skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a negative but not a huge negative. I, and basically anyone sane, would prefer them to have a business model we could evaluate in our minds - it's just an unknown that isn't helpful. However, it's common and we can deal with it.
1 is assuming every consumer is totally informed and can understand the things a bank is doing. IMO no laymen could understand financial structures and whatnot, even if they had all the information. I don't have data to back it up (though neither did you) but "Big banks have always been in favor of government intervention" sounds untrue.
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They do if they automatically Homeaglow automatically adds on the 10% to the advertised price.
Robert Friedland, apparently. And he wasn't a professor, but rather a classmate (and Reed's student-body president).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field
No press, just a reddit post[1]. Do you know anyone? :)

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/43qnen/if_you...
> My comment was actually referring to Bernie Sanders.

I know, I didn't know if you meant to disqualify him with that caveat. On balance he is a pretty good presidential candidate in that he has a lot of pro-freedom rational stances on important issues, they are predictable and he has been consistently vocal about them.

Just wanted to point out Paul is a presidential canidate as well.

edit: meant to qualify with, it seems like you didn't intentionally leave him out.
What would you like to see it do? I've been thinking of tons of different ways of displaying that to a user, but I figured I'd just put it out there and see what people suggested.
Well, it already does, I use xubuntu ;)
Jumping on the invite chain! Email in profile as well-- Thank you :)
It's the danger of running against "latest" all the time...But it's been a day of chasing my own tail when creating a new cluster (Mesos, but that really isn't an issue) and using some tools built against the prior version (volume manager plugin, etc.) that break with updates to Docker.

It seems like if one piece gets an upgrade, every moving component relying on some APIs may need to be looked at as well.

Did a PR on one issue.

Currently chasing my tail to see if a third party lib is out of whack with the new version or it's something I did.

The whole area is evolving and the cross pollination of frameworks, solutions (weave, etc), make for a complicated ecosystem. Most people don't stay "Docker only". I'm curious to see the warts that pop up.
If you use Redis, you should try out Dynomite at http://github.com/Netflix/Dynomite. It can provide HA for Redis servers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032428
You're defining global well-being from a very American viewpoint. Poverty, war, actual slavery, child labor, hunger, disease, etc are dying out on a global scale.
I have 8 invites if any other stragglers (6 hours after the story was posted) are still reading. I'm heading to bed but will send them during morning coffee, GMT -5. (please make sure your email is in your profile)
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Oh wow. Still not sure what I would use this for, but definitely interested. Or rather, how to use it.
You should try yoga. It will help you to lower your stress level and you will be able to think about what comes next. Sometimes the solution is to step back. It worked for me.
As someone who used to sit between the engineering and sales teams from the engineering side, I actually empathize with the sales teams more than most engineers. You aren't there to write code in a vacuum. There are a lot of time it IS a deal you can't afford to lose.
StressNinja
Laura Poitras Reveals Her Own Life Under Surveillance
That's how I find most of my long-term work.

As someone else mentioned, I update it when I'm looking for a job. That kicks off a bunch of messages and invites from recruiters.

There's the usual hits and misses, but it works fine for me.
China regularly interferes with the ability of foreign corporations to compete in a fair Chinese market. Whether through crippling communications infrastructure (the GFW), subsidizing domestic counterparts, or ignoring US IP laws, China had no problem favoring domestic companies over foreign ones.

Yet the US needs an international treaty to authorize itself to slightly increase the fees it charges to China.

(personally I prefer the slow moving democracy of the US)
This isn't a tax on oil companies it is a tax on everyone.
See a therapist. They're trained for this, and you develop a weekly relationship with them where they can help you enact long-term change. Most normal employer-provided health insurance will cover (although with everyone seemingly moving to high-deductible plans, some are starting to drop coverage).

You could get into all sorts of complex psychological reasons, but basically you need to learn how to set boundaries so your employer doesn't bleed you dry, and then decide what you want out of your life and break it down into manageable goals that you can fit into your life.
Aggressively Expanding Civilizations
Do they have a history of making exceptions for themselves? If not, then you winning this bet will be quite a big deal - it'll show them as anti-competitive. They'd be forcing customers to use their AdSense product instead of just-as-good competitors.

Maybe they'll just give this "malvertising" detection software to AdSense who can then filter their own content before it hits websites. I'd be more willing to bet this will be the beginning of Adsense cleaning itself up than what you suggest.
> If Visa added that one detail, this would be a fantastic solution

Maybe I am understanding this incorrectly, but isn't that one detail the main value proposition. It almost sounds analogous to a Dropbox competitor offering a cloud storage API but the developer is responsible for handling syncing.

I am not saying it is totally worthless, maybe it has some value to big companies, but I am really failing to understand how this could be broadly useful.
Do you have two separate AWS accounts? Is your backup outside of amazons influence?
You're a developer, i'm guessing your profile plays that up. Are you expecting anything other than a recruiter to contact you?

Now imagine you're a buyer for a large furniture retailer, if you have your profile open, it might not be unusual for a supplier looking to get into somewhere bigger to contact you.

I've worked with a few sales guys, what they tend to do is use linkedin to build a tactical map. They then strategically expand their network until they get close to who they want.

LinkedIn, when used correctly probably won't come in the form of an inMail, but in the form of a phone call out of the blue from an acquaintance.
>if GitHub goes down, the software development world practically stops

Oh my goodness. Is this article just plain wrong, or does a large enough subset of Silicon Valley & friends actually do this that they mistook that behavior as including the other 99% of the software development world?
Exactly. The oil companies will just pass that tax right along.
I noticed that recently, how tablets have gotten much bigger (12-13") and detachable keyboards are now the norm, I'm seeing them everywhere. It makes me laugh to think that the killer feature a tablet can have... Is a keyboard! I feel like we've sort of come back full circle. Netbooks were getting popular before tablets, because people had a need for a computing device that was more portable than traditional laptops.
A Microsoft Surface, or a big iPad with a keyboard, those things are basically, like you said, thin and light laptops.
I don't like the fact that old data will continue to use the old engine after the upgrade.
Regardless of revenue, they were purchased for "over $10,000 per".

I call horse shit.

I agree with this statement, though, "It is undeniably destructive to our economy and future when many of our most innovative and exciting companies are bought by their competition."

Perhaps we're not building monopolies but huge diversified holding companies. My bet is on there actually being huge monopolistic effects of owning all the data.
IANAL -- Someone who knows this better then me can chime in, but I think there is less protection for 'business records' that contain information about you. I think the AG is arguing that by using your phone you are sharing info with businesses and it's that info that is not protected. Maybe they are just cutting out the middle man and grabbing the info that would otherwise be available to any other business? The article is vague on the legal principles in play.
I'm not sure I agree with his "dead money" assessment... if its parked in a bank it is still providing money to the bank, which can be doled out in loans.
I'll take one please
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My experience with C# and Java agrees with you completely. As someone who didn't start with, and never quite understood, the OOP craze, the urge to make tiny pieces that have almost nothing in them is baffling. Arguments that it's "more readable" are true only locally, and understanding a single-line method does nothing for understanding the system as a whole; a significantly larger amount of cross-file jumping (and often keeping track of a very deep the call stack) is a hindrance. I suppose they do this because it gives the feeling and appearance of being highly productive, when they're really just making things more difficult for themselves and others by bloating the complexity.

The other annoyance that I often encounter at the same time is terribly long and redundant variable names, accompanied by an overdose of design patterns. ("Was it the FooFactoryInterfaceAdapterList or the FooFactoryInterfaceList that particular method was in?") An example from this article's code is GetMasterVolume() vs. GetMasterVolumeMute() --- GetMasterMute() is just as descriptive, especially when the class is already named AudioManager. There's no GetApplicationVolumeMute(), instead it nicely appears as the more succinct GetApplicationMute().

I know there are IDEs which will help you go to the right file, but it's still not as easy as just scrolling through a larger one and reading linearly. That said, excessive code duplication is to be avoided and best replaced with a function; the code referenced in this article shows signs of that, as I easily saw this fragment repeated many times, among others:

ISimpleAudioVolume volume = GetVolumeObject(pid);
if (volume == null)
return;
1) That's half-true. Or 60% or 40% true. Econ 101 says some % comes out of profits, some % comes out as higher prices.

2) Externalities. Also Econ 101. We've got a basket of reasons, from environmentalism to national security, to limit our dependence on oil. Kicking in taxes while the prices are low can prevent markets from forgetting all the things they started to build in during $120/barrel oil, continuing to limit our future dependence, with the bonus that we now have a relief valve we can ease up on if things get really tough with oil prices.

It's actually the most market-based way to attack the myriad problems the oil economy creates for us.
But it sounds better as a tax on those evil corporations.
Coincidentally--or not--I've noticed a sudden influx of LinkedIn "Add me to your network" spam tonight before I heard the news.

Did the CFO hit some "dive dive dive!" switch to loosen the filters and avoid the torpedoes?
Please send me one
Looks like all the hordes of oldies from slashdot is now coming to HN
please add an email to your HN profile and i'll send it to that.
Unlike Google, Microsoft and Slack, Dropbox does have the top, 5 star, EFF rating for protecting your data from the government... I'm not sure what more they could be doing.

Edit to add link to EFF ratings: https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-reques...
Supreme Court chief sells Microsoft stock, then takes on case involving MS
For the sake of comparison, do you feel that oil companies pass along the current tax breaks they get?
Yep, economy is finally getting back on track because the gas price is becoming reasonable again, and now they want to do this. The price of gas affects everything. The more expensive it is to ship things, the more expensive everything is. Simple economics.
The advice of yesterday is wrong today -- the way it seems to go with most food/health/lifestyle advice. For me, I live the way I want to live, and eat what I like to eat. If it shortens my life by a few years, so be it.
Right. That was my thought, but that's going to be a diminishingly small set of customers. Why go through the hassle of opening it up to everyone? I suppose it's "hip" to have a cool bootstrappy website and an API that anyone can use, but it's just not super useful for most businesses.
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This confirms my suspicion that most startups have fake testimonials on their landing page.
No antioxidant by itself should inhibit ketosis.
I'd like one if you have any left to spare, thanks.
I see better what you're getting at now - those are great questions! I wish I had good answers to give, but it's hard to give advice beyond saying that you should indeed look into auditing a graduate history of science course or two. I heard that U Penn just hired an historian of computing and I have the impression that the history of information and computer science is becoming kind of trendy lately. It would be worth looking around at the new faculty in the main history of science departments who study something you're interested in and emailing them.

The whole question of how and to what degree having domain expertise helps understand the history of science is a pretty thorny one. Sometimes having technical expertise in the field you're trying to study the history of (a cardiac surgeon reading about the discovery of the circulation of blood, for instance) can actually be a hindrance because it tends to create an "well surely I could have thought of that!" kind of attitude. I think this is on display in Weinberg's writings on the history of mechanics and physics, where he basically calls Aristotle a dummy, etc. It leads to a smoothing over of the difficulties faced by people who had to puzzle out the problems themselves rather than read them in a textbook when they were kids. On the other hand, Weinberg's book is fantastic on the actual content of, say, Copernican dynamics, because he's basically a genius so he's able to understand past scientific theories on a deep level that someone like me can't.

The person who taught me history of science in grad school had a BA in physics and a PhD in history, which I think is about perfect for what's required - he understood the underlying material on a technical level and had a good mind for it, but his graduate training allowed him to step back from the actual content and get a new perspective on its historical significance, something which a participant in the field itself might not be able to see. Now, as to what that significance actually is and what tools historians bring to bear on it, it's highly dependent on what subfield we're talking about. In this person's context, his work lead from James Maxwell's work on electricity to the study of telegraph cables as a force of globalization. So basically moving from the realm of theory to how it was implemented as technology and the social effects of that shift.
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Gas should be more expensive in the USA. Sounds like a good idea.
It's one of the few times a book does a good job at mirroring actual practice.

Does FDNY use the IFSTA stuff at all, or do you guys exclusively use your own training material? Just curious... I spent my career in firefighting as a volunteer in NC and all of our training was pretty much based on the IFSTA material, although our certifications were IFSAC accredited (if memory serves).
Good. As they are supposed to. How do you imagine this is supposed to work, if not making gas more expensive?
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You seriously need to change the font.
Except that "product" means some real result of a creative process. There's zero about the term "product" that has any reliance on any element of money inherently.
Now while I am arguing for significantly reduced regulation around Uber, I would not say markets in general protect or serve consumers better. If markets had their way, anyone could sell a product that claims to do anything else, and if the consumers cannot organize information and catalog what products are fraudulent then people are vulnerable to deception.

That already happens today, in our "tightly regulated" market. Wonder drugs or miracle cures or instant diets or self help books claim to fix everything and do nothing. Drop regulation and it gets worse. Consumers are simply bad at organizing information about businesses, though I would concede that might be partially due to an expectation that "the government will take care of it".

Other things - environmental pollution / destruction (and other secondary costs of business), exploitative employment practices (particularly exploiting the poor and uneducated), using economies of scale to drive out competition, rent seeking, collusion, asset hoarding, and fraud all occur in a natural market and to varying degrees government involvement helps abate some - certainly not all, and certainly not perfectly - these anti-consumer effects of business.

You can look at almost any industry and point at gratuitous and stifling regulation, very often used as shut door tactics by wealthy market players who use force of law to stop competition, because playing in markets usually keeps you honest. Just because Uber is innovative does not exonerate them from how they are playing legal hardball just as bad as many of the companies that preceded them, and if given the opportunity would not erect the same walls to competition their fore-bearers put up. Besides the concerns about workers rights for their drivers, they are actively lobbying cities around the globe to both reduce regulation for themselves and increase it for Lyft or other possible competitors.
Ask HN: We rewrote the intro to HLHT. Which is better and why?
This is the current introduction (1):
http://www.happylearnhaskelltutorial.com/1/how_to_enjoy_learning.html
and this is the rewritten one (2):
http://www.happylearnhaskelltutorial.com/1/how_to_enjoy_learning2.html
Which do you like better, and why?
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I love GitHub but IMHO GitHub could use a bit of a shake up.

* Code browsing is terrible and without `octotree` I don't know what I would do.

* Organization view is a joke; once you have 50 repos, good luck finding anything there.

* There is no way of managing anything on higher level, only per repo. I can live with that but there are people who want to track issues across the projects. And then one ends up with JIRA for issue tracking (the horror!).

* Edit: code search is also a joke or even an insult

After all these years in business, GitHub website doesn't offer any insights into your git repo over git command line and is probably worse than command line for many use cases. That is simply disappointing.
I'd much rather lose my job because we couldn't meet crazy sales expectations, than lose it cause our tech was great & no one wanted it.
But when has Google ever really gone deep and sustainable in a vertical like this? They don't seem to have staying power in anything that isn't a pure internet infrastructure essential. LinkedIn doesn't seem to be the kind of thing they could nail, or would commit to even if they did have some fledgling success.
The price of gas is linked to the price of everything through shipping and transport. The lower the price of gas, the stronger your buying power. There's no upside to a high price of gasoline.
Dollar tumbles as Fed rescues China in the nick of time
That's a VERY different situation. Google is claiming there that (essentially) they have the right to put sites in whatever order they want, and US courts are extremely sympathetic to that argument.

Here the issue is that Google is making direct, verbal claims about other sites. That's not to say Google couldn't come up with a strategy to win in court, but the strategy would have to differ markedly.
It does say right in the middle of the first screen that it is currently only for nexus 5
I think Cuban is spot on in his assessment. It's basically not worth it unless you can find a secondary market buyer. Feels like musical chairs. And whatever you can't sell, with preferred shares outstanding, makes it seem like all bets are off, unless you can IPO which at least gives you a chance.
I feel bad about sniping a small part of a thoughtful comment, but this:

it's hard to change treaties and the laws they create once they are enacted

... is not actually at all true. The laws put in place by treaties (ie: ratified by Congress to enable treaties that they approve) are no harder to override than any other law.
iPhoto was pretty bad, but it seems better than Photos. Perhaps I'm just more used to it. Thanks for the tip about the hearts, but I didn't mean in the title bar of the program, I meant overlaid on the photo itself -- the old flagging method was much easier to see at a glance.

I actually like the photostream. It's an easy way of getting recent phone snapshots onto my computer for exporting or doing whatever I want -- without keeping them around forever.

My multi-select comment refers to this: double-click on a photo in the thumbnails. You're now viewing an enlarged photo. Now there's also a double-row of thumbnails to the left of it. You can use this double-row to navigate, but not to multi-select. You must hit the back arrow to get to the OTHER thumbnail view in order to multi-select. I constantly make this mistake, it's so non-intuitive that you can't multi-select thumbnails to (say) export multiple photos.. not in THIS mode, at least, you now have to hit a back arrow to do the exact same task!

I'm not sure if they've fixed this in Photos, but a big gripe of mine with iPhoto was its "sharing" behavior. If you deleted your photos from your computer, it ALSO deleted them from your 'shared' sites; eg, Facebook or whatever. To me, this was absolutely asinine behavior as many of us use multiple computers, can't store our entire photo libraries on them at all times, and so on. For example, my workflow is to take a lightweight laptop with me when I travel, and the SSD can't hold my whole photo library; just enough to do quick edits, upload, then delete.

I'll have to experiment with Photos' 'sharing' support, but I'm afraid of breaking stuff from past experiences.
The price of the oil drums costs more than the price of oil per drum, although they are reused. A tax on oil will certainly be passed on to the consumer. If the end game is to discourage oil use, not to keep the planet clean, it still will not work. Look at the high price of tobacco even in the face of the risk to health issues. People will continue to use oil in the same quantities unless the price goes up by an order of magnitude. The government wins both ways: higher tax revenue, or they can claim they saved the planet.
Couldn't they tell you first if service is available, then ask if you'd like to sign up for it or get a notification if it becomes available? That would be effective without feeling deceptive.
Except for decreased usage of gasoline and thus a decrease in the externalities of using gasoline.
Isn't this just a way to filter out the type of clients they don't want. If you do not have the time or resource to go through these bureaucratic scenarios, then you aren't a good fit.
Exactly, same here. It works as intended for me as a Software Engineer.
May I have one please?
I'd like one if you have some.
I (the author of the OP) have an article about accidents at http://robocars.com/accident.html looking into many of these issues.
It's a tax based on the elasticity of the demand and supply. The demand for oil is hardly inelastic (people definitely buy less gas if it's more expensive).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence
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