skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since they are a publicly traded company, the ownership can be fluid. As a shareholder you can stay in or cash out whenever you want, if you want to simulate a profit you can sell shares periodically. So the separation between the company's internal finances and the exchange of shares on the stock market is what allows this to happen and still make sense.
Farm-raised meat tastes nothing like wild game. For that matter, lean cuts of meat taste nothing like fatty cuts, let alone organ meats. Modern consumers prefer less flavorful meats.
I love it. Very valuable addition to the market. Apparently it IS possible to deliver a much more honest value.
My 8GB has 5.52GB total space in the Storage menu. Make of that what you will.
You've been able to buy an unlocked Moto G on amazon since not long after it came out. I assume the same will be true of its replacement.

You can buy it with either the US or worldwide GSM frequencies.
Why our body produce the most potent hallucinogen?
The documentary series "The Men Who Built America" is a really well done overview of some of these guys.
Here is a hard one:

On all Apple devices only one GPU is used: PowerVR - and only one texture format for it - PVRTC

On all Android devices many different GPU's are used, and you have to ship at least TWO different formats: one DXT-like (ETC?) and one PVRTC

This can duplicate the size of your Android game compared to even PC.
Apple Gains US Marketshare Even Before iPhone 6 Launch
Coincidentally, today both in the UK and the Netherlands reports were published about the rapidly increasing shortage of "IT workers".

After digging a bit deeper into the actual numbers (when for fuck sake are they going stop grouping everyone who touches a computer under the heading "IT"?), it's mostly "developers, developers, developers".

Also, reactions on most forums are "fuck you, pay us". All perks, generational differences and cultural changes aside, this is mostly a money problem. I see so many people in jobs that where there is considerably less demand and require a lot less effort to keep skills and knowledge current earn a lot more money than developers.

Why are, with some localized exceptions like SV, developers still being paid considerably less than all reports suggest their market value is?
Mainframe-tastic. I'm surprised it's not EBCIDIC.
The DC metro system does not offer an "unlimited pass". Each trip costs what it costs, and deducts that amount from whichever card you have. There's two rate schedules, rush-hour (pricier) and non-rush (slightly lower price).

I suspect the reason advertised to the DC metro's govt. managers is that the paper fare card (the one that now has a $1 surcharge) is a disposable item. Once run down to zero, or rolled over to another card in a fare machine, the old paper card becomes trash. Therefore I suspect the govt. regulators were told the fee was an "encouragement" to save resources and buy the reusable plastic card vs. the throw away paper card.

Now, the fact that they get an extra $1, per trip, out of most all tourists (and locals) who don't notice the surcharge up front (it is advertised, just not that boldly...) was never really discussed at the regulator meetings.
Part 1: http://engineering.zenpayroll.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-... (HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7636066)

Part 2: http://engineering.zenpayroll.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-... (HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7740967)

Part 3: http://engineering.zenpayroll.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-... (HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8007838)
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>A chaotic system has specific properties that we would be very pressed to identify in human behavior.

You think that it would be difficult to show that human behavior has sensitive dependence upon initial conditions? Given that behavior is the consequence of electrochemical activity in the brain, and the brain is an adaptive organ which is molded by every experience it is exposed to... how could you possibly avoid an extreme dependence on initial conditions?
I read Titan. Interestingly, it documents how SO's market share was declining steadily throughout the anti-trust trial, and Rockefeller was unable to stop it.

It runs against the conventional story of SO being an inevitable monopoly.
"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Literally.

If moving to a plant-based diet is too extreme, buy organic meats, or locally-raised meats, or have half a steak (chicken breast) at each meal and increase your vegetable and whole grain brown rice portions.

Do something.
It would be neat if the change subnet allowed you to jump up a little further. Having a board for the class C pretty much gets me... my office. Having a separate board for the /16 or even /8 would allow users a little more granularity on how their message is spread (local users, my ISP's users/regional users).
The business model sounds a lot less 'new economy cloud magic' when you just call it what it is: Business to Business.
Parse is effectively a very easy to use NoSQL database in the cloud. It has many more features than that, but that's the core of it.
This pretty much describes Figaro: https://github.com/laserlemon/figaro (apart from being baked into Rails, that is...)
You call it scam? What if you would have to buy card and pay 20$/month just for heaving it?
>Anyone who has invested in Amazon has seen an amazing unprecedented ride upward

Only if they sell to realize those gains, and that can only occur if they can find a buyer who has an even greater expectation of profit in the future.

This concept seems to elude people, but the value of a company that never makes a profit is precisely $0.
> Proof of a negative, or (the same thing) an evidentiary burden requiring evidence of absence, is a logical error. So this is a non-starter.

So you also believe that we have not proven incompleteness of mathematics? Have we also not proven that it is impossible to solve the Halting Problem?
I think one of the main points of this article is that Amazon doesn't necessarily set the prices on many of their products, rather this is controlled by their 3P sellers.
Think of it as endless stockdividends, so every profit is turned into money that fuels further growth of the machine without having to hit anybody up for capital. As long as there is growth plow the profits back into the engine. Once the growth stops (you'd have to wonder what the implications of that alone would be, I'm not sure I can quite envision how large a vertically integrated company that would run into the limits of geographical expansion would be, planet wide perhaps?) you can start thinking about dividends. Until then the best investment is to re-invest because that is where ultimately you'll make the highest ROI.

It's the longest of long bets, and since Bezos / Amazon is betting on itself there is a large number of ways in which he can affect the outcome. If he would invest his profits after dividend into some other company (after all, just letting it lay around would be very wasteful) he's likely not get as much influence and not as high an eventual ROI.

It's a very smart long term strategy.
Do people use RSS anymore? All the stuff I use is Atom.
So if they will never pay dividends, why is their stock worth anything?
That's not true. It's being sold in Brazil [1] and if it's anything like previous the previous generation, probably a lot of other countries, too.

[1] http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/09/04/the-new-moto-g-leaks...
I don't think that's an issue of control. Quite the contrary, Gruber wants nobody to have the control, and he doesn't want the language to be standardized, as he believes that it will prevent it from evolving and expanding on its own.

He didn't complain about MultiMarkdown or GitHub Flavored Markdown, because those examples of precisely that evolution. The problem with "Standard Markdown" is that it implies "the one true way", and gives a (theoretical at least) power to a relatively small group to dictate what is Markdown-kosher and what isn't.
I am sorry, but I want my 1024 cores in a mobile device today :).
There is plenty you can do right now. You don't have to support the giant chicken industry slaughterhouses if you don't want to.

You can drive to a free-range chicken farm in the countryside and pay double the store price for a raw unplucked chicken... but why would you? When the ones at the walmart across the street from your house are fully defeathered, cooked, and seasoned for $7.87.
Good article. I also agree with his approach of taking Common Markdown and breaking it up into a core, and then extensions. That means parsers can be standards compliant while working in environments and situations where certain features don't make sense (e.g. something that takes in markdown and outputs to an programmable LED sign, won't need URLs, HTML, and so on just formatting).

I wish Hacker News had markdown.

Off topic question: Why has rich text fallen so far out of fashion? I really like Markdown, but why is it that Markdown is now so popular and richtext boxes that can display a realtime preview (e.g. bolding text, italics, etc) aren't. What is it markdown offers over that? Is it just transportability?
LUA and Javascript bindings are in the works.
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The most fun eight Python lines I've written
Like every other for-profit company on the planet?

There's a measurable difference between the bonus and no-bonus option, and in this case, that's 5%. That is the offer. Given the option between the two, I'll take the bonus knowing fully well in either scenario they are profiting.

AT&T's classic monthly rates factor in subsidization, and thus are substantially higher than ...whatever value you seem to be wishing that they charge - I sincerely hope not at-cost. If they offer a 5% discount, they're still profiting, but you're paying 5% less than you would have. That is something, and that is an offer.
Note that I'm not saying that dead store elimination is the problem. I'm saying that dead store elimination in combination with other language features is a problem. Dead store elimination is not unique to C. But those other language features are. Since I'm complaining about C in particular, I submit that the bit that I'm most worried about isn't the stuff that every language does.

That said, I realize that allowing data that's hypothetically disappeared forever into the free() black hole to come back into the universe through white holes such as malloc() and buf[buf_length] aren't the only reasons why you'd want to make for sure that you can clear out unused memory. Which is why it would be nice if the C spec also included some way to securely clear up memory that the compiler isn't allowed to defeat. No, an optional feature in a spec that's only 3 years old and mostly not supported isn't good enough. If it isn't ubiquitous it's not a whole lot more useful than any of the platform- and architecture-specific fixes that already exist.
Would it be worthwhile to name-and-shame VCs that are pushing for this? Knowledge that some VC demands the startups they fund be willing to break their word should mean startups they fund aren't worth our trust, which should destroy a lot of their value.
He is not saying that Haskell moved from the category of "Useless" to "Useful" (the spot on his diagram marked "Nirvana"), he is saying they are moving in that direction...

But in any case that's not my point. I am arguing that Haskell was never useless in the first place.

(You seem to be ignoring the substance of my comments, so continuing this thread is probably a waste of our time.)
Having worked at a JPMo competitor for several years, we did certainly value IT. At most such shops IT spend is around $3 Billion a year, so they're not messing around. Many even created specific dev centers around the world (i.e. London, Moscow, India, RTP, Dallas) specifically to do just dev.

But, the real kicker is at few such firms will you find the tech "talent." They might join mistakenly, but usually they'll get out within a year or two to better pastures at startups or SV. What often remains are the folks that are mainly task masters at CRUD forms, but not anyone that thinks about the merits of various architectures, reads up on optimal coding practices, or that learns in their free time. Nope, those are the high paid "contractors" that are hired when folks can't figure out why a six foot long query is running slowly.
Humans are wired for negativity
that's not entirely correct. this is useful for choosing among internal projects. Do decide whether to invest in growth or pay the shareholders, you need to assume that you can earn greater return than the shareholders could do on their own.
Answering my own question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard)#Barriers_to_ado...

Sad.
Fair comment. I believe, though, that host card emulation, Android 4.4+ and tokenization are three key ideas that have come together and will put NFC into the mainstream (at last).
We get local pasture raised eggs every week from a co-op. You are correct in that they are different, they taste meatier, they are smaller and vary in size more, the yolks are darker yellow and they last much longer on the shelf.

Oh and they don't need to be refrigerated; and some of them still have chicken poop on them.

Overall I like them much better.
Small typo: 'Debit to checking account: "37"' should probably be 'Debit to savings account'.
Competition heats up to sell drones to the average consumer
That's what I'm seeing from the recruiters pissing in my inbox, but I'm also reading this: http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/careers/3543458/biggest-...

£50k in London may be doable for 20-somethings living in a shared apartment, but for the rest of us it's a fucking insult.
I thought this was going to be about homophones. . .
Don't buy chickens raised in awful environments?

Fight laws designed to silence those who seek to promote transparency in ag business?

Raise your own chickens or buy from farmers you know and trust?

The industry may be a giant, but they still have to respond to market forces. If people don't buy products raised in bad conditions they will adapt or their competitors will.
Almost 11% in 2011 [1], about the same as it is today.

1. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/16/us-walmart-idUSTRE...
In the 1990's, undoubtedly Gates.
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Ok. One of the stories I read mentioned that may have been how they got the information required to hack the account. Not too sure if it was just speculation or verified in anyway.
Shareholders didn't like them being in the lower-margin hardware business; other Android OEMs didn't like having them as a competitor. And all the "analysts" (for whatever their words are worth) are saying that even Samsung is/will be feeling the heat from Chinese handset makers -- such as Huawei, ZTE, Xiaomi, Coolpad and, not coincidentally, Lenovo.
Thanks! I've updated the post.
It's not about what can be done though, it's about how people actually behave. Some non-insignificant amount of people will leave a few cents on the table here or there.

Thats the ground state of this system as they have designed it.
Please setup a better way to distribute the non-commercial version. If you insist on using the self-extracting archive, please make it accessible via wget. If this works half as well as it claims, I am willing to pay you for a commercial single-license for personal use.
That's why the conventional wisdom of sell at a loss, drive everyone else out of business, raise prices to monopoly levels doesn't work.
agreed, etcd is like zookeeper, their both databases that you write applications against. No! neither does service discovery and orchestration out of the box. The applications you write on top of them do.
No I'm not.

And neither are the other half a billion vegetarians.
The original SmarTrip cards came from a company that went out of business, but used proprietary technology. WMATA eventually found another company to create the cards, and I believe this came about the time when new SmarTrip cards reduced in price from $5 to $2. So perhaps not a change in the design, but definitely a change in the manufacturing.

http://wamu.org/news/10/10/15/metro_board_replacing_smartrip...
>If they reinvested all of it or spent all of it, the money keeps changing hands and circulates.

It's well understood that the wealthy don't circulate their money at the same rate that the middle and lower classes do, which contributes to wealth stratification.
So tangentially related but what does it take to increase wages in the US? We've been hearing the rhetoric for a while now that over the past 10/20/30 years productivity improvements simply go to the top and real wages decline with the hand-waving recourse that it's just the way capitalism works. But how do you actually prevent this?

Unions are obviously one solution but can be wrought with other issues. Besides that, it seems there really is no solution to wage stagnation outside of major failures or security breaches which hit the business' pockets directly.

I don't just mean in IT but it does seem to be an area where salary growth doesn't match up _at all_ with the amount of value it adds to a business, especially in the case of IT within a non-IT company.
> Oh and they don't need to be refrigerated

Can't reply in-line to the child post, but this is a cultural difference. In Europe, eggs aren't refrigerated at all, and they're not washed. In the US, eggs are washed and they're sold in chillers. The reasoning behind this: http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-heres-why-we-nee...
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If you use your smartphone to mostly browse the web, use google apps (gmail, hangouts, gmaps, youtube), and don't mind waiting 6-12 months for the hot new app to come to Android, the MotoG is a fantastic device. The LTE version is just $220, and I don't really see the point of paying 3x the price ($650) for an iPhone.

Also, Firefox is the only mobile browser that allows extensions and it's only supported on Android, so you can install Adblock Edge and browse the mobile web free from any ads!!
I don't know why, but each time i read about the shortage of devs, i see another cry from the industry: "we want more immigration so we can drive the sallaries down!"
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I love my Moto G. Just got it a few weeks ago on sale for 80 dollars. Hard to beat.
> This is the land of luxurious perks (think massages, onsite haircuts, and free food) and high starting salaries.

Yet another bull*t article. Haircut costs perhaps $10, they give free food in homeless shelter... Luxury perk is paid accommodation, car (with chauffeur), huge private office or location independence.
I've raised heritage breeds and Cornish Cross (the result of the cross-breeding of the two breeds the article mentions), and the difference in their health, when raised under nearly identical conditions, is starkly impossible to ignore. The heritage breeds are healthy; the Cornish Cross are lethargic and obese, and when my wife, a physician, looks at the organs as we butcher them, she tells me about their advanced heart disease and other organ ailments. The meat, too, is very different, though both are frankly delicious. The heritage breeds are denser, gamier, leaner, and more flavorful, while not as tender; the Cornish Cross have loose-structured, tender, fatty flesh whose smaller flavor is less rich and complex. I prefer the heritage breeds' taste, but some of my family members prefer the Cornish Cross.

(I've never had a Cornish Cross live long enough to lay an egg.)
Anyone who downvoted bvvv want to say why? I probably would buy a Moto G over a Coolpad model personally, but his/her comment is topical, polite, and provides justification.
It's bigger than the Ray, but check out the recently announced Xperia Z3C. Looking like it should be a really solid phone.
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Interesting question, perhaps the best way to figure out who owns these would be to destroy one and set up a camera trap to see who comes out to fix it. I'm sure that with a little creativity it would be possible to 'fake' a fault (my favorite being the apocryphal tale of shooting frozen pigeons out of an air cannon to knock microwave towers out of alignment).
Ah, I see. My GFX card has something like 5-6 ports (4 mini-DP ports and 1-2 DVI) so I've never had that problem
That sounds great - push it up! Is there a github repo for it (hackage is downish at the moment).
Partly simplicity and ease-of-use; partly probably so many users (and developers who are users) being burned by bad implementations of WYSIWYG editors.

I think GMail's is pretty decent, but the majority of rich text editors I've used on the Internet over time have caused almost as many issues as they solve when trying to write formatted text.
Best Sprint MVNO is Ting. You, essentially, pay for what you use. My bill averages about $20 a month. There are some limitations on which phones you can use. Most Android flagship phones are available at launch. For things like the iPhone, Sprint has to give permission for Ting to activate them. The general rule is that once it has been a year since the phone came out on the Sprint network, you can take the used device to Sprint. Here is their latest update about upcoming devices:

https://ting.com/blog/device-update-didja-miss-us-2/

They even have a signup for notifications when the iPhone 5S/C is available.

https://ting.com/blog/be-the-first-to-know/
There's no reason why one could not write a WYSIWYG editor using a Markdown engine, just as there are plenty for BBCode.
Sure. I worked summer jobs in IT consultancies with approximately that in revenue. They were owned and managed day-to-day by one guy acting as CEO/COO with his wife doing the books and payroll.

They had employees, but were still entirely owned and managed by a literal "mom and pop" whose children I went to school with.
Given how important high frequency trading has become, I would guess the developers working on that is held in high regard.

Sysadmins/"IT people" are probably seen as janitorial.
Learning COBOL might be a great job move
Indian banks are opening millions of account for the poor and “unbanked”
My personal anecdote: companies are idiots.

99% of these jobs are city based and require you to relocate. Why? If my work is all done on the internet, why can't my commute be aswell? Why should I have to constantly migrate when I have a perfectly good and happy place to live out in the country? Why isn't remote working catching on more?

All of these claimed shortages are in "IT" which is a very lose term. In Ireland for example something like 50% of IT jobs are phone tech support in foreign languages. We constantly hear of the shortages in this area - yet its low paid and generally requires foreigners to fill the roles. So why not try to hire actual foreigners? In actual foreign countries? Across the internet? Why try to hire expensively educated and irish people with a high cost of living and offer them minimum wage?

The shortage is never in qualified candidates. It's in qualified candidates willing to accept minimum wage. And if all that wasn't bad enough, foreign corporates get to pay extra low tax rates by moving to Ireland, just so they can try to screw the population out of a proper wage packet - all endorsed by the government of course.