skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starbucks also promised to create jobs in the Netherlands by locating their European coffee bean processing plant there. Extra jobs and tax revenue sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
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I agree there's a push to have a public persona online.

My perspective... you have a "work" account (LinkedIn, GitHub, Dribbble), and you have your personal accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), and you draw a clear line.

If you want to Tweet with the public, set up a public Twitter that is only for professional photos, and comments. And block out everyone except your friends from the private account.

Is it more work to have public and personal profiles? Sure. But so is putting on a condom. And by the same logic, if you can't be bothered to take the extra time, maybe you should rethink the activity.
>Why does something have to be revolutionary to enjoy it? Why can't you just enjoy it because it's enjoyable?

If I were to mind read I would say the general objection is usually the over abundance of praise for projects that do not "deserve" it. I can't say that I'm not sympathetic to such viewpoints. For e.g. "You're great at math" can mean anything from you can do long division in your head to you passed college to you won the fields medal. Raising the floor of appreciation reduces the number of bits at the top end to accurately communicate the emotional importance of things. Its a fair criticism in general. The other end of the argument is that encouragement motivates people to greater things, and that certainly is also valid.
> It's also the basis for much of our laws to preemptively tackle many potential problems and to stop them before they occur.

Yes, we do this in most cases by declaring some kind of framework within which we all at least should try to conform (assuming the framework makes sense, if not there is always civil disobedience and ultimately things like revolutions).

> Examples include everything from environmental regulations to corporate anti-trust laws, to work-place & consumer safety laws, food safety laws, and the list goes on...

Yes, those are all in terms of 'do's and don'ts', they're not in terms of 'every cook is legally required to sprinkle some DNA on the food so that it can be traced back to the cook in case they mess up'. And that's roughly what the technology under discussion here is doing.

> People are innocent until proven guilty of a crime but that doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't limit the most abused & risky offenses before they occur.

The most abused and risky offenses can't be limited before they occur. We can try but as soon as it declares everybody under suspicion before they've even done anything wrong a line has been crossed that I personally believe should not be crossed.

For instance: preventing murder is impossible, preventing robbery is impossible, preventing terrorism is impossible. Any one of those can be perpetrated by single individuals with relatively little in terms of education or preparation. If you want to limit them effectively you're going to have to drastically change the nature of our society, which is something I object to.

> We can't trust people to do what's right - 6 thousand years of human history has shown us that people will always, always remain corruptible and inherently selfish.

Precisely. And no amount of 'prevention' will change that.

> Expecting people to do "the right thing" is one of the most naive sentiments someone can hold.

I don't hold that sentiment at all, on the contrary, I think people will do 'wrong' no matter what and that preventing a few from doing wrong by imposing measures on the rest is the wrong way to solve this problem.

> Some will, sure, but the system, society itself relies on everyone doing the right thing (all the time) and that's just impossible.

Precisely.

> All it takes is one bad actor to spoil it for everyone else, and I'm sorry, but there will always be a bad actor so that's why these kinds of laws, regulations and protections are needed.

No, that's exactly why they're not needed. You can't prevent those things, period, get used to it and adapt because no matter how many idiotic technical measures are adapted there will (1) be ways around it and (2) it won't stop those determined enough to go down that route in the first place but it will inconvenience / trample rights / disenfranchise everybody else.
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I tried Tutum a couple months ago, the onboarding experience was awesome, the free image builder was super fast, metrics of my processes everywhere I loved it... the struggle started until I deployed a real app with little workload: After a couple of hours Metrics didn't worked at all, process got stalled and the whole UI became useless because I had zero visibility of what was going on.

I switched to Heroku only to realize that I had the same problem there too, obviously it was an issue in my app but at least Heroku have me an specific R14 error code and description of what was happening and finally knew what I was dealing with. For the next 48h that I was debugging the memory leak I had my dynos switched to 1X to get even more resource metrics, once the issue was solved I switched my dynos back to hobby.

I'm considering going back to Tutum now that I have deferpanic installed and configured in my app and my Heroku bills are around 100 USD monthly(20USD SSL endpoint x 3 + 7USD hobby dynos x 3 + 22.50USD Compose RethinkDB), but I was shocked to realize how much value a mature PaaS can deliver for clients even for a hobby-ish app like mine.
From the rest of the article, I don't think he's suggesting that only the Judicial Redress Act is sufficient as a replacement for Safe Harbour? Just that it's a useful first step that congress can take soon.
Time to Start Calling IBM 'Medium Blue'
Fedora usage is failing because they discourage packagers, so it is hard to add new packages to Fedora, so when user needs a package it will look for an other distro.
Indeed; as a matter of fact, they should be. This is a textbook coordination problem.
drugs aren't different to alcohol, but I'm sure you can appreciate they are different to cars
yup that's a great example. It's definitely step it the right direction to neutralize some of the extreme flatness we've seen.
It wasn't. It's also rather difficult to trigger. I have no doubt that aphyr could do stuff like that if he so chose, but I think pounding on getting a reproducible test case for Postgres's subtle serializable bug would be more his speed.
It's disappointing that the polls will apparently only allow 2 choices (so no good way to ask about, say, the winner of a GOP presidential debate with 10+ candidates). I'd imagine that the media will love using this to get some instant feedback/reactions after things like debates or the State of the Union address.
I think it's more a necessity given human nature and these types of people (i.e. head in sand). A known weakness of human mind is responding go immediate threats more than what data shows it even if data is clear and is a huge threat. People also react better to stories. Both full disclosure and breaches in media create the impression of immediate threat with incentives to CYA or do some real security. So, more like parents slapping their kids hands or spanking them for trying to touch a hot stove except with most kids continuing despite all the burned hands and sore asses around them.

Crazy stuff. It's why I don't worry what happens to the careless anymore as they cause their own problems. Full disclosure mainly benefits those who pay attention and try to keep a solid baseline.
That's going to be a hard question to answer unless Gushue or Howard weigh in personally. I can say as a curler that the curling world is very small. If you want to curl against high-level players often, you need to travel regularly to high-level bonspiels where you meet a lot of the same curlers over and over again. It seems perfectly plausible to me that through curling they'd have gotten to know each other reasonably well.
Damn it! I can totally see it! I used to think this car was pretty awesome looking, now I'm just gonna see Porsche-birth :\
WebGL is like the dancing bear; even if it doesn't dance very well, there is nevertheless endless fascination when it dances at all.
At work I have a Surface Pro 3 and a powerful multi-screen desktop running Windows 2012 - this is an excellent combination.
Your version of the history and relationships among ideas at the time in physics and astronomy is hopelessly garbled. I respectfully suggest you read Kuhn's The Copernican Revolution. Your comments about people not being stupid, the Church's motivations, etc., if intended as a reply to me, are strawmen.
Google 'leaks' plans for a time-traveling car on Back to the Future Day
You'll probably be more interested in a Surface if one of the following is true:

- You take handwritten notes or draw diagrams.
- You're an artist who would prefer to draw on the screen rather than on an external tablet.
- You want a 'consumption' device rather than a 'workstation'.

I would have never believed I would be saying to avoid a MS product of you want to get traditional work done but it's true in this case. Typing on it is not a good experience -- the keyboard is small, cheap, and missing many valuable keys, the touch screen is great but the mouse is atrocious.

Although they're trying to target artists, until the 'mobile' version of CS6 is ready is might be a pass. Pretty much any CS6 application will being the tablet to its knees and nearly burnt my lap.

The software selection is abysmal which sounds silly since just about everything is developed for Windows, but pretty much no one of consequence (except for MS themselves) is developing touch or pen friendly apps so you're left with muddling around with regular desktop apps which were designed with mouse/keyboard input in mind. It's not bad, but it's a little frustrating and not the best experience.

This is a general comment on Win 10 but the UI now has absolutely no consistency. This has pretty much been true for all iterations after XP but it's much more noticeable and jarring now. It's like they got half way through developing Win 10 but then gave up because the deadline was coming. I don't blame them for rushing after the failure that was Win 8 but it shows. Apple might put form over function but as least they care about it.

You might not really care because your IT department will be imaging it anyway but holy crap did MS choose the most user-hostile defaults. I really shouldn't have to comb through every setting and group policy disabling all their tracking and other assorted bullshit.

The new Office is nice but it has the same problems the Adobe suite. Unless you're using the mobile versions you'll just watch your battery life drain away -- Desktop OneNote is by far the worst offender and is almost unusable because of it.
Sure, but I don't know about 'most of the rest of the [developed] world', which apparently you do.
Ask HN: What's the best way to incorporate payments in a mobile app?
I've considered various options out there, but wanted to get an opinion from the HN community.

Use Cases:

- Ideally, I'd should be able to get an escrow payment from an user and be able to return it in some cases, without a fee.

- We don't want to store payment info, or at least store the minimum information possible.

- Payments should clear as soon as possible without unnecessary delays.

- Minimum fees possible.

Suggestions?
thanks!
Git-fresh: keep your Git repo up to date with one command
I've never published a paper, and can't understand why we need actors like Elsevier and other paywalls for scientific research publication. What motivates scientists to use a publisher's services? Can't these be replicated by setting up a government publication house?
I disagree that bundling is a bad thing. Shared libraries are just as bad as a solution as the windows DLL hell. With shared libraries, you have to trust outside developers will not change function signatures or break your dependencies in some way. You have no recourse if this happens, and it does happen all too often.

It seems like an impossible mandate to ask a developer to support updating their code against new signatures and updated libraries for eternity, especially when their project is finished and feature-complete and they've moved onto newer projects. Developers bundle because we can't trust other developers not to break the rules, and are tired of the deathmarch of fixes.
When I read the title I thought "Association" could mean potential causation, but I think the 2nd to the last sentence in the Abstract helps clarify:

"The findings suggest that students
with poor mental health may be greater users of SNSs."
> Posted 10/17/2015, 8:00:00 PM

Likely adjusted for timezone. EST here.
Kyle's point there is that it does matter, in that CouchDB can't achieve consensus, and would have failed Jepsen immediately.
Autorotation turned off for me once I dragged the first time.
> How do you suggest that you legalize all drugs and then keep people on those drugs from harming others?

It depends on what you mean by that.

If you mean they harm others by going on a drug fueled rampage, there isn't much we can do but react when it happens like we do for, say, a passion fueled rampage or a drunken rampage.

If you mean people getting desperate because of a crippling addition so that they try to harm others in order to get access to their drug then I'd recommend spending a fraction of what we do going after and incarcerating these people and get them medical help with their addiction and the basic necessities of survival. And if they continue breaking the laws against other crimes, than prosecute them for those crimes.
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This is a two-sided market, where the publishers are the middlemen between scientists publishing their results and readers of the papers.

You argue that the side scientists - publisher is a free market. I consider this as dubious because of, say, impact factors, but for the sake of argumentation, I'll accept it for now.

But the really interesting side of the market is not scientist - publisher, but publisher - reader (this is what the original article is all about). And this is part of the two-sided market clearly is a monopoly, since there is no competition between publishers for a given paper, but there is only one publisher that is allowed to sell access to a paper (thanks to the copyright laws).

TLDR: Thanks to the copyright laws one side of the two-sided market is a monopoly.
Still a good way for the Twitter product.
The problem is the "race to the bottom" as countries have to offer better and better deals to outbid each other. It's a tragedy of the commons issue.
Thanks for the feedback, I've sent it along.
What does Yahoo do?

Microsoft has Windows, Office and Xbox.

Amazon has massive web server and product distribution platforms.

Apple has OS X and iPhone.

Google has Android, search, ads, and an online office suite.

What does Yahoo do? I guess they have some long-time email users and a well-liked stock tracking platform?
That's not a crux, that's compounding the issue with a completely orthogonal problem. Politics 101.

How do you legalize alcohol and then keep people on alcohol from harming others? How do you legalize guns and then keep people with guns from harming others?
Do I have this right?

In 2011 dotCloud launches as a platform-as-a-service company.

In 2013 dotCloud releases docker, software based on the lessons they learned building their PaaS product.

In 2013 Tutum starts to build a PaaS based on Docker.

In 2014 Docker (renamed from dotCloud) sells their PaaS to cloudControl.

In 2015 Docker buys Tutum.
Now, let's see how long it takes until we see until someone cites this as evidence that social networking cause poor functioning :)
To me the key idea from Brad Smith's post, which I don't neccessarily agree with, was this:

Third, there should be an exception to this approach for citizens who move physically
across the Atlantic. For example, the U.S. government should be permitted to turn
solely to its own courts under U.S. law to obtain data about EU citizens that move to
the United States...

What he really arguing is that EU should not invalidate the Safe Harbor in that it breaks the Internet and Microsoft will provide its customers data access for U.S. and EU governments under "in the most limited circumstances". In that sense, it's not something out of ordinary than what typical Microsoft's position is in this issue. They can certainly do better than that, I.E. throwing away the server side encryption key like Apple does for iOS devices so that they don't have the technical capability to give out user data even if summoned to.
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When given positive other life experiences, rats do not prefer cocaine to food.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
Monorepos in Git
Every body can sail a ship in good waters.

She has been a CEO of a publicly traded company for 3 years. One that was "seemingly" in trouble. 3 years is a long time for a company that was founded 3 years ago. Yahoo is 21 years old and still alive (and somewhat doing well).
Ive got it running on a slice of bread here - looks great!
I think leveraging virtual spaces to provide greater access mental health support is a great step forward to improve outcomes for troubled adolescents. This definitely opens interesting avenues for future research.
What did Urban VII do?
I agree that the Google Groups example is much simpler when using PhantomJS, but I would argue that it would be an outlier.

The SFO flights example is actually heavily over engineered, from quickly glancing over the XHR tab in Chrome Network tools it was pretty obvious that all of the data is actually located in this very nice JSON blob http://www.flysfo.com/flightprocessing/fullFlightData.txt

(I assume that the SF Flight Info was just meant as an example for the platform and as such the fact that it's already a JSON blob was just ignored for the sake of the example)
Don't forget fantasy sports tracking!
Still, nearly no progress in fast decimals, which are extremely important in financial applications.

I'd even say that the only place where floating point is necessary is in simulations (physics, 3D, analog signals — all of it should be properly done with GPUs.) Everything else (2D layouts, finance, data processing) is better served with either rationals or decimals.

We should remove floating point support from general-purpose CPUs and leave it to GPUs, where it belongs.
I find it funny seeing this section:

https://github.com/Khan/style-guides/blob/master/style/react...

Even though John Resig is one of their main devs.
Interesting projects! See you in Dublin!
So one day, I decided to make my own Terms and Conditions of Doing Business with Me, simply as a 'goof' kind of exercise.

What gave me the idea was the very common phrasing of "XXXXX reserves the right to change these Terms and Conditions at any time and without notice."

The idea was to list some expectations for 'Customer Service' and 'Notification' like correspondence, fees for missed deadlines, etc. Basically like a parody of most EULAs or T&Cs that get signed so frequently. Some were pretty ridiculous (i.e. "If you want to collect a late fee you have to do so in person, by appointment only, and accept cash") while others were more functional and somewhat practical (i.e. "Any sale of personal information undisclosed that results in additional spam/solicitations is an abuse of this relationship and subject to a fine of $XXX").

I've got a copy or two stashed away somewhere, and while I have no doubt it'd be viewed with a very negative eye in a court of law, well, it reminds me of the childish saying "Anything you can do I can do better."
If the BND is allowed to do things that places Germany in violation of EU law, then that is an issue, yes, but it is an issue that was out of scope of what the court was asked to consider.
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I'm curious: how bad is it to leave a new job soon after starting (because you realize the product isn't as great as what you thought it would be/too much competition in space)? When you are a high performer, you really don't want to waste everyone's time if you end up in this bad situation. What is the professional thing to do?

Asking because the article mentioned some people staying only for a few weeks. In a small startup, not seeing traction would be reasonable cause for departure since your paycheck directly depends on it. In a large company, things are not always interrelated in the short term. So there is more time to try out things. I guess the question is: how long should one try to make a new job work?
Let me throw this out there too...

I had a conversation with a friend after finding pictures of his girlfriend on OK Cupid. I was like, "Hey either your girlfriend is trying to cheat on you, or someone is stealing her identity." He laughed, and said (paraphrased), "No, she kept complaining about how she didn't feel attractive, so we posted an account there for her to get some more attention. We read the comments together and she gets a confidence boost knowing people find her attractive."
The article details the gymnastics required, required only of gay couples, to approximate those rights.

And after all the gymnastics, they and only they had to endure, they ended up with approximation of what heterosexuals were able to accomplish with a conversation at a Justice of the Peace.

The article details the patchwork quilt of rights, the limits, the variation among States, that resulted from this sort of "solution."

It only seems successful to those who didn't need to do it.
The specific question I have is regarding what the liver does if very large meals are eaten within a short window (hence the relevancy of caloric/meal timing). Can't the liver only hold a certain amount of glycogen before having to transport the excess matter to the fat cells?
That's a total misrepresentation of those advertisements.

The concept, which on its face is worthy of consideration, and is explained in the ads, is to consume a small amount of sugar an hour or so before your main meal to trick your body into feeling satiated before you reach for "those extra helpings at mealtime". Judging by the items they show being consumed, they're talking about ~100 calories.

And when they came out, I found them useful to put the calorie content of sugar into context, "18 calories per teaspoon". Given the insane anti-sugar propaganda of the time (and ever since), the ads provided some real value.

Now, I don't know if the theory is correct, it doesn't address my eating issues, but it's very much not "eat sugar as a pick-me-up".
People don't pay corporation tax.
You know, I never would have thought of that myself—until in a discussion about unisex bathrooms several women were concerned about being raped therein.
A small correction on Gates: he did not create BASIC. “The language BASIC was an acronym for Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It was developed by Dartmouth mathematicians John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas as a teaching tool for undergraduates.”[1]

The rest generally applies.

[1] http://inventors.about.com/od/famousinventions/fl/The-Histor...
I'll add that to my ever-growing ToRead list. Since you seem to have read Kuhn, could you elaborate in which parts he disagrees with the sources referenced upthread?
Have you seen the cover of USA Today for “Back to the Future” day?
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For what it's worth our linter is also open source [0] :) I do like the idea of combining the two and have it self-document, though.

[0]: https://github.com/Khan/khan-linter