skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Profits are "too high" because productivity is up due to technology and digitalization which means that less people are required to take advantage of tech and make more money.

Competition can't solve this because in tech most is a winner takes all so if anything competition will create even stronger few winners.
Run for office. Your competence, speed and intelligence should make you a shoo-in and you can help fix things.
I'm not sure it's useful to dismiss human behaviour as human weakness. It is what it is, and adding in essentially a moral dimension won't add much to the analysis
I'd wager on Apollo. $25.4 billion in 1973, adjusted to $109 billion in 2010 dollars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program#Costs
You're right, I did have that on my mind when I was posting and was hoping not to catch too much flak! Someone down the thread mentioned keeping things running, debugging, etc. which is part of what kept me from doing it on my own as I have enough small side projects to debug without adding another.

It really began as me trying to find an exercise in seeing what the easiest way to inform someone who is always checking a specific app already, and I had heard of IFTTT but hadn't checked it out or put it to use myself. I think it's interesting that IFTTT has been successful since it seems like the demographic who would think to convert an RSS feed to Facebook posts (and not code it themselves) would be fairly small.

Anyways, setting it up with IFTTT took me less than 15 minutes and has never given me any problems, except when the auth expired (triggering an email from IFTTT) and I had to reauthorize the integration with Facebook. I wonder if I would have had the foresight to set up email notifications with my homegrown solution?
I've worked extensively with materialize, which has been a similar experience to bootstrap.
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Yes but giving someone antidepressants for 30 years is like giving someone advil 30 years for a broken bone. Set the bone, then do advil for a week while it sets. But this isn't how drugs are used in the US. You get on them as a lifelong journey.
You'd get an infected phone and a linked infected Computer. This can bypass 2-factor authentication (e.g. for Banking with TAN by sms)
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I don't see why political ads would decrease just because everybody had to vote.
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Yes, agreed. Just trying to clear the field of all the straw men. I believe if folks can grasp why it doesn't work like that, they've got a better chance of working out how it might work. Otherwise we're still in slogan territory.
Ennio morricone's music.

From 'Fist full of dollars' to 'The hateful eight':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0pSUnnzoDM
Seriously? Why is the heart of the article in a slideshow?
Link bait, but it's in agreement with what I said.

"Rather a ratio of two loosely connected numbers has fallen dramatically"

In other words banks create a 'fixed' multiple of the money supply worth of debt. In the long term inflation comes from new money not normal bank loans.
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There is no reason whatsoever to ask for an email other than to continue to email someone. Unless you're signing up for an account (which is a completely different flow), no reasonable person could honestly expect that they're just giving someone an email address so that they can get a PDF link and that that will be the end of it.
In fact noting pretty much what you wrote in the first paragraph would improve it a lot: below the initial error message (above the expansion stuff) it could note

requires that "i" implements Debug, but

src/x/mod.rs:15 impl<T> Info for Buffer<T> {
does not specify that T must be Debug

hint: you can bound T to Debug:

impl <T> Info for Buffer<T> where T: Debug {

this means the code will only work with types which implements Debug,
but lets you use Debug operations in your methods

Worse, the rest of the error message gives completely the wrong direction for this error case, it gives an advice for a concrete type T, not for a generic one.
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Go has been out for quite a while now, so I'd say it is pretty safe to try it out if you feel like it. I wouldn't swap PHP for Go personally.
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And still no way to make a simple 2-node cluster in 2 different availability zones. What if one AZ fails completely? Happens quite often.

I tried to read HA documentation on Kubernetes and it all starts with warnings like "this is fairly advanced stuff, requiring intimate knowledge of Kubernetes inner workings", and going on with pages and pages of setup process.

Basic HA is not a "fairly advanced stuff", it is a commonplace requirement in any production environment. Why do I need a 1000-node cluster if all 1000 nodes are in the same AZ, which can have an outage anytime?
Kind of: Take DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung) for example which sets standards used in hardware (like normed screws or normed metal alloys). Albeit not free (as in free beer) it guarantees that I can buy eg. screws with guaranteed minimal properties from different vendors. I would see this at least somehow equivalent to open source software, which can be copied at minimal marginal cost and thus is easy to provide for free (as in free beer).
Could you expand on the balls-into-bins argument here? It's not quite obvious to me, but I'd really like to understand.
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"Does it support HTTP2? -> Not yet"

Ok, back to Nginx/H2O/Caddy.
... and the power bill would bankrupt you :)
afaik, the real issue is that the dalvik-vm is api compatible with oracle(sun)-jvm. iirc, api is not 'copyrightable' which seems to suggest that it might not be so good for oracle. but then again, cases like these depend a lot on proficiency of presiding judges. wasn't there an earlier judge, who learned some elementary programming while preparing for this case, and who ended up favoring google...
"Silicon Valley, disrupt interviews, please!"

They did and that's the problem ;)
Is there lack of competition in the airline industry? It seems like the opposite. For any given trip I have half a dozen fungible choices and can instantly price compare and choose the cheapest one. That's a highly competitive market, not an uncompetitive one.

Also, even a 24 billion profit in a good year isn't exceptional given the industry has $160 billion in revenue. Google in 2015 made 23 billion in profit on only 75 billion in revenue.
I was thoroughly impressed with the judge who presided over the last ruling -- IIRC he went so far as to learn at least the basics of Java to the point where I remember being impressed by the insight of the questions he posed. There are subsets of law one can specialize in ranging from medical malpractice to obscure patent litigation, but as far as I know there are no factors linking a presiding judge to a specific specialty. I really think other judges should follow the example he set and at least develop a core understanding in a similar fashion.

Edit: http://www.cand.uscourts.gov/wha/oraclevgoogle the original Alsup opinion

http://regmedia.co.uk/2014/05/09/oracle_google_appeal_opinio... The appeal opinion -- which, as it stands, rules that programming APIs are in fact copyrightable.

(Also, look at the list of counsel -- heavy hitters, damn.)

Oracle appeals from the portion of the final judgment entered against it, and Google
cross-appeals from the portion of that same judgment entered in favor of Oracle as to
the rangeCheck code and eight decompiled files. Because we conclude that the declaring
code and the structure, sequence, and organization of the API packages are entitled
to copyright protection, we reverse the district court’s copyrightability determination
with instructions to reinstate the jury’s infringement finding as to the 37 Java
packages. Because the jury deadlocked on fair use, we remand for further consideration
of Google’s fair use defense in light of this decision.
Oh, cool. That's what I was looking for in the docs for the last 2 days.
I applaud this man. He fights for free speech no matter what. The idea that you can be punished and fined just for saying things (that aren't direct threats) is appalling, yet it happens all across the western world.
This case seems unusual in the fact that the code in question was already free to use and fork under the terms of OpenJDK, so paying Oracle for a license was not the only alternative. How would one calculate damages relative to the scenario where Google simply used OpenJDK as they are doing now?
:+1: http://imgur.com/53VQUS0
I had problems with WOL on Windows 10 too...my solution was to just update the networkcard drivers to the latest version, get them from the manufacturer.
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NPM removes Disqus comments from blog after users disapprove NPM's resolution
Did anyone notice that NPM removed the Disqus comments from:
http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-npm

The Disqus thread is still available, but comments have been closed:
https://disqus.com/home/forum/npmjs/

Since the Kik fiasco I am losing all good faith in NPM now. The community clearly disapproved NPM's decision and instead of dealing with it in a transparent way they decided to just close and remove comments instead. Are they turning into North Korea now or what the hell is going on there?
So, I'm not a web designer or developer (anymore). But.. This strikes me as being the same line of though as "Leave the team when your new coding project starts with a whiteboard rather than text editor". Sure, we can just start coding, but the result is rarely as clean.
Exactly, there is no official registration or certification for HIPAA. It's more that HHS will take an interest if you come to their attention and appear to be creating/receiving/transmitting/maintaining regulated patient data.

There are a few ways to come to HHS's formal attention:

1) A complaint;
2) Via another enforcement action, usually against one of your business partners; or
3) An audit

Phase 2 of the HIPAA audit program is starting this year. The first step is a questionnaire that asks you to confirm if you are a business associate. HHS is also asking that each entity they contact provide a list of their business associates.

All of the above is true even if you are based internationally. Most of the Phase 2 audits are desk audits, meaning HHS will ask auditees to submit documents and other data. I'm not sure how an onsite audit would work for an international entity.
Opioids are not a suitable treatment for long term pain, especially in the elderly.

People need rapid access to pain management clinics, with weight loss and strength building exercise, and access to meds (which in long term pain are often not opioids).

Giving those people opioids increases their risk of accidental death, and suicide. It gives them an addiction. But worse it does not treat their pain - they will still have the pain.
They don't go on strike. They can however likely be hacked. Ports are a vulnerable point of societies.
Update: docs just arrived — http://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/multiple-zones/ . That's better :)
I am not, but I have been previously advised on this topic by lawyers who specialize in IP.

Of course, your mileage may vary and my comments on the Internet should not be construed as legal advice for your specific situation.

Edit to add: The advice I received was in the context of contracts, privacy policies, and terms of service. I don't know about, and didn't mean to include, legal language in legislation or court filings. Important clarification--thanks.
Can't we tell Oracle to S a D already ?
Claiming we'd have learned everything the LHC taught us a generation ago also doesn't make much sense, considering the vast improvements in sensor technology and data handling that happened between the last generation and this. It's just as likely we'd have seen little or nothing because our "eyes" weren't sensitive enough or we couldn't find the needle in the data haystack.
Originally this was written as a short article (http://yourfirstproduct.com/Info/productivity), but after feedback from people I turned it into a simple interactive game. Plan C is to re-package it as a visual flowchart.
My startup, Krewe (https://www.gokrewe.com), aims to help people make a new group of close, meaningful friends in their neighborhood and become connected with their local community. I really hope it'll go a long way towards alleviating depression for many people.
This doesn't require system passwords to be stored somewhere.
Given that Ikea is legally run and registered as a non-profit charity, I think that the term is fairly meaningless at this point. We can only judge them by their actions, just as we do any other company.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ost...

"The Administration also recognizes that publishers provide valuable services, including the coordination of peer review, that are essential for ensuring the high quality and integrity of many scholarly publications. It is critical that these services continue to be made available."

Cf http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1312
Even threats themselves should be considered free speech, in my opinion. I don't give the power of my fear to someone who feels they have to threaten me. It doesn't scare me, because I choose not to be scared. I choose to uphold the idea that people should be able to say anything they want, even threaten me or others. Speech is not coercion, and therefore should not be condemned.
It's because publishers are concerned that if research is available to the public immediately, institutions will stop paying extortionate fees for journal subscriptions. They have considerable lobbying efforts and several Congressmen willing to change legislation to their benefit.

Rent-seekers gonna seek rent.
They don't test for test-taking ability, they test for wherewithal to enroll in test prep classes.

I can't speak to the current state of affairs, but in the mid 90s, taking a 5 week Kaplan course in my peer group raised scores from the 1150-1300 range to the 1300-1500 range. That meant the difference between average state school and high probability of hitting a "reach" school.

Many of the ultra achievers on these tests start prep at age 10 or younger.
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Judge Alsup has a long history of handling technical cases. He's no dummy.
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Wages are flat, buy and hold strategies are decimated by bubbles, and any job can be eaten by globalization.

At the same time, profits are up, access to capital has never been cheaper, and global market access has never had fewer barriers to entry.

The question is not how do we create living-wage jobs for the American worker, the question is how do we get the American worker to quit his job and start a business?

The economy is quite clearly slanted toward the entrepreneur. We need to start getting Americans to invest their labor accordingly.
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Great! The linked demos give a very creative feel.
> one company could easily setup another

This could happen in our current system. For example, if the DoJ in Apple had a side agreement that Apple would lose the encryption case. Obviously that's not what happened, but your conspiracy scenario isn't any more likely if courts forced a case to continue.
This article also fails to mention that this beautiful, shiny telescope will assemble itself with atomic precision after having the snot shook out of it at several G's by the launch vehicle to get it there.

In exoplanet identification and characterization is where I bet the Webb will make it's place in history for the researchers. IR is a great frequency to show liquid / gaseous water in an atmosphere of an earth like planet, and if all goes well, this telescope will be able to detect that.

That is something a spy satellite doesn't have to do, have decent resolution for items next to suns many orders of magnitude larger and brigher than they are.
22:34 error: the trait `core::fmt::Debug` is not implemented for the type `T` [E0277]

22 println!("trait: {:?}", i);

This error message is fantastic! On line 22, i is of type T which does not implement Debug. The hint is off, but the actual error is super useful.

Turns out if you google "Rust e0277" which is the error code he got, this is the top result: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/generics-or-how-do-i-solve-an-...

Which contains the same solution to his problem.

TL;DR Nothing to see here, just a case of "let me google that for you"
This reminds me of the computer collection one of the lecturers in my department owns (http://www.computermuseum.org.uk/). They have quite a number of historical pieces finishing with a number of Crays, an IBM Blue Gene a few nuclear plant control units.
That's ripe for abuse and incompetence, but we do it in some cases already.
> On the other side of the spectrum, do you expect Slack to maintain the Slack integration you write for your webapp? Do you expect Microsoft to maintain Excel plugins?

No. Because the situations are different.

Here, Pinboard did essentially nothing to get IFTTT to work the first time. IFTTT wrote the integration code, and has been maintaining it. They're now trying to push that effort onto other people.

i.e. They're trying to make YOU maintain code THEY wrote. Or worse, they're trying to make YOU write code which has no value for you, but value for THEM.

If you refuse to work for free, they will remove you from IFTTT integration... to the detriment of their own users.

> Of course they might do so for a couple vital ones to help jumpstart the integration system, but it's not black and white.

It is. Given their ToS, it's pretty damned black and white. IFTTT is pushing their development costs onto the platforms they pull data from. And then claiming that those platforms have to continue working for free, and that IFTTT owns the results of that work.

If you can't see a problem with that, I'm going to make you work for my company, for free, forever.

What? You don't like that?

Well... the same applies here.
Why not create an open, public standard, like Atom or RSS?
I find it funny that people blame this on greed/capitalism/profit instead of IP laws.
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Sure. Looking at mgetty's man page, it looks like you would want to

a) Disable Auto Answer on the modem, manually: ATS0=0

b) Set the "answer-chat" setting in mgetty to send the ATH1 then ATDT6

I imagine you'll also have tons of errors, since no actual modem-to-modem data connection will ever get established in this scenario. So maybe some options to suppress all that.
when i was reading it i was impressed by the quality and tone of the writing.
I still believe that Steve Ballmer is the only man who can rescue Yahoo.
Truecaller bug could expose the personal details of over 1M users
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If researchers would stop voluntarily sending their papers to private, for-profit journals then this wouldn't be an issue.
It's amazing how little oversight management puts in between contractors and production.

Why not make code acceptance contractually dependent on a third party code review?
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What is Pamela Jones doing nowadays? I understand her decision to shutdown groklaw because of govt spying but I can't help but think that, overall, it was a net loss for everyone involved.
Oracle should pay Google for using Java in Android and keeping the language somewhere around edge of hip and cool. I wonder how long it will be before Google flips to Go or JavaScript for Android.
His letters and telegrams on Korea from the 1950s as well as his late in life writings. I'm not sure if there's a book.
Especially because this decimates the consumer base. When you've impoverished your nation's people, who will buy your products? The dysfunctional focus on short-term profits at the expense of overall economic health makes the economy sicker each year and this disease will continue to ravish the world as long as greedy children hold the power to do so.
Might want to check out https://github.com/cantino/huginn as well.
Sometimes I think there's just as much, if not more, leeway in interpreting the "God Document" that is the constitution, than in not having one and relying on what is essentially "prior art".
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If employers and funding agencies would stop using publications in private, for-profit journals to evaluate whether researchers should get to keep their job or have their grants renewed, then this wouldn't be an issue.
Not for profit and non-profit are actually different in different tax and law scenarios. I'm not going to try and butcher the explanation, but it pretty much boils down to how employees get paid and expenses get deducted- which, in my opinion, has made me look at not for profit companies as companies that want to appear nicer than they really are.
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> (for once)

For once? France is one of the most trigger happy developed nations next to the US. They've been involved in more than two dozen major conflicts since Korea, and far more smaller operations, many in which they were they main or only foreign force.

The difference is that the conflicts France tends to get involved in are less flashy and/or shorter and more targeted. E.g. a standing counter-insurgency force of 3,000 in the Sahel, isn't very flashy. Helicopters and fighter planes and a few thousand troops in Côte d'Ivoire got some coverage when they helped depose the former president, but it was over quickly, and so on. But they have active combat troops in at least a dozen countries right now.
Because capitalism works, so are not open source?
Someone doesn't have to potentially die in order for software to be harmful. Neither should it be the deciding factor about whether we need to think critically about the software we create.

Besides it's actually not too hard to write simple specifications for the critical components of your system. It has practical benefits like helping you to write good, rock-solid software. It helps you to clearly and precisely communicate your ideas. You can shake out errors in your design long before you write your code. And there are some errors you will only find by modelling and checking your system.

Web applications have come a long way since simple CGI scripts. They often require sophisticated orchestration mechanisms for managing distributed state and processes. If you get that wrong you end up with corrupted data, deadlocks and race conditions, etc. If you had a tool which helped you sift out those potential problems that exist in your design, would you not use it? Or would you rather risk introducing those errors in your code and hope that your customers never encounter them?

The approach of throwing code into production and "iterating" is precisely the problem I was addressing in my OP. In this approach we're asked to not think and to fix our inevitable mistakes later on after users find them for us. We have software to find a reasonable majority of them for us instead so why not use it? It's already fairly common to use unit and integration tests (to make sure our code operates as expected). Why not have a system for testing our designs?

As I mentioned, it's shockingly easy to write an incorrect implementation of binary search that may appear to work under your unit tests. Writing a specification of the algorithm and checking it with a model checker will show you problems you hadn't thought to consider. This is an algorithm that is taught in the first algorithms class you take and yet even graduate students, who scoff at writing specifications because it's so boring, often get it wrong. That's because programming is hard and it is hard precisely because you have to think. And thinking is hard. We should be using tools to help us think.