skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Japan had stagnant internet for a while in the 90s, while the US was the standard bearer - they also used to have a paucity of competition, and when the government instituted regulations to increase competition, they worked as intended, resulting in having one of the best broadband infrastructures in the world.

Government control can be good when the traditional market fails abysmally.
You do realize that most people do not take the same opportunities because they consider them ethically and morally disgusting? That maybe we're not just a bunch of fools floundering around bumping into just enough money to survive?

I'm always amazed how opportunists think they are the only ones who thought of their schemes.
I worked at a video game company that had the Atlanta Olympics license. As Manager of Development instituted a "sign off" on all documents and packaging. I left the company after a few months of banging my head on a wall. The next day the CEO sent a memo around recalling all of my procedures. The next game they produced was for the "Olympcis". All copies had to be recalled off the store shelves.
How about a "sound mirror"?
Bats and dolphin in a way "view" sounds with their echolocation..
I don't really remember to be honest, I'm always on the prowl for new shortcuts (I rarely touch the mouse. Also, get Vimium for Chrome.) but it changed how I interact with OS X pretty significantly after I found it.
Well, no. Robbing a passed out drunk is a crime; you should feel bad for committing crimes, even if it's clear that if you didn't somebody else would.

Shorting a stock (or a currency) is not a crime; it's an acceptable thing to do in a market.
Since I don't agree with your premise that successful speculations are morally equivalent to robbery, your entire analogy seems ridiculous to me.
Sounds like he wants a text editor, not a word processor. Someone should tell him about Sublime Text.
There is a lot of hate in this thread. I personally use Oscar, and while I have not had to use their plan yet, my experience with their support staff, and website have been the best I have had with any insurance provider/company/network.

They were responsive, helpful, and offer an affordable product with two things I really liked about their plan:

1) Free online consultations. I have vertigo and many times when I am sick, leaving the home to go to the doctor is hard due to my vertigo being magnified by other illnesses. This is a big convenience if I need it.

2) 4 free checkups a year with lab work through Quest paid included.

For $218/mo I am a happy customer.
Don't you think there's plenty of blame for everybody? If I leave my keys in the ignition with the window down and my car gets stolen, it's my own fault for being careless, but that doesn't mean the thief is innocent.
Can someone explain to me what the effects of China's artificial devaluation of the yuan vs the dollar are? I understand that they are doing this to make themselves more competitive as an export economy, but can they really keep it up? I mean, to maintain this valuation, they have to constantly sell yuan and buy dollars, but they can't do that forever, right?

So when the yuan finally increases in value, will the dollar's value crash?
My grandfather has Parkinson's. My dad has slightly noticeable hand tremors - no diagnosis at this point. I haven't read up on the likelihood that I'll get it, but I assume that I'm at high risk.

That said, this looks pretty neat and seems like basically a spoon version of Canon AF lenses. Will definitely look into these for my grandpa :)
This was all kogir. I'm not sure what midnight witchery he was up to.

Perhaps if we summon him he will appear :)
There are a lot of other reasons for using a single-purpose device when doing something requiring focused concentration. I think a lot of the "I read better when it's a physical printout" crowd can be won over by e-readers which only load one document at a time, for instance. It's a lot harder to read even a printed book if you have a bunch of letters and bills stacked next to it.
It is nice, but I sometimes wish that Safari or Chrome tabs would cycle with that combination, rather than the control + tab sequence as then it would all be a bit more similar.
If someone steals your bank account number and charges you, you call your bank to reverse the transaction and block any future transactions from the thief :) did that yesterday, works like a charm.
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Yes, it's true of just about any mature environment these days.

And why? Because we want a mature environment to do a bunch of things for us, so that we don't have to (badly) re-implement everything. But the price of that is, we have to learn how to get the framework to do those things for us.
Before we all jump on the idea of Title II, let's consider the implications. Specifically Terrifs. If last-mile ISPs can start charging Terrifs for use of their lines (like the telcos do), this will have the opposite of the desired effect on pricing and will lead to arbitrage like we've seen with the Telcos (these Terrifs allowed NetZero to make money by keeping your modem connected... essentially billing everyone in the country through the FCC's "Federal Universal Service Charge" on your phone bill instead of their users). This is also where the "Family Plan" came from. Honestly, it's shocking how ill informed most people in the tech industry are on what they're asking for here...

Why do we need any regulation in the first place? Net Neutrality has never truly existed. Netflix has the cheapest bandwidth deal of anyone... And they're trying to fool their users into lobbying the gov't for them to keep in that way. Small start-ups have always payed more per Megabit. That's the free market at work. You pay less for bulk. It makes sense. Every content provider (website, video service, shared host, VoIP provider, etc) has always been able to pay for priority at some level (be it through exclusive private fiber channels, faster DNS, the use of CDNs, or even QoS for latency-critical services like VoIP & gaming). This has generally been a good thing. Yes, some local monopolistic ISPs are acting up and something has to be done about that. But calling them utilities will only give them the power to impose terrifs and charge more... the opposite of what we want.
I knew about it pretty much from the beginning, but I still never minimize anything since it's a pain to have to remember which windows I minimized and therefor need to also press Option for.

Of course more often then not I'll use Alfred, which does open minimized windows by default.
Actually, those two points are related: I started using iterm2 precisely because I also started using tmux, and tmux integration is much better with iterm2 than with the native terminal (and for me at least I find tmux much simpler than using screen). So there are advantages.

> Speaking of which: vim is great. Use vim. The world needs more vim.

Agreed :)
It's never been buy once use everywhere. I can't play a book on a record player or put a CD into a tape machine. I'm not saying you shouldn't be able to use the same file on different devices but you need to recognise that your demand is the new method of distribution here that needs to make its case (and I think will do in the long run).
Well sure, I'm not saying that he shouldn't use WordStar 4.0 on DOS. If it works for him, he shouldn't have to justify it. It takes time to become comfortable with a new word processor. But if you're going to make up excuses, pointing at a feature which can be disabled by un-ticking a checkbox is kind of lame.
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FYI: You can also cycle tabs with Command+Option+Left and Command+Option+Right and Command+[1, 2, 3, etc, with 9 always selecting the right-most tab] in the case of Chrome.

With Safari, you can do Command+Shift+[ and ]
>Everyone keeps repeating the claim that "most users don't care" but I think the more accurate characterization is "most users don't understand".

Certainly. But look at the people here on HN, who do understand. How many have them have stopped using browsers and OSes that ship EME?

The people that would educate the "average" user, that doesn't yet understand, are HN-type people. But while there is lots of hatred for DRM in the comments here, there simply is not enough interest in actually fighting it. It we did want to fight it, we wouldn't use products with EME and we would get our non-techie friends to do the same.
I think some will remember the news story that Sergey Brin has the Parkinson's mutation. He is keen to fund technologies that makes progress in this field. That would indeed be welcome. Diagnosing Parkinson's with confidence with a specific authoritative test is no easy task. For my dad, the doctors cannot decide if it is essential tremor or Parkinson's.

I recall a post on HN which showed that our vocal signals have enough information to help wwith such diagnosis. Voice as carried by phone's now dont have the spectral resolution for this. However it might have enough bandwidth if voice is coded for that purpose. Seems like a worthy problem to take a stab at.

I think the corresponding NPR story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7752627 was posted a few days ago but did not make the front page. So I am glad this made it.
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For those who find themselves needing to write pīnyīn, two additions:

option-a then a, e, i, o, or u: ā ē ī ō ū or Ā Ē Ī Ō Ū

option-v then a, e, i, o, or u: ă ě ǐ ǒ ǔ or Ǎ Ě Ǐ Ǒ Ǔ
Using these kind of game metaphors just shallowly rationalizes something of far more importance, IMO. Legal or not, a country was worse off because of his direct and deliberate actions.
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What blows my mind is that you created an account seemingly just to make this unfunny joke.
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Agreed, especially the last part. What was it, 3DStudio that used dongles back in the day? Or some other similar software... I wouldn't know because all I saw in my country were uncrippled pirated copies without the dongle. Why they insisted on the dongles is beyond me. (Well, actually TFA answers this)
I imagine that playing videos is the Flash Player's primary use case. With EME supporting only video decoding, we can sooner phase out support for Flash Player and everything else it drags along.

If Adobe's CDM can run while completely sandboxed from network and file access, then what if it was implemented in asm.js? Then "CDM.js" could be portable across all browser platforms and architectures. I'm not sure how well Firefox's JIT would optimize obfuscated asm.js code generated from obfuscated C++ code. :)

Disclosure: I used to work on Adobe's Flash Player team and I now work at Mozilla, so I have many conflicting personal and professional biases. :)
You might be right - that, ultimately, we find that the system can be gamed more. That's not our hunch, and it's way too early to tell at this point, but we won't ignore the results if that's how it turns out.

StackOverflow really needs to implement this functionality, though. The hours upon hours we've saved by some of the answers there really deserved a real reward.
In most of the world, giving someone your bank account number for them to pay into is routine, and won't give them the ability to do anything with your account other than send you money.
I am on Mac, and i have to confess i just use the trackpad to click on the tab like some sort of caveman.

Although, now ripter has taught me that ⌘1 etc select tabs (i also use iTerm), i hope i'll switch to using that.
Except the telecom companies make up 6 of the top 25 companies with the highest U.S. capital expenditures...

Do you think no one is paying attention? We know very well that VZN & ATT's capital spending is in wireless, not wireline:

http://stopthecap.com/2013/07/18/verizon-diverting-landline-...

Sure, one might see this as a sign that existing wireline regulations are already too onerous, and Ma Bell's poor daughters have to take their ball and go home. But the fact is, they know their wireline market is a captive one, and customers will stay no matter how little they invest. As soon as they bribe their way to a Sprint takeover, we'll see wireless investment head in the same direction.
What was morally or ethically disgusting about Soros profiting greatly at the expense of the British Government?

Do you think it's morally or ethically wrong that you paid $3 for a hamburger that McDonald's only paid $2 to produce?

Opportunities and tradeoffs exist all around us. It's simply how our world works.
nobody is saying that more trials are unnecessary. my point is to emphasize the limited data so far is compelling, and that it goes beyond a 'trial of 1'.
I think the amount of work that goes into them, regularly I hear 12-18 months, and that they aren't usually engineered towards intuitive processes or interfaces. I imagine features rather than experience is a driver.
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_de_f%C3%A9

"Auto-da-fé" sounds just bit weird, a minor nitpick. It's probably right both ways.
Go back and read the article again. Soros was able to make as much as he did because most of the market was convinced, incorrectly, that the British government would succeed in propping up the pound. This was not some trade that everyone saw the chance to make and just passed on it out of the goodness of their hearts. Big successful trades are always obvious to everyone in hindsight.

I suppose one's perspective on the whole affair depends a lot on whether you think governments should be using the public treasury to manipulate markets and try to muscle asset prices in one direction or another. Since I think that is arrogant folly, and destined to end in costly failure regardless, better to have some speculator come along and put a stop to it before it can drag on and result in even more losses to the public.
Yale's endowment report offers a straightforward discussion on why they invest heavily in hedge funds, private equity, venture capital etc.

TL/DR: it's the first three reasons from this article.

http://investments.yale.edu/images/documents/Yale_Endowment_...
I also fit your criteria. I learned a lot, however I would say I didn't really "get" functional programming until after reading some more books and taking a different course that emphasized functional programming. In this course, I was trying to write imperative programs just as much as I could. However, without this course as a foundation, I doubt my other reading (and the other course I took) would have been as valuable.
The quick answer is probably not. Tremors run in my family and I have them pretty bad - using a fork with my left hand is iffy for me. The tremors are not a matter of weakness.

For modest tremors you may want to look into the drug Propranolol. I've used it and it helps but has side effects - for me drowsiness was the worst part. In severe cases there are surgery options. It involves the brain so it's not a minor thing. I have an anesthesiologist friend who tells me it would be fun but I think he means fun for him, not me.
Here is a real world example of a run command to set up MongoDB[http://docs.docker.io/examples/mongodb/] with docker that shares a common db located on the host dir "/srv/pool/db" in my scenario.

MONGO_ID=$(sudo docker run -d -v /srv/pool/db:/srv/data/db:rw jradd/mongodb)

Same usage can apply to postgres, mysql, redis, etc…
To me it looks like any living thing is somehow self-aware, it is what makes anything a live. Even plants take conscious actions, like specifically calling a pollinator among others, recognising members of the family and helping them.

If something doesn't show evidence of self-awareness it doesn't prove it isn't. It just proves it don't show up how you'd expect. Maybe it is self-aware but in a different way.
And what I've always wondered is if animals of the same species recognize each other as belonging to the same 'group' and, if yes, then at what point would they recognize another animal as different. For example, a horse seeing a zebra, or a cat seeing a lion.
Stick your nose in your armpit?
I was under the impression that we frown on screwing innocent people because it's a shitty thing to do, not because it happens to be designated as a crime.

I'm not saying that what Soros did should be illegal, mainly because overregulation can wind up screwing innocent people in all sorts of different ways that I'm not wise enough to predict. But I surely don't understand why he's being held up for praise.
> Honestly, I think the w3c should've just told Netflix et al to get the heck out of the browser.

The w3c isn't some nameless, faceless entity. What happened is that Google and Microsoft, two influential figures in the w3c, developed and pushed EME with Netflix.

The w3c couldn't have stopped them, EME came from the companies in the w3c.
I suspect if you tried to copy their idea it'll take you as much time as it took them if you want to match their algorithms. Meanwhile they're earning money and popularity because they were the first to market.

You might even find a better algorithm or at least match theirs, which adds another competitor to the market. In the end everyone (especially the consumer) wins.

Not a very good defense of patents to be honest.

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Also, this is not an instance of crap patents (rounded corners anyone?) which are the controversial ones. If I can copy your invention without any effort just by looking at it... is it even worth to grant the patent?

Patents are a means to encourage companies to share trade secrets, not a tool to turn them into monopolies. If your trade secret is not secret, why would the people (remember the governments, i.e. the people, are the ones granting patents) grant you any privilege so you would disclose what is already public and/or obvious?

OTOH, it's in the people's interests that Lift Labs share their data (which algorithms they tried, their performance, etc.) so a patent makes sense in this case. Patenting rounded corners? Not so much.
And selling bad credit default swaps wasn't a crime either.

So, according to your theory, the perpetrators of the last downturn should have sold as many bogus CDS packages as possible, right? Regardless of the damage?

I'm happy most people don't subscribe to the same law-defined morals that you seem to.
It's pretty disingenuous to compare numbers from two different time spans. I don't know where the authors numbers come from but he says the drop was 20% in 2008.

Your numbers add an additional 6 months during which the S&P 500 dropped significantly:
https://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXSP:.INX

additionaly, the time period you cite seems hand picked to start at the high and end at the low.
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At the point they decided to (as you say) imitate Chrome, they had _already_ lost quite a bit of market share to chrome, and the market share loss seemed to be continuing.

Whether their choices to 'be more like Chrome' were appropriate responses or not you can debate, but dating their loss of influence or market share to after they decided to 'imitate Chrome' is a mistaken timeline.

Personally, I'd say their loss of market to share from Chrome came from a few things:

* Google's ability to promote Chrome was huge, since so many people look at google every day. This is huge, and perhaps we could just stop there, but...

* Firefox had become bloated and slow and a bit crashy. It's just true. Google had the resources to write a high-quality new browser (which is pretty huge), and their browser was really really fast and really really stable compared to FF. (It is no longer so stark a difference, cause FF has much improved on speed and stability, and Chrome, as it continued to be developed got the inevitable bloat and bugs that software does. Although Google writes pretty good software, and Chrome is no exception).

* FF just wasn't innovating much anymore in features, for users or developers. There wasn't a lot of (non-ideological) reason to use it, if something else came along. Developers matter because they influence other users (in part by designing their sites with certain browsers as their main testing environment), and developers aren't influenced as much by the fact that google.com tells them to download Chrome. But I think FF lost significant dev market/mindshare to Chrome too, in part because Chrome's dev tools were way better than FF's at that time.

Now, if Mozilla made the right or wrong choices to try and recover, we can argue (I think overall they've made a lot of the right choices for the hand they were dealt), but at the point they changed to be 'more like Chrome', it was a reaction to already having lost a huge amount of market share. If they had kept on the course they were on, I think they'd have lost even more by now.
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US debit cards look identical to credit cards, except they say "debit" next to the card brand. No account or routing numbers.
I wasn't a fan of the course. For context, I've got a lot of experience in FP, but no experience in Scala. I took the course hoping to learn Scala.

The course didn't teach me Scala. I suppose if I was an FP beginner, I would have learned something, but not much. It had about the same depth in FP as my college Programming Languages course, except that course also covered a ton of other topics.

Part of how dissatisfied I was is because I took the course immediately after Dan Boneh's cryptography course, in which I learned a ton. I was very disappointed how little content was actually in the course.
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Something like Obscure Italian professor invented predecessor algorithm to PageRank.
i can say he was a good professor for me during my university years, and i am in some way proud of reading about him here. he is really a nice person with all his students, he doesnt care about grades or other things
I've spent >6 months with my only human contact being over the Internet (yay, Sealand), and weeks-up-to-6 in similar settings (boats, hiding out in a villa in a foreign country, etc.). IRC-as-primary-social-contact was...interesting. But I don't think it was actually that unhealthy.
Yep.

Cars too.
I think this over-states the case for "otherwise law-abiding" cyclists. Anyone who's tried crossing Market Street on foot has probably been nearly hit by a cyclist completely ignoring stop signs, red lights, and anyone else's right of way. Those problems need to be addressed with direct enforcement before we can possibly consider giving bicyclists any special treatment above the behavior of cars -- specifically because they have already shown that many of them are not capable of using their own discretion with respect to a pedestrian's right of way.

I spoke to an SFPD officer on Market and 2nd the other day, and he watched as five different cyclists ran a red light stopping vehicular traffic on Market. I asked him why he wasn't giving tickets to the cyclists, and he told me that he is specifically not allowed to. He reiterated to me that the official policy of the SFPD is not to enforce traffic violations by cyclists on Market Street. He told me that this is because the SF Bike Coalition has run a campaign vilifying police officers and accusing them of harassing cyclists. This is all at the cost of pedestrian safety.

I'm not making this shit up, either. I've been hit by two bicyclists in the last year who were running red lights while I was legally crossing Market street on foot. And let's not forget all the cyclists riding on the sidewalk or against traffic.

SF is a zoo enough without people gleefully ignoring all traffic safety laws to suit their own convenience, and I don't think we should make it any easier on the people who do it.