skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if this is primarily an American thing, or if this phenomenon exists in other countries.

Seems like one could solve this issue by making university cheap or free.
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Do you happen to have a link - sounds pretty cool if that will work.
Apple launches iOS 11.2 and does so only hours after the last beta
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The Kittitas Valley Wind Farm is East of Cle Elum and has a very picturesque backdrop. The ones you may be thinking of are East of Ellensburg and while it's not mountain views there are pretty rolling hills of badlands and canyons.

Of course it's in the eye of the beholder.

I do work for Microsoft but I'm in an enterprise Hololens business based in Issaquah.
Some women hate it. Some feel a sense of wonder (my mother was like that, when carrying my younger brother). Some face it with resignation (that was more like my wife). My wife's biggest issues involved her blood pressure and fear about actually giving birth. One friend I have no doubt would still have carried her child naturally, even given another option. Another friend, I'm not sure about.

Carrying a child is often a very emotional experience, and it makes sense that reactions to those emotions would vary pretty wildly between different people.
Yes, the Android-version is also just a Blink wrapper. It's almost impossible for Microsoft to port Trident/EdgeHTML to other operating systems, because it's so deeply integrated into Windows.
Open source doesn't mean the source must be publicly available for everyone to read. :)
They finally got their wish after they weren't able to do it with Facebook.
How can I trade cryptocurrencies profitably?
No. Lawyers are officers of the court. Especially in civil cases which are just about the balance of evidence, their role is to put their side of the truth in the best light. Not to just make up whatever bullshit they think might win.
« 50-50% of population » isn’t the correct way to measure equality...
You could've bought 100 bitcoin when it cost $0.01 and today be a millionaire. Did you?
This comment is written on iOS 6.1.3 on my iPad 2. It might not be able to run most new apps now, but at least it doesn't lag. Plus, the OS actually looks nice.
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A different cashmere sweater every day. That's my mark.
Publication isn't needed for copyright protection in the modern era, essentially all countries including the United States signed Berne which says you have copyright in any work as soon as it's created, no need to publish, register, file, or whatever.
Flowcharts don't have state? Certainly some simple ones don't, but diagramming programs in flowcharts was not an uncommon method of presenting programs... well, ever. Some of the introductory algorithms in Knuth's works use basic flowcharts. In some of his notes on computer languages, diagrams akin to what you are discussing were used by some smart people. So, don't take this as a criticism saying it is a bad idea.

More, this isn't to say these aren't worth looking at again. New and old things are always worth revisiting to see if something is different in the idea or the environment that we are in now.

That said, the UML world had several runs at diagrams that could do this. Activity diagrams being the more complicated ones, but what this is proposing seems to be the standard state machine diagrams.

It was not an unfounded (well, in my opinion) view that UML over complicated things. The problem appears to be that they were too complete in their modeling of the problems. And, these diagrams only really work in a "simple" sense if the viewers and the authors have a lot of shared context between them. The more of that context you put in the diagram, the more you will eventually remake UML's efforts. (Again, you will be in really smart company.)
It depends on the context. If this kind of behaviour is normal for Twitter then a politician should not expect special treatment. It is like going to an open mic night at a comedy club and then getting angry when you are heckled. Why should people change their behaviour simply because of who has decided to speak?
> Nah. Look at Samsung: ... and a smartphone that spontaneously catches on fire.

they did get a lot of bad PR for that and it was running joke in the tech industry and it still is even though they have recalled the faulty devices.
Apparently, this one, as they were doing it. What helps think about it is that the 'dependence' was a business transaction: Google paid Mozilla, and got something in return. Much like a startup being dependent on a single large customer yet still wanting to diversify.
USD trade volume for bitcoin has been around 2 to 11 trillion in the last month.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/historical-data...
because it comes from people running speedtest/ookla:
http://www.speedtest.net/global-index

They say 70mbit download.. Akamai says 18:
https://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/documents/state-of-t...
My point is, using your analogy, you can get drunk with all 3, but what matters is people you are drinking with.
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And you take this wisdom from where? They tried to build an entire mobile operating system before. Clearly they do care.
Taxation, like all things mandated by any government, is regulated by the legislation put in place by the respective governments. Everyone is entitled to use said legislation to minimise their burdens, everyone.

The problem that arises is that governments do not manage their responsibilities in these areas (or pretty much every area they have legislative control over) in any adequately honest way.

Instead of everyone being treated in the same way (including any entities created by fiat such as companies, etc) equally, we see all governments make special cases for various segments. So we see varying rates of taxes being applied across the population. Within that, what is never brought to account is how that government uses those funds.

Many years ago, if I heard it correctly, a new taxation regime was to be brought into a certain country. One of the ideas put forward internally was that a transaction tax be levied against all transactions passed through the banking systems use in that country. From what I gathered, it was something like, 1/100 currency unit per 100 currencies units.

The initial estimation (from what was conveyed) was that this would raise enough taxation to be able to remove all other taxation methods (including income taxes, sales taxes, government duties, etc). The richest companies and individuals would (by the nature of their transaction) pay the majority of this. It would also gather tax from all money laundering and criminal activities.

The burden on the least able members and small companies, etc would be less than what they were currently paying.

From what was conveyed, this specific option was given the death knell due to it being an incredibly hard sell to the country because all major companies and all major welfare groups would come out against this.

They settled for something that ended up not being capable of decreasing the basic taxation burden on the general non-business community.

The taxation law would have gone from 30,000+ pages down to probably less than 50 pages.

So how do you expect any sense to arise in this area?
That book is something else. Jones, Ms. Trixie, Gomez, Dorian... something about its cast of characters just perfectly captures the sheer absurdity of trying to make it through a day.

And part of me wonders if Toole might not have written Ignatius out a hyperbole of the worst parts of how he saw himself. I mean, it sounds like the guy was probably depressed and disillusioned with the structure of the world he lived in.
You cant steal from tax payers if you dont have access to tax payer's money..

Companies misusing public funds, and government allowing them to do it is an exemplary case of why people want smaller government. Because it does these kind of things.
Crypto doesn’t deserve your trust yet, you’ve been deceived and lied too
Perhaps you should try soda lime glass on a bunsen burner with no kiln like the guy in the article! It would save a lot over my set up too...
Is there a source that's not run by a self-proclaimed nationalist? https://nationaleconomicseditorial.com/contact/ and isn't on a spammy feeling website?
> 95% of any increases in FICA taxes are paid for by employees (via adjustments to wages and salaries)

What evidence indicates it's 95% and not 20% or 80% or 99%?
It's not healthy, but unfortunately maintaining compatibility and staying abreast of modern platform features (so that apps and content don't fully migrate to the single-vendor platforms) just mandates a lot of complexity.
As I could have bought dogecoin and a million other examples of total nonsense.

Instead I bought stocks that trebled in price and made some financial sense, and will keep making financial sense in the future.
What groupon have you seen related to glass work?
>parking is a nightmare now, traffic is a mess

Good. Your sense of entitlement to drive and park everywhere all the time does not and should not outrank other people's need to live where there are jobs (or, for that matter, the long-term viability of the planet).

>by the way the value of your most valuable asset, your home, was just halved.

I couldn't think of a brighter public policy success story than redistributing the unearned income of the landed aristocracy to people who are trying to make a living. If we build enough for the newcomers, at worst you're going to see returns at parity with inflation. Am I supposed to be sympathetic that you were thwarted from profiteering on a shortage?
This explains a lot and makes sense with what we are seeing on the outside.

WHY that happens is much less clear to me.
Well, according to marketwatch, if I am reading it correctly, the average trade volume of Amazon stock is 3.5 million.

USD trade volume of bitcoin is between 2 and 11 trillion.

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/amzn

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/historical-data...
Of course, it's not always healthy, but what are you gonna do about it?
Even leaving aside the other content on the linked site, I do find it suspicious that the only source it cites for the headline is one guy promoting his own self-published book.
network effects: a phenomenon whereby a product or service gains additional value as more people use it.

How does google search get better from more people using it?
Right. But not for mining or splits that could be seen as income.
I prefer this http://everytimezone.com/
This is a crime that violates the 5th and 6th amendments, and we should be arresting and prosecuting those who gave the order to violate this man's constitutional rights.

Are our rights worth less than the paper they are written on?
Until they have actually diversified, they are by definition dependent on whichever search engine they are currently contracted to.
Older scientific glassblowers i've talked to miss asbestos a lot. The various replacements are not as effective or convenient and some are toxic in a different way, such as teflon.
Yes, because as we all know in any company if you learn from your colleague you pay him a rate commensurate with how much effort he put in it.

Of course not.

This is a tax cheat by universities: it allows them to use money that has been given to them on the condition they use it for students for other purposes by "paying" it to students then demanding it back immediately as tuition (in practice not even giving it to them: it never gets to the students bank account).
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Maintaining an Independent <Software Project> Is Expensive
I realise it’s anecdata, but in my case I can say with conviction that the larger the company, the less likely I was to make friends there.

Oh, there are definitely more people. But the rigid division of labour means they’re often siloed off and you’re less likely to interface with them outside of highly structured interactions such as meetings, though this can be offset by both informal after-work drinking sessions (if so inclined) and in companies with more “cross-functional” proclivities.

The more substantial obstacle is just the nature of the people big company jobs tend to attract. They can be highly capable specialists, but big companies also are set up to extract value from relatively unremarkable entrenched maintenance specialists and ordinary cubicle dwellers. The latter are also less likely to be unusual and/or “interesting”, and more likely to jealously guard work-life balance and get ready to bail at 4:59 PM. I don’t mean to say that’s a bad thing, but it certainly makes them less socially accessible.

They’re also more apt to make small talk mostly about sports, a form of default male interaction that got on my nerves enough that it was a factor in my moving on from several jobs early in my career.

It may just be a place and time in my life thing, but the only enduring friendships and social networks I’ve gained from my time in W-2 land have been in very small companies of maybe half a dozen people.
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I remember hearing about this a decade ago. The fact that we apparently kept paying them is a condemnation of our entire infrastructure.

Likely where there's smoke there's fire. What else in our system is this broken?
What are you claiming now?

Are you claiming Mozilla was the tool of Google, switched to being the tool of Microsoft or Yahoo, and then back to being the tool of Google?

Or are you claiming that Mozilla is the tool of the "search industry" which is some amorphous group containing all of the above?

Google (and other companies in some countries) pay Mozilla to be the default search in Firefox. It's a business transaction and adequately explains why Mozilla gets paid. Conspiracy-theorizing claims that secret terms bind Mozilla to some hidden agenda should not be believed in the absence of evidence, and I haven't seen any. (And I'm a former Mozilla Distinguished Engineer.)
Supporting FF then is a kind of participating in mass movement to fight against capitalism.
> being disgustingly lucky

Getting lucky once can happen. Getting lucky twice, with Facebook and Bitcoin, is so improbable that it asks for a different kind of explanation.
Wow you picked up RN early!

Right, and the faster development cycle with hot or manual reloading makes it really easy to be productive.

I just need to figure out a few integration issues like navigation within our native app and localization using our current native scripts, but all the newness and uncertainty is really exciting.

Sorry I just realized my previous message autocorrected to nonsense.
Mozilla does not need 1200 people to make Firefox.

Mozilla has 1200 people because they blow all of their money irresponsibly, and that's apparently how many people you can hire with the bribes/revenue from Google it pays to maintain its monopoly.

The chairwoman takes over $1M year? Why would an open source project need anyone who would be so unethical? This is like a city councilperson paying themselves $1M/year. It's not surprising these same "leaders" spend all the organization's money on one failed project after another.

Firefox should be spun off into its own focused organization. It should do nothing but the browser and only employ people working directly on the browser.

The other 800 people working at Mozilla should be working on important projects like Firefox, not wasting time at a dysfunctional organization.
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You're right of course. I'm generalizing too much.
> missing out on one of the best tech opportunities in the last decade.

Can you enlighten me on what's "best" is in this tech opportunity?

To compare:

During Singles Day AliBaba had a peak of 325 thousand transactions per second.

Bitcoin struggles to make 4 while consuming a power equivalent of several small countries.
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Even in criminal cases:

> the defense lawyer may not lie to the judge or jury by specifically stating that the defendant did not do something the lawyer knows the defendant did do.

[source: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/representing-client-...]
This is great. Is there are a list of supported TLDs? For example, I'm not having much luck with .co.za (South African) domains.
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There's probably a "boiling the frog" aspect in this too. You probably don't get to implement the shady stuff right after joining the company.
Ask HN: What about women on HN?
Out of curiosity: I wonder what the share of women on HN is. There are no real names or pictures on profiles so it’s really hard to say. Somehow though in my head all HN users appear as men. I hope that’s not true. Is there any way to falsify?
Rights are only worth what people are willing to fight for.
However, as most people don't care, rights for most are just ideas.
So did they, but they choose differently.

Then why do you accuse them when you had the exact same chances and only your respective choices produced the different outcomes?
Funny to hear about state charts as the "future" while we can celebrate Grafcet's 40y anniversary.
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Way back when, there were versions of IE 4, 5, and 6 for non-Windows OSes such as HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, and Mac OS (Classic and X both). It is not unreasonable that they could do it again.
> both individual and group ethics have to fail

However, they don't have to fail at the same time or in a single step. This type of problem can creep in slowly over years as the "normalization of deviance"[1].

Richard Cook presented[2] a very useful model for how this type of problem creeps into complex system. The pressure from economic and workload concerns never goes away, so unless there is a proactive, explicit counter force, way to push back against that force, the system will inevitably be pushed toward failure. Therefor it's important to stop problems early when they are small. The magnitude of the counter force increases rapidly as behavior becomes increasingly deviant.

[1] http://www.rapp.org/archives/2015/12/normalization-of-devian...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGLYEDpNu60
Most academic philosophers (disclaimer: I am one of them) don't think of their field in terms of important figures of the past, but in terms of unsolved philosophical problems right here right now. [Tim Williamson's Tetralogue](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/tetralogue-978019872...) is a good intro to philosophy from this perspective.
It is super, super simple. When 80%+ of your revenue depends on a search engine, and you still have payroll to make, you are by definition dependent upon it, regardless of which one it happens to be at the time. The article title is "Maintaining an Independent Browser is Expensive". I'm just calling it out.

From the tone of the replies, kicked off by a guy in the analytics industry who went so far as to google me for a comment, Upton Sinclair is screaming from the grave:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

edit: And granted, they can currently play Google against Bing, although that isn't a terribly impressive degree of freedom.

edit edit: And where did the word "secret" enter into the conversation? It's like you depend on a search engine (or a batch of them during your break from Google) for most of your revenue, and I'm the one who has to prove that you're not influenced by that???
It's not 10 years, just 2-3 years. Python3 for the longest time was not useable. Only with 3.3 it became stable enough, and it took until 3.5 until it was even good enough and many libs were ported.

On top of it, Python2 works so well and python3 introduces so few advantages that doing an expensive port is just not feasable for many codebases.

And I guess that python is used mostly by smaller companys with constantly lacking manpower and money plays also an important role.
That's exactly my point. The term intellectual property groups all of these things together as if the laws surrounding them are in any way similar or related.

Yes, trade secrets are generally things which are patentable which the inventor chooses to keep secret for one reason or another - generally for some sort of competitive advantage.
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Scary, yet useful as fuck.
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The most important that this activism achieves is getting mass consciousness. It's a small step to getting the common sense remember that there is something wrong with our society and there are people willing to do something about it.
According to coinmarket cap, daily volume is consistently 5bn+ a day now
CloudTrail is indeed very cheap for customers — we record nearly all API calls and access to AWS resources and deliver these events to our subscribing customers. And the events are delivered for free, outside of S3 and Lambda “Data events” — gets, puts, and function invocation is billed at a very cheap rate.

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A couple critiques of the linked piece.

First off, the title is somewhat misleading. See this Reddit discussion on the same piece: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/7gob2w/american....

It seems like the "taxes" were really fees that went straight to the telecom companies. It's not as if the government collected these taxes, and then failed to push ISPs to roll out fiber or build public fiber of its own.

Secondly, this piece tries to make a number of comparisons to countries that have faster wired internet service, namely South Korea and Singapore. South Korea and Singapore have much smaller populations that are concentrated in urban areas, and are generally smaller geographically. The sheer size of the United States, combined with our propensity for sprawling suburban development, in addition to the higher throughput requirements of a much larger population, would seem to suggest that delivering widespread fiber capability will cost a lot more in the U.S. than in South Korea or Singapore. This is not even to mention the eminent domain issues and federal vs. local government conflicts that South Korea and Singapore do not face to comparable degree.

Third, the "recommendation" made at the end of the piece seems to be based on a bit of wishful thinking.

> "The Trump administration would be wise to make improving America’s digital infrastructure a priority. The South Korean model, market liberalizations combined with hard investments, could be a viable model."

What "liberalizations" would lead to growth in fiber connectivity? For the large numbers of Americans with only one ISP choice (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/us-br...), it's not clear what incentive there would be for a competing ISP to come in, make the large investments necessary to physically lay fiber, and then begin competing with the original ISP on price and service. There is tremendous upfront financial risk, and if the thesis of market liberalization is correct, namely that competition drives prices lower and speeds higher, the ISPs laying fiber may well never see a return on their investment.

Fourth, I think we should generally question whether massive national investment in fiber even makes sense at this point. Improvements like DOCSIS 3.1 allow for fiber-like speeds over traditional cable lines. At a certain point, we should ask whether gigabit speeds are really all that useful for most people.
Big5 And "and had to run a team of 5 not-so-great engineers" ?

Interesting.
I would say mbed is more like library ecosystem for ARM devices than OS.
FreeRTOS is just a tiny microkernel that you can easily adapt it to any device.