skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you show up to work and there is a cardboard box on your desk and someone from HR loitering by (if your keycard even worked)
How about All Quiet on the Western Front.
What Silicon Valley’s Orgy of Christmas Party Excess Says about America
I think Google is not wrong here. It's just a search engine that allows you to search for a phrase on websites all over the internet. It doesn't (or at least shouldn't) attach value to that and take a stance/opinion. It should be left as an exercise to the reader to determine what information is factual and what information is not factual. I think you're getting in muddy waters when you're going to let an algorithm decide whether information is correct or not.
The study from which the article draws is also posted on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10785107

I'm going to copy some of the comments I made over there. Hopefully this is acceptable.

The study does not say there is price discrimination, but it heavily implies it. The WSJ article does say there is discrimination.

First of all, I think the article falls into some kind of Political Correctness trap by claiming that certain products are for boys and others are for girls. Why couldn't a boy want the pink scooter? Why couldn't a girl want red?

Building on that, if we see the pink one as "girls" and the red one as "boys" then it does look like discrimination. However, if we view the red one as "neutral/base color" and the pink one as a less popular "color option" it seems less like discrimination and more like paying for a unique customization. Do we know there isn't a blue scooter priced the same as pink?

The conclusion (of the study) states:

> DCA found, on average, that women pay approximately 7 percent more than men for similar products. Products’ price differences based on gender are largely inescapable for female consumers simply due to the product offerings available in the market.

This seems fundamentally contradictory to me. If the products are sufficiently similar but priced differently, why would women buy the "women's version?" What makes it "inescapable?" If product A is so much better than product B, such that buying Product A is "inescapable," I'd expect a difference of more than 7% in price.

The Wall Street Journal seems to draw the reasonable conclusion in its headline: Women should buy the "men's product."
Does anyone know if all (or a majority of) android device makers have licensing agreements in place with Ericsson for said patents?
It is trolling. Nobody would pay a license for these crap patents for the technology. They have to pay a license for this trivial obvious garbage because the USPTO doesn't know better.
Or how about a live programming environment that incrementally recomputes a new programming execution based on incremental changes to the program's code. Anyways, I've been working on this problem for a few years now...the first step is incremental compilation.
Heh, that's where it is on mine too. :)

One of the things I find particularly nice about GLL is that it's much more friendly to parser combinators[1] than GLR. (LR-family parsers, and bottom-up parsing in general, is notoriously difficult to implement in a way such that parsers can be combined, and the result framework would be rather awkward to use.)

1: Indeed, it's already been done:
https://github.com/bawerd/gll.js
https://github.com/epsil/gll
https://github.com/djspiewak/gll-combinators
Assume that to use a patent you pay a licensing fee. Assume that the licensing fee is a percentage of the selling price for the product (because only a fool is paid a percentage of profit.) Assume that someone does not license your patent, and uses it anyway. Why shouldn't the penalty be based on the licensing fee that was avoided? Is 0.5% really that outside the range of valid licensing fees?
Breaking News Consumer's Handbook
For those having a hard time finding the "web" link (like me), you need to be logged in to see it.
Optoelectronic microprocessors built using existing chip manufacturing
I wonder if this document was supplied to Juniper first, leading to the security audit that found the 2 recent vulnerabilities. Now that there are press reports of government officials saying the NSA wasn't responsible for these 2 exploits, they publish proof that at the very least the NSA viewed Juniper as a target and likely had exploits of their own (or via GHCQ).
Palantir Has Raised $880M at a $20B Valuation
One big reason is because the whole world runs on prior work. We have cities full of things built before we were born. We are only able to do what we do now because of massive amounts of work by millions of people who probably did not foresee what all their efforts would lead to. Should we be forever obliged to funnel millions of dollars to the estates of the dead because they contributed (like so many others) to the success of today's products?

The current system unreasonably rewards arbitrary subsets of the total group of people responsible for making useful things. It also manages to include essentially middlemen in the rewarded set.
These are great questions. They're normally pretty good at responding if you want more information.

Here "patient" means "under the care of secondary MH services", so doesn't include people who are being treated by their GP rather than by eg a community MH team.

I think the opioid / APAP stuff is based on bots of history. Co-Proxamol was for years the most common med used in completed suicide. It was put on more restrictive prescribing, and use dropped. But then plain paracetamol use in completed suicide increased. (And also attempted suicide, for a while paracetamol overdose was 4% of UK liver transplants, (but 25% of the super-urgent transplants)). Rules about paracetamol tightened, so we've seen reductions in its use. So, from a public health POV, it's useful to see if plain paracetamol, or the combination, or plain opioids are being used more often, because that means they can look at what's driving sales or prescriptions.

About safe prescribing: one source of medication used in completed suicide is either from your own prescription, or from a relative's prescription. This is often a preventable cause of death, so it's useful to see if safe prescribing helps. It ties into things like "Triangle of Care" and also "Pills Project" (which I want to try to use outside care homes).

You're right about older people. They also often don't lock up the meds in a cupboard (they don't have children in the home anymore, they don't see a need) and tragically grand-children come to visit and accidentally overdose.

https://www.carers.org/triangle-care

http://www.health.org.uk/pills
That could mean a few things. On the assumption that you mean people will simply copy existing products rather than making their own: It's true enough on the surface, and some degree of protection is warranted, but at the same time everything contains copying of something before it, either in whole or in part, and to allow large sections to be locked down effectively in perpetuity (all of us will be dead by the time patents rolling in today expire) is to stifle innovation in another direction. Both too great and too little protection are harmful.
I see this quickly having a Streisand Effect...
Patents are usually pretty broad, so they may have things that cover cell tower stuff as well. And since pricing is more or less arbitrary, they could eke out some cash for the more fundamental ones.
The basic idea is that you are storing energy by lifting something heavy. The more mass you can lift, the more energy it can release as it falls back down. Rock density varies, based on the type of rock, but it is generally 2-3 times heavier than water for a given volume. The limiting factor for water energy storage systems is how much space it takes to store all the water. So the big chunk of rock on top of the water column means you can store more energy in the same space.
Yamaha publishes scientific articles on how their Vocaloid software works [pdf]
Worlds Without End
Easy scroll animations for web and mobile browsers
Livestream alerts customers it may have been hacked
> That statement comes somewhat ironically

I don't see how. If their technology was already out of date or they were copying patented ideas in their own, maybe.
Some project ideas:

1. Implement a leader election algorithm and play with the fault tolerance.

2. Implement Raft and learn about it, good and bad.

3. Implement a logging application that has to meet all the requirements for a good distributed system. e.g. log from anywhere, always available, etc. This sounds easy until you actually do it.

Alternatively, study code from memcached, redis or some other open source distributed software where there are known good and bad things. Cassandra is another one you could study.
> > To this day I can never make sense out of the "sizes" that appear on women's clothes

> Why does nobody step up and fix this problem?

Because its a cross-industry consistency problem [0], so if someone tries to fix it, you've just created yet another set of inconsistent-with-everyone-else sizes.

[0] Lying on top of a "reducing a multidimensional issue to a single variable" problem, sitting astride a "trying to avoid making people buying the product associating the negative body image feelings the fashion industry has deliberately manufactured to create the need for certain products with the products themselves by labeling some of the axes of variation in a clear manner" problem. So, you know, layers of issues...
>This isn't like the free AOL discs, but as if AOL were free but never allowed people to access anything other than a free encyclopedia, medical information, and their own content and services.

AOL tried that (except for the free part) and couldn't pull it off. In the early days of AOL there was no way to get on the internet.

I doubt Indians will be satisfied with a tiny walled garden, even if it means they have to pay a little to get out.
The "many eyes makes all bugs shallow" quote was never said in the context of security vulnerabilities, and I would argue that they are different in nature. Normally, a bug means that something that I want to work doesn't. Then I can fix it or report it.

When the bug is a security vulnerability (e.g. Hertbleed), then everything work as it should, I can log into all the servers I have access to and all the functionality I want is there. The difference is that someone else can get access to my system or get access to information they are not supposed to. You don't discover this by using the system, you have to actively be looking for vulnerabilities. This is quite different from other kinds of bugs.
On my list for next year as well.....
Also pretty crazy is that we have broadband level internet access almost everywhere thanks to those mobile communications inventions.
What are you talking about? I posted this fairly late after reading through the comments. It was upvoted all the way to the top. I'd say that's pretty substantiated.
In other countries, they do work, just not here in a bunch of cases (the auto workers are a worst case).

I'm not trying to justify the adversarial relationship the UAW takes with the big three - but as the old saying goes, it takes two to tango, and for a long time, neither side was willing to change the status quo. Not all unions are the same, many have what could more be described as a partnership.

I don't have much in the way of sympathy with the Big Three however, they rather than really negotiate when times were good, they agreed to absurd contract provisions - a little pain now, can save a whole lot of pain later.

The reason GM as you pointed out had 4.6 pensioners for every worker, is General Motors used to be a much much larger company - in 1970, GM had 395,000 UAW workers, in 1998, 210,000 and in 2007 had around 75,000, today (February of 2015) it has around 50,300. So in, 1998, it was roughly 1/2 its 1970 size, 2007, it was around 1/5th - today its around 1/7th.

1/5th is awful close to the 1:4.6 ratio you pointed out.

As far as the 20 years and you're out provisions? I have a friend who worked for GM for 20 years, he has - bad hearing, bad knees, bad ankles, bad feet - plus 15 years of exposure to chemicals in the paint booth - then another 5 of working in a stamping plant. He earned every dime of his pension, and paid for it with ill health, and a diminished quality of life for his remaining 20-30 years on the planet, because essentially he's a man in his early 40's with a body of someone 15 years his senior.
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2744324

https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/3111061
Man vs. machine – Grape expectations
What I like about Alpine is grsec being bult in, and personally I like grsecs new distribution model. Remove openssh, put tinyssh (curve25519) ossec, hiawatha, a few ither tweaks and you have a pretty secure system. I wish they were more gnu friendly but still...
Dune by Frank Herbert- I'm one of the few people on Earth who enjoys the David Lynch adaptation so I finally had to get around to reading the book. Kind of awkward stylistically and structurally but a lot of fun.

Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen - It's seemed to me that there are political philosophies that focus on economic needs and those that focus on personal freedom. This is the best I've read at uniting those concepts.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - A blast to read and great insight into the thinking of a great mind.

The LA Quartet by James Ellroy (The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential, White Jazz) - Really the pinnacle of dark gritty noir. If you like that I can't recommend highly enough.

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett - I like a lot of Hammett's other work but this seemed to have a lot of wheel spinning.

City of Quartz by Mike Davis - As an Angeleno this gave me so much insight into the city I love. I have no idea if it would be of any interest to an outsider.

Antifragile by Nassim Taleb - Nassim Taleb is great and I've definitely been influenced a lot by his ideas, but he's getting too in love with the smell of his own farts.

Various books/textbooks on programming and databases - Nothing thrilling in this category. Gotta eat your vegetables.
Deep learning shines when there is a lot of data and computation power. A lot of important problems don't have that much data and there are much better algorithms right now for those problems [1]. Deep learning is definitely faddish though it has its uses.

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/350/6266/1332.full.pdf
From an engineering point of view, I don't know if it is better or not, but the article implies that construction costs scale much better if you leave the rock there.

If you wanted to make an unadorned column of water underground, you'd have to remove all the rock where the column is. Without knowing anything about that sort of construction, I'd guess the cost is proportional to the volume of the cylinder.

The proposed design requires removing a ring of rock plus a disk at the bottom. The article claims that the construction cost is therefore proportional to the cylinder's area.

There are also other reasons which are plausible, but they're not as interesting. Rock is denser, so you get more energy storage per unit volume. (Because: potential energy is given by E = m g h, where m is the mass raised. Adding a rock on top means you get greater mass)
One really easy one: write a shell script to do most of the image building (run by the Dockerfile), instead of adding a bunch of RUN directives in the Dockerfile, especially if you clean up intermediate files with a "make clean" or something. Each directive in the Dockerfile adds a layer, which adds container setup overhead, and also "locks in" all filesystem space usage at that point.
Museum Hack's 2015 Year in Review
I can't remember why we did it that way, so let's try removing the restriction.
Yes, I found out Rails containers were problematic with Alpine because therubyracer would segfault when run under musl. It appeared to be a known issue at the time, though I haven't looked into whether it's fixed.
Centralized services are such bad models too. Imagine if YouTube came out with a Miro type player that allowed everyone to cache videos and sever then to others. No more waiting to buffer a video you've watched ten times. Google's sever usage would drop.

But there is so much money to be made by restreaming that video every time...with ads. Plus how could Google enforce deleted videos or marking then pirate if there was a local cache.

The price of bandwidth is cheaper than telecoms are letting on, yes. But there is so much that can be done to streamline the existing architecture as well.
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark already seems to be a classic. Didn't read it yet, though.
Last time I looked into this I concluded that the effect on hardware life is near zero. Stuff is outdated before it matters unless the gear is running at its thermal limit which is unlikely unless something is wrong.

Power bills on the other hand are a real problem
> It is a massive negative-sum (to the non-lawyer participants)

To be fair, in this case Ericsson is a practicing entity and they probably have a salaried legal staff, so your specific criticisms don't really apply here.

More just general patent criticisms: ease of acquisition, non-specificity, valuation on market and legal leverage instead of marginal value, (if any of the above patents are software patents) software patents in general, etc
Absolutely not. This adversely affects the budding start up industry in India. If Zuckerberg really wants to help poor Indians, then provide access to the entire internet and let them figure out which service helps them out best.

As a compromise, free access to only non-commercial non-profit entities/websites that offer beneficial information is acceptable although not ideal.
So his bottom line is $50/month per customer for a constant 10 mbps. To put that into perspective, the operating profit margin of wireline ISPs is 5-20%. The low-end of that scale is for traditional phone/DSL/fiber. Assuming an average subscription of ~$100/month, that bandwidth is coming out of an operating profit of $5-20/month.

Obviously the cost of bandwidth is a lot less than $50/month. But even at 1/10th that figure, it's a big chunk of the variable expense of the service.
Anyone who follows the work of Randall Wray[1] and Bill Mitchell[2] knows this is a terrible idea. Relinquishing sovereignty of your currency (or pegging it to another currency or commodity) only narrows domestic policy space.

[1] http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i35uBVeNp6c

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Eurozone-Dystopia-Groupthink-Denial-Gr...
that's awesome! awscli commands can get so long, the auto-completion should really help
Yes , but those companies mention "US only or US/Canada only" . But a lot of them dont mention any of that sort .
On the one hand, there is nothing inherently wrong with the growth of an alternative to the USD as a global market currency, there are good arguments in favor of diversifying that function anyhow.

The dark side is that China has a history of being very good at economic subjugation in Africa. This feels a bit like a "lender of last resort" scenario, with a lot of contingencies and costly terms.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/china-in-africa-the-...
1. High Govt regulation, permission, licensing, red tape, labor laws, politics
2. Irregular power and water supply
3. Poor infrastructure/Logistics- Roads, Bridges, Rails, Ports
> ...postgres is so amazing that while installation mysql needs us to give a password...

If you install Mysql from scratch, you also need to manually set the superuser password.

For a different perspective, read the relevant post-installation configuration documentation for Mysql [0] and Postgresql [1] on Gentoo Linux.

If your distro asks you -as part of the installation process- for a MySQL password, that's a feature that has been added by the MySQL packager for your distro, not a feature of MySQL.

> postgres uses this user concept and for each database you have to create a new user so there is no one password to rule them all.

This is completely incorrect. Look at pg_hba.conf and the comments contained within, as well as the GRANT command I mentioned in an earlier comment.

A suggestion:

Slow down. Block out an hour or two to learn how to properly manage both a Postgres and a MySql server.

Figure out that Postgres calls "Users" "Roles" (because a Role can be one or more users). Read about Database Role management in the official Postgres documentation. Learn about Roles and Role permission management. Do the same for MySQL.

Once you've done this you will

* Be able to manage DB user accounts and permissions without depending on random internet walkthroughs.

* Understand that -despite the terminology differences- managing users and DB permissions is fundamentally the same in MySQL and Postgres.

[0] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/MySQL/Startup_Guide#MySQL_Insta...

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PostgreSQL/QuickStart#Starting_...
Mendeley – Your research, anywhere
Didn't Bitcoin do that?
Interesting quote in the article: "“We invest about 30 billion kronor ($3.51 billion) a year in research and development and license our patents to the whole industry. We expect fair returns to be able to continue to invest,” Mr. Alfalahi said."

This is how you do parallel technology development these days. A large company invests billions in research and patents their ideas, if you want to use their ideas in your product you license their patents already knowing that the technology will work, saving you billions.

Without patents there is no way for Ericcson to recover their investment in research, so they just don't do it, so you never get 4GLTE cellular signals you're stuck in some form of Analog. Or you get no roaming at all because everyone has their own proprietary radio infrastructure.

I agree that there is a lot wrong with the patent system, I also recognize that there is tremendous value in being able to fund research in this way.
Exactly. It's not a small effect either - my previous pc jumped from sub 100W idle to 400+ under load. That'll definitely put a dent in the electricity bill if it's 24/7
That's an awful lot of conjecture. I'd wager that most of what you would actually be running in a container would not have its memory usage significantly affected by the presence or absence of optional shared libs.. I'm with the parent on this; such claims warrant research.
> Ericsson is a practicing entity and they probably have a salaried legal staff

I didn't say anything about NPEs.

Ericsson may have a stable of in-house patent litigators; it is one enterprise where that probably makes economic sense (I know Google has their own IP litigators). But most patent litigation that makes it to trial is handled by specialist firms.
When Price Discrimination Backfires
Same in Moldova. Ny friends there had fiber for like 130 lei a month...I think. It wasn't the fastest fiber I've used, but it was pretty decent.
Even in the military it's a very flawed process, and, in the US anyway, they go out of their way to enable independent decision making at the unit level.
Cromwell's postmaster and the interception of mail
I think there are some parsing issues .. like this post in ask section :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10783060
Also interested in the answer, because if there are none, it's something I could look into doing over a weekend!
> ...and then [Google] gets cozy with the local government.

Thanks for that. I haven't laughed that hard in a week. :)