skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it this effectively this stops "richer" people being charged more, which is being universally applauded as a good thing.

But isn't this contrary to the whole inequality issue? Shouldn't richer people be charged more? Richer people are being charged more for state infrastructure via higher taxes - which is also generally applauded as a good thing amongst the young/liberal demographic (in fact it doesn't go far enough many would argue).

So why is it bad for companies to charge more to certain demographics? If people are prepared to pay why's that wrong? Isn't value pricing actually intrinsically "fair" as richer customers are effectively subsiding poorer customers?
> This would have been an ideal stimulus project, if the stimulus had been more about stimulus and less about pork-barrel spending for politically-favored groups.

Politically-favored groups like Wall Street and defense contractors? And Alaskan islands, if I recall?
There'll always be something going on to keep you where you are.

Pursue what's in your own best interest. Some companies try to hang-on after you've given notice by trying to keep some level of commitment ... either part-time, or remote. I'd recommend against this as-well. Find your new place of employment, give notice, and have a clean-break at the end of your notice-period.
Do you lack the data needed to make a decision? Be smart. Be like John
The cost of transpiling ES2015 in 2016
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And about 30% of the users life. No seriously, I wonder how much productivity is gained from using, and how much is wasted, worldwide?
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I too thought that his logging recommendations were weak. Simply logging an error (even with context) doesn't tell you much about how you entered that state.

I follow these guidelines (similar to yours):

- ERROR: Failed assertions, unrecoverable conditions
- WARN: Exceptions (request is toast, but system works)
- INFO: Important actions (entered a certain state)
- DEBUG: Information associated with the actions above

Note that we too don't log full requests, etc. at DEBUG - that's way, way too much. If you really want to do that? TRACE, but that's usually important for the developers of those libraries. We're also lucky in that we use logback, so we can change the log level of the system at runtime very easily.

In production we usually run on INFO and above and the logs aren't overwhelming - though we're constantly trying to improve the quality and consistency of the messages.
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Try teleconference microphones. There used to be some great array mics for that workload
I'm not very familiar with ChromeOS but I can cite an example in Android:

When you turn on Location in your Android phone, every time there is a disclaimer (unless you turn the notice off). It says that Google will collect your location data. If you decline, your phone's GPS is useless. So, in order to utilize the hardware you bought, you are forced to give up your privacy.

This is the definition of "tracked by default". Is there any hardware feature that Windows does not allow users to access if you turn off all the tracking?
Thanks for the feedback. Right now in the main page you can see the "Imagine running your favorite Windows applications and drivers in an open-source environment you can trust. That's ReactOS. Not just an Open but also a Free operating system."
Probably it should link to the FAQs under "Discover More" if anyone is interested in the Technical details. I am noting down to perform the change asap, because it looks as a nice improvement. Thanks!
Not much? If it wasn't facebook, it would be something else...solitaire maybe?
I think most Mac hardware doesn't have the ability to drive them at 60hz.
Thanks for the advice, I should definitely improve the site.
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Where is that huge "profit" exactly?
This was not about charging differently based on how much people have.

It was about charging differently based on WHAT you are using.

So, if I have much money, I can have my service freely for everyone, while this other startup, unless pays to internet providers, will be available over the paid internet.
If the alternative DNS system allowed us to upgrade our current domain names to the decentralized protocol, then you're not fighting for everyone to start using new TLDs which would be a huge hurdle. Ideally, the upgrade should be for free but use proof of burn on newly created domain names.

Great job, I like that you're planning on making it as simple as installing a browser extension.
From the outside, that looks like a good summary. IBM found that services are price sensitive, and IBM's name goes only so far in holding off pricing pressure. The question is whether the new R&D efforts will get sufficient resources to build enough value to more the needle. It could be that IBM's move to services is a last move and that things like Watson won't get the resources to be competitive with Google, Microsoft, Apple and other players in deep learning and AI.
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Working remotely means making your own signals
It is, for sure, a little bit confusing :)
http://p.fu86.de/1454938855-32650.png
I googled 'msys pacman' and it seems that msys2 uses pacman:
http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20installation/
Even awesome, thoughtful Boosted boards catch on fire now and then. I think even with the beginning of honest alternative transport devices pushing technology to break new ground inevitably results in some teething issues that will get fixed as engineering and safety standards evolve with the benefit of hindsight. The sentiment of condemning an entire catagory of products for cheap knockoffs and slow-moving regulators is wrongheaded and dumb.

(If there were blanket bans for use, as opposed to sale, I wouldnt be suprised to see mobility device exceptions... But so far the much hooplahed NYC hoverboard ban never materialized on the street level.)
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You don't see many people walking down the street playing solitaire though.
I used to think London or New York could get polluted when it was a little hazy to see the Gherkin or Empire State Building. Then I moved to Sarajevo in December. It makes my lungs feel like I sucked down two packs of cigarettes every time I walk out of my front door.

I will never complain about pollution again (I'm not saying any amount is good, but there are children all over the world living in much worse conditions than London at 17:30).
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The problem is that laws are made by other humans. As history and present events have shown, we are not above using the law as a weapon against others. Having a government limited in scope and in power was a feature too.
Depends the semantics you want? `===` is O(1) but it will miss if the collection was altered or replaced in a value-preserving manner, so it will never match if your input is computed (e.g. mapped from a section of the application state). `Immutable.is` is more expensive (since it has to walk both collections) but it will allow skipping updates for equal inputs.
I updated the README to include your comments. Thanks for the feedback.
My Apple TV definitely turns my TV off via CEC, it works great
At least you can get good at playing solitaire, but you can't really 'get good at Facebook'.
I do understand how cryptocurrencies work. Negative interest rates don't have the same effect as inflation and could be implemented in code. Just because miners have the same nominal changes in their wallets doesn't mean that the effect on anyone else is the same.

I just don't think our current problems with currency go away just because we use cryptocurrency. There is no reason to. Central banks don't enact policies because it's fun but because they think it will have a certain effect. People will find a way to do so in the future. Whether it's called "Inflation" or "negative interes rates" or whatever is not relevant. The only thing that matters is what happens to people's money.

Oh, and it would be much easier if you would actually reply to my comments (instead of yours). If neccassary wait a few minutes to do so.
He means MSYS2 https://msys2.github.io/

It's great, it has a wonderful collection of libs, sometimes it can feel a little bit too cutting edge, but after the stagnation of Mingw I'm not complaining about that.
The dangers of drugs in horse meat are vastly exaggerated by those opposed to eating horse meat. The thing to remember is that drugs, especially those that might pose a problem, are expensive. As such, they might be in common use for e.g. valuable Thoroughbred stallions in Lexington KY but are vanishingly rare for swaybacked old "killer" horses fending for themselves on weeds and thornbushes on someone's back forty. Sure they might have been "worth" such drugs when they were younger, but that was years ago. Experience from cattle drugs indicates that everything is out of the system in 60 days.
Did US government force Assange (and Snowden) to collaborate with Russia Today? As far as I'm concerned everyone involved with that hive of scum and villainy has irreparably damaged their reputation. Also there is no lack of embarassing leaks about Russian (or Chinese) government. Just because one person was murdered with polonium doesn't mean we don't have any brave people here anymore. Too bad western media cares more about hacks like Assange and Snowden than what happens in Russia.
Bandai/Namco certainly do hold multiple registered trademarks on PAC-MAN, at least in Europe. They cover not just the video game side[1], but everything from kitchen appliances[2] to lotteries[3] and even beer[4].

[1] https://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/4/EU004977906

[2] https://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/4/EU000361600

[3] https://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/4/EU003574076

[4] https://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/4/EU008125031
The study had a small sample size and no controlled (or even measured) use of the phones. I'm not entirely convinced this effect is real.
A "ton of resources" is relative. Compared to true technology players going after dominance in AI in general, or even in specialized areas like self-driving cars, IBM is not putting a lot of wood behind that arrow. I get the impression that IBM would like to find Watson only far enough to use it to sell services and integration at a higher price.
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Ideally Echo would be able to control HomeKit devices. iPhone users now have no Nest integration, no Echo. Starting to kill the idea of an open ecosystem.
yaourt & co. are very useful when you have to build packages with tons of dependencies. I had to build the 32-bit gstreamer stuff from AUR for some Wine work recently, and it saved me tons of time. Just remember to set --noconfirm or it'll ask you to confirm a dozen things for every package :)
The only way to win that game is not playing at all
I think you make it sound more callous and arbitrary than it is.

It's simple: we have an alliance with dogs and treat them as our friends. Had truffle pigs been as common as hunting dogs, we wouldn't eat as much bacon. Now that this alliance is vestigial, we may see it decay - perhaps you don't believe in it.

Honestly, we probably feel more brotherhood with our work animals than we do with citizens of opposing countries. Makes sense, if someone came to rob your house the Soviets wouldn't bark.

Then, there is the idea that dogs reciprocate. We know at least some do, and we know that nearly every dog owner will claim that theirs does, and we know that a sufficiently inbred poodle won't have the faculty for it. Ether way, we are all told that dogs our our buddies who want to help us. Who would eat a buddy that wanted to help you? How many bacon-eaters think that the pig would, if it could, keep them safe and help them find other things to eat? Probably none.

(Note: I know that there are pig pets. Maybe they are friends, like dogs. If that's true, get the word out and porkchops stop tomorrow.)
The internet is not "a product", it is an essential utility. Rich people pay more than poor people for roads, but they get the same access to them as poor people. This is what the internet should be like.

Historically, price differentiation for network infrastructure has been due to costs, not artificial market segmentation; it's important this continues to be the case for the majority of net citizens. As we've seen over and over again, removing cost barriers for utility infrastructure is a tremendous spark for all sorts of economic activity.
It's open source software so it can (given enough time and motivation) be ported to whatever platform you wanted. Because of this I think there's a few other OSs / distro forks that also use pacman. But primarily, `pacman` is developed by ArchLinux maintainers for ArchLinux.
> It was about charging differently based on WHAT you are using.

Sure - but what you use, and from where, is highly correlated with wealth
It makes it a lot easier to keep in contact with family members and to know when there are concerts or other events in the area that I'd be interested in being at. That saves me quite a bit of time.
1. Logs should contain as much information as possible in order to debug. If you have to ask a user to reproduce a bug so that you can insert extra logging statements then I think you're doing it wrong. You want to be able to go straight to your logs and have enough information to find the problem immediately without further delay. For example, how are you going to debug a syncing error in a file sync app if you're not keeping detailed logs as to scans, inotify events, incoming and outgoing transactions etc.?

2. You almost want your log entries to tell a story, you want to spend nearly as much time on your log entries as on your code. I think the more you get this right, the better your software design will be.

3. You also want to be able to grep your logs easily using a transaction and user ID. For example, if you just fetched a batch of emails over IMAP, you want to have a transaction ID to describe the session, and include this in all related log entries for the session. You also want to include an account ID in all related entries so you can see all fetches for a given user.

4. Your log entries should do as much work for you as possible. For example, if your log entry logs a filename or string that contains unusual Unicode characters, then you might want your log function to also log what Unicode normalization form the string contains (NFC, NFD, Mixed). This can make otherwise complex bugs trivial to solve.

5. Logs should also be distributed, in the sense that you don't ship all your logs to a central location, but rather have each server manage its own logs. If you need to query your logs, then send a query out to the relevant servers and get them to do the work for you. If logs are always a fraction of a server's data output then you can easily manage gigabytes of log data per server this way.
Namco still own the trademark, they do ill-advised attempts to revive the franchise every few years. Arch Linux best defense here is that it's not in the same business, so there's no risk of confusion (trademarks aren't all-encompassing).
Surely the decision about what response to make lay with the government (the receiver of the letter) and not Prince Charles (the sender of the letter)?

i.e. They had the choice not to respond or to have a aide respond, but the prime minister chose to respond.

Would you suggest that someone in the monarchy shouldn't express an opinion for fear that the receiver of the letter will pay too much attention to it?
That is exactly what they're trying to find out. From the article:

"My question has always been, how much exercise do you need to do to injure the heart?" Levine says. "Since Ben was planning to swim across the Pacific Ocean, we thought, hey, this might be a good opportunity."

It could go on to show that extreme (exercising at low intensity for 8 hours a day for 5-6 months) isn't "dangerous for your health".
This is one of the reasons to read Infinite Jest - it explores the concept of addiction with incredible depth and interest.

I love the idea that many things in life can be modeled as addictions. Abstractly, an addiction takes the pattern of long periods of misery (plateau) interrupted by brief moments of ecstasy - what's special about an addiction is that it feels like the moments of ecstasy are worth it. This pattern is similar to that involved in learning a new skill, or going through a personality change.
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Not the OP, but the big one for me was everybody's rush to IPO. You weren't a real tech company if you weren't publicly traded and offering your employees stock options. In 2000, I was working for a twenty year old, privately owned, profitable software company at the top of a growing vertical that decided they needed to rebrand as a dot-com, buy their next biggest competitor, and IPO. They got as far as the first two before the bubble burst completely.

Seeing infrastructure brands like Cisco, Java, and RedHat all over the mainstream financial press made me worry the tech would suffer for the sake of marketing. Indeed, I saw companies investing in tech from those brands before their use cases justified it, because they could show investors their name brand hardware in the data center and cash in on that brand recognition. But the cost doesn't matter because you'll get rich when you IPO next year, right?
Sweet tool for connecting with scientists and experts open for collaboration
Sorry, I was sloppy. I meant that it generates CPU load somewhere (or I/O load, for those OSes where those two are cleanly separated).

If you measure the CPU load on half the CPUs that are involved in serving a user, you're not really measuring anything. Ditto if you're outsourcing (parts of) the backend and not measuring the outsourced service level.
What traits would you look in Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
the title is self-explanatory... if you were a founder and find the need to look for CTO, what would you question yourself with and what would you do to enggage with them?
Mainly is made up of Backbone, Codemirror, Keymaster, Spectrum and RequireJs. Thanks for remind me of putting this information on readme file
Namco is very involved with Pacman and still involved with arcade equipment based on it. Here's something my friends at Raw Thrills just introduced a little while ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koLvoCMHCrI

From what I've heard on the inside, Raw Thrills has been actively working on new Pacman games based on the original 1980 source code given to them by Namco.

TLDR: They definitely still own the trademark and they are still making money on it.
Do you qualify clients?
Ask HN: What are India's flagship software companies?
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>As I understand it this effectively this stops "richer" people being charged more

Price sensitivity != how rich you are
Ask HN: Are artificial launch queues really a good idea?
It's quite popular to use signup waitlists for new services. I'm sure it is nice to be able to scale up in a controlled way, but isn't there a risk to lose users that simply forget about the service?

Is the value of the viral spread really greater than the risk to scare your potential customers away?
On the issue TRAI said
"In India, given that a majority of the population are yet to be connected to the internet, allowing service providers to define the nature of access would be equivalent of letting TSPs shape the users' internet experience. This can prove to be risky in the medium to long term as the knowledge and outlook of those users would be shaped only by the information made available through those select offerings."

The full explanation by TRAI is definitely worth reading, it talks about all the issues encompassing differential pricing, i.e., market distortion, information asymmetry, the natural of Internet and the special case of India. http://trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/WhatsNew/Documents/Regulati...
I honestly can't answer that but I cold-turkey'd my fb account about 2 years ago and I will never look back. You have to be a god damned fool to keep them posted on your day to day life.
I've worked successfully with Star Prototype[1] which is a company set up in China by an English gentleman, Gordon Styles - excellent turnaround time on some large CNC aluminium parts. We did a parallel job with a UK based company. Same part, same material. Even with shipping to the UK they took half the time and cost half as much.

I don't know what an electric guitar costs or what its made from (MDF?) but this would be a reasonable starting point. It depends if you just want bits or if you also want assembly and finishing.

[1] http://www.star-prototype.com/
> these types of data structures are not possible in C++ as they are in other languages, due to lack of GC or tail recursion[0]

The link doesn't really explain why though. I mean, I'm willing to believe this is true until proven otherwise - it's safe to assume Milewski knows what he's talking about - but I'd love to see a proper explanation.
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It's quite common in Quebec, Canada, but not the rest of the country.
I think, like most people, I will disagree with this:

> In my opinion, my thesis from GopherCon 2014 still holds: services should only log actionable information.

This assumes that I have future knowledge of which logged events will be actionable.

I used to work in the classifieds department of a newspaper. The rule of thumb was that the cover of the newspaper was worthless by 11am, the classifieds by 2pm.

But that's not quite true. Every single edition of a newspaper retains a small probability of turning out to be very important at some unknown future time. Hence the practice of archiving.

So it is with logs. In my day job I have on several occasions turned to raw logs in order to reconstruct the history of unexpected events.

What metric, to take an actual example, tells me that a user was trying to evade export control by hopping to a VPN halfway through a session? Which gauge tells me that an error was caused by the interaction of third party javascript and an obscure web browser?

For myself, I draw the boundary differently. Logging is for events with identity, events that will be inspected individually. Metrics are for events that will never have identity and will only be understood statistically.
> You have to be a god damned fool to keep them posted on your day to day life.

Absolutely the biggest form of hyperbole I've ever seen in my entire life, bar none.

Seriously though, some people use FB sparingly once or twice a day. Some people actually make money from FB or use it for marketing.

There are a lot of people that get more out of it than making snarky election posts.
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I uninstalled Facebook for iOS a while ago when they started blocking the messenger feature. You can access instant messages using their web client. No need to install either app really.
>Unless we are prepared to unleash brown bears, lynx and wolves into the English countryside to control badgers and help hedgehogs, which seems unlikely

Wolves and Bears can be dangerous for people living in the countryside, but is there any reason to believe releasing lynx would be a bad idea?
I use Facebook as a read-only service. I think for the last five years I probably have averaged a post a year.
Thomas Petterfy started his firm around 40.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/photos/2015/12/billionaires-w...
According to the drawn structure those nested divs are totally valid
Hacker News perhaps?
> You have to be a god damned fool to keep them posted on your day to day life.

That's a little much. There is one important usecase that I have: messenger. A lot of people (even the ones that I regularly meet) prefer to use messenger and that's the only reason I am sticking with it for now.