skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Voluntary control & choice of control vendors, maybe.

But enforced monopolistic control - c'mon there is no freedom there.

Not to mention legally enforced monopolies destroy the market for everyone, including themselves.

Pretty much the 1st observation Adam Smith makes.

Without freedom and thus competition there is no progress, everything stagnates.

Music & film industry is a case in point, every change they lobby against turns out to be insanely profitable when they are forced into it. ( 78's, radio, videos, mp3 , streaming - all were going to 'kill' the industry till they didn't )

Fat cats won't change or innovate without competition.

Control abates all innovation.

Enforced control of your hardware is slavery.
Except here's the thing. All those devices are about trying to get desktop-like abilities out of something that is inherently not-desktop like.

I don't want a dock, or a touch-screen, I want multiple monitors, setup at the right height.

I don't want a textblade, or a bluetooth keyboard, as cool as they seem conceptually. Because fundamentally, a cool little portable keyboard is still, qualitatively, a shitty keyboard. I want actual full sized mechanical keyboards. Why would I ever use such a thing if i had an option?

I want a comfortable ergonomic chair, and a nice spacious desk. because I don't know about anyone else, but I swear I get headaches and muscle spams after I attempt to read much from my smartphone or laptop.

Don't get me wrong, I have a smartphone, and I have a little dell ultrabook for when I'm travelling. But I can't have my XX-buffers open in emacs on my phone, whether it be linux or not, and I would never try to turn my phone into a desktop computer, or pretend that it is comparable.

I don't have an ipad or tablet, i admit. I can't for the life of me figure out a use for them that doesn't take away features from an ultrabook while adding anything else.

I of course know why they (phones and tablets) selling so well. Because they aren't effectively consumed as computers. They are media consumption, entertainment and communication devices.

But if they ever manage to pry my desktop from my cold, dead hands, I think I might just have to weep and off myself. I don't think that's a world i want to live in. Thankfully, although its not "sexy", i think it'll be around for a while yet.

Although, try working at a corporate and asking for a powerful desktop to, you know, actually do work. This obsession with tablets/mobiles/laptops is already having a very harmful effect on my professional life, because its becoming standard to equip employees with substandard equipment, and the apple hipsters are...quite frankly...fully on board and driving that into professional spheres as well. The consultants turn up with their little mac notebooks, and its just "jesus christ..."...shakes head

/end rant
Why would the handsets registering be out of the the ISM band? What if you bought a quad band phone, wouldn't that work?
How to Ensure That Your Content Goes Viral
There's always Bookshelf.js.
I run FreeBSD -CURRENT on a Lenovo C30, which is a dual Xeon E5 workstation platform. Key to my use for the past 1-2 years with a 30" and 3 24" monitors is the nvidia binary video driver. Prior to this setup I ran Gentoo. I find FreeBSD more conductive toward the things I want to work on, but I am also much more interested in working on FreeBSD src than I was Linux kernel. I maintain a small repo that does everything I want at https://github.com/kev009/digital-life

On my laptop, a Lenovo T420, I run PC-BSD -CURRENT (http://iso.cdn.pcbsd.org/11.0-CURRENTMAR2016/edge/amd64/), which eliminates the need to build src and packages. I also run PC-BSD -CURRENT on my work desktop with a Radeon card and two monitors. I could potentially expand my workstation builds to these with pkg, but PC-BSD is more or less hands off which I want on these devices.

Open source video needs work, but as of this week that has started heating up and we may start closing in toward DragonflyBSD in terms of Freedesktop/Linux equivalence by the time FreeBSD 11.0 ships https://github.com/iotamudelta/freebsd-base-graphics/tree/dr...
Cheaptickets-British Airways Amsterdam to Lima Peru  from € 449
This is so true, otherwise businesses would be flocking to set up in low regulation, low tax countries like Somalia.
>caught by their own elitism of not-selling-affordable-phones.

Yeah, and look where that got them. From near bankruptcy in 1997 to being only the most valuable (or in top 3 depending on when you look/how you measure) of companies on the planet.
I'm not cherry picking I'm just talking about the recent years and I'm completely aware that the economic situation is due in large part to low oil prices. There was no problem being popular when high oil prices and an open market meant steadily increasing standard of living.
What I'm discussing is how hard it is for any politician to be popular in the face of rapidly decreasing purchasing power and living standard such as when there is a budget deficit and inflation. So why isn't Putins popularity decreasing when the economy is? Is it because the people saw what he did in 2008-2014 and trust he can bring that back? Makes sense, but a diverse media would question that idea. It wouldn't be enough in any country with a working media and opposition. Leaders in working democracies don't have that high approval ratings even in good times.

The last couple of years have seen large inflation, and also stagnated salaries/pensions. This is a very recent phenomenon and started with falling oil prices and was worsened by the Crimea sanctions.

You could argue that discussing 2013-16 is cherry picking but those 3 years are pretty special -- they are the most recent 3!

With the sanctions in place 7+ percent inflation and oil prices looking to stay low for a long time, spending 5-6% on the military while the public can buy less every month for their salaries is only sustainable in one single way - make a story that the nation is in a conflict with an external enemy. That it's "us against them". It's simple nationalism and it has always worked. To support that story you cannot have an alternative narrative either so you must effectively control media and ensure there is no working opposition. This is exactly what the rest of the world believe has happened, which is why everyone is worried. It's becaus we fear that given enough time - the people of Ru wouldn't actually know they don't like Putin because there is no media that gives them any reason not to!

The point isn't that Putin is mismanaging the economy directly - it's that he is isolating Russia economically e.g by the Crimea story which will hurt the economy over time.

The same would happen in the US if Mr Trump was elected, but the difference there would be that media would eat him alive after that (e.g alienating Mexico or the entire Muslim world) and the opposition would win in a landslide come the next election.
Thanks for the detailed answer. I'm certainly going to have a look!
And they wonder why NaturalNews and other anti-vaccination sites get so many hits. The arguments they are using are utterly indefensible.

They now have a real problem. They were able to be gatekeepers in the U.S. and other Western nations, but the instant one nation doesn't play ball and publishes all the material as it doesn't recognise international copyright... well, this has parallels to when India refused to recognise pharmaceutical patents. They had to rapidly change their business model to more favourable terms, because it suddenly (!!!) became clear to the pharmaceutical industry that this could destroy the value of their patents.
This idea seems a lot like what GrubClub (http://grubclub.com) are doing in London.
Intelligence tests and psychiatric assessments of Nazis at Nuremberg Trials
And your internal releng process should be handling security issues as they come up?
Everything you say also applies to foreign trade of goods or capital with just a little tweaking. Would you consider it "trade" when capital flows out the country, builds facilities in a foreign country, employs people in the foreign country, sells goods to people in the foreign country, and then stores most of the profit in the foreign country?
Zewo.io – Build server software in Swift
Facing a tough problem at work? This research-backed strategy might help
"The free supercharging stations I think is a gimmick."

"Free" seems mostly to be a matter of perception. Here is Australia, a lot of merchants, especially small grocery shops, charge you an extra 1.5% on purchases with credit card or have a minimum amount, say $10. As a customer, that bothers the living hell out of me. I am absolutely happy if they increase the prices of every item they have by 1.5% and don't bother me with credit card charges.

I personally prefer to deal with a business that deals with complexities of running their business themselves, instead of passing it onto me, the customer.
Is it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_on_wheels
Serif Hacker News.
I'm trying to understand speculative execution.

Given this

int result = foo != bar ? do_side_effect_and_return() : safe_return();

C code, am I right to assume both functions will be executed speculatively?

What other potential bugs/gotchas are lurking with speculative execution?
The information about Cameron's father pretty much came out already 4 years ago (already after his father was dead), so not like this personal link hurts Cameron a lot more with the current list of names.
I think you're over-analysing "do your job or you're fired".
The HTC Vive is released to the wild April 5th (tomorrow!)
UX: I Miss You
London, UK - Pusher - https://pusher.com/ - Full time - On Site Only

Pusher is a multi-tenant distributed system that allows our customers to deliver billions of messages to their connected users. We operate at massive scale, and this informs and affects everything we do. We're profitable and growing sustainably.

Our engineering team is based in London. We are looking for engineers who want to work on interesting problems in a production environment, and take responsibility for the real-world operation of a large and increasingly distributed system. Our software stack is built around Linux, Ruby, Haskell, Go, Node.JS, Redis, MySQL, Git, Puppet and Ansible.

We are currently hiring:

Platform Engineers to continue improving and scaling our core real-time infrastructure: https://pusher.workable.com/jobs/52789

Mobile Product Engineers to work on improving our mobile libraries on both iOS and Android, and demonstrating what Pusher can do for mobile end users: https://pusher.workable.com/jobs/114508

DevOps Engineers so we can continually improve the way we deploy and maintain our platform: https://pusher.workable.com/jobs/90375/

A junior Developer Relations person to help grow our user base: https://pusher.workable.com/jobs/218475
For point releases? Or for ABI compatibility?

Edit: Went digging. Here's the link: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2015-Fe...

It's for ABI compatibility.

It certainly adds a certain amount of certainty to the planning process. Right now, I'm running off 11.0-CURRENT in preparation for a deployment or around August 2016, which gives me certainty of support until mid-2021.
A major problem with further scale-up is the availability of parts. In an electrical circuit the signals voltages that are constrained to wires; in a a genetic circuit the signals are concentrations of proteins/compounds that are diffusing around the cell. This gives a problem: to have independent logic gates you need transcription factors that will bind to distinct promoter sequences, without crosstalk. If you're doing this in a cell rather than cell-free system you also need to avoid crosstalk with the host cell.

The problem isn't so much in designing the circuit abstractly as finding specific parts with which to construct it. One approach is to partition the circuit across multiple cells [0, 1].

[0]: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v469/n7329/full/nature0...

[1]: http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jou...
If you navigate to xkcd.com/?debug, you get a debug version that draws some colored lines on the canvas and logs to the console. Mine already started growing some plants (or whatever they are).
Out of curiosity: What do you have installed on your laptop instead?
It's cheap, as "Our lawyers asked us to make clear that Chromebooks aren’t made out of chrome."
What makes you think you can't live rurally in the UK?
Pretensions of cleverness sounds more accurate, the correct implementations are often intrinsically clever, I agree.
Could you clarify a couple of acronyms - YIGs, VXCOs?

Also isn't the real viability issue with this the MSC? Once you've registered with a base station you need to backhaul it to a switch that's capable of routing the call to another hand set. Maybe there are some good affordable options now for a soft swtich that also provides HLR/VLR capabilities? A real class 5 switch like those made by Metswtich are hundreds of thousands of dollars I believe.
Google and Oracle Agree Not to Research Jurors Online Ahead of Major Trial
I'm sorry but could you provide some explanation (hint or link)?
I'm probably wrong but your correction is a bit short IMHO.
If you deal in volatile markets with questionable rule of the law and weak property rights (e.g. Russia or much of the Middle East), then the ownership and its transfer is often structured with offshore companies.

The leak however suggests the legit offshore cases are drop in the bucket in this overall money laundering business. Kind of like with file sharing, many would argue we need it primarily to get our latest Ubuntu ISOs and other legit uses, but we all know it's a lie.
Usually states want to see taxes for stuff bought by people on their premises, and this is where Google and co are escaping, but this is all a little unclear with e-commerce and all.
It's also worth noting that FreeBSD used to rely on M:N threading model (via libkse) then switched to 1:1 threading model (via libthr).
There are at least two widely used "law of large numbers" -- mean reversion is more popular outside finance, and firm size vs market size is probably more popular within finance.
IoT, 4K, virtual reality signal a critical need for broadband speed
> Well to be fair, you are not paying to use Win 10 and also its a free upgrade.

Some people got a free upgrade. Others will pay for Windows 10.
"Fortress became unplayable due to catsplosion."

Just put all cats in a cage and leave few males wandering around to deal with vermin. The last time I played (few years ago, don't remember the exact version) this worked flawlessly.
Though LinuxThreads was M:N, and Solaris migrated to 1:1 relatively recently too (as did others).
That may start to get rough with MFCs as the branch petrifies, but yes it should fall within the same crosschecked two engineer budget for a reasonable time span. You should seek commit bits to maintain said branches if you rely on them, because you're probably not alone.
The deck is stacked against those who want to change the system in such a way. Those who make massive profits from the existing system will fight tooth and nail to keep regulations from changing the system, and so any litigant or lobbyist for open academic publishing will be at a significant disadvantage from the very start.

Basically, civil disobedience on a grand scale that changes the entire market for academic publishing is the only real way to effectively change the system for the better.

Ironic really. If companies like Elsevier had charged reasonable prices for academic papers from the very start, then this would never have been as big an impact - certainly it wouldn't have been an existential threat to them.

I for one won't be crying any tears when such companies are rubbed out of existence.
Because the average citizen doesn't donate nearly enough money to politicians' campaigns.
Watch the clip and then say that the 68 Mustang and Charger looked like everything else on the road :-) and they were not spendy cars. The Charger, in fact, was made to appeal to the weekend blue collar drag racer. It was cheap, fast, and easy to modify.

And, of course, a couple years later the E-bodies appeared from Chrysler. They were so damned good looking that Chrysler revived the style recently.

I had a 67 Mustang in college, and have a 72 E-body today. I'd get a 68 Charger if I had garage space.
Windows laptop makers should really concentrate on fixing the simple things first, since currently they are actively trying to drive people away from their products. My last HP Spectre x360 with Windows 8.1 (and now Windows 10) was an absolute disappointment:

- it couldn't connect to my Fritzbox WLAN router (very mainstream here in Germany) unless I installed an old Intel driver from 2014, the last time this happened to me was 10 years ago when trying to install Linux on a laptop

- the touchpad is barely usable since it uses some crappy 3rd party driver (Synaptics), sometimes the touchpad simply stops recognizing gestures, and the Synaptics control panel has a "Reset" button which must be pressed in this case

- the keyboard tends to ignore the second keystroke if the same key is pressed quickly in succession

- HighDPI displays on Windows machines are useless since at least half of the tools (even Microsoft's own VC runtime installers) are upscaled and the upscaling quality is really terrible

- plus it had the usual amount of crapware preinstalled (including completely useless custom driver update and customer support tools)

My current Asus Zenbook is slightly better, but still has a crappy 3rd party touchpad driver.

With this situation, it is no wonder that people are moving away from laptops and Windows.
MySQL does not deserve to be called a database at all - as the article describes, it does not implement basic database features correctly.
He isn’t “conflating”, he clearly said this is the total paid to the government — i.e. all sorts of taxes. That you like the sound of it is, frankly, horrible.
Well yeah, that is exactly why I said for the situation where the lenght of the list is much smaller than the total number of tweets. Which should cover most practical usages.
Defense in depth is a real thing.
SEEKING WORK - Remote, travel possible depending on location and duration.

Location: North-east UK

What I do: Reliable, scalable services.

In the past I've run large-scale Debian installations doing devops before it had a name, and been responsible for servers in Antarctica. I have experience with a wide range of different Unix tools and technologies, at various levels of the stack. This gives me the ability—and the perspective—to pick the best combination of tools for any particular job, rather than simply treating everything as a nail because all I have is a hammer.

I can help you build a back end for your new web or mobile app, or architect a scalable platform to power it.

I'm currently working on requirements and system architecture for an IoT project with a major traditional manufacturer in the UK, but have some availability coming up around 6 weeks from now.

Previous work:

- School data processing app (Elixir/Phoenix, PostgreSQL)

- Custom data dashboards (R, Geckoboard)

- High-reliability, long-term timelapse platform for inaccessible locations. (FreeBSD, Arduino, Python, Shell)

- Migration of existing Node.js+Firebase service to Golang+PostgreSQL on AWS

- Feasibility study investigating the possiblility of writing custom code to interface with a biometric timeclock (Common Lisp)

- Proof-of-concept hardware development for projects linking the physical and virtual worlds in real time (Arduino, Node.js)

- Project management webapp for construction companies (Rails, AngularJS, Bootstrap)

Buzzwords: Debian, Ubuntu, AWS, PostgreSQL, Perl, Common Lisp, Ruby, Go, Arduino / AVR, Elixir, FreeBSD

Got something you think is a good fit? Drop me a line at mike -at- lambdafunctions -dot- com
That's the patronage or tip jar model. It has also funded many people. But not as many as the copyright model.

To flip your force model around, you cannot force people to create for you. But the hope of future money does provide incentive to many of them. Robert Heinlein, for example, started writing in order to pay of his mortgage.
Yes, but at $15M/yr, the 13% is only $1.95M. That's high, but not singlehandedly-supporting-the-government high. In 2013, Mark Zuckerberg paid an estimated $2.3 billion in total income tax [1]. About 40% - nearly $1 billion - likely went to California state taxes - for the mere privilege of living near the beach.

If he wants to give $1 billion in cash away, there are alot better uses than to give it to state government bureaucrats. For example, he could have moved to Nevada, saved the $1 billion, and taken 50,000 homeless people off the streets for a year for that much money (which, by the way is ~10% of the entire homeless population in the United States - imagine the positive social impact of doing such a thing).

The point is that federal taxes are inescapable, while state taxes are not. It makes no financial sense for someone with nine or ten figure tax liabilities to be living in high tax states.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2013/12/20/mark-zucke...
Malware is the #1 reason for me to use ad-blocking...
Ronin has good driving sequences, but the cars aren't cool. The two best movies for cars are Bullitt and Grand Prix. Everything else is way, way down. Too bad, actually. I don't understand why Hollywood simply cannot make good car movies.

Edit: I forgot to add in the original "Gone In 60 Seconds", not the pathetic remake.
A CLI version of Popcorn Time, published using the real life identity of the author? Brave move.
I believe it depends on the nature of the investment and your relationship with the US. For example I believe in your situation you'd have to pay US taxes on dividends from US companies.
Remittances from emigrants account for ~4% of India's GDP.
Knives are bad because they can cut your fingers... Don't get me started on fire!
Something for thought http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-27/the-world-...
This argument doesn't make any sense. How is making publications that costs lots of money available to everyone "making it easier for what is already a niche crowd to remain a niche crowd"?

Your issue seems to be that there are problems with teaching people properly, but that's not making things worse for those who work outside academia - if anything, it's making it easier!
Can you explain to my why baseband hacking would be important in this regard? Does all the protocol/handshake negotiation happen at the baseband layer before its modulated up? Is that correct?
Yes you can. Do people not eat when they've not got a job? If you're unemployed you have a 'loss', because you have expenditures.

Also, there's an additional hidden loss. I earn $30k last year, with a tax break of $3k, this year I earn nothing because I take the year off to have a baby, I lost $3k in tax break. When I work next year I don't get a $6k tax break. I can't ever make that back. Just because it's hidden, doesn't mean it's not there.

And that's far more expensive than it is to someone taking extreme risks with capital that they can lose/earn $100k in a year.

Also, you already tax your gamblers in the US...
Rather not give the daily beast ad revenue, thanks
Article is from 2014; does all of this still apply? I'm just trying to understand the relevance, other than MySQL is a flaming death trap which everyone should be warned about regularly.