skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just had to look down ... and yep there they are. I had no idea these were on my keyboard. Never used 'em.
You are contradicting what was written on savetheinternet.in. I don't know which is more accurate. FWIW I haven't seen any minimum speed requirement. I've only seen that broadband has a minimum speed. And I've seen ISPs advertise "high speed Internet" to get around it.
That kind of swing is unlikely in this line of business. Checking the 8k shows that Yelp had a one-time writeup of tax assets in 2014.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1345016/0001144204150...
Responsibility ends with the CEO. If you're the CEO your job is to make sure things don't go wrong and take the dive under the bus if you let things get bad enough that its required.
At the risk of stating the painfully obvious, "gun crimes" refers to crimes committed with guns (murder, assault with a deadly weapon, armed robbery, etc.), not to violations of gun prohibition. There is no analogy to that with drugs. The only crime you can commit with a drug is a violation of prohibition. (Well, OK, maybe you can try to poison someone, but that's not exactly a rampant problem.)
oh wow. Hopefully zenefits stands behind their employees, because this looks scary:

In Washington state [...] 83% of the insurance policies sold or serviced by
the company through August 2015 were peddled by employees without necessary
state licenses [...]

[...]

Washington law is particularly severe when it comes to the unlicensed sale
of insurance. Under the law, anyone who knowingly sells, solicits, or
negotiates insurance without the proper state license can be punished with a
prison sentence of up to 10 years, as well as a civil penalty of up to
$25,000 for each violation.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/80-of-zenefits-deals-in...
They're both great books, but they make heavier use of potential outcome notation and focus less on graph-theoretic formulations than Pearl's work.
I completely agree with your point, just wanted to say as a sidenote I think the word you wanted is "flout" rather than "flaunt".
Seems likely to me as well. Hopefully it was GAAP compliant otherwise he may be in some trouble.
This whole deal reminds me of this Stewart Lee bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2firijxQOo
Health and Fitness Data Is Useless
What is the shady stuff?
My MacBook Pro is from 2012, but I have 16GB of RAM in it. I regularly have something like 10 windows with about 15 or so tabs in each. It can get bogged down at times, but generally works fine.

Chrome wants RAM, so I think that's the real blocker in your case.
The last 5 or 6 examples clearly captures what is wrong with programming in J^Hgeneral.

Tendency to pile up useless crap^Wabstractions is the cause of suffering.

Imagine that your doctor and financial adviser are doing this. Hey, wait a minute...
Couldn't happen to a nicer sleazeball. I have nothing but disdain for Paypal (and Square, at this point), their customer service is terrible, their limits (even for businesses) are laughably low, and their processes for increasing the limits are slow, opaque, and unable to be appealed. Nothing but the back of my hand for these chuckleheads, I hope they trip and fall on their megayachts.
no surprise they jumped on the first chance they could to get rid of Conrad
The thing is, design is supposed to mean "how it works" (and not just fonts, etc.); they're just not designing anymore. When Jony Ive once said in a video that things should look like they haven't been designed, I thought "yeah they sure look that way, they're crappy now".

I shouldn't have to turn on half of the Accessibility settings to return to what I'd consider a normal interface, either. (And the real problem with any non-default setting is that many apps clearly don't test with that; e.g. with the "bold" or "larger" font settings, a lot of things start to truncate or just not lay out as nicely.)
In Windows you can change the setting quite easily using a first party settings dialog. Or were you talking about having a 3rd party application as an option in that dialog? Or the part where some applications let you associate the file type when you install the application, or in some cases the settings pages inside the application?
Sorry, I was referring to "accidentally" using background audio. They never tried to say that was accidental, the accident was that someone basically left an infinite loop and it vacuumed people's batteries. That's what I'm talking about when I say there's no benefit.

Now it's working as expected. It's not an accident and FB never claimed that.
That theory or explanation requires the domain knowledge I am talking about.

Mere statistics about appearances is not enough.

To make it clear - statistics is obviously useful. It just cannot infer any proposition like x is y for all values of x.
How often does this stuff normally happen and how much is it the hot thing to report on this week?
Intentionally dishonest or not completely honest -> "intent to defraud" + computer = "Wire Fraud"

ianal
I have a 2014 retina MBP and I run VMWare daily with Windows 7 and allotted 8 cores and 8 GB of RAM, leaving the same amount for the Mac side, and I never see a beachball. I always have at least two browsers with a few dozen Windows, outlook, slack, and a ton of software in the VM, and still don't have an issue. YMMV.
Or why water quality is ranked so low in importance.
Honestly, is there something stopping you from encoding a signal by modulating the airborne concentration of some particle? Maybe something that doesn't occur commonly - use e.g. helium instead of nitrogen or something like that.
Yes and Feb is ripe for C level exec changes... they get through the holidays, use January to firm up their new plans and put their replacements into order and then boom- Feb let it hit the press.
Makes sense. I recently tried to send someone money on PayPal. They froze my account, and then CS suggested I wait 2 to 3 weeks for the account to unfreeze itself.

Welcome to new money.
I know of a lot of valid complaints against PayPal (bad support, poor policies, many unjust closures) but I haven't heard a whole ton about Square—certainly nothing to drop them into the same bucket as PayPal. Mind expanding on that a little?
Talk is an important part of progress. Implementing a half-assed solution to such a massive problem will have lasting implications for decades. I realise this goes against the modern hacker groupthink, but in this case requirements analysis is actually an important part of ensuring that billions of people don't get fucked by a US corporation.
Why Germans pay cash for almost everything (2014)
Apple makes hardware and iCal. Google makes Search and Calendar. Neither company charges for their calendar app. (OK, Google sort of does for Apps)

Is it a priori obvious that which conglomerate would be better at some app than another?
I too found Pearl's book hard to navigate on first attempt. Do not let that stop you! After a hiatus, I stumbled upon this blog post [1], which explained the core ideas in Pearl's framework beautifully in a simple language. My advice is to persist, fill any holes in fundamentals (mostly basic probability), and persist. After working out the examples in the blog post on paper and contrasting it to other ideas out there (potential outcome framework), it became quite clear what Pearl was trying to articulate.

Pearl is also an enthusiastic speaker. You can search for his talks online at various venues (Stanford, Microsoft Research, etc.) to learn more.

[1] http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/if-correlation-doesnt-impl...
If you haven't installed an SSD in your machine I definitely would.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yelp#Alleged_manipulation_by_Y...
Can do that with any number of keyboard macro apps.
> Because they chose a model where the businesses who pay them are also the businesses being reviewed

Crazy when you think about it.

> PayPal: Hated by most people/customers.

I didn't understand this until recently when I tried to "instant" transfer a few hundred bucks to a friend and was caught up in a 3 day "review" process where I was interrogated about the "reason" for the transfer. Never again!
#2 should be #1
But we don't sign them...
It's not that hard to shake your initial impression, actually. It's called actually using the product at any time in the last 3 years, for 10 minutes or so. Try it. You might be surprised.
When a story gets hot on HN it tends to lead to other stories like it being upvoted. You should've seen it when the whole front page was about Erlang.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
I haven't come across your project before. Any relation to my (similarly named) project https://github.com/vishvananda/wormhole ? I always thought that one of the most interesting piece of my project was easy ipsec tunnel setup. It turns out that setting ip ipsec tunnels is pretty tricky.
Conversely, Google Maps is lame for transit everywhere in the world, whereas at least Apple Maps is making rapid progress here.
Admob, finance category apps
No way to request invite codes?
Here's a documentary about that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSO9OFJNMBA
You always talk to them. Whether you do more depends on the situation.

Do you have a skill with a short lifespan, or is it a more grounded skill that will last forever? If it's a short lifetime, take the cash, if not, optimize for quality of life and stability.

What area is this skill in?
This looks like the California DOJ dangling some bait : )

http://www.yelp.com/biz/california-department-of-justice-doj...
Regarding heavy water separation, the BS article says:

> All the water in the world contains light water H20, heavy water D20 and very heavy water T20. ... The thing we need to know is that in every 5 liters of tap water there
is 1 cc (cubic centimeter) of heavy water. Now heavy water is 17%
heavier that light water. ..

That leaves out HDO, or semi-heavy water. Quoting now from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water#Semiheavy_water:

> In normal water, about 1 molecule in 3,200 is HDO (one hydrogen in 6,400 is in the form of D), and heavy water molecules (D2O) only occur in a proportion of about 1 molecule in 41 million (i.e. one in 6,4002). Thus semiheavy water molecules are far more common than "pure" (homoisotopic) heavy water molecules.

The 1:5000 ratio (1cc in 5L) is much closer to the 1:3200 ratio for semi-heavy water, not the 1:41 million for D20.

The BS article also says:

> [Heavy water] is considered a munition so you can not just go and and buy some without all kinds of legal documentation and permits

United Nuclear says there are no restriction. See http://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cP... . Also, a kilo costs $725.

Sigma-Aldrich sells it at http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/aldrich/151882?l... . 4 kilos @ 99+% pure costs about $4,000.
Sounds like confirmation bias. You can find lots of code written in Haskell on GitHub. Try searching something there while adding "language:haskell".

Anecdata: Haskell pays my bills and I've never coded a factorial function at work.
What happens to founder equity in high-profile cases like this? If he's given up his position at the company as well as on the board, did he keep much of his equity? This has to be a difficult time for Parker.
> Chrome, Firefox and Safari also began blocking the Flash plugin from automatically loading content unless users gave their permission.

Fuck auto-play websites, made possible by HTML5. Even LOADING content unless the user explicity consented is horrible behavior.

Not everyone has an unlimited tethering plan or WiFi, fuck you very much.
What does artificial intelligence see when it watches political ads?
Got a great hardware product? Get it made at scale at AlphaLab Gear
I'd rather CO/WA/CA solve the public nuisance problem of smoking (we juuuust finished clearing most public airspace of cigarette smoke, and now MJ is bringing it back) before rolling out legalization nationwide. MJ smokers aren't advocating themselves persuasively.
"When used as a failure detector, timeouts are just a guess that something is wrong."

I send a packet over the network. I configured the timeout to be 10 seconds. 10 seconds passes. Is the packet truly lost? Or, maybe the packet was received, processed, and and a response is on the way back, but it takes 20 seconds instead of 10! Or maybe it takes an hour instead of 20 seconds. Or a decade.

We don't know if the packet is truly lost or is just taking >$timeout_timer and making assumptions is dangerous.
North Korea's Newest Satellite Passed Over Site of Super Bowl 50
Management Lessons from Software Engineering (2014)
Clear Chrome's cache every two weeks, and restart Chrome every night. There. Done.
Enhancing Safety and Convenience with Summon
Downvoters should be required to cite their reasoning. This would presumaby hinder illogical, kneejerk, emotional downvotes.

We are here to learn & understand (perhaps painfully), not anonymously persecute.

Edit: I did not consciously realize the parent was "logicallee". ;)
Sigh, Epic. Incredible businesswoman, horrible company and product.
In the first down market Stripe will no longer exist. They are losing money at an incredible rate and no where near profitable. They are losing money at a rate of about $100MM per year, and having to raise the same.

Perhaps they can make it to IPO, but even at a 3.5B valuation, they have to find profitability very quickly, a 3.5B market cap can turn into a $250M market cap very quickly, just ask GroupOn.

When you are losing more per year than you can book in revenue, this is not a good business, and certainly isn't going to take over the market.

This is doubly true if Paypal is firing their CTO, who is in the end responsible for their situation, poor usability, and very poor APIs. If Paypal wakes up and starts fixing their issues, they are closing the one and only thing that is giving companies like Stripe an opening.
They will be acquired by Twitter or AOL/verizon
My knowledge about this topic comes from a single source[0], but your argument also seems to apply to Venice. It found its beginnings as Rome was being sacked, when people fled the invaders and found safety on the islands. With political knowledge and sophisticated technology, they displaced (and integrated) the 'native' people and built an incredible civilization. Venice went on to become a significant power, greatly aided by geographic advantage.

Also, it's interesting to consider the decline of Venice. Although that's better described by cliodynamics than geography.

[0] Venice (Wonders of Man Series), John H Davis
http://www.amazon.com/Venice-Wonders-Series-John-Davis/dp/08...
as a counter point Zenefits already won against the state of Utah when they tried banning them so yes people have already stood up to defend them

http://fortune.com/2015/04/13/zenefits-utah-ban-insurance/
How do you spot a nonconformist? Check their Internet browser
A Single Concussion May Triple the Long-Term Risk of Suicide
Respectfully disagree. I'm a professional classical musician, and I LOVE the access to a huge library of music that Apple Music gives me.
Oh man... for the last 2 years I've been running Linux servers, I have tried and tried and tried to run Linux on my desktop, but... I have just never had a good experience.

For instance, when I tried Xubuntu, my GPU was running at a constant 90 degrees Celsius for no real reason. Found out it was because it was also rendering another 5 screens in the background. Deleted them, after 3-4 days they would come back. My screen was 1920x1080, but it liked to change my resolution to 1024x768 every 5 or so boots.

Tonnes of small problems, like the "settings" program emptied itself. Then the Windows key would stop bringing up the menu thing. And icons liked to disappear from my desktop.

Then when I tried Debian, I could install it fine, but couldn't boot. Pretty sure this was also to do with the GPU.

Then when I tried Linux Mint, it worked okay for a day, then apparently I didn't have permission to change wireless networks, and I had to plug in a PS2 keyboard to decrypt the volume on boot (though this was easy enough to fix, just had to find the right Logitech USB Keyboard module to put into the initramfs). Again, many small issues that escape me right now.

The only distro that has worked well, with no bugs (that I didn't introduce), was Arch, but Arch is a real mission. Only thing is my wifi speed is slower than it is on Windows/OS X (~600kB/s down from ~1000kB/s, not a huge deal). Arch is great as a project IMO, but if I have to write an email or do banking or something, I really don't want to have to mess around with config files.

I love Linux so much, but that's why I'm currently an OS X user.
We're working on the switch (I announced at TwitchCon). It's particularly hard for live video, but that's just an excuse. Clearly the time has come.
Here's the PNAS article that they don't link to in the article for some reason: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/02/04/1520487113.abst...
No, it's not. Plastic cracks and breaks when you drop it. Trying to sell this as a benefit ain't flyin.
> I have to log in twice to get logged in.

I've had to log in twice for months as well. I can't comprehend their leaving something so basic broken this long.

> And, lastly, since I see you have a few disputes/chargebacks...their chargeback handling process is horrid.

I have no beef with their chargeback handling myself. It's something more ridiculous actually. Those 5 "open cases" are cases I opened against a hosting company 12 years ago, in 2004. They stopped paying their colo bills and the DC cut power to their racks, including all the servers they rented to customers. PayPal decided the best course of action, given no money in their account or linked bank accounts to pay any refunds, was to leave the disputes open forever.

I can't even view the cases any more. If I try to search that far back in time, the dispute search times out and the site dies with no response (white screen), like some overloaded WordPress blog on shared hosting.
for my portfolio. for the community. and maybe for myself.
Foursquare will buy them, to get back into the Foursquare business.
Can we grow up and get over the stupid fucking "pencil sticking out of the iPad" meme? The thing charges enough for several days' usage in ONE MINUTE. Get over it, people.

Same thing for Magic Mouse. You think you can design it better? You have a better place for that port? The damn thing needs a few MINUTES of charge time per month. It's a non-issue. The port is exactly where it should be.
"Pop."
https://twitter.com/djcapelis/status/696869166960095232
Youtube also serves VP9 in preference to H.264 in general. I had to install a browser extension to trick it that my browser doesn't support it so I'd get hardware acceleration. I don't know if the decision is based on ideology or bandwidth savings, but it certainly isn't nice on my CPU.
Wow, that's impressive. The guy [ported Roslyn and wrote a IL interpreter](https://twitter.com/praeclarum/status/690661664702627840) to get around the Apple dynamically compiled code prohibitions.
>What is the shady stuff?

just Google it [1]

(by the way everything you see there is an analogy, people don't mean that it's literally associated with the actual mafia, it's still a tech company run by white-collar people just like me and you, people just object to the business model and want someone to get them to stop. there are no guns or the like involved, it's not what people mean. just tactics.)

just read these links: [2] from here on Hacker News going way, way back. choice quote "Yelp has been routinely hiding bad reviews and fixing good reviews to the top. It is a total scam and a total extortion scheme for local businesses." from 1385 days ago (3.7 yrs so 2012)

- [Edit: among large tech companies/startups that get discussed heavily] it's literally the only tech company anyone utters within the same breath as extortion or mafia.

let's compare: a lot of people complain about PayPal, or things like eBay's fees or whatever. But nobody complains about any company literally running an extortion racket using mafia tactics. Yelp is absolutely unique in receiving this charge. [among the type of companies I mention]

of course whenever it happens its old CTO or whoever will come here and be like, 'noooo I would have known man no way. founder here. not even a little bit. nu-uh.' you can go find that quote if you want, it's why I started the second search above, but I realized I don't actually care. :)

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=yelp+mafia

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=yelp&sort=byPopularity&prefix&...
In case you are not already excited by discoveries in concrete, this should help: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/3-concrete/
While it is hardly a discoverable feature, you can override custom context menus (at least in Firefox) by holding SHIFT and clicking.
The problem was actually that once you'd migrated a GV account to using hangouts, there was no way to go back. Did a bit of looking and this is no longer the case: http://i.imgur.com/qtxfYGP.png

So I guess I can go back. I'd miss the better voice calling integration (the one improvement that "hangouts dialer" brought) and I'm not sure how well maintained the GV app is these days, but I may give it a go.
Haha. Yeah. That jumped out at me.

#2 - Put the customer first (except when listing our core values, then put them second).

I understand the sentiment, just a weird juxtaposition with "#2" and "first"
Talking to My Watch
Also pretty clear they are going for superconductor qubits given that they say they are using dilution fridges, the founder worked at IBM, and did his PhD on superconductor qubits...
> I would like to see examples of the language actually doing something useful.

A Haskell program I wrote to find and match subtitle files for a particular release of the movie I have.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hastily
Arvind Narayanan's New Textbook: “Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies”
Nothing new here. We've all hated iTunes for years.
I've not seen a single WebGL game on Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit ever. I used to see and play Flash games all the time.

It's not even remotely what it used to be.
I think the skill will last forever, because of the mathematical barrier to entry (which will limit the supply of the skill). However, the field is hot right now and I'm not sure if it'll get hotter or less hot in the short term. Either way I'm not too concerned about cashing out right now.
Tomorrow's top post: Zenefits CEO, Yelp CFO, PayPal CTO team up to Big Data the Internet of Things
Mid-2012 MBP with 2.5 Ghz i5, 4GB ram here. I thought Mavericks sped it up, but Yosemite is unnoticeable. I couldn't tell you if it is faster or slower than when I bought it, to be honest. All the problems people mention in the thread, I'm somewhat surprised by. I guess I'm lucky enough to not have wifi issues, rely on iTunes, or Apple Music.
This is from 2014. The two previous mentions here on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9344114 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8332696 ) each had 3 comments.
I once had a contract like this, but it was for office space.

In the contract, it stated that if I didn't show up for more than a week (I had to let them know in advance), my landlord would own everything inside.

When I questioned it, they told me it was 'boiler plate' and told me to find another place to rent.

I found another place within two days that had a better location, free Internet access, and a fantastic contract.
You can call it a test of human-level aesthetic sensibility if you'd think a highly intelligent alien species would be unlikely to share our aesthetics. Although, arguably, a highly intelligent alien would be able to understand our aesthetics to the point where they pass the test regardless...