skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a topical article for me. I double majored in comp sci and business and business writing is in my top 5 most influential classes for me.

In business, a huge part of what you do is communicate ideas to people. If you can't write in a way that others understand or aren't taking into consideration your intended audience's culture, educational level and other factors you're doing it wrong.
Being the first generation to live in free Portugal after 40 years of dictatorship I never understood how Americans, specially given the McCarthy phase, ever trusted the government to play nice and by the rules.
Day 1: https://goo.gl/x0xlKU
Day 2: https://goo.gl/2Hz1gY
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Side projects:

http://magicplaylist.co/

https://github.com/loverajoel/spotify-sdk
I dunno, taking aim at jargon seems to be central to the article's purpose based on my reading of it:

"The idea that writing should be clear, concise, and low-jargon isn’t a new one—and it isn’t limited to government agencies, of course. The problem of needlessly complex writing—sometimes referred to as an 'opaque writing style'—has been explored in fields ranging from law to science. Yet in academia, unwieldy writing has become something of a protected tradition."

That's pretty much the thesis of the article. Anyway, I've certainly encountered academic writing with "tortuous syntax and sentences mostly devoid of meaning," although it's a small minority of writing in my experience. This article seems to suggests it's a conspiracy to keep the public out while signaling some kind of in-group membership. But I've always let Occam's razor guide me: a much simpler explanation is that many people (and academics are by no means free from this) are not good writers.
Who knows what's going on with Natami. Basically they've went off in different directions, and lately the forum for the Apollo core (the 68k FPGA cpu) was wiped. Whether that means they've given up or just decided they don't want to talk to anyone is anyones guess... I would say that at this point any good news from that camp will be a nice surprise rather than something anyone should hold their breath over.

I've not kept up with the Minimig cores. I'm more interested in AROS (though I check in on the FPGA projects now and again because I find them fun to read about), but have had very little time for that too lately.
That link appears to include commercial cleaning services, which I don't think a service like Homejoy would be able to "disrupt."
> With Automatic Web Server Configuration
>
> This will automatically configure Apache and Nginx servers > with your new certificate.

I wished they wouldn't do that at all. There's a world of hurt in trying to pretend to configure the cert on the current system. That's simply never going to work reliably. Let the individual distributions do their job by providing just the rest.

The fact that it's default is even more worrying.
Processed meats causes cancer in humans
"Facebook could have $20bn of cash in the next year and could be producing $20bn of cash a year soon."

Came here hoping to find a "Facebook could..." line when talking about revenue. Was not disappointed. :)
Comm(ent|it) for GitHub Pages is going open source
Solution: how to avoid Google's crawling and indexing non-existing pages
There is absolutely no reason for a company to "have to buy them on hundreds of TLDs". That's absurd. But this is why we have the URDP system in place. If someone does actually purchase a domain that includes your trademark, you have options like sending a C&D or using the UDRP system.
Javascript developer, mostly doing front end work and some node server side and for build scripts. Side projects (I've been trying to cut these down) are: 1) helping my brother with marketing a food catering business, 2) developing my product management skills 3) building a local food e-commerce site.

Before you say it, yes, I have a problem focusing.
This Is Not a Game: How SXSW Turned GamerGate Abuse into a Spectator Sport
None of the above can run without software
>Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly.

-Marshall McLuhan
What I don't understand is: what's different with iOS8 and 9 so that they can't do it anymore? If the difference is that the older version's user data is not encrypted, then why are they asking Apple to unlock it versus unsoldering the flash chip on the phone themselves? Is there a law that prevents the government from doing so?
Depends entirely upon the industrial output, vs the population. Imagine a world where robots worked tirelessly to make everybody stuff for a penny.

Remember, money is imaginary points we use to keep score. It has nothing to do with what 'rich' really means.
> I recommend you start with the basics (datasets, features, training/test/validation data splits) and don't worry too much about the actual choice of model---there will always be shiny new models with better performance but sometimes using the "old stuff" is good enough.

Or, conversely, it may be that all models are just as bad. This seems to be the case in my domain (formal proofs), where the bottleneck seems to be data representation; it doesn't matter which learning algorithm you use, when your feature selection has stripped out all of the learnable information ;)
Atkins may have been a fad but at least for me it actually worked (I lost 18 kg/40 lbs). Gluten-free seems to be totally without merit for those without gluten sensitivity.
https://github.com/zakjan/cert-chain-resolver/issues - add an issue?
the typical path this will follow is will go to the Appeals level and might work its way to the Supreme Court if enough of a push is made. Likely the government will push it up with the idea they can make it happen. Another angle they are going to follow is pushing Congress to legislate the requirement.

So the real question is when does this happen? Will Congress get involved at the behest of the Justice Department and mandate access? If so, how long before phone companies are required to lock out devices running a version of the software that does not comply?

I still want an erase/panic code for my phone, both through pass phrase and touch sensor. That way I could hand over an unlocked phone that is effectively returned to manufacturer specs.
Breach of the CA, not the web host. If the CA is breached there is no point to the encryption.
I'm not sure that we're in a "bubble" in the 1999 sense
that people worry about,

I think the scale may be different but we definitely are in an artificially stimulated economy. The effects will only be seen post Fed's interest rate hike. And the way they are shying away from doing so makes me feel that the market is not ready to stomach that.

The access to cheap money has brought in a lot of players into the market who otherwise would have been sidelined. I think it's not only evident in the startup/unicorn sector but quite so in the building/construction sector as well. I see all around me skyscrapers & apartment complexes being built in an unprecedented rate and people buying half a million dollar+ houses where quarter of a million was too high (as you can see I'm not in Cal).
How we moved to leaflet and openstreetmap
When I was at university everybody was in the mindset of "better publish 1 thing 20 times instead of invent 3 new things." This resulted in overly complicated and even fake-y writing in order to hide the fact that the exact same thing was already published 10 times.

Another problem is that people tend to write more complicated because the assume they sound more clever and intelligent when they do this and that their research looks more difficult.

That is one of the reasons I left science, nowadays it is mostly about the number of published papers, acquiring grant money and doing PR stuff. Actual science fell of the wagon 1 or 2 decades ago...
It is random, and it is strong. It starts with a random 60-bit number and uniquely maps it to one of 2^60 distinct two-line poems. For 120 bits, memorize four lines.
The fifth amendment doesn't apply. This isn't self-incrimination.

As to whether the fourth amendment applies - that's the question they're answering in court. Is this a search, in which case the government can compel Apple to disclose useful information, or is the DoJ asking for Apple to do something on their behalf?
Hey Anton, are you attached to using markdown? A nice alternative, and the one I use for my own notes, is Emacs + org-mode. If you're a vim guy, you can load up evil-mode to get the vim keybindings. Org-mode is a really nice piece of software, my three favorite features are:

1. It's really easy to move things around. Moving a section up or down, re-ordering lists, etc. is done with very simple keyboard shortcuts.

2. You can embed source code in your document and you can also execute it and have the result inserted inside the document. This is great if you are describing a piece of code and you want to give examples.

3. Editing tables in org-mode is very easy and very nice.
The 'taxation' straw man is the first thing folks think of, when encountering BI for the first time. There are alternatives. Like printing the money, which is nowhere near the issue you might think it is. The 1% own 99% of it, the rest have 1%; e.g. doubling what the rest of us have devalues it by 1%, leaving us all with plenty of wealth while eroding the fraction owned by the 1%. Its not a bad option in the current economic situation.
The title is, as usual, editorialized by the newspaper. The original title, as per the title tag, is "How Wealthy People Protect Their Money".

There's a pretty big difference between being a tax attorney and being an offshore consultant where secrecy is one of the selling points. It's not a coincidence that voluntary corrections of tax statements go up significantly when new information sharing agreements are made.

And again she's not a journalist, she has a PhD in Sociology from Harvard and is an associate professor of economic sociology.
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Everyone has a note taking app that fits their style. This seems as close as it can be for me. Love it. Also, I like how you cited it[0].

[0] in such a short comment.
Another interesting related perspective that we used to give our (business information systems) students to argue about is "IT doesn't matter" by Carr (2003).

Can be found online at:
https://hbr.org/2003/05/it-doesnt-matter
Wow... that's the first time that I've ever gotten immediate vertigo from visiting a site. Whose bright idea was it to put a full-frame moving aerial image at the top of the article?

I seriously just had to lie down for five minutes thanks to that.
http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/ is 'neural networks for dummies'. I found it very good.
Lots of new stuff in Om Next. Unlike Relay and Falcor we have recovered HTTP caching https://github.com/omcljs/om/wiki/Remote-Synchronization-Tut.... And due to the redesign Om Next now has a really fantastically simple automated testing story https://github.com/omcljs/om/wiki/Applying-Property-Based-Te...

Happy to take any questions.
Getting AROS to run certainly would be possible. The biggest question would be "why", as though there's been some very experimental work on SMP for AROS and claims of work on SMP for OS4, currently all of the alternatives are still stuck using just a single core.
So California Is the New Texas.
Note that "set -e" doesn't work in subshells so you have to be extremely careful if you make complex subshell commands or write set -e in every subshell too.
> plain obfuscation to hide the thin substance of the paper.

Unfortunately I have seen this exact thing over and over again.
The electric medium of the internet as an extension of the brain is a concept which Marshall McLuhan analyzed back in the 1960s. You might be interested in some of the things he wrote:

>My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

>In the electric age, when our central nervous system is technologically extended to involve us in the whole of mankind and to incorporate the whole of mankind in us, we necessarily participate, in depth, in the consequences of our every action. It is no longer possible to adopt the aloof and dissociated role of the literate Westerner.

>Instead of tending towards a vast Alexandrian library the world has become a computer, an electronic brain, exactly as an infantile piece of science fiction. And as our senses have gone outside us, Big Brother goes inside. So, unless aware of this dynamic, we shall at once move into a phase of panic terrors, exactly befitting a small world of tribal drums, total interdependence, and superimposed co-existence.
From the mailing list:

> 1) The container tools I'm working on are completely declarative.

> 2) There are no disk images.

> 3) Software and other files shared amongst many containers are deduplicated system-wide.

> Once again the fundamental building block of every Guix tool, the immutable store, proves to be an invaluable asset in overcoming the problems of our imperative
predecessors and contemporaries.
But that's changing. We have closed TLDs like .NYC, whereas you have to have an address in that geographical area to own one of those.

And we have .bank launching, you have to actually be a financial institution in order to have a .bank domain.

We will be able to trust those new TLDs, this is all changing back (to the way it should be).
Governments all over could circumvent this issue provided they are willing to not use the tax code in a punitive means. By that I mean that so much of the code is written to benefit and penalize that it begs abuse by both those writing the code and those subject to it. Considering the number of pages of the US tax code how can anyone reasonably be expected to adhere to it let alone not circumvent parts of it even accidentally?

If you want the "rich" to pay their fair share; they already pay the bulk of all taxes; then the tax system has to be fair. That means it has to minimalist as possible so that everyone with standard education can comprehend it.
I do honestly have kind of a hard time making fun of fad diets. I don't want to discourage people who are concerned about their health and are trying to improve it. Gluten-free in particular is difficult because for most Americans, decreasing your carb intake is a really good way to improve your health, and going gluten-free means you'll skip that morning bagel. But at the same time it's frustrating because it's the wrong target, which means they skip out on good foods due to a misguided, but still helpful, goal.

On the other hand, paleo is an actively harmful diet[1], so I want to encourage a scientific approach to nutrition. But I don't want to discourage people who are more interested in fads than science from being concerned about health, either. Argh.

The marketing is endlessly hilarious, though. My cat's food has a gluten-free label, no joke.

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/09/10/3842158.ht...
"Is there some kind of catch I'm missing?"

Yes. Shopify is a platform that locks you in. You don't have a lot of flexibility compared to say self hosting with your own custom app. Of course there is a benefit to that but there is a cost as well. So it depends on what you want.

If I had a 500K revenue business, I will go custom. The reason: I want 100% control on how things are done because my online business IS my core product.
Played kick off 2 the other week, and sensible soccer. Boy my reactions are not what they were.
Looks awesome, do you have or plan version for Bootstrap 4 as well?
Didn't it talk about transmission specifying targets to hit?
EBook – Digital Branding 1:1
Er, the example from the article isn't that bad, if you're used to the jargon.

> The work of the text is to literalize the signifiers of the first encounter, dismantling the ideal as an idol. In this literalization, the idolatrous deception of the first moment becomes readable. The ideal will reveal itself to be an idol. Step by step, the ideal is pursued by a devouring doppelganger, tearing apart all transcendence. This de-idealization follows the path of reification, or, to invoke Augustine, the path of carnalization of the spiritual. Rhetorically, this is effected through literalization. A Sentimental Education does little more than elaborate the progressive literalization of the Annunciation.

The gist of it is that there's an opposition between "text" and "ideal"; from the author's POV, ideals are really false idols, and Flaubert's genius is to literalize stuff (hard to figure what's meant by "Annunciation" out of context), that is to create text and not ideal.
I remember reading about paraschopra and Wingify on HackerStreet India - an India-centric HN rip-off that didn't work out though paraschopra was pretty active in the early days. Nice to see a corp-backed initiative in this direction. Hope this doesn't suffer the same fate.

Although !CRUD isn't another HN (despite the tagline), one reason why HN is so amazing is its unintimidating design which serves the tired mind taking a 10-minute break well. !CRUD gives a less relaxing vibe IMHO.
For context[1]:

> The scientific evidence linking both processed meat and tobacco to certain types of cancer is strong. In that sense, both are carcinogens. But smoking increases your relative risk of lung cancer by 2,500 percent; eating two slices of bacon a day increases your relative risk for colorectal cancer by 18 percent. Given the frequency of colorectal cancer, that means your risk of getting colorectal cancer over your life goes from about 5 percent to 6 percent and, well, YBMMV. (Your bacon mileage may vary.) “If this is the level of risk you’re running your life on, then you don’t really have much to worry about,” says Alfred Neugut, an oncologist and cancer epidemiologist at Columbia.

[1] http://www.wired.com/2015/10/who-does-bacon-cause-cancer-sor...
Very vague comparison. Software is a technology and oil is a commodity.

you can't copy oil,
you can't open source oil,
software isn't limited
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It's a grabby headline, but after reading it, it came across as an attempt to create a new business meme, rather than compelling arguments. All these companies make money through very different means, not just software. Most of them are valuable because they've monopolized sizeable chunk of consumer space through combination of good planning, products, designs, marketing, and a little bit of luck.

Also, there are other wildly profitable companies in other sectors that have been around for decades.
This is more of a 'we moved to leaflet and openstreetmap' than a 'how we did it'.
In your example, Individual 2 gets paid $500k and manages to take out $320k ($500k goes into the corp, $100k is paid as income tax and then $320k comes out after dividend taxes).

Assuming a 35% gross tax rate rather than 40% (I think that's the top marginal rate), Individual 1 gets to keep $325k.

tl;dr; You aren't avoiding a lot of taxes.

Now if you want t up the ante, you move your hedge fund to the Cayman Islands where you don't pay any tax on the gains until you repatriate the money back to the North America.

In other news, the Old Monk corporation (sellers of delicious Indian rum, mostly within India) don't pay American taxes either. There is a whole world out there that isn't paying US taxes, oh noes!
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Great work.

However: while I feel this cartoon (and other Flux introductions I've seen) capture well the concepts behind Flux, none of them make up for the amount of boilerplate and just over-the-top abstractness (IMO) that goes into actually implementing vanilla Flux.

To me that is the biggest problem to make it easier for people to adopt it, not understanding the concept.
How Mattermark uses Mesos to make the most of AWS
I disagree. All of the things you say (helping you think, containing personal thoughts, communicating with people) are true of writings on paper. I don't think in 1776 someone would have viewed their personal notebook any differently than you view your Android device. Yet, "papers" have always been considered non-testimonial and subject to search under a warrant. Now maybe that is wrong, and personal papers should always have been protected from search. But that's a different argument.
Interesting concept, although I don't agree with the sentiment that this would be "fair"
Why does the DoJ care whether they can compel Apple to help them?

Well, there's a pretty big difference between non-destructively copying someone's phone, and taking the phone apart and unsoldering the memory chip.

Second, if the DoJ starts doing that, the next obvious step for Apple is to put the encryption key in a hardware security module that the DoJ can't crack. This is an arms race that they can't possibly win.
Yes but not in "Academic Writing" as per the title :)
“We are long software”

Of all the suit babble I ever heard, this must be the most incomprehensible. Juggling stock options apparently wreaks havoc on the speech center of your brain.
Delphi, Quanergy team up on low-cost lidar
At which point you get nailed for tampering with evidence.
California Pending Home Sales a Mixed Bag in September, C.A.R. Reports
> I strongly feel that my personal computing devices are extensions of my brain.

You're quite right, but so too are one's personal papers (or they were, anyway, back when people only had paper), and there is a process — the warrant process — for legally obtaining access to those papers.

More important, though, it should not be possible for a third party to grant a second party access to your personal devices. If Apple have no way to break into your device without your permission, then you are secure.

> I think my devices should fall under the inviolability of the physical body and that decrypting them is akin to forcing me to testify against myself.

Agreed — but do note that that right is somewhat more circumscribed than your or I like to imagine. And in this case, they are requiring a third party to decrypt the device, not you.
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