skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I applaud your intellectual rigour. You are right, it is not confirmed if someone really got murdered over irrational numbers (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippasus ). That is why I changed my comment right after I wrote it, to "fear that they were killed" instead of "have been killed". Let us not turn legends into facts.
I think what the parent is getting at is that by instituting a price floor, you prevent people from providing services whose utility is below the price floor. In other words, if someone wanted to do extra work that wasn't worth much money (but might add up over a longer period of time), they are now unable to do said work because no one will be willing to pay them for it.

Basically, when setting a minimum wage, you end up picking between two groups of labor: those who work for some extra money (think high schoolers and retirees who would like some extra spending money and don't mind doing menial tasks that may not generate much value to earn in) and those who work to live (think unskilled laborers who do laborious work and feel they are insufficiently compensated for it). A lower wage favors the former group because they are able to offer the services for less (and the quantity of labor demanded will increase if the price goes down) while a higher wage favors the latter because they can demand more money.
In this particular case, Apple hasn't actually transferred its IP rights offshore, so this wouldn't actually change anything.
Sounds great, but in practice people will take advantage of you; e.g., if you walk alone in the street at night in a big city and a stranger asks to use your mobile phone, you'd have to be particularly naive to say yes.
Yeah, that's what this announcement is about. The Commission is telling Ireland what it did was illegal, and has to fix it.
Programming Amiga E by Wouter van Oortmerssen was such a joy compared to C back in the day.
I also don't think it's a great idea to open up the can of worms about whether "no viable TLS ciphersuites" began with Lucky 13 or with RC4 (which depends on whether you think the most recent RC4 paper was the death knell for RC4, or whether the Fluhrer-McGrew biases were).
I was actually just thinking about this the other day- why doesn't a large tech company with lots of cash create a ride service which basically lets the driver keep everything? Uber can't possibly compete. Google can destroy them before they can become a threat in other tech spaces.
I have to admit that St. Paul is on my short list for places to move in case I ever have to leave my home state (which might actually happen next year, thanks to Texas's transphobic state legislature). How's the food there?
already exists http://yaml.org/
The head is part of the body, so, no; "All-of-the-body-except-the-head" would be accurate, but overly cumbersome. Given that people know that the seat of identity is in the head, "head transplant" fairly obviously in practical use means "all-of-the-body-except-the-head transplant", but is a lot easier to say.
Do you have any opinions on Cap'n Proto vs Extprot[0]?

[0]: https://github.com/mfp/extprot
It'd be a nice statistic to know. Could be dangerous too, as in the infamous "640 kilobytes should be enough for everyone".
I find it difficult to read articles that are wider. There are a number of readability studies that back this up, it seems that 50-75 characters (including spaces) is a sweet spot for readability, and that things get terrible pretty quickly once you start increasing the line length. This design is 80 characters wide or so, putting it at the upper limit of reasonable width.

I would rather have to scroll down on an article that I can actually read, rather than fit the article on my screen but be unable to read it well.

Wide text only really works for very short text of a few lines. Long text comments on HN tend to suck pretty badly with wide browser windows.
Personally I make all of the projects I make GPLv3-or-later. However, certain projects are of signficiant importance to the free software community that I consider the benefits to free software to outweigh the potential drawbacks by proprietary forks. Unfortunately, it still makes me feel unhappy about people taking my work and forking it under a proprietary license.
Speeding up biotech
It seems silly to price in thousands when you're talking about billions. Either go all the way and show billions, or show dollars. Don't try to do some halfassed compromise.
I have a similar position re: youth traumas, plus another angle. I love being a sysadmin, but at 43 it took a long time to get here - I started out doing neuroscience, worked as a neuroscientist for a while, went to work support at a related equipment supplier, moved into testing, and eventually ended up as sysadmin a few jobs down the road.

If I had started out my career in the tech world, I would have had a more enjoyable career path and a much bigger bank balance, but I also wouldn't have my well-rounded experiences. I like that I started out in biology, and I see a pragmatism about life in biologists that I don't see anywhere else (and particularly not in tech). In short, I don't know who I'd be if I started over afresh, and I genuinely don't know whether I'd be better or worse off (or even value the same things)
Thanks for your input. Any tech entrepreneur book you know of from South Korea - in a way successful person's background captures essence of time.
Isn't it more likely he has your mother in law's/your wife's/your phone number programmed into his phone and shared his contacts with Facebook?

It seems like that is the source of 99% of 'creepy' Facebook recommendations: Facebook doesn't realize that while 'has phone number' is a great indicator of 'knowing somebody' it has poor transitive properties.
Everywhere? No but in neighborhoods with limited sight lines I do. You ever heard of the 20's Plenty campaign?
More like "Google late to the party... again"
guess it's possible, but riak is not designed to run on a single node. Guess even basho suggests using at least a 5 node cluster.
If I have to tip uber drivers, guess i have no use for it. The whole point is to be frictionless.
> "Tipping isn't obligatory" -- yes, it kind of is.

Do you think that if they received, let's say twice the salary Google intends to give them, they wouldn't "expect" a tip anymore?

It's up to you whether you want to tip or not. If he "expects" it and makes it known, give him a lower rating.
Versions of this (S3-compatible service for development use) have existed for years. One I used was https://github.com/jubos/fake-s3
While I agree with this being a great way to build an inspirational brand, I am convinced that it has worked because Jessica stays authentic. She sounds genuinely inspiring.

I do think they are keeping this profile in purpose. Jessica mentioned one of the things she wished she had done earlier is start YC's outreach earlier and cast a wider net with more partners. I interpreted this as her saying, this is what has worked wonders, I wish we had done more of it.
Check out https://github.com/Polymer/polymer/wiki/Who's-using-Polymer%... and https://madewithpolymer.com/.

Some recent ones:
http://www.ea.com/
https://rio16.usatoday.com/
https://www.victoriassecret.com/
https://www.net-a-porter.com/
A hip buzzword from the 1930s, or earlier?

"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country."

— President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_wage
For anyone interested in this, it's worth also taking a look at a related follow-up paper discussing a weakness in the use of the interlock technique for authentication [0]. I recognised the title here and recalled reading this paper some time ago.

[0] Bellovin, Steven M., and Michael Merritt. "An attack on the interlock protocol when used for authentication." IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 40.1 (1994): 273-275.

PDF at http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.112...

From the abstract,

> [...] We demonstrate that an active attacker can, at the cost of a timeout alarm, bypass the password exchange, and capture the passwords used. Furthermore, if the attack is from a terminal or workstation attempting to contact a computer, the attacker will have access before any alarm can be sounded.
AKA Kim Tim Jim Vestor

I think it was just Kimble (not Kim Kimble) back in the days when he was behaving mischievously with the guys at Chaos Computer Club.
Webm.py
Anybody who takes security truly seriously desolders the connectors AND fills them with bees.
How Fake Money Saved Brazil (2010)
Are they not? www.startssl.com's footer says: "© Copyright (c) 2004 - 2016 by StartCom Ltd., StartCom CA Limited & All rights reserved."
They've done everything right in terms of building a brand.

> seems like Uber's leadership position is at risk

You could have said that about any of the ex-Googlers who went off to try to develop a 'better' Google. At this point, Uber have the mindshare, at least amongst everyone I know, so unless Google have a 10x improvement planned then they'll just compete in Uber's shadow like the rest.
Why China Doesn't Have a Student Debt Problem
The spirit of said tax law.
>Uber drivers will occasionally ask for tips

I've never had anyone ask me for a tip. I think that ship has sailed as far as Uber goes. It's now the expectation that you don't tip uber drivers. Hard to see how that changes.
Was the "big pharma" snark really necessary? Seems to me drug repurposing would be a huge profit-maker.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-label_use
Note: "Open Source" does not have a philosophy[1]. The free software movement does (it has a philosophy based on software freedom), but the "open source" movement does not discuss any of the ethical reasons why users should have freedom (it only discusses practical issues). Personally I think that the "open source" split is one of the reasons that the state of free software is so worrying today.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
(Author here.) I'm very pleased to finally receive some feedback on the technical side!

I will have to check out Least Trimmed Squares (and maybe other robust regression techniques). For this dataset, I did try to exclude holidays, but it was difficult to define this exactly, so a more robust technique might indeed work better.

And yes, it would be interesting to see what tags co-occur. Good ideas for a future post. Thanks!
I've given a similar response below to a different comment, and it would be a bit pointless to paste it here.

To summarize though:

1) I don't believe I know any better than anyone else, it's just that I feel this was the wrong decision for a variety of reasons, and I'm very scared for the future based on this result.

2) I am a smug jackass that knows significantly less than he thinks he does, and I use long words in a futile attempt to disguise this. But I am not a pseudo smart-ass. Frank that works across from me is, and no-one sits with Frank at lunch.

3) I think the EU makes terrible decisions. I just think that they try to make the correct ones with the best of intentions and fail. I think this is vastly preferable to making the wrong decisions for questionable reasons and succeeding.
This proposition by Marc de Basquiat seems to be a lot more than "back of the envelope calculation": http://www.allocationuniverselle.com/doc/BIEN_Munich_2012-09...

It's a reform of the French tax system based around a basic income and flat taxes on income and wealth. The resulting redistribution is similar to the current system without the nasty border effects and bureaucracy.
I wish it was only the college textbook market that was the victim of the racket.

I know of 12 year olds who have 10 kg of school books. No one cares.
Other alternatives:

ceph - http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/radosgw/s3/

swift - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Swift/APIFeatureComparison#A...
See I'd see if I could tease a local reporter into writing a story. A system administrator that said it would or at least could be complete in two years. The benefits of Google Fiber, etc.

Feasibility only matters if people are interested. Get people interested.
In-Q-Tel is pretty explicit about their mission: to support the development of private sector technologies that are of immediate use (within 36 months) to their IC customers. Their investments are sometimes public and they invest in pretty much what you'd expect: D-Wave, Facebook, Keyhole. Even their name is taken straight out of the James Bond tech supplier branch/agent Q.

Nor do they have even particularly critical national security technology. In-Q-Tel probably has less dark tech knowledge than your average building at NBP.

One of my startups was contacted by one of their employees (it's almost always an employee, not the org directly), and they really just facilitated our data analysis processes, and made some connections. It never got to the stage where we accepted any money, and it was a lot less creepy than some of the government contractors cough Mitre cough.

Disclaimer: I have not, do not, and will not work on mass surveillance technology.
Where I studied, there were indeed groups of choices, but they had to take you for some reason (either be fast to apply or have good fit already). Most people were raked into general class, where it was as bad as in school, under the fear of dropping you out, since it was a required course.

Seriously makes me want to bulldoze the stadium (bonus points for frags) and set a few extra dorms on top.
Technically, it's #ccc on black :-) And I actually find it nice to read. I would complain about the wide lines instead... I may rephrase the Spanish say: there are tastes to every color, or colors to every taste...
Not sure what you mean when you say, "Not priced accurately" - I looked around, and pretty much all the schools charge around the same price, if you want to be sitting in a lab with other students for 10 hours a day for 10 days with a best-of-class instructor. Lots of room for competition if someone thinks they can do it more cheaply, but the instructors are very expensive (they are the best in the business - and if you aren't happy with them, you walk out and demand a full refund at that kind of price). We definitely had students in the room who had paid out of their own pocket for the course. I've taken these courses both through work, and independently, paying myself.

I would much rather give someone $8500 and 10 days later come out with some highly relevant, actionable knowledge then spend a year (or two!) of my time getting some "credential" - there is a pretty big opportunity cost to my time.
I have my browser wide because most sites have a ton of crap on the sides. If they were clean like G+ I wouldn't have it wide.
This is what I find interesting about the situation, and why I see tipping as a cultural rather than ethical imperative. If it was about poverty or social justice, it is a terribly inefficient way to go about fighting those battles. If instead you theorize that Tipping is largely about smoothing interactions between those of a higher economic class and the people who immediately serve them, the whole thing makes more sense.

Even taking class out of it, tipping when you are out drinking kind of makes sense like "hey thanks for working so I can go have fun. Here is a little extra so you can treat yourself when you are off work." The idea is to make it less awkward for the customer to drink in front of someone who is sober and working, Because that is kind of an awkward situation for many folks
I presume that it makes a difference legally. You can't use it as evidence in court (for future court cases perhaps) if you're not legally allowed to have it.

At least that's my suspicion.
I can't help but think that if Google is successful, the entire endeavor will end up like Reader: Google wipes out the competition, decides that they no longer want to run the service, end it, and there is no-one left to fill the void.
China's Biggest Internet Company Wants to Use Its HQ as a Giant Testing Lab
I have a number of psychologist FB friends and every one that I know of has changed their name on FB to make it harder for patients to find them. Many go with FirstName MiddleName, some make up a last name, etc. That's not to say that it's impossible to find your therapist on FB, but I'd be really surprised if it's easy.
Dynamo: Graphical Programming for Design
Thanks. I knew about but forgot to add Lasagne -- and Blocks (https://github.com/mila-udem/blocks) for that matter. It's been a while since I looked at either.
Terminal.com: “All user information and data will be deleted…”
Seattle recently passed $15 minimum wage and now a lot of restaurants are charging a "service fee" and putting up signs that discourage you from tipping. A much better system imo.
There was this super weird club in my high school who went out to hospitals and gave long-term patients (mostly vegetables who were on indefinite life support) ghoulishly gaudy makeovers. They seemed to have no motivation in doing this "community service" beyond their own weird self-satisfaction. Didn't really seem worth challenging them over the utility/sanity of their efforts, but damned if anyone thought it was a good use of their time.

Anyhow, what's this thread about?
HN only works because the text here is short. Try reading longer posts in a maximized window. Readability studies consistently tell us that optimum column width, for readibility, is something like 50-75 characters wide (including spaces). You can get by with more width for short text like HN comments.
You don't need Babel or a build process to minify ES6. Pretty Diff has supported this for years http://prettydiff.com/?m=minify
Thanks for the insightful response. I didn't mean to say that the entire project came from some shot of inspiration by some Google engineer, nor do I think of Kubernetes as a "Google system" -- I'm well aware of that separation.

The main thing that I think makes Kubernetes the perfect example of a modern free software community is the open design process and how the entire architecture of Kubernetes is open to modification. You don't see that with Docker, and you don't see it with many other large projects that have many contributiors.
Speak for yourself. People get confused by the smallest ambiguities.
So, I deactivated my account maybe 6 months ago, and uninstalled the app long ago. Since then, I moved halfway across the country and, using a brand new laptop, a fake name and number, and a throwaway email address, created another profile so I could use their API.

People You May Know still had old high school friends, my old real estate broker (??), and someone I starred on GitHub. I have absolutely no idea how they connected that account to my old one, considering Google Mail is the only other service I've used on that laptop.
Happens in Austria with Drei.

https://www.drei.at/portal/de/privat/services-und-apps/zusae...

"Kein Datenverbrauch" == Zero Rating.
> First mover advantage is rarely an advantage at all

Genuine question (not a snarky comment as it might sound), but can you link to any research that indicates it's 'rarely' and advantage?

I've been reading books recently that emphasise the importance of being the first to market with something innovative. Your brand then gets associated with the product/service ("hoover", "Uber", "google") even when referring to the general category.

Second-mover advantages do exist, but is there any research on whether it's more advantageous than being a first mover who iterates? I know it can happen, but in this case I'd rather be Uber with an established brand & mindshare rather than Google playing catch-up.
I live in Europe and I can certainly see how this seems like a mess and how can a company obey the laws in one country and at the same time being illegal...

I just want to point out something that is often neglected. EU Commission is basically a referee entity. It all starts with someone making a formal complaint about Apple or Google or Amazon and then they check into it. And in MOST cases the complainers are other US companies that feel that their complaints are being neglected in their own country(ex Yelp)
Facebook is probably using geo-location to determine if two people are in the same vicinity for extended periods of time over time.
...because the gardener has MIL's number in his phonebook, you have your MIL's number in your phonebook, and MIL has both numbers in her phonebook. See the network?
I'll give you another pro, customization. Our on-prem Jira instance can have add-ons and changes that aren't allowed in the cloud-hosted version.
There's also Skylable's SX Cluster if you use the libres3 daemon with it. Been using it for over a year with no problems. Set, forget, add more nodes when I need more disk.

Everyone's got their s3 of choice, always good to have more options on the table.

https://www.skylable.com/products/sx/

https://www.skylable.com/products/libres3/
It's true - "people who may not be your friend any more" would be more useful at this point.
Can you sideload on Apple without jail breaking?
I'm not saying it's not true. I don't know enough deep javascript magic to make that claim. It just didn't sound true, given that they've provided no supporting information or even a plausible-sounding explanation of why one way is better than another way.

If the entire site were rewritten using this level of detail plus benchmarks, it would be 10x more useful.
Will.i.am Modified a Tesla – TopSpeed One
This is it? Ha. Uber must be letting out a collective sigh of relief.
I think there needs to be a moratorium on that AirBnB political cereal box story. "The most important thing to do is to focus on your business, but also it's cool if you spend time on a random side business," is a big mixed message.
Who is guiding your business, So to speak? My professors taught mostly from the textbook. I assumed (back then) they chose the texts. Chemistry. Biology. Math. Even computer science (funny that was an IBM manual and some profs college printed and stapled pages of machine instructions), physical geography (strahler & strahler), humanities, etc. But each prof referred to text to cover on our own.

So now who choses what text? And doesn't that drive why you print what you print? What happens if prof doesn't like chapter 10, say?
Διεθνή Φιλικά: Στις διαθέσεις της Γερμανίας με Φινλανδία
Maybe the Fusion and SETI people can learn something from the AI/Machine Learning people. Lots of funding is currently thrown at people who go around telling people they can almost taste the Singularity...
A c corporation also gives you the ability to claim QSBS. Qualified small business stock. If u are a c corp (not s corp) and under 50 million in assets and some other conditions... all (used to be less but I believe it is now 100% permanently) issued stock can now be free of federal long term capital gains if u hold on to it for more than 5 years. I am not a lawyer but if you have goals to grow the business you should consider this as it can save u a lot of money in the future.
I suppose it would be a scandal if they tried to hide who they were.
Hmm that's really interesting. I'm definitely going to be reading up more on this but it seems like Ireland is kind of giving itself state aid in a way by offering Apple a nice deal and therefore Ireland doesn't face competition from other EU member states. If that's the case, even if it didn't fall under state aid something should be in place to prevent it I think or we'll just face a race to the bottom.

Thanks for the info!
G+ does this, I have more than one profile and I can easily switch between them without logging off, it is the same identity to me and them and a different identity for everyone else.

Unfortunately it is named pages or something so it sounds like something else.
Lets talk for a moment about this plague on society. This social justice warrior bullshit is getting really old really quick.

Human beings are becoming unbelievably weak