skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PayPal won a lot of praise a couple of years ago for rewriting their code in Node.js and the phenomenal productivity improvements that supposedly brought.

I wonder if the complaints we see on this thread mean the honeymoon between PayPal and node.js is over.
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Debt is a symptom, not the disease. Excessive debt is a method of not dealing with problems and kicking the can down the road. Of course it makes things ultimately worse, but why do people need to go into debt they can't get out of, and why do people finance loans to people who can't pay them off in the first place? The central problem lay in that direction.

The problem is utilized industrial capacity has been falling for decades. Companies are not employing the invested capital and machinery they already own at anywhere near full capacity. So why invest more?

Even with capital utilization rates falling for decades, there is still overproduction - or underconsumption, depending on the angle. Corporations are flush with cash reserves. Naval Ravikant turned down a $600 million blank check from Chinese investors. Meanwhile wages have been moribund for a long time. Inflation-adjusted hourly wages were higher in the U.S. 45 years ago. Real hourly wages aee lower, yet more capital equipment exists and productivity has risen. It is trying to sell more to people who have less.

The economic report of the president (US) has US industrial capacity utilization rates- over 87% from 1967 to 1969. By 2011 it was below 77%. (table b54 of the economic report of the president 2013).
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Rumor has it they'd have gone bankrupt without this licensing deal - if that's true then I doubt they'd have said no to an acquisition offer if the price was reasonable.
TL;DR:

The relationship between

lambda and closure

is like between

class and instance

or

type and data

.
LinkedIn Has Quietly Killed Off Labs
Not sure why I get downvoted

http://www.amazon.com/The-Misbehavior-Markets-Financial-Turb...
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Except that it is. Japan is self-sufficient for food. Land marked for growing rice is essentially "eternally locked" to growing rice; you cannot sell it or use it for other purposes, and are required to plant it.
>if we were to design an alternative to linkedin (for IT/technical folks), what would be the features you'd want?

The ability to confidently wipe all data you've ever fracked from me as part of deleting the account if/when I chose to leave your service.

Please plan the delete operations as a core part of your architecture, rather than an addon you can't properly support because you didn't think about deleting data when you designed the system.
As has been mentioned elsewhere, my exact problem with this/Forbes approach/elsewhere is that there is no way that I want to suddenly start managing several new monthly subscriptions for all these outlets.

I enjoy Wired, but the thought of adding yet another subscription to my monthly credit card statement is too great a cognitive load for me to want to make the jump. Also, if you were to subscribe to the dead tree version, you get 6 months of dead tree + digital + a physical object (battery) for $5 that comparing it to $4/mo for digital only feels cheap.

I don't mind paying a small amount for reading the occasional article, but I don't want to manage a ton of new subscriptions.

Suggested Solution:

Now micropayments have never taken off for much the same reason, but what if I funded one general "content publishers" account with the equivalent of that $3.99/mo? When I get to a paywalled/ad-block unfriendly site, I could choose to fund that particular article using a micropayment from my general fund. I would have only one subscription to manage, would feel good about contributing to content I felt was quality, and people would get paid.

Of course, this takes content publisher buy-in, but if they're already in the process of trying new things, how about it? Feels a little similar to the failed Google Contributor project, but with more direct decision making. Can someone go and build a great business out of this for me?
I find Hammerspoon[0] ideal for this kind of thing, and dynamically scriptable in Lua too. [1]

[0] http://www.hammerspoon.org/

[1] http://www.hammerspoon.org/go/#simplemenubar
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the data are encrypted is correct - "data" is plural.
Thanks for the suggestion David. I'll bo my best to add some more examples. Do you have something specific in mind?
Well, then you can make a lot of money off of them by shorting publicly traded tech companies trading at massively inflated valuations.
It led me to 3 different jobs. All three started through LinkedIn communication. During the resume portion of the processes I used LinkedIn Labs to generate a resume from my profile (laziness). In some unfortunate happenstance, it seems the Labs were killed off just yesterday [1].

So, positives are there for me so far.

[1] http://techcabal.com/2016/02/08/linkedin-has-quietly-killed-...
Some top-notch social engineering there.
This is a myth; we forget the more logical option. Krill shrimps are edible also, there is plenty in the sea and you just need a net. Is by far much less dangerous option for sea workers and human consumers. In famine times you need to save as many energy as you can, and use the precious fuel wisely. In any case, not enough strong fishermen would be available to go to a dangerous and demanding fishing trip, because the men will be at thousand km of home, doing war.
C does not have exceptions. Would you contend that good code cannot be designed in C?
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The distinction doesn't look natural to me..

I don't see why anyone should "own" natural resources, or beaches for instance. I understand that we all need a place to live and we want to own our personal possessions, but it doesn't seem to me at all natural to extend this to mines, factories or huge tracts of lands on the other side of the planet, that you perhaps even never see. Maybe the scarcity of natural resources isn't such a big deal unless you have people who simply own to much of it.

In the same vein, I agree that authors and inventors should be compensated for the efforts, but the copyrights and patents shouldn't create more scarcity.
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This is a nice post from an organization that clearly cares about their readers. That's hard to write, and the staff at Wired deserve credit for their effort to be open and direct with us.

Unfortunately the post fails to address the reasons that their readers USE ad blockers. If only they had gone a LITTLE bit farther in this post and made specific promises in exchange for being whitelisted. Here are the promises that would have convinced me.

- Third party scripts will be kept to under 33% of page weight. (They're at ~50% for this article, and that's with a 1.1MB gif in the content!)

- We will respect "do not track" headers in your browser (or settings on your Wired account) by excluding you from ad- and analytics-related tracking

- If you have enabled "do not track" headers in your browser, we will only serve you anonymous ads

- We may serve you ads based on your browsing behavior at wired.com, but they will always include a short explanation. For example, "because you were interested in XXXX:"

- Our ad placement and content will follow strict limitations (link to a public page of their guidelines), based on the the Adblock "Acceptable Ads" rules (https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads#criteria).

- We will serve all content and ads over HTTPS, from within the wired.com TLD (or include a list of specific sources), so you can trust that it's really coming from us.

Since Wired doesn't offer to address any of the issues that make (technical) people enable an ad blocker, the post is reduced to an ultimatum. They're asking you to make a special exception for Wired, and offering only a stick as incentive. No carrot, no quid pro quo, and no addressing your concerns. And they're doing it on a 3.3MB page with 1.5MB worth of third party ads and tracking code attached.

Giving an ultimatum to 20% of your readership sounds like a stupid business strategy, and I doubt it's what the Wired board had in mind. Perhaps they could learn something from app designers: if something is so objectionable about your Ux that 20% of your user base uses third party alternatives to get at your content, try a little market research to improve that Ux. Just do a cursory investigation into WHAT people find so terrible, and WHY they use the alternative; consider how you might change your Ux to make that unnecessary. This is 20% of your userbase who likes your content so much, they find ways to access it despite a shitty OOTB Ux. It would be a big sacrifice to cut off such a dedicated (and large) group of fans.
Here you can find the services list
https://github.com/lelylan/lelylan#development. Any idea to avoid this problem? I just added a note section in the beginning of the documentation to mitigate it.
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Goodbye, Wired. Good luck with all that.
> Another fully open-source 3D engine is no bad thing.

Small correction; it is not open source: https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/faq/#Licensing
Relatively simple article from the New York Fed explaining why everything Stiglitz says here is wrong: https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff...

Not sure if Stiglitz is aware of these points because he doesn't address any of them. Or it's possible I'm misunderstanding something, Stiglitz' article is very complex and is clearly intended for economists, I'm not sure why it's appearing in the Guardian.
This is awesome! I love this kind of games - they are very fun and educational at the same time.

If you're like me, you might enjoy these as well:

1. Microcorruption - https://microcorruption.com/ (a game that teaches about embedded systems and security basics)

2. Over the Wire - http://overthewire.org (several games based on Web security)

3. WeChall - http://www.wechall.net/ (a big list of games with progress tracking)
I think you're right about that. Increasing conversion rates by 5% at the cost of pissing off the other 95? Dumb. Sorry.
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As far as I know of OpenHAB, I would say that lelylan main difference consists on the microservices architecture. What they actually do, is pretty similar.
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> All the stuff about the adolescent he may or may not have mocked is a red herring

Seems pretty definitive that he did not mock that person:

> But Adam is now sure that it wasn’t Zucker who made the offensive remark to him, and said he was planning on sending CAMH a note letting them know he had erred, though he didn’t respond to a follow-up email asking him if he had.

(The author got in touch with the person who made the claim, and from details provided, such as full names of the receptionist and other worker, determined he misremembered the clinic where he was mocked. Author provided that person with a photo of the clinician from where she suspected the abuse happened and received a very strong confirmation.)

That said, this whole article and ambiguity about the right approach for handling gender dysphoria is scary to read as a parent. I just try to tell my children that whatever they want to do is appropriate for their gender. E.g., If they are a boy and want to wear dresses, then boys wear dresses and that's OK.
Absolutely. The number of people who would still resort to blocking ads if they were non-targeted, static, tastefully done yet clearly recognizable as advertisements, served locally, non-tracking, and non-obtrusive would probably have been negligible. But now there is an entire economy that depends on advertisements that track you and know you and need to be served via third party brokers, because if they didn't they wouldn't sell.

I don't know the solution to fix this mess, but I will gladly help pop the current bubble so something more useful can replace it.
Is this an array?

int xs[10];

Is this a function?

int f(int x) { return 2*x; }

I think it's overly pedantic to require people to say "function defined by this code".
What are the things you can't do with ST? You can actually use the C bindings of python and do anything C can do... which is pretty much anything.
Yep! This should make it super easy, there are no code changes needed so you can go back and forth between Lambda and traditional hosts as often as you please. No "lock in" - although one of Lambda's advantages is how well it ties into the rest of the AWS ecosystem with RDS/S3/CloudFront/etc.
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Industrial production [edit: said "capacity" before] has been rising.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/INDPRO

Inflation-adjusted hourly compensation has never been higher.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/COMPNFB

People are not underconsuming. Per-capita consumption is going up: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=3oWn

Why are so many people making up random facts and posting them in this thread? I don't understand this.
The choice of using lightweight comes out from the fact that each service in lelylan solve one specific problem, which make it easy to replace or extend existing and new functionalities. I'll think about a more proper word to express it.
Thank you! I actually ended up scraping the images from the site using wget and reuploaded to the Internet Archive just recently: https://archive.org/details/InsectLiterature. However your upload is very appreciated because it retains Google's superior text layer and the Internet Archive does some preprocessing which ruins the images.

Regarding copyright: if the work is legitimately public domain, then no one can restrict your use of it unless their copy is a derivative work. It could just be their standard disclaimer.[0] The site and PDF both explicitly note that the work is in the public domain in the US. It was published before 1923, and the primary author died more than 100 years ago.[1] However I can't track down when the translator died but I trust that HathiTrust did their due diligence. A caveat is whether it is public domain outside of the US; I'm not a lawyer and I don't know the copyright laws of other countries so I couldn't tell you.[2] That's probably why the site also restricts access to US IPs. However it is public domain in the US and as long you host the book on servers in the US, you're likely fine.

Quite a situation though eh, how we're both paranoid about infringing on the copyright of two long-dead guys? As you might tell though, I edit Wikipedia and am quite conscious of respecting copyright and always make sure to do my own research in addition to copyright claims made. I can understand though if you're not comfortable hosting it on a dropbox account linked with you so it's fine if you want to take it down.

Edit: I've found it: Hearn lived 1850-1904 and Otani lived 1875-1933, so the book is in the public domain in both the U.S. and Japan! http://iss.ndl.go.jp/books/R100000039-I000689989-00

[0]: Google has been sued before so I bet they can't be too careful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,.... Note also that it only says "requests" and not stronger language like "prohibited".

[1]: According to this: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:Public_domain#Published_..., works published outside the US pre-1923 are public domain if the author died by 1945.

[2]: Though according to this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Copyright_rules_b..., in Japan, "works enter the public domain 50 years after the death of the creator (there being multiple creators, the creator who dies last)". So that all ties it back to when Otani died.
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Nice graph.

It would be better to repeat the data at both sides of the 180 meridian. I was almost going to ask: What is the big isolated red spot at the east of New Zealand?

(Does Hawaii have it's own real red spot?)

If you forgive my bad Photoshop abilities, I'd like something like: http://imgur.com/TP5AC5i

More feature request:

I'd also like a standard play/pause/first/last buttons. Bonus points if the buttons disappear when the mouse doesn't move.

I'd like another "mode", where the old quakes don't accumulate. The old one just disappear. Or they turn brown, then light brown and then disappear. It will be necessary to tweak the visual representation until it looks nice.
I think so. I'm investigating on it.
The title is somewhat like a garden path sentence [1], when I started reading this I thought it was a question about the future of a package manager called Bond. The title case doesn't make it any easier.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence
I've been working on the idea for a similar system for years. The barrier to entry it mammoth.
No, it will not cause the entire project to be GPL.

The part that is GPL will have to be GPL, and everything else need to be compatible with GPL in order to satisfy the conditions of the license. MIT is compatible, so there is no problem. Going forward, no changes need to be done to the projects license, people can still submit patches under MIT, and so on.

There is a minor consideration. If someone forks your MIT project and puts it into a proprietary product, then the GPL file need to be removed.
Wouldn't paying off debts and lack of demand go hand in hand?
Ask HN: How many of your clients still use MS Office Access?
Simple static ads that are not huge, distracting or obnoxious, that are delivered free of any script or similar code, and all hosted by the first party. Those are the ads I would probably find acceptable.
It also contains built in obselesence:

57.6 Registration; Release. Before distributing your
Lumberyard Project to End Users, you must register it at
aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/registration. You must obtain our
prior written consent if the initial public or commercial
release of your Lumberyard Project is based on a version of
the Lumberyard Materials more than 5 years old.
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But that's not concrete.
> By analyzing the past returns of current S&P500 companies, the author is allowing for survivorship bias;

Thought so myself. Interesting to see what the result were with data from the beginning of the period.
I think there is another strong element that was completely missed out in the article, though I would like a Japanese person to confirm this:

The right wing political groups in Japan have a disproportionate sway on politics. They push very hard the idea of "Japanese-ness".

In the grade schools here, once a year, the children are served whale for lunch as a way of teaching them their "feeling of Japanese identity" I have always assumed they (the right wing) were one of the driving forces behind this.

Aside from that, people rarely eat it. The folks who like it talk about its unique flavor, but I've never thought it was anything special & I think most folks here feel the same.
One of my large client is dependent on it with 100 access systems. SQL server is the backend though.
I love this app.

I connected it to my bank in order that I could watch my monthly spending through my menu bar [0]. Surprisingly useful way of managing money as it makes it impossible not to pay some attention.

[0] https://twitter.com/nouswaves/status/684396522675527680
Apparently not, as the graph of NGDP shows.
Richard Feynman tried them out several times and had really interesting experiences. See https://www.dmt-nexus.me/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=51786 for his description.
If that doesn't convince you, how about this independent study showing that Yelp's filtering algorithm doesn't treat advertisers' reviews differently than non-advertisers'?

http://officialblog.yelp.com/2013/12/harvard-study-debunks-y...
Time for adblockers to become smarter. IMHO, an adblocker should keep a shadow DOM, so that the originating site cannot see which DOM elements have been removed/altered. Also, an adblocker could use a "refresh cookie" strategy, to effectively disable tracking.
Is this comment for real? The company was flouting law, and he's the CEO. When it's some dirty banker, HackerNews wants the CEO in jail. When it's an SV darling, we are upset that his send-off didn't give him enough credit?
Charging one dollar instead of five isn't compromising, that's haggling. I don't think anyone could begrudge them charging money, it's just that they don't give their technically savvy audience a real choice. It's either pay up, or go read something else.
Thanks, this looks very interesting.
Note that in this particular case two trains belonging to a small regional short distance company collided.

I have relatives working for "Die Bahn"^, which is the actual national train company. And i can tell you that this kind of thing is a direct result of the privatization of the train industry in germany. First it simply resulted in less quality in transport, with money being saved on the maintenance of non-critical parts, such that i.e. one car per train may have non-functioning air control.

Now small unaffiliated transport companies have sprung up to cover very short distance trips on budgets just as short. The result is what you have in the article.

The only good news is that as of yet, travelling with Die Bahn is still safe, since they at least spend a lot of money on training and maintenance of critical parts.

^pronounced "dee bahn", meaning "The Rail"
Why wouldn't you make it invisible? Do people really want to decide to pay or not pay for each page hit? You have a monthly fund which is your subscription. When you hit a site that is in the network it gets a chit against your account. At the end of the month (or whatever) your chits are counted up and providers get credited. It's really pretty simple and invisible. People get to fund what they actually use. Content creators get paid. Content providers can decide whether to paywall for out-of-network requests if they like. There is a paper trail to deal with copyright violations. I just need a huge pile of money to get people to sell it to some key players.
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I didn't get you by Ms Access
It's probably because, in an implementation of a staticly typed language, you have to treat all functions being passed around as closures. E.g. the type of a lambda expression needs to be one thing, and that is a closure.
Whether or not any variables are actually closed over is irrelevant.
I live in an island where people got obsessed by sharks lately, and divers were charged while wearing this device [1] ( usually sharks don't attack divers here, only surfers).

[1] http://www.zinfos974.com/Le-shark-shocker-le-repulsif-anti-r...
I say this every time LinkedIn comes up but there’s an easy way to fix this: delete your account[1]. If they keep on emailing you, unsubscribe. If they keep on emailing you, threaten to sue and you’ll be put on some sort of internal blacklist (worked for me). Job done.

[1] https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/63/kw/dele...
There are ther messaging apps. I usually switch my green bubbles to skype or google hangouts
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