skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The people who make those decisions aren't paid for quality, they are paid to cut costs.

This exists because not every product carries same gross profit margin.

Apple launched iWatch, but it fails miserably, so Apple in an attempt to recuperate some costs, wants to produce the watch cheaply. Enter the people who can produce it cheaply. Of course the quality won't be the same, but apparently there isn't a market for high quality steel smart watches, but for lower quality plasticky smart watches.
> weaponizing the courts to exact a price on their foes

Because his case had merit. The price exacted was just punishment for crime.

> isn't a metaphor I would use for Thiel

because he's wealth and well off? I don't think any of the publications employees had to skip a meal either.

It wasn't Thiel that threw the first punch. Was was brought upon Gawker's head was brought on by themselves. Describing punishment for crime as "being in the trenches" divorces from the situation the most important thing - right and wrong. I don't know about the MJ cases, but Gawker was in the wrong.
You don't think that's exactly the market Uber has been going for? There's a reason Uber raided CMU for researchers:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-uber-a-friend-or-foe-of-carne...

And that reason became pretty obvious when they started testing self-driving cars recently in Pittsburgh:

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/ubers-driverless-rides-i...

I don't think Uber started out with this plan, but clearly at some point they realized that they had to be a two-stage company like Netflix. Google's doing the same thing, but with a different stage 1.

My bet, though, is that Uber wants to own the market, while Google is going to go after a platform play. I expect it to be sort of like Android. Google will make the software and own important parts of the consumer relationship. But most people who can manufacture cars or otherwise acquire large fleets at low costs will not want to do the software work, so they'll partner with Google.

So yes, in the same way that Android was about taking on Apple in a way that makes decent money and keep Google from getting cut out of an important piece of the tech/human intersection, this is ultimately about taking on Uber.
It implies that it's too easy to get another job, and that we should do something to make it more difficult to leave a job, so that companies can focus on output rather than hiring.
Why is this even an acceptable hypothetical? "if they are responsible for the shooting"... Seriously? Unless someone employed by the theater hired the shooter, I would love to know what other scenario could possibly have made them responsible for it.

Adults since ancient man have been expected to be responsible for their own self-defense. But for some reason in modern day America, people think someone else is responsible for protecting them. Well they're not.
The biggest problem with the spaces vs tabs debate is that editor presentation is still tightly coupled to file persistence. Imagine an abstraction layer created so that developers might choose to see what they wished, yet have files saved in a standard format it might negate some of the issues people have.
As long as your main revenue base is not India, and you're not visiting to make board decisions visiting India, on the business of a subsidiary, should not be an issue.

You're looking at taxation for resident income, and source income. Sure, a local entity should pay tax at source, in your case India, but unless you're sitting in India and taking global decisions or decisions creating significant global impact, no need to pay on resident income.

IANAL but this is my experience interacting mainly with large corporate. You might want to ask legal in your company or have an international independent auditor advise; don't want the wool may well being pulled over your eyes. And that would be bad, as it would be a dereliction of trust. And I've seen that a lot when, non India specific, but offshored locations try to build ill-founded silos.
I use Google Apps for Work on my domain, which lets me forward all email to any address on that domain to my inbox. That way I can use adobe@ryanplant.net, github@ryanplant.net, fitbit@ryanplant.net, etc.
We have to many visitors from HN
Thanks for clarifying. Very informative.
I don't know what you call abuse but I see the this sort of thing here in Germany. In one of the teams I have dealings with, there are two non-EU developers who get unusually low wages (I don't know the exactly what). They both put up with it because the german residency permit is valuable to them.

There might well be a salary limit, but it's obviously not very high, at least not by the standards of engineers. These guys are getting decent salaries by the standards of oridnary working Germans. I suspect it is a similar story for H1B in Aemrica.
We've found other interesting behavior in email-to-SMS services using it for alerts (this is in the US):

Verizon: will deliver all messages typically with low latency.

AT&T: Variable delivery latency and they have some sort of rate-limiting where if your system generates 10 alert messages within a short period, they queue them up for a couple of hours!

Inmarsat: Fast consistent delivery but they have an undocumented rate cap that when reached results in all (all!) messages being black-holed for 30 days. There is no way to reset this state. The cap is something 150 messages per month or 5 per 10 minute period.
Arbitrage in labor markets results in a regression to the global mean. Every year that wages do not grow in the US, the buying power of those wages decreases due to inflation (increasing the cost of living). This will result in the standard of livings of the US moving towards that of India. And as a US citizen, I do not want this. If capitalism worked as intended, we'd be a world full of slaves fighting for pennies and shitting in open pits while our masters live like kings.
Interesting question. Haven't solved it yet, but it did give me an idea for an optimization.

If the prisoner stores c_max, they can decide to only ever turn off the light (until c=0) if c < c_max - 1.

This is because there is at least 1 other prisoner still turning on the light (they could turn off the light they turned on to reach c = c_max - 1, but only get lower if someone else turns on the light for them).

Unfortunately an adversarial sequence still hangs progress, as prisoners can be juggled between c_max and c_max-1.
You have people on the Theranos board of directors who have commited much worse than what the company has been accused of recently. For example, Henry Kissinger:

"In June 1999, by order of President Bill Clinton, the State Department released thousands of declassified documents[79] revealing for the first time that the CIA and the State and Defense Departments were intimately aware of Condor"

Who is Henry Kissinger and what is Operation Condor?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor

If the architects of such chaos in Latin America have never been charged, I don't think they ever will be. Of course the 'puppets' (Pinochet and other cronies) got some form of 'justice' applied to them in recent years, but what they got does not even amount to a slap on the wrist ...
I believe that's pretty much what Apple Pay and the like do.
Keeping all the keys (password and 2FA tokens) in 1Password means it isn't true 2FA anymore:

https://blog.agilebits.com/2011/09/23/two-factor-or-not-two-...
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Which is the median salary in those regions. While an argument can be made it should at least be in the 75% or something, this definitely doesn't disprove the original statement that at least it won't suppress wages (to something like Indian or eastern European levels).

Edit: I guess I might misunderstand the word suppress actually. If it means keep wages constant then I guess expanding the worker pool at the median salary level would probably do that, and the effect of not having any restriction would depress them!?
> (...) there is no easy and accessible personal payment solution (Paypal sucks for non-us citizens) due to "anti-terrorism" money-control cretinism.

What's wrong with bank transfers?
What makes it unique? Since this is HN a few more details would be appreciated.
Sad fact, all of the original Wallace and Gromit sets were destroyed in a fire in 2005. [1]

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/...
Your first year as a programmer
Using Python for 10+ years, never used tabs.
The PTR is a bit of a different beast: they sacrificed battery life and water resistance for styling. The result is (IMHO) the best-looking smartwatch available. I've been drooling over the PTR ever since it came out (I have an OG Steel). When they announced the "limited-edition" polished gold model during their Kickstarter campaign, I jumped at it, even though it will effectively a previous-generation model (I also got a Pebble 2 to use as a "beater" watch).

I think that Pebble understands better than most that, to many people, a watch is a piece of jewelry more than it is a gadget or piece of equipment—hence why very expensive watches often have less functionality and reliability than a $10 quartz Casio. IMHO, the PTR and OG Steel are the only two smartwatches on the market that really appeal to this demographic.

I think that Pebble's challenge is that the traditional watch market seems to be shrinking—most of the people I know that wear an Apple Watch or Android Wear are people that wouldn't otherwise be wearing watches, and are more interested in the gadget aspect. Regardless of hardware, I don't think that Pebble will ever be able to compete in that market; Pebble support will always be an afterthought for app developers, compared to the ease of the native Apple and Android SDKs. In my experience, Pebble is already falling behind here—the quantity and quality of apps isn't that great (though perhaps I'm missing out on some good apps because my Steel is too old?). They do seem to realize this, and seem to be actively trying to build a larger developer community.

Also problematic for attracting developers: the Pebble app store has no built-in payment facilities, and developers must resort to clunky third-party solutions (such as KiezelPay) to sell paid apps and watch faces. This might not be Pebble's fault, though—I'm guessing that they're restricted by the requirements placed on them by Apple (and perhaps Google) to be in their stores.
I'm curious, what's going on with C? I was surprised to see it as the only language other than Go (where tabs are enforced by gofmt) to dissent from the spaces majority.
how so? when a card is fraudulently used to make purchases, AmEx is not refunding you from their own pockets. they take back the money from the merchant it was fraudulently spent with (a chargeback). no loss at all on their side.
Colin Kaepernick explains why he sat during national anthem
Safe Retirement Spending Using TensorFlow
That sounds like a really complex solution to a kind of non-problem.
Pro tip: Build your own GPU cluster out of consumer gear. It's orders of magnitude cheaper because GPUs for the data center are expensive and/or slow. Our commercial cracker is consumer gear in a custom built chassis in colocation. Cloud GPU just isn't there yet.
How do you cut a cake in a way that gives me a piece that is only large enough to satisfy the host's expectation that I will like the cake they made?
College Group Sues U.S., Saying It’s Target of Political Agenda
No thats not the point. With LSD the paper is the unit of distribution. Its the dosage vector. A sheet of of acid which is comprised of 100 hits of acid. So by considering the amount of surface area or weight is what allows the law to decide if the amount comprises personal consumption vs distribution.

So when the law is trying to decide how much of a threat the contraband is to society the potential damage of a sheet of acid us much much greater than a hit or a couple of hits(smaller pieces of paper.)

What are you proposing that the acid be recovered from the paper? What would that do? There's no threshold below which you are permitted to posses lysergic acid in the United States.
The problem is, I have yet to someone who accepts '+' in email address.
A vim user who prefers spaces to tabs but doesn't know about 'set expandtab'?
Good for you! Self control turns out to be an advantage for many things in life.

It's even better as you get older and begin to appreciate that enduring fidelity actually increases love. But I guess many here don't know that.

Statistics say most people are weak willed. shrug. That's obvious, and still not a reason to live that way.
For standard levels of indentation, I get that tabs may be useful, but in /etc/fstab, I absolutely hate them – how many do you put if the individual elements vary in size? Always just one, resulting in e.g.

this_is_a_long_line<tab>defaults<tab>…
short<tab>defaults<tab>…

with the following elements not aligning? Or however many are necessary to get things to align, which sort of destroys the semantic meaning?
They're already produced and will start soon launching Iridium NEXT [1] satellites, moreover developed a whole platform called Iridium Prime [2].

[1] https://www.iridium.com/network/iridiumnext

[2] https://www.iridium.com/company/industryleadership/iridiumpr...
I always cut more pieces than eaters and unevenly, because some people want just one small piece, some want a big piece, and some will be happy to have another piece later.
Probably related to Linux kernel coding convention:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle

Quoted: Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters.
Excel to PDF and HTML in Python
Tricking “Duck Hunt” to See a Modern LCD TV as a CRT
Cracking stuff...!
I feel like there is a [Citation Needed] for that Wikipedia quote.

All existing landers used an aeroshell and parachute sequence, but that doesn't mean it's impossible to land with just Rockets. The aeroshell/parachute method is used because it allows landers to come straight in from a Hoffman transfer orbit, bleed off all that extra speed and land with the least amount of fuel required. But it's way to risky for a manned lander, as the landing date (and location) are locked in months ahead of time with no option for an abort or delay.

A manned lander is likely to aerobreak into a stabke Mars parking orbit first. Allowing the crew can check the lander, check the weather at the landing site and detach from a reusable transfer module. From low Mars orbit, they are going much slower and need to disperse much less energy.

You could just throw Rockets and fuel at the problem. Or wings might be far more attractive than a parachute for slowing down in the upper atmosphere (though, any wings would have to be massive to actually glide all the way down to the lower atmosphere or land)
"It's you!"

I always love how surprised Wallace is when Feathers removes his "disguise".
I honestly want to know how much Backchannel was paid[1] by Google to write this article. It paints Google as a "volunteer" to deploying a new network, rather than... a competitor trying to skirt the law to get a competitive advantage. The article chooses to be specific when shaming AT&T or Comcast, and praising Google, but vague when talking about the actual issues with what Google was trying to do.

[1]Given the amount of inside access to Google that Backchannel is regularly given for exclusive access to senior people at various Google departments, I imagine this is less of a "actual cash paid" transaction, and more of a "this for that" arrangement, and probably not official enough to be written on paper anywhere.
As Parkinson’s patients wait, Fox Foundation and scientist feud over drug trial
What will be future with neural lace technology look like in 2022? (5 years)

Would we cheat death with same consciousness without dependency on our physical body?
>A former Monsanto Co (MON.N) executive who tipped the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to accounting improprieties involving the company's top-selling Roundup product has been awarded more than $22 million from the agency's whistleblower program, the executive's lawyer said on Tuesday.

Yes, please -- Let this be the default way it works at the high executive levels of big corporations. The corp should be terrified of committing fraud because they should know that a whistleblower has every incentive to rat them out and walk away a millionaire.
I've got an invite, contact me via the email in my HN profile and I'll send it over.
Many had this feature (and Paypal for a while) but dropped it for some reason. My guess is they want to encourage subscription/repeat billing or some kind of fraud was rampant generating temporary numbers.
Here's my question: wouldn't it fix a lot of the issues with the program if preference were given to awarding visas to largest number of sponsors, rather than a true lottery? So in essence you couldn't get a second visa in the lottery as a sponsor until every sponsor had gotten at least one.
coming soon... https://prosecco.surge.sh/
Completely unrelated. Noticed you use Vala. Just curious, how do you find it? Do you just use it for GNOME related things (GUI building) or for other cases as well?

Remember being interested in it a few years back. It seemed to be popular, but haven't followed it since.
I agree with you there. Although, I don't really think LSD, cannabis, ketamine, or ecstasy are addictive at all, other than being potentially habit forming, which just about anything can be.

I would just put alcohol more in the habit forming category though, maybe a bit more potential than cannabis over the very long term.

Opiates, cocaine, amphetamines, meth, benzos, and even Ambien are in another league.
It is a subsidy, because the server gets the same, it's the restaurant that pockets the difference.

Say the server works 40h/week like a regular full-time worker, so the minimum take-home pay under federal law is $15000. If the server gets $0 in tips, the restaurant must pay the $15000. But if the server gets, say, $5000 in tips, the restaurant can pay only $10000.

The server gets the same money, only the restaurant gets to save some.
thats a good idea
Nice and simple idea, pretty well executed with not many bells and whistles. I like it. :)
You should check out Nassim Taleb's "Black Swan"..
Yes, reboot seems to fix the problem in some cases. My watch didn't crash again after the reboot earlier today.
This is a remake on a bigger scale of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10795745
Surprised nobody has mentioned Hashicorp Vault.
What does Android Wear add? I've only got experience with a Pebble.
Is this market specific? I tried this product [0] and it tells me the product has a price of 32 rather tahn 13,999/-.

[0] http://www.amazon.in/dp/B01DDP7GZK/ref=br_imp?pf_rd_m=A1VBAL...
I too am curious, price detection is a very well trodden area.

I've seen page structure analysis, manually Xpath/CSS selector writing, machine learning, pattern matching, micro-formats, large central databases, etc.

I understand that no company wants to unveil their secrets but this is Hacker News. If you're going to promote your product here at least give us something tech to munch on.
Just curious, what kind of traffic levels are you seeing from HN. Just in case any of us want to do a load test to validate our own sites can handle it.
A good 2FA system involves backup keys which can be stored in a safe or safety deposit box, not handing your private key over to a third party.
You might want to update your version of Nginx and add some caching I am getting a 504

nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu)
Chainer: http://chainer.org/
Now what would be point in that? Sure you can do that but in practice this is not at all how it works. Drugs are a business. You can also sell pure cocaine but it is never done at the retail level because it would be a completely non-sensical business decision. The unit of purchase is a single tab. More tabs equal more paper.
It's an heuristic algorithm which detects price element (as CSS selector) without any specific configuration
> Of course, I also don't think forcing higher costs on everyone in the name of favoring certain groups of people over others is a particularly laudable goal.

Isn't that the point of sovereignty though? To favor the locals over foreigners? It's why we have governments and borders.

It's ethical too: Because the locals are your (long-term) tax base. It's better to pay locals a higher wage than to import temporary cheap labor in most situations because the gains from the cheap labor wouldn't necessarily make their way (i.e. "trickle down") back to the locality. Especially not in a global economy and especially not with virtual goods like software and IT services.
I feel like Google failed with Google+ not simply due to being late to the market, but because Google+ was a big paradigm shift from Facebook style social media and it didn't catch on with users. If they had gone with a more conventional solution I think they could have taken a rather large chunk out of Facebook's user base.
The Philippines even gets a mention in the Wikipedia entry on summary execution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summary_execution
Semantically, the TAB character means something like "insert a pseudo-random number of spaces here" with that number often defaulting to some ridiculous value like 8.

I keep my programs less than 80 character wide for accessibility purposes but if I use tabs then the width is unpredictable.

Also, spaces are universal and trivial whereas the TAB button in many editors has strange behavior.
>Physicians don't let other physicians sell snake oil;

Eh? do you know how many BS "Doctor" (MD, Ph.D. And Wannabe) sites, tv and radio shows, segments and infomercials that sell snaken oil (and in many cases simple snake poison) are out there?
https://financingefficiency.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/the-20-...
You should try a Garmin. I've got a Fenix 3 and it's got amazing battery life (I think I charge it once every two weeks), best gps on the market, integration with my phone to provide notifications, and it's an excellent fitness tracker to boot.
>Agreed. It's interesting to compare with Facebook's web layout. The timeline column isn't much wider, but Facebook fills the extra space with information. (Menu, Trending stories and ads etc, friends' activities.)

Perhaps there's a correlation to my preference to G+'s layout, but one of the first things I did when I signed back up for FB was make a userscript to remove all that noise. My FB now looks like http://i.imgur.com/Vd6e6sh.png

I think it looks so much better single-column, personally (though I use the 3-column layout on G+).
Oops, that was "January 2001" when I started at Lucent, by 2002 they were clearly doomed, e.g. the last project I worked on, a media gateway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_gateway to pair with their then very successful SoftSwitch), was deemed utterly essential for Lucent's future (I read the marketing research documents, which said there was no future for integrated switching systems like the storied 5ESS, who's people worked on this project), and the project was clearly doomed.

E.g. not only was first it absolutely minimally resourced, it was then not spared company wide layoffs, and they made a point of boasting about laying off one of the most visible and productive members of the team, undoubtedly to show us no one was deemed essential, and also undoubtedly because he was pointing out problems. The project was canceled not all that long after I left, "and the rest is history".
...an hour? Man, if they couldn't do it in less than 15 minutes I'd stop the interview right there, thus saving everyone's time.
How it is different than pricep.in ?