skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "No one knows for sure why this strategy failed"

We've launched the Hubble but the general public is still reading horoscopes, there's gonna be a reality vs culture disagreement.

Completely ignoring the psychological impact. You are fat you suck you are a lower class loser you should be made to suffer we should all shame you now go cry in a corner and eat horrible tasting unsatisfying high carb / low fat special diet food, oh look high carb makes you even fatter well being fat is the modern witchcraft trial so you deserve your pain and suffering you suck now die young you need will power. You will crave and suffer and you should enjoy it because thats what your kind deserves, craving and pain. That's traditional neopuritan original sin dietary advice as pounded into us for decades, in a nutshell. Personally I think its a complete load of crap, and medical science has advanced beyond it but culture still hasn't.

Compare that with the psychological impact of: its not your fault, there was a major scientific and marketing screw up and high carb actually makes you very fat, aren't steaks tasty and savory and luxurious and aren't salads yummy now enjoy your low carb diet. Tastes great, doesn't it? Life should be without cravings and suffering, isn't it awesome not to feel bad? And oh my god does it piss people off that you're losing weight without neopuritan suffering, like they want to slap you so you can feel the pain you deserve as a loser fatty subhuman how dare you climb out of the lobster pot, its a sin to say you don't belong in purgatory how dare you blaspheme against the holy authorities. They can't feel good unless they see you suffer. That's before you try to get between an addict and his corn syrup fix, then the freak out really gets started. You think you've seen alcoholics and nicotine addicts rationalize, you haven't really seen anything until you get between a sugar addict and his corn syrup.

This is before we get into the staggering secondary effects of high carb making people lethargic and tired whereas low carb subjectively feels like being on energy drinks all the time, and that leads to a lot of bro-science about protein magically melting away fat, when reality is high carb leads to laying on the couch two hours later watching TV while snacking feeling exhausted and low carb leads to playing with the kids in the park or going on a hike an hour later and feeling energized. Sure you are the same 800 calories but two hours later the high carb guy is eating a 400 calorie snack while laying exhausted on a couch watching TV and the low carb guy is exercising burning 50 calories per hour on a hiking trail ... its not magic that protein and fat seems to melt fat off a body.
In financial markets, China is usually considered an emerging markets country, not a developed markets country, so this is not necessarily a contradiction.
Financiers are perfectly happy to value things quite abstractly. I mean, you can buy CDS on Kazakhstan - that is, insurance on bonds that don't exist. And they trade, at reasonably stable prices.

Exactly how much is in this year's dividend doesn't really matter most of the time - if they pay a penny less this year that's one more penny in their vaults for them to pay out next year (or invest in the business and pay out further down the line). I mean, what else are they going to do with it? (The exception is generally poorly managed companies who might waste the penny instead - and in those cases activists often can dramatically increase the price by encouraging the company to pay a big dividend right now and keep less cash in the bank).

But the dividends are where the rubber meets the road, the foundation on which any valuation ultimately rests. And in the long run companies either die or become the kind of stable, dividend-paying stock that makes less headlines and is valued pretty directly on PE that actually makes up most of the market.
Indonesia's GDP isn't close to $2.8 trillion. That would give them an economy the size of the UK and France.

They have an estimated 2015 GDP per capita of $3,400 per the IMF. They have 250 million people. Their GDP is a lot closer to $850 billion.

A $2.8 trillion GDP would require a $11,000 GDP per capita. That's not accurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28no...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28no...
Except it's not really "their own government" the people of Syria are running away.
That's my point though. The degree to which "average physical thing that is depended on" is integratable with software at any point in time.

What is Uber worth with self-driving cars? Or with more granular locking standards (this car will authenticate and unlock for me because its driver added me)?

What is the traditional side Amazon worth without the ability to automatically route packages using laser readers and codes? Or with the ability of packages to self-navigate to their destination?

What is an AirBnB worth with an adjustable room? I walk in, all my preferences are imported into the room: illumination amount, light temperature, room temperature, music? Or, again, if the locks know me because of my digital keys rather than swapping physical ones?

If these businesses have a heavy dependency on physical things (as a lot of tech businesses do), then the degree of integration between that thing and software defines how much value can be delivered. Obviously you can increase this yourself with devices, but that's much more expensive than relying on an increasing average.
I'd hate to be the one reviewing your code. I'm probably younger than you, too.
staying in singapore

the haze is bad, the highest i've ever seen. first time i ever cough due to haze
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PrivateWave claim they have.
TextSecure used to be on fDroid, then this happened https://f-droid.org/posts/security-notice-textsecure/. Now it's a GPlay exclusive. I don't have GAPPS so now I can't get it. I'd assume many privacy conscious people don't have GAPPS. I understand the technical hurtles, but it's too big a pill to swallow.
I use Bittorrent Sync with an encrypted read-only peer [1] on Scaleway [2]. In this way, there is only unencrypted data on my own machines (which use FDE) and I have a fast permanent cloud peer that only sees encrypted data.

[1] http://danieldk.eu/Posts/2015-10-18-erp.html
[2] https://www.scaleway.com/
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VP of Marketing / Communication. We're looking for an allround marketer with an interest in software technology. We're very early stage so you need to have an experimental and creative attitude. Think referral marketing, content marketing, or maybe even old-school B2B sales - together we find what works best and then double down on that.

Customer Support - At Klets, customer support is a key marketing position with direct influence on the shape of the product. Great customer support is how we get the necessary insights for our product's future, and it's how customers go from happy to extremely happy. Happy customers are the key to fast growth, so this position is key to our company.

We don't need you to be onsite fulltime, but one or two days a week would be nice.

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Mono is different than Xamarin. Xamarin works on and supports Mono, but it's not their core product. Their core product is the Xamarin Platform, which is what you're talking about.
As a side-note, it's always weird to me to see place like Gabon or Congo called "West Africa".

It's clearly on the West Coast but within Africa, the West starts after Cameroon.
For those interested in learning Haskell, I've found this book (currently in progress) excellent:

http://haskellbook.com/
A lot of report on smoke. But what is with the source of the fires: the wood, the forest. Is it destroyed, or does it recover? How does it recover, with trees and forest or only gras? How long does it take until the trees grow back (if they grow back at all)? What is with the animals?
5 Key Principles That Will Get You Shredded
OneDrive for Business permits 20 000 items, which can be files or folders.

There's a maximum file size. (What is it now? 10 GB?)

20 000 * 10 GB = Microsoft ∞

Maybe there are limits to how many items you can store in a folder as well.
Show HN: Revenant – Node.js browser automation with PhantomJS
Facebook Messenger Assistant Powered by Humans
Copy pasting what I think to be the most important part of the article:

RoboVM is a complicated piece of technology that we have worked hard for years to
create. Over the past few months, we have seen competitors actively exploiting
our good faith by using our open source code to compete with us directly in
commercial products. On the flip side, we have received almost no meaningful
contributions to our open source code.
You can imagine how disappointing this has been to us; we had hoped our initial
business model of OSS with proprietary extensions (like our debugger and
interface builder integration) would work.
But in light of the low contributions and behavior of competitors, we decided
to stop automatically releasing changes to the core of RoboVM as open source.

-Zechner

I'm not sure what to think about the competitors-stealing-our-code angle, but the OSS-is-being-used-as-freeware argument is certainly one point in favor of closing/controlling their code (as a business).
I wonder how that works in practice outside of web environments, considering the spec doc doesn't mention it anywhere. I get the premise of having Promises in the language requiring an event loop, but without one, you'd be creating objects that never get resolved across frames (since they don't exist), which is still entirely possible.
I don't get the comparison: What capital controls has Canada put in place? The newly elected government has pledged an anti-austerity budget for the next few years and the debt level is much more sustainable than Greece given surpluses from the late nineties to late 2000s (plus a small one this year from the outgoing government).
Google Play doesn't make it available to the Nexus 7 (at least, I don't see it on mine).
The best bit about this news is that it will be an android phone with a physical keyboard. There have been no new ones for around 3 years.
being a singaporean, i have to sadly agree with you on the points.

it's quite bad enough that they keep claiming that they're using the best technology when in fact, they just typically bought it from somewhere else.

It has a quite a bad propaganda which you guys can't even tell from it unless you really think deep about it.

Cars here are so expensive also. On top of that, you need to pay more to "own" the car. For some cars, that cert cost even more than the car itself. Not only that, we have road tax, erp, parking fee, etc, etc whatnot.

Income inequality is quite prominent, even though they claim that they have high GDP. Of course you can say your country has it worst...but hell, you wouldn't claim your country has no beggar if there's someone in the streets picking up cardboard and begging for money, would you?

last but not the least, the population is so dam high and i think like...40% are foreigners? I can't tell who are foreigners anymore.

There are more things that I can think of, but I just end it here in case I get arrested for saying "wrong" things
It's open source. So could compile on your own.
TextSecure requires proprietary Google applications and this is deliberate: http://support.whispersystems.org/customer/portal/articles/2...

SMSSecure is an acceptable alternative (for text messages), available on F-Droid.
> Every book on libertarianism I have seen was lot more interested in some sort of ultimate, axiomatic moral truth, rather than empirical evidence that libertarianism works (by whatever criteria) in the real world. Ayn Rand with her fiction is probably the best example, but Rothbard is IIRC not much better. Heaps of theory and little evidence.

Ayn Rand has always put me off. She is more in the "got mine, fuck you" end of the libertarian spectrum IMO. Unfortunately, a significant fraction of other libertarians are that way too.

I've personally always found Rothbard compelling. The axiomatic stuff is just a way to build a foundation, and there's definitely lots of hand wringing there. But you have to start somewhere. Personally, I think it's quite possible to disagree with those axioms and therefore reject any conclusions drawn from them. More to the point, I don't see how this is specifically a condemnation of libertarianism. Any political philosophy relies on some axiom or another, e.g., social contract theory, which purportedly justifies our current system.

> I don't think though society can even exist in such framework. I pretty much agree with what wfo wrote you above. Seriously, some empirical evidence for your position would help. It may even be in a form of computer simulation.

I kindly defer to the very first line in my very first comment:

> I am, at least, philosophically libertarian. But I'm not an activist and don't participate in electoral politics.

I'm not really sure there is much empirical evidence to be found here. The only way to really know for sure whether it will work is to convince a society that freedom is an ideal worth pursuing and then try it. My own personal hope is that it occurs peacefully over time via cultural and societal evolution. It might span centuries.

Once again, I note that we have once again swayed from the original point. You called out libertarians as being against helping others. Instead, you end your comment with, "Ok, fine, I'll just dismiss that and jump straight to: but but but I can't possibly imagine how it will work." So? I don't really know either. Why can't we be content with not knowing stuff? I am. I am certainly content with not knowing how a free society would work. What I do know is that my belief that coercion is unethical is unshakable.
Remember the a Team? This Article Is about Software Developoment A-Team
>In Japan you drive to the station and sit in the car while several people fill your tank, wash your windows, and do other busywork. It seems like a huge waste and makes gas cost more.

I was just in elementary school in the 90s, so I didn't drive, but I don't recall this sort of service at gas stations in Japan. I do recall gas being much more expensive at Japanese gas stations that what you'd see on American military bases. Am I misremembering? This was in Okinawa.

>We know how to do things better and more efficiently in the US. But in the US those same young people are sitting at home unemployed.

We know how to do certain things more efficiently in the US. We are terrible at running our transit systems and intercity rail systems as compared to the Japanese. Japanese roads are generally in better condition than American ones. Our laws have mandated sprawl in many localities decreasing the efficiency of our infrastructure--from sewer lines to roads to transit--causing great environmental and economic harm.

Of course, there is a dark side to Japan. Rampant age discrimination everywhere. Disposable housing. A 'justice' system with a 99% conviction rate. Clinging to fax machines for hotel reservations when a simple Web form would be more efficient.
I think the arguments are pretty weak here and it comes off as a little "dealership-apologist". All of the cons of direct-to-consumer can just as easily apply to the dealership model. Yet none of the cons of the dealership model apply to direct-to-consumer.

It's also a bit of a mistake to assume that the way Tesla does things is the way the rest of the automotive industry would do things. Tesla has inventory problems because they're new and can't keep up with the demand. As if Honda is going to have problems keeping Civics in stock.
Watch an AI bot play Go [video]
A lot of these companies are probably packaged into ETFs or mutual funds, which are then purchased by investors without significant review of each component in the fund. Most investors probably have no idea that this is even going on in the world, let alone which companies are benefiting and if those companies are in their funds. It seems unfair to want to target people who simply are ignorant.
He's kinda right about the capitalism thing - a small elite controlling everything is the inevitable outcome for a capitalist society without government (i.e. socialist, for the greater good of the population) oversight.

Now, that's not really what happened here, the government seems to have already been weak and corrupted, so those with money just take advantage of it.
https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore
https://github.com/mar-v-in/BlankStore
The article mentions Baltimore's efforts to remove trash from the inner harbor. Here's how they're doing it: http://baltimorewaterfront.com/healthy-harbor/water-wheel/

Here's a pretty impressive photo if it in action: https://twitter.com/MrTrashWheel
Just see feauture of it and compare
Give me some open source code that I can run on my own server to manage the notifications for me and for my friends, and allow me to tell the client app on my phone to use it.

That's way better than forcing me to rely on a specific Google server and protocol, which further requires proprietary software on the client.
Strike that- humans.
They seemed to have removed the pagefair code for now.
I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil
Was only a matter of time before this happened. With the sheer number of users as possible consumers this is guaranteed to last.
Better yet, put them under Belgian control. They have an unmatched history of managing colonies. /s
I post this 4 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10480822

I always check hnews + 3 others news sites (like the guardian) just to be well rounded ;)
Ask HN: I want to sell web products, I'm Bolivian and don't know how to start
I build web products things like marketing automation, white label mobile apps and reporting tools for stores, things that I had made with the years in my free time and always think in selling.
singapore as a nation. and its neighbours. just have no political will to solve this. its been going on for years, if not decades. surely if GIC+Temasek holdings(how big and successful they claim to be!) and/or its peers around the region started buying indonesian forest since ten years ago they'd have bought all of it by now?
well, there's a free tier that lets you keep 2 connections + irccloud's server. you just have to keep a web browser open somewhere to avoid the 2 hour timeout. but yea ive always felt their $5 / month plan was a little overpriced. for mobile irccloud's app is fantastic. i dont know if any of these solutions mentioned here even has one
I've been a fan of static websites for a long while now.

In addition to page load issues, they also more or less completely solve the Slashdot effect (aka the Reddit Hug Of Death, these days). A competently-configured Nginx server on a 512mb VPS, serving static-only content, will handle ridiculous amounts of traffic without flinching.

Ever since a front-page mention on BoingBoing took down my feature film BloodSpell's site immediately after release in 2007, avoiding server load on a site has been high-priority for anything I'm launching that is likely to have bursty traffic.

It's nice to see usable tools for managing larger sites with a static generator developing and becoming popular.
But the centralisation and use of the phone number is necessary to make it not shit. Anyway you forgot the important features:

* Nice modern UI

* Integrates with SMS

* Supports group chats

* Uses MMS for group chat if not all members have Signal

* Not really buggy or hard to use
Even there, it's not so clear cut. For example, backup tapes are anything but obsolete and unsupported. It may not be the de facto standard any more, but it's still commonplace and the hardware is still manufactured and thus easy to buy new. I also don't agree with your point about fax machines as they are still commonplace in the UK. Granted less so in tech companies, but you see them a lot in governments and legal offices as they're often used for sending legal / official correspondence such as signed contracts.

While other mediums do exist that can act as a direct replacement in many instances, some require additional steps (eg sending signed correspondence via e-mail would require an electronic signature, photocopier with SMTP support or another means of scanning the document to PC); or offer little benefit for the additional migration costs (eg backing up to removable HDD over tape doesn't offer any significant improvements. Backing up to the cloud does, but it also offers some significant drawbacks as well, which might mitigate it's practicality for a specific business).
I think English works pretty good as it is.
Satellite images might be useful to get a sense of the scale.
Do you guys wear masks or anything when it gets bad? Would that make a difference?
It also doesn't do a good job of explaining that the advantages of the dealership model in the early days have been greatly eroded by just in time supply chain techniques and other improvements in manufacturing efficiency.

That and most of the actual argument boils down to "it's too hard to do both". Which I think is a poor argument at the best of times when the 2 goals are orthogonal and not at all at odds with each other.

Almost every industry is going back to direct sales. Even Microsoft a behemoth of the channel style of distribution and sales has started making direct sales one of it's higher priorities.
I'll give it a try. Thanks for replying back.
For someone with 1 year's experience in the subject? Seems a little steep.

And I know this isn't indicative of her skill or anything but surely, if you're going to add 10 or so lines of code to a pitch, you'd check it wasn't buggy. Or is that just me?
Most of the articles are in German:

https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/schweiz-mehrarbeit-101....

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/strong-franc-woes_workers-to-be-...

Its hard to get real data at this time.
Why do you think it's rare? Sweden is certainly a society of sexual inequality: http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0305528.pdf

Various studies on social networks have shown that virtually every society has high friendship inequality. Maybe friendships also don't generate happiness?

Unfortunately good studies are hard to come by - I've never actually seen any. In virtually all cases, anchoring effects drown out the signal.

But as a thought experiment, consider two individuals. One individual is a nerd in a frat house, watching a bunch of bros get laid while he's still a virgin. The other individual is an analyst on a prop desk (i.e., low level person at a bank), making maybe $70k/year while interacting with folks making $10M+.

Which of these people do you think is more unhappy? Maybe I just love women a lot more than the average person, but I sure know which one would make me less happy.