skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a native Texan (recently moved away to Washington State but with fresh memories) and most of what you described was also my experience. Texas has all of the same societal problems as the rest of the country, for sure, but the deep cultural divide really stands out to me. Most Texans, of all stripes, can be some of the kindest and most giving people you've ever met...as long as you're deemed "deserving" of that treatment. Woe be you if you are not.

I still remember somebody running for District Attorney (the title is used for the head criminal attorney in each county) who swore he would work hand-in-hand with his unofficial running mate--the person running for District Court judge in my part of the county--to make sure "those people" never see the light of day. His mailer was straight-up showing black men being led, in handcuffs, into the county jail. The Commissioner's Court--the head of county government--could just never seem to find the money for public health services in the county (that's why we didn't have a public hospital but Dallas County did; so we just shipped all of our indigent patients from the private hospitals there down to Dallas) but money for parks in the posh new water-district-funded[1] parts of the county? Oh, sure.

> Every landlord used the same lease: a huge, crazy contract written by a state trade association. I was told that the terms of this lease couldn't be negotiated, because <something about state law??>.

Ah yes, the Texas Apartment Association (TAA) lease. TAA leases are some of the most one-sided leases I've ever read. Nobody will "negotiate" the lease with a tenant for two reasons: 1) the license agreement with TAA prohibits it; and 2) Justices of the Peace automatically assume that TAA leases are binding and correctly done so the tenant is at a huge disadvantage in court.

The TAA lease did help me one time: A landlord got cheap and dropped out of the TAA. I wanted to end my lease early and happened to discover this while looking up his contact information on TAA's site. Any TAA lease signed by a non-TAA member becomes voidable at the tenant's option if the landlord stops being a member or never was in the first place.

1 - Water districts in Texas are a special level of shady. For the longest time, developers would just pay an existing water district a few hundred bucks an acre to "annex-deannex" the developer's land, thus forming a brand new taxing district that can issue millions in bonds. John Oliver, of course, recently did a segment on special districts that is very instructive.
Start building a community using a forum, website, blogs, social networks, etc. Think something like crackberry.com back when Blackberry was dominant. Monetize accordingly.
The problem is not that IE was included, the problem was that the OEM was forbidden from also pre-installing firefox.
> any other kind of sandboxing (such as restricting file system access) is pointless

That's my point - I don't want most of my "desktop" applications sandboxed from each other. That would be unusable. That kind of sandboxing should be done by nesting the entire display server, creating a separation point.

In the future, with all clients sandboxed from each other, how can I write a tool that does the following (which was easy under X):

* monitors the keyboard input of another process

* sends new (synthetic) key events to that process when it sees a certain key press (keyboard macro)

* does not depend on any support from the process being monitored

* works with any existing program, including proprietary software that cannot be recompiled because the source has been lost

Interaction is necessary at the GUI layer, because that's the intended goal of some software. As I initially said, there is certainly room for improvement. However, simply pretending these use-cases don't exist is foolish. As Joel Spolsky so famously explained[1], all that "cruft" that is cut out during a big rewrite is real-world fixes and necessary features that were added over time. Unfortunately, the GNOME team has been engaging in that kind of narcissism for many years, which is why more and more people are ignoring them.

> real sandboxing

> cgroups and namespaces

Good luck with that; cgroups and namespaces are not designed for security. They are only superficially like jails.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
> Apple uses MFN to fix prices

It didn't work that way: the publishers renegotiated their deals with Amazon, it was they who wanted it differently. They were able to sell for 9.99 if they wanted. Apple was just "ready to sell for more," contrary to Amazon who insisted on selling for 9.99 no matter what.
The user can't infringe on the GPL. Not possible.

Users already have (by the nature of copyright law) and are explicitly in the GPL given the right to do whatever they want with the code, short of distributing it.
Any idea how MSSQL was deployed on RDS in AWS prior to this? Was AWS spinning up some custom Windows instances behind RDS?

Or was the RDS implementation part of how MS figured out how to release this??
Sadly, even the basic synchronous mirroring with automatic failover that MSSQL offers is ahead of anything pgsql can offer at the current time.
SQL Express is free, but limited :)
I think what people are proposing is that instead of:

64 1k messages for Events, sent individually or in a batch

they suggest:

1 64k message for BatchedEvent
An exceedingly impolite post against sexual relationships with students
I don't really understand the hate towards LinkedIn. I've connected with a lot of companies on LinkedIn. Even had LinkedIn itself, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft reach out to me with job opportunities on LinkedIn. Yes they employ dodgy UI practices but the service they provide has been invaluable with little to no effort on my part.
GPLv3 has, as there are companies that won't adopt it.

If GNU dumped the LGPL and GPL and re-licensed everything under AGPLv3 then I could see a lot of GNU stuff being dropped in favour of more business friendly licenses.
In an ideal world, there would be a filter for all news, that contains "may have been". The filter would either:

* throw the article silently away

or

* substitute all occurrences with "may or may not have been", which is identical in meaning. I am sure more readers would notice, that they are being fed information tripe.
How to approach value messaging and product positioning
If you treat a terminally ill patient and they die, then you can still learn something. Maybe there was no effect at all on the target illness, e.g. the cancer spread and grew anyway. Maybe there was a large effect but the side effects were too severe, in which case you can investigate strategies for mitigation.

TGN1412 is a good example. This drug turned out to provoke the immune system in an extreme way. What if it had been tested first on cancer patients and, even with the life-threatening side effects, it worked as a cancer immunotherapy? Then we would be able to work on dosing or mitigation. Instead, the company folded, the research was abandoned and we'll probably never know.

And further, it's a cold calculation but instead of having healthy lives ruined you would have terminally ill patients die slightly sooner.
That sounds like a pretty difficult time; I'm glad you guys made it through.
Please try pfSense again win real NICs.

We can probably walk you through getting v6 working on Comcast, too.
Can you please quote anything specific? I'm actually reading and quoting the 2013 court decision and I can't find the logic of it. See my other comments here for examples. I can also quote the parts that prove that your interpretation doesn't hold -- Apple didn't "fix" the prices, just agreed to sell for the prices that the publishers preferred. Even the agency model was a suggestion from the publishers that Apple accepted, but why shouldn't they?

"Every Publisher with whom Apple met lamented Amazon’s pricing New Releases and NYT Bestsellers at $9.99. Several of them made clear that they were actively searching for a way to gain more control over pricing and were implementing tactics they did not enjoy, like windowing."

"As Apple had expressed to the Publishers, it strongly believed that withholding content would interfere with the growth of the digital market and was inconsistent with its business goals and practices. Apple thus embraced the model that Hachette and HarperCollins had proposed -– the agency model. Apple was already familiar with this model since it used the agency model to sell apps through its App Store."

Edit: just posting a link to some newspaper article doesn't prove anything. Under "specific" I mean a "specific proof" that somehow negates the quotes from the court decision I've presented or shows them in completely new light.
I wonder if something similar would work in Java using annotations.

I experimented with this a little in a game I was working on. You just need a standard way of displaying everything, then automatically generate the UIs.
>You outsource some of the sysadmin work, but not all of it. Cloud servers have plenty of their own failure cases, some of them unique.

The thing with them is if they go down you have Google to worry just as much as you (if not more) for bringing them back up.

You don't have that with your own servers.
Would you settle at least for something that correctly measures spices automatically for you so that cooking is easier?
There's a big gap between research psychologists and therapeutic psychologists. Their daily activities are very different.

But even within therapeutic psychology, you're right. Freudian psychoanalysis (talk therapy) was huge in literature and movies, even though Freud himself has been out of influence inside the field for decades. CBT, exposure therapy, etc are much more common treatments.
“The goal is to inform users of the harm of ad blocking and to encourage the whitelisting of nytimes.com. Ad blockers do not serve the long term interest of consumers. The creation of quality news content is expensive and digital advertising is one way that The New York Times and other high quality news providers fund news gathering operations,” the New York Times spokeswoman wrote in an email.

She's wrong: Ad blockers don't serve the long term interest of the NY Times; customers apparently like ad blockers. It reflects a self-centered view of the world when you think your customers have the same interest you do, including your profitability and success. Your customers want the news and apparently don't like your ads, and another news website is a click/tap away. You'd better learn what your customers' interests are and serve them, not vice versa.

I happen to value the NY Times and hope they succeed. Often what I read about them reflects this kind of insular thinking, stereotypical of a long-time incumbant unable to even see, much less adjust to changes around them. It's worrying.
Assuming you are from the U.S., I have bad news: Your government does that, too. In every state, truancy is a criminal offense (usually chargeable against the parents) and people are arrested for it.
I agree that the conflict of interest definitely raises the bar. But of course, that's what I immediately hear from my conservative friends as well: that papers which support the consensus are more likely to be published, that studies likely to confirm the consensus are more likely to be funded, and researchers who question that consensus are likely to be blackballed by their colleagues. Not being on the inside, I don't have any special insight as to whether or how strong the dynamic operates, of course. Which means that as an non-scientist, I sometimes feel like I'm in a pretty poor state to actually know what's true. Like I said, my instinct is to respect the consensus. But the evidence seems to have increased over the last decade or so that "consensus" can be a pretty poor pointer to the truth. And I want to take that evidence into account as well.
Maybe this is an old article? I cannot find a Texas execution of a multiple-murderer in the last 4 years (that the author has been practicing at their current position) that matches the description (committed their crime before they could 'buy beer'; multiple victims).
In theory it would be great to if the fine was based on the extra profit generated from using the super cookie (compared to using a legal cookie). Next thing to take in to account is the degree/duration of the privacy violation and multiply this number by the number of users who have had their privacy violated.

Deciding this number is beyond my economics skills -- and quite beyond my point -- because I want to say that it is more reasonable to base the fine on the actual violation and not the business as a whole.
This kind of libraries really is perfect. Very focused, obviously simple and useful, no magic, and small. They make development easier one step at a time. I wish the people behind a really great success.

Nitpick : i have the feeling the autolayout lib could still be even simpler. Maybe by working in direct method call rather ascii like syntax, maybe using common layout classes such as what apple did with stack views...
Can confirm. Try the new Bitcoin Reddit sub /r/BTC instead as the main Reddit sub is heavily censored.
Your example is a good one. Another example would be if you have 99.99% up-time guarantee, but don't provide it and have to provide refunds or discounts.

Groupon had troubles with revenue recognition. When it sold the coupons, it would count the full coupon as revenue even though 50% belonged to the merchant.

Oil producers have to pipe the oil to a refinery. The oil producer actually sells the barrel of oil to the pipeline and buys it back on the other end. Then the oil producers takes that barrel and sells it to the refiner. The oil producer has sold that 1 barrel twice.

However, as patio11 mentions, this isn't basic bookkeeping.
Our Lady of the Plains
Thanks! That's very helpful.
I'd like the people that -1'd me to explain why I'm wrong.

No matter how much defense you put up, if you are accessible, you are at risk for unauthorized use of data.

Employing only people you trust and showing them you trust them is a great alternative to security restrictions.
Stacksort: searches StackOverflow for sorting functions and runs them
Yes,as a matter of fact I am!
KLEE
Google Hires 4Chan Founder Chris Poole
I feel like the app developers who don't simply bite the bullet and use the technologies that Apple promotes inevitably dig themselves into a corner.

Programmatic layouts/constraints just crumble underneath you when Apple decides to make changes in each new version of iOS or introduces a new formfactor.
Have you found any useful guides for how to grow these? I'd love to mimic what you're doing when I have space to set up a garden next year but I honestly haven't even heard of half of those plants! I really enjoyed my failed attempts at growing amaranth and Nicotiana rusticum when I lived in Austin...
I hate storyboards and I decided that I will start using them after my current project is done. I just had so much code dealing with autolayout and constraints and weird little bugs. This looks really cool and will try it out. Thanks for the lib.
300k is 300000,
300K is 307200,
1m is 0.001,
1M is 1000000

to throw around some figures too.
Imprisonment was not mentioned. And what "redress of the infraction" (for the "consumers") constitutes is not clear. Plus, the amount came from an "out-of-court settlement."

In this case, why let Apple continue their service?

Or, multiply the fine by 50.
Oh yes. The human brain is the most organizationally complex object in the solar system. People outside the brain sciences are bombarded with pretty photos of fMRI blobs, and don't understand how little we still understand about it.
Just sprinkle two thousand Singapores around the world. No need to make Australia as dense as England.
I work for a company (Pivotal) where a major revenue source is selling a packaged version of Cloud Foundry.

Our customers like it because their existing ops staff can greatly reduce their workload and allow development staff to move much faster.
Sorry if there was a misunderstanding, I've seen a lot of people who seem to think that Electron is the "text editor" and that Atom and VS Code are just different "shells" built on top of it with Github and Microsoft branding.
http://ogun.stanford.edu/~bnayfeh/plan.html
Their power to negotiate came from the collusion that Apple orchestrated.

This makes it very clear:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/07/10/a-jud...
THE BLACK BUDGET ROCKETS INTO SPACE
No. MFN in combination with the five-publisher collusion orchestrated by Apple let them negotiate to increase prices.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/07/10/a-jud...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/07/10/a-jud...
There is also SnapKit which I really like:

https://github.com/SnapKit/SnapKit

box.snp_makeConstraints { (make) -> Void in
make.width.height.equalTo(50)
make.center.equalTo(self.view)
}
I'm familiar with the implications of quantum computing on factorization and thus DEcryption but have heard very little about about quantum computing enabling ENcryption until the last paragraph of this article

("...Chuang expects to see quantum encryption methods that will inscribe sensitive data into the very states of atoms")

Very curious about current state of this research (relative to the current state of quantum decryption)--any experts in the room?
Crowdsourcing the Hyperloop: How a Group of Redditors Are Taking on Elon Musk
The irony that the SSL cert is invalid for the NSA FAQ linked to in the article... https://www.iad.gov:8443/iad/library/ia-guidance/ia-solution...
That's one of the reasons why I like the fact that some websites treat them as "gifv" files, even though they are just mp4.
Right, but this is exactly my point: the correct answer depends on the set of prior theories, which is exactly what the frequentist scenarios you consider are varying.
I have one of those, it's called a spoon.

The only extra automation I'd find handy in the kitchen is vegetable chopping, especially for harder things like turnip and squash.
So, breeders solve waste problem. Reactors are producing microscopic amounts. One person's basement worth of space should handle US's waste storage needs. So, what was the Yucca Mountain proposal for again? I seem to have got the wrong impression they needed space for tons of hot waste.
The fact that the prices raised doesn't prove anything to me (that's the only thing I see in the article). Of course the publishers got more power with the new store. Of course they wanted to sell at higher prices even before Apple appeared, but couldn't, because Amazon didn't have real competition. What was Apple supposed to do? To open the exact same store as Amazon? Why?

And how was Apple doing anything what the publishers didn't do themselves? The CEO's had their meetings without Apple, even before, as I've already quoted. And after the meetings with Cue, they continued. Cue didn't organize them:

"After Young had met with Apple but before S&S had its meeting, Young could not resist calling Reidy to share the wonderful news that the “Top Man” at Apple opposed $9.99 pricing. He hesitated to say more because S&S would be meeting with Apple the following day, and he did not want to “spoil [the] fun.”"

It's obvious the publishers communicated, but I don't see Apple's guilt.

All my quotes here and in other posts here are from the court decision.
Caught this story this morning on Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast[1], it's a great story. The thread that stands out most to me (and to the hosts) is that here's a person who looks at an 840-page government report, reads it in-depth, and creates an industry. That's a feel-good outcome, of hard work others aren't willing to do.

In a coincidence, perhaps, Planet Money's latest episode[2] dealt with Warren Buffet's bet on an ETF over hedge funds.

1: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-07/odd-lots-h...

2: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/03/04/469247400/episo...
This is a tremendous issue in civic tech. We have spoken with many people in the space (being in govtech, naturally run into each other) and the level of "because it sounds cool" is above the Silicon Valley mean.

There are so many problems in government. A vast majority are not sexy, but if you care about impact the roll up your sleeves.
Not theoretically, since it has been done. It is called LifePreserver and originated with PC-BSD years ago; thus available on FreeBSD an FreeNAS as well.

I will have a good laugh if Ubuntu is porting it over as a "headline feature".
Netflix is known to be at the high end of salary as base pay. You can see the numbers yourself by looking at H1B petitions. I see many software engineers above $300k [1]. I don't think it's the norm in the valley, but for someone highly skilled it's attainable.

[1] http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=Netflix&job=SENIOR+SOFTWARE...
My reading of that link is it's difficult to grow commercially, which is a long way away from difficult to grow in your own garden.
I too go for access to the museum's 3D scan data somehow. That being said, here are some thoughts on the Kinect 1 being used to produce a scan given the display glass, the power requirements, and resolution of the Kinect1.
The Kinect1's power requirement goes way down once you cut the motor's power out. Second, perhaps the Kinect was used with the intention of helping the photogrammetry out, by giving precise distances to the glass for each shot taken by the Kinect1, and then secondary photos from cell phones could be correlated back at home. I doubt the use of a polarizing filter, since it would not lend much to this method. In addition, you can double the resolution of the Kinect1 by not streaming at a high rate. I believe from 640x480 VGA to 1280x1024 at a lower frame rate. If the display glass were not there, they could get at best 1.3mm per pixel at those distances. But it was there, so I vote for a file provided to them. I am just presenting the technical possibility of augmenting the Kinect1 with some hacks and cell phone photos to get close. I do think in any case mesh cleanup would allow the 1.3mm per pixel to be sub-surfaced to 0.01mm vs. 1.3mm stated above without any major infidelity to the original sans micro-scratches and pores on the original surface.
I worked for 2 years using ultrasound, photos and video to digitize objects before the Kinect1 appeared, so I know what can be done to achieve reproducibility of a scanned object. NASA had researched 'shape from shading' algorithms in the 70s and 80s to try and get more data from their mono B&W satellite imagery. I had implemented these in my own products, and no, they are not simple height maps based on a greyscale image. They take into account the light source's position to extrapolate relief data on monotonous toned objects like asteroids and unpainted sculptures.
> How would you keep people from self-segregating --- especially when parents want to live in the best school-district neighborhoods they can afford.

An early step would probably be some sort of federal scheme for more evenly funding schools, to remove some of this incentive in the first place.
> Is WOFF2 just that good?

Regardless of the following paragraphs (which give a primary reason of `unicode-range` CSS property), it is that good. Brotli, a compression algorithm used by WOFF2, is a very good fit for regular-looking but non-repetitive data---that includes many binary formats including OpenType. I have seen at most 10--20x improvements over uncompressed TTF.
I find it unlikely the first person to express that concept was born in the 20th century.

Some places say Henry Ward Beecher (brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe). If I had to guess, though, it's hundreds or thousands of years old.
I find XCode's UI editor pretty good!
That component-index arbitrage is what funds most OCaml development [0].

[0] - https://www.janestreet.com/what-we-do/etfs/
Extensive discussion a couple of weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11140981