skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at the financials of car rental companies, markets are not too eager to pay premium for a business that has high upfront capital cost (buying/manufacturing the vehicles) as well as high operating costs (car washes, maintenance, repairs). You could argue that Alphabet's margins will be so good as to obliterate those concerns, but then why haven't other operators in the space (GM owns some car rental businesses, for instance) boasted those?
Is there a source for benchmarks/reviews for the various ways to represent data? As far as I see it, there are a lot of them that I'd like to hear pros/cons for: json, edn + transit (my fave), yaml, google protobufs, thrift (?), as well as Ion.

And where does Ion fit here?
Which version control systems are these? All the usual suspects make this easy - in fact I find git to be somewhat more difficult than other simpler tools like cvs or svn. Even (shudder) Visual SourceSafe offers this functionality.
It would look really bad for Russia if Snowden was held against his will.
It is a work in progress that needs developers and Bitcoin investors. It was written from scratch and the main developer needs Alpha users, investors with Bitcoin, and other help.

"Just make sure you explain that it's a definitely a work in progress, with a lot of rough edges and stuff... and that we're mostly looking for developers, bitcoiners (investors!!) and alpha testers."

You can create an invite code using a person's bitcoin address that they use to validate the user.
I've spoken to dozens of gambling addicted teenagers in counter strike. You're mistaken. The guns themselves are a status symbol which, combined with their financial value, makes this way more enticing to them. They see their favourite players (often sponsored by gambling sites) using them, and want to do the same.

I've mostly stopped playing the game because it's too depressing and sickening to talk to all of these kids, with undeveloped reasoning faculties, throwing away every cent they get into bets they're convinced they'll win, until it's all gone.
Yes, you're right. I guess the FBI just confirmed that there was no info on the work phone, which seems a valid line of inquiry.
Yes, you're right. See my reply to djrogers.
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I think it's actually the opposite. The important thing is a short response time to the user - whether that's achieved by reducing the number of things you do, or by doing them more efficiently, is kind of moot.
It would also be a powerful statement if he could visit western countries without being arrested.
I'm in my 6th year of a (hopefully soon-to-be-completed) doctorate, and my experience has been very similar. I started the degree because I wanted to learn more about a particular field and develop the related technical skills. I couldn't think of a job where I could get the same benefits. I've learned a ton, but have also seen that while I have certain strengths, there are others who are smarter, more motivated, and frankly have different priorities than I do. Like you, I'm now coming to terms with it, but I have a better idea of what strengths I do have and am working towards putting them to good use.
The majority of that list fits my pattern with two claimed to be public service. Lew was COO for one of the guilty parties as the stuff happens. Geithner came in after the bailouts started. Paulson is the main guilty party there. Lew and Geithner, whatever their beliefs, haven't tried to make a prosecution happen or significantly countered the funding. The crooks are doing A OK with some of their gains paid back in fines. Cost of doing business.

List isn't looking good. That's without considering Kissinger or RAND connections. No speculation needed with results like this. ;)
WSJ and their wild speculation about Apple stuff and constantly quoting "sources briefed on the matter" turned me off to them a while back.

But vice/heavy and sometimes wired even still have content that I'd throw $4/mo at.
Adding to that, some of the twitch.tv streams with the highest numbers of viewers are people gambling csgo skins. Pretty sad actually...
> sea route

Through international or territorial waters of third countries? Not unless he's hitching a ride on RFS Bespokoynyy.
This is probably the worst thing about being influential and/or wealthy. Nobody would sue opera if they did it.
Do they have a no-fly list now as well?
The new Airbnb is coming! (or at least their cereal Project!)
I'll come back and read this later.
I had the same experience when I hit my 30s. I think it's because peoples' social networks expand through their 20s, and there's a bit of a social arms-race once peoples' calendars and social circles start to fill up. It's often considered rude to say "Somebody invited me to something else and I'd rather hang out with them than you, so I have to cancel", so most people take a first-come-first-serve approach to accepting invites. That means that each one of their friends needs to schedule before anyone else gets to them, so peoples' calendars fill up increasingly far out.

And then they get promoted, get married, and have kids, and they don't have time to hang out at all...
That's a coherent argument, but you've moved the goalposts a bit. The comment at the root of this thread suggests that Monsanto opportunistically sues farmers who are victimized by having Monsanto seed blown onto their fields.

They do not.

Before we move on to all the other arguments against Monsanto, we should probably dispose of that one.
I've seen a steady erosion of ethics in all professions.

I don't know what's causing it. Actually, I have a few hypothesis, but I'll get hammered for even mentioning them.

I used to look at people's actions in society, with the expectation that the average guy would be one of the 65% who delivered the legal 450v sting in the Milgram experiment. That left 35% who would do The Right Thing.

As, I've aged, I see a number much greater than >65%. I'm seeing way too many people doing immoral legal acts. Acts that are highly immoral, but legal.

I used to just take ethics for granted.

I am now Shocked when I run across a person with ethics.

I've gotten so jaded when someone is being honest/genuinely helpful--I look for the catch I missed. So, basically I look at most people, especially the financially successfully with extreme caution.

In Ireland, I was told they look at successful people differently than we so I the United States. They look at that person, and wonder, "Who did they screw over, or step on in order to get there." I overheard this. It might be wrong. I haven't got there, but it's getting close.

I'm not even talking about blatant criminals. I'm talking about the guys in ties. The guys with licenses. The guys with power. The guys who bend the rules in order to get ahead. The guys who exploit poor and uninformed just because they are easy marks.
Whereas they were happy to go after DeNA and Gree with the Complete Gacha law:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2012/05/16/digital/japans-s...
Bill Gurley is most unselfaware man on planet or he wrote open letter to Uber
Are you sure the inflatables can outrun a carrier? Though the top speed is classified, it's widely acknowledged that a CVN can make 30+ kts indefinitely, and in sea states that would make inflatables untenable.

And "armor penetrating bombs" usually do so by one of two methods, kinetic energy imparted via gravity or rocket engine, or via something similar to an explosively forged projectile (like the fancier Iranian IEDs).

And there may not be any radios to jam (assuming your swarm can maneuver intelligently without communication), but that doesn't mean that your control servos etc are immune to jamming. The electromagnetic spectrum is pretty wide, and I wouldn't be surprised if this was something that couldn't be fried by a clever Aegis array. The wattage those arrays put out is pretty incredible.
There weren't any loans being bundled in this deal. It was a synthetic.

My point is tjs Goldman is the house and made money from the deal not the outcome.
Deep Learning Lesson 4: Multilayer Networks and Booleans – Thoughtly
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I believe the mantra in NC and probably many states is "9 you're fine, 10 you're mine"
Which is ironic because "impact on reputation" is quite vague itself.
18F pushes for an even more open “open source” rule
Battery life.
How do you define bad people? Should bad people have less access to housing?
"The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator at root@localhost to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error."

Initial cynical/snarky reaction: "So, right up there with typical and expected Bitcoin project coding/security/deployment/reliability standards then..."
Norway and Russia share a land border.
William K. Black is well worth reading on the issue too http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/9/eric-holder-res... , as one of the team that successfully prosecuted people back in the S&L days http://www.amazon.com/Best-Way-Rob-Bank-Own/dp/0292721390 (apparently it wasn't politially easy then either).
There's a gradient between 'free' and 'held against his will', I'm sure there are plenty of ways Snowden can be discouraged from taking a chance like that.
"Insurance" blew the fuck out of that "market" long ago. The finance machine has moved on to pet care.

Healthcare reform would be making HMOs illegal, requiring any insurance to be provider and procedure agnostic, and mandating the exact same price schedule for all payers. Only the last is strictly necessary for sanity, but the cancer is so entrenched by now that invasive methods are required to kill it.

Percentage-based copays would arise naturally from this, leading to some semblance of transparency and market competition.
I totally missed that the boss wrote that page. Maybe I wasn't perceptive enough but it came off to me like employees taking a crack at their boss. Not in Dilbert-style disrespect more as everyone turning an eye-rolling issue into a fun project. It was funny.

I just didn't think it was you, though. Maybe sign it "The Boss" or something similar at the end to make sure the rest of us get the full joke.
So I'm curious how Snowden supports himself while exiled in Russia. How does he pay for these law firms representing him?
Unless theyre a German bank that bet on the housing bubble.
I watched the video above and the items definitely sounded like they were more than cosmetic.
Cloud is basically SaaS which is the antithesis of the advertisement model.

But okay, I guess you must know better.
Whats the best resource for Tcl ecosystem and getting its main benefits?
Fulda Gap maybe? This is really a wide open plain, not really a mountainous region.

If we went nuclear first (and odds are the Soviets would have beat us to the punch), SIOP was pretty broad and the idea of containing fissiles to the battlefield never had much credibility. Pershing and the GLCM were deployed so that NATO could easily and reliably hit deep into the USSR with European based weapons.
Amazon invented Ion because yaml, Avro, etc. didn't exist at the time. Ion is actually pretty old.

The timing of open-sourcing it mystifies me a bit. Maybe Amazon is trying to become more open-source friendly, like Microsoft did?

Perhaps more likely: they're planning on making some internal APIs that use ION heavily public?
Man who knew infinity: Ramanujan biopic US release is on April 29th
Like when Sinead O'Connor covered Nothing Compares 2 U and copyrighted her particular recording? She didn't even have to add a sentence!

In all seriousness, I'm sympathetic to the idea that we should be careful about exactly what sorts of advances in biotech should be patentable. There is a legitimate debate to be had about how big the change should have to be to gain protection because obviously all new work is based on the past work of others (and mother nature herself).

But I don't think that admitting that we should be careful about where we draw the line means that we should have no line at all. There is legitimate biotech work that people are doing. Hard work. Expensive work. Good work. If we want this work to happen, then it makes sense to put in some sort of legal protection for it.
For the last ~2 years Google has been rolling out changes slightly before earnings are released each quarter. For example, the yellow Ad label a few months ago, and it is likely to switch to Green to blend in with the Advertiser's Display URL.

Last week Google Maps Ads switched status from being in Search Partners to being included in ALL AdWords campaigns with Location Ad Extensions. Now Google is displaying ads in Map search results. There are also 4 results on top, 3 on bottom with no sidebar, this reduced inventory in an attempt to drive up CPCs. I've seen CPCs increase 10-15% because of this over the last month. There are also queries that return 7 paid results and only 9 organic results.

Google isn't innovating, they're just making ads appear as similar to organic results as humanly possible (if you're a webmaster, you'll get penalized for this) and making sure ads are everywhere possible. Baidu's results have paid listings interspersed without labels, which is what Google is on track to do within 2 years. They're great at equivocating. They penalize sites that build links, yet they themselves send emails soliciting KW heavy anchor text to Play vendors. They'll also look the other way if you're a Google Ventures funded company caught blatantly "spamming", a la Thumbtack and Nest.

Mobile CPCs are still roughly 30% lower than desktop, but it doesn't convert nearly as well, so it is worth less. As already mentioned, Google isn't growing search volume, rather increasing the number of ads they're showing, so say 7 ads per page on 1st, 2nd and 3rd pages of results, versus 13 on 1st page and 3 on 2nd, none on 3rd. If your organic results just happen to get worse, users have to dig deeper into the SERPs to find what they're looking for, while also driving an increase in impressions.
Thanks for saying this. I really wish the media would stop talking about candidates receiving donations from companies, which, as you point out is not possible.
He has a job, and I would imagine a network of supporters.
They represent him for free.
> Grad school is pretty easy and fun

This is not a universally shared experience.
There's not much wrong with such legacy systems. Unfortunately, they are more like exceptions. Most likely, your legacy systems break and you have no idea how to fix them. Or, you have to hire one guy for life because he is the only one who can maintain and fix your systems. And you pray that he doesn't get sick or hit by the bus.
You can stay in Russian/Norwegian waters. The quicker option would probably be Finnish/Swedish waters from St.Petersburg.
It's amazing that both articles seem satire...
I think you know you have an issue when you delay your own current tasks by reading an article about procrastination, fully agree with it, then procrastinate more by posting a comment on HN.
> In May 2015, Snowden's lawyer Ben Wizner said that Snowden's main source of income was speaking fees, which sometimes exceeded $10,000 per appearance.[308]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#2015
Or perhaps splay trees of boxes ..
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I think Goldman would pay more to hire an sec investigator with balls. They'd be the ones causing problems and worth buying.
Me too on Haskell. Mainly plan to try other two. Saw Little but didn't really get it past adoption. Then, your comment led me to the Why page which told me that was exactly the point. Along with programming in the large support. Funnier when I found out the boss wrote that.

I'd say it's not a good language to go with today for same reasons I'd say Tcl isn't. It's an interesting improvement especially to get better syntax with legacy compatibility with field-proven, TCL modules. And TK is still the shit for portable, easy-to-build GUI's. A TCL shop should definitely experiment with it and maybe incrementally upgrade their code. I think I'd be fine with a more typed, efficient, and fixed version of Tcl for some apps. Especially a command shell replacement or prototyping system.

Just not production unless it's non-critical like what you use it for. I don't even use it to glue to critical things as the glue is part of the TCB to a degree. Gotta find close-to-metal, abstract, typed, efficient, and macro'd stuff to replace it. At least we have contenders.
I found a bug in Safari os x: don't be logged in, go to the schedule, expand one of the topics, click the plus sign and you'll get a message that says something like "log in to save" in the lower left. Now you can no longer click the window shade to close the popup, you have to click the 'Full Schedule" link.

I'm in love with the 2d/3d font and the way it animates both in the color cycling and number changing into one another. Its one of those things that I wish I would had thought of doing (knew how to do)
Interesting. I appreciate the response. I take from it, that although I may be currently treading water, and not really finding any success from direct effort, that given enough time, and continued applied effort, something may arise.

Finding that balance is perhaps the hard part. I don't want to let me lack of owning a business now, be a source of unhappiness. Yet, if I let myself become complacent, I may struggle to ever start a business.
http://news.ycombinator.com/active is quite interesting and this particular thread is standing at position #6 over there!

> HN is pretty open about being more heavily moderated than other parts of the net [...] I find it acceptable since no one is trying to pretend that it's not happening.

A subtle form of pretence is to not explicitly state the fact. Why is there no explicit indication (written in the footer, perhaps) of the front-page being vetted by a handful of moderators? Why is the 'active' page kept hidden (it is not in the navbar)? Why all this secrecy?
Its a bit sad to see the gambling sometimes overshadowing the esports sides of things. I'm not a huge CS:GO fan but as a Brazilian the MLG Columbus major was very exciting to follow :)
I have two! :)
Velco is wonderful– thanks for making it. Buttons are pretty easy, but that's a really convenient (and fun!) way to build a navbar.

I don't see the point of supporting something that's in alpha– it's just going to change, and people shouldn't be using it yet.
An interesting question, at least to me, is if Apple's App Store would allow this form of gambling.
Basically the model of a communal taxi with no set route or scheadule. Common in the third world. This kind of carpooling is not exactly something people haven't written about before; I can even faintly remember it being floated in connection with Tesla in the past.
They may defend their intellectual property but cannot force others to do the work for them. I am not aware of any regulation that requires shipping companies to actively inspect their cargo beyond ensuring it is safe to transport.

The article does not say which legal basis Monsanto claims to have - can anyone shed some light on this?
It's always been this way and always will... neverending, necessary security "arms race."
Wikimedia: Notices received from search engines
This is all new to me. Can you recommend some further reading?
Good luck blocking mobile ads :/

Unlike desktop, they control Android and its ecosystem. They just won't make it easy to block them.
Well, based on Assange's history, I wouldn't travel through Swedish territory if I were him.
I disagree. It's sometimes useful to preserve commented out code just because it represents some idea. (This is actually case of the example from the article.) You can always look into historical source for context, but it's impossible to search source for something you don't know exists.

(I kinda like the trick with reference to commit, but these become even more mysterious over many years, unfortunately, since the commit numbers can get lost.)

Now if the idea behind the code itself becomes obsolete, you can always delete it. Although working on a 30-year old code bases (without any unit tests) taught me that I should never delete things unless I fully understand why they are there.

Perhaps we could acknowledge that there should be a different set of practices for working with 1-year old code and 30-year old code.
How you do in-app and push notif (GCM) without Play?
I don't think of Julia, to be honest
There's direct Aeroflot flights between Moscow and Oslo (SVO - OSL).

US fighters and/or ships could _arguably_ intercept a civilian aircraft in international waters and force landing in another country.
Amusing to say the least. They made nearly 2 Billion more than Microsoft in income this quarter and their Play store made more than 2 Billion in revenue. Ad blocking isn't really a concern. When that day does materialize then Google will simply circumvent them.
With roads north of the arctic circle. It looks like it would be difficult to do that without crossing into either Sweden or Finland too, which would be an issue for Snowden.
They are far from the only game in town, so why would Apple care if its a casualty of some business Realpolitik.
The annoying thing is the amount of people whining about their losses or gloating about their wins. I couldn't care less about gambling, so to me it just drowns the discussion about the game itself.

Not to mention the unpleasantness when I read a tweet by a pro saying "sorry for letting our fans down today" after a loss, and the first reply is some random guy blaming them for the skins they lost. Maybe they're just trolls, maybe they aren't, doesn't really matter.

At least during LAN tournaments the casters and analysts almost never mention gambling, and would rather talk about the game and the players. Hope it stays this way.
You mean, in a 48-dimensional hypercube? Great idea!