skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fully agree. I've seen this happen with my younger self countless times. I would get excited about an idea, tell someone all about it, and then suddenly feel less motivated to work on it. Anything I'm serious about, I try not to talk about anymore as a result.
Unless it shows "you need to connect me to internet to finish the setup wizard" like bunch of other smart devices do.
Almost four hours later and it's still down. Really doesn't inspire confidence.
OPEC never was a tight group. They hardly agree on anything or consult each other for production strategies. Also OPEC has not that much weight on world oil production any more. And also most OPEC countries are more interested in better relation with the USA than any OPEC strategies.
You dropped the small detail that those new ICEs are going to replace IC and EC trains first.
And those usually run below 250 km/h.
And only in a later phase they are going to replace ICE 1 and ICE 2 trains, which can only go 280 km/h.. so not a huge downgrade.

They are not a replacement for those trains running fast services (with legs with 300 km/h in them).
Again, where do we find one of those? Pretty much all stores carry only smart TVs in decent sizes.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/why-do-patent-trolls-g...

> But why do patent plaintiffs, especially trolls, see it as such a favorable forum? Partly, the district's relatively rapid litigation timetable can put pressure on defendants to settle. But other local practices in the Eastern District also favor patentees. And, in our view, they do so in a way that is inconsistent with the governing Federal Rules, and work to mask the consistent refusal by the courts in the Eastern District to end meritless cases before trial.
Or maybe they act to keep the big players honest?
It was small compared to their profits.
Didn't Oracle reveal recently (maybe I'm totally misremembering this) that Google receives a shitload of revenue via Android?
Why?

Why do you need more people when you grow past a certain size? At Drop box's scale they surely must manage their backend at scale and not have people babysit servers. If DBX are using Amazon's S3 for storage then that's one less massive headache to take care of.

Just for comparison, Instagram had 13 employees when they sold to FBK and they sure had scale at that point.
Yeah, SJC and BUR seem way better for airport time, I'm just surprised they run a 35-minute flight. I'd have assumed SFO and LAX get faster airplanes. Maybe half the time is lost to taxiing?
That doesn't seem like a very useful distinction. Suppose new patent troll legislation comes along that would prevent enforcing a patent that isn't actively being used or developed (similar to trademarks). The trolls would just produce a cheap gizmo that depends on the patent in some way, and then blame the lack of sales on patent infringement. They'd colloquially still be called "trolls" based on a subjective judgment that they aren't really serious about selling the gizmo.

When someone calls Apple et al. a patent troll, I think it's from the perception that they 1) apply for overly broad or obvious patents, and 2) enforce the patents offensively. Also a very subjective definition, but it doesn't seem any worse than arbitrary "uses/plans to use" criteria.
Even for all the questionable technical choices Canonical have taken, I am happy there is still a company experimenting and pushing forward the "Linux Desktop".

Even if it looks a bit gimmicky, I split my time in half between a desk and a lab for quick tests, often I end up crouching with my laptop on my knees just to check a few line of code I have just written.
Yes, you are right, especially in Tech (Finance for instance is a bit more "formal").

But what I like about it is - I think - it gives a good "idea" of the general feeling about a certain piece of news. Sometimes a bit of irony is... welcome!
No, my sole claim is not that using a cell phone would have 1/100th the effect of blow drying ones testicles after a shower (why????)

After all, the phone stays around a lot longer (temporal effect) and I have certainly noticed that when the phone is using lots of bandwidth it stays warm for hours at a time. Many effects in biology can occur from extended exposure (cumulative dosage effects) when they don't have an effect from acute exposure. And vice versa, of course.

Anyway, reasoning from probabilistic intuition here is probably a mistake: the epi studies show stuff that doesn't agree with our intuition (this is common) and that leads theorists and experimentalists to go search for other causes. In the history of science, we have a long list of things that weren't intuitive but ultimately were figured out.

Finally falling back on "I assume QC works" isn't really informative in this case. I assume QC works to and I don't see why that negates the possibility that cell phones can have negative health effects caused by physical mechanisms.
> low-life leeching NPE's

NullPointerExceptions?
If somebody wants to try to guess what the arguments of the UN Working Group can be, the starting point should be:

http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/FactSheet26en.pd...

"according to the Group, deprivation of liberty is arbitrary if a case falls into one of the following three categories:

A) When it is clearly impossible to invoke any legal basis justifying the deprivation of liberty (as when a person is kept in detention after the completion of his sentence or despite an amnesty law applicable to him)(Category I);

B) When the deprivation of liberty results from the exercise of the rights or freedoms guaranteed by articles 7, 13, 14, 18, 19, 10 and 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and, insofar as States parties are concerned, by articles 12, 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26 and 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Category II);

C) When the total or partial non-observance of the international norms relating to the right to a fair trial, spelled out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the relevant international instruments accepted by the States concerned, is of such gravity as to give the deprivation of liberty an arbitrary character (Category III)."

It's about the "arbitrary deprivation of liberty" against his human rights.
Like I said in my previous post, the word censorship is being used as a bludgeon to have the exact result of silencing minorities who protest such events. If you can't deal with a venue refusing to give you a platform then maybe you're in favor of the Fairness Doctrine. If you're not then you need to square the circle for me on how it's any better/different.
If you're on a Mac and need to write an unfamiliar accent, then by far the easiest is to just hold down the keyboard key of the base letter (or in this case shift + 'a' since its a capital letter) and then select the appropriate accent from the list - just like you can on iOS.
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These are very good questions. I have wondered the same for a long time. Can anybody shed some light on this?
Despite all the legal attacks in the UK and elsewhere, this is probably the biggest blow to piracy sites so far. When one gets taken down another spins up, but if you turn your adblocker off they all have these awful adverts.
Thanks for writing this! Really good article.
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Typically the 'troll' label is applied to companies like Virnetx because they produce nothing of value. They are strictly rent seekers - net negative economic value creators.

"It's a massive verdict for VirnetX, a company that has no products and makes its money solely through patent litigation."
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> Corporations can play the states against each other in regards to 'bidding' with tax breaks.

I was actually amazed when GE did move their headquarters from CT. Often that's a ploy to just get taxes lowered in place. The people who run economic development play along because then it looks like they actually did something "see they were going to leave but we got them to stay". This happens also at the county level in addition to obviously interstate. (WSJ story below).

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Oddly enough, I wasn't stating that the person had poor deductive logic. I was stating the exact steps I took to find the answer myself.
Oh well, I guess that's the loophole in my proposal.

But at least, a patent troll would have to buy an entire corporation rather than just its patent portfolio. Kodak, again: if let us say Toshiba wants Kodak's imaging patents, they'd have to buy Kodak in its entirety. At least this would raise the bar to acquiring patents.
Wait, what? Since when is exploiting the legal system for financial gain not immoral?
It's on his Twitter account that's linked in his profile. ;)
Non Practicing Entities - i.e. trolls.
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Thanks. Until the party gets started, I wrote a blog post on this a while ago that people seemed to like that you can check out here. :)

http://www.mgadams.com/2015/06/30/the-software-engineers-gui...
My parenthetical was admitting I don't know what other complexities were involved with the tax credit, but to the grandparent's point it was closed to landlords and perhaps lowered rents as some like me bought houses instead.
This is flat out impossible. Krugman assured us that debts do not matter and that trying to live within a budget is a wicked plot to impoverish us all.
Since lawyers existed?
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I'm not sure I'd class Mondo as a "passion Project" they're a company with a product in alpha (payment card) and in the process of getting FCA accreditation, which requires quite a bit of work to get started on...

As to whether their vision of financial services takes off, I think that remains to be seen, but it's very interesting to see the large number of new banks starting up in the UK market which has previously been dominated by a few large players.
Medium seems to have some URL cruft at the end of it that is unique for different users, and it doesn't seem like HN knows how to dedupe that.
yes, I think it's always key to look at epi studies like this and make absolutely sure everybody agrees the protocol is designed to address bias. I'd say only about 10% of the studies I read do this adequately (it's one of the things that helped convince me Ionnides is right that nearly all studies are Just Wrong).
I enjoy reading http://www.vententersearch.com/ for this sort of stuff.
Someone recently asked on the Mondo Community forums

"If I put my money into Mondo, how will it be invested?"

Hugo Cornejo an employee answered with the following:

"Very good question. During the first year a very small proportion of your money will be lent to private individuals in the form of unsecured overdrafts. That’s all the lending we’re doing. The rest sits in cash at the Bank of England. In future, we will do more personal lending and invest some of the money in UK government bonds."

Unfortunately the link to this reply is only available to Mondo testers:

https://community.getmondo.co.uk/t/after-6-weeks-of-use/337/...
Gonna speak up to defend OP here: I've worn the devops hat for products across multiple "Large Companies" (Amazon and larger scale) and found that for small products where it was me and a few other devs keeping the lights on, we would have outage alerts on status pages/twitter typically _before_ public users even realized something was wrong, since we were all very high touch on the project.

The bigger a project gets, the less prioritized something like a status page often seems to get. Larger entities certainly _have_ them but I often see more things interfering as scale grows (this isn't only a MS thing, let me make clear) whether it be domain switches between engineering and social management (status is often via twitter), feeding the status page via a long telemetry/monitoring platform that has some lag, or a high threshold for what "outage" means to avoid flappy notices (at the cost of some false negatives).

I'm not even going to make a value judgement on the tradeoff of these costs at this point, (I certainly wouldn't dismiss it offhand as a net negative although equally it's not all roses) but at the very least I'd observe that something like a status page _CAN_ be serviced very well from an up and comer (for as much as Github is that any more) and it's far from a true statement that bigCOs can't take learnings from improving customer happiness from newer entities. (In fact, I wish that was a more common practice!)
- Just like a job interview, you need to anticipate the questions / objections that might be brought up, and prepare to pre-empt them.

could be something random where you dropped the ball on something in the past year, and you almost forgot about it, but it would be brought in the review process.
The big players can afford it, their existence just adds a barrier to entry and causes more harm to young/unestablished companies.
I don't recall asking you to do so.
Aside from Mondo and Atom Bank who else is there?
It's much easier to think about things than to make them, so this is really the normal state of affairs. Not sure you can avoid it completely
This is why in days of yore there was something called collateral. Loan goes bad, you take the collateral, maybe take a loss and move on.

Now banks think they can get rid of that concept too. They want loans to be insured by governments so there will never be defaults and they can simply mint money?
>General mistrust of the business model?

When your company requires the software to do its daily business, any misstep by the software company is a serious liability.

When you 'buy' a copy of the software it is yours to run, and if the parent goes out of business you may not be able to reactivate it, at least it still runs.

With the rental model, you are in much the same boat as a person who rents a house, when the landlord wants to charge more you pay it or get evicted.
can anyone give advice on what a reasonable indemnification clause would be? (reasonable for both parties)
Nope. We started experimenting with AdX ads a few days ago and immediately saw exactly these ads: https://www.en.advertisercommunity.com/t5/Ad-Approval-Policy...

That post is from 2013. The answer to the question in the title is apparently "not for at least three years".

I'll take Google's concern about deceptive ads seriously when they stop serving those ads themselves.
I totally identify with the problem you are describing.
I have been trying to use Twitter for this, but a- there's a lot of noise b- I don't really know who to follow. E.g. in AI: I don't really know the experts. The fact they are "pre-selected" in Forereads is super helpful.

So I like what you have done here a lot. Congrats.
Yes, I know the origin.
The truth of our fighting in the Middle East is that it is political not existential. No one in Afghanistan or Syria presents a serious threat to the security of the U.S. Our military goes there to defend allies, enhance long-term stability, and deny resources to terrorists.

But when architecting the military, the #1 consideration has to be the deterrence of existential threats. That means planning for contested air space (contested everything, really).

The U.S. is the uncontested strongest military in the world. It would probably be a mistake to take that for granted, though, by making all our decisions in the context of expeditions to the Middle East.
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AP confirms:
https://twitter.com/AP/status/695258621454741505
Google will start warning web users about deceptive download buttons
I have a directory. Every idea is either on a file, or a subdir that holds whatever work I've done on it. That subdir may hold a TODO list, scoped on that idea - if I ever work on that idea again, I'll probably start by reviewing the TODO.

I don't intend to work on 90% of what's there anymore, it's not a TODO list. It's just a set of info that I may use someday later. I don't even know what's in there.
Most likely cause is the fact that (despite Swedish law) the Swedish prosecutor has forced him to stay in the embassy by refusing to interview him there, if she had done so the EAW could be cancelled and the whole extradition mess would be over.

Assange doesn't want to go to Sweden and there's no need for him to do so, so forcing him to stay in the embassy just because the prosecutor wants it is undoubtedly "arbitrary".
FWIW, it looks like they acquired these patents from a company that actually does make something. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Applications_Internati...

This is speculative, but these patent filings were probably part of a patent filing strategy that helped justify the employment of a what was likely a decent number of engineers by the original owner.
Hyperloop is an armchair scientist's back of the envelope engineering. Every single one of us is exactly as qualified to shit on the Hyperloop as Musk was to suggest it. There is no long history of detailed engineering and feasibility studies by thousands of civil and mechanical engineers.

This is the first result of any actual serious thought being given (well actually a bunch of college senior projects) and the winning design already apparently had to cut the speeds by a third (which makes it no faster than a train) and has no space for passengers or cargo.

Let me repeat that: the first serious proposal is no faster than a train and can't actually be used for transporting anything. Making it, as a suggestion for high speed transport, completely useless.
>the bright "ad" lozenge next to the paid results isn't explicit enough

Yes, it is not explicit enough. The tiny yellow box is just a noise present on every search page. As any noise it will be ignored. Especially when everything else in these ads tries to look exactly as a valid search result.
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Windows alt-codes -- Hold down alt, then hit the number combination on the num-pad, then release alt:

Å - 0197
å - 0229
Ä - 0196
ä - 0228
Ö - 0214
ö - 0246

From http://fsymbols.com/keyboard/windows/alt-codes/list/
tl/dr: ffos is not dead, it's open source, and it's already a product, not a PoC.

I probably read like a broken record at this point:

Despite Mozilla dropping development on it, FirefoxOS is still not "dead". Open source things only die when no one has interest in them any more. AFAIK FirefoxOS is still the most open mobile operating system. If some other company decides to take up where mozilla left off, fork FirefoxOS, and do stuff with it, they can make a run at it (this is extremely unlikely).

The platform itself is pretty amazing already - It does all the actual "phone" stuff just great -- making calls, texting (minus a snafu with SMS group messaging on the version I'm on). The apps are web apps. The phone is almost literally one huge browser. There isn't that much more to add! Yeah it'd be nice if it had more "native" app support, but honestly, any site with a mobile website (or responsive design) has "native" app support. If you've used version 2.x, you're probably pretty satisfied with what your phone does now anyway. I know I am.

FirefoxOS will still be useful as long as people keep making apps for it (and again, apps are basically webpages, so even if it's not distributed on the marketplace, people can still webpages to homescreen), and it will be useful as long as people want to use it. It is already viable open source mobile OS. I am grateful to mozilla for taking the time to make it.

I'm excited to see what they do in connected devices, because despite the moves mozilla has made recently (hello, pocket, addon signing requirement), I still would much rather have them build software that was running on my toaster than anyone else.

[EDIT] - Also, check out the comments on the site. They're great.
Quick off the cuff assuming I use about 10 TB of bandwidth per month -

AWS 10 TB = $899,

OVH 10 TB = $89,

SYS (OVH SoYouStart) 10 TB = $30, (warning about 250mbit limit and minimal support applies)

DigitalOcean 10TB = $50 (using 10 $5 nodes which is admittedly less than optimal, just trying to get a raw bandwidth estimate though)

Perhaps this isn't a fair comparison, but if you're in an industry that can be bandwidth heavy it might be something to consider. I am and it's why we couldn't look seriously at AWS. For whatever reason AWS bandwidth is extremely expensive compared to the competition.
I could.

I could also just do the same with my beefier Android phone instead.
Isn't the problem with Marshmallow adoption due to the fact that you just probably can't get it on your phone due to carrier/manufacturer nonsense?

Apple pushes their OS to all devices, even if it bricks them. After iOS9 upgrade my iPhone 4s is practically unusable :)

In the end the consumers have very little choice in this matter. I can't go back to iOS8 (and the bloody phone was bugging me every single day to upgrade, so finally I did). Android users have not much say in this regard either.
There are several options:

* The logos might be under a free license

* The logos might not even be shipped (not a big deal for Perl and Python, which are primariliy command line applications)

* The trademark protection only includes the name, not the logo, and so it doesn't force the owner to defend its usage to keep the trademark.

For example https://www.drupal.com/trademark mentions a drupal icon which is subject to traemark, and a logo, which is not (unfortunately the log link is a 404).
Most smartphones manufacturers tend to stop to update them quickly (it doesn't go more than 2 years for non-major products). And low-end devices cannot run newer OS/softwares.

I stopped updating most of my softwares on my phone because it was making my phone too slow, even by deactivating notifications/background processes I did not care too much about.
Do you feel like Google+ is more than a problem in search of a solution? That's how I view it, and I doubt Mayer could have changed that. That says nothing of her and everything of Google+.
So, imagine what negative interest rates will do. Seriously, I can't imagine it, I sense it will be bad, but I'm not sure how it will play out.

On the other hand, if the fed will pay me to borrow money, I'd love to borrow as much as I can and loan it out on Prosper or Kiva etc.

Alas, the banks get these primo rates, not average joes... who are still paying %15 on credit cards. (money the bank borrows at near zero) Risk compensation and profit do not account for probably even half of that spread.
Do I openly say that I've been interviewing, received job offers, etc?
The unit size is not proportional to display size.

iPhone 6S has display size comparable to Xperia Z5 Compact, yet the Xperia is a much smaller phone. iPhone is sized similarly to the original Nexus 5, yet the Nexus has much bigger display.
I tried to flag a deceptive "Start Download" ad of this kind by clicking on this button a few days ago (which appeared on a site I run, annoyingly). The form I was required to fill out needed me to say where the link in the ad took me. So I"m supposed to click on the link in an ad which is pretty plainly attempting to install some kind of malware, in order to be able to report it? I'm supposed to either be 100% confident there's no vulnerability in my browser, or set up some kind of VM to test with, just in order to report a single, obviously malicious ad?
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"I really appreciate the work you do and think you do deserve a 20% bump, but I am confident HR will shut this down becase of [budget/end of year/upcoming org changes/bad lunch yesterday]. We'll do our best and get back to you [soon/never]."

Another big one is the "We are locked by HR on base comp, but we'll be sure to make you whole at year end!". When year end comes you dont get paid anyway (if they know you won't leave).

Would love to find a stress free counter to these :)

EDIT: Ultimately, IMO, you must be ready to walk out when negotiating a raise. Otherwise you won't get anything material.