skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jason Cohen proposes an interesting idea for customers asking for a discount: give them two months free if they prepay for a year. He makes the case that if you're a bootstrapper having the money all at once upfront is worth it.

http://vimeo.com/74338272
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This libertarian polycentric government system is not like having multiple restaurants to choose from. To me it sounds like you're at one restaurant (the place you live at), and there's multiple cooks, instead of choosing they are going to decide what food is best for you (they all cook different kinds of poison food), and compete with each other over who gets to give you the food.

If that's not how the libertarians envision it, and you can actually choose what government you want by actually moving into one governments influence (so you are without the influence of another) then what you describe is basically Europe. Is Europe the libertarian dream?

(Ironically, in Europe there is the problem of too many inhabitants of poor more liberal (corrupt/lawless) countries migrating to rich euro-socialist countries)
It does seem insane. It also seems like it's working quite well!

Having separate finances is not exactly a new idea, plenty of people do that. My partner and I have completely separate finances, but equally share expenses like food, housing, repairs, etc. Works fine for us!
Adrian Schoolcraft, a good cop. Pay attention to how he was treated.
I wonder what her bid was for him to have the baby.

It would have to have been considerably more than $30,000. Surrogacy alone runs upwards of $60K. She was clearly lowballed.

The inefficiency was probably due to a lack of market transparency or external bidding. Clearly next time they should invite third parties in.
I can't get the 'next steps' and video tutorial to disappear on the admin page in Chrome, is that intended?
So we've established that leprechauns exist, but that still doesn't address the issue of good cops.
Those of you who are still in denial and think that this person did something wrong, should read up about the Amelie leMoulac case. TL;DR: woman on a bike gets run over by a truck. SFPD claims they couldn't find any surveillance video, blames the cyclist and lets the trucker go. A couple of days later, an SFBC (SF bike coalition) person decides to go around and ask the nearby merchants; and finds a shop with surveillance video that shows trucker was at fault.

Note also how the SFPD comes by and harasses the protestors, and puts other bicyclists at risk by blocking the bike lane:
http://sf.streetsblog.org/2013/08/21/at-safe-streets-rally-s...
http://sf.streetsblog.org/2013/08/23/sfbc-finds-what-sfpd-di...
Call me crazy, but in my house we just get shit done because it needs to be done and we, as adults, chose to have children. We don't have time to barter or turn the discussion of who does what into an episode of Antiques Roadshow.

For all the smiley faces and show of "oh, isn't this just great", I can't help but think there are some serious issues lurking below the surface.

But hey, what do I know? I've only been married for 17 years and have two kids.
"everyone is greedy" is not a good characterization of libertarianism; there are plenty of libertarian social benefit groups

You are saying because not all libertarians are actually greedy, they don't believe everyone is greedy.

If were to rephrase the statement as "everyone seeking individual good will result in a collective good", I don't see you really disagreeing.

The problem is that we already see people seeking individual good in a truly vicious and unfettered fashion and public harm that brings (say, Mexican drug gangs fighting it out).
1950s logic (at least in the US) was not that if one partner is not earning money, they should contribute more to the house. 1950s logic was that the male partner earns the money, and the female partner should be satisfied with housework, regardless of whether or not she prefers it. This logic cyclically resulted from, and resulted in, many parents only putting their male children through college.
I'd have to say that the law looks like a monopoly to me. If the only way I can avoid being subject to the local law is to move a large distance and that's the only way to opt out how is this not a monopoly, or rather how is it any less the case than it is now?
Fools always laugh the hardest.
Both of you are missing the point. The context of this thread is Google Play Services, and any apps dependent on them, won't be available on the Chinese AOSP fork.

Also, compiling without breaking, and running without breaking for two different things. If the binary compatibility alone was the main problem, there'd be no issues with Android fragmentation and testing.

If you go to Google Play, pick "Top Apps" and read the reviews of any top apps, you'll see plenty of "It's not working", "won't launch", "freezes my phone" type comments.
"Though I do wish it was smaller. I wish I could cut all the support for old IE bits and the event handling abstractions."

Shameless plug here because author's site doesn't have comments: maybe you could try Vue.js: it is <12k gzipped, support IE9 and above only, and even less opinionated.

http://vuejs.org
The NYT story was a hit piece, and you could see that from the title alone. They probably prepared it ahead of time, and publish as long as the protest would register anything under half of SOPA's support.
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Here's the full story on that, as told by me and Bethany to the reporter:

BETHANY:

> Here's another example of real-world yootling: I worked late at the office yesterday and once all our beemergencies were dispatched, we had an auction over IM to see if Danny would come pick me up from the office or if I'd ride my bike / the bus home:

> [IM transcript where sealed bids are revealed to be 15 (Bethany) and 14 (me); we have a hipchat bot to facilitate this]

> So Danny came to fetch me, and I paid him 0 * 14

DANNY:

> To clarify "drive you halfway home" was my way of offering to make it a joint decision whether to drive her home. So I'd either drive her home and she'd pay me something or I'd not drive her and pay her something. That probably sounds impossibly weird. The advantage is that I can offer the favor and the auction makes sure it only happens if she values it more than it costs me. Ie, it's the quantified equivalent of "are you sure? don't you need to get to sleep yourself?" etc.

> Yootling to do her the favor is mathematically equivalent to doing her half the favor. Or you can think of it like this: I'm committing to either doing her the favor for less money than she values the favor, or to giving her an amount of money equal to how much she values the favor.

> Again, the real point is just to make sure the favor only happens if it's actually socially efficient -- if it's not more skin off my nose than the favor is actually worth to her.
Luckily, English is a language that is tolerant of mistakes.
The $35 includes most calls (all local and ten most-called/chosen national and mobile numbers are free on my package from the last three providers) and line rental. Add another $15 for TV licence.

The competition here is from Local Loop Unbundling [1], where the non-ISP part of BT, BT Openreach, works on the exchanges and cabinets. Rollout stats [2], compare Scotland and London for the rural/city development. There's up to 9 choices in London, I would expect iPlayer would work on all of them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_the_United_Kingdom#...
https://www.samknows.com/broadband/statistics/regional
IMO the part where the full-time worker was expected to do less at home than the one with no job was not wrong, the wrong part came in the form of the assumption that the person working would be the man, and that other than in exceptional cases he would be the only one working.

Also, assuming both partners are working roughly equally, I don't think it is fair to split the household contributions based on money earned. eg. If I'm a software developer making $150,000 and I'm married to a teacher who is making $50k and we both work full-time, it makes no sense for me to expect her to contribute 2/3rd more effort at home -- her job is probably more stressful, draining and in most ways "harder" than mine.
I'm not necessarily talking about the current top comment in this particular thread. Christ, man.

Why do so many people attempt a proof-by-example and then act surprised when it fails to convince?
He shows estimated AWS revenue on [1], where he appears to be using the $3.8 billion revenue estimate. I regard that estimate as defensible, and a reasonable indicator of the size of the market.

[1] http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/peterlev...

[2] http://www.zdnet.com/amazons-aws-3-8-billion-revenue-in-2013...
> the wealthy person gets their way all the time and the poor person gets what's to them a lot of money and everyone is happy.

Rather than everyone being happy, this (historically) ends rather more often in bloody revolution.

Personally, I believe that one rarely understands other people, and has no chance of understanding other people's relationships, so I'm disinclined to say that this is a bad idea. It's your relationship and I hope it works out well for you. But if anyone I knew told me that this is how they were operating, I'd have a hard time staying friends. Intimate relationships (romantic and otherwise) are based on releasing control and making compromises, and taking an accounting of everything in this way indicates not that you're being fair, but that you're not actually in a "relationship" per se.
(Brace dev here)

Definitely not intended :) The modal should disappear once you make your first change to the files in Dropbox. If this doesn't work, please shoot me an email lauri@brace.io.

Sorry for the confusion.
The thing to keep in mind is that the whole idea of a state is that it is the organizational entity (call it a posse if you like) that has the legitimacy to use force in the first place.

If multiple such groups have the "right" then you have either a coalition state or tribes with warlords, but even that only really changes the level of jurisdiction.

It seems to me that some libertarians try to claim theoretical victory by defining their legal enforcement to be a private contractor or somesuch, but as soon as they do that they've simply re-defined the government to be that private contractor (or whoever is controlling them) instead. There's still a state and still governance, whatever you happen to call that particular rose.
Not sure of that...I may be wrong but I believe there is a karma type process in place for instance regarding who can contribute patches...I can't imagine there is much fly-by-night contribution...except perhaps bug reporting.
Thank you. I thought I was hellbanned or something. Will behave now.
I realize the OS is only a small part of the datacenter, but it's most of RHT's business, so that's what I focused on.

> I can't quite speak for HP-UX, but Solaris and AIX are definitely not dead platforms. My main claim is that "Big Iron" is going to outlive RedHat in the application platform category.

I have a hard time seeing big iron becoming anything other than the open systems equivalent of legacy mainframe.

Bear in mind that kernel interfaces aren't purely about hardware - it's about repeatable, predictable performance and behavior profiles. Watch a bunch of bank server platform engineers lose their shit when memory performance under pressure changes after a kernel patch.

And remember that in the traditional enterprise, it's not just about stripping down the OS, it's about all of the other tools that get used for performance, security, backup, monitoring, remote execution, change management, privilege escalation. I actually am working on some research on things like LXC at my day job, and one of the challenges is that containers are great until you want to run a bunch of stuff inside the container.

And my vantage point was at one time databases, and that's still the market segment I know the best. But I work on everything server and cloud-related, so most customers I talk to are just traditional enterprises.
Yeah, right, they "got hacked".
Good point.

I significantly disagree with Hiibel, but alas, SCOTUS says that you have to give your name.
Although native-English speakers are always nice enough to tell me that my English is "good enough" to be understood, there are times that I feel uneasy with myself, because I just lack the practice to be able to communicate fluently in English.
I was talking about the trailing decimals after the hundred-millionths place. It's an obvious sign that someone was doing calculations on them as floats and not integers (and dividing by 100,000,000 for display purposes).
There is quite a bit anarcho capitalist bent to a portion of the Bitcoin community and a number of people are going to be prone to pointing and laughing when something like this happens.

Not sure if that makes it right but people will be people.
Fi did something way more advanced[1] and even implemented it in HTML/CSS/JS as you can see from the demo. There are a lot of reason to redesign an company website, but there are even more not to. These are ones that come to mind:

-retrocompatibility (the website has to work for the widest possible audience)

-legacy code (you can't waste tens of men-hours for something unproven and of dubious impact on your business. I mean, people have no problem booking flights with the current website)

-implementing in code a photoshop design presents its own challenges and would require a considerable investment of resources. Usually the result would be worse than what planned due to intrinsic limitations of web technologies

-even the smallest change has to be approved by a committee, this is a big corporate entity, not a startup. A radical redesign is likely out of discussion.

[1] http://www.f-i.com/fi/airlines/
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There's a Polish clone of StackOverflow: http://devpytania.pl/

The reasoning behind it was more or less the same. It's not very active though and a good number of questions wouldn't meet SO standards (subjective ones, "list" questions etc.)
>I can't imagine even the most obnoxious cops treating middle-class white women that way.

Umm do you remember the OWS protests?
Windows 8.1 doesn’t run apps in the corresponding screen
Doesn't the fact that assumptions like these, when made by the police, can land you in jail or much worse prove the point?

What if he also assumed I was lying, drunk or armed?
This is a good point. There are some things that aren't fungible. Since this was a job that Danny couldn't do, he couldn't bid on it, so that essentially makes it a sole-source, no-bid contract, and those are priceless.

Another question I have: what about requirements? (this has come up in my own relationship) Suppose the two partners have different ideas of what constitutes "cleaning the house". One might think that mopping and wiping dust off furniture is necessary, while the other might think vacuuming does it. In a real situation, the two contractors don't just compete on price but on product. But in this case product never enters, unless there's a careful discussion up front about exactly what the requirements of the job are. This doesn't really sound like it would decrease stress to me.
Does anyone know of one that works with Linux?
We don't have a police state! We have one of the shittiest justice systems in the world that protects bad actors and gives our police unlimited power to abuse their office without fear of repurcussion. However, freedom of speech is still very well protected, and therein lies our hope for peaceful resolution.

And you know what, if Aung Yung Suu-Ki is any indication, even if we did live in a totalitarian state, there would still be hope for a peaceful resolution. And that's important because I don't believe that a state born of brutality can be anything other than brutal.
I'm finding it quite funny and saw this coming a mile away.
My girlfriend and I have tried multiple variations of "relationship currency" as I like to call it, but since I'm a shrewd bargainer and she has a tendency to be short sighted (i.e. "I'm tired and don't feel like cooking, I'll give you 500 chore-dollars to go pick up dinner") she eventually ends up with a massive debt and is forced to declare "relationship bankruptcy".

That said, I'm fully intent on doing something like this with my children. Instead of an allowance of some kind, I think kids would learn a lot about the real world if you paid them for doing chores and performing well at school, then docked them accordingly for food, board, rent and expenses.
>Please help me find that "several"

I'm sorry, I don't think I'll do that. If the consequence is that you completely discount what I'm saying and don't believe me, then that's fine. I don't feel like I should have to point others to relevant comments within the same comment page. I may have time to waste here, but I don't have that much.
You absolutely can spend change-in-flight – the default client even allowed it, last I checked.

It's just the risk of third-party mutation, as under the current mischief-making malleability attack, plus the compounded risk created by chains of unconfirmed-transactions, that makes this a problem.

Long before the current attacks, I had my own outgoing payments stuck when they were inadvertently arranged as a dependent chain, and the first transaction never confirmed.

But once you (or the people writing your software) know of such risk, mitigating workarounds are easy and automatable:

You arrange for receipts of large amounts to be broken into smaller units, capping the amount of change that might be 'in flight'. (If necessary, you do this break-up yourself upon receipt, knowing there's a period of up to an hour before that completes.)

Or more generally, you keep small working amounts of mixed-size coins ready for short-term use, simply not expecting to spend a large new receipt instantly. (No one who is living 'hand to mouth' should be relying on Bitcoin for all their life's necessities, anyway. It's still beta!)

When the third-party mutated-transactions risk is contained – within a week or two, all major miners will probably blockade tampered transactions – this risk of stuck funds will evaporate... but the lessons and new software practices for handling corner cases will persist, ready for future similar situations.

It's interesting that patio11 is using receipt-of-salary as an example. Until your bank knows you, classic paychecks can be held for a day or more before full funds are available. Until clearing-practices were changed in the US a few years ago, large paychecks often had most of their funds held as unavailable for 7-10 days – even for checks between large American banks in the same city. This situation persisted for decades.

Further, the fraud of "check-kiting", which is vaguely like the interplay-of-timing-bugs that has tricked some bitcoin-payout systems, was possible in the traditional banking system, on and off, for decades.

Compared to that, are Bitcoin's temporary problems, perhaps involving an hour's holdup, and likely fixable within a week via rapid software iteration, that big of a deal?

When patio11 makes people aware of the transient gotchas and rough-edges, so they can adjust their near-term expectations, that's a public service.

But if these things are portrayed as inherent and insurmountable weaknesses that doom the system? That viewpoint is going to look like 1995 Clifford Stoll.
Bad advice. Paramedics could obtain useful life saving advice from witnesses.
I agree Red Hat and pretty much every other contributor's result is a net gain. The point I was making is that the overall contribution isn't free. ie the folks working on it are paid by various companies. I believe all the major tech companies have a few devs that they basically loan out to the kernel development effort.
Migrating from MongoDB to Cassandra
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Here's what I want: "Study Grouper". Grouper but you go do something educational, e.g. a wine class, cooking class, dance class, amateur astronomy class, painting class...
A lot of Microsofts growth in recent years has been in enterprise tools, not operating systems.

Amazon do not break out their AWS revenue from their main revenue, hence one of the reasons it's a dodgy claim. Not to mention the fact that the article included the total Amazon revenue in the charts for no good reason. Likewise for Microsoft, who have multiple large revenue streams in the form of Office, etc...

Not to mention Oracle, who are a database company that dabble in Linux (I've never actually met anyone who uses "Unbreakable" linux - yes, yes, anecdotal I know).

When you remove the specious data points from the graph, you're left with RedHat on it's own. Even if you include the AWS estimate, you still have a much more reasonable graph that indicates RedHat competing in the same ballpark as AWS.
seeing as my girlfriend and I have tried the same trick, the "serious issues" lurking beneath the surface is likely pure, unadulterated laziness.
Irony at its finest here. If you're going to go to the effort to use a decentralised currency that is difficult to track to a particular individual for a website selling illicit drugs and items served via a decentralised and anonymously run network, don't expect any sympathy when your Bitcoin goes missing... You go to the great effort of avoiding conventional means of currency (banking, trackable transactions to individuals) and yet you realise how the traditional banking system in many ways while not being perfect protects you from a lot of this type of activity. If an attacker hacks into your Internet banking or your credit card is stolen, you in most cases get the money back.

No monetary system is perfect, and I think these increasingly frequent scenarios where X amount of crypto-currency is "stolen" and cannot be recovered drive that point home. I strongly believe that crypto-currency has a bright future, I own a few Bitcoin myself and many other alternative crypto, but I don't entrust and never would entrust my coins in a drug-dealer exchange escrow wallet, I keep them on my computer and in cold storage. These kind of situations just keep driving BTC's price down further, we don't need a Silk Road for Bitcoin to succeed.

This whole situation really just makes me laugh. Some people have no faith in the traditional system of Government or currency, but for some reason have faith in a system and currency that is inherently insecure, unpredictable and when shit hits the fan, there's nobody to help you...
You're making us feel like marketing geniuses. :) The reporter is actually a Beeminder user, which is how he knew about me and Bethany and our craziness, and he was happy to agree to our stipulation that the article link to Beeminder.

So I guess no tips on how to actually orchestrate something like this. Last year we had our biggest press coup just by having our phone number at the bottom of beeminder.com. Southwest Airlines inflight magazine called us after trying and failing to find a number for our competitor, GymPact.

I guess that's the real tip here: be so crazy that journalists seek you out. :)
Yeah, I got a red light ticket there. My court date got postponed to more than a year after the original infraction. The cops like to pick off cyclists along the north side of Flushing because cyclists will (quite rationally) run those lights -- there is no crossing auto traffic (bike lanes run along the top of T intersections) and very low volume (and easy to see) pedestrian traffic. Sucks.
The only reason MLK came up here was this claim:

[Ron Paul's] newsletters called Martin Luther King Jr. a pedophile among other things.