skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right, but I think we can't say definitively one way or another until we have more data. Personally, I think it is a bad idea to operate machinery when with any potentially mind altering (drowsy, intoxicating, etc.) substances on-board. That doesn't stop people from driving on heavy doses of Nyquil or prescription drugs, believe me. People that have no regard for the law, themselves, and others will continue to do what they do irrespective of what is legal or not. That is just an aspect of free will and the human condition.
Usually it was a loss in an earlier period that you've rolled forward to offset profits in a later period. They can expire though, so if you don't make a profit in time they become worthless. Companies carry them as an asset on their books until one or the other happens.
I think part of it is someone sees a question and thinks "Well why didn't you just google xyz?" without realizing that the only way to know to google xyz is to already know the answer to the question posed.
Check out pure.css at purecss.io. It is lightweight(4 kb) and covers a number of common ui components.
You could do worse than to play around with Sam Aaron's other project Overtone which is built on top of Supercollider.
Aren't the PROs (ASCAP and BMI) collecting a % of revenue from Spotify and Pandora and then distributing that money based on streams to the artists? Understanding this side of the music business makes no sense to me
Yeah, exactly. I don't think my C++11 code would be portable to ultirx and dg/ux anyway. :)
Yeah. I suspected when it was announced they'd be ruling in Assange's favour that they'd base the decision on the assumption the UK ought to accept Ecuador's view that Assange was entitled to "diplomatic asylum", and thus should be entitled to the same freedom to pass through the UK on the way to Ecuadorean territory as any recognised diplomat. Which is an understandable decision for a UN body to reach, regardless of the specifics of the case and whether it creates a precedent to allow much worse people than Assange to use embassies and retroactively-awarded diplomatic status as get out of jail free cards. It's easy to see why they'd be even more worried about a situation where countries involved in disputes decide that keeping their rivals' ambassadors under house arrest is a better idea than just expelling them from the country.

But instead they seem to have ruled on a more general basis that waiting for someone to allow themselves to be arrested and charged under an internationally valid arrest warrant constitutes "arbitrary detention", which is risible, irrespective of whether the allegation against Assange has any basis or not.
I've been registered on LinkedIn for a long time and found it a fun an useful way to catch up on people moving around and advancing their careers, what used to be done at the occasional cocktail party or celebration could be done faster and quicker by scanning the changes. And that has helped me stay in professional touch with people with whom I might otherwise lose touch.

But that said, I've recognized their maniacal monetezation schemes with trepidation. Is is it really "valuable" to me to see the names of everyone who has looked at my profile? Is it $5/month valuable? No. Is it valuable to LinkedIn that people who don't know me can find me there? Apparently the recruiters think it is. So the place where I feel LinkedIn is suffering is that it makes it painful to stay on the site as one of the 'targets'. And that is getting them into trouble. Because if the only people there are recruiters and nobody else, it won't have any value to the recruiters either.

All of that points to some serious strategic myopia at the top. They need to take their top leadership into a room for a weekend and get on the same page about how to run that business, MySpace is the canonical example of getting the calculus wrong.
There's a Catch-22 situation if I ever heard one
Installing Mysql on Ubuntu linux
I've noticed a lot of user hostile behavior like this from all of the large public social companies (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, etc...)

It's really a shame but I think that when your business is built off of trying to monetize user engagement with ads and you're under the scrutiny of the public market it's only a matter of time before this starts to crop up. I imagine there are/were many people at all of these companies against this sort of thing but with enough employees and enough outside pressure to deliver growth I suspect it's nearly impossible to avoid (without an extremely explicit mandate from the top)

:(
I find launching regularly used applications much quicker with the mouse if my hand is already on it. Especially on Windows 8/.1 where the action is just to aim at the right tile and can be done using muscle memory.
Tableau and LinkedIn aren't exactly early-stage startups. They have pretty established businesses.
Different ethnicities are adapted to different things. For example, we eat differently than the Inuits. It takes several generations to do an adaptation to a new diet.
I don't think it's misleading. Companies know mistakes cost money and experience doesn't always associate with better productivity.
Suppose hypothetically that you have an agreement from a firm to pay you money in the future. That agreement is carried on your business' books as an asset.

Your friendly neighborhood tax agency is a special case of firm, which can commit to paying you money in the future. One way they can do this is, when you lose money in year N, they can let you carry that loss forward for up to X years, so that when you're taxed on your income in year N+3 you might be able to offset some of that income with the loss you made years earlier, reducing the amount of tax you incur.

The guesstimated value of that offset in taxes is your tax asset. If your marginal rate is 30%, and you can offset $1 million in revenue, the implied value is +/- $300k. Importantly, if you guesstimate poorly or your friendly local tax agency decides to change rules on you in the interim, you have to adjust the value on your balance sheet. This can be problematic if the tax asset is a material portion of your notional value.
There's also "Git Notifier" which sends you emails about forks, stars, and (un)follows on GitHub:

https://gitnotifier.io/
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Jobs report was good so usd shot up because the case for looser monetary policy harder to make.
Its pretty easy to use parking spaces with solar , no need for solar roadways.
That's the one. Probably Patrick's best piece of advice, in terms of broad application.
Am I the only one not getting LinkedIn email?

I have an account, turned off all email-based notifications, and stop by every half-year or so to see what's in my inbox. It's usually full of messages, but I never get any emails from them.

Am I just lucky? What's up?
That seems like it would make it harder for Facebook's abuse team to deal with actual abuse reports.
Or the rumored new 4" iPhone.
I learned a new word today!... "dysphemism".

The article author seems to have a case of delusions of grandeur. This is the third article I've read from him over the last 2 years or so, and all of them look like concerted efforts to make simple things extremely complex sounding.
> that is coupled with a weaker US jobs report

Jim Cramer, et al are saying that it's the strength of the jobs report that is hurting. Because as long as unemployment is ~5% the Federal reserve might raise rates, opposed to if unemployment worsens, the fed might not.
Energy storage is such a no-brainer. It makes solar/wind viable for both base load and peak load generation. The numbers required are very measurable and predictable. It doesn't require magical, exotic technology (as the elevated reservoir and compressed air mechanisms show). There's always going to be some thermal losses in transformation, but they're going to be pretty similar across technologies.

Another nice thing about solar + storage is that it can scale very small, very inexpensively. Imagine putting a set of solar panels or a wind turbine plus some storage in a village in Africa. It may not be worth wiring it to an expensive grid, but just getting electricity there can make so many other differences.

Beyond that, the ability to small-scale and decouple reduces the power and influence of large corporations and the government-industrial complexes that wreak so much havoc. You don't need the drama and abuse of the petroleum or nuclear industries anymore.
What are your favorite parts of linkedin? what do you want them to be doing better that they are not?
Not when their goal is to lock-out all the competition in the space, which is something Autodesk is very interested in.

That seems like the opposite of innovation to me.
You might still be right. The implementation of std::mutex is unspecified, and real world implementations will probably spin a bit before going into the kernel, so for your test case with a tiny critical section it might behave like a spinlock.
It's probably supported by both. But if prices fall, that could lead to Chinese abandoning the market and dropping prices further.
Yeah, I agree. I spend alot of time in the browser when I'm taking breaks but there are many situations where I'd want OS-level notifications.

I think they really need a low/high priority with the high being OS.
You're right! But that behavior should be a little better now.
Thanks. Yeah, I think I was overestimating usage of online file transfer systems at that time, and underestimating offline/business usage of PCs.
Stop dramatizing failure – it's your friend
This is why now I am fully based in Germany and closed my company in UK. It started to be a nightmare. I started the company in UK before being in Germany, I kept it will being in Germany, but as basically a "one man Ltd" the Germans started to make problems (basically behaving like I tried to wash/hide money). Also, having the company now in Germany I was able to shift more expenses on the back of the GmbH, so you get some benefits there.

This is why, the best option is to take a good accountant, you really have no "magic formula". If someone is selling you "package" for a flat fee, you are nearly sure to have problems down the line. Even in good faith, when the tax authorities start to attack you because they consider that they think that maybe you did something wrong, they can make your life a nightmare and this totally legally.

So, handle everything with care, take a good accountant/lawyer and document everything.
Thank your Sir! Sadly C++ drags a bad reputation from its earlier years. I wish my posts make C++ reachable and enjoyable for common guys like me.
The techniques in Patrick's post are a less abrasive version of this.
In my case, it's a "misconception" based on being the guy who has to orchestrate a production pipeline from start to finish and pay the bills for everyone along the way.

Blender's UI may be many things, but like any tool in this field, simple is hardly one of them. In any case, a significant problem in practice is that Blender's natural ways of working don't always match what is used by just about everyone else. Sometimes it's got just the right feature to model something in a certain way, but you then incur a disproportionate cost to adjust that asset so it's useful as part of your overall pipeline, and while the UI for the handy feature might be decent, the overall process is glitchy and error-prone.
Email is harder than you think
I don't know what Tableau Software is and I found it pretty amazing that when I Google it I could still not figure it out because all the results were about the stock price. I think people might be focusing too much on stock price is Googling a company's name doesn't result in seeing the company's website on the first page of results.....
Though the outcome is a bit worse than I think most predicted, this has been telegraphed since about November of last year. Tableau has had a very high short interest ratio for sometime, everyone was expecting poor results.

What really exacerbated their issue was that they didn't get out in front of this and let people know how bad they were going to miss. So when they released earnings everything went to shit on them.

I can't really find any excuse for this that passes Occam's razor except to assume this is a very rookie CFO /CEO combo in charge.

I made a comment about 3 months ago saying that 2010-2014 were very kind to new tech IPO's and 2016 would be the year that companies would have to either make money or face the consequences.

I'm following this over the next 2 weeks to see what the stock does. Its now a pretty good Pre-Merger Arbitrage(take over candidate) candidate.

- Market cap under 5 Billion, check

- Institutional owner ship > 50%, check

- Insiders hold less than 5% of the company, check,in fact its at 1.09%, wow, management doesn't even want to own the company!

- below its IPO price, not yet, that was $31 but its still falling.
Nice one! Looks very slick. I'm a dev attached to Bitbucket, I'm curious if you've seen the Bitbucket Connect framework:

https://developer.atlassian.com/bitbucket/guides/getting-sta...

The browser extension is nifty, but Connect provides a proper API for embedding custom views in the Bitbucket UI if you want something a bit more robust (i.e. it will still work even if we decide to change the DOM at some point in the future).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQwwGPiyW9M
Morocco Unveils a Massive Solar Power Plant in the Sahara
Delegation Through Vacation
Startup CEOs are getting pretty young these days, has your niece been hitting you up for a seed round?

I'm thinking an App that is Uber for Lemonade Stands, people in the neighborhood just press the "I'm thirsty" button and one of her "mixologists" nearby makes a lemonade and brings it by. She doesn't make the lemonade or sell it, she is all about connecting thirsty people to industrious people who are putting their otherwise unused lemons to work.
It happens, e.g. Ronald Wayne:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Wayne
The emails are bad, but I also think their product is terrible.
I never put a lot of value in the data on LinkedIn.

Where else can I get "endorsements" for random technology keywords like SOA from people who cannot possibly know what SOA means?
It's like they're schizophrenic. They want people to use Facebook over Tor, but refuse to allow encrypted messages?
"in love" implies you both love each other.

He loves her.
She loves him.
They are "in love".

Otherwise it's one or the other.
> About 80% of this commercial space is parking lots. It's wasted space. Why not use it to produce power?

You didn't get my point obviously. Parking spaces are to park on. When a car is on a parking space, it's blocking the light from tiles under it and also casting a shadow.

> Why use additional fertile or constructible terrain to add solar tiles?

Because they won't have cars park on them. They will also be at an optimal angle and cleaner.
Nice link! I'm glad I haven't signed up yet.
But then again, I don't use gmail either so importing the address book would be considerably more difficult.

I wonder if you can prevent them from stealing the address book if you install their Android app?
That would be great! I often find myself unwatching repos that are interesting, but fill my inbox with hundreds of PRs and comments.
This will be a maintenance nightmare. The software concepts of Separation Of Concerns and Object Single Responsibility might be usefully applied to this domain.
Er dette fremtidens ringeklokke?
The only other one I know of is XING.
I was referring to the expressions "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day". Also, different activities are adapted to different things. Even without one ethnicity, there might be differences (for example, slaves vs warriors). I subscribed to the Warrior Diet [0]. According to the author Ori Hofmekler, slaves were eating all day long while warriors were only feasting at night.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrior_diet
I think Xing is more of a german thing (it's a german company).
> The gun debate never uses rational language on either side.

Case in point?
patents will do that

My point was that the way your language builds abstractions might increase or decrease the problem.
The fact is that LinkedIn isn't a "Unicorn" startup, which is kind of their point of the overuse of tech bubble.
I'm sorry that happened. We had a bunch of vacations on our team back-to-back (I'm on iOS) and I think that we're just backlogged with the queue. Send me an email (contact info on my HN profile) and I will try to get it moved along.

You are right that we should have let you know -- sorry for that.
Moderation is supposed to be selective. And a downvote is not harassment.
I think Mass Surveillance is a bad idea, extremely high risk and the potential for abuse is high. I also think that it consolidates too much power in one place which is dangerous for the future and the secrecy is a big problem.

That said there is an obvious use for it in helping stop attacks and pretending there isn't is weird to me.

> That line really highlighted the fallacy that "mass surveillance is effective" for me.

Specific evidence of success is likely to be classified. It's possible attacks have been stopped - the classification of information makes it hard to know either way.

Though mass collection can help, if you have intel of suspicious people you could look through the entire history of their communication - see what they've been saying and to whom. When you newly learn that a person is a part of ISIS (for example) you can look through their entire communication stream retroactively. Since the attackers are not always that sophisticated (they used SMS in Paris) you can potentially learn a lot of information by doing this (their network, maybe plans).

They're posting videos of themselves on youtube showing off weapons and locations - I suspect there's a lot of information available in their communication that's useful for stopping attacks. It's a tool you would obviously want if you had to do the job.

That said I think the secrecy is dangerous because it prevents the public from being able to determine what level we'd accept (and legal recourse against abuse). It also is more likely to encourage abuse and since James Clapper lied to congress about it we can't trust the organizations that have tasked themselves to do it.

Thinking long-term, it took a long time to get relatively benign governments - consolidating this much power in one place (especially in secrecy) is something we probably shouldn't do.
One thing you can do is contact the organizations and ask for some documents about what they are doing with the money and other data. All organizations waste money or use it ways you might not like. But I think you have to do some research. Ask for the data from the given organization and make an informed decision from there. Any non-profit should have this data available in some form for you.

You can't really control how they use it. But you can see what they accomplished in the past. Look at what they are planning for the next few years. And then evaluate at the end of the year and see if you feel like they did what they said they would.
Your 1 and 2 are the ones I'm thinking of. Particularly with 2, it makes no sense that gun rights can prevent a slide into tyranny, but can also be taken away if you elect the wrong politicians. It requires gun rights to be simultaneously extremely powerful and extremely weak.

I think 3 is an excellent argument but is not really a hole in the idea that gun rights are necessary to prevent tyranny.
You said exactly what I had surmised. I don't use LinkedIn, and don't even really get spammed by it...but it's the one service that I don't use that I completely believe has a viable and valuable product. That it is facing such uncertainty is just baffling to me.
> LinkedIn changed its mind and decided that you should connect to anyone you're barely acquainted with

This was all in the interest of keeping the numbers going up which is obvious. And that's fine if that is your business model. But the business model here seems to be showing growth for the sake of wall street as opposed to growing the business in a meaningful manner.

Linkedin does serve a purpose it allows people to humble brag which is helpful even if they aren't looking for a job and don't need the connections because, say they own a business (and I don't mean a startup but it could be that as well). It's become an acceptable way to show where you went to school, what you have done in the past, and where you work or what you are the owner of. There really aren't that many other ways you can do that w/o appearing to be actually bragging and trying to impress someone (meaning it's not the same as having a personal website or even pointing people to a link "about me" page on your business website or a wikipedia page.

What's amazing is that they apparently don't want to filter the bogus requests as opposed to merely the requests that are from legitimate people (not bots) and simply trying to build what appears to be a network.
I think your endocrinologist will certainly let you know about a viable cure (or perhaps greatly improved treatment) and so I do not mean to take issue with that strategy, but they are doing human testing on this thing. That's progress!
Touche.

In that format it becomes 2 people projecting reciprocation. You wouldn't be able to find out if there was any substance to it until they tried to stay together.
For many decisions in programming, there are tradeoffs, and relying on general rules of thumb can be much worse than judging the specific case. And heuristics are often interpreted differently by different people.

Such is this discussion, imo. It's very possible to over-abstract. If something isn't extended, maybe it shouldn't be designed to be extendable, and if it isn't configured, maybe it shouldn't be configurable.

On the other hand, abstractions are the heart of programming, and finding a good one is what can make you much more productive and maybe even have more fun. The feeling when I've abstracted something and got more out than I put in is maybe the best feeling there is in this craft.

The difficulty is in finding the balance. I also dislike the rule of 3 as a hard general rule. There are many times when it makes sense to abstract something out of 2 uses, if there is a lot of code and clear separation and commonality involved, or you anticipate more uses later. Maybe even abstracting sub-problems out of one case makes sense, if separating the problem cleanly into two parts makes it easier to reason about. There are many times when it's a bad idea too; it depends on the specifics and it's a judgement call based on experience.

(And, I would even say, there is room for personal taste in programming about this; where the sweet spot lies may vary from person to person.)
try http://milligram.github.io/
> He must have been practicing Deadline Driven Development.

or The Team Has A Hammer Development
The complaints in Sweden were originally due to him refusing to use a condom which would explain the 4 kids from 4 different women. There is somewhere truth in these allegations that Assange plays games with birth control without obtaining consent to not use it, problem is he is almost certainly to be renditioned to the US on a CIA gulf stream if he ends up in Sweden so can't own up to these charges.
I used to work at a TBTF financial institution. During orientation, they told us that their mainframes process roughly 1/3 of US credit card transactions. The low-level code is 40-year old Fortran that still performs swimmingly.
Which area are you in? Your LinkedIn profile suggests financial/webdev work.

I've been doing embedded/firmware engineering in this area my entire career and, right now, 100K is typical for a senior position with very few positions available over 125K. The only way to go higher is to consult.

Perhaps it's the glut of ex-Moto/ATT/Lucent/Tellabs people floating around. I dunno.