skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wrong - you need a TV license for "ANY" live broadcast in the UK - as mentioned in another comment here this includes any live camera feed (surveillance / in cars / etc) - so even if you never watch any TV (recorded or live) there a plenty of cases where by the law (under threat to go to prison) you have to sponsor the BBC.

The BBC is the only recipient of TV license fees in the UK - of course after plenty of cost created on the way between the consumer / license payer to the BBC / payee.

BTW the BBC is also the TV licensing authority in the UK and is authorised by the government via the Communications Act 2003 to collect and enforce the TV license fee. One of the companies in the Capita conglomerate has been "entrusted" by the BBC / the government to collect the TV licensing fees.
Why We Can Be Hopeful About Climate Change
People say "begs the question" often enough in a colloquial manner that I think it's pretty obvious what is meant. Others sure do enjoy pointing this out, though.
This is an interesting thought, I like it
I'm a little worried about this article. It seems to me that it might be emphasizing certain aspects of the data that tend to support a conclusion that is relatively popular in many circles. (Indeed, I'd like to see the U.S. imprison fewer people; but that doesn't mean we should distort the data.)

In particular, the conclusions are largely about the marginal effect of increased incarceration rates in the last couple of decades. So: we should not imprison more people than we are now. Fine. But that is not the same as saying that the huge increase in incarceration since the mid-1970s did not cause a large -- and highly beneficial -- decrease in crime.

According to the graphs, incarceration rates went up by about 60% in the 1990s and have remained more or less flat ever since. But rates more than doubled in the 1980s. This fact, and its possible impact on crime rates, apparently go completely unexamined in the article.

So don't think this article is up to the usual standards of fivethirtyeight.com -- unless I'm missing something.
You need to be more specific. If your page is as complex as Facebook, you need a responsive site. If occasional use on a mobile device works, you don't need a first-class experience for the Web on mobile devices.

There are a lot of downsides to most "responsive" implementations, like zoom not working on things that you want to zoom in on. Even if it is a step up from your regular Web UI in some ways, it will never be as good as an app. If you want to have one less implementation, this is the one to leave out.
Eric Schmidt on Novell, recently:

"I went to Novell under the mistaken goal of being a CEO. I didn’t do the due diligence, and if I had, I wouldn’t have gone. Our basic goal was to get out with our professional reputations intact and not end up in jail. The books were cooked, and people were frauds. But it turns out you can overcome that, and the skills I developed helped at Google."

https://medium.com/cs183c-blitzscaling-class-collection/cs18...
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> I'm no Fox fan, but the left-wing media plays its own games.

I'm hoping this is an inadvertent straw man. Is there anyone on the left who would dispute this? Media is it's own indignant shouty echo chamber.
They also destabilise markets where the value of the underlying commodity is very hard to gauge and speculators vastly outweigh regular purchasers or hedgers.
Thanks for linking a recent study. We tried this with our daughter about 7 years ago, and will likely try it again. Readers should keep in mind that "helps with autism" is only referring to the potential to help with the social interaction aspect of some with autism (as opposed to the many other attributes those with severe autism may exhibit).
It's easy to change the config file, but that is very different from actually swapping over to ECS.
I almost want to flag this link for playing loud sound advertisements on page load, but I'm not sure that's proper in this community. Is there not a better link to this content?
I am an ex-commodities trader. My advice is to get some used CFA lvl 1 materials or you can download the pdfs online through torrent. they arent up to date but they should be cheap. the corp fin, accounting, and portfolio sections are great. derivatives, fixed income and equities are ok; also to learn about the market and how it works better to read materials from the exchanges and articles then textbooks. ALSO cant stress enough that to know finance you need to learn accounting and how to read company's annual reports and financials.
Google vs. Tesla: Two different philosophies on self-driving cars
We're working on making Kubernetes easily deployable on Ubuntu, we just had a session on this today if you want to check out the state of things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj76OeBjxpk

Our goal is to make the deployment bits production ready for 16.04, and I'm sure $your_favorite_os_vendor is probably doing the same thing.
Look, it's the guy's own personal twitter account. He can say what he wants. And he's put his own work into an open source project, voluntarily.

Despite what many seem to think, there is no "universally agreed" morals and views. So if you want to oust people you disagree with, don't be surprised when others oust you.

Or better yet, we'd all be better off if we all just learn to work peaceably with people we disagree with.
All fair points and ones that I've taken to heart in my years of having discussions on and offline. That said, I personally don't think the comment jorangeef dismissed was particularly abrasive. The remark that caused umbrage, about the historicity of the gospels not being a necessary component for forming belief, is a line that has been touted by many Christians. It could be said that it's unfair to regard Paul as 'slightly insane', but similar claims have been made about Mirabai, Alexander, and Muhammad. From their followup, it seems that penguin82 didn't intend to cause offense.
The benefits were not cut, they were frozen. Those benefits currently earned are guaranteed through the aforementioned Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. The article does not mention it, but there are a variety of freezes that could occur:

* Plan freeze: All currently earned benefits are given to the employee without any future opportunity to earn further benefit. In this case, the earned benefits are still there, just now one needs to find another retirement system.

* New freeze / Grandfather Freeze: All current employees are allowed to fill out the vesting period, but new employees are not allowed onto the pension.

Aside: nice handle.
His emacs workflow talk at emacsconf was very inspiring. As others, I welcome this news with joy.
the 4chan avatar is a nice touch!
Microsoft started offering multiple versions of Linux on Azure while Ballmer was in charge.

Microsoft also started writing dozens of apps for Android and iOS while Ballmer was in charge.
Building Echo: How we approached design for our first Apple TV app
State of Florida mental hospitals
Because I worked with people with varying levels of technical ability. Slack is so much easier to setup and get everyone to use than irc.
My dilemma is that I don't want to price myself too low (I can find lots of projects for 20/hr or less), but I'm not sure how to get the larger jobs without doing this full-time.

Consider doing some of the "low paying" but readily available work to get started. This looks to me like a problem you are inventing -- the work is available, you just don't want to take a "paycut" to get your foot in the door, even though it would actually be extra money since you are still working full time.
> Downvoters, kindly provide any evidence that avoiding VC funding increases your odds of success by 10x.

It's not so much, avoiding VC increases your chance of success by 10x. It's not easier to reach a $1M business without VC than it is to do so with VC. However, if you don't have VC, then a $1M business is probably a relatively stable company. But if you do have VC investment, they're looking for a high return on that investment, and so they won't be satisfied with a $1M business. They'll want that $30M business, which is harder, since the goal is so much higher.
Will definitely find you and connect :) I've been using React full time for over a year now. Obviously there's still a ton I can learn, but yeah I was thinking I would try to specialize specifically in this tech stack as my "competitive edge" (Node+React)
I thought this was the general idea of starting a business. I think few people start a business thinking they're going to be worth billions. Hell, an acquaintance started a publishing business and is now selling millions of books in niches like "colouring books for adults". He is financially set and could sell for many millions, but few people would ever hear of him or his company. Yet this is fantastically beyond the success of most people.

Are founders actually so delusional that they're really buying into the whole billion+ idea at the outset instead of thinking of how to make a business? That seems rather silly. (Unless the real goal is to find a way to get a couple million personally out of the first few funding rounds. In that case, perhaps it's not a bad gamble.)
In the US system, the IRS still has all of that third-party data. If it's a significant amount of money, you'll just find out that something was wrong after you submit your tax return (when you get audited) rather than before.
I love use-package, its made my emacs configuration so much less spaghetti thrown at a wall.

https://github.com/mitchty/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs/.emacs...

You can get fairly tricksy with it.
But how's any of this relevant to the Linus rant?
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just half true - you're right with regard to recorded broadcast, but...

Do you drive a modern car, do you have surveillance cameras at your property / your offices? - Bang you have to have a TV license in the UK even if you don't watch any TV.

Every year thousands of people in the UK are pulled to court / persuaded to pay thousands of £s to settle enforcement cases against them (or even go to prison) because they only look at half of the rules.
Life too busy? Building habits decreases the load, makes you more productive
Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables that don't work
America has ACH transfers, Canada as interac.

Problem with all of these is that they can be reversed.
Obviously, since your original post was downvoted to oblivion and flagged (neither of which I can do because you replied to me), I must be the one with the problem.
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Guile: GNU's programming and extension language
> We could live on $20k annually for at least 4 years.

Is this also accounting for retirement? If so, kudos! :-)
That's very nice. If you're using Microsoft Azure though, you might as well use Azure Key Vault[0].

[0] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/key-vault/
"Nationalize it." - Peter Tosh
If you're worried the evil gov'mt is gonna steal your gold, then why won't they just steal your BTC too?

There's a reason why Swiss safety deposit boxes of gold exist. You gotta pull that crap out of the country. Hell, if the US Government just declared ownership of the BTC Network through subpeonas, they can effectively 51% attack it and double-spend all the BTC they want anyway.

So no, your hyperbole does not convince me.
I believe s/he meant blank and error states - the screen the user sees when there is no data to display.

In short, 37 signals believe this screen should not display an empty list, but instead serve as a guide to the user. This is commonplace now ("You have nothing to read yet, [button]add someting[/button]"), but first mentions of this are from over 10 years ago: https://signalvnoise.com/archives/000375.php
One drawback of these high prices is that it keeps the best knowledge on most subjects from disseminating to the public, a significant blow to the often poorly-informed public and a waste of knowledge (which generally has little value unless shared).

For example, even in a relatively sophisticated forum like HN where there is a respect and hunger for knowledge, how often does someone link to an actual journal article? Who has even an opportunity to read them? There are occasional links to Nature, Science, or IEEE or ACM publications, but the best knowledge is bottled up beyond our reach. At best we get to read blogs and newspapers talking about the research.
> why waste time skewering terms like "Angel" and "liquidity event"

Because the terms they use for themselves indicates how they see themselves and the value of their role. They invest money in order to make money, but want to be seen as—and want other people to refer to them as—saving angels.
Amazon Echo Controlled Wheelchair
It makes me very social and garrulous. I rarely indulge alone anymore.
It's not that they can get away with wearing jeans so much as they can't get away with wearing other things. There's still an egalitarian and meritocratic notion in technology that rank shouldn't matter. Ask yourself why NSA director and General Keith Alexander showed up at DEFCON in jeans and a t-shirt with an EFF logo on it.

Most of these guys telling you what to do, where to live and which technologies or schools that matter are Ivy League alumni multimillionaires. Many from a time before a widespread Internet and grants for poor students. When was the last time you saw any of them sit down with someone who were really challenging their views?

Edit: For somewhat of an example of the last thing there are two episodes of This Week In Startups with DHH.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDGHxO6N3Ms&t=15m30s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzERXJgi5vQ&t=7m11s
Who is saying that a company should be able to do "whatever they want", "without consequences"? For profit, or any other reason. Not even Libertarians and Anarcho-Capitalists believe that. So either you have some odd way of thinking about it, or you're constructing a fictional straw-man.
They also have banned some forms of pornography. The UK government has made it a priority to restrict and intrusively scrutinize the lives of its citizens, removing their ability to resist.

They're rapidly arriving at fascism. The public seems listlessly along for the ride, as usual.
I have lots of addresses in Paypal. Not delivering to the card address is a USP for me.
Well, define "gradually".

I certainly won't be overnight. But you are assuming current truck drivers will have time to migrate to new jobs as those appear - I really doubt two decades is "gradual" by that measure. Yet, I can not see how it could take that long.
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It may not be psychoactive (not 100% sure what that means, to be honest), but it doesn't NOT affect your thinking. If you chug a bottle of CBD tincture you'll be out for the day—maybe not asleep, but certainly not very functional.
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the term "capitalism" originally coined as a synonym for "wealth" (and particularly conspicuous wealth)?

I was referring to the socialist critics of the dominant system in the developed world of the 19th Century who introduced and popularized the use of "capitalism" it as a label for an economic system (who, seem to be first users of the term, though that's somewhat tangential to the main point I was making.)

> The novelist who coined it was writing a satire, but its origin doesn't strike me as implying an intrinsic value judgment.

Presumably, you are referring to W.M. Thackeray's use in The Newcomes in 1854, which is counted on Wikipedia, with reference to the OED, as the first known use of the word in English; this postdates the early use of "capitalisme" in French to refer to an economic system, and even known earlier uses in English of "capitalism" to refer to an economic system [1]. Thackeray's use is somewhat oblique, and there seems to be some discussion among people who care about these things whether it was about wealth per se or some kind of attitude or orientation toward wealth. But, in any case, his use isn't the first (even if it may have been original, not directly following the others) and is a tangent from the use of the term to refer to an economic system.

[1] e.g., W. B. Greene, Equality, 1849. https://books.google.com/books?id=yCQ3AQAAMAAJ&q=capitalism#...
It's harder to steal paypal account than to trick small merchant with stolen CC
At the end I pictured David, standing on stage, stared at by the audience. After a brief moment of silence, he drops the microphone. A loud crack echoes through the PA, followed by screeching feedback, before the audio engineer remembers to turn down the volume. Meanwhile David turns around, calmly stepping down the stage to be detained by the (Ge)StartupPolice…
C++ Lambdas: Capture Lists and Stateful Closures
> Ubuntu was made the default instance on EC2

Citation needed. If Amazon Linux is still the default, you're wrong. It is based on CentOS, uses RPMs and yum.
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Great to hear! I'd like to fill a similar role in my country, which is always delayed a few years in relation to US: Rails is strong here now!

Related: do you lose sleep worrying if you're going to have to transition to mobile development or something? I suffer from that all the time - the cure is probably Real Clients Paying Money...
My work at GCHQ and the surveillance myths that need busting
>But it is not possible to freeze or confiscate those funds.

That is just a limitation of the Bitcoin protocol. One could build a protocol where communities could agree to freeze (not accept) or greatly devalue those funds.
Off all of this - the act of placing an ecommerce order from EC2 (or from any hosting VPS/server for that matter) should trigger manual review.

This could cut fraud drastically - that is if merchant has any clues about security.
> shows like "Drugs, Inc." whose primarily job is to scare old people with re-enactments of drug crimes. Who would pay for that "value"?

Since we're talking about Murdoch's media assets, this reminds me there's a thriving business in the "news" media based entirely on scaring (mostly) old people with fabricated alarmist stories.
> But you are assuming current truck drivers will have time to migrate to new jobs as those appear

No, and I'm not even assuming that new jobs will appear.

That there will be warning and that there will be much that can be done with the warning are very different ideas; OTOH...

> I really doubt two decades is "gradual" by that measure.

Two decades is enough time for people who are mid- (and often even early, though not quite at the beginning) of a career to retire and not need to worry about a new job, so its potentially gradual enough.
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The open access movement seems connected, in many minds, to the rise of the Internet. But these academic associations could have done the same long ago; a few college students can get together and produce and print magazines by the thousands on a shoestring, so certainly these associations could have printed their own journals. I don't understand how they ended up paying these high prices in the first place. Does anyone know the history of it?
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It's not a problem of learning curve, it's that when you come from something like Jersey, it feels very limited.
Oh... you heard about that?
Docker Networking: Reborn
Systems engineering (not to mention FMEA analysis) will probably drive car manufacturers to use a combination of sensors with independent failure modes: camera, radar, lidar & ultrasonics.

An unexpectedly interesting question is this: Where on the processing pipeline(s) should the point(s) of data fusion lie?, and how should we perform safety engineering on the post-fusion data flow pipeline....
There is a clear bias.

When talking about Java:

> JVM garbage collection is notoriously expensive.

> Java’s known performance issues made it unappealing.

> However, in our past experience, we ported a large system from Java to Go, which greatly decreased its memory footprint and garbage collection overhead.

When talking about Go:

> What remains to be seen, of course, is how all of this Go code will perform.

Yet: The JVM's GC is superior to Go's, Java tends to outperform Go, and a large memory footprint is a necessary evil for getting good performance out of any GC.
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> As part of his first edict, a Code of Conduct may happen

Given the silliness endemic to many Codes of Conduct lately, this had me worried until I read through the message. But he's really just talking about trying to focus emacs-devel@ on development, while moving tangential discussion to another list. (I guess tagging subjects "[OT]" or "[TAN]" would be a bit too retro.)
I like your logic- to make sure startups and corporations are on a level playing field, let's take away everyone's retirement!

It's not about catching up & competing, it's about dragging them down to our level!
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A better comparison would be a situation where Microsoft partnered with a company over an operating system... Like IBM with OS/2 which turned out great, right? haha

Or let's look at when Microsoft partnered with Novell:

http://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-makes-linux-pact-with-nov...

The byline from that article is classic! "Former software foes pledge to work together to help Windows world and Linux world interoperate."

Turned out great for Novell, right? Hah! Does anyone use SuSE anymore? It's market is so tiny it's hard to find statistics for it.

Other fun Microsoft partnerships: Nokia, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Yahoo, Nortel, Sendo, and probably dozens of smaller companies that came & went or are but a fraction of their former selves.

A more interesting thing to track: How is the partnership with Microsoft working out for Docker? I'm really curious what the heck Microsoft is going to do in the next version of Windows Server to actually support realistic containerization.
I'm using tor to post this on an android phone. There's no noticeable speed decrease. Get on it.
Do you really think anyone was "shocked" or that this was "roasting sacred cows"? It basically said " uh you can have a great life without seeking a huge exit, and your chances might be better, too". Do people actually take this stuff that seriously?
>Pensions are almost always better for the worker. The issues on the employer side are almost always a result of underfunding, or “diversion" of employee funds for some short term crisis.

So they're a better deal except when they're not in that you can lose it all or have your benefits drastically reduced through bankruptcy etc.

More broadly, defined-benefit pension plans were designed for a world where you expected to work your career at the same organization. Pensions tend to make it very expensive to move around companies. (Hence, people in the US military sticking around for their 20 year mark for example.) It's very much a related problem to health care being tied to employment.
the blog post they refer to says "psychoactive" which cites in turn a much more authoritative source that says "psychotropic"
> With this portfolio it is really easy to land clients at high rates from the HN whoishiring threads

How do you do that? Do you just look for people hiring for javascript devs and then reach out and offer consulting instead?
MySQL+SlashDB+AngularJS stack wins award for Aruba
I assumed the chamber wasn't perfect just that they reflect enough times to impart the net thrust before escaping.
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How can you tell if its being flagged?
http://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-linux-continues-to-rule-...