skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the US, labor protections have been continuously eroded since at least the 80s, as the US Republican party has worked tirelessly (and overtly) to promote corporate interests at the expense of workers, and the Democratic party has often joined them without advertising it (for both parties, that’s where the money is).

It's really how it has to be. Collective bargaining ultimately stifles innovation. It's really hard to come up with new business concepts if there's this giant body of law, regulation, and tradition that governs every way someone can contribute to an economic venture. I personally would hate for web development to become a unionized field, ultimately that would reduce my options rather than increase them. Every job becomes pretty much the same.

Given a choice between US-style employment and European-style, I'd pick US. There is a lot I can do to alter the terms of my employment. I can contract, start my own firm that hires only me, I can accept full-employment and negotiate perks. No relationship is unalterable and sacrosanct. To put it succinctly, I prefer to retain my bargaining ability rather than delegate it to someone else.

Obviously I have a very privileged position in society and the less-privileged would probably choose more stable unionized jobs. But I wasn't born rich. I didn't graduate college. My options really do come from the society I live in rather than the circumstances of my birth within that society.

The problem is that it's all or nothing, and once you start going in one direction, it's really hard to turn the ship around. I think ultimately Anglo-style fungibility of labor will, over time, find market solutions to the problems of the lower class, and not have to resort to political solutions except to retain worker mobility.

Freedom of information makes it really hard for abusive practices to stay in the shadows, and also allows the social norm to shift over time. It offers most of the advantages of collective bargaining without the stifling political intrusion. So we get a pendulum effect in which things get worse in one direction, but public attention forces things to get right again, and everybody benefits from the norm shift.
How on earth does a simple PHP application warrant being packaged exclusively using Docker?
They're all bad; problem solved.
This is interesting in the context of American History. Basically, a majority of settlers were Calvinists. A big part of Calvinist belief was "predestination" which basically holds that a person's destiny (heaven or hell) is determined by God before they are born. This would seem to me to reinforce a "fixed mindset". Paradoxically, out of that same belief system came the "Protestant work ethic" which depending on who you ask made America the greatest country on Earth. I think that one could argue that the "fixed mindset" enabled a sort of wishful thinking attitude: believers though they were predestined so they focused on growth and self improvement over the usual Catholic traditions (which focused on a growth mindset in religious observance while having a more fixed mindset in practical work ethics).
A Deep Learning Dissenter Thinks He Has a More Powerful AI Approach
> property management company is so cheap

5-10% of gross scheduled rents is cheap? Maybe if your market allows you to collect a huge amount of surplus, then that could be true. I would expect a large portion of small property owners became accidental landlords when they ended up with an extra house, and are just hoping to break even on the cash flow, and banking on equity accumulation and capital appreciation to make the whole enterprise worthwhile. Paying a property manager puts that at risk.
I don't care how you define good and bad; that's not the topic. You asked how he categorized wealthy as worse spenders than government, the answer is the size of the group. More people equals better spending decisions because it's less centralized. So are you anti-government, or anti-central planning? Because you can have defacto central planning without a government; that's what extreme wealth is, defacto central planning. Sometimes giving the government the money to spend is the more decentralized option.
I grew up with Star Wars. The first three movies were pretty good. I've never been able to finish any of the other three. The new one doesn't interest me, so I won't be going to see it in the theater.

From what I've observed, the new movie is being very heavily marketed. Facebook now has the option to stick a light saber on your profile picture. The merchandise is all over the larger stores. In my opinion, it's mostly hype due to its prevalence from marketing.
Bayesian Logic Programming
Unpacking that slightly. First, an oil glut is not a general glut, so it's possible that the demand for oil has shifted elsewhere. I don't agree that an ad campaign for national gas guzzler travel would increase oil prices, because it's very unlikely that such a campaign would work, and even if it did, it would be a poor choice of resource spend.

Going back to a general glut - and I hate the term - of course it is possible to have an economy-wide contraction where production overwhelms demand temporarily. This is possible from external shocks (eg war, disaster) or persistent interference (eg Venezuela). Such a scenario is generally best resolved by solving the cause of the shock and doing everything to let the market clear. Most of the time this will be temporary and conditions will resolve, if not at the speed at which makes everything happy. I think the key thing here is that while there will be demand for other production at some point, it's necessarily a case of timing and there is likely to be a lag before new preferences are developed. The key here for future prosperity is not to borrow and spend on what is already not wanted, or to borrow and spend on pointless spending just for the sake of making money move.

The alternative is if an economy dropped to a new, lower level of production by choice, such as if everyone decided to lower their production and consumption and consciously not increase it again. You'd then get reversing economic growth, but then that would be the intention as results from people choosing less.
Or more specifically in networking "another layer of encapsulation".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Extensible_LAN
Which is a fixed mindset again, no?
Fine WhatsApp?
Really? In Another country, with another set of laws?!

Because you see that where? any US lawers suing let me see.. any russian company?
What outrage? Simply teaching you some respect, as well as some factual accuracy.
What's Infobip pricing for numbers and SMS in US?
Ask HN: What's wrong with big pharma?
I just read about Martin Shkreli in the news recently and it reminded me of how he still hasn't reduced the prices of the Daraprim drug. So like, why is it that when I hear the term "pharmaceutical company" I associate nonpleasantness? Why is there no significant startup challenging this sector?
Fixed data leak! Looking into exception!
Most of those stories came out of the unusual "heist", where in the months prior to July 2012 thieves took the equivalent of 10,000 barrels of syrup from a warehouse in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, around 25 km north of Victoriaville, which is about halfway between Montreal and Quebec City, on the South Shore of the St. Lawrence.

The other stories mostly concern the conflict between some producers and the Federation of Maple Syrup Producers, which is a legal cartel akin to the Canadian Wheat Board.
They kind of have to be. They forbid using their OSes on non-Apple hardware.
SSL being installed right now - for some reason thought Heroku provided that, but I misread!
GCHQ Gaffer database goes open source
Which is based on ancient Jewish judiciary rules about unanimous decisions among a Bet Din.
I mean, print cartridges are expensive! They're only making ".35" profit anyway
Sounds reasonable, how much tax do I have to pay?
I thought the tradeoffs of the Beam VM (soft real-time) meant that "fast" would always be preceded by "not very". Unless you mean compared to Ruby?
Social Security runs a surplus.
It's been about 5 years since I was a regular Windows user, but I can't think of a single Qt app I used on a regular basis. Care to name some examples?
Hm, I continued my research and got some info as to the difficulty of producing and distributing drugs:

https://www.quora.com/How-can-Martin-Shkreli-buy-the-sole-ri...
Hi eecks, you mean of the integrations?
> can you explain more?

Sure, here's how Signal implements forward secrecy in their messaging apps:

https://whispersystems.org/blog/asynchronous-security/

Unlike Telegram, Signal is end-to-end encrypted, which means that Signal themselves cannot read your messages, and therefore could not be compelled to divulge them. Because of forward secrecy, even if recordings of an encrypted exchange are made (and as far as I can tell Signal does not record them), they cannot be later decrypted with a compromised key.
Pushing fix for exception message now! (I should be paying you for exceeding what my user testing didn't uncover!)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_timeline_from_Big_Ba...
But its not a lawful subpoena.

What's app is a America n company, so it should only respond to American supoenas. Just as a American judge should not be able to order a Brazilian company to do anything before having it go though the Brazilian courts.
Yeah, had to do it too, but it's actually fixed, seems both of us are victims of outdated docs as support responded with a link to a neeer version on Github which has this issue solved.

https://github.com/Backblaze/B2_Command_Line_Tool
Yeah, I didn't think Stripe even worked without your site being SSL. Please just make the whole site SSL.
I'm not sure that anyone actually reads the "flavor text" on most standard signs in the US, you mostly go by shape or whatever once you know the shapes, so I doubt there's any real cognitive overhead associated with reading the signs. (By contrast, the lack of even units on European speed limit signs always makes me think they are route markers...)
What he did was extremely impressive. But he's up against really high expectations. People expect him to have made massive breakthroughs in self driving car technology. Against that expectation, it doesn't seem so impressive.
Their income would be less than the $100k. They would have incurred expenses when they provided the services.

I paid $100k, the provider took the $100k and spent $60k. This means they declare $40k income.

The company pays $12k tax.

The Goverment gives $55k to my hypothetical company.
GPP – Generic Preprocessor
Just added a demo account - username:demo, password:demo

I can only imagine what kind of scuff will be put into it, but feel free to play around!

I'll also be posting this on the registration or pricing page. Thanks!
I'm really curious. I've been using Signal for years, and it's been much much better than the default app on my phone (not to mention more secure). What's so good about Telegram? I've avoided it because of its suspicious encryption.
The Newest V3 ESDP8266 Dev Board Based on ESP-12F
> If we live as if there is a point, life will be more fun and more interesting, and that's good enough for me.

How do you trick yourself into believing there is a point to life when you believe there is none and all the evidence, to you, appears to support it?
It's pretty much dead now, but Microsoft Research had a project called Singularity (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/). It's an entire OS implemented in Spec#, which is a subset of C# + Code Contracts. It was built so that contracts between programs could be statically verified when compiled, allowing applications to all run in the kernel's address space.
Planes are more complex than cars. Drivers react to road surprises far faster than 10s, when making a decision to brake or swerve
Plan 9: The Way the Future Was (2003)
I think you should do one month free on all plans - you don't need a free plan. One month would give a potential customer the chance to use it for one month's rent.

I'd like to try it without having to enter a credit card, but the choice is yours to require it upfront or ask for it after the trial period.

As mentioned elsewhere, you really need to put the site under SSL. Stripe checkout is not secure without it.

I'd like to see more info before signing up. I was really hoping tenants could pay online, but that doesn't look like a feature.

A cool feature would be helping to make a craigslist add from the property info and photos. Even it's a cut/paste this code deal.

Good luck!
The payment portion is under SSL, Stripe won't work without it from my understanding either (let's hope not anyways!). Fixing ASAP.
This is a kind of weird objection. No one thinks about anything other than feeding a baby if you show them a baby bottle. No one would know what you were going for if you just had a glyph of tits, and anything more precise would be needlessly complicated.
A Brazilian company with a presence in the US could absolutely be subject to a US court order without any court in Brazil needing to be involved. You don't get to dodge the laws of a country you're operating in just because your HQ is in some other country.
> Anyone else find that in this new streaming age they listen to a lot less music?

Yes, +1. Bulk of my tracks are same old tracks that I used to tune in a decade ago in CD or cassette form. Radio is closest to what introduces me to new music, but they are limited and the decay is quick. May be quantity is lot more than what I(/we) can consume.
It looked like the VLP-32. The VLP-16 is pretty new, I am surprised it's already available, last time I checked it wasn't. Google cars use the VLP-64 which costs 70+k.
Nothing compels you except for all your friends and family expecting you to use it.

I would also suggest so few social networks succeed that it's nearly impossible to draw conclusions about them. As a counterpoint, tumblr is within an order of magnitude of the size of fb and they allow complete anonymity.
"Overseas" in that context would be the US, right? :-)

We have exactly that problem with Facebook and other big US companies in Europe (Uber comes to mind): they act in Europe (and do damage here), but hide in the US. Oftentimes not even replying to court orders, because hey, what can a lowly regional court judge from Germany do, right?

If you want to play here, comply with our laws. If you don't, then don't be surprised if your business is shut down.

I can totally understand the attitude of the Brazilian judge, even if the result is terrible. But suddenly he is paid attention! Chapeau!
Lexmark should not be allowed to purchase labor in Mexico for any less than it would cost in the United States. That would solve the problem neatly.
Fun app, but it's like they chose all the buzzwordy tech from two years ago that frontend devs no longer use. Bower? Jade? Gulp? CoffeeScript? Polymer?

And for what? The mobile page is just a single button with an accelerometer listener and websockets / webrtc glue, it shouldn't need any of those. The desktop page is mostly Three.js for loading and rendering the textures, and also the communication with the phone. What advantage does Polymer have over just writing normal ThreeJS and some vanilla js?
Far too many opinions shaped by bad sci-fi than by reality.

There won't be genetically altered sub-humans for menial labor -- we couldn't possibly pay them any less than the near nothing we already pay Bangladesh serfs. Not to mention we already can't employ enough people thanks to increasing automation. We can only be thankful that in the next few decades the robots will be even cheaper.

The "Gattica" scenario is essentially inevitable, however it won't be so bitterly divided. Crispr is too easy and cheap, the elite won't be able to keep it all too themselves for long.

Of course there will always be regular humans simply b/c they choose to stay that way. They will not be discriminated against for who they are, but they may find themselves struggling to keep their "habitats". Then again, if we ever get off this rock that might not be as much a problem either. It will be interesting to see if, 100 years from now or so, protected spaces are designed for regular old humans to exist undisturbed by modern man.

Our biggest concern should be the use of this technology by the military industrial complex. If we don't put a stop to those nuts, the future isn't going to matter in any shape or form b/c their isn't going to be one.
There is no such thing as a Brazilian green card. Green card is a figure of speech that is mostly used to refer to US permanent residency. Other countries often just call it PR.
Facebook using dubious tactics to garner support for FreeBasics platform
Drver heart attack aka computer sensor failure.
Migrating from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8 – Get Your Facts Straight (Webinar)
Worst-case, you'd have to process input at a sustained rate of (140×250×1000000)/(24×3600) = 405093 B/s.

I certainly hope your system can manage 400kBps throughput.
JRebel for Android
Now AI Machines Are Learning to Understand Stories
They mention using Neo4j instead of a relational database. Recently I needed to implement a friendship data model, and started off using Neo4j because it seemed like the best tool for the task, but ended up using essentially the following model in Postgres:

CREATE TABLE friendship (
person1 INT NOT NULL,
person2 INT NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (person1, person2),
CHECK (person1 < person2)
);
CREATE INDEX friendship_person2 ON friendship(person2);

CREATE VIEW friendship_view AS
SELECT person1 AS person, person2 AS friend
FROM friendship
UNION
SELECT person2 AS person, person1 AS friend FORM friendship;

taken from here: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20141111201127.d80b6bc4...

What do you folks think? It seems like this would be the densest way to store the relationship, using the checked constraint trick with the IDs so you don't need duplicate records to store Alice and Bob's friendship as {A -> B, B -> A} if the friendship is inherently bidirectional (vs a followed/follower model), and doesn't preclude one from storing the data in another isomorphic structure that might be optimized for specific queries. I'm sure it's possible to replicate this with Neo4j, but it felt cumbersome programming that in Java versus expressing that in SQL. But I'd really like to use Neo4j in an OLTP environment, but still haven't had enough of an impetus yet because WITH RECURSIVE in postgres works well if the recursion depth is capped.
Azure recently added it for logging scenarios. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-storage-release...
I completely agree with this what a fantastic post, really liked the syntax and formatting -- But arguably the feedback you get from PH is more "curated" because of its limited number of commenters (hence the discrepancy).
FWIW, Azure supports Append Blobs: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2015/04/...
There has been enough evidence to show that Facebook is intimating friends that you supported FreeBasics even if you have not clicked.
Also, is it right for a platform to push its agenda on its customers? They did not sign up for this. This is FB trying to influence a policy that can affect a country
Isn't that kind of what Android does?
AI based self driving car
> experience while you're alive, because who cares what happens once we're dead?

> so why not focus in on a timescale that'll actually be interesting?

By that logic, it would follow that you should spend all of your money on hookers and blow tonight and shoot yourself come morning. Then the rest of your life will be 100% interesting and enjoyable and the part afterwards is irrelevant.

Edit: I mean the general 'you' not the personal 'you'. Just pointing out that happy growth-minded people don't really believe those quotes or they would live very differently.
Does this still have the nasty side-affect of meaning anyone using Google email services can't send you regular calendar invites by email any more?

When I made the mistake of creating a google account using an existing email address, they apparently created a google calendar account for me, and then any Gmail/Google Apps email invites sent to my email address, never reached me, because they would get diverted straight to this Google calendar account I had no knowledge of, or desire for.
The way society's going, we're heading towards nothing. Even in the tech industry, if you're not a coder, you're going to be dealing with a completely different sort of life. Support people, entry level IT people, etc are brought in as contractors, which means that the protections that you get as a programmer are things they don't have. As your company makes more and more money, they are stuck with a barely livable wage, because too many CEOs don't want to think about those jobs that "anyone" can do. This stratification is getting worse, and something really does need to change.
Time to switch to Telegram!
My situation is almost identical to recursive. I upgraded to Windows 8, right when it came out. Hated the jarring dual interface. But the only thing I had to do was install Classic Shell[0]. And I was back to the familiar Windows. Practically nothing else changed from the UI perspective. The same with Windows 10 as well. I'm addicted to the Win32 based Start menu and the ability to right click files and folders from search results. So I installed Classic Shell over the new Metro based Start Menu and everything is back to normal again. Plus, I don't miss out on the speed and security improvements.

[0] http://classicshell.net/
For a moment I stopped to wonder what kind of mind reading capabilities their clients have, if even their sockets could tell when the viewer isn't receiving :)
The license seems to be "very illegal", as this is a fork of the NT4 source code leak.
This announcement is about the developer login, not the user login.

Firebase apps can keep on logging users in via github, facebook, many others, and yes also google. It's up to the firebase dev to config that.
He said for testing. Not for training the neural network. But just seeing how it behaves in various situations, to find it's flaws, and see if it's ready for the road.
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I think he meant before he could contractually have a paypal account.
In my experience, this was not hard to bypass as a minor...
This is the best means of subversion against those who would commit acts of corruption in office.
It hits profits first and hardest. Raise it significantly and it also causes prices to rise. Raise it to stupendous levels (in the US probably > $40-50 hr) and it eventually causes unemployment.

Realistically speaking, though, most arguments are over minimum wage hikes that only affect profits and won't even have a minimal effect on prices. $10 -> $12 isn't even going to cause prices to rise, let alone have an effect on employment. It'll go straight from profits to paychecks.

I can think of only one instance where raising the minimum wage actually affected employment, actually, and that was because it was set at first world levels in a third world environment.
As far as I can tell permanent residency in India is only available to persons of Indian origin or former citizens of India.