skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that dealership model does not necessarily promote competition. If I want a Ford Focus, Ford still dictates what kind of car I get. Sure, the dealership may try to make a few hundred dollars by (unnecessarily) adding "value" to the car with floor mats and halogen lamps but what kind of car I get and at what price is a decision Ford makes.

The problem I have with the dealerships is that they are saying Tesla can't sell cars directly. This is incredibly stupid. Sure, you could say Ford can't set up a store because that'd be like having a Starbucks corporate store right next door to a franchise they authorized. However, if I wanted to create New Jersey's Best Coffee (don't buy my coffee, although there is Best in the name it will be horrible) I should be able to open my own coffee shop with no regard to whatever agreements there have been about coffee shops before. I mean it is one thing to say that my coffee shop should meet health safety requirements (such as not lacing my coffee with poison) and other sensible requirements such as not selling anything with the label "USDA Organic" unless it is USDA Organic.

> I just also feel for the individuals who often are so vigorously disrupted.

Are you talking about the employees? I feel for the Rite Aid and Duane Reade employees more than I feel for the car salespeople. I honestly believe that successful car salespeople have the qualities that will help them land on their feet in any situation. So they will be alright. We will eventually have to seriously discuss the idea of a universal basic income but that is for another conversation.
A whole world of new search vectors would open if you scraped and mined the reviews.
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Yeah, that seems like a weird oversight considering that they linked to three other related services: Trucker Path, UberRUSH, and Go Go Messenger.
I was referring to Apple's "one year limited warranty" [1] which suggests you are covered only for one year, and must buy AppleCare to get any free maintenance after that period.

With the 2 year guarantee, after 6 months you need to establish that the defect existed on the product at the time of purchase. So if the battery stops working after 18 months, you need to establish that it was a faulty battery when you bought it, instead of you damaging the battery through misuse. This even extends beyond 2 years, for the period of time that you would expect the item to work given the price of the product and the manufacturer's claims, but obviously it gets harder to establish the older the product.

[1] http://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/products/mac-english-uk....
There is so much he-said she-said, in my experience, etc. in the comments and the OP. This is a very easy thing to verify and can be easily done by b-school and economics profs and researchers based on financial statements of companies. It is also easy to find controls, there are many companies that don't outsource. Why do we rarely see such posts about scholarly work on outsourcing on HN? Instead the links posted and the comments therein devolve into circlejerks of how US workers are efficient and international devs are shit.

A simple Google Scholar search yields the following peer reviewed papers about outsourcing. There are even meta-reviews [2], etc.:

[1] http://www.esr.ie/ESR_papers/vol35_3/Vol%2035_3Gorg.pdf

[2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijmr.12075/full
StrataCloud is hiring a UX designer
I grew up mostly with Windows with some Linux sprinkled in during college. I could never understand why people would pay so much for Apple computers. That being said I bought a Mac Book Pro for work about a year and a half ago and I love it. It is super fast and easy to use. I hate using my wife's Windows PC. I would recommend paying the money if you are looking for a nice laptop (or desktop I guess) to code on. But if you are just buying it to code in Swift I don't think it is worth it. I would just wait until it is open source.
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Why is a time limit on a law and the vast uncertainty that would surround it as people try to figure out if it will be extended better than just doing your research and finding out reasoning behind these laws when they were enacted?

It's not like the information is unavailable. You don't have to mount an expedition to the Himalayas or anything. Just go look it up. You may well find that you still think these laws are bad and should go. In that case, you can rest assured in the knowledge that you now understand the issues better, and you're better prepared to argue your case.

Arguing that you should know why something was created before you remove it is actually the opposite of a mental shortcut. It's saying that you should do your homework before you make changes.
The article is talking about working with dev studios & outsourcing large-ish projects.

If you're a singular developer charging a flat hourly rate (I am too), yes posting on the web will likely fulfill your needs.

If you're a dev studio looking for your next $50,000 project, probably not.
>Money can be counted and comes in standard unit sizes

>There is nothing "rulerlike" about money.

rulers have standard unit sizes which can be counted
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This seems to hinge on the legal nature of the interface between vmklinux (a Linux kernel module created by VMware) and ESXi (VMware's virtualization software). If that interface separates two legally distinct works, then VMware is in the clear; if it doesn't, then VMware has created a derivative work of the Linux kernel and is in violation of the GPL.

I don't know of any settled law about this question; IANAL and I haven't really looked. But I think the distinction that would make the most sense would not be based on anything technical, but on how an API is used in practice, and in particular on whether it's used by multiple unrelated parties. Ie, the same set of function calls can be either an irrelevant division within a single work, or a partition which separates independent works, depending on whether there're several different vendors/programs who call and implement them, or only one, and on whether the author of a new program who wanted to use that interface could reasonably do so.
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I see your point. But in the US, if the CIA didn't sponsor you, you could still paint whatever you wanted...
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Scientific paradigms constantly change in order to reflect reality
"... the study, led by Alexander Oettl, an economist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta"

"... negative citations are most likely to come from other researchers who are ... relatively far in geographical distance ... suggests that social factors — the awkwardness of contradicting someone whom you are likely to bump into in person — may play a part in science’s self-scrutiny."

"Michael Schreiber ... at the Technical University of Chemnitz in Germany ... thinks that the study’s definition of a negative citation might be too broad"

"Ludo Waltman ... at Leiden University in the Netherlands, agrees that the definition of negative citations used by Oettl’s team is broad"

Interesting series of events there.
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Could fracking have prevented the Iraq War?
What happens if the user modifies the software, the modified software causes a malfunction, the user resets the software to the factory version, then takes it in to a shop while claiming they never modified the software in the first place?
And I've ever seen an English poster let me get away with lumping England with Europe :-p

Seriously though, good to know.
Is it possible to get videos of the battles?
I think you're right that these laws aren't necessary. But I still think it's important to understand them before declaring them to be such. I have a hard time understanding how you can declare yourself to be "extremely certain" of something before you've gone out and obtained the information. It's supposed to be the other way around!
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My previous Macbook (early 2008 white, plastic one) lasted for 5 years, no issue. Battery was fine (slowly dying as all batteries, but no big deal, it just wouldn't last as long as it used to.) Then I got a message about the battery actually dying (get to service, the white early 2008 has user-replaceable battery, though.) But it was already the time I needed a more powerful computer, and I just got a new one and removed the battery of the old one (it still works perfectly fine, no longer as a portable though.) I don't expect a computer (i.e. all pieces together) to serve me for more than 4-5 years, so this battery life is more than I can expect. Of course, if it was a system I could tinker and slowly replace piece by piece, it could but I no longer feel the tradeoff of money/abilities/time is worth it.
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This is in the embedded world, unfortunately the gdb for this platform is rather limited and watch breakpoints don't work as expected.

Essentially here is what was happening:
-Create C++ object
-Try to point some reference to this object, but object address is suddenly 0x1 (just by doing one step in gdb) when trying to access one of it's properties.
-Tried to run it with valgrind, and it works fine with valgrind, which leads me to believe it is some memory allocation issue with C++ on the heap
-I modified the C++ class to have a uint64_t variable before the variable declaration. Now program works fine!

I believe the issue is probably with heap corruption at some point, when something overwrites certain addresses.Having that extra unneeded 64-bit int in the heap makes it still be valid.
Digicert has already issued at least one certificate to a .onion address[0]. See [1] for additional info

[0]: https://blog.digicert.com/anonymous-facebook-via-tor/

[1]: https://blog.digicert.com/the-current-state-of-onion-certifi...
Just for those too young who might not get the reference - I believe the company name is a riff on http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077369/.

I think I watched it in the USSR in late 80s - we all thought that's what USA is like.
If safety is such a big deal, how do trucks still have blind spots, drivers sitting too high and non-mandatory side guards? These are design flaws.

It seems the "safety" interpretation here doesn't apply to everyone else not involved.
Dupe, read this off HN this morning.
You could make it usable as a "web clip", i.e. an bookmark that you can add to your home screen.
> CO2 is fairly innocuous, and already makes up a large percent of the volume of air.

Its fairly innocuous at naturally occurring levels, which are not a "large percent" of the air. Nitrogen, Oxygen, and -- if you want to be extremely generous and say that "almost 1%" is "a large percent" -- Argon are the only things that have a remotely plausible case for being a large percent of the atmosphere, and together make up around 99.9%.

Carbon dioxide makes up a large percent of the remaining ~0.1%, but...
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Four days is a long weekend. I personally would welcome a forced vacation.

But if 1 piece of machinery really is that critical to your business, you'll have an identical standby ready to go when your primary one eventually craps out.

I've decided to let Apple handle inventorying my standby machine. I can walk into an Apple store and 5 minutes later be ready to go again. Then the high resale value of my old machine makes it easy to sell on craigslist.
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"The capacity for self-correction is the source of science’s immense strength, but the public is unnerved by the fact that scientific wisdom isn’t immutable. Scientific knowledge changes with great speed and frequency – as it should – yet public opinion drags with reluctance to be modified once established. And the rapid ebb and flow of scientific ‘wisdom’ has left many people feeling jerked around, confused, and increasingly resistant to science itself."

Scientific knowledge changes constantly based off of the latest research, and is re-synthesized into the textbooks every once in a while. This means that the stuff you learned in college is massively out of date, and may have many inaccuracies. It's frustrating to feel like you are losing ground against science, but look on the bright side: every time we change our minds in the wake of new results, we refine our understanding of the world.
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I thought that kind of tracking was illegal:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2015/04/retai...

maybe it's ok as long as it's anonymous.
A couple of weeks ago I dropped off my well-used, out of warranty, never on AppleCare early-2012 macbook pro to get the keyboard replaced. It turned out that this repair would also, by necessity, replace the battery (it is part of the "top case"). ~$380USD, I was happy to pay that considering that my battery was shot and several of my keys no longer worked at all. A few days later I went to pick it up and they told me that they needed to replace the logic board as well because of an original manufacturing defect, and that I was eligible for a "quality program" screen replacement because the laminate was peeling. Also presumably because of the hassle they decided I was to be charged $235 USD instead of the original amount. I tested it out and bam, kernel panic within seconds of booting into the OS. Same thing on reboot. So they replaced the logic board again, same problem. Formatted the drive and installed the OS from a clean image, same problem. They decided that the best course of action was to replace the laptop entirely. So for $235 I got a brand new 2015 macbook pro.

Apple's in-store repair, in my experience at least, is fantastic. If something goes wrong they do whatever they can to address the issue. I'd recommend going through them if you're considering changing some of the internals of a macbook pro given how easily it can go wrong.
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> Abstract—In this work, we unveil new privacy threats against Voice-over-IP (VoIP) communications. Although prior work has shown that the interaction of variable bit-rate codecs and length-preserving stream ciphers leaks information, we show that the threat is more serious than previously thought. In particular, we derive approximate transcripts of encrypted VoIP conversations by segmenting an observed packet stream into subsequences representing individual phonemes and classifying those subsequences by the phonemes they encode.

> Drawing on insights from the computational linguistics and speech recognition communities, we apply novel techniques for unmasking parts of the conversation. We believe our ability to do so underscores the importance of designing secure (yet efficient) ways to protect the confidentiality of VoIP conversations.

This is a mix of really interesting an quite terrifying. As they say in their abstract, theoretical attacks have been known for a while but this is substantially more capable than (I think) anyone ever expected.
Doubtful. It is likely the thinnest practical layer over insulating material.
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That's not what happens if a hobbyist modifies e.g. the brakes, then the brakes break and the car crashes - if you modified the thing, you're responsible for the issues your modifications cause.
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> There is no way I can take that time off from being productive.

But surely you (or your workplace) have a backup plan if your laptop needs service that takes a few days. What would you do if you need a new screen, or a new hard drive, or a new fan... It's not like a laptop repair that takes a few days should be a big shock to anyone who's owned a few laptops (Apple or otherwise).

By the way, one of the things that the $500 Joint Venture program gets you at Apple is a loaner computer while your machine is out for service. So that's one option.

The other option, which we use at my work, is we have a spare laptop. It gets used for a number of purposes, one of which is a loaner for repairs.
> And now the bigger software companies are opening "research centers" in the offshore countries and just plain moving the jobs there.

Unfortunately, that's been going on for a while now with the big consulting agencies.
If you want easily swappable batteries, get a different machine.

Does Apple make a user-serviceable laptop these days? I suppose you could switch to PC, but that's not as simple as spending your $3000 at BestBuy instead of the Apple store.
Why is this "seriously maybe the greatest work of engineering on Earth"?

It looks like straight forward rock tunneling to me. The alps have good rock that the industry has a lot of experience mining through. Don't get me wrong, the length is impressive but the diameter (10m) is not crazy nor is the ground bad.
Is the trend toward non-user-replaceable batteries related to LiPo (lithium polymer) battery technology? My limited understanding is that LiPo batteries store more energy/volume or energy/mass than older tech but normally have plastic (i.e., non-rigid) packaging.
It's more likely that the movie and the company chose the name because of its meaning. A convoy is literally a group of ships or vehicles transporting something, usually protected.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/convoy
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UbiSoft == French Company (France) having offices among others situated in Montreal, Québec (Canada).In Montreal mostly French is spoken (English being a close second).
The Montreal Studio of Ubi is responsible for the games you mention ...
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If you could point me to such a document would appreciate it. Curious to know if that is true.
You're always going to pay a premium for getting something fast. For an expensive item like a car, that premium is going to be huge.

Sometimes it happens that you need a car immediately. That doesn't mean that you need to buy a car immediately. There are other options.

Imagine if your house burned down. You need housing right away. Are you going to say, "I need to buy a new house today"? Of course not. It's a huge purchase that requires a great deal of research and thought. In the unlikely event that you can find something you can move into immediately, you'll have extremely restricted choices and probably pay way more than you needed to. Instead, you'll find a hotel, maybe move into a short-term apartment, and take the time you need to find a house to buy.

Cars aren't nearly as expensive as houses (usually) but they're still expensive enough that the same ideas apply. You're going to own this thing for years, you can take a some time to get it right when buying it, even if you need something immediately.
That never works. You'd need those who benefit from the protectionism to stop lobbying. The issue is that it never was democratic, it was graft that made these regulations and it's graft that keeps them going.

The way to get rid of regulatory capture is to make it impossible to enforce and let the leeches die.

Uber may not win, but Taxi companies will die.
I'm sure legally he's entitled to the money.

That does not imply he did his job properly.
These kinds of analytical methods (i.e. word counting) work well in controlled experiments when you know you're going to be lied to by a subject, and also told the truth so you have a point of reference.

In the real world, you don't know if you're being lied to. That's the entire point! You don't have any normalized data that says this is the number of words a person uses when they're telling the truth and when not, so the detection technique will be as inaccurate as this missing calibration info. And since there are wide variances between individuals in both general memory, recall, and "talkativeness" you have to develop a sample corpus per person. Also you need to interview the person on multiple days and randomize when you ask the questions so as not to introduce bias and to protect from ordering.

It's easy to conduct a study like this and proclaim an obvious conclusion, but this means almost nothing for real-world application of the technique.
I don't think they are uninformed, so feel free to correct me when I'm wrong. My "long-winded" comment wasn't about generic types -- just the first, small bit -- and that bit wasn't about Ceylon's generic types, but about generic reification on a shared platform like the JVM in general, which bakes a variance model into the class. As long as you're the only one doing reification you're sort-of fine, except all those erased generic types aren't quite first-class citizens. I should have clarified that.

As to the rest (and the lion-share) of my comment, I don't think it requires further clarification, and I don't see why you'd even think it's wrong. You've set out to create a new language with new, clean type semantics and a new runtime library, while Kotlin, in contrast, has had a different goal altogether. It doesn't even have its own concrete collection classes, so that's a radically different level of interoperability and a radically different design. That is the major difference between the languages rather than the list of features you've named in an answer to a question by someone else (and like I said, either approach has its proponents), so from my perspective it was you who was adding to the confusion, which I wanted to correct.

The answer to the question "what is the difference between Ceylon and Kotlin?" IMO (at least when the JVM target is concerned) is that Ceylon is a completely new "greenfield" language with a new, powerful type system, new semantics and a new runtime library, while Kotlin is "a better Java", a language preserving Java's semantics and standard library while solving its pressing shortcomings and providing a more modern syntax, and made to be adopted piecemeal into Java codebases. Of course there's some overlap, too, but that's the different in philosophies in broad strokes. In terms of features, some are similar (with Kotlin adopting some of Ceylon's ideas) and some are different, but that isn't the big difference.

For those reasons, BTW, while it would be very nice to have a Kotlin spec, it isn't as necessary, as most its semantics are borrowed from Java.

Of course, you may well think that those linguistic features are a bigger difference than the design goals, but I will disagree (due to the reasons I laid out in my other comment), and no amount of Ceylon expertise is relevant to that disagreement.
Ask HN: I need a serious critique of the UX of this hiring app?
The app is called nudj it's on the app store. We are encountering a few blocks in the funnel but can't identify if it's messaging, bad UX or just not good overall.
Would love to get some genuine feedback. Thanks HN
I've never been exposed to this side of math, do you have any book recommendations?
> I know there are some arguments like costs of living, but why it should be even considered? It's totally up to you where do you live.

I think that matters because it lowers the wage you can put up with. Thinking from an employer perspective, assuming non-specialist skills, it's more costly to work with someone remote in a different timezone (b/c communication difficulties, etc), so they'd only do that if they can push your wage low enough so they come out ahead with the extra costs vs. a local developer. They also like money, so if they can push your wage down further than that, they'll try.