skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a net effect - more workers == more work getting done, but doesn't address the general fears of "taking OUR jobs" that I've seen debunked but never really understood.

If I'm a minimum wage worker and you increase the pool of minimum wage workers - sure, more jobs will be filled, more money in the economy, but if _I_ can't get a job due to market saturation, my situation is worse regardless.

Again, I'm FOR liberal immigration policies, in general, but I've been told the above fear doesn't play out (overall), and I don't understand why.
Rethink capitalism - aka rebalance capitalism and socialism, two sides of the same coin.

The government plays a regulatory, distributive role in society, allowing profits to accrue to capitalists but setting taxes and running social programs at the proper level to ensure that society as a whole functions smoothly, and that there are opportunities for everyone to improve their situation.

Most of the economic world is in agreement that financial deregulation was a huge contributing factor in the crash of 2007-08. The repeal of Glass-Steagall allowed banks to take on too much risk with too little supervision.

This would have been fine if the banks had been the only ones punished when their bets went bad - but they had also been allowed to accrue so much power (through consolidation/M&A) that it was impossible to let them face the consequences of their own bad decisions and fail. So they had to be underwritten with public money in the form of QE.

A functional society requires healthy levels of both capitalism and socialism to survive. But the most important thing in my opinion, is that those who intentionally commit fraud or do not act in the fiduciary interest of their stakeholders are adequately punished. This last part is of course the rub - how can you tell if the leaders of business and finance were intentionally setting up their dependents for a crash? What is the adequate punishment?
You have to trust the organization, same as always. If your bank/credit union doesn't use https in their app, they probably don't have a secure infrastructure period.

If the organization you're dealing with is incompetent, it doesn't matter if you communicate with https, carrier pigeon, or face-to-face. They'll still leave things open at some point and you'll get screwed.

And, as heinrichf points out, you can MITM and name-and-shame individual apps if you're technical.
That doesn't fit my understanding of Patent troll -- buying Patents, not making anything, then blanket suing companies to try and make a living. Not defending Apple's behavior as such, but it seems to not be the same thing.
Sounds good to me.

I'd like to see Google take this one step further: author and publisher (as in advertising network) accountability.

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/Fitbdvdk...

Advertising providers, and advertising _publishers_, who forward "bad ads" are given a time-out.

Perhaps 10 minutes for the first instance, but increasing durations for repeat ocurrences. Days, weeks, and months for repeated gratuitious violations.

Ad providers and publishers who find they're being timed out for violating standards are, likely, going to clean up their acts, and find ways to ensure that mistakes _don't_ happen. Including direct vetting of content.

If Google don't block ads, I will.

Oh, wait, I already do that. But the rest of the Net is still catching up.
You make a fair point. In fact, if we had even stronger software patents, facebook would have had to wait 20 years after the invention of myspace. A world with no facebook? Valhalla? It seems I need to rethink my position.
Here's the secret - Sweden does not like him either. He could appeal it up the courts all he wants but when you are in a position where you expose secrets the the public sovereign bodies do not want known you are going to be a target. Civil rights and due process are for when you have not pissed off the leaders of multiple nations and their intelligence agencies by showing off their dirty laundry.

If I was from Sweden, went to the US, shoplifted, and got an extradition request because I committed a crime, I would not need to fear for my life nearly as much as Assange needs to. His is the kind of case where he "accidentally" ended up a plane to the US and "accidentally" disappeared after he arrived, and then six months later the FBI say they found his body halfway across the country in a forest mauled to pieces by an "unknown predator".
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Nobody takes about "taking from rich and giving to the poor". How about at least stopping giving more and more to the rich?
There is no way to know whether someone is driver or passenger without them volunteering that info. If they are willing to tap a button that says they are driving they could just easily press a button that disables talk/text.
These will _probably_ be useful but I did not understand any of the terms mentioned in the article. I guess I haven't hit any major bottlenecks yet. Bookmarked!
> iTunes was awesome on Windows when it came out

Whip the Lama's A WinAmp is still better.
Just a Facebook advertisement, nothing to see, move on...
"...we'll just lock him up with convicted gang members and rapists."
I find it odd that someone would charge a fee to join a chat room. Doubly so if that chat room is meant as a way for like minded religious people to communicate.
Is there at least an animated collection plate that comes up during the sign up process?
>> They aren't sayin they have been found invalid already ..

They are saying exactly that, at least according to their press statement.
tldr - I hate Internet sarcasm, for this reason. :)

Thanks for clarifying, it clearly went right over my head!
this is so serendipitous. I was just in need of notarizing some documents.

although it looks like it gives a signed PDF in return. Would a print out of that be accepted in places like a passport office
Wrong branch.

The Supreme Court's job is to issue smackdowns on appeals courts, and they have been doing so rather consistently. EFF is lobbying the lower federal courts at the moment. See this story for details: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/eff-asks-appeals-...

But yeah, the President is actually quite weak. The President can't do shit about this problem.
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Ask HN: Why are some research papers paywalled?
Isn't the objective of science to spread new findings?

So why are some research papers published behind a paywall ?
IMO the default music app being not very good is OK. The real sin is not allowing others to compete. Android default music player(play music, even the name is crap) is awful. But it's not a problem because there are literally hundreds of free and paid music players that will scratch your particular itch so well, that you won't be able to use anything else after that.
Plenty of product are ruined because they don't allow you to do that one thing you really need to do.

Feature creep is necessary for closed applications.

The ideal is a set of simple tools around a simple and open file format. As soon as you lock in folks to your application (as Apple loves to do), you're on the hook for being all things to all people, or getting panned that your software is only for the lightest casual usel
Having someone else represent you at trial is very common.

Swedish courts have already confirmed that there is no need for Assange to be extradited. Had he been given a fair trial and sentenced, then it would be a whole different situation.

For years the prosecution has been preventing him from having his day in court by illegally refusing to interview him in the Ecuadorian embassy, which is what this whole UN thing is about.
I often find myself with my arms behind my back while I wait for my script/application/web page to finish/load
I blame the stock market pressure towards growth. The stock market rewards growth at the expense of everything else. It's like a kid pinching his arm to blow up a mosquito that was biting him- it's forced to grow and grow and grow until it pops. It's no longer acceptable to simply run a profitable business with happy employees and customers.

It creates a push towards constant acceleration in all things- shorter release cycles, more product categories, etc. This supplies the continuous growth that shareholders demand right up until the point where it kills the host.

Also, "success hides failure". If you're a titanically successful corporation, any internal argument along the lines of "we shouldn't do X anymore, we should do Y instead" can be shot down with "well, look at how successful we were while we were doing X! X must not be so bad after all." It degrades an organization's ability to be reflective and self-critical.

These are problems for all successful companies, which become bigger and bigger problems with increasing success.
A question for developers, what are your tips for checking function params?
When I am writing callbacks often there are quite a few levels of functions calling functions. No problem there.

However I am often finding bugs because the arguments expected in the calling and called functions do not match i.e. I have forgotten to include an argument, or they in the incorrect order.

I'm spending alot of time manually eyeballing the calling and called function signatures to verify them.

This is time consuming and even then not super accurate.

What are your developer pro-tips for verifying function arguments match?
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> OS X releases that are now praised as "the best ever" etc, got tons of complaints for introducing bugs and instability.

I bet it would be easy to find an "OS X is on a slippery slope..." article for each OS X release.
Might as well complain about the lack of seats, then (somebody in this comment thread did!) since no passengers means no revenue for further development.

Your comment makes sense, when applied to the first commercial deployment. Which is years out at best and nobody knows what it would really look like. This stuff right now is not even a prototype, it's barely a proof of concept. Complaining about the specs is on essentially the same level as taking a wind-tunnel model of an airliner and saying that it's not big enough to fit any people.
Probably not, but Google EU is in Ireland and their libel laws are likely to be a lot like those of England, which is to say super pro the person who feels wronged.
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Nice set up. Your [1] looks like a good match for a keyboard shelf.

You know what's funny. A lot of those tall chairs cost $100-150ish. I actually contemplated buying a cheap $200ish laptop instead of a chair, simply because the laptop has much more utility. Then I would just sit with a normal chair and use the laptop for breaks.

My plan was to wait a month or so and see how things panned out before buying anything for sitting. So far I don't feel like I need one.

Haven't ran into any deep thinking issues lately. Currently I'm in the middle of planning an online course out which does require some thinking but I haven't noticed it being harder to think while standing.

At the start it definitely affected me when all I could think about was how bad I wanted to sit.
Adaptability means unreliability: the fact that bus stops represent minimal investment is part of the reason they don't drive changes in behavior.
Congress definitely has the power, but so does the federal court system. I think its more beneficial to push the federal courts to attack the East Texas problem.
https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/02/25/snowden-training-guide...

https://theintercept.com/2015/04/02/gchq-argentina-falklands...

Remember: JTRIG (NSA+GCHQ) is very interested in online propaganda and controlling public opinion through shills.

Note: Both serve their governments, which have decided to treat Assange as an enemy rather than a journalist.

I don't think this is okay. I encourage everyone to be on guard for this sort of behavior on news stories related to Assange.
Appalachia also is what I would call the "center" of traditional American folk culture. It's no mistake that a big portion of the artists featured in the Anthology of American Folk Music come from there. Very fascinating area.
Interestingly, the Unix philosophy works great in machine to machine communications. It is pretty excellent at handling the needs of the IoT and distributed systems, networks, sensors, etc. You hit the nail on the head about GUIs.

Ironically, it is the "handoff" features that Apple was traditionally best at. BUT, I have this feeling that most of what we hate can be described as "too little, too soon". After all, it could be argued that Apple is aiming for an environment which is "document focused" with their focus on standardized APIs (Adobe is working on this, too), but none of this works yet, because software is still written from an "Apps" POV. In the real world, we change the tool relative to the job, and the best tools are specific single tasks. given the experience so far, I'm far from convinced that a 2D GUI should ever try duplicate that.
Dude, chill.

First off, to get hired as a CTO, you don't need to convince developers, you'll have to convince founders and investors. That's a whole different game, perfectly played by a few people I know who have equivalent (lack of) tech skills to the guy you're describing.

CTO roles can also be filled pretty differently. The most upper one I've ever dealt with (group CTO of a huge media corporation) visited us and was totally fascinated by this Scrum thing we did (which we had to explain to her). Pretty sure she couldn't code a single line. You don't have to, when your main business is overall strategy, representing and managing other CTOs, often times they'll hire MBA's rather than tech people for these upper echelon positions.

Then again, you're probably referring to a startup / small company CTO. While you should certainly have some deeper tech chops in order to be taken seriously by the people you hire, I can assure you it's almost impossible to stay at the level of coding proficiency of the people you hire when you're caring for architecture, strategy, clients, management and investor relations (due diligence etc.) at the same time.

Source: I'm CTO myself and I only hire people who are better coders than I am.
If anyone's curious I just published the code for the extended benchmarks to GitHub.

https://github.com/dataArtisans/yahoo-streaming-benchmark
Open source project hitting 1.0 - truly breaking news, especially when looking at all these JavaScript libraries.
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There's been much talk about the "financialization of everything"[1], but how did it come to this? What change in laws, what shift in culture, produced this growth at all costs mentality? HFT? The Reagan Revolution? Moving manufacturing offshore?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9106983
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Yep! This is a big issue on pretty much most Minecraft specific content sites & videos. I think these spammers specifically target Minecraft keywords and Minecraft sites through Adwords display ads knowing that kids will click the ads. If your site has Minecraft content and is serving Adsense within that content, you are almost certain to have these types of ads display. Not the fault of the actual content site but an issue with the spammers targeting through Adwords.

It is really common actually on most game content or videos that are geared towards the youth. These Adwords spammers target this category specifically.
> why Ruby instead of Python?

Partially, because I've been burned too much by pythons packaging madness. But beyond that, there is a bunch of strong, mature tooling done in ruby. Rake as a task runner, Thor as a simple library for more complex tools, guard as a general nice-ness, if you wanna go there, the entire chef-stack.

And if your main application is in ruby, there's very little overhead to use these strong tools to make your entire infrastructure better for little additional education, build chains or further investment.
"pictures you're seeing are for a house that cost $135k"

yet

"Smith says they have priced materials for these homes, each under 550 square feet, at Home Depot, at about $13,000."

So it would be nice if they had detailed the real costs. As indicated, the material cost is relatively insignificant.
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> The M10 is an existing device sold with Android.

Ah, when I googled it, the first page only had results related to the Ubuntu announcement, so I wasn't aware. That confirms my suspicions though.

I know it may not be entirely rational, but because of that, it feels like I'm buying into a fragmented device line. Like when buying an Android phone or Windows computer, you have to research brands and be careful you don't get a device that some crappy OEM filled with crapware or bugs/incompatibilities in the hardware. Like BQ will have more overall control over the device experience than Ubuntu.

>But Google did, in fact, sell other devices much like you describe, though they were called "Play Edition" (running a non-customised stock Google Android).

Yep, and I personally hated that convention, it's the OEM and Google admitting "Our device is actually much better, when you remove our custom modifications". It also didn't do very well (but that may have just been because of the prices of Play Edition devices).
Well, only Congress can impeach federal judges. So POTUS can't do anything in that regard, but POTUS administers the Patent Office. Obama could write one little letter telling them to mark all new patents and all old patents up for review as invalid. I believe this can be done without the approval of congress. I imagine there would be a lawsuit immediately from various parties. My best guess is that SCOTUS would be forced to uphold this executive order.

In fact, Obama has done this, but not to such an extreme degree.

http://www.wired.com/2014/03/obama-legacy-patent-trolls/

Excerpt:

Obama issued five executive orders on patent reform last summer. Among other things, they require the Patent and Trademark Office to stop issuing overly broad patents, and to force patent applicants to provide more details on what invention they are claiming. One of the orders opens up patent applications for public scrutiny — crowdsourcing — while they are in the approval stage, to help examiners locate prior art and assist with analyzing patent claims.
My guess: because OpenCV is so unlikely to be installable through pip, its download statistics on PyPI end up artificially low.
Culture is as useless as an authoritative basis for ethics as is religion (plus, I would tend to consider religion a form of culture). That is to say: Yes, my ethics certainly are influenced by culture (and probably even by religion, even though I am not religious, simply due to religion's influence on culture in general), but if someone were to challenge the ethics of some action of mine, "because my culture says so!" is as bad a defense of my position as "because my holy book says so!"

Culture, if anything, is a shortcut for learning about ethical behaviour from others, just as school is a shortcut for learning about, I dunno, the mechanics of rigid bodies from others, but whether what we learn from either of those sources is (tentatively) correct can be determined only by observation of reality/by experiment.

If you think that ethics is something that needs to somehow be provided by someone rather than a property of reality that is to be discovered, that is already a religious presupposition. Sensible ethics are utilitarian/consequentialist: You look at what causes harm and what avoids harm to build an understanding of ethical behaviour. It's not much different from what we do to figure out what is healthy: There is no source of health rules with a book that is not to be questioned, but you look at what causes harm and what avoids harm, and that then is what we label as "healthy" or "unhealthy".
I want to like Python 3 but the print statement change really kills it for me. Years later it's still frustrating on the occasions I write a python script. If I ran a project like one of those, I might not use Python just for this reason.
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I already know how I'm connected to the big Z, and amusingly enough it is close to their 3.5 degrees of separation. My ex-girlfriend (1) has an aunt (2) that has a cousin who is Priscilla (3) who is wife of Z (4).

We'll meet someday Z! I just have to patch up things with my ex..
Oh really. That, I wasn't aware of. Well, at least they saw the cash cow that the App Store could become at some point, and acted. It's good to change your mind when new information comes to light.
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This has to be a management problem. Apple has total control over the hardware, total control over third party developers, and $203 billion in cash. What are they doing wrong?

Apple has the resources to approach software like aerospace. Formal interface specs, heavy Q/A, tough regression tests, formal methods. It's expensive, but Apple ships so many copies that the cost per unit is insignificant.

Microsoft did that, starting with Windows 7. Two things made Windows 7 stable. The first was the Static Driver Verifier, which examines driver source code to check if there's any way it can crash the rest of the OS. This includes buffer overflows. The driver may not work, but it won't take the rest of the kernel down with it. All signed drivers have passed the Static Driver Verifier, which anyone can run. Driver-caused crashes stopped being a big problem.

With the driver problem out of the way, any remaining kernel crashes were clearly Microsoft's fault. (This has the nice problem that kernel bugs could no longer be blamed on third party drivers.) Microsoft had a classifier system developed which tries to group similar crash reports together and send the group to the same developer. It's hard to ignore a bug when a thousand reports of crashes from the same bug have been grouped together.

That's part of how Microsoft finally got a handle on their software products. Is Apple doing anything like this?
I agree he's not being a great sport, but I sort of see where he's coming from. Having worked with python in the last few months for computer vision problems, I've been really frustrated with how things are. I was expecting better. At this point I don't use python for my work anymore, I use matlab. It's superbly well-documented, and things just /work/. And of course, nothing like the mess you see with this py2/py3 problem is to be seen anywhere near matlab. Yes, it's not free, but I've decided that the amount of time I had to spend, the headaches I had to endure, they were not worth the free price of python (and matlab for its great support was in fact worth its price). ymmv.
Its a 7280mAh, which is ok. About the same as the old Samsung 10in tablets.

As for usage. Yeah I have no clue. BQ's Ubuntu Phone apparently gets around 2 days worth of use for most users, so who knows.
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> I feel they should tackle it like a University. Stanford...

YC is still an order of a magnitude smaller than YC. 200 startups per year, so maybe 600 founders at the max. Even if YC is trying to build in exclusivity, there's much to be gained before they hit Stanford's scale.

Also, I don't think it will be that hard to scale advice for their startups. All that's needed is to add more partners. Although this might complicate their org/management structure.
I worked at Google for a very long time and always wondered if Mayer wasn't in the OC because her and Page dated for awhile back at the beginning of Google. The optics of having your ex-gf in your inner circle seems like it would look bad, corporate politics or not.

Many of the other folks in the OC are super-long-timers and would've been around when Mayer and Page were an item, adding to the awkwardness.