skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right about their sales practices -- and I've got more than one client who are slowly ripping out every Oracle product they have as a result. Oracle treats enterprise software sales like it's still the 90s, but in a lot of their markets there is no other serious vendor.

Oracle makes the majority of their money off of industry-function-specific ERP software that runs on top of their database platform. That's a market that's very hard to disrupt or displace, because you have to develop deep domain expertise in dozens of different industries and functions. Their technology platform licenses often sneak in the back door -- the customer wants the solution, and if they have to pay for the DB as part of the solution, then it's just part of the price.
> ...nor humour a "tu quoque" contest.

Awful sly of you to indirectly make the claim that I was calling you a hypocrite. I'm not. I'm declaring that everyone who lives in a governed district is a beneficiary of the state's ability to restrict supply of one thing or another. This includes landlords who might have the "value" of their "investment" inflated due to restricted supply.

> They made an investment in buying [the land]...

Yes. Agreed.

> ...and improving the land.

No. No, they did not.

They paid someone else to get access to the revenue stream that comes from the people living in the building that was constructed roughly one hundred years before they made the purchase. Additionally, the building was constructed more than fifty years before $CURRENT_LANDLORD-2 made his purchase. Neither of them fronted the money and took on the risk to build the only improvement on the land.

What's more, $CURRENT_LANDLORD's negligence is lowering the value of the property they purchased. Vermin infestation throughout the building and trash accumulation in public areas [0] are now not-uncommon sights. Essential building services are unreliable and not-infrequently unavailable due to failure to perform regular preventative maintenance.

Are you using some definition of "$CURRENT_LANDLORD is improving the land." that remains true when the actions that the landowner takes both damage the pre-existing building on the property and lower its value, actual or otherwise?

> Not necessary for my point.

It really seems like your point is not valid, for the situation that a renter not-infrequently finds himself in in San Francisco. [1] Because the demand for rental housing is so high, landlords can often get away with failing to perform even the legally required maintenance and upkeep and still have people breaking down their doors to rent their vacant apartments.

I don't see how one can -with a straight face- make the claim that a property owner is adding value to a property when they aren't even performing the maintenance required to adequately counteract the natural forces of entropy.

Do you now understand what I mean when I say "$CURRENT_LANDLORD has done nothing to improve the value of their property."?

[0] Due to not-infrequent failure of building management to swap out the full garbage, recycling, and composting bins with empty ones.

[1] Your argument may be (and probably is) totally valid in other situations. San Francisco's housing market (rental or otherwise) is a special bucket of suck.
It's been pulled from that URL unfortunately. There's a few copies floating around if you google the filename unfortunately they don't come from as authoritative a URL as the .gov address you provided.
Political problems are any that involve issues of power and control. The issue of who gets to decide what you view on a computer is an eminently political one.
> You don't do it for the money

That doesn't put food on the table or keep the lights on. Going into politics is very very high on the maslov hierarchy.

But I'm sure my landlord will nod approvingly when I say "Oh, I'm not going to pay rent this month, I'm in politics you see. Changing the world. Don't got time for rent."
'By early 2002, the CIA, the Justice Department, and the National Security Council were debating whether the legal and humanitarian protections of the Geneva Conventions would apply to captives suspected to be members of al-Qaida or the Taliban. After weeks of debate, and over objections from the State Department, President George W. Bush ultimately issued the final word on the matter. In a February 2002 memo, he stated that al-Qaida and Taliban detainees were not protected by the Geneva Conventions.'

This is one of the roots of the problem. Once you have a class of people without rights, you can arbitrarily identify people as part of that class and they have no chance at due process. Unless absolutely everyone has basic legal protections, no one has them.
> and was a big believer in market forces

A non-market force happened. The government started guaranteeing student loans. Although honestly, even without that, I don't think people are good enough in estimating the extra payoff of education they haven't received yet over their 30+ years long career in the future, to properly evaluate the market value of college education; instead, they were just believing the old mantra "college is worth it".
Thanks for the link but it looks like it's no longer available. I'm getting a "Page not found"

Is this the same study that you linked?
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/12/politics/torture-repo...
Which then in most cases is too late, and you're left in the lurch behind the 8-ball.

Case in point - Target's acquisition of the Zellers leases on their locations.

I had over a dozen people I know who were offered pretty lucrative jobs there. I know another half dozen who balked at their offers (including myself). The people who went were only there about 6 months. Right away, there were signs this was doomed.

For several months all I heard and read was stories about how this was not going very well at all. Two of my friends who took jobs started looking as rumors swept through their departments. They both found employment in short order, right before the roof collapsed and Target announced over 1,700 layoffs.

If you decided to wait it out, you were now entering a market were you had a lot of competition for your same job at any number of businesses in the area. Thus, reducing the likelihood of finding something quickly. I have several friends who still haven't found a job six months later.

I went through the first dot com bust with two startups. Because of that scary experience, I've always been leery of my continuing employment anywhere. I'm become somewhat adept at reading signs and realizing when something is about to go tits up. As such, I interview constantly, and always have an exit strategy for any position I take, whether its a perm gig or a contract gig. I constantly look over my shoulder and its served me well.
There are a certain percentage of the population who are just assholes.

Let's assume for a moment that both men and women are assholes in equal proportion, that say 10% of the population of either gender are assholes.

For a 50 person company, 80% male:
40 men total
4 male assholes
10 women
1 woman asshole

Take that ratio up to 90% male as many tech conferences are:
45 men
of those 45 men, 5 will be assholes, rounding up
5 women
1 woman asshole

In that scenario there actually the same number of male assholes as ALL of the women.

This is why changing the ratio of male and female matters.
It remains a tremendous national shame that there have been absolutely no movements toward prosecution for those that perpetrated this incredible regression from civilization.
If we're going to use WebP anyway, we might as well drop PNG too in favor of the lossless mode. I don't know of any downsides to this. But mandatory chroma subsampling means WebP can't completely replace JPEG.
Much like the economic effects of not passing a budget, or the economic effects of a temporary government shutdown for petty reasons?
> Or join the military, every country needs a strong military.

It's funny how looked down upon this is. If I said, hey come work for me for 4 years. During that time you will get paid, get lodging and likely do some traveling. Oh, and you'll learn some skills. If you want to go to college up front and be an MD for example, I'll go ahead and pay for that and you can work for me for 6 years after gaining valuable experience. If you don't go to college up front, then when you leave my job (you don't have to) I'll give you money for college.

Now, inevitably someone will say they don't want to be sent to a war zone. The % of the military that actually end up in a war zone is very small.
Meanwhile the more menial / labor-intensive jobs are being replaced by automation. I read somewhere that automation was supposed to be the great liberator, enabling an ever-increasing amount of leisure time. But at some point attitudes started shifting so that people must justify their existence by continuously working hard; and if things don't happen to work out for them, well they just weren't motivated enough. This attitude is apparent in our [US] welfare system which has a huge administrative overhead in place to prevent freeloading.
A major fault line in the current economic system is the concept of 'right to work'. The current structure presumes that the right to receive a proportion of economic goods of a society should be strongly associated with employment. But with most jobs are already meaningless from the viewpoint of economic productivity, the 'right to work' ethic concentrates power in the hands of the managerial classes in charge of job placement, who are very good at inventing new ways to pretend that this is all economically beneficial.

The truly horrendous problem with all of this is that our standard of living is statistically quite high so the system is sustainable for a long while, until it eventually collapses under it's own weight of pointlessness.
In the testing phase, what happens when you click the headline?
You take jobs you don't like because you have to do things like 'eat' and 'sleep under a roof'.
>have everyone's money

not everyones, just the suckers. Yes, we are at a point you are a sucker if you buy into crowdfunding without doing due diligence. Batterizer, MuOptics, Soap router, they all had signs of being scams from the start, but still managed to defraud people for over a $1mil.
It sounds like you mixed up two cameras? The Olymus E-M1 and the Sony A7.

http://www.imaging-resource.com/cameras/olympus/e-m1/vs/sony...
> The more self-aware of them know that there is nothing good that comes out of drawing attention to their good fortune.

I'm part of this trend and I hate it. I have to be careful who I tell anything to. Many people dislike me for it. The world is so weird. I spend so much time pursuing utility via automation. It's so sad to see it mostly alienate people. Just as all of this stuff is becoming so easy and accessible. It has definitely crushed many childhood ideals. At a young age I observed a world in which people had to work too hard and couldn't focus on making good choices. I wanted them to have more time. Not less. It seems as if more and more people are entering a doom loop. Less aware. Less optimal. More time working. Less time learning. Less aware...
"Udemy etc and the tutorial market are booming."

Are they? Are significant amounts of people actually foregoing college to learn from them instead? And, more importantly, are they getting hired in good jobs in the field they're studying in?
Similar project: http://techno-logic-art.com/clock.htm
like Soap router, hackaday approved!!1
What do you mean by "gone away"? He's not maintaining it anymore? He developed the 2.0 version though, didn't he?
Not to knock the work that they're doing at all, but that website has the first use of the <marquee> tag I've spotted in the wild in a long long time! I had no idea Chrome still supported it!
I'm lost. Can you just state outright what the "outrageous lie" you're referring to is?
> The reality is that as time goes on, the world's needs can and will be met by fewer and fewer people.

This is true, but I don't think it accounts for most of the youth unemployment we have seen so far. The jobs did not go to robots in America, they went to workers in China.

To answer another common theme: we can complain about CEO pay, tax cuts, stagnant wages, etc., but the reason for the pure and simple lack of jobs is not any of those things, it's just that those jobs went elsewhere.

And of course that affects you even if you were not going to work in a factory, because now the guy who was going to do that is trying to get through college and get a white collar job, so he's competing with you.

In turn, that means that going to college is now the baseline. So, after getting more people to get into more debt to get more degrees, maybe you find that you still can't get a job.
You can install an annoyance list that blocks those.
Better: loaded over HTTPS with mixed content disabled https://imgur.com/DWaNlul It doesn't load anything over HTTP, and looks just fine in Reader mode.
Yes, that punishment was pretty severe, offender had to ... promise to never do it again.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150107080639/http://www.intell...
DNA could be used for nefarious purposes. If eugenicists like the Nazis could have stolen Estonia's DNA records, they could have more efficiently committed genocide.

I can't find the story now, but there was one country which kept on file the religion of each citizen. Nazis gained control of the building with those records. Some rebels were successful in burning those files, saving many people's lives.
Correction, startup is a code word for "tech company that doesn't make enough money to justify its valuation"

Or if you're a VC, it's "tech company whose current valuation is based on future value"
You gotta be trolling me. Have fun.
Definitely think that's possible! Will check with the telescopeapp maintainers
I just applied industrial strength lubricant to the wheels/axles and crushed everyone in my troop 3 years in a row or whatever it was. The final year we did it, I didn't even bother carving out or painting the car. I sent the lubricated brick down and it was unstoppable.
[Firebase Cofounder] The reason <your_app>.firebaseapp.com sites are free and custom domains are $5/mo with Firebase Hosting is HTTPS-only. Our cost-of-goods-sold includes auto-provisioning the SSL cert for the domain.

Part of our philosophy is providing services that work well, and hopefully better, together. Our realtime database only accepts SSL connections and doing the same with Hosting means when you build on Firebase your whole app is encrypted by default.

We're excited to use Divshot's tech make Firebase Hosting even better going forward.
On the same page:

"To upgrade for free, select Upgrade this PC now in the tool. You should NOT be asked for a product key during the upgrade process. "
True. Totally true. BUT is that the only thing we want in our life. (Sorry but feeling not good.)
Of some pertinence: http://darksitefinder.com/maps/world.html

Any truly dark place is at least a couple of hours from me, and I already live in a somewhat rural part of the western US.
Battery life, load times, and actually giving a shit about your customers
Mirror via the wayback machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150409042753/http://www.intell...
Part of being a good software engineer is being tolerable to other software engineers. ;)
Think of how many apps you've installed which request permission to a whole laundry list of phone functions.

"Oh, it's reasonable that this app wants access to my text messages, that way when it sends me a confirmation code it can automatically read it."

"Oh, it's reasonable that this app wants access to my mic, maybe it will implement voice chat in a coming update."

"Oh, it's reasonable that this app wants access to my call history and whatnot, that way it can mute itself or pause itself when I get a phone call."

... oh, I guess it's reasonable that if I text, or talk with my phone nearby, about walnuts I'll start seeing targeted ads for walnuts.
Time for war crime trials.

Blatant violation of Article 2, United Nations Convention against Torture, United States Signatory 18 April 1988, ratified 21 October 1994.

To be proven by ACLU:

"...For more than a month, Suleiman endured an incessant barrage of torture techniques designed to psychologically destroy him. His torturers repeatedly doused him with ice-cold water. They beat him and slammed him into walls. They hung him from a metal rod, his toes barely touching the floor. They chained him in other painful stress positions for days at a time. They starved him, deprived him of sleep, and stuffed him inside small boxes. With the torture came terrifying interrogation sessions in which he was grilled about what he was doing in Somalia and the names of people, all but one of whom he’d never heard of. ..."
Agreed. The problem is that, in the public's mind, there remains ambiguity about whether water-boarding is torture, and whether torture is wrong. (Yes and yes, FYI). Without real action taken against John Brennan, GWBush, and various people in the CIA the US has lost it's principles, it's backbone.
Would be nice, but I'd like to come up with more realistic solutions to try first.
True. Or at least you sometimes may have to take jobs you don't like for those reasons. But even if you have such a job, you should be looking for better rather than just living with it.
> You don't need separated routers each LED light bulb can be used as an access point

But you need to buy one that supports LiFi, and LiFi bulbs will probably be more expensive than normal lightbulbs (if they become a thing)

And if you still need WiFi, what's the point of buying LiFi bulbs and setting them up when you can just keep using WiFi? It just doesn't seem to be worth it unless you're in a place with hundreds of WiFi devices (and it still probably won't help a lot).
To be fair hardware failure tolerance comes from Antonin Svoboda. He worked on that from 1951.
And Jefferson wrote "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...".

just because someone famous described a culture certainly doesn't mean it's true universally.
Also, the idealists who go into politics aren't necessary good for you and me. They tend to have one-track minds, focused on a small number of issues (sometimes just one).
wait a sec, I have blond hairs in my beard. In fact, a lot of guys i know do.
Does anyone have these concerns about Conde Nast's other holdings, like Reddit? (Is there anyone at Reddit who fears Conde Nast interfering with its independence?)
I think it may be fair to expect that when a representative of a large corporation disclaims anything, that corporation is somehow engaging in the behavior that it is disclaiming.

There would be no reason to make disclaimers otherwise.

It's a form of the, "I'm not a racist, but...", style of argument.
The majority of the nation just doesn't care about torture.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/12/15/th...
I missed this... but yeah same thing here. We won every year lubricating the wheels and axles.
>There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want.

That is true but it has to be strategically orchestrated though otherwise the consequences can be disastrous.
"Best practice" is losing to "I needed it yesterday." Technical architects need to get better at not buckling to business pressures and business folks need to read this document or stop trying to influence/dictate technical decisions. IMO Developers and business users alike are chasing the perception of success rather than constant critique/improvement which is why so much of this stuff is hiding behind the scenes.
Yup, the future sucks and the past was better!

Seriously though, I don't blame the internet or modern interconnected society anywhere. I say that companies should shoulder a larger portion of the blame for creating perverse incentives. Other than that, I'm just trying to describe the world as I see it.
Concerning Trend at AWS Re:Play
I think the idea is exclusive content that you have to download "shitty apps" to listen to would be a bad trend for consumers, and probably all around. Sure some popular podcasts can make more money, but at what cost?
What are more important reasons for dominating in the industry [other than being effective at a job]?
Isn't it more likely that they just load the ads over those "we noticed you're using an ad blocker..." placeholders, so if you block the ads you see the ad blocker message?
For me, 18.59 was the last real solid release.
Did you learn anything shocking that hasn't been published?
A growing millionaire class is not mutually exclusive with consolidation of wealth, if growth of millionaire class is less than reduction in middle-income class.
> This is true, but I don't think it accounts for most of the youth unemployment we have seen so far. The jobs did not go to robots in America, they went to workers in China.

I think that that is only temporary though. Once the wages in China rise enough, the jobs will be probably given to robots possibly in America.
I believe these frameworks are very cool and web-apps as desktop-apps is probably the future.

My biggest concern is how these technologies will work in the commercial world.

Do I now need to license Photon, Electron, NodeWebkit, Node, Webkit + friends?
When Bad Things Happen in Slow Motion (2014)
The archaeological explanations I've found so far have typically been the result of googling the name of the nearest village combined with some keywords like "roman", "medieval", "archaeology" etc, and have appeared in disparate sources; council records, parish newsletters, academic publications and the like. It's a new field to me so I'm not sure whether there are any centralised catalogues which would be more useful.
Not the direction I was expecting either, but interesting nonetheless. Regarding modelling molecular potentials with neural nets, do you have any recommendations in terms of recent papers on the topic?
you are missing the point of my comment which is: your "Footprint" is factually wrong
A lot of Americans use the 24-hour format by default.
I don't know that you could measure it with something like Moore's Law, but aerospace capabilities grew at an astonishing rate at the beginning of the 20th century. From the Wright Brothers' first powered flight in 1903 to the first commercial flight in 1914 to flying around the world in 1924 to fighters and bombers and rockets in WW2 to breaking the sound barrier in 1947 to landing on the moon in 1969 . . .

That sort of progress over 70 years strikes me as very comparable to the progress made in computing since the 1950s. Small wonder the science fiction writers of the previous generation thought we'd have flying cars by now!

I would expect to see such an explosion of capability in a brand new field, in a society that had a lot of resources to dedicate to exploring it. It could happen with anything we really, really cared about, I think. Aerospace and computing both saw tremendous amounts of commercial, scientific, and military research during their accelerated growth phases.

I don't know about nanotech. I'd say that sort of energy in this generation seems to mostly be going into building our society a hivemind. And I'm not gonna say that's wrong.
Yes. I have the orig from the .gov, and it's the same file.
How do these guys still exist? Anyone who has the opportunity to do so should damage these guys. Turn off their accounts, refuse to sell them goods or services, anything not required by law.

By no means am I suggesting anything illegal or dangerous. But it's appalling that James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen are allowed to participate in society.

If you are an engineer or executive at any company, you have a duty to check for accounts belonging to these people and turn them off. If they subscribe to your services, their money is no good. If they want to buy products, they are not for sale. No credit cards, no bank accounts, no cellular phones.

They don't belong in our society and anyone in a position to eject them ought to do so.