skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
google for UK vs mississippi and the like. Basically you take GDP adjusted for purchasing power parity per citizen and Britain as a whole is poorer than Alabama but slightly richer than Mississippi. Regardless of the decimal places the headlines are all along the lines of if Britain joined the USA as a 51st state it would be roughly the 49th or 50th poorest depending on who's numbers you use.

It was a huge fad across all the infotainment sites about three or four weeks ago.
> Is it me, or is the benefit of that extremely small? I can move my finger and tap the 'Instagram' icon quicker than I can say "Instagram". Never mind that the app itself is highly visual, so there's no point launching it without already looking at the screen and holding the phone to your hand.

On the other hand, if you're disabled, cooking, holding a baby, or under a car hood with greasy hands - maybe voice is suddenly 100x more interesting.

From large vacuum tube monstrosities to punch cards to command line to mouse/windows UI to touch to voice - all these progressions kept the previous generation capable (and in some times was only workable in a hybrid solution)

In each progression, another class of viable usage models is exposed. In each progression more users can leverage the power of computing. Just because I find my phone easier to browse with on the train doesn't mean it replaces my laptop at home.
What makes IPC better on Windows? Are you suggesting that COM method calls across processes is a good thing?
The problems that come from corporations is the fact that they are 'derivative people' basically. What you should be advocating is abolishing corporate tax and make all corporations into S-corps, so the income and thus tax is attributed to the stockholders. Then you avoid the entire derivative people mess.

But then you have the entire citizenship based taxation schema that the USA is unique in the world in having.
I also use https://newsblur.com/ . Other good options was http://theoldreader.com/ but after a time I switched to newsblur.
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It's quite good we use it for notifications with ASP.NET. But consider Akka .NET port as well if it fits your tasks.
I've seen http://www.ofenbakhlaw.com have a lot of happy clients. A good business attorney does more than just help you draft the contracts that your company will run on. They are active in helping you get your business out there.

Find an attorney that started their own law practice. They built their business from the ground up and have personally dealt with many of the problems you will face.
exactly what the article was talking about.
Don't worry, we don't take it personally. :)

I'll just add two quick things - First, we have the ability to create a more unique and interesting experience on a native application than via the web. For example, we can access a fan's iTunes library and Facebook with just one click. Thats pretty much impossible on the web. Second, this is just our first product. We plan to bring Merchbar everywhere, hopefully one day somewhere you'll love it.
What is going on? This is the third Envoy post to hit the front page immediately after posting and then go nowhere in the past couple of hours.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325634

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325701
"Your lobby is the first thing visitors see when arriving at your office. It's a reflection of your brand and culture. Make sure they don't deal with a human being"
(c) motorists use the distance from the bicycle to the edge as a gauge for the "safe passing distance".

(d) leaving 2+ feet of space to your right gives the cyclist the ability to swerve right if needed.
I wish apple charged for each notification.
IMO we need better road design, not additional legislation.

We need dedicated cycling lanes, or at the very least designs that place parked cars between cyclists and drivers.
You can't just draw a line on the road and call it a bicycle lane. So long as cars and cyclists are forced to occupy the same space cyclists are going to get killed.
It's so exciting that going to a meeting will soon be like going to my doctors office, filling out tons of forms and I can spend more time poking at a little screen.

Technology can be super useful (obviously), but this is just total overkill.
Sounds like this could be the next smartphone os. The kernel would never know about the massive amount of new features / sensors released every month.
But an app like Instagram doesn't make any sense in that world. A fully-functioning voice AI only works over voice - once you have to do something visual it loses its purpose. Imagine browsing flight choices by voice only. How is that better than looking at a table?

In any case, I find it interesting that some people walked away from Her and held it up as an example of our technological future, while others walked away and held it up as an example of a horrible dystopian nightmare. To each their own, I suppose.
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You should be integrated into HN as part of the infrastructure.
Think of the employee taking a commuter train or driving to work, vs operating a freight train or driving a semi truck for work. I'm not taking an ideological position here, just pointing out the difference between the employee as individual economic actor vs as agent of a corporation.
Which infrastructure and services are corporations using outside of their employees? Why can't that infrastructure be paid for through direct fees instead of indirect income taxes? How do we know when corporations are paying their fair share?

> This just reads like a generic libertarian talking point

Maybe. I'm not a libertarian, but I'm not sure why that would disqualify my points. I'd rather our discussion not be an exercise in polemics, please.

> Your solution is no solution at all.

I don't have "a solution", but if the problem is one of justice (that tax rules are unfair, prone to abuse, and hard to enforce), the principles I would apply are simplicity and transparency, not on-the-fly patches to already convoluted logic (spaghetti tax code if you will). At that point we can have sensible discussions about which tax schemes are fair and at which rates.

If the problem is one of revenues being too low, it's far from clear that increasing the effective corporate income taxes across all the OECD will even be a revenue-positive action.
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It literally says so in the "rules of the road". You might have missed it in your posting frenzy.

A person operating a bicycle or roller skis upon a roadway at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic moving in the same direction at that time and place shall operate on the right portion of the way as far as practicable __except when it is unsafe to do so as determined by the bicyclist__ or roller skier

(Thats Maine, but presumably it is similar elsewhere)
Yes I can see that happening too. :)
You really should. I think you'd be pleasantly surprised. The skill level of European drivers is far above that of American drivers, and because of laws like the one mentioned, they're much more respectful of riders and walkers.
I'd say vote with your feet and wallet... if you move to a competing device, and convince others to do the same, that's good for the larger community imho.
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I don't think cities are going to be buying self-driving cars like this. What happens when citizens want to leave the city? Or the state? Or country? It makes more sense for a corporation to provide this service.

By and large, people seem to love Uber. If they fall out of favor, I think it would be more natural for competitors to put pressure on them to improve (or supplant them), not city governments.
What do you miss of in the board schematics?

> http://elinux.org/RPi_Hardware#Schematic_.2F_Layout

> http://www.raspberrypi.org/model-b-revision-2-0-schematics/
You don't even (necessarily) need to pay anything. Good lawyers will often give you a free consultation to discuss your case. Take them up on it.
B2B organizations have long thought it difficult to create and measure B2B marketing campaigns on social media networks. In fact, many B2B companies don’t believe that this kind of marketing is significant and don’t understand how it could be applicable to their business goals.

Despite these thoughts, it is absolutely possible for B2B organizations to successfully approach social media marketing and produce the desired business results.
"non-compete are not enforceable in California. Relax and join a different medical startup if you want."

The way I read the OP (though this may be incorrect) wasn't so much that they were threatening to enforce a non-compete, but rather that they intended to blackball him within the local industry.
Yes, but this is rarely enforced, especially if the minicabs don't wait in front of a hotel, but just take a slow route home (Or if as in the case of Uber, they get 'free'/unpaid time when they have no fare, as they are self-employed). What do Uber cars currently do when they don't have a fare?
I'm curious how the Android share intent compares - it's been around a lot longer.
I wish this effort was put into browser engines' MathML support, so that math could be interoperably declarative like text (HTML) and vector graphics (SVG).

If you don't see the value in browser built-in features, consider how badly the upgrade to retina worked with JS+canvas compared to SVG.
For a similar viewpoint on the whole "smaller countries" thing from someone who is rather more positive about Scottish independence, here's Charles Stross's piece on the Scottish Referendum:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/09/the-refe...
It's a great read indeed. But I do disagree with the 'excel versus lotus 1-2-3' analogy. Microsoft engaged in plenty of unfair competition at that time and that's one of the reasons they succeeded.

So going into a market with entrenched competitors is dangerous except when you're backed my a monopolist that can afford to cross-subsidize.

> Think of your risk/reward profile. Do you want to take a shot at being a billionaire by the time you're 35, even if the chances of doing that make the lottery look like a good deal? Ben and Jerry's companies are not going to do that for you.

It took 14 years, but Markus Persson just proved him wrong on that one.
You've got it backwards. Once everyone considers these principles I'm putting forward, then blue collar workers will make $30/h again. Taxes are what is lowering paychecks. Taxing comes in several shapes, including inflation. In this sense, taxes are higher now, since the dollar was pegged to gold then.
This reminds me of instructions on the sticker of Velibs, the bike sharing program in Paris. If the road is to narrow for a car to safely overtake you, you should stick to the center of the lane.

At any rate it's pretty dangerous to ride a bike too close to the sidewalk or parked cars. I try to keep a meter (about 3 feet) on the right as well when I cycle.
> In startups there's expectation that you give all of it, not just 40-45 hours.

Funny how "living the dream" requires subjugating one's own autonomy.
As I said, maybe one since the Cold War. I knew South Sudan, but didn't think about Timor-leste. So if you take out the various eastern bloc states breaking up that's only two new countries.
Except reddit I never really found any place for alternative kernel design discussion. I wish for more.
You can swipe notifications away in iOS8 from the lock screen
You can't compare the NL to anywhere in the USA WRT bicycles. Completely different environment.
> It's about time companies start paying their fair share of taxes.

Why should companies even pay tax in the first place? The owners should pay tax on profits, but why should the corporation itself pay tax?

> Not only that, it's about time to start raising their tax rates since they don't care about paying employees a living wage.

How can you possibly not realize that if you increase their tax burden they will lower salaries? Do you think there is a magic pot of money that corporations can draw from to pay the tax?
- Moving their kernel to C++

- Exposing an OO ABI (COM, WinRT)

- Moving beyond C for systems programming (C++, .NET Native, Sing#)

- Experimenting with new OS architectures (Singularity, Drawbridge)

- Continue the multimedia OS culture of Atari ST, Amiga systems
I use LastPass as my password manager. You can set it so that you need to enter your (one) password when you turn on the browser. Tell your sites not to remember your login -- the LastPass browser plugin will remember it for you. That way if you're no longer employed, no one without the LastPass password can get into your personal e-mail. You could, of course, have the browser remember logins for work sites, as there's nothing secret there.

I would also suggest separating your cloud storage. If you have a private Dropbox account, for example, use one of the other services (e.g. OneDrive) for storing work documents. There should be as little mixing as possible.
Plan 9 != UNIX
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Neurotechnology Startup Conducts First Ever Commercial Mind-Reading MRI Scan
Carry on with their other taxi jobs from what I can tell.
> What happens when citizens want to leave the city? Or the state? Or country?

They use the public transit available to them where they move to? Why would self-driving vehicles not be like the postal service, a business but also an essential service?

Just because I left Chicago doesn't mean I get to take the Metra and the CTA with me.
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Try this: St Francis near the Statue of Liberty. Going to New York to see the queen.
You have use small caps, we are sensitive to small caps :)
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Who cares about debugging, code correctness and maintenance when it's so "fun" to code in JS?
"Meanwhile, computer software is eligible for copyright protection, making patents unnecessary to reward software innovation."

Copyright protection doesn't provide the author protection from their ideas being copied and distributed by other entities. Copyrights only ensure that a specific embodiment of an idea (e.g. source code) is protected from being redistributed without the author's consent. Patents, on the other hand, do provide protection to an inventor for their ideas.

Movies and music as discrete, creative works are not patent-able. But novel methods for creating movies and music can certainly be patented. The same is true for software. The code itself isn't eligible for patent application, but the ideas behind them are. And I think the author of the linked article disingenuously conflates the two ideas in order to advance their argument.

Let's say a programmer invents a new method for quickly factoring prime numbers and develops it into a C library and begins selling it. I buy a license to use the library and eventually figure out how it works. Software copyrights prevent me from redistributing the original library, but I can create my own based on that programmer's idea and distribute it as my own. However, if that programmer patents their factoring process, then they have protection against my new implementation from undercutting theirs.

Patents can provide protection to entities that have invested heavily in researching and developing their ideas by preventing someone else from reaping their benefits. Likewise, they can foster innovation by forcing other entities to solve similar problems in novel ways. But that's not really what's happening with software patents right now. The system obviously needs to be modernized, but that can't happen without an honest debate from both sides.
Watch out, California’s self-driving car permits take effect today
I don't think it's at the root, but I do think it's an important factor. I come from the world of environmental science and policy, and it's clearest there. Environmental law in particular, which was one of my favorite subjects in grad school (incidentally, it's really interesting to see how federal environmental protections started in the US then migrated to Europe and became stronger there).

I tried to couch my comment in fairly broad terms (with plenty of caveats) because I know it's not universally applicable. However, I do truly believe that it is an important idea to understand when parsing differences in policy reactions between the USA and Europe. Specific implementations may come down to pre-existing biases, but I think it's still crucial to know what the PP is and how it could be applied in a more black and white situation. To me, it's all about having some knowledge of the frameworks in play in a given situation.
What are the other good posts I should add to the collection? Who else writes about hiring startup lawyers?
Taxes also make people have education and not die of preventable diseases, and fund a rule of law and property enforcement which plays a huge role in enabling companies to actually sell the products their customers value.

All of these have certainly benefited Amazon and Google (and their shareholders, and their end users) to a far greater degree than the minimal amount of tax they deign to pay in my country where they have multiple offices and generate huge revenues. Tax avoidance, one might say, makes everyone else's taxes more expensive and subsidises monopolies.
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I'm using http://protopage.com, which is an iGoogle clone.
To explain a bit of the metaphor, a piston has very discrete stages to produce work (at minimum, up and down) whereas a turbine is continuously spinning. YC's history has relied on 'stages' where all the companies are on the same path, they present at demo day, and the investors know exactly what to expect. If they turned into a 'turbine', the companies would all be at random stages, Demo Day would be much different, and YC would come to resemble more typical VC funds.
Now I have a reason to use Pandora again.
The idea that left-wing politics are somehow "against greed" is kind of hilarious.
In my experience, farmers do not purposefully try to block the road. If you come up behind two farmers driving their tractors side by side down the road, they will almost certainly switch to single file to let you pass.
But they don't just "ship" the money. They set up subsidiaries to provide services to the parent company. And then the services in low-tax jurisdictions just happen to have high margins. So now is government going to examine internal processes to ensure that margins are "fair?" Seems incredibly unworkable.
Except Plan 9 is not UNIX. It is an evolution of UNIX.

I seriously doubt I could use such abstractions for high performance 3D computing.
"Not really."

Yes, really. Per VC 21202, it is explicitly: 1) when passing another bicycle, 2) where the cyclist is planning on making a left hand turn, 3) "[w]hen reasonably necessary to avoid conditions [...] that make it unsafe to continue along the right-hand curb or edge", or 4) approaching anywhere anyone can make a right hand turn. That's "pretty broad", in my book - feel free to disagree, obviously the term is subjective.

"You will probably usually get away with that the same way you'll usually get away with ignoring the law requiring yielding to pedestrians at intersections"

That is a horrendous false equivalence. Violation of that law puts people at risk. I'm advocating an interpretation of a law permitting behaviors that keep people safe.

'But that's not at all what the law says, and I'd be very surprised if there is any reference in the statute, or any case law, that you can point to that suggests your attempt to define "practicable" as "whatever the bicyclist subjectively feels comfortable doing" is a correct interpretation of the statute.'

Not "subjectively feels comfortable doing," but "reasonably considers to be the safer choice". This is the same responsibility everyone has on the road, and it's insane to think that "practicable" is not intended to take safety into account. Riding unsafely is not practicable. I have no idea whether this has been tested in court, but anything else is crazy.
Note that the Pennsylvania (four foot!) law explicitly allows cars to cross the double-yellow line to overtake bicycles as long as it is safe to do so.[1] I'm not sure what the specifics are for the California law are, but many states have existing laws on passing "obstructions" that may apply.[2]

1. http://walkbikejersey.blogspot.com/2012/02/pennsy-passes-pro...

2. http://flbikelaw.org/2013/12/no-passing-zones/
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Apple proves that moats are for dummies
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> i felt that all Microsoft had to do for twenty years, was expose functions form the NT kernel, to stay ahead in terms of features.

I got some hints of that feeling while poking around http://undocumented.ntinternals.net/ ... They seem to have still forgotten about ZwCreateProcess (copy-on-write forking).
We have use open data: Census, OSM, geonames... so the data is open: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/
If do you have any more info let me know.
"Children are considered valuable assets in developing countries"
B.S. bull . that's why there are so many Indian farmers in India
who commit suicide.

That's why after NAFTA, there are so many farmers from Mexico,
who HAVE NO WATER DURING THE DROUGHT and too many children
who take the trip to the USA.

The simplest way to SAVE THE PLANET. Kickstarter - WE PAY small
GOLD coin for a FULL RUBBER. We pay (not the government since
many do not trust the GOVERNMENT - that is in mexico) big long
term cash (as long as no unwanted children) for MALE vasectomy - the
reversible one, etc. etc.

Kickstarter. these are done by 24 hour/20 minute ROBOT OPERATION
assisted surgery for Male Birth Control.

The farmers do not need MORE LABOR. But if you are on the dole in
the USA, welfare, have plenty of boyfriends for PROTECTION,
love a LARGE family, then the USA or SWEDEN with great social
benefits IS THE BEST PLACE FOR A LARGE FAMILY / or
even just children who are bastards - or 'illegals.'

PS. no insult meant to WOMANhood. Tell the truth. Many women in
USA are not fit mothers - drinking, smoking, cussing, nasty habits,
tendency to credit card debt, getting plenty of monies from multiple
boyfriends, etc.

Since the Best birth control, at the moment is IUD, there are
major defunding and even DEMONSTRATIONS at Planned Parenthood
and other organizations. See the Texas law on abortion clincis, etc.
That's why in the USA we make it very hard and that is WHY THE
USA IS A LEADER IN out of wedlock, tennage pregnancy and
SEXUAL DISEASE.

NOTE: most of life - from older and wiser - is just avoiding BIG troubles
like WAGE SLAVE FOR LIFE - too much graduate school in poetry
and DRINKING while at the swimming pool - easy to fall and crack your
head.
The article's point is that it needs several mutations to become airborne and that those mutations have a cost; so unless the benefit of becoming airborne outweighs the cost, it won't happen.

Bear in mind that the traditional method of dealing with Ebola was simply to shut down travel in/out of affected settlements until the disease ran its course. This isn't working as well this time for a variety of reasons (I'll guess increased urbanization, better transportation, and problems with public information -- e.g. distrust of governments telling people to do sensible things).

What's probably far more likely is that a less lethal mutation will displace it. A disease that kills and kills quickly is maladaptive -- that's why the Ebola reservoir is believed to be bats which can catch it but not suffer ill effects.
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Sample work in liu of interviews, of the same length, is ok. Especially if your already working and cannot interview during their work hours. Or an interview would be at midnight at someones location or similar.
The point being that not everything is actually a file, requiring other set of operations.