skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I literally don't understand this argument. It's taking for the sake of taking. Can I go to my rich neighbour and take his car, because I need one more than he does(he has like 10)?

If your society thinks this is OK, then, yes, you can. Which, when it comes to taxes, it does. There's no natural ("god given") law saying your neighbor has more right to something that others do. It's a societal contract.

Let's put it another way: if your kids are starving, and your neighbor has food for 20 people in a family of 4, can you go there and get some food from him because you need it more than he does?

Even while still calling it stealing, most people would, if not justify, then at least excuse that.

Why not question property itself? Isn't that a social construct too, the fact that we allow some people to have more than others? We are all born naked anyway -- and it's not like it's always (or even often) the more hard working or the more beneficial to the rest that get the most money.
I'd like to see more focus on the fact that Amazon is straight-up lying about shipping-and-handling costs, which is how these guys are able to list books as selling for $0.01+$3.99 S&H when it's more like $2+$2 S&H. I had thought it was "just" the sellers being dishonest, but apparently it's an Amazon mandate:

> A “penny book” is something of a misnomer. Used books sold on Amazon typically carry a $3.99 shipping fee. But that isn’t a reflection of the actual cost of shipping them — it’s a function of the company’s rules, which mandate a consistent shipping cost for every category of the product in the Marketplace. Amazon takes a standard cut of every book sold — $1.35 — which leaves each of the penny sellers of “A Visit From the Goon Squad” with a whopping $2.65 to cover the cost of the item, shipping and handling, labor, rent on warehouses and all the other costs that come up along the way.

At least they've gotten better about showing the full price with shipping in the comparison page, but that only mitigates the issue.
Yes, it definitely has cons and introduces complexity. But maybe if a proper REST API is built around the concept it can reduce some of the complexity at the surface.

The client will still have to encrypt for every user they need to give the password to and I don't know how expensive can this be in a large team but my assumption here is that people read passwords a lot more than write/edit them.
Panthers and Preschools
Electric cars are awesome right now and will only get better. Don't plan on buying a hydrogen car unless you want to see your fuel costs go up, you still want to be tied to fuel stations, and are willing to wait a long time (maybe forever) for anything good to become available.
Unless we have enough photovoltaic energy production to close down all coal plants, the "limitless" part isn't really there. And even then it is cheaper to store the electricity directly in batteries - they are even cheaper than the devices required for hydrogen fuel cell cars. Hydrogen fuel cell cars still need a battery, though a smaller one, then the expensive fuel cell and finally the gas tank which has plenty of issues by itself.
Sanctions, Spoofers, Bits and Gold
Only four employees will lose their jobs at Nat Geo magazine [and newsroom]
The devil's in the details. The handbook emphasizes Growth Growth Growth. So when your small focused obsessively cohesive product saturates its small niche and your growth is suddenly not-so-exponential, if you're a startup you start to Expand Expand Expand your product, new use cases, new functionalities, until you've reinvented email again.

If you're less growth focused, have your pricing nailed down, and are well positioned in your niche - then you should have enough new users from simple population turnover and you don't need that graph to keep angling so sharply upward to avoid ulcers.
I didn't really follow along at the time, but there was a bunch of noise (http://www.cnbc.com/2014/11/19/senate-panel-accuses-goldman-...) about Goldman manipulating aluminum markets last year. Googling turns up more about it.
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To be fair, a lot can change in a decade, which seems to be what most results are centered around (a whistle blower from 1999 who wrote a book). But it isn't exactly ranked high by employees [0].

Also may want to explain what ブラック企業 means. I can take an educated guess but I'm not 100% certain I'm right.

[0] https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://...
What does advertising and phone spam have to do with anything?
I've read this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-tiles-new-tab#w_w...

So, as I get it (I haven't read code for this part of Firefox) it sends some counters about how tiles perform. The data is weakly personally identifiable - in a sense that sender's IP address is logged.

Whatever, I disabled those tiles because I just didn't fancy the selection - but it doesn't bother me (personally, other opinions may vary) if browser would eventually ping Mozilla back telling that I had clicked few tiles.
Is Kyocera really doing well? I see less and less of Kyocera these days, and an amazon search shows knives and one budget Android phone. Are they big in Japan?
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See above. :)
The fork I use works for me: https://github.com/windsurfer/treestyletab
As a freelancer I'm devoted to my task of maximizing the amount of leisure time.
If by "automatic payments" you mean ACH direct withdrawals, the benefit is "I don't have to remember to pay my bill."

The disadvantage is "An outside entity can remove an arbitrary amount of money from my account at any time, keep it for an indeterminate amount of time, then return it without penalty."

I could see have a charge automatically applied to a credit card (where you're able to dispute it, if necessary). I cannot imagine why anyone would ever want to set up direct withdrawals.
A new version (0.15.20150902901) of TreeStyleTabs has been released that works with Firefox 42, but it will not automatically update so you need to install it from [1]. See also [2].

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

[2] https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/973
If you look at what the experts say in the article, I don't think any of them say anything that means "Linux is fast, flexible and free. That comes with a security cost". In fact, I'm not sure the author of the article is even saying that, although they're certainly trying to cash in on some fear. This title is misleading.

Ultimately, I think the message of this article, that Linux out of the box isn't inherently secure, and the culture around Linux needs more focus on security, is true. But it's also being said in a vacuum, with no comparison to other platforms. Certainly the experts in question were right to have concerns about Linux security, but I'd put bet money on the assertion that they have even greater concerns about, say, Windows.

And finally, some of the problems being blamed on Linux are actually problems with the tooling around Linux and the platforms Linux is being run on. Android is inherently always going to be insecure as long as it's running with GSM, which is fundamentally broken. Heartbleed was an OpenSSL bug. And Linus is absolutely right that if you are running Linux in a nuclear power plant, you absolutely shouldn't connect it to the internet.
Y Combinator: the X Factor of tech
Both of those challenges are a big factor in why it's only turned on in private browsing mode. Just shipping it even in this limited form is a big deal.
1099 here. My wife has great health insurance through her employer so I was okay. If I had to purchase our insurance I'm not sure I would have been as quick to make the leap.
Instead of the Finder or the Dock, I use Spotlight heavily. I should probably move to Alfred, but I'm too cheap. I only notice it reindex after some upgrades and maybe once or twice a year otherwise.

I also use iOS search a lot and haven't run into the problems you describe. The iOS App Store? I'm on the same page as you. It's totally frustrating and doesn't work right.
On the contrary, there are multiple industries where apprenticeships are the norm. There are even a few very successful companies doing software with the apprenticeship model.
4 great talks from Electron meetup at Microsoft
> Climate change is certainly a health risk. Already there have been numerous issues with fresh water access in developing countries due to local climate change that is largely caused by human activity

a) "Local climate change" that is "largely caused by human activity" is not what we're talking about here.

b) If something causing issues with fresh water access is enough to define it as a "health risk" then every natural or human-caused disaster in the history of the world is a "health risk" and the term is meaningless.

c) If we can define any problem worldwide as a "health risk" and on that basis sue anyone who disagrees with our evaluation or recommended policy, that's a recipe to legally shut down any argument.
They're already using a different background image per tool, would be weird not to use relative terms to me.

Then again the whole thing always feels weird to me. It seems highly unlikely someone using their tools doesn't know how to install an app on OS X.
Napster is bringing its streaming music service back to Canada
My favorite part was when he answered he has a high school diploma. He mentions he has five years in university but all you really need is a high school diploma.

As someone who spent five and a half years (first four for a BS mathematics degree and a year and half for BS computer science degree) as an undergraduate student, it makes me happy to hear professionals say that.

K-12 school is just as important as ever. I just wish we started second language instruction at lower grades. It could be Spanish, French, German, Mandarin... It'd be nice if we started much earlier.
What a throw back ...

"Red 5 standing by ..."

I remember pretending be to part of the rebel alliance in that game ... many hours spent. Thanks to the designer.

Looking at the OCR of the code that provided the foundation of a tiny part of my early years is a strangely odd experience.

The source code of a childhood ...
My goats are a Nubian/Alpine mix. They produce a fair amount of milk, are good browsers (they're part of our crop rotation plan) and a few shakes of a bucket of grain is all it takes to get them to come in. We have perimeter fencing as there are some things in the garden that would be poisonous for them to eat, and I don't want their snacking to cut in to our floral arrangement sales profit.

With a small herd of just 4 milkers (last springs' kids were given to another farm business who make money leasing goats as natural weed trimmers) they are incredibly friendly, like a strange type of dog. They respond to their names and love a good back scratch from their people!

Now if only the laws in my state (NJ, USA) weren't criminally restrictive when it came to selling raw milk products.. well, more chevre for me!
In terms of site design, I prefer Guile > Octave > Guix.
this is precisely why I mentioned that it should be an opt-in thing. There's nothing stopping a vendor from pushing 'you should enable this feature'
That's a pretty horrible article. There are security extensions to Linux like SELinux. There is nothing stopping anybody from forking Linux into a more secure version. That would be the best way to solve the problem.

The only result of this article is that I have a lower opinion of The Washington Post than I used to.
Joyent: The Docker-friendly cloud you've never heard of
Mysterious electric car maker Faraday Future will spend $1B on a US factory
Some people are subject to temptation. By eliminating as much advertising and phone spam as possible, these people may have a better chance of getting ahead. The world would be a very different place if people didn't succumb to advertising.
If one assumes that the 1/3 job losses were 'trimming the fat', I'd still argue that enforced liposuction constitutes bullying (if not outright assault).

The decision to cut the workforce may have been the right one but since the thrust of the article was the effectiveness of his philosophy I think it's only fair to highlight how it was applied.
"It's entirely possible to cover a class worth of material & study topics you don't want to without paying for someone to help you do that."

True, but that misses the point. If you expecting to gain a well rounded education, where you learn about many things that you otherwise wouldn't have, then relying only on you're intellectual curiosity will not work for most people I've met. Yes, for the rare auto-didact, they will dive deep on their own time into many different subjects, but in my experience most people I've known (even liberal arts majors) would never look beyond the confines of their chosen area of study.

I can't remember how many times in high school and college I heard classmates grumble about "after I graduate, when will I ever need this". In high school (for me) it was mostly aimed at math classes (I grew up in a very blue collar area where the high school had something like 10% of their students going on the college). They were happier learning history or having to read cliff notes on some novel.

But in college it was usually people in one major complaining that they had to take the "wider world" requirements. Though actually I heard it the absolute most from fellow music majors that had to take a physics class on acoustics.

The reality is so many people see college solely as job prep, and that is a very strong part of what it can do, but (and this is kind of the point of the article) it can function in many other ways. I'm a counter example. I've spent something like 15 years in college. I have two bachelors (philosophy and english), an MFA (creative writing) and and working towards a PhD (math). But I work in computers, and not only do I not have a CS or related degree, the only computer class I ever took was a "wider world" class I had to take (and ironically I groused about it, because I'm already a programmer and manage a staff of programmers and DBAs)
This is nonsense.

SR&ED is not a grant you apply for, it is a tax credit that you are ENTITLED to for taking technical risk and venturing into areas of technical uncertainty.

SR&ED is a tax credit and a perfectly reasonable one. The problem with SR&ED is that it is a badly abused which leads to painful auditing processes for everyone.

Since Joyent Canada is (as far as I'm aware) a 100% wholly owned subsidiary of a US corporation it doesn't surprise me the CRA took a close look at the claims as Canadians ultimately wont see the extent of the benefits that the program hopes to achieve for Canadian corporations. The fact that you call it the "Canadian office" rather than the "Canadian company we own" illustrates a frame of thinking that likely makes the CRA uncomfortable. The program is designed to help Canadian companies.

So.. you are an American, working for an American company, managing a team that is receiving Canadian tax breaks for generating I.P. for the American corporation and you are complaining that you received friction from the CRA? Yeah, no shit.

> SR&ED is a transfer payment from Canadian taxpayers to Canadian consultants; it should be scrapped, not fixed.

No, SR&ED is not funding from Canadian tax payers. Once again it is a tax credit for money spent on salaries for performing tasks that have abnormally high risk. Its critical to understand the difference before voicing an opinion on the matter.

edit: wording
I wish the article shed more light on actual practices within the company and measures they took to make employees happy. Without the details, the claim seems to be somewhat unsubstantiated.
This is very emphatically not an answer. Iran learned this the hard way - their centrifuges were isolated from the internet, but someone managed to get access to the memory sticks used to transfer data in and out and inject an exploit that compromised the critical machines the moment it was inserted. At some point you inevitably need to get data in and out, and that means you need a secure device. (For that matter, how are you loading software onto those devices in the first place? At some point, the software development and provisioning process will have contact with the internet.)
Didn't PG say he wanted something like that?
Mark Zuckerberg lays out plan to turn Facebook into a video powerhouse
Reading this book about the history of EV's atm: The great race: the global quest for the car of the future (http://amzn.to/1kxnT0c). Ze Germans are really lagging behind so far.
During yesterday's conference call with Wall Street analysts Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed the company's new interest in media, when he said, "the third class of content, which I think is going to be important and increasingly important over time, is the one that you basically want to essentially trade the content for money."
An Introduction to Containers
Simultaneous reading is definitely great.

At any given time, I have 2 books, one fictional and one technical, open (made some progress in reading it, maybe not literally open ;) ). I probably could handle an extra technical one.

If I was reading only one book, some evenings I'd be like 'meh, don't feel like reading it tonight'. But when I'm reading simultaneously, I have no excuse to read a bit every single evening, which evolves into a habit and it is definitely a nice habit to have.
NASA Makes Major Discovery About Atmosphere on Mars
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” Jonathan Swift
>What about, eg, buddhism?

Had some similar ideas, but was mostly concerned with the elimination of the self, which is something different. But more importantly, it was a non-player outside of Asia for the most part of history. Even today, after a century of spreading of Buddhist ideas here, it's cultural impact in the popular culture of West is negligible.

>As for trans-ethnic, I thought this was a later addition to Christianity - after all, Jews are still the "chosen people", right?

Huh? No, jews are not the "chosen people" in Christianity. Christianity has no special affinity to the Jews as such. The tacked-on Old Testament stories relating to Israel etc. -- and previously part of the jewish "state religion" (from the Tower of Babel to Noah's flood etc), are taken to apply to "the whole of humanity" by Christians.

I think it's a shame that in the US especially, most christian doctrine is relegated to the Old Testament -- but then again, the US was founded by christian sectarians thrown out from Europe for such differences of opinion.

Here's how Paul the apostle, put the trans-ethnic thing: "There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.".

And of course Jesus himself is said to have told his disciples "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation".
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> So say if Ford wants to sell cars in Japan, the Japanese government cannot force them to release the source code for a mandatory code-audit as a condition for import

It has a bunch of vague hooey about the clause being limited to "mass market software" which I think is designed to deal with that. Of course, it's pathetically poorly defined (if a car is sold to a "mass market" then it's software is too, right?). To me this clause was pretty much written by Microsoft and of course, the negotiators at the TPP table are far to clueless to understand any of the subtlety involved in software licensing and distribution.
My current employer will never show up on a "Best Places to Work" survey either but its still the best employer I've ever had.
Build a Q&A Slack Bot Using a Google Spreadsheet (w/ Natural Language)
It's Time to Start Talking About Geoengineering
I think the consensus is that the site looks great... I have to agree :)
Did it simulate a proper 3D world, with your ship and the other objects all occupying space (and therefore requiring vector calculations everywhere), or did it cheat by keeping minimal position information and just fiddling the display to make it look like you're moving? From the way the enemy ships move it feels like it's cheating, but the starfield and the starbases all look pretty good.
Reading this book about the history of EV's atm: The great race: the global quest for the car of the future (http://amzn.to/1kxnT0c).

China had great plans but has been quite slow to implement them since the provinces kept competing for funds. The role of Europe has been quite limited.
There are tons of resources for this niche. Amy Hoy + Rob Walling would be two people I would check out.
$12bn revenue isn't doing really well?
Second time founders get this sometimes, if their first startup was a success. Basically, they've already proven they can execute.
THINK LIKE a DEV, OP
A Guide to the South China Sea Dispute
It's like the "wasted" in GTA going to slow-mo to accent the kill. Only it's serendipitous slow-mo.