skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's just a bias on my part, but I don't see anyone using "Binging" as a word to look something up. I would like to see the #s more in depth. (How much of it is directed from Yahoo, and IE, etc)
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Apple's Mac OSX imitated in latest North Korea system
Uh, what? The government isn't really giving an incentive at all. If I were young and didn't have a lifestyle that required a full-time salary, I certainly wouldn't be shackled to a full-time job just to keep insurance. I think that's the case for a ton of people.

You also have to consider the small business case. I can't tell you how many technology workers I know who have health issues and would otherwise be building a startup or working as a consultant, but before the ACA they could never dream of getting or keeping health insurance. I mean I'm a relatively healthy 20-something and was denied health insurance several times, and when I was approved, was paying ridiculous amounts per month because I was 10 pounds overweight.

Putting those prices back in line for most people and not tying health insurance to a full-time job is the whole point. I fail to see how this is government offering an incentive of any sort, unless that's what you meant and it was poorly phrased?
Except they were almost all had text like #pepsi, indicating the place to talk about this commercial is only on Twitter.
People who would otherwise spend time with their families, friends, hobbies and side projects will no longer be forced to work more hours at their jobs. Others who don't have full-time jobs will have an easier time getting them. Some good news for once.
Microsoft doesn't seem to be dreaming about Windows/Office margins with Azure:

That’s why today we are also announcing a commitment to match Amazon Web Services prices for commodity services such as compute, storage and bandwidth

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2013/04/16/the-...
As is often the case, when I read TDD walkthroughs, I see differences between the design, as implied by the tests, and implementation.

Consider requirement 2, which is "For an empty string the method will return 0"

One of the code changes was from:

for (String number : numbersArray) {
Integer.parseInt(number); // If it is not a number, parseInt will throw an exception
}

to:

for (String number : numbersArray) {
if (!number.isEmpty()) {
Integer.parseInt(number);
}
}

Oddly, the commentary doesn't even remark on this change, saying only "All there was to do to make this test pass was to change the return method from void to int and end it with returning zero." This is incorrect.

Certainly the code passes the test. But as a consequence, the input ",5" is now acceptable, and will equal 5. Since the spec doesn't define what a number is, one can argue that it's reasonable that "," means 0. I disagree with that judgement, or rather, I'll instead argue that "one,two" should give 3, since "one" is certainly a number. ;)

That's okay. Ambiguities happen all the time. Either the spec needs to change, or a test need to note that it's made an implementation-specific choice not guided by the spec.

But it still requires analysis to determine the impact on the overall goals, and that analysis is often missing from the TDD walkthroughs I've read.

The problem comes when this code is put into use. This change will also accept " 3, 1" as input, which might happen if someone used a "%3d,%5d" as a format string. Other code will start depending on this undocumented implementation-specific feature. The future developer who comes in, refactors the code, finds that it passes all the old tests, will be annoyed to find that it fails during integration or deployment.
The Dev Team Thinks of Everything (TDTTOE)
Koans for the modern age - how wrapping a concept in a story makes it sticky and actionable.
It can also be so simple that there is some pipe that is full somewhere along the way that will be upgraded eventually.
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must be a slow news day for schneier - first an overblown story about getting free food at the airport and now a story about a note, transformed into a social engineering attack?

there were bigger documented social engineering attacks in 1971 before almost all of us here were born (except for schneier!)

He's been mouth hacked!
Well, the planets are tori here because of the extraordinary spinning; they have 3-4 hour long days.
What an insightful way to put it.

It's more than that, though. Learning business tips differs from learning about a technical topic.

Business advice does usually state something obvious, but underlines its importance. There are a million "obvious" things to do, and a lack of resources to do them all.

Contrast that to learning something technical, where statements are more likely to teach you something immediately upon hearing it, but offer much less depth individually.
The Flash (and java for that matter) update mechanisms are a big nuisance.
Having to go visit the site manually is also not very convenient.

So I end up using a 3rd party that actually checks the plugins and gives me a direct update link if the plugin is not up to date.

https://browsercheck.qualys.com/?scan_type=js

Not perfect, but it helps me.
OK, this guy lost his job, I am sure they record all the conversations, and just a grep -i "cloud providers" should be enough to find the conversation, sorry man,
Because this would allow these millions of people to continue using this fork of XP rather than eventually buying a MS operating system.
I thought it was fun. But the protagonist in every screen shot appears to be a straight white male.

Depending on how you're counting, that's about 15% of the world population.

Why not make it interactive, and let the user choose who they are? Or add more variation to the images? Or talk about getting on with people who "aren't like me"?

Good fun piece though.
Your interpretation of the article is not supported by the body. If the CBO believed in the effect you postulate, they would not predict fewer jobs (more precisely, reduced effort equivalent to fewer jobs).

According to the body, hours worked and full time employment will drop. This is a straightforward supply shock, along the same lines as the oil shortage of the 70's (assuming of course you believe in reducing the entire economy to 2 graphs, as the Keynesians often do).

Also, increasing wages in a recession is a big no-no if you believe in Keynesian economics. Assuming this effect is not taken into account by the CBO's headline number, it means there will be further job losses.
Brokers are very common in electronic production.

You need to be careful when asking for quotes. If Bob has stock of product, and you ask 3 different brokers for quotes, you've just driven cost of that product up.

That's especially frustrating when three or four sub contractors are requesting quotes for the same part to be used for the same potential job being inquired about by the end customer.
"EU law makes it easy for a company to do business anywhere in EU and only pay taxes in its headquarters, on the assumption that it doesn't matter a lot where the company pays its taxes as long as it's inside the EU."

US states have a set of policies and compacts so that corporations doing business in multiple states pay taxes to each state divided according to a formula.

The corporation attributes income to each state in proportion to a weighted average of its sales in the state, its total employee compensation in the state, and its business capital and equipment present in the state. Then each state sets its tax rate and takes that fraction of the income attributed to the state. Over time, the states have created counting rules to prevent cheating the system.

Europe may need to organize such a system if the other nations are really tired of being scooped by ie. There's still the classic scheme of putting intellectual property in a tax haven and paying franchise fees to a foreign subsidiary there to avoid having profits. They may want to try closing that loophole, too.
Personally I think many corps want to avoid any hassle and prevent any problems they may face. The laws are complicated and if they see a slim chance that they get into some legal problem they prefer not to do any kind of trade.

I really wonder about the case of coursera which is basically no trade and it is just to prevent some nationals to access knowledge supposed to be "accessible to all people". To me it's some sort of racism.
Sony To Sell Vaio PC Division For $490 Million?
that's not so much an Indian thing as it is a not-America, and more specifically not-east-coast-America, thing. Of all the places I have traveled[1], there are few people who are as work oriented, punctual, and surly if you are not, then mid-Atlantic region Americans.

Take that for whatever you want. It can be a problem if you are just trying to have a weekend. We don't know how to leave work at work most of the time. But I very much appreciate being serious and focusing on work during regular work hours. one of those big factors that makes most of the places I travel to "nice to visit, but wouldn't want to live there".

[1] and granted I haven't traveled every where. I understand Japanese salesmen are like this, too.
yes I want that 100k job right in my local town - unfortunately the real world isn't like that.
Not sure I get your point, but Nadella isn't from the IITs
attentive readers will notice similarities to NixOps http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2013-June/01136...
I have also noticed a similar effect on Verizon FIOS, where some video services work perfectly well during the day, but around 5pm or so start getting incredibly slow to buffer. Whether this is intentional throttling I'm not qualified to say, but it makes me quite hesitant to use Verizon in the future.
I disagree. Here in Florida, Verizon FIOS has an excellent reputation and the product is far superior to the other choices we have.

It's also the first place I've lived where I have choice (Brighthouse being the other player).

Time Warner and Comcast are definitely among the worst though, and I suspect that if the OP is correct, it won't be long until Verizon joins them.
That's pretty much the same experience I've had with my Z, though the random shutdowns mysteriously stopped about a year ago. My Z is now 4 years old, yet still is incredibly fast and responsive. Aside from the stupid fan it has been stellar.
> Did you do something to earn your nationality?

Some people did. As an example, my grandfather had to fight for the right to live according to his culture, because our country was invaded. Once you fought for your freedom, you begin to feel rather strongly about "nationality", defined as belonging to a group of people that share your cultural beliefs. And yes, you could say he "earned" his nationality. He did not fight in a a war because somebody enticed him to do so: he fought to defend his freedom, his family, and his way of life.

Don't oversimplify those things.
New CEO Satya Nadella’s memo: ‘This is a software-powered world’
Back to torrents, anyone?
Maybe those suicide cults figured this out already.
Canceling eFax
might have been a good idea to black out his name. poor fellow might lose his job for being caught saying that.
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Lack of downvote button for stories.

BTW, the negative commentors need to work on building up their "humor" skill XP.
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Shit that you can code in two weeks
Much like as has been mentioned of Olympic athletes, the local sports team is rarely local. The players are from everywhere except the locality. The only things local are the stadium and the fans. St Paddy's is fun, but I don't understand the ball game cultures at all, laying claim to a team's victory, a sort of socialising a stranger's success. Maybe just an excuse to celebrate on occasion. I simply can't relate. I watch formula 1, but have no attachment to any team or driver. I get excited by a good drive, whoever's. Cultures cross national boundaries - how does a country reconcile national pride with diverse cultures, if the national character is of a certain culture, unless the nation is not the culture, but the system, which will be determined by the cultures, which change, and will therefore change the system, in which case what is national pride of? A team of non-local players? Mind games?
But the proof is in the pudding, the speed tests speak for themselves, no?

That's exactly it -- multiple, independent yet individually unreliable measures can actually produce very reliable aggregate evidence through convergence. This is particularly true if one uses abductive reasoning, but IIRC, there's statistical proof behind this idea as well...

That is to say that the speed tests say something and the chat says something, but together, they begin to paint an troublesome picture. Combine that with the timing and it starts to look bad. More data points will add to that convergent picture, of course...
Net Neutrality is dead [in the United States].
I have had the same experience with Verizon FIOS in NYC.
People shouldn't feel proud of where they were born. They should work to feel proud of the government they have.

If your country is decent and just, addresses the needs of the poor and sick, welcomes people of different cultures, etc., and especially if you play an active role in improving your government, there's reason to be proud.

If you vote "no taxes," don't volunteer, don't donate, and wave a flag, then you suck.
These are houly people that need the hours to make ends meet. They are being forced into part time so that they aren't eligible. This is definitely a net negative, but not the least bit surprising.
I had just signed up for Highrise but haven't started implementing it yet. Sounds like the product will live on but I wouldn't mind some recommendations for alternatives if anybody has some.

I've used both Salesforce and SugarCRM and they seem a bit overkill for my use.
Google Fiber is the worst idea ever. You know this company makes the vast majority of its income through advertising and collecting data about you, right?

I understand that it's a great service for a great price, but the question is how long that remains sustainable. Right now they're sitting on such a pile of money that it doesn't matter whether they provide internet access in a few cities at a super cheap price. They benefit enough in reputation and in extra usage of other services when people are able to use very high quality internet.

Proof of this is that Google disallowed running servers (the very thing that makes the internet the internet, end to end communication) up until their reputation was almost completely tarnished in the hacker community. Only then did they relent and allow servers to be run. They're not much different from other for-profit companies.
Yes, but to speak in video games term, you can still move the arrow of your character. Of course your decision are the product of your previous experience + a lot of other factors. But I believe there is a random factor, when we make a decision, we do choose one over the other.

We'll never know anyway, but I feel like there would be nothing, no universe, no life, no space etc... if there was not this "random" thing.
I occasionally do that ironically. On the other hand, I find 'Googling' increasingly awkward and tend to just say search.
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I might do a quick search when I wake up for some obvious ones like bird.land, tech.tips, code.guru, things like that. Then again, I'm not sure how expensive they'll be or how fast the obvious ones will be snatched up.
If I were young and didn't have a lifestyle that required a full-time salary, I certainly wouldn't be shackled to a full-time job just to keep insurance. I think that's the case for a ton of people.

So you are saying you might produce less as a result of subsidies given to you if you choose not to have a full time job? You are agreeing with 300bps.
The Ocean is Broken (2013)
Net Neutrality is fine. The FCC just needs to reclassify internet providers as common carriers rather than information services.

To quote from the Washington Post [1]:
"Broadband is currently classified by the FCC as an information service, a category that gives the agency a fairly limited set of regulatory options. If Internet providers were classified instead as common carriers, the FCC's rule would likely stand. In fact, the federal ruling on Tuesday upheld the FCC's net neutrality rules as a matter of principle; the problem is that the agency effectively tried to apply its powers in the wrong context."

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/14...
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Retcon
Iranians in Tehran step up to CNN's Open Mic and tell Americans what they really feel about them:

http://youtu.be/y0i0aNf-YUs

Make sure you stay watching past 50 seconds.
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Having the raw chat visible would be enough to find it in the logs, if they cared that much… just say'n is all.
“Everything that can be written in JavaScript will eventually be written in JavaScript”. – Atwood’s law
"Everything’s Gone JavaScript"
"The future is written in Javascript"
JavaScript is now an integral part of several operating systems.
JavaScript is also moving quickly into the hardware world.
I'm not seeing a large niche for them in content creation. If we were starting off with tablets being the dominant player; the thing that most people used and grew up with, then it'd be different. However, the content creation market is already fairly competitive, and the pain points this would solve over and above what's already there don't seem significant.

The questions in that regard seem as follows:
Why would artists opt for a, relatively small, imprecise pen over something from Waccom?

Why would programmers opt for working on a small laptop analogue compared to a computer with multiple monitors?

Why would writers opt for this over a computer or a laptop?

I can see people writing a blog post on one, or sitting in a lecture hall with one - but even there, the advantage over an apple laptop; which is pretty light already; seems negligible.

Unless you have to travel a significant distance on foot. There it has the advantages that tablets always had: Light device, relatively good battery life.

But by and large, the competition for Surface in the tablet space seems likely not to be other tablets. It seems more likely to be the tools - some of which are, when you get down to it, fairly specialised - that people are already using.
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The government isn't really giving an incentive at all

This statement is incredibly naive and shows a complete lack of knowledge of economics. When the government gives incentives for making less money, then they are giving an incentive to make less money. It's that simple, but let me explain.

To get a bronze family plan on healthcare.gov, I was quoted $12,000 per year with a $12,700 deductible. Basically, I'd be paying $24,000 per year for healthcare.

That's the list price, which is what I have to pay if my wife and I make more than $96,000 per year (1/4 of the income goes toward healthcare). The cost goes down the less I make below $96,000. This is government giving me an incentive to make less money.
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Not everyone is salary. Hourly people tend to want all of the hours they can get, since it results in more income.
I don't usually defend the Valley when articles like this come up, because as a tech employee I like having the ability to work anywhere and the concentration of tech in the valley is counter to that.

That said, the main arguments here are are 1. wages are too high and 2. rent is too high.

Given that both of these are set by the market, this smacks of "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded"
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That gave me pause too, and this is the best explanation I could think of for why the author brought it up: The anthropic principle can explain why we find ourselves in a universe exactly this old, because billions of years earlier the conditions weren't yet suitable for life. If you mistakenly think the anthropic principle is making a fixed prediction about the point at which suitability began, then you might think that discovery of an earlier period of suitability would invalidate the principle, but of course it does not.
How do we, IT savvy people capable of monitoring, testing and verifying this stuff, use our collective skills to monitor each ISP and communicate who is doing the best/worst job?

As long as there is at least one ISP provider who is not throttling traffic, we should reward that ISP that does not discriminate on web traffic, and punish the ones that do. You might have to show some differences across different regions and cities, but this is critical. I don't know enough about monitoring web traffic to figure this out but it sounds like an awesome project to spearhead. How do we get started?

It's just that I'm just a little sick of the finger pointing, and would prefer to do whatever I could to fix the problem or use the markets to promote the good companies and punish the bad ones. If there is a market where all the ISP providers are throttling then you have a better case for government regulation. Who's with me?
You may care to read the discussions from previous submissions:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ocean+broken
I'm pretty sure the chats get logged, they can search through that. There are no privacy regulations in the US like there are in Europe about not spying on employees, and even here (Europe) most have an automated message saying "This [chat/call] may be recorded for training purposes."