skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The increased friction that would be created by simplifying financial instruments across the board would probably facilitate a lot of rent extraction for people working in finance

You can have rent extraction through complexity as well as through friction. It's not obvious to me that a more complex, deregulated system is more efficient than a regulated, simpler system. I know that is the dichotomy that is usually talked about - a balance between efficiency and morality, but the sort of marginal increases in GDP we're talking about could easily be wiped out by other factors, for instance complexity that the clients can't understand, and greater instability in the general economy.
You can buy a taxi medallion. IF these companies go bust, medallions will go up.

Good luck. You're gonna need it.
Non-American here so I may not fully understand mindset causing this. Simplistic question but why stay in that area then? Why not move somewhere where house can be afforded and which doesn't require 'three hours of sleep'.

Nobody can work on three hours per day sleep pattern so this story can't be entirely true.

If I am working 18 hours per day, no matter how much money I make (enough or not) having no life at all makes it all irrelevant.
>Another good answer is all the benefits of Free Software, but many of those are benefits the general public doesn’t yet realize they need.

So if they don't agree those benefits are needed, it's because they are wrong/inexperienced/misled/stupid/...?

You think people should care about privacy and "openness of the software", whatever that is (most people can't code, so they rightfully don't care about the availability of the source code of the OS or apps).

What most people (including myself) care about, instead, is ease of use and reliability. You'll never catch up with the ease of use and reliability of iOS (not even Android can, and then not even Microsoft could catch up with Android), that's why Firefox OS failed and your mobile OS will fail as well.
Central European languages can get more or less by with Latin-1, although even there many characters are already missing, iirc French, Czech, Dutch and Finnish. Special characters of many regional dialects are missing as well.

FWIW (more or less proper) Unicode support seems to be pretty much an implicit, hard requirement today for almost anything facing users.
He should have said "Won't" instead of "Can't."

tldr; Whether Snowden’s theft was an idealistic attempt to right a wrong, a narcissistic drive to obtain personal recognition, an attempt to weaken the foundations of the surveillance infrastructure in which he worked, or all of the above, by the time he stepped off that Aeroflot jet in Moscow, it had evolved, intentionally or not, into something much simpler and far less admirable. He was disclosing vital national secrets to a foreign power. Conjectures about Snowden’s motives matter less than the undeniable fact that he was greatly assisted in his endeavors by powerful enemies of the United States."

I bet if you had a program where whistle blowers were honored instead of destroyed internally, you'd have less exfiltration of data, and less external whistle blowing.

The 4th amendment has been getting curb stomped for quite a while now, I'm curious as to when it'll be declared deceased. You currently have no expectation of privacy at a border, or too close to a border, or with any data at your phone carrier, or isp, or email provider, so really where does this "persons, houses, papers, and effects," really exist anymore? Hell, even if you think the 5th amendment protects you from being coerced with prison into telling your passwords, it often doesn't.

Maybe I'm missing something, and the 4th amendment is doing a great job somewhere, if it is I could use a reminder, I'm getting jaded.
Are you using it outside of China? Just curious because I'd like to try importing their stuff
> The biggest strength and weakness of Ubuntu Phone is that it’s a device without an intrinsic set of services. If you buy an Android device you get Google Services. If you buy an iPhone you get Apple services.

I think what you may get with a "popular" mainstream Ubuntu phone platform will be a lot worse - like Canonical allowing companies to install their own services/crapware, but worse than it already is for Android phones.
Because it's a static, well-known, open problem on which to focus research and public attention, and then that work can be generalized onto something useful.
There's no videos of them beating animals in that link.
>Depending on how many of the counts Swartz is found guilty of, the sentence could conceivably total 50+ years and fine in the area of $4 million.

The author is American so it's somewhat depressing he misunderstands the legal process so badly.

There is no conceivable scenario where Swartz could have been sentenced to 50 years in prison. Swartz's legal situation wasn't particularly grim and his lawyers would most certainly have informed him of this fact.

http://volokh.com/2013/01/16/the-criminal-charges-against-aa...
That's not a natural monopoly. The capital costs are nowhere near on the order of magnitude required to block new VC-backed companies from entering the market. Your comparison to utilities aptly demonstrates this point: to introduce a new transportation service, you would need to fund software and digital infrastructure, as well as physical vehicles (self-driving, most likely). That is well within the realm of a funded company to achieve. No digging up roads to lay new water pipes, creating new easements and installations for electric power lines, or any of the other substantial barriers to entry that existing markets for public utilities present.

Even setting that aside, your suggested solution to what is, in my view, a non-problem, is to introduce exactly the kind of regulations that have resulted in the abysmal service and high cost of existing taxi firms.

In order for firms to be incentivised to create these new business models - and let's be clear, the Uber/Lyft model is very much a new and revolutionary model in this industry - there needs to be the just reward for their investment. This is the incentive that creates new value. If you regulate that value away, you will be left with a new tier of lacklustre taxi 2.0 offerings.
> error_msg would be easy to pick up for translation, rather than have to do some cludgy import as _ and _("Internal error!"). Hm, now that I'm writing this here, I guess it's still not a type you'd want to operate differently on than just plain unicode strings.

This is maybe ok for very simple cases, but doesn't work as soon as you need context (in Python this is either done by extra _ parameters or through special comments) or pluralization.
This is how capitalism is supposed to work. The market is saying the value of driving a bus as a job is effectively zero, something I agree with and very much look forward to the day of robot buses.
Its interesting that for everyone involved its unthinkable to transition from "performance" jumping thru flaming hoops and the like to being a traveling zoo. Better to close than not jump thru hoops of fire.

I'd expect there to be a larger faction of the population who are cool with Tigers and want to see one, but flaming hoops don't light their fire.

I would imagine a pivot to traveling zoo would take major business changes to move away from the stadium experience and towards more of an amusement park or zoo like experience.
If you'd really like to try Ubuntu, your best option for now might be to get hold of a cheap, second hand Nexus. Ubuntu are about to change the OS to 64bit Core and Snap, and there's not much on the market yet that can run it. They are going to keep supporting the current system for a while longer though.
I would say yes assuming the group (of which the entire collective is made) also has the ability to change its mind later and vote that non consensual sex is in fact not ok.

If the majority of a group decide something then that implies collective consent unless and until the minority are so outraged that they either successfully agitate for change or the group splinters and starts fighting e.g. as happened with the abolition of slavery in the US.

Basically, collective consent is an implicit concept rather than an explicit one and doesn't require (nor imply) universal acceptance of something.
What else would you expect? They can't go out of business. They are so sacred that they appear immune to any sort of political reform. There's no chance of anyone getting fired for keeping things as they are. To change things would paradoxically be more risky.
Hah. I wonder if that program can see into Zip files. Or tar.gz ones. Or rar ones. And what will they do with password-protected Zip files?

Or... the USB stick using the D:\ drive?
Time management techniques (with or without help of web apps, or tools, i.e. Trello, Asana, Toggle, etc…).
Unhappy Developers: Bad for Themselves, Process, and Software Product
If want to use words like childish, ignorant, poor taste, you really need to make your case better. Many scientists does not believe in a creator but still believe the physical world to have order.

In any case, whether a creator exist or not, it is still a waste of time to search in the Bible for information about his plans for the future, like Newton did.

If you are going to argue it wasn't a waste of time, you have to point out what useful information Newton discovered in his studies of the Bible.
Is this excerpt about mosses really in the chapter on lichens?
For the period 1989–2014 this observation is interesting.

"We have analysed observations of the summer sea ice edge from the ship logbooks of explorers such as Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton and their contemporaries during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration (1897–1917), and in this study we compare these to satellite observations from the period 1989–2014, offering insight into the ice conditions of this period, from direct observations, for the first time. This comparison shows that the summer sea ice edge was between 1.0 and 1.7° further north in the Weddell Sea during this period but that ice conditions were surprisingly comparable to the present day in other sectors."

http://www.the-cryosphere.net/10/2721/2016/
doi:10.5194/tc-10-2721-2016
Some desktop users prefer stable despite its older package set. I use backports on stable for a few things.

HNers will probably prefer Sid as the packages will be newer. debootstrap springs to mind for newer programming language versions &c (I have never used a debootstrap install for that purpose however).
in a quest to monopoly, lyft has clearly lost. uber doesnt even buy them. theyll just become irrelevant as uber is winning the war for data.

theres no way to short private stock. for good reason.
Tiny Stories
a) Why not do the same to embedded videos?

b) The only affected browser is Safari. Edge and Firefox remain unaffected.

c) How many people actually watch 4K videos, and how many videos are 4K?

So let's not go overboard on the conspiracy theories. For all we know, it could be a bug.
I'm surprised that this was your take-away from my response.
sure you can, but lyft is very likely already written off. meaning you can short the fund (probably not because those funds are private, as well) but the lyft losses are already priced into their "stock price".

edit: maybe its more obvious in a different industry: assuming a hurricane wrecks florida. now you want to profit from shorting that event, so you short disaster insurance providers because you know they will have to pay for the damages. but the public market was faster. the losses are already priced into the stock, although those losses havent been realized yet. you can short it all you want, but you will be "too late" with your "unique insight".
I think the best way to put it is that Rust has no overhead. You'll never be in a situations with Rust where you say "Oh damn I wish I had written this in X because Rust has this annoying limitation". Some examples of limitations in other languages:

* Python has a GIL (Global Interpreter Lock) so writing multi-threaded Python code is more or less impossible (there are some workarounds but it still sucks).

* Most garbage collected languages (e.g. Java, C#) suffer from 'stop the world' pauses which make doing low-latency realtime stuff a pain in the arse. For example on Android they recommend you don't create any objects in your draw functions to avoid invoking the GC. It's kind of like "Java is great, no need to worry about memory, but oh... you really have to be careful about memory here." Not all GC languages are like this, e.g. Go now has sub-millisecond pauses.

And aside from that it is safer than C/C++. So basically it will be used wherever C++ was before.

The big downside is that it is definitely one of the hardest languages to understand and write. That can make you less productive. If I were on a varied team that included less skilled people I would definitely choose Go over Rust if it were suitable - it is a lot simpler.
Is 'not finishing' an inherent problem of being a coder and a coder's reward system?

When I look at myself, coding is great when I learn new things, new APIs, can glue stuff together to create new systems which haven't been there before. Once I master a technology or have to do stuff which was done million times before it gets boring. Then, I rather seek for the next kick, the next API, the next language/framework/lib.

So, having ongoing novelties seems to be an important part of a coder's reward system. This hurts finishing and going the last mile, the most difficult part of a project that is not about facing steady novelties. Often it even means to abandon the shiny new tech and rebuild stuff in some proven tech.

However, the bad is you never finish, the good is you learn all the time. Better than checking Facebook, Instagram and your smartphone 24/7.
Kubernetes – Controllers, Informers, Reflectors and Stores
If feelings and social signalling get "us" to a place, you can't expect logic and reason to get "us" out. Zoos are utterly doomed, it doesn't matter if they're logically or rationally good or not.
Hardening Windows 10 with zero-day exploit mitigations
Previous discussion of the same graph with data up to mid-November last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12992777
Because unlike this they actually publish their results.
Offer her an interview!
The presidential communications equipment under Barack Obama
They show 28 overlapping lines, that many lines simply can't be individually coloured. To accuse them of deliberately choosing a poor colour scheme is plain dishonest.

It is a graph comparing the current year to the previous minimum area years, with the entire dataset for context. The choices they have made are completely legitimate for this purpose.
The humans that comprise the current US government had no part in any of those things.

Nations are a way of making people proud of things that they did not do, and making people hate other people that they have never met.
The investment side of that equation is tiny compared to the demand side of that equation. GM's stock has very little to do with GM's actions. Much like the most profitable approach when a companies tax rate is 10% is effectively the same approach as when there tax rate is 20%.
Ok: you are wrong. There are several classes of simplification and most of them involve standardizing common written shorthand or replacing radicals to form new characters. There is some replacing of characters for homophones, but this is the least common type of simplification. As for Taiwanese, the problem there is that, simplified or not, the language features a lot of words that just don't have a standard representation in Chinese script. The whole idea that Chinese script lets Chinese people just write their vernacular speech and all understand each other is fallacious. Almost all written material in Chinese (especially anything formal) is written according to the grammar and vocabulary of Mandarin (although perhaps it will be read with the pronunciation of a different Sinitic language).
如何使火炉生存 – 简单的方法
Maybe it has something to do with costs? VP8 and VP9 are free while distributing h.264 and h.265 content will cost millions in fees per year. It makes sense to use free codecs instead of h.26x
> You deal with strings as bytes (opaque data) (edit2: didn't really mean bytes here. see child comments) more often than strings as text in systems programming, basically.

That's true in some sense [1] for unix-ish OSes, but doesn't hold on other operating systems.

[1] Even on unix-ish OSes it's pretty obvious that filenames are supposed to be encoded in something and aren't just uint8_t*. There's just no one telling you what that encoding is, so normally it's guessed (eg. $LANG). For filesystems that actually have a defined encoding (eg. NTFS\Win32, JFS, HFS+, APFS and the whole bunch of "non-unix OS FS") these are re-coded by the filesystem driver in the unix-ish OS. Eg. ntfs-3g transcodes filenames to UTF-8; cifs takes a "iocharset" option; and we of course have convmv(1).

The idea that "file names and generally everything in the OS is a bunch of bytes" is pretty much only shared by unix-ish systems.
The balanced scorecard provides a way to manage non-financial measures of performance, and incentivize long-run measures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_scorecard

If you measure the result of independent inspections and auditors on the executives' scorecard, don't be surprised if you get a financially healthier long run management of the firm.

I think at some point Taleb was learning the math and theory behind statistics, and then decided it was time to stop learning.
It's truly fascinating how everything will become as-a-service.

Truck and car manufacturers will have to disrupt their business models, as their customers will be fewer, but larger - known as Service Providers.

This is exactly what is happening in the IT Hardware business, where small companies can't motivate the cost of having their own internal datacenter (having to pay for staff, infrastructure, real estate, electricity etc). Rather, they outsource to "Local Service Provider LLC" (Managed Private Cloud), or AWS (Public Cloud)...

Both IT Hardware providers and truck manufacturere are experiencing "commoditization". The HW itself becomes less important. Why do I care if my truck has the latest V8 with Bosch 2.34 injection? I just want my fleet to operate smoothly. Many companies can no longer sell "just products", they must evolve and sell the services to create outcomes that a) reduces costs or b) generates extra revenue or c) reduces risk for their end-customers.

It's a major change for any large corp, which I believe many will not be able to achieve in time.

Good article on this topic:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/business/dealbook/1-billi...
If state level actors really are interested in what you have to say, then either you're a high enough level spook that you aren't using a web service for your entropy source, or your crypto is not going to be the weak point in your defense.
"Finish what you have started before starting / working on new projects/tasks." - My boss

Following the GTD methodologies (it's been a long time habit), a lot of small things get to the bottom of the list while new ones keep coming along, properly prioritizing tasks is the key.

After all, most people can only work on 3-5 tasks in parallel in real life.
Many government databases still just use some codepage and won't be changing anytime soon though. You can't get your name in a Swiss passport without first changing it into something ISO 8859-15 can represent.

http://www.24heures.ch/suisse/Les-noms-de-l-Est-mutiles-lors...
> Being the leading transportation service in Barcelona doesn't really get you any discounts or brownie points in Beijing or Cleveland

It wins you brand loyalty with travellers. I've come to expect Uber just works, everywhere. Sometimes Lyft or Juno or Careem or Hola are marginally better somewhere, but they aren't minimally competent almost everywhere, and that's a big difference.

That said, I agree with you. Few foreign governments will permit an American company to see where their citizens are, where they're going and with whom they are meeting for how long.
> You think people should care about privacy and "openness of the software", whatever that is (most people can't code, so they rightfully don't care about the availability of the source code of the OS or apps). What most people (including myself) care about, instead, is ease of use and reliability.

If you talk to inexperienced computer users, probably the most common complaint you will get is that software they are using is being changed underneath them, after they have got used to it. You could turn around your argument 180 degrees, and still be equally valid in saying that it the walled garden 'we will do what is best for you' attitude is actually about saying that users "don't agree those benefits are needed, because they are wrong/inexperienced/misled/stupid/...?"
I hadn't been to a circus since i was a kid, kind of remember having a fun time. Took my kid to one when he was 3. It was the most uncomfortable, depressing thing I've ever paid to see. Glad to see the practice is dying out.
Today I aim to write my first ever comment!

Done.
The second vowel sound seems to occupy a continuum of elision from "a" through "ə" to complete absence, depending on the speaker, the rate of speech, the degree of sobriety, and the phase of the moon.
So, your prediction for walker droplet spin is that walkers, in kind of Stern and Gerlach experiment, will behave like classical magnets, not like quantum particles, right?
When did you upgrade to iOS 10? Immediately after upgrading to iOS 10, my wife's iPhone 6 (not 6s) started draining battery much faster, and automatically shutting off with 30% battery remaining. A couple weeks ago, she upgraded to iOS 10.2, hoping to fix the issue. The issue got worse. Now, she burns through about 70% of her phone's battery within about 2 hours (even if it's sitting in her purse).

Apple support says the remote battery test shows no problem. The Genius Bar guy ran a test with the phone physically present and confirmed the battery is showing some signs of age, but still within spac.

We live in Hong Kong. One of the phone support guys we've talked to in the past couple weeks checked for a recall for my wife's phone's specific serial number and said "There's no recall in Hong Kong for that serial number". When I pressed him about if the same serial number had a recall in other countries, he said something about New Zealand. However, he changed subjects quickly enough and didn't come back, so I couldn't really catch if there really was a recall in New Zealand for this serial number, or he was just mentioning a hypothetical possibility.

In any case, Apple isn't replacing our battery, and my wife doesn't have a pre-upgrade phone backup, so we are unable to test if the shortened battery life is just coincidental with the iOS update.

I took her to the phone market yesterday and we picked out an Android phone for her. Now I'm going through the pain of exporting and migrating what data we can, and manually migrating some other data.

As a long-term Apple user and shareholder, the botched MBP and iPhone 7 this year, along with the iPhone 6 battery issues and the lack of empathy shown toward my wife all make me more than a bit sad. I would have considered upgrading my wife's phone to an iPhone 7, except her frustrations with Apple support have made that a no-go.