skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless they're bound by a contract, which would only apply to very large customers, they're under no obligation to continue support for Win7.

After giving clear public statements of their future support cycles? Good luck being the lawyer defending that one in a nine-figure dollar lawsuit with a Fortune 100 or ten.

Apple has a very strong brand with huge success in mobile devices and they haven't gotten very far either.

Now who's joking? Apple owns the high end of the laptop market and has for years.

They're locked into tons of applications that only run on Windows. As everyone knows, there's no Photoshop on Linux.

No, there isn't. But people said the same thing about Adobe moving to Creative Cloud a few years ago, and initially they dominated the market too, with a few FOSS applications the not-really-competition. Today, though, there are several very reasonable alternatives to CC applications in various parts of the market, and they're gaining a foothold and loyal customer base very fast. Most of them run on Macs rather than Windows, by the way.
There's been endless international accusations this program is illegal and that human rights are being grossly violated. Hopefully there'll be a lovely debate about it in the ICC one day.

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/may/18/australias-indefi...

http://refugeeaction.org/information/how-australia-violates-...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-24/australias-immigration...
Please don't go on about getting downvoted: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. It makes for low-quality comments.
> There, you had either nuclear families, or singles, or wealthy families complete with servants and maids.

On what are you basing this?
I am definitely not discounting the benefits. I'd have a lot more money if I lived with my parents. Still, I plan to avoid it because of the toll on my psychological well-being...
I admittedly don't have to read Java or C# code often; a few times I had to though, it had been a fair bit of pain -- so, I would much rather have to figure out someone's Perl code rather than deal with either one of these.

The problem was not with the languages themselves, they are just fine, and I actually quite like C# -- but it seems that a lot of third-party library authors for these languages really go all out on various design patterns, abstracting everything, etc., in the process making simplest things quite impenetrable.

Could have been just my luck though.
Cuts both ways, of course. The expressiveness programmers enjoy by manipulating a directory-structure full of files using a syntax-highlighting text editor with autocompletions and a version control system to create a description of a complex set of interrelated entities, which they then process with toolchains to produce the real artifacts of their trade, is a powerful capability which for some reason we rarely try to offer to non programmers. With the right DSLs, almost anything could be 'programming'.
I think it has probably now developed a more negative connotations by now:

"good < average < mediocre < bad"

sounds about right to me.
This is interesting. As a thought exercise, would it be possible to exercise a single option? Based on the broadest reading of this law, that would entitle the employee who exercised to request financial information. Partial exercise would also be an option for those looking to keep some exposure to a former employer but without the capital (or risk profile) to exercise their whole grant
On the other hand, it's quite nice to be on Hacker News where someone will post the definition :) ... now I know what that phrase means when I hear it in another context.
Those exact same houses from the 70s (even from the 50s, in fact) are selling for seven figures near me. That's about 20x the median household income in my city.
Almost as funny as https://threatbutt.com/
You're right on the second point and the third, though I reckon the fragmentation isn't appreciably worse than in a regular wrap-around circular buffer. Same goes for the first point. I'm keen to see examples where bip buffers exhibit particular issues relative to circular/ring buffers, however, and if you've got any then please send them along.

The chief use-case for my bip buffer implementation is using a shared memory segment for inter-process communication, and adding mmap() for address mirroring on top of that just seems like a can of worms I'm not particularly interested in opening.
All of the social advances happened despite the Babyboomers, and largely because of the 'Greatest Generation.' The Babyboomers have engaged in a systematic reduction in taxes since the 1980's when they took over the economy, and therefore government's abilties to fund things like education. The babyboomers had free and lowcost education across most western countries, yet now most young people now graduating from university now leave with crippling levels of (student) debt.

Our infrastructure is crumbling, our young are getting poorer and poorer education and we are told we can not afford these public services as tax receipts go down. The babyboomers have been at the wheel for the last 30 years, and they have left us a mess to clean up from their greed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10171591/10-Bab...

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/10/who-dest...

https://www.ced.org/blog/entry/are-we-about-to-let-all-of-th...
This is the first thing I noticed also. Maybe the use of a fixed-width was meant to be ironic since the author is comparing against UX design?
Thank you! There is a bit of coastal bubble going on in this conversation.

I made $50K per year when I graduated and bought a house about a year later. $170K for a new house in a nice neighborhood. The total house payment was sub $1000. That's typical when you get out of the big cities on the coast.
I didn't say that, I said consider an idea.

Some people like the way things are where they live, and if those people make up the majority, you're SOL. That's democracy.
Because it might not be interesting discussion? Voting isn't to reward/penalize people, it is to surface the best discussions at the top.
Create a society that does it's best to drive housing prices up faster than wages and this is the necessary result. This and homelessness and the strangulation of nascent innovative cities like Portland (and Vancouver).

Of course no politician is going to advocate driving down housing prices because, in lieu of an adequate retirement system, vast swathes of the populace are entirely dependent on that housing Ponzi scheme for their old age. Its disruption is unthinkable to them. That and the inordinate influence of the mortgage industry.

So loudly blaming rent control and zoning is the prefect way to do absolutely nothing about the problem as neither of these have any but the most minimal impact on the situation. If you wanted to guarantee the next generation has it even harder, limiting the conversation to these essentially irrelevant points would be the perfect way.
While this is the conventional wisdom, I just wanted to make sure there wasn't some obscure benefit of HStore over JSONB that I wasn't aware of yet.
Common Lisp is compiled and has a type system.

Several type systems.
Did Japan, who appears to be leading us by about a decade and a half, have the same issues?

I think the most likely culprit is what Steve Keen says it is: debt.
Carried away a little. Not to say it's not interesting to compare Unix/C programs with OTP/Erlang, but it's a different subject.
Table View Controllers in Swift
A lot of people are seeing this as a problem. I think there are many positives to it.

1. Over years American cities have built their specialties. It is much easier for children to find job in same field as their parents and settle in the same city as their parents.

2. More Americans now own housing makes sense to stay with parents.

3. Millennials have invested more in education and other things than spending money on rent.

Very likely these millennials would end up saving more and form the backbone of american middle class over next 20 years.
Food safety is often about issues that by definition are not going to be labeled.

I don't understand your argument. Why are they by definition not going to be labeled?

We're discussing the merits of replacing the current law that bans the sale of potentially unsafe food with one that requires such food to be clearly labeled. To know which food they can't sell, producers must know which food is potentially unsafe, therefore they could label it instead. And if you're going to assume that producers will break the law, why would they respect the law banning the sale?

I also think it's pretty easy to come up with examples of private data being misused due to malice and/or neglect.

It's pretty easy to find malice and neglect in almost every possible social interaction. By itself, it can't be a sufficient argument, otherwise we'd be prohibiting people from having children!
Because more liberal refugee policy is working so great for Europe right now. I have never seen any one who is for refugees/illegal immigrants (queue jumpers) explain how a better system would work, just that the current system is unjust and broken?
It's rather difficult to execute the whole scientific method in 2 days.
I use either the built-in Mac whole disk encryption or the built-in Windows whole disk encryption. I'm shocked, shocked when ever I read about an unencrypted laptop that has gone missing.
It's often really hard to judge how skilled you are at something. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect is overblown, but being able to say do a crappy weld in 4 hours that a competent person can do better in 15 minutes is often just dangerous. Many a handyman has caused 20,000+$ worth of damages or gotten someone injured.

That said, hobbies don't need to be productive and half assing something is often good enough. Yes, a simple wedge doorstop may damage the door, but well sometimes that's just not an issue.
I seem to recall hearing about it being rammed through the Senate during a midnight vote. Barely a matter of having our elected representatives having a swing at it, let alone the American public at large.
Yeah, not to mention the author facing some sort of class guilt dilemma about 'downgrading' to what he deems a lower socioeconomic laptop.
Surplus labor allows for the devaluing of labor. Japan doesn't have a surplus of labor (IMHO) due to lack of immigration and a quickly aging population.
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Understanding African ISP network topology is only possible with a thorough knowledge of where the OSI layer 1 is: specifically, where the submarine cables are, and where they are not. The cables that reached Accra, Ghana in the past ten years for transport capacity to London are a good example. And the more recent cables that connect Sierra Leone, Liberia ,etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EASSy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT-3/WASC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEAMS_%28cable_system%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SACS_%28cable_system%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEACOM_%28African_cable_system...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_One

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACE_%28cable_system%29

There is still a great deal of network traffic that takes a round-trip to Europe before reaching another African nation. As an example: If you look at the BGP adjacencies and IP space, all of the ISPs in Freetown, Sierra Leone are logically the same as if they were in a suburb of London.

Things are also heavily imbalanced in terms of the influence that .ZA wields. Something like 80% of the AFNIC IP space that is issued annually (in terms of cumulative number of newly issued ipv4 /24s) goes to .CO.ZA ISPs.
Do you have any stock options?

Since they're apparently worth nothing to you, I will buy all your options for $100.
Totes not a problem. WONTFIX. La-la-la-la, can't hear you.
> Indeed, since the vote, local rideshare companies have sprung up in Austin, perhaps better suited to the needs of Austinites.

So what you're saying is a regulated free market is driving innovation. Go figure.
We can't get around that limit any more than you can!

Currently the only thing that's allowed to exceed the limit is "[pdf]" but yes, it should probably include "(year)" and "[video]".
https://github.com/dotty-linker/dotty
We have a dearth of skilled workers. Everyone has known that wages for unskilled labor would go down over time for decades. What people were predicting re: shifts in the labor market hasn't happened, and I do think that a large part of this has to do with culture (blue collar workers are looked down upon) and another part has to do with the U.S. not doing enough to encourage people to go into these fields. For instance, Germany's programs to train their unemployed population in skilled labor is ridiculously effective.
The Vivofit looks really good in the sense that you don't really need to sync it with a smartphone to get the relevant information, it's just there on your wrist. You want something that will tell you at a glance how many steps you've done, and whether you really should be moving around now. I don't think the long-term stuff is so effective. It's a shame it's a bit obtrusive though, I'd prefer if it had the same indicators, but looked like a watch.
Refugees and illegal immigrants are not the same. Seeking asylum is a legal path to immigration in most countries - because most countries are signatories to international treaties which oblige them to accept requests for asylum by legitimate refugees. It is perfectly logical and sensible to be in favor of a humane asylum system and vehemently opposed to illegal immigration.
If people are selling their private data because they need every penny to eat, we shouldn't prohibit it and ensure they actually starve! We should instead offer them a third alternative.

Prohibiting doesn't fix the actual problem, only the symptom. It does, however, allow many to sleep well at night knowing they "helped" the poor.
We aren't poorer (well we might be a little bit because of the Great Recession), housing just costs a lot more than it used to.

Our parents just didn't get to buy a house for cheap. They also got all the increase in value. We have to buy an expensive house that probably won't increase in value all that much.

Why is housing more expensive? I'm not totally sure, but I suspect it's the effect of stretching suburbia to the limits. When my parents house was built it was the frontier between rural Illinois and the Chicago suburbs. Now it's considered a middle rung suburb. There are suburbs an hour further away from Chicago. But we've hit the limits on what a person can tolerate re:commutes. You just can't commute for over 2 hours each way.

We should be rezoning inner rung suburbs and cities for increased density housing.

Then again telecommuting and/or autonomous cars might destroy all the downsides to commuting.
The difference is that JSON and XML can be described by a grammar and parsed by any standards-conforming parser. Good luck doing that with CSV.
I think it's worth noting that it is very hard to understand or see the world of the disempowered. Having actual empathy for their situation becomes increasingly harder the further away from the situation you are.

If you start from that vantage point, you can try and operate from a opinion of "help me now today" which almost always comes back to "tax me less now."

In the same way that most uber drivers don't understand that buying a new car to drive uber is simply trading away future profit for cash today, many of the disempowered do not have the tools to think about money, voting, or political movements in terms of a long term future.
You've pointed out some of the US's flaws, but pointing out that one's critic has flaws doesn't justify the shamelessly blunt repression that the Chinese government prides itself on.

If the perception is that US cultural imperialism is so strong that something as extreme as the Golden Shield is necessary, well, I don't buy it. Regardless, it'd be better to solve that problem itself (international corporations that prey on countries via neoliberalism). But the Golden Shield is more about the Chinese Communist Party maintaining power -- hence the drama around "Tiananmen" searches. The defense of the Golden Shield that's based on a criticism of Western influence seems like misdirection and, apparently, successful propaganda.
Would you be able to go into what your 'dark night of the soul' period entailed?
Fear of an oppressive government hacking the connection and arrest you.
Uncertainty of agencies' capabilities given that they operate under top-secret levels with unlimited budgets.
Doubt that they would stop working on or advancing the state of the art at defeating the security.
My landlord doesn't think he has a right or obligation to control my behavior. If I'm not making too much noise or destroying the apartment I can do whatever I want. I will never have to ask permission to throw a party, never have to explain where I'm going when I leave, and never have to introduce my guests to him. I never even have to talk to him.

I very much prefer a simple "check-in-mailbox" relationship with the person who owns my dwelling. I actually like my parents, but I sure don't want them as landlords!
Love the project. Congratulations on shipping.
An itch/problem I've been looking to solve or be solved.

I'd love to be able to host it myself as well. Hope you opensource it.
If anything for me to geek on with other features. :)
Depends entirely on what you're using them for.
Except he worked hard a good part of his life--whether or not a lot of people here agree with his goals. (And worked quite hard on philanthropy as well.)

John D. Rockefeller also did live to a rather old age. Not everyone in that era was as fortunate.
The idea of HN is to go for interesting discussion. Responding to a cliché with another, angrier cliché isn't interesting, because once something has become a cliché it's by definition predictable. At that point all you get is reflexive piling-on, not new insights.
There are interesting possibilities if you can compromise on the city. For example, take Worcester MA (2nd largest city in New England, still close to the high-tech areas). In Worcester you can buy a "triple-decker" (three three-bedroom apartments) for $400K or less. Rent is ~$1100 / unit, so this can easily pay for the mortgage.

http://www.zillow.com/homes/18-Ferdinand-ST-Worcester-MA-016...

Companies no longer offer pensions, so better start your rental empire now.
UUIDs of all formats are universally unique, for all practical purposes.

Consider UUID4, the one with 122 random bits. The birthday paradox says that you would need about 2^61 UUIDs before you expect even one duplicate. If this concerns you, you might not recognize how big 2^61 is.

(edited because I was originally talking about 2^64, but there are 6 non-random bits in UUID4)
You are assuming the conclusion.

My question is: the standard Ricardian argument for international free trade assumes that as trading partners become more productive, all trading partners benefit. Do you think this is the case? Certainly the original post does, as confirmed in his response.

If that is so, why would other countries becoming better at making things make us poorer?
Someone please make me an app that automates the process of filing these requests!
No mention of insurance. The laptop may be covered under homeowners or renters insurance. These cover personal property even when they are outside your residence.
Probably because that aspect of the scene was so central to "Pirates of Silicon Valley"? It's etched in my memory too.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/
Fair enough. If it took you several readings, then I probably wasn't very clear. At a minimum, our exchange might have clarified my intent for others who were unclear on my point, so I thank you for that.
Java was the first OOP language that I learned. We started with some unexplained boilerplate "class Blah, public static void main", and learned the basic syntax of the language by building functions.

OO concepts were introduced after that, and the boilerplate code was explained. I'd done Basic, VB5, and what I'd call "C with iostreams" before college, and it felt like a fairly gentle exposure to classes and objects. Recursion took me longer to get a handle on, actually.
This is my method as well. +1
How do you tell the difference when everyone who comes by boat claims to be a refugee? Lets not forget they catch planes to Indonesia and then board boats, why not claim asylum in Indonesia?

Lets all get on the same page as well, this is how the United Nation defines an asylum seeker:

The United Nations 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees guides national legislation concerning political asylum. Under these agreements, a refugee (or for cases where repressing base means has been applied directly or environmentally to the defoulé refugee) is a person who is outside their own country's territory (or place of habitual residence if stateless) owing to fear of persecution on protected grounds. Protected grounds include race, caste, nationality, religion, political opinions and membership and/or participation in any particular social group or social activities.

Fleeing poor living conditions or a civil war, do not fall under this description.
Grow as a fully functional individual with life skills and the ability to function independently or have decisions made for me and deal with bringing my friends, romantic partners, etc. around to meet my parents?

You're right, that's a very easy choice, but I think we reached different conclusions.
> I actually don't know if Google has closed offices to avoid legal trouble.

Google Beijing?
That can be said of any trolling. We want higher-quality conversation here.
Comes down to what apps you use. I considered once upon a time but audio/video editing killed any possibility. Looking forward to Android apps on Chromebooks, might be the shift that is needed. I use Google Apps for most everything else these days
Exactly what I noticed about it. Also worth noting that the context switch here may matter for the practically tiny amount of people living in the right places in the US. It's pretty much a definition of a first world problem. Meanwhile, I'll be here with my 200ms ping to S3 wondering why would they waste all that time/complexity just to avoid a context switch.

Reminds me of the performance arguments for kdbus.
> why didn't they all vote for Obamacare and for the public option

In substantial quantities, they did. That's what Obama in the general election (and with slight variations, he, Clinton and Edwards in the Democratic primaries) campaigned on.

But they didn't get it, because by the time the health care bill got through Congress it had no public option, because while it was in the version passed by the House, it was killed in the Senate. Killed, that is, by a minority in the Senate -- it was the threat of filibuster, not losing an up-or-down vote, that did it in.
Yes, it's higher than other countries, but the majority of Americans still live near their parents.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-fa...
If you pull from their API you will soon realize the 140 characters are a tiny amount of the amount of data they ship around with each tweet.
Wikipedia Offline: http://xowa.org/

OpenStreetMap: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Downloading_data

Project Gutenberg Offline: https://github.com/kiwix/gutenberg

Scihub (google "scihub torrents") (caution: 50TB corpus)

Gitlab (or packaged as a VM to run locally): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce

Khan Academy: http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/how-to-run-khan-...

StackExchange: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
They don't say how many bits per pixel they achieve. I suspect it's quite small, maybe as low as 3 - the sample image shows some posterization. With high resolution and dithering it should be sufficient for the intended use case of signage.