skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Higher taxes is not enough. Taxing property means you confiscate it piece by piece, the owner will have to pay or lose it, but given enough time the owner will pay more than the value of the property.
Why go that slow and not go for it, confiscate all properties and be happy with it? You can always follow examples from the likes of North Korea.
Just in case you don't get it: you can ask for taxes when you provide services, not when you vote to raise taxes. Not sure what are more expensive services the empty Chinese-owned houses require to tax for it.
And blaming Chinese investment is just a straw man: if all the houses would be occupied by pure-breed white Caucasian Americans (that's a joke) who would you blame, Martians?
Similar story here. I'm a smoker and usually do international/inside-US flights on a monthly basis. In 7-8 years the only lighters I recall losing have been in my home country (where pat downs and having your bags opened are a common thing).

Curiously, I haven't had a TSA line longer than 45 minutes flying from places in NY, CA or FL (I mostly flight late evening/disgustingly-early morning though) in the last few months.

PS: laxatives, you mention being treated like a human. Why not help by not referring to TSA employees as "dropouts"?
Emissions Test-Driven Development
Since you're not American, where are you from? If it's Europe, this is pretty bad:

>side note - I saw cruise/cruse/cruze (ted) introduce his running mate recently.

"Cruise" is either a kind of ship or a reference to a nutty but highly successful actor. I don't know what "cruse" is. "Cruze" is a car by Chevrolet, an American company, and probably not a model sold in Europe.

"Cruz", however, is Lyin' Ted's name, and it's a pretty common Spanish surname as I understand. Spain is in Europe, and assuming you're European, as most non-US posters are, probably not that far from you. (And if you're not European, the main other likely region would be Latin America, where it's completely preposterous that you wouldn't be familiar with that common surname.)
Atlanta, GA - Onsite - Visas (must currently reside in the US but we will sponsor and/or transfer)

Kabbage is one of the fastest growing FinTech companies in the country, and we're seeking experienced Software Engineers. This is a particularly exciting phase as Kabbage offers the only fully automated, online lending platform designed to support continuous monitoring of data related to small businesses and consumers. Our data platform facilitates our ability to serve small businesses and consumers directly through Kabbage.com and Karrot.com and to power financial services solutions for organizations all over the globe. In 2015 alone, we originated near one billion dollars in loans through our platform, and we’re cultivating a growing network of partners like ING, Sage, Fleetcor, Santander and more!

Learn more here https://www.kabbage.com/company/careers/ or contact me directly Brian bfink@kabbage.com
From his picture from the biggest loser, he looks a lot different at 191lbs and 5'11" than I do at 195lbs and 5'11".

With as much cardio as they did, with as little as they ate, I can easily see them having a different body composition than someone else of their height/weight.
Even the support and writing roles start at 100k? Seems really high for both.
Of course, I was actually talking about winning the presidency. I'm not arguing about her actual chances, nor whether I want her to win--simply stating that she's a big favorite to win it in the markets.

62% on predictit, where people are estimating with their money.
Tox: A New Kind of Instant Messaging
That would require a backdoor that didn't exist at the time and that WhatsApp doesn't want to create.
Seems much more restricted than perf or DTrace, or all the other tracing tools. I don't understand the point of this at all. NIH?

I'd love to heard brendangregg's or bcantrill's thoughts on this. (Does HN give users some kind of alert when they are mentioned?).
The fact he is using Windows is alarming.
Technically that's a guest post (by Marc Andreessen's wife, where the OP already discussed the Twitter-blockings by him) and was not at the peak of the Theranos hype when the referenced New Yorker article was written.
No, he's referring to the soft reload added in 1.5, which the article you linked addresses under "Just Reload HAProxy." As the article points out, it's not quite zero-downtime, but pretty close.
That Niko's text-arrow lifetime annotations are so helpful here suggests a rust IDE could offer similar highlighting or annotations to explain borrow checker errors.

One of the ergonomic hurdles to rust adoption by experienced C++ users is that the language looks similar enough that such people may think they fully understand the semantics even before they've fully internalized all the details. It's a tricky zone when something feels familiar enough that you don't realize the remaining mistakes in your conceptualization.
> Also the division in 1st world and 3rd world is schewed upon today. Its akin to saying the N-word.

Thank you.
So HA only updates when chef runs (every 15 mins or so)? And when nodes are deleted, I guess something else has to clean them from chef? You'll also have to add these hosts to monitoring config.

I implemented something similar with puppet/mcollective/SQS years back. Poor man's service discovery. Here are some other options that, if you can handle the complexity of running Zookeper (or similar), are probably a bit cleaner:

http://jasonwilder.com/blog/2014/02/04/service-discovery-in-...
It is ok - you won't understand.
I am saying this because people do take offense on the 3rd world monicker. In many fields that term is considered offensive when used in public discourse. This is not a joke. What a group perceives as normal speech may be a term that in other circles is considered bad and better terms and classifications might be in place
I highly suspect melatonin-receptor (MT1 and MT2) agonists will be more useful in correcting mood disorders such as depression than anything that messes with monoamine neurotransmitters.
> if a judge order the company to share a specific user data, the company must comply.

> They would have lawyers fighting against the decision to share the user data and this would be solved by the justice system (never coming to have its activity suspended).

So what would happen? Like you said that law, if you paraphrased it correctly, is very clear - how would lawyers shouting about it actually help? Would they change the law the first time WhatsApp fight back? Presumably not - otherwise the law would be pointless wouldn't it? So how would that stop their activity being suspended?

I'm trying to avoid jumping to conclusions, but to give you a chance to just tell me I'm wrong - is this protectionism?
I actually do agree with your idea that accounting is ruling the world, especially when it comes to creative accounting, mergers and acquisitions, IPO's.

Any Tech company, facebook and apple included, has a ton of accounting DNA when it comes down to the nuts and bolts - how to pay their employees, how their stock compensation is structured, and even how the founder keeps control of the company.

Accounting really is taking over the world - in every single industry, tech / high - tech included.
Kryptara | www.kryptara.com | Palo Alto, CA | Computer Vision Engineers and Machine Learning Engineers (Full Time Only) - Vehicle Autonomy Technology
You can buy Bernie for 5c.

https://www.predictit.org/Market/1232/Who-will-win-the-2016-...

If you believe he has any reasonable shot, I encourage you to put your money where your mouth is. Should be a good investment.
I can somewhat understand S. America, but Mexico is in NAFTA!? (Probably presumed language issues.)
potatoes and corn are plants, both of which cause enough of an insulin spike to be worrisome. Just eat plants isn't a good enough answer.
https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp/

"The most recent WhatsApp Android client release includes support for the TextSecure encryption protocol, and billions of encrypted messages are being exchanged daily. The WhatsApp Android client does not yet support encrypted messaging for group chat or media messages, but we'll be rolling out support for those next, in addition to support for more client platforms. We'll also be surfacing options for key verification in clients as the protocol integrations are completed."

This was in 18 Nov 2014. The latest announcement from last month was:

"Over the past year, we've been progressively rolling out Signal Protocol support for all WhatsApp communication across all WhatsApp clients. This includes chats, group chats, attachments, voice notes, and voice calls across Android, iPhone, Windows Phone, Nokia S40, Nokia S60, Blackberry, and BB10.

As of today, the integration is fully complete. "
Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto
Is it possible to transfer bitcoin from and to the same wallet? If so, why not do that for one satoshi worth from one of the earliest blocks and include metadata proving the claim? Unless the private key for the earliest mined blocks are irretrievably lost (or deliberately destroyed), what's with all the weak hand-waving proofs?
One Second Services
Some brazil users started to - Actor (actor.im)

Disclaimer: CEO of Actor and Ex-Telegram employee.
I see your point, but what is scandalous in this decision is not that WhatsUp is being shut down, but the way this is happening. You have a judge from a remote jurisdiction in Brazil who has enough power to shut down the service in the whole country. I wound't be surprised if this resulted as a process that went through several levels of justice in Brasil, but the fact that any judge can block a service in the whole country is completely crazy and a direct threat to free expression in the country.

Of course, knowing Brazil as I do (I am Brazilian) I am not surprised that this is happening. In fact, judges these days feel that they have power to block even actions of the president of the Republic.
I think the idea is to not eat because it feels good or because you've got to finish your meal, but only because you're hungry.

Says I, who just completed my meal even though it was slightly painful....
I think the point of "correlation does not imply causation", refers to the literal prepositional logic sense of "=>".

Yes, correlation suggests causation, i.e. P(causation|correlation) > P(causation) from a Bayes perspective. That doesn't mean you should discount the possibility of ¬causation, merely that its probability is smaller. And "how much smaller" could be very close to 0, so it would still be hasty to say "implies", which linguistically implies "=>".

A better phrasing would be "correlation suggests but does not imply causation". (edit: e.g. as per that xkcd comic, mentioned by other posters. edit2: I mixed up the proof with the OP article. the proof uses "evidence of" which is also good.)

But yes, nice proof nonetheless. I like how causation is basically defined as P(c|a) = 1, showing how most complex philosophical issues are actually irrelevant (for this particular result).
Dentally (https://dentally.co) | Software Engineers | London | Onsite or Remote

At Dentally we helping improve oral healthcare by building cutting edge, online tools for dentists. Dentally is used by dental practices and patients all over the World.

We're looking for experienced and talented individuals to join our small engineering team to help us bring our next ideas to life. You'll be iterating quickly on features and services that dental practices depend upon. You'll be given autonomy and independence when writing your own code and will be expected to manage your own projects. That said, we work as a close knit team so you'll also be involved in other projects and will collaborate with the rest of the team to ship features.

We are interested in people who have strong product experience, people who have spent a lot of time paying attention to the finer details about what really matters to customers.

Current open positions:

* Frontend engineer (Javascript/Ember JS)

* Backend engineer (Ruby, Postgres, Redis)

If you'd like to know more simply get in touch with us at jobs@dentally.co
Maybe this is a great opportunity for whatsapp competitors? Especially brazilian?
Location: San Diego, CA

Remote: Willing.

Willing to relocate: Yes, to Seattle area.

Technologies: C/C++ (Boost + STL), Java, Haskell, PHP, JavaScript (Node + several frameworks), MATLAB, Python, Lua, MySQL, MongoDB, UNIX/Linux

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattwalther

https://github.com/mashiox/

Email: matt@mashio.net

I am a May 2016 (12 days remaining!) graduate with a B.S. in Applied Math looking for work in software engineering and/or Data Science.

Please email me with credentials, and I will forward my full resume.
I was not talking about Facebook but about Brazilians.

Also, following your reasoning, if Facebook was a participant in PRISM, does it mean they don't have any right to fight? Privacy is at stake here, Facebook is only one problem instance.
to add to this.. some companies have compliance issues where all employees need to be legal US citizens.
No, the flags libraries I've used had exactly that issue.

When that came up what you'd do then is refactor that to be a class parameter or config option or whatever (and we'd usually ask that the flag be kept in some form).

Until then though you get the benefits of a quick and easy way to both expose and use tunables, which is much better than not having it at all.
Postulation warning; The following is entirely devoid of evidence:

Taking for granted that Wright is not Satoshi.. How could a respected, crypto-savvy computer scientist become duped by an old sign(i/a)ture?

The obvious answer is that the con-man is a very good con-man, and i'm not writing off that possibility. But what other reasons could there be for his support?

The next possibility is that he benefits from having the media move on. For instance, It would help him to continue hiding the real identity of Satoshi. Perhaps he is even the cryptographer himself. Since he has other "experts" with him for the ride, he can claim ignorance and not suffer professionally if it goes south.

There could also be less direct political motivations for feigning belief. Bitcoin gains stability by moving the huge sums of early coins into a more accountable state than "these coins could crash the market any day now."
SEEKING WORK - NYC Area - Remote

I can help prototype new ideas, research technologies/trends, extend/maintain an existing system, or quickly build out a one-off microsite. I can work solo or in teams with equal ease. I'm a full stack programmer primarily using C# for backend work, but can provide support for other common languages like PHP.

Portfolio - http://wetzdev.com/

Email - my user name on gmail
So, selling weapons to Iraq: What is your list of ridiculous, incidental things to restrict? The premise of the original analogy has two parts. First, something that they want to prevent. Second, cherry-picking things that don't necessarily matter to restrict, and create some nice "tough on crime" theater.

Analogies are limited by nature. Every analogy has holes. The important comparison here is "crime/tragedy occurs" -> "legal system responds with near-random actions that may or may not prevent a recurrence of the same in the future, that subject-matter specialists claim will be ineffective".
VPU is not a GPU, it was designed for stuff like video decoding. It is just a simple RISC with some SIMD instructions.

QPU is a different beast, in VC4 it cannot even run arbitraty C code. In VC5 it can, but inefficiently.
Yep.

This right here. So what happens when AI becomes is in the focal length of simple adoption? AI isn't even affecting .0000000005% of the economy yet. But when it comes, it going to unleash of fury of change never before seen.

To go full circle, there's a reason that the "tech industry" carries a big weight. It's because the Information Age is coming to a close, and who knows what's next.
Step 0: Don't call your employees "remote." You're either a distributed team, or you're not really trying.
Plugin Framework for Java (PF4J)-Izou Version, 1.7.7 Released
The Law orders it to collect the data, the data is available and Watsapp does collect it, but instantly discards (or so they claim).

What is in there that can not be punished?

I don't think this specific law is a good one, but it is not in clear violation of our Constitution, and was brought up by People's representatives... We should fight for improving it, and we should stop relying on infrastructure owned by private companies. But I can't think this judge is wrong.
SEEKING WORK

Location: Rhine-Ruhr, Germany / remote (I'm fine with travelling but different rates than usual apply in that case).

Remote: Yes

IT consultant, web and enterprise software developer with more than 15 years of experience.

I'm well versed in JavaScript, HTML5 and many other web-related technologies. I'm an experienced, long-time Java developer and I know a fair bit about RDBMS as well, particularly PostgreSQL and Oracle DB.

In the past 3 years I've been developing AngularJS applications (started with Angular 2 recently) with by Java / Spring back-ends and PostgreSQL databases. These applications included complex data analysis and data visualization (using D3.js, NVD3, Chart.js).

Website (contact): https://bjoernkw.com

GitHub profile: https://github.com/BjoernKW/
Do we know for sure what cases this particular order is connected to? Because WhatsApp has been encrypting Android communications since 2014 [0].

[0] https://www.wired.com/2014/11/whatsapp-encrypted-messaging/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7ugXLd78JU how cows are milked now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBmFH7fNxnA grape harvesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlaNDm88yZo Autonomous harvesting robot for Sweet-pepper.

Highly recommend watching the cow milking one.
I agree with you. And I think all this should be framed "is the law right? should we change it?"; instead is always presented as "an authoritarian, out of his league, small town judge who is arrogant and clueless about tech".

He is just following the law, so fight the law, no diminish the judge.

Remembering that a "single judge" following the law with authonomy launched the biggest attack on corruption of brazilian history, and the fact that he is not a supreme court justice acted in favor of an independent investigation (search "sergio moro" and "lava-jato" police investiagiont).
Disposable razors are allowed. If they are confiscating those, they're not following their own rules.
Whenever you transfer at different security zones, you have to go through security again. So I fly threw Japan a lot, and always have to recheck (but they are pretty fast). I'm connecting through Moscow next week to get to Europe, and I'm dreading Russian security a bit (it's pretty fast, they don't actually check much, but very disorganized).
Besides the point that Whatsapp does not have the data, how does it make sense to stop 100 million people from communicating to prosecute one drug dealer? If you look at it from the point of view of society as a whole the judge has done a lot more damage than the alleged drug dealer. The judge has other options, such as issuing fines, that won't disrupt the lives of millions of people.
It also happened before end-to-end encryption be available: http://g1.globo.com/tecnologia/noticia/2015/12/operadoras-sa... (portuguese-br), so it's not necessarily about end-to-end encryption.
The little-blockians want the block sizes of Bitcoin to remain
small, and thus for it to be a pure decentralised currency that
can be used by anyone with a computer. This would maintain it as a
peer-to-peer currency, but would limit its growth.

By comparison, the big-blockians believe Bitcoin should grow into
a universal currency, expanding the block size to accommodate
absolutely every transaction. The downside is that this is beyond
the computational limits of domestic machines, thereby meaning
that Bitcoin could only be regulated by banks, governments, and
other large organisations: thereby moving it away from a
libertarian idyll into something more akin to a regular currency.

Oh my god, I finally understand the block size debate. I've been hearing about it forever but never understood why the size mattered to so many people so much or why there was a debate at all.
I don't really know what you mean to say here, but generally, 'low income slackers' pay 18% -24% on their income and the rich pay significantly less then that as a percentage of income. Are you implying this is not the case?
Actually, as I see it, the main point of "correlation does not imply causation" is mostly "correlation does not imply a particular causal relationship". While coincidence is possible, as well, its mostly about the fact that you can't conclude A causes B from a correlation between A and B alone, because the correlation may be due to the fact that B causes A, or the fact that A and B are both caused by C. That's why you need the correlation, plus an explanatory theory of the causation, plus evidence to reject alternative causal relationships, to have a decently strong basis for concluding a particular causal relationship.
10 of the Best Productivity Tools You Should Use to Improve Your Design Workflow
It's nice to see so many people taking up CS as their major.

But again, just learning to code or design won't help a person in building the greatest product(s). They might just lack something called "Imagination". We see many useless/stupid products these days. Those are the results of lacking a great imagination and a vision.

What you intend to build matters, when you have the skills to do it.

If I give you a blank sheet of paper, what are you gonna paint? ;)
I ran into a rural agricultural phenomena in which people wanted the biggest, baddest, newest, fastest, whizzbang available. One was particularly upset when I informed him the place he purchased said biggest, baddest, newest, fastest, whizzbang was a discount store and thus didn't have the biggest, baddest, newest, fastest, whizzbang; all they had was older tech.

I think I ruined his life.
People like to repeat that. But you know what's funny? It actually is!

(for large numbers of anecdotes)
Comparisons to the 90s version of Microsoft to Apple make this article sound utterly insane.

>For the first six or seven versions of IE, Microsoft’s IE-only JScript engines purposefully broke functionality with the open ECMAScript standards.

Thank god for that. XMLHTTPRequest truly is better than ECMAScript standards. No matter how you look at it, the web today would not exist as we know it if it weren't for Microsoft's proprietary JScript-only original implementation of what we have come to know as "Ajax".

And the worship of Apple here is rather... insane as well. The "closed" platform of Win98 looks open-as-all-hell compared to the walled-garden of iOS and iTunes.

Mac OSX may superficially be built on top of open technologies, but its reliance on iTunes for application distributions is harsher than even Win10's UWP platform (somewhat closed: but sideloading is allowed).

OSS is losing. iOS Apps make more money and have a stronger community than Android. Even within Android, Google has begun to lock down APIs (Google Play API is NOT part of the Android Open Source project for example).

Case in Point: the Amazon Fire Phone is Android. Does it "feel" like Android to its users? No? Because Google has successfully "embraced, extended, extinguished" the open-source Android.

Unless you really think that your fully-free Android app without any google-integration is going to be downloaded from Amazon Marketplace... my bet is that your competitor with Google Now / Google Play integration will get more purchases from Google's store.

But that's just my perspective.