skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're taking it for granted that people who have money deserve to be given money, and people who don't have money don't deserve handouts. Which is charity: giving a 1% rise in Walmart's profits to its shareholders, or giving that 1% rise in profits to its workers? What makes shareholders intrinsically more deserving of reward for the company's output than employees? Under what circumstances does Walmart giving money to people not qualify as charity? Why is it okay to legally compel Walmart to give shareholders money, but legally compelling Walmart to give its employees money is unfair to Walmart?

It's really bizarre to call paying people a fair wage charity.
that means they can afford to pay their workers around 3,000 more a year and their profit margins will the be the same as costco's
> Last time I looked up the numbers, those workers were earning at least an integer multiple of the average wage for China

Underneath the pompous attempt at technical-sounding language, what are you trying to say?

If you really meant "...at least an integer multiple of the average wage...", this is a really pompous way of saying "some amount, which could be infinitely negative", since integers include negative numbers of unlimited magnitude.

If you really meant "...at least a positive integer multiple of the average wage...", that's a really pompous way of saying "...at least the average wage..."

If you really meant "...at least an integer > 1 multiple of the average wage...", that's a really pompous way of saying "...at least twice the average wage..."
In this situation, the reporter(s) at AllThingsD actually have much more detail (as they have clarified on Twitter) but haven't shared out of respect for the folks involved.
yes. we realize that. currently you can configure it to DD/MM/YYYY, DD/MMM/YYYY, DD/<full month>/YYYY & choose to compute durations between dates. we will give more configurations soon. thank you for your time.
A fraction of users upload videos on Youtube, guess this feature also needs to be phased out.
Strike on Syria could trigger retaliatory attacks, cyberwar
Nice redesign! I particularly like the Qantas mockup. Pity that Qantas don't actually fly from San Francisco to Sydney direct anymore :(
No, they make money on their products, but the costs of workers/rent/etc. is what costs them more than the profit on the goods
What if I said you have a princess problem?
If by "trying" you mean, random coding expeditions performed by people in too much of a hurry to find out what their forebears discovered, then yes, you stop trying. You stop trying and start reading, start researching, start thinking. There are vast reserves of knowledge just sitting there in the source code, waiting to be read. Looking at the CAP theorem and deciding to make a distributed database to exploit different tradeoffs is very sensible, but hubristically ignoring everything that came before because it's older than a decade is not.
If you haven't needed reminding of what your name is then you haven't been properly jetlagged ;)
From the opposite end of the spectrum: If everyone could have as many children as they wanted regardless of any outside consequences, wouldn't that be just as harmful or not more?
Apple ID voes
Internet.org initiative radically increases online work opportunities
>It's remarkable that modifying C++ headers is such a chore that it comes up as a reason for getting something done in a tiny fraction of the time for a roughly comparable task.

Couldn't agree more. Though I don't find it all that painful - lots of editors/IDEs have a 'go to header file' shortcut that makes this take a couple seconds at worst.

But then I have repeatedly wondered why IDEs don't seem to have a way to synchronize your cpp changes to your header automatically. Rename function in .cpp -> automagically rename function in .h. That's all you really want a lot of the time.
Return to the rainforest: A son's search for his Amazonian mother
Do we have reason to believe that the majority was/is not in favor of recent/ongoing wars?
Thanks, good to know. The challenges you describe are interesting, I'd love to read an article about it ;-).
The opposite model as Xbox and Playstation.

The console is the up-front purchase, which equates to Costco's membership fee. But Xbox and Playstation lose money up-front.

Instead, Costco operates on the Wii or the iPhone model, where you take most of your profit up-front and then operate the rest at a much smaller profit. (Though still positive.)
+1 about personatest.org. I felt also slightly uncomfortable about this and would like to know the reason :)

Otherwise it seems great :)
Https enabled by default for logged-in users on Wikimedia sites
tl;dr HTTPS is now mandatory for logged-in users on Wikipedia and other projects, except in China and Iran where HTTPS can be blocked.
Why America cannot live without wars
They still need it when they need to do a manual boarding. It's not very common, but if the computers are down and they still need to get people on the plane they'll collect the stubs and check people off on a clipboard.
Firefox nightly is fine too.
I just renewed mine this week without any trouble, but of course YMMV.
tl;dr HTTPS is now mandatory for logged-in users on Wikipedia and other projects, except in China and Iran where HTTPS can be blocked.
I've never updated my skill set on LinkedIn. Don't see any value to it. And yet some of my friends who have no idea what I'm working on endorsed me for random programming skill set. There should be a credibility factor when someone endorses you. Say the person endorsing you for skill set x should have been endorsed for that skill set x at least n times before being judged credible. Right now, it's just a "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" function.
Yeah - I am not sure how people don't realize what is really going on here... Linkedin found a great way to entice user engagement - by asking pointed questions about people you know and may have insight on their skills.

I don't see anything "shady" about this as much as I do see it as a targeted use of their system, in a germane method.

If you are not keeping linkedin as a silo of professional, superficial, contact with the many many many people you will work with over your career - and you don't understand why things like endorsements both happen and are a part of the linkedin ecosystem, then you're not using linkedin correctly.

Firstly, you shoul unsub from all notifications from linkedin aside from who has viewed your profile.

Second, its not facebook, thank god. You're not there to impress people by the content you create. You're there to show that your influence in your field is a positive attractor via the quality of your network; if you have good people and companies recommending you - then you have more marketability for your CV...

The people posting to linkedin groups really frequently telling you what to follow and what valuable BS skill/fad thing thats new - they are typically marketing, sales, bizdev and unskilled folks... stay away from the idea that you're going to show the world how farking smart you are via a linkedin post.

Work hard - build a good network. Have strong ACTUAL skills. People who know you will hit "yes, they DO know this" when linkedin asks this...
So turn the 3D off on a 3DS? I don't think the lower price point is worth it, especially if you like the clamshell design (I do).
Buffer now lets you share Google+ Pages
Skype confirms 3D video calls are under development
We used to have a similar feedback system and tried it with our in-house development & QA but it didn't work well. Giving feedback takes lot of writing and rewriting, with traditional writing, users can review and make corrections but with audio users will have to delete and start everything from scratch again. This is our personnel experience, you may be seeing better results as your target audience is different.
Have you ever thought of using FBA?

http://services.amazon.com/content/fulfillment-by-amazon.htm

You can opt-in their Prime program and offer free 2-days shipping to your customers.

I think there was FBA integration in Shopify but they're dropping it, but an app still let you integrate with FBA.
Tesla Is Now Worth $20 Billion
> Linux Containers, which docker makes use of, are more like creating a "clone" of the currently running operating system with a boxed-in filesystem (and device-space?).

This is not accurate. I am currently running an Ubuntu Docker host, but a CentOS 6.4 based container, a Gentoo container, and a busybox container.

As stated elsewhere in this thread, which I encourage you to read, Docker aims to solve problems that exist in container technologies across kernels by taking advantage of their strengths (Docker does not aim to replace libvirt/lxc/jails/zones) but instead to build abstractions on top of them for better building, management, discovery, and scale.
A British tabloid did a number on Eric Schmidt recently, calling him a "love rat" with "a string of exotic lovers".

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2371719/Googles-Eric...

Is this kind of reporting any worse than the paid-for-fluff pieces in TechCrunch, PandoDaily and Wired?
I am quite curious about this as well.
Licensing for what ? Using round corners ? Rectangular speaker hole on top of screen ? How original and inventive are these features ? Is that all what makes an Apple iPhone ? I mean is this copying iPhones ?
> PS: I love the C++ namespace 'WTF.'

I believe that namespace has diagnostic functions that help you answer the question "What's This Function?".

So stack trace helpers, and the like.
What carrier is this? Back in the day I recalled my old carrier stating 1-800 did not count against your minutes. Now I have unlimited so doesn't even matter
It is merely an illustration. The reality is stuff like that occasionally does happen when you use variables and parse results from other commands.
> Did you notice the data point in the article that Costco makes $2 billion in membership revenue and yet makes $1.7 billion in profit, which means they effectively lose money on their sales?

That $1.7 billion is net income, which is after subtracting out the income tax. You have to compare to pre-tax income, which in the case of Costco is essentially just operating income.

75% of Costco's income came from membership fees in the last fiscal year, and similar or higher percentages in other recent years.

From Costco's FY 2012 annual report, page 25 (in millions of dollars):

Membership Operating income
2008 1,506 1,969
2009 1,533 1,777
2010 1,691 2,077
2011 1,867 2,439
2012 2,075 2,759

PDF file: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9M...

The membership fee, of course, serves another purpose. It reduces patronage by lower-income shoppers, and therefore helps to reduce shoplifting. The receipt-check is another deterrent. Since Costco has such a tight margin on its merchandise, it cannot tolerate industrywide shrinkage rates.
From what I can tell, the idea of natural rights is really popular with people who are into anarcho-capitalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_and_legal_rights#Conte...

> Contemporary political philosophies continuing the liberal tradition of natural rights include libertarianism, anarcho-capitalism and Objectivism, and include amongst their canon the works of authors such as Robert Nozick, Ludwig von Mises, Ayn Rand, and Murray Rothbard.

As far as I'm concerned:

legal rights : natural rights :: laws : morals
What would happen if very simple life was found on the moon? I mean what effects would it have on society, would it be as significant if life was found say on mars? Would it put an end to the alien life debate or just fuel it further? I doubt have high hopes for there being life there, as obviously life needs more than just water but its fun to think about
Why? LinkedIn might be using more sophisticated data internally to differentiate real from bogus endorsements than they show externally.
How? Water is already a relativly low-energy compound, so I assume you are talking about using it to manufacture hydrogen molecules to use as fuel.

An external source of water is completely unnecessary for this. The idea behind hydrogen as a fuel is that you can react it with oxygen to produce water, which is a lower energy molecule. You can then harness that difference in energy to do whatever. The amount of water generated is equal to the amount of water needed to generate the hydrogen (and oxygen) molecules in the first place. It is a rechargable battery.
Ian Ayres from Yale had a paper with similar ideas and they quoted a court case at the beginning that reads:

"[T]he right of every person ‘to be let alone’ must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.” - Rowan v. Post Office Department, 397 U.S. 728, 736 (1970)

http://islandia.law.yale.edu/ayres/mprivacy.pdf
My relatively nontechnical parents have no fewer than 5 AppleIDs, due to various fuckups like iCloud creating them new accounts, email changes etc.

The most annoying situation I've ran into dealing with these headaches was when the (then new iCloud) automatically enabled itself, and somehow resulted in a new account being created, and the old one getting mysteriously "masked" (it was somehow associated to the same email), and unable to be logged into (took a call to apple support to fix this). Apps associated with the different accounts cannot be updated while logged into a different account, nor music etc.

This results in them having to sign into no fewer than 3 different accounts just to update everything on their idevices.

Its a complete and utter mess, and apple support has zero ability to merge accounts, or move purchases around.

Why cant they do better.
Supported in Unbound with `use-caps-for-id` http://www.unbound.net/documentation/unbound.conf.html

I love unbound.
"Hey erikj54, pg just endorsed you for "HN Commenting Skills" -- We'd like to ask you (5) questions regading HN commenting! in order to publish this endorsement to your profile:

1. Assuming you just created an account on HN and immediately see a comment you disagree with. Can you downvote this comment? [Y/N]

2. A YC Company just posted a job posting to HN, can you post why you are a perfect rock-ninja for the job as a comment? [Y/N]

3. Can a comment receive greater than -4 comment Karma? [Y/N]

4. Can you downvote a comment reply to your OP comment? [Y/N]

5. How important is being civil in HN threads [Very Important/Not Important]

---

This might work....
> Work hard - build a good network. Have strong ACTUAL skills.

Yes. But linkedIn doesn't come in there at all.
In a sense it's no different than sending false invoices to large corporations in hopes that they won't double check for a service or product.
Except not really because there ARE literally thousands of companies who want software engineers right now, but there are not enough of them to go around in the United States.

This is only going to get worse as everything moves from manual labor to software. We will need more and more developers and less janitors, less cashiers, etc.

In 50 years there will be very few unskilled jobs. And they'll probably be something stupid like clicking ads or filling out surveys full time.
This sounds like a case where providing users with a dimensionally-modelled reporting schema would be a big win. It would help both with the slow query problem and the super-complicated interface problem.
Do I have a natural right to hurt somebody weaker than me?
Same here. I don't care about Snowden or anything related but I like to learn about any new libs, projects, startups...
3D is dead
It includes all the revenues, including sales, membership fees, and interest income. Minus all the expenses, including cost of goods, sales and marketing, corporate overhead, debt service, and taxes.

Net income is literally the "bottom line" number on the accounting statement. It's the number that coes out after accounting for everything in the business.
Try getting a different plan. T-mobile's unlimited data plan with limited monthly minutes is $30 / month. Their unlimited-everything plan is $50. They nominally charge extra for tethering, but tethering worked just fine for me without actually buying the "service". No idea what "smart phone plan" means.

Summary: the problems you're experiencing don't seem to have much to do with what country you're in, so much as your belief that buying a plan with a ton of bizarre extra costs makes sense.
Using Emacs and Conkeror, with Herbstluftwm.

Conkeror was what tipped everything for me: Having been used to gui apps for a long time, my continued use of gui browsers kept me in some kind of limbo. Learned just enough of Emacs to get things done but never going whole hog in learning its shortcuts mainly because I was still relying on mouse clicks on things like the browser. With Conkeror, those shortcuts work well on both my non-gui emacs setup as well as the browser. It's been a great working environment.
> The iPad POS market is saturated, and Square already has a tremendous foothold. I have serious doubts about the whether this system can succeed so late in the game.

The search engine market is saturated, and Yahoo! already has a tremendous foothold. I have serious doubts about the whether Google can succeed so late in the game.
What's in a coke
Wave goodbye to global warming, GM and pesticides
Very cool but I live in the MENA region and that is not going to change anytime soon.

Still, very awesome.
Suggestion: provide a dimensionally-modelled reporting schema, it will be much easier to query.

Kimball's The Data Warehouse Toolkit is the definitive tutorial on the subject.
Yes it does. But I want defense in depth: I want it contained, I want OpenBSD-style randomisations and so on.
Design, build, and scale APIs for web and mobile apps in minutes
I think many of us are waiting for a lisp os to come back. At least personally, Emacs is just the closest thing to this idea which is also runnable right now (Except buying an old lispmachine, or running the genera image floating on the web not long ago).
if not for government programs, nobody would work at Walmart
they would literally not be able to afford to work there, so they wouldn't even accept the job if offered because it wouldn't pay their expenses since the opportunity cost would be too great

a few retirees or people living with parents would work there, but not enough to fill out their work force
this is because wages for unskilled labor tend to approach the minimum you have to pay for people to live
and since the government is footing the bill to reduce that minimum to very little, Walmart can get away with paying very little

if government decided to take away all benefits for people currently employed, Walmart would have to raise their wages because the workers would quit in droves to sit on welfare instead
WMV
Study shows men just as likely to be depressed as women
Amazing stuff! It's things like this that makes me proud to be a developer.

This leaves me wondering, how does one go about designing such a system? Are you planning on doing a technical write up soon?
I am well aware, but there is a dedicated group of very advanced OSM users using JOSM, QGIS, and manual vetting of data, so it is a semi-automated import.

That being said, thank you for throwing this up for the uninitiated. Some of the emails to the OSM-main and OSM-US list were hilarious, like people populating entire country-worth datasets. Boy, did people yell at them.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Washington_DC/DCGIS_impor...

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import

http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports-us/
Big contest motion games
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Xiaomi - All you need to know .
> Push-button endorsement systems are meaningless without a corresponding downvote mechanism. There have to be both sides of the coin, or else you get nothing but meaningless and empty results.

Those are not the only techniques available. If you look at how Google's PageRank works, a link is like an endorsement, but there's no downvoting possible.
A Strangely Beautiful Map of Race in America
You don't really need a list of your misrepresentations of reality, but http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120724125504129 may remind you of some of them.

I should note that it was written at a time when you were still claiming to be independent. You know, before you faced the fact that your name was going to be on Oracle's list of paid lobbyists and so you admitted to it up front in the way that made it look as good as possible.
FWIW, as a non e-commerce person, I always read POS as "piece of shit," so this did make me chuckle at first read ...carry on.
I think the idea is that you can use solar or nuclear to crack it into hydrogen and oxygen for use as rocket fuel. With rockets, fuel is both energy source and reaction mass, meaning that you throw it out the back end and can't recover it. You can also use the oxygen for breathable atmosphere. Every kilogram of useful mass you can find on the moon is one less kilo you have to haul from earth.
I get bording passes sms-ed to me. They only have basic info, but its all there. Then on bording they issue a paper one that you carry to your seat. Works well, but for non frequent users it can be slow.
Awesome. I'm trying to get the Open Genera on OS X now and I'm running into problems getting the ES40 emulator built and compiled for OS X.

How are you running OpenGenera?
> And Netflix's DVD side of the business (the one Reed Hastings wants to kill somehow) is turning in 50% margins.

DVD rental is a high-margin but stagnating market, while streaming is a low-margin but growing market.

The stock market believes that it's better to expand profitlessly than to remain small but profitable. See Amazon's P/E ratio.

Besides, Reed Hastings is a tech guy. He cut his teeth on the Purify memory leak detector. He claims that he always wanted to do streaming -- it's just that the broadband infrastructure wasn't well-developed In 1997, whereas DVDs were just then starting to take off. (And they happened to weigh under an ounce, which made them cheaply mailable.)
HTC is developing new mobile OS for China only
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324463604579040172467657350.html

According to sources from China, the system called COS, is co-developed by HTC and a company of national academy institute in China. The effort should get support from China goverment.
>...build a good network...

Keeping track of that network is enabled via linkedin. You do NOT need to follow all the personal lives of people you work with. You should keep a pulse of where they move to and what position they hold over the years.

So if you leave a company and had a great rapport with your peer Z -- and they go on to startup X and become head of Y and you are looking to work in a department like Y with a person like Z... then this is a good thing.

So, yeah - i think Linkedin comes in.

Further, assuming you transition to consulting. Recruiters and the like will seek out people with skills on linkedin to fill positions they only know about. If you are strong, you are your own best/worst negotiator when it comes to getting these contracts.
> This is only going to get worse as everything moves from manual labor to software.

True, but there's an interesting twist. As more people are hired to write software and build computers, some of those people create robots, the robots take over more of the unskilled jobs, which further accelerates the process.