (it doesn't appear from the examples that the author uses math mode, so I'd guess no)
Your solution would stop innovation in any industry
The telegram FAQ says that it cannot be used for voice calls:

https://telegram.org/faq#q-can-i-make-calls-or-video-calls-v...
you mean "wrong side of history"?
Apple News is basically a fancy RSS reader, with an additional private API for selected publishers.
Hey, VW could always come to my county. We don't even bother requiring emissions testing here.
It's not really lying to make the numbers look bigger. It's what everybody does. The guy on the other side of the table will also tell you believable smaller numbers than what he really has in his spreadsheets.
I don't understand why you'd need to relocate to work for a startup. I can see how it would be really exciting, for sure!

But...can't you do the same work remotely from your home country. From a place that doesn't cost $4,000/mo in rent?
Whoa, gists as a DB - that's a neat idea!
verr troo, tho the way lobbying works I'm not sure they'd even need to be directly involved with the policy.
B corps explicitly include the creation of public benefit in their goals, whereas traditional C corps exist only to earn profits for the shareholders. Incorporating as a B corp allows a company to pursue public-oriented goals that could diminish profitability without being liable to shareholder lawsuits. They are both taxed the same. This is not federal law--B corps only exist in some states, and only according to the enacting legislation of those states, so the exact laws governing them will vary.
Tumblers..
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> and the government protects your property such that others can't make it cheaper?

How is this libertarian? This is the exact opposite.

Without the FDA other companies could easily produce this product, it's out of patient but the claim is they are using government regulation to slow competition down.

The exact opposite to libertarian.
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Cool. Is there any API rate limit?
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good luck trying to get into Canada...
They should try the bank line:

* hey we are just playing the game, it's the regulators who set the rules

* it's business, if we didn't get innovative with the rules we'd loose customers and go out of business

* it was one rogue guy, the culture here is fine!

If all these fail then just make sure the fine is less than the profit you make from the "transgression".
What have you been drinking? Why have a 'defeat device' if it doesn't do anything? Of course they would fail, spectacularly, without the device. That's the entire point.

The estimate is, CO emissions are reduce 40X to pass the test. Meaning, the cars are 40 times too dirty to be on our roads.
I definitely wouldn't be surprised if there's a link. My immediate concern is whether or not this APA study will give more bait to legislators. It is an election year after all.
It was listed at the top of Wired.com for regular web browsers earlier today, in their Latest News column. It now appears to have been pulled from that section, even if you click through to the archives.
You still need to use some software to do that. Also, the screen is too tiny for VCs.
Which new gTLD would I apply for in Round 2?
No, encryption in Android 5.0 works really well, really. It is really well designed, not state-of-art like the one in iOS however it is still leaps ahead from any other encryption implementation currently in the industry. Perfomance wise, it's great too. I have a Moto X with Android 5.1, running encryption from day one, and didn't even notice any slowdown (and it uses soft encryption, no support for hardaware).

Android users seems to care more about benchmarks them security. The fact that Google removed the encryption by default was after all the bitching that people made after some releases showed that Nexus 6 was faster without encryption. However, there is no proof that this had any significant impact on performance, and I think Google put this restriction after a careful study that encryption by default, even on pure software implementation, did not impact usability on devices. OEMs do like benchmarks and likes to be lazy ("no encryption by default means I don't need to create a module implementing encryption that my hardware already supports! less money to spend, more profit!") because this makes people buy more phones, so they probably pressured Google to remove default encryption because encryption "makes performance looks worse" (on paper, not in real life).

If I was part of the midia, I would do a blind test running Nexus 6 with both encryption enabled and disabled. This would show if the performance impact was significant. But the majority of midia prefers the easier way using benchmarks, so we had all these Android users crying rivers that they lost performance. Serious, wtf.
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This is an (at best) attempt to create some bubble, the revenues will go up for a while -even if we all hope they won't, but they probably will- the company will look so much better than what actually is. I wonder what for, it's not that people won't recognize it. In EU it cannot be sold anywhere near that price so he's looking only at US market.
One thing I've noticed in other companies with out-dated products is the customer care, apparently they are very prompt in following up prospects, which builds some sort of weird trust.
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Yes out of character. German public will not be happy with VW.
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Current european standards are laxer, especially when it comes to diesel. In fact, the whole thing was busted because a european supporter of cleaner diesel thought "look they've got much cleaner figures in the US market so they know how to do it and we can way tighten emission standards".

Then they went to road-test US-market cars, and found out the real-world emission profile was more or less identical to the EU one, and completely out of spec for the US regulations.

See http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-19/volkswagen... for a timeline and a rundown with names and all.
Right now, it's Google Drive Quota. I'm testing out the idea, etc. If it goes well I'll probably cut rate limits per user or per API.
This explains it: https://twitter.com/MartinShkreli

The guy is simply hilarious. Looks pretty innocent from the profile picture though.

It looks like the real world version of Krang [1]. This is simply astonishing.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krang
>(I can't help but think they've very carefully chosen that specific wording - probably as part of other arguments they're going to make...)

Adultery is still illegal in some states[0]. So the argument is likely going to be that Ashley Madison was facilitating criminal behavior.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adultery#United_States
@strgrd Apple's behavior is a big part of the story, yr right. tho I think it's a separate controversy, honestly, more related to walled gardens and cult of apple BS. maybe my point is that as long as government doesn't get involved, the rest will sort itself out according to free market economics.
hi, I should have posted a link, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF8ZVB-v3IM
The last two places I've worked have gone completely wireless - and gotten mixed results.

The first place was a small business and their network guys were nails. They had the whole system set up in three days, and we were screaming (close to a 100MB both ways) and since we didn't have a ton of users, it was rock solid and really dependable.

Just landed a few months ago at a huge corporation who did the same thing and it's horrible. The connection drops in and out, the speeds are anemic (around 2-5MB during the day, both ways) and in out project room, we've had so many problems, they're going to turn the LAN outlets back on so the service will be at least reliable.

The crazy thing is I've spoken to other people on my floor and they've told me before they went wireless, the network was far more reliable and much faster (closer to 40-50MB) both up and down.
Latex has too much inertia for users to switch anytime soon. The only competition is from commercial tools like Adobe Framemaker.

I hope the future will turn out to be Lyx + Asciidoctor export. If Microsoft Word ever improves their math input interface, I think it would just kill off LaTex completely. It's already almost mandatory to use for document interchange.

Markdown is too limited. It has no standard for extensions - Asciidoc does. Markdown IMO is strictly for writing blog posts that are mostly text.
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A counter point could be that playing violent games would allow people to vent out their aggression in a safe way so that they don't take it out on us. I am curious if there is a study that links playing (violent)sports with more violent tendencies, because the reasoning seems similar. Also it goes without saying correlation != causation(Just for fun please try http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations)