skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's like saying that Comcast and Verizon accepted public money to roll out infrastructure and invested their money in it. Therefore, we probably shouldn't address their artificial monopoly, because they invested money in their monopoly.
I run. For me, sometimes you need to clear your head and running does it for me though I live in Hong Kong which makes it easy. (amazing weather)
“Now people with just 12 weeks coding experience are asking for £50,000”
You can't. It's aggravating.

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
They execute in a different space than Amazon. What I wrote was 'competing with Amazon', which they are absolutely not.

I'm talking strictly in the 'online retail' space, which I believe was pretty clear.
Artificial Skin Sends Touching Signals to Nerve Cells
> People build their own still for a multitude of reasons, one of these being may be that they don't want to be locked in to a single platform. If Shopify shut down tomorrow, would your business be in trouble?

This is correct and sums up the hosted vs self-hosted arguement. It really depends on your needs and resource - if you have Devlelopers/IT folks for example then building out your own site would be sensible. Yet if you have less of those and more marketing people, hosted might make more sense.
Good riddance. Bitcoin is rubbish. It takes more resources to create a coin than it's worth and the market has pretty much fallen out.

I'm sick of all these libertarian, "It's better money" idiots. Money is horrible. It's a bad measure of value, it's debt based and designed to keep things in a closed controllable system. We don't need better money. We need an end to resource scarcity so we no longer need money at all.
Day job: Software Engineer (.NET) for a manufacturing company working on custom line of business apps.

Side Projects: A blog where I tackle topics that junior/mid-level software engineers might like to learn more about.
We're a group of freelancers, and build online tools and small prototypes.

Recent research shows that location data of hotels and restaurants is not generally available in mobile apps.
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The GP link was written in the 1930's so, I'll forgive him for failing to notice his successors.

Here's one of my favorites: https://randazza.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/cybernet-tradem...
Ironically, he is bashing about outsourcing, but he himself is doing just the same.

Of course, he does it the clever way (I read the description at teamed.io, how he makes software-development cheaper by paying "more"):

By breaking down the tasks into 30 minutes microtasks, he will only buy the "fat" from the programmers cow. The muscles, filaments and veins, he does not buy.

Of course, you can buy only the raw implementation part (at best, only the typing) of a software -- but somebody will have to do the reading of the specs, to do some guesswork ... and so on.

By buying micro-tasks, this company does use the fact, that many people will only count the "real" net programming time but not the time in-between those micro-tasks -- reading the specs, preparing the next job, doing the thinking, maybe communicating, waiting for the next assignment ...

And the final clever way is: The time estimations come from the company and that is the base for the payment. When a contractor took over a job for 30 minutes and worked on it for 59 minutes (without all the reading and other stuff as said before) ... will he go and reject the money because he nearly worked 100% more on it than expected? Will he really tell the company, that he is not that big talent, he was hired for in the first place?
When I was in school (admittedly, 15 years ago...), I got on the bus at 7am and got off at 3pm. This was in upstate New York.
What a great language, seriously. Unfortunately I have no hopes that I'll gain any significant traction.
I'm very curious as to how much time did you spend thinking about this solution before proposing it to fix the extremely complex problem of distributing durables.
I hope the industry doesn't draw the wrong lessons from Theranos. Compliance isn't hard--the expertise is out there. But the process must be followed and that might mean moving more slowly. Which is okay because your competitors have to move more slowly too.

What's interesting about Theranos is the hints that the technology may not be ready for prime time yet either. In which case moving more slowly, and taking that into account in the funding stages, is not just a reality of compliance but a reality of engineering. This stuff is hard, MVPs aren't enough, and successful ventures are going to take longer to yield a salable product than in other fields.
Why the iPhone Costs Us Billions
From the github page:

>Alternatively, you may immediately let Souper modify the bitcode and let it apply the missed optimization opportunties by using the Souper llvm opt pass.

So it seems like a benchmark of the program before and after this process would be relevant.
> although they say they use a combination of those and "venous blood draws using smaller needles and smaller tubes"

That's new, they used to claim they could do it all from their Nanotainer sample. It was and still is a crock, but that's entirely what Theranos' claim to fame is.
Passing tests is not a good indicator for programming aptitude.

I don't think you'll do well at freelancing unless you have some useful skills. Getting paid to learn is unlikely to work out well.

Python is one of the easiest languages to learn and you can be very productive with it relatively quickly.

Javascript is quite a bit harder, but more widely used.

If you are really money focused (your handle is "BizNerd" so take looks like a hint) why are you looking at programming? Sales is very much in demand and a good sales person earns heaps more than an average programmer (which takes at least a year or two of dedicated work to reach).
Ruby on Rails is always a good choice. Ruby is a pretty readable language and has a pretty good community (so solutions to your issues will be more abundant than with some other languages/frameworks). Also not that hard to get started and make something decent.
Actually, yes - there are many topologies that a rat's brain could have but apparently doesn't.

For example, nature could have favoured more ring or star topologies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_topology.
We can't allow the tech giants to rule smart cities
Here in the UK, there's an ongoing headlong rush driven by the incumbent robber baron^W^Wconservative government to turn a majority of schools into "academies", which is a back-door to complete privatisation of the "educational sector" (it's only a "sector" to those who see it as a profit-bearing industry, rather than an investment in "our" collective future).

Any negative news about the effects of privatisation elsewhere, such as this, is sidestepped deftly, as, you see, academies aren't privatisation, they're, uh, enabling, um, better education, for the children, saving the taxpayer.... look over there, shiny thing!

Academies have already come under fire for all varieties of corruption and improper practice, but individuals ("a few bad eggs") are being blamed rather than the system which promotes the viewing of and engagement with children as nascent consumers.

shakes head
There are better ways to track CEOs than through mass data collection -- targeted data collection (aka hiring a private investigator) works much better. Though most CEOs of big companies have security details that keep the wolves at bay.
There are many possible network topologies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_topology
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The bizarre story of how an Arduino got me to San Francisco for free. Twice
I don't understand how British newspaper can put Star Wars references in the article where Doctor Who is much more relevant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvhbGGkhKe4
There are some interesting comments in here about how tough the struggle is for car dealerships, but I don't think that necessarily justifies their existence or mitigates the point of this article.

If what the dealerships do is valuable enough to the customer, they would exist even without the ban on direct sales. But I think we can all intuit that if the ban were lifted, buying a car would be a very different (and better) experience.
Anyone could've predicted that, really.

I mean think about it, the entire bitcoin market cap (to the extent one can use that term) over the past quarter averaged $3.7 billion. And roughly $1b has been invested VC invested into bitcoin companies.

Of course it has to slow down. The companies have money to burn now, VCs need to see some traction over the next few years before, it just makes no sense to invest more than a billion in a small market. Or rather, there just aren't any new companies that can get any traction that aren't already funded (e.g. competing with Coinbase) because the market is already saturated with decent, well funded startups. Developing countries are the exception.

Bitcoin has its ups and downs. It doesn't report for example that the price is up by 33% from 7 days ago.
I found some slides with background information

http://llvm.org/devmtg/2011-11/Sands_Super-optimizingLLVMIR....
I'd have thought a contract between the dealer and manufacturer would have solved that. Why don't other industries need laws to protect retailers from manufacturers?
"Communication"
It means exhaustive search of possible operation sequences to find the optimal one. So it's optimal but impractical. The applications are processing very short bits of code, and trying to apply the result , eg dropping it in some real-world code or informing humans about compiler optimizer deficiencies.
Some people, and also the inventor of the WWW, do not agree.
I live in such a country. My parents have a $250k home, that would cost only $500-$600 to rent.

But here is the catch, they only pay $200-$300 in municipal taxes. I guess in the U.S it'll be a few thousands dollars. This cost will eventually drill down to the person renting the property.

Also that's the price tax-free because nobody is paying taxes on rental (which is 30%).

So if you add these two up, you get your price!
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Net neutrality: EU votes in favour of Internet fast lanes and slow lanes
not open source?
> As software development and delivery becomes increasingly automated

How? Software is by definition like _manufacturing_ a single item. Production (copying) is already free and maximally automated.

In two centuries we have made very little progress in automating development. I don't see that changing soon, especially not for software.
Is It O.K. To Be a Luddite? (1984)
That seems hyperbolic, but maybe I'm just out of touch with the London market?
Zuck sidesteps tough questions on second India visit
Most telecoms won't do this because the potential reward simply isn't worth the liability they would have for insider trading (if they get caught spying on corporate execs, then the SEC will assume they spy on every corporate exec). In fact, most big telecoms have a secret "VIP" program that flags accounts of especially wealthy, influential or famous people and restricts access to them unless you're on the "VIP" customer service team.

I'm sure hedge funds track CEOs, but they're not using data from Verizon to do it.
The state has other constituents besides the individual citizens. These laws have very sound reasoning and prevent very real and very big problems. Blindly running around, finding things to "disrupt" is not admirable. In fact, it's the opposite.
We've used a local PR firm for our UK e-learning business (tuitionkit.com). We got a few newspots in local papers and the like, but nothing too groundbreaking that put us on the map. I'm not entirely sure it's the perfect fit for us.

The key point about engaging PR folks is that the longer you give them in advance of launch the better. We contacted them about 2 months before we launched (we launched back in April, so it was February time) and they said they like at least a 6 month run up to do the best job they can.
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I'm sure there was more to it there. It's also a good way to move money around.
"Fixed bug."
Yikes. And true per this cited on Wikipedia's intro page: http://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732412300457... Here's what they're saying right now on https://www.theranos.com/our-lab

Our tests require less blood and less pain, regardless of whether we use our proprietary finger-stick technology or a venous draw.

We do venous blood draws using smaller needles and smaller tubes.

Now, I will say that when Quest does a venous draw they use a honking big tube ... well, the normal size since they stopped using syringes (you young whippersnappers are lucky, let me tell you!), and draw well more than a mL, but for the latter, who cares? Especially if that allows them to do followup tests without requiring another draw, as happened with me a couple of months ago. And for that matter, the larger the needle, the shorter the time is has to be in you to get a given sized sample.
Yeah, until you realize dozens of them have been peppered across the code base in a desperate attempt to "fix concurrency issue".
> Investors are now more interested in bitcoin’s underlying technology, called the blockchain.

No stats on blockchain-based startups which I imagine would be attracting much more attention than those limiting themselves strictly to Bitcoin.
Where Is the Value in the Tech Stack?
> "Some people can be nice drunks, though they are rare."

If you think that you've been drinking in the wrong places, seriously. I'm from Bath, I started drinking in parks and pubs when I was about 15/16, and I drank a fair bit in my 20s (I'm in my 30s now). I can count on one hand the amount of alcohol-fueled fights I saw in all that time, and any other minor acts of aggression were also fairly infrequent. The vast majority of people I was with and met were nice drunks.

That said, I have seen cities where police riot vans are out every Saturday night, so as I said, it varies a lot, the baggage that comes with drinking culture is not the same everywhere you go in the UK. Sometimes people are dedicated to getting smashed, others are on the pull, others just want to get lary, others are just using it to loosen themselves up, and what is common in one city is not necessarily common in another, it varies from drinking place to drinking place.
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Here are some other articles with examples I recently wrote on Ceylon:

- http://taiar.github.io/log/2015/10/09/ceylon-programming-lan...

- http://taiar.github.io/log/2015/10/23/ceylon-programming-lan...

Basic toy stuff but has some points on Java interoperability and explores other language aspects.
The relevant market would seem to be the handset market. Hasn't Apple's share of that been growing? It sure hasn't dropped much, if at all, while they've ramped production faster and higher than any product in history.
I did my first conference talk[0] on this, and also have a similar list.

Security consulting is expensive and the value just isn't there at all for early stage companies. It's why I think Owasp top 10 should be required reading for founders.

As for my conference talk, the delivery was atrocious (warning if you choose to watch). I spent 5 minutes per startup and churned through hundreds. I didn't name names because there were too many bugs to report after a day or two of doing it.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzrVYyouQTk
"fix" "trying again" "revert" "will it work?"
I agree that the ban should be lifted. And I think car dealerships would survive without it.

I recently spent some time on many car companies' websites and navigating the options is extremely difficult. They use all their marketing jargon like sDrive vs. xDrive or 4MATIC or whatever else other nonsense. They don't explain well what any of them mean, and I was left googling the definitions of everything.

Then you get to being actually able to see the car with the various options that you're interested in. The article decries the fact that dealerships have "$100 billion of unsold dealer inventory" but that inventory has a purpose. Some people need a car right away and they aren't picky about it being the exact thing that they want. Some people want to actually see, feel and use the options they are considering.

So I'm against the government-sanctioned ban on direct sales but I think that car dealerships would serve a purpose and survive without it.
Been there to the Corvette plant. It's a wonderful tour. There is even a section of the plant where the owner of the car can help build the engine. They put a special plate on the engine with the name of the owner too.
> We once used a third-party service ... they got hacked ... [people] blamed us for ...

From my point of view as a client, I don't care that the problem was with one of your suppliers: my relationship is with you no them, I trusted you with my information not them, and so forth. Unless you gave your users a choice about whether their information went to that third party then from your user's point of view it is your fault - there was nothing they could do to prevent the problem (other than not use your service).

I know it is not realistic to expect you to fully vet the security of all third parties and take full responsibility for any failures of them as no amount of due diligence will protect against every eventuality, hence I use the "unique email address" approach and take other care when handing out personal details that are less easy to fake (phone numbers, details needed for payment processing, ...), but it is also not realistic to disavow yourself of responsibility when something like that does go wrong at a supplier. You chose to trust that service, not your users. You put your users information in a position of being out of your (and their) control.
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Thanks :) will definitely look at improving the speed, I think it might be a slight amount of image resizing which I can look to optimise away. Otherwise, just to baseline the performance, could I perhaps ask what device you tried it on?
Show HN: NLP API for retail
Hi,

I created an API to convert natural language to filters for retail. It doesn't require any configuration or training by the API users.
It is a new stack and not based on 3rd party components like StanfordNLP, lucene etc

Please tryout http://www.thatneedle.com/nlp-api.html

Requesting your in-depth suggestions.

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Isn't this solved by paying a fixed amount, and only paying if the project works and is well done?

Then the outsourcing shop no longer has the incentive to drag things out so you keep paying.

Of course, it may be necessary to pay a large premium to get such terms since the developers take all the risk.
Agreed! Ceylon modularity is awesome!
I think manufacturers are going in the opposite direction now, though.

When I bought my VW they had just recently (within past 2-3 years) changed to a packaged model for options where you had to buy options together, and packages were dependent on others in tiers. So e.g. if I wanted the xenon headlights or the 'kessy' keyless entry and start, I had to buy the option package with those, which I think also included an upgraded stereo system. This package required another option package full of other things I didn't want (sunroof, sat nav), so in short if I wanted fancy headlights I had to buy a whole slew of other things to get them. In the past I could have ordered those headlights separately. I ended up not getting any extra options.

I think what's going on is that they want to be able to forecast how much of each option they need, and they want to be able to turn around on a new car purchase quickly. If it was all custom, they either have to build it overseas and ship it - takes a long time - or they have to ship generic cars here and install the options somewhere else, like the dealership, where they have inventory and tooling and personnel costs issues. It's much easier to produce 1000 red cars with option package a and reduce choice for the customer, as long as they go for it.
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Applying Simple Access Control to a Small Data Model
I imagine it would be easier in space to create things like games out of it, such as sonic bowling or "air hockey", or maze solving.
Just like Instagram but...
That is not how car production works. Paint is literally the second thing that occurs after a chassis and body panels are applied. But otherwise, the working time on a car from start to finish, including paint, is somewhere in the 10-20 hour range. Theoretically, your timeline could work but paint takes time to cure, then needs polish and interior features take a while, although CAN-BUS has certainly made the electronics easier.
Thomas Edison sounds like a shit of a boss.
Exactly. Most could be, though, if people put forth the effort. So I keep mentioning such work.

Note: This comment is mainly for others reading along. Something I do on forums. I know you already understand this point.
You're probably right. For example: Even though you can buy a Thinkpad directly from Lenovo, Best Buy still exists.
The Ghost Protocol – The Future of Digital Identity
Maybe it's just me, but aren't the presets on Chrome extraordinarily over-optimistic?

For example, I cannot comprehend how you could get anywhere close to 250KB/s on 2G (which is approx. 2Mbit/s). Furthermore, most WiFi connections cannot get anywhere near 30MB/s (which is 240 Mbit/s).

Either that, or the UI is incorrectly using KB/s when they mean Kb/s (Kbit/s).
Uhhh... that's not correct at all.[1]

Are you confusing it with post-marketing commitments to run additional clinical trials? That's not the same thing as post-marketing surveillance.

[1]http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/roche-overlooks-80000-adve...
I don't think this article explains "why." I don't like the clickbaity misuse of "why." Here are the article's headings:

> Apple is the iPhone

> What does this mean for Europe?

> What kind of taxes are paid in Europe on profits of 34 billion euro?

> So how much has Apple actually paid in taxes in Europe?

> What could Europe have done with that additional 8 billion euros?

> How we made our calculations:

Underneath "So how much has Apple actually paid in taxes in Europe?" we get one sentence: In Europe, Apple funnels most of its taxable income through Ireland, a tax haven.

This isn't even an answer to "Why the iPhone costs us billions." The answer to that question would include why and how tax havens were created and how they continue to exist. You can tell, because me answering, "Well, Ireland is a tax haven" doesn't satisfy.

Instead of providing the past and present of tax havens, the article gives for example where the missing tax money could have gone: a rescue program for refugees in the Mediterranean Sea. This reads like, "Hey Apple, if you paid your taxes, we could be saving refugees." This decontextualized argument does not persuade me.