skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yah, apparently you don't have my wife/kids/in-laws/cousins/etc. Where the rules for USB chargers seems to be, plug your phone/etc into whatever charger you happen to find, and possibly take the cable/charger home when your done leaving your old crappy one.
Right, we are definitely seeing this happening already, but I meant specifically chargers for on the go. There's no really good reason they can't also be hubs. There just aren't a lot of them yet.
Lots of cable subscriptions are sans contract. PSVue could actually be considered part of the problem: they pay what is asked by these broadcasters and they toe the line with their requirements of how you can consume the content.
> We should be taxing wealth and not income (or roughly speaking, unearned instead of earned income).

You'll see most economists advocating a consumption tax, instead.

> quantitive easing pumping up asset prices while doing nothing for the real economy

Both the "pumping up asset prices" and "while doing nothing for the real economy" is extremely disputable. It's kind of pompous of you to think you know better than the team of PhDs at the Fed, too.

> global corporate tax avoidance

The corporate tax should be 0%. No, I'm not kidding; hear me out.

Corporations aren't people; they don't ever actually pay taxes. People pay taxes. Yes, I know corporations are legal entities, but they're owned and managed by people, somewhere down the line. Those are the people the corporate tax is intended to target.

Presumably, the "goal" here is to get the corporations with scale economies, negotiation power, etc. to be taxed and use this to redistribute economic gains.

But what happens is that instead the burden of these taxes fall onto the shoulders of non-management workers in the firms and the people who buy what the firm produces. Because the incidence of a tax is indirectly distributed by a mechanism which depends itself on the negotiation power of the actors in the system.

That is the exact opposite group of the original intention (you'd want the burden to be as much as possible on managerial staff and shareholders -- eg. the people running the corporations). Also, the tax is distortionary and incentivizes all sorts of unproductive practices.

Of course, the tax would have to be replaced with something. That something should target the people owning and running the companies to make sure the tax burden is actually bore by them.

Consumption taxes can do that.

> the rise of the low-paid 'gig' economy and under-employment; fewer high paid jobs all demanding workers with ever higher levels of education (unattainable-for-many)

What you'll see with automation is a polarization of the labor market [1]. So what you said is not false, but not spot on. There are going to be more of both low and high paying jobs, and fewer middle paying jobs.

> A crisis is brewing. They leave us no option but to make changes.

Things are better than they've ever been, on average.

I don't think we should make any sweeping revolution, but smart, targeted changes. Of course, not all of those are pollitically feasible (imagine politically advocating for a 0% corporate tax replaced by a consumption tax and targeted taxes on shareholders and CEOs/board members).

[1] http://economics.mit.edu/files/9835
I'd recommend using Google Cache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/... because It takes long time to load website.
Their programming has been getting progressively more terrible over the last few years. I used to watch SportsCenter religiously, but I just can't stand the idiocy, the blatant shilling for the leagues, the political advocacy, and the puff pieces anymore. I watched it for game recaps, scores, and highlights, and just as MTV doesn't show music videos anymore, ESPN doesn't really serve that niche anymore. I'm not tuning in to watch Skip Bayless and Stephen A Smith yell incoherently at each others, or suspected-murderer-cum-saint Ray Lewis blather.

The one really great source of content they had going, Grantland, and by extension, 30 for 30, they loused up because of internal political games.
This makes me so angry and upset.

Facebook shouldn't just be holding developer conferences every year. This is way outside the scope of what Tech Companies skill sets can handle. There has to be open public acknowledgement of that at the highest levels and not just the usual PR.

Unintended consequences of tech have to be treated in the same way we treat high priority bugs.
REST APIs with Swagger and their complexity
In Apple's documentation, it mentioned that if you plug in multiple power sources, the MBP would choose only one at a time.
If solid rather than spoked wheels were acceptable, an out-of-round wheel on an axle can be marked with a piece of chalk-rock held in place while spinning the wheel, and then abrasive stones can be used to true the wheel to the chalk mark.

That is a rudimentary lathe.
On /r/soccer there was a post at the top from The Guardian. It seems that it's more based on the ability to stream:

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/59n8gf/even_my_78ye...

And to add to the general discussion about ESPN, streaming, and the like: I'm internet-only with TWC (now Spectrum, as I'm constantly reminded) but even if I had a tv subscription I still wouldn't have been able to watch the EPL on NBC Sports streaming site since they're Comcast-owned.
NFL players aren't the audience. The general public is, and at least 40% of the public doesn't think Trump is a racist.
Here in Denmark most of the companies have finally unbundled their channels, so you don't have to buy a bundle.

When my ISP did it, I called them up and canceled the TV portion entirely: who wants to sit there and watch a particular show at a particular time?
I've been cast out of progressive liberal circles for pointing out that, in spite of anything President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have done for advancing women's right in America, their foreign policy decisions are fundamentally incompatible with feminism which rejects the ordering of the world along structures of violence, domination, and hierarchy. I think there is a common theme to be extracted.
Would you spend $25-35 per month for ESPN? Because that's what it would probably cost if it wasn't subsidized by the bundle.

Your answer to that question may in fact be yes, but the economics don't work out. Disney would make more money getting $6 from every cable subscriber than try to scratch and claw to scale up an OTT service like Netflix that would inevitably cannibalize their current business.

The only thing that will change the economics is when the market forces their hand, which is what this story is about.
Very frequently the goal of licensing with the GPL and challenging violators is not financial gain (or punishment) but to force the violators to comply with the license and release the offending code.

Going to court to force release of said code is a much more expensive stick that can be held over the offending party's head.
Yup. Achieving a better big-O could for example be the difference between something being possible or not, whereas fine-tuning an algo without altering its big-O might be the difference between needing five servers or ten. Still relevant, but a different class of relevance.
Well, at least now they have the perfect marketing spin, "We no longer have the subscriber base to support cost effective investment in this market segment. We'll need to increase our subscriber rates significantly in order to offset any investment in a new streaming platform."

In short, consumers, once again, get screwed for the shoddy investments in technology by the behemoths.
It is a thousands separator and for example used in Switzerland and on calculators with LCD display.
Whenever this topic occurs, I send this in http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=1

Ubiquitous com...fusion.
Yes, let's all jump on our white horses and scream racism.
Automatically suing every time you think you have a case does not seem like a smart move. Suing someone turns a disagreement into a war. Starting out with a blog post and escalating from there seems like a much more diplomatic and sensible approach.
Can I tempt you over to the Microsoft side? The Surface Dock has exactly those connections - I leave everything connected to the dock as my "workstation", and carry my Surface Book travelling when need be.
Stay away from game test
Neolib establishment is gonna neolib. It's hard to convince the MIC and its proponents that its existence is antithetical to social progress when there is just so much capital to be extracted.
> Men and women experimenters approached total strangers on a college campus, and said “Hi, I’ve been noticing you around campus, and I find you very attractive.”

I've got to try this.
An ode to the 11-inch MacBook Air
What's your point? Liga MX probably gets higher rating in the US than the European top leagues combined and it's what second tier?

No one cares about watching a bunch of foreign countries with team names that don't even make sense play games at inconvient times on a third tier cable channel that makes it impossible to watch any single team because it's just random matches on random days.

Seriously, its European sports culture doesn't fit American sports culture. The league change teams year to year. The names are incomprehensible (Juventis? "Children"? Is that what that means? Where is this team even from?) The clock is idiotic (Count down, and stop the clock when play stops. This is 19th century technology people.)

Soccer's problem in the US is that it's niche and doubles down on its nichedom (I'm looking at you Real Salt Lake and Dallas FC.) The other problem is that US isn't good enough at it, and so we don't care. (Yes, USMNT's ranking has steadily improved over the last 20 years, but it's not a powerhouse.) Conversely, the only time most Americans pay attention to soccer is when the Women's World Cup is on.
Lack of Wayland support is going to hit Fedora 25 users hard very soon. It's completely unusable if Wayland is enabled.
The part that made me cringe was the insulting a major party nominee for president, and the talking down to me: "Oh, you didn’t? Well, now you do." Right, I had no idea that not all African Americans live in inner cities. Why present this obvious fact in such a condescending tone?

I'm a conservative. I watch ESPN because I love sports. If they are going to interject left-wing messaging, it's going to bother me.
Interestingly this happened to me and to my younger brother.

There was no racial component to it although we do belong to a religious minority, come from low-income backgrounds and were homeschooled. I personally felt some prejudice at various times on account of these characteristics.

In my case I was a 16 year old high school dropout taking a history class at a Junior College. My prof had a lengthy conversation basically trying to get me to admit my parents wrote an essay for me and eventually gave up, although clearly unconvinced.

In my brothers case a few years later (different college, different prof) I believe he was given a zero on a test and had to file a grievance to be able to redo the work or retake the test. This is circa 2000 so my memory is a bit fuzzy.

In both our cases there was no evidence - just the perceived mismatch between our presentation and ability prompted the accusations. (We were bookworms and in a family of bookworms despite being poor and lower class.)

My only comment and the only relevance to the linked story is I remember how OUTRAGED I felt at the accusation. It wasn't even the accusation of cheating - that I would be dishonest. It was the condescension, the implied "obviously you are not good enough to have produced this" attitude that hurt the most. In my case the professor was obviously trying to give me a break and be friendly but I remember how hurt I was and in my brother's case... I don't think he would ever speak to the prof again.

Being judged incapable of producing your own work BURNS.
I personally found it sanctimonious when the author spoke of women enjoying their freedom of wearing more revealing clothing at the same time as millions of men were walking towards the greatest fear they had ever experienced in their lives and ultimately their death. They are not even remotely relatable.
You make a good point about that specific issue, and they are similar to Classical Liberals, but really they are not.

They are a centre-left party.

They are pro-union, strong minimum wage supporters, in Ontario they are making massive investments in green energy that are sadly not very effective (I wish they were), they socialized the University system, and fully socialized healthcare to the point wherein it's illegal to pay a doctor to fix you - that's more 'socialist' than any European country on that point.

A 'Liberal' party in Europe would not support any government that barred private citizens from building a hospital or school - that's a pretty fundamental issue.

But I do agree they share some similarities.

But 'free trade' is one of the issues the socialist have pretty much lost/caved on - although we can almost all agree there can be downsides and weird caveats, on the whole most, even leftish economics buy into the idea of free trade.

FYI 'free trade' between two modern states is a very different thing than 'free trade' between a superpower and a small, agrarian, less-developed economy like USA-Chile or something.
This reminds me of an op-ed in my private college's newspaper written by a self-described libertarian that using a portion of tuition to create a scholarship fund was a socialist redistribution of wealth.
That's where I am headed.

I bought a Surface Pro 3 to play around with and to use for my one .NET project. I loved it, but I gave it to my assistant b/c I didn't really want to use two computers.

Well, time to buy a new computer and I think I am going to ditch my MacBook Pro and switch to a maxed out Surface Book. I'll keep the MBP around in case I need to do any iOS dev.

I am hoping that the Linux on Windows 10 stuff will make the terminal feel familiar enough.
3 vs 1? You obviously have no fighting experience, unless the one is trained it doesn't matter what weapon they have the three can easily out manoeuvre them with a little common sense.

When you have those odds everything is in your favour, the defendant has to be alert and "ready" at all times which is significantly tiring. Disarming is incredibly easy and how to do it is very obvious - all you need is one of you to enter any form of hold and the others can compensate and disarm easily.
Devil's advocate: HN's pathological self-moderation towards being polite and down voting/booting anyone who doesn't is the most likely cause of their lack of sexist antagonism. They may not act the same at all on other forums.

Also: prohibition was arguably much more instrumental in women's lib than "donating to the war effort". Previous wars did not have the same effect. But women were instrumental in introducing prohibition, and speakeasies invited them in during prohibition, and then they were instrumental in revoking prohibition. Each of those was a victory of power and acceptance that hadn't been seen before.
> Enforcing not using anything that uses the garbage collector may be left to the programmer

It's left to the compiler actually. Programmers can't be trusted.

The runtime does not implicitly generate garbage (like arbitrary Go code). It is compiled with a mode that fails compilation if something can't be stack-allocated. When heap allocation is necessary, it is requested manually. However, the memory returned is garbage collected, as usual, there is no free.
Thanks for sharing your experience.

Historically, sending men off to war has been good for women's rights and social status, but at the cost of many dead men. Do you think the same is true for other projects that took men away from home? For instance, long voyages of discovery in the age of sail?

If someday AI can replace most jobs while basic income allows everyone to live comfortably without a job, how will that affect the dynamic between men and women?
Please don't interpret me as promoting some blind trust in Apple. Some of the issues people raise I think are legitimate for their use cases. Some aren't backed up with anything. Perhaps I should, to use your words, "blindly trust" that their complaints are valid? I'd rather try to see both sides of the situation and decide for myself.

Apple is a large company and they've been successful for quite a while now. I don't think they're infallible. iTunes is a great example of something that I think should be right in Apple's historical core competency in terms of software and has been an absolutely horrible experience for years. I think the MacBook product line is fragmenting a bit, though I think that might be temporary--the expansion to include the MacBook Air is now once again contracting. How many iterations of iCloud have there been? (I think I still have a me.com account around here, somewhere.) I'd love a Mac Mini update.

Looking around, I'm pretty impressed with the Surface Studio, in particular the Dial. I've heard Windows 10 is really good. I have no reason to doubt that, though I have no experience with it. I like what I know about ZFS. While I have issues with some of how DropBox is implemented, I think its overall user experience is great! I also wish there were a commercial product like 10gui (10gui.com).

I do think there are reasons for the decisions they've made, and likely the majority of them don't involve active attempts to alienate their customers or incompetence. I also realize that Apple isn't going to be able to make products that will please everybody.

Sure, I'd love to be privy to all of the decisions Apple makes. I don't think I'm necessarily entitled to them. And I also have faith that I can evaluate the products for myself.

What do you think? Am I being fair? Reasonable? An Apple apologist? Completely off my rocker?
Those benchmarks are of limited use since the JVM has startup costs which get armortized over time. Full performance is only achieved after JIT warmup. AOT would improve that, but on openjdk that's experimental and few people use other JVMs that support AOT out of the box.

About the memory footprint: The runtime is larger, so there's a baseline cost you have to pay for the JITs. But baseline != linear cost.

If you have a long-running applications that run more than a few seconds and crunch more than a few MB of data those numbers would change.

So unless you're using the JVM for one-shot script execution those benchmarks are not representative. And if you do then there would be certain optimizations that one could apply.

> There must be some end user (positive) impact of memory compaction in Java.

Fewer CPU cycles overhead per unit of work, i.e. better throughput, which does seem to be an issue for gogc[0]. No risk of quasi-leaks in the allocator due to fragmentation. Reduced cache misses[1]

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14161
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/q/31225252/1362755
- Can you provide an example of what the "nitpicking" feedback is?

- Is their feedback consistent? Given the same code, will they provide the same feedback? If the answer is no, then it's not random.

- When other developers submit code having the same elements being frowned upon, do they receive the same feedback? If the answer is no, it's not a personal thing against you.

- Is it based on documented guidelines? If the answer is no, ask them to document it.

- Do you test your work and stand behind your work? Or other people have to test it for you? If the answer is no, don't give others a excuse to criticize your deliverables. Test your code, stand by your work.

I am trying to understand your situation. Sometimes it is easier to believe that others are wrong or ill-intentioned than accepting there's room for improvement in your work.

But sometimes, people are passive aggressive and use any opportunity they have to cause you harm. Sometimes people seek to be perceived as more important and use these instances to establish a relative rank. I find both practices unacceptable and unsustainable.

Sometimes it's all of the above. Let's find out what it is.

If you are dismissing guidelines, you are basically disrespecting the organization. If you disagree with them, start a discussion/proposal to have them changed rather than ignore them. In your proposal, present viable alternatives and a reason of why they're better.

I've personally been in both ends of the feedback process. Some people will just not take feedback at all, and take things personally, when you are just trying to improve code metrics and reducing incidents.
The only way you can find out is by going to the student and confidently saying something to the effect of "I know you've engaged in some questionalbe academic behavior, this is your time to explain yourself before I contact my boss and have them run a more though investigation". Cheaters usually crack instantly. (pro-tip for anyone on the outside who is cheating: just lie to us, we're probably not going to follow up unless it's extremely obvious if you've got a 1/4 way decent explanation).

For some reason, I immediately thought of that popular video: "Don't talk to the police." Today, I'd probably assume that if you're fishing for a confession, then you don't have any evidence, and your "boss" doesn't exist. For instance, when I was an adjunct, I didn't have support like that from my department.

What I don't know is how I'd have reacted as a college student with less confidence and street smarts, and with a possibly justifiable fear of antagonizing a teacher.
2 kids get scared by a clown
How do you think you get to a standard library? How do you package the best tools when you don't know what the best tools are?
This seems to imply the features lernt by neural networks are very different from the features humans use to distinguish the same objects because they are affected by distortions that do almost not interfere with features used by humans at all.
Better USB device support.

I've had to flip to VMWare for packaging usb-related software for deployment purposes. USB detection and function is hit and miss.

This is just my own experience, but I will say that when you attempt to find solutions to this sort of issue, one encounters a lot of posts from folks looking for the same thing. And not many answers.

I'd be happy for someone here to tell me I'm wrong and point me in the right direction.

Edit: replied to a parent not the correct child. My bad.
If they would fix this one issue[1], or make it super-easy to use an alternative to osxfs, I would have switched to Docker already.

[1] https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/77
part of the problem is public shaming

> This morning, my professor handed me back a paper (a literature review) in front of my entire class and exclaimed “this is not your language.”

While it's reasonable to ask someone if they've plagiarized, asking that person about it in public in front of their classmates is mean-spirited.
i prefer telegram
"Wonderful talk. One thing he called for was a wealth tax, which is something that makes complete sense but is going to be very unpopular. On "

doesn't targeting a higher level of inflation and issuing government bonds basically accomplish this?
They could switch to the AGPL https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.en.html
Apple sponsors significant FreeBSD development and employs multiple FreeBSD developers.
You are correct. Since WP is GPLv2, there's nothing to prevent a hosting provide installing WP, making changes, and charging for the 'enhanced' service and keeping the code for themselves, because the hosted app isn't being 'distributed' to end users. (There may indeed be some nuance if part of WP is client-side JavaScript...)

And this is exactly the case that Affero GPL was written for. (Affero is a modification to GPLv3.)