skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even Star Trek has ranks, and I wouldn't want to be a red shirt.

I don't have much faith in the bad side of our nature not showing. Groupthink is a hell of a drug.

As far as costs, there's a continuum and it certainly has a lot of low hanging fruit. Some of the most glaring privacy problems could be easily fixed by people simply exerting a modicum of self-actualization when choosing software.
That they have gotten this unsigned code running means they have jailbroken it. This WebKit exploit might be patched but there are almost certainly more holes to be exploited.
When customers can go 100% off-grid using rooftop solar and in-home storage, it bypasses and obviates the utility's monopoly on bulk generation and transport.

This actually causes a lot of issues, since the long-term fixed costs for the utility get spread across fewer paying customers. You're starting to see this problem in locales with heavy solar penetration (eg. Hawaii).
I completely agree with you.

In a future where "proofs" will be manufactured easily, you can only trust witnesses. For that to work, you need to know that person says the truth. The most in-demand traits for a person (or smart agent or service) in the future will be "trust" (honesty, predictability, reliability).

In a world too complex to do everything yourself (milk the cow, mill the wheat, grow the tomatoes, to make a pizza), we need specialization and delegation. Again, delegating can only be seamless when interacting with parts whose "trust" is effectively tracked and measured.

The donated organ won't go to the first person to ask for it, or the person with the most money. It will go to the best human, whose value might be tightly correlated with their trust score.

Big data, IoT, AI. All the big technologies of the present and future will increasingly rely on our ability to predict the future. That's pretty much what logistics is. You can't predict the future without a reliable system. Again, your predictions are just as solid as the weakest member in your chain. One component lies (or doesn't do as promised), and the whole prediction breaks. That could mean minutes of commuting lost, or millions of people dead. Don't lie, kids.

We need a more general term that encompasses more than just lying. A person needs to accurately understand his abilities in order to commit to a task. Failing to do so affects one's score as if they did lie. I don't see them as being different things. If you misinterpret something and communicate that interpretation, that's also a "lie".

In any case, I think the human brain is losing a lot of energy trying to decide what to say and not say, and whether what an other person say is sincere, polite, or plainly misleading. We're not as smart as we could be, because of this social cancer. That's probably what destroys kids as they grow.

Being honest at a job interview is a sure way not to get the job. Better study the buzzwords the day before and bullshit your way thought. Repeat if you want to reach the top.
What are those tools?
Right, so that's exactly the sort of thing being asked for, and it's what got this annoying/useless "just monitor your kids" response.
>How about, we admit corporate income tax is a stupid idea, get rid of it, and raise capital gains taxes

Technical reasons why that doesn't work - basically it makes it too easy to avoid all tax by keeping the money in corporations.

What we need is a unified global tax regime for international corporations so they can't play off each countries tax loop holes.
Transfer pricing is not illegal. It's often an element of illegal schemes to reduce tax but the act of setting prices between non-arms-length companies is not illegal. It's necessary. The prices just have to be what an arms-length company would pay.
I think this project was put into works > 1 year ago. It's obvious it wasn't designed to incorporate Moments, the no character limit for DM's and Polls (all new features from 2015). Building out a Mac app shouldn't be a top priority of any company today, unless you're into productivity (i.e. Sketch, Adobe).

I'm almost sure that Twitter was stretched thin with Obj-c/Swift engineers building out the iPad app and refreshing the iPhone app (Moments) this past year.
It already is: this is based on a webkit exploit working only on older firmwares.
When Apple designs a phone in CA, buys supplies from companies located in a dozen different countries, assembles it in China and sells it in Australia what tax should be paid and to whom?

These aren't "tax loopholes." They're legitimate rules to answer this fairly complicated question.
I've seen one person Mac shops put out apps of way more complexity than a Twitter client -- could Twitter seriously not hire a single native Mac dev?
Two thoughts from this, first about this in general. Second is in regards to some comments I'm seeing posted here:

1.) I am surprised this doesn't happen more. You find a company that's excited to build it, let them run with it, then if it ever becomes a target you acquihire.

2.) Folks internally probably know a Mac app isn't a target. Thus, who would want to work on it? There are probably loads of more exciting projects that'll get recognition. It's not that they can't, it's that no one there (really) wants to...
AFAIK MSR sponsored lots of research in this area. Program verification is still not that easy.

[edit] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/slam/
Far too much wasted space in the new UI - between icons, tweets etc.

I used to be able to see all my accounts on the left-hand navigation bar, and now I can't because the increased spacing pushes them off the bottom of the screen. Annoying, as this was what I used to see which accounts had updates.
As a developer I feel neither Windows nor Mac OS are ready for the desktop. Windows is almost completely useless and you need to immediately resort to Cygwin or a VM to get anything useful done. Mac OS is much more useful out of the box but lacks up-to-date packages and a good package manager. I haven't used Mac OS recently enough to comment on Homebrew, but the last time I tried it was no where near as robust as many Linux package managers are. Arch Linux has a huge amount of user-submitted packages so that even relatively unknown projects tend to be easy to install.
Merged threads.
You can tax corporations. They of course will be owned by people until the AIs take over.
Depends.

Here's the full story:

http://pastebin.com/gKqTcH4j
The browser has a lot of window chrome I don't need.

The browser window doesn't easily resize to a natural size for Twitter use. The browser either won't remember the size, or it will remember too well and start trying to apply that size to new windows that aren't meant for Twitter.

The browser won't put an icon in my menu bar to show when new stuff has arrived.

The twitter.com window will be mixed in with the others, so cycling through them with cmd-` will be annoying. Conversely, getting to that window specifically will require more work to find it among the others.

Basically, this is a microcosm of why people use native apps at all. The answer is pretty much always "they work a lot better."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNARJPNz2CA
The weird thing with the "also-rans" of various competitions is that they seem to utterly collapse in a strange fashion.

MySpace got shittier and shittier even as Facebook expanded and there was visible mind-share searching for new things.

Yahoo has gotten similarly worse despite being in a space where people wanted a Google alternative.

The impression I get is that also-rans basically aim to cash-out rather than continuing. The big thing seems to be few investors actually want to think long term and there's money only in being a market leader or in being ad-driven, self-discrediting crap-site - and it costs lots of money running a big website despite it seems like it should be cheap.
Sure, you're free to decide whether you want privacy or not.

Just don't believe this magically prevent others from accessing and using data that involves you. Don't expect me to respect your preferences when I go through you data.
When the income ends up on the books and taxed only in Ireland, after expensing most of it as licensing fees to a shell company in Bermuda, despite none of those things (design, sourcing, manufacturing, assembly, sales) occurring in either country, it starts looking more like a loophole than legitimate rules around taxing an international business.
Not just a dislike of Debian, but jackstormwriter was enjoying some gleeful schadenfreude as well.

Prior to his death, Ian was briefly harassed by jackstormwriter:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CXguqJGWMAEYM0B.jpg:large

@jackstormwriter has since deleted those tweets and disabled his account. He also deleted jackstormwriter.wordpress.com.

I saved a copy of his "About" page for those interested here: http://www.filedropper.com/archive_77

While he seems just your typical incoherent troll, egging a person into their untimely demise is not something that should be forgotten.
I don't think these details matter as much as the fact that these police departments are wasting their time and resources conducting raids against people who they suspect of owning marijuana. Surely they could put their time and money to better use, for example training police officers not to react violently/kill unarmed (mostly black) kids.
At least criminality in Moldova can be agile ;-) you don't need a whole military contractor company to steal billions from taxpayers to say build "infrastructure" in Iraq or Afghanistan. Alone or with a few accomplices can efficiently take the money and cut out all the fakery in between.
Why time seems to speed up as we get older
My experience with using Tor to access this is that resulted in me not being able to solve the riddle because it wanted to me to input characters I've never seen before and I wasn't able to find them on my keyboard.
Lyft has already lost the battle. The one to watch is Uber vs Didi Kuaidi, which owns China's market (80%+, vs <15% for Uber) and is tightly integrated into Wechat/Weixin, which is rapidly expanding outside China.
From a lawyer who hates litigation
And what about MESA?
> There's no hardware to think about in the Cafe toolchain—no IO ports to peek and poke, no MSRs to read off. There's just library APIs. It's nearly as abstract as Apple's tvOS SDK.

That's why CEMU is so advanced.
Not bad for guesswork, as you are correct management never wanted to prioritize it, but w.r.t. devs, you are off the mark. Internally there have always been those who wanted to work for it. I have been privately told (in late October 2015) by a former Twitter employee who is, shall we say, intimately familiar with Twitter/Mac:

> Twitter has always seemed to hate the idea of a Mac app and has either tried to kill it or let it rot. At this point I think 3 generations of rogue devs inside the company have basically had to sneak around management to work on it.

> Interesting to see them publicly announce an update. Rumor is they've completely outsourced development though.
I once worked at a magazine where they bought a large luxury house somewhere in Europe on the basis that they might use it for the odd photoshoot
Dolphin enjoys major support from the competitive gaming scene, specifically Smash Bros. Melee players.
I'm sure it also helps that it emulates two consoles in one.
Even a bike like that works only on a limited amount of terrain. Add the 100 ish pounds of weight they need to be able to carry in addition to a person and they get bogged down even worse. The ways you can pack them is also really limited because soldiers would need to be able to take everything off and carry it still in the even that it does get bogged down.
None of the profits from selling things in the US goes on the Irish books. Only profits from selling things outside the US. This is done because the US (almost uniquely so) taxes worldwide earnings for companies based in the US.
http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/20619/how-to-sear...
Sounds like a case where the incentives for the company don't line up with the incentives for an individual manager. The responsible person might have suffered greatly (or at least thought they would) if they had just declared that much money to be a lesson learned on a bad idea, even if that might have been best for Twitter.
This is awesome! I worked on a very similar project a few months ago, which I also posted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10418829

Looks like yours is quite a bit more polished :)
Often times, same dichotomy in the US. State Patrols are professionals, locals are bubbas.
You can build IO from other things; you can't build other things from IO (because you can't inspect IO).
The basic thing is that Bluetooth didn't start on a multi-user OS. It started on Ericsson mobile phones.

And there it was at first basically a way to do handsfree without a wire.

From that you have OBEX from IRDA added to handle various data transfers, and a concept of profiles that are half in hardware half in software.

In essence the very design jumps back and forth between kernel/hardware and user space.

Still, the place of failure i most often encounter is something getting stuck in dbus. Meaning that i can restart all the daemons, but unless i restart dbus shit all changes once a failure happens. But restarting dbus at best kills my desktop, at worst reboots the computer (hello systemd).
That option has been there for ages.
apparently, yes. see my other comment in this discussion.
Sort of related, this website crowdsources finding and fixing polluted waterways: https://creeklife.com/
> Well, I was thinking exactly the opposite of gawking when I posted it.

I suppose it depends on how much faith you have in the community, particularly in its worst elements. If there is not an outpouring of support (> 95% of the responses are positive), then broadcasting his calls for attention probably won't help and it may even further have hurt Ian.

I personally believe that our community would care for this person: an established man of merit in our little community and certainly not a insecure attention-seeker.

I agree your original thread should have not been deleted.
Weren't they quite aggressive with other people using their service and piggy backing something on it? They could have done like Reddit and waited for a dominant app and then acquihire the people who did the app.
What about all the other countries that they have property, employees and sales in? It's a loophole if it lets them pay nothing to any of those nations, despite being as much a corporate citizen of those nations as whatever office is next door to theirs.
Some of those may be the result of trying to differentiate themselves. People might want an alternative to Google (the company), but they don't really want an alternative to Google (the search engine.)

If you're trying to beat someone like Google by offering a different-but-worse search engine, it's not really going to work. Facebook offers the same kind of problem. You're also not going to win by being the same. You have to do different-but-obviously-better, which is actually very very hard.
Wait wait wait, HDD support through USB? Are you serious? Any hardware manufacturers care to explain why this might be the case?
Keep in mind that Apple does owe the US government a significant amount, so your statement is inaccurate. Apple would not function without the infrastructure provided by the government, would not be able to protect its IP without US patents, relies on the US for its workforce in Cupertino, etc.

So while I agree with your first claim, and do think Apple should "not" be taxed (tax people, not corporations), I don't agree with your second statement.
Flawed and flimsy evidence of a nonviolent offense, no less.

Of course, we also prosecute marijuana offenses under narcotics law, despite the fact that marijuana is not a narcotic. Go figure.
"design by contract" is the general term [see http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DesignByContract]. d and racket have excellent support for it

https://dlang.org/spec/contracts.html
http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/contracts.html

and here's a library to add it to ruby (i've seen a couple of others floating around):
https://egonschiele.github.io/contracts.ruby/
Will we ever understand the beginning of the universe?
Rivers rise to record levels in Midwest, flooding will be ‘major to historic’
Thanks! Yes, I trust that you saw the commented-out link in the script to the hi-res (5.5k x 5.5k) version that I decided against using? It's awesome! This more advanced bot posts gifs etc https://twitter.com/himawari8bot

That's a pretty good idea, thanks. Although, whenever I see desktops as dashboards I'm always torn between their utility versus the aesthetic of a clean image. Food for thought...
You keep saying "moral responsibility". They don't. Companies have already been telling the government what's wrong and the government refuses to change it. Apple is responsible to its shareholders bottom line.
This is exactly what they did? Twitter's mobile apps are distant descendants of tweetie, and the old Mac client was too
As evinced by words like 'jailhouse virgin', jackstormwriter was enjoying Ian's suffering. I don't see how he was being "helpful" or providing advice.
Because I agree with everything you've said here, I will take a close look at the content of this link.

I am the kind of person that believes in the existence of a universal absolute moral truth. I don't believe in subjectivity. A disagreement implies that at least one person is wrong. Yet, I don't think a central and rigid infrastructure should exist to enforce this ideal even if we were to discover it.

Can you provide one example of a law that should be enforced by a government?

And you're right about coordination, I don't have all the answers either. Scarce resources, ownership, roads, defense, languages. I'm still not sure how to deal with these in a free market.
> 1.) I am surprised this doesn't happen more. You find a company that's excited to build it, let them run with it, then if it ever becomes a target you acquihire.

That's a valid strategy for why you would want an open platform, but it doesn't really apply to outsourcing. It's not the agency's product and you're handing over cold hard cash for their time. You're not going to acquire the agency if the app takes off... you already own the IP.

Really the only reason that you should outsource is if an area is not in your core competencies. If developing software for a major platform isn't one of Twitter's competencies any more, that bodes ill.
Theranos’ proprietary tech wasn’t vetted by federal inspectors for two years
Didi Kuaidi is only competitive in china because of homefield advantage. They have used bribes and other tactics to hinder uber. Uber has had to fight with the government to even allow them to operate while didi kuaidi was granted a license to operate from day one because they are invested with big names who have government connections. Outside of china didi kuaidi can not compete with uber. It is the same reason why amazon does so bad in china. China is a strange market where corruption and physical social networks play a large role in business the foreign companies just cant compete with
While I understand that gigabit Internet needs to be useful to the average consumer in order to be sustainable economically, having more bandwidth (and IPv6) at home allowed me to do things I would have never thought of doing before. As someone in business where every penny counts, it makes a difference.

When your average consumer is stuck on low speeds, imagine what the consequences are on those who rely on this for their work (not to mention for those who tinker and innovate in their "garage").

Where I live in Canada, even for your average business, it's either a barely sufficient DSL/cable line at 70-100$/month, or fiber which usually starts at 500$/month. It's ridiculously expensive to get good bandwidth. Sometimes it's easier to stick point to point antennas on the roof and connect directly to a datacenter.

Faster speeds: they will find a use for it, and everyone wins.
Mental illness is primarily characterized by temporary states. Personally I don't think you can be "unhinged" without being mentally ill. It's better to use language that more accurately characterizes the situation, than something which is just a synonym for crazy.
I read the article, which says nothing about the cause of death. I decided to check HN comments, and I am grateful for various interesting facts about Ian, his life and accomplishments. But still, the main question on my mind is - what the fuck did happen? Maybe it's a bad part of being human, being curious about the reason for the tragedy. I suppose others also feel like this, and so speculations always start quickly.
I'm not familiar with the details of this construction, but in general massive building materials (concrete, CMU, brick) are your friend. The risks are penetrations through these materials for pipes and electrical conduit or other openings at the top of wall.

It would make for a good blog post to talk about how mass relates to sound blocking between spaces and how we've learned to "hack" wall partitions using mass-air-mass assemblies (like standard drywall walls) instead of just mass alone.
It's not a loophole that lets them pay nothing to any of those nations. Apple pays taxes in every country it operates in.
But you can't do anything with that money (left in the corporation) - it eventually winds up buying things for people, or being transferred to someone's bank account, at which point it will be taxed.

You could leave it on the company's balance sheets forever, but that's pretty stupid, especially if you're trying to avoid taxes, as then you just get none of the money instead of most of it.

Why not just tax the people that make up the corporations? They have to spend 51% of their time somewhere, and all taxable stuff winds up in their hands (don't tax reinvestments), so figuring out their tax obligations is simple, relatively.
As a submarine veteran, noise is bad.
Duggan was a self confessed members of a drug dealing gang (Star Gang), was considered dangerous, and had a gun is his car when killed.

The Guardian were rightly forced by the PCC to retract their article that claimed Duggan was 'unarmed' and should feel ashamed of themselves for helping stoke that fire.
Big 'Schrödinger's Cats' Created
> b) This isn't a priority, so we're not going to ship something half baked and outsource it. Here's a link to TweetDeck and TweetBot.

Since the API now effectively forbids third party apps, that doesn't seem like a viable option.
A lot of the ability of the Boston Robotics robots is in their software thought which is much easier to lockdown via encryption. The rest is the hydraulic mechanism which is not easy but is the best known part of what the BR robots do.