skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think I know why it's different: James Bond is a fictional character and if he likes Smirnoff vodka that doesn't mean Daniel Craig likes that brand.

Can you elaborate on why this makes a difference? On the theory that people buy "sponsored" products because they wish to feel or display an affinity with the sponsor, James Bond, the fictional chracter, is a much more effective sponsor than is Daniel Craig, the actor.

I wish that I could be James Bond
with dry martinis, cars, and blondes,
a PPK, and sharp things to say
when I'm about to get it on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU9cK9d0aWw#t=56
Cassandra vs. MongoDB
I blog about this sometimes. I think well designed gig work and more affordable housing would solve this. I think if we don't tackle the affordable housing angle, no amount of basic income (aka supplementing the income of the poorest people) is going to be enough to solve the problem. Housing keeps getting bigger and more expensive and there is no upper limit to how far that can go. We need to put down a floor so housing is accessible for ordinary people with ordinary jobs.

Here are a few of the posts I have written on this topic:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/06/gig-work-don...

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/07/minimum-dece...

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/05/gig-work-tha...

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/07/money-is-not...
Was it a lack of interest or poor economics? My coworker found that he could take a Lyft commute share, which was often empty, get to where he was going and pay much less. So, just like a Lyft on discount.
Interestingly the settlement money still does a bit affect our taxes still.

Monsanto makes $80 million less in revenue this year due to the settlement. ~$80 mill less profit ~= $20 mill fewer taxes.
There's also Pithos from Exoscale. Runs on top of Cassandra. Code is Clojure and open source. Http://Pithos.io
Tesla enters car insurance business as self-driving cars prepare to disrupt
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Sounds like the right way to go. Thanks for the pointer.

As these things develop and become increasingly security-critical parts of the protocol, it would be nice if programs like libcurl and other HTTP client libraries gained support for them.
Agree. Very smart guys. Passion for open source. Contribute to a ton of projects.
Link to source: https://dzone.com/articles/how-we-developed-the-official-cha...
You could always just not tip.
Many of the ideas here, especially the ideas of moving past nationalism and that prosperity for all is better than prosperity for the few, are still controversial today. The tribe mentality, in regards to what the media portrays especially, has grown. Conservatives vs liberals, minorities vs the white patriarchy, Silicon Valley vs the rest of the world. We have just evolved and shifted the divisions, but the core mentality has not changed.
Monsanto posted a gross profit in 2015 of $8 billion [1]. I doubt losing 1% of their earnings for a single year qualifies as being "screwed".

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[1]: http://www.monsanto.com/investors/documents/2015/2015.10.06_... - "Gross Profits: $8,182 M"

edit: accidentally a word
Thanks! I knew someone would have either a better memory than me or the willingness to actually go to http://jepsen.io/analyses.html and figure out which one it was! And now that I went I see both the ones I thought it might be haven't even ever been done!

I need to run a Jepsen test on my brain.
If all websites respected the browser width one has set, then one could always have the browser take up half the screen.

That's how I did it back in the 90s and early 2000s. I'm not certain when I was forced to start widescreening my browser, but I think it was roughly around the time I got a widescreen (ironically enough, I got more horizontal space and was forced to waste it immediately).

I'm not bitter …
Seatbelts?
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This happened to me after attending NA.

I got friend recommendations from FB for other members of the support group.
It was very gray and cyan by default. Those which came after are better IMO. I grew up in the DOS-Win3-9x era. Even nostalgia can't overcome how ugly the oldies are in comparison.
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Interestingly, my comment's getting down-voted without refutation. C'mon, let's talk :)

Anyway, no, I don't know if FB can do that at scale.

What I do know is that sites, especially complex ones like FB, like to track user interaction to evaluate UX (hover targets, click targets, time it takes to find call-out etc).

If I were a data science type at FB, and knew FB was collecting that stuff, I think I'd like to find out what other questions I could answer with it.

Or more banal - did you use your laptop as a wifi endpoint and connect your phone & WhatsApp to it?
If you're having trouble keeping healthy weight eating normal food, it may be that you have some digestive disease/problem rather than just "fast metabolism". (Or it could be an appetite problem.)

Consider this: if you had a fast metabolism, your body would be producing more heat than a normal person; where else would the extra energy go? This means you would prefer lower-than-normal room temperature. If you're having trouble keeping weight AND you prefer higher-than-normal room temperature, it means you're not getting all the energy you should from the food you eat, in other words, your system is digesting food incompletely.

I do have a digestive disease myself, and at my worst before surgery + medication, I was drinking glasses of custard every day just to stay above 155 lbs; I'm a pretty tall guy, ideal weight that I'm seeing now is around 190 lbs. I gained 30 lbs in one month after the surgery.
> only in the US has zero tipping almost become equivalent to not paying the tab in full.

Canada is the same way, do not tip 0% in Canada unless the waiter was abjectly rude or spilled something on you.
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Pay a company to make the "book", dont print any copies, put it online for any school to use and charge like 50 cents a download. School requires to see your reciept so they know its legit, prices drop. Thing is they arent really serious about lowering the cost of education.
This is something I had no clue about and will make a note to look into later.

Thanks!
God. Put it in those terms and it feels like the punishment for corporate tax fraud is a parking ticket.
My experience with my current employer is that Oracle/SQL Server/Windows are used because of the lack of trust in open source solutions, usually by management who grew up in the Stone Age of Software.

All 3 of the aforementioned slow EVERY process in the building down, especially when it comes to application development.
> This is not Reddit. Please keep comments high-effort and on topic.

That doesn't appear to be one of the guidelines when commenting on HN.

For reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Perhaps ironically, making comments about "likening HN to Reddit" despite having a young account IS explicitly mentioned in the guidelines.
That's what he went by on IRC in the early 2000's, yeah. I think a more correct description would be "script kiddie" ;) Despite being considered pretty lame, his company Data Protect managed to attract a few top names in the community. Those years marked the beginning of a (very sad) era where more and more of the really skilled hackers started to sell out to the shady, greedy IC and security industry.
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If it was military and it was a downlink signal you could be able to decode it to some extent they are still using pretty standard protocols.
11Ghz is in the Ku Band, it's not uncommon in civilian use for both terrestrial and non-terrestrial transmissions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_band

But yeah it certainly looks like equipment malfunction or maybe a rogue signal.
Search for " we are all intelligence officers now" transcript by Dan Geer, CISO of the company, who refuses to get a clearance.

Fascinating insights.
Somalia is bad. _Somaliland_ [0] has carved out a nice spot of land for itself. It's got plenty of problems, but it's not Mogadishu.

Most of the world functions just fine without government oversight.

Also, consider that in the absence of government, our lives (and cities) would be full of thousands of tiny corrections, back and forth, as people responded to the new information available to them.

Governments let problems build, and eventually spend a few years trying to deal with the problem, only to arrive at a good solution a few years after everyone else has arrived there. The problem is they cause massive harm in the process.

Reference:

- War on drugs

- Imperialism

- History of who was allowed to marry who

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somaliland
Correct me if I'm wrong, but they don't make $80M less, they just lose $80M from the amount they have made in the past (already taxed)
thats pretty great
This is all over the news like something is actually going to come of this.

What can Ireland/EU actually do? Apple is a bigger player in the world economy than Ireland.
I hope someone knowledgable will help me here.

Do I get this right: US taxpayers are giving their hard earned dollars so that a government agency CIA can take it and, throu their venture capital firm (!), invest it into something that might, but also might not, work?

Is this actually fiscally responsible? Is it in the job description of an intelligence agency to be a VC fund, not with private money, but with the money of the shrinking US middle class?
I don't disagree with you in principle, but in practice in the West, consumers don't prioritize safety in their purchasing decisions, but do a great deal of handwringing (and litigating) when unsafe outcomes occur, even if those negative outcomes are clear and obvious and a "rational actor" would make more careful purchases based on the evidence.

The author is making the claim that legislation can create pressure for producers to create safer products absent consumer demand. I think the car example is well-motivated. We may not like how things work here, maybe things work other ways in other places, but I think his evidence is pretty compelling.
IIRC, the video doesn't actually follow the fact pattern of the hypothetical upthread (its not limited to examples of a conversation being initiated, declined, and pursued), and does include things which might reasonably be included within some aspects of California's laws on criminal threats and/or disturbing the peace.

IIRC, "examples of a conversation being initiated, declined, and pursued" were the worst examples shown. Everything else could possibly be argued as "disturbing the peace" but could also have been seen as one person saying something to a passer-by.
They'd be better off pivoting rather than wasting time on redesigning something no one wants. /end brutality
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Yes, but if are hopping on one foot, you have no opportunity to complete the circuit with both feet.
What's an example of an app or website you enjoy on a browser screen that wide?
And then there are these stories : http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/287745.php talking about how there are all sorts of Antibiotics we don't even know about (yet). Or drugs that also kill bacteria (http://phys.org/news/2016-02-major-breakthrough-antibiotic-r...) or even this (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/20/antibi...)

Basically as we get to understand exactly how cells work and how bacteria do what they do, and how they change. We won't need to scrounge around in the dirt to find something, hopefully, that will kill bacteria. We'll engineer what ever we need to kill what ever cells we want to kill.
We did not, we disabled protection til we found the offender then reenacted the ones that weren't it. It seemed very much a purposeful feature from the description of the setting.
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I doubt Monsanto pays an effective tax rate anywhere close to 20%. Further the people who receive the settlement pay taxes on it thus the taxpayer is likely better of.
Nah. Androctonus scorpions and deadly Australian funnel web spiders.
Why shoot the duck that lays the golden egg?

But seriously, I would have thought the second hand market for used text books would huge as the course contents rarely change from year to year. It looks like this is ripe for a disruption.
Isn't there? Do you see no possibility that the latter group might find cause to overcome their fear?

I mean, to be clear, I still think this whole line of discussion around the imaginary (im/a)morality of Facebook employees is pretty far off base. But the question bears asking all the same.
> Or is it just some sense of self righteousness you feel by being a good employee who wouldn't ever choose to work from home like those other lazy bums.

Wow, I must have touched a nerve. Actually, I semi-regularly work from home. My issue is with the people in my organization who take advantage of working from home, treat it like a three-day weekend, and will likely cause the work-from-home privilege to be revoked.
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/automotive/dodge_ram.html
That clarifies GP's argument immensely, thank you.
That makes more sense, thanks for clarifying. Appreciate it!
Companies like Apple achieved a tax rate of almost zero by exploiting the definition of "profits" to argue that they didn't earn more than a trivial amount of profits in any of the countries they operated in. The definition is the problem here.
It pushed the earliest formation of such clusters ~700 million years further towards the Big Bang and adds to the mystery how such clusters could exist so early in the universe. We currently have no good answer for this question. From the abstract of the paper:

The large integrated stellar mass at such high redshift
challenges our understanding of massive cluster formation.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07404
Having readable backtraces when something goes wrong is far more valuable to me than saving a couple dozen MB on a 512GB drive.
I, on the other hand, would prefer them to compete on price. I like saving money.
> ...all the blach you can marklar

See, it's language like this that turns aspiring blachen in the Galaxy away from the tech sector...
Presumably because the patient is a mentally sound adult, and judged capable of making his own decision.
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BlaBla car is very prominent in Europe.
Is the work in making rechargeable lithium ion cells that retain their capacity over hundreds of thousands of charge cycles going to be commercialized in batteries and if so, what is the timeframe for that?

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3060005/mobile-wireless...

The same goes for the aluminium ion cell:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/stanford-rese...

Also, why did Tesla call the Model S 100D the first electric car to surpass 300 miles on a single charge when the Tesla Roadster 3.0 already hit that milestone?
It sounds like a pretty stupid backronym to me.

On the other hand, if you know beforehand that you are expected to compensate the service staff outside of the bill from the establishment, you should factor in your comfort level with that arrangement before you order, not act like it is some obscure thing you'd never heard of being done.
Got it, didn't realize that was the argument. Thanks much.

I hadn't heard this decision point framed so clearly in terms of the two kinds of labor each side ends up favoring, that's a great example.
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Allow me to be the devil's advocate here:

Why should we think its about any of us? Why not for human kind? Its one small observation for a man but one huge observation for mankind. :)
Depends if developers insist on C with Classes or are clever to take advantage of the language features that make it a safer language.

Regarding Swift, C developers used to tell me C++ would never be used to write kernels, because it had a runtime and was too bloated.

Since those days, I have seen BeOS, Symbian, Genode, Mac OS X IO Kit, Windows 8+ Kernel Driver Framework.

Also not to forget, Objective-C kernel code used in NeXT.

Also the biggest open source C compilers are nowadays written in the language which those C developers considered too bloated for any real work.
Strange to see no one has mentioned this – just down the river, MIT has mandatory PE classes. They're not all "running around a track" though: sailing, pistols, archery, yoga, weightlifting, sailing, all sorts of really cool activities.

> Forcing college students to exercise will backfire, leading many of them to stop as soon as the course is over.

How is this backfiring, if those students would never have exercised at all without the mandatory courses? Plus, you're overlooking the cohort who had never previously been exposed to the benefits of physical activity (maybe this is more prevalent at MIT...) and end up sticking with it. Among my friendgroup the latter is more common than the former.
WSJ's primary audience is folks in business or finance. From my understanding, they have automated aggregators and algorithms that consume those articles, and look for constructs like that for tagging/categorization.
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I love D language, and all what it needs is a high profile production project that uses D. and then more people will look into considering using D in their production environment.
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It's very bizarre to me that the younger generations are learning to throw shame at people for not being in bad circumstances, particularly given the mixed-at-best results shaming produces.
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A checkbox when posting to denote that content was influenced by provision of gift/service. Then the platform (Instagram, for example) has a subtle but recognisable mark on that photo or caption. Threat of fines for non-compliance, but only really police the main users so they lead by example. Make it easier and less damaging to comply for the major users than to avoid it. Make it like the cachet associated with being "sponsored" in extreme sports so smalltime users aspire to follow suit.
I think that's an example of category error. Animals aren't capable of consent because they aren't capable of comprehending either consent, or the experiment in question. If they were, they'd be human by any sensible definition.

To rely on consent to perform animal experiments is like relying on my sandwich to consent to me eating it. It's just not a thing sandwiches are capable of doing.
Lol and nations do?

You can always choose not to buy a product.
Network effect + first mover advantage. It takes a lot of time and money to develop the community if there already are major players.

In this particular case Google would have so spend a shit ton of money on advertising, and it's not guaranteed to work. They failed with Google+.
Yeah, I both went to UIUC and did job fairs/interviews there later, and while there certainly is the "let's get out of here" mindset from some students, many students' first question was "what do you have in Chicagoland?" or occasionally the Twin Cities. This was, perhaps obviously, especially true of the students from those cities. Hearing that a coastal job was the only option was definitely not a plus to many. Things were somewhat different for grad students who tend to be more diverse geographically, but it's not like they're taking HS kids from SV, dropping them in the Midwest to get educated and then releasing them from their hell after 4 years.

Unrelated note, how did PA (CMU) get included in the Midwest. Philly is essentially on the Atlantic Ocean and the Navy used to build warships there. That's hardly any sort of degree of West.
Are you really claiming that an $80M settlement is a "screwing" for Monsanto? I'd call it a "Blip".
I don't see how this would work, even as a conspiracy theory.

(1) People who own Irish government bonds get interest on them, and can sell them whenever they like. $14bn isn't going to make any difference in that context.

(2) Bond owners have no influence on the European Commission. It has no responsibility for whatever debts countries incur, and no reason to care.

(3) It's not a shake-down by the Irish government because the Irish government is defending its sweetheart deal with Apple and says it doesn't want the money.

(4) It's not a shake-down by the EC as the EC doesn't get the money either way.

The reality is that Apple is running a legalized tax-avoidance scam. In the US Senate's earlier investigation, John McCain described it as “the epitome of tax creativity”.
In the instances of those acquisitions, it was purely the choice of the founders as the investors have no control over that decision.
Uber are also developing their own maps. So clearly steering their own path from Google by taking these 2 steps.
The preset situation has gotten a lot better now.. Most use cases are handled by a small .babelrc file with the latest preset applied (possibly also 'react' if you're doing that sort of thing).

Babili has a single preset too, so it's also really easy to add. And, because it's using the same parse tree from your transpilation step, it doesn't add a ton of overhead to run it.
Even worse, it's just written off as a cost of doing business.
When you put it that way, could be that as well. Bad interviewer is bad, I guess.
It is also a bummer for people who were born there but escaped and realized that we'd been suffering from Stockholm syndrome the whole time.
You're better off using Ethereum to keep records of matches and leave computing the results to computers that don't charge per opcode. It's fairly expensive now, but that could be reasonably priced in a couple years with plans to change up Ethereum's architecture to a tree of progressively lighter-weight blockchains (Sharding).
CMU is in Pittsburgh, closer to Cleveland than the coast.
And I guess IC stands for Intelligence Community?
> "Tipping isn't obligatory"

In what way is it obligatory? The vast majority of Uber riders don't tip, and have no intention of doing so.
The opening line tells it all for you:

"A new record for the most distant galaxy cluster has been set".

For reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_distant_astro...
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Good reply.
My son included. From CMU to Cupertino pretty much direct.
MongoDB and Apigee are on their list of investments that are known.
I see a few problems.

Dwindling pool of non-members: Facebook is an especially bad example here, because they have enough money and clout to get around this.

How often do you see doctors being hired that are not members of the AMA: Doctors need to be on location, but this restriction doesn't apply to software. Facebook can always find talent in a country that doesn't have an 'AMA.'
Nah. In many cities Uber is the only service.
I've lived 30 years in Iowa. My jobs have been mostly out-of-state remote Silicon Valley startups. Some travel but no real issue.
As your link says, they are not allowed to pay less than minimum wage. They are allowed to set hourly wages for tipped employees lower than minimum wage, but they have to ensure that the total compensation of the employee averages out to minimum wage.
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And the federal laws are a result of the morally driven prohibition movement. They aren't founded on well reasoned logic, just the desire to control others.
Is he really going to attempt terraforming / colonisation of Mars any soon?
Thankyou ;-)
They must have meant "culturally obligatory". Americans (at least New Yorkers) have a tradition of giving generous tips to all workers they perceive as not making a living wage.

In other countries, tipping isn't as common and can be even be seen as rude (in Japan, for example).