skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not just make it all licensed? I imagine we could solve the coordinatin problem in some fair manner potentially even letting people get payed for not using spectrum.

Establish some kind of protocol for negotiating where in devices acting on behalf of interested parties (you, your neighbors, the local telco) continuously negotiate for spectrum and power. The winner for a slot pay the other parties for their slot.

It's not like violators can hide, so it should be pretty easy to enforce compliance.
You'd probably like "Start Small Stay Small" by Rob Walling.

http://www.amazon.com/Start-Small-Stay-Developers-Launching/...
"Finally, I have discovered a horrible, rather brutal method that I recommend only to men of excessive vigor, men with thick black hair and skin covered with liver spots, men with big square hands and legs shaped like bowling pins."
I feel like everyone in this thread is willfully misunderstanding this article.

Her argument is that it's inherently democratic and leveling to teach the humanities to all students.

Moreover, the humanities contribute to a stronger democracy, whether it's through the development of empathy, or whether it's in the ability to read an argument and understand the writer's point (such as in this article).

And it is the poor students, particular though push into pre-professional degrees, that miss out on this sort of education.
In case anyone wants it, I created an epub of it.

https://r.kyaa.sg/vknoez.epub
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Willing to sell it.
I didn't downvote you, so I don't know why people are incapable of civil discussion.
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Also, "self-discovery" works only for those that have the luxury to explore without the pressures to support themselves or their immediate family.

Not every writer or artist is embedded in academia. Robinson's point is that we as a culture are becoming more utilitarian, and therefore losing any sense of the importance of the arts. Certainly, she is most interested in the university setting, but I think her critique applies outside of the academy as well.
As for example, the "extra" on the front page of Göteborgs Posten, titled "Minister: Flyktingboenden slut" and linking to http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/1.2887462-minister-boenden-... . The Local covers it in English, t http://www.thelocal.se/20151105/sweden-urges-refugees-to-sta... , ("Sweden can no longer guarantee refugee beds").
Your very insistence that you have the only right point of view on this makes me even more against ever allowing anybody who thinks like you the power to involuntarily commit anybody.

The USA, for all it's flaws, is supposed to be based on the idea that the people are not subservient to the Government's goals, but instead, the Government is subservient to the peoples' rights. That they can only be deprived of their rights through due process of law, as passed by elected legislature. Not a "scientific" book written by people who have no accountability to the population as a whole.

I fear you would not understand how important this is unless you yourself were involuntarily committed. It may well already be true that a malicious individual with enough knowledge could look at your current lifestyle and find a justification for committing you and injecting you with things against your will. I'm sure that such a thing could happen under the rules that you seem to advocate. I hope such a thing never happens to you, but I fear that there are many people who would not see the importance until it does.

It's as much a part of the human condition that power corrupts as it is that we are subject to mental illnesses at times. Many say that it will never happen here. I say that (to quote a line from Battlestar Galactica) all of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.
That was the point of my post. You _can't_ say this or that based on a small sample size; there will almost always be a counter example in sociology (and in most sciences).
A small correction: GHC uses plenty of type tagging information. In fact, its metadata overhead is relatively high.
>> And in Windows 2000 it had a huge gaping hole. It was enabled by default. On all versions.

Following "it was done this way for a reason, even though it might not make sense", what was the rationale behind some of the defaults/decisions Microsoft made in their NT4/2000 days?

The complete opposite of something like OpenBSD where most everything is disabled by default.
My thoughts on why is pure conjecture but I'll add that there are many such common misunderstandings. Chasing growth is another, which is why I'm very happy for this Startup Playbook. So many people do do not realize growth is STEP TWO AND YOU CANNOT SKIP STEP ONE:

"Your goal as a startup is to make something users love. If you do that, then you have to figure out how to get a lot more users. But this first part is critical—think about the really successful companies of today. They all started with a product that their early users loved so much they told other people about it. If you fail to do this, you will fail. If you deceive yourself and think your users love your product when they don’t, you will still fail.

The startup graveyard is littered with people who thought they could skip this step."
I think it's appropriate in this case. Paul started Gmail inside of Google as a side project. At first most people were not a supporter, including Marissa Mayer and other peers. He was scratching an itch though and eventually got Larry and Sergey on board which helped the cause and eventually grew into what it is today.

So with that, there are a lot of similarities into what we'd call a founder today. While financially there wasn't a big risk, it was still a product he was passionate about and created from nothing.
any examples of it being the other way around ?
Not when uninstalled/disabled.
>do we really need more indebted baristas with English degrees?

I feel like you're making a value judgement here that isn't entirely fair. The biggest shock to me after graduating (with a degree in Electrical Engineering degree suma cum laude from a top 5 engineering school) is how much a crock of utter shit the much spouted "STEM shortage" was. Not only are there plenty of graduates, the actual duties involved in the over whelming majority of the available jobs could be done by next to anyone.

When your indebted baristas are just as qualified for highly lucrative positions like enterprise software engineering it's a cultural problem not an individual problem.

As an aside, the smart companies are using this to make bank. I work in enterprise software for a major financial institution and these liberal arts majors are a gold mine. They spend the same amount in training that they would on any fresh hire but, because of lack of opportunities available for humanities graduates, can lock them into lower starting salaries and stricter performance metrics.

I feel like it's only a matter before the rest of technology catches up and realizes how much money they are leaving on the table by only hiring people that can code a red-black tree on the white board to develop their CRUD apps and maintain their databases.
I've posted two:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9335799 - Ozette, text-mode programming editor; as is totally unsurprising for a project with such a narrow appeal, it didn't get much attention. Don't care, it's still by far the most successful piece of code I've ever written as far as my own personal usage goes, since I've had at least one instance of it running full-time on every computer I've touched for the last year. Nothing quite as satisfying (or frustrating) as an editing environment entirely customized to your own taste.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10411756 - startc, a minimal freestanding C runtime library for 32-bit x86 PCs; got a lot of attention, including a lead on a job offer (though I'm not looking right now). Just a small piece of a bigger project, but still, fun to throw it out there and get some positive feedback.
And Craigslist. And ReadMe.io.
I think you are being purposefully obtuse. Of course Jeff the amazing coder who punches people in the face does not meet hiring standards. No one is discounting the value of multiculturalism, but you have to acknowledge the cultural diversity of tech companies mirrors the cultural diversity of tech workers. The cultural diversity of tech workers mirrors the cultural diversity of tech students in college, which mirrors the cultural diversity of high-achieving high school students.

The problem exists in parts of the society that technology can't fix, but law and education might. It doesn't help that the criminal justice system is statistically racist and that lack of cohesive families due to the consequences of povertous conditions causes children from those families to perform less well in school.

If you want better diversity in better-paying fields, the most impactful change would be to end the war on drugs, which contributes the most to poverty and incarceration. I don't see how the tech community can do that by themselves and the full effect won't even be measurable in the tech community until a generation later.
Funny how decisions which financially benefit the developer have a way of "accidentally" being activated by default. The automatic downloading of the Windows 10 update. Or these bundled Telefonica extensions in Firefox.
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> There could be hundreds and thousands of small businesses, say in a certain FMCG market in different local ares. A tech market with hundreds or thousands product businesses catering to a same target audience, probably, doesn't exist at all. Product companies tend to either grow or whither. Centralization is the norm.

Each local area is a separate market. Those types of businesses have limited geographical range, and a given range can only support a handful in a specific segment. For a technology business, the market is usually not limited by geography. Fundamentally, it is the same principal: a given market can only support a limited number of players.

Now, the size of the market may preclude traditional small business growth models. It depends on how tied to locality a particular business idea is. I could see, for instance, something like Homejoy working on the scale of a single metro area. In fact, having dozens of metro-area-sized Homejoys might actually work better than a single, national incarnation.
I think for bigger projects you really have to think about what your UX is going to be. Sometimes you want UX and features so different for devices that looking to share code at all costs can result in a lot of useless code in the builds but if your project is going to use a similar UX I think this paradigm works.

About the 90% of code inside the render functions, it made me think about the time where people were complaining about huge Angular controllers. I agree that render function can be large sometimes but I think that if 90% of code component is in the render function, you should probably move some code to the stores.
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Not to my knowledge. That's why I use the CanvasBlocker extension [1], which prevents websites from abusing canvas tags to fingerprint me.

I'd like to see a comprehensive effort to prevent fingerprinting without having to resort to simply blocking the canvas element altogether.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/canvasblocker...
But Facebook is free for consumers and costs for organizations. The reach is not valued zero at all, I have no idea what are you talking about, you just described the way FB works.

Without paying it's impossible to get your message out to your page fans, it doesn't work that way for long time anymore.
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It's great to see that the OSC module is being added to JUCE! In our lab we are working on adding OSC support to OpenEphys (an electrophysiology software that uses JUCE). Currently we need to bundle or statically link oscpack on Mac and Windows, but with OSC support built into JUCE we won't have to deal with that anymore.

By the way, does anyone know of a good comparison of OSC and ØMQ (ZMQ)? I'm curious about when to use which of the two in terms of latency and ease of use, apart from that OSC is built for audio while ØMQ appears to be more general purpose.
Why can't they produce some samples and let the FCC and an independent body of engineers determine if there really is going to be an issue?

Sending out letters with promises doesn't mean squat.
I think it also matters in the environment the child is told it in? For instance, being told "you're smart" and then just let to sit there and finish quickly the work it takes everyone else longer, where you just twittle your thumbs or blaze through homework as a chore so that you can do other things because "you're smart (it's ok you don't try)" can be damaging.

I just had a child. If they are "smart" (given my wife and I we can only hope!) I want to try to press them more and not just let them not try beyond a minimal amount of effort. Sure, it'll be time-intensive on my part, but I want to see them pushed. My issues come from hitting a problem I should be "smart enough" to solve but can't do it in an instant and get frustrated.
> This will require inline styles instead of class names, though

That's probably not a bad thing; at the moment there's duplication of inline styles for the mobile view and styles in a CSS file for the web/desktop.
Just a headsup,a link inside the article about a video of an airplane wing failing has gone bad and now leads to a malware site.
A recent headline: "China debuts new commercial airliner to compete with Boeing 737"
http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/3/9665924/china-new-commerci...

I'm not sure there are necessarily broad conclusions to be made from this, but what strikes me is the thought that in the long run knowledge diffuses everywhere and the economic advantages may get reduced down to physical constraints on energy and materials. In that case, nations that vertically integrate with their own key industries may be the most independent. Of course, it's arguable which industries are key.
I can relate to the open office space fiasco. I have spend many years working in them.

However, it isn't always an easy problem to solve for companies either, office space can be quite expensive and to give every developer (let alone every person) a private office is in most scenarios just not going to be financially viable.

Having said, it should be doable for most companies to have at least a "loud" and a "quiet" space, i.e. two open spaces in stead of one. This gives workers at least some choice in which environment they prefer to work and it should be feasible for most companies out there.
These are different departments. The people concerned about Mint come from Risk, Fraud, Security, and IT. They don't decide overdraft fees.
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While both humans and animals may practice empathy, cooperation, or other behaviors that help them as individuals or groups to survive or thrive, this falls short of 'morality'.

Morality is positions about what one should do: eg "one should not murder humans for sport". Hume's observation of the Is-Ought problem shows us that we cannot reason "humans practice X therefore humans should practice X" as we similarly cannot reason "humans believe X therefore X is objectively the case".

Saying that animals or humans practice empathy is merely observing something they do, the "Is". We can't say "humans sometimes practice empathy therefore humans should practice empathy" like we can't say "humans sometimes practice violence therefore humans should practice violence".

You could add a condition, such as "If humans do not want to be put in jail by society, then they should not murder (or at least get caught having murdered)". But this is known as Hypothetical Morality, and with dependence on the conditions it becomes merely advice about cause and effect and is to be ignored by those who don't find the conditions compelling.
I'm still working on it, but letting myself be "OK", truly "OK" with not being able to finish things quickly, or with things that aren't easy, or tasks I haven't finished or had to give up on due to being in over my head or lack of time. Being "OK" with yourself is a very difficult thing.
Patents are for inventions. For mechanisms. It's only in the last few decades that it has been otherwise.
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That would be fascinating. Plus you could recreate it.
I don't know how react for android works and I don't know if the "trick" I used for the builds would work with react for android. Maybe it would need to rethink the build system. But the good news is that people are interesting in making it, so we will see the result.
> I was reacting to the definition of "lifestyle business" not the label.

I don't know about you, but personally I get annoyed when people create a false dichotomy between a startup and a "lifestyle business". Not everyone who declines to play the VC game is a "lifestyle business". It should also not be a dirty word, which is the way it comes across to me sometimes.
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I don't like permanently working in my home office. I need other folks around me most times to really keep me productive.

My current pattern is to WFH 1-2 days a week, good for days with kids appointments or if I have back-to-back calls (e.g. from 6AM-2PM).
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You say "if they pay the same percentage." But they don't pay the same percentage. Warren Buffet famously pointed out that he pays a lower percentage than his secretary. Rich people make most of their money via strategies (like capital gains) that avoid the normal income tax.
Hm, this is actually a great response. I can't think of a good counter argument. It would be interesting to see someone with more technical or legal experience to comment on the implications of this
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> $900+ is a LOT for a phone though.

Absolutely, but also, sort of not. After all, you'd want a decent phone, that sets you back say around $200 nowadays. The $700 then is really the premium you're paying.

Now you mentioned the 4S. It's still worth $100, whereas the resale value on a $200, 4 years later, is probably pretty much zero in comparison.

So now you're paying a $150 premium per year for the top of the line phone. Per month it'd be about $12.50 to have the latest tech instead of say the Moto G (sweet entry level phone).

Is that excessive or a lot? Well if you're earning a few k a month and you're on your phone 10% of the time, not really. Comparing it to say the cost of your car, your food (a $12.50 lunch), your entertainment (a $12.50 movie ticket) etc, puts it into perspective.

Anyway don't get me wrong, I'm on an iPhone 4 myself haha. I just don't have a need right now and raised on little, $12.50 is substantial when your disposable income is near zero, so I totally get it's a lot. But for a large portion of Americans who are on their phone a lot, the cost-benefit for this purchasing decision is tremendously positive.

Isn't the base model $750 btw instead of $900? Pretty sure it was. Of course you'd need to buy a plan as well.
You can be rich in the absence of law and organized society, too. You just have to be rich enough to hire/inspire the goons to keep the peasants cowed.
That's great. This has been my life, finding the easy wins, and when they stop working, moving on to the next. This is one of the points that characterize me as soft.
This is absolutely true. I've done differential expression analysis on many RNA-seq and microarray datasets, and despite the fact that the basic pipeline for such analysis is quite straightforward and easily automated, every analysis is asking different biological questions and has different confounding factors that need to be addressed, so the analysis of each dataset ends up being quite different from all the others.
I hope you're not thinking of using Turtle or XML for defining packages in this system, as I would need to fork your project and define my packages in JSON-LD. I would also need to submit a proposal to the w3c to include 'rdf:SchemeLiteral' into the standard for compatiblity with existing infrastructure.
Big thread-https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10510562
> A little child labour, that's OK

This may be an unpopular opinion, but what's wrong with child labor under proper conditions? Only 50 years ago and even today in the country side children have been working the land alongside their parents.

And even though I don't agree with exploited children and this rule sounds good, there is such a thing as the sovereignty of a country, so I'm surprised that such rules made it into a trade agreement at all.
About the paradigm I already answered before, I think you need to analyse your UX/features in order to avoid useless code in builds.

You are right about flux/redux question, I started this project 3 months ago and let it on the side for a long time, but I would definitely go with Redux if I had to redo it now. Same for a bigger project. I have never used Alt so I can't tell.
So Telefonica is just doing this because they're really nice guys and aren't trying to increase the visibility of their products? And the Mozilla Foundation took on the extra code debt only because they were 100% convinced users wanted these extensions and not because they received a sizable donation from their partner to have it installed and on the toolbar by default with no way to completely remove it unlike every other extension.