skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GOTO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8394339

CTRL+F: UK

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Related:

- http://amara.org/en/ does this for YouTube vids

- http://www.viki.com 's business model is licensing TV content and streaming it to foreign markets with crowdsourced subs (which end up being higher quality than the "professional" subs of their main competitor DramaFever because the subbers have a better set of motivations, such as preserving the origin culture)
Why wouldn't we? There are hundreds of companies selling books, and you can start a new one with essentially nothing. Book selling is not a natural monopoly which requires heavy investment to enter into. I see no reason to assume Amazon can keep a monopoly with high prices simply because they squeezed the publishers. Low prices is what keeps them in power.

(Btw, I'm playing Devil's advocate here. I don't buy at Amazon for ethical reasons - I just don't find their purchasing power to be a problem)
This, but also iBooks, Google Play, etc

And of course, just provide DRM-Free books on their website for a discounted price.
Does it seem ironic to anyone else that this was served over HTTP?
Would you recommend your company to your best friend?
Repeating the same trick toward customers would be "monopoly". And yes, it would be bad. And our choice at that point would be antitrust action, presumably.

But again: the linked article isn't about monopoly power. If you want to draw a line between this behavior and a future monopoly, it needs clearer argumentation.
That is one good handbook. Is it internal or public?
But it wasn't in the shopping lens.

It was a bad idea. But let's not throw random general statements in a concrete discussion.

Did you ever get a result from the shopping lens which could be mistaken for an advertisement rather than a product result you can buy on Amazon?
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Thanks, I've missed the SCC one. I will try to understand it. (The reason I've asked about DFS in particular is that it is inherently sequential. This SCC algorithm probably encapsulates some kind of DFS.)
That also requires serious dishonesty on Obama's part, something which doesn't seem supported by people's accounts before his campaign. Unless you believe he kept up the pretense even years before holding a public office, the evidence is more in line with his viewpoints having changed than with constant dishonesty.
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There was. From 2004 through 2005, I used to fly an airline called Independence Air[0]. I used to biweekly commute up and down the east coast of the US. Best airline I ever flew. No bullshit sales, friendly and helpful staff, and nice planes with good legroom. Sadly they went out of business.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Air
I found it easier to understand how the d-latch worked from this they Petzold's book, probably because I could see the changes vs working it out and having to convince myself I was reading it all right.
Book it from whatever site they redirect you to when you're outside the US, or book it through an alliance partner based in your part of the world.
Then make sure your staff aren't forced to get a competing offer just to get market rates.

I'm not sure what this has to do with what I said. I'm talking about the cost in time and effort to hire someone, not to retain them. (Regardless, I have no say or control over salaries, so I can't do much about this.)

The vast majority of people applying for roles will switch if the offer is right. Sure if you offer 10% more I'd much rather just get my current employer to match... but if you offer 30+% then we have a deal. I don't want to stay with an employer who will underpay me by so much.

Eh, maybe. I'm not sure I agree. Even if I was feeling underpaid at my current company, it'd have to be a ridiculously sweet deal to get me to move (I mean, so sweet that no one would ever offer me something like that). I have enough forms of attachment other than salary that even say a 50% raise would be unlikely to get me to budge. I think there are quite a few people who feel similarly.

And that's what I object to: someone shopping around with zero intention of accepting another job, but only doing so to use as leverage with their current employer. Yeah, "it's just business", but the people at these other companies whose time you're wasting are real people who don't deserve to be jerked around.
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You use scare quotes, suggesting you think it takes a long time. It really doesn't, not for anyone who has frequently installed ubuntu - it really is as fast as typing that line.

Also, where did I say it was a good thing? I also think that having to deselect privacy markers in two places is also a step no-one should have to take. This thread is about why Ubuntu got raked over the coals and Apple didn't, and it takes longer to navigate to and unselect the two disparate options for the Apple search issue than to uninstall the Ubuntu thing.

I mean seriously, of all the arguments against the Unity shopping lens, "I install ubuntu a lot and this wastes so much of my time" is such a non-starter. It takes more time to select a wallpaper.
I was reminded of the "Real men have fabs" line and did a cursory search. Which hit a 1994 piece debating the issue, noting the downsides:

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/1994-04-10/real-men-have...
There have been a few over the years. However they seem to have an annoying tendency to go bankrupt.
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curious why in your worldview the government bothers collecting taxes, let alone $3 trillion of it annually. (33% of the GDP.) It seems you think their budget comes from the roughly 2% annual inflation rate we've had for the past few years. (1.7% this year.)

[1] Taxes collected: http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/current_revenue (first paragraph should obviously read 17.3% not 173%)

[2] Inflation: http://www.inflation.eu/inflation-rates/united-states/histor...

(or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_United_States and https://www.google.com/search?q=current+inflation+rate+unite... )
I agree with what you're saying, but that isn't what we're talking about here. We're talking about the idea of it being unethical to shop yourself around with no intention of accepting a competing company's offer. I see this as ethically neutral with respect to your current employer, but as kinda unethical with respect to the other companies whose time, effort, and resources you are wasting by pushing yourself through a hiring pipeline with no intention of following through.

If you can get a better deal from your current employer via other means, you should certainly do so. If not... well, I'm personally uncomfortable interviewing at other companies with no intention of accepting an offer. Opinions differ, of course.
I don't. He's usually very clueless about technology, even about the economics of technology, yet he loves to ramble about it nonetheless.
Also, getting a CPF isn't impossible if you're a foreigner. I have one, and there are sites and blogs that deal with Brazil and business/travel topics which explain how to get one.

The real problem for me was paying with my US bank card (w/ Visa or Mastercard symbol). Because this wasn't allowed, I had to travel to the airport and pay in person on several occassions.
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I find much harder to justify Apple (as an Apple user) then Ubuntu for doing this.

Ubuntu is free (technically also Yosemite is, but it´s part of the Apple HW/SW package), and what it does it´s not so different than a Laptop manufacturer installing bloatware to subsidize the costs. It´s ugly but I understand it.

But one of the reason for buying an Apple product (and paying a premium price for it), it is not having to deal with things like this.
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That's a really good point that I haven't considered. I guess the key point is there that our hypothetical raise-seeker isn't really too interested in a change, but at least has an open mind and would consider making a jump if something unexpectedly great popped up during the process.
Well, you don't get 450 million potential users with a shipyard. Currently users are in high demand, so supply-and-demand, and prices. You know, black magic, they say.

If they can monetize 10% of whatsapp users for 100 usd per year, that's 4.5 billion, so that 20 billion will come back soon. Just the .99 USD App Store yearly fee nets them probably enough to run the thing.

Also, opportunity cost, grabbing those sweet-sweet innocent users from the table before others, probably worth something too.

It's scary how big these numbers are, how little difference we can perceive of them behind our screens. Probably the best way is via images like these: https://www.google.com/search?q=hong+kong+protest+phones&saf...
"But this is the big story of our time—the elimination of poverty. We have people rising out of poverty at a global level and in the U.S. at unprecedented rates. In 50 years, we’ve gone from hunger being the dominant problem among lower-­income people to obesity being the dominant problem."

Which is good, as it increased Walmart's share value? I'm really not sure how to read this, this is moving beyond SV techno-libertarianism into straight-forward Onion territory.
Yes, 'simple hack' is definitely one reason. But there are a couple of others:

- The drawing is sent to the Arduino as a block, then drawn, so it has to fit in the Arduino's RAM. More complex drawings would require streaming the data during the drawing. That's totally possible, but it is more work.

- We quite liked the way these severely-simplified sketches came out. Because the edge-finding and vector-simplifying code is quite stupid, the best pictures tend to be the simplest ones, and doing more lines might well just make the picture more noisy.
Great pointer. I have just contacted them about shipping to Spain. Finger crossed. Thanks so much.
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> I don't buy at Amazon for ethical reasons

What's the reason in your case? I genuinely wonder - considering dumping them too.
Looks great, love these concepts!
OK say compare with the market for wine which sells at a similar price but has a much less centralized selling system but similarish diversity of product.

With competition there is little space for 30% margins but there is still room for retail to take some margin. It is not a hugely profitable business but there are good niches.
This so reminiscent of Japanese robotic kits. Just look at the assembly process from the beginning of the video ... damn :) My dad got me a simple clap-and-it-walks robot kit when I was 8 or 9 and I still remember the insane excitement of putting it together... It was a one-time thing, but the rush of making something physical and complex from a pile of simple parts is really something. Especially when it actually works in the end.

I mean, this sort of thing has virtually no immediate practical value, but it is such a treat for anyone who likes to tinker with things.
If you're interested in learning a little more about Jane Goodall (and having a lot of laughs in the process), TankRiot recently did an episode [1] about her early work as well as her current activism.

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I wonder if a 3d printer hot end could be added to this thing? It'd be the perfect (ie cost-effective) way to print small figures (eg minis for wargames)!
The source alleges that if Obama pushed for troop withdrawal, the top staff generals would resign. For someone unfamiliar with US politics, what would happen if he went for that regardless?
>This makes me feel that the new focus on privacy from Apple is more for PR purpose than something they really care for.

Clearly they are doing it for their own purposes, and your post is fair comment, but if their interests and their customer's interests align then that's good for both sides.

It's also possible that while their current privacy oriented features leave gaps that are exploitable, that's just because the remaining gaps are trickier to address and will just take longer. Also just because elements of the communications infrastructure they don't control may be open, that doesn't mean they should therefore leave the elements of it they do control open as well. It certainly doesn't mean that them locking down those elemts is somehow necessarily a cynical move. That's not the sort of attitude I think we should be taking as it explicitly penalises and discourages individuals and companies from even trying to improve things.
I'd be interested in the results.

My stepson has similar problems with maths
So you think it's good that authors get gouged on the price they can sell their services for? I bet you were cool with Google conspiring to lower the wages they could offer their employees too.
The textbook answer to why monopsony is unhealthy is monopsony suppresses investment in production. In this case, the risk is dissuading authors from writing by suppressing their earnings.

Imagine a simplified supply chain: authors distribute through Amazon to reach readers. Amazon exerting pricing pressure on authors benefits readers in the short term by reducing their reading costs. But by reducing authors' profits, Amazon dissuades new entry. Authors with skills elsewhere write less; the diversity and quality of new books suffers. Monopsony, when it reduces producer profits below equilibrium (e.g. what these authors would earn with many Amazons fighting for their business), dissuades investment in production.

Reality is complicated by the middleman, publishers. Now we have authors contracting with publishers to distribute through Amazon to reach readers. There are multiple publishers competing for authors, so for now the authors don't appear to be squeezed as much as the middleman. Authors' continued use of publishers hints at the value of their services, which may be nothing more than collective bargaining.

Removing legacy middlemen is healthy. Skewing producers' bargaining rights is not. Disentangling publishers' rents (the fraction of publishers' profits which come from them being, before Amazon, authors' only choice for distribution) from authors' costs of production (what good authors need to be paid to compensate them for the time, skill and risk which goes into writing) is difficult.
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That was 2 years ago, have you given it another try since?
My algorithms teacher (3rd year paper) mentioned them when doing a few lectures on information theory, data compression and encoding, then set an assignment on implementing LZW or LZ78 with a bit-packer (and the inverse). The spec allowed you to either compress via bytes or nibbles.

That was last year, I also got the impression that he liked to fill likely gaps that he could do with small detours.
Well, it's targeted for business, so toddler-level intelligence is expected.
In Japan, the concept of beaurocrats who hold the true power to determine policy, with elected officials being unable to make effective lasting changes, has been around and part of public discussion for decades.

I don't think they've come up with a solution, but then the political landscape is even more fossilized than the one in the USA.
It's good that scarcity of material goods and services has ceased to be a problem, and now the only remaining problems are self inflicted.

Similarly it would be a good thing if no one murdered anyone else even if people occasionally committed suicide.
For Arch users, micropolis is in the AUR.
A button to execute a single instruction would also be nice.
Yes, centralized web content filter work better with these. As only centralized or aggregated requests could can detect these pattern. Proxies through request where the request and response in analyzed in a proxy server works better. I think spyware or malaware data might not be encrypted.
Wouldn't that essentially be identity theft?
The list of options in the comment you're replying to contained, depending on your level of purity, between 66% and 100% open-source options.

(I suspect you're looking for something more comprehensive than just the formats, but I'm not sure what, exactly.)
Since there aren't a lot of full time Haskell developers, I'm curious to know what do you use to setup your projects and handle dependencies:

hsenv, cabal-dev, cabal sandboxes, nix, stackage ... or do you include everything in your repository (any tool to automate that)?
Yes, that was exactly what I was thinking of but was too lazy to find a link, thanks :-)
Do you know 5xman. It's a lot of fun. It's a flash game you can play in armor games and kongregate (I don't know for how long this link will be valid, but anyway: http://armorgames.com/play/6819/5xman)
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Sure, send me an email (check my profile page) and I will keep you updated.
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I agree with you but in the case of the MAC address randomization, the fact that they don't work according to reports when location services or cellular data is turned on seems more like a bug due to insufficient QA. I really can't see any technical reasons why MAC address randomization would be disabled if location services or cellular data is enabled.

I'm happy that they try to talk about privacy but for now I give them some flak because they're advertising this feature which actually never works for normal users (who turns off their cellular data before closing their phone?).

For my points #1 and #2, I think it's mostly an oversight in term of UI design but again Apple is well known for it's attention to details in UI design and this feels half baked like if they didn't spend time thinking about privacy implications and the way users actually behave. My disappointment is because I expected better from Apple, they usually are very good at clear UI design and thinking through things like this.

I hope I'm proven wrong and that Apple really delivers on its promises when it comes to privacy but right now, there's still some way to go beyond the speeches and ads that have been made.
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To some extent, it was tried in Chile in 70s during Allende. British computer scientists wanted to build massive computer network which could analyze and manage entire Chilean economy. The (never finished) project was called Cybersyn - http://www.damninteresting.com/nineteen-seventy-three/
The community around SimCity 4 has really transformed the game with Mods and Addons. If you want to have a go at SimCity, I cannot recommand SimCity 4 with some Addons highly enough. I'd suggest you start with the Network Addon Mod [0] (not sure if this is the official site), which
is a mod improving and expanding upon the functionality of the game's transit networks (I'm not affiliated with that project in any way, just had a lot of fun with it).

[0] http://www.wiki.sc4devotion.com/index.php?title=Network_Addo...

Example of what is possible with this and probably some other addons: http://www.moddb.com/mods/network-addon-mod/images/possibili...
This isn't about white house staff or the teams that presidents select - this is about the huge bureaucracies run by unelected civil servants who usually reached their position through a combination of nepotism, cover-my-ass, corruption, and coercion. I know that sounds like an overly cynical view, but from first-hand experience and knowledge, it's just the way things are. There are a few who fill these posts and actually wish to do their jobs well, but they're the exception, not the rule, and are being increasingly pushed out - most are there to line their pockets and bask in their own perceived glory.

The whole democratic process is just smoke and mirrors to prevent the populace from revolting - and I think we all know it - which means that it can't work as it does now for much longer - hence the increasing militarisation of police, creeping liberty reduction, and all the rest - as they know this too, and power, once attained, is clung to at pretty much any cost, by the kind of individual to whom power over others appeals.
> What's the critical function provided by publishing houses that Amazon is in danger of disrupting?

Editors

Having a "everybody can publish anything" model is great. But it doesn't fit all cases.

Yes, an editor is really helpful. Revision, pagesetting, etc, as well.
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I was spanked as a child. Not frequently (maybe 5 times over 15 years), but enough that I knew pain was a possible punishment. Me and my brother were very "active" kids (apparently, people called us "the demolition team") so I guess it wasn't easy for our parents to control us; however, the more frequent punishment was "kneeling looking at the wall" - that one was very effective, as it calmed us down and discouraged similar behavior in the future. But, without the fear of pain, I don't think we would see our parents as authoritative figures.
But then what happens if in few years they want to re-release the film in 4K or even 8K in a decade or two? Do they just go and re-render the entire film?
Looks like they all were career military.
Are you so completely blind to other people's computer skills?

It only takes a short amount of time for you because you know precisely what to do. There are literally millions of little "but that's so easy to change" on a computer, it's a huge cognitive tax.

Other people will be "Why's there shopping results, wtf? How'd I get rid of this. What's going on?". After a few weeks of it annoying them they finally google it , find old information, run an old command, doesn't work, get annoyed, go make cup of tea in annoyance. Forget about it. Get even more annoyed over the next few weeks at Amazon results popping up, google again, finally find up-to-date blog post, find the right menu, go to the right place, click, finished. Until they install the next version in a year or two and the process happens all over again as they've forgotten how they did it last time.

EDIT: There's a great little idea in the book Good Omens where the devil Crowley sets up projects of small amounts of misery to huge amounts of humans, rather than going after one soul at a time like other, old fashioned, demons. Auto-callers, motorways shaped like an ancient symbol for the devil (the M25).

Crapware like this would definitely be something Crowley would be proud to come up with.
The author's name is Ryan Avent. From his personal site, it looks like he's from the states and he got his MSc in London. As for discomfit and insoluble, those words strike me as being in line with the Economist's style.
Okay that's it, off to Akihabara I go.

Back... Turns out the New 3DS does not come with a charger... I feel like I'm 10 again and I've ran out of AA batteries for my Gameboy Color
hi tsm, founder of Transcense here. beyond the impact we want to do, we always at some point built on top of others/existing technologies. Innovation definition is tricky. Is it in the technical implementation (an Instagram is not that complicated after all) or in the productization/distribution to market?
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One of the achievements says "Slide trough N ice surfaces" - is that supposed to be "Slide through"? Apart from that, good work, it's like a proper modern Horace Goes Skiing.