skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more accurate to describe it as a subscription model. SaaS typically means that the software is delivered as a service (hence the name) and is not installed locally. That's not the case with most of Adobe's products--although they do have SaaS elements (e.g. cloud storage) of various sorts.
Seriously? It's almost as if companies don't want to hire a badass hacker to generate a business report used by non-tech workers. Tableau has a huge place in the BI community, and the last thing that a manager wants is somebody hacking d3js to to create some visualizations.
For that use-case is Tableau a more useful tool than something like Splunk or ELK stack?
The city I work for is roughly 1 hour and 30 minutes from the border of Mexico. I don't have empirical data to show the availability of Cannabis here,, but I suspect its pretty easy to get if you want it. I have heard we are a major hub of Cannabis distribution to the rest of the US from my LEO friends.

I say that to say this; I grew up here and it was significantly easier to get Cannabis (and other stuff) than it was to get alcohol as I grew up. At the time, I didn't keep up with geopolitics nor the drug trade in general. We just assumed our proximity to the border "was somehow related"... Although, this fact may have changed since then.

Further, I would also suspect that if there was major harm being done as a correlation with availability, Fire Service and EMS professionals would be reading about it in our trade journals. As some have pointed out, Cannabis is widely available in Colorado, Washington, and I believe Oregon.
Some of what you say is true, but highly misleading (and the 'appropriate channels' issue is still an open question in my opinion). Although Snowden accepted political asylum in Russia, he had little choice at the time.

The US government revoked his passport while he was in an international "no man's land" (i.e. the international side of Russian customs), effectively making him stateless. He had originally planned to transit through Russia on to Cuba, and thereafter Ecuador or Venezuela. By cancelling his passport, the US government effectively trapped him in Moscow.

Heck, he couldn't have even have gotten himself illegally smuggled out. The US government forced the Bolivian president's plane, on its way back from Moscow to Bolivia, to land in Austria, where it was searched. Just on the mere suspicion that Snowden was on board. Forcing down the plane of the head of a sovereign nation and subjecting them to a search in a foreign jurisdiction sounds pretty damn illegal to me. Actually, it sounds like an act of war. But I suppose that doesn't matter when your country spends more on its military than the next 19 countries combined.

Also worth noting that the crimes Snowden has been charged with are two counts of violating the Espionage Act, a law passed just after the US entered WWI. Its original intent is clearly to punish people who endangered military operations during a time of total war. Given this intended purpose, it's a near certainty Snowden would be found guilty if he ever came back to the US to 'face the music':

Professor at American University Washington College of Law and national security law expert Stephen Vladeck has said that the law “lacks the hallmarks of a carefully and precisely defined statutory restriction on speech.” Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, said, “basically any information the whistleblower or source would want to bring up at trial to show that they are not guilty of violating the Espionage Act the jury would never hear. It’s almost a certainty that because the law is so broadly written that they would be convicted no matter what.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917#Criticis...
From that link I see this:

> With this approach, the founders are incentivized to support Zcash for the long haul (at least for four years), and they have limited ability to pump-and-dump.

I don't see how anyone can audit that statement since the transactions are encrypted [1].

[1] https://z.cash/tech.html
Consider the time frame for this, as well. Radical alteration of the power grid will take at least a decade, probably multiple decades. Weaning it off coal, gas, and diesel is an enormous undertaking, even if it's technically feasible. Pilot programs now, even if they aren't immediately cost-effective, greatly reduce the risks of future change, when the cost equation is different. They'll shorten the timeline, reducing the long-term costs.
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Yes. It clearly has value and I'm glad people got to see it too. Unfortunately, this is a tradeoff with no satisfying optimum.
So the answer to my question is that the economics of energy storage do not work, but may at some point of the future?

I get both the technical and ecological argument, my point is that the economics to drive the change aren't here (yet).
Which is pointless since they had a great earnings report, were cash flow positive for the quarter and raised their guidance. Additionally they mentioned in the call that no sector is more than 20% of their customers so they are diversified if a certain sector really tanks - like tech. They have 180 million in the bank so won't need credit markets any time soon and gradually approaching profitability.

Disclaimer: I have a position in NEWR and added today at the 21 level. This will certainly bounce back in the comings months or years. Will add if the irrationality continues.
Thank you for the clarification, I think I understand your position, so let me attempt to restate it and add to my previous response.

You are saying that because congress isn't properly accountable for their current actions, and that we should have a more direct democracy, with the ability to challenge proposed legislation by referendum as one potential vehicle for that?

I think I could potentially get behind that, but I would want to hear more about proposition for nation wide referendum systems, especially since some states already have such a thing, but not all, to implement it nation-wide would require a constitutional amendment.

One alternative idea I would propose is an increase in the amount of representatives. Give them smaller districts and they would be more accountable and less able to use the two party system as a manipulatory vehicle. Issues abound back at the hill for such a thing, but I think it might be a good start.

Gerrymandering has to be controlled and eliminated as well.

Campaign finance reform is a must as well.

Overall I think I understand a bit better, I would just urge caution that in trying to fix broken parts of the system that we don't throw out the baby with the bathwater so to speak. As long as propositions conform with the constitution, I'm ok with it.

I will admit though, with the corruption as pervasive as it is now, a constitutional convention scares the hell out of me, as it could too easily be hijacked into something horrible.
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It's a bit ridiculous. We get global discounts, but even then we still end up concluding that it's expensive. We only have desktop and online licenses, server licenses are rooftop crazy.
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How many times is an artist allowed to play their own song before it's considered fraud though?
atm its just a proof of concept, a bit too early in terms of interfaces, and a bit underpowered in terms of cpu/memory/storage. In couple of years from now, though, you might have a phone with 4-8gigs of RAM and 256gigs of storage, and plug it into display/keyboard dock at work and at home.
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I can do all that too, but I'm fairly sure experienced Tableau people can do it significantly faster than I can for a comparable quality of result. (Tableau is the only non-open-source software in the stack my company runs).
Panasonic? But their laptops are expensive.
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"Because the long strings of alphanumerical characters and dashes provided by UUID are less efficient at the database layer"

If there is anyone reading this that is storing UUIDs as text, don't. They're 16 bytes, in hexadecimal with standardized hyphenation. Store 16 bytes. (Granted, that is still twice the storage of one of the offered integers,)
If only we could have this in the US.
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Exactly! Interesting your comment about a newer car. What model year is your car?
The time window we apply is "about a year", and 300+ points is clearly significant, so by HN's longstanding policy there's no question that this is a dupe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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I know nothing about these, but is it possible it put it's code in multiple places on the .com or .exe?
I'm not talking about physical size. I'm talking about cost and complexity. An air tank with a compressor pump at one end and a turbine at the other is simple, reliable, well-understood, off-the-shelf technology. How much energy can you store in an air tank that would fit on the back of a truck? Hook it up to another truck full of solar panels, and you have a local electric grid, capable of powering at least a few buildings, at very reasonable cost and minimal sophistication required for operation and maintenance.
That's ok, the mixologists would be independent lemonade service providers using their own lemons.

As independent contractors, they would certainly be responsible for compliance with all lemonade regulation.
Anyone who intends subversive action can be targetted

But if you identify with your current government (for whatever rationale), should you not fear subversive action?
Nice piece of history. You can see its age showing:

"Rather quickly it was realized that if you want to ensure a reasonable user experience both on desktops and mobiles, there is absolutely no way you can use the same HTML for both sites."
"We are pleased to give you a free trial of Premium Job Seeker." Proceeds to ask credit card info.
This stuff is always "poised for breakthrough". But we are still stuck on LiOn batteries, which have been around for what, 20 years? Wake me up when we have something that doubles the capacity of LiOn batteries in a similar form-factor and safety rating, propelling Teslas to 600km+ ranges. That would be a real "breakthrough".
3d modeling is not a consumer activity. You can start a Blender tutorial and start putting cubes or spheres together in an hour, or you could make 3d animated movies of the same quality as any major animation studio.

The complexity involved is not a mistake, it is inherent to the artform. Blender does a fine job of layering the tools and UI so that as you need more complicated features they are there for you.
Yeah, this scared me.

I'm in webdev, and while it does have its worrying trends with regards to the larger trade of programming, they are largely insular and contained. Only way to explain this kind of behavior is to have worked your entire career in webdev (with horse blinders on) and have next-to-no understanding of computer science. That, or she doesn't give a shit because Github is paying her a fuck-ton not to.

I'm going to guess in this case, it's the latter.
Got any examples? You're not going to come up with a design like my examples through any kind of a visual editor that didn't already have code specifically pre-written for this sort of responsive interactivity. Try resizing these from phone width to desktop width to see how the content adapts responsively:

- http://elementqueries.com/demos/pricing-chart.html

- http://elementqueries.com/demos/content-blocks.html

- http://staticresource.com/modals.html

- http://elementqueries.com/demos/testimonial.html
Well, that is one cool domain.
>What makes the parents of an anchor baby more deserving of citizenship than a person who worked hard, went to school and developed skills useful to the US?

I can't say, as I didn't write the laws. My guess is that US immigration law is designed to limit skilled immigration because educated Americans in white collar jobs can raise a bigger stink politically about H1B competition in high-wage industries than working class Americans can.

As a foreign student who completed his undergrad education in the US, my student visa interview required me to show evidence that I would not try to use the F1 student visa to transition to H1B or a different visa class that can be linked to a green card application down the line. This is standard policy, as my friends who're also US-educated had the same questions during their interview.

It's also difficult to enforce because once you're in the country and have completed your education, you can be recruited by a company who will sponsor your H1B, at which point the ICE will evaluate it as they would any other H1B application. So the whole rigmarole seems pointless to me, but that is bureaucracy for you.
I'm not surprised. If LinkedIn disappears one day, will we miss it? I probably won't.

As far as I'm concerned, LinkedIn's only purpose is to lookup a contact's name and check his/her profile to learn a bit more before/after a first discussion. I'd venture thinking that this could easily be replaced by static web pages hosted anywhere, and some Google search.

Would you miss LinkedIn?

Edit: In the beginning, LinkedIn used to offer a fair deal to its users: you spend time filling your profile, in return we host your profile for free and for everyone to see (as your public and official resume on the web). But LinkedIn changed this policy a few years ago and, since then, only members close to you in terms of connection can see your profile. Others have to be paying members. In my opinion, it was the beginning of the end for LinkedIn.
As many times as they actually sit there and listen to it. Playing it on mute? Fraudulent click.

Personally I try to keep from listening to my own products via distribution channels because it dilutes the actual data set I get to use and review.
It's free, offered as a standalone service separate from Office. You just need to sign up with an email address from a non-free provider.

https://powerbi.microsoft.com

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft.
> got significant attention recently ...

I did not include the one submission with >300 because 200 days is not "recently" imho.
Thanks! My plan is to open source the whole site in the near future, but I'm trying to do a bit of a tidy-up and refactor before then. In the meantime, your very welcome to view the source code for any of the demos, like this file used for the oscilloscope: https://academo.org/demos/virtual-oscilloscope/demo.js
One of the Boston bombers was captured.

/s
Much of SourceForge has been down most of the day
Is "eugenics getting trendy again?

eugenics: noun, (used with a singular verb)
1.

the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics)

>>" The goal would be to prevent mothers from passing down disabling or fatal genetic disorders. <<"

This is possibly a slippery slope for what if parents, due to religious beliefs, or prejudice find specific traits "life threatening" or genetically defective?

i.e. Who watches the watchmen?
45,000 plays in a 30-day month is 1,500 times per day, or 62.5 times an hour. Which makes sense as they say it's a 0m 45s long track.

I don't think this is necessarily an area where you want Spotify to say "as long as you don't play it x+1 times you're fine" because then a lot of people will just play it x times a day every day. Playing a track 62 times an hour for a month is clearly fraud.
I grew up in the bush. Without support from the government, it would be amazing if they did that well. They don't have the culture and population to live off the land completely again. It would be the apocalypse out there.
Whew, flashbacks to Office 95 and its toolbar program, with launcher icons across an entire edge of the screen. Those were the days.

I just don't understand it. He talks about having icon launchers for 6 IDEs, 40 directories, 150 documents, 25 web sites, 4 games, and 50 utilities--all visible on the screen at all times.

When I used Windows 95/98/2000, I had lots of GUI launchers and desktop icons. Even when I first started using Linux, I had a bunch.

But now I only have a few launchers in my panel. I launch programs with krunner, the application menu, or through a terminal. fasd lets me quickly access directories I've accessed before. Fish shell history and percol/fzf/etc let me quickly rerun past commands. Emacs and recentf and helm-locate let me quickly access any file on my filesystem by typing a few characters.

I have one panel, about 44 pixels tall, across the top of the screen. My window titlebars are about 32 pixels tall, and they are hidden when the window is maximized. 98% of my screen is devoted to Emacs or Firefox or a shell, LibreOffice, Dolphin, etc. No window borders. Decoration is minimal and gets out of the way. UI is mostly hidden until I need it.

But--one of the great things about Linux/FOSS/etc is freedom. This guy can customize his UI the way he likes it. GNOME2/MATE, KDE, TDE (long live KDE 3.5!), etc. let people make their systems work for them, not the other way around.

In contrast, Apple, Microsoft, GNOME3--they all say, "Have it our way."
Going to plug freecad - http://www.freecadweb.org/

Of course its not Autodesk, it does not have millions of active subscriptions pumping money into it. But it is pretty fun to play with, I made a 3d model of my house in it about two years ago. For recreational CAD it is more than sufficient.
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I see. But for HN the dispositive time window is a year, as described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. I don't know when pg came up with that but it was long before I started working on HN.
The SourceForge deathwatch continues.
I get the arbitration angle, but doesn't it purely depend on there being a market failure, i.e. failure to match production to demand and/or grid failure to transfer power between demand imbalance regions?

Wouldn't the better long term solution be to fix the market failure?
Those would typically be for major label signed artists. Some independent artists might be affiliated with ASCAP and/or BMI, but not always. It's my personal guess that most acts who upload via services such as TuneCore, CD Baby, or DistroKid are not members of those societies, and thus get their payments directly (through the service used).
Interesting approach! How practical is it though? I can export a tbwx or whatever the extension is, so that those who need the dashboards can use Tableau Reader. I'm however wondering if such model would work for us.

The one thing that I like about Tableau is that its documents are XML, which plays nice with git.
This is what I thought as well. I'd seen it yesterday, but couldn't correlate that this article would be talking about the same tool after seeing the headline. "Lets Coders Build Software Like Bridges" doesn't make it sound like a refactoring toolkit at all.

Are bridges refactored 5 years after being built?
It's a crummy product. My homepage is filled with useless crap like word puzzles and simple math equations, I'm inundated with with spam from recruiters, and I get daily connection requests from people I don't know without any explanation of why they want to reach out to me.

It could be a useful network that helps me address professional needs, but they seem to have no interest in building that.
Honestly, I love that attitude. Also, be prepared to be shown the door.
That's a good idea; though I should have said something more general to make it clear that I am referring to the overall bad design of the site.
Correct. Cash real estate purchases by Chinese nationals will continue to dwarf those of Silicon Valley employees.
I read somewhere recently (likely reddit) that this could likely be an election year strategy to vilify the opposing party, as Congress will likely shut this down.

That ties them, and the party to support of non-renewable energy sources, which are not exactly popular among voters(there might have been a specific demographic attached to that, but I'm not certain).

Even if this turns out to be the strategy, I think your idea about a commitment to US jobs would only help- not sure why he didn't do that..
Atm there is no real competitor to revit as openbim is not really market ready and all other software lacks compability.
Interesting. Do you find $2+ cpcs justifiable? Can you really get a good ROI with that?
Not to mention not only did they get caught trying to scam Spotify - they were let off with a warning for it.
I found that intellij was indexing all the time, slowly.
In comparison eclipse never seems to index anything (and it has great type etc. search capabilities).
Intellij really seems like a slow java-app compared with eclipse (which of course is java but using a better toolkit).

Yes off topic; sublime rocks! :)
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Well, if you replace welfare with jobs, most would agree it's a positive more. Major conglomerates will not go for this, so it becomes a low cost financing for main-street and small to mid size manufactures. I doubt any currently available goods will be effected, price wise because it'd be less that 1/1000 of the products in any given space. It would encourage continued energy product, of all kinds, here in the USA.

"You have to argue that the gain of manufacturing jobs will be worth more than the loss of inexpensive manufactured goods. The market currently says that argument is false"

Huh? Wrong. Nothing currently being manufactured would be effected until thousands of new manufacturing plant are brought (back?) online here in the USA. Your you must prove your idealized statement is valid by your metrics; and it is not.
Correct me if I'm wrong but this is a for profit company telling me to use the currency, no commodity, they created and control in order to have privacy?

How about I just stick to actual money?
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It strikes me that you could have said the same thing back in 2012 when Zynga and Groupon were cratering.

Likelier, there isn't much of a bubble at all, and companies tend to be properly valued.
Is China an enemy of the US? They're certainly not at war, and are the worlds biggest trading partners. I don't know the answer, just pointing out that it's not obvious.

From http://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/articles/3/essays/11...

In Cramer v. United States (1945), the Supreme Court held that a specific intent—adherence to the enemy, and therefore to harm the United States—is necessary, rather than the simple rendition of aid.
> Could you elaborate on this parsing of the subtitle files.

Not the creator, but subtitles are easy to find, and super easy to parse.

1
00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,375
Senator, we're making
our final approach into Coruscant.

2
00:02:20,476 --> 00:02:22,501
Very good, Lieutenant.
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