skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some Volokh asshat excusing authoritarianism for... nuances. Yes, the effect of the ruling was to make tea-drinking probable cause. Yes, when no-neck cops sniff and poke at plant matter, they are likely to be wrong, and biased in their wrongness. Yes, all these asshats should lose their careers in law and law enforcement.
If that's true, then it almost exactly matches the percentage of wealth they control.
Didn't the rest of the EU agree to that when they let Ireland have the tax code that it does and still be part of the EU? It doesn't seem outrageous to me at all. Stupid on their part maybe, but they're the ones that write the tax codes. They wrote books on who needs to be paid what to be able to sell in the EU, handed them to Apple, Apple read them, and then has gone about abiding by them.

Apple doesn't write the rules. It's ridiculous to criticise them for them.
Blockchains will unseat Uber? Spoken like a true techie!

Uber has a reputation system. It can double down on insurance/license guarantees. Decentralized has no immediate direct benefit for riders.
Venture capital funding for startups dipped sharply in 2015
Compass Re-architecture
(http://www.phriends.eu/URAI_08.pdf)

That's a very good paper. There are many advantages to using two opposed springs driven by actuators to simulate muscles. You get muscle-like properties. You get energy storage and recovery. (Humans recover about 70% of energy from muscle springiness when running. Cheetahs, 90%. BigDog, 0%.)

As that paper points out, there are several ways to do this. The cleanest is a double-ended pneumatic cylinder with proportional spool valves at each end able to connect to pressure or exhaust. That was tried on a legged robot at CWRU some years ago. There are schemes with linear springs, string, two motors, and linkages, which tend to be bulky and complex.[1][2] Those work, but are more of a research design than a production mechanism. Somebody will do a better design, probably with rotational springs and no strings.

I once considered a design with two motors, rotational springs, and a differential. One motor controls impedance, the other controls position. If you don't need to change impedance rapidly, which you usually don't, the impedance motor can be much smaller and geared down.

[1] http://mech.vub.ac.be/multibody/topics/maccepa.htm
[2] http://www.inacomm2013.ammindia.org/Papers/106-inacomm2013_s...
It is statistically unlikely the Sheriff's testimony was the truth. How would you go about impeaching his testimony?
In hard times, there's a balance of concern between totally uninvested and stressed out of one's mind. In circumstances like the ones described, most people tend toward the latter. As an employee, this would be very welcome and probably very helpful in making the most of the situation.

That said, it's crazy that they posted it for their customers to read. Hearing that my vendor has a "can fail" attitude isn't reassuring. I'd rather hear that my vendor is comprised of low-maintenance caffeine fueled super robots that keep their commitments with the stubbornness of a thousand donkeys. (I know they're probably not, but when choosing vendors, I'm usually working with limited info.)

So...cool memo, weird post, nice thoughts.
Move along. Nothing to see here...

Voter registration info is public data. Ohio (iirc) puts their voter file on the web.
If he was in a city of any decent sized police force, it's likely that the authorities were dispatched via a mobile data terminal -- and you wouldn't hear anything about it over the air.
The most unsettling thing is how much I love reading anecdotes like that - they make you feel so much better about "messed up" things you do yourself.
The deck we used to raise $1M
Where did you get these prices from? Why do you think it costs $10 million a year to hide all your money in the Caymans?
Data Loss on EBS Volumes in AWS US-GOV-WEST-1
The top 10% also controls 80% of the wealth.
But you need to take into account how much some countries are charging for cooperate tax. A stupid insanely huge amount!

You have sales tax, then this company invest into the country and hire people, paying rental for stores, advertising and spending. Once you take away all that, the country has to take 35% of your profits?

The case for Apple isn't as convincing as they are the most profitable company in the world. What about company that operate on laser thin margin? As most company are these days.

I am not again Tax, but it needs to be fair and reasonable. And in most cases it is not.
As per your example, how about Vodafone, or many other SME who invest their profits into property market, driving up the cost of property which are every days needs for people in their country, and yet does not pay a single dime of tax.
We settled on "medium"-batching into Titan, and sharing your experience, I'm hoping the Datastax acquisition means ingest will improve.

For the bulk of our work, we do what you'd expect -- load terabytes into HDFS, (Py)Spark for straight SQL and some join helper functions, and occasionally, add some GraphX scala libraries.

I'm curious -- what did you end up doing, & for what?
One perspective is that you are making 20x the average household income but keeping 1/2. Not too shabby. However I agree that it seems ridiculous that income is taxed so much more than capitol gains and likely provides much more positive contributions to society.
Getting to the “Plateau of Productivity” with Python
Startup.ML Deep Learning Conference Videos
The article is from 2013. We've already waited and seen. They're still around, and no reports of them being sued.
Pglogical, the next generation replication system for PostgreSQL?
Other OSes had package managers with dependency resolution before Linux even existed, eg: AIX.

Debian packaging was an amazing step forward in the Linux world when it appeared.
Anyone else having trouble viewing this page? I'm on iOS and every time I go to the link it redirects me to a page claiming I "won" a "reward" with an alert box that I can't dismiss without tapping OK.
> I could definitely be wrong, and perhaps the app just doesn't require that level of expertise.

There are three categories of expertise required for this app:

1. Expertise with the Twitter "domain." Twitter obviously already has this more than any outside consultant.

2. Expertise with writing Mac apps. Twitter can easily hire for this if they need to spin up in the future.

3. Expertise at the intersection of the two, which is pretty minimal. At the end of the day, it's a pretty simple CRUD app. It's definitely not worth paying $5M to get the developer who made it, especially when you consider that Twitter probably provided most of the product direction.

> I just don't think a company the size of Twitter would worry about a $5-$15 million expenditure to get access to the talent they want/need right then.

First off, I suspect an acquisition of a successful studio like Black Pixel might be well out of that range. They have their own products, including NetNewsWire, as well as a healthy client roster. According to LinkedIn, they have 50-200 employees. Not a trivial or cost effective acquisition. [0]

> I could definitely be wrong, and perhaps the app just doesn't require that level of expertise.

I don't have the data on hand, but I'm sure you could find it in Crunchbase. In general, it's rare to see established design studios being bought by their clients.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/company/black-pixel?trk=extra_biz_v...
You'd be amazed at how many companies don't write their own apps. I know, because often the people who write them is me.

The problem is that there's a fixed, small quantity of good, senior, Mac/iOS developers. A lot of them like being independent and flitting around from project to project because that is how you build an experienced developer to begin with.

Meanwhile there is all this demand for apps, and so agencies act as the "market-markers"–acting as the sales force, the marketing team, and playing the role of "nobody got fired for hiring $AGENCY" etc.–but the actual lead engineers are pretty much the same bunch of schmucks no matter whose name is on the contract. If you want to know who wrote it, check the names in the header files, and we all meet at the same bars on Thursday nights.

I always advise people to cut out the middle man and hire the indies directly (disclosure: that would be me) since it's the same thing anyway, except cheaper and with fewer games of "telephone". But the pull of the pretty logo and the rapport with the Account Manager is strong.

Black Pixel is better than most of the agencies in that they do a large amount of their work in-house. But their "in-house" people are often just good contractors taking a break from contracting so I'm not entirely sure what you've accomplished by doing that.

I'm not really complaining–agencies have historically been a reliable source of gigs for me, and so they are my friends; they provide me a valuable service.

But do they provide you a valuable service? That I don't know. I have been in situations before where no matter which vendor the customer went with, I would be an engineer on the project, and the customer sat down and agonized over who to choose. That just seems inefficient.
Thought about this for a bit. I'm betting it's used. The deal with brakes is the ratio of the friction applicable by the brake and the lever distance of the compared to the lever arm it's stopping. I'm watching a movie so I'm not going to do the math right now but I think the size of disc rotor you could get on say a mule's knee joint versus the lever arm length of say a lower leg might cause problems either with the size of the rotor.

My thinking is mountain bike discs are 120mm/4.8"-203mm/8" diameter compared to a 29" wheel.

These are meant to stop a 160lb person who is going down a hill. Well Slow to a stop not lock dead in place as the wheel would break free so it's not the full stopping power of a real.

Anyway my gut reaction is it might be difficult in this use case. I think a 8" rotor on a similar lever arm might have trouble fully locking down that joint and would be very large and flimsy (8" thin sheet of metal) for rugged use. Plausible though.

But hey I failed out of mechanical engineering into computer science for a reason so maybe I shouldn't be trusted :)
It shouldn't take that much bandwidth to do things. I suspect that what's really happening is that increasing the end bandwidth reduces the packet loss rate in the cable system's routers. Someone needs to test this with something that plays streaming video while noting packet loss rates.
Well that would explain why I get

Deceptive site ahead

Attackers on linuxfonts.narod.ru may trick you into doing something dangerous like installing software or revealing your personal information (for example, passwords, phone numbers, or credit cards).
To load web pages with a gig of tracking Javascript on them.
> What do you have to support it?

Is Christian a race?

Also, this (PDF warning): https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf181.pdf.
TweetDeck hasn't been third party since Twitter acquired it in 2011.
Tennis for Two was an electronic game developed in 1958 on an analog computer
If such a federal case ever came before a local jury, it seems likely the local jury would refuse to convict because of the local law.
> Why? They aren't desktop software company.

They might not be a desktop software company, but they're also not really just a "services" company. If they were, I wouldn't have expected them to invest so heavily in developing and owning the mobile client experience. In fact, they directly sabotaged people from building third-party API clients.

Considering how close Mac app development is to iOS development (which remains, supposedly, a key strategic area) I'm surprised.
While you are entitled to that opinion, I think it's really hard to say with any confidence what your attitude would be at a vastly different income level. It may be useful to frame the idea in a different way:

You sound as if you'd approve of a ~53% tax rate at an income level higher than your own, but not necessarily at your own level. For the sake of argument, if you were to work just as hard for every dollar at that level as you do now for every dollar, but simply worked that much more (so every dollar required the same amount of work), do you think you'd still be willing to only keep 47 cents of each dollar? Similarly, if you were earning 7 figures and wanted to help society / people in need, would the government really be your best choice in terms of bang for your buck?
No worries, I just like to argue :)
My experience is more with the OPs. Leave the line, lose your spot.
Just copy whatever Hong Kong or Singapore or Estonia are doing taxwise.
> resupplies

Telling your robot to carry this shit over there is great way to resupply. Compared to having soldiers (or contractors) get blown up driving trucks around.
Another Isomorphic React Template
I think the idea is that the government isn't spending the money so efficiently that this outcome is likely at all.
> if you were earning 7 figures and wanted to help society / people in need, would the government really be your best choice in terms of bang for your buck?

Has anyone ever tried to make a serious attempt to analytically tackle this question? There are a lot of people that try to rank charities against each other in terms of effectiveness. Could the same be done with government? Or even some portion of government? I have absolutely no idea, but this seems like an interesting question.
I too would be happy if I got every service the government offers for a cheaper price.
That's why "fair tax" advocates flat sales tax. It still leads to questions, but sales taxes are usually simpler than income and capital taxes.
Manage the Structure of Golang APIs with Fjord
OS rivalry with https://www.netbsd.org/ ?
>> Decentralized has no immediate direct benefit for riders.

Yes, but decentralized could have a very direct benefit for drivers... considering that sans an army of driverless cars, driver supply is what makes Uber's "sharing economy" work.

(Not to mention that the insurance/license guarantees are not currently being satisfied.)
I would buy one, if $10-16k, and it went 40-50mph and was street legal. I'd ride it to work. Hell I'd ride it everywhere.
It's called "consultant." Companies like to hire consultants because they can get rid of these contractors through middlemen in a matter of a day to a few weeks. Of course, depending on which consulting agency. For projects you don't know the outcome yet it's better to write off your book that way, but for project that will last forever like Twitter App, yeah, just hire the damn team into full time already. Differently cheaper. Actually I don't understand why they can't just have the iOS team help with it anyway. If you are capable of writing a Mac App, how hard is it to learn making iOS one, and vice versa?
3.1 was apparently leaked few years ago http://www.pagetable.com/?p=34#comment-3434
> It happens all the time, though, especially when it's an off-label channel

Yes, I know that. I guess I'm more surprised that Twitter now considers OS X off-channel enough to not keep a dev on it. It's pretty close to iOS development and seems like a good skill to keep in-house, if only as a testbed for new UX ideas.

> Black Pixel is a very good studio

Yes, they've done some great work in the past. I definitely don't hold this against them, especially when project failures can be just as much a problem of client communication.
You will appreciate this: http://unmeetlima.com/
:D
You'd be surprised at how big the retrocomputing/retrogaming enthusiast market is. I know in the U.S. that there are several shows alone that pull in north of a thousand people.

It really is mostly for the novelty/nostalgia factor. Most of the Amiga OSs run on ancient PowerPC hardware and aren't useful in a modern sense for much more than simple web browsing and IRC.

While there are certainly people who make things for the various scenes and sell them, usually they're just trying to cover manufacturing cost of physical product. Software is usually freeware/opensource. The Atari 8-bit computer scene, for example, produces lots of weird custom hardware that the makers usually sell for parts + labor + shipping, but I can't recall ever hearing of license fees for a new DOS (there are many DOSs for the old 8-bits).

What's particularly weird about the Amiga scene is how locked down the IP still is and how that seems to permeate the rest of the scene. It's like the IP owners think that somehow they'll suddenly come across hundreds of millions of dollars in VC money and will reignite the Amiga fire with new hardware and software that will sweep the world...if only they hold on to the licenses for 30 year old ROM images a little bit longer. Or that they'll somehow sell enough licenses to make up for millions of dollars of development investment.

No joke, AmigaOS 4.1 is actually 30EUR today -- in almost 2016 -- and it only runs on bizarro PowerPC hardware that's built out of weird industrial control system motherboards or something and sold by yet other hopeless companies. [1][2][3]

If they sell 1,000 licenses a year, their revenue is 30,000EUR.

So I mean, Hyperion Entertainment is supposedly a company and there's probably more than one person hacking away at the OS, but there's no way they're coming close to covering costs on this. If I wasn't convinced of the earnestness of Amiga enthusiasts, I'd almost believe the entire thing is some kind of complex money laundering operation.

There's even commercial software still developed and licensed: [4][5][6][7]

and even an entire app store! [8]

I really admire the enthusiasm and passion, but I just can't figure out the money angle or what the point is.

1 - http://www.amigaos.net/

2 - http://www.a-eon.com/

3 - http://www.acube-systems.biz/

4 - http://www.pagestream.org/

5 - http://www.amigaos.net/software/100/amidark-engine

6 - http://www.hollywood-mal.com/purchase.html

7 - http://www.codebench.co.uk/

8 - http://www.amistore.net/
The flat tax is an incredibly pointless solution.

The flat tax is opposed to a progressive tax, that says that instead of having a tax rate of 15% for 100% of your income, you have a tax rate of 0% for the first $10000 of your income, 10% of the next 20000, and so on. This is something that can be calculated mentally, looked up using IRS published tables, or calculated with no effort in a 10 line script or some of the simplest Excel sheets possible.

The progressive nature of income tax is absolutely not a problem and recognizes the marginal value of money.

The problem is exemptions, etc., which a flat tax as opposed to a progressive tax does nothing to resolve.
i'm not too sure what you're getting at with the use of big-o notation here. what exactly are you saying is being "upper bounded"?
Asia to see more govt-backed security projects in 2016
People do have the great feature of being corporeal beings, but companies has the great feature of having limited liability. Owners and investors likes this because the state will take part of the responsibility if the ethereal corporations goes south, and countries likes it because it makes corporations an entity which they can tax.

A easy solution is to admit that creating ethereal entities is a stupid idea, get rid of it, and just has owners and investors. It would scare away the larger corporations, but it would make life much easier for everyone else, eliminate a bunch of complicated laws, and make international trade much easier since you then only deal with corporeal beings.
'All You Americans Are Fired'
>(and of course, without any notice that I was liable for overages...)

Inbound traffic does not count against your bandwidth quota, so if you were the target of a DoS attack, this would not result in overages.

https://www.linode.com/pricing

(Unless you were responding to all that traffic, that is.)
Maybe downvotes because the claim that your combination of buzzwords "could kill off Uber and Lyft almost overnight" requires more backing than just asking people "why would [it] not work"?
Oh, in that case I completely agree.

They should have just rebranded TweetDeck as the new official Twitter OS X client.
I maintain ConceptNet [1]. It's a large-ish, messy semantic graph linking together crowd-sourced knowledge (from Open Mind Common Sense, Wiktionary, some Games with a Purpose, etc.) with expert-created resources (WordNet, OpenCyc, etc.)

[1] http://conceptnet5.media.mit.edu

It's turned out to be a good input for machine learning about semantics, which has changed the goals of its representation a bit -- not only do I need to be able to load in data easily, I also need to be able to iterate over all of it. But some graph operations would be nice to have, too.

Many technical people I describe the project to immediately ask me what graph database I'm using, both before and after the ill-fated semester of grad school where I actually tried to use graph databases.

The answer to what I use now is: a bit of SQLite and some flat files. No need for HDFS, it still fits easily on a hard disk.
It can happen in 2016. KDE is almost ready, and even Nvidia is approaching releasing their KMS/DRM driver with EGL support. So pieces to at least being able to use Wayland will be in place. However as you say, stuff might be still broken for some use cases, so those will have to be fixed going forward.

Wayland doesn't dictate how compositors approach desktop integration. For instance there can be client side or server side decorations and so on.
The thought's started occurring to me that a world in which money changes hand but title doesn't, in which the provider always has a hand in how product is used, or may or may not be resold, or must be re-updated, you no longer have a capitalist market society. Money changes hands, but goods don't.
Isn't the relevant question whether there are still pot-related SWAT raids in WA, CO, etc?
In light of this, would you now revise your original comment?
It might be not completely golbal, but fontconfig affects the vast majority of applications as far as I know. So it's something of that sort in a sense.
>I can tell you that the police don't treat the mentally ill very well. They are not trained in helping out the mentally ill.

The problem isn't training. You don't need training to be nice to people and not beat them senseless, nor do you need to be a genius to see when someone is having mental problems, or to know that being an asshole to someone who's clearly suicidal isn't helpful.

The problem is that the police in the USA are largely evil. There's no other explanation for it. You have to be an evil person to enjoy beating other people, not to mention shooting them in the back and other violent things that our police do to people on a daily basis.
Swf2js: Flash player written in JavaScript
The thing I don't really understand is why not just opensource it at that point? Keep the rights to the source, but let customers audit, modify, and distribute those modifications to the community. Being able to audit the calculations your software is doing seems like it would bring a lot of confidence to engineers even if a small minority actually look, privacy and FOSS advocates would tolerate it, and they get bug reports and possibly a few free patches.

Businesses and professionals would still pay for valid licenses and enthusiasts get a 'community edition' to get them hooked. It seems like it's a win-win.
Have you tried Stardog [1]? Stardog can handle billions of triples and the upload process is pretty painless.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers of Stardog.

[1] http://stardog.com/
Twitter's employees are presumably all at-will, so they could get rid of any of them immediately, if they wanted to. It's probably harder to hire them in first place though, instead of just hiring an agency.