skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easy to predict that most people will probably not use this. It's much more fun to talk about why this will be awesome for some.
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From the text of the TPP:
"Party means any State or separate customs territory for which this Agreement is in force;"

So that would seem to not include citizens or corporations of the State itself.

Edit: This is a good general skill to remember in reading/drafting your own contracts. Capitalized terms usually have a definition in the contract that might be different from what you expect.
Nice redesign, just it would be fair to note number of applications who are locked into Guile and they are desperately trying to get rid of it ;) (I know for sure GNUCash is in this category).
So if someone starts following me on the street and gets close enough to put their hand in one of my pockets and just continues on that way every morning I leave my house, for weeks or longer, I don't say, "Hey stranger, I'd like to make an argument why you should afford me some privacy tomorrow." I'd likely say, "Wtf person, you're being the kind of weird that gets the police called on people. Step back. Or better yet, go away to somewhere that I can't see you." But hey, this is the Internet, so let's just all stop thinking as though this all has anything to do with real life.
If you need a car now then the question is redundant, only electric exists.

If you don't need a car now then the question asked today is also redundant, since you'd evaluate the benefits in the future, not now.

Right now you have three viable choices: petroleum, diesel, and electric. A few limited areas also offer natural gas, bio-fuels, etc, but they're niche to set markets.
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Sorry, but the headline ("TPP makes copy left licences illegal" until the mods change it as linkbait) is nonsense. The actual affect of this section is appears to be to prevent governments ("Party" here pretty clearly means a party to the treaty - read "signatory" if that helps) from making proprietary software illegal.

We can argue about whether that's a good thing, but it has no effect on copyleft, as section 3(a) makes clear.
Can we get the title un-editorialized? It's pure flamebait. There's some worthy discussion to have about this clause but it's not going to happen with that title.
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Ask HN: General Web agency question
I have a few questions to ask about web agencies. So if you own/work/hired one before feel free to answer:

First, i used to work as a freelancer in a freelancing platform but had some troubles with it, and realized that its paying 1/10 of the market's price. So i decided to go out on my own. And was wandering if i should present myself as a freelancer or as an agency when i start.

Second, how much is the usual hour price that an agency charges

Third, How do i go about convincing clients to sign a retainer agreement

Fourth, i'm based in North Africa, but will present myself as an international agency since i don't really do work locally, and most of my clients are from the UK and US. And would my position cause me problems in getting contracts or payments

Fifth, what is the usual size of an agency's team. I'd think that 4 should be enough?

Sixth, can i run it on my own and alone? Taking on only as much contracts as i could finish, i already am a fullstack developer and designer, plus i learned a bit about marketing and SEO in the last few years

Seventh, how to go about bringing new clients?

Eighth, how easy is it to establish yourself in the market and start getting clients. Plus how long it would take if your quality of work is good. Since i did a little bit of searching and there are A LOT of agencies out there.

Thank you for reading so far! And i hope that you could give me some valuable advice
You fundamentally misunderstand SR&ED: it has nothing to do with "helping Canadian companies" and everything to do with encouraging companies to do R&D work in Canada. That Joyent Canada is a fully owned subsidiary of a US corporation is immaterial (indeed, SR&ED is designed to attract R&D investment from multinationals not based in Canada!), and as a I learned as part of the audit, the audit that we received is considered "routine" for the first year that a company applies for SR&ED credits. Our consultants didn't think it was a big deal, and Revenue Canada was very polite about it; they (apparently) just wanted to make sure that we employed everyone that we said we employed and that they were engaged in eligible activity (which we did and they were -- it was all fine). But the audit was expensive for us in terms of time, and we made the decision that SR&ED wasn't worth it. That's not nonsense; that's a business decision.
The guy looks like a fraud to me.

The employees should be accountable to the management, and the management in turn should be accountable to the board which in turn they should be accountable to shareholders and believe it or not the General Assembly of shareholders can push for a vote of no confidence for the management and kick them out and elect a new board.

That's how accountability, transparency and good corporate governance work. If you see any reluctance, hesitation, or outright objections from management, that's a sign that there's something wrong with them and they're hiding something.

Also, his anti-shareholder rhetoric could jeopardize his mission as a CEO of the corporations he presides over as it would limit his option of raising capital on the open market esp in times of need because if you treat your shareholders like that and someday you that you need to finance a new project by tapping the equity market through issuing new shares, rest assured the existing shareholders will make you pay for every bad word you said about them while potential ones would be very skeptical of your intentions and ability to deliver due to your awful politics.
Yeah, in the case of the GPL, the exporting person is the one requiring that the source be available, it's not a condition placed on the import by the importing nation.
So if I'm not mistaken, "Party" (capital P) refers to a national signatory of the TPP, right? As opposed to "some guy out there." Wouldn't that mean that this would prevent nation-states from requiring copyleft in order to use or distribute that software? Is there even a threat of that? Or is this perhaps relating to potential requirements that you for example share your source code with the Chinese government in order to sell to customers there?

EDIT: As opposed to, for example, GPL requirements that are imposed on individuals by individuals, not TPP Parties.
I'm not sure if it works that way in real life. Dreamweaver made it really simple to create websites but look at the quality of what was produced. Any good developer would not use this tool even though it did make things simpler
Executives (who have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders) and the public companies they run do not have the right to unrestricted free speech in the same way that the average person does, specifically when it comes to SEC regulated financial reports. In order to have the privelege of raising money by selling stock to the public, the parties involved must abide by rules set forth by the SEC, which are supposed to balance out the information assymetry and skewed incentives between employees and shareholders.

Exxon does include climate change as a risk in their financial reports and legally, if not morally, the executives are doing their job by undermining the public debate. The issue here isn't their propaganda, but whether they based their financial disclosures on propaganda they knew to be false. Exxon is in big trouble if the people responsible for their financial reports (which are signed by a C level executive) based their risk assessment on research that they knew to be fraudulent, even if they can legally fund and publicize that research to mislead the public.
"I wanted a life beyond work. Hobbies, family, and intellectual stimulation and pursuits beyond Hacker News, what the next-next-next JavaScript framework looks like, and how we can optimize our signup funnel."

drops the microphone

What a great article. I am glad someone finally said something.
it is terrible

some stuff to survive in open offices:
https://www.quora.com/What-drugs-do-you-put-into-your-bug-ou...

it is mostly about sport supplements for mental performance and stress resilience. quite long to repost.

warning! the use is somehow violating original instructions, but it is working.

also applicable for software developers work and outdoor activities.
The comment to which you replied was mine.

Yes, I approve of it. Without the ability to compel him to receive medical attention, my friend would have died.
This focuses on the legal designation of terrorism. But outside of that designation, it isn't true that homegrown American groups are not considered terrorists. "Eco-terrorism" is not an unknown phrase in the US, for example. The Weathermen. But I don't think I have ever heard the KKK described as a terrorist organization in any context.

(For a fun exercise, try thinking of extremist groups and who they attack, then match that up with whether or not the group is considered terrorist.)
My point being that a little conflict with my wifi might be ok as long as it's a fair transaction. If I'm freeing the spot for sale and get payed. It would also replace bureaucracy with economics instead, which should be good for optimizing utilization.

The main difference compared to carrier sense is that I'm suggesting a competition based negotiation, not cooperation based. Instead of waiting for a free spot, you buy the spot.

If the unlicensed spectrum is a commons, the problem with uncooperative commoners like this LTE-U thing looks an instance of the tragedy of the commons. In a sense I'm suggesting a form privatization.
Kyocera is not some boutique consultancy, they have 70,000 employees.
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That reminds me of when people used to say, "No one got fired for choosing IBM". Security is an area that Linux has been, and still is, weak at. There needs to be a more concerted, consistent effort to analyze code, especially old code, for security bugs. There needs to be someone a bit grumpy and a bit fucking crazy to nudge Linus and ask if there's a more secure way of doing something.

There are also areas that Linus needs to be more forthcoming about. There needs to be some notification on security holes, so firewall vendors, etc, can develop rulesets to detect and block exploitation attempts before they happen. Additionally, not notifying of security holes makes it harder to analyze whether or not one should expend the resources in testing/deploying a new kernel, or even where to start work on backporting. His desire for security by obscurity is a huge problem here, and really does need to be fixed.
So that's why their older cameras are selling at a heavy discount on Amazon. I thought something was coming around the corner.
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Haskell has an equational type system, and doesn't support subtyping in the same way that big bang does.

(Disclaimer I'm working on big bang, so I'm a bit biased)
> Oil is more important that you're making it out to be.

I never said it wasn't important.

> Also, regulation and taxes are different from prosecution.

Prosecution is the enforcement of regulation. Without prosecution, there is no regulation. (Or taxes, for that matter.)
Article is trying too hard to be clever by half.

I did not use the phrase Day One, but wondered whether the
staff, including presumably Walkie Talkie, had taken a
moment before opening that morning to reflect on Amazon’s
jargon, including that bit of eschatology.

There is a desk labelled Amazon Answers. Presumably the
questions asked of Amazon are answered by a human employee
of the store, though it’s unclear if some sort of Delphic
process involving candles and chanting occurs.

Books are not always arranged in a clear manner. On the
memoir wall Frederick Douglass abuts Anne Frank, herself
next to Ben Carson. Amazon is disrupting the alphabet.
RIP, alphabet.
Nonsense. The first three words are important here: "No Party shall...". The Parties to the TPP are the member states, not the persons within those states.

This is entirely about declaring that China can't say "Microsoft can't sell software here unless they give us their source code". (Yes, China isn't part of the TPP. But the TPP is intended to be a model for future trade deals, so there are lots of clauses which have zero effect on the signatories but will affect China.)
I want to remember. I want to verify the amount of ever withdrawal before it happens.
I don't understand TPP at all. The way I understand it, it exists as a way to counter China PR's threat. However, how good is a trade treaty that doesn't include China PR?

To me, the very exclusion of China PR makes TPP a non-starter. I know we are supposed to have super massive egos here in the US (and most of us do) but realistically we cannot just try to step around China any more than Europe could create United Nations without involving the US.
http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Assuming the leaking hypothesis, the exact amount that is leaking into our universe wouldn't have any particularly meaningfull reason, in the same way that we now understand that their is no particular reason behind the distance between the Earth and the Sun.
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So, question is, where does a government owned / run entity (say, a university, in some countries sit), wrt being a "Party"? It seems to me this could still bring such entities into play if they are seen as acting on behalf of a "Party".
Military (or something in the whole war apparatus) was running networked Windows 2000 in some mission critical role and was worried about being compromised by a cyber counter-attack once they started offensive action.
I was referring implicitly to the fact that China is the single largest coal producer in the world. Setting aside the environmental considerations for a moment here, this is definitely a competitive advantage in electricity generation given that aluminum production is an electric energy intensive activity.
I had trouble opening this link on mobile. Here's the Google search link to get around the paywall that I encountered: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
The vast majority of businesses are not going to fit any of this playbook. The problem is this playbook covers a niche. If you don't want to play that niche game, that's totally fine. However, like me, you will have to look elsewhere to decide what game you DO want to play, and what rules you'll have to live by. Sometimes that's customer focus, sometime's that is volume focus, or diversifying, or a 12 month profitability plan (sometimes longer, like maybe a restaurant).

There's no rules in business but the laws of the land. Pretending that there's one definition of success is very limiting to both focus and opportunity for all of us.
This is utter nonsense.

He simply is an excellent manager. He cut 1/3 of the workforce and began tracking hourly efficiency (presumably to the benefit of the company).

That he's a Buddhist priest is not central to the story.
Chapel Programming Language? By which I mean, Chapel seems like a great project to through support behind to add these feature sets. It is already very capable, had a good amount of resources, a roadmap, and seems that it would lend itself to this.
The difference between Julia and Big Bang is that Big Bang will check your types at compile time. You'll know before any of your code executes whether or not it will yield any type errors.

Edit: (Disclaimer, I work on big bang)
> From Kyocera’s headquarters overlooking the hills and temples of the ancient capital of Kyoto...

Ah yes, that old trope. This is what people think Kyoto looks like: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02657/kyoto_2657...

But it's a city of 1.5m, and this is what it actually looks like: http://nward.com/myworld/places/japan/214.jpg
Exactly. This has long been a contentious issue between US firms and China. IBM recently caved and let Chinese authorities review their source.

http://fortune.com/2015/10/16/ibm-source-code-china/
Is digital strategy an actual thing? REALLY?
"Regarding the cutting of 16,000 jobs, yeah, not grand"

Ya see, Buddhism is all about losing the non-essential. Everything is an illusion, everything is impermanent. Especially your job security. Upon receiving their pink slips, many were enlightened.
Seems like the best way to defeat the American War machine, is to dismantle it's manufacturing sector. Artificially lower <manufactured product> prices by subsidizing production in China, wait for American producers to fold. Wash rinse repeat as necessary.
> 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

It's not a sufficient answer in itself, but it's a good response.

It's a lot harder to compromise a physical system than to compromise a network.

Furthermore, it's a lot harder to compromise a physical system and go undetected than to compromise a network.

Both are possible, but given an offline system with good physical security and an online system with good physical security, you're still better off with the offline version.
I too like sherry-cask scotch--which are your favorite expressions?

(Also, good lord, thank you for tilting at this windmill...Really blocked on Stockfighter?)
Zenefits and Tableau now have engineering offices in Vancouver. Fluke or trend?
A trend of big US companies setting up in Vancouver, that is.

The reason why I have a hunch it could be a fluke is:

1. For Zenefits, the WorkBC job postings (https://www.workbc.ca/Job-Seekers/Employer-Profile/117670/Zenefits-Development,-Inc.aspx) mention the job type as "temporary". It's the company's first office outside of SF so there's a chance the its primary purpose is a L-1 visa holding tank.

2. Tableau's co-founder Chris Stolte is a Vancouver native and an SFU computing science graduate. Maybe he was just homesick.

Further complicating things is the news that Hired.com's Canadian arm (Hired.ca), which went live yesterday, will soon roll out in Vancouver as well (source: http://betakit.com/hired-launches-in-canada-as-talent-crunch-grows/). I can't see how that's not promising, although it's possible that the emphasis is on poaching Vancouver talent for Seattle jobs.

What do you think?
So does this mean a "Party" cannot refuse closed source software used for common features in a business, like email or Desktop OS?
I agree paper wrap is better than plastic wrap, and sadly I'm seeing more and more plastic wrapped ones today.

But most mcdonald in asia and africa have a straw box like this one. http://www.wesellcoffee.com/media/22711%20STRAW%20DISP.jpg

So it's not wrapped at all. Regarding the health issue you mentioned, if people don't mind drinking from glass in a restaurant, why do they mind drinking from unwrapped straws? I believe unwrapped straws in a container is at least as clean as glass from any bar.
It does have a terrible reputation.

"happy" is being used unconventionally.

> [Inamori's] brand of happiness comes from working harder than anyone else. It’s infused with the Buddhist idea of “shojin,” elevating the soul through devotion to a task.
Revenue in itself does not answer that question.

Blackberry (formerly known as RIM) has a revenue of $3+bn. Not doing really well.
Mathematics that makes progress towards a solution. Looking at minimum for non-noisy distributions is just not the problem at hand, heck, you could look at a few graphs and the bias is obvious.

Let's say you have Group A and Group B with distributions where people have EV for the returns on a $1M investment ranging from $0 (lose all your money) to $1B (maybe it gets real thin around $10M), and investors try to invest in anybody with EV > $1M.

But maybe they're biased.

Oh and by the way, the only possible exits are $0 and you sell the company for $1B.

An attempt to make progress towards a solution would be better off targeting this model problem. Now you're attacking the noise head on.
You value your friend more than you do the people who were killed because someone else lied to the police.

But I don't.
Are there universities that can impose legal restrictions on imports?
I work with a platform that fits exactly into the big iron use case. A typical machine will host millions to billions of rows of transactional data in memory. The round time from a user interaction to fully joined (across several or dozens of tables), aggregated (across several dimensions), and visualized data rendered by the client browser is expected to be less than 2 seconds. Each second of wait is an exponential cost to user experience. Yes, you have a single machine with dozens to hundreds of GB of RAM. You also have a responsive analytics experience, and that value makes it all worthwhile.
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Those variables you listed account for 65.1 and 76.4 percent of raw gender wage gap [1]. The real 4.8 to 7.1 percent wage gap is what is left over after removing factors, and is attributed to gender.

You first claimed that there is no gender wage gap, and in the face of the evidence you're creating hypotheticals to say it's not a true gender wage gap (i.e. no true scotsman). Do you know what confirmation bias is?

[1] http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20...
That is the calculation I used over the course of a few months to switch from being a teacher to going all-in on my office design website.

At the time I was pretty burnt out from teaching, ended up moving to a new city and was doing a few temp jobs to make some extra cash. The risk was low enough at that point that the website was almost a no brainer. I'm pretty confident that had I been in a good spot career-wise at the time, I would likely have either never kept my side project going.
Oh I agree about Oberon and GPU's. My argument is for mainstream market for software in desktops and mobile. The ISA usually does matter.

Now, if we're talking GPU's, the effective ISA would be DirectX, OpenGL, OpenCL, etc. They're the standards that software and tooling target. So, does you product get by with not supporting any of those? Or do you have to comply with the your niche's standard interfaces and ecosystems, too?
> If you don’t treat security like a religious fanatic, you are going to be hurt like you can’t imagine. And Linus never took seriously the religious fanaticism around security,

Well that's an argument that I want to take seriously.
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LTE-U will first seek out channels with no incumbent Wi-Fi (or LTE-U) access points. If no clear channel is found, it'll seek the least occupied one, then evaluate how many other transmitters are using it. It'll then use the channel for a an amount of time proportional to that total number of transmitters. So if sharing with 2 other Wi-Fi access points, it'll take one third of the time. The result is that the impact of LTE-U on Wi-Fi is no more than the impact of Wi-Fi on Wi-Fi.