skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The honest answer to this is to unite... the introduction of transfer restrictions is new waters in the legal space and were only recently introduced (past 5 years) and mostly limited to Silicon Valley. There are many disgruntled former-employees at these types of companies. Band together enough people with multi-million dollar stock options and you will have a big enough pie that a high profile attorney might be willing to push and potentially redefine the boundaries of what is lawful and what is not from a case law perspective (and get a piece of the pie for him/herself). Ethically I think these clauses should be made super transparent and they aren't -- and I agree that that is wrong. Just because 5 large startups do something doesn't mean it is right or fair in the long run legally. Sue strategically, band together and do it with force before they run out of money.
> Conversely, I don't think removing DRM would increase viewers (not that many would not watch a movie they want to see due to their thoughts about DRM)

My TV provider recently "upgraded" the interface on their set top boxes to one that is so slow and poorly laid out that I've just stopped watching two premium channel shows because it now takes five minutes to navigate to the point that I can watch anything, and am going to stop subscribing to those channels. This is DRM costing them viewers and money.
If everyone has apps that remind them to take time for a friend automatically (as it determined they needed it), the intention loses some of its meaning. That friend wont know if it was you that remembered because you cared and took notice, but simply the app reminded you. It's about the motivation behind your actions, its what can give a deeper meaning to them. The fact that you or another friend cared or noticed enough and remembered, gives it significance.

With too much automation of our social lives and relationships, many actions may simply become meaningless. Maybe they would even be done away with after a while, making human interaction colder, less personal. My app will talk with your app and setup a time to do something we enjoy, without either of us thinking of it ourselves, or discussing it. We would just have to show up, as directed by our apps. These apps remind us what we should discuss or mention, given our friends likes/dislikes. Sure we might have a great time, but the app might have prioritised meeting this friend over another, as your more compatible (measured via some series of metrics). You rely on the algorithm. Your not actually thinking about who you want to spend time with and why. Would you be able to make friends without the app?
But it's not an issue where quality is _rewarded_. That is not a competitive edge.
It sounds like you value freedom extremely highly, to the point where material improvements in your quality of life don't matter if not accompanied by freedom.

I can understand that, and even agree with it to a degree. But most people don't. If they have food and shelter and schools for their kids (well, kid, since we're talking about China) and consumer electronics and whatever else, and they're allowed to go about their lives, they mostly don't care if you're not allowed to criticize the government. It's not like East Germany where a third of the population was a Stasi spy, or like the Stalinist USSR where a huge number of ordinary people were shipped off to prison camps.

You say "You can't compare that to America." Why do you say that? I am nowhere comparing anything to America.

You seem bound and determined to take what I say as an endorsement of the Chinese Communist Party, or as saying that freedom doesn't matter, or that life in China is just as good in every way as it is in a Western democracy. But all I'm saying is that life in China improved a lot since 1949 by many concrete measures, and this improvement helps form the Chinese public's opinion of their government.
But you do have a choice. It's just that the choices and your decision are deterministic.
Linus didn't port Subsurface to Qt, other people who were already experienced with Qt did. If you have a look at their talk at linux.conf.au it's pretty obvious that they had no idea what they were doing when they wrote the GTK+ interface. I mean they weren't able to do a proper star rating widget in GTK+ and blame GTK+ for that. But doing that with Qt is just the same amount of work and they didn't even write that themselves, but the one responsible for the Qt port did. So what they are actually complaining about is: There was no one with a basic understanding of GTK+ who wrote the interface for us.

Yes, GTK+ has lots of quirks and I curse it on a regular basis, but so do Qt and all other toolkits I know of. And yes using Qt for Subsurface instead of GTK+ was a good idea, since Windows and OS X ports benefit a lot from that, but if Dirk and Linus were responsible for the Qt interface, it probably would have been just as bad as the GTK+ one.
You are possibly misunderstanding his point. This is partially about nuances and partially about the fact that maybe everybody successful worked hard to get there, but exactly as many people did the same effort and sacrifice, just with a differentcontext and got nowhere. (Warning: slight rambling ahead, English second language)

Take X people,all the same (assume I have cloning start-up and really good sales guys. You just bought those). Make 10% of them "grit and hardworking". Are they going to do better in live than the others ? Sure,everything else is equal after all.

Now, you are probably a wonderful human being, but assume that your evil twin got a hold of the ordering form and decided, just for fun, to introduce some extra random differentiators.

Like color of skin, gender, giving some of them more starting capital, or Paul Graham's personal Rolodex. Also making some of them ignorant pricks.

Are the 10% "grit and hardwork" still gonna so bettereverything else being equal? Definitely. But is specimen 99, baseline, only grid and hardwork, do better that specimen 1, baseline, capital, Rolodex ? Maybe, maybe not.

In the real world, nothing is equal. One of the starting perks (that I share) is having a supportive family which can provide enough nutrition, protection and stimulus so your brain can mature. Another one is learning discipline and hard work. Some of us learnt them the hard way( if the mythos is legit, Musk is one of them). But we all had to learn, and if you never have the chance to learn (for example by being part of a social in which one is punished for being smart or "trying to hard") then at some point it is no longer reasonable to expect you to rise against the circumstances. The very fact that we celebrate people who do so implies we understand this on some level.

If I look on my life(reasonable amount of success), most good things came down to luck. Grant you, I worked hard on improving my luck surface and seizing opportunities once I realised this, but luck nonetheless. Hell the only reason I am not a depresssed, burnt out social outcast right now was a meeting during a train ride
I'd get a prepaid credit card - not tied directly to any account, filled only by a transaction initiated from your end (e.g. via online banking).

Wouldn't that feel like a debit card too?
Did Neanderthals Die Out Because of the Paleo Diet?
What point is this article trying to make? Usually one can get a sense what the author's perspective is, but not here.

It seems to be "here are some odd financial occurrences." Perhaps the inference readers are meant to make is that something is wrong with this consolidation of wealth and power?

The handpicked examples evoke disquiet, yet it's hard to pinpoint why. "People with lots of money use it to exert influence,"isn't unsettling on its face.

Austin wanted Uber and Lyft to fingerprint drivers or leave town. They left. Should we be upset? Afraid? Reading the next link on Hacker News?
The people who really decide what you do don't care about syntax.

Some bosses care about syntax, at least if you phrase it as maintainability.
It had never occurred to me to limit streets in cities to autonomous only cars, but that makes total sense.
Per the materialist/deterministic 'there is no free will' mental model, yes: the function taking the input stream is pure.

On the per-event basis, this model boils down to a 'function' evaluating each event with multiple outputs and inputs:

Inputs: the stimuli, mental state prior to stimuli

Outputs: your actions and resultant mental state

The output mental state is then the input for the next iteration/evaluation.
And use __future__ to force yourself not to forget: https://docs.python.org/2/library/__future__.html
I've seen lots of different numbers. If you are in a dry dessert, then the numbers are probably low. But if you are in something like the pacific coastal rain forest and you are looking to flood a few km2 of trees, then net emissions can be monstrous. I did read of one theory linking emissions to production. It goes that production is proportional to the amount and pressure of water flowing through the dam, which is related to the size of the flooded area behind the dam. When the reservoir is low, as a result of production during non-rainy seasons, the flooded/dead forests are exposed to the air where they rot, releasing methane and other nasties.
I...I'll reserve judgment. The SharePoint Framework (awful name) will either become an amazing thing, or will be another example of "we didn't get this right (CSR, content search web parts, FrontPage/SPD itself, Design Manager, etc., etc.), so screw it, you guys do it. We give up."

But I'm okay with it either way. We'll still have to help people figure out where master pages / page layouts still fit in, and we will (hopefully) have an easier-to-reason-about path to use React or whatever other framework with SP in a supported way.
This might be due to the fact that a new Macbook Pro is coming. Everyone I know has held off upgrading until the new form factor comes out at WWDC.
I wonder how much cheaper macs would be if their primary purpose was tracking users to deliver ads
Yes, its the software. And the software needs data to have the machine learn, given this data, a machine designed for fitting niches, can squeeze itself into even unlikely corners.
I finally was able to start new projects in Python 3 because most major libraries are compatible.
Note that Docker is not a security technology (or not a secure technology?); one should not assume that an attacker cannot break out of a Docker container. This honeypot does assume the security of Docker containers; be extremely careful running it in production.
Illinois Senate approves automatic voter registration bill
Wednesday May 25 the Swedish parliament is scheduled to vote for the very controversial NATO "host country" agreement. In short this means NATO forces will be able to operate out of Sweden in case of a nearby (meaning the baltics) military crisis.

Starting about ten days ago, Sweden has experienced a highly abnormal level of outages in various services:

May 4: A cable was cut for a communications mast that was essential for the rescue services in; in southern Sweden.

May 15: a 330 meter tall transmitter tower outside of Gothenburg was sabotaged and fell down. This caused an outage in TV, Radio and emergency services in the area. Police later found very obvious evidence of sabotage.

May 18: Nation-wide: the 911 service had "operational disturbances" which blocked emergency calls for 20 minutes.

May 19: The radio/tv house in Gothenburg (second largest swedish city) was completely our for a couple of hours after "network issues"

May 19: The Swedish airspace was completely shut down during ~4 hours due to ATC system disturbances.

May 19: Bredbandsbolaget/Telenor, one of the top two largest consumer ISPs were completely down for 4-8 hours.
I'd be interested to see your (or anyone from that article's) monthly spending/expenses and income. Do you have crazy medical bills or student loans that you can't avoid?

Do you budget your money out and track every transaction? It sucks to be in that situation, but there are always things you can do to improve it.
The same way "legacy type" universities, or "legacy type" companies do it. An institution is a set of processes, governing rules, and feedback mechanisms which serve to reinforce the core mission. Individual (fallible) control is ceded to the rules and processes in exchange for ensured existence.

Harvard University is a good example of a durable institution, look at how its bylaws and processes protect its mission, but more importantly how its feedback mechanisms try to identify and purge potential threats to the institution. In a lot of ways it is similar to programming, only with people who can be modeled as unreliable computers which don't always follow their instructions. So you need interconnected missions of individuals to support the institution's mission. At some point if you have enough individuals who are off script the institution will fail, but with clever process and incentive one can minimize that risk.
Because GM burned a lot of good will with the EV1.
I'm sorry, but the obvious sarcasm expressed here is all too common among the slightly younger engineers and related tech company people I work with. They believe that trading traditional notions of privacy for the shiny, novel conveniences of Uber and Google Now is totally worth it, and they see no downside. There are a lot of reasons, I think. The biggest is that for most, there really isn't a downside, yet. How many people are now identifiably being turned down for jobs, apartments, dates, and airplane tickets based what the four or five companies that define our identities online record, store, calculate, and sell? But does anyone doubt that the private civic space in the real world is being slowly paved over by digital identity robber barons? All these friends of mine care about is getting into Google IO to help that company build Larry's libertarian island (look it up), without wondering why they might have been turned down for a ticket.
Missing the handy "API" and swanky TLD usage of http://http.cat
I have a better idea: give the kids an option to print out a piece of paper formatted by the local government that reads:

"The city of Austin seeks to strike a balance between encouragement of entrepreneurship and safety to the consumer. This establishment is not compliant with restaurant-grade cleanliness standards. By posting this certificate, the vendor acknowledges some basic restrictions (no handling of raw meat etc), and the customer accepts the risk of consuming at an unregulated establishment. Any blatant violations to the health code should be reported to (blah blah blah)."

One printer, one piece of paper, some tape. We can do better.
Actually, this issue also applies to probability theory. It does get more subtle, though, because theories might predict observations with differing probabilities and what matters is the difference in probabilities. But this this case theory A and theory B both predict observation C with the same probability p. So you gain 0 decibels of evidence (w.r.t A-vs-B) whether or not you observe C.

When I said "You're missing the 'not-PilotWave implies not-E' part!", I was making a simplified reference to the fact that the probabilities predicted by not-PilotWave (e.g. Copenhagen) need to be different from the probabilities predicted by PilotWave in order for evidence/inference to pry them apart.

See [1] if that all sounded confusing.

1: http://www.yudkowsky.net/rational/technical/
I bet no one would bother following these regulations.
Median is the middle value of all values in a sequence. Average is the sum of all numbers in a sequence, divided by the count of values.

Take [0,2,100]: average is 34, but median is 2.
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>In this context getting fired for political affiliation.

Was he fired from a position in the federal government?

Private businesses are free to fire whoever they like for almost any reason (cant fire someone for refusing to break the law, etc)

Everything past that is just you feeling hurt that people dont agree with your opinions. Introducing legislation controlling private businesses hiring and firing practices is easily one of the most anti-conservative things i can think of, yet here you are claiming to be conservative and yet complaining that the government is allowing companies too much freedom to decide who can and cannot be fired and for what reason.

>Does being fined by a court after losing a lawsuit count as government reprisal?

this is super vague; in court against the government? I would imagine a fine from the federal government represents some kind of reprisal, but not necessarily related in any way to consitutional rights. Losing a court case isnt 'speech', so im not sure i understand the reasoning behind this question.

>Does getting fired for voting for Obama, or Trump count as having my right infringed?

Only if you are employed by the government.

>What about being active, or critical, of LGBT activities? Can I be fired for that, so long as I'm not arrested?

again, you can be fired for (almost) any reason by any private entity. You could get fired because the manager thought you got a shitty haircut.

Have you never heard of at-will employment?
disclaimer: I am not a java developer

a few months ago I wanted to write a small desktop app which i wanted to distribute for Linux, mac & window in that order of priority. My first implementation was in Qt but faced significant problems with building for different platforms, providing binary files that would just work, etc.

JavaFx was the next choice and damn the development experience was amazing, it was fun to write even when i had no prior experience with either Java or JavaFx but distribution became a problem again, the JavaFx classes weren't found on other peoples systems, people in the javafx irc told me that it should be available for everyone on jre 1.8 but alas no solution was found.

I finally shipped a electron app (shudders)

p.s. i found the javafxpackager but it didn't work, i am doing something wrong definitely but there aren't enough people talking/writing about this that i could refer too.
Truer words were never spoken. Have you discovered the elusive double-!important? Or the fabled inline style with !important?

SharePoint's markup is rad. /s
Yes, we have them.

If you're good with money, debit cards are a waste for the most part. You can get credit cards that pay you at least 1-1.5% for every purchase. They're basically paying you to spend your money.

If you're bad with money, steer clear of credit and stick to debit though.
Should you be charging interest on overdue invoices?
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This seems like unnecessary additional structure. I was one of the first to build dockerized apps with nvidia drivers[1] and it's as easy as building the drivers and running modprobe in a privileged (driver only) container. All other containers on the platform are then able to run GPU workloads without modification.

We haven't found this to be particularly brittle or problematic in any way. It just works(TM). it feels like reaching deeper into the control stack by 'wrapping' Docker CLI or other actions is likely to be an untenable workflow for us.

We use a huge amount of GPU. We do it on CoreOS/k8s et al. We're exploring rkt. Doesn't nvidia's approach interfere with this?

However, I am always looking for better approaches to help reach as far into the future with our platform as possible. So show me the magic, and I'm yours.

1: https://github.com/Avalanche-io/coreos-nvidia
(Old public repo, Should I push our latest? I don't think anyone is using this so I haven't.)
That's like banning petrol cars and forcing everyone to go electric (because it's possible) or walk! Why can't kids enjoy some games after all? Maybe the companies behind don't have the funds to rebuild their free-to-play games just because Google doesn't like Flash hence something valuable is lost
> That's bullcrap.

Please review the HN guidelines, which include this:

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Wow, how awesome is that?! TL;DR: Python script using Watson to listen for his name in meetings, do a little diversion and let him catch up.

Script here: https://github.com/joshnewlan/say_what
Pun Maths: "Mattress multiplication"
For better or worse, that's already the case. There are several pieces of ransomware where if you pay, your money effectively just disappears into a void.
> Most people wouldn't argue that an all knowing god would mean free will is impossible, why is this different?

I'd argue that an all-knowing God is something that can't really be reasoned about. It's the introduction of an infinite value into the discussion (or maybe more like a division by zero?). You end up with logically contradictory statements when describing the properties of such a being.
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Reminds me of Barcelona prior to expanding beyond the Roman walls:

"As there was no more land left inside the city walls, all kinds of inventions were used to build more lodgings – houses were literally being created on empty space. Arches were erected in the middle of streets to be built upon, and a technique called retreating façades saw house fronts extended out into the street as they rose up – until they almost touched the building opposite (this practice was banned in 1770, as it prevented air circulation)."

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/01/story-cities-1...
It is likely less an issue of processing locally but a need to build a collection of data to train future versions of the service. To do that you need to see how users are trying to use the "bot", what it doesn't handle well, etc. That lets them improve the models doing the NLP.
I had thought you were being sarcastic in your grandparent post.
Taxes? Ya'know the same way we used to fund most of higher education. But we've cut a large portion of tax funding for higher ed in the last several decades. The job market requires more skills and education (apparently) and for whatever reason government officials have decided to make it more difficult for citizens to acquire those skills.
The thing with optimization tools is that they require some kind of expertise and patience...and most people don't have that for a new, unknown product.

I was selling a tool similar to Optimizely in a different market. The only way I get it going was to ditch the monthly plan and add use only anual plan, target people with expertise in marketing and use outbound sales for bigger clients.
“It should be noted” and its cousins are the new wasteful phrase of the decade
I have cygwin installed on my machine., I ll give it a shot.
Thanks, but...Alpha software. Am I wrong in thinking of this as an overreaction?
A long time ago there was a similar thread. It only got 11 comments, but maybe people are interested. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1668085
"The problem... I should never say 'problem'... the opportunity we face is that one year's bloated web page becomes next year's normal, and then after that it becomes an example of parsimonious and elegant web design." - Maciej Ceglowski

There's nothing at all wrong with thinking your file is getting a little out of hand even when there are examples of wanton recklessness all around you. That's as true even when there's nothing more you can do to make it smaller. I wish there were more people who had a sort of knee-jerk Hayes Smartmodem kind of reaction to everything they do that doesn't involve things like video and such. There's nothing quite like a page that's loaded and ready to rock about the same time the "I've clicked something" haptic feedback makes it to my brain.