skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The GP's statement could be parsed as meaning there are 12,000 to 25,000 Nokia employees and 5–10% of those could be laid off.
If your assets are worth less than your liabilities, you're technically insolvent. If you can still pay your bills from cashflows, you don't need to claim bankruptcy, but on a long enough timeline without a significant change, you will go bankrupt. There was a long stretch of time post-GFC where this was the case with GE.

Banks have to 'mark-to-market' their debt periodically, but since GE wasn't a bank, they didn't abide by the same regulations. Say there were two identical houses on a street with $500k mortgages, but the market crashed, the houses are worth less, and only 1/2 of the mortgages will be repaid. If Bank of America owned the first house, the mortgage asset (it's an asset to the bank) would be marked-to-market and what was formerly a $500k asset would now be worth $250k, and the bank would show a loss of $250k.

GE doesn't have to do this and could carry assets at their previous value (and didn't have to mark down bad debt either). To simplify the story, during the GFC, GE had that one mortgage "worth" $500k and debts worth $400k. If they were a bank, they would have had to admit that the mortgage was really worth $250k, and they would've gone into receivership.

If not for that accounting quirk and the massive amount of bailout cash they took from the Federal Reserve / FDIC, they would have actually had to declare bankruptcy. Ironically enough, the FDIC program and Federal Reserve are to shore up banks and GE was explicitly not a bank per the above few paragraphs. So make sense of how they got access to bailout money solely authorized to bail out banks..

[1] - $45B in losses buried on GE's balance sheet: http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-living-on-plane...

[2] - GE borrowed $16B from Federal Reserve: http://www.propublica.org/article/general-electric-tapped-fe...

[3] - FDIC to back $139B in GE Capital Debt: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/fdic-to-back-139-bill...

[4] - GE Borrows $59.3B from FDIC program: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-01/ge-borrowed-16-bill...
Apple and IBM worked very closely on PowerPC for years.
if you're having trouble hiring people at the market rates, you need to revisit your assumptions (at minimum, the one about paying market rates)
A new viral video on Youtube. Makes you feel laugh
Check out "Memories of a diva" a new viral video on YouTube! Lol https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K9jvLSp4zjc
Let's be honest, Facebook has a much more efficient product, and by that I mean the product does most of the work for them.
According to the previous discussion, he used, ignoring analytics and APIs: js (coffeescript), leaflet, d3 (mercator projection), jQuery, SASS, mapbox, jquery-pjax, python (django), individual animated state transitions with css, and webkit transitions.

This is on another level. What extra resources on the side would one recommend following IDV for the Web [1], to close the gap?

[1] http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000345/index.ht...
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Thanks for sharing, his travel stories are inspiring
The highest positions in government are stacked with former/future corporate employees. Our former vice president was the CEO of Halliburton. Our current attorney general was a partner at one of the largest corporate law firms in the world. This is the norm not the exception.

So the idea that there's friction between corporations and "The Government" is just not serious. The government largely functions to keep American corporations happy and profitable.
I'm not a fan of south park (a popular comedy show in the US) but the creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are pretty smart guys. They will never censor content for anyone. If they do, it will lead to a slippery slope where others will demand the same privilege. If we give up even an inch on this then pages and files will become so latent they won't even be worth accessing.
If both parties are aware that the call may be recorded, then either party may record it. That is covered by the boilerplate "this call may be recorded" language that pretty much every call center uses.
Are you sure the cold calls are genuinely from those banks?
Well, Min 2.0 will be out soon (a few days) and will include everything that Bootstrap does and more. I guarantee that laying something out using only Normalize will be harder than using just Min. For one, Min is about the same size as Normalize and it supports more browsers (IE5.5+). It also provides buttons, a grid, a navbar, etc.

Try replicating Min's navbar quickly (the v2.0 one) and you will end up with tons of compatibility problems, strange bugs, and you'll give up quickly. There's a reason there are only five CSS frameworks (Bootstrap, Foundation, uikit, Ionic, Min) that actually have a working navbar. That's out of about 100 CSS frameworks total. All of those five frameworks, except Min, have a company, thousands of stars, and tons of contributors behind them.

I don't count Gumby as its navbar has some weird bugs, plus it uses display: table. I don't count Cascade and Ink as neither work consistently on Android.

For a preview of Min 2.0, try http://pasteht.ml/Rg0B0
I personally like the idea of keeping a personal journal.
I usually just describe what i'm working on and write it in a document which goes into a folder that is month / year stamped.
Just be descriptive in what project you worked. How you overcame certain problems.
What were the pain points and your solution.
Rather than using actual code you can use Pseudo Code or write it in descriptive english so its a reference point to your coding efforts and nothing to do with the IP.
The combination of speculative hype in the headline ("May Just Be") and the fact that this is YC-backed made me laugh out loud. Sometimes I forget that Hacker News is sponsored and run by YCombinator. The tone is always so rigorous and skeptical, until something made by YC comes along. Keep it joyful.
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Disallowing depreciation would increase the cost by 40%, in other words basically outlawing the use of private jets. Doesn't sound like a good idea.

How do you single out providing a nicer airplane for business travel as a taxable benefit without treating the same any asset your employees use to make doing their job more pleasant? You create an impossible job of trying to decide what constitutes a "large enough" ROI for the business.

Buy your employees nice monitors? Must be a benefit! Ergonomic chairs? Tax it! Take a corporate bus to work? Charge em' per mile! A nap room that employees sometimes spend the night in? Serving filet in the cafe? Forget about that espresso machine in the break room. Oh, and that artwork on the wall's got to go. A basket ball hoop in the parking lot; that's a fitness stipend by another name!

For something to rise to the level of a taxable employee benefit it has to provide a lot more tangible direct personal value than this, and virtually zero business ROI.

All this is actually the perfect example for how nice it would be if we could find a better way to tax which avoided this mess.
Samuel Johnson defined bankers in the eighteenth century as "One that trafficks in money". Italian Kings in the fifteenth century had them expelled or executed. Solon of Athens couldn't stand them either. The three major Western religions also forbid the collection of interest on loans, further casting bankers into the depths of hell /s
It's hard to meet every need when connectivity is still to expensive to try throwing in everything, but that's why we made a general connected object - your examples can be mostly met by http://supermechanical.com/twine, some with the breakout board to wire into existing circuits.
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Is it really that black and white to compare the size of engineering teams 20 years apart?
Yeah, because corn, wheat, and soybean are inelastic goods, am I right?

I can't go 3 days without that sweet sweet soybean oil, or I will literally starve to death.

I'd actually draw the supply and demand curve and what would happen to the various suppliers and buyers if the subsidies were removed, but I'm afraid I would get labeled a dirty Randian and branded a heretic.
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I'm not sure if offloading sound to a seperate worker would be possible for something like JSMESS -- most emulators I've looked at are single-threaded save for rendering operations in certain safe cases, and sound generation is often inexorably linked with the CPU loop.

Maybe running the entire emulator on a worker would help (assuming it's GC-free)? But now you've got potential issues with input and video latency.
I thought Han Unification meant that (most of the common) CJK characters were represented by the same Unicode code points, and that the way to differentiate like this is by specifying metadata that indicates the "language".

Obviously I'm wrong, because these are just regular Unicode characters, without an HTML "lang" attribute.

What gives?
For those wondering about "using designer microbes to convert CO2 emissions into fuel", take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae_fuel.

Basically the algae takes in CO2 and then the algae itself is turned into fuel. Another method is where algae takes in CO2 and "exhales" fuel which removes the need to "kill" the algae. Very cool stuff. On a large enough, and efficient enough, scale this kind of technology could become highly important. These methods are somewhat carbon neutral since the CO2 emitted from using the fuel is recaptured by algae again.
Just to make this clear - are the files hosted on your platform, or on dropbox? And what are the limits of your free accounts (if any)?

I see your site says you offer hosting - but I am getting confused a bit as there is no complete feature list on your website - just lengthy documentation.

Do you have some traffic limits?

Do you have bandwidth cap/space cap?

Are pictures etc. hosted on dropbox or your servers?

Congrats on front page and good luck!
Conclusion does not follow. People are certainly ignorant, but even an idiot can see that the TBTF banks are filled with useless douches who'd be out on their ears if it weren't for sugar daddy government papering over their mistakes in the name of systemic stability.

But then, what would you expect from someone paid by Bloomberg?
This kind of thing is so awesome. I want my Jurassic Park, dang it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXr-2hwTk58
No single piece of technology has sparked as much interest, scrutiny and even ire as Google Glass

Except for things like the original iPhone, Tesla cars, and the like. Or, going back in history, things like 'television' and 'photography'. Yes, a ye olde television is useless without a television studio and transmitter, but Glass is equally useless without internet access or links to a smartphone.

Glass is an impressive bit of technological achievement, but come on, keep it in perspective.
I rather have lots of people reading my book, getting less royalty per person, than having less people reading my book getting more royalties.

I write because I want to share my ideas and point of views, not because I care about the money. It's nice though when someone pays the 5 EUR it costs, that keeps me awake with the coffee I can buy for the money.
Did they essentially fire 5k with stack ranking annually before?
The BCG matrix. Microsoft is in the Cash Cow stage and moving to the Dog stage.
Prototypes and projects they may be, they still speak to Google's greater ambitions.

They're aiming high. That's all I'm saying. It's hard to argue against that.

It's easy to forget that Tesla and SpaceX weren't always the great cars and great rockets with great efficiency they are today. Just 3-4 years ago they were both on the brink of collapse.

In one of my undergraduate business classes in 2009, one of my professors literally used Elon Musk and Tesla/SpaceX as a case study in poor management.

Like SpaceX and Tesla, Google X's moonshots deserve time to evolve.
There are fast tracks to permanent residence after a PhD [1]. But if you don't want to immigrate (owe US taxes for foreign income, etc.) then you're right. Staying on H1B is no way to live.

[1] http://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/entrepreneur-visa-guide#...
"Look, the only reason people are suspicious of conmen is that they're not good at telling which of three cards is the Queen."
Weird. I use Pocket Casts on both an ipad and an Android phone every day with 50 subscribed podcasts and haven't had any of those things happen. Literally not a single one of those things. Several of those sound like a dodgy headphone connection though.

The only thing I don't like about it is that it's getting a bit unresponsive on the ipad 2 when you switch back to the app - takes a few seconds to respond to buttons.
You really need both the carrot and the stick, what is an incentive for one organisation may not be for another.

But funding green initiatives is not in this government's agenda as the vote to strip ARENA of $432 million went through, apparently leaving it only $100 million to invest in new projects over the next four years.
From what I've heard, if you're not working on cloud services, you're a dinosaur.

They just let go of XP and cloud services are making the need to support office version X for 10 years less relevant. MS must spend a ridiculous amount of time & treasure supporting old crap.
I think the vitriol arises from the stranglehold progressives have on the use of "science" in public discourse. The only allow "science" to be used is used to demonstrate that women are in some sense more oppressed or less fortunate than men, or that women are more capable or good than men.

There is a double standard when it comes to evidence and argumentation. In one direction, it is ok to use "science" and even "biology". In the other, it is only ok to use sociology or feminist theory.
Actually, they're the same thing: both are computed as (number of shares outstanding) * (price per share).

The difference is that market cap is used for companies that have IPO'd (and therefore have a broad market for their shares with continuous price adjustments) versus companies that have raised money through private markets (and therefore have infrequent price adjustments).

One can reasonably argue that valuations are less precise than market caps as a result, but both are dictated by sophisticated investors and should be more or less correct on average.

(In fact, valuations are less precise, but this has a lot more to do with the amount of uncertainty inherent in any early-stage company than it does with the availability of shares on a public market; Wall St. has its ups and downs just like Silicon Valley.)
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But Facebook is in a much more tenuous position. Nobody really needs Facebook; it's mostly entertainment and could be toppled in a few years time by the next internet/tech fad. Microsoft is a lot more entrenched in a lot more places that actually depend on their software.
Why do people hate bankers: simple, banking isn't easy and the literature is too complex.

While not about normal everyday banking, there has been much research into financial statements of public companies and the readability of these reports [1]. Basically, how can most people understand banking/financials when the general readability of the documents has gotten to a point where even an MBA does not understand parts of them? Now, go into any local bank branch and the documents they have for consumers is just as vague, difficult to understand, and "transparently" informative.

As for simple. Banks have gotten better at this with mobile apps. But branches still neglect simple customer demands: stay open beyond normal working hours (9am-5pm), allow easy payments via ACH/Wire, and reduce the complexity of the loan process to name a few.

[1] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1868591
Great presentation. One question: since this is a performance-oriented library, did you consider the possibility of letting the user specify a "chunk" function that receives an array of lines, instead of a "step" function that only receives one? That way, if you are parsing a file with one million lines, you can invoke the callback ten thousand times (with a hundred lines each time) instead of a million times.
No. If anything, I would expect net neutrality to benefit pirates.
How is it that they have no relation to Haskell functors?

> Functors are, roughly speaking, functions from modules to modules
(https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/functors.html)

Functors in haskell have functions (fmap) that take a value (a function) from one category into another.

Are they not at least the same Functor as in Category Theory?
Hang in there bro. I got laid off on H1-B last year. While technically you become "out of status" on the day you get laid off (severance and payroll doesnt matter), you can stick around for a reasonable amount of time to find a new job. The strictest interpretation for that time is 10 days but I know folks who took 2 months. Good luck!
Wow, that article linked to this[1], from which I learned that the largest flying Pterosaurs had wingspans of over 10m (~35ft), and weighed upwards of 250kg (550lb).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterosaur_size#Speculation_abo...
I am very interested in hearing use cases for this, I am having trouble coming up with something useful to do with it, but looks very interesting nonetheless and site's indeed really good.
i think you mean the other way around.
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If people really understood what bankers do, they'd hate them even more.

For a start, the fractional reserve system is simply parasitic, the very foundation of our financial system has a built-in backdoor through which the banks extract rent.
Okay. I just wanted to point out that your original post makes it sound like "Food deserts don't exist". Not "Food deserts aren't necessarily correlated with obesity"
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Any idea what the catalogue will be?

Very interested if it includes the kindle editions of the various science and math textbooks offered.

E.g. having unfettered access to the entire Dover Books on Mathematics series would be a delight.
One simple use I like a lot is using tail recursion as a replacement for gotos. Its great for state machines and other "algorithmy" tasks. You get the benefits of gotos (the code you write is the same as the code you think) but the end result is actually manageable.

http://www.lua.org/pil/6.3.html

Lambda the ultiamte goto: http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html
when looking for crap, setting off the crap sensor would be a positive result... you don't want to accidentally fire the good ones.
I don't think that's what it's saying at all. To me, it reads as though it's basically saying "one person can't remember really secure passwords for every site, so use good passwords for important sites, and bad passwords for unimportant sites".

It actually talks about choosing how secure to make a password based on importance and "the probability a given account password will be compromised", but I don't really see how users are going to evaluate the latter.
I think you misunderstand the concept. It's not that we should never tax all that money, but the theory that you can tax it more simply, fairly, and efficiently by taxing those same dollars but only at certain times.

For example, some states tax corporations based on their total assets. And we already charge taxes whenever money moves out of a corporation (sales tax, income tax, capital gains tax).

The point is you shouldn't have to tax dollars on the way in, dollars at rest, AND dollars on the way out just to allocate the common expense.
Typed too hastily, meant "in-place upgrades".
This example is not very different from an object oriented approach (an opaque interface with a "contains" method). That said, in a functional setting the tail recursion is great for functions like union and intersect.
Microsoft had a product that was bundled with ever computer sold. If that's not a product selling itself I don't know what is.
Since the video cameras were made, people have known that they're being taped. You know that almost all buildings have security cameras, or that they're being taped by a tourist, weather they know it or not. The public is just not seeing the full picture, I could honestly, before Glass came out, recorded people with a camcorder or security camera. Also... If people are worried about others seeing how they act in public, then they need to fix how they're acting. A picture can mean a thousand words, but a video be chapters of your life. Choose how you want to have your book written, don't make bad decisions.
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Very, very impressive. This stuff should be built for tech colleges. A great way to showcase the use of old and new technologies together.
Net neutrality is nearly, but not entirely, orthogonal to efforts to control unlawful internet activity; its about neutrality among lawful uses.
Wow, I didn't know the whole system is so fragile. I wonder if it would be technically possible to have the satellites control themselves by measuring passive fixed points on the earth surface, although I suspect the current system is optimized for cost (weight and ease of upgrade).
> #1 unis are non union so picketing would be extremely unlikely.

I didn't assume that you were in a union, but I was trying to paint a picture that might be more relevant to you. Just because it's not directly relevant to you doesn't mean that the general idea isn't sound though.

> #2 you'd call the police if someone followed you around and screamed in your face and kept trying to give you pamphlets. obviously theres a line somewhere in between.

Someone following you around screaming at you is harassment, not protest / free-speech. We already laws against that. There's no need form a designated 'protest zone' where no one is allowed to protest / express non-status quo ideas outside of this 'zone.'

At the same time, there is no 'right to not be annoyed' either. So there is that.

> you disagree? why dont you go into the local police station and start screaming some cause while trying to give people pamphlets.

You keep repeating "there is something in the middle," yet you assume the worst of me and use it as a strawman to proclaim victory over in the furtherance of 'proving' your point.

> guess what? guns are legal, its legal to be registered and to carry a concealed weapon. but you are NOT allowed to carry them on most college campuses.

So... free speech is analogous to concealed weapons?
At Google, if you don't make it to level 5 sweng within a certain amount of time(2 years from being hired at level 4), you will most likely get fired. After that you can relax more. So the fluff in software engineering(including managers) is minimal. Facebook though... Ask their employees how that build system is working out for them. There's a lot of doing, agreed, but sometimes you need to just take a chill pill, stop the goddamn hacking for chrissakes, design THEN code.
Raise your hand if you saw that coming when Android and Apple beat Microsoft to the punch in the global mobile market, and then kicked them a few times while they were down, and then laughed about it.
>Children should be told that being a schoolkid is a weird kind of environment, the like of which they probably won't experience as an adult. Most workplaces don't involve customary physical violence, or even frequent overt verbal abuse.

on the other side, if school wasn't that hard than college/workplace wouldn't feel that easy by comparison. It it like taking very tight shoes off ...
Sounds like a great idea. Since that will use more memory, I also want to allow users of the library to customize the chunk sizes. I'll try to build in these features for 3.1.
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