skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried some calculations to answer that (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12589228). Just taking into account the parent body, Mercury should experience a much more pronounced variation in its tidal gradient than does Io. However, I suspect it's the interaction with the other moons that make up for it in Io's case.
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Correct. The UK legislation which defines what kind of infringement (or enablement thereof) constitutes a criminal offence [0] uses the language "In the course of a business ... otherwise than in the course of a business to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the owner of the copyright."

The second is a very high barrier.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/intellectual-prop...
I'd say he doesn't stand a chance.

UK law has already determined thepiratebay is an illegal site equivalent to selling pirated dvds, and forced isps to block it. judges by and large can barely even turn a computer on let alone comprehend search isn't the same as hosting.

This absolutely isnt because they are mostly corrupt and taken large payments from big media.
How does it lead to authoritarianism? You're making some pretty sweeping statements there..
Ask HN: What do workplaces pay too much for?
I'm currently teaching a class at a local college focused around business systems.

I'm introducing the students to software that 'resolves pain points in business and IT systems', but I really wanted to show them that current solutions are non-ideal.

With companies so willing to shell out a high amount of money just to get a problem off their plate, they often end up over paying for simple tasks/projects.

For example, I met one company that paid nearly $500 a month for the equivalent of a Google Alert about their competitor.

What are some things your company (or a company you're familiar with) pays too much for?
This is the perfect example of true Open Source Hardware. None of the other boards similarly spec'd development boards have been spinned into so many variants. Not to mention real world consumer products that are based off the Beaglebone Black schematic.
I don't know how practical this idea is, but I dream of an alternative world where Yahoo went all in on Firefox OS. I think Firefox was Yahoo's ticket to relevance, if they wanted it.
I really think GP is oversimplifying, and I have lived in economically disparate areas with the same salary in each. I moved from southern California where I made roughly $60k. Then I move to the Southern US. I changed industries and settled in at $50k.

In terms of raw salary, I made $10k less, but my money went infinitely further in the South. I wasn't hurting for money in CA, but I had to be much smarter about my financial choices towards the end of the month. In the South, I always has leftover money at the salary. I mean, that 740 sqft apartment in CA for $1200 really sucked compared to that 2 BR house I was renting for $850 in the South.
On the other hand there is a limit on the amount of Oil we can take up per the not-doom-the-world requirement, and current known reserves surpass this limit meaning that its better to sell now before you don't get to sell at all.
I actually prefer the business consultancy now. I got bored of writing code all the time, i still do it for fun, but only about 1/3rd of my time for my business is coding now.
> Is it practically impossible?

Offer something people want that the others don't. It's not enough to just not be iOS or not Android, that only appeals to the small segment of people that HN appeals to.

The selling point for Ubuntu, Mozilla and Microsoft's phone was just 'it's not them.' They didn't provide any value. Microsoft had apparently forgotten what they had to do to make the xBox viable against Sony and Nintendo when it first launched, because they didn't just launch it with 'Hey, at least we're not Sony, the developers will show up eventually.'
Does the tiny selection of desktop OSes worry you? Microsoft has had at least 90% market share for 2 decades.

At any rate, it seems like two major brands is all the tech world can handle.
Half my contracts are through agents, I spend a lot longer than I'd like to admit on my LinkedIn profile. One agent has admitted they have a 30% margin which explains the ~1,000 phone calls and emails I got last year.

I run a blog, I'm active on Twitter and I've worked with a lot of different businesses and coworkers since I started my career so this is where the other half of my contracts come from.

I've heard from someone at (Big Hadoop Consultancy) that they send consultants out to train and do POVs paying the consulant £1,200 / day so there should be some growth in my day rate to come.

It's probably worth mentioning I only sell my time in one week blocks. I had two contracts this year where a client was having some troubles with Kafka on AWS. The first problem was taken care of in an hour in a half but they were still billed for a week. Same thing a few weeks later when Zookeeper was feeling upset.
It means it's not impossible for them to consider.
Some benchmarks can be found here: https://github.com/aspnet/benchmarks
I suspect that some do cs because they are interested and some because its a hot field or because of family/social pressures
You sure about that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profit_margin
Twilio - https://www.twilio.com/stun-turn
7 or 8 years is an extremely long time to finance a car. Do we know how much battery life will be left after 8 years?
Seconded. I think I'm on my third toner cartridge in 6 years for my Brother MFC.

I bought whatever model consumer reports recommended at the time.
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Yes, but AFAIK they don't hire remotely, at least for engineering jobs.
and their main website is old-style. Well they implemented new fonts etc and they didn't change over to use a bootstrap template.
Simple and easy, is what their search engine is actually.
plex just announced a cloud based version that runs off video stored on amazon drive.
> Sometimes I judge someone based on how they search. If they're typing out a whole question, perfect punctuation: not a good sign.

I am sure you can do better than that
I keep Facebook script blocked on my main chrome instance. I therefore can only check Facebook on incognito (where script block is disabled).

The added friction of signing in every time to check Facebook has had the added benefit of stopping me visiting Facebook unconsciously. The amount of free time clawed back has been substantial!
Ah, there are no niches. Got it.
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EFF is calling for HP to publicly promise not to invoke section 1201 of DMCA against researchers and aftermarket vendors. This is necessary in order for anyone in the U.S. to develop open-source software or firmware for HP printers.
> What's the point of analyzing data from such narrow and unusual sample?
I have to agree. It seems like a really small sample.
Finally, the performance and language design of JavaScript with the write-once-work-in-one-place of native development.
I can't believe it's just interview paralysis to be honest. I've had people try and solve problems like that with 3 nested loops. Completely failing to come up with a working solution after 20 minutes.

I've been in situations where those kind of people have been hired too. Their code tends to be quite bad...
Been using HyreCar to rent a car out to rideshare drivers.

It's not a bad way to squeeze some value out of a car that has basically bottomed out in trade in value already: my 07 BMW is already trading in at about the same price as a similar Honda.

The goal of my experiment is to earn ~1x the trade in value renting it before selling it.
I had a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 LTE edition and that used PWM for brightness, along with a ringing noise at certain rates.
how much does it cost to setup a factory to produce a half decent printer-scanner with ink cartridges and ink supplies? this entire industry is broken. surely basic printers are so well understood by now that every component is a commodity?

for the majority of people, a printer that simply just works is good enough. you do not need to upgrade every year. you do not need the latest in ink technology - you want photo prints, do it properly online.

manufacturers like HP et al only introduce different printer models / cartridges / drivers etc etc to keep people upgrading.

so, what's the cost of doing this? i'd consider it a gift to humanity.
I would argue that in order to link them together one must first understand the CS concepts and their uses. Once a person has that understanding, it becomes trivial to know when a naive solution is no longer the right approach. Once a normal person has the ability to see problem solving like that, they've pretty much got it.

That's not to say there's not a difference between all possible solutions and the people trying to find them. Some will be able to zip together the objectively most efficient solution right from the start. These are the true "superstars." People for whom doing something once is as good as doing it a million times (ie, they don't forget things). These folks are exceedingly rare and the rest of us will have to settle with kowing enough to know when we need a better way.
> Neither CEO did anything to mitigate this issue. I don't know how that's not bad leadership.

Arguably that's great leadership because the CEO knew instantly to cut his or her losses, and not give into the sunk cost fallacy by pursuing this failing venture "because we're so invested in it already; we just have to try harder you see!"
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So instead of fixing the holes in their browser, they've just decided to offload responsibility to a VM, hoping the hardware virtualization isn't vulnerable (even though Intel surely cooperates with governments)?
But as a company they cripple other products
Well, you never know the paths not travelled.
Viper has an inexpensive alarm with app controls but the cellular connectivity is terrible. Seems like it wouldn't be hard to improve it and make a nice UI for checking the car in and out.
I got my Brother MFC for around $50 with some clever rebate-stacking. It's an awesome little printer that plays very well with Linux. Highly recommended!
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Yeah, now I recall that Io huge volcanic activity is thought to be because is squashed and pulled by Jupiter in one side and the other moons in the other
Both are still profitable in the tens of billions.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-21/google-s-... $22 billion profit.

iOS is a bit more complicated to value, but they've made more than $10 billion just in app store commissions (even not counting increased sales of hardware due to iOS). So if you consider the cost of iOS development as weighed against their hardware sales, and book the software as profit, you'd get more than $10 billion. The real profit numbers are probably higher.

Anyway, the point is that there's no reasonable way to assert that either one of them isn't profitable.
That looks like it covers all NASA operations, and $20B is the usual number.
> Sometimes I judge someone based on how they search. If they're typing out a whole question, perfect punctuation: not a good sign.

You read the Google instructions "How to use Google" about 15 years ago, and you started using Google when they had a 10 word limit, with no substitutions and no stemming.

Nowadays Google is mostly used by people who ask whole questions, complete with punctuation, and websites and Google optimise for those people.

Sometimes it's the best way to get to a good website.
> so did it asked to accept new privacy policy, terms & conditions or smth?

they played a trick on everyone by hiding the relevant question/info behind an "extra info" button that nobody will ever click
It's great leadership to lie to their customers? Okay.
You just have to implement brain learning rules (based on neuroscientists researches), into AI program.
PS! Our brain is "plastic" and changes all the time .. somehow you have to add this functionality as well :)
> I'm not going to jack in a satisfying job just to get a few hours more free time a week.

There you go then. You're happy as is, so you don't need to change anything!

My advice was for someone who said "I want more free time"
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> The issue is where the money is coming from.

I think what Microsoft wasted on Nokia's phone business was something in the magnitude of >$8 billion, so money was not really the problem at least in their case.
How are the privacy laws in India? Couldn't the students sue?

to be honest, if the pressure was just from two individuals, I'd also say something like Facebook.
so if planets can shrink, can they grow?
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This month you can lease a Fiat 500e in CA for a total cost of under $3k after rebates (36mo, 10k mi/yr)
I'm sure others were cheating as well, but it wasn't as blatantly obvious as with those Chinese who didn't even speak English. So I'd say being fluent in English is a good way to avoid being profiled this way.
>a lot of the stuff which Google just gives away with some fairly light advertising. //

... which furthers their eco-system and cements "vendor lock-in". They kill off too many major projects seemingly for purely financial purposes for the point you make to carry well.
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> Of course, the advantage of working in SF/NYC is that by the time I'm ready to have kids I'll have enough money saved up to buy a house in a low-cost area in cash.

That doesn't follow from the argument. If the COL adjustment means that the salary differential is not enough to cover the difference, you will be able to save more in the low cost location as well.

Of course all of those arguments are reductive as COL is not that easy to calculate and there may be other financial advantages to being local to the higher cost area (more diversity of work, less risk at job loss, or higher chance for a lottery style payout for instance).
Whatever you are citing is not competence of the "Privacy Regulator" nor it can take any decision on it.

The Privacy Regulator rather is pushing for strong end-to-end encryption to protect user data, at least in my country. You are citing something totally different and out of his scope.
JIRA. And TBH, I don't even know how much it costs, but it's more than a candy wrapper and 2 smiles, it's too much.

I'm always baffled to see 10 people startups paying for JIRA. You are 10 people in a freaking open space! Just use a Trello board! You don't need some fancy workflow that nobody can understand/configure.

My theory is that JIRA does a great job helping you not to focus on the right things. There is so much fluff that it's very confortable to never really address real pain points, really define problems/goals/etc. You can't do that when all you have is a trello board.
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Maybe you'd have better luck with eBay?
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Some researchers did exactly this with the German Defense Minister. [1] Using photos and video they lifted the fingerprint and recreated it.

[1] http://www.dw.com/en/german-defense-minister-von-der-leyens-...
I include ethnicity under the umbrella that is "racism". It's less of a mouthful than "racial and ethnic discrimination". Ethnicity and race aren't the same thing, but people treat them in very similar ways. They'll hear accents, see facial shapes, learn small details and their stereotypes take over.

But we're not here to argue about that. I don't think we're here to argue at all. You've made a clear case that he should do the pitch. I agree.
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Shouldn't? Forgive me, but it sounds like you're making a moral judgement here.

If there's a downturn and a loaned car can't be sold privately, then the car is simply repossessed and auctioned off. These things are all contractual, and in a properly setup system the company shouldn't make any losses over all their loans, regardless of a few pettering out.

If you buy a car and rent it, that's suspiciously like simply running a business and many businesses run using loans both short term and long.
Very similar to the highly effective Structured Procrastination method - http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/
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In addition to Lio's list I would add:

* Ties/cravats
* Belts
* Watches
* Epaulettes
* Hair styles
The 'Flappy Bird' effect.
Not bad to be honest, 8-7 but I do get out for an hour or so at lunch.
So when I signed up for FF sync last night that was a waste of my life? The only reason I was giving them a shot is Chrome's goofiness. It crashes my GFX card on Win10 (constantly) and always has threads open for hardly-ever-used extensions.
Understandable misconception, but he went there.

Not being able to recognize cluelessness in other people might just be an understatement.
Why would they fear regulation? Their competitors become subject to the same restrictions.
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$250K Per Year Salary Could Qualify For Subsidized Housing Under New Palo Alto Proposal http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/03/22/250k-per-year-sa...
What a distressing view of the world, where people are forced to live their lives according to your conception of what the "proper" proportion of things are. The applicant-pool should reflect the people who want the job, period. If the people that want a particular job are 90% women, or 80% men, or 50% black, or whatever, then that's totally fine. We are a nation of individual people deciding what to do with our own lives.
Very OT, but if you're actually looking for one, I can recommend https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/12448783 . My partner and I stayed there a few months ago and it was wonderful!
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I was a CS major, but my career took a different direction, and I haven't programmed "professionally" for 8+ years. I looked up the FizzBuzz question and wrote some psuedocode in about 5m.

It's sad that FizzBuzz is such a "weeding out" tool, but I guess good to know that I can still pass the first round of an entry-level technical interview!
I obviously can't tell you how YC will respond to your video, but I find it very unlikely your accent is incomprehensible if your American cofounder said it was fine.

Here's an example from the site I linked before that I would consider completely comprehensible: http://dialectsarchive.com/russia-5

This, on the other hand, is probably pushing the limits the comprehensibility: http://dialectsarchive.com/russia-13

If you fall closer to the second example, then American English speakers may have trouble understanding you clearly, but if you fall closer to the first, then I can't see anyone having a legitimate problem understanding you.

But again, I'm just trying to address actual comprehensibility issues. I can't say whether YC will respond positively or negatively.
I'm thrilled at the success in putting some child abusers behind bars.

...but we have to remember that these stories are the result of press releases and active press management by law enforcement, as part of a two pronged strategy to (a) build popular trust for law enforcement (b) increase the willingness of the public to hand law enforcement new technological tools.

The same technology that helps authorities pull a name off a pill bottle to capture an evil man can also help authorities pull a name off a pill bottle to capture a recreational drug user (and make his children grow to adulthood without a father) or - in some countries, or in our own in the future - capture a thought criminal who shows insufficient deference to the police state.

The criminal justice system, financed by our tax dollars, dedicates huge amounts of money and labor to presenting their case for expanded powers to the public.

As someone once said (I think I read this on a blog somewhere): when the authorities spend this much time convincing us about the right way to understand an issue, the actual levers of power pass through the voters, and go back to the government.
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German law basically says that terms of service and end user license agreements can't contain surprises. If a service explicitly states it doesn't do certain things, the user hasn't consented to the service doing those things, even if the ToS or EULA contain a snippet in fine print saying the service may actually do these things after all.

This already bit WhatsApp when they tried to ban users for using alternative clients. A German court ruled while they may block those alternative clients, banning the user is unexpected because most other services don't have that kind of policy on alternative clients.

So they could have still kept that policy but they would have to make it unambiguously clear and draw attention to it outside the ToS or EULA because it's something users wouldn't expect from that kind of service.
Firefox OS is getting discontinued, not Firefox the browser.
consenting adults are allowed to freely enter into agreements.

I accept as a fact of modern life, that I unless I want to go be a hermit in the woods, I'll find myself entering into many contracts of adhesion that go against my ideals. And that as much as I try to limit this (not using facebook or whatsapp) I can't actually escape them entirely.

It is disingenuous to think that either (a) people fully understand and knowingly make the agreements they do w/r/t data or (b) do so willingly.

To draw the conclusion that it's just adults freely consenting in light of the previous paragraph is sophistry.
Great to see Google splintering off into single duty compartments instead of spreading itself so thin that nothing gets done with the same amount of focus. Alphabet was a true design decision, and a mature one at that. One thing that crossed my mind recently was the notion of Google and its long relationship with hardware: we have this thing called the Blockchain now, and it could do with some of Google's hardware to run on, instead of independent factions of people spending their pocket money on their own hardware. It kind of makes me jealous and annoyed that so much could be spent for what effectively is sometimes just a data center for storing people's holiday snaps on Google Plus, when it could be used to host micro democracies and change the direction of finance. I suspect all that hardware will eventually be re-purposed many times throughout the course of the Google experiment and probably will eventually be given away at some point to the blockchainers who need it. I can picture the scene: dreadlocked decentralists rejoicing at their new hardware gift from Google, 25+ years from now. The ultimate redemption from their years of slavishly handing their personal information over to Google in exchange for a decent search experience. A true revenge for consumers of Google. Meanwhile Google would have entirely switched to SSDs and are probably using post-quantum chips, but at least we can host multiple different blockchains now without spending our pocket money on them. The blockchainers can start to get rich and blockchain can really flourish.

Also, Google needs to create services which are for a post Snowden world. Allo is cute, but entirely inferior to things like Signal which addresses the problem of encrypted private chat head on. Google needs to create things like its own VPN service, perhaps?
When I travel with friends of family, I encourage them to not acknowledge me for a few minutes and then turn opting out into a fun experience for everyone! Except the TSA. ;)