skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, it's scaremongering to claim that ads may be regressive. Yes, maybe they are, or maybe the inverse is true, since plenty of advertising targets more affluent demographics while lowering the costs of the services displaying it.
Without more data, we can't know.

As for being more expensive, that's based on the idea that higher costs necessarily lead to higher prices, which is far from a constant truth outside of the world of spherical cows and perfect competition. In some sectors, it could make it harder for startups to compete, raising the rent that an incumbent may be able to extract from consumers as profits.

Besides, removing advertising would remove a vehicle but not the motivation, so it's to be expected that firms would continue to invest in ways of capturing customers, which may or may not be cheaper that advertising.

Empirically, the results seem mixed, with the removal of advertising both lowering as well as raising prices in different sectors of the economy, so the conclusions aren't obvious.

I dislike advertising and I work for a company that charges for its products, by the way.
> embedded systems have exploded in complexity in the last few years

I feel like something has to give soon. I don't think we can sustain the exploding complexity of software systems too much longer. The cognitive load will be too much to bear to develop an "average" software system soon, unless we come up with some really fundamentally different concepts to manage complexity.

Maybe "systems" are the problem. Systems are almost by definition infinitely complex. Maybe there's a better model that reduces the "system" effect? Could it be a functional approach?
Heheh funny :)
Also, I get the impression that "emergency care" omits emergency-related care. If you receive "emergency care" its not unreasonable to assume you may well need follow up - and that follow up could easily end up costing a lot more than the original incidents "emergency care". But that later care is often closely tied to the initial incident. Moving patients around and/or switching doctors often isn't easy nor necessarily safe.

In short: Non-emergency care doesn't necessarily mean care where you can flexibly and easily choose your care provider.
We are based in California.
Can you please help me find even an argument in that deck, let alone any refutation? Did I get an incomplete deck, perhaps? The version I'm seeing stops at slide 22.
That's why aerospace electronics have temporal and physical redundancy as well as voting algos. These generally rule out the radiation, physical damage, and RF issues.
I think we are starting to dig into the weeds a bit too much. I am well aware of how insurance works, and how single payer systems contrast to the US system. What the OP was trying to point out was that free market economics can break down in certain situations, and health care is a prime example.
A cynic could probably describe this position also as pseudo-intellectual populism, i.e. catering to the last bastion of print magazine buyers?
This is the explanation. I use skype video pretty extensively and what you describe happens all the time.
My car (Kia Soul) weighs 2700lb and is considered light. Indeed the newer models have been steadily increasing in weight as more and more features are added. Of course part of this is the consumers fault, more features means more parts which means more weight! The 2012 version of the Soul is currently up to nearly 3000lb!
Personal Programming Environment (PPE)?
> Everything which was simple transformed into horrible, black voodoo magic

That's what radical re-envisionings always look like. Anything that fits easily into your toolbelt is an incremental improvement. That's what the word "radical" means.

The promise is that after doing some hard work to learn new data structures you will be more powerful, but it's certainly your right to be skeptical of that.
That's true and a point worth making, but as a practical matter, breaching almost anyone's perimeter is game-over. To not have that be the case, you need to design from the ground up so that internal services don't trust their own deployment network; it's difficult, time consuming, and in many cases confining (ie, it makes some services prohibitively difficult to deploy).

It's for this reason that pentesters learn quickly that the "make an arbitrary HTTP query from the target's own server" bug is usually sev:critical; for instance, in virtually any Fortune 500 network, that pivot gets you (with a little effort and 50 lines of code) to a JMX console somewhere, and from there code execution.

There's no good reason not to do both (ensuring that your internal services are authenticated reasonably and don't expose functionality or information pre-auth, AND setting up a VPN). But the VPN is the most valuable step.
Yeah, but such a statement requires no actual evidence. I can tell you I'm okay with it, because that's a fact about myself. The fact that your view is incompatible just shows that I don't consider all opinions morally valid, some are wrong. Just as to you it might appear that I am not 'good', it might appear to me that you're not 'good' if you refuse to pay taxes. It's a coincidence that my view is backed-up by society, but such is life. A libertarian might say to a person born blind, deaf and dumb who is unable to work: 'tough luck', I can say to a libertarian born in a society that forces them to support those less fortunate with taxes: 'tough luck.' I personally see nothing immoral about this.
It's pretty obvious that Mail.app 7.0 is incredibly buggy, it's just a shame that they had to be called out on this particular case which wasn't their fault.
Thoughts on reviewing tech products
Haha this is great
Why are consistent, simple, and clear languages like self and io (http://iolanguage.org/) so underused?
This is just talk. I doubt it is that easy.
Databen.ch - JVM Persistence Benchmark - Round 2
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Dev here.

With the increasing move to get more people programming, maybe a simple coding environment can be helpful..

I have ported Jasymca to the mobile web...

Feedback, especially from students is welcomed.
Sure. But then I'd incentivized to find a doctor who knows what he is doing.

I'm ok with incentivizing less medicine rather than unneeded surgery :-P
US dollar is a fiat currency and will stand around even if taxation is zero http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money

Opposite of fiat is representative currency, which is tied to specific tangible products (frequently previous metals).

Introduction of taxation does not convert a fiat currency into a representative one.
That's a dangerous line of reasoning in this case.

I could be convinced that this court ruling is erroneous, and that the unintended acceleration issues can be entirely accounted for by floor mats and driver error. But in this case I think we should be thankful for bad floor mats and driver error, as they've brought to light very fundamental flaws in Toyota's firmware engineering processes.

If there had never been a single unintended acceleration in a toyota vehicle it would not have been through robust engineering but instead through luck. And we need our vehicles to be safe by design, not through happenstance.
Hi, I wrote the tutorial. :-)

In general, I based the tutorial on the sample app that ships with the SDK. That app uses Flask and presents some actual UI. If you want full working code, I would suggest taking a look at that sample.

The tutorial is basically fragments from that sample that show the basic concepts, but without some boilerplate, the fragments are not themselves runnable.

(BTW, where are the "very large except clauses?")
Power requirements alone rule out this thing being far from land. Maybe its just that they want to construct a handful of big building in california without jumping through onerous regulations.
> That's the problem I have with marriage. So much for the rule against perpetuities, among other things.

Since a marriage is always complete within the lifetime of a person living at the time it is formed, it has no problem with the rule against perpetuities.
I wonder if it would be possible to sell a service like this for real. I bet it would.
IIRC, the previous implementation of Riak Search had some gotchas when it came to rebalancing and adding/removing nodes. Does anyone know if this new arch fixes or helps with those issues?
Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls: A More Agile healthcare.gov
Why do people want to work with a technology like that?

I do because studying advanced frameworks and working within them is the main way that I learn new patterns.
and wait to become redundant ?
your health is worth an infinite amount of money to you

No, it isn't. Avoiding certain very undesirable outcomes is worth an infinite amount of money to me, but suffering from strep throat symptoms for 3 days instead of 5 days is worth a finite amount of money. My upper bound on that is hundreds of dollars, but if I can pay less to get the result I want (if I'm certain I have strep, I want a course of amoxicillin, and I don't care if that involves seeing a doctor), I will pay less. Competition can drive the price down even if the buyer isn't price-sensitive.
Agreed. The whole "fan page" thing can be a total money pit unless a marketer knows exactly what he's trying to get from the investment.

Conversely, I've had fantastic results from targeted ad buys on Facebook. In particular, mobile app install buys. Great results, decent tracking, easy to analyze from an ROI and LTV standpoint.

Just because you can target people by #anything doesn't mean they'll care about your content. Your content has to fit what you're targeting and whom you're targeting. I feel as though a lot of brand marketers -- ordinarily extremely smart people -- lost their senses about this when they first jumped on the Facebook bandwagon. I've seen some very sophisticated AdWords buyers treat Facebook like a Magic 8 Ball, for instance. It blows my mind.
Mail 7.0 is buggy for Gmail. Every other indication I've seen is that it is designed for and complements plain, real, compliant, standard IMAP perfectly fine, including Fastmail, to the extent where you can shoot yourself in the foot with it.
One way to save bandwidth is to use a well-designed compression algorithm optimized for the human visual system. The second way is to just shrink the image, and then "stretch" it back to the original size, which -- in a sense -- is what Skype is doing here. Which is going to be more effective?

It really depends on how much data you need to shave off. Beyond a certain point, you'll get better visual results by reducing image size rather than increasing compression. As an example, an SD movie encoded with H.264 to a file size of 300MB would look a lot better than an HD movie encoded to the same file size, even when played back at the same on-screen dimensions.
Even if you have a perfect city knowledge exam, how do you ensure the guy driving the car is the guy who passed the exam?
http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-form-llc-3...
Which type of Uber did you use? Uber Taxi, Uber X, or the black cars?

If you called Uber Taxi, I believe the taxi drivers are paid less than if you were to call a normal taxi.

With UberXs and the black cars, I've always had great experiences and at least 50% of the time they'd offer me water, open my door, and sometimes have candy available.
I was expecting something along the lines of http://humanstxt.org/ but fun little easter eggs like this are always nice!
leet timestamp on the HTML: 27.10.2013, 13:37
I've been using Linux "on the desktop" since '96. I stuck with it because, it's Unix. It's not BSD pretending to be Windows. It's not Android, running around with a Java dress on, pretending to be something it's not.

X11 sucks and so does Unix. But they suck less than every other system out there. I can make X11 act however I want it to act. It can act like Windows, or it can act in some new way that was not blessed by the high priests, Apple, Microsoft, and Google.

If I want my system to do something, Unix provides the toolset. It's an amazing ecosystem for learning, exploration, and creation. If you know a bit about Perl, Python, or Bash then you can pretty much make data do what you want. A file is not just an opaque blackbox, requiring a single expensive proprietary application to interact with it. Fitting together disparate tools in a way that was never envisioned by the authors of said tools is not a "hack." It's just good design.
It is standard in British media.
I suspect that some of the people claiming that Uber is going down hill are, well… not the best customers. That is, they might be total assholes. Uber tries to match 5 star cabs with 5 star customers. If you are a 4 star customer you are more likely to get a 4 star driver. The probability of getting a 4 star driver is higher today than it was a year ago, and a 4 star customer is more likely to get those drivers.

I've gotten the 5 for 5 thing a few times. I don't mind it, if it's going to be a 5 anyway.

I use Uber every day. I've had maybe two sub-par experiences with the black car—ever. A few iffy experiences with UberX but nothing bad.
Those are all very basic functions. Let me know when I can produce Pro level audio work on a Linux machine without hiccups.
We got the reference, dude.
Since most of the victims of uncontrolled acceleration in Toyota cars were elderly, I think we can conclude that this was the case in the majority of incidents. Competes don't discriminate by agree on their own.
Cute! I wish more sites actually had humans.txt files.
For context, here's the original blog post from Fastmail: http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/10/26/mac-os-10-9-infinity-time...

And the Hacker News discussion about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6617154
This is trash, literally and figuratively.
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Two Dozen Insanely Essential Programmer Utilities
What you are probably looking for is an Operating Agreement.

Ask google to show you: "operating agreement llc California"

I don't have anything to share unfortunately.

EDIT: Also think carefully if an LLC in the correct type of entity vs corporation. Investors generally prefer an corp vs and LLC and you will likely need to change the type if you raise money but it's not that large a deal I'm told.
More people not ordering independent certification of life-critical systems they're purchasing, then blaming everyone but themselves when it kills somebody.

Get your manufacturer to pay a respectable firm to certify their software rather than just their mechanical hardware.
Then tell people it's 8 minutes. I think it's the difference in reported vs reality that's frustrating users.
I can't believe you guys are debating the correct HTTP return code for a joke service? Besides, it's obviously 200.
> 2) The driver missed the exit for SFO, and drove through the median to get to it

I have never made that SFO exit & had to drive through the median every single time. Been to SFO about a half dozen times this past year. The signs to that SFO exit aren't really in sync with the actual exit...you sort of have to know where the SFO exit is & ignore the sign. Even when I mentally make a note to do that, sometimes the sign confuses me & I end up missing the exit.
a)Tiling window managers are another nicety that is under represented on windows and osx.

b) In the past when I wasnt using tiling window managers - devilspie was really nice since it allowed me to specify where different windows would popup, allowing me to step away from physically arranging windows.

c) Be able to remove features you dont like / use. I currently have my system boot into a dwm session with a minimal set of services started at bootup. Most visual experiences / fonts are all configured via config scripts. Which means that I just need to scp two directories on any new machine and turns into the same flavor visually and behaviorally that I am used to. It is relaxing being able to upgrade machines / move to new machines knowing down to the pixel what environment and keyboard shortcuts you are going to get.
How to convert 70%+ of website traffic
I'd like to visit their backup Earth :)
At that point you've got "well, that's not worse than anything else, then" security. The NSA, for example, could MITM your computer's connection to Ubuntu's update servers, FISA a sysadmin for a copy of their package signing key, and inject a "critical security update" only for you. Auto-update systems are suspicious as a whole, now, and should only be trusted in general as a compromise to convenience, and the statistical unlikelihood of you being attacked.
This editorial is self-serving in the extreme.

>When The Economist opines on new ideas and policies, it does so on the basis of their merits, not of who supports or opposes them. Last October, for example, it outlined a programme of reforms to combat inequality.

Most people believe that they make judgments based on merits, but that does not make it so. Even avoiding ad hominem arguments provides no guarantee of objectivity. For example: this idea that inequality is a problem is completely normative, and the ability of policymakers to solve it from the top down is unproven, and still uncertain. In addition, making US presidential endorsements (democratic for the last 3 elections) does not help them look like an impartial spectator in the political game.

The proposals which "The Economist" proposes do not always align with any specific political or interest group, but they are almost universally (monetarily or fiscally) activist.
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As long as you don't buy stuff based on ads, and unless the product benefits from network effects, you are just making ad-supported products less profitable by using them, and hence contributing to their demise - either the ads are pay-per-click, and then you are just raising its costs without providing returns, or they're pay-per-view and then you're making the ads less valuable for advertisers (and hence less profitable for the service).

It's the people clicking on the ads that are keeping them alive.
It's a deployment of SecureDrop:

https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/securedrop

https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/
Please stop upvoting this article, it's misleading at best. It links to the article everyone should read on browser cryptography, the article that says exactly why browser cryptography does not and basically never could work.

The article then picks the least important of all security problems, that there isn't (wasn't) a secure way of generating random numbers, acts as if that was an important point and then carries on as if browser cryptography has been solved.

In their about page they claim: "As a result, Opal is able to guarantee that the only people who are able to read a secret file are the sender and recipients."

This is plainly not true. The people who are able to read these secret files are always those who control the browser. They might claim that they're able to guarantee it because they control the code that is sent by the server, but recent history has shown us that if they were to be forced to break that guarantee, they would not be allowed to let anyone know.

So what is their guarantee worth to anyone? Jack shit.
A real significant bug will be experienced by others. A single report suggests a problem with that user. Two reports suggests a dozen others who haven't bothered to report it.
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I think the GP forgot to put "willingly" in there.

The Brits, after WW2, were exhausted. India had been clamoring for independence for ~50 years. And after the war, you suddenly had a million young men in India, well trained in arms and warfare; these men would have been hard to control with force. So they had no choice. Once India fell (i.e. became independent), the dominoes started falling, and soon the sun had set on the British Empire.
Conspiracies destroying democracy
All right, that does it.

If I see ONE MORE CAT on the Internet, I'm leaving.

I mean it. Don't push me.

Edit: Oh, they're adoptable? Well, all right then; I'm for that.
This is by far the most important productivity improvement for me. I only have to move my mouse to where I want to type, and that is it.
Ask HN: What do you use for CRM / Marketing Automation?
We're heavily leaning towards Salesforce as our "one version of the truth" - fed app usage data by us, integrated with Zendesk for support, and Chargely for billing.

Anyone have suggestions, comments, etc? Particularly around Marketing Automation systems. Hubspot looks amazing but is laughably expensive.

Any insight is much appreciated.
Apple should focus on its mediocre software
Infosys fined for Visa Violations.
The market is a system constantly re-evaluating itself to reach equilibrium. It's a very weak view of the market which takes away from it the ability to take into account government 'interference'. Indeed, most governments don't interfere too often, prostitution and gambling have been illegal for decades in the US (legal where I live, however). I don't need to factor these things in, because the market has already factored them in. What government interference implies is a sort of Old-Testament God, who constantly interferes with its subjects. Governments try their best to interfere very little, they make sure inflation stays low-ish, they don't suddenly change economic policy except in crises. Government "interference" (the better word you might use is 'existence', since this is what I think you mean) is an ever-present fact of the market and the market has always taken it into account.
There are 22 slides.

It's admittedly terse (it was part of a presentation Ben Adida gave at the first Real World Cryptography workshop).

However, I'd suggest reading the deck again, and while you do asking yourself, does JS crypto provide any security beyond what SSL does? And, can JS crypto make sense as part of a defense in depth/layered security approach?
I used to navigate workspaces spatially too, but then I increased to three monitors and the traditional workspace model broke down big time. Namely, switching to a different workspace switched whatever was displayed on all of my monitors. I couldn't easily compose groups of windows onto my displays.

The solution (for me) was to throw out a spatial representation of workspaces and adopt a more dynamic approach. Instead of being fixed to a set of N workspaces in a particular geometry, I switched to having a fluid list of named workspaces. What makes this work particularly well on multiple monitors is that each workspace can be viewed on any monitor. So for example, with three monitors, I have three workspaces visible at any point in time. And yes, I can flip the workspace on one monitor to the other monitor.

This ends up being great for my work flow, since I can maintain my work area for any particular project without cluttering up the rest of my desktop. For example, when I'm working on the window manager that implements this functionality, I might have a workspace called "wingo" for code. And when I want to switch back to working on the X client library for Go, I go to my workspace "xgb" and it has me right where I left off.

And of course, I have workspaces like "browser", "mail", "irc", etc. I have some temporary workspaces too, which are used for scratch work.

Any workspace can be removed. And I can add a new workspace with any name at any time.

If you're interested, this is all implemented in my hybrid stacking/tiling window manager: https://github.com/BurntSushi/wingo

(Similar features exist in i3 and xmonad, but both are emphatically tiling window managers.)
Try this:

ffmpeg -i frame%04d.png -vcodec mjpeg -sameq test.avi
Very interesting... having never had to apartment hunt before in an area I was unfamiliar with, I find it fascinating that I would've overlooked sounding interesting in my emails and kept things pretty stock.
Does not sound very safe.