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>You make an interesting argument, though I cannot imagine how any foreign power would have a greater influence on politics than the existing farm lobby (, as is true both in the USA and Europe).

Perhaps not, at least not in modern times. However, a powerful, even corrupt, farm lobby is preferable to a suzerain, which is what any third party who you rely on to feed your people would be.

For the rest of your post, I agree most foreign aid is money not well spent, at least in the case of the US. But, that's only because most of the money spent by the US government is not well spent, because it is corrupt beyond redemption.

It's not clear that propping up Saudi Arabia decreases the price of oil for the US. It's not clear that keeping Israel around as a destabilizing presence in the Middle East, decreases the price of oil for the US. Hell, it's not even all that clear to me that the Middle East is so strategically important when it comes to oil in the first place - we get more oil from Canada than from the ME, and Latin America as well, after all. Not to mention domestic production. It figures largely into the political calculus nonetheless - I never said American leaders were smart.

Perhaps our actions in the ME are more about denying resources to others, than securing them for ourselves. Perhaps, more than anything, they are the result of a world power being run into decline by a pack of short-sighted fanatical xenophobic fools (and here, I am not referring to the American political establishment).
> a lot of this is justified by the patents that Small Company filed.

That's bunk. It can happen that companies are acquired for patents. But the above was the case when it's acquired for technology. That's a very different thing.
What I don't like about this chart it it doesn't show how bad the USA's public transportation is relative to places like say Tokyo, Singapore, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Berlin, Helsinki, etc. They're night and day better than NYC which itself is night and day better than SF.
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Totally. Still about half an hour into Bston, though, which is kind of a drag. (I work at Localytics, and we're at 101 Arch--directly above Downtown Crossing. Not a terrible commute by any means, but closer's still better.)
The author actually makes a pretty convincing case that Feynman wasn't, in fact, sexist. I asked for clarification here: http://wavefunction.fieldofscience.com/2014/07/richard-feynm...
Sent yours back, thanks!
The thing that really stands out is comprehensive and liability insurance? What happens if someone is injured moving a someone's stuff, or if the truck has an accident and its content are damaged, or even stolen?

You put a incredible amount of liability on yourself with this idea.
If you're in SF, you're missing out if you haven't checked out their restaurant near the Bay Bridge.
Think about this the over way around.

Russia thinks you broke some laws or said something bad about their president and wants to access your blog data that's stored on the US servers. The company that is hosting your data is Microsoft.

Russia filed a local search warrant for Microsoft to hand in your data but your data is stored and hosted in the US. Do you think Microsoft should be allowed to do this or do you think Russia should file a request with the US government and the US would issue a search warrant to MS to grab the data. US would then hand over the data to Russia.
though I'm sure inkscape devs wouldn't refuse some funding, they aren't necessarily pimping their services for custom work on the project. It seems to be slowly evolving, so who knows how long it would take to get somebody who could code what he's after.
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This isn't always the best strategy. If you're unlikely to make a court date, being remorseful and apologetic has a decent chance of getting you a reduction from the officer. If you play hardball, so will he, then you have no choice on going to court if you want a reduction.

If you're in serious trouble, STFU is the correct choice, but it's not necessarily the most economical for a moving violation.
My community might get Google Fiber soon. I still am pretty excited about that, but the more I read about community fiber, the more torn I feel.
Usage in US was hoax. Jenkem isn't.
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Not that I suggest, but how common is it in US to work illegally in a white collar job space?
> If you've got a specific beef with him, then you should just say what you mean instead of saying something that only serves to lay blame without rational.

I think I was very specific in the OP and the WSJ reference.

But to spell it out: Jed McCaleb is a cofounder of MtGox and Ripple. MtGox collapsed, is defunct, and is under investigation by multiple governments and regulatory agencies. Ripple dropped 40% in one day when Jed liquidated.

I don't think it's unreasonable to wonder whether Jed is the right person to be on the board of a new digital currency, given the track record at the last two organizations.
I banged my head pretty hard on this recently, but afaict I have a working solution. I wish this had been better documented. One problem I faced is that I had to fiddle with Flask to make it work (Python user here). I'll post my setup somewhere tomorrow and comment back here.
It's smart they going this direction, perhaps a result of them getting some key players in their staff. I haven't played with Serif since probably 2002. Back then the interface didn't seem all that smooth, but they do a lot of work in the education marketing area, so their products are probably evolving reasonably well. It's interesting your mention in the last sentence, because that's how Xara Designer Pro feels in a way for me after yet again buying their latest app. Where as they are adding useful things, some core stuff is still not addressed and GUI is a bit haphazard.
Exactly, if we're "stacking up" why not against international cities?
I'll break it down. Generally, an acquisition implies some type of change. Not always, obviously, but usually when a company gets bought, its customers are going to feel some effects.

Now, current customers of T-Mobile know the company pretty well. They know its reputation, its quality of service, its recent history, etc. If, for example, AT&T were considering acquiring T-Mobile, these customers would have some idea of what to expect. They have all heard of AT&T, know its reputation, service, etc. So they could make some reasonable assumptions about what is going to change.

However, these customers probably haven't heard of Iliad. They don't know its reputation, its quality of service, its history, anything. So making any guesses about what this acquisition would entail is very difficult.

The locations of these companies are only relevant because they give us an idea of whether most people know anything about each company. T-Mobile is based in Germany, but that doesn't matter, everyone in the US knows them anyway. Free is based in France, which does matter because most Americans have never heard of them and know nothing about them.
That's $150 per month - average salary of an experienced full-time school teacher in Georgia (eastern Europe). And no, living costs are not that different from your place of living.
For what it's worth, I signed up and connected Facebook and got 0 STR. Something broke, but now they have all my FB data so that's fun.

It's funny to me that even though I doubt Stellar will be more than a flash in the pan (due to the reasons you mention and what they imply) I'm still willing to give up privacy for the shot that 5000 STR might buy me a sandwich one day.
How can I, instead, get in touch with you directly? simone.brunozzi then the weird character then gmail.
I'd either let them know in a straightforward way (email or use contact form to ask how to report a security issue), or not let them know, but I wouldn't try to let them know while hiding my identity. Too much could go wrong.

Who knows, your good deed could end up getting you in some trouble. But it's true of any good deed you'll ever do in your life. You can't let the risk of being harmed stop you.
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I've read that in some jurisdictions police have started confiscating jammers and even charging users with obstruction of justice, on the theory that while owning them is explicitly legal, using them prevents police from carrying out their duties. Do you know what the history in AZ is like?
Given that you have documentation, instead of simply accusing him, why don't you offer substantiated evidence? Otherwise, why should we believe you?
Good point - I found this a confusing analysis without digging much into what it was saying - Urbana and Athens were high on the list...why? Do they have public bus systems that students use extensively? If so, that would tend to give a false impression of how much public transit is used there. I liked that he later pulled apart the small and large cities, but it would have been nice to understand what the data was saying in the context of the cities it examined.

Your point on Chicago is well taken - I was surprised to see SF/Oak ahead of it, as they "feel" harder to navigate with transit only, but I was forgetting that the suburbs are included in Chicago, which is basically impossible once you leave the city limits.
Soon after the appeals board brought on additional legal support staff to address a deluge of challenges to decisions by patent examiners, the Patent and Trademark Office imposed a hiring freeze that halted hires of judges needed to handle the appeals.

Not only are there fees paid to process those appeals, but the USPTO will have made extra revenue by being able to charge fees to patent holders, some of whom would otherwise not have patents for fees to be charged on, should these appeals have been heard.

All in all, they seem to have done rather well out of this hiring freeze, though I am sure they have done so with the utmost propriety and scuppering the appeals process has been nothing more than a simple oversight, of course.
Testimony from a witness that no longer presents information when questioned isn't a very good witness.
I think it would be wise to let people invest now in order to acquire stellars later on - assuming more funding would be welcome by the foundation.
She says people who commit suicide are losers can't apologize properly and work hard to make up for their mistake, or people who don't have the guts to weather through the hard times.

Charming attitude.

I doubt that many suicidal people have anything much to atone for, more likely they had some horrible things done to them or are just wired in a way that makes them deeply unhappy.

I don't see suicide as brave or cowardly. Depending on the situation, suicide can be in an individual's best interest -- a terminally ill patient in extreme pain who chooses to undergo a painless physician-assisted suicide would be a good example.

Even beyond terminal illness, I imagine that there are some people who have either been through such massive trauma, or are wired so badly, that suicide is a better option than living in misery. Granted, depressed individuals may not be capable of making decisions in their long-term self-interest, but I still wouldn't condemn every suicide as a "bad" decision, let alone "cowardly", "shameful", or any of the other pejoratives that come up around this topic.
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Cops routinely shoot innocent bystanders.
In general, I do wish more people would explicitly say whether they're listing city population or metro population. In this case the numbers are all clearly metro area. It would be interesting to see how the rankings differed for just the cities. I imagine they'd be very similar, but a few cities would move around.
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I live in a small village (2,000 people) and would love to implement something like this but the costs, as mentioned in articles about communities that have done it, seem prohibitive in the extreme (many millions of dollars). The article talks about underserved rural communities but how in the world do such places afford this (aside from the wealthiest locales, anyway)?
I think he was referring to countries like Norway, Switzerland, etc. who are a bit more pro-human/business rights than Russia.
what 'negative' are you guys talking about? I just noticed your system gave several keywords for one article. What's about positive/negative? thanks
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I am not certain of that. Not even a little bit. I don't think teaching will be identical, but I don't see how it can change that much. Human contact is important, that necessitates a "teacher" of some kind. One-on-one instruction isn't efficient, that necessitates classes. I mean, teaching is basically the same today as it was 200 or even 400 years ago despite truly massive increases in technology. I don't see how another hundred years or so will really change human nature enough to necessitate a paradigm shift in teaching.
You need to hire someone to do a patent opinion for you. Don't pay a ton of money (so don't hire MoFo or something crazy like that), but don't cheap out either. Interpreting claims isn't something you can do on your own, especially when some patents have extremely broad sounding means-plus-function claims that are in actuality much narrower.

Patents don't have to further the state of the art, but they must teach a person skilled in the art how to practice the claimed invention.
> I upvote many posts though. I generally only comment on the one's I find most interesting.

That's actually part of the point of making a story you upvote go into "saved stories": to encourage you to only upvote the stories you actually find interesting enough to return to.
Ask HN: Add ability to bookmark posts?
Would other HN users find it useful to be able to "bookmark" posts? That is, to be able to mark the post so that it shows up on a user-specific list, like the "threads" list, but without having to make a comment on the post (since that requires one either to think up a substantive comment to make, or to make a throwaway comment and risk having it downvoted).
As the article mentions, Buddhist monks in East Asia these days mostly don't follow the ascetic lifestyle of days past. They smoke, drink, eat meat. Some of them may even marry.
> I would not be able to find the post again looking though everything I upvote.

I understand the desire to be able to find the post again; however, the fact remains that that's not what comments are designed for. You can't exactly blame other users for treating comments the way they were designed to be treated.

That said, I have to agree that being able to "bookmark" posts without having to risk being downvoted would be a useful feature. I've submitted an "Ask HN" post to see how many other users feel the same way:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8118469
You are a small businessman. You get a letter demanding $5000 because you are infringing on this stupid patent. How often would you choose to spend $1M or more to fight the patent? Don't you see how ludicrous your test for correctness is?
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I agree on the fact that Stellar is very promising.
I played around with a few different configurations for that particular part, even having something similar to yours that looked like

match line.chars().next() {
Some(x) => match x {
'#' => ...
'v' => ...
_ => ...
},
None => ...
}

But I felt that the current approach was fine. At this point it becomes more a decision of style and taste vs any kind of practicality.
So, I can buy a country's bonds based on the laws of the country I choose to, but that doesn't apply to data?

Doesn't seem very straight to me. If a country chooses to comply that's different than forcing MS USA to hand over data from MS Ireland.
I am guessing you probably have some bade trademark news coming your way... cool app though

http://www.bitspin.ch/
(aka timely the clock app aquired by google)
My first response was "what are saved stories"? Then I looked in my profile and found the link. It would be really nice if that link were in the bar at the top of the HN page, like "threads" is.
The cost of transaction might be an issue if one day 1 stellar > 20 USD or so (it becomes too expensive). Wondering if there is a way to fix it (other than simply merging multiple transactions), without having anything to do with the USD itself.
What that's talking about is quite different. That's inability to fire from a private position, this is (approximate) inability to refrain from hiring for a public position. It's still, certainly, an interesting thing.
On Reddit, people post short summaries as titles. It isn't a good idea. A boring title may not be descriptive, but it's prescriptive: it prevents tainting the conversation. People shouldn't go into an article with a mindset established by a summary written by a random user. That privilege should be reserved for the author.

Why not have mods vet the summaries, like they do with titles? Because it'd be way too much work to do that for all articles. Dozens make it to the frontpage each day. And then we'll run into situations where the mods haven't vetted a summary at night (because they're sleeping) so some linkbaity summary flairs up to the frontpage for no good reason. This is exactly what happens on Reddit, and it's the reason HN should maintain its current rule regarding titles.

Good content, not good titles, should define HN as a community.
Hi karl, Andrew from Stellar here. We're aware of the problem that's causing some users not to receive their 5000 Stellar reward. We're working on a fix - you'll have your Stellars in your wallet soon :)
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Actually it is not. In some respect their are probably less regulated and less constrained by what we think are the true "free" market (US). The lack of constraints doesn't come from lack of laws or rules but from non-enforcement and corruption. And, well, nothing says free market like getting the quickest and fastest way to your goal -- bribe your way out, install and control lobbyists, buy up all the competitors and so on. So in that respect one can say they are more free than Americans. (But then again, if one considers the power of lobbying, and revolving doors between industries and agencies regulating then maybe US does have the free-est market of all -- the government is just a branch of each of the large companies).

On a side note of "free" markets: I often hear from deluded libertarians "oh man, FDA (or other such govt agency) is so evil, controlling our lives, so ineffective and corrupt it should be abolished, and people know better what it good to eat". That argument is fine and dandy because we know this "libertarian paradise" doesn't exists, so they can argue and compare a fictional (Ayn Rand-ian ?) universe with a real world and then criticize the real world based on it. Which like comparing Star Wars space ships to real world Navy ships. ("My dilithium crystals are 100x as powerful as your 2 nuclear reactors!")

My response is usually that I invite them to take a plane ride, not into another universe or the future, but across "the pond" to Africa or any 3rd world country with an effectively non-functioning FDA (or similar agency). Where anyone can sell you anything without any controls or checks or worrying about being punished. Vegetables laced with deadly chemicals but that look good on the exterior. You'll get cancer in a couple of years but good luck finding that one vendor. Things like that. The interesting thing is that these "free market" libertarian paradises exist, except they are always failed and corrupt states and they are pretty terrible places to live in.
My understanding is they are heavily subsidized by federal/state grants, local community development loans, and tax breaks.
For anyone who only knows assembly as a low level programming language and was really confused by this comment, Assembly [0].

[0]: https://assembly.com/
Well, an interesting effect down below: tens of messages (as of this writing) of people sharing their username and sending money to each other. Sounds like fun.
It also helps with HN's karma, which I'm sure was not intentional.
However, I am curious about something else: these people below left a clear trace from their HN username to their Stellar username. What's Stellar's stance on privacy, and on anonymity?
This is called ensemble classification where you feed the outputs of multiple classifiers as features into an ensemble classifier that produces the final result.

How are you using the Stanford NLP? That's all GPL?

There are alternatives you could look at for sentiment analysis but short "documents" like those referenced will always produce poor results because there's just not enough signal to work with. The training models need to have vocabulary overlap with the documents (at least for word features); try TextBlob which uses a lexicon approach rather than a classifier, or try rolling your own with an off-the-shelf SVM and pull labeled training data from one of the many sources (or generate your own using Crowdflower.) Small documents (tweets/titles etc) pose unique challenges, especially when there's irony or sarcasm involved or implicit sentiment through pragmatic knowledge. For example knowing Sarah Palin and how she's regarded automatically gives a person a head start in determining the sentiment of a short document with her name. This kind of pragmatic knowledge is hard for classifiers to learn.
I'm sure they'll be hilarious. Hope one of mine isn't one of them.
I feel the same way. Perhaps it is more difficult with large projects due to proprietary code and IP laws.
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I've thought the "open access" type model would work for a couple years now and I'm glad to see it being discussed here. Community Fiber may work in pro-active cities. However problems may reveal themselves in other cities when the politicians make campaign budget promises and usage statistics make some people angry they're paying for people who use more internet than they do. You can't expect every mayor of every small town in the US to understand enough about fiber equipment to make the right purchases for their local infrastructure.

The fundamental problem is the cost of the last mile infrastructure is too great to allow much competition. (Though existing companies have worked with lawmakers to further cement their position.) Open access would allow companies to compete with their service, knowledge, and connection to the internet at large, while reducing the cost of gaining you as a customer to plugging you in at the central hub.

At one point long ago our nation decided that broad communication networks which included every household benefited the whole enough that shouldering the upfront cost was far worth the rewards. We wired up every household with a copper line and access to phone service. Now that the internet has surpassed and commenced the phone we have forgotten the lessons of the past and are struggling along with "good enough" copper instead of again shouldering the cost and laying down fiber lines. It would cost a lot to reach rural areas and connect every last household. However fiber is great in that you can upgrade the equipment at the end to continue to increase speed, and in a country where websites can assume all of their potential customers would have very fast internet radical technological advancements could occur.

The technological advancements will occur in the end. The biggest question is whether or not the US will reap the rewards that it has been these last several decades, or if another country will. There is no faster way to irrelevance than doing nothing.