skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real reason Oracle is still making money (though never nearly as much as analysts forecast) is none of the above. It was mentioned in the article and has been discussed here many times in the past as well. For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10207495 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9953657. Oracle's sales force is trained to use "license audits", threats of same, and various forms of bundling, such as MSAs and minimum sales commitments, to sell what Oracle wants to sell, not what the customer wants or needs. They are very effective in this, and it is the primary reason Oracle remains in business.

That said, the Oracle database product, while extremely expensive and obnoxiously licensed, is not without technical merit. There is a genuine market for it, just not a $50b one. One could say the same for what these other so-called dinosaurs are selling.
This totally piques my "don't tread on me."

Facebook is a service you don't have to use. They're an American company. No one should be telling them to now run service, U.S. or otherwise.

I hope Zuck flips them the bird and then ignores them.

And this is from a person who doesn't have a Facebook account and generally doesn't care for them as a company.
The big problem with this is that, under a simple tax system, if a government wants to increase it's tax revenue it is extremely easy for voters to understand what is happening. Governments prefer to make complicated tax laws because they are easier to spin.
Bug Reports: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Here's a Youtube channel with similar content. https://www.youtube.com/user/thang010146/videos

I found it a while ago while deep in "related" videos, it's one of the few channels I'm subscribed too. As I understand it, he's retired with a doctorate in mechanical engineering, and just likes making little mechanisms in Inventor.
Many a true word spoken in jest! It depends on the specifics of your company of course, but between FreeAgent, HMRC's free filing software[0], and a very mild interest in accounting, I've yet to find an accountant that could give me a positive ROI.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/corporation-tax-use-hmrcs-free-f...
The guidelines do say most things about politics don't belong, but I feel like this would not fall into that. Is that your concern? I think the guidelines are broad enough that the opposite question needs to be asked.
This rich jerk teaches you how to make money online
I find this whole thing quite funny. One of the 'best cities' is missing basic infrastructure such as public transport, bike lines or high rise buildings. But there is a debate if buses are privileged or not.
It is often the case a leak is intentional. The Journalist gets their story - leaker get the intended word out with Anonymous Source protection (the "greater" ethic). In this case the motive may be lead time for other bidders to throw their hat in the ring.
One interesting observation about commodity hardware is it increases in capability faster than the rate of many business demands. In the short term if there's a lack of infrastructure you can grow shipping at a very fast rate, until you catch up...

In the long run the "walking dead" from the article are doomed when due to technological growth an entire data center can be converted to a single rack in a closet without any expensive monthly upstream bandwidth charges and nickel and dimeing from a cloud. Those suppliers have expensive corporate infrastructure that depends on shipping $50M data centers in 2005 not a single $100K rack in 2015, or 2025 or 2035 or whatever, to do the same task. Maybe a great sales campaign can convince them to double their usage, that still leaves them $49.8M in the hole, non-inflation adjusted (ouch).

Computational use for non-computer businesses is kinda like electricity in the VERY long term. If you look at the early years of the growth of electricity vs GDP or whatever, you can rapidly get strange ideas like the average office in 2015 based on projections from 1915 should be radiating heat like the surface of the sun. However, here we are, there is a natural leveling off of how much electricity or municipal water or food a business can usefully consume per unit of GDP. Assuming GDP only goes up, inflation adjusted (LOL). When companies bounce off those limits, life will get very exciting for "eternal Moores Law growth forever" oriented suppliers for those businesses. Based on facebook use stat growth rates in 2007 we should all be spending 78626 hours per day on facebook... didn't happen... building a supplier company based on that assumed growth trend will lead to tears. Moores law says the transistor will shrink not that people will buy it.
The best possible tax scheme for poor people would be a simple flat tax that is impossible for rich people to avoid.

I've always felt your definition of "most unfair" to be a great fallacy. Yes poor people pay a higher percentage of their income. They also receive more in benefits than they give and the flat tax ensures the rich pay their share. The more complicated you make the system the more it will benefit the rich.

VAT is a net benefit for the poor. Making the whole system work that way, particularly in the face of globalization, is the best course of action. To declare it unfair is to cut off your nose to spite your face. In my opinion.
Indeed, this is not true for a substantial portion of Dell's products.
์So every broker company who makes profit on 0.05% transaction fee is going bankrupt, and no more high-volume low-profit business.
Something which might be useful if you want to do this: you can use Firefox with multiple profiles, by starting it with the '-P <profile-name>' option.
About halfway during an Introduction to Psychology exam in college (and this was told to the class ahead of time), the professor told us to close our exam booklets and listen to a list of 20 things, having the class using the Method of loci to remember them. Afterwards, students had to write it down the list in order in their test booklet. The question was worth as many points, with any out-of-order mistake forfeiting the rest of the points for the list.

Somehow, I managed to get everything correct.
>a trope that typically applies to males is applied to a female character, or the other way around (Gender-Inverted Trope)

If the trope is "basement dwelling male nerd = good hacker" then they're inverting it and making the female a good hacker.
You’re implicitly assuming the first AI runs on cheap hardware. It seems more likely the first general AI to take more far more than 1 million in hardware and requires a lot of hands on interaction. This makes pumping out 1 billion of them far more difficult than your suggesting.
Brace yourself: Verizon is ready to show off its sexy side
But their employees get more isn't in the picture here - they just need to pay competitively with other British companies, whereas all the British companies that want similar talent but are not multi-national are at a distinct disadvantage, since they cannot recoup from avoiding the corporate taxes.
"507 Mechanical Movements"

If it wasn't for the 1800s date after this title, I would have thought it to be a proposal for an additional HTTP status code.

I still search the web by curiosity, turns out 507 already exists for WebDAV, and it means "Insufficient storage".
Nobel prizewinning scientist dies in poverty
I'm surprised he hasn't been smuggled out in a diplomatic crate.

Some of the shenanigans that went on with diplomatic bags shows that some countries are prepared to do this.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1132544.stm

The Soviets using one to transport a tractor shows the bags can be big enough to get a person out. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2234/is-there-such-...
The ARM systems I'm familiar with have absolutely terrible memory and I/O bandwidth.

I assume these server-class ARM systems are better?
12 Reasons You Can’t Live Without Progesterone
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

"Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within ten years."

Alex Lewyt, president of Lewyt vacuum company, 1955

"Two years from now, spam will be solved."

Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, 2004
> Why aren't tax systems as simple as that?

cruft + tax payers writing law + tax collectors writing law
The mobile web is dying? According to who?
Moral to who? Are you suggesting we legislate morality? I'd prefer not to go down that path (again).
So some companies have First Amendment rights, but others don't?
Not very difficult to set up -- just use a reverse proxy on certain parts of the path (e.g. one set of reverse proxy entries for /api/foo and another for /api/bar). That way if the foo API gets hammered, the performance of bar is unaffected (assuming your proxy layer is adequately sized).

Note this doesn't help if your persistence layer gets overwhelmed (since in a monolith you'll still probably have a single persistence layer). Separating the persistence layer is by far the hardest part of moving from a monolithic to a micro services architecture.
> Just get a cheap decent EV out there with similar properties of a fuel car, and people will pick that. And cheap is in the range of 20000-25000eu, not 60000eu like a Tesla.

Absolutely. I was quite disappointed with the $130k price tag on the new Tesla X. Brilliant car, but way too expensive.
Yeah it's too bad most of the animations are absent. 5 out of 7 I clicked had no animation.
Is there any plan to improve the public transport? In a large city in the Midlands UK we have new 'platinum' express buses with larger seats, wifi and rather swish branding. Same price as standard if you have a travel pass but more if you pay for an individual journey. Getting closer to the train service slowly. Metro coming on line soon as well.
> Being able to contact former co-workers is invaluable.

Agreed. Maybe I never felt the need of using LinkedIn for this because I'm already well connected with most of my former colleagues via other channels, since before this, I was at a pretty small startup.

My friends with management jobs love LinkedIn as a job finding tool, and some even claim that being connected to influential people in the industry on LinkedIn helps them stand out somehow, but most of my programmer friends do not like the type of recruiters on LinkedIn. In my personal job searches, I almost never needed anything other than a CV, a cover letter and Github/StackExchange accounts (as opposed to "connections" with famous people).
The Devaluation of Music: It’s Worse Than You Think
The common theme with these hardware makers trying to move to cloud infrastructure services is that they all fail primarily because these companies are so poor at software in comparison. People like to say that Apple is bad at services, but they are far, far better at delivering mass-scale services like iMessages and iCloud than HP or surprisingly even Cisco could (forget Webex, they were acquired in and service availability has dropped like a rock when they were industry-leading after Velchamy left for VMware).

The fundamentals of cloud services of any kind is that it is a service and that means well-defined continuous operational models with tons of software-defined and enforced methods. This is just not in the DNA of most of the large hardware vendors.
It's the structure. This claim is easy to beat. I have a wrench here on my desk and taking the wrench and the house as the system, it's 99.999% air. Boom!

There's nothing interesting here except the manufacturing process used to make such a thing.
Slow decay: how laxity and complacency can slowly ruin your future
So reduced VAT is not for 'essential' stuff.
This is a reasonable forecast, those big-irons will not go away soon, and they will be needed for a long while, it's just the booming age for them are indeed numbered.

While reading this I was thinking, where does Apple fit? Does it have any big plan for enterprise at all?
there are a lot of sites online that can show you how to remove pesticides from vegetables. http://food.ndtv.com/food-drinks/simple-tricks-to-remove-pes... but I am sure it won't remove all of them but you can try some of these tips.
Dell to acquire EMC Corporation in massive $67B deal
Many places in the gospels and epistles in the Bible are directly addressing stoicism. Granted, those were also written about 2000 years ago. But people today write and talk about Philippians 4 all the time.
There's a very good reason why we don't use the popular vote for Presidential elections.

It's precisely because without the electoral college, small states would receive zero attention on national politics.

Why would anyone spend time courting votes anywhere north of New York when there's a much bigger payoff to be had working the rest of the eastern seaboard and the west coast?

To use your examples of Massachusetts and Ohio, why waste time on a campaign stop in Boston when you can hit Columbus? Columbus has a much larger population and one can also hit Detroit and Indianapolis in the same day to maximize their face time with the public.

Going to a popular vote will have consequences that people really need to thing about.
VAT is already being collected, and Apple contributed to it enormously by creating new markets (like tablets).

That increase can be used to help quadriplegics.
Minor point: the other planes have weather radar, but that isn't useful for traffic detection. Only military aircraft have radar systems designed to pick up other traffic.

Some airliners have active traffic systems (most do not), but the real reason it's safe is that all the airliner and jet traffic is cruising well above where the piston-engine aircraft are flying. (The pistons will also be on high-frequency radios, making periodic position calls to Oceanic control, but those are more for the safety of that aircraft and less for traffic de-conflicting.)
This is a really good post. I identify with a lot in it.

I double majored in english literature and math, and I added the math late. I was very interested in CS and math (it wasn't a thing yet in the mid 90s but now they call my interests "data science"). Of course, aspirations about what life will be like when you "grow up" are always a bit of a naive fantasy, but I thought (or at least hoped) that I would be able to join a more urbane, sophisticated, adult world at some point. That may sound a bit naive, but there's nothing wrong with aspiring to it. When I joined the tech working world, I was disappointed that my office manager seems to think that a foosball table and video game machine turn fit into some kind of nirvana, or that my office went to dave n busters for a retreat… it's not that I can't enjoy it, I can, but I heard about the retreats friends in law firms were taking, and I was envious of how much more sophisticated, adult and grown up it all sounded). I don't mean to sound like I'm putting life in a law firm as all roses, I am absolutely aware that it isn't, but I was envious that they seemed to have joined an adult world whereas tech seemed to be a relatively immature, almost extended adolescent culture.

Unfortunately, over time, I've slowly started to believe there may be something more insidious in the juvenility of tech culture, and that it may be imposed as much from the outside as the inside. I'm not sure the people who hire programmers really want to view them as adults. More like minions, talented but immature young men rotating through, happy with their video games and foosball tables and salaries that pay well enough to enjoy a delayed adolescence but never enough to put down roots and raise a family where they live and work… ultimately, I think this is damaging and may very well deter a lot of potentially talented people from entering the field, or cause others to leave.
It's more of a long-term thing. Hopefully we'll get to a point where those stationary power plants are carbon-free renewable or nuclear plants. At that point, to whatever degree we still have to use liquid fuels, it'd be nice if they were carbon-neutral.
Yeah, it's very hard for it to be a completely "hands-off" process. Just some warning though, NBA is actually one of the worst offenders in having incomplete lineup information until right before games start because NBA teams are not required to list their inactives (NFL teams are with at least one hour notice before kickoff).

I liked playing NBA last year, but you have to basically block off 6-7pm EST to just track injury news, late scratches, and changes to the starting lineups :(
Basically this happened to me as well. I was interested in learning Erlang just because it was something different then the plethora of common languages we see and use everyday. But when Phoenix v1.0 was released I jumped on that. It was an interesting experience; I felt like I was working with Rails even though I wasn't. Needless to say, it completely distracted me from actually learning Erlang.
Just to get into berkeley you have to be the cream of the crop or the best of the best. These students, in general, work hard and study effectively.

When a test fails a majority of these types of students, you can't blame ineffective learning on students that represent the best of the best.
I just tried it with Chrome. It works -- the view showed up, even though Chrome refused to load the page in the frame.
I think I may be more representative of the camp complaining about erlang's syntax. My background is as a sysadmin without CS training, with only prior experience using ruby, python, and shell scripting.

It took me about four months of hard studying for erlang to click. I think it was due to learning some CS fundamentals (e.g. had never heard of a tuple before, never seen multiple dispatch), learning functional programming fundamentals (had never used a purely functional language before - unless you count bash), and had never looked at prolog. Finally, I was simultaneously exposed to new concepts of concurrency, pattern matching, etc.

I think what happened was that the unusual syntax is the easiest thing to blame for the resulting confusion, because it's the surface layer you engage with.
Basically bikeshedding real life.
Pardo's Push
I feel the most pain for the former Compellent engineers right now because they're likely going to be the ones getting laid off since they'll directly overlap with EMC's product lines except for the lowest budget stuff that nobody in their right mind should use.
Having a Lecturer teach twice the number of students for
half the money and do a fabulous job demolishes that
argument, and that is why so many people conspired to make
it not so, to mischaracterize my teaching, and do
everything in their power to remove me.
To Build, Decide
With my first kid we used a small coontainer filled with a non-newtonian fluid. Worked like a charm. The following year we went for a paper cone with impeller blades fabricated along the top edge to make it spin and slow it down a bit.
Only in San Francisco do you get liberals who are virulently anti-immigrant and anti-busses.
It would be awesome if the original drawings could be reincorporated. I imagine once the animations are made, it would take a little additional work to decompose the original image into components that the animator could use. This way, designer/graphic artists (who don't know how to animate) could contribute to this!
Yeah, the graphical effect of ohmu flashed me there for a second, but in the end I did install ncdu. ncdu is my replacement for "du -sh * | gsort -h" on OSX - with extra features such as traversing through directories, seeing empty files adhoc and deleting directories/files. I don't see the advantages of ohmu, except that it looks nice.
Writing Ruby extensions in Go: an in depth review (now with charts)
How Artificial Intelligence Will Really Kill Us All
Here's the official press release:
http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/uscorp1/secure/2015-10-12-de...
Imagine if it was put in a plane and the plane caught on fire. The whole plane just goes FWOOSH and disappears completely. Well, atleast you get to skydive before you die.
No doubt. I tried to move our Oracle installation[1] from an aging box to our VMWare server and the price jump was going to be something on the order of 5x.

1) another one of those fun vendor software needs Oracle things
It could also have the effect of making the main parties vulnerable to an "insurgency" from activist elements through the leadership elections and candidate selection.
I find it interesting that MPS went and consulted the Foreign and Commonwealth Office before deciding how to balance their internal resources in a proportionate way.
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Pro-style testing
The Petticoat Rebellion of 1916
I assume you write this as a bad thing?

Its better for economy if brokers would focus on long term trades. Also usually high-volume low-profit businesses are the ones that are arbitrating prices and often are just middle man. No need for that. There is a way around. Obviously there would be FEW businesses that would be affected and need to change the way they work, but this comes always with any tax changes.

Anyways, I said all revenue that hits your account. Brokers usually don't keep their money in bank accounts, but in investment accounts, right? Until the money hit their actual bank account they would pay null on trades. So they would pay tax on all withdrawals and payouts to customers.
How can this loophole get fixed? My (admittedly minimal) understanding is that these companies don't have to pay taxes on the money until they repatriate it. From the perspective of countries like the US or UK, Apple earns very little in "profits" because they have expenses in licensing fees between their own companies that effectively pushes the profit to countries with very low corporate tax rates.

This all sounds sinister and it certainly is clever. But I don't see an easy way to fix it. I don't think a tax system where countries can tax profit that never enters its borders is viable. How would the UK feel if the Cayman Islands levied a tax on profit earned by UK companies?
Devil's curve
yes I believe that some parties will be overrepresented if you solely look at the volume of tweets. This is simply due to the fact that Twitter in Turkey is more popular under young and educated people(1). It should however not be difficult to take this into account in the linear regression algorithm, because the tuning parameters can be determined with data from the previous elections.

I had made an prediction for each province after initially collecting all the tweets, but the results were not accurate. At the moment I have also determined the location of about 33% of the twitter accounts and I hope the result will be better if I exclude all Twitterers which are not from the same province as the one I am doing the calculation on.

Thanks for the feedback :)

(1) http://webrazzi.com/2014/07/17/genart-ve-nielsenin-turkiyede...
Surely they could have sourced such an investment domestically?
I've had decent success at buying this kind of "edge". There is a ton of free information out there, but if you are willing to shell out a little money upfront, you can get pretty close to the same tools the "pros" are using. $50-100 for a season can get you access to algorithmic/machine-learning backed predictions (with secret sauce) and $20/month for high quality lineup optimization tools and automated entry scripts. The vast majority will not pay for tools/projections but for an outlay of ~$100, I won around 10x that on NBA games last season (plus had a lot of fun).
Don't forget the case where the last CIO who was trusted and is friends with the CEO and CFO went to work for a major vendor.
I should probably try to find a way to make it clearer what all can be done, or make it more obvious where the documentation is ("t" is mentioned there.)
How Teraki (#IRL Pied Piper from Silicon Valley) Is Making Big Data Smaller
I suppose there's the argument about how much the Ecuadorians are willing to risk annoying the UK — allowing him to stay is one thing, smuggling him out another.